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THE MORNING OltEGONIAN. FRIDAY, . JUNE - 25, 1915. DERNBURG SPENDS NIGHT li'J BRITAIN A FEW OF THE PIONEER BOYS AND GIRLS WHO ATTENDED THEIR ANNUAL REUNION IN PORTLAND YESTERDAY. . UseThis Coupon 20 EXTRA 20 NEITHER SKILLED SALESMANSHIP NOR "SOMETHING DIFFERENT" Just and only the goods you seek at a fair price and with every courtesy. m Bring this coupon and , -ft irn . v It. j'radlnsr your tlrst l cash pur rhuc and d o a b 1 e of pnnhiw, iood on firxt three ?loSrs today, Kriday, June -W. Norwegian Steamer Bearing German Propagandist De tained on Suspicion. Today and Tomorrow Double Stamps and 20 Extra Use This Coupon A Guaranteed Steel Razor. . .......... A Rubber-Set Lath er Brush . A Styptic Pencil A Military Strop... A Stick o f Shaving Soap, your selec tion nuirroifiUTsn k rwin- rmi nioiii w WII.LIA M S' ALL THESE . FOR $2.65 'ready to use. CUTTERS CUT DI'RAltl.K, .IKKAB I.K.. KCON O MI CA I.. The brand that never dis appoints. HOMEWARD TRIP RESUMED 4 Pi iglit Regarded in London as Am us ing, but Promise of Safe Passage Is Kept Purpose in Amer ica Declared Accomplished. LONDON, June 24. Unknown to the British public. Dr. Bernhard Dernburg. whose propaganda in favor of Germany while he was on a visit to the United States caused much comment, spent last night aboard the Norwegian steamer liergenef Jord in the harbor of Kirkwall, Orkney Islands. Tonight, however. Dr. Dernburg is proceeding to Sweden on his way to Germany aboard the Bergensf jord. which was detained at Kirkwall yes terday, presumably on suspicion that fihe carried contraband. The steamer was released today. The news that the Bergensf jord had been taken into Kirkwall did not be come known until the release of the vessel was announced. The predicament of Dr. Dernburg in being forced to spend the night in a Scotch port is considered here an amus ing one. He was in no danger of be ing stopped by the British officials, in view of the promise to give him free jjassasc. He did not leave the steamer while the examination of her cargo was being made. NEW YORK, Jifne 24. The Tribune prints today an interview with Dr. Kern hard Dernburg which it says was vbiained on the stipulation that it Khouid net be published until Dr. Dern burg had arrived at Bergen, Norway, which port the vessel on which he failed from New York was presumed to have reached yesterday. "Some of the allies might take of fense at some of my statements and interfere with my journey," he was juoted as saying. The Tribune quotes Dr. Dernburg as faying his mission in the United States, though curtailed, had been .successful. "I feel that the great American pub lic has a clearer and better under standing of the German cause and the German aims of this war," he added. "Germany at the beginning of the war was so isolated that the underlying mo tives for, and the German vie-wpoint of. the war might never ,have pene trated through the circles of isolation w-ith which our enemies have tried to surround us. If I have succeeded in presenting to the great, intelligent -body of Americans the basic facts of this war as Germany sees them, and upon which her gigantic struggle is based, the main object of my mission will have been accomplished." Dr. Dernburg said he would go Im mediately to Berlin to confer with gov ernment officials there. He positively denied he would cajry on any propa ganda work from any of the Scandi navian countries. PIONEERS HOLD REUNION (Continued From First Pa?) their efforts to patriotic selections, but they aroused unmistakable applause when they hit up some of the old-time pieces that made the woods ring in the days when the pioneers were joung. ; "The grand old man of the reunion" was -Father" John Flinn, the veteran preacher, who now is 98 years old. He Was on the programme for the invoca tion yesterday and was given a per sonal tribute of love and respect. William Lk Brewster, City Commis sioner, extended an official welcome on behalf of the city. President Geer responded. Additional inspiration was provided by the music of the veterans' quartet yr. M. Morse. Dr. J. E. Hall. H. W. Mills and Professor Z. M. Parvin. An orig inal poem, dedicated to the pioneers, was recited by James Barton Adams, the author and a pioneer of the Rocky Mountain region. ' The principal address of the day was delivered by Judge J. C. Fullerton, of Roseburg, apioneer of 1852, who re viewed some of the incidents of his early experiences and those of his par ents. Judge Fullerton's speech was an eloquent one and ho was loudly ap plauded. The whole company joined in singing the song, "Oregon." written by Pro fessor W. D. Lyman, of Whitman Col lege, at Walla Walla. : But the meeting lost little time with Its oratory and its song. It had other and equally pleasant details in store. The banquet at the Armory wa Scheduled for 4:30 o'clock, but it was nearer the hour of 4 o'clock when the main body of men and women arrived. A regular old-fashioned picnic lunch was spread upon tables that covered all the available space in the big build ing. The pioneers were guests of honor and the women s auxiliary were the genial hosts. Prominent Portland so ciety women and their fair daughters waited personally at the tables. They trammed in big trays of crisp, fried chicken and wrestled with whole car goes of potato salad, baked salmon, homemade cake and ice cream so long as the appetites of the old folks lasted. ' Meanwhile the drum corps enter talned the '59ers and ttrcir elders kept time with their feet. A big battery of automobiles kept constantly busy carrying the people between the Masonic Temple and the Armory, lor as soon as the feasting was over the annual "campfire" was called again at the temple. Nathan S. Bird was the grand marshal in charge of the machine movements. Assisting him were: John W. Minto, T. C. Belcher, J. II Magers, James F. Failing. A. J. McDaniel. W M. Hendershott, John Dixon. Ivan Humason. E. J. JefCery, Henry W, Frettyman. 31. C. George. T. T. Geer, S. A. D. Meek, J. C. McKay, William Jolly, Frank D. Higgins and F. A. Watts. Conspicuous among the decorations at the Masonic Temple was a tar-bucket of the pattern that was used on the ox-wagons with which many of the pioneers crossed the plains. Tar was used in greasing the wagon axles and a bucket of this lubricant always was carried for emergency purposes. Incidentally, the official song of this reunion has been dedicated to this same tar bucket and the service to which it was devoted. The title of the song is "The Lincbpin Wagon and Its Bucket of Tar." It was written by Carson C. Masiker, of Hood River, a pioneer of 1853. Among1 the interesting figures at the reunion yesterday was Mrs. C. J. Adams, of Hillsboro, who is 86 years of age. She fell and broke her hip two years ago and missed the reunion of that year and last. But she is courageously getting around this year with the aid of a crutch and seemed to enjoy the events of the day as much as anyone. 'Xv: 1, J. A. PauUell (1851), 09 Yearn Old; Old; S, Joseph II. Cornrrall (1856); 6, PIONEERS ABE GAY Feet Are Nimble as Fiddles Give Out Old-Time Tunes. "CAMPFIRE" SOLEMN, TOO "Wilson Is Clieered and Kesolutions Are Adopted Asking Care of His toric lielics, and Pensions for- Indian War Veterans. Comrades in youth, hope and adver sity, those pioneers of Oregon's earliest periods met last night as friends in old age, retrospect and comfort. It was the annual "camp fire." They gave true recognition to the principles of Wilson day. The audience voted its loyalty and support to the President. Then they gave three rous ing cheers for "Woodrow Wilson, Our President." Officers were elected as follows: President. Charles B. Moores, 1852 vice-president, H. L. Pittock, 1853; sec retary, " George If. Himes. 1853; treas urer, W. M. Dadd, 1855; directors, John W. Minto, 1848; Nathan II. Bird, 1846; W. H. H. Dufur, 1859. Mr. Himes was re-elected without opposition for the 13th time. The reso lutions committee also brought in a pet of emphatic declarations lauding Mr. Himes for his faithful and efficient efforts. The first declaration expressed "re gret at the inroads made in the past year in decimating our ranks of those who bore a conspicuous part in the set tlement of the Oregon country in pio neer days." ' Further resolutions appealed to the State Legislature to pass a law provid ing for the care of pioneer cemeteries. Congress was urged to provide pen sions for Indian War veterans. A permanent fireproof building for records of the Oregon Historical So ciety was asked and another resolution provided for a committee to take up with the State Legislature the feasi bility of declaring February 14 of each year a special occasion when educa tional institutions should hold exer cises commemorative of the inaugura tion of a provisional government in this 6tate. The Legislature also was asked to provide an enclosure and permanent building on the grounds at Champoeg. where the Oregon provisional govern ment was established. May 2, J843. Ezra Meeker received a separate reso lution of thanks for his work in pre serving the old "Oregon Trail." A proposal also was made that a monument be erected in Wilson ave nue, Salem, to commemorate the "abil ity and poetic genius of Samuel L. Simpson, a pioneer of 1846." Colonel Robert A Miller presided at the "campfire" session. An Interest ing number of the early evening was zzri T-- tt II s y V, r. - 1 LU.U.J iTr 1 -:-gt4: 2, X. H. Old (1S44) 3, Ell Old (1844); 4, Mrs. Mary Li. Abbott (1SS3), 83 Years J. C. Nelson (1844); 7, Some of the Veterans Starting: for Automobile Hides. a tableau depicting Indian life at the time of the pioneers. This was con ducted by Mrs. L. B. Bartlett, a pioneer of 1853. Miss Eugenia Craig, a daughter of a pioneer, offered a selected reading. Comedy was furnished by a Chinook dialogue between Cyrus H. Walker, 1838. and K. B. McFarland, 1852. The pioneers' feet grew nimble when the old-time fiddlers struck up their tunes. D. C. Bow'ers, Melvln Baker and Arthur J. Quigley played the fiddles and Mrs. D. C. Bowers played the pi ano accompaniment. Miss Mildred A. Klngsley sang seV- PIONEERS URGE THAT MONEY FROM RAILROAD LANDS GO INTO SCHOOL. Fl(iD. A special resolution adopted by the Oregon Pioneers at their meeting last night, touching on the Supreme Court's recent deci sion in the Oregon & California land grant case, reads as fol lows: "Resolved, That the Pioneers' Association, now assembled, does urge upon Congress to Inaugurate speedily such legislation as will conserve the surplus revenues to be derived from the sale of these lands (in excess of $2.50 an acre, the amount going to the rail road) for the benefit of the irre ducible school fund of the state." eral songs and the veterans' quartet sang popular old-time numbers. The musical programme was inter spersed with five-minute speeches by pioneers in the audience. NEW ENGLANDERS PICNIC District Society Reorganizes After Being Defunct for 21 Years. " The Boston bean and the Portland rose met on terms of equality at the Oaks yesterday. The occasion was the first picnic held by the New England society and signi fied the rebirth of the society , after being defunct 21 years. Georgo C. Flanders, a member of the former so ciety, has been elected president of the new organization. The picnic was made a joint gather ing of the Massachusetts State So ciety and the New England Society. The Massachusetts Society Is the only one of the six New Kngland states represented by a state society In Ore gon and it is planned for the New Eng land Society to represent all the New England states. There are 125 mem bers of the New England Society. Over 100 memmbers of the combined socie ties joined in the picnic. Mrs. Dan Kellaher served baked beans to all those who were present, while the society supplied coffee. A later picnic will be held at the Oaks to make plans for the entertain ment of New England visitors passing through Portland this, season. CARD OK THANKS, . I -wish to thank my friends for their sympathy and floral offerings tluring my bereavement in the loss of my hus band. (Adv.) MRS. PEARL CHAMBERLAIN. WW" SHR IS HEAL JOY Multnomah Club Members Have Evening of Fun. SONGS AND DANCES LIKED Miss Andrews Voice Captivates and Miss Aweau as Hula Hula Dan cer "Wins Applause; Pie-Eating Contest Is Big Feature. More than 1200 members and their friends of the Multnomah Club wit nessed the final monthly smoker before the Summer vacation held in the club gymnasium last night. A. H. ("Bert") Allen, chairman of the entertainment committee of the club, and Dow V. Walker, superintendent, arranged one of the best programmes of the year, Miss Eunice Aneao, Who Danced the Hnla Hnla at the Multno mih Club Smoker Last Night. and all who attended went away per fectly happy. Miss Nan Andrews, a typical blonde, with a captivating voice, opened the "meeting" with several popular songs, and she ,was so well liked that she had to do a "come-back" stunt later In the evening. Miss Eunice Aweau accompanied by Mr. Padeken, was fea tured in Hawaiian songs and dances. Miss Aweau's interpretation of the I ? - i' r t t r, ':''-v,rt -1 ' " '?: ' 'VI J ? Mr ? t k. Toii Know, or You Should Know, How Good a Thing Is WIZARD POLISH Nothing Equals It on Auto, Furniture or Polished Floor. Special for Two Days: The dollar size for S4c fifty cent size for 39: twen-IO ty-five-cent size for I0U This Strong, Convenient, Weil Made BASKET LUNCH SET is just what you want for your outing, auto, boat or train. Will last for years. OCt. CCfl Priced right 00 $UU Tou know them 3fO. 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Next after Miss Brown came Miss Anuta Osgood, who won praise bx sing ing to several of the prominent mem bers of the Multnomah Club. She got away to a good start, and it was neces sary for the orchestra to play a few pieces before the noise subsideo so the programme could be continued by President Wilbur, who acted as master of ceremonies. Miss Gladys Scarth put a more serious aspect to the occasion by sing ing several well-liked old-fashioned songs. Her ability to sing In a most pleasing manner won her the admira tion of the entire assemblage. Mne Hawaiians were then introduced, after which came the added attraction of the. evening. A pie-eating contest for the 1916 championship of the Northwest was staged. Young Scotty Conn wrested the title from Abie Selinskey. after one of the most desperate races seen in the club gymnasium In years. Hut two seconds separated the conqueror from the vanquished. There were four in the race, the other two. Mike Rosen bloomer and Izzy O'FIerahty, finishing with more raspberry pie on their coun tenances than they devoured. Dudley Clarke was official announcer for the occasion. With the title of the Northwest went a good bath, all of which was readily accepted by all concerned, as a nnai act the orchestra played patriotic melo dies, and the audience filed out. well pleased with what had been selected by the entertainment committee. .o more smokers will be scheduled until early in the Fall, unless something un foreseen happens. IRRIGATION UNITS AMAZE Gigantic Projects In Idalio Revela tion to Congressmen. BOISE, Idaho, June 24. (Special.) The Congressional committee on appro priations was greatly Impressed by what it saw on the Boise and Black Canyon irrigation projects today, and tonight met settlers on the Black Can yon project, who urged a liberal ap propriation for irrigation or their 150. 000 acres. The committee made a trip over the We can build your home for less be cause large opera tions permit us to buy materials for less Will finance the buildinK o n your lot or ours. Rental terms I f desired. J he Qregon floine BuHders Oliver K. Jeffery. President. 13th. Floor Northwestern Bauk Bids. 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Pped, :35c 25c Ayer's Pills, two for...25d 25c Gets-It Corn Remedy..l7 11 Plant Juice 69 50c Jayne's Tonic Vermi fuge 33 50c Newbro's Herpicide. . .33 (Right to Limit Quantities.) Black Canyon project and viewed the Deer Flat reservoir, now a large lake, and, passing around it, crossed the dam. The greater part of the afternoon was spent in looking over the Boise project, of which the Arrow Rock dam and Der Flat reservoir are part of the I am making a personal appeal to prospective piano buyers, and even those who expect to buy in a year or so, to help me out now and I will make it well worth your while to buy that piano or player-piano at this time. I am striving with all my might to raise money. 1 have a big obliga tior to meet in a. short time. I have set about to retire $40,000 worth of preferred stock, as the holders of this stock insist on their money and there is only one way for me to raise this money. I nave the pianos, and good pianos, such as the world-renowned Sohmer, Behning, Strohber, M. Schulz, Bennett and many others. I have them in abundance. I need the money and the public needs the pianos. These instruments are standard quality. They are not pianos of un known brands, but the name of each and every one of them speaks for itself. They are instruments with a reputation, and they have always been sold at prices ranging from $300 to $1000. In the players I am offering there are players that have always sold from $450 to $1500. Now then, I do not believe in cut ting prices, but I am facing a crisis which compels me to throw this beautiful stock on the market at PERSONAL Pause! for a moment and consider the advantage of having a connec tion with a sound and progres sive bank like this; your person al or business interests can be bettered by such a connection. Join forces with us; we can serve you advantageously. lumber mens National Bank Fifth and Stark Capital and Surplus, $130,000.00 50c pound package Merck's Sugar Milk 2-4J 25c pound package Merck's Sodium Phosphate. . ..17k 2ac right's Silver CreamlSC 10c package Sea Salt Tc? 10c Dutch Cleanser 60 10c I-ime Water Tr- Squibb s Liquid Paraffine. Pints 59 (Rleht to Limit Rrxcrved.) Makeher happy on ironing day G. E. SIX-POUND FLATIRONS each complete with s co err feet of cord, special.. $6.50 GARDEN HOSE ; $4.S0 All complete with coup lings and our w a. r ran- ,..-!-isi tee of' ;-jyr service. D o n't buy bum hose, .it pro motes profanity ana wet ieet. GIFTS, PRIZES, KEEPSAKES Our Gift Room, second floor, is a mighty fine place to visit when you are in doubt as to what you should give. We can't tell you what we have here, space is too costly. We can fit your purse, though, 5c to $50.00. MEDICINAL" STIMULANTS H.25 Crestmore.QQ bonded 30 M-75 Bush-Pi CQ mill for vl iU3 1.00 DurayTC. Port for 40c Port and OCp Sherry for A Ju $1.00 ColmontgrjQ .H Gordon'efl f)C Drv Gin 01. UJ H.00 California D7. Brandy for 0 I U 50c Cooking Wines. Riesling, Sau-QQn terns. Claret... UlU big New York canal, which carries the water 35 miles. John J. Fitzgeralil. chairman of the committee, said he had no idea there was such extensive Irri gation development in Southern Idaho and other Western states, and tlve trip had been a revelation to the committee. prices that will induce the public to buy now, even though you do not wish the piano delivered, it is worth your while to select one and have it stored, as this is one golden opportunity. I have a number of used pianos, some of them of the old standard makes, all in pretty good condition; some of them will make splendid pianos for beginners, ranging in prices from $65 to $100. New pianos, good, reliable, guaranteed makes, $143 and splendid new player-pianos, fully guaranteed in every detail, the kind that you have always had offered you at $450 to $500, now $230. Of course, these are cash prices, but for a small additional sum, 1 have made arrangements with my bankers whereby if you pay a good, substan tial payment down you may have 20 months on the balance. I do not know of anything more I can say other than to assure you that you will meet me personally at this store. I am the man who is vitally in terested, and I will see that you re ceive every courtesy, even though you should not buy. Come in and talk it over with me. Investigate my line and you will con vince yourself immediately. E. H. HOLT, President, E. H. Holt Piano Company, Whole salers and Retailers, 333 Morrison Street, Northwestern National Bank . Block. APPEAI