The Maupin times., October 07, 1914, Image 3

Prize-Winning
State Fair
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis Agricultural exhibits at the
state fair were the basis of agricultural
instruction in the boys' State Fair
camp and school at Salem.
The students were two boys from
each county in the state, who
won scholarships in this school
with all expenses paid, by superior
work in one or more of the industrial
club projects. The instructors were
specialists from the Agricultural col
lege who were elected for this
work because of their interests in the
work of young people as well as for
their high degree of proficiency in
their subjects.
In the forenoons lessons were given
in subjects relating to the domestic an
imals of the farm. The lesson
covered the subjects of horses, beef,
cuttle, hogp, sheep and goats, and
poultry. How to judge the value of
the different classes of livestock for
Prune Crop Not Large
But Exceptionally Good
Newberg Just west of Newberg are
the famous red hills of Dundee, where
the Italian prune and the English wal
nut grow to perfection. At the Prince
orchard are the oldest English walnut
trees in the state planted for commer
cial purposes. For many miles the
hills are covered with prune trees,
chiefly Italian, though the French
prune, the leading variety in Califor
nia, is grown to some extent here, but
it is called the Petite, and does not at
tain the California size.
A trip through some of the prune
orchards in the Dundee district was
made recently. There has been a gen
eral impression that the crop would be
light. In some orchards that proved
to be true, but the prunes are unusual
ly large.
It was fortunate for the prune orch
ardists that the hop picking season
ended earlier than usual, for the
prunes began to drop about three
weeks ahead of time this season, and
many of those who had found employ
ment in the hop fields at once went to
Reports From State Banks
Show Liberalty in Loans
Salem Reports received from 162
state banks and trust companies out
of 176 to September 12 by State Su
perintendent of Banks Sargent show
that they, like the national banks of
the state, are not hoarding money, as
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
charged banks in other parts of the
country with doing. The report shows
that 85 state banks have decreased
their reserve percentages and 71 in
creased them since June SO.
"Judging from the figures in my
possession," said Mr. Sargent, "it
does not appear that the charges made
by Secretary McAdoo against national
banks in certain districts apply to the
Oregon state banks to any extent.
Out of 162 institutions 93, in spite of
the unfavorable conditions prevailing,
have extended their lines of credit;
40 have been obliged to reduce their
loans on account of a shrinkage in de
posits, and only 29 have failed to in
crease their loans with corresponding
increase in deposits, a majority of
which have fully met the legitimate
demands of their customers."
Pension Test Case Is On.
Salem The suit of Maud E. Zach
ary, of Polk county, to compel the
county to pay her pension of $40 a
month under the widow's pension act,
passed at the last session of the legis
lature, was argued before the Supreme
court. She has five children and her
husband is confined in a state institu
tion. The county court declined to grant
her a pension and the Circuit court
granted a writ of mandamus. The
county appealed. It is the first case
under the widow's pension act to be
appealed and is in the nature of a test
suit. The Marion county court has
declined to issue pensions under the
act, and if the court ruling in the Polk
county case is favorable to Mrs. Zach
ary it is believed numerous demands
will be made upon the court here for
pensions.
Linnton Rate Suit Started.
Salem Suit to restrain the State
Railroad commission from putting into
effect an order increasing the passen
ger fares of the United Railways com
pany from Linnton to Portland was
instituted here Tuesday. The plaintiffs
are Mark Crandall and other residents
of Linnton. Officials of the town filed
suit several weeks ago for an injunc
tion Bgainst the rates of the commis
sion being put into effect. It is
charged that the order is unconstitu
tional and in violation of a decree of
the Multnomah court fixing rates.
Portland Man Buys Berry Juice,
Salem The Longanberry juice out
put of the Salem Fruit Union has been
bought by F. A. Breck, of Portland,
who is the head of a company that
plans to engage in the business on a
large scale. Mr. Breck was engaged
in the manufacture of grape juice in
New Jersey for 28 years, and says lo
ganberry juice is far superior to grape.
Salem Fruit Union, under the direc
tion of a professor of the Oregon Agri
cultural college, pressed about 2500
gallons of loganberry juice.
Boys Study
Exhibits Free
buying and selling purposes, how to
feed and manage the different herds,
and the fundamentals of breeding for
improvement was part of the work.
In the afternoons the lessons will
dealt with the subjects of soils and crop
production. This group of young boys
from practically every section of the
state were taught methods of culti
vation of standard crops and the treat
ment of soil best calculated to retain
fertility and moisture. The lessons
dealt with the subjects of selection
of seeds and plants, the classes and
types best suited to local conditions
and local markets, and the most suc
cessful cultural methods of growing
them. The classes of crops in
cluded the common field crops, special
nitrogen gathering plants, and fruit
and garden plants. In all this work
the exhibits at the state fair together
with the methods of production that
secure the best results, were made
an integral part of the instruction.
work in the prune orchards. The Eng
lish walnuts are also ripening earlier
this year.
In most of the orchards prune pick
ing will be finished this week. It is
noted that those on the lower eleva
tions were not injured by the rains as
much as were those up higher. It is
said that at the Allan Fruit company's
orchard of 250 acres, the crop was in
jured from $8000 to $10,000. This is
one of the largest orchards in that lo
cality and gives employment in the
busy season to about 140. This com
pany has a packing plant at Dnudee,
though the orchard is about three
miles west of town.
W. S. Allan, whose orchard is about
a mile west of Dundee, is the pioneer
prune grower of that district. He
does not consider the fact that they
acre large as being of special value to
the growers, as the rule of buyers has
been to fix the basis of price on the
largest size. The Oregon crop is short
and the California crop will amount to
85,000,000 or 90,000,000 pounds as
against its usual crop of 200,000,000.
Mapleton Soon to Have
Modern Electric Plant
Mapleton That the natural re
sources of Oregon can be efficiently
brought under control to the better
ment of mankind is being demonstrat
ed successfully by R. H. Clow, the
Mapleton capitalist, in the near-com
pletion of his electric light and power
plant that will serve the people of
Mapleton and the near vicinity.
Some months ago Mr. Clow con
ceived the idea of a water plant for
Mapeton and summarily put in a small
dam in a canyon on his land about one
half mile west of the town. From
there he piped the water to the con
sumers. The water from the canyon will now
serve two purposes, but to conserve
every drop of available water Mr.
Clow has erected an immense concrete
dam, the largest in Western Lane
county. ,
From the dam Mr. Clow has laid 15
inch prepared wooden pipe to carry the
water down the canyon to his power
house, which is located in the business
section of the town.
Practically the entire town has been
wired but light will not be available
for several days, as Mr. Clow has been
forced to wait for the Southern Pacific
to put in a culvert before he can cross
their right-of-way on the new Eugene
Marshfield road with his last few
lengths of pipe.
Mapleton can boast of being the
only unincorporated town that has a
water and light plant within itself and
not owned by a corporation.
Mr. Clow has set a flat rate of 25
cents a lamp for residence purposes.
The entire cost of the project will ag
gregate about $6000.
Charter Flaws Caught.
Salem Allegations that a charter
provision to give Salem a business
form of government prepared by a
committee of citizens provided for the
election of two mayors and that it took
away from the city the right to con
tract for light and water were made at
a meeting of the city council.
It was freely admitted that the in
strument contained technical flaws,
and as a result it was referred to a
committee composed of three council
men and three members of the citizenB
committee to make the necessary cor
rections. It was declared that be
cause of the necessity for making cor
rections the charter probably would
not be ready for submission to the
people at the November election and
that it would have to go over to a
special election or the next general
election.
Burns Buildings Rising.
Burns The work of rebuilding the
district destroyed by the August fire
has begun. Judge H. C. Levens has
let the contract for the erection of a
one-story stone building, 50x100 feet.
so constructed that it can be later ex
tended one or two stories more. He
expects to have it completed for oecu
pancy by January 1. All its floor space
is already leafed. George Fry and C.
A. Bedill will also proceed at once to
reconstruct their stone buildings north
of the postoffice. All business houses
damaged by the fire are being repaired.
Bombardment of Outer
Defenses of Antwerp Begun
Amsterdam The Germans have be
gun their attacks on the first line of
defense of Antwerp, according to dis
patches received by the Amsterdam
papers. Moll, which is an important
railway junction near the Dutch bor
der, was occupied by the Germans Tues
day, and Wednesday the Germans,
who again occupied Malines, began a
bombardment of Lierre, directly in
front of Antwerp.
They also continued their bombard
ment of forts of Waehle and St. Cath
arine. It is believed heavy Austrian
artillery is being used.
Lierre, according to a message to
the Handelsblad, had been under shell
fire since early morning. The people
at hrst hid in cellars, but subsequently
fled to Antwerp, being joined by fugi
tives from the surrounding villages. It
is reported that many houses have
been destroyed and some of the inhab
itants killed and wounded. One shell
fell on on a hospital, killing nine per
sons. CARRANZA READY TO QUIT;
ASKS VILLA TO DO SAME
Mexico City In his reply to the pe
tition of Francisco Villa's generals
asking him to resign in favor of Fer
nando Iglesias Caldron, and thus avoid
civil war, General Venustiano Carranza
says:
"I will gladly take such action if it
is ratified by the general conference;
if not, I will fight reaction and the old
regime, which appears now to be head
ed by Villa, who, it may be, is an un
witting tool in this, as was Orozco in
his fight against Madero."
General Carranza asks General
Villa's chief to demand the retirement
of their leader as commander of the
northern division of the army, in view
of his, Carranza's, willingness to retire
if the army so votes.
The general conference of military
chiefs will be held soon when the
resignation of Gerneal Carranza will
be considered, although but 26 gen
erals will be present. It is believed
here that further fighting is unlikely.
General Carranza's attitude of abne
gation is warmly commended by the
local press.
Japanese Drive Germans
Back; Goal Is Sighted.
London "The Japanese occupied all
the high ground outside Tsing Tau
(seat of government of the German
concession of Kiau Chau) overlooking
the German s main line of defense be
fore noon Monday, " says a statement
given out by the oilicial news bureau,
The communication continues :
"They began an attack on the ad'
vanced positions four kilometers (two
miles and a half) from the enemy's
main line at dawn. In a spurt of
fierce flames from sea and land they
drove the enemy from his position. ,r
The Exhcange Telegraph company
publishes a dispatch from Shanghai
saying that the Japanese have occupied
Wei Hsien and control the Tsi Nan Fu
Kiau Chau railroad.
This action was taken, the corre
spondent says, because of the discov
ery of a German mine outside the zone
of hostility, and as an offset to this
German violation of Chinese neutrality.
A missionary writing from Ping Tuh
Chow, in Shan Tung province, con
trary to other reports received here.
says the Japanese troops have be
haved well. The conduct of 5000 Jap
anese who went through this city was
exemplary, he said.
It is a fact that they stole chickens.
but they paid more than the market
price for their purchases, and there
was neither plundering not attackes
on women.
1915 Prosperity Predicted
To Be Best in History
Atlantic City, N. J. The "buy-a.
bale" movement to help find a market
for the cotton crop of the South re
ceived impetus here at the annual con
vention of the National Carriage
Builders' association, every one of the
representatives of the big factories of
the country pledging to buy at least
one bale. One St. Louis firm con
tracted for 1000 bales.
In his annual address William H
Ronninger, of St. Louis, president of
the association, said that trade had in
creased wonderfully in the laBt year,
despite the growth of the automobile
business. He predicted the biggest
year in the country's history for 1915,
"because of 'the opportunities offered
by the European war," and advocated
immediate steps to secure the South
American trade left open as a result
of the war.
German Fleet Prepares.
Copenhagen Travelers arriving here
from the Kiel canal say that the Ger
mans are busy placing new ordnance,
which the Krupp works has been ex
perimenting with for the past two
years, on the armored cruisers and
dreadnoughts. The canal is described
as being crowded with warships, in
cluding the largest battleships. The
arsenals are busy day and night, and
long trains arrive continually with im
mense guns for the ships. The Germans
are reported as declaring that the
whole fleet will soon be ready to fight.
Namur May Be Capital.
London The Ghent correspondent of
the Daily Express has sent the follow-
ing dispatch: "Persons arriving from
Brussels say that the Germans are pre
paring to move the administrative
headquarters of the military govern
ment of Belgium to Namur. This is
taken to mean that the Germans are
getting ready for the next stand near
er their own frontier."
NORTHWEST MARKET
REPORTS.
Portland Wheat trading in the
country was limited, not only because
of the extreme prices asked by farm
ers, but also owing to the congested
condition of the docks here and at the
Sound ports.
Local buyers on the Exchange bid
lower for club and red wheat, offering
94 cents for the former and 88'a:89
cents for the latter, but for forty-fold,
bids were advanced half a cent to 98J
cents. Bluestem was unchanged at
$1,021 bid.
Weakness was in evidence in the
oats and barley- markets. For spot
oats, buyers offered $25.50 and for
November oats, $26.50. For barley,
$20 was bid. Mill feed was unchanged.
Wheat Bid: Bluestem, $1.02Jc
per bushel; forty-fold, 98Jc; club,
90c; red Russian, 88c; red Fife, 89c.
Oats Bid: No.l white feed,
$25.50 per ton.
Barley Bid: No. 1 feed, $20 per
ton; brewing, $20; bran, $23; shorts,
$24.50.
Millfeed Spot prices : Bran, $25
26.50 per ton; shorts, $28(ft 28.50;
rolled barley, $28.
Corn Whole, $38 per ton ; cracked,
$39.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $16
17perton; grain hay, $1112; al
falfa, $1213.50.
The English hop crop is turning out
to be larger than was estimated.
Every cable received in the past few
days makes the quantity greater. The
cables estimated a yield of 500,000
cwt., and a cable sent by one of the
largest London firms said the crop
would be 600,000 cwt. Either the
English merchants were badly fooled
by the size of the crop before it was
picked, for they estimated it then at
350,000 to 400,000 cwt., or they are
trying by means of these big figures to
get prices down. The market in
London has gone off badly. A cable
quotation being 50 to 90 shillings per
cwt., equal to 10.71 to 19.29 cents per
pound.
This break in London prices is not
only a severe blow to the English hop
growers, but it is also carrying down
hop prices on the Pacific Coast. The
best price reported in the local market
is 13i centB. The market stood at
that figure just before the war. After
hostilities began prices started climb
ing until they touched 18-19 cents and
a fraction over. Now they are back
again where they started. These low
prices, if they are maintainei, will
give the shorts an opportunity to cover
their sales at a profit. Thousands of
bales of Oregon hops were Bold short
for October delivery at 14 to 18 centsl
Two individual sales of 1000 bales
each are known to have been made
within this range of prices. An active
covering movement in the near future
can therefore be looked for.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, case
count, 82Jc per dozen; candled, 33
35c.
Poultry Hens, 1313J cents per
pound; turkeys, young, 18 20c;
ducks, 10llc; geese, 10llc.
Butter Creamery prints, extras,
35c per pound; cubes, 8032c.
Pork Block, 10J13c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 12J13c per pound;
rough and heavy, 910c.
Vegetables Cucumbers, $1.60 per
box ; eggplant, 7c per pound ; peppers,
6c; artichokes, 85c(S$l per box; to
matoes, 30(ffi60c per crate; cabbage,
ljc per pound; peas, 10llc; beans,
6((7'8c; corn, 75c(ft;$l per sack ; celery,
5085c per dozen; cauliflower, $1.25
1.75; asparagus, $2.25; sprouts, 10c
per pound.
Onions Yellow, $1(3;1.25 per sack.
Green Fruits Apples, 75c(ft$1.50
per box; cantaloupes, $1 C'ii 1.50 per
crate; casabas, $1.251.50 per dozen;
pears, $11.50 per box; peaches, 45(rC
65c; grapes, 75c(S$1.50 per crate;
cranberries, $8.50 per barrel.
Potatoes Oregon, $1.35(;1.60 per
sack; Yakima, $1.50.
Hops 1914 crop, 12 13Jc per
pound; 1912 crop, nominal.
Wool Valley, 18J(f;20Jc per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 16(;20c; mohair, 1914
clip, 27c.
Cascara bark Old and new, 4c per
pound.
Cattle Prime steerB, $6.75(J6.90;
choice, $6.60(?;;6.76; medium, $6.25
6.50; choice cows, $6r6.15; medium,
$5.25 5.75; heifers, $5.50 (a) 6.50;
calves, $6(P; bulls, $3(?(4.75; stags,
$4.50(S6.
Hogs Light, $8f8.05; heavy, $7(i
7.05.
Sheep Wethers, $4(96.40; ewes,
$3. 50(u 4. 50 ; lambs, $5r 6.
Seattle Butter is so plentiful that
prominent jobbers predict that the
market will not move in either direc
tion for at least a month. The public
purse is not favorable, it is asserted,
to any fancy prices at this time, and
so greater caution is being observed in
increasing the cost of the staple.
Dealers declare frankly that the people
will not pay any more for butter than
they are doing at present.
Excessive insurance and exchange
rates, it is expected, will bar New
England imports as long as the war
continues, and the end of the conflict
is now so remote that jobbers have
practically abandoned any hope of
bringing in the foreign product. There
is no incentive to do so at this time,
since there is plenty of storage butter,
and Washington creamery firsts are
being turned out at a greater rate than
the trade can absorb.
Eggs Select ranch, 41 di 42c per
dozen; Chinese, 18 ft. 22c; Eaitern
Aprils, 29c; local April, 32c; fresh
Eastern, 30(i(35c.
Hay Puget Sound, fl4 per ton;
Eastern Washington, $17(4l8; alfalfa,
$13ftil4; wheat hay, $12.
A Few Uncurled Coiffures
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NOT all the coiffures that compel our
admiration because their wearers
look so well groomed are waved.
Many women have the knack of ar
ranging the hair prettily about the
face, who have never made the ac
quaintance of the waving Iron. Others
curl only a small portion of the hair
about the forehead and manage the
rest without waving.
A simple and very pretty coiffure,
innocent of waves, is shown in the pic
ture given here. In it the hair is
combed to the top of the head, where
It is coiled in a loose pointed knot
and ornamented with large shell pins
set with rhlnestones. The hair about
the face is dampened and drawn down
at each side, forming two large waves,
which are pinned to place with Invisi
ble wire plnB. It is combed over the
top of the ears and wire pins support
it In two loose waves at each side of
the face.
Source of the
BEFORE the clouds of war cast
their ominous shadows, those cre
ators of styles In Paris to whom the
world of Fashion looks for new ideas,
had already launched some of their
efforts. There Is no gainsaying the
wealth of Ideas, the keenness of per
ception and the Ingenuity of these au
thorities. In this country we look to
Three beautiful costumes, which will
bear the most careful scrutiny, are
shown In the snapshots taken of
French women which are reproduced
here. From the crowns of their heads
to the tips of their shoes every detail
of their clothes shows the exercise of
rood taste in the employment of new
Ideas.
All the hats shown are of velvet
with small soft crowns and wide
brims. They are all simply trimmed,
and they foreshadow the styles that
may become fashions.
Already the cape coat Is an assured
success. It Is pictured here worn as
part of a suit over a Bklrt which is
plain except for plaltlngs which drape
It to the figure. The coat and cape in
one surest a walntcoat at the front
and a full rippled cape from the back.
The garment Is, In fuct, a Very clever
evolution Inasmuch as It Introduces
the waistcoat, the cups and the coat
with wide revtrs, Id a meplece garment.
This style la adapted to a full and
rather round face and Is especially
good for her who possesses a pretty
forehead.
Another pretty uncurled coiffure Is
arranged by means of a pompadour
which extends entirely across the top
of the head. When the front hair has
been combed over the support re
quired for the pompadour it Ib con
fined at the back with hairpins tempo
rarily. A shallow part 1b made at th
left side of the forehead and the hair
combed toward the right, so that It
sweeps across the brow. A curving
shell comb is inserted to hold this hair
In place. It extends from temple to
temple.
The hair is fluffed over the ears and
temples and held into position with
invisible wire pins. The back hair is
arranged in a coil at the crown, or
lower, according to Us becomlngness.
JULIA BOTTOM LEY.
Current Fashions
It Is worn over a thin blouse hav
ing a very handsome, wide frill of luce
about the neck, wired to stand up af
ter the fashion of the medlcl collar.
The bag, gloves and uppers of the
smart walking shoes are made to
match the costume.
A remarkably clever skirt appears
in the coBtume, of colored taffeta with
embroidery on the bodice and at the
foot of the front panel In the drapery.
The underskirt Is draped In about the
ankles, suggesting the Turkish trouser
Inspiration. Over this is worn a short
tunic cit with a long panel at the
front.
The bodice has a round neck fin
ished with a turnover collar of or
gandie. A surplice front Is Indicated
In Its drapery, although the opening
Is arranged at the right sldo. Thin
Is covered by bringing the silk from
the right shoulder to the waist line at
the left,lde. The back of tlio bodice
Is extended to form a short yoke at
each side ofthe front, and the shoul
ders are rather long. The full sleeves ,
are set In and wrinkled about tha
arms.
The fronts of the draped bodice are
extended to form a loose girdle about
the walBt. There Is almost no defini
tion of the waist line, which appeara
to be vanishing from our midst
JULIA BOTTOM LEY.