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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1921)
President Harding Thoroughly Enjoys "Roughing It” in 1 Mountains W ith Edison-Ford-Firestone Camping Party Upper left: Henry Ford, chopping •wood. Upper right:. President Harding and H. S. Firestone discuss the morning news: Thomas A. Edison is the foreground resting. Center: President Harding accepting a-bouquet of flowers from an aged woman residing near the camp. Lower: President Harding, on his arrival, greets his follow campers. EERE are those who may claim recently concluded a unique camping the above» picture refutes the excursion through the Maryland add West Virginia mountains. popular belief that Thomas A. Edi It was a genuine “ back to na son, the world’s foremost inventor, sleeps only four hours a day. But ture” trip for the campers, who Mr. Edison is-only resting, while his sought to shun as much as possible companions, President Harding and the spotlight *)f publicity which con H. S. Firestone, the tire manufac tinuously plays upon each of them. 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P 1 Oh® of iheir favorite Recreations was horseback riding, Mr. Firestone bringing six thoroughbred horses from his Ohio farm for the accom modation of his friends. It was astride one of these spirited animals that the president took his first ride in years. He expressed his enjoy ment o f the experience, and his physician has suggested that he con tinue the practice for his health. v BLOW-OUT! Save That Tire-Make it Last We vulcanize them proniptly and guarantee our work New and Second-hand Tires and Tubes for ! Sale Accessories, water cir culators for Fords and Maxwells-$ 12.50 instl’d. Canby Vulcanizing Shop CANBY, OREGON E. T. Brown, at present connected | with the University of Washington, has been elected head of the physics department of Willamette university to succeed Professor Herschel E. Hew itt, who resigned. So efficient has been the organiza tion and work of the forest service in | the Santiam national forest this sum mer that, although 22 forest fires have Heroic Yankee W omen Risk ■ started, the largest one burned over Lives to Rescue Children, in less than two acres. ‘Service o f Near East Relief Contractors have completed paving what is known as the South Salem Constantinople.— How the prQmpt Bection of the Pacific highway. The action of Charles V. Vickrey, General improved stretch of road is approxi Secretary of the Near East Relief, mately 8% miles in length, with paved and Harold C. Jaquith, representa tive of that American relief organi surface 16 feet wide. zation in Constantinople, saved the Scores of Russianistudents are com lives «of 18,000 orphan children and ing to universities along the Pacific seven American relief workers in coast and particularly the Pacific Alexandropol, Armenia, is what all northwest this year, according to in the representatives of the Allied na formation received by President Clark tions in Constantinople are applaud ing today. . v / of Pacific university. For five years the Near *East Relief Hector McPherson of the Oregon organization had built up a work of Agricultural college was indorsed by mercy throughout the former Turk the executive committee of the North ish Empire and Transcaucasia, to a Dakota Farm Bureau federation for point where 54,600 little children appointment to the presidency of the were being housed, clothed, fed, given medical attendance and taught, North Dakota Agricultural college. and over 56,000 others being sup The Revenue mine, in the Kane’s plied with food. Then suddenly, on creek district of Jackson county, owned February 5, last, there came hurried by E. L. Coburn of Grants Pass and cable reports of renewed fighting in O. W. McClendon of Gold Hill, has been Armenia and Transcaucasia, where sold to N. E. Conklin and A. L. Conk 75,818 of these little ones were loca ted under the protection of the Near lin of Bakersfield, Cal., for $30,000. Joseph L: Hammersly, chief deputy district attorney of Multnomah county, HELP! j has been appointed by the Douglas | county court to assist District At- | tomey Neuner in the prosecution of, ! the Brumfield murder case at Rose- | burg. By a joint action of committees of j the boards of regents of the two insft- I tutions, a tuition fee of $60 will here- ! after be charged students at the Ore- j gon Agricultural college and the Uni- i versity of Oregon from states out- { side of Oregon. | Farmers in the vicinity of Bend are | asking that government trappers he I sent in to wage war on the coyotes which are killing off whole flocks of i chickens. In the Powell Butte section ! the coyotes are occasioning heavy loss ' to the sheepmen. Marion county school teachers who neglect to comply with the state law making it incumbent upon them to file their registration papers with the county superintendent, will run the • risk of having their first month’s' UN hi u jy u 'u jii i» ,u u u salary held up by the directors. One hundred and twenty Linn coun East Relief. Consular representa ty boys and girls are expected to com tives left the country. All foreigners War pete in a tryout to be held September piled onto skips and fled. 9 to choose members of stock judging threatened to scatter the work and render vain th e,’feong, ..patient efforts i teams,to represeat Linn county at the of the Near East Relief to salvage I state/ fair and in -congests in stock: a whqle nation’s children. judging at other expositions this fall. But the American men and women . Occupation of the new commerce who had cared for these little ones hall at the University of Oregon has were undismayed. They refused to been begun by the school of business leave under bombardment, with hostile armies sweeping through the administration and will be complete streets where the Near East Relief’s ly occupied by the time school opens great orphanages .had been estab September 26. The structure will lished, with all supplies cut off and [ house also the departments of history no communication with the outside world, or with that far American and economics. homeland Whose representatives Hood River growers have begun the these heroic men and Women are, ! harvest of Gravenstein apples and In- they stuck to their posts. The last > dications point to the beginning of food from America had come in on [ the harvest of ”th^ main commercial November 6, 1920. It w*^ not until four months later ' varieties a full week earlier than.us ual. It is expected that growers will ..„hat the new goverhments of the fee calling for fairly full harvest crews Transcaucasian states were estab lished on a solid basis. But famine by September 20. threatened. - An appeal was made to „ A friendly suit was filed in circuit American philanthropy:» "Critical court' at Dallas to test the legality oft! need for food products in Caucasus,” the alleged over-taxation In Polk coun the cable read. “ No limit to need in ty. The state tax commission recent Armenia. New government promises better facilities for relief activity ly informed the county court that than former government.” A few Polk county’s 1920 tax levy was ap days later, a further piteous plea fol proximately $10,000 more thsfn the lowed: “ Total orphans in Alexandro- pol 18,0(TO. Supplies in Alexandro- constitutional limit. pol allow half-rations, April 3rd to The Portland city council, through 30th. After May 1st, nothing.” ] City Attorney Grant, has presented a But this splendid American relief petition to the public service commis organization had not waited. Food sion urging that the ¿Portland Railway, was already on the way. On April Light & Power company be required 22, . Charles V. Vickrey, general sec retary of the Near East Relief, either to perform certain maintenance cabled: (‘Expect ship first we^k in and construction work on street rail May: 1,000 tons rice; 1,000 tons way lines in Portland or reduce the wheat flour; 600 tons oommeal, corn flour, hominy; 30 tons sugar; 500 fares on such lines. tons beans; 5,000 cases corn syrup, There were two deaths in Oregon from New York and New Orleans dute to industrial accidents during the direct to Batum. Additional 1,00 0> wijfek ending August 25, according to tons wheat flour from Pacific Coast June 1st.” ; I a report prepared by the state indus Thp seven American relief workers trial accident commission. The vic in charge of the 18,000 little ones in tims were William Webstei^ laborer, Alexandropol cabled a last appeal: No food at any price. Four days Portland, and Mrs. Mattie Reed, house “ more and we are finished.” But wife of Wilbur. A total of 458 acci when the first relief ship “ Que- dents were reported ¡ to the commission. quen” entered the deserted harbor of After sessions covering 32 days, the Batum. on May 1, there were just tfen [ bags of flour left. The food ship had rehearing of the so-called Pacific Tele- Come in time. America had saved phone & Telegraph company rate case i the day— and the 18,(TOO little or- reached a conclusion at Salem. Upon phan children, -who had suffered so stipulation of the opposing attorneys, much and lost so much in their short, war-clouded lives, never, knew that Portland received 30 days in which to gaunt hunger in the robes of death prepare its brief, after which the tele had knocked at the door of the or phone company will have 25 days to phanage at Alexandropol— and that America had thrust the bony hand filé, a reply brief. Portland then will away. require ten days in which to prepare “ It is the great heart of America and submit its reply brief. that made this work o f salvation pos Á . tentative form of contract and sible,” . Mr. Vickrey declared. “ The plan contemplating the reclamation of money that sends the bread to these children conies^ from ten million approximately 27,000 acres of irrigable homes throughout the United States. land, lying east of Redmond, in Des It comes from the hearts of the most chutes and Crook counties, were pre generous people in the .World, who sented to the desert land board at a cannot bear to know, that half a world away, little children aré facing special meeting held in Salem, by Os hunger and deaths without helping wald West and J. C. Potter, repre them to life and happiness. ’ senting the North Canal company, and Mr. Vickr-ay is making a r. Walter Daly, representing the Title wide anneal to the peonle & Trust company of Portland. The United States to keep this gre - going. Contributions may be sent'io fundamental questions involved in the Cleveland H. Dodge. Treasurer, 1 future development of irrigation from Madison Avenue, New York City, the Deschutes river were discussed, but no definite action was taken. The Clackamas County Fair at Canby is a home (air. It is near enough for us t o attend and take part in. AMERICAN FOOD SHIP SAVES 18,000 BABES FROM STARVATION