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Section Two
Society, Churches:
Better Homes
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SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR
SALEM, OREGON,- SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1925
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Col. E. -llofer Writes in His Usual Entertaining Manner or Trip
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TACOMA, July 31.- We stopped
here thlgt afternoon en route, for
s.Anacorte$, and expect to attend
-4ne ' annual Hardest House at
Roche Harbor, San Juan island,
August.lt 2 and 3,, returning next
weekuliajSalnler national park C
Shall' not say much about' the
roads as pared highways are the
rule. W? did not encounter speed
officers after leaving Vancouver.
Next f o paved roads and motor
cars, good hotel service is of the
greatest Interest to the traveling
public. Well-kept hotels send the
bellhop out to meet yon at the
curb and, even across the street.
July 0th we motored : from
'Agate Bfcach, Or., with its quiet
beach hocuses and modern inn to
Longvlew. Wash., 215 miles, stop
ping at Ithe new Corvallls hotel
sfor break rast, and at Salem, long
, enough to clear a desk of a stack
of mail. j. From Oregon City we
cut across to Vancouver via 82nd
street, Foster road and Grand ave-
nue. From Vancouver, to Long-
view is 46 miles.. The Long-Bell
company! first made -heavy pur
chases of standing timber in Clat
sop and Columbia counties, plan
ned a location on the Oregon side,
but balked at state income and
inheritance taxes and nronosed re-
j moral taxes on standing timber
and located on the Washington
side. Behold the modern city with
clerks, industries,; public service
corporations, and claims 5,000
population and 65 miles of paved
and graded streets. Longvlew
shows the advantage of city plan
nlng and wise use ' of capital In
building-Tor effects.
; Two years ago a pasture to
day a city" Is the slogan of Long-
view, the most famous new In
dustrial city, in the northwest
Built byi the Long-Bell Lumber
company of Kansas City out of the
earnings of Its-hundreds of retail
lumberyards in the great prairie
states wet pf the Mississippi.
The Monticello hotel here was
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planned to. fit the name,, with a
colonnade of pillars designed by
Thomas Jefterson for his country
home; with a wing on each side.
The grounds on which this six-
story hotel stands comprise about
100 acres that . were once peace
ful pasture lands where dairy cows
rested under the shade of giant
maples that have been preserved
forever in the beautiful setting of
the grounds. The hotel has an
extension1 of one' story for tie
targe dining room, with glass on
two sides 1 looking! upon great
lawns and ! exits on the tennis
isourts built on concrete. A three-
story wing holds the kitchen and
help quarters. -There are acres of
flowers,: a canopy porte-cochere in
case of rain, and great, beds of
pink tea roses on each side of the
entranced ' -The foyer has displays
of cut flowers - and vine maple.
Ton look across this expanse of
Velvety lawns, parkings and flow
er borders at on esplanade of mod
ern buildings. . 1 1
There is' a great dining room
and a coffee shop with lunch coun- i
ter, at which our party of six had
a good breakfast. ; The service
throughout- is on tiptoe, and ex
pert travelers call it the best man
aged in detail, next to the Penn
sylvania hotel in New York. The
elevator is noiseless, r with floor
annunciators. ! . i I
i A "sawmill town with one mill
cutting a million feet a day, and
a second . building, Longvlew ; Te
quires all business buildings to
be of brick, stone or concrete.
All sites are sold with reserva
tions as to - architecture and ma
terial for construction.
I ; In passing, wish! to compliment
the new Benton hotel at Corval
lls for excellent dining room ser
vice. The coffee we had , was about
me most aeucious ever tasted any
where. ; The strawberries and
muffins could not easily be better.
The Benton has hinged windows
opening outward from the -bed
rooms; A Portland morning Ore-
Adele Garrison's New ; Phase of
REVELATIONS OF A WIFE
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CHAPTER 74!
WHY MADGE WAS , ABLE TO
SAVE "AUNT TATTIE?- ; .
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With my small son In my lap, I
considered and discarded a half-
dozen plans for silencing his "lit
tle pitcher" repetition of the com
ments he had heard from Kather
ine's lips and mine concerning his
grandmother's abominable dis
courtesy b Mrs. Bickett. ' : j
Any iuother of small ; children
who never has faced a similar
problem has a blessed lot, indeed.
In !ny first; panic I had agreed
with Katherine's frantic comment
that! thi was ho time for modern
methods of child training. But
sit down to breakfast. The dining
room is large and cool, with high
ceilings. Manager Al Pearce .for
merly conducted the Marion at
Salem.
Going from Chehalis' to Cen
tralla, and through the latter
place winding among back streets
should be marked "In red ink on
the maps, instead of a part of the
big black straight line indicating
the Pacific highway. There are
three miles of disgrace; old dirt
road that was; once covered with
gravel that is now a succession j
with my little lad in my arms,
looking cherubically up into my
face, ' I could neither bribe nor
threaten him, at least not until I
had tried other methods.
'Ma-ma feel bad he announc
ed at last with the air of one mak
ing an Important discovery. "Does
It hurt bad? Dooner tlss it, and
make it all well."
7 I gave him an. ecstatic little hug
and-seized the heaven-sent oppor
tunity. -
Yes, Mother does feel bad. Jun
ior," I said impressively, wun a
purposely sober face. "It makes
Mother feel so bad for you to sing
those words."
"What words?" he demanded
blackly.
"Don't repeat them!" Katherine
flashed the whisper frantically.
and I smiled a bit derisively as I
acknowledged the warning.: Re
peating the words, even if I were
to do bo silly a thing, would be a
distinct superfluity In Junior's
case. He aireaay naa mem urm
ly fixed in his really remarkable
memory, I was sure ol that. o,
to create a diversion in Junior's
mind, I placed him on the seat and
started the car again.
"Oh! I know!" he announced
importantly, and then he threw
back his head and broke into his
chant again: ,
"Bomable old woman. Ought
to be., spanked."
"Madge!" Katherine's voice was
mploring, and I knew that she fav
ored summary and drastic meas
ures, but Junior's chant abruptly
ceased, and he turned an earnest,
inquiring little face to mine.
"Never! Never! Never!"
lie considered a minute, his
head absurdly on one side. Then
he turned his eyes on Katherine.
"Aunt Tattle said words first,"
he looked triumphantly at me.
"I knew it!" Katherine whisper
ed despairingly. "He has my num
ber, all right. A might Just as well
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ask Airs, titer lor room but
way." '
"Yes, Junior, I know," I said
promptly. -Aunt Tattle was
naughty to say those words, but
she s sorry she said them, now
aren't you. Aunt Tattle?"
"Oh, Junior! Aunt Tattle's so
sorry, so sorry!" wailed Katherine
sincerely. "Listen, Junior. Sup
pose we promise Mother we'll nev
er say those bad words again."
twice. There's a couple of other
men there. ' Maybe there's some
thing wrong. You make ' tracks
now. and then you can come back
and see Junior." '
"Good afternoon, ladies." she
turned to us. "What can I do for
you?"
(To be continued)
A Promise Won.
"You no like?" he inquired with
so unconscious yet life-like an imi
tation of Katie, that Katherine
and I, tensely anxious as we were,
had hard work to suppress our
laughter. '
With a mental note that the
German University Honors
Retired English Teacher
BERLIN The faculty of Bonn
University recently gave a recep
tion to Prof. Aloys Brandl. who
retired April 1 as head of the de- partment of English
partment of English. The occa
sion was his seventieth birthday
anniversary.
Professor Brandl for many
years was president of the German
Shakespeare Society and is one of
the best known authorities in Ger
many on English philology and
literature.
The faculty of the "university
presented Prof. Brandl with a
portrait of himself by Hellemann.
He also received an honor scroll
from his former pupils on which
was recorded tribute or his ser
vices to the university In the dt-
OBSERYE ANNIVERSARY
BERLIN A special ldtlmC
vesper service wa held recently
in the Berlin Cathedral to cele
brate the -400th anniversary of
the wedding of Martin Luther, la
addition to the cathedral service
there was an outdoor celebration
in the square fronting the Luther
monument. A large crowd Joined '
In the "singing of old German,
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The morning newspaper la the
market place of the entire world.
An advertisement In it will briar
yon larger returns.
of j ruts j that - give this stretch a I problem of Katie's influence upon
blacq eye.
1 At Olympia, the hotel by that
name, opened ihew five years ago,
Is managed by-Tierce brothers and
was entertaining about 100. Ro
tarlans with as many more tourist
guests in the regular dining room.
The' lunch was. beyond criticism,
and we were served by the mana-
gonian is handed you .when yon ger in person- j
Junior's speech must soon be tak
en up, I spoke slowly, impressive
ly, nevertheless, watching the road
carefully and drove along.
"No, Mother doesn't like those
words and she doesn't want you to
say them again, ever." " - V
"Never?" he asked reluctantly.
Evidently the chant had charms
for him
"Maybe Something's Wrong."
He reflected again, soberly.
Then, with a sigh be put away the
fascinating possibilities of the new
chant. '
"All right. Never say dose bad
words again. Hi! Derry. I've
come to see you."
t We had turned into the Ticer
dooryard, and Jerry was at the
side of the car before we had stop-'
ped. He never falls to answer
Junior's hail, no matter how im
portant the task, he leaves. As for
Junior, Jerry is his childish Ideal
of manhood, and he tags him about
as an adoring terrier might do.
"Hello, Junior!" He swung the
child high in his arms as he lifted
him out' of the car, and the boy
chuckled gleefully.
I guessed from Jerry's glowing
face that "Lady", his decrepit but
beloved old horse, must be better,
and he confirmed the guess as soon
as he deposited Junior on the
ground, andsprang to help us out.
"Lady's a hull lot better, Mis'
Graham," he said excitedly. "The
vet said give her enough stuff to
kill her, but he's fixed her up all
right, and he says with luck she'll
be all right in a couple' of days,
and then. Oh boy! Junior, you're
going to be a regular circus rider.
Your maw 'says I can teach you
how to ride Lady "
"Yo-ou, Jerry!" called his moth
er's placid but firm voice from the
doorway. "Don't you hear your
father blowing down the road for
you? He's blown that whistle
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The Things That Are Required
td conduct a funeral according to
the. modern standards, and that
meet modern conditions are to be
found only in the well-furnished,
mortuarv 'establishment such as
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The use 'jof the funeral parlors is
every day becoming more a matter
of course with those we serve.
Their manifold advantages are be-
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WEBB'S
FUNERAL PARLORS
"Superior 3UncmJ Service"
205 Sa Church Street
Phone 170
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Some idea of the electrical development that has
taken place in Salem ajid vicinity during the year3
; 1,914 to 1924 may be had from our records of the
investments we have made in that period for addil
,tions to our plants and equipment: i , !
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Transmission lines $ 39,973.00:
Additions to buildings j.: 14,359.00
Electrical and -Steam machinery 180,222.00 '
Distribution poles and wires.,:... 242,960.00
Transformers 92,268.00
Meters . I . 68,895.00
Street Lighting equipment 11,010,00
Telephone Lines ..a..... .;. . . 1,553.00?
Miscellaneous ......' i 1,811,00
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$653,051.0,
Approximate proport ionate I , ! ,
. share of hydro-electric plant ' i
I construction on Clackamas i r
J River and steam electric i L
f plants' in Portland 810.000.0Q-
$1,463,051.00
The above statement shows that we have spent
Over One Million Four .Hundred Thousand Dollars in
the above stated period in the development and up
building of Salem and Vicinity. " L j r j ,' '! '
In the same time i we spent in i:
i ' the- operation and mainten-
i ance of our property and
equipment in I Salem and
vicinity :..l...Ll.-.:.......$l,192,974.00
UThe following gives an idea of the increase in our
personnel and payroll:
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We have extended many miles of distribution
lines into the rural districts during the last few
years, and are now supplying nearly 800 farmers in
this vicinity.
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opment from the standpoint of number of customers
and quantity of electricity used: r .
Number of
Customers
Kilowatt hours
sold
In the year of Increase
1914 1924 in ,
,693 : 9,095 146
333,710 2,634,692 5577?
Due to the increasing use of electricity in the
home for cooking and other uses, a very interesting
and marked reduction in the average rate per K.W.1L
paid for service is shown in the following figures :
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1915 1925 in j
. 65 '. 128 - 977o 1
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Prior to 1917 we had but one transmission line
supplying power to Salem from our hydro-electric
plants This line extended from our Oregon City
,plant to Salem via the Oregon Electric Railway,
I In 1917 we extended another transmission line
from our hydro-electric plant at : Estacada to ; Mt. ,
Angel into Salem to provide duplicate and additional
Capacity to increase the reliability of our service. .
We are now building, at a cost of $150,000, a
third transmission line from Salem to Newberg via
Dayton, and rebuilding the line from Newberg to
Portland to connect with the steam power plants
there and the ten transmission lines that extend into
Portland from our hydro-electric plants.
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When this new line is completed, 'Salem will
have four sources of supply of electric power and is
very fortunate in being so adequately supplied, as
reliability of supply is even more important to man
ufacturing plants and other users of electricity than
its cost. 1 v - . .
In addition to the above, we removed our old
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steam -electric plant at Salem in 1922. and erected
another; representing an investment of $175,000.
We also have under construction in West Salem
a high tension switching and transformer station,
and a transmission line from that Station to our
Salem station, at a cost of $55,000. ,
This, when added to the cost of the nW trans
mission line, makes a total of over $200,000 in one
major improvement for the year. :
In the year of Decrease
Average rate 1914 1924 in
per K. W. H. paid
by customers for
residence service 8.6c 4.3c 50
Due to the tremendous quantity of electric power
used by the Paper Mill, which was established in the
period (under consideration, and the resulting very
low rate earned by it and the low rates earned by
other large power users at the present time, the
average rate per K. W. IL paid by all customers
shows a corresponding decrease:
. In the year of Decrease
I 1914 1924 ' in
Average rate
per K.W.H. paid
by ALL Customers 2.6c , 1.7c
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We feel that all of the foregoing figures Indicate
that we have been doing our part in the development
and upbuilding of Salem and vicinity by providing
adequate electric power' facilities, .which is a Very
important factor, and that our rates are low and of
such a scale as to give the community the benefit of
still lower electric power costs'as its use of power
increases. ' " 1's.
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