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P o tter Here — E. E. P o tter i f W ultet vllle wii -> a SprliiKfb Id visitor hoiliiiM la III nt li r y tn lrd u ). . TOW N AND V IC IN IT Y 1« III -A lim R|»rIiiK Mi*l<I lio lu r . Mrs. McKinnon B etter— Mm. I» W. Mathew* In—A II Mnlll*'Wn, of McKinnon U recovering from I k t re Timrntiin aiih n vlwitnr In r« y*»*trr- cent rerloiiH Him MN, und In now u h l, to be ntx»u(. tlu> W a t t e r v ll le M e n H e r e — < ’liurb-a J* Hou r G t h P .i ln t — J o h n lx • to ln II«». jllMt ( ’ !«•(• «1 H l l llt l n n I I I * H<«('<>H*I eti of W altervllle spent a i>urt of Wviln* ml ay In Sprltigheld. nln «’( | . «tili'iK «» In From Creek—C harlee Hayden of From P ortlnnd— Mr« It v Whit»» <»f ( ’am p (’reek wan a vlnltor here yenter- I’orthm ' vlHiti il ut th W A hum . day I h " t I kiii I i « th h wr» K Stafford Here on Business— Prank New Roof Oo \ IK w roof IlMM Ih .1 Stafford of Ikiiyia traim acted bnalne > ph.« • i| on t ii* John W lnxonrrld r»wb I in Sprlngtlfld yesterday. it< n< «* ut Set olid and II Cords O ut—Report carda were <114 In From T hurston-— Mi utid Mr* -I Itrlbuted to S prlngtlild High Behind A Howl« w«»r« In (won Tui'iolny font» Intudentn yesterday. O rade puplln re Thurnton ceived th eir card s Monday. Th'* H«r« from Coquille— Mr». Miv honor roll for the Aral nix weeks of W micxoih r and non, K«-nn**tli, Ape nt nchnol will l><* annotinced noon th« week «*nd her« vleltlnic with her Visit Dr. P hetteplace— Mr and Mm. m other. Mm Adu M<-I'hernon. ' E K. fxiney and Mr. and Mrs Henry S tu art Is III—J K S tuart 1» con Leaf of Marnhlleld were week end flm»<l to bin home RUfl'-rlnK with In ' visitors at the» raalreniw of Hr and They att»*n I- fe< (ion of the face The Infection *i Mm Paul Ph«’ttep lace the r« null of uniiuonln hurnlnic, a« - '•*d tli« S tanford Oregon football game In Eugene Saturday cording to Ktuart'it phyiU Inn. Every Forward Looking Citizen Should Fight for Oregon and Its Development By B ill C K DENNIS. Author of lh< Deiinl, It* olu’lon W ln 'ii Un* people of Oregon »•»!;• • »< (1 ti state Income t u x lit 1923 they did so b'cause t h e y b e lie v e d It w a i JtiHt und rig h t, They believed It would reduce taxes. \t (hut li m e they had plenty o f theory und fe« fnett to guide them. T hey repealed the law In 192-1 be- uttiHe It was u proved hard »line* breech'r. Il coal t,n ‘ people o f Oregon the Htuggerlng to ta l of * |B,<)(HI.«tlfl to learn I b ill economic condition» abso lutely beyond th e ir c ontrol tire such in Oregon th iit a stale Income lax > drives out Industrie)«, keeps others from com ing tn, reduce» payrolls, makes It harder to obtain farm loan», and »trike» at every home in country, village, tow n and city. ? • • • lin t ottr »late 1» again in tu rm o il because a determ ined effort 1» being made to force p ra c tb a lly th is same law upon the »late this year. O ttr people are being asked io Ignore plain fundainentul economic facts. They are being naked to enact a law on a "gues»" th a t it w ill bring good tim es now, when painstaking, honest Investigation proved that the fo rm e r tax did drive out Induatriea, capital*. Jobs, and m illions o f taxable wealth fro m Oregon, and a new slate Income la x w ill do it again. • • • Oregon is fu ll o f m eritorious projects that should he developed Illg public Im provem ents are necessary to open up o u r state, to bring the farm s closer to th e ir m arkets ami cities closer to th e ir bases o supplies. W ealth untold lies Idle In n a tu ra l resources a w a iting th«- magic touch o f development capital to bring it to the tax rolls, to create new payrolls, new a ctivities and better livelihood fo r our people. • • • Since the last Income tax law was repealed m illions o f dollars have been loaned In Oregon by outside llnan- clttl concerns, at low rates, on long tim e, and w ith re payment privileges never know n to Oregon before. If a new income tux law is enacted, and this d iscrim in a tio n aimed d ire c tly nt th« se investors, rates w ill go up. much o f the unloaned funds w ill be w ithdraw n, and our people w ill again face the Inescapable fa c t Oregon needs capital, but capital «Iocs not need Oregon. • • • T his Is no tim e fo r prattle. It is high tim e fo r plain speaking, stra ig h t th in k in g and recognition o f the hard economic fact that Oregon's farm s, her in d u s tries, and her citizens d«*sperately need capital, and that the only place we can get it is from outside the state. t • • • • • We can drive cftpltal out, hul we cannot force it to come in unless we make it advantageous fo r it to do so. Oregon, ninth slate in area, is re la tiv e ly in s ig n ifi cant econom ically. 119.000,000 o f Am erica's 120,000.- 000 |M'ople reside outside of Oregon. Let us rem em ber the in d u stria l c ity of D etroit has over 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 more people than the state o f Oregon, w ith its 90,000 square miles, l / ' t us rem einfter that 782,250 people here didn't m ake enought to file income tax returns, and that only 311 people in the entire state had earnings In excess o f $10,000; that of Oregon's 5000 corporations only 1073 mad«* enough profit Io file taxable reports, that 478 made less than $5.000 and only 183 over $20,000. Including all public u tllltle a . lum ber m ills, flo u r m ills. factories, railroads, and o ther industries. • • • We have 55,157 Janus, one to every 15 persons 2500 industries, one to earth 330 persons. What would one Industrial center like D etroit mean to our farm s, our home owners, our w orkers, o u r state? Oregon w ants them , Oregon w ants capital ami w ants to go ahead Oregon w ants to avert economic disaster, and Instead w ants to offer capital, new people, new Indus try . o p p o rtu n ity to help us grow. , , , That I h what the Dennis Resolution is for. It g u a r antees th a t no state income tax can he enacted to dis- c rim in a te against development and progress before 1940. It guarnntees to every Oregon fa m ily flin t the state w ill not la x its accuinulnlons when the bread w inner «lies. As a prosperity m aking measure Is de serves the support o f every forw ard looking citizen. • • e Vote 306 X* YES— Dennis Resolution. Vote 329 X NO —-Offset Income Tax B ill Vote 335 X NO — Grange Income Tax B ill Paid Ailvertlaenient G reater Oregon A khu . M f Irn H. Rurgnrri W S Ilnbaon ) O regon Bldg., Portland, Oregon. Th« «»»«asment roll for Union entity this year i.i 218,859,410, an In- •r ,«•• of 2494,440 m e r 1925. All live. IP k, with the exception of a h .",'. thov/M a decre«»e. The acreage of llltil.!' Ian.I 1» more thia year and In,her land < orreapondlngly less. Brief Resume of Happenings of A truck load limit of 16.500 pounds tn le rta tn M il" lo u n ty highway» h a the Week Collected for e en »"t, according to orders received Our Readers. 'roio the stain highway commlMton, rite order nppllea to th e McKenzie A cam paign f° r •«•curing » county ili'hway, the W illam ette valley-Fl<r- agent for Yamhill county Imw been •in" highway, and the W illauo tie sighway. begun. The public service comml»»lon ha» Douglas county lion 10.7to voter«, a check <>f th e reg istratio n book» for »rdi red an Inventlgallon of the rules, th e N ovember election h as revealed. •at»-». charges and practice« of the Frank K ernan of R eedsport was West Coast Pow er company, which stabbed twice, at ilosvburg. In ulter- ’urnlahea electrical energy to resi- catlou with O. 11. Spencer, a hotel ienta of R eedsport, Cascade Lock», ’’lutakanie, Burna, Toledo, Newport, clerk. iardlner and a num ber of other A. L . H arrlaon of K lam ath Falla, own». arising early. * » • astounded to m eet Im mediate organization of th e prune ; a black hear In a resldenlial tllatrict {rowers of Oregon and W ashington. I of the city . o the end that th eir product may ne be | Mildred Smith. 16. of Franklin. l.an e I , . narki ted through co o p erativ e meth- county, wav killed when an aulomo- , ><l«, will be undertaken by a repre»en- title In which »he w as riding collided atlve of the bureau of cooperative wllh a wugon. nark*'tlng. federal departm ent of com- J Throughout Clackamgg county the nerce, who 1« to m ake hi» beadquar- | walnut and filbert crop la the largeat era in Salem. In the hlalory ut the county, accord Following the filing of a «uit in the 1 ing to th e grower». federal court In Portland to foreclose ( At a »ix'clal m eeting of St John« i mortgage on the Mickle mill» In und T rin ity L utheran ch u rd iea at Sil North Portland. L ester W. Oavid of i verton recom m endation« for union ■leattle, pr«-»ldent of the Forest In- were read and accepted. reatm ent company, plaintiff« in the C rab r lake I» now free of »now. ictlon, »a» appointed receiver for the the luat full of 22 inch*'» having m elt ompany in an order aigued by Fed- ed away, according lo a report from >ral Judge Bean. th e C rater laae national park head Fourteen persons were killed and I quarter» office. 146 persona were Injured in a total ' The Mount Hood L«w>p highway haa it 2828 traffic accidents in the sta te ' been re-opened to traffic. Crew» are >f Oregon during the month of Sep- «till at work, m aking m ore perm anent ember, according to a report prepar repair« to the W hite River bridge, 'd by T. A. Halfety, chief Inspector I for the »tale m otor vehicle depart- dutnug<'d by flood water». Jack »ulition have been caught In uent. R eckless driving was blamed : Gal"» creek, near F o rest Grove, by for 1375 of the accident» reported. The certificate of nom ination of local angler». Th«' presence of th e young salm on thia far from the ocean lohn Bi ll of Eugene for the office of ' 1» very unusual, according to fisher «tale senator for Linn and Lane coun ties, to succeed Louis E. Bean, who men. A co-operative well drilling venture .«tired from the ballot recently to that la expected to place 400 acre» of lceept the nom ination of the repuhll- | h ith erto dry orchard land under Irri an state central com m ittee for public gation 1» being organized by T h e • rvire com m issioner, was tiled in the Dalle» W asco county cham ber of com Iflres of the secretary of slate ut Salem. merce. The Jackson county court has is A rock weighing several Iona on the Oregon hunk of the Columbia river sued a statem ent signed by the en tire I »«» moved lo the Comm unity park court, rescinding letters previously is east of the school house at Boardman. sued to the 18 counties coming under Thl» rock is covered with Indian h ier ,he Oregon and C alifornia tax refund. The letters recom m ended that 1 per oglyphics. te n t of the am ounts received be paid , A detachm ent of «1 m arines, la xo W. H Gore. Medford banker, for f charge of non commlaaloned officers. als services in lobbying for the pas- ! Is reported aa en route from the m a «age of the bill. rine corha base at San Diego to P ort Last week showed an increase of land In establish a ixiatal guard in and nearly 1,000,000 feet of lum ber pro out of (hat city. Claims of eight Oregon counties for duced by 108 mills of the W est Coast uniberm en's association, coninareo | tax es am ounting to n early 23.000.000 iih the record for the previous week, I against the Oregon A- California land g ran t will be handled by n special unit according to the weekly report of the of the general land office, according association. Production last week t o i to ta l 114.162,131 ie<n. new orders j to word received. hooked totaled 110,786,078 feet, and The fine a rts building now under shipments totaled 94,009,607 feet. «sinsideratlon nt th e U niversity of The work of m ailing approxim ately Oregon will cost 2450.000, according the to plans. Of th e 2160,000 required to .125.000 pam phlets containing statem ents of political parties and in build th«* first unit. 200.000 1» now on hand In the form of gift» ami pledges. dependent candidates for office at the November election, has been com plet Baker «county’s potato acreage this ed under th e direction of Sam A. Ko- year was larger th an a y ear ago. but zer, secretary of state. These pam th e yield per acre was lees, due In phlets w ere sent to every registered , part to froat dam age, according to voter in the state. The cost of m ail Fred K nterm ille. a prom inent grower. ing th e pam phlets was 1 cent each. Frost dam age will run from 10 to 40 The public service comm ission has per cent. »sued an order suspending the pro- i The walnut crop, th e hnrvest of posed Increase in freight rates on , which Is being conipleti'd at Silverton, livestock on the lines of the Southern la said to he much heavier than that i actfie company, P ortland & S eattle I of last season. N uts «ire also said to Hallway company, Oregon E lertric be a g reat deal m ore free from blight and Oregon-W ashington R ailroad & and of a b etter g rad e th an for some Navigation company, pending an in seasons past. vestigation. The new rates were to T he assessm en t roll« of Coos coun have become effective November 1. ty. a fte r arran g em en t by the board of E ngineers nt the s ta te highway equalization, show a to tal valuation ■otnmission are looking over an en- of 222.097.690. of which 212.546,510 lirely new route (or the W illam ette a re assessed ag ain st lands. It was \ alley Florence highway, over th e I stated th ere ary 660.3S7.055 acres of mountain from th e Siuslaw to th e land In th e county. North Fork. The new route leaves j H. Leighton Kelly of Honolulu, ex the Siuslaw riv er two m iles below j ecutive officer of the H aw aiian fish Rainrock. w here the highw ay would j and gam e comm ission, who Is visiting ■ross th e Coos bay branch of th e ' Ills m other, Mrs H. L. Kelly at O re Southern Pacific by an overhead cross- ! gon City. Is arran g in g for shipping log. and extends over th e divide in a ' salmon and trout spaw n and game northw esterly direction. birds lo the Islands. A brief open season in 1929 on bull ; The body of L. A. Winkle, employe ;lk In u section of the Blue moun- ; of th e llooth-Kelly L um ber company uins, the first open season on elk In ' at cam p 34. n ear W endllng. was found Ircgon In many years will be recom- . lying fne«' downward In five Inches of aendetl to the sta te gam e commission ! w ater in th e putnp house n ear the oy E. F. Averill, state game warden, i camp. He had apparen tly been »trick The game w arden estim ates that th ere | en wllh an epileptic fit. re from 1000 to 1500 elk in this Blue 1 The state suprem e court Increased nountain district, em bracing contlgu- ■ from 2S2S.37 to 221,718.52 the juilg ,us corners of Um atilla, Union. Ba menl allowed in the low er court in the ;er and G rant counties, at the head suit brought by the North Pacific Con vaters of the Grande Ronde river. struetion company lo recover money Oregon m onthly pensions have been from W allowa county under two con ranted as follows: Maude S. Vance, tra c ts for road construction. .10; Sven E. Rehnstrom , 2'>0: Lena Proeident Coolidge lias approved I. Kirk. 230: Juntos Fitzgerald, 240; , construction of the Vale reclam ation .Vllliam G. King. $20; George C. Van- I project, the second great Oregon Ir lenburg, 225; Bessie M. H arrell, 230; , rlgatlnn developm ent to receive Hit .Inleolni A. E rnest. 225; G ertrude E. official approval within ten days. Th, ilkisen, 230. all of P ortlnnd; Sabin estim ated cost or constructing the Itxander, Ln Grande, $30; Dee Bow- 1 Villi' project 1» 2.7.590,000, making 221. inn. T alent, 230; George H. Wilcox, 1 305,000 with the Owyhee project itourell Fall», 210; Henry F. Wiiiion, which will lie Invesffit In Or on l ie . »hum, 225; llenry T. Eoff, Imle- ho leelam ntlon w ithin the next tel. ecndence, 220. . . I years. OREGON NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST 4'*. . ' fc" * « v. ». «**' »’ .k . .¿ M il f'Wt PA G E FTVW T H E S P R IN G F IE L D N EW S T H U R SD A Y O C T O B E R 28. 1020 Friend o f Fore«t P. T . A. W ORKERS GO TO M EETING AT SALEM Six Hprtngfleld Parent-T eachers As- i »«»elation w orkers left at 6 o'clock this m orning for Salem, where th y .w ill »pend th e day attending th e State-w ide P. T. A invention now under way at the capital The group will re tu rn this evening A report of the convention will be made at th e ■ next m eeting of the local unit, j The Springfield représentât » m ade th e trip In the automohi! of ■Mrs. Paul B ratlain. Oth« rs who " .'n t are Mrs. Ora Read Hemenway Mrs. I». O. Fisher. Mrs. W. E. Putnam . Mrs. Bernice Van Valzah. and Mrs W alker. Wc CIVIC CLUB TO WORK FOR HEAVY VOTE HERE A. W . Laird of Potlatch, Idaho, 1» president of W eeU rn F o re ^ ry Conservation Assn., and bead of committee that called on President Coolidge to discuss the problem of savtag our great national wooded lands— that are faeiag deeUwetloa. In the Intrest of the Springf.eid bridge bond Issue, the m- mbers e f the W omen’s Civic chib will c a n r u l the city Saturday and Monday urging citizens to visit the polls on Tuesday, » lection day. Mrs. W. J Scott, president of th e d u b . «aid today th at tht worn.«» will attem p t to cover the entire city, each visiting residents in her d istrict. Sample ballots will be l>«8 by ’he canvassing team s. PEOPLE ARE QUEER I knew a w riter who can 't do justice to a subject unless he’s pot red pencil and brow nish paper to w rite on! T h ere’s another I heard of who can't think well unless his paper it ruled. A nother who can't summon ideas unless he's cot an onion sandw ich to nibble on! Now all th is sounds odd probably but did YOU ever notice how much BETTER you wrote and THOUGHT if the pen you used FIT you and the paper you wrote on PLEASED you? Mebbe th ere’s som ething to this After all! It's pretty hard for a person to w rite a poor le tter on an excellent piece of stationery, so as we carry some of the most beautiful w riting paper in the world, mebbe th e re ’s a moral some place In among these thoughts! a Moral: Right w riting is a rite when the w riting is rightly w ritten. J Mannish S tu ff! It'! the stiff, crinkly BIG sc ’ t th at looks Im portr"* and m assive Has a v civ .fy t'nlsh and tuff edg«-» n o r a id then. And the envelopoa tra tc h . Gosh, but I d he im pressed to get a le t f .r v ,..tto n c= Liu2f like this. Comes in its own p riv a 'e box. Ask for C rane's Linen. ’ Member the OLD Style Fountain Pens? The kind th at required an dr"pper. a i.nlle and fork, c -rp le of plum bers and a n¿ j in order to fill 'em! Then wh- n filled, they’d break cut in zy and npill ink all over a ’ ju t 'em In your pocket. Our pens are NOT this kind! ey A nother “ H E " Special! Eevry so often we do som ething th a t LOCKS foolish? This week it's our Special clear H avana Cigar which costs us 8c and which we are dumb enuf to let go of a t 3 for 25c. If th a t's unfair, explain why to us personally. KETEL’S DRUG STORE sa» r / î x a/LLY DHW RTM fW f r o t â V a * ; )U . ¡G» «i» W* WM WM »"‘»s ‘ H BLANKET WEEK J Piles And Piles O f Soft, F luffy Coverings Enter T his g Special Selling . Luxuriously W arm , So Pretty And C o 'I xm '- ful. C onveniently Displayed In New And Enlarged De partm ent On Second Floor. — The enorm ous response to o u r sale of Blankets every year proves what a value event th is is. We know many persons are w a itin g to hear th a t there is to be another. There is, and of as m udh im portance as ever, offering strong, soft, flu ffy blankets, the kind everyone loves. — Stocks planning to secure who w ill are e xtra o rd in a ry in th e ir variety and quality. By and purchasing m onths in advance we were able the best at lowest quotations. Be the wise person stow away blankets when they can he most ad- vantageously purelMMd. Replenish youi* supply now for the cold w in te r nights w hich are alm ost upon us. Saturday f/arks The Termi nation of Harvest Sale