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- - i , . . . , : ' rounewr- "No Favor Sways Ui; No Fear SImU Awe" From First Statesman, March 23, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Chables A. Sprague ..... Editor-Manager SUTLDON F. Sackbtt Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press Tb Associated Praaa 1 exclusively antltled to tb us for public, boa ol all mwi .diapatcbae credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper. ADVERTISING Portland Representative Gorton R Bell, Security Betiding. Portland. Ore. Eastern Advertising Representatives Bryant. Orlfflth ft Brunson. Inc., Chicago. Nnr Tor. Detroit. Boston. Atlanta. Entered at (he Pottoffice at Salem, Oregon, as Second-Clae Matter. Published every morning except Monday. Buaines office, tin S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Mall Subscription Rates. In' Advance. Within Oregon : Dally and Sunday. 1 Ma SO ceots. 1 Ha. 11.15; f Mo. 11.25; 1 year Elsewhere SO cents per Mo-- or $5.(; for 1 year in advance. By City Carrier: 45 rents a month ; 15. a year In advance. Copy 2 centa Op trains and News Stand t cents. 11.00. Per BITS for BREAKFAST By it J. HENDRICKS- The Hand of Mercy THE publican spirit gets hold of one when he hears of a fresh diSaster in some other region. A killing frost in Georgia, a drouth in Kansas, a tidal wave in Japan, an earthquake in California, a hurricane in Miami, instinct ively one dwelling in the security of some more favored re gion compliments himself that his land is "not like other lands , that it is free from flood and tempest and seismic disturbance. Willamette valley residents are such publicans They never cease to thank God their county is not like. . . well, not like other places where bad things happen, where nature is less kind We must drive out that spirit now when a sister state suffers loss of life and property. We must extend the hand of mercy, not in any patronizing way, but out of deep hu man sympathy for suffering. There are many ties which link us with the area strick en now by earthquake. Southern California, particularly Los Angeles and Long Beach, has attracted many former residents of this section. Business connections, social con nections are very intimate.. There is a constant interflow of interest between this community and that. So the Wiilam- Joaquin's first dollar. first poetry, other firsts: V (Continuing from yesterday:) "When sp and about, wrote Joa quin Miller, referring- to tho end of his long- sickness at Yreka, Cal "the man I had met on tbe trail and who stood modestly In tbe background, took me out and away over a snowy mountain to a new mining- camp called Humbug creek, where we wintered. "Life was monotonous here, for we had to live alone in our cabin because of the intolerable tough ness and roughness of the men here. . . . who made their foots of action and distraction in the 'Howlinz Wilderness' saloon. Hare I laid the scene of 'The Dan ities,' my famous play, but have always -been sorry I printed It, as it is unfair to the Mormons and Chinese. ... I took up my abode with Mountain Joe and friendly Indians. S "Mountain Joe, who had been one of Fremont's men, was do in all he could to cultivate a little valley where he kept the mail station and a little mountain tavern. ... I was in my first real battle. . . . Suddenly there was another deluge of arrows .... I felt no real pain, as one would think, with an arrow thrust through the side of my neck and face. ... I remember putting up my hand to feel my head. ... I do not remember anything else about that day. and very little else about the next year. In fact, my memory and, in truth, all my faculties failed me for ever so lone after that. ... I remember hearing men shout from the top of the savage fortress and knew the fight was done and won. "The disabled men were car ried down from out Castle Rock by women prisoners. The one who carried me on her back lost both her boys and husband in the bat tie. She was not krad at first. Pttp v11pv rnnnnf. hut roaot o-pnprnnd v anH svmnnt riprirnllv They tied my head close to hers ... j - v o---- - " . I V, nnM If IV tl J J UIO I. LOO. mountains called and called, and could net keep- my mind on my books. S "But I could keep ray mind on the perils I had passed. I could write of them, and I did write of them, almost every day. 'The Tale of the Tall Alcalde,' 'Ore g o n 1 a n 'Californian; 'With Walker in Nicaragua,' I had lived all these and more; and they were now a part of my ex istence. If you care to read fur ther of my life, making allowance for poetic license, you will find these literally true. e S S "Meantime I was admitted tc the bar. Then came the discovery of gold in Idaho, Montana, and so on, and I was off like a rock et, with the rest. I came baek to my gentle parents with gold enough to build a beautiful new home and had money to buy a newspaper besides. (He also paid the mortgage on his father's farm, and married Minne Myrtle Dyer.) Mv elder brother went to the Civil war and his mother nev er saw him any more. I plead for peace in my paper, believing in papa's Quaker creed, and it was suppressed. a S "I went into the mountains of Oregon, where hosts of my Cal ifornia friends had opened mines. and after leading them against and suddenly found xnvseir in London, where I published y first real book. "Songs or xne sier ras. Home acain. then South America. England again, the con tinent, published more books. then home by way of tne orient . . . Mr first lines, and in trutn. all my lines, as a rule, were de- acrlDtive stories of the lands I knew, so that my poems are lit erally my biography. . . Of course, both warp and woof of every real noem. beyond a sonnet's length. must be shot through with threads of gold and silver, else It is at best but a guide book, and I would like to be remembered by those of the years to be as a pi oneer who not only biased the path, but also loved the flowers, under foot and the peaks that companion with the stars. . . "Pap, never so robust, was thrown from his wagon and died soon after, while I was still wan dering. I came home, got a moun tainside of my own ("The Hights") overlooking San Fran cisco, and brought mother, whose mind was nearly destroyed by the deaths in her family .and she took care of me while I tried to take care of her, for ' more than JO years, when she. too, passed (at over 90). to rest in a little grove of cypress trees planted by her own hand up yonder on the hill side. A bronze bust, by a famous artist, of her strong, sad face, is to be seen in the library of the Oregon university. "In profound penitence for the years of sorrow I caused these two gentlest souls I ever knew, I lay these gathered leaves upon their graves, and again, pensive ''Tile GKaillerige T T or l CBJLPTEBt FOBTT-FIYE the hostile savages was elected their judge. Then I wrote and re and alone, turn and listen to the wrote. Put was never Quite strong lure of wandering tnrough tnis until after I rolled up my papers beautiful, beautiful world." It may be that existing state and national agencies will ; be fully adequate to cope with the situation. But the state of Oregon should be prepared to make good on the prompt tender of Gov. Meier of any aid which this state can give which will be needed in southern California. Railroads and Panics IN a very interesting talk to Rotarians last week, Charles H. Carey, new corporation commissioner and prominent historian, related how at the time of his arrival in Portland in 1883 bunting was still flying and arches still standing, following the great reception of Henry Villard and his dis tinguished guests who had participated in the driving of the gold spike completing the Northern Pacific railway, first of the northern transcontinental, Sept. 8 of that year. Be fore the bunting was pulled down and the train with its company of famous men including General Grant, Wm. M. Evarts, Carl Schurz and many others, Americans and Eur opeans, had returned to St. Paul, panic was breaking in Wall Street which swept the Northern Pacific into de fault and Villard out of control of the road. In fact it was reported that many who came with the train, when they saw the uninhabited region, much of it desolate, came to the conclusion the road would not pay and turned "bears It is indeed interesting to note the checkered history of the Northern Pacific and how it was affected by var ious panics that occurred from the time its construction started ; and how in turn its financing affected the financial markets adversely. Chartered in 1864 construction did not get under way until 1870 when the great banking house of Jay Cooke and company got behind the Northern Pacific. By 1873 Cooke was so badly involved through financing the road that his firm passed into bankruptcy. That was the major catastrophe of the panic of 1873. In 1872 Cooke had armiirerl fnr thp Northern Pacific the Oregon Steam Navi gation company, which held a monopoly of transportation .r ? on the Columbia through its ownership of partage railways spared: and spared only because i was ios oooo, tne rooi. Then more oatties ana two more wounds. My mind was as the mind of a child and my memory as uncertain her - S "I only know I made many and such piteous mistakes. In fact, if I were to take the mistakes out of my life, during these years, I My neck was still serious. I could not lie down. out took such rest as I could In my rovings among the Indians. nan reclining in my blanket or her hand. Then I talked to her in her own tongue, which I had learned. . . . She then told me her sorrows and said I must be her bov in place of the ones killed. When I did not or could not an swer, she told me u I would be her boy she would not drop me over the ledge as she intended when she came to the narrow place where only the mountain sheep went down. They laid me under some cedars down by the Sacramento river and the Indian woman was truly as a mother to me "Then papa came, nearly a month's ride through the moun tains and watched with me all the summer. But I did not know him till late in the fall, when I slow ly began to grow stronger, mind and body. He must go back to mother and the younger children. I was cot able to make the long ride. I was taken to Shasta City The people were good to me and made up a little school in a camp not far away, where I taught miners by night and tried to mine by day, promising papa to come home by way of San Francisco in the spring. S "But when spring came and Mt. Shasta stood out white and glor ious above the clouds and beck oned to me I hailed him as a brother. I, too, would rise above the clouds that mantled me, and. in spite of all protests, slipped away and joined my red men once more at his feet. . . . When the Modocs rose up one night and Finding Fault With Unchangeable Things is Acme of Human Folly By D. H. Talmadge, Sage of Salem Wolfa was shown into the pan elled dining-room at "Fardons tara hour after Threadgold had left In a huff. A toff are burnt in the eoen fireplace, throwing a warm light on the Jacobean wams- MfJna that had not been Victorian- a feed with paint or canvas ana wau- oaDer. The inlay work ana we nnlnr aver the fireplace WtH wtry- fine, weiie was manning examining it and warming himself at the fire when Mrs. Brandos ca tered. She-wea wearing dress of some tawny stuff that glowed like yellow metal' in the brown light of the room. Her eyes looked straight at Wolfe, a little haughtily. Iter pal lor and her reserve were natural to her. Strangers were kept at distance. Moreover, she wished Wolfe te understand that her send ing for him was the result of sheer necessity. "Mr son has broken his leg. Dr. Thread gold could do nothing wito him. r sent for you." "I see." "It is an emergency." She was brought to pause by the expression on Wolfe's face. It was as though be had said: I under stand you perfectly. But do not qualify your condescension. I am not the man to suffer it." She said curtly: "Will you come upstairs? I must tell you the boy is very nervous." Wolfe followed her in silence. like a physician summoned from a j A shallow swagger had come into lift-tilA pnn to minister chival-lthe bov'a eves. Wolfe had flicked rously to an enemy who lay ilL the right mood. They were men of Once in the room he walked the world who understood each traiVbt to the bed. and held out a other. None of your "Poor little hand. Aubrey Brandon eyed him I man. did urns the mmf if "Have ye seen the article In this paper T" Mrs. Brandon asked Wolfe. ""fJVTERNAL troubles haunt the Jii anxious mind." some of them real, others all or partly imaginary, few of them warranting the hullabaloo w e make over them. We must accept that which comes. Whether we accept it in one spirit or in another is for us to determine within ourselves. We are the only sufferers when we find fault with the unchang-able. at The Dalles and Cascades. During the N. P. receivership in 1873 the navigation company went back into the handi of the Portland capitalists, headed by J. C. Ainsworth. The .Binks family, back In South Dakota, had gathered about the dinner table one day, and Mr. Binks had just concluded a rev erent "Lord, for that which we are about to receive make us truly thankful, when a tornado struck the house, tearing it to pieces. Fortunately, no member of the family was killed or seri ously Injured. air. mnK3 said later he was tempted for a moment to revoke the snall prayer he had offered and sever all diplomatic relations with heaven, but on second thought he'd decided to let the prayer stand, because he was aware that Mrs. Binks had been praying for a new house, and he didn't care to start any family trouble just at that time. Anyway, he said, his heart was filled with gratitude that the family had Jieen spared, and he reckoned we'd been given eyes to see tor nadoes coming with and legs to get out of the way of tornadoes with, and it wasn't quite right to blame our carelessness on the Lord, and maybe it wasn't entire ly reasonable to expect tornadoes to aouge or jump over every house that was in their path. And anyway again, he said, he figured it would look kind o' silly for him to declare a war of bit terness against the Lord or to find fault with the laws govern ing the world of nature. It looked to him, he said, that there were plenty of other things to find fault with which would give a man at least an even chance of getting results. It was the failure of the Oregon and California rail road which had been built from Portland south to Rose- burg, (Ben Holladay's road) which brought Henry Villard, a German-American, to the northwest as representative of the German bondholders trying to salvage their investment, would have but little left rillard saw the elements of transportation strategy in- wound in the face and nee dived in the topography of the west, centering in Portland In 1879 he formed the Oregon Railroad and Navigation company which took over the Oregon Steam Navigation rnmnnnv nneratinp on the umoer Columbia and the Oresron skins against a tree. But how Rt.nmHin .ntnnanv onpratintr on the Willamette and const- V"U ipwpw were, now con- wise. He saw the menace to Portland in the building of the treated m" " my Veakness iNortnern racinc to a xerminus on ruget oouna, so ne ionn- as k i had been newly born to ed a new "holding company," the Oregon & Transcontinent- tribe. 1 nrV, !rVi Vizal1 a mo-ivritv fwnfrM nf fha Oro rrrm Kjjirwav Ar I T KTirotiA rnmnn-nv anrl hv mPna rf his fnmoua "Rlind -ww" "M a..a..vu j - : i una soui. i ne women eravft me Pool" of 1881 acquired a large interest in the Northern Pa- gold from whence? and I, be cific, giving Villard control of that road. Ine a 'renegade, descended to The O. R. & N. built from Portland east to Wallula; and -S. r"cfco na ,Me. ror iu. vti r K:n Trlo, Taonma .Tl"aotu"- uut sioppea at icara- mc wuiitiu xv--"V "V.Y ," gua with Walker. Thence up the pushed west from Bismark to a junction at Wallula, per- coast to Oregon, when strong mitting the tram to go through to Portland in 1883. The enough, i went home, went to Union Pacific nushed forward from Graneer and connected rr"?" "P- w scaooi tone, u r x t, vr . a Vw-o. 8lnaiea " home some; but rvii.it tuc s. x 41. ai uuuiiugwu, "- &vnu o"". i eyei- ftnfl ever the lure of the driven inov. 14, laaa. witn tne reorganization ior tne a. rw tp i rn T r 1 1 11 4 a J . 1 in. r. alter 1000, viuaras axtempx at unmeet control 01 i,,,. r-r. : v:- i. at. -41 j . A transportation in the northwest came to an end and there- the BISitai 3? after it was a three-cornered battle between the N. P., the l1! not occur till the close of 1890. Baring Bros, was a famous firm of British bankers founded in 1770. Just prior to 1890 it had sold large issues of Argentine bonds and Guar anteed the interest. Argentine defaulted and Baring's was caught owing 21,000,000 pounds. The Bank of England and joint-stock banks took over the abilities however and the firm was reorganized. The Baring failure helped bring on the 1893 panic. I -, . d" J D. H. TALMADGE I really had but nine hens and freak. The freak was a femaie fowl that devoted her waking hours to finding fault. Her feathers, which were of a speckled red color, stood out every which way, her eyes gleamed, she cackled and squawked continually. But she never laid an egg. She wouldn't. of course. The fact was plainly evident that she thought the world was all wrong, and that she thought she could put it right, and herself as well, by cackling and squawk ing. A sadly mistaken hen. Still, at that, she is the only hen of the flock that I remember as an individual. And she did. In a way, save herself. When the poultriotic dream of wealth and affluence faded, the local butch er bought the hens, with the ex ception of the freak. The butcher said she was no good. He inferred that she had reduced too much. With a view to becoming rich quickly, I once went into the poultry business. Perhaps you know how It is with a fellow when he is at the age when his stomach is free from gas and his head isn't. It is something like this: 100 hens, 100 eggs a day, 700 a week, 36,400 a year; noth ing to do but feed the hens the wrste from the kitchen, gather the eggs, take them to the store and sell them at the market price, which would probably be not less than four bits a dosen by the time the venture was under way. Well, there is no need to dwell on that. A business-minded Char lemagne or a Napoleon of finance would never have given suh a plan, even on so alluring a scale, a moment's consideration; it was too easy. I developed the proposition to the magnitude of ten bens before I became subject to pangs of thjughtfulness. I say ten hens, but this Is a slight exaggeration; U. P., and the 0. R. & N. Portland was vitally interested in the fate of the latter system because the city wanted to maintain its leadership as a shipping and trade center. The rivalries led to competitive branch line building in the In land Empire region. The Northern Pacific, after the build ing of the Cascade line in 1887, had its own line to tide water and sought to corral the traffic from the wheat coun try for sound ports, while the O. R. & N. built its own branches in that area to get the trade for Portland. Henry Villard came back into the picture in 1887 in an effort to compromise the disputes and end the costly com petition, and once more become president of the N. P. The controversy was prolonged however until 1889 when the Union Pacific agreed to purchase the stock of the O. R. & N. whose property it had been operating under lease since 1887. When the panic of -1893 came along both the North ern Pacific and the Union Pacific were so. badly extended fi nancially that both went under and had to be reorganized. Each has maintained its corporate existence ever since. In 1901 occurred the famous battle between the Harriman and Morgan interests for control of the Northern Pacific which shot the stock of the latter up to $1000 a share. Harriman wanted the road for alliance with the Union Pacific and Morgan wanted to tie it into the Hill system. Morgan won, and since then the N. P. has been grouped with the Great ae iNortnern. -Another word about the connection of railroads with panics. 1907 was a year of extensive railroad building in the northwest. The Milwaukee was pushing its extension from Mobridge. The Hill lines were building the "North Bank" road, occupying the north side of the Columbia which had been the subject of many moves in railway stra tegy in the decades preceding. Harriman, in control of both the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, was launching new construction in Oregon and Washington. Electric railways were being built in the Willamette valley. This country was flush with money from the big construction projects. The P9QT TOCO Ollffarinn, fi-Am ik -flA-A: - 1 - " oij.vi4u 44V1U lire cAvcaauc 4iuuiuuii 01 securities and the short-lived panic of 1907 resulted. So the story of railroad building in this part of the country ties m cioseiy witn the financial history of the na tion. Building here contributed at times to the financial pains of Wall street; and the financial pains there in turn xurcea many reaajustments m this part of the country. sulkily, a wild animal ready to bite. "This is a piece of bad luck, sir. Too much daring, eh? They ought to have had a good run, too, out at Cheston. Plenty of room for a gallop." It was the attitude of a man to wards a man, frank, and unre strained. After a moment's hesita tion, Aubrey Brandon's hand came out. Wolfe gripped it gently, and sat down beside the bed. Trying a stiff jump, was that it?" -Yes " "You rascal! That's where you dashing fellows show your pluck. I have had a broken leg myself, under a cart wheel in London. It makes a man grit his teeth, espe cially when a clumsy beggar of a policeman gets hold of you. No, I shant hurt you much. It'a just what I dont want to do." The boy's face brightened per ceptibly. "You knowit does hurt." "Haven't I felt it myself?" "It takes some pluck not to yell." "You're not going to yelL He played up to the boy's vanity and quickened it. "We shall have to take these gaiters and boots off, and those riding-breeches. And when we have got you nicely trussed op, well put you to bed. You see I shall Just cut off the buttons, slit the laces and the seams, and pick you eut like an egg out of a shell." Aubrey's eyelids flickered. "Do you think I might have a little brandy?" "Brandy? No harm at alL "I'm going to stick it you seel" "Of course you wilL I would al ways rather look after a fellow who can ride." Wolfe brought his bag to the bed, and sitting down on the edge, he began to bring out bandages, wool, and splints with casual os tentation. He chose a scalpel from a case and showed it to Master Brandon. "A good edge on that! You wont feel me taking off these boots and gaiters. IU bet you sixpence you dont shout." Ursula Brandon slipped round and sat down by her son's head. Ursula Brandon, holding one of Aubrey's hands, sat and watched Wolfe at work. He was cheery, re poseful, unflurried, chatting while he worked, and keeping a watch upon the boy's face. His deftness and his gentleness were . remark able. Once or twice Ursula Bran don glanced at the man's profile. She had a peculiar sense of being dominated, interested against her wilL The article in the "Wanning ton Clarion" recurred to her. This the man whose destiny it was 1 would be to utter such truths. The ; word truth forced itself forward. It was uncompromising, refusing to be represented by some urbane and euphuistical interpreter. In half an hour Wolfe had Au brey Brandon splinted up, undress ed, and put to bed. There bad been a moment's whimpering and some faltering of the boy's fortitude over the setting of the bone. Wolfe had handed the youngster one of his leather gloves. "Bite into that, old chap. I know it will hurt for a moment, but we shall soon be through.". And Aubrey had borne the pain with patience that had surprised his mother. She felt grateful to Wolfe, and impressed by the way he had handled the boy, Wolfe was pack ing up his bag, and talking to Aubrey. "You went through like a Tro jan. Now I want you to keep quite still, you know. The leg may hurt you a bit, and splints feel uncom fortable, but youll grin and bear it It won't last long." He crossed over and shook hands. "I say, do you remember stop ping ray pony in Bridge Street?" Wolfe smiled. "I do." "Youll come again to-morrow?" "If rra needed of course I will." "I won't have old Threadgold." "There, there, Aubrey, dear; don't talk so much. Youll tire your self." She was thinking as she descend ed the stairs, very conscious of the man behind her. He had not spoken since they had left the boy's room. Silence even to a silent per. son may be problematical and al luring. Ursula Brandon felt a sud den desire to touch the real inward ness of this man. "Supposing there should be muck pain?" "I can send you something to keep him easy. We don't want ths splints torn off. But I understand that Threadgold will resume th responsibility." She was surprised at her own answer. It escaped like some head strong impulse. "No." "Then you wish me to com again?" "If you will." "But with regard to Dr. TkreaJ. gold?" "He washed his hands of ths casa. The boy would not obey him." The copy of the "Wannington Clarion" lay on the broad oak window-seat, a patch of whiteness is the sunlight. "Have you seen the article in this paper?" She crossed the room, picked up the "W annington Clarion," and held it out to Wolfe. She watched his face as he took it from her. "I don't know who sent It to me. Such things make one angry for the moment." "I don't know who sent you tha paper. I have read the article, be cause I wrote it." He met her eyes. "I had guessed that." She was neither angry nor con. temptuoua. Her face had a white, serious gravity, and there was no mistrust in her eyes. "I was angry at first. But there was a reasonableness, an absence of vulgarity " "I assure you" "Yes, it was that one distrusts such a paper as this. It is so con. temptible that well I had to get rid of jirejudices." She looked at him with frank earnestness. "I know I may ask you " "Anything you please." "These things, they are true?" "As far as I know truth." "Thank you." He began to pull on his gloves. "Mrs. Brandon, I can assure you of my sincerity. I am one of those men who want things altered. I am not a squabbling politician." "No." He went'eut, feeling vaguely as tonished. (To Be Continued) Copyright, !J2, by Robert M. McBn'de I Co. Distributed bj King Feature Syndicate, lac. so ne lett ner, ana lor a num ber of weeks she occupied the poultry house and yard alone. Finally, she eloped with a rooster that had been outfought bv all the other roosters in the neigh borhood, and, of course, had made up his mind that the world was all wrong. At any rate, the last time I saw them they were going down the alley together two unhappy creatures, but per haps who knows? sympathetic ally content with unhapplness. Fowls and humans are sometimes that way. "That which hath vexed us most hath been the looking for evil; ills that have never happen ed have chiefly made us wretched." 20 Children Given Physical Go-Over By Health Clinic AURORA, March 11 A clinic was held Thursday at the rooms over the old postoffice at which time about 20 were given com plete physical examinations and five were found to be free from defects. In the afternoon 14 pre school children were present; nine were given toxoid and seven were vaccinated. About 40 reported during the day to Dr. Burk of Hubbard who was attended by the local staff. April 6 at the school house, the second toxoid treatment will be given those who had their first shot Thursday. MDBUi RURAL CLUB III SESSION WOODBURN, March 11. The Woodburn Rural club met at the home of Mrs. Frank Brouhard Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Elmer Mattson, president, presided. A report on the Martha Washington tea was given by Mrs. J. C. Hu gill and a rote of thanks to Mr. Timm of the Woodburn Highway greenhouses for use of plants. A letter from Mrs. Pelmulder, for mer president of the club and now residing in Longview, Wash., was read by Mrs. H. B. Rodgers, after which a program was enjoyed as follows: Songs by the club; read ing, biography of St. Patrick, by Mrs. Elmer Matson; comic akit, "The Effects of the Flu," compos ed by Mrs. J. C. Hugill, enacted by Mrs. Arthur Rerrick. Mrs. D. E. Miller and Mrs. Hugill; musical trio, comb, harmonica and auto harp, Mrs. Belcher, Mrs. Rodgers and Mrs. Hugill; duet, Mrs. Rod gers and Mrs. Belcher. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Brouhard, assisted by Mrs. H. B. Rodgers. Guests were Miss Oleara Travis and Miss Mary My ers. The next meeting will be held April 2 at the home of Mrs. O. E. Belcher with Mrs. S. Barrett and Mrs. R. Lutz assisting. Evans Valley Folk Enjoy Community Club's Offerings EVANS VALLEY, March 11 Members of the Evans Valley community club gathered Friday night at the school for their March meeting. A program was given which had been arranged by Miss Thelma Lofthus, Evelyn Brenden, Norrls Langsev. 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