PROFESSIONAL CAROS. OREGON NEWS IN BRIEF Apple* are moving steadily through Portland will appropriate 83.835,470 'receiving plants at Hood Illver and fur Its public schools In 1919. along the linn of the Mount Hood The Western Walnut assoclatloei railway and more than 40 per cent of convened at McMinnville Wednesday. this year's crop has been routed to | Mlaa Doria Hawycr haa become eastern points. The Apple Growers' tester for th« Linn county Cow Test- association baa shipped 686 cars of Ing nusoclatlon. fruit. Farmers’ and homemakers' Two fatal accidents were reported will not be held at the Oregon to the state Industrial accident com cultural college this winter. mission for the week, out of a total Plan* are being made for bolding of 368 Industrial casualties In the the annual Pork county corn ahow In state. The fatalities were: Oscar Wil­ Independence December 13 and 14. kins, (Irani* Paas, construction work. In the Hillsboro city election an and H. F. Larson, Portland, steel Initiated measure closing motion pic­ works. ture theaters on Bunday was defeated, Fishermen on the lower Coquille 373 to 144. river have been enjoying unusual Three hundred and seventeen boxes prosperity during the sllverslde run of pear* shipped to the Karl Fruit and some have made a year’s wage* compauy In Chicago by Dugald Camp In one month. During the heaviest bell, of Eugene, sold for 81144 39. run one seining crew took 3300 fish Officials of the big oil companies tn one day, amounting to about 36.1100 represented In Oregon have announc­ pounds. ed that service stations and garages Western Union telegraph business will resume Bunday gasoline *uli-s at on Coos bay la under criticism, com­ once plaint having been entered by the Multnomah county's road pro- ' Marshfield chamber of commerce to arsrnme for 1919 calls for an expend!-1 the authorltte* at Washington. The tore of 8736.467.60, according to the | telegraph service has been very un­ testatlve estimate of contomplnted I certain and aggravating delays have work ’w:' been reported. The Marshfield city council has Construction work on the Columbia adopted one of the moat drastic dance river highway between Hood River ordinances In the atate, requiring li­ and Cascade Locks has been shut cense and restrictions that are very down on account of weather condi­ rigid. tions and will not be resumed until It Is feared that Influents may nest spring, according to C. A. Dunn, wipe out llood River valley's few re- construction engineer of the ■tate malnlng Indians. The epidemic has highway depart menu ■truck a village north of the city of The spruce production work of es­ Hood River. tablishing logging camps In the Bou­ The public service commission ha* tin spruce area near Beaver Hill In suspended the action of the American Coos county Is progressing fast and Railway Express company lu dlscon- , the force of soldiers now on the tlnulng offices at Bumpier. Whitney' ground number* over 500. They are and Prairie. engaged In building railroads, con- Robbers entered the Citlxena' State •tructlng camps and opening coal bank at Grass Valley, dynamited the I mines. vault and escaped with a aumber of, A. J. Partan. manager; Frans Nie canceled checks, seme valuable securi-' ml. president; Jacob Kiuvala and W. ties sad a small sum ef money, M. Relvo, directors of the Western Women officials In the town ef Workmen's Publishing coin pan y, ■ Umatilla, elected two years ago, wh«a Finnish socialist concern, of Astoria, they went out and made a spirited i were arrested on charges of sedition. campaign against the men. were re­ The men are accused of circulating turned to office la the late election. seditious literature and trying to (Ms- Oregon soldiers is the aumber of courage onNstment In th* army and 169. of which 69 are from Multaomsh •a»y county, have been returned to their Me *44* o4 Astoria has applied to hom>- state from the various camps the state water board for approprla ■nd cantonments on account of tuber­ Hen of wafer from Big crook to sup culosis. ply an additional municipal water Miss Pearl Bnedeker has the dis­ ngppiy at an estimated coot of 8600- tinction of being the first woman to 090 The plan in to build a pipeline take up cow tasting association wwrk miles long. The present populn In Oregon. The ncseclatlen. listing 1WH to talk about. cSb HEY climb aboard their loaded truck at sundown, fifteen miles behind the lines. They rumble through the winding streets, out on white road that leads to Germany! The man at the wheel used to be a broker in Philadelphia. Beside him sits an accountant from Chicago. A news­ paper man from the Pacific Coast is the third. Now they all wear the uni­ form of one of these organizations. The road sweeps round a village and on a tree is nailed a sign: “Attention! L’Ennemi Vo us Voit! The Enemy Sees You!” They glance far up ahead and there, suspended in the evening light, they see a Hun balloon. “Say, we can see him plain tonight!” murmurs the accountant from Chicago. "And don’t forget,” replies the Phila­ delphia broker, “that he can see us just as plain.” The packing cases creak and groan, the truck plods on—straight toward that hanging menace. They reach another village—where heaps of stone stand under crumpled walls. Then up they go, through the strange silence broken only when a great pro­ jectile inscribes its arc of sound far overhead. They reach a turn. They take it They face a heavy incline. For half a mile it stretches and they know the Germans have the range of every inch of it The mountain over there is where the big Boches’ guns are fired. This incline is their target. The three men on the truck bring up their gas masks to the alert settle their steel helmets closer on their heads. At first the camion holds its speed. Then it slackens off. The driver grabs his gear-shift, kicks out his clutch. The engine heaves—and heaves—and stalls! “Quick! Spin it!” calls the driver. The California journalist has jumped. He tugs at the big crank. “ Wh-r-r-r-r-r-r-room I ” T The shell breaks fifty yards behind. Another digs a hole beside the road just on ahead. And then the engine comes to life. It crunches, groans and answers. Slowly, with maddening lack of haste, it rumbles on. “Wh-r-r-oom!” That one was close behind. The fragments of the shell are rattling on the truck. the Now shells are falling, further back along the road. And the driver feels the summit as his wheels begin to pick up speed. Straight down a village street in which the buildings are only skeletons of buildings. He wheels into the court­ yard of a great shell-tom chateau. “Well, you made it again I see!” says a smiling face under a tin hat—a face that used to look out over a congrega­ tion in Rochester. “Yep!” says the driver glancing at his watch. “And we came up Dead Man’s Curve in less than three minutes —including one stall!” * * * * Later that night two American boys, fresh from the trenches bordering that shattered town, stumble up the stairs of the chateau, into a sandbagged room where the Rochester minister has his canteen. “Get any supplies tonight?” they ask. “You bet I did!” is the answer, “What will you have?” “What’s those? Canned peaches? Gimme some. Package of American cigarettes—let’s see—an’ a cake of chocolate—an* some of them cookies!” “Gosh!” says the other youngster when his wants are filled. “What would we do without you?” * * * • You hear that up and down the front, a dozen times a night—“What would we do without them?” Men and women in these organiza­ tions are risking their lives tonight to carry up supplies to the soldiers. Trucks and camionettes are creeping up as close as any transportation is permitted. Any optical place is suppoaed to have eyeglasses and not carpets or furniture. Optometrists naturally attach more importance to what you want when your eyes trouble you—which is com- fortfand satisfaction and quality and service. A That a what you get from compe­ tent optometrists. (.lasers are the tools, and the frames and the mount­ ings, the mechanical contrivances, which properly and scientifically handled, bring comfort and satisfac­ tion. The Optical Shop OK. GEO. H. PRATT ORTOMETRIST 3-’o Alder Street PORTLAND, OREGON From there these people are carrying up to the gun-nests, through woods, across open fields, into the trenches. The boys are being served wherever they go. Things to eat, things to read, things to smoke, are being carried up everywhere along the line. With new troops pouring into France, new supplies must be sent, more men and women by the hundreds must be enlisted. They are ready to give every­ thing. Will you give your dollars to help them help our men? UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN PRACTICAL HAIRCUTS VELVET SHAVES Contributed to the Corr fort for the Boys Who Won, by BETTER COOKING, Only Magazine of Its Class A. H. HARRIS, Publisher CHILDREN BARBERING A SPECIALTY See C hester A G roroe -