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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
Published Every Thureday at
Springfield. Lane County. Oregon, by
T H E W IL L A M E T T E PRESS
A m otorist fined $25 fo r a traffic violation sent
an e x tra $25 to th e court because th e policem an
who had given him a sum m ons was so polite to
him. T h a t's w hat we call the height of apprécia- !
tion!
M A IL SU B S C R IP TIO N RATE
One year In Advance--------»1.15 Three Months
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Btx M onths_______________»1.00 Single C o p y ________ be
THURSDAY JULY 26. 1928
T he m ovem ent in favor of adding an o th e r
m onth to tin* calendar is gaining headw ay. Must
be sponsored by landlords!
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600 ICE CREAM CONES
GIVEN AWAY ON FIRST
DAY AT NEW STATION
Home Education
"Ths Child's First School le th s Family"— Fro»»:el
Issued by the N ations! Kltidargartoh Aaaorlallon, 8 Waal loth
S treet, New York City. T h ese article« are appearing w eekly Io
our culuiun«.
H . E M A X E Y . Editor.
Entered as second class m atter, February 24, ISO) at the
postonica. Springfield. Oregon
THURSDAY JULY 26. 1 »28
Giving uwuy Ice cream an a feature
of the opening of hla new service
■ tutIon at the corner of Second and
Multi Htreeta proved u su ecessfal plan,
Lum F. Anderson reported Monday.
The new ntatlon. which la Just com
plctcil, waa opened Sunday.
FOOLISH MOTHERS
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Helen Qrepg Qreen
Aunt Emmy Lou »nil I dropped In • able In an elghl-yextr-old
I »hull
•I Nunn « an uh«' w as (InlMhlng a con have Io inuke mynelf over And I'm
vernation with Teddy'» teacher.
»ure Teddy'» father will help me, I
"I'm eo norry you are having nil cun nee now Hint he hna often felt
,hlH trouble with Teddy," Nana arm baffled by Teddy'» behavior. I know
’ P*th,«ed. “I can appreciate Just how whnl I'll do. I'll have Jim take a vaca­
you
" looking over her shoulder tion, and we'll begin right away."
I severely at the offender "I Just can't
"You're eight yearn too late,” Aunt
do a thing with him myaelt."
Emmy Lou remarked, »till fain tly re­
Teddy nhnnibled from the room, ns
proachful. "but among you—you cun
Nana said goodbye There were tears
nectire hla teacher'a aid you can
In her ey es an nhe flung out, "Oh,
work wonder»,"
Aunt Emmy Lou, you are no wine,
Aunt Emmy l.nu and I ntarled to
tell me whnl Io do with Teddy. He rise
need» his fnlher so badly."
"I've been only an onlooker. Naim."
"I'll tell you whnl to do with your­
I
»aid encouragingly, "but I heartily
self. \ ’ana Jane Luce," Aunt Emmy
approve."
,x>u »napped "You'll have to make
"Imagine my Maying. "I can t do a
?Z«ri*» moth" "
thing with hint," Nana replied, »mil
"Make m yself over?" Nana repeat- fag
S e n a to r C urtis will be officially notified of his
nom ination for V ice-President on A ugust 18. W e'
hope he ap p ears properly surprised.
s e e
More than «100 patron» called at the
■ tatIon during Hie day.
Each pur-
i hunvr mid the occupants of hla car
were given free Ice cream Four girls
were kept buay from 8 o clock Sunday
morning until 10 o'clock at night pann­
ing out the cooling aubatanca.
Although he »till Iru« Improvements
to make at the ntatlon, Mr. Anderson
la now open for bualneaa. He will re­
ceive more equipment noon and In a
short lim e m ill add a grease rack and
equipm ent for repairing Urea He will
al«o handle sm all ucreHaorlea and In­
ner turbe«
Mr. Andi't-Non formerly »»« pro­
prietor of Hie A alrsst aervlcs station
and later built und operated a sim ilar
plant al the corner of T hirteenth ave­
nue and High street In Eugene.
WE W ild. GBT T H E ROADS IP WE VOTE TO
Gene TUBney and Tom H eeney a re preparing
PR O TEC T T H E STA TE HIGHWAY FUNDS.
for th eir cham pionship hnttle ton ig h t. They
If th e p rese n t autom obile license law is not w on’t he allowed to bring th eir hooks to the ring.
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changed m oney will be available and will be used
for early com pletion of the McKenzie highw ay, j
Coast highw ay and W illam ette highw ay, so the 1
highw ay com m ission prom ised th e county court !
and Lane county cham ber of com m erce last Fri­
day. T h e com m ission cam e to Eugene and met i
w ith the local organizations for the purpose of YOU CON'T H IT THE HIGH
SPOTS ALL
talking over the road situation here.
THE TIME
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,
Many rum ors have gone about th e county in
SeprS^V<'n.t h T ^ w rwer2
to Florence, the com pletion of th e road to O ak- r i ' tim
es » ? fl*n i
4mT8
8eenu’d drab and u ninteresting.
ridge which is now being worked on w ith county f And she to u ld n t see th e vision
ision nor
nor envlsav«»
en visage the
the ed "Whai do you mean?"
m oney, and the w idth of right-of-w ay on th e Me- I ideal. Life w as just plodding.
"W ell, when Teddy wan a mere CITY MAY PURCHASE NEW
MRS. FERROL PERKINS.
Kenzie highw ay. T he com m ission show ed a dis- j
,
position to w ork all these problem s out to th e J.
" h y not? T h a t is th e hum an lot and we baby, you began giving In to every
FORMER RESIDENT. DIES
ELECTRIC FIRE SIREN
little whim and wl»h
You used to
satisfaction of the people of Lane county.
" aa a s web accept it.
DB.FRANK GBANESAÏS
nay. 'He'» no cute. I can't renlnt let
Word him recently been received in
Lane county has the m ajor portion of th e un- j " e a J?’ fo rtu n a te if we get the vision once in a ting him have hln way.' You were 1 Springfield may have a new fire
aíren that < an be heurd for tnllea Springfield of the death of Mr« Fer
com pleted sta te highw ays in W estern O regon *
“ o‘ cassionally we stan d on he m ountain never —
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firm .......
with ...............
him. A lw
ays hln will
rol I’erkln«. form erly a resident of
A fter being assured now by th e th re e m em bers ,°P* hatbed in th e sunlight, and look out over th e won out. if he <>nlv fanned long amt “ " >uni
thia city. She died In lx»a A ngeles
A
High
powered
Sterling
»Iren
In
future.
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of the highw ay com m ission th a t these roads will *J*lu re '. M ost of th e tim e we have to travel loud enough Hr realised your weak­
now Installed In the old bell tow er ° n Sunday, July 1 Friend» re c e lv e l
be built, it behooves us to keep the autom obile j th rough the valley of the shadow ,
n ess, Nana
The Idea of a child rul­ at the city hall where It will be tested 1,h e
on,v ,h l" WB"h
m other!"
license fee a s it is a t least for tw o or th re e years J In m ost N orth tem p erate clim ates rain is in -i ing « hln
out by the city.
.
| Mr». Perkin« lived her«' with her
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m ore
terminglBd with sunshine and. a s the poet e x - 1 . ¿ V 7 °
7 7 ,7 7
w'd’'
It w in n ecessary to run a line of i husband and son. Jack, for several
,
" ' . w h ,t vouW 1 d° r ,,h’< asked high
voltage to the tow er In order to ; y ,,,r " About a year ago the fam ily
Many counties of th e s ta te have all th e sta te .'p r e s s e d it. "In to each life som e rain m i s i f a l l ” I ......W!
HI» father wan away so much and I
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,
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,o l«o» Angele«. She la aur-
road they a re going to get. The residents of these
counties who are not broad m inded enough to i r e c k o n in g
W e C a n n o t *h V ’
’" 7 7
dead ,
'* ,h* i"1'1'
*"<’d «n,i «wc.-t (()|() |(n)< not
h)(jh
i vived hy Mr Perkin» and the »on.
concede som ething to Lane county “ which is now
»"wavs and Hfa
T
Vto‘° n ° f . l “ t end .r , n a «
r
,
,h"
! K“n"r"1
holding th e sack " w ith not a com pleted s ta te fu tu re steps tak en by faith in°the d ^ k " ’* We nr - ,,h .......Th" "lr”n “» ,r"»‘ '•
«' »moi wor’‘ h,’ld
",,u' h,rn Calltomu
highw ay except th e Pacific highw ay, will vote for fo rtu n a te Pif once"
clouds sweet" with him all the tim e, what kind ot and If purchased will replace the use ¡ c ,,y '
a disposition would he have had?"
.o f the w histle at the Kooth-Ketly mill.
a reduction of low er lic e n se 'fe e . We m ust in aw ay and we can glim pse the goal
'
"I don't know; I thing hla d isp osi­
Brlda Qlvan Sbowar
L ane county pile up a su b sta n tia l m ajority a g a in s t,
H
A m iscellaneous show er waa given
T on sils Aomovad
th e proposed change. If we do not we will be
Life is rhythm . It has its ups and dow ns and tion might have been belter." Aunt
for Ml«« N ellie Hickman at the home
bum ping over bad roads for m any years to come, the best thing we can do is to say in the language Emmy Lou fairly bit off the words.
The sm all son of Mr. and Mri. of Mr« 8 K Moakop last Wndneaday
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, ° f th e old negro hym n. “ I'm som etim es up and "It really couldn't be any worse thau
Frank Miles of Jasper underwent an
. ; som etim es down, but still niy soul is heavenlv It la. And I do know he would have operation for the rem oval of rla ton­ afternoon Thome prenent were: Max
Final plans w ere laid in St. Louis by th e newly jb o u n d .”
J i had more character and aelf-dlaclpllne
Ine W heeler, Kthelyn Stark. Maxine
and a lot more respect for hla sils last Saturday In the office of a Poaey, Emma Sm ith. Margaret Swarta.
formed
Sm
ith
A
ssociation
of
th
e
World
for
a
gigantic p arty to which nearly 2,000 000 Ameri- ' l a J i S r t c h e ? of ï u î ' l i Î Î r e o t i / Ï S Î t ï ï i " 1 T hen ’ "“" h " ”
local physician The little non o f Mr.
cans nam ed Sm ith will be invited. T his will pro- ; ¡8 sh o wn Our slaving niiniitv a «,t
„ l.iu
.
"Oh’ Aunt En,my Lou."— the usually
bably be the first p arty in history a t which people pursue a goa] by fajtb
j ; . ’ . . , r a b i l , t y t o ■ equable Nana began io be im pressed,
w on’t becom e em barrassed try in g to recall each
... „ann . h ...
— "surely it i«n t as had a» that!"
o t h e r ’s n a m e s
w e ent.
cannot
' e the not
glory
and
the ecstacy
. you ,u"‘ ”' 11 ,he ' e“,h,’r
o th e r s nam es.
m om
We a a could
stan
d it.
No m an everv
can ' .
live in a s ta te of perpetual intoxication. He m ust 1 7 ,
' h” you ,oul,,n’* <,° a
At N orth P latte. Neb., Colonel C harles A. Lind- get hls feet down to the ground once in a while ¿ 7 7 . 7 . 7 7 , 7 ’ Aun' K," 'ny Lou
a«ked critically.
bergh, presen tin g a check a t a re sta u ra n t counter, j an<* Just Plug along.
"Why. why—" Nana healtated. at
was greeted with this refusal: ‘‘Colonel C harles A
We have the com fort of know ing th a t nothing
Lindbergh? N ever heard of h im !” We w onder if lasts forever and if ou r mood is depressed a fte r last realizing how fooll«h «he had
been. "I believe I did. Oh. why haven I
a while it will pass aw ay.
th ey know th e w ar is over!
I been firm? I guea« you're r.ght
You cannot hit the high spots all th e tim e.
What waa cute In a haltv 1« dlN:)gre«-
C
onverts begin th eir religiouh life usually in a
Every tfm e we eo into the T hree S isters peaks
.« of « enthusiasm
.i... ,
_ . They a re keyed up to higli
area we are m ore th a n ever convinced th a t it has blaze
ou tstan d in g n a tu ra l c h a ra c te ristic s 'h a t lustifv Pltcb anfl undergo an em otional ecstacy.
if heine o.pde into a N ational park. This we be-
It is afterw ard th a t th e tefJt
lieve is bound to com e even if not in this genera- required to tak e up th e affairs of daily life which
tion.
are perhaps hum drum and u ninteresting. They
crave em otion, but em otion is an occasional ex­
They last a t lea^t tw o years
At last th e w eath er has becom e warm enough perience and not perm anent. In their daily life
and cost 3c per day. Silk
to give th e women an excuse for going bare leg- , 7 er,P niust bp steady application of th e tru th s
hose for 2 y ears cost 3
ged. But we fear th e law will not perm it them to thp-v have learned in those rare m om ents of
about 12 cen ts per day, a
go any fa rth e r san s clothing even if it becom es ec®facy. so m any of them backslide,
m a n ’s su it o r w om an’s
hotter.
i
ri Quitting a bad h ab it very often we m ake a
dress co sts 15 cen ts pi r day
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vow or sign a pledge in a m om ent of enthusiasm
and neckties cost 6 c e n ts
.
which is very hard to keep in th e succeeding
per day, tw ice as m uch as
Now than an edict perm its women of B osn'a to m om ents of drabness,
the glasses.
go about unveiled. Bosnian women m ay lose th eir . T he best m oral quality is th e quality of stick- i
reputation for beautv!
to-it-ive-ness, the quality of hanging on and doing
T hese a r e in te restin g
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rig h t when th ere are no drum s beating no r horns
facts a n d com parisons.
blowing.
D on’t add up th e pennies,
Sued for divorce, a New Y ork w om an ended her
So in the m arriage relation, we begin in a b u r s t ' but add to your eyesight
life. Som e people c a n ’t stan d good fortune!
of love and violent affection w hat m ust be kept up
with good glasses.
th rough days of perhaps u n in te restin g detail.
A m an m ay know a hundred languages and still
So the Bible tells us th a t it is th e overcom ers
who shall be given th e rew ard.
be unable to say “ No” In any of them .
Eye glasses at
$25 Are Cheap
!
Dr. Ella G. Meade
O p t o m e t r is t
I THE FUMBLE FAMILY
By DUNKEL J
WATTS OPTICAL CO.
No 14 v Ave. West
E ueere, Oregon
Mr«. Pearl Vaahy, Mrn John * llalaey
and Mrs T. J Sprinkle underwent a Mlaa Mildred Gate». Mia« Heasle Slew-
alinllar operation at the sam e office art. Audrey McFurlafld. Eileen Schan
Monday morning
tol. Mr« Mmtkop and Ml«« Hickman
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Ic e C ream !
T his Is the w e a th er when n othing tak es the place of Ice
cream . It hits the spot right aw ay and cools down the
system . It is th e m ost healthful food you cau eat in hot
w eather. It's noruishlng too. and also pure ar.d wholesome.
Lggim anii m akes his own ice cream . He g u a ra n tee s
It to be good. T here is a big asso rtm en t of soft drink th irst
quenchers alw ays on tap here.
Follow th e crow d to
F G G IM A N N ’ S
"Where the Service is Different" V X
Does Y our W ife
D rive the
Car
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W hen she bids you good-bye and drives aw ay do you take
a m ental inventory of the c a r’s equipm ent and "g u ess" th a t
they will carry her safely and w ith o u t tro u b le ?
You can tru s t th e safety and service of Solvertow ns an y ­
w here and any tim e. Your c ar should have these w onderful
tire s as an e x tra safeguard to insure dependable perform ­
ance.
Wm. Rodenbough
‘‘Everything Automotive”
553 Main Street
Springfield, Oregon
Phone 95