THE LA-B COUNTY NEWS w. x; blLL Editor and ,Mtfr fiibll'ghpd Everyijifonay; touejCounty tub' .... ' Milling Association. " ' HATES OP SUBSCRIPTION. . Onp Ycar.'YV S1.60 Six Months - ,.75 Thrco Months Advertising Rates Furnluheil on AppHcntton. .CO : And Remember to Get a Stop.Over for Springfield. SPRINGFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1915. SPRINGFIELD MUCH INTERESTED. Springfield has a large Interest in the outcome of the proceed ings now 'under way in San Francisco, whereby the government seeks to dissolve the Southern and Central Pacific railroads or rather, seeks to compel the. Southern Pacific to sell the Central Pacific. Just what will happen to Sprihgfield in the event the government wins, is a matter for conjecture; the result for this place is more settled in the event the railroad, wins. Should the railroad win, there is every indication that plans as before outlined for the development of immense yardage facilities in Springfield will be carried out. The railroad' has the land necessary, and. with the completion of the Willamette-Pacific to Coos Bay and the Natron cut off, Springfield will become the logical center for the assembling of freight from a wide range of territory. Springfield then will be the real hub of the Willam ette valley the centering point and the distributing point of the f reight of a vast area of western Oregon. Should the government win, and the Southern Pacific be compelled to sell its holdings in the Central, the results upon Springfield would be more a matter for conjecture. At the pres ent time the Southern Pacific company owns In Oregon the P. E. & E. division down the west side of the Willamette valley to Springfield; it owns the line from Woodburn to Springfield; it owns sundry cross lines like the Salem & Falls City, and the Corvallis & Eastern, and it operates under a lease the line of the Oregon & California railroad from Portland to the state line at Ashland. The Southern Pacific operates also the Central Pa State Engineer Bowlby la diioted in a letter as savin that the roads In the Willamette valley, from Grants Pass to Medjord, will be impassable for automobiles after June 1 Wonder where the S. E. got his ide that Grants Pass and Medford are in the Will aniette valley. And what kind of an automobllo could' the. have been riding In If he found tUe roads of tho Wlllametto Valley "Hit' passaoie." Eugene is taking tho preliminary stops toward tho location of a lace factory In that town, and Springfield is getting in line for a boot sugar factory. With these two great industries ssifoly under way in tho upper Willamotte vnlloy, tho coming year ought to bo one of considerable business activity. WORK OF PUPILS OF THE SPRINGFIELD SCHOOLS Tho Lano County Nova today prosqnts a few examples of tha work ot composition in tho Clanaoc In tho Springfield Publla schools. Tho articles aro published as written without correction, In tho hope that tho printing ot them may provo an asslstnnco to tho young peoplo In de veloping their power ot expression. Other tonchors aro Invited to nub- mlt such articles as they may wish to havo published In this column. Written by pupils ot 4th grade West Springfield school. How I Went Boat Riding One day last summer I was over at one of my friends. They were going for a boat ride. They asked, me to go with them. When they were ready to go another family came to go with us. On the way down to tho river we had to go down a steep bank. We had to go up the river to get to the landing. When we got under the street car bridge we got in shallow water, and could not go. , When we arrived there we got out. The man had to go back -after the rest. When they got there we ate dinner. After dinner we went In bathing until evening. We then started back. Ruth Leith. How I Caught a Weazel Once upon a time I went walk ing along a railroad. When I was up the railroad, I came to a and I let it go Drtuge. un eacu siue or it was jit ami kuicu it. a barrel. Inside of the barrel Willard Carpenter was some water. In side of 'brie cific's line from Natron to Oakridge and from Weed to Klamath ?i"li!a iaiis poruons oi uie matron cuiou. inese various lines nave j,jm out and killed him. - been knit together into a system that serves all parts of the Willamette valley and western Oregon. . If the Southern Pacific company is compelled to sell Its holdings of the Central Pacificthe latter road will be left with 30 miles of track from Natron to Oakridge disconnected from its other lines by a stretch of approximately 100 miles across the crest of the Cascades. It was the government's intention, so Me Reynolds, then attorney general, to compel the Central Pacific to build, from .Natron to Portland and thus give competition from Willamette valley points to California. The high official over looked such a trifle as a missing $11,000,000 link across the moun tains. And he also- overlooked the presence of four lines already iruversiug uie wuiauieiie vaney irum enu iq enci. a nun wouiu Coin? Aftor th Cnuti. puiieu I it was a nice summer cveninc i ..... . iwiien wo Rtnrtod nrtnp trtn onwa The weazel was very big for a so we Rtnnnnii tn nm fr.,i Weazel. ins Wfi hiirrpiI liv Wn lirwl nnl YVIieil I KU1UU 1 IUUK lllHl l)Pn IMltlnr lnnf wlmn xtrn lmnv1 Home. o nnlfifv Thnn vn onnnml nmt Mamma told me to lay him up! looked nrnnmi w hJnn n, and wait until papa come home. ! noise acain and acain. Wo also When he come he told me that weazel hides were worth about 2 dollars. Then he took It and skinned it, and then we put it away and left it. Arthur Landiff .How We Caught a Mouse? Last Sunday my sister weriPtfr only complicate business, and create business for the railroad et KOme potatoes. When she reacneu me store nouse, sne yei commission and the courts in controversies over inadequate serv ice and discrimination in rates. Should the Central be thus in iluced to build from Natron into Portland, there might, and again there might not be shops located at this point. It is more likely, in the event of a dissolution order, that the Central Pacific would secure an exchange of this short section of road that was useless to it, and would abandon construction of me nne over me mountains, ine soutnern facinc wouiu nave the trap in the jar. Finally the no object n pressing on across the mountains, for it would have trap caught the mouse by the no tracks of its own on the far side with which to connect.. tail. But the mouse cot awav. , Clearly the hopes of Springfield lie in a decision favorable Jst!SE an?,h, It.uP? o ,w L w, , u o...v. "1 he killed it.. Then Murl threw tuuc aim uentrai racinc ana m a, revival or raiiroaa ouiiaing sur ficient to encoiirage the completion of the Natron cutoff. led, "Ernest, come here quick I have a pet." When we got there, there was a mouse In a jar with some wheat. Ernest said, "Qet a tran and we will have some fun." So Murl got a trap. Ernest put heard something walking on the leaves. Then we began to run towards home. We ran aways and stopped to look back. We saw our cat coming over a little mil. Then we went after it and took It home with us. FlQrence'Lee. Ester Lee! One Sunny Morning. One day when Florence Leo came down to my house we started out to play. We went out in the woods to get strawberries and I wanted to scare her so I said, "There comes a horse on a trot. If it comes this way it will kick. So we'll have to climb a tree. Here it comes, so run." I was only saying it ror run but she climbed up a tree and then I said, "Let's get down because I think he jsnft coming." So we climbed down and went home; Ruby Clark STATE HIGHWAYS ACHIEVEMENT. Report of th,e Condition of tho The First National Bank ,u ,uB olBie 0I uregpn, at the close of business March A, 1916: ti ; WhH.q we are talking about good roads locally, and preparing to build more of them, it is not amiss to consider what other states to, the Union are doinfc along the Very same line,, says, the Tele- Loans and Discounts .?f.?.l?!l.Cif8 From a tabulated statement appearing in the Good Raods orMBXS HIT. lL'.iL" va,Uo- Year- Booli'we get a total of $200,000,000 appropriated and 31,000 0th.er bo,nd?' securities, etc, owned unpledged ' (other mllesor hard-surfaced roads built since the good roads movement Subscription To stock of JKS?'S?A S iVV begun. That in Itself is a prettg good beginning, and it Is only Lea amount unpaid .y 1133.34 by indulgence in fancy that we can figure out what the total will mKrWMS0JSJljura,lur6 an.d flxture8' 2C00-- be ten or fifteen years from now. ,ue h-011 Federal Reserve bank'..; Eleven thousand miles of these hard-surfaced roads have cUieT.?.?.?." "f.ifc-"!'0 been built during the paBt two years 5000 miles in 1913 and G000 ?.ue f-rom "pprov'e'd'erveagenuVn?otherV miles in 1914. This fact shows the accelerated impulse in the 12 oi -133 1 ! (other ,,hon lncIude1 ln entire movement. It Is the summarized effect of it: and there is "y checks and other cash items, $ none: frac I itinn I iititi nlai..!. . . - every indication that it is about to accomplish much greater 01 on tanks' In the ZTSffi. things. Good roads are fast becoming a national gospel, and mani festly we are passing quite rapidly from the preaching to the practicing stage. So true is this that already the state hard- surfaced roads in this country are said to exceed by some 0000 miles the roads that, for more than a century, have made France famous. C.2C0.00 3,000.00 92,890.75 73.16 0,250.00 3,000.00 18,940.47 CCO.CO 10,582.61 8,110.99 3,000.00 4,011.54 18,091.81 bank " 1 e Bame c,,y or town 08 reporting iNoteu of other national banks ' Lawful money reservo In bank: Specie 1010'JCO- Legal tender notes - i0'00 Itcdemptlon fund with U. S. Treasurer (not moro'tlian & 1 cr cent on circulation) ; . Total ;;; - , LABILITIES Capital stock paid In ... Surplus fund . (fndlvldoir jroflts .;, ','. 2 301.84 Lees current exnences. ln'torent. nmi'intM nniri " ' ',ii0 Circulating notes ..... 0;250:00 uuiuuiii un Hujiu uiiu 111 1 roasury lor reueniP'' tjon or in transit- '.. . Atnnn Demand deposits: individual deposits subject to check 89,894.00 Certificates of deposit due In lesir than 30 days . , 60,834.22 Cashior's checks outstanding ... ;..', ,-, 180 55 Postal savings deposits '. .", 1,200 48 - ...... v....w v ..w Mt4w VUUUVJ AlvyVYD J u U11DM iX J1UJII" her of the written exercises prepared by pupils of the public schools, printing the stories without correction eo that the work may be used in class room for study and improvement. That the publication of the articles is fulfilling its mission is the belief of The News, Judging from the reports it receives of the interest that' is taken in the department by the school children. They read the department eagerly, watching for a composition from tbei.r own'class. Each little reader becomes a critic, quick to find the errois and anxious to make his next story one free from mis- tfilroo H'lio Mown a.tAnA fliot M-'nrtn rf tmmttnn l '1.1 I, :: :.Z:r:.rr;" , " u u"?n L . Subscribed and n to before fcorroctAtteati ui. iiib ;uuiii, pcyiJu ui me euijimuiuty, aim will pUMlSll in the la,s ay of. Marcli.,1915. , ,u, , J,R, SMITH, future just amany of th.e stories as it has room at its disposal. hmibebt a walker .M1;H i a attain, 22,103.35 295.40 142.01 270.20 85.00 10,113.00 312.50 $170,742.70 25,000.00 2,500.00 1,320.85 5,800,00 MASQUEJKADE DANCE At ReaperjHftll, SjJrintifidd Wednesday, March 17 All appearing In continue must present nlgiicd invltnllotiH, This applies to Indies not acoinpanlod by gontloiiion. n ADMISSION-DANCERS 50c ii SPECTATORS 25c When We Want Fishing. Once when we wero fishing in Dakota and had Just started to fish, I caught my lino on a fence that reached out In tho lake. As Harry had his shoes and stockings off he was going after it but, when ho got behind mamma, she caught a bullhead which stuck his horn in his foot. The blood just ficw out, of the hole. Then mamma told me to get some cowwebs but I could not find any. So we wont homo. Walter Leo. How a Dog Killed a Cat. One day Dickie and I and our dog wero going to town and wo saw a big cat. The dog took after the cat and caught It 1 tried to take the cat away from tno uog. i When I got the cat away from the dog Uie cat scratched mo Tho dog caught Report of tho condition of tho First National Bank of Springfield, In the State of Oregon, at tho close of busi ness March 4, 191G, condensed from report to the Comptroller of tho Cur rency. RESOURCES. Loans and dlsc6unts 92,009.01 U. S. and other Bonds and Warrants 28,10fj.47 Banking house, real cstato, furniture and fixtures .... 18.G93.G0 Cash and duo from banks . . . 30,888,78 170,7-1 2.70 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock .,..$ 2C.000.00 Surplus and Profits 3,820.85 Circulation 5,800.00 Deposits 1,42,116.91 The B est Groceries For Less Money :tt w. .f?ir vim a : '- The Fifth Street Grocery Thos. Sike, Prop. Phono 22 Pay Your Taxes Here Wo are a depository for County funds and are authoriz ed to receive money in payment of taxes. One half may be paid . , . on or before April 1st. Bring In your tax. statements If you have ' them, and if not ask us,. and we. .' ,. ... will get them for you. No extra . ' charge, ' ', Commercial State Bank Capital $30,000.00 IF YOU HAVE. NEVER TRIED The Springfield Creamery CHAS. BARKMAN, Proprietor Try it and be convinced that it paya to patronize home industries. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, EUGENE, OREGON. Established 1883 Capital and Surplus - -- - - $300,000.00 Interests on Savings Accounts and Tlmo Certificates Total State of Oregon, County of Lane, bs.',.' j. unas. the ubore 142,115.91 170,742.7q u L. Scott, Cashier of tho dhbva-named bank, do nolemhly swear that t statement lo true to the bestJofhnyknowledBo and belief. 414 t 'CHAS, L. SCOTT, Cashier. ,j . .- 1 0 1 i n oiue rrinung ana maps : Notary ruUUcIfr"'' Phone 955, Eugene 'A. 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