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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1917)
9 THE SUNDAY OliEGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 9, 19 T. GIRL STUDIES TREES PALACE OF PHOTOPLAY PHENOMENA Miss Coralie Snell, of Astoria, Has Unique Ambition. FIELD WORK IS CONSIDERED - ',1 .' m. 1 h FN N nCTTrvT I I av,, li r i i 1 L 1 ) I I Ha HI 'V VAX V 'NC Oregon Co-Ed Plana to Become For est Pathologist Others Train ' for Agriculture, Landscape Gardening, Etc. OREGON AGRICULTURAL. COLLEGE, Corvallis, Dec. 8. (Special.) Girls have registered in agriculture, land scape gardening and many other courses at the O. A. C, but this is the first year that a woman has ever been enrolled In the school of forestry. Miss Coralie Snell, of Astoria, is registered in forestry and expects to make use of her course upon graduation. She plans to be a forest pathologist and to do her work in the field rather than in the laboratory. Fungous dis eases and some insect diseases of the big timber of the country will e studied right on the timber lands by Miss Snell. She has lived in the wooded country in both Idaho and Oregon. After trying a number of lines of work usu ally done by women, she chose the profession which will keep her out of doors. She fully expects to do her work as a man would, and so far has had no difficulty in following the re quired courses in the college in for estry. Electrical engineering boasts a wom an student in Miss Mildred Catton, a former Jefferson High School girl, who entered O. A. C. this Fall. Miss Catton Is specializing in the mathematical end of the course, but is taking practically every subject taken by the men. Miss Jean Kelly, daughter of Major and Mrs. George Kelly, of Portland, Is another girl who is registered in a man's course, that of ariculture. She not only studies marketing conditions, poultry raising and crop production, but Is taking a course In farm mechan ics and is required to take apart and set up intricate parts of farm machin ery on the college farm. She also stud ies stockralsing. During a part of last Summer Miss Kelly donned overalls and had actual practice In farming on the farm of her uncle in Eugene. Several girls are entered in the pharmacy course, among them Miss Ruth Wolff, of Portland, and Miss Eck- ford Cameron, of Gresham. A long range of subjects is taken by the co-eds, including practically everything ' from showcard writing to physiology. PIONEER OF 1849 DEAD MRS. ELIZA J. AYERS SVCCUMBS AT AGE OF 81. 7 A ItMlY- v tS Vs fin I II K 3f - r Opening of the Holiday Season at The Portland (nOOD CHEER" spirit of the It Christmas holiday is at the Port-' land Hotel. Every evening the Joviality of merry throngs makes our dinner-dances most popular. As the evening passes everything seems to "blend" In making an atmosphere of good time. The Portland will be more popular than ever during the holiday season. Gay crowds will throng the hotel every evening. Bring your friends here it's Portland's social center. Special Sunday Dinner with music $1 The Portland Hotel Mr MaUf f.-l'i'( "A . Generation of Hotel Leadership, Richard "W. Childs, Manager. Elbert S. Robe. Asst. Manager I f V 1 Heppner Woman Prominent In Church and Lodge Circle Leaves Four Children. HEPPNER, Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) Mrs. Eliza J. Ayers, one of Morrow County's best-known pioneer women, died at her home here November 29, in her 82d year. She was born in. Bur lington. Ia. She was the daughter of "William and Elizabeth Greenwood. The family crossed the plains by ox team In 1849, and settled on Howell prairie, near Salem. In 1851, the daughter, Eliza, was married to Israel Shaw. Five months later. May 1, 1852, Mr. Bhaw died. The young widow returned to her father's home, where she remained until October 1, 1854, when she was married to Harvey Smith. He died in 1873, leaving seven children. Mrs. (Smith engaged in the hotel business 'at Heppner and supported her children until they were grown. Mrs. Smith was married to Thomas w. Ayers, a promt neat citizen and business man of Hepp ner, in 1888. He died' August 28, 1909. Of the- seven children born to her second marriage four surive her. They are: Mrs. J.osephine Forwood, of Sump ter4 Or.: Mrs. Paulina Quaid, of Port land; Mrs. Cora Van Duyn, of Spokane, Wash., and Mrs. Eliza Walbridge, of Heppner. Three grandsons also sur vive. Mrs. Ayers was a member of the Episcopal Church at the time of her death and, was also a charter member of the Eastern. Star, of Heppner. slble that an examination of the stom ach will be made to determine the cause of death. Ewes at the present time are worth $17.60 each. ALGERIAN GATHERS EARS Morbid Collection Brought to Xjiglit In French Hospitals. MARSHFIELD, Or., Dec. 8. (Spe clal. ) A censored letter received on Coos Bay from an American soldier in France related an incident occurring at a base hospital where French Colo nials were housed for convalescence The writer had been stationed in the vicinity of the hospital and was assist Ing in reception of the wounded. One day a strapping, big Algerian was brought In for treatment. When his effects -were examined 50 human ears were found among them. . The inference is drawn that, hearing of the German' atrocities, the Algerian thought he would repay in kind, so he made his morbid collection. Irrigation Project May Be Iiarger KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Dec. 8. (Special.) That a request for $35,000 to extend the Modoc Point irrigation project on Klamath Indian reservation north -of here has been made by th Indian Reclamation Service by Super lntendent L. M. Holt, of the Northwest em district, is the news brought to thi city by H..W. Hincks, in charge of the project, from headquarters at Chilo quin. Superintendent Holt is now i Washington. D. C. in conference with the chief engineers regarding the ap proprlations for the various 'projects. Castle Rock Boys Enlist. CASTLE ROCK, Wash.. Dec 8. (Spe clal.) Many Castle Rock boys are en listing. Six of its young men joined the ranks in the past few days. Claude G. Brenneman and Jason Little joined the forestry engineers, at Seattle; Will lam Haupt and Melvin Hardy enlisted in the Navy at Seattle; Dick Gaze and Stanley Dean enlisted at Chehalis, the former In the Quartermaster's corps as a baker and the latter in the engi neerlng corps. They were sent to Van couver. These boys were under draft age. Sheep Poisoned In Lake County. LAKE VIEW, Or.. Dec. 8. -.(Special .A telephone message has been re reived here from Adel, a town In South Warner Valley, to the effect that about 60 head of sheep belonging to Henry O'Keeffe, prominent sheep owner of that section, had-been poisoned on the range near the Houston ranch In the vicinity of Juniper Mountain. Whethe the poison was caused by death camas Several Hundred SampleLengths of Fine imported DRAPERY AND DECORATIVE Fabrics are being disposed of here at LESS THAN HALF PRICE Also a goodly number of fine FURNITURE PIECES Everett Babcock & Co. Alder and Eleventh Sunday Noon C oncert 1. "The Marseillaise" National Song of France 2. "Spring. Beautiful Spring" Waltzes by Lincke 3. "Good-bye" Paolo TostI 4. Selections from the Opera "Aida" (by request). 5. "Way Down There a Dixie Boy Is Missing." Popular Song. ALBERT HAY MALOTTE On the Wnrlltser Cnlt Orchestra Kelso Post Elects Officers. KELSO, Wash., Dec. 8. (Special.) Officers for the ensuing year were re elected Saturday by C. S. 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