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LENTS STATION, PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY,
Subscription, $1.50 the Year.
Educators Are Opposed
to School Monopoly Bill
Educators of nation-wide reputation
have condemned the no «ailed com
pulsory education bill to be voted on
in Oregon next month. In letter« to
the committee re|>rre«-nting non.
Catholic private school« a number of
university presidents and other*
point out the un-American character
of the proposed legislation. The let
ter* have been given out for publica
tion from the Protestant committee
headquarter* in the Omaolidaled Se
curities building.
Nichols* Murray Butter, president
of Columbia university, wrote in part
a* follows;
"Th»* bill is conclusive evidence
that Prussia* ideas have displaced
American ideals in the minds of
some, at leant, of the voters of Ore
gon.
“Education is primarily and funda
mentally a parental and fam|ly privi
lege and duty. The parents of a child
ar* m|M>nslble before God and man
for its upbringing and its preparation
for an honorable and useful lift. It
is an essential part of their civil
liberty to train their children in such
wise and in such form of religious
faith as they may prefer and choose.
“In our American theory, th* state
steps in, not to monopolise education
or to attempt to cast all children In
a common mold, or forcibly to deprive
them of all religious training and in
struction. but merely to prevent dam
age to itself. It offers a free oppor
tunity to every child to receive elem
entary education, and usually much
more than that, in tax-supported
school*. But It to In no sense the
businee* of the state, in our American
political |hiloeophy, to attempt to
monopolise education or to prevent
the freest choice by parent* of the
teacher* and schools of their children.
'This measure is exceedingly dan
gerous, in that it strikes directly et
the authority and dignity of the
family, at religious training of every
sort (since tax-supported schools may
under no circumstances offer such
training), and at that complete educa
tion which to the only training worth
having.
“If Prussia had won the great war,
thia bill to precisely the sort of
measure which It would have intro
duced in every country that came
under its control.
“This measure should be entitled
'A Rill to Make Impossible the Ameri
can fiyatem of Education in Oregon.’
It to fundamentally un-American in
it* principle and purpose and should
be overwhelmingly defested.”
President Hadley’s View
Arthur Hadley, former president of
Yale university, wrote:
“in general, I dislike to express an
opinion on legislation which to pend
ing in other states, but an examina
tion of the law proposed on page 21
of the Oregon voters’ pamphlet leads
me to think It an unwise and un
necessary infringement on individual
liberty. It certainly looks like an at
tempt to give the majority of the peo
ple a dangerous power to restrict the
diffusion of truth which it wishes to
suppress.”
Competition Held Desirable
Dr. Edward T. Devine, associate
editor of 8urvey magaxine and ex-
profeasor in Columbia university,
wrote a* follows:
“It is extraordinary that the pro
moter* of a law, the alleged pur
pose of which to to prevent group
divisions and cliques, should admit
that the inspiration of it cornea from
the resolutions of a secret order. The
American non-aectarian public school
system will continue to compete suc
cessfully with parochial and private
schools; it needs no compulsory mo
nopoly. The state should supervise
all schools, examine and certify
teacher* and insure that children are
taught fundamentals. It should not
set up a monopoly or interfere with
Complete freedom of education. The
interests of public schools require
free competition, free experiment and
free criticism.’*
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Dr. Wilbur Opposes Bill
Here is what R. Lyman Wilbur,
president of Stanford university
wrote about It:
"While I believe in compulsory
education of all mentally sound boys
and girls up to the age of 15 or 15,
It seems to me both unwise and un
fair to require that thia education be
given only in state supported schools.
There should be free option for
parents to educate their children
cither at home or in private schools
properly supervised and inspected by
the state."
Harry Pratt Judson, president of
Chicago university, wrote that the
provisions of the bill seem to him to
encroach upon the fundamental rights
of American cltixens with regard to
the education of their children. Robert
E. Vinson, president of the Univer
sity of Texas, gave It as hto opinion
that the task of educating all of the
American children is large enough to
require the co-operation of every
proper private ami public effort
MARYSVILLE NEWS
The parents and teacher* of Marys
ville school met Wednesday after
noon, September 27, at the school
building to organise a Parent-Teacher
association. Many were present. Mrs.
H. V. Hartsell of Woodmere helped
organise the association A very help
ful and pleasing addre»« wo* given
by Mrs D. B. Kelly, president of
Portland council of the Parent-
Teacher association. A constitution
was adopted and officers were elected.
The second Wednesday in each
month was decided upon for the
regular meeting*. Al! patrons of
Marysville ar* urged to attend and
take an active part. An interesting
program to being planned for next
Wednesday, October 11, at 2:30
o’clock.
School Notes
The superintendent of properties
of the school board inspected our
building last week. He plana to have
a double lavatory installed in the fu
ture and also outside drinking foun
tain*.
David Beck, of 4803 Seventy-fourth
street, is absent, due to lllneos.
Robert Jones of second grade is ill
with tonsilitis.
Mr. Wyman reporta the following
attendance score by pointe for the
different rooms: No. 1, 972 (first
place). 98 per cent. 1 tardy; No. 6,
979 (first place), 95.8 per cent, 0
tardy; No. 10, 978 (second place),
98.4 per cent, 6 tardy; No. 9, 977
(third place), 98 per cent, 3 tardy;
No. 8. 977 (third place), 98.1 per cent,
4 tardy; No. 7, 977 (third place), 98-Ii
per cent, 8 tardy No. 3, 977 (third
place), 98 per cent, 3 tardy; No. 4,
960 (fourth place), 96.2 per cent, 2
tardy; No. 2. 957 (fifth place), 96
per cent, 3 tardy.
There to great rivalry among the
moms for first place this month.
LOCAL
REALTY
FIRM
ACTIVE
The following real estate transfers
have been made by D. J. O’Connor
and F. R. Fenton from their office at
Ninety-second street and Mount Scott
earline:
Highly improved farm at Oregon
City, from Milo Ttephens to W. R.
Dugger; consideration 513,000.
Lota 4 and 9, block 3, Fowler's ad
dition, from John L. Fowler to Charles
Kerr.
Ixtts 11 and 12, block 4, Riddell
Heights, from Mary C. Cook to Olaf
Akerson.
House and lot on Fifty-eixth ave
nue, from H. J. Green to F. I* String
ham.
Filling station and two lots. Eighty-
second and Powell Valley Road, from
'E. H. Sims to Mike Miller and Rein
hold Miller.
Five-room house and one-third of
an acre, 9705 Forty-sixth avenue,
from William H. Dalrymple to Clyde
Walker.
House and three lots, 6113 Eighty-
third street, from Fred Jorg to J. M.
Sperl.
Three-room house and acre of
ground on Gilbert Road to F. W.
Huston.
W. R. DuggerY five-acre tract at
Fairview.
Bride la Given Shower
The teacher* and officer* of the
Arleta Baptist church gave a miscel-
Isneous shower on Mrs. Homer War
ner last Monday at her home. Mrs.
Warner, who was formerly Miss
Leona Darden, lives at 5516 Fortieth
avenue and is superintendent of the
Arleta Baptist Sunday school begin
ners’ department.
Mental Culture Club Holds Meeting
The Mount Scott Mental Culture
club held it* first meeting for the fall
last Thursday at the home of the
president, Mr*. H. E. Hall, 4603 Sev
enty-third street.
Iaincheon was
served at 12:80 o’clock. The program
of the afternoon was "Vacation
Echoes.” Each member told of her
experiences during th* summer.
Arleta Parent-Teacher* to Meet
The Arleta Parent-Teacher associa
tion will meet at Arleta school
next Friday, October 13. There will
be a special program and round-
table talk.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
WOODMERE PA REN*«-TEACHERS
REPORT PROGRESS
The Woodmere Parent-Teacher as
sociation held its second monthly
meeting Thursday afternoon at 3:30
in the school asaembiv room. Mrs.
William Katxky, president, had the
reports of the various committees
charged with making preliminary ar
rangement* for the annual halloween
maaquwade ball and pumpkin festival
to be held under th* auspice* of the
association on the evening of Satur
day, October 28. These report* were
submitted for the approval of the
general membership and final step*
were perfected for making th* af
fair a greater social event than ever
before.
8inc* it* last monthly meeting th*
association has s u c c**d» d in induc
ing the school board to authorix* the
purchase of additional school grounds
for Woodmere school A full report
of this important achievement was
made at the meeting. Other business
of importance, made possible and
necessary by the largely increased
membership, came up for disposi
tion.
Mr*. A. H. McGuire, a niece of D.
J. O’Connor and M. P. O’Connor of
this city and her daughter and son-
in-law of Iwwiston, Idaho, were Lente
visitor* Tuesday.
George H. Hamilton to celebrating
hto recovery from a bad ease ot
poison oak by painting Ben F. Miller’s
house.
H. E. Roettger has purchased the
Korn Park Hardware company fnxn
Mr Woodham and ha* taken charge.
His son, B. E. Roettger, to helping
him. The «tore has been renamed
th* Roettger Hardware company. Mr.
Roettger recently conducted th*
Roettger Hardware company in north
east Portland. Mr. Woodham plana
to leave for southern Oregon, which
climate, he thinks, will benefit hto
asthmatic condition.
Michaelson and Mayson of Fifty j
fourth street and Foster Road, manu I
facturer* of davenports and other
varieties of furniture, have established
a branch manufacturing location at
Sixty-ninth »treat and Foster Road.
Mr*. Edney of Omaha, Neb., for
merly Mias Esther Ward of Monta- LOWER MOUNT SCOTT CHURCH
ACTIVITIES
villa, was a recent visitor st ths home
of Mr*. J. H. Zehrung
Lanreiweed Nathodiet
District No. 9, Multnomah County
At It Rev. F. E. Finley’» subject
Sunday School assouiation, will hold
will be "The Ministry of Saul.”
their annual meeting at th* Mnts
Put to the meeting at the audi
Evangelical church next Sunday, Octo
torium of all the Epworth league* of
ber 8.
Portland at 6 and Bishop Stunts’ ad-
‘ Ru.unri and gossip ar* traveling
drea* at 7:30 there will be no serv
around fast at Newberg, Or., and
ice* in the evening.
soon will start in Mount Scott. Watch
The Queen Esther circle will meet
for it
at the home of Miss Lillian Blanchard,
Baker’s confectionary has moved to '5121 Sixtieth street, at 2:30 o’clock
a more central position in Tr«mont. Saturday, October 7.
Mr*. C. H. Blanchard has assumed
Arleta Baptist
the pastorate of the United Brethren
The ground for the pew church was
church at Amboy, Wash.
’ Th< quarterly Sunday school in broken last Sunday. Dr. Leonard and
stitute of district No. 9 will meet Mr. Smith spoke. Mr. Day sang. Mr.
next Sunday at the I^nta Evangelical Chambless, a charter member and
church at 2:30 o’clock. The leading senior deacon, took out the first
speaker, will be Rev. F. M. Jasper, shovelful of dirt, after which all the
the newly appointed Sunday school ether charter members each took out
secretary of Oregon for the Metho cne shovelfill.
Special evangelistic meetings will
dist church.
1 Mr. and Mrs. Newman cf Weymorc, be held October 1 to 15, conducted
Neb., who are spending a few month* by August Hunderupt. All the meet
in Portland while on a tour of the ing* so far have been well attended
Pacific coast, have taken room* at
Forty-fourth avenue and Seventieth
‘ street.
Mr. and Mr*. T. L. Whitworth of
southern Idaho are visiting their
daughter, Mr*. F. E. Finley, 4229
Sixty-third street.
KENDAL STATION NEWS
Millard-A venae Presbyterian
Morning services. Dr. White’s sub
ject will be “The Joy and Inspiration
of Anticipation.”
Evening service*, sermon subject,
“In School With Christ, the Great
Teacher.”
Third United Brethren
Morning services, “Christ, Our Pass-
Mesdame* Anna Stewart. Fred over.”
Johnson, R. C Nelson and Riley
Evening services, “The Rallv of the
Loyd were in Portland Saturday on Faith ft«!.”
business.
Mr*. J. De Koning entertained a
Tremont United Brethren
number of her friends from Port
Morning sermon subject, “Jesus
land Wednesday
Only.”
Grandma Battin visited her niece
Evening sermon subject, “Camou
at St. Johns Tuesday.
flage Condemned.”
Mr. and Mr*. R. C. Nelson and Mr*.
The choir from the Second United
A. M. McDonald were shopping in Brethren church put on a musical
Portland Tuesday.
program last Sunday. A large num
William Jantx and Karl Weber ber were in attendance.
each are building new bungalows on
Grey street. Sam Williams to having
Kern Park Christian
a new roof put on hto house this
Morning sermon subject, "The
week.
Resurrection.”
The Parent-Teacher association met
Evening sermon
subject, "The
al Battin schoolhouse Thursday after
World Call to the Cross.”
noon, October 5.
Mr*. Kendall, state president of the
Mrs. Mary Brady returned Sunday
Women’s Home Missionary society,
from Hood River where she visited the
spoke Tuesday evening on the na
past month.
tional convention.
Bobby Falkner, 6-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ice Falkner, to suffer
Lents Methodist Episcopal
ing from a burned mouth and throat
T. H. Downs, pastor.
The boy tried to drink from the spout
Sunday school, 9:45.
of the teapot which had just been
Services at 11 A. M., sermon theme,
filled with boiling water.
"The
Seen and the Unseen."
The ladies of the Harmony Public
There will be no services at the
Improvement society gave a dance
church in the evening, but a city
Saturday night in the new clubhouse
wide Epworth league service in the
which they built this summer. A
municipal auditorium at 6 o’clock, led
good crowd was present and all spent
by th* district president. At 7:30 a
a very pleasant evening. A Lents’
mass meeting of city-wid* Methodism
orchestra furnished the mu*ic.
In the same auditorium to be ad-
dreesed by Bishop Homer C. Stunts of
Asking People'* Aid •
South America.
Indicating tint Die Pieree-for-gov-
ernor campaign will be carried direct
Tools Stolen; Showcase Left
to the people before the rapidly on
While visiting his father, F. E.
coming day of election, an advertise Jiggar, 6139 Ninetieth atreet, Sun
ment is appearing simultaneously thia day, F. E. Jiggar Jr. lost 335 worth
week in the newspapers of the state of automobile tool* from the un
making a plea for dollar subscription*, locked chest on his car. When the
en the basis that thia candidate is theft was discovered Mr. Jiggar Sr.
one of the people and dependent upon found a small showeas*. which he
the rest of the people to elect him.
thinks was stolen from some store or
Miopi
Boys’ Chorus to Appear
Grange Meeting October 14
Wednesday evening, October 11,
Mr*. Wendle, lecturer for Uentd
the Whitney boy chorus will give a
program In the municipal auditorium. Grange No. 153, has obtained th*
At this concert a special effort i» Banica orvhcatVa of school chil
being ptade to have a chorus of dren from Laurelwood Methodist
selected voices rather than one of Episcopal church for the next meet
mammoth site. Several new chorus ing, October 14. Miss Fay Finley to
number* will be sung. One number the leader of the orchestra and she
was written especially for this and Miss Helen Lockwood will give
chorus, both the words pnd th* music. vocal solos.
VOL. XX, No 40
OCTOBFR 6, 1922
REWARDING MERIT
The renowned Frederic the Great,
while riding one day sone distance
from the palsce, saw an aged man
working in a field. Hto bowed shoul
der* and general appearance gave
evidence that the life of thia peasant
had been one of hardest toil and ex
posure, but he seeniad perfectly
nappy. His face wore a contented
smile and while he worked he sang
with great cheerfulness and not a
little skill.
“Good morning* You seem very
happy,” exclaimed the king, pausing
by the roadside. “Is this your nrop-
erty?"
“No, sir,” answered th*
peasant, who did not know the king.
"1 am not so well off as that. I work
by the day for a rich farmer.”
“What are your wage*?’ askel
the king.
“My wage* are eight groaehen
(about 20 cent*) a day,” replied the
laborer.
"That is very little,” said the king.
“You deserve more than that. Can
you live on so small a sum?”
The man laughed heartily as he
answered: “Oh, yes; I can live on it
and have something to spare.”
"How to it possible?"
"1 will tell you," continued the
peasant, leaning on hto sped* and
looking squarely, with honest eyes
into those of the king. ’Two groaehen
are for me and my wife; with two I
am paying an old debt that I ow*; I
lay by two for use in th* future and
two I give in charity.”
"All that to very strange; it to a
mystery I cannot fathom,” remarked
the king.
“Then I will explain it to you,"
said th* peasant. "I have an old
father and mother at home. They
cared for me when I was young and
helpless. Now they are old and de
pendent and I care for them. In or
der to pay the debt I owe them, I
daily put aside for their use two
groaehen. The third pair of groaehen
I treasure up for my children, who
may in turn the more easily help
their mother end myself when we
are old and can no longer work. With
th* other two I support a poor old
lady, a distant relative of my wife,
who is sick and infirm. These are the
groechen I devote to charity and
thankfulness to the good God who
has blessed me with health and
strength. To this practise I believe
I owe the fact that I have never had
a day’s illness in all my life.”
“liiou art a noble fellow,” replied
th* king.
“No wonder thou art
happy. Now it is my turn to read
a riddle. Hast thou ever seen me
before ?”
“Never, so far as I can remember,”
said the peasant after carefully Man
ning the face of the king.
“In less than five minutes thou
wilt have seen me 50 times and will
have 50 of my picture* in thy pocket”
The old man looked at him with a
puzxled air and said: “That is a
mystery I cannot fathom! You must
be joking with me, sir!”
“It will be quickly explained!” said
the king. Putting his hand in his
pocket, he drew forth 50 gold pieces
on which was stamped his image, and
gave them to the astonished peasant.
“I ow* you more,’ he said, “for
you have taught me a valuable les
son. Adieu!”
With these words he galloped away
and was out of sight before the
astonished peasant could realise to
whom he had been speaking.
Rustlers' Clans Entertains
The rustlen’ class of the Laurel
wood Congregational church was en
tertained last Friday evening, Sep
tember 29, at the home of their
teacher, Vera Pratten. Game*, music
and refreshments were enjoyed. The
guests included the Misses Lucille
and Edna Springer, Bernice Sailor,
Frances Comes, Arleta Fouest, Alice
Holton, Gladys Acker, Lucille Quam,
Mildred Volls, Pauline and Vera Prat
ten.
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Injured Painter Dies
F. Bachofner, Hillsdale painter, in
jured in the scaffolding fall at the
Yeaghcr theater, September 28, died in
Good Samaritan hospital Friday, Sep
tember 29. The man was injured in
ternally. The other injured are re
covering.
Say This Quickly
Betty Botter bought some butter.
"But,” she said, "this butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter
Will surely make my batter botter.”
So she bought a bit o’ butter
And made her bitter butter better.
Better than the bitter butter,
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit o’ better butter.
Think Right
Think smiles, and smiles shall be;
Think doubt, and hope will flee.
Think love, and love will grow;
Think hate, and hate you’ll know.
Think good, and good to here.
Think vice, it* claws appear!
Think joy, and joy ne’er ends;
Think gloom, and dusk descends;
Think faith, and faith’s at hand;
Think ill, it stalks the land.
Think peace, sublime and sweet,
And you that peace will meet
Think fear, with brooding mind.
And failure’s close behind.
Think this: "I’m going to win!”
I
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAUNTEREST
Principal Events of the Wte'i
Briefly Sketched for Inf fa'*
mation of Ovr Reader».'
Teacher* from all section» of Marion
county gathered at 8alem Friday In
annual convention.
The Oregon cave* In Josephine
county war* visited during th* last
season by more than 10.000 touriats.
A movement to being launched at
Ashland to beautify the Pactflc high
way by planting ro*** along th*
fasca*.
Due to recent legislation by con
gross th* stat* of Oregon will receive
for the years 1923-24-25 federal road
aid to the amount of 32.995.892.
The run ot chtnook salmon in the
Umpqua river. which to now prac
tically at an end. was very light this
season and very few sllverstdea have
been caught.
Led by th* eity planning commto-
■ion. all force* la Pendleton ar* work
ing toward a union depot tor the
Union and Northern Pacific railroads
tn that eity.
An annua! prise of 325 tn gold has
been offered to the student at Oregon
Agricultural college excelling in
forensic work for the year, by Jacob
Raichart of Corvallis.
Reports received nt Salem from
rural districts Indicate that th* rw
cent rains have not Injured the prunes,
and that picking has been continued
without Interruption.
Discontinuance of the dual elMtlon
board system, whereby ballots are
counted while polls still are open, was
recommended by th* Multnomah coun
ty grand Jury in a report.
Ruby Dollar, an 18-year-old high
school girl, was shot and almost In
stantly killed at Ashland by Earl Barn
ard. one year her junior, while play
ing with a loaded revolver.
An Incipient cyclone in th* vicinity
of Irving, north of Eugen*, tore down
farm fences, blew limb* off trees and
overturned the station building at
Rosa, on the Oregon Electric line.
Otr! students at the Klamath
county high school must hereafter
wear the uniform dress adopted by
the student body last year or present
a satisfactory excuse for non-compli
ance.
The grand jury at Klamath Falls
Indicted J. W. Siemens and John Sie
mens Jr„ his son. tor alleged fraud In
connection with failure ot the First
State and Savings bank, which closed
last January.
William von der Hellen, of Medford
and Eagle Point, was awarded the con
tract for construction ot the Eagle
Point irrigation district canal between
Big Butte creek and Eagle Point on
a bid of 3140.006.
Vaughan A Bester, who own and
operate a sawmill at Acme, on the
lower Stuslaw river, soon will build
* logging railway several miles long
up Hadsell creek, to bring fir logs
down to their plant.
Evergreen blackberries, which grow
wild in great profusion in most parts
of Clatsop county, are wow is their
prime and hundreds of persons ar* en
gaged In packing them both for sale
and for domestic use.
The largest tax remittance to be re
ceived at the office of the Linn county
tax collector covering taxes due on
the second half of the year was turn
ed over by the Weyerhauser Timber
company. The amount was 311.215.32.
By a vote of 35 to 27, with 21 of
the delegates absent, the Oregon state
federation of labor. In session at
Salem, adopted a resolution urging
amendment of the Volstead act so as
to permit of the manufacture and sale
of light wines and beer.
Marguerite Stark, 13-year-old Port
land girl, was proclaimed winner of
th* silver loving cup offered by the
Oregon Farmer for the boy or girl
scoring the highest number of points
on any project at the state fair at
Salem. Mis* Stark scored 100 points
in canning.
The secretary of state has turned
over to the state treasurer 3607.931.02,
representing the net receipts of auto
mobile registrations for the six
mouth* ending Septemb«r 15. The
money will be used in paying a part of
3764,000 tn interest du* on highway
bond* October 1.
The Oregon pear crop considerably
exceeded th* earlier estimates, report*
F. L. Kent of the department of agri
culture. The heavy spring drop did
not prove to be a* serious a* anticipat
ed. Indication* are that the total
1923 pear shipment* will amount to
about 1650 carload*.
Seining for salmon Is the subject ot
discussion on the lower Coquille river,
where It to held tb* practice Is not
approved hr the sporting element, who
believe the river eventually will be
come a poor fishing district if saining
to allowed Flohermen and cannery
men who profit by taking salmon hold
an opposite view and the question to
likely to be settled by the »tat* leg
islature at next winter’s session.
With ten laches of snow on th*
ground. Crater Lake Lodge is prac
tically snowbound and was officially
cioeed Saturday, when th* entire
force of employe«* returned to Med
ford. According to th* lodge menage-
ment. the patronage thia season ha*
been the largest in its history.
Two truck loads of young treat were
sent from the state hatchery near Vida
on the McKensie river, to the now
state hatchery at Oakridge, on th*
upper Willamette river. The trout
number about 209,009 and will be left
in th* ponds at Oakridge until th*
close of th* fishing season in th*
fs«l of 1923.
One of the largest damage verdicts
•ver handed down by a jury in th*
Multnomah county circuit court was
given Lew Wallace, ex-agent for the
American Life Insurance company tn
the state of Oregon, when he was
awarded 371.179.13 in a suit brought
against his ex-employer* for alleged
breach of contract.
The candidate»’ pamphlet. to b*
printed and distributed among th*
registered veter* of the state prior to
the general election la November, will
contain between 25 and 39 pages, ac
cording to an estimate made by Sam
A. Koser, secretary of state. Th* time
for filing statements tor the pamphlet
expired Thursday afternoon.
The army aviation camp on the
Eugene municipal flying field to be
ing broken preparatory to the return
of the member* of the 61st squadron
of the army air force* to th* home
station at Crtosey field, San Francisco.
The recent rains have extinguiahed
all fire* in western Oregon and there
to no more need of the patrol.
Sixty thousand rainbow trout have
been sent from the McKensie hatchery
tor distribution In Linn county
stream*. Thia consignment was orig
inally Intended for th* streams east
of Cascadia, but th* weather condi
tions prevented taking them there,
so th* front war* liberated tn lah*e
and stream* in the vicinity of Scio.
An unusual amount ot worm damage,
together with small sixes and more or
leas "brown spot." have materially re
duced the prospective 1922 commercial
apple crop of Oregon, as compared
with the earlier indicationa, is the
opinion of F. L. Kent, agricultural
statistician, department of agriculture,
who has very recently visited the prin
cipal applegrowing districts of the
state.
A mineralised tooth, more than tour
inches in length, found in Newbarry
crater by Peter Valley of Bend has
been classified by United States bio
logical survey officials at Washington,
D. C, as that of a horse, probably an
extinct specie*. Judging from th*
site of the tooth, central Oregon's
prehistoric steed was at least three
time* th* six* of the average horse ot
today.
Ed Forrest of Broadbent, Coos coun
ty. is a contender for Luther Bur
bank's crown. Mr. Forrest has devel
oped a hubbard squash which seem
ingly ha* indefinite keeping qualities.
He exhibited hto first specimens at
the Coos and Curry county fairs in
1921 and again this year exhibited th*
same specimens, apparently as sound
a* when they ^rere plucked from th*
vine* last year.
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Completion of the Ashland-Klamath
Fan’s road, better known as th* Greens
Spring road, probably will be left to
the voters ot Jackson county at th*
November election. Klamath county
haa voted 3300,090 in bonds to b* used
to complete the road from Klamath
Falls to the Jackson oouaty liqe. and
it to estimated that it will require
about 375.000 to complete the remaind
er in Jackson county.
Because of the inability of th* stat*
highway department to obtain cement,
work on three road-oonslruction con
tract» in different part* of th* stat*
has been suspended. The contracts
affected by the cement shortage in
clude the Rex-Tigard seetion, paving
through the city of Jefferson and th*
construction of a bridge over th* Ump
qua river at Winchester and a brldg*
over the Willamette river near Aurora.
United States engineers are encamp
ed near Agnew. Curry county, 20
miles from the month of th* Rogue
river, planning a pack train bridge
ever the Rogue to give access to the
nitnol* river valley and the various
mining districts tn that sMtlon. The
bridge Is to b* a suapenson affair, with
two cable* anchored to concrete piers
on opposite sides of th* river. Th*
work is to be don* for th* forestry
department. Curry county is consider
ing an appropriation to add to th*
fund with th* hope of making th*
bridge wid* enough tor vehid«*.