l! E 133 - 14 4 t ME W. A. DILL . -f'V Editor and Manager ubllshcd Every Monday and Thursdayby tho.Lano County Pub lishing Association. One Yoarv- 1. V 31 1 .. V 5 - M i is. I? Six Months t 4 U0 II SI Advertising IUtcs Furnished on Application. 5 I Throo Months .4. Member of the Willamette Valley Editorial Association. SPRINGFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER S, 1015 THE' GOOD ROADS QUESTION The good ronds committee of the Lano County Grange 'shas reported to the Grange its endorsement of some form of iliard-surface roads for the county, expressing the belief that sdnie form of hard pavement can be found that will not be uiuch more expensive to build than macadam, but will be more permanent If there is any one thing that a county needs it is good roads. The cost of good roads is not the big item to be worried about, but rather the high cost of bad roads, as Col. Mercer would say. The real cost to the users is the outlay for get ting' their products to market. A sale lost on a high market price that could not bo realized because the product could not ibe hauled in and the low price obtained when the goods cquld be sold, represents the real cost of bad roads. How best to secure permanent roads is the problem that .is facing the people of Lane county. There is some talk of a bond issue, but this does not appeal to the News as feasible jfor such a large and. sparsely settled county. The largest -amount of bonds that could be sold would hardly make a be ginning on the 2,000 miles or more of roads in the county, and the interest on such a bond issue would be exceedingly heavy. It would be far better to take the $30,000 or so that would be required for interest, and put that into a few miles of hard surface each year, and thus gradually extend the permanent roads. As to the materials: Marion county last year, by leasing a city pavingplant and securing the rights to use a patented pavement, secured hard-surfaced roads and a figure much less than was paid in Multnomah country where nearly 100 miles of hard surface were laid. A few years ago Prof. E. II. McAlister of the University of Oregon issued a bulletin In which the use of certain diatomaceous earths to be found in western Oregon, was advocated as a basi3 for concrete roads. In fact the county court was once asked by a good roads con vention to lay a sample mile of Prof. McAlister's pavement, .but1 that has never been done. Straight concrete, reinforced ; "with poultry netting, and washed -with.abituienousurf aclng "72alght offer a cheap, yet perniane1htroahC-steTffistates- and the state of Washington, too are finding vitrified brick . an excellent material for country roads. "Undoubtedly, now is the time to begin a program of per manent road construction. Eventually all the main roads will have hard surfaces, so why not begin now, mapping out a program that will cover a term of years and provide ulti mately good roads for the whole county. 4 And don't forget to keep the roads in repair. OREGON FIRST IN POULTRY . ' It was "Oregon first" again at the Panama-Pacific expo sition; and the latest time in the twelve months' International egg-laying contest, involving 500 hens from the four corners 'of the earth. The contest ended ten days ago, and as a matter of fact it was Oregon first, second and third three tpens of White Leghorns, Barred Plymouth Rocks and a hy brid of the two, entered by Prof. James Dryden, head of the poultry department of the-Oregon Agricultural College, cap turing all the places worth mentioning. The Oregon chickens jwere so far ahead the past three or four months that there really was never any doubt about the final outcome, and the .score shows the Canadian pen, the closest competitors, showed I 1 WHEN IN NEED OF HARDWARE, FUR NITURE, A RANGE, HEATER, RUG, OR PAINTS AND OILS SEE HOLBROOK & JOHNSON I (THEOOOrrOUPQE IS SOftRy forthqse.men,wuq are slovtoiearn) yE3. MOST MEN DO UHTILTHEy LEARH THAT THE REALTOBACCO CHEW SATISFIES WITH LES3, THAN ONE.qUAKTERTHEStZE lOFORPINARV ;coJ . , 1 LOOK AT THE SIZE OP I I THAT! HETURHS HIS ( BACK.! IT ' N V lOFORPINARV COMB men are so used to taking a big yvatLof ordi- nary tobacco that it sccms3to be hard for theml to remember that WB CUT Chewing the Real Tottnccb Chew, new cut, long shred is rich tobacco; that a small chew satisfies. Tell such men Jo give it a quality test to take a small chew and to notice bow the salt brings out the rich tobacco taste, UM hr WEYMAN-8KUT0M COMPANY, 59 Union Spare, New York CUT rbout twenty cggaTcftlnd" Oregon's loTeSTTo ndTto.oV , gon glprya Barred Plymouth Hock, developed from jcql lego stock' ni)den?orcd bjj IyM. Sherman of Lebanon Hitd" two Whlto Leghorns nmongUho college bona, proved toTbo the highest individual scorers. Apparently, tho only reason Oro gdn did ndtwln a greater, victory lis In thft fact thhWlttf Oro gonrcollego did not enter more hens. r ' 1 Thls contest, tho largest nndlongeat at tho.Pananui Paclfie exposition, was conducted on tho oxposUlpji grounds uner) the auspices of thofrntvoralty of California. ThS great feature wnslho contest between pens of birds, and poiftl woro entered from practically overy state In tho Union, from Canada and from England. Among tho also-rans are two pons on- stored by that "blarated Drltlshor" Uarron, Avho Juul beon.hlt- ttng the high spots at practically all the American egg-laying contests in recent years. To have gotten the goat of this champion of tho champion breeders Is no small honor, and to have brought to Oregon the grnnd prize, tho cash, and a Hcoro of trophies offered at the greatest exposition In modern times It about all that might bo expected even of collego hens. vwwv. I News From Springfield High School ? We have a few new shingles! ptoy." on our roof. 4lw,, ,m.:.. The typewriters in use in tho Thcn ujni gnd tr,n ti,c window, Commercial Department 'under went a cleaning and repairing during Thanksgiving week. Reverend wigmoro oi uie Christian church spoke to. the assembly Wednesday afternoon. away. C. D. Springfield, which Is older than Kugene, was onco the do nation Inml claim of Isaac Briggs, one of tho pioneer set tlers of Oregon. At this time When the .Leaves Come Down When the leaves come down In , the valley wa filled with grain the autumn, fields, the most Important of And the wind Is blowing through j which were those of wheat. It When the branches of the oaUs! derived its name from these and the maples ) fields and also from tho largo Seem whispering to me and you, 'spring on the J. L. Clark place on 2nd street, near which tho When the nines and the firs on (house of Briggs stood. Tho . I my. 1 stones on which It was built are there still. Mr. Briggs dug what is known as the mill race taking water from the Wlllametto about the hillside Show green in the midday sun; The oaks and maples of the val levs Drop tleir brown leaves one by three miles up the river. This one. I work occupied three years and !at the end of that time, about 'Tis then that the evenings grow 1854, the flour mill nnd saw mill chilly, were built, both run by water And we warm by the bright power. These, and the fertile hiimtnir blaze. " vallev. broucht settlers here, end And we listen outside to the: accordingly, Mr. Briggs laid out Vtlnwlnor In taw nnrna nlnri"- Mill nlrfwt fnr The shadows change black from; the town of Springfield. It rc- the grays. ' Imalned a very small village un- V. ii , . :.(.y '.ij.iV, til' about 1900. Th're'e yeah later Then when the glad streaks, of Booth and Kelly bought tho sav the morning I mill and ran it until they hnd Color the brightening east, , enough lumber to build a steam And the frost is thick on the mill. About this time Springfield windows, . .began to grow and soon became We watch the brown, falling) a thriving little town. A few leaves. (years ago the old steam mill, ."W- I which stood on the site of tho They call to us and beckon us, i present fine new mill, burned "Come join in our work and our 'down. S. P. LINES SERVE T TWO THIRDS OF THE PEOPLE OF OREGON Portland Nov. 27. Copies of a circular prepared by H. A. Hin shaw, general freight agent of the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon, have been distributed to shippers, inviting their attention to the system s important activ ities in the commercial life of this state. . According to the cii cular,' the company employes 5000 persons in Oregon, disburs ing to them $4,750,000 annually. Sixty-five per cent of the state's population is served by the com pany's lines. Its taxes amount to about ?1,220,000, or 12 per cent of the taxes collected by the counties through which its lines run. The Southern Pacific's pur chases in Oregon of material arid supplies, Including lumber, durr ing the fiscal year of I9l4-19i5 average $104,000 monthly. Referring to the construction of the line from Eugene to Marshfield, the circular says: 1 "The Southern Pacific is now of approximately $1,0,000,000. Jt lis the only line that is opening up '.,... i 1. i r . ,;!' h imw ivruwry in uregun at me present time and there is not a i merchant, dealer or resident 'in janyhne of business in Oregdh whois not Indirectly benefited through the expenditure of these , vast sums of money." ji ! FOREST NOTES ! Over a million and a cniartor board feet of wood is used annu ally in the' mines of Oregon for props, Jagging? ties, and riffle uoxes this raw material was over one hundred dollars. A new process of creosotlng Douglas fir has recently been de veloped which does not Impair the strength of the timber. The 1915 returns Trom Hood River Valley will be over $1,000,-000. JfA k - jSfc 0 -WWA YOU HAVE SEEN MEN LIKE THIS ARE YOU GO ING TO BE ONE OF THIS KIND? IF YOU DON'T COMMENCE NOW PUTTING MONEY IN THE BANK AND PREPARING FOR YOUR OLD AGE, YOU WILL SOME DAY BE WHERE THIS MAN IS. OLD AGE IS BOUND TO COME UNLESS YOU SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IN YOUTH. DON'T YOU THINK YOU SHOULD START A BANK ACCOUNT? BANK WITH US. WE PAY 4 PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS. ' ut ,vn &W33 msa The Best Groceries For Less Money . The Fifth Street Grocery Thos. Sikes, Prop. Phone 22 Jas. Cprsaw has re-opened his shoe repair shop In the west half of the Stevens bi cycle shop, .Main St. near Seventh. Ge A.o Co iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniliiii FARMERS' AND HOME-MAKERS' WEEK and RURAL LIFE CONFERENCES January 3 to 8, iyi6 Lle lufornmtinii. 1'iacllcnl Help lot the Home t lie I'ttrni. Ihr Cuminuiilly. Conrriitluiiitof OirKOii'H Ciralrnt I niln 1 r iro Coufririii'CHiiiiOfrtcoli'o Mont Vital riublrlim LHCTOKKrt DUMONhTKA flONK- lXMIHITll)N-KNTI'.KTAINMI',NTH Two llioniuiiit pruptr ullendcil lxt yrm . tt it giral Uf lo makr frlcud wild live Oilnkrr Mini llvr hoiililH, yixxl wuikrit, mii K'H"' wirk, WINTIiR SHORT COURSU January 10 to February 4, 1016 A Poetical Axtlculliifiil C01111.C ill Nut tiliell, Applied hclrni'c In Ai'tual Work uf li; 1'nriii mid lluuriiold. Coureit Id I'KUIT KAISI.Nli, HA KM CHOI'rt, Sdll.H STOCK KAIAINO. DAIKY WOKK. KWU'tHV KAlrilNO, OAKUKNINO, COOK 1NO. SJ'.WINO, ((UUKKIIOMI ARTS, JIOMI! NUKSINC, liUKINHHH MI'.TIIODS, UOAU IIUII.DISO.l'ARM )!Ni;iNliUKINf..KUKAL iza niif OUR GROCERIES arc famous for quality and wo savo you money on what you buy horo. Wo sell Dependable Coffees and Teas and everything else is dependable which wo sell. Nice & Miller Op Commercial Stato Bank Phono 9 OKCtAMI l,Nt, MAKKKTINtl. Correpom(ence Coiirneii Without Tuition. )',pTt Instruction In Mimic. Keducrd railroad t(t. for program writr to Trie College Exchange. Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallli. flw-U-1 lu f-U SPRINGFIELD DRUGGIST PLEASES CUSTOMERS M. Mi PJ2BRY DUUO CO. roports In 1914 in the construction of I S?.!J25lorH XrDMy. p.lea8.ed .wU.",. th0 shins nnrl hooro or tho ahir, i,tii "u1 acun 01 mmpio uuBKinorn Bnips ana ooats a, the ship build- j,ark,, glycerine, etc., as mixed in Adler- -ci w. "iuu uiiu rruau- I'liu, jinn muijrm luiuuuy uruiilB IIIO FIRST NATIONAL BANK, EUGENE, OREGON. Established 1883 Capital and Surplus - r - $300,000.00 Interests on Savings Accounts and Time Certificates ' ' ' "hfyf - IF XOU HAVE, NB.VER TRIED THE SPRINGFIELD CREAMERY ' Clias. Barkman, Manager. Try ub and be convinced that H pays to patronize homo . Industries, .',. 1 , Jr ). iff CAREFUL, CONSCIENTIOUS I 4' ington, nearly 13.000.000 board feet of high grade lumber arfd timbers were consumed. Austra lian ironbark contributed 35.000 boar1 feet to this total. L JL , (fTo repair the spokes, tongijes, tho blacksmiths and wheeL wrights of the towns and citi of Oregon and Washington usa over 400,000 board feet of oaic. ash, hickory, etc. The avcmSn cost per thousand board feet ,of oiu iouj manor irom tnu uowoib bo THOItOUH that ONE SPOONFUL re. Haven aUnpst ANY CASE of consti pation, sour or gassy stomach, It M so powerful that it is used success fully in appendicitis. Adlor-l-ka never gripes and Ujo 4N8TANT ciiprJs surprising, ; ' Thur 3 HERBERT E. WALKER NOTARY PUBLIC , Office In City Hall, Sprlnofleld, Ore iDenti DR. J, E. RICHIYiqND PHONE8 Office, 3," Rpetdenco, 116-J 'i Over Commercial Bank, Sprlngfi(?d,.Oregoii. t I See Edwards &Brattaii, For Farm and City Property Exchanges a Specialty Springfield - Oregon Phone 30 J. H. BOWER Lawyer., B31 Willamette' St. .. ftuaene, Oreoen W. F. WALKER UNDERTAKER FUNERAL PIRECTOR Office Phone 62j eildenc t7il west Main St. TT . ' n V. rl l t,m nanism, onqes, wioves Harness and Shoes I The Harness Shop 'pi I OMMMiiMM