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f Not (ho Bast in (ho World, THE BEST In Polk County ■ c FALLS CITY FALLS CITY OREGON, S A T U R D A Y , N O V E M B E R 13. 1915 VOL. XII PARIS TALK ENDS TEN TEAKS' WORK ent uf I .; * naval \ ,!(■..■ ' ii ia. ih re iMirti-i) ns x iijtiu that tolcphi-nlc com iuiiii I, uil'tti between I he navy depart nicnt and war ve*(«la at sea was only » question o f I oh I u III ok the necessary apparatus. "W e are ulile to communicate with battleships now by menus o f wireless tvlegruphy.“ «aid Captain Dullard, ‘bat wireless telephony bolds many ad (lltlonnl advantages. The person call big knows exactly to whom he Is talk Ing. direct contact Is established and a reply comes buck Immediately." Carly Says Many Experts La bored Decade on Apparatus. f The hides, uf which there were 1,352. will go to tanneries In Loudon lo be made finally lulu trunks, valises and other leather things. The bides ought to fetch $38,700 That makea a total o f $40,270 for the season. • Next to elcpbuut and rhinoceros hide, walrus hide Is the toughest leather. The allies use It to polish big guns Juat out o f the foundry. The Alaska water« offer the flneat field In the world for walnut bunting, hut there are no tanneries In this conn- i try equlp|ied to treat the hide«. “ PA U PER" L E F T DLL OF THEM AMERICANS. MEDALS HAVE TH EM To cchin i Cap tain B u lla rd ,'H a a d of N aval Radio Borvico, Dootarod That Wiraloae Tolaphony Holda Many Additional Advantayaa— Pow erful C u rran t F o r L a te s t Achievomont. t 9 CUIcuKO. John J . flirty , tli« Amorl cun TcIt'Liluniu uml Valtitrapb eoiniw iiy'a chief cimliiccr. who directed tlio lontf «erica o f w ire!«*» telcphimo ox- lurUuciil.i thut leceiitl/ reached • dl- limit In the inlk In in ecu the American atatiou nt ArtlUKiun uud the Klffol tow- or In I’llrin. auld ut the f ulveralty club that thta Intent aclcutlllc achievement tvua all Amcrtcau. "The pleat staff o f dtatluguliilied ad ciitbita mid employee« o f the telephone company who lum, furnlahed their hmltii fur the development o f the 111 iciitloiia. are yruduatea o f American college« uml universities," wild Mr fa rty . "TV« have worked In accrot le add thta laurel to Am erica'« Helen tide crown. The achievement 1» American from the ground up. It la routed In America and will be wrltteu on the pages o f American history, "Wireless telephony la the product of American genlua. the lubor of a staff < ft • l JOHN i . c a r t / à L a s t D ays House. In Post HIS F IR S T TRAIN RID E AT 79. Old««t Pioneer of K noxvillo, Is., Hod P e cu lia r Dread of "tho C a rs." Knoxville, la.—Joseph Fee, seventy- nine year» old, the oldest pioneer of Knoxville, where he baa lived since 1849, recently took his first ride on a railroad train, going to Tracy, a four teen mile trip. Mr. Fee has resided within a mile of the railroad for forty years, a branch line passing through Ids land, but be has always had a peculiar dread of "the cars." A few years ago bis friends threat ened to rope* tbe old man and take him to tbe state fair. They abandoned tbe plan when be vehemently declared he would kill every man In the crowd If such a thing wns ever attempted. BLAMES HIGI^MEAT t GOST FOR PELLAGRA Says Poor In South Eat an Excess of Fats. RESOLUTIONS RETURNS FROM NOME WITH 1,353 WALRUSES v o f Atuorlcan »dentist* and other«. All I did was to direct the work. The men under tue did the rest. "In this wonderful achievement there is glory enough for nil. T w o of the principal scientists who luborcd on the problem and whose researches and dis coveries were o f great value were K. H. Jewett mid II L>. Arnold, liotb Seattle. Wash.—Tho steamers Cor young men. win. Captain J. It. Healy, In from “ Ten years ago the American T ele Nome, Alaska, brought 1,353 walruses, phone uud Tclegruph company decided by far the biggest catch on record, nc- to test the possibilities o f wireless te j cording lo Captain Uculy and Oscar lephony. There ure approximately 500 Aunevlk, the chief hunter. eminent scientists In the employ of The Corwin left Seattle on May t the company. During the lust ten with passengers and freight, reaching years ul least fifty of these men have j Nome on the 21st, being the llrst boat devoted tbclr time largely to the ap to reach the far north last spring. paratus needed." I Using Nome as her base, tbe Corwin "H o w would a message Le sent by ! made tw o trips among the Ice floes. your telephony apparatus?" the Inter On the flrst trip 841 walruses were viewer asked. killed nud 522 on tbe socoud. “ There Is n common telephone at the The boat carried twenty-five armed base o f the wireless towers." Mr. Car- native buutcrs. They approached the ly explained. "You enter the building Ice Hoes In a gasoline launch, while where It's housed aud take off the re 1 the steamer atood by ceiver, placing It to your ear. The A walrus must be bit in the head. current that tlows through the wire The hide on the body Is so tough that t from this telephone has little power. It w ill stop any bullets. I f not Instant It Is not severe enough to more than ly killed tho walrus Hops off the Ice cause your tongue to tingle, providing and sinks In the sett. power o f that strength were applied to Captain Healy says that walrus hunt your tongue. ing Is tame and would not attract "Electrical waves caused by the keen sportsmen. A walrus, he says, sound o f the voice as they pass along j will hardly ever fight. Sometimes, of Mils wire reach an electrical apparatus, course, accidents happen. A walrus which Is one o f the keys to the Inven | may flop against the boat and smash tion. This weak current Is so develop It, or It may drive Its tusks through ed ns It passes on and upward that the plankn of the bottom nud rip them when It runs out along a high tension open. But the stenmer Is never very wire and Is shot Into the air In the form far away, and you cam swim to It—If o f electrical waves the voltage would you don't freeze to dentil on the way. kill a man. This Is accomplished by Having killed the walrus, the steam an electrical generator o f between fif er comes nlougslde the Ice, au'* the ty and seventy-five horsepower. In carcass Is hoisted aboard and stripped other words, this apparatus which de o f tusks, hide, whiskers nnd blubber. velop* electrical currents that will pass The Corwin brought down 338 bar around the globe develops the same rels o f walrus oil, worth 31 cents per horsepower as the average automobile gallon, or $5,070, nnd four tous o f tho tusk*, about $4,000 worth, ns the Ivory driven 6y a business man. “ The w iv e s nre sent out in all di Is worth 35 to 50 cents per pound. The whiskers are used In China for rections and uot In a straight line. toothpicks, nnd the Corwin bfuught They reach everywhere." Cncjain TV TT. Bullard, superintend enopgh fo make a valuation o f $500. Addroiseo G ets It W ith T w en ty-th re « Po stm arks on Envolopo. Los Angeles, Cal.—A registered let ter mailed three years ago from Van couver by J. A. Fitzsimmons to D. C. Kllng, Oeotlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, was received recently In Long Beach. Twenty-three postmarks showed tbe trail o f Its travels. From Vancouver to Mexico and back It went. The second time the letter was received In ’ Mexico Postmaster Gomez directed It to Los Angeles. Finally It reached Its destination at Ixtng Beach. Huge S te er F o r F a ir . Klamath Falls, Ore.—George Watt, manager o f the Klamath Packing com pany of this city, intends to send to the exposition at San Francisco what Is believed to be tho largest steer ever produced in the state o f Oregon. He Is a six-year-old range fed animal weigh ing 3,000 pounds and has never been In a stall. N ests U n d sr Buggy Soat. Cleveland, Ga.—When Wesley Nix of Etrls arrived nt enmp meeting he dis covered while assisting his family from (he vehicle a hen sitting on eggs under tbe seat of his buggy. He prevented Biddy from attending meeting nnd re turned home with the sitting hen still on duty. SUGAR FOR BRAIN TUMOR. Exp erim en t at U. of P. Proves H u n dreds of O p eratio ns A re Needless. Philadelphia.—Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, professor o f physiological chemistry at the University o f Pennsylvania, and forty-five medical students are on a sugnr diet und dally undergoing blood tests lu an endeavor to establish a sug ar Index by which physicians may positively ascertain before recommend ing operations whether blindness in a patient Is or Is not due to a brain tu mor. So far the experiment has proved, It Is said, that hundreds o f brain opera tlons have been performed needlessly. Tbe method of-"dlagn ou ln g" brain tumor up to date has beexi based on tbe assumption that a person suffering from that disease could take sugar continually, the belief .being that all 11. o f It wus absorbed by tbe (utuof. Many medical men regard this test as defi cient. Now H is shown that perfectly healthy and normal young uieu can as similate Just as much ’ sugar without harmful effect to their ay item«. lied wood City, Cal.—B Toceblnl. be Mlawntbu, Kuu. Cl old medula fur lieved to huve ticen peuidless and who prize crops are so numerous with H. U. died aa a pauper at tbe Ban Mateo Trent o f lliuwuthu, who has Just been county poor farm, leaves an estât« val designated at the I ’nnama I'uclOc ex ; ued at $10,000 position us champion corn grower for Tw o mortgage« for $3.000 «ach no Kansas, that ho uses the prize medals | Man Francisco property and certlfl- as pat*erweights In his mill office. cates o f cash deposits totalliot $4.000 Trent has no formula o f secret prac were found In hi* effect« by Assistant tice that enabled him to raise the 117 Muperlutcndent Janies Urbana o f tb « bushels to the acre and w in the prize institution BLIND MAN B A S E B A LL FAN. The coru was grown on his father's L* ----------- farm, live miles southwest o f town. In John Mooro of D ecatu r, III., Book* a Held o f eighteen acre’s Trent mens Cham pionship Prize. u m l off on acre, planted tiooue conn Decatur, III.—John Moore has enter ty white com, cultivated It Just us be ed a competition for the distinction of would an ordinary crop and gave It being tbe most confirmed baseball fan no «p ed al attention o f any kind. The o f the country. Moore is blind, but Is corn grew and made him 117 bushels not depending upon that Infirmity to bring him any advantage over bis PREA CH ER PAID IN EGGS. rivals. The prize is a ticket admitting the bolder to all ball games between professional teams In this country or Circuit Rider’s 8tory Told at M. E. Conference. i Canada. Moore baa not missed a game at De 8t. Louis.--'The hardships o f a Moth catur. which Is a member o f tbe Three odist circuit rider were brought fo rd I league, tn eight years. bly to the attention of the city minis a Washington. -Thu spreud of pella ter» attending the St Louis conference gra in the south In the last seven or of the Methodist Episcopal church eight yeura 1« largely due to the high when one country preacher reported cost o f fresh meat, which baa led the thut In the Inst two months he had pooler classes to eat too large an received half of a hog uud a great amount o f carbohydrutes aud fats. many eggs, but no money. He had To The Interstate Commission: sent tw elve dozen eggs to the district This is the conclusion announced by Edgur Mydeustrtcker, statiaticlan of Gentlemen: superintendent, be said. Another circuit rider said he had re the United States health service. "In the northern states,” be «ays. It having come to the notice o f reived 110 In tw o months, aud a third, that he bad received no money, but "the average family was found to con the citizens o f Falls City that that his parishioners hud promised to sume between 1,000 and 1,100 pounds certain Portland, Oregon, lumber buy him u horse before winter and had o f protein, while in the southern states entertained him liberally In their the protein consumption averaged be interests are strenuously oppos tween 700 and 800 pounds. homes ing the recent 4 cent differential "Tbe southern v fam ily consumed nearly a pound a week less o f fresh rate made by the Southern Pac DOG SAVES WOMAN’S L IF E . beef, nearly half as much milk, very ific Company to the lumber deal much less o f other meats and hardly the I C a m s * N ot* W hich B rin g s H tlp A fter any aalt beef, as compared with north ers and manufacturers o f Willamette Valley over Portland Q irl Has Died. ern families. Dallas Tex.— A report from Cisco. "W h ile families In uortbern states on Oregon shipments o f lumber Tex., tells o f the feat which a dog |»er- were found to consume larger quanti to California points, claiming formed In getting relief to an aged vic ties o f butter, families In southern that it is discriminating; there tim o f ptomaine poisoning on a farm states consumed over 00 per cent more nine miles from thut place. lard and nearly three times as much fore, we the committee selected ■% Miss Bettle Alexander, twenty two salt hog products." in mass meeting by the citizens year« old, had died and Mrs. Eliza The lower wages In the Bouth, eTen Power*, eeventy-two years, wag dying In the mill districts, put the people o f Falls City, November 1, 1915, when she wrote a note which she tied down there at an economic disadvan to present the case to your hon to the dog's neck uud bude hint "go tage with the west and north, be aa orable body, from their stand home." The dog made Its way to Cisco serfs point submit the following: through a rainstorm, and relatives o f tile victims, hastening to the farm, Whereas the Portland, Oregon L E T T E R ON WAY T H R E E YEA R S. found Mrs. Powers unconscious i / Spent H ia w a th a (K a n .) ft «id«nt Ue«t Them a> P ap erw eigh ts In Office. Although Monsters, Hunting Them is Unexciting. i $10,000. DUTY. No lumber manufacturers have a favorable differential rate over the Willamette Valley points in shipment to Eastern Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Montana. Middle Western Canadian T erri tory and both North and South Dakota, and Whereas, the Portland, Oregon manufacturers o f lumber have a water rate from Portland, Oregon to San Francisco, California by coast wise boats whereby they are enabled to load their ship ments on lumber carrying boats, thus removing the necesity o f their shipping by rail to points in California, and in order to obtain water transportation, the Valley mills must pay local rates to Portland, and Whereas, the Portland, Oregon lumber manufacturers have ask ed that the 4 cent differential in favor o f Valley points over Port land shipments to California be removed we claim that the V al ley mills are entitled to the d if ferential it being on an average o f 122 miles shorter haul, and Whereas, the removal o f this 4 cent differential rate would prac tically close the California mar ket to Valley shippers, thereby closing their principal market for lumber, and Whereas, the closing o f this market to Valley mills will moan the loss o f thousands o f dollars to the respective communities in which the mills are located, as well as a direct loss to the Valley millers, therefore, Be it Resolved, That it is the sense o f the Falls City Business Men’ s League and the citizens in COME OFTEN IF YOU BVif YOUR GROCERIES FROM US YOU WILL GET CLEAN. FRESH GROCERIES. B ECA U SE WE SELL LOTS OF THEM. WHENEVER YOU WANT ANYTHING TO EAT COME TO US ANO GET IT AND YOU WILL GET GOOD FOOD. YOU OWE THIS TO YOURSELF ANO TO YOUR FAMILY. WE WILL NOT SELL POOR FOOD AT ANY PRICE. WE PRICE OUR GROCERIES RIGHT. TOO. p N. S E L IG ’S FALLS CITY D E P A R TM E N T STO RE general that the differential rate develop in accordance with the made Willamette Valley to Cali amount and quality o f effort put fornia points are just and equit forth by their citizenship, and pro able in every particular and that l gressive, right-living people #vh o tho discontinuance o f the said , have long since learned that it is rate would practically destroy { neither profitable nor pleasant to the lumber industry in the Valley. | hve in non-progressive commun® and ¡ties. In nearly every locality Be it Resolved, That we ask are fathers and mothers whose • your honorable body to carefuliy sons and daughters have been consider the lumber interests o f forced to leave home in order to the Valley and if possible main secure profitable employment that tain said rates, and should have been afforded locally. Be it further Resolved. That a | I f you live on a farm you want copy o f these resolutions be pre- j good roads, schools, churehes.tek- sented to the Southern Pacific! pltone service, mail delivery and a Company. convenient market in which to Respectfully submitted, dispose o f .your products and from D. L. Wood. 'I which to supply your wants. . N. Selig, >Committe. ! I f you live in town you want, in W. F. Nichols, addition to the above, good streets and sidewalks, wholesome amuse ments—those things that go to COMMUNITY CO OPERATION make a community worth living By R V Holland in. These advantages are the na Helping to M ake a P rogressive Town tural outcome of. and are limited I f you have children to educate, to the growth and condition of if you are interested in local con your locality, which is in turn de ditions or religious alfairs, if you pendent upon the extent o f local own, or expect to own a home, or trade activities. other property in your commun Did you ever see a really good ity, a few minutes’ thought will town that did not have good convince you that it is decidedly stores? The two go hand in hand. to your best interest to patronize I personally know of an in your local stores at all times, pro stance, within the past year, vided investigation proves that where a very wealthy man refus you can do so to as good advan ed to locate and establish a modern tage as elsewhere. store in a town of some three I realize that there is a certain thousand population for the reason class o f merchants- and they are that an investigation developed still represented in many towns the fact that the better class o f and cities—who will not handle residents adhered to a tong-stand standard products and who expect ing policy, or habit, o f doing prac buyers to pay exorbitant prices tically all of their buying in the for goods o f unknown or doubtful stores o f a nearby city, or by mail. quality and origin—merchandise On the face of it, this town had on which they can demand wide merely failed to secure a neiv margins o f profit. store. On the other hand, think The class o f “ storekeepers,” for a minute what this rich, ag howevsr, represents a compara gressive man, with the up-to-date tively small minority and is fast store heVould have put in. em going the way of the prehistoric bodying his ideas and methods, dinosaur and the nearly extinct would have meant to the com mossback farmer who “ don t have munity. It would have afforded ____ _______ _ __________ m ________ . to read nothing about farming. J Villages, towns and communities (Cocluded on page 4)