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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1913)
INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE =AND== LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST VOL. 2. NO. 22. SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1913 $1.25 THE YEAR Good Words Church News SOUTH SANTIAM AN REBELS IN MEXICO BIBLE BARRED OUT The initial issue of the Intermoun The voung Deonle’s organized tain Tribune, formerly the Lebanon IDEAL APPLE SECTION Tribunfe, bible class held their regular month BLOW UP TRAINS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS has made its appearance. The neat little country weekly is published at Sweet Home by T. L. Better Lands at $50 Per Acre Than Dugger, who formerly was the edi Fifty Persons Killed on One Train, 30 on tor of the Santiom News at Scio, the Other-Dynamite Set Off Hood River Sells for $500 later editing the Tribune at Leban Per Acre by Electricity on. Mr. Dugger has been in the ----------- newspaper business in Linn county i a' for the past 25 years.—Albany The good prices obtainable in the Democrat. Laredo, Texas., Sept. 22.—Fifty world markets for apples, will turn persons were killed when rebels the thoughts of many .people to dynamited a passenger train on the MOUNTAIN HOME wards the orchard. With apples at Mexican National Railway 60 miles $2 to $3 per bushel, pears bringing Here’s to the Intermountain Tri south of Saltillo, Mex., on Friday as much or ljiore and other fruits* bune: May it receive deserved sup afternoon, according to official re commanding equally profitable fig- port and grow to be as big as the ports to Mexico federal headquarters urer, the value of orchard lands is;. section it represents. Without be in Neuveo Laredo today. The tram sure to look up. ing effusive as a former patron, the was then looted and the surviving Because of liberal advertising, writer can say that the editor is passengers robbed, it is said. the fruit lands of Hood and Rogue i more than a mere paragrapher, be Forty federal soldiers and ten rivers and some sections of Wash ing capable of taking up a Subject second class passengers comprised ington, have become famed and of politically or otherwise and editori the official death list. The number fabulous value. Indeed lands ally threshing it out to a finnish. of injured was not given. W. W. worthless for fruit purposes, lying Mervain, of San Francisco, the only The'Mountain Home school house adjacent to the good fruit lands of has recently been improved by being American on the train, is said to these sections, are being sold for repainted and having a belfry and have escaped injury, but was rob many times their worth. flag staf erected, furnished with a bed. The South Santiam country has fine bell and a flag large enough for Two dynamife mines were set off many thousands of acres, not only a national fortress. by electricity. The first class coach superior to these worthless Rogue, was only derailed but the baggage, Wm. Preston. and Hood river lands, but equal to express and two second class coach the very best fruit lands of those es were blown to pieces. sectsons. Yet while Hood and Rogue fiver lands sell for from Mexico.City, Sept. 22.—A north $500 to $1500 per acre, the Santiam bound train on the Mexican Nation lands can be purchased at from $25 al Ry. has been dynamited by the to $100 per acre. Why do these rebels near Vanegas, in the northern conditions exist? Why will buyers part of the state of San Luis Potosi. pass by fruit land which are abso Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 23.—Half a From the meager reports received lutely sure to produce abundant thousand good roads enthusiasts, here it is believed that 30 were crops of apples and other fruits, including the governors of five killed. The train left here Satur and buy lands at fabulous prices on states, Illinois, Iowa, Colorado, Utah day night, but turned back at which it is doubtful if a crop of and Nebraska, assembled here to Vanegas on account of blown-up fruit can be grown? The answer , is day to adopt a program and take bridges further north. comprised in one word “advertis The locomotive passed safely over preliminary steps for the establish ing.” The Hood and Rogue river ment of an ocean to ocean highway the dynamite charges, but the bag fruit sections are known all over as a memorial to Abraham Lincoln. gage car and two coaches were the" world. It is doubtful if 1000 With co-operation expected from destroyed. The passengers killed people know that the South Santiam state and federal governments, and were in the second class coach. country will grow apples and other Troops were sent from San Luis persistent work, it was declared to fruits to the greatest degree «of day that the coast traffic would be Potosi today to round up the rebels. perfection. Nevertheless the state ready for traffic if not wholly com* ment is true and is susceptable df pleted by the time the Panama- Mrs. Chas. Lyons and Grandma proof. A farmer brought this Pacific exposition opens at San Corwin, went to Portland Wednes editor a box of apples (they are1 Francisco in 1915. The congress day. Mrs. Lyons to visit a few paid for in cash, not subscription) will be in session two days. days while Grandma went on to- which will show up with the best The. aim of the Lincoln Memorial Seattle. Hood or Rogue rivers can produce. association is a highway, as smooth Best of all the South Santiam as a city street, and as durable as Herbert Downing, and family, apple country is not limited to a any highway constructed, to stretch of Marcóla, Ore., passed through few thousands of acres. They can from New York City to San Fran town Saturday, enroute home. be reconed by the hundred thous cisco. That portion of the pronpsed and acres. Nor will it be necessary highway between Chicago and Salt to dynamite holes in which to set Lake City, Utah', will be the imme the trees, nor the inauguration of diate concern of the Conference Expensive irrigating systems. which opened today. It will not be All that is necessary to place the necessary to stake out a new route South Santiam as a fruit section on W. B. Thompson & Son Props. between Chicago and Salt Lake City the map, is to attract up-to-date according to todays speakers. Neith orchardists to come and inspect er will it . be necessary to con them. Any judge of soil, knowing struct a complete new road bed. what is required for the successful The plan under consideration and production of apples, must give a which was thought would be unani most favorable opinion if he will The best of fresh and mously adopted, will be to utilize inspect our hill lands and see what cured Meats, Lard, existing overland routes after re the small family orchards, with but Poultry, Etc., con pairing them and joining them to scant care, are doing. The way stantly on hand, for one highway that would be the faring man, though a fool, would which we will pay longest in the world. Four pioneer be convinced. Come and see and the highest Market trails, used by “freighters” before you will be convinced. ----- 1—Price—------- the days of the railways, will form Superintendent W. R. McHaffie the basis of the western half of the and Foremen Bondy and Bruce, of proposed highway. These are:. The the Lebanon paper mills, passed Midland trail from Denver to Salt through town Wednesday morning, Lake City, 535 miles: Omaha-Lin- bound for Whitcomb, probably look SWEET HOME - OREGON ing after paper wood in that locality. (Continued on page 6) WMMmmiimmmnnmnmmmmi OCEAN-TOOCEAN HIGHWAY IS AIM -----------Meat--------— and Produce Market ly social,, Tuesday evening at the parsonage, and elected the follow ing officers to serve during the Fear That the Teacher's Personality or present year. Miss Vera Coulter, Authority Would Bias the president, Miss Hilda Gile, vice president. Preaching Sunday morn Child’s Mind ing and evening in Sweet Home, Eoster Saturday evening, Sunny side Sunday afternoon. The Bible will not be read in the L. H. Wood, pastor. public schools of Portland. With few supporting and many Fall Hats opposing the petition from the Ministerial Association asking that Mrs. Cook, of Lebanon, is now in the reading of the Bible, without Sweet Home for two weeks only comment, be installed as a part of and has on exhibition at the post the public school course, the vote of office, a finé assortment of Ladies the Board at its meeting last night Fall Hats. Call and see them. was unanimously against granting The electric light ordinance, grant the petition. Applause followed the vote and ing Fred Wadtli et. al. a 15-year the crowd which had packed the franchise passed our city council on room where the meeting was held its first, rading. The ordinance to consider the matter, quickly dis will now be engrossed and placed persed; leaving the Board to con on its final passage at «the next sider other matters of the school meeting. Wadtli is required to administration. have the plant in operation within Rabbi Jonah B. Wise at thebegin six months from the date of the ning of the meeting submitted a passage. formal protest, as a representative of the Jewish congregations and Sweet Home’s city water supply fraternal organizations of the city. is sufficient for ordinary family use. The Rev. D. L. Koehle represent In case of’fire it would be almost ed the Ministerial Association, and worthless. The loss occasioned by was the only one who spoke at any a good sized fire would go far to great lenghth in support of the wards installing a proper plant. proposed measure. The Rev. H. H. This is a case wherein “A stitch in Koppleman, of the Lutheran Church, time, etc.” applies. was one of the .first speakers in opposition. If a stranger comes to town with Suggestion that the resolution of the purpose of buying property, the Ministerial Association be re sell to him if you can; but do not submitted to it with the recommen knock a neighbor who might make dation that an effort be made to the sale. Knocking is a poor busi get a unanimous opinion from all ness, look at it any way you may creeds and religions represented in and the knocker rarely succeeds, in the taxpayers of the school district the long run. was emphatically opposed, Isaac Swett and others urging that the O. Feigum, has the distinction of question be settled at once and having hauled the first load of field finally, so that these who are op corn (well matured) ever taken posed to the Bible readings in the through Sweet Home. The corn public schools may have no need of was produced on the Wadtli place, worrying further about the matter. northwest of town. H. C. Uthoff objected to the sug gestion that the Bible be read as a In trading and trafficing it should historical work, saying that he did be remembered that what one man not believe it represented authentic gains, the otherfellow looses. It history, and opposed its introduction may be considered good business to as a moral code, declaring that take advantage of the other fellow’s moral codes are subject to changes. ignorence, but it is not good citizen “Even to teach the ten command ship. ments as a basis for a moral code A number of people from Sweet in these days would be an anachron Home and Foster, are attending ism,” he declared. the Linn county fair. The number “The world is merging into a ought to be larger, for no enter Cosmic religion that will do away prise adds more to the uplift both with sects and creeds, and I object financially and socially than the to anything being introduced into county fair. the schools that will tend to retard this movement,” said C. B. Ellis. The Tribune has not become “The supporters of this measure re weary by writing new subscriptions. present a small minority of the Every resident of the Santiam coun try should have his name on our community—the Christian churches, I want my children to know some lists. We will have something to thing of the Bible, as a piece of say, by and bye, which /will interest literature. I have gained much of you. value from the Bible—as I have J. A. Thompson found, when get from the Koran and the Buddhistic ting up this morning, that he was writings. But I prefer that, if my out of potatoes. He went to his children are to receive instruction garden but found that he had so from the reading of the Bible, that neglected the “patch,” that there I should give it myself, were no potatoes. He then com “J don’t want my children to menced rustling in his neighbor’s think that book divine, because I garden. Needless to say he got the potatoes. (Continued on page 6)
