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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1926)
grange -Pageimt Opens as1 TeaiMBcnrmstets Gaffiier Unique vm BSffSWSEEll: . OMeiCT George H. Gregory Believes v9U Acre Farm Only One in West tSfry LILLIT It.' MADSEN ifsflLVERTON. July 21.- (Spe- jei-altq Tne statesman. ) Teasel harvesting Is now "at its height, kn If motorists through the hills bpV -Wiles northeast of Sllverton h3 -near Molalla see perhaps as !rajjge a sight as they ever be- j'Ptnf the Willamette valley teasels fcuoecogdixed as weeds growing felons the roadside; weeds which MUwr folks with an artistic bent, jUat-In various shades, and which pffi And very uncomfortable on LAYER PIANO $295 f i . . . buu piays jusi jikb a new l M tf. 1 9 mil. rvf nnw mnatn fcneh. Terms J 10 a month. 432 Stafe St. picnic grounds. Few' Oregonians know that they are grown com mercially here, and, acres upon acres of them form an odd sight. Yet George H. Gregory has grown them on his farm above Wilhodt Springs, since 1898. . Mr. Gregory has 90 acres 'of teasels this season, and he says that as far as he knows, his' is the only teasel farm of any size west of the Mississippi. He has grown as high as 116 acres of them at one time, but, as they are a biennial crop, the acreage var ies from year to year. i During the harvest season the fields are gone over twice. Cut ters, numbering -between 5 and 70, are now' making the first round. They are equipped with little four-inch knives made es pecially for teasel cutting. The cutting crew greatly resembles a group of hop pickers, made up of men, women and children over 12 years. The teasels are severed from the plants three inches below the heads and thrown into baskets similar to hop baskets, although the teasel basket is somewhat shorter and wider. These are emptied into wagons and taken at once to the drier. Cutters re port that they average from $3 to $4 a day. Teasel driers are unlike hop driers in that they are not equip ped with artificial heat. Shutter like doors on both, sides of the building open to permit air to cir culate through the racks upon which the teasels have been spread. In September, work in the drier begins. The teasels must be hand-trimmed, hand graded and hand packed Into large boxes before they are shipped to eastern markets where tney are told for dressing cloth. Mr. Gregory, who is an Import ant factor in the Molalla country, has worked with teasels for 54 years. When he was but l(t years of age- he had . to quit school to work on his father's teasel farm in New York state. Although he later returned to school, he has been out of the teasel fields only a few months at a time. DELEGATES NAMED Mrs. Henry Hutton and Mrs. George Anderson have been chos en Silverton's delegates from the American Legion auxiliary to the convention in Marshfield next month. Mrs. Dewey Allen and Mrs. Walter Arbuthnot are alter nates. The committee in charge of the recent concert by the Salem men's chorus reported. It con sists of Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Les ter Cooper, Mrs. Cos per Towe and Mrs. Alford R. Nolan. Bit - - i ' OE MM 5 T lln)(tfl -Two more days to buy shoes at big reductions. We want to close Xtthe filial lot of broken sizes in these two days so come early cx Ave are handling capacity crowds in the later part of the day. rEXCLuSlVE SiyLES AIID PAnERIlS JVTEXCERTIQJIALY, LOW-PRICE LADIES -PATENT PUMPS . 1 Regularly -sold at $12.00, most all sizes, -both Cuban and spike heels, all the late things to pick from they all go at . r Broken Lines - LADIES' $12.00 PUMPS In all. the late styles of colored kid, both stepins. and ties, no old ones, CO QC all right up to the minute go atvOeaJD. V - Broken Lines $8.95 Big Line COLORED KIDS AND PAT , ENT ; LEATHER PUMPS :(FofMadies' and girlff, regular $10.00 yal-- ues, ixwv-in. diock. ana spute neeis. oeu a pair.wnilelthey Jast 1 $6.95 The" big surprise 300 pairs of $9.00, $10.00 and $12.00 PUMPS AND OXFORDS for sport and house wear, dV Qff wonderful values, all to go atvJp MEN'S KANGAROO SHOES In black pne of the best values in the world at, $9.00. . Get a pair A at hallprice".. P.iJU MEN'S DRESS OXFORDS In brown calf, regularly ' sold at $7.00 and a real value' at this price. C Only a few pairs to sell at ; vOU $1.00 Hosiery Sale PURE SILK HOSE -Wonderful values, all colors, all sizes, only about 60 dozen in the lot. Come early and get a pair J QQ MEN'S TAN OXFORDS Regularly sld at $9.00, best values on the market,! only about 60 pairs. Come early and gjt a pair jjq MEN'S, BLACK OXFORDS Most all siies, regularly sold at $9.00. We are putting a lot of these in to stim ulate the sile at the ridicu- rr , fously low price of 00U ' (Men's Florsheim OXFORDS AND SHOES Hundreds of pairs to select from, almost every size in both tan and black. Get a pair now ! $ 1 0.00 Values $8.95 $12.00 Values $9.95 $1.00 Shoe Sale LADIES' PUMPS AND OXFORDS In the basement, white canvas pumps and oxfords, patent pumps, satin pumps,' suede pumps, and a few oxfords, for merly sold up to $12.00, A A all go at .1 $1.UU RUBBER HEELS PUT 0!l YOUR SHOES FOR HALF PRICE WEDNESDAY r Tom rrarr rrorT? . Corn . and ; aJluse r- ; moTed without pain or sora ' nwa-Insrowa' nails' remoVed 1 aad treated. . Palna In fet, ) weak "foot, j flat . toot, foot strains, and fallen arches adv Justed Uo not suffer. I vil) Eire you the best that sci- ; ftauiSwe Boce can produce In scientlfio " Sr($oet chiropody.' Consult " ?j . fntmpM-- ; DR. M. D. VXNYAHD . . v ,n ! i i '"A ; '4 i 23 Craa-tottUttKfflUV' - R1PATR D1TPART3HENT f ... Our shop Is equipped with all new machinery.' We use ; nothing. but th Tery best grade of leather that money will buy. - - ... . - . Mr. Jacobson, jn charts of this department, la an ex ..pcrt In his llne-has spent r rears, in factories and repair - shops; and will do nothing ;but high grade work. . AURORA FLAX GOES! taiiwEiis The State Plant Has Receiy ted About Two Thousand ! Tons of Flax It. H. Etzel of the Aurora; dis trict grew 10 acres of flax this year for the state flax plant at th penltenltary. He has received hi? check in full. He delivered: to the state 56.S55 pounds of flax. That Is nearly three tons to' the acre. The price was 138 a ton. The aversge length was close j to 3$ Inches. Had there been; an other rain, he would have had 440 flax, for length of straw above 36 inches. ! j jThe total value of the flak he delivered was $1080.24. The state furnished the seed and did the pulling; the pulling at $10 an acre, with a state machine. The check received by Mr. Etzel was for $931.54; the difference! of $148.70 being for the seed and i the pulling. That is, Mr. Etzel got. $931154 net for the use of his 10 acres! of land. Of course, he had the ex pense of working the land and planting, and hauling the flax. But it is submitted that he made a good profit. Any grain grower in Oregon will say he did; espe cially any grain grower in the Willamette valley this year. j ! About 2000 Tons Xow But Mr. Etzel is not the high man in flax production this year. A: lot of $40 flax has been deliver ed. And there have been crops with more than three tons to the acre. None of the others have been fully settled yet. Mr. Etzel Is the high man for early delivery. The state flax plant has re ceived and stored under its sheds b far about 2000 tons of flax. Nearly 1000 loads. Some of the truck loads run to five tons. Many of the loads run very much light er. It is expected that the full de livery will run to around 3000 ton3. So the crop is about two thirds in. Every grower who has rijnliverpd his ctrrp an" oaTlefl for liia check has got it. The floio, 000 authorized by the state emer gency board was placed td the credit of the state by the Ladd & Bush bank the next morning, after the, board gave its o. kt l jsTb flax is practicariyTfhr vested, In the yalley. The more than 200 acres in Columbia county mentioned elsewhere in this morn ing's paper, is not yet ready j to pull. Of course, therewill be deliveries, delayed for various reasons, for several weeks yet. ! j The 300 acres in the Stay ton district, under contract to the Ore gon Linen Mills Inc., is also about ill harvested, and a good portion Of it delivered and paid for. EAST IS SWEPT BY TERRIFIC STORMS (Continued from paga 1.) ; passed with long promised cooling showers still only' a hope. As the trend of summer's most Intense heat wave drew to j a :lose, it left in its wake a-record of offices and industrial plants ilosed, of men and women pros trated at their work and on the streets, of drownings among crowds that surged to seaside and lake front, of both animals and humans demented by the scorch- ring weather. Although sufferin was interna Wednesday, temperatures were generally several points higher Thursday. Records of 100 were unusual and scattered before, but on Thursday such temperatures became the rule rather than the exception. i S Prom all the renorts of nrtm- trations, drownings, suicides, and deaths of persons already ill, all to some extent attributed to the weather, It was impossible to com pile any accurate list of deaths for which the heat could be! held directly and solely responsible. In various places in New Vork, New England and Pennsylvania stores and industrial plants closed their doors so that employes might seek what relief was! pos sible. ) New York City experienced Its hottest July 22 since the weather bureau has been in operation. After a rushing start with a 10 degree rise in three hours in the morning, the mercury reached 97 degrees at 3 o'clock. An hour later it had dronoed one deee and some hope was held out for relief. I Formality went by the board and , In many courts officers and visitors were permitted to remove their coats. Business was stopped In one New York court when a court room crowd, taking telo lit erally the Judge's permission 4 to make themselves comfortable, re moved their shirts as well as! their coats and drew a sharp reprimand. The record of "the heat ! wive was one of mingled tragedy- and bujnior. In Blnghampton, X. jY. ilTES-STItJGS 1 Apply wet bsJdhg soda or f household ammonia, foil owed br four persons became temporarily deranged, and had to be re strained by police; and in Lowell, Mass., an egg was fried on a brick roof. In Jersey City three heat crated dogs attacked two yopng boys;, and inSt. Armande, Quebec, the nearest Canadian point for Vormonters, an American invasion was reported to the beer tables. And so through the whole rec ord, tragedy walked hand-in-hand with farce and the sufferers found time to laugh at their plight as well as moan. The weather bureau still spoke brightly of showers but the heat oarched easterners were in a mood to be shown. Promises and pre-! dictions had ceased to satisfy. IS 'OH JURY Ml 10EB ATTACK "Bitterest Enemies" Are on Jury, Church Publicity Director Says FAMED COACH WILL VISIT SALEM Tom Robinson, Producer of Stars, May Teach Swim ming Here Tom Robinson, swimming coach at Northwestern university, and generally recognized as the great est swimming coach In the coun try, will be in Salem September 15, 16. it and 18, according to present expectations. It is hoped that he will give lessons at the YMCA tank during these days, and negotiations zo that effect are under way now. In a letter received by Fred Thielsen of the Salem Rotary jclub and written by another Rotarian at Chicago, high praise is given Mr. Robinson as a swimming coach, although, as the letter says, he is a member of the Kiwanis club. He had four worlds rec ord men on his team at North western university last year. Old Sumpter smelter, idle for past three years being remodled for reopening. FORT WpRTH, Texas, July 22. (By Associated Press.) The per sonnel of the grand jury investi gating the killing of D. E. Chipps by Dr. Frank Norris was attacked here today by J. J. Mickl. pub licity director for Norris' church, as the jury recessed until Tues day. In a statement which is to bo published Saturday in "The Searchlight" Norris weekly paper, Mickle charges that some of Nor ris bitterest enemies are members of the jury, that it- contains Rom an Catholics, and that one of the main purposes in the formation of the jury was to indict Norris . for criminal libel for his attack on Mayor H. C. Meachani and others. The statement declares that one member of the jury attempted an assault on Dr. Norris' 4ife 10 years ego, and reiterated charges of a conspiracy against Norris, de claring that "the conspirators' met on a certain night this week and raised a large fund to hire well known criminal lawyers to prosecute Norris. Frank Anderson, a prominent Fort Worth business man who is a member of the jury stated that the jury is of a very high class, being composed of business men and farmers. "It is one of the best juries ever assembled here," he said, "and it was formed long before the killing at the church and long before any one knew that it would be investi gating any acts of Dr. Norris. "There are two Catholics on the jury, one of whom I believe is not a regular church member. The other members are Baptists, Meth odists, Episcopalians or do not belong to any church." Anderson's statement was con curred in by other jurymen who declined to be quoted. The jury after working three days on .the case recessed, to give time to tran scribe the testimony, and to per mit development of additional evi dence. ! r I Several persons who were at or ' near the scene of the killing when Chipps was shot Iri the office of the First Baptist church last Sat urday were examined today. G. Nutt, deacon In Norris church, the only known eye witness was re-examined, a.s was Ralph Rid way, 14, who was in an adjoining room. Both had been before the jury early In the week. PRUNE PICKERS CAME TOO EARLY But They Will Soon All Be Needed, and a Lot More Besides These Sim Phillips of the Y free em ployment office has been swamped with a flood, of prune pickers It seemed to him that there were about a million of them, but the number is probably somewhat short of that total. They have come in the last couple of days in answer to an advertisement in the Portland pa pers. They have been telling. Mr. Phillips that they came expecting to be sent into the orchards at once But they are what they used to call "sooners" in land settle ment rushes. They will all be needed, and many more, very shortly, in prune and evergreen blackberry and pear and peach picking to say nothing of about 50,000 of them a few weeks later in hop picking. But ; Denney & Co., who : put in , the advertise ments,, are not to" blame. They fixed the ' date for commencing prune picking, at a numbftjhif points where they have contr$ted for prunes, following is a copy of one of the advertisements: . "500" Prune Pickers Wanted. Picking starts' someorchards Mon day, July ,2 6 ; heavy , crop, good picking; most growers furnish good camp ground, wood; bring camp outfit.' 1 Apply ;for instruc tions Denney1 & Co., Salem Fruit Union bldg.,1 Salem Or. Phone' 2490." I Oregon, Washington and, Idaho producing some ,111,000,000 of wheat, oats and barley, compared with approxl ma t ely, , 1 0 5 . Q 4 0, 0 0 Q bushels last year. Druggist's Daughter , Gained 6 lbs, in 30 Days Only 7 Years Old He Writes After sickness and I when chil dren are run down, pale and weak, nothing seems to help, so much as the vitalizing vitamins in McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets. Mr. E. H. Alvey, pharmacist, of Clinton, 111., writes as follows: "Gentlemen: Enclosed f 1 n d check to .balance account to datej ' Also order for 12 doren.McCOY? TABLETS. My little girl (7. years old ) , had the measles and was very much run down. We started her on McCOY'S and she has gained 6 pounds In 'thirty days. . The other morning she and- her mother overslept and Betty Jdld not have time to eat breakfast be fore going to school. She same home at noon starving and said to her mother, "Mother, you will have to get! me up. in time for breakfast or stop feeding me Mc--coy'sv I Sixty sugar coated tablets for sixty cents at J. C. Perry, D. "J. Fry and- druggists everywhere. Try them for 30 days and if they do not help your ailing child, money back. , Ask for McCoy's. Adv.- - "."'I . Bit 9m ft Jfe J; JULY suit sale Ifpjjl ; liil Quality stands firm while prices take a tumble These reduced prices fail to give you an inkling of the high character of the merchandise offered in this our most important sale of years. You will recognize their extreme high worth the instant you see them and the label of the makers, and so interesting are these values that we are expecting to do a volume of business. So great in fact that it is doubt ful whether this sale will continue many more days. I -: - d Styles that you seek; Patterns that you def T:SUits that yoU will be pleased to wear right mand; Fabrics that you want adiTailort :riaw; Suits you'll, want for fall ybu . get ing that you desire All ' thse things are ' ;tnem all in these three groups, reduced for offered in this, quality clotiiing. ' quick clearance. v SEE THEM NOW. . $16 95 UNDERWEAR So inviting are these special values that many a man will come here and put in a most complete sea son's supply. . 98c HOSIERY As unusual as is the quality, so unusual is the price. Think of get ting fjne silks and superior lislcs at this price. 49c Straw Hats YOUR LAST CHANCE At these low sale prices; it's very worth while to get a new straw hat for July and August wear! All the newest shapes and braids at a fraction of regular values. Now reduced 98c and $1.79 SHIRT SALE Hundreds of quality shirts in-all styles and fabrics, ;at f these two greatly ; reduced prices. $1.40 - $1.98 BATHING SUITS Presented in : pne are two-piece styles, some plain colors; others vith contrastin'j; stripes. "Reduced to- ' j. .' - u r "."p V ' . ...y $2.95antf$3.95 Corner Court and Commercial Streets (pill .'. .. . , y:- . - CprhTer Court . Commcrciki: 'Streets V lir i r I aV V 7 1 - - ! . -! i t i' 9 . : c tu 4 -is V