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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
SPHINCFIKLO, LANE COUNTY, OREGON.
CITY PURCHASES LAND
TO STRAIGHTEN MAIN;
STREET RESURFACED
CITY REAL ESTATE
OFFERER FOR SALE
THURSDAY, S E IT . 12. 1929
Inter-City Buses
Every 2 0 Minutes
"Ths P aopls’t Papsr"
A
LIVE NEW SPAPER
IN A LIVE TOWN
No. 35
REV. MULLHOLAND TO
BEGIN DUTIES SUNDAY
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
BIG HUES HAVAGE
0 U FORESTS
The Hprltigfield city council coin
Her. Ralph Mullholand has arrived
New Schedule When Bridge is j In Springfield and will deliver his |
plated negotiations lust week for
Completed; To Follow
be purehuae of a trlungulur strip of
, first sermon Sunday as the new
—
Springfield Children to Return land through the Brnttnln property Council Puts Price on Many
Shorter Route
j pastor of the local Baptist church I Hundreds of Men Fight Fir«
to Work Following Summer ut the end of Main street, ao that It
He succeeds Rev. C. H. Blom, who
Lots Owned by the City;
in Lane County; Bad B la u
I Twenty minute bus service be ! resigned a month ago to accept a
Vacation; Soveral New Tea­ will be poHHlble to co-operate with
Some Choice Locations Of­ twn-n Springfield und Eugen»
on Dollar Holdings Above
w,ll call to the Baptist church of Utslrk.
cher» on Faculties of Three the stale hlgliwuy conunlaalon III
fered For Less Than the Is- Inaugurated by the Southern
Mabel and Also on Camp
idabo
»trulgliteiilng Main street to the city
Schools; Meeting Saturday. limits to connect with the new suc­
Improvements.
Creek.
I ! i Pacific
«. .i... company when uie new
r ,.» Mullholand was the pastor of
, I ridge ts open, according to official» ,be Emanuel Baptist church at Kla-
After n vacation of three months, tion of the McKihzJe liigtiwHy Else Prlces on all city owned lots, which of the company who have inter-
Forest fires are burning out ot
the lioya an-l Kiris of Hprlngflold will hundred dollus was palu for the pro­ have been lake,, for Improvement , u ,.wed c„ y counc,lroeB durlng the math Falls before coming to Spring- control in many sections of Lane
return to ni bool Monday for lb., perty purchased
liens, were made by the Springfield
,,.w day#
„
b, ,,eyed that field, and he was recognized as one county, Oregon, and the northwest
of the outstanding ministers of the
It I n uncertain as to when the council ut Monday night's meeting
opining of the full term Tlir local
t with the .-avlng of time due to over church In Southern Oregon He has ’ and unless rain comes soon the most
street
grading
will
begin
on
the
pur
»■bool bonri, I n exporting the enroll
The price In each Instance Is lower a quarter mile shorter distance, the
disastrous season in years face
been In Oregon four years, preaching
metil to bo slightly more than that chase, aeiordltiK to the atate hlgliwuy than the amount of the assenant' n's service can be every 20 minutes.
at Riddle, near Roseburg, before go­ timber owners, mill operators and
of last year, anti the vacant room nt | Department nt Eugene but It will be and It I» believed that these lots will
settlers. Fires are now burning on
With
the
shortening
of
distance
ing to Klamath Falls.
the llrultuln school bun been flnish"il j within the near future The Cochran move. Th' mayor and council held
the Mohawk. ,u the McKenzie and
The new minister Is a graduate of
company,
which Is that It Is belter Io have this pro­ there may ulso be a change In the
during the summer so that addition ' construction
routing In Springfield. Instead of the I x > h Angeles Bible Institute and Willamette valleys, and in a dozen
til space will he available for atud working on the .McKenzie highway perty buck on the tax roll and Im­
going
down E street from Sixth the also of the Southwest Baptist Semin­ I or more places in Western Lane
east of town, will do the work. Th proved than In Ihe
cnls In ci.se It Is necessary.
city's hands,
bus may follow C street from Sixth ary at Dallas, Texas. While preach­ county. Unless these fires are got
The teaching force for the three ■ company now has Its grndir at work even If It must sacrifice some In to Fourth and Dunce down Fourth ing here he will also take graduate under control soon It is thought ail
logging camps will be shut down
local schools for the year has un­ oil Ihe Cogswell hill section lit III the price
to Main, thus eliminating Fifth and E | work In the University of Oregon.
an-d the state will conscript the men
dergone a number of changi s, but highway, and It Is probable that It
The lot at the corner of Sixth and streets. This is also expected to
to fight fire.
the majority of Ihe teachers have will begin work Inside the city A streets has been priced at >1000, give more time for Ihe 20 minute ,
SHORTED WIRES CAUSE
been employed here for one m more limits as soon us the grading there ns has also the corner of Fourth and
More than a hundred men were
service.
FOUR SMALL BLAZES;
years
Among the new Instructors Is completed. The new section of A street. The corner lots at Fourth
sent through here from Portland
As
yet
the
city
council
has
not
j
slriet
will
he
paved
to
the
city
' are W E Buell, principal of the
and B streets ownetid by the city
SEVEN FIRES PUT OUT during the last week to fight a fire
been petitioned to change the rout- (
high school, and <llc*n Wood, princi­ limits
urn offered for >000. and the four
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raging on the Portland-Dollar Lum-
Ing
In
the
franchise
out
is
ex-
i
pal of the i-.-atlaln school Mr. i Graveling was begun yesterday on small lots near tin- end of the pave­
Seven small fires, four of them re- ber company holdings above MabeL
lluell was prlMlpal of Ihe Est.u a la the new section of the McKenzie ment on Main street will be sold for pected that the matter will be up at suiting from one of the most un­ This is the former Coast Range
high school, near Oregon City, last highway Just east ot the city limits. only >100 each. The city's lot near the next meeting
usual accidents ever reported here, Lumber company timber. A coupl*
year, and Mr Wood was principal of '1 lire« and one half miles of the road the end of the pavement on Fifth
were extinguished by the Springfield of small fires are burning above th*
the Jt fferson grammar school, near will he graveled and opened to traf­ street, 50x112, Is offered for >300. REBHAN AND MURPHY
fire department Friday afternoon, Fischer Brothers mill near Marcalo.
fic through the winter. The re­ A lot further out on Fifth In Hunt's
Salem
giving that body its busiest day for A fire on Cedar Flats Tuesday burn­
THRILLED ON AIR TRIP
ed a great amount of wood already
The faculty for the Springfield mainder of that which was graded addition, lot 8 block 2, Is priced at
TO SOUTHERN OREGON 8*'veral month"
Tin re are still two lots
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The four fires were caused by a cut. The fire on the ridge above
high school for the year Includes W , this summer will not he graveled only >50
In Sunnyside addition where the
E. Buell, principal, who will teach . uniII next spring
Ixillas Murphy ano
Dr. W. C. radio antenna pole falling across the • Walterviile
is still burning and
high voltage lines of the Mountain another is coming up the ridge on
history; Mrs Georgina Peterson of : A thorough re surfacing and re. city once hiixl a great deal of real 1 iiebban_ io<a| bUgjness men, spent
from Mill street estate, at L and Water streets, last Friday on a business trip to ' States power company at the Peter the Camp Creek side, according to
Springfield, domestic science; Miss j pairing of Main
Clara Wagner, of Corvallis, com ] to the east end of the pavement Is which can be bought for >10 each. Medford and Roseburg.
They left Tnmseth house south of Willamette ' reports.
In Western Lane fires were burn*
merce; Miss kurille Holman of I being done this week by the paving The large lot at S'venth and A Kpringfl'ld Friday morning, and ar- Heights. The accident occurred,
Miss
May crew of the slate highway depart streets, back of Casey's service sta­ rived at Medford one hour and 18 about four o clock. One of the wires Ing near Crow, on Wolf Creek, Tri­
Springfield,
English ;
Main street from Second Io tion, Is priced at >1000
llewea of Springfield, mnthematlni; nietit
minutes later
The return Journey from the antenna of the radio hung angle Lake district, at Chickahominy
Ernest McKinney of latkeview, mu­ Mill was completely re surfaced with j The council ordered In six street was made In a little more than an from the power line to the dry grass, Wild Cat Creek, Deadwood, and
starting the (ire which brought a call many other places.
sic; Gbnn Martin of Creswell, man asphalt, and gone over with the lights In the Sunnyside addition. It hour and a half.
for
the fire engine.
ual training; Miss Margaret Nugent street roller, making It perfectly also ordered built a sidewalk on
Mountain States Power company
As the reader may have already
ef Eugene. English; Miss Anna F smooth. The city and Ihe state Kelly street In front of thte Fitz­ surmised, Mr Murphy and Dr. Reb-
Fire chief Jess Smitson and Police crews have been busy repairing lines
and Wll- highway department are co-operating gerald property.
Vogel of Eugene, sdenr
han did not make the journey into Chief Kenneth Gile answered the call that trees have fallen across and in
llam It Baker, of Independence, In paying for the work u this block,
Southern Oregon by auto or by train, and put out the blaze, only to discov- many places the telephone wires are
the city's share being >600.
athletics und physical education.
SUMMER HOME SCENE
as is customary. They went with er that a second fire was burning in down because of fire.
t<f the high school faculty Mr.
Bulletin Issued on Fires
Major G. H. Eckerson in his big the grass a quarter of a mile up the
OF WALKER-FLANERY
Buell. Mr. McKinney. Mr. Martin, THREE COLLISIONS
Waco sport plane, which he recently hill from the lirst. The wire was also | The Western Forestry Conserva-
CARD PARTY; DANCE flew In the cross-country air race touching a barbed wire fence, and non association issued the following
Mr Baker, Miss Vogel and Miss Nu­
OCCUR NEAR HERE
gent are new In Sprlngf'eld William
the current had followed the fence bulletin on fires Monday:
from Portland to Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Walker and
linker, who succeeds Leonard May-
up the hill that far before starting
Three collisions in which consld
It
was
the
first
air
experience
for
“With the loss of more than a
field as athletic coach, will he a '-ruble damage was done bill no one Mr. and Mrs. F’loyd F’lanory enter- Mr. Murphy, and according to him. it the second blaze.
dozen lives by forest fires already,
l
tamed
a
large
group
of
their
friends
senior at the University of otegon was Injur'd serously, were reported |
While Mr. Smitson and Mr. Gile the Pacific Coast confronts a Sejh
1 was one of the biggest thrills he had
this year Mr. Baker has been active over the week-end to Kenneth (tile, - at a party Thursduy night at the ever experienced.
The Southern were extinguishing the grass fires, tember prolongation of the season
In athletics In the University, being local chief of police. A Chevrolet Flanery und Walker summer home Oregon topography looked quite dif- one of the spectators removed the ' depending upon early rain, or upon
the first string pitcher on the varsity conch driven by J W Conn of Eugene on the McKenzie river near I-ea- ferent from the air than from an radio pole from the power line, public realization of the acute dan-
baseball team.
He was also Ihe and a Ford sedan driven by V. D burg. The early part of the evening auto, according to Mr. Murphy. He causing two of the wires to touch, ger, to determine whether it will end
first string pitcher for Eugene till < Fogel of Springfield collided Friday was spent in playing bridge, and the was surprised to see the amount of The firemen were Just through with as one of extreme hazard, combated
year III Ihe Valley-Huy haachall at the Intersection of tk-cond and latter part in dancing, after which re­ space which Is covered with hills, tno grass blazes when they noticed desperately with comparatively small
freshments w re si rved. Mrs. John
league.
Main streets.
The fenders nnd
and also at the size of the mountain that the outer wall of the Henry property loss, or with disastrous
The faculty of the Lincoln a<-his»l bumpers of the two machines were Henderer hail the high bridge score range which separates the Umpqua Fandrem residence near-by was blaz- conflagrations beyond control by the
for the year 1929 30 Includes Luu- bent quite badly, hut no one was for women, and Harry Whitney for from the Rogue valley.
He had ing.
The two wires of the power over-taxed forces.
This is the sub-
rnnre Moffitt, Springfield. principal; hurt
Saturday, Elmo Ixing. riding the men.
consldcred this as merely
a large line coming together hed resulted ia stance of reports from public and
Mrs I. K. Page of Springfield, first a Harley Davidson motorcycle, col­
Those pn-sint at the function were hill, he said, but from the air It a short circuit, which had blown out private agencies that have beea
grade; Mrs Opal Roberts of Spring lided at the Intersection of Fifth and Mr. and Mrs. Harry W hitney. M r . , ^ ^ up a formidable mountain. a fuse and started a fire near the coming in for a week to the JVestera
field, second grade; Miss Eilna Platt I> streets with a Ford sedan owned . and Mrs. Carl Glson, Dr. and Mrs.
Much of the flying from Spring- meter of the building.
F’orestry and. Conservation Associa­
of Springfield, fourth B; Miss Urys by Bruce Thomas. The fenders ,,f Carl I’ll ' lleplaco. Mr. anil Mrs. Will field to Medford was done at an
This fire was barely put out when tion. their central clearing house.
tai Bryan of Springfield, fourth A; I the car were bent and the motor- Wrlgln, Mr. and Mrs. William Daw- altitude of 8000 feet, nearly two the fourth blaze was discovered in All wearily urge that, until the
junior high. Miss Elizabeth
i cyc| e wa„ almost totally demolished !1«”». Mr “nd Mr8- w H. Adrian,. Dr. miles In the air. The air at that the Orville Fandrem residence. In weather breaks, they need every c o
of Engene. arlthni. tic; Miss Thelma M|. Umg w(|)| ali|th, |y bru|M
ed by Ihe and Mrs. W. C. Rehhan. Dr. W. N. altitude has lost all of the sultriness this place a fuse in the electrically operation from forest visitors, lurn-
Sweeney of Springfield, grunvnar, I (mpact -pb,, ,b|rd accident accurred Dow. Mr and Mrs. J. C. McMurray, prevalent at this time of the year, operated radio had been blown out berpir v railroads and other source*
Mrs Mary Walker of Spi Ingf!• Id. noar Mason's Corner, north of Spring- Mrs. Alice Ixirali Mr. and Mrs. John Mr. Murphy said. In fact, he found by the short circuit, starting a fire of carelessly man-made fires which,
history; Mrs Crystal Male of Spring f|(,|d when ears driven by Anna Henderer. of Springfield. Dr. and the wind that whistled past them inside the radio box. The flames added to lightning, are making their
field, geography; and Mrs Ella Loin ¡HandKII, bp
Mohawk and J N Cui , Mrs. J E Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. along the sides of the plane similar spread from the radio to the walls of task of protecting the forest r^
bard of Springfield, civil govern hertson of Eugene collided
collided. Onlv
Only a Alex McKenzie, and Mr. and Mrs. to a mid-winter prairie breeze in the house, burning a hole in the cor- sources fo the west almost im-
mint. Miss Sweeney ami Mr». Page slight amount of ilanic" was done.
George Monroe of Eugene; and the Dakota.
I ner. The radio was totally destroy- possible.
hosts. Mr and Mrs. Flovd Flanery
are the only new members of Ihe
On the return Journey, coming up , ed and other pieces of furniture in j “California reports that, fanned by
and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Walkcr.
Lincoln school faculty.
Ihe Willamette valley from Cottage ; the room were damaged by the fire. a state-wide wave of incendairism.
BUILDING OF FORMS
< The faculty of tin- Braltaln school
Grove to Springfield, Major Ecker-1 No one was at home at either of the field and forest fire toll has amount­
CONTINUES ON BRIDGE
includes Glen B. Wood of Jefferson,
ACCIDENTS CAUSE OF
son flew at a kiw altitude, so that Fandrem residences at the time ot ed to a damage of >184,000 from
principal nnd teacher of the fifth
Pouring of the con, rile piers all
LOSS OF WORK AT MILL his passengers were able to see at the fires.
more than 2000 fires, although most
A. Miss Alla Manning of Spring the ni w Springfield budge was com­
Althought the call to the Fandrem- of this is to watersheds, range, grain
night and Is now said to be recover-
field, first grade; Miss Wilma Scott pleted Ibis week by Hargreaves and
Tomseth district was the most as­ and improvements. Timber damags
Flirty and one-half days work were farms over which they passed.
of Eugene, second grade Mrs. Allen l.tndHay, contractors for the con- lost by employees of the local Booth-
tonishing received by the local de- is estimated at only >165,000 on no-
T Basford of Springfield, third I structlon. The building of forms for Kelly Lumber company as the re­
partment. it was the fourth for Fri-1 tjonai forests and >8000 elsewhere,
EUGENE PEOPLE HOLD
grade; Miss Mabel Olson of Urea ' the concrete sluhs Is now under way sult of five Industrial accidents dur-
day afternoon. The first call came Conditions are still critical,
PARTY IN SPRINGFIELD at 2 o’clock to extinguish a small , "Oregon has fared well, compara-
■well, fourth grade; Miss Anne Oor- { and It Is expected that the pouring log the month of August, according
rle of Springfield, fifth B; and Miss of the slabs will begin some time | to a report posted. One man lost
A party for Mrs. H. E. Maxey was grass fire which was burning on ' fively. Up to September, national
Dorothy Girard of Springfield, sixth next week. The contractors exject
near the i forests reported 653 fires, with only
day» work as the result of being given at her home on Ninth" and A ' Southern Paciflc
grade. Of these Mr. Wood. Miss
to complete their work on the bridge struck in the stomach by a bundle of streets Thursday evening by the Booth-Kelly mill pond. The blaze j >8000 damage; while, outside natlon-
Olson and Miss Scott are new
by September 30. The A. C. Mat­ lumtier. Another lost 9 days as the Helmetta Club of Eugene. During wag put out without difficulty, Tlle j al forests the state reported 489
teachers.
fires with timber loss of >7000; logs
hews company has not yet started result of a strain sustained in the evening a number of husbands origin is not known.
A number of repairs to the school
The second call came at
and equipment, >7,000; settlers' pro­
work graveling on the fill that Is to pulling lumber from a sorting table. of the members armed with refresh­
buildings have boon inude by the
he made, but they expect to do so The third employee lost 11 »4 days' ments surprised the party by march- o’clock. A fire, supposedly set by 1 perty $2000; being a low record
school hoard during the vacation.
work from a wrenched shoulder and i ing in on the ladles. There were 32 children, was burning in a rubbish considering seasonal hazard. Now,
within a few days.
The roof of the high school bnlldlng
b
which ho suffered when a present to partake of cake and Ice heap at Seventh and L streets. The . however, fires are increasing fast,
l’luns for Ihe formal dedication of
has been repalntod, and a concrete
blaze was extinguished to prevent 1 unless the rain falls. Governor Pat-
’umber struck another to
cream.
floor has been poured In the furnace Ihe new bridge will probably tie dis­
its spreading. The third fire was at terson will postpone the hunting
i. i-oon was attached.
Those present were Messrs, and
Tooni of Ihe hlffh school gymnasium cussed nt the next meeting of the The foitrto toa
1 days as the Mesilames J. C. Cady, Fred Ludford, the Bud McPherson place in Sunny­ season, supposed to open September
The play shed nt the Brattaln school local chamber of commerce, accord re i’’ of heil.*
uck on the foot George Blair. D. E. Yoran, A. F. side Addition, where a stubble field lifteenth.
has been enclosed on three sides, Ing to F. B. Hamlin, president. T
lllng pile of 2x1's Bremer, O. H. Jones, Frank Poin­ was burning. The Eugene fire de­
"Washington, outside national for­
u’i'.tr
anu
a number of other minor repairs dedication will probably be held
8V4 days from rtin- dexter, Walter B. Dillard, H. E. partment also answered this call, ests, reports good luck on the west­
a i<1 the ftft i
,the time the structure Is oper
9 have been made.
- er almost completely Maxey. Mr. Jack Luckey and Mes- and the fire was put out without ern slope but terrific season on the
n <n a Isrg
Most of the teachers are now In traffic, and that Is too far d
i-id.
One employee, A. dnmt s Hazel Neet, Minnie Lindley, much difficulty by the two fire eastern part of the state. At close
tbr.' iSh b
town and ready for the boginning of to make any definite plans nr -
1 during August of In- Ann Will, Carrie Knight, Sadie Mel­ trucks, using chemicals. About 20 of August. 842 fires amounted, how­
the year's work. Teachers meetings
ever, to only a >1000 merchantable
stained In July. Forty son. Lillian Dttnnum, Lucinda De- acres of stubble were burned.
in'
Rebek«hs Plan
Dinner
will be held nt each of the three
timber loss, >7500 log loss, >16,000
□Gt at the mill during Burgh, Ethel Glaze, Minnie Larson,
■nyi,
, tln-if
buildings Saturday afternoon to give cafeteria to raise funds
Fire at Fisher Home
logging equipment loss, and >9000
jrd a half day better than Roman», Nora Strawn, Nina Stocker,
Jui?.
by tin
tho. principals an opportunity to talk treasury will lie present
The Springfield fire department settlers’ loss. Majority of fires were
t.
and Mae Moon.
over the plans for the coming year Jtebekah Springfield Io
was called Tuesday afternoon to ex­ ascribed to careless smokers. Nat­
i.
O.
C
).
F.
hall
FYlduy
with their teachers.
tinguish a fire In the atlv of the ional forests In Washington report
I Attend Norrrtal School
Elected to r'cout Committee
¿ember 27. The detail
l..e • ,
Frank Fisher home, South D street. 451 fires with most of the damage,
. u r,
Tne Misses Lena andi Frances , John Henderer, president of the The blaze was supposedly caused by about >450,000, In the Chelan and
Returns From Hood River—Gerald will be worked out p
the •!•• i .n,
II will leave this week for Mon- Springfield Lions club, nnd Chester a short circuit In the wiring. It waj Colville regions of eastern Washing­
tne Chase, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. idrs. W F. Walker
i. ' ith where they will spend the Aldrich, former sedut master ot extinguished with chemicals hefor ton. The worst season on record In
Harry Chose, returned this morning 4if the committee iv i i .y
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.r attending the sessions of the Troop 11. w-ere elected members of any serious damage was done.
from Hood River, where she had
these reaglons and still critical.
Spend W eek Ip Fortlsn.l Mr
i t ,-egon Normal school, which opens the Troop 11 scout committee at a
been visiting nt tho home of Mr. anil
"Idaho, outside national forests,
' 'i-
N o- n> (onday. They will live at the home meeting of that body last night. The
Mrs. S. J. ui wan. On her way back Mrs. Ivan Male
Purchase New Truck—Stuart an had 515 fires by August 1, largely
o III s'.-t
> of their grandmother, Mrs. Parker. In ,commlttee has not as yet found a Holverson, proprietors of the Indj from llghtllng, but an excellent re­
she stopped nt Jefferson nt tho home Templeton, of Ui-i
w k nJ addition to the regular Instruction, successor for Mr. Aldrich nt. scout­ pendent meat market, have purchnj cord of property protection—loss be­
of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Gowan. She Mrs. Male, spot . ’ •
li
■
On'-.-- .. lhe Misses Frltell will study vocal master, so nt present Troop 11 Is ed a new Chevrolet truck, which thd ing about a million feet of timber,
roturned to Springfield from Jeffer­ visitin g and
matters In 1
son with Mr. and Mr.i. John Avltt.
music and piano.
without a leader.
will use In their business.
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