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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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F irst Floor and Basement Plans of Model Two-Room Rural Schoolhouse.
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' In feeding trials with sheep nt the
Wisconsin station, soy beans produced
larger gains for n given nmount of feed
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nnd a heavier clip of wool. In one ex
Young Apple Tree in Need of Pruning. periment two lots of ten lambs each
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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.