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VOL XXI
NO. 51
0. A. C. IS BUILDING
SOLDIERS’ BARRACKS
Sawmill« Throughout State Supply
Lumber Trusting State to
Pay Bill.
By courtesy of Hon. J. K. Weath
erford president of the O. A (’.
board of regents, the editor of The
Tribune (mid a very short visit to
Oregon's log educational plant which
represents a coat to Oregon taxpay
ers of more than f2.000.0tM.
On the large campus there are
probably 25 buildings of stone or
brick construction coating from
1200,000 probably down to a few
thousands.
The library building,
now approaching completion, is per
haps the lw*st building for its cost
on the campus, the cost being some
thing over >100,000
The large li
brary and class rooms which this
building affords will somewhat re
lieve the congestion for room. All
the buildings are plain anil substan
tial with no attempt at costly orna
mentation.
But the purpose of this article is
to tell al»oul the provisions Long
mmie to take care of and to give
soldiers mechanical instruction at
the demand of the federal govern
ment. There are some 400 Califor
nia soldiers there receiving mechan
ical training. Two months' training
will be given these boys when they
will l»e sent elsewhere and another
contingent will fill their places.
These boy» are being quartered in
one of the college buildings which
can I m * spared during the school va
cation but will he needed by the
students when the new school year
opens.
Because of the above reason the
Liard of regents have begun the
construction of a large wooden bar
racks building on the southwest por
tion of the campus. As the board
had no money at its command for
thia purpose it was in a quandary as
to how funds wvre to be supplied
with which Ui purchase material.
The soldiers were to supply the labor
necessary for construction.
So propositions were submitted to
the various sawmills in the valley
inviting them to supply the neces
sary lumber and await payment for
the same until the meeting of the
SCIO, LINN COUNTY. ORI-WN, AUGUST I. IVIN
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War » Declared.
BILYEU DEN ITEMS
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SANTIAM FARM TOPICS
Over m the trench«-« in Fran.*«* it
is said soldiers make |>ete of the rata
Mr Editor: The old Pie blalrr is
Mrs. J J Weidman is visiting her I which are very numerous
But Jim
not dead vet but so luully knocked
daughters. Anna ami Mia. st Alluiny. Bilyeu can giv<* them points on mak
I out and unable to work so I will try
Mrs George Cree and family, ac ing pels of what »re supposed to I m *
and »cribble a few lin«*s after so long
companied by Mi»a Sylvia Brown, enemies of mankind. A colony of
silenre. My nervoua system is badly
are visiting the former's |»arenta.
vellow jackets have buiklrd a nest
>>ut of fix.
Helli» Westenhouse returned from in a wall beneath a window in Jim's
Weather is ideal since our nice
Camas. Wash.. Sunday. Hcexuects residence and Jim has cultivates! a
! warm showers which has caused all
very intimate acquaintance with the
to go back soon.
the gardens and corn to put <>n their
little
varmints. The only tioubic
Mr. and Mrs. Chester llowson of
! Sunday clothes and redeem Oregon
North Yakima, Wash , visited with about the matter is that a too inti-1 t > her natural standing, reviving the
their lunt and unde, Mr. and Mrs. i male association with these playfull people with new hope» that starva-
birds is promotive of swift action on
J. A. Burton, recently.
tion is not staripg them in the face
his part and this Jim oject* to. Con
John Calavan ami family were
j any longer.
sequently war has been declared ami
Aliainy visitors Sunday.
Corn prospects fair. so is lieans.
Jim is considering whether to use
The Messrs Burmeister, Clark and poison gas or evacuate
early potatoes are light, late* plant
Arbuckle visited th«* Masonic lodge
ing is looming up c jual to a frog in
at Jefferson Saturday evening, go
a jar of mdk
People have a new
W. S. S. Meeting
ing with th«* Scio bunch.
smile on thei« faces and forget the
war over in Europe
Miss Harrison, a cousin of Sank
The Sei-» W S. S met Monday
Hannah, is suffering from an attack
Harvest is pr •greeting nicely as
evening in K I* hall and went thru
of scarletina.
all the grain will be in the shock
a program of song« and talks. It
this week. Crops not the I m **L just
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rodgers and
was decided to have a booth at the
good
enough to k«*cp soul and body
Miss Lila Weftenhouw were Alluiny fair to sell stamps.
The members
together should we be (wrmitted to
visitors one day last week,
voted to attend Bilyeu Society meet
Eli De L»ng ami daughter went ing at Odd Fellow hall next Monday retain our share, still we are pinched
quite hard after all our hard work.
to Salem on business the first of th«* evening
Those that don't attend
But anything nowadays to win the
w«*ek.
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will have to buy an extra stamp.
* ar and leach the ka'ser to take u
IxiSK Wow.
joke.
Wheat yields of 12 to 15 bushels
I
T
I>avid llorsburgh had a streak of
per acre are reported, These are
This wes-k. Saturday and Sunday for fall wheat and doubtless better laid luck Sunday with his tine >1000
evenings, Manager Waasdy will ure- and poorer yield« will he h«-ard from English shite mare. She mired in
sent llouglas Fairltanks in the lively The spring whrat yield is expected an old «lough within four inches of
her back
it took three men all
picture. “In Again. Out Again.” to be less
forenoon to dig her out. N*> «er-
Show begins at 9
10c and 20c
lous damage resulted to her.
legislature next year. The mills are
G. A. Griffin is running his baler
supplying the lumber.
full time at f 3 50 per ton.
The government has practically
ordered the college to take on this
mechanical training of soldiers and
the regents ha<i no choice in the
matter.
The present contingent of soldiers
had just returned front a hike west
of Philomath where a sham battle
had been pulled <>IT and the boys
seemed to la* quite weary. Moot
of them wen* lying on their cots.
Friday night was the first time they
had been given a touch of campaign
ing. They actually had to sleep on
th«* ground and of which some were
complaining considering it a severe
Public Heiltk Nitict
hardship. We told them not tn
worry for the worst win yet to
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come. It was no hardship to sleep To ail residents of the City of Scio:
on the ground when it was dry and
You are hereby notified to comply
warm, but when it was wet and cold with the following orders of the Citv
they might consider hardship.
Board of Health within ten days
President Weatherford expects from the date of this notice
1 To clean up all streets and al
th«* number of soldiers sent to 0. A.
C. for teaming will be increased and leys, and remove all refuse matter
that the cainp will be continuous and manure from th<- same
until the end of the war. The bar
2 To disinfect all ct*sap«M>ls and
racks building now under construc open toilets with a liberal supply of ‘
tion will take care of about H00 ' chloride of lime.
.1—Where cwrepools or toilets are
men. Other tmrracks will be con
structed as needed and all are to I m * filled up to within one f<M»t of the
substantial and of permanent nature ( surface to provide a new vault for
so they will I* serviceable for school same, and disinfect and cover the
purposes when no longer needed for old properly.
soldiers.
In order to prevent the usual
This editor enjoyed the short visit summer and fall diseases, common
and feels obligatid to President by neglecting these precautions, we
Weatherford ami one of the profes hope that you will consider it a duty
sors for the trouble of showing us to yourselves and the community to
through several buildings, barns, comply with these orders,
etc., and at the tine specimens of
An inspection will he held at the
stock and poultry. Space forbids end of the ten days,
mention of all we noticed
We can
BOARD OF HEALTH:
only sav that the plant is simply im
F. T. T haykr . Mayor.
mense and is commendatory of the
A. G PRILL. Health Officer.
taste and organizing ability of Pres
J Ml A. Btl.YKt'. Marshal
ident Kerr
Scio. Oregon. July 25. 1918.
11.50 THE YEAH
OHE PHONE SYSTEM
IS NATION’S PLAN
Coasolidstion oi all Wire Systems
Promises Better Pay to
Employe».
Pending the definite and official
announcement from W'ashington tel
egraphers «rem assured they will
have an immediate increase of from
15 u> 30 |M*r rent in wages and that
all operators recently locked out be
cause of their desire to organise for
collective bargaining with their em
ployers. will be restored to duty
without conditions.
In Portland there will b** but one
telegraph system and one telephone
service, with a union central com
mercial office.
Competition will
disappear and all economies possible
will be effreted looking to the sav
ing of man power and money to
meet increased <>|M*rating expenses.
Another result of unified federal
control predicted Is the fullest use
of long distance telephone lin«*a for
transmission of telegraph messages,
making one wire carry in multiple
both wire and conversation messages
following the plan of the multiplex
telegraph method.
Improvement
of service to an from small towns at
any hour, day or night, is contem
plated as a'development of th«* uni*
fication plans of the government.
One of the largest savings in op
erating expense* of telephone and
telegraph systems is th* mass of de
W T. L*c, who lost his house and |
tailed bookkeeping
To effect an
contents some time back, was fairly j
economy of large dimensions in this
remunerated bv his good neighbors
regard it is prolmble that the gov
and fri« n Is. for which they feel
ernment will require all telegraph
grateful
messages to Is* paid H>r with federal
Mr« Meldav Bilyeu, who has t*een '
stamps, purchasable and usable much
badly um-d up since last August from as are postage stamps
A specii I
a nin. foot fall out of the burn loft.
' new issue of stamps is d«*em«*d likely
for this money saving process.
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