Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-07-15
X-RAYS And SMILES

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Who is exalted ruler of the Elks7
Sammis!
Eugene has laid the cornerstone
of a new $4,000 Y NJ, c. A. build
ing.
A woman does not mind being
called a peach, unless you call her
green one.
When the average man gets near
beer, It is simply a case of no beer,
soon afterwards.
Those suffragettes in Jail in London
refuse to pay their fines or eat. They
seem determined to suffer"
The person who goes about look
ing for either sympathy or cash, gen
orally gets the former.
While other towns are talking the
first steel building is quietly going
up into the sky at Salem.
Medford is getting bitulithic paw
ing on boulevards thirty feet wide
for $3.50 per running foot.
when you buy beer, you take II on
trust, even before you pay for II,
unless-well, unless you drink It.
The. Albany Herald is very live
local paper. Eugene also has one.
The other Eugene paper is for sale.
Let us have more inviting. comfort
able, cool green benches for people
to rest on in different parts of the
city
Grandma Mitchell OF Benton county
crossed the plains and lived to be ST
years old, only TO be killed by run
away horse.
II seems to have been raining all
over the world. and less harm and
more benefit In Oregon than any
where else,
Lebanon Is moral town. II has
closed the only picture show because
of the low character of the pictures
exhibited
with fake ads on their drop cur
tains and low pictures, the electrical
shows have been run out of many
eastern towns.
Oregon timber Is advancing In the
markets OF the world. lt is coming
To be known as the best timber for
any purpose in the world.
While American production is larg-
er. there Is three times as much for
eign wool being shipped into the
United States as ever before.
OF all the poetry received on pray,
ing Tor rain, that by T. +. Geer Is the
best Like the farmers coon dog
Il is pleasure 20 know that T. T
is good for something.
While others are talking and Har'
riman Is promising. Spaulding, Ger
linger, Leadbetter and Pittock are
building the Salem, Dallas and Falls
City railroad into the Coast range
and towards the siletz.
T. T. Geer Joins Harvey Scott In
condemning us TO eternal punish
ment for praying for rain The worst
punishment anyone could fear would
be 10 spend an eternity with either
of these two gentlemen,
Hub Bryant has an island In the
Willamette and when all the people
of Albany want to be real good they
go over onto that island and have a
picnic. Hub shuts out even rosy col
ored pop because It works too much
on the Imagination,
Linn county has decided 10 build
only steel bridges In future. That
is a mistake In a timber country like
Oregon. Wooden bridges that are en-
closed and covered with a good roof
last almost forever, The writer saw
such bridges In the early seventies
In Missouri that had stood then sixty
years and are standing today.
T. r. Geer had to write a poem for
the Oreg0nian on Hofer as rainmak-
er. He reminds us of a story a friend
OF ours, who is an eminent New York
comedian. was In the habit OF telling
on Mrs Hennessy. They had a par
~ TO raise money for the orphan
age, and, among the games, was one
where a fine prize was offered for the
woman who could make up the ug-
Hest face IL was awarded to Mrs.
HannaggV IN her graat gurnriga and