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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1950)
THE VALLEY NEWS COLUMNS w. : .. :.,-,.;-,, , From The Oregon Statesman's Valley Correspondents urcliesPan licnt Services 'At Silverton ItelwH News Sarrlee SILVERTON Special service! In numerous Silverton churches 'are being planned for the Lenten gt ason which opens ' on Wednes- 'day. St Paul's Catholic church will open its services Wednesday morn ing at the 830 mass with distri bution of ashes. . Lenten services will then be conducted each Wed nesday and Friday nights of the 40-day observance period at 7:45 -o'clock. Special observance will Include special prayers for world peace in keeping with the Holy Year observance. Father John Walsh will be in charge of the local services. ; Special observance of Lenten Reason will be ushered in by the three local Lutheran churches Sunday with tentative plans set Jor week-night services next week. 3Rev. S. L. Almlie and Rev. Joseph Xuthro both state that tentatively She plans call for Thursday night .services, March 2. Rev. Almlie tgoes to Canby Wednesday night to '.open Lenten services in the Canby liitheran church. Calvary church lias not announced plans. The Rev. Gordon T. Bratvold, ."pastor of the Missionary-Alliance church, reports that the local mem bers win attend a youth rally in Albany Wednesday night. On Fri day, two cottage prayer services will be observed, at the C O. Wor ley home at 611 Jefferson st at pjn. and at the Harvey Hallet ,Wne at 310 Brooks sL at 7:30 'clock that night Starting next ,weelc, 730 oclock, Lenten services wilK" be held each Wednesday night at-the Missionary Alliance church. .Regular weekly Lenten services .are not planned for the First Chris tian or the Methodist churches but ome special days, to be announced plater, will be observed with special services during the season, the Rev. Arthur Charles Bates and the Rev. Ben F. Browning have announced. f Cougar Shot Near Detroit ' Sttm New Scnrtra., . DETROIT Walt and Carl Ball hot another cougar last week4? ,the area north of the North San tiam river between the Big Cliff ,Oam and the Detroit damsitesT" It was the largest they have killed jtbis year measuring almost eight Jeet long and weighing about 150 'pounds. , Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dryden .moved to Bend this week where .he has employment with James Healy. 3 , Mr. and Mrs. Orville Nygaard .left Friday for San Francisco, . Calif. They will bring her mother to Oregon for a visit. Valley Briefs 10 am. with a no-host luncheon at noon. The day will be spent in local service work. Mrs. Carl Specht is, service chairman with Mrs. George Kirk as her assistant. Statesataa Ww Mrrka Sheridan The Get-Together 1 club met last week with Rosaleel MAKING IT IIAXD SYDNEY, Australia -WV Three spinsters, anxious to improve their ' front lawn, helped themselves to 'some material dumped outside for road repairs and top dressed fcthe lawn , with it . The result , ahould be interesting. The top dressing used was a three-in-one and -cement mixture. j Valley i Obituaries , IUUibu Ntws Service Dm Syren Cenner SHERIDAN Zine Syron Con fer78, died at her home in Cor--jpallis early Sunday morning, Feb jruary 17. following a long illness. , Mrs. .Conner was born Sept 24, .'1871, on her mother's donation Uand claim in Polk county. She vwas the last surviving member of the large pioneer family of John T. Syron who came to Oregon in 1S52. r She was married to George W. . Conner Dec. 5, 1894, in Polk coun ty, where they settled on a farm j until moving to Corvaiiis in 1918. She was a member of the Baptist church. Survivors include her. husband t George W. Conner two sons, Don kald Conner of Aberdeen, Wash., Tnd Lt. Colonel Karl Conner of 'Ft Leavenworth, Kan.; three daughters, Mrs. David Harmon of j .Stockton, Calif.; Mrs. Rita Calhour t'of Portland and Mrs. Lois Chris tian of Corvaiiis; eleven grand children and one great grandson. , , Funeral services were held Wed 4 rtesday morning at the Mayflower rchapl in Corvaiiis under the di j recti on of the DeMoss-Youngblood j Funeral home. Rev. E. B. Hart of Xidated. Interment was in Pleas--ant Hill cemetery. Peterson and Valentine gifts were exchanged. Neva Jovick was in itiated into the club. The next meeting will be February 24 with Adariene Tyner. HaresvUle Jeanette and Rob ert Saucy, children of Mr. and Mrs. Marc Saucy of 2355 Claxter rd are listed on the first semester honor roll at George Fox college at Newberg where they both are freshmen. Both are graduates of Salem high school. Bethel Job's Daughters met last week at the Masonic temple and Ann Berger, Sandra Larson, Barbara Swegart, Charlene Woods and Shirley Crothers were initia ted. Edna Manning and Marilyn Waters were elected delegates to the rrand session to be held- in Coquille April 13 to 15. Sheridaa Possibility of a new post office building here is being probed by the Sheridan Chamber of Commerce. Lease on the pres ent building is due to expire next year and the chamber has ap pointed a committee to investigate rumors that a new post oiiice will be constructed. WWamlna Veterans of For eign Wars, post 4211, will hold a dedication ceremony in their new memorial building March 4. Plas tering of the building was com pleted this week and floors are expected to be ready soon. Sheridaa William D. Browne, chief of Portland city detectives and head of the American Legion's state Americanism committee, will speak at the Legion hall here Feb ruary 27 at 8 pjn. He is sponsor ed by the American Legion auxil iary, Sheridan unit The program is to be open to the public. Sweet Hmm A total of $100 was raised here last week by the local Nazarene church at a vocal and instrumental concert given by the Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Boggans. The contribution is to be used for the establishment of church for negroes in Portland. WUlamlaa A variety show for the Willamina Parent-Teachers association dishwasher fund will take place March 10 at the high school auditorium. The show will include stunts by the speech class and musical numbers. . Sheridaa Wendell Heath, who has been employed at the Central Pharmacy in McMinnville for the past four years, has taken over the duties of Earl Hearing at the Sheridan Drug Co. Lablsh Center The Home Economics club will meet Febru ary 22 at the home of Mrs. Harry Boehm at 2 pan. Sheridaa The local Eagles lodge has announced it will spon sor a series of teen-age dances starting Saturday night, February 25. Keiser - Gary Messing, Eagle Boy Scout of Keizer troop 41, was chosen as scout of the month by the Salem I OOF lodge, last week. He was awarded a certificate in the presence of his scout master, Otto Tunker. Willamina Circle 2 met . with Lydia Thompson last week for the blue-plate luncheon. Silverton A missionary work day will be held at the First Christian church today starting at Albany Gufflermb Martinez, 23, of 132 W. 4th stwas fined $250 and given a 50-day Jail sen tence on a charge of being a peep ing Tom, last week, by City Judge Edwin Fartmiller. Martinez ail. mitted to having' peeped into at least loo residences since coming here last April. TJalaa Bui The Union Hill home extension unit meetinc slated for today, has been postponed. Macleay Members of Mac- leay grange attending Pomona last week included Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jones, Mr. and "Mrs. Clarence Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bateson, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mar tin, Mrs. Ed Powers and Mrs. Don Wilson. Independence Earl B. Tavlnr navy seaman apprentice. Is en- route to me east coast via the Panama canal, where the attack transport USS Noble, ah whb-h h is serving, win take part in the loruicoming large-scale. Joint army-navy maneuvers in the At- 1 ianuc Silverton Roeer H. Seed. IUTT airman apprentice, was recently graduated from the aviation Ual mechanic rhrwl at tha t.o.r.1 air technical training center at aaempnu. renn accordin in a navy press release. He enlisted last April is. Sana raid yA trm. a-i - - . . nii- CUltural flllh will mu it.. Sunnyside school Tuesday, Febru ary 'x, wnen a movie on food pres- vauuu wiu dv presented. Sanarslde Flnvrf RSHr.i was seriously 111 several weeks ago, has returned to th hnmit.i for additional treatment Mr. and airs, uaie Grimm recently moved into their new hnm . Mrs. Grimm Is the daughter oi anq mrg. a Drager. HO? BUY! Ilolorola Anlo Radio j Save Up lo $25 Qiurcli Group To Aid in Local Charity News Sarrlca SILVERTON Local assistance will be one of the projects for the coming year of the Immanuel Women's Missionary federation. The group met last week in the Fireside room of the parish house to discuss projects, including that of charity. The group voted to bring dona tions of food, clothing and money each month to be turned over to Mrs. Tom Anderson to be used locally. A committee composed of Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Harold Saterri and Mrs. Stanley Swanson was namea to consider the purchase of a rug for the church chancel. During the program hour, the Rev. S. L. Almlie was in charge of devotions and the topic study was directed by Mrs. Clarence Halvorson, with a paper on Christ ian nurture, prepared by Mrs. R. J. VanCleave. presented by Mrs. FJser Aarhus. Announcement was made that the next meeting would be held March 16 in the afternoon. Thurs day night hostesses were Mrs. Erik Faaberg, Mrs. Chester Bjorke, Mrs. Clarence Sundet and Mrs. H. N. Omholt Robert Adams, and Jerry Johnson; wolf silver arrow. Jack Ruther ford, Robert Adams. John Sanford and Peter Gosso; wolf gold arrow. Jack Rutherford and Robert Adams; bear. Craig Clark, ir year pins, Peter Gosso, Allen Ren back, Fred Grant and John Sanford. Receiving den mothers pins were Mrs. Robert Adams, Mrs. Ted Rutherford, Mrs. Howard Fields and Mrs. Florence Males. Silverton Cubs Hold Dinner at Pack Meeting Statctmaa Naws Strvica SILVERTON A no-host din ner was given to Cub Scouts and parents of pack 52 at the Metho dist church Friday night as a fea ture of the monthly pack meeting. Craig Clark, cub master, was in charge of the evening's enter tainment which included black faced skits and songs presented by den 3, whose members also made blue and gold paper hats for .the entire group. Den 1 members made the place cards and candle holders, and den 2 members were responsible for further decorations. John Klapp. scout executive. presented the awards, including scarf and slide: Donovan Grogan, Lee Foster and Michael Hannan; bobcat Donovan Grogan, Lee Foster, Michael Hannan and Der rold Hopkins; wolf. Tommy Skaife, FEWER RIDERS CHICAGO. (INS) Fewer people are riding city transit lines, according to the International City Managers' association. Statistics compiled by the American Transit association show that last year's passenger traffic on the nation's Brooks Home Burns Down 8tatemaa Newt Service BROOKS Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Wadley, Brooks route 1, and fam ily, lost nearly all their possessions when their home burned to the ground Saturday night Only a few possessions were saved from the blaze which broke out in the early evening. The streetcars, trolly coaches, buses and subways was off 11 per cent from 1948. The Stat man, Salem. Oregon, Tuesday, February 11, 13507 house was located about three miles east of Brooks. Brooks fire department respond ed to the call but the flames, of undetermined origin, had gained too much headway. The Wadleys have two young children, a daugh ter, Esther, and a son, Glenn. No one was injured. The family is staying with relatives. Leasing Part of Legion Post Now Considered atatesamaa Mews tardea SILVERTON Selling or leas ing one-half interest in Legion hall to Veterans of Foreign Wars, poo 3004, is under consideration and has been discussed by the Ameri can Legion, Delbert Reeves post T Members at the recent Legion meeting favored leasing, rather than selling the building. An old time fiddlers' contest la to be sponsored by the post soon with Roy Davenport named aa chairman of plans. Past com ma riders' night has been announ ced for March 27, with T. P. HHd enstrom, Pat Grogan and E. 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