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IIKER EMUS' (MIX SET-UPS First Payments Due 50Days in Advance of Semi- " -Annual Idea , DALLAS, Jan. 1$. SberIK T. B, Hooker has prepared a sum " aary of the changes In tax col lecting methods "to b used start tag with the 1934 tax' roll, la or der to explain the new method to , the taxpayers of Polk CQunty..trbe , new method provides for quarter- If payments and a rebate for ad vance, payments. Also the. roll to "be collected "during the .present ' - year -:wlli be designated ai the, .ijjt.rou insieaa or caiung ,u oy - thin,evio.ua. year." . ' -Sheriff Hooker's summary says - ;ln part:, r'. -.'.,... " ; . - - - . "Under ihe new tax law. it is to your advantage to pay all your, .taxes on or before March 15, for il . - . t m .... . r iim rf HKiin ann.ii 1 1 vim iisiv m. 1 1111 tax you will receive a 3 per cent 1 rebate, if you pay 'three-quarters of your full ,tax you will receive , a I per cent rebate, if you pay a half of your tax you will receive a 1 per cent rebate, and if you pay the first quarter of your full tax you will receive no rebate, but will save interest on the same. ; ''First quarterly- installments wtfll YtAAitriA A Alt nntiailf 4 f rttY vtnlrl n 111 UU1.U MA J U i U U . 1 . UUI UIMU on. or before March 15. Interest' at the rat of two-thirds of 1 per - cent a" month will be charged on - the first installment if payment is not made on or before that date. The second installment, will be come delinquent if not paid on or before June 15, the third install raent must be paid on or before - September IS, and the fourth in stallment on or before December n. - 'Ms for '34 olI Only ."The above applies only to the 1934 tax roll, which will be plac ed in my hands for collection soon. ' "Under the semi-annual pay ment plan, heretofore in effect. Hay' i was the delinquent date for the first half and November 5, the delinquent date for the sec ond" half. Hence the first install ment under the new quarterly payment plan will become due 60 days ahead of the old due date ' under the semi-annual payment plan. ' He will mall tax statements to every taxpayer as soon as the ' rolls are turned over to him from the county assessor, thus getting tax statements to payers as early as possible. I F WOODBURN, Jan. 19 Open Installation of officers of ' Ever green assembly No. 12, Order of the Rainbow for Girls, was held at the Masonic temple Tuesday night at8 o'clock. Chadwlck chap iter of Salem and the DeMoiay de gree team were present, the lat ter being In charge of crowning of the newly elected worthy1 ad visor. Miss May Strike. Miss Pau line Nelson, retiring worthy ad visor acted as installing officer, assisted by Dorothy Dentel, Mar garet Mochel, Dorothy Austin and Gladys Adams. Officers Installed were: May Strike, worthy advisor; Helen Woodfin, associate worthy ad visor; Barbara Espy, charity; Louise Moeding, Hope; Iris Cuts forth. Faith; Muriel Beckman, re corder, and Jean L. Beers, trea surer. May Breed, chaplain;. Marie Strike, drill leader; Vera Jean Huber, organist; Betty Ackerman, red; Marjorie Faulconer, orange; lone Turner, yellow; Rosemary Corey;- green; Mary Jane Shaw, blue; Maria Breed, Indigo; An nette Lytle, violet; Tlorls Nel son, inner observer; Dorothy Den tel, outer observer; Vivian Cowan, Mary belle Adams, Barbara Jen sen, Lora Jane Bin go, Betty Da vis and Pauline Nelson, choir members. 1 , Ernestine Nathman President of Young Women's Sodality WOODBURN, Jan.. 19 The young . Ladles' Sodality of St. Luke's parish, , meeting la St Luke's community hall Monday night elected these officers: Pre sident. Ernestine Nathman; vice president. Delia Weisenberg; se cretary. Ann Dooper. An interesting talk was given by Father J. E. Rubis. Several new members were added to the roll of the organization. Thev are Viola Moshberger, Norma Mosh- berger, Marlon. Crosby, Kathleen Donnelly, Mary Elizabeth Weiss. Rose Tnmstein, Joan Beck, Ethel Redding, Noraine Redding, Vir ginia , Kistel, - Emma Brack, Rita 8urmeyer, Margaret Whitney, Evelyn Pokorney, Antoinette Po- korney, Virginia Milk, Delia Milk and MargaretGarnero. 15 North Howell Pupils on Perfect t'. Attendance Rolls NORTH HOWELL, Jan. 19. The following pupils have neither 'been absent nor tardy since the opening of th North Howell gehool last September: . -Reubeir Ditelien, Lloyd Patter son, Clarence Schmidt.' Norton Wood, Lester - Hagan, Loretta Waltman, Flora Woelke, Ottllle llavte, Dorothy Southard,' Elaine Bailer. Virginia Mcllwaln, Pauline Rns5, 'Raymond Woelke. Ronald Schmidt. and Everett Schlrman. A school program la presented verV Thursday afternoon by the pupils of the different grades and : much, interest w tnoTn w erery- one In the teaching as carried on under Mrs. Patterson's plan. This Is the first Tear the Plan has been In the North. Howell school. HUT in De Luxe avel in Siberia; Still Highly Primitive is j Report of Ralph W. Barnes Four interesting but trying Weeks in - central Siberia were spent during December by Ralph W. Barnes, foreign correspondent for the New York Herald-Trib-une. He arrived back in Moscow the day before Christmas.. Barnes' letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Barnes," Center street, was 29 days on its way to Salem. Ex tracts, from the letter follow: . "En route between Alma Alta and Tashkent, December 17, 1933. ; On return . from Novosibirsk, lis 00 miles east of Moscow. ' "We are due In Tashkent to morrow morning. It has been a tremendously interesting trip so far, with the high point a four- and-a-half day. sleigh ride from! Kuznetsk, the new steel -center, which I think that yofif will find on the maps, to Altisklya, a rail stop about 10 - kilometers from Barnaoul. Barnaoul will be on the maps, between . Novosibirsk and Semipalatinsk. . "My secretary, Oscar, ' and I slept in peasant cottages each night, either . on the floor or on benches. For the first two days, through mountainous country, the horses were in tandem; later, in the open country, they were side by side. In the four-and-a-half days -these Russian ponies did more than 140 miles. Not bad! "Black bread was the basis of our diet during the trip. We had practically no hot food. Tea, of course, at every stop. .What would this country do without teat We purchased extra fur coats at Kuz netsk. Thus I had something of the appearance of an elephant on two legs wearing two fur-lined coats - "shubas". as they call them in this country. 'I wore, and am still wearing, reindeer cap, with ear-flaps. and a section which covers the whole back of the neck. My Russian secretary, Oscar, was not well most of the trip from Moscow to Altiskiya, so I sent him home from the latter point. As a result, I have been greatly Increasing my Russian vo cabulary by picking up a host of new words during the course ef the Journey down the Turksib railway, through Semipalatinsk. along the shores of Lake Bal- kash, through Alma Alta, and on thus far. The best judgment seems to be that we shall arrive in Tash kent about 19 o'clock tomorrow morning; 11 hours late. In the desert south of Semipalatinsk we ran out of water had to wait three hours or more for a loco motive to come and pull us in. The Mongolian types of feat ures in this region are most pic turesque. Much color in the cloth ing. For a long distance we have been going through the country of the Kazaks, or Kirghis. At Tashkent we shall be in the land of the Uzbek Tartars. These ter ritories have been divided up on a totally different basis since the revolution, so the older reference works are of little use, so far as political divisions are concerned. I "will have only two days in Tashkent, then an eight day trip by train back to Moscow by way of the Aral Sea, most of it quite new ground for me. It is heart breaking not to be able to get down to Samarkand, the old cap ital of Tamerlane, and to Bok hara, but I shall have to leave those visits for another Journey. There is no dining car, and the best available accommodation E L BE The first block of home owners' loans since December 1 are soon to, be closed here,' J. F. TJlrich. Marlon county agent for the Ore gon Home Owners' Loan corpor ation, announced yesterday. He said final steps, clearing of titles. were now being taken on 33 loan applications. When ten loans embodying cash and bond payments of $24,105.30 to mortgagors and $4848.49 for back taxes and improvement liens were closed December 1, it was declared here that the home loan mill would be speeded up. Ulrich at that time said he expected 25 to 30 loans could thereafter be closed every two weeks. But new delays arose with the result that approximately 300 applications have piled up in this county alone. Ulrich yesterday expressed a hope that he would be able from now on to catch up with the work and predicted that 95 per cent of the applications would receive fa vorable acjon. Of the 300, 76 nave been appraised. Applications continue to -pour In at the offices of both Ulrich and John Bayne, Marion county attorney for the corporation, both men said yesterday, Bayne de clared around 40 loans were like ly to be dosed soon. Stockholders of Rosedale Phone Line Meet Monday SUNNYSTDE. Jan. 19. The Rosedale Telephone Cooperative company held a business meeting Monday, January 15 to talk over the business of the company; A committee of four was appointed to confer with Commissioner Carey and central office of the Pa cific States Telephone company, the committee to report findings back to the directors' meeting on Wednesday, January 17. This meeting was held with all di rectors present. The question of abandoning rsome of the line which are now defunct was discussed. Meeting adjourned with a eall for a meet ing of all stockholders tor Mon day, January 22 at schoolhouse. - Rosedale DM HI CLOSED W j is what the Russians call, 'soft' four padded bunks in a compart' meat One furnishes; one's own bedding. The cars are almost al ways overheated, so there is- not much need for covers. One never thinks of undressing. I hare not had my trousers ' off except for a Russian vapor bath at Altiskiya since I left Kuznetsk nine days ago. " ' " . " v " Z i "I am carrying with me a blan ket roll consisting of a pair of double wool blankets which we brought to Europe .from Oregon; and a French army sleeping bag which I purchased in Paris. . "My ' Companions : on the ' trip south- have been young Russian men. engagea in agriculture ' or industry, or In political activities. Of six clustered around. last eve ning, five had gone through - a period of training in the Red army. Three of the group had placed myjarge suitcase across two of the bunks and are playing cards on it. "I have with me a metal tea kettle, which one or another of us fills with hot water at the targe stations. Thus we have tea quite often. It is difficult for one who has not. been here to realize what a large part tea, or some Imitation of tea, plays in' the life of the people of this country. There Is a line of people . with kettles at the hot water stand at each large station. "Shall send you pictures of the pony sleigh, if they are good. It's an interesting trip which will furnish material for Tiuman in terest stories for my paper." en IT DALLAS DALLAS, Jan. 19.- Represen tatives from Woodburn, Donald, Turner, two Salem lodges, Falls City and Dallas attended the mas ters and wardens' association of the Masonic lodges meeting here last night at the Masonic hall with the local group as hosts. Leif S. FInseth, president of the associa tion, conducted the business ses sion and acted as toastmaster at the banquet following. Leslie Mt Scott of Portland, grand master for Oregon, was the speaker. He gave an interesting talk On Masonic matters. A short entertainment program was pre sented with Naomi Hayes giving an -acrobatic dance number. Mrs. C. B. Godlonton Bang two solos, accompanied by Mrs. Fred Elliott. Dr. Cheney, grand secretary, and James Welch, superintendent of the Masonic-Eastern Star home at Forest Grove, gave short talks. Following the banquet short talks were given by Rex Davis and Wal ter Winslow of Salem and H. L. Toney of McMinnville, all past masters. A number of visiting masters were also ciiiled upon for remarks. Traveling Trowel Given to Portland By Woodburn Group EAST WOODBURN, Jan. 19 A large number of Masons from here were present' at the presen tation of the traveling trowel to Roosevelt Lodge No. 187, A. F. St A. M. of Portland. Woodburn lodge presented the trowel and was highly complimented by the grand master for presenting it in such an able manner. Ten Shaner, nephew of C. R Shaner of Woodburn, has shipped out on the ' steamer Constance Chandjer, bound from Portland to New York by way. of the Panama canal. Ted's home is at Kernville, where his father oper ates the Riverside Boat house. A few years ago Ted sailed to Liv erpool, England, and took in the sights there. . John Rfeger while cutting up meat, cut the first finger of his left hand quite severely. CWA JOB PROGRESSES TURNER, Jan. 19. The CWA work being done by 20 men on the schoolhouse grounds Is pro gressing well with some improve ment to the gymnasium. Wesley Cornelius, recently from Colfax, Wash., is with his uncle, T. B. Funston. GRANGERS COLUMN MACLEAY, Jan. 19 The so cial evening for grangers and .In vited friends will be held Satur day night, January 20. All fam ilies attending are asked to bring cake or sandwiches. A skit win. be put on by the Frank Bowers fam ily. Molalla Grange Leads MOLALLA, Jan. 19 First place among all the granges in Clackamas county has been, won by the Molalla grange in the membership drive conducted dur Ins the fall and winter. The local grange held second ; place until Monday night, when 10 more members were initiated. The membership here has increased CI per cent during the last few months, . , , '. U, FAIRFIELD. Jan. 19 Six ta bles of "500" were In play Tues day night at Fairfield grange ban when the borne economics; club sponsored ' a benefit ' card party. Hosts were Mr.' and Mrs. Henry C. Stafford and Mr. and Mrs. Al lyn Nusom. Prises for high scores were won by Mrs, Ev J. Becker and Ward Lundy. Consolation went to Mrs. William HcGilchrist and Dave Brown. The club will J give a shadow pot luek social the MASK MASTERS nlfht of February. JS, j raw . OFFBISHEID Fred Anderson Heads Day ton Odd Fellows, Inga Foster Rebekahs DAYTON, Jan. 14 More than 125 members from Dayton,-New-berg and MeMinnvlllst attended the semi-annual Joint installation of Dayton I. O. O. F. and Rebekah lodges at the Odd Fellows temple Friday night. Installing teams of Newberg did the work. Mrs. Ella Johnson, past noble grand, re ceived a gift fromithe Past Noble Grand club presented by Mrs. Rossner, the president. 1 Installing Odd Fellow officer. Grand Master Charles A. Hodson, was aided by S. E. Watkins, Earl Namitx, Warren Robinson, C. E. Hollingsw.orth, C. B. Crites and James Roberts. Lodge officers in stalled for the Odd Fellows were: Noble grand, Fred Anderson; vice - grand, S. R. Tilson; record ing secretary, O. . C. Goodrich; financial secretary, Theodore Rossner; treasurer, M. A. Palm er; warden, Charles Simler; con ductor, Charles Hadaway; inside guardian, R. S. Hodge; outside guardian, "L. A. Rossner; R. S. N. G., Roswejl Rossner; L. S. N. G., MIlo Parrlsh; R. S. S., Glenn Spooner; L. S. S., Joe Baxter; R. S. V. G., Wendell Willard; L. S. V. G., Oscar Dower; chaplain. D. C. Clark. Rebekah installing officers of Newberg were: Grand president, May Raymond, assisted by Flor ence Brown, Hannah Roberts, Marie McGinnis, Delia Blackburn, Ella Fraxler and Rosa Hollings worth. The Rebekah officers installed were: Noble grand. Inga Foster; vice -. grand, Madaline Rossner; recording secretary, Ruth Peffer; financial secretary, Wesa Ross ner; treasurer, Delia U'Ren; war den, Elsie Herring; conductor. Veda Willard; inside guardian, Nellie Spangle; outside guardian, R. S. Hodge; R. S. N. G., Nina Stevens; L. S. N. G., Andrina Matches; chaplain, Lavina Bax ter; musician, Wilva Louis; R. S. V. G., Gwendolyn Cooper; L. S. V. G.; Gertie Goodrich. SILVERTON, Jan. 19 Delega tions of Odd Fellows from Scotts Mills, Monitor, Yamhill county and Salem are expected to Join lo cal Oddfellows here Saturday night. The guest speaker of the evening will be George P. Wins- low of Tillamook, grand master of grand lodge I. O. O. F. of Oregon. Theodore Hobart, district de puty grand master, will commem orate the 16 2nd anniversary of the birth of Thomas Wildey, fa ther and founder of Oddfellow ship in America, in an address during the evening.. C. H. Bougher of Scotts Mills. who has Just recently returned from Sitka, Alaska, will talk of his travels. Other numbers on the program will include a musical number by time selection by the local Odd Fellows. fellows. FOWIONOFiW A new school district in Marlon county was asked Thursday by a group living north of Sllverton who filed with Mrs. Mary L. Ful kerson, county school superin tendent, a request that their land be Included in a new district to be taken from district four, the pres ent fiilverton territory. Two other groups appeared during the day to ask that a por tion of the West Stayton district. 61, be given to district 124, the Crawford area. Edward A. Bartog and eight others from West Stay ton signed their petition; Alice N. Tracy and seven others signed the petition for the Crawford district people. Both requests will be consider ed February 9 at 1 p. m. by the county boundary board composed of Mrs. Fulkeraon and the county agent. Funeral Rites for Francis Burlingame Held at Mt. Angel MT. ANGEL, Jan. 19. Fu neral services for Francis Bur lingame, who died here Thursday, were held from St. Mary's Catholic church Friday at 8:15 a. m.. Rev. Father Berthold said the requiem mass. Mr. Burlingame was born in Des Moines, la., in 18S7 and came to ML Angel about a year and a half ago. He was an Invalid for 10 years and paralysed for the last seven, during which- time he -was unable to speak. He is survived by his wife and two sons and four daughters. - : "i Honor Roll Students At Swegle are JTold SWEGLE, Jan. It Pupils on the honor Toll this month are: Upper room, Paul Bureon, Gene veve 1 homes, Charlotte Knight,' Carol Schaffer and' Rubr West. Lower room, Virginia' Aldrleh, Louise Whlteheaed, Margaret Smith, Gladys Dalke, Irene Sixe more and Dorothy Bond. MRS. WHITE VISITS RICKREALL, Jan. 19. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Price.' Mrs. D. V. Price, Miss Katherine Price and Mrs. 3. F. Lucas spent Wednes day in Portland. Mrs. George White returned home with them for an extended visit ODD FELLOWS TO COIHE TONIGHT DISTRTCTIS SOUGHT COMMUNITY .-cMuKi; ... , . , q ... . . SUBLIMITY. Jan. 19-The Sub limity Community club' held an all day quilting with a pot lnek dinner at noon Thursday , at the homo of Mrs. Mary Zuber. An afternoon of quilting was enjoyed- by all ; followed by the regular, meeting. The next meet ing will be held at the home of Mrs. Anna Benedict, January 25. - RICKREALL, Jan. 19 r The Greenwood Community club met tonight. The program was direct ed by Mrs. Dale Wilson and the main feature was a playlet - by Russell Steele, Bessie Wilson, Doris Brown, Jennie Hewitt and Dale Wilson. f BRUSH COLLEGE, Jan. 19 The Doolittle orchestra of Salem furnished musical numbers, songs and readings at the recent meet ing pf the Brush 'College commun ity club. Committees for Febru ary are Oliver Whitney and Clif ford Smith, program; and Mrs. C. L. Blodgett and Mrs. M. Kip per, refreshments. Meeting Date Changed HAZEL GREEN, Jan. 19 The date for the meeting of the Com munity club has been changed from January 31 to February 2, because two members of the or chestra have school dates. The program will Include parliamen tary drill conducted by Ross Miles; reading, "Is Marriage a FailureT" by J. H. Wortman; reading, Charlotte Massie; solo, Miss Helen Ralph and music, or chestra. A "birthday supper" is being planned to raise funds, supper to Sjpd If or ISO Paijs Ladies' S2 Galoshes Both brown and black, all sizes to be closed out at 500 Pairs Men's Shoes Florsheim and other makes including Archpre servers and Hanan, all to go at t 04Jo)g and $d)0Q 600 Pairs Children's Shoes Oxfords, Pumps and High Shoes. Closing out all makes, excepting "Proprblt to go at 02Q5 03.95 Closing Out All Red Cross Shoes Both brown and Black, pumps and straps, a few oxfords, while they last at Ladies To clean up our $1.50 values, all Dr. L. J. Williams y Foot Specialist, Always in M Attendance be bought from 1 to 20" years at a cent' a year. - Mrs. Alvin ; Van Cleave '4 1st chairman; .The ' fair booths will be in charge: spring, Mrs. Rudolph Wacken, Mrs. C. A. Kobow: summer. 'Mrs Virgil Per rene. Mrs.' Herman Wacken, Jr.; autumn, Mrs. Julius Slattum, Mrs. B. C. ZieUnski; winter, Mrs. Clif ton Clemens, Mrs. Ralph Gilbert; tables. Alvln Van Cleave; lighting, Clifton Clemens; coffee, Mrs. A. T. Van Cleave. , . Officers -Be-elected . PERRYDALE, Jan. 19 S. Van Staavern was-reelected as pres ident of the Perry dale commun ity club as well as all other offi cers being retained at a regular meeting' held Tuesday' night. Her-' man Gilliam announced that there would be night school under the CWA to begin sooiU A large group signed - up for the electrical course, the first to be studied. . D. D. Mahaff ey of - Linfield col lege introduced the following program by Linfield students: Gwyndelihe Ross 'played sev eral' piano selections; comic skit, "Equal Rights"; reading by Ro berta nonstock; a trombone 'solo. Grant Holt; a playlet "Here's El mer,? readings by Mary Francis Mulkey; songs by Gordon Foul; a playlet VThree Potatoes for Mary" was very good and Leola Mae Hood, a Perrydale girl, had a good part. . LODGE ENTERTAINS ' ; DALLAS, Jan. 1 Members of Mafmlon Lodge, No. 96, KnlghjB of Pythias, were hosts to a group of 15 members from Ho mer Lodge No 45, of Indepen dence, at the meeting Tuesday night at the local hall. Frances Newton and August Fisher of In dependence were initiated at the meeting. Following the business session, refreshments were Berved to 40 members. n Silk Hose, Rollings stock of all odd pairs we are offering these wonderful hose, $1 to sizes but not all colors, a the ridiculous price of pairs for S IUS ED USE OF ' LiBir is n An Increase in the nse of the Salem. public library daring 1923 is noted in the report Issued re cently by Maud E. Covington, librarian. The card holding 'pat ronage of the' library . includes 14,760 persons, or 57 -per cent of the city's population, an increase of 3442 patrons daring the last year. - - A circulation record was reach ed last year of 6.2 books per capi ta, or 1.2 more than the stand ard set by the American Library association -when support is - $ 1, while Salem's support is 45 cents per capita. An increase of 7642 in total circulation over. 1932 brought last year's "total up to 113,658 books, periodicals, pam phlets and pictures, or more man 11 per patron. . Through a typographical error the price of hens in the Piggly Wiggly advertisement was incorrectly quoted at ll'ic lb. The correct price is . . . Young, Fat For Fricassee' Completely IKIES J 245 N. Commercial St. 300 JKTi Selected from our stock. Regular $10 values. Black, brown, blue and light colors, broken sizes, all go at d)o Ladies Leather House Slippers A fine high grade shoe. All sizes to select from. Black, blue, red and green Soft Soles $o Hard Soles $Q0()g Women's and Girls' Sport Shoes Over 500 pairs in the lot, broken lines. Brown, black, gray, some sold as high as $8, three prices ;VA netr increase of IS 64 tn the number of volumes composing the library ; is. noted In the report. Of these; 24s 'books were added as gifts, while money was. contrib- ntMl hr the , Salem Arts : leaXU. (US ' .UUPIUUU . 1UU . 111. vi aau, club for- the purchase .or books. V1r novinrton exuressed the appreciation orthe library for the generous gins oi me pass year. - - The children's section of the library now has 4894 books while the remaining 24,499 are adolt volumes. D. W, Eyre is president of the library board for 134; Dr. H. H. dinger; vice - president, and W. H. - Burghardt, ecretary ; BACK SALE3 TAX AMITY, Jan. 19. Joe W. Jar vls, instructor of vocational agri culture in the high school, attend ed a dinner meeting, of .the Wil lamette Valley Vocational associa tion at. Monmouth .Wednes day night. This group , went on record -as favoring and staying back of the sales tax.' Dressed pound Pairs ies Runstop L H. Barron " ; Expert Repair Man, the Best Re pair Work at the Lowest Prices