The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, May 21, 1916, Section One, Page 7, Image 7

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TIIE ' SUNDAY OREGONIATf, POKTtAXD, MAY 21. 1U1G.
GRADUATES PLAN
COMMENCEMENT
UNIVERSITY
SENIOR
ME
SHY AT AGES
President of Whitman College
to Deliver Baccalau
reate Sermon.
OREGON "U" 40 YEARS OLD
O. A. C, has been appointed county ag
riculturist for Okanogan County,
Washington, at probably one of the
highest salaries ever paid a graduating
student. This man is the third student
majoring in agronomy to receive an ap
pointment as county agriculturist since
January l.
Although Air. Smith came to the col
lege without funds and had to earn his
way through school, he has made a uni
formly fine record for scholarship and
bility throughout his college career.
He came to O. A. C. from Redlands,
Cal.. three years ago.
He has specialized in farm manage
ment at O. A. C. and has taken the
Summer field course in farm manage
ment at the University of Wisconsin,
returning in the Fall to complete his
senior year's work at Corvallis. His
senior thesis involved a farm manage
ment survey of the "white land" favns
oetween corvallis and iiaisey. TDAniTinMO ADC OMAOUCn
Mr. Smith is president of the AgTon- fiMLM I lUIVO MMU OI1IMOI I LU
omy Club at O. A. C, and is a member
of Phi Uelta Sigma.
He will complete his work for his I
Eugene Leads With Largest
Number in Class, 28, and
Portland Second With 20.
On Monday, June 5, President AVil-
bup, of Iceland Stanford Univer
Hy, Will Make Commencement'
Address at Eugene.
UKIVISKSITY OK OREGON, Eugene.
May 20. Though having the smallest
graduating class in recent years, th
university will have its greatest com
mencement week this year, weather
Permitting and the programme oemg
Riven as scheduled. In two weeks the
fnior class of this year will pass out
of the university doors as alumni.
Stephen B. L. Penrose, president of
Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash.,
win deliver the baccalaureate sermon
Sunday morning, June 4, and Ray Ly
man Wilbur, president of Iceland Stan
ford university, will deliver the gradu
ation address Monday, June 5.
This year's commencement will com
memorate the 40th anniversary of the
university, and an appropriate pro
gramme has been arranged in honor of
the event. Since the undergraduates'
examinations have been postponed until
after commencement week it is ex
rected the largest attendance for this
closing event of the year ever regis
tered will be here. The alumni are
taking active interest, and the week
will be a grand homecoming of the
many old "grads." Saturday. June 3
lias been set aside as a special alumn
lay.
For the first time in the history of
the university the senior class officially
will hand down Oregon traditions and
customs to the custody of the junior
class, and will smoke a pipe of peace
with the third-year men. This event
will be staged on Kincaid Field. The
seniors, in Indian blankets, will squat
around a campflre, backed by the
juniors. Ceremonies will open with a
speech by Leslie Tooze. a senior, to be
responded to by an unofficial junior.
This will be followed by the official
transfer of the university's custodies
and traditions by the president of the
senior class to the president of the
junior class. The presidents of the two
classes then will smoke a pipe of peace.
It is hoped to inaugurate this as an
annual custom.
The programme for commencement is
as follows:
Friday, June 2 t P. M.. "Comedy of
Errors": 9 P. M.,"Pipe of Peace Cere
mony."
Saturday. June 3. alumni day Forenoon,
business meeting; 9 A. M., annual meeting
state alumnae: lO A. M.. annual meeting
Cer.eral Alumni Association: noon, university
dinner: afternoon, faculty baseball, O. A. C.
vs. IT. of O. : evenine. alumni ball.
Sunday. June 4 Forenoon, baccalaureate
ermon, by Stephen B. L. Penrose; evening,
faculty sucred concert. School of Music.
Monday, June . Forenoon, class day and
commencement programme; afternoon, for
tieth anniversary celebration, founders' day;
laying corner-stone of new education build
ing: evening, flower and fern procession
Falling and Beekman orations.
The following committee is in charge
Professor F. S. Dunn, marshal of the day:
Dr. J. M. Oilbert, Mrs. Mabel Holmes Par
sons and Professor R. H . Lyman.
DAVGIITEB OF NEWBERG FIO
iVKISKS DIES AT KORTH
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Co-Eds Give l Age Information
Unhesitatingly, Their Average Ex-
ceefling TliaT of Men Many
l'Jan I'ost-GradOation Work?
eludes a shoot to Be held under the
auspices of the Roseburg Gun Club,
fishing in the, Umpu.ua. Riven salmon
bake and many other entertainment
features. Moving pictures will be
taken during the afternoon.
CLASS TO HEAR GOVERNOR
Commencement Exercises at Greshani
Will Be Held June 0.
GRESHAM. Or., May 20. (Special.)
On Sunday morning at 11 o'clock Kev.
A. J. Ware will preach the baccalau
reate sermon to the June class of Union
High School No. 2
Class day exercises will be held Mon
day In the high school auditorium, at
which time the following will take
part: Class poets, Hester Thorpe and
Marguerite Volbrecht; class prophets,
Florence Towle and Martha ' Hagberg;
class will, Frances and Gladys Blisa:
class artist, Roy Oibbs; presentation
NATIVE OK ARKANSAS Sl'C
CIMBS AT AKLI.tiTO-, OK.
. Mr. St. S, Jennings.
Mrs. Iona Jennings, wife of S.
S. Jennings., a prominent North
Bend merchant, died Monday,
May 8, at her home in North
Bend. She was 33 years old and
had been ill for a long time. Mrs.
Jennings was the daughter, of
Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Hutchens,
pioneer residents of Newberg.
She was .born on a farm near
Dayton, but passed her childhood
in Newberg, where she attended
the public schools.
On her graduation from Pacific
University she taught music sev
eral years. . Besides her husband
and parents, she leaves a sister.
Mrs. A. Li. Gubser; three broth
ers, T. A. Kutchens, of Portland;
Fred Hutchens, Newberg, and
Earl Hutchens. North Bend. The
funeral was held at Newberg
May 10.
degree from the college and leave to
report for work in his new position
aiay 24.
BIG BENEFIT FORESEEN
INDUSTRIAL CUBS WILL SITPLY
FARMERS, IS PREDICTION.
MANY DESCENDANTS LEFT
James Allen Kirkendall, Pioneer of
1859, ries at Camas Valley.
CAMAS VALLET, Or., May 20. (Spe
cial.) Another Oregon pioneer passed
away May 9. James Allen Kirkendall
was born in Grundy County, Missouri,
June 23, 1839, where he lived until he
"was 20. Seized with the wanderlust
prevalent in that day, he crossed the
plains to California in 1859. There he
enlisted as a volunteer in the Pitt
Riv.T Indian War. In 1862 he was at
the Florence City mines, from whence
he -ent to Walla -Walla. Wash. The
next year he went to Idaho and while
there married Miss Missouri Belieu.
The Kirkendalls removed to Camas
Valley in 1865, which had since been
their home.
Mr. Kirkendall was the father of 16
chi'dre 11 of whom are. living. He
had 65 grandchildren. 46 of whom are
living, end 11 great-grandchildren, nine
or wnora are living.
Arrangements Are Completed for Send
ing 21 Prise Winners to O. A. C
Summer School.
TEACHING POSTS FILLED
Several Members of Senior Class at
O. A. C. Are Named.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL, COLLEGE,
Corvallis, May 20 (Special.) Several
members of the senior class in the
school of home economics of the Agri
cultural College have been elected to
teaching positions.
Miss Alberta Cavendar. of Portland,
was elected teacher of home economics
In the Pendleton High School.
Miss Zoe Brown, of Seaside, a pop
ular Waldo Hall club member, received
notice of her election as teacher of do
mestic science in the Oregon City High
School.
Miss Eva Iveatley, of Castle Rock,
Wash... was elected teacher of home
economics in the schools of Kelso,
Wash. Miss Delia Jackson, of Larane,
was appointed to a similar position in
the high school at lone. Miss Alice
Prill, of Corvallis, was elected to the
instructional staff of the Scio schools.
SALEM. Or., May 20. (Special.) Ar
rangements have just been completed
by J. A. Churchill, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, for sending the 21
boys and girls who won the capital
prizes in tne industrial club work at
the State Fair last Fall to the Oregon
Agricultural College for the boys' and
gins summer school.
inose who receivea rewards art-
Leland Charley, Brownsboro; Gertrude
Courtney, La Grande; Earl Stewart,
Cottage Grove; Homer Bursell, Mon
mouth; Hazel Bursell, Monmouth; Clif-
rora took, yoncalla: Carmen Jonaa
fendleton; Esther Miller. Medford
Warren McGowan, Independence; Har-
oia iteynolds. Independence; Earl
Cooley, Salem: L. M Bowles Tin lis. a-
Rudolf Mullenhoff, Boring; Teddy
Fones, Carlton: Exio Morgan, The
Dalles; Florence Wharton. Roseburirr
Marion Lowe, Nyssa; Mae McDonald,
Dallas; Muriel Blume, Albany;. Paul
Jaeger. Sherwood: Claus Charlev.
Brownsboro.
Clubs are being formed in everv sec
tion of Oregon.
As a result of this work."-savs Su
perintendent Churchill, "we can feel
that in the next generation there will
be a group of expert farmers and home-
keepers in every rural community of
Oregon."-
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene,
May 20. (Special.) The number of
seniors this year candidates for degrees
is the smallest for a number of years.
The number is 99. Eugene. Or., leads
with 28, and Portland is second with 0.
Washington, California, Idaho and
Iowa are also represented outside of
the state. The women, as usual, are
predominant with 52, the men having
47 candidates. So far five of the class
have signified their intention of taking
up post-graduate work, the major por
tion of these having their minds set on
Columbia University, New York.
Traditions were smashed this year
when the seniors registered. Three
senior men refused to give their ages.
while every one of the co-eds gave up
this information. The average age of
the co-eds in the graduating elas ex
ceeds that of the men. The women av
erage in age 22.86 years and the men
22.77 years.
Eighty-nine seniors will receive the
degree of Bachelor of Arts, seven the
degree of Bachelor of Science, two the
desrree of Bachelor of Music, two the
degree of Master of Arts, and one the
decree of Bachelor of Science in the
electrical engineering.
The lhalors in the school or eauca-
tion lead with 12. and the other majors
fall in line with German 11. English
literature 10, economic history 9, math
ematics 9. history 7. Journalism 4, ar
chitecture 4, French 4, zoology 3, physi
cal traininEr 2. chemistry 2. commerce A
romance languages 2, music 2, political
science 2, psychology 1, botany 1. geol
ogy 1, Greek 1, public speaking 1.
The seniors are:
RalDh S. Allen. Eugene: Louise Grace
Bailey, Euprene; Paul E. Baker. Eugene;
Merlin R.nrr "Rntlev. Twin Kalis. Idaho.
T.pnliA Burton Ralea. San Dimas. Cal.: Lewis
Aleaxnder Bond, Eugene t Katherine Bridges,
Oswetro; Eva Lenore Brock. Hood itiver.
Rvler Brown. Entrene: John Prentiss Brown,
Lebanon; Leonard M. Buoy. Eugene; John
Clark Burgard, Portland; William H. Bur
ton. Newport: Esther Campbell. Portland-;
Constance Cartwrifjht. Palem; James H. cel
lars. Portland: Esther Emily cnalmers,
Cornelius: Walter E. Church, Eugene
Marie Churchill, Salem: Anson B. Cor
nell. Portland; James K. Cossman. Cres-
well; Helen M. Crump. Eugene; Bess L.
Cushman. Brownswell: Cloyd O. Dawson,
Tillamook: Mona E. Dougherty, wallow
Harry T. Ddrlll, Yamhill; Fred B.' Dunbar,
Klamath Kalis: Wallace. Eakln. Astoria-:
Grace Hartley Edglngton, Hood River; Clara
Agnes K,ramann. Llmlra; nester Anaers
r ee. Pendleton: Charlie R. Kenton. Portland
Clarence Eugene Ferguson, Monmouth: Mlna
Ferguson. Portland: W ilmot Coyne Koster.
Astoria: Rita E. Fraley. Eugene: Lois Eliza
beth Gray, Eugene: Dorothy Hermine Gro-
Tn:n n,rhrtlf la Dlln I' HoHIbv Tnrnpr-
Cfuud Arnold Hampton. Pendleton: Ella
Hayden. Springfield: Earl W. Herkart.
Springfield; Ercel H. Hedrtck, Drain: Henry
van vv agenen Howe. fc.ugene; (jeorge Ches
ter Huggins. Hood River: Harold Franklin
Humbert. Eugene: Jennie Hunter. Roseburg
Lionel Rnscofl Hurd, Florence; Evangeline
Augusta Husband, Eugene; Ida Lewis John-
sou. Kugene: E. LKeezel. Monmoutb; Myr
tle Kern. Cottage drove: Bertha liincald.
Ashland: Georgia Klnsey, .Eugene; Harry L.
Kuck. The Dalles: Grace Lilly. Portland;
Beatrice May Locke. Portland: Nellie May
Lombard, Eugene; Elton Crocker Loucks.
Portland: Grace S. Mackenzie. Portland: J.
Chester Miller. Portland; Marjorle Viola Mil
ler. Eugene: Elizabeth Leora Minturn. Eu
gene: William J. Montgomery. Portland:
Earl Richard Morrison, Eugene; EUitll
Frances Moxley, Eugene; May Nelll. La
Grande; Edith Ochs, Harrington, Wash.;
Clairel LeRoy Ogle. Woodburn: Donald
George Onthank. Hosfl RiTer; Virginia Adell
Peterson, Astoria: Erna Petzold. Oregon
City; Jessie Purdy, Medford; Martha Claire
Raley. Pendleton; Rolla E. Ralston. Albany
Helen Robinson. Eugene: .Tames Kenneth
Robinson. Portland: Grant W. Phaffner. Eu
gene; GenevTeve Shaver, - Portland: Cleve
land Sylvester Slmkins, Salem: Max Her
bert Sommer. Portland: Katherine M. Stan-
field. Portland; Roy E. Stephens, Portland:
Mary Frances Stevenson. Medford: Mabel
May Stroud. Eugene; Jo Richi Tominaga.
Seattle, Wash.: Lamar Tooze. Salem; Leslie
Orland Tooze, Salem: -Jewell Maryon- Tozier,
Eugene; Carroll M. Wagner. Asuiand
James L. Watson. Eugene; Katherine Wat
son. Eugene: Mandell Weiss. Portland: Glan-
ville C Y neeler. Kugene; Jonn w llnelm,
Portland: era V imams. Eugene: Bess
Young-Clark. Los Angeles: Jessie Dare Zim
merman.- Eugene; Hermes Wrightson, Port
land; Airs. Lucy j ownsena weuaing. fiepp
ner: E. Erie Lane. Eugene; Dean Crowell,
Portland.
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ARLINGTON, Or., May 20
(Special.) Otis Owen Campbell
was born In Benton County, Ar
kansas, May 1, 1870. Me was one
of eight children, five of whom
are living, one a brother, who re
sides with his father, who is 94
years old, at Blockhouse, Wash.;
a brother In Yakima, Wash.; two
brothers in the East and a sister
in Utah.
In 1886 he reached Centeville,
Wash., making his home there
and in the vicinity of The Dalles
until 1898, when he came to
Arlington. -
In 1908 he was elected County
Assessor of Gilliam County. He
married Mrs. Elfie Shurte De
cember 31, 1908, to which union
two children were born Rosel-
-pha and Loretta.
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ROSEBURG HOST IQW
oration, Iness Knox, and acceptation,
Robert Hendricks.
Governor Withycombe will deliver
rhe address to the graduates at the
commencement exercises in Regner's
Opera-house on Tuesday night, June 6.
On Saturday, June 17, the first annual
banquet of the Alumni Association of
Union High School No. 2 will be held.
Oddfellows and Rebekahs Hold
Conference.
CONCLAVE RUNS TO FRIDAY
DAYTON GRADUATES ARE 20
year's meeting" was postponed one
week with considerable inconvenience
to the grand officers. The grand loilce
sessions will not have closed when th
eighth annual Strawberry Festival will
begin. The carnival will continue until
Saturday night.
O. A. C. Sophomores KIcct.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Corvallis, May 20. (Special.) The
sophomore class at the Oregon Agri
cultural College yesterday elected
Douglas Pine, of Berkeley, Cal.. presi
dent for the next college year. Mr. Pine
won from Walter Boon, of Portland.
The other officers elected were: DorLs
Sawyer, of Salem, vice-president; K. P.
Itev.
Ifugli Elmer Brown, of Seattle.
Is Commencement Orator. "
DATTON. Wash., May 20. (Special.)
A class of 20 .was graduated from the
Dayton High School with appropriate
exercises Thursday night at the Chris
tian Church.
Rev. Hugh Elmer Brown, of Seattle,
former graduate of this school, made
the address of the evening. Miss Hilma
Ryerson the salutatory address and
Miss Maudie Hinton delivered the
valedictory. Those in the class were
as follows: Maudie Hinton, Hilma
Ryerson, Helen Fall, Hazel Gosney.
Mabel Rockhill, Frances Brooks, Jose
phine Matheny, Helen Knox, Vivian
Chandler, Edith Webster, Marguerite
Hopkins, Glenn Brown, Harry Gaines,
Paul Vance, Wesley Eager. Ivan Mor
ris. Agnes Rainwater. Elm a Brown.
Gladys Gilbert and Louise Eaton.
RAYMOND HAS CLASS OF 16
Professor Coleman, of Keed, to De
liver Address Friday.
COYOTE SLAUGHTER BIG
Ciiickcnhawks, Magpies and Weasels
Killed in Washington Contest.
POMEROT, Wash., May 20 (Spe
cial.) In a friendly contest between
members of the Wenaha Game Associa
tion for predatory birds and animals.
which lasted one month, beginning
April xo, m coyotes, 65 chicken hawks.
683 magpies . and six weasels were
killed. The side of Captain Ellis
Powell won, with 19.770 points, against
Captain I. N. Manning, with 9160.
A watch fob was hiinir nr for Ihn
highest individual point getter, Lee
Garren easily leading, with 9160 points.
Otto Ruchert came next, with 940
points, and Captain Powell scored
third, with 2100.
Thirty-one hunters took an active
part in the search. The losing side will
entertain the winners at a picnic din
ner soon, it is said.
RAYMOND. Wash.. May 20. (Spe
cial.) A record class of '16 will be
graduated from the Raymond High
School next week.
Rev. Barclay Acheson. of the Presby
terian Church, will preach the bac
calaureate sermon tomorrow night, and
Professor Norman Frank Coleman, head
of the English department of Reed
College, Portland, will deliver the com
mencement address Friday evening In
the high school auditorium.
The class consists of the following
members: Marion Appleton. Robert
Clubb, Gladys Coats. Victor Cooley.
Winfield Cram. Marie Heath, Lucille
Irving, Aubert Kirlin. Dewey McMillin,
Glen Murdock, Lyndell Nielsen, Carl
Owens, Thomas Owens, Laura Parsell,
Leon Parsell and Emanuel Rockey.
About 12 of these are planning on going
to college.
0. A. C. MAN APPOINTED
HiS Salary Paid by County in Wash
ington for Agriculturist.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Ccrvallls, May 19.-r-(Special.) Howard
P. Smith, a senior in asiouomy at
KLAMATH CASE RESTING
Power Company Has Until July 1 to
File Its Brief.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or., May 20.
(Special.) City Attorney Rollo C.
Groesbeck. who conducted the case of
the city of Klamath Falls against the
California-Oregon Power Company be
fore the Public Service Commission of
Oregon, today returned from Salem,
where a formal hearing was held early
this week. All of the testimony in the
case has been submitted, and both sides
have rested. The omission gave the
power company until July 1 within
which to file its brief on the legal
points in issue and the city was given
20 days thereafter within which to
answer.
During the hearings the Commission
ruled that all utilities must deliver
service at the (Property owner's line.
Heretofore in -this city some of the
water consumers have installed con
nections from the company's mains.
IDAH0AN NAMED MEMBER
Theodore Sharp to Help Competency
IJody in Indian Investigations.
LAPVV'AI, Idaho. May 20 (Special.)
Theodore Sharp, until recently super
intendent of the Lapwai Indian agency.
has received notification from his de
partment that he has been made a mem
ber of the .Indian competency board to
serve under Special Agent McPherson,
chairman. Mr. Sharp has been directed
to proceed to McAlester, Okla., to join
the board in making investigations on
the Sac, Fox and Shawnee reservations,
and when this work is completed to re
turn to McAlester and assist in the
work with the Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indians.
The purpose of the competency board
is to make investigations on the sev
eral Indian reservations to determine
which Indians are competent, to handle
their own business matters:
Lodge l'oik Hold Fortlt in Southern
Oregon Just Previous to Great
Strawberry Festival Which
Opens This Week.
ROSEBURG. Or.. May 23. (Special.)
Practically all arrangements have
been completed for the sessions of the
grand lodge. I. O. O. F., and Rebekuh
Assembly, of Oregon, which opened
here today and continues until Friday
noon.
The first contingent of Oddfellows
and Rebekahs will arrive here Sunday
evening to participate in the pre
liminary sessions to be held Monday
morning. This delegation will include
the grand lodge officers of the several
branches of the Oddfellows' Lodge.
The main delegation of visitors prob
ably will reach the city on a special
train which is scheduled to arrive in
Roseburg at 4:30 o'clock Monday after
noon, ine delegates win oe met ai
the depot by a committee of local
lodgemen and a brass band. The early
evenlntr will be passed -assigning the
visitors to their rooms and making
other preliminary arrangements for
their entertainment. A public recep
tion for the OddfellowB and Rebekahs
lodge will follow at the Armory.
The regular grand lodge sessions will
begin Thursday morning and continue
Aintil Friday noon. On Thursday after
noon will be held the parade of Odd
fellows and Rebekahs.
The committee in charge of provid
ing accommodations for the visitors
have met with excellent success. The
hotels have provided additional accom
modations and the private homes of
the city will be thrown open to visitors.
Strawberries, which are typical of the
Umpqua Valley, will be featured by
local hotels and restaurants during tne
grand lodge meetings.
One important matter to come Derore
the grand lodge is in' the form of a
resolution which provides for holding
the annual convention one week later.
The present constitution of the grand
lodge provides that the annual meet
ing shall be held -during tne same
week as the primary election.
. ,111 1 .4 ..
Katherine Howells,
tary.
of Medford, secre-
Hansas Man Honored at O. A. C.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Corvallis.. May 20. (Special.) George
Iwtton, of Concordia. Kan., varsity
football and track team man. - yester
day was elected president of the sopho
more class at the Oregon Agricultural
College. Dutton is a memj;r of the
Kappa Sigma Nu fraternity and. active
in class and college affairs.
2 0. A. C. STUDENTS CHOSEN
,
Paul Amort and IT. K. Turner to
Tea oh Manual Training.
( ) I : K l.N" AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Corvallis, May 20. (Special.) Paul ,
Amort, of Corvallis. and II. E. .Turner,
of Union, seniors in the department of
Meyers, of Corvallis, treasurer, andH-industriul education of the Oregon Ag
ricultural College. this week, were
elected, to teach manual training arid
Industrial arts in the schools of Salem.
Mr. Amort has been a member of the
varsity wrestling team for four reari,
and was last year captain of the squad.
Mr. Turner has been one of the most
active members of th senior class.
MONUMENT IS PROPOSED lcont of the confilot in'
On ac-
datert this
DRY SEASON IS PREDICTED
.
Coos FlrePatrol Association 1hn
to Protect Timber. '
MARSH FIELD. Or., May 20. (Spe
cial.) W. J. Conrad, secretary or the
Coos County Fire Patrol Association,
is expecting a dry season and is mak
ing provisions for putting a large force
in the timber areas during June, July
and August. "
The Coos County Fire Patrol Associa
tion is recognized as among the best
organized timber-protecting institu
tions in the state, and the state asso
ciation frequently sends requests here
for- information about its system of
handling affairs.
Winloek Awards Street Contract.
CENTRALIA, Wash.. May 20. (Spe
cial.) rue vviniocK council Wednes
day night awarded a contract'to W. F.
Meismer. of Seattle, for hard-surfacing
First street. The contract price is
$20,965, ,The contract, which is the
largest ever let by the town, will re
sult in a continuous pavement from the
Winloek depot through to the town
limits.
Movement Started in .Tacoma,
Honor Late Ir. 13. Ml. Brown.
to
ABERDEEN MAN
TACOMA, Wash.,
CI CfTCn A movement to
F. . W. Loomis Becomes
(irand Chancellor.
Pythian
ABERDEEN, Wash., May 20.-r-(Spe
eial.) Attorney F. W. Loomis. who on
Thursday was elected grand chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias of Wawhing"-
ton at the grand lodge -convention via
Seattle, is the second Aberdeen man to
have been elevated to that honor. The
first was Eugene Foster, who died
about two years ago. Mr. Loomis has
been a resident of Aberdeen for ten
years and has been exceptionally active
in Wishkah Lodge, of this city.
Mr. Loomis has been working for
some time upon a lecture on Frater-
nalism," which he plans to deliver to
open meetings of Pythians to bo held
throughout the state.
May 20. (Special.)
have all patriotic
orders In the city gather funds for
memorial monument to Dr. E. M.
Brown was begun at the meeting of
Major E. M. Brown Camp, United
Spanish War Veterans today.
Artliur E. West was appointed chair
man of the Dr. Brown memorial com
mittee and said it is the intention of
khe ramp to -make the movement uni
versal among 'veterans and not limit
It to' the -camp - named for Dr. Brown.
H .will appoint at once a general com.
mittec f rom veterans' organizations in
Tacoma and they will. taKe up plans
and decide on-a suitable place for the
memorial. Dr.- Brown was a native of
Forest Grove, Or.
SALMON BAKE SCHEDULED
Governor and Attorney-General to
Be Guests at Hoscburg.
ROSEBURG. Or., May 20. fSpecial.)
Local sportsmen have completed all
arrangements for the" salmon bake to
be held at Winchester Sunday after
noon. Among the guests at the festivi
ties will be Governor Withycombe. At
torney-General George M. Brown and
the members of the State Game and
Fish Commission.
The programme lor the occasion in-
14 to Graduate at Tenino.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. May 20. (Spe
cial.) An eighth grade class of 14 will
be awarded diplomas when commence
ment exercises are held in the Meth
odist. Episcopal Church in Tenino next
Thursday night. C. C. Goss. Thurston
County Superintendent, will present the
diplomas. ,The graduates are Roy Ab
bott. . Ted . McArthur, Howard Cole.
Charles Keithahn, Antonio Frare.
Claude McDonald. George - McDonald,
Claude Wilson, Fay Robinson, Earl
Miller, Walter Warde, . Josie Sadow,
Josie Scanzon and Holiee DeLoach.
Cnrrinsvillc School Standardized.
EST AC AD A, Or., May 20. (Special.)
With appropriate exercises, on Fri
day. May 5, the Currlnsvllle school was
Hansardized. Among 'the speakers
were County Superintendent J. E. Cal
avan and County Supervisor Vedtlvr.
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