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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1918)
— i OREGON NEWS IN BRIEF Forest fires have done consld»*rabln daiiiug)' Io property In the western part of Polk county. Tin* war «b-piu l im-nt has ordered for the iim < of tin* allies 16,000,000 pounds of Oregon prunes of tin* Cotto six«, Clone to 2000 sucks of sphagnum moss wers gathered from the Sand latke in one bog« by clt Isens of Tills mook county la«t week. Colonel William H. C. Bowen. United Htati-s army, retirod, ha* been ap pointed commander of the students' army training corps at th« Univeralty of Oregon. , Hchool at Dumb-« haa been closed to give th« pupils and teachers an op portunity to aiialat In harvesting the Immense crop of prun«-a growu In the community. A big furm tractor d<*monatration wna held st Llnnt-maii Junction, 10 miles <-.i«t of Portland. Twenty-six mukes of trai tor« und 63 different trac tors were entered. Ira Hutchins, manager nt tn< Brownsville cannery, ha« been forced to call upon women for voliinl<s-r work era. The lioiiaewlvi-s of lirownxvllb hnvn respond»*«! In large iiuiiilx-rs and are now working ulongHldv of the girl«, children and the very f*-w m< n In tie effort to pack the heavy ofhrhiK of fruit. A party of erven timber cruisers havo spent th»* paat two months tnuk Ing a cruise of the 87,000 acre tract of the Booth Kelly company which Iles In northern Klamath and Luke counties. It is understood that the »-«t I mate Ir being made by the lAsng-lfoll company with a view to tbn purchase of the tract. General matters affecting taxation will be considered at the annual meet ing of the State Taxpayers* l< ague, which baa b»-i-ii set for Saturday, Sup tvniber 28, al 10 a. in., by Walter M Pierce, of La Grande, president of th»* league. A large attendance is expect <•<1 at the session, which will be held in Portland. U. M. Grant, of liullax, president of the National Mohair Grower«* assocla tlon. ha« received telegraphic noth > of th<< action on mohair by the war In dustrie« board. Secretary I-*. O. Ijjn drum, of the a«H<>clatloii. w1r»-d t mohair can be Hold In the vpen mar ket, price« runglug above 86 ci-tits per pound. Recent sal« » In New York are vrrlfl»*d at 96 cents. The Oregon Agricultural college will put speciul stress upon foolball and othor athletic« this year. Becau«e of war conditions, it la wen more Im-1 Food Administrator Writes Presi dent America Conserved 141,- 000,000 Bushels Wheat. CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN. M<*at and Fat Shipment« Increased by »44,600.000 Pounds. <*<>r>K< rvutlon mensures Applied by Ih»* American |x*opl«* eimbied Ib«* l'tiit- »•<1 States to «hip lo the Allh«l f»-<>¡>l<-s and to our own forcea «ivcrs» i■- 141,- ooo.l1 si bushel« of wh< ut and 841,600,- Uto pounda <>f ini-at duriug th«* pu«t y«*nr, valued In nll nt $1,400.'» «i.1««». Tliis wa» nc< empiisti«*«! tu the fin ••• of a m-rlou* fixxi short age In Gita country, lx-x|H*iiklng the wholeheurtedn« •»» und pittrlotism wlth whlch the American p»*o(A* bave invi llu* fixxl crisi« nbroud. Food Admluist calor Hoover, in u tet tar l<> l'rexidcnt Wilson. expluin« how the «Itiuiilou wnx met. The voluutnry counervation program foaterMl by the F' xh I Administra tlon emibled tini plling ii|» of the lullllolis <>f bushel» of wh«*ut dnrhig 1917 1S unii the shlpnieiit of iiient ilurlng 1017 18 Tlie total valli»* of all food «litp- nients to Allhxl »lesiInni Ion« ainountM to $1.1«)(«xl.tSMi. all tlil« food belng Ixiugbt tiirouglf or In collaborntkin wlth the F» mm | Adiiilnistratlou. Tin se figure« are all Inise.l on ottici«! re[xirts ami r>prex<-nt f<xxl et|x>nts for the Inirvvxt year thiit cloised June 30, 1918. Ti«* «mpnn nsx of meáis an<! futa (ini-liKlliig ineai ¡n'>>6u<*tH, dnlry pr<x|- lirt», veg»*ial>h* o!l». etc..) to Allie<l dea- tliintlon« w»*r»* a« follow«: A. It. Mathews, of Thurston, killed a bulky hors«-, had a complaint taau>-d for Ills ow n arrest on a cliurgc of cruel ty to nnliiiiils und pnld u fine of flu In Justice Wi lls' court. W. E Durand, aaslatiint cashier of the Ri-dmond Hank of Coinmeres, was killed when the automobile which h<* was driving went off the grude In the eastern part of The Dalles. In view of a probabb- shortage of labor for gathering the apple erop, the llood lllvcr Apple Growers' aaatM-tatloa Is urging attendunce at the annual pa< king und grading school. The annual Oregon conference of the Mi-tiimltHt Episcopal church is to lx- portant than usual to hav<* every man held In Portland. September 26 to 30, physically fit. In the opinion of P d - h I Intramural contests are hi ni >»*ar 1916-17... .2,166,500.000 Iba. under th« direction of Hlshop William d«*ut Kerr. being planmd which are expected to] Fiscal year 1017 18.. .¿.OH,100.000 Iba. Orville Hbepberd of Chicago. United Htat<-a Wood Administrator develop <:H<-h nian in colli-ge from a1 Increase ............... .. 841.600.000 lbs. Oreen haa finished for th«* time being physical standpoint. Highway work In Oregon will pro - Our «Inughternhle nnimnls nt the be th« valuing of wools in Portland ware houses An additional 4,000.000 pounds eeed regardless ok the recent order oi ginning of the last fisciil y»-ar were not appreciably larger than the year be of wool was uppralaed in tile past 10 the fu»*l administration requiring ap | fore and particularly In hogs; they proval by the federal highways iin- II days. were probably I«»». The lncre.i >• In A new high record for packing before further work be don«-. Secre shipments ia dm* to coimerviition and peach»-* w aa made by Mrs. Ed Everson ; tary Pcnnybaker, of the coum-ll. tele the extrir weight of aninmls aJiled by of Portland, who packed 210 boxes of i graphed to the stale highway com nil» our farmer«. The full effi-ct of these effort« began p«*ach<-s In nln<* hours and 6 minute« siou granting the right to go ahead on on the Frank Ogle ranch near Tlx* all work now under way. providing to twar their liest result« In th»- Inst materials for such work arc available - half of the fiscal year, when the ex Dalles. Oregon hopgrnWers with yards porta to the Allies were 2.133.lOOJNH) The evergr«*en blackberry crop In throughout the hopgrowlng area of th« pounds, as agnlnst 1.266.500,000 |x>ur.<l« I.aii>* county this year will aggregate Willamette valley, foreavi- a sudd* u In the same p<»rl»«J of th»- year before. 400 tons and bring $50,000 Into the This conipnr»-« with an average of county, according to B. J. Adams, for enfi to th«* Industry as a result of th< 801.000,000 pounds of total expi.rta for mer m»*mb«*r of the state highway com- government's decision to prohibit the the sain»* half years in th»* three year manufacture of beer after December 1 i pre war period. mission. next. With picking under way in In cereals and cerenl products re- Use of yellow pin«* for airplane con struction lias lx * u approved by the most of the yards, growers are unde du<-»*<! to terms of cerenl bushels our shipment* to Alll«-«1 destinations have govern iiu-nt, and the Hine Mountain elded whether to continue to harvest ] been: region of the Whitman nal louai forçat the crop or to abandon the yards at j fiscal year 1916 IT.. 259.000,000 bushels once. la coming to the front with Ita quota At a conference of bankers held in > Fiscal year 1917 IS 340.SOO.OO > bushels of material. I Ira A. llanahuett, a bxhrlor, who Portland a resolution wa« adopted rev Increase ................ 80,900.000 bushels has lived alone on a farm near Fall oinmeudlng to the American Bankers' Of three cereal* our abipnients of 'creek, southesat of Eugen«*, for the aasoclatlon action to maintain gold ■ the prime hremlstuffs In th<- fiscal year ^paat five or six years, wa« burned to production of th«* country at the pre I 1017-18 to Alllisl destination* were: ‘death In ii brush fire on his place sev war volume. The conference wa« held Wheat 131,000 000 bushels ni.ii of rye umh-r auspice« of the executive com 13,000,000 bu-’iels, u total of 144.900,- eral days ago. Government disapproval of extensive nilttee of the Oregon Bankers' astwx-la- 000 bushels. Tile export« to Allijx’ ..-'stlnations expenditure« for road work induce«! tion, and a number of bankers ol during the fiscal year 1016-17 were : the D ouk I uh county <*ourt to Issue an Wa«hingtuii, Ort-gon and Cnlifornin Wheat 135,100,000 bushels and rye order susp*-iidlng aT) highway Improve wer«* present. 2.300.000 busheia, n total of 137,400.000 Plan» have tx-en practically com ment. except where work is Imperative bushels. In ndilltlon sonic 10.0oo.000 pleted for training at least 200 and busheia of 1917 wheat are now In port to k<*ep th«* roads passable. The total fire loss In th«* etaty for puHHlbly 400 young men for special for Alll«*«1 destinations or en route military purposes at Albany college thereto. The total shipments to Allh-d August, outside of Portland, was $636. The men will receive countries from our Inst harvest of 415, according to figures prepared by this winter. Harvey Wells, state fire marshal. The special iu«truction in army band mu wheat will be therefore, about 141.0O0.- 000 bushels, or n total of 154,900.000 moat serious loss was that of $109,00(1 sic, preparatory training In other mill bushels of prime breadstuff«. In nd- tary work and also In certain college worth of hay near Lakeview. ditlon to this we hav.* -lilpi i some courses It Is planned to semi the first Owing to tin* continued dry weather 10,000.000 bushels to ixMitnds depend- of the past summer which resulted in class October 14 and cotiUnu«* the ent upon ua, and w>- I ihv »* r>-c»*i* off some Imixirts from other quarters. th«* drying up of springs In the coast course of Instruction until June. A county cannot b<- a bidder for con "This accomplishment of our |»*<>|>le mountains from which th«* water «up ply of Dalia« 1« obtained, a water fam struction of state highways. Attorney In this matter stands out ri-.-.i more Ine la feared unh-HS the fall rains set General Brown held in an opinion sub clearly if we bear in mind that we bail nilttvil to District Attorney Hodgin. of available in the llsenl year 1916-17 in earlier than usual. from net carry-over and ns surplus Finding of human lion«« In the ruins Union county. Uniofi county offered over our normal consumption about of th«* Washington county poor house the b«*8t bld on two Jobs of road work 200.000,000 bushels of wheat which we at Newton, which burned Thursday, to b»* done by the state highway cor: were able to export that year without made it certain that John Relnberger mission in that county, executed tlu* trenching on our home leaf," Mr. and Rudolph St miner, two Inmates requlr«*d bond and attended to other Hoover sold. "This lust year, h >wever. formalltl«-s. Some money was needed owing to the Isrgi* failure of lie 1917 who were missing, were cremated and the county made application to a wheat crop, we had available • .m net Both were about 80 years old. carry-over and production and iporta That Lloyd Anson. 18-year-old son of bank for a loan. The bank questioned only Just about our normal c»nsnn>|> J. G. Anson, of Telocaset, captured five the legality of the procedure. tlon. Therefore our win- * ipnien's After devastating the high line ditch Germans ione-handed while acting as to Alll<*d destinations represent ap m«*«aaRe bearer for an engineers com trail. Gold Hill's famous strolling proximately savin ;s from our own pany In France, Is the Information grounds on the heights north of the wheat bread. "These figures, however, do not fully coming to the parents. He was men city, a forest fire which had been rag Ing for a week on the divide between convey the volume of the effort mid tloned In dispatches for hts bravery. With a lead of 97 cggB over the the Rogue river and Sams valley on sacrifice made during the past year by the whole American people. De second pen In the contest and but an the south and Sardine and Evans creek spite the magnificent effort of our agri valleys on the north, threatened the other mouth to go. Indications are that cultural population In planting i much honors In the seventh annual inter city. The entire population, with the Increased ncreag»» in 1917, not only was national egg laying contest at Victoria, fir«* department equipment, resorted to then* a very large failure in wheat, B. C„ will go to the pen of Barred backfiring to prevent heavy loss. The but also the corn fulled to mature prop l^ockH entered by Oregon Agricultural burned area extends from Gold Hill erly, mid our corn Is our dominant crop. northeast for nearly 2(1 miles and is “I ant sure." Mr. Hoover «rote in collegi-. concluding his reiairt, "that nil th* Resolutions expressing the ai>pr*-cla from three to "five nill»*s wide. Figures prepared by Professor J. O. millions of our people, Agricultural ns tion. sympathy nn«l condolences of th< well ns urban, who have con!rihute.1 I members of th«* state hoard ot control Hall, engagsd in preparing the biennial to these results should f«*el a very report for State Labor Commissioner have been adopted by that hoard in definite satisfaction that Iu a year of connection with the death recently ot Hoff, show that 44.000 males of Oregon universal food shortages In tin north- K. T. Moores, superintendent of the over 18 years of age are estimated to ern hemisphere all of those people ¡Oregon school for the blind; A. E be In military service or In occupations Joint'd together ngalnst Germany have Strang, chief engineer at the state hos essential to whining of the war; 64,000 come through Into sight of the coming pltal; ('. M. Wilcox, head of the pool are engngeil in agrlcii.iiire, forestry harvest not only with wealth mid try department at the state hospital and animal husbandry; 700 In the ex •trength fully miiftNainial. but with only t»’ni|Mirnry periods of hardship. and Fred W. Hendley, chief book traction of minerals. 25.000 In tranB “It Is difficult to distinguish betters keeper at th«- eastern Oregon state hos portatfon activities. 85,000 In mechHn- varions sections of our people- the Ical and manufacturing induntrlen, 19,- . pttal. homes, public entlng places, food The state industrial accident com 800 in trade, 2600 in public service, trades, urban or agricultural popula mission reports that during the week 5300 in professional service, 7200 in tion*—In assessing credit for these re- ending September 5 It was Informed domestic service and 2600 in clerical mita, but no on»* will deny the iloini- aant part of the American women." of a total of 536 accidents, two of them occupations. r » ON THE PACIFIC OUR SAVED FOOD COMMERCE SHOWS RAPID DEVELOPMENT FED THE ALLIES fatal. George Letch, of Dee, was fa** Germany's war debt Is almost $35,- tally injured while lumbering, and 000,000,000, not counting the blood up Bert Jones, of Portland, was nun ia- on her record. tally while engaged In public service. A hoarder is n man who Is more In- created In getting his bite than iu gir- ng bis bit. While world commerce is shifting Portland has an opportunity to again place her i If on the trade routes of the Pacific Ocean. World shipping his shifted to new channels since the war began, but none of it has found it necessary to come by the way of the Columbia River. The trends of trade have not yet become table, hem <• Portland has a chance to again handle traffic which now ■ < • m ■ to be permanently diverted to other channels. • The Pacific Coast ports are rap-, idly becoming the favorite route for merchandise bound to or departing from the United States, A compila- tion by the National City Bank indi cates that the imports entering through the Pacific ports in the nine months ended with March, 1918, wire more than double those of the • <»rr< ponding period of 1917, while merchandise entering tjirough the Atlantic ports showed an actual de crease. I . port through the Pacific ports in th< nine months mentioned above amounted to $466,000,000 in value, against $223.01X1.000 in the corre- -ponding period of 1917, and those through the Atlantic ports ! $1,170,- ioo.000. against * $1.234,000,000 i in the s.une months of last year, In the case of New York the total for the nine months ending with March, 1916. was $868,000,000, against $938,- <»«1,000 in 1917. Exports Show Increase. In exports the Pacific Coast ports also - how an increase of $120,000,000, while New York show» a fall of -271.000,000. The total exports through the I’acific ports in the nine months ending with March, 1918, were $360,-’ (M).OOO, against $240,000,000 in the -ante months of last year, while those from the port of New York v. ere $2.001,000. against $2,272,000 in the same months of last year. The I-hare which the Pacific ports han dled of the import trade of the litcd States in the nine months ending with March, 1918, was 22 per i< nt, against only 12 per cent in the corresponding months of 1917, while the share handled by the Atlantic Coast ports was 56 per cent, against <>8 per cent in the corresponding months of 1917. The contrast at the Pacific ports when compared with 1916 is even greater, the imports through the Pa cific ports having been in the nine months ended with March, 1916, but $177.000,000, in the corresponding months of 1917 $223,000.000, and in th. corresponding months of 1918 9 k ,,900.000, while exports through the Pacific ports jumped from $166,- 000.000 in the nine months ended with March, 1916, to $360,000,000 in the nine months ended with March, 1918. WATSON andlENDALL Mrs. Frank Harrow invited Mrs. Altai McFgrtain to hsr birthday dinner Iasi -unday, it l«ing Hie 22nd anniversary. share which the Pacific ports are The bounteous repast did justice to th» handling of the foreign trade of the occasion, a* the lady is ail excellenl United States relate entirely to a cook. Mr. Harrow entertained the period preceding the presence of the ladies with guitar music ami they re U-boats on the Atlantic frontage and sponded by singing popular airs. are due to another phase of war ac tivities. Even before their presence Mr. and Mrs Author Fletcher enter on our Atlantic frontage was stu- pected the trade of the Orient found tained Mrs. A. L McFarlain Bunday the trans-Pacific route much safer evening at their home on Clinton Ave than from attack by U-boats in the nue and Twenty-second street. They Mediterranean and the eastern part conveyed their gnett to their home in of the Atlantic. a flue automuliile. As a result a very large propor tion of the merchandise from China, Another reason why the callow youth Japan, and the Philippines, Austra- of thia tirpe la spindle-shanked, nar iia, Dutch East Indies, Singapore, and India, much of which had for- row-chested and dance-crazy is that he merly been sent to us by way of the was not permitted to live In a period Mediterranean or around the south when It was tub height of fashion to ern cape of Africa, began to seek wear paper csdlars and use two pinta passage across the Pacific, a part of of bear grease on his hair every week. it passing through the Panama Ca nal to the eastern ports and a large part landing at the Pacific ports, and passing thence by rail to the eastern trade centers of the United States. The articles switched from their usual trade routes and those Solicits your sent across the Pacific included In dia rubber from the Dutch East In Sale dies and the Malayan peninsula, cof fee from Java, tia from the same section, jute from India, hemp from the Philippines, coffee from Java, the and tea and siUc from China and Japan. The Williams Realty Co Property for We have the Buyers, you have Property Trade From Orient. As a result of this change, which a larger proportion of merchandise from the Orient came I by way of the Pacific, the imports] of the port of San Francisco in creased from $79,OOO.OfX) in the nine | months ended with March, 1916, to $204000.000 in the same months of 1918. while those of Seattle increased from $89,000,000 in the nine months ended with March. 1916, to $244,000.- 000 in the nine months ended with i March, 1918. Even these figures do j COME AND SEE US Williams Realty Co. 8206 Woodstofik Avenue Tabor 4934 Still Moving ROSE CITY VAN not fully tell the story of the gain of the Pacific ports because a por tion of the merchandise entering- The One-Way-Charge Conpany through those ports passed in bond I to the eastern ports of the United States and is accredited to them in k S*s Us For the government figures of imports ’ COAL by customs districts. WOOD AND Tab. 1424 Dfil Gold Medal« for Essays. Ten gold medals will be awarded successful contestants in an essay writing contest inaugurated by the management of the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign among the pupils of the public schools of Oregon. One medal will be given for the best es say submitted from each grade, third to eighth, inclusive, and also the four high school classes. Ten sil ver medals will be awarded in each county in the state for the ten best Pacific Route Safer. essays submitted by the pupils of These figures of the gains in the the county. S222 Foster Rd KERN PIRK CABINET SHOP 8. C. SMITH LIGHT MILL & CABINET WORK Screens, Sash, Windows, Doors aid Picture Framing Residence Phone: Tabor 4602 8hop Phone: Ta boi 7.576 4633 «"th Street 8. B.