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THE 3IORMNG OREGOXIAX, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1919. nniiTcn rcrnnr diitc i SCENES AT CHEHALIS. LEWIS COUNTY SEAT CITY. AMUSKMKNTS. U11IILU LIIUIII I UIU CHEHALIS TO FRONT TICKET OFFKT! SA1.K .OW OFK.V TTTJTT T Broadway at Taylor. JTJ. HI JL10 Main 1 and A r"-EYE'S, JAN. .SjKtl VAUDEVILLE Bank Deposits and Payrolls s -,3 Attest City's Prosperity. CAMP LEWIS PLAYERS ! a COAL FOUND IN ABUNDANCE C'Wwanri i-i :s fi -o 4m. WGHBPr ?Mjuai lailfll 10! n SOLDIER BOYS' PBOTALKnAL 0 ACTS OWN ORCHESTRA. Benefit Base Hospital, Camp I,evls. Floor, fl; Bal., l, 75c; tial., 50c. : lte..irv-ir? Dair)iiiK- Milk CunIi'ii-ar. tan nery anil Oilier Imlu-lrlos Help scll Annual Kftoipl-. 11 1 1 iii iiij jij I II irs . : s ; Is 2 II w i I si T1CKHT OFI-TCKS S OI'liS TODAY BV ADDISON BKNNKTT. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Jan. 6. Spe cial.) I'nchalia is the county eat of ljn ix County, wnlrh i one of the lircrr counties In the state of Wash ington. Tliere arc In the state 3S coun-tl.-s. but only Chelan. Orant. Okanosan, Stevens anl Whitman are larger than l.ei. And yet. BUaceil by some of our Oreron count U-s. Lewi is not of rre.it proportions having an area of miles. Approximately speakimr. the county in lie) mile east and west by 21 miles north and south. It ex tends from the summit of the Cascade mountains on the east to Tacific County on the west. About 18 town ships in the eastern and north-eastern Part he in the Mt- Kamicr Forest lie- serve. In natural resources I.ewi is one of th" richest counties in the Northwest. A larze part of its area is underlaid with a snnd quality of semi-bltuminou co.il. a great many thousands of tons of which are mined every year. A lance amount of this noes to Portland. And yet this industry, while beinc tinkered with for nearly half a century. Is Just tjrinnmc to attract the attention of capitalists. Duly recently machinery has h.-en inented for reducing this coal to the fineness of flour, and then sprayinc it automatically into the fur-nu.--s. It is said to be the very ideal fuel for producmc heat energy, and at a wonderful savins over oi? and other cood f hi- is. flair? Ibk Haze ladaxry, At the present time one of the chief Industries of the county is dairying. When one notices the hundreds arid thousands of l-Kaflon cans around the i pt. being placed aboard trains full or taken out empty, and then notices the treat auto trucks passinc up and down the streets, some of them hauling I .".a of these cans, the beholder wonders at their number. Statistics compiled by Professor A. B. Nystrom, county acent. show that there are over in.O0 dairy ro.i In the county, and the most of th'se are recnlarly tested and the unprofitable ones cast out YhTe is here a branch condensery of the Carnation Company. This concern r-ts its full share of the milk output, for which it is paying: at the present time )Z 71 cents a hundred pounds for milk. v hen that price is considered Just remember that at the outbreak of the war the price was 11.40. and shortly after was reduced to $1.1). Three years ago last Spring some of the enterprfsing citizens of Chehalis organized a stock company for the erection of a cannery for the putting on of fruits and vecetables. The initial year the company did fairly well. l.ast year it did a fine business, the pross sales amounting to about I125.000. This year mas a disastrous one for some of the chief products handled, owing to a severe drouth In the growing season For Instance, the pack of string beans. one of the principal packs relied upon, was next to nothing. V..'a Park Totals 2OO.0OO. But last Spring the association had put In machinery for canning corn and thus the pack of all products was brought close to ICOO.oon. a warehouse 9x feet, two-story brick, a corn can ning section S.xl?8 feet, also brick, and a boiler house 23x30 feet, were also erected, all of the Improvements cost ing about ltu.000. And whereas there was trouble in placing the initial stock. I fcj TOP ST. IIFI.F HOTEL. BF.LOW CANNING ASSOCIATION BUI. DING everybody knows. Is the motive power behind the Bee-Nnget. a paper now in ts 36th year. But the man. who for some years has been the real editor and publisher of tho Bee-Nugget t. is C. El lington, a mighty fine and mighty cap able young man. Cillxeas Clnb Progressive. There Is another weekly newspaper here, the Bee-Nuggt being a weekly. which was run for a number of years by Postmaster McBroom. He was ap pointed five or six years ago by Presi dent Wilson to succeed I 'an Bush. (I will give the reader three guesses to guess Mr. McBroom's politics! And now take a guess at Dan's.) Anyhow, one of the good newspaper men of Oregon. Jo seph P. Hurley, of Forest i.irove. bought out Mr. McBroom a few months ago and Is now the man who owns and runs the Lewis County Advocate. He has as assistant. Mr. S. S. Dow, who owned and ran the Newberg Enterprise until It was burned out on the second of last July. The Advocate is not by any means a new paper. It is In Its Jbth year. One of the prime levers In the up growth of Chehalis has been the Che halls Citizen's Club. Dan Bush is also at the head of that as president. They have had an active career for 15 years that I know of. They have fine club rooms in a building in the best part of town, opposite the great Coffman-Dob-son Bank, an attendant always there to welcome visitors. In addition to that they have an executive office in the new St. Helens Hotel, opening off the lobby. The secretary has his office there. He is also the secretary of the Washington Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries. The name intimates the functions of the organi zation. They hold occasional meetings and through Community Seivice. monthly publication issued by Secre tary Marsh, they keep In active co-op eralion with each other. Hotel Accommodations Modern. I mentioned the new St. Helens Ho- which arc gathered mostly by children ad poor people. JJi tons of these berries were put up this year. One of the fine features about this cannery is that they have no trouble whatever In selling their entire pack at good prices. They are now practically sold out for this year. Next year they expect to have 3rt acres of sugar corn contracted for. If they succeed in this it will lengthen their operating season about six weeks. They employ young people and old people in the plant, and they make good wages. In the height of the season they employ as high as 30- This plant promises to be a won derful up-builder for Chehalis. Dan W. Bush is at the head of it. Dan. as most STOMACH UPSET? Tape's Diapcpsin at Once End; Dyspepsia, Acidity, Cas, Indigestion. Tour mals hit bark! Your stomach Is sour. arid, gassy and you feel bloated after eating or you have heavy tumps of indigestion pain or headache, but never mind. Here is Instant relief. there was bo trouble this year in f i- I tel. There Is no need to tell the travel- nancing the Improvements. Among the ling public that Bill West (W. K.) Is the specialties of the plant Is their pack of owner and operator, as he has been of gallon cans of Everzreen blackberries. I the old house. The old St. Helens occu pied a piece of ground in the very heart of the city about 200x100 feet. It was a frame structure of about 50 rooms. It became noted all over Western Wash ington as a good place to stop. About two years ago Bill began to replace the old structure with a four story brick. He would take a whack at the old building and maybe move it out into the street or alley. There he would Install water and heating service and then dig down a ways to get to the street level and begin on the brick. He kept pegging away. Winter and Summer, and gradually the old build ing was sold in sections or reduced to kindling and the brick would creep up by degrees. No, there is not a vestige of the old structure left, and in its place, covering every inch of the plot, stands one of the handsomest, most splendidly arranged and finely equipped hotels of 1"5 rooms there is in the West. No other town in the Northwest of twice the population of Chehalis can boast of such an establishment. It cost around $123,000, but you would think Just to cast a look through the great tiled floor lobby that it cost twice that. Bank Denoalta Shove (Growth. Almost everybody mho has heard of Chehalis has heard of the ColTman Dobson Bank. Its full title is the CoIT- man-Dobson Bank & Trust Company It Is one of the oldest and strongest in stitutions in Southwestern Washing ton. N. B. Coffman is president and the active manager. T. M. Donohue Is vice- president and Mr. Coffman's son. D. T. Coffman, is cashier. Its capital, sur- plus and undivided profits are- $:!64.- 1 ana its Deposits are i. 4.3i i.si, This bank was the first state bank in this Federal Reserve district to take membership in the Federal Reserve sys tern. About a year ago the banking premises were enlarged and modem ized and since then the bank has grown so fast that many of the clerks are in adjacent rooms, which were reached by cutting through partitions and walls. I was In there this after noon and the crush In the lobby was about aa fierce as it is on the busiest part of a busy day in one of our largest Portland banks. It would not be fal.- to dismiss the name of A!r. Coffman without saying that I have not heard of any other manager of the wa- loans. Red Cross and other campaigns, who achieved anything like the success that was en compassed in Lewis-County. Mr. Coff man will tell you, as he did me. that his success was simply the outpouring of the loyal spirit of Lewis County. Patriotic Response laanlmoaa. Assuredly, the achievements could not have been secured in a lukewarm or half-loyal community. But it took brains, acumen. talent, versatility. Judgment, patience call it what you will. But it took a master hand at the helm to make In Lewis County this record. But let me say that before this, before any bonds were offered, the peo ple of Lewis County, through Mr. Coff man. sent, unrequested almost, SSOO to life Jewish Belief Fund. But scan this record: Loin Quota Asked. W. S. t SJIMI.1MHI Second drive .......... Thir.l dri e ..4 .vi.isin Kuiirth drive ;, uon In other words, the amounts asked it was about the same with the relief quotas, all were greatly oversubscribed I have not intended in this mention of Mr. Coffman's work to give to him alone too great credit. Nor in my men tion of his bank have I intended to In any way belittle the two other sa and conservative banks of Chehalis. But we cannot get away from the fact that the great length of service of the Coff-man-Dobson Bank has built up a busi ness above that of its neighbors. The Chehalis National Bank occupies its own fine bank building. It had by the last call, November 1. a capital surplus and undivided profits of $7.').- :37.9-', and deposits of jr.S9.791.9t. D. W Noble is the president. William Brims wig and C. O. tSingerich, vice-presi dents, and Arthur C. Corey, cashier. I nlted Effort Spells Success. The newest bank Is the Security relate uanK. it occupies a fine build ing on a good corner, the structure be ing new and bringing in a good reve nue aside from the bank rent. It has a capital, surplus and profits of $51,--66.41. and deposits of $.io9.S!7.7i. J. W. Alexander is president, J. T. Alexander, vice-president, and W. J. Ford, cashier. This article is already too long, but I cannot clo.-e without saying that of many visits 1 have made to Centralia and Chehalis this has been the pleas antest. There was at the time of some of my former visits an outcropping of jealousy between the two cities. That has all disappeared and now the two communities are pulling together, and no doubt the day is not far distant when the two cities will be mereeri into one big metropolis. This is best shown by the action taken by the Chehalis people to do their utmost to get a Nor mal school established near Centralia. But the spirit seems to be In the air, the spirit of co-operation and fellow ship. This has made my visit a very pleasant event. WHEN you feel your car skid that feeling of utter help lessness with its attendant fear of disastrous conse quences it will be too late to do anything, except pray. No amount of human skill will then avert a crash against the curb, a nearby vehicle, or, worse yet, the innocent bystander. But you don't tiave to suffer that terrible "feeling of utter helplessness". Appreciate now that the only thing to do is to use the dependable preventative Anti-Skid Chains on all four tires. WBCl AnB-Skid Oil nans The Only Real Safeguard Against Skidding "Safety First" means taking pre cautions rather than depending entire ly on skillful driving, and experience teaches that Weed Chains are an absolute necessity for the expert as well as for the novice. Procrastination is answerable for most of the skidding accidents. When a motorist is afflicted with this disease he usually says: "111 wait until "tomorrow' before buying Weed Chains"; or if his car's equipment in cludes Chains.he doesn't think of using them until he "feels a skid", and then, as we said before, it's too late to do anything, except pray. Don't suffer that agonizing antici pation of "feeling a skid" with its attendant fear of disastrous consequences. Jinjoy that "safe feeling". Take the necessary" stitch in time" pat Weed Chains on all four tires at the first indication of slippery going. Sold for ALL Tires by Dealers Everywhere American Chain Co. Inc. Bridgeport, Connecticut - Solm Manufacturer of 'Weed Anti-SkiJ Chains Abo Manufacturers of Weed Chain-Jack, Dobbins Blow-Out Clisint, etc run on practically the same lines as In the past. Read The Oregonian classified ads. AMUSEMENTS. The Cheeriest Comedienne S T I, L A 31 A V II KW jj Eddie Borden: Irene and Bobbie Smith: It Florenx Adelaide AMES and WINI1IKOP II Onaki and Taki: Knos Frarere: Orpheum Travel Weekly: Official War Review. T H K BARK TWINS II Bud Bernie at the I'iano. THIS SHOW CXOSKS WITH THE MATINKJS , WKD ESUAY, JAN. 8. niiniifinniinrannniiniini I H IIUPIHIIHIIMUII II This Wek l DOUG A FAIRBANKS V I I lonuntday'll f 1 I I Annette J ; fj I "QrKEX OFTHE SEA" 1 .11 T T TiV ll 111 HRTI TP ItrondTvay at Taylor. llllJlVJiHaln l and A USS. TvSAT. NIGHT, JAN. II ALLIED WAR VETERANS' ! MILITARY BAND "TUK FIGHTING SOS OF GINS." EVEBY MAN HAS BISEN "OYER THE TOP" Direction MAJOR CIIAS. F. WARD. hdcfSd THRILLING 'SSSS1' l'LOUH, fit BAL., 1, 75c, 6c GAL... 50c. 1 BARGAIN I MAT. El. 25c I Famous Stock Company (n The Season's Scni-ationul Laughing Hit WHAT'S YOUR HUSBAND DOING? Every woman lias a reason for wanting to see this. Nights: 2oc, rir. Mats. -J.'c (War Tax) Mat.s "Wed.. Sat. Next week 'l'trtairn and Down." MORRISON AT IITH PLAYS THAT PLEASE DANGER CAVE HARMLESS Int estimators Find Cuvcrn Occupied by Many Bats. NEW ASH FORD. Mass. Braving the supposed terrors of Baker's cave, re puted to be the lair of wild animals a party of Pittsfield and I-nox resi dents, led by Courtland Field Bishop, the millianoire, recently entered the cavern in the Berkshire hills. Armed with pocket searchlights and a .0-foot rope, which thev mari f i to an oak tree at the entrance of the i Isolated cave. th pnrty lowered them- selves into the darkness of the sub terranean chamber. Instead of wild animals, the amateur explorers found on smooth places on he side walls of the. cavern "bunks fashioned out of the solid rock. Care fully chiseled in the rocka were the dates 1803 and 1S63. The cavern was hiding place of Tories during- the Revolutionary War, and by the dates on the rocks evidently had been used sinie for the same purpose. Off the main chamber were dark lateral passapes and from the wails hung hundreds of bats, head downward. Following the sound of running water, the explorers found a stream rushing through the rocks at the farther end of the cave. Coos Grant to Be Hurried. OREGON'IAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. D. C, Jan. 7. Representative Sinnott will ask the adoption of a resolution by the House public lands committee calling on the rules com mittee for a rule making it in order to consider immediately his Coos Bay wagon road grant bill. Adjournment of the House today, out of respect for Colonel Rooseveit, prevented the mea sure coming up under unanimous con sent. LEGE, Corvallis, Jan. 6. (Special.) Members of the senior division of the R. O. T. C. at the college will receive a subsistence allowance, according to word received. Whether this allowance will be $9 a month, the amount given last year, was not stated. A copy of the R. O. T. C. general orders, 49, 1916. under which the corps was handled last year at the college has been received from the War Department and it is taken for granted that the corps will be AMUSEMENTS. Subsistence Allowance Granted. OREfJON AGRICULTURAL, COL,- OAKS ROLLER SKATING RINK NOW OPEN Largest and finest Skating Eink 4 in the Northwest. Perfect Ventilation Health and Exercise. Afternoon and Evening. Cars First and Alder. Don't ktay upset! Eat a tablet of Tapes DUptp.Mii and Immediately the indtgeytion. pases, acidity and all stom ach distress ends. Tape's Diapepin tablets are the sur est. iuttkst vtomach relievers in the world. They cot very little at drug tore. Adv. "Mamma j Amt. PhM. t I'tn.oov 4-. !( Many months ago we wrote of the Cadillac: The imperative needs of the most dramatic moment in the history of the world have singled out the Cadillac as the world's most dependable car. We knew, of course, but did not say, when these words were written, that the War Department was then purchasing Cadillac cars in large numbers. Very soon thereafter the Cadillac was officially designated as the standard seven-passenger car of the United States Army. In recording that fact now we wish to lay emphasis on two important points. N The Cadillac was not chosen by the United States Govern ment merely because it is a magnificently smooth and steady piece of motive-power. It was selected for its inherent ruggedness, and above all, for that permanence of value which minimizes adjustment and overhauling and spells economy in the long run. The one outstanding fact about the Cadillac, apart from its splendid ease and beauty of action, it its unmistakable and most obvious value. Twenty-first and Washington Tonight at 8:20 THE VIRGINIAN 25 50 60 PANTAGEC MAT. DAILY 2:30 9--International-9 Introdnririf? in Cyclonic manner thf dances and ncrobatit.s of the allied nations, ff OTIIKR ItKi ACTS Three Performances Daily. Is'telit Curtain, at 7 and 0. LYRIC Mni. Hailr. 10c Only. Thia Week. Mike and Ike in "THE NEW titJABDS." A wild night In a Duffy House. New ronfrs. new choruses, bip company. The Rosebud Chorus Jirl3. Country Store tonight. I xtru) TODAY ONLY. BILLIE BURKE "THE IAND or and PROMISE"' FATTY ARBUCKLE in "THE MIERI1T." CIRCLE THEATER J-'ourth at Washington. ft The People's Favorite IPPODROME VAUDEVILLE Today! Today! Mad Miller "The Crazy Man" La Valle Four Pretentious Musical Offering 3 Dusenburys Novelty Dances Etlielma Sisters Dainty Cyclists 7 Fast Acts 7 LUCY GATES American Soprano in Concert With The Apollo Club (75 Male Voices) JANUARY 9 AUDITORIUM Prices: $1.65, $1.10, 85c, 55c, 30c, Including War Tax SEATS NOW SELLING Sherman, Clay & Co. Barbara Castleton "What Love Forgives" .A i THIS WEEK PAULINE FREDERICK "OUT OF THE SHADOW" ST 1 AND Fatty Arbuckle l.V '"I'ATTV'S CAN IN' E KKIKNO" Phone your want ads to The Orego nian. Alain 7070. A J033. were given iiud iO per cent more. AnJ i