THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1916.
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STATE STOCKMEN
BANKERS END YEARLY
CONVENTION AT BAKER
i Governor Withycombe Coh-
"gratulates Association on
Success of Its Short Life,
RURAL CREDITS DISCUSSED
Vatttsal System Against ltate System
tm TaTOted "by Himblii X.a
Hru4 lut Convention city
April' hereafter,' inatend of February.
Bad weather Mealtated .'. poatpoaa
ment this year. Many resolution ware
adopted by the stockmen, one of the
moat Important bains that; the O. A.
C. be requested to matte a; aurvey of
tha cost of mowing livestock in Ore
aon. that the brand inspector allow no
one but members to eee the brand
book, that certain sections of areitn
lawa be repealed, that legislation be en
acted prohibiting manipulation of
prices, that to this end the marketing
committee of the national association
be made permanent, that tha thanka
of the convention be extended to Baker
county stockmen and the Commercial
club for the entertainment, and all
others responsible for the courtesy
extended.
Z.a Oranfle Vex Keettar aiaea.
Tha annual assessment was fixed at
3 cents a head. La Grande wae chosen
the next meeting place.
Today Baker is entertaining an
other convention, the Grande Ronde
district of tha M. E. church opening
a two day session. About 200 clergy
and lay delegate are expected.
Baker. Or. May . With the annual
f?J nearly 400 atockmen and bankers of
," j Oregon, tha annual convention or the
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ciaiion cioaeu.
',' Secretary S. O. Correll presided ss
toastmaster, the principal speaker
being Governor Withycombe. whose re
marks were largely congratulatory to
UjJ tha association on the strong or(?aniza
i.ition developed In the three years of
j,llU life.
of) Other prominent speakers and atock
14 men aJso responded. All expressed ap
c preclatlon at the hospitality shown by
fl. Baker and the entertainment offered
for their pleasure,
j i r ;t' Shakespeare's Plays OlTeu.
l" following the morning session, ad
( joarnment was taken by the stockmen
"i until f p. m. ao all could witness the
f ! Shakespearean pageant, which trav
Cjeread the business section of the city
t f to tha high school where a program of
1 Scenes from plays was given on a
f ' stage representing the old Globe tbe
t ' at r of Shakespeare's day.
' ;! Sereral hundred took part. There
3 'wart 26 floats, showing Shakespearean
J ' scenes and tableaux.
' .! At S p. m. Governor Withycombe ad
; 'dressed the convention on the subject
( ' of better livestock, speaking at length
. J on tha stock industry of Oregon, which
' was characterised as one of tha state's
greatest resources.
, f Ha spoke of the better standard of
j Stock breeding in Oregon as compared
n to a few years ago and optimistically
0 of tha future prosperity.
"The Cow the Horse, the Banker."
waa the subject of an address by Pres
ident W. L. Thompson of the American
j National bank, Pendleton, referring to
- the present relations of banks and
atockmen and proposed rural credits,
which he foreseen will cement relations
closer.
In the forenoon group six of the
Oregon Bankers' Association held a
; business session. Joining with the
i 4 atockmen in the afternoon meeting and
at banquet Fifty bunkers of eastern
Oregon were welcomed by Mayor
t Palmer, Mr. Thompson responding.
nt Karal Credits Discussed.
. . ' Rural credits was the principal gub
th, J,ct of discussion, the association go
lfing On record as favoring a national
v system against the state system.
A Tha main business was the admls-
alon of Umatilla banks, 19 in number,
til to. membership In group six. authorised
n by the executive committee of the
fof State Bankers' Association,
rf,,, Umatilla was originally placed in
U) group five, which was never organ
t" ised.
f- v Winiam MllleY. La Grande National,
W alected president; W. If. Holmes,
Wallowa National of Enterprise, vice
all President: C XV. Wrla-ht nanlr f
Haines, treasurer; II. A. Sonne. Baker
I, Loan and Trust, secretary.
j : - Resolutions Adopted.
",Tt was decided to hold meetings In
YOUTHS SUSPECTED OF
SETTING DEPOT AFIRE
BREAK JAIL AT ALBANY
Boys Claiming 16 as Their
Age Told Sheriff Fire Was
Started "Just for Fun."
Albany, Or., May 3. Word has been
sent out broadcast for the arrest of
two youths, 16 years old, giving the
names of Harold Pentecost and Wil
fred Rodgers of Tacoma, who broke
out of the city Jail, Monday night after
their arrest on a charge of petty
i&rceny, and who are believed to hare
set fire to (ha depot at Buasard sta
tion, resulting In the destruction of
the depot and a warehouse near by.
They arrived In town the night before
last on a freight train, according to
Chief of Police Cat 11 n.
A short time afterwards Chief
Catlln was called to the home of Mrs.
Elisabeth Chlswell, who gave a de
scription that tallied with that of the
boys, and said they attempted to rob
her home.
The next morning Chief Catlln ar
rested them on the railroad tracks
between Bussard and Thomas station.
Chief Catlln says he asked the boys
why they set fire to the depot and
that they replied "Just for fun."
The boys were confined in a cell on
the second floor of the jail. In
making their escape, they pried off
the boards in the rear wall of the
jail with bara from two iron cots in
their celL
Roseburg Cleans Up.
Roseburg, Or., May 3. Roseburg
held a clean up day Monday, and teams
from the street cleaning department
CHARGE
OF
FILED AGAINST MAN
ACCUSED BY TEACHER
Alleged School Director at
Fairview, Or,, Has Been
Around School With a Gun.
Pendleton, Or.. May 8. Tha latest
development In the controversy which
has agitated the Fairview section of
the county for some weeks was the
issuance Tuesday of a citation requir
ing O. W. McDoyle, prominent farmer,
to appear in court and submit to ex
amination as to his sanity. The case
grows out of the charges of a girl
school teacher in a district of which
McDoyle Is one of the directors, that
he made improper advances to ner.
Her affidavit, filed with the school
board, resulted in his securing her ar
rest for criminal libel. The clerk of
the board now files a petition alleg
ing that he Is insane and dangerous,
and declaring that he is terrorizing
the teacher and pupils by his appear
ances about the school with a gun.
Sheriff Taylor has gone to arrest
McDoyle. lie lives three miles from
Touchet, Wash., but Just Inside tha
County line.
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New York City Now
Is Political Hotbed
New York, Mar S. (U. P.) With
the return of Theodore Roosevelt
and the opening of the Root and D'l
Pont booms, presidential politics be
came active today.
Regular Republicans regard Roose
velt's statement as a profession of
the colonel solely for himself, voicing
a hope that the convention will nomi
nate "a man upon whom the Republi
cans and Progressives can combine."
Parent-Teachers to
Meet at Roseburg
Roseburg, Or., May 3. A convention
of Parent-Teachers associations of
Douglas county will be held in Rose
burg on Thursday and Friday of this
week. Addresses will be heard from
Mrs. George McMath, state president;
Mrs. F. S. Myers, of Portland; Miss
Helen Brooks, of O. A. C, as well as
from a number of local people.
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WALTER H. HOLT.
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1. W,tuM Bsiea wsowa
H U3 Tailoring Dept.
hauled away rubbish, for all citiaeng
free of charge.
S. V. Traiii Leaves
Tracks Near Baker
Baffin Tuva Completely Orer Sat Wo
On la Injured Srokem lufi Be
ponsible for Aoddeat Antoa Bent.
Baker, Or., May I. A Sumpter Val
ley passenger train running late into
Baker last evening, jumped the track
after leaving the South Baker atation.
The engine and one car left the track,
the engine turning completely over,
but Engineer Thomas Courtney and the
fireman jumped to safety.
The passengers were badly shaken
up, but none was seriously hurt. Auto
busses were sent from the city to
bring the passengers In. The train
was running slowly or oss of life
would have been inevitable. A broken
flange on the engine is believed to
be responsible.
ALL ALBANY TEACHERS
WITH ONE EXCEPTION
ELECTED BY BOARD
Miss Jessie Paynter of Michi
gan Will Teach Music and
Art in Miss Patton's Place.
Albany, Or., May 2. With one ex
ception, every teacher in the local pub
lic schools has been reelected by the
school board. Tha new teacher la
Miss Jessie Paynter of Michigan. She
will take Miss Lenore Patton's place
as teacher of muslo and art:
Those elected are: High School
W. B. Toung, principal; W. C Woods.
H. C. Clifford, C. P. Stevens, Lulu"
Heist. Aurelia Burch, Mae Lewis. Maud
Miller. Lillian Thordarson, Winifred
Patton. E. A. Hudson.
Junior HlghO. K. Flnnerty, prin
cipal; Myrtle Worley. Minnie Mc
Court. Edna Metcalf. Nellie Williams.
Zilpha Galloway, Rae Hudson, Marga
ret Riley, Nellie Pat. Myrtle Curry,
Letha McCul lough. Vera Tracy. Zella
Burkhart. Lttte Morgan.
Junior High (Madison School) O.
D. Byers, principal; Dorothy Shank,
Annie Mayne, Bertha Braden, Edith
McCourt, Elisabeth Ryan,
Maple School W. A. Scott, prin
cipal; Pansy Colby, Ella Thocker. Jo
hanna Neilson, Mable Schulta, Maud
Wills.
East School Mrs. Anna Hodgklns,
principal: Gertrude Buchler.
Jessie Paynter, muelo and art; J, F.
Lau, band and orchestra; C. W. Bot
techer, city superintendent.
. Will Stay In Dallas.
Rev. John B. Slater, a minister of
Dallas, Texas, with whom the commit
tee of the Plrat Christian church has
corresponded with a view toward a
New President of
Mills College Named i
:
AarelU Henry Betnhardt, V. Of 0. X
tension X.ectu-er on rngllsli fclter
are, Honored Mr Xleetlon,
Oakland, Cal.. May 8. (U. RI-Au-relia
Henry R-inhardt. University of
California extension lecturer on Eng-"
lish literature and chairman of litera
ture of the California Federation of.
Woman's Clubn. v... .i.
president of Mills college, at T)aklano.
After her graduation from the Uni-ij
versity of California in 1908 sua
u.v uiiu,u in, v diversity oi ,
Idaho. She is the widow of Dr.
George F. Relnhardt, one time pro
fessor of hygiene and head of the in
firmary at the University of California.
possible call to the local church o
succeed Rev. George F. Darsle, has de
cided to stay in Dallas. 1
Trad-
Adveirtkiinig
To hjio
Sa
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To firmly fix in the minds of more people our business
location and the popular low prices at which we sell cloth
ing, we are going to sacrifice all profit and call it good
advertising on a large quantity of pure wool suits at the
extremely low price of
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H. A. WALKER.
Wholesale Tailoring Dept.
No need to say they're worth $20 to $25. One look will readily show their value.
Enough to say here they're splendid early Spring and Summer Suits . made from
Oregon Grown Wool, the cloth spun and woven in Oregon Mills, and the suits them
selves hand tailored right here in our Portland shops by Portland Tailors.
The Brownsville Woolen Mills Guarantee of Perfect
Satisfaction or a New Suit Free Goes in This Sale
M. U HARDWICIC,
Salesman,
Our Custom Tailoring Department
Also Offers a Big Advertising Special
for the same reason of thorouhlv advertising and brinin our Custom Tailoring De-
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Choice of a Large Variety of Suitings at Only
A. B. AKNKSEN.
Salesman.
Our retail custom tailoring depart
ment is growing by leaps and
bounds, due to the fact that we are
in a position to dve the greatest
value for the money. This department is in
charge of Mr. M. F. Deely, who is ably assisted
20
by two cutters who thoroughly un
derstand cutting, either conserva
tive or fancy, stylish suits. This
gives us an exceptional opportunity
to look after your tailoring needs. Take advan
tage of this sale and you'll make us your tailors always. 6
E. J. PTERSON.
BaJesman.
Men Whom You May Know Put Your Finger on the Spot
Look into the faces of the men whose pictures are
shown on this page. They are not here to parade their
good looks, but to get their business connection prop
erly located in the eyes of their friends. These men
are doing things in trie clothing business in Portland
and are here to give careful
Personal Service to Every Man
coming into the store. No doubt you know some of
them Walter Holt, for instance, has been with the
Brownsville Woolen Mills ever since he wore short
pants, and thousands of people have worn suits which
he recommended to them.
Third at Morrison St., and feel and see our location, the
Woolen Mill Building (formerly Cambridge Block),
now all remodeled and the entire four stories occupied
by the Brownsville Woolen Mills. It's really worth
while coming to
See This Live, Going Industry
Onekof Oregon's leading manufacturing concerns.
More than a hundred skilled people are now employed
here. On the upper floors, above the retail department,
the shears clip all day long, and the needles are busy
providing the best clothing value that can be had for
the price. This is the logical place to come for men's
and boys' wearing apparel.
Rntnmnn Said fn Hlt Rn VJQ Im om8 to Pve thc people of Portland the greatest a
ouwmanaia ton is noys value theyV(, cver had in those 8uitl at $12.50. (They're (I
worth $20 and $2.t--everv nnc nf Vn-m anrl thAvMI K n',rVA n(f in L.m, " I'M
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Brownsville Woolen
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WOOLEN MILL BUILDING
Home of Brownsville Clothing for
Men and Boys.
Morrison at Third St.
Mill-to-Man Clothier
. PORTLAND, OREGON
, J. L. Bowman, Pres.
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