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VOLUME IV
BOA RDM AN, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1924.
D. McKean
NUMBER 26
Port of Flyers in Greenland
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CF SPECIAL INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings uf
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
C. D. McKean has just been ap
pointed chief of the Department of
Justice's new division of identification.
It will start with a collection of ap
proximately 1,000,000 finger prints the month of July were approximate-
The annual Bend flower show will
be held Wednesday, August 20.
Value of exports from Astorin to
foreign ports during July was $240,
804. The cost per capita for educating '
high-school students in Albany for
the year 1923-1924 was $84.15.
The first irrigation project in Lane
county has been completed by L. C. i
Abies of Eugene for his 2S5-aere farm I
north of Springfield.
Construction of a ferry for use in i
crossing the Umpqua river at ScoHs
burg will be started at once by the
Douglas county court.
July was one of the driest months
ever experienced In IJend. There was
not a single cloudy day, and only .2
of an inch of rain tell.
Building activities in Salem during
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KXPFIilMKN'T STATION NOTES
Ribbon Filet for Youthful
Coiffure.
By II. K, Dean
Harbor and old store of Uodthuab,
lircenlund. where the American army
ilyers planned to stop on their flight
icross the Atlantic.
gathered from the Department of Jus
tice records at Fort Leavenworth, and
from the bureau which has been main
tained in Washington for two years
by the International Association of
Police Chiefs. The organization of
this division was provided for by the
last session of congress with an ap
propriation of $50,000.
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THE PRODIGAL
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By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
ly 29 per cent greater than during the
corresponding month a year ago.
Whle using a shotgun to shoot
rats on his ranch home in the Colum
bia district near Hermiston, Charles
Belcho, 75, accidentally killed himself.
The state supreme court has re
j cessed until September 1. Most of
! the justices will spend their vacations
at beach resorts and mountain re
treats. While July was a quiet month in
the lumber trade of the Columbia river
district, more than 61,000,000 foot of
lumber was shipped from the river by
water.
OH HERE Is much comfort to many . A parlor car attached to the north
T of us in the parable of the Prodi-1 bound limited passenger train on the
gal Son. The ending of the story Oregon Electric line caught fire be
seems so happy and so satisfying But I tween Salem and Donald and was de
this is all because we do not read the str0yed
tale carefully; we do not grasp all
that is implied. We see the boy In j Work on the North Umpqua section
the elegant garments which the father ot tne Umpqua highway is to be start
lias brought out, we smell the gavory ! t (1 at ones, according to J. M. Meyers,
odors of the feast in preparation, and ! United States engineer with the
pointed J. K. MMT.ntock ot Koaeourg
to fill' the position. Mr. McCHntocfc
has served for nine years as auditor
at the state fair.
A new world's record for harvest
ing fliix has been established at the
ranch Of A. E. Bradley, south of Salem,
who with the assistance of a patented
puller purchased a year ago has pull
ed more than 120 acres of. the product
since July 7. This is an average of
more than six acres a day.
Klamath county farmers will receive
100 per cent more for their hay rop
this year than last
pons of narly sales in the district.
In 1923 the new crop moved at from
to $8 a ton. The first sales thit
year were made at $12.50 and $15
is considered the present market
price.
It is doubtful if there is sufficient
water in Big Butte creek to supply
both the city of Medford and the
Eagle Point irrigation district, accord
ing to Ithea Luper, state engine,
The city of Medford is seeking to
divert approximately 30 second led
of this water for municipal purposes
at a cost of 1660,009, The present
supply of water is from Little Butte
creek, but this flow is not of a
quality demande d by the municipality.
HOOT GIBBON TO FILM
Itot M-l i-
(Jraln for Calves
How about fixing no f at calf pot
are BO proud of for the Dairy 81.0W
this rail as well as growing her to
make an outstanding cow? It will pay
to give the best calves grain under
any circumstances. Anyone of the fol
lowing three mixtures are good "
iicnicnts lor slum milk: (1) Corn
3 parts: oat i, Sparta; wheat brar., 1
oar!; linseed meal, 1 part. (2) Equal
parts corn or ground barley, oa.t, and
bran. (3) Oats. 5 parts; corn, 1 part
1 ran. 3 parts; linseed meal 1 part. A
mixture of concentrates la more pala
table than one alone At 6 weeks a
calf v. Ill usually eat one half pound
ot conccntrat.ee a day; at 2 months,
.a pound; and at three months, 2
j pounds. Unless it la "desired to push
"ICTTHK the animal rapidly not over 2 or
'3 pounds need lie fed the skim mill;
tsalf up to ti months.
Hoot Cllbson, the Pond! to" 'found
Bp's flivit all-round cowboy champion
by Virtue of his skill in the events at Safe Water for T-wrists and Camper
the fust show of 1912, has returned Nr problem is of great r Impor
to Pendleton and thru arrangem. nt I tance to the' toUrtat and camper Can
With the Round-Up will film a mo-I the palely of his drinking water. At
tlon picture play, using' the ahow an a home he is familiar with his sur
local, din ing the three day; 'oxhi.d- ror.ndings, he knows the soince of his
tioa, September 18, 19 and 20. water supply and la safe-guarded by
OlblOn, who is a Universal star, ' rules and regulations of hi : Slate
ringa to Pendleton 40 mem
era of his company, and Gibson and
Upportlng cast are to appear in
iceording to re- ' v eenis. wmie tne pie-
i' i o win star unison, It will be itls-
We catch the sound of music and of
dancing, and are deceived into suppos
ing that the son's unwholesome past
has been wiped out and that life for
hits in the future is to be as if the
past had never been.
One can turn his face in a new di
rection that's what conversion means
one can get a new start, but there
The Pendleton Round-up, for many
years heralded on the motion picture
screen, will be the background of a
special picture this year which will
be built around the show by the I'ui-
The rainfall at Baker for the first versal Bicture corporation. The con
seven months this year amounted to tract permitting the motion picture
3.2 inches, which is 5.27 inches below concern to be on the grounds during
the average of 34 years in which tlle show was signed last week by of-
nnd local hoards of health This is
not always the case in ramps and on
excursions. Persons who are ordin
arily cautious about their drinking
water at home, may become' earless
tlnctly a Round-UP picture and will and Indifferent when on their vaca
be released as such. The picture com- tions. Furthermore, many campers
pany will remain in Pendleton until and tourists are entirely ignorant of
alter the Round-Bp.
Gibson and his company will ap
pear in the various Uound-l'p t vents
and Hoot win demonstrate his prow
tea on the track and in the arena.
the dangers of contaminated water.
No surface water should be con
sidered safe until it has been tested
at a competent laboratory, and a ssni-
tary survey made of its somve. In the
Because he Is a former Pendleton armv, It is customary for a modi
cowboy, Hoot is no stranger in the Cal Officer, well in the van, to make
Bound- Up city and his welcome was a sanitary survey of the available
an enthusiastic) one, local people water supplies. This Is supplement
deeming it particularly appropriate ed by a few laboratory tests to de
li. at the first Round-Up motion pic- roiine its parity or safety. It Is
ture play should have for its star tile V.ratifvieg to note that this method is
bureau of public roads.
winner of the first cowboy chompion
ship at the Pendleton show.
Three measures, one increasing the
gasoline tax one cent per gallon, the
second setting aside the water In the
Cluar Lake district for use of Wil
lamette valley towns and the third
providing lor joint incorporation of
18 valley cities as a water district,
will be recommended by Governor
Pierce in his message to the 1925 leg
islature. This decision was the rut
eome of a trip of nearly 100 Wil-
records have been kept. I "cutis of the Round up and the cor- lunette valley men to Clear Lake, In such as used by the army, mav
i tie slate highway commission and
Tillamook county court have filed mii.
is always one's past to be reckoned j tions with the publu. 8ervicl, commj3.
Willi.
Underneath the embroidered silken
sion asking for the elimination of a
Well, the rain that rulses umbrellas
does as much for the radish.
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Pfiwlli rn o c i m it in !.,- ,
garments which the returned prodigal " '
was wearing was his shattered body, i Building construction was 30 per
torn by want and disease and dlssipa- cent larger in Portland in July than
lion. In his mind was still the tar- in the same period of 1923, bank elear
nished memory of an unspealable ings showed a substantial increase
Europe begins to discover that per
haps it is not so red as it has feared.
past. He was a pauper, too, for his
inheritance had been wasted in riotous
living. When the ill-tempered elder
brother complained at the wasteful ex
penditure which was being made In
celebration of the prodigal's return,
the father answered.
"Son, all that I have is thine."
The prodigal had started out with
an Inheritance, but he had wasted it.
aHe was starting again, but witti noth
ing hut a second chance.
In one of her stories Margaret Pres
cott Montague has the drunkard sn
to Just .limniie, "Little pal, don't you
get drunk. You wouldn't find any
tiling so nice again, not ever again."
over the same month last year, and
postal receipts were 4.9 per cent
greater.
Miss Emma Mina Hockenberry, 19,
of Fresno, Cal., was killed and her
I father, M. B. Hockenberry, suffered
i minor injuries, when an automobile in
which they were riding plunged off
! the Pacific highway three miles south
I of Salem and turned over.
There was a total of 1232 arrests
! resulting from the activities of op
eratives of the state traffic depart-
1 ment during the six months ending
July 1, 1924, according to a report by
the interest of obtaining a better
'water supply for the central Willam
et'e valley cities. The governor, mein-
I bers of the highway commission, the
engineering department and various
branches of the state government ac
companied the party.
is good to come hack home; it's T. A. Raffety, chief inspector for the
mamy to start over again, and tne re- ;
ward is quite worth while, but a
wasted inheritance, moral or intellec- I
tual, is not atoned for in a day. The
handicap of a wasted or an unim
proved taut can be overcome in time,
if one goes at It with courage and
persistence, but not at once. And
there nre many prodigals even today
very, very many who come back ,
who will never "find anything so nice i
again, not ever agnln."
(. 1924. Western Newspaper Union.)
Read the home paper.
state motor vehicle division.
J. R. Xunamaker, known as the
cherry king of Hood River, although
he has less than four acres of the
fruit, received a check from the Hood
River Apple Growers' association for
$12,701.83, the returns from his har
vest of 6072 boxes of assorted var
ieties.
Because of the growth of business
connected with the state fair, the fair
board has found It advisable to create
the office of manager and has ao-
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he'ng adopted more and more, by
such organtiaations as the Boy
S outs, the Girl Scouts, and the Camp
fire Bills. The educational work
betas; done among these young
folks Is far reaching In Its effects and
hOUld be encouraged.
In case of doubt, do not hesitate.
Sterilize your water. Several methods
of sterilization have been recom
mended for callipers and excursion
ists. Boiling will sterilize almost any
kind of water, The flat taste pro
duced by boiling may be removed by
stirring the Water briskly with an
an beater, op- pouring it from one
vessel to another. A Lister hag.
be
used also In camps. This consists "f
B water-tight canvas bag holding
about forty gbUoua. The water is
Bterlltssed by the addition of one
gram of hypochlorite of lime (bleach
ing powder I.
Dither hypochlorite) of soda or
hypochlorite of lime may be used for
the sterilization of water. The pow
ders may be obtained on the market
in small containers for 5c and up
ward. A stock solution is made by
dissolving a teaspoonful of powder in
a pint ot water. A teaspoonl'ul of
this stock solution will sterilize ten
gallons of water. There are ulso a
number of tablets containing chlorine
sold on the market for this purpose.
The;, may be obtained through your
druggist. One of the.se tablets is gen
erally used to sterilize a quart or
drinking water. Fillers can no I be
depended upon undet camp condi
tions. Safely fit s! !
It is a pretty sight to note the eun
.llng ribbon ecdffure arrangements
.vlllcll youth is wearing this season.
Perhaps the vogue for bobbed hull' is
responsible for these very charming
ribbon bandeaux and BtetS noted at
party and dance, Anyway, with all
due respect to the "bob" it Is no ex
eptlon to the "thorn with every rose"
ildnge, which in tile case of sNirt
tresses Is that they have a way of
blowing recklessly about at the touch
id' every breeze. However, necessity
being the mother of Inv ntlon. the
ClevereSl sort of ribbon fantasies are
di signed to confine curly locks or
straight.
So what care we as long as fash
ion declares In favor of the fanciful
ribbon filet I The one In the picture
is made of narrow gold ribbon with
lots uf color In Its weave.
If perchance anyone Is so cour
ageous as to abandon the bob, why
not, while tresses are growing out,
.irC'iilly cOnceal the fact With a pretty
ribbon conceit such as Is shown in
the picture.
Grigsby Is Promising Player
Denver '. Orlgsby, the young left-
fielder id' the Chicago Cubs, who la
doing some very nifty work In thut
garden and Is rated as one of the
best QelderH in the inajor league.
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