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All roads lead
week.
to Dallas this
This is
season.
the auctioneer's busy
The gardens are growing as if
to make up for lost time.
' After war has worked a certain
amount'of havoc it is difficult to
ipicture such a thing as the status
'Quo-ante.
the hop picking season was
'short this year but some of the
'participants are said to have
made good wages in the work.
Although considerably altered
and a little disjointed, the Nor
mal will resume business on the
old stand next Monday.
Stand from under. The price
of sauer kraut is dropping. Cab
bages sold a year ago at thirty
five dollars a ton and are quoted
this year at seven dollars a ton.
It is a happy thought that some
of the men who are so expert at
throwing bricks in the pathway
of progress would succeed nicely
at bomb throwing in the French
trenches.
It didn't take quite a year to
perform the actual work of pav
ing Main street. The first dirt
was moved during the first week
of October last year and the fin
ishing touches were applied this
week.
America has evinced a willing
ness to furnish the supplies if
Russia will furnish the backbone;
but the evidence of ability on
this score is not promising enough
to warrant the dumping into that
chaos of either men or dollars.
Our idea of zero in appropriate
cognomens is that of a farmer
who resides between Monmouth
and Portland. This particular
grangers name as it appears on
his mail box is A. Tack. His tal
ent is wasted in agriculture. He
should be employed in an uphol
stery hop.
An exchange insinuates that a
great many women are knitting
woolen socks for the soldiers who
never knit any for their own
husbands.
the wall of the building on the
lower floor, using it in part as a
partition. But the foundation
was found to be insecure and the
whole of the wall had to be torn
out But because, the plans al
lowed for the old wall, and be
cause the change to supports un
derneath would have disarranged
the plans and led to extra ex
pense, the space occupied by the
wall is to be lost and where the
wall stood is to be a vacant space
between the partitions of the
lower rooms.
With a hundred million bushels
surplus of potatoes this year it
does not look as though there
will be a great deal of starvation
in the U. S. this winter.
Milk is to be 15 cents a quart
in Milwaukee by October 1st, but
as long as Pabst best product is
in supply to meet the demand,
many of the best families of the
city will never know it
Sometimes they make an un
known contributor to the Kea
Cross fund out of the govern
ment. Roseburg is to supply din
ner to 7,000 in the transfer of
troups and the government is to
pay 60 cents for each dinner. Of
the proceeds, 10 cents each is to
be donated to the Red Cross
und.
The Normal faculty should be
in fine trim for work next week
for a large percentage of them
have been on the medical dry
docks for repairs during the past
year.
By their deeds you shall know
them, and the man who has an
automobile and gives an occasion
al joy ride to his neighbor who
has no car, is entitled to consid
eration as a public spirited citi
zen.
Next to the welcome given the
returning soldier is the welcome
that greets the young man who
returns from the wheat fields
where he has made $3 to $3.50 a
day and board this particular
past summer.
People who have puzzled this
summer as the work took shape.
as to ,how the interior of the
Normal addition iskto appear, are
now having their suspicions con'
firmed or condemned as the case
may be.
The government is pretty thor
oughly organized but it still lacks
an official fool killer as is evi
denced by some of the agricult
ural moves which it undertakes
As a psychological move the
offer of the German government
to its soldiers of a large reward
to the soldier who first brought
in an American, dead or alive,
fell flat. The Loyal Legion met
the offer with another, a gradua-
;ed offer; so much for the kaiser,
so much for one of his generals,
and smaller sums for officers,
down to a substantial offer for
the taking of the first German
soldier.
Talking about hot weather, we
quote the following from a letter
rom a friend in Riverside, Calif
"We have been good and warm
this summer. , Expect you have
heard of our three days of heat
in June. Temperature from 118
to 123. Lost ninety per cent of
the naval oranges and burned
the walnut trees. We had the
best crop hanging that ever was
known. Much the hottest seas
on we nave seen since coming
here. 100 degrees in the shade
nearly every day now."
There are a few things to be
said in favor of the idea of a
highway made to meet the needs
of the country through which it
passes as contrasted to the high
way that is designed to be a di
rect route between certain im
portant centers. The latter has
been the theory on which rail
roads have been built by private
capital. If railroads had been
built for the purpose of develop
ing the country, eastern Oregon
would have been supplied when
the rest of the state was. As to
highways, if anyone is in a hurry
to get to Portland he can take
the east side highway by cros
sing the river at Salem, and as
for the west side, if its highwuy
is built to meet the needs of its
people it will not be located far
wrong.
It is impossible for an archi
tect to foresee everything. When
the Normal addition plans were
and some of the advice ladled 'made it was designed to leave
TEere'tave been no fires other than
those started by lightning In the Cas
cade national forest this summer, is
the assertion of Clyde B. Seltx, super
Tisor of the forest
Lena Hayes, 9-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hayes, of Walter-
vllle, was drowned when she fell Into
the Eugene municipal sower plant
canal, nar that place.
Nearly $40,000 is the amount appor
tioned to the state of Oregon by the
federal government to be used in the
construction of trails and forest roads
during the coming year.
A field geologist of the United
States geological survey will be sent
to Oregon to look over the prospects
for oil and natural gas, at the solici
tation of Representative McArthur.
The biggest automobile show ever
held in conjunction with the Oregon
state fair is to he staged on the state
fair grounds north of Salem from Sep
tember 24 to 29, Inclusive, this year. .
The Ashland city council has pur
chased S20 acres of timber land in the
Ashland creek canyon as a matter ot
protection to the watershed of Ash
land creek, which Is the city' water
supply.
Baker county has petitioned the
state highway commission for the sur
vey of two roads from Baker, one to
Cornucopia and one to Unity. The
county will appropriate $10,000 to
ward the construction of the Cornu
copia road and $4,000 toward the con
struction of the Unity road.
The 80 correspondence courses of the
University of Oregon in high school
and college subjects have been opened
to soldiers who are citizens of Oregon
stationed in any part of the world as
the result of a ruling by Attorney
General Brown that the extension
courses may be offered to citizens be
yond the borders ot the state.
According to a report of the secre
tary of the Interior, furnished to Rep
resentative Slnuott, the total amount
to be j)ald to land-grant counties ot
Oregon by way of back taxes, penal
ties, costs and accrued Interest is $1,
584,906, ot which amount $1,346,192
represents accrued taxes to June 9,
1916.
Believing that a federal grain in
spector should be stationed at Pen
dleton, farmers ot the district have
petitioned the Oregon public service
commission to that end. Tbey con
tend that since such a large amount
ot grain is grown in the district it
should be Inspected before consign
vent to the terminal markets.
A petition numerously signed was
presented to the Lincoln county court
asking that a special election be held
for the purpose of voting on a propo
sition to bond the county tor $200,
000 to build roads. ;
The chiet of engineers Instructed
the district engineer at Portland to
proceed at once with the work of
deepening the locks at Oregon City,
for which work congress recently ap
propriated $80,000. ,
That the fire which has been just
halted in the Fort Rock section after
burning over 20,000 acres of yellow
pine, was undoubtedly of incendiary
origin, Is the decision ot C. J. Buck,
assistant chief forester.
At 8 o'clock Tuesday 7400 acres of
land known as the Benham Falls
segregation and located In the Bend,
Alfalfa and Powell Butte vicinities, In
Crook and Deschutes counties, was
opened for homestead filing.
Admiral Capps has Informed Sena
tor Chamberlain that the shipping
board U considering the proposal of
Robert A Miller, ot Portland, to build
ships of concrete but is not yet ready
to enter into any" contracts.
Dr. F. M. Brooks, of Portland, form
erly of Sllverton, was appointed by
Governor Wlthycombe to succeed Dr
M. B. Marcellus as a member of the
state board ot health. Dr. Marcellus
resigned to enter military service.
Pendleton leads the cities ot the
state invcontributiona ot books to the
war library, according to a statement
made by Miss Cornelia Marvin, state
librarian. That city has given 462
volumes and about 2000 magazines.
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