OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
The atate sealer of weights and
measures office Inspected a total of
10,602 scale* during 1921, according to
a report prepared by W. A. Dalzlel,
deputy sealer of welgTTts and meas
ures.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Baker county stock growers are of
the opinion that the Industry has
passed through the worst that can
come to It and that 1922 will see much
better times for all Baker county stock
men.
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Mr*. Oraoo Cunningham ha* been
More than $200,000 was disbursed by
appoint«!) poet must.-r at Chico, Wallo
the federal government among the
wa county.
Active preparation* arc being made members of the Oregon National Ouard
for the erection of a number of new units during the past year us com
pared with less than half that amount
realdeucea In Monmouth
for 1920.
Ml** Kuhy O. Kngelmau ha* been
Lane county's hop crop this year
appointed iwiHtmlHtre** at lone to suc
sold
for nearly $500,000. The crop In
ceed Mr* Karl lllnke, resigned.
the county amounted to 6600 hales,
The Scottish Klto Club of Southern
and an average price of 36 cents a
Oregon wu* organized by 32d-degree
pound, or $70 a bale, was received by
Mason* at a dinner In Medford.
local growers.
Approximately $111,000 lea* In tuxe*
According to the records In the As
will be assessed In Baker county this
toria customs house, 569 vessels loaded
year than were collected In 1021.
at lumber mills In the Columbia river
Mr*. Manila A. William*, 68 year* district during the year 1921 and their
of age, committed suicide at Salem by combined cargoes amounted to 637,582,-
Jumping o ff a bridge Into Mill Creek. 057 feet of lumber.
Iturlug the year Ju*t closed Clat*np
With the Carey act contract with
county hu* «pent $98,264 for new the state executed and a definite allot
bridge* and repair* to old structure*. ment o f water made hy the stale water
* Total fire In*» In A*torlu for the l>ourd, the North Canal company Is
year 1921 wa* $ir.7,:i(>0, for which In now ready to proceed with develop
nurance amounting to $122,200 wa* ment plans In the vicinity of Bend.
paid.
Mrs. C. K. (hippie, wife of a Hood
Kugene property owners will pny River orehnrdlsi and hanker, received
taxes till* year on a levy of 65.1 mill*, from I). Tancred of Kent, Wash., a
which I* an increase of 2.1 mill* over White Leghorn cockerel for which she
last year.
paid $250. Thl* Is the highest-priced
Kxcept several flllH and the bridge chicken ever brought to the valley.
over Cuke creek, the Oregon Cave*
I’ortland Is to have a new Orpbeum
highway near Crania 1‘asa 1* about
theater. In addition to the four-day-
completed.
u-week show now running In Portland,
There were a total of 242 accident*
a $1,000,000 structure to house *hows
reported to the atate ImlUHtriai acd
under the junior Orpheum plan will
dent rnmmlHnlon during the week end
be opened within the next 18 months.
Ing January 6.
Methodist Episcopal churches of the
H J. Klierly, UHHlRtant *tate forester,
Portland urea, which Includes Wash
while on hia way to Seattle Sunday by
ington und Oregon, have set aside the
automobile, »uffered a fractured arm
first week of next April as "clean-up"
and other Injuries.
week, when churches und parsonages
During the puat Henson ClatHop coun
and surrounding grounds will he reno
ty uperated five state-owned truck* on vated.
highway Improvement work at an ex
The largest gain In postal receipts
pense of $21,400 45
ever made In Oregon City was record
The farmer* of the Ittrkreall vicinity
ed at the local postofflce for the year
will meet Junuury 11 to take action 1921. The gain Is 19.7 per cent over
with relation to ucipilrlug flux acre last year and places the office high
age fur the year 1922.
among the others of Its class In the
The former Clatsop mill In Astoria, state.
recently purchaaed by the Astoria Box
A well defined plan Is said to be un
company, will h ih iii begin operations
der way at Astoria to form an organi
with 180 men at work.
zation which will control the output
A block o f $150,000 6 1-2 per cent of the various logging camps In the
Tillamook county road bond* wu* Hold lower Columbia river district and thus
at Tillamook to a Cortland bond houae
regulate the prices at which logs shall
at a premium o f $3772.00.
be sold.
A lath mill will be Installed In Al
Only 67 out of a total of 7642 claims
liany thl* month by the Anderson Fuel
for ca*h bonus and loans examined
company, which will al*o operate a by the world war veterans' state aid
lumber yurd with Its mill.
commission hBVe been rejected, accord
The county agent work In Coos coun
ing to a report prepared by Captain
ty has been cut from the expense ar
Harry Bruinbuugh, secretary of the
count of the budget, uh well ua the commission.
ilemoiiHtrater approprlutIon.
The Lukevlew chamber of commerce
A Bhort course for commercial club
has udopted a resolution urging that
aeorelarle* will be offered by the lint
from the money to be derived from the
varsity of Oregon during Easter vnen
sale of Lake couuty road bonds the
tlon from March 27 to April 1.
slim of $90,000 he set apart for con
The Cendleton Cocking company hn*
structlon of a road from Lakevtew to
nearly doubled It* output during the
Kluuiath Falls.
lew weeks It bus been In existence and
Seaside probably will be the site of
now hu* 24 men on ItB payroll.
the next state Klks' convention, accord
The Orogon Aggies In the aeu*nn of
ing to a decision reached at a meeting
1921 won 10 championships, broke two
of the officers of the Oregon State Elk*
roast records und played Oregon to a
association at Portland. Final deci
scoreless tie for the state football title.
sion was left to George Collins of Med
8 M CalkIna of Kugene, for IB year*
ford, president of the usHoclatlon.
reporter of the circuit court of the dis
W. C. Henderson, acting chief of the
trict comprising Lane, Benton and Liu
United States biological survey, will
coin counties, has reslgni-d his pool
be In Portland January 20 to confer
tlon.
with the attorney-genera! of Oregon
A rotary diamond drill capable of
on the controversy over ’he Malheur
drilling a 4 1-2 Inch hole to a depth of
bird reserve, raised by the uettlers In
4INMI feet has been shipped to Med
the Harney valley Irrigation district.
ford for us«' by the Western Oil com
Owners of automobile Htage lines op
pany.
erating between Portland and Bslem
Arrest* by the Clackamas couuty
Intimate that some action probably
sh eriffs office for the year of 1921,
will be taken In the near future to
more than doubled those for 1920. nc
test the constitutionality of at least
cording to a report compiled by Sher
two of the highway conservation laws,
iff Wilson.
approved at the recent special session
Kvldeuce of Medford's continued
of the legislature. The most objection
prosperity and growth of poHtuffIce
uble of these laws. It wa* said, Is the
receipts Ilea In the fact thut the Med
one providing for an Increase In the
ford postoffice Is now In the first clusa
license fees.
of post offices.
Following receipt of a pledge from
Thirty-five thousand cords of white
members of the state fish commission
fir wood to be used in the manufacture
that they will not again appear before
of paper hua been cut during the year
the legislature m quest of appropria
in the upper basin of McDowell creek
tions, and a statement to the effect
in Linn county.
that the fishing Indusry of the state
Many of the small sawmills on the
Is at present Imperiled because of in
Iswnr Hluslaw river and In adjacent
sufficient funds to repair damage to
territory are resuming operations uf
hatcheries
resulting
from
recent
ter an Idleness In some cases of a
storms, Governor Olcott signed house
year's duration.
hill No. 6 carrying an appropriation of
The Oregon Agricultural college
$64,600.
I make! ball team opened the northwest
Governor Olcott vetoed house bill
conference season at Corvallis with a
No. 31, providing for a special election
victory over the Whitman college five
on May 19, to be held In connection
hy a score of 36 to 18.
with the regular primary 'contests, for
The Industrial rush at Marshfield
the purpose of referring to the voters
and stories of demand for large lum
of the state two resolutions and an
Iter shipment* during 1922 are bring
enabling act, approved at the recent
ing Into the Coos county district more
special session of the legislature. One
laborers than can get employment.
of the resolutions, which was sched
The state limestone plant at Gold
uled to go before the voters at the spe
Hill, authorised by the legislature for
cial election, authorised an Increased
the purpose of supplying Oregon farm
gasoline tax with which to provide
ers with limestone fertilizer at cost,
funds to finance the proposed 1926
has become a white elephant. Esti
expedition In Portland. The other res
mates were that from 20.000 to 60,200
olution authorized Linn and Renton
tons of llmestonp fertilizer were need
counties to levy a tax with which to
ed annually on Oregon farms, whereas
redeem outstanding warrants.
The
total sales during the existence of the
enabling act provided for putting tbs
plant have aggregated only 412$ Ulna-
srsrU's fig maahlaery U n a tion
Industries on Poos Bay reopened
after a suspension of but two days for
the Christmas festivities.
The Dailey Clay Products company's
plunt at Warrenton has begun opera
tions on a commercial basis.
Five house bills and two senate bills
passed at the recent special session of
the legislature were vetoed by Gover
nor Olcott.
The Southern Pacific company will
expend $47,000 or more In bellermenl
of Its tracks within the city limits of
Marshfield.
Plans for erection of a community
hall are being developed In the vicin
ity of Oakville, about ten miles south
west of Albany.
Approximately one out of every four
marriages In Deschutes county I* an
unsuccessful one, according to official
county records.
Reports at Washington, D. C., are
that Jonathan Bourne, Jr„ former (ten
ator from Oregon, is In a serious phy
sical condition.
Salem will witness a building pro
gram Involving the expenditure of
more than $1,000,000 In the year 1922,
according to C. P. Bishop.
Oucar Hoffman, 16, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Hoffman, of Needy, In
Clackamas couuty, accidentally killed
himself while out hunting.
The Christmas business of the Med
ford postofflce was greater by 20 per
cent thlB Christmas than the Christ
mas business of any year In Its history.
Gaston has started work on a drain
age system along Front street and Is
ruBhlng the work through and giving
employment to a large number of men.
There were 222 Industrial accidents
In Oregon during the week ending De
cember 29, according to a report pre
pared by the state Industrial accident
commission.
Robert J. Burkhardt, Albany dairy
man and dairy breeder, was elected
president of the Oregon Dalrymeh’s
association at Its 29th annual session
At Corvallis.
A conference of representatives of
various western Oregon cities will be
held at Roseburg, February 21, to con
sider the regulation of free automobile
camp grounds.
Ho much shipping is coming to the
port of Coos bay's new dock that the
port commissioners are discussing the
need for a turning basin opposite the
800-foot frontage.
Thtrty-one persons were killed In
traffic accidents on the streets of
Portland In the past fiscal year, ac
cording to the annual report of the
police traffic bureau.
Bearers that have been destroying
fruit trees on several farms In the
river bottom north of Eugene will be
trapped, according to Ed 8. Hawker,
district deputy game warden.
In spite of the low price of quick
silver and the total suspension o f the
Industry In the United Btates, there
is considerable activity In the quick
silver mines In the Gold Hill district.
No further steps have been taken
with reference to the second murder
Indictment pending against Carson I).
Beebe, acquitted at Albany on the
ground of Insanity, of the murder of
John Painter.
In order to be sure that every child
In La Grande of toy age was not
forgotten Christmas, two of the largest
stores of the city turned over to the
Red Cross all toys left on bands
Christmas eve.
The stute board of control has ac
cepted from the contractor the new
dormitory recently completed at the
state borne for the feeble-minded at
Salem
The structure cost approxi
mately $50,000.
I)r. W Carlton Smith, physician at
the state penitentiary, filed a report
with Oovernor Olcott In which the doc
tor expressed the opinion that Abra
ham Kvaus, under death sentence for
murder, Is Insaue.
Extremely heavy loads will be kept
off certain roads In J.ane county, ac
cording to an order made by the coun
ty court. The roads Included In tbe
order are said to have been cut up
badly this wlater.
The Oregon public service commis
sion has denied the application o f the
Southern Pacific company for an in
crease In fares on the lines of the Sa
lem Street liar company and the Eu
gene Street Car company.
First appraisals of property to be
used as security for loans under the
so-called Oregon bonus bill probably
will Is* made this week It Is expected
that funds on these loans will be forth
coming about February 1.
In response to a telegram announc
ing the plan for breaking ground for
the new $1,006,000 Klks' temple In
Portland, President Harding telegraph
ed the Portland lodge of Elks, con
■MtulAttM L **»
oa
U * ooaziug ovent-
Bend eornmercial club directors went
on record as strongly opposing the
King bill, Introduced In the United
States senate, with the object of chang
ing the national forest service from
the department of agriculture to the
Interior department.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAUNTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Sales of gasoline In Oregon during
the month of November, 1921, exceeded
those of the same month a year ago by
70,416 gallons, according to a state
ment complied by Sam A. Kozer, sec
There were 36 holdup robberies on
retary of state. Distillate sales showed
Portland streets during November.
an Increase of 70,709 gallons.
The delinquent taxes in Marlon
The Oregon sulo law, passed by the
session of the legislature last winter county for 1920 aggregate $67,580.84.
North Bend’s schools are closed on
and under which this year’s licenses
were Issued on the weight of cars, will account of five new cases of diph
be tested In the courts In an endeavor theria.
Construction ot a new building for
to have It declared unconstitutional hy
Attorney Lindas of Medford, who will the Kugene municipal market will be
gin at once.
bring the test car case Bhortly.
Thirty-five cars have been freed
Three bridges In Marlon county,
which were washed out as a result of from snow drifts on the Columbia
the heavy rains a few weeks ago are river highway, between Eagle creek
to be replaced. One of these bridges and Cascade Locks.
As a result of high tide, heavy rains
will be built on the Ablqua river, ten
miles southeast of Silverton, another and strong wind, about 2000 feet of
on the North Hantlatu river near Stay- the Spokane, Portland & Seattle rail
road track near Astoria was washed
ton, and the third near Marion.
out.
A force of 200 men Is being recruited
The steamer La Center, en route
to combat the pine-destroying beetle
from Kelso to the Portland stock
In the yellow pine forests south of
yards with 40 head of cattle, was cap
Klamath l.ake, beginning March 15,
sized In the Columbia river and 35
It was announced by T. D. Woodbury,
head drowned.
assistant United States forester. An
The Clackamas county farm bureau
appropriation of $150,000 for (he work
has gone on record as supporting the
will 1 h > available In two months.
principles of the Co-operative Dairy
Because of Governor Olcott’s veto men's league, which Is at present fac
of the hill passed at the recent ses
ing dissolution.
sion of the state legislature, amend
More than 11,000 Portland residents
ing the charter of the Eugene lodge paid In excess of $26,000 In police-
of Masons, the plans of the organiza court fines for traffic violations on
tion to erect a $150,000 temple may
Portland streets during the fiscal year
have to be postponed for a year, ac
ending November 30.
cording to members of the lodge In
Unemployment has reached the
terested In the project.
point in Portland where Immediate ac
At the annual venison feed at La tion Is necessary In the Judgment of
Crar.de of the Wing, Fin and Fleet- the members of Mayor Baker’s un
foot club, the fish and game club of employment committee.
Union county, more than 150 sports
Portland and the commission of pub
men helped dispose of sevoral deer lic docks expended $17,244,130.60 dur
that had been Illegally shot, the club ing the fiscal year of 1921, according
having purchased the carcasses from to a financial statement given out by
the fish and game commission follow City Treasurer Adams.
ing their seizure and use as evidence.
Tbe prune market Is strong and In
The University of Oregon grade bul dications are that the price will hold
letin indicates that the women lead steady or advance, according to W. T.
the men by a narrow margin In scholar Jenks, manager of the Willamette
ship in the university for the fall Valley Prune association.
The Southern Pacific company has
term. With a total of approximately
1060 men and 940 women registered notified the Oregon public service
for the term, a total of 33 women and commission that it has canceled Its ap
31 men received no grade lower than plication for an Increase of fares on
II, next to the highest possible mnrk. the West Linn street car lines.
Oeorge Stlckney, cashier of the Carl
“ Get rid of the water before 1925”
was the new slogan adopted by the ton State bunk and owner of a con
Oregon State Drainage association, trolling interest In its capital stock,
when 100 of the members met at the was placed under arrest on a charge
seventh annual session held during of embezzlement of funds of the bank.
Released from Its position beneath
Fanners' week at the Oregon Agricul
tural college. More than 750,000 acres a bank of snow and Ice near Frieda,
of wet land In tho Willamette valley tbe Oregon Trunk train Imprisoned in
will demand community outlet ditches. the Deschutes canyon since Saturday,
November 19. arrived In Bend Fri
It was reported.
It took only two hours and 30 day.
A petition Is being circulated among
minutes to raise Toledo's quota of $15,-
000 In the proposed Toledo Invest the land owners of the Coburg district
ment and Improvement corporation, in Lane county asking that the Co
which organization has been planned burg drainage district be organized.
to finance the construction of houses This will reclaim 12,000 acres of val
to be sold and rented to employes of uable land.
A special 2%-mlll road tax was vot
the Pacific Spruce corporation mill,
which will begin operations after the ed by Oregon City. The tax, which
will raise $7600 on the assessed valu
first of the year.
William A. Douglas of Gold Hill, ation of nearly $750,000, will be used
who acquired the Iliuu Danielson gold for permanent road Improvements
quartz mine, three miles southwest within the city limits.
Seven University of Oregon stu
of Gold Hill two years ago, hHs com
pleted a 125-foot drift Into the main dents who won distinction as marks
ledge of the mine, uncovering a large men, sharpshooters and expert rifle
body of ore. The new works are urv men at the encampment last summer
der the old works, where many thous have Just been presented with United
ands of dollars of rich ore wus re States government medals.
Fees from motor vehicle licenses
covered some 20 years ago.
Unless the proponents uf the pro during the month of November aggre
posed 1925 exposition are able to de gated $8,756.76, according to a re
termine by Thursday whether the fair port prepared by Sam A. Koter, secre
legislation considered at the recent tary of state. Total receipts thus far
special session of the legislature was this year are $2,331,326.75.
The work of remodeling and enlarg
legally approved, It Is probable thut
Governor Olcott will veto the bill ing the Salem postofflce will start
passed during the closing hours of the within 60 days, according to a tele
assembly authorizing a special elec gram received from Senator McNary.
tion to be held May 19 In conjunction The cost of the proposed improve
ments has not yet been determined
with the regular primary contests.
The county court bus called for bids definitely.
A terrific wind and rain visited the
for the final cruise of tho Douglas
county timber lands. For the past western section of the state Thursday
The storm
three years Douglas county has been and did much damage
having cruises made o f Its standing broke down Innumerable telephone
timber for the purpose of obtaining and light poles and hundreds of trees,
definite Information and data upon broke plate glass windows und played
which to base a cash assessment. Next havoc with signs.
Cargo lumber shipments from the
year will mark the completion of the
task and the 1922 assessment rolls are Columbia river during the month ot
expected to carry the timber lands on November were quite heavy. Accord
ing to statistics compiled, 64 vessels
a baals of their cash value.
Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state, loaded at the mills on the river and
acting upon the advice of the attorney- their combined cargo amounted to 63,-
general, refused to accept for filing In 527,508 feet of lumber.
Roy Klein, secretary of the Oregon
his office bouse joint resolution No. 3,
providing for submission to the voters state highway commission, and C. B.
of the state at a special election May McCullough, bridge engineer of the
19 the question of amending the con same department, left Salem for
stitution so as to authorise the financ Omaha to attend the annual meet
ing of the proposed 1925 exposition ing of tbe National Association of
through a gasoline tax. The secretary State Highway officials.
Among the miscellaneous shipments
of state, In explaining hla action In
refusing to accept the resolution for from the port of Astoria terminals
filing from F W. Drager, chief clerk during November were 10,176 cases of
of tbe senate, said It had not been canned salmon to foreign ports. In
signed either by Roy Kltner, president cluding points in Europe and Austra
of the senate, or L. E. Bean, speaker lia, and 63,805 cases to domestic
of the house of representatives. Be points, principally on the Atlantio
In addition to this a consid
cause of the omission of these signa coast
tures tbe secretary of state held that erable quantity of mild cured and
frozen fish was sent to Euroya
Us rsMiatio» wan u t oompUud.
i
Btx hundred turkeys will be given
a* prises In s big trap shoot to be stag
ed on the grounds of the Eugene Ouo
club by the Eugene lodge of Elks Sun
day, December 11. The shoot will bs
given 0« 6 means of Increasing the
lodge's Christmas charity fund
The Nevada-Callfornla-Oregon Rail
road company has filed with the In
terstate commerce commission an ap
plication for a certificate of public
convenience and necessity to enable
the company to abandon Its line be
tween Hackstaff, Cal., and Lakovlew,
Or.
When the steamship Nebraska clear
ed from Portland last week, It took
the last shipment of apples exported
by the Oregon Growers’ Co-operative
association for the 1921 season This
lot will make a total of 131 cars ot
apples shipped hy the association this
year.
The white pine blister infestation
which has been discovered In British
Columbia, will be the subject of a con
feronce to be held In Portland Decem
ber 19. Because of the seriousness
of the pine blister, many leading path
ologists of the United States will at
tend the conference.
There were two fatalities In Ore
gon due to industrial accidents durlns
the week ending December 1, accord
Ing to a report prepared by the state
Industrial accident commission. The
victims were H. O. Neal, policeman
McMinnville, and Thomas H. Howard
powder man, Vemonla.
Oovernor Olcott granted to John L
Rathle and Elvle D. Kirby, alias
James Owens, who were to have been
hanged In the state penitentiary al
Salem Friday for the part they played
In the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor
of Umatilla county In July, 1920, a re
prleve until Friday, February 3.
Further Increases In the shipments
of lumber from the northwest by water
Is Bhown by the weekly lumber review
for the week ending November 26, Is
sued by the West Coast Lumbermen’s
association. The report shows thal
of shipments for the week a total ol
45 per cent was shipped by water.
Oeorge HUes, a Medford high school
boy, has Just received word that hr
won first prize In the recent national
composition contest conducted by ths
Hampshire Sheep Breeders’ associa
tlon, with headquarters In Chicago
The subject was "W h y the Hampshire
Is the Best Sheep for the Farmer.”
Approval will not be given by thr
board of engineers this year to the re
quest ot Portland for a 32-foot pro
Ject In the Columbia and Willamette
rivers to the sea. Major-General Lan
sing H. Beach Informed Senator Me
Nary and General Manager Dodson ol
the Portland Chamber of ComraercA
Progress with the rotary plow u$
the Deschutes canyon from Bend it
becoming Increasingly difficult,
it
thick coating of Ice over the rails
which the rotaries will not affect, it
said to be the cause. Hope haH beer
given up for direct railroad communt
cation with The Dalles or Fnllbrldgt
before next week.
L. E. Bean, speaker of the house, lx
a letter received recently by Frank
Davey. member of the lower branck
of the legislature from Marlon coun
ty, suggested that the expense of tht
special session called for Decembei
19 be reduced to the minimum through
tbe elimination of an army of need
less clerks and stenographers.
Eastern railroads have concurred li
reduction (n transcontinental rates ot
lumber proposed last September bj
the western roads. Rates from tin
Pacific coast on carload shipments ol
lumber to Clnclnnatl-Detrolt terrltorj
will be 85 cents a hundredweight, t«
Pittsburg-Buffalo territory 88 tk centi
and to the eastern seaboard, 60 cents
Members of the state Industrial aool
dent commission report that many e a
ployers of Oregon apparently have n«
knowledge that a law was enacted ai
the last session of the legislature pro
vldlng thut children under the age ol
18 years cannot be employed legall)
In hazardous occupations unless the)
shall have received a permit from th<
proper authorities Under the old las
the age limit relating to permits wai
16 years.
Douglas county timber wtl be classl
fled according to Its cash value al
a meeting of timber owners to b«
held In Portland on Deoember 21. Th<
county cruise Is almost completed an4
the timber owners have decided t«
divide the timber Into groups, baslni
the segregation on the relative valut
of the timber. The accessibility ot
the timber and facilities for markst
Ing will largely form the basis el
valuation.
The Women’s Home Missionary so
clety closed a two days’ session al
Salem with the election of the fol
lowing officers! Mrs. Matthew Simp
son Hughes, Portland, honorary prosl
dent for life| Mrs. William OrviU«
Shephard, Portland, president; Mrs
H. O. Jennings, Buttevllle, first vice
president; Mrs. Oeorge W. Lilly, Port
lsnd, second vice-president; Mrs. Katz
Burleson, McMinnville, third vice
president; Mrs. T. O. Herme. Medford
fourth vice-president; Mrs. G. L
Alden, Salem, recording secretary!
Mrs E. F. Collins, Portland, record
Ing secretary, and Mrs K. Staples
Portland, treasurer.