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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, 1 PORT LAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 23. 1920.
I.
WIANY EX-SOLDIERS
SEEK HOMESTEADS
IN THIS DISTRICT
Eighty-Eight More Tracts Still
Open Exclusively to Former
Service Men Until July 9,
Nomination or Bolt, Says Ring
Lardner Tssties Defi to G. O. P.
Th back to the farm movement.
coupled with the desire to pioneer, la
leading many an ex-soldier up to the
sixth floor of the poutofflce build-
ins, where Uncle Sam is offering
bargains on homesteads. -
Fifty-six soldiers within the last few
days have acquired - homesteads under
the O. & C land grants at the Portland
offices. Eighty-eight more tracts are
waiting on the bargain counter for ex
soldiers exclusively until July 9, when
the preference rights will be removed
and the lands thrown open for general
entry. These 88 tracts are merely those
In the Portland district in the north
western part of the state. Others ' are
available in other parts of the state,
LAND OFFICE POPULAR
The desire for a plat of land on easy
terms, which they-might improve and
call their own. a little ranch away from
the unrest and strife of the cities, has
led many an ex-wearer, of the khaki
toward the land offices.
Besides having preference rights to
the O. A C. lands, the time of residence
on the homestead before" proving up
has been reduced for the soldiers, ac
cordlne to duration of their service. A
soldier with 19 months or more military
experience will be required to reside on
the land at least seven months . during
the first entry year, with upward periods
' of residence required for lessened period
of service down to 90 days, less than
which no credit will be given in lieu of
residence or cultivation.
SPECCXATIOJT BARRED
Regulations also require that the. area
to be cultivated must be such as to
satisfy the , secretary of the Interior
that the entry, is made In good faith for
the purpose of settlement and not for
peculation.
Where entries did not conflict, tracts
were awarded to the applicants imme
diately upon the close of the books
May 10. There were Zt-ot these granted.
Seventy-five soldiers, however, wanted
18 tracts of land and to determine who
should win, a drawing was held Friday
morning, when in a lottery of 15 minutes
duration the soldiers learned their luck.
But to the soldiers who lost out In
the drawing remained the opportunity of
filing on any of the remaining O. & C.
lands still vacant. Four of these dis
appointed boys have already " done so,
selecting thejr next best choice of 8
farm. Until July 9 they will be given
this privilege.
SUMMER TO EARS MONET
Of the ex-soldiers winning homesteads,
the most of them will not remove to
the lands until autumn, spending the
summer earning money necessary to
.commence improvements. Most of the
land will have to be cleared before crops
can be planted, so that it- is too late
to attempt to raise a crop this year:
Oeorge R. Smith is receiver of the land
office, .and Alexander Sweek. registrar.
- Soldiers winning claims thus far in the,
Portland district are as follows:
Jessie O. Perry, Portland ; Owen W.
Holmes. Portland: tester J. Hawkins,
Portland ; Jack Hubbard Lamb, Port
land ; Louts B. Layton, Mountalndale,
Wash.'N.Lulgl Amadore, Portland ; Aloia
Krepia. Salem: Chester Bonebrake,
Portland : William J. Weir, Portland.:
George Wolf. Gates; Ward H. Kulrich,
Portland ; Walter H. Shea, Salt Lake ;
Orel A. Walsh, Oregon City ; Edward R.
Serisenbreur. Portland ; William Chester
Palziel. Portland ; Joseph O. Smith,
-Portland ; Wilson A. McLaughlin. Port
land; James A. Bennett, Portland;
Henry, Carl Boginska, Salem; George J.
Schneider, Banks; Grant J. Dorland,
Alfred Nelson. Walter A. Anderson,
Frank Markovets. Chester A. Bodway,
Floyd W. Ferguson, Ray Rathbun Pot
ter, William T. Wallace. George W.
Queener, Tony B. F. Met.. Frank A.
Lombard. Lewis M. Heinrlchs, Manning
B. , Hearn, Gustav O. Bock, Owen
Thomas, John Henry -Probasco, Thomas
K. Scott. Clarence A. Hudson, Louis A
Baker, William S. Runyon, . Andrew L.
Kittmiller, Edwin C. Strong, William J.
Berghousa August .Koenneman, Frank J.
Morrison, Perry L Dolph,- Ben F. L.
. Super Abraham Fried ner, Edward W.
Preble, Percy-W.- Newman. Gustav Sel-
. irte'r Erickson. Herbert L. Baslee, Robert
F. Brown; Percy EL' Forbes and Clay C.
Cogswell. .
Book Wagons Will
Make Bounds Under
Library's Auspices
Two book wagon routes -are to be es
tablished by Central library this sum
mer, as an experiment with a system
that Is meeting with success in 'many
eastern cities.
The faithful old car In which .the li
brary has been delivering books to the
branch libraries, hospitals and various
Institutions for the last few years is to
be filled up with a platform and cases
that will carry' several hundred books.
One route. In charge of Miss Nellie
Fox. branch librarian, will visit Gil
bert. Lynch and Pleasant Valley school
districts each Tuesday where the school
buildings and other . stations later design
nated will serve as distributing centers.
On Thursdays Miss Anne M. Mulheron.
school librarian, will take the car with
its load of books to West Portland. Ma
plewood and Multnomah school districts.
The book wagons will begin operation
upon the close of the " present school
year. While schools are in session they
are supplied with books by the library,
but during the summer these are re
turned to the library, leaving the chil
dren in the outlying communities little
chance to read.
Should the book wagons prove suc
cessful, the service will eventually be
extended; to include the entire county. '
Mjywl iiC my wife
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-I will be setting right in the press box, maybe along side of Bryan or .
Fannie Hurst-"
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By Ring IjV. JLartlncr
(Copyright. 1920. by the Ball Syndicate. Ine)
To the Editor: !
With j the Republican convention
only a couple of weeks away It be
gins to look more and more like a
dark horse would
carry the day and
the undersigned
just about fits that
description as I
am very dark and
eat like a horse
and also am a typ
ical example o f
the o 1 d proverb
that ; you can lead
a house to water
but you can't .'make, him drink it.
However, some1 of my. admirers
haveTecently acted afraid that may
be I had withdrew from the race on
account of my name, not appearing
In the box scores of the different
state primsfrys. I "Well friends one
reason for that Is that most of my
strength lays in the states that don't
have no primary law and further
and more I don't take no stock in
primaries as 1 consider them -just
like the preliminary practice in any
other kind of a game. For Inst.
I have often set. In the grand stand
and watched a pitcher warm up, and
he was so fast that his , catcher
couldn't nardly hold him,, but,-when
he got in the game his catcher didn't
have to hold him as everything he
throwed stopped before it got that
far. , Or you take the so-called fight
down 'to Toledo last July 4 and big
Jessie had all the best of it in the
preliminary bowing . and ; scraping,-!
but when they j begin balloting he
didn't get a vote. : A
Besides witch' you take a delegate
to a convention1 and under the pri
mary law all he is supposed to do
is vote on the first ballot according
to how he was instructed, but the
most of them hasn't been away froVn
home to a big city for 4 : yrs?,
and they come up a couple of days
ahead and by the time the conven
tion opens, why they don't remem
ber if they was instructed to vote
for Pat or Mike. j
So all In ail my admires can see
how it was that I didn't loom up
very big in the primarys but wait
till the gong rings for the opening
prayers, and what makes me look,
all - the more ; formal Is on acet.
of "me. living-; in Chi. so , many
years and probably know more peo
ple there than .even Gov. Low
den himself, because I used to go
somewhere's pretty hear every eve
ning and' the first thing X done every
time I went in a cabaret was page
Gov. Low den and they never 'could
find him.
And another thing I will say to
encourage my friends, and that is
that since I answered thfc Gen.
demand to stick myself in the race,
I have probably, asked 100 people
how they would vote if I got the
Republican nomination and they all
said they would. " ;
: And before I leave off the subject
I want to warn the leaders of the
great Republican party that if X am
not nominated in old Chi. . I will
belt the Republican ticket, or the G.
O. P. as I call it, and split the party
as wide open? as a Chinaman's eye.
Since the last time I gave out a
statement in regards to my candi
dacy I have added a new j plank to
my platform, and that is that if I
am nominated my first ' act will be
to start dispossess proceedings vs.
the present tenement of the White
House so as he won't have ho excuse
to not be out when I get ready to
move in. .''-'v;!, -
As for the peace treaty with Ger
many which they say is going to be
an Issue of this campaign, why as
far as I am concerned I won't waste
no time with it as I have been in
formed from reliable sources that
Germany already knows the war is
over even if we don't, and when the
party that got beat is convinced,
why what is the use of giving them
a piece of paper to that effect.
When Dempsey win the title from
Willard, why neither Denjipsey nor
his mgr. had to .sign any papers
to prove it to Willard or even em
broider their name on the towel
that was tnrowed into the ring, and
when the Reds win the world series
from, the White Sox, why the Reds
didn't even send a signed score card
to Comlsky or Gleason.
Another thing in my favor,
friends, is that when the nomination
Is made and if it happens to be my
self, they won't have to put in a long
Eoseburg Profits
By Chamber's Work
,
Roseburg, May 22. Several Terre
Haute. Ind., people pay high compli
ment to, the Roseburg Chamber of Com
merce. Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Mand
and daughter, who came here direct from
Terre Haute, stated that they selected
Roseburg because of correspondence
they had with the Chamber of Com
merce of this city. They received so
prompt and courteous reply that they
at once catalogued Roseburg as a live
; town and came here solely upon the im
prestion received .from the chamber"
letters- Mr. Mand expects-to purchase
property near Roseburg.
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WITH
THE
DANCE
TONIGHT
COLUMBIA BEACH
Follow the happy throng of dancers Accornmoda
.k . tions for 2000. !. ,
Fleming's Big Broadway Orchestra
I ' Vancouver cars at. Fifth and Washington t
mumu
COMING
EUGENE
MISCHA
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YSAYE-ELMAN
' JOJNT RECITAL
ONE APPEARANCE
Direction Steers & Coman
HEILIG !
THEATRE
PRICES i Floor "$2.50. Balcony $2.50, $2, $1.50.
Gallery, reserved, $1.50. Plus 10 per cent , war tax.
Send checks, Jself-addressed, stamped envelopes to
STEERS & COMAN, Columbia BuUding
distance call to see if I will give my
consent like they done when Charles
"Whiskers'. Hughes was the nom
inee; I will be setting right in the
press box. maybe, along side of Bry
an or Fannie Hurst, and. when I
hear my name read off as the choice
of .he cohventionr all that " I will
y" M-Jt " in i ..j i ) .
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"it is bis Intention to make PresW
dent Wilson a general and send
hi tn out to Michigan to guard the
I bridge over Battle Creek.'
have to do is Just 'raise up and nod
my head yes and no. v J ' -
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; Now, gentlemen and friends, it
hasn't been my habit in this cam
paign to say naughty things about
my opponents but some of the other
boys have been slinging - mad pud
dles and I must say that I recently
heard a rumor in regards to General
Wood witch if it is true, why it looks
to me like it shows he was kind of
likely to be vindictive and let- his
personal feelings get .way with him.
What 1 heard was that if he is nom
inated, why when the next war
breaks out over in Europe it is his
intentions to make President Wilson
a general and send him out to Mich
igan to guard the bridge over Battle
Creek. . - :
.As for our friends, the Democrats,
maybe some o my readers will want
to know-who is the man that I will
probably half to beai.'Well,
friendSrit don't make much differ
ents to me as I will "make amonkey
out of any of them if nature hasn't
seen to that, but the latest reports' I
get say that "the "race has simmered
down to Palmer and McAdoo and
those who have seen both men say
that McAdoo will win by a nose.
RINO W. LARDNER.
Ixng's Island, May 21.
the truth. The; department holds that
mixed candies 'labeled fruit flavors"
are mlsbranded if any artificial fruit
flavors are used. The word "maple" or
even the picture of a maple leaf must
not appear on the label of confections In
which no maple sugar or syrup is used.
On the question, of purity, harmless col
ors that do not conceal inferiority are
permitted. The use of shellac and othpr
gums for coating Is prohibited. Talc,
terra alba, barytes. chrome yellow, al
cohol, narcotic drugs and-mineral sub
stances of ail kinds are specifically for
bidden in confectionery by the terms
of the law., The use of cocoa dust in
the manufacture of chocolate goods la
held to be objectionable.
Eoseburg Carnival
To Open With Gay
Events of Elks1 Day
Roseburg, May 22. With everything
moving along, smoothly and f plenty of
good strawberries In sight for the Straw
berry carnival, this year's event dt May
27, 28 and '29 will surpass all former
attempts. Thursday will be .Elks' day
and a monster parade will be held,
; The crowning event of the first day
will be the raising of the big flagpole
on top of ML Nebo, when , appropriate j
exercises will be held on the summit of
the mountain overlooking the city. The !
days before the war will be brought
back by the appearance of the original!
"Hungry Seven" band,' all of the mem- ,
bers of whioh are now ex-service men. i
They will break the ice for. the big three j
days event. The crowning of the queen ,
will be an event of the first day ana
this year the , queen will have as pri
vate chauffeur Jack Pel ton, one of the
prominent cattlemen of this city.
Honest Label for -Candy
Is Enquired
Washington, .May 22. (L N. S.)
Candy In interstate commerce. Uncle
Sam, through the department of ag
riculture, has told : manufacturers, must
be pure and must carry a label that tells
COLUMBIA BEACH
! .. . j ' r "BY THE SEA"
! ' ' The Closest Ocean for Your Vacation ?
Most beautiful,lAccessible and Homelike Seaside and Inland Resort combined.
Ideal Groves, Fresh Water Streams and Lakes;' Boating; Bathing, Fishing,
crabing. Clam digging and Hunting to your heart's content. Air the. comforts
of home. Very-moderate charges, f Make reservations ; for a tent In our
"Tent City" nojw open.' Good large box tntS; everything furnished. Including
clen beds, laundry, wood, light and-good pure' mountain Water. Special rates
by month or season. - For information and reservation call or write
- i , C3LUMHIA BEACH COMPANY, 24S Sfark St.
. j ; ' : . Phon Main '5423' . ' : - , . ;
Or Helman Johnson, Mgr., Columbia Beach Via Warreaton, Ore.
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From
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- to Bandit f ' -
-Ar..l.,.tt-.J..,. i I. . Ir. .. - ri f f .. j
Hairiry Cairjey
ALWAYS ONE JUMP AHEAD Oi? DEATH
SPINE-TINGLING THRILLS
1 HAIR-RAISING HAZARDS
RAPID-FIRE ACTION
YOU WILL SEE IT ALL IN
"BtJLLET PRO0F"
NbW SHOWING AT THE
First Time
Shown'
a i w mi ij
A dm.
10c and 25c
T
Now
Playing
With I
Pathe News
BEN
TURPIM
"The
Nutcracker"
A comedy feature .
with a squint. Ben
"is funny in any
thing;. He was a
scream in "Down
on the Farm." In
this one he's a
whole s h o w by
himself. . 1
From the Saturday Evening Post
Story by Henry C Rowland.
Remember the mysterious little black boxes tied to
gether floating In the Atlantic t Remember bow Captain
Plnnkatt, Jurt oat of Use A. E. V., in inveigled bjr mra-
terious Patricia Melton into a wild ride in a little launch
to get them in the teeth of a terrific stormf
- That's bow it begins. It was wonderful story to
the Post. The realism added - on the snreen. through
unusually good production and the magnificent work of
Tom Moore, makes it a masterpiece of intense, TiTid and
.thrilling mystery. -
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TEAGUE
At the Wurlitzer
and In concert jto- .
day at 1:30 p. m. J
PROGRAM OF
CONCERT
Under Western Skies
. . Henry Murtagh
Serenade
Overture,
,. . .Pierne
'AUritana"
. . r Wallace
Kiss Me Wjiltz. . .. -'
. .-. Victor Herbert
Evolution of "DUKe"
r......Lake;
(DepicHnu the theme
of "Dixie" through the
followine stages? The
Creation, Dance; Abo
riginal, Waltz; Rae
time. Grand Opera.) .,
Direction of Jensen and Von.flerberg
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By Signing the Below Coupon and
Mailing or Leaving at
Pathe Office
i contestant
Pathe Exchange. Inc.
392 Burnside SL
. Portland, Oregon
Mel via Winstock, Branch Mgr.
Dear Sir: Please enter my name as ai
for the '$100 prize for solution of the "mystery in
"TRAILED BY THREE." -I agree to try to solve
the mystery.
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Tcleplionc
I would like to see ''TRAILED BY THREE" at
the Theatre.
; See Window of Fred L. Miller,
Ir ' Washington St., Near Park
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At Portland Playground j
"The Sky Is the Limit
for -your pleasure the West's most beautiful park
is out of doors a neighbor to nature.
HE R E
SUNDAY
Everything for the pleasure s
" of our patrons.
Two big concerts! by famous
Elks band afternoon and
' evening.
EVERY DAY IS PLAY DAY
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AMUSEMENT PARK
Car at First and Alder Fare 6
Cents
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