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PAGE 2 FRiDATf FEBRUARY 87, 1985 OREGON 'NEWS 'ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Mrs. Malid Best has been appointed postmaster ai Suntex, Harney county. The annual meeting of the Umatilla County Bankers' association was hold in Pendleton. J. u. itaiey, a Pendleton attorney, has been chosen to manage the Port land Rose Festival I his year. The annual three-day convention of the Oregon Hardware and Implement Retail Dealers will open In Portland March 4. Construe! ion of a I r i ( I K ' ' over the Columbia river between Longvlew, Wush., iimi Rainier, was approved hy (ho senate, THE BOABDMAN MIRROR - - More tfian $500,000 will Tie spent in Portland, and a total of 3,000, 000 in the entire state during the present year hy the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph company for ex tensions and improvements of plant and equipment. Not so many sets of twin lamliH as usual arc- being bom this year in the corrals and sheds of, Umatilla county sheep men, according to reports from growers. The single lambs are rugged and healthy, however, and promise to make excellent growth. The basketball championship of dis trict No. 2 of the Oregon State High School association will be decided In a tournament to be played In Poodle ton February J6, 27 and 28. The dis trict comprises Morrow, Umatilla, Gil liam anil Wheeler counties. The hg state highway bridge across the Lewis and Clark river on the lower Columbia river highway, is near in; completion, and according to A. i. Skollnn, resident engineer in charge of Hie work, Ihe structure will he 9 GOSSIP 000 Q 00H3KHafl i ii m il lor traffic about March 1. An extensive program of street im ( Tw() ,.arloads 0f Irish Cobbler and provements for 1085 in Oregon City .;;,-y Ohio seed potatoes have been has been tentatively outlined by the 1U.,.,;1HC.( (,y the Umatilla county city commission. 1 ;lnn , ,.,,,, and will be distributed Lebanon is inaugural ing a building to growers in the county, according to program for the coming season in Fred l!ennion,' county agent. The which more than a mile of street pav Ing will be a pail. The Portland Kennel club will hold its annual bench exhibition of blood ed dogs in I lie Toil hind city auditor ium April 2, :t and I. March 8-8, Inclusive, was announc ed as dales for Ihe annual northwest em convention of the Christian and missionary alliance in Hood River. The Deschutes river within Ihe city limits of Mend will soon be spanned by a new bridge, if a move launched by residents wesl of Ihe river D8 I erializes. Wooden bridges, Instead of con crete. Will be built over the mill race at Patterson and llllyard si reels in hugeno, according to a decision by the iiy council. PTaotioally 7r per cent ot the wheal in Umatilla county was killed by the December freeze and 11 will require about $750,000 lo pay for wheat with Which lO leseed. A Hpecial election will be lield by II school districts In Ihe northern pari of Clackamas county February UN to vole on Ihe proposed union high school at VUWSUkie, The first passenger, freight and telegraph .station In he added by the Southern Pacific Railway company on its Kugeiie Klanial h Falls line is now in operation at Wesl fir. John M. Jones, Portland post mas lor, has been named vice president ol Ihe National Association of Post masters lo represent Oregon, Washing Ion, Idaho and Montana. Advices received at lone slate that " an oil well drilling outfit has been ship ped for the lone (las & Oil company and that drilling operations will begin not later than March i. The Hermlston boh school debate team won ihe debett against Pendle Ion last week anil (hereby Stepped eii Ihe first rung of Ihe ladder that may bad lo the slate contest. 'Ihe Cons bay district, which is pro grossing rapidly in development of Ihe cheese Industry, Is already laying plans for observance of "cheese week," (luted for the first week of May. John it. Bell Jr. ot Eugene, has been appointed principal cadet at the United Slates military academy ai Wesl Point by Senator Slanfleld, with Roy Jarmnn of I'.cho as first alternate. tleorgo A. Neuner. Jr.. of liosobiir,;. was recommended by Ihe Oregon sen a tore for United states attorney for Ihe district of Oregon to sin coed John s. Coke, who resigned some months ago. An estimate giving I'orllaud a popu latlon of 8(8,446, and. with the dll irlcts Just outside, IflO.OOO, was made by the Industrie.-, department of the I'ortlund chamber ol commerce re cently. The state supreme court lias hand id down an opinion affirming ihe clr cult court for CoOS county In lie- , I i of I.. W. l'carie. who is in Ihe pent luntlary at Salem awaitinc execution for the murder of .lane Culver Work U expelled lo be started 111 a short time on the ten miles ol rail way to he bulli by J. II. Chambers, lumberman id Cottage drove, from that city to a tract of timber beyond l.orane. where a lari;e sawmill will he built. Between 18,000 and 18,000 acre feet ot water at present Is Impounded In (ho Oclioco reservoir near Pi'iin vill and It Is believed by II. M. Chadwiek. assistant state engineer, that the reservoir will fill to capacity this win ler unit spring The house bill nut hot ixlng addition ot certain lauds in the Sautiam mi tlonal forest in Oregon was acted on t.ivorshly by the somite A house bill transferring trsct of land in Lane county lo the state ol Oregon for fish hatchery purpose itUo was success ful. ' d was sola cert d ied by the state of So many sheep and goals have been killed by dogs in Folk county that the i dog fund, from which stock owners ne Indemnified, is exhausted, and the court has instructed Sheriff Hooker lo round up unlicensed dogs and do. uiand that I heir owners puy the re quired fee at once. Bffti en years in the state peniten tlary and a fine of $1000 was tho sen tence imposed by Circuit Judge Lea vilt on John Taylor, confessed leader ol the robbers who on the morning of January 4 shot and killed Oscar Brlckson during the robbery of a gambling house al Klamath Fails. One hundred and seventeen mills report ing to West Coast Lumbermen's association for the week ending Feb ruary 14, manufactured 95,608,!in feet of lumber, sold 82,788,188, and shipped B8,646,lll feet. New business was 3 per cent below production. Shipments were I per cent below new business. Tin- Pendleton office of the forest ' ire has received formal notice 1 1 the government that an appro print Ion of $1200 has been allowed for construction Of five sheep corrals on the southern purl of the Umatilla na tional forest. The corrals will be used in counting sheep when they are brought onto Ihe forest for grazing. The appropriation Of market road money among varidua market roads Of Clackamas county has been made by an order of the county court. The amount to be expended totals $102,- ,r and will provide hurd surface and road improvement lor is mnrKoi roans in the county in connection with the mad development program for the yi nr. 1 Cordon Nosker, charged with reck less driving, has lost his driver's license (or life and must pay a fine of $180 and spent one month in jail at Bend as the result of a wreck sev eral days ago when his machine left The Dalles-California highway and turned over. Bd Burnett and M. 8. Wages were seriously injured in the wreck. Labor conditions in Portland and throughout Oregon are brightening ami unemployment in some lines Is already reduced. This fact Is pointed out b Ihe report of Ihe United Stales department of labor, which has made a survey of the entire Pacific divi JOB, In practically every part of the slate extensive building programs are noted. Kugeno was again chosen as l he n.'M place ot meeting, by the Ore gon Retail Merchants association al I its closing session In (hat city. L. I Thomas of Uarshfleld wus re-elected ; president ami o F. Tute of Portland m i rotary; W. F. Kennedy. Corvallis. was eleoied first vice-president; J C Mann, Medford. second vice-president and U. I. tirunt. Portland, treasurer A line point of law Is Involved in j the request of the southern Paclfh railroad, which proposes to adver Use Oregon In its dining car servici nr i ui months this season and wants 100 pounds of clams from Co, bay in March lo serve Its passengers The Inn forbids exportation of dami (rota Coos hay, but whether tin melius commercially or sa gifts wa unl plain, and. so the chamber of com merce, to whops the request came, has! asked ihe tish commission for advice The rivers and harhors bill as re ported to the senate carries prelim Injtry provision for prscticaiiy most Oregon project urged before congress dWtni the lust year. The two most important relate to the deepening anil widening of the channel of the Colum bia and Willamette rivers from Port land (o the soa and the Improvement of I'mpuun river snd harbor Hoth rope ils ale o r prciim nia i e.i,i. I nations and surveys by the board oi t-iif uieui'S. By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. owo-ooo-ooooo rpHRLT; women wore sitting acress the aisle from me In u railway couch, talking. Their voices were , pitched high. Their enthusiasm was evident. It WSSj Impossible not to hear I what they were saying. They were not educated women, imd the things I tbey Were saying were not pleasant I things. They were discussing their i friends, in fact, and thuir acquaint ances, ridiculing them, laughing loud j ly at their frail lies, repeating unsavory and unkind things that rumor hud j brought to ihcir ears. Their talk was full of "I under stand" and "I have heard" and "You know (hey say," of "She said to me" and "f lold her" and "You must not repeal H to a soul." Their stories were turgid with Specific details to make more evident their truthfulness J and reality, I presume. They recount I ed wilh meticulous accuracy the lime and dace ami accompanying circum j stances of the most trivial bits of scandal. "lat me see, who was It told me; i wtis it Mrs. Brown? No, I think It wasn't her, It was Mrs. Jones. We were standing nt tho corner of the i street, and 1 think it was Wednes day I remember now, it was Tues- i day." It was, of course, not germane to the facts presented who it was or when, but Ihe accuracy of the details helped to make the facts incontrovert ible. They discussed the most prlvnte affairs of people; they tore to pieces and besmirched every reputation they j touched, and they did it all with an appearance of personal propriety thnt was maddening. So fur ns I could make out, they did not say a kind word about any one, and they talked about nothing that was really elevat ing or any of their business. It Is Interesting that a gossip never has anything to say about things or principles. Bis only topic of con- t versatlon Is people, ami the things he says about them are usually dostrue- , live. Gossiping Is not confined to women ; men are quite commonly ad ; dieted to It. II Is not confined to men and Women Of Ihe eluss I have been describing. Even In an Intellectual community It Is common, anil the wider experience of the educated and their keenness of Intellect, and their greater ability to uller sharp and cut ling things, to ridicule everything that Is good and holy, make them all the more dangerous. The older the per son the more damage ho can do hy peddling vicious, foolish gossip. The character of mi Individual may be ruined and Is being ruined every day j hy these scandal mongers. II Is a wise custom if you cannot say good about a person to say noth- ! Ing. (. 192'!, Wintorn Ni-ivpnpor Union.) COKb'RESS GRANTS ITSELFJORE PAY Salaries of Senators and Con gressmen Increased from $7500 to $10,000 CECIL NEWS Down 500 Fed on New Well Many ReSeeding Wheat Lands De livers Honey at Fossil Washington,' D. C Salary increases tor members of congress and the pres ident s cabinet were pn viaea tor, wren adoption hy the hou,,e of a senate amendment, to the legislative appro priation bill. The house, like the senate, avoided a roll call which would have put the members on record. It passed by a rising vote of 237 to 93. It will In crease the salaries of senators and rep resentatives from $7500 to $10,000 a year, effective March 4, and of the speaker, vice-president and cabinet of ficers from $12,000 to $15,000. An hour of parliamentary maneuver ing preceded the house discussion. In stead of sending the measure to con ference, as is customary, Representa tive Dickinson, republican, Iowa, In charge of It, proposed that all senate amendments, including the salary rid er, he accepted. The largest attendance of any day during this session had been marshal ed for the occasion to guard against tho forcing of a roll call through lack of a ipiorum. Nevertheless, Represen tative Blanton, democrat, Texas, de manded a roll call but failed to receive a second from one fifth of the mem bers present. W. A. Thomas made his weekly visit in Cecil on Sunday. He is trying to decide whether to reseed his wheal or not He was accompanied by W. G. I'almateur of "Windy nook", who informs us he is going to reseed and is busy plowing and preparing wniM waiting for seed. Walter Pope and Shorty Slwver. well drillers of lone, are slill busy drilling at "Hillside", ranch. They arc I f Elmer Tyler was visiting with his Pai Noel Streeter of Cecil on aunaay. They were talking over the latest In trapping. , , . Herman, HavekoBi accompanied by Kny i;ariiott f lone, spent Thursday visiting at the Leon Logan home In Four Mile. Mrs. L. L Funk, Mrs. Win. Sexton, of the Logan Cotage, also Miss A. C. l.owo of the Highway bouse were in lone on Friday. B, E. Duncan of the Busy Bee, was In Fossil on Thursday of last week delivering a load of honey. City Swallows Up Rural Mill of 99 Years Ago Pittsburgh. One year less than a century ago an iron mill was built on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. It was a small affair, constructed on the banks of the Allegheny river by the linn of Mlltenberger & Brown. For 0!) years It grew and played an Important pari In Ihe city's Industrial life, but now, Instead of being on Ihe outskirts of Pittsburgh, it stands within a few blocks of the very heart of the city's shopping ami office center, And this Is the chief reason the oldest Independent Iron and steel mill In Pittsburgh Is being torn down. The Arm of Brown & Co., Inc., the present owners. Is going out of business he cause there is ton much business. The site of the mill occupies about three acres, and If It continued opera tion it would he necessary to expand. And there Is no room lor expansion. On three sides are tall buildings and on the ether is the fiver, .1. smart Brown, grandson of the founder, said he did not wish to as sumo the responsibility of erecting a UfW plant elsewhere, and he fell he deserved a rest. Consequently the business will be discontinued. Decision to slop work In the mill was reached last .lime, and not a wheel of lis machinery bus turned since. When running at full capacity the plant employed between IIM and iKHt men Most of the old employees have found work elsewhere. Harvests Wheat Crop From Ancient Seed Tncomu. Wash. v. s. Johnston, a farmer near Morton, Wash., has just harvest ed a bumper crop of wheat that he says came from seed token from im Keyptlan tomb. Mr. .lohnsteii SK0 he got the seeds four years ago and this year the Increase was enough to plant 15 acres, lie has Just llnishi ,1 harvesting the crop, which netted T-'d bushels for an average of 4M bushels to the aero. The grain Is white and very hard, the straw short, the heads prolific, and Mr. Johnston says It Is one of the best varieties of spring wheat he has ever grown. It was not learned from what tomb the wheal was obtained Leech Bests Snake Fulton. Mo. -A group of tlshermen from this city, fishing on (he atnvaaOO creek, near Pulton, witnessed a fight letween a leech and a snake. The leech was between sl and eight Inches long and had landed on the head of the snake. The two fought around in the water quite awhile ant dually disappeared down the trvek. NATIONS INVITED TO HONOR WASHINGTON Washington, D. C. An intention to invite the nations of the world to join the United States in observance of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington in 1983 was an nounced by President Coolidge on be half of the commission recently ap pointed to arrange for the celebration. Set! ing forth the purposes for which the commission was created, the presi dent in his statement, issued on the eve f Washingtons birthday, declared that "for the present it is Impossible more specifically to suggest the pur npses and character of the commemor ation which II Is expected (o arrange. "The 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth will he an occa sion of such significance, not only to our own country but to the entire world, that it is manifestly fitting that tho American nation should appropri ately observe it," the president said. "But beyond this, it is felt that as tho life, the career and the achieve ments of Washington belong, not. to a singlo nation, but lo all humanity, It Is proper that the nation founded un der his leadership should invite all oth er nations and peoples to join It In the observance' of this anniversary." THE LOAFER By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. " Twaa the volco of (he uluuaard, I heard him complain, 'You have waked me too soon, 1 must slumber again.' " t HAVE never known what loafer It WBS who Inspired these anclen lines, but I have always suspected that the fellow who wrote them had met lliggins. Hlggius was a direct descendant of one of the seven sleep ers; he was on the most Intimate terms with Morphein, and Sonmus, and Ether jnd all the other gods and agencies which Induco prolonged in.l refreshing sleep. I have culled him over the telephone at noon to be told hy tho friend who answered that he was not up yet. I have dropped in nt his house at ! p. m to be informed that ho wus rather tired and had gone to bed early. 1 have found him dozing before Ihe tin at three o'clock In the aftenmnn, a cigarette between his lips. A loafi i always smokes, though of course a great mruy people who smoke are no loafer I have often wondered Aba. boon of him; he's profcably dead or ask at tho switch. We read n great deal about the ills sipatlons of youth today of the rea devils who drink aud gamble and in dulgo In annamabls Immoralities, but most of It Is bunk. The real menace of life today Is the loafer the fellow who smokes himself Into stupidity he fore the grate tire, who wastes Id hours in billiard halls and Ice cream parlors, at vaudeville and moving pic ture shows, nnd In strolling about the town Imagining himself In love. It Is the man who sits up late at night do ing nothing worth while, and who sleeps late lu the morning to get over It who Is most worthless of all. The loafer can't or won't work him self, and he Is seldom satisfied to loaf alone, lie is a procrastluator wlthou' enthusiasm or plan or system lu his work. It has never occurred to him that he has a real business to which he should give his serious attention He could not work regularly eight hours a day on a bet. There Is no place for him In the world or out of It. His only salvation Is to get a Job where be will have to work hard Id , down nearly 500 feet, but Mr, jpe wants a bigger flow of water lit re he calls a halt. Peter Bauernfiend, took a tow hours holiday on Sunday and visile., his nephew. Martin Bauernfiend, the gen ial and obliging postmaster and store keeper at Morgan. Mrs. George Ileuriksen of Straw berry ranch, Mr, and Mrs. Karl Farms 'worth of Ulna and Henry Streeter. Of Cecil were among those doing busi ness in Arlington hiring the week. Miss Ermile . . it! who has been visiting her pr rents at Ewlng, left on the local oi Friday to resume her i work in Port land, Mrs. Jack '"yud and daughter. Miss Annie 0, Hynd, of Butterfly Flatja ranch, were county seat visitors on last Wednesday. Elvin Schafcr of Butterfly Flats, left on Thursday for Sand Hollow, lo bring more sheep belonging to the Hynd Bros,, to their ranch at Cecil, j Mr. and Mrs. Prod Mlilkey accomp anied by Sax Morgan, all of Sinyllie's i Siding near The Willows, were call ing in Cecil on Wednesday before go ing on lo The Might Mile soi lioii. j Al Ilonrikson and son Clifford, were doing business in Cecil on Tuesday, Mr. Ilonrikson leaving for his ranch near Pendleton mi Wednesday. Clif ford and his men remaining mi the Ce cil ranch while attending to the Spring work here. Elvin Miller of "Hlghvlew" was ill i Cecil Sunday calling on friends. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Mav left on 'Thursday for Hood River. Where they I will visit with their daughter Mrs. lson. Mr. May is receiving treatments from his doctor there. Frank Turner of Heir nor, was a busy man among the sl'.eepman of Cecil on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. lliifur and family of "The Cor, spent Sunday w 'h Mr. and at is. 11. V. Tyler near tides Siding, Miss E. Gray of ' Shady Dell", was Culling .n friends in O i! on Monday, ami we are pleased to team till the members of the family are recovering from their serious illness. .lim Furlong and Bob Lowe of Co oil spent several hours on Sunday evening with friends at Heppner. Mrs. Jack Hynd was calling on Mrs. ll. K. Duncan of Busy Bee ranch on Sunday. t BIGHT MILK NEWS Move to Kami! for Months of Spring Work in Fields Sunday School Holds Regular Meetings W. J, Heard and Raymond Turner both prominent farmers, of this sec !iM1 , ..!,, a business trip to Arllng ton on" Wednesday. C. P. McLaughlin Of Roosevelt, was a visitor al the Asher Montague home on Sunday. Frank Montague and family spent the day al the ranch of L. L. Monta gue on Wednesday. Mr. and .Mrs. Roy Montague have moved out to their ranch to remain or a few months of the spring. Those visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Asher Montague on Sundny evening were Leon Turner, Jas. Pro mt, ami Otto Spillman. Mat how Ball of Eight Mile section made n business trip to Arlington on Wednesday. Fight .Mile Sunday school did not meel last Sunday but we hope thnt all will be able to attend next Sunday. Germany's Champ Skater Vi J Fran Broi ikater ot lent her CO toatests in ( ind in Man nary 25, inpion woman io will repre Internatloual n February 17 ;land, on Feu- Such Is Human Nature Lots of men would never think of trespassing 1 they didn't see a notice to the effect that it wasn't allowed. MAXWELL TOURING CAR In good running order, for sale cheap or trade for air compressor or good second hand light di rect current electric motor. Or what have you? SEAMAN'S GARAGE Irrigon - . . 0regon OFFICIAL DESIGN.OF THE OLD OREGON TRAIL ASSOCIATION -if- .. Xv . - ,.- v, t-tt ' w- ' mi ll n in 1 ;V d cove cred wagon symbolizes The design of the ox tcau the spirit of the old west. It typtt.es vision, entrance, hope, suffering and final ac comphshmcnt. - Over the OKI Oregon Trail from the Missouri river the cov .red U m tad won an en!pire for the United States c of iregonSn W f AV"d e UrXy