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i 1 TI1R OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OltEGON SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1927 ULU ULfV LUIIL LISLU i mil 1 - Yankee Fishing Ports Yield to Changing Times; Many Stories Told t GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) Only one of the famous old New England fishing ports, Gloucester, retains the full flavor of the spicy olden , days, and even Gloucester has) changed in that new and im proved methods 'have reduced lots .pf-Jife among the men who go lo the sea in tihips. The sealing industry went the way of the seal, and the whaling ports succumbed to petroleum and electricity, but fishing for food goes on apace and Gloucester has just completed what the old tim ers claim is the best mackerel fishing season in its histosy. Gloucester in winter Is a city of snow banked streets, ice clad fishing schooners creaking at thefr piers along the waterfront, cold winds whistling through frost stiffened shrouds and flicking salt from the crests of whitecapped waves in the harbor. At the Fisherman's Institute the landsman can breathe deep- of the salt atmosphere. Oldtimers there, wealherbeaten veterans of the banks, taking it easy between (rips, a bit taciturn about this hshing business and a bit proud of it. too. will talk with apparent . reluctance of the old days and row. "Yes." sold one. as he leaned lt.uk in his snuu corner, "this :tr's mackerel season was the best in the history of Gloucester ; rid they're adding to all tin: fWf-t.s '.ut lu re every year. And what' more, the flwherman's life ain't what it used to be. In rny time there were S "women made .widows. Thjs year onlv five rnn lt their lives from Gloneestej" i"aft. another new record". v "I never saw' the worst of it, i.tither. From 18 70 to VSSC there were 277 vessels of the Gloucester fleet lost and 1S3 4 men drowned or died aboard. Better s hooners are one reason for the lr?nrovejnent that and more general auxiliary power. And life Ini boon mafle easier, too. There's tf.e radio at sea and when the .thooner docks the fisherman is through; he doesn't have to".--Iajre at unloadinz hef." ,S About the "room a dozen stout n:en in sea boots were playing nehind Lb era was a blackboard wit b the craw1: "Six- men wanted for pehooaer , Mary Ann, double Goty.-'. AnrtW Vend: "Single doryman for schooner Ageste " Ihese were calls to the' winter haivest on the Banks, i - George B.. Russell, the genial chaplain of the Institute, . named over, the year's dead three men lofct'when the Ralph Brown was wrecked last February on Briar Neck, one lost in a, capsized dory, and one who fell or was swept frpm the deck of his schooner. His records show 30 lost in 1923, IS in 1924, 5 in 1923 and -7 in 1922. but. he says, it used to be wnrsf. Mr. Russell estimates that 100 schooners of the fleet have radio sets and a local station now broad casts martoet reports on landings rud prices. IKSTEMIT i W 4 - mm-mi mm. m mm - - a Mahood Here to Give Series of Services Your Car Deserves SEIBERLI N GB America's Finest Tire ZOSEL'S -.ST .190 S. Commercial Tel. 471 SILVERWARE v Standard Grades In tray's, chests antl tfpeir stock Gifts for every occasion Prescott's Jewelry Store :i'2S North Commercial Rev. J. W. Manhood, evangelist, arrived yesterday 'in , this -city to begin a aeries of evangelistic meet ings' at the Jason Lee Methodist Church." He is well known in Sa lem, having recently given a series of services at the -First Methodist church. ' '. ; Rev. Manhood will preach three times today at 11 a. m., 3 p. m., and 7:30 p. m. Services will be held at 1:30 p. m. each day in the week except Saturday. Hriera afternoon services will be held on Toendays. Wednesdays. Thursday. and Minnie Albright, Editor Silverton High Annual SILVEUTON". Ore.. Jan. 22 fPpecial.) Officers for the 1927 Rilvertonia, the high school year book have been selected. Minnie Albrieht has been chosen litor: Ilex Russell, manager; Harold Al fred, assistant manager; Marguer ite Sather and Eleanor Jane Bal laittyne. associate editors. Others who .will assist as class and ac tivity reporters and editors in clude, Eva McVay, Viola Taw, Francis Keene, Franklin Even son. Winnifred Eastman, Helen Dic-kerson, Mable DiRerness, Anna Lehman. Dorothy Xeal. Rosella Alriek. Marten Green, and John Kleeb. The fifst Silvertonia was pub lished In 191G. Gold Beach. rFarmers and bus iness 'men form company to print new "Oold Beach Independent." Faraday. Griswold Lumber company building new sawmill to cut 30,"000 feet a day. His Latest Picture HAROLD LLOYD IM The Kid Brother t-StarV Sat. Jahmth " At THE OREGON I Sleighs arid 'Cutters ''Come Back to Highways of North ; west With Heavy Snow ST. PAULr-(AP) Sleighs and cutters have come back, to the highways of the northwest, to ride the deep snows which motor cars cannot traverse. But the hitchln voats are gone, and a lot of towns wish they hd not uprooted the knawed and knotted pillars with such lacrity at the advent, of the automobile. Snow and more snow, three feet deep on many countrysides and" drifted to ten feet In southern Minnesota, has put a crimp in mo tor travel. Bob-sleds, cutlers and open sleighs rule the road, rescu ed from cob-webbed nooks in hay lofts and carriage sheds to enjoy their greatest vogue In twenty Ave years. The revival of sleigh-riding has Its parking problem, however. The hitching racks around the public square and behind the country Churches have vanished. Feed barns and livery stables have been converted, into garages. There's no place for a man's nags. Some villages where the march of progress has been less devastat ing linve capitalized on the stir yival of their hitching posts. Mo torists have been forbidden to park in front of the racks, and the horse is having a last laugh that he never anticipated. youngsters are ioinir their courting ugain like their fathers did. Wrapped in warm buffalo robes, with their girls snuggled Inside them. the swains have abandoned the ood-fee, for the ra.hboard behind which one-arm ihivinn is not against the law. Dog derbies, winter carnivals, tkatin and all sorts of winter sports have b-en Riven impetus by the phenomenal snowfall. Kv- (iy town has its skating rink, and the larger cities have scores. Ski nieets are enlisting new enthusi asts, and sleighing parties are or-ce more as popular as when N' llie was last seen home. . . " , , , "il"i,"M'a "SSSSS I Credit Is II On Any Purchase "v III You Make Even at L r mi January oaie r rices -. .. , -- " . i Mllil -r s .- ' l ip Myers Given Parole Due to Age and First Offense Richard Myers, 19, who was ar rested several weeks ago with Floyd K. Carrier, on a charge of stealing an automobile, was sen tenced in circuit court Saturday morning to spend one year in the penitentiary. Due to his youthfulness and the fact of his first offense, Myers was given a bench parole to J. B Hall, Kugene attorney, on recom mendation of the Marion county district attorney. Carier was arraigned on the same charge and will plead his case January 26. Willard H. Wirtz was apointed attorney for the defense. Portland bank clearings for 1926 were S2. 103. 840193. In I 1913 they were $627,818,010. T ;i It's Mere I h ? i ' llj ill - i! PI id' K lilll uiii The New .. . ' A-- it, t. 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