Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-15
L u NE BER NJ A NUF A @ T UR E
FUTURE RAILROAD CENTER OF EASTERN
RION--RAPIDLY GROWING CTTY-.ALL
PROPERTY VALUES ARE ADVANCING

~. B. Hoblet to H. e. Hodges and
James Bennett. Mr.. Hodges is a
practical printer and has worked in
the office for fourteen years. He is
son of Capt. Hodges, a well known
Grand Army man and village shoe
maker.
The Silverton Leader is published
by ]. E. Hosmer and ]. M. Brown
and has been in existence for several
years. Mr.. Hosmer is also the in
ventor of the gravity hand culti-
vator, the only implement of the kind
in existence.
A Live General Merchant.
Geo. Custer has for seventeen
years conducted a general mer-
chandise business in Silverton. He
has seen the city grow in that time
from a mere village of four hundred
people to over two thousand popula-
ton and his annual sales amount to
$4,000. Mr.. Custer also buys all
kinds of farm products.
The Village Blacksmith.
A. G.. Steelhammer has for eigh-
teen years been pounding away in
the same blacksmith and wagon
shop. Jack Riches was his partner
up to eight years ago. He now
works two men at horse shoeing and
repairs everything from a wheel-bar-
row to farm machinery. Mr., Stell-
hammer will be a candidate for tho
legislature on the republican ticket.
He says he will go before the people
on the direct primary and will sup
port the republican nominees, even
if he should not be so lucky as to
get on the ticket himself.
JeweIer, Furniture, Farmer.
F. E. Wray has been in business
at Silverton for twenty years as a
jeweler and in connection with his
trade he has been in the furniture
business for seven years. He carries
large stock of carpets, rugs and
house furniture, and has sales
amounting to about $4,000 a year.
He has lately become the owner of a
fine piece of farm property which he
is improving and making himself a
suburban home.
Hoc TIvaa ETnfaIs
Silverton has three well kept
hotels, the "Silyerton", the "Ander-
son." and the "Wray'. The latter
was formerly known as the Got
tage."
Postal Business Increasing.
Upon to March 81, 1910, the bust
ness of the Silverton postoffice un-
der F. r. Blackerby, p. M, had
just about doubled. Stamp sales in
creased $500 in the past year. In
four years the money order bust
ness has increased $4,000, Mr..
and Mrs. Blackerby work very hard
to please the public and have a fine
standing with the department.
Pioneer Hardware Business
The J. Hicks Hardware Company
is an institution that has been doing
business continuously at the same
stand for twenty-five years. The
Hicks family are among the pioneers
of silverton. One of the brothers,
Chas. Hicks, at present being Com
mander of the Geo. II. Thomas Post
Grand Army of the Republic.
Ames Hardware House.
This is one of the largest firms in
this line in the Willamette valley |
They keep a large stock OF heavy |
and shelf hardware. fencing, and are
headquarters for the staple lines of
farm machinery and vehicles.
SilVerton Department Store.
James Craig has for thirteen years
conducted a department store that
at the same time is a kind of head
quarters for the country people for
miles around. Mr.. Craig Is a cham
pion Sllverton booster and good |
roads enthusiast. An Irishman from
Ulster, country where sprang the
ancestors of nine presidents of the
United States. Mr.. Craig does not
,onfine himself to boosting in the
United States. but sends literature
out in all his mail and some of II
reaches even Ireland, as will be seen
by the following from the Carrick-
Fergus Advertiser. a newspaper pub
ished In his native town:
Drugs and Stationery.
The Johnson drug store of Silver
-on Is conducted by Lewis Johnson.
Phi. G.. He holds the double honor
being both University graduate
and graduate IN pharmacy. He
has met all the requirements OF the
state Board Of New York and OF
Oregon. He got his degree in the
University Of Buffalo and then went
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