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The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning-, August 18, 1938 PAGE TI1U12C Reunion Held At Anmsville Former Residents Return for Homecoming; Many : Faces Are Missed ; v- AUMSVILLE Pioneers and "'former residents of this commun ity gathered at the city park Sun day for the annual homecoming. Talks were gtyen by A. Burns. Henry Porter and Frank Speer Charles Martlr was In charge of the program. Election of officers resulted in the selection of Theo dore Highbergery president; Charles Martin, t 1 c e-presldent; Mrs. Maude Poone, secretary-treasurer. Visitors were here . from all parts of Orr--n and much of the day was given o? r to the ex change of reminlscensea among old friends. Henry Po er con ducted the memorial service1 and read the names of 50 persona who had passed away during the past year, who were at one time res idents of th' place. A basket din nei was served at the noon hour. A birthday party gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Mountain Sunday honoring' Mrs. Mountain's birthday. s Present for the occasion were Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Lowe, Corval-lis,- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moun tain, and son. Donald Mountain. Moro;. Mr. and Mrs. lO. A." Les ley, LaVerne Lesley, Janice Les ley, and Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Moun tain , Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mountain returned to their home at Moro, Sunday evening. A. Ej. Bradley is having- a coat of white paint put on his house. Harvest Festival Friday, Aumsville Three-Day Event: Will Aid Fire Equipment Funds; - City Hall Scene AtfMSVILLE Final arrange ments are being completed for the three day harvest festival to be gin here Friday. The new city, hall is being completed and placed In readiness for the throng which.. Is expected here. The pub lic is urged to support this carni val financially,- as the funds are to be used to complete payments of -fire protection equipment, of which this community is in dire need. The. showing of stereoptican slide pictures of China, set for Thursday night' at the Wesleyan Methodist church has been post poned one week until August 25. Mr. and Mrs. Springer who have been conducting a poultry ranch east oi lowu, lor u uumucr ui years, have disposed of their flock of Rhode Island Red and their Plymouth .Rock , Jiens and have traded their ! place here for a place out of Salem on the Gar den Way road. They will move in the near future.- Clarence Yoder Dies, California SILVERTON - Silverton rela tives have received word of the death of Clarence Yoder, 49, at Pasadena, Calif., Thursday morn ing. Yoder was the only son of Will Yoder who ; came to Oregon in 1889. - - - ' i Survivors Include the widow, ' Iva, five children ' in Pasadena; isters, Ada and Mary Yoder of Yoder; Mrs.' .Ernest Dudat of Portland; Mrs. Maurice Gottwald of Molalla. i Norwegian Strothing President, West o.;rfsVS-ii.-ia'co-";:: Carl J. Hambro, president Of the Xorweglan Strothing which is the native name for parliament who recently arrived in San Francisco f or short stay. When asked about how Norway feels towards things that are bothering the world today, Hambro answered: "We still believe In democracy . and we don't accept the idea, that our choice, or any nation's choice, should be between rations sets of totalitarian ideologies. Declaring that Norway and Sweden stand united, he said Norway and Sweden are the only two countries " which hate had no wars in the last 124 years no eivil wars, no revolutions and no violent upheavals of any kind. He said the , united Scandinavian lands do not believe in isolation, but in cooper ation, (hn). - ; Authorities Probe Sale of Child i fejBlseSfS"JOSeeaBejO0eeteee T K"SBV' TJjPWIYW' '. e I ! . 1 - V'. - V :i ! v ' t-"--: : i -. f ,-.yiy w V v .i.:;v,- ?' I , - - ' 4'i'f'"' ' I-- v - 1-1 t ii u Him m i an fii rr t"n : ; A confession obtained recently by deputy district attorneys of Auburn, CaL, from Mrs. Lula Creel, gave an amazing turn to the strange story of 14 year old Irene Creel Poonian, child bride of a wealthy Hin du, Paritem Poonian. The woman's story, according to officers, revealed that she and her husband are not the parents of the child bride. The confession continued that they obtained the girl through an advertisement in a newspaper and under an "arrangement" between the Creels and Poonian, the girl became the Hindu's bride at the age of 13. Investigation into the case was launched by the district at torney's office after Irene filed suit for divorce. Her complaint charged that Poonian was "extremely cruel and demanded she adopt the customs of his race Poonian filed a counter suit charging, the Creels frequently threatened to take the child away from him unless he made a financial settlement. : Photos show (at left) Mrs. Lola Creel holding the couple's half caste baby, and child bride, Irene Creel Poonian, back to camera. To right, Paritem Poonian, husband of the child, and lower right, Dalep Poonian, who was born to Irene two and a half months ago. (HX). ( George M. Bilyeu Called by Death i . J - I' Services Friday at 2 p.m. . for Native Resident There 80 Years SCIO George M. Bilyeu died late Wednesday afternoon at his home here at the age of 80 years following a six months' illness. He was born on a farm near Scio November 8, 18 5 7, and had lived here all ,hiT life. Services will be held Friday at 2 p. m. from the Scio Baptisj church with Interment at Frank lin Butte cemetery near here un der direction of W. A. -..Weddle company of Stayton. t , Survivors include the widow, Icie Bilyeu ; three sons, Byron of Florence. Ore., Pane of Leba non and Ed Bilyeu of Scio; four daughters, Mrs. Effle Small of Portland, Mrs. Ada Crume and Mrs. Roy Collins of Albany, and Mrs. George Klinge of Crabtree. A brother, Lee Bilyeu of Leba non, also survives, the only re maining member of the original family. Mr.! Bilyeu was a member of IOOF1 lodge of Scio and of the Baptist church. Egan Resumes Work EVENS" VALLEY Oral Egan who -was in for several weeks, has sufficiently recovered to re sume his employment at the Sil ver Falls mill at Silverton. Egan is employed on the night shift and drives forth and back to his, home .here. rangers news FAIRFIELD The regular meeting of Fairfield grange was held Friday night with A. L. Girod, - master, in charge. . D. B. DuRette, chairman of the legis lative committee talked on the merits of the Frazier-Lemke bill. C. E. Allenback gave an in teresting report of the valley ir rigation tour. Mrs. F.- M. Hill also told of excellent results farmers are getting from an ir rigation project ' in the : Turner district where waste water was being used. Mrs. C. E. AUenback,- lecturer, announced that a discussion of the Frazier-Lemke bill would be a feature of the. regular grange meeting in October. This part of the meeting will be open to the public, and , will begin at 9 o'clock. ' '. i ' ij: Tourist Camp at Aurora Is Leased AURORA Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Wymore of tho Top-O-The Hill tourist camp have leased the bus iness to Mr. and Mrs.- Arch Mc Kenzie of Salem. They will spend some time resting and , at the beach. Miss Hazel . Evans and Miss Hel en Evans of St. Louis, Missouri, arrived in Portland Sunday even ing, where their Bister, Mrs. W. C. Clark, held a reception for the family at her home in Portland, this was the first time the family had been together in 40 years. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Evans of Aurora, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Evans, and Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Evans of Aurora, Mrs. C. H. Hatton, Miss Edith Evans of Portland and Mr and Mrs. C. H. Clark, the hosts. The women, Mrs. C. H. Clark and Mrs. Hatton and the Misses Hazel and Helen Eavns are sisters of H. D. Evans. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Hurst have as guests Mr and Mrs" Paul Bower of Las Vegas, Calif., a brother of Mr. Hurst. Canary Travels; Service Station Temporary Home SILVERTON- Mrs. F. M. Pow ell was of. the opinion that she had lost a valuable Gluck Ger man, roller canary and Johnny Ol son believed he had found an un usually tame and attractive can ary all in the same day. The bird had been a resident of the Powell home j for some years. He was accustomed to leaving his cage and flying about the house. One day, Mrs. Powell returned from her downtown office to find the bird gone. Sometime later a canary turned up at the Olson service station. The bird was no ted to be very tame and Mr. Ol son caged It He noted it wore a tiny leg band with the number 26. Word got about that a bird had been- lost and one had been found. The Olsons and the Powells got together to . discover the " birds were the same. j : - "'- In order to reach the Olson sta tion from the Powell home.' the bird had had to fly over three blocks and Silver Creek, consid ered quite a feat for a bird which had been born to the cage. Weidaman Infant First Great-GraridcLild for t ' Sirs. Emma Robinson SILVERTON Mrs. Emma Rob inson has received announcement of her first great grandchild, born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert ; Weida in an (Marian Robinson) at Ore gon City. Dr. Guy Mount, a for mer Silvertonian, was tbe attend ing doctor for -Mrs. Weidaman. Mrs. Weidaman's birth was one of Dr. Mount's first cases. The Wei- damans live at wusonviue anq the infant has been named Linda Anne. Bride to Hindu Nature Is Wiser, Walnut Men Told Interference With SoU's Natural Condition not Profitable, Found CORVALLIS, Ang. 17-5-On an annual tour of the walnut regions of the Willamette val ley, several Lundred growers learned today that Mother Na ture can do more to maintain her soil than man can. Dr. R. E. Stephenson, of the slate college, showing growers tbe thousands of tests made on orchard soils, said that the less soil was interfered with, the bet teT the orchards would be be cause nature knew best how to maintain soil structure Culti vation to excess was listed as the worst possible treatment. Although yet inconclusive, ex perts told the growers that fer tilizer tests showed that single elements or small amounts of compound fertilizers were a waste of money on nut orchards except as they might help cover crops. C. E. Schuster, ' federal specialist, said a study of filbert buds in an effort to find the cause for blank nuts had not yet provided any conclusions. The growers were told that Oregon was the center of more fundamental research in walnut end filbert culture than any other area in the country. Silverton Hills Grange Fair Set SILVERTON HILLS The an nual Silverton Hills grange fair has been set for October 1 at the grange hall. The commit tee on arrangements will be des ignated by the home economics committee who Include .Mrs. James Bonner, Mrs. Anton Sack er and Mrs. E. S. Porter. The Silverton Hills grange is also busy planning for the state conference to be held at the hall October 5. f ' JST "WE'RE THE lOltUSOUS WHO TELEPffOMEDr' No delays. No disappointments. . Your accommodations ready and waiting. You telephoned ahead! THE PACIFIC TEIEFCOUE Telephone 3101 Hop Picking Is To Start Soon Pickers Are Plentiful at Mission Bottom, Many Are Turned Away ELDRIEDCE Hop-picking Be gan Monday in the Mission Bot tom hop . yards with Lou Eppers in charge. A good crop will be harvested in spite of weather con- di:' it is reported. r One thing growers will not have to worry about is shortage of pickers. Many have been refused work at this big yard as well as at other yards in this community. The hop crop according to farmers here will be generally short because of thte long dry sea son. Lou EDDers will slow under 20 acres of beans at the Mission Bot tom hop ranch. The crop failed due to lack of rain. Occodv New HraiM Mr. , and Mrs. Gilbert Smith have moved to their new home on the Wheatland-Ferry road. Emil uramer was in charge of Its con strnction. Pearl Patterson is busy with peach harvest. Allyn Nusom will start picking his late bops September 1. The same crew will work for A. L. Gi road, picking his crop on the Ar thur Goffin place at St. Louis. Legion Medal for Manolis Received Picnic Plans Are Talked at Post's Meeting; Park Is Scene SILVERTON George Manolis, incoming commander of the Sil verton post of the American Le gion, was presented Monday night a medal for outstanding services. Presentation was made ty Hon. Howard K. Zimmerman and award was made on a num ber of credits including the 117 members of the post. Mr. Ma nolis has also been f largely re- sponsiDie ior the success of the large Sons of Legion and the American Legion band has been one of his projects.! Also at the Monday night meeting plans were completed lor the annual American Legion picnic to be held at the private park across Silver Creek from the state park. L. A. Hall is general chairman. Manolis is in charge of refreshments and P. M. Powell Is in charge of sports. Change Is Made At the auxiliary meeting Mrs. J. A. Scarth resigned as a mem ber of the executive committee and Mrs. Otto Aim was appointed in her place. Mrs. Scarth, with her husband, will soon leave for- their new home at Mon mouth. Announcement was also made that the auxiliary trio composed of Mrs. J. J. Lewis, Mrs. W. P. Scarth and Miss Elaine Clower, will enter in the first division of the contest at the state Le gion convention opening at Pen dleton, September 1. The local trio will appear at 3:30 on the opening day. The next meeting of the aux iliary has been set for Septem ber. Mayor Bowersox Sells Residence MONMOUTH A. P. Huber, local real estate agent, reports the sale of Dr. F. R. Bowersox' home on East Main street. The Berg brothers of Minneapolis, where one is an Instructor, with their mother, have been visiting in Salem and other parts of the Willamette valley. They were looking for a location and liked Monmouth. The Bowersox home attracted them. The place will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Berg, sr., probably after October 1. Dr. Bowersox, who has opera ted a drug store here for more than 25 years, and has been prac ticing medicine here for about 20 years, will remain in Monmouth. He is citymayor, and will prob ably build a new home before long. USD TELEC2J1P3 CC"?I3T 740 SUte SU President .Tanned b , j ' 1 i !f ; - I? t - ' ' : r t '"-' ; -:: ::: . . . ? ; - ' -: v.-a ' :: '. : ' : . y President Roosevelt . Well tanned from his fishing trip in Pacific waters. President Roosevelt is shown aboard the U. S. S. Houston as he returned to Pensacola, Fla. Piper Funeral Is Scheduled Today LEBANON Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Tullis Piper, 6, who died at her home in North Lebanon August 16, in charge of the N. C. Lowe mortuary will be held at the Baptist church Thurs day at 2 p. m. with Rev. L. Crossley delivering the sermon Burial will be in a Lebanon ceme tery. She was born at Philomath, October 13,' 1872. In 1894 she was married to A. H. Plpsr at Silverton and lived for a number qf years south of Lebanon mov ing here about two years ago. j She was a member of the Leba noon Baptist church. 1 Survivors are her widower, A. H. . Piper; three sons, John, Archie and Walter; three daugh ters, Mrs. Sylvia Simons, Mrs. Edna Simons and Zelda Piper; four grandchildren. , Aid in Mint Harvest SHAW John Masser and John Nuttman left Saturday afternoon for Long view. Wash., where they will be employed on the Fry peppermint ranch for the season during distilling time. ' j SLATE ElOOFDIMIC Complete with Nails, CementF Easily a 2.75 value, but the Anniver sary price brings It to you at this substantial saving. -Oriental" qual ity the finest of Its kind made. 108 q. ft. to a roll, allowing for 2-Inch ' lap Joint. Choice of 5 .colors I 108 Square Feet 45-Lb. Roofing Aaphalt aturat d end, coated with mica. C ment. nails. ' 5S. ROLL Inexpensive black compositi.on roofing for garages, chicken houses, etc. 108 square feet with nails, : I m nJ yynJ rsrnent. 1 siiK. mm 1 ' w Newcomers Make Trip, Falls Park Paul Smiths Are Owners of Property Formerly Mrs. E. Monroe's LYONS Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Hallin, George, Charlie and Dorothy, Frank Hallin and Mr. and Mrs. " Charlie Peterson and son Bob spent Sunday at Silver Creek Falls. The Petersons are newcomers from Iron Mountain, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Brown visited at the S. D. Brown boms in Redmond. From there they went to . Castle Rock, Wash., wbera they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Den Brotherton. Mrs. Brotherton is a daughter of the Browns. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith have purchased the property belong ing to Mrs. Effie Mjonroe and will move as soon as possible. Miss Irene Winser is the new r rT.T-r: icon's Mil U i iBGEST-f lUE 1U- WHO receives savings from Oregon Mutual fire protection? Sinct its organisation in 2894, this tomf-ony has paid " dividends to policyholders or has mads a saving in the cost of their firs insurance equivalent to 207 23. WHO owns tbe Oregon Motaal Fire Insurance Company? This company is owned by its policyholders. Over 100 000 -composed of individuals, firms and corporations who own residences, business Property, mercantile stocks, auto mobiles and other personal propertyand there are no stockholders i Oregon Mutual Fire Insurance Company. WHY have policyholders of this cnrtul company been benefited? Because the Oregon Mutual carefully selects and inspects all fire risks thus reducing the fire losses to a minimum. WHY do over 0& renew their policies? Because all policyholders receive a non-assessxble policy and own the company. Each has a pro rata interest in its resources of approximately SljOOfiOOjOO. These resources consist mostly of Cash, If. S. Government, State, County, School District and City Bonds. Six months and Yearly Comparison St&stantiatinf These Statements Six Months Comparison .Yearly Comparison N" fSVSiMm FlrSt 61Month . Istsrssct is lores Ucrsess 1 2 193S lcreeMlo , .... UcaM. First 6 Month. "" .... 1938 Decree 16 N Surplus . . . Increase 15 "In a slock company the stockholders get the dhidends and profits. I n Oregon Mutual Fire you, as a policyholder, rece'tvt the benefits in savings of dividends. Local Agents - STANDLEY & FOLEY Ladd & Bush Bldg., Salem' - Phone 5876 mmni' sU jat inii OBeautify, Protect Your Home with Quality Roofing, Moderately Priced 03 CD CD D 53 CB ISpllr .i. ' " Reduce Fire Risk! Hex. Shingles 90 A roof to Uat lifetime I Choice J f S colors. Aak for free estimate SQUARB if i;i 4&i STATE bookkeeper of the Hallin Lumber company. The Lyons Ep worth League had charge of the Sunday night services held at the Chamberlln bean yard at West Stayton. Attend Reunion Mrs. Roy Huber and son Don ate and daughter MUs Maxlne Huber attended the McDonald reunion at Greens Bridge Sunday. Earl Allen and Dale Bassett visited the huckleberry patch Sunday returning with about 7 gallons. Mr. and Mrs. William Terrell ot Albany were Sunday guests at the home of Mrs. Alice Cul tane. The two ladies are sis ters. Mr. Culhane returned home with them for a short visit snd from there she will go to Portland where she will vtl relatives. Minnesotans Visit BETHANY Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Fawcett of Stewartville, Minn., are bouse guests of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ellinggworth who are living on the place formerly occupied by the William Gatchet family. .wiMeE-iowwi WF i im r n