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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1915)
NEWS NOTES FROM STATE SOLONS NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS Portland — There is some improve ment In the potato market this week. The shipping movement southward has alerted, but no great hopes are held out, as only a small part of the stock Is of shipping quality. A few cars of Hurbanks are going t> California and for these buyers are paying 804490c at East Side points, while ordinary stock is bringing 754486c in Portland. The San Francisco market is in better sha|w, as the Salinaa are practically all gone, and this will leave an open ing for a limited quantity of Oregona. The American Wonder seed movement seems to be about over. Tho local jobbing trade ia not brisk and tho market is sufficiently supplied. Front street prices are unchanged. There io no shipping outlet for eggs and with receipts enlarging the mar ket ia slowly reaching a lower level. Sales wore made at 284(29«, caae count. Poultry receipts were liberal and the market was weak, hens selling at 1304 14c. Dressed pork was very weak, with 9c as the top. Veal was barely steady. No changea were reported in the butter or cheeae markets. White beans are steadily advancing In price. There waa a good crop on the Coast this season and the quality waa fine, but the market is being strengthened by the upward movement of prices in the East, whore large ex- l*orts to Europe have caused advances. Wheat — Bid: Blueatem, $1.42; forty-fold, $1.42; club, $1.41; red Gov. Withy combo Namea $1.84; rod Fife, $1.87. Neu> Regent a tor O. A. C. Russian, MiIIfeed Spot prices: Bran, $28.60 State Capitol, Salem — Governor «1,29 ton; shorts, $30.604131; rolled Wlthycombe haa appointed Mrs. Clara ! barley. $33.50«i34.60. Corn—White, $36 ton; cracked, $37. II Wsld... of Portland, M. S. Wood Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $16 stock, of Corvallis, and N. R. Moore, 4416.50; valley timothy, $134413.60; of Corvallis, members of the board of grain hay, $10.5044111 alfalfa, $1344 regents of the Oregon Agricultural 13.50. Vegetables — Cucumbers, hothouse, college. Mrs. Waldo now is a member and the others will succeed B. F. $1.75 44 2 Jozen; eggplant, 8 44 10c Irvine, of Portland, and E. E. Wilson, pound; peppers, 12^4416c; artichokes, of Corvallis, whoae terms will expire 85c«i90 dozen; tomatoes, $1.75 crate; February 15. Mrs. Waldo has liecn a cabbage, 1|441 |c pound; beans, 12|c; member of the board since 1906 and celery, $2.60 crate; cauliflower, $2.25; has been prominent ss a pioneer sprouts, 8c pound; head lettuce, $1.85 worker In educational, rural and civic 44 2 crate; pumpkins, ljc pound; l)e; carrots, $1.26 sack; improvements. Waldo Hall, at the squash, beets. $1.26; parsnips, $1.26. college. Is named for her. Green Fruita — Apples, 75c4i,$1.50 Mr. Woodstock is president of the First Nstionl bank of Corvallis, and box; caaabas, $1.66 crate; pears, $144 was one of the first to suggest that the 1.60 box; cranberries, $94411 barrel. Eggs — Fresh Oregon ranch, case college be located at Corvallis. Mr. Moore is editor of the Corvallis Ga count, 29«i30c dozen; candled, 304$ zette-Times. He has always been 31c; storage, 264l29c. keenly Interested in educational work, Potatoes — Oregon, $1 sack; Idaho, especially in industrial education. $1441.10; Yakima, 8Oe44$1.10; sweet Members of the board who continue potatoes, 2jc pound. in office are J. K. Weatherford, of Al Onions—Oregon, buying price, $1.25 bany; J. T. Apperson, of Oregon City; f. o. b. shipping points. C. L. Hawley, of McCoy; >!. Von der Poultry — Hens, large, 13 44 14c; Hellen, of Wellen; Walter L. Pierce, mixed, 13e; broilers, 184420c; tur of Pendk'on, and George M. Cornwall, keys. dressed. 21e; live, 18c; ducks, of Portland. I2p'i l6e; geese. 11® 12c. Butter - - Creamery, prints, extras, 29jc pound in case lots; $c more in Salt Contract May Not Re than caae lota; cubes, 26c. Approved Ry Legislature less Veal —Fancy, 12Jc pound. Pork—Block, 9c pound. State Capitol, 8alem - It is apparent Honey—Choice, $8.25 case. that there will be considerable opposi Nuts—Walnuts, 154424c pound. tion in the senate to approving the Beane -Small white, $5.75; large lease made by the state land board white. $5.60; Lima. $6.25; pink. with Jason C. Moore, of New York, $4.60; Mexican, $6.25; bayou, $6.36. for the development of the salts de Hope — 1914 crop, 10 44 12|c; 1918 posits of Summer and Albert lakes in crop, nominal. l.ake county. The lakes are said to Hides — Salted hides, 14c; salted contain depoaits worth milliona of dol bulls, 10c; salted calf, 18c; salted lars, and the syndicate Mr. Moore rep kip, 14c; green hides. 12jc; green resents plans erecting a plant at the bulls, 8$e; green calf, 18c; green kip, junction of the Deschutes and Colum ■ 14c; dry hides, 25c; dry calf. 27c. bia rivers to which point the depoaits Wool Valley, lfr.ilxc pound; East corn Oregon. 154420c, nominal; mo would be piped. Under the lease approved by the hair, choice, 1914 clip, 27|c. board and the contract made with Mr. Cascara bark—Old and new, 4fii 4Jc Moore he is to |>ay the state, begin ' pound. ning next year, royalties of not less Cattle — Prime steers, $7.50447.75; than $25,000 annually, and more on a 1 choice, $7.25447.50; medium, $6.7644 royalty basis according to the product. 7; choice cows, $64t6.75; medium, The lease is for 40 years. Mr. Moore $5 75446; heifers. $5 44 6.50; bulls, at one time bid almost $2,000,000 for $3.50446; stags, $4.60446. the property and other jtersons bid Hogs — Light, $6.75446.90; heavy, more than that, but the bid of the $6 804(6.80. latter was not accompanied by a certi Sheep—Wethers, $6446.50; ewes, fied check, as stipulated by the board, $54(5.60; lambs, $6,254(7.50. and all bids were rejected. It was then decided to lease the Tacoma -I-ocal commission men re- property on the royalty basis and bids l>ort a splendid movement of apples were naked. Mr. Moore's bid was and a firmness in prices. Prospects for the only one accompanied by a check a healthy business for the remainder for $10,000, as stipulated in the ad i of the season are bright. During the vertisement, and he was awarded tho early part of the war, shipments of contract, subject to approval by the this fruit could not be made to foreign legislature. countries and to move the commodity "The pro|>oaal of Mr. Moore may be it was necessary to set prices down the beat that the state can obtain,” nearly twice as low as they were last said President Thompson, of the sen year. ate, "but it ia a matter that should be Potatoes are getting firm. Last given careful consideration by the leg season the spuds opened at high prices islature.” and went down toward the latter part. This year the tables are just reversed, Anti-Lobby Hill in Favor. the tubers opening at low prices and State Capitol, Salem — The house going up as the season advances. committee on judiciary is preparing Merchants say, however, that quota tions will not rise much. to report favorably on one of the bills Milling wheat in Tacoma made other now before it providing for the elim advances, reaching the highest point ination of lobbyists from the Capitol yet known locally. Bluestem is offered halls. Representative Schuebcl, of | at $1.42; forty-fold, $1.41; club, Clackamas, and Representative Hus $1.40; red Fife, $1.36; red Russian, ton, of Multnomah, have introduced I $1.34. anti-lobbying bills. The Schuobel bill Fresh meats — Steers, 12jc pound; would require lobbyiBta to regiatet if cows, 12c; heifers, 12c«i l‘2|c; weth they come to Salem, even if they don't ers, 12Je; dressed hogs, 12c; trimmed enter the State House. The Huston sides, 16|c; combinations, 15|c; lambs, measure would require them to register 134414c; Diamond T. C., 14c; year if they enter the Capitol. lings, 18c; ewes, lie. Poultry Ducks, live, 104412c; hens, Sack Standard la Sought. dressed, 16 44 18c; live, 10 44 14c; State Capitol, Salem — Standardiz springe, dressed, 22c; live, 14«(16c; ing of the weight of sacks of shorts and squabs, live, $2.50 dozen; dressed, $6; bran ia the object of two bills intro turkeys, live, 18c; dressed, 284430c; duced by Senator Dimick, of Clacka geese, 20c. mas county. The weight fixed for Butter Washington creamery, 2844 shorts is 80 pounds to the sack and 29c pound; Oregon, 264427c. bran 50 pounds to the sack. Senator Dimick said farmers had complained Seattle—Wheat — Blueatem, $1.43; to him that they were receiving short Turkey red, $1.38; forty-fold, $1.42; weight and several placed their loss at club, $1.41; fife, $1.37; red Russian, $1.85; barley, $30 ton. three sacks to the ton. Stale Capital, Halem Portland wo men want the right to serve on jurlea, yet they don't want to be compelled to servo on juries. If the legislature can find a happy medium somewhere be tween three extremes the women of the state will be duly grateful, said a delegate of their number to the house judiciary committee. Apparently a majority of the com mittee Is not inclined to report favor ably U|a>n the |wndlng bill, introduced last week by (representative Huston, giving women the privilago of jury duty. This particular measure is op posed by some of the up-state mem bers. Their objection is based on the provision that it will give women the right to claim exemption by reason of their sex. It is pointed out that in the rural districts, where the sheriffs frequently are required to travel many miles to summon prua|a>ctive jurors, the officers may encounter a notice of exemption for their pains, *$■ But the delegation of women led by Mrs. O. L. Iluland, representing a number of women's clubs, and Mrs. J. M. Ketnp. representing the W. C. T. U.. pointed out that the same kind of a law is working successfully in the state of Washington, where conditions are no more, unfavorable than in thia state. FIJIAN TROOPS TO ENTER THE WAR CORSETS OF STEEL Cheerfully Worn by Women of the Middle Ages. As Is ths Case Sometimes Today, Their Thought Was "Anything for the Fashionable Figure”—In struments of Torture. FIJI, as a dependency of the British empire. Is to take an active part In the »ar. the colonial office having sanc tioned the sendin« of a contingent of native troops to the front. The photogrspb shows a squad of these tall, well- built soldiers being drilled by a British officer. GERMAN SHARPSHOOTERS IN WELL PROTECTED LAIRS German sharpshooters behind such »plinterproof slop ng sheds as this are almost impossible to dislodge. jehfnd straw breastworks they fire through a narrow slit that runs the entire length of the shelter. Greek and Roman women knew a device for compressing their waists which was. In some ways, an equiva lent of the modern corset Old Homer tells of Juno “wearing a girdle with a hundred fringes," and those who would doubt that these girdles were pulled as tightly as stays may read in Terence, the great Roman writer of comedies, a description of a belle as "not being a young girl like one of our own. whose mother compels her to tighten her body so that she may have a small waist." The rest of Europe, receiving this style from the Romans, proceeded as Jhe centuries went by to turn It Into a veritable instrument of torture There were corsets of stiff, unyielding leather, cramping the torso Into rigid Ity. And, worse still, fashion finally dictated a corset of metal. Some ex amples are to be seen in the Muse« Csrnsvalet in Parle. One is made ot iron cross-bars securely riveted to gether. Others were forged out of two sheets of metal with holes punched to make them lighter. In the fifteenth century 8paln be came mistress of the world and set its fashions. Then cams into vogue the Spanish bssqulne. a long, tight cor set made of strrmg linen and fastened to a busk of wood or meed. The menace to health supplied by these monstrosities esused Henry HI of France iasuing an edict prohibiting their use. Montague, frank old pagan Prom KARLSRUHE STILL ELUDES THE BRITISH Corset Cover of 8teel Worn In Time of Catherine de Medici. that he waa, could not forbear a word of admiration at the way in which the women voluntarily endured in or der to be In fashion. “In order to make their bodies Spanish,” he wrote, "what hells will women not suffer!” Two centuries ego a writer of the times upon dress, told of seeing at the Italian opera a singer "whose waist wan painful to look at, for the lower part of her figure appeared like the monstrous appendage of a w-asp. united to her body by a slender ligament.” Even in the nineteenth century there was a Parisian actress In the music halls of London with a waist so tiny that spectators are said to have been in constant expectation that she would snap in two. German cruiser Karlsruhe, which the British warships so far have been unable to catch. tn the South Atlantic. It is believed to be ADMIRAL MADDEN Admiral Sir Charles Edward Mad den. C. V. O., who commands the Third cruiser squadron of the British uavy. He was born In 1868. Officerl He climbed on the rear platform of an early morning street car and an nounced to the crowd: “Gimme room, gents. I've got the foot and-mouth disease." The crowd gave him room and be gan to else him up. “Surest thing you know," he went on, as he rolled a cigarette. "Corn* Myron T. Herrick, who as ambassador to France did wonders In caring and the toothache." for the distressed of various nations in Paris, and Mrs. Herrick, photographed "Fares I" yelled the conductor, and on their arrival tn New York. They were given an ovation there and also In the crowd resumed Its smoking. Cleveland, Ohio, their home city. At Ninety Walks Ten Miles a Day. Fourteen years ago two doctors of Binghamton, N. Y., told William W. Hemingway that he hadn’t more than a year to live. Since ‘hat time he has attended the funerals of both, and now has passed his ninetieth birthday. “I Just made up my mind to fool 'em," he Bays. “I started walking. The first few months I walked nearly two miles a day. Now, unless the weather is bad, I seldom go less than ten miles, and have often walked as much as twenty.” Doctors sometimes stop Mr. Hem ingway on the street and urge him not to overdo his exercise. "1 don’t know when to stop," he confesses. “I get up In the summer usually at four o'clock. Cold weather keeps me in bed half an hour longer." Twins. ‘1 don't like to see warring armies call too persistently on Providence. It savors of arrogance and self right eousness. Providence may take re venge.” The speaker was Bishop Lincoln L. Miles of Duluth. He went on: "There was once a young couple that expected a visit from the stork. The husband was anxious that the stork bring a girl; the wife was anx ious for a boy. Being very religious, both besought Providence morning, noon and night to grant his or her desire. "And Providence heard. Providence granted both prayers.“ * Clever. "Bliggtns Is a clever story teller.” “Why. he h”S been telling the same story for years!" "Yes. But he keeps you listening Every now and then he manages to think up another, beginning and make you believe it's going to be a new one."