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About The Lane County news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1914-1916 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1915)
THE LANE COUNTY NEWS W. A. DILL ..."' Editor and Man agar Published Every Monday and Thursday by Iho Luno 6buny Pub lishing Association! " !' RATES OF SUDSCUirXION. Ono Year $1.50 I Sir Months - - .75 Throo Montti9 - .60 Advertising Kates Furnished on Application. Member of the State Editorial Association. Member of the Willamette Valloy Editorial Association. , !... . . f And Remember to Get a Stop-Over for Springfiold. SPRINGFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 4, 19.15. WILL SPRINGFIELD SHIRK? What Is Springfield going to do about the matter of help ing keep a Lane county reprsentative at the San Francisco fair? Its business organizations have practically promised already to raise $135 for a month's salary for the man, and so far nothing has been done. Has Springfield lost its pep? Where are the Go-Getters? The sum promised is not large, especially if two or three months were taken for its collec tion. At least an effort should be made to raise the sum, or a substantial part, of it, and thus keep faith. RURAL CREDIT UNIONS. (Oregon Voter.) At the last session of the legislature an act was passed providing for the incorporation in this state of rural credit unions, to enable the members thereof, when in need, to obtain for productive purposes moderate loans of money at reasonable rates of interest. It provides that seven or more persons may incorporate, and that shares of stock shall not be less than $25. The act seems to be carefully drawn, and as it is now in effect, its reception by those whom it is in tended to aid, will be watched with great interest. With this arrangement for credit unions to supplement our banking system the matter of short time personal loans is fairly well provided for, but what we need, what we must have, is some better system for long time mortgage loans. If ever the water soaked lands of Western Oregon are to be properly drained and tiled, and the vast area of logged off lands cleared and made productive, or the desert lands of Eastern Oregon supplied with water, we must have money at lower rates of interest and on easier terms of payment. We cannot pay 8 and 10 per cent interest, perhaps an additional bonus, and a large fee for an abstract, and then compete on even terms, as we must now do, with farmers who can obtain money at little more than half our cost. ' ' ' BEWARE OF THE MATCH. Now that the dry weather period is here and so many people are going camping to the mountains, it is a good time to think of the danger of forest fires. It is of special import ance that fires be reduced to a minimum this year on account of the number of tourists passing through on their way to the expositions. A pall of smoke hanging over the country is a poor advertisement and besides obscures the beauties of Oregon scenery. The following rules, if carried out by campers, will do wonders in reducing the number of forest On the Lane County News' Classified Column. It is the "mutual benefit salesman of Springfield, for it profits both buyer and seller. Advertise if you want to sell: advertise for what you need. The Classified Column reaches the people you want to reach. RATES LOW. 1 I I - I On the Lane County News' Ij II fires this year. Bear thoni In mind. Don't toss away burnfng matches or tobacco. Don't make a cntnp'flrq In leaves, rotten wood; tmngnlnst logs, whore It may sprWd or where you cannot bo Bhro It Is but. . . Never leave a ilro until it Is out,, Don't burn slashings In the dry season without a penult, and without earo to confine tho ilro. Put out any fire you find If you can, If you can't notify a lire warden, some other public olllcers or tho land owner and don't bo afraid to toll tho other fellow ho must also bo careful. CO-OPERATIVE CATTLE MARKETING. Junction City Grange, at a roront mooting, considered ht length the proposition-of tho Portland Union Stock Yards company for the co-operative shippplug of live stock for tho Portland market. No action has as yet boon taken, but it Is one that will in all probability secure serious considera tion. Tho only way to sell farm products satisfactorily is in quantity. When a farmer, or group of farmers, can talk in terms of car lots they can secure an Intcrsted hear ing from the buyers. The single steer or tho dozen enses of canned logan berries is too small to attract the attention of the wholesaler, who buys In large quantities and sells in measurably large consignments. Within the past year or two shipments of livestock in considerable quantity have been made from Springfield. Tho only dllllculty has been the securing of business in sulllclcnt quantity to make it pay a satisfactory return to tlio men who devoted their whole time to the enterprise. What carloads were shipped found a ready market In Portland. The troublo was in getting carloads with sulllcient frequency to pay tho salary of the men in charge. Tho Junction City plan of hand ling these shipments through the Grange, ought to work out very satisfactorily hero in Springfield. With some member of the Grange designated to take care of the matter of mar keting livestock, It would be possible for this nmn to watch tho market, and when the occasion seemed proper, he could call his constituents by phone and secure sufficient cattle to make up a carload, and the carload would make a showing in the market. By establishing a reputation for carefully graded stock, the Grange would bo in a position to command tho best prices, and the returns would be such that members shipping would benefit. It would seem that the Junction City plan would be worth investigating. MODERN FIRE FIGHTING. 1 rmw.tt County irh Considerable newspaper, 'comment is aroused by the celebration in New York of the fiftieth anniversary of the paid fire department of that city. This half century has been a period of wonderful development in this line. Our country is weak in fire prevention. .But after a fire starts our fire men beat the world. The departments in many towns of but moderate size are very effective. The principal thing is getting there quick With a motor hose wagon and ladder truck, and a few men ready at a moment notlcg, -wore can be done than with a battaliori"bf experts who get tlire late. A good many small towns get Intelligent fire fighting work at a small cost by the simple expedient of hiring some practical man for a small salary, and giving him as a part of his compensation a yearly trip to the national conventions of fire fighters. A chief in that way gets practical Ideas, and the pleasant outing would please many men quite as much as a larger money payment. What can be done to save the many buildings that burn in outlying country districts, very frequently with no in surance? The rural fire department is apt to feel it accom plished big things if it saved the 'woodshed when the house gets fire. The gradual spread of motor trucks helps this sit uation. An automobile fire wagon can run many miles out in the country where horses would soon be winded. And wo don't hold any brief for any automobile company either. But the true success in putting out fires depends on the co-operation of citizens generally. Some merchants have their basements stuffed with flimsy packing cases, excelsior and other inflamable material. No fire fighting department on earth could save their buildings, with a blaze starting on a windy night. The fire fighting efficiency of the future lies not so much in developing the efficiency of departmnts, as in removing hazardous conditions in advance. S. P. TO EXTEND LINE (ago. The chief engineer, after DOWN COAST IS BELIEF ja trip to Portland, came to Eu- eene one morning and had his iHooy Interview and Hood Visit private car sidetracked on the Lend uoior to tJenet " Y" just outside the city at the Extension of the Southern junction of the Willamette Pac- liflc and tne main line or Uie Pacific line, now under con- Southern Pacific. The car was jstruction between Eugene and! picked up by the regular W. P. i Mashfield, to connect with the -train later that morning and the coast une running irom aan biib'"cb1 yao iuujuuiuh. Francisco to Eureka, is forecast- From there Mr. Hood proceeded ed by the Coos Bay Times after i to Marshfield, and persons there interviwtng II. P. Iloey, engineer who know him by sight say that in charge of construction on the he took a trip some distance Willamette Pacific. lover the proposed line down the Rail connection between San coast toward Eureka. Ills car Francisco and Eureka was com-was at' Mapleton for about a nletcd onlv recently. Accord- wek. Upon his return to Eu- ing to the Times. Engineer Iloey' gene he was interviewed by a stated that construction of the i newspaper reporter but with his rail line down the coast from usual reticence he did not ill Coos Bay would not be under-ivulge the object of his trip. taken until financial conditions itegister. became normal again but he ex pressed the conviction that the two points, 200 miles apart, would be connected by rail be fore other railroad projects were developed, Giving color to the report that the Southern Pacific is contem plating the construction of this line in- the near future, was the visit of William Hood, chief en gineer of the company, to Marshfield and the country south of there several weeks Independence Fifty men go to work extending the Valloy & Siietz railroad. Marshfield Johnson & Lar son will erect $20,000 concrete block at Bandon. North Plains Mirth Con struction Company will erect a new school house hero. Tillamook Chas, H. Burgraf of Albany is making plans for $20,ouo city nan. 1fK iff HfinntiMnk Start a ONF uml Bank JIS2a ir DOLLAR ST First National Bank Will furnleh to everyone who will become a depositor to the amount of ono dollar or more, a handoome Homo Savings Bank to uso. You are Invited to call and ask for ono of these safes. If you are already a depositor you are entitled to ono to use. Very tow people can save In large amounts, If you wait until you can deposit a largo amount you may never begin. Everyone can save In a small way. He who drifts Into the habit of spending as he goes will always remain poor. The Bank Keeps the Key Thin Homo HuvIiirb Dank In loimutl to you froo of cluiW). Ono dollar of your account Ih tu bo hold (o limuru Itti roturn ; but rommubur thin dollar buloiiKB to you; can bu drawn by you nt nny tlmo on roturn of tho Hnfo. For Less Money The Fifth Street Grocery Tnos. Sikes, Prop. Phone 22 Our Bank Money Orders Are Safe Cost Less Good Everywhere Our $25.00 or Under Bank Money Order Costs Only 5c Our $25.00 to $100.00 Bank Money Ordor Costs Only 10c If lost or destroyed In transmitting through the mulls, or otherwise, we give you a duplicate without any cost or red tape whatever. Commercial State Bank Capital $30,000.00 OUR GROCERIES arc famous fpr quality and wo save you money on what you buy here. Wo sell Dependable Coffees and Teas and everything else is dependable which wo sell. Nice & Miller Op Commercial State Bank Phono 9 I FIRST NATIONAL BANK, EUGENE, OREGON. Established 1883 Capital and Surplus - - - $300,000.00 Interests on Savings Accounts a nd Time Certificates Office In City Hall, Springfield, Ore. See HERBERT E. WALKER notary hd wards &Brattam public - For Farm and City Property Commercial printing carefully Exchangee a Specialty executed at tho News printing plant Springfiold - Orogon " Phone 30 W. F. WALKER UNDERTAKER """" FUNERAL DIRECTOR CAREFUL, CONSCIENTIOUS Office Phone 02; Residence 07-J lwua ! Dentistry J. H. BOWER DR. J. E. RICHMOND Lawyer. PHONES: Office, 3; Residence, 111-J Phono 1221 Ovor Commercial Bank, 831 Willamette, St. Eugene, Oregon Springfield, Orogon.