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About Intermountain tribune and Linn County agriculturalist. (Sweet Home, Linn County, Or.) 1913-1914 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1914)
LOCAL BREVITIES Legal blanks for sale at the Tri bune office. Wild blackberries are now plenti ful. The speakers stand, July 3-4, is near the residence of J. H. Goings. Sweet Home now has a restau rant wherein the hungry can get .a squuare meal. The first merry-go-ronnd ever in Sweet Home was brought in the first of the week. Dr. J. C. Booth, of Lebanon, was up today, called to visit Mrs. A. E. Edwards, who is quite ill. A stray railroad rumor is in the air occasionally; not sufficient, how ever, to cause the people to go wild. Owing to sickness, if our newss columns are short this week, our readers will forgive us. Sickness seems to be the lot of humanity occasionally, despite the best we can do and printers are not an ex ception. When in Lebanon Don’t forget to eat at the Tip Top Bakery and Restaurant The Neatest, Cleanest and best equipped eating house in Lebanon. Will sell Pies, Cakes, Rolls, Buns and Cookies. Soft drinks. We Candies, and Cigars, are the only people that handle Tip Top Bread. Be sure to look for the label TIP TOP. Located on Sherman Street F. B. SMITH, Prop. LEBANON Quick Sales Small Profits The Brownsville Harness Shop F. H. W eber , prop. CARRIES A FUDL STOCK O Harness, Saddles, Whips, Robes, Brushes, Combs, Soaps, Oils, Etc. Etc. All goods and workmanship guaranteed Repairing of all kinds neatly done Brownsville, Oregon Appointment of Executor Notice is hereby given, that by order of the County Court of Linn County, Oregon, made on the 25th day of May, 1914, the undersigned was duly appointed and is now the duly qualified and acting Executor of the estate of Armina Rucker, deceased, late of Linn County, Oregon. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same, properly verified, unto the undersigned executor at his residence in Lacomb, Linn County, Oregon, or at the office of Samuel M. Garland, in Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon, within six months from the date of .the first publication of this notice. Dated and published the first time this 28th day of May, 1914. Last publication, June 25, 1914. B. F. RAINES Executor of the Estate of Armina Rucker, deceased Sam’l. M. Garland, Atty, for Executor. St. Charles Hotel Old and Reliable Has been Thoroughly Renovat ed and Refurnished, and is now onen for the deception of guests. —WE STRINE TO PLEASE’ Board and Lodging $1.25 Per Day J. M. STALEY, Prop. Albàny - > Oregon spent in the new country. It Is difficult to look upon him as the same person. «! ► It is fifteen years since he left them. His affection for them has either"died or lain dormant. That it had lain dormant Is evident from the. fact of the strong desire* to ♦ » rejoin them that had suddenly flamed within him. it seemed that he could scarcely wait for the steamer on which he was to sail to leave. Then when ertissing thè ocean he counted every day till be should reach the land and start by train for his old home. Ofice A Story For Christmas fits mind, divested of its absorption tn business, became fixed on his wife By ELMA R. TWINING and boy, he began to dread that he would find one? or both dead or that they had drifted away and he would “A-nd. now,” said August Kaufman, not be able to learn where they had after receiving payment for his busi go lie . When he reached Anhalt and went to ness Which he had just sold for what was to him a fortune, “the next thing his old honiv he found strangers there. 1 will do is to buy my ticket for home. His wife bad owned it. but had sold It will require two weeks for me to get It. doubtless to obtain means to live. His wife’s parents were dead. He there and another two weeks to find found a cousin of hers who told him my wife and child. If 1 have good that Gretchen and her son Carl had luck we shall spend Christmas to grown.very poor and bad gone to Ber gether.” lin. but their address in Berlin the in He spoke the words “if I have good formant did not know. But Kaufman . luck” doubtfully and with a tremor in found others who had known his wife . his voice. Not for years had he heard and at last got the address, but since of his wife and child.. He did not she had gone away three years before know that he should find them at all. he had little hope of finding her. Be Would he find either of them alive? fore leaving for Berlin he bought back And in what condition would he find his wife's former home, paying an ex tra price for immediate possession. them, if at all? His reason for this was that he had Kaufman was an example of what both adversity and prosperity will do a faint hope that he would find his ■ for one. Years before in the city of family and that they might spend Anhalt, Germany, he had met and Christmas in their old home. Consfid-. married Gretchen Reinicke. The bride ering that he did not know that they was given a substantial dowry by were alive, this contingency was vèry her father, and the couple started remote, but somehow the husband find in life with every prospect of happi father had a feeling that Providence ness. When a little boy was born to would be kind to him. At the address in Berlin Kaufman them their affairs were in excellent condition, and there was not a cloud did not find his family. They had left the place two years ago. The only ■ in their domestic horizon. But Kaufman insisted on using his comfort to be derived from this in young wife’s dowry in business, and formation was that they had both been when his little son Carl was a year alive two years before. After inquiry old the father had lost every pfenning of a number of persons who had of his capital. Too sensitive to re known the mother and son in Berlip main where he was to bear the re Kaufman traced them to Leipzig. He proaches of his wife’s relatives, he told tried to learn how they had made a her that he was going to America, living, but failed. The only informa where, so he understood, making a tion he received other than where they living, if not a fortune, was easy, and had gone was that his son played the when settled there he would send for violin. Kaufman went to Leipzig, where ho her and their child. But Kaufman did not find America found a house in which his wife and a country so easy to get on in as he boy had lodged. They had lèft Leip had expected. His nature was rathei zig. but no one could tell him where, they had gone. However, he gained here a bit of valuable information. He' learned that his' boy. now sixteen years old. had earned a living while in Leipzig for himself and his mothers by playing the violin in an orchestra. 1 The father now had little hope off? succeeding in his search before Christ mas. since but four days remained to him Surely, not knowing where on the i globe his loved ones were, how could 4 he expect, to find them in so short a time? Nevertheless the feeling that a kind Providence would help him did not desert him. He at once took hold of.the only clew he had that his son was a musi cian From Berlin Mrs. Kaufman and Carl, having gone southward, were on the line to Munich, which was a great place for music. Would not a musi cian be more, likely on leaving Leip zig to go to Munich than anywhere else? Kaufman immediately started for the capital of Bavaria. On the night òf his arrival he re paired to the celebrated Hofbrau where a great deal of beer is consumed and a great deal of music is discoursed. He took a seat close to the orchestra and studied the faces of the younger players. There was but one young enough to be his Carl, and after study ing the boy’s face for awhile he thought he could trace a resemblance to himself. As soon as the piece being “1- AM VOUB FATHER.” played was finished he went to the boy to make short cuts than to plod. He and asked him his name. had not learned a trade; therefore he “Kaufman.” was the response. could not work by the day, and, hav^ “Carl?” ing no capital, he was unable to go “Yes. Carl.” into business for himself. During the One more question the father asked first year of his absence from home before declaring himself, “Is your moth he wrote to his wife regularly, but, er living?” and, on receiving an affirma having no prospect of being able to tive answer, said : send for her and little Carl, his letters “I am your father.” Carl could not leave the orchestra after that became less frequent. Gradually from year to year August until the evening’s program was finish Kaufman’s connection with his family ed, but he gave his father his mother’s- dwindled. Indeed, what was there to address, and the latter hurried away. Of the meeting between the long sep hold them together, they being 3,000 or 4,000 miles apart and in countries arated couple there is no record, but where the people were entirely differ when Carl Kaufman Returned to his ent? It would be impossible to look lodgings he found his father and moth into Kaufman’s heart during this sep er together and was informed that they aration from his family and see just were all -three to return to Anhalt in what yearnings were there. We know the morning to spend Christmas in that after a time he stopped writing their old home. So Carl resigned his and receiving letters, but may not his position in the orchestra,, and the fam wife as well as he at last have tired ily left Munich. Mrs. Kaufman had sold her house of a communication which was con with the furniture, and when her hus fined to pen and paper? About ten years after Kaufman’s band repurchased it he bought back all coming to America, having made many that had been sold. When the family experiments and drifted to many coun reached it they had only to walk in tries, he succeeded in borrowing a lit and find everything as they had left tle money to go into business, a part it. They returned to it the day be of the profits.to go to the lender. He fore Christmas in time to make prep soon repaid the loan and in a few years arations for the Christmas dinner the more sold out his business for enough nèxt day. It seemed to these people that they to enable him to live the rest of his were in a dream. Now and again sòme life in ease. And now the original Kaufman re one of them would stop and wonder: turns to us, and we find him as eager “Can thig be true? Are we after so to join his family as he had been dur ing those first lonelv dava that he had Î - The I Kaufman I Family long a separation reunited? Are our days of poverty railed? Is this earth or heaven descended to earth?” On Christmas morning Mrs Kauf man found on her plate 'not only a deed to her house, but a ('heck for the rest of her dowry that her husband had sunk in business with Interest. As for Carl, wlia was devoted to music, he found on bis plate a check for a sum that would enable him to buy the best violin that could be found in Germany. The day was passed by Kaufman re counting his adventures in America and bv the mother and son. telling Wm the expedients to which they bad re sorted to keep from starving. It had only been during the past year or two that Carl by his music had been ena bled to- keep them in any comfort. The Kaufman family lived together for many years in the home to which they had gone the day after the wed ding and had returned on Christmas. The father seemed perfectly content to smoke his pipe there, having no desire to return to the land where he had endured so much, but had at last made his fortune. As for Carl, he became a noted violinist and has made several concert tours in America. Forfyoujparticular customers who demand foe best groceries, we recommend Folgers Golden Gate Coffee. ---- It is so Rood we cannot obtain a better coffee—not if we paid $1 a pound for it. Everything about Folger’s Golden Gate Coffee is perfect, and we sell it with a positive guarantee that it will please you. FOR SALE BY J. M. COWDREY , ' DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE. GROCERIES HARDWARE, ETC. SWEET HOME - - OREGON - EXTRAS McCormick Binders and Mowers Harvest will soon be here. Look your machine over, see what is needed and then come to us and get it. Of course we can supply you with Binding Twine. Agricultural Implements, Wagons, Buggies and a full line ot General Hardware, LEBANON HARDWARE COMPANY North Main Street LEBANON, ORE. 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