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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-04
Warehouse and stage.
The VlIlage BIacksmith.

d. B. Schwartz has a large feed
store and hay and grain warehouse.
He also keeps seeds, paints, cement
and building material. His warehouse
is 52x125, has a capacity of 500 tons
Of hay and he handles $4,000 to
$4,000 year of products.
Four Roth Brothers.
The Roth Brothers Lumber CT.
is one of the industries tnI. are build
ing up a great9r Amity. They have
lumber yard with sasl I. duo:g and
building materials and operate a saw
mill that cuts 10000 feet a day. This
firm is composed of ]. w. and 0. e.
Roth. j. w. Roth bought a farm Of
l27 acres adjoining the citv some
years ago at $40 to $45 an acre IT
is now worth $3.50. w. 3. Roth Is
one OF the firm of Roth & Troutmal
who are blacksmiths and wagon maxi
ors F, E. Roth has fine stock Of
furniture, carpets and rugs and t. a
professional embalmer and undertake
Ell. He also carries a stock lace
cnitains and Wall paper. TN fn' r
Roth brothers are all lnddsl1c'is.
progressive aud substantial citizens.
Firm OF Boosters.
Thomas Jc Eea have besn doins I
general me rnandise business hc~e fof
fcui years. Mr.. Thomas came h"re
from Winona. Mimi, and likes the
Willamette valley very much He says
It is a fine country, has a good eli
mate. and he would not return. Ne
has located a number OF farilies here
ahd is a great baliever IN the f..tL'e
~ Amity. He vas the first maa IN
buy a tract 0f lind and lav Il on In
addition to Ainit'
~ out half th lots have besn sold OF.
ana ten new h 'uses have 0esA added
to ibe town Mr. Thomas Is a boost
er. He is criticised by some. bat II IL
for being a too go-ahead kin OF
man. Mrs. Thomas is also an active
worker In the uDbuilding OF the ,rwh.
The first cement walks have been
put down the past year, and five
blocks are to have concrete walks
from the Southern Pacific depot 10
the business center OF the town
Way Lands Go Up.
Mr. Thomas bought i3O acres at
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-04

$S5 an acre six years ago, and now it
is worth 5000 an acre.
J. F. Bashor came here from Salem
in 1904 and has built up fine busi-
ness in real estate and insurance. He
has done well here, has bought a
home and 135-acre farm two miles
out, for which he paid $40 an acre
three years ago, and for which he has
refused $40 an acre. Mr.. Bashor has
just sold the c. w. Cole farm, Y
miles from town, to G. Anliker for
$4500.
The J. w. Martin place of SO acres
recently sold for $4,000.
]. P. Allison makes a speciality Of
selling farm property. He recently
sold the j. E. Miller ranch of 600
acres for $4,000. Also 47O acres for
H. G. Patty of hill land for $925O. j.
P. Allison came here from Canada 20
years ago, and bought 100 acres of
land two miles out for $SS an acre.
He is offered 500 an acre for it now,
but does not care to sell.
John and Elmer Robbins have / so
acres that is held at $3.50 an acre.
Mr.. Allison has great confidence in
this country, and is of an affirmative,
helpful and hopeful frame of mind.
He is interested with his son in the
Diamond Clothing Co., which is well
advertised and is building up large
business.
The Broadmead ranch, belonging
to the Ladds, is not far from Amity.
This lot of 5000 acres has been cut
up into 1O-acre tracts and sells at
$175 to $3.50 an acre.
The Churchill & Matthews syndi-
cate has put on 25VO acres in walnuts
and cherries in 15-acre tracts at $3.50
an acre.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-04

tering an industry, for he never saw
or had anything to do with milk
condensory before he conceived the
idea of establishing this one.
The Village Blacksmith.
The writer was apprenticed to
learn the blacksmith trade when he
was boy, and has always had a
warm spot in his heart for the town
blacksmith. Amity has one in the
person of w. R. Brown, who has held
down the job for 43 years. If there
is a blacksmith who has been longer
on the job at one place in Oregon /
do not now recall it, and would like
to know the man who can show a
longer continuous record. He is the
only man living here who was in
business at Amity when he located
here. The others here 43 years ago
were George e. Getchell, merchant
and Brown, Miller and Woodson
Brown was an Indian war veteran
Captain Miller was the owner Of
Broadmeadow farm, and removed to
Salem, where he helped build the
Chemeketa Hotel, now to be renamed
the third time-from Willamette to
Marion The physicians 43 years
ago were Emery and Richardson.
The former is living at Dallas, the
latter at Salem, and both about to re-
move to Portland. Mr.. Brown can
remember when this part of the Will
lamette valley was changing from
cattle to grain, and when a man who
had so acres of grain was a bonanza
farmer in Western Oregon.
Schools and Churches.
Amity has a good high school with
II grades taught, P. M. Stroud, prin-
cipal. He is a Monmouth graduate,
and had to work his way through the
State Normal School. He has taught
geven years, and has three assist
ants. 1t is hard to imagine what a
pitiful state of affairs will prevail in
Oregon when the normal schools are
all killed off, and high school grades
will be taught by girls holding eighth
grade diplomas.
Amity has a Methodist, Baptist
and Christian church. The ministers
are Revs. Edward Gittins, Gregory
and Gwynne, respectively, and all are
doing good work for fairly prosper
GUS congregations. Rev. Gittins is
not one of the harsh type, but mingles
around with all kinds of sinners, ho-
tel keepers, livery stable men and
reporters. He has been
well treated by the people of Amity,
who seem to have no prejudices
against preachers. There are several
lodges at Amity, and in all respects
it is a pretty well balanced communi-
ty day and night, work days and Sun
days.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-04
me Bridewen Lands.

j. w. Briedwell is merchant and
banker, and large land owner. He
has been in business here 23 years,
and was born and raised here. Mr..
Briedwell is in the prime of life, and
is a man of a strong, conservative
business Judgment. He says land val
eus have increased from ESQ to 300
per cent in the last ten years. He has
a brother, George w. Briedwell, at
Briedwell Station, and another broth
er, e. M. Briedwell, at McMinnville.
Mutual Telephone System.
Amity is the center of an extensive
Home Telephone system, with $50
patrons. There have just been added
AZ new ones. r. o. Jones is man
ager. Mrs. Anna Schellenberger man
ages the exchange, and her daughter,
Lola, Is the very accomplished oper-
ator. Miss Lola is II, but does not
look over IA. The Bell Telephone
has two instruments In here. The
Mutual has free connections with
Lincoln, Hopewell, Mccoy, Perrydale,
Ballston, Belleme, Whiteson and Nc
MinnVille.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-04
Jones Is a Booster.

R. Oliver Jones is entitled to a
great deal of credit for Amity, in it's
awakened condition. He worked four
years to get bank organized for the
town, and then only succeeded by
putting money into it himself, The
Jones family was founded by Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Jones, who crossed the
plains in 1852 and 1853. Both are
living on the old donation land claim
adjoining the town, and 61O acres Of
the land is left intact. It has all
trebled in value, and some of It is
worth $500 an acre. Mr.. Jones, Jr.,
has a beautiful home on the edge Of
the city.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-04

tering an industry, for he never saw
or had anything to do with a milk
condensory before he conceived the
idea of establishing this one.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-04

~ Thomas bought lsO acres a.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
SEA RACE WHEN TEDDY COMES.
Many Boats Chartered For Reception
of Ex-Presjdent,

New York, April 21.-DoWn on the
New York water front it was decided
that there was an unprecedented
demand for ocean going excursion
boats for June IS, when Theodore
Roosevelt returns from Europe. Ship
ping men expect a harvest twice as
great as that reaped by the various
steamboat owners during the Hudson
Fulton celebration. The price Of tick
cts is likely to mount to $40 head.
Nearly all of the big political organ
iZations and societies have engaged or
expect to engage steamboats, for June
is and there is good chance that
there will not be boats enough to go
around at any price. Some Of the
greeting parties plan to go far to sea.
and it is expected that there Will be
race to be the first to meet Colonel
Roosevelts steamship. Most of the
ships will be equipped with wireless
and some Of the parties are planning to
distinguish themselves by adding to
their noise making devices a full sup
ply of foghorns and siren whistles.
While it is not yet known whether
any war vessels will come here to take
part in the naval parade, movement
is already on foot to have the fort at
the harbor entrance salute the home
conner as he comes up the bay.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
Iowans at the Yards.

H. L. Smith of Low Moor, had q
load of short fed cattle which sold for
1925.
B. c. Hamilton of Folletts, Wednes-
day, had load of short fed cattle on
Wednesdays market that sold for 1928.
Robert Cain, a prominent feeder Of
both cattle and hogs from Scranton,
was on the market today with one
load of hogs of his own feeding. Mr..
Cain reports corn planting in his Sec
ton we'll under way.
G. NJ. Morris of Ford, marketed a
load of lightweight, short-fed steers
Wednesday. Among his cattle were two
heifers weighing $50 pounds at $40,
and one COW at $685.
William Rogers of Morning Sun,
marketed Monday fifty head of 1907
pound steers at $3.50.
Ed Good, successful feeder of FL
lott, was on Mondays market with six
loads of cattle. forty-eight head of
which sold at $40 averaging lat
pounds, and forty-four head at $3.50
averaging LILO pounds. He also had
a few heifers averaging s61 pounds
that sold at $3.50 per cwt.-
John NJ. Gruber, well-known cattle
feeder and farmer at Fontanelle, was
on Mondays market with two cars Of
cattle of his own feeding, averaging
1,260 pounds. that brought FITS
]. E WISHES, Lewis. was on Mon
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
days market with one car Of cattle
that sold at $7.45.

days market with one car OF cattle
that sold at $7.45.
Tom Peterson, a well-known cattle
feeder at Ida Grove, was on Mon
days market with car OF 1,100 pound
steers that soldsat $7.55.
John Ehler, the big dealer at Schles-
wig, was represented on Mondays
market with hogs.
F. D. Reinking. popular operator at
Schleswig, was on Mondays market
with car OF hogs of his own feeding.
John Wander Maten, representa-
tive feeder from O'Brien county, with
a reputation for making good cattle,
was here Wednesday with shipment
OF his own feeding. His yearlings
averaged go pounds, and sold at $3.50;
his 900-pound heifers sold at $685., and
a good 1,34O-pound COW at $7.25. His
bull brought $3.50.
w. A. Verdoorn Of Sioux county, was
here looking after the sale of load
of good cattle OF his own feeding. His
steers averaged LIS pounds and were
good enough to bring $40. his heifers
$3.50, and his bull Sc.
G. Van den Bosch of O'Brien county,
was on the market with a load Of good
S75-pound steers OF his own feeding
that We're sold ut $40.
II. 6. Bowers, representative feed
er from Marion county. was here We'd
nesday looking after the sale OF
three-load shipment of cattle of his
own feeding. His yearlings, averaging
$50 pounds, sold at s7.75, and his steers,
averaging 1853 pounds. at $7.S5.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
QUALITY GENERALLY WAS NOT
GOOD, MOST OFFERINGS BE-
ING LIGHT WEIGHTS.
GREATEST DECLINE, HOWEVER,
WAS ON HEAVIER SORTS
Few Choice Steers Reached $s25 and
Several Loads Better Than $s-Hoss
Strong and Five Above Wednesdays
Averaee-Paokers Hammered Sheep

Chicago, April 21.-The cattle quality
was not generally good. There were a
few choice steers that reached 1928,
with several loads at a better figure
than IS, but most of the steers went
far under this level A greater de-
cline was on heavy sorts, and medium
weight animals that ranged from 700
to $50, did not show a full 10 cent
break tho weak above-the 750 market,
values were 10 cents lower.
Hogs.
Hogs were strong and cents higher
than the average yesterday, or steady
with the best time of that session. The
top was 1925. There was but slow in
quiry from packers.
Sheep.
Both sheep and lambs worked lower
after the opening. packers hammering
the market. Even with declines of 10
to Is cents the packers did not evince
much interest. Most of the buyers were
busy whiting sticks to pass the time
away.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
CHINESE CENTER OF INDUSTRY
Fan-Makins Is the Principal Business
Carried On In Village Of
PengchoW.

Writing Of fan making in southern
China. the American consul at Swatow
says:
This industry was started cen
turtles ago in the village of Pengchow,
at Ampow, about three miles from
Swallow. It was formerly confined to
women In various households, but for
many years past every family in the
village has been devoted to the work,
all the members of the families being
occupied in the manufacture. In the
city OF Chaochowfu itself the fan In
dustry is also larges but the Peng-
chow district abounds in particular
kind Of bamboo especially suitable for
the ribs and handle, and to this fact
Is the large output OF the latter place
attributed.
"Only the open fan IL manufactured
in this district. For the frame the
split bamboo is repeatedly rived until
each piece is sufficiently slender and
flexible. These thread.like pieces OF
bamboo are arranged in a row, at
tached to each other by a thread
passed crosswise through the middle.
This thread is fastened to q semicir-
cuiar strip OF bamboo giving the
fan its shape. The ribs are then
slightly heated and bent at the ends.
The fan has now the peculiar and
characteristic shell-like shape at the
top. Very fiimsy silk gauze is then
pasted on the face, and kind Of It's
sue-lfke paper on the back. After the
handle is attached the border OF the
fan Is black vanished and the gauze
is coated with chalk and water mix
ture. The handles are made of bam-
boo, various kinds of hard wood, bone
and ivory. The hand painting on the
fans is eleverly done, in some instan-
ces being a work of art.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
COMFORTING WORDS.
Many MarshaIItown Household viii
Find Them So,

Find Them So.
To have the pains and aches Of a
bad back removed; to be entirely free
from annoying, dangerous urinary dis
orders is enough to make any kidney
sufferer grateful To tell how this
great change can be brought about
will prove comforting words to hum
dreds of Marshalltown readers.
Mrs. ]. B. Cornelius. 306 North
Sixth street, Marshalltown, Iowa, says:
From childhood I had kidney trouble
and as grew Older, my condition be-
came worse. I suffered intensely from
backacle and bearing-down pains thru
my loins, and was also annoyed by a
kidney weakness. Nothing helped me
until I got Doan,s Kidney Pills at the
Mcbride & Will Drug Company. Since
taking them, have been in much bet
ter health and my back and kidneys
have caused me but little trouble. Z
am glad that I learned of Doan's Kid
ney Pills" Statement given Feb. IA,
1909
A SECOND STATEMENT.
On Feb. %, 1910, Mrs. Cornelius
said: II still recommend Doan'S Kid
ney Pills whenever have the oppor-
tunity. My experience with this rem-
edy has convinced me that It can be
depended upon"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents, Foster -Mdlburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the nams-Dosn's-and
take no other.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
WATCH SPRINGS.
Not Surprising They Break Consider
ina the Work They Do.

Not Surprising They Break constder-
ing the Work They Do.
The handspring ola watch does not
unwind at uniform rate, but inter
mittentiy. 1t is subjected to a sudden
jerk at every tick-four times per sec
ond for my watch. This makes 345,-
600 times per day and over 126,OOOOO0
times per year. This operating condi-
ton is analogous to Others discussed
in Kent's Mechanical Pocketbook"
under the heads Of Relation OF the
Elastic Limit Of Endurance Under Re-
peated Stresses" and Resistance of
Metals to Repeated Shocks" Among
other things it says:
Another long known result of ex-
perience is the fact that rupture may
be caused by u succession Of shocks or
impacts none Of which alone would
be sufficient to cause 1t. Iron axles.
the piston rods Of steam hammers and
other pieces Of metal subject to contin-
rousIy repeated shocks invariably
break after a certain length OF serv-
ice. They have a life which Il linn
tied"
Wohler found IN testing iron bx. ne
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
OF HOUSE MAY TAKE
CUE FROM ALDRlcH AND
HALE.
is ABSORBING At.
TENTIoN OF POLITICAL WORLD
Democrats Hope Cannon Will Hang
to Job and Thus Help Them in Cam
paign Next FaII-Would ReIieve-Re-
pubIicans Of a Heavy Load if He
Should Retire. 6

Washington, April 21.-The all alb
litical circles is:
Will Speaker Cannon follow the lead
of Senators Aldrich and Hale and
voluntarily retire from the field Of po-
litical activity where he has welded
so much power?
Naturally enough the democrats who
voted to Dust the speaker recently
when the insurgents combined with
them to change the rules, but did not
have the courage to go the entire route,
don't want Speaker Cannon to quit.
They want to keep the issue of Can
nonism" before the voters this fall,
believing that it will help them to
carry several close districts. If Speaker
Cannon We're to voluntarily announce
that he viii not seek reelection as
speaker they would be the least pleased
people in Washington.
The most pleased people in Wash
ington would not the speakers po-
litical foes. but number of his So
called friends who haven't the courage
to suggest it to him but would feel re-
lieved if they did not have to defend
the Cannon rule before their con-
stituents.
And so it is that Cannon stands al
most alone as the one heroic figure or
this whole situation, daring his enemies
to put him out and ignoring his luke
warm supporters in his own party. He
seems to be about the only man, with
a very few exceptions, left in town
who still retains any courage Of heroic
He seems to be the one man in
Washington who is not afraid, who is
not seeing things and who does not
give two whoops what friends or foe
thinks about him.
1t is stated by a few of Cannon's
friends that he had intended last win
ter to make an announcement within
short time that he would retire from
the place of leadership in public life
because he had earned the rest in his
declining years and had had honors
enough to satisfy him. But about that
time they began to lambaste him both
in the press and on the stump and
his fighting blood was aroused.
What Cannon desires above every
thing else just now is. that no one shall
get the erroneous impression that there
is anything cowardly about him.
Speaker Cannon is not carrying a
chip on his shoulder. but he will not be
scared, and some of his half-hearted
friends now are worrying for fear he
will get mad, stay mad and fight it out
to finish.
The speaker gives them no satisfac-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21

this kept them alive for six weeks. The
writings says that they broke up the
stable partitions and constructed an
air fan Of the boards. This fan was
turned every minute during the days
and nights /of the six weeks, and thus
they were supplied with air. The mine,
however, did not contain enough air
for them to live a long time and they
apparently were suffocated. When the
relief party entered the stables in this
third shaft, one of the men was found
lying by the fan with his hands on the
handle which he apparently had been
turning as long as life remained IN
him.
Il saw the fan when 1t was brought
up from the mine and was impressed
with the heroic efforts of the men who
constructed this crude contrivance with
which they hoped to have their lives.
Some Of them had money in their belt
pockets, one Of them having s1,40o in
paper bills. The bills were so rotted
that they fell apart when touched: The.
numbers of the bills were taken and
sent to Washington.
Here in Cherry, the situation is still
deplorable. Everybody who has the OPP
portunity is leaving the town. The
" dlCA t1Aal w PoIHIC0 IL OAii Wv AAAAAAS
has been poisoned by the many de-
cayed bodies, and the warm weather
causes it to smell so that life here is
almost uncomfortable. The widows that
are still here receive weekly pension
from the Red Cross Society, the
amounts being divided according to the
number of people in the family.
II received the sum you sent for the
benefit of the widows and orphans, and
am sending the receipts from the wild
ows. There are still eleven Bohemian
widows in Cherry. the others having
moved away"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-21
EARLY TRADING IN WHEAT WAS
ON BULLlsH BASIS, FUTURES
ADVANCING.
RAINS LITTLE ADVANTAGE
IN SOUTHWEST SECTIONS
Bullish Cables From Liverpool Also
Contributed to U pturn-corn Opened
Trifle Earier But Took on Strength
From Wheat-Little Change in Oats
Provisions BuIIish and Higher.

Chicago. April 21.-Early trading In
wheat today was on bullish basis,
May advanced ] cent after open
ing unchanged to u lower. July
opened at 1o07s to 1909; September
at 80 to 9914 and kept close to the high
point the first hour. Bullish cables
from Liverpool contributed to the up
turn here and reports that recent rains
have been of no material advantage in
some of the southwestern wheat Sec
tons added to the bullish sentiment.
Receipts in Chicago Minneapolis ana
Duluth were ninety-six cars.
Later the market fell off Slightly,
then gathered strength on improved
buying, regained its decline and ad-
vanced further. The close was strong,
with Sept. q al higher at $685. July.
4@7s up at 1.013s 12, and May
improved IA at los.
Corn.
Corn opened tritie easier, but took
on firmness from wheat and held its
own the first hour. May opened at 81 Z
to 57ss Receipts were 104 cars
Corn closed strong, May Mqas up
at 577s.
Oats.
oats were steady and kept within
narrow limits during the early trading
May opened unchanged to IS higher.
Receipts We're eighty eight cars.
Provisions.
Provisions We're bullish, opening un-
changed to 22la higher.