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6Agy EAOTOBEOOtnMtt BMBMCTON, pitEGON, MOND, JUNE ?7 191ft
LIGHT VOTE FEARED AT THE SPECIAL ELECTION TOMORROW .
IMPORTANT BILLS
UP FOR .DECISION
.Voting Places for Pendleton
Precincts Listed
- Below.
A Hunt vole Jm the prediction of
county ofrlciuls for the special elec
tion Tuesday. Interoat locally In the
nine referendum measures hue not ap
peared high and little talk In heard
around the court houiie regarding the
lection. Officials eeem to take It for
Kranted that virtually every measure
Will receive the majority to carry.
Predictions of the vote are based
tin the percentage which voted on the
11.000.000 road bond Issue. There
wore but 4300 votes cast at that time
and the county now has K765 reenter
ed voters, slightly more than Hwo times
the number which went to the polls
three months ago.
Election materials wero all sent out
nd delivered to the 61 out of town
rcclncta by Saturday night and to-
duy ballot boxos and election materials
aro being supplied to local election of
ficials. There are 13 precincts In the
city and the polling places will be the
same as for the last special election.
Polls will open at II a. in. and re
main open until p. m. Euoh voting
place will have one judge, one chair-,
man and three clerks.
The location of the precinct polling
places In Pendleton Is given as fol
lows:
Precinct 12. Home of Mrs. Wells,
VIS K. Kallroad Htrcet
Precinct 33, T. A. Wylle Oarage.
Precinct 34, High school.
Precinct 85, Court House.
Precinct it. City Hall.
Precinct 37, Pendleton Hotel sam
ple room.
Precinct 38. Bowman hotel.
. Precinct St, Field school.
' Precinct 40, Home of Zella Finch.
)08 Aura. '
I'reclnct 41. Blewett Harvester Co.
1'recinct 43, Hawthorne school.
Precinct 43, County Library.
Precinct 4 4, Uncoln school.
Precinct 45, IllctU.
Fair Weather for
Coming Week, Says
Weather Forecaster
WASIU.VOTOV, 1. G June 2.
Forecast for tho k-hm1 Juno
to June T, llv, Incluxivo.
laclflo Coast KIuIcm: (ivncrally
fair: normal tcmicrature.
Northern llocky .Mountain anil
Plateau UwUmih: Generally fair:
leniiM-raturo below normal flint
lialf, and uurmal second half of
work. '
K. If. HOW 18, ForcsBlcr.
13 MILLION BUSHELS
WHEAT GO IN WEEK :
And In Vain.
We believe the time is coming soon
when Trotsky will be applying for the
Job as a New York street car conductor.
HTATR KTAItTH lHIVK TO
. STAMP OIT rtil.lTKUACV
ALBANY. N. Y.. June !. New
York state has begun a drive to stamp
out Illiteracy. A campaign has Just
been started by the Mate Education
Department to teach the English
language to 000.000 men. women and
children and to educate them In Am
erican kleuls. Fresh Impetus was
given to tho campaign when Gover
nor Bnilih signed the Kage Immigrant;
education bill. which appropriates 1
$100,000 to nld In the work.
The camplgn will be carried out
through factory classes, ntgtit schools
and teaching in the home. The drive
is to be pushed so that when the
census Is taken next year" New York
state will show as small an amomit of
Illiteracy as Is possible. As part of
the scheme official and volunteer or
ganisations now bent on Amerfcanixa- j
tlon will be co-ordinated with the ed-1
tication campaign being carried on
through the public schools. The
wholn state Is to be xoned Into fif
teen districts with a man In charge
of each.
One of the first things to be at
tempted in the campaign will be to
urge aliens to take out citizenship pa
pers. The flrwt snne to be formed
will include the greater part of Long
Island and the second will Include
all of New York.
Grain Corporation Gives
Figures on Available
Supplies. '
(Prom the Food Administration Oral
Corporation )
NKVV YOHK, June 2. The second completed.
weekly bulletin of the Food Adminis
tration Urain Corporation, 42 H road
way, wus Issued May 27 giving the
complete figures covering the wheat
und wheat flour movement throughout
the United Htates for tho week end
ing May lath. The figures given out
were as follows:
Hecelpta' front farms. Week ending
Jluy loth, 2.10S, 000 bushels, uKainxt
3,4 76,000 bushels a year ago.
Total slock of wheat in country ele
vators, mills, und terminal elevutors,
as of May 16th, 83,000,000 bushels.
against 31,000,000 bushels a year ago;
IllIITISIf
TO
LONDON. Juno 1. Hack to
tho guy uniforms that attracted
men Into the army and gave
color and brilliancy to military
spectacles! A committee named
to consider the future of tho
garb of wniv. will w recommend
tho return to pre-war dress for
the after-the-war army.
H'?:::;: AVERAGE NEWLYIVED
30 YEARS OF AGE
hd. within the next week
practically the lust Hhlimietit of fnod
fctuffH for IlljiTiitod reghipH will be
completed.
ItK'II lltO (IM,.) MKIK'IIAXT
ADMITS Hi; ISOl ;iT VOTKS
A Ionic groKram cloak
th
that
ird Vernon, n-
wa.vi -wore on deck during "dirty'
weather Is ftuid to he responsible for
the name "grog" the sailor drink
ration. The Admiral's men Irrever
ently called him "Old Grog" and
'grog' was the name they gave the
rum and water he served them aboard
ship.
nirsemen
ts
The State Federation of Labor
The Central Labor Council of Tortland.
The City Commissioners of 'Portland
through its Commissioners.
The Portland Kiwanis Club.
The Portland Ad. Club. " T
The Portland Rotary Club.
The State Chamber of Commerce.
The Portland Chamber of Commerce.
The Men's Club of the First Congrega
, tional Church.
The Hotel Men's Association.
The Oregon Motor Dealers Association.
Seventy-six papers in the State.
Portland Papers.
Fifteen Granges throughout the State
of Oregon.
Also 1000 letters from prominent men
of all walks of life' throughout the
, State of Oregon.
Vote 310 X Yes
Special State Election June 3rd
Roosevelt Wary Coast Highway
"Oregon's Road to Prosperity
(Paid advertisement)
showing a decrease between may th
land 16th of this year, of 13.U00.00U
bushels, against a decrease for the
similar week a year ago, of only 3,
000,000 bushels.
Flour produced, "week ending May
16th, ..,671,000 hMhel. agalnKt 1,
661,000 barrels a year ago; making: a
total production of flour, from July
1st to May 16th of UU.000,000 bar
rels, aguinst 107,000,000 barrels a year
ago.
Julius Ifarnes, United States Wheat
Director, In giving out the figures said
It Is to be noticed that, although do
mestic consumption of wheat whs ap
parency running- lighter a year ago,
the heavy drafts on -this country for
food shipments to the Allies and the
nerwly liberated regions of Europe
were such that the domestic visible
had decreased 13,000,000 bushels dur
ing the week.
Fortunately, within four weeks
there wlU begin to be a moderate re
placement by the earlier of winter
wheat, and within six or eight weeks,
a large movement from the very pro
mising crop of winter wheat now ra
pidly approaching harvest.
Mr. Barnes also stated that the ship
ments In relief of Kurope, outside of
the Allies, were now being rapidly
, CHICAGO, June 2. -f'harle T'atler
oT Cairo, III., a wholesale dry goods
merchant, today pleaded guilty in the
federal court In Kawt St Iouls to a
charge of buying votes at the election
last November, at which Mcdfll Mc
Oormlck was a candidate for United
States senator. He was fined $1000.
t
which he paid.
Vfci'ormlek, a Republican, was
elected, defeating Kenaior J. Hamil
ton Lewis, who urged that an Inves-'
ligation be started. Tt was charged )
In the Indictment that I'atler, who!,,,,,
Umatilla County Records
Show Cupid Slower Than
Formerly.
With thirteen direct shots during
May, .Cupid bettered his record of the
first three irmnth of the year In
Umatilla County, but f?ll hort by six
of the' April record. HiHona given
for the slight decrease durini: May Jh
that June is the month for brides mid
weddings arc, by tradition, supuseU to
ie most numerous In the present
month.
Since January 1, 63 couples have
taken out Dot-rises to -wed in Umatilla
county and of these, all save one cou- J
pie has given data on their ages. The :
oldest man to marry was 53 and there j
were three others of ro or more ;arn.
Tho greatest age given by any woman j
this year Is 54. while one other is 5.
Three bridegrooms were of the tender j
age of 19 while brides of 16 numbered '
four. j
The average age of grooms this year !
is very close to 3ft years, while the '
brides average slightly above 25 years, i
This contrasted with the age at which
." -y. .3 r ssiiw-v-r 7 -,,-r,
iWssisv . !J
Drive Right Iii
wan chairman of the Ttepublican
county central committee, paid $1 to
each of a number of negroes to vote
the Itepublican picket.
SKI1TFR SAVKH CARfJO
Itl'M; 250,0O0 IIF WARD
SAN JUAN. June 2. Capt W. J.
Itennerly may collect $250,000 from
the wreck' of the schooner Mfitlallne
Shirley Lord. The crew abandoned nf h ,-.-,
mothers of the growins i
generation married, shows the deep j
impress which the H. C. O. I, has I
made on Cupid's business. !
An unusual number of the mar- j
r I axes this year have been repeat af- j
fairs. The marriage age of novices is j
well under that of the- repeaurs, al-
though In a few instances young wltl-!
owrs of less than 20 years huvfe ap
peared before County Clerk "Brown fnr
their second ticket for the trip to the
altar.
Nine of the 63 brides since the first
the schooner off Ponce with a cargo iof from to seven s Tne
of a half minion dollars worth of t Uiscre,)ancv hetween aKCS jn favtfw
' ' i-in.o 0j grooms is 1 years, the man being
Kennerly smelled It out and put his-, and th womn 9t Tn,, t
He saved the rum from!, 6 yeara in favur uf lh aru
found.
crew aboard.
the fishes and is entitled to half the
salvage. It's under the lock and key
of the collector of customs at Ponce
and can't be wild here, but it's likely
to be trans-shipped to a port where
Kennerly can collect.
Try A Cop
Op
r
POSTUlM
next time'you feel
coffee-disagrees
No-lossTpfl'pIeasure
but a g'reataim in
health if you:are?sus
ceptible to, hrmlfrom
coffee.
There's a Reason
!
I
n
Contractors
and Builders
Wo nro ri'an'l tu fnnilsii
jour Iiouno Mils, etc., oniplcie
InrliHllns all lumlxr, sukIi. ilixirs
mill work, rlc, r. . I. FiihIIp
tiin, at lirlccs. m: liollovu wuulil
bo to your brm'fil.
Our mills have hnllt llirlr
npiilHl(ii oil rirt-'lHHs nistrrl
alM ami irtinnt sIHimiipuIs wlilrh
lias niiior for iih cftiilluiious.
sailKrktl cuslomors.
8rnil your lists
ons to
for qnotntl
Porter Lumber
Company
Slh anil I
VancouTpr,
nrnry Sts.
Vsliln(,-tn
Dr. David Bennett Hill
DENTISTRY
Pendleton, Oregon.
I toy Shirt Kxaniinin? i:in.e.
. ST. LOUia June 2. Harold An
drews, 8 years old, of 4202 Page
boulevard, was phot through the
right chest at 7 p. m. yesterday while
two companions were examining a
rifle that they did not know wns
loaded, on the porch of a residence
at 1219 Whittler street. He was ta
ken to tho city hospital in a serious
condition.
John Regan, 8 years .old, 4126
Cook avenue, and Edward de Hart
years old, 1221 Whittier street, grave
d i f feren t versions. Fd wa rd sa id t he
rifle belonged to his father and that
John took It from the home and was
looking at it when he men to take
i' from John and ft was discharged,
John claimed Rd ward had handed
him tho weapon and he was looking
at it when Edward pushed his elbow,
causing his finger to pull the trigger.
Don't Htop to light any, lantern- Just snap a switrh and Ji
barn is flooded with a bright and safe light- Everything w s
clear as in day-light. You need not fumble or grope in the dark
any more. As you go from wagon-house to cow-shed, to chicken
house, your way is lighted by .
Western Electric
Power and Light
No matter where you live this lighting plant can lc installed I and
you can enjov the conveniences and comforts of the city right m
your own home. The Western Electric outfit lights your house,
barn, and premises and gives you electric power for your vacuum
cleaner, electric iron, washing machine, churn, cream separator and
so many of these tasks that now take up your time.
Electricity is the safe light and it is the economical light, as well.
Let us. tell you all about it and show you how it will save and serve.
CHARLES MILNE
u to Oty Hall
tfcdric Contractor .
Pendleton, Ore. , j A
A new England doughboy writes his
home folks that the way to pronounce
Ypres is to make a noise a swallow
makes just before sunrise.
SAIN0YI DONS HIS
SUMMER'S STRAW LID
Bring' Your
Car to Us
We can furnish prompt
ly any size
Wind Shield
Glass
We have an experienced
man vlio will set the
glass while you wait-
B. L. Burroughs, Inc.
Corner Webb and Col
lege Sts.
A-J-h ill '
f It (
VV'H? i ir L
- - ut
Our Own Delivery
Beginning today, June 2nd, we are putting on
our own delivery, making 3 deliveries daily, leaving
the market promptly on the following hours.
.MORNING DELIVERY 8 A. M. AND 10 A. M.
AFTERNOON (ONE ONLY) 3:30 P. M.
As it takes some little time to select your meats
and put up your order after it is received at the
market, you will greatly aid us in our endeavor to
give you better service by phoning your order as
early as possible, say at least 30 minutes before de
livery starts.
For Quick Service and Good Meats
Oregon Market
PHONE GOO
813 MAIN ST.
Merchants Tarccl Delivery'
and Messenger Service
MY AXI NIGHT SERVICE ' !
It) Oiiik mid up.
212 V. Wrbb.
Plimm I.VJ
Dr. Lynn K. Blakcslce
Chronlo and Nervoua Diseases aosj
Diseases of Women. X-Ray Else.
tro Therapeutics.
Temple IUiIr.. Room 12, rtwtia tit
MARQUIS SAJOSVW
When the straw hat sea
fsme. Salonyl cooldnt resist t
display of a Tari habenlshr
And here he Is. a senior dr legal
of the Japanese peace mission I
western headgear and eastern tog
from his toes to his neck. Noti
the clogs ho wears oa hia feet.
VISIT
Happy Day's
NEW FOUNTAIN
For the coolest and best
drinks in town.
Flain Soda.
L Any mixed drink you want.
Goldrn West Ice Cream Ke
en use it's a lVmileton iroduct
and better.
Try our milk shakes.
rurltan
Club
Cliquot and
itinxer ale.
Try a "Kelly" Cigar, 3
for 20c.
There is only one place
for that delicious
CHOCOLATE
ICE CREAM
KOEITEN'S
The Drue more That Serves
Tou Best
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