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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1916)
NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon $500,000 Plant is Sold. Marshfield Although the transac tion took place May 31, 1916, the Bale of the pulp mill and its site in the center of the Coos Bay Lumber com pany holdings became known only re cently. The property was sold to Wil liam W. Gurley, of Cook county, Illi nois, and the deed showed a nominal price, although the property was worth more than $500,000. The area includes a five-acre tract, and gives Mr. Gurley a water frontage on Isthmus inlet of 625 feet. The Smith-Powers railroad runs along the waterfront, but this is con sidered an asset to the plant, since it furnishes railroad connection for the mill if it should be made over into a manufacturing plant. Since the purchase the machinery in the pulp mill was sold to a Canadian paper company, which has a plant at Ocean Falls, B. C, and the steamer Northland is now shipping one cargo of the machinery for delivery at that point. No information can be obtained relative to the uses Mr. Gurley intends putting the dismantled mill and its site. Right of Way is Given. Klamath Falls The committee con sisting of Wilson S. Wiley, chairman; Bert E. Withrow and R. E. Bradbury, having in charge the obtaining of the necessary right of way for the pro posed Robert E. Strahorn railroad Eastward from this city, report that they are meeting with splendid suc cess. They realize that the citizens of Klamath county are determined to see teams and scrapers at work in this vicinity this fall. The committee reports that every where the people are showing a keen enthusiasm for the enterprise and a fine public spirit by readily donating right of way. They refer as a exam ple to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Gautier, residing a few miles east of this city, who donated right of way across their little ranch of 50 acres and wished they had more to give. Polk Will Hold Fair. Dallas The Polk County fair will be held in Dallas the latter part of this month. Much enthusiasm is being manifested and all sections are vying with each other to make the annual affair a big success. There will be many more exhibitors, with more di versified exhibits. Special amusement features are be ing planned. In addition to the pres ence of a carnival company and music by various musical organizations of the county, many special events for which special prizes have been offered will be staged. During one day of the fair an aeroplane flight will be at tempted. " Pullets Mature Early. Cottage Grove William Hands & Son have some White Leghorn pullets that are adding to the reputation of Cottage Grove. All of them started laying at between four and five months of age. One bird in particular started laying at the age of four months and 20 days and when six months old had laid 38 eggs. Trap nests are used, so that the record is accurate. The an cestors of these pullets for 10 years back have been trap-nested, so that a strong laying strain has been devel oped. Lane Flax to Be Spun. Eugene Lane county flax will be spun into thread at the Lane County Fair, beginning next Wednesday, ac cording to an announcement made by the Fair board. An experienced oper ator of the spinning wheel will have charge of this feature of the exhibit. Samples of flax straw and the fiber at the various stages of development will be shown, together with flax from all parts of the world, so that visitors at the fair may compare the Oregon product with that of countries where flax growing is an established industry. Telephone Earnings Big. Salem The annual report of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com pany for the year ending June SO, 1916, filed with the Oregon Public Ser vice commission, shows that the com pany's total revenues in Oregon were $2,162,298.41. and that the total ex penses were $1,674,011.64. For the entire svstem the company s net in come was $2,187,284.43. Dividends totaling $1,920,000 were paid. The system's total operating revenues were $19,477,308.84, and the total operat ing expenses were $13,850,062.61. Grain is Not Damaged. Albany That despite the recent rains, grain in this county is not badly damaged is the opinion or iarmers. The rains have colored the oats but the general ooinion is that no material in- iurv has been caused thus far. The rain, however, has delayed threshing operations and much clear weather is needed to enable the harvesting of the grain not yet threshed. It is estimat ed that only about half of the grain has been threshed. Pnrt Ln is Slight. Salem Forest fire losses this year uiu i air vu ivucu uic uii- - - -- which is a low record. In that year u- j i f Kut tifin me uamage bu.uuih.cu w There has been but one serious fire ... . . - . rii this season, says swre rorwr UUbb. BUU Vliab WVIUvu " o ton county logging camp and was not ENURE NATIONAL GUARD TO SEE DUTY ON MEXICAN BORDER Washington, D. C. All National guard organizations which have been held at state mobilization points since they were mustered into the federal service are scheduled to start for the Mexican border soon. Officials indi cated Monday that they probably would wimin two weens. Secretary baker personally supervising all guard movements. He is determined that every guard unit undergo border serv ice and training before it is dis charged, and intends to use the troops in state camps to relieve those on the border, so that thn latter home and be mustered out of the fed eral service. One thin? mav alter thin nnlicv though officials now think it will not. That is the lack of funds available for transportation. Although no account of the exDenditures incident tn the border situation has been made public, reports indicate that the department President's Sister Dies. VfW. ,.-.-J-V.. .,V.:iT.W...-..,,l New London, Conn. Mrs. Anne E. Howe, only Bister of President Wood- row Wilson, died at her aparatment in a local hotel early Saturday. Mrs. Howe had been extremely ill for about a week with peritonitis, and the end had been expected at any moment for two days. Mrs. Howe came here from her Phil adelphia home in the early summer with her neice, Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the President. Her health had long been impaired. practically has exhausted its funds and will face a heavy deficit before an other appropriation can be secured from congress to meet the expenses of the border campaign, If the guard movements continue, it will be necessary to have an urgent de ficiency bill put through as soon at congress meets in December. Exclusive of North Caroilna organi zations ordered to the border, there are 18,000 guardsmen who have been held in their state camps. These are scattered throughout Alabama, Colo rado, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, Minnesota, Michigan, District of Co lumbia, California and Maryland, with Beveral small units in other states. Seth low, Ex-Mayor of New York and Noted Publicist, Dies New York Seth Low, former may or of New York and one time presi dent of Columbia university, died late Sunday at his country home, Broad- brook farm, Bedford Hills, N. Y., at the age of 66 years. He had been ill several months of a complication of diseases. Mr. Low's most recent activities were exerted in an effort to find a so lution of the differences between the Railroad Brotherhoods and the rail roads. Since the outbreak of the European war, he had been especially active as president of the New York chamber of commerce and president of the Na tional Civic federation. He was chair man of the executive committee of Tuskegee Institute, delegate at large to the recent New York state consti tutional convention and a member of a government commission appointed to investigate labor troubles in Colorado. Berlin Opposes Loan. Washington, D. C. Ambassador Von Bernstorff has informed the State department that the German govern ment would consider "null and void" any loan to Belgium negotiated in the United States during German occu pancy of that country. State depart ment officials declared they had no knowledge previous to the announce ment of Germany's attitude that the Belgian government was seeking a loan in this country. It announced Germany's position, however, in order to protect American bankers. Germans Quit Dutch Line. London A dispatch to the Evening News from Amsterdam reports that the German guards along the Dutch frontier towards both Belgium and Germany have been withdrawn. From Belgium, adds the dispatch, numbers of Beligan families, who for months had appealed for permission to enter Holland, are now streaming across the line at various points, with their belongings piled on every kind of NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS Portland Wheat Bluestem, $1.35: fortyfold, $1.33; club, $1.31; red fife, $1.30; red Russian, $1.28. Flour Patents, $6.40; straights, $5.806.20; exports, $5.80; valley, $6; whole wheat, $6.60; graham, $6.40. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $23.50 per ton; shorts, $25.60; rolled barley, $35.5036.50. Corn Whole, $42 per ton; cracked, $43. Hay Producers' prices: Timothy, Eastern Oregon, $16.6018 per ton; timothy, valley, $1516; alfalfa, $14.50; wheat hay, $12.6013.60; oat and vetch, $1212.50; cheat, $11; clover, $10. Butter Exchange prices : Cubes, extras, 29c bid; 30c asked. Jobbing prices: Prints, extras, 82J34c; but terfat, No. 1, 31c; No. 2, 29c, Port land. Eggs Oregon ranch, exchange prices, current receipts, 29c per dozen. Jobbing prices: Oregon ranch, candled, 3031c; select, 3233c. Poultry Hens, 1314jc; broilers, 1618c; turkeys, live, 1822c; ducks, ll14Jc; geese, 9llc. Veal Fancy, 13c per pound. Pork Fancy, 12J13c per pound. Vegetables Artichokes, 75c$l per dozen; tomatoes, 3050c per crate; cabbage, $1.60 per cwt.; peppers, 4 5c per pound; eggplant, 66c; let tuce, 2025c per dozen; cucumbers, 2550c per box; celery, 6075c per dozen; corn, 1025c per doz. Potatoes New, 90c$1.15 per cwt.; sweets, 23c per pound. Onions Oregon and Walla Walla, $1.50 per sack. Green Fruits Apples, new, 75c $1.40 per box; cantaloupes, 60c$1.75 per crate; peaches, 4065c per box; watermelons, llc per pound; plums, 75c$l per box; pears, 60c$1.25; grapes, 90c$1.60 per crate; casabas, lie per pound; blackberries, 75c per crate. Hops 1915 crop, nominal; 1916 contracts, 8c per pound; fuggles, 12c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon, fine, 23 26c per pound; coarse, 3032c; val ley, 3032c. Cascara Bark Old and new, 41c per pound. Cattle Steers, prime, $6.507.15 good, $66.60; common to fair, $5 5.50; cows, choice, $65.60; medium to good, $4.605; ordinary to fair, $44.60; heifers, $45.75; bulls, $3 4.25; calves, $36. Hogs Prime, $9.659.75; good to prime mixed, $9.50 9.65; rough heavy, $8.759.25; pigs and skips, $8.258.75. Sheep Lambs, $5.608.25; year ling wethers, $5.756.50; old weth ers, $5.506; ewes, $3.505.60. Hop Demand is Good; Picking is in Full Blast A more general demand has devel oped in the hop market and buyers are offering higher prices throughout the state of Oregon. Eight cents was be ing freely bid on contracts in the Wil lamette valley, with a substantial premium for fuggles. McNeff Bros, have purchased between 600 and 600 bales of fuggles at 12 cents. In Western Washington the market has also become more active. Seven hundred bales of clusters were bought in that section at 8 cents, including the crops of Frye, Bremer, Cooper and Perfield. No trading was reported from Yaki ma, but the market there was also firm. The first sample of Yakimas were received by McNeff Bros, and the quality was fully equal to that of the best previous years. California ad vices were of the Bale of 600 bales of new Sacramentos at 8 and 84 cents. Pickers are busy in all the Oregon hop sections. The favorable change in the weather enabled the pickers to re sume operations, and it also held back the mold. It it too early for a definite estimate as to the size of the Oregon crop, but many of the dealers believe it will run close to 100,000 bales. New York wires estimated the yield in that state at 8000 to 10,000 bales, and the quality very fine. Offers up to 30 cents are being made for Btates and growers are asking 32 cents. Letters received from London deal ers put the English crop at 300,000 to 310,000 hundredweight. The London Times has the following from Canter bury, dated August 24 : "The hops have not made so much progress during the past few weeks, owing to the pronounced drouth. The crop will vary in yield according to districts, many of the hops being on the small Bide. ' In the districts where rain has recently fallen the prospects are the best. Vermin has disappeared and mold is not spreading to any ex tent. It is now expected that the picking will commence earlier than was anticipated. Trade on the market is quiet, and in the few sales effected prices are below recent quotations. " Central Washington Sheep Shipments Wenatchee The Great Northern railway estimates that between now and the middle of October, 350 cars of sheep will be shipped, as compared with 200 cars during the whole seaBon last year. Fifty cars have already been Bhipped. The value of the sea son's shipment will run close to $500, 000. Arrangements have been made with the Canadian government to drive sheep across the line into British Columbia next summer. The first trainload of lambs will leave Thursday for the Chicago market. MEALS IN WARM WEATHEF Cold Dishes May Be Made Just as A p. petizing as Hot Ones, and Are More Healthful. If you arrange to hiive cold sliced meat three or four times a week, see that the rest of the meal Is light. But on the days when you serve vegetable dishes its the principal part of the menu make sure that the rest of the meal provides sufficient nourishment to even up the menu and make It as a whole equal In value to a meat meal. For Instance, you mlglit have on Sunday, let us suy, cold roast chicken with mashed potatoes, sliced cucumber salad and watermelon or berries. Mon day night you might have a cold chick en jelly soup, made from the chicken carcass, a cold baked macaroni and cheese, with hot peas and potato chips, tomato with mayonnaise salad tnd a good, nourishing pudding with plenty of eggs and butter. Thus, In the chicken jelly, In the mayonnf.lse, made of eggs and plenty of olive oil, and In the pudding, you provide enough nutrition to make up for the difference In nutritive values of the meat and the macaroni dish. Other good substitutes for meat dishes are rice souffle, spaghetti a l'ltulienne, cheese and rice baked, etc. You will find that almost every kind of salad will be welcome in the warm weather. When you make the salad dressings do not be sparing with the olive oil, for there is even more nour ishment In real olive oil than there Is in meat. If you serve dainty cold meals and keep your table looking attractive, the hot weather will make very little dif ference in the appetite of your family. To Cook Fresh Fruit. Cooked fruits are especially good for delicate appetites and digestion. Raw fruits are for those who are stronger and can get all the benefit from them; the benefit Is diminished by cooking. The best way of cooking fruit is not by boiling, but by simmering. In cook ing very tender fruit bring the sirup to the boiling point, then throw the fruit In the hot sirup, cover tight, re move from the range or fire, and let It stand for half an hour. This applies particularly to berries. To prepare larger fruit, throw it In boiling sirup, cover tight and leave it five minutes on the range; remove and let It stand half an hour. One pound of sugar to one quart of water, or a pound to a pound, is the usual allow ance for the sirup. Whlteflsh Turbot. One three-pound whlteflsh, one and a quarter teaspoonfuls salt, one-eighth teaspoonful pepper, five cupfuls milk one cupful flour, one tablespoonful minced parsley, two eggs, one-half cup ful butter, three-quarters cupful of dry bread crumbs, one-half tablespoon ful grated onion. Steam the dish till tender, remove the flesh from the bone and sprinkle with salt and pepper, Scald one quart of milk and thicken with the flour dissolved In the remain lng milk. Season with the onion nnd parsley, and then pour onto the eggs, beaten ; add the butter In bits, whisk ing it In. Butter a baking dish and put In a layer of fish nnd then one of sauce, alternating till nil is used. Cov er with the breadcrumbs and bake 45 minutes In a moderate oven, Folding a Tablecloth. The best housekeeper I know In sists on having her tublecloths folded three times lengthwise before any cross folding Is done. This prevents the ugly hump that invariably1 comes In the center of the table when the cloth Is folded In the usual squares, Not only does the linen set better when thus cared for, but it wears long er, as breaks first come In the creas es, and the heaviest threads In a table cloth are the horizontal ones. Few housewives know this, but they may Investigate for themselves. Of course these heavier threads are better able to withstand the crease of the Iron. Mother's Magazine. Orange Ice Cream. Boil for 20 minutes a cupful of wa ter, the Juice of three orange? and a cupful and a half of sugar. leat tin yolks of four eggs until creamy and lemon color, and slowly pour over them, beating all the time, as you would for biscuit tortoni, the hot sirup, Add a pinch of salt and heat over hot water, on the fire, for three minutes, Then remove from the fire and beat until cool. Then add three cupfuls of rich cream, turn into a freezer and freeze. Lemon Cream Pudding. Beat yolks of four eggs and four ta blespoonfuls of sugur (I use more sugar). Add juice of one lemon and the grated rind and two teaspoonfuls of hot water. Cook In double boiler until thickened. Remove from Are and stir in whites of four eggs beaten stilt with two tablespoonfuls of sugur. Eat cold. Rice a la Creole. Chop a lurge onion, two seeded green peppers and half a cupful of raw ham Mix well and fry lightly in butter. Add a cupful of parboiled rice, three cup fuls of beef stock, one cupful of stewed tomatoes and a teaspoonful of salt, Cook slowly until the rice is tender and the liquid nearly absorbed. When Slicing Bacon. Always place the rind side flat on the table when slicing bacon, and do not try to slice through It. When a sufficient number of pieces are cut, slip the knife under them and you can easily slice them away very close to the rind. Bi IV T usmess women as Wives By LAURA To smile at someone In the clutch Of black despair and greet A lonely heart It Isn't much, But, oh, It makes life sweet. (Copyright, MM.) When a poor young man proposes marriage to a young woman employed and earning ' a good salary, the first serious prob lem they discuss Is whether the girl should con tinue in her posl tlon or drop money making after she has as sumed the busi ness of wifehood. It Is usually a great temptation to the girl to help fill the family cof fers and she coaxes so hard she wins her hus band over to her view of a mat ter which seems susceptible to solu tion. Still retaining her position though a bride seems actually to have a tinge of romance connected with her ambi tion. She quite believes that hubby and she lead Ideal lives. Of course she gets the breakfast cereals, eggs, baker's rolls, coffee. Then both hurry on their wraps, with an eye on the clock, turn the key In the door nnd hurry off, chattering and laughing to gether to catch their different cars. They generally arrive home at the same hour at night, he having to stop to buy the meats and such articles, while she buys the lighter articles from the corner grocery. The rooms do smell a trifle musty after being closed all day, but they don't mind that. He reads the eve ning puper to her while she hustles around to get the supper. If she has had a hurd day at her place of busi ness this added toll seems a bit Irk some, but she Is careful not to let hub by surmise that. It Is sure to be past Why Not a Half Nickel? New Coin Might Help Keep The Cost of Living Down The ham sandwich, which was once five cents, now frequently costB a dime. The same disturbing truth ap plies to other things In common life, both Inside and outside of lunchrooms. There Is no need of statistics from economists to Inform us that the cost of living has advanced. Every spend er of money knows It. Retailers are more reluctant to put prices up than is generally realized. They know that consumption decreases as prices ad vance. That means less business and profits depend partly on large busi ness. When more than traffic will bear Is charged the traffic falls oft. Change making Is one of the Items In up-to-date retailing. It must be done quickly If expenses are to be1 kept down. The young woman at the lunch room desk has not time to count pen nies. She must deal In nickels, dimes and quurters If she Is to maintain her astonishing speed and accuracy. We need nnother coin. Three-cent pieces were confused with dimes and were hard to use, because they were not fractions of other currency. No one but n statistician thinks in decimals. The rest of us do our sums In frac tions. Four three-cent pieces muke 12 cents, but there Is no such coin. Eight of them make 24 cents, hut the coin almost corresponding is worth one cent more. If three-cent pieces were again Issued they would not fill the bill. ' With a half nickel It would be dif ferent. Half a nickel Is a fraction of every coin from the mint. Were there such a coin, five-cent rolses would not have been so common. If there should be such a coin, many prices would come down. Boston Globe. Some Marvelous Birds. . From "seeing" things of seeming su pcrnuturnl origin on the western war front such, for Instance, as "armed angels" the Briton has come to hear ing unusuul sounds at home, says the Atlantic Constitution. Thus one, C. O. Bartrum, Informs the London Times "that he has heard the major triad sung as an arpeggio by a blackbird;" while still another citizen has "heard a blackbird sing ing two triplets in succession, begin ning with the fifth and going down." But, most wonderful of all, a thrush has been heard to "distinctly whistle the tune of 'The Cumpbells Are Corn ing."' War recruiting has been going for ward with a rush for some time past probably not due to these airy omens of the patriotic thrush; but If the call for more men becomes In sistent It might be a good Idea to get the Intelligent thrush to sing for the "slackers." They have not yet discovered a bird that sings "God Save the King." But there Is hope that one may be found In a real emergency! No Mall for Eight Months. For eight months In the year no mall reaches the coal miners In Spits bergen, but they are now able to get the world news twice a day by wire less telegraph. 7 Wr JEAN UBBEY seven when they sit down to the table and fully eight ere they are finished. Hubby proposes that they shall go to a show, but, dearly as she would like to accept, duty forbids. "You Van take an hour's walk. I have something to do which prevents me from accompanying you," she says. It Is a relief to her to see him out of the way for a little while. He never realizes the herculean tasks she ac complishes in that short hour. Those four rooms are swept and dusted. The bed (which they were obliged to leave just as it was in the morning through want of time; is made. Her white waist, collars and cuffs are washed and Ironed, the rent in her dress Is mended, the hole in his vest pocket is darned, to Bay nothing of the washing of dishes, pots and pans and tidying the range. One cannot work nil day and all night too. Housework soon becomes a drag. In reckless desperation, she chooses between two courses board ing or patronizing the delicatessen store. Hubby does not thrive well on deli catessen dinners. He loses ambition. They give up housekeeping and try boarding with results far from satis fying. During the month's vacation with out pay which the young wife is obliged to take, she tries the experi ment of again starting housekeeping and using her days In having the house work all done and a smoking hot, tempting homemade menl ready for hlin to sit down to when he enters the house; in short, attending strictly to a wife's business, building up her hus band's strength and health to meet the exacting dully labors he must go through. She has plenty of time to do the marketing and she is surprised how far she can make a dollar go. They both conclude a wife's best place is in the home. The amount she could earn outside of It does not com pensate for haphazard living, extra night work and loss of health and strength for both husband and wife. FAVORITE OF THE FILMS Marguerite Clark. Former comic opera star who stilled her voice to become a player In the silent drama. In France Woman Usually Is "Man" of the Family The French woman Is the "man" of the family as a rule. This was Illus trated in our hotel In I'nrls, where mudame attended to the office nnd ran everything, while she kept her hun bund on the go from early trll lute do ing the upstairs work. I'ractlcally all the "chambermaids" in Paris are men. The first thing we noticed on reach ing Paris wus a woman cnb driver. Most of the street hucksters and vend ers are women but they nre husky specimens, who ure well able to look out for themselves. Some of the cries of the hucksters are Very musical. We are specially taken with tho call of the flshwomen, who in announcing for Instance "bon maquereuu" "good mackerel" would sing a regular llttlo song. As you go along through Paris you are struck with the large number of women who run stores and all kinds of enterprises. They Invariably keep strict accounts, and after closing hours they will be Been poring over their ledgers. It seems rather strange tliut the French women should never huve made any special demand for tho suffrage or other "rights of wom en" perhaps becuuse they realize that they already rule the roost. Puris Letter in Pathfinder. Motor Sleds in Alaska. ' An Alaskan correspondent writes as follows: The motor sled hns come to stay. The dog team and a sled will continue with us for many a long day no doubt, but the Introduction of the new motor sleds during the past winter amply demonstrated their econ omy, utility and speed. Al Ouwn, a Nome fMghter, covered the distance with a load of freight from Nome to Solomon recently in less time on the trail than the fastest dog team ever made on that fumous race course. I : 1 r a .-or. ..'Iff strictly a lorest nre. conveyance.