THE SCIO TRIBUN
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VOL XXIV
SCIO. LINN COUNTY. OREGON. DECEMRER
NO. 19.
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11.76 THE YEAR
A
Crabtree 13; Scio 34.
LOGGING RAILROAD
A pretty in!« resting game of bas-
' ketball between the Crabtree scfi<»ol
girls and the Scio high school girls
*u plaved in Wew-ly hall Friday
Road* Lead to Beit of Finest Ua-
evening, with Seto on the big end of
touched Forest* in the Ca*
a 34 to 13 score.
Crabtree made the fir«i basket in
cade Mountain*.
the first period ami only I while Scio
rolled up 13 points.
la-banon. Or., I>ec. 19.— A crew
In the second peritwi the visitor»
of railroad surveyor* has been work added 4 point» to their score n hile
ing quietly for several week* in the Scio marked un 9 In the last per
eastern part of Linn county for iod excitement ran high. Crabtree
what is said to be a logging road working fun i|iy to even up the
into the timber belt on the upper score rind math s point* with Scio's
Crabtree river
adding 12
The survey started near the town
Sci > was a little nubious as to the
of Crabtree, a station on the Wood outcome by reason of change in the
burn Springfield branch of the Sou lineup a* two sutwtitute*. <>ne hav mg
thern Pacific, and extends easterly never been in a game, had to l<e
for a di-’ance of 20 mile* into the u*-d. The suits surprised everyone
fine belt of timbei owned largely bv and materially nousU-d in winning
the Hammond Lumber Company.
the game. The Crabtree girls were
Two routes have l>een surveyed, good «ports ami smiled over their
one following up the Crabtree river defeat, The personnel:
valley and the other going up th«
Scio
Crabtree
ridge iielween Crabtree river and Velma Gearhart L F Elfreda Thayer
McDowell creek. Both routes lead Ruth Hayman F Lou Lukenbach
I<ydia Shoure
into the same body of timtier, which Adeline Locke C
G Blanche Barnes
is aai<i to be one of the tinest un Hazel Merer
Hazel Philippi
touched bodies of timber in the Cas Nita Mesphelt G
ElalneFreelan« sufi
i
Jean Stoddard
cade mountains.
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1
it is hot known definitely who is
behind the project, but it ia suppos
ed that the Hammond Lumber com
pany is. in view of the fact that it
owns thousands of aeren of timle-r
in that section, Thin timber ia ripe
and should lie out on the market
within the next few years in order
to save much of it.
Whether the company will erect A
mill near the timl>er tracts or haul
it out to some of its mills already
established ia not known.
The crew of surveyors has worked
ao quietly that few knew what they
were doing for some weeks.—Special
dispatch to the Oregonian.
There would be very little kicking
on a cut tn the warren of ain.
Sw no WfnXoM- Diiflof lAo
Xmas Suggestions
FROM KELLY’S
H'-ndquarter* in Scio for
Holiday Goods
IVORY GOODS
TOILET ARTICLES
PERFUMESf
•k
TOILET WATER
STATIONERY
BOOKS
MANICURE SETS
LEATHER GOODS
.CANDIES
CIGARS
FOUNTAIN PENS
EVERSHARP PENCILS
DOLLS
TEDDY BEARS
JEWELRY. KODAKS
TOYS and GAMES
Come
in uhtle telethon is
good
Kelly’s Drug Store
TOURS FOR SERVICE
I, ‘
Cr ind Chief Banqueted.
WILSON'S VETO ON
nnu
fiin
I ll/ri V
WE MAY EAT BLACK
BREAD BEFORE HARVEST
'i«'«» night U-Jas temtde.
r», tendered tbrir grand
chief Mr« Julia Bilyeu, a banquet-
_ Lad Th,, -i.t-nu consisted of roast chicken
Protective TariH Slated to Re
with grow, salads, jellies, bread, Europe Ha* Demanded Too Much
Fight
Democrat* Are
butter, a if--e. etc., with a dewa-rt
Wheat and Flour From
of apt- pie and ice cream.
Lining Up.
United State*.
Af'- r the banquet ww over the
kxlgv got tl wn to work and initiated
Washington, Dee. 20 W -.-drow
War bread may com* hack. In
thrw new member* (ladies) ami 13
Wilson proposes to make his last
member* by courtesy, that is lossy, fact there is a very strong probabil
stand in his two year struggle with
members of IxNinidns lodge, Knight* ity of the American public beii g
congress when the emergency farm
of Pv th. is
compelled to consume bread late in
relief legislation, reported out of
We nil not say whether lamda*' the season that will lx- manufacture d
the ways and mm- committee. is
g >ai is a nanni »r a billy, but all from coarse grains mixed with
sent to him for approval, according
the kn'ghts managed to stick on wheat.
to what seems reliable Information.
though the aforesaid goat did some
That already there hns been more
Ono or two democratic landers,
regular bucking when Doc Hol won wheat sold ‘on paper” than can p<>*-
who pretend«! to know what thev
'did the Ou-- nroo act. Hut D<»c is a • . 1 ■
; h.- public
were taking ah»ut. sai l today that
famous r 'er and failed to I m « un is put on a ration, ia today acknowl-
the president will not <*ign the bill
horsed (pi baldy ungoated would edg«-d by some of the leading inter
to aid the farmer* on the ground
! be the better term).
ests. Such a statement was made
that a protective tariff is undemo
When Fr.-1 Jone* essayed the race •><«• Um* ago by the Journal, but
cratic, taking the position that the
I (ride) he made the animal so flu*- M <*»•< «•»»• t** "i (he trade were
wage earner* in the citv wiil be in
tered on th«- start by his jockeying *dl<ng t” admit it.
jured by such a tmaxure.
tactic* that h* had no further trou-, Eamine stricken countries are de
There is no longer any doubt that
ole. By th » time the g<>at or goat-manding bread.
ll urce »urna are
democratic leader* in both house and
ess had k-<-..me so worried that the being raised in this country to pur-
senate are lining up for a fight on
Chase br«-.»dstuiTs for the starving.
the bill.
IxMslas temple ia a flourishing »nd Indications are that not enough
On the other hand, the republi- |
lodge. All the members seem in wheat will lie available of the 1920
cans from the agricultural stat«-«
terested in the work and do it very crop to supply thia need.
«aid the bill would I m - a mu red of
All over the country there is agi
' nicely.
♦ KANTIAM FARM TOPICS
large democratic support. Several
During the civnduct of the lodge tation to purchase a barrel of flour
democrats from the south have com-
Grand Chief Mrs. Julia Hilveu was to aid the wheat growers
Thia
■ mitted themselves to the bill because
I presented with an elegant gold movement has assumed Idieral pro-
We ar«- all sorrv to learn of the
It include* some products of that.
portions and is l>eginning to have
serious illness of .Mrs. Freeman and
‘ pencil.
«ection. among them la-mg long
its effect upon the supply of wheat
hojie for her early recovery.
staple cotton and peanut*
Parent Teacher*.
in
sight.
Lyman Smail and wife arc on a
!>emoeratic represen alive* from
llecauM*
of the severe liases that
short visit to California as Lyman is Texas and Oklahoma alto are inter-
The
Parent-Teacher
Association
they have suffered to date as a re
still unable to use hi* cripple«! hand. vs ted in some relief for the cattle-1
met last Thursday evening In the sult of the previous sharp drop in
Our teacher. Anene Smail, gave men and are Inclín--«! to support th«-
’
I high school room,
wheat, millers have actually lieen
her scholar* a jacking up for mon bill.
The session was devoted mainly to! selling their wheat and few of them
keying with mail boxes and filling I It is asserted by some republican*
I doing* of like organisations in other I have their normal supplies for flour
'em with rock*.
- that they can win enough democrat
states. i>u;>er* iteing read by Miss I making. Farmers are holding back
Ed Kalina is building a garage. 1 votes to override s veto, but theie
Trimberger, Mi** Stoddart and .Mias their wheat and the result is that
Jack Griffin of Whitefish. Mont- ! •• good reason to doubt this
Cox.
stocks are scarce in the markets.
ana, came in Sunday night for a
FroCemur Tobi* gave an interest
There is plenty of oats, barley and
winter's visit with his mother, Mrs.
New Harbor Building.
ing talk on "Conditions in our rye and corn to supply all breadstuff
S W. Gaine*, after an al**ei>ce of
School,” outlining the work being« requirements, but wheat supplies
nine year*.
Portland. Dec 21
Port commi»- done in all the grades and the high 'are getting down to the bottom.
George Griflin must be thinking! aiom •( Newport and Toledo signed *choo|.
Al The 1’ioplr. riicatn
of taking a cook as he haa l»-en <■ contract yesterday with the U. S
Pafx-r* were read by Mr* Dens-
cleaning *»p ar-'jnd the houar and, lx>ard of engineers whereby the gov- n> re, Mr* Sticha and Mi»a Humph
There will I m - a matinee at 2:30
barn (would tie keep the cook in the ernment give* Yaquma bay 20 feet rey
t'hris
mas day al the Peoples theatre
barn? Ed.) and building a new m lower low water. As
A* evidence of
of j ; .Miss Bertha Painty favored with
and
a
show in the evening at 8. also
chicken house (or pul her with tbe'g..od faith th«- two porta will deposit -everal » <ig« that were well received
on
Sunday
evening
The picture
other ehiciu-n» i
In th* U. 8 National bank $296.000. ami Mrs l'-arnes and Prof. Wesely
will
tie
Wallace
Reid
m "What's
The government engineer* once contributed choice instrumental se-
Elmer Griffin is having the time
I
Your
Hurry?"
of his life as chore boy at Santiam estimated that th* 20 feet at lower , lections
I AKM AIU LlntLT •'»
Farm while the old man doe* the low water could I m - obtained al an
expense of $R3<’.DO0.
The ports
circular work.
have
spent
their
half.
Now
the gov
Patron* of the Richardson Gapi
chee*e factory are having a time j ernment says that on account of war
¡trying to get blood out of a turnip, j price* the project will cost $ 1,500,-
’ They will have their eve t«?eih cut 000. The ports have made up the
when th* factory «tarts up again. I difference and the government will
complete the work, releasing the
The Pie Eater made a trip to
ports from further responsibility,
¡Crabtree Saturday, finding the peo-
financial or otherwise.
i pie very much interested in a phone
There ia Ifi feet at low water now
I line from there to Scio
and in about IM month* this .should
Joe Kalina is back from Portland
be increased to 20 feet Then Ya-
! wnere he mfl-nt to work, finding 10
quina bay will be the second best
' men for every job.
harbor on the Oregon roast The
When a man offers 100 bushels of sawmill* built and Iwing built will
' potatoes for $25 with no takers it furnish innumerable cargo -v for
shows the bottom is out. The man ship* and the project will give Ya-
'aecum-i of taking a sack of potatoes qu-na an opportunity to reach the
and the <>ld man's axe. had better world market.
come baca ami get another sack -
but bring back the axe.
Now that the girls are rouging
And the mule threw lx>gan.
PIE EATEIL
T<> cure the men of their carping There, little nickel, don’t you cry;
criticism a committee of them was You'll buy a cigar live and bye.
appointed to ptepare entertainment
for th« January meeting, The mm-
miitre is already at work on a pro-
/ Irish you a
gramme which promises to be in
M err y Ch ri st inns
structive. amusing and entertaining
0
lx>* Angeles appaala for trnfs to
shelter ths- hou**l««*s Shelter them
from what that splendid climate?
The Tribune learns that Scio's tax
rate will lar right almut 70 mills,
aside from the state and county tax
which will arid ab -ut 7 mills. Few
town* in the valley can ataml a 77
mij| tax levy
The Tribune does not
know whether it is a recognition of
our abillty to pay or not. but we
prophesy it will I m - the cause of con
siderable profanity.
n /irns/H rotis a ml
llui>fiy Artr War
Drink all yon want as
long us its .\rar lirtrl
Moral: Don't Get
Sturrtl
1 their lips, even the kiss has tieen'
deprived of a "kick."
These falling price* are not falling
so fast hut what we have been able
Flirts ar* not as bad as they ar* to keep from tiring knocked down
Home brew motto: "Jug not that
j by their mad rush to lower levels.
ye be not jugged.”
painted.
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R. M. CAIN