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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1920)
* •• . T I must have fainted and rAled over against the doors. I remember vague ly my bead Itrlklug something, then I MORO. OREGON. knew no more. \ Z F R ID A Y . . L . January 30, 192Ò How long I laid there I don’t know. When I regained consciousness I was price ol Ih e Moserwer ia $1.50 pei stretched out on a pile of sawdust In year, 75 cents tor aix months, SO cents lo-- the shadow of an Icehouse, and a man iour months— but if n»jd in «dvance w* * was bending over me with a bucket. accept $2.50 in full ‘or 2 years. Shortei There was a circle of curious faces retina than one year 12S cents per month 'A Blue M ark here w ill answer an in- leaning close about me. query, when entered upon our calendar, The seal clerk had found me when giving the date ol the paper as the date at he opened the car for Inspection and which vour current subscription expires. a ■ ■■ ■ ventilation. I told him my story, and even climbed back in the car and pointed out the sack wherq had larked the venomous horror. While they were prodding about with sticks and clubs, mjt eyes-swept the w'alls. Then I’ started for the door. “There It Is!" 1 yelled hoarsely. “Over there 1 See?” Somebody swung a lantern nrouud so thut the light fell directly on the spot. By J. B. HTOQBRFOSD “Hull!” shouted a voice. "The bo’s dippy.” (C opyright). I looked closer, then swore. For Bananas! Bananas everywhere I there In the exact spot (Vhere I had Dozens of ’em! Hundreds of 'em I I run my hand—where I had suffered leaned against the wall of the ear and momentarily the tortures of hades, sighed contentedly. I pinched myself was a good-sized bunch of sack ravel to see If It «us me—me In a cur of ing«. held securely by the splintered bananas. It was me, and there were surface of the wood. the bananas, sack upon sack of them, I didn’t wait for any more. I climbed piled three-fourths of the way to the out of that refrigerator and made a celling. quick getaway, for there had come to It was kind of close quarters for me the suddeii realization of what solid comfort, hut as long as I could might happen If they failed to locate eat—eat bountifully, luxuriously, un the tarantula und found the slashed ba stintedly, I sure didn’t have any kick nnna sack instead. coining. Then 1 thought of the seal But It was In there— heaven knows derk with the spectacles, and I laughed It was (here, and here's hoping they ¡».ns I reflected how I’d era «’led under found It. . the car from the off side, with hlfh pot j ten feet uwn> Well, I had beat him to IL I was sealed In, and hoboing INGENIOUS TRAP FOR WOLVES had Its soft spots after all. Everything was so comfortable that Device Employed by Eskimos Results Frequently In Practical Wiping I began to cast around for objections. Out of .Entire Pack. I found one." It was cold in that car, darned cold, and I proceeded to turn Wolves are a plague hi Alaska, up aw coat collar and snuggle cosily bet Wen Uvo sacks. I must have laid where the natives are commonly there at least three minutes before It obliged to storf their food supplies on platforms erected seven or eight occurred to*me that I was hungry. Think of It, three whole minutes In feet above the ground, thus putting a cur of bananas, and not realise them beyond the animals’ reach. . Most Ingenious of all wolf traps Is you’re .hungry I Well, anyhow, I got my knife to work and ripped open a one of extreme simplicity used by the sack In a jiffy. I was a pirate all right. Eskimo. It consists merely of an Iron spearhead—or a suitably shaped blade Who wouldn’t have been a pirate"’? It was hours later, and I’d trans of chipped flint will serve—which Is ferred my /ittention to another bunch. set point upward In .the Ice, so as No, I hadn't finished the first sack— to be frozen securely In position. A .it was mostly green, but I’d made a chunk of seal blubber is wrapped pretty good-sized aperture In the sec about the spearhead or flint blade and ond when my knife slipped from my tied fa st ’ Alaskan wolves are marvelously fingers. keen of scpnt. It does not take them I Ashed around In my pockets and dug up a match. It was the last match long to find the attractive bait, about I had. I lit It with some reluctance and which a snarling pack of them will held It far down, but the knife had gather, licking and, chewing at the blubber. Presently one and another clean vanished. - of them cut their tongues on the sharp As I was transferring the burnt end edges of the flint or Iron. Blood runs. to my left hand to prolong Its life,’ I Thpy^do not know that It Is their own happened to glance at the rent I had b|(H>d/'«nd the taste of It drives them made in the gunny sack, and, as I did crazy. so, I sat bolt upright, nearly butting a Presently they begin to attack each hole through the roof. There—not two other, the weuker being overcome by feet from my face— was a big, hideous, the stronger. Blood flows 4n streams hairy creature, about the size of a sil over the Ice, and soon all are killed ver dollar. or badly wounded. The pack Is nearly For a second I sat staring at It, destroyed, only a few perhaps being transfixed. The match seared my fin-, able to (Imp away and uurse their gera, flickered, and went out, an<| then hurts. suddenly I came to my senses and be gan to crawl. I fled,..terror-stricken, Christening Customs. to the doors and threw my weight The rural English people have some against them. I beat and pounded them frantically. I dumped and tore around curious superstitions regarding the • over those sacks like a man bereft of christening of infants. The munner In reason, and then, as the full realiza which a^-hild Is carried Into the church tion of my position forced Itself'upon Is supposed Io affect the character and me, I screamed at, the top of my voice. disposition In after-life. The nurse, or I thought of all the stories I had whoever carries the baby, should enter heard and rend of tarantulas, and as the church with the right foot, step they stood out vividly, every miserable, ping briskly and dancing the baby In eoul-racklng detail of them, I was wild her arms, so thut the little one shall with horror. 1 didn't have a chance grow up cheerful and light-hearted. Another old-fashioned theory Is that against that thing there In the dark. It If a boy Is baptised In the water previ might even now be making Its way ously used for a girl he will grow up stealthily toward me. I pulled myself together and rolled feeble and effeminate; while If ths over Into a corner, weak and shiver case Is reversed the baby girl will ing. Then the thought that there might grow up lacking In womanly attributes. be others—others right where I was In every country white Is employed for lying, brought me to my knees again all buhy garments, but where n little with a groan of despair. There must colof Is Introduced the superstitious be others ! There were others I A cold mother tskes care that It Is a lucky sweat stood out on my body, and I shade. Red Is said to be a lucky color, knelt there bereft of every atom of pink and blue are also favorable, but manhood, quaking and cowering In the green, the color of Jealousy, and yel low symbolize strife. dark. Through the vortex of my emotions Things You Simply Cannot Do. there came suddenly a new Impression Tou can’t stand for five minutes —the sensation as of something crawl ing. It was nothing definite, hut It wlthoutjnovlng, If you are blindfolded. You can’t stand at the side of a was Intensely real. Something was crawling! Crawling slowly and me room with both your feeP lengthwise thodically up my left leg! No, It was touching the wainscoting.' You can’t get out of a chair with my right leg! Again it was my left leg! I started to reach for It, then out bending your body forward, or put suddenly stopped, my arm poised rig ting your feet under It; that Is, If you idly. If I did reach—It! touched It, It are sitting squarely on the chair, and not on the edge of It. would sting—sting quicker! Tou can’t break a match If the I sat there In an agony o f suspense, w a itin g for It to strike. W aiting- mfttch Is laid across the nail of the waiting—waiting. for an eternity, but middle Anger of either hand, and It didn’t strike! It had even ceased passed under the first and third fingers of that hand, despite Its seemlAg so crawling. I chuckled softly, then I laughed. I easy M first sight. You can’t stand with your heels was going Insane. I reached down sud denly and clapped my hand over the against the wall and pick up sorn»- spo, where the crawling had ceased, thlng from the floor. You can’t, unless you are quite a hut there was nothing, i ran my hand over my enllre body, still there was clever person, return to an upright po nothing. sition whea places! two feet from a I felt sick and faint, and leaned wall with your hands behind your wearily against the car wall? As I did back and your head against the wall. so. my face tone’» ,i «onntl;!n«f cold— cold and clam m y and soil. 1 started Use for Distilleries. hack acretiming, then I laughed again Recently h distillery at Rome, Ps.. —I ^as Insane—I had leaned against whs sold and “Is to be turned Into an my oV n hand. ice-making plant. Now announcement To assure myself of this, for I was Is made that a distillery on the out sure of nothing. I tfin my palm slowly skirts of Lancaster has been purchased along the splintered surface of the by n chemical company of Delaware wall, and then with a howl of terror 1 county dye manufacturers, who wl'l rolled over on the Hacks. remove their entire plant to the Lan I bad touched som ething hairy— caster locntlon. This dye msnufactur- ug company Is a wnt development. It som ething Moft— som ething— I sat up with an Impelling desire to -reach out lias been proved that America can again. I coul<l\8tand the torture no manufacture Just ns good dyestuffs.as longer. I u an ted to kn«»w where I the Germans made. V > II «♦ ' stood. 1 w a ite d a fight'ug chance. i ne O b s e rv e r The Horror in the Car * I had suddvirty lost all fcenae of fear. • Another War. My nerves were strung to the snap “What’s the charge against this ping point. I groped my hand along man?” asked the judge. "Fighting In ths public streets," re the wait hp uud. duuu.ub<l sideway*. plied the officer. There was nothing—nothing! It was another prank of the Imagina „ “You're fined nine dollars and nine tion—It was— My Angers tightened ! ty cents." "What’s the ninety cents for. JudgeT' My blood mhsiio I to congeal’ I felt It t I had hold, of It I It gave easily asked the man at the bar. “War tax." under my Angers I Why didn't It "Rut the war’s all over, your honor * sting? Why didn't It even hiss? I “Over, nothing! Tou were fight lug, couldn’t let gw—I was riveted to the weren't youF the plant may be reedy ror power p t* ductlon by March SI. The coat of the plant will be In excess of $100,000. An applieatlon has been fltaTwlth the state engineer by H. B. Hendrick« and W. H. Woodbury of Waldo for an appropriation of water from • the. west Principal Events of the Week branch of the Illinois river for the lrrt> Mlsa Blair, looking up from her desk, gatlon of a small tract in Josephine Briefly Sketched for Infor saw the man standing In the doorway, county. • and her brows wrinkled In annoyance. mation of Our Readers. The Hood River Antl-Aslatlc associa This was one of her busiest morn tion has. telegraphed Senator Chamber ings; she was always busy, feeding copy to a machine, which never seemed More than $260,000 of the $660,000 lain and McNary to support tbe Phelan to be sufficiently fed. For little Miss resolution calling for a constitutional Blair was an exceedingly clever per road Bond Issue of Douglas county is amendment denying citizenship to all unexpended. son, and an efficient one as well. Japanese born iff tbe United States or The annual convention of the Chris The magazine for which she labored Its dependencies. would have lacked much of Its charm tian and Missionary alliance will open State and federal funds spent on the at Hood River February 1. without her effort. She wondered why highways of Oregon during the t^ars the office boy had left opeu the door There has been little Improvement In to . her sanctum—and she wondered the car shortage situation In Oregon 1914 to 1918, Inclusive, and to be ex pended In completing contracts for the also, an she raised Inquiring eyes to during the past few weeks. years 1919 and 1920, total $21.$79,- her visitor—how he had proceeded so School teachers of Hood River have 684.86, according to a report prepared far. The visitor explained himself. organized an association for the pur by the state highway commission. “Can I come In?” he asked frankly. You don't seein to remember me. I’m pose of securing better^salaiies. Demurrage regulations put Into ef ’She validity of the state dog license fect by the Oregon public service c< ’ Bret Wells, an employee.” “I really don’t recall—” Miss Blulr law has been sustained by Circuit mission some time ago have been ten- Judge McCourt of Multnomah coun orarlly suspended because of their <Jbu began. ty- The big man laughed. filet with the demurrage restriction!) The Marshfield Chamber of Com made operative by an order of. tn i "That’s because you’re so almighty busy," he said. “Sometimes, when I’ve merce is uncovering a lot of names that federal railroad administration o. had an errnnd In your office, you didn’t were not found by»the census enumera ficials. b -see me at all. Not that I’ve been here tors. Charles Burden and Frank Davis long. That’s what I want to see you The statg lime board has confirmed about, when you can spare time. How the order closing operations at the of Salem, state agents empowered by to make myself worth a better posi state lime quarry at Gold HUI until Governor Olcott to enforce'the probit! tlor ’sw. were arrested at Lal^evh ft tion than the one I’ve got. You seem spring. on a warrant sworn to by City Marshal to know everything. And If you’re as County officials estimate that there Dan Oosll, charged with having in klnd’as yon are wise—” are 1600 dogs in Jackson county. So their possession a quantity of Intoxicat “That’s flattery,” said Miss Blair. “It Isn't," he denied. “I mean every far only 800 owners have taken out a ing liquor. word I say. I’m asking In a favor— state license. Shrlners attending tbe national con your personal advice, If ‘you please, Trappers are doing unusually well vention of their order at Portland next when convenient." In Klamath county thia season. It Is The little woman studied her caller; probable that the season’s catch will June are warned not to expect any low er rate than the regular summer ex hls sincerity was no pore to he doubt fun to $15,000. cursion fares to the Pacific coast, Ed ed than the eager nppenl of hls eyes. The sixth annual Marlon County ward Chambers, traffic director of the An earnest fellow, for all hls contra dictory air of helplessness. She Corn show was held at Salem, with ex railroad administration, advised Sena in the taw. at her littered desk aqd back hibits on hand from*many sections of tor McNary. These were the foundation stones. glanced .. , the Willamette yalley. . Winter damage to fruit trees ranged Wood knew that the government must 8 The Oregon State Association of Na all the way from slight damages to ‘Tomorrow, then. If you have confi be run by the Cubans, and so 00 per tlogal Farm Loan organizations held winter kill. This is shown by an ex 16447704 ?nt of the officials engaged In the dence In my ability to help you—at ■ Its second annual meeting at Salem, tended survey by the Oregon Agricul „.’eat work of reconstruction were three o’clock.” She wus not surprised when he told , Tuesday ar<<l Wednesday. — selected from the people of the (aland. tural college experiment station divi he had come from The California-Oregon Power com- sion of horticulture. The Injury waa The Cubans were taught government hdr, w next day, Hint 1 «0 ■ ! pany Is removing Its polea and lines ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES ARE while the government was being built “Spent my life there, In the lonely at Ashland. 1 Its business has -been much heavj^r in some sections of ths and thus they were able to run It when TESTED AND PROVED IN HAN state than in others. places,” he added, “nnd can’t lose my the rule of the Island was turned over The4 Dallas Commercial club has at half-civilized wnys up here, where absorbed by the municipal system. DLING GREAT B U SIN E SS to Its Inhabitants. The schools of Mapldon, Swlsshome last secured the location of a cannery things are different. That’s why I’m PROBLEMS. When It became necessary to reor begging you to help me. I'd do any and Westlake, all In the extreme west ganlze the Chhan railroads Wodd se thing If) return. I’d type off your ex ern end of I^ine county, are closed on at Dallas. Many acres of berries of all kinds will be set out In the vicinity and cured the services of Sir William Vah tra work evenings, or—” By EDWARD B. CLARK. account of smallpox In the districts. a campaign will be carried on by tbe From time to time people aKk, Horne, president of the Canadian Pa Miss Blair waved Ills eager offer The constitutionality of the fish ai|d club to Interest farmers and fruit groa-, “What has been the administrative cific, and of Granville M. Dodge, build aside. game legislation, creating a fish and and business experience of Leonard er of the Union Pacific. “If I can help you. Lt will be for game commission of nine members will era In cultivating crops that can be handled by the cannery. Wood? What has Ireep Ills experience ' The same general policy was fol help’s sake,” »he replied. "Now tell with men outside of the army? What lowed In dealing with the problem of me what It Is that you wish me to be tested by the Multnomah Anglers Deputy state fire marshals have club. does he know about conditions in the caring for the tens of thousands of made a survey at The Dalles. They Mrs. B. A. Lemen, a pioneer of Ben-, will also survey Hood River. During different parts of the United States orphans that had been left by the war. Bret Wells seated himself; hls em ton county, Is dead. She crossed the the past few months fire surveys have and In our overseas possessions? Has Horner Folks, commissioner of chari barrassment was evident. he any thorough knowledge of foreign ties of the state of New York, was “It’s like this.” he said. “I’m In love.»] P,alns from Missouri In 1852, settling been made of 60 towns and cities In Uffalrs and of our foreign relations?” called to Cuba by Wood to aid In tlte Oh! none of your fnncled affairs, but near Monroe, where she has since re the state 'and in most instances new The administrative qualities of establishment of a system for placing real, honest-to-goodness, once-ln-a-llfe- sided. fire equipment has been purchased and Leonard Wood have been tested and and permanently caring for these lit tlroe love. I’ve got to have this girl A hog show and site will be held at many hazards retnoved. tle desolates. Chief Justice White for my wife. She’s as far above me na Salem February 4, when 43 head of proved. • No American living has been There werothree fatalities In Oregon tried more thoroughlyjhan he In com of the Supreme court of the United“ a star. I—wnpt you to tench roe the brood sows and gilts, from the cham plex flblds of constructive civil work, States, at that time an associate jus little things that’ll help me some day pion producing breeders of the West dpe to accidents dilrlng the week end ing January 22, according to a , re administrative work of the highest tice, was consulted as to the method to to win her. What they call the cour will be sold. port prepared by the state industrial order which carried with It the neces be pursued In reorganizing the courts. tesies, you understand, and all that. It Is estimated that damage done to accident commission. Leonard Wood was In Cuba about Ways that’ll help me. too. to get on In The victims i sity for the exercise of keen business Umatilla county^roada by recent floods were William C. Billings of Bend, four years. He left there a reorgan bnalness. It Isn't money that I care acumen. / The republic of Cuba, built upon, ized and sound banking system, a so much about. I’ve made mine, out and washouts will amount to $26,000. James A. Colestock of Salem and firm «democratic foundations, Is a mon good raljroad system, no debts, nearly West. It’s—well, reflnementll s'pose j Permanent repairs will not be made George F. Dless of Eugene. $2,000,000 unincumbered money In the you’d call IL that I need." ’ | until spring. ument to the administrative ability of Frank F. LlsThke of Milwaukie has treasury, a sugar crop of nearly 1,000,- Miss Blair drew a deep breath. Newton A. Blogett, resident of Ore filed application with the state engi Leonard Wood. In the Philippines Is 000 tons, sound municipal laws, fine n she gon for the past 60 years, died at hls to be found another monument to his public worses, a firm agricultural neer to appropriate 3700 second feet said.. Her caller arose. statesmanship. home In Albany, aged 86 years. He had of water from (he Deschutes river for foundation and an absolute respect "Too big, I reckon.” he said, disap Leonard Wood graduated In medi among the people for life and prop resided In the Willamette valley for power development In a series of cine from Harvard University In 1884 erty. The school system which Wood pointedly. But she put forth n detain the past 40 years. z power plants at the Metolius, Frieda, and served for more than, a year In established was founded on the laws ing hand. Fred J. Holmes, aged 62 y^ars. presi Coleman, Mecca, White Horse Rapids “I could conch you on etiquette nt one of the great hospitals, later to of Massachusetts and Ohio.' Roads dent of the La Grande National Jtank and Pelton power sites In Sherman, take charge of the. charity depart were built which made communication lenst,” she suggested Impulsively, nnd and on$ of Union county’s foremost Wasco and Jefferson counties. hls clnsp of gratitude left her fingers ments In a section of the city of Bos speedy. The hospitals erected under hls aching. citizens, died at hls home In La Grande, ton where the poor lived. Two drainage demonstrations were supervision were of the highest type. Miss Blnlr hnd been too busy In her from heart trouble. >JNot long after the completion of conducted In Linn county under the Lord Cromer said he wlst^gd this Because of complaints that census direction of the Linn county farm Wood’s work In Boston he becaiqfi an American officer was available to fol hurried youth to think Hbout love. There hnd been, nt first, the absorbing i enumerators had failed to list a good -assistant surgeon In the army, coming bureau and the extension service of the low him In hls reconstruction work college career. many Individuals, the city council of Oregon Agricultural college. One whb Into contact with the western plulns- In Egypt. Ellhu Root said this work She looked down at her unadorned man, the miner, the people generally, Roseburg 1 b taking steps to have a held at the farm of L. Ca^e, 3*^ 'never was paralleled In colonial pos and giving much of his time to the sessions anywhere. Theodore Roose businesslike dress ns she thought of more complete count. the man, nnd she smiled—nn odd, miles southeast of Albany, and the work of assisting the Indians and to Dr. Francis A. BaHey, pioneer phy velt said that Leonard Wootr “has tw isted stnlle—down at her flat little other at the farm of J. Percy Stearns, a study of tire- problems of Irrigation sician of Washington county and wide Just west of Lebanon. W. Powers, rendered services to Cuba of a kind shoes. and reclamation. which, If performed three thousand p She questioned the Westerner *con-. ly known throughout the state, died at drainage expert of the Oregon Agricul Then for Leonard Wood there came years ago. would have made him a cernlng the lady of hls heart when, on four years In California. He covered hero mixed up with the sun god In va the following morning, she gave him n , Hillsboro at the age of 81, following tural college, conducted the demonstra an attack of pneumonia. • the state many times In pursuance or rious ways.” tions. marked book of etiquette. As a result of numerous complaints hls duties and extended his field as A summary of the results of the re A fte r the Cuban experience Wood The big man’s face softened In to te n ' of people missed In the census, the Eu- occasion required Into the states of Wns fo r five years In the Philippines derness ns he answered her question. cent special session of the state leg , gene Chamber of Commerce has asked islature shows that, eight resolutions the Northwest. Then for two years he confronted with the difficult labor of “She Is smnll and fine, mv g ir l.” he was In service In the South, having establishing a civil government, this said, "with eyes crystal clear, like wa i for blanks so that those who have been and bills passed by both hohses will headquarters In Georgia. time among a Mohammedan people. ter sparkling. Her voice Is as a wom missed may be counted. be referred to the voters for ratifica From the South Leonard Wood went There he did the same successful an’s voice should be. nnd—you’d have Reports from Drew In Douglas coun tion at the special election In May, to the city of Washington, where hls work he did In Cuba. to Ree her to know,” he added help ty, a few miles above Tiller, indicate that of the 97 bills passed during the work brought him Into dally contact This period of residence In the Phil lessly. that a rich gold strlk^ has been made. session 66 were approved by the gover with Grover Cleveland. Then he had ippines gave Wood an opportunity to The ledg<^ uncovered Is said to assay Tbe hints on deportment which Miss nor or filed with th^secretary of state the same Intimate relations with Wil study conditions In the British colo liam McKinley and the men of hls nies. Borneo, Singapore, and to keep Blnlr gave to her pupil bore Immediate more .than >500 to the ton. automatically to become laws, while 41 * fruit. Hls dally visits became n That the damage to Marlon county were vetoed and relegated to the legls- • time. In close touch with conditions In source of andfsenient to both. fruit growers will be light 1 b indicated Then came the Spanish war and the Japan and along the China coast. One evening alone again In her In a report made by Professor Brow’n latlve scrap pile. active campaign In Cuba ns the col WOod traveled through India, spent Dr. R. E. I^ee Steiner, warden of the onel of the regiment of rough riders some time with the Dutch In Java, and npartment. Miss Blnlr came upon the o’f the O A. C., who has Just completed state penitentiary since last May, has astounding realization that she her of ,which Theodore Roosevelt was the with Lord Cromer In Egypt. He self was In love. In love so surely an -Inspection of the orchards. relinquished his duties at that insti lieutenant colonel« Admissions by a man charged with tution and will be reinstated as supe- gained and retained knowledge of all that thought of her misfortune took At the close of the Spanish war which at that time came under hls stu her breath away. For the object of murder In the presence of a sheriff, If Intendcnt of the Oregon state hospi Leonard Wood's supreme administra dious observation. her affection was no other than the .made voluntarily, are admissible at the Governor Olcott stated that tive duties began. He was made the Then Leonard Wood became chief man whom she hnd been tenchlng to trial of the defendant, according to an tai. T j . H. Compton, now state parolq of governor of the cjty of Santiago and 1 of the general staff of the ‘ United opinion of Attorney General Brown. a few weeks la/er of the entire east- i S tates army, In whose hands rests win the heart of another. ficer, will succeed Dr. Steiner as war After several weeks of preparation At the next meeting she told him ern half of Cuba. den of the penitentiary on February very largely*the direction nnd admin thnt their lessoln* must discontinue. the Willamette University Glee club Under Wood profiteering was abol istration of the military establishment 1, and Perqy'A. Varney, who recently “I’m too busy," she explained. will make Its first long tour through ished, Industry was built up. agrlcul- ' which after all Is 00 per cent a busi resigned as chief of the Salem police “It’s all been of no use then?” the Easterh Oregon and Washington dur ture rehabilitated, hospitals organ- • ness matter. department, will be appointed parole man said dully. ing the two weeks beginning January Ized, equipped and maintained, tens The administrative career of Leon officer to succeed Mr. Compton. Miss Blair stared. of thousands of peuple clothed and ard Wood is spread upon the records 29. “Does she not care for you?" she fed—and all this done Iji a thorough of hls country. The work which he J. D. Mickle, state dairy and food Italian Philosopher-Martyr. businesslike manner. It was dune un -has done Is tasting. It Is a states asked. commissioner, announced at the an “She!” Bret Wells exclaimed. “^Yhy, February 17 Is the anniversary of der tribulations which arose from man’s work. nual Convention of the state dairymen you are the one I have dared to love. the burning In Rome. In BUM), of the the fact that the people were Im at Eugene that he will retire from of Yon—the star above me. It begun Italian philosopher, Giordano Bruno. poverished to the point-of starva Z Perfectly Safe. w’hen used to sit and wntch you from fice at the expiration of hie present He was subjected to .continual nnd tion and had been dying by thousands "Now," snkl the physician to the across the hall. Since then the love’s term. ' terrible . persecution for seven years for the lack of the things which Wood roet who had irammoned him, “you been growing until now—" the West ! ThV work of the woman forest fire prior to hls dentil, l.p^tJie hope that*he quickly provided. are not In good health, and I must lookouts In the Cascade forest*last would recant Then there came the rehabilitation forldd all bruin work.’’ "But, doctor,” erner’s voice broke. « monument "I can’t live without you,” he : summer was so successful that N. F. wns erected to him under papal pro of the municipalities, tbe establish protested the poet, “may I not write ment of schools, the opening of roads, some verjuy?” "Certainly," the doc sighed. Macduff, supervisor of the forest, has test nt the place where he perished at Miss Blnlr, the *efijclent, slipped declared that he wants a large num the stake. the organizing of got eminent In the tor sold, “write all the verses you waqt swiftly from her office chair. provinces, the readjustment of taxa to." ber for next summer's vwork. He says "You don’t have to. Bret,” ahe said they will be employed’ thia year In4 tion and of the courts, and the work Untying the Knot happily. of providing for the thousands of chil There Is a marriage custom among greater numbers than aver. Rough on Now Jersey. (C o p y rig h t. ! • ! » , W «at«rn N tw a p a p a r U n io n ) • dren made orphans by war or famine. the Santnls, a tribe In India, by which, Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Idea of New More than 14,100 weights were in* after a cash price has been set on the There was niore business and more Jersey, New York’s next-door neigh i epected by the deputy state setfler of bride by the parents, the fiance and HR It Right That Time. varieties of It than It has been the lot "How the Blanks could afford to give weights and measures during the year hls lady tie a knot In a , string for of many men ever to have placed up bor. was that It was "a double-headed suburb, rather than a ktate." such a grand dinner I don’t under 1919, according to the annual report of each day to Intervene before the wed on their shoulders. stand,” said Mrs. BI nnderby to her W., A. Danxtel, In charge of the de ding. Then the parenp» separate ;, day Not long after this there came the by day a knot Is untied, and when the guest. "It was really a most pre partment. . Atrocious, Indeed. greater -opportun it lea In Havana. It end of the string Is reached the real One of the most fapwus—as well as sumptuous repast.” — Boston Tran- was necessary to re write tbe election The combined convention of thè Par $not Is tied that makes the couple one. laws to make them tit the habits of the one of tho worst—puns of hlstdry was acript. ctfle Milk Dealers’ association a o r tite people. Production had to be stimu perpetrated by King James I of Eng Pacific Northwest Association of Milk lated. for agriculture was the main land, when Sir Walter Raleigh, whom Uncle Eben. First Land 8ale. and Dairy Inspectors will be held Feb for political reasons he disliked, was source of the Island's wealth. Here We should say the first land sale “Par nln' no use tryln’ to bury de ruary 3, 4 and 6 In Portland. again the same measures were follow presented to him. Said the king, fix hstcltet wlf some folks," said Uncle on record was the purchase of the Construction work at the steam pow* field of Machpelah by Abraham, who ed nnd as a result there were estab ing Raleigh with hls eold-enotigh eye, Rben. “not as long as dey kin keep lished law and order, protection of “Rawly! Rawly I True enough, for I I dodgin’ Into de hardware store an* •r .plant of ths Bend Water A Light paid 400 shekels of silver for the Ilfs and property, and liberty wlth- think of thee very Rawly, moo I" *■ pf0<r«««lai f’V ldlj wnd field la which he burled hie wife. LEONARD WOOD. ADMINISTRATOR OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST. WOOD HAS VARIED IfiB tj000 cu<lery-"
