Vacation Bible
School Closes
Most Successful, Is
Verdict; Attendance
Average Is 276
DALLAS The daily vacation
Bible school closed Friday with
m program in the high school au
ditorium. This was considered' the
most successful school of its kind
ever held in . Dallas. The largest
- daily attendance was 310 and the
average attendance 278. Rev.
Charles Dale was the advisor and
, Waldo Wall the principal. .
- Enrollment of the beginner's
department was 63. Mrs. Ben
Fast, superintendant was assisted
.in Group I by Mrs. Oswald John
son and Mrs. John Edigar; Group
II by Mrs. Sal Warkentine and
Mrs. H. D. Wiebe and Group III
by Mrs. John Friesen and Mrs.
Adolp Hildebrand. The course of
study covered memory work,
bible stories and handiwork. Each
child was presented a gift at the
program. . - .
Enrollment of the primary de
partment was 105. Mrs. August
Edigar, superintendant, was as
sisted by Miss Sarah Dick and
Miss Irene Classen In room I;
Helen Kliever and Augusta Fast
In room II; Mrs. Ben Bese and
Mrs. Connie room HI and Mrs.
Baize t and Miss I Leona Peters,
'room TV. The memo r y - work,
handiwork and bible stories were
graded by the point system. Pri
zes were awarded for outstand
ing work. ;
Enrollment of the junior de
partment was 75. Mrs. Sol Edigar,
superintendent had as helpers
.Pauline ' Friesen d Elizabeth
Friesen in room' I;" Miss Evelyn
Lins heid and Miss Ruth Rickart,
roo II; Mrs. Pete Edigar, Miss
Anna Fast and Miss Linda Edigar
room IIL Bible stories from the
Old Testament; handiwork from
the New Testament; and memory
versus were the course of study.
" One of the interesting things in
handiwork was the making of a
. xninature bookcase containing the
books of the bible. Prizes for out
standing work were awarded.
The intermediate and senior de-
partments with a membership of
30 were in charge of Mrs. John
' Hiebert. Rev, and Mrs. Hiebert
are returned missionaries from
Africa. -Rev. ; Hiebert gave mis
, sionary talks and showed curios
from his field. . Prizes for out
standing work were awarded. ;
The adult class 'taught by Rev.
W. A. Backer was well attended.
The ministerial association who
sponsored the school hope to be
able to enlarge upon it the next
year by having classes for the
high school students.
Waldo Hills Folk:
Return to Homesj
' After Visits
WALDO HILLS Mrs. R. H.
Bye, Mrs. Hattie Stay and Miss
Olive Ottaway arrived home this
: week after visiting for a few days
with Miss Ottaway's sister, Mrs.
Bliss Jones, at Aberdeen, Wash.
The final meeting ml - this '
spring for the Willard Woman's
club will be held Thursday at
the borne of Mrs. Theodore
Riches. Mrs. Miles Ottaway win
be 'the assisting hostess. A no
host luncheon will be served at
noon. Mrs.; Dan HUlmsn Is the .
president.
Mrs. E. A. Finlay and son, Clair
and David, and Mrs. Frank A,
Moore, have returned from a visit
at Condon, in eastern Oregon.
Mrs. Frank Wray of Portland Is
a house guest this week of Miss
. Minnie Mascher.
Amity Property
Sold to Man
From Washington
AMITY W. J. Udell, : who
: bought the residence on Getchell
street owned by the late J. Ruble,
moved to his new. home and last
week sold his ' former home on
; North Trade street to Glenwood
O. Moore of Seattle, Wash.
. Mr. and Mrs. E..A. Kirts and
: daughter, Miss Lois, have moved
. to Amity and are settled now in
v the house on Church street known
as the Homer Morgan property.
; Kirts sold his farm at Bellevue to
John Duerst of that community. -Mr.
and Mrs. G. Colgan of In-
" dependence have rented the place
on Jellison street owned by May
; Dickey-Keller. . They moved to
Amity last week.
Jiggs Burnett
To Coach
At "Woodburn
grLVESTON Gerall "Jlgrs"
Burnett, who has beea eoaeh at
the snverton high school for the
past two years, has resigned to
accept similar position la the
, IToodburn fclsh school. Ee goes
to tYooSbura at a X1SS Increase
In his yearly jsalary. ; v- .'v:--'--
Mr. Burnett plans to spend the
summer at Ellvertea and wCI
report at TFoodbura on Septem
ber 1.
Valloy Zhlliz
t Mrs. Oran Lowery have an
nounced the : recent birth of a
daughter. They have three sons
besides the daughter. The Low
erys lived to this community for
some time until they moved to
CalircrrJa about a year ago.
'MM - Willamette; Valley ; :New
Reports From
By MRS. BEULAH CRAVEN
MONMOUTH Miss Cora Smith
who observed her 80th birthday
this spring; has spaded her own
garden, planted it, and is now con
templating her ' victory harvest.
Making garden is nothing new for
her. She's been doing it all her
life, as a fresh-air reaction to her
indoor job of dressmaking which
she followed for nearly 40 years
in Missouri. . .
Chorea Idella Smith . was born
April 21, 1883, at Breckenridge,
Mt Her father was a rebel sym
pathizer,! who helped many refu
gees to escape, and for which his
life was constantly in danger from
Union firing squads. Born during
the Civil . yar, Miss Smith was
brought up with many of the "Old
South" conventional traditions as
he birthright.
Her people came to Oregon In
1889, buying a farm near Rickre-
all. Her sister, Loretta, had come
to Oregon a year . earlier . and
taught school at Woodburn. The
next year she came to Monmouth
to teach, and was joined by her
sister, Cora. Cora and a third sis
ter, Ova, opened a dressmaking
shop on South Monmouth avenue.
There were two other sisters, and
an eventually made their home in
the big house where Miss Cora
still resides. ;"-
Huge fir and cedar trees, with
walnut and maple and holly, sur
round the home, and each of them
was hand-planted by family mem
bers. ; In 1941 she harvested the
first crop of hickory nuts from a
tree planted 40 years earlier. They
had brought the nuts from her
grandmother's home in Missouri
in 1901,; while on a visit there.
: A thick holly hedge, 20 or more
feet high, has grown from a holly
bouquet which her sister Loretta
brought home on Christmas from
Newport. Cora planted the berries
and got a crop of 60 tiny trees. She
has a knack of making things
grow, and flowers bloom profusely
in her large yard. They are not,
however, in riotous profusion. She
keeps the shrubs and bushes well
pruned and trimmed, so that ev
ery growing thing presents an or
derly, neat apearance. Along the
north wall grows a group of small
persimmon trees, trained Into es
palier style. The persimmons are
seedlings ; from " tall, older , trees,
the seeds of which came from the
old Missouri ' homestead. : Her
patch of shamrock was started
from one that came direct from
Ireland.' j
In one season, she and her
sister. Ova, made 29 graduation
dresses. She has a quilt made
of wool blocks, each represent
ing a dress made in her sewing
days and some of the mater
ial waa so popular that several
women ordered dresses from the
same piece. Names of the dress
owners are embroidered on the
material. -
She made a great many wedding
dresses in her day, many of them
with elaborate lace trim, a few
with trains, and often she made
the long starched petticoats which
were so necessary to the good ap
pearance of the dresses of that
time. She recalls one amusing sto
ry of a certain dress made for a
young woman's wedding. The fi
ance came after the dress and
paid Miss Smith for her work,
stating that he was the girl's bro
ther, i : . A - ... ' .. .
Yean later she, met the couple,
and learned that the "brother"
WSCS Meets; Men
Repair Chureh
AMITY The Woman's' Socierr
of Christian Service met Wednes
day in the parlors of the Metho
dist church with Mrs. J. L. Mc-
enney In charge of the opening
devotions.. After, a short prayer
service, the regular business meet
ing was held followed by a social
hour, j - ' - '.
Hostesses, Mrs. A. R. Glandon,
Mrs. J. ,D. Woodman and Mrs.
David Smith, served refreshments
to 15 members and guests.
Monday night men of the church
gathered to prune shrubbery and
do repair , work on the church
building. Refreshments were
served at the close. .
Schmiedecke Returns
To Bethany Farm
After Accident
BETHANY Charles Schmie
decke and wife and daughter,
have returned to. their home here
from Los Angeles where they
have lived for some time. Mr.
Schmiedecke was hydraulic In
spector for Bendie corporation in
Los Angeles but was injured
when a car fell on him. They are
living now on their old farm here
which ' the C Kniess family has
been occupying. Mr. Kniess re
cently purchased the Amos Cor
house home and is living there.
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your plates haMi them firmer so they
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cooling to gums made -sore by excea
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caused bjr loose platea. Get FASTETH
today at any drug store.
The Statesman's Community Correspondents
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, June 15, 1943
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was in reality, the husband-elect.
He admitted to her that he had
faced the hardest problem of his
life up to that moment when
he came after the; dress and felt
it necessary, for form's sake, to
declare himself the girl's brother.
Miss Smith has a curio room
full of interesting objects, mostly
the property of her family mem
bers, to which she became heir.
All of her sisters and her parents
are deceased. She believes her own
longevity stems from her matern
al . grandmother's exceptionally
long lifetime of healthful activi
ty. The grandmother lived to be
within three months of 100 years.
Among the many ia teres ting
things she has saved, are her
ancle's shotgun which guarded
the family In crossing the plains
to Oregon. The oldest dish she
possesses is a cream pitcher of
eld blue ware which was a wed
ding gift to her grandmother la
Pennsylvania more than 125 .
" years ago, f f
1 She has her grandmother's mon
ey purse, carved out of wood in the
shape of a little book. It has two
compartments, one for gold and
one for lesser coins. One summer
the purse disappeared, and the
grandmother , feared it ; had been
stolen.' All her gold savings were
in the purse." When snow fell, she
got out a pair of high, old over
shoes that had been stored away
through the summer, and there
was the purse inside one of them.
She . then recalled hiding it there,
for-safekeeping. " 1 . - f : .t :V-
Another interesting object is a
tiny grease lamp, used at the fire
place before - the day of coal oil
lamps. The lamp is less than three
inches, made, of malleable Iron,
like a tiny skillet, with a movable
cover and a handle about four in
ches high. Grease of any sort was
put in the lamp and a cotton rag
inserted as a wick. This was light
ed, and the lamp was fastened to
the fireplace stones or : brick, by
means of a wire attached to the
upright "handle" of metal,: which
Is about four inches talL
; She has a handmade wooden
shuttle for weaving. She recently
sold her small spinning wheel, to
the Chase family at Albany, and
spent a week with them showing
them how to spin and card wooL
She still has a large wheel. As a
young girl, she says, they spun;
carded and wove all their clothing
during the lean days of the Civil
war. She learned to sew because
their mother said she would pro
vide all the cloth they would make
up. - . .
She -has a collection of . old
pipe Including one from Eag-
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Miss Cora Smith
land; aa Xadlaa peace pipe; and
her father's aid meerschaum.
Some ancient brass flngerbewls
- came from England. There la aa
eld pair of handmade scissors,
which have sheared sheep as
well as -serving far household
uses. She has the old rectaaga
lar razor hone her father used,
together ' with his razor orna
mentd with a ship picture, and
her 'grandfather's shaving mir
ror, all of which were in
- before the Civil war. '
She still has the first spade the
family bought on coming to- Ore
gon, and used it until a few years
ago. The needle her mother last
sewed with - rests in a spool of
white cotton thread wound on a
black spool. It is a needle with a
"split" eye, which means that the
thread was inserted through a
split at the eye's end.
Another curio . is a picture
"throw" made from flax. The flax
was grown, retted and spun into
thread by her mother's family, the
Batemans of Pennsylvania. The
thread was given to her sister,
Loretta, who crocheted it into a
delicate, intricate pattern of lace.
She has the slate -she used at
school in Missouri, and had only a
pencil stub until recently a drug-
gut gave her two slate pencils such
as were in use 40 to 50 years ago.
In her collection are nine lamps
and three coffee mills one is the
old style sort that is fastened to
the wall old wooden smoothing
planes and jack planes; a cherry
wood dresser with hand carved
"pulls", in perfect condition which
was brought across the' plains; old
buggy whips; an old pewter cream
and sugar set; a candle mold; and
a bullet mold. ' -
She has a trunkful of homemade
quilts, and two handmade bed
spreads which she values highly.
Among old books are her father's
copy of Baxter's "Saint's Rest" and
"Persuasive to Early Piety." r
She lis related by marriage te
the family ef George Washing -
ton. Her " aunt married Jeaa
Washington, whose great-grandfather
was the alder , brother of
Gen. Washington. From this an
ion are many relatives of hers,
all bearing the name of Wash
ington, and whose names are
registered at Washington, DC,
as belonging to the famous fam
ily. A cousin, Cora Washington,
' bow . Irving In Arizona, was
.named for Miss Smith.'
Miss Smith does all of her own
work, goes to church and helps
quilt at the Ladies Aid, can walk
a mile with ease, still makes her
own clothes and gathers her wal
nut cm in f?U. . - -
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Service Men's
Center 9 Plan
DALLAS The Gail hotel an
nex'is being prepared to house
the "Christian Service Men's cen
ter, a new venture that Is being
sponsored by the local churches.
Fred Marshall, a Portland bus!
ness man, was in Dallas to assist
in getting the project started.
The purpose of the center win
be to provide refreshments,
wholesome recreation, a reading
room and a wash room for the
many soldiers , who come to Dal
las over the weekends. The pro
ject will be financed by the
churches with such aid as in
terested persons wish to give.
Committees have been selected to
formulate a program. -
Mill Accident
Proves Fatal
LEBANON Hilton Basil Lloyd,
42, died at the Lebanon hospital
Saturday afternoon a few hours
after having been struck by a
timber- which was ' being sawed
into boards in the Santiam Lum
ber company mill in Sweet Home.
' Lloyd had but recently been
discharged from the army be
cause of being over age. He was
born in Marysvflle, Washington,
November 22, 1903, but had lived
in Oregon since age four, most of
the time in the Holley neighbor
hood. He is survived by his
mother, Mrs. ' Edith Philpot and
by one brother, Thomas, in Hol
ley, and by two sisters, Mrs.
Wilma Crockett in Sweet Home
and Mrs. George Heeter in Holley.
; Final rites were; read at the
Howe Funeral Home chapel in
Sweet Home, Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock with interment in
Union cemetery.
Church Lists .
Guest Speakers
AMITY Dr. HaH and daughter
of McMinnville were guest speak
ers at the Amity Methodist church
Sunday morning. Dr. Hall is noted
not only for bis speaking, but for
his recitations of James WMtcomb
Riley poems while Miss Hall is a
singer. . .. ,
Rev. Gerald E. Gillespie of He
lix was . the guest -speaker at the
Amity Baptist : church Sunday.
The Sunday night union, service
was held there also. ' -,
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TJore Than CO Attend,
Some From Distamv
Northwest Points
MT. ANGEL The annual lay-
women's retreat at Mt Angel nor
mal andiacademy closed Sunday
noon with solemn benediction fol
lowed by dinner in the school re
fectory for the more than SO wom
en who attended.
No conference was held Sunday
morning as the retreat master.
Rev. Damian Jentges, was called
away Saturday night by the sud
den death of his mother la Idaho.
The retreat began Thursday night
and continued through Friday,
Saturday and ended with general
communion, high mass and bene
diction Sunday morning. .
Most of the women registered
were from point in Washington
and Oregon Though a few other
states were represented., ;
Father Damian who Is rector of
the Benedictine seminary at ML
Angel,, is well known throughout
the northwest for his retreats and
missions.
Grandson Visits
At Klampe Home
LABISH CENTER Lee De-
Vries, son of the Rudy DeVries' of
Pratum, spent several days last
week at the home of big grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F.
Klampe. . ; .. Vv "". '?" s,:.
On Sunday afternoon Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Aker and Jim Leedy
attended the wedding rehearsal of
Miss Natalie Neer and Kenneth
Smith ' at the Congregational
church in Salem. The rehearsal
was followed by a dinner party.
Visiting at the Nathan Kurth
home for several days last week
was Mrs. Kurth's sister, Mrs. Er
nest Nichols, Mary Ann and Dick
of Portland.
Sunday dinner guests at the
home of 'Mr. and Mrs. Knowles
Tontz were ' the Clyde Boehm's
and Carol of Salem.
Leaves Hospital
LEBANON Mrs. Samuel
Keebler of Salem, route 3, who
has been in the Lebanon hospital
for surgical care was able Satur
day to go to the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. R. C Burkhart where she
will stay while convalescing. ,
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Hearing Tests
Administered,
Pollt Schools
. LINCOLN A total of 2313 pu
pUs in 34 Polk county schools
were given hearing tests in April,
according to Miss Gertrude Lee,
supervising nurse of Polk county
health department. A total of 527
were retested on the phonograph
audiometer and 183 on the pure
tone audiometer, making - a total
of 3023 tests administered by Miss
Rebecca . Overs treet, audiometrist,
and Dr. Warren H. Gardner, con
sultant in hearing and vision, both
from the staff of the state board
of health. The percentage of defi
ciency was 4.3 per cent making 89
pupils deficient in hearing. This
compares favorably with the state
average of 4 JS per cent found in
other, counties and 4.4 per cent re
cently . discovered In the Benton
county schools. '
An interesting result of the sur
vey was a re test of the Dallas
school children who ' were defi
cient in last year's test. , Eighty
per cent of the children went to
physicians and two-thirds of them
recovered normal hearing as a re
sult of the treatment.
-Parents of deficient children
were invited to the school build
ings, where they received infor
mation concerning the details of
the hearing losses of their chil
dren. After conferences with Dr.
Gardner the parents were Inter
viewed by Miss Barbara Dyke and
Miss Margaret Gillis, public health
nurses of the Polk county depart
ment of health. It was explained
to the parents that the chances
are good for the children to re
cover "normal' hearing provided
they receive medical attention at
once. Experiences of such success
at Dallas were given to the par
ents as proof of this claim. How
ever, parents were cautioned that
some of the children who had had
ear troubles since the first years
of their lives had less chance of
obtaining normal hearing, even
with medical treatment Only 45
of the 82 parents who were Invit
ed came to the school house. This
number was small because of the
present lack of transportation, as
ordinarily about 80 per cent of
the parents come. The parents
who did not come to the school
house will be visited in the next
few weeks by the public health
nurses. ,
Principals of the different
schools will receive Instructions
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Roses Predominate in
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WEST SALEM The Kingwood
Garden club exhibited a beautiful
collection of West Salem's most
choice flowers at the flower show
in Salem Saturday and Sunday,
Roses, which are just in their
prime, were most conspicuous in
the arrangement; lupine, colum
bine and late iris added their bril
liant color blended in with many
other floral products of the West
Salem gardens.
Donald Kuhn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Kuhn of Plaza street.
Is visiting during his school vaca
tion with his grandfather and
grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. IL F.
Deyoe of Dayton.
Joy RandaU of 1590 North Cap
itol street and Andrew Lb Damond
of 1633 Waller street, Salem, each
posted $5 bail for violating the ba
sic rule, and Herman Burtko of
Amity posted $1 bail for improper
parking, in West Salem municipal
court.
Farmers Union
News -
LIBERTY The Liberty Farm
ers Union will meet tonight at S
o'clock In the haO, The commit
tee which has been investigating
possibilities of cooperative butch
ering will report. Crop reports
and Information about the nation
al organization wfll be given also.
Everyone interested is invited to
attend. ;
Washington Residents
Guests at Hendersons
AMITY Mr. and Mrs., Orvflle
Henderson and young grandson,
Davie Fails, of Seattle, Wash.
were weekend guests at the home
of Orvflle Henderson's father, M.
T. Henderson, on Trade street.
Young Henderson is a former Am
ty resident
from the health department re
garding the hearing problems of
their respective children. Recom
mendations will be offered con
cerning special seating, coaching
in weak subjects, speech correc
tion, lip reading,1 etc Hearing tests
will be given next year to the
children who were found deficient
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