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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1931)
v..,.: U - ; 5 .'. 1 , '4 .s.. r r bltEGO?! ATESMAN. Sakm. Orego Friday Morning, October 9, 1931 5 pac:: seven K E; KOEO IS GIVEN SURPRISE j ftYAR' LOOMS OVER NAVY CUT Rich Lands Draw Farmers to Area Known as Central Howell; Fruits, PLAN FDR FESTIVAL Chiefly Strawberries, Are Raised SEIIUTllffi TOPS ALLBECORDS Another bus Ordered by Scio Board to Accommo date Students 1 mMMkkI7 lT.v, " I ' SURPRISE HOFJORS REV. mm Members of Three Congre gations Gather; Happy Time is Enjoyed MIDDLE GROVE. Oct. 8 - Members of the: three congrega tions aerred by Her. H. R. Scheuerman executed a pleasant surprise Monday evening honor ing his birthday. The jevent was held at the Evangelical church and was attended by groups from Lahlsh Center, Middle Grove and Clear Lake. A short program, games, a birthday cake and other refreshments filled the' happy ev ening. Present were: Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Poling of Sa lem, Rev. H. R. Scheuerman, Bir ney, Cecil, Lee. : Milton, Opal Scheuerman of Salem, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Bcheuernsan and Miss Scheuerman. of Portland. Marion Bowers of Salem. Mrs. ;E. G. Hornchurch, Willard and Naomi Hornchurch, Mrs. V. It. Daugh erty and daughter Bernadeen, Mr. and Mrs. V. A. Starker, Mr. 11. F. Klampe, Grace and Francis Klample. Clifford Paulson, all of Labisa Center. ' Mr. and Mrs. Roy Smith, Neva. Ada Mae, Estelline and Loretta Smith, Mrs. Massey and daughter Alice, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Collard. Claire Collard. Evelyn Calae, Mr. and Mrs., A. Harold and daughter Marie, Lunelle Chapin, -Pauline Coonso, Martha, Robertson, all of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. ScharX, Katherlne and Harry Scliarf. Miss Ida Otjeh. Cecil and David Bar truff, Norman and Alfred McCal lister, all, of Middle Grove and Mrs. Lydia Bewley of Salem. gifIeMss in visits west GRAND ISLAND, Oct. & Gil bert McKenxie of Chicago, 111., made a short visit Saturday with Mr. and Mrs.; Charles A. Fergu son, where he was employed for several months three years ago. He returned to his home in Chi cago but after having been In the west, the east did not seeim so fine. ! Mrs Mary Harbaugh and James Hilhouse terminated a month's visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Badger and faJhily, and have left for their" respective homes. Mrs. Badger is at niece of the two people. Mrs. Har baugh is making her home for taepreent with her daughter la Clatskanle. Mr. Hilhouse resides la eastern Oregon near Ontario. From Coast Mr, and Mrs. Swanson and daughter, Mj-s. Walters of Bay Ocean, were over night guests in the home of the former's nephew. Wort Wiley and family. Mrs. Walters is the main cook in the hotel operated by-her parents at Bay Ocean. Mrs. D. iBartruff and Mrs. Charles- Ferguson entertained their respective Sunday school classes. The primaries and be ginners with a party at the church. Fifteen little folks en joyed the happy time together. ! Light refreshments of , cookies and punch were served, by the teachers, assisted by Mrs. Edward Richards who from now on will have charge of the primary class. . " CROWES RETUIJX HAZEL GREEN. Oct, 8 Mr. and Mrs. O. II. Crowe accompan ied by Mrs. Crowe's aoa, A. J. Warmoth of . Los Ang-sles. left early Tue3dr.y for home at Mos cow, Idaho. They have been guest3 at the A. T. Van Cleave borne the past three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Crowe, parents, and Mr. Warnoth. brother of Mrs. Van Cleave. i IV MMMiHMMHH ST .M I Gallon 01 frsc m it y1; w 1 t" ' HsU.;, ' -"' FeDwing President Hoover'a announced intention of slashing furthej naval building and bringing the Navy under the most ngl economy, "biff guns of naval affairs in Congress promptly began a bombard meat of the White House's plans. The U. SL.S. Oklahoma, (above ). steanune off the Southern California coast, is a type of baVtlesinp which may suffer from the President's drastic measures. . Inset depict Representative Fred A. Britten (left), of Illinois, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee and Senator Frederick Hale, of Maine, head of the naval affairs committee of the Senate, both of whom are planning to fight the proposed clashing. Disastrous Gervais Fire ! Recalled; Town Rebuilt Following Trying Period GERVAIS, Oct. 8 Some of those who experienced it were reminisefng on the 23th anniver sary of the disastrous fire whifh visited Gervais on the night of October 5, 1902. The fire started In the rear of the John Weiss furniture store on i Main street and before it could be controlled it had swept two blocks, or practically the en tire business section. At this time the business houses were of frame construction, and it being the dry season, were readily con sumed in ' the high wind which prevailed at that timo. The walls of the One brick building were left standing. ; At this time the city water supply jwas furnished from a tower, the water being pumped by " a windmW. During the fire the coupling at th hydrant broke, making the volunteer fire department almost helpless. The stocks of geods were carried to places of safety and later the merchants put their stocks In the city hall, separated them and built booths around the room, in which they carried on till their storerooms could be re-built. The Nathman and Mangold hardware stores, John Weiss fur niture, A. Tanzler, general mer chandise, two saloons, Sumner Stevens, a jewelry and barber Bhop store, the postofflce and others were among those who suffered losses. Mr. Mangold is still in business in Gervais. Mr. Kathmaa built the brick building on the corner, which is now oc cupied by the DeJardia general merchandise store. (Mr. Nath man is la tbe hardware business in Woodbu'rn at the' present time.) Jake Blagham and Mr. Stevens are still in business hero and CER mmma m tin IMMI ll ' m lit' rlirw fUotm with dmt tkrw! And ool AW M es ef that, Rivwid m a arfUasj Ummt pricmlm fc-tory. Bat itiwir this fa el is imt Sta TUlii IsVum L f ' Hyl av n ss w 29 K 4.4021 S 4-4S 4S 7- 19 x 4.5020 - 7S 431 t 59 K 4.5021 AM ? j 21 x 4-751 .7 2f x 5.001? ; HxSJS21 tSXJtf jj K 4U3020 e.oaT a-s ! 3Se-0e21 - '":esir '' :l ' ' ' I : m Bwy m ' 1 A. R. Siegmund, who was asso ciated with Mr. Tanzler at that time. Is now! postmaster at Ger vais. Mr. Schwab, father-in-law of Mrs. Ida I Schwab, who lives Just south of town, reouilt the building occupied by the Gervais garage, conducted by Earl Dunn. OF CLUB J iBE TOLD WEST STAYTON, Oct. T The West" Stayton Community club held its first meeting-at the Mc Clellan hall Tuesday evening. The club may meet .at the new school house from now on If the school board I does noj pbject. Announcements made were that the Ladies Growers club will meet at the parley of flea Thurs day afternoon, and the West Stayton Growers club will meet at the Darley j Office Wednesday night, October 14. The next meet ing of the Coinmunity club will be Tuesday night, October 20. Mrs. O. O.! Lacy. Miss Mildred Nickerson. Mjrs. W. L. Lacy, Mrs. Minnie Dickman and Mrs. Elmef Asche were in Salem Tuesday oa business .of purchasing) a plana for the school here. A piano was secured on trial. Miss Joan Brown is able' to at tend school again after having been 111 with fin the past week. EGrt RETURNS SCIO Ed Egr, formerly of Sclo and Mill City, j returned Wednesday from Alaska, where he was employed in fisheries for several months. ' I A fiaCWOjrvl Tw I Pr n& Smrm Em Hmrat f - , . I DATES FO MEETING SCIO, Oct. Enrollment at the 8elo high school thi week reached the record attendance mt th LastltutioB, 10T. Tbia num ber" la expected: to be Increased somewhat as the school year ad vance, 't. . Election of student body of ficers resulted as follows: presi dent, Max Long; rfea " president, Lelaad Miller; secretary. Opal Bbillfag; business manager, Tir glnla Leffler; sorgeant-at-arms. Virginia Turnldgo; hoys' athletic manager, RoUa Ralnbolt; yetljea der, Virginia BJlyep. Attendance haa increased -to such an extent that the school boar A ordered another bos, and this la expected to he la operation" next week. , In order to relieve, the situa tion, prof. F. A. Gallely, princi pal of the high school, ha per mitted the use of his prlvata car for transportation of poplla to Scio, and the Jacluon pupils, re siding on the tormef George BU yeu farm southwest of Sclo, have used the family car as a meaaa of attending school here. Slo high football team went down to defeat at Brownsville Friday by a score of 82 to 0. Fri day. October 9, the Scio team will play Aumsvllle at the latter field. Sclo'a lineup la aa follows: Sims, right end: Freitag, right tackle; Yunker, right guardr Gal legly, center; Peery, left guard; Walter, left tackle; W. Rain bolt, left end. The backfield: L. Mill er, quarterback; Long, right half back; Lukenbacn. fuUDacK; 'iooa, left halfback. Subs are Arnold. Madams. B. Quarry. K. Miller. HEWITT TO TALK SALEM HEIGHTS, Oct. 8 Dr. Roy R. Hewitt, dean o the law school of Willamette nnlverglty. will give a' talk at the Salem, Heights community clab Friday evening at their regular meeting. Dr. Hewitt' talk will have to do with sis journey through China and other placea of Interest In tha orient. An eminent scientist writes the 1 ' i cnemisc in our ivescarcn jcparuiicut; ,. ; Chesterfield Cigarettes are is - . " : : , - t : :i ' '' -' i . . . - ) I : ' - " - '. ' . ' l -: "" I - ' S . : : Q 19IU iJaasTT a Mrsts Toatooa Ok . ' By MRS. C. L. SIMMON'S Tn Central Howell schoolbouse which is centrally located la about 10 miles east of Salem and six miles weet of Isilvertea on tho Salem-SIlrerton highway. - " f ! ; I . 1 The schoolbouse which has been ased threa School !' Center years is one of the finest country school buildings in tha county. It is used as a .meet ing place for tha community club and also for the Farmer union of this section. . j, '1 r I. The store and filling station beside the school Warehouse Xearby property are a cenveaienca to tho community , as also are the warehouses, situated 1 at Switzerland station where many local farmers haul their grain to sell or store-It - . . i The rich farming land of Howell prairi is used for diversified farming' and tha raising of frulta, mainly strawberries. Nearly every farmer keeps chickens, raises a few hogs and has a small herd of dairy cows. - t 1 John, HowelT for whom this community was Named for Howell named was the first settler bore. He came . across the plains In 1843 and located a dona tion land claim on what. Is the Bechtel place where Lew Fulst now lives. Tha house and granary which Howell built are still In use oa the plaee. Early Settlers Had First Grange the first granges organized was stands though not la use. H GARAGE BUILT IT DOCTOR'S HOME KING WOOD. Oot, S An im posing new garage, large enough to house several cars is being, erected at the Dr. D. A. Williams home on Kingwood Drive. The new building which has an tipper story for storage purposes is be ing built by the same beautiful rubbed brick which was used in the construction of the large col onial dwelling completed year or so ago by Dr. and Mrs. Wil liams. Mrs. Je3sle Sheltoa has return ed to her home at North Bead aft er a visit "of several week at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary Beaver. Rollin Beaver haa sold the sur plas of his apple crop to the state to be used at the feeble minded institution. The apples were har just as pure THE WATER YOU DRINK is tested from time to time by expert chemists . to make sure that it is free from all injuri ous substances that it is pare. So it is in the manufactureof Chesterfield cigarettes. Expert chemists test all the ma terials that are used in any way in Chester field's manufacture, to make sure that everything that goes into Chesterfield it just right. 1 THE LEAF TOBACCO IS PURE. Long steel ovensdrying machines of tho most modern type sdentifically''dry',and clean iand purify the natural tobacco leave by exact high-temperature treatment, , Then the shreds of cut tobacco, as you see them in your Chesterfield, are again heated, cleaned and jpurined. From thesb pure tobaccos the cigarettes arc made, and only the purest paper the best that can bo made is used for Chesterfield. Cigarettes used to be made in an old fashioned way, by hand. Now, no hand but youre touches Chesterfield anodic? purity safeguard. r Chesterfields are made and packed in clean, sanitary factories where even the air changed every four and one - purity again. . ALL THIS CARE is taken Chesterfields as nearly perfect as ciga rettes can be made. Delivered in a moist- urerproof, sealed package, they reach you just as good, just as pure as when they leavo jthe' factory. Good . . .they've got. to .bo: 'good they're just as pure as the water you drinkl Others of the very first settlers here- who took up claims were George McCorkle, Sam uel Slmmoaa, Davis and Wesley Shannon. Central Howell has been the voting place of the co aim unity for years. There .was a postofflce here in the f early days. One of here and the old grange hall still 1 1 vested fcy Inmates of the institu tion who arrived daily la a mam moth truck. . j '';; . ; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bases drove to Jefferson recently where they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. White. . j Mrs. Charles la 'well on the road to recovery- following a severe Ill ness of several' months. ; Mrs. Ella Jackson, j whose heme is in California, was a guest dur-. ing fair -week at the home of her parents,' Mr. and Mrs. H. Bennet. Mrs. Glean L. Adams will : be hostess, Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 13, to her fellov members of the Laurel social hour club. t H050B 8HLLTOX SCIO, Oct. t. On the C 4th birthday anniversary Monday of E. C. Shelten of Scio,; hU sen' Rol la and wife and his brother Riley and wife, ill of this city, were guests' at a birthday: dinner. Mr. Shelton was bora near Scio and has spent hl entire life in this vicinity. vj . 1 as half minutes to give you the ' , STAYTCW. Oct. I The stu dent body of the high school is maklnff plans for a. Harvest Fes tival,' for October 1 8. The carni val spirit will prevail and an en joyable occasion Is anticipated, as la former years, "p t ,u Among! the teachers who chose to visit schools instead of attend ing the institute were: Dave M. Johnu who Visited schools in Rose burg aud i Eugene; Miss Frances Lllis. Miss Helen Pattern and Mrs. Faye Mack Lyons,; who ! visited Corvallls schools and Miss Willa R. Hull, who visited Portland schools.. 1 1: S.! , :. "v Mr. and Mrs. O. L- Hagea mov ed Tuesday Into their new home near the Catholic church. 1 The in side Is most cosy ad attractive. but Mr. Hagen plans to do con siderable work on the outside. H Mr. and Mrs: Ralph Lyons are the parents of a son, born Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Fresh, with Dr. C. H. Brewer and Mrs Naomi Fresh In attendance. Mrs. Lyons will be better Temembered as Miss Helen Fresh. ' ' 1 'Eight "new students registered at the Stayton High school Wed nesday. This make the total en rollment 174. Clas basketball practice will begin- this 1 week. A handsome trophy, a beautiful silver cup with a plaque of a boy basket ball player on one side and a girt on the other will be. offered by Har old - Gbraonler . an'df others, inter- estedi This cup may go to either indoor or basket ball players and it surely Is: an incentive to work for. Grange Homecoming To be Held Saturday .'! : M6NMOUTH, Oct. 8 Mon mouth grange members are com pletlng plans for their first an tnmti homecomiaa ' to occur Sat urdar. October 10 InvlUtions have been extended to all former members to spend the day tn o Hal fellowshtn herei and en lor a noontime dinner of; harvest fare. The program will be of an infor mal! nature.' Committees ' have been! active if for several i weeks with ! details of the affair. water ' i-'-" -if ; - :. ait " :- j: i ' : i.t ' - 4 . " . i' 1 . ij : ; i t ! ',- S ' "- -'I : ! . -3 ft' ' ':' -VTli "... Lyl 4- f' -- !' !; : , '- . a :. ! ' - i 1 j I ? -: rt I . 1 ! - 1 ."'".- ' ": r'Ally v; i . ,.-v ! r-1.1 ,.-1 . : : : -rp-t : r : -q ' i r: '; - .-.. " - - c." si i - ' W ' ' - " - : : ; ;' . -.'W;, " :i 1 -: ' ""''.1' I I 'i ' x: j .''".' r-fU',-. -M tl'- ' ' -t'1-v- i . 7, ; : ' . ' "Si----.- I 1 l-i'1 ' W- - . ;. : ' . .i . - " . ; ; . 4i . V V W lil- . J iv:- 11; i - : - - U v. :;i , .--. . .- : ! : ; ? i 1 - - - . m 4 ' : ' -'H:: : ; , li ' Ii-'-'"- :-! : ' j j ;:i : , ; ' ,1- a':.K i .T:';-: ipi!'??-.'''-' J " ;H" : . 'ii -., I n,L ;A). . -i ; ... V I ' ' .". F - '. ; " .-f 1 , - ;:! 1 ' i ' il 5 S ': ; : - i - . - i . . -' jf-! ;: v.. - z - ! : '- - ' - I '! : . : . ' - : '; u . .Jy;- ; l . I . ' ! JEFFERSON, Oct, 8 A pleas ant surprise; party was given Mrs. Estella Alexander Tuesday even ing at her home in the south end of Jefferson, by hep? niece, Mrs. George Vail j In honor cf her 76th birthday anniversary. Vlsi ting and games were enjoyed until a late hour, j when refreshments were- served t by the hostess. Mrs. Vallf assisted j by Anna Kla upa and Mary Donohue. ; : Those present were the honor guest, Mrs. I Estella.f Alexander. John c; Alxander.C Mrs. Lydia Hoyt. Mrs. A.;- A. Miller. Mrs. S. M. Green, Mrsi Alice Dowell, Mrs. Edna Allen, Mrs. W. W. Warner, Mrs.! Nettle Reeves, sMiss Esther Holand. Anna-Klampe, Lou Mil ler, Mary Donohue, and the host ess, Mrs. ValL , i'' Mrs. Alexander was born near Turner, October 1858. Her par ents crossed the plains by ox team, from Iowa. She was mar ried to Dr. W; F. Alexander, No vember 18, 1880, who died a number of years ago. She lives with her son, John C Alexander, in her comfortable little home in' the south endlof town.' She is a great lover of flowers, and en joys ! doing all kinds of fancy work, and is fond of piecing quilts. ' 'I i . i Mrs. Alexander was' the recipi ent of many beautiful gifts. New Water Tank is Placed ! at Gervais . After Three Months GERVAIS.i Oct. 8 'r The new 6,000 gallon? water tank ordered by the city council s last spring arrived and was set la place Wed nesday. The delay In delivery was due to the fact that the steel re quired by the state to 'be used had to2 be brought from the east coast and the tank made after it arrived in Portland. About three monthi ago the city ; fathers started get ting ready to receive ": the new tank and had the ead taken out Ql the pump lionise ready to set it Oa Its arrival, not knowing at that time that delivery was to be so far ahead. i ' -" - 1 4 you drink"