* T H U R S D A Y M ARCH 10, 1927 T H E S P K iN l'.FIELD NEWS MRS AL MONTGOMERY HAS NARROW ESCAPE * Sepällä and Togo A narrow escape from dealt) by burning waa experienced by Mia Al Montgomery, formerly of Hprlngfleld when the oven In her lx>a Angeles, California residence exploded recent ly The gae fluiu« In the oven apparent ly went out. leaving the gun eat aping | When Mr». Montgomery opened the oven door, the gun Ignited from one of the burner» above, and flashed Into her fare. One aide of her fare waa aeverely burned, her hair and eye-brown were »Ingod. and her clothes narrowly ea- coped Igniting . The Montgomery» now live al SOBA | Regie alreet, let» Angelo». They ex pect to return In Hprlncfleld this sum- mar- They have been In lx*» Angelo» tor »lx month» for hl» health Springfield W inner Hprlngfleld girl typists proved their Anger» more nimble than those of Cottage drove girl* when team* of the two schools met In competition here last week A return meet I» to be held at Cottage drove March 17. Maxine ttnodgraa» and Arrllla Thompson. Hprlngfleld girl«, tied for first place In the meet, each making 61 work» a minute. | Leonard Hepalla and his lead dog "Togo" of Nome fame again proved their elaa» by winning with eass the Poland Spring«, Maine, annual »1*1 classic last week. Dinner la Postponed The chicken dinner, to have been held by the American Legion on March 10. a» postponed Indefinitely, according to announcement by Com mander John Will of the local post. The business o f Money To make money is the ultimate goal of all business. 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D » acmequauty » Casey’s Service Station 7th and Main streets Springfield, Oregon I PAGE THREW M arriage Llcantas Issued Laatki Hookar. $1. of Veneta waa *<LM after PoD? shot In the head on the Wolf Creek County Clerk Writer Dillard has la- road, 14 miles below Veneta and about j sued marriage licenses to the follow 80 miles from Engene, by a man be I ing coupler during tha pa-it weak: lie veil to be Alfred Brownley, ex con Beldon Babb. Eugene. and Isabel vict. suspected of the holdup of the Hawklnson. Portland; Cecil Minchan Brief Resume of Happenings of Veneta pool room and the shooting of and Beola Pearl Sml.h, both of Eu- (be proprietor, William Madnaugh. 'gene; James Roberts and Ruby Prlca, the Week Collected for Abolition of the death penalty in both of Marcóla; Howard Caldwell. the slate, appropriation of $350,into for Our Readers. Noth and Violet Dorthea Burrow, Eu the establishment of the first unit of j gene. a model prison, and elimination of vlr- - Sixteen carloads of broccoli have tually all forms of punishment In the i NOTICE been »hlppeil from Roseburg up to penal Institutions, was proposed In an WHEREAS in chapter 127. general the present time. Initiative petition filed In the offices laws of Oregon, enacted In 1918, it la Construction of a breakwater Io pro of the secretary of state at Kalem declared to be the duty of every per tect the wharf of Port Orford harbor son. Arm, copartnership, company and The net Income of the Sumpter Val corporation owning, leasing, occupy waa disapproved by the war depart ley Railroad company for the year ing. possessing or having charge of or meat. 1928 Was $40.740.57, according to the dominion over any land, place, build Receipt» of the Halem postoffice ex annual report of the corporation tiled ing. structure, wharf, pier or dock I which I» Infested with ground squlr- reeded »11 corresponding high record» In the offices of the public service i rets and other noxious rodents or In February with an aggregate of 119.- commission In Salem, The operating j predatory animals, nr as soon as the revenue» were $434.704.22. while th e 1 « s e .it. presence of the same shall come to R 8. Bryson. county clerk of l.ane operating expenses were 3317.988.13 ( his. their or its knowledge, at once to proceed and to continue In good county for the past nine year», ha» Governor Patterson signed house faith to exterminate and destroy sock resigned the office, to take effect Im hill 53. Introduced bv Representative Here is the newest star to join rodents by poisoning, trapping or Collier, making operative a proi>osad the staff of thia newspaper, G M. other mediately. appropriate and effective Payne, originator of the mirthful means: and There are now 802 prisoners In the constitutional amendment prohibiting comic,—"S-matter Pop.” His comics WHEREAS gray digger ground Oregon state penitentiary, which la the use of "Blank A" on election rt-o will appear regularly every week squirrels (Cltellns donglasli) are nox the largest population In the history Under the proposed amendment nt now. Get acquainted with Pop, Old- ious rodents In Lane County, Oregon person would be allowed to vote on thner, Wiltyum and Ambrose—the of the Institution. Now. therefore, all of such persona, little hafd-heiled egg from next Arms, copartnerships, corporation» •lection day unless he or she was Clyde V. Johnson of Portland was door They are up to new ttunu and companies owning or having appointed deputy state real estate previously registered. every week. ’ dominion over land In said t-ana A warrant waa Issued by the Jack commissioner to succeed William A. County. Oregon, are hereby required son county sheriff’s office for the ar Mullen, who resigned. to take steps to exterminate said Faculty Appointm ents Made rest of Rev. M. L. I’etelle. pastor of giay digger ground squirrels (Cltelloa Pour and one-half Inches of rain fell the Christian church of Klamath Falls douglasll) within thirty days from tha University of Oregon. Euglene. Ore- In Fiend In February, establishing a date of the first publication of thia new precipitation record tor the charged with possession and trans March 10— (Special)— Fnrtynine re notice. If such steps are not taken, a portatlon of liquor, found In a sedar I appointments to the faculty, five month In that section. person or persons appointed by tha tipped over on the highway in the leaves of absence, and two new ap county court of said Lane County will Oregon Normal school won the Wil Siskiyou mountains. Petelle fled when . pointments were made by the board enter upon said lands and proceed fa lamette Valley conference basketball the officers approached. exterminate said gray digger ground of regents at Its meeting Monday. championship at Albany, when It de squirrels (Cttetlus douglasll) and tha Oregon monthly pensions have been Harold Blum, of the University of cost of said extermination will ha feated Albany college. 28 to 28. granted aa follows: Clarence E Os against said lands. George E Davis, »lata senator and borne. Portland, 320; Frederick L California, was added to the staff of levied The county agricultural agent here the department of zoology as assist a resident of Vale, Malheur county Bears, Portland. $30; Mary P. Wit by designates Monday. April 4th, aa was appointed atate corporation coni llama. Portland. $30; Emma E Barton ant professor. As a teacher and In a day to be known as "squirrel poison vestigator, Dr. Blum has an extra ing day” throughout the said Lana mlsstoner to succeed W. E. Crew». Portland, $30; Hannah A. Martin ordinarily fine record, according to County, and it Is hereby recommended Percy Varney, formerly state pa Portland, $30; Cleon Emery Barloe. Dr. A. R. Moore, head of the depart that poisoned barley, as prepared by role officer, has been appointed chlet $20; Gene M. Simpson. Corvallis, $20; the undersigned and representatives ment. Mary Mitchell Moore, a scient of the Bureau of Biological Survey a t Inspector for the automotive depart Manly T. Bartholomew, Charles, $25 ist of International reputation, was ap the United States Department of raent of the public service commis Two children. George H. and .»me- pointed research associate in zoology Agriculture be used for the purpose sion. * Neal, aged 21» and 1 year, respective without salary. of such extermination. Such poisoned W. A. Smith and J. Huddleston ly. sons of Mr. and Mrs. George W In order to do advanced work. In barley may be secured from the un have been appointed a» deputy fish Hilliard, were burned to death and most cases for the doctor’s degree, dersigned at his office In Eugene, warden» for the lower Columbia the mother waa aeverely burned in at Ethel Sanborn, botany. H. G. Tanner, Lane County. Oregon at approximate the cost of preparation. river by A. W Franklin, master flab tempting to rescue them, when the chemistry, Alice Henson Ernst. Eng ly Date of first publication of this no- family's tent-house home at a Cros lish. Dr. Wilmot C. Foster, medical ttce March 10th. 1927. warden. (Signed! O. S. FLETCHER. Governor Patterson »»toed houee sett-Western company logging camp school, were granted leaves of ab County Agricultural Agent. bill 294. Introduced by Representative 35 miles southeast of Astoria, was sence. M 10-17-24 Lewis, providing for the creation of an destroyed by fire. additional circuit Judgeship in Multno County assessors from all parts of Oregon were requested to meet in mah county. Ground was broken at Tillamook Salem Tuesday to discuss a bill ap for the construction of a factory for proved at the recent legislative ses a new veneer manufacturing com tlon giving to the slate tax commU j pany. which expects to be in opera «ion additional powers In maklni - property assessments. Officials said Don by May 15. The government would provide $70. that the operation of the new act 000 to aid the state of Oregon in erect probably would Insreaae the prop ing a statue of Theodore Roosevelt on erty assessments in Oregon approxi Hattie rock. In Port Orford harbor mately $250.000.000. W. C. Bart ram. flax field agent for und<T a bill Introduced by Senator Mc the state penitentiary, announced that Nary. Industrial accidents totaled 482 In he had obtained the right to purchase Oregon during the week ending 100 pounds of the famous J. W. S March 8. according to a report pre pedigreed flax seed. The seed is now pared by the slate Industrial acci en route to Salem. Purchase of this dent commission. There were no seed previously was refused by the English seed control committee. The fatalities. strain of seed waa developed by Dr A new irrigation project was born Eyre of the linen research association at Klwnnth Falls when owners of 4200 at Lam berg. Ireland. acres of land lying on the south side A. B. Carter, aecretary of the Ore of the Ashland Klamath Falls highway west of the city voted to form the gon state board of engineering exam i inera. has demanded that the Coos Keno Irrigation project. ! county court release W. A. Gilbert, Nineteen measures concerning qn county roadmaster. saying he was un gllng, hunting and commercial fishing unlicensed engineer and therefore not were passed by the Oregon legislature eligible for the work. The court has during the recent session, according made no move as yet to discharge Mr to summaries made by the state game Gilbert, holding him to be one of the and state fish wardens. best roadmasters in the state and hav Secretaries of chambers of com ing received fine service from him. merce In Oregon and some other Portland's new $1.200,000 federal states will meet tn Eugene in the building has been set back a year seventh annual conference of the Asso by the senate's failure to approve ciation of Commercial Organisation the public buildings appropriation Secretaries March 21 to 25. bill carrying a $382,000 Item for pur Darrel D. Johnson of Corvallis was chaae of a site and commencement Injured fatally when the sedan he was of construction there, 'white other driving was struck by a northbound sums badly needed in the Pacific, Southern Pacific train where the Pa northwest have been lost for the cur clflc highway crosses the tracks Just rent fiscal year through failure of outalde the town of Clackamas. the second deficiency bill, which also Mrs. Leon Lester, 30, of Kings val fell victim of senatorial stubborn ley, waa drowned and her mother. Mrs. ness. Joseph Klxer of Brownsville, was Another hearing of Importance, to seriously Injured when their automo be held In Portland on March 14, In bile plunged from the road six miles addition to the two others already southeast of Albany and overturned scheduled to be held there by officialr In a dl»ch rilled with water. of the federal government during that One hundred and ninety-six heart week, was ordered by tha Interstate of cattle Infected with tuberculosis commerce commission, which has dele have been found and destroyed in gated examiners to take testimony on Clackamas county under the recent the application of the Northern Pa state law requiring that all cattle be cific, Great Northern and O.-W. R. A tested, according to Dr. C. H. Sea N. railroads for continuance of their Joint passenger service contract be graves, county herd supervisor. The Ray-Brown company capitalised tween Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. Governor Patterson completed th< at $300,000, will have completed at Woodburn, on a 12H-acre tract a $258,- task of lopping off appropriations ag 000 cannery of the four-line type in «regaling $1,335,310 approved at the time to handle the berry crop of the recent session of the legislature. The section. Ultimately It will be a nine- largest appropriations to fall under the line plant. Construction wilt begin veto were those of $175,000 for the construction of the proposed new li Immediately, Allotment of $52.000 out of the 1928 brary at the University of Oregon and rivers and harbors fund for work on $175,000 for classrooms and library at Tillamook bay and bar was announced the state normal school at Monmouth. by the war department, which approv There also was eliminated an appro ed a recommendation of the chief of priation of $150,000 for a new dorml i engineers for use of that amount. The tory at the southern Oregon normal new allotment is expected to be avail school at Ashland. Other appropria able June 1, the beginning of the next tions In excess of $100,000 which were fiscal year. It brings the total allotted vetoed by the governor Included $120,- 1 to the Tillamook bay and bar project 100 for the erection of state armories by the federal government above $750.- and $100,800 lor the support 9< WMF j 000. ty fair*. __ . m AIIM OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST