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PAGE TEN Th, OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, October 18, 1930 POLK GO. FAIR EXHIBITS GOOD Individual Booths Attract Favorable Attention at Dallas DALLAS Oct. 17 All exhib its and displays -were in place for the opening of the 18th an nul Polk county fair, Thursday noon. In view of the fact that, the fair 19 a week later than us al, the exhibits of fruits, vege tables and other products are ex ceptionally fine. Arrangement of the seven community booths are much better than in former years. Judging of these took place Thursday afternoon. The Mount Plsgah display is very attractive, being a repro duction In moss of the mountain, with the rear walls covered with mall fir trees. Fruits, vegeta bles, flowers, canned fruits and nuts grown In that district are grouped around the base of the mountain. The Suver Grange has used grains and grasses for a back ground, with a center exhibit of fruit and vegetables. Displays Attractive Ballston has constructed steps and pillars for their display with their exhibit grouped on the steps. Bridgeport have a raised cen ter featuring a model farm home and barn with miniature figures of stock etc.; fruit, nuts, wcol, honey and milk make up the principal part of the exhibit. Liberty Bell has roofed over their booth with grape leaves, grapes and apples, with a diver sified display of canned and dried fruits. The Oak Point exhibit is made entirely by the women members of their community ser vice club and is very representa tive of their district with its ar rangement of fruit, wool, hops, honey, vegetables and flowers. Bethel district is also repre sented with a display of the pro ducts of their section. An Individual display is made each year by Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Lee of Falls City, being entirely of products grown on their own place. " Commercial displays are to be found by the Mountain States Power company. Sterling Furni ture company, Campbell Flower shop, Hollis Smith. Kerr Glass company. Crown Flour company, Dallas Creamery. The flower display is not as good as usual due to the fact that sexeral severe frosts during the past week killed many of the late fall flowers, such as dahlias and asters. The usual array of pies, cakes, rolls and canned fruit are to be found, and these were Judged Thursday. Entries In the needlework and art dlvi sfons arc about as usual, these were Judged by Miss Lucy Case of Oregon State college. SCIO flESIDENTS SUFFER T JEFFERSON, Oct. 17 J. H. fioadarmel, 74 and John Wolf, CO, of Scio, were injured Tuesday night, when their automobile left the highway, (three miles north of Jefferson), and overturned, wrecking It badly. The two men had been to llebo, enjoying a fishing trip, and were returning home, when the accident occurred. Mr. Wolf suffered possible in ternal injuries, and Roadarmel received a broken rib, and cuts and bruises about the face and head. Joe Bargee of Scio, who was returning home from Salem, found the men in the wreck, and he took the two men to their homes. Armistice day Plan Outlined By Legion men Armistice day plans for Salem being made by Capital Post Xo. 9 ' include a parade followed by a public program at the courthouse square the morning of Tuesday, November 11, Commander E. M. Page of the legion said yesterday. In the afternoon a football game will be staged and at night dancing and other entertainment will be conducted by the legion. Page said the committee arrang ing the observance of Armistice day would meet again next Tues day. Garden Club Sends Exhibit OAK GROVE, Oct. 17 The members of the 4H Oak Gruve garden club have sent their ex hibits to the county fair. Those exhibiting are Robert Ragsdale, Billy Fawk. Alfred Pe terson, Virginia Peterson and Rollo Peterson. They exhibited at the state fair at Salem. Robert won sixth prize there. GUESTS AT LIXCOLV LINCOLN, Oct. 17 Mr. tad Mrs. Harold Walling and Miss Gertrude Walling ' of Portland were guests of their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Wall ing, Saturday. They drore up from Portland to attend the fun eral of their uncle, William To ner, who was buried in the Zena cemetery Saturday at 2:30 o'clock. SNOW IN MOFXTAIXS SILVERTON. Oct. 17 R e ports came down from Silver Falls Timber company camps Chat three inches of snow had fallen in camp the middle of the week. This Is the first snow of the season. The camps are a few miles above Silverton. MILITARY ; r w - ii President Herbert Hoover with the members of the Association of Military Physicians who are in the Capital for the 38th ! Organization to be Effected October 23 is Planned Recently WOODBURN", Oct. 17. Plans for a local American Legion post in Woodburn have been quietly go ing forward and finally definite plans for organization of the post have been made. The organiza tion will take place Thursday, Oc tober 23, according to an an nouncement made Wednesday. About 60 men from about the Woodburn district have signified their Intentions of joining th post and have already paid their dues and signed up for member ship. The meeting which is open to all World War veterans interest ed, is to be held in the Woodburn armory, starting at 8 o'clock. At that tltne officers will be elected and other necessary details rela tive to organization will be at tended to. The officers will be of ficially installed in the future. Guests Expected Many prominent American Le gion officials from over the state and members from other posts will probably be present at the Instal lation. Reports from the Tillamook American Legion post say that a large delegation is planning to come to Woodburn where the of ficers are installed. Delegates from other places In the state are also expected. The date of the Installa tion will not be ascertained until after the Thursday night meeting. O. G. Olson, captain of the local howitzer company, announced that refreshment i will probably be served at the Thursday night meet ing. At present most World War vet erans around Woodburn either be long to the strong American Le gion post in Salem or the post In Silverton. There is a greater ma jority of veterans who do not be long to the organization. Much credit is due to P. S. Ol sen, a Legionnaire himself, for starting a movement for a Legion post in Woodburn. All work of petitioning the higher authorities and breaking ground for the first meeting .Thursday night were at tended to by him. Local World war veterans are looking forward to making the Woodburn post a progressive one. JEFFERSON FARM LEASED BY M'CARIY JEFFERSON, Oct. 17 C. W. McCarthy and son. from near Silverton have leased the D. M. Burnett acreage, near the north city limits, and McCarty is en larging the strawberry patch, by setting out one acre more In strawberries. C. W. McCarty and wife will occupy the house recently vaca ted by O. V. Fellows and the son and his family will move to Jef ferson in a short time. lODBUi TO HAVE LEGION SAILORS OF FUTURE IN SCHOOL Captain Robert Huntington gives instructions to a class ef cadets in the use ef the sextant as the Seamen'sChurch Institute New York City, opens its free coarse ex instruction m DOCTORS CALL ON , A I A 3 annual convention of the so ciety. In the center, left to Or I right, are: General W. H. Wil mer, president of the associa- Mrs. Wiesner Always Busy Many and varied are the inter ests of Mrs. A. B. Weisner, Statesma n correspondent at North H o w e 11. w. t i r i, -ji , all her home and rfk" f a mlly) take a f,j large share j; 1 . o t h e irftAr V time and if- jfc:ivA tL .': ttention ,f-i':J s c n o o t age. IPV.I Wo. ijners have 5,?J an exten-j age or Ji-sc t e rburg strawberries and during the picking season Mrs. Weisner spends much of her time assist ing In directing the pickers and is also bookkeeper for the firm. Many of the pickers camp in the Weisner yard during berry sea son and Mrs. Weisner may be de pended upon to see that they have fresh vegetables from her garden and that the babies al ways have plenty of fresh milk. Helen Weisner has the distinc tion of being captain of the North Howell grange degree team, the first of its kind ever organized in Marion county. She is active in grange work along other lines and during the past year spent many evenings either assisting with the degree work In nearby granges or In working with her own team. She is also special correspondent for Marion county Pomona grange for the States man. Mrs. Weisner Is deeply inter ested in farm problems and is constantly studying ways of Im proving conditions of rural life. E CATTLE ADD SHEEP SILVERTON, Oct. 17 A group of Silverton Smith-Hughes students and their Instructor, Warren Crabtree, motored to Corvallls Saturday and spent the day in stock judging. lb the group were Eldred Williams, Dwight Foote, Clifton and Victor Hadley, Charles Smedicke, Ernest Armstrong, John Nlcol, Harold Duval, Elwood Holm, and Clif ford Mauldlng. Others will go out next week and see the Riches herd of Here fords and sheep. HOME IMPROVED JEFFERSON, Oct. 17 The Reeves house on Main street is being Improved, in that it is be ing reshingled. A. Wilson and sons Raymond and Glen are do ing the work. ship te American beys 1C years old and upward. It is hoped to prepare the boys for service in the United States Marine er en primtely-eperaxed ships. a Mr M rs. Weis- ,V r V, t n e r have W I two sons' , and 8!k?v d aughter.!&;T;;;t f t a 1 1 oflWAivr I If STUDENTS PRESIDENT - . O Won; President Hoover and Colonel A. T. Clarke, surgeon general of Canada. SGOTTS MILLS P. T.UCTIVE Plans for Winter Work is Outlined at First Fall Meeting SCOTTS MILLS, Oct. 17 The first P. T. A. meeting of this school year including the teach ers reception was held here Thursday evening in the school gymnasium. Mrs. Vinnie Heine, president, presided at the meeting. Com mittees for the winter were ap pointed. A place for a reading room and traveling library from the ctate library was discussed and left with the executive com mittee to see what could be done. Plans for a general auction for raising money for the hot soup fund were made and the follow ing committee on arrangements appointed. V. P. Heinz, manager; Levi Kellls, Ivan Smith, Ellis Nickleson, Mrs. Lewis Robinson and Mrs. John Lauderback. The date of the auction will be set later. After the business session the following program was given: Vocal solo, Miss Phyllis Mary: piano solo, Miss Margaret Coul son; vocal solo, Mildred Rich. After the program the teach ers were introduced and greeted by those present. After the program lunch was served to more than 65 persons. Those on the refreshment com mittee were: Mrs. S. P. Moberg, Mrs. Joe Dale and Mrs. Cora Rich. HOG FUEL BURNER SILVERTON, Oct. 17 The purchasing of either an oil burn er or hog fuel burner has been before the Silverton council for sometime and at a Thursday night meeting members decided against the oil because of the cost. It was also pointed out that the Installation of a hog fuel burner would permit the use of a local product for fuel. The mat ter of purchasing the burner was left in the hands of the house committee. The council also voted to turn over the use of the council cham ber for a club room for the fire men. In return for this the fire men will have one or two men sleep in a room at the hall. It was said that this would save from three to four minutes at each fire as the men would be right on hand to start the en gine. Mission Group Has Meeting WOODBURN. October 17 An interesting meeting of the Pres byterian missionary society was held at the home of Mrs. J. J. Hall Wednesday afternoon. The program was under the charge of Mrs. E. J. Allen. The devotional services were led by Mrs. H. F. Butterfield. Helen Allen gave a very clever reading. . Refreshments were served to the 17 guests present by the hos tess, Mrs. Hall. She was assisted by Helen Allen and Mrs. Butter- field. - Amity to Have Doctor Again AMITY, Oct. 16 Dr. R. J. Hall of Grants Pass, spent Tues day in Amity looking over the local situation, as Amity has had no doctor since Dr. Davis left in April. Dr. Hall was favorably Impressed and expects to move his family here within the next week, occupying the Abraham home on Trade street. He has enjoyed an excellent practice for a number of years and is well known in the surrounding coun try as he was associted with Dr's. Wood, Lott and Baren drick of McMinnville. PURCHASE FARM SILVERTON, Oct. 17 James and Harry Thompson have pur chased a farm near Monitor and the former will make his home on this. These men are sons of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Thompson who formerly lived at Silverton but who are now farming near Marquam. JEFFERSON, Oct. 17 Harry Feller of Maywood, Washington was the guest of his brother, O. V. Fellows and family during the week. Fellows recently re turned from a motor trip to Cal ifornia, and will return to Washington again. COUNCIL VOTES FOR ML PISGAH INS FIRST Community Booth at Polk County Fair Awarded Prize DALLAS, Oct. 17. Results of the judging In some of the divi sions o ftbe Polk county fair are as follows: Community display premiums at the rate of $20 for the first 66 points and $1.00 for each additional point with 100 as the base went to Mt. "Pisgah with 91.75 Suver grange 85.5; Bridge port 78.77; Liberty Bell 75.62; Oak Point 66.75; Ballston 66.65; Bethel 66.37. In the poultry Judging first prizes went to George Cooper for black Anconas; Henry Domes for white Holland turkeys and silver laced Wyandottes; Mrs. Fred Jen nings on bronze turkeys; Wayne Hanna for Rhode Island Reds; Al fred Schroeder on brown and white leghorns; Henry Voth for light Bahamas. J. E. Goetz of Perrydale took first prfizes on his exhibit of Spltzenberg, tJrimea Golden and Ortley apples, and second prize on Baldwins; also first prize on Bosc pears. Miles Davis of Suver took second prize on Baldwin and Ortley apple; Forrest Martin first on Rome Beauty and Charles Guy second. Floyd Senter first on De licious and second on Kings. Fred Ewing had first on Anjou and Clairgeau pears, Mrs. T. J. Alsip, first on Cornice. The blue ribbon went to G. W. Gurtiss on dried Italian prunes and to John Ediger for Franquette walnuts. L. H. Mc Bee had first on Salway peaches and Victor Fink first for late El bertas. The handicraft of the school children was well displayed both in Bchool groups and several indi vidual exhibits. KEIZER SCHOOL HAS GOOD LIBRARY KEIZER, October 17 A reno vation of the Keizer school li brary has been taking place this past week. Fred McCall, Mrs. Myrtle Rea ney, Mrs. Ray Belzer. Mrs. Roy Melson and Miss Ruth Rulifson have been working on the books putting In new envelopes and making out new cards. All the books have been re listed and restamped and fitted for usefulness. Keizer has a large library and a librarian will be se lected to keep the hooks in or der. Oregon Statesman by Mail BAKA i?(olsiSr! West Salem News WEST SALEM, Oct. 17 Im mediately following the close of school Friday afternoon. Miss Hazel Bruner met the Junior girls of her Sunday school class at the church and the class was organized under the name of the Royal. Daughters class. Class of ficers were elected as follows: Dorine Baker, president; Doro thy Raster, vice-president; Jan Ice Wooley, secretary; Mary Rip pey, treasurer. Georgia Cook and Carol Snyder are the social com mittee. The teacher, Miss Bruner is a student at Willamette uni versity. H. B. Kohler, local electrician spent three days jf this week at St. Paul where he was plying his trade. Elbert N. Tracey who died Wednesday at his home at 1170 Market street, Salem, was a son of G. H. Tracey, fuel dealer of Edgewater street, this city. "Bert" , was well known here where he had many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Felix T. Wright, recent residents of Stayton are the new owners and occupants of MEIER 11 BAILEY III DALLAS Series of Meetings Held to' Laud Candidates for Governor DALLAS, Oct. 17 Reports about town indicate that interest in ' the political situation is be ginning to warm up, as time draws nearer to election day. An invitation had been issued to the three candidates for governor, by the fair board asking them to ap pear and speak during the time of the Polk county fair this week. So far it appears that Mrs. Al exander Thompson will be here to address the people Saturday evening in the interest of Julius Meier, and that some one may also be here Friday evening to represent him, when it is under stood that Ed Bailey and W. A. Delzell will both be here to speak at a meeting of the brotherhood of the Methodist church and later at the fair. It also appears that the court room has been secured for a meeting Saturday evening, Octo ber 25, when Julius Meier will be here in person, and that the democrats had also planned to have a meeting the same evening with Bailey as speaker. Whether the two meetings will be held or if they will attempt to combine them has not been learned. So far any participation of Phil Metschan in the political scene has not been given out. II only a few i , I Cut This Out And MaU With Your Check Statesman Publishing Co. I Salem, Oregon I ( ) New Subscriber I ( ) Old Subscriber i Find enclosed $3.00 to cover my subscription for one year to The Oregon Statesman. Subscription $ I Name P. O I Please find $ for Accident Policy. . ( ) Renew Policy. ( ) New Policy. the house at 1X72 Franaun street, formerly owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sebern. Mrs. El mer Boyer also from Stayton is with the Wrights. She is a sister of Mrs. Wright. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Miller of Portland are living in the house owned by "Biddy" Bishop at 1353 Edgewater street. Warren J. Filler reached West Salem Sunday after an absence of six weeks in the east. He was called to Pennsylvania by the ser ious illness of his mother, and visited other relatives In that state and in Ohio. He made the round trip in his car and was seven days on the way between Cleveland, Ohio and Salem. Fill er is an employe of the Salem Pulp and Paper company where he does electrical work. P. T. 1. STAYTON, Oct. 17 While not so well attended as usual ow ing to other gatherings, the first Parent-Teacher meeting of the season was nevertheless an en thusiastic one. Dr. Vernon A. Douglas, of Sa lem was thn onA.ilcr nf tha im. ning, his talk being along the euDject cnosen oy me committee for that evening, "Education for the Parenthood." The membership contest is creating no little interest. Both team leaders, Mrs. H. G. Egles ton and Harry Row were pres ent and presented a list of mem bers, both old and new, secured so far. Each new member means five points, old members one point and an additional point is to be given for attendance. The side having the most points at the close of the contest Is to be entertained by the losing side. To be a member, however, one must pay the annual dues of 50 cents. At the close of the meeting the committee served doughnuts and cider in the D. S. room, and a so cial hour followed. Ml OPPORTUNITY FOR INSURANCE SALESMEN An Old Line Legal Reserve Life Insurance Company hav ing approximately One Hundred Forty Million of insur ance in force, and an Agency organization produTing ap proximately Forty Million a year, will, because of the splendid gains made during the first eight montlw of the year, adopt a program of expansion, with most deairable contracts for men who can sell and pay for life insurance. To men who can furnish satisfactory evidence of the same, we will offer salaried contracts with a most liberal first year and renewal commission. Address In confllac P. O. Box 488, Portland, Oregon. more days 4-K CLUBS ARE VEHYJUSY Stock Judging Contest at Pacific Internationa! Eagerly Awaited DALLAS, Oct. 17. Earl Johu son, Ernest Crook and Glen Lucas of the Elkins calf club, spent Sat urday in Corvallls at the state col lege with J. R. Beck, county agent. . in practice work, preparatory to entering the inter-atata livestock Judging contest at the Pacific In ternational livestock show. Jesse V. Johnson is the leader of this club, and the boys earnei the trip through their eaceMent work. The contest is sheduled for Oc tober 27, with teams from 40 counties In the states of Oresron. Washington, Idaho. Montana, Utah and California. Thi U considere-l one of the outstanding contests :n the United States, according Mr. Beck. For several years Poik county has had a team that hs placed In the top three or four but never succeeded in carry itm away the honors. Members of th 4 11 clubs i the county are completin g:h year's work and final reports .-ve being filed with J. R. Beck hi ii JoBiah Wills. Following his annual achievement pin will ie mailed out to those compleur.g their work by th siatj oard ( education. The achievement pin given ? . tb.3 first year's work if a brov. i badge with a four-leaf clover 'n the center, ;about the size of ;i dime. For the second year it i? i silver finished bad?e and the thir-l year it is a cut ont of a four-le.iT clover. For the following three years the badges ard In ereon nrv blue enamel with gold washf-d edges. " According to Mr. Beok. mai v boys and girh in th county .ro the proud owners of these badges. Immediately following th. county fair the work of mail- t out these awards t?ke pbt Final reports must he filed to re ceive the badges. Our Annual Cargain Offer 1