OREGON STATE NEWS
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Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Our Readers
T H K M A R K ETS
Portland
W heat — Big Bend bluestem. hard
wheat, 62c; soft w hite and western
white, 64 H e ; hard winter, north
ern spring and western red, SI He.
H ay— Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakim a, $15.00.
Butterfat— 14 © 15c.
Eggs— Ranch, 15 & 16 c.
Cattle— Steers, good, $5.60 © 5.85.
Hogs— Good to choice, $3.50 © 4.35.
Lambs— Good to choice, $5 25 ©
S.65.
S E A T T l.K
Faced with a warrant indebtedness
of $203,000 and with tax delinquen
cies running about 30 per cent the
Salem school board is considering a
general salary reduction of 5 per cent
for all employes receiving under
$1000 a year, and 10 per cent for
those receiving in excess of that
amount. A saving of $30,000 a year
would be effected.
Postal, state and county officers
are searching for the person who
mailed a letter to Mrs. Leland Aus
tin, school director of St. Helens
school, and wife of a prominent
merchant, demanding $2000 to pre
vent kidnaping or killin g of the two
young daughters of the couple.
John Svensen, Tom Johnson and
W heat — Soft w hite and western
white, 5 4 H e ; hard winter, western Arne Johnson, well-known Astoria
red and northern spring, 54 H e ; fishermen, have been appointed to
k ill seals In the Columbia river un
bluestem, 61 H e.
der a new plan of the state fish com
B u tterfat— 17c.
mission to take the place of the
Eggs— Ranch, 1 ( © 17c.
bounty system. The men w ill be paid
Hogs— Good to choice, $3.90 © 4.16. for the time they work.
Cattle— Choice steers, $5.25 © 6.75. ;
E. J. Willoughby, one of the W il
Sheep— Spring lambs, $4.75 © 6.25.
lamette valley's oldest pioneers, is
dead at his home near Coburg. Lane
Spokane
county. He came to Oregon with his
Cattle— Steers, good. $5.00 © 5.60. parents In 1852. when he was 4
Hogs— Good to choice, $3.85 © 4.00. years old. The remaining 80 years
Lambs— Medium to good, $4.75 © of his life were passed on the W il
6.25.
loughby land claim.
Commented upon as one of the
most successful co-operative cafeteri
as in Oregon, the public school ven
ture at Lafayette is now in its fifth
month of operation. Every student
takes turn in bringing from home
vegetables, fru it or meat, and these
are cooked at the schoolhouse under
the supervision of one of the teachers
by students. Every pupil has hot
lunches.
Three hundred men, former em
ployes of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber
company, w ill be put back to work
about A pril 10, R. R. McCartney,
superintendent, announced. Seasonal
activity is the reason given for the
opening. About 175 men were put to
work by the Big Lakes Box company
when it started operations Monday.
The Redhead Round-up. T aft’s an
nual festival, is to be held August
13 this year. Buttons advertising
the event have already appeared and
inquiries are arriving from eutslde
points, according to M. F. Robison,
originator and president. A letter has
come from British Columbia indicat
ing at least one entry from Canada.
Sodium chlorate weed k ille r used
by W. B. Allen of the Oak Grove
section on Canada thistle patches,
caused the death of 21 head of his
sheep, all ewes w ith lambs.
The
chemical was lumpy and Mr. Allen
had not taken time to break up the
lumps.
F ifty pocket knives, part of the
loot stolen from a Crabtree store, in
Linn county, have been found under
a tree on the Arch Lettenmeier farm ,
south of Scio. W ith the knives were
several pipes and a quantity of cigar
ette papers. The knives were badly
rusted and of no value.
Governor M eier’s veto of the sen
ate b ill transferring the cost of car
ing for non-violent insane patients
from the counties to the state w ill
cost Washington county approxi
mately $12,000 during the next two
years, based on the experience of
the past year.
A 10 per cent dividend, totaling
about $7000, has been made to sav
ings depositors In the Bank of South
western Oregon, at Marshfield. This
brings the total of dividends on sav
ings accounts up to 60 per cent. F ifty
per cent has been distributed among
commercial depositors.
Residents of The Dalles are plan
ning to file claims on a 400-acre tract
of Mount Hood land to be used as
a summer playground and also as a
fu rth er Inducement for the designa
tion of the Skyline route as a sec
ondary highway by the state highway
commission.
The mills of the Crown W illam ette
Paper company at Lebanon, It is re
ported, w ill go on a six-hour day be
ginning next week, w ith four shifts
a day. The mills have recently been
operating on an eight-hour day, with
the men working three and four days
a week.
Proceedings have been started by
the Salmon River-Grande Ronda
highway Improvement district to
compel the state highway commission
to take over the $10$.000 bond debt
of the district In accordance w ith a
lew passed by the last legislature.
The La Grande Gun club is making
an effort to have the grouse season
of Union county concurrent with that
of U m atilla county and possibly with
that of W allowa county. The mat
ter wtll be brought before the state
game commission.
Earl Fehl. county Judge of Jack-
son county, has not drawn his salary
since taking office in January. To
avoid a Judgment of $15,000 held
by Roy Parr for libel, Fehl assigns
his salary of $5.47 each day to his
mother-in-law.
Farmers of the Tule Lake district
of Klam ath county report more
ducks, geese and other migratory
birds in that area than for many
years past. Over 300 sandhill cranes
have been observed and about 2000
white swans.
Bayless Fanning is setting out 25
F in al Judgment has been entered acres of hops on land near the Yam
In the circuit court at Pendleton in h ill river. This is the only hop field
the Enoch Pearson land commission being set out in that vicinity. M r.
intends
increasing
the
case whereby the state of Oregon ' Fanning
pays the sum of $14,296 for seven acreage next year to 50 acres.
parcels of land on the W allula Cut
Several Lane county hop growers
off highway. About 109 acres is In
are planning to increase their hop
volved.
acreage this season. Others formerly
Linn county and political subdivl- ( engaged In hop growing are report
sions w ill receive $16,834 from the ed to be planning to set out new
federal government in the form of yards.
tax refund on the O & C. grant lands
The five-year-old son of Mr. and
w ithin the county. Of this amount Mrs. Allen Purvine, who live near
$10,071 w ill go Into the general Buena Vista, was shot in the groin
fund.
last Monday by a brother, while the
James Copperfield, an 85-year-old
Indian who acted as scout and guide
in the Modoc war under O. C. Apple-
gate, is dead at his home near Beatty,
Klam ath county.
The Beaverton city council has
voted to open its proceedings with
prayer, to be led in turn by m ini
sters of the various churches of the
city.
The greatest snow depth In five
years Is reported from Crater Lake.
The total last Wednesday was 171
inches and It was still snowing.
Harvaat Tkraagkaut Yaar
Harvesting tha world’« crops con-
tlnuas throughout Ilia yaar. In Janu
ary Australia Is at work. February
finds Egypt and southern India at
work while March continues with
Egypt, Africa and India.
The Oregon Lum ber company at
Dee, which opened for the season a
short time ago, is now one of the
busiest spots In the valley. Sufficient
orders are in hand to keep a fu ll
crew occupied Jor several months.
W ith new orders arriving steadily
and the price on the upgrade. Man
ager Nets Nelson anticipates one of
the busiest seasons the m ill has en
joyed in many years.
children were playing
caliber rifle.
with
a .22
The Brooks-Scanlon Lumber com
pany of Bend, Ore., which formerly
operated a sawmill at Eureka, Mont.,
has deeded more than 18,000 acres
of cutover land to the United States
government.
A delay In the completion of
Bend’s federal building, now about
95 per cent finished, is faced. The
contractor's funds are tied up In a
bank at Des Moines, Iowa.
The total debt of the city of Sea
side was reduced during 1932 from
$615,523 to $551,836, has been
paid In interest on city debts.
In order to assist in unemployment
relief the Douglas county court w ill
substitute wood for oil in the heat
ing of the courthouse. The court w ill
contract to pay $2.50 per cord for
wood.
H arry Cockrum of M alheur county
has been selected by the Union Paci
fic scholarship committee to receive
the $100 scholarship offered by the
company to the boy outstanding in
Smith-Hughes agricultural work in
Malheur county for the past year.
Lower Umpqua communities w ill,
on April 14 and 15, be the scene of
clinics where children will receive
Immunization treatment for diph
theria and smallpox. Reedsport, Gar
diner, Winchester Bay and Ada are
the towns to be visited.
Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan’s dele
gate to plead the Manchurian case
before the League of Nations, was
known among his classmates at the
University of Oregon law school as a
first-class stud poker player.
Linfield college students have
elected Lillian von Pinnon, senior
from Boise. Idaho, as queen of the
May Day celebration, May 13. The
maid of honor w ill be Mabel Weaver
of Buhl, Idaho,
C olored Snow
Rail snow has been reported at va
rious tlmaa from such places st Green
land, Italy, Germany, ate.; other color«
such as groan «ml yellow have also
bean obeerved. Theae colors are said
to be due to minute organisms.
A H to T h ts l Q usenofi
H
The sastttn
Flooding the
A n d bsnd kn g
M aking Prison* H om elike
I f prlaona were fitted up with libra
ries, center tables, rag rurpets, and
canary birds, may ba they would look
so much like home that people would
try to keep out of them.— Cincinnati
Tlmea Star.
Long have we w ilte d to
A n d welcome thy promised
Filling our h u rts w ith * h j
O u r tilth in d our/ J(6p< bod
N iu tc 's 'a w n wlbute Wt lovingly !
T h e dowers. Whose budwpow unt!
H ie s and llo u o m t * o |
A ll pledge the greet ttv
B e g in n in g
Ring out sweet chimes on this E i A u | ik |
U nited thy praise we ir e tinging. \
W ith thee we irise to i l l that Is n e w '
o f G la s s
M a k in g
America's
glass making
Industry
first got Its start at the beginning of
the Seventeenth century st Jstneatown,
Vs., where an English company oper
ated for a few years.
The Spnngtime of b te Thou art bun
Has H ighest Church Tower
Tha Ulm Minster Is fatuous not
merely for Its history and beauty, but
also for the fact that It has the high
est church tower In the world, rising
to a height of 620 feet.
KEEPING UP
I□ASTER
HEN we si>eak about pictur
esque Easter customs our
thoughts naturally turn to
other lands.
Russia used to he the scene of the
An Easter study in the beautiful setting offered by the old Mission Ina
most wonderful Easter ct lebratlous. which is located at Riverside, Calif., showing the Cloister music room of tha
but today the festivals of the church Inn beneatfi one of the Saint Cecilia windows.
are frowned on. and although the
churches are still filled, U Is mostly
the older people who attend them, and
the ancient ritual Is shorn of much
of Its former splendor.
In Hungary, however, you will still
sy
see amazing scenes at Easter. As mid
night on Saturday approaches gay
L E IL A E. BRACY
throngs crowd Into the churches—
townspeople In evening dress and peas
( ! » D e l r a il Fre© F r e w .)
ants In the colorful national costume.
SPRING day ia tha morning!
ASTER is largely a relic of tha
As twelve strikes, the priest calls
old pagan celebration of the be A v
TA* dew it worm and iu-*rl.
"Christ Is risen," and the choir replies
ginning of spring, and this ex Cray m in t run from tha ruing tun—
“He Is risen.”
There are flowers everywhere. And plains why some of those old customs
Paia phontomt ut retreat.
If, as you mingle with the gay multi and traditions are «till linked up with
tudes, some one throws wnter over It—such as the use of the egg and the
.4 young breete, perfume-laden.
you, you mustn’t be annoyed. I t ’s rabbit as symbols. But In the religious
Soft quial prom ua filled.
senses
Easter
commemorates
the
res
an old Hungarian custom.
Swift ¡battered by a golden theater
Brazil sends up thousands of rockets urrection of Christ.
From quiv'ring bird throat i pilled.
The crucifixion took place at the
on the morulng of Easter Sunday, and
some of the Spanish cities celebrate time of the Jewish Passover, and this
fixed the time so far ns the Jews were
So Fotler’i gift, renewing
the festival with a procession.
This year there won’t be so many concerned. But the Jews counted time
Tha light that cannot emus
opportunities for observing the Easter by the lunar year of 354 days, while To ba. though world forgotten, brings
customs of other lands, except for most other nations went by the solar
Tha healing touch o/
those who go cruising. Rut a number year. Thus a confusion ns to the ac
tual
date
to
he
observed
as
Christ’s
of old Easter customs are kept up.
Though tou lt traiail in der knell.
Maundy money Is still distributed at i resurrection st once arose. That con
Vat doet tha aarth endure:
fusion
caused
bitter
controversies
dur
Westminster abbey the day before
The glory o/ the morn thall be
Good Friday; there are quaint Easter ing the early history of (Christianity
Of nighl't dim torture cure.
Monday dole survivals at Blddenden, and It remains with us today.
While at first Easter was observed
Kent, and Ellington, Hunts; and eggs
figure In a number of old ceremonies by the Christians at the same time as The worlrft way it a good u sy—
In various parts of the country. Then the Jewish Passover, gradually they
Forth teem t Io Heaven drawn
there Is the famous centurles-old-go-as- wera weaned awny from that practice
H hen Hope to weary hearu it born
you-please football game which Is and another date was proclaimed.
In the huthed Fatter daun.
Elaborate rules were adopted known
played through the town of Working
in
Latin
as
the
“computus
past-halls."
ton every Easter Tuesday.
The Maundy money ceremony is par by which to ascertain the date for
ticularly interesting, not only for Its Easter. These were based largely on
picturesque details, but because the the Jewish “paschnl moon” but there
king usually distributes the gifts In were complications to the process and
person. They consist of purses of red so the date does not necessarily coin
and white leather, with long strings a t cide with that of the real or astronom
tached, and containing money specially ical moon.
As the time of the actual full moon
minted for the occasion. The number
R esurrection K eynote
of recipients Is supposed to be the is different for different points on the
Christendom, st Easter, will resound
same as the sovereign's age in years, earth. It is plain that some urhltrary
with the resurrection message of the
and each of them receives exactly that rule would have to be adopted. It
angel to Mary Mngilalene. For more
unmber of pennies In four-penny, was the purpose of the church fathers
than 1,000 years the resurrection has
threepenny, two-penny, and penny not to have Easter ever fall on the
been the keynote of Christianity.
same date as the Jewish Passover.
pieces. All the money Is silver.—An
Preachers of faith in Christ as the
However,
in
1023,
this
did
come
to
vwers Magazine.
hope of humnnlty have from the days
pass.
of the Apostles based their messages
Easter Is the first Sunday that fol
upon this foundation and without the
Easter Is O u r D ay o f
lows this ecclesiastical or pascal full
the Resurrected Life moon coming in or next after the nom resurrection have regnrded preaching
as vnln.
ASTER Is the spiritual New inal vernal equinox, March 21; If the
Year's day. With the drab De pascal full moon falls on Sunday, then
cember days the old year of the Easter skips to the following Sunday.
calendar comes to an end and at the I he date of Easter Is specially Impor
midnight another circle of months be tant because It fixes the times of the
gins. Though we christen it the New pther movable feasts for the whole
Year and celebrate Its birth with the year.
ringing of bells, outwardly there Is
Ix-nt begins with Ash Wednesday
no change apparent and inwardly and Is the period of forty days (not in
Thought Rabbits Laid Eggs
there is only the hope that change for cluding Sundays) preceding Easter.
In the old days In Germany, the chil
the better and brighter may soon Shrove Tuesday Is the last day before
dren built nests In the brush and
come. But with Easter day comes a Lent and thus marks the end of the thicket, even as they do In the United
real sacramental transfiguration of na
States today. When they ran to the
gay winter season, known In Europe
ture and of human hopes— the “out
nests on EHster morning, rabbits usu
as the “carnival'' or "meat-farewell”
ward signs” and the "Inward grace" season. The French term for Shrove
ally scurried from the bushes. And
conjoin—the yearnings of the spirit Tuesday Is "Mardl Gras”—meaning lit when the children found the bright
are answered from the earth and from erally “ fat Tuesday.” This date Is ob eggs In the nests, thpy Jumped to the
the skies. ThJ dead things have come served hj' feasting and revelry—hence conclusion the rnhhlts had laid them.
Their purents did not disillusion them.
to life. Beauty and splendor are re the "fat.’'— Pathfinder Magnzine.
turning to “soothe and heal and bless.”
Now the real New Year Is beginning
and its heralds are abroad everywhere
In the land. With flowers, with mu
sic, with prnyer and thanksgiving,
with hopes renewed, we welcome Its
ND when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary
dawning. It Is the day of resurrec
iC i the Mother of James, and Salome, had brought tweet spires,
tion.
that they might come and anoint Him.
Religion and nature both meet today
And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they
In the miracles of rebirth. The hopes
of Immortality and redemption sym
came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
bolized by the Risen One centuries
“ Anil they said among themselves, ‘Who shall roll away the
ago are again given solemn pledge and
stone from the door of the sepulchre?’
sactlon. From that ancient tomb we
“And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled
hear re-echoed that heartening ques
away, for it was very great.
tion, “Why weepest thou?" From the
so<I, the trees, the shrubs and the flow
“ And entering the aepulehre, they saw a young man sitting
ers comes ngaln the visible assurance
on the right side, clothed in a long white garment, and they were
that they were not dead but sleeping.
affrighted.
To these symbols, spiritual and nat
“And he said unto them: ‘Be not affrighted. Ye seek Jesus of
ural, the human heart must needs re
Nazareth, which was crucified; He ia risen; He it not here; be*
spond, and does res|tond, whatever its
cares or sorrows. Its wavering faiths
hold the place where they laid Him.
or its burled hopes. Easter is our day
“ ‘But go your way, tell H it disciples and Peter that He gocth
of resurrected life and resurrected
before
you into Galilee; there shall ye seek Him, ai He said
hopes, and to such rebirths all things
«re possible. Greet the New Enstei
unto you,’
year with a sheer and a song. Re
“ And they went out quickly and fled from the sepulchre; for
lease the new-born hopes and faiths to
they trembled and were amazed; neither aaid they anything to
grow and expand with awakening na
any man, for they were afraid.”
ture and the resurrected spirit.— Kan
ala City Star.
Easter R elic of O ld
EASTER
Pagan Celebration
The Stone JFos Rolled Away
W hen H ighw ay Work Boom*
The operation of the highway tran»
port system and related Industries In
the Uniteli Statea are rea;>oiislble for
the employment of approximately
8.600,000 workers.
N oiseless Ham m er
Called a “noiseless hammer.” an In
vention In Germany forces a nail
through a metal channel as pressure la
applied «>ltb 'be aid of a handle.
Agents Want«?d
Fell our beautiful allk-llned ties
at 35o and double your money.
Paramount Neckwear Co., Ilaleigb
llldg., Portland, Oreg.
AFTER 4 0
bowel trouble
Constipation may very easily become
chronic alter forty. And any continued
constipation at that time ol life may
bnng attacks of piles and a host of
Other unpleasant disorders.
Watch your bowels at any age.
Guard them with particular rare after
forty. Whenever they need any help,
remember a doctor should know what
is best for them.
"D r. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin**
It a doctor’ t prescription for the bowels.
Tested by 47 years' practice, it has
been found thoroughly effective in
relieving constipation and its :!■• for
men, women and children of all ages.
I t has proven perfectly safe even for
babies. Made from fresh laxstiva
herbs, pure |>epsin anil other harmless
ingredients, it cannot gripe; will not
sicken you or weaken you; can be used
without harm os often as your breath
is had, or when your tongue is coated;
whenever a headachy, bilious, gassy
condition warns of constipation.
On. W. B. C a l o w s it's
SYRUP PEPSIN
A Doctor’s Family Laxative
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Political Speeches?
Silence tuny be Rolden but a lot of
tnIlc sators of brnfui.
Pains
and
Cramps
Salem, Oregon —
"W hen I w ai thir
teen years old I be
came delicate, h a d
many nervous head
aches, poor appetite,
felt sick and weak,
and had bearing pains
and cramps at month
ly period) to that I
would be in bed two and three day),"
Hid M r). Thelma Daily o f 1028 High
land Ave. “ Mother gave me D r.
Pierce’s Favorite Prctcrrption. I took
two bottles of it and grew stronger
and healthier and was relieved of all
feminine weakness." A ll druggists.
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