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THURSDAY. DEC. 26. 192»
Coach McEwen, of the University of Oregon.¡MANY HEALTH SEALS
HUNTERS UNSUCCESSFUL
talked himself out of a $8,500 a year job. Now
SOLD
IN
SPRINGFIELD
BUT CONTINUE HUNTING
Published Every Thursday at
that he is free we expect to read In the news that
BY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, by
college athletic managers all over the country
Springfield duck hunters are be
are lining up to present him with contracts at
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
wailing the fact that wild ducks and
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Red
Crons
Christmas
his own figure. Everyone knows that it was the
H. K. MAXEY. Editor.
Just will not be shot thia year.
faculty at the University of Oregon that kept Mr. seals In Springfield has netted almost geese
Many partlea have taken the Held
*100.00,
according
to
the
receipt«
j
Entered as second class matter. February 24, 1*03. at the McEwen from winning every game. Too bad
turned in to Mra. Gertrude Wilson, in search of the migratory birds and
poatofflce, Springfield, Oregon.
studies art' allowed to Interfere with football.
nearly all of them have returned
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
BARGAINS ARE POPULAR
W ITH TRAVELING PUBLIC
The popularity of bargain prices
la not confined to general merchan
dise, according to J. A. Ormantly,
passenger (raffle manager of (he
Southern Pacific at Portland.
Mr. Drmandy bases his conclusion
upon the geuerally favorable re
ception which the traveling public
accorded the thirty day *24 00 ticket
from main line polnta lo Los Angeles.
"As an ripertmeat." he says, "the
Southern Pacific company put Into
effect, for a thirty-day period, (Nov
ember 21 lo December 31) a bargain
fare of *24.00 to Loa Angeles. Thia
service up to the present time has
proven ao popular that It has been
decided to extend the period of sale
to February 28. and If the traveling
public, by reason of Its use, Indicates
continued popularity, It may be fur
ther extended.
general chairman of the seal drive in
time after time with the same, aud
Uncle Si Tinklepaugh says he’s glad women’s Springfield thia year.
story,
aaw a few, but we could
One year In Advance .......*1.7* Three Months ___ 75c
dresses are getting longer Instead of shorter, Mra. Wilson and Mra. Maude Bryan. I not get "We
any."
81$ Months*100 Single Copy
___;..6c
finance
chalrtaan
of
the
locul
health
because if they went any other way they would
Early In the season the weather
group, canvaaaed the buslnena aertlon
n’t be dresses.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 2«, 192*
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of the town aud sold *14.76 worth of ' i wao too good, the water holes were
all dry and the ducks didn't stop,
What has become of the old-fashioned folks seal« to the bualneaa men.
GOVERNOR PATTERSON
that didn't buy anything they couldn't afford?
The achoola huve all had atampa for j Now the ducks are all In a hurry to
, get south and seldom stop nt our
Governor Patterson has suddenly been taken
aale and have done very good with
from us by death. The best known and loved
them. The Brattatn school leads the, ' bodies of water. Several wild gveae
man in Oregon, the governor’s death is mourned
Hat with *33.50 In sates. t*uplla at have been seen by local hunters, but
not only by his close friends but by everyone. He
the Lincoln school have sold *22 03 they have been unsuccessful In get
was one of the most popular and yet the most
worth of atampa. The reporta from ting close enougt to bag any.
dignified governor Oregon ever had.
the Girl's I-eugue at the high school, Among those who tried their luck
have not been completed. They have
* lth,,U' ' Ucc#“ “ w‘'r''
His two visits to Springfield this year to de
dicate the new aviation field and the new bridge
sold the stamps from booths at Gray’s Frank Bra It ton. W. K. Barnell. Dr. W
made him closer to local people's hearts. His
store for several Saturdays and af N. Dow, Bob Perry, and Jack Wade.
popularity was evident every time he came into
ternoons,
and their »alt's will tiring
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a crowd. No doubt if he had lived he would have
the total sum received locally to
WHAT MAKES US WHAT WE ARE?
been re-elected governor of Oregon.
something near the *100.00 mark.
Recently there came into my possession the Mrs. Wilson Is well satisfied with
Governor Patterson had not only made a good
governor from an economic and businesslike photographs of five brothers whom I have known the efforts put forth by the workers
standpoint, but he contributed largely toward all my life. The pictures were taken when the In Springfield, and although the goal I
human betterment. His reforms at the industrial eldest of the five was only eight years old.
Do you wish your name listed
of nine cents worth of stumps per 1
school for boys has been wonderful, and has re
The first thing that Impressed me was the capita has not been reached, the re-] success?
sulted in turning many boys from the path of resemblance of each one to all the others. Any-] «ponse has been very generous.
M A IL SU B S C R IP TIO N RATE
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A re You Looking Ahead?
crime to useful citizens. He had similar ideas body, looking at them, would have known at |
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for making changes in the penitentiary in an a t once that they are children of the same father EXTRA EMPLOYEES KEEP
tempt to reform and restore the youthful law and mother.
MAILS MOVING ON TIME
offender to honorable and useful places in
Even
more
striking
was
the
fact
that
today
society. Oregon suffered a severe loss when
when their average age is forty, they seem to Three additional employees were
death called her governor.
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have changed very little. I had no difficulty in added to the staff of the local post
laying the baby pictures on the desk and saying: office. In order to adequately hoodie
LAWS THAT ARE NOT LAWS
the annual Christmas mall ruch, Just
The administration of criminal justice in “This is Joe, and this is John.”
prior to the holidays. LeRoy Nice
Ammerica is a d’sgrace to civilization. The man
was put on as an extra carrier, Ira
One might almost jump to the conclusion, t Nice served as an auxiliary clerk and
who said that is the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, the Hon. William from such an exhibit, that experience and will- l“aul Nice was a general assistant
Howard Taft, once President of the United S ta te s.; power have very little to do with character
In the post office.
Yet I know that each of these five boys has The volume of mall handled this
We have too many laws that are not laws. A
citizen can hardly go about his daily business been changed, and by the exercise of his own year was about the same as that of
without violating some law of which he never free will.
former years, thinks Ira Nice, al-
heard and which nobody obeys. In Connecticut
The hot temper of the eldest has been cooled though he was quite sure that all the
it is illegal to travel on the road or railroad on by self-control; he has become far sweeter and mall early advertising had not been
Sunday. In New York it is, or was until recently, more tolerant.
very successful, as the large rush of
illegal to operate a motor-propelled vehicle on a
The impatience of another, which made him Christmas mall seemed to start
highway unless a man on horseback carrying a quick to start new things and quick to leave,,ate? ,hls year than ,l <Bd last.
red flag or lantern rode a quarter of a mile them half finished, has been transformed i n t o ! --------------------
ahead of it!
steady staying power.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Congress and State Legislatures try to “make”
By exercise and self-dicipline the physical
WILL NOT MEET FRIDAY
laws. No law is a good law unless the people weakness of a third has been built up into solid
whom it affects agree that it is a good law. In health,
There will be no regular meeting
the early days of popular law making people) Another told me that he and his wife went to of the Springfield Chamber of Com-]
gathered to tell each other what the law was in ' an orphan asylum to adopt a little boy. For a merce on Friday evening, according
their districts, the law being rules of conduct couple of hours they watched two hundred to a decision reached at the special
agreed on by common consent
I youngsters playing on the floor One of them meeting of that body which was held
The idea that a Congress or a Legislature has was tryjng to fit the cover onto a tin can. Time at the chamber rooms a week ago
a right to impose an unpopular law is a reversion and again he Struggled to push it into place, only Monday. The special meeting had
• I been called for the purpose of con-
to the old myth of the divine right of kings. Be to take it off and start all over again.
cause a law is old is no proof that it is good.
“We’ll take that baby," said the man. He will sidering the matter of purchasing a
> community club building, and the
Times change but the law lags behind.
be’ a worker.”
Lawyers and judges live in the past. Lawyers
I discussed this subject once with a shrewd" members present agreed to have the
dominate our legislative bodies and try to make observer of the human race. He mentioned the installation of new officers at that
new laws, intended to fit present conditions, man who had been the leader of his class at I time, and not to meet aga n until the
next regular meeting, which Is to
comply with principles and practices long out- college and has never been heard of since,
dated. One result of this is that law and justice
“Perhaps he had some hidden illness,” I said, be on January 24. 1930.
often mean two different things. Poor men and “Perhaps he just couldn’t amount to anything.” W. A. Taylor was installed as ths
honest men hesitate to go to law; they fear legal
My friend disagreed vigorously. “He could new president. The officers asslst-
technicalities which have no relation to justice. have changed himself,” he said. “Deep down in 1 ln* hlm will *>e c. E. Wheaton, vice
All law ought to be based on common sense his heart that man knows why he has failed.”
president; C. E. Kenyon, treasurer;
and so plain and simple that any man with an
Personally, I believe this. The pictures of my w K- Barnell, Jesse Seavey, Carl
average sense of fair play could tell without five friends tend to confirm this belief. They are ol8On. F- B. Hamlin, and w. c.
asking a lawyer whether he was violating the what they were as children, but they are also w right, board of directors, w. a .
Taylor, W. K. Barnell, and Jesse
law or not. Then everyone else would know it, different.
and intelligent p"blic opinion alone would keep
Each has moulded himself, and not merely *Seavey are the representatives to
us all on the right side of the law or punish us been moulded. Not birth alone, but will power, county chamber meetings,
promptly if we overstepped the line.
has made them what they are
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how Ife Know if hy They Cc'led Them Red Skins
By Albert T. Reid
Kiov w a r e told there is a serious question vhether the Indians
who Sold ManhatUn Island to Peter Minuit really ovned i t .
T E L L "THE O L 0 STIFF T o
M A K E IT THREE GUIARTS
A nd xve ’ ll throw in the
BROOKLYN BUDGE, AMO AST
H lM jlS IT PRE-WAR STUFF
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G u y s ,- y ho Do «tou
T lN K I A M — J ohn D
Go to Bend—Mr. and Mrs. W. F
Walker left Sunday for Bend, where
they will spend the Christmas hoik
days at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
I Henry Korff.
Visits With Son—Mrs. Katie Brum
ette went to Portland on Friday to
i see her son, John. She returned to
1 Springfield on Monday.
among those who are a
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Our Future Wish
Your confidence in us has helped make 1929 one t* the
brightest years of our business life, and it is our aim to
serve you in the future that our friendly relations may
long endure.
Eggimann’s are on the Job early and late with a stock
of the best candies, Ice creams and other confections. May
we continue to serve you.
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F G G IM A N N ’S
"Where ths Service Is Dllferent"
W hy not Trade in Your
Old Car
on a Good Used Car
WITH AN O. K. THAT COUNTS
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7th and Oak
942 Olivo St.
133 West Broadway
Eugene, Oregon
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Have Family Reunion—Mr. and
Mrs. Byrl Crow went to Grants Pass
’ on Tuesday, where they participated
In a family reunion at the home of
Mr. Crow’s brother.
Leaves for Washington—Mra. Nick
Meier left Springfield last Saturday
for Granger, Washington, her home,
after a visit here.
CALL FOR WARRANTS
Notice is hereby given that School
District No. 19, In Springfield, Lane
County, Oregon, will pay at the office
of the clerk of said district all war-
rants to and including 780. Interest
ceases after December 24, 1929.
W. O. HUGHES. Clerk.
We wish you a Joyous
Holiday Season and
Good Fortune for the
New Year.
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Brighten
Up the
New Year
WITH A NEW
PAIR OF
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prove the appearance, il
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prove the vision, a very
pleasing combination.
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