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20 THE MORXIXC OREGOXTAX, FRIDAY, MAT 1, 1914. OREGON EXHIBIT iS SEEN BY THOUSANDS Goods Made in State Dis ' played Opening of Free 3 r Day Show Is Big Success. SAMPLES ARE GIVEN AWAY Boosters la Speeches at Meier & Frank Store Point Out Advantages of Buying Home-Mado Prod nets Many Firms Display. "Oregon goods for Oregon people," Is the sentiment that the "Alade-in-Ore-gon" exhibit now in progress at the Meier & Frank store intends to instill into the minds of the people of the state. A good start in this direction was made at the opening of the show yes terday. Thousands attended. All were duly impressed with the number and variety of goods manufactured in this state and with the advantages of buying the home product. The exhibition is. conducted under auspices of the Oregon Manufacturers Association, the prime movers In the "Home Industry campaign which al ready is increasing the local consump tion of home goods. The exhibition will continue the re mainder of the week in the spacious basement of the Meier & Frank store. No admission is charged. At many of the booths samples of Oregon products are given away. Inhibitors and Visitors Welcomed. The show was opened promptly at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Julius L Meier, manager of the Meier & Frank Company, addressed the crowd briefly. welcoming the manufacturers and their friends to the store and inviting them to make liberal use of the accommoda tions placed at their disposal. He made an appeal for the purchase or home made goods, both by the retailer and by the consumer. Colonel David M. Dunne, president of the Manufacturers Association, ex plained the purpose of the exhibit. He declared that a larger exhibit will be held next Fall. He emphasized the superiority of many Oregon products sind declared that in most instances the prico is the same. He pointed to the economic advantage of buying homemade products, declaring that encouragement of local industries will lead to the direct increase of factory output, which means a bigger payroll and more prosperity for every man, woman and child. Frederick M. Hyskell, chairman of the home industry committee of the Portland Ad Club, declared that the best way to induce merchants to han dle Oregon-made products is for the public to demand them. "If you ask your grocer or your dry ffoods dealer for goods bearing the Oregon label, he said, the dealer soon will supply his stock to satisfy your wants." Systematic Campaign Vrged. Chester Hogue. chairman of the Pro gressive Business Men's Made-in-Ore f:on committee, appealed to the various clubs and commercial organizations to conduct a systematic campaign for the state products. red Cooper, of the Portland Rail way, - Light & Power Company, ex plained what is being done by that concern to promote the movement. Miss Allco Husby, candidate of the Manufacturers Association for Rose Festival queen, made a short speech. Among the nrincipal exhibitors are: Oregon Chair Company, Carman Man ufacturing Company, Closset & Devers, Jobes Milling Company, Frel Pickle Company, Crown Mills Company, Pa cific Coast Syrup Company, Pacific Face Brick Company, F. F. Haradon & Son, Theodore Bergmann & Son, Nollan Knit ting Company, Knight Packing Com pany, Zan Bros., Mason, Khrman Com pany, Independence Creamery Com pany, W'adhams & Co., Union Meat Com pany, Albers Bros., American Brush & Broom Company, Hoody Peanut Butter Company, Portland Hair Company, Ore iron Brass Company. Art Plating Com pany. Charles Coopey & Sons, Herman Metzger Company, Multnomah Trunk & Bag Company, Fleischner, Mayer Company, Pacitio Ladder Works, Hazel wood Company, Dwight Edwards, Co lumbia Neckwear, Wadharas & Kerr, Bros., Columbia Milling Company, Northwest Rug Company, Universal Bed Company, Doernbecher Manufac turing Company. Elcar Desk Comnanv. Hudson & Gram, Portland Flouring Aims, Oregon City Manufacturing Com pany, Modern Confectionery Company, Reliance Wire i Iron Company, . .Woman's Exchange. BEAUTIFUL FRENCH ACTRESS PRIMA DONNA OF MUSI CAL SHOW. "' i - - - jf Hf - ' - - - . - . . , - - ' ' ' - " , ' v- , - ' - , ' ' ' ' ' - " x, '. ' - ; . - ' ' " ' " , " ' ' " MISS MARIE ROBSOX IN "TUB HONEYMOON EXPRESS." Miss Marie Robson. the delight ml prima donna with the New York SVinter Garden Company's "The Honeymoon Express," which will ap pear at the Heilig Theater, Eleventh and Morrison, for one week start ing next Sunday night, May 3. is of French-English parentage. She comes from Provencal in Southern France, that delightful land of mistral. At the age of 16 she Was orphaned, and left almost to shift for herself. It was while she was appearing in "The Girl on the Film" she attracted the attention of the New York Winter Garden managers, who placed her under contract for a long term of years. rc3C Give Nature a Chance The road to health and strength and palate-joy is through a return to simple foods like tod Strawberries o ISCllli Cut out meat and potatoes for a while and try this dish a dainty, delicious, nourishing dish. Because of its porous shreds and its biscuit form Shredded Wheat combines most naturally and deliciously with all kinds of fresh fruits. Heat one or more Biscuits in the oven to restore crispness ; then cover . with berries or other fresh fruit ; serve with milk or cream and sweeten to suit the taste. Better than soggy white flour "short-cake" ; contains no yeast, no baking powder, no fats, no chemicals of any kind just the meat of the golden wheat, steam-cooked, shredded and baked. NEWS ABOUT RAILROADS WORKMAN WOULD DEBATE nationalist .Leader Is Gliallenged to Helena Portland Organization. R. O. Schilowsky, a. workingman, living at the Broadway Hotel, has challenged E. A. Cantrell, leader of the Portland Rationalist Society, to a de bate on the question "Resolved, That the Portland Rationalist Society is a Menace to the Community." Mr. Schilowsky proposes to take the affirmative side and agrees to furnish the hall. He suggests that each side Invite 150 persons to hear the discus sion. Each side is to have five judges. A chairman, mutually agreed upon, is to be selected. "Promotion of the brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity" Is assigned by Mr. Schilowsky as the object of the debate. ALL the space on the eighth floor and part of the seventh floor of the new Pittock building will be oc cupied by the general offices of the North Bank and affiliated railroads after September 1. The rooms will be fitted up for the special accommodation of the railroad offices. Many fixtures and most of the furniture will be built into the quar ters, according to specifications of the railroad officials. Special arrange ments are being made to accommodate the telegraph offices. Direct wires will connect the Portland office with Seattle. Spokane, St. Paul and other principal points on the Northern Pa cific and Great Northern roads, who jointly own the stock of the North Bank and affiliated lines. The office of L.. C. Gilman, president of the North Bank system, and his immediate staff will be in the 'north east corner of the eighth floor, corres ponding to the location of his present office on the sixth floor of the Rail way Exchange building. It is probable, also, that the engineer in r offices now in the North Bank ter minal building at Eleventh and Hoyt streets will be moved into the Pitock building. The auditing offices, how ever, will remain in the terminal build ing. Increased rates have been obtained by the three big Canadian transconti nental railroads, the Canadian Pacific the Canadian Northern -and the Grand Trunk, for hauling of mails through that country. The new agreement with the Government, it is understood, will date from February 1. C. A. Hunter, general agent for the Rock Island, returned yesterday from San Jose. Cal., where he visited his mother. He also stopped in San Fran cisco and viewed progress on the world s Fair buildings. The St. Paul Railroad is advertising in. a novel and patriotic manner. Cards bearing the American flag and a stanza of "The Star Spangled Banner" are be ing distributed. Authentic maps and guides of Mexico and the war zone also are being supplied from the St. Paul line offices. It is understood that the Great North ern has abandoned its plans to build a line from Scobey, Mont., to a point in the Fort feck Indian reservation. Financial uncertainty is the cause assigned. It is predicted among well-informed PARKING PLAN PROPOSED Property Owners on Ainsvorth Ave nue "Want It Beautified. If elaborate plans being worked out l-y the city engineering department and property owners on Ainsworth avenue are put through, that thorough fare from Union avenue to East Thir tieth street will be made into one of the most artistic boulevards in the city. The City Commissioners and oth er officials went over the street yes terday with property owners and in vestigated the plan in detail. .lnsworth a 'cmt is 100 wide t?ie lull distance naw proposed to be im proved. It is lue general plan to put in parKing str'ps and hard-surfacl.: giving the tstrert the appearance of seme of tho attractive boulevards - Eastern cities. Cottage Grove Sets TVUr Dates. COTTAGE GROVE, Or.. April 30. (Special.) September 17, 18 and 19 are The dates set for the Cottage Grove Grange Fair. A large list of prizes lias been arranged. Including nearly all the products of the farm with the ex ception of livestock. On account of having no grounds for the purpose the livestock exhibit, which has heretofore proved so successful, had to be elimi nated. express and railroad officials that Wells, Fargo & Company will succeed the United States Express Company when the latter company carries out its liquidation plans on the Baltimore & Ohio, the principal road over which the United States Company operates. The Adams already Is entrenched on the Pennsylvania and the American on the New York Central, leaving Wells, Fargo as the most probable heir to the Baltimore & Ohio business. X. B. Wickersham. heretofore chief electrical engineer on the Oregon Elec tric and United Railways, will assume his new duties today as assistant gen eral manager of the North Bank and affiliated roads, with Jurisdiction over botn steam and electric properties. The office of chief electrical engineer has been abolished. M. R. Leahy, chief clerk in the gen eral pasenger department of the Chi cago & Northwestern, has been ap pointed assistant general passenger agent, succeeding James W. Munn, who died a few weeks ago. Mr. Leahy is well known to the railroad men of Portland. Plans have been completed for a new passenger station and terminals at Denver to cost 4,000,000. The depot will De used by all lines entering Den ver. B. A. Worthington, ex-president of the O. R. & N. Company, and until re cently president. of the Chicago & Al ton, sailed a few months ago for Europe and 'expects to remain abroad four months. Upon his return he will open an office for "experting" railroad in vestments in Chicago. IT. W. Davies has been appointed as sistant to the president and general manager of the Pacific & Idaho North ern, with headquarters at New Mead ows, Idaho. He formerly was with the Southern at Washington, D. C It is reported that the Nevada, Cali fornia & Oregon road soon is to be ex tended northward from Lakeview, Or.. Its present northern terminus, into the fertile fruit and agricultural districts of Lake County. The line extends from Lakeview to Reno, Nev. Martin J. Geary, of the Rock Island passenger department, already is laying his plans to attend the annual meeting of the American Association of Travel ing Passenger Agents at San Francisco next Fall. November- 9, 10, 11 and 12 are the dates fixed. .Geary lias not The Shredded Wheat Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 3 ubMsVflsf missed a meeting: of the association for many years. Many other Portland pas senger men are preparing' to attend. James J. Hill denies that the recent weakness of Great Northern stock is due to the Canadian rate reductions, which, he declares, will have no effect on the Great Northern's earnings. He predicts that the prospective heavy grain traffic soon will cause all granger stocks to rally. The Portland Railway, Light & Pow er Company recently sold $5,000,000 worth of one-year 5 per cent gold notes dated May 1, on the New York and Philadelphia markets, at 99. The proceeds are to be used in redeeming other obligations now maturing. It is hoped at the end of the year to put all these obligations on a permanent basis. WATERING RULES URGED and other places not entitled to water under flat rates, A growing trouble, Mr. Xaly said, is the water-cooling systems being in stalled in houses. It is likely some steps will be undertaken to curb the waste in this way. SUFFflAGE TALKS PLANNED Speakers Cliosen for Civic League Luncheon Saturday. "National Suffrage for Women" will be the topic discussed at the weekly luncheon of the Oregon Civic League at the Multnomah! Saturday, the day having been set aside by the women's suffrage associations of the United States as National Suffrage day. Mrs. K. S. Parsons, of the University of Oregon, will speak on "The Influ ence of Women's Colleges Upon Woman's Suffrage"; A.-F. Klegel. Dem ocratic candidate for Ctmgress. on "Na tional Suffrage"; Miss H. E. Marshall, of England, on "Suffrage In England"; R. A. Booth, candidate for the United States Senate, on "A Suffrage I'lank In the National Platform of the Re publican Party." and H. M". Esterly. "A Suffrage" Plank in the National Plat form of the Oemocratlo Party." Mrs. H. C. Newill. director of tho De partment of Public Welfare, will be chairman of the day. Grants Pass Road Bonds Bought. GRANTS PASS. Or., April SO. (Spe cial.) Since approval of bonds Keeler Brothers have wired that they are ready to take up railroad bonds of the city of Grants Pass in the sum of 20.000. It is likely that bids for tics will be let shortly. MR. DALY AGREES .TO TRY PLAN TO . CONSERVE SUPPLY. J Mayor Promises Police Aid In Enforc ing Regulations, Kixinff Hours In Knch District low SprlptiUnc In an effort to prevent shortages of water during sprinkling hours City Commissioner laly agreed yesterday at a meeting of the City Council to co operate in a plan to regulate the use so that there will not be the usual strain on small mains due to all users sprinkling at the same hours. Plans will be worked out in detail later. In the plan which will be worked out It is probable the assistance of the police department will be asked to supplement the work performed by. 28 inspectors. Mayor Albee suggested a division of sprinkling hours in the districts where shortages occur so that all would not sprinkle at the same time. In enforc ing the restrictions he said he would lend the services of the police depart ment. Instructions will be given to policemen on all beats to watch out for persons sprinkling out of hours and arrests will be made for violations. Charts, he said, can be given police men showing the limits of districts and the hours for sprinkling. Another step which will be taken will be the metering of all commercial users. Mr. Daly said he proposes to nave the ctty buy bOO meters for in stallation In restaurants, barber shops 0 f Rum We have made a complete analysis of the contents of a can of Rumford Baking Powder purchased of a Portland grocer, and f ound it to be worthy of the highest commendation as a healthful, efficient and economical leavening agent . GILBERT-HALL CO., Chemists,' Portland, Oregon .pres. These prominent chemists substantiate the opinion of the millions of housewives who prefer and use ford B akmg Powder for its known purity, economy, uniform strength and exceptional efficiency. Experience proves that Rumford not only raises the cake, biscuits or muffins just right, but adds something of nutritive value to the food. This is why Rumford is famous as The Wholesome Baking Powder j sua SVT3TJP NEW! 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