The Scio tribune., May 06, 1920, Image 1

THE SCIO TRIBUNE
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VOL. XXIII
NO. 3»
SCIO. LINN COUNTY. OREGON. MAY «. Itr.tt
71 75 THE YEAR
? «
' «de railroad was completed to Me-
without the enndenwry.
I Minnville the following war.
The llenningsen people a febso-
I In the fall of the year 1870, thia
I lutrly reliable and dependable
It
writer engaged to teach one of the
is their purpose to make th«- Scio
city schools. in which hr »11 fairly
■ condensery first class and just as
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I successful; at least we completed
good and at Isrgr as the business
Fifty Years Ago Portland Was But
' the school year and was offered a New Machinery Constantly Added will justify, Mr. Peery, the mana­ The Tribune Editor Goes Sightseing
re-engagement.
During the sum­
ger, has an ambition to make the
a Good Sized Village on
— Is Destined to Become .
Along New Power Line—
mer of 1871 we became acquainted
Scio condenser y as good as anv in
the River Bank.
Grfat institution.
Becomes Optimistic
with 8. H. t'laughton of Lebanon,
the state, and bv fair dealing with
who was then in Portland looking
milk producers he ho|>e* to induce
The fiftieth anniversary of the ar­ for a principal for Santiam academy
We have had our
in 1 them to enlarge their herds and
Monday artemm ». by courtesy of
it1 make the Scio country the prosper- Dr. and Mrs. Prill, Th-- I'ribune man
rival of The Tribune man in Oregon He so pictured Lebanon and Linn operation for so many
will occur next Monday, and it may county that he persuaded us to vieil has come to be a part
nua dairy section of the Wil llamette was given an aut« ride to Jordan
be of interest to note a few points 1 Lebanon.
when wi- consider the amount of valley.
and return.
Been *• of the fact
of developttent the state and par­
money paid monthly for milk, haul­
that th«- canyon roa .1 wiih undergo-
Portland was right in
ticularly the Willamette valley has fend did not seem homelike
ing repairs and hi ■ ily in a traveling
Not ing and for the workers at the plant
JORDAN ITEM»
J condition we wvr«
made during tnis half century period having traveled alniut we were un­ is far the l>igg»Mi manufacturing •
•dM’lled tn go
•
Our trip to San Fiancisco was able o see any portion of the bril­ concern in eastern IJnn county, »nd ♦ ♦
♦ « •• • ♦ ♦ •» + , by way of the ol I monastery and
made from Illinois, our native state, liant future ahead for Portland. We ranks among the largest in the
II to reach the
J. H, Cunningham went to Port- down the steep
the next year after the Union Pacific could not see what was to support county.
Jordan
store.
land Sunday.
railroad was completed.
After a the town to make it great.
Some 10 or 12 y ears ago • dozen
Th«- monastery, by the way is lie-
Erie Phillips of Mehama visited
week «|>ent in San Francisco we
Scio
business
men
and
citizens
or
­
tng
torn down and the material is
When we visited Lebanon, the
home folks Sunday.
boarded the old sidewheel steamer county seemed homelixe and the ganized and const rue ted a condens­
being u-w-d n th<- ere-ti hi of u new
Charles Barrell and wife ftluVrsi
California and reached Portland five little village of Lebanon, having ing plant at the present site of tbe
church. Re.i *bmg th«- Jordan store
davs thereafter, landing at the Ash probably 200 people, appealed to ua. condensery. E. C. Peery was elect-{ to laicomb Monday.
< we found Mr. I'Z, who recently
The'
Mis» I'rivit <>f Portland ■» visiting became pi-piutir, busy m enter­
street dock. Our first meal in Ore­ An engagement as princijial of San­ ed president fend manager.
gon was eaten at the old time Coo- tiam academy resulted.
plant as then const ructed was a relatives here.
hi» customer*. In answer
taining his
mopolitan hotel, then a leading hotel
Mis* Jaynes of Aumsville is help- to the <|u*-»tion “how's buaincas"?
At that time there was no direct small affair as c.>ir>par«.-d with the I
in the small city.
The capacity was mg Mrs. Foltz cook fur the light he replied ' firslraie’’,
Die store
mail or stage line from lx-l»am>n to present plant.
Portland then boasted of between Albany.
seemed well filled with irroceriea.
Lebanon received her then rated at 10.OHO pounds uf milk crew.
7000 and 8000 people. The business weekly mail from a stage line from daily. The pioneer company oper­
The stork left a wee baby girl al but th«- dry v >ods department was
district was then limited to Front Salem to Eugene, the line serving ated the plant mor«- or h-ss success­ the F. Pepperling home May 3.
i vacant, which h>* will supply later.
and First strn-ts. West of Fourth Brownsville, Harrisburg, and other fully for nine years.
After an hour |H‘ut in looking
C, L. Sherman and family of Mc­
street wns full of stumps through offices on the line which included
The company sold th«« plant to a
alhiut
we con
I that we would
Minnville will occupy the Barrett
which were winding roadways, not Scio, Stayton and Turner.
Seattle
company
that
knew
little
i make it back
• igh the canyon,
It was
place.
yet having reached the dignity of in the fall of 1871 our flrot visit to about operating a milk condensing I
which we acc
■!><-d without ser-
the name of street. Front and First Scio was made. Scio was then much Diant. However, the Seattle cum-1 Ed Foltz had his foot crushed by i io US trouble
Quite m bit <>f im-
streets were paved in the business larger than iadianon and indicated a uany started in to bore with a big a rolling log and will Iw laid up a iorovi-m a i I ...■ i'i id» to the road
few Weeks.
section.
I here were no street cars iproaperoua future.
augur and seem«*d on the road to
j in the canyon by bi.mting nwav rock
O hk <;<> n M ist .
nor bridges across the river for
; points, widening and grading the
After a successful year at Santiam prosperity for seven months, then
many years thereafter. There were academy, this writer joined the ranks by recklem management and dis­
roadway, etc. Just across the creek
two or three four-story buildings, a of the benedicts and engaged in honest practices which caused litiga­
• SANTIAM FARM TOPICS
♦ men are making fair progress in
dozen or two three-story, and the farming for several years, or until tion, this company fail«-d and ln-at ;..........................................................i ch aring the right of way for the
remainder of two- and »ne-story we took up newspaper work. In farmers out of two months supoly
canal and flum<- for the Scio electric
structures.
Farmers
are
tearing
out
a
bone
of
milk,
amounting
with
other
debts.
power station
Water is to I m -taken
1890 we became a citizen of Scio,
On the east aide, known as East having purchased the newspaper U> |8t),000.
with their farming, corn planting j from Thorn «» cr-k at»iut one-fourth
Portland for man/ jears. were 12 here, and with the exception of a
A year ago Mr Peery, as trust«-e, and gardening. Thev have no lime tof a mile above Jorian store and
or 15 buildings and one store, a very few years, have continued to publish succeeded m selling the plant to the to trade h-irws now.
i conduct.•! al ng th«-
ith bnnk of
countryfied establishment, having a the Scio newspaper.
Henningsen pc-opte, since when the
Eii Wesely and Mrs. John Wesely ! the cr>-ck to U m * l«»w»-r end of the
small stock of goods.
During thia time we have seen word has l»een forward with the made a living call Tuesday fur seed canyon wiwre the power house will
r*
The <). & C railroad ha«! been Scio grow, slowly it is true, and prew-nt owners. Nearly all <>f the corn.
I be erected.
completed to Oregon City and was
machinery purchased by the original
It h estimateil that a fall of Kâ
hardly
in
keeping
with
other
parts
Mrs.
Archer
is
still
with
us.
Her
continued on to Roseburg within the
company
has
been
replaced
by
better
f«-et
will ite .*- cured by digging a
of
the
Willamette
valley,
but
always
husband
has
a
government
job
in
next two or three years. The west
ditch and tlum< not more Ilian one
forward until now when the pros­ and more modern equipment until Alaska as an electrician.
( »nd one-half inib-e. Just what power
pect for growth is more promising now tbe plant is up to date ami ia
John Gridin and wife of Salem
than ever before. During our long capable of taking care of tJil.liOO came in Tuesday for a vacation visit. will I m - aucuc«*<i at th«- station we
have not vet b- on told, but Engineer
experience in newspaper work in pounds of milk daily, though but
We have a new industry. Hume
amount
of
about
one-third
of
that
i
Cunningham
says he wil. deliver 208
Scio we have written obituaries for
one is hauling ties from the Brock
milk
is
proceaned
daily
al
the
pres-
i
hor-te
power
by wire to Scio. The
nearly all of Scio's first settlers,
mill near Franklin Butte cemetery
!
ent
lime.
power
now
being
used in Scio by the
commencing with that of William
Ito Crabtree, a truck making six
The
present
eumpanv
has
ezpend-1
light
plant
is
n*
•:
m
>re than 35 h. p.
Cyrus. There .are but very few of
I loads a day with over l«MM> feet to
ed
in
buildings
ami
machinery
over
<
| At the present time more men ara
them left.
Now this writer has
the load.
■ nr-edtsd
There are now about 12
reached the decrepitude of old axe. 125.000 aside from the du rchase
The Santiam Farm is selling lots
> men employed and 20 to 25 could
Soon our fellow citizens will follow price and is paying out from 825,*
THREE FEEDS ONE CENT
Ae remains of him known familiarly uuO to Ido.mto for milk and labor uf tine seed corn and still has a ton -, be
1. latter on. «ben ditch and
| of hay to spare at 416.
flume construction is uh, some 50 to
as “Tom" to the beautiful Franklin every month.
Miss Anene Smail, while visiting 60 men will In» required.
Some 12 auto trucks haul and de­
Butte cemetery. If we have done
It iii the purpose to crowd the
anything for the betterment of Scio liver milk to the factury daily and in Allmny, was taken quite aick and
We also have International
i during our career as editor and pub­ the company ia continually adding had to remain a f«-w days with bur work as rapidly as pomuble so that
as much of the low water whson as
lisher we feel that our life work has new and modern machinery. The sister.
a
trio
to
Scio
milk
supply
is
drawn
from
eastern
.
John
Griflin
made
possible may lw cover««!.
> not been wholly in vain.
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Milk Producer
Linn and the southern part of Ma­ Wednesday morning to visit oid
Th«- construction of this tint* power
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friends
and
have
the
wneeltmse
on
rion
counties.
pn-jr-ct,
in our judgment will mark
and
I
Service« in Catholic Church.
The company has l>een »-»tablishiM his car repaired.
the beginning of Scio's real growth.
PIE EATER.
Poultry Food
It will cause ths location of numer­
Rev. F. Boniface informs The Tri­ in the northwest for the uast 30
...
years or more and has unlimited
ous
enu-rpri •« in .ir midst; new
bune that on Thursday. May 13. the
capital behind it, th«« Scio plant be­
Saturday
and
Monday
I
wili
have
business
hou* «, ni-w dwellings, and
feast of the ascension, a holy day of
See Our Window
ing but one of the dozen or more a new line of surnmer millinery «r- new people to till them. Let us all
obligation for catholica. there will
milk plants own«*d ami o|M*rate<l by riving. I*rices reasunalile.
discourage pessimism in all its forms
Or coni«- in ami ask im aboutit
be services at the Scio catholic
the company which includ« condens-
M
ha . E. II H okxos .
and with th«- optimist, look ahead
church at 10 a. m. The Rev Dr.
eries, creameries ami rh«-«-ae plants.
for the brilliant and progwanve fu­
U. Fiaher. of Scantwill preach
The Are alarm, rung just after ture promised for Scio.
The company will prepare the Scio
the sermon in Bohemian.
plant to take nttr of anv «juantity sundown FridaV. called th«* Are de­
John Prochaska has sold his resi­
of milk offered. Top prirea are be­ partment and the people in general
ing ami will tie paid the farmer for out. The occasion of the alarm was dence property in Scio to V. Pro­
He experts to remove to Port­
For thia week. Saturday and Sun­ milk ami to this is due the fact that a burning flue at the home of W. A. kop
day evenings at the P**ple» Theatre farmers who prefer selling the cream I Ewing. Ry the time the depart­ land, St. Johns district within a few
Dorothy Phillips will be presented in are getting 2 to 3 cents more for ment was at hand the tire was out. days and will probably engage In
YOURS FOR SERVICE
their butterfat than tiiry would get No damage resulted.
(“The Right to Happiness
HALF A CENTURY IN
International
STOCK TONIC
OUR CONDENSERY
IS LARGE CONCERN
JORDAN SOON TO BE
BUSY LITTLE PLACE
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