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T r y the H o m e P r in t Shop F ir a t THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS TWENTY-SIXTH YEAH E BY CHAMBER FRIDAY * SPUINUEIELI), LANE COUNTY, OREGON- FOOTBALL TEAM PLAYS FRIDAY AT BROWNSVILLE I Hchool will be called a half hour earlier, or at eight o'clock, tomor Consolidation Report by School row morning, and will he dismissed of Business Administration early In the afternoon no as to per Discussed; Bridge Dedication mit as many of I he students as is Given to the County desire to go to Brownsville and see : the football game there that after Committee. I noon, which Is scheduled to be The nomination of officers for the played between the Springfield and next year wus the principal Item of Brownsville high teams. business to com« before the Chamber Brownsvlue merchants are all en of Commerce el Ils regular monthly thused over the game and have an meeting, which whs held Friday nounced that they will close their evening Other business presented for onsldernlton wus the report pre stores for the game, according to pared by the School of Business All Principal Buell at the high school ministration at the University, con The Hprlngfleld high students are cernlng the proposed consolidation of also greatly clatod over the game prospects. Eugene and Hprlngfleld, und the dedi The Hprlngfleld team has not yet cation of the new Springfield bridge. met defeat so fur this year, and the T a y lo r N e w President W A Taylor was nominated for Brownsville aggregation Is rated as the office of president of the cham one of the strongest teams which ber organisation for the nest year. Springfield will meet this season Other officers nominated were C. K. The local boys have the advantage of Wheaton, vice-president; C K Ken • not having played a game last week yon, treasurer; unil W C. Wright, due to the cancellation of the Harris- W K. Burnell, Carl Olson, E. K. . burg gutne at the lust minute. Roosevelt Junior hlgii at Eugene Kepner anil Jess Heuvey, directors. has asked the freshmen of the high W. K. Burnell, Jess Heuvey, and F B Hamlin were elected as the school here for a football gam)-, and permanent representatives from a game will probably be arranged for Springfield to the County chamber on Armistice Day, according to ; Buell. The freshmen are out every meetings It was decided to Invite representa afternoon practicing, and Indications fives from all civic organizations In urn that they will put up a mighty the county to send representatives stiff battle against any high school here Friday evening and to turn over dedication of the bridge to the com mlttee that meets nt thia time. C o m m ittee Continued M M I’oory presented the report from the University school and de manded that the agitation for con aolldatlon ba kept alive. The re maining members of the Joint consolidation commutes, II. M. Htew- art. Dr. W. C. Rebhan. and H. R. Matey, were Instructed to keep work ing on the problem. The late Mayor Wilson was a member of this com mlttee, as was Mr. Peery. who recent ly moved to Portland, whore he has purchased a buslnass. Asks Rest Room A L IV E NEW SPAPER IN A L IV E T O W N No. 42 THURSDAY, OCT. 31, 1929 B ridge C om pleted 2 0 -M in u te Bus F ranchise Given Fills A re R ushed " T h i People's Paper” TWO LOCAL SINGERS CHOSEN FOR CHOIR BY UNIV. DIRECTOR Two DprtngfWId students at the STATE PROMISES ID M P L E IjJ M IE County Committee Meets To Service Will Start With Open University of Oregon are Included, In ing of Bridge; Busses Op morrow to Discuss Dedi the membership of the new Poly erate to C Street cation of Structure phonic choir, which was made publln Lane Road Committee and Saturday afternoon by Arthur Board- County Court Make Arrange Actuul construction work on the An amended franchise to operate man, bear! of the voice department, ment With Highway Com new Hprlngfleld bridge across the 1 buses <<n the streets of Hprlngfleld who is directing the choir. They are mission to Finish and Oil Willamette river Is almost over. A every twenty minutes was granted Wlnlfrld Tyson, alto; and Alfred few more duubs of plasterers cement , to the Oregon Stages, Inc., at an ad- Frese, bass. Miss Tyson Is a regu Sections. and the bridge will be ready to turn , Journed meeting of the city council over to the state officials. The Har ( here on Monday evening Under the greaves und Lindsey construction ; new charter the buses will operate company state thnt they will have north to C street on Sixth street. In the bridge In readiness to turn over stead of to E street, as they have to the state tomorrow, as was called been doing In the past. They will for In their contract. There will then run west on <’ to Fourth street. still be a few scaffolds to remove and down Fourth to Main street. later In the week The new service schedule will be Coinciding with the completion of come effective Immediately follow the large bridge, which has a road ing the opening of the new bridge, way of twenty-seven feet, comes the and officers of the company promise announcement of the preliminary that the service will be extended be- action looking to the formulation of , yond C street as rtpidly as ap- plans for the dedication of the struc l proaches to the bridge are put In ture. First steps In this were taken such a condition as would warrant lust Friday night at the monthly the faster service. The appointment of George Valller meeting of the Chamber of Commerce when the members of that body de 1 as street commissioner to fill the cided to Invite the entire county to vacancy caused by the resignation of take part In the dedication of the O. C. Thurmtn was ratified by the council, and W. K. Barnell was ap new structure. pointed electrical Inspector to re Many Invited to Take Part It was decided to extend' an Invi place C. W Wyman, who resigned. tation to all of the chamber of com Chick McPherson was granted per merce bodies In Lane county, to the mission to construct a sidewalk on service clubs, and to the grange his property at 10th and E streets. runners' union groups to send repre sentatives here On Friday evening, MONOPLANE CARRIES November 1, to form a bridge com BUSINESS MEN TO yearling team. mittee, which will assume all work COTTAGE GROVE In the dedication of the new bridge LARGE TRANSFORMER which will probably take place some Five business men from Springfield BEING ERECTED HERE time during the month of November. left here at noon today In the mono While the bridge Itself is complet plane City of Portland for Cottage One of the largest transformers In ed, there still remains considerable Grove, where they will be guests of the state of Oregon Is being erected filling and surfacing work, which . the Lions club for luncheon. Major at the substation In Springfield. Just must be done before the bridge can Eckerson piloted the ship. at the end ot the pavement on a be used. Workmen under A. C. Those making the trip are Dr. W. plot of ground purchased some time Mathews, began Monday to fill under C. Rebhan, W. F. Walker, W. K. ago from Simon Klovdahl ot Eugene. the West approach and It will take Barnell, and F. B. Flanery. The huge transformer Is Just a most of the week to complete thia Major Eckerson landed the Breese part of the two million dollar de Then there also remains considerable monoplane at the Springfield air velopment work now being done by filling to do between the two forks port Tuesday afternoon after a trip the Mountain States Power company of the V leading to the Pacific high to Eastern Oregon on Monday, which and the (California and Oregon Power way. After the fills have been made he had as as his passengers several company. A new 110,000 volt power on both sides of the bridge the stats business men from Portland. H e will line has been erected from Prospect. highway commission will surface take off here tomorrow morning on California, to Hprlngfleld. with a the approaches with a heavy coating a flight to Medford and other south branch nt Roseburg, which feeds the of gravel. ern Oregon cities with the monopane territory between there and Marsh which he Is demonstrating for Vance Breese, its bulder. field. COUNTY C. E. HAS A party composed of Mrs. W. C. Reb The transformer being erected here MONTHLY MEETING han, Mrs. W. N. Dow. Billy Dow and weighs 100 tons when assembled, and HERE SUNDAY P. M. Miss Ellis took a ride In the cabin holds about 6,000 gallons of oil, which Is used to cool the plant. The radia Two hundred people are expected plane to Brownsville and return. The major will be back at the tors alone holds 55 barrels of oil. here Sunday afternoon at 2:30 for the The oil In the transformer must be I monthly meeting of the Christian hprlngfleld airport on Sunday and entirely free from moisture and Im Endeavor workers at the Christian will continue his stunting program purities To assure this a purifier 1 church The theme of the conven and passenger hauling. — has been cleaning the many barrels tio n is "Leadership," and Albert Melvin Hansen. Kugene realtor, appeared before the body and asked that consideration bo given to the establishment of a Chamber of Com merce office on Main street as well as a rest room for tourists, He pointed out that travel over the Mc Kenzie highway would greatly In crease when the new bridge Is com pleted, nnd the road Improvement work now under way Is completed. The officers nominated last Friday will be officially elected at the next i Krlbs, student at the Eugene Bible -METHODIST WOMEN meeting In November and will be of oil for several days. Unloading la Problem university will be the principal Installed In December. WILL SERVE SUPPER A real problem was encountered speaker. His topic will be "Christ, The father and son banquet will be by the crew here when they began the Great Leuder,” MANY ATTEND EVENTS prepared and served by the ladies of io unload the tarnsformer. A heavy Clarke Aydelot has been chosen as AT O. A. C. SATURDAY rallroud wrecker from Eugene wns song leader of the convention. John the Methodist church, according to The annual home-coming events brought over, but proved to be nlmost i Cornier will be the pianist. He Is a W. C. Hughes, one of the committee at the Oregon State college at Cor useless. A houst mover from Eugene ' student at the University of Oregon. preparing for the annual gathering. A potluck supper is being arranged ¡.The banquet will be held on November vallis last week-end attracted several was sought, nnd after two days the of the local residents, who are grad transformer was set down upon the for 5:50 und a regular meeting of the 12th this year, and all the churches In local C. E. with the delegates as the city are co-operating In the ob nates tand former students of tha foundation built for It. Workmen nre busv attaching the guests will be held at 6:15 In the servance of the day. school. mdlators an«9 the :< n lus tank to evening. Miss Wlnlfrld Tyson is the Among those who went to Cor the transformer, and expects to cut-in chairman of the convention here and FRIENDS GATHER TO vallis to see the u. 9 . C.-ldnho game on the power line Su i ay. FETE LOCAL COUPLE Will lead the evening program on the were Miss Lucille Holman, Miss The new transformer will step topic "Making Your Body a Fit Clara Wagner, Glenn Mnrtln, Arland A large number of friends of Mr. down the power front 110,000 volts to Temple For God." *^inntol, Miss Margaret Gorrle, Mrs. and Mrs. S. O. Mosier gathered at 60,000 volts, nnd the transformer Special music by the church or their home near Springfield on Tues Dan «Cooper, a former resident here, located nt the local power plnnt will and Mr. and Mrs. F. Hills, ot chestra anil by vocalists will be pro day evening to surprise them and to reduce the current down to domestic vided for the afternoon and evening. .wish them well on the forty-fifth anni Jasper. voltage. A social hour will be held at 5:00 versary of their wedding. L. C. House nnd a crew of men o'clock. ACCIDENT NOTICES Those present Included Mrs. W. P. from the Medford office of the Cali Tyson, Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Murphy, POSTED AT MILL HERE fornia Oregon Power company are ENTERTAINS CLASS Mr. Veltle Pruitt. Mrs. Cliff Abrams. doing the construction work. Notice of two accidents during the W ITH PARTY MONDAY Mrs. E. E. Morrison. Mr. Will Mosier, month of October have been posted KENSINGTON CLUB Mrs. Gedtgla Griffith and Miss Clara at the Booth-Kelly Lumbor company The members of the Ixiyal Girls Jones. TO BE ENTERTAINED class of the Christian cl urch were here. Ii. C. Parker lost two days front work when a piece of steel was Mrs. W. N. Dow. nnd Mrs. W. K. entertained Monday afternoon at the PRISCILLA CLUB WAS found In Ills eye. Ho wus unnble to home of Miss Wlnlfrld Tyson, their ENTERTAINED FRIDAY Barnell will entertain the members account for Its presence there. teacher. Games and stunts flut'd the Mrs. Normnn Howard entertained of the Kensington club nt n luncheon P. 8. Kohler wns Injured on Octo nt the Anchorage In Eugene tomor afternoon hours. The hostess served the members of the Priscilla club at apple elder and home made cookies. their regular meeting last Friday af ber 5, when he slipped while walk row nfternoon. Those present, were Esel Adams, ternoon at her home nenr Spring- ing up the stnlrs nt the wood convey Mrs. Rebhnn and Mrs. Murphy will or. Ha bruised his ankle badly and sing, nccompnnled nt the piano by Alice Neet, Delorts Nice, Luctle field. The nfternoon was spent with Graves, Velma Petttcord, Ruth a Hallowe'en guessing game and r was laid up for several days. Miss Tyson, who will also give n Stratton, Helen Thompson. Muriel fancy needle work. Refreshments pianoforte solo. Tyson and Marjorie Moon. LEGION MEETINGS were served by the hostess. nnd Mrs. W. C. Rebhan will entertain The members who attended were the guests with solos nnd duets. POSTPONED A WEEK Mrs. Riley Snodgrass. Mrs. John Tom Members of the club nre Mesdames ¡ASSISTANT RELIEVES The monthly meeting of the I,. L. Mny, Mary Kessey, O. E. SPRINGFIELD LIBRARIAN seth, Mrs. W. Stearmer, Mrs. Wil liam Curtis, Mrs. John Parker, Mrs. American Legion will bo postponed Kenyon, A .J. Morgan, L. E. Basford, Mrs. Lee W. Clark has been In John Seavey and Mrs. J. A. McKy of Paul Basford, C. E. Swnrts, Levi one week and will be hold on Friday, November IB, Instead of tomorrow Neet, W. C. Wright, 8. C. Wright, charge of the library since last Eugene. Mrs. Charles Parrish and evening as was previously announced. Dallas Murphy, John Henderer. Fred Saturday. She is relieving Mrs. Vina Mrs. Brown were guests. The next meeting Is to be held at The chnmber of commerce hns called Wnlker, C. P. Poole, W. C. Rebhnn, McLean, the regular librarian, who a meeting of the county committee C. Monro, Hnrrv Whitney, L. F. An was taken 111 recently and who Is the home of Mrs. William Curtis, and will be In the nature of a covered to consider the dedication of the dersen. J. C. McMurrny, C. Chase, W. still unable to resume her duties. Tho library wns closed last Wed dish dinner. It will be held on bridge for thnt evening, nnd officials N. Dow, W. K. Rnmell and Miss Edna nesday duo to the Illness of Mrs. November 8th. of the legion have decided to put off Swnrts. Mrs. B. E. Frnedrlck, Mrs. W. P. Mcliean. their meeting for one week. Will Entertain—Mrs. Clara Fawver The regular meeting of the library Tho American Legion Auxlllnry will Tyson, Miss Evelyn Walker, Miss has Invited a large number of people board Is to be hold at the library on Wlnlfrld Tyson and Mrs. Sydney also postpone Its meeting for one to her home for a Hallowe’en party. Ward will be guests nt the luncheon. next Monday evening. week. lar student at the University and Mr. Frese Is doing special work In music under Mr. Boardman. The choir, as selected by Mr. Boardman, Includes forty-six of the outstanding vocal musicians on the school campus. They will hold regu lar practice periods for a while and expect to present a concert In the near future. l^ater in the year a smaller number will be selected from the choir to travel over the United States, appearing in other cities in concerts similar to those of the St. Olaf choir and the Westminster choir. The choir consists of nineteen sopranos, ten altos, eight tenors, six baritones, and three basses. They will sing music from Bach, Handel, Palestrina, Di Lasso, Hadyn, Rossini, Beethoven, the Russian church and negro splrituels. Mr. Boardman, who has returned to the United States after several years In opera and oratorio work in Europe, at one time directed a simi lar choir In the middle-west. The McKenxle highway from WaP tervllle to Doyle hill will be grade* and surfaced to state road standards next summer, according to an order made Wednesday by the state high way commission. About seven miles of construction, costing $122,000. will be necessary to connect up all the improved sections now and make ons continuous Improved road from ths end of the present oiled stretch at Waltervtlle, to Doyle hill below ths fish hatchery. The agreement with the state was concluded by the road committee of the Lane County Chamber of Com merce, and the county court, who appeared before the commissioners In Portland. The road commutes asked that all portions of the M c Kenzie highway up to state standards be oiled from Springfield to Sisters next year. While the state oiling program for next year has not bees formulated, the highway commission promised to give the McKenzie high way earnest consideration. Senator Edward F. Bailey of Junc tion City spoke before the commis LOCAL 3LACKSMITH sion, outlining the Lane County RESUMES BUSINESS Chamber of Commerce road program MINUS HIS SHOP as the work desired on the Mc Kenzie and the Junction Ctty-Chc- Such inconsequential things as a shlre section of the Willamette VaF roof and four walls are not neces ley Florence highway. No money sary for A1 Senseney, local black , will be available for the latter road smith. when he decides to resume J section this year, but the commis« his business following the fire two sioners said that they too wished to weeks ago which completely destroy complete the road as soon as pos ed his plant on Fifth street. Sen sible. H. E. Maxey of Spriugfield seney has dug out some of the tools spoke on the Importance of oiling ths from the ashes and assembled to McK> zle highway and completing gether a few of the more vital things the work as soon as possible. necessary to a blacksmith shop, and The highway commission had a very Is doing business as usual on the lot favorable attitude toward the Mc adjacent to his former plant, with Kenzie highway completion and only the sky above him for a roof and Judge C. P. Barnard promised Lane without any walls about him. 1 county co-operation on a 50-50 basis At the same time workmen are on construction and also purchase of busy sorting out the tools. Iron bars, the right-of-way. steel and other equipment from the Bids will be called for in the near ashes. The ashes are being removed and work will be started on a new future for the grading and surfacing shop as soon as the salvaged mate of the W \ltervide-Doyle hill section. rials ran be sorted and the ashes The remainder of the highway from Doyle hill to Nimrod will be built IB removed. 1931, according to plans of the county The store room belonging to E. E, Kepner, wbich adjoined the Spencer court, which expect to have the last garage, and which was badly gutted portion of the county money ready by fire, has been torn down and a at that time. new end wall built Into the garage. The buildings of Dr. W. H. Pollard PARKER GARAGE MOVES have all been repaired except one TO SITE NEAR BRIDGE wail of the wood shed. Another local business firm has decided to change its location nearer REMODELING WORK to the new bridge, which will sooa DELAYS OPENING OF be open to traffic. John Parker has FULOP'S NEW STORE leased the garage building on thB corner of Mill and Main streets from The opening of the Fulop dry goods Simon Klovdahl and is moving his and« men's furnishing store, which tools, machinery and garage equip- was to have taken place here on ment Into the new quarters from hid November 1st, has been delayed for former location in the building for one week, according to Julius Fulop, merly occupied by the Danner Motor owner. company. Workmen were busy the Men have been rushing the re first of the week cleaning up the new modeling work in the building which premises, repairing the roof and re is to house the store, but they have placing the broken window glass. been unable to finish their work at this time, and some time will be re "W HAT JESUS WANTS" quired to finish the shelving and in REV. PRUITT'S TOPIC terior decorations. Much of the stock for the new Rev. Veltle Pruitt, the new prea store is now at the depot and it is cher at the Christian church here being transferred to the building as has announced his sermon topics for rapidly as room can be found for It. Sunday morning and evening. "What Other stocks which have been ordered Jesus Wants” Is the morning subject from the Eastern markets will not and In the evening he will talk on arrive for a few days, and will be i "Is this church a New Testament placed upon the shelves Immediately upon arrival here, states Mr. Fulop. , Church?” Special music has been provided I for both the services. Miss Wilma SMALL GIRLS ENTERTAIN 1 Scott will sing a solo at the morn- AT HALLOWEEN PARTY j lng service. The Misses Barbara Barnell and BOY SCOUT EXECUTIVE Florence May entertnlned a group ot ADDRESSES LIONS CLUB their friends at a Halloween party at the W. K. Barnell home last Friday William Hayward, regional secre evening. Mrs. Barnell and Mrs. E. E. May served refreshments to the tary of the Boy Scouts of America for the Pacific Northwest, was the guests at the close of the evening. The guests were Geneva Wycoff. main speaker at the noon luncheon Bernice Burnes, Mildred Morgan. meeting Friday of the Lions club. Margaret Jarrett, Luctle Davis, Irene He spoke to the members of the Anderson, Pearl Hilterbrant, Jean work that the organization which he Seavey, Ruth Pollard, Jean Young, represents Is doing and how It ef- Molly Small, Jean Curtis, Patty May, I fects the boys. Representatives from the service Adelbert Armitage. Stephen Rice, Ulla Waite, Roscoe Cole, Harlan clubs of Eugene wero present, who Duncan, Allen Sneed, Billy Dow, Invited the members of the Spring- Clair Hadley, Eugene Phillips, Jim field Lions club to the all-county my Phillips, Roland Farnsworth and service club banquet to be held la Eugene. Scott Wright.