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DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 80, 100B.
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FORWARD MARCH IN
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Work Done for Practical Progress for the Education
of the Masses
The Journal man hns run across
more county tonclicrB' Institutes this
your In his travels than you can shako
the big stick nt. Nearly every town
of any size, tho pnst month, hns
had an Institute grinding out lec
tures, classes In mental anatomy
and social and political economy, and
nearly overywhoro I meet men llko
Stato Supt. Ackerman, County Sunt.
Robinson. What was still worst of
all, at Corvallis Rov. J. It. N. Bell,
tho Presbyterian Dell Wether, was
on tho program and introduced tho
scribo to an aero of school ma'ams.
Fortunntoly, they woro mostly veter
ans in the calling nnd past tho easily
Impressionable stage and wo dnred
talk to them. Nothing but a wise
provision of nnturo makes it safe to
turn thrco such men as Ackerman,
Robinson and Bell looso at Institutes,
for they aro all thrco hopelessly and
harmlessly homoly. Wo got along
fino. But what Jobs aro thoso gon
tlomcn putting up on tho pcoplo of
this stato only futuro generations can
tell. At Corvallis tho local tcachors
gavo a reception at tho First Metho
dist church, whore wo nil appeared
In duo form and boosted for better
schools. Ackerman has boon nt It
u long time. So hns Robinson. Their
works live nftor thorn. Ackerman
can bonst of tho best set of school
laws In tho United Stntes, and Rob
inson can boast of tho best organized
county system in tho state, and still
thoy aro not satisfied.
Ackcrnmii Talks Progress.
Aukormnn did not seem to bo
afraid to talk progress and advocat
ed so mo radical departures, In splto
of tho fact that ho Is charged with
having aspirations to becomo gover
nor, not only of Oregon educational
interests but to Include tho rest of
tho commonwealth under his Juris
diction. Ho ndvocatos the rights of tho
country boys and girls to have Just
as good public schools as the city
kids and kldosses. To bring this
about ho ndvocatos doing away with
nil school boards except In first class
districts, and Instead have ono school
board of flvo for tho wholo county,
who aro to solect tho county super
intendent Just as tho city school
board selects tho city superintendent.
This ono school board would hlro
all tho school teachers In tho coun
try schools, build and repair all tho
school houses and through tho coun
ty superintendent nnd assistant su
pervisors, hnvo gonornl supervision of
tho city schools. Ho wants a county
Instructor In ngrlculturo at $1000 to
$1200 a year, to visit all tho country
schools nnd toach elomontnry ngrl
culturo. Ho wants a teachor of do
mestic science at $1000 or $1200 a
year to visit tho country schools and
toach cookery nnd needlework. Tho
county or tho stato shall bo tho unit
of tnxatlon instead of tho district ns
now. Instond of $7 por cnplta ho
ndvocatos tho California plan of $420
a yonr por tonchor omp'oyod. Ho
would hnvo tho room, or na many
rooms ns hnvo ono teachor, rocolvo
$420 por room, nnd do away with tho
threo nnd four months school in many
poor country districts.
To raise money for this ho would
put nil tho monoy now raised by In
direct taxes into tho gonoral school
fund. That now amounts to about
$2 por capita. Thoso aro progressive
Ideas and Stato Supt. Ackormnn foar
lossly advocates thorn boforo county
Institutes and public nudlonces wher
ever ho goos. They cannot but pro
duco a markod offoct nnd would rov
olutlonlzo tho prosont system whore
by tho high class public schools aro
in tho cltlos nnd towns and tho low
. class schools aro In tho country.
VMts tho O. A. C.
A Journnl roprosontatlvo spout a
day at tho Orogon Stuto Agricultural
Collogo this week and whs surprised
to find such great chnnget, and mark
od Improvements made during the
paat eur. He hardly knew the place.
The old dingy library has given
way to suite of business offices, the
registrar's office, the bookkeeping
and accounting depiytiueiit. Theio In
h noat college book store where stu
dent got texts for 15 per cent let
than the retail price.
Tho nurar Is now on the second
floor, in charge of Mrs. Kidder. The
library has been enlarged. classified,
organized and made available. Mrs.
Kidder Is a wholo team and load
mule whuu It comes to working a
library to its full capacity.
Tho shops aro tho biggest thing at
tho Corvallis collogo since they were
beaten at football. Klrst tlioro Is a
bang-up little prlntshop under Mas
ter Printer Koady. Has two Job
presses, a Mlohlo and a flno lot of
Job matorlal. Thoy turn out stacks
of bulletins nnd reports that go to
all tho progressive farm homos.
Tho wood-working dopartmont
starts with a locturo room and ends
lu a furnlturo factory. Tho boys
plan construction, make drawings,
got out tho matorlnl, nssomblo It and
then finish It. Thoy mako tables,
lockors, bureaus, and hat racks. They
aro making furnlturo for tho now
Y. M. C. A. building and domestic
sclonce department. In roturn the
joung women will mako carpenters
aprons for tho wood butchers. The
boys loam to use wood working ma
chinery. Four classes of 40 to 50
students onch tuko tho two-hour per
iods In carpentry based upon mechan
ical' drawing. A smiling young mnn
named Jackson is promoter of the
jack-plnno industry.
In tho metal-working machine
shops I found a bunch of young latho
workoiB clustered around n young
genius herder named Knoff like a
swarm of bees. Ho was showing them
soma flno point about a bit of ma
chinery that made It Imposslblo for
tho man with tho noto book to attach
tho slightest attention and ho left in
disgust. If students In tho Iron
works becomo so nbsorbed in cutting
nnd drilling stool, whnt is going to
become of Latin, geometry, trigo
nometry, and other oducatlonnl
standbys that havo passed for wisdom
among tho ancients?
In tho blnckstnlth shops wo found
about forty young disciples of Vulcan
who scorned to dollght In breathing
coal smoko, smelling fire, pounding
anvils, and a boss Vulcan directing
thorn named Portor. Ho Is a practi
cal blacksmith nnd horseshoor with
hands as big as John L. Sullivan's
but putting thorn to far hotter use.
Tho old Bhop Is being turned Into a
mining laboratory.
Another now building Is tho $18,
000 collogo Y. M. C. A. and Y. W.
C. A .building. It was built by tho
students nnd faculty and outsldo
friends nnd Is named Shcpard hall.
This will also bo headquarters for tho
student body literary societies.
Tho now Agronomy building cost
ing $30,000 finished, Is thrco stories
with heating plnnt in tho bnsomont.
Southwlck & Hendrlck, two peerless
Salem bummers, put It up and It
is Just about ns protty and perfect
ns thoy mako thorn. Tho brick walls
of the three stories aro 20 Inches, 10
Inches and 12 Inches, with concroto
caps and sills nnd a concroto wnter
tablo all around. Tho brick aro mado
at Corvallis. Thoy mako brick at
Corvallis and thoy aro protty good
brick for a dry town. Tho second
story of this building 1b devoted to
domestic science nnd a commercial
dopartmont.
President Kerr has mado great
progross nt tho collogo with now
barns finished last March, now shops,
now library, now department tiftor
dopartmont. Ho hns dono wondors
with tho mentis nt hand. Thoro is
a now spirit in scientific ngrlculturo
lu Oregon.
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THOMAS KAY
WGOLEN,
MILLS CO
Capital City's Big Factory
Tho Thomas Kay Woolen Mill
wns founded In this city In 1889 by
Thomas Kay and nssoclates, Mr. Kay
being chosen president nnd manager
of tho institution, and ho retained
thoso positions for years, practically
conducting the business until the
time of his death In 1DO0, In a man
ner that brought credit and wealth
to the corporation nnd established It
tho Salem factory in the many years
of Its oxlstenco In this city.
Tho offlcors of the company nt
thlH'tlmo are: President, Thos. B.
Kay; vice president, Squlro Farrar;
Hocrotary-troasurcr, 13. J. Swafford;
directors, T. B. Kay, Squlro Farrar,
A. N. Bush, of Salem: J. K. Weathor-
ford, of Albany, and O. P. Coshow,
of Roseburg.
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I sold from 40 ncres In 1007 a
variety of fruits, for $3121, only
paying out $150 for lubor, outsldo
tho family. Alsa hay, $180, outsldo
$100; poultry and eggs, $7C; totnl,
$3029. J. F. Jones, lit. 5, Salem.
Off my bearing cherry and pruno
orchards (for tho season of 1907)
off a trlflo loss than 40 ncres, In
cluding some green pruncB I bought
of my nolghbors and dried on my
drier, nt the samo tlmo I was drying
my own crop, I realized $14,000, of
which no por cent wns net profit.
S. P. Kimball, Salem.
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A MEW HOTEL IS
PLANNED FOR SALEM
Thoro Is grent need of a now and
up to duto hotol nt Snlom, nnd n
locnl combination of capitalists aro
having plans mado to provldo such
a necessity for n growing city. Un
doubtedly n now hotol building nt
Salem would mnko ono of tho best
investments that can bo found In that
lino In tho west. Tho reasons for
this nro very apparent.
Salem Is tho largest city botweon
Portland nnd Sacramento. It Is tho
capital of Oregon, nnd beautifully
locntod In tho rich Willamette valloy.
It has this yoar added ovor 300 now
rosldoncos in tho city, bosidos as
many moro round about, nnd now
thoro is a demand for still moro. Also
tunny now bustnoss buildings hnvo
gono up, nnd thoro Is not a vacant
ono to bo had.
Our hotels aro crowded with busi
ness and tho truth is wo havo room
for a moderate sized first class hoo
tolry to accommodate the largo high
grade tourlBt and commercial trado.
Snlom hns 17.000 neonlo and is
growing moro rapidly than nny plnco'1.
on tho coast. A groat advertising
campaign Is on for tho wholo Orogon
country, and tho Capital City, with
its location on tho Harrlman system
of railroads, with a suporlor Interur
ban toad to Portland, ns well ns river
transportation tho yoar round, will
always be In tho wake of hoa
travel.
Besides being the capital, with Its
legislatures, supreme court and pub
lic officials, Salem has under the
law the public Institutions of tin
state, such as the asylums, peniten
tiary, reform school, school for deaf,
school for the blind, and Institute
for the feeble minded, also the larg
est Indian training school In the
west. r Ul
iiH one of tho most popular indus
trial concerns In tho Willamette vnl-loy.
The first wns a two-set mill with
fourteen looms. This was destroyed
by flro in 1S95 nnd the present plant
was built in 189G, much larger than
the original mill, and to this tins'
boon added from time to time, until
now thoro nro thirty-two looms, tho
mill having far moro than double
tho capacity of tho rirst plant. Tho
business Is, and has always boon,
conducted up to the full capacity of
tho mill, oxcopt for a short Interval
between the flro of 1S9G nnd tho
erection of tho present excellent
plant.
T. B. Kay succeeded his father as
president nnd manager of tho fac
tory and7 has very acceptably con
ducted tho plant from that time to
tho prosent day.
Tho factory makes all classes of
woolen goods manufactured on tho
Pacific coast blankets, -flannels,
robes, cashmeres, otc. and Its out
put Is In tho neighborhood of $250,
000 a year, which Is disposed of par
tially in tho East and partially In
STANDARD
LIQUOR
COMPANY
Northwestern Shiveftjj
k-"-UMT0uuc(s
wei im racmc toast
ThlB modern plant
manufactures all sizes
and stylcB required
on tho mnrkot, from
tho baby range, with
an 8-lnch oon to tho
mammoth hotol nd
restaurant tangos,
both In portable and
brick-sot styles In
sizes from 4 feet to
10 feet, also cast and
steel cook stoves,
nnd nlr-tlght hoators
of tho latest patterns
for conl and wood,
in nil saleable styles
i ud sizes.
Chicago and Royal
Polished Steel
Kaiigcs.
Wo deslro pur Mou
lt rly to call your at-
cution to our Chica
go and Roynl Pol
bhed Steel Rnnges,
in sizes 8, 18, 20, 22
ind 2 l-lnch ovens.
Wo conslder tills
range superior to nny
, ihat was over
traduced in the
Vc st for Western
fuel, nnd at a prlco
Althln tho roach of
We uo i ot mako
his contention sim
ply because we tnan-
ifacturo them, but
because our ranges
havo been tried and
tested, and measuro
up to what Is
claimed for them.
Wo know whon wo
make this statement
that wo aro not slm-
tilv ilolnir ho t ii if I ii tr
only our Bales for the pnst yenr to conl to wood only rtqtliv
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Does a State Wide Business
One of Salem's Important business
establishments nnd one that Is bring
ing a largo amount of business to
this city, Is the wholesnlo hotiso of
tho Standard Liquor Company, lo
cated at 14S-15G Commercial street,
of which A. G. Magers is tho presi
dent nnd general mutingor. Thlu
business wns established fifteou
years ago, and from that time to Mils
has received a sonorous patronage
not only from tho liquor moil of this
city hut from thoso In all parts of
the state, and tho business has stend-
lttlH
uaso our claim on, nut wo uo uo
because wo hnvo beon manufacturing
theso ranges for ovor twenty yonrs,
a fact in Itself sufficient to warrant
what wo claim for them.
During all those years, wo havo
beon moro than successful with our
Chicago nnd Royal Polished Stcol
Ranges, and It has constantly been
our aim to mako this ran go a little
bettor each year than we mado It
tho yenr boforo, by adding an Im
provement hero and an Improvement
thoro, until today wo are prepared
to put this range lu competition with
nny rango sold throughout tho West
for economy In fuel nnd oven baking.
TUB BLLu.0 STBKIi In our Chi
cago and Royal ranges Is tho genu
ine Lccchburg Bluo, making the
handsomest finish that Is posniblo on
nny stool pinto. During tho procoss
of polishing tho stcol, It is handled
In oil, nnd Is shipped to us from tho
rolling mills covored with oil, which
preBorves tho colors from all ex
posures in shipping nnd whilo being
workod Info tho rango. Whon you
recolvo tho rango It will havo a coat
ing of oil ovor tho surface which
should bo romovod with a soft cloth.
As soon ns this Is dono, tho hand
somo color producod by tho procoss
which it is put through at tho mills
will at onco bo brought to sight.
oVENS Squaro with full oponlng.
admitting n pan ns largo as the oven
slzo. Tho ovons nro deop, high and
wldo. Tho baking feature Is com
mondnblo for tho rollablllty Mint can
bo placed I" io iip-io-iuo consw, -" pBt 0B a
lion, tho wans oi ine uvuu mu umuv - - - ...- d wa:s
heavy, and tho walls, roof and hot- range Pg
ton, are .hold Immovably In Pto'iSrffti ?
overcomo in imwu J '"-""" , a'IllirllBieed
from unequni oxpansiou. in uc" ",""; m0
bottom Is oxtra woll uracou
vent bitckllnir. sagging or
K1KB U7w WO nave hihiivh "" ...i.ii usiltlnc Ti'
ther time nor expense In making the. rangj wl lie , B
flro box of our Chicago ami itojai
ranires as nonrly perfect as possible
Wo U80 tho Improved Duplox grate
fni. Imrnlnc colli (IP WOOll. lilt-
... .....xi nn.i n piiniise from rnnges
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tho end linings, ud i
or wood as fuel, thtnai
results may bo obulcd I
the grnto n halt ton, bi
into tho pan wlot
II II V (if Ihn flro
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IIODY-Full Hull bid
anu (loptn Madeotu
Stool shaped to tucti
and fully bolted and r
Jilt. Full she ultui
door under oren, Itmrti
'llto most concnleituWJ
nod rango bodr derW
TUB LINING of UnWic
throughout the Inttrintfhi
Uononth this and tlmi
n heavy sheet of atba'j,iti
non-conductor oi nutm
tho heat In the racjt U&ii
of Clio oven
NICKEI, TRIMMLCW
ol trimmings look like ft
uso the best of mittriu ni
ko through a plckllntpaws1!
are placed In tbep!cklli(iM
taken out and matt ai
brush, then taken to U mi
Uhlng machine asipcawW
a smooth surface, uhc
Aftnr couner nlitltf. tt)
tlwm rrailv for tlckelltfc tti
bolng thoroughly sltWttftJ
buffed to a nign bum. "j
parts on our Cnlcitf
irnngos nre as iw"
donr under orea. wp'
doorknobs, fire box Joa
hnndlo on oven door
Summing up the &
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Toplpalrsatamoment.
warping j not have to wit fc',
'eTet!tl,9 East, and IJJ"
uic mi -- ..... ..i.um
numlty In w,mt;J
Haruwaro ip- - , ji
whero you cau -
ovorlooked )i w
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IIM'IV Ol' DR. ROBI.KTSON.
CUMMINS BROTHERS
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iin- ( iu,.tii un if ii t Mm in.ii
1 Hilh is Ut UOOl H M .(!, lllUh! of
this ruw mateilul Ijct.ik puivh ised In
II Increased since It was founded
until tuda it Is ono of tho loading
establishments of r.ie kind on the
coast. In the two years Just passed.
Oregon and u goodl) part of It. In the ! the business of the house has more
than, doubled onch yoar, and ovorj
month shows an increase in tho pat
. -. a a - a i 1 v vfjwi
InAlMohttt UUIVlrMlMI Wlllainotte valley, thus making a
I convenient home market for the out-
.,,,, put of the sheepmen of this part of
rills business was established three I the state. Tho payroll of the coin-
years ago uy tteuuen u. uumuuiib.
Vwo jears o the buslnehs was en
largod by taking I). I,. Cummins as
partner, and the firm ndded contract
ing and suppllng building materials
Thoy havo a flno lot of drays nnd
teams and furnish snnd, gravol, co
ntent, lime and plastor In large or
sniHll quantities on short notion.
TluMr place of buslnoss is uaxt
door to tho Capital Commission Com
pany on South Commercial lreou
OLD , P0ST0FFICE GROCERY
This woll known establishment In
tho Turner block Is popular both
with city and country trade. Tho
iroprlotor Is J. M. Lawrence, who
has been connected with the business
for fifteen years. Ho had as patt
nors J. W Hnrrltt for twelve years
md Jos. Baker for two years.
Mr. Lawrence prldos hlmsolf on
his popularity with all good house
keepers and continues to deserve
heir good will by furnishing honest
jood8 at fair prices and give the
people every accommodation possible
pnny in this city is fully ?Gu,uou a
ear nnd the computo spends large
sums of money lu addition for sup
plies and raw materials of all de
scriptions, making the Institution one
of tho most profitable to the indus
trial llfo of Mils community. Pay
day at the woolen mills is an event
looked forward to by tho buslnoss
mon or the city monthly with a good
deal of pleasure, for tho money thus
sent Into tho local ohannols of trade
Is no Inconsiderable pnrt of tho cir
culating medium in Salem nnd vi
cinity. Institutions of the kind of the
woolen mills are of great value to a
city llko Salem. They give employ-
ronsjie received by the houso. Whon
the firm established n wholesale
house hero It was freely prodlctod
that It would not 'uo nn entire sue
oess, but front the first tho patron
nge recolved and the square dealing
of tho management brought rich to
turns, and the business grow until
toduy goods aro shipped by the com
pany from this cuy to every part
of Orogon and to some of tho cities
in adjoining states, and tho demand
Is steadily growing.
Ono of tho lines worthy of special
montlou is tho majl order depart
ment, to which especlnl attention and
care is given by the management.
This dopartmont of the business has
grown until It has uecome very prof
itable, and tho care with which It Is
j of the business, which ho Is develop
I lug Into ono of the best In the state,
and he is especially interosieu u .hc
...nil m-ilni flmini'tniHnt. which, ll
Hutu j, . v.. .w, -...---- . .ii.
snys, has grown to oven greater pru- ,
portions than ho had hoped for when ' My bops yielded -
this ond of the buslnoss was lnaugu- ucr on went) acm
rtod. ,,, .m. ?" ,,res cinfl
Tho houso today sells every uyw uouguv - -- ,
In tho city nt w hoiosaio, anu i" iia.uuu. - r j
i'ro fow .Llors in Mto Willamette Thomas ? man.
valley wno .are nui iuuw '".'.iumiu ik--
Salem wholesale liquor house
All tho loading domostlc and lin-
nortod wlnos nro nanuieu ut ", .: --v- f h0jej.
house, as are Imported nnd uomssiw, oou puu
inn.ii.icr iirniifiii UBiiiis Air.isu . .ibd "-
luuwiuii " - .- --.... hoDS f-
ness with any mertt.-
HOl's.
wnrtv ncres
u00atl3HcenU
Kola. .
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mom io a most rospectauio number i handled hns resulted In tho trado
of people who have homos In the I onco established bolng held without
city and help mako up the social life ! difficulty. From every nart of Ore-
ar a placo, and those of the woolen fson mall orders In large numbers
mill aro among tho very best part of
tho community. There Is a perfect
are received dally by tho firm nnd
an are uueu immediately on receipt
accord botweon the employes of the so that no delays In shipment can
mill ana tue innnageniont, nnd In-, be charged to the house, which prides
dustrlnl disturbances with the man-1 Itself on prompt filling of orders as
lgament and the operatives of the , well as on the quality of the goodP
mill prrnyod against each other aro sent out. President Magers gives
and havo beon entirely unknown in his entire tlmo to the management
lln..n..n Hm
-.,u.0, -'-",,-.. the Mvjoungnop' -- j.
Kepi in sioch., iiiiiiuiui " - , . rKnn nounds p"
bust known to the trade, are supplied l 1500 pou"
from the large u-renouses - oa,r,e hve acres oi s-r.,
company, and tho brands of clgnrV aene w ,,, ,
carried for the wholesale traue " "mi Sld for TerStrf
nf tho mmlltv and In as great n- and so a w. nfit&
rlety as thoso to be found In the l'" P0""" BDd t;
i' ' . ta whniPRnla clear housos '9 cents ?. icr'1
'Mr. Mngers. tho pre.Wt and PJ,
manager of tho company, Is he son R. M.J
...nn.in,,t nimiPftr family nnu I ,ocrreslrr ,
has be'en In and near this city all his FWJ clorer
life, where he established a renuta-, J.n ,,, 0 for J
tlon for fair ueauug u -. y tterW -:,. rf w
tentlon to business mai i''V""' this I curea i "
teniion io uubiii.do h.v -. , ft,tg j cureu
rPsnnnRlblfl for his SUCCeSS in bUSl Ull der (jjl
ness. Ho began his business career Nu eAt 1
.. n. i.nnm ri.nn- nt the adder in i f" . ,hreshed '..ai
".".l"rt """" " r;;n7 vears ago and , mueu . - f e.;"u"
srs '.jtsrsrssv
i uauiieB hub iii ....- -- nnw i and " ,,i, vr ,i
the business circles of the city n"w.ianoweet BVf ,vi
occupied by him. Ho counts n , ie
friends among the best people of the a d j It. Ir
city and state, a factor not to ueiur
m