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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
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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.
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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
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"A . Generation of Hotel
Leadership,
Richard "W. Childs, Manager.
Elbert S. Robe. Asst. Manager
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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. Hamilton
Post. G. A. R. Those elected were: Oli
ver Byerly, post commander; C. Inman,
Eenior vice-commander; Jacob Stoves,
Junior vice-commander; P. J. Knap p.
quartermaster; H. O. Cronk, adjutant;
Daniel Peer, ofEicer of the day; F. M.
Knoles, officer of the guard, and R. S.
Thompson, chaplain.
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