Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-18
Fruitland Notes

Capital journal Special Service)
Fruitland, Or, Aug. ls.-T. b. Simp-
son is now harvesting his beans, the
variety known as the Refugee. - This
is said to be the best canning kind,
The Salem Canning Co. takes the crop.
NJ. NJ. Ransom is putting an addition
to his barn. Also w. l.. Luttin is build
ing some pOrches to his house.
w. H. Edwards threshed his grain
Wednesday. | am told the yield was
light.
AT least one family here anticipat-
laid in a winters supply. And this
convention at Salt Lake city "resolv-
ed' to the effect that it was "sac
red duty to advance the price of a
five cent loaf of bread to ten cents
and this also in the interest of "pa-
triotism. Shades of Brigham Young
and John Taylor! They never showed
themselves patriots at raising the price
of bread. 1t was only in raising more
children to eat the bread. So it APP
pears thereis more than one way to be
patriotic. Uncle John Rocky shows his
by raising the price Of gasoline when
he wants to, and the sugar trust by
marking up the price of sugar. o yes,
there is more than one way. But these
dough punchers nave about reached
the limit. For pure nerve without any
settings they take the cake as well as
manipulate the bread. 1t is such a
"patriotic - thing to tax the children
of the posr ten cents for five cents
worth of bread and if dad or the poor
mother over the wash tub naven' t the
ten cents let the kiddies go without,
and this from sacred duty' as well
as from patriotism! Now don t that
jar" youl
In the stock spray mentioned in the
Capital journal last week the carbolic
sene and tar used-a half pint of the
tar to a gallon of the oil. call this
dope "Knox 'em Stiff and it does.
Josie and Esther bowers are home
from a five weeks picking of logan
berries at the Willis place near Hayes
tville. There was harvested IL or more
tons of berries which were sold for
about $1,000.
The potato crop promises a good
yield which makes the farmer glad,
and modifies that line in Shakespeare
in this way: "Spuds have charms to
smooth the wild and woody west
A planting of bush beans here mas
developed crop of real climbers. |
am told this is something unusual. 1t
is freak of nature or is it due to
what!
That leader in late Capital Journ-
al on "Fads and Faddists' is certain
ly good. Still some of the faddists and
| their fads have been the benefactors
and have been a benfit to mankind,
for instance, Stephenson, Morse and
Field. The locomotive, the telegraph
and the ocean cable were the fads of
these faddists. And later the aero
plane and the under sea boats. Fifty
years ago the inventors would have
been looked on as cranks and vision
aries. May not the perpetual motion
fad turnout some day to be a practical
invention! Who can tell!
1t bat an animal asks some writer
in late c. j. 1t is certainly not a
vegetable nor a rose bush, but liN-
ing, self moving creature with the pow
er of voition, and is therefore not n
grindstone nor wheel barrow-and you
put me down as saying it must be an
animal though not mule.
Our German cousins think it an aw-
ful thing that the French aviators
should drop explosive bombs on their
grain fields, yet these same cousins
drop explosive bombs on the heads of
our little English cousins-the boys
and girls in England! Still field OF
wheat and an infants broken head are
different