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PAGE THREE Mt Angel Set Ten Billion and a Half, 1937 Harvest Estimate Woodburn Court Trailer Divorcee Jack Iitzler, 21, ford and Mrs. Otto Spaetsca of Lodl, Calif., are house guests of Mrs. L. S. Clark of Lacomb; Mrs. Clark accompanied them on a vis it to Poftiand and Salem. . Metes out Fines Dies at Lebanon The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, August 5, 1937 For Flax Fete Gty Is Festival - Minded; Rev. Ileibel Back From Boosting Trip IX After 19S8 droarfat Bumper wheat crop" MT. ANGEL Rer. Alculn Hel- bel returned to ML Angel with re ports of success in his work in the interests of flax in the east. He spent the past weeks in Minnesota boosting the Oregon flax Industry. After his conference today with state and flax officials he an nounced that no statement would be made now but that Governor Martin had an important message for flaxmen which will be deliv ered by him during the ' second day of the flax festival at Mt. Angel. August 14. Tfce only ad vance Information vouchsafed was that the governor's announcement would "sound good" to flax en thusiasts. The harvest of flax In this dis trict continues with the stand rated exceptionally fine. - The entire town Is -being made flax conscious. Wreaths and sprays of the golden-balled plant are making their appearance In downtown streets and windows, and flax boutonnaires are being worn by business men. The sec ond annual flax festival promises to outdo last year's celebration. Miss Louann Hasslng, sponsor ed by the Mt. Angel American Legion, is leading the queen candidates. Cwx.., Vatuat A name 9? CVMU A second laymen's retreat will be held at Mt. Angel college this summer. The dates set for the re treat are August 27 to 29th. Rev. Damian Jentges, OSB, whose work ; In this line has been very exten sive and effective, has been sel ected to conduct the exercises. i The annual retreat has been held at the college for the past 17 rears under the auspices of the Mt Angel Retreat Guild, the time us ually chosen being in June. this year the 130 men who attended the June retreat requested that the few days spiritual exercises be - repeated during the late summer. This led to the arrangement with the Benedictine Fathers to give this second opportunity , to lay- men to iaae a spiritual mumuw i m "VBrndMme t,me ,n qtt,et Lrabtree Gardens The retreat will begin with holy mass at 10 a.m. Friday mom ing, August 27. and end with mass, general communion, and - breakfast Sunday morning, Aug- . nst 2. - -'. .v . -J ,HlVBSBBSBiiBHSSSr Traffic Docket ; Is 'Heavy for Week, Profanity Case Dismissed i 7 3 Hi Harvest time ' " - Current reports Of the department of agriculture forecast a bumper 110,500,000.000 harvest this year, best since 1929. Wheat and corn crops are better than at any time in the past eight year and a 10 per cent Increase in the cotton crop is anticipated. Farmers are also receiving- a larger share of the "food dollar" as a result of rising commodity prices. And the droughts of 1938 failed to ravage the agricultural world this year. This returning prosperity for the farmer is not confined to any one erop or lection, but t fairly universal, and may presage a new and continued era of well-being for the tillers of the solL The farmers' average 1937 net income Is expected to reach about 11200, an Increase of approximately S300 over the 1936 figure. Will Open Sunday LIBERTY Mrs. John Crabtree will open her garden to the pub lic next Sunday. She has many varieties of flowers in bloom at this time. While Mrs. Crabtree's Polk WCTU Group Tfi TTpln Flimifill garden is still too young for the J.U JICIU r lirillSll gnruD8 to maKe their most ef- -l l I TT I reciive snowing, sne nas acnieTeu LJllHiren 8 IlOllie a lovely effect with her flowers against a background of large firs. PIONEER Several womenl Mrs. Crabtree's beds of violas from this community attended fn blqpm now are well worth see , the children's farm home caravan ing. She has made a specialty of Tuesday. As the cars arrived at violas and has displays of them in the home, guests were furnished purple, blue, pink, yellow, pure with boy escorts and taken to white, a 1 s o verigated and twe tne irrigated gardens, corn-ana tones. She also has an orange hay fields. Then the group was variety that has received a great divided and taken to the various deal of admiration.! Many of these cottages, the hospital and school. 8De na8 started from seed and At noon a picnic dinner was propagated them from cuttings to servea unaer snaoe trees m me make them come true to color. : I a J a I I uperinienueni yaru. rpabtree lfl eBteciallv in- i t- a mar nil i ' ir luucor. uu - tere9ted ln 8nrubs and plans from bert gave the group a word Plc- .. v.. i?rf l,fAff it -J?! things from seed, one of which is made to feel that they are liv ing In an institution but feel at home. County WCTU president, Mrs. Those wishing to see this gar den should drive south from Sa lem on the Liberty road, take armer's Union News BETHEL- Noxious weeds along the roads and highways, notably the wild carrots, came In for discussion at the Monday night meeting of the Farmers' Union. The weeds are spreading back Into the fields and are a serious menace. E. E. Matten and George E. Bahnsen were appointed to consult the county court and ask that the roadsides be cut ind cared for. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Overholtxer of Covina, Calif., showed colored motion pictures which j they had taken while on a four months tour in the Orient The picture showed life in Korea and cities and surrounding: country of Peiping, Nanking, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila. Mrs. J. M. Nichols, Mrs. Cass A. Nichols and Miss Marjorie Vacey served refreshments. Residents of Ohio Visiting Mill Gty and Mrs. Worth Conlson and Edgar, Mrs. loan, Mildred Has- 1.1 A If U 4 . J rtf anH uiti r-T-nv . Um 3.4U Court COSis auu .w vwu- . ... - . at n I A TUB. anil WAlt 1 J A 1 1 1 T. u a I cnas. ciine of riniey onio, are "I Mr. and Mrs. David Delano spending several weeks at the aiSLnd'KCU- and family of Portland spent the Silverton Guild to Hold Sale, Program on Friday M.-A. Conlee. had charge of the "cona i u r n io iroui me program which followed. Mrs. schoolhouse. The Crabtree house W. P. Miller, the president of i the third from the corner, right the Dallas union, suggested Polk nana Biae, ei pact uom me rou rmmtT'a fnmlshlnr "Willard I This is the easiest route from Sa eottage, the oldest, which was lem but may easily be reached nnd intf 2 102S. I from the Pacific highway. Mrs. Mrs. P. J. Voth presented the W. C. Franklin of Franklin's tu two quilts which the D a 1 1 a s Up 'arm will assist Mrs. Crabtree WCTU made for the boys and m snowing tne garaen to visitors girls. . Mrs.,, Joy Robbins had charge of devotlonals, Mrs. Lloyd Rice led in ' prayer and Rev. A. B. Cromwell and Rev. John Linn cave Inspiring talks. The Oregon cottage for boys was tttinv a-ttlnr rpadT to leave for Newport where the home SILVERTON The Immanuel has a cottage. They were baking Guild is planning a sale, program nVla and dolne other extra and a lunch at the church parlors duties for such a trip. They for Friday night. The committee planned to leave Wednesday in charge announces that the doors morning. Each cottage takes its will be open at 7 o'clock and the tnrn aa this la the nleasure trin program win oe given at o f tli var for the bovs and The 'lunch committee consists girls. of Mrs. Ed Ovefiund. Mrs. Albert Anyone Interested in helping Meade and Mrs. E. Lanson. The n fnmUh thA rottare Is asked general working committee is to ret in touch with a Polk composed of Mrs. II. B. Jorgen onntv WCTU member. Any-1 son, Mrs. Albert Meade and Mrs thlnr offered will be appreciated. I E. Lanson. Temperance Play Tonight at Dayton DAYTON "The. Prisoner at the Bar," a temperance play un der the direction of the Dayton ministers by local church mem bers will be given Thursday night at the Dayton Methodist church. This comes under the national temperance movement and is be ing nresented throughout ; the United States by the anti-liquor league. A silver offering will be given at the close of . the mock trial, presided over by Rev. C. C. Rarlck, pastor of the - Methodist church acting aa Judge 'with Hay- ward H. Johnson of Portland as the prisoner. Every house in Dayton is oc cupied . and some newcomers are living ln trailer houses. W. S. C'Ren, hardwareman, is erecting a six-room 1 V story English style modern home. M. A. Palmer and Charles Slmler, local contractors, are ln charge of the work. Floyd B. Willert, Dayton post master, Is also building a modern home. ' Discuss Crop Control Program Edward O'Neal Jf Ah1 ' ' ' iV "J I John imiler ( Marvin Jones ( home of their son, Mr. Curtis Cllne and family. Marilyn Chapter, O. E. S., held Its annual picnic at Taylor's grove Sunday. About 50 members and friends enjoyed the day. A din ner was served at 2 p. m. and supper at 6 p. m. The afternoon was passed ln games and swim ming. Miss Charlein Gentry and Miss Marjorie Shroeder have gone to Camp Santalay near Mehama, where they will spend the week. Mr. and Mrs. H. Pancoast or Portland spent the week end at the Gentry home ln Mill City. Miss Virginia Jepsen of the beauty parlor had the misfortune to cut her finger with an axe at her home Sunday. Mr3. Mary Lovett and daugh ters, Lois, Mary Elizabeth and Katherine, of Lacomb spent the week with Mill City relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Golden of Dee are In Mill City to spend the summer. Mr. Golden Is re covering from a serious Illness. A heavy frost Sunday nignt did some damage to gardens be low Mill City.; Mrs. Clara Ellsworth Is spend ing two weeks ln Wauna at the home of her ion Lewis. Ask Consolidation Of Schools, Amity Petitions are being circulated calling for an election of the voters of Amity and Tampo school districts for the consolidation of the two elementary schools. Tarn' po is 'also asking admission into union high school No. 5, located at Amity. . J Amity Is composed of nine dis tricts at present, including Amity Whlteson, Broadmead, Patty, Grand Island, Wheatland, Hope well, Fairview and Lone Star Tampo is -a joint school district with Polk county and is situated a b o n t 4 miles southeast of Amity and at present has 12 grade pupils and three high school stu dentS. ; " ! ; Mrs. Anderson, Resident Of Brush Creek Very HI Various plan for crop control and regulating the flow of major agricultural commodities ln commerce were considered when farm organization heads among them. John Miller, left, president of the Mational Co-operative Council, and Edward O'Neal, center, presi dent of the American farm board met with Representative Marvin Jones, right, chairman of the house agricultural committee. It appeared doubtful however, that this session of congress would see passage of a farm program BRUSH CREEK Mrs. Einar Anderson, who lives with her Eons and daughter, Alvln, Virgil and Alma, on Paradise road. Is reported critically 111 at her home. She is being cared for by her daughter. Miss Anderson has taught for the past three years at McAlpin school In Waldo Hills but signed a contract to teach here for the coming year. Looney Funeral Held ALBANY, Aug. 4,--Funeral services were held , here Tuesday for Merilee Looneri 16, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jed Ixwney who died : of injuries received when she fell beneath the wheels of a tractor at Colfax, Wash Saturday. WOODBURN Cases appearing in Judge Overton's court have been numerous the past week. Howard Clark entered a plea of guilty to the charge of driv ing a truck and semi-trailer without plates on the trailer, and paid a fine of $5 and costs. Thomas Edwin Samuels pleaded guilty to the charge of passing another car which was traveling in the same direction without sufficient clearance and was giv en a line or sa ana costs. Fred Swingler. arrested for driving at night with no head lights or rear lights burning, entered a plea of guilty and paid a fine of 45 and costs. John Milford Gray, pleaded guilty to the charge of driving a truck without Oreeon license elates and paid a fine of $5 and costs. Clair Clement Cromwell, ar rested for driving his car with the muffler cutout in operation. was given a fine of S5 which he was unable to pay and was committed to the county Jail. John Edward Goodyard paid fine of $5 and costs for driving with four persons in the driver's seat of his car. Malcolm .Force Flnzer paid a fine of $S and costs for passing another car on a curve. ' Defective Brakes Charge Five truck drivers appeared and entered pleas of guilty to the charge of driving with de fective brakes. The following paid fines of $10 and costs: Theodore Roosevelt Huffman Melvin Arthur Erland. George William McDaniel, Harold Byron Woodworth and John Guy Miller Six drivers were arrested for driving without operator's li censes and after pleading guilty the following paid fines of S5 and costs: Beatrice van Onse noord, Walter Henry Kasselbaum, umun yjweu wjuinu -CD"C 1 cpatto XflTT.fi lrwal RAiTMerA Summer. Robert " Spencer Blassingame was given people attending tne, trienas suspended fine of 1 5 on con- 1 Christian Endeavor conference at dition that he pay the costs. Twin Rocks are Lawrence Mc- I" PS TZZSZ: Kracken, Mlgnon. Maurice and on compiami ul xv. "'""V" Phillip Macy, Mrs. Hatel Fra on a charge of using profane a-i-h. ami nr-m iin and abusive language on a pub- Mer'riman and Estner Mrg i ; , - . (y V- ) 9. NX Services Held Wednesday for Youth Who Spent Life in Section An unusual grounds for divorce was cited in a petition filed by Mrs. Clarice OrgeL 24-year-old Cleveland housewife, when she filed suit against her husband charging that he "wanted me to live in a house trailer on parking lots and move from city to city" Thev have been married four years and have one child. Scotts Mills Folk Attend Conference LEBANON Jack Litzler, 21, only son -of Mrs. Mattie Litzler of the Tennessee section, died at the Lebanon general hospital August Funeral services were held at the N. C. Lowe mortuary Wednes day, with burial in Masonic cemetery. Jack was born In Lebanon Oc tober 4, 1916, and spent all his life here. He entered high school but because of failing health could not finish the" course. A 1 hi -pound son was born to Mrs. Lester Junke at the Lebanon general hospital July 29, by the caesarian operation. Arnold Gar- nett. a construction worker, is being treated tor a foot Injury. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Scott of Portland, Mrs. Mabel Gallagher and Warren Randle of Salem, Floyd Gallagher and Kenneth and Richard Gallagher, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Keefhaver and daughter. Irma, and son, Bruce, had a pic nic dinner at Trout creek Sunday Floyd Gallagher, Mrs. Scott and Mr. Randle drove on to Clear Lake to fish. Mrs. Walter Gogle, Albany, and her brother, Harvey Brook of Sa lem, accompanied Math Gogle of Lebanon to his cabin at Marlon Lake Sunday. He will remain for a recreation visit. Miss Ethel Whalen, technician at the Mayo hospital of Rochester Minn., accompanied by her mo ther, Mrs. Mary Whalen, is mak ing a vacation trip through the northwest with stops at Seattle Portland and Lebanon where she was the guest of her mother's sis ter, Mrs. M. J. McCormick and sons, Charles and Leonard. They will return through California and will visit in San Francisco. Misses Laura and Pearl Staf Visitors Leave T TBPPTVMr. R WlllUmi and children J Billy and Rosemary of Stirling City. Calif., who have ' been visiting at the home of Mrs. Williams' mother, Mrs. Katherine Schmidt, left Monday to return to meir noine. K1J tail; vo a. -ni, a ,r"Ut , ,'ttr Td'Cnt is w """""or 'r rjm. MK frr. fttf mm ram WW) COMFORT Dally 11 iru "- I TOAbAflAl1 farlA an WolnVi Mr July SI but on request of tie . nninn ' complainant the ewe was com- &- promisea wiw kins and Mildred Amity Warehouse Nears Completion Silverton People Vacation at Beach SILVERTON E. O. Minor and his daughter. Miss Ruth Minor, are spending several days at the Oregon, beaches. Miss Minor, who teaches at Cloverdale, has been spending her summer vacation at the home of her father here. Mrs. H. W. Preston, Tim and Graham Preston, Mrs. J. Ballan- tyne, Miss Rosella Richards and Miss Janet Ballantyne motored to Westport Tuesday where they were dinner guests of the Eari Downlngs. Mrs. Preston and her two sons, Mrs. Ballantyne and Miss Janet Ballantyne and Miss Richardson will go to Trout Creek on the Molalla for the remainder of August. They plan to -leave this week. Mr. Preston will spend week-ends .with them. Mrs. Wil liam Ferrin and two daughters, Joan and Edimar of Portland, will also spend a part of the month at the cottage on the Molalla. weekend looking after Interests here. Mrs. Delano is building an eight-TOOm house for Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Snow. The following local families moved to Gates last week: Mr and Mrs. Clarence Estenson, Mr Anil Yfta T a ii pen ra Sown n n rl AMITY The farmer's cooper- ' . Wra Pattorann a a u afA(A1 I vaaaavt tu, w- auve warenouse m 1 and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Nicnol in June, is nearing wmpwuoo E0 and Daby Deiores. macninery J- Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo White. a a mab ?in l already I Leland White. Miss Edna White and seed crop. Grain is already Virginia dauah- 5 "CelV,eii?5 'I tar ofAld White, arrived in lamnm ."-t' Scotts Mills from Los Angeles complete the wiring and the plac- Fri,aT to snpnd the 8ummer f mTAfa thfi WOO V I " ?em Marfforot Mnrr s. tiaiirn- I ' a. f Rn inrf Mra. C. R. I vvora nas oeeu receirea ucic xinrr-t f imitv. will be head of of the birth of a daughter to v nortoioni in thA I Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Tucker Dufur high schoo; this fall. Miss of Milwaukee. Mrs Tucker win i - T7niioh i.,ihii at I oe rememuercu ueio as wo ttiv a pnhi.rr last vear. former Hilda Foster, primary I , . . 1 V1 The annual nicnlc of the East leacner ia me .ui. sMa Rflwine einh members and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shuts their families was held Sunday in and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. the city park at Dallas. A basket Lloyd Hems and family spent dinner waa eninved lit nnnii and the weekend at Tachats. Mr. and the afternoon was spent in swim- Mrs. Emanuel Shilts, parents of ming and playing games. About Henry Shilts, returned home 40 were nresent. wun mem aiier a w mj i Mr. and Mrs. Sidney DeKoque l tne oeacn have returned from their wedding trip to Wisconsin and were Sun day guests at the home of Mrs. DeRoque s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Strout. They left Sunday night for Portland. Announcement has been receiv ed here from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Martin of Willamette telling of the arrival of a daughter, Betty Lou. born Sunday at the family home. Mr. Martin Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Martin of Amity. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thomas and family left Saturday for Wald- port where Mr. Thomas will at tend a summer conference of all vocational Instructors In Oregon. Mr. Thomas is Smith-Hughes in structor of the Amity union high school. Silverton Woman at 84 Has 100-Year Stepmother SILVERTON Mrs. A. O. 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