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q r , n jn -f» T ry the Hom e P rin t Shop F irs t TW ENTY-HEVENTII Y KA It THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS SPRINGKIKI.I), LANK COUNT Y, OKKOON. SILVER THAW HITS Springfield Male “Girls” Bowl 'Em Over in Follies HIGHWAY TRAFFIC THURSDAY. JAN. 16. 1930 N ew War Secretary •BELIEVE IT OR NOT” The Springfield Follies, all star Balmy Weather of Yesterday Is "NOAH" HAD NO ARK cast, played last night to a full house Suddenly Ended by Snowfall at the Hell theatre. Hilarity reigned Noah had an ark according to the which Brings Silver Thaw and bible, but Noah Insists lie did not have ! supreme and every act received a Sleet in its Wake; Chase Car« any. They are two different Noahs. ■ big hand. Now that the chorus girls Friday. Noah Helterbrand assayed are used to the local stage, tonight’s den Road Gets Gravel Coat. B a sk etb a ll Team D rops F irst G am e "Th« People'« Paper" A L IV E NEW SPAPER IN A L IV E T O W N No. 2 CITY OFFICIALS FOB I930 ARE APPOIHTED Albany Wins Friday 17-13; Play ing Very Ragged; Cottage Grove Game Next. Treasurer Authorized to Pay Off $15,000 in Bonds Due in Springfield dropped her first con November; West Springfield ference basketball game to the Al Signs Agreement for Fire bany high school team on Friday evening. The game was played on Engine Protection. forth on one of the large logs at the performance Is expected to eclipse the Albany floor and tbe score was Hprlngfleld residents who liavs been Booth-Kelly m ill (Mind to break a little even last night’s. If humanly possible. Reappointment of city officials for 17 to 13 when the final whistle blew. worried that th« balmy weather ol Ice which was forming around the the year 1930 and a discussion of the The two Squire brothers, Freeman The show clearly demonstrated yesterday morning would malt the logs. The log upon which he was and Everett, started as guards for the city finances were the chief business that the female sex la dlspenslble, snow and »poll (he outdoor «porta standing, as logs will sometimes do. 'locals; Gerald Morrison held down at the Monday night meeting of the even in a girl show. The cast of 60, turned over and Noah entered the »»re given reassuring comfort laal Icy waters the center berth, and John Lynch and council. All of the city officials now nearly all of whom had feminine Col. Patrick Jay Hurley of Okla homa, appointed by President Hoover Thayer McMurray started at forward serving were reappointed. They are night when they came out of their l roles, Is taken by prominent men No statements were made, or ex positions. They ail played the entire I. M. Peterson, city attorney; Jesse house» to find their automobiles and planatlons given by Helterbrand as he about town. Costumes are the latest to succred the late lame» W Good in •he Cabinet. Col. Hurley is the first game with the lone exception of Mc- Smitson, fire chief; W. A. Davie, everything else In sight was covered walked off stiffly towards his home I Imported fashion, and the women In asihtary man in this post for years Mnurray, who was replaced by Fred chief of police; Fred Hinson, night with a fine coating of sleet and more and dry clothes the audience were given many valu Buell at the end of tbe first half. . watchnian: George Valller. street com- was falling. able pointers on how to wear and not SNOW PLOW CLEARS McMurray was having some hard luck ml’ "lf>ner; Dr. Carl Phetteplace, to wear their clothes. The thermometer took a sodden 1 with his shots and yas unable to re- officer; W. K. Burnell, eleo- MAIN SREET; LOCAL drop late last evening, after hsvlng ! Tbs chorus, as chorus girls usually eoeer. trical Inspector. (-Imbed to the 2* degree mark at BUSINESS MEN SHOVEL do, had tbe heavy part In the show. Game ie Ragged The city ti ¿¿surer was instructed noon and hovered there most of the The game was marked by the rag- to offer to take up $16,000.00 In Rene Snow plows are not uncommon aflernoou, when It suddenly went sweet for words. The Spanish dan- down to IS degrees, where It remain ! cere, Alfred Frese and Clifford Darr, sights on the streets of Springfield, ged playing of the two teams, Spring- ral obligation bonds due In November, ed until late this morning. Officers are Unable to Locate gave a good exhibition of how they do they being frequently seen here when field being even worse than her op- The city has over $20,000 In the bond ponents, according to spectators who sinking fund and If the holder« will Traffic on the highway wa» almost ' Mrs. Goodman; More Liquor In Spain, while Dallas Murphy and are taken up to the McKenxle highway saw the game. surrender the bonds before due they In the fall, or back to their shelters at a standstill, thages are operating. | -lûmes King, flappers of 1776, put ou Found in Lettuce Crate. Fred Buell brought his team out of **** *’*’ at once. A story of In the spring, but when they are ac but are running behind their sched . a very graceful dauce. tually used In the streets of the city, their slump and was very successful tbe audltors report Is published la The two plate glass windows of the ules. and all those who must travel Fred Walker, aa Galll Curcl, re that is another Item. In his attempts to land the ball other c°>“«nns of this newspaper, on the ruada are Just barely moving Engle cafe her« were blown out and vealed u hidden voice that surprised j West Springfield property owners Mouday morning the state highway squarely Into the hoop. along. smashed Into small hlta and T«d even bis most ardent admirers. Jack department brought one of the scrap- Play Cottage Grove Next haTe PledXed on a petition $97.60 for Seymour, the cook, and his wife nar There have been no serious acci llenderer . sa Pola Negri, was another dents reported here this week and the rowly escaped serious Injury Satur Hollywood luminary who shone up era down from Waltervllle, where i All eyes are now set on the game flre protection in 1930 and It was said they have been for the past week, to with Cottage Grove In that city on that still others will sign up. The roads have been worse than they hare , daj' morning at 8:00 o'clock when a like the bescon light. clear the highway between here and Friday evening. The local boy« do council agreed to give these petition have been for several years. Garage glass Jug. presumed to have contain John Ketels, the old maid aunt Eugene. Springfield reeldente were not expect any difficulty In this ers protectlo nof the chemical track, men have towed cars In, but they were ed moonshine, exploded In the oven 1 with tbe hay fever, O. G. Bushman, surprised upon coming to their places clash, but they have no victories to and If any of them have open wells, not wrecked, merely too cold to start of the kitchen range, spattering the I the Jewish salesman and the bride of business Tuesday morning to find their credit so far this season, snd I t 1 water protection also. In case of fire. cook and hla wife with the hot liquid, - Every effort Is being made by the In the wedding scene, William Runde, that the scraper had come across the Is expected that a strong effort will ! A purchaser for the old public mar Chase Gardens to keep the road be which burst Into '’ainea immediately | brought screams from the audience. bridge and right up Main street, he made to run up a large score. I ket building was reported and the on becoming released Into the air. tween the Booth-Kelly Lumber mill Henry Adrian, the country boy from shoving most of the snow off the pave- ' street committee was given authority Both the arma of Seymour were pain Tbe University high school here and their plant open for traffic, Coburg, aud his mother. W K. Bar- ment and up on the sidewalk. to tear down the structure. fully burned. completely overwhelmed the boys aa any blocking of this road for a long nell, gave a mirthful exhibition as The wooden sidewalk on west D Most of the business men took It No one will volunteer any Informa from the southern Lane county school period will be disastrous to the green long as the punch held out. street will be taken up because It Is good naturedly, got out their shovels tion aa to how the explosive happen last week, and the University high crops growing In their greenhouses. I dangerous and gravel put down for It must be admitted that every and went to work. morn school team Is rated as tbe underdog temporary use. Earlier In the week the road was ed to be In the oven Saturday lie of m,'mber of ,h* cast played his (her) The city street department had men Ing. Mrs William Goodman, a . of this high school district, although dragged to remove much of the snow, I Several old unused buildings In ths have I part cleverly and In a finished man working Tuesday clearing the snow , they were successful a few years ago and later, when the Ice begun to form ths proprietor, la reported to city, which are unsightly and a firs ner. The amount of applause each from the Intersections. In capturing the state championship. on the highway, a light coating of fine been In the building with a few one got was governed largely by the haxard, were discussed and the own patrona when the cook went home at Monmouth Game Flops gravel was spread on the road. ers will be prevailed upon to tear Unele Die« In Eugene ,9:30 Friday evening. He came down number of relatives In the house and Negotiations with the school offi them down. It Is very Imperative that .he hog -I Bhou, * „ 8>lur<Uy Bnd there were some large famlllee Virgil Purkhlser, uncle of Herbert cials at Monmouth have failed at the ged fuel tracks be able to get to the started a fire In the range, not real present. Licensee to operate eating places Moon, proprietor of Moon g délicates- ; present time to result in any early heating plant at the gardens, as they ising that there was anything In the The management of the Bell sen, passed away at the Pacific home game. An effort was made last and soft drink parlors were issued to depend on this fuel for their heat. theatre Is busy today repairing the Christian hospital in Eugene Tuesday week to play a return engagement the following: Tony Graves for ths oven. Drop In cafe; E. E. Kepner for ths The slate plow la again scraping County and city officials are search seats and the next and last perform evening at 10:00 o'clock, at the age with the Monmouth boys here on Main street this morning, removing ing for Mrs. Goodman, to ascertain ance in Springfield before the show of 78. Funeral arrangements are be January 26. This has not been sne- Eagle cafe; C. F. Egglmann for his much of the Ice crust which formed what she knows shout the placing of takes to the road, will be given at Ing made at the Brandstatter funeral cessful and the first home game will confectionery; Herbert Moon for * restaurant on the fresh snow last night. the Jug In the oven. Both she and the »clock this evening. home In Eugene. i be played on February 3. when Cor- I'ontlac car, which Is claimed Is not ■■■ ■ ■« ■» » ■ vallls sends her players here for the CREAMERY MAN MOVES fully paid for, have not been seen firat game between the two schools. ELECTRIC LINE NEAR since the night before the explosion. FAMILY HERE MONDAY CITY IS DAMAGED A search of the building by W. R. HIGH SCHOOL CLASS BY RAIN AND SLEET Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pyle, and hla Duvls, chief of police, und deputy W RITES LETTERS TO son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Emory sheriffs from Eugeue failed to find Slight damage to one of the power STUDENTS IN MEXICO Pyle, arrived here over the week-end linos of the Mountain States Power any more liquor, but the cook Inter from Lakeview, and have established located almost a pint In another to the annual report of the auditors. ' company running to Dexter was the City Budgeted $14,164 and Ex- their home here in the William Vaaby Thirty-seven letters written In the Horton and Tyson, made to the coun only damage reported here this morn glass gallon Jug, which had been , pended $15,236.01 According cil at last Monday night's meeting. I Spanish language by that number of residence. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Griffin hidden In a crate of lettuce. He j ing to the wires and equipment of the Ern'” t. Span will make their home In Eugene for to Analysis Presented to the The overdrafts were largely In the I ^ Ud“ t' company, as a result of the silver notified tbe sheriff's office Immedi Council on Monday Night; street, police and fire departments. Ish class at the high school were a while, os they own a home thera thaw which visited this section of the ately. mailed to Mexico City yesterday, ' whlch they formerly lived In before Some departments showed unexpend Neither Seymour or his wife are «Ute last night, coating the wires Sinking Funds Large. where they will be distributed among ! moving to Laaeview, where they have ed balances and cut down the over being held. The Investigation failed with a heavy layer of Ice. The city of Springfield overrun Ita drafts In others that amounted to a class of students in one ot the . been operating a creamery., More damage may be reported, say to bring to light any evidence which Merlcan schools In that city. | Mr. Griffin and Mr. Emory Pyle budget In 192» by $1.072.01 according $2,197.64. company officials, If the eleet con- would warrant bolding them. The Idea of exchanging these letters i will operate the Springfield creamery Analyst ot Departm ental and General Expenditure w ith Budget Appropria tlnnee. The damages! windows were closed was conceived by Mr. McKinney, and j in the Morrison building on Third tion, December 31, 192». Considerable trouble le being ex off Immediately with a large section Advertising ____ early last fall he wrote to the director street 100.00 34.48 perienced by the power company with of canvas and an old glass front. Attorney ____v___ of education In Mexico City asking If 340.80 240.00 their lines In Southern Oregon and Yesterday new plate glass windows Care of Poor ___ such a thing could be worked out A PENTECOST TO BE THEME I . M ( 10.00 Northern California. These lines from were placed In the building. I reply was received here Just before Clean u p ________ 128.00 118.33 FOR SERMON ON SUNDAY E. E. Kepner Is the owner of the I Thanksgiving saying that they would tbe prospect plant have been down Em ergency.......... . »60 00 be glad to exchange letters with the for several days and It has been nec building. It was not m.tured. Health office _____________ 50.00 8X00 "The Vfctory of Pentecost" will ba local high school students, but added essary for the local plant to receive Police and »Ire departments 4746.00 ' that their school year was almost over the morning sermon topic at the IU current from Portland. A crew MRS. MARY M. PLATT DIES Recorder's office ....._... ...... »46.00 9.00 aud that there would not be any more Springfield Christian church next from Albany are here this morning AT HER HOME SATURDAY Street Cleaning ........................ 1378.51 : 1380.00 classes until the first of February. Sunday. In the evening Veitte Pruitt doing some alteration work and are Treasurer's office _________ 180.00 180 00 (The Mexican schools have almost will take as his theme "Why Did standing In readiness to repair any Mrs. Mary M. Platt passed away at Light and Water .......__........ 3000.00 2»64 93 1 three months vacation during the Jesus Die?” Mrs. D. B. Murphy and break which may develop. her home at 668 B street, Springfield, Library .................. ................... 689.47 ! 643.00 Wilma Scott will sing a duet at the winter.) No trouble Is being experienced nt 8:15 p. m. Saturday, She was 69 Street Improvement.......... . 1500.00 3042 95 evening service. The choir will sing The letter writing Idea has greatly with the telephone wires out ot years old and had been n resident of Municipal Band ....................... 250.00 260.06 spurred the students to do better an anthem in the forenoon. Springfield exchange this morning, Springfield for the past 11 years. She Fuel ..................... ...................... 46.00 38.25 work, says W. E. Buell, principal at The Bible school meets at 10:00 and according to Mrs. Zella Cantrell, the wns born at Knoxville, Tenn., Sep the Christian Endeavor will have the high school, who declared that mannger, although she too expects tember 26, 1860. , $14164.00 $16236.01 despite the largeness of the class their regular evening meeting at 6:30. trouble If this weather continues very The report also says: "It will be sewer, sidewalk, etc., the credits had Surviving Mrs. Platt are four sons which Mr. McKinney has this idea has long. and six daughters, as follows: Austin noticed that the net debt of the city always been liens receivable In the been Instrumental In raising the MISSIONARY TO TALK Bus drivers and motorists In general Platt, Cleveland, Ohio; Charles Platt. has Increased Io over $100,000. but Recorder's books, and would have standard of the work done by the AT BAPTIST CHURCH are having a very difficult time in Springfield; Elmer Platt, Muncie, In this should not be treated with alarm, remained as overdrafts as long as group. keeping their windshields clean. The diana; Glenn Platt, Detroit, Mich.; as we found It necessary to close out they had been permitted to stay on The Mexican students will receive Rev. L. R. Randle, for six years a sleet freexes on them, making It Im Mrs. Bertha Rouse, Springfield; Mrs. some old debt cash balances, such aa the books.” the letters when they attend school missionary in China, and now pastor Ida Halvorson, Springfield; Mrs. possible to see through the glass. again In February, and they will write at Cottage Grove, will deliver a lec The treasurer's books show $30,324.08 In the various funds as follows Marie Barley, Eugene; Miss Edna replies to them. The answers are ex ture at the Baptist church on Tues Bancroft Improvement Fund L. R. .................................... $ 7334.74 Platt, Springfield; Mrs. Carol 1-ahr, BRIDGE LIGHTS ARRIVE; pected here about the middle of next day evening, January 28, on China Bond Sinking Fund ...................... .. ...................................... 20287.69 Fillmore, New York; Mrs. Winona month. The are expected to arouse a and her peoples. ARE NOT INSTALLED YET Bailey, Springfield, Maas., and ten Bond Interest Fund 44.02 great deal of tntereet when they come. Improvement Interest Rev. Randle collected a large num 1292 56 After several weeks delay the grandchildren. Library .......................... ber of curios while In China, and they 16.23 Mrs. Platt was a member of the Real Estate _______ electric light fixtures for the new will be on display here at the time ha 1349.84 MOTO-METER IS STOLEN; Springfield bridge have finally ar Methodist church and of the I-adles makes his address. The lecture la ----------- $30,324.08 TH IE F KNEW INTRICACIES rived and are now In the warehouse of the Grand Army of the Republic, open to the public and all are Invited Summery of General Obligation Due The funeral services were held on of the Mountain States Power com A summary of the general obligation bonds of the town shows the follow Mayor W. P. Tyson reports that to hear It. pany. Nothing definite has been done Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. from the Meth ing Indebtedness: someone stole the moto-meter and about the Installation and It Is not odist church. Rev. Pike officiated Issue of 1910 due 11-1-30 at 6 per cent................... $16000.00 radiator cap from his automobile METHODISTS WILL HOLD and Interment was made In the Laurel ■expected that they will be placed Issue of 1910 due 11-1-35 at 6 per cent................................. 20000.00 while It was parked In front of the QUARTERLY CONFERENCE until the present disagreeable wea Hill cemetery. Walker-Poole chapel Issue of 1911 due 11-1-36 at 6 per cent....... ..... 16000.00 Christian church last Sunday night had charge of the funeral. ther has passed. Issue of 1911 due 11-1-36 at 6 per cent..................._............ 20000.00 during the union services held there Tile first qnarterly conference of Considerable trouble was encount Issue of 1922 due 2-1-32 at 7 per cent................................. 36000.00 In the observance of prohibition. the Methodist church will he held Returns From Salem ered In obtaining these fixtures. It Issue of 1924 due 4-1-44 at 8 per ce n t................................ 60000.00 "Whoever took the appliance knew here ton igh t-at 7:30 la the church became necessary to finally send to George Kennett returned last night $168.000.00 Just what he was doing,” said the parlors. Dr. M. A. Marcsy, district Philadelphia for the particular fix from Salem, where he has been con 8um m ary of Bancroft Improvem ent Bonds mayor, "for he was very careful to superintendent of the Methodist ture that was wanted here. ducting a special sale for a men's fur Issue of 1926 ................................................- ......................... $ 2961.00 find the hidden screws which fasten church, will ba present for the meet The county Is paying for the light nishing store. He stated that the Issue of 1927 •......................_.................................................. 9060.66 ed It to the radiator and removed ing. Reports from all officers of the brackets and the city ot Spring- weather had been fine In Salem un Issue of 1928 .......................................... .......................... „... 13000.00 $ 26031.60 them all without apparently damag- church trill ba heard and work for field will furnish the eloctrlclty to til Tuesday night, when twelve Inches Ing the moto-meter or the radiator the next quarter «111 ba talked ovag Illuminate the bridge. of snow fell. $180,031.58 neck," at the meeting. Liquor E xplosion W recks E agle C afe *ald th,t *‘rb w”re to° Auditors Report Shows 1929 Budget Overdrawn
