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TIIE MORX1XG OREGONIAN. 3IOXDAY, MARCH 15, 1915. h SERVICE HELD FOR r MRS. ROCKEFELLER m Only Members of Family, Close : i Friends and Employes of Estate Attend. BODY REMAINS IN HOME ;bil Man, I nilCT-idrd as to Place ot Burial, Postpone Ordeal Many Make Journey From New York to Attend the Funeral. : TARRTTOWX. X. T.. March 1 . JFuneral services for Mrs. John T. Rocke xller were held late today In the Rockefeller home at Pocantlco Hills. Only members of the family, close friends and employes on the Rockefeller state attended. After the services It Vas announced that the body of Mrs. Rockefeller would be placed 4n the re 'elvlne vault of John D. Archbold in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery here until It Is decided whether the burial shall take "place at Pocantlco Hills or In the family , .plot in Cleveland. John D. Rockefeller held little Wln throp Rockefeller, his grandson, on his knee during the services, which began shortly after 4 o'clock and were con ducted by Rev. Cornelius Woelfktn. pas- tor of the Fifth-Avenue Baptist Church In New York, which the Rockefeller family attend when In that city. John r. Rockefeller. Jr with his wife, sat close beside his father. Service of Manic Held. Solemn tones from the Kreat pipe or pan in the Rockefeller home opened the service and the hymns. "Jesus. Lovjr of My Sou!" and "Oh, Love That Will Not Let Me Go." were sung by the quartet from the New York church. There fol lowed the reading of the scripture by Rev. Mr. Woeflkin and a violin solo by Richard Arnold. The quartet sang "The Sands of Time Are Swift" and "Nearer, My God. to Thee" and prayer was of fered. It was followed by another vio lin solo and after "Now the Day 'is Over" was sung by the quartet the serv ices were closed with the benediction. The coffin was banked with hundreds of floral offerings. Telegrams of con dolence came from friends throughout the country. j Hurlal Flare Undecided. Kmployes on the Pocantlco Hills estate and servants at the homestead wttended the services in a body. Many "persons made the Journey from New York in a special railroad car. Those present, besides members of the Rocke feller family, included Colgate Uoft, J)r. and Mrs. Simon Flexner. General Nelson A. Miles. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome I. Greene, Mr. and Mrs. G. Hunter Mc Alpin and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Benja jnin. Tiie body of Mrs. Rockefeller was not removed from the mansion today. Sir. Rockefeller expressing a desire ,to postpone the ordeal as long as might be. He has not yet decided wlwn or where the burial will take place. AMERICAN" HEIRESS AND BRITISH NOBLEMAN WHOSE ENGAGE- MENT IS RUMORED. t -r YI i L I III! ,r v It II J . I i . -II , ;! 'M - 1 I I li vo'.vf i II V ' Photos Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. KATHKRIVK BRITTOX A.D ROBERT BFJIESFORD. SEACOURTSHIPWINS 150 WORK JNGIFT PARK Vancouver Women Serve Lunch to Volunteers at Hidden Track. VANCOUVER, Wash., March 14. (Special.) One hundred and fifty will ing workers today labored several hours each in Hidden Park, which has been donated to the City -of X'ancouver bv L. M. Hidden, a pioneer brick manu facturer, of this city. The Vancouver Women's Civic League began tiie task o( getting workers to give their serv ices. Women of the city prepared a big lunch, which was served at noon. Howard Kvarts Weed, landscape artist, of Portland, supervised the work. Mr. Hidden was present and added half an acre to his donation, which will obviate the building of a road up a steep grade and the con COnstruction of a retaining wall. OREGON CITY MOOSE ELECT C. S. Nohlc Soon to lie Installed in Third-Term Dictatorship. OHEUOS CITY. Or. March 14. (Spe cial.) C. S. Noble will begin his third term as dictator of the local lodge of Moose the second meeting night In April, when he will be installed. He was elected Thursday night. other officers elected are: Vice-dictator. Kd Brady: prelate, P. Barlow: treasurer. H. A. Shandy; secretary, K. L. McUanney; inner guard, Ben Kby; uler i'uard, AI Richardson, and trus tees, Frank Busch and Charles Baker. A membership campaign of 60 days ended ThuriKiay night, 250 members being added to the lodge, making a to la 1 membership of about 500. American Belle in Europe as Nurse Reported Engaged. Seaside has arrived and is being hauled to the mill site, a few miles southeast of town, on the Necanicum River. The mill is expected to be in operation by the middle of April at the latest. The outpit will be from 70.UOO to 80,000 shingles a day. H. H. Clifford, who is building the mill, has moved his fam ily here from Kelso, where he oper ated a sawmill for several years. The shingle Bolts will be rafted to the mill where convenient, and when raft ing is not practicable a motortruck will be used. SHIP MEETING IS FIRST BOARD JOB BARS SALES School Director Must Not Sell Sup plies to District, Ruling. SALEM, Or., March 14. (Special.) Attorney-General Brown, in response to query by Frank Steiwer, District At torney of Umatilla County, held that it is unlawful for a school director, who is a merchant or a stockholder and - manager of a corporation, to sell aup j.lies to a school district. -; The Attorney -General quotes section 405i and section 4063. Lord's Oregon f laws, to sustain his opinion. For viola- tkn the penalty is a tine of not less than $25 nor more than $100, or impriS- onment in Jail not less than six months, or botn line and imprisonment. LICENSE, KEPT LONG, USED Couple Wed at Vancouver Nearly 2 Years After Getting Tcrmit. VANCOUVER. Wash.. March 14. i- (Special.) One year and 363 days ago - Joseph B. Gaspard and Mrs. Katherine It. Mapve, living east of Vancouver Barracks, in this city, obtained a li ' cense to marry. The ceremony was ' not performed until yesterday, when Jtev. Thomas May. pastor of the First J Congregational Church, of this city. i lie-formed it. t . The marriage certificate was filed for J record today. Ahlnnd Track-Crossing Fight On. f ASHLAND. Or, March 14. (Special.) ''The contest over the Orange-street ' grade crossing has been carried before ,the Public Service Commission. Frank J. Miller has been here Investigating in t order to submit his findings to the state aboard. The railroad company wants the t highway to cross either, above or below fihe tracks instead of at a grade. The T city contends that the plan is not feas ible, owing to expeqse. Katherine liiitton, en Route to Bat tlefield With Nona McAdoo, Is to Wed Seton Beresford, Says Disputed Washington Rumor. WASHINGTON. March 9. (Special.) Rumors of the engagement of Miss Katherine A. Britton, heiress, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Britton, of Washington, after she and Miss Nona McAdoo, daughter of the Secretary of the United States Treasury, .sailed for Europe a few weeks ago to become nurses on the battlefields, has caused a flurry of surprise in society of the capital. Her fiance is said to be Hon. Seton Robert Beresford. brother of Lord De- cies. to whom Vivian (Jould was mar ried. The announcement was made through private correspondence from London. The betrothal, according to the infor mant, was the result of a short court ship aboard ship. Miss Britton having met young Beresford on the liner after leaving New York for the war zone. Miss Britton was one of the most popular society belles in Washington and the news from London has caused great astonishment. Another rumor from London is to the effect that Beresford has denied that he and Miss Britton are engaged. TREASURE HUNT REVIVED O.M? PARTY AT WOllK OX NK.VH-KAH-ME JIOINTAI.V. HOTEL WAGES TO BE FIXED Washington Welfare Commission Gathers Data. OLYMPIA. Wash.. March 14. (Spe cial.) Now that the 1915 legislature has concluded its labors, the state in dustrial welfare commission can pro ceed about its work with the usual amount of confidence that its results will not stand a chance of being upset by the enactment of new laws for at least a period of two years, says State Labor Cdtnmissioner E. W. Olson. In a few days a second conference will be called on the matter of fixing a minimum wage for hotel and restaur ant employes. A survey of labor conditions, the cost of living and other vital features of hotel and restaurant employment has been completed and the data are now in the hands of the commission. GROWERS INDORSE COUNCIL Fruitmen at White Salmon Hear Ex planation of Xew System. WHITE SALMON, Wash.. March 14. (Special.) W. H. Paulhamus, of Puyal Uip, president -of the Sumner and Puyal lup Growers' Association, accompanied by Mr. Haskell, .of Wenatchee and Tru man Butler, of Hood River, who form the executive committee of the newly organized apple growers' council of the Northwest met the growers of the White Salmon ad Underwood districts under the auspices of the White Sal mon Commercial Club yesterday. Mr. Paulhamus explained the work ings -of the new apple marketing sys tem to the largest attendance of fruit growers ever assembled in this dis trict. The growers voted unanimously to support the new organization. Nehalem Beach Beeswax Mystery Ac eenlnated by Diacovery at the Root of Ancient Tree. NEHALEM. Or., March 13. (Special.) The quest for the Neah - Kah - Nie treasure has started again ana tnis Summer promises to see two or more Industriously digging on the side of the mountain for the hidden wealth. It has been several years since anyone has sought the treasure and for a time it looked as though it had been for gotten. For two months this Winter a party of four men has been quietly at work seeking the treasure and several good sizad holes testify to their industry. Pat Smith, who has already spent nine years gophering the mountainside in quest of the treasure, has the bee again and has applied for permission from Mr. Reed to dig this Summer. He has the location of the treasure fig ured down to 100 square feet and de sires the right to excavate that area. A new mystery was added to the beeswax story connected with the Ne halem Beach by the discovery of a large chunk of the substance under a stump some distance back from the Tavern at Neah-Kah-Nie. While dig ging out a stump the men removed a root that was more than two feet thick. Under this root the chunk of wax was found. From all indications the tree must have been several hundted years old and the wax placed or drifted there when the tree was small. Seaside Shingle Mill Older Way. SEASIDE. Or, March 14 (Special.) Machinery for a new shingle mill for FEW IN ST. HELENS RACE S. C. Martin and C. C. Cossett Are Talked Or for Mayor. s ST. HELENS. Or., March 14. (Spe cial.) With the city election only two weeks away, candidates for the various offices are hard to find. Indications are S. C. Martin, auditor for the St. Helens Milling Company, will be per suaded to run for Mayor, and the party backed by the women's organi zation is talking of running C. C. Cossett. another employe of the mill. It is probable there will be a woman candidate for a place in the Council. FLAVEL EXCURSION TICKETS Get tickets of committees or at North Bank ticket office, 5th and Stark, not later than 10 o'clock this morning. Tickets cannot be sold beyond limit of accommodations. Trains leave North Bank station, 10th and Hoyt, Tuesday, 16th. S A. M. sharp, (Regular morning local for Astoria and Clatsop Beach points leaves 8:40 A. M.) Adv. Play Buys Suits for Team. JUNCTION CITY, Or., March 14. (Special.) The Arena Literary Society of the high school gave a . seven-act vaudeville sketch in the Crescent The ater Thursday night to obtain funds to purchase baseball suits for the high school baseball team. This is the first high school baseball team in three years and the prospects are bright. BROWN CONSTRUES PROHIBITION LAW Attorney-General Gives First of Series of Explanatory LecWes at Salem. ALL COUNTIES MAY HEAR Oregon Anti-Saloon League Wants Official to Make Tour of Stat. Speaker Makes Xo Attempt to Defend Law on Merits. SALEM, Or.. March 14. (Special.) Witn the puspose of making the pro visions of theact plain. Attorney Gen eral Brown today at a mass meeting in the First Methodist Church of this city, delivered the first of a series of lectures construing the prohibition law passed at the recent session of the leg islature. It is the first general con struction of the measure by a high state official, and the one which will guide the authorities in its enforce ment until various phases of it are passed on by the courts which tliey probably will be called upon to do after it becomes operative next year. Mr. Brown explained that because of his official duties the number of ad dresses he would deliver upon the law would be limited, but R. P. Hutton, of the Oregon Anti-Saloon League, will urge the Attorney General to speak in at least one town in each county. Merits of Law Not Discussed. "I will not undertake to discuss the question as to whether a better law could or could not have been deyised," said Mr. Brown, "but shall content my self by taking the act as I find it and explain and apply it as it is written. I shall summarize the most important crimes defined by the .act: "It shall be a crime to sell Intoxi cating liquor from and after January 1, 1916. "It shall be a crime for any pharma cist to sell any ethyl alcohol until he has filled in and read a prescribed affi davit to the purchaser and the same has been signed and sworn to. "It shall be a crime for pharmacists to sell more than two quarts of alcohol to one person in a period of four weeks, except such alcphol be sold to public or charitable hospitals for medical pur poses. Doctors May Prescribe. "The act provides that any regularly licensed physician in good standing In his profession, and following the prac tice of medicine, may administer intoxi cating liquors to patients when the same is actually necessary as a medi cine in the treatment of any disease. "It shall be a crime for any person to solicit orders for the sale of liquor. "It shall be a crime to advertise liquors for sale. "It shall be a crime for any person, by himself or by association with oth ers, to aid or abet in keeping any locker-room, clubroom, or similar place in which intoxicating liquor is 're ceived, or kept for the purpose of use, gift, barter or sale as a beverage, or for distribution. Liquor Barred at Dances. "It shall be a crime for any person to carry intoxicating liquor to any dancehail. or any public gathering, or have intoxicating liquor in his posses sion at such place. "It shall be a crime for any common carrier or agent of such common carrier to deliver intoxicating liquor to any person until the prescribed affidavit is made. "It shall he a crime for any one per son or family within the state to re ceive from any common carrier more than two quarts of spirituous or vinous liquors, or more than 24 quarts of malt liquors, within a period of four suc cessive weeks." REPORTERS MAY DANCE MISS MAGILL NEEDS PARTNERS FOR FOX-TROT AT JIMvS. Miss Golda M. Cioulct, In Violin Act) AI Keel, Comedian, and Others jn Press Club Programme. If all goes well the big St. Patrick's day jinks of the Portlanl Press Club Wednesday night, will see newspaper men as dancers. Miss Frances Magill. a well-known dancer, who will be seen at the jinks in a number of her. own dances, re quires partners for the fox-trot and other modern dances. "Of cotrrse," said Miss Magill, "I have no doubt that you will provide half a dozen of the best dancers in the Press Club as partners for me." Each ciiy editor is to be asked to detail two men to assist Miss Magill. Miss MagiH also will feature a Span ish number and a Russian dance, in which he promises higher kicking than "has ever been seen in Portland before. Chairman McGettigan, of the enter tainment committee, is rounding many more numbers up for the show. Miss Golda M. Goulet will give a de lightful violin act.. AI Keel, the Key stone comedian, has promised tne services of his singing and fnonologue act. Miss Leah Cohen will present some of the latest operatic numbers. Dunn & Dunkell will give their singing and cross-fire chatter act. Miss Hazel Gallaher will sing. Mrs. E. M. (Ever Magnetic) Hogan is sure of a great welcome with her new jitney parody. Miss Inez Lyons will give vio lin selections and Miss Letha McBride will play accompaniments. 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