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'; The OREGON STATESMAN, Saltm. Oregon, Saturday Morning. Stpttmber XT, 1930 ' PAGE THREE ' Annual Flower n r - - - sm i i a j Show Planned October 3-4 in Woodburn V HOI GROWING 0UALIF1CATI 0 N Judging to be Private; Six teen Different Sections Are Announced WOOBURN, Sept. 26. The an nual flower show wilfbe held In "Woodburn, October 3 and 4, in th Gow building at the corner of Front and Garfield streets. Rules for the flower Bhow were announced by the committee this week and read as follows: 1. Any person may exhibit, J but flowers must be grown by the exhibitor. Z. Exhibitors must furnish I their own containers. I 3. Exhbltors can enter only one entry in each class. ; 4. All entries must be In by! 10 a. m., October 3. 51 Judging will be private, j and no one may be present ! Section I. Asters: (a) annual; : uwi uiooiue; oesi vase of six blooms; (b) Perennial, best ; basket Section II. Chrysanthemums: (1) best blooms; (2) best rase, six blooms of one variety; (3) best basket, 12 or more blooms. Section III Cosmos, best vase, any quantity. Section IV. Dahlias; (a) cac tus: . (1) best blooms; (2) best vase; (3) best basket; (b) dec orative; (1) best bloom; (2) best vase; (3) best basket; (c) Peony: (1) best bloom; (2) best vase; (3) best basket; (d) Pompom: (1) best bloom; (2) best vase; (3) best basket. Largest individu al dahlia exhibited. Section V. Delphinium: (1) best vase; (2) best basket. Section VI. Gladiola: (1) best spike; (2) best basket, 12 or more blooms of on variety; (3) best basket, containing 12 or more sep arate varieties, labeled. Section VII. Marigolds: (a) African: (1) best bloom; (2) best vase; (b) French: (1) best vase, 12 or more blooms. Section VIII, Nasturtiums, best "bowl. Section IX--Pansies, best bowl and largest pansy. Section X. Phlox, best vase. Section XI. Roses: (1) best bloom; (2) best vase, six blooms one variety; (3) best vase, 12 blooms one variety. Section XII. Sweet William, Section XIII Water plants, best bowl. Section XIV Zinnias: (1) best bloom; (2) best vase, six blooms; (3) best basket, 12 blooms or more. Section XV. Miscellaneous: (1) best vase: (2) best basket! Section XVI Mixed flowers: (1) best vase; (2) best basket A sweepstakes prize will be giv en for the best flow-r in the show. 24 STUDENTS START n NORTH SANTIAM, Sept. 26 School opened here Monday withb an enrollment of 29. More will tome later as seevral are away picking berries and prunes. There is a beginner's class of eight Mr. and Mrs. Roy Reeves and children Lois and Dwight of Jewell, Ore., were weekend visit ors at the home of Mrs. Reeve's parents. Mr. and MrsJ Bond. Dr. Henry Visits D. Henry of West Salem, ac companied by his sister-in-law. Mrs. Christine Dodge of Peach. Wash., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kelthley. Sunday both Mr. Henry and Mrs. Dodge were former Tesidents of this place. Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Hammer and H. B. Condit of West Stay ton, returned Wednesday from Paisley, Ore., where they went deer hunting. They brought two dpr home with them. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Guberson of Olympia, Wash., a daughter of C. L. Young, were recent guests at her father's home. Woodburn High Grad Gets $50 Scholar Award WOODBURN. Sept. 26 John Kallak, 1927 graduate of Wood- burn high school, has received a $50 scholarship fund for English from Pacific university." Kallak, who is a soDhomore at the uni versity, will return to school about October 1. Adolph Glatt was taken to Portland this week for a minor intinn. Ha will return in a few day3. Tobie Tells of Trip to New York STAYTON, Sept. 26 Prof. H. E. Tobie was the principal speaker at the Lions club meet ing Wednesday. His talk on his trip east and his studies at Col umbia university was very much appreciated. Mrs. Lyman, accom panied by Mrs. H. A. Beauchamp sang. Yes, sir! she Gefs her Deer STAYTON. Sept. 2 Mr. and Mrs. I, R. Hammer bave Just re turned from a few days' bunting in the Lakeview country. Eacb brought back a mule deer. Mr. Hammer's was a lour-point and Mrs. Hammer's a three-point. They are leaving shortly for southern Oregon ea bu&tfer trio. iner SMITH SCHOOL HO! CITY DADS IRATE ! ; ; Mr. Woodburn is Told to Pay Bills Pronto BATH SHORTAGE FACED WOODBURN, Sept. 26-iOne hundred and ten Woodburn fam ilies faced the possibility or eith er going without a bath or add ing their lucre to the city's funds Thursday morning. Woodburn's' city dads want more money in the tity"s coffers, so when they met last Tuesday night the water commissioner, Mr. Scales, was given a list of 110 delinquent water users and was also ordered to shut off their water suddIt If thtv didn't he- come more generous. ine water users didn t do their duty, but Mr. Soules wasn't a bit bashful, and as a result, many Woodburn families were unable to witter tLe family cat Thursday morning. O.tr flOO worm of delinquent water bills v ere cn the city re- corder's boois Wednesday night, By Thursday uiz'it oni7 was unpaid. 13S STUDENTS AT HZ V. D. Jackson, Corvallis, Handling High School Instruction VALSETZ, Sept. opened with about 2G. School 136 children enrolling. V. D. Jackson of Corvallis is principal and is teaching - high school. Mrs. Clara Thompson is critic teacher for the seventh and eighth grades. Miss Nena Dallas, critic teacher of fourth, fifth and sixth gTades. Mrs. George March, second and third grades. Mrs. Pearl Brown is critic teacher for the first grade. W. D. Barnett returned: from Portland Sunday evening. He was spending the weekend with friends and relatives. Mrs. Julia Grot returned from Portland last week, where she was visiting her dentist. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Brooks and soon Douglas, motored to Salem Saturday and returned the; ame evening. Bean Yield Very Large, At Jefferson JEFFERSON. Sept. 26: Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Fellows and fam ily, who have been living on D. M. Burnett's ranch, near the north city limits of Jeferson, moved their household goods to Mr. Wilson's ranch, two miles north of Marlon. Fellows will drive back and forth every day, to look after the remainder of the bean harvest. The bean vines, on his three acre patch, are just loaded with young beans, and if Jack Frost keeps away, Fellows will sill harvest an huge quantity of beans. He will also be busy digging the: root crops in his truck garden on the Burnett place, which he had leased the past year. ... Hunters on Deer Quest JEFFERSON. Sept. 26 The rains of the past few days, to gether with the outlook for fur ther rain, will make deer; hunt ing better by doing away with the dry condition of the forests. Several local deer hunters left for the hills Wednesday! to try their luck at getting some veni son. In the party were William Skelton, Chester Miller, A. W. Brown and D. Y. Hamill. : Lyle Shelton is New Owner of Kmotras Ranch SCIO. Sept. 26 Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Shelton have purchased the farm owned by A. Kmotras. two miles west of Scio, and will take possession in about two .weeks, Mr. Kmotras going to Sclo. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth i Purdy will move their household goods to Shelburn soon, where they will occupy the Gooch residence. They have been living on Mr. Trillinger's farm. Laurels and Wiley Young are having a siege of the mumps. Second Crop of Clover Still is In Field, Report CENTRAL HOWELL, Sept 25 There are a number of fields of second crop clover to be thresh ed for seed. The rainy j cloudy weather has inter f erred with the threshing and many are i hoping for a week of good weather soon which would enable them to save this crop. Stay ton to Have Band is Report STAYTON. Sept. 2C Accord ing to rumors about town stay- ton it to bare a band. It; will be under the auspices of Knights of Columbus. Bert Stevens, well known band leader of the Al bany Legion band, is said to bare been engaged to direct the Stay- ton ban IS OPENING J.C. 1 HOSPITAL Kingwood Family ! Visits Relative who Us ill in Portland n. KINGWOOD, Sept. 2 1-4-A. I Applewhite spent a day in Port land recently where he visited his brother, John C Applewhite who has been a patient in Vincent's hospital for the past few weeks Mr. and Mrs. John C. Applewhite were guests of the A. L. f Apple white family during the summer and went from there to Neskowin where Mr. Applewhite hoped to recover from a seri0us illness but was later taken to the Portland hospital. His health is bow con siderably improved.: Mr. and Mrs. Otto Btttner and son, Thomas Osburn and: Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Osburn of Hppmere visited in Corvallis.- The j occasion honored the birthday of Mrs. Bittner's nephew, Chandler Fow ler, i h Mr. and Mrs. Edward Andyke of Multnomah are guests ;Of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Blevins at the state fair camp grounds i where the four are spending the; week together. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Waltman of Silverton were Sunday' dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ap plewhite. Guests for the evening! Thurs day of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fin ley were Mr. and Mrs. Chester Thomas, their daughter! Doris, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ward, Mrs. M. Patrick, all of Portland and Mrs. Ona Cox of Oregon iCity. Mrs. Rollin Beaver is teacher of mathematics this year at Leslie Junior high school; She taught the last two years at Parrish jun ior, j ; 70 PUPILS E I IT CENTRAL HOWELL, Sept. 26. School started ; Monday with nearly 70 pupils ; enrolled, Mrs. Mable Martin is 'principal and Mrs. Nell Hlllflker primary teach er. School was dismissed Wednes day to allow those wK wished to attend the fair. James Lichty and Henry Rudls hauser are Janitors this year. Mrs. Alice Binegar spent sev eral days last week with; her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bin egar in Polk county. Insurance Group Agent is Sued by Insurance Office i - l : WOODBURN. Sept. 26 The Oregon Auto insurance company. claiming that $716 worth of pre miums accumulated by their for mer agent here, John Stone, has filed suit in circuit court ; in Sa lem. The plaintiff claims: the sum is for unpaid premiums that Stone was to have handled. Miss Elma Doris Havemann and Cecil Espy have returned to Eugene to resume their studies at the University of Oregon. Both are sophomores. Woodburn lad Goes to Rush Week, V. of O. WOODBURN, Sept. 26 Carl Hande' attended the rush week at the University of Oregon the last few days. Mrs. Keid Oonaell. Mrs. Hande's sister-in-law, la visiting while Mrs. Hande Is gone. Dr. and Mrs. G. B. Smith, Mrs.. Hande and Mrs. Connell motored to Eu gene Friday evening to ' return with Mrs. Hande. : ' ; An eight pound baby j boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis W els- sen f els early Wednesday morn ing. Weissenfels live a few miles southwest of Woodburn.; ' Cannery cut to Go in Booklet For Woodburn WOODBURN, Sept. ! 2. Paul Mills, secretary of the Woodburn chamber of commerce received a request from "Oregon Business" for a cut of the Ray-Brown can nery. The cut, which was 'used in a Woodburn community . booster pamphlet, will be printed; on the cover pages of the magazine. William Ledtke left Friday for the Hood River, district, where 1.3 will pick apples - for about 20 days. Normal Goes j Out of Movies i I ? ; MONMOUTH, j Septl j H Due to the difficulty encountered in obtaining desirable silent picture attractions, the lyceum commit tee of the Oregon Normal school will not offer this attraction, as heretofore at the! school. ! It will be regretted by many morie-fans in town, as the nor mal school features were; careful ly censored and of a uniformly high standard, -j i NIL CENTRAL HOWELL FIRE RATE GUT PROMISED CITY $1800 Fire Truck at Wood burn Thought to Have Paved way WOODBURN, Sept. 26 As surance that fire insurance rates on Woodburn propertj will be cut was given this week when City Recorder George Beach re ceived a communication from the Oregon Insurance Rating bureau which spoke favorably of a sub stantial reduction, although no definite terms were stated in the letter. No definite date for the reduction to come into effect were given. Upon purchase of the new $1800 fire truck, new safety principles have ben exercised by the city in order to gain lower fire insurance ratings. Homer Todd has been sleeping at the fire station for nearly a month. It Is ToTld'a duty to answer all night calls sent in by telephone. If they are not telephoned in' he is to- in every way attempt to find the location of the fires and other Information he is able to learn. He is also ' required to start the motor of the fire truck and otherwise get things In'read iness when a night call comes in, so the firemen will have every thing in readiness to answer the call. Todd Is to be on duty at the station from earlv in h evening un 6 o'clock in the What theC We haven't a copy guess there would r Caveman Smith would be in trouble for heaving a big rock at Caveman Jones, who had swiped Smith's stone club. Baby Jones, meanwhile, had made her entrance into the world and the news had been carefuly chron icled. Perhaps the cavemen didn't have newspapers. Perhaps they used only some tablets and crude marks. But they were interested in the do ings of one another. That's human nature . . . that's life. The Statesman makes no secret about the facts that it considers the local news the backbone of its news columns. Each day . . . every day ... a thorough going search is made of all news sources in Salem so States man readers may have a complete report of the day's events. A news book is kept in it advance dates of happenings are recorded. Reporters are "assigned" to various "stories." The courthouse is scoured daily for news ... the justice of the peace is made a constant news source . . . from the school and colleges come daily reports ... industrial news is a regular source for reader interest, whether it's a birth at the hospital or the stry of a death from a mortuary . . . the daily news . . . carefully covered . . . carefully prepared ... is first and best in The Statesman. NO. 7 OF A morning. The night attendant receives no pay for staying at the station at night, except the nse of the room whleh is regarded a Just recompense. The night attendant is also required to start up the fire truck's motor once a day and keep it In perfect working con dition. The old fire truck has been re tained and new equipment has been bought for it, so it will be a valuable reserve. The fire board was ordered to paint the old truck at the last meeting of the city council. Although no calls from outside the city have come in, Wood burn's fire company has adopted a policy of helping residents out side the city as much as possible in case of a fire. HOOD PEOPLE II HOOD DIVER j A conventional diamond design KINGWOOD, Sept 26 Mr. j was carried out In the decora and Mrs. Norman Smith and fam- J tlons. The word "Polk" encircled ily, Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Sizemore. ! heads of oats, white and red Mr. and Mrs. John Sizemore and I wheat, buckwheat and stalks of Will Morris have gone to . Hood j veatch arranged in a symetrical River where they will work ! diamond pattern formed Lh e through the apple picking season. Guests - at the S. A. LaRaut home are Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Smith, all of Oakland, Oregon: Rev. and Mrs. Harry R. R. Neat formerly of Lodi, Calif. The Neats are now living at Eugene where Mr. Neat has a pastorate. Additional guests of the La Rant's for the last few days of fair week are Mr. and Mrs. Ed Settles, Kind avemen of the Cavemen Gazette in our files. If be the usual 'Human interest" stories. Two years ago The Statesman improved its coverage of local news. Mr. Curtis, able sports writer, concen trated on that field. Miss Genevieve Morgan took schools and health center work as her specialty. Steve Mergler made the city hall his pet hobby. To Made laine Callin went the rural news coverage and markets and produce news in Salem. Olive Doak watched for every society item and wrote interesting theatre re views and told the stories of men and women who have accomplished things in Salem. Constantly The Statesman has improved its local coverage of news. POUNDED 1431 SERIES OF TALKS ABOUT AN OUTSTANDING OREGON NEWSPAPER POLK BOOTH IS Mrs. A. E. Utley in Charge Of Display That De mands Attention BRUSH COLLEGE, September 26 The Polk county booth at the state fair was well planned and particular attention was giv en to minute details by Mrs. A. is. Utley of Brush College, who has been In charge of arrangements i for Polk county for three succes jslve years. j Polk county farmers generous ; ly donated apples, pears, melons, ! dried and green prunes and vege i tables of all varieties which grow ' so profitably here to make this one of the most attractive booths ' at the fair. background of the booth. Honey Attractive The honey display was cleverly arranged and was illuminated to show the beautiful colors of the light and dark honey as Well as honey in the comb. This display was furnished by H. M. Mead, "bee man of Polk county." Another feature wnich attract ed attention was, an artistically arranged miniature lily pool and ATTRACTIVE n of Newspapers Read? did, we rockery. Realistic gnomes, green frogs and tiny old fish at the pool and small rowin flowers in the rockery provided a pleasant out-of-door atmosphere. The pool and rockery were flanked by large bundles of oats, one variety being hull-less oats of which oat meal is now made and the other being Climax oats which went 120 bushels to the acre. A beautiful diamond composed of dark and light grains was placed just above this display and on either side were canned fruits, vegetables and meats with color ful pumpkins and squash. A dish of luscious everbearing straw berries reminded one of summer. Samples of baled hops were also on display. A fringe about 18 in ches long and made of stalks of oats hung above the entrance. TAKES 4 MEMBERS GERVAIS. Sept. 26 Fairfield Grange held an interesting meet ing at its hall Wednesday night with a good attendance of the members. Four candidates were taken Into the grange: Joseph Rubens. Raymond Seguin and Mr. and Mrs. Allenback. Plans were discussed for en tertaining Pomona Grange at Gervais about the middle f Oc tober. It was decided to hold a social meeting once a month in addition to the regular monthly meetings, and the subject of giv ing a play to add to the finances of the lodge was talked. After the meeting a delicious lunch was served. Q GRAN6 TIPS..... from Leaders we From a score of men in promi nent positions in Salem each day come news "tips" and news stor ies which make The Statesman's coverage complete in Salem dis trict. The reporters call on these sources daily and thus keep close ly in touch with the events going on in the city. A few of leaders are: George C. Hug Superintendent of Salem's public school system L Dr. Carl C. Doney President lamette eity if ; FRUIT HARVEST III FULL S Popcorn Parent - Teacher Group too Busy to Meet In September ORCHARD HEIGHTS, Sept. 26 Patrons of Popcorn school being so busy harvesting prunes and other fall fruits, no parent- teacher meeting will be held this j month. The first meeting of the year will be held the evening of October 17. Mr. and Mrs. A. Havre who live on the John Sykes farm have a booth this year at the state fair where they sell produce from their farm. Mrs. J. O. Vincent of Los An geles was a visitor from Tuesday until Thursday at the L. Grice home. She went from here to Brownsville where she will visit friends before returning to Cali fornia. Her son Rex is an electri cian in Los Angeles. The Vincent family lived in this neighborhood some years ago and Rex was a pupil at Mountain View school. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chapman were Misses Agnes and Alice Kruger, their brother, Carl Kruger and Miss Evelyn Martini, all of Portland. CENTRAL HOWELL. Sept. 26. Mrs. Carl Brand spent a week at Brootner's IC-'poro springs re cently. She stayed at the same place a month in t'.ie spring. these community Dr. Vernon Douglas A. Head of ion1 health the Mar county unit Brazier C. Small justice of the Peace of the Sa lem district IN of wii- : l- i'i Unlver- , kk I ril i 1 1 - i