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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1919. 3. --XrW MM Avoid the crush of 'the.de- y partment stores and do your Christinas shopping in the specialty stores. Bath Robes for Men $7.50 to $40 A wide range of fabrics, patterns and colors is shown at this store. A fine Bath Robe makes a highly acceptable gift for a man. Choose here from many hand some patterns. . Bath Robe Special! REGULAR $6 BATH ROBES $4.85 Gifts for Men House Coats $8.50 to $16 Mufflers and Scarfs $2.50 to $10 Pajamas $2.50 to $13.50 Shirts, Neckwear, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Hosiery M torrisaritret al rburtrf CHEESEMAKEHS IN MEET TALKS RELATIXQ TO IXDCS TRY ARE HEARD AT SESSION. Election of Officers and More Ad dresses Will Be Features of Conference Today. "For bull-dog tenacity he cream eryman has no equal." said T. S. Townsend yesterday in an address before the Butter 'and Cheesemakers' association at the opening session of the tenth annual convention of that organization in the assembly room of the Portland hotel. The convention will continue throughout today and close with a banquet tonight. Mayor Baker gave the address of welcome and J. D. Mickle. state dairy and food commissioner, presided. R. E. Cavett gave the president's annual address. Mr. Townsend spoke particularly of pioneering in the dairy and creamery business in Oregon. His experiences in Tillamook formed an entertaining part of his talk. Professor E. B. Fitts of Oregon Ag ricultural college gave a helpful talk on "Raw Materials." H. W. Thomas of Tillamook gave a practical talk on "Starters and Starter Control," which, be it known for the edification of the laymen, has to do with the beginning of cheese making. The election of officers probably will take place Just before luncheon today. REGENT STORM INSIGNIFICANT WHEN. COMPARED TO 1861-62 Rain, Flood, Snow and Devastation During Period of Seven Months Recalled by Data Gathered by Henry E. Reed From Old Records. (Ruminations on ttic present period of At Oregon City the river rose to a cold weather as compared with similar "bad spells" undergone .here in the past caused Mr. Reed to turn to records of the notoriously bad winter of 1801-62. The data proved so interesting that lie furnishes the following account of that unusual period as being of timely Interest to Ore gonlan readers.) WHILE the has brougfc vation, it FRENCH LOOT U.S. STORES ARM! SUPPLIES STOLEN SAIXT NAZAIRE. AT Authorities Order Prosecution of Thieves Who Rob American Depots of Valuable Goods. SAINT NAZAIRE. France, Dec. 17. Thirteen Individuals have been charged with thefts of army stores. A regular clearing house had been in operation for the disposition of the goods, portions of which were re- Vn Saint Nazaire. The Saint Nazaire jail proved too small to accommodate those arrested and some were transferred to Rennes. ORLEANS, France, Dec. 17. Four teen arrests have been made in the former American military camp at Tours and 16 at the Verneuil camp in connection with an organized sys tem of pillage of American stores. More than 60 persons have been ar- rested at Orleans as receivers of stolen goods. One woman alone had $4000 worth of cigarettes, cigars, shoes and raincoats. The minister of justice in Paris has instructed prosecutors to pro ceed against the thieves and "fences" with the utmost severity. BY HENRY K. REED. HILE the recent cold snap ght its train of prl- is nothing com pared to the visitation of rain, floods and freezing weather that befell Port land almost continuously for seven months from November 1, 1861, to July 1. 1862. The severe conditions of that time were not, however, confined to Portlana, but were general ail along the coast from Washington to northern California. 1 In November a cold rain fell almost without intermission ' and a vast amount of snow must have accumu lated in the mountains. No snow fell point 55 feet above zero and the water was . four feet deep on Main street. Historic Champoeg, where the provisional government was organ ized in 1843, was completely wiped out. At midnight on December 3 the water was six feet Seep in the high est parts of town, and the people were taken in boats from the second-story windows and conveyed to the hills for safety. When morning broke, not a house was to be seen and the rive was still rising. The flood forever ended Champoeg's aspirations to be a commercial center. At Salem on the morning of December 3 the tor rent swirled through the streets In a channel three to four feet deep and a quarter of a .mile wide. From ev ery point in the Willamette valley came reports of loss Of "property and narrow escapes from death. Very fine weather was noted in Portland on December 15. With the flood receding, the Oregonian said it STDRM HELD EDUCATIDNfiL DAIRY COCXCIL SPEAKER SAYS MILK NOW APPRECIATED. Committee Misses Hearing. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 17. A committee representing the Port of Umpqua, headed by W. P. Reed of Reedsport, Or., arrived here today a few hours too late to appear at a meeting arranged for them before the house committee on rivers and har bors. Another .meeting will be ar ranged. The committee was snow bound for some time at Rawlins, Wyo. Credit Men Entertained. Frank Branch Riley entertained members of the Portland Credit Men's association and their wives at a so cial meeting at the Chamber of Com merce last night. There were about 125 present at the gathering and number of short talks were made by officers and members of the organi zatlon, after which a programme of social features was enjoyed. Montana Chief Clerk Promoted. H. W. McDermid, chief clerk in the office of the division of the American Railway Express company at Great Falls, Mont., has been appointed chief clerk in the office of the general agent at Portland. Mr." McDermid was formerly here as chief clerk to the commercial agent of the Great Northern Express company before the consolidation of the business. in the Willamette valley and up to doubted if "any clemate can beat this." December 1, the Willamette river did i But Portlandera - were soon dlsillu not give any indication of a rise. To- sioned, for a cold spell was on the phere became humid and there was more rain. No one seems to have measured the downpour at Portland, but the following data of precipitation at Fort Umpqua, Douglas county,, with comparison for previous seasons, will give an idea of what was occurring all along the coast. The figures cover the period from October 1 to March 31. for the years noted: ' Tear Inches of rain. 1SS7-18R8 ".OB 1858- 1859 S3 I. 1859- 1860 - 3jf; 180-18fil S?IS 1881-1962 71.90 When the flood waters were at their highest, old-timers ran their fingers through their hair and tried to remember when Oregon had been sim ilarly deluged. Pioneer trappers re called that there had been a great overflow in the winter of 1827 and hat tVi Willamette was then higher than it had ever been since John Jacob Astor founded Astoria in isii. xaa flow of water into the Pacific ocean must have been tremendous. Drift Carried Down by Flood. Captain Huntington of the steamer Cortes was authority for' the state ment that the fresh water discharged into the ocean by the coast streams was visible all the way from the Co lumbia river to San Francisco. The sea for 20 miles from shore, he said, was covered with drift that had been carried down with the flood. While the property loss was great, no ap proximate calculation of its amount seems to have been made. The Ore rnin of December 6, 1861, dismisses the subject with the bare statement that a large part of the active capital of Oregon had perished in the flood. Pnriinnil awoke on the morning of December 1. 1861. to find the river booming, with a current running live miles an nour aim ueo.. titles of drift. Heavy winu force to the river torrent and helped to sweep away JBUOU worm oi ioBa from a sawmill in the northern part of the city. Part of a frame house floated by the city, tne nrsi oi a ius procession of property from up-val-ley towns and settlements. On De cember 3 the river rose at the rate of three inches an nour ana mer chants along Front street moved their stockB to higher and safer places. ' The ferry was unable ,to cross tc Vie ut side because of swift cur rent and endless " drift: -the - roads southward were impassable; "no stage had arrived for two days and the town was isolated. On the east side rescuers cut through the roof of a mvcil a family from drown ing. On December 5 the river came r n Rtandstill. and on xaKing sioca Portland found that its supply' of flour was limited, with some dealers unwilling to sell . unless' at . higher nrices than had recently prevailed. Thieves looted the Oregon City flour mill, which the flood had land ed on the farm of John Mock on the east side of Swan island, broke up the machinery for junk and helped themselves to flour. By the 8th the water had fallen some, but the cur rent was still strong, so swift that the steamer Express made the 14 mile run from. Oregon City to Port land in 35 minutes. There was an other sudden rise in the river on December 11, after which the flood receded, and by the 15th the town' was again normal with the exception of the cleaning-up process. Up-valley towns suffered severely. way to add to the rierors of a remark able winter and to serve as a break between the flood that had passed and the one thatwas coming. Snow fell December 20 and did not disap pear for nearly three months. As late as the second week of March, 1862. snow was still one foot deep In places in Washington county not reached by the sun. The Columbia river was closed by ice January 2, 1862. The ice gorge extended a consider able distance down the Columbia and three vessels were frozen in at Ca,th lamet. A Vancouver newspaper ran out of paper stock, and a messenger left Portland on foot January 14 with a supply. He found the snow two feet deep and the temperature low enough to freeze Oregon" whisky, which in those days carried a power ful kick. A man named Pennel reached Portland from the Cascades on January 28. He traveled on the ice in the Columbia from the Cascades to the mouth of the Sandy river, thence across country to Portland, being 16 hours on the way. Travelers coming to Portland on February 18 reported the ice in the Columbia sound and solid from The Dalles to Vancouver. It was March before the ice In the Columbia broke up. There was intense cold in Portland at times while the weather was act ing up. The lowest temneraturA r-f ycorded by local thermometers was lh uetsrees aoove ai r. M., januaryl 16. 1862. On January 15. the Willam- ette was free of ice, but within 484 tours was frozen from shore to shore and many peoplo crossed. Several fa talities marked the cold spell. On January 2 boys skating on Couch fake, where the union depot now stands, came upon the body of a man frozen in the Ice. Minstrel Frozen to Death. Early in the morning of January 13, Mike Mitchell, a minstrel who had delighted many a Portland audience. was frozen to death. Two men were drowned in Willamette slough during a high wind. By the middle of March the long and vexatious winter -was over, but with the great fall of snow In the mountains it was only reasonable to expect another flood. With the warmth of spring the snows melted and the Columbia and Snake rivers began rising. At Portland the Wil lamette rose seven inches in the 24 hours ending with the evening of May 16. Tne river rose steadily for month and did not begin to recede until June 19. By July 1 the flood was gone and business had generally resumed. Directors Discuss Campaign to Be Conducted in Oregon;, Health Bureau Prepares Exhibit. "The recent snowstorm that caused many of the dairies to suspend dis tribution of milk for several days in reality did some service, for It made the public appreciate milk and all dairy products more than ever be fore," 'said Professor P. M. Brandt yesterday at the meeting of the board of directors of the Oregon Dairy council, held in the headquarters in the Broadway building. Professor Brandt presided. A milk campaign to be put on in Portland and. throughout the state by the rela tions service and dairy division, bu reau of animal industry, United States department of agriculture, with the co-operation "of the Oregon Agricultural college and the Oregon Dairy council, was discussed. When the government does its ed ucational work here, J. D. Mickle sug gested that the council put a man in the field with a view to advertising the fobd value of milk. Dr. D. W. Mack of the city health department has prepared an exhibit showing the actual content of a gal lon of milk. The ingredients are placed in bottles, and will be on ex hibition at the library within a fow days, and after that probably will be loaned to the Jefferson .high school. F. L. Shull discussed the feed situ ation and the outlook for mill feed, concentrates and various feeds used by dairymen. Others who spoke briefly at the meeting were W. K. Newell. Carl Schallinger. H. L. Sabin and the sec retary in charge of the milk survey that is attracting state-wide Interest. PATROL NEEDS $60,000 Mr. llanloy Asks for Maintenance Fund for Plane Service. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU Washington. Dec 17. An appropri ation of 60,000 for airplane patrol service for the national forests of Oregon, Washing-ton. Idaho and Mon tana was urged by Representative Hawley before the house agricultural committee today. Mr. Hawley told the committee that the war department is willing to sup ply the airplanes if congress will ap propriate the money for their opera tion during the season of greatest oanger. such an appropri ation has the approval of the depart ment ui uncuiiurfl. TRAIN CONDUCTOR IS HURT E. E. Bently, Riding on Engine on Tillamook Line, Falls. E. E. Bentley. conductor nn th. Southern Pacific railroad hetwor. ' Stiff Neck? Nothing likS B AU M E ANALGriSIQUE BENGUE Applied in a mo ment results as quick! Get a tube Buy your gifts at stores displaying this sign Give Something Every Member of the Family Can Enjoy-FURNITURE Ifs so easy to give the best Powers Easy Pay Plan Removes the Consideration of Price "ADJUSTO" Chairs at Important Reductions From Now Until Christmas $33J0 Ad just o Chairs are now $27 5 $39J)0 Adjusto Chairs are now $33.90 $46 0 Adjusto Chairs are now $4125 VLrY-" ' '7l"r' '' ''' '"' Tapestry Davenports Overstuffed There's no piece of furniture that enriches a house more than an Over stuffed Davenport. It brings a wealthof comfort and beauty. The Powers stock of Overstuffed Dav enports s an extremely large one varying sizes numerous styles the finer ones upholstered in back so they may occupy a central position. Put one in your home this Chriet mas you'll be glad you did for a loner, long time. Price range. SS9.50, 8135. $155. S162.50 and up. Useful Sewing Table $19.75 Three drawers, tray to p a place for those things a women needs when sewing. Handsome ma hogany finish. Portland's Greatest Christmas Store "Adjusto' able to any chairs are easily and comfortably ad just position. You can sit upright, lean back or lounge as you wish, with greatest ease. Mahogany, golden oak or fumed oak finish ; real leather, imitation leather and tapestry upholstered. Three handsome patterns. - Make your selection now your chair will be delivered when you wish. If It's a BrunswickXmas --It Will Be a Happy One nivprapfii: wi i i. : .fvi'tl' ill; PT1 $105 .No. 7 Brunswick Fumed or gol den oak or ma hogany; 7 10 inch records 14 selections. . The Brunswick plays all disc records perfectly there, are no limitations to your selections. Placed in Your Home for $10 and $2 "Weekly 95c Specials Reed Doll Baby Buggy Special $7.95 Handsomely finished, size large enough almoet for a small infant. .Made with reclining dash, nicely lined. rubber tired. Any , little girl would go inter transports over this buggy that is really well made enough for years of service. WAGONS 95c $2.50 A limited numbe built, hardwood, finished. Come well nicely early ! ROCKING HORSE 95c Smoker Stands in Many Styles Oak and mahogany finish. Dozens of styles all arranged to put extra zTLrs iy in smoking. "He" will appre ciate such evi dence of your though tf ulness, and the stand will make a dignified addition to your home furnishings. $3.75, $ J.25, $6.75, $7.50, $9.00, $12, $15.50 and up.' The Main and Mezzanine Floors Are Christmas Wonderlands MI rrn h- rMi ! i 9 li A-A li h. Hard wood, ers; nicely Don't wait! good rock pa I n t e d. WOOD TRUCKS 95c "Kiddo" wood truckss "betcherlife" they like 'em. Not many to go at 95 c. FOLDING TABLE 95c 15x24-lnch s I z e. Just right for dollies' tea, etc. Fold flat when not in use. Hardwood Jo-Carts Worth $1.10, go at 70fi Worth $1.35, go at S90 Worth $1.40, go at 98 Well and strongly made, attractively finished. Sizes to accommodate dollies of various sizes. Walking Dolly S7.98 (She s really worth $10; but this is X m a s.) Little moth ers will never love another dollle as thev will the doll that can walk. Full jointed, sleeping e y e e. curly hair and ao neatly dressed. Beautiful Bisque Dollies in a Big Special OLEEPING eyes, hair that can be combed. Well worth greater prices than these special holiday figures. Note the reductions: 10-inch size worth $2.25 goes at $ 1.79 12-inch size worth $2.75 goes at $1.98 $3.50 size goes special at 82.98 $4.75 size goes special at $i$.89 $6.50 size goes special at. . . S5.09 A Sporty Auto for h $16.85 It's white, with classy red striping the boy will get really more pleasure out of this car than he do's out of the family car. Rubber tired, large radi ator, hood and seat; knuckle joint steering gear, wooden steering wheel, gas and park control. Other. $10.50 to S57 , Rubber-Tired Hand Cars $8.95 IXSTEAD OK 811. SO Steel framed, rubber tired with lart wood seat. Well built and easy run ning an excellent traveler and a great muscle developer and builder of stout little bodies. $13.90 Instead of $210 for Graceful Gate-leg Folding Table, Special! PO WERS FOR R UGS All sizes, all colors, all kinds. Always low-priced quality considered. Portland and Tillamook. Or., fell while riding on an engine yesterday and suffered a fractured leg and injuries to his back. He was brought to Port land and taken to Good Samaritan hospital. A. R. Thompson 1070 East Thirty second street north, was injured early laflt night when his fingers caught in some machinery at the factory of the Davis & Thompson Furniture) company. Two of his fingers later were amputated at Oood Samaritan hospital. Month's- Salary Christmas Gift. LeRoy D. Walker, president of the Portland State bank, was popular in the role of Santa Claus last night at a social gathering of the employes of the bank in the main dining room of the chamber of commerce. A Christmas tree was placed at the head table from which were drawn nu merous souvenirs. Each employe re ceived an envelop which contained a 1 check for one month's salary pre-' sented with the compliments of the directors of the institution. Dancing followed the dinner and distribution, of gifts. . Jackrabbit Poison Effective. BENT), Or., Dec. 17. (Special.) MAE MARSH K TODAY ENID BENNETT AND THEODORE ROBERTS IN "W HAT EVERY WOMAN LEARNS" One chap pretty fair the other pretty rotten and a woman who loved, not wisely perhaps, but well. COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA Afternoons and Evenings V. C. Knowles, Director Coming Sat. Big Bill Hart in his latest picture. IN FIELDS OF HONOR from the story by Irvin Cobb A picture with a singular appeal. A Briggs Boy Story AFTER THE CIRCUS TODAY AND FRIDAY ONLY Mixing: poison to kill jackrabbits in the Tumalo district is progressing and 25 sacks of strychnine-impregnated alfalfa leaves already have been distributed. The first results noted were when, several hundred bunnies were found dead after eating the poisoned leaves. Coming Saturday "The Winchester Woman" LJ True economy is getting the most for your money, and that sometimes means paying a little more for things, When you buy tea, true economy is getting the most cups for every cent you spend, and the most tea enjoyment out of every cup. That's what you get from Schilling Tea. There are four flavors of Schilling Tea Japan, Ceylon India, Oolong, English Breakfast. All one quality. In parchmyn-llned moisture-proof packages. At grocers everywhere. A Schilling & Co San Francisco il II Stay-put Edges (auaranteed Ha treat aadsfaetton to buy cutlery .uituicsiiwiiiiccusiiTpinafiur. onttta to stay sharp. The enormous gje of Keen. 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