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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 29. 1920 GIRLS PRESENT OPERETTA 150 OF HOQUIAM DAUGHTERS APPEAR IX SCENES. Community Service Taking Large Part iu ATfairs of lounger Social Set. HOQUIAM Waah.," May 28. (Spe cial.) Nearly 150 of Hoquiam'8 fair est daughters, as members of the Girls community service, tonight pre sented a beautiful allegorical and symbolical operetta in a local theater. Tickets for an overflow audience were sold. The title Is "In a Flower Gar den." The curtain rose with the scene in darkness as the flowers slept. As the sun glowed brighter in morn the flowers, one by one, awakened to the call, of bird voices. - With the bright ening of a beautiful springtime morn ing, the scene passed into a radiant fairyland of flowers and song. Garbed as flowers, the human blossoms sang in solo and chorus. Twittering bird songs came from invisible girls in the foliage and verdure. Dawn was impersonated by Ruby Endreson, the Spirit of Fair weather by Lillian Foster. Anna Stephens ap peared as Noon and Kila Lee, in misty green, played Rain. The part of Sun Bet was taken by Blodwyn Ward. Ger trude Calvert played Dusk. The Girls community service takes an important part in Hoquiam. It has a membership of hundreds and in the pivot of countless happy affairs in the younger social set. The serv ice is alike educational and recrea tional. Heading the organization is Miss Rosamond Parsons who special ized in community work at the Uni versity of Washington. Lewis county under the auspices of the Lewis county farm bureau. Dur ing this period drainage systems on four farms in different sections of the county were laid out, each farm being the scene of a demonstration and lecture by Mr. Crane. In addition. the specialist assisted three Fords Prairie farmers with an irrigation project and 'another farmer at Toledo in drainage work. VOCATION TO BE TAUGHT Plans for State Industrial Girls Told by Matron, CENTRAL! A. Wash.. May 28. (Spe cial.) According to Mrs. Ida McQues ton, matron of the state industrial school for girls at Grand Mound, a music teacher will be employed at the school next year and domestic science will be taught. In addressing a meeting of women in Crntralia Wednesday afternoon Mrs. McQueston said that each girl at the school will bo taught a vocation adding that the girls would make excellent welfare workers, in which subject they are interested. Mrs. McQueston assigned home en vironment as the chief cause of de linquency among girls. The new building at the state school lias been completed and has been named "Rainbow cottage." CAMPAIGN COSTS LISTED WIII K. PCKDY OF SALEM SPEXDS $159.40. SHRINE CLUB ORGANIZED Bgllcs Members Plan to Entertain Convention. Visitors. THE DALLES, Or., May 28. (Spe cial. ) To provide entertainment for Shriners who on their way . to the Portland convention will stop in this city for two-hour periods 30 local Shriners at an enthusiastic meeting last night organized a Shrine club of The Dalles. Carlton L. Pepper was elected president, Harlan ,Pancher vice-president and Robert L. Good secretary and treasurer. Some 18 Shrmer special trains are expected to pass through The Dalles carrying Shriners from all sections of the United States to the big conven tion. The local club proposes to en tertain all Shriners stopping off in this city. The club has engaged Elks hall for the morning of June Zi, when 200 Shriners coming through will be served breakfast. COMPANY TO REORGANIZE Oregon Dehydration Plants Have Busy Season Ahead. THE DALLES. Or., May 28. (Special.) Dehydration plants of the Kings Food Products company in The Dalles and at Salem will process $2,000,000 worth of fruits and vege tables this season, declared E. A. Clark, general manager, today. "The product has all been sold on orders from jobbers in the east ana west, he added. The dehydration plant here is one of the city's important industries. Since its establishment in 1915 the plant has been enlarged to about three times its original size. Further expansion now is neces sary. To this end the company is to be reorganized. It will be capitalized at $3,000,000. About 25 local capital ists are interested. Account Is Filed In Connection With Campaign for Delegate to Democratic Convention. SALEM, Or., May 28. (Special.) Will Ei. Purdy of Salem expended a total of $159.90 In making the cam paign for delegate to the democratic national convention to be held in San Francisco next month, according to his expense account filed with the secretary of state here today. Other expense accounts filed today follow: E. Woodson. He-ppner, candidate for the republican nomination for representative, 22d district, $10; W. S. Burleigh. Enterprise, candidate for democratic nomination for district at torney for Wallowa county, $4; Abi jah Fairchild. EnterDrise. candidate for republican nomination for district attorney for Wallowa county, $57. $5; L. W. Batman, Lakeview, candidate ror republican nomination for district sttorney of Lake county. $45. GO. John Baker, Hr.od River, candidate for republican nomination for district attorney of Hood river county. $5.60 G. B. McCluskey, Toledo, candidate for republican nomination for district attorney of Lincoin county, $12; Dan tieiiaher, Portland, candidate for dele gate to the republican national con vention, 3d district, nothing: W. H. erooKe, Ontario, candidate for dele gate to the reoublican national con vention, 2d district. $27.50. Maria L. T. Hidden. Portland, can didate for delegate to the democratic national convention, state at large, nothing:- P. L. Frazier, Salem, candi date for delegate, to the democratic national convention. 1st district, $13.60: R. E. Bradbury. Klamath Falls, candidate for the democratic nomination for representative. $12: D. C. Herrin, Portland, candidate for republican nomination for reprcsen tative, 13th district. $15.63. retary of state's office, somebody j Jumped at the conclusion that Big Bill I Hart, the movie hero, had received the vote. That is why Marshal Hart is sore. Mr. Hart is a Kentuckian. So is the local sheriff. In fact, it seems a prerequisite to attaining a position as a local peace officer that the appli cant be a native of Kentucky. Mr. Har is known to be a "bad hombre' when he is peeved. He inquired to day who The Oresronlan correspondent at Salem might be. Mr. Hart at in- j tervals escorts some of the convicted 1 bad men, sent to the penitentiary from Hood River, down to Salem. He inti mated that he might call on a news paper man the next time h. sallies down to the capital. LOS ANGELES, CaL, May 2S. When William S. Hart, motion picture actor, v. as informed today that he had. been made the democratic nominee for sheriff of Hood River county, Oregon, by a "write-in movement," he said he would gladly accept the nomination if his constituents In that cour.ty would allow him to reside in Los Angeles and look after his duties by periodical visits. "I mean it, ' said the nominee. Indian Lands Sold. TAKIMA, Wash., May 28. (Spe cial.) Fifty-seven tracts of Indian lands on the Yakima reservation were offered for sale by Don M. Carr, su perintendent of the reservation. The highest price an acre was paid for 80 acres bought by a Toppenish grower, who paid $31,000. The total sum paid for all the tracts was close to $400,000. Drainage Work Completed. CENTRALIA, Wash., May 28. (Spe cial.) A. B. Crane, drainage special ist, has returned to his Everett head fTiKirtPrs after ten days' work in Slayer Gets 1 to 1 0 Years. TWIN FALLS. Idaho, May 28. (Special.) A. W. Carver, recently convicted of the manslaughter of a basque sheepherder near Bliss, Idaho, in a quarrel, was sentenced to from one to ten years in the state peni tentiary at Boise Wednesday by Dis trict Judge Babeock. Town Marshal, Not Film Hero, Nominated. Hood River Peace Officer Prnrd Over Sussrestlon That Star Is Selected. LUMBERMEN WIN TEST Writ to Knjoin Driving Operations Refused by Court. ABERDEEN, Wash., May 28. (Spe cial.) Splashing and driving opera tions of a logr-drivinff company can not be enjoined, according to a de cision by Judge Hewen of Pacific county in the case of the Walker Timber company and J. H. ,Price against the Kumptulips Driving com pany. Judge Hewen stated that a log-driving company is a public serv ice corporation and cannot be pro hibited from carrying on its business by issuance of injunctions. The Walker company and Price pe titioned for an injunction on the ground that the splashing of the Humptulips company injured prop erty on the river bank belonging to the petitioners by erosion and wash ing of the banks. HOOD RIVEU, Or.. May 28. (Spe cial.) The deputy city marshal of Hood River. W. E. Hart, who -keeps away burglars, automobile thieves and bogey men while his fellow citi zens sleep, went home, in a huff at daybreak this morning. It was all the result of a case of mistaken identity. Although Hood River county demo crats gav? the republican candidate, Thomas F, Johnson, the nomination of the Bourbons, no small number of the democrats complimented Mr. Hart, familiarly known as "Bill, by writ ing in his name. When the official recount was beinjr scanned at the sec- $6 Paid for Corn. PROSSER, Wash., May 28. Spe cial.) Three dollars and up to ?6 a bushel has been received by E. E. Starkey for carload lots of corn. Ow ing to the number of prizes won by Starkey in national contests his corn has been in great demand by seed companies, including the Lilly Com pany of Seattle. Mr. Starkey's corn has averaged more than 80 bushels an acre year after year. Body Xot That of I. W. V. CHEHALIS, Wash., May 28. (Spe cial.) Following an investigation by Sheriff Berry and Deputy Roberts of the body found near Oakville early in the week, the two- officers believe that the dead man was not Hanson, the I. W, W. refugee, who made his escape last fall from the posses that were searching for the men inipll cated in the armistice day murders at Centralia. Read The Oregnnlan classified ads, ir- s STARTS TODAY 4 r 1 Inllh Ms Jb iAmaa :-jfc-rlV, ef553f- . sit-. ,mmM3?v? WILLIAM S. HART AND ANNA Q. NILSSON IN Hart's first production by his own organization. It is pre sented as the perfect example of a western picture. ' All the old-time thrills but beautifully done exceptionally pho tographed and set in accurate locations. Hart has spent three years on this. COLUMBIA ORCHESTRA Afternoons and Evenings. Vincent C. Knowles, Director TODAY AND ALL WEEK Orchestra Matinee at 2:30 Afternoons, 25c Nights, 35c-50c There's Inspiration and There's a Sense of Something Accom plishedEven if There's no Gain for Me-in This Real Clothing Sale I'm making this store simply a depot of exchange between you and the clothing manufacturer ! I am cutting the word "profit" out of my vocabulary. It's obsolete! . Today I want to see the men of Portland and the mothers of Port land come to my store and buy! Buy for their own gain not , mine! I have made tlfe opportunity! I would rather see crowds than coin! This Is a Real Clothing Sale a Sale That Makes Good! Reductions on Suits for Men and Young Men Including Hickey-Freeman, Skolny, L System $40 and $45 Suits . . . $30 $50 and $60 Suits . . . $40 $65 and $70 Suits . . . $50 $75 and $80 Suits . . . $60 Reductions on Boys' Belted Suits With one and two pairs of "knickerbockers" Reductions on Suits for Juveniles All suits up to $7.50 re- A r duced to tDlr.DO All suits up to $10 re- G7 QC duced to '.! OU All suits up to $15 re- ?C duced to 0700 All suits up to $20 re- Ain Gil duced to J) 1 J.OJ All $15.00 Suits $16.50-$18 Suits $20-$22.50 Suits $25-$27.50 Suits $30-$35.00 Suits . $9.65 $13.65 $14.65 $17.65 $22.65 Men's Colossal Shirt Sale Regular $3.50 and $4.00 p o A & Shirts P.4i Regular $5.00 and $6.00 AO Shirts PO.oO Regular $7.50 and $8.50 A a O Shirts 3)4.03 BEN SELLING Leading Clothier Morrison at Fourth At BURNS' FOR SATURDAY AND MONDAY White Rose Flour $3.10 PER SACK WHITE ROSE FLOUR, 49s per bbl S12.25 U Satisfaction Guaranteed Delivered With Other Goods p. Juno Coffee, parcel post, prepaid, per lb 47d Rose Ceylon Tea, parcel post, prepaid, per lb ' 50 Hershey's Cocoa, per lb 38J D. G. BURNS CO. 208-210 Third St., Between Taylor and Salmon Special Mail Order Service Write for Monthly Price List Wholesalers to Private Families Main 616, 516-26 FAST NIGHT TRAIN TO THE EAST RESTORATION OF THROUGH SERVICE PORTLAND to CHICAGO (72 hours) VIA S. P. & S. GREAT NORTHERN RY. C. B. & Q. THE ORIENTAL LIMITED 'Tonrtat Sleeper to TbronaTk Standard Sleeper to Cklca si. rioi. EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, MAY SOtk. FROM VISION DEPOT 7tlO P. SI. DAILY. . Tickets and Sleeping-Car Reservations at Consolidated Ticket Offices. Third and Washington Streets, Telephone Main 3630, and at Union Depot. Telephone Broadway &02. W. E. Boat. Gene-rat Asrent. Henry Dickson, City PaiMBser A sent. GREAT KORTHEUM 11A1LV A OFFICES, 201 BIORGAN BL.DG., TEL. HAASHALL 3L Glacier National Park Season, June 15-Sept 30 Special Train TO Tillamook County Beaches OVER Decoration Day Going Saturday, May 29th Leave Portland Union Station . . 1:05 P. M. Arrive Wheeler .7 :05 P. M. Arrive Rockaway 7:29 P. M. Arrive Tillamook . 8:25 P. M. Returning Monday, May 31st Leave Tillamook 3:30 P. M. Leave Rockaway 4:47 P. M. Leave Wheeler 5:09 P. M. Arrive Portland Union Station . . 11:00 P. M. Week-End Fares Rockaway and other Garibaldi beach points. $4.50 Proportionate reductions to other Beach and Mountain Resorts. For further particulars inquire of local agent. Southern Pacific Lines John M. Scott General Passenger Agent. Phone Your Want Ads to The Oregonian Main 7070 A 6095