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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1921)
If tmitmiwiiim'm?rmitnp BWnrf f, , '."-ir..i 4" USfl BWrJ? 1"lJwi - " v -, -"US- .M'M. THE ONTARIO AHGU8 ONTARIO, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1921 a X e$s4H4$$$4 iTniTTTvn -y-y--Trvv'' vtpyvtp' 28 Price Reduction Effective January 1st, the price is reduced 28 per cent on all automobile starting and lighting types of VIENNA DEATH RATE BECOMES APPALLING Condition of Children Even More Han owing, Declares Authority on City's Desperate Plight. BATTERIES The quality remains the same, giving you the max imum combination o f power, dependability, and long life. Electric Service & Battery Co. :: o Distributors Opposite Moore Hotel Ontario, Orgon i i 4 rJPrec - this Valuable I CJifk T 'fMHaT aCwaaaSaMaiUMSnebLnBBBBBBBfe!W Br 'Lairalotf and A sf Guia. u QiMlilr nJ I'alr IMe Our Catalog It tin urcUrd rcfrma lot Northwttt jrov. cti. llMIng our corn pltte lino of ScJi, Trcci and Itintt, I'crtltltcr. IVwIiry and lk Suppliu, Sprays ami Spray. ci. plry Supplita ljuipmeru. 11 OfflcM and SalMnhtm S.E.Cor. Front and Yamhkl St. Planters GuidcO string Information as to season, soil and cjtaate. Put your land to work for profit You can't a (lord to tie up your land or sfxfid time and labor on any but the best stock. Order Diamond Quality stock and bt aurc of gattlng th finest strains and the right varlctica for your purpose. Get the Diamond Quality Catalog In your pouestlon as quickly as you con. It will pay yout Ak for Catalog No. 101 ana aaawlTTiaaaaraaaiaaaaaa)lWlwteo H IU bT4M M aPy WavJc.! JaaB EMtnnt H SFlaffUaflilHaBrHaV'KnuSiSiH AUar 44P4p4-M4-4tW4Wt4444'4t4t ruatcs jmaics - mates A wonderful line of velvat hats at prices way below cost. Lot No. 1 Priced to sell for $2.95 which includes hats valued up to $12.'00 Lot No. 2 Priced to sail for 98 cnti, valued up to $6.00. Pattern hats and all others at reductions just as big. Osboro MSllInery Ontario, Oregon Have you anything to sell? Have you anything to trade? do you want to buy? Five j earn of fumlne tune remlted In is r en ll j Incroiifed tiiurtnllty anil morbidity In VleniiH which before I lie war wns counted ns one of the health lest cltlen In Uuropo. Figures prepared by Dr. Ouslne Holm, bend of the Vicuna Health Department, iliow Dial In 11)13 (lie dentil rule woi IS II r thousand. In 11)18 the rnte ns MA per thousand, an Increase of mine tlinti 47 per crut. Profi'or linns Kpl nf Hie Unl wirslty nf Vienna, says that "een more tcrrllilo ttinn the mo-tullty sta tistics lira those referring to tlic run dlllon of children am) tliulr tnntlier. Owing to under-notirlshment few moth ers enn nurse their bnhloi. and the milk sliortnKe ntTccta not only Infants, hut all children In spltu of al Unit linn been done to help. At Professor Clemens Plrrjuet's clinic In the uni versity some nl.RII) children were ex. niiilned In 11)18 Only 4,037 of ht-se or nhnut one-thirteenth were pusiil ns skin good, fat rood, '.1,000 were pule nnd thin, or rcrjr pule and very thin. "The health of these children hows most disquieting feuluicii Skin illiviisv, rachitis nnd llu.lows dlxeiiKe lire rife, "The chief medical ollicer of Vienna asks, 'What Is going 0 huppi-n to these under-fed children, In whom bodies the cvrm of tulierciiliisls Is Intent, when tliey reach the twenties, ut which lime It become active)'" To comlint these condition' the Atner Iran llellef Atliuliilstrullni nf v hlrh Herbert Hooter Is rhiilrinnii fid InM winter In the ell; of Vienna ome BlMj.tXK) of the ileiiiluiv mid under nourlHlied children, supplyli iheui with n siihstiiuthil imcuI of Aiuerlinu food sem-d In m ntimher of large kitchens opened fin thai purpiine. The conditions In Vlmnn me mure nr less typical of lhioe In 1'olnnd mid other i'iiuutr!e of (Vntrnl Mid itimletu Kutnpe I.iinI yrar Hip lle'lnf Admin leiliitluii was aide Hi leMrh aiillle tlftlNI, 0U() iiudpr-linurlilieil rhllilirn am) thla winter the pinirnm cmIIs foi the feed Jut of a Ilka mimler, hut eliht nf the great clmrlTahlt oijunlralloin of America hare milled under the name of the I'.uiopeau llellef Council, ef whh h tr llonver Is the chad man The rhllil fanlluu Insk will he nirrlnl on net only hy the Amerlrnn llellef Ad mlnlstrnthiu hut hy tie Aineilrnn Ited C'rus, the Anierhmt r'rlmds Servlie Cnliillllltee (Qm.k.'lM the Jewish .Inlnl DlKtilliiii in IVii'i'iltler, the IVdernl Ciiiinill nf the CI. in-lir nf riirll In Amuih'ii, tin- I iiiiihtN uf (.'oluinliii', the T M ' A nml T W a A An si pnil fur $.'l.1,lii Mix HI hi hem mmle and lliu orumilmtloiio limned luae oiued In iiilaluc the II lit. mm NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Event3 of tho Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. i, LAUGHTER OF CHILD SCARCE IN POLAND What "In all the (line I was In I'otiiml I si'iiriely once saw a child lutiiih,' ileilured Or Hurry Plots, dlscuteier of the typhus hacclliis, lu a report to the ihiroprau I'ellef Council on uieil lial conditions anions' the Jewih popu tullun uf feland, bnsed on his recent ItnestUatlnns there for the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. "The moat deplorable sight of nil tlu miseries In I'oland Is the condl tlnn or the rhllilirn," Dr. Pletx said "Infant mortality Is exceedingly high because ef under-nmirlshinettt und the high parceutage of conlaglnus diseases In In re part mothers must rosurt to artificial feeding aa they are unable to nurse their children In nittny cities I saw underfed children, suffeilng with dUesses, wandering abeut the streets Vtllh ho place tw go, begging fer bread ' Tuberculosis has become preraleul among the Jenlsb ihlldieii, largely due to the oeriTiiudud conditions hi which they sie fun oil to live, their luck sf nourishing food and warm clothing, according to Dr riots Typhus', whlih hilled thousand of Jews lost wluter In the worst epidemic I'oland has erer seen will recur again, he mid, ns conditions are much worso among the Jews than ever before. "Thy us, a (.Oliluglous sUn disease, Is now rapidly spreading from child to child," he continued. "Iu Yllua thoru are ll,XX) rases among the Jew. I hh children alwue. Smallpox, ton. Is prevalent hreughoul 1'olsad and the Ukraine ..nd rhlldreo, with wide proud eiuptlons and temperature, bare been seen running shout the streets. Theie are thousands ef cases every )cnr, which vacclnatlen would prevent, but there Is ne vaccine." Dr Plolr told hnw In Lithuanian villages he found children, six and serin years old, unable to walk or talk, the result of malnutrition. In ;ie;lons wbcro whole tonus had been I destreyed durlns Hie war, be found families crowded In miserable dug. outa. Let your wants be known tell the people. An ad in The Ontario Argus brings business. The Greatest Gift Yeur Christmas gift to the Euro pean child relief collection may help In saving a ehlld'a life and Is earn estly eelleltsd. Send ehecks to the local committee of the Joint organ. Ixatlona or direct to European He lief Council, 42 Broadway, New York City. Ln (Irnndo'n budget for city expenses for tho coming yenr Is JIOMCO. Tho church of t lit) Iitter Day Hnlnts liol.l n three dny leadership Instltu Hon at La Grande. U.illns physicians report that sever nl ctiEcfl of Influenza lmo nude their nppiarnnco lu Polk county. From two nnd onohnlf acres on Hnlo creek, near Weston, Oscdr Winn harvested SOO sacks of potatoes. A total of 120,GOO will bo required I to ucrray the expenses of the board of control durlnB tho next two years. Jnspcr Turner la under nrrest at Klamath Hills, chanted with tho mur der of his wife nenr Uentty last May. A census Just completed In Clatsop county shows CISC children of school ago, an Increase of 00 over last year. Tho 33d annual meeting of the Ore gon State Horticultural society will be held In Eugene December I, 3 and 4. Ministers from all sections of Mar lon county gathered In SiiUra last wock and formed a county organiza tion. Sunflowers uru making a remarkably good showing In Harney county. At ono place S4 tous per acre was the yield. There are 26 cases of contagious disease under 'Quarantine at La Grande, ranging from mulHox ro diphtheria. A division of Polk county Is propos ed, cutting off the south part nnd creating a new county to be eallud Willamette, The new prune packing plant erect eJ at Bcutta Mills by the Oregon O row ers' association Is complete and pack ing lias begun.' livery school In Umatilla eounty which has maile application to the school stiperliitenileut for a teacher now Is supplied. Farmers and orchard men around Dayton, Yamhill county, are becom ng Interested In the planting of fil bert orchards. During a recent high nJnd lu Coos Day, tho McDonald & Taughan log boom broke, releasing logs estimated ut 1,000,000 feet. An experienced miller has arrived at Darns and the flour mill at that place j will Boon bo turning home grown wheat Into flour. Approximately only one fourth of the Mnrlon county potato crop has been taken enre of as a result of the bad woathor conditions. Production of lumber lu Oregou and Washington for tho week ending Nov ember 13 was 60,368,533 feet, or 22 per cent below normal. District Interest bonds In the amount of 1115,275 will bo sold by State Troasuror Hoff on December 1, ac cording to announcement. Two carlouda of hops raised In tbo country adjacent to Grants Pass were shipped to I-ondoo last week. The ship ment weighed 74,800 pounds, Isaac Hlgglns, tin early settler of Kastern Oregon nnd a veteran of the Civil war, died In a Heppner hospl tnl last week Rt tho age of 79, Tho Hoo.1 Ilher White Salmon Kerry company Is building a large sldewhcel ferry bmt which will lme n oup'elty of 10 nutomoblles. It will cost about 110.000. Colonel J. W Luthrop, for many year a woll known character In tbut part of the state, dropped dead In a livery stable lu Klamath Fulls a few days ago. A company has been organised at llugeuw with the plan of building houses and selling them to people on eusy tonus, The first residence la Just being completed. Uy cutting ono half mile of now road through the lodgepole pines, the forest Hervlce la decreusluc tho length of the Crane Prairie road from Bend to Elk lake nearly two miles. Mall boxes lu Prlnevllle have been assailed by vandals In the last weak or so, und have been tampered wltb to such an extent that the federal authorities have be-eu notified Thomas Everett May, of Corrullls, has been appointed a captain In lu fantry, regular army, and Fremont nyron Hodson, North Bend, has been appointed a second lieutenant The tax budget at Clatsop county recommends a levy of 1437,31810, or Just $100.20 less than that for last year Among the aproprlatlons are $100,7S0 for road work and f48,2tt for bridges, It will require 877,620 to maintain the eapltol buildings and grounds at Salem during the next blennlum, ae cording to the budget of estimated ex penditurea filed with the secretsry el tate. The Thomas Kay woolen mills, the largest plant of its kind la Oregon outside of Portland, will close down early this month and will remala olos ed until some time In January, ao cording to announcement. More than 260 men and women will be thrown out of employment. 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