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About The Scio tribune and Santiam news, consolidated. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1917-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1917)
THE SCIO TRIBUNE AND SANTIAM NEWS, CONSOLIDATED VOL. XXI NO 8. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST George Gibbon« Dead Baby Has Hai Gone to io Slepp (•eorjtc Gibbons, of Shelburn, who was operated upon nt the Albany hospital fer goiter. Monday, died Principal Events of the Week from the effects of the operation al about midnight Tuesday. He came Briefly Sketched fer Infor out from under the influence of the mation of Our Reader*. anesthetic nicely, was the report Tuesday morning. Th» slub annual Polk County fair The Tribune editor came from was hold la Railas last *»r*k Albany with he and his wife Satur I'urtlaud night schools will open day evening. throughout the city on October I The Oregon Dalrymen'a league has been formally organised In Portland Wharf and docks for the new saw mill at Roedaport are now building I'matllla County's aaaeeaed value lion thia year will be about «50,000. 000 Waahineton county fr^l growers be gari harvestlug their prune « t-p Mon day (Tataop county's snnusl industrial and e< hool fair was held In Astoria last w<«k. i lie dale of the Hermiston dairy and hog allow has been set for October 3< and 17. The federal reserve branch bank of Portland will open for business on October 1 Pour hundred thousand trout fry wire liberated In Fifteen Mile creek to ar bufur the Klamath School Fair sssocla lion la iilasining to hold au Industrial fair Koine time In October. The Washington county fair will be held on the Pacific University campus at Forest Grove October 2 6. Governor Wltbycombe has issued a proclamation declaring Tuesday. Oc- toiler 9. to be fire prevention day. The 34th annual convention of th» Oregon Women's Christian Temperance u ii Ion will be held al Albany October 25 U J Scott, of Harrisburg tnet In slant death by coming In contact with a high tension wire carrying S3,non volts About 400 carloads of prunes have be«n shipped from the Milton sect Ion during this season. breaking al) pre v loua records I Hiring thia year the state highway department has drawn plans for 26 county bridges, the total cost of which aggregates «600,000. Between 6.OO0.O00 and 4.000.000 pounds of prunes la the estimate of fK.uglas county's present crop as mad< by a prominent buyer The city of Gold Hill has purchased the McClure power alls, water right and ditches for power purposes In op crating the city water plant. l urry county baa requested the state highway commission to make a survey along the ciaat from the Coos county boundary to ths California state I low. Forty or 50 tons of the evergreen blackberries that grow wild In nearly eve ry part of Marlon county are be Ing delivered dally to the two eau oerl. s o* H»l*-m A study of the pouting prune dis eases that hats been causing heavy ♦»»cm to Oregi.n growers for several years has been taken up by the botany ami plant pathology department of the Oregon Agricultural college Italea declared io be preferential and unjustly dim rlmlnatory against turn b<r mills of the Willamette valley were attacked at an Interstate com merer commission hearing held tn ted aral court at Portland before C. R Marshall, attorney examiner The public service commission is vest'd with full power to raise or low er str<ct railway rates In the cities of the state, providing that after a full and complete bearing the facta Justify such action. AttorneyGeneral Brown has advised tb» commission. The 1917 Hood River apple crop, «bob wil. approximate I.OOO.OOO box*-s. must, according to R P. Bon bam. director of the Portland office of the United Hl a tea immigration bu rrau. be picked to a large client by woevew. owing to the scarcity a< men 1150 THE YEAR SCIO. LINN COUNTY* OREGON. SEITEMBER 27. 1917 She leaves to mourn her death ment's publicity si">tlight revealing German Intrigue In neutral laiida was her mother and father, three state» turned upon the expenditure* of money and two brothers. by th» Berlin foreign office in an of- Card of Thank* We desire to tender our heartfelt and sincere thanks to our friends and neigh lairs for the many acts of kindness during the sickness, ifeath Allocation A sp«*cial meeting of the stock hold«*» is called to meet ât Scio, on Saturday. October 8. 1917 at 10 o'clock a. m. fur the purposM* of electing a Board of Directors of aix tramila*» s President. Secretary and Treasurer for the 1917 Fair. Don't forget the date and be on hand A. G. Prill, Pres. aed burial of our little daughter arul sister and es|ieetnllv for the many lieautiful floral offerinjr*. Cai Carson. Wife ami Children. Returns From Harvest Fields Ira Bilyeu came home from the eastern Oregon harvest fields last hy AmsrS -f A»*. week. He says crops were short in Gcnvral Tasker H Bhsa. who sue that section ami I W. W plentiful, evaded General beoti se chief et stati but they fail»! to make any trouble of the United Blatte Army in the crew with which lie was working. lit* said them* trouble makers would work but a day or two unless they could organise a strike. S3.50 per dav were the wage» paid, yet these I Wont Work boy* were trying to foment strikes R»m>* - The rvpll« H of the <»ut»l for higher wages amt shorter hours. •«spires were a djal|lu»i ■«> < '■ .> !•> th- Fair Knocker« Knotkeri < >ne week ago marked the done of the II th annual Liun ( ountv Fair. While the aeason has been unfavor able for the growth of farm pro ducts, the exhibits of the same were Vatican, according lu report» rurrent VESSEL jlNKt.'vGb REDUCED lu pollHcal circles It la oba-TVed that both Berlin and Vienna w»r» less si*e Ovpatimcnt Ht ports Dccrsass clti< about the contlllioua of the pen Within the Past Ten Days. negotiations they intend !«• pr>»T'*»«' Vt sshhigton SubtaariM sinkings than was the l*»pe While they accept of convoyed ships In days «go amount liie leading auggast. ti>. ut lb» |>a|ial e«t to our half of one per cent, and ths note regarding the llmual.tin of anna slnklna» of convoyed ships How arw Uo-Ula, Ihelr sileni «• <-oiu vrtilina Bel gl’ini H'-rbia. Il* umama Al»are l.or wry much lower." Thia statement was made by Admit rauo-. Treni ani Trieste la luokcl al B< iisou, acting secretary of the upou as slisnlflvaut w|K Il ia untb-rslood tbal tb» 7*’ navy Admiral Beaaoa »aid he had no available figures on alnkltias before agalli a'Iilr»»» a noi*- lu all ih r brll’x th» convoy polit y was pul into effect, «reni» Th-* polititi a ili p«»liit out that but that since merchant v rase la were th» questions <>n which all agree realty given »scoria of lealrtiyrrs the mon represent the foundation of a new or bor of sinkings had shown a »»u»a dvr <»t things lu the worbl aud a ttttw era of peace tor humanity tlonal drop The secondary problem», Ship» of allied and neutral nations ar» being taken screw» the Atlantic certainly can be adjusted under the protection of warships b»il>r through guod »ill and iritmdly Ships i Hat have come lb rough the disc us» .on than by force of arms. Panama canal join the Heels leaving Atlantic porta In hla country lu great number* . Navy I. O. O F. Wtil Rate« «2.000 000 Fund. Ix>uisvtlle. The sovereign grand lodge. IOO F. by a unanimous veto adopted a resolution which authuslaes Its various slate grand Jurisdictions IO raise by individual assessment |2. 000 not», which will be devoted to the relief of Odd Fellows who >-nli»t In the military »ervice of the United States, and members of their families Steel Prices Cut Washington Steel prices In tti» United States were rat In lialf when Preaident Wilson approved a scale of ’ quotai ione fixrd In a volnntgry agre« , meni mad» hy produce» wllb thè War i Industries Board. 1 ‘ j much la'tter than one would egpaet. With the exception of cattle, all lines of st«.ck were well represented Yet the one moat important element wgt lacking —the people. Now, there m no doubt that the Linn County Fair has l»een of unesti- mnble value, espx-cially to eastern lann county. A dozen years ago it was almost impossible to find pure bred stock of any kind, including poultry. Now it can lie f^nd on nearly every farm. The fair has i generated the desire for better [ I stock bv causing the same to be ¡placed on exhibition annually. It i ha», likewise, generated the desire i to grow tietier fruit and better fort to Influence congrrss on the eve of the ruthless submarine campaign which drove the I tdl' d Htatrs lu war. Hecratary lavnalng made public with out comment th« text of a message sent by Count von Bemalurff to Her lln last January asking authority to use ISv.OOU to Influence congress through an organisation which the forelgu office was romititled had per formed similar service before Buggasta Declaration Favering Irelind Tn supplement thia move Von Bern- storff suggested an official declare lion In favor of Ireland for Its effect h»rv* The organisation to be etti ployed was not named In the in*'»aage. and Mr. Ijxtialtig did not discuss Ila Identity. This disclosure adds another chap ter to the amaalng story begun with publication of the famous /.Inimeruian note. In which Germany proposed, an alliance with Mesh <> and Japan against the United ritales and which has included the Qermau dwedlah breaches of neutrality In Argeutiuu and Mexico. Lansing E»poses Oeadly Germ Piet How Uermauy shamefully abused and exploited ’ the protection of the United States by secreting in the Ger man legation al Bucharest, after line American government bad taken charge of German) s affair» at the Roumanian capital, quantities of pow erful explosives tor bomb plots and deadly microbes, with Instructions for their use in destroying horses and rat tle, was also revealed by Becrvtary La using Von Igel Papers Proof of Plots. Further disclosures of far reaching German propaganda. Intrigues aud plots in thia country prior to the dipke malic break with Germany were made by the committee on public lufurma Uon In a bulletin styled "Official Kg- vegetables. The four or five exhi bitions of individual farm exhibits.; pose." th« committee quotes numerous shows that the desire to grow better •»* •»«'•• •• B«® 1’ ite» s.-ued stuff than his neighbor has caused men to study the vegetable kingdom aa never before. And the desire to show what can be accomplished along these lines, is moat laudable Another moat important function SHELBURN ITEMS of the fair is the social feature. Th«- annual reunions of friends and The Shelburn school liegun Mon neighbors gives a pleasure which day with Victor Lyons as teacher. would, probably, I m * had in no other Dillon McLain and Walter Wyman way. It marks the homecoming of are drying prunes for Mr. Chileuat. al>sent children and relatives, tnak- i t'arl Fallis and wife visited at the , mg fair time one of joy. Strange as it may seem, when all Ixse George home over Sunday of the twnefita of the fair are re Earnest McCrae and wife apenl counted. we have men and women Sunday with the latter’s parents, in Scio and her immediate vicinity Mr and Mrs. II. <>. Shilling. who are continually knocking the Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Powell visit same. Their influence ia used to ed Asa Hirons and family Sunday. orevent the placing of stuff on ex Geo. Gibbons was operated on in hibition and to keep people from at Albany Monday for goiter. Ilin tending. To these people, every wife and two maters accompanied fair is the last one. etc. him. Now just why these people are William Miller, who resided at ;disp<MK-d to try to defeat the success Independence, was buried in Frank (Continued on page 2) lin Butte ermetarv last Sunday. He is a brother of Mrs. A. E Rindall About tt5 feet of | meh galvanized of this city, was 71 years old ..nd water pipe for sale at 6 cents per his boyhood days were spent on his foot. It has l>een usd but a few fathers farm near Providence. All old wt tiers in thia vicinity remem- months and la as good aa new. Con- ber him well, though he left I thi, __ nectiona and elbows go with the I locality many yea» ago. 1 aale. Inquire at thia office ■ Americana Under Fire in France. Willi th» British Armies lu the Field - American troops for the first time are under German fire In France Two American soldiers have been slightly wounded by fragments of a bursting shell A certain contingent of the Amrrtcan army la now. localcd directly behind the British line«, well within range of the enemy guns The Iwu wounded men are the proudest members of this contingent PLOTS TO INFLUENCE CONGRESS ARE BARED Inez Ellen t arson was bo tn at' Seto, Ore . June 10, 1911 and died September 11. 1917 at the age of 6 years. 3 months and 1 day. She was Message Sent By Bernstorlf love«! by all who knew her and was Asking Authority to Spend very patient during her long illness $50.000 is Revealed. When she was suffering her moat when asked how she felt she always Waehington The American govern gave* the cheerful reply 'alright." by the department of justice lu April, 1914. in s raid upon Ine New York office of Wolfs von Isel Governor Wlthycombc paid the fair a high compliment when he w here last Wedra-sday. ■ “Shake Well Before 1 aking’ Thewr words on one of our bottles does not signify that we have lawn careless in compounding your pre scription. It merely signi fies that the doctor found it necessary to prescribe an insoluable drug in a liquid preparation. The precaution, "ah a k • well" is given so that an equal amount of the In- soluable drug will lie ap portioned to each dose. Let Our I-abel lie Your Guarantee of Quality C. A. EVERETT Druggist and Stationer
