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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1919)
r ; 91ST DIVISION COMES HOME NEW S I STATE s IN BRIEF. U j Plans for Better R ural Schools Plans for Reception of Western Men Is Being Made. Modern Buildings Provide Adequate Sanitation and Environmental Conditions Washington, D. C.—The 91st Divi- The weekly report of accidents of the Industrial Accident Commission [ sion, composed of selected men from shows that there were five fatalities ; Oregon, Washington and other north- Johnny Jones and Mary Brown, who live in the country, will assimilate | western states, which has been hou- the lore of the three R’s under more favorable conditions, if the suggestions | ored by being selected as one of the of the division of rural engineering of the United States bureau of public Oregon Agricultural college resumed ; first combatant divisions to rettirn roads are followed in the construction o f one and two-room rural school- its normal life last Tuesday with the : from France, probably will disembark houses. Not only do modern, serviceable schoolhouses provide better sanita opening of the second term of ttie tion and a more desirable environment in which the country children cun be at New York City, and from there will developed, but they add distinctly to the assets of rural communities year. Sailors' in form s and khaki ' be sent to Camp Merritt, N. J., near For tire service of those country communities which demand a larger mingled with civilian dress in the lines New York, where commodious and schoolhouse than one room, the government engineering experts recommend o f waiting registrants. Several boys a two-room school to accommodate 84 pupils. In this building u folding par well-heated barracks will be ready for tition or doors completely separates one room from the other. This house Is from overseas appeared. the troopers, according to information C. B. Willoughby, of Eugene, is ap obtained at the war department. out of 377 accidents reported. pointed a member of the State Board of Dental Examiners to succeed Dr. H. H. Olinger, of Salem. Dr. H. H. Schmitt, of Portland, was appointed to succeed himself as a member of the same board. What is believed by many Medford people to be an augury for .better times in Medford and southern Ore gon is seen in the sale by the city council of the city’s $700,000 refund ing bonds at par to Girvin & Miller, o f San Francisco. With the departure from Bend of Lieutenant George B. Sypher and Cap tain McAlister, the existence of the Loyal Legion of Lumbermen and Log gers in this locality, as a phase of the United- States military system, passed into history. From now on the acti vities of the legipn there, will pertain entirely to civil life. A big dam at the head o f Link river for the reclamation of 70,000 acres of land in the Wood River valley, which will be a big factor in making the up per Klamath lake better adaptable for logging purposes, will be completed this year, in all probability, according to George Walton, manager of the California Oregon Power company. At Camp Merritt the soldiers will be put through the deloustng treat ment to rid then} of any cooties they may have acquired in Belgium and France. The division may remain in Camp Merritt a week or two, depending on transportation arrangements, but it is not expected to stay there long. The trip from Camp Merritt to Camp Lew is, Tacoma, will be in tourist sleepers, which will be a welcome change from the box cars which had to be used on the European continent. The division will be demobilized at Camp Lewis. As the first step home ward, it has been ordered to proceed from Belgium, where it was when the armistice was signed, to Lemans, France, a concentration point for divi sions awaiting transports to come home. In a letter to Senator Jones, Adju tant-General Harris expresses regret that no definite date can be ftxed for the demobilization of the organiza tions of the Eighth Division, now at Camp Lee, Virginia. He adds: “ This division, which is made up to a great extent of Pacific Coast men, and the other divisions in the United- States to include fhe 20th Division are last on the order of demobilization.” \ OBTAIN TWO LITTERS A YEAR PLAN OUTLINED FOR PRUNING Whsn Sows Are Given Best of Feed and Care This Is Good W ay to In W orking on Apple and Pear Tree« Increase Production. Begin Sawing on Underside— (Prepared by U>e United States Depart Leave No Stubs. ment of Agriculture.) It Is common practice among farm (Prepared by the United States Depart ment o f Agriculture.) ers to require their sows to produce Begin pruning the apple and pear trees by sawipg on the underside and cut all diseased branches and all crowding branches to open up the top so the sunlight cun get in next year to color the fru it If large branches must be taken off. begin sawing on the underside and about one-third through of the branch; then saw from the top to meet the lower out. In this way there will be no breaking or tearing down of the sapwood and bark, as will be the case if the sawing Is all done from the top. Cut off all branches so short that no stub will be left and after a few days Model Two-Room Rural Schoolhouse. also provided with special domestic science nnd library rooms which open from the teacher’s platform and have private entrances through fire-exit doors from the outside. Plenty of coatrooms also are provided. In particular this schoolhouse is novel insomuch as the folding doors between the classrooms permit of throwing the entire space into one large hall which can be used for community meetings, musicals, suppers, theatricals, or similar entertainments. Here agnin the library and domestic science rooms may be used by adults for other than educational purposes without interfering with school sessions. Furthermore, this school is provided with a basement which may be divided into play nnd lunch rooms, with still other rooms for cooking, manual training, furnace, fuel storage and toilet. I f It is net desirable to excavate That the state should be the unit of taxation for high school education by making the state high school tui tion fund law take the place of the present county high school tuition fund law be repealed, are recommen With the Allied Army of the Dvina. dations incorporated in the report of the legislative committee of county —American troops fighting desperate school superintendents at a recent ly near Kadish have driven back Bol meeting to grade papers. shevist troops which made an advance The sanitary and reclamation com there. The Bolshevists also launched mission at its meeting in Astoria last attacks on the Onega sector and bom week sold $200,000 in bonds to Morris barded the allied front. The Ameri Bros., of Portland, at (he rate of $95 per $100. The money is to be used cans came into battle along the Pe- REDS DRIVEN BACK UNDER YANK FIRE trograd road and in the frozen swamps that border it. The battle was fought in snow from two to four feet in depth. American forces captured Kadish last Monday, after a display of gal lantry that evoked the admiration of State Highway Engineer Nunn, who the allied commanders. Special care just returned from a meeting of state has been taken of the American highway officials at Salt Lake, states wounded, and the body of an Ameri that resolutions were adopted putting can officer was taken back 100 miles under way plans for amendments to by sled. and then shipped to Arch federal highway laws which would angel for burial. There were some provide for Oregon highway money casualties on Monday, but they were from the government by matching $27 small in comparison to those inflicted for $73 to secure $100 worth of roads, upon the enemy. rather than on a dollar for dollar Tuesday, the Bolshevists opened a basis, as now. terrific fire from three-and six-ihch guns, and launched a counter-attack A bill reconveying to the govern,-1 against the buildings held by Ameri ment 93,000 acres of land in Coos and cans in Kadish. ' So hot was the ar Douglas counties, Oregon, on the pay-! tillery fire that the Americans were ment of $232,50p to the southern Ore- j withdrawn temporarily from the vil gon company, a landholding concern, lage. The line, however, was not tak was passed by the house and sent to en back very far and the new posi the senate. Enactment of the bill tions were firmly held. would end court litigation brought by The enemy did not occupy Kadish Attorney-General Gregory for forfeit because the barrage fire from the ure of the land, which is pending in American guns made the place unten the supreme court able. Shells falling on the frozen A 90-day option for the purchase of ground spread their zones of destruc the Sutherlin Inn, at Sutherlin, has tion twice as far as they would under been taken by J. A. Rlppey, president normal conditions. of the*Southern Oregon Conference of Seventh Day Adventists. The inn, a Detroit.—An observation De Havl- i two-story modern brick structure, will, land airplane reached Detroit Sunday in event the deal fs consummated, be from Ellington Field, Houston, Tex., utilized as an academy. The transac making the 1650-mile trip in 724 min tion hinges on the Sutherlin people utes of flying time, and the last lap being able to meet certain require from Indianapolis at the rate of 122 ments relative to adjoining vacant miles an hour, under adverse weather lots. conditions. The machine was one of SOY BEANS GOOD FOR SHEEP for the construction of a bulkhead along the third reclamation district, from the Clatsop mill to Thirty-sev enth street, and the entire district is to be filled with sand pumped from the river. \ ' J I A ¿9T ¥ * • f y. ? W . the entire basement some of these rooms may be omitted. The basement cook ing room is valuable ns a plnce where the children’s lunches may be warmed or prepared. This schoolhouse may be constructed at first with one class room and then as conditions demand the second classroom mny be added. Furnace heat is used, the ventilating flues being so arranged adjacent to the furnace flues that a forced draft, involving a complete circulation of fresh, warm air is obtained. The windows are numerous and so situated as to favor the admission of a maximum of sunshine nnd light. During the past 18 months more than $2,000,000 in Oregon irrigation district bonds have been sold, while ' during the seven preceding yeaVs not a bond of this kind was disposed of. This condition is due to th e '1917 ir rigation district statute, acoording to Engineer Cupper, in a letter sent to a Chicago bonding-house recently. He credits the Oregon statute with being chancellor, died Saturday night a t 1 the best on the statute books of any Buhpolding, Bavaria. He had been ill state in the Union. for six days. Peculiar problems have arisen as a result of portions of railroads in this state being operated under federal su pervision while other portions of the same lines have been released from government control, says a Salem dis patch. Metz.— Seventy persons were killed as a result of an explosion of firedamp m a mine near here Friday night Thirty bodies have thus far been brought to the surface Five men were killed and 21 entombed by a cave-in at another mine. W , v pr * In Feeding T rials a t Wisconsin Station Produced Larger Gains for Given Amount of Feed. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment o f Agriculture.) . . F irst Floor and Basement Plans of Model Two-Room Rural Schoolhouse. .-V V. • V > .< . . #..*..>..w...xriv*ai ....:> ' In feeding trials with sheep nt the Wisconsin station, soy beans produced larger gains for n given nmount of feed .... nnd a heavier clip of wool. In one ex Young Apple Tree in Need of Pruning. periment two lots of ten lambs each *0 cover the lurge wounds with white lead nnd raw linseed oil putnt. Do not prune the stone fruit trees until spring. MULCH STRAWBERRY PLANTS I RENOUNCE FO REV ER— T e x t of Form er German Emperor’s A c t of Renunciation The text o f the former German em peror’s act o f renunciation which was Issued by the new German government “ in order to reply to certain mlsunder- standings which have arisen with re gard to the abdication," follows: “ By the present document, I re nounce forever my rights to the crown of Prussia and the rights to the Ger man imperial crown. I release at the same time nil the officials of the Ger man empire nnd Prussia and also offi cers, noncommissioned officers and sol diers o f the Prussian navy and army and o f contingents from federation states from, the oath o f fidelity they have taken to me. As their emperor, king and supreme chief, I expect from them until n new organization of the three which left Ellington Field De German empire exists that they will cember 21, on a “Gulf to Detroit and aid those who effectively hold the return” trip to test the operation of power in Germany to protect the Ger the Liberty engine and map an air man people against the menacing dan gers o f annfchy, famine and foreign route. domination. “ Made and executed and signed by Von H ertling Dead. our own hand with the imperial eenl Copenhagen.—Count Geroge F. von at Amerongen, November 28. “ W ILLIAM .” Hertling. the former Imperial German 1 The Warm Springs irrigation pro London.-»-Count George F. von Hert ject, which is already on a fair way to ling, former German imperial chancel development, is causing a big boom lor. is dead, it was announced in ad at Vale. Business in ail lines Is im vices received here Sunday. proving and the demand for houses cannot be supplied. Seventy Killed in Explosion two Utters a year. Although the sows have had good care, they will natural ly be run down somewhat In condition, because the greater portion of the feed consumed has been utilized for the production of milk. The sow needs a rest before sbe Is bred again, and the time for this is between the weaning and breeding pe riods. Intelligent feeding will bring the sow from a thin condition into a good, strong, vigorous condition in a short time. When this Is done she will be in proper condition to assume her duty when breeding time arrives. I f the sow is bred in a thin, run-down condition, she must resume work im mediately, and she will naturally be weak und subject to the Inroads of dis ease. A little cold contracted in this condition may cause death, while a strong, healthy sow will resist suph attacks. It is the general belief that sows in good vigorous breeding condi tion conceive more readily, thus short ening the farrowing period for the herd. Alfalfa, rape, clover, or any pas ture which is palatable to swine, with some grain In addition, is excellent feed for bringing the sow back to breeding condition. There is no good reason why a sow should not produce two litters a year1 when properly handled. To accom plish this the sow should be bred to farrow, say, for example, in March, nnd bred again to farrow the early part of September. A sow bred about No vember 15 will farrow about March 6 to 9. The pigs should nurse eight weeks. The sow should be retired by Muy 20 so as to furrow on or after September 8. The- pigs could then nurse'until November 3. The chances for profitably rearing two crops of pigs from a sow annually are undoubtedly far better In regions of mild climate and short winters than where the win ters are long nnd severe. WORTH KNOWING A torn patent leather belt can be mended by court plaster. Pieces o f Ingrain carpet can often be used up by weaving into a rug. Very nice French fried pota toes are made from cold boiled potatoes. There 1s almost no limit to the wnys in which chestnuts may be used. All woodwork close to stoves or furnaces should be covered with zinc Battles Fought During Two Years of the Mexican W ar The Mexican wftr of 1840 lasted nearly two years. The first actual col lision nnd bloodshed was on April 25, 1846, between a band of Mexican troops thiit had crossed the RloCirnnde and a company o f American soldiers. On May 17, 1846, President Polk sent a special message to congress reciting the facts nnd grievances, and said: "As war exists, and nothwithstnnding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act o f Mexico herself, we are cglled upofi by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor, the rights nnd the interests o f our country." During 1846 the bnttle o f Palo Alto wns fought. May 8; battle o f Monterey, September 21. In 1847 the battle of Buena Vista, February 22, battle of Cerro Gordo, April 17; City of Mexico captured September 14; the Stars and Stripes were placed on the nntionni palace and a treaty of pence was signed February 2, 1848. Ten Cabinet Officers. Couple Inches of Straw or W aste Hay Should Be Spread for W in ter Protection. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment. ot Agriculture.) After the ground freezes cover the strawberry plnnts with u mulch of a couple of Inches of straw, waste hay cut before It ripened seed or coarse manure with the fine portion shaken out. Do not use vegetable rubbish containing weed seeds, because these seeds will grow next year und cause a lot of work to keep the weeds cleaned out. The mulch protects the Sheep Like Soy-Bean Forage as Much ground from sudden thawing and as the Meal. freezing which “ heaves out” plunts not were fed the same roughnge. One lot protected. received shelled corn und whole soy In equul proportions, while the BENEFITS OF COVER CROPS beans other received the same quantities of shelled corn and whole oats. The av Hold 8oil From Washing, Prevent erage gain of each lamb during a pe Burning Out Humus and Furn riod of 12 weeks was 16.2 pounds when ish Pasture for Stock. soy beans constituted a part of the ration, and but 13.7 pounds when oats Cover crops hold the orchard soil were used. A pound of gain was pro from washing, prevent burning out hu duced on 6.11 pounds of grain and 7.11 mus, furnish profitable pasture for pounds of roughage In the soy-bean, ra hogs, calves, poultry and small stock, tion, while 7.28 pounds of grain and and furnish an excellent mulch and 8.62 pounds of roughage were required soil cover for. the trees. If the or in the oats ration. In another experi chard Is pastured with small stock It ment the same rations were fed for 12 should not be pastured too close. weeks to two lots of nine Iambs each. Enough growth should be made by the The lot receiving the soy-bean ration cover crop for winter to fnrnlsh a good gained 110 pounds in weight and pro mulch that will catch and hold snow duced 05.1 pounds of wool, as com and leaves that would otherwise blow pared with 71 pounds Increase In awny. weight and a production of 81.3 pounds of wool for the lot receiving the onts STRAWBERRIES TO DO WELL ration. The second lot also consumed more feed per pound of gain. There are ten cnblnet officers : Rot, ert Lansing, secretary of stnte; Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury ; New ton D. Baker, secretary of war; Thomas W. Gregory, attorney general ; Albert S. Burleson, postmaster gen eral ; Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy; Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the Interior; David F. Houston, sec retary of agriculture; William C. Red- field, secretary of commerce; William B. Wilson, secretary of lubor. Soil Must Bs Supplied W ith H u m u s - Pea Canners Prepare. A $40,00<f warehouse will be erected by the Wisconsin Pea Canners’ asso ciation. The warehouse will be con trolled by the Wisconsin Canners’ company. The warehouse company will aid canners during the rush pe riod of their business. Through the warehouse pea men will be financed by means of warehouse receipts. The plan has the approval of the govern ment I f Manure Cannot Be Supplied, Use 8ome Crops. Strawberries to succeed well must be on soil that is well supplied with humus, and If manure cannot be had be sure to turn under organic matter of some other kind, such ns a crop of cowpeas, crab grass, etc. Tn turning under this kind of organic material, however, one should bo careful to do It early enough for It to rot as much as possible before the strawberries are to be set. HORSE REQUIRES MUCH GRAIN Necessary fa r Animal to Maintain W eight an'rf Spirt.. and Perform Maximum of W ork. In order to perform the maximum of work and still maintain hla weight nnd spltii. the horse should receive a comparatively large allowance of eas ily digested grain and a correspond ingly small proportion o f palatabla roughage.
