■ V* ■■■ • & -I rat Rot M m lu t in M m WerM, TNI BEST In Nodi Cjunty W sep and KALLS C IT Y VOL. XII HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK Told by E ich a n g u , Reporters and (loaned From Other Reliable Sources. CANADIAN LUMBER IN OUR MARRETS Carload« of Brttlsh Columbia t bini la« Art Boat lato Montana The government o f British Col umbia, proceeding on the assump tion that there will be a big boom in the lumber trade following the cessation o f war in Europe, if not before that time, continues to put forth every effort to aid the lum bermen o f that province in cap turing and controlling foreign markets. When the United States put lumber on the free list, British Columbia lumbermen were aided by their local government in cap turing a large part of the Ameri can m arket Then came the war which had a depressing effect up on the lumber, as well as other lines o f business, but anticipating that the war must end, and with its termination will come a heavy demand for lumber, the British Columbia government has renew ed its activity, and is laying plans to wrest from the Oregon and Washington lumbermen a large share o f their former foreign market It was months ago that agents o f the British Columbia govern ment were sent into the Eastern states in the hooe o f building up a market for British Columbia lum ber, shipped by way o f the Pana ma Canal. Ready Market Found A That British Columbia is finding a ready market for its lumber in the United States is attested by the following paragraph in Consul Woodward’s report: The plant o f the Shull Lumber & Shingle Co. (L td ) on the north o f the Fraser River, a few miles below New Westminister, British Columbia, hag just been completed at an aproximate cost e f $150,000. It recently made its initial ship m en t-th ree cars o f shingles to Montana. It is owned and oper ated by Americans. Timber products exported from British Columbia to the United States, invoiced through the Con sulate General at Vancouver, for the three quarters ended Septem ber 30, 1914 and 1916, were valued ut $4,021,635 and $5,622,451, re spectively. - - City Council Meets The city council met Monday nifiht in an adjourned session^ Mayor Griffin, Auditor McPherren, Council- men Wonderly, Titus, Brown, Hop- kina, Bradley and Singleton were present. The tax budget was the principal topic and it was thaved in every poss ible manner and it was Anally agreed that s 15 mill levy for all purposes would tide the city over and keep it off the rocks for another year. The city attorney was instructed to begin proceedings against all delin quents o f the 1914 street assess ments. The Falls City Lumber Company asked a reduction in their water rate owing to the fact that the mill was not in operation. It was agreed that it was no fault o f the council that the mill was idle. As the water was furnished for fln> protection and not for sluicing out ponds, it was de cided that the company was getting all they paid for and the council de clined to grant any reduction. POLK COUNTY FAIR According to the Polk County Ob server it it extremely doubtful if the county commissioners make an ap propriation for the county fair next year. The Observer observes thst the many complaints registered is the cause o f the decision o f the com missioners. It is to be regretted that the fair was not managed so as to give satis faction to at least a majority o f the citizens o f Polk county living outside o f Dallas. There seems to be a feel ing in many localities that Dallas wants to hog everything, which is probably a wrong idea, but if they believe it, the effect is jusl as bad as if it were true. The publicity de partment was, perhaps, a little short sighted and failed in getting it pro perly advertised, but probably they would adopt different tactics next year. You know that "som e" learn only by experience. The President's Plan The “ President'« Plan’ ’ to recruit the army does not look good. There is something hidden from the public. The training o f 400,000 citizens two months each year for six years is but the forerunner o f sinister designs upon the people. The manufacturer o f munitions o f war are lotting Woodrow on the back and telling him that he is it with a big “ 1“ and the poor dolt has fallen for it. These manufacturers would like to create a war spirit in the United States in order that war may not become a lost art. They are opposed to "beat ing the sword into plowshares and the spears into pruning hooks". Die United States Ands it difficult to re cruit the army and navy notwith standing the highly colored pictures o f soldier life that adorn every post- office in the land. The average American does not fancy selling his "birtftright’’ for a paltry $13 per and become a sculiien and bootblack for some dissolute and vicious army officer. Clean up on these gold- braided gentry and make the life of a common soldier bearable and there will be less trouble in recruiting. — .......... ■— " Polk County School Items OREGON, SA TU R D A Y . NOVEMBER ¡¿0, 1916 Saloons Must Pay Taxes Now AND H O S E FO R A U T H E FA M ILY Dean Galloway Says Moro Ma chinery Will Be Used. EDUCATION IS IN DEMAND. WOODEN LEG SAVES HIM. Farmsr Etcjqsai Serious Injuries In ffiqht With Boar. Bunbury, Pa,—H U wooden les spared him severe Injuries In a buttle wltb a hear, arcoi'dlng to Johu Davison, a* Catuwbom mountain fanner, vvbo Ursa near (be town o f (but name. Davison, according to bis story, was riding horseback aloug the 8 usque hauua river, wblcb skirts dense inoun- luln growtha at tbU point, wben be saw u black bear flabing in the Pus- quelianiia. It would dive down and then come up with a fish in Ita mouth, be ku Id. Angry at bla approach. Bruin drop- lied a U*b and ruv « cha*e, hut Davi son drew Us revolver and Bred. Ue missed It. and Ibe ualmal came on a ft er him and bit and clawed at bis wooden leg. H e tired again, and then a freight train upprouebed on a rail road near by. This, together wltb tbe tooting o f Ibe locomotive's whistle, cooled Ibe brute's angry passions, and It dropped to Ita feet and ambled off. dlsap|>earlug In tbe woods. Trainmen declare they have frequent ly seen bears In tbU territory, and tbe farmer exhibited a torn pair o f trouaera snd lacerated wooden leg to gaping In quisitors. a, tion ef Rural O.v.lopmsnt— Look* Forward te Husbandry Without "Blight of Poooantry.” Albany. N. Y.—Beverly T. Galloway, dean o f tbe New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, spoke at tbe re cent convocation o f the I'BlrersUy of tbe State o f New York ou "T b e School and the Farm o f tbe future ” He out lined his concepilon of the future farm and Ita place in tbe life o f the uutlun. then analyzed tbe forces which are making for rural development In Ibis country and gave bis Ideas o f tbe prop er organization of these forces to se cur« a satisfying country life. The great problem, according to Dean Galloway, was whether tbe fu lle d State« would lie able.to develop a |*er ONLV COME INTO OUR VOUR FEET INTO A PAIR THEY WILL Professor Tells Opticiens Thst Color Weakens Littles Ones’ 8ight. Pittsburgh.— Babies* eye« are being ruined by white walls, whlto dresses and white carriages, said Profeasor K. A. Woll o f Columbia university. New York, recently before tbe nineteenth annual convention o f the Pennsylvanie Optical society In a local hotel. “ I f you care fo r tbe health of tbe youngaler the w orit color you can have on tbe walls o f bis nursery or bedroom Is white." be said. "Babies’ eyes are spoiled by white dresses nod white carriages. Neutral and dark tints should he used. The dress, car riage and walls of rooms In which baby spends most of tbe time should be o f some tan or neutral tin t either a llgbt brown or a green gray. This applies to tbe dress of tbe nurse and tbe mother as welL" BEAR SAVES KEEPER FROM HUNGRY MATE LOOK SO STORE AND S U P OF OUR SHOES. WELL. AND FEEL SO GOOD. AND THE PRICE WILL BE SO LOW TH AT YOU WILL BUY THEM. THEY WILL GIUE YOU SUCH LONG WEAR TH AT YOU WILL COME TO US THE REST OF YOUR U F E WHEN YOU NEED SHOES. OUR HOSIERY WILL PLEASE YOU. TOO. N. SELIG’S WHITE RUINS BABIES’ EYES. Driven Away After Attacking Prospective 200 Pound Meal. Retired Early LESS LABOR ON FUTURE FARMS North Yakima, Wash., Nov. 15. — Retail liquor dealers In Yakima county must pay their 1915 taxes now, not In-ing allowed to wait! until the taxes ure regularly due next February. County Treasurer Wood holds that since the state is going dry the firat o f the year, saloon property comes under the classification o f that which is in danger of being dissipated or re moved, and unless the remaining 16 o f the 26 liquor dealers who have not already settled do so at once and the sheriff will see if he Head ot New York Stats Agricultural Collag* at Cornsll G<v#t His Conesp- can get the money. Mr. L. P. Harrington and Mr. N. C. Maris, Field Workers from the State Superintendent’s Office, each spent a week in Polk county recent ly working on Industrial Club Work, visiting schools during the day and talking with the children relative to this work and attending night meet ings in the community at night. New Turk.—An unscheduled perform The Industrial Work in Polk coun ance of Androcles and tbe Hon was ty is starting out in an excellent way. staged recently In the Central park polar bear (auk. Jim Coyle, tbe keep Mr. W. A. Barr of the Oregon A g er, was Androcles. His namesake. Jim. riculture College has also been with (be patriarch o f tbe bear colony, play us the past two weeks and has been ed the lion, while bis consort, Molly, working with the children on the was the crowd of wild animals o f tbe Dairy Herd Record Keeping, in arc us, whose role was to eat tbe mar tyr. which work many of the pupils over At 2:15 o'clock p. to. Androcles. the county have entered. We now equipped with bip boots and a monkey have the best enrollment in this work wrench, went into tbe tank to repair that we have ever had. The plans the drain at tbe bottom. Jim and Mol ly retired upstage on tbe rocks and are such that the children are taking looked at blul. Androcles went ahead great interest in it and it is going to wltb his work, bending over into tbe be much more profitable than it has water. wt:b bis back to tbe animals. Androcles' 200 pounds caught Molly's ever been fff the past. The Gooseneck School became stan- eye. An Instant later sbe Jumped, and it daraN ov. 12th with Miss Ella Mehr- ling as teacher and the following would have been all up wltb Andro- school board: Mrs. Elsie Bartlett as 1 rlea If Jim bad remained n spectator. clerk; Mrs. White, Mr. Ed. Kucher He Jumped after MoWy and caught her . by the throat, while Androcles clam- and Mr. J. F. Rhodes as directors. From the White House, on elec tion night, came no comment on the results o f this year’ s voting. The only statement forthcoming was that the President had gone to bed. As we recall, the stereo typed despatch from Fairview, L iftoln , Nebraska, on the elec tion nights o f 1896, 1900 and 1908, read: ‘ ‘Mr. Bryan retired early” . No. 12. FA LLS O IT Y DEPARTMENT STORE their relation to tbe present radier Chah Ibe teaching o f words and their rela tion to the past. I am not so much concerned wltb making more farmers • s I am with making lietter ones. “ Tbe school must concern itself more and more with the needs o f tbe peo- ] pie nnd be more o f a community cen- m M U U I T. G A L L O W A Y ; 1er, wltb the teacher as a community The mere Introduction o f manent agriculture without "pcasantiz- builder. Ing" those who must look to tbe land 'agriculture' Into the school will not for a living. He said: accomplish the ends desired, and it “ Wherever is found a permanent and must be fully realized that tbe school successful agriculture, measured mere Is not for the preparation o f Ufa. but ly by the maintenance o f soil fertility lj Hie Itself.” and high average crop yields, there Is found a peasantlzed and labor depress ed people whose days are full o f toil LED A “ DOG’S LIFE.” and whose minds have never been giv en much opportunity for growth. Saloon Keeper Tells Court Ho Slept In “ Even In this couutry more than a Room With Fifteen Canines. million farmers Uve aod support their St. Louis.—Sleeping In the room and families on a labor Income o f less than tbe bed with as many as fifteen dogs a hundred dollars a year, dud very lit Is a dog's life, according to Kdward tle o f this Income actually comes to tbe Klader. a former saloon keeper, now farmer as money. So. despite all that living In Bellevue, who recently sued has been said regarding tbe delights, for divorce. (be independence, tbe freedom and the The dogs belonged to his wife, Ida. self sufficiency o f tbe farm, people are the petition stated. It Is said that sbe turning from i t also permitted chickens s free runway “ W bile there has been a steady de of the saloon, and when R ader at crease in tbe percentage o f our popula tempted to drive out tbe dogs be says tlon engaged in agriculture, the per his «life threatened blm with a club. capita production o f our staple crops has been increasing. This is primarily Old Gas Wall Does Duty. due to the utilisation o f machinery, Napoleon. O.—A gas well sealed up making it practicable to more and In disgust twcnty-seT«n years ago is more utilize horsepower and other pow now being used for lighting, beating er instead o f man power. "Despite tbe fact that In practically and cooking pnr|ioaes by former Sheriff D. W. Sanglct on his farm near here. all other countries the intensity o f tbe farming has Increased with the density Wben his nelgbtwr* recently began us of population, this need not follow ing the gas from tbe Napoleon-Wause- here. It would be unfortunate If It did on pipe line he retailed the abandoned follow, because an Intensive agricul Will and had It eased and pipes laid ture has been practicable only where to the house. there Is an oversupply o f human la bor Tbe bountiful crops from small areas have been made possible only l»y tbe toil and sweat o f tbe man who. while be Is able to produce these re ■ults, must do ao at tbe expense o f tbe mental, nnd i might almost say tbe moral, side of his being. This Is agri cultural peasantry In its worst form. “ Tbe farm o f tbe future will so util ise modern labor saving devices and efficiency methods that human labor tiered out o f the nrenn, with only a will be reduced to a minimum, and tbe scratch on the back o f his band to farmer and his children will have time, show where the bear’s tcetb bad opportunity and means o f living a sat gruzed him. Isfactory, wholesome life. It will prob Hill 8nyder. bead keeper, nnd bla ably mean a farm o f average size. three assistants heard Androcles using “ W e may look forward to perma strong language and hurried up wltb nent husbandry, freed from tbe blight pointed Iron bars A fter five minutes' o f peasantry, standing squarely for its persuasion they separated the couple, place in tbe affaira o f the nation, but while tbe martyr went into tbe police recognising Its relations nnd responsi station to recuperate. bilities to other industries, and recog “That bear Jim," said Snyder, "has nlztng, further, that the fullest nnd been here ten years and has never glr* best development o f one cau be attain en us any trouble. Molly baa been ed only through tbe fullest and best de here six and keeps you guessing every velopment o f all. minute. Yes, sir, bears are funny. "T h e demand Is for education that You dareu't turn your back on 'em— vtfU .teach tbe meaning e f things _»nd never.” Cuts Third Sot of Tssth. Sandusky.—John Brooks, elgbty-two. is getting his third set o f teeth. Brooks is a civil war veteran and Uvea in Cot tage M. Ohio Soldiers and Sailors’ home. Ills grandmother, he says, cut her third set o f teeth at ninety-four. BUSINESS MEN’S LEAGUE. • There was a call meeting of the Business Men’s League Tuesday night at the Bank to take action on a letter received by the League in regard to the rate hearing at Tort land. The letter explains it self, and is as follows: WILLAMETTE VALLEY LUMBER MAJICrRS ASSOCIATION SIS Lumbermens Bid. Portland, On. Nov. 10, ISM Fells City Commentai Club. Fell* City. Oregon. Gentlemen: We with to lake thie opportunity of thank ing you lor tbs rpltndld »apport you hsvo (Ivon ue in the detente ol tbe prêtant Willem ette Valley rates on lumber. Tbte concerted notion on U s pert ol tbs Commercial Organi sations of Western Oregon has shown many Interests o l Portland thst we a n alive to our just sends snd thst ws wlU stand w ild ly lor what w e believe to be our rights Wo hardly think thst It trill be necessary for you to bo represented st tbs bearing in Portland on the 1Kb se the Commissioner» w ill simply take testimony from ;the .Railroad and tbe shippers of lumber. If we w est any further assistance, we know thst you w ill be glad to help us. Tours very truly. Jay. 8. Hamilton, Secy. Nineteen dollars and fifty cents had been subscribed to defray the expenses of the delegates to the ■nesting, but as it was not neces sary for them to go tbe meeting was called to decide i f tbe money be returned to the subscribers or placed in the treasury to defray other expenses as they m ight arise. A m ajority o f the subscribers being present it was decided to place it in tbs treasury. Questi jns of interest to the wel fare o f the city were discussed, par ticularly the repair o f North Mein street where hesvy trafic had cut ruts I t was pointed out that a few yards of crushed rock ju di ciously used at this time would save many dollars. Tbe city treasurer said that he had received about $75 in road taxes from the county that he imagined might be used for that purpose, snd accord- ingle a committee composed of Kd Rich. G. D. Treat and W. F. Nich ols wore a pointed to present the matter to the council snd ask that the repairs be made. The special rood levy to be vot ed on at Oakhurst Saturday, N ov ember 27 was up for discussion, ft was explained th st the reason that the election was to be held at Oakhurst was that at tbe time the notices were issued it was believed that Falla City was a separate road district snd would not vote on the questions, but it was learn ed later thst the city was still in Road District No 21, but it was to lato to change tho place of election. The necessity of voting a small special tax was urged on the grounds that if a tpecial tax was voted it had been customary for tbs County Court to allow the dis trict all ol the road money whereas if none were voted thirty por cent went into the general road fund. The meeting adjourned to meet Tuesday. December 8, in T oller’s ball.