S ilverton J ournal
VOL II.
SILVERTON. OREGON, FRIDAY. JUNE 13. 1913.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
CLEAN-UP DAY IS DESIGNATED
From
Silverton
Societies
City Fathers Disposed of Muoh
Meet in Mayor'* Office and Name
Work at the Meeting Mon
Wednesday, June 25, a» Dey.
Night,
at
BETTER SCHEDULE
GOES INTO EFFECT
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Which
Time Streot Paving
ARREST THREE SILVERTON MEN
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Delegate*
day
NO. 31
Delegates from the W. S. S. C.,
the Commercial Club, the W. C.
T. U., the Mizpah Circle, and the
press met in «he Mayor’s office
last Tuesday night and discussed
Clean-Up Day.
This meeting is one of very
groat value to Silverton if we all
get the necessary enthusiasm.
The date named by the Mayor
after it was discussed by himself
and the delegates is Wednesday,
June 25.
A temporary organization was
effected with the following
officers:
Chairman P. L. Brown.
Secretary Mrs. O. E. Thomp
son.
Committee to Draft Constitu
tion and By-I .a ws J. E. Hosmer,
Mrs. T. E. Preston, Mrs. 0. E.
Thompson.
It was decided, on motion, to
call a mass meeting to perfect
the permanent organization, and
a committee to secure the place
of meeting, to name the time
and to issue the call was appoint
ed as follows:
Mayor Bowser, Mrs. J. H.
Sherlock, Mrs. T. E. Preston.
The question of the duties and
methods of cleaning and purify
ing our city and how best to
arouse civic pride to the necessary
pitch in order to make the work
a success was discussed at some
length, and everything points to
a very successful campaign
against filth, ugliness and ill-
health in what can easily be
made the cleanest little city in
the world.
A constitution and by laws
have been draf ’ and Mayor
Bowser announce.
Tuesday
at 7:30 p. m., as the .«me and the
Con..nercia! Club rooms as the
place for the mass meeting to
perfect a permanent organiza
tion. Everybody is most cordial
ly invited to attend.
Controversy Between Big Companies
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Railroad Company Doing
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And Foor Worker* Bring Sorrow
to
Women
and
Children.
MONUHEKTSUNVEtLED
W. O. W.
Memorial Services
Followed by Unveiling Cere
monies Are Held at the
I«aBt Thursday as the wheels
Silverton Cemetery
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of our up-to-date press were
Its Part. Clam Days
Waa Dlacucoed
Last Sunday.
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turning out Silverton Journals,
Ara Now Over.
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the wheels of an automobile was
Last Monday night found all
Last Sunday the W. O. W’s.
of council present excepting
< buzzing along the road toward held their Memorial Services at
Salem with officer, driver anil the Silverton cemcti y.
Cunningham. After reading of
ILVERTON is at last com
IN 11 HOURS
throe arrested men from the Sil The occasion was the unveiling
minutes these faithful city work
ing into her own. Qne
verton Hills. These men were
ers plunged into a regular swamp
of the greatest factors in < C. E. Mcljiughlin, Walter Had of the two monuments of Cordia
BOOST FOR SILVERTON
of street work.
building any city is the rail < ley and Fred Hadley. They Haughman and C. W. Tinner.
A petition to improve with
NORTH BOUND:
road service, and last Sunday < were arrested for falling trees The Woman of Woodcraft as
macadam a 180 foot street near
and the exercises were
something happened that we
on land which they claim as their sisted
Leave for Portland - 7:26 A.M.
the reservoir on property partly
very
appropriate
and impressive.
<
will
probably
never
get
over.
own These trees were fallen
Leave for Portland - 9:15 A.M.
belonging to the city, on motion
The
line
of
march
was from
A new service was inaugur- < across the railroad track of the
Leave for Portland * 1:45 P. M.
of Bock, was placed in hands of
the
W.
O.
W.
Hall
to
the
ceme
ated, and now we have ten -j Silverton Lumber Company and
Leave for Portland - 5:05 P. M.
street committee with power to act
tery
and
scarcely
a
mistep
was
trains
every
eleven
hours.
-
was done for the purpose of taken by these fraternal workers
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A petition to improve Second
The direct train to Salem was < stopping this company from cut
street from Oak to Eliza Brown
SOUTH BOUND:
the whole distance.
a very great thing, and Htarted
ting any more timber on this in Beautiful
property with concrete was read
x :c> A.M.
l^ave for Salem
flowers, banners and
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us up grade in gocsl sha|x*, but
land without paying these men neat uniforms
and placed on file.
1 1 .OK A.M.
l^ave for Lebanon
made a very
now these new trains give us
for it. Now there is two sides pretty effect.
A resolution to construct storm
I .eave for Salem
2:00 P. M.
an
added
impetus
that
is
going
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to this story as there is to all The program was well ren
sewer with 15 inch drain pipe on
Leave for Springfield 4.20 P. M.
to land us tnto a city of im < Huch stories. The public should dered.
Third street was read and on
portance.
know all the facts before pass The officers in the unveiling
motion of Opsund was lost
ARRIVALS
The old clam days of stick
ing judgment and probably then I ceremony
A resolution to improve Third
their parts most
8:85 AM.
From Portland
in the mud and sprout when
neither party will be judged very excellently. did Mrs.
street 30 feet wide was discussed
T. E. Preston
9:16
AM.
From
Springfield
the sun came out is hapjtily
harshly. The land on which the rendered the ritualistic
" and a motion by Bock to adopt
poem
From Portland
11M A.M.
over. This is the “Garden
trees were fallen was railroad 1 “0, Why Should the Spirit
was lost.
of
11 Mt AM
From Salem
Spot of the World, ” ami now < land and is in litigation at the Mortal Be Proud” in a manner
Then Cusiter made a motion to
From
Lebanon
1:45
P.
M.
that
the
people
can
get
in
and
present time. The settlers claim to be long remembered by those
place both resolutions in the
From Portland
4.20 P. M
out whenever they want to, it
that they ha.e an equity in it, present, and the closing speech
hands of the judiciary committee
b of, P M.
From Salem
will be a dandy place in which
that the Lumber Company prom by E. T. Martin. District «Mana
and the motion was carried.
From Woodburn
6:25 P. M
to live. Watch Silverton grow!
ised to pav them for the timber ger from Portland, wm an able,
A motion by Barr to accept the
they would cut, and that they appropriate and highly apprecia
profile plan of the city surveyor
have tried in almost every way ted closing of a fitting remem
of Third street and that the spec
to get this pay, but could not get brance for the departed brothers
ifications be drawn from the
justice at all, and so fell the of
same was carried.
Woodcraft.
trees as one would put up a fence
The Health, Fire and Water
*Tis the wink of the eye, *ti* the
to keep out trespassers, but with
committee reported favorable on
draught of the breath,
E. Coltrin went to the City of
Dr. E. E. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. no intention of injuring anyone From
lowering the relief sewer near
the blosHom of health to the
Roses yesterday.
Wm. Drake and Mrs. Frances or of destroying anyone’s prop
paleneaa of death;
the depot, and the report was
gilded aal<x>n to the bier and
Kay Dullam went to the Rose Hosmer took the early train for erty. The Lumber Company From the the shroud.
placed on file.
Portland Tuesday to attend claims that the settlers can not Oh, why ahuuid the spirit of mortal
Show yesterday.
The report of the City Attor
legally collect pay, and that it
ney on McClaine street was read
be proud.
Mrs. Wm. Graham was visit Grand Lodge.
to the effect that the resolution
Mrs. H. D. Mount and Mrs. J. was a criminal act to fall the
ing Pratum Thursday.
trees across their track. Some
for said improvement was faulty,
Kidnapped.
Miss Kathryn Nerness is visit Wolfard went to Corvallis Mon claim
that both parties are tres
that he was unable to find any
day
to
be
at
the
graduating
ex
ing relatives in Portland.
0 published notice of the same,
in which Miss Virginia passers on United States prop I^ast Saturday an interesting
Mr. and Mrs W. T. Main were ercises
erty and so the affair awaits ac case of kidnapping took place on
that the resolution only was pub
Mascher
took part.
Salem
visitors
yesterday.
public Main street A lady
lished in the Silverton Journal,
Louis Wolfard went to tion of the courts while the three our
was
coaxed to enter a carriage
A sister of Mrs. James Partlow see Mrs.
men
languish
in
jail
and
their
that it didn’t state to whom the
her sister at Woodbum Wed
when it was immediately driven
arrived from Texas Thursday.
cost was to be assessed and that
nesday and will bring her aunt. wives and children are deprived off
and she only managed to
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buell were Belle Parsons of Spokane, home of their natural protectors and
he couldn’s advise further im
have
the driver pass her place of
weep
while
thev
work
and
wait
Woodburn visitors yesterday.
provement of McClaine street
with her for a visit.
business
so she could place the
in
their
mountain,
forest
home.
under the conditions. On motion
Charles Zimmerman and son
J. P. Smith and Albert Webb
funds
of
the W. K. C. in safe
Waldo Hills
Both
parties
to
the
controversy
of Barr the report was accepted
Carl went to the Capital yester were up in the hills Wednesday
keeping.
Then away east over
may
have
done
wrong,
but
un
and placed on file.
day.
L. B. Haberlv was a Portland
and put in the piping for an ace derlying it all is a greater wrong the hill she was taken out about
Then came the worst tangle visitor Thursday and Friday.
Mrs. I. L. Moores and Miss tylene lighting system for Zack that is a long time in being set three miles where she was told
the council has been up against
Letha were in Selah for the day Davenport’s new house.
D.
C.
Davenport
and
family
tled. Will it ever be settled and she had her liberty with the un
for some time. Everything was
Thursday.
Jessie
Kephart,
accompanied
settled
right? That is up to all derstanding she must not try to
ready to go ahead with the im attended the circus at Salem Sat
John Whitlock of Selah, and by Harry Desart went to tne Sa parties concerned U. S., us.
escape. They tried to kill her
provement of Second street The urday.
his
little
son,
were
in
the
city
by feeding her on fresh fish from
lem
Hospital
yesterday
to
have
a
bids of the Clark and Ilenery Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Will King and yesterday.
the
brook, cabbage, peas and
bullet extracted from his limb,
were read and probably would
Scotts Mills.
new potatoes from the garden,
George Hibbard is taking in the lodged there by accident last fall.
have been adopted but the peti Miss Mabie King went to Salem
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Coulson and fresh butter milk from the
rose jubilee in the great metrop Lawrence Wray, the oldest son
tion of some of the very petition Saturday.
were
in Salem Friday.
churn. Failing in this the next
ers to improve with asphalt had
Mrs. Frank Humphrey and her olis of Oregon.
of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wray of
Quite a number are taking in morning she was carried to the
signed another at this late hour mother, Mrs. King, spent Thurs Mr. and Mrs. T. Lukens of the this city, and one of Silverton’s
Fair Store, went to the big city former young workers, died in a the rose carnival at Portland this Miller church near the cemetery
to improve with cement concrete. day in Salem.
but she finally learned it was
Earnest discussion of the situa-
of
roses yesterday.
hospital in Denver recently, week.
John Currie accompanied his
only
to attend Sunday school.
• tion followed. A motion to ac father on his trip to the west side
Mrs. Ellen Baker is at the under the surgeon’s knife.
Mr. Walter Scott has pastured There she found a few very sin
cept bids was stopped by a mo this week.
Church of God (Saints) camp
his goats in Mr. White’s brush cere pupils and teachers and
tion to table and refer to street
meeting at Woodburn for the
Silver Cliff.
patch.
joined in the exercises of singing,
committee. This was out of or Miss Ella DeSart and mother next ten days.
Fine weather at the Cliff. •
There is a prospect of having marching and lessons. This Sun
der in part and discussion fol Mrs. DeSart of Salem, spent the
Miss Frankie Bartholemew
Mrs. Bostrack visited Mrs. a good piece of road up the creek day school was organized last
lowed. A motion to adjourn was week end with Mr. and Mrs. went to Portland yesterday to
joining the Crooked Finger road. May with the following officers:
Earl
Pooler.
Charpilloz
Tuesday.
lost for want of a second and
meet relatives who are expected
Herbert
more discussion to the effect that
Mrs. Strong, Mrs. Mohr and
Mr. aud Mrs. Astleford went Superintendent, Mr.
Miss Lida Thompson and W. to arrive from Iowa.
Milbank; Organist fend Secretary,
more information from the prop A. Peterson of Salem, were the
daughter
Bernise
called
on
Mrs,
to
Newburg
Monday,
where
they
L. O. Boe received word of the Coffman Wednesday.
erty owners was necessary be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harris
expect to stay for yearly meet Miss Nora DonaWson: Treasurer,
Miss Sadie Parker; Librarian,
fore further action could be ta Thompson Thursday and Friday. arrival of his brother from Min Silver Cliff ball team plays Sil ing.
neapolis
and
went
to
meet
him
Miss Sarah Graves; Teachers,
ken and a motion to adjourn
verton second team next Sunday
Miss
Fiori
Hartman
and
Mrs.
Children
’
s
Day
will
be
ob
in
Portland
yesterday.
Mesdames
Parker, Whitlock anti
finally closed the hard tedious
the home diamond. Every M. Shilts were visitors at the Heing.
served at Willard church Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Mingers, at
mght’s work.
home of Mr. T. M. Dunagan last
June 15th. All are invited to of the Cottage Hotel, went to body invited to attend.
Next Sunday morning the lx>y
TUESDAY NIGHT MEETING.
Mrs. J. H. Patten and daugh Sabbath.
attend and bring their lunch for Portland Thursday, to the big
preacher,
Mr. Albert Hartley,
The council met with Mayor the picnic dinner. A program
ter, Mrs. H. Rogers and little
will
preach,
and all are invited
Carnival
and
Artisan
doings.
Mr.
Kidd,
in
some
unknown
Bowser and Councilman Cun will be rendered by the Sunday
grand-daughter,
visited
Mrs
H.
and
importuned
to be present as
Mrs. S. T. Hobart and her
injured his leg last week.
ningham absent.
school
and
Prof. Matthews and grandson, Alvin, are visiting for Patten and Mrs. C. Mohr at Sil way,
he
is
making
for
an en
He was, as reported, just walk viable reputation. himself
It was decided to readvertise Rev. Paddock will address the
ver Cliff Tuesday.
He
spoke
in
two
or
three
weeks
in
Thornton,
ing
along
when
something
struck
for bids on the different kinds of congregation morning and after
•The
Silver
Cliff
ball
team
the
Chnstion
church
in
Silverton
Spokane and other Washington
his leg, causing it to swell and
pavement for Second street.
crossed bats with the Scotts Mills become very painful, but the two weeks ago and all who heard
points.
The bid of Clark and Henery on noon.
Sunday at Scotts Mills, injured member is now recover him would like to hear him
High street was accepted and
Mr. and Mrs Oscar Storli and last
which
resulted in a victory for
again.
Be a Booster.
the matter of accepting the work
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Funrue, the the Mills. The score being 6 to ing slowly.
The Sunday school meets regu
on Coolidge street and on Water “Get a wiggle on you’’ and boost newly manned couples, went to 5. Some game, hey. The game
An
old
Missourian
friend
of
H.
larly
at 11 a. m., but next Sun
^street was brought up and the
the Portland Rose Carnival yes was fast and snappy from the Y. Magee, Mr. Lewis Huggins, day be
a little bit;
sure to come at 10 a m.,
• preparation of the ordinance for It doesn't cost a nickle to help terday.
start.
It
stood
1
to
0
for
four
on
account
of the preaching.
and
his
two
sons,
Charles
and
the bond issue and to fix the date
our town be IT;
Don’t forget the mass meeting innings, then 3 to 3 for three William, of Salem, came up in
T he K idnapped .
for property owners meeting Send the happy tidings, just to organize the Silverton Im more, and finally wound up 5 to their car for a visit at the home
was placed in the hands of the
telling what is true;
provement League at the Com 5. The battery for Silver Cliff of Mr. Magee last Sunday. Miss
Revival Begins Sunday.
judiciary committee.
The
Journal'll
do
its
“
darndest,
”
mercial
club
rooms
next
Tuesday
was
Grazer
and
Johnson,
for
Honor
Terry,
of
Waldo
Hills,
Adjournment.
The Christian church will be
so now “it’s up to you.”
at 7:30 p. m.
Scotts Mills Dale and Scott.
was also a visitor at Mr. Magee’s.
gin
another revival Sunday next.
An Enjoyable Social.
Mr. Myers believes a good deal
Last Wednesday evening a
of good will be accomplished by
very enjoyable social
was
this meeting and desires every
held by the members of the
person in town to come.
T is very important for every voter in this district to attend the school
Lutheran Christian Endeavor
He will be ably assisted by
meeting next Monday, the 16th, at 2 o’clock. This meeting will pro
Society. Each member donated 0
Clarence Reynolds as chorus di
0
one dollar toward the support of
bably be the turning point in the school history of this city. The election
rector and personal worker, and
the organization, and described
0
Miss Young as soloist Miss
of officers and other general business will not be all that will be done. It
the different ways in which they
Young has a rich voice and her
will
be
an
excellent
opportunity
to
discuss
the
problems
which
confront
us.
had earned the money. The
<4> winning manner and consecra
and to get an expression of the patrons of the school as to the best methods
member who earned the dollar in
tion and devotion to the cause is
to pursue.
We need more school room, and we should be at it, if anything
the most unique manner was
bound to count for good in the
0
Miss Leita German, who was
is to be done before the rains set in this fall. Every man and woman en
coming effort to save souls.
awarded a prize. Games were
$
Everybody is invited and urged
titled to vote should come and be prepared to express, at least with the cute
played, and after refreshments
to be present every night. The
little
talker
we
call
the
ballot,
an
honest
opinion.
Let
every
voter
attend.
were served, every one departed
$ meetings begin promptly at 8
"for their respective homes, well
o’clock and will close at 9:30
pleased with their endeavors.
everv night.
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