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About The Lane County news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1914-1916 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 18, 1915)
or ',.'4 4 CMtinwiRi Tkt SprlngJUId News aft tww CmmIt SUr Wkick Were CMliaatl February 1, 1914. ' Butorcit KtiflriaM00TtflprlllBllcti1, Orfljnn. oUt;mattr tinilrcto foiDjrcniioI Mrcii, lil), leconJ- SPRINGFIELD, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1915. VOL. XIV NO. 6. 'itemttk M;w0m&i ymm'ui 1 fl EI AfffF -frTI J NTT f PUBLICJTY CAMPAIGN FDR SPRINGFIELD WILL BE SUBJECT OF MASS MEETING J. Duryea of Eugene Will Speak on Means of At tracting Panama Visitors How best lo ndvortlso Spring Held during tho coming summer whan thousands of tourists will ho coming through tho Willam ette valley wns tho themo of tho adjourned meeting of tho Springfield Development Leagues Tuesday evening. That It Is a community job, and ono In which all the people should join -was tho concensus of opinion, and tho result of tho meeting wns tho extending of a formal invitation to tho Springfield Business Men's Club, and all r . . j ........ 1 .1 1 i T ...... .A meet with tho League In a spo clal meeting at the Lcaguo rooms Tuesday evening, Febru- ary 23 at 8 o'clock. M. J. Duryea, publicity man ager of tho Eugene Commercial club, and Lane County member of the executive committee of tho Willamette Valley Exhibi tion association, has agreed to bo hero on that evening to talk 011 tho subject of community ad vertising. Ho is goingno bring sketches of tho sign boards that arc being erected throughout tho Willametto valloy, and will bo prepared to answer any ques tions relating to community ad vertising. In tho absence of President Richmond from tho meeting, W. A. Dill reported tho action of tho president in naming a commit tee to confor with tho Eugono Commercial club on the subject of maintaining a Lano County representative at the. Willamette, Valloy oxhlbit at San Francisco. After ho hnd reported tho action of tho committee, and tho re commendations, the Lcaguo voted to approvo tho action of tho president In naming tho committee. Action on tho com mittee's recommendations was deferred until tho general. meet ing noxt Tuesday. Carl Fischer reported that ho had taken up with Mr. Franco tho matter of passengers being allowed to board the southbound train at Springfield Junction at G:20 a. m.( and stated that tho matter Is In process of adjust ment. Tho Rural Mall Carriers of Lanq, Linn and Bonton counties wore invited to make their head quarters in tho Development Lcaguo rooms whilo in their an nual Bession Monday, February 22. W. A. Dill reported half a doz en possible forms of community advertising matter, including 'poster stamps, mailing cards, folders and small booklets, to- gother with estimates of ap- proximate cost. Tho dlfforont recommendations woro discuss ed at length, but action was de ferred until noxt week. E. M. WARREN SELECTED Will Roprosont Lane County at Panama Exposition E. M, Warren, of Eugono, has been chosen by tho promotion board of the Eugene CcmTiner clal club and the committee from tho club appointed to raise money for tho purposo, to go to tho Panama-Pacific exposition to represent Lano county in tho combined exhibit of eight coun ties of tho Willlamotto valley in tho Oregon building. Mr. War ren was selected at a meeting yesterday afternoon. He will start for the fair as soon ns pos sible. Mr. Warren has represented Lane 'county at numerous state fairs at Salem and had charge nr tha nm,.v'0 ftvi,i.,.f fE Lewis and Clark exposition Ina stenographer. Several young Portland. Ho probably has no m,ni i 1,1. nrf nf fi, ,.n i.J arranging exhibits of farm and orchard products. Tho promotion board recently voted to furnish enough money to maintain a man at' the Ore gon building for two months and It Is probable that enough money will be raised by public subscription to keep him there during Uio lire of tho exposition; The amount decided upon by the other counties as necessary to keep him there all the time Is $1,350. Register. 10 HOLD SCHOOL RALLY FRIDAY EVE. The patrons of School Dis trict No. 19 are cordially Invited to attend a School Rally at the Lincoln school on Friday oven Ing Fob. 19, at 8 o'clock, p. m. Several outside speakers will bo present and the pupils of the school will furnish several mus ical numbers. Tho Primary de partment will give a song; tho girls from the seventh, and eighth grades will give several chorus numbers and Jean Fis cher and Joe Clark will oaeh rqnder a vocal solo. As this Is tho first program of this nature attempted In Spring- Hold It Is hoped that goodly num ber of patrons will attend. PROF. DeCOU TO TALK BEFORE BROTHERHOOD Tho literary feature of the Methodist Brotherhood meeting on Monday evening will bo fur nished by Prof. E. E. poCou of tho University of Oregon. "Twentieth Century Canada" and his lecture will bo Illustrated by 100 Btoreopticon slides In colors, These Blldes aro said to bo vorv lino nncl rIiow n. wirin mng0 of BCOnory mul local cou dltlons nlong tho Canadian Pa clflo railway from Halifax on tho east to Vancouver on tho west. Prof. DeCou is a native of Can7 ada and lived there for many years which makes him unusu ally able on a subject of this nature. The Blue Sky Corporation De partment .wants, control of plat ting additions and sellllig stock in real estate schemes. ' !" Anniversary Bargain Offer Kcad of the offer hi tho Monday is sue It 1b" worth your while If you want to save. Studorits Would Try Ability. Tho Commercial department of tho local high school will be pleased to offer its services to any business man or concern in lc clty needing the services of " , . , T w prepared to do work of this kind and will give a dem onstration of their ability in any ofllce requiring such service. No charge will be made for the work while the pupils are ln school and any business man or con cern may secure such service tiy notifying Miss Walling or ProK Kirk where -tho work Is needed. .CUT OUT PARTITION AT THE POST OFFICE The partition between tho pri vate ofllce of' the postmaster and tho rest of the building, was removed the first of the week so as to glvo more light in the mail ing division. Mr. Stewart did not find a private room neces sary fo.r tho business, and hence the change; Oakridgo Train Delayed. A slide of soft rock just this sido of- Jasper delayed train No. 98 from Oakridgo for an hour this morning. Crowwbars and chains were required to remove the obstruction from tho track. Timber Wolf Pelt Nets Owner $40 AHen Wilklns, a watchman at ono of the Southern Pacific camps near Marcola, brought in a fine timber wolf hide Wednes day on which he realized $40 in bounties and sale to County Clerk S. M. Russell. Tho wolf had been giving all tho cattle and sheop owners of tho, Mohawk and tho Camp Creek neighborhood, consider able trouble. It had taken sev eral of Mr. Wilklns' sheep, so ho built a corral In tho brush and put a sheep there as bait for a hidden trap. The wolf was caught by both front feet. 90 PER CENT OF GRADE OF W. P. COMPLETED Last of Tunnels to be Finished in April Siuslaw Bridge Held Up That. 90 per cent of tho grad ing on tho Willametto Paclfio railway Is completed was the statement of H. P. Hooy, en gineer in charge of construction work on the now railroad, upon his return laBt evening from a trip over tho new road, made In company with W. R. Fontaine, his assistant In the work. Mr. Hooy declared that the past winter has been an excep tional one in that construction work has not been Interfered with by the elements but very little, Iu fact, said Mr. Hoey, practically as much work has been accomplished during the past winter as during any period of slmillar length in the summer lime.' There has heen little or '3T no com weatner along tnc coast Where construction work Is now centered, and much less than the usual amount of rainfall. ,j2Ir. Hoey and Mr, Fontaine w'eht as far as the lakes south of Florence, where the largest construction crews are now em ployed. The men are now act ively engaged In grading work and building trestles on the sev eral lakes over which the line ia being built. This is declared to be. a very picturesque portion of thqjroad. Engineer Hoey said last night that tho work cannot start on the big bridge across the Siuslaw river at Acme until the right-of-way through the Johnson and Anderson quarry a short dis tance below Mapleton Is acquir ed. Tho condemnation suit re- cently'instltuted by the company against the owners of the quarry Is expected to be tried this month if service can be had on Anderson and Johnson. Mr. Hoey said that the men are now out: of the state. Speaking of the Coos Bay bridge, Mr. Hoey said It was 1m possible to .estimate the time It wJ&KWih; to comptha. structure, "it an dependsuipon whether or not there will be any serious obstacles to encounter," said the engineer. Up to the present time the work has been carried on without any delay. He said that the work upon the tunnels is being completed and the last two, No. 7 and 8, south of tho Umpqua river, will prob nblynbe completed some time in April. Register. GOV. WITHYCOMBE SIGNS NEW PROHIBITION LAW Best Piece of Constructive Leg islation In tho World, i He Declares. Salem, Ore., Feb. IS. "It is the best nieco of constructive lncrlalnHrwi in flia troflrl 11 ?an1ni I ed Governor Withycombe yes terday, afternoon as he attached his signature to the prohibition bill. "I heartily approve of its every provision. If the legisla ture does nothing else this act alone is well worth the expense of the session." The Governor was in a happy mood when he signed theblll. Ho declared that it gave him a real pleasure to bo able to have a part In so wholesome and so beneficial a piece of work. Mem bers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and other persons who have been inter ested in the "dry" movement In Oregon for many years, stood about his desk. The House enrolling commit tee completed the final draft of tho bill late yesterday afternoon and Harry McClallan, the chief clerk of tho committee, proudly carried it into tho House and deposited It upon the chief clerk's desk. Speaker Selling lost no time In signing. Tho House paused in its business while ho attached his signature, Mrs. Jennie M. Kemp, president of tho Oregon W, C. T. U. stood below tho Speaker's rostrum and watched him at his task. Tho Speaker then appointed Mrs. Kemp a special messenger to carry the measure over to tbe Senate, where President Thompson quickly signed It Tbe docu ment then was brought back to the House and In charge of Mrs. Kemp, accompanied by Repre sentative Anderson, author of the bill and a member of the Committee of One Hundred, was conveyed to the Governor's af-fice. STOP SALE OF ABSINTHE France Paving Way for Absolute, Prohibition. Paris, Feb. 12. The chamber of deputies today adopted the bill prohibiting the sale of ab sinthe. Indemnities will be granted to manufacturers affected by the bill and will be covered in a spec cial act later. The bill also ap plies to Algeria and the colonies and will be proposed for adop tion by the protectorates. The measure now goes to the senate. During the debate today De puty Eduard Lachaud, a radical republican, said: "Absinthe sup pression is only the commence ment We will arrive at the sup pression of all similar appetiz ers." An amendment was offered making the .prohibition features of the bill apply to alcohol and bitters, but J was withdrawn af ter the statement-was made that this would be the object of a re port of a special committee and that propositions tending to the sumreon ;QtjJ alcoKollc exT. tracts cyers -oeui oanaww RURAL CURRIERS ' WILL MEET HERE The annual meeting of the Rural Mail Carriers of Lane, Linn and Benton counties will be held in Springfield 6n-Mon day, February 22, which is a le gal holiday. There are some 30 carriers in the district, and it is expected that 20 or more of them will be here to confer on matters of interest to the rural carriers. The sessions will be held during the afternoon in the rooms of the Springfield Devel opment League. Varsity Student Trundles Mower A University student, trun dling a lawnmower, was arrest ed In Springfield last evening on a charge of insanity, but was released on "ball' furnished by fellow students who came over on a car to see that tho novitiate was following instructions as to his duties in connection with a club initiation. He thought the officers in earnest until he found his associates were hero ahead of him. He hauled the grass cut tor home tho way ho had brought it. Rock has been spread on the greater part of the section of Seventh Btreet tho city is im proving, The rock crew has been blasting out rock all week, as the loose rock was all cleaned, up 'for work done last Fall. Polk, Yamhill and Tillamook offer to put in $45,000 on Grande Rondo road to Tillamook if State Highway Coinmlsslon puts up equal sum, FOREST SERVICE -SEES NEED Of , INCREASED OUT Much Timber in RMrv ic Now Mature and is Hinder ing the Growth of Young Trees. " Portland, Feb. 1G. Seiiiag some billion and a half board feet of timber and supervising the cutting on several thousand different areas, over-seeing the grazing of more than 1,500,000 cattle and 7,500,000 sheep and building more than 600 miles of road, 2,000 miles of trail, 3,000 miles of telephone line, and 700 miles of fire line are some of the things which the government Forest Service did last year up on the National Forests, as dis closed in the report of the chief forester for 1914. There is need, says the chief forester, to increase the cut 'of timber from National Forests wherever a fair price can be ob tained, because a great deal of it is mature and. ought to be tak en out to make room for yoaag growth. Unfavorable conditions in the lumber trade caused new sales of National Forest timber to fall off somewhat during the, year. There washowever, a big increase in iJl against 6,182 the "previoHS'year, 1 f,yS-H " All told, the government receiv ed $1,304,053.66 from- the sale of timber on the Forests in 1914. After eight years of experi ence, stockmen are well satis fied, says the chief forester, with the way the grazing of live stock on the forests is regulated, and have even urged upon Congress the application of the same method of control on the unre served public range. Almost 29,000 permittees graze stock on the National Forests, and these paid to the Government in the fiscal year 1914 fees amounting to over a milllori dollars. The present tendency to raise fewer sheep and goats and more cattle . and horses, is shown in the fact that the number of cattle and horse permittees on the western Forests Increased last year by 1,579, while the number of sheep and goat permittees fell off by a total of 268. The forester points out that the western stock business Is ..becoming at tached to the soil, and the Itin erant sheep grower and tho speculator in cattle aro giving place to the permanent resident and owner of improved ranch property. The latter is always given the preference in tho use of National Forest range. Since 1909, when systematic classification of the National Forest lands was begun, more than 10,000,000 acres have been eliminated. Scattered interior tracts which it is not practical to eliminate aro opened to set tlement through listing, which nllows them to bo taken up un der tho forest homestead law. Anyone may apply to have land within a Forest examined to de termine whether It Is best suited for agriculture, and if found so, it is opened to settlement under this law. During the year, 2,690 tracts, totaling 282,485 acres, applied for by Individuals, were opened for entry. By ollmln.aj- (Catbn4 oa Pago 3.)