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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1913)
INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE --^AND== LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST VOL. 33. NO. 2 SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 11, 1913 ' $1.25 THÈ YEAR Parent-Teachers Meeting Pleasanl Valley Items NATION OWNERSHIP PARCELS POST LIMIT CITY COUNCIL HOLDS The second parent-teachers meet Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Smith visited will be held at the lower church Mrs. Heath last Sunday afternoon. IS AGAIN ADVANCED at ing Sweet OF MAIL CARS IS AIM Mrs. A BUSY SESSION Home on Saturday, Dec. Heath is a guest of Mr. and 13, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m. Mrs. W. P. Gabriél. ( The morning session will be taken House Committee Proposes $100,000 for Mrs. Russell of Sweet Home 50 Pounds to be Carried in Two Zones— up by discussion of the different The Saloon Ordinance to Be Amended— Valley, visited hér danghter Opal phases of school" work by the teach Weight in Outer Zones Increased Experiment-Trial of Government City to Control and Maintain who teaches in the lower district. ers. A. D. McQueen who is up looking to 20 Pounds Control Urged Telephone Poles The afternoon will be given over after his property at Foster, stopped to recitations by pupils from the off to pay a visit to A. Horner and different schools and lectures by Washington, Dec. 6.—Postmaster the following: H. M. Crooks, presi Washington, Dec. 8'.—Practical family. Mr. and Mrs. Andres ac The city council met in regular General Burleson’s policy to increase dent of the Albany college and Prof. session Tuesday night, the mayor, trial of Government ownership of companied him. Mrs. J. D. Wood was the guest the weight limits of parcel post Schafer, of the University of Ore recorder, treasurer and all council railway mail cars is proposed in a bill approved by the House postoffice of Mrs. A. Horner Sunday after packages in the first and second gon. men were present, excepting Dave zones from 20 to 50 pounds, to ad ■ ?,nd post roads committee. The noon. Everyone interes£ed in education Doerfer, who has removed from West Couitz was in Albany last mit books to the parcel post and to should be present and enjoy the town. measure would apropriate $100,000 to be used by the Postmaster-Gener week where he served^ as witness at reduce rates in the third, fourth, rally. When the saloon ordinance was- Ladies, bring your lunch fifth and sixth zones, was approved basket. Lunch will be seryed at called up, action on final passage al in buying and operating a num his brother’s trial. ber of cars as an experiment. was postponed until next meeting The Pletsant Valley Literary today by the Interstate Commerce the grange hall at 12 o’clock. The average construction cost, re Society held its regular meeting at Commission. and Councilmen McClure, Smead Brownsville, Ore., Dec. 8, 1913 and Stopv were appointed a commit The Maximum weight of parcels ports before the committee show, the school house last Saturday even is about $11,000 for 60-foot steel ing. Music, . recitations, readings to all zones beyond the second was Dear Editor— tee to draft amendments to the I sincerely urge that the teachers same. , cars. The average cost to the and'a dialogue constituted the pro increased from 11 to 20 pounds. The commissions “consent” to the and people of Sweet Home and sur The squabble over the erection of Government for leasing mail cars, gram. The next meeting will be all of which are now owned by the held Saturday, December 20th. proposed change was transmitted in rounding districts attend the meet telephone poles was amicably ad ings in Sweet Home Saturday. We justed by agreement that all lines railroads, 4s approximately $6000 a During the last part of the week three letters from Chairman Clark car a year. The railroads receive several of the school board directors to Postmaster General Burleson. will judge appreciation of the meet desiring to use the poles, bear an compensation for carrying the mail I changed the fence on the school The approved changes in rates and ing by the way people come out and equitable portion of the expense of on an average of $10,637.97 a car grounds so that now the school weights, to be in effect Satuary 1, the crowd will practically determine erecting the same; when the whole whether another Such meeting will will be placed under control, care annually, which makes the annual property is seperated from the 1914, follows: be held. Personally, I feel that and maintainance of thé city; each cost to the Government about $16,- neighboring farms. To reduce the rates in the third » great good may be received through line paying a maintainance of from 000 a car. zone from 7 cents for the first pound and 5 cents for each additional such gatherings. In addition to the 3 to 6 cents per pole. The average life of a steel car, it pound to 6 cents for the first nound local sneakers. President Crooks of is estimated, is about 15 years and Bills for the expense of the city the maintehance cost anywhere and 2 cents for each additional Albany College and Dr. Schafer election ordered paid. head of the Extension Department pound. from $1700 to $3000 a year, accord Purchased an Organ of the University of Oregon will be ing to age. To reduce the rates for the fourth When making thickening for . The committee also voted to re-| sauces, gravies, etc., use half flour zone from 8 cents for the first pound present for both morning and after Some weeks ago our public school and 6 cents for each additional noon meetings. port favorably on a bill to appro and half cornstarch. The busy season is now over, so gave a basket social at the Grange pound to 7 cents for the first pound priate $100,000 for experiments in Home-made stencils may be made carrying the mail by areoplanes. and 4 cents for each additional take a day off, come out and get hall, which resulted in raising a with yery heavy wall paper, waxed acquainted with your neighbors and sufficient sum of money with which pound. The tests would be conducted under with melted parafine. the supervision of the Postmaster- To reduce the weights for the enjoy the program and then go to purchase an organ. Boil new earthenware dishes be- fifth zone from 9 cents for the first home with some food for thought. This week Prof. Geil and Director General. j fore using them, and they will lose pound and 7 cents for each addi Teachers’ session in the fore-noon Morehead purchased the instrument | a good deal of their brightness. and added the same to the school tional pound to 8 cents for'the first and General session at 1 p. m. Teachers Examination Yours for better schools and equipment. To utilize an old flour sifter, boil pound and 6 cents for each adcition- more efficient work. eggs in it, simply setting the sifter al pound. Prof. Geil thinks music a valuable Notice is hereby given that the P. E. Baker in a kettle of boiling water. adjunct for the successful conduct To reduce the rates for the sixth County Superintendent of Linn To prevent made mustard from of a public school, both for enjoy zone from 10 cents for the first county, Oregon, will hold the regu Government Ownership of Railroads ment and discipline of the pupils. lar examination of applicants for drying and cracking in the mustard pound and 9 cents for each addi state certificates at Albany, Oregon, pot, add a little salt when making. tional pound to 9 cents for the first Not many years ago government Montgomery Ward, of Chicago, Porch chairs covers can be knitted pound and 8. cents for each addi ownership of railroads was looked as follows: who founded one of the greatest Commencing Wednesday, Decem of heavy crochet covers and will be tional pound. upon as rank socialism in this mailorder stores in the world, is “It seems obvious,” says the com country, and yet the President of ber 17, 1913, at 9 o’clock a. m., and ' both unique and washable. dead. His age was 70 years. continuing until Saturday, Decem When next scrambling eggs add mission, “that the service to the the United States recommends the public will be promoted by these ber 20, 1913, at 4 o’clock p. m. just a few slices of sweet green building of such a road in Alaska. changes, provided the revenue from That the. plan does not appeal pepper, chopped fine, and cooked in Wednesday Forenoon the service is not less than the cost merely to the members of the We Recommend “Ball-Band I a little-butter. Writing, United States History, thereof. Your experiences and Goods Because We Want to President’s own * party is indicated Green tomatoes sliced and floured Physiology. See You Satisfied and fried in a skilet of hot fat until statistics seem to show clearly that by the fact that Senator Kenyon of Wednesday Afternoon Every time a customer goes out the revenue will not be less than Iowa has been taking an important brown, makes a very palatable dish. of this store we want to feel that the cost of the service. Physical Geography, Reading, he has got his money’s worth. lead in furthering this legislation, Instead of using a flatiron to “We can conceive of no opposi Composition, Methods in Reading, steam velvet, try a soapstone • and tion to the increased weights and and has been outspoken in its be Methods in Arithmetic. see how much better and smoother reduced rates proposed except from half. Members of Congress declare Thursday Forenoon that for the government to own and the velvet will be. the carriers that transport the mails. control railroads in Alaski is not an Arithmetic, History of Education, Every day that you wear Lace and embroidery should be a pair of rubber boots, Psychology, Methods of Geography. ironed on the wrong side, with We have had some objections from Utopian idea, and they declare that you wear them out just them on the ground that the in-, so much. But with Thursday Afternoon several thicknesses of cloth or a creased weights should not be per it is going to be one of the duties “Ball-Band” Boots the of the present Congress to provide Grammar. Geography, American piece of flannel underneath. wear and tear is Uss mitted until provision for additional for such means of opening that because Jthey are made Literature, Physic?, Methods in . When burning vegetable refuse compensation! to the carriers has of better stuff. You great country. Languages Thesis for primary Certi in stoves put a handful of salt into been made.” get more days* wear for dollars out of “Ball- ficate. the fire with it and there will be no It is provided by the Postmaster Band” Footwear. Refund of Road Tax Friday Forenoon unpleasant odor. That makes “Ball-Band” General, with the consent of the cheapest in the long run. Theory and Practice Orthography, Every Rubber Boot with Stains on flannel may be removed commission, “that the rate of post NOTICE—Is hereby given that a Red Ball on the knee is English Literature, Chemistry. “BalFBand” Boot. by applying yolks of eggs and age on parcels containing books upon presenting their tax receipt Yoitfll5 see many of th&K because they glycerine in equal parts. Leave for weighing eight ounces or less shall for 1913 and signing duplicate re Friday Afternoon the quality. be Lcent for each two ounces or ceipts th? County Treasurer has School Law, Geology, Algebra, half an hour and then wash out. For Sale by Try cooking your morning break fractional part thereof, and on those been instructed by the County Court Civil Government. weighing in excess of eight ounces of Linn County, Oregon, to repay fast bacon on a pie tin in the oven. Saturday Forenoon This does away- with all smoke and the zone parcel rates shall apply.” the special road tax collected during Â. Scholl Geometry and Botany. This is to be effective March 16, 1913, to those who paid such tax burnt grease smell in the kitchen, Sweet Heme Saturday Afternoon and the bacon is uniformly crisp. 1914. and presenting their claim to the Serious objections to the propos General History and Bookkeeping. It may be cooked two layers deep county treasurer for the refund on W. L. Jackson, Co. Supt. if you will turn it onee while cook ed change in the rates on books and or before December 6th 1914. Albany, Ore., Dec. 5, 1913. ing. W. W. Francis, County Treasurer. (Continued on page 5)
