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V RELIABLE V -We take great pride la the large stock of fine liJi' t men's watches which we carry. We take .pSSTl ii S Je!2S? our watches and guarantee them to be accurate timeken if the display la our Liberty street window: for WrtSTSlUlS! : HARTMAN ji:ui;li:ks and opticians State and Liberty Street Scientific Kyc Examinations. j Accurate tui. CITY TODAY AT THE THEATERS. OREGON State street near O. E. depot. Home of Artcraft and Paramount pictures, t Iloyal Hawaiians in music act, BLIO II State betwein Lib erty and High. Mutual and Bluebird films. Special films. Hippodrome vaudeville. TE LIBERTY Liberty near State. Greater Vltagrapn, Per fection and Goldwyn films. "Thais," featuring Mary Gar den, v Special Meeting lodge No. 4, A. V. & A. M this Work in th M M Visiting brethren w evening. degree. welcome. MIm JjnuinS Ruth IU-nwon And other soloists will be on the program. Ladies' Glee club concert, Monday flight. Grant School Jeadw -' The first of the Salem junior high school " classes ; to .affiliate with the Junior Red Cross was the 9-B class of the Grant Junior High school, having forty-one members. Organiz ation was . completed yesterday morning French Private Lessons And class lessons ' are taught at Sacred Heart Academy. For terms address Sister Supefior., Oregon Patent Granted Reported weekly by Beale & Park. Patent Solicitors, Washington. D. C-i Reuben F. Barker, - Portland, rotary Valve for explosive engines. Nellb M.- Erlckson, " Portland, bed pan. Hans T. Larsen. Portland, wrench Frank J. McFarland, Portland, automobile-locking mea8. John Nash. Drrden, adjustable trianzle and gear-tooth platter. Thomas Ll Pot ter (asslrnor to Coin Machine Man- WHEX IX SALKi. 0KEU05 j - ' BLIGH HOTEL , "A Horn Aw a. j from VommJ' -Strictly Moderh $!. per Day 100 Rkhi mt ftelld Cwmfrt Only Hotel In Butinens District Used Furniture Wanted HlffbMt cash prfe - paid for nie - furnitur E. L. STIFF A SOX, Phone 941 or 508 . HOUSEHOLD GOODS m We per the err higrhest price for household goods and tools of ry kind. People's Second Hand Store THE .VVKSTKItX JINK' CO.t 'Pay Wholesale I 'rice for Retail GomU of AH Kinds ', y. . ,' cf Jonk ' IRON and HACKS' our Brevialtjr'; WESTERN JUNK CO. I1ine TOO and SOH . Center ami Conmerclal St. . The highest cash price paid lot all kinds of Junk. , -CAPITAL Jl'XK CO. 21 Chemeketa St. Plione SOH WE MOVE- Pack and Store Everything Special rtef on eastern shipment, rcano moving and country trips a Pedalty. prompt service. Work guaranteed. TRANSFER CO. 1 S. LIHEUrY STREET . Office I'hone 30 y O A fj a s II W O O D f ' " Doctor White Diseases of Women and Nervous Diseases 50G United States National Bank Building Salem, Oregon WATPhfc BROS. CO. ufacturing company, Portland, Or.) t?Jnd,T,iVinR machIne- Leon K. uennells,. Albany, cut out device for telephone transmitters. Lewis E. Younie and P. A. Wicks, Portland. Chariot Kouth, Vklinlt Will appear with the Ladies' Glee iub Monday evening. Will Ite at 11 U Oiarrh ' Three of the contestants who ap peared In the Keyes oratorical con test at Willamette university last night will repeat their orations at the Leslie Methodist church Sunday night, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. The speakers and their subjects wlU be: ! William Nieols, "Law and Lib erty"; Paul Wapato. "The Vani&hlng Race '; Kvadne Harrison, "The Army of Mercy." a program of special music will be. given. Nominating Petitions Printed to comply with all demand. for state and county offices, . at Statesman Publishing Company (tip stairs). - Woolen Mills Increase Resolutions showirig an increase Id the capitalisation of the Pendleton Woolen 3 Vis from $30,000 to $100,000 were filed with State Cor poration Commissioner H. J. Schnl derraan yesterday. 'R. T. Bishop, for merly of Salem, son of C. P. Bishop of the Salem Woolen Mills store, signs the papers as secretary of the company, i - -.. Gfrl, CVrcnt 'Km Glee club concert, Monday night. Waller hall. 25 cents. Government Ontf Plumb E. B. O'Connor, a citizen; of Nome, Alaska, in a letter to Secretary of State Olcott, complains that the peo ple of that country are up against it for law and Justice. He wants all available information about Oregon's state, government and makes special inquiry about the initiative and ref erendum law. He wants to know if the citizens of a territory can pro ceed along the same lines used in Or egon in rerned-ins the sovernmehtal system. ' Public library Is lluy The Salem Public library Is a busy place this month. Saturday,' Janu ary) 19, 442 books were loaned for home reading. Not so many have been handled In any one day since the 29th of last March, when 458 books beat all previous records. Through An Error The advertisement of the Western Junk company In The Statesman con tained the wrong telephone numbers. The proper numbers are 706 and 80S. ; They are now making a spe cialty of buying iron and sacks. A phone call 'will bring a prompt re sponse from , this wide-awake con cern. ; Story Hour Today - - A program of Russian stories will te told this morning at the public library at the usual time 9:30 and t0:30. .There are probably more fairy tales told In Russia today than in any other country. The stories which will be told. ."The Flylne Ship" and "The Golden Fish." are hrM that Russian peasants tell their children and to each other, for In Russia no one Is too Hd for a fairy story. ; : liu Mor Potatoew 500 lbs. for $3.75. Order of Ward K Richardson. 2395 Front St. rinh tUtOH in Ktarti The Men's Glee club of Willamette university will go to Stayton for a concert Tusday night of next week. The concert Is.-to be one of the pre liminary anoearances of the club. Feature number by star members of the troupe will be Included in the program. M in ii ' Vornlnatlnjc Petition, printed to comply with all demand for state and county offices, Statesman -Publishing Company (up stairs). e ' I ; : KuwrflnStT Shop Omtlnue The Armenian fund of the Super fluity hoo will cse with tonight's sales. However, the shop will con tinne Its business for another week. The proceeds from next week's sale will ro towards, the Y. W. C. A. funrt The Salem Woman's club will con tinue to be In charge. Clothing, food, men's shoes and all other articles. Including bundles of paper, will oe needed to carry on the sale. From Stols-and Moary nncn, - sale. Frultland Nursery sales yard. corner lllrh nd Kerry streern. NEWS DIED RAY At Dallas. Thursday, January , 21, 1918, William a. Ray. 57 years ' oll- ; i He is survived by relatives in Dal las, where he has lived for a year. Mrs. Ray died last February In Sa lem and later the husband moved to Dallas. M i The body will arrive from Dallas this morning. At 2 o'clock the funeral will be held from the RIgdon parlors. Rev. A. F. Lacy of the Jason Lee church will conduct the services. Interment will follow in Odd Fellows cemetery. D. A. It. Meeting; Changed On account of the IllneM of II. TJ. Thlelen, the members of Chemeketa chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will not meet with Mrs.' Thielsen. Instead they will gather at the home of Mrs. E. L. Guffin, In the Court apartments. Parton Plumbing Co., 353 Chemeketa Phone 1906. We do repair work. Htelnor Or Stolen , A 1917 Ford, five-passenger auto mobile belonging to Al. Steiner was stolen from the west approach of the intercounty bridge last night and up to a late hour had not been recover ed. The licence number Is 25505. Stealing automobiles has become a favorite pastime In Salem recently. In most cases the autos are recovered at some point far from the owners' premises. The authorities will take dratlc action with any of the auto nobil thieves who are captured. The theft lt nlht. was reported to the sheriff office. About mid night Mr. Steiner reported that he had found tb car. which had leen returned to bis home. Vev (la . In stenograohv and typewriting at the Industrial Normal will begin on Monday next. Address J. J. Krapps., Thirteenth and Wilbur streets, Sa-; lem. Or. Mo- High Cot of Living " The price of shoe shining on Sat urdays and Sundays in Salem Is go n? to 15 cents. On other days, the price remains at 10 cents. The high cost of living, and the difficulty In getting labor is the cause. Nominating Petitions printed to comply with all demand? for state and ' county offices, at Statesman Publishing Company (up-' stairs). - j uwh , Funeral ThU Morning The funeral of the late Peter S. Bach, sn early Oregonian. will be held this momipg at 9 o'clock from t. Joseph's Catholic church". Rev. Father Buck , wIU conduct the serv- ces. PnrIM will be In the Catholic "emetery. In charge of the RIgdon rompany. Ca" ShortAge-l The Southern Pacific comoany s '"nort on ear' short e vrterday showed a total 719 crs, a shortage of -d 368 onen car. The V. cptumii'' reported a 0. nd the- Snokn. Seattle, a surolus of R2. for Oregon shortaee of 85 cioe O.-W. R. shortage of Portland & Fffle Pch. execwtrlx of the tte of O. K. Hch. decei. ea erdv filed her report of the sale o' certain perscmal oropertv, under previous order of the conrt. showing the" net amount realized to be 1175.07. T ' " K Vrnttp ami SUv- FVwr ' 30P lbs. for 13.75. delivered, der now. Phone 49 4. Of- t Cointr Clerk noyer vesterday Is sued the foilowlne combination hunt- ng and fishing licenses: Oeorge O. ?vage, Newport: Nets O. Helgerson llverton. Angler's licenses were Is- ned to F. N. Toothacre and R. L. Ross of Salem. 0wmi Old Bridge 'nw that better weather has ar rived the bridge contractorti- are working on the pier for the new b-idre. a"d expect to prepare and nlace dolnhlns under the old bridge. o that general traffic .mav be re iimed. In the meantime milk wag- ' ,from Polk county or other ve hicle are occasionally permitted to ross the old bridge at the risk of tho. owners of the vehicles. VnnA CVnerln Ibore ti n trnffman of Route ft wa In the city yesterdar and said that It Is ilmnt lmtMKlhIe in eet inr kind of 'a-rn labor this sorine. no matter If old doflarssre nlaeed In ever pock- of a prnnectivej farm hand, and ii nnv rrtiinw to:be a very serious nnstlon In Marlon; county of being a . . . V. 1 u Imam A rie io naif nip f-rwt h;ut n sight. "It would only be ralr on t mH of th eoyernment to con- crlnt farm lsbo'er. jt as it has 4-rtd men for tne armr." savs ir. iinfrman "Mint men drafted, and robblv perfectly ! willing to go to the front, are nor saDi to pa" rhvfiical examination, bnt would be ble to do not any kind of work In the farmlnw Jine. ni tneir s:in wnttld be Imorored br spending a summe on a good farm. Willamette Witt Train , Sunday School Teahers Because It Is felt thai there Is a need for such a course Willametie university will open a class for the training of Sunday school teachers. Dr. Charles L. Sherman head of the education department, will be In structor. College credit is to be giv en but the class will meet at 2:30 each Fridays to enable as many of the' towns people as may desire to attend. The course I for persons cntslde of the university as much as for the students. The new semester will open February 12 and the eas In Sundsy school .teaching will be formed then provided enough desire to Hake It. Idaho manufactured OV).O00.O9O pounds of sugar last year. SCHOOLGIRLS SERVE EIGHTY DINNER GUES lnceeds of Affair Are Con tributed to Armenian Relief Cause AFFAIR IS TRIUMPH Domestic Science Classes of Misses Sykes and Purin ton Hostesses Eighty persons filled place at a banquet served between 5:30 and7 o'clock last night at the high school by the department of domestic sci ence. Hiss Nell Sykes and Miss Gertrude Purlnton are Instructors In the department and supervised the preparation of anl the serving of th-J banquet in which thirty-three girls who are members of the domestic science classes participated. The pro ceeds of the evening amounted to $40. Half of the amount is clear and will be donated to the Armenian-Syrian relief committee. The dinner served by the yonng women lat night doubtless will stand as one of the triumphs of the year at the high school. Great care wa taken In preparation for the event and the guests found the room of the department a maaterwork. of decoration. Vines and blossoms andi mosses, all native plants, prevailed In the odornment of walls and tables and the national colors were empha sized by flags and ' bunting. All decorations were donated by the girls. Posters advertising the Ar menian cause, contributed by the committee having charge of the re lief campaign In Salem, were placed conspicuously about the rooms. Each of the several tables In the two ser vice rooms was decorated differently from any other. Uniformly dressed in white werA the comely damsels who prepared the viands and served the guests, and this demonstration of one of the practical branches of the curriculum must heve been a pleasure to theia for their smiles were ubiquitous. The menu served was taashed po tatoes, fricaseed chicken, pickles, peas, Waldorf salad, Parker house rolls, butter, wafers, coffee and Ice cream. While the banquet was in nrogress the visitors were afforded the additional entertainment of mu sic. Those participating in the mu sical program were: - Miss Mildred Ross, piano nolo- William Harris. vocal solo; Florence Jones, vocal solo; Ruth Bedford and Luc'le Cam eron, piano duet. In assembling at the rooms all decorations and other necessary ar ticle. Miss Garnet Clearwater do nated the use of her automobile. The girls who praticipatel last night an- Mildred Kayler. Rea Loter. Lo raine Robs, Doris Lenon, Ava Wigle. Josephine Baumgartner. Isabel Cro Isan. Hazel Hill. Christine Bahnsen. Esther Davles. Emily Looe. Flora Polley, Grace Von Behrcn. Ruth As pinyald. Adelaide Barr. Hanna Slat tery. Esther Bailey. Genevieve Lo gan. Marie Haverly. Eva Wallick. Jean Bailey, Ruth Sims. Eva Dut ton. Julia Patchin. Rorothy Thomp son. Gladys Bartholomew. Ruth Ro.s Katherine "Glbbard. Mildred Imlan. Veva Smita. Lavina Anderson, Alic-s Putnam. Esther Busch. PERSONALS O. L. Crocker, of Portland, Is at the Argo. i Fred Timbeck, of Portland, la guest of the Argo hotel. J. F. Eichborn, of San Francisco, is registered at the Arog. Jennings Cox. of Albany, Is at the Argo. S. L. Waters, A. B. Carpenter, E. . Riker, A. Van Buren, and wife, II. C. Hallead, O. H. Milton, George W. Mead. ,M. R. Mansen and L. K. Webber, of Portland, are registered at the Bllgh. Albert Cook and Fred B. West, of Dallas, are guests of the Bllgh hotel. J. F. Holland, of Chicago, Is stop ping at the Bligh hotel. George M. Ma nr. of New York, Is registered at the Bligh. Robert H. Bowlder, Dr. C. S. West, U. S. A.; E. T. Morris and wife. M P. Evans, C. N. Bryant, G. II. Fulleu- eider, A. II. Steinmetz, and J. R. El lison, of Portland, are registered & the Marlon hotel.: A. G. Berg. Mrs. Hewlitt and the Hewlltt sisters, of Seattle, are at Hit Marion. F. C. Rolph, of Toledo. Ore., is a guest of the Marlon. G. M. Hardin, of Windsor, Ont., Is at teh Marlon. L. E. Price, E. E. French and C. C. Eader, of San Francisco, are at the Marion hotel. James Kulolia, George Knlolia, Al Tokepa. E. Manase. and Frank Reyes are registered at the Marlon. O. E. Tully, of Wallace. Idaho, Is at the Marion. E. F. Reed and U. O- Du back, O. A. C, Corvallis, are gtieits of the Hotel Marion. 1 Patriotic Literature Is Distributed by Scouts The four troops of Boy Scouts In Salem have receired hundred of copies of President Wilson's flag day address and yesterday afternoon be gan distributing It "about the i city. The city has been divided into four districts, each In charge -of one of the troop. Patriotic literature will be received from time to time and scattered broadcast by the young pay triots. This is at the request of the government which has asked the Bpy Scoots of America to be ita messen gers, j W.W. Craig, scoutmaster of troop No. 2 of Salem, has Issued, an order for all members who expect to re main in the troop during this year to meet at headquarters in the city ball lonigm at s o clock. Warden Is on Crutches on Return From Gold Hill Captain Charles A. Murphy, war den of the state penitentiary, re turned from Gold Hill yesterday on crutches as result of a fall by which he was injured while Inspecting the state lime project at that place. A platform oa which the warden was standing cdlapsed and one knee was badly wrenched. Warden Murphy reports that all is ready for the installation of elec tric power and machinery at th-j state lime quarry and for the con struction of the railway spur track Churchill Is Assigned Subject jbr Address "The Rebuilding of Civilization Through War-Modified Education" Is the subject that has been assigned to J. A. Churchill, state school super fhtendent, for an address on the reg ular program of the annual conven tion of the National Education asso elation which will be- held at Pitts burg next summer. The Invitation was received by Superintendent Churchill yesterday from Mary C. C. Bradford, president of the national association. MISS HARRISON CAPTURES PRIZE Winner of Keyes Award to Represent University in State Contest .Miss Evadne Harrison won the Keyes oratorical contest at Willam ette University chapel last night. , Mayor Walter E. Keyes gives a prize of $15 to the winnter of first place and 110 to the winner of sec ond place In this preliminary con test. Paul Wapato the football and basketball star Is entitled to second prize. Louis Stewar was the only other contestant. l Miss Harrison will represent Will amette university In the state orator ical contest to be, held in Salem this year early in March. Miss Margaret Garrisonvwho was Willamette's ora tor last year won first place in both the Oregon and the Western state contests and will' go to Washington V. C. In Decembei to compete with orators from various sections of the country? This being the case the orator discovered last night is also cut to capture high honors for the college. , ......- . ; CLAIRBLODGETT READY TO FIGHT - Mailing Clerk of Statesman Enlists and Goes to Van- couver When Clair L. Blodgett. who for some time has had 'charge of the mailing department of The States man! leaves this morning for Van couver barracks to join his regi ment, he will be the seventh from The Statesman to .respond to the tall to the colors. Mr. Blodgett began a little more than four years ago at the bottom of the mailing department, and worked his way to the top. He was married in 1915, and his wife and baby will remain in Salem, while Mr. Blodgett joins the other Oregon troopers. Mr. Blodgett, who has lived In Salem for about eleven years, made a success of his business by giving untiring and unremitting attention and energy to his duties. His name stands for -honesty and square deal ing with his friends and business as sociates, and the force fill miss his cheerful ways and happy manners. His past successes bespeak only suc cess in his new field of action, for he will take with him to the front the same spirit and the same hard working energy. THREE MEN ARE AFTER JUDGSHIP .Swope, Gibson and Kirkpat rick Seek Office in Polk County DALLAS, Or., Jan. 25. (Special to the Statesman) Word has reach ed here that B. F.. Swope, a former resident of Independence, but re cently a resident of Oregon City, had moved back to the Hop City and intends to enter the race for county judge, on the Republican ticket. Mr. Swope's entry in the race for tho judgeship makes the third party in the county to announce Intention of seeking that particular office. Frank Gibsos., a resident of West Salem, was the first to announce hit candi dacy and E. C. KlHtpatrlck the pres ent judge, will alo be a candidate for the office. The fight for the of fice promises to be the hottet In the county for. years. ; The first thing that happens to a newly-born flreek child is a bath In warm wine. In which myrtle leaves have been dipped. He Is then rubbe' with salt. In some parts of the coun try he Is also rubbed I wH.h pepper as a sign of the hard life he will have to live. ! . Misreores Did yon ever get stung by buying a pair of Shoes that were misrepresented to you? .At some shoe stores they sell you regular $4-5j0 Shoes it or $4.65 by telling you that they were $7.00 Shoes; besides they were not stan dard goods. i IF YOU WANT WHAT , YOU BUY Buy the well known makes and get 60 per cent more wear than from shoes made to sell cheap. Even the factories making these , cheap shoes are ashamed to put their names on them. We carry three well-known makesBuckingham & Hecht, J. E. Tilt, and Keith Konqueror. Can yon beat them at any price? All our 1A. -ML. J. 379 STATE CARNIVAL IS BIG SUCCESS Grant School to Report 100 Per Cent Cash Jnnior ', Red Cross Dues The carnival given at' the Grant school last night was such a tre mendous success that the school will .be able to report 100 per cent cash dues for its affiliation with the Jun ior Red Cross. . About $70 was cleared last night, enough when plac ed with the cash dues of 25 cents each already paid by the pupils, to pay dues in cash for each one of the 308 pupils, enrolled at the school. Eight attractions were going on all at one time during the carnival last night, and most of them were repeated several times for the ac comodation of the visitors who were allowed to see everything tor a 5 cent ticket and to Indulge In the ice cream and popcorn on the same tick et. In addition to the carnival at tractions, a Red Cross exhibit was (.conspicuously placed. - , - Among the attractions .were a sleight of hand entertainment by Prof. E. Cooke Palton, the local wiz zard of legerdemain, a circus, a fishing pond, a story telling circle and other things equally interesting. WHERE ECONOMY and QUALITY RULE - o "We aim to furnish you with the Ix'st possible, in staple and fancy groceries, at the most economical price possible. Our stock is of the Inchest quality. Give us'a trial. - THE STORE OF SERVICE POISAL & SHAW 1199 South Commercial Street A -PEERtESS": Made in Salem - The Home-made Bread with The Home-made Taste leeirlfess Eakeiry' 170.2forth Commercial St. mm While they last, Wagner, Spitzenbergr and Newtowns, sound, delicious and healthful 9 Get your ,order in early. Flakewhite Shortening, a vegetable product, cheaper than lard. Bring your pail, per pound. .-. . . . .... . .' . . . ... . . .00c Eeal Home-cooked Foods-Parker House Rolls, Cakes, Cookies, Pies, Plum Pudding, Fruit Cake, etc. -, RIGHT C M PORFRTS SERVICE p-RTrTRA we Ts THE COURT eeted customers aay no P ; Shoe Shop STREET .. Speight May Decide to Help England Fight E. Speight of 116 South Twelfth street was yesterday very busy ar ranging. If necessary, to respond to the call of the British government for all men In America, who have not taaen out tneir second papers, to fly to the colors of Brlttania. 2 As Mr. Speight has not yet taken out his second papers, and Is be tween the ages of 18 and 45, he will go, of needed, as soon as he' can make the necessary arrangements, although he said yesterday that ha would prefer enlisting in the United States army, as this has been his home for many years past. He con siders, however, that duty calls him to Britain. STUART'S TUBE FLAVORS TOILET ARTICLES Cct Free Catalogue 1 : Agents' wanted for unoccu pied territory ; Cm. lockwood I Oregoa Distributor Phone 963 . . . . M f . . Salem. Ore Phone 763 Eg 0Bx w BEST STREET GROCER