TIIE SUNT) AT OREGOXIAN, TOETLAND. DECEMBER 17, 191G. K CITY news in brief OREGONIAN TELKl'HONKH MHnaelnK Kdltor t'Uy Editor Sunday Editor .Advertlnlng Department 'ompojjiriK-room 7'rlntiiig-rcom Superintendent Building .Main 770. A fior5 . ..Main 7t7 A BiM3 .Main 7071), A t'ilif . . Main7t7. A i3 . Main 7i7". A 6iHj .Main 770. A Kl!i. . .Main707U. A 0OU5 A.MlljEMKT8. ORPHEUM (Broadway at Taylor) Bie time vaud-vi!l;. Performances at 2:15 and 8:15 UAKER (Broadway or Sixth, between Alder anil Morrison Alcazar Stock Company in The Price." This afternoon at and tonight at 8:15. PAXTAGES (Broadway at Alder) t'n lualed vaudeville. Three shows daily, -:-M. 7 and y:t0. HlfPODROMB (Broadway and Yamhill) audeville and moving pictures; '1 to ft, n:i to 11 p. M.. Saturday. Sunday, holi days continuous, 1:10 to 11 P. M. STRAND 'Park, West Park and Ptark) v audeville and motion pictures, continuous. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Orders for copies of The- New Tear's Oregonian. which will be is sued on January 1, 1917. to be sent to friends, should be sent to The Oregonian at once. PRICE FIVE CENTS, USE BLANK ON ANOTHER PAGE. THIS ISSUE Postage la the United States or possessions, Canada or Mexico, 5 cents. Foreign postage 10 cents. Address The Oregonian. Portland, Oregon. Sundat School to Entertain. The Sunday school children of Central Pres byterian Church will give their Christ mas entertainment Thursday night, De cember 21, in the form of a cantata entitled "A Topsy Turvy Christmas," as "Grandma's Guests," choruses will be eung by "fairies," "kitchen helpers" and "charming cooks." Kris Kringle Will be there and introduce his latest toys, the "educated cats," and "talking dolls." Miss Mildred Bishop will be at the Jiiano. Mrs. E. I. Rude, Mrs. S. P. Oarrigues. Mrs. It. F. Barnes, Mrs. L. M. Leland and Mrs. Charles Branin have the entertainment in charge. Following the custom on this occasion the various classes of the Sunday school will bring contributions for the Visiting Nurses' Association. Walter J. Burns to Speak. Walter J. Burns, of Balfour Guthrie & Com pany, will tell some of his experiences on his recent trip to the war zone, at the Y. M. C. A. at 3:30 today. Mr. Uurns will describe conditions in Eng land, particularly, where he says such a. close watch is kept over the move ments of the Zeppelin raiders that even the theater crowds are warned in time to escape from the air attacks. In teresting sidelights on the war in other sections that Mr. Burns visited also will be given in the course of his ad dress today. There will be special music. Living Cost Is Topic. The Woman's Political Science Club, of which Dr. Lora H. Diamond is president, has planned another high-cost-of-living programme for the meeting Tuesday at the Central Library in room A at 2 o'clock. T. D. Mahone, chairman of the recently-organized Housewife's League, will speak on the "Cause of the High Cost of Living." Mr. Mahone has been collecting data. Music has been provided. These meetings are free. Suit for $1000 Filed. Tony Ludo vici, in a suit filed through his father, (i. B. Ludovici, in the Circuit Court yesterday, asked damages of $1000 from the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company, for injuries received in a fall against a circular saw. He alleged that the eaw was not properly safeguarded. Confession of judgment in the full amount was filed by the defendants with the complaint. Mr. Cameron's Denial Filed. Answer to the $50,000 alienation of affections Fiilt of Charles L. Cadwallader was filed by James B. Cameron, wealthy timberman, in the Circuit Court yes terday. It is a general denial of the allegations that Mr. Cameron paid un due attention to his stenographer. Mrs. Cadwallader, and won the young woman from her husband. Lx-Ivansas Students to Meet. The Kansas State Agricultural College As aociation's annual reunion will be held Saturday evening, December 30. All ex- students in Portland and vicinity, whether graduates -or not, are invited to attend. All interested communicate with W. W. Lawton, 1100 Northwestern National Bank building. Phone Main 937. Adv. Ben Butler Post Plans Bazaar. Ben Butler Post Relief Corps, with a cafe teria lunch and a sale of fancy articles, will hold a bazaar at Dawley's Hall on December 21. A meeting will be held at 10 o'clock and will be followed with a. short musical programme at 2 o'clock A large attendance is expected at both the meeting and the sale. O. A. C. Club to Dine. The Portland O. A. C. Club will hold a banquet in the grotto of the Arcadian Garden Multnomah Hotel, on the evening of Wednesday, December 27. It will be held in conjunction with the teachers' convention which convenes in Portland on that date. The banquet will be followed by a dance at Murlark Hall "Prepardness: Military, Industrial, Social." This evening at 7:45 at the Open Forum at the Unitarian Chapel, Broadway, between Yamhill and Taylor. Discussion, free to all, will be opened by Judge Gantenbem, Professor Hast lngs and Mr. Eliot. The public i respectfully invited. Adv. Bazaar Pronounced Success. The bazaar held by Peter A. Porter Circle, No. 25, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, on December 7, in the Oddfellows' Hall, on Williams avenue and Skidmore street, was a complete success, both financially and socially. Congressional Record on File. The Daily Congressional Record is received regularly at the Public Library and is on file in the reference department. An effort will also be made to obtain bills introduced which are of general in terest. Dr. Delort Lectures Tuesday. "Con eentration and Ambition" will be the subject of a lecture given by Dr. V. B. Delory next Tuesday at 1 1 A. M. in room E, Central Library. The lecture Is free and the public is invited. Cruel Treatment Alleged. Though married only last July, Charles E, Young filed suit for divorce from Delia M. Young, in the Circuit Court yes terday. The complaint merely alleges cruel treatment. That good, superior nut coal. $4.50 per ton; auto delivery in 2-mile limit. Phones: Tabor 159, C 1541. Adv. The Genuine English Toffee. The Trail Candy Shop, 702 Wash. St. Adv. Rev. H. S. Templeton will preach to day at Mount Tabor Presbyterian Church. Adv. Xmas Sweet Apple Cider, order by postcard. Box 544. E. N. Wilson. Adv. Shanghai Bazaar selling out, bargains, leaving city. 392 Morrison st. Adv. THE FUTURE Will soon be the present have an Endow ment Savings Policy mature when that time . arrives. New England Mutual Life Insurance Co Dr. Boyd to Lead Prayer Service. A special Christmas prayer service will be held on Thursday evening at 7:45 o'clock in the chapel of .the First Presbyterian Church. Dr. J. H. Boyd will lead the meeting and the subject for his talk will be "Foreshadowings of Christmas in- the Old Testament." This Christmas subject will be of wide in terest. In case the capacity of the chapel is overtaxed next Thursday night, the Sunday school auditorium will be thrown open for the prayer service. t' Mass Meeting Planned. A mass meeting will be held at Arion Hall to night at 8 o'clock to discuss the prose cution of Mooney. Noland and other labor men of San Francisco. The speakers will ficlude: Eugene Smith; president of the Central Labor Council: E. H. Misner. National organizer of Machinist' Union; Albert Strelff, Na tional Committeeman of the Socialist party, and V. J. McCone, secretary of the Socialist party of Oregon. H. O. Hartwig, president of the Oregon Fed eration of Labor, will preside. Paving of Approaches Completed. Paving of approaches to the new Hoi-gate-street viaduct over the Southern Pacific tracks was completed yesterday and the new bridge thrown open to traffic for the first time. The work has been under way for several months. The viaduct eliminates a former dangerous crossing along the main artery to a large district in the south ern part of the city. The street now is paved almost the full length where heavily travelerl. Lieutenant Harms Home Again Lieutenant Leo A. Harms, who was wounded by the accidental discharge of an automatic pistol, while on duty at the police station a week ago, was re moved from Good Samaritan Hospital yesterday to his home at 1545 Vincent avenue. His wound, which is through the face, is almost healed and will leave only a little scar. During his stay at the hospital. Lieutenant Harms was almost constantly attended by his wife. John A. Goddell to Speak. John A. Goddell. industrial secretary for the Y. M. C. A., will be the speaker at the regular 4 o'clock vespers service in the Reed College chapel this afternoon: This will be the last Reed vespers serv ice before the Christmas vacation which begins next Wednesday at 5 P. M. The next service will be held on Sunday, January 7. Announcement! A very nice lWie of those beautiful Oriental goods, silks, crepes, dress goods, novelties, etc.. imported by the well-known importer, the late .Mrs. J . W. Blain. will be on sale for a few days by Mrs. Teesdale at 589 2 Davis St.. near 19th. Adv. Christmas Books: Stoddard's Lectures, finest binding. $35; Standard Dictionary. 2 vol.. $10; Ridpath History. 9 vol.. $15: Rldpath Literature, 25 vol.. $15: Inter national Encyclopedia. 21 vol. $30; Mark Twain. $20. - Hylands Book Store, 170 th, opposite Postoffice. Adv. Vancouver School Clerk Now Issues Liquor Permits. Spurt In Liquor In flux In Clarke County Caunea Addition to Office Forte.- VANCOUVER. Wash.. Dec. 16. (Spe cial.) Friends of William M. Hodg- kin, clerk of the Vancouver School Board, are having much fun at his ex pense since he has become the "county bartender" in tne County Auditor's of fice. The office of school clerk does not require his time except evenings, and he is now employed in the Auditor s office, where the work has been in creasing with great rapidity. The number of liquor permits is in creasing rapidly, so that It Decame necessary for Mrs. M. R. Haack, Audi tor, to put in one clerk, who will do nothing else but issue permits and pos sibly marriage licenses. The county collects 25 cents for each permit, so that the permit clerk collects above $20 a day on an average now. Yesterday 84 permits were tssuea. making the record so far. To date 3950 liquor permits have been issued, so that Clarke County will collect for affidavit fees the first year more than $1000. When the law first went into effect less than 50 permits a month were is sued, but recently many supplies laid before last New Year's have be come exhausted and new supplies are being sent for. Two affidavit books, costing nearly $60 for both, have been used up. and a third book, with a simpnriea iorm. has been started. The new form book has the affidavit in small type at the upper right hand corner and those obtaining permits sign under this in one column. About 50 names can thus be handled on a double page, whereas by the old system there were only two or three permits on a single page.- CHARLES H. BRIGGS DIES Merchant aud Postmaster of Yank ton, Or., Passes. Charles Henrv Briggs. merchant and postmaster of Yankton. Or., died at his home in that place uecemDer i-. e was born in Smyrna. Me.. February 3. 1847. was married toMiss Laura h. Howard September 28, 1871, to whom was born five children, of whom two now survive, Mrs. L. J- Barger and C. Fred Briggs. both of Yankton. Mrs. Briggs died in 1892. Mr. Briggs came to Oregon in 1877, living in Rainier for one and one-half years, then going to Yankton, where he was in the logging business for several years. In 1896 he and his son started a store In Yankton, in which he was act ively interested until about two years ago, when his health began to fail. July 20 he had a paralytic stroke, from Which he never fully recovered. The funeral was held Thursday, un der the auspices of the Masonic lodge of St. Helens, of which he had been a member for years. Interment was in Yankton Cemetery. KAISER WANTS PEACE - You will have peace Of mind, con tentment a"nd satisfaction by wearing one of the splendidly-made Suits which we make for only $10 down and $5.00 per month. Unique Tailoring Co.. "09 Stark street between Fifth and Sixth. Adv. . SUITS PRESSED, 35C. - Dry cleaned. $1. Unique Tailoring Co.. 809 Stark. Broadway 614 Adv. King Coal Best for Price. Also Rode Springs, Tono and Brl duets Ice Delivery Co., successor to In dependent Coal & Ice Co. Mn. 234. Adv. Horace Mecklem, Gen. Agent 329-331 Northwestern Bank Bldg. MONMOUTH LISTS NEEDS NORMAL. SCHOOL GROWTH MAKES BUILDINGS IMPERATIVE. LeajiMlature Be Asked for Provlnion for Campus Improvement and Extensive Work. OREGON NORMAL SCHOOL. Mon mouth, Or.. Dec. 16. (Special.) A larger and more complete normal school is the programme of the Ore gon Normal, which is planning on a big expansion in training school activi ties, the beginning of regular extension work, larger dormintory space, an ad dition to the main building, and minor campus improvements, to be embodied in a bill for an appropriation for $86, 000 when the Legislature meets. The items are to be asked. President Ackerman explains, because of the re markable and even unexpected growth made by the Normal School during the past five years. The leap from a regu lar attendance of 81 to 500 and a Sum mer school enrollment of from 150 to 827 has made assembling seating dif ficult and so $25,000 is asked with which to expand the chapel and im prove basement room. More than 50 per cent of the applications for rooms at the girls' dormitory have to be re jected, according to the matron and dean of women. Miss Jessica Todd. The amount to be asked for an addition to the present structure is $50,000. It is planned to pave the street which intersects the campus at a cost of $5000. For two years insistent calls have come from the rural field for the serv ices of normal faculty members. A proposal to establish definitely exten sion work is embodied in the item of $6000 to be asked. SCHOOLS ARE READY TWO STRUCTURES AT HOOIJ RIVER COST 4 8,000. High School Adda Annex for Industrial Work and to Provide Gym nasium and Auditorium. HOOD RIVER, Or., Dec. 16. (Spe cial.) Hood River's new $18,000 brick primary school building and the new High School annex, erected at a cost of $30,000, will be thrown open to in spection of the public next week, and on next Wednesday evening the two structures will be formally dedicated. The annex building, two stories in height, is also of brick and Is built ad joining the old High School structure. The new primary school is the last word in school building. While it is now but one story in height, with full basement, plumbing has been installed that another story can be added when required. Situated on one of the city's streets overlooking the Columbia Gorge and with an impressive view of Mount Adams. from the windows, the structure is one of which Hood River may well be proud. The building is 86 by 66 feet. The first floor is divided into four class rooms. The lower floor of the new High School annex is devoted to industrial work. On the west side of the build ing will be located the manual training department, with shop, drawing-room. staining-room and finishing-room. A small office in the center, partially en elosed with glass so that one instructor can supervise the entire department, will be provided for teachers. On the second floor will be the new gymnasium and auditorium, stage and dressing-rooms. Tne main auditorium win seat Between lau ana t00 people and the gallery will accommodate about 150. NORWEGIANS PLAN TREE Sons and Daughters of Norway Ar range Christmas Programme. Extensive preparations are being made for the entertainment to be give under the auspices of the Sons and Daughters of Norway at the Masonic Temple. 388 Yamhill on Monday night. December 25. The large hall on the second floor and the regular lodgeroom on the third floor have been engaged for the oc-: casion. Besides a Christmas tree there i will be a literary programme and ; refreshments. 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Do it. and has brought it to its present high standard and, furthermore, that other cities of the Inland Empire should not try to take the show from Lewiston or inaugurate another livestock show in competition with it is the consensus of opinion of practically all the cities and towns of the Inland Empire. I he Commercial Club of Lewiston and members of the Northwest Live stock Association have addressed let ters to commercial organizations and leading stockmen of this entire district and all replies have been unanimously in favor of retaining the show at Lew iston and deploring any move to start a similar institution at 'Spokane or any other place In the Inland Empire. The Chambers of Commerce of Walla Walla and. Moscow have adopted resolutions setting forth their position, as follows: Whereas. Every recurring; year an airtts tlon Is started to establish a llvettlock show t Spokane snd Whereas. Two shows would not he con ducive ot the best Interest of the livestock Industry, dividing the attendance and les sening the number of animals shown; and. v hereas. sr or years there has been an annual livestock show at Lewiston; now. therefore, be it Resolved, That we protest against a sec ond stock show being established at Kpo- Kane ana pleuire our undivided support to the Lewiston thaw already established and already recognized as a great "factor in tse up-buildlng of our livestock Industry, ad mittedly one of the greatest in the North west. Gresliam Grange Elects. GRESHAM. Or.. Dec. 16. (Special.) At a meeting of the Gresham Grange Saturday, at which three candidates re ceived the third and fourth degrees. the following officers were elected: Master, E. E. Welling; overseer. F. E- Hodge; lecturer, Mrs. M. Kronenburg; chaplain, Mrs. R. F. Walters: steward. Mrs. D. W. Metzger; assistant steward. George F. Honey; treasurer, George I.eslie; secretary, Mrs. F. E. 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