THE SCIO TRIBUNE
AND SANTIAM NEWS, CONSOLIDATED
*
VOL XXI
»TO. ¡.INN COUNTY. OREGON. SEPTEMBER 13. 1917
NO. 6.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Th« Jack »on «musty fair opens Hep-
feinber IB, at the natatorlum In M<*4
ford.
Walter K K<-y«s. mayor of Salem,
and Mian Ida Urine, were married al
Bah-tn
A return of fl 16 from an acre of
peppermint hi rr|M»rtcd by E F Martin
of Eugene.
Elevator operator» In Portland, of
whom there are about 76. bate organls
ed a labor union.
Conatructton work on the Douglas
county unit of the Pacific highway
will begin shortly.
The pioneers of Jackson county
held their annual reunion In Llthla
park In Ashland Thursday.
ileal Gail her. 20. was crushed to
death between two large spruce logs
at the Had« tnlil al Toledo.
Laker county has petitioned the
s’atc highway commiaaton for the sur
v«-y of two roads from Baker, one to
Cornucopia and one to Unity
The
county will appropriate IIU.ooo to-
ward the const!uctlon of the Cornu
copia road and It.000 toward the con
at ruction of the t'nity road
The SO correapondentw cours--« of the
University of Oregon In high school
and college subjects have been opened
to soldiers who are cltIsens of Oregon
stationed In any part of the world as
the result of a ruling by Attorney
General Brown that the extension
c nr « may !»« '»it- red to rltlaena be
yond the borders of the state.
Fair Entertainmeat
Medico* Meet in Lebanon
btn
.Un QiMMUNa
The impmwion seems to prevail
, in several localities that. Iiecausr the
management has rut out profession
al harncwi races, that th«- amusement
feature nt the Linn county fair is
■ to lie almoat wholly neglected. This
is a mistake. Instead of paying out
SHOO to SI OOP to the bunch of
harness men. who have been coming
. to the fair year after year, and
dividing the race purses among
themselves, without giving any real
• racing contests, the racing events
will I m - among local hors«*«, mostly
unlraint-d and with smaller purses.
Yet the contests for blood will be
here just the same. The racing
committee will endeavor !«>*<• match
the ruces that every horse entered
will have a chance to come out win
ner. There will lie no cut and dried
I races with divided purses.
Because of this saving in the race
program, the management will intro
Senator aimmens, of North Cara-
duce several n«>w features, such as
I acrobatic stunts, slide for life ami ' line, who had charge of the rovenua
I bill In tha Senate.
a man run over by an automobile
each day. motorcycle races, fifteen
enterics, three large shows, merry-
go-round, all of which, except the
. shows, will be frtw.
Indeed the
amusement features has been given
1 more careful attention this year
' than at any previous fair.
Men who make a busirwss of
' training and racing h<>rse*. horses
which are valuable for no other
■ purpose, do not like the idea that
, they are to be cut out and. as a
ct>nse«|uence. are knocking the fair.
An Binary sign writer has lawn I’nlrM they can carry away much
in town for the past week doing sign of the gale receipts at the fairs their
work and his work is all light in business is destroyed to a large ex
thia respect. But he is soliciting tent.
The prosp«*ct is that we are to
ads from merchants for a sort of
•
have
the largest and tiest stock dis
fair program, which is pure graft.
play
in
the history of Unn county
He stated that he had visited The
i
fairs,
including
horsrs cattle, hogs.
Tribune office to get figures on
| sheep, goats and poultry of all kinds.
printing the programs and that, w<>
In every respect the fair ia to be
refused to quote th** saute to him
Thia last statement is false, as he I letter than ever. Only the cut and
has never iwen in The Tribune office dried professional harm-aa race has
h«-en eliminated and, we aptirehend.
relative to thin matter.
there will lie more real sport in the
Left For France
buggy and pony races than there
would be in the fixed professional
Errol Sims, who is in the govern harness race.
ment aero service, writes a letter to
homefolks just on the eve of their
departure for France. They were
then aboard the transport and ex
pected to sail that night.
Errol says he is having splendid (
health and writes in a very cheerful
spirit. Ilia work will be in the
machine shops rather than in mak- ■
ing Hights, though he has learned
the trick of Hying.
Harvest is over and our farmers
and others, have tieen reasonably
prosjiermis
So let everyone attend
and enjoy a real old-fashioned coun
ty fair.
$2.20 WHEAT PRICE
WILL BE MAINTAINED
Washington Thr price of 13 ID a
bushel for wheat fixed by President
Wilson will be maintained. It was
mad« clear by the food ad tn In tat rat Ion.
despite Isolated protests from farming
Interests that the figure la too low
Virtually th« only objection of any
consequence. Il was said, has arlaerl
In North Dakota, where th* crop was
unusually poor.
Grain elevators leían operating
Monday under license re« trillions
prescribed by the food administration
None will be allowed to store wheal
or rye tor tnorr than 3b days, and
each elevator la required to make
weekly report* of Its transaction*
Elour mills will be put uuder a II
censing system within a few days
They will be restricted to a maximum
profit of 26 rents a barrel on flour
and cannot make future sale* mors
than .1 days In adv am e Th«* mills
also will be rvqulred to hold their
grain accumulations to * JO days'
supply
Smith Wants San Francisca Cleaned
Ban francisco—An affidavit nam
ing about 100 hotels In Ban Fraarlaco
alleged to be used for Immoral pur
posea waa sent to Governor Htephens
by the Rev. Paul Smith, president of
the State lx» Enforcement and Pro
tectlvs league.
The quarterly meeting of the
ATllamette Valley Medical Society
was held Thursday evening, Sept. 6.
at Lebanon. About 25 doctors were
present. The society indudee physi
cians and surgeon* in Linn. 1-ane.;
Benton, and Lincoln counties.
Th«- meeting was considered by
those present as one of tha most
interesting of the year. An able
oa|M*r was toad by Dr Sei over, of
Eugene, on "The Progress of Medi
cin«' and Surgery in the Willamette
fulley the past 20 years.”
It was decided at the meeting to
adopt the fee table now in use in
Lane county and other valley locali
ties. The schedule of fem isarrxng-
t e«l for persons in ordinsry circum-
1 stances.
Il is stated that for persons not
able to afford the ordinary price,
the minimum may be lowered. For
those who are able to pay a more
liberal compensation for medical
Servian» the scale shall not act as a
bar to a larger orice.
For office prescriptions, fl.60 will
be charged. The ttv for a visit in
town is to be 12.50 and a slight in-
j crease will be added for night calle
Ordinary obstetric cases will be
jcharged 62.50.
The next meeting of the society
will be held in Albany Dec. 6, at
this meeting officers for the coming
year will tie elected.
The extreme high cost of all medi
cal supplies, instruments and books,
made use of bv the medical profes
sion. together with an increase of
living expt-nans of 50 per cent dur
ing the last year, makes an increase
of fives n«*csssary that the physician
may lie able to meet his obligations
anti be prepare«! to give the best
service possible. The new prices
will go into effect October 1.
The Forks oi the Santiam Winner
lanmard Gilkey, of near Gilkey
station, installed an individual farm
exhibit at the Interstate fair at
Sookane last week and captured
ntrarly every premium in sight for
his exhibit. He was awarded first
premium on display bv individual,
first on display of sheaf and shelled
grain, first for attractiveness of ex
hibit, first for best 10 ears of corn
1 shown at the fair, second for display
E. C. Shelton, superintendent of
JORDAN ITEMS
the stock exhibit at the fair, «ays
that the outlook for the stock ex
hibit is as good or better than at
Miss Bethel Lewis, of White Sal
any of the fairs of the past.
mon, is visiting at Mr. Balsigers.
Mrs Martha barrel and daughter
of Tacoma, are visiting at the for j
mers grandmother. Mra.
Nancy
I
Bilyeu.
of vegetable an<! second for grasses
and forage crops.
Mr. Gilkey's successful exhibit ia
an honor for Linn county and for
the forks of the Santiam. It shows
that even with the unfavorable sum
mer for the stuff he exhibited, the
"Forks” can grow as good or better
stuff than any section of the north-
west.
Of course Mr. Gilker will have hl*
Erie Jaynes ia suffering with a
exhibit
at the Linn County Fair
very sore hand, caused by a pear
next
we«*k.
where he rosy have
thorn some w«-ek* ago.
competitors worthy of his steel.
Haman Shelton is in Crabtree at
present looking after his prune crop.
Nevertheless the forks of the
Mias Nellie Jayne's school. which Santiam ha* ha«f an almost record
was to commence Monday, has Ix-en dry summer. I Leonard Gilkey was
postponed a few weeks.
able to show better stuff at the
Mr. Severance is here at present Interstate fair at Spokane
than
looking sfter the cheese industry
localities which have had the usual
A great many are preparing for amount of rain during the summer.
berry picking which will be on hand Plenty of cultivation in the right
Boon, although the outlook is not way and time «rill grow a crop with
very promising for berries, owing out rain. All the game a little
to the drouth of the past months.
moisture occasionally helps.
11.60 THE YEAR
REBELLION EXISTS
IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL
Kerensky Orders Kornlloff to
Resign Command; Succes
sor Is Appointed.
Betrogtad —Premier Kerensky has
declared that a state of war exists la
the town «nd district ol Petrograd.
Premier Kerensky has ordered Gen
eral Kornlloff. a>mn*«iMh>r in chief nt
the Russian armies. to resign In con-
sequent» of General Kurnllvtt'a de
mand for supreme pow.*r
General
Klembovsky has been appointed com
tnauder tn chief
Far from submitting to Premier
Kerensky's order« that he surrender
his poet a» generalissimo and stand
trial for treason. Kornlloff gathered
troop« personally -loyal to him and
started marvblng toward the capital.
The t**ue between the two forces Is
apparently the old on« In Russia—
militarism verso* socialism
Kornl
loff'* loyalty to the new order of the
people’s rule has never been qu«»e-
tloned But Kornlloff la a believer in
stern disciplinary measure* He holds
that even In a democracy there must
be measures of blood and Iron, lie
hold* the socialists and extreme lib
eral* have conciliated too much 11«
demanded a rigorous policy of ggpree-
slon at home and of discipline al the
front, on the occasion of the recent
Moscow conference, holding It waa
the only way In which Ituasla could
be saved
The provisional govern
ment temporised. being unwilling to
concede more than partial restoration
of Iron discipline tn the army.
England to bland by Wilson's NotS.
Washington.—Great Britain baa ad
vised the United State* that President
Wilson's reply to Pope It«* nod let'a
peace proposals la lu effect Great Brit
ain’* reply.
Women Asked to Register
The women c* the United States
are expect*«! to do their part in the
war should their services I m > deemed
necessary.
This service may be
given at their homes or elsewhere,
just as best suits the convenience of
the workers. Their service* may Ito
made available in almost any line of
endeavor they may prefer and are
fitted for.
To this end all women and girls
above 16 vears of age ^re r«*quir**d
to place their names upon th«* regis
tration Itooks. slating at the time
their preference of work and for
which they are l«-»t prepared. Mra.
A. G. Prill, a memlier of the county
central committee, has charge of
the work in this locality and, we
understand, is arranging a meeting
for next Saturday to start the i>all
rolling.
Standard
School Boo^s
We are authorized ag«-nts for
all books used in the dty and
country schools
Make your
selections now.
However, if you must await
opening day to find out just
what books are required, come
to us then
H Ace go« thinly of Book*, think
of E^ntli
G A. EVERETT
Druggist and Stationer