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THE ' MORNING OREGONIAN. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER , 1, 191& VANCOUVER'S PRESENT METHODIST CHURCH, ITS ANCIENT PREDECESSOR AND ITS FIRST PASTOR, WHO CELEBRATED YESTERDA3F L HAVE YOU PLANNED TO GO STAB'"" DEAL WHEAT BELT HELPS CELEBRATE TO THE Semi-arid Land About Uma tilla County Besf in West, Says Addison Bennett. Father Flinn, 96 Years Old, Prays at Anniversary of Dedication. As ADAMS OCATED PIONEER PASTOR ,Jv iff OTHER OLD-TIMERS ATTEND First Methodist Church of Vancou ver Is Scene of Commemoration Serv ices History - of ' Con gregation Is Reviewed. VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) Father John Flinn, pioneer Methodist circuit rider, 96 years ol3, today offered the opening prayer and closing address at the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the dedi cation of the First Methodist Church, at Ninth and Columbia streets. Rev. A. J. Joslyn. of Canby, Or who was resident pastor here In the 80"s, when the new church was built, was present today, ' and also delivered an address. Father Flinn Is strong and rugged. He came to Vancouver 63 years ago when the country was a wilderness. Mrs. Flinn also attended the ser vices. She is nearly 90 years old and taught Sunday School here when sev eral of Vancouver's now gray-haired men were boys. Following the ser vices, Mr. and Mrs. Flinn were taken to the home -of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Mumford for lunch, returning to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marshall for dinner tonight. The first sermon preached in this part of the Pacific Northwest was de livered w"Uhin a mile of the First Methodist Church of Vancouver, by Ja son Lee, September 2S, 1834, at old Fort Vancouver. During the years of the Oregon Indian Mission, services were frequently held at the hall of the Hud son Bay Fur Company. Dr. John Mc Louftilin encouraged the early mis- felUUtliics. uusia, ' .. - In charge of Vancouver, Cascades and The Dalles. In 1853. BevC O. Hosford was the first resi dent pastor in 1854, and in 1857 and 1858 he directed the erection of the first church building, on a lot at Eighth and Washington streets. This lot was donated by Mrs. Esther Short, wife of the first .American settler of Clarke County. Among the early mem bers yet living are Mrs. I. E. Hatha way. 88, and K. H. Gridley, 84 years. These two were present at the services today, both hale. The second church. In which the cele bration was held today, was built in 1883 and dedicated by Bishop Warren. Rev. L. A. Banks was pastor. The first church built In Vancouver Is now used as a grocery store. Presi dent Hayes and Mrs. Hays attended services there in 1883. There were 63 members in 1862, and now there is a roll of more than 400. Rev. J. M. Canse is pastor of the church today. The subscription list taken by Bishop Warren, August 26. 1883. while holding the old Oregon Conference, has been kept by Mrs. H. W. Arnold. Her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. John aJggy, were treasurers of the accounts of the build In?. Old time songs were sung today, George F. Buck singing "The Village Church." Mrs. I. E. Hathaway, was the only survivor of the organization of 1853 who attended today's services. Among other early settlers and fam ilies of pioneers who attended today's services were: Mrs. Mary Manning, E. G. Crawford, vice president of the Lumbermens National Bank, of Port land, and H. H. Gridley, who was trus tee of the old Vancouver seminary. RURAL CARRIERS MEET Oregon City Entertains One Hun dred Delegates. OREGON CITY, Aug. 3L (Special.) One hundred rural letter carriers from all parts of the state have gathered here In their eleventh annual conven tion. Paul E. Keyser, an attorney of the postal service, will deliver an address on what the department expects of them, and will explain those features of the regulations that have given trouble In Hie past. , J. H. Maxwell, of Eugene, Informally opened the convention today in the rooms of the Commercial Club, but the regular sessions will not . begin until Monday. At noon a luncheon will be given by the Oregon City Commercial Club to the delegates. While Mr. Keyser Is In the city he will be asked to inspect the postoffice here, and an effort will be made to have him report favorably on the ques tion of a new Federal building. mong other subjects that the rural carriers will discuss Is an advance In salary of from 1100 annually to $1200, with horse maintenance and 30 days' vacation Instead of 15. They also want the substitutes given preference on the list as a reward for their work on the routes for a number of years with lit tle advancement, and, further, they clare It will eliminate any chance for favoritism on the part of the post master. OFFER IS MADE FOR ROAD County Court Defers Action on Acme-Mapleton Route. EUGENE, Or., Aug. 31. (Special.) An offer of an Immediate cash payment of J15.000 for eight miles of county road was made to the County Court yesterday ly the Wil'.amette - Pacific Railroad Company, which has appro priated a strip of road between Maple " ton and Acme. This offer was made as an alternative to the construction of a new road to take the place of the one appropriated. The County Court deferred action for one year, to give the people of the district affected a chance to express their preference. The road was built five years ago to connect Mapleton and Florence, but was never completed. Transportation on the Siuslaw Bay Is almost entirely v hoat so the road was little used. and this is the reason why the Court defers action, thinking that perhaps the district would prefer to have the money and with It construct, highways to reach back Info the hills, rather than to parallel the river and railroad. 1500 lane County Voters Register EUGENE, Or.. Aug. 31. (Special.) Approximately loQO une ouuiy voters have already registered for the special election this year and of this number approximately halt are women. Lane County's registration for the 1912 tlection was approximately 6000. "Whv are you humming- that aria? "Be cause it haunts me." "No wumler, tor you're ever murdering it." 7v ANDRESEN'S.CASH STORE GROCERIES, UKE RUSHED TO COAST WILLAMETTE-PACIFIC TRAIN'S MAY RU.V BY CHRISTMAS. Grading From Eugene to Acme to Be Completed AVltliln 30 Dajs, Says Jolinson Porter. EUGENE, Or., Atg. 31. (Special.) That the grading for the Wlllamette Faciflc will be completed from Eugene to Acme, four miles from the Pacific within 30 days, was the statement made yesterday by Johnson Porter, of the firm of Porter Bros., who are at work on the western 37 miles of the 60-mile line between Eugene and the crossing of the Siuslaw Bay. "With the grading comp'lete and track down on 20 miles of the Twohy Bros." contract and nearly seven miles of the Porter Bros.' contract completed, unier en gineer Hoey's prediction of trains to tidewater by Christmas seems In a fair way of fulfillment. Completion of the Not! tunnel i3 all that is holding back the work of tracklaying now and this will be ready for the rails early In October. The headings are already through and the bench is coming out at the rate of from eight to ten feet a day. The 200 feet remaining will be cleared out in about three weeks and then there remains only the truelng of tho grade and the timbering. "We are making all speed possible with the construction of the bridges," said Engineer Hoey. "We have two auto trucks and many teams hauling to the sites of several small bridges. Some bridge steel is coming by way of Florence, but the greater part has been brought to the yards in Eugene.' Regarding the work south of Acme, where less progress has been made, Mr. Porter said he would have the 4200 foot tunnel at Gardiner completed in a year. "I have my plant fully es tablished," he saw, "ana we wm De working from the farther end within three months, thus doubling our rate of operations." Eugene to Begin Picking Today. EUGENE. Or- Aug. 31. (Speclafc) Hoppicking in many of the yard around Eugene will begin tomorro-rv morning and within a weeK tne nop harvest will be on in full blast. Esti mates as to the size of the crop vary from 1800 to 3000 pounds to the acre. i ;t; irjytwi J in ii in ""lg,!f - 9 OUT.OF-ORDINARY NEWS A REMARKABLE hatch of chickens was brought off recently at the Parcels Post Poultry Farm, owned by Miss Ella McMunn, of Quinaby. Of the 13 hatched five have an extra toe on each foot. Otherwise they are nor mal. The variety was Salmon Fa varollles, a new breed. Sunflower 12 142 Feet High. THOMAS R. ROBINSON, of Albany, has a sunflower growing in his yard that is 12 feet 6 Inches high. It Is surmounted by a mammoth blossom. It is no uncommon thing for vegetables to assume monster proportions in Al bany, but this is the first 12-foot sun flower. Old Guest Comes Back. Mr. FARMER, of Portland, who is peddling specks, was an over night visitor at the Santiam farm, near Scio, where he was a guest six years ago. Preacher's Cow in Demand. THE fine dairy cow which Rev. Mr. Gardner, of Cottage Grove, sold recently to W. A. Hemenway for $100, was sold to a Eugene man last week by Mr. Hemenway for $150 and the purchaser had her taken to Eugene in an auto truck at an additional expanse of $12. The- last 21 days that Rev. Mr. Gardner owned this cow the sale of milk netted him $25.63. Cat Mothers Bull Pups. NINE cats, three kittens, two pups and 40-11 rats, more or less, form a menagerie at the United Warehouse, of Bend. The cats are Prlngle's ac cumulation of rat exterminators; the kltttens are ordinary sore-eyed little 1 - limvSrl sjm i: .rf.-;.i?sv,sfc.'fwl FLOUH a FEED. 4 "1 Above, First Methodist Chnrch Cen ter, Aneient Kdllice Unlit In 1858, Now Store Building Below "Father" Flinn. but all growers agree that the outlook is excellent for a good quality of hops. WOMAN'S BODY RECOVERED Threat of Suicide Carried Out, Ap parently, Near Salem. SALEM, Or..' Aug. 31. (Special.) The body of Mrs. Mary Guild, 60 years of age, who disappeared from her home August 19, leaving a note saying she intended to drown herself, was found early today at Lincoln, six miles from here. The body was brought to this city and inferred at once. Mrs. Guild frequently had threatened to end her life, and had" been watched for months by her husband and chil dren. She slipped from the house while they were sleeping, and in her bare feet went to the river. Her foot prints were found on the river bank, and it was evident that she had car ried out her threat. MAN BURNED; AUTO LOSS Fire Starts at Prlnevllle as Gasoline Is- Transferred. PRINE VILLE, Or., Aug. 31. (Spe cial.) While gasoline was being trans ferred from one car to another last night, an automobile belonging to Fred Hoelscher caught fie and was de stroyed. Charles S. Condart was severely burned during the fire. tabbies; the pups, six-weeks-old bull canines, and the rats well, the fewer of them the better. Ward Coble says he owns one of the pups, while the other is destined to be the pet of one of the fairest damsels at Laldlaw. Both of the Infantile terrors-to-be are being mothered by one of Prlngle's mousers. Madam Cat was the proud possessor of some sev eral of her own offspring, but Pringle decided to make them the foster kit tens of another tabby, and so Mother Cat turned her attentions to the dog lets and they don't seem to Tesent her mothering. Clover Seed Pay for Farm. CLOVER at the farm of T. W. Rob ertson, of Amity, went from 11 to 15 bushels an acre. This Is the heav iest yield in this section. With clover seed selling at $9 a bushel it looks as If this land Is a pretty good investment at $100 an acre. One year'sicrop wil pay for a place, waste land and alL Bone Sticks In Throat. WHILE eating dinner at the Bald win last Sunday. L. G. Clark, of Monroe, swallowed a small chicken bone. The bone stuck about half-way down and stayed there. Dr. Bennett was sent for. but was" out of town. Then the patient was bundled Into an auto and started on the high-speed for Junction City. There the physician found it impossible to raise the ot struction and had to shove it down Into the stomach. Log Found Far Under Ground. RH. PARSONS, of Prlnevllle, Is hav- lng a well drilled on the lot near where the water tower now stands. Gordlnere, of Eugene, is doing the work and he has drilled a distance of 1 'V 1, : AVERAGE YIELD IS LARGE Section of Eastern Oregon Once Used as Range for Cattle and Sheep Now Worth More Than $100 an Acre. BT ADDISON BENNETT. ADAMS, Or., Aug. 81. Staff Corre spondence). Adams is not one of the largest places In Umatilla County In population, but It has the great wheat fields of the county, for its lawn and its front and back yards. If you should eliminate Adams and the Ad ams district youwould cut down the Umatilla wheat yield from 30 to 40 per cent. In all the districts of the West where wheat growing goes on in what may be called the seml-arld belt, where a 1 . 1 . tha 1 !1 Tl H atrprv sec- LTUII S lane" 1' ' " kv. . . - - - - . ond year, the other year being devoted to Summer Iaiiowing, wnica that the land that year is cultivated In the best manner to conserve the mois ture and store It in the soil for the next season's crop, there is no land, so far as I ever heard, that is quite the equal of the lands in this region. I have spent the greater portion of the forenoon in talking with different i .- . . . U -nrnll InfonTIPfl but peu)Jio w t " - ' principally to William xioldman, who lives justln tne western euK town. Seated on Mr. Holdman's lawn, ; . v, A choA nt tViA fina locusts that adorn it. In the presence of his sister. Mrs. Jilia Jtsowiing, aim ner uauB"i.c., , , . , i Mr HnlHmnn talked to me very entertainingly for a couple of. hours, Mrs. tsowiing ana iier uiugiii often joining In the conversation. Mr TTiHmfiTi and his sister were born" almost in the shadow of that once "greats institution oi learuins, as Jesse Applegate called It the Wil bur Academy. There were three other sons and another sister in the Hold man family, and in 1867 they came to this part of tho country, at first set tling near where Weston is now locat ed. In 1869 the family removed to the present site of Adams, and William has nraniinv -rpsided here ever sinco, on the same section of land. I was told by some oi tne .uama people that Mr. Holdman could tell me as much or more about this sec tion than anybody else, and I think 1 could have gone to no better source for information. I will briefly recapit ulate his story of various wheat grow ers hereabouts. I think when these facts are read the reader will agree .,,, nt. that the lands about Adams are some wheat lands for a semi-arid country. Arid Land Prolific - J. T. Lieuallen farms 2000 acres," had about half of It in crop this year, per haps a little more. His average was about 45 bushels an acre. L. L. Rogers farms about 2500 acres, half in crop, average 45 bushels an acre. Martin Butler farms 1500 acres, cropped about 700 acres this year. Av erage yield an acre, 45 bushels. n nr Morrison farms 1200 acres, 700 acres in crop this year. Average yield an acre, 40 bushels. Caspar Woodward and his brother farm about 2000 acres, 1000 in crop this year. Average an acre, close to 50 bushels. Messrs. Woodward have their own warehouse in town. "Jinks" Dudley farms 1000 acres of Mrs. Ralston's land, situated near town, for which he pays ?12 an acre ty lonH in cron Th 500 acres cropped on the Ralston ranch yielded about 20,000 sacks, over u ousneia iu me acre. Mr. Dudley is one of Umatilla County's most prominent and success ful ranchers. He farms a large area, the most of his operations being around wa.,nn anri Athenn.. He resides in the latter town. He Is said to own some valuable inside property in Portland. Ariams farms 2000 acres. 1000 in crop this year. Average yield an acre, about 43 Dusneis. Frank Martin farms iOOO acres, had mnn in rnn this vear. which yielded about 50 bushels to the acre. A ranch containing :')oo acres- aoout seven miles southwest of here, farmed by a resident of Pendleton, harvested 55 bushels an acre from the half of it in crop. cumnol Thnmnsim farms about 1S00 acres. The portion In crop this year, about 850 acres, yieiaea Deiween o and 60 bushels to the acre. Mr. Thomp son married a daughter of the late Captain Blakely, who died at the ad vanced age of 100 years. The Captain at an early date was a resident of this section. There are a few of the reports but I have purposely held back "rumors" of yields of 60 bushels and over to the OF OREGON over 200 feet without striking a flow of water. When down a distance of 94 feet the drill went through a cedar log and, judging from the pieces of wood pumped up, the log appeared to be in a good state of preservation. It was In a sand-like formation. How this log came to be so far underground is not known. At some time or other this valley was a lake. Wagon and Horse Lost. ELMER POWELL, while "snaking" a trail wagon behind a water wagon at Madras last week lost his rear wagon by breaking of the coupling. Stopping his team abruptly the tongue of the lead wagon ran into .one of his leaders, breaking its leg. Independence Man Gets Damages. WW. WRIGHT, commonly known in Independence ast "Horse Rad ish Billy," got a judgment of $45 for unlawful imprisonment for serving 30 days for an attempted assault on an officer. He asked $1100 damages from H. H. Holman, Justice of the Peace, and Sheriff Grant. Women Slay Huge Rattler. iyRS. ELMER HAWTHORNE and 1 1 Miss Lora Stearns, of Prlnevllle, were out for a horseback ride between the Stearns ranch and Frank Hoffman's place on Crooked River last Tuesday, says the Journal, at Prlnevllle, when a big rattlesnake struck at one of the horses. Just missing him a few Inches. Mr. Snake then crawled back Into a big bush, but kept rattling, so the girls located him again and beat him to death with big -clubs. He was about three feet long. In killing him they broke his rattles until they couldn't tell the exact number, but judging from his size they thought about jilae. Bigger this year and better than ever before. The fare is $9.10 for the round trip. The fun is worth $100. You will feel better everybody does when they are compelled to forget business cares and can gaze spellbound at the feats of primeval man. Special trains. Splendid service. One. day from business. Let us tell you all. City Ticket Office, Third and Washington Phones: Marshall 4500 and A-6121 acre. By looking carefully over the figures given It will be seen that the average yield Is over 40 bushels an -- t wAnAa that fnr a semi-arid acre. ov x ' w " - or Summer fallow district, these lands around this section tano me oanner ur wheat growing. rp . n i-oario,. tnnst rp.member. however, that land here is worth money, the average price being wen over an ac-e. There are quarter-sections that i ronflllv hrine- J30.000 or around $200 an acre. There are some choice picees that would sell for more man that Cattle Roamed Over Country. Thrr was Dractlcally no town at Pendleton, nothing much but a little depot, a section house and water tank when Mr. Holdman came here with his parents. Umatilla was then the near est "metropolis" to the west of here. It was the county seat of a vast section of country at that time. There was but a straggling settler or two at that ,r, this pntira section. It was a cattle and sheep country,. mostly sheep. John Adams, for wnom tne town was later named, had a small rancn on Trr4 1 A TJa,.. PropV Tl n t far f TOTI! where the O.-W. R. & N.- depot now stands. He was in the sneep Dasiness. xie hi. nttiA flock which he desired to market each year, to Montana, where they were sold to feeders. In 1886 L T. Reeder started a little ihnnt that time thn rail road was constructed from Pendleton to Walla Walla, and quite a lot or set tlers came In. But a few years before ,t,i. -er-aA Pophlor and "Old Man" Ree der had put in some wheat and har vested eight or nine bushels an acre. This was considered remarkable, for at that time there was no precipitation here worth mentioning aside from the melted snows. Mr. .ttomman says no knew at least one season to pass with out a drop of moisture from February to January. Limit Yield I Beached. t,. mac smita . number were grow ing wheat, and the yield was constantly increasing, but it was noi unm seven or eight years ago that the farmers .a.iiu ion.(i tinw to handle their Summer-fallowing and keep th9 weeds down. When they soivea tnai urou lem with a weed-cutter they think but who knows? they reached the limit of yields for this section. Let it be remembered that the wheat farmers hereabouts are of the best class. That Is, they adopt every new method that proves of value, not only as to getting rid of the weeds but of plowing and seeding and cultivating. Some of the fields in Summer fallow are gone over over half a dozen times during the year and kept in the most perfect state of tilth. Yes, the good wheat farmers of this section are good, indeed. But! And a great big capitalized DTTfP r,' V, ( ,, I.., tr f -i onn tllO lnrCP.Rt yields In this entire section were on the thinnest, lightest lanas, lanas tnai were supposed to be useless for wheat n.Awtnc ht a fpw vpa rs aeto. Is there something more to learn about crop ping; ratner aoout now i.u oumntei fallow and seed these lands? There seems to be. Adams has two churches, a Baptist and a Methodist. There is but one VkliilrlinC hilt 9. h I ETh RChOOl course Is taught. There are four teach ers, In addition to tne principal, une members of the Roman Catholic Church or-- nlannfncr tn hllild ft Church the coming Fall. The business houses of the town nave a prosperous jook. ine principal store is owned by A. H. Kirby, .4 V. Una a flnA Rtnolc kp.rjt in the best and most attractive order. It is about as neat an estaoiisnmeni as 1 have seen for some time. Th. rnrnmnrHtil Hntpl 1r a srnnd nlaee to stop. It is kept by Mrs. Sarah Win der, and kept well, sne sets a gooa A New Member of a Well Known Family At Half the Cost of Olive Oil, and Just As Good At Your Dealers UNION MEAT COMPANY Watch For Announcements Concerning Our Prize Recipe Contest PENDLETON September 11, 12 and 13 table and her rooms and beds are In vitingly clean and comfortable. The town has a splendid water supply, the water being pumped from deep wells Into a reservoir west of town. As to the amount of wheat shipped from here ,lt is rather difficult to get at the figures. I appealed to M. C. Mclntyre, who has charge of the II. W. Collins warehouse, and he estimated the 1913 crop, all of which will go out over the O.-W. R. & N. from this place and a little siding a mile or two to the west, at 325 carloads. - OFFICIALS ANSWER WEST (Continued From First Page.) About this time Governor West and Mr. Morson, president and manager of the company, had a falling out and be came bitter enemies. The Governor demanded from Mr. Morson certain in formation and reports, and among other things, the statement of all the option buyers of these lands with their postoffice addresses. Mr. Morson said h.s dealings with these option buyers were matters which concerned his company and he would not furnish this information for the use of the general public. To which Governor West re plied: 'I will either make you furnish this Information desired or drive you to the wall.' Mr. Morson's answer was, Lay on, McDuff, lay on." West Not Satisfied. "At a later day Sfr. Morson sent to State Treasurer Kay a detailed state ment of all the affairs of the company, including a list of the option buyers, with instructions to present the same to the Board n condition that it should be used for the Board's own information, and not be given to the press. Mr. Kay presented the report to the Board at which time the Gov ernor refused to have anything to do with it, unless It was presented as he demanded as a public document. It is on this point that the main con tention between the Governor and Mr. Morson hinges. Governor West said the selling of options by the company was illegal, and requested the Attorney-General to bring a suit and en Join the company from selling them. The suit was brought against the ad vice of the Attorney-General, and re sulted In the Supreme Court holding that the selling of options was not il legal nor In violation of the company's contract. "About this time Governor We3t made various statements to the De partment of Interior and charged the company with using the mails to de fraud, which resulted in the Govern ment holding up the right of way of Crescent Lake reservoir and ordering an investigation of the company's af fairs. This resulted in the closing down of active operations on the Des chutes Land Company's project, which proved expensive to the company, and further resulted in many of the option holders refusing to pay their assess ments ' and becoming dissatisfied. It caused the company to return to them thousands of dollars." Investigation Favora Mornon. . After an investigation of the Des chutes Company by a representative of the Interior Department, the statement recites, the investigating agent made a report exonerating Mr. Morson of the charges made by Governor West. "Realizing that Mr. Morson has been Justly hampered," the statement con tinues, "members of the board ex pressed themselves as willing to assist him to" carry on the work of this proj ect. Therefore, when he requested an extension of time for the completion of the work to off-set the time lost through these investigations and liti .Li. - t -, -jr i7 mk T gations the board felt It right to grant it, and, at a regular meeting, when Governor West was absent, the other four members voted unanimously to grant his request. To this action Gov ernor West took serious exception, and as the time for the completion of the project is about to expire he de sires to take advantage of the predica ment in which Mr. Morson is placed and force him to make a new contract with the state in accordance with his (Governor West's) ideas. Board Fenr For Settlers. "Members of the board fell that such action would result to the detriment of the settlers inasmuch' as Mr. Morson probably could not conform to the Gov ernor's Ideas, and therefore may be forced into bankruptcy. The proposed settlers, who have, bought options, would then lose all they had invested, unless the state came to their rescue." Mr. Kay made a statement in part as follows: . "In answer to Governor West's charge that Lewis and I prepared a statement,, to the Interior Department, which was untrue, I wish to say that Lewis and .1 had nothing whatever to do with making the statement. It was prepared by Assistant Secretary Van winkle, of the Land Board, In compli ance with an order made by a unani mous vote of the board at a former meeting. I signed it only as chair man pro tem of the meeting and Lewis as secretary. "Further, the Governor has no Just cause for complaint at the statement, as J. E. Morson has been vindicated from every serious charge made against him by the Governor." Xavy Prisoner Escapes. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 31. W. Hag gett, a marine awaiting sentence after having been convicted by court-martial of intoxication, scaled the fence of the Puget Sound Navy-yard, near the ma rine barracks, while tho sentry was not looking, and escaped. He was the sixth naval prisoner to gain freedom since August 12. None has been re captured. Rice forms the principal article of food of about one-third of the human race. REMEMBER The 4th Annual Clarke Co. Fair Sept. 8 to 14 Vancouver, Wash. 6 Days Races $6,000.00 IN PRIZES FARE 15c Grand Displays of Farm and Orchard Products Livestock and Poultry Shows, Baby Show, Band Concerts. Won't You Come?