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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1919)
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, rORTLAXD, JANUARY 19, 1919. 11 STATE HIGHWAYS TO G1VESDLDIERSWDRK Wen to Be Placed on Three Rivers Road Project. EMERGENCY PLANS ARE OUT the next meeting If the labor appears available. Three Rivers, where Engineer Nunn can use 60 soldiers at once, is a Job now in -progress. It is on the road to Tillamook via Sheridan. Willamtna and Grand Ronde Reservation. The Government is co-operating on this work, which is a $90,000 project. Grad ing is being made for a 16-foot road, although the original plan was for a nine-foot strip. There are 11 miles of grading to be done. One thing the Legislature will be asked to do quickly by the highway commission will be the enactment of a law creating a revolving fund of $30, 000 so that soldiers or other employes can be paid when they leave a Job. Un der the present system it is necessary or a workman to wait two weeks for his pay. By having slight change in the law, a revolving fund can be cre ated, placed under control of the State Commission Desires to Hold Conference WUli legislative Committees at Salem. Vo discuss the financial end of starting force account jobs to give employment to discharged soldiers and eailorg, the State Highway Commis sion will meet with the roads and highways committees of the Legisla ture Monday. Meanwhile, Highway Engineer Herbert Nunn has been in structed to engage about 60 soldiers and sailors to work on the Three Rivers road project at once. As yt't the commission has received no official notice of the adoption of the joint resolution by the Legislature tn which the commission is requested to stare force account work to help solve the problem of idle labor. W. L. Thompson, acting chairman of the com mission, learned by telegraph that the resolution was adopted and called a special meeting of the commission yes terday; instructions were issued to En gineer Nunn, arrangement made with the chairmen of the Senate and House committees for the Monday conference; new prospective work was considered and conferences were held with the ex ecutive committee of the Oregon Cham ber of Commerce and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Commission appointed by Gov ernor Withycombe. The state highway commission has been moving rapidly. Estimates to Be Rushed. We want to meet the wishes of the legislature," stated Commissioner R. A. Booth, "and have asked to meet with, the joint committee at Salem with the view of letting them know our program and asking further informa tion about things in the resolution which are not plain to us. The engi neering force has been instructed to rush estimates on projects east and west of the mountains." The commission has the impression that it will probably have to provide emergency work covering a period of three months, after which time the regular road work season opens. The money which may be expended in the three months will approximate $500, 000. What the Commission desires to make plain to the Legislature and peo ple of the state is that road work under weather conditions at this sea son is costly and that it will be more expensive to perform this work now than later. As Commissioner Thomp son puts it, "It ia poor business to build roads at this time of year, but we are ready to build them, with the understanding that the public knows the work cannot be done as economi cally as later." Soldiers to Have Preference. Oskar Huber, the Kern Construction Company and Johnson & Son, who were awarded contracts last week, appeared before the Highway Commission yes terday and expressed a willingness to give a preference to soldiers and sail ors on their respective jobs. When these jobs get under way they will em ploy scores of men. There is a bill pending in the Legislature which, if passed, makes it mandatory to give preference to Oregon soldiers, sailgrs and marines, honorably discharged, on road and similar state work. With the State Highway Commission operating projects on force account in the wet season to afford employment for soldiers, it is estimated that the cost will be about 25 per cent above normal. The camps which private con tractors provide would not be consid ered sufficient if the Highway Com mission is doing the work, and having a sentiment toward the comfort of the returned troops. Nor can a man do eight hours of work for eight hours' pay in the rain and mud. This means inefficiency and .increases the cost of the job. These are matters which Com missioner Thompson wishes to take up with the committees of the Legislature. Jf the Legislature is satisfied, then the commission will be. Highway Programme Overlooked.- There is another matter which causes the commission some astonishment. This is the suggestion, made by Sena tor Thomas, and evidently the impres sion of the Soldiers', and Sailors' Com mission and the executive committee of the Oregon Chamber of Commerce that the- State Highway Commission jormuiaie a pian lor road work for this year. Such plan has been laid out una given puDncity in the daily press .... ii. o xuuua AvanaDie ior the year have been appropriated: many contracts let and bids called for on nine more i'l mj new projects Tor February 4 Notwithstanding all this, and th. licity. the commissioners discover that the people who are urging them to think up work so the soldiers can have employment, have not read any of the highway programme. In order to provide work immediately iu.vc atcuuni, me commission will have to anticipate some of the proj ects intended for construction later in the year. The imposed conditions will consume more money now than if the same jobs were handled in the dry sea ron. It is possible to start within a very short time the birr cradinr projected for Morrow, Sherman, and uunam counties. Nine Jobs A Trait Contracts. mine jods ror which bids will be opened in 10 days are: Douzlaa Cnnntv grading tram Drain to a point one mile couth of Tancalla, a distance of five nines; grading miles from the Jo eepnine-jjougias line to State Coach Pass; Benton County, paving 10.5 miles irom i-oiK bounty line to Corvallis: .In eephine County, paving six miles from t, rants Fass south to Josephine County line; Washington ' County. paving 11.5 miles from Multnomah line to Heave rton; Morrow County, grading Columbia River Highway across county, also graveling It; con crete over-head crossing at Divide, eoumern Oregon. Aside from the foregoing, the com mission announced yesterday that other projects will be prepared before State Highway Engineer, himself under bonds, and cash will be available when men want their "time." YIISS GRACE DAWSON DIES IXFLUEXZA RESULTS IX ATTACK OF HEART FAILURE. GROWING DEAF WITH HEAD NOISES? TRY THIS If you are trowing hard of hearing and fear Catarrhal Deafness, or If you have roaring. rumbling1, hissing noises In you ears so to your druggist and get 1 ounce of Parmint (double strength), and add to it pint of hot water and a little granulated sugar. Take 1 tablespoonf ul four times ; day. This will often bring quick relief from th distressing head noises. Clogged nostril should open, breathing become easy and th mucus stop dropping into the throat. It 1; AGED PIONEER "WOMAN VANCOUVER DIES. OF Mrs. Priscllla Sparks. VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 18. 'Special.) The funeral of Mrs. ' Priscilla Sparks, 86 years old and a pioneer of this city, will be held from the home, 602 West Tenth street, at 12:30 o'clock Sunday, January 19. Rev. R. H. Sawyer, pastor of the East Side Christian Church, Portland, but formerly of this city, will officiate and inter ment will be in the City Ceme tery by the side of her husband, who died 28 years ago. The three sons and .four daughters, 25 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren will be present at the services. Well-Known Musician Passes Away at Home Following Brief Illness. Miss Grace E. Dawson, about 26 years old, a well-known Portland soprano and piano accompanist, and residing at 212 Eleventh street, died yesterday morning from influenza. Ten days ago Miss Dawson, who was accompanist for J. William Belcher, was apparently in her usual good health. About a week ago Miss Dawson said she did not feel well, and Mr. Belcher advised her to go home, which she did, although unwillingly. The influenza attack that followed affected Miss Daw son's heart, but her fri nde did not think then that her illness would have fatal termination. Yesterday morn- ng. shortly before 9 o'clock. Miss Daw son s cousin called, and Miss Dawson said she had had a good night. "But won t you please turn on the light," asked the sick girl. "It is get ting quite dark." "It is daylight outside, remarked the cousin, wonderingly. Just then Miss Dawson smiled quietly and died. Miss Dawson was born in St. Paul, Minn., and came to live in this city about eight years ago. Her beautiful soprano voice, in which there was an appealing, spiritual quality in song, made her many friends. For two years she was a member of St. Mary's Ca thedral choir, and was a solo soprano there. She was a leading member of Mr. Belcher's Schubert Club, and lat terly sang in the chorus choir of the Central Presbyterian Church. Before she was stricken with her last illness Miss Dawson attended a relative's fu neral in Seattle. AUTO THIEVES ARRESTED Five Boys Taken by Police lor Re cent Depredations. George Weidmerkiller, li, was ar rested yesterday by Inspectors Maloney and Smith and charged with the lar ceny of an automobile owned by Dr. J. J. Panton of the Selling building. Police say five boys were involved in the theft, among them Peter Maul and Alex. Martheller, each 17, who were arrested Friday by Inspectors Maloney and La Salle, charged with eight bur glaries and the theft of an automobile. Maul and Martheller were turned over to the Juvenile Court yesterday. Inspector Smith also arrested Clif ford Abram and Henry Knecht, each 17 years old. for theft of automobile tires from 441 Hawthorne avenue. Police say the boys have confessed, and will be turned over to the Juvenile Court. Deep January Reductions Are in Effect Throughout the Entire Store Now is the Time to Furnish a Home from this Great Furniture Stock. Reduced for Clearance Living Room and Library Pieces $ 65.00 Overstuffed Fireside Chair. S51.20 $ 85.00 Overstuffed Fireside Chair S68.75 $ 62.50 Tapestry Overstuffed Rocker S53.85 $ 23.75 Tapestry Upholstered Mahogany Rocker $18.75 $100.00 Mahogany and Cane Davenport S55 75 $ 75.00 Mahogany and Cane Chair to match S42.50 $ 19.50 Mahogany Chair only S10.75 $ 62.50 Mahogany and Cane Chair or Rocker S48.50 $ 17.50 Fumed Oak Leather Upholstered Rocker. -S13.85 $ 23.00 Frosted Brown Willow Rocker 18.75 $ 22.00 Frosted Brown Willow Chair S18.25 $125.00 Tapestry Upholstered Davenport S98.50 Sale Hall Clocks $150 Golden Oak Colonial Hall Clock $97.50 J90 Fumed Oak Hall Clock...S.".".Ou J80 Fumed Oak Hall Clock..$o5.00 Curtains and Draperies ATTRACTIVELY REDUCED $4 Curtains $2.85 Linoleum Reduced EXTRA Regular $15 Blue Band 54- tf - o r- Set SJi X piece Dinner GOVERNMENT SALE IS HUGE War Equipment Represents Outlay of Several Million Dollars. Dispersal of a large portion of the $10,000,000 worth of property in which every liberty bond holder has a greater or smaller share ana which the spruce Production Corporation is to effect Feb ruary 15, is said to be about the second largest sale of Government property ever held. The sale of Panama Canal equipment takes first rank, of course Most of the equipment has been gath ered at Vancouver, where intending buyers may inspect It upon first ob taining proper credentials from the sale board, at headquarters in the Yeon building. Portland. Major Watson Eastman is president of the board. Father and Daughter Die. HOOD RIVER. Or.-. Jan. 18. (Spe cial.) Irma Carrie Matheny, aged 11 years, died today of influenza a few hours after her' father, W. R. Matheny, who succumbed to the epidemic Thurs day, was buried. Her mother and 11 other children survive the little girl whose funeral will be held tomorrow. Six other, members of the family who have been ill are believed to be past the critical stage. Turn to Cartozlan Bros. advertise to take. Anyone who i. threatened wlth ment of their Oriental rug sale on page Catarrhal Deafness or who has head noises 10 this section. All rugs reduced. should give Hum prescription a trials Adv"Y Reed and Willow Furniture $20.75 Ivory Reed Tea Wagon SI 4. 85 $28 Ivory Willow Chair, tapestry seat S21.75 $25 Ivory Reed Floor Lamp S18.50 $32.50 Ivory Reed Floor Lamp S14.75 $34.25 Ivory Willow Break fast Table S23.75 $13 Ivory Willow Breakfast Chairs (4) to match S9.85 Bedroom Suites and Pieces $221 Five-Piece Ivory Enamel Bedroom JSuite with mahogany trimmings; dust-proof construc tion; a very hand- Q" A Q fT fk some suite .'. Ol7UU Dining Room Pieces Deeply Reduced $30 Solid Oak Extension Table; 45-inch top, 6-foot extension $25.25 fi.75 Dining Chairs, leather slip seats $3.85 $50 Golden Oak Extension Table; 54-inch, 8-foot ex tension $29.oO $65 Walnut Buffet at $39.85 $55 Walnut Buffet priced. .$33.75 $33.50 Walnut Serving Ta ble to match $22.50 $11.75 Walnut Chair to match, at $ 7.85 $150 Solid Mahogany Ex tension Table; 54-in., 8 foot extension $78. oO $185 Solid Mahogany Buffet to match $123.50 $62 Mahogany China Closet priced only $11.75 These are Marquisettes and voiles in cream, beige and white; dainty edgings and filet insertions; 2Vi yards long priced $2.85 the pair. 40c Crossbar Voile Priced at 29c Well mercerized voile in cream, beige and white; 36 inches wide. Ecru Net Curtains Half Price $13.50 Curtains, pair $fl.75 $10.00 Curtains, pair $5.00 $ 7.75 Curtains, pair $3.85 $ 4.50 Curtains, pair $2.25 69c Regular $1.00 Felt -Base Printed Linoleum in a limited number of patterns; small designs; the yard Window Shades 65c Full size 36x6 Shades, in all the staple colors; complete, ready for service. Used Range Bargains One Monarch Malleable Range, like new, with gas attach ment; pin water front $85 One South Bend Malleable Range, in perfect condition. .$50 One Reliable Range; rebuilt; only $30 it . An Pittsburgh' Electric Vacuum Cleaner at a Modest Price Gets all the dirt and dust. Equipped with a powerful motor. Tested and proven thoroughly efficient. $30 Sweepers, $23.75 Used Gas Ranges Two Cole's High-Oven Gas and Wood Ranges $45 One New Method High-Oven Gas Range $30 One Stewart Four-Burner Gas Range; new; large oven; only $29.85 $19 Solid Mahogany Bed room Arm Chair; rush seat $12.50 $17.50 Solid Mahogany Bed- 'room Rocker to' match; rush seat . .$11.00 $80 Mahogany Dresser re duced to $62.75 $210 Birdseye Maple Dress er and Chiffonier $184.75 $32.50 Golden Quartered Oak Dressing Table $25.25 $62.50 Circassian Walnut Chiffonier $44.75 $14 Golden Quartered Oak Bedroom Rocker $ 8.75 SPECIAL CLEARANCE Mahogany Settees AT HALF PRICE $42 Solid Mahogany Settee$21.00 $54 Solid Mahogany Settee$27.00 $80 Solid Mahogany Settee$40.00 $90 Solid Mahogany Settee and Chair $45.00 $35 3-Piece Mahogany Fin ish Parlor Suite $17.50 $75 Mahogany Settee and Chair $37.50 1 cTTi e T mm I I li I 1 A Great Clearance! $55AxminsterRugs$43.50 j Smith's Axminster and Big-elow Electra Axminsters in 9x12 size; selected patterns reduced for clearance. $27.50 Rugs Only $20.85 Fine Axminsters; also Smith's Wool Velvet Seamless Colonial Rugs in 6x9 size; a large and pleasing assort ment of patterns. Rugs shown on the. second floor. m r dm) Sum 1 Washingten at Fifth IRTSflNT T TST ClT iS Washington at Fifth Wear a Mask and Save a Life Wear a Mask and Save a Life TWO IN BANK PROMOTED NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL AD VANCES OFFICIALS. Edgar II. Sensenich, Cashier, Made Vice-President and II. B. Nelson Is Chosen as Cashier. Two members of the Northwestern National Bank's force were promoted at the directors' meeting- Friday after noon. Edg-ar H. Sensenich. cashier, was chonen a vice-president, and Roy H. B. Nelson, an assistant cashier, was made cashier. Mr. Sensenich had been chosen a director Tuesday. Promotion of the two men came as recognition 01 meritorious services on the recom mendation of the chief executives or the bank. Officers of the bank re-elected are: President and chairman of the board, H. L. Pittock; vice-presirervt and man ager, fcJmery uimsieaa; vice-premuciii.. Lloyd L,. Mulit; assistant to tne presi dent. O. L. Price: assistant cashiers. Ueorsre W. Hoyt. Frank O. Bates. Arthur C. Longshore and Carl Detering. The directors include the president, three vice-presidents, the assistant to the resident, and A. D. Charlton, J-r. A. S. Nichols. Judge John Twohy. Nat McDougall, George IL K.elly, ana vv. Leadbetter. ' Increasing- business during the last year has resulted in aouDiing tne bank's capital, and In the acquisition of more room in the building. Still more sDace will be available next month. Mr. Sensenich entered the Portland banking field in December, 1911, com- nir from Philadelphia, where Me was with the Merchants' National Bank. Mr. Nelson entered the banking business with the National Bank 01 Commerce, of Seattle, and came to the Portland Trust Company in 1911. ARMY INSPECTOR INVITED Seven Companies of National Guard May Represent Oregon. Reauest is being made by Adjutant General Charles F. Beebe to the West ern Department of the Army that an inspector be sent to Oregon to scrutinize the new National Guard companies ready to be mustered into existence. General Beebe expects that by the time the inspector can be sent here at least five companies will be ready for for mal admission to the National Guard. Seven companies, including four in Portland and one each In La Grande. Iugene and Salem, have their ranks practically filled now, he reports. It is expected that Portland wiU get the first battalion. Regimental head quarters will also be in this city. FIVE DEATHS IN ONE FAMILY Death Takes Heavy Toll Inside of 2 4 Hours. Five members of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baldwin, 453 Dvia street, died of Influenza - within !4 hours last week. The first to die was Frank Johns. Mrs. Baldwin's father, who succumbed to the disease Thursday. His four grandchildren died Friday mornlnc The names of the children are: Joel, aced 12 years: Robert. 10: Maud. . and Frances, 9. Funeral services for all five will be held simultaneously. Mr. Johns was 63 years old. lie came to Portland a year ago from Boise, Idaho. He Is survived by his widow, two daughters. Mrs. Baldwin and Miss Dewey Johns, and two Bona, Frank and Abraham Johns. 'FLU' SPREADS AT SPOKANE Nearly 11,000 Cases Reported Since Epidemic First Started. SPOKANE. Jan. 18. (Special.) There has been a noticeable Increase in Influenza during the last week, ac cord in fir to reports of the city health office. Both Influenza and pneumonia reports have Increased, but there has been no particular Increase in the num ber of deaths. At noon today there had been 15 new rases of "flu" and three of pneumonia added to the records. Yesterday there were 39 cases of "flu" and seven of pneumonia. The total for the week Is 2S5 cases of influenza and 24 of pneumonia, or a daily average of more than 33 cases of "flu" and three of pneumonia. The number of deaths during the week was 16. During the epidemic there have been 10.960 Influenza, cases, &60 pneu monia cases and 4&7 deaths reported. REFUND MADE TO NATION Insurance Officer Active In Behalf of Soldiers Dependent. For the first time since the Army Quartermaster Depot, of Portland, has had an Insurance officer on the Job of helping relatives with problem relat- ' ' f ' M rrr CjOOO Uum. 4 Before or After Influenza BY LE UiatBEKT SMITH. M. IX These minute perms enter the body thro nose, throat and Ion pa. and the first symptoms develop in from two to four days. It is important to practise personal cleanliness a clean skin, mouth and nose, clean bowels. Avoid the person who coughs and sneezes. Sleep well, eat well, play well. Drink plenty of water, hot or cold lemonade. Then keep the bowels active. Every other day take castor oil, or a purjjative made of May apple, leaves of aloe, jalap, and and rolled into a tiny, sugrar coated pill, sold by druggist aa Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. In the attack of Influenza nature's effort to remove the poisons from the body often results in inflammation of the kidneys, and so it Is well to help nature's effort by inducing ' perspiration, with hot lemonade and hot mustard foot-baths, and hot water bottles. Obtain of your druggist a kidney and backache remedy, known as "An uric" (anti-uric) tablets. ThesA help flush the bladder, kidneys, and the intestines, and act as aa antiseptic, and if taken either before, or during the attack lessen the pain and the danger to the kidneys. When the attack is over and it leaves you in a weakened, pale, anemic condition, it would be well to obtain an iron tonic at the drug stored A good one is . Irontic " Tablets, or if you prefer an herbal tonic, a good one is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, made from wild roots and barks of forest trees, and without alcohol. For those past middle life, for those easily recognized symptoms of inflammation, as backache, tlAing water," or if uric acid in the blood has caused rhumatasm, "rusty" joints, stiffness, get Anuric at the drug store, or send Dr. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., 10 cents for trial package of Anuric, which you will find many times more potent than lithia and eliminates uric acid as hot tea meltsrugv JL short trial will convince youu Ins; to allotments and war risk Insur anace, an appticant has obllg-ed the Treasury department to take back a few dollars received in overpayment. The advisor, whom all relatives In Portland and Portland territory should consult about overdue allotments and soldier insurance ma11lrit. ha iurt taken up permanent quarters in room 323 of the new puxtoffice buildinir. He may be consulted there during business hours, or persons out in the stale may write. Phone your want ads to The Orego nlan. Main 707. A HO"!v I Only Charge for Actual Work' I Put in Your Mouth! a DH. K. . AlSPl.r.M). Mf.R. My Practice Is United to Hick - Clans Oeatiatry Only at Prices Kveryne Cast Afford. Not for My Reputation! MONEY CANNOT BUY COMMON SENSE, BUT COM MON SENSE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY If yoa daail know where tie net dollar tn m I k from, t a I k where the 1 ft t oie w n f and prsd the seit one wlaely. Millions of dollars are spent every year In dental offices without adequate return. Perhaps fortv cents on the dollar goes for ACTlAL SKRVK'K KKNPKRKD and sixty cents goes for imaginary REPUTA TION AND STANDING of the dentist. Conservation, like charity, should besln t home, and In the homes. This is the richest Nation in all the M-orlrl. hut we have not a dollar to waste. Paying for SlMKTHlNrt YOU ION-T (iKT in willftrl wattle a sin acrainst the individual and against the great Nation of which you are a part. , T have demonstrated for the past 14 years, and proved to thousands of people, that honest, competent ious. dependable, riurable dentiMrv is possible at HAI.K THK PKHICS CHAKGKP BY THK H 1 Hi-1 'K ICF.1 PRIVATK IJKNTISTS. and have also proved that in THIS HKF1CK the best materials CAN be used and the work performed by skilled, gradu ate, registered dentists at these prices. ro not get the Impression for one moment that 1 am advocating cheap" or "hodiy" dentistry, for that would be even (rreater extrava gance than hisrh-priced tiOoC dentistry. Do not think that my patients are not able to pay more than mv prices or that I cater only to the leHK fortunate people MY PRICES ARE KOR GUARANTEED DEN TISTRY WORK THAT IS SKIEEKUIJEY PONE. WITH A VIEW OK SIUHTEINESS. PERMANENCE AND HONEST VALUE. The well-to-do KNOW THIS AND PATRONIZE THIS OFFICE because they use their common sense and save their dollars. That la WHY they are "well-to-do." Open Nights AM Work Guaranteed 15 Years Electro Painless Dentists IN THE TWO-STORY BUILDING Corner Sixth and Washington Sts., Portland, Or.