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THE CAPITOL
New of Owen! FaeUc In
taral at the Coturty Seat
Miss Mary Harbison has gone to
Morgan, Oregon, where she expects
to spend the summer on her father's
ranch.; ,
Mrs. Victor Pehrsson, who has
been spending the winter in Califor
nia, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
J, F. Gardner, on return to her home
in Buffalo, North Dakota.
H. C Peterson reported on the Hos
pital question at a meeting of the
business men recently and it is that
Hillsboro stands a fair show of get
ting the Portland Sanitarium locat
ed hare. So far there have been but
three sites offered and this city has
offered one ofthem. The question
is to be decided June 1st.
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Hahn, of Port
land, have decided to make this city
their home and moved here the past
week. They are the parents of Mrs.
Hoffman, of this city, and Stanly
Hahn, of Mountaindale.
The assistants in the county of
fices are to receive an increase of
$10 a month on their salaries, by
order of the court.1' The deputy clerk
and deputy Bheriff will each receive
an increase of $25 a month.
James Townsend, a resident of this
city for many years, was viBiting his
brother, and while there died. He
had been absent about a month. His
age was sixty-two years. The fune
ral took place at Salem.
Wade Lull, of this city, sustained
the fracture of both bones above the
ankle of his left foot, by a log roll
ing upon it. He is receiving every
care, and while the accident was a
very painful one, is getting along
very well.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Garrett, Mrs.
Scotch and Mrs. Wells were in Cor
vallis last week calling upon their
young people who are attending 0.
A. C. Mr, Gantett improved the
opportunity by taking a little fishing
trip while in that part of the coun
try. Grant Mann, who has for many
years been a resident of Cornelius,
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In order to enable my newspaper friend, 0. D. Hamstreet, of
the Sheridan Sun, to take a much-needed vacation, I have gono to
manage hie paper for two weeks. Any job printing that i needed
soon may be sent me at Sheridan, Ore., and will be promptly done
and returned. Those who have work that will keep are requested
to hold the same until my return, and oblige, - -
A. G. CArJTII, Ths Jcb Printer
was brought before the County judge
here last week and tried for insanity.
Mr. Mann was taken into custody on
a complaint sworn to by his wife and
at the hearing many witnesses testi
fied. He was takes to the state iaati
tution at Sales, .,
D. W. Bath, who soma twelve
ago, was the editor ef the Indenen
dent, called apoa friends hen she
past week. His home is In Cereal
lis, where Us wife is operating a
millinery atom. He was oa his way
to Goldendale, Washington, to visit
his son, Irving.
T. G. Brownleewe, wife and child,
who were on their way to Portland
on the train the day of the wreck and
who were all more or less bruised and
mlured, were brought home, unable
to continue their journey to Portland,
where they wen going to be present
at the bedside of the former's father,
who passed away that day, at tthe
age of eighty-five years.
The resignation of E. L. Moore,
president of the Hillsboro club, was
accepted at the last meeting, Mr.
Moore giving as his reason for want
ing to resign, that it was impossible
for him to attend, as his business
called him away from town, and he
would be unable to be present at the
meetings. The vacancy will be .filled
by the vice president, Mr. Weil, and
M. P. Cady was elected to the vice
Presidency. ,
Henry, Beavertan's old faithful
cow, is now ready to supply all milk
demands at 12 cents a quart.
Thos. B. Harris, Vincent Place, fiea
verton, Oregon. 7tf
FOR SALE Six weeks' old pigs.
F. H. Schoene, Route 8, Beaverton,
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VETERAN RECEIVES LETTER
FROM GENERAL WOOD
W. J. R. Beach, of this city, has
received the following letter from
General E. Wood:
Indianapolis, Indiana.
May S, 1920.
Dear Mr. Beach:
I have your letter of the twenty
second. Thank you for the suggestion. In
all my talks I have made it clear that
I have the greatest respect and ad
miration for the veterans of the Civil
War and the Spanish War and the
veterans of the Great World War.
It has been a particular pleasure
to me to meet so many veterans of
the Civil War on my trips through
the country, and I need hardly tell
you that I have the greatest admira
tion and respect for them. The
country owes them a debt of grati
tude which will never be paid.
Sincerely yours,
LEONARD WOOD.
Mr. W. J. R- Beach, Past Commander,
Department of Oregon, G. A. R.,
Forest Grove, Oregon.
Teacher "Well, how stupid you
are, to be sure! Cant multiply eighty
eight by twenty-five! Ill wager that
Harvey can do it in less than no
time." ' (
Abused student "I shouldn't be
surprised. They say that folks mul
tiply very rapidly these days.
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OREGON NOTES
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to toarset travel throat too Wlh
tanette valley Is under way already.
The Union Livestock association will
sold Ms muffin annual show at Union,
Jam 1-4.
The ninth annual oonferoaat of the
Deschutes Baptist association was held
at Redmond.
It Is reported that hop vines In the
Independence district are making ft
thrifty growth.
A large cougar v last week killed ft
ealf on the farm of George Leedy, four
miles north of Toledo.
A dairy and sheep extension ashool
was held at the North Craft farm In
Douglas county Friday.
McMinnville Elks to the number of
600 will attend the state convention to
he held at Salem In July.
A gain of $1,616,869.36 In deposits la
the three banks of Eugene has been
made during the past year.
The high price of sugar has caused
a slump in the demand at Hood River
for strawberries and cherries.
Under the auspices of the Jack
son county farm bureau a two-day
dairy -school was held la Mcdford.
Merlin Gold was instantly killed at
Hammond Lumber company, Camp No.
10, near Clatskanlc, by a flying log.
Union high school district of Madras
has voted to issue $60,000 in bonds for
immediate construction of a building.
Both bondB and special tax for a
new high school gymnasium carried
In the special election held at Mon
mouth. Three airplanes will be sent to Eu
gene from Mather Field, Sacramento,
for the air circus to be staged there
May 20.
In order to conserve fuel for spray
rigs the Hood River Apple Growers'
association Is urging conservation of
gasoline.
' Because of lack of patronage, service
of the Portland Navigation company
between Salem and Portland has been
discontinued.
The Alaea River Lumber company
has shipped a carload of fir logB to New
York to test their adaptability for ve
neering purposes.
Scores of small flrei In the hills
around Eugene have raised a pall of
smoke. The fires are caused by farm
ers burning brush.
The Corvallis Commercial club has
gone on record against the specific
gravity teBt for gasoline and In favor
of suspending the law.
The laying of the six miles of sub
marine telephone cable to connect the
Tillamook rock lighthouse with the
shore, has been completed.
A tract of 34 acres partially within
the city(limits of Albany was purchas
ed by the Linn county fair association
for permanent fair grounds.
The Astoria board of school direct
ors Is calling for bids for a new gym
nasium for the high school to cost
when equipped about $60,000.
The twenty-ninth annual session of
the Southern Oregon Medical associa
tion was held at Roseburg. It was de
cided to bold the convention at Grants
PasB next year.
The state land board has recelved'a
total of $644 in royalties from three
Portland sand and gravel companies
for sand and gravel taken from the
bed of the Willamette.
Albert MeaderB and W. f. Jenkins,
who escaped from the prison wood
camp last Saturday night, were cap
tured at Mill City by Cherry James, a
guard at the penitentiary.
More than 160 plumbers and their
wives, from all sections of the state,
gathered in Salem for the nineteenth
annual convention of the Oregon State
association of master plumbers.
Will R. King of Ontario, former dem
ocratic national committeeman for
Oregon, has resigned as chief counsel
for the United States reclamation serv
ice, to become effective June 16.
Shortage of gasoline Is becoming
acute at Klamath Falls and may result
in the closing down of all sawmills
which are supplied with logs direct
from the woods by motor truck.
A movement has been started among
Marlon county taxpayers to Introduce
a bill in the legislature at Its next ses
sion prohibiting -the catching of moun
tain trout during the spawning season.
. The state desert land board will ask
congress to extend the contract be
tween the state and federal govern
ments relative to the Walker Basin Ir
rigation project In Deschutes country
for a period of 10 years.
Statistics show, according to the war
department statement, that Oregon's
enlisted strength for Its national guard
is 2152 men, of which 1346 have been
enlisted. During the month ending
May 1 there were enlisted In Oregon
two companies of Infantry, two com
panies of coast artillery, one company
9f engineers with 117 men and four
officers, and one quartermaster detach
ment of 24 men, composed mostly of
commissioned officers.
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Fred Carver, 11, and Herbert Dor),
It, who ran away from the boys' and
girts' aid society home in Portland
Monday, walked Into the police sta
tion at Salem and surrendered. They
said they wen hungry and wished to
return to Portland.
Testimony and evidence relating to
the train wreck at Bertha station May
9, which resulted In the death of nine
persons and ths injury of 40 others,
will be taken at a hearing by the Ore
gon public service commission In Port
land Monday, May $4.
Complete investigation of the sugar
situation as it affects the entire state
of Oregon will be made by Hall 8.
Lusk, chief assistant to United States
Attorney Humphreys, who left last
week for San Francisco. Mr. Lusk will
be in California for at least a week.
Daniel McCarthy, 102 years of age
and the oldest patient at the state hos
pital at Salem, Is dead. Ha was com
mitted to the old Hawthorne Institu
tion In Portland In 1868 and remained
there until 1883, when, with other pa
tients, he was transferred to Salem.
The Dalles will build a civic auditor
ium at a cost of $125,000. ' This was de
cided when cltlsens went to the polls
and gave the project a majority of 154
votes. Six hundred and twenty-four
votes were cast General obligation
bonds to the extent of $60,000 also were
voted.
By defeating both the Marsh field
and Salem teams in the finals of the
Oregon High Behoof Debating league
tournament, the Corvallis high school
debating team won the championship
of the Btate for 1020 and possession for
one year of the University of Oregon
cup.
Business men and college students
are urged in a letter received by Will
G. Steel, secretary of the Eugene cham
ber of commerce, from the secretary of
agriculture, to Bpend their summer' va
cations working on farmsju order to
Increase the food production of the
country this year.
Twenty-seven bridges and two over
head railroad crossings on the route
of the Pacific highway between Salem
and the California line, for which con
tracts have been awarded by the state
highway department, have been com
pleted during the past week, are under
construction or contemplated within
the next month.
Percy Cupper, state engineer, will
leave this week for Sacramento, .where
he will confer with W. F. McClute,
state engineer of California, with re
gard to the proposed appropriation of
water from Warner lake In southern
Oregon for the irrigation of lands em
braced In the Surprise valley project
In northern California.
The last step to insure prosperity for
the Rogue river valley within a year,
with Irrigation of 10,000 acres of Its
best orchard and farm hmds, was taken
when contracts were signed by the
board of directors of the Medford irri
gation district and the Rogue River
Canal company for the sale of $1,250,
000 of district per cent gold bonds at
99 and for the complete Installation of
a system of Irrigation to be completed
in time for the season of 1021.
That black volcanic cinders, Inex
haustible deposits of which are found
In the immediate vicinity of Bend, may
BOlve the problem of finding a light
aggregate to take the place of gravel
In bridge concrete, which has been con
fronting the Btate highway commls-,
slnn for some time, is the belief of Dis
trict Highway Engineer Stebblns. Mr,
Stebblns has sent samples of the oln
ders to the office of the state, engineer
in the hope that they may be found
satisfactory for this purpose.
Bonds issued by the Grants Pass,
Medford and Ochoco Irrigation district
will be certified by state Irrigation se
curities commission as soon as the
records of each project are completed
and filed with the state engineer, ac
cording to a decision reached at a con
ference held In Salem. The Grants
Pass district. In Josephine county, has
voted bondB in the sum of $184,000, the
Medford district $1,250,000 and the
Ochoco district $100,000. The three
projects are now under development.
The state highway commission has
a legal right to make local changes In
the roads to eliminates curves or
grades and to bring about other Im
provements, but It Is not empower id
by law to abandon routes already es
tablished by the legislature, according
to a decision handed down by Judge
G. F. Skipwortb of Lane county, In
which he held against the commission
In the case brought by B. II. Rock hill
of Riddle to restrain the state from
proceeding with the construction of
the so-called Canyonvllle cutoff sec
tion of the Pacific highway.
The state board of control, acting
upon statements contained In telegrams
received from the three members of
the state highway commission, lndl
eating that there was urgent need of
fund with which to meet obligations
already Incurred by the state through
the awarding of contracts for post and
forest roads in Oregon, disposed of fir
000,000 of bonds under the soHsalled
federal aid road law passed at ths spe
cial session of the legislature last Jan
uary. The bonds were purchased by
the Lumbermen Trust company of
Portland, which submitted the most
satisfactory bid of 89,09 In behalf of
the Continental Commercial Trust A
Savings bank of Chicago.
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X P. U. CLUB en Joy 8
GATHERING ON CAMPUS
On the campus last Thursd ty there
gathered a host of xormer Pacific
University students of long ago.
They partook of a feast of good things
to eat as well as enjoying a flow of
soul, recounting old-time remlnis
censes of former days and mingling
together as in the years of youth.
Composed of "girls" who attend
ed school at Pacific University thir
ty and more years ago. Most of
these attended at the same time.
Mrs. Emms, Wooley-Chandler
President. .
Mrs. Fannie Rolston-Russell Vice
President.
Dr. Ethel Gray Miss)flecrtary
Treaaurer. Mrs, Mary Johns-Jacobs! Mrs.
Daisy Stott-Bullock, Mrs. Ella Gel
ger; Mrs. Mary Brown-Lewis; Mrs,
Cora Wells-Soden: Mrs. Ida Thoraaa
Caplesj.Mrs. Nellie Woods-Adamaj
Mrs. Flora Lebo-Brobst: Mrs. Alice
Denney-Brownj Mrs. Kate Gurvin
Fannoj Mrs. Gaghen Bobbins, vMrs.
Edith Tosier-Weat burred.
Guests with the X P. U. party were.
Mrs. Mary E. Hoxtsr, Mrs. Charlotte
Woods, formerly of Forest Grove;
Mrs. Frank Graham, Mrs. Joseph
Hoffman. .
Barnett Y. Roo and wife (Julia
Brown) were schoolmates of most of
the Club, also Mrs. Lillie Hampton
Buxton, Mrs. Carrie Buxton-Harrison
and Mrs, Annie Roe-Goff, all old
students were present, an were also
Pacific University faculty, Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Scott, and W. H. HoUls,
President of the Commercial Club.
Members not present at Forest
Grove, May lath were: Mrs. Adit
Clark-Brown, Mrs. Caples-Robbins.
Mrs. A. Kingsley.
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