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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1918)
I r OREGON NEWS The city of HI Helena will build • municipal dock. Portland banka made u now record Friday. when clearings totaled I IS/ 160,>11. Th« annual inert Ina of the Oregon Hutter and Chassemaker*' association will 1» In h| lu I'orllaml !>•■• ■ mini' Il 11 Thotnna K I'axton. city editor of the linker Morning Democrat, died at linker of piieumoula, following Influ enza. A wind ntorm at Hood HI ver took , u large part of the valley's unpicked apples, estimated at 80 per cent of the million box crop. Il'-nry F llluaaor, a young farmer living three miles north of l**banon. committed suicide nt his home by shouting hlnmelf with a rifle. The new 76-foot concrete bridge at Tygh valley has been completed and will be ready for traffic as soon a* the upproui hcn to the bridge are com plot cd. John A Muldrlck. a well.known Grant county capitalist, paste <1 away at his homo In t'uuyon City of pneu monla. 'oilowing an attack of Influ cnxu. December 26 to 2« are the dates set for the annual meeting of the Oregon Blate Teachers' association In Port Inad An attendance of between HOC und 1600 persons Is expected. Fraternity activities, with the ex Ocptlon of meetings of u purely bust mutt character, will be suspended at the Oregon Agricultural college on ar count of a ruling by the war depart monl. A committee of the Oregon Dairy council has reported that there hat been a decrease of fij.ooo dairy cow* In Oregon since January 1. 1918. This report Is bawd upon a census of milk cows Hcptembcr 1. fjtdy-buxs will be collected by forest service men and freed In wheat Held* of Oregon, according to Wlstrlct For cater Cecil. This decision follows a plea made by wheat growers who last year lost heavily through aphides. The federal administration has ad vlaed that the Oregon public service commission raise rates for the Hump- ter Valley railroad, thus providing funds with which to pay the Increased wages demanded by the striking em ployes Multnomah county ha* been denied permission by the public service com mission to construct a crossing at grade over the o-W. R. A N. tracks at Osborn avenue. In Portland, the com- mission holding the crossing too has ardous. Through efforts of the business men of Albany and Salem and the Portland chamtH-r of commerce development bu- roau. step* are being taken to organ lai* an Oregon chamber of commerce, composed of all the state's commercial organisations. ' An order has been received from army headquarters at Han Francisco requiring dally nose and throat spray treatment for employes in the ship yards and sawmills of North fiend as a means of checking the spread of Hpanlah Influenza Hlnce December 10, 1916. 137 wooden ships have been launched In Oregon yards and those nt Vancouver. Wash., which are In the territory, having a capacity of 493.300 tons, according to a statement compiled by the Portland chamber of commerce. WALTER M PIERCE, Candidate for Governor. Behool teachers are entitled to their pay for the time the schools are closed during the Influents epidemic, Super intendent Churchill says, basing h>s statement on an opinion of Attorney- General Crawford in 1906, when simi lar conditions arose during a scarlet fever epidemic. r<.<>ple who don't know what to do on Sunday, now thnt motoring Is ta boo. might try going to church for a phnnr»* The Pacific International IJvMtock show In Portland this year will be hold nt the Ice Palace arena. Twentieth and Marshall str.-ets, November 18-33. according to an announcement made hv fioerrtary A. II. Lea. of the state IN GROWN PRINGt WKITtS AS Hf RUNS fROM YANKS BRIEF fair board, who also Is managing tbs big stock show this year. Kugeus wholesale houses dealing In grains and grain product* canceled all order* placed with the Albers Brother* Milling company of Portland, for un delivered quantities of cereals and other products, as a result of the ar rest of Hepry Albers, president of the company, on esplonags charges, A* one of the features of the forth coming united war work campaign 15,000 or more grammar and high school students of Oregon will be en rolled as victory girls and victory boys, pledging and soliciting fund* and do ing what they can for the good of the big brothers called to tight for liberty. Charles H. Green, United States wool administrator and distributor, baa val ued a lot of cloae to 1,600.000 pounds of northwestern wools In Portland warehouses and within the next few days will pass upon about 750,Ooo pounds more. This will leave some 4,000,000 pounds of the 1918 clip still to be valued. An lucreaaed number of student* at the state school for the blind makes more room necessary, according to the biennial report of Mrs. Muy Moores, superintendent, to the stale board of control. Attendance at the Institution last year was 33. For thl* year 40 pupil* are already enrolled and mor* are to be received later. Through a deal Involving between >85.000 and 1100,000, Elmer D. Paine, of Eugene, became the sole owner and manager of the Eugene and Spring field flouring mill* of the Eugene Mill A Elevator company. Mr. Paine, who; ha* been a halt owner tn the company.; took over the Interest of Charles S Williams, also of Eugene. Five fatal accidents out of a total of 515 Industrial casualties were re ! ported to the state accident corn tn Is | slon for the week ending October 24 They are: W. H. Davy, llrooklngs, lumbering; Albert Patterson. Portland, fuel company; John H. Freeburg, Port land, shipbuilding; Charles L. Knapp, Portland, shipbuilding; James Wilson, Astoria, paper mill. The highest wages awarded to street railway employes anywhere In the United State* were awarded by the war labor board to the employes of' the Portland Hallway, Light a Power company. The new scale for motor men and conductor* Is 46 cents per hour for the first three months; 48 cent* for the next nine months, and 50 cents per hour thereafter. Senator McNary has made an ex tended argument before the senate fl nance committee In support of the petition of Oregon loganberry grower* for a reduction in the proposed inter nal revenue tax on loganberry Juice The bill as passed by the house pro vide* a tax of 30 per cent of the value, which. It I* asserted and Is agreed by the Food administration, would ruin the Industry. In a letter to R. H. Alshton, regional director for the railroad admlnlstra tlon. Public 8ervtce Commissioner ' Corey a*k* relief for minor road* In I the matter of Interchange of cars, urg ing that Mr. Alshton take the matter up with the larger road*. Mr. Corey j reports considerable complaint against the order of the director-general abol ishing the 24-hour free switching time’ allowed the minor road*. Declaring that he la the rightful owner of a large tract of timber held by the defendants on the lower Slue law river and valuable property In Portland. N. B. Holter ha* filed suit In the circuit court at Eugene asking that the property be sold and proceeds to the extent of >121.476 be turned over to him. The defendants in the case are the Mapleton Timber company, the Astoria-Warrenton Ijsnd company, the Stuart Ferguson Timber company. Josephine B. Ferguson, executrix of the estate of E Z. Ferguson. and John son Porter. Delving about in Coos river to re move obstruction* which might inter fere with seining, Frank and Levi Smith encountered the flange of a propel lor and upon attempting to raise the affair were obliged to bring Into service additional lifting machinery. When raised the propellor proved to 1 be the one lost from the lightship ten der General Wright, which was setting harbor lights at the spot 30 years ago. The wheel weighs nearly two tons and | Is brass. It represent* a valuable find for Messrs. Smith, since they have already been offered >2000 for It. The heavily Interested chrome pro ducers of southern Oregon and north ern California met in Grants Pass last . week and organised the Oregon Chrome Producers’ association, which Is expected to affiliate with the Vaclftc Coast Chrome Producers' association, organised In Han Francisco recently. The meeting was brought about by the fact that there is no market for the sale of chrome. People have been Induced to develop bodies of chrome on the theory that the production would be paid for at prices prevailing the past summer and owing to the fact that there I h no market hundreds of patriotic producers have been un ski* t* get back the money Invested. OU may have noticed that optometrists talk more about "E yeh ” and "E yesight ” and “S ervice ” than they do about glasses. ----- The following bit of real war hu mor was taken from a French news paper and was furnishtAl 'I lie Herald by A. W. Fankhauser of Lent«: kai < r ■" Did you ever hear anything' so o'ftl? I didn't tink anybody vould I nay such an offcl ting. It made me so mad. 1 vouldn’t stand and hear right? Vat? And, oh, papa, you know dem Thia because optometrist* have breastplate* vot you sen us—can you something more important .than send some to put on our backs? You glasses to talk about. know vc are going de odder way, now. and breastplates are no good, db for de cowardly Americans arc shoot ing us right in der back. Some of i Any optical place i^iuppoced to our boys took off dcr breastplates hare eyeglajuem and not carpet» or anil put ’em behind, but de fool Amer furniture icans are playing “De Star Spangled Banner" tnit machine gun» on dem' •dates. Can’t you help us? You re member in your speech you said Opt om«* trutta naturally attach inora nothing could stand before the brave importai««» tofwhat you ; want when German soldiers? Oh, papa, I don’t believe dese ignorant Americans ever your ay«» trouble you—which in <-oîn- fort^and natÍMÍaction andfqiiaiity and read your speech, for dey run after u« just like ve vas a lot of rabbits. service. Vot you tink of dot? Cant you send dem some of your speeches right avay? Dey don't know how terrible That'* what yon get ir< in c'-mpc- vc arc. Can’t you move my army, tent optnnH'triM*. Glai«*'* ate the back to Belgium vere ve von all our I uxtls, aud the Iramessnd the innunt- glory? ings, the mechanical contrivances, My men can vip all the vimmen which properly an.l scientitically and children vot dem Belgiums can bring us. But dese Americans are so handles), bring comfort and Hativfac- rough and ignorant. We can’t make tion. such an offcl ting so 1 turned around and run mit de odder boys. Vas I 'em understand that we arc the great est soldiers on earth, and ven ve try to sing "Deutchland Ueber Alles” OR. OHO. H. I’RA FT* dey laugh like a lot of monkeys. But ve are getting de best of de Ameri OPTOMETRIST cans. We can outrun dem. Papa, if 326 Alder Street ve are not de best fighters on earth ve arc sure de best runners. Nobody PORTLAND. OREGON can keep up mit us when we tink of •'er dear old Rhine, and my army never did tink so much of dot dear old river. Let me know right avay r vot to do by return postoffice. PRACTICAL HAIRCUTS CROWN PRINCE WILLIE. VELVET SHAVES July 20 times. On Ihr Run, Everywhere in France, All the Time,—Dear Papa: I am writ ing on der run as der brave and glor ious soldier* under my command have not seen der Rhine for so long _ dal dey have started back that way, and of course I am going mit dem. <ih. pap, ilcre ha* been some olici ding* happened here in France. First, I started in my big offensive which was to crush de fool Ameri ca»». hut they know so little about military tactic* dat dey vill not be crushed just like I vant 'em. I sent my men in dvr fight in big waves, and ven dey got to de American« <jey all said "Boo” so loud a* they could holler. Veil, according to vat you have al ways told nte. <lc Americans have turned and run like blaze*. But vat do you tink? Dctn fool Americans don't know anything about war, and instead of running de odder vay, dey came right toward us. Some of deni vas singing about "Ve won't come back till it’s over, over derc,” or some odder foolish song, and some of dem were luffing like fool*. Dey are so ignorant. But dey arc offcl reckless nut der guns, and ven dey come to ward us it vas den my men took a notion dey wanted to go back to de dear old Rhine. Ve don’t like de little dirty Marne river, anyhow. And. oh |>ap, dent Americans use such offcl language. Dey know noth ing of kultur and say such offcl dings right before us. And dey talk blas phemy. too. Vat you tink dey said right in front of ntv face? One big husky from a place dey call Missouri, he said—oh, papa. 1 hate to tell you vat an offcl ting he said—but 1 can't help it; he said, “To hell mit der - - 1 We have the Buyers, you have the Property COME AND SEE US Williams Realty Co. 8206 Woodstock Avenue Tabor 4934 ST KERN PIRK CABINET SHOP H. C. SMITH LIGHT'MILL & CABINET WORK Screens, Sash, Windows. Doors and Picture Framing Residence Phone : Tabor 4602 Shop Phone: Tsboi 7576 4d33 67th Street fi. E. The Library Association asks that all people who have book« and maga zines leave them at the Eleventh street entrance of the Central Li brary, where they will be collected and distributed to the boy* who are in quarantine in the Army canton ment* and spruce camps. There is a shortage of hooks and magazines, and the need is urgent, for the men have nothing to read. 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