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Outlook Encouraging as to
-'-;-- r.ffUUi, Quality and
;t Price
T"2iiyS. Sept. 14 Indications
'fdPtne present prune crop are
Terjr good at this time. Perhaps
aot so large a crop to be har
vested as In 1926, but better pros,
'poets of harvesting the crop and
better price conditions.
.Picking In a few orchards, has
, already commenced, but jn the
. majority of orchards It win sot
''- get under way until September IS.
In the hill section north of towa
4 the season will be later, perhaps
. la week or-ten days. Picking la
the larger orchards will last for
. three weeks It is expected.
It is not anticipated that there
will be any great shortage of la
bor, as people are arriving every
day from the bop yards along the
river. The local schools will not
open until October 7, which en
ables all of the school children
to participate in the prne harvest.
One of the packing houses bas
aa order for 1000 sacks of dried
prunes for foreign shipment,
prunes for this order will be .put
into 100 pound sacks and truck
ed to Portland as soon as they
come from the drier. They art
i L net processed until they reach their
destination.
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Prune Orchards Survive
Attack of Root Borer in
Polk County This Season
s enn or unc
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By MADALENE L. CALLIN
Contrary to earlier reports, the
root borer has not ruined the
prune orchards .of Polk county.
according to county Agent Beck
and several owners of large or
chards.
Many of the orchards .were suf
fering from the of feet s of the bor
er but prompt work on the pari
of . the growers cbe-Ir?d the in
roads of the pe.t and an excellent
prune eras will be harvested,
Paxadichlorobenxine Is beins
used snceessfurly in the orchards
ami uttra-da.ma.7 bas been dose
to tho cropr. The recent warm
weather Is Ideal lor tire applica
tion - of the treatment.' The
ground, around: the tree : is
smoothed off aud the crystals
sprinkled on the soil. Then 4ha
soil la packed over the crystals
aad the good work begins. Since
if can only be used In dry weather
this treatment Is best applied be
tween August IB and September
1$.
J. N. Bolman of the Dallas dis
trict bas one of the best appearing
orchards in. the vicinity and has
had no evidence of root borer for
three or four years. He attributes
es Business and Enjoys
"Good Program
trees when the pest appeared, in North Howell Grange Finish
pni ww earxn is scrapeo- away
from hm tree roots and' away Croat
the tap root. This is left opea to
the air for two weeki. Then the
root is painted with a mixture of
arsenic of lead and Paris green.
When this is dry the roots are
again covered with earth and the
root worm causes no more trou
ble.
Air. noiman solved his own
problem of handling the shot
borer in a unique manner. An
NORTH HOWELL. . Sept. 1
The regular meeting of North
Howell Orange was held Friday
evening and much business of 1m
porta? ce and much interesting
discussion finished.
Next Tuesday afternoon was
the day set for applying paint on
thorltles bad advocated painting I the kitchen and part of the . ban.
tree trunks with lime to overcome 1 The. ladies will also meet there at
this. According to Mr. Holman I that time and work on exhibits
they "got fat on that treatment.-1 for the Orange Fair.
He conceived the idea of asm the I Dortnr .'the lecture and social
carbolic- spray generally used to I hour combined we had a first day
kill lice in chicken nouses. When Jot school. program and this prov
ide irees were sprayed with this ed Terr, latere tin- indeed.
peels were immediately killed. I While" lanch was - being eaten
The fine' appearance of Mr. lout of old fashioned lunch nana.
uoimaa's orchard Is a proof of the .teacher." E. O. Wlesner
the efficiency of his methods of
combating prune pests.
The- recent dry weather bas
checked tho inroads of brown rot
to such as extent that the prunes
called on each In turn to tell some
experience of earlr school dari
Tne sod? school -houses of No-
iuuu, ms cuiu winien in uaiv
ta, aad-WisconsIn and the muddy
in the valley are of exceptionally lanes of early Oregon all received
tin Quality this year,
due mention.
1 fa
trim
KEEP LABISH BUSY
MOUNTAIN VIEW. Sept. 14.
Sehindler Brothers hare a wonder
ful prune crop. They expect to
harvest 45 tens from their orch
ards. They are Just finishing har
vesting a bountiful crop of peach
es of many var!oMs on the" James
Imiah and M. P. Adams farms on
Wallace Road. These peach orch
ards run back to the rich bottom
land near the river and the soil
1 very fertile and ideal for peach
culture.
. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Davis and
Mr3. Dunn of Highland. Kansas,
who is Mrs. Davis mother, with
Paul and Marcel Bloch of Salem,
made the loop trip up the Colum
bia river highway and around Mt.
Hood Sunday. .
Mrs. Frank K-fTrtr; of Portland,
spent the week-end with, her par
eats. Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Sehind
ler. jre
FiH TO Hi
FINE CHOP
FAIRV1EW, September 14.
Prune crops of this district are re
ported the best they have been
for years.
The price also is vesy satisfac
tory, but the prune help la scarce.
Nearly all growers expect to
start Monday. But a few plan to
start Wednesday or Thursday.
J. M. Isiing and Roy Harrin are
the first of this community to be
gin the prune picking.
They plan to pick up what are
town Wednesday v and Thursday
.u start wiin ine snaaing Mon
day morning. -
By. HAL WELTON
. LABim .CENTER, September
Ifr The 'Hayes Co., which, owns
about 500 acres of beaver-dam and
upland are in the midst of their
most prolific labor the distilling
of mint.
The weather has been ideal for
this work the past several weeks
and hence the crew is working
with great gusto.
The average daily output is 100
gallons of the restful staff with
out which the nations stenograph
era would lead a pretty dull life aa
they would be compelled to chew
pine-tar or their thumbnails.
Fifty men are employed in con
nection with the mint . distillery
alone while in the Hayes onion
patch, comprising 5 acres, there
are some 15 more at work alter
nating in pulling the matured on
ions and In hauling the dried on
ions to the large onion-houses
where- they are placed upon
shelves to dry and cure.
The usual time required to dry
the onions in preparation for haul
ing is in the neighborhood of two
weeks. Few onions are being sold
as yet. There is little demand for
them until cold, weather appears.
The prospects are that there will
be good prices prevalent again
this season although it Is doubt
ful if they will attain the high
peak for last year between four
and fire dollars per hundred.
The general opinion among the
growers Is that the recently pass
ed tariff oa Bermuda onions will
bea great aid to American growers.
necessary to bridge a small arm of
Lake Labish. This will be done
during the fall. Thus, with fine
connections with two main arter
ies of trade Labish will be great
ly nenentted.
UBISH CENTER NOW
I
TOPS FARM 0 STR C
LABISH CENTER,, September
14. "With the hustle-, a&4 hustle
of this-Reason V narfrest week in
oer way. too ract, ana it is a net
Increasingly apparent as the years
roll by. asserts itself that Labish
Is- well on the way to recognition
ajl on A of th fni-emnat firmlnr
FAIRVIEW. Sent. 13 Satnr- I eommnnltlAi in tha nnrthwMt
day eyeaing, September 14, tbere From a sparsely settled region de-
was a Basset SOCiai at the F-alr-l voted Chleflv tn wnndi(innnn nA
view scnool house sponsored by I an occasional" small truck farmer
the Falrview community club. I it has crown into a deservinr sta-
-veryone was cordially invited to ture.
auena ana orrng & basket. Also, The highly valuable beaver-
atrs. aenon was sponsoring a paper dam ground which a decade ago
unvo in oenau oi tne community was covered with a mass of wll
club. Any one baring old papers, lows and rank underbrush is now
and magazines Is Invited to brlnr
mem saiuraay evening.
Mrs. Sanders is
Taken Away by
JWatklts? Tllrtacc 1 tho lenity are now well on the
rf llllieSS way to reap the lucre due them
producing crops of phenomenal
yield. One who has not visited in
this vicinity the past few years
will be truly astounded' at the
change which earnest in dust nr.
buoyed by the requisite capital.
has effected . . . and the people
who had the foresight to pioneer
4Hobo Hcshf Ccrntt
to Gnet imenz
Omens d Lchish
LABISH CENTER. Sep.
tember 1 It is a well
kaowa expreoaioai im Joara
allstie tirade that if a nam
pulla a duck's feathers it
isn't am bat tf a dock
palls all the bair from
aua'i bead that la news.
It la with this axiom: U
miad that the story Is told
of om -Hobo HugbJe" HaI
etedt, a transient, who Is
given to regard work ae be
tag aat evil i to bo eadared
whea Bothing- else will servo
tho purpose. :
Harialg. heard of tho Lab.
tsh eootry.aad.thlnsrlas; bo
aalgat- procaro htmseif ajob
and -co-lactdeaUy " oaoagli
money to move oa to Wa
old vatamplar- groaaday no
betook hiawelf to local on
loar ralsec aad asked for m
.job. ... --
, Kyetag Baglde'i aoao too
robast form specalatively,
the oaloa rataer aakt, WelL
well try yoa ovt-aad aeo
what yo cam do. Forth
with Hughle was placed 4a
the . oaloa hoasa and - to
work. NoW, In tho storing
of onions it ia necessary for
a aaa stationed on wagoa
track to rolst heavy boxes of
onions to a man stationed
precariously on a shelf high
above. Hnghie was elected'
to do the catching. A bosky
chap was Stationed beaeath
him to do the tossing . . .
and do' it he did... much
too spiritedly.
The first box Hnghle re.
cetved and held, but on the
second ; attempt . the husky
tetf his box' wfth a flae
soarmafraotioB. fit rr ached
. Hogbie all right enough bat
it didn't stop there. Instead
it lifted Hughle bodily from
his feet, ' oomeraanlted him
la a aeat arc aad deposited
him on the floor nine feet
below with regrettable ef
fects. I
Hughle arose, dusted the
onions from his ears and re
marked, "So, It's taken me
forty-six years to know my
onions first hand -I'd a
never thank it of me -I'd a'
never thank it" and he
sighed, mattered ... aad
ambled, off... If a man
lifts a box that's not news,
bat if box- lifts you say
MRS
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EOOD FIIE YIELD
CLOVERDALE, Sept 14
Prunes are ripening fast theie
warm days, the prune dryers are
being put in operation, all hoping
that the entire crop can be har
vested before the fall rains begin.
Ivan Hadley. having the largest
dryer in this district, will operate
it and also rented another dryer
in order to handle more of the
fruit that others are asking him to
dry.
t'. Earl Neer Is sending his fruit to
the canneries.
The Schifferer Bros, began
work in their orchard Friday.
Jefferson Grads
Go to College
JEFFERSON, Sept. 14 Mem
, hers of the graduating class of
.1929 of the Jefferson High
School who will attend college
this year are William Smith. Jr.,
iwho will enter the Junior college
at Phoenix. Arizona; Marjorie
Fontaine. Lorene Hart and Vir
ginia McKee will go to Oregon
'State College. :
Jean Smith will attend Wll lam-Sette-0,
University and Florence
Thomas rwHl go to University of
DIES ftT RICKHEALL
INDEPENDENCE. September 14
Berbalia E. Cook passed away, at
the family residence in Rtckreall
Friday, September 13, at 2 a. m.
after a lingering Illness. She was
the widow of the late Peter Cook,
who died two "years ago. She had
been a resident of Rtckreall for
the past eight years and of Oregon
for the past 50 years, coming to
Oregon from Vermillion, South
Dakota..
She was born in Vermont, Dec
ember 11, 1847 and was married
to Mr. Cook February 22, 1868.
There were born to this union
four children, one daughter pass
ing away at the age of 16 years.
The remaining children are Mr
J. W. Fetccr of - Independence,
Mrs. F. M. Dunham, Fairbanks,
Alaska and Mrs, Charles Molson,
Portland. Ore. She also had four
grandchildren, and eight great
grandchildren. Mrs. Cook was the last one of a
family of five children. She was a
member of the Christian church
aad a charter member of the
Women's Relief Corp. .
The body Is in charge of the
Kecney Funeral Home. Funeral
services will be held Sunday after
noon at 2 p. m. In the family
home. Dr. .Donstnore officiating.
Interment will be made in the I,
0. O. F. cemetery.
from their early hardships.
IIP, SCHOOL TO
SI LVERTON. Sent. 14. fSne-
cial) Mrs. Guy Sanders died at
the local hospital this afternoon
after a three weeks illness follow
ing a major operation. She bad
been a resident of this neighbor
hood for more than 25 years.
Mrs. Sanders Is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lum Whitlock, pio
neers oi Biiverton and has lived
hero all her life. Beside hnth
her parents, she Is survived by TURNER, Sept. 14. School
her husband, one brother. Lester QPens Monday, Sept. 18, with
OPEN SEPTEMBER 18
WMtlock, and
Ruth.
a small daughter.
Ladies Learn to
CookatAmityl
teachers as follows: High school,
Prof. John R. Cox. Mrs. Jean
Pearcy and Prof, D. B. Parks,
grade teachers, Mrs. TJ. B. Parks,
Mrs. Crystal Edwards, Mrs. C. W.
Sloan.,
Charles Stand ley is janitor - and
Mr. Parks will run the school bus.
Prof. Cox will superintend the
athletics.
PERRTDALE. Sent 14.At 2
o'clock Thursday afternoon. Mrs.
Florence Henery of Newborn save
a cooking demonstration in the Carc Cnllila rn
assembly ball of the "Methodist alS UCiifUc? Oil
cbrrch at Amity.
She is not a stranger to Perrr-
dale folkks. as she has called on
moat every home on the Yamhill
Electric line. . i
adoui ladies attended. If I Vrrrw san u tiv-. ru
. ... 1 - wafc ttviivu vv&a
.ue writer isa i Eaair mUtAren. i hn ki. tfv tANu.
the husbands are going to profit car Wednesday night when be eol
by this cooking school, for the la- lldedwith another automobile on
dies are getting new wrinkles in the Pacific highway between Rick-
" OI cooxang the proper reall and McCoy.
uungs at tne proper time. f Fortunately no one In either car
"Highway, Then
Go Into Ditch
was hurt, except for a few scratch
was hurt, except for a few
scratches and bruises.
Blinding lights were said to he
the cause of the accident, father
car gave enough room.
DjUIQPS Champoeg
iw iiwni'ln
IIWIII lUlhMIIWIfV
of Oregon Relies
People Uroed to Become
Air-Minded
DALLAS, Sept. 14. Orrille
"Scout" Haselwood of the Salem
airport, tad instructor In the Eyer-
ly school was speaker at the week
ly -meeting of the Klwanla club,
Friday, al which directors of the
chamber of commerce were spe
cial guests. The speaker waa in
troduced by Rev. OrviHe Peterson,
chairman of the day.
Mr. Haselwood SUted that the
first-thought coming to persona
Interested in --flying . wr is it
safe?"-and -went on to- tax that
insurance uadt-writers had rated
aviation as Vie .second safest
means -of 'transportation,' steam
ships being-rated first.: Pilots and
snips being licensed by the gov
ernment; and traveling-along air
ways approved by the government
were safeguards to the person
trarellng by airship. He - urgd
that the community .become air-
minded ana be prepared to take
advantage of air service whenever
route may be established on the
west side of the Willamette' river.
Questions were asked of Mr. Has
elwood as to slxe of an air field.
cost of preparing, charge for serv
ices to planes landing, and cost
of operating a plane.
De Vere PenhoHow, was intro
duced as the new song leader of
the club by Rev. Petersen.
E. J. Page, president of the elab
announced that be wanted--10 "or
12 of the members to go to Al
banr next Thursday to present to
the Albany iwanls club,' the hell
. . By Florence Matthes
CHAMPOEQ, September 14.
"Good Housekeeping," says Edith
Toner wethered, "is at the hot
torn of the loss of most of Ore
gon's priceless relics of early
days!" Seeing the look of In
quiry, the busy little brown-eyed
woman continued. "One gener
ation preserves the treasures In
tact. Somebody marries into the
family Presto! Out to the barn
go the old pictures, the old book,
the old furniture!"
Acquaint three-legged black pot
used every day over the campfire,
o nthat long heart-breaking Jour
ney, aeross the platna in IS 47
la thrown away, salvaged by a ser
vice station man. painted a bright
red and now it filled with wander
ing Jew for peopleto admire!
As old-time cradle, bewed from
wood, rests beside a four-poster
bed hi the room at Champoeg fur-
nl2bed hy the I. A. R.'s.
KSten over and look at the old
hed ;wjj& ltsjiprings of woven
rope.
I see-the-clean straw-tick filled
with shining new straw, I see the
top unlit, hand-pieced, star pat
tern ad I notice ithe exquisite
stitches made by fingers now
crumbled to dust!
I seem to hear the spinning
wheel's ; low hum and the old
black Iron teaketree once mora
bubbles' over the fire in the stone
fireplace.
How familiar looks th
gourd dipper and the old coffee-
mm xanenea to the dusty wagon
bed in 1847! .
Come and see tho old tnm tt..
grain cradle - of early days the
monster rock wheel . from some
ancient millthe" oxen yokes of
tlm ... . ...
Come and ae thm tlnrlnm
green-fringed Willamette,
- Onward ever
Lovely river.
and thank God for Oregon.
HOMES BUILT
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KING WOOD, Sept. 14 Sundry
building operations and other im
provements are going on in this
neighborhood.
Cast Gibson of Salem has sold
his blace- of 10 V. acres on the
Henn. creek road to E. Bennet.
Mr. Bennet also purchased an old
owewng nouse wnica stood on
tie corner of Court and Front
Streets.' Salem, and wrecVed it
wMeh is being Uken to every ciub Wl.f;'k,U caj damage
In the Pacific northWesC He also
appointed Dr. A. B. Starback,
chairman of a committee, with W.
L. Soehren and R. R. Turner to
meet with a group from the cham
ber of commerce to consider oc
cupying the former quarters of
the La Creole club, which recent
ly disbanded.
-toe material which be 13 using to
construct a dwellings Lis ranch.
The t new house will be a eubstan
tiabs good-looking one.
WBljara Hacker Is further beau
tifying his handsome bouse by the
application of a new coat of paint.
Ed Flnley is having his front
porch ceiled, re-floored and re
roofed and a glassed-in arrange
ment built in on the west end.
Rickey School
Opened Monday
RICKEY, September 14.
School opened Monday with about
30 in attendance. Severalpupili
who are working in prunes, black
berries and hops will enter in a
week or two. .
A larger erolloient than last
year: I expected.! jMrs. Marie Kel
ly of Salem Is principal and Miss
Edna Fery of Stayton primary- in
structor. The school . board has put a
new 60-foot flag pole which was
donated by J. I. Caplinger.
IEI2FJ FOLK VISIT
fjonn
Popcorn School
Has Opened
ORCHARD HEIGHTS, Septem
ber 14. The fall term opened at
Popcorn school. , district No. 36,
Monday, September 9, with Mrs.
James Best in charge. There are
IS pupils enrolled. ,
This is Mrs. Best's fifth consec
utive year as teacher of the school.
She also taught four years consec
utively here at an earlier period.
r,k :'iAf9 5vv w va
Opening Opposed
: '. i . " !.
-" i : MOUNTAIN VIEW, TSepti 14-..-It
U expected,. that Mountain View
" school will open MondV, 8epteo
'ber $o. There is some opposition
- to-this date by patrons f orth
y ' school on account of "'prunefliar
. vest. ' '.v - '- - .':. , '
Last year's teachers;- Hi. .and
Mra. J. V. Starrett,.vUi teach the
cojwtng tjm.-TSe Interior ot the
. ecHopt'buudlng has been thor-
-' oughly; cleaned, the walls and
woodwork treated to a fresh coat
- f palat and the floors oiled.
Read the Classified Ads.
Labish Highway
Nears Completion
.adioi-i cnicn. sepicniDur
14. The graveling of the milUor.
dollar highwav. hi rapidly beln
completed. . Trucks are haclinr
Kravel through the daylight hourii
a,nd a, considerable portion of the
nfght. " - '
The highway is leveled and
"moothed ahead ot the trucks, a
layer of cohrse gravel Is spread
and covered with dirt, then a fin
al layer of tine graver Is spread
over this. Fashioned 'in this man
ner it will soon pack when aided
by. the fall rains. "
It is with a great rrfsiire of
eattafaetion that the . roidaide
dwellers gre.tlie'flght'of'lhej
comnieiea' coating ror with the
rpad 'plowed up and ankle deep In
dust there was a time ot . semel
distress. However, it H well worth
the Inconveniences ot the prepara
tion to gain what vill soon be a
splendid highway, giving this dis
trict a market road connect Ins
1th the Mt Anjel SilTfrton h!;h.
way. - - . , ... ,
To gala this connection wUH the
Wm. Elders go
To Monument
LAKE XiABISH, September 14.
Mr. and Mrs. William Elder,
who made many friends here last
year, left' last week for Monu
ment, whhre Mrs. Elder Is prin
cipal of the Monument school. The
Elders were here last year on their
honeymoon.
Mrs. Elder (Freda Thayer) waa
one of- Monmouth's graduates of
last year and this year took sum
mer work; at University ot Oregon.
KEIZER. September 14. Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Beard sley have
returned from a week's trip dur
ing which ther visited Klamath
Falls. Coouille. Myrtle Point and
North Bend.
At North Bend they visited Mr.
and Mrs. John Kiezer and their
sons, the doctors Russell and Phil
lip Keiser. The doctors are in
charge of a hospital at North,
Bend. Mrs. Harry Wenderoth,
formerly Grace Keizer is the head
nurse of this hospital.
PRE-ilMICS
i V.
SILVERTO
III
Porcelain "Walnut"
IPsjir,Ilnc?
3f d ffo iO
T1?rmr;
FOR WQOD
Only a Charter
Oak can give you
'more heat wjth less
'Wood.
Used for four gen
erations in millions
of homes.
Charter Oak Parlor Fnnuires are
bilitV. :JHlte n lanr firehnv Annr wrilk -4nnr,t 4l V-
- gw wwTf 9 we ae vAtitiviuiutti inif iu w 1 r
or - w- - - ii.vwi iS0ttj M. - M
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SILVERTON. Sent. 14. Th
clinics for the immunisation of ba
bies and preschool children for
diphtheria is meeting .with much
approval from Silvertoa mothers.
So far 25 children bare been
brought ia for the treatments. The
cttnica are being held each Thurs
day at the-local health center.
A regular health clinic forpre-
scnooi cnuaren win be held at the
health center on September 17.
The Oregon Statesman and The
Portland Telerram.
dailies for SO cents per'month. To
oraer pnone ftoe.
CREED
Special altenHon
to Hie detail and wishes
ofallieiigiousciiis
out aced of Setvice , .
"When theSuaimoos Ccavsa
SALES
if
I
Continuinj? with additional barp-airw for f hi wlr r.m. w
Christmas is "just around the corner." Why not take advantage f
of these sale prices on gift articles now and "lessen the strain" I t
later n? . I
va. va w
Lave assortment Rose Pink
Glassware
49c
Six Glasses and Drink Mixer
filled with bath salts
Terms
If
Desired
1
SCmm
sate
Trade .
. in.
' Your
0W Heater
98c
Crystal Berry Set&ftowl and
: -v - six dishes,
. Cedar Polish, large bottle.
Special
C
Chocolate Creams, "
19c
Closing: out all Aluminum and
Granite Kitchenware
price
10-inch Solid Brass Center
bowl with wood base
98c
Glass Bake and jPurex Pie
Plates-Sr&iau
59c
SALEr.3
,152 N. Conuncrcial
Part wool durable Blankets f
pink, Tjrown, tan plaids," satin -bound,
frun of the mm."
$3i49
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