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VOLUME XXXIV NUMBER 26 COTTAGE GROVE, LANE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1924 <4 1 " «¿> * TRASK GETS A PRETTY | DIPLOMA ISSUED BY | EUGENE TRAFFIC OFFICER | | <4------------------ -------------------------- ♦ ) R. 8. Trask is exhibiting a diplo- i ma indicating that he has completed Speaker Not Restrained This Time , a post graduate course in the opera- Two-Mill Tax Likely to Be Plan I tion of an automobile upon city in Attack Upon County Com for Raising $70,000, the streets. The diploma was issued by missioner Sharp. Estimated Cost. | a Eugene traffic officer and bears upon its face a receipt for a fee of That the address of Colonel W. G. j $12 paid by Mr. Trask. The diploma Lane county's share of the cost D. Mercer Friday evening, in which i was presented to Mr. Trask while of the proposed Linn-Lane eouuty he attacked the character of County i ho and party were passing through bridge to be erected at Harrisburg culled . Eugene Thursday last on their way across the Willamette river will be Commissioner Emmett Sharp, ~ for criminal libel proceedings, | to Corvallis to attend a meeting of submitted to the people of Lane seemed the verdict of all who heard I the Past Masters, Masters and county at the election to be held the talk, which was given before Wardens association of the Willam in May. The Lane county court has an audience which comfortably ette valley. instructed the district attorney to Despite this evidence of Mr. draw up a resolution to that effect. filled Phillips hall, It was esti- Trask ’ s proficiency, he permitted one mated that at least half of those Clyde N. Johnston, district attorney, present were sympathizers with the of his tires to indulge in a puncture has announced that in bis opinion man attacked. The fact that steno a mile outside of Corvallis. As the the money, approximately $70,009, graphic notes were taken by a tire used to replace the punctured would have to be raised by a two- Sharp sympathizer indicated the one was weak, Elbert Bede, who mill tax levy, or by bonds. The possibility that some kind of action also took a party to the meeting, former method is preferred and will against Colonel Mercer was contem volunteered to travel in the rear on be submitted, it is believed. the way home, in order to give as plated. The announcement was made The speaker dared, defied and in sistance if necessary. Trask said Monday at a meeting attended by vited the object of his attack to that he would appreciate such ac moro than 40 business men of Linn tion provided the other party was county, and members of tho Eugene start such proceedings. This was Colonel Mercer’s second not in a hurry. of commerce. Roy Klein, The assistance was needed, as the chamber address here. An attack upon state highway engineer, explained Sharp’s private life was averted at spare which had been put on went the construction of tho proposed the. time of Mercer’s first address flat just out of Junction City. Bede, structure, which would cost, he es here upon the request of the super who claims to always drive at a timated, $210,000. One-third of this intendent of schools and the editor moderate speed, and who endeavored would be borne by the state, a of The Sentinel. 'The nature of the to keep within hailing distance, said third by Linn county, and tho same colonel’s remarks at his second that Trask sprung a good one when by Lane county. The state highway meeting was sufficient evidence that he remarked about tho second party commission and Linn county have he would allow no one to put a remaining in the rear if not in a already arranged for their shares, hurry. He said he believed Trask dumper on this time. ho pointed out, and all that remains Weary and worn from the strenu should have applied for a second to start tho projects is for Lane ousness of conducting the recall diploma. county to provido its share. ,w campaign and addressing audiences The proposed structure would in nearly every night, declaring himself Poison Sausage Is Fatal. clude three spans of 180 feet, to be near the end of his span of life Sterling, Colo., Feb. 26.—The constructed of steel on concrete and in no position to get in bad death of Dominio Cametto, 31 years foundations, and a wooden trestle, with the one before whom he soon old, and Joe Notario, five years r.pproximately 1170 feet in length, must appear to be judged for the old, at the Sterling hospital, shortly on the Lane county side of the things said and done here, and cull before 3 o’clock this afternoon, river. One span would be available ing upon the common father to wit brought the death toll of persons for a draw but the United States ness what he was about to say and stricken following the eating of war department has declared that to support him in doing so, Mercer poisoned sausage to 12. Two others, would not insist that machinery launched upon a scathing attack Camillo Dottcra and John Notaria, it upon the character of Commissioner are in the hospital here and doctors for this purpose be put in nt this Sharp, the like of which had never have abandoned hope for their re time. The bridge would allow a before been heard here. Words covery. Physicians have diagnosed 24 foot vehicle span and a 12-foot . which in their beautiful arrange the malady as betulism poisoning. sidewalk. Should it appear that Lane county' ment appealed to the best and high Eleven others who ate the sausage est in man were strangely mixed are confined to their homes but is certain to provide its share, bids with others that burned and sizzled. their conditions aro declared to be will be called for in May, Mr. Klein and members of tho commission The attack upon Commissioner not critical. stated. It is hoped that the con Sharp was based upon an alleged Samples of meat supposed to have crete piers may be put in during conversation by Mr. Sharp with an caused tho illness were taken to operator of a national detective Denver this afternoon for analysis. the coming summer, to be followed agency, alleged to have been taken All of those stricken aro members by tho rest of the work inside of in shorthand by a stenographer and of a prosperous Italian farming com a year. From 15 to 18 months is to have been witnessed by two oth munity in the Atwood-Merino dis the time estimated as necessary; The new structure would be erected ers, of whose presence the commis trict, near here. blocks south of the present sioner was not aware. On Friday evening members of threo ferry. Colonel Mercer-explained that he several families gathered at tho The two-mill tax levy on T.anc had spent many years in the secret home of Tony Notario, one of the service, knew how to get the facts victims, five miles south of here, county property would raise slightly about those about to be brought to make sausage. A large quantity more than the required $70,000, before the courts or the bar of pub of the food was prepared and a por sinco the property valuation is ~ Commissioners lic opinion and that he was pre tion was served at an evening meal. $36,500,000. County L. N. Roney and E. M. Sharp and pared by affidavits and proofs of Judge C. P. Barnard, who were pres other kinds to defend every state Oil Company Plans Display. ent, stated that they believed that ment made and every word uttered. Eugene Register: Something the measure would easily carry in With irony and invective, Colonel unique in a window display is being Lane county. Mercer attacked the favoritism al planned by the Guaranty Oil com The state highway commission al leged to have been shown some of those of the lower order physically pany for the new offices of the con so stands ready to finish paving the but yet fully able to support them cern in the Melvin Hansen Realty road from Junction City to Harris selves, while widows in need were office on Willamette street. The burg as soon as the bridge project alleged to have been at the same window is to be fitted qp as a min is assured, it was stated by mem time neglected. He again asked iature oil field and a derrick will be bers at the meeting. The completion for an explanation of why so much in operation showing the methods of the bridge would mean that an county money is spent with multi employed in drilling and the other unbroken highway would extend corporations located activities around the rig. The rig from the international bridgo at millionaire somewhere else when the same sup- and other equipment that will be Vancouver, B. C., to the Mexican plies could be purchased cheaper at installed in the window display will border in California. be built to scale and will prove to home. It would be difficult to say what be an interesting exhibit, according Woods Worker Sustains Fracture the result of the attack upon to Dr. David Eugene Olson, promoter William Hawthorne, 60 years of Sharp’s private life has been. Many of the Guaranty company. Work of age, who was employed as log hauler who favor the recall said that no installation of the miniature oil rig at the A. L. Woodard sawmill, fell such attack should have been made, is under way. Wednesday afternoon of last week while' others who have been op while at work and broke his right posed to the recall said that unless County Jail Being Remodeled. leg just above the ankle. He was Sharp proceeds with a criminal ac The upper story of that part of to a Eugene hospital after re tion against the one who made such the jail which was until recently taken first aid treatment here. an attack that there is a probability occupied by Sheriff Stickels and ceiving Mr. Hawthorne here from that in the end the attack will aid his family, is being remodeled for Alberta, Canada, came where his family 1 he recall. the use of feminine and juvenile Both sides anticipate the starting prisoners. Sheriff Stickels is not still resides. of criminal proceedings at once. satisfied with the way the work is Colonel Mercer had delivered the being done. He has said that the <»----------- ------ -------------------------- * CITY COUNCIL same address at several other points bare brick walls can be easily dug of the county before delivering it through an<l that the small iron ♦--------------------------------------------- here and announced his intention bajs being placed over the windows Petitions received for the opening of continuing to ¿eliver it at other can be easily removed by either of north Tenth street and for the macadamizing of Woods avenue cas* points. feminine or juvenile prisoners. The lower floor will be used by to 8eventh street, Seventh street north to Grover avenue and Chest Funeral of Former Resident Held. the jailer. Tho funoral of Mrs. Mary Mc The recent grand jury recommend nut avenue from I street west to Cauley Cheyne, 84 years of age, a ed the building of a new jail. The L street. Mr. Rogers, an engineer from the former resident of this city, who same recommendation has been Oregon Agriculutral college, gave a died Friday at Klamath Falls, was made by several grand juries. comprehensive report upon what held here Monday from the chapel, N. B. Walden officiating. Inter Fordson Demonstration Is Success should be done to insure an ade quate water supply for the city. ment took place in A F. 4 A. M . The Fordson tractor demonstra Bid for making maps of water I. O. O. F. cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. tion, held here Thursday last, at Cheyne were residents of this city tracted considerable attention. As and sewer system opened and laid at the time of Mr. Cheyne’s death a part of the demonstration, one of on the table. Proposed contract with Mountain in 1917. Mrs. Cheyne then went to the machines was attached to a Klamath Falls, where she made her house which was being moved down States Power company laid on table. Motion prevailed that Mountain home with her daughter up to the Adams avenue. It pull^j the struc States Power company move its time of her death. The children ture for about three blocks. poles off of Main street between brought the body here for burial A moving picture show was given the Southern Pacific station and the beside that of the husband. in the evening in the high school z - ------------------ west Main street bridge. auditorium. The uses of several The foltowing bills were auditod Unknown Man la Dying. farming implements in connection Salem, Ore., Feb. 27.—Out at the with a tractor were illustrated, lec and allowed: state hospital here a man is dying. tures being given by factory ex Phil Jones, labor water line $ 55.50 The patient was committed here perts. Factory equipment and pro Phil Jones, labor sewer line 4.20 February 20 from Lane county, ap duction methods were also illus- Knowles & Graber, supplies. .. 3.05 parently insane as a result of in trated. Knowles & Graber, supplies.... 1.50 juries believed to have been suf W. B. Osmon, labor water line 23.00 fered in an automobile accident. Ix'slie Perkins, labor water Today Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner ap C. G. 8tudents on Committee. line __ - 1.50 Oregon Agricultural College, Feb. pealed to the press to assist in a L. H. Axtell, labor water line 1.50 29. — (Special.) — The members of the search for friends or relatives of A. C. Anderson, freight and the man who gives his name as Greater O. A. C. committee have cartage _________ ______ 3.61 selected three prominent students to Dan Murphy. No other information City Transfer, street cleaning 3.00 represent Cottage Grove in the can be elicited from him by the greater O. A. C. council The chair J. F. McFarland, salary____ 100.50 hospital authorities. man is William F. Haldeman, sopho H. W. Lombard, salary_____ 20.00 more in engineering. His assist Mothers’ club, rent________ 10.00 Senatorial Candidate Visits. C. E. Frost, salary_________ 10.00 Knp Kubli, of Portland, and D. E. | ants are Kenneth McReynolds, fresh Mountain States Power Co__ 200.00 Fletcher, of Independence, were vie- 1 man in civil engineering, and Ner Sentinel, printing and pub__ 16.40 itors in the city Tuesday. Mr. Kubli val Armes, freshman in commerce. Sentinel, printing________ _ 6.75 is speaker of the house of repre- • Sentinel, publishing __ _ 2.85 sentatives of the Oregon legislature Fraud la Claimed in Deal. G. B Pitcher, salary______ 125.00 and a candidate for United States Claiming that property at Twin G. B Pitcher, expense_____ 3.75 Senator. Mr. Fletcher is a repre Falls. Ida., for which they had Homer Galloway, salary and sentative from Polk county and traded property in Cottage Grove, expense___________ _ ___ 107.40 chairman of the ways and means was worth but 1200 instead of (1200 First National Bank. exp.___ .65 committee. as represented, E. J. and Stella 8co First National Bank, int___ 451.63 Mr. Kubli expreeaed himself as field have begun suit in circuit First National Bank, bond greatly encouraged with the recep court against Ward W. Johnston to redemption--------------------1030.00 tion given his candidacy. He was rescind and annul the agreement First National Bank, int----- 903.15 once a resident of Eugene. I Council ndjourned to March 17. entered into for the trade. VOCIFEROUS VOLLEY CASCADES ON FOOT Harbaugh Takes War Path for Com Road Is Hidden and Traveler Fol missioners; Error Admitted lows Line of Telephone Poles Across Lava Beds. and Explained. In a letter and affidavit from J. J. Harbaugh, whieh appeared in Sunday’s Eugene Register, he seems to wish to give the general impres sion that a certain woman was not furnished with silk underwear at county expense, as recently stated in The Sentinel. It is regrettable that Mr. Harbaugh felt that the subject of women’s underwear called for restrained language and con fined himself to the use of such high-sounding and ladylike expres sions us “unqualified falsehood,’’ etc. Had he had a free rein he probably would have used emphatic la nguiige. Unless this war of the underwear is soon discontinued, there is reason to fear that the underwear will be rent to shreds and the county will have spent its $5 the suit for noth ing. The Sentinel will set Mr. Har baugh and Commissioners Sharp and Roney a good example by admitting an error. The Sentinel had every reason to believe that its story was based upon facts that could be proved, but it notv finds that such is not the case. The merchant who originally stated over the telephone (as he admits) that the underwear was for a woman (although tho requisition was for men’s underwear), now’ states that he was in error in giv ing such information but that had tho underwear been for tho woman (as he at first stated that it was) it probably would ha*c beeu of a silk and wool mixture. This is onough upon tho subject of who wears the underwear, but the fact that it was for a county prisoner, instead of for tho prison er’s wife, does not in any way belittle the point Tin) Sentinel in tended to make, and which has been lost sight of in the turmoil of dis cussion, that every act of tho econ omy county commissioners, even to that of buying underwear for its prisoners, has been one of cureless extravagance. What they have done about little things they have re peated with the big things. Tho letting of road contracts, of bridgo contracts, of a cruising contract, has been in a manner the same as the giving of this order for under wear, which was a requisition with no limit as to the price. The pur chaser, a county prisonor, being supported at county expense, de manded the best in the store, while many taxpayers werii at the same time shopping around tor underwear of a more moderate price. An exam ¡nation of the records in tho county clerk’s office shows that this same family was treated very \indly in all respects by Commissioners Sharp and Roney, among items listed be ing gym clothes for the kiddies, shoes at $6.70, $5.50 for light and water for one month mid a chicken dinner. No other charge of the county wns treated to n chicken din ner. Why this favoritism! The moonshining and bootlegging business must be coming to a pretty pass when, the moment a moon shiner or bootlegger is put in jail, the county has to take up the sup port of the family. The dealers in booze probably will have to go to the government for a guaranteed price for their product. Getting away from the little things, although they have an im portant bearing upon the ease, The Sentinel is yet waiting for an ex planation of why the Warren Con struction company was favored with an outright gift of $5000; why 50 per cent of the cost of the. Flor ence bridge went to paying a super intendent from Washington to su perintend three men from Portland and to pay a 10 per cent bonus and bonus wages; why an economy ad ministration spent $2000 for super intendence and bonus on tho Spring field bridge; why the commissioners evade the Jaw in purchasing many thousand dollars worth of supplies from outside concerns without bids, while local firms stand ready to of fer bids at lower figures; why the county bought Roney’s bridge tools; why the county issued probably $25,000 or $30,000 in illegal war rants during last year alone—mean- NEW EGG IAW IS EXPEAINED Consumers to Benefit by Necessity of Sorting Eggs to Three Standard Sizes. The new egg grading law which goes into effect at once, will not work a hardship upon the egg pro ducers of tho state as many have feared, according to E. E. Morrison, manager of the farmers’ union warehouse, who attended a meeting in Portland last week with the state dairy and food commissioner. Mr. Morrison said that the new law provides that all eggs offered for sale shall be candled and then graded according to size. All standard eggs must be packed separately, according to grade, and the grade marked on the end of the case, says the law. If the producer sells direct to the consumer the producer in required to candle and grade the eggs, but if he sella to the dealer the dealer must do this, said Mr. Morrison. The new law was enacted for the benefit of the consumer, it is stated. It has been the rule for many yearn to charge no much a dozen for eggs, no matter what size, bnt under the new law the several grades will be sold at different prices. Bends Oro., Feb. 16.—Experience in crossing tho “top of Oregon’’ (the McKenzie pass country) in winter without snow shoes and bet ter clothed for the mild climate of California than for the summit of the Cascades, were told here by Al len Carlton, who came from San Francisco to Bernd in search of a brother. Carlton crossed the McKenzie pass snow fields Wednesday, having ing walked from McKenzie Bridge to the lava beds Tuesday. Tuesday uight he slept on a meat block in a camp used by the road construc tion crews last summer. He crossed the lava bods, walked to Sisters and caught a ride to Bend in one day. The lava beds in the vicinity of the McKenzie pass road are covered with about five feet of snow, it is estimated by Carltoll, who hiked across tho deep snow and hidden crevasses with nothing on his feet but a light pair of shoes and some gunny sacks. There is an icy cover ing on the snow now and Carlton said he had little difficulty in cross ing the lava, following the lino of telephone poles. Tho road is entirely hidden by the snow. Carlton experienced n near acci dent lifter he had crossed the snow- covered summit and started down the east Hlope of the mountains. With the muscles of his logs aching and one foot “nearly out of corn mission,’’ tho longdistance hiker fell on the icy snow and “slid for a couplo of blocks.’’ Tho mantle of snow extends down tho west side of tho mountains to a short distance below Alder springs and on the east side of tho divide to within about eight miles of Sis ters, said Carlton, The snow-cov- cred mountains in the vicinity of the McKenzie pass road present a beautiful sight, he said. No indications recent visitors to tho lava fields were noticed by Carlton, although he said a trap per’s camp was found near the east side of the lava beds. When in San Francisco, Carlton heard that a brother was living in this part of tho stnte and decided to visit him. At Eugene he left the train and headed up the McKenzio valley by stage. Ho walked the trip to Bend from McKenzie Bridge in two days. This is believed to be a record for a hike across McKenzie pass in the winter. Carlton is «till in Bend but has not located his brother. He snys he is not going to walk back across McKenzio pass. Rubber stamps of every kind at Tho Sentinel live wiro print shop. Anything in the printing or nlliod lines can bo secured at or through your home live wire print shop. ing warrants issued where no funds were provided; why Commissioner Slinrp neglected to keep his solemn promise to macadamize the Cottage Grove-Lorane highway; why the personal expense account of econo my commissioners aro so much higher than were the personal ex penses of preceding commissioners, while the county judge has at the same time materially reduced his personal expenses. If the commissioners would some big things, The Sentinel shortly submit some comparative road costs under the present nd ministration and former adminis trations to whieh it will direct their earnest attenton. - ------------------------- I THEY READ THE SENTINEL I AND STRAIGHTWAY WANT | TO COME HERE TO LIVE I ♦----------------------------------------------- 0 If settlers are wanted for the Cottage Grove country, they cun be secured in any number merely by furnishing subscriptions to The Sen tinel to those now living elsewhere who have a desire to move. In proof of this statement, the follow ing communication is submitted. “Artesit, N. M„ Feb. 27.—Cot tage Grove Sentinel: Just received notice of expiration of luy subscrip tion to your paper. I thank you for the liberal offer made for re newal but will say wo contemplate starting for your part of tho coun try in a short time aud as we shall go by auto and »ill visit en route it may be some time before we ar rive. We have enjoyed your paper very much and received what wo consider much valuable information concerning tho country we plan to make our future home, and the various conditions existing there. “The old saying is that a good, live newspaper speaks well for tho country. If we aro as well pleased with the country as we have boon with your paper, Oregon will have one more family to enumerate in 1924. “Just discontinue my paper until we reach there. “Mrs. John Smith and Family.” Mrs. Amanda Williams Dies. Mrs. Amanda Jane Williams died February 29 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Murray Trunnell. The funeral was held Sunday after noon from the chapel, J. H. Ebert, pastor of tho Methodist church, of ficiating. Interment was in tho A. F. & A. M.-I. O. O. F. cemetery. Mrs. Williams was tho widow of John Williams, who died here about two years ago. She was born in Missouri September 15, 1849. She crossed the plains 38 years ago with her husband and their children, milking the trip in a wagon. They sottled first in Washington but moved to Oregon a number of years ago and resided in Cottage Grove for several years. Surviving children are Mrs. Mur ray Trunnell, Mrs. Charles Smith and Lee Williams, Cottnge Grove; Mrs. John Wilmers, Emmett, Ida.; E. G. Williams, Middleton, Ida.; Mrs. Mollie Kline, Battleground, Wash.; Mrs. Susan Cloud, Spring field, Mo.; John Wilburns, Middle ton, Ida. 8. H. Jarrett Is Injured. Saginaw, Ore., March 4.—(Spe cial.)—8. H. Jarrett was painfully injured Friday arternoon when he was dragged from his buggy when it was struck by an automobile. He was returning from Cottage Grove when two cars camo up be hind him. — Evidently they were traveling at u rapid rate of speed and were unable to stop on the wot pavement in timo to prevent strik- ing tho buggy and the accident probably was duo to tho fact that one ear attempted to pass tho other without having a ciear road. When the buggy was rammed forward onto the horse the horso becume frightened and dragged Mr. Jarrett from the buggy onto the pavement, dragging him for a con siderable distance. He sustained a severely injured back, a cut on tho face and numerous bruises. Car of Eggs Is Shipped. Shipment of a full carload of Lane county eggs to the California market was made last week by the Gray Cash and Carry company of Eugene. ThiH is the first carload shipment of eggs made from this district this year. The car con tained a total of 455 cases, each case containing 30 dozen eggs. Last spring tho same store sent out a earload of eggs each week for two months, although the shipments started later than this year. The egg market hero is better than last year, the local dealers re port,. A price of 16 to 18 cents is quoted on the best grade of fancy selected white eggs. The following is Mr. Harbaugh’s affidavit: State of Oregon, County of I-ane, ss. I, J. J. Harbaugh, being first duly sworn, depose and say: That, acting under the direction of the county court of Lane county, Ore gon, it is made my duty to in Mattox Is Found Guilty. vestigate, determine the need and William Mattox, of Cottage Grove, issue requisitions for clothing and wns found guilty by a jury in cir provisions for persons dependent cuit court Monday of the charge of on the county. I possession of moonshine mush fit That I read the matter published for distillation, and Judge Skip in the Morning Register, of Eugene, worth continued the case for sen Oregon, on Sunday, February 24, tence in order that ho might in 1924, by Elbert Bede, of Cottage vestigate tho circumstances of Mat Grove, Oregon, wherein he made tho tox’s offense. A strong plea for statement that the county connnis leniency had been made in his be sioners of 1-ane county, Oregon, had half. on January 3, 1924, caused to be purchased and paid for out of coun If we haven't exactly what you ty funds, on requisition number want—or can’t produce it—if it is 942, two suits of silk underwear anything in the printing line—we for a certain Eugene woman. can get it for you. xxx That I have investigated the mat ter and find that I issued requi sition number 942 on January 3, REMOVAL OF ELECTION 1924, on Hampton's drygoods store OFFICIAL FOLLOWS HER for two suits of underwear for ACTIVITY IN THE RECALL --------------------- —-------------------- 4 Fred Withrow, 532 Oak street, who ♦- was at that time working for the R. 8. BRYSON county liquidating a long term jail Clerk of I »me County sentence and fine. Eugene, Oregon That I have in my possession a February 29, 1924. receipted bill for two suits of men'» Mrs. Minnie Chapman, wool underwear bought on requisi Cottage Grove, Ore. tion number 942 of Alton Hampton Dear Mrs. Chapman: I regrot to ad on January 3. 1924, for Fred With vise you that since your name was row. on tho list as chairman of That said statement published by placed the election board for Izitbam pre the said Elbert Bede, on said date, cinct, the county court has decided setting forth that the county rec to change chairmanship of this ords show that two suits of silk board, and tho advised me to re underwear were bought and paid for move your have name and to designate by said county court, by requisition Adelle W. Anderson for this posi number 942, for a certain Eugene tion. woman, or that any silk underwear Very respectfully, for any person was bought and paid R. 8. BRYSON, for by the county court of Lane County Clerk. county, is an unqualified falsehood Mrs. Chapman said that the above without a shadow of justification. letter speaks for itself, that she J. J. HARBAUGH. has been removed from the election Subscribed and sworn to before board as retaliation for her activity me this 28th day of February. 1924. in circulating recall petitions. She R. ~ S ~ Bryson, County Clerk. I had forewarning, she stated, that (seal; By Eva L. Pease, Deputy. thia wan to happen. * County Conference Committee Makes Suggestions for Profitable Conduct of Business. Because of the predominance of the poultry industry here, tho report of the poultry committee of the re cent county agricultural conference held in Eugeno is of interest. Tho report of this committee was ouo of the most completo made by any committee and contained many facts and suggestions of value to those interested in poultry raising. The committoe stressed the fact that tho raising of hens is a valu able agricultural asset to the county and that the census reports show the value of chickens and eggs in Lane in 1919 was $563,924, which was $240,456 greater than the value of sw-’ne and $56,089 greator than tho beef cattle value. “The fact that poultry keeping has been a profitable crop during the general period of deflation has resulted in many farmers rushing into the business without due knowl edge of tho inauy probloms involved that are necessary to financial suc cess,’’ the report states. “In value of chickens and eggs produced Lone county ranks fifth in the state of Oregon. It pro duces a surplus of eggs that must be sent out of the county and in part from tho state. Facing this condition the poultry interests of the county must consider tho co operative marketing of surplus products and any future increase mast be along the lines of pro ducing an exportable product.’’ It is specifically recommended by tho committoo that for the general farmer, where adequate housing and management can be given, a sideline unit flock of 400 laying hens and pullets should be kept. A flock of this Bizo commands regular attention and returns a moro profitable in come for number of labor hours, tho report states. For tho farmers that are not interested to this extent it is recommended that only a suffi cient number of hens be kept to supply tho homo table, preferably less than two dozen hens. In suggesting methods for sue cessful poultry raising on a largo scale the committee recommends that for each 1000 hens provision must be mndo for at least ten acres of systematically yardod, tillable soil. Commercial poultry raising on smaller tracts results in ground con tamination, is tho conclusion reached by the committee. The whole-hearted support of tho Pacific Cooperative Poultry Pro ducers’ association is urged by tho committeo inasmuch as the associa tion is a necessary asset of inesti mable value to the poultry industry of the state. FARMERS’ UNION IS OUT WITH A COUNTY TICKET The farmers* union nominating committee Ims named a ticket that, is recommended by the county union. Another meeting will be held March 15, when more candidates will be en dorsed. The men so far selected aro as follows: For county commissioner, R. O. Brady, farmer, of Creswell. For sheriff, Hugh 11. Earle, tnx expert and aeeoiintnnt, of Eugeno. For county dork, R. S. Bryson, of Eugene, for reelection. For county treasurer. Miss Edna Ward, of Eugene, for reelection. For county superintendent of schools, E. J. Moore, of Eugene, for reelection. For county assessor, B. F. Keeney, of Eugene, for reelection. For county surveyor, P. M. Morse, of Eugene, for reelection. For representatives, H. C. Wheel er, of Pleasant Hill, for reelection; Ralph Laird, of Pleasant Hill; Ed ward F. Bailey, of Junction City, for reelection. Young Men Again In Trouble. Eugene, March 1.—Warren Wil kins and Stanley Thompson, I.ano county young men, caught by a posse at Peoria Friday night after thoy are said to have robbed tho I.amar & Isimar store, are members of prominent I-ano families. Both were involved some time ago in a number of baffling house and busi ness establishment robberies in Eu gene. Wilkins is a. member of one of the oldost and best respected families in Oregon.