Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-05
Willamette Valley News
Fruitland Notes

Capital Journal Special Service.)
Fruitland, Ore, Aug. 3.-Wednesday
evening members of NJ. NJ. Ransom g
class of the First Christian church of
Salem Sunday school met at his home
here for business and social converse
tion. Light lunch and Loju were served.
There were some IL of the 20 members
composing the class present.
Henry Ledabud is building an addi-
ton to his barn for the purpose of stor-
ing his auto and farm implements
We are all very busy now from a.
m. to 8 p. M, so we have no time for
book agents, peddlers, insurance men
nor people with a petition. Call later.
Mrs. II. c. Bressler has received word
that her father, A. H. Simpson, is quite
ill at his home at Albany.
That hot spell promised by the
weather sharps has not materialized
here yet. At sunrise ~ above and at 2
p. m. 80 is not excessive so none of our
babies have succumbed as so many in
the east have. Is this one of the ways
nature has of keeping down population.
Poor little tots coming into the world
with no will or choice of their own to
90 out so soon. The Darwinian doe
trine of the survival of the fittest -
is hard Cor may be kind) for the un-
fit.
Last Sunday Mrs, Wagner of Cali
fornia, visited in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris Ransom. Some years ago
Mr.. Wagner conducted store here at
the corners in partnership with Mr.. Har-
riman, now of Salem. Mrs. Wagner
will visit sister in Seattle then both
will visit friends in Kansas. The Ran
SONS and Wagners were acquaintances
in the Sunflower state.
Friday your correspondent and wife
took trip into Howell Prairie north of
Pratum and found things looking pros
perOus-grains, hay and potatoes, hops
and other things looked good We drove
into the town Of Pratum and of course
drove out and saw but one person and
he former Salemite.
l see by the dispatches the office of
The Menace, published at Aurora, No.,
was recently dynamited entailing a loss
of about $1,000. This publication is
intensely anti-ROmanist. Two or three
years ago several copies were taken
here. Though one might not wholly
agree with the Menace it had some able
writer's, and if this is the way its enem-
les merit it, it is the way of the coward
and the assassin.
Those black Texas or Mexican flies
are here as usual this time of year.
There are several sprays advertised and
sold said to rid stock Of these pests.
have for Is years used several kinds.
They are like the Yankee peddler 's
razors, just made to sell. They will not
keep flies off. The spray will kill
those it strikes all right, but in five
minutes there will be a new gang back
ready for business. About the only thing
that would keep them off would be the
fires of Gehenna fed with birthstone
burning ON the COW Is or horses backs.
! have been experimenting some lately
and am using spray of my own mix
ing just as good as $50 Boss" or "Kill
Fly" which can be made by the single
gallon for % or 30 cents. BY the guam.
tity for less. The stuff you buy costs
81 and $1,25 per gallon-a pretty profit
to the dealer. Anyone wishing the for
mula can have it free through the Capt.
tai journal.
Robert and Fred Coulson are employ
ed at one of the Loiu factories in Sa-
lem.