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Newspaper Page TextALBANY ' DAILY DEMOCRAT Established in 1S65 Beit Advertising Mooiara In . Linn. County VOL. XXVIII ALBANY, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1916. No. 246. THE WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday, probably lair. HALSEY WAS THE MEETING PLACE Another Community Gathering Attracted Afcout Six Hun dred People. CONTESTS WERE FULL OF INTEREST Senator Cusiok Was Prominent Speaker; Also Eastburn of Commercial Club.' A very iuiimfiil coiumuiiily meet ing wh held at llalscy Saturday wuli fully tix hititilrctl preterit. The chuoU participating in ttic dul lest were llaltcy, Shcdd, Tatigcul and llrnndoir. County Supervisor Jon ttcmtrr had charge of (lie forenoon injurant, consisting of dcclam.itiont. readings, tolot, clast longi, class ex ercises, ami voliinlary offerings b the llalscy and Tangent II. S. choirs, These were itrand. There were 30 Humbert rendered besides the address by different speakers . The judges were Mits Gladys McKiiighl, Mi Mildred McKnight and C. II. Walker. During the noon recess a splendid dinner cafeteria tlylc wat served ui lite public tchool building. The Tangent school, coming up on the Southern Pacific noon liain, ar rived in lime to lake part in the aflcr itoon program. Superiniendi'd by County School Superintendent W. I,. 'Jackson in hi happiest mood. I;iri address on ly W. A. East lium. auliject Willamette Valley Ex position" to lie held in Alhauy no.', I Kitdicr. Mr. Kantian n at manager of the Al bany Commercial club, certainly well presented the abuvc; the second to be held. Judge 1'. B. McKnlght spoke upon "County Problem" nil-inn ad ded cmphaiiii to hia addrcts delivered at Lyons on the l!7th anniversary of l.hicoln't biribdj-.y. l-'el . 12, Again layiiiK- "treat upon the future Mini, thai preai-nl scene lat demoralized our boy and girls, more th:.n do dime novels. Suggestive rag time tongs, odd lo Ihc trn.ieily. Slate Senator E. I. Cusitk handled "Some Stale anil County Problems" ainni'ir wliii'h was having-patted n law by Ihc next leg Mature doing away villi county rc conler.i, of which tome of Oregon's motl poptiloiit couutict bnvc no in rumhculs. One llinuaand dollars sav ed lo l.inn couiiiy doet not perhaps teem to ninch. but $.,000 for the slate it a ureal tavina. Assistant State Snpcrintcudroi Weill gave a very practical 1:1k upon our public schools in general. Snpt. W. I.. Jackton certainly out mil an previous cuoris in uincus.tiuk "Practical School Question!." Before reading the (-.wards, . C. II. AV'alker, aa one of tiie prlrintir . In n'ructors of the Grand Array of the ilU'public. nave a few patriot!?. scn- tencct, eonilcnsed into these words: "Love and Loyally to God; love and loyalty lo cuunlryi love and loyally to home" makes the highest type of good cStien;diip. and patriotic devo tion. The awards arc as follows: Men declamation. Miss Joyce For stcr, llalscy; second prize, Miss Lou i7c Rohlnctt. .llnlscy; best solo, Miss mcnt of Miss I-ora Comett. Best map tong, "Whip-poor-WiH" song. Tan gent; best class drill. "Minuet," Shcdd; This was magnificent, gotten , up r.ainly under the peerless manage ment of Miss Lora Cornutt. Best map t.t U. S.. Miss Tcssie Gouland. South M-i-iiviMiMvinr! . In at limn of OrCUOtl. Ceorge Walton, llalscy; two solos, .one by a lit tic miss under 6 yenrs, won among the heartiest of the ap l lause given. Near the close a nnisi Val selection 'rendered upon a trom 1 one and a sweet toned Wellington ;nno, both in the hands of skilled I layers, gave li charming finale to the 1 ma i.i be remembered day of joy and clndncss. Mrs. N. A. McRca went to Jcffcr i in on the morning train. , Mrs. Li L. Ingram was n passenger 1 ) Thomas this niorniinr. L. E. Moc and wife spent Sunday in Lebanon, . GERMANS MAKE ANOTHER AEROPLANE RAID ON ENGLAND Several Towns Were Attacked From Above, But Not Many -Were Killed. " Berlin, Feb, 21. German aeroplunei raiding England yesterday, bombard ed two British tunkert, the admirably announced. The main railway sta tion and docks, at l.owcttofi were lilt repeatedly. - Other German aviators simultan eously raided l-'urnes, I'opcriiighc, Amiens, I.lnievillc and along the west ern front, thcitatculi-nt said, it it re ported the British, unsuccessfully at tached Ihc Germans occupying the ground recently gained near Vpret. Kutsian attacks near Dviusk failed. Y. M. G. A. MEN OCCUPY METHODIST PULPIT Open House Event Series to Start Wednesday of This Week at V. M. C. A. The pulpit of tlit Methodist church was occupied on Sunday evening hy a deputation from the local Y. M. C A. Mr. C. F.. Sox. president of the hoard of directors, a. id secretaries Mc Donald and Kec briefly sketched tome of the outstanding features of the beginnings and wonderful growth of the ."itaociation movement. The work of the last leu years in the northwest and local field was featured at was also the fundamental princi ples upon which tile movement is link ed and some of the methods employed by peculiarly efficient organization, Al the close of the service, Presi dent Sox announced that the asso ciation would hold open bouse on Wednesday evening to the Mclhodi-! congregation. This is cspeci: II y de signed lo give opportunity lo the fathers and mothers, as well rs the voung men and boys, lo observe tin association at work. This is the first 'f a series of similar events fur each of the dcuiimiusitMimil bodies. SEMINARY PRESIDENT SPOKE. Delivered Able Sermon on Bible, Lost Book People Need to Hunt for and Find. A strong feature in the services of Albany ycstcrdiy were sermons by Dr. W. II. Landou, president of the San Francisco theological semin:-..-v. who spoke nl the vesper service at the Presbyterian church at S o'clock, ami at the U. P. cl.ureh at 7:.). His pica for the bible as a book to he rend and kslndicd was remarkably strong. A lost hook, it needs to be found, w hen prop erly read one of intense interest, of fering a wide field in biography, his tory ami story. People who start to read the Bible through often siitmh'e when they rc:-ch Leviticus. Gene lis !s a book of history and .biography. Ex odus one of travels, but Leviticus with its laws often loses one. The ne v reader often does well to begin on t!'e new testament. Mark is speciall a bonk for the business man, full of activity and it cannot be read too often. The trouble with many people i.' they sec nothing. Sonic men in the I'itlst of the Yoscmitc can only see '.ic ci gar they are smoking. Innes Lost Case. (By United Pressl Washington, Feb. 21. Victor Innes and wife, of Portland, lost in the premc court their fi.'tht to postpone their extradition to Atlanta d r trial in connection with the disnppe.vanct ol Be:.ru-e Nelms and F.loisc elms Dennis. They were first at rest -d I near F.uircuc and taken to Texas. , o WATERLOO PEOPLE MARRIED 62 YEARS AT AGE OF 80 Mrs! J. Q. Rodgers, J. U. an.l W. W. Mistier, all of thin city, wdm lo Waterloo Saturday to attend the 811th birthday of their motlicr,-.Irs. Joseph Misner. Mrs. Mistier is in good hcallV.; in spito of , her age and enjoys the c reunion Iniiucnr.cly. Mi. Misner is two years her scnuir and is also enjoying good health. M'f. and Mrs. Misn.'r have been married 62 years, and their friends 'tire looking forw ird to help ing many more of these happy events. 1Y OF RecentConcessioris of Germany .Said to Be Making the Situation Worse. ARMED MERCHANTMEN CENTER OF CONTENTION Also Said to Be Personal Anta gonism Between Lansing and Bernstorf. (By United Press) Washington, Feb. 21. The sla.c department admitted the posibilily of a crisis developing in the German American controversy which it now graver than before Germany made her concessions. Death of Americans through the linking of armed merch antmen, or the indefinite postpone ment of the Lusilania settlement might precipitate a criii. Officials de clined lo discuss the matter of person al antagonism between Secretary Lan sing and Ambassador Itcrnstorff. J. D. Irvine came over from Brownsville Ibis morning. ALBANY COLLEGE BEATEN BY NEWBERG AND M'MINNVILLE While the Albany College basket ball Irani were beaten in both games on their trip last week the team show ed a decided improvement, .speaking for next year's work. Al N'cwberg they were beaten by Pacific College 49 to 14. Rcploglc, the f.'st forward was too quick for our guards, alone scor ing 23 points. At Mc.Minnville they were beaten only 21 to 17. The first half they had the Baptists going, lead ing 11 to 9. In this game some splen did guarding was done, and Simpson. Mc.Minnville's fast forward, was worn down .to a frazzle hy the time the game ended. BROWNSVILLE KNIGHTS . ARE CALLED ROYAL ENTERTAINERS A large crowd of out of town people titlended the anniversary of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Browns ville Saturday evening. The principal hddrcss was made hy Grand Chancel lor Willard L. Marks. Many other in teresting and inspiring talks were made. Those going from here state that it h.-.s been a lonR time r.incc they liavO sat at a better banquet 'than the one served by the Brownsville lodge. Among those going' from Albany were Ralph Thorn, W. L. Jackson, J. D. Irvine, Chas. C. Curry, chancellor commander of Laurel Lodge No. 7, R. M. Russell .and Charles Leonard. - Profits Taiahle. (By United J'ress) VVasiiiiv.lorl Feb ..'I - I', premc court i eh' that til.; profits tak en fioiii mines sirs- taxanle. cvtn though reducing h.- act- tihysic.it value i the mine. Th? de.-i--. i sus tains ilie'govcrn.ne u s column, u 'ur ther sustaining -.he vnlidi'v -.i the in come ia.. law. Glean-up Season Is Here ---Make Albany the Cleanest Town in Oregon '; .- '''. '' -' , . -; ' ' ; .- v. .:; !.' OR. MOODY, MISSIONARY PRO MINENT CONVENTION SPEAKER Spoke at Baptist Church Sun day and Will Speak Again Tonifjht end Tomorrow. "Say, if you do not know Dr. Thom as Moody, ask any layman who at tended the big Laymen's Missionary convention in Portland last week. If you want to hear the most refreshing addrcts you ever listened to, hear Moody. Men and women, preachers and laymen, are a unit in boosting this while African. Why? Because he knows more about Africa than any white man,' and can present the inter esting human things of that great con tinent with lightning rapidity and force. One man who heard him, said: "I would walk ten miles to hear Moo dy on that African topic." Last night the Baptist church was filled to- overflowing to hear Moody talk a mile a minute on Africa; every word perfectly enunciated; every fact compelling in its startling tragedy and force. He speaks again tonight on China! Think of it, a man "thinking black" to talk - about the "yellow folks." , . Dr. C. AC Moody of Portland will also speak-' tonight in the Baptist church. f This Is the chance of Albmy citi- zent to help men who can "deliver the goods" in the Kingdom of Christ." Mrs. Traycr, a missionary among iheSpaniards will be present and ad dress a meeting of women Tuesday afternoon at 3. Program. for the next two days' conference: ' . Baptist church 7:30 Tonight Dr. Moody and Dr. Woody. Tuesday 10KX Dr. Moody, Dr. Woody. Mrs. Traycr. Dr. Betty. Tuesday 12:30 Business men's lunch and address by Moody, St. Fran cis. Tuesday 3:00 Meeting, of women, Mrs. Trayer. Rev. Olscn, Dr. Woody. Tuesday 7:30 At Methodist church. A great mass meeting. Dr. Moody's convention address... At; the-babiuct at the St. Francis, Mr. Moody -will speak on the Resourc es and Possibilities of the Congo Free States. It is desired to have crowd at tile banquet, and Albany men gen erally are invited to be present. The tickets will be only 25 cents. LETTER FROM ENGLAND. Prices are Reported to Be Soaring. Much More Than Double Old Prices. Fred Dawson just received a leter from North England that is full of in teresting thugs. One is a narration of the manner in which prices have in creased. The price of flour formerly was 1 shilling 9 pence, or 42 cents; now h is 2.11. or 72 cents, for 14 pounds. Eggs, which formerly were be tween 15 and 20 cents a dozen arc now 75 cents. Butter is three times its for mer price. Ham and bacon have don-, bled. All of which makes it hard for common people to live. T. J. Butler went to Salem tbia'i morning. . .'"f. $20,000 TAXES COLLECTEDO THE FIRST WEEK Anumg tax payments on amounts of over $100 today were Chas. Schae fer. $102.30; J. F. Denny, $111.22; F. B. Hylnnd. $147.20. The tax collections for the first week on the 1915 roll, were approxi mately $JO,000. . COST WAR SO FAR England, Germany and France Has Each Spent About Eight Billion Dollars. OTHER COUNTRIES . WILL MAKE BALAN0E $2,000,000,000 More Now Ask For By England For Spring Campaign. (By United Press) i London, Feb. 21. The government will ask the commons to vote a new war credit of two billion dollars, it is officially announced. This is the larg est amount yet sought. Premier Asquith introduced a re quest in the house of commons this afternoon. He makes England's war expenditures $8,640,000,000. It is of ficially estimated that the belligerents have spent $40,000,000,000 since the beginning of the war. It is believed Germany has spent $8,500,000,000 and France $7,500,000,000. Russia and Austria discouraged the giving of es timates. Their amounts are doubtful. o LESS THAN ONE FOURTH OF VOTERS NOW REGISTERED The latest registration reports in Linn county brings the total for the county to date to 2794, with 1915 men and 879 women on the rolls. The re publican party claims 1671 and the Democratic party 878. There arc 79 registered Independent. .. ! In the Lebanon district the women again lead the men with a total of 306 to 326. In Lebanon proper there arc 302 men and 104 women. This precinct has shown a lead of women over men all the way. Registration time is growing short. Only a few weeks left. NEW PASTOR OF GRACE CHURCH ARRIVED SATURDAY Rev. and Mrs. R. J. Divens arrived in Albany Saturday night from Sitka. Alaska, where they have been in mis sionary work sbr several years. Next Sunday Rev. Divens will take up his sfudies as pastor of the Grace Pres byterian church at Fourth and Main streets. For the present Dr. and Mrs. Divens are guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Lee, pending the arrival of their household -goods, after which they will take up their residence in '"the church parsonage. -. , c ; . ' ..- Steamer on Fire. T y ; (By United Press) , . Seattle, Feb. 21. Fire, oroginatins from spontaneous combustion, on the" stearhef Victoria, lying at pier ten this nicrning. was controlled ivit'i slu.v. f.a.nrge. " ' Two Men Electrocuted. (By United Press) F uckville. Pt tin., Feb. 21. G:or:c Marsh and RoU'iu Pennington, w c electrocuted todav "n Wcstco' V'h -tenliarv. - i . SETTLEMENT OF LAND GRANT CASE HAS BEEN ENDORSED Sovernment Counsel Favors the Same in Keeping With Chamberlain Bill. (By United Press) Washington, Feb. 21. The settle ment of the Oregon and California Land Grant question in accordince with the Chamberlain bill is endorsed by Constantine Smith, the govern irient't special counsel for forfeiture suits against the railroads. He said there is no limitations of the power of congress to take back the land, paying $2.50 per acre. There are no restrictions against the government's disposition of the land. 4 ALBANY PEOPLE ATTENDED Y.P.S.C.E. CONVENTION Grants Pass Looked After Del egates in Royal Manner; Closed Sunday. Dr. W. P. White, Homer Dowd, Harvey Curry and Margaret Dawson returned this morning from Grants Pass, where they attended the con vention of Christian Endeavor- of Ore gon. About two hundred delegates were present. Though not as many as usual, because of the distance the con vention was a splendid one, witft a strong program. ' Dr. White . had charge of the Bible study, giving sev en addresses. Besides the inside work the delegates were royally treated. Saturday they were taken in autos ov er the country and a fine banquet served at the Hotel Oxford. The new officers were installed yes terday evening, with Lloyd Carrick, oi Portland, as president. CORVALLIS CONSERVATORY. Miss Blanche Hammel and Chas. South to Open One. Will Give Concert This Week, i ':' '"" Corvallis G.-T.;" Mr. Chas. JSouth and Miss Blanche R. Hammel are go ing to give Corvallis a free treat next Thursday evening at the M. E. church. They expect to open up a conserva tory liere in the near future and are going to give a recital to allow those interested to come -and judge their work. If the public in general passes the same verdict that the Commer cial clnb passed a few weeks ago when they, appeared before them, Mr. South and Miss "Hammel" will make." their reputation solid. Mr. South plays the Violin and J4'ss Hammel sings and both are artists in Jheir respective lines. V .. i ' ATTEND CONFERENCE. Conference at O. A. .C. Had Some . Big Speakers." Several At-, tended from Albany. 'A student's religious conference at Corvallis Saturday, and Sunday was considerable of an event, with some prominent speakers present. Yester day afternoon Thos.' Moody, the mis sionary, was the speaker, a Jive one At the evening, session Dr. Latou- rette, of China, Dr. Bushnell, of For est Grove., and Lamar Tooze. were the speakers. Those attending from Albany were: Dr. and Mrs. Sharp. A. C. Schmitt. G. W. Rohrhaugh, Priscilla Dobbs, Arthur Jones, E. W. Blair, Thos Kirk- wood, S. R. Lee, Lucjlle. Divens. " , . o GOVERNORS WERE TEACHERS. Three to Speak at Convention of Na tional Educational Association , at Detroit. p " : (By United Press) ! Detroit. Mich., Feb. 21. Addresses by three former school masters who are now governors will feature the six- day midwinter convention of the Na tional Education Association, Which began here today. They are Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris of Michigan, Governor Frank B. Willis of Ohio and Governor Martin G, Brumbaugh of Pennsylvania. School superintend ents and principals from most cities in the country of more than 5000 pop ulation were here today for the con vention. Noted educator -will discuss important details of educational work E ENGLISH AT OUTS Japanese Said to Be Fostering Present Revolution in , China. HOPE FOR AN AD VANTAGE AFTER WAR Fifteen Thotisagd German Pris oners Interened in China Taken to Australia. (By United Press) San Francisco, Feb. 21. That Rus sia and Japan apparently want sepa rate peace and intend to join Germany after the war and divide a generous slice of Chinese territory, was the re port of Newel Martin, international lawyer, and T. G. McDonnell, Manila journalist, who were brought here on the Japanese liner Chiyou Maru. Eng land and Japan are reported to have had an acute disagreement over Jap an's movements in China. The Jap anese are thought to be forsteriug the Chinese revolution, to give Rus sion. Germany and Japan an excuse for interference after the war. Eng- !and'.s anger over the gradual loss of control of the Chinese s'tuation, is re flected in bitter Japanese press com ments against the English. Martin's father has been many years in China, in close touch .with government of ficials. The officers of the Chiyo Ma ru declared that 15000 German pris oners, who had "been interned in Chi na since the opening of the war, had been smuggled into Australia within the past week. The reason for the wholesale seizure of prisoners is a mystery. They were removed on a British cruiser. China rumored that plots to-escape had been discovered, and a revolt against the English might follow V . . o while Visiting in w. va. Though German, Carl Hector and Sister, of Benton County, Al - lowed in Shrapnel Plant. Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 15. Mr. Carl J. Hector and sister, Miss. Irene, of Granger, Oregon, who are visiting friends in our city, were escorted through the plant of the . Wheelng Mold & Foundy Company at Wheel ing. ."; ".. Though of' German extraction and sympathies, Mr. Hector was permitted to enter the shrapnel plant being ac companied by three detectives. This is the only visitor who has been al lowed to enter their shrapnel plant since they began working on their war orders for the Allies. Hughes in Eugene . 7 E. W. Hughes, formerly in the fur niture business here, now manager of the opera house at Albany, is in the city for a few days on business. Mr. Hughes is' making quite a success with the opera house at Albany, hav ing had it renovated and otherwise improved, making it one of the most attractive little theatres in the whole valley. Register. Seriously Ill Mrs. Dutchcr, sister of the late Mrs. Crandall, i; reported critically ill, with prospects of living only a short time. Gov. James Withycombe was in the city a short time this morrting on his Kvay from Corvallis to Salem. Dr. W. IT. Lee returned this morn ing from Lebanon after preaching in the Presbyterian church yesterday. JOSEPH COHEN, THE JEW , 1 WILL : SPEAK TONIGHT At the United Presbyterian church at 7:30.,His subject will be? "Hat God Cast off His People?". Last Monday night the house was crowded; to the limit, and the people were both in structed and entertained. The address tonight will be interesting to all, es pecially Bible students. Bring your Bibles. No admission fee. Everybody welcome.