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PLAYGROUNDS TAKE
UPWORK OF MERCY
PATRIOTIC GIRLS TRAIN TO CONDUCT MERCY WORK IN PORTLAND PARKS.
CHILDREN OF LINN PIONEER
UNITED AFTER MANY YEARS
SERIOUS PROBLEM
Rufas Thompson Family Closely Connected With the Early History and
Development of Oregon Banquet Feature of Occasion.
Junior Red Cross Classes Un
der Direction of Miss 0. A.
Nibley Forming.
Increasing Cost of Materials
and Labor Obstacles in
Way of Building.
GRADUATES TO BE AIDES
CITY IS GROWING RAPIDLY
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 14, 1918.
HOUSING
WORKERS
FAMOUS OCTAGONAL HOUSE.
v s h - jt? . i w. .
.Regular Attendance to Be Insisted
on Hygiene, First Aid, Nursing
Some oT Subjects to Be
( Taught In Course
Junior Red Cross classes are being
formed In ail the Portland playgrounds,
under the direction of Miss Olive A.
Xisley. Already many of the classes
have been recruited to full strength
and have held several meetings. The
organization work will be completed
within the next two weeks and
throughout the Summer the members
of the class will perform work which,
if successful, will make them eligible
to become known as "Red Cross aides."
The purposoe of the Junior Red Cross
classes in the parks is to cultivate a
true spirit of service among the chil
dren, to centralize the various activi
ties of the playground and to develop
leadership.
Girls between the ages of 10 and 16
are eligible to belong, although indi
vidual exceptions to the age require
ment may be made at the discretion of
the director.
Rc-Kular Attendance Requisite.
The members of the classes are re
quired to attend regularly and to en
force this rule any member who is ab
sent from the meetings three times in
succession will be dropped unless an
excuse acceptable to the director is of
fered. The members of the organization are
given a Red Cross nurse's cap at the
first meeting and at the sixth meeting
members will be given a red cross to
wear on the caps. At the 12th meeting
the members who have met the re
quirements for aides will be given a
Red Cross band to wear on the arm.
Activities outlined in the course of
study for the members of the class in
clude hand work, which includes mak
ing of cloth toys, knitted wash cloths,
Belgian squares, soldier scrapbooks,
checker boards and assistance at Cen
tral Red Cross with assorting of moss
for pads.
Clasa to Make Toys.
Cloth toys will be made by use of
fie rap s of cloth, moss and rose petals.
These toys upon completion will be
shipped to the children of France and
Belgium. The Belgian squares are
made from scraps of yarn and the sol
diers scrapbooks are on the idea of the
Kipling scrapbook of jokes, introduced
by the famous British writer several
years ago for the benefit of the wound
ed men in the hospital. Checkerboards
made by the members of the classes
will also be sent to the men in the
hospitals in America and abroad.
All the hand work must be done un
der the supervision of the playground
director and must be of excellent qual
ity. The course of study for the members
of the Red Cross classes also includes
hygiene, first aid, home nursing, food
conservation, thrift stamp saving, folk
dancing, apparatus work, general
games and hikes.
Regulations have been drafted In
connection with the hikes, which are
as follows: Each girl must carry a
lunch in a knapsack made at a Red
Cross meeting. No girl must go out of
sight and hearing of the playground
director, while- on a hike. Girls must
return to their homes immediately upon
return from a hike. Hikes must cover
a walking distance of at least three
miles.
Ambition to Become Aide.
To become an aide Is the ambition of
all girls who have become members of
the Junior Red Cross classes. The re
quirements for an aide are as follows:
Attendance at 12 meetings; comple
tion of at least three pieces of hand
work; a teaching knowledge of 10 folk
dances; a teaching knowledge of five
games; capability of doing five of the
following on the apparatus in good
form (heels together, toes pointed,
knees straight, chinning before and af
ter each exercise on the flying rings,
dismounting in good form):
(a) Skin the cat three times, (b) chin
five times, (c) swing and inverted hang,
(d) forward and backward roll, (e)
over and back on the traveling rings
five times, f) over and back on the
traveling rings with cut off, (g) walk
ing up the ladder with arms in hori
zontal position, (h) overhaul on ladder,
up and back without swinging; aides
must be able to swim 50 feet, the width
f the Peninsula Park tank.
The purpose of having Red Cross
aides in the parks is to prevent acci
dents, enforce apparatus rules, secure
assistance in teaching Red Cross work
and giving assistance with dancing,
games, etc., in which younger children
participate.
STEEL PLANT FOR H0QUIAM
l'ir$t Industry of Kind Building
Grays Harbor Country.
in
HOQl'IAM, Wash.. July 13. (Spe
cial.) Work has been started by the
Lamb Machine Company, of this city,
on construction of a steel manufactur
ing plant in Hoquiam, the first in
Southwest Washington. The new in
dustry will be conducted in connection
with the company's big factory just
being completed and which is to be in
operation by the first of next week.
The Lamb Machine Company is en
gaged in the manufacture of a number
of lines of machinery, particularly log
ging equipment, and in addition is do
ing considerable Government work.
The new steel plant will employ
about 150 men and will have a capacity
of about 10 tons of manufactured steel
per day. It is expected to be in opera
tion about October 1.
ELECTION DATE AT ISSUE
Coquille Voters May Extend Terms
of Recorder and Mayor.
MARSHFIELD, Or.. July 13. (Spe
cial.) The city of Coquille has called
an election for September 12 for the
purpose of submitting measures which
will make the municipal election fall
on the regulation general election date
'In November biennially. To adjust their
city affairs, it is proposed to extend
the Recorder's term of office from one
to two years, and the Mayor will be
elected for the s..me term. Councilmen
are pledged to a four-year term, ac
cording to the plans the city has in
view.
The officials will be chosen in No
Tember, and the election of Septem
ber 12 is for the purpoee of adopting
amendments to fix the terms of city
officials. The city expects to nominate
by petitions, . t
TIMBER LOSS IS HEAVY BMnMA
CURRY COUNTY FIRES BIHX OVER
THOUSANDS' OF ACRES.
Harbor. Located on Chctco River, Partly
Destroyed Incendlarlam
pected by Officials.
MARSHFIELD, Or., July 13. (Spe
cial.) A summing up of estimates, fol
lowing control of the Southern Curry
County forest fire, which destroyed half
of the town of Harbor, indicates sus
picion of incendiarism and that the
losses will total many thousands of
dollars. As a result the Forestry De
partment has issued a warning to citi
zens of that district to be on the alert
and report the presence of strangers
in the area where fires might occur.
This situation developed from a re
port given by residents of the Pistol
River neighborhood, many of whom live
on elevated points. These homesteaders
and ranchers declared that looking from
me nigner views tney saw fires break
out at regular distances, orovinir to
them that they were of incendiary
origin.
There were two fire areas in South
ern Curry, the first on the Lower Chetco
Kiver, where the town of Harbor suf
fered, the other on Pistol River, some
miles north from Harbor and Brook
ings. On the Pistol Uiver estimates of
the area burned are placed at several
townships and some claim more than
30,000,000 feet of fir and white cedar
timber was burned. The extent of the
damage to the green timber cannot be
estimated.
On the Rogue River, about 16 miles
from its mouth, another fire burned
several days and ate through several
million feet of green timber, while some
damage was done on the Sixes River,
farther north. One estimate of the
total timber loss places the figures at
50,000,000 feet. Several ranch homes
the path of the fires were destroyed
and the famiNes had narrow escapes.
The C. & O. Lumber Companv at
Brookings and a subsidiary eornoratlon
suffered heavily in burned timber and
the company lost several thousand dol
lars in fighting the Chetco River con
flagration. RANCH PAYS FOR ITSELF
A. P. Sutton, of Ridgefield, Wash.,
Tells What Can Be Done With Land.
RIDGEFIELD. Wash.. Julv 13. fSne-
cial.) A. P. Sutton, of this place, gives
statistics which show that a small
ranch will soon pay for itself. He
came here from Missouri a few years
ago and moved on a 22-acre tract of
land near Sara. He cleared seven acres
and set to prunes, which he expects will
narvest a ton or more . of fruit this
year. He picked up a few strawberry
plants and this season had l,i acres
of strawberries. From this patch he
sold to a Seattle firm $718.30. He made
local sales which brought him S89.20.
and canned 300 quarts valued at 1150.
making a total of S957.50. The express.
commission, crate timber, dray a ire and
labor cost X271.0a, leaving a profit of
l)Sb.b J.
Building in Tacoma Doubles.
TACOMA. Wash.. July 13. Sne-
cial.) Building operations in Tacoma
for the first six months of 1918 show a
gain of more than 100 per cent, as
FORMER PORTLAND REALTY
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SERGEANT I.. H. Bl'LLIEK AS HE APPEARED OS MOTORCYCLE SERVICE.
Sergeant L. H. Bullier has been wounded In France and wants his friends
to write to him, because he is just out of the hospital and is having a slow time
of it before he can get back to the line. Since reaching France he has been work
ing 16 hours a day. He meets many Portland boys and says they are all well
satisfied and happy. Sergeant Bullier enlisted last July. Be belonged to the
Portland Realty Board and sold out his business to Join the colors. Upon en
listing he was sent first to Vancouver. Wash., then to Camp Lewis, then to San
Francisco, then to New Tork. and finally to France. He is with Motor Supply
Train. 106,.Company.322l.A.iif'.in.France .. -
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Junior Red Croaa Claaa at Peolnanla Park
B, low. From Left to Right Mary Maaeold tlajured), II axel Haya and rllle
Slover (A pplylna; Flrat-Aid Treatment).
compared with the corresponding
period of 1917. Up to July 1, a total
of 1241 permits' for buildings at an
estimated cost of $1,566,894 were is
sued. During the first six months of
1917 a total of 632 permits were is
sued inolving an expenditure of $670,-
788. The June record this year was
268 buildings, estimated to cost $240.-
203. as compared with 90 buildings
valued at $118,555 in 1917.
COOS CAMPS ARE VISITED
Portland Editor Says Experienced
Loggers Are In Demand.
MARSHFIELD, Or., July 13. (Spe
cial.) George Cornwall, editor of the
Tlmberman.has visited all sections of
the county to investigate the lumber
output and on returning to Marshfield
he. declared that logging and milling
is bound to suffer and the Government
programme will be greatly retarded
unless the enlistment of expert logging
men is abandoned.
Mr. Cornwall sees a danger to ef
ficiency and supports the belief .held
here for tie past .few months that
the Government is not familiar with the
situation. Several hundred soldier log
gers have been sent her to assist in
the' woods, and very few of them are
n-.en with logging experience.
In the meantime a steady drain has
been demanded from the camps and
hundreds of the best loggers have been
removed to cantonments.
KLAMATH GOES OVER TOP
Schools Aid Materially in Selling
War Savings Stamps.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. July 12.
(Special.) Although the schools of-the
county have been closed for more than
a month, the children are not neglect
ing the worn ot selling inriii stamps,
47 of the 50 districts still reporting
sales. Many have regular organized
war savings societies. A thrift stamp
contest was arranged between the
schools previous to their closing, with
$10 as the per capita to be raised.
Bonanza was the first school to re
port being over the top, having raised
$10.30 per pupil.
. Wahkiakum Farmers Plan Trip.
CATHLAMET. Wash.. July 13. (Spe
cial.) The annual excursion of the
Wahkiakum County farmers to the
state experiment station at Puyallup
will take place on July 24.
MEMBER,
WOUNDED IN FRANCE,
LETTERS.
CPAA
Is Flrat Vnlt of Clty-Wlde Movement.
RENTS HIGH ELSEWHERE
montreal. has conditions like
those: here.
Letter to H. G. Beekwltk Telia of SO
I'er Cent Reat Imcreaaea Due to
Lack of Hooaea.
H. G. Beckwlth. manager of the Fred
A. Jacobs Company, received a letter
from a friend in Montreal last week
which is interesting as showing that
Portland is not the only city where war
conditions have resulted in increased
rents.
Montreal is a larger city than Port
land, but conditions generally there
are not dissimilar to those in Portland.
Mr. Beckwith's friend writes:
"Rents here seem to be extremely
high on account of the extraordinary
increase in population and the fact that
there has been practically no building
since the outbreak of the war.
"This is not interesting me Just now,
as I bought my own home last 'year,
but I know that if I were obliged to
rent a similar property now I would
pay about 50 per cent more than two
years ago."
LEWIS COUNTY FARM IS SOLD
Well Improved 12 2-Acre Ranch
Purchased for $5300.
' MORTON", Wash., July 13. (Special.)
A farm deal showing the reasonable
figure at which land is held in Eastern
Lewis County is just announced,
whereby J. - H. Forrest haa sold his
place at Bremer, seven miles west of
Morton, to F. E. Pierce, also of Brem
er. Mr. Forrest and family left on
Tuesday for Dayton, Wash.
The place consists of 122 acres, 40 of
which, are cleared. 22 in pasture: that
is, cleared and seeded, but with the
stumps still in, and 60 acres of timber.
The purchase price was $5500. The
place is considered one of the best in
the Tilton Kiver Valley.
LINN SAVINGS $144,421
Amount Represents Sales Daring
Jane, Apart From Pledges.
ALBANY, Or., July 13. (Special.)
Sales of war savings and thrift stamps
in Linn County in June-reached a total
of $144,421.31, according to an official
report compiled at 'the Albany postof
fice today. This total represents actual
sales during the month and does not
take into account at all the amount
pledged in the recent drive.
It .is estimated that stamps having
a maturity value of more than $300,
000 have been sold in Linn County thus
far. - Already in July the sales amount
to 123,000..
Considerably more than half of the
stamps sold last month were purchased
at the Albany postoffice, the local of
fice reporting sales aggregating $6!.-
056. Lebanon sold $25,S45 worth of
stamps and the totals reported by the
other offices in the county follow:
Scio. $14. 195; Halsey. $8271; Harris
burg, $3575; Tangent. $2522; Browns
ville. J2319; Crawfordsviile, $1935; Ber
lin. $1920: Kingston. $1125: Shedd. $978;
Lyons. $807; Sodavilje. $735; Waterloo.
$730; Thomas, $724: Sweet Home. $523;
Foster. $400; Holley, $335: Shelburn.
$295; Gooch. $158: Tallman. $137; Cas
cadia. $85. La comb was the only post
office In the county which reported
no sales at all.
GRAIN SAVING IS URGED
Walla Walla Tlircsliermcn Are Re
quested to Eliminate Waste.
WALLA WALLA. Wash., July 13.
(Special.) S. B. L. Penrose. County
Food Administrator, has named a com
mittee consisting of County Agent H.
H. Boone. A. J. Gillis. F. W. Tierney
and Sam K. Smith, to interview thresh
erraen and enroll them as members of
the United States Food Administration.
The threshermen are asked to sign
pledge cards to save all the grain pos
sible by care In using the proper meth
ods of threshing and eliminating waste.
There are 200 threshers, 300 com
bines and 200 small two-man machines
in the county, and owners of each will
be communicated. with. .
Strict Observance of Federal Orders
Has Curtailed Materially Im
ports or Lime and Many
Other Necessities.
The extent to which building mate
rial, including a great many of tho
essentials for building homes and the
Installation of sanitary conveniences,
has been commandeered by the Gov
ernment, or production cut down under
fuel and essential work orders, is not
generally known. The facts are such
that those having knowledge of the
considerable increase In the numbers
of workers soon to be added to the
population of the city, say that the
situation will be rendered acute with
the approach of Winter, and that the
only practicable solution Is to bring
the necessity for aid to the attention
of the Government officials in an ef
fort to secure Immediate steps toward
relief.
E. B. MacXaughton, who has been ac
tively Identified with the investiga
tions of housing conditions, on behalf
of the committee of the Realty Board
and Chamber of Commerce that has
been occupied in these matters, said
in regard to the situation.
'There has been considerable discus
sion as to what can be done to relieve
the situation, and it is suggested that
the strong housing demand will stim
ulate real estate operators and specu
lative builders to erect the dwellings
necessary.
Building Materlala Costly.
"Adequate relief Is not to come
from such a direction, however, and
there are certain very definite reasons
for this. The first and most cogent
is that the great increase in building
costs render it unprofitable and unwise
to undertake speculative construction
at this time.
"However, not only does the excess
cost of building construction cause
private capital to hesitate before ven
turing, but also the problem of obtain
ing materials is a very grave one. It
will become increasingly more diffi
cult, and indeed almost impossible, to
obtain the essential materials for use
In private construction work. The
Government has commandeered great
quantities of these materials and is
releasing them only on priority orders
where it Is certain that they are to
lie used for war necessity structures.
It might be argued that housing is a
war necessity, but to date it has not
been officially so classified in Portland.
"Furthermore, the fuel and car
shortages are resulting In a very heavy
restriction in the output of the most
Important building materials. On June
19. the War Industries Board notified
the cement manufacturers that pro
duction must be curtailed to a point
"only sufficient to meet the direct and
indirect war requirements."
"Sanitary pottery manufacturers spe
cializing In plumbing fixtures have had
their operations forced down to a pro
duction 25 per cent ot normal, and this
output Is all being taken for war-time
structures. Their surplus stocks are
practically exhausted.
"Recently the producers of lime were
in conference with the War Industries
Board as to "the possibilities of cur
tailing production and directing the
product Into essential uses, in order
that fuel might be conserved.'
"Manufacutrers of pipe, plate, sheet
iron and tubing have notified jobbers
that hereafter no orders can be filled
for the trade, except where their stocks
have been used on priority order work.
Ninety per cent of the output of these
mills Is being taken direct by the Gov
ernment. Government Takea Material.
"It is a rare building venture that
does not rely for a portion of its finan
cing on mortgage loan assistance. In
its April bulletin the Federal Reserve
Board called for a curtailment of un
necessary credits and classified for
bankers and financial institutions es
sential and non-essential loans. The
board listed as unproductive loans
'those for the purchasing or carrying
of real estate and loans for additions
to or the improvement of property not
used in production or distribution.'
Thus large blocks of insurance and
trust capital ordinarily available for
mortgage loans are directed into chan
nels remote from any aid toward hous
ing relief.
"Private money, where not used for
Government securities, can be obtained
in some cases for approximately 30 to
25 per cent of the land and building
value, where formerly it was available
for 50 per cent. This reduction is a
very natural safeguard Imposed by the
lender in his effort to discount the ex
cessive building costs and insure him
self against the shrinkage which may
come during the life of his loan.
"Thus, the excessive cost of building,
combined with the Increasingly great
difficulty of obtaining raw materials
and the withdrawal of mortgage loans
to aid private construction tends to
render futile any dependence on pri
vate enterprise for substantial relief
in the present local housing crisis.
Loral Conditions Aente.
"There are. however, certain definite
steps which can be taken at this time,
and they may be outlined as follows:
"1. A presentation to Mr. Schwab,
when here, of our critical condition,
establishing beyond a doubt our need
of Governmental assistance.
"2. The establishment of a bureau
of housing in connection with the
Emergency Fleet office In this district,
thus officially recognizing the problem
and placing in charge of its solution
competent Government officials with
power to act.
"3. The right to classify all Indus
trial housing construction in this dis
trict as an "essential" activity, giving
to it the priority classification mak
ing available raw materials.
"4. A direct and forceful drive for
Government aid on a basis similar to
that which is used in the East, where
the Government has advanced 80 per
cent of the capital required, the bal
ance being furnished by the indus
tries in need of housing accommoda
tions. "It is entirely possible for our ship
companies and war industries to or
ganize a housing corporation which
could arrange to underwrite this re
quired 20 per cent of local capital and
control the expenditure of the Gov
ernment fundi."
Kamath Falls Cafe Sold.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or.. July 13.
(Special.) A change In a prominent
business In Klamath' Falls became ef
fective Thursday evening when Frank
Upp, a well-known Jeweler, and Man
uel Rivers took over Keller's Cafe, at
427 Main street, from Archie J. Wig
gins. Mr. Wiggins retires from the
local field after successfully operating
the business since early In 1911. He
has not definitely formulated his plans
for the future, m
Members of the Rnfua Thompson
T nioiaer. seated on Mrs. Thompson's Right. Mra. Ruth Banksi on Her
T Left. Mlas CaMe Thompson. Standing (Reading From Left to Right)
i Dr. Fred H. Thompaon. Professor Reuben Thompson. Mra. Mary
Parent. Mra. Meda Bonln, W. I.alr Thompaon and Mra. Jennie Flint. .
ALBAXT. Or. July IS. (Special.)
For the first time in their
lives the eight children of the
late Rufus Thompson met in a family
reunion In this city last Sunday. Two
of the older children had married and
left homo before the youngest was
born. While all of them have visited
back and forth many times it was the
first time all or them had been to
gether at the same time.
They met at the homo of their moth
er, which is Albany's famous octagonal
house, in which Mrs. Thompson grew to
young womanhood and in which she
reared all her children.
The eight children, all of whom were
present, are Mrs. Meda Bowles, of Se
attle, wife of C. D. Bowles, prominent
In the shipbuilding industry in Port
land: Mrs. Jennie Flint, of Oakland;
Reuben Thompson. Professor of Phil
osophy in the University of Nevada, at
Reno. Nevada: W. Lair Thompson, of
Portland, former president of the Ore
gon State Senate; Dr. Fred H. Thomp
son, a prominent physician, of Salem;
Mrs. Mary Parent, of Portland; Miss
Cassie Thompson, of Portland. and
Mrs. Ruth Banks, of Albany.
Dinner Feature of Reanlon.
Most of the children were accom
panied by their families and the day
was spent in a pleasant reunion with
a big family dinner.
The Thompson family has been a
prominent one in this section of the
state. Rev. Rufus Thompson, the
father, a former postmaster of Albany
and who was active for many years in
the life of this vicinity, died three and
a half years ago. Mrs. Addie M.
Thompson, the mother, is a daughter
of the late Rev. Reuben C. Hill, one
of the leading men in the early days
of' this section of the state. He was
LIFE INSURANCE ONE OF FEW
THINGS NOT HIGHER IN PRICE
Almost Everything Else Goes Up and Up and Up These Days, but Life
Insurance Costs Xo More Than Before, and Is Sure Form of Saving.
FOLLOWING the publication of Brad
street's Index containing statistics
to show how the cost of the necessities
of life had risen in late years, one or
the large New York dailies recently
conducted an examination into the
household economics or 20 representa
tive families whose heads were earn
ing salaries of $2000 or more annually.
In each case it was found that during
the last four years, not only had the
bills mounted inordinately, but that
cheaper food and clothing was being
used.
One man, an employe in a downtown
bank, who has a wife and two young
children, and whose solary in 1912 was
$2250, put by $400 in that year. In 1913
he received an increase of $250, but
was able to save only $300, and in the
following year. $100, a Christmas
present from his firm, was all that he
could bank.
Questioned by the reporter, he sad,
"My wife and I began to do a little
figuring and determined that IT we
were to set aside a little sum to take
care of us in our old age. as well as to
provide for a college training for our
children we would have to discharge
our maid. This was my wife's sug
gestion." Much emphasis has recently been put
APARTMENT HOUSE SOLD
A. C RlBY IS PURCHASER OF KIXG
ALBERT APARTMENTS.
Herbert Gordon Sells Property Jaat
Unlit at F.leventh and Montgomery, '
to Stock Breeder.
The King Albert apartments, occupy
ing two lots at the southwest corner ot
Eleventh and Montgomery streets, haa
been sold by Herbert Gordon, president
of the Lawyers Title & Trust Company,
to A. C. Ruby, well-known breeder of
and dealer in fine horses. The deeds
passed between the parties to the tran
saction Thursday.
The King Albert Is the newest apartment-house
in Portland, having been
built by Mr. Gordon and finished for
occupancy In the early Spring or this
year. There are 61 three-room apart
ments and IS with two rooms, com
plete with all modern appointments.
The structure would cost today to
erect under contract In the neighbor
hood or $125,000 to $135,000. It has
solid brick walla, faced with an at
tractive ahade of light-colored brick,
is five stories high and covers the
100 by 100 feet of ground with the
exception of light walls and a three
foot alley In the rear.
As consideration in the sale of this
property Mr. Gordon has accepted a
quarter block at the northwest corner
of Third and Montgomery streets,
known as lots 3 and 4. block 143, city
of Portland: one of the best wheat
ranches in Morrow County, having 800
acres and lying about eight miles south
of lone, and some cash. The figures
used in the trade were nominal.
This transaction was handled for
both parties by Edward E. Goudey.
Bridge Bids Are Sought.
MARSHFIELD, Or, July IS. (Spe
cial.) The Coos County Court has or
dered advertisements printed for bids
on a bridse S00 feel la length, to scan
f, . I .
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Family. Mra. Addle M. Thompson.
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one of the first physicians of ths
Willamette Valley and besides prac
ticing his profession he found time to
serve as a minister and school teacher
in pioneer days. He founded the First
Baptist Church of Albany and other
churches in this vicinity.
The Hill family is widely known In
different lines of activity throughout
the Northwest. Mrs. Thompson is a,
sister of W. Lair Hill, one of the best
known lawyers of the Pacific Coast;
Dr. J. L. Hill, of this city, widely
known as a physician, student and man,
of affairs: G. A. Hill, former County
Clerk of Linn County, who now resides
in Seattle, and Taylor Hill, of Portland.
Thompson Honse la Fantona.
The large house which has been th
home of the Thompson family is an ob
ject of historic interest in this section,
of the state because of its octagonal
form in which it was built. Because of
Its age and shape it has been supposed
it was built in this form in early days
to afford protection against the In
dians, but this is really not the cane.
This house was built In 1S54 by Rev.
James 1". Millar, who erected It for a
Presbyterian girls" boarding school. He
went to Portland to arrange to furnish
it and on the way home was killed in
the explosion of the steamer Gazelle
at Canemah. The house was built ex
actly on the same plan as the first
Linn County Courthouse was, which
stood In the same vicinity.
This house was purchased by Mrs.
Thompson's father when she was a
young woman and she lived there as a
girl. Upon her marriage she occupied
It and has resided there ever since.
The house originally stood at the cor
ner of Fifth and Walnut streets, but
was removed several years ago to Sec
ond and Washington streets, now stand
ing on the site of the first house ever
built in Albany.
upon the fact that despite the increased
cost of necessities the price of life in
surance still remains the same. In
fact some forms are lower than form
erly. Commenting upon this situation an
official of one or the large life in
surance companies, who had had tha
story called to his attention remarked:
"Here again is an instance where a
man could have achieved his desire
as well as eliminating his worry by
taking out. say, endowment insurance.
"He might have divided his savings
between two such policies, one on his
own life for protection against old
age. and the balance in policies on 'bis
children, to mature when they ar
ready to enter college. Or a like policy
placed on his own life could be used as
collateral to secure a loan to pay for
their education.
"It seems a crime, with so many
types of policies on the market today
that would suit his needs, that - he
should have had to worry this way
when any agent could have found the
solution to his dilemma in 10 minutes.
Why. think, at the age or 30 a man
can obtain a $1000 10-year endow
ment in any old line company for about
$100 a year, and this is equal to the
smallest amount he saved annually
since 1912."
the couth fork of the Coquille River at
Powers. The bridge is a much-needed
convenience at the new Coos County
city and when completed will eliminate
a round-about method of transporting
freight and other material across tho
river at that point. The atructure may
be of either eteel or wood and the bida
will be opened at the August session ot
the court.
Aberdeen's Population Grows.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. July 13. (Spe
cial.) Aberdeen's population has in
creased by 150 families in the past si
months, according to the records of the
water department, which show 150 mora
homes receiving water than were con
nected with the city mains on January
1. The rapid growth is expected to
continue, now that some 60 new homes
are to be completed here within the
next 60 days.
Read The Oreironlan classified ads.
Directory) of Prominent
Life Insurance Agenciem
Members of Life Undenvrilen
Association of Oregon.
Wm Goldmin. General Minaicr.
NATIONAL. i.IFE OK VEKUUNT.
Oresonian Bids.
It. O. Colton, Manager.
MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL. LIFK.
Chamber ot Commerce Bids.
y. I Harmon. General A cent.
VENN MUTUAL. LtFK.
Norttiwratern Hank Hide
Horace Mrcklem. Manager.
NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL, Lira.
Northwestern Bank Bids.
M. M. Johnson.
JTEW WORLD I.lFli I.NSUIUXCI CO
'02 Plevena Bids-
H. H. Albee. General Agent.
IWESTEHX MUTUAL. LIKE 1KB. CO.
uii " " 1 ...... . .j . . ... i
T. H. SlrAllla. State Vr..
CNION MUTUAL. LIKE INS. Ctt.
Board of Trade Bids.
Ed car W. Smith. Manager.
EQUITABLK I.IFE Al-SURANOB lOCtETY.
tfoti OrcgoiuaA .H.ag