CONDENSED NEWS NOTES
Found Black feather fan. Can
In* recovered ut this office.
this country miss the golden op­
portunity for large-t service in the
world's reconstruction work.
With an adequate supply of
properly trained young assistants,
the old engineers of the country
could do five or even ten times
what they are now doing by man­
aging the European engineering
work through their assistants.
The Kxpretut print» hut ter wrap-
pei'H with non-poiHonoua ink.
Money to loan Valley Realty
Co., Forent drove, Oregon. Hi-tf
Wanted Housekeeper for wid­
ower with four children. No
woman in family
It*
George ( ¡. Hancock, real ch -
title, farm loans and fire insur­
“ It is thus evident,” says Mr.
ance, new Anderson block.
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Waddell, “ that we must manage
V. S. Abraham was down from ! not only to prevent any falling off
the farm Monday, trading with in the attendance at our technical
local merchants.
schools both during and directly
A fine line of nifty fall sweaters after the war, but also greatly to
for men, women and children just increase it.”
received at John Anderson’s
This can be done, he thinks, by
Mrs. Chester Wright and Miss urging more young men to go to
Joan Pierce visited Sunday at the college and by showing their par­
Chris Peterson home near Hills­ ents that it is their duty, both to
boro.
the boys and to their country, to
send
them; by inducing freshmen
Billy Schultz, jr., and family
with
aptitude for technical courses
are expected home tomorrow from
a two weeks’ vacation at (lari to take them; by having drafted
students assigned to some bran h
haldi beach.
Beans are going to he too val­ of engineering service where they
uable to waste in the threshing. wdl be more effective and also get
S e e t h e thresher at Gordon’s experience for future work; and
by granting government aid to
hardware store.
youths of special ability but in­
J. VV. Griffith who went to sufficient money for college work.
Washington some time ago to
work in a lumber camp, returned
home last week because of a strike
in the camp where he was work­ Astoria, Aug. *». George F. Rodger«,
Salem capitaliHt, ha* crew building
ing.
shipyard to construct four government
“ Uncle Bill” Hay returned last ships. Ways are being laid.
O re g o n to la? made n o rth w e s te rn ce n­
week from an enjoyable outing at
lying Beach, Wash. He says he, te r fo r m a n u fa c tu re o f aeroplanes and
tra in in g c re w s .
would have remained longer, but
Mr Far hr an and Wilson Bros, ship­
the bathing suits gave him sore yards at Astoria have keels on govern­
ment contracts.
eyes, and wore out his camera
Engineering for the next ten
years or more wdl be the most
lucrative of all professions.
SIGNS OK PROSPERITY
LION Special S U I T S
from thin long-established concern that supplies the
apparel needs of Men and Boys, assure of correct
garments at economical prices. The utmost in val- .
ue and lasting satisfaction.
(%>n €& J/u fi# C h
Morrison at Fourth and
Ititi Third Street.
D o u b le S . & H .
T w o S t o r e s in P o r tla n d
Stamps X ’n
Astoria- -Million-bushel bulk grain
bina completed.
Silver Lake Leader— -Thompson val­
ley irrigation project being completed.
Pendleton— Work started on $l.r>,000
Rieth school.
Dust Poison Controls
Spotted Bean Beetle
O A. C Experiment Station.
Corvallis, Oregon. Aug (>. Those
greenish yellow beetles, with black
spots, which are just now feasting
on the blossoms and leaves of
bearw and cucumbers in western
Oregon and will -oon be devour­
ing the silks of the young corn,
are con troll* d at the O. A C . ex­
periment station by a poisoned
dust. As prepared by A. L Lov-
ett, the entomologist, the dust is
85 parts either finely sifted wood
ashes, air slaked lime or *ulfur,
with 15 parts powered h ad ar.->e
nate. It is lightly but thoroughly
applied to the plan's with a dust
gun or a coarse salt sack or ch* e*e
cloth bag, early in the «lay while
the plants are wet. A few plants
are left undusUd for the beetles
to gather upon later, when they
are killed by picking them off the
vines and dropping them into a
small pail of water having a thin
fHm of kerosene on top.
Corvallis has a furniture factory and
W. L. Benfer, wife and little
it is promised to put the whole influence
daughter left Sunday morning for I of the State Agricultural college hack
Salem, Utah, where Roy has a of it to make it a mammoth concern.
good job offer'd him. Mrs. Ben- Faculty und students are to get their
fer’s folks live near Salem and the families to use products of this factory
Oregon women who wish to
change in residence will be very and give it state-wide publicity.
Klamath Falls—-U. S. Indian office at 1< arn to b dietitians for hospitals
agreeab e to her
Washington authorizes
three new and other civil, military or red
Levi Keck has sold hi-- little
bridges over Sprague river.
cross institutions having tofeid
farm near Beaverton to three
Koseburg— Work starte«! to «(»end
stenographers from Portland, who $.r>no,(N)0 on Pacific highway in this large numb rs of people, may do
so at their State Agricultural Col­
are going into the chicken busi­ county.
Marshfield—-New shipyard here will lege
ness. In company with W. J
A course in dietetics has
Good, Mr Keck is visiting friends work double shifts under electric lights. been added in Home Economics,
St. Helens—-Another motor ship 2H.r>
in the Coos Bay country.
which is said by Mi s Milam,
feet long to l>e built in yards here.
Culumbia City — Somarstrom Bros, head of domestic sciet.ce to be of
have contract for four government much interest to young women
ships.
who a*e not able to take a full
Halfway — Homestead I r o n Dyke four-year college course. They
The most lucrative as well a - ' Copper Mining Co. building club house.
the most patriotic service young; Grants Pass— $90,000 will he spent on must be at least 21 yea^s of age to
men can perform for the next ten Josephine county p o s t and military enter this course, and g aduates
of a four-year high school course,
years or more is training and roads.
Kcho has let large contract for con­ or its equivalent. Maay inquir-
practicing engineering, says J. A.
crete walks and crosswalks.
i s are coming in for urther in­
L. Waddell, consulting engineer,
Portland—-Factory to make spruce
formation.
New York.
parts for aeroplanes o|>ened here.
Country Calls Youths
to Engineering Service
Salem — Kx-Governor West before
Mr Waddell is well known in
Public Service commission plead for
Portland business circles, where
right to install Home phones free for
he was supervising engineer of the three months to revive declining sys­
great Columbia interstate bridge tem.
and also the O. W. R. & N. rail­ Oregon Hassan Paving Co. erecting
way bridge across the Willamette. plant H t Huhhard.
Before Htiy more drown Albany hojies
A summary of his reasons for the
to have a public swimming | kk >1.
statement follows:
Junction— Pacific highway south of
More than ha f of the world here being macadamized.
Hood River— New factory to eva|x>r-
will have to be reconstructed after
the war. America’s railways and ate apples and make vinegar to be
built.
bridges will h a v e deteriorated
Odell— Fruit packing house going up
from over-use and lack of upkeep.! here GO by 100 feet.
This reconstruction is almost
Dee— Sawmill here unable to operate
for
want of labor in logging camps.
wholly the work of engineers.
Huhhard
to have new Southern Pa­
European engineers are being
cific station.
killed off by the thousands and
S. P. Company will rebuild highway
large numbers of American engi­ fronv Mapleton to Cushman Station.
neers serving in Europe will he
Portland— Northwest Steel Company
killed or incapacitated for work^ to build plant to make plates, shapes
The supply of new engineers in and liars.
Myrtle Point— Pierce and Stark will
the warring countries has been ojien shingle mill on Catching creek.
cut down fully one-half by the call
Taft has four cheese factories and
to a* ms, ju 't at the time when it launched first ship built on Siletz bay.
Army and navy may be supplied with
should be doubled.
loganberry
jam.
The demand for technical spec­
Newspa|<ers making the draft a suc­
ialists by munition factories and cess as they did the Liberty Loan and
ship yards has already taken all Red Cross fund—in return they Hre to
available men, and will become be tax«! and censored.
Grants Pass—-Sugar beet crop suffer­
more insistent asthecall increases
ing
for lack o f irrigation.
for more ships, guns, ammunition,
Portland-—Site f o r
million-bushel
aeroplanes, automobiles, and other grain elevator bought for $137,000.
war supplies.
Construction started on Baker Co­
Lack of trained men will make l operative flour mill to cost $10,000.
GL'H K I'H N
President
An Attractive Booklet
We are in receipt of an attrac­
tive booklet, entitled “ Camping,
Fi-hing and Hunting Guide,”
which was compiled by th For-
eSt Service and published by the
Southern Pacific Company.
The Forest Reserves of Western
Oregon with roads, trails, resoris.
r. G. Ex.,
l,,vrn
8-9-17
camping places, mountains, fish­
ing, streams and lakes are de-
•cribed in detail. Complete in­
structions are given to prepare for
a hunting or fishing trip, even to
cooking utensils and amount and
quantity of food.
This booklet contains much
u s e f u l information regarding
Western Oregon and will be in­
valuable to anyone contemplating
a fishing, hunting or camping trip
in that territory.
Copies can be obtained from
any Southern Pacific agent, or
will be furnished free on applica­
tion to the General Passenger De­
partment of the Southern Pacific
at Portland.
Stenographers Wanted
Notice o f Final Settlement
In the County Court of the State of
Oregon, for Washington county.
In the matter of the estate o f Mary E.
Murphy, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that W. H.
Hoilis, administrator o f the estate of
Mary E. Murphy, deceased, having filed
his final account and report of his ad­
ministration of said estate in the County
Court in and for Washington county,
Oregon, and the County Judge o f said
county having fixed Monday, the 27th
day o f August, 1917, at the hour of ten
o ’clock in the forenoon o f said day as
the time, and the County Court room
in the Court House at Hillsboro, Ore­
gon, as the place for hearing upon said
final account and report.
Now, therefore, all persons interest­
ed in said estate are notified then and
there to appear and show cause, if any
they have, why said account and final
report should not be settled and allow­
ed, the estate distributed and the ad­
ministrator and his bondsmen discharg­
ed.
Dated at Forest Grove, Oregon, this
July 23rd, 1917.
W. H. HOLLIS,
Administrator o f the estate of
Mary E. Murphy, deceased.
Hollis & Graham.
Attorneys for Administrator.
First pub. July 26 ; last Aug. 23.
The United States government needs,
and needs badly, great numbers of
stenographers and typewriters, both
men and women, for service in the de­
partments at Washington, D. C., and
the situation in federal offices outside
of Washington is scarcely less urgent.
The supply of qualified persons on the
Civil Service Commission's lists for
this class of work is not equal to the
demand and the commission urges, as a
Job printing—phone 821.
PATRIOTIC DUTY, that citizens with
this special knowledge apply for exam­
ination for the government service.
Successor to
At present all who pass the exami­
DR. H. W. VOLLMER
nation for the Departmental Service
are certified for appointment. Large
OFFICE
numbers of stenographers and type­
In First National Bank Building
writers are needed for the Field Ser­
Telehones
vice and practically all men who pass
the field examination are appointed at Residence 332
Office 833
an entrance salary o f $1,000 per an­
num. Many women are required for
various branches o f the Field Service
and recently 20 women stenographers
and typewriters have been appointed
Loans and Real Estate
in the Puget Sound Navy Yard.
D.
D.
BUMP.
M. B. BUMP,
Examinations for the Departmental
Residence Hillsboro
Service are held every Tuesday in 47 Residence
cities in the Eleventh District. Exam­ Forest Grove.
Phone 444
Offices -HILLSBORO
inations for the Field Service will be
held August 18th.
J N . HOFFMAN
For full information and application
blanks, apply to Herbert F. Ward, D is-1
Attorney At Law
trict Secretary, 11th Civil Service Dis­
Patent
Office Business Solicited
trict, 363 Postoffice J>uilding. Seattle,
Wash.
(Donated Advt)
Forest Grove,
-
Oregon
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FR E S H AND C L E A N AND G O O D .
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