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SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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SPRINGFIELD, LANE COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1918
VOL. XVII. NO. 27
1 JTxIL
5EE0 POTATOES II
LANE COUNTY BEST
1 PACIFIC COAST
Government Specialist Aftor
Investigation Places Our
Product First.
CERTIFICATION ISIGHEST
Industry Derives Qront Stimulus and
, , eiTrabla's Warehouse' Room.
Last week oiip of tho greatest nil
thorltlcR oil potatoes In America ar
rived In Lajio county. It was Prof. J,
O. Mlllwnrd, nnd hln mission hero
was nt tho behest of tho U. S. Do-
pnrtmont of Ajjrlcult,ura Ho wfe,f-unfonnB nro turned out with magic-
Bent tiirough several Pacific Coast
HiaieB to gainer oa.a rcinwvo 10 ino
potato inuustry. nml especially to
pursuo his Investlgntlotyi nn to tho
comparative morita of. scod potatoes
in iiiuvuiiuua niu iu niuui hit-
YlHltCtl. 1
no passcu up i-oioraao, passpji ur,d
Idaho, a famous lotnto growlng stato;
passud up tho Yakima valley In Wash
ington that mines spuds by the ton.
Nono of them enmo up to tho stan
dard ho wns looking for in scod pottn
t)CH until ho ;trick Lane county,
Thon ho was satisfied. He bad found
tho "laBt word" In certified seed pot.v
tr.os.
Ha bumpod into N. S. Itobb, County
Agriculturist for Lano county, and an
ardent advocate of cert Iflod, spuds,
'nnd 'EL TC. Morrison of 8prlngfleld, a
pioneer in tho certified seed gamo,
nnd tho biggest individual shipper In
Oregon.
Lane County Heads List.
Aftor a thorough, investigation Mr.
Mlllward found that Lano county
could boast of 7GCc of tho acreage de
voted to th growing of cortlflcd soeJ
potatoes ln tho State, and with a cor-
UfIcatIon so high that ho put Lano
county at tho head of his rooort. for-
rot the rest, and started homo with
his mission fulfilled.
Nothing In specialized agriculture
han ovor aroused ds much Intercut
among Lano county farmers boforo.
Tho meetings arranged by Mr. Itobb
nfl which Mlllwnrd was present wero
largely attended and tho moat Inton.
bIvo Interest wna manifest. That tho
notato Industry In this Boctlon of tho
county, already mammoth In Its pro-,
portions, will recolvo a furthor lm
' pctus goes without saying.
Mr. Morrison' Activity.
A year ago Morrison had disposed
of 7,000.000 pounds of potatoes, val
ued nt $160,000. This year, owing to
tho crop shortage, ho did not fall
much under thoso flguroB. Ho dis
posed of 1,500 sackB of certified scod
potatoes. California Ib an especi
ally heavy buyor of Morrison for Lano
county Whlto Itoso nnd Burbank sood
potatoes, as tho soil whllo well
adapted for growing good- potatoes
from seed grown in Lano county, It
will not produce its own seed pota
toes satisfactorily.
Increasing Warehouse Facilities.
Mr. Morrison starts hoxt wcok to
greatly enlarge his warehousing fa
cilities. Ono will be IncrcaBod from
40x00 to 80x120. Another adjoining
It. will be Increased from 40xG5 to
C0xl20. This will provide storage ca
pacity of nearly 30.0P0 squnro- foot.
Ho has aluo began tho construction
of n new warohouso at Coburg,
Wijh bucIi natural, boundless re
sources as the potato Industry typi
fies, nnd with tho right men ''behind
tho gun," Springfield nnd all her ad
jacent territory will suroly find their
plnco'in the Bun,
"PERSHING'S CRUSADERS"
First Official War Film to Be Shown
at Eugene Theatre This Week,
At thq Eugone Theatro, Eugono,Or.,
tho cjjmunlttea on Public Information,
yrlll janw through tho division of
Mtoti, of which Charles S. Hart la di
rector, tho first official American War
Film, "PorBhlng'a Crusaders." Tho
engagement Is for Friday nnd Satur-
day, August 0 nml 10. Thl feature
film nlrlilrna tlin trrlm oifrnftKf fw'HX t
wo uniicu nmioH gavgrnmem. in im
wun .actlvitloa and lujrdotormlnnL'on
In ntntiin nut ItnttJhrliim.
Following tlio frog of- Franco5
sr-lontlld Idea In given of how, Amon
cnnii fight. Tho lout half ofjho pic
turo, In fact, 1b fntlrolydovotdd lo
what i our boya nro accomplishing
ovor thoro.. You noo thotn In tlio front
lino trenches on tho firing lino tho
first of our hoy In khaki who took
ovor a sector of tho French lino. You
boo them wintering In tho snow-covered
villages of Lorralno. With tho
.coming of spring thoy march through
tho quaint sYrootB with spring Jn their
sfo'r". Thcro In ilotormlnntlon !n their
vory stride. You know (hoy arc going
out to win. You huo tho first Gorman
prisoner captured by our hoys, got
ting elonb'Ups of tho flochOH. Thoso'
nro not old plcturos, but tho very
i Intent that hnvo arrived on this Hide.
In tlio first half you boo what Undo
.Sam's countlosi civilian nrmy 1b doing
ovor tlioro, miicb of cniuonnioniR
ciow before vvour oyn, You seo tho
raw recruit becomo tho
hardened i
flKhtor, Floats of aeroplanes darken ,
tho skies. Masslvo Bhlps of Btcol,
concrete and wesd Bpocddpwii tho .
way. Mighty gqns and 'projectiles
hm m n do nn vou look on. Millions
,ko rftpl(,lty. Vou begin to reallzo '
0 American Is doing his best
,n . ,.-, wnr nll, vn know for
,nRtancCi mt Unclo 8nm , ninnnR
iU)0 b(KgC8t ,nundry ln ,ho worl(1. ulgravo of Lieutenant Quentln Itooso-
.Is worth Hccintr M Then watch tho -
I Tnntlna lftlnr ftin't urna Ik H In tint
, t Jg ,f throbi,lnfr with'
virile patriotism. It 1b a picture that
ovory soldier's mother, wlfo or Bwoot
heart will want to eoo.
You may bco
'your boy ovor thoro.
"Porshlng's
CruBadora" Ib distributed by tho First
National Exhibitors' Circuit, Inc.
MUST LEARN TO SWIM
Recruit In Training Will Be Given
Lesson In Aquatic Work.
Every man. of tho 13th division,
now forming at Camp Lowls, will bo
obliged to know how to swim. In
vestigation by officers in change of
tho examination of arriving seloctu
show that a surprising number of
thorn cannot swim and a well devel
oped program for this instruction has
(boon worked out.
Members of flvo companies In the
44th Infantry who cannot swim will
10 American ibko, a Bnort aisuinco
wny and tlloro receive swimming
Wessons. Thoso who can Bwim but,
"who wish to improve tholr st.oko will
also be given attention, for It is the
hopo of tho officers who have boon
glvon charge of tho Instruction that
overy man in tho division will becomo
nt home In tho water.
Followlng tho 44th, members of tho
iBt infantry will bo given tho In
Btructlon. nnd by that tlmo It Is bo-
licvod that soino of tho other regl
mentH in tho division will havo been
organlxod. The swimming Instruc
tion will bo glvon by Prlvato Goorga
Cuiihn, an export, who has won nearly
ovory Bwlmm.'ng rnco ho has entered
ln tho water carnival held at Ameri
can lako laBt weok.
What We Fight For.
The high il'tiB of America and her
allies aro well oxprosBod ln President
Wilson's grcotiiiGB to Franco on Bas
tlio day:
"As Franco celobrated our Fourth
of July, so do wo colobrate her Fouc
loor.th, keenly conscious of a com
radeship of armB and of pur"so of
wli'ch wo nro tdooply proud. Tho noa
ti: r.ni a nnpim rv.l n r Cpatinfi la
a closo nolghbor to our hoartu Tho
war Is being fought to savo oursehb
from Iniolorablo thins but It Is !
being fought to Bavo mankind. W,
extond our hands to each other, to
tho great peoples with whom wo aro
associated- and to tho neoolea ovory.
whoro who lovo right nnd prlzo Justice
nn a thing boyond prico, and conso-
crato oursolvoa once moro to tho no-
bio enterprise of poaco and Justice,
realizing tho great conceptions that
hnvn llf(n,l Vrnnm nttrl Amnrlcn tilorh
among tho froo pooples of tho world. morthanU have began' to koop ro
Tho French flag flloa today from tho cords. Evory salo will bo sot down
staff of jtho Whlto House, and Araorlca
Ib happy to do honor to that flog."
Return From Training,
Word was received nt the Nows laat
Monday from Camp LowIb that tho Y.
M. C. A. Secretarial school at Camp
Lowls closed Thursday aftoroon and'
that W, S. Wright, a railroad man of
this city, returns to hlB homo to wait
call for overaooa aorvlce.
I Elfll
TISH SMASH
FOR 61
on
In Faco of Doaporato Resistance' American and French Forces
Mako Steady Gains. Between the Vesle' and tho Aisne
Roosovelt'o Grave Found.
The long-looked for BritistVotfcnsiye is under way. A
gain of five miles was made today, much material and several
thousand prisoners were captured. Tanks in large numbers
. were employed very effectively.
American' nnd French troops, cross-.
Ing tho Solsions-Rhelrna highway, aro
driving on the heights between the
Voslo and tho AIbiic.
DcBpcrato counter uttacks were
broken up under fierce allied arill-
lory fire, Tho allies aro holding all
the positions they have gained and
aro steadily pushing on. Heavy
fighting Is going on along a wide front
norm oi.-inq vesio.
Additional bridging material , is be
ing rushed up and now crossings aro
being established
Tho weather has
.cleared.
Find
Roosevelt's Grave.
American
airmen have found the
volt, who wan brought down In an
nnrtnl h.'ittln tinrk nf thn nnnnan llnefl
before tho counter offonslvo started.
Tho grave was marked with a wooden
ctobs.- It wn located nt tho edge of
Chamory wood (about four miles cast
of Fero-en-TardcnoIs.)
The gravo'waB found by Lleuteil-
ont Worth of tho aerial squadron, of
AMERICAN TROOPS
EAGER FOR BOOKS
i Novels and Stories of Western
Life Are Especially Wanted
by the Boys.
A new request
for books. for
tho
boys "over there"
has been
made,
whether now or old, especially novels
nnd stories of Western life. Books
by O. Henry, Rex Deach, Zano Grsy,
Jack London, Ralph Connor and
Owen Wlstor have proven to bo the
most popular among tho boys, "over
thoro" and over hero.
Moro timnNj00,000 have already been
'unnt nvnrennn-lmt tlio aiirnlv Ib nilnrlir
o:Jjmustod and seVotnl hundrod thou -
Band moro will be needed soon by tho
six dlsnntch offices which are shipping
, - ' . t, i; -. . - .
books to Franco. Tho hooka nro;casn 8alo system, selling nt a close
packod In strong boxes or cases so margin and making deliveries.
built that thoy may servo as book
cases. ' I
Thoy go on tho docks of tho trans-
tno trans -
porta and are opened so that thoso
on board may enjoy them during tho
!vnvni-n Ail thpsn hnoltH nrn cnth.
I . --r, -
ored up at tho end of tho trip and re-
placed ln tho cases anu1 dollvored lo
tho propor ofllclols. In Franco tho
books aro distributed by an expert-.!
enccd librarian representing tho
Amorlcan Library association,' Most
of thorn go to Y. M. C. A., Red Cross
nnd Salvation Arniy huts, hospitals'
nnd canteens. Others go. djrectly to
canteons auu omcors.
Hooks in Snrlncflold may- be loft at
tho Public Library as thoy wore be-
fro and thoy will bo put In tho proper
, .
To Keep Sonar Record.
All rotnii grocers or, uano county nro (
"'nK roquostod by tho county food,
administration to begin keeping ro -
f"ds of overy sugar solo mado. Tho
administration will undoubtedly Issue
cards In' a Bhprt tlmo. , ,
Notices havo already boon mailed
nut tn nll rntntlnra nntl BOmo of tho
nnd at tho end of tho month will be
sent in to tho office of tho admlnlst - a -
tor for checking. By this rapthod no
person can possibly purchnso moro
than tjvo pounds. Any ono who !a
found to bo buying at more thnn-one
store will result in aomo agitation by
the administration. .
' .
Denying the Bwoet tooth Is a real
'acriflco.
FORWil
I
!
I
OF FIVE N
4
wjtfoh young.Jtoo8Qvelt.was a member,
The boche airmen had marked the
gravj with a, , cross, on
trlru.od In English:
"Lieutenant Quentln '
tmrlcd by tho Germons,
with a, cross, on which was
Roosevelt,"
July 14,
1958,
IIES
'JonBtnnt search for the grave had ,, lK"" the West Coast Lumbermen's Abso-
bf.en ln progress for, several days. and .General Pershing. This jcJaton at tne.SeattIo oHlce( Btate mSit
It will bo marked carefully and will rk Is bel"f pffo,ed f,n ' c '"e the government has ordered the .flr
be appropriately honored by Ameri-. "jeratlon with tho Y. M. C. A., the . prodllcUon board t0 d;8tribute aa or
ran airmen.. , , fKWta of Columb.and kindred I der for 24,000.000 feet of fir loaher
Noth.no Can StoS Yankee. ' in,Uon offlc cosnized by toe Wasilngtoa
Nothing can Stop Yankees. jgovernment. Thp members of Uie mIj8 , ji,-,
Tho Americans' late yesterday Salvation. Amy .are, performing a " . ... . ' .
-, . ,j. , , .,' A J The flr will be used In the constrnc-
rcached the railway and main high- most difficult task with notable cowl,. . , . .
.. ... ... j- ... . ' . .. itlon of new cantonment buildings at
way north of the Vesle. They crossed age an devotion and are most worthy ' , , . , .
. . , ,, , , , . , , , . ' 'Rockford, III. The mills are also tm
the river on footbridges Imorovlsed of the confidence and assistance of,. . . '.. . , . ,
, i r n ,.i ,., be asked, the advices Bald, to plaa
frpra the trunkB of fallen trees lashed our citizens. , ,. . . . ' :
,i ' ... w " , .v, i . I for the handling of a govemmeat jav
together. , , "I cordially commend this work and I ef fof Q
Tho Yankeca waded, through the call upon the people, of the.State of .. Fscher.Bontln Mft
marBhes' on the. south bank and Oregon to give earnest heed to Ita.the Booih.Ke . mU!s wJ recelv,
charged up the high northern bank call for ass Btance in rais ng ts war ordenj fnjm aUot-
in tho face of heavy machine gun and service fund, thereby manlfeatlng onr no ,aUon8 haye afl t beejt
artillery fire. The Germans counter
attacked Immediately, but .were com-
jletcly repulsed.
LYON PURCHASES
SMITH'S GROCE
: Assumes Charge August 10 and. 'teen Lane county boys and two from
Will Conduct Business
Upon Cash Basis
r W I.rrtn nmnplotn. rt
the
Springfield Feed Company, has pur-
chased the grocery store of It. W,
' i i i i
'smith on Fifth street and will take
I charge on Saturday. Aunust 10th.
I Mr. Lyon will move thestock to his
j present location on Main street, and
j begins the work of remodeling his
store building at once. The grocery
dornrtmVnt will occupy the west half
I nf tho hiillri'nfr' nml nnrlltlnnpd frnm
'the food department.
Mr. Lyon will Inaugurate 'the In-
ornnninsr . nnnninritv nf thn ntriptiv
Tho success of tho method of gro-
cory selling In Springfield will
bo
, walfJl0d wlth considerable Interest.
j Mn Smlth wU1 'in wlth Mr
'Lyon for a short tlnl0( but ,,na an.
" i .ni. , -."- .. ..
iiuuiii;t:u uu uuiiiiiia j,uia tuiv.iiic iu-
ture
,
OREGON ASKED FOR $50,000
Salvation Army to Have Campaign to
Aid Their -War Service Fund.
i Tho Stato of Oregon outside of
Portland Is soon to be given an oppor-
aiutiicj ui vuiuiiuutiiib iu (.tiu biuAw
humanitarian Salvation Army War
Service which is boing carried on in
and about tho big camps and canton-
montst ot ,!,is c"ntry R?,,a frcnt
ne TtIro,nc,!e ,f
.Tim United States is bolnp asked for
uiiwuwi muu ,w,v.
eon's apportionment Is $Bd,000. half
lf which was raised in tho city ot
Portland last wlntor. A campaign Is
now being organized, which will open
tho third weok ln September through-
out tho Btnte- t0 Becur0 tl,e remaining
. ,UUU.
The organization which so success-
fully conducted the Portland cam-
: I'algn has boon kept Intact and will
J conduct tho stato campaign Dr. Wil-
, Horn Wallace Youngson, general;
Mayor George L. Baker, chairman of
, tho exocutlvo committee; William m.
Lndd, treasurer: O. O. Bortzmeycr,
office, raanagor. ln addition, Evange
list Jolin M, Linden of the Billy Sun
day party, -will be campaign raanagor.
Sinco thin Is war measure ap
proved by 'the United States govern-
1....t II.. A.ot... n.l Ihn
IIIUlll, MI illU mitt J HU ...v
Council of National Defense, the de
tail of tho work has been placed In
,tho hand of thl.ty-sfx county chair
men of tho Council of Defense. Tho
quota for each county Is already In
tlio hands of each chairman, given
them by State Bxocutlvo Secretary J
K. Kollock of Portland. Assisting
i these men will be a campaign mana
jgor for eastern, western and central
i Oregon. Campaign headquarters
4have already been opened In room 228
Chamber of Commerce building, Port
land, where contributions may bo sent
direct Of all funds collected, 75 ger
cent goes to Salvation army war work
In Europe and 25 per cent Is used In
work in the cartps and cantonments
of this country.
rx Governor James WIthycombe Bays
Mn lils proclamation co.mmendlhg this
work to the sympathy and support of
the people of Oregon;
"The services of the Salvation Army
in this country, as well aa in France
and England, sinco the outbreak of
.tho war,, have been of Buch meritori
ous, character, as to receive the offl-
continued and resolute purpose to
give our men at, the front unstinted
J aid and to support gladly those noble
- and self-sacrificing agencies that un
der God give hone and help to our sol
diers and sailors."
LANE BOYS OFF TO WAR
Seventeen Home Registrant Leave
for Camp Fremont, Cal.
' Tuesday night at 11 o'clock seven-
ontfildo points boarded a special train
for Camp Fremont, Calif., Svhere
;they wlil train for general service ln
tthe national army, having been taken
n tne arait.
In addition twenty men
from Coos county, who had arrived'
rrt tho nftArnnnn t Mln rvnarnori thA
special, which was laid up at Port'
'and, and contained several hundred
nen from different counties in the
State.
I Charles Preston Hart, of EUgene
motor route A, was designated by the
local board as leader of the squad
nnrt xana rpannnslhle for thn nnnear-
ance of all the men.
The Lane county boys who w
' sent from Eugene were: Calvin
Marlow, Eugene; Mlchelu varrlano,
Suver; LeRoy Hebert, Oakrldge; Clar-
ufc. ub.
linciii, tiujaua; Anionio uuauyu, v,ui-
lUBD u,uu'
tace Grovo: Anarew AsnDy, worm
"ena; Aoe Kocn, coourg, varies
McDonald. Mohawk; John Stamra,
North Bend; James Lancaster, Cot-
, tage Grove; Charles Hart, Eugene;
.Holgor Berntren, Eugene; Robert
Holbook, Eugene; William Yancey,
Cotrtage Gove; Clarence Landerklng,
Canary; Chlssle Hanshew, Eugene.
A Call to Duty.
From tho bottle fields, in France
there comes an unspoken call that
BIIOUIU 1II1U UU uuanvi iu utctj
American's heart. The recent great
ov nts in Europe, the successes of
American arms on tho fields of France
should 6T every Amer,can t0 sreat-
er effort. . . t
Our people, at home should not rest
on Uie iurei ui uur numiofB m
France. Every death on the field of
honor In the lino of duty and for our
country's cause should be a call to us
f0r every sacrifice nnd every exertion
to aid the cause for which our soldiers
are fighting, for which our soldiers
httVO died
Increase production, decrease con-
I
sumption, save, and lend to tho sov-
eminent. Every cent lent to the
United States Is used to surport.
strengthen, and aid our soldiers ln
France.
Jon Limit Club.
Lone Morso of this city became a
member of tho Limit Club last Friday,'
having purchased $1,000 orUpfW&f
Saving Stamps. There areljowTTour
in the club from Springfield.
GOVERNMENT TO
PUCE 816 ORDERS
FOR FIR LUMBER
Fischer-Boutin and Booth-Kelly
Mills Will Behofit by
Allotments.
TOTAL REACHES 124',000,008
Product to Be Shipped to Rockforit,
III., for Use In Construction
i of Cantonments.
1 made as to the' exact quantity. '
The quantity is so vast, however,
that) the belief is current in lumber
circles, that nearly all Pacific Coast
mills will receive orders for all they
can produce within a specified time.
Time will be the essence of the ee
tracts and' .mills .best 'fortified to de
liver their production en time to met
the government's' pressing needs anfl
the "apeedlng-up" program, are uw
ones who. will receive the lion's shar
of the business.
Mere Question Are Staggering.
"Wo used to think that we ha
come hard questions to answer in
United States camp in the Statee,"
! writes W. J. Walker, a Y. MC A.
Una n.nno rVm . Vi la afnt i j-txt 1
France, "but now we know what a
simple thing It was to answer home
grown queries like hose! We have
another sort now. Here are a few
question? I must be able to answer
when I go back into the tent tomor
row "How rniiph is two bits, worth In
French money?. . (
"How can one send money to
B. ! Greece?
"How should ono address a letter
to a brother in an Austrian prison
camp?
"How long does It take to cable to
Dallas,- Texas, and'how much will It
cost at the week end rate? ,
"Will the Banque de France honor
a check drawn on a bank In Rome,
New York?
"Where can one flirt a list of the)
Stetson University (Deland, Florida)
men in France?
"Here are some of .the errands C
must perform after I dig out. tho ans
wers to these questions:
"Bring three books for men reading
only Russian who want to study
French.
"Bring two khnki handkerchiefs, &
money-belt at least forty-four inchea
long, two silk handkerchiefs initialed
in embroidery. 'To my Sweetheart
(to bo sent by the same Lothario to
two different girls), and secure the
address of the Moore hospital ln
Franco.
"This Job of being a Y, M. C. A.
secretary ovor hero isn't the clncb.
some thought It was going to be."
Is "Over There."
Word was received yesterday from
Rny Bally, who la with the 34lBt aero
squadron, that ho has arrived safely
over there," He Joined last Bprin?
ana nas oeen in training in mo buui-i
over elnco. Ho is the son ot Mrs.
Ethel Jlally of this city and was popu
lar In,, all the high school activmei
and Jiihlet,ca hefore lln enlistment
rfQwaa ono of tho honor graauaiei
tno June ciass, oeing one oi mo
91bs members In the Benflco and re
ceiving hla diploma with' Uie rest ot
h!a claas.