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How blind nase, w ith which he
had beep threatened tor twelve
years, proved (Be tnraiag point In
the life of B. P rank ,Irvine, of
CorvalMs. Oregon, and brought
him sucepss and the editorship of
thg'* Oregon 'jpn rn at, ef Portland,,
the largest «vehfajr paper, ip the
ncrthweetejm MAJ of the *D«lted
States, la told ( t The American.
Magaalna lo r November. j : . \
"W hen blindndag m h ^ T u p o n -
ro e ," ha taygj, M
< ¥ «•
thing. I had thought fM fareap,
might happen did bgppep. «1 did
not drop1 <ug%
ip a current o f
Ufa; I dtd net become a parasite
cn my fam ily; I dtd not lose my
buclnesa. Instead, I began to find
out that I honld ^apaed upon my­
self and I began to gat a oonfb-
denea la myself that I had never
had before.**
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Irvine tried out j teaching tele­
graph operating, clerking « n d
dairy ranching before ha finally
aucceeded in getting into , t k e
newspaper business in a small
way in towns including S c i o ,
«here he was born, and later In
Ccrvallts. When a young man and
« railway station agent he suffer­
ed an unintentional blow ip the
eye in a friendly boxing match
with a railroad flrenrtm. The eye
grew worse and incipient ,blind-
iiphb barred him from every ven-
fnro he attempted. An operation
restored the eye and he started
hla Corvallis newspaper bat soon
the other eye began to dim a n d
gradually became worse. During
another trip to see a snpcialist* in
San Francisco, tw enty years ego,'
-tc<al blindness came oa suddenly.
L e d the eaeee Si the fine end T«rt-
eat re a d ily 'w m le e e e A 'to eetl»-
fying the records of th e ranger Up
pleading guilty to . e «Merge of
starting the fire in t^ftram rve.
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The fine was remitted by the
* Justice of the Peace who heard
the details of the case and held
: A fine of 125 aesepsed against Talent blameless.
fad em l Officer T erry A. Talent,
-o n e charge of s u r tí ng a fire in SUBSCRIBE FO R -4W N « ID IN G S
«- torfeat reserve tn the Lakeview
• d istrict, (he fire having spread
over fivb'derea of brush, was re-
• asitted by a Lakeview Justice of
th e Peace.
.
' Talent, la company with t w o
other federal officers working tn
that Lakeview district last sum-
med found the still located la an
almost inaccessible (pot.
T h e
equipment was burned and water
was carried from a nearby spring
to extinguish the blase. Accord-*
tog to > the forest ranger, it wan
several hoars later, indicating the
fact that the fire had smouldered,
when a blase was started in that
district, burning o ter five acres of
brush.
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In fbektag his report to the for­
estry department the ranger stat-
grewery, V
Just a'p lain
méthode, at)
pUshments o
«. Jackson. I
gon Jauftép.
enea ^ad ask
sinttiä« ¿as™
the dark.
to rijrft me
re th call
jAm p the
tog td the
"Kxftept for the sympathy I tod
r my friends, ok whdin It stops
hface I ’ae4,?«Me dpeta«-
tke secret of my happi-*
r , by tpotbiM a huttpn
restate fay-eight, I faoeld
-tro * < er
AREAL
BARGAIN!
, |(an > t> £ W frtends
in the office at night
on 'me to lead them
hellg and down ‘ the
street.
fpr a year end returned with my „
fam ily to Portland., I later sold c
the ‘Times.’ *,»
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M r. . Irvine would ra th e r be ed­
ito r.o f the Journal than gdvernor
of Oregon. H e prayed It o ■ e • ' t o u : BOT A ND TO U R G IR L
a
h e n Me
Me M
h g
a d « t * d e
> fffc
f f M -p
s p o o n n ta
ta n e o u s
«hen
Ke
M U R DfcÀN. Sc., D.
woreiftent-rbr Mis n<rtnlna|loi
wee sweeping the .state.
(Copyright John F. D ille Ce.)
saving * e IMe ol
sho» foreman of
Motor compeey of
liag been sertoeal:
fw m ulcers of th<
i p ate n t
is
repo
SWEET SPANISH ONIONS
By R ail or
Highway to
m i ■‘Miss Spain" in a recent tontest
Hollywood helping to make tMa Urns
, attractive.
P o rtla n d
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\[ed*cbit; f it te r tr a ir u j
JOHNSON’S MARKET
N e w c o a v e n ie n c e fot tm velcn to.
Portland a n jl in te rm e d ia te stations.
L u x u r io u s m o to r-c o ac h service by
Southern Pacific M o to r Transport Co.
in addition to improved schedules o f
Southern Psdho trains,
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or human kindness comes to m r.
There la so much more goodness
end .hindaeaa
fairness In the
world $han moat people realise.
‘ "People are ktpd tp me. W heij
••Now,” he said to himself. *»r I'-speak l h ‘ public, tl^ey. applaud
don’t have to worry gay m o r e « out of eA 'pm&ortloaJlo fay merits
about my eyes. ;I know t lp t I am ae a «peaky r— end 1 kpew -w M i:;
up against and f am g o i i ' g
straight ahead." ’ • ’ i t
t T 1 They see g man whp M » beesh
through difficulties, and they fcp-,
Irving returned "to his paper (a plaud him fo r the struggle he’ nan
Corvallis determined to make U
made., ; ■ -M
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bigger. He also made himgelf big­
•l4 o jM s ’ wOuto S p p lied each
ger. Mrs. Irvine became h I a
other aa muqh •> they t 4o me If
"eyes.”
they only underatSoA each other.
" I gave special attention to You see. they pan rimtoilye from
farm ing topics,” he said.
"One t r y a p p e a r a a c e what I have been
day I wrote an article on the co- through, and' (hey respond with
ryeratlve movement started by a kindness and sympathy. . I f they
handful of apple growers at Hoed would, look into
each
o t h e r ’s
River. Oregon. They were t h e Byes the same wag they yrould he
I ,
first in the West tojyolnt the way ■ B d er to each oth«|>»”
to cooperative t g m ipardmatog.
Many Western . gABftvern~.notKfy
(be citrus fnrM* grow erf*bf d H t '
,
Motor Coach
her cheeks— end Sam.
'
did think much of that boy
8:40. "H ave a cigarette. S u e r* Bui that Suaie H a il was a ni
"Don’t.m in d ir I do.”
g ir l— Tbo bad.”
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‘ “ You alwayw iook ue eute and
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temptto» Whan you smoke.”
*
Tillamook— Norman Chrlste
8:4ft,. "Got a little something
on my top. See. Have Just a little
swallow. It won’t hurt you."
"No, thanks, S*m, I draw 4he
line there, but you may ,if you
w an t- to« but Aratch out fo r the
curves, won’t you, dear?”
1 a . m. The dance is ovey. Sa*n
had 'sampled t other flasks.
f f
Wen B Re4 C lo v e r chees faetoi
C.)ns flr, t prt4e‘
Wa8hlngt,
g(ate
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P o rtla n d ,
4:56 a.m. B:Q5pjp.
Shasta . ' . W : S 5 a . m . 16:50 p.m .
Oregonian .
5 :4 5 p m . 7:15 a .m .
' S i n i l M r improved service returning.
N e w over-night sleeper between Rose-
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Yes, sir! We must eat turkey. The Ashland and Medford district is pitted against Klainath
Falls as a part of a nation wide sales drive thisTnonth. The winners will eat Turkey. The
losers will eat Beans. We cannot lose this contest so this month we are launching the greatest
Chevrolet campaign we have had in many months—
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