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About The Springfield news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1916-2006 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1926)
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS I'ubHaheri E very Ttiura?.«y at S pringfield, Lane County. Oregon. by T H E W IL L A M E T T E PRESS H. E. MAXEY. Editor. Watered a* One Year serons r l w . matter February JL postarne*. Stnaafield. Or*gon II. Tho second piece of wisdom and this only If you find your affi'ctlon Ir reaiallble. I* Io gel away from the scene. Propinquity I* tian'» roua and breuk* down the heat moi at resolves i Move elMewhore, If lioceeasry Work out your own future, get n broader view of thing* and make your slogan it the fiiiuro ''married men must work out ihc'r on probit ar ‘nothing but bachelors ami widower* for m e'' “SEEING R E IV Several weeks ago Mrs. Frances Drake Nesbitt, a young college graduate, was m urdered In her home in a little Ohio town. Only the other day her husband, also a young the college graduate, confessed he kill.nl her. IN S at Single Copy THl RSDAY. APRIL t. IMS. Editorial Program Maka SpHngfleld tbe In d M trla l Canfer • * W a * ter-n Oregen. His attorneys are using the statem ent that young Nesbitt "saw red" in an effort to keep him •lo u t Of the electric chair. “Tem porary insanity • superinduced by blinding rage." will be the de- • fense. A IL Oevelop a Strong Tradln g P e in t; Buttd a CRy ef Contentad Hornea. IIL Im prova U v ln g Condltiona o * » • Farm . Pe», moto the Ra.alag o» Purefered Uvootocfc a*d tha Orowlng « f F ru lg W * r * tor Setter M arkota IV . T a ll th« W orld Aboat OrogonV Seon.c W a*d o r- “Seeing red" always gets people into trouble. "Seeing red" kills and maims hum ans, shatters homes, wrecks reputations, breaks love ties, ends in the penitentiary or the hospitals for Insane or in the grave. Anger run wild never helps anyone or anything. Young Nesbitt was known as a pleasant fellow, i always calm In demeanor, never quarrelsom e or vicious. But he “saw red" once— only once—and adm its he is ready to pay for It In the choir. SUPPORT THE GUARD COMPANY. A headquarters’ company of the National Guard of Oregon Is being installed in Springfield. This is a worthy and patriotic undertaking and should have the support of all the citizens. Young men should be encouraged to join and commend ed after they do join. Why should anyone ever "see red"? Why should men and women permit them selves to be come victims of fits of "blinding rage"? Bvwrybody hsa early ambitions to be something or somebody when they grow up, but they seldom realise those ambitiona. H o w « r , Harold Lloyd la an exception to the rule for this comic fellow of the screen wanted to bo an actor and w all say he became one too» „o, 6 „ n ew S e rn e ry . ■nacvC Ttwieay !»> A Good Bchtxil A. ■. ILAxa-fn. Prnafclnnt kbnoe tMti Ihigcii<\ O tg o n Confidence By Flo Western Industrial Center VOTE FOR TH E BRIDGE, O reg o n Eugene Business College • • • »uOl P ra ia * Secretarial, Stenographic or Book keeping Course 9D2 WIOaznaMB ftt. Serenity of tem per is som ething not everyone can enjoy. No one m n rem ain Immobile, unper-I turbed. every moment. But we think everyone can go through life and life’s ups and downs This country is com m itted to the policy of a without "sw ing red”—even once—If only they 11 Small standing army. Necessarily for protection rem em ber that nine out of every ten who see D an gerou s G round. red” regret It too late. • • • we should have a well organized National Guard. Peer Mies Wo:—I am e girl of ; twenty-four, living at home with my We have had w ars in every generation since the E d ito r ia l C om m ent ! parents In a small but fairly progres World began. The dem ocratic and peace loving ' »Ire suburban town, t have a problem ¡which I cannot answer for myself, United States has suffered in every one of the The Manufacturer and Industrial News Bureau. and I hope In you to find some con w ars because her men were not trained and she crete suggestion for my difficulty I Jias been forced into some of these w ars by n a am very much In love with a man who tions who knew her men were not trained and be On a New Railroad in Oregon Offers Free S ites for Is married and has two children. He also cares for me. and wants to gel lieved that a victory would be easily won. Manufacturing Hants. While we all love peace we are more likely to have it if we are prepared to fight. The youth of the country which has come up since the war Should be trained in elem entary tactics. It is an educational instruction equal to some received in school, even if it is never used in actual warfare. A carload of Ford automobile* was unloatlixl here Ulla «0«k hyp Ih- Dan- nor Motor company local Foni deal- ere. 1 1 " — - » Scenery on the M- Kenai« flyer highway and elsewhere In thl-i d'«lrlt»t •i>iw|,nr»-s favorably wHfi anythin' teen on ritelr re» nl trip through Cal ■ ■ —. I Ifornla, In Ute opinion of Mrs. Hti-llln- Shipping News. ter and Mr* Owen*, residents of Tor ■ .... — - onto. Canada, who are stalling here i The Carbollnenni Wo»nt Prenervlng with Ihelr brother, William lh>"al<l company loaded out a triple carload non of Irealed poles for use In New llump Accompanied by Mr Donal 1»on. «hire this week. , they made a trip to Belknap springs Two carloads of corn were recelv- Tuesday and had much praise for Ore oil from the middle west by the Spring son scenery as a result of the visit field Mill and Grain comany Monday, there. Oh, I know I shouldn't have killed her,” he, 1 cried to detectives who had grilled him for five tt* hour*. “But I just saw red when she slapped me. - *• Everything went red before my eyes.” M A IL S U B S C R IP T IO N R A T E In Advance------<1 75 T hree M entha •tx .M on th s »1.0» L T hursday . A rm i, i, i T ir a spring field news pAOK TWO a divorce and marry me My quandary Prompted by a desire to promote the industrial develop Is— what »hull t do about It? In alt Justice to his *lfe, 1 must admit that ment and prosperity of that district, the cUy of Spring he hasn't an excuse In the world for field, Lane county, Oregon, has decided to offer to any a divorce. Hie wife Is a charming wo person or corporation free Industrial sites Ideally situated man and aD |dea| W|fe, j prvsume she for the location of manufacturing plant* of any kind. understand* hb> soul perfect y and In • justice to him. be Isn't posing as a To thia end. the city ftaa acquired S60 acres of land, misunderstood husband Please ad Dilemma. situated on the Natron cu toff, the Southern Pacific's new T|,e me Into the life of every girl there main line railroad through Oregon This tract Is In every way advantageous as the site for Industrial plant* Con- come« the nwrrled man who succeeds s derable interest I. being shown in Springfield's unusual in convincing h er. that be should AH th a t will prevent building bridge across the W illamette river a t this tim e , o f f - . » < been warned .bout will be the failure of the people to vote their share !ustrla 1 listening to the married man s plea, but when he appears he seems to hold Of the money—and th at is unlikely. T here is no lurf certain n sparkle for her which no doubt but th at the bridge is needed and if all the These prospects are enhanced by Springfield's favorable j a cerla spar ever held—a fascln- people living in Lane county who use the old location It is Situated three miles from# E“^ “ e ’i_at_ I t ' o n ' ih a"^ "» ,- b",d-n fru,t ~ n bridge will vote for a new one the money will be termination of the Natron cu -orr n . f . . 'possibly — •• ■^OBHlniy have nare. raised by a big m ajority. The McKenzie highway j j £ eburn brancfl Wlth thl. op..nlng of the Natron line If you're « wire, you'll do anything , can never be stronger than its weakest link. No ,n July ,,f lhlg year. 8prin ,f.eld becom e, the first c i t y * « e»rth to get yourw lf One wants th at link to be a t Springfield, the gate in Western Oregon on the railroad connecting Eastern! _ u__ _____ when he was s bachelor., way to the s ta te ’s fam ous road. and Western Oregon through the Cascade mountains Tho ~ ....... make up your mind to do without him. DEPAR TM EN T »42 Willamette 8t., Eugene, Oregon Call for Easter Coats In Junior Mia* 5 ix m W e’re ready and ttai''f»k to show you the*e t »«. * r t little Coats designed for the s m a l l woman and the miss. In new mixtures and t w ill* Y o u th fu l! Alive with style 1 Tailored and flaring modes. The favorite colors of Spring I Priced, 14.75 >• $24.75 You can run away from tim ptatlon If The State Highway commission has designed chyg rafroad facilities ar un ,,, I you wsn' to. » fine bridge—one sim iliar to the one constructed Hardly had Sprlngfl'ld acquired title to the 250-acr at Albany—and is willing to pay the s ta te ’s share tract a short lime ago when plans w -re Immediately de The very fact that you are In a of the cost of the structure. It is now up to us veloped for offering It absolutely free to promoters of nuandry Indicates that even In the' to vote our share—just as soon as the Public legitim ate Industrial projects caring to locate there. Sit- f*»e of your great love for this man Service commission determ ines what our part is. - zv'.inn of the property was put In the hands of an in yon have a *»-ns<- of Justice >hnt otiH make your road anything but dustrial and park committee, while various civic organl- , -I..- - - . were you to follow (he die zatloEg are cooperating in giving the offer puhlclty I )if youf hr.nrt an.) |p, h ’m get HOME SWEET HOME. a divorce and marry you You are fit! The industrial tract Is all in one body, lying adjacent to . nwar) nf (tw, faP, that „ |gn>t the “Home Sweet Home,” as a melody, is still 1th cily limits within easy access of the city's sewer a id fh|n)? You tha, h. known to every man and woman in the country, water facllit es. It Is level and well drained. Through It hasn't an excuse In th - world to cast but it represents today merely some lovely music runs the Booth Kelly Lumber company's sawmll race, as off his wife and children—how then Set around some empty words. suring an abundant supply of water, while nearby Is rhe yo(| pOf, .¡h)y jm tlfy his nct'on Mountain States Power company's central plant for the hp (0 do gB, Even the song our m others and fathers almost Were you a younger girl Infatuat'd looked on a- a hymn is ' jazzed" to m ake rhythm W illamette valley, and the treminal of the Oregon-Calif for frivolous feet, is desecrated at thousands o i | ° r n , B I’ow‘ r company's electric h gh line. Little more 1th a married m in. '.lie nn’ wcr could ' dances th a t make "Home Sweet Hom?” a m ock ould be wished from the standpoint of water and power b„ ypry „„„n , «tat-d—"foolish «vlrl. supply. ’ you have yet to cut your mTk teeth " ery. But you are achieving tbp more ma There is distressingly little respect for the fath Plants for the manufacture of lumber products would titre y<sr* of grown womnnhood. and er or th? m other where there is distressingly little ■be especially well suited to Springfield Half of Lane coun- the respons cannot be the same. realization on their part of the sweet responsibili ty's 60.000.000 feet of standing timber Is adjacent to the There Is but little use to p o l r t n t|l city Among typ * of manufacturles which this wealth of to you the fact that the man who so ties of parenthood. resource Invite* are sash an I door factories, paper mills. I carelessly throws off the responslhif It is a condition th at is dangerous, a condition -aw mlllB, planing mills and »Imlfar plants. i It'«« of a father and btishnnd w lthiut | th at m ust be remedied, even though it should i ♦h<* prnvnroHon nthnr tbnn n mean a t'7 al revolution of our existing religious and school teaching. Rich farming, da rylng and fruit, lands lie around Spring- new fancy mtcht continue to do field, offering opportunity for another phase of m anufac-, were hp married to you- that t.i turing activity. A fruit cannery, cheese factory. Ice fa- lory nhltrndcrer in or n»t'o enn o’ could be located on the free site* egreeted to change hl* metho 1* The home m ust be saved, but the country must first he aroused to an appreciation of the fact an' two m" r p!an” th a t home life is not only ¿triouaiy'm enacH l 'and wl,h ''v, ry a'iV!'n'u!r‘ Tf” ,oc8tlon " reran’B th' 11r",!’ in a very m .heal'hy state, but in, actually, in an ron'’' wouW n,"k" p, H’' b,‘ th,i u‘* of " *raln ml" tnr ? 1 ? almost moribund condition, not If but : '' l ; , ', rn Wartdagtea, Idaho and OrefW ,h dren vou m ^ r L e of b t. . , f e *f,d chit I' no f rrpre .. .. ___ wor'hv th • name through the inroads of all these ultra-m odern en- sraln' and then l,hlfi’laK 11 ®lther nor,h or s0"th wllliouti !trnn 'b*n the m sm r'-n’ s e m i ’ or tin croachm ents th at have had such destructive in- KO|I”! a mHe out of thP way «ernnntou* nhltsnderer. Are you *nr flttences. ; i*lrte - , Springf eld people point w'th pride to a number of pros J to«* S ttr-h than h e—e n von perous concerns a* ample proof of the city's advantages vonr°e|f a rr-et nr'd'- tr, —our own | a* a manufacturing point. Here are the large lumber < y If von detlhew.telv trike from ANOTHER CASCADE ROAD. mill* of the Hoot!: Kelly Lunib r company, the plant of m oth er women her htiRhand—tier T he Statu IIighway commit ion and Linn coun- th<- spriugf-e d Mill and Grain company, tho springfleW , '’I ,,'I’’rn lo tta r ’ ty have reached an agreem ent to complete the Lumber company mill, the expanded factory of tin C«a-I ‘' n'' certlnly It reflects no great S e n t .aril road over th e Cascade m ountains to S is - ' cade Manufacturing company, and thp Carbollneuni Wood «redit on a glK who claim* a fa'r edu- ters. in time we will have another soenic high- Preserving company. Recent expan*lon of «ever«) of cation and ndvar, age* to e In « p i V fp-- ber m*te * m ie sir* id* way across th p m ountains. The beauties of the these plan'* give* «vldence of prosperity. married. It soeak* volume* for her Clear lake region on this new highway should a ttra c t m any tourists. There will he plenty of The city I* the center of a prosperous lndu*tri*l and leek of sttm etlon to the opposite sex travel in the future for both this and the McKen agricultural community. It ha* two bank*, a newspaper, a ft,,,» «hA *>««1 pick out s men alresdv attached, who. helng married, would zie highway. live chamber of commerce and other civic bodies, business u -tn -n tl- **t he so bard to p|e*«e ss houses r e c o u n tin ' all lines, and street car conne.tlonv ,)nm(, rr,p4 man who h ss no dlffl- with Eugene. I c-ittv In finding pleasant companion- Next week is cleanup week. It is not too early now to drag out all the rubbish in the back yard The Industrial and park committee la anxious to get in | *h,n- and basem ent so th a t the wagons can carry It touch with promoters of legitim ate Industrial projects. Wtv dear, there are hnt fwo thlnr« to the dump grounds. L et’s m ake our oity beau- .T hose desiring further Information regarding the offer ■ for von to do The first Is to tell this tiful and healthful. We will all feel better about of free sit * should address the committee, of which H. E man w,’,'r'‘,n I” " <1n,y h,w "ni1 it a fter the job is done. .Maxey Is Chairman and II, F. Clarke Is secretary. children lles-* ln o * he fslls »o see OVER THE HILL! Those three little words above can menn much —either u tter despair of a broken mid fruit I i - hh life or the sublime happiness of a well regulated existence. Young fathers and m others of Springfield which shall It be? Pit lured above Is happiness. It shows loving contem pla tion of life In years to come. It shows their own home, over the hill hut in a shady nook, where they will live out n full life of peace mid plenty. The oilier kind of home “over the hill” brings melancholy thoughts sad words. At this season of home-building we feel it our public duty to Impress upon the young folks of Springfield the wisdom of thrift. The only way to a home of your own is though tho leaves of a savings account book. Come In. Let’s talk It over. Perm it us to explain how mon-, ey should be working for you at Commercial State Bank Spriogfleld, Orogon