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FMBJG i 3 '4 ii' KiailTEKNTII YEAR, SPUING FIELD, LANE COUNTY, OREQON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1921. NUMBER 16. A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF,RELICS There In now on exhibition In the front window of Ketel's drug Morn a remarkable collf'dlon of .coins, war, war souvenir and ottier relics. It In mado up of aoveral parU, the collec tlons of (evrrtl persons, and these several collections have been placed there at different t!ms recently. Th contributor are W. II. Anderson Levi Neot, Ferrol Perkins, Winn If rod May and ohhII1x one or two others. These all wore In the land, air or sea service of the United State "over there," In the great war, and relict of the war are prominent helmets, gas hunks, the smallor pro jectiles and shells, a hand grenade, war medals etc. Mr, Anderson has a very large and varied collection of coins, representing many countries. Mr. Neet also has a good collection of coins. Doth have nj number of specimens of forlegn paper currency and other psper tokvens of war-time conditions. One aectlon of Mr. Anderson's ex litblt Is home grown, one feature of It being extracts from the noisy, but not dangerous end of several Kan sas rattlesnakes. DIXON THINKS BUSINESS OUTLOOK NOT ENCOURAGING The Eugene Register of Tuesday has an Interview with A. C. Dixon, manager of tie Booth-Kelly Lumber Company. He had Just returned from a trip through California and Arizona, and sums up business conditions In those states and In a general way. In; . I . - - . 1 Vt.1.1- ... Kin country ai targe, litis wnivuce m,.rh In feww word.: "Business ! Is voor in localities which depend on cotton cattle copper and linen as their source of wealth; fairly g0od j In ths dairying and vineyard sections; and even better than that in sections wrere diversified crop are raised." The gist of Mr. Dixon's summary, as It apeclally concerns the people of ' . "7 thl. reginn. is contained In th. Tsen.!?0 ,n,,he ""t dara,9 ! ... .v !to crP r old weather are as fol- tence: Mr. Dlxonasald that, there are no prospects for a reopening of the company'a mills In the near future, and he did not look for a return to normal business conditions In thM I .. h 1 1 1 1.1. t t m n a V r hiM V Mt ..uo . ... ,m, """' -v an an uniu next yeur. umro in in possibility of an Improvement at least until another crop Is tarvestcd. JAMES B. TAYLOR Was born In Laconla, Now Hamp stlre, March 2fl. 1829. He and his wife, Nancy Taylor who died many years an. were married In 1857. H. died Thursday evening, April 28. after, a sickness of only a day or so, of what may be d!escrlbed as Incipient pneu monia. After the death of his wife,) le made his home with his daughter Nellie; awl when she and her hus band, Mr. Nick Meier, came west, ho came with them, and It was at their homo that he died; so that, first and last his dlaughter was his companion the greater part of 1 Is llfo. Funeral services were conducted at the home .at 2 p. m. Saturday, bv Rev, H. C. Ethell, and the Interment was at Camp Creek oumetery, on Mr. Meier's farm. Mr. Taylor having lived In the neighborhood only about three year, and kept close to home, although strong for his age, re had not enjoyed n Intimate acquaintance with many of his neighbors; but a goodly com pany of them attended the services. He had lived to the ripe old age of 93 years, 1 month and 2 days. He had always been temperate In his habits. He leaves two daughters, Mrs, Nick , Meier and Mrs. Chas. Roebuck, of Troy, Now York; and two grand riauKUers, Mrs. Asa Peddlcard and Mrs. Clayton Perry, daughters of Mrs. Mnier. The grand-daughters and their husbuue'a were present at the funeral. There wns an uncommonly large at tendance at tho meeting of Lima County Pomona Grange, at the WUla knirle granite hall luat Saturday. Plans were dlHcusnod for entertaining tljfl annual sosHlon, of the .Oregon State Grunpo at Eugene, Muy 31 and June 1 and 2. No doubt Springfield people will bo abked to assist. HEAVENLY TOURIST NOT TO COME THIS WAY There have been rumors for several weeks that a comet was soon to come In range of the earth, perhaps come In contact with It, In Its periodical swing around the sun. One report stated that It lad a trailer, like one ! of the flock of comets that were ex- h'bltod In our sight In the course of a few years since 1907. Dut It seems now that It will not come In sight of Springfield. This Is what come of bulng a little off of the main line of Intei world travel. We have been thinking of suggest ing to the cr airman of the Chamber of Commerce to negotiate with the managers of this comet. If a comet la manageable, for a hail at Springfield. To provide a suitable landing place was the problem. The best we could think of was to have the head, as they call It, properly the body, rest on one of the buttes, and tre tail. If It was not too long, bang over the other. That it seemed to us, would give It a good boost on Its start for Its forward Journey say for Roseburg or Marshfleld, or wherever It was going next. Dut' then we do not know much about the navigation of comets. Perhaps that plan would not work. Hut then It does not natter now. The comet Is not coming In sight of us anyway. THREE TEACHERS ELECTED The school board, atj a, meeting last week, elected J. E. Torbet and 10. R. Mclntyre to do the work that ; Mr. Torbet has done tre past year. t r.. ., it . 1. s . ii as a . i r,n u wiu worn unit ume. ina eaco W,U tak "omo work ,n th university. Mr- Mclntyr Is principal of the high "chool at Kakef, Oregon. At the same! mw,tln . M,M Blna K- PUtt a. eiecieu 10 a graae position. miss ! Piatt Is now In school at Monmouth. - Private advices to the. Oregon Growers Cooperative Association from i lows: APPLES Aakansaa an Missouri almost totsl loss, wltl all fruits dam aged. New Jersey, severe damage. ' fll)y 60 per cent loss Michigan, hyavy loss. , . water system when work of building PEARS: Missouri crop heavy dam-( pipe line from Chapllsh Springs 500 age. New Jersey, 80 per cent lom.jfeet to an additional spring which is Michigan, 25 per cent loss. General being deve loped Is completed. damage to commercial crop. Roseburg. Higl way paving" work in CHERRIES: New Jersey. 95 per this vicinity started, cent loss. Michigan. 25 per cent loss. ,.orlIand.Mi,w taUe8 another drop New York. 75 per cent loss. New' H .h ,i .,. j England States. 75 per cent loss. Gen- ,0" of """"'ercta! crop through - uui niiuuio wunirru mifn. PEACHES: MIhscuH crop gone. New Jersey, New York and Atlantic soaboard. heavy loss to- commercial crop. Michigan, loss 85 'per cant. General loss In middle west. Roedsport. Local factory gets big order for 3000 doors. ' Dallas. Logging camps of WUla - mette Lumber Company at Black Rock resumes operations. '.'HWjlULVWCTBi, ScF-r " villi AwrfOL ' Y' 1.1.,,,,,,. lV I INDUSTRIAL REVIEW Wasco, Hood River, Lincoln and Curry counties will vote on $1,640,-! 000 road bond Issues at .the June 7, last week that Henry Vollstedt had election. s ' ,made application for United States Salem, carpenters lower scale of citizenship. Jle was spoken of as a wages from 17.60 , to $7.20. Slany dorman. The statement was true In carpenters working at $5 a day. State the main, but calls for some modlfl Job compelled to pay scale. Until cation. Mr. VolWedt's application very recently state work at Eugene was for second papers. His parents and Corvallis paid $8. rortland has $2,234,000 sewers and $834,000 atreet work contracted. , Cove. $20,000 to be spent on road to Union. , Albany to have two story brick building 25 by 100. Grants Pass. Doswell mine to In stall cyanide process. New Era. Clackamas county Po mona grange advocates $5 poll tax. Tlgard reports a building boom In town and auburban homes. Portland. 1,000 new homes are being planned and under construction. Albany launching a suburban paving program. Astoria has S conventions booked for 1921. Marion county sold 6.000,000 straw, berry and loganberry plants. Parts of Douglas and Lane counties to form new county. Mt. Angel to have a new weekly paper May 1. O. A. C. to lave a student union building as a war memorial. Eugene to have $100,000 wholesale drug house under new federal dry law rulings. Location of the north end pf The Dalles California highway between The Dalles and Madras has been made by the state highway commission. It will cost $1,500,000 of whlct about 100 miles will be new construction and hard construction at that Salem to put down $56,000 living in 1921. ftiailn nns organized and will build $16,745 union high school. Oregon-to get same air patrol as KYen last year. Salem. Local comnan make. ,Bm- Ajcal mpan; Urge shipment oprunes to Euaone. Lane county roa Germany. Eugene. -Lane county roads under- going improvements for summer travel. Pendleton. Local cleaning com pany to have new $12,000 plant. Pendleton. Millions of gallons of water dally to be added to city gravity A,bany.New buildlne for Second svtiuwu iir v vcuvb ar a unii !treet ,0 be but Boon Marshfleld. Construction of new hospital here to be started early in May, St. Helens.!- New Kelly building dedicated by school children. Geld Hill to have new bakery, work to begin about May 1. Silverton. Construction work on ' new post office to begin at once. Other 'new improvements for Silverton being planned. ON MOTHER'S DAY HAS A HARD TIME TO BECOME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN U was stated in the Eugene papers 1 were Danes. He was born just on the Holsteln side of the line separat- Ing the former duchies of Schleswlg and Holsteln. Dotb of ttese duchies were at the time of his birth, and bad been for a long time, under the Juris diction of Denmark; but tbey had a large mixture of German population, especially Holsteln. In 1864, Prussia and Austria Jointly Invaded the two ducblea with a large army, drove out the Danish army and compelled Denmark to cede Schles wlg and Holsteln to ttem. Holsteln, which lay next to Russia, was at Cached to It; and Schleswlg, . which lay farther north, was attached to Austria. In 1866, Prussia and Austria went to war, the disposition of Schles wlg being the chief cause. Prussia was victorious, and the two duchies were absorbed Into the Kingdom of Prussia. Mr. Vollstedt 'came to the United States in 1880. His father had come over many years before, and had al ready been naturalled. When Henry attained bis majority, te should have automatically, acquired United States citizenship, by reason of his fathers previous naturalization. But after his father's death, when his own citl zenshfp was called In question, he could not produce his father's nato. rallzatlon papers of conclusive evi dence of their exlstance; and te has never yet been able to secure erl dence. So finally, on the council of offi cials here, he decided to take a more .tedious and more distasteful course (but the only certain one and apply (for naturalization as a citizen from Prussia. - No automobiles have yet camped on the Springfield camp ground this season. The Eugene papers have re. ported a number of campers there. One auto party camped under a can vas shelter in a clump of trees near 'he West Springfield school housi Sunday. The season has not yet be come favorable for that kind of travel No doubt the obstruction caused by the work on the Pacific highway, es peclally to the south, and the lack of sufficient provision for detours' will greatly interfere with auto touring this spring. One of our local merchants claims to have received tie following reply from a customer to whom he sent a statement: "Dear sir; I got your letter about my account please be pachent I will pay you as soon as somebody pays me I alnt forgot you if this was Judgement day and you was no more prepared to meet your God than I am to pay your bill you would be sure to go to hell. Goodbye." BONDS IE VOTED SPRINGFIELD WILL HAVE A NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING . For - - - - 154 Against - 92 The school house bond campaign, which became somewtat strenous, but not bitter, towards the last, culminated in the election Wednes day afternoon. The meeting for public discussion Monday evening, covered perhaps a" narrower range than the expressions In the general school meeting which resulted in tie election call, and Srought out no new developements worth notelng. One of the most striking features of the campaign was a demonstration on Malnj atreet Tuesday arnoon by pupils of the high school and some f the Lincoln grades. Space for de tailed description is lacking. Two features are worthy of special note. One was the high sctool yell or chant uttered during tte evolutions on the atreet, beginning "We want a high school etc." The other was a cage of rough lattice work, representing the old . school bulldlnz. It was mounted on a wagon and packed tull of tigh school pupils; and above was carried a banner inscribed: "We have been in here thirty years, help ns out" Bond buyers are already besieging the board. J. N. SMITH Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Smltt. were called to Scio last Friday on account of the death of Mr. Smith's father, J. N. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mc- Lagan and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hoda don drove down Sunday to attend the funeral which was hqld that afternoon Mr. Smith made bis tome with bis daughter. Mrs. Bert Bilyeu, his wife having died 6 years ago.- He leaves four children; Mrs. Pylia .Bilyeu, of Scio; Mrs. Fannie Stahlman, of De-' trolt; L. W. Smith of Halfway, and lu. A. Smith of this city. Besides the above mentioned, Mr. Smith leaves 29 grand children, and 21 great grand ctlldren. over half of them being pre- rsent at the funeral. Ma. Smith would have been 86 years old next July. i At the regular meeting of the Clvlc (Club on Tuesday evening, May 10, at the city hall, Mrs. Ady of Eugene is i iu uo jjicocui ana epe&K 10 me ladies from ter knowledge and ex perience on civic and social work, j As this question is one every woman I is interested in, the club extends an invitation to the ladies of Springfield to meet her and enjoy an interesting evening. ONE GOOD HOUSE OUT OF TWO OLD ONES The Gott brothers, William and James, have bought from the McPher son estate the two houses on the wes side of 4th street, between A andB They are tearing down tie southern one, and expect to raise, repair and enlarging the one on the corner using the material from the discarded building. They are spading up all the 4th street front, and expect to seed it down with grass. They are In a fair way to convert an unsightly cor ner In tho heart of the city Into an attractive residence property. WiTH MOTHER Where are you going to spend Mother's Day? Whose leart does not grow a little softer with tender memories at the mention of mother? The day will be observed at the Chris, tian church with a combined service. The Sunday school will meet at the usual tour and immediately fol lowing a short program will be given and at the cIobo of the program our paster, S. Earl Childers. will deliver a Mother's Day. address. There will be special music J Ccrne. Christian Endeavor at 7 p. m. mul preaching at 8 o'clock. You are welcome to all Sunday and mid-week services. ; "