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Hl'KI.NWlELD, LANE COUNTY, OHEGON, FRIDAY, OCTOUEIt 10, 1919
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FLOURING MILL
IS BUSY PLAGE
Finishes One Qovtrnmtnt Contract
and Takes $35,000 Order for Oeto
btr Springfield Dour on Local
Market.
The Kprlngfleld MillltifC and Ornln
Company last Saturday finished Km
first contract, hijiouii t line to $:10,0(I0,
of flour Uk goverment order, and ban
now niacin a second con true I which
rail for flour to t ho value of :ir..oo
to be delivered ly the clone of Octo
ber. Before atari In work on the now
order, the mill manufactured a supply
of flour for the family trade. It I
mud from a Mend of the bent No. 1
wheat rained In Uine county and Mint
em hard wheal.
The new flour haa tieen luced on
aalo In every grocery and feed More
In Springfield and in nearly all the.
atoroa In Kugctio.
Manager U. ('. Caswell guarantee
Springfield flour to bo a cjuallty pro
duct, and he la confident It will he
used In Avery homo In thla vicinity,
llu will alHO Introduce It In other val
ley towna and weal ward to Coo Hay.
The Sprlngfh-ld mill la now buyliiK
all koimI wheat offered, and It la es
timated that fully a quarter of a mil
lion dollars will be paid out by the
company during the preaent season
to j rowers In thla region, Up to now
about 70.000 bushels have been bouKht
at the mill.
In addition to white flour making,
the company la preparing to manu
facture graham flour, wholewheat
flour and breakfast fooda.
PROFESSOR GLASS DEAD
Charlea E. Class died at Mercy hos
pital In Eugene Tuesday afternoon of
Addison's disease. He had been III
for a long time, but wan able to leach
his niualc pupil up to within a few
daya of hla death. Deceased wan GS
year a of age, and had never been mar
ried. Professor China had lived in Eugene
for twelve yearn, teaching vocal and
Inatrumental mualc both In thut city
and Springfield. In addition to bin
musical work, Professor CIubh also
did landscape painting.
LIEUTENANT WEBB KILLED
WHEN AEROPLANE FALLS
Lieutenant Henry V. Webb waa
killed and hla mechanician, Sergeant
John C. Mclilnn, wan seriously in
jured Tuesday noon when the forest
pa-trol aeroplane which former
waa piloting fell to earth at Gold Hay,
near Med ford. It la reported than an
empty gaaollne tunk was the cause
of the accident.
Lieutenant Webb had been sta
tloued at Eugene ever since the forest
patrol aeroplane bane waa established
there In Augunt.
Deceased leave a wife and little
daughter, who reside In Loa Angeles.
CENSUS ENUMERATORS WANTED
Civil service examinations for een
huh enumerator will take place dur
ing the last week of October for the
First district of Oregon, within which
Lane county la Included, and Kugene
la Hated among the place tit which
audi examlnutiona are to be held.
All persona winding to take the ex
amination uhould write, prior to Octo
ber 15, to lit. 11 Crawford, aupervinor
of oenaua, Postofflce building, Salem,
Oregon, for application blanks. The
work of enumeration will begin Jan
uary 2, 1920.
In accordance with the provlaiona
of a law panned at the preaent extra
eaBlon of congreaa, in the appoint
ment of census takers preference will
bs given to ex-aoldlera, gallon and
marines and to their wlvea and wid
ows. tftws, 1.75 per year la advance.
POPULAR GOVERNMENT ON
TRIAL
Washington The Kepubllean Tub
lllty Association, through Ita prenl
dent. Hon. Jonathan Bourne, jr., gives
out i lie following statement from Its
Waahlngton headquarter:
"Home rule, local self government.
and, in the last analyaia, popular gov
eminent in city, Mate ami nation,
seem to bo on trial with a dubious
outlook na to the reault Whether
riotous lynching shall supplant order
ly enforcement of law waa the teat
In Omaha; whether strikers of the
law-abiding dement shall rule, Is the
teat in many other cities: whether
the (July cliohcn representative of the
peo le In the senate and house of re
preaontatlves shall bo permitod to per
form Ihelr assigned duties or shall
sten iiMlde for rule of autocracy, Is
the teat in the nation.
"Omaha cannot excuse her conduct
by the reported explanation that pun
Inhment by the courta was entirely
Inadequate, an attempt at assault be
ing punlnhed by thirty days' Imprison
innl. If courts do not administer
Justice, the Judicial system should be
recant or the Incumbetita of Judicial
offices changed. If the governor of
a state, while head of the state mil
itia, must -appeal for federal aid In
quelling a local riot, then It would
seem that our long-cherished "states
rights' and our love of self-government
have been a delusion and a
snaro. If the nation inunt accept a
league of nations covenant exactly as
the mind of one man has dictated It,
then we may as well repeal that sec
tion of the constitution which requires
the advise and consent of the senate.
"The trouble with local officials
und with states, as also with the peo
ple of the nation, la a lack of self
reliance, a want of confidence in in
dividual Judgment, a disposition to do
tha easiest thing to follow the line of
least resistance. Kvery call upon
federal authority, every request for
federal assistance, every demand for
federal Interference In local or Btate
affairs, la an admission that local self
government Is to that extent a failure.
Kvery vote In congress against the
judgment of its member in order to
agree with the president is an admis
sion that a republican form of govern
ment is u failure and that autocracy
alone Is sound.
"Whether one or a dozen men In
Omaha shall be lynched, whether
there shall be reservations to one or
another section of the league cove
nant, are questions of serious import,
but they are relatively insignificant
compared with the larger and more
vital question whether local self-government
shall be forfeited to the war
department at Washington and wheth
er congress Khali subordinate Itself
to the executjve. These latter ques
tions Involve the very fundamental
of popular government. Omaha, and
every other city must learn to govern
Itself. Congress must, and will, dem
onstrate the ability und the courage
to formulate, express and enforce its
Judgment upon the welfare of the na
tion." K1 ww
CALIFORNIA PEOPLE BUY
BIG FARM
The Maklnaon farm on Camp creek
waa sold this week, through the agen
cy of John K. Edward, to the Davl
families, from Ited Bluff, California
The place consists of 377 acres, and
Is well Improved. Arthur, Walter and
Ira Davis, with their families, came
here from California a few weeks
since, and the father and mother of
the boys arrived Thursday. The new
owners of the ranch have taken pos
session.
SPRINGFIELD BOYS MAY GO TO
OXFORD
Randall Scott of this city, haa been
recommended by the University of
Oregon committee on Rhodes scholar
ship as a candidate for the 1919
scholarship In Oxford college. In Eng
land, and Wilbur JIulin has been re
commended for the 1920 scholarship.
Kerby Miller, of Medford, and James
H. Kheehy, of Portland, were the other
two students recommended for the
scholarships for the respective years.
These recommendations will have
to he passed upon by a state com
mittee, which will consider also can
dldates from other institutions of
higher learning. One candidate is to
lie named for the 1919 scholarship
and one for 1920. The scholarship
s wort $1500 a year for three years
at Oxford.
Scott and Sheehy are ex service
men. hcott was a member of the
lass of 1917 of the University. His
course was Interrupted by his enlint
ment In the ordnance department of
the army and he served In France.
Sheehy I a graduate of the University
with the class of 1919, who enlisted
In the aviation service, and spent sev
eral months at Mather field. MJller
spent a year of the war period ut the
United States military academy at
West Point. He is a member of the
present senior class, having returned
to college at the close of the war.
Hulin is a mem tier of the junior class.
LAST WARNING TO MOTORISTS
Last warning has been given to au-
tomobilists regarding the dimming of
their headlights at night, said Sheriff
Fred Stickels yesterday. Notwith
standing repeated cautioning in the
past, the sheriff says he has learned
that many motorists continue to vlo
lute the law in thla regard, a large
number of complaints having come in
lately.
The speed "cops" have been In
structed by the sheriff hereafter to
arrest any person failing to dim his
automobile lights when meeting other
cars at night.
Complaint has also come in, says
the sheriff, that many cars have only
one headlight. This is almost as dan
gerous to the occupants of the car
coming the other way as to allow the
lights to burn with a full glare, as the
other driver does not know which side
the single light is on and a collison
may result. Eugene Register.
THE TEST OF STfiffiGTH
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PRODUCE! PRODUCE!
(The Manufacturer
Many towns in Oregon and .Wash
ington owe their recent prosperity
to the development of the small fruit
industry. , -
This section is Ideal berry country.
No part of the west, not even Cal
ifornia, Is being more widely adver
tised than is this section by juice and
Jain producers in creating a market
for their goods.
The pioneers in the Industry
have more faith In the soil than the
owners or the land and they have
gone ahead and created a market for
the crops they could get, to prove that
it will pay to raise berries on a large
scale In the western parts of Oregon
and Washington.
Demand for the fruit products now
exceeds the supply of raw material,
and there Is every Indication that the
demand will increase faster than pro
duction can be maintained.
If we are to get the full benefit of
the small fruit industry, which has
now received a healthy start, we must
produce more raw material.
Thousands of additional acres of
loganberries; raspberries, strawber
ries, etc, are needed and they can
be sold on contracts for periods of
years at prices higher than were ever
thought possible a few years ago.
The beauty of the berry crop Is
that any nan or woman can get into
the business with little or no capital
and by work make him or herself
independent In the course of a few
years.
This seems like strong talk, and It
would have been five years ago; but
industry has now made it possible to
preserve our fruit crop in different
forms mid send it to the ends of the
earth. )
Thus a limited territory to produce
the berry crop is favored with a world
market.
Most of ns have failed to realize
this, but It is a fact.
We must produce more and more
berries to develop this industry
develop
which has put new life Into the coun
try and almost built towns overnight
To show what development of the
fruit industry means, the payroll? of
the Sumner and 1'uyallup canneries
lust month were $128,000, while in
Salem the big new Jam plant this
ear will use thirty tons of grapes.
for which there was never before a
market. That's what industry does.
Roseburg Review: Hon. O. P. Cos
how will leave in a few days on a
trip In behalf of the Masonic lodge
of Oregon which will take him to
Los Angeles and vicinity. Mr. Cos
how is a member of a board appointed
by the state lodge to investigate
some three institutions operated by
the order in southern California for
the care of charges and dependents
of the Masonic order. He plans to
go through the homes and will proba
bly make a report and suggest im
provements in their management or
conduct
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Additional Attractions Secured Elks'
Band to Give Concert and Dance
Big Tractor Demonstration Aero
plane Flights.
According to all present Indications,
the carnival to he held in Springfield
next week, beginning Monday and
closing Saturday night, will be a big
event.
Committees of the American Legion,
under the auspices of which order the
carnival is put on, have been busy
during the past week perfecting ar
rangements for attractions in addi
tion to those to be furnished by the
Brown Amusement Company.
The Elks' band, of Eugene, has been
secured for one evening during the .
week probably Tuesday. An open
air concert will be given, to be fol
lowed by a dance for which the entire
band will furnish music. ,
There will also be dancing at the
ravlllon every night if weather la
favorable, if not in one of the halls.
The tractor demonstration takes
place on Thursday, Friday and Satur
day. Six tractors will be here from
Eugene and give practical demonstra
tion of their work in the first field at
the end of the street-car line.
During the last three days of the
week the Eugene Aero Company's
flying machine will also be in Spring
field, doing stunt flights and carry
ing passengers. The flights will take
place from a field at the end of B
street, which the pilot of the plane
has inspected and found suitable for '
the purpose. ' ' . "
An aeroplane from Salem may alao
be here some time during the week.
The attractions to be furnished by
Brown's Amusement Company are as -follows:
"Over There" Amuskal Comedy
show;
"Hawaiian Village" With native
singers, dancers and musicians;
"Gordon's Wonderland Show" Con
sisting of mind-reading, magic, Steel
Skinned Man, and the Wonderful Red
Box Mystery;
"Jolly Eve" And her show of fat
girls, slim fellows, snakes and snake
charmers, and curiosities from all
parts of the universe;
"The California Cabaret";
"Slocum's Palace of Illusions"
Presenting the statue turning to life
and other features;
Athletic Show With boxers and
wrestlers; f .
Merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, etc.
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
Clatsop county dairymen raise milk
40 cts. per 100 lbs. October 1st
Portland gets new three-story build
ing at Fifteenth and Alder.
Pendleton gets 130,000 Union Oil
Company distributing station.
Antelope 34,000 sheep are being
shipped to winter range to save
flocks from starvation on short pas
tures caused by long drouth.
Astoria Evening Budget has been
sold to Pendleton newspaper men by
Gratke Bros. New owners are former
Portland Journal and East Oregonian
writers.
Portland and Oregon City are plan
ing new bridges across the Willamette
river.
Pendleton merchants have refused
demands of tmploye's union for
closed shop.
Portland tax levy this year is 38
mills, compared with 79.1 mills for
Seattle.
Northwest Electric Light and Pow
er Association In annual convention
adopts constructive program to save
utility properties from being Junked
by increased wages, cost of material
and operation. Will require from fifty
to one hundred millions new capital
to meet required extensions and re
building tracks and bridges. Are lar
gest buyers of lumber and largest em
ployers of labor In the state.
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