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THE 3IOIOTNG OREGO XI ATT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 191 C. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF OREOONIAX IIXEFHOSE8. Managing Editor ...Vain 7070, A 605 City Editor Main 7070. A 6U95 Sunday Editor Main 7070. A 60BS Advertising Department.. .Main' 7070, A 60H5 Composing-room Main 7070. A 605 Printing-room Main 7o7. A 05 Superintendent Building.. .Main 7070, A 00U5 AMCSEMJO'TS. ELEVENTH-STREET THEATER (Eleventh and MorrlBon treet Harney County Sasebrueh Symphony Orchestra in concert tonight at & o'clock; 25 and 50 cent ad mission. , PANTAGES (Broadway at Alder) Vn qualed vaudeville. Three shows dally, 2:o0, 7 aud 0:03. BAKER (Brt.adway or Sixth, between Mor rison and Alder) Musical stock, three performances daily. HIPPODROME (Broadway and TamhllO Vaudeville and moving pictures. 2 and 6:45 P. M. Saturday ana Sunday, 1 to 11 P. M. BTRAXD (Park. West Park and Stark) Vaudeville and motion pictures, contin uous. OAKS AMUSEMENT PARK (on Willamette River) Open daily. 10 A. M. to 11 P. M. BASEBALL, Recreation Park (Twenty fourth and Vaughn streets) Vernon vs. Portland. 3 P. M. dally. 2:30 P. Jd. Sunday. Sacramento Editor Visitor. R. O. McGougan, telegraph editor and assist ant city editor of the Sacramento Bee at Sacramento, Cal., arrived in Portland yesterday coming- via Flavel on the turbiner Northern Pacific. Mr. Mc Gougan is making- a study of condi tions in Oregon and Washington as a result of the prohibition law. He will also visit British Columbia before re turning to California. Church to Be Dedicated. The dedi cation of the new St. Charles Catholic Church will take place at 10 o'clock Sunday morning. Rt. Rev. Archbishop Christie will officiate. Rev. Father A. G. DeLorraier will celebrate high mass. He will be assisted by Father Black, Rev. George Thompson and Rev. G. M. Sniderhon. The church just completed is located at Bast Thirty-third and Webster streets. Iceman Is Wanted Policemen are looking for George Johnson, collector for the Crystal Ice & Coal Company. George W. Weatherly, president of that concern, reported yesterday that John- PORTLAXD BOT WHO BAXK5 FIRST IN WEST POINT EXAMINATION. j f " " i 7 ' it r i 3 If , C 1 i i ,, l . - i ' " " ' 3 . It ' , U : - r i :: t i ,, Advertisements Intended for City News In Brief columns In Sunday's issue must be handed In The Oregonian business office by 6 o'clock Saturday evening. Iowa Society to Meet. The Iowa So ciety will hold a social meeting Wednesday night. October 4, in the Masonic Temple. It will be in the nature of a welcome home to the president of the society, Mr. Crossley, who was formerly United States District Attorney at Fairbanks, Alaska, and was an officer in the Third Oregon Regiment or. the Mexican border. There will be a programme with cards and dancing. All former residents of Iowa are invited. Ladies who will furnish cakes or sandwiches . ehould telephone Mrs. Rinehart, Tabor N4695. Jewels Reported Stolen. Mrs. W. J. Ward, room 80, St. James Hotel, re ported to City Detective Craddock yes terday that she had lost two rings, one with a valuable emerald and the other a green agate setting. The rings were presumably stolen while she was at the Taylor Apartments, First and Taylor streets, she said. The Arnold Drug Company, 21 North Sixth street, reported that a man came Into their place of business and asked to look at some watches. When he had gone they aid one of the watches was missing. Parsonage Well Drained. The par sonage well on the property of the Methodist Epi'scopal Church, of Fair view, has been drained by the cut made In the construction of the Fair view under-ground railroad crossing and the church board, wants to know , what Multnomah County is going to do to compensate for the damage. A let ter informing the Commissioners of the Injury to the church property was written by Mrs. J. W. Eenecke, sec retary of the board of trustees, and re ferred yesterday to Roadraaster Teon. Mrs. Crawford to Speak Tomor row morning Mrs. Florence Crawford will lecture in "The Comforter" head quarters, center of applied Christianity, Women's Exchange building, 186 Fifth street, at 11 o'clock. Her topic will be "Follow Me." There will be no evening service. The subjects which will be discussed Tuesday and Friday evenings are: "Believing or Creating the Ideal" and "Praising or Receiving thesPromise." The topic for the Thurs day afternoon class Is "Pouring the Oil." Iowa Pioneer Is Visrron.--H. B. Crofts, of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, la visiting his son, Howard Crofts, at 7106 Fifty-seventh avenue Southeast, on the last leg of a five months' tourl through Canada. British Columbia and Ir -S'SS-fIJnPlONEER IS F0UND DEAD son had disappeared with $28.50. which had collected on the previous day. n his possession. Mr. Weatherly. said e would swear out a warrant for the man's arrest today. "How to Find the Help Wb Need' will- be Luther R. Dyott's topic in the First Congregational Church, October at 11 A. M. At 7:46 P. M., the quartet win give Mendelssonn's ora torio "Elijah." Adv. t State before there was a railroad within 200 miles of Chicago and. recalls much of the early movement toward Oregon. Enolish Class Starts Today. The University of Oregon extension class In English, a normal course in the teach ing of English, conducted by Professor Mable Holmes Parsons, will be or ganized this morning at 10 o'clock in room H ' of the Library. Mrs. Parsons will meet the class in .modern drama for the first time at 7:45 this evening In room H of the Library. All who are Interested in these courses are welcome. Shaw Recital Is Tonight. Monna Vanna, the lyrical music drama, writ ten by Maeterlinck and composed by Fevrier, will receive a dramatic pres entation by Clement Burbank Shaav tonight at Eilers Hall, Mordaunt A. Goodnough rendering the piano parts. The opera has not yet made Its ap pearance in any of the West Coast cities. The recital is open to the public. New Dean to Officiate. Rev. E. H. McCollister, the newly-appointed de of St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral, Thir teenth and Clay streets, will hold his first services in the church at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Dean Mc Collister is known as one of the promi nent Episcopalian clergymen of the West. He was formerly in, Santa Cruz, Dr. Morrow to Speak Dr. Earl V. Morrow, who was with the American Red Cross in Belgium for a time after the opening of the war, will deliver his illustrated lecture at the luncheon of the Civio League at the Portland Hotel at noon today. From advance reservations it is expected that the dining-room will be completely filled Home Coming DAT at the First Presbyterian Church, Twelfth and Alder, Sunday. Sermon. 10:30 A. M by Rev. John H. Boyd, D. D., "A Heart Talk by the Pastor to His People"; 7:45 P. M-. "Ane Men Lost?" Suggested by General Funston s objection to evange list preaching this to soldiers now on frontier. Adv. Ex -Governor West to Speak The Union dry committee are launching an out-door campaign in which the merits of" the brewers' amendment and the proposed dry amendment will be-ully treated. The first meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon on the Plaza block and ex-Governor West will be the speaker. Ex-Governor ' West to Speak Oswald West, ex-Governor of Oregon will speak at the First Presbyterian Church, corner Twelfth and Alder streets, at 12:10 Sunday, on the brewers' amendment and allied sub jects relating to the Oregon dry law. The public is invited. South Portland Speakers Named. The speakers for the next meeting of the South Portland Improvement Asso elation Tuesday night at Shattuck School will be Ferdinand Reid. Charles Berg and Marshall Dana. Music will be an additional feature. Will Warren Going On Trip. Will H. Warren, secretary to Mayor Albee, with his family will leave today for few days. In Seattle, where he will visi his parents. He expects to be back Thursday. CorrEi Dat Eattjrdat. Our 40e bulk coffee, 25c. limit 4 lbs. We deliver. Phone early, M. or A 1893. Martin Marsrk Coffee Co.. 252 2d sc. near MadUoo. Adv. Set lwood Ferrt to Close Down The Sellwood ferry will not be in op eration Sunday, October 1, due to the cleaning of the boiler. Voters Is it the fault of the man or of . the voters If incompetence 1 placed on the Public Service Com mission? Paid Adv. Voters Have you studied the dutie of Public Service Commissioner? Paid Adv. Council Crest dances will close for the season tonight; 8-piece orchestra. Adv. Oriental Rug Store open Sat. eve. Cartozian Bros.. 10th. Wash. Adv, Take a trip to Rhododendron tavern Mount Hood roads are good. Adv. John W. Sheehy. John W. Sheeny, son of James Sheehy, 413 East Tenth street North, took first place In the ex amination for appointment to West Point which was held ten days ago at the office of City Superintendent of Schools Alder man. D. H. Nelson. 604 East Thirty-eighth street North, took second place and Merrll D. Rich mond, 1436 North Fourth street, Salem, won third place and will be appointed as alternates. The three boys will be 'exam ined in the entrance requirements for West Point at Vancouver Bar racks in March. Mr. Sheehy, who Is 19 year of age, is now a sophomore at the University of Oregon. He Is a graduate of the Jefferson High School. the case Is so mild that the child Is not confined to her bed. E. E. CDDVERT VERY LOW COMPLICATIONS FOLLOW OPERA TION FOR APPENDICITIS. J. F. Miller, Silverton's First Mer chant, Passes Away Sere. JamVs F. Miller, who conducted the first general merchandise store in Sil verton. Or, was found dead in his bed at his home. 1435 East Sixth street North, yesterday. Death was due, pre sumably, to heart trouble. He was 83 years of age. The body was discovered by Mrs. F. G. Shaw and Mrs. Robert Chambers next-door neighbors, when they failed to see any signs of activity about the house where Mr. Miller was living alone. Deputy Coroner Smith was noti fied and the body was taken to the public morgue. In addition to his business activities in Silverton, Mr. Miller also conducted general merchandise store at Prine- ville for a time. He was -an Indian war veteran. He leaves six daughters and one son living in Oregon. The son, C. C. Miller, is & Baptist minister at Alsea, Or, SIGN POSTER IS FINED Representative of Eastern Concern Forced to Remove Bills. L. Kortler, representative of an East ern advertising concern, was fined $50 in Municipal Court yesterday on charge of violating the bill poster or dinance by tacking up signs at various places about the city without Brst ob tainlng the consent of the property owners. An additional fine of $100 was levied against him on a charge of posting bills without a license, Payment of this second fine was bus pended. S. R. L. Dunn, who assisted Mr. Kor tier in his sign tacking, was released and the case against him continued for sentence. The two men were In court several days ago, and at that time Judge Langguth required them to go out and remove all signs which they had put up. Styles of authority from' the House of Kuppenheimer lead in' our offering's of the right ideas in clothing;. At this "Dress Up" pe riod of the year the newest in hats, furnish ings and shoes are here for the approval of men and boys. The ladies are also in vited to inspect these showings in the store, as well as in the fashion windows. conveniently located at Morrison and Fourth We give S. & H. Stamps. Do you wear Ralston Shoes Slight Improvement Was Noted Last Night After Family Had Been Fearing Worst All Day. E. E. Coovert. Portland attorney and politician, is lying In a critical condl tion at the Good Samaritan Hospital as the result of complications follow ing an operation for acute appendicitis Sunday. Attending physicians an nounced that there was some slight improvement last night, but that he was etill in danger. Mr. Coovert suffered from the attack of appendicitis shortly after his return from an automobile trip to Ashland with S. Benson two weeks ago. The operation was performed at midnight Sunday night by Drs. A. E., Paul and E. W. Rockey, and for a time he ral lied and it was believed he would re cover normally. Since Thursday, how ever, there has been a turn for the worse, and his condition yesterday was considered extremely critical. An at tack of diabetes, a, disease from which he formerly suffered, has returned &s one of a number of complications. Relatives and members of the Coovert mily were at the hospital yesterday inXthe fear that the end might be near. No one, however, was permitted to see Mr. Coovert. Mr. Coovert is considered one of Portland's leading attorneys. He has been attorney and confidential adviser for S. Benson since 1911, and is a can didate for the State Senate. He has had an important part In working out the good roads programme for Mul nomah County, and in the legal phases of the purchase of the ' land In the vicinity of Multnomah Falls known as Benson Park. . ' ALL SUPPLIES HIGHER MUNICIPAL BUDGETS SHOW MA TERIAL INCREASE. We Found Out One Thing This Week .There were a lot of unprepared business men in this city. They didn't know what fire protection was not in the modern sense. They were trusting to old-fashioned methods methods which tests, ex perience and modern science have proved in efficient. ' s But these men were wise. They answered our call. They read the advertisement in The Saturday Evening Post that we asked everyone to read. They visited our store and saw and let us explain to them what real, positive fire pro tection was. Now, we are wondering how many more wise men there are in this city. We know there must be rfiore. Are you one of them? Don't be bashful about calling at our store and finding out about fire protection. If you read the advertisement on page 68 in this week's Saturday Evening Post wc, think you'd come without. our asking. If you'do come, you won't be made uncomfortable by be ing urged to buy something. All we want is the opportunity to have you see for your self what THE SAFE-CABINET is and learn for yourself why it is the most positive protection against fire that is known. We don't want fire to injure or destroy the records or valuables of any business man in this city. But fire is going to visit some of us whether we like it or not. And you do not know; nor anyone else, when it is going to pay you a visit. Should you burn out tonight, you'd come and see us in a few days anyway. For your own sake we'd rather have you , come and see us today. Just come and look around, and see and read some prtot. We won't urge you to buy. After you've reflected a bit, the . buying is up to you. Our store is open till 6:00 o'clock P. M. Kilham Stationery and Printing" Company ! Telephones Marshall 1 ; Home, A 62S1 Catering to the most exacting in the selection of Choice Bleats, we offer at special sale THIS SATURDAY Jones' Superior Quality LAMB -LAMB -LAMB EVERYBODY EAT LAMB 300 Selected Very Choicest Valley Lambs at These Low Prices. Legs of Lamb, pound .. .205 Lamb Rolls (nearly boneless), pound 1T Shoulders of Lamb, pound 14 Breasts of Lamb, pound 10c Shoulder Lamb Cutlets, pound 16 Lamb (cut for stewing) pound 10 Lamb is our leader for today's sale, but remember you may have your choice from a large assortment of Highest Quality Steer Beef SELECTED CLEAR WHITE MILK-FED VEAL. OREGON'S CHOICEST GRAIN-FED PORK. OUR SAUSAGE is the purest and best. All varieties at the lowest prices. A Meal Without Waste Fifth and Oak Streets Marshall 6080 A 6543 MO HOLDUP MEN GDNV1GTED A. E. KROEJJJflXG GUILTT OP DAY LIGHT ROBBERY. CEMENT BIDS ALL ALIKE Best Discount Lands City Award for Columbia Digger Co. With the exception of the discount allowed for prompt payment of bills, all bias opened yesterday by City Audir tor Earbur for furnishing cement to the city for the next three months were Identical. The Columbia Digger Company got the contract because of better terms of discount allowed. The Columbia Digger Company. Not tingham & Co., the Pacific Portland Cement Company and the-H. Cowell Lime & Cement Company were the bid ders. The bid of each was $2.30 a barrel, delivered. The digger company offered 6 cents a barrel discount if the, bills are paid within 10 days of completion of the order, while the next best bid offered 5 cents discount if paid within. 10 days of the date of the invoice. Taylor-Street M. E. Church. The members of this church will hold their usual service tomorrow at 10:30 A. M. at the hall at 129 Fourth street, near Washington. Miss Florence Leach and Miss Harriett Leach will sing and Dr. M. H. Marvin will preach on the topic "How I Became a Follower of Jesus Christ." Adv. Infantile Paralysis Case Mild. The third case of infantile paralysis in Portland, was reported to the ity Health Bureau by Dr. C. D. BoDine. The new case Is at the home of C. C. Southard, 426 Constance street, where Alice, 3 years of age, has a very mild case. City Health Officer Wolf- aayi shemlcala for Spraya Have Been Ad vanced 30O Per Cent and Almost Every Item la Up. Increased cost of supplies and ma terials used in municipal work will make an appreciable increase in the supply items for the various city de partments in the proposed budget esti mates for 1917, which are due to be filed Monday. The budgets all show the results of increased costs and in the aggregate will total well into the thousands of dollars. In the park bureau laundry work for the swimming places will cost 20 per cent more; feed for zoo animals and for horsea 17 per cent; chemicals for sprays, 300 per cent in many instances; lumber. 15 per' cent, and nearly all the other articles required for park work from 10 to 800 per cent. Palm fiber, used in making street cleaning brooms, has increased 75 per cent and can hardly be purchased at any price; cast ir.on pipe for the water bureau has jumped from 133 a ton paid this year to 146 a ton. Gasoline will cost 100 per cent more and fuel oil nearly 40 per cent more. Paper at city prices has jumped from 25 to BO per cent; stationery, from 15 to 30 per cent; printed forms, 15 to 30 per cent. Big increases in steel, nails, horse shoes, rubber, pencils and small sta tionery supplies of all kinds will run the supply costs next year away up above this year's costs.' FUEL TESTS BEING MADE City Hopes to Use Distillate With Gasoline in Its Machines. Provided tests pan out as expected the city will use half gasoline and half distillate for operating city automobiles and trucks. The combined fuel is being given tests n various machines, and is said to be working well so far. If the combination proves usable the city will be able to furnish the fuel for its cars at 14 cents & gallon. The city has & contract for distillate at 9Vi cents a gallon and gasoline at 18 cents a gallon. The year's contract for gasoline at H cents a gallon expires today. Ex-ConTlct Falls to Frovt Contention That He Struck First-Street Cloth ier After Belns Attacked. A. E. Kroennlng, chief actor In an attempted daylight robbery of the store of Henry Kroll, a clothing mer chant at First and Taylor streets, was found guilty of assault with Intent to rob by a jury in Circuit Judge Davis' court yesterday. The accused man entered the shop of Kroll at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, July 26, and asked to look at a suit. As Kroll leaned over to pull the suit from the bottom of a pile of clothing, Kroenning struck him over the head with a revolver. The merchant cried out and the thug was captured on the street by Patrol man H. Welch and Police Lieutenant Jenkins. The captured man told City Detec tive Pat Moloney story which was altered quits a bit in his narrative on the witness stand Thursday. Essen tially, both narratives maintained that Kroenning had purchased a shoddy suit of clothes from the dealer some time before, that he had gone' in to remonstrate, that he had been attacked by the merchant (who is about half the size and weight of Kroenning) and that he swuag his revolver in self defense. Kroenning served two years In Walla Walla for burglary, following a fight with an awakened resident in which Kroenning received a bullet In the leg. Deputy District . Attorney Hindman prosecuted the case. able to enforce the provisions until all are fully settled and the measure has been published in booklet form for general distribution. It was decided that the streetcar company will be permitted to change its stopping place on paved streets to the near side of Intersections from the far side It the company wishes. SMOKED MEATS JONES PRIDE OF OREGON BRAND Is Your Protection and Guarantee of Purity. Fancy Breakfast Bacon, sliced and trimmed, packed in one-pound sanitary cartons, pound 35? Hams, half or whole, pound 20 Choice Bacon, half or whole strip, pound 123c Tenderloin Backs, half or whole strip, pound lSe Picnics, lean and tasty, pound 14c Cottagres, 3 pounds to 4 pounds average, pound .lGri Special Bacon, pound 14c Our Mail Order Business has met with success and is in creasing every day. Fresh Meats sent by Parcel Post within 150-mile radius. Smoked and Cured Meats sent throughout the state. TAXICAB MEN WIN POINT Mayor to Permit Passenger Solicit ing on "Walks at Depots. Drivers of taxicabs are to bs per mitted to solicit passengers on the sidewalk at depots and wharves here after Instead of being compelled to re main in their cars. K. C. Long and a number of other drivers appeared be fore the Council yesterday and pro tested against the seat regulation. Mayor Albee promised to instruct the police to allow the sidewalk solicita tion. It is said the seat order was origi nated by the police, there being noth ing in the ordinances now to prohibit it. Drivers have said the rule has proved a serious handicap to their business. TRAFFIC ACT IN ABEYANCE Enforcement Is Suspended While Amendments Are Pending. The City Council yesterday approved Mayor Albee's recommendation to sus pend enforcement of the new trafflc ordinance until the pending amend ments are disposed of. The measure was scheduled to go into effect Sunday. The Council yesterday agreed with Mayor Albee that It would be inadvis- HAZELW00D FRENCH PASTRY Is a delicacy that is palatable beyond description. For sale in our Bakery and Dairy Store S1.00 PER DOZEN Also served in our dining rooms daily. THE HAZELW00D Confectionery and Restaurant Washington St. at Tenth PROSPERITY DINNER Chamber of Commerce Monday, October 2, 6:15 P. M. Reservations must be made not later than Monday noon. Informal $1.00 Per Plate "V. A X it Is the Gospel a Failure?" Hear Pastor Yates of Brooklyn, K. Y on This Vital Subject Tomorrow 8 P. 91. AT Christenson's Hall Eleventh and Yamhill Street. Very many who have been taught that the promotion of the gospel among the nations down through the apes was for the purpose of convert ing the world to Christ are wonder ing and querying why this exceed ingly unchristian condition of af fairs among the so-called Christian nations? Could "Christ approve such diabolical deeds? Why the still in cressing multiplicity f heathen not yet Christianized? Also why the great exodus from the so-called Christian churches to heathen philosophies? Pastor Yates clear, masterly and scriptural elucidation of these mat ters cannot fail to please and con vince. The lecture is entirely free. All are cordially invited. TODAY IS THE LAST DAY in which to obtain the solid fuel de luxe at our spe cial Summer prices. These mean a saving of 50 cents per ton. Prices for Deliveries Prior to October 1st Only I Ton $9.00 2 to 4 Tons ?S.75 per Ton 5 to 39 Tonsp8.50 per Ton Portland Gas & Coke Co. Family Washing Family Style 25 PIECES OR MORE 2 CENTS PER PIECE UNION LAUNDRY CO. Main 39S A 1 123 ?B SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND ACCOUNTANCY A very complete and thorough course of training which prepares men for Executive and Administra tive position and for the State Foard of Examiners for Certified Public Accountants (C. P. A.) This is a standardized school. Same course now being offered in forty other cities. Instructors are C P. A. a and Practicing Attorneys. For specisl 86 - page catalogue address the Y. W. C. A. Department of Education, Division C. CHIROPRACTORS Members of the Chiropractors" Association of Oregon. Boekman. Dr. C. E. 405 Rothchlld fildg. -Main 2632. Lavalley, Dr. J. l. Allsky Bldg. Main 6943. Lehman. Dr. F. O.. 408 Abington Bldg. Main 6718. Walters, Dr. Raymond Swatland Phone Your Want Ads to ,The Oregonian Main 7070 A 6095 WANTED, CHAIRS TO' CANE BY SCHOOL FOR BLIND KOH PARTICULARS, CALL MR. J. F. MYERS, MAIN 548