SUNSET TRAIL PAGEANT
SHAPING INTO MONSTER
WESTERN PERFORMANCE
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
E ugene, O regon, Ju ly IS (S pecial!
—T he S u n set T rail P a g ean t, to be
stag ed on H ayw ard field July 25, 26
and 27. will be th e m ost e la b o ra te
ou td o o r p erfo rm an ce e v e r seen In
O regon. It Is d ecla red by th o se who
have seen early re h e a rs a ls of the
huge show
A east of 1500 Is now
w orking n ightly on th e event, which
will d ep ict th e d evelopm ent of tile
O regon countrv fri m th e early, a l
most p re h is to r ic Maya days, on
through th e p resen t to a vision of
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.
The postoffice departn>»nt announc
ed recently that It has leased new
quarter» (or the office at Greehani
The 34th annual reunion of the
Tamhlli County Pioneer association
was held in the Dayton city park Sat
urday.
Thomas Henry Williams was ap
pointed justice of the peace of the
Pondosa medical springs district in
Colon county.
Louis E. Bean of Eugene, chairman
of the Oregon public service commis
sion died at Salem recently, following
a long Illness.
FI .mes swept the Stubblefield lum
her mill at Ix-hman Springs, a sum
mer resort about 80 miles south of
Pendleton and burned it to the ground
The Ingalls west side barns at Du-
fo r were com pletely destroyed by fire
THURSDAY, JULY IS, 192'»
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
PA O» SIX
the future.
One ot the o u tsta n d in g fe a tu re s of
the event will lie Hie huge stage It
self, which will he 240 feet long and
SO feet deep. It re p re s e n ts a scene
In a forest in O regon, w ith tall
m ountains In th e background
It
re a rs over 36 feet In the air, and will
give th e a p p e a ra n c e of u w hole
m ountain side covered w ith m ajestic
fir (Hies In one of th e m ost im prea
sive scen es two large t r e i s will bo
fallen, w ith re a l liim lierjncks sw ing
Ing axes and h an d lin g saw s.
T he p ag ean t will be offered each
t-veiilng. and sta rtin g prom ptly at
8:20. will last for an even tw o hours
w ithout a break
S ealin g capacity
| i f 10.000 eaeli night has b e e n arra n g e d
fur, an d Indications a re th a t alm ost
eaiwu 'ty crow ds wilt he p re se n t each
evening
T h» event Is Io lie fu ll'
covered liy (lie p ress of Hie sta le , as
a speeiul " p re ss box'' to hold 60 news-
w rite rs each evening, has been eon
stru etial III Ih c e n te r of the huge
stand.
O u tstan d in g d ra m a tic and m usical
{alent ot th e s ta le lias been d raw n on
for (lie pageant
Mrs Ihirls Sm ith,
of P o rtlan d K osarla fam e, will direct
th e p e rfo rm an ce; Jo h n S ta rk E vans,
professor of m usic al Hie University
of O regon, will have c h a rg e of the
eh o rils;
Mrs
M ildred
l.e t’om pte
Moore will d irect dancing, w hile lu
th e casi will he M a n ti'll N.Dana,
associati* ed ito r of th e OM »gnnlour-
nal, who will have the Iqadlnjrole
of p io n eer; Nancy T h lelem . disi
m ezzo soprano, will sing as "S |" )"-
w ea," and S idney Dixon, pnflur
radio ten o r from sln tln n K Jit iffihe
N ational llro a d iu sllu g com pany of
S entile.
Entries from all over tha Statuirò
ponding In for th e Plotieer and n-
d u atrlal parad es, the fo rm er to be bfl
F riday and the la lle r S atu rd ay
T h e a ir circ u s la alread y assu td
of at least fdl p lanes p re se n t to pad
c lp ate In races, slu m s ami o ilier fs
lu res. T ills will be an ev en t on $)•
day unii S u tu rila) aftern o o n s
M rs M argery S. Corbett-Ashby.
• I London, is chairman of (he In
ternational Women's Suffrage A l
liance which w ill celebrate its
twenty-hftb aaaivsraary ta Barlaa
seat June
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THURSTON
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The Ladies Aid society held a sil
ver tea at Mrs. Ibiul Jenkins last
Thursday afternoon.
USED
URNITURE
Mr. and Mrs. F ra n k C rum pton
from Ben-1 visited a t th e A. C. W'ca-
recently, with a loss of between $12,- ver home last Thursday.
Mrs.
000 and $15,000, partially covered by Crampton Is a niece of Mrs. Weaver
Insurance.
They are planning on moving back
The established price of 4 cents a into this valley.
pound for loganberries was broken at
Betty Gray, the small daughter of
Salem »hen Kay Mating of the Wood Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Gray of Lan-
burn cannery offered to take 300 tons dax. visited with relatives here last
of the product at 5 cents,
week.
A Jersey cow owned by J. H. Hil
The P T. A. is giving an ice cream
dreth of Scio. Linn county, gave birth
social at the hall here next Saturday-
to triplets recently. Two of the calves
evening. They are presenting the
weighed 3? pounds each and the third
play
“Looking Through an Old
33 pounds. All are well.
Album.”
Royal Anne cherry picking began on
Mr. and Mrs. Glysp of Oakland.
the Clarence Badger farm in the
Grand Island district recently. An California, are camping on Roy Bd-
average crop seems assured and will miston's place near the river for
their summer vacation. Mr. and Mrs.
be sold to the Newberg cannery.
Eleanor Sizemore. 3, died In a Med Heinie Adrian of Springfield visited
ford hospital from burnt received them Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Taylor Needham, who has
while she was attempting to light an
•11 stove lu her parents' home. Her been quite ill. is greatly improved and
dress caught fire from the flames.
Is able to be up now.
Date (or the second airport bond
Mrs. Rose Patton , of Pendleton,
electlou at Klamath Fails was set for visited her niece. Mrs. A. W. Weaver
August 8. The first airport bond last Wednesday.
election, held November 1. waa declar
Lafe Moore from Eugene visited
ed invalid because of a technicality.
his daughter, Mrs. Bert Weaver, here
A 16'A-pound rainbow trout, declar last Friday.
ed to be one of the best specimens of
Charles Donolson of Idaho, visited
large trout ever caught in Klamath
Ira Nice's home here last Wednesday.
county, waa hooked from the William
son river by G. R. Wells of Klamath He formerly resided here.
Mr. and Mrs. John Endicott and
Falls.
Waiter D. Bateman, 38. was killed Mr and Mrs. Ray Baugh and Mrs.
at.his farm home near Lebanon when John Edmiston attended the Walter-
a woodsaw which he was operating at vill district Sunday school conference
high speed flew to pieces. The car at Deerhorn last Sunday afternoon.
riage struck Bateman, crushing his
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UPPER WILLAMETTE
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Eugene enjoyed Its first buffalo hunt ♦
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ing pageant, broke out of its pen. visit
F. W. Smith, who the past two
ed in the neighborhood and chased a
years has made his home with his
score of golfers over the municipal
nephew, E. B. Tinker of Pleasant
links before it was captured.
Hill, left Sunday, July 14, by auto
A crop census of the delta diked
for San Diego, California, to visit his
lands near Scappci'te take.i by E. E.
daughter. Mrs. Robert Pratt. Later
Wist. Scappoose banker, shows that a
he intends to go by boat from San
total of 4088 acres are now planted
to crop, with an additional 500 acres Diego to New York via the Panama
Canal and across country to Saginaw,
being prepared for next year.
Michigan, his former home.
Tourists are sw aiming into Crater
The Lintons, who traded their
Lake national park at the rate of
moie than 1000 automobiles a day, ac ranch at Pleasant Hill last fall for
cording to rangers checking incoming a ranch at Orland, California, are
machines. From July 1 to July 5, a finding the climate pretty warm, with
a temperature of 104.
Owing to
total of 6022 cars were checked.
frosts
and
stray
summer
winds
they
Oregon increased just a bit in the
amount of Income taxes paid the fed have lost their fruit and nut crop for
eral government in the fiscal year this year.
1929, as compared with 1928, the fig
Andy Olson and Chris Telefson
ures for the two years being $5,902,- baled hay the forepart of the week.
675 in 1929 and $5,815,361 in 1928.
Frank Lemley is running the baler
Kernels of wheat t'aced by children this year. Al Davis. Jess Phelps.
in the gasoline tank of an automobile R. P. Lavil and P. N. [.aird have been
resulted in burns being suffered by busy getting their hay crops in the
Newell Vantassel of Terrebonne when barn.
an explosion occurred. Vantassel was
C. E. Curtis and son Merk. Henry
attempting to remove the wheat from Olson. Mr. Bock, and I!e:i Telefson
the tank through the drain when the are working on the bkl ng crew for
gasoline came in contact with a hot Frank Lemley.
exhaust pipe. The explosion scatter
Donald Kabler. Floyd John, and
ed flaming gasoline over Vanassel and
Alvin Olson, who are working on the
the car was considerably damaged.
baling crew for Harry Schrenck at
Meadow View, spent Sunday at their
T H E M ARKETS
homes in Pleasant Hill.
Portland
Mr. and Mrs. Cedi Wheeler are the
Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, hard
■white, (1.31*4; soft white, western proud parents of a baby girl, born
■white, $1.21; hard winter, northern July 1st.
W. P. Sheridan, principal of tthe
spring, western red, $1.17*4.
Hay—Alfalfa, $20 0 21 per ton; val public school at. Pleasant Hill, who
ley timothy, $22; eastern Orgeon tlm- has been In the forest service this
othey, $20 0 25; clover, $20; oats, $17; summer, has been forced to give up
his position and return to his home
oats and vetch, $17.
Butterfat—43@47c.
at Pleasant Hill on account of Infec
Eggs—Ranch, 30035c.
tion In his eyes, which has become
Cattle—Steers, good, $11.50012.50. j very serious and may force him to
Hogs—Good to choice, $11.7(012.50. . give up his school the coming year.
Lambs—Good to choice, $11013.
Mr. and Mrs Leland Ewbanks of
8s«ttl«
Santa Ana, California, visited at the
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Wheat—Soft white, weatern white, hoTne of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse A. Phelps
11.23; hard winter, weatern red, north last week, and then motored to Oak
ers spring, bulk Montana, No. 1, fl.SO; ridge and Bend on a fishing trip. Mr.
Waestem, $1.37.
Ewbanks Is a brother of Mrs. Phelps
Eggs—Ranch, 220310.
and formerly lived at Springfield.
Butterfat—47c.
A number of Pleasant Hill folks at- ;
C a ttle — Choice steers, $10.(0011.59 tended the Hill reunion picnic at
H ogs- Prime light, (12 75011.90.
Jasper last Saturday.
i Lambs—Choice, $11013(0.
Mrs. Fagle and daughter Anna are
Spokane
spending the summer at Yakima,
Cattle—Steers, good, $10.2(011.
Washington.
Hogs — Oood and choice, $12.250
Mrs. Grant Lattln preached at the ■
12 36.
Pleasant Hill Christian church last
Lambs—Choice, $10.75011.25.
Sunday. Harlry Benton wrlll deliver
the sermon next Sunday.
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R O W ER ’S Store is Overcrowded again and in order to make room
for the new stock we now have and for the new stock we have
coming we MUST SELL ALL OUR USED FURNITURE at once.
Accordingly, we have cut the prices far below the regular cost.
This Furniture is in good condition, much of it being nearly new
Come Early!
Ik-
because at these prices we will
have a quick SELL OUT!
$ 1 0 .7 5 to $ 6 7 .5 0
32 USED BEDS. PRICED FMOM
$ 3 .9 5 to $ 5 .9 5
19 USED MATTRESSES, PRICED FROM
$ 2 .5 0 to $ 7 .0 0
38 USED SPRINGS, PRICED FROM
$ 1 .4 5 »o $ 9 .5 0
22 USED DRESSERS, PRICED FROM
$ 8 .7 5 $ 2 7 .7 5
17 USED CHIFFONIERS, PRICED FROM
$ 7 .9 5 to $ 1 7 .5 0
$ 1 9 .9 5 to $ 3 9 .7 5
4 USED VANITIES, PRICED FROM
3 TAPESTRY OVERSTUFFED DAVENPORTS $ 2 3 .7 5 to $ 2 7 .7 5
5 OAK FRAME BED DAVENPORTS
$ 1 0 .0 0 to $ 1 7 .5 0
6 DOUBLE DAY BEDS. CRETONNE COVERED $ 8 .0 0 to $ 1 6 .0 0
9 WICKER BABY BUGGIES
$ 5 .0 0 to $ 1 5 .6 0
48 ROCKERS, ALL FINISHES ......................
$ 1 .5 0 to $ 8 .0 0
65 DINING CHAIRS, ALL FINISHES
85C to $ 2 .5 0
48 KITCHEN CHAIRS, ALL FINISHES
5OC to $ 1 .0 0
7 CHINA CABINETS
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$ 3 .9 5 to $ 1 7 .5 0
11 BUFFETS, ALL FINISHES ..................
$ 6 .5 0 to $ 2 0 .0 0
13 DINING TABLES, PRICED FROM
$ 4 .9 5 to $ 1 6 .0 0
9 LIBRARY DINING TABLES ...............
$ 3 .9 5 to $ 1 1 .5 0
12 LIVING ROOM CHAIRS
$ 7 .7 5 to $ 3 0 .0 0
13 RANGES. PRICED FROM
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AND IN FACT ANY ARTICLE YOU COULD WISH FOR
TO FURNISH YOUR HOME COMPLETE.
(ALL ADVERTISED ARTICLES SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE)
Terms o f
Real
Convenience
POW ERS
Furniture Company
Eleventh and Willamette
Eugene
U se
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