DEGREE TEAM PLANS
LOCAL PEOPLE LEAVE
LANE FAIR PATRONS
LARGE PICNIC SUNDAY
TO
VISIT
CRATER
LAKE
TO SEE BICYCLE RACES
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
FOX MCDONALD
"The Finest Sound In Town"
UDI H CHATI EfiTOM w a
'OUR BLUSHING BRIDES'*
SEEN AT THE McDONALD;
“THE HIGH ROAD." SUN.
THfc LAD* OF SCANDAL *
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coming to ihu r'ux u ex baiuruay and
buoduy, is tut llrsl aud ouly of na
bind io suow tbo iudluu us a liuuiau,
just as be lived, worshipped, struggled
against tremendous odds, made love
and wrung a living from primitive na
ture.
As a Hiving record of a dylug race,
"Tue Silent Enemy" is hailed as a
great epic motion picture. And, more
than that, it Is a thrilling picture oi
nature, wild animals aud wild people,
in their native haunts. It is corn para
ble only to such great films as
"Chang" and •Grass." And yet, like
"The Four Feathers." it hus a rouian
tic story, acted by the Indians them
selves, descendants of Auiericau chief
tains, which is as exciting as any stu
dio made tuotiou picture could be.
Shopgirls who envied film actresses
and film actresses who envied shop
girls had a chance to think it over
when Joan Crawford. Anita Page and
Dorothy Sebastian worked behind de
partment store counters for "Our
Blushing Brides." new M-G-M talkie
now playing at the Fox McDonald
theatre for the last time Thursday
These scenes were made In a Los An
geles store, the regular shop girls
working as extras. Harry Beaumont
directed the production whose cast In
cludes Robert Montgomery. Raymond
Hackett. John Miljan, Hedda Hopper,
Gwen Lee and Mary Doran.
The Fox McDonald theatre presents
a sparkling "Buddy" Rogers picture, LANE BOYS TO ENTER
“Safety in Numbers" tomorrow and
NATIONAL BICYCLE RACE
Saturday.
Two Lane county hoys, Earl Cady
"Safety In Numbers” is the breexy and Dale Harvey, Jr., will leave Eu
and highly amusing tale of a young gene on September 1. for Kenosha,
man who is about to receive an In Wisconsin, to participate In the na
heritan ce of $350,000,000 His guar tional bicycle races. The two boys
dlan uncle, deciding that the lad needs have won the right to represent the
to be wised up to the wiles of the big state of Oregon in the national event
world, sends him to New York to be by eliminating all competitors In a
1 the guest of three Follies girls. The series of county, district, and statu
Idea is that If anybody knows what races which have been conducted in
It’s all about It's certain to be Follies Eugene under the direction of J. ft
girls.
Moore, manager of the races for Ore
Finally he finds that he Is In love gon.
with Kathryn Crawford, sweetest na-
The championship races will be held
cured of the three "guardians." It
takes a fistic encounter with his rival on September 6 and 7 at Kenosha un
der the sponsorship of the Cycles
to win her In the uproarious finish.
Ruth Chatterton scores another hit Trades of America and the Kenosha
In "The Lady of Scandal.” which Wheelmen's club. The events will in
comes to the McDonald Sunday for clude races over distances from one
two days as Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer’s mile to ten miles.
all-talking adaptation of Frederick
Dismissed From Hospital—Mrs. Ira
Lonsdale's stage success, “The High
Gates of Garden Way was dismissed
Road.”
As Elsie Hillary, the actress who from the Pacific Christian hospital In
forces her way Into snobbish Ixtndon Eugene on Tuesday following her re
society. Miss Chatterton gives a pen covery frçm a major operation.
etratlng characterization which moves
E IG H T H G R A D E E X A M IN A T IO N
between laughter and tears.
Notice is hereby given that the reg
First rate work is also done by the ular eighth grade examination will be
supporting cast which includes Basil given on Thursday and Friday. Sep
4th and 5th in districts where
Rathbone. Ralph Forbes, Fred Kerr, tember
there are pupils who have complied
MacKenzie Ward. Nance O’Neil, Cyril with the conditions and have made
Chadwick. Robert Bolder. Moon Car- application for questions. A limited
number of pupils can be accomm"1’"
roll and Effie Ellsler.
There have been pictures galore ed at the office of
E. J. MOORE,
giving the white man’s version of In
Co. School Supt.
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dian life, but “The Silent Enemy,"
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Two lilies which were on exhibition
In local merchants' windows during
the past week end created quite a hit
of comment both among those who
have large flower gardens of their
own and others who admire beautiful
flowers. The largest lily was exhibited
In the window of the J. A. Nelson
shoe shop. It measured nine and one-
half inches across the top when It
was picked on Saturday. Tt Is a spe
cles of the Japanese Illy and was
grown at the Nelson home from a
bulb purchesed three years ago In
Philadelphia. The plant grew to be
eight feet tall thia year and had 22
perfect blooms on tt.
The other lily was exhibited by the
Ketei's drug store. It was grown by
Orson Vaughn and is known as the
Golden Band. It was Just as perfect
ly formed as the one In the shoe shop
window although it was smaller
M any
A tten d
8un day
School
Chartes * Buddu
, ROGERS.
> SAFETY
IN NUMBERS^.
casawrunr mrx w u —
katwoyw
MICKEY MOUSE
CLUB SA TU R D A Y
11:18 A. M.
Then— on
SUNDAY!
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—for 2 days!
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T h s screen's most ca p ti
va tin g a rtis t In her most
appealing role. . .
M eet
People from all parts of Lane coun
ty gathered at the Baptist church here
Sunday fur the summer convention of
the members of the American Sunday
School Union. Kenneth Tobias, mis
sionary for the organization had
charge and talks were made by sever
al of the visitors.
V
%a£rDiE
SATURDAY— SUNDAY
An epic of the Am erican
Indian . . . A ctu ally film ed
In N orth O n ta rio w ilds
. . . An Ind ian cast . . .
A nim als
Has Infected Finger—Dale Daniels
Is suffering with an Infected flngei.
it was lanced yesterday.
W s lte rv llle
Resident H e re —
Mrs.
Charles Carter of Waltervllle was a
visitor In Springfield on Wednesday.
Thurston People Here— Mr. and '
Mrs. George Platt of Thurston were
Wednesday visitors In Springfield
From Wendling Mrs. Harry Sim- .
mons and son of Wendling were vis
itors in this city Wednesday.
Natron Resident Here— Mrs. Vern
Stewart of Natron was a business vis- I
itor in Springfield yesterday.
From Fall Creek—Floyd Coltraln of
Fall Creek was a Wednesday visitor i
in Springfield.
Shops Wednesday — Mrs. George
Shields of Lowell was a shopper In i
this city on .Wednesday.
In BEST QUALITY
GROCERIES
i
GET THE SAVING HABIT
Best quality goes farther and keeps you and your
family in better health.
It never pays to buy poor quality goods to eat.
We carry only nationally known, standard brands
of canned goods.
You can depend upon us.
W ith th e G old en V o ic e
Hear the New Atwater Kent Today
One Free Admission to
Heilig Theatre
NEW TONE— GOLDEN VOICE
NEW TONE CONTROL
SELECTIVITY
LONG DISTANCE
«
^ H o l t L y o ^ r s o l f ip H o g g
With each purchase of two packages of KELLOGG’S PROD
UCTS when accompanied by one paid admission.
PRICED
Corn For Canning
$145.00-$151.00 -$172.90
Golden Delicious, 10 Doz„ 1 sack
COMPLETE W ITH TUBES
Home of Columbia Bicycles
cjq
Canning Peaches
See
128 W . 8th, Eugene foe p artic u la rs
WHILE AT THE
FOX REX
Viviti Daughter — Frank Wechter
left Springfield yesterday for Port
land to'spend some time visiting with
his daughter, Mary.
A tw ater Kent
BICYCLE
RACES
Dinty Moore’s
Cycle & Toy
Store
The i ’rogresslve 22 degree team of
the Rebekah lodge will enterUlu the
members of the Rebekah and Odd Fel
Iowa lodges and their families at an
all duy picnic to be held at a park
east of Goshen on Sunday Lemonade,
coffee and cream will be furnished
free. Everyone la expected to bring
their own basket dinners.
Those who do not have an automo
bile are requested to meet at the lodge
Comas From D e x te r Mrs C. L. G il hall al 9:30 Sunday morning und cars
lesple of Dexter was a visitor In will be provided to transport them to
tbo park.
Springfield on Wednesday
UNUSUAL LILY BLCJMS
EXHIBITED BY GROWERS
NEW QUICK-VISION DIAL
AUGUST 27-28-29-30
12:15 to 1:15 P. M.
LANE COUNTY FAIR
9 Races Daily
A party of nine h eal people left
Springfield for Crater Lake till« morn
ing. They drove over the McKensle
pass and expect to he gone for sev
era I days. Those making the trip are
Margaret and Anne Qorrle, Miss Annie
Llnkluter, Marvin Qorrle, Harry WII
ken». Jr., Alex McIntosh, and his
mother, and Dave and Dun Ingram
The trip la being mud« In two auto
mobiles.
Bicycle ractug will be one of the
many forms of eutertaltimenl at the
Lane county fair which opens on Wed
nesday of next week, according to J.
F Moore, of the Moore Cycle and Toy
Store In Eugene who, has charge of
this part of the entertainment.
Nine races will be provided for the
rider» each day They will he open
to anyone who ride» a bicycle and
prise» will be awarded the winners.
The race« will be held between 11:16
and 1:15 each noon
Those wishing to participate In the
races are requested to see Mr. Moore
before the opening date of the fair
A total of 45 prises will be given
away. They will Include five good
watches.
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.
A new population record was es
tabliahed at the atate penitentiury
when the official register ahowed a
total of 916 convicts at Salem.
Prom SV*, acres in the George Chri»
tenson farm in the Pleasantdale
cinity near Dayton, more than 46 2-3
bushels of Holland wheat an acre was
produced.
Columbia county Pomona grange,
with appropriate ceremonies, dedicat
ed its beautiful seven-acre park at Big
Eddy on the Nehalem river to the use
of the public.
Playfully placing a small caliber
rifle to his forehead and pulling the
trigger, evidently thinking the gun un
loaded, cost Allen Hartley, 21, of Co-
* quille, his life.
The recent hot weather has proved
beneficial to the hop crop in Marion
county, according to growers. Pick
ing of fuggles will begin August 26 in
most of the larger yards.
Ninety miles of county roads have
been built in Deechutes county dur
ing the past two years, at an aver
age cost of $203 per mile, according
to County Judge De Armond.
Sales of pears were made at Salem
at prices ranging from $26 to $30 a
ton, according to announcement made
by growers. Some of the pears were
contracted earlier in the season.
The plant at Gold Hill, and quarries
at Marble Mountain of the Beaver
Portland Cement company, closed
down the last three months, resumed
operaticas for an extended run.
The pear crop in both the Hood
River and the Yakima district is un-
usually gocd this year, and the Hood
River apple crop gives promise also
of being above normal, according to
reports.
Evans Brothers are to resume their
greenery bus.ness at Florence very
soon. This will mean work for 10 to
16 pickers to harvest the ferns and
huckleberry shrubbery so abundant
there.
The Train lumber m,ll on the Rogue
river near McLeod was destroyed by
fire, it has been learned. Ail ma
chinery was lost and in addition sev
eral thousand feet of lumber was
burned.
Thousands of tons of rocks, ice and
snow crashed down the upper slope
of Mount Hood in a gigantic slide that
fairly shook the mountain when the
hanging glacier, a part of the Cove
glacier, let go.
The Fir Lumber company of Leban
on, which has the contract to furnwb
ties for the Oregon Electric extension
between Lebanon and Waterloo, has
begun the delivery of 15,000 ties along
the new grade.
Harvesting the 1930 wheat crop in
the Athena «¡strict is verging on the
/
close of a perfect cutting season.
Weather conditions have been Ideal
and not an hour was lost on account
of wind or rain.
Plans for a new $3500 church build
ing to be erected at Malin are mater
ializing. The ground has been cleared
in readiness for the construction. The
church Is to be of bungalow type and
modern In every respect.
The boathouse of the Yaquina bay
coast guard station on Bay bgach, near
Newport, was destroyed by fire a few
days ago. The loss was estimated at
$20,000. The life boat, surf boat and
all beach equipment was destroyed.
The volunteer fire department at
Estacada is proud of a new fire truck.
The generosity of H. C. Gohring
prompted the gift to the city of a good
used car and the city fathers arranged
for its transformation into a real fire
truck for carrying hose, ladders and
the usual fire-fighting equipment
THURSDAY, AUOUST 21. IMP
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
PAGE SIX
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