Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-06-30
ST.PAUL NEWS

,.isit;no this week with their daughter,
Mrs DR.. Edwards, and will leaveenext
week for Chicago where Mr.. Griffith
has extensive interests. They expect
ia return in the fall. In the mean
time Grandma French, mother of Mrs.
Griffith, will stay with DR.. and Mrs.
Edwards. Grandma French is 81 years
ol1 and likes st. Paul very much.
There is some talk of establishing a
plant to bring gravel from the bed
Of the river to the top of the hill at,
Steve Merten s, where it will be acces.
sible at all seasons. The plant VIII
also screen the gravel that the proper
size may be secured for road improve
ment. This is great scheme and
should be put through if possible. AT
present it is not practicable to secure
gravel for road work until the water
has reached low water mark and makes
the road work very late in the season.
The st. Paul water plant is now in
operation though the work is not fully
completed. But water has been turned
into the mains and several are now en-.
loving the good bath they have had
well, ask them about it. The merchants
are taking advantage of the plentiful
supply to sprinkle the streets in front
of their places of business, thus great
" improving the streets
Dan Keegan left MS again after n
/ few days visit to continue his travels.
We recounted in former issue how he
travelled over 5000 miles with his horse
and wagon, the horse being over 30
wears old and the wagon not much
younger. Dad left St. Paul the first
of last June and arrived back again
lust n little over II months later with
out having spent a cent in repairs on
his outfit and in the interim had COW
cred the greater part of Oregon, Cal
/ ifOrnia and Nevada. Dad has been n
/ traveller all his life and during the 60
years of his existence has been in every
state of the union and states that he
expects to keep moving to the end,
/ Messrs. Rea and Alverson began a
/ demonstration well on George Colcla-
zier's place Monday to advertise their
new vacuum well driller. A depth of
a feet was made in the first q min
utcs of drilling, satisfying the spec.
tatOrs that the machine was all that
had been claimed for it by the inven-
tor, Mr.. Rea. The machine was per.
feeted by Mr. Rea after several years
Of experimenting and, from all ap'
pearances, will revolutiOnize the well.
boring business. Mr., Rea claims that
it is easily possible to bore four
| inch, or large well, 100 feet, in l0C
minutes. The machine may be either
small size worked by hand or OPP
Grated by gas, steam or electric power
/ Messrs. Rea and Alverson are boring
the Colclarizer well with a small hand
machine but they have power drill al
! Ncwberg and expect in the near fu
ture to sink a well for the cannery al
that place. The machine operates on O
vacuum principle, the debris from the
well being drawn up into drum ant
the casing being sunk along with tn,
drill, and well may be drilled in al
incredible short space Of time.
With a score of to 3 st. Paul easily
defeated the Mt. Angel team on the
io'"i NldWohu ouHuuD' iht NlslNoI'
put up a good game but were out
classed by the local boys, who, by thu
way, were not nearly up to their usua
form. st. Paul has some excellen
players and if properly trained the,
would be able to make a good showing
with any team in the state. They are
however too prone to cut out the neces
sary practice and rely upon thei
pitcher to win the games for them and
in some instances, the pitcher is unabl
to do this, as was evidenced by th
game with the Portland Giants. 81
, Paul could have won that game ha,
they been on their metal from the start
The score that gave the game to tn
Giants was made in the first innin
| while our boys were getting warme
| up. After that the locals tightened II
and held the visitors down, in fact gain
+ ing one run on them. The ball tear
, has decided to give n two days picni
on July II and IS and has appointed
committee to take charge. of the al
: rangements All the surroundin
Q towns have celebrated more or less an
it is up to st. Paul now to pull of
$ something Of the kind to keep hersel
g on the map. Next Sunday the st. Pal
team is scheduled to play the Dayto
{ team and a good game is assured Th
Q Dayton team has had a good record S
!. far this season and will make the loci
!. boys look well to their laurels
, / burn 1ndpnpn1ant