Joel B. Chamberlain, whose death occurred Friday, February 1, 1918, on board the battleship South Dakota at Halifax, N. S., was the 19 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Chamberlain of this city. He was born near Lebanon January 24, 1899 and spent most of his life here, receiving his education in the Lebanon schools. He was taken ill with tonsillitis which soon developed into blood poisoning, from the effects of which he died.

His brother, William Chamberlain, and his brother-in-law Clarence Caldwell, were with him in the navy and another brother Everett, is serving in the army and is now at Camp Greene, North Carolina. He is survived by his parents, five brothers: George, Lewis and Clifford of Lebanon; Everett of Camp Greene, North Carolina; and William, of the United States Navy; and three sisters: Mrs. Lowena Haek of Aberdeen, Washington; Mrs. Edna Coffelt and Mrs. Luella Caldwell of Lebanon.

Word came to S. O. Wallace Monday that his son, John Wallace, had died at nine o'clock that morning at Paisley, as the result of an accident Saturday. He was at work removing high tension electric wires from the roof of an old school house and in some way short circuited the wires receiving the full charge of 6000 volts thought his body, causing frightful burns from which he died Monday morning. His brother, Robt. Wallace left Monday evening for Paisley and if possible will bring the body home for burial. John Wallace was the son of S. O. Wallace and was born in Lebanon April 6, 1887, and spent the greater part of his life here. He went to Oregon City about seven years ago and from there to Paisley two years ago.

Kinman Elliott - A pioneer of Oregon and Linn County, who passed from this life Tuesday, February 5, 1918, at the home of his daughter Mrs. E. E. Taylor, was born in Ray County, Missouri, April 3, 1831, and lived to be 87 years, 10 months and 26 days of age. He was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Pickrell in St. Joseph, Missouri, on February 17, 1850 and in 1867 the couple made the journey by ox team to Oregon, where they settled on a farm near here and lived until death called Mrs. Elliot on March 5, 1914. They became the parents of 12 children, seven of whom survive, are: F. W. Elliott and Mrs. Eva Dempsey of Harrisburg; J. M. Elliott and Mrs. S. E. Grimes, of Prineville; J. A. Elliott of Redman and Mrs. E. E. Taylor, of Lebanon. Masonic cemetery.

Local News:

Mrs. Ralph Thom has been in the city the greater part of the week visiting with her mother.

Percy Young of Albany was in Lebanon yesterday in the interest of the thrift stamp sale.

George Wuestfeld, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Wuestfeld, of this city, passed away early yesterday morning after a lingering illness of tuberculosis. He was well and favorably known as he was engaged in the bakery business here with his father for a number of years. He is survived by his parents, two brothers: Carl and Walter, Lebanon; and Mrs. Henry Wuestfeld of Corvallis. Services at the Catholic church.

Linn County men passing the physical examination for the draft: Lloyd E. Gilson, Lebanon; William C. Mills, Crabtree; Archie L. Miller, Crabtree; Lester Morehead, Sweet Home; Frank Davis, Sweet Home; Walter W. Kimmell, Lebanon; Hugh R. Kirkpatrick, Lebanon; John F. Collins, Waterloo; James E. Elder, Lebanon; Lloyd Menear, Foster; Glenn B. Moss, Lebanon; Charley Powell, Berlin. Louis Gray was listed as qualified for limited services only.

Carl Wuestfeld arrived home on the afternoon train yesterday from Tillamook. Called back by the death of his brother George.

Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas and family, of Berlin, moved into their new house last Monday and are again located comfortably, since having their home destroyed by fire a few weeks ago.

Bert Millsap went to Portland Monday on a business trip of several days.

A new baby boy arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Ayers of Lacomb Thursday, January 31.

Dr. Booth has so far recovered from his recent sickness that he is able in a way to attend to his daily practice.

Mrs. John McCormick and children are spending the week in Portland with Mr. McCormick who is working in the shipyards there.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson returned Monday evening from Salem where they were over Sunday visitors with relatives.

J. A. Ormandy of the Southern Pacific passenger department at Portland was in Lebanon Tuesday on business for the company.

Miss Margaret Kimmell of this city and Mrs. Caroline Ayres of Lacomb are at Newport for a few days visit with Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimmell, who are spending the winter there.

A. P. Blackburn, who has been seriously ill at his home in the west part of the city for several weeks past, is not improving and hopes for his recovery are not as strong as they were.

Mr. and Mrs. Granville Porter who are employed on a large farm in Benton county, spent the first part of the week in Lebanon looking after business interests. Mrs. Porter was Miss Ethel Case.

Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Cruson have received word from their son Earl, who is running the Cruson farm near Ogallah, Kansas, that he has passed the first examination in the draft and is liable to be called for service at any time.

Mrs. J. W. Pierpoint is lying at her home seriously ill from the effects of a stroke of paralysis which has left her in a critical condition. Her entire left side is paralyzed, but without unknown complications arise there is hope that she will recover at least a partial use of her limbs.

James E. Elder went to Portland Monday with the intention of enlisting in the Navy. He is among the draft registrants and takes this method of getting in a position more to his choice than he would be likely to get by waiting for the draft to call him into the service.

S. C. Stewart and daughter, Miss Nan Stewart, departed Monday for Boise, Idaho, where they will visit for a couple of weeks at the home of Mr. Stewart's oldest son. From there Miss Stewart will go to Lincoln, Nebraska and Kansas city, Missouri, for an extended visit with other relatives and friends. Mr. Stewart expects to return to Lebanon from Boise.

F. M. French, local weather observer, notes that in January we had 6.37 inches of rain.

Mrs. C. C. Wright returned from Portland Saturday where they have been living for the past two years, and went to the home of her parents at Sweet Home where she will make her home while her husband is in the east. Mr. Wright has been commissioned a Lieutenant in the army and assigned to the food inspection department with present headquarters at Chicago.

Chas.B. Reynolds was a business visitor in Portland over Sunday.

Mrs. Harnett returned Wednesday from a visit with friends at Portland and Hillsboro.

A baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Smith, of Lacomb, January 27.

W. M. Colvig, tax and right of way agent of the Southern Pacific Company, was in the city yesterday looking after company business.

Chas. Collins, who recently sold out his pool hall and confectionery here, has gone to Portland with the intention of enlisting in the navy.

Felix Kordina, who for a couple of years ran a tailor shop in Lebanon, has been placed under arrest by federal officials in Salem for seditious utterances.

News of the marriage of Ora Baker, son of Hiram Baker, of this city, and Mrs. Francis M. Travis, of Seattle, has just been received in Lebanon. The wedding occurred at Roseburg Thursday, January 31. The bride was the widow of J. W. Travis, a well known Seattle contractor who built most of the paved streets of Albany and who died in that city about a year ago.

Herbert L. Churchill, of Oakville, and Miss Lena Snider, of Sodaville, were united in marriage at the parsonage of the Christian church at Albany, Thursday afternoon of last week. The groom is the son of W. S. Churchill, one of the leading farmers of Oak Creek and the bride a well known young lady of Sodaville. They will make their home on a farm in the Oak Creek neighborhood.

Miss Susie Fry, sixth grade teacher who has been seriously ill of appendicitis, is reported to be recovering.

Mr. and Mrs. David Petrie are the happy parents of a baby girl that arrived at their home Thursday, January 31.

Senator Chamberlain has again named Max Millsap as one of the two appointments he has for the naval school at Annapolis, Maryland. Max is now attending preparatory school in Alabama and will take his examination there Tuesday, February 19. Herman H. Chapman, of Portland, has been named as alternative and the appointment will go to him in case the principal fails in making the final examinations for entrance at the naval academy. Lebanon people are a unit in wishing to see Max win out on the appointment and are proud of the effort he is making to prepare himself for the position.

S. C. Stewart, J. C. Mayer and D. Cormier have been appointed as the local committee at the head of the next Liberty Loan drive. It is expected that the call will be issued about march 15 and the drive will continue until April 15. The amount to be raised in Linn county is now estimated at $750,000, about twice as much as at the last drive. In the meantime the Thrift Stamp is on sale at the post office and banks and any one who has a little surplus money on hand that he wishes to invest at four per cent compound interest these can be purchased in sums of twenty-five cents up to $1000.

Mr. and Mrs. George Jones, of Berlin, spent Sunday in Lebanon on their return from a two weeks visit at Albany and other points.

Miss Emma Leonard, a well known school teacher of Brownsville, died in Portland Sunday night at the age of 23 years, after a lingering illness of tuberculosis. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Leonard, the latter passing away last spring. Burial took place in Brownsville. She had been engaged as primary teacher in the Brownsville school for several terms. She is survived by a father, two brothers: Charles, of Portland; Jack, of Roseburg; Mrs. Lyle Brown and Hazel Leonard of Portland, and Miss Mabel Leonard now a teacher in the Baker city schools.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knoll, of Lacomb, are rejoicing over the arrival of a baby boy at their home Monday, January 4.

J. E. Ramsey has sold a forty acre tract of land lying just south of the city, taking as part payment a house and lot in Fossil, in which city they may eventually make their home.

Walter Blackburn, from eastern Oregon, and Mrs. L. H. Fletcher, of Los Angeles, California, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Blackburn, were called to Lebanon the first of the week by the serious illness of their father.

Mrs. Wayne Stannard and two little sons, of Brownsville, were guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. G. Gill Monday and Tuesday.

John E. McGee returned to Lebanon Sunday after an absence of several months which were largely spent in traveling. He is making preparations to enlist in some branch of the army soon.

W. G. Morgan has purchased a small tract of land near Lacomb and will soon give up work at the paper mill where he has been employed for several years, and make his home on the newly purchased farm. The land consists of about seventeen acres and was formerly owned by Mrs. Sarah Waddle.

H. Seelye, of Berlin, was in the city yesterday morning with a two seated hack that perhaps is the oldest vehicle of the kind that is in Oregon today. It was built by Barney Burtenshaw for James Crabtree in the year 1868, and it has been in constant use ever since. At that time Mr. Burtenshaw lived near the Providence church, following the trade of a wagon maker and blacksmith and built the hack from Oregon timber cut near the place where it was made. It has passed through many hands since but like the man who built it is still capable of service. Mr. Burtenshaw is now 93 years of age and the old wagon has seen fully fifty years of service.

Miss Mabel Childs, of Roseburg, was the guest of her brother, Albert Childs, and family a few days this week.

J. J. Miller, proprietor of a large dairy near Sumner, Washington, was in Lebanon a part of last week visiting with his aged father who is seriously ill at the Lebanon hospital, going home Monday with the purpose of returning to Lebanon as soon as he could get his business in shape to leave and assist in the caring for his father. In the press dispatches Tuesday evening was the account that an auto truck driven by him had been struck by a Northern Pacific train at a crossing on his farm and he and a man riding with him were instantly killed. Mr. Miller was well known in Lebanon, having made his home here with his parents many years while a boy and young man. His death at this time is an especially heavy blow to the father who is himself so near to death's door.

Mrs. Alice Stucker and Miss Flora Gatchell will leave Sunday for Portland where they will spend ten days attending the spring opening at the wholesale millinery houses.

Mrs. L. R. Henderson will leave tomorrow for the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Thom, at Trail British Columbia, for an extended visit with them.

The Kuhn Theatre has on a play this afternoon and tonight that easily leads anything in the picture line that has ever been shown in Lebanon. "The Italian Battle Front Pictures." These pictures have actually been taken during the progress of battles on that front and show many of the real conditions of what is being done in Italy to defend the country against the invading Teuton armies. It is a play well worth seeing.

Edward Emmerson, an uncle of Mrs. Leona Morrell of this city, arrived here from Bend and is suffering with a severe attack of lagrippe and stomach trouble. He is 71 years of age and has been employed by a lumbering company of Bend.

Mrs. Fannie Curl received recently a very interesting letter from her son Byron, now with the American expeditionary forces in France, in which he reports a fine voyage across the Atlantic which he says he would not have missed for anything.

Typhoid fever patients in Lebanon have all passed the danger point and are well on the way to recovery. There were seventeen of them in all and several of the cases were very severe, and there is much credit due to doctors and nurses that they have all come through the epidemic with no deaths on the record.

Mrs. Charles Ingram has just received word that her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Clem of Woodburn, will arrive in Lebanon today to make their permanent home. The aged couple own some property here in the southeast part of town.

Ira Phelps left Sunday for Marshfield where he has taken the position of engineer in an ice plant. He sold his residence property to J. C. Mayer and goes to Coos Bay country to make his permanent residence. Mrs. Phelps will follow in a few days.

Mrs. C. C. Cotter of Springfield, came to Lebanon Monday for a short visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Burtenshaw.

Peanut Soup - 3 to 5 lbs. peanut butter, 3/4 c. stock, 1-3 ground onions, salt, pepper, 2 and 1/3 c. white sauce. Thin with one-half milk and one-half water to make one gallon.

Duchesse Soup - 4 qt. stock, 8 slices carrot, 8 slices onion, 8 blades mace, 4 c. grated cheese, 2 tsp. salt, pepper. Add white sauce made from 1 c. butter substitute and 1 c. flour, 2 qts. milk. Makes 1 and 1/2 gallons.

Rice and Cheese - 1 pt. rice (measured before cooking), 1 c. cheese, 2 tbsp. butter substitute, 1 and 1/2 c. milk, 1-3 c. flour, salt, pepper. Make a white sauce of the milk, butter substitute, and flour. Add cheese. Add this to the rice and bake.

Spanish Beans - 2 c. Mexican beans, 2 slices salt pork, 1 lb. hamburger, 1 heaping ts. chili powder, 1 large onion, 1 large can tomatoes. Cook beans. Cut pork, boil and fry golden brown. Add to beans. Fry onion and add. Fry hamburger, add with water to beans, but do not stir. Twenty minutes before serving, heat and add chili, dissolved in a little cold water. Stir all into beans.

Hominy and Cheese - 1 qt. hominy (measured before cooking), 1 and 1/4 lb. cheese, 1 and 1/3 qt. milk, 4 tb. butter substitute, 2-3 c. flour,salt, pepper. Cook hominy. Make a white sauce of the butter substitute, flour, and milk. To this add the cheese. Then add all to the hominy, and bake. Serves 15.

F. G. Mattke was a business caller in Lebanon Thursday.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. G. Wodtli, Friday morning, a boy.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Cowitz, Friday morning, a boy.

Mrs. Ole Feigum, who underwent an operation a couple of weeks ago, is rapidly recovering.

Mrs. J. Housley has been under the doctor's care the past week and is getting along real well.

S. J. Cowitz, who is running a garage in Lebanon, came home Friday and returned to Lebanon Saturday.

H. R. Slavens, J. A. Brown, and R. W. Van Fleet, members of the I.O.O.F. attended lodge in Brownsville Saturday.

The newly granted county road above Rocky Point is now being opened up. John Wodtli and S. V. Barr have been blasting out stumps the past week.

J. H. Goings, a former business man of Sweet Home, was buried in the Nye cemetery last week. Mr. Goings lived near Albany on a ranch, where he died.

Jasper Russell and Miss L. Yost, both young people of Foster, slipped to Albany last week and surprised their friends by getting married. Congratulations.

It was certainly sad news to the people of Sweet Home to hear of the death of Dr. Ivan Bellinger. Those attending the funeral of Dr. Bellinger, at Salem, from here, were H. R. Slavens and family and R. W. Van Fleet.

The Criterion was started by W.H. Brown in 1898. In 1911 it was sold to William Tell Fogel and in 1912 the name was changed to the Linn County Advocate. In November Brown foreclosed and it became the Criterion again. The Lebanon Tribune was established with T.L. Dugger as manager in 1912. In 1924 the Express and Criterion were sold to one owner. Source: "City of Lebanon, Historic Context Statement," by Mary Kathryn Gallagher, Linn County Planning Department, pg. 110.

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