THE SCIO TRIBUNE
Independent, fearless, free; Not tied to any party; Will support best candidate for office regardless of party
VOL. XXIII
SCIO. LINN COUNTY. OREGON. APRIL 22. 1920
NO. :w.
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A Farmer’» View».
T , t I m - Editor :
t Your editorial entitled "Why I»
it?” appearing in your issue of April
15, ia not only reusing much good
comment her«* but in neighboring
towns as well.
Now I lielieve in everyone being
a home town booster until conditions
become such as to warrant other-
wiae and I sprak without prejudice
or malice to anyone
Being a new
comer here I do no not know of the
past
ma, hut only as lh<->
present themselves to«!ay.
I have lieen moat fortunate in be-
ing detail«*«! on work that has taken
me to most of our larger surround
ing town» where I have had the
pleasure of meeting several of the«r
buxine-«» men, and quite a numl«er
hav«* taken pride in telling «if the
busmem and trad«* they are doing
with the people of Scio; and what I
have heard of our slowness, tight
ness and backwardness is far from
being complimentary. It is a known
fact that tne businm» men make any
town just what it is. Show me a
town that ha» a business men’s as
sociation and a commercial club, and
I will »how you a town that ingoing
ahead. Business men cannot afford
to be at loggerhead» with one an
other. The merchants at Albany,
Lebanon, Salem and Bortland are
either underselling our merchants or
the people are trading there for va-
riour other reasons.
Crabtree if th«* late»t contender
for some of the Scio trade. Why?
Because some of the roads leading
there are better than thoar coming
into our own town, ami I for one
would rather go five mil«*» farther
on a good r<«ad to another town to
trade than travel over the di»gra«*e-
ful road which lead» thru Richani-
aon Gap.
Even when we get to town we
cannot get to the mill for feed, etc.,
without going in nearly up to the
hub in mud and slush
Th«*se con-
International
STOCK TONIC
THREE FEEDS ONE CENT
We al*i have International
Milk Producer
an«!
Poultry Food
Ser Our Window
Ur come in and ask us about it
Kelly’s Drug Store
YOURS FOR SERVICE
When You Come Back to Me.,
$1.75 THE YEAR
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♦ ............................................................. ... When you come l«ack tome, mv love,
I winder shall I find
Saturday and Sunday reminded u« The old love flame still burning.
Mrs John E iltx wa* a Jordan via-
of good weather after so l-mg a time
Itor Friday.
Or has time Iw-en unkind?
yet «re fear our hope» will lie blaiit<*d Oh. will we then lie yearning
Mrs Fra«! Bepperling is visiting
For clasp of heart to heart;
Our che»-sr factory is moving
at the Frank B» pperhng home.
Or has our love been lifeless turning
along nicely, paying promptly in full.
Mesdam«-« Bhillipe, I’rivet am!
In years we’ve spent apart?
j Wortmar» calle«! on the A Arbuckle
Mr. Mulligan is doing hi» darned
Chorus.
i family Sunday afternoon.
est to make our impassable r«>ads
Whi-n
you
come
back,
my
lov«M
on«
1
passable
Chari«* Barrett ami Clyde Thomae
Into the jMMt we'll awing;
M«»n lay morning farmers’ and Renew the tie« of olden,
| motor«**! to laxmrnb Sunday
gardeners’ hop«*» were blasted *> far
To which we fondly cling
Mrs. Haman Shelton of Crabtree
We’ll f«*el our pulses quicken
as s«*«*ding wax concerned.
11« visiting h«*r »«ns John and Hal
With love that will not fail
Sunday at the Santiam Farm wax
j George Witting ami wife of Salem
To cheer iw on our journey
a reminder of obi time» as ->ur go«»! * A-down life’» long, long trail.
| came over Thursday <>n business and
friends came in.
Mr. and Mrs.
. to say goodbye to their friends, a»
If in your eyes th«* lovelight lies.
Archer of Seattle with her famous
'having sob! their pnqierty are going
With faithful, tender glow.
Berrien cat; Mr. and Mr» Clarence Whisper my name in accents low.
to California.
Lovejoy of Dalia»: Mt, an«! Mr*.
If you’re the same. Ill know
Mrs. Frank Pepperllng, who has
Newton Crabtree, George and Curtis Your heart is free, and Someday wr
b«*en quite poorly. ia improving,
Happy again will lie.
Griffin, Mr and Mrs. J <• ph W« ely
N. Schmidt of Saskatchewan. B. C
Our love will ever deeper grow.
and two daughters
We had one of
When you com«* back to me.
i la here looking for a location. He
those old time« we read almut in the
Cora IF. fkhtn/tr, Sth. Ort. | says “the winters are too cl<sie to-
bible. wh«*re they killei a fat calf,
i gether in IT C.
Ail dihU rvHMrvesi
with iierf»teak. mutton chop». ham
II. C. Foltz has taken the job of
and eggs.
Local Institute
I’lE EATER.
boarding the latiorcrs on the [lower
plant. Mrs. Ilarvt* Shelton is cook-
Billy Abbott awakeneil Mon-lay
Mr». Ida M. Cumming», county pro tern.
morning feeling more than anxious school superintendent, write The
R. (’ Bepperling ami wife of Crab
to get to work at staling. He Tribune: “The local institute will
tree
visited here Friday.
abuxe«l the weather then cam«' tn be held at the Albany high «chool
F. Roydt ia working on the Jordan
town. He »ay» it is very at rang»- building on April 24, commencing at
hydro plant.
that when he ia overcame with the 9:30 a. 111.
m. Th«' »peaker» will be
work spirit it rain«, an«! when th«* State Superintendent Churchill, J.
Henry Neal ami Alvin Bepperling
aun shines he is so completely under
left
for Ros«*burg Tuesday to locate
C. Almack. E. D Reader. Dr. V. 8.
the influence of lassitude that «-ven Smith. W. A. Eastburn and
on
a
h«on«-»tead.
H. C
hi» wife cannot drive him to work. Seymour.
Thus. Bhlllip» ami family of Ixtb-
Salem merchants are reaching out
after the patronage of Scio an-1 vi
cinity.
ditions should not exist, as this is
one of the oldest farming districts
in Oregon.
I f the busin«*«M men do not care to
make it an object for u» to trade
here, why should we give them our
trade? i have »topped doing busi
ness with one Arm because they vot
ed against school movements, the
new electric plant, and also again*t
paving Main street. Now my tnxie
isn't going to make or break any
one, but U m * other towns are always
glad to get it.
One reason Albany is getting so
much of Hie Scio trad«- ia t»-cau««-
the merchants are continually adver
tising, keeping their good» t«efore
the public and invariablv running
«me article as a headliner at or below
cost, and the pe«ipie fall for it, i*e-
cause 10 cents save«! is 10 cents
earned, especially at this stage of
frenzied finance. Now it may tw
true that all of us do not know the
existing prices on everything, but
'
I we are learning every day
It is not
, the place for the public to tell the
merchant what to keep, but the duty
of the busirMoM man to find out what
I the public wants; «nd n<> buxine««
man can continue with the old prac-
i tice of getting a customer inside
and then pulling a gun on him.
Therefore it is up to our bumrx*as
men to get back their lost trade and
keep it. and go out after more. See
that the roads and streets are Axed,
get the railroad liack. have th«* p«*o-
ple »top here instea«! of l«*avi«ig us
until we will be clear off the map.
Now we have place» of bu»in«*w»
here and also some businres m«*n
, who would be a credit to any town.
> but we only have to look in the mir
ror to see Why It !».”
j
R. E. M antos
Farm Bureau Meet.
banon motor««! to our burg Sunday
to visit hia par«-ntx and plant pota
toes. He works in the |>i«[H»r mill.
At 10a. m., tomorrow (Friday.
Mrs. John Neal, who has been
April 23) a big meet of the Linn quite ill, we are glad to announ«*«*.
County Farm Bureau will l«e hel«i In is improving nicely ami able to I m *
the court house at Ailianv.
up again.
It la desired that all imrtx of the
O r K oon M ist .
county I m - represented, for subjects
of great importance to th«* farmer
will tie discuMied. among which are:
Rodent control, drainage, poultry,
The ;s-ac«- has b»>en ratified with
wool and mohair, livestock improve
Germany.
ment, ct»-operativ«* shipping, etc.
A cigs ret. a pipe, n cigar, and a
At m«on everybody will aasemble
at the armorv for an Indoor (dcnic, Î jar of tobacco have l«e«*n placed on
where a fr«M* liand «-oncert am! com exhibition in the museum of natural
munity »mg will lie held with Dr. history.
D. V. Boling as leader. Hamilton'»
The city adopts plan.« for cleaning
store will furnish hot coffee and su the streets.
gar free
So tak«* your lunch and
Gunboat Gertie knocked out Bat
enjoy a full day of instructive pleas
tling Bessie in Ute third round.
ure.
Farm bureau members and
Union men go on »trike for a two
others who desire to liecome mem
ber» arc r»|iecially invited. Wear hour dav and fotXI a week.
S. V. S mith .
your tag
Sugar drop« to 90 cent» a pound.
County Agricultural Agent.
R. C. Pepperlinf, Candidate.
R. C. P«*pperling. of n«*ar Crab-
tr«H'. made The Tribune a very pl«»a-
«ant call Tm-wlay. He state«! to thia
writer that since Th«' Tribune’»
mention of hi* earn«* for countv com-
miMiom-r last week, so many of hia
neighbor» an«i friend« hint in»i»tr«l
that he »land for the nomination
that h«« had <*v«nclu<li*d to do no . and
on Monday of thia wi-vk made the
pro|«er tiling, no that hi» name will
appear on the republican ballot next
month
Mr. Bepperling is an active, ener
getic man of 47 vearx, is a xuee«*»-*-
ful farmer and has had nine year»
of practical road work experience.
He is a pleaxant, affable man to
most, practical in hi» view», and will
make Commissioner Butler know
that hr has been in a rare when the
Vote ia counted May 21.
Contract for Lumber Let.
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The Unn County Fair Association
ha* let the Contract for 233,000 feet
of lumtier with which to construct
th«» iH-veral building» necensary to
house the fair next fall.
Th«» «met of the lumber nt $30 per
thousand in considerable, and when
placed in contrtruc.ion will make
$20,000 look »ick When the ground»
ar«* paid for and the many other ex-
I a-nue« accounted for the fair p«*ople
will tin«! the cost not much under
$75,000. But then they hnve the
whole country to draw from and In
th«rse day» when people think in big
figure» it will I m * raiw-d as easily as
could $10,000 n few year» ago. In
the end, however, th«- fair will r«*-
turn good dividen«!» tn th«» way of
improv«*«! »lock anil agricultural con
dition». And ax Scio is a part of
Unn county »he will reap some of
th«* benefit» and xtmuld join whole
heartedly in making the Linn county
fair the liest tn the »late aside from
the »late fair.
R. C. Daniel Write».
N«-wtM.*rg. April 19.
To th«* fxlltnr;
We have a new boy, arrive«! 29th
ult. ami we feel lik«* we are succee«i-
ing in getting x*«rn«> future help any
way. We rx|M.*ct bi set our place
out in different kimlx of tM*rriex this
fall. You were »pttaking alx>ut this
iieing a gixsi country for chickens.
It sure ia. Mr. Sandox ha» a neigh
bor who is in the chicken busin«*as
and is doiny fine. We expect to set
our incubator right away so wt* <*an
have a few our»elvea.
Mr. Sandoz and Mr Mis«, also
Mr. and Mr» Bare are well and like
the country.
R. C. D a NIHX
Dr. W. D. Wood of Hillslioro,
(«wnrniiwionrr Tom Butler wax
Washington
county, was a Scio visi
over from Albany Wednesday morn
tor
y«*slerday.
The doctor is a can-
ing endeavoring to arrange for right
(
didate
for
the
nomination
for secre-
of way for publie road through R.
j
tary
of
alate.
W
hile
hare
tie ¡«aid
A. Holteen’s farm at Munkera.
'The Tribune office a pleasant «*all. '
The Tribune learns that disagree
We will make further mention of
ment between man and wife, who
his candidacy next week.
Our munty court ha« publish««!
are prominent in the social set, to of
its plan« for improving the mark« t
such nature that it may lea«l to per
Scio Sanitary Market.
road* during the tiresent year. Some
manent separation.
Mt us hope
22 mile» are to lie grad«*d anA rocked
the difficulty may lie adjusted and
Having »old mv interest in the
that the family will live happily Sanitary Market, i would be i«lva*-d in which are include)! the road from
to have my cr«*dit customers come Green bridge. 4 mile» and 2 milreof
hereafter.
in and balance account».
road from W. W. Miller’» place to
License was issued by County
Yitrr M i K nksht .
interaect
the Jordan-Slay ton road.
Clerk Russell Tu«*aday for the mar
riage of Samuel Shenk of Scio, and
Frankie Barker of Albany.
A truck loaded with grain had a
hard time n«*gotiating the mix! on
Bentland avenue yesterday morning
The driver was trying tn avoid the
deeper mud on Mill street.
“Sally Lean.”
The high school pupil» will give
For this week. Saturday ami Sun
their play "Sally Lunn’’ at the Beo day evening» at th«* Be« > pies I li«*atre
plea Theatre Wednesday evening, will be presented Dorothy (“Bep”)
April 23. First performance 7:30; |Gish In ”|*|| G m Him Yet"; also
second at 9:30.
| Fatty Arbuckle in 'The Hayseed.”