T County* Paragraph» Auditing of the book* of the coun­ ty officials has just been completed aijd it to reported that Linn countv'a net indebtedness has been reduced over 1100.000 during last year, de­ HF. da P « O’ np«ny I» ottiring P-W* in ■»•<- chan«!»»« yr.-re Irl« *’ ' individual Ku I g • »r iba conia**. Wrlia today for lull Iniui matron. We have a large quantity of * No. 2 Dimension Surfaced two sides. 1 his includes sizes from 2x4 to 2x I 2 Price $12.50 per Thousand First come, first served Scio Logging & Lumber Company Rose.. Thomas, near Jefferson, is enlarging his prune dryer. He to installing three new furnaces which will heat twelve new tiers of drying racks, which will give twenty-eight tiers of drying rocks when completed. He expects to be able to hahdir 15.- 000 bushels of prunes per day when running at full capacity. Plans for a community house in line with those over the eountv. are being discussed at Halsey, One hundrul and twentv-seven !oans have been made in Unn eountv to world war veterans, aggregating *319.000. of which over *10.000 has been paid back to the loan fund by veterans securing the loan. The loans in Linn county arc said to Iw There has been well organised, only one forcloaure and one is "now delinquent. Strawberries are reported to lie in bloom at The Halles. Mrs. Martha R. Morgan, 90, for 62 year* a resident of Albany, died at her home there February 18. fol­ lowing a six weeks' illness caused bv a fracture«I hiy bone. J. 0. Crawford of Albany «ras given a dinner at the home of his •on. Bert Crawford, on February 20 in honor of his 74th birthday. Mr Crawford crossed the plains with his parents when a child and rettied near the present site of Albany. While making the trip to Lacomb warning signs at thia point, or some­ Monday night to attend the com­ body is going to get killed. A stitch in time might save a life. * munityclub meeting. Editor McAdoo and party came near meeting their When you patronise our adver­ Waterloo al the turn in the mad at tisers you arc patronizing mutual J. W. Merrit's place. He was not friends. acquainted with the mad and did not notice the sharp turn until he had Mr». Crandall (low«) Telia How She almost passed it. and in making the W Stopped Chicken Loaeea rankOM«Baarb**v«bkk» W"b turn plunged acmes the narrow »trip 4'4 k».aee «b-wt Sat-Saai» brbr» WHS Saar of road and Into the pond. No one Iw»- naO«« •• t.lta4.»*rw»^ 1X1* Tbr-r —ot rrt Ihuoar Olkl«. Ill b* ‘ Sal SOM•• ««*- waa hurt, nor submerged in the wat­ II rt *wM aa4 (uuaalMU by er, but it waa surely lucky no one waa hurt. The county should place Kelly's l>rug Store. Scio. Oregon For the first time in the history of Cascadia, a car has made the trip during the month of February. Joseph Yates, who has made his home on hi* place near Orleans for the past 66 veers, celebrated hie 90th birthday on Tuesday of this week. Arrangements are under way for a big outdoor exposition to be held at Albany in the near future under the auspices of the Santiam Fish and game Protective and Propaga­ tive association. The plan is to make a big showing of Oregon's and Unn county's tremendous outdoor life SHIPLEY’S Between 75 and 100 growers at­ tended a meeting at Albany Tuesday afternoon and expressed themselves in favor of the culture of cucumber* if a pickle plant can be established by the California Backing Corpora­ tion which is now working on tbe project. The Lane County Court will sub­ mit to a vote of the people at the May ¡6 primary electmu a proposal that the county levy a two mill tax for the purpose of paying its share of the cost of building the new Pa­ cific Highway bridge across the Wil­ lamette river at Harrisburg. More than 8000 persons attrndrd the Oregon Agrieultuaal College ed­ ucational exposition at Corvallis on February 22 and 23. First place in community booth was tak.n by In­ dependence. with Coquille second and l^banon third. Prizes were large orange and black banners About 1000 high school students representing 113 high schools over the state were in attendance Women's Misses and (. hildren • Clothing and I iaberdashery Popular Mrs. Farley Heasman of Gate* was painfully Injured and her hub­ band and two sons had narrow es­ cape* from death when the steering gear of their car broke a« they were descending a steep hill near Mill City Sunday. The ear crashed through the guard fence at the bot­ tom of the hill and fell 20 fret into t the water, pinning the occupants underneath it. talion and • tnarireting controlled, tiirse many large middle profits and ejcpens.-» could be ahminatsd. or re­ tained by the producers and con­ sumer* in co-operation. And If they svrr no retained and devided. there w .uld be prosperity In agriculture and contentment in labor. Two doHars* pru*it added to one dollar's w<.rth of gooda is what ails this country. creasing it bv half. Albany College is planning a "Made in Oregon” week, to be held about the middle of March. The StUt Wirket A|»t Dtpittaieat object of this week, besides display­ C L Fresca. Market Agent ing Oregon ware*, is to raise fund* for standardization of the college library. It to hoped that by spring What ails the nation's agriculture there will be 8000 volumes in the is too low prices to the farmer and library shelvs*. an increase of 3500 too high to the family tabic, Ws«l r,o. t) C.. February 2», IF34. over the number at present. I To-- low price* to ’hr ratters re- Hot reaentativ* Willis C. Hawley of <>r- T Salem. 'The Scio Tribune General Xeu'S Page 4 Prices Oregon “Ds Rata Talli te Each Oth.rT” Asha Mr. M. Batty, R. I. suit in farmer* quiting the land and »•g m. a memlmr of the Ways and means C« mitts* of the House of Repres*n- going to the citie* for jobs. Too tativrs. proposes to make it possible to high price» to the consumers result n Itiply th.- number who pay income in Ires consumption and less demand. tax. • above (lO.'siO. "The larger in- If there could be a normal ratio ■ "ii ■ Oi . ! f>ay a :*<>n»iderable portion between the producing and selling of the exp. .** of the government,” • aid Ml Hawley, “but this shonld be price* the wh >le counnry would be ....... . '. -I fr n a large number paying a vastly benefited, and it would seem moderate tax as proposed in the bill— that an aroused people could work rat er than tn attempt to collect it from a «’I...¡¡er nu- tier at excessive rates. out one. • e shows that the latter io We have two great cliuues cm the »urex|x ri an unworkable proposition. prosperity of which depends tlx "All per» ms should pay in proportion welfare of our countiy producers to their ability, but tbe law should not and consumer*, The only condition hu ip that ability by unnecessary The way to lower taxes for that will make an Oregon farm a Kurd, real home, and one that will hold all t.i- .iyers is to increase the number oft v’» rers and make possible an in­ the boys and girls, is a condition crease in taxable incomes. under which the owner or renter "The bill reduce« the taxes of ail tax- feel» certain that he can sell hi* purer». and relieves from all income products at a margin of profit auffi- tuv • a great i.uinlier now paying in the c ent for him to make m home. The lower bra. . ta. No person whose tax­ aid. -ome is »10,001 or less will pay only condition under which the any - irtax. II.-fore computing the nor­ working class outside of the farms mal lax. «veral exemptions are sub­ will lie contented is when they are tracted Tbe normal rate ia reduced able to buy the necessary food pro­ 25 per cent. Ami after the tax is com­ ducts of the farm at a fair profit puted, 2 > r-r cent of the tax will be subtracted in the case of earned incomes. margin over the price the farmer Thia will apply practically to all the receives, and lie aide to save a little taxpayers m tbe lower brackets. The from the wages or salary. tax of a married man with two children, There are two dollars added to bavin,; an income of *6,000 will be re­ to every one the farmer receives duced 41 per cent. "Ti is bill, with its amendment» clos­ from pr^luct* when thev reach the ing the dioes to evasions of taxes and consumer. There can't be good pro. i !i> g greatly reduced rates of tax­ business conditions unde, such a ation fur all, eliminating many from the system. It is certain to tip itself lower brackets, and the repeal or re­ duction of many of the so-called nuis- over— It is already doing it. ance taxre will afford the relief the Statistics are tedious, but they co ntrv needs to th.- fullest extent pres­ are very significant these days. In ent circumstances permit'* 1900 sixty of every one hundred people lived on the farms, contented Preparation of the Hirers and Haniors and happv, Today sixty of every bill has been delayed because of the ill* hundred live in cities and both the n< » of Chairman I lent pay. Repressn- tatlv< Haw!intn>ent as postmaster at and 10,000 less in Michigan. These /Westport; i red Z. Holznagel at Hilto- are from the government census, ! • rd^ Mrs ^arah Dann-wood at Azalea; and William A. LaGor* at Prosser, they are facts. In Oregon thousands of ranchers t'ha.r an Fr- n.-h of the Subcommit­ have left their farms during the tee of Appr .prista ne on the Naval Bill past four years and thousands more will confer with It. I), Pinneo, re pre- will leave the coming year, unit« rentatlre-of the Astorta Port Commto- conditions speedily change. A Port­ »1-1. H. N. I.swrw. representing the land bahker stated at the reevnt Portland Chanv .-r of Commerce, and Congrc -ms.i Hawley, relative to an wheat meeting before the Portland increase of * '.50,000 in the appropriation Chamber of Commerce that 200 for the dt-velopement of the naval base banks had recently failed in the Pa­ at Tongue Point. Further legislation cific northwest on account of failing will probably tw necessary to suthonzo th<- re. -tru«i of a (lying field there farmers and cattlemen. with in - - ■ .ry hangars for aircraft and There are a comparitively few <>th<-r . | npm nt, f« the construction of middle handling -agencies that are quarter», barracks, storehouses, and taking the profits that should go to machine shops. the producers and the lower price* that should go to the eon«umere They Work Wink Yoe Sleep! These middle agencies, not only in agriculture but in manufacturing W.- arc proud of our Classified industries, are holding up national < tun.n, U-caure it ia full of hu­ prosperity to a large extent by th«ir man interest it brings people to­ profit tolls gether as noth ng rise can do. If you have any thing to sell, or want From both producers and eonsum to laiy ».lawthing, there is noth­ er* should come organization t<> con­ ing quicker ror surer. And the trol production from the farm Io co-t is cheap Yea, we are also the retailer. It would not be a for­ proud of our job department and midable undertaking if they would the work we do. See u. for anv- thiug in the ¡.Tinting line. act together, and enough of them i act With production. trantq>oi I I