In the death of C. W. Fulton, Oregon has lost one of its greatest men and Lebanon and vicinity feel it a distinct and peculiar loss. More than 40 years ago, in fact 43 years ago this coming May, he was a country school teacher a few miles from Lebanon, when this city was only a county postoffice, with one store and a blacksmith shop, on a stage line running from Albany to Sweet Home. The stage arrived every other day if the roads were in condition for it to get through. Lebanon has never forgotten the tall affable and what the pioneers called brilliant young Nebraskan.

The writer, when a boy lived in Clatsop County, when the courier of Mr. Fulton was making in the '80s, and knew him well, and I never knew a man whom I held in higher esteem. He may have made some political blunders, but they were of judgment and not of the heart. No man in Oregon was more patriotic or loved his state and country better and no man would do more for the country or an individual than he. He was faithful and sacrificing to his friends and forgiving to those who did not agree with him.

I've felt that when he was retired from the United States Senate that Oregon and the country had suffered an irreparable loss, and in his death the state has lost one of its ablest and foremost citizens.

By N. M. Newport
 

Charles W. Fulton died at his home here Sunday, aged 64. Born in Lima, Ohio August 24, 1853, Mr. Fulton received his early education in Ohio and Nebraska and at the age of 22 landed in Portland unknown and with little money. He settled in Astoria where he resided 25 years before coming to Portland.

Dr. C. C. Wright, formerly a veterinary surgeon of this city but for the last two years on the city meat inspecting force of the city of Portland, had been ordered to report at Chicago for army purposes. Mr. Wright was commissioned a lieutenant several months ago. He will be assigned to the meat and milk inspection of the army posts near that city.

There was little if any surprise Saturday when the announcement of Joseph R. Frum was made public that he would be a candidate for the republican nomination for sheriff before the primaries in May.

Dateline Washington, D. C.: President Wilson gives out food rationing regulations for the nation. U. S. goes on wheat rationing in order to export wheat to our allies.

State News: Twin brothers, who look so much alike that the members of the board could not tell them apart, appeared before the Albany exemption board of Linn County in the physical examination of draft registrants Wednesday. The twins are Wilfred Cochran and Willard Cochran of Holley.
 

Draft Examinations Made - Linn County men examined and found fit for service include William H. Kowitz, Crabtree; Edward A. Kackley, Lebanon; Frank Bishop, Lebanon; Ralph Raines, Lacomb; Oren J. Newland, Lebanon; Edward Bodwell, Lebanon; Carl A. Wuestfeld, Lebanon; Carroll Whinnery, Waterloo; O. Windham, Foster; Donold Richards, Lebanon; Lee Gentry, Lebanon; John F. M. Celland, Lebanon; Curtif Ames, Lebanon; Arthur Oleson, Cascadia; Jasper J. Russell, Foster; Ralph Reeves, Lebanon; Frank Caldek, Lebanon; Riley Rucker, Lacomb.

Only Two Lebanon Boys Listed Delinquent: Of the twenty-eight men of the draft list of Linn County who are reported delinquent by the draft board, but two are from Lebanon or vicinity. The two reported delinquent are Albert Wold and Elmer Sanford. The greatest number of delinquents are reported from Albany and Mill City.

Robert Hughes, who has been in poor health for several months, was taken to the county hospital Wednesday for treatment.

Word coming from those sick with the typhoid fever yesterday was most encouraging for all. Ruth Kackley is perhaps in the most critical condition, but a change for the better in her condition last evening gives hope for recovery. All others have safely past the critical point and are now showing convalescing.
 

Word was received here last Thursday of the death of P. S. Bach of Salem, a brother of S. P. Bach of this city and father of Lawrence Bach now at Newport News, Va in the national service.

H. O. Canfield, of Portland, came up from Portland, his home, Monday, and went out to Lacomb for an extended visit with his sister, Mrs. G. W. Soule. Mr. Canfield is well-known here as he was a resident of Lebanon for seven years and was engaged in real estate and transfer business while here. He is now seventy years of age and is a veteran of the civil war, having served during the last year, in Company E. First Minnesota Heavy Artillery. Mrs. Canfield is now in Terre Haute, Indiana, on a visit to her daughter, who was Miss Blanche Canfield, a well known Linn County school teacher.

Mrs. Hattie Harrison visited Portland relatives for the week end.

Albert Crandall was a business visitor in Portland from Friday until Monday.

Dr. Mary Rowland, of Salem, was a guest of Lebanon friends and relatives Sunday.

A license to wed was issued by the county clerk at Albany Monday to Jasper I. Russell and Miss Hazel Yost, of Foster.

Mrs. Henry Wuestfeld was over from her home at Corvallis the first of the week visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Wuestfeld.
 

Harry Witman was in the city a few days the first of the week visiting with his parents. He is now employed in one of the large butcher shops of Portland as a meat cutter.

John Wetzel is spending the week in Lebanon with his mother coming from his home at Joseph in eastern Oregon Monday. He is here looking after business affairs.

F. A. Doolittle and family returned to Lebanon Saturday from Portland, where they have been for several weeks past. Mr. Doolittle was employed in a wholesale business establishment in that city but has given up the work for the time being.

Dr. L. W. Horn, a veterinary surgeon, has decided to locate in Lebanon and will have his office at the Sears-Kerr Drug store. Dr. Horn is a graduate of the Chicago Veterinary College and comes to Lebanon well recommended in the practice of his chosen profession.

The friends here of Clifford Miller, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miller of Salem, will be glad to know that he successfully passed the radio examination and is now a student at Harvard University preparing for service as a wireless telegraph operator in the United States Navy.

Miss Mignon Swanson, whose home is near Waterloo, and who left a school she was teaching near Halsey mysteriously about two weeks ago, has been located in Portland, where she is at work as a waitress in a hotel. She says that she left the school because of scandalous stories told about her.

At the Kuhn Theatre:

Charlie Chaplin in "The Pawnshop"
 

The basket ball game at the High school gymnasium last Friday evening between Lebanon and Scio resulted in a score of 35 to 15 in favor of Scio. On account of lack of room in the old gymnasium the school has rented a part of the old Ford garage which is being put in good condition and will be used for all such games.

Cleve Robinson has rented his barber shop to George Peterson who took possession Monday morning and will hereafter be in full charge of the shop. He has secured the services of C. O. Norton, formerly of Corvallis, to assist him in the shop. Mr. Robinson went to Independence Tuesday for a short visit with his mother and expects to return to Lebanon today and will leave tonight for San Diego, California, where he will remain for several months at least.

Mrs. Charles Sterling and George Evans, of Brownsville, brother and sister of Mrs. Dora Warner, were visiting at the Warner home Tuesday.

Louis Gerber, a young man of Silverton, who is a frequent visitor of friends here, a few days ago volunteered his services in the United States Navy and is now at Puget Sound in training.

Miss Henrietta Bixton, who was in the service of the Mutual Telephone Company here for several months, and who moved to Oregon City last fall, is now attending business college in Portland.

Five hundred and fourteen Linn county draft registrants have been placed in Class I. Class II had 83; Clas III had 56, Class IV had 486; Class V had 171.
 

Dr. J. C. Booth was brought home from Portland Saturday feeling much better and is now slowly recovering from what might have been a serious sickness if it had not been taken in time. He has been down town a time or two during the week but is still in too weak a state to get around very much.

Mrs. Alvira Harris, who makes her home with Mrs. Henry Kneper in this city, celebrated her 89th birthday on January 28th. She came to Oregon in 1881 and settled on a farm where the Santiam store now stands, making her permanent home there, until the last few years she has been living with her two children. Her husband, David Harris, died in November 1896. Her children are Chester D. of Portland; Sam, of Santiam; Dayton L. of Foster; and Mrs. Henry Kneper of Lebanon. Two grand children who also live here are Mrs. George Randle and Mrs. Oscar Ingram.

J. M. Poe who recently underwent an operation for the amputation of one of his feet, has received an appointment as mail carrier on the Star route between Waterloo and Berlin. His work will begin the first of July. He will resume his duties as teacher in school district 125 in about two weeks. Mrs. S. O. Wallace has been substituting as instructor in the school for the past few weeks. Oliver Powell has been carried on this mail route for three years, but the bids were received and opened, Mr. Poe's was the lowest and he contracted for carrying the mail for the coming year.

See our Window Display at the Reeves-Clark Dept. Store
 

Harry Wellman, a student of the O. A. C., spent the week end with friends in this city.

C. H. Witman and daughter, Mrs. Wills, spent Sunday at Silverton visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Bert J. Smith.

Gradin Ingram, who has employment at a saw mill in Blodget, Benton County, was an over Sunday visitor at his home here.

Mrs. Dane Bilyeu, of Scio, and her two children are here for a week's visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James McCoy.

Mrs. R. E. Grobe who lives across the river near the railroad track took seriously ill last Friday but is reported to be improving at this time.

Mrs. Vena Kearn taught the first of the week in Mrs. Harrison's room at the North school while the latter was in Portland consulting an eye specialist.

Mrs. Fred Kercher and little daughter have gone to Los Angeles where they will spend the balance of the winter months with Mrs. Kercher's father who is now living in that city.

Mrs. Wills, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Witman, who has been visiting with her parents here for the past two months, will leave tonight for her home at Madiera, California. While here she underwent a serious operation which resulted in a great improvement to her health.

On Tuesday the Modern Woodman lodge paid over to Mrs. Harry Everett $3,000 the amount of the insurance carried in that order by her husband. The draft came direct from the headquarters of the order at Rock Island, Illinois, and was mailed within thirty days after the proof of the death reached them.
 

Earl Ayers, a well-known young man of this community is now in Portland and is employed by the Northwestern Shipbuilding Company, which builds four large vessels at one time and employs about 4000 men. The employees are required to wear a polished steel badge with the following inscription engraved upon it: "War Service, Northwestern Shipbuilding Company."

Notice of Final Settlement in the estate of Joseph Harrison. Abraham Harrison, Administrator.

"Jonteel" Quality Toilet Preparations at the Blackburn and Underwood Store.

About 100 fathers of Yamhill county boys in the service of their country met at the court house in McMinnville Saturday and formed the "Fathers of Soldiers and Sailors of Yamhill County."
 

My name is Albert Raymond Kreitz, not Ray Crites as some have been lead to believe, and also I never was employed by the Hawley Paper Co. of Oregon City or in any way connected with it one minute of my life.

Albert R. Kreitz.

John Paul William Schwinger, a German enemy alien, was arrested Friday at Astoria, by Federal officers, and is being held in the county jail.
 

Master - A. H. Brown

Overseer - S. L. Goan

Lecturer - Ernest Haskin

Steward - G. D. Harris

Assistant Steward - Homer McTimmonds

Chaplain - Mrs. Dora Harris

Treasurer - J. T. Coyle

Secretary - Jerry Coyle

Gatekeeper - George Sturtevant

Ceres - Mrs. Lydia Haskin

Pomona - Mrs. Mary Sturtevant

Flora - Mrs. Elsie McTimmonds

Lady Assistant Steward - Mrs. Jean Brown.

The dwelling occupied by Dr. L. L. Hoy, of Tillamook, together with its contents, was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon. The contents were insured in the sum of $3000.
 

Dr. L. W. Horn, Veterinary Surgeon, Lebanon
Dr. Roland B. Miller, Dentist, Lebanon
W. G. Amos, Dentist, Lebanon
Dr. J. G. Turner, Eye Specialist, Portland
Dr. W. H. Barendrick, Physician and Surgeon, Lebanon
Dr. Charles A. Sears, Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon, Lebanon
N. C. Lowe, Undertaker and Embalmer, Lebanon
N. M. Newport, Attorney at Law, Lebanon
G. A. Epperly, Undertaker and Embalmer, B. M. Gulbrandson, Ass't, Lebanon
Frank Gleason, Auctioneer, Lebanon
Kreig & Higgins, Pratt's Poultry and Stock Remedies, Lebanon
Sears-Kerr Drug Company, Lebanon
Lebanon Supply Company, Lebanon
Kuhn Theatre, Lebanon
Lebanon National Bank, Lebanon
Blackburn and Underwood, The Rexall Store, Lebanon
N. M. Ungar Company, Raw Furs, Portland
H. Liebes & Company, Furs, Portland
Fred Dundee, Welding, Portland
Northwest Auto Company, F. W. Vogler, Pres., Portland