The Scio tribune and Santiam news, consolidated., August 29, 1918, Image 1

THE SCIO TRIBUNE
AND SANTIAM NEWS. CONSOLIDATED
Independent, fearless, free; Not tied to any party; Will support best candidate for office regardless of party
VOL XXII
NO. 2.
RED CROSS NURSE
WRITES FROM FRANCE
Some Days Art Streaao«», Other»
Furnish But Few Wounded
Soldier»
Somewhere in France.
I>ear Home Folk«:
I'll Iwgm thia letter with an apol­
ogy for my delay in writing and
shall akk you to please aend it around
to all the family aa I owe each one a
letter.
We are like a hunch of kid* when
mail day cornea; lately it has been
Quito frequent; formerly it was five
weeks without a line from home.
We are ver» buay and have been
working hard the past few day».
Our work cornea that wav. may I*
we will have nothing much to do
i<.r M-veral day* and we have -«-versl
hour» off duty each day. Suddenly
a trainload of boy* la sent in and all
hand« and the cook have to double
quick.
I am on the operating room shift;
am giving anesthetic»; worked until
9 p in. and had just had a tiath and
slipped into my pyiamies prepared
for a good snooze when the chief
nurse put hqr head in the door to
inform me that «he wa« expecting
another company of patients and 1
would need to go on night duty, so
I am writing to keep awake
As I said before, I am a poor let­
ter writer, but if you knew how
glad I always am for a word from
home you would all write me regu­
lar
A* to sending me anything I
really think the letters would be the
l«-»t thing you could send
We are not in need of anything at
present. The weather is much the
name as we have at home; the rain
showers come up in a very »hort
time and are intense as one can get
soaked through in a moment.
The
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S1.&0 THE YEAR
SCIO. LINN COUNTY. OREGON. AUGUST 29. 1918
food is surely quite good.
We are
Portland, came Sunday for a month
visit with her parents. Mr. and Mr»
able to get anything that we really
SANTIAM FARM TOPICS
George Bilveu.
need.
Every ba
hospital has a
Anyone wishing fin«' cheat sred
commissary attached and we can al­
Mr. Editor, what do you think can find it at the Santiam Farm at
ways buy < atables there. though I
Pie Eater
about Bro. Ed Peery flattering me 41 a bushel.
don't invest much in that line.
las l>eing the darndest fool in town?
Did I tell v<>u that I am learning
About time for the whist and 500 Hi» Regiment Is Aniiou« to Crow
. I take it like a dose of salts
to ride horsclutck? ‘nu» country is
dubs to form for the winter.
the Pond and Go Over
very beautiful at this time of the I Our rain still hangs on with some
Fine Gravenstein apple» for sale
the Top.
year. The path* through the woods very heavy showers which is fine for at 11 per bushel.
C. U. Sandoz.
potatoes,
corn
and
squash
but
is
bad
Scio.
Oregon.
2
2t
remind one of the lovely spots one
on beans as they have taken second I
see* on the films that ore chosen as
Glenburr.ie. Md, Aug 18.
Dr and Mr*. Prill returned from
a setting for ‘‘love’* young dream ” growth and the ripe ones must be Newport Tuesday. After a trip to Editor Tribune:
We are not permitted to use the hand picked, which I am doing every­ Portland Dr. Prill will resume his
As Scio clings dear to my memory
railroads or go in cars for private day.
I will write back where 1 am ami
practice Septemlier 1.
The Santiam Farm is willing to
purposes, so one must either walk
Dr. Chapin, our dentist, any» he is what 1 am doing
or ride horseback if fortunate en­ show corn with any neighbor from back from his vacation and ready to
We are stationed at a navy rifle
Uncle Tom Smail
range,
“Saunders" range
We also
ough to have an officer escort who 10 miles around.
take care of all the business which
ha» a mount. 1-wt Sunday I had a says he can scoop anyltody on corn: comes his way.
have a very large drill Held here and
holiday and started early for a ride. so we will have it decided al our
we sure keep it hot three days out
Select your twat corn, cabbage,
Visited a new chapel erected in honor fair. Uncle Pitt Wallace is sure I
of the week
At present we are
potatoes, pumpkin», »quashes. as
of Joan of Arc, the patron saint of will have 60 bushels per acre.
'drilling with heavy packs, consisting
well as other vegetables, and bring
France.
of blanket, half shelter tent, suit of
Ed Kalina and wife attended the
them to the fair. It is the small
The building is on a hill and is of dance at Bohemian hall and reports
underwear. s«>ck», tent pole, pegs,
things which may be overlooked
gray stone and Is-autiful. At the a fine time and full house.
toilet articles and ration cans
On
that makes up a good fair.
entrance are statues of her parents;
a hot afternoon I sometimes wish a
Uncle George Bilyeu and wife are
Oats is the short spring crop.
tiehind the grill work is a statue of contemplating a trip io Montana to
cake of ice was in the pack
Some fields were not harvested
the peasant girl and behind this the visit their son Lester.
One day an«! sometimes two day«
while others yielded but one or two
“Maid of Orleao«.“ The dress is
of the week we aie on the range
M. C. Gaines and wife, also .Mrs sacks to the acre, so M E. Roth of
artistically done in turquoise blue
This is very interesting
We start
.Mankins, all of Crabtree, were up Goltra station reports.
inlay.
on the 200 yard range; when we
Friday to recruit up on camas and 1
Private Wilkins, of Kelso, Wash , qualify on this we go to the 300-
ground cherries.
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who belongs to the same regiment yard and so on until we reach the
G. A. Griffin running his auto and company as Gail Jones, came
1000-yard rrnge. Before the Ger­
Hon. W. R. Bilyeu Here.
oyer a 9-wire fence learned him to Wednesday to return with Gail the
man retreat we had the face and
Saturday evening Hon. W. R. Bil­ leave his dog home when going joy­ following Friday.
breast for a target, now we have
yeu of Albany, drove in from Prov­ riding.
Our condensery continues to grow ; the shoulders and back of the head.
Billy Kalina look a big splurge and Manager Peery expects to be • Th* last target is a HtBe more diffi­
idence church where he hail attend­
ed a sort of reunion of the pioneer with his best gal before going to procening 10.004) pounds of milk > cult to get a beat! on. but a great
tpember» of that church. Mr. Bil­ war aa he wasn't sure he'd have an­ daily by October 15.
deal more pleasant.
yeu stopped over njjrht in Scio for other chance soon.
The most interesting drill of all
John Weaely while not exactly
the purpose of delivering a patriotic
The Pie Eatei ’a good wife went [minting our town red has decorated is the pontoon bridge work. We
address to our boys who were about over to visit with her brother Jolie,
his Peoples theatre with a bright have a stream 250 feet acr-»»» and
to leave to join the colors and to the
average depth of 10 feet. In our
who is only 89, has heistic rheuma­ new coat of vermillion
people in general of his old home of tism in one hip, so is quite lame. If
While there has liven much talk last contest we put a bridge across
nearly half a century agone.
some nice widow wishes a »ood home of a short grain crop more grain has in 24 minutes. 20 seconds. After
Mr. Bilveu. in his address, gave a and would wait on ths* old man and
tieen delivery«! to the Scio mills than a short rest we took all thia down
short resume of the incidents of the
and laid it away nicely on the bank
board herself and sleep in the wood ever Iwfore.
world war from 1914 up and which
So I figure
•died, he would give her six bits a j Th«- huckleberry crop in the hills in just 13* minutes
in 1917 involved th«- United States.
that
by
giving
us
three
blocks the
month, get her a nickel*» worth of iJ said to be immense. Several par
He showed (hat we stayed out of
start
of
Henry
Shelton
we
could put
war nuts and a stick of candy. Ikin't' ties out from Scio report abundant
the war as long possible and retain
all come at once as he's easy scared sucres» with small trouble.
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our national honor and safety.
of women.
Though a candidate for county
|
Evergreen blackberry pickers are
judge. Judge Bilveu said not a word
making 44 to |ii a day, lh>.*y get t><- i
in his address which savored in the
a pound or Me a gallon.
least of partisan politics. At the
Mr. Penyer of Lebanon, took 200
same time his patriotic utterances
will no doubt secure him republican bushels of Dan Bilyeu’s wheat to
Scio on his auto truck in half a day 1
voles in the Scio country in Novem­
Mr». Effie Heart and daughter of I
ber
SCOn TURNER WRITES
INTERESTING LETTER
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SCIO
The
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