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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1911)
ASTORIA'S BIG CENTENNIAL Pageant Will Open August 9, Close September 9. Aviation MmI, Regatta, Battlathip Fleet, Firework Spectacle Are Arranged For. (By John Day.) . A ! at-.. ... t M .itn ttiin.) M . 1 years ago April 12. 1SU. the good ship Tonquln. owned by John Jacob i.L .1j the mo,.th of tha1 Columbia River, rode over the 1r.a Jf-10" ?aJ11,,; 3?? hrLhrlZ. . , . .. .,- i-- bration. including the school teachers "r"re"..l",."..T "'- become Astoria. The -Tonquln"! 'Jfll'h. a' -hooTex brought the first white man to theTn teachers will have a school ex. great Oregon country which at that time embraced all the land from which the states of Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho have since been carved. It is In celebration of this settle ment that the Astoria Centennial was projected. The pageant will be ouened with simple ceremonies on August 9. The public opening will bef the following day and the Centennial wtll continue for thirty days, or until September 9. The legislature of the state of Ore gon appropriated $50,000 toward the expense of tho Centennial. Clatsop Covinty made a special tax levy which brought $25,090 additional funds to the committee; Col. John Jacob Astor. of New York City, donated $10,000 to the cause and the business men of Astoria contributed $50,000. Additional subscriptions from the transportation companies and Port land business men have brought the available sinews of war up to $150,000. Tourists from all parts of the fhlted States will be able to travel i to the Astoria Centennial at reduced! railroad rales and stop at all the prin ciple places of Interest en route. This' centennial celebration is the only! official exposition on the Pacific Coast J this year and offers the following at-i tractions: Pacific Coast motor speed boat re gatta with $12,000 in cash prizes, last lng one week September 4. to Sep tember 8, Inclusive. At this regatta the free-for-all championship will be. decided and $o000 is the prize money for this one event alone. Practically nvprv roast rltv will enter a hnflt and . , , . . , craft will be entered from Peoria, 111., i nil utAral knat, are fifnutlad frnni the Atlantic seaboard. The displace- k.. h,ni.n.hin win u rtntrfM .f thi. ,... .. win .... premacy in the fishing craft classes. sail rigged hulls, sculling contests, tub .,, ,,.,. k.....n CAnoe races TnHlnn t H ha rkf tha nnrttiwaot anrf such features as are usual at western regatta tournaments. The manage ment of the regatta Is In charge of the Astoria Motor Boat Club, affili ated with the Pacific Coast Interna tional Motor Boat Association, the officers of which will direct the con tests. Glenn Curtlss will have an aero plane and an hydro-aeroplane exhibl tion lasting four days of the third in f i. i. .o.. ,a ,,. surface of the Columbia River, run- Socially Interesting will be the op . . ,, . . , ,, . ' ,. portunlty for visitors to witness the miles an hour down to the mouth of h. rinmhi- Rtv.r .fn from th ,.. ..k, k'.-!.! -i .1...1- over the beach to the Gearhart Hotel and return to the starting point, n, hi'u .irnri.n ing In the air overland From the opening of the centennial n . I. n will ... . n . n . of raureshlps Tn "thi harbo t one I de i ,,,j K ,L t-iij o,,J , m.nT.n'H . VrnhVnv 77h. T.,tfi.K .., t ,a.u, ,h-: "w . nr -.7 I"! .nj t nUmi, f v....ik . , nial and participate In land and ma-1 rin naiABnt. 1,1 ' ; nrVr Jlh.rf iri v. w . The Gfartiart Hotel has been se kcted as the hom. of th treat naval ! w .-.fTil hSi i'L'l:!"1'...0' inn uiuirio vt 1117 f aiiuua uaiucBiiipo. Th Ooarhart Hntnl la within a hnr I distance of Astoria and right on the' Pacific Ocean. It is an Ideal place for social functions and the centen- nial committee will have many social functions at this hotel, General Flnzer, head of the Oregon National Guard, has decided upon As toria for the scene of the annua sum mer encampment of the Oregon Na- ttonal Guard during the continuance' oi me Astoria centennial, necessary i arrangements are now being made by General Flnzer and his staff to work out tne details of the encampment, and the United States War Depart ment has ordered the artillerymen and the artillerymen of the militia to report to the forts adjacent to As toria for annual target practice dur ing the centennial. Officers from the national guard of the various states will be Invited to participate In the evolutions and ob serve the work of the combined na tional guard and the United States regulars who will be assigned to As toria for war practice. Gearhart beach, the scene of the big coast automobile race meets an nually, will be the mecca for the motor car speed experts during theitney become very thin and emaciated celebration. The beach is wide and , during the winter, especially when miles In length so that all the races snow Is quite deep. A good Dlnn It will be straightaway events, allowing1 ieemi t0 , wouM b fop p ' 1 !h! oeearTtM i" ?n "M V ! fed the flrpt year I be- the ocean tides until the sand Is ., . .... ., ' " D aeWd aa harrt a. .tnn. thi. K...h I ftT course of a few years this offers Ideal advantages for motor car speed contests and arrangements have been perfected for a carnival of peed merchants which will Include all the top notchers In the profes sion. This meet will be In charge of the Automobile Club of Portland and the Northwest and will be officially sanctioned. The Oregon Development League has selected Astoria as the meeting place for the annual convention of the 118 cities holding membership In the league. C. C. Chapman, manager of the promotion bureau of the Portland, Commercial Club, it secretary of the Oregon Development League and he haa already perfected the program for the convention which will decide upon the policy to be followed In the development of Oregon for the next year to come. Early Days of Astoria or the De struction of the Tonquln la the title of pyrotechnical display which will be offered as a night feature or en tertalnment during the centennial This pageant will have a ballet of 200 foreign vaudeville artists and numerous special features to complete a two-hour entertainment. This en tertaiument will be built upon the water and Is to be one of the big tea tures of the centennial. It Is the first time that any big fireworks spectacle has ever been attempted upon the water, but the development of the reworks business Is such now that 8U"1?, , Eight different conventions will be Institute, to which nauonal edu- JOHN JACOB ASTOR .newer WhoM fur tradinir xpiiition founded Astoria an hundred yetu-a ao. h'blt dlCUM educational matters of today and a century ago. It Is a big feature and numerous social fea ture8 ae planned for the entertain .umt ot the teachers who will attend the convention. As it Is an official state affair all the teachers of the ftate wiu fnipelled to attend un- less prevented by sickness, so that it Is bound to be a representative meeting of educators. Special allegorical floats are being constructed for a series of land parades which will be different in character each week. These floats will be fully as magnificent as those used at the annual Rose Festival at Portland, and the school children will be drilled to participate In the exer cises by the order of the board of education 'i5hlng for lm01t A8,,oria- ,Thf e ar re than 3000 salmon fishing craft at Astoria and the salmon fish w' b1.D u.ntU A,,5UBt ! 4 IV.-'-- t i ! h x 1 f . - t 1 fly-!!"", I" " l tne mighty salmon Is caught and canned. These monsters weigh as much as 0 pounds and average about "ndri8 e,aCh- Sa,mn Te,gh 40 pounds are numerous and it Is an excellent opportunity to see how mil- 'ions are made out of the salmon catrh every year. Tne governors of the various states Hi be Invited and a n-imber have aIready. P'1 invitations to be prese,,t on social days set apart for the respective states. With their ,;,,. ... w ,m i. n . milltary ta,, they will be royally entertained and add greatly to the social life at the centennial celebra- tfnn Altogether, the Astoria Centennial ' to be a fitting climax to 100 years of prosperity which has come from the founding of this city by the sea by a trading party sent from New York by John Jacob Astor. Same Sort ef Language, "I'm afraid we'll have to cut that man's acquaintance," said the woman nf .trlrtlv rnrrert Umi "Tea," replied Miss Cayenne. "He uses the same sort of language that we pay two or three dollars a seat to hear at a theatre." No Use for College Education. Willis Why don't you put that co lege son of yours at a trade? Gillls (sadly) What could I trad htm for? Judee Colts Huetie for reed. I believe we would get better re mits If we would change our practice of raising colts. Many farmers permjt colts to run with their mothers un til they are put on the market, says a writer In an exchange. Many time. his Will be done More Territory. "I envy yon," says the very thin man. "I wish I had your weight. Here I am, a skinny, dyspeptic crea ture, suffering half the time with stomach ache!" "Envy me!" chuckles the very fat man. "Why, what If you do have the stomach ache half the time? Think what a little bit of a stomach ache you can have. Now, when I have the stomach ache It amounts to some thing." Life. CHIEF JOSEPHINE IS CHAMPION OF AMERICA ElghUYear-OId Ilolstein Cow, Owned by Ajtrlcultarad De partment of University of Missouri, Make Great Record. iktik&&w fry Chief Josephine, This Is the milkman's problem: 'How can I produce the greatest amount of milk and butter at the least expense?" Chief Josephine, bred and owned by the agricultural department of the University of -Missouri at Columbia, haa come nearer solving this problem than any other cow on earth. It costs 77 cents a day to keep Josephine and her dally production is worth more than $4. Thus Josephine mnkes as much each day as the average mechanic. She makes more each year than the average preacher, and almost as nuch as the average college professor. Chief Josephine Is now a little over eight years old and Is of the Holsteln breed, otherwise known as Frisian or Holland. Of course, Josephine's diet Is care fully and systematically looked after. She Is fed alfalfa hay and corn silage 'or coarse feed and for grain she la iven a mixture of corn, bran, linseed neul and cottonseed meal. The amount POTATOES, RYE AND CLOVER Experiments Conducted by Rhode Island Sttttton Show Net Ketarna-No Sucnu in Growing Clover. For 12 years the Rhode Island ex lerlment station hns bten making ex- lerlments having as their basis a ro- atlrn of potatoes, rye and clover. The 'otatlon consists of winter rye the IrBt, clover or clover nnl grass the tecond, and (totatoes the third year. On an average for the whole period f 12 years plat No. 11 received per 10 re 54 pounds of potash, 9.16 pounds f phosphoric acid, 27.2 pounds of ni- rogen and 250 ounds of lime; plat No. 14, 5S.2 pounds of potash, 0.4 munds of phosphoric acid, 20.9 pounds it nitrogen and 232 pounds of lime, mil plat No. 13, C7.7 pounds of potash. S7.2 pounds of phosphoric acid, 27.1 pounds of nitrogen and 232 pounds of line each year. Previous work showed that the pro portion of merchantublo tubers in the potato crop Is greatly Increased by liming, even sometimes In cases where the total vleld remains the same. The results obtained so far indicate that after the three year rotation Is well started, further liming onre In six years at very mod. rtUe rates will be lUfllclent. The general Improvement of the soli was found to have far less beneficial effects upon the rye crop than upon potatoes and clover. With the Im provement In the soil It waa neces- ary to omit nitrogenous top-dressings for rye. with the result that the yields )f straw were somewhat lessened and those of grain Increased. The exper iment also taught that It Is advisable to sow grass seed with the clover, as grass usually more readily survives un- ler extreme winter and excessive dry summer conditions. No success was TWO-PIECE GATE VERY HANDY We noticed, while at a sale the other dRy, a new Idea along the gate line, that I believe Is good enough to pass along, writes C. O. Thomas in tbe Homestead. Tbe gate was made wide enough to allow a hay rack to pass through. The small section of the gate made the handling easier when a person wished to pass through, besides lessening the strain oo the gate were It made In on Mo Champion Dairy Cow. she requires of each is carefully com puted from the chemical composition of the feeds. Puring the warm summer months Josephine consumed about 30 gallons of water dully. Through the whole routine of her dally life Josephine Is never forced to do anything; above all, she Is never utruck or excited. Josephine Is no freak. What she has done can be repeated In any normal milk-giving cow. It is a fact that any cow can b'e dfl veloped to give milk beyond what Is today considered a good average. It Is largely because dairymen do not know the Intent possibilities of their herds tl'at the present average Is so low. All that Is required for a start Is a cow that la normal In every respect. From this txdnt man Is the chief factor man with a training such as Is Imparted at the colk'go of agricul ture of the University of Missouri, and at other like colleges the country over. ' secured In trying to grow clover with out f.rxt applying liuie or wood ashes to the land. As calculated by the station, the net returns per acre during the first six years were $279.40, and during the secotig six ear erlod. $:171.46 or $92.06 in favor of the last two rota toria. Life on the Farm. A contented and Intelligent rural population Is the true basis of a per nianept agriculture. There are several conditions essential to the best coun try life. The success of tho farm as a business enterprise Is of prime Im portance. It munt return an Income sufficient to Insure a'l of the necessi ties, most of the conveniences and some of the luxuries of life. The com munity life of the agricultural popu lation must be such aa will stimulate mental activity to amply satisfy tbe social aspirations of tho countryman and his family. Value of Lime. Fresh lime, unslaked, weighs about SO pounds per bushel, and wtll absorb about 27 pounds of water from the air. forming hydrate of lime. It also ab sorbs carbonic acid from the air and Is gradually converted Into carbon ate of lime. One bunhel of stone lime will make about three bushels whin glaked. Air-sluked lime Is always re ferred to when It Is ret-om mended for land. 8'xty bushels of slaked lime Is a good dressing for one acre. Success With Farming. When a family with loo acre pro duces vhnt It needs and ran exchange some products for taxes, repairs, edu cation, etc., and can also maintain the land In a productive state. It thus solves a problem that will benefit fu ture generations. Not only should Its success be announced, but the method by which It succeeded should be pub lished for the benefit of others. tion. The larger section of the gate shuts against a short post, which was et In the ground and sawed In such a manner as to leave a back for the gate to shut against as Illustrated. The short 2x4 Is held In place by strap Iron clips, and holds the gate rigid. In doing chores, when passing through It, the 2x4 Is slipped back on the larger gale, and the hook used to keep the gate closed. BIG FIRMS EVADE TAX LAWS Deceive the United States In Salary Returns Office Boys at 10,000 a Year. Denver. Colo. Somewhere In Den ver there are several maybe a score of office boys who are drawing fabu lous salaries for opening mall and running errands. The boys don't know that they are drawing these sal aries of $3,000 or $5,000. or even $10,. 000 a year, but they are Just the same. Hut It Is only In the reports of an nual net Incomes that are being made to the United States Internal revenue officers by lieiiver corporation that these salaries appear. Under corporation tax law salaries are deducted from the net total sum taxable. Revenue officers say the lotal of salaries this year a shown by the returns has taken an enormous Jump. If some of the reports are true, they say, there are many firms In Denver who are giving away money every day. Then there are ralarles listed for employes now living In three-room flats that. If really paid, would enable 1 hem to live In mansions If the stomach is too weak to properly digest your food try HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS It strengthens tones and invigorates the en tire digestive system. Start today. TG'J'LL ACKHCWLEDCE ITS SUPER OniTT Ice Oood for Hair. Explorers say that the frigid son re give Immunity from common colds. Hut no recent explorer seems to have mentioned the old belief that long so Journs among tbe Ice are good for the hair. This was the firm conviction of whaling skippers In the days when Dundee was the port for the Arctle. It was said that even the baldest of seamen contrived to grow a paaaable crop of hair before returning. Greatest Little Invention. The greatest little Invention that has been given to the world Is the luclfer match. It was Invented ll 1827. It Is small, but like Portia I candle. It haa shed a great light Inic the world. It gave man mastery ol fire. Hefure this Are had been a con trary hired man, but now It becami an obedient servant. A Poor Jon. "Tea, sir," said the great financier, proudly, as he flicked the ash from hit 1$ penny cigar, "I am the architect ol my own fortune." "Well," rejoined th friendly ciltlc, "all I've gut to say It that It's a lucky thing for you ther were no LullJli g Inspectors around when you weie cunstructliig Kj change. An Important Art. The art of being agreeable should be Instilled Into every girl In the schoolroom. This Is far more Impor tant to the average girl, and far more conducive to her gem ral happiness In life than much of the useless "crane nilng" which forms so large a part of many a school curriculum. Gentle woman. TRY MURINE EYE REMEDY for Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes andCiranuUtedKyellds. Murine Doesn't Smart Soothes Kye I'aln. Druggists Bell Murine Kye Remedy, Liquid. 25c, EOo, $1.00. Murine Kye Salve In Aseptic Tubes. 2".c, $1.00. Eye Dookf ana r.ye Ativire fToe Dy Mall. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. Guetswom in Lite. Silence and solitude are also won derful solvers of problems and guess- era of riddles. There Is a good deal of guesswork to this life. It's not all logic. It's not all a choice between two goods. Many of these mysteries can never be unraveled, and we have to take a chance at them, do the beat we can and let them go. A Hard Road to Travel. A drunken man, whom a friend was trying to bring to his home . some miles away, was constantly crossing from one side of the road to the other, so his friend sold to him: "Come on. Tat. come on: the road Is long." "I know It Is long," said Tat; "but It Isn't the length of It. but the breadth ot It that's killing me." Le Faun's "Irish Life." She Hasn't Changed. Emancipated woman Is nothing more than human; I think that you may safely set that down. A woman I could mention wouldn't go to the convention because she didn't have a stylish gown. Washington Herald. To Clean Gloves. A mixture of finely powdered futl er's earth and alum Is excellent for cleaalng white gloves, it should be rubbed In well, then brushed off. and the gloves sprinkled with dry brua and whiting. A REAL DIGESTIVE HELP SKIN IN COLD STORAGE tUTICLI KEPT ON ICR FOU , MONTH IS STILL ALIVE. 'hyelclans Discover That Skin Tik from the Human Body May Sa Kept In Healthy Conditio. Indefinitely. Philadelphia, ra. Through th ta oeesful outcome of an operation, pt formed on 1$ year-old Anna Wlndt, U physicians at the Samaritan hospital have mode a discovery which may of Incalculable benefit In the irtftltn of skin. Tbe discovery Is that ikli taken from the human body may kept In a boalthy condition for an It definite period and that It may thn be used to replace skin that has beet burned or otherwise destroyed. Karly this year a man entered fas Samaritan hospital to have an open. Hon performed. This operation i eluded the removal of thirty-let square Inches of skin from his M men. Dr. flahcock bad this esrefull; rolled up and put on Ice until at should be ready for the expert meat This was made thirty-five days after the skin had been removed from Um male patleut. Twenty square tnehn were taken, smoothed out, and rare fully put lo place on the girl's arm. For several days tbe arm was e amlned minutely and then It berimt apparent that the froxen akin was "l Mr g hold" to tbe natural skin with u much firmness aa If It had been takes directly from It r In or flesh. Dr. Pit-rco'a Pellets, small, sunr coatcd, easy to take aa candy, rrgulsto ami invigorate stomach, liver and boe eia ami cure constipation. In successful Men, Perhaps It Is more than true that half of the great college buildings li the land are splendid gifts from "VU tage Chumps," who broke away froa home because they could not And I chance to expand or ei press the selves In their native twobyfow town, and never, or hardly evrr aft er, got the flret ghost of a show t the spare time to acquire an educa tlox Ahead of Optimist. The man who accepts ealamty when It hits him aa so much necesarr medicine administered for his oei good, and makes no ugly face wan wallowing defeat, even If he admit! It. Is not to be classed aa a pessimist Such a man Is far ahead of the optim ist who Insists he never had anytblci banded blm and fools himself, aa kt Often does other. t-'ltra i il M.fdtiilijrs ritrrv cli gvrm. eptrrtiillv Maturis, I'd lU. ftli'l r vr. Two ir thrrr ilrup if INttilihA We ard Oil n tle in rt'l I'lle eill lukeoult!. tli poiwm. ri' thai il li, I u. Vtith Rabbit Recipe. . Ton are a great tuct esa with I chafing dish." said the admiring guest "Tell us how you manage It?" "HI very simple." replied Mr. CrosMoU. "Yon take everything your wire bat set out on the table for you and put It Into the chafing dish. Then rot light the alcohol lamp underneath tat with a large spoon stir the minors vigorously until your wife tells yon I '"l"'" In Different circumstances. "Hurry, dear!" eirlalmed the kn band. "The Ore Is gaining. We matt get out. Haven't you got your riot bet on?" "Oh, I can't go out this way,' she screams. "I couldn't And aof thing to put on but my bathing salt, and I'm not going to face all tt crowd In It!" Life. AFTER 7 YEARS SUFFERING t I Was Cured by Lydia E. Pi-k-bam's Vegetable Compound W.Mirlka fllili T tomato trot bli s for seven yearn, was all runil"A ana so nervous cou M not d "J things The doctor treatid me for dif ferent things but did mo no roimI. I got so 1'iid that 1 could not ulci'pdij or night Willie 1" this condition I fi0 of Lydln K. link ham's V egetablj f o tn p o u n d , arw l . . l . - .. .nil , . ' I wpin US use wroieio Airs. I'lnkhani for advice. JD abort time I imd (tallied myart'n feliftit mul am 1L nirunw tiiii. --.Mrs. Hali.ik h rcvKNM, li. 1'. V., . iioi 81, Waurik,, Okla. Another (Irnteful Woman. HuntiiiRton. AliiAs. l was in anr run oil v. ii connition and lor w years could llnd no help. I owe my present good nralth 14 T.Vfl A I,' 1H..LI , r : - .-i i.. nw I'omidnnd JUood 1'uriflur which 1 1 ui-TB siiveu my lire. "Mydwtorkiinwgtvnnt helped tnj nd does not say one word agint ! Mr. Maui Jaxf.ttk Hatks, U 131, Huntington. Mass. Jii'cause your case is a difficult on, doctors having- done you no good, not continue to sutTcr without gifM I.ydla K. 1'lnkhain'a Vcgetablo Cor pound a trial. It surely has cure Jjmny cases of female ills, sn.'h at rljiuimatlon, ulceration, displacement. Illirnlll tun...... I I ' i.;V- ...rtitflM ...... ....,,..,, ii 1,-xuutriiK-B, i1.-- pains, backache, that bearing-do leUliUg. ajiil tiurvniia i,r..l rat lull. 'iJifcfeLa.V tr-r ri