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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1918)
EXPLOSION KILLS 56| $500,000 FOR CANAL to - Nearly Hundred Employee in H oaplU l Senator Jones Wires Government W ill nnd 31 HUH Missing Country Spend That Hum in Development Miles About Devastated. Work on Wapato Project. GOOD ROADS Pittsburg Fifty-six men are known | Yakima -The government w ill spend to 1 m * dead, 94 injured and in hospitals 1 $500,000 in developing canals on the and 31 employes o f the Aetna Chem -1 Wapato project within the next year. TRACTOR AIDS ROAD MAKING Tht* total slocks o f wheat in commercial tiiiinala on December HI, 11)17, aa ical company are miaaing aa a result o f A telegram from Senator Jones Friday aaid congress had made that sum avail Successfully Used In New Hampshire Indicated tiy u imrilal tabulation of the food surat-y of (ha latter data, were nine explosions Saturday that wrecked able to be spent immediately. in Conjunction With Regulation approximately one-half na large aa the commercial stocks on hand December F. A. W iggins o f Toppeniah and Road Machine. 81, 1918, according to u statement Issued liy the United States department of this company’s exploaive manufactur agriculture, In thla connection It la pointed out tliut the commercial vlalhle ing plant at Oakdale, 16 miles from others in touch with the situation say this will mean 20,000 more acres put Jn Atkinson, N. II., the farm tractor aupply figures puhllahvd hy the ('I i I chko hoard of trade allowed atocka on hand this city. in cultivation on the reservation for has been successfully used In making January ft, 11*18, about 80 per cent o f the commercial vlalhle aupply reported Throughout the night and ail day 1919. and prepalrlng roads, doing away with for Jnnuary ij, 1917, while the vlalhle aupply reported hy Brudstreet for Jan men were extinguishing Area in the Superintendent L. M. Holt, in charge horses. uary ft, 11*18, uus approximately ,'td per cent of that reported for January 8. debris and bringing out remnants o f o f irrigation development, w ill proceed A 20-horse-power tractor, as shown 1017. to organize crews to In the picture, was used In conjunc In most cases there immediately The commercial atocka o f wheat at the end of December, 1017, compared human bodies. speed up construction, and w ill put on more favorably with thoae o f a year earlier than did the atocka at the end of was nothing to indicate the identity o f at once three drag line excavators and tion with the regulation road machine A ll day a blue-brown order another. The main canal w ill be for rounding off the surface o f the August. 11* 17. the holdings of Iiecemher 81, 1017, heliiK ftO per cent o f thoae the victim . reported for the corresponding dale In 11*18, while the commercial atocka of amoke hung over the ruins, impeding extended several miles and the main road and cleaning out gutters. It was August 31, 1017, were only 37 |x-r cent o f thoae for the aume date In 1010. At the work o f the searchers. Its deadly lateral o f the new system constructed found that the tractor not only easily does the work of six or eight horses, the annte time It la Indicated that there wua only a alight change In the rel fumes are feared by the retudenta. this summer, as work on these w ill not Thousands o f , person* streamed into interfere with the (JTesent distributive but better and in less time. Tw o men ative Importiui<i. of the commercial atocka o f flour on the datea of the two only sre required as compared with ■urve.vu na compared with the corresponding datea a year earlier. On August the temporary morgue all day to view system. One machine working on The country is drainage continuing work laat fall was four required with the former system. 81, 1017, the commercial atix-ka o f flour were uhout 7ft per cent of the atocka the gruesome finds. reported on hand Auguat 81, 1010, white on December 31. 1017, the ntockn of desolate for several miles around the discontinued recently because the ap Besides, double the ground Is covered. When the tractor Is used with the flour were 7<i per cent o f thoae r<*|xtrted for the correaimndlng date In 1018. plant. The meadows and fields have propriation was exhausted. road drag, one man, driving the trac been seared and fruit and shade trees The total wheat crop of 11*17 »n a approximately 060,000.000 buahela. na com This decision o f congress to expend pared with 040,000,000 huahela for the prevtoua year and with 808,000,000 bush blasted. this sum for immediate construction is tor, can round up and smooth as much due to the fact that more acreage can state road In half a day as one man els, the average for the flte yenr period 1011-l01ft. with a pair o f horses In one (lay and The final flgurea for the Auguat HI. 1017, food aurvey nhow that the total LIB E R TY LOAN $4,170,019,650 be developed for crop production on a half. The tractor hauls four to six the Yakima reservation for the same commercial »tocka of wheat on that date were 7ft,000,000 huahela, or leaa than money than for any other place in the a two inontha' aupply, while the commercial stocks of flour were about 12,000,- Oversubscription o f 39 Per Cent An United States. The plan was approved 000 harrela, representing approximately n alx weeka' aupply. nounced -17,000,000 Subscribers. by Charles Hebberd, food administra The elevntora, mllla, and wholeaale grain dealera held 88.4 per cent o f the tor. commercial atocka of wheat reported for Auguat HI, 1917, and 30.8 per cent of Washington, D. C.— The total o f the the total commercial atocka of flour reported for that date. In the cane of third liberty loan is $4,170,019,650, an Traffic Records Broken. flour, retail dealera held 24.0 per cent, hakera 20.3 per cent, wholeaale grocere oversubscription o f 39 per cent above Vancouver, Wash. — Laat Sunday 9.7 per cent, and storage warehouaea 0.3 per cent. the three billion minmum sought. The Mlnneaotn and California reported the largeat commercial atocka o f wheat number o f subscribers was about 17,- was a record-breaker for inter-state The receipts on the on Auguat 31. 11*17. their holdings being 7,290,000 and 8.801,000 huahela. re 000,000. Every Federal reserve dis bridge tolls. Sportively, while Mlaaourl. Illinois. and Knnana each held nlxiut 0,1*00.000 trict oversubscribed, the Minneapolis bridge, exclusive o f streetcar revenue, buahela. The combined hnldinga *»f theae five atat(*a amounted to 28,000,000 district going to 172 per cent, the which w ill run between $500 and $600, Receipts one Sunday buahela, or more than 4ft per cent o f the total for the United States. In the highest, and the New York district to were $931.10. several weekB ago were $930.30. Re case o f flour, eight states refxtrted about one-half o f the total atocka o f the 124 per cent, the lowest. ceipts from the streetcars w ill bring 'country. New York leading with 812.800 barrels, followed by Pennsylvania In announcing these figures the the total up to more than $1500, it is with 809,438, Illinois with 839.128. and Nebraska with 834,1*15 harrela. while treasury explained that the total may thought. The fine weather was largely California. Texas, Minnesota, and Missouri each rejx.rted alxiuf BOQ.000 barrels. he changed slightly by later reports Efficient Aid in Road Repairing. responsible for the unusually heavy from Federal Reserve banks. traffic across the Columbia river. cartloads o f gravel In the same time 'T h is is the most successful loan that a two-horse team requires for one the United States has offered, both in Carries His Own Bones Women Study Tractor Driving. load. Figured in dollars and cents, number o f subscribers and in the Around as a Mascot for Yakim a— Twenty-two women, rang the tractor could easily do $24 worth amount realized, ” said Secretary Mc- Coming Diamond Season Adoo in a statement. “ 1 congratulate ing from high school girls to mothers o f work at a cost o f only $8, with an o f families, enrolled in Yakim a’s first additional saving o f from 25 to 50 per the country on this wonderful result, i All hall players believe In luck and which is irrefutabe evidence o f the class in truck and tractor driving, as cent In time.— Popular Science Month most carry a talisman o f some sort, strength, patriotism and determination sembled at the at the Y , W. C. A. ly. Thursday, donned overalls and proceed but It remains for Forrest Cady, o f the American people. The class! n i n u y C V C T C U n c UlPbl\A/AYQ (By tha United Bl»l«-a Department of A g Mack's new big catcher, to carry “ This great result was achieved not ed with the first lesson. was organized by the Y . M. C. A. and R I G H T S T o I t M U r h l u n W A T o riculture ) around with him the strangest token withstanding the fact that the country The distinct varieties of cheese num ----------- of nil. It Is nothing less than two has been called upon to pay since the Y . W. C. A. as a war emergency ber probably utxiut 18, although the measure, and is part o f the associa-, It Should Include Everything From bones from his own body. second liberty loan, and to and includ Expensive Concrete to Minor names given to the manufactured kinds tion’s “ win-the-war” campaign. !.ast winter Cady wns In a motor ing the month o f June, income and ex Dirt Wagon Ways. total several hundred. Thla statement accident and had his shoulder broken cess profits taxes to the amount o f ap la made In the United States depart proximately $6,000,000,000, which w ill What we need and In time will hare ment o f ngrlculture’a bulletin No. 808. In several places. Tw o pieces o f bone make a total amount turned into the Is a system o f highways which will “ Varieties o f Cheese, Descriptions and treasury o f tha United States from ramify from the largest dtles to the Analysis.” which la a revision of for such taxes and the third liberty loan o f doorway o f the humblest citizen— vil mer government publications on the about $7,000,000,000.” Wheat— Bulk basis for No. 1 grade: lager or farmer. Such a system of subject. More thnn 40 names of cheese Hard white, $2.05. Soft white, $2.03. highways will Include trunk lines with are given In the bulletin and are of lo White club, $2.01. Red Walla, $1.98. expensive concrete or brick surfaces cal origin, usually having been derived DUTCH W ARSHIPS TO CONVOY No. 2 grade, Sc less; No. 3 grade, 6c for the very heavy traffic. Including from towns or communities. less. Other grades handled by sample. trucks and automobiles. Less used but A Hat of the best-known names ap F lou r— Patents, $10 per barrel; Important roads may be o f waterbound Holland to Send Merchant Vessels to plied to the distinct varieties or groups whole wheat, $9.60; graham, $9.20; Colonies in East Indies. macadam or gravel. Perhaps In cer Is na follows: barley flour, $14.50(9; 15.00; rye flour, tain regions where stone and gravel Brick. cnclocavnlln, enmembert. Washington, D. C. — Announcement $10.75® 12.75; corn meal, white, $6.50; are not at hand oiled roads may prove Cheddar, cottage, dty, ednn. einmental, from Amsterdam o f the - determination yellow, $6.25 per barrel. most economical and practical. Minor gouda. hand, holateln. Ilmhtirg, notif- o f the Dutch government to dispatch M illfeed— N et mill prices, car lots: wngon ways must remain of native chntel, pa r mesa n. roquefort, on pan go, three o f its merchant vessels to the Bran, $30.00 per ton; shorts, $32; sennno and trnpplst. Descriptions nnd East Indies under convoy o f Dutch middlings, $39; mixed cars and less soil, built and maintained with the chemical analyses o f the foreign and warships has aroused keen interest in than carloads, 50c more; rolled barley, road drag. Meanwhile antagonism to road dragging breeds In a lack o f In naval and diplomatic circles here. domestic cheese mentioned In the bul $75(976; rolled oats, $73. formation or a narrowness which fails It is believed this decision is likely letin nre given alphabetically. Corn— Whole, $77 per ton; cracked, to comprehend the facts.— D. Ward to bring about a situation that would $78. Attempts to make einmental and King. plunge Holland into the war. Inter Ilmhtirg cheese In thla country hnve Hay — Buying prices, delivered: national law, officials pointed out, fully Eastern Oregon timothy, $29®30 per been very successful, the bulletin soya. Forrest Cady. warrants the dispatch o f an armed ton; valley timothy, $25(926; alfalfa, BENEFIT OF IMPROVED ROADS Theae varieties are being made hy ftOO factories In Wisconsin alone and hy were removed, and now Cndy Is never j convoy by a neutral state on the high $24@24.50; valley grain hay, $22; Make It Possible to Consolidate and seas to its own colonies, and this was clover, $19(920.00; straw, $9.00@10. factories In Ohio, New York ami north without them. Establish Graded Schools in Ru done by nearly all maritime powers Butter— Cubes, extras, 37|c; prime ern Illlnola. Investigation also has "They nre n part o f me or were," ral Districts. during the Napoleonic wars. firsts, 37c; prints, extras, 42c; car shown that camembert and a cheese Cady explains, "nnd Pm only carrying So far as the entente powers and tons, lc extra; butterfat. No. 1, 41c o f the same general nature as r(*que- them ns near where they belong ns (Prepared by the United States Depart fort or stllton, enn he made success I can. My arm's ns good ns ever, America are concerned, it is said that delivered. ment of Agriculture.) the Dutch convoys would be treated Eggs— Ranch, current receipts, 34c: fully In this country. although I thought for a time thnt I j That Improved roads would benefit with all the consideration demanded by candled, 35c; selects, 36c per dozen. ‘T h ere Is no reason,” says the bul would never piny ball again. Yet Poultry — Hens, 27c; broilers, 40c; our country-school system there would letin, "to believe that any variety o f somehow I feel thnt If I lost those international law. But it is not prob able that German submarine comman ducks, 32c; geese, 20c; turkeys, live, seem to be no doubt. Good roads make cheese Imported cannot bo made here, two little pieces of bone my arm It possible to consolidate or centralize ders would act with any such consider 26® 27c; dressed, 37c per pound. although with present knowledge It would go back on tne." the schools and to establish graded ation, as is indicated by their past Veal— Fancy, 18|@19c. would not he ndvtsnhle to try to mnke schools In the rural districts. Such treatment o f Dutch and other neutral Pork— Fancy, 23®23ic per pound. many -kinds. Probably selentlfle In schools centrally located will accom vessels. Sack Vegetables— Carrots, $1.15 per Salaries Paid to Governors vestigation would show how to Im I f a German naval commander at sack; turnips, $1.50; parsnips, $1.25; modate all o f the children within a prove on the average quality of the By Various States of Union tempted radius o f four or five miles. In mnny to search, sink or make prize beets, $2. cheese made In the old countries, for o f any convoyed vessels, the Dutch Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks, 75c® j communities having the advantage of It must he remembered that only the Governors o f Vermont nnd Nebraska commander would be obliged to defend $1 per hundred; new California, 10c Improved roads commodious buildings very best la shipped hy the Kuropenn receive $2,ft00 n year, the governors them forcibly, and the first shot fired per pound; sweet potatoes, 10c per have been provided, more competent makers, the .rest, or poorer grades, be o f Arizona, Maine, New Hnmpshlre, teachers employed, nnd modern facili would amount to a declaration o f war, pound. ing consumed at home. Unfortunate New Mexico, Rhode Island nnd South ties for teaching supplied at a mini in the opinion o f officials here. Oniona— Jobbing prices, l ® l } c per ly a feeling prevails In the United Dakota receive $8,000 n year; the gov mum cost. pound. States that cheese eqtinl to the best o f ernor o f South Carolina receives $3,- Early Sentence is Asked. the European product cannot he pro 600 n year; the governors o f Arkansas, I-os Angeles — W illiam H. Carlson, P r fr '.'S .r ,..............."*»i£ooi?!5:oo EXPERIMENTS TO BE TRIED duced here. This feeling Is based upon Connecticut, Delaware, Nevada, North ex-mayor o f San Diego and a banker Good to choice steers. . . . 11.500? 12.50 a lack of knowledge of actual condi Carolina, Texns, Utah and Wyoming Improvement of Sand tions In Europe nnd o f the renditions receive $4,000 a year; the governors here several years ago, was sentenced Medium to good steers.. 10.00(911.00 Temporary Roads to Be Made by Use of Straw, nffectlng the qnnlltles of chts-se. Cer o f Maryland, Mississippi nnd Okla Saturday to four years’ imprisonment Fair to medium steers .. 8.50(9 9.50 Hay or W ire Grasa. tain parts o f Europe probably nre bet homa receive $4,500 a year; the gov for using the mails to defraud in the Common to fa ir steers .. 8.00(9 9.00 ter favored hy desirable ellmntle con ernor of Iowa receives $4,000 a year; sale o f Imperial Valley land. Choice cows and heifers. 10.00(911.00 Carlson pleaded hia own case. He Com. to good cows andhf 6.50(9 8-00 For the first time an experiment In ditions nnd hy more general dissemina the governors o f Alabamn, Colorado, was convicted Friday, and asked Judge ' Canners.......................... tion of the bacteria or molds necessary Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Lou 3.00(9' 5.00 temporary Improvement o f deep sand 6.60(9110.00 roads by use o f a carpet o f straw, hay, to the characteristic ripening o f dif isiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, B. F. Bledsoe, in the United States Bulls................................ ferent vnrletles, hut even the best aver Oregon, Virginia, West Virginia and District court, to impose sentence at Calves.............................. 8.50(912.00 or wire grass, sprinkled with tar or age natural conditions can he Improved Wisconsin receive $5,000 a year; the once, rather than Monday, to shorten Stockers and fe e d e r s .... 8.00@10.00 bituminous produce, will be tried on - • Wisconsin highways In the vicinity o f Hogs— on hy nrtlflclnl means since necessnry governors of N'orth Dakota and Wash the nervous strain o f waiting. Prime m ixed...................$17.40® 17.50 Rla, Columbia county. It Is hoped to molds or bacteria can he grown In pure ington receive $0,000 a year; the gov Wolves Destroy Sheep. culture nnd utilised anywhere. How» ernor of Kentucky receives $0,500 a Medium m ixed............... 17.16(917.35 devise methods which w ill fit the road Plains, Mont. — Thompson River Rough h e a v ie s ............... 16.15® 16.35 fo r travel at small expense, and It Is ever, the cost mny render It Imprac year; the governors of Minnesota nnd ranchers report that wolves, from P ig s ................................. 15.00® 16.00 predicted that this straw carpet will ticable." Tennessee receive $7,500 a year; the whom there has been little trouble in Bulk................................. 17.35 last three years where traffic la not governors o f Indlnnn nnd Massachu that district for years, are on the heavy. Other experiments In resur Sheep— The Better Way. setts receive $8,000 n year; the gov “Do you tell bedtime stories at ernors of California, New Jersey, Ohio rampage again and have destroyed nu Prime spring lambs....... $17.00®17.50 facing highways are to be tried on merous sheep. Mountain lions had Heavy lambs ................. 16.50® 17.00 the Raraboo-KIlboum road. Thirty- your house?" nnd Pennsylvania receive $10,000 n been blamed for i >sses, but when a de Yearlings........................ 12.50® 13.00 four hundred sections have been " I used to until my w ife got next y e a r ; the governor of Illinois receives termined effort was made to corral the W ethers.......................... 11.50®12.00 staked out. nnd treatment ©f each to me. Now I either get home In good $12,000 a year; the governor o f New robbers they were found to be wolves. Ew es................................ 10.00® 10.50 w ill be different. •eason or sn.v nothing about It." York receives $20,000 n year. Varieties of Cheese Catalogued I