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THURSDAY AUGUST 26, 1S27
T H E BPR1NGKIKLD NEWS
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings of
j
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
O r« Hohlinun #ó. pluasor ta rn u r In
U tnallllu tuu niy (lluU at I ’itndl. tun
laal w«»k
P»ar «hipping and harveatlag In the
Runua rlvov «allay la a » « uadar way
la aarnaat with all I h r p arkins h<»<a«a
la operation. T h e paak of Ilia a'-iaon
w ill coma between August 1* anil the
aildiUa of Haptatuber
Captain Charles Alasandar Hchetky,
tha oldest American naval officer,
whose tooth birthday anniversary on
March >1 of this year attracted na-
ltonal attention, dropped dead at the
I tel moot orchard home of bla daurh
ter. Mra. Hcott F. A lllira , In llood
«Ivor.
lu e 's u m m er W h ite House" of the
Plana u rr bring made for the fifth
K lam ath ledlans Is being tem porarily
annual community fa ir ai Hprlngwator
established at the famous Huckleber
to be held H rp lra ib rr 19.
ry mountain camp grounds, near C h il
T he neweat mem ber of Oregon’« oquin. where the more than 1200 In-
financial Inatllnlluna, the Chiloquin dtaus of the K lam ath reservation are
M a le bank, waa form ally organised at trekking thia week to taka part In
a meeting of (he stockholders laal the annual berry picking
weak.
Locations at C rater lake have Just
W heat harvest la In full awing near been completed by the United States
<^>ve, every combine at work, with bureau of public roads for the aew
tbs grain averaging around «0 bushels Afoot.wide tra il that will be built by
an acre.
Harley ran aa high as I t the government from the rim to the
and oats •< bushels
water's edge w ithin the next year.
T he annual ronvsntlon of tba Ore This w ill eoable tourists to use bur
gon Wool Grower»' association waa ros Instead of making the rather d if
bald In Pendleton last week In con ficult and strenuous hike as a l prés
Junction w ith the largest ram sala ent.
aver held la the stale
The entire business and assets of
During July I I predatory hunters the Neatucca Valley bank of Clover
worked moat of the time and turned dale have been purchased by the First
tn the scalps of 170 coyotes, SI hob National bank of Tillam ook and con
rata, two bears. 111 badgers. I l l P»r solidated w ith those of the la tte r In
cuplnea and 11 aqunka
stitution.
This purchase Increases
T h e big event of late summer for the total resources of tha F ir si Na
W illa m e tte valley people began last tional to 62.2UO.OOO, Including 6185.000
Monday when the hop picking season of capital, surplus and undivided
opened to continue until tha begin profita.
ntng of school n e tt month.
The Oregon evergreen blackberry,
T he fifth assembly of Hlble atudente which a few years ago was yielding a
Of the Methodist church. Hnuth. open good Incom« to many of the mountain
ad at tha Columbia collage of M ilton rraldsols of eastern M an county,
last week w ith the largest reglstra where it grows In profusion. Is finding
very little sale this year. The can
tjon la tha history of tha school.
la tha election at Bandon recently, nerles are taking very few of them
aale of the city's hydro-electric power this season, and are offering a price
and lighting plant remained a com (hat w ill only about cover picking and
m ualty enterprise, the vote belag I I hauling.
F ire losses la Oregon, exclusive of
Portland, during tha month o* July,
aggregated 6411,040, according to a
report prepared by the state fire mar
shal. T hera were 106 (1res reported,
of which four were of an Incendiary
origin
T he moat disastrous (Ire waa
at Clhloquln. where a part of the bus
P ractically every graduate of the
loess district was destroyed with a
Southern Oregon Norm al school at
loss of (100.000.
Ashland has been placed la a teach
A group of excavators led by J. B
ing position by tha employment bu
Horner,
profeaaor of history and dl
rvau maintained at tha school, of
which Professor Churchill la chalr- rector of historical research In Ore
gon Agricultural college, unearthed a
section of the tusk of a prehistoric
Mra K C. Small, who crossed the
mammoth, at Roseburg last week.
, plains w ith her parents In 1161. ob
The tusk Is Lbs largest ever found In
served her l l t h birthday anniversary
the Pacific northwest.
It measured
la Balem recently.
Hhe said It re-
10 Inches In diam eter and the un
qulred a l l month« and I I days to
broken section was about six feet In
cross the plains from Burlington to
length.
Balem
Oregon farm ers intend to plant only
Students registering as freahm ea at
96 per cent as much acreage to « h e a l
W illa m e tte university In Salem thia
this fall aa wss seeded a year ago, ac
fall w ill ba required to arrive on the
cording (o ih< ri-plli-H to an inquiry
campus September 10. one week e a rli
sent out by F. L. Kent, Oregon atatlatl
er than the other classmen, according
clan of the departm ent of agriculture.
to plans worked out by uulvrrstty of
T he decrease Is largely due to this
nclala
year's seeding of spring wheat on
Oregon's hop yield for 1917 probably spring plowing or disked stubble, thus
w ill not exceed HO.000 bales, accord reducing the usual summer (allowed
log to announcement by growers. The acreage available for planting thia fall.
normal crop ranges from 00.000 to
A ll carriers which handle deciduous
100.000 hales.
The short crop this
fruits, other than apples, shipped In
year Is attributed to the recent hot
carload lots to Denver or farth e r east
weather.
were urged to reduce rates on this
W in nie McDougal, threshing on his class of business In letters sent out
farm 1*4 miles north of Dayton, re by the public service commission re
ports a yield of more than 60 bushels cently. T he request was based on n
of wheat per aero from a ten-acre hill recent decision by the Interstate com
land field. An average run In the im merce commission lowering the freight
m ediate locality Is from 10 to 41 bush charges on fru its shipped from Call
* els per acre.
fornla to eastern destinations.
The
•A pack of 20 wolves was encounter order becomes effective October 10.
ed recently near Scotl mountain In
N ine persons were killed by tra ffic
the Cascade national forest by Poster accidents In Oregon during July and
Steele, fire assistant of the forest. It 366 were Injured, according to tne
became known last week. T he pack m onthly report of T. A. R affety, chief
la the largest to be seen near Eugene state tra ffic Inspector. T hree of those
In many years.
killed were pedestrians who were
In favor of selling and I I I against.
Nathan H Weldon. for whom tha
station Waldoo on tha O P A B. rail
road waa named, died Saturday night
at h it home la Cottage Grove.
He
was born on Preach Prairie, near Sa
lem. In 1141.
Hood K iver schools w ill open on
Septem ber I.
The new city high
school, built at a cost of more than
1176,000, Is being made ready for oc
cupancy, and (he classes of Junior
high grades w ill bo removed to the
old high school.
struck by automobiles, five were k ill
ed In wrecks of automobiles and one
by a collision between a train and an
automobllo. T he total number of ac
cidents reported was 2324, of which
1373 were attrib u ted to carelessness.
Bit« of crockery, some (Ire brick,
m etal parts of (arm Im plem ents and
other odds and ends which were be
lieved to have been burled In a flood
which destroyed Santlam C ity in 1862
and again in 1868. have been unearth
ed by Dan Looney, who Is digging a
gravel pit at the site of the abandoned
town. Santlam C ity was located three
foundation of tho now m ill on the miles from Jefferson toward the Junc
Baisley-Elkhorn m ining property none tion of tho Santlam and W illa m e tte
B aker Is now under way. T he mine rivers. W hen in Its prim e It boasted
Is working about 26 men. T he con of a three-story brick building and
The
•tru e!Io n Is being hurried tn order to other substantial structures.
get things well under way before snow town was not rebuilt following the
floods.
tails.
T h e re was exported to Europe from
Oregon ports during the 1926-27 sen
son a total of 1,720,726 boxes of ap
pies, according tn the annual report
of the Oregon state board of pilot com
mlsslnners filed with Governor P at
terson at Salem.
* T he pouring of concrete for the
A halibut caught off Nowport on
the banka was on display In a New
port shop recently which. It la esti
mated, wimld feed 400 persons. The
flth weighed 199 pounds, was flvs
feet and nine Inches long and 24
Inches wide at Its middle.
, Follow ing two disastrous fires with
In the pnst ten months, whon most of
one side of town was wiped out, mer
Chants and city officials of Chiloquin
have combined In an effort to reduce
Mhture tire loss by adding up-todute
fire fighting equipment.
Harvesting of wheat in Union coun
ty Is near Its peak and W allow a coun
ty farm ers are also beginning harvest
work, w ith yields In both counties
running higher than e a rlie r expecta
tions. Several fields In both counties
have yielded near 6U bushels an sere
and a 30-acre tract of Rldlt wheat
owned by Ray G reiner, near Sum m er
ville, yielded 66 bushels. It Is esti
mai ed that Union county's wheat
yield w ill run more than 1,260,000
biiHhela, which Is almost the biggest
crop In history.
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TOWN AND VICINITY
Move to M llw au klo — M r. and Mrs.
Elder moved thia week to M ilw au kie.
f r o * Ihsrw planned to go to Son Fran
cisco, where ha has a poaiLoo as an
1 accountant
Haro
Goos to W a s h in g to n — W
from
W a lte rv llle — M r.
and
O. Hughes, - Mra. F ra n k Page of W a lte rv llle were
president of the F irs t N atio n al bank, visitors In S p rln tfle ld Monday
On
was In W ashington this w eek, attend Tuesday they loft on a vactlon trip
Dexter Man Here—
L. TOgapev of
ing to business interrats.
to Newport.
D exter was a visitor hero fo r a short
tim e Monday.
Return from Springs— M rs. C. 17.
F orm er Resident V isits — W a lte r
Sw art« tnd M r» C. E Knnyoa are
Natron Resident Violto— A a out-of- 6 sovs I f *»*'•-* VOw/bPt Mnrlnwn
Bruno, on hla w ay to hla C alifo rn ia
tw on visitor trotn Natron
»as
come from Soap Lake. W ashington,
D. h. AlllrOU.
lalted for a few h -» ,a S u n -a y w ith
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/im pen. He is
«.«a vib < avwgv «<•- • « «Uto » « *.., ' .
F latts
In Town— M r. and
Mrs.
lives ut the Amr lean hotel here, has a form er candy m aker a t Egglm ann's
Gsorue P latt of Thurston were shop
boon taken to the Eugene hospital for candy shop.
pers here early this week.
treatm ent for rheum atism .
Goes on Vacation— B e rt Sankey,
Mohawk Man In— B ill Sm ith of Mo
Baby Boy Wolcomod— M r. and M rs m all c a rrie r on ru ra l route No. 2,
hawk wag a business visitor bore M on
L. W . Boggs o f M arcóla aro the happy left on hla annual vacation Tuesday.
day.
parents of a baby boy, born Monday H is son. E lm er, Is substituting for him.
V is ito r from Vs esta— M ra
Floyd at the Pacific C hristian hospital in Vacations of other postal employes
are being arranged.
T a y lo r of Veneta wus a visitor In Eugene.
Springfield Monday.
V is it at Cox Homo— Mrs. Bertha
In from Santa Clara— L. W E llio tt, G rlbble and children of Portland, visit
farm e r of Banta C lara, was a Spring- ed this week at the home of M r. and
Mrs. H erb ert J. Cox.
M rs. Oribble
Held business visitor this week
and Mrs. Cox are old friends.
Rainbow People Moro— Mra. George
Form er Surveyor Hors — How ard
W illia m s and son. Joe, of Rainbow,
[“arsons, footer city suveyor w ith o f
were In Sprlncfh-ld Monday.
fices In the Sutton building, w ith Mrs.
W a lta rv llla Man In— H a rry Jackson Parsons, paid Springfield friends a
of W a lte rv llle was a business visitor visit Tuesday. H e has been located a t
here Monday.
Spokane.
In from Fall C rsek— M r. and .Mrs.
C. M Neet of F all C reek transacted
business In Springfield Monday,
Go to Sum m it— M r. and M rs Swm
M ontgom ery drove to the sum m it of
McKenxle pass Bunday.
H srs from M areóla— A lb ert Pierce
of M arcóla spent a part o f Tuesday
In HprlngHeld.
Crssw sll Man Haro— M T . Jackson
of C resw ell was a Springfield visitor
Tuesday.
County Commiaaloner H e r» Com ity
Commisslooer C. I. H a rd was a visitor
here Monday.
Loaburg Woman Visit«— M rs John
Cnrrlo of Loaburg shopped In Spring-
field Monday.
N atro n Man In — B. O. Sm ith of
Natron spent a part of Monday In
Springfield transacting basin
F all Creak Man Hsrs—J . F. Moor«
of F all Creek was a Springfield ria lto t
1 Saturday.
Here from Thurston— W . If. E yler
of Thurston was a Springfield business
visitor Monday.
Undergo Operation Hero— M r. and
Mrs. J. L. F isher of W endllng brought
th eir two children. M ary and Bernice,
to the offlee of a local surgeoa Satur
day fo r tonsilectomles.
start vour
boy RIGHT
Flah on North Fork— C arl Olson,
local Southern Pacific agent and Dan
Crites of Eugene, form er Springfield
man, fished on the N o rth F ork of the
W illa m e tte riv e r Sunday. T hey had
a day of good lock.
It Is the early impressions that often count
most in the future of a boy's life. Start
yours right. Open a small savings account
for him and teach him the usefulness of a
bank, and the value to him In after life of
knowing how to transact business as a
banker does.
D rive to Portland— M r. and Mrs.
George W illiam s of Rainbow drove to
Portland Tuesday. T hey are expected
back today. T h e y combined business
and pleasure on the trip .
If you Btart a small account now It will be
easier to send him through college or start
him out in business. A few dollars a month
from childhood will mean a lot when he is
twenty-one. If you have a boy. start his ac
count now—and keep It growing.
Sprains K n e e — H o b a rt W i l t o n
sprained his knee thia week w hile
H ero from t ups no— M r and Mra p uttin g Ice tn a box. H e waa crowd
Ernest Stapleton of Eugene were Sun ing the Ice into the bor w ith hla knee
day visitors a t the residence of Mr. when he struck it a heavy blow.
and Mra. I “aul Schlewe.
Misa Petersen a t M ilto n — Miss
Rev Sykes R eturn»—Rev. and Mra Pearle Peterson, slater of C ity Record
G abriel Sykes have returned from ' er 1. M. Peterson, has gone to M ilto n
th e ir vacation, spent largely a t Hood for a visit w ith relatives. She w in
R iver.
return to Springfield before beginning
her work as grade teacher at T he
Flak on M cKensle— Fred Freso of
Dalles September 12.
Springfield and Kenneth Tóbala oí Eu
gene w ere fishing on the McKenxle
V is it Mrs. Scott— M r. and M rt. Paul
riv e r Monday.
Scott visited h it m o t h e r , M rt.
Move Here from Junction— M r and Charles Scott, of this city, over the
C. E Foster and fam ily moved into a week-end. T he Scotts have been liv
house on G street this week. They ing In several cities north of here.
are form er residents of Jun rtion City. They le ft Monday for Portland, and
Protected by Electric Burglarly A larm System
A GOOD BANK IN A GOOD COUNTRY
Commercial State Bank
SPRINGFIELD
LANE COUNTY FAIR
Fairgrounds Eugene
August 30, 31, September 1, 2
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Complete Exhibits of the Resources of Lane County
Greatest Program of Free Attractions Ever Offered in Lane County
RUNNING RACES
RELAY RACES
CHARIOT RACES
RAWHIDE RACES
NOVELTY RACES
COMEDY RACES
BICYCLE RACES
A LONE PACING STALLION
THE FRANK ZERADO TROUPE OF
ENTERTAINERS
BUSTER BROWN TIGE, THE DOG ACTOR
CAPT. ESPE NOVELTY AUTOS
THE TOPSY TURVY CAR
THE FOLLY GIRLS IN DANCING ACTS
JACK NICHOLS, FAMOUS CLOWN
FANCY ROPING
ALI DIN IN BLINDFOLD DRIVING ACT
A ll crow ded into One G reat Program .
E very afternoon beginning
A t 2 p. m. A ll repeated, except the Horse Races, every
Evening, beginning a t 7:30 p. m.
Flood Lights on the Grounds
Dancing Every Evening
Take A Walk Through Ballyhoo Lane
Three Colorful Days
The Fair of 999 Thrills
NOTICE T O EXHIBITORS
Tuesday, August 30 is Entry Day. Entries may
be made up till 5 P. M. on that day. No admission
will be charged on Entry Day.
NOTICE TO EXHIBITORS
All exhibits must be in place by 9 A. M. on Wed
nesday in order to compete for premiums.