MORE THAN USUALLY WARM
STATES HELP DISABLED MEN
S ailo r* Declare ths G u lf Stream Is
Outdoing Its e lf a t T h l* Season,
fo r 8ome Reason.
Louisiana and Texas Are Prominent
In th * Work of As*i*tfng th *
Unfortunate*.
Marine men blame the-G ulf stream
for the summer w eather prevailing
accept >2.50 nt full *or 2 year».
ShuTlci along the Atlantic coast They say th *
term* than one year 12 4 centa per month
water of thè G ulf stream is almost
A B lue M ark here w ill anawer an in- boiling.
_
query, when entered upon our calendar,
In
Norfolk,
Va.,
th
*
temperature
giving the date of tfie paper aa the data at
was 86 degree*. A hundred mile* out
which vour current aubacription expires.
to sea Just before the Gulf stream la
reached the temperature was 101, ac
cording to Information brought there
by marine meh. W ithin one day’s run
from Norfolk by water there was a
difference of nearly 40 degrees In the
temperature. It wus ao hot iu the Gulf
Stream, marine men said. It was al
By M A R G A R E T W IL D E R .
most unbearable to remain on deck
during the day.
Much encouragement has come to
the district officers of the federal
board for vocational education, as lo
cal Interest has been displayed In tbe
work of re-education for disabled sol
diers. The building In which men in
“tryout" courses are taught at Tulane
university was donated for the pur
pose. It Is a modern, up-to-date build
ing, spacious enough to accomodate
the men who will need this type of
training In this district. The shops at
Tulane university will still be .utilised,
as will the automobile Instruction,
and related subjects In English and
in simple arthmetlc will be given In
this building. In addition, It may be
used as a social center for the men.
An organization bus been perfected
among the disabled men In training,
and other social organizations In the
city have shown Interest In planning
entertainment for them. A splendid
spirit has developed among the men
and they seem raujh Interested la
their work.
A similarly satisfactory arrange
ment has been made In Texas at the
Grubb school. Ten thousand dollars
have been appropriated by the state
for use In this school In connection
with the work done by the board. The
school receives pupils at any time, and
no tuition Is charged. * Barracks are
being built by the authorities to house
Looking T ow ard Coppal Lake.
the men, and a special mess hall Is
NE would not, of course, de
and of the Jolly little town of W ater being prepared for them.
scribe the Kerry roads as
a nr
< > i» * r r v r r
MORO.
OREGON.
T h e price of T h e O bserver is $1.59 per
75 centi for six montila, '■'* ecu*» •»»..
.uoattaa— Out if '»••<! »■ -4*«“*.*. •
PEG’S SACRIFICE
Peggy was excited and happy. Sit
ting before the big mirror, she brushed
out the tangled curly hair, singing to
herself. Tonight, oh, what fun ! That
great big marvelous dance she had
looked forward to for the last three
weeks was really about to "lutppen.”
Before her on a chair lay the blue
evening dress and slippers, and they
actually seemed to match her shining
- eyes.
"Ob, mamma,” she cried, as the door
opened, “I’m Just crazy to go—why—
why mamma, what Is It?”
Surprise and alarm were mingled In
Peggy’s voice. Her mother, sweet and
young looking, came to her daughter’s
side and put her arm around Peggy’s
waist.
"Darling, I—I can hardly tell you.
(lb, Peggy, what If I should usk you
*to give up that dance tonight?”
Peggy’s eyes lost some of their glow.
“Why, mamma—what’s happened?”
she managed to say.
Mrs. Palmer’s voice broke a little.
“Your Aunt Alice Is 111 out In Chi
cago. I Just received this telegram
fr<mi Ujgcle Juck, and he wants me to
come there tonight. And—und—you
know, Peg, I caiA leave a two-year-
old baby nlone In the house and since
he Is not well anyway, I hate to en
trust him to u neighbor, yet I hute—
Pdg, I hate to keep you home!”
Peggy’s heart seemed to be sinking
within her, hut her sweet lips turned
und smiled at her mother’s wistful
face.
“Run right along, mnramn. Of course
I’ll stay with Bob Boy. Gtve my love
to Aunt Alice, and just make her get
well. Probably knowing you are near
will do her more good than any
amount of medicine.”
Mrs. Palmer kissed her daughter
several times, an^ Peggy understood
the deep sympathy and appreciation
which her dear little mother could not
express In words. <f
At eight o’clock that night all was*
still In the Palmer house. 'Peggy sat
by little Bob Boy's crib, musing. The
music was starting now, she knew. She
could picture the orchestra Jazzing
away at their many different Instru-'
ments, and she wondered what the
girls were wearing, and how pretty
they locked.
Bob Boy was sleeping peacefully.
Peggy's mother heart went out to her
tiny brother, and she was glad a hun
dred times over that she had stayed
with him. Instead of J envlng such a
warm little bundle wlfn some careless*
neighbor. But she could not help that
dull ache In her heart. In spite of
everything, but not as tear passed her
eyes.
An hour dragged by, and the house
was still as a mouse. Peggy leaned
over her little brother and kissed him,
straightened the cool sheet under his
pink chin and then tip-toed quietly
down the stairs. She went to the par
lor wlndoft and looked out. What a
night! A glorious moon bung low In
the sky, and every little star twinkled
and flirted with her, as If trying to en
tice her out Into the night. As she
looked she saw a tall, slender soldier
boy limping along the sidewalk. She
rested her head against the window
sash and her thoughts flew back over
the space of a whole year. She, too,
had hud a soldier boy, but he had not
been her sweetheart. They had not
known each other long enough for that.
Yet why had she watched the papers
„for every battle fought. In hopes of
seeing his name, and why had jslie felt
that stab of keen disappointment when
the postman had failed to bring even
one of those longed-for letters? She
was watching the limping soldier as
he approached with dreamy, wistful
eyes, and not until he had actually
turned and came up her front steps
did she realize the truth. She heard
tjie bell os In a dream; then the color
rushed Into her face, and she went
quickly to the door.
The boy entered and looked Intently
Into Peg’s flushed face.
“Peggy 1 Are you surprised?"
Ills voice was eager as he awaited
her reply. Peggy couldn’t speak. She
didn't trust herself Just then.
' He continued: “I hope you don’t
mind my running In this way. Our
ship arrived this afternoon. I have a
day or so to go home In before I leave
for camp. My ticket Is for the one
o'clock train tonight—”
Peggy suddenly took his big hand In
hers.
“Iloy, why d d o ’t you w rite ever?”
“B ecau se." replied lioy slow ly, “Just
one little girl's Image has been In my
mind for this imst year—It was yours,
Peg—1 didn’t believe you cared—so—
so—1 was afraid to write for fear I’d
say too much."
Suddenly Peg was In Ida anna.
“You—never, never could say too
much
She was half-laughing, half-
sobbing.
luite that night after R o y had left
Peg receiv/d a telegram. The crisis
was past—Aunt Alice would get well
—mid they would pack mother off
home tomorrow.
Peg prayed long and earnestly that
night. She thanked God for Ids many
2 blessings.
- <C«prrt«ht. ISIS. McClure
Syn-
i
d lc a te )
Got Busy Quickly.
"Well, what’s the first thing your
•on did after graduating from that ex
pensive college 7"
“Touched me Cpr *300 to buy some
girl an engagement ring."— Kan**«
a t y JouraaL
Vessels fiusslng through the peculiar
water during the day say the weather
Is hotter than they have ever experi
enced before. A difference In the tem
perature of the water dipped from the
Gulf stream with buckets from ships
with thnt of the ocean Itself Is the
difference, marine men report, be
tween moderately cool water and that
warm enough almost-to (touch an egg.
The Gulf stream water Is lighter than
the remainder of the ocean and when
ttrst dipped foams and bubbles like
water Just on the point of boiling.
It was reported that an American
destroyer would go out to the Gulf
stream with a parly of experts for the
pur|tose of making observations for
use by (he government and to ascer
tain If reports brought In by merchant
ships are. authentic.
COULD FEEL FOR-AFFLICTION
Man Had Not Forgotten How It F elt
to Be Deprived of the Blessing
of S ig h t
ne looked as If he owned a bank.
And he was talking to a man who
looked as -If he owned tw’o.
And while they confabbed In front
of a hotel n wrinkled woman came up
to them leading a wrinkled man. She
was selling mutches—6 cents a box,
three fdr—
The one-hank man waved aside the
matches, but put some money In the
woman’s hands,, and asked her un
lucky companion how he came to lose
his sight.
The blind man said thnt he had
never had any sight to lose. He was
born that way.
The man of the two banka chipped
In with a donation, then the couple
moved on, the blind man, philosoph
ically serene and the woman shrilling
her slogan—"Matches 1 Five centa a
bbx, three fore-’’
And the one-bank man said to the
one who owned two:
"I had my eyes bandaged for a
once. Blindness Is a tragic thing."
Which showed that, Ifi his case any
how. a little knowledge was not a dan
gerous thing.—Washington Star.
Dolls in Literature.
A London writer has recently In
troduced the subject of dolls In lit
erature. Almost anyone, w’ho will
trouble to search his memory, can dis
cover a doll somewhere betw’pen th*
covers of many a hook which he has
read. Beginning with a "slighting ref
erence to them under the name of
bahlea," In Sydney's “Arcadia," and
noting the mention of a doll by fchar-
lotte Bronte, this writer concludes
that, until, the nineteenth century,"
dolls were neglected by English au
thors and that they appear more fre
quently In French than In Fjngllsh Ac
tion. Dickens seems to have had more
to say about dolls thnn any other Eng
lish author; but the doll Nobby Is an
Important personage In Mr. Wells’
“Peter and Joan." and the dolls’ house
In “Tono-Bungay" contained 85 dolls,
although with none of them does the
Tender become personally acquainted.
Jerry and Rosa. In “The Golden Age,"
are also remembered.
German Farming Methods.
Germany may have led the world la
some branches of technical skill hut
her farming methods left much to be
desired If tli* bitter contempt poured
upon them by a Bun.vlp soldier can
serve as a standard. Bunylp, Victoria,
Australia, Is proud of Its knowledge of
soil culture, and 17 months spent as
a prisoner of war nt threepence a
day on a farm In Rtfesla, Germany,
made one of Its finest citizens more
convinced than ever that Bunylp Is al
ways best. When he returned to
Australia and applied for a furin he
was asked, as a Joke. If he could give
a reference from his previous em
ployer. Ills reply would have been
gall and wormwood to the Slleslnu.
United States Sex Statistics.
The census of 1910 showed 2,691,978
more male« than females In the United
States.
In all but Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Maryland, North Caro
lina, South Carolina and the District
of Columbia, the males are in excess.
I d all the world females are a little In
excess. The reverse In America Is
evidently due to the excess In male Im
migration.
Breaking It Q«ntly. s
“You were discharged?”
“No. Indeed!"
“But you lost your Job."
“It happened this way: The boss
Informed ine In the kindest possible
manner thnt there would be no limit
set for my vacation this year.“
Airplane Service In A ustralia.
A company has been form«*] In Aus
tralia to conduct an airplane passenger
and freight service aflmng the principal
cities of the commonwealth.
Uncle Eben.
“Dar sin’ no use tryln’ to hnry de
hatchet wlf sorbe folks." said Uncle
Eben. "not as long ns dey kin keep
dodgin' Into de hardware star* an’,
get tin' mo’ cutlery."
H it It Right T h a t Time.
“How the Blanks could afford to gjve
such a grand dinner 1 don’t under
stand,’’ ssld Mrs. Blunderby to her
guest. “It was really a most pre
sumptuous repast.” — Boston Tran
script
O
“good.” There still exist mo
torisa who visit a district not
for the Rake of rushing through It as
fast as possible—they do not welcome
postlvely bad roads, but, given roads
...ilch can be driven over, they are less
keen on the goodness of Jhe roads than
the goodness of the vlc&s seen there
from. Such, nt all events, was the
tempérament of our party, says a
writer In Country Life. Some one had
said:. ‘‘If you don’t ’do' the coast
route from Klllorglin through Cahlrcb
veen and Waterville to Purknusllla
you will miss the finest thing In Ire
land—perhaps In the British Isles;’’ so
we turned uslde at this tempting pros
pect. And we did not regret our de
tour.
Soon after leaving Klllorglin, where
the Cnragh lake lies, still and black
in Its opening In the hills, we began to
have some foretaste of the glories be
fore us. The road mounted Into barren
wildernesses, and on our right sud
denly the vast blue expanse of Dingle
bay was outspread, a dream In the sun
shine. Grander and grander grew the
vistas across that splendid Inlet, of the
Atlantic, wilder and wilder the ranges
on our left. At Mountain Stage, where
there is a little railway station (though
heaven nlone knows what i4>e traffic
can be), the scenery was as noble as
anything I have witnessed In Great
Britain.
A railway accompanies the road at
Intervals, during this part of the Jour
ney; but it Is a very unobtrusive rail
way, and appears to boast about a
couple of trains
diem in each
direction. Its final objective, of cdurse,
is the ferry for Valencia island. And
it is for Valencia that another of our
companions was bound—the telegraph
line. For Valencia Is one of the cable
stations; and those ordinary looking
wires, nine of them only, which pass
from pole to pole along the hedge Ride,
are throbbing, maybe, with messages
for New York. A curious thought, in
this solitude! But Kerry Is sophisti
cated, in spots as It were. It contains
three Cable stations—the Valencia is
land* one, the one at Balllnskelllgs, and
the one at Waterville. The result Is
that you suddenly come on queer
cases of civilization: neat rows of vil
las, spick and span gardens, and
evidences—I will not say of wealth, but
at any rate of more comfort than is
discernible In the thatch-roofed and
generally poverty-stricken farms, A
cable terminal, you learn with sur
prise, employs a hundred or more per
sons—skilled persons, too; the kind
of persons who bava to be paid a sal
ary which sounds like untold weulth
in this neighborhood.
Happy Valencia Island.
It was interesting to come to the
Valencia island ferry and look across
at a little town as neat ns some nice
French coast resort. But Valencia is
land, as we found, is by wuy of being
both rich und happy ; und even if Its
cable station did not bring unusual
comforts, the Knight of Kerry I r one
of those landlords who see to it that
their property, and the tenants there
on, are seemly ’to behold. Valencia
we all liked; It was, to he candid,
rather a contrast to the nearby Cahlr-
clveen—of which u small pupil had
written (In one, of the schools which
we visited) In her essay: “Cahlrdveen
Is a town with a great many houses,
and most of them are public houses.”
For all that, Cahlrdveen Is very
characteristic and picturesque. Be
yond it the road was, alas, pretty
rough ; army lorries, we were told, had
ploughed 1* up, and there had been no
time, as yet, t<\ pwt it under proper
repair. An easy pace was not undesir
able, all the same, for there was plenty
to look a t On either hand the hedge«,
we saw with delight, were fuchsia—
a testimony to the climate’s softness.
Everywhere we went In this part of
Kerry we were astonished at the vege
tation. Fuchsias grew astonishingly.
On Valencia Island there Is one colos
sal tree of fuchsia, and here also wo
saw glorious pink geraniums positively
smothering a cottage wall. Arum lilies
flourished like weeds In the poorest
gardens. Along the bog sides, and right
down to the seashore, there were often
acres of yellow Irises.
But the bogs, to the eyes of a stranger
looked bleak, one must confess
Every mile off the way beyond Klllorg
lln we had not been out of sight of
those sombre brown scars which mark
where the apparently exhnustless peal
Is belnfc cut ; and" now, between Cable
clveen and W aterville these peat ex-
ca vat Iona were almost continuous. Be
hind the hogs rose long, empty hills,
grey with bowlders or tinted here and
there with tbe purple of hell heather.
For some mile* now we had bee* out
of sight of th* m o ; but, descending
• i>opt
Q U H ja.
lLifM a*
ville, situated so sweetly on Balllns
kelllgs bay, 'w ith the famous fresh
water Lough Currane lying a mere 200
yurds or 300 yards Inland. W aterville
has Its terrace of pink villas, housing
the cable staff; but It also owns a few
hotels, and at* one o f these we were
excellently housed. Irish hotels not be
ing all they might be, one Is glad to
find a really satisfactory one, and
moderate withal. Some of our p arty
who paused to patronize the salmon
and sea-trout’ fishing on Lough Cur-
rene were enthusiastic In tbelr unan
imous decision To return and make a
longer sojourn. The lough, certainly
Is one of the most beautiful I have
ever had the fortune to behold. Our car,
on the good advice of the hotel pro
prietor, turned aside and explored the
valley In which the lough lies, going
as fa r as that «dreamy tarn known as
Coppal lake. Fishers who ply their
craft In such scenery are indeed to
pe envied.
Bom* Glorious 8cenery.
But the best was yet In store fo r
us. Returning to the main road and
leaving pleasant W aterville in our
rear, we began the ascent of the Coo
maklsta pass, Now, the Coomaklsta
pass, I hereby announce to those who
have not heard of It before, Is one
of the most glorious stretches of sea
and mountalta scenery In Europe. I
know the Cornlche on the Riviera, I
have motored the new Italian roads
above the Venetian plain, and also
between Valona and Santl Quaranta
In Albania, and I can seriously assert
that the view which abruptly unfolded
before us at the summit of Cooma
klsta, though slightly smaller In size
than the celebrated ones I have men
tioned, beats them all for sheer love
liness and In the subtlety o f what
artists would call Its composition.
Before us lay Darrynane bay, w ith
Its complicated contours, Its endless
islands ronnd which the Atlantic roll
ers ware creaming, IJs delicious coves
of yellow sands, its huge woods. Its
grand encircling rocks and broken sky
line. The car drew up without any
order being given to oUr chauffeur. I t
was as though he felt that thia tribute
must be made to the extraordinary
vision which had burst on ns in this
dramatic fashion. We stayed silent, by
the stone dike which fenced us,from
the deep declivity,
and gazed and
gazed. It all seemed too exquisite to be
true. And Darrynane, when at last
we came to It—for we a ll agreed, now,
that we must leave the main high
road and look more closely at this
wonderful Darrynane— was like a place
In a fairy story. Just one small Inn—
embowered In flowers (fo r the slope
Is southerly, and we are on the Gulf
stream)— and no other houses except
one, that of the Liberator O’Connell’s
fam ily; and, spread out, as smooth as
velvet, shertered sands fo r bathers (If
any should co m ej; and rocks with
pools of waving seaweed and anem
ones; and deep coves In which bass
ond pollock could be caught in scores
by the merest tyro; and, to crown all,
n mngnlflcent lobster ten at the Inn
aforementioned. Well, w e ll! To think
that Darrynane, sleepy and bewitch
ing. exists on the same planet as Pad
dington !
ONE OF WAR’S MASTER MINDS
d ritain C w ei Deep Debt of Gratitud«
to Patrick Qulnan, of W hom ■>. >
L'ttls 4s Known.
, One of the mosf vital and at th<^
same time mysterious figures In th«
war on the British side was Patrltk
Qulnnn, an American^of Irish descent
Vital because he planned all the greal
munition works which enabled Greal
Britain to supply not only her own
but her allies’ need* la munitions;
mysterious because his name was
never allowed to be mentioned during
the war and because he would never
he Interviewed.
DEGENERACY DUE TO WEALTH
People of Sybarls Allowed T h e ir C har
acter to Be Sapped by Love
*
of L uxury.
x
The present meaning of the word
sybarite Is a person dayoted to luxury
and pleasure. It Is derived from the
ancient city of Sybarls, situated in
southern Italy negr to the shores of
the Gulf of Taranto. It was founded
by the Greeks 720 R. C. nnd became
very powerful. . In the days of Its
opulence.lt was ruler over four nations
with their 25 towns 1 and could
raise an* army of 300,000 men and
equip them well for the field. The
walls surrounding the city were Raid
to extend six ndles nnd the suburbs
covered fin area of seven miles. It
was the old story, however, for as the
city grew In wealth Its people degen
erated and became noted for effem
inacy nnd self-indulgence, nnd It Is
told of them that no trade thnt mnrie
a noise was allowed "within the city
limits. Seneca tells the story t^int one
or the Sybarites complained that he
had not rested comfortably during the
whole night, and upon being asked
why, he stated thnt he had found a
rose leaf doubled up under,his pil
low, which had hurt him pain
fully. Thus It Is easy to see how the
word sybarite has been bestowed upon
one who lives for pleasure and self-
gratlficatloa.
The Result.
A prohibitionist said nt a dinner:
“Booze spoils everything. Yes, It
even spoils the g eawd11 g a me of base-
hall.
“Two local teams In a small town
once agreed to play a match game,
and the proprietor of the Red Dog
saloon took the team he favored out
side and suld:
“ 'Bpys, for every run you mnke to
day I’ll give you u keg of beer.’
"By a curious coincidence the pro
prietor of the Tin Can saloon made
an exactly similar speech to the other
team. And what wns the result?
"The result, gentlemen, was that the
two saloonkeeiiers rushed frantically
out on the diamond In the sixth
inning and said the game must be
stopped at once. The »core stood at
59 to 57.”
war
T aught
him something
Returned Doughboy Convinced, Among
O ther Things, T h a t There la L ittle
Gained in Kicking.
“There are thousands of returned
aoldlers to whom the war was a spir
itual university." says Maude Rad
ford Warren. In Everybody’s.» “They
have won an understanding anil a
tolerance beyond their yenrs. The best
example I know Is my friend Sidney,
aged twenty-two, nnd endowed through
the hard means of Biot nnd shell with
a maturity beyond his years.
“ ’At home,’ Sid said. ‘I used to kick
If things didn’t go 1ff*ht. Well, sitting
around In the mud over here I have
begun to think a lot about some of
the older people I know. They take
thingsxjust ns they come, I notice;
don’t kick much. Life seems to tench
them that. Well, the war strikes me
ns Just a lot of concentrated life. It’s
been that to me, anyhow. If ever I
kick, it’s sort of from force of habit.
I honestly don’t want to very much. I
let the had luck go with a grin, nnd
If not, with/ set teeth, nnd I try not
to count It nt all. The good Ipck I
count as clear velvet.
It may not
bo a logical way of looking nt life, hut
It’s a practical way. Sitting here In
the mud and getting old myself. I flg-r
ure that Is about the wnr the nice
middle-aged people I know at home
look at things^ Being a good sport Is
about as good a thing ns anyone can
contribute to the world.’ ”
Perfectly Safe.
Mr. Qulnan reached England by wsy
“Now,” said the ’ physician to the
of South Africa. Trained at da Pont’*, poet who had summoned him, "you
he went to the South African Explo are not In good health, and I must
sives company at Cape Town, then the forhld all brain work." “But, doctor,“
largest In the British empire, owing to protested the poet, “may I not write
the demand for explosives for mining some verses?” "Certainly," the doc
purposes. The vast factories laid out tor said,'‘write all the verses you want
In England during thq ware-now some to.”
what of a white elephant, a* their
conversion to peace purposes Is still I
Another W ar.
“What’s the charge against this
unsettled— were ell designed by Mr.
wan?" asked the Judge.
Qulnan.
-
“Fighting In tfie public streets," re
Qulnan tsjjust over 40 year« of age.
and since tfie close of the war has dis plied the officer.
“You’re fined nine dollars and nine
appeared. His name was never In any
**.-
"honor list"—which Is rather ■ dis ty reut».”
^‘What’s the ninety cents for, Judge?’’
tinction these tlmfS- He was never
glveq any public recognition by any naked tbe man nt the bar.
“W ar tax.* ,
member of the government or the
"But the war’s all over, your honor."
• rmy. Still no one n»*n did ee much
“Over,
nothing! You ware fighting.
to help win the war as thia retiring
Mr. Qulnan,
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* *
wore« ! p u r
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
officers and lucorporaloTa, ju*e 'M aria
Hidden, Portland, president? Josephine
Othua, Portland, recording secretary,
and Thella Scruggs, •Portland, trea
surer.
Ballot titles for practically all m ns-'
urea and amendments approved at the
Principal Events of the Week recent special session of the legislature
for submission to the voters at the
Briefly Sketched for Infor
«pedal election to be held May 21, are
mation of Our Readers.
being prepared by Attorney-General
Brown, and’ will be completed early
•
A farmers* week for Multnomah coun next week. "
Federal Inspection of the* various
ty wllJL be held at Gresham, beginning
Oregon national guard oompnrl/'e In
February 9.
s
Oregon
w ill start about Elbrus'
’ ‘
The Willamette University Glee club
has left on a tour of Eastern Oregon according to announc* mtnt i .!
Conrad Stafrln, adjutan-" n«’,a
and Washington.
Rabies, stamped out -after a severe inspections w ill be u n d 'r »'
outbreak three year* ago, la again ap Colonel Koester, commander of Vau
eouver barracks.
pearing among' coyotes in Klamath
J. Skewls and 8. 8. Bullls have pu«*.
county.
chased the*old Applegate Luml
North Bend has rejected the proposal
pany on the Portland & E uciti
of the Lumbermens Trust company of
near Medford and will etnn ,-o -
Portland to purchase $90,000 of city I
tlons at once under the rn n g
bonds at par.
Southern Oregon L' m <
. Captain Alex Scott of Bandon and The company plans n
two associates have put a line aboard feet of lumber a y<ai.
the wrecked Chanslor and are holding
Some 20 Grass Valley t;
It for salvage.
formed a club, with L. A
Damage to roads resulting from the
president, for tbr pun
rains In Hood River county will con
comprehensive' farm r<
sume a large part of the road fund
which they will be abje to
appropriated for 1920.
cost of producing wb« a? In.
A movement Is being launched at
tlon, as well as make a m
Oregon City to erect a memorial for
study of other farm op< ration».
400 young men of Clackamas county
J. C. Reed, nut specialist of th
who served In Aie war.
partment
of agriculture. Is
Arrangements are Ix-lng made by the
Klamath county farm bureau .to Import from the national capital ♦'* •
a carload of Shorthorn cattle to >be with Dr. Fisher, gov -»
pathologist, In sn r
sold at public auction.
’ The city council of Marshfield has and fruit orchards afo.<f
ordered all boxes In restaurants re McMinnville, Salem ard Eli
moved, declaring there shall be no suffered from the Deceml r *
. In a letter address'd t'v
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more partitions in eating houses.
The Clackamas County Farmers' Hines, director of th . JT
union has decided to organize a -ware railroad admlnlstra1 ion
tjuarters jit V 'r« '.’
house association at B eaverC reek.
state labor cqnini ion
Stock will be sold at $50 per share.
Efforts are being made by the school against the * employm-nt •
board of Eugene to compel parents to cooks in railroad eonsfrm ie i
observe the rules of tbe state board of to the exclusion of 5 merle-»,)
A sale of 68,000 non
of "
health and vaccinate their children.
Permission to graze 17,720 head of the Sen:lam Dn:i<"ial !'■>•
stock In the Cascade national forest Albany has be< n n • 1 dui.
this year will be given, according to few days by tbe forest service to the
N. F. Macduff, supervisor of the forest. Merrill Lumber and Shln’-’le company, ■
A budget of $126,250 adopted by ths according to an annoi « .a.,: H
Pendleton school board Tor 1920-21 -E. Ames, asslsta n ' d ls’rict io
shows an Increase of 25 per cent over in charge of all tlmocr saks In bis
last year. This is due to Increased district.
Active construction work on ths
salaries of teachers.
Booth-Kelly
Lumber company’s sys
A. R. Olsen has been appointed by
tem
of
logging
railways above Wcnd-
the citizens of Burns chqlrman of a
committee to arrange for the holding llng Is under way. The line Is being “
of the Cattle and Horse Raisers' an extended across the summit of ths
ridge to the McKenzie side of ths
nua? convention next May.,
Speaker Glllqtt has signed the bill mountains, tapping a tract of timber
which permits the construction of a that has never been touched apd said
bridge across the Columbia river be to be some of the finest In the county.
Bills passed by both branches of ths
tween Washington and Oregon, two
legffelature
and not having the emer
miles west of Cascade Locks.
gency
clause
attached will became ef
Otto Hartwig, president of the State
fective
as
laws
fit midnight April 16,
Federation* of I^abor, was appointed by
Governor Olcott to succeed E. J. Stack according to Sam A. Kozer, assistant
as a member of the board of vocational secretary of state. That time will
education. Mr. Stack recently resigned. mark the end of the 90-day period
Arrangements are being made by the following the end of tbe session, when
livestock committee of the Klamath the new laws are made effective by
county farm bureau for Importation of statute.
There were five fatalities due to acci
a carload of registered Shorthorn cat
dents
during the week ending Janu
tle for sale at public auction about
ary 29, according to a report prepared
March 1.
Cottage Grove mlllmen report that by the state Industrial accident com
mission. The victims were: Robert
prospects for continued activity at Reane,
lAorer, Portland; Alex E. John
profitable prices remain bright. The
only cloud on the horizon Is the con son, carpenter, Portland: Roy G.
tinued car shortage, which hampers Christianson, miner, Homestead; John
Martinson, laborer, Eau Claire, Wls.;
the delivery of orders.
F. W. Kehrll, bull association special Raymond Ward, laborer. Hillsboro.
The Enterprise Irrigation district
ist of the United States department of
haB
filed application with Percy Cup
of agriculture, arrived in Toledo to
take up with the Lincoln county agent per, state engineer, for certification of
the plan for organizing a Jersey bull bonds In the sum of $40,000, with
which - to Install a pumping system
association In the county.
H. P. Barss, professor of botany and necessary to obtain water for the -
plant pathology at Oregon Agricultural lands Included In the project. The
college, has-been reappointed commis district Is In Klamath county and It
sioner on the advisory board of the Is proposed to obtain the water from
American plant pathologists of the the United States reclamation canal.
That the. English people do not fear
American Phytopathologlcal society.
prohibition
will strike their little Is
What Is believed to be a case of
sleeping sickfiess Is attracting the at land and stop the manufacture of beer
tention of physicians at Harrisburg in foe a few years at least is evidenced
the case of Caroline Williams, a stu by the filing at IJugene of hop con
dent of the agricultural college, who tracts wherein a big English firm
was taken to the hospital a few days agrees to buy the crop of three Lane
county growers for four consecutive
ago.
Within a short time after he had years, beginning this year. The eon
Informed his wife that she would out tracts call for the payment of a to:?
live him Andrew Jackson Marvin, aged of $230.000.
Organization*of a new political part
76 years and well known In Jackson
aounty, shot and killed himself on his to be known as the land and labor
homestead 13 miles Bouthweat of Jack league of Oregon, elimination of those
features of the tentative platform de
sonville.
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R. E. Clanton, master fish warden clared objectionable to the grangi
of Oregon, has announced that work the adoption of resolutions d
on the new slate hatchery on the upper ed to covar opqr.atlons of the body
Willamette river a mile above Oak In a future effort to gain governmental
Ridge will be awarded at once. The supremacy, marked the closing Bet '
1919 legislature appropriated $5000 for of the convention at Salem, mad*
of delegates from the various
this plant.
Seventy thousand one hundred and unions of t’he state, farmers’ orga -
seventy-six eggs were laid by a flock tlons and Individuals In sympathy v
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of 425 “Oregons” at -the Multnomah the proposed movement.
county farm the last year, according to
James Dryden, professor of poultry
husbandry at the college and originator
of the "Oregons.”
A meeting of fruit growers was held
at Milton at which Fred Benton of
Pendleton-, agricultural agent at Uma
tilla county, and Professor H. Weath
erspoon, state fruit Inspector of El
gin, organized the East End Umatilla
coutoty farm bureau, which will em
brace the fruit, stock, hay and grain
sections adjacent to Milton, and' Free
water.
The public service CDWBbMlon will
ba petitioned by cltlzm s of Salem to
Install warning signals at three rail
way crosainps 'f
Holes horrd by crawfish In the earth-
on wtnA-4«m diver(ing the water* of
the Deschutes river through the plant
of the Bend Water, Light A Power Co.
are considered responsible for a wash
out which will cost the company sev
eral thousand dollars.
The Oregon league of Women Vot
ers, with headquarter* In Portland, filed
artlolsg of Inoorporetlog gt fftlew TMo 1
Italian Philosopher-M artyr.
February 17 Is the annlversnry >
the burning in Rome, In 1600. of •
Italian phllosobher, GiordiTno Bne
He was subjected to contlnnnl
terrible persecution for seven ye
prior to his death. In the hope iha’ 1
would recant In 1889 a moniroent
was erected to him under papal pro
test nt the place where he perished »’
the stake.
Untying ths Knot.
There Is a marriage custom nmonu.
the Santaln, a tribe In India, by which,
after a cash price has been set on the
bride hy the parents, the fiance nnd
his lady tie a knot In a string for
each day to Intervene before the wed
ding. ' Then the parents separate; day
by day a knot 1» milted, and when the
end of the string Is reach«*d the real
knot IS tl«*d that makes the couple «the.
First Land 8ale.
We should say the first land sn’e
on record was the purchase of the
field of Machpelah by Abraham
wh»»
shekels of silver for the
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