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the atute I iouho trying to pa«« anti cig
arette bill« In Ml year.
“ I can hear the old «i«t«‘ra mol broth
i'rn «Hying in tho earn of logi«latora,
' Wo niimt gourd tho moral« of our brnvc
soldier boy« w hen they return. ’
We
huve «pout the last few montlm in conn
trio« iniii'li lower in morn 1 11 y than our
own and emerge clean. We think we can
MpirlUU Contant In On Bntwaan Trun» got along baok liiiiiie without ii lot of
old woiiii'ii trying to direet un. ’ ’
Appointai to Solicit Applica
tlonn for Mani barn!: Ip.
HKIIIKHT T E M P E R A T U R E OF 1H1H
Th«* following li'ltrr from Sergeant
Hurry 1*. C’ritrhlow. ti former Portland
new «paper man, who reported ibr 11*17
»»»•ion, ii tul who in now in Frnnce, In
Senator Vinton, wu» recently mad be
t'irv tho •»■iinti* nt Hali*m:
"H iuee you 1 hh | heard from me I have
■••rv»*d through tin* Argonne fight. There
I wnn with tho Hint, tho flower of the
wi-ntorn youth». I nuw thorn ([<> into
Imttlo nn bravely im tiny soldier* who
ot or firod n gun, nnd »nw thorn mini*
out worn Biol bloody, with riinkii
thinnod lint with furon that »poke nut
infnrtion at having |>orfonno<| n duty
well nml with orodit to tho wont which
gave thorn birth.
,
“ After tho Argonne wo fought in
Ib'lgium, nnd woro driving tho enemy
back rapidly w hon tho olo\onth o f No
vein her on mo, nnd wo were told Ihnt tho
nrnii*tiri* hnd boon ngr«*«*«l upon. Tho
torn und bloo<l»tnin»'d onrth o f both
bnttlcficbU contninu tho grave» o f innny
sleeping comrade», romrnde* who fought
until tho Inwt and gave their llvoa will
togljr.
■•The went will never forget the»»*
men, and every man who him nerved be
n»‘utli the Hint dlvinion color« will nl
way« be proud o f »uch «orvice.
“ War i« not n pleiiNiint thing, Itilly.
It 1« not plcnaant to have «hriipnol and
* uchinc gun bullet« flying nround you
tliick and fn»t, Inking your friend« nnd
conn mb'« in it« toll. We lire all glad
that it i« over nnd will I k - happy when
we run return to tho homo« wo loft bo
bind. Wo will come home n different
«el of men iin n who huve experienced
nil the hell human ingenuity run make.
“ Two day« after the «igning o f the
armiitire, I was called by A. K. K. hi'iul
quarter« to Join tho .star« nnd Stripe«, a
«tddiora* pulilirutlon. I'pon reporting to
Puri« I wua «out to the fir«t diviaion,
whioh form« tho advnnre «ootion o f tho
army of ocoupation. I have mi nutomo
lole at my dl«poH«l nt nil time» nnd hnvn
noon nio«t o f the neutral country o f Lux
milling, tho moat o f tho (icrmttn torri
lory orcutiicd by the Amerirnn army,
omi have experienced nt range experion
con.
“ I wan one o f the first American« to
crow« the lllnne. I have aeon more beau-
tiful eountry with the nrmy of oceutia
tion tbiin I ever «aw in France. The
Jlhine vnib'y mill the VI ono II c valley are
beautiful. Mark thin: The (lerman peo
ple lire not «tnrving. They lire «leek
and well fed. They luck white flour and
tallow, but out«ide o f thono thing« they
huve more food than the people o f
France. Tho cry o f ‘ «tnrving Oermnny ’
wan propaganda hatched up by export«
to temper tho mind« o f tho allion with
mercy at n time when mercy Nhntild not
be »hown.
“ Hilly, there will he n lot o f long
hair« at the «eaainn thin year linking
that an anti cigarette bill be pnnneit.
They will try to get the leginlation
through before the noblier« get bark.
The cigarette lum been one o f the bent
friend* the soldier ha« had over here.
< ’n 11 it a threat or whntever you wnnt
to, but the man who eimt« hia vote
against the cigarette in Oregon better
order bin political tombntone, for it wilt
!>e erected for him by the men who now
wear O. D. on foreign «oil; nnd murk
thin: We are not going to be dictated to
HI IN A U G U 8 T , I.OW EXT IS
17. IN D E C E M B E R
The thermometer registered HI above
/oro on the hottoat day of Inni summer
and 17 above gerii on tho coldont day
of the winter. The hottont day wan in
\ilgimt lind the I'o b b 'N t was in llereiu
ber. There were 170 idear day» during
the y»'«r, HU wer», cloudy, mul IOd were
fifty fifty, no to speak. The «now fnll
totaled I •,./ indie«, :t of w hich were in
March mid there were killing front« in
January, February, March, April mid
Iteci labor. Tho riiinfnll for tho year
wim 1 I '-j niche«, 7.NO of which wu« in
February.
The Miminary for tin* year, according
to the record« of Mm« Hath Stewart,
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An* you ii tiM'inbor o f tin* f ’ottagc
Orovn roinmcrciiil rlubf
If you itr«« not, mol if you <lo not in
taml to lifcomo «»no, you M bcttar bln*
»oiucoit«* to hol»l down your n'gultir Job
fur th«* naif f»»rtni^lit whili' you d«*vot<*
your 11 in«* to h yiiiii attempt to think
up u Miiti»fmtory i»imwrr to the above
i|ucnt ion for it »mull nr my o f enthu»i
untie eoiiiitterrinl club Imontern who htiv«-
I»« «'ii appointed for the »pcnnl purpoae
prot tirnig your »ignuture to nu iipplmi
tion for uiombt r»hip fun!
In addition to tIt«* d u b man 'a deaire
t
enhirge the orgnni/ntion 'a power,
widen tin* neopi* o f it» lietivitie» and
urotiHo ii greater mid more intelligent
iutcrcat hi civic mol municipal affair»
by a material iticrcnnc in membernhip,
a bit tif Npire ha» luVn injected into the
»"tnipui^ti by plat'in^ upon a competitive
baniN the fixe team» engaged, the win
mag team and I he remainder of the Hull
to be entertained and rofrnahed by and
at the expen»e of the lowing team».
Tin» event will be »taged at the Hub
room» »hurtl\ after th«« Hone of the
iio'iiiber»htp campaign,"which officially
began February .1 and will Hoar Feb
ruary 17. It 1» expected to be one of
the uio»t Mpnghtiy and diverting »octal
event» ever put on by the Hub, and will
il***lf be worth the coal o f a y e a r’» mein
ber»hip.
Thoae who are not contributing their
idea» and moral »upport, and who are
not ben»* f 111 ag from t h •* educational.
hoc 1 u! and ninuMcment feature» o f th«‘
Hull, will be bewieged by five coiupuuie«,
name<|, officere«! and n*cruite»l a» fol
low»:
The High Fanjnndrum« K. K. Mill»,
captain; A H i*owel|f lino. (). Knowlea,
Worth Harvey, |{uy K. Hhort.
The High Mucky Muck» ('. A. Har
1« II, captain; <». M. Mark »bury .1 A.
Wright, (leo. H Hrainard, W. W. Me
Fur la ml.
The High Hrow» H |„ Markin, cap
tain; F. A. Otiretwon, Jr., Hoy W Ola»»,
I> II lli'iionwuy, W. J. White.
The High Holler» A. W\ Hwanwon,
captain; ( . I*-. I inphrey, M II. Auder
min, Alf Jury, N. I., (iodard.
The High Hinder*- H H. Trank, rap
tain; Klbert Smith, ( ’ha». Adam», A
Hruml, I .enter I'help».
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Session Squibs
F rom S alem
(By KII»«Tt B H «.)
Hfnti* Capitol, Ho I«* in, On«., Jon 27.—
Ki'|tr«*»«'iitntivi« Or it hum rlitini» to !*• th«*
<*hoit)| m on go gHter in th«« bourn*. lit* r «»
w i l l y ititriMlurrd u mtiiioriul to eon
grinn unking that tin* wur d«* part in«* lit
«•«•a»** th«« mdiarriminati* di»rh»rg«* of
nn ml»«*r» o f the army and navy and
before th«« tn«*inorial could g«*t to \Va»h
mgton the war department had acted
upon th«« »uggcMtion.
• • •
Manufacturer« of patent pnving« have
very few «vmputhi/era in thi« session,
and «cvoral monmirc« arc on the way
thut lire aim»‘d to trim the tentacle« of
the oetopun.
. . .
Friend« of the univemity «hould be
intorimtod in the bill by Representative
SchuelH'l, which •oi'inn certain of pan«
ago, that would make nlinont certain
the bating o f all property on the tax
roll« nt actuiil value. Thin ia for the
purpime of dcrreiming the tax levy in
null« throughout the state mid to make
all property ntnnd it« just proportion
o f taxon. In tho cn«o o f tho««> inatitu
tion« supported by a inillugo tax, a« the
univemity is, the ronult would be that
the return« will b»* greatly increaned bo
raua». o f tho iacron*e in valuntioim.
• • •
I'ronidont t'ampboll, of the univemity,
wua here a day or two ago nnd will be
Imok again noon. Ho ia intereated in n
bill to bo introduced for th,. establish
moot o f a hospital by tho medical tie
partmont, in which the IndiiNtrinl Acci
dent eomnusiior. would invent $3tHi,iMt0
o f it« Niirplu« fund«, the ground« on the
cnmptlN being donated for the purpose.
• • •
Koprosontativ e l.afferty ha« intro-
durod a lull which hnn for it« purpone
milking available to the sniull user o f
agricultural bin,- the benefit« of produc
tion o f lime by the «Into. It in self evi
dent that the pnrty wanting lime in
."1111111 amount« cun not avail himself of
tho linto under present rendition« when
tho freight rate« on «mail amount«
would oat up the «living in priee. The
bill would have comity court« order the
lime in qua lit i* ie», those ordreing in
sniull amoiiuts to bo on hmiil to take the
lime from th,. car upon it« arrival. Hep
reaentntive l.afferty in also of the opin
ion that till« would greatly inoroaso the
production of lime by the «fate, with a
consequent cut iu the cost of produc
tion.
• • »
A bill whirh ia likely to meet with
general approval has been introduced by
Hepronontativ c Hughes. It provide* fur
a Hocond election hoard in all precinct«
where ISO or more ballots were eu«t at
the lust election, which board will keep
the ballot« counted an rapidly an they
are east, the result being kept entirely
secret until the poll« are dom'd.
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A bill ha« punned the houne which
provide« for quicker turnover« uf tax
money, which will be of great benefit
to tho«,. counties where there ha« been
much complaint on the part o f achool
districts anil cities that money ha« boon
bold by tho trenmiror long after it
«hould have been turned over to the
treasurer« o f school districts and cities.
• • a
State Capitol, Hulom, Ore., Feb. 4.—
If Kepreaentative l.ouis Bean, other
Lane county members mid other repre
«entative« interested in the development
o f the lumber induntry o f the state enn
have their way, wood block paving ia
going to have n fair trial on sonar high
way o f th,. ntnte, House Hill 221, which
ptiMsed the hnu«e today and is expected
to do a marathon through the senate,
providing that the ntnte highway com
mission shall lay 15 mile« of pavement,
by a lot of old women who bung around five miles uf which shall be bituminous,
Allied Aspirations Taking Form
I Eugene ; Mr«. Lydia Murnlmrt and An
drew Hab-«, Fll>‘fi«hiirg, Wash.; Mrs.
Klixobeth Brown, Mrs. Kitmut Boyee,
M ln
Furls.—The dulega,.»i* of the five
grout power« arc now In a position to
compare clearly th«dr own aspirations
and those of all tlinlr allied frlenda,
and to a«» thu differences that muat
be reconciled.
Franco wauls, flrat of all. Alaaco-
Lorrulno unconditionally, and the
right to dlacuMH and ultimately to fix
the French frontier* In their relation
to the M U M
The French bill for reparation la
not yet complete, but It has been an
nounced In the chamber of deputies
that It will be about 6S.OOO.UOO.OOU
francs.
Groat liritaln'a delegation believes
that a society of nations Is desirable
and obtainable, and that It must be
established by the present peace con
ference. Britain will take mandatory
power over the German Islands south
of the equator for Australia and over
southwest Africa for the Union of
Houth Africa. Hhe will alao have the
mandate of German Fast Africa and
LH. II
R u d er,
Mr.«.
M a r t h:i
.1
soma parta of Arabia and the ha* par
,
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...
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tlcular claims In this respect over
Mesopotamia. Great Britain will en-
ter a pool with the other allien In the
matter of Indemnities, eapeclally rep
aration for air raid damages and ship
ping loaaea.
Italy aaks for the Trentlno an far
as the Brenner Fans, Including the
whole of southern Tyrol; Trieste, Is-
trla. Flume. Zara, Bebenlco, the larger
part of the Italmatlan Island«. Avlona
and Its hinterland, and a protectorate
over Albania.
Territorial connection in the Hal
kana are complicated and present dlf-
„ ,,
. ,
flcult problem*.
Belgium asks that her reparation
for damages wrought by Germany
shall be the flrat lien Upon German
assets to the extont of at least 15,000,-
000,000 francs or up to a much larger
sum If Germany doe* not return the
machinery and the materials taken
from Belgium.
Classy job printing. The Hentinel. ••
65TH ARTILLERY IS DUE TO
PASS THROUGH HERE
FEBRUARY 15
mid Jume- \V Hales. Ila re nr« 75
grnndehildrcn, 50 great-grandchiblr» ;
^
, ur,.„t’ great-grandchildren. Mr
: |{„|e«, who wu» a raim«ter, d u d at Lori-
| don four years go. Mr«. Hale.«’ remain*
were taken to Kllensburg, Wash., Hun Unofficial Advices Indicate That Ore
day and interred beside those o f her
gon Boys Will Return Home
bu«band.
by Southern Route.
EUOENE BOY 8 A Y 8
BELGIANS
ARE STRONG FOR UNCLE
Tim 05th coo«t artillery regiment, ac
cording to . official advices, will travel
8AM 8 BOLDIERS
west by th*- southern route and is ex
Hergeant J. Harold Iteytien, a Eugene pected to pa«« thro : 'h Cotts.,'- (»rove
boy who is in the ambulance eori>«, writ- on their way from ( mp Dix, N. J., to
j
hj, fI1„ ti„ . r Mrll Kli/.:,b. th Bey Camp 1/ .vis, on or nbout February 15.
tien, say« that the Belgian«, including Cities all along t.i. route are m iking
| pretty girl« obi men, old ladies and preparations to extend joyoun greeting
1 children, all wanted to talk to and to this regiment o f C>r"gon heroes, and
«hake hand« with I ncle Ham» soldier an effort will be mi 'o to have a short
I boy», and think they are all right. A stop scheduled for Cottage Grove, at
puMlgraph from hi« letter »ay»:
least for the battery L> coutiogent,
“ 1 never thought six American« liV • which is comprised lorg- ly o f tho old
• « " ««*■•*•
** ,nuth attention. A Sixth company boys of this city.
Among the Cottage Grove toys who
I French division was parading, and when
I we came near, crowd after crowd start have telegraphed th> .r safe arrival are
Leon C. Arne, Artb
Bal
Barry B.
1 waving their bats and hands a
and forgot all about the Frenchtro u. Conner (who s. nt the first wire), Lcston
They crowded about us so we could E. Doweti.«, M r i o n E. Garoutte, J, J.
hardly move down tho street, and they <»iid»T«leve, Abner Gilerist, Earl Hayes,
sho»ik our bunds and gave us flower« Ross E. Haynes, Byron Jackson, B* n C.
nnd piniK'd flags on us until we were King, Carl J. King, Harry W. Kirk,
Chari - Lackey, Clarence H. Milne, Har
literally londe<l down with souvenirs.“
Hergeant Beytein anil his parents vis old McCargar,'Kelly B Moody, E. H.
where the rourt camouflages th«« road
tax by putting it into th»- general fund, ¡ted here with the Alf. Jury family Queencr, Thomas J. Oucener, Marvel
thus taxing the cities anil putting the a short time before his induction into Randall, Vinal BandXil, Daniel Renfle,
Jain«-s A. Rentle, Carl Slagle and Sam
money where it desires. The bone of th0 service.
\ eatch.
contention under discussion was us to
Immediately upon receipt o f the news
Files Suits in Circuit Court.
whether or not the amount r»*turned to
Frank Knox, as administrator o f the of the arrival of the o.0th, C. A. Bart ell,
the cities was not too large. Hsid
Wheeler: “ With but 30 per cent o f one estate o f H. C. Counts, deceased, ha- in behalf of the Cottage Grove Commer
mill to be return»'»! to the district in filed suit against I,. F. Wooley nnd cial club, o f which le ¡ h secretary, sent
whirh the tax is raised the district George B. liorris, seeking judgment in ;he following telegram to the command
wiiiihln't get enough money to buy oil the sum uf $UU5, nib'geil due on a prom ing officer:
“ The citizens o f Cottage Grove re
to lubricate the tnurhinery while mov issory note, together with interest, tuxi*s
joice to learn of your safe return.' Kind
ing it from one district to unoth»'r. This and $00 attorney fee.
Frank Kriox has also filed suit against ly convey greetings to our boy». A jo y
road problem is one that interests ev-
eryona in a county. We must iwgin at | G. F. King and Ida King seeking judg ous welcome awaits y o u .’ ’
the market centers anil work out nnd ment in the sum o f $t!50 with ¡iiti'rcst
there is no rens«in why cities and rural at 8 per cent from September 1U, 1H11. Methodists Hold Meeting at Eugene.
districts can not cooperate under the j and $75 attorney fee.
A group centenary meeting which in
system now in v»igtnt. We are just want- j
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cluded all the Metho»li»t ehurches o f the
ing time und energy in our discussion !
county was held at tb** Methodist church
of the technical points o f this bill.“ ]
in Eug**ne yesterday afternoon.
The bill was rereferred.
five mile« concrete, und five mile« wood
block», which eipcriment will demon
«trate ronrlunively whirh pavement b«'St
«tain!« up to weather conditions nnd to
the wear and tear of heavy truffle. Ho
anxious tire the lumber interests that
wood block« have a fair trial that they
iigre»* to absorb the extra runt o f laying
wood blocks above the co«t o f concrete.
Mr. It,-an anil other member« Minted that
they were rhugrined to go east and find
the large eastern cities laying wood
block« u« the only character o f paving
tL.M would stand the heavy traffic and
then com,, home to find concrete being
shipped in from other «late« and bitu-
niinouN material« from foreign court
tries, and it is their opinion that a «tate
an lumber rich us Oregon, which ini|»>rts
from foreign countries inferior mater
ml« for road building iriNtend of utiliz
ing its own superior home grown prod
uct, contain« a lot o f wooden blocks
that were never grown in uny forest.
Representative Gordon, a former r»‘si-
Representative Dennii, formerly o f Lane dent of Eugene, is one o f the big men
rounty, also took part in th« debate of the s»'ssion, although one o f thi* least
favoring the bill.
noisy. As chairman of the important
• • •
ways and means committee nnd a mem i
Many humoroun incidents happen here, ber o f thp consolidation committee he
all of whirh are appreciate»! by even the fimi» little time for sleeping and feels ¡ Following are extracts from a letter
must dignified members. The joke about quite certain that he comes pretty near written December 2U by Chester Van
Denburg to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
members taking their «tenugraphem or earning his $.1 u day.
H. VnnPenbiirg, of this city:
some other memlmr's stenographer to
“ You d o n ’t know how tickl»'«l I was
a show or to a meal is about worn
E. J. Adams, of Eugenp, drifted in yesterday when I got your letter with
threadbare but a new one was pulleil
again tonight. Although no longer n the paper. This is the only mail I ’ve
the other day. Heeing a member walk
■ member of the highway commission, he had since th** first I received when 1
ing with a woman and baby, and know
still takes the old-time interest in roads was up on the front. When I was at n
mg that a few days ago his wife and
ua»l is her« primarily in the interest of eoavateasint camp at Mars, Franre, I
baby hu»f aot been here, another mem
the proposed roast militnry road, for wrote to the first sergeant o f my com
her remarked to the attended meinlu-rs,
which an appropriation of two and a pany to forward my mail to me there
“ Isn't it funny that our wives and Im
half millions is askeii. He was accom but I was evacuated from there before
bie» have to follow to see that we carry
panied here by L. J. Simpson, o f North I got it and it was forwarded to mo
ourselves correetly f ’ ’ “ But I'm not
Bend.
from there. The rest o f the mail is at a
his wife and b a b y " wu» the reply in n
• • •
place called Bourges, where the central
fair feminiue vm w , and the humorous
President Campbell, o f the university, postoffiee is located. That ’» tho distrib
one quietly moved un.
• • •
was here last night and today. He was uting center and when a fellow is sent
Emmett Howard, o f Junction City, very appreciative of the treatment of to a hospital his service record and mail
wu« among Lane county peopl<> who the joint ways and means committee, of are held there till he is returned to his
looked in un the performers this week. which Herbert Gordon, formerly o f Eu company or attach»*»! to some other or
• • •
gene, is chairman in th«> house and H»-n- ganization. And that, too, is why I
c a n ’t get my pay. It is hell to be in
Lieut.-CoL nnd Mrs. K. A. Babb, of ator Jones is a member in the senate.
a foreign country broke, but I guess
Eugene, stopp»>»l here briefly today
while on their way to Fortland.
D IV ID E C R O S S IN G W I L L BE I ’ll live through it. L's bunch o f casuals
here are sure getting a rotten deal. We
• • •
O V E R H E A D T Y P E . IS
are worse than a bunch of prisoners
Representative Bean took time from
D E C IS IO N
penned up here. There is no excuse for
his many other duties which make him
it either. I knew you would all rejoice
one uf the buniest men in the house to
The state highway commission has when you heard of the signing of the
help introduce u bill which appropriates finally decided upon an overhead struc
$5000 for the construction, improve ture for the crossing at Divide and the armistice. We sure did rejoice, too. Such
ment nnd maintenance of n finh hatch contract has been let for its construc nniae you never heard. You couldn’t
ery nt Home point on the up|>er Wiliam tion to A. Anderson, of Grants Pass, for do a thing with the men. Even the
guards shot away their ammunition to
ette river in Lane county.
$iiU5ti. The crossing is to be built o f re
Representative Bean believe» thut th,. inforced concrete und will be of orna help swell the noise.
“ Then, I suppose, you cast a sigh
text book commission is n useless ad mental design.
wondering if I was among the dead or
junct to state government and has in
This derision was arrived at by the living. It sure was awful for the boys
troduced a bill to thrunt it out o f the commission at its meeting in Portland
state government nnd confer it« duties Tuesday ufter having listen»*»! to the that fell just the last five minutes be
upon the superintendent o f public in arguments hy members of the Lane fore the armistice was signed.
“ Dinner is r»»ady. I hate to go, as I
struction.
county court in favor of nn , under
. i know just what we are to have— salmon,
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ground crossing, figures on the esti ] j -|| j1(,t
Representative Bean believes that ed- mated cost o f both were submitted and
“ Well. I'm back ami lost the bet.
ucation «hould be ns nearly as possible after analyzing them the commission We hnd a spoonful o f beans, half
within the reach of every child o f the decided that there was very little dif- «•«Hiked, a quarter o f a pickle, two sliees
state nnd that th,, burdens o f such ed ference in the cost, and as the commis o f bread, no butter, and one-third o f a
ucation should be as light as possible sion has all along been favorable to the cup o f hlnck coffee. Breakfast was three
upon the pHrent« o f such children. To overhead type the decision to ndheru to sliees o f bacon, two slices of bresd. no
bring those things about he has intro the original plans was made.
butter, and one-third o f a cup o f coffee.
Mr. Anilermin's was the lowest o f nine | Supper, it is hard to say what w e ’ll get.
»lured a lull authorizing tha superintend
«■nt «if public instruction to distribute bids on the work. It is expected that T hat»’ the size o f our living day in and
school books at actual wholesale coat, work on the structure will be begun as »lay out. When you hear o f some big
soon as weather will permit. The coun feed the doughboys are hav ing, you can
plus coat of distribution.
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ty court will macadamize the road lead put it down that it is only a few, and
A bill by Representative Graham ing to the crossing, this improvement stinie S. O. S. fellows at that.
would allow the county court to fix the having been postponed, pending final
“ The Y. M. 0. A. is to be dirwn-and-
salary o f nn assistant to the county settlement o f the crossing muddle, when outers after the A. E. F. gets home, but
the
Pottage
Grove
Divble
road
was
superintendent of Imne county. Hereto
the Salvation army has won the hearts
fore but $500 has been allowed for this macadamized a year or so ago.
of the doughboys and they will sure be
Members o f the county court say that recognized by the boys when they get
purpose. This legislative assembly has
adopted the policy o f allowing county the engineer’s data on the new stretch home. All the boys I have seen say tho
courts to fix the salaries o f all assist of Pacific highway between here and Salvation army gets their nickel- ura
Walker is about ready for the commis dimes after this.
ants to the county officers.
sion nnd that bids for its grading will
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“ You got my last letter just the day
be called for soon. Afterward it will be before I went over the top for the first
At first blush it might seem that the
paved.
time. That morning sure vvns a thrill
curfew law for dogs introduced by Rep
for me and the rest o f us. Think of
reaentntive Dennis, a former Lane coun
Honor OuArd Girls to Olve Social.
guns booming and blasting every inch
ty man, must have heen introduced for
fun nnd would I h < full of jokers, hut
The honor gunrd girls will give an o f the ground on a 28-mil«» front. The
such is evidently not the case. K»>cog old-fashioned “ get-together”
basket bombing started about two o ’clock the
nixing that the greater part o f injury social at the armory Saturday evening, morning o f the Ulith of September. At
to livestock by dogs is «lone at night, February 15, nt 8 o'clock. The girls are five o'clock wo starte.l right into it
Mr. Dennis would huv»> them kept se expected to bring large, well filled bas with a rolling barrage. The air was
cure at home between the hours o f 8 kets, which the boys are expected to blue with smoke, the smell o f high ex
p. m. and ti a. m. The suggestion has buy. Saint Valentine decorations will plosives sickening, trenches blown to
been made to Mr. Dennis that »logs at be used and a musical nnd literary pro hell, and aer»*s o f barbed wire entnngle-
large during the prohibited hours should gram will be furnished by home tulent. ments lowered to nothing, the ground
be accompanied by their parents nnd
The money derived from the snle of torn up so it was almost impassable— no
another auggeation is that an appropria baskets will be used to defray the ex possible chance for a liv ing Ixung unless
tion be made to supply the «logs with penses o f n reception to be given in he should have been 50 feet under
ground. I can tell you more in a min
wrist watches.
honor o f our returning soldier boys.
ute than I can write in a week.
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“ I di»ln’t miss my guess much when
Sarah Ann Bales Dies at London.
Representative Wheeler made his
maiden speech today and demonstrated
Mrs. Sarah Ann Bales, ng<*»l Sti years, I said w e ’d have the Germans tamed
that upon occasion he can express him succumbed to an attack o f appoplexy by Christmas, did II
“ I suppose I ’ll be coming home some
self forcibly and very much to the point. Friday, January 31, 1!*1!>, at the home
The bill under discussion was one to o f her son, George Bnles, at London. day. We have to await our turn— I
compel counyt courts to make an annual
Sarah Ann Marshal was born in d o n ’t know when mine is due.”
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road levy upon all the property o f the Green county, Mo., April 27, 1833. She
Wnrren Edwards, writing to his
county, 70 per cent of that raised in the was married to Keithley Bales Jsnnary
cities to be returned to the cities. The 30, 1847, and they came to Oregon 111 grandmother, Mrs. Ijturn McFarland,
amount could be in any amount front 1 years ago. O f 12 children, 10 survive. under »Into o f January 10, says:
“ I am now stationed at Le Mans,
mill to 10 and the bill was the result of Th»ly are Mrs. Mary A. Pedigo and Geo.
conditions such as exist in Laue county Bales, London; Mrs. I’ arthenia Miggie,
(Continued ou last page.)
Letters From
Soldier Boys
D E V E L O P M E N T O F T O U R IS T
T R A V E L IS IM P O R T A N T
TO N O R T H W E ST
Oregon will act as host this summer
to the National Editorial association as
one o f the results of tho activities o f
the Pacific Northwest Tourist associa
tion. This body o f men and women is
made up o f the brightest minds in the
newspaper world nnd the results that
will accrue from a publicity standpoint
are beyond all computation. During the
past two years the tourist association,
representing Oregon. Washington and
British Columbia, has »(w-nt $112,000 io
attract tourists to the Pacific northwest
and the results have beeu far beyond
expetation when war conditions are tak-
* n into consideration. That Ore gun has
receiv**d the gr»*ater benefit over the
utiier commonwealths is evident in tho
a tten d a n t at Crater Lake. There aro 11
national parks in the I'niteil States, and
all but two showed a decrease in attend
ance except Crater 1-nke and Rainier
national. Crater Lake showed an in
crease o f between 25 and 40 per cent
nnd nearly 50,000 people visited Rainier
national, while all parts o f tho Pacific
northwest were included in the various
ph:i»es of publicity.
The total expenditure o f the tourists
and vacation seeker {>er annum is not
less than one billion dollars and it is to
»»»cure our fair shar*. o f this immeuso
revenue that this association exists.
It is safe to say f l a t within a very
short time the Pacific northwest— and
it can be demonstrated by figures— can
derive from 50 to 100 million dollars o f
actual cash from the encouragement o f
this travel. - This casu remains in the
Pacific northwest. It is no’ sent out for
any raw material, nor for any other
commodity, but remains here to help
every individual citiz» n in the develop
ment of his business and in tho payment
o f his taxes, and the tourist is absolute
ly the forerunner o f ti e settler, the new
investor and tho manufacturer.
Travel by rail was discouraged last
year, and as far as going ubrond is con
cerned there will be nothing doing this
year. The wur is over and the people
have the money end tne desire to trav
el. We have «> far'expended $112,000
to attract attt. lion to tho greatest as
set we have, a nu we inly need to keep
up the work to seeur* returns based on
this expenditure tar beyond the desires
of the most nvanc ■ « To illustrate:
The Park to Park Highway association
at a recent meeting in Spokane reported
10,000 machines cut. ring Spokane over
tho Yellowstone highway with an aver
age o f four in a car. Suppose these cars
were gathered together in Spokane in
one day. You know what it costs to
travel. Take the amount you would
speud, multiply it by 40,000 and look at
the total; this is the way this new mon
ey that it costs us practically nothing to
get flows in a steady stream into our
lap.
House bill 7t! calls for another appro
priation, to cover the coming two years,
for the sanio amount asked for two
years ago and dependent upon Washing
ton and British Columbia following with
tho same amount they gave previously.
No appropriation has secured more for
Oregon or been better administered. The
work is under the constant attention o f
some o f our lending business men who
give their time free o f charge anil pay
their own expenses when attending tho
meetings of the board o f directors.
The state revenues are used to devel
op every othor asset, either by main
taining departments, enforcement o f
laws, maintaining institutions, and the
building o f roads and bridges; and tho
simplest way to increase these revenues
is by a development moro potent than
any that has gone before and which will
result in the coming hero o f thousand*
o f men and women, who will see us a*
wo are, nnd many o f whom will either
remain permanently or leave thorr mon
ey for investment.