THK SPUIXGI'MIOU") N12WS Tllimsl)AY, JANUAUV 1, 1020. Country "Town Champion fill - ML.' A " ' mtjf '- l - "SSl Senator A. A. Jones of Now Mexico. Is championing the country-town newspaper reader In the print paper bill he Is fostering, which would limit the number or pages big city dailies might use The print paper shortage is due to the big publishers having hopped the market, buying up all supplies possible as a result of their great resources. It Is pointed out th.it 2(Oi) to 5000 rural publications In the Cnlted States face suspen sion If not extinction, unless the present shortage is relieved. ion on new $1,000,000 American Can company building. Antorla Portland to Seaside auto bus line Incorporated. Eocene 1.500.000 pounds vt apples used her making cider. Salem Gasoline and distillate tax for November $29,117. The Dalles Contract let for one half mile paved highway. Astoria seeking site for a sulphite paper null. Pendleton After four month's busl- ! ness. resources of Kmpire National J bank total more than $1,000,000. W arrenton Pottery company buys clay company building and grounds. New burp Valley canning company to enlarge Its plant. Vale New state bank to be located here. Albany $t:.o received for S month Short Horn calf. Orlnco has new furniture manufac turing plant. Salem New cannery planned here by Puyallup & Sumner company of Washington. .Baker Car shortage forces mill to close. Will affect '200 employes. Hoseburp Association to be formed to build npartment house and dwell ings. Corvnllis plans new $100,000 post office. Pendleton Contract to be lot for $200,000 for county roads. Construction of Columbia River 1 biehway going on from Hood TUver to Pendleton. Thurston Notes lily Special t'oi ri" i'ondi'iit. I THE TRUTH WILL SELL INDUSTRIAL REVIEW December 29. Cottage Grove Floor spare and machinery throughout local cannery to be doubled. Klamath Falls Kwauna Hox com pany adds 21 acres to mill site. To have an electric band saw. Ashland Iron works has contract to build 100 farm tractors and cultiva tors for Seattle firm. Machines to do all kinds of farm work. Silverton Trihune has a beautiful Christmas industrial issue. Salem Twenty-five warehouses to store onions, potatoes and celery will he constructed on Lake Labish tracts. f: 'lifi"ld New veneer fac tory re-J cently established using 200 horse power motor. Salem factory gets New York order for 6" carloads apple cider. Portland Construction to start "The kind of ad you put Into one of these really good country weeklies hasn't anything much to do with it." writes M. D. Morgan, editor Harris burg Bulletin and Commonwealth, in reporting the result of farm produce .advertising. "If it is timely, plainly worded and tells the truth. It will bring the results." What many oth er editors have found out about it will be related at the country life conference. Farmers' week, tomor row, January 2. The newspapermen have been invited to attend the con ference and Join in the marketing discussions THURSTON HIGH SCHOOL The Literary society did not meet H'ceuibcr 22 on account ot the snow. The next meeting will be the firt Monday after vacation. Miss Theluut Hlanlon. a member of the freshman tl.iss. speiil the Christ mas holidays with her parents, Mr. aud Mrs. It. C. Itlautou at It rooks, Ore. Miss Itlautou is a niece of Mtb. William Keuiiie of Thurston John Taylor, a member ol the sen ior class, spent (lie Christmas hull days in Itted. Ore. Miss I .aura Mitiliell is iMting with friends in Whiles. Wash., for about two weeks The program gicn by the high school and the grades Tuesday. )e. 23. was a success. After the program 1ho presents were distributed and the rest of the evening was spent in each one trying to find out what the other had got anil in dancing. Thurston Personals. Lee 1 la vis and family had as their guests over the Christmas holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank lais of Salem (Frank Mavis is will known hern, hav I Ing made his home here until about I five years ago. i Curtis Price, a student of (. A. C. ls spending the holidays with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Price. Miss Maea ml Iteulah llarhett are spending the holidays visiting with their parents. Mr ami Mrs J. T. liar be it. Stanley Cray has completed his I new home and moved ill last week. It's Like Finding Money" says the Good Judge When you take a little chew of this real quality tobacco, and the Hood tobacco taste begins to come. You'll find it keeps com' ing, too. The rich to bacco taste lasts und lasts. You don't have to take a fresh chew so often. Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that. Put Up In Two Styles RIGHT CUT is u short-cut tobacco VV-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco C i,.it V... . i I Only A Little Burg OUTSIDE OF THAT, HE'S ALL RIGHT Man comes into the his own consent and b-aw his will. Muring hi xt.iv i tld without s it against 'ti earth his ! The annual report of the secretary . of the Oregon state fair hoard shows that there is a surplus of $240! 71 after liquidating all indebtedness. time Is spent iii one niitinu.il round of contraries ami in i-un.h r-1 a ml ings by his fellow le-iiii:-, in Ins infancy lie is an angel. ., j,,, ,v IIIIM he is a devil; in Ins niamihooil he Is every thing from a liard up; in his dutic-t he ts n fool; if he i.iimk ., f-imily he Is a (hump: if he nc-es a Ii-m k he i . a thief, and then the l.i v rinses Cam! with him: if he i, a poor man lie is a bad manager ami h;is no sen.e; if he is rich he 1- dishonest, but con sidered smart. ( hi i- in polities you AND THE DRUM. h-m h M'lther: 'Shall we have nur daugh ter 'ake up the piano or the violin?" Father: "Neither. If she must plav something, let it be some wind instru ment, so she can't play and sing at the same time." it ho III i' : can't pla iable C'ieM Is n hvpoi I ! church li to foreign in --,o:o ! show ; if lie ioo. p., i . a tightwad; wIk n h" f r ;t i on.c the world cervb'nlv wants to ii. an undosr 'o i h ii 1 1 h he :- .i wa v from if ho donates dm s ;! for is stingy and in'o kiss Pre- nventorv Sale Doys' and Youths' Overcoats One-half Price 1 lot Men's and Hoys' Kenreign Raincoats . .One-half Price All Children's Winter Coats One-half Price 1 lot Ladies' Winter Coats One-half Price 1 lot Ladies' Winter Coats One-third Off Uroken line of Ladies' and Misses Sweaters One-half Price 1 lot of Ladies' and Misses' Shoes, worth $7.50. . -$3.98 GROCERY SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Sea Foam Washing Powder 20 C G cans Sweet Corn 85 C C cans Standard Tomatoes 85 C . lb. Tree Tea 30 C 1 lb. Tree Tea 55C 9 lb. sack Com Meal 50 C 1 box Fancy Apples $1.00 3 large packages Macaroni Spaghetti and Noodles.. 25 C Oranges that you can eat, 3 dozen for $1.00 Get Our Prices We carry Everything and can Sell for Less Cox b Cox Springfield, Oregon f ' him; before he fo. s i, :t thi-v all want to kick him: if he dies young there was always a treat futuie before him; it he lives 'o a ripe old age he is ill the wav and lixit.g 'o save funeral expenses. This l:!'e i- a funny road. but we all like to travel it. Ju-t the same. Kx( ha nrc POOR ' FARM SELLS PRODUCTS A report given out lo. Superintend ent lien F. Ku s.-f 1 1 of the county poor farm, shows that the expeii.-es for $:'.U2 ti.". ami that the past year w the. farm sold I'M; worth of products which hail been raised on the place, hrinirifil.' the net cost of the Upkeep of the f irm down to $l!Sfit;.::0 for the year. On iJecember !.", 1!MS. there were at the farm lit men and four women. Twelve were received during the year, me was sent to the insane. a: lum, two were sent to the hospital, one died and 1?. were dismissed, leaving : IS at the home on Ix-cr-mber la, lltllt. i An Inventory of trie property on , the place tihows that there are three horses, seven cows, one bull, three j rf-alvcs, 10 hops and 17" chickens. The i fat in produced this year la tons of j hay, 1,0 bushels of wheat, Ii00 bush-1 els of oats. '.'.) bushels of barley, 7fi bushela of corn, 1 ' Ions of ensilage. 100 bushels of potatoes, lf( boxes of j apples, 1000 quails of canned fruit and there are vepetables on band suf ficient for the i-otiiiiii' year. There Is also a wapon, a binder, a mower, a hay rake, a ridinp cultiva tor, a rornipated roller, a harrow, a disc, a praln drill arid miscellaneous garden IooIh on the place. (t'ottiiKe Drove Sentinel ) "oh. I want to Ret out of this little burp, where folka talk about you ev ery time you turn around I wunt to po to a place hip enouph ho that I can do what I please when I please and not have all the tielphborM saylnp that I am poiiiR to hell or perdition. I want to po where there Is life ami somethiiip dolnp all the time. I'm ' I iied of being stuck a way in this I hole where there's unlhitip dolnp and a fellow has no chunce to be any jtlilnp I puess I'm hip enouph. and I old enouph. and know enouph to care j for myself. I'll say so. anyway." These are almost the enact words of a Cott.ipe tJrove lad 111 his early teens, that iiilolem-ent ape when many boys and girls pet the Idea that thev have reached that period in life when parental restraint should be swept aside, when they should Slid ilciily blossom forth to fullprown manhood and womanhood, sally forth to da.zle an astonished world with the irresistible forte of their Renins land brinp fame to the little hurp which once was their home but from I w hose narrow confines they fled that !thev mtpht fulfill the destiny whuh I they felt that they were detined to fulfill. Why should another flower "blu-h unseen and waste I's sweet li'-.ss on the desert air?" Most all of us have heard some youngster (for goodness' sake don't let the "kid" hear you call him that name l make some similar remark. We have merely smiled - If the youngster was someone else's -and thought of the awakening to come within a few yea is'. I'dliats they are rrtiT enouph. and hip enouph, and know enough to care for themselves, hut It tisualy is the ( use that those who brag about, be ing able to care for themselves are the ones who need the most restrain ing. Those who do not fret at the re straints of a little burp and at the whims of "olij fashioned parents." those who are not finding fault be cause they can't po to a show every other night or to u dunce once or twice a week, are not necessarily en tirely devoid of umbitlon and pep. That kind of a ill .o-otioii may lie found to be the more solid founda tion upon which to build instles In the air Certain it is that parents nte not poiug to woriy much about boys and pills with that kind of a dispo sltlon. Among us who haw- now rem tied that time of life when we like to feel that we are competent to Instruct and guide the young, are many who In their own younger cars talked like some of the young folks of today talk, who wanted to pet out into the big i Id and see and do things, who didn't want (if be stink away In a lit tle buig where there was nothing going on ami nowhere to ro While those who have gone through the experience ran III pa I hl.e with those who chafe at the confines and rest i n t ioiim Of a "little burg," yet they can assure Ihe yoiilip people of todav that they have In that "little burg" nearlv all the things and nearly all the (ipportiinlticN whlih the young folks of a couple decades ago thought they had to Ro to the big i tly to get Young folks of today have pleasures ami opportunities matiyfold greater than thie-e whwh weie presented to the folks of y. Mi i.ar hi the "little burg" today are all the tblng-t that l font itiiied on I'agi I bur earning power when it rains is made sure by REFLEX SLICKER Look for tht Ktfltx g AJ.TovriBCa litbUthd I81 1 Bolton. Mm. 11 NEGRO DIES AT ACE OF 128 A negro who, It Is said, hud Kcrved one family as slave anil freed man through six generations In West Vir ginia, died last Friday, Dec. 20, at Mtllo Hocking, Ohio, at Ihe ape of 128 years. New Year Greetings L. C. HELMER Shoe Shop WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING: Gloves, Mittens, Artie Socks, Urging Shoes, Shoe Greases, Shoe Oils and General Shoe Shop Supplies. We also have a complete new stock of Rubber Goods.