PAGE FOUR C E N T R A L PO IN T A M E R I C A N WHERE LAFAYETTE SHOWED HIS METTLE THURSDAY. JULY 1, 1926 FOR SALE—CITY LOTS Immense Berry Production Oregon abounds with all kinds of 2% lots, good location, best soil berrie* this year and the difficulty in town, fenced for _ garden, priced l in many localities is to get sufficient r 'ffht. Inquire at this office o- pickers. The fru it is exceptionally ! for R ent— Five rooms, close i large and of big yield. Prunes are ' in. H ouie Inquire at this office. also a prolific yield. • A “Correct” Likeness of Washington A present Jay picture of the Brandywine, at Wilmington, Dal., where the Marquia da Lafayette, at the h e r1 American treope, admlniaterod a beating to Brltiah troopa on September 11, 1777. the English threw red hot shot that was the feeling that this was merely fired the village, and while It burned, a civil war, like that between the to the accompaniment of cannonading parliamentary and royalist forces In of the fortified height by the English Cromwell's time, and was not an vessels and the butteries on the Bos actual revolution for severance from ton shore, the redcoats marched up the British Ptnpire. On June 16, the the hill slope three times, only to day before Bunker Hill, Washington be mowed down each time and routed formally accepted the election, utter temporarily by the musketry of the ing as he did so words worthy of all patriots. Thousands of Boston rltl- remembrance as a vivid and vital reve xens watched the fight from their lation of the spirit of “the greatest housetops. inan on that floor” ; “Lest some unlucky event should Great American Victory. unfavorable to my reputation, The defenders were driven out hap|>en I heg It may be remembered by every finally owing to their shortage of am gentleman In the room that I this day munition, but the effect was that of an with the utmost sincerity, American victory, and an Important declare, I do not think myself equal to one. It taught the English what they that the command I am honored with. As N THE seventeenth dny of had not before realized, that the Col to pay. I beg leave to assure the con June, 177.1—151 years ago-— onists were In deadly earnest. As gress that, as no pecuniary during two liourM of a hot Sat one historian says: "From thnt mo ation could have tempted me consider to ac urday* afternoon, was fought ment there was no possibility of a re cept this arduous employment, at the the first battle of the war that made turn to a colonial imsltlon, and though expense domestic ease and hap America a nation. There had been more than seven years of battle fol piness, I of do my not to make any preceding skirmishes and bloodshed, lowed. this battle of the beginning, profit of It. I will wish an exact ac but the engagements at Lexington and the most bloody of all, and the most count of my-expenses. keep Those doubt Concord were merely the unorganized sharply contested, has proved to be not they will discharge; and I that Is resistance of a suddenly aroused coun also the most crltlcul." tryside, a tnob, fighting In self-defense. Concerning Bunker hill the same all I desire." The sequel to Ills mob of Minute writer says: “The height on which the Colonial Army Inadequate. • men was a mobilized army with an battle wus fought had no distinctive The next day, at the very hour when aggressive plan, and Its engagement name before that time, but was known the battle was raging at Bunker hill, with the troops of England on this as pastures belonging to different men. the congress, all .unconscious of what dale was a battle In the military Breed being one of them. After the was happening at Charlestown, for sense, that committed the Colonies be- mally approved the form of commis yend recall to open war. It was fa sion to he given to W ashington; on miliar to every one as the battle of June 10 the commission was signed H m ker IIIII, and perhaps not one In and delivered to him ; and on June 21 a thousand are aware that It was not he set out on horseback from Phil fought on Hunker hill, that the fa adelphia for Cambridge. Four days mous monument hearing that name later, at New York, he first learned does not stand on Hunker hill, Hnd of the battle which hnd been fought that Bunker hill has little more to eight days before; whereupon he do with that memorable fight than pushed on with redoubled energy. He did any one of a half dozen other reached Cambridge on July 2. and nearby hills. The confluence here slept lha* night In the Vassal) man of the Charles and Mystic rivers has sion. afterward known as the Cralgte made an Intricate and peculiar sys house, and still later the home of tem of channels, bays and peninsulas Longfellow. On the next morning, One of these peninsulas, separated July 3. he assumed command of an from the one on which Boston stands army of about 17,000 men. of whom j by the Charles, rose here and there not more than 14,500 were fit for j Into hills tlint If fortified would com duty. The pitiful Inadequacy of equip- | mand the water on three sides and inent may be estimated from the fact also the town of Boston. These em that there was enough powder to pro- I inences were known as Bunker hill. vide only eight cartridges to each man. I Breed's hill, Morton's hill. Town hill, No wonder that Washington's first two I etc. Town hill protmhly took Its letters to congress were urgent pleas name from the village of Charlestown, for more am munition! which stood on tho peninsula; who or Proved Colonists’ Caliber. what Bunker's hill named for the Such were the circumstances of J historians do not say. Bunker H ill; a battle of an hour and j Intrenched on Bunker Hill. half. In which the patriots never had j Bunker hill. Its crest about ten 1 New view of Bunker hill monument, a more than 1,500 men engaged at once. [ feet ultnve the water level, was the | looking up Monument street from yet which, according to a great Brit ) highest, hut Breed's was within easy ! Medford street, Charlestown, Mass. Ilk historian, “exhibited the Ameri [ gun range of Boston. When the j cans to all the world as a people to j American army Invested the city the battle the hill was called Breed's hill, he courted by allies, and counted with fortification of the Charlestown pen as the detachment was sent to put by foes." Insula was a m atter of military Impor but From the end of the Middle ages to up fortifications on Bunker hill, that tance to both belligerents, and the designation the close of the Thirty Years' war in | clung to the fight. Hence provincial conimund forestalled the , the confusion of names which puz 164H, the moat Important conflicts British In Us possession by sending a zles every reader out of Massachu were religious In character. For the force to Intrench itself on Bunker next hundred years, struggles were hill, the first eminence after crossing setts." dynastic or colonial. From Bunker the Isthmus. The commander of the Washington In Command. Hill to Waterloo there raged the detachment, after consulting with his It was on June 15,“two days before of opposing political Ideas. »Ulcers, chose the next elevation, a Bunker Hill, that the congress elect grapple In another Bunker Hill Is not half mile nearer Boston, and there ed Washington to be commander In able. It was way one of the earliest hat- 1 bnllt the redoubt. The work was chief of the Continental army. This ties In which marksmanship showed ] mostly done on the night of the six was done on the Initiative and strong Itself a factor of possible decision, j teenth, and the first Intimation that urging of John Adams of Massachu Twice the deadly fire of the colonists ! the British had of It was h « m * u after setts and on the motion of Thomas broke the stubborn British Infantry daylight of the seventeenth, when one Johnson of Maryland, and the vote and drove them buck, and would have j of their frigates lying In the harbor was unanimous. We should remem done so a third or fourth time had am opened fire on the fortifications where her, too. that the army thus created munition been suppllei' In proper j the provincials were still busy. It was called not the American hut the quantities. Almost for the first time j took from then till noon for the Eng Continental army, while that of Ucn- firearms, unassisted by either bay lish to organise the attack. In eral (¡age at Boston was referred to onets or maneuvers, showed what they censed by sniping from Charlestowu. as the Ministerial arm y; so general could do when rightly used. Glorious Memories of Bunker Hill O whs STATE MARKET NF.WS (C. E. Spence, State M arket Agent) To Sell Eg*s by Pound J. L. Goff, secretary of the North W illam ette M erchants association/ which has a membership of fifty m erchants, sends the State M arket Agent resolutions recently adopted by the association, and urges that m erchants, producers and consumers urge the next legislature to have the present law amended or repealed and a sale-by-weight law be enacted. The resolution states that tho present law is too com plicated and works injust ice on both producers and consum ers; th at buying and selling by weight pays the producer for what he producer, the consum er gets what he is paying fo r; the m erchant saves much tim e and custom ers are better satisfied. Mr. Fitta of the Fitta M arket in Salem, who has adopted the weight plan of weight selling, says his egg business has increased 75 percent since he adopted the system. A Going Co-oporativo From the annugt report of the m anager, R. A. W ard, the Pacific Co-operative Wool Growers is a go ing cooperative and a big asset to the wool growers of the northw est. The average price of the large vol ume of business in 1925, f. o. b. warehouse» in Portland and San Francisco, ranged from 32 to 46.64 cents per pound. The average price of mohair was 56.26 cents and the net ptice to grow ers 54.51 cents. The association now hat contracts of 1,477 growers, owning 501,366 sheep. Of these Oregon has 942 members and 263.154 sheep; Cali fornia 142 m embers with 120,278 sheep; Nevada 42 members with 61,- 774 sheep. The association also has , members in Idaho. Alaska. Minnes- 1 eta, M ontana, Nebraska, U tah, Ariz- J ena and Colorado. W ent Dealers Licensed Farm ers in Jackson county want i the incoming legislature' to pass a law licensing and bonding commis- | sion dealers and other* who buy farm products. During tho past three j year* many com plaints of unfair dealing have been made to the S tate I M arket Agent, many of which Were justified upon investigation. There are many reliable commission houses in Portland, but many farm ers are not fam iliar with them and have shipped product* to concerns that simply closed up and went out of business. Licensed firm s, under bonds, would weed out these shyster i concerns. th is heroic statue of the commander-in-chief of the first arm ies of tno Dnlted Stales was made for the city of Portland. Oregon, though not yet deliv ered there by the artist. The western municipality has loaned it to tho Sesqul-Centennlal International Exposition. openlDg In Philadelphia June 1 and continuing until December L to celebrate 150 years of American Independ ence. At the foot of the sculpture Is shown Pompeo Copptnt. the sculptor. Dr. Henry Waldo Poe, of Portland, declares the face to be the most correct likeness of Washington ever modeled. 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