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T ry the H o m e P rin t Shop F i n t THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS TW EN TY -FIFTH YEAH 3 SCHOOLS REACH HEW ENROLLMENTS Inspects L ocal S ite For N ew P a lp M ill Oregon Frame and Moulding Concern to Start Operations Next Monday Morning Total of 601 Students Sign Up for Fall Term on First Day of A business which will add to Spring 1 School;Brattain, Lincoln and field’s payroll and which will put In High School All Set New use a lumber manufacturing plant Marks; Lincoln Leads List. which has stood Idle for inure than a New York Paper Mill Manager Proposes to Form Company to Build Mill in Springfield A L IV E NEW SPAPER IN A L IV E TO W N NUMBER 37 HPHINOFIKLD. LANE COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY, S K IT EMBER 20, 192k N ew C om pany To H ave P la n t H ere "The People'« Paper" Meet Miss Trum bull BRIDGE FILLS WILL BE MADE THIS FALL Contract for Roadway on Ea«t and West Approach to ba Let at Meeting of Highway Com mission September 25; Fills Will Have No Openings. Prospects for the starting of a pulp and paper mill In Springfield ara bright with the Inspection of the site here by Fred Kruse, formerly man r f ^ e m T T r u L b S ^ C^nnecu, A tb* «»* * * ager of a large plant at Oswega, New cut and alleged fiancee of Joha the roadway on both approaches ot York, and other eastern mills Mr. ^ d ' ^ r a ^ f r ^ r ’r i ' thp «Prlngfield bridge will be let at Kruse, who has visited a number of the September 25 meeting of the high* other cities In the west, expressed cent European trip. ---------------------------- t way commission according to tha an» himself as pleased with the site shown nouncement of Judge C. P Barnard, him on the Industrial tract just east , FOOTBALL TEAM HAS FIRST CONFERENCE; who has received the plans and speck* of the city limits. He proposes to form a pulp and 1 LETTERMEN ON DECK. notions for the work. Both ap> paper mill company to build a mill j -------- , proaches will be solid earth fills with in Lane county. Mr. Krnse Is working i With moleskins and Jerseys tucked no openlnga The roartway wll, b . In conjunction with the Eugene cham under their arms, Springfield high feet wide and the west approach will b**r of Commerce and T. J. Flippin. Jr . 1 school football men ended their first . ... . __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , j he a wye, division starting about se< retary nt that body, acc ompanied conference with their coach. Leonard u ~ u the . ____ half way between the end of the con» him In the Inspection of the Spring- Mayfield, Monday evening, Crete approach and the Pacific h?b» field site. They were told that practice is to I way. It Is Mr. Kruse's idea to make wrap- stqrt at once, since tentative games Much Filling to be Done ping papers by mixing mill waste with have already been arranged. No hemlock and white fir pulp wood. He ! schedule was available this week | Work of building the roadway la expected to start as soon as the con» expects to find plenty of the raw ma- however. tract is let. Provision is made that terlal close at hand and believes with Among the letter men who will form the fill material on the Sprtngfio 4 a location on the main line rallroa-1 the bulwark of the team are: Everett end shall be taken from the g-avel and with plenty of fresh water a mill and Freeman Squires, Don Palmer, bar In the river. About 3900 cubic using the mechanical grinding pro- Laurence Roof, Jack Danner, Frances . . . . . . . . _ . _ . , ,, yards is required to build the fill a cess would be successful at this point. Deeds, Read Hemenway, LaVerne 7 Information on wood supply and Lawson and Thayer McMurray. All | 1 8 en ° * e r ge' On the west side of the river about Springfield as a feasible paper mill of these made good showings last year i site has been furnished him by H. E and are looked to this year by the - Maxey, chairman of the Springfield coach to make a name In the high bfjd e a roach A heavy *iU Industrial and park committee. Meet- school conference. 1 ® the rn/rfwsv Ings of the Eugene and Springfield ! Last year against the odds of a * ” ad8 for * * ro“fiW!”r Chamber of Commerce committees ' "green” team. Coach Mayfield pro- an ’ e 08 * a[ea ° * .W.^ ' with Mr. Kruse to go Into the details duced a good team, although the re- c” lng , * ,PJ J* of the organization will be held In a cord for victories during the season ' coun y cour y e g a. .w as not brilliant. With an experten- KlnPers few days. .• .v year, - fans f The county z court had asked rh« ced , lineup this are in^vmr looking L . „„„ a i highway department that the concre-.e i for some good games. SPRINGFIELD p . T. A. approach be extended on the w -¡t A PD IN G FIELD REALTO RS end ot the bridge and open,ng8 be TO ELECT SECRETARY S P R IN G F IE L D R t A L l U K b ,n fl„ ThJg hag beeR refu8 ,4 year will open here next Monday. I AU TOO* ft »1 Here's George Zinn, Jr., of Kydal, The Oregon Frame and Moulding 186 company has leaned the mill formerly ■ Pa., the youngest entrant in the High school transcontinental air races from New 60 ran under the name of the Cascade York to Los Angeles, ............r.8 j Manufa< luring company which was SpolininoiHH . 33 closed down u year nr more ago when Frank Anderson, It» manager, was 36 Seniors « 210 seriously hurt when a piece of flying HIGH SCHOOL CLASS 32 1 emery struck him on the head. OFFICERS ELECTED; Flret b O. W. Storey heads the new com Keuoiid B II ROOF SENIOR HEAD puny and will act as manager of the 12 Third II ........ 32 new business. K. W. Holmes of Port Fourth B Three < lasses of Springfield high land and John Oreden of Springfield 21 Fourth A school elected officers when thev met 19 are the other members of the com Sixth A puny. Mr. Oreden will be engaged In for the first time Monday uf-rnoon Junior High Lawrence Roof will head t h e 36 the,work here. graduating class as president this Sis Men Employed Eixhlh II ......« 33 1 12 1 Hix men will be employed at the year. Don Palmer was elected vice- Eighth A plant to start with. Thia number will president and Nadine McMurray sec Brattaln SchiMil ................. 205 Eh Ht 2< be lucreused us the hualneas justifies retary-treasurer. Miss Clara Wagner, Second ................... ..... . 22 It, Mr. Storey stated. Wthln a short advisor for the same classmen as time It Is expected that at least a Juniors last year, will serve In that 1. Third B 82 doxen men will he at work regularly In rapacity during their final year of Third A high achool. 29 the mill. Flfi h M Mr. Storey has been In the frame 18 Firth A The Juniors elected F r e e m a n S ix th R 35 and moulding business for the past 20 Squires president. Coy Leathers, vice- Total enrollment, all arhools, .. 601 years, lurgely In Oregon. Mr. Holme« president, Ruth Bettis, secretary- Is an Investor and will take no active treasurer and Audrey Smith, social 1-1 rat day's enrollment In the three 1 part In the conduct of the buslnesa promoter. » Springfield school* totaled 601 here. Mr. Oreden la an experienced Ruth Carlton was named president Thia was the largest reglstration mill man. of the sophomore class. John Lynch, for the first day in the hlatory of local The office of the company will be In vice-president and Fay Parsons, sec arboola, according to record« of Prin the mill where a room was partitioned cipal A. J. Morgan of the high school, off this week. A loading dock along retary-treasurer. Both the Junior and aophomore Principal laiurence Moffitt of the Lin side the spur track was built tliia classes elected Miss Maurlne Lom coln school and Mrs. Ora Read Hemen- week. bard as class advisor and one or the wny, principal of the Brattaln school. The company will manufacture Lincoln school led the list In enroll Douglas fir, with all of the product other must choose another leader at ment total, but only by a margin of going to outside markets, chiefly In a later meeting. Freshmen failed to elect officers be Are over the Rrattaln school The the east. AND DELEGATE FRIDAY former school's records show 210 reg cause they were not well enough ac REPORT GROWING SALES bv the engineers and to keep from istered on Monday and those at lh- quainted with each other. A long -------- ¡holding up progress on the opening of Election of a delegate to the state LIONS CLUB TROOP Real estate transactions are becom- the bridge the county court will not grammar school show 20S. The high list of nominations was made and the Parent-Teacher Association conven lng more numerous as the fall season j fartber protest the matter when the OF BOY SCOUTS TO school enrollment reached 1H6 a new staff of officer« will be chosen from tion In Portland on October 17 and gets under way, Springfield realtors commualon meets on September 26. high figure for the opening day of HAVE FOUR PATROLS thia group later. naming of a secretary will be on the j reported this week. ; according to Judge C. P- Barnard. the first week of the fall term. order of business for the first meet The W. W. Walker realty company Engineers V isit Court Records are B e tte r Enrollment In the Lions club troop i BROTHER AND SISTER ing of the Springfield P.-T. A. this reported two transfers of property on I at st year the first day the total of Springfield Boy Scouts will be In-’ Roy Klein, state highway engineer, school year. The session will be held MEET FOR FIRST TIME Tuesday. enrollment of all schools was 648 : creased from tBree to four troops to | and J. S. Sawyer, district engineer at the Lincoln building at 3 o’clock Rrattaln school led the list then with provide training for 33 Instead of 25 IN THE PAST 36 YEARS Friday afternoon, according to Mrs. I , \ Fifth and K con,erence W,th the C0U” t7 C° Urt approximately ISO registered Lincoln boys. It wan decided at an executive Pratt Holveraon. who last spring was Jeph' ott ¡ Z ^ h e newly M° nday’ deClar<?d that the comm,"s oa For the first time In the past 36 elected president of the organization. I 8treets- “ e was second with approximately 186 Hesalon of the troop committee which “ ha” aIready mide up ,t8 mlnd to hav® acquired residence. the earthen fill. They also declared and the high school total was 178. followed a visit to the troop last night years a brother and sister met here The election of a secretary Is oc D. F. Seamans, who has Just re- tkat a concrete approach would have In each school there will be more Leaders of the troop have for some this week. casioned by the resignation this suin- students before the fall term la far time felt that holding the troop en When Mrs Lizzy Williams arrived m « r n r M r . P r . n i - whn turned from a two n,onth’8 vl8lt to little advantage over the dirt fill for har -e1^ d he^r m Z M‘88OUrl bought the W,,,ard A GroUl the reason that the low openings la along Last year 26 names were add rollment to three patrols was curtail here from Lone Rock. Wisconsin, to Chosen to that office at the regular ! re8ldence on E street between Ninth the concrete work would soon become ed to the high school roster before ing the activity of scouting, so pro- ' visit her brother. J. H. Hickman of cho.en electlon time. and Tenth. the mid venr The average attendance vision was made for four patrols The Springfield, they greeted each other filled with logs and dTiftwood and Mrs. Holveraon announced that she i for the year at the Rrattaln was about new arrangement will take effect at since not having been together for al form as much of a dam as a dirt fill. will appoint committees for the year. 200 and (he Lincoln figure was about once. most two score years. 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF The biriiding of the approaches to the same by Christmas. , Laurencg M offll, recently elected us- HERRINGTONS RECALLED the bridge this fall is received with Mrs Williams, who is here to visit Usually the classes In the high ' sistant scoutmaster of the troop, will her brother and his family, is accom LIONS ARE FOR HOOVER -------- ' considerable satisfaction as it had school run front freshmen down to assist In handling the work of the panied by her son. They will be here BY RATIO OF 19 TO 1 With an informal family dinner at been reported that the engineering de- seniors In the number enrolled. This boys. their home Just north of this city, partment did not expect to do thU for several days. A straw vote taken by the Spring- • Mr and Mfg pete Herrington Sunday work until next year. The finishing year, however, the aenlors outnumber There are now 22 boya actively en- the Juniors hv two unri there are only ! rolled In the troop and leaders assert FOUR DEER HUNTERS field News as a part of the national celebrated tbejr «jth wedding anniver- of the bridge structure early by the newspaper poll In the Springfield <lllrv contractors has speeded up the time two more freshmen thnn sophomores. | that others are awaiting an opportun BRING BACK TWO BUCKS Lions club last Friday resulted in an„ Mr8 Arthur j. Mannaugh when the bridge might be put to use. Classes Get Started ity to come In. vote of 19» to 1I In favor of Herbert | an(J 4allKhtert Ardalh, Mr and Mr«, j Classes got tinder way at the Brat- At least four deer hunters of Hoover, republican candidate t ° r !'m n k tain school Monday and at the Lin HOUSE AND BARN BURN Frank Root, all of Eugene, and Mr. R. B. HEALY OF COBURG Springfield had brought in game by coln and high schools Tuesday. There and Mrs. W. A. Taylor of Springfield ON L. K. PAGE'S PLACE Monday of this week. SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS Springfield will vote In November Al ! were guests. The three women are ; wna no congestion of classes except tn William Rodenbough and Wilbur Smith wont get many votes in the one or two eases. At the Brattaln daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Herrington. , Robert Bruce Healy. 74. who lived A house and barn, valued together school the third grade was too large at l&OO, were completely destroyed ! Lloyd went to the Sluslaw country . city’s four preclnces. Mr. Herrington is a building con- near ^oburg for tbe paat 37 year«, so a third grade wns formed In the last Friday afternoon. The property last week-end where they hunted on j W. K. Barnell was elected a member tractor and recently has built three | d,ed at tbe {ami,y home Monday fol- Lincoln building Pupils of this grade belonged to L. K. l’âge and was ' the high ridges between the Smith and of the Troop 11 Boy Scout committee. new houses and remodeled two old Iow,nff a long lnne8S He came to living nearest the Lincoln school will located about one half a mî?e beyond Sluslaw rivers. They bagged a fine ty the club. Reports of several more ones between Sixth and Seventh am} Qregon at (be age of 11 years and to buck and reported there were many committees were heard. go there Instead of the Brattlan The north city limita. Main and, A streets here for Mr. Lanfl county ¡„ lg91 deer in the wild country of that vici fourth R of the Lincoln school was A straw-stack near the place was , Taylor. Survivors are his widow, five chll* Car Hit« Truck slightly too large nnd wna divided up. set fire and got from the control of nity. Both got a shot at the deer and ----------------------------- drefi, Mrs. W. E. Grimes, Pengra, Mrs. both scored a hit, but Mr. Rodenbough It Is not thought there will be any workmen, reaching the house before An automobile driven by Mrs. W. LANE COUNTY PIONEER Thomas Ayers, Eugene, Delmar Healy, other shift« In nrrnngement of grades the Springfield fire department could gives his companion credit for falling H. Pollard struck the rear wheel of a PASSES AT ACE OF 83 Marcola. Mrs. Ed Dempsey. Mabel and the animal. during the remainder of the year. sand and gravel truck at the Fifth and r nu-h the scene. When the truck old -------- Frank Healy, Veneta, seven grand* At the high school all students and arrive, firemen found that there was Harry Fandrem and Frank Sldwell A street Intersection Wednesday after After residing in the Coburg dis- j children and a brother, J. H. Healy faculty membera attended the first no water there nnd could do nothing 1 returned Sunday from eastern Oregon noon. The front bumpers were broken trict since 1862, John J. Thomas, 83, of Culver and a sister, Mrs. Viola assembly of the year at which Mr. to nave the house. The blaae was with a mule deer which was shot off the car and the frame bent but died at his home Monday. .Arnold of Sisters. the truck was undamaged. Morgan welcomed the teachers and prevented from spreading, however. near Prineville. He crossed the plains by ox team in , Funeral services were held at the pupils at the beginning of the fall A grass fire was reported at Ninth 1852, settling with his parents near family home Wednesday afternoon work. and D streets on the same day. It Coburg where he has lived ever since. • with Rev. 8. E. Childers, pastor ot did no damage. ______ __ M w WWW w wwww» He 18 s“’’vlved by “ number otjttae Springfield Christian church, of* DEER HUNTER KILLED AS nePhews and nleces in that district. ' ficlating. Interment was In the Alford HE FALLS OVER CLIFF OCTOBER 21 IS SET FOR He was born at Van Buren. Illinois, cemetery, with the Walker-Poole July 29. 1845. Funeral arrangements funeral home of Eugene In charge ot CHRISTIAN RALLY DAY Building Regulations, Planning 214 employes of 55 establishments. Falling over a precipice while hunt The principal manufactories have a were In charge of the Veatch funeral arrangements. ing deer In the Cascade mountains Commission and Big Public home of Eugene. i total of about $289,560. October 21 has been definitely set near Blue river, Benjamlne C. Carr, Park are Suggested Industrial Sites Lauded as “rally day" at tho Springfield 3R, a Southern Pacific locomotive en EMPLOYERS URGED TO Returns from Mount Hood Springfield has some splendid In gineer who resided In Eugene, was In Christian church, It was announced Several recommedatlons looking dustrlal sites. Parts of these ftrtas George Stewart, bridge builder, has Mondny evening following u confer HAVE THEIR WORKMEN stantly killed last Saturday. forward to the Improvement of Spring will be granted free to the proper returned from several weeks spent on In company with C. H. Orunlng and ence of Sunday school workers. Ef field and summarizing this city’s as REGISTER FOR VOTING type of manufacturing establishment'!. the Mount Hood Loop road. He was Fred Orunlng, Mr. Carr had been hunt fort Is made on this day to have the sets are Included in the I*ane county Springfield ranks first In the county engaged building a bridge over White Merchants, factory operators, saw ing deer all day. A buck had Just largest attendance of any Sunday dur Industrial survey Just completed by ,n Innlbpr cariOadlngs ! River about three miles below White ing Ihe year. Last year the number mill owners and other employers aie been sighted and Mr. Carr started the University of Oregon school of jn carioadlngs. Springfield is ! River glacier. The bridge was built j being urged to see that their em down the trail nt a run. He slipped reached 404 nnd fit Is oxpected that business administration in cooperatton 8econdi EnKpne exceeds it by a very out of hewn logs and Is a structure this total will be exceeded this year. ployees are registered, so that nnd fell over the cliff nnd rolled to 1 strong enough to withstand the heavy j A double mnle quartet nnd the with the Eugene chamber of com- smaR margin they may vote at the coming elec the bottom of the ennyon below. When merce. The population of Springfield has In- floods from the high mountain area. tion. by the County Republican his companions reached him, ho wns church orchestra will furnish the , creased five and one-half times since Hero Is the Springfield summary: Central committee. A drive to get dend. He Is survived by his widow speclnl musical features for the day. Brother Is Injured O('her speclnl events are also being A revision of the present building 1890. the report shows, while that of every adult citizen In the county nnd his mother. I the United States as a whole has less Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sherman left planned. regulations is suggested. registered Is being made by the than doubled. Eugene’s population here Tuesday for Everett, Washing central committee. D rill Team Convene« A city planning commission is has Increased 11 times during the ton, after they had received word that Going to Roundup Everyone who has not voted in Mrs. Clnrn Snodgrass. Mrs. Clara urged. same period. Edward Sherman, brother of the local Among Springfield people who will the last two years must register in Walker nnd Miss Edna »warts enter It Is suggested that a public park, The exhaustive survey of more thnn man. wan In a hospital there in a order to vote at the coming elec tained members of the Progressive 22, attend the annual Pendleton Roundup with adequate bathing facilities he 125 pages covers every phase of In critical condition following an auto tion. drill team of the Rebekah lodge at a are: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nesblt., established along the banks of the dustry In the county, going Into detail mobile accident. The man Is suffering Harry Wright, Carey Thomson, Mr. Everyone who has changed his meeting last Friday evening. A busi Willamette river. with suggestions and summarising In from a fractured arm and leg. a skull precinct since last voting must ness meeting and regular drill prac and Mrs. Wayne Clover, Mr. and Mrs. The annual payroll and commercial concrete form the resources of the fracture and Internal Injuries and was reglater. tice were held. Refreshments wore W. M. Goodman, Mr. and Mrs. Oeorge not expected to live. j Perkins and Jamea Higgins of Jasper. payroll approximates $341,166 for the ^county. served by tbe three hostesses. F lre t Day E n ro llm e n t Totals SPRINGFIELD BOOSTED BY NE^r COUNTY- ^VlDE SU RVEY