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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1916)
17 COUNTY, THE CENTER G NORTWE MARK Seattle 350,000 Tacoma 100,000 Portland 300,000 TIIE SUNDAY OIIEGOXL1X : PORTLAND, MAY II, 1916. LEWIS TUTF RT OF ST NEWAUKUM FARM TRACTS on the main double-track line (with 18 passenger trains daily) half way between Seattle and Portland, at Napavine, 5 miles south of Chehalis (the county seat) CHEHALIS MT. RAINIER MT. ADAMS MT. ST. HELENS NAPAVINE a m m mi A 4 if - - I , ,f . - - - . " . . . . , . -v rr. - B U Newaukum Valley tlie Farmers' Paradise Photo between Chehalis and Napavine. THE LAND advertised lies between the RAILROAD (in the foreground) and the PA CIFIC HIGHWAY, 3 miles across the valley. THE BEST SOIL level land NO ROCK NO GRAVEL. Several good creeks on this 1,000 acres. NO HILLS to climb to get to the RAIL ROAD. Good level graveled roads from the Pacific Highway to Napavine and Chehalis. Pacific Highway HARD-SURFACED for several miles south of Chehalis. Will soon be hard surfaced beyond Newaukum Farm Tracts. What you would be glad to get at $100 is now offered you at $10 up per acre, in tracts of 20 or 40 acres or more. Nothing less than 10 acres will be sold. Terms 10 per cent cash, bal ance 50c an acre monthly at 6 per cent or 5 to 8 years to pay, with privilege of full payment any time. - ; NO CASH REQUIRED To clear this land. Where other districts need powder and donkey engine, Lewis County soil is easily cleared by the simple charpit process. Our settlers are doing it. You can do it. The clay sub-soil holds the secret of the charpit success. : EXCELLENT SOIL, GOOD ROADS, THE BEST TRANSPORTATION SERVICE in the State. Walking distance from the Station. Portland, Tacoma, Seattle for your market at less freight rates than locations nearer Seattle or Portland. A farm here means SUCCESS, where other locations with equally good crops mean failure. Make your plans to see the land now! B a m H n N M B H H You can't visit this land without being well pleased. Every visitor becomes a booster. Advertising cannot do justice to the location. See it now! From the Newaukum Farm Tracts the mountains in the photo above stand out majes tically. Nature has done everything to make the district as near perfect as possible. CUT OUT AND MAIL TODAY David P. Eastman, 1308 Third Ave, Seattle. Mail Lewis County Booklet to Name t. Address DAVID P Branch Office at Napavine TL7 A 1308 Third Avenue, Pos toff ice Seattle For your convenience the Napavine office is open Sunday as well as week days. If more convenient, take the train from Seattle, Tacoma or Portland and go direct.to Napavine. Three hours' ride from Seattle or Portland. You can return the same day. IIIBIIIIIHIIEHIIBIIIIBII STRIKE HERE IS AVERTED IXEVEVSEWWORKERS EMPLOYED AT SHIGLE MILL Move I Declared to Be Only Symp-! torn of Vmreat Among: Sawyer. , and Packers of Coast. An incipient strike of sawyers and packers at the University Shingle Mill, In the University Tark district, appears to have already spent its force. Eleven mlllmcn. upon the refusal of a rise in the wage schedule, deserted the mill's employ on Friday. At that time a general strike waa threatened, but officials of the I. B. Menefee Lumber Company, owners of the mill, declare that the remaining workers appear satisfied with the situation and show no desire to Join the strikers. Xew workers have been engaged In place of those who quit. At the Allen Shingle Mill, also a Menefee property, it is stated that not a workman has slven up his job, or has shown dissatisfaction. Both mills were running yesterday with full crews. They employ about 125 men. Superintendent T."D. McKay, of the University Mill, holds that the men merely expressed "the general feeling of unrest now prevailing among Pa cific Coast shinele workers." and that the local situation is an expression of vtnpathy with tho shingle mill trouble at Anacortes. Everett and Baliaxd. He added that the striking employes at the latter place returned to work yes terday, accepting the wage scale at which they rebelled. INSURANCE ADDRESS HEARD before the Insurance class of tho Com merce School of the University of Ore gon on Wednesday on the federation movement. He explained in detail the origin, object, scope and limitations of the federation. Mr. Sondhelm and Karl V. Lively addressed the Eugene Cham ber of Commerce the same day -on this subject. That insurance federations have been organized in 39 states and that the growth of the Oregon association has been at the rate of 100 a week was as serted by Mr. Sondheim. J-ouis Sondhelm Lectures to Com merce School at Eugene. Louis Pondheim. secretary of the In surance) federation, of, Oregon spoke FIRST Y. M. C. A. CAR IN OREGON CAMPS IS BUILT Booth-Kelly Lumber Company Provides Rolling Home, 14 by 60 Feet, Which Is Equipped to Provide Recreation for Its Woodsmen. V". LOGGERS CAR OX TRACKS AT WXSDLIXG. THE first Loggers Toung Men's Christian Association car in Ore gon and the second one in the Northwest was formally opened in the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company's camps at Wendling Monday. May 8. The car is similar in construction' to the car being operated In tho Potlatch Lum ber Company's camps In Idaho. It Is 11 feet wide. 60 feet long, mounted on standard railroad trucks and equipped with air brakes. The Interior has a roomy, com fortable appearance, being well sup plied with easy-back benches, reading, correspondence and game tables. There is a billiard table, large phonograph and a collection of books from the Ore gon State Traveling Library. In one end of the room Is an office for the , secretary, while la. the oUier end folcL- lng doors separate the reading-room from the main social room. Seventeen magazines and several dailypapers are on the subscription list. The car was constructed by the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company at a cost of about $1000 and the employes have contributed more than $200 for the fur nishings. I. G. Bennett, special secre tary from the Oregon State Y. M. C A under the direction of I. B. Rhodes, state secretary, will be in charge of the work and will promote educational, athletic and religious activities among the loggers. Manatrer A. C. Dixon and Superintendent r aye Abrahams are takin? a keen interest in. the under, taking. The Northwest industrial depart ment. John A. Goodell. secretary, wii co-operate with the state department In th operauoa 05 Ua c&x. GAR THIEVES PENITENT! TRIAL OF SI. A. STONE AND D. A. BOWMAN SET FOR TUESDAY. Attorney Procures Release of Pair and Promises That Damages to Mo tor Will Ba Made Good. A continuance of the case against M. A. Stone and D. A. Bowman, charged with the larceny of an automobile from SV. J. Hull, of 71 Kirby street, was granted by Judge LangKUth in Muni cipal Court yesterday. The hearing is set for Tuesday, at 10 A. M. Both Stone and Bowman passed the night in the city jail, and were pen itent In the morning. At the request of Attorney Dan Powers, and by the sanction of rjoputy District Attorney Deich, they were released upon their own recognizance, the court having been provided with anrple assurance that they would appear at the hearing. Attorney Powers informed the court that full recompense would be made voluntarily by the defendants for the wrecked auto and complete reparation made in every way. The defendants admit having- taken the car on Friday night, bij contend mai tne action was merely an 111-an vised prank. Arthur Hull, son of the owner of the machine, drove the car to a dance on Eleventh street. He ar rived at the police station to report the theft shortly after word of tho acct dent had been received. Hav)ng taken the car. Ftone and Bowman proceeded to Kast Sixtieth and Gliaan streets, where their method of driving overturned the machine and damaged It- Both sustained minor in juries, for which they were treated in the Emergency Hospital following their arrest. School Work Is Shown. At the public meetinic held Friday night at the Brooklyn ' School by the Brooklyn Mothers' and' Teachers' Club. City Superintendent L. R. Alderman gavs a talk on "School Garden Work." elide wer abowa by Proteasoc VUey. of Montavilla School, while Mr. Alder man explained the progress of the work. Mr. Alderman paid high tribute to the work accomplished. E. H. Whitney, of Ockley Green School, save a talk on psevocational training. A musical programme was rendered Including a piano solo by Miss Elane White, vocal solo by Miss Nemerovsky and solo by Miss Meta Brown. Fancy dancing was given by Celena Lautersteln and William Swett. DRY LAW EFFECT NOTED Allegations Against Husband Include Prnnkrnncsi I'p to 1916. The dry law must be havinsr some effect on Saturday night drinking. In her allegations in a complaint for divorce filed in the Circuit Court yes terday by Mrs. Hilda S. Ray against John Ray. the husband .was charged with coming home drunk every Satur day night and bringing enough liquor home with him to extend the spree Into Sunday, prior to the enforcement of the dry law. No charge of drunkenness after January 1, 18 1. is made. Ray refused to allow her to go to church, Mrs. Ray complains further, and threatened the life of cerselr and In fant child numerous times. Mrs. Ray has lived in Oregon 30 years. She was married in 1912. MOTHERS TO BE HONORED V. M. C. A, Dormitory Men to Have Sstcclal Programme Today. Mothers' day will be observed by 200 dormitory men at the T. M- C. A. at :S0 o'clock today with a special pro gramme, in -which each of the four floors of the dormitory will be repre sented. A committee under the direc tion of J. W. Palmer, service secretary, will deliver a white carnation to each man in the building, and will accom pany the gift with an invitation to at tend the meeting. A programme of old songs has been arranred and a speaker selected to rep resent in caen on each Xiooc, A a um ber of others will relate short inci dents as a measure. of tribute to their mothers. HOME OFFERED ERRING BOY Mrs. Myrtle K. Sanders, of Oregon City, Would Take Chester Kelson. Her heart touched by the pitiful story of Chester Nelson, the orphan lad who stole some trifling articles for his use In a construction camp near Troutdale and attempted suicide when arrested. Mrs. Myrtle K. Sanders, of Oregon City, has offered the young man a home. Nelson is said to be a likeable chsp. but one of the sort who "never had a chance," as Deputy Sheriff Bob Phil lips expresses it- Mrs. Sanders is the mother of three boys and two frtrls. all of whom have grown to majority and left her, and her heart is hungry -for the companionship of a foster son. Douglas County Has New Candidate. ROSKBT.RO.. Or.. May 13. (Special.) V. C. Kdward.. of Drain, today an- GLASSES FREE Ton can have your eyes tested mnd glasses fitted free every Mon day. Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 11 A. M. and from 6 to 8:30 P. M. Best quality Hplaerleal flat Imres in metal frame, or put in your own frame. Or bring this ad. which will en title you to a $1.50 discount on more expensive glasses. All work absolutely guaranteed and done under theVUrect super vision of the clinical director. Save this ad and come at once this month only. De Keyser College of Optometry SECOND FLOOR COLTMBI. BlILniNG. Washington at West Park Street. nounccd his candidacy for the Stat Senatorship from Douglas County. He will make the campaign as an inde pendent candidate. Mr. Edwards Is a farmer and stockraiser and has lived In the vicinity of Drain for IS years. I HOTEL STECTflBT SAN FRANCISCO Geary Street. !ua$ oil Union Square European Plan $1.50 a daj op Breakfast 50o Lunch 60c Dinner 1 1 .00 Most Famous sUals la ths United States I7ew steel sad concrete structure. Center of theater, cafe and retaU districts. On carlinea transferring aU ever city. Tiks Mnnldpal car line direct to door. Motor Bus meets trains and steamers.j - Mm f 3 Seattle's Famoms Hotel PlMrMlMlWitlmv Gv modem appointment. Cia ooe of finest en the Coast. BATES St vp with vrr of barK S2 po 4V 4 op wka p ii hid THE FRENCH BAKERY CO. 407 6th St, rhone 51. 5913. The only French bakery in th city that makes the genuine French Bread. We cater to hotel, restau rant, club and family trade. J. HATUE, Mftl