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xriE OREGON' STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6. 1921 : -1 1 ': ! f a i M . v . t. :. v 1 ; n. V- " i ; . It - -; 1 ! i f SALEM HAS BEAUTIFUL IRIS AND DAHLIA GARDENS, FOLKS DIFFERENT IN APPRECIATION ."A primrose on the Tiver's brim A yellow primrose was to him ' I And nothing more." There are color-blind pec plo to vbom all Colors are just one drab Sarin; they ee everything Jnsi as the camera sees red which !a no color at ill only form. A flower garden is to them a riot of we-ids. , There are others who keow the primary color3--red, blue aa J yel low, .but.o.i whom the shadingB afre aa much lost, as honey on a i ore or attar of roses on a cow. A flower garden Isn't much or an asset ';wlth r , these . linsle-track minds; -' - ". But the most normal people think of flowers as they think of lore arid-home; indeed, they're all in the fame, breath, the same 1'Pe of thought.--There are a thousand kinds of homes, and a thousand kinds of people, no two alike, who could be loved with fervor and permanence. The Statesman Isn't going to touch' the question of . home, or love but there are a myriad kinds of flow ers that really da seem worth while. - j ' A. recent flower show in the Salem public library, brought ap proximately i 00 kinds of named Iris, for exhibition. It was amar vel of coloring and shading. ,Mot 3eople never dreamM that there were one-tenth as many kinds of theee lovely flowers to be had. The show was a revelation as from an other , world. , I But how many bars gone close ly Into the dahlias, to suppose that one dahlia enthusiast In Salem has I Double Show H f Today and Tomorrow. '" . 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In and mail this coupon today and full infor mation and supplies will be forwarded to you byAre turn mail. - , ' ' COUPON ; ( , s . STATESMAN PUBLISHING) CO., SALEM, ORE. Dept. p. 11. : c , . . ... " - I vant tp win a Harlcy-Davidson Special Bicycle. Send, me full information on how I can get one free Narrte:lJ.. uurcss... laio:. : 16 named varieties of, these won derful plants whereas many a real flower lover has supposed that . the oldl-fashionsd deep red flower was the only kind ever growjof the dahlia family? Mrs. J. H. Oiinger. at 1098 M 11 street, has for years, wade a study of the dahlia, and her col lection of named varieties is ra ther notabla anywhere. They are all grown in the parking between the eirfAwalk and the paved street, so ' that one can walk on either g de pnd view the plants at their very best. ' Ihey came in almost every col or and sha le, from the White Ne vada, or Teckla, to the almost black Domino or Dwarf Imp. They are blue, and pink; and scarlet, and gray, and flaming yellow, "and orange, and crimson; shaded from one color, to another, or with al ternate petals of contrasting col ors, making a real riot of color. They come in every size as well, from the dwarf zlnnia-Uk Fash ion variety, to some ot the great Mastic blooms as large as a din ner plate Some, 'as the dwarfs and a few of the medium sized varieties are very double; with the petals crowding each othe. like quills on a porcupine or the bris tles in a brush. Others are f'n cle. and the petals aVe much like those of a sunflower, except in shape. All the dahlia petals ars either more or less V-shaped, or even whorled and convoluted in to almost perfect tubes. , The,rae tus variety, In rsveral colora. ha3 its petals thus funnelled like a corn leaf that has suffered from .the heat. In these, the petals stand out like straight spines. Some otbor varieties, however, are delicately curled, like the da'ntlest of chrysanthemums. Some of the "big ;unsr have pet als almost like fire-shovels In size. - Mrs. dinger has been at times annoyed, and alwayr much inter ested, In the way the tublic at large treat her flowers. They are out where the puDllc nas me Fastest oossible access to them. Passing , drivers frequently !et their teams amble up to the side of the street, where the nearest horsei can grab off a $5 flower imrt all the rest of that particular variety for the whole season Boys riding by slash at the nowers with their tennis racquets or ball bats, and cripple some oi the beautiful plants. The dahlia nronaeatea from the bulb, the peed nr the silo. She has Been finely f can&riKoned limousines stop with their dowager occupants ana tm- cher off a generous slip from ner choicest plants without the cour tesy .of a "thank you" or oiher acknowledgment Bavo - to look around to see If they were detect-, ed. But .thousands of plain peo ple . who love flowers stop and look them over, without touching so much a leaf, holding them sir -'$" , h f : . c. i " . - as a sacred trust for the snrvica of all the city. "The way to hav- big, fine dah lias i3 to Bea that about only o.ie good stalk is allowed to grow from each bulb, .for the season," said Mrs. dinger. "The others should b trimmed "off a thv start in the spring. Then the fad- ea nioscoms ougnt to be cut ofr. so that they do not waste the plant's strength. Th bulbs them selves need a rest during part of the year, for the best results. They grow through the winter or too early in the spring. They will live through the winter out of doors, but they will not pi educe at their best listless stored awny for tbe r .drv winfer nap." Mrs. dinger is the good anel of many a -Salem home tn her generosity In, givinK out tacse dahlia Blips and. bulbs among friend who want tfrsm. But whe would have thought there were so many kinds? And who would like to do another as fine a job for the. benefit of a more beauti ful Salem? r ' EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE The "Road Kee." Editor Statesman: The resi dents of West Salem are planning on having a ''road bee." Fine! I believe in good roads. Let us have many more of them. I ad mire the thrift of any people that will take enough interest in pub lic welfare to lay aside their own work and unite in an effort to better social and civic conditions. But why take the "Lord's day" for such work? Can not you spare enough of your own time during six days without robbing God of His time? With the Creation of man God demanded two things: a tenth of his income and a seventh of his time. Why rob Teter to pay Paul? In doing this bit of civic j and social good you are trans-1 gressing one of God's righteous laws. And history shows that the people or nation that docs such, gbes down In shameful defeat. Thi3 is a day of enlightenment and" progress. But every day we can see the marks of heathenism, and, cad to state, they seem to be increasing. The revoking of the Sunday closing law; the Sun day baseball games;' Sunday ex cursions, etc. And now going sfi far as to have a community gath ering to work the roads! Can it be that some of us are retrograd ing? What do you owe to the Chris tianity that .you are treating so lightly? Compare your lot to the lot of a farmer, laborer or what ever the case might be, of India or any non-Christian country. You cannot but say, if you are a thinking person, that you owe all to Christianity. Then why trans gress the laws of God? Why be one to pull down and trample the things that maks this nation what it is the great Christian nation ot the world. Rev. J. D, Hammer. On Man's Mortgage Editor Statesman: Maybe I would le a better horrible text for a sermon than any of my neighbors, but still I venture to use a friend rather than myself, for this especial lesson. My friend has some good land, partly paid fdr andhe is a good worker. Last year; he hit it right in his farm crop. He cleaned ud $8000 cash for his year's worK." Fine, wasn't it? Ought to put him to the good forever. I saw him today. He is unshav en, ragged, and he had com? from a distressing Interview witi a, man whom b still owe3 for bis farm. He says that the old leech threatens to take the farm for the debt for he can't pay. '.'Why in the world did you buy tnat nuge-car, instead of paying out on your farm when you had the money. We have never agreed on that $5000 white ele phant. Why didn't you buy a .Ford and1 clean up vai th farm debt?" "Well. I wouldn't ride in a Ford on a bet." declared my friend. . "I had the money; I had earned it: I had'the right to enjoy some, of it,4 and this big car was Just what I wanted and by heck i did enloy lt. I wouldn't say that my frlnl has earned the hook If the mort gagee insist on his. money; but I'm Just a-wonderlng. I have tried to. work Hp a hatred for that mortgagee who should have been paid last year, and an alibi for my friend who was too proud to rida in a Ford, but Is not now too proud to beg for a favor that he hasn't deserved; but rather per tinaciously my sympathies won't work that way. It merely happens that this was a i $5000 automobile, when it might have been any other kind of a fool -"extravagance. 1 This corrects nothing, proves nothing, yet it seems to me that it explains a lot. , Somo 01 U3 wno have been pitying ourselves ouchti to be sportsmen enough to swal low our fool losses without mak ir if quite so ranch roise. Not So Fast. Editor Statesman: - Tt was nnlte antusing when reading in last Sunday's States man the Article from C. H. Hag- Ibt of Seattle, relating the "earli er days' in Salem, iwhere he men tions bo many familiar names, especially John G. Wright, who seems to imagine he: Is the old est settler now living in Salem who was in it when he reached here In 1853." -s I would say,' not quite so fast, Mr. Wright, f Or do you remem ber Atch Waller, who. is still Hy ing and who distinctly remembers the time of 'your, marriage. It seems Mr, Boon had brought a cannon across the plains think ing It would do prelty good to use on the Indians, if necessary. Well, a party of friends wanted to mako a great colsc and there t j NEWS BRIEFS FROM INDEPENDENCE . . , , INDEPENDENCE, Or., Aug. 3. .(Special to The Statesfiin ; Andrew Hanson and wife of Sa lem motored over to Ihii city yes terday to spend the dav with Mrs. George Conkey. Frank How? and son Wallace and . Rtr hard, cousin of Mrs. George Conkey, wholesale gro ceryman ot Seattle, spent yester day with Mrs. Conkey. . Mra. Crosby Davis was in Sa lem yesterday. G. G. Walker and wife, who have been spending a fortnight with the family of W. H. Hnft at Swkane, returned, home yester day. Mra. diver Smith motired to Corral lis yesterday, for. a visit with relatives. Mrs. Addie Lynch ot San Fran cisco, a cousin of Mrs. Gorg3 Conkey. spent the day with her. C. Henkle and wife, who have been sojourning in Washing ton and British Columbia, m3ltmg the tr'p by auto, returned home yesterday. They report a delight ful trip. Mrs. K. C. Eldridge is spending tev days w!th friends at Ore gon City. ' ) Mrs. William McKinney was a passenger to Portland today whTe she met her daughter Althea. ho came down from Seattle for the week-end. The latest acquisition in the household of Mr. and Mrs. Walcto Hoffman, is a little Miss, bom to them Tuesday. Mrs. Marks, mother of Mrs. Pearl Hoffman, of Cosmatai. Wash., and Mrs. W. Clark, ot Hood River, who have been the guests of Mrs. Hoffman for about 10 nys, have loft for their l.-.mts. Miss Elda JJricow of Eiene. who has been making an extend ed visit in different parts of Cali fornia, stoped off in this city for a short visit with Mr. and Mr. by show Mr. Wright their high estimation of him, but the cannon made a greater racket than they had counted on; so they started fof the bank of the Willamette river and it went, with such speed that they couldn't stop it and away it went over the bank and into the river, where I suppose it is peacefully reposing even unto this day. O. A. W. 2035 North Church street, Sa lem, Oregon. Aug. A, 1921. Adele Garrison' New Phase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE CHAPTER 135 WHY MADGE FELT MR. STOCK BRIDGE HAD MUCH TO EX PLAIN. It was upon my lips to say that I did not doubt the statement of Milly Stockbridge's family to the effect that her husband had threatened to divorce her but an hour before she was found dead. But one look at Alice Hol combe's face stopped the words upon my lips. It was full of the irony which her voice had held1. To her the etory was false, only concocted by the dead woman's family in an attempt to throw sus picion upon the man whos life she had ruined. But to me It was a confirmation of a theory I had alternately ac cepted and rejected since the ter rible moment when Milly Stock bridge's telephone threats to me were cut short in such sinister, mysterious fashion. Kenneth Stockbridge had re turned home only that afternoon. He had not seen his wife since her discovery of Alice Ho?combe's photograph with its tender in scription in the secret drawer of his private desk. Indeed he knew nothing of her opening his desk or ot her desecration of the secret he had guarded so long and with such exquisite honor. It was Milly Stockbridge's first opportunity to tax her husband with her discovery. I h?d seen enough of her to be sure that she wasted no time unloading her accumulated wrath upon him could imagine her animal rage, and the vile epithets she must have heaped upon both him and the woman enshrined with , such sacredness in his heart. Words That Echo. It Kenneth Stockbridge had f in-J ally turned vDon his tormentor. shrivelled her with his denuncia tions, and then had gone to her people with a demand for a re lease from the burden he had so long carried, it was no more than any dispassionate observer famil iar with his story would have deemed fully justified. But. ot course, taken in connection with her sudden death only a few mo ments later the story had a most sinister look. "Between five and half-past." The words echoed in tny ears. Yes. it was about half after five when Milly Stockbridge in a rage so towerinir as to make her voic almost unrecognizable had tele phoned, me. I had wondered at the time what had happened to ronse to life her Insane wrath This- story of her- relatives an swered my question. ' But it threw no light upon an other question which had been with me ever' sinee the tragedy. I .turned to Alice Holcombe with an air of agreement with her theory, and made an apparently casual suggestion: "I suppose they claim that was the ""errand which Mr. 'Stock bridge says he made at their house. You remember he told me he said he had gone there." A Memory Picture.,. "Yes,, and It is so unfortunate that hi did go over there.' It glvea color to their story, ; And I'm so afraid they arc wofilug to MY HEART AND M HUSBAND H. C. Dnnkell while on her re turn hom. Miss Thclma Rosinnt, or Port land, Is spending the summer with hr aunt, Mrs. H. C. Dnnkell. Mr. and Mrs. A. Baglcy o Portland. are "visiting at the "home of Mr. and ?'rs. H. C. Dunkell. Dr. Hanson went to Salem tM? tnorn!ng and brought home Mrs. Mtnnie Coby, who. recently sub mitted to an operation at Willam ette sanitarium. She is recover ing. Mrs. Nellie Burnett an nor Lemuel, who arc employed in Pa lem tor the summer, werp home for a few days this week. E. F. Black went to Scio the first cf the week on business. A number of residents in the Elkins neighborhood enjoyed a picnic party Sunday on the banks of the Luckiamute at the ford. Those making up the picnic party were Mr. aad Mrs. G. G. Hewitt and son uarreU. of Greenwood; Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hadley and children. Glen and Helen, of Air He; Mr. and. Mrs. H W. Haanam and children. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson and children. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Tetherow. Mrs. Maud Hannnm of Whshington, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Jones and two Son. Miss Erma G venn and Harold Price. Mrs. J. S', Cooner and daughter Genevieve are visiting Portland relatives this week.. J G. Mcintosh is confined to his home with eickness. Mrs. W. H. Craven, Miss Lucile and Robert Craven, and Mrs. S. F. Robertson, who have been so journing for a fortnight at Bar View, are home again. Mrs. Leonard bavls, a'ter a two weeks visit at the h ome of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. It. Wolf, left today for her home in Los Angeles. make outf a case aa'nrt him. They keep (insinuating that be is lying in hijs account of finding Milly. They agree with his Stale, ment thatfhe was only at their house a few minutes, but they said he said at", first that ho went straight hrfme and found her. That would mean that he waited nearly an hour before telephoning Dr. Irons; "But they accuse him of chang ing his story later," she went on, "saying that when ho went in.o the house about five-thirty, on hH return, from his father-in-law'a, he did not see her, and that he went out again upon an errand, nd upon his return after six found her. lying near the tele phone. But the last statement is the one I believe Kenneth mada Several persons heard him say that, while there is only the fam ily's word for the first story they claim he told." ' "You say he says he went into the house at 5:30 and did not see her?" The question escaped me Involuntarily. 5 "Yea. Whv?" Her voice held a startled inflection which warn ed me not to betray the reason tor my query. "Nothing," I returned inele gantly. "It was simply an Idle question." ' But my brain was busy with the picture my . memory was calling up. At five-thirty Kenneth Stock bridge had re-entered his home af ter go'ng to his father-in-law's. At five-thirty, Milly Stockbridge, seated at the telephone, where her husband could not possibly help seeing and hearing her as he ntssed througH the hall, was ut tering vile threats against Alice Holcombe and: me m a raucous scream which ihust have been au dible all through the house. And but i minute or two later sh-i had cried out in fear, and the telephone had.'vbeen suddenly si lenced. The sound of the front door be ing "officially Opened" by the Jan itor for the arrival of the teach ers and the voices of tUe two earl iest arrivals put an abrupt end to our dialogue, x But I carried away with me like a buzzing gnat the conviction that Kenneth Stockbridge had much to explain. -(To be continued) , VflUir PEARS DISPOSED OF All Controlled by,Association In Willamette and Umpqua Sold The entirecrop of pears con troled by the Oregon Growers Co operative association In the Will amette and Uinpqua valleys has been sold at $65 a ton f.o.b. ship ping point for No. l's and 135 for; No. 2's. Tb,e terms of the sale will permit of early distribution of advances to the grower after his fruit is marketed. This is thought to be the best sale of pears In the west this year. Reports from other sections indi cate that other large marketing organizations have only approach ed this figure. The "California Fruit News" of July 30 reports that the Califor nia Pear Growers association sold its entire tonnage available, for the canneries at the early Quoted prices of $ 61.7 5 a ton for No. l's and $"33 for No. 2 Bartletls While the California cropwas ma terially! cut Dy unfavorable wea ther conditions in July there waa a feeling that it was desirable to have the , pears canned and sold out rapidly this year, leaving a clean market for another year. Crop) Moves This Month. Reports from Yakima show that 10 cars of pears sold at $60 a ton t.nt that the price subsequently dropped to 940 and $45 and that large tonnage will be bought at that figure. , U Peara will start moving in the Umpqua valley about the middle of August and in the Willamette a few days latere . - 1 - PIONEERS WILL E TO FAIR Sixtieth Annual State Expr sition Heralded Best in Oregon History IMPROVEMENTS ADDED Five. Miles of Paved Walks and Roads Will Add to Comfort or ratrons Ererythins indicates that the Oregon state fair ior ism will easily be the largest and most in teresting annual event In the state history. The week of Sep tember 26 to October 1. ais been set aside by the board, this year marking th; 60th anniversaiy or the annual gathering. It is ex pected that p. large number of pio neers of the northwest will come to Salem to participate in ttra homecoming on "tae famous old campground, that adjoin? the state fa r grounds proper. This fact will have much to do with the nature uf the daily programs, pnd everything will be done to s.dd to the visitors' pleasure and conitort. Purso Limit Raised Premiums and purses amount ing to $75,000 have been allotted, wtth the premium lists revised and changed to meet the latest need of exhibitors. The result is that already pract cally every foot of space in tfce buildings has leeu spoken for, with the outride ground space going rapidly. Inas much as several new bnildinKS have been added this year., this fact alone insures a larger and more pronounced success thaa heretofore. Machinery, which previously shared space -aith the automobile cisplay, will be placed in two large new buildings, which will care for about 40 exhibitors. Automobiles representing a large number of manufacturers will b-3 shown in the old building, with accessories given a place of prom inence. Bird Rntldins I Ilfg The new poultry building ft an other structure that fills a long1 felt need. It will accommodate about 4000 birds, and has a floor space of .SO by 14Q feet. It will represent; when finished, the latest word in modern construc tion for an exhibition building, and will have much to do in a tracting many new exhibitors. This building as weU as all the other new ones is practically com pleted. The old poultry building is be ing remodeled and' will be used as a sheep brn. Much other work in the nature of improvement has been going on. The grandstand has been reshingled and remod eled;, other roofs have been re painted; five miles of paved roadB and walks have been placed, with fences, sanitary drinking foun tains and other minor details add ed for the comfort and conven ience of the public. Gardners At Work Gardners andlandscape artists are devoting their energies to beautifying the grounds, and by September the beds and plots should be a blaze of brilliant col oring. The Portland ' Floral so-, 1 Be Sure to Get $2.00 and $3 JO and H W. B. Corsets are the recognized StanJark for . ' Quality Style and Fit After Saturday evening they all go back to their former prices i.4'. 466 State Street eiety will have jurisdiction over the floral exhibit. display to oe in the new paTilioa as former ly. ' Among those already named to tae charge of various depart ments are: Mrs. Alice M. Weistef, Portland, art; Mrs. Mabel Hoi man, Fortland, textile WHliani Schul merich. Hillsboro, livestock; A. ' Taylor. Macleay, agriculture; H. C.- Rrown. Portland, horse show; J. K. Calavah, Idcnt'flei with the office of the state schoul superintendent", will, direct the In dustrial exhibit made by the Ju veniles. Krini hicrain KUboralc Everything indicates n?lenld racing program. Almost contin uous work Las been, going on at the track and horsemen now pro nounce it as fine as any to r found in' the coantry. Early clos ing of racing entries was mad June - 28, with the late entries closed August 1. RutherfortJ nd Tyron of California. win be amonjr those who will contest for the splendid, parses offered. A num ber of horses have been in Salem fr' eversl months, working out on the local Irack. W. P. MN'air oi Douglas, .Ariz , for six contin uous years official starter In Sa lem, will b here .again" this season. Last Logans of Season May Be Had for Picking While the loganberry season la officially closed, ancj, there are nq more berries for the big market than there are snowbirds In a c.t show? it is understood that there are really a good, to any bet ries in. the fields, the last strag gling product : of thei eaon " that DODGE TOURING CAR ' j. " h. - V,. . t $450.20 Guaranteed in Portland Railway Light & . " - j Power Co. 237 North Uberty Street Of ATU'Rj Evening at 8 p. m. Your Corset Today, the Saving; $3.00 Values at. ... $4.00 Values at... . will hardly pay to pick as a mar ket proposition, j ft ' '"- In somd ot the fields. It U un derstood tin at the owners, not wishing tnj pick the berries and b responsibl y for the pickers be cause the I fruit Is so iwatterinc. are willing to allow1 careful pick era to coipe- and jhelp themselves to the last of the. crop. While an exceptional quantity Qf logans has been put np for home nsei this yekr. It la believed that a goqd manyj homes are even bow short of a uffictency of lo sans for their year's use, an a telephone Tall to- some of 1 the friendly near-town growers might locate f ome terjr much worth, while latef berrlea, logans. and all th early! berry froita. have Just taken a sky-rocketing advance in prices, foy the barrelled berries, so that even a scattering Held might bring the picker some good returns. The yoking lady nerot.v the way c- n . I. . i aa ..1 - ...... w;a ui ii m in. in tua would insist upoi having the pcr itcea of af variety , . . W. GAHLSD0RF 125 liberty St . 4 ' ! ! . gooi, order ... . r . - . . . . X$138 Fh877 1