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PAGE FOUH The OREGON STATESMAN, Sakm, Oregon, Saturday Morning, October 5, 1929 'No Favor Sways Us; From First Statesman, March 28. 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. Sprague, Sheldon F. Sackett, Publtehert Charles A. Spkacle Sheldon F. Sackett Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other wise credited in this paper. Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Class Matter. Published every mornina excevt Monday. Business of fir 215 rnniMrn'il Str Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes. Inc.. Portland. Security Bldg. San Francisco. Sharon Bids.; Los Angeles. W. Pac. Bldg. Eastern Advertising Representatives: Ford-Parsons-Stechen, Inc., New York, "271 Madison Ave.; Chicago, 360 N. Michigan Ave. The Steady Washout THERE are a good many signs that a steady washout is in progress on Wall Street. The long bull market has gotten tired. Its periodic lunges through the year have been de ceptive. They gave evidence of old time vigor. The reality is that they were leaps of desperation marking the period of exhaustion. The signs accumulate that a slow washing out process has set in which will sluice off the price pyramids and expose true values. The public is easily deceived by the action of a few mar ket leaders. Stocks which are moving forward by leaps and 'bounds are the ones that are getting the publicity. The se curities which are showing steady recessions seldom are mentioned in the market summaries. When the full list is studied it will be found that there have been declines in prob ably the majority of stocks listed on the big exchanges since the early summer. People have been looking forward to a gigantic crash in the stock market, some great cataclysm. It begins to look as though the bear market would not come about in any such spectacular fashion. In place of a sudden collapse there promises to be this slow abrasion of prices, the steady wear ing down of tired holders of stocks. Eventually people will grow weary of paying ten per cent for money with which to carry securities yielding three or four. We have a suspicion that many of the new investment trusts formed by the big investment bankers may be created to take over some of the undigested securities of these bank ers. The quinine of the original issue is given the capsule coating of an investment trust designation to make it more palatable. One who speculates on a fairly intelligent basis has good cause to walk v.arily in these days of high financing. No man knoweth "the day r.or the hour"; but the conservative and ultimately successful man is he who watches his step when the markets churn as uncertainly as they do at present. Condemns Selling at Loss "1HAIN store executives held a convention last month in in Chicago. Problems in connection with this new scheme of retailing were discussed. E. C. Sams, of the J. C. Penney chain, declared "the chain store must enter a community as an all-around partner to its people, to its social and civic in stitutions as supporter, to its betterment program as con tributor and counsellor." The heads of these organizations recognize the value of the "local flavor" which the independ with the home communities in order to win and retain public favor. W. T. Grant, head of the Grant chain, condemned the nrapflVo rf aollirxv frwla Ralsvrt. nif TJ V.wnnlJ Zi- - M.f1- ing." Here is an extract from his address which deserves the study of all merchants because it is the outgrowth of long experience in merchandising. Mr. Grant gives his ex perience in selling goods below cost: "We attracted the least desirable type of trade and the stores were so jammed that business was almost stopped. What was the result? We had created a reputation for selling certain merchandise that could not always be bought again at the same price. This tend ed to spoil the business in our regular lines which we could have sold cheaper if we had not lost money on our specials. It spoiled the cus tomers' appreciation of normal merchandise. "This actually hurt our business, but it was more damaging to other merchants who needed that business. It was a blatant attempt to make the public think we were giving greater values than we real ly were. la plain words, it was just pure 'faking.' Furthermore, our actual experience is that the greatest sales records in our history have been made with relatively few loss leaders. "Our experience is that in stores where we have hard sledding we have poured in specials and so affected our profits that we have shown a greater net loss with bo added reputation. As soon as our selling without profit ceased, our trade resumed its former volume." A Lull m School Growth SCHOOL authorities will rather welcome a lull in the rate of growth of the school enrollment. Such a pause seems to have set in. Portland reports a decrease in school en rollment. Salem's figures have been below those of a year ago. This is in contrast with conditions for many years, in fact ever since the war. Each fall showed a substantial gain in enrollments. This meant more teachers, more buildings, added expense. In fact the growth was faster than the levies permissible under the 6 per cent limitation. This resulted in piling up warrant debt in many districts. It is always hard to lower expense in operating a plant, whether a factory or a school. The fewer pupils will not result in fewer teachers at once. And of course the gain will probably be resumed in a year or two. The retard in birth rate is the cause for this slowing up in school enrollment. Fewer children in the homes mean fewer children in the schools. We venture the opinion too that a rood many cities are going to be disappointed over their population statistics in 1930. They are trying to measure population growth by the number of new houses that have been built the past decade. That is not reliable. These new homes do not house such large families. The housing cubic footage has increased per capita owing to greater prosperity. So when the count is made there may not be nearly have watched house building Friends of former supreme hopeful for hit early recovery goitre which he underwent in Portland Tuesday. Judge Harris is a distinguished lawyer and leading iiiy conn AMITY, October 3 The Amity Commercial club met Tuesday for the first time in three months. The ladies of the Christian church served a delicious dinner. -An ex ceptionally good attendance was reported with five visitors. The meeting was called to order by Vice President A. B. Watt. Professor A. E. Murphy, who was the speaker of the day, gave an Interesting talk about the high school. He also outlined the high school work for the year. ' A committee of three men. Gay Nott. Henry Richter, and A. W. Newby. were appointed to meet with the McMlnnville chamber ofj OPENS U No Fear Shall Awe." - - - Editor-Manager - - - Managing-Editor t so many people as those who may predict. justice L. T. Harris of Eugene are following an operation for Internal citizen of Oregon. commerce and committees along the Southern Pacific railroad, to develop traffic facilities, so the electric trains may not continue to ran. The meeting will be held Monday evening at 6:15 In Mc Mlnnville. KKTURX TO AIR LIE aiklie, October t -Mr. arfl Airs, uus Liinaerman nave moved on their farm near here after be ing gone from this vicinity about eight years. The Bast few years Mr. and Mrs. Llnderman have been spending their winters at Newport and their summers at their home at the old "Shady Lane Grove" on the Dallas road. Mr. and Mrs. George McCormack have previously lived on the Lln derman farm for several years, bnt have npw moved to the form er Andrew Hannum place at Pe dee. Read the Classified Ads. () j BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Isaac A. Manning S Whose first letter was copied in this column yesterday, as men tioned therein, wrote a second let ter to the same Salem friend, which is as follows: "Cartagena, Colombia. "Dear Friend: "The 'Book of Remembrance,' came through all right and I sure ly have enjoyed it. Evidently Mrs. Steeves put in a lot of time and effort" in collecting all this data, and yet it appears to me that a great many of the old timers are not mentioned. I thought among others your father was an Oregon j arrival previous to 1852, but in this I may have been mistaken. One of the things that interested me greatly was the story of Mary Watkins Walker Riches, who was a relative of my mother, and who started from Indiana in 1852, which was the year of the great cholera scourge on the plains. I have often talked with Mrs. Gov ernor Moody about this party, for when they started from the Mis souri river the party included my grandfather Hunt and his family, which included my mother, then just growing to womanhood. " mm However this party separated at Green-River and my grandfa ther left them there to go on to California. He died of the chol era 100 miles we3t of Salt Lake City, and my grandmother ex changed their cattle to a party re turning to the east for mules and returned with this party. It seems a pity that in writing the history of this party, Sarah did not have the whole list of those leaving for the west in it, as it included the Scott family, Harvey W.. Mrs. Dunniway, Mrs. (?) who was as sistant editor of the Oregonian. what was it, Mrs. Coburn? Mrs. Moody said that Harvey Scott paid a good deal of attention to my mother on this trip, but on her return to Indiana she mar ried my father, and finally return ed to Oregon in 1873, where she died in 1876, and is buried in the 'Hunt family burying ground,' which I note has now been named 'Mt. Hope cemetery.' My mother's name was Sarah Jane Hunt, and she was a first cousin of Sarah Hunt Steeves father, of Temper ance Hunt Downing, Mrs. Riches, etc., etc. "Having arrived In Oregon In 1873. when I was neary my 10th birthday, I had an opportunity to know ever so many of the Waldo Hills people, and reading her stor ies has brought a great many more of them to my mind, when I had almost forgotten. We lived on a farm adjoining George S. Down ing on one side, and Mr. Howell who was janitor of the state cap itol in 1889 on the other. We wero just a mile from Rock Point school house, and my father taught school there one winter. W "L "I have one good story about Sarah Steeves' father. When as a hoy I was at his house, where we frequently went to visit, he had promised me a pig, so I claimed it, and Cousin George picked me out what might have been called the "runt" of the litter. However, It was a 'pig' to me, and I took it home, penned it and 'hostlered' that, pig until kUUng time In De cember or January, and it pro duced about 300 pounds of pork, lard, etc. I beat the best one Con Sin George had in his whole lot by ever a hundred pounds, and I remember jollying him about it. n "We arrived In Salem while the state fair was oa la 1173, and spent three nights in the various tents of the Hunt-Downing famil ies, just oa the left of the walk leading from the fair grounds sta tion, and almost In front of the gate. "Tee" Perkins and Edwin Downing were gate keepers then, so we boys had the run of the fair grounds. I remember 'Maieypa,' Still Busy Unloading the trained horse .that was lost on the way to San Francisco from Victoria. Also the first horse race I ever saw was run and won by old 'Rye Straw,' a big gray. Also I remember the various kinds of vehicles that carried people to the fair from town, and the drivers crying, 'Fair grounds, GOING RIGHT OUT and how they would 'go right out' whenever they got a load! B S "In reading the story of the Waldens (page 61) I find the names of Peter and Mrs. Hatch, and they were the parents of my first wife, Alice Hatch. Mr. Hatch came from the Sandwich Islands, where he had sold his 'lay' as a master of a whaler la the Behr- ing sea, and arrived in Oregon in 1841, two years before a cabin was built on the site of Portland, and his second wife, (his first having died in Hawaii), was Sar ah Locey, who came In 1843, but they settled at Oregon City where Dr. Locey practiced medicine for a number of years. I do not re member when they moved o Sa lem, but it must have been before I860. 'm "m "Sarah's story of the 'camp meetings' brings back many mem ories of those that were held in a grove just a few miles southwest of Sublimity, when I was a boy, and in which my father took what seemed to me then a very prom inent part as an exhorter of the Christian church. These were al ways three or four days of real outings for us boys, who I am afraid failed to attend much to the religious feature of the meet ings, but always had a good time playing in the woods, and 'espe cially in helping to devour the fried chicken and cakes that the most excellent cooks of the Waldo Hills country prepared. "Then a trip to Salem from the Waldo Hills in the plR farm wag on hauled by a fine pair of Per cherons that father had purchased was always a great outing for us youngsters. Then we always had to buy things at Breyman Bros, or at the store run by Friedman, who afterward was famous as the auctioneer of Salem. Also the first money I ever earned was "holding sacks" at the thresher oa 'Cousin John A. Hunt's farm dur ing harvest, and 'bucking straw.' Great old times. He paid me 25 cents a day and board, which I have always thought I came pretty near earning. ! "Well, I think this enough rem ! iniscence for the present. You might tll Cousin Sarah about this I le'ter if you see here, and I am sure Johnny Farrar will be glad ! to se rvliat I say about his grand- ; parent?. "With very kindest regards and best wishes, as ever, "Yours most sincerely, "ISAAC A. MANNING." Old Oregon's Yesterdays Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read The Methodist conference which just adjourned at Eugene took steps to bring the remains of the late Rev. Jason Lee to Oregon and to deposit them in the lot beside those of his wife and child In the Lee Mission cemetery in the east ern part of this city. The state Insane asylum had 94) male inmates and 435 female inmates for the moath ending September 1, according to the .re port of Superintendent J. F. Cal breath. The Principals' club of Marion county and adjoining county teachers will meet with State Superintendent Ackermaa next Saturday. The state superinten dent will talk on "School Organ ization." The old pump that has stood In front of Steiner and Berger's for the past IS or 17 years has been removed and a new one put in its place. The new one Is the first of its kind In the northwest, it Is said. NEBRASKA FAMILY AUBURN. October 4. Otto An derson and family have rented the Win. Ramsden ranch, vacated the first of this week by H. C. Mallet and family. Anderson has recent ly arrived here from Wahoo, Nebraska. Mrs. Anderson and their two sons, who are high school students, have been in Ore gon since July 1, having first tour ed through California and Wash ington. They intend to locate here if they find the climate and other conditions suitable. Mrs. Ander son's father, Mr. Martin, Is mak ing his home with them. Thirty pupils have enrolled In the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades with several more who are in the orchards to enter soon. . MEET AT Alii AUBURN. October 4 Jacob Kippes, of Stanton, Kansas, is a house guest at the Etzel home. Kippes and Etzel are old friends, having farmed together, and also worked together in the railroad shops. They had not seen each other for 22 years. Kippes is on his way to Cali fornia. He relates that he encoun tered intense heat coming through Kansas and snow and extreme cold through the Yellowstone National park, where icicles formed on their water bags. "Oregon," he deserves, "looks to be a fine country. Hubbard Boy Enters Technical School, Portland HUBBARD, October 4. Frank lin de Lespinasse, graduate of the 1929 class of the Hubbard high school, entered the Oregon Insti tute of Technology at Portland Monday and Is a member of the radio and transmission class. Franklin Is making his home with his brother Bert de Les pinasse and family at 578 Emer son street, Portland, while attend ing school. Franklin Is the son of Dr. A. F. de Lespinasse and has assisted his father in all band and orchestra work at Hubbard and elsewhere. He will have an oppor tunity to continue his work in music at Portland. Monday eve ning, his first day of school, he was invited to play the baritone with a group of professional musi cians at St. Helens. Silverton Has Guest from Iowa SIL-VERTON, Oct. 4 Nels La degaard arrived at Silverton from Iowa this week for a visit with his old time friend. Louis Meyer. The two knew each other In Iowa over twenty-five years ago. ROBBERS GET 9200 PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 4. (AP) Safe robbers obtained $200 from the safe of the City Fuel company here some time Wednesday night, police said to day. The robbery was discovered by office employes this morning MOVES TO IUB0RN n Happy Years of Service Rosedale School, Now Empty Lives in Memory of Many ROSEDALE, October 4 Hark ing back to the good old days of '96, we find the .proof in old school records that Rosedale had a little red schoolhouse. It stands under the same old oak tree, on Rosedale hill as the one does to day, in fact, the building is the same one with a change of color and addition of a primary room and play&hed. In these days there was a town of Rosedale with a post-office, blacksmith shop and hotel, all down in the hollow with the school house guarding It all. The school board usually met at the post office, once in a. while at the blacksmith shop and once It is stated that it met at Wm. McGil chrlsts "on the ground." The names most often mentioned as board members were: J. II. Bat tey, R. D. Teter, John Hunt, L. P. Hopkins, Mr. Abbott, and Wm. McGilchrist. The main item of business was hiring teachers for two, three, or five months' terms. The standard salary seemed to be S3 5 per month. Clinton Reynolds taught one month for $25 and had to walt for that until the spring drawing of the school money. The length of the school term seemed to depend on the amount of money in the treasury for the record says there was sufficient money for five months of school so Wat3on Townsend was hired for that length of time. In 1896 we find that fir wood cost $2 a cord. Scholars outside the district paid $1 per month to attend the school. By the school census for that year, we discover that William Jr. James and Gordon McGilchrist were In school probably enjoy ing apples behind ample geo graphy covers and, of course, studying very, very hard! Walter S. Pemberton was growing up then but was still on the school census. In the record of 1900 we find many names, a few of which were: Delbert Blinston, Gladys Hopkins. Paul Burris, Marshal Teter, Orril Rice, Clinton Bates, and Guy Barnett. Dr. Ray Pem berton was a budding young man then we're not telling any ages! schoolhouse has seen varied exper iences. To some the quaint old landmarks of a Sloan's reader, a green-backed physiology or p. Mace's history bring far greater Joy than the most modern, peda goplcally correct text-book. The methods of discipline were very much to the point usually in the "hand language." Adhesive tape pasted over a girl's mouth effectively stopped her whispered flow of words, a red hose coiled in B. K. Cook's coat pocket was al ways ominously "present, and switches grew on every bush in the school yard. The seasons of the school year were marked not by the change in the weather but by the fevers seizing the nupils for various games. Shinny, snow-balling, marbles. Jumping- rope, dare base, hare and honnd and baseball all had their rise and wane of power over the Juvenile recreation. Some of the teachers who have taught here and left their impress on the community are, Gladys Carson. Lesta Cook Bates. B. K. Cook. Dorothy Taylor, Florence Frazier Snow, Mary Anderson Jorgenson. Mary Lee Scott, Danta Robbins. Anna Robbins, and the Bos track sisters. For several decades the little red schoolhouse has done service to the community as generation after generation of scholars came and went from itsdoors. For the first time In its history, it will stand empty and desolate. Do you suppose it will miss the conning of lessons, the bustle of Christmas programs and the happy faces of the children? Of course it Is best to consoli date, but sentiment still clings about it and Rosedale school days win oe cerished as happy memor here and there and everywhere. P.F. AT DALLAS HOME DALLAS. Oct i T IT 7rUan aged 46 years, a native of Russia ana a resident or Dallas since 1912. passed awav at hla home on Tuesday, following a lingering niness. untu two years aco Mr. Friesea conducted a real estate office, and at one time a mnsle store. He Is survived by his wi dow and six children, and two brothers residing in Dallas. services wm be held Sunday at the Mennonite Brethren church with interment in the Salt Creek cemetery. ATS. GERVAIS, Oct. 4 Berry picking was finished In the Sam H. Brown field last Friday. Mr. Brown had 35 acres of Evergreen berries and they produced 100 tons this year. ' Mr. Brown states that On account of the dry season his berries did not pro duce as well this year as in form, er years. At the peak of the sea son 100 pickers were employed. Mr. Brown sold his crop to a Sa lem cannery at only a fair price. VISITS AT LINCOLN ZENA, October 4 Howard Wil ton is a visitor at the home of his brother-in-law and sister. Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Kennedy of Lincoln. Howard Is cow able to walk with the aid of a crutch. He had his leg amputated near the hip while a patient at the Shrine hospital In Portland two months ago and Is now using an artificial leg. The Statesman carries durable, clearly printed cloth sirns which will protect yonr property against uuniers ana trespassers. Fn is BERRY PICKING OVER BROWN Fi Bow and Arrow Are Weapons For Dear Hunting in Alsea MOXMOUTH, Oct. 4 Rev. Jj. L. Daily, Instructor of archery at the Oregon Normal school, accompanied by Lowell Eddy, a Junior in tbe Independence high school, has gone to the Al sea forests on a deer hunt. They are equipped, like yeo men of old, with the most ancient type of weapons of warfare the bow and ar rowAnd local folk are much Interested in the out. come of the Jaunt. Daily is an ex-professional in this popular sport, and young Eddy broke the na tional existing record for long distance flight shoot for boys, at a tournament held here last May. MOIL BANKS ASK MEH TAXES SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4 (AP) Taking a firm stand against any change in the present method of taxing national banks, and calling upon the federal re serve system to conduct a scien tific investigation into the growth of brokers loans, the American Bankers' association completed the work of its 55th annual con vention here today Such changes as have been pro posed for bank taxation in the na tional congress at Washington would weaken the national banks, said a resolution adopted late in the closing session. National banks as agencies of the national government may be taxed by states the same as other property. The resolution hits at a move by some states to secure a change in the method of taxing national banks creating a special class tax for banks. Such a move would tax national banks out of existence, the resolution set forth. The federal reserve system was urged In another resolution to co operate with the authorities of the New York stock exchange to promote such changes as may re lieve the national credit situa tion. While it was stated that credit In the United States is fun damentally sound, it was pointed out that hand-to-mouth, buying, reduced Inventories, increased production, higher earnings, smaller capital requirements and installment buying had tended to bring about a fundamental change. VICTIMS OF FIRE HAZEL GREEN, Oct. 3 Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kobow, whose home was recently destroyed by fire, were the recipients of many beautiful and useful gifts at a shower given at the school house on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Louis Wampler presented the gifts and Mrs. William Rick man of Claxter, sister of Mrs. Ko bow, helped her unwrap the many gifts. Household linens, cooking utensils, dishes, silver and can ned fruit were among the gifts. In a gracious manner Mrs. Ko bow thanked the ladies for the gifts. Cake and coffee were served by Mrs. Peter Woelke, Mrs. Louis Faist, Mrs. B. C. Zelinskl, Mrs. Archie McCorkle and Mrs. Ru dolph Wacken. Present were: Mrs. Sims and Mrs. Ran Woolke of Salem. Mrs. Gruenfelter and Mrs. Hernion Wacken, Mrs. Tur ner and Mrs. Hammer of Middle Grove. Mrs. Stettler. Mrs. Fuller. Mrs. Powers and Mrs. Freed of Hayesville, Mrs. Richman and niece, Gladys Kerns of Claxter and women of the Hazel Green community. Agnes Hatteberg To Teach at OS.C. SILVERTON. October 4 Miss Agnes Hatteberg was called to Corvallls Tuesday to make ar rangements to accept a teaching position at the toilers She will return to Silverton, Friday, to get her trunk and then go back to Cor vallls for the winter. Miss Hatte berg will teach Ia the chemistry department. Miss Hatteberg was graduated from the Silverton hieh school. later going to Oregon State col lege. She was graduated from there last June. Durlnr her senior year she taught part time in the chemistry department. Shops Close for Mayor's Funeral ETTGENE. Ore . Cict A f ATM In order to give every business man or Springfield a chance to at tend the funeral of Charles C. Wilson, mayor of that city, who died Wednesday, W. P. Tyson, president "of the council, and act ing mayor, today Issued a proclam- suon. asKing ail stores and busi ness houses of Snrlnrf fold !n rln from 11 a. hi. until noon Friday. cervices win be beld at Veatch's chapel here and interment will h at Salem. DALLAS. Oct. 4 Dr. nil Un W. L. Pemberton are leaving the ena ox mis wees: en a trip to Chicago and other points. They expect to be away a month or six weeks, while Dr. Pemberton takes op some post graduate work. He will snend soma Mm at the Mayo Brothers at Roches ter. shower a GRAPE D GET UifiSSISTlCE Details Recounted by Cali fornian Before Senate Farm Committee WASHINGTON. Oct. 4. (AP) Detailing the success of the co operative marketing movement for the grape growers of California, Charles C. Teague, of that state, representing frnits and vegetables on the farm board, told the sen ate agriculture committee yester day he believed elmilar good for tune would attend the application of cooperative principles to other commoditiee. The seventh member of the board to be examined by the com mittee, Teague was subjected to much less cross-examination than his predecessors. After he had re counted his connections with the fruit industry in the far west and given hla views on agricultural re lief. Senator Heflin. democrat, Alabama, remarked that "we ought to give that some ap plause." No Short Cut to Prosperity Seen Regarding the board's general plans, Teague's testimony was largely corroborative of that giv en by the board members already heard. He said he believed there was no short cut to farm prosperi ty but that he expected the farm relief act to, prove the basis upon which agriculture will be lifted out of its present uncertainties, poor methods and hazards. Teague said he believed in sta bilization corporations and favor ed their creation by the farm board for all crops in need of at tention. He said, however, that the farmers themselves likely would be able to obtain the effect of sta bilization by employing mass ord erly marketing methods through a large central selling agency. Stabilization Program Closely Examined The Californian was questioned closely about the boards 9,000, 000 stabilization program for the grape industry announced some weeks ago. He admitted the boards announcement caused the bonds of the Sun-Maid Raisin Cor poration held by investment hous es and the public to soar consid erably and was asked why a sim ilar announcement about wheat plans would not have improved the price of that commodity. Teague responded that it might have had a temporary effect but it would not have solved wheat's troubles permanently. In response to questions by Senator McXary. republican, Ore gon, Teague said he favored sep arate central stabilization seen- cies for various categories of fruits ana vegetables. He added that ex cept for the grape industry, no stabilization program had been re quested hy the other branches of these commodities. The renate committee will con clude J a hearings into the quali fications of the board members to morrow with the examination of William F. Schilling, of Minne sota, who represents dairying on the board. Chairman McNary baa not determined when a report on confirmation will be voted upon by the committee. Senate tehat is not expected to begin until the miaaie oi next week. ROSEDALE. Opt A Tfca t,,nn. dryer belonging to Charles Spitz bart of this district was complete ly destroyed by fire on Thursday evening. The cause of the fire is not known although since the urjer was running to full capa city it is supposed that it was ig nited throuerh soma Aetwi in th furnace. Part of the cron of driAd prunes was saved but the drier and contents were a total loss. The Spitzbart place was form erly owned br Willi Am Mrfiii- christ. Sr., of Salem. ZEflA PRUNE IN FI ZENA. October 4 Prnn pm. ers here are becoming uneasy over the radical chants in th Tuesday was extremely hot fol- tumus cooi aays and Wednesday was foggy denoting rainy weather. i-runei are ripening rapidly, -making it necessarv An Rather them and get them into dryers as quickly as possible. The W. T. Crawford and J. F. McKinley dry ers are running to their full capa city niaht and dav Thu tp'i crop Is the heaviest since 1926. Gasoline Fumes Ignite and Burn Garage at Airlie AIRLIE. October 4 Vr p. M Lewis had a very narrow escape Saturday evening when their gar age burned while she was filling me car. Mrs. Lewis had taken a lantern with her and was filling the car which was Just outside the garage door, from a SO-gallon tank of gasoline, when the fumes became ignited. The first Mrs. Lewis realized was that her hair was scorched, then she called her son. James, and Mr. Fowler from his service station nearby. The car was moved and in tbe hurry James spilled more gasoline la the doorway, making It necessary for him to Jump through the flames to safety. Help was called, bnt they were unable to save the garage or the tank of gasoline. As there was no wind the fire did not spread to any of the nearby buildings. DALE PRIE DRKEB DESTROyEO 10 WEATHER