THE MORNING OKEGONIAN, AVKP.VKSPA1. Wi'KUj iu, 12 20TH ANNIVERSARY WILL BE BIG EVEN! Women's Foreign Missionary Society Outlines Plans for Celebration This Fall. FAITHFUL WORK IS SHOWN Three Effective Conventions In Pu get Sound District Are Included In Achievement New Era in China Is Now Predicted. Ptllcl reports from th rcretarirs, announcement of the celebration of the l"th nnlvwaary next Fall and stlrrlnc ai1ree were the feature? of the emtannual meeting of the Columbia Hirer Branch of the Women's Korelpn MI."lonarr Society, held yesterday In the funnysidc Methodist Church. Mrs. H. P. Kimball, of Salem, pre sided, and delegates were present from nil portions of the territory. At the morntns eson Mrs. W. M. Krsklne. secretary for the Columbia conference anj Mrs. V. M. Guller. for the I'ua-et Sound conference, submitted their re ports for the half year, showing the Krneral and' financial comlltlons those districts. Mrs. Guller report showed that three effective conven tions had been held In the Tuset Pound district and much faithful work accom plished. AaalTersarr Flaaa Oatllae. ' One of the Important announcements was made by Mrs. I'rl Seeley. associate secretary. In her report to the society In relation to the Ii'th anniversary relrbratlon of the founding; of the Co lumbia branch of the Women For eign Missionary Society, which will he held In Taylor-Street Methodist Church In the Fall. The organisations of the society will be asked to furnish banner to decorate the church on that occasion, which will be decorated, said Mrs. Seeley. with stars according- to the achievement of the auxiliary societies. The conditions, aid Mrs. Seeley. will be announced in detail In the bulletin, which will be Issued within a short time. Banners and pennants are to be used In these decorations. The Columbia River branch of the Women' Forefjtn Society wa organized at Taylor-Street Metho-h.-t Church 1S years ko. and (Treat reparations will be made to celebrate the :oth anniversary. Mrs. SeeJey also outlined some pro cresslve plans. Including; the sending 3f more missionaries to foreign lands. Ralaaee Iliad Tatala Hill. In the afternoon Mrs. Nettie M. Whitney, treasurer, submitted a report which showed that there was a bal ance of 17:0s on hand at the last Octo ber meeting, and since then the receipts iave been TI. making a total of 114 SIS. The disbursements were llt. i9 and the balance on hand Is Still. This money came from the following places of the district: Columbia River conference. 13S3; Idaho, $755; Mon tana. 5: Oregon conference S2U54; Puget Sound. Kill; Parlflc Swedish. !: Germans. S12: China. Il: Nor way -Panli-h. $2; miscellaneous. I2U; Mrs. Eddy. 1100. The appropriation for the mission Irlds for the present year Is J 4.000. ahich Is divided up betweem China, lapan. Corea and India. The society nalntalns a number of missionaries In :.ifsc places and pays their expenses. Mrs. A. N. Fisher, corresponding sec--ctary. addressed the meeting, review ing the situation In foreign lields and closed by declaring that the great revolution In China lsone of the creat event of the century, but the zreatest inclW-nt In connection with :he revolution Is that the first provi sional president Is a Christian. Tho address of Mrs. Laura F. Austin, 1 missionary maintained by the so--lety In Baroda. India, here on a for ough. was of Interest. She told of the durational work at the school main tained In Baroda. where 10 native noys and girls are taught by native leachers under the direction of the mis sionaries. She pointed out that the l.itlve children are eager to learn. The mee-ttng was well attended. CLOSING-DAY SCENE AT REGISTRATION BOOTH IN COURTHOUSE. 't ' .,'. . 0 - e- ' i'i - " vv . - 'i -;.-,v ' . ..... ....... . , V.V, , - . j , ' " ." i" t. - ' - ' I - x) V' -p C v - ft " -' '1 "V;! J r ! , , . i - tin: 1 T KAST SIDK IlKMUEXTS QUALIFYING KOU IH I M A It V KI.KCTIOX. HILL DUE TONIGHT New York Orator to Speak at Salem First, for Taft. FLOODS DELAY HIS ARRIVAL PRESIDENT. FOSTER HOME Head of Reed College Necnrcs Addi tions lo Faculty. President Foster, of Reed College, m ho returned yesterday from a six weeks' trip to the Kast to secure In structors In six department of the rol-if-icc. said he was entirely satls lied with the result of bis errand and believed the men whose names would be presented to the board of trusteesJ ai 11s meeting r rioay wouiu oe eieciea. He declined to make public the names of thesM men until they had been pasted upon by tlw board. The chair tr. be flllod at Friday's meeting In clude those of romance language, tireek and Latin, chemistry, physic nd art. Including the history of art and archaeology. Ir. Foster' trip took him to a num ber of the larger cities, such a Louis ville. St. Louts. Indianapolis. Pitts burg. Philadelphia. New York. Boston. New Haven. Chicago. Princeton and Madison. Wis. At several of these cities Dr. Foster addressed convention of educators. "My trip covered a wide tretch of country and brought ma In contact with men of very different points of view." aid Dr. Foster. "It gave me an op portunity to get a keener and broader Interest in political conditions than wtruld have been possible otherwise, everywhere) people are taking a deeper Interest In politic than ever before. I am inclined to believe that the move ment In the direction of popular gov ernment are to a considerable extent responsible for the extension of intel ligent interest In political affairs." DOCTOR'S ARM IS BROKEN Calvin S. White falls and Sustains ' Severe Injury. A broken arm and a dislocated elbow were received Monday night by L'r. Calvin a. White, secretary of the State Board of Health. In a fall In the hall on the tenth floor of the Selling build ing, outside his office. With Dr. Frank Macaulay. Dr. White a leaving hi office and had stepped out Into the hallway, when he slipped en the stone flagging, tie put out his left arm to catch himself, but fell on It breaking the end of the ulna and Jlslocatlng the elbow. As a result of the accident Dr. Whjt was unable to accompany several mem bers of the State Board of Health on an annual Inspection trip to the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, as he had planned yesterday. The inspection was made by Dr. C. J. Smith, president of the Board, and In. K. A. Tierce. Wcll-Knoun Speaker Will Deliver Address in Portland at Arniory Monday Night. April 15. May Preach Sunday Only one Taft meeting will be held In this city before the primary nomi nating election of. April 19. It will be held In the Armory. Tenth and Couch streets. Monday night. April 15. The speaker will be Dr. John Wesley Hill, of New Y'ork. president of the Interna tional Peace Forum, a campaigner of wide experience and an orator of Na tional fame. Dr. Andrew IT. Smith. chairman of the sub-committee on speakers, of the Portland Taft com mitter, will preside as chairman. Ir. Hill Is due to arrive in Portland tonight unless he should be detained by reason of the floods in the Mis sissippi Valley. The Portland com mittee has not received any word from Dr. Hill since he left Chicago. This Is taken to indicate that he is making his train connections and will arrive in this city according to schedule. Assuming that Dr. Hill arrives to night, he will go to Salem tomorrow where at 8 I'. M. he will make his first address In the state. Friday night be will speak at Corvallis. going thence to Eugene where he will hold another meeting Saturday night. Dr. Hill will return to this city early Sunday where he will pass the day. It is probable Dr. Hill will preach at the Taylor- Street Methodist Church either Sunday morning or Sunday night. This detail. however, has not been finally arranged. If the plan is carried out, due an nouncement of this appointment will be made. The Itinerary of Dr. Hill following his Portland meeting, will be as fol lows: Tuesday. April IS. Albany; Wednesday. April 17. Roseburg: Thurs day. April 18. Medford. If satisfactory arrangements can be made, Dr. Hill will address a meeting at Ashland. Thursday afternoon. ports. Other telegrams from Frankfort that of 47 Kentucky counties. 25. In cluding Louisville city. Instruct for Roosevelt, 12 for Taft. 10 will be contested. : Guilford. Sampson and Catawba Counties, of North Carolina, Instructed their delegates to state con vention for Roosevelt. Guilford Is the home county of Congressman Moore liead. Taft chairman In North Carolina. C'f the !8 delegates from Guilford County to the state convention. Roose velt got 26. Taft lvj. Berkley and rummers counties, of West Virginia, also went for Roosevelt. Berkley Is the home of Klsli Commissioner Bowers. Taft leader in that section. Taft had Bowers at the White House Thursday for a long conference. Bowers made special effort, sending telegrams and messages all over county. Despite ex traordinary efforts of Taft supporters, Roosevelt forces car-led the county, getting IS out of 28 delegates. Sum mers County sends a solid Roosevelt delegation of 13 to the state convention." 43,716 VOTERS SIGN Total of 2114 Electors Regis ter on Last Day. CHANGE IS URGED System in Water. Department May Be Altered. REPORT IS NEARLY READY 35,053 ARE REPUBLICANS IOWKII- VOTE IS SKI-LING'S Many Favor Portland Candidate as Man to beat Ronnie. Indications that the Lowell vote has decided that Ben Selling Is the only man who can beat Senator Bourne for the Senatorial nomination are con tained in the following letter received at Selling headquarters yesterday from a prominent cltlsen of Oregon: IJke a great many others. I did not reply to your communication because I believed Its purpose was to inspire my support. I did not. however, cen sure you In this respect and considered It exceedingly good politics, being both beneficial and clean. "At the time mentioned, however, I had determined to support Judge Low ell. of Pendleton, whom I have person ally met and In whose ability and Integ rity I have learned to have consider able confidence. I hare now become convinced that Lowell has absolutely no chance for nomination and that the tight Is between Senator Bourne and yourself. "It has never been my policy to dic tate letters to candidates for state of fice announcing my support, but inas much as I am firmly convinced that Senator Bourne has misrepresented the State of Oregon altogether too long, that he stamls In a class by himself within the Stat of Oregon aa a polit ical 'demagogue. I feel constrained to assure vou of my heartfelt support. From my Investigation of your record. I think the state will be honorably and ably represented !f you are elected. "Senator Bourne's positive statement In the primary pamphlet that he would not make any campaign and that the people of Oregon were upon trial, fol lowed by his campaign . literature, which has today flooded our local mall, containing Kellaher s letter. Port of Coos Bay Commission letter, together with a pamphlet containing 101 reasons why Bourne should be nominated, should be sufficient to cause any care ful citizen to Inquire Into the sincerity of a man who now claims to be the author of certain reforms which his conduct of ten years ago assisted in rendering necessary." ROOSEVELT BACKERS HOPEFCfc Headquarters of ex-President En couraged by Belated Telegrams. Testerday was a "good day" at Re publican headquarters in this city. At any rate, a belated telegram, dated April S. from Washington. D. C. con veyed the Information that encouraging news was reschlng the National head quarters of the ex-Prenldent. The tele, gram was signed by Joseph M. Dixon, chairman of the National Roosevelt ' onimlttee. and was as follows: "This was a good Roosevelt day. West Virginia. North Carolina and Kentucky all send encouraging re- REGISTRATION MAY RE 120.000 Secretary Olcott's Estimate Relieved to Be Nearly Right. SALEM. Or.. April 9. (Special.) While registration for the primaries closed throughout the state at 6 o'clock this afternoon, it probably will be sev eral days before the total figure can be ascertained by the Secretary of State's office. From some of the counties final re ports on the registration lists come In late, notably from such counties as Curry, where the facilities for travel are few and It is necessary to sent out mounted messengers from the county seats with the lists. The corrupt practices act pamphlets will be sent out as long as the lists are received up to the final date when It will be possible for them to be re ceived by voters. The . estimate of 120.000 for the total of voters register ing before the primaries, as given out recently by the Secretary of State. It Is believed does not overstep the mark to any great extent. Taft Club to Have Smoker. Tonight the Young Men's Taft Club, of Astoria, will hold a smoker In that city. Officers of tho organisation ap plied to the Portland Taft committee yesterday to provide speakers for the occasion. Vpon receipt of the request. Dr. Andrew C. Smith and William F. Woodward, members of the Portland Taft committee, volunteered their ser vices. They will go to Astoria this morning and each will make a short ad dress in support of President Taft's candidacy. , Saw Cuts Body In Twain. VNION. Or., April 9. (Special.) Colon Mr Shane, a ratchet setter in the mill of the Wright Lumber Company, at Telocaset. fell upon the saw early today and was cut In two from head to foot. McShane was IS years old, single, and had been working around sawmills for 10 years. The body was brought to Cnlon. Big Increase In Number of Persons Who Registered for Primaries This Year and In 1008 Is Noted; Total Then 31,431. When the registration books at the Courthouse were closed at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon for the primary election next week, the figures of County Clerk- Fields showed a total of 43,716 registered voters. When the no taries who have been registering voters in the country precincts have reported the total registration will probably ex ceed 41.000. ' Of the 43.716 names now on the reg istration books, 35,053 are Republicans, 6451 Democrats and 2202 miscellaneous. The registration yesterday was the heaviest of any one day since the books were opened. January 2. Between 8 o'clock yesterday morning and 6 o'clock in the afternoon 21 14 electors qualified for the primary election by registering. Of these 1688 were Re publicans, S23 were Democrats and 103 wero miscellaneous. Tho total registration In the county at tho time of the municipal primary election May 6. 1911, was 36,370. di vided ns follows: Republicans, 28,59"; Democrats, 5201; ProhibitlonlsTs. 550; Socialists. 616: independent. 874; In surgent, 1: party affiliation not given, 531. For the primary election In Sep tember. 1910. the total registration was 35,468. divided as follows: Republicans. 27,441 ; Democrats. 5:140: miscellaneous, 2787. A total of 31,431 voters were registered for the primary election of 1908. Clnssitled as to party, they were: Republlqans. 24.622; Democrats. 6246; miscellaneous. 1563. School Directors Hold Meeting. VANCOUVKR, Wash.. April 9. (Spe cial.) One hundred fifty school di rectors of Clark County held an an nual meeting In the Courthouse today and an elaborate programme was given. The Instructors Included H. B. Dewey, State Superintendent: L. R. Alderman, Superintendent of Oregon Schools: A. S. Burrows, Superintendent of King County, and four county of ficers, y Mayor Rushlight Will Ask Water Board to Grant Authority for Expert to Work Out Plan of Improvements. No report was made to the Water Board by tho expert who has been checking: over the books in the various offices under control of the board, but Mayor Rushlight said- yesterday that the'report will be submitted in the near future. So far as can be learned, no star tling feature will be contained In the forthcoming report. It being the belief that the shortage of Fred R. Snod grass, who fled recently to avoid prosecution,-is the only one discovered. Mayor Rushlight, however. Is certain that the report of the expert will re veal a condition of affairs which will demand action by the Board, to the ena that a complete new system of checking the purchase and use 01 supplies anu collection for water usage may do in stituted. Change In Method Wanted. The Mayor will ask the Water Board to grant authority, after the report is considered, to Instruct the expert to work out a system that will remedy existing conditions, and this authorlty verv likelv will be given. The Mayor believes that the position of cashier should be created and that the cashier in Hu-h office of the department should be responsible for the collection of the office, a system similar to mat usea by the gas and electric light com panies. At present a large number of clerks are employed, each of whom receipts for money from patrons of the various districts. Under the system proposed by the Mayor, these clerks would sup plv statements for consumers and du plicated bills would be presented to each patron, as is the case with the gas and electric light companies. There is no checking system in the purchase of supplies now, and this Is one of the weakest features of the de partment, in the estimation of Mayor Rushlight. He wants a plan devised that will make it impossible for any material bought at, public expense to be sold to private parties or to be mis placed in any manner, he explains. Main la Ordered. The Water Board yesterday passed upon a large volume of business, among which was the ordering of a main in Corbett street. South Portland, ahead of a proposed hard-surface im provement. This will make a complete street when the paving is done. City Engineer Hurlburt was present to ex plain the necessity of prompt action in this regard, as bids for the paving are to be opened soon. The Board rrantpri the necessary pipe without hesitation or debate. There is a possibility that the Mayor and members of the Board will con sent to the arbitration of all or parts of a bill presented several months atfo j by the Schaw-Batcher Company fori extra work on the installation of tho Bull Run conduit No. 2. J. C. Alns- worth. a member of the Board, said that he felt that there are Hems in the bill which should be allowed, and that the best means of adjusting the same la arbitration. T. B. Wilcox. K. W. Winn and W. B. Mackay. the other members, were of the same opinion, but as Mayor Rush light had not yet read the bill, i wished further time In which to study it. At a special meeting scheduled for April 18 the subject will be decided. St. Johns Major Names Committees. ST. JOHNS. Or., April 9. Mayor Muck has appointed the following standing committees: Streets and docks, J. W. Davis, F. W. Valentine, P. Hill; license, J. E. Hlller. G. L. Perrine, D. F. llorsman: water and lipht. J. li. Jen nings, J. W. Davis. J. K. Hiller: finance. P. Hill, F. W. Valentine, J. W. Davis; health and police. G. L. Perrine. J. V.. Hlller, D. F. Horsman: liquor licenses, F. W. Valentine. P. Hill, J. V.- Jennings; buildings and grounds. 1. V. Horsman, G. L. Perrine. J. E. Jennings. Why Should a Chicken Lay a Soft-Shelled Egg? Because, Willie, the chicken don't know how to create a hard shelled egg unless it has some food with lime in it. So chicken-raisers often provide limestone gravel, broken oyster shells or some other fiJrm of lime. Let the chicken wander freehand it finds its own food and behaves sensibly. Shut it up and feed stuff lacking lime and the eggs are soft-shelled. Let's step from chickens to human beings. Why is a child "backward" and why does a man or woman have nervous prostration or brain-fag? .There may be a' variety of reasons but one thing is certain. If the food is deficient in Phosphate of Potash the gray matter in the nerve centers and brain cannot be rebuilt each day to make good the cells broken down by the activities of yesterday. ' Phosphate of Potash is the most important element nature demands to unite albumen and water to make gray matter. - Grape-Nuts food is heavy in Phosphate of Potash in a digestible form. -A chicken can't always select its own food, but a thoughtful man can select suitable food for his children, wife and himself. "There's a Reason" for C3. it sip Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Michigan ..!.- . . .If-". 'J- VT"- . - T- --t 1 -Hi-tm,' 16386 16896 35015 10-inch $0.75 10-inch .75 12-inch 1.25 .75 Officer of the Day March (Hall) . . , rryor s cand King Cotton March (Sousa) Pryor's Band In the Land of Harmony (Kalmer-Snyder) American Quartet I It's Got to be Someone I Love (Dillon-Dovle) Ada Jones 31824 Gems from "Madame Sherry" (Hoschna).. 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