THURSDAY DECEMBER S, 1927
T H E SPR IN G F IE L D N EWS
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RED CROSS VOLUNTEER
WORKERS RIO FACTOR
(>ur Practical I'nU tm
No. 1HT
ScOooi Grounds Improved
Gravel was laid on the B rattaln
chool grounds last Saturday, w ith a
onaeqaeat elim ination o f mud. ac-
o rdlng to Chairm an W O. Hughes of
he school board
Reparis also have
>een made in the furnace a t the Brat-
ain school
At Box Office
-W e ll. 1 finally got into the movies.-
“You really did! And how?"
“Oh, I paid the usual fifty cents.”
Poor— Poor Percy
juite correct was Percy Black
U n til he sat down on a tack,
tut when the tack and Percy met
H e forgot his book of etiquette.
AU
England Suffer» B y Flood
Sale of Christm as seals In S p rin t-
livid la progressing aatlafaclorlly. with
school children handling the drive at
Trained life-savers In the United
States. qualified by the Red Cross as
experts In all phases of water safety. 1
now
number
134.543 adults
and
juniors, according to the l.lfe Saving
Service of the American Red Cross. j*
which reported 11,500 trained and
qualified In the paat year Thia aunt
b«r does not Include other thousands ,
who were taught to swim.
T raining courses conducted by the *
Red Cross last summer brought oul ‘
a uniform ly high standard of pro
Bclenry.
In addition, more than So
w inter training courses ware con
ducted the past year.
Swimming
"In s titu te s ' at camps In Arisons, j
California.
Indiana.
Msssarhusetta. j
New York. North Carolina. Missouri
Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. !
“splash weeks“ and swimming and '
life-saving campaigns under Red Cross >
auspices held In many Slates aroused j
great Interest.
"T he experience gained during the |
last tow years Indicates that the dan |
gors Involved In w ater sports can be |
eliminated through training and by
the adoption of w ater safety methods," j
a rscent Red Cross report stated
"W hen our communities provide suf j
flclent
swimming
pools,
bathing
beachea. and skating placet, and fur
nlsh I ra lied It t i l e r s u n d e whose gut,! _ _ _
anee boih adults and children may 1
Broader Industry In Home Chap
te r and in Field Development
of Disaster Service.
Volunteer Industry In lb * American
Red Croaa la on an upward trend, dua
to the broader demand for assistance
la meat Io * disaster relief require
Bents. Men and women from Red Crone
Chapters la th i-la s t year exempted by
th eir wort- for disaster victims a »rest
or activity than In any year »Inca the
and of the World W ar.
This service war t h e n without stint
and . Ith the Unset of spirit, accord
lag to Red Cross officials. Volunteer
Rad Cross worker» have served by the
thousands w ith the local Chapters In
garment production, printing raised-
type reading m atter tor the blind. In
hospital service, as canteen workers
and motor corps aids. Nearly all ac
tive Chapter workers are volunteers.
Mors than »0 per cent of the avail
able reading material for the blind Is
produced by volunteer Red Cress
workers. Volunteers produced 17S.4SI
garments. 5.057.912 surgical dressings
for hospital use, and 4.394 articles for
emergency closets maintained by Red
Cross Chapters In various communities
for disaster and other emergencies.
The garment production, large as It
was. did not Include the thousands of
garments made for the Mississippi
good sufferers by volunteers. Another
important volunteer service Is the prep
aration and sending of 30,000 Christ
mas bags to soldiers and bluejackets
en duty In foreign stations.
Approximately 250 Chapters partlcl
pate In Motor Corps service, while the
growing Interest of volunteers In
health work constitutes an additional
community safeguard In emergencies
when the services of regular nurses
m ight be overtaxed.
Volunteer service w ill be an Impor
tan t factor in the forthcoming elev
eath Annual Roll Call, from November
11 to 14. in enrolling the $.000,000
membership to be sought.
CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE
PROGRESSES WELL HERE
Red Cross Meets
H e a v y Demand for
Water Safety Duty
enjoy th em selves In sa fely , the num
p re s e n t' according to mainbers of the
com m ittee In charge
established
Booths w ill be
town
ehortly.
and
high school girls have conaenled to
assist In selling the seals.
Mrs Maud» Bryan Is chairm an of
the seal sale com mittee.
Proceeds
from the sales go tow ard the light
against tuberculosis.
"Through Christm as seal sale and a
unified ik lv e against the -w hite plague'
the death rate m m tuberculosis has
been cut In half," said M rs Bryan
The slogan of Ihe year's campaign
Is "Say It w ith Chrtatm aa Seals "
Drive com mittee members have broad
cast a lim erick, which they say re-
' presents the spirit which should be
shown by Springfield people:
'■Sprlugfleld has a man named Ted.
W hen asked to buy Christm as teals
ha said,
'Christmas Seals are just fine
Here's a dollar for mine
I'll be glad when «ousumptlon has
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.ow npoar in the Green, W hit« and Berkshire moun
tains of New England brought floods whose fury was never before
known there. Above, scene nt Manchester. N H . as Anoshtag
dam was threatened. Below, ruins at Beckett. Mass., altar flood
water had passed. Many Hvea were loth
fled .'”
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OUTDOOR
her o f preventable deaths through !
drowning will be greatly reduced."
down
E N T H U S IA S T S
PLAN TRIP ON DEC. 11
Grove People Mere— Mrs. A. D
Eogle and Mrs J. D. Burton of Cottage
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Grove were Springfield visitors lu e s
32 NEW FARM FAMILIES
HAVE COME TO OREGON
Portland — (Special! — T h irty two
|ll<w fa r „, fam ilies a rrived In Oregon
day.
during the month of Novem ber, ao
r
Castle Rock In the Cascade tuoun-
1 cording to the report of W . O. Ide.
tains above M cKenste Bridge la to be '
3 , )in , Man 'H ere— A. E lasfler of mallM[er of (be join t I-nnd Settlem ent
, the objective of a hike of Ihe Outdoor Sa|01u p»l,j Springfield a abort busl Departm ent and Oregon S la te Cham
d u b , to be held on Sunday. December neM visit Tuesday.
hers of Commerce, ulna o f whom aat-
Velveteen for the Jacket, checked
| 11. It was announced by M arlon E.
wool tweed for the skirt— we caa't
, (led In Southern Oregon, two In East
imagine anything more swagger
I M cClain, chairm an of local walks.
A N atural
ern Oregon and the balance In Weal-
than this combination for school,
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... . u I Thoee taking (he trip w ill assemble
"And how do you llko school f ! ern Oregon.
The American Red Cross w ill ask
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business or f semi -sports
wear.
an enrollment of 5.000,000 m em ber. «» “ »• »kelton. T u rn b u ll A »Miler of naked the kind old lady.
Black velveteen with a black-and-
Theaa fam ilies cams from the fo l
for the coming yesr. during the An nc® ,n Kbi*-0*
o clock In tho
white check is smart, so is golden-
“Cluaed." answered the little l.»d.
lowing atalea:
Canada, tw o; Idaho,
brown velveteen combined with •
mial Roll Call. November 11-84 la morning, and w ill lake a bus to Horse
three; Wyoming, ona; N o rth Dakota.
brown-end-tan check.
W hat we
elusive.
Creek
rroeslng
above
M cKensle
Ma's L ika T h a t
one; M ontana, one; Ohio, one; Min-
like about it is that yon don't t l-
Bridge.
Thence, by forest service
ways have to »rear the Jacket and
Prof, (giving Illustrated t a lk ) : You nesola, three. California, four; Wash
tra
il,
they
w
ill
clim
b
to
the
sum
mit
skirt together
For instance, if
can't get any Idea about how terrib le , Inglon. three; Texas, tw o; New M et-
POULTRY INSTITUTE TO
yon have a pleated
of the rock, about 4.500 feet, an-1 re-
th a t sight looked unless you observe leg, one; Kansas. three; Colorado,
skirt,
kirt, a velveteen
BE
HELD
DECEMBER
15
I turn by tra il to Horse Creek. A ll In
ma carefully
' one; South Dakota, one; and Neb-
roiUd go very
all the trip w ill be about 10 miles
4
M»y ba obtxi
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| raaka, one.
T h e ir to ta l Investment
A poultry Institu te w ill be conducted : wonderful view of the mountains and
40. Sixe 18 requires 1M yards of
Confident Miss
• • • 3103.100 00.
$4 inch material
«rial for Jacket and 1
In the Cham ber of Commerce rooms upper M cKensle country can be on
batters and queetlonalre's ware re-
-d of S4 inch material for skirt.
ia Eugeue on Thursday. Decem ber 15. ' talned from the sum m it o f Castle
“ Did you ever gx> home from an
Item s arili be delivered to aav
autom obile ride w ith a college boy?" celved from 35 additional fam lllee who
by O. » F letcher, county agricultural I
|t | , »aid
address upon receipt of 2Sc in cask
stated definitely that lhay ware com
"Yea, I'm no snob. '
agent. T h e program for the Institute
or U. b. postage. Always men
ing to Oregon w ithin the next few
tion else wanted Address Pattern
Is as follow s:
Some Mead W heals
months.
Pepe, this aewvpapar.
>
There's a Ntasen
10:00 A. M. “ P o ultry M inerals," by H.
T here la a steady flow of farm fam i
I know a g irl—
"Say. M ike. I bought a set of ba!
E C o ib y . extension poultry spec
lies Into the state throughl the ear-
An aw ful gawk.
la llat o f'th e O re g o n 'A g ric u ltu ra l '«<>"
° ‘ h’ r
vtcea of the (.and S ettlem ent D epart
She'd love to ride
~ 'Sat so, Iks? I didn't know you
College.
M an B re aks A rm
ment
Bui has to walk
owned a balloon.'
11:00 A. M . “In te s tin a l Parasltles.” by
W illia m M ontgom ery. Leaburg. was
Dr W . T. Johnson, poultry patho
given treatm ent a t a local physician's
logist of the Oregon A g ricultural
office this week follow ing an. accident
College.
! ne8r his home 'n which he broke his
1:00 P. M. “ Problems of the N w
arm
.dontgomerv was standing under
Beginner". M r Coxby.
a tree when a lim b fell. He threw
2:00 P. M . "Infectious Diseases of
up his hand to p arry the blow, and the
M atu re Stock" (chlckenpox. bacll-
force of the blow fractured the bone.
lla ry w hite diarrh ea, etc.) By Dr.
The Red Cross Is endeavoring to
supply trained leaders |a w ater safely
so far as Its facilities permit. To In
crease the effectiveness of this au I
other services, the Eleventh Annual
Roll Call, from Novem ber 11 to 24
will urge so enrollm ent of S.OOO.oOO
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Hear the New Columbia Viva Tonal Phonograph
Johnson.
Pouitrym en from a ll narta of l^ n e
New Steno— -‘I've added up these
She was only a w ndnw blind m anu County are Invited and urged to a t
columns ten times, sir.”
facturer's
daughter, hut she had a tend the Institute, according to the
Bos;— “Good for you."
county agent.
s
h
a
ly
reput&.ion.
“And here are the ten answers "
Take Your Pick
Wot's In a Name?
A Gift For the Home is a Gift For All
McMorran 1 Washburne
VISIT EUGENE’S GREATEST TOYLAND
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Whethei ;ou give an odd chair or an en* n.ire - uite of furniture remember this. A
gift to the home is a gift to all. Every member o tth e family will enjoy the gift you give.
Christmas time too. is a good time to refurnish your home. We have new stocks of
every kind of furniture. The styles are up to the minute; the prices down to rock bottom.
A Few Christmas Suggestions
Velour Davenport» ............................................................................. ......... $67.50
Mohair Davenport»........................................ ............................$86.00 to $115 00
Cogswell» Chair»
at ......................................................................... $31 GO up.
Sag Seat Chairs and Rocker« ................._..............................$15.75 to $19.75
Windsor
Floor
Bridge
Chairs
from ............................. ............................... $8.75 to $16 00
Lamp« ............................................ ............................- $9-85
to
Christmas Gifts In
Abundance
* 16 50
Lamp» .......................................................................... $6 -96 to $13-50
for every person you wish to remember in this new .
42-Piece Dinner Sets ....... ..................... ~................................. $8.90 to $12.75
China Dinner Set», 51-Piece..................................................... $28.00 to $39.50
MODERN. ATTRACTIVE SHOPPINO PLACE
Electric Waffle Iro n « ......... _................ ....................................... $7.50 to $18.00
Smoking Set« ............................................ ................................. $1 5 0 to $13.50
Plate Class M irro r« ..........,................. ............ - ....................... $3-75 to $10.50
Venetian M irro r« .......................................................................... $8-75 to $19.75
Here Und«r On« Roof You Can Advantageously Do All Your Christmas
Wright & Son
Shopping and Enjoy Every Minut« of IL
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