Friday, April 18, 1941 No.- M adon Conn - O bserver Hubbard . . . (By J. S. Van Winkle) CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Easter was a grand day at the church. The decorations were beautiful and we thank all who brought their Easter lillies to help make the church a bower of beauty. The church was full to the doors. Next Sunday the pastor will preach and Mites Margaret Cook will play “The Holy City” as a violin solo. Sunday school at 10 o’clock. Young Peoples’ meeting at the parsonage at 7, with Miss Doro thea deLespinasse as leader. Prayer meeting every Thursday at the parsonage. Miracle Book club at the par sonage on Wednesday at 8. J. S. Van Winkle, minister. Sunday morning at 9:30 a fire was discovered in the wall of the K. of P. building. It is thought it was started from defective wir ing. The prompt arrival of the Hubbard Fire department result ed in putting out the fire before it spread to the rest of the build ing. ' Considerable damage was done to Friend’s barber shop and Mel’s Pastiime by smoke and water. The Woodburn department sent a truck to aid in case the fire should spread to the rest of the building. Hubbard high school baseball team defeated Scotts Mills in a very close and interesting game last week, 2 to 1. This week they also defeated a team from Ger- vais high school Sunday afternion the Hubbard high school orchestra, under the direction of Dr. deLespinasse, tc.ok part in the regular Sunday after noon services at- the State Train ing school. J. S. Van Winkle preached at this service. The annual egg hunt was staged Sunday by the Congregational Sunday school. The Sunday school class of Mrs. Rogers held an Easter party at the Rogers’ home Saturday. Among other things eggs were colored for the egg hunt. The delay in* the arrival of pipe couplings has delayed the instala- tion of the new pipe. Much ditch has been dug so that when the necessary m aterial arrives the re placement of the old wooden pipe with the new iron pipe should progress rapidly. This is a much needed and worthwhile improve ment and if the water is turned off now and then the citizens of Hubbard should take the incon venience in stride and realize that it is in the cause of improvement. The city council designated Aprill 16 and 17 as Clean Up days and the truck will make the rounds of the town and pick up the junk placed along the streets. Union Hill By Mrs. Carl Hoffman Mrs. Kate Becke, who left two weeks ago to undergo treatments at a Salem hospital, is getting along very nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kiser of Hills boro accompanied Mr. and Ernest Becke to Salem ¡Saurday to visit their mother, Mrs. Kate Becke. The children from this district TONS OF PROPAGANDA DESTROYED SAN FRANCISCO— Tons of for- eign propaganda, pamphlets and circulars seized from incoming lin- era from across the Pacific were destroyed at the San Francisco poet office. Here postal employees are sending to the furnace a batch of 17 and1 a half tons of the ma- terial. According to Postmaster William McCarthy, it has- been arriving at a rate of three or four tons per rteamer, three steamers per week, the origins being Rus- sia, Japan and Germany. taking part in the Easter program at the Lutheran church were Lee Bland Jr., Phyllis and Hazel Stadtman, Ronald and Bobbie Mohning, Buddy Oliver, Patricia and Leone Hass, Henry Hoffman and David Wagner. were week end visitors at the coast. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hoffman and Henry were Easter dinner guests at the Fred Kell home where near ly two dozen relatives gathered for the annual event. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Mtley of Portland were recent guests at the William Steinbach home. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Sauers and Lester Jr. of Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Ming Kee and Norman Kee HUB OF W AR IN BOILING BALKANS R U M A HAS MASSED TROOPSJOH THE PfUTTH RIVER AND IS REPORTED 70 D EM AN D BLACK SEA B AS ES FROM R U M A N /A * . *HAR£Si WCOMTAmA MBNA JE / A ^ ESPORRE TAiON/t MIMA ¡ ard anel U ANKARA \ camadjam moon \tfFOar£P jJ M r * \EDATfALO-ME\ \N/KAftfi h * GREECE M A Y R E INDUCED 70 KEEP CONQUERED A im BAM!AH TERRITO RY AS REWARD FOR A H A H PEACE* MHEHSt A A/ m u o r m m in v a s ic i * 1 o ä /e c n u ff NEW YORK—The above map kr the Balkans and the possible shows where all the diplomatic routes by which wair machines activity of Great Britain and the Axis powers is concentrated today are rolling. Greece is firm in its determination to fight on. Turkey * * A - J 3 stir, the question mark, althugh she is expected to fight should the vital Dardanelles be menaced. Nobody can make any predictions about iRussia.