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H. S. BASKETBALL
8PK1NGFIBL1), LANK COUNTY, OKBOON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1931
Union Services on Independent Team
Sunday Evening IVins Five Games
Armlets Judge
Five victories and one defeat la six
bunduy evening at the Ibiptlst church
It waa announced thia morning by
Rev. Pike, pastor of the Methodist
church who haa charge of the speak­
ing arrangements.
Mr. Knott was a faculty member
of the Eugene Bible university before
his tour of the world which took al­
most u year. He haa not announced
the subject of hla talk, but It la prob-
uble that It will deal with experiences.
The union service Is sponsored by
the member» of the W. C. T. U. and
Is an annual affair. Veltle Pruitt,
pastor of the ChrlHtlan church, will
alng a solo, and the Baptist quartet,
constating of Norton Pengru, Wilfred
Cook. Paul Freae, and T. Burris, will
King "Make Me Clean."
Regular services will be held at
each Of the churches In the morning.
At the Baptist church Rev. Mul­
holland will speak on "The Church
Itk-h In Poverty." The Young l"eople
will meet at 6:46 In the evening.
Members of the Christian church
wll hear their paator apeak on "Seeing
Jesus." The choir will sing "Knuck
lag With Nall Pierced Hands." The
Christian Endeavor will meet at 6:30.
{lev. I*lke w ill IMe "B lu nd ers" as
bis sermon topic at the Methodist
church at 11:00 o'clock. The Epworth
league will meet at 6:30.
ball players who have styled them­
selves the Town team.
The conquests to date Include game»
with Crow high school and the Thur­
ston Independents which they won a
week ago Monday before and after
the regular high school game against
Estacada high; two games at Thur
ton Friday evening against both tbe
high school and Independent squads;
and Pleasant lllll high school here
Monday evening. They lost the game
with Walker high school the same
evening by one point, 40 1« 41.
Harold delger ha« been named new
»Indent manager lu the place of Jack
Hulett, realgned.
Another game ban been acheduled
with the Pleasant Hill high school to
In- played there next Wedneeday.
ACCIDENT VICTIM WAS
FORMER RESIDENT HERE
Mra. Inhaba Huff, 77, who woa
It I llixl in Portland Juat after Chrlat-
maa when »be waa »truck by a truck
while croaalng a street waa a former
rnaldent of thia vicinity and waa
known to several of the local resi­
dent»
She lived In the Fairmount
dlatrlct and In Jaaper for many years
before moving to Portland.
Four children survived her. They
were Blanche Phelpa. Mra. IVraea Van
Vlete, Holla Huff and Scott Huff.
The funeral waa held Wednesday
of laat week front the Crematorium
In Portland where the Ixtdy waa placed
In a vault.
KLAMATH MAN MAY BE
NEW LANE CLUB LEADER
OF CITY FIRE CHIEF
The folowlng payers performed
against the Walker team: William Cox,
Francis Deeds, Harry Harrington,
Freeman Squires, and Everett Bqulres
The Town team Is composed of
former high school players and other
young men of the city who play and
enjoy the game. They either play
games at the high school gymnasium
every Monday night or hold practice
GORRIE-VAN VALZAH
sessions at that time. They are at­
WEDDING IS EVENT OF
tracting quite a bit of attention among
NEW YEAR'S AFTERNOON the followers of the game In this
county.
tine of the large surprises of tbe
holiday aeaaon was tbe marriage on ELITE CAFE AND HOTEL
New Year's day of Mlsa Anne Gorrte
CHANGES MANAGEMENT
lu Hr. Caryl Gerald Van Valxah. Only
a few «lose friends of the Immediate
DURING PAST WEEK-END
families knew of the forthcoming
The Elite hotel and cafe has been
event until It took place.
The ceremony waa perfronxvl at the purchased during the past week ,by
home of the bride's mother, Mrs. C. I. W. L. Coates of Junction City from
Gorrle t+r , by Rev. C. J. Pike, paator Mrs. Joel Smyth. Mrs. Smyth pur­
of the Methodist church. In the pres chased the business establishments
ence of Immediate family members. last September from Mr. and Mrs. A.
T. Brewer who are now living at
Mrs. Van Valxah la a graduate of Fall Creek. Only the cafe equipment
the Monmouth normal achool and of and the furnishings In the rooms of
the University of Oregon whore she the hotel are Involved In the trans­
la a member of Alpha XI Della so­ action.
rority. Mr. Van Valxah la a graduate
Mr. Coates will be assisted In the
of the North Pacific dental college
at Ibirtland. He Is a eon of Mrs. operation of his new business by his
A. U Vau Valxah and Is practicing mother. Mrs. Pearl Coates and bis
sister. They will continue to feature
hla profession In Portland.
the combination of room and board
which was started by Mr. Brewer.
J. E. EBBERT PASSES AT
PORTLAND WEDNESDAY;
SCHOOL BOARD NAMES
FUNERAL IS SATURDAY
TRUANT OFFICER MONDAY
J. E. Ebbert, pioneer resident of
Springfield, died at his borne at Port­
land yesterday at the age of 72 years.
He waa the husband of Mary E. Eb­
bert and the father of Chester A.
Ebbert of Porterville, California. He
was a charter member of the Spring-
field I. O. O. F. bulge number 70. He
also leave two slaters, Mrs. John Wlnx-
enreld of Springfield and Mrs. Frank
Powers of Eugene,
The funeral will be held Saturday
at 2:30 Walker-Poole wll have charge
and Interment will be made in the
old I. O. O. F. cemetery at Eugene.
The Springfield Odd Fellows bulge
will conduct the funeral services.
The realgnatlon of Arnold 0. Col­
lier aa l.nne county club leader waa
received and accepted by tbe officials
of the Oregon Mate College last week­
end. State duh officials have Indi­
cated that they will urge the appoint­
ment of H. C. Keuhner, present as-
Blatant to the county agent at Klam­
ath Fnlla, aa Collier's suoCeeaor. The
appointment hna to be made by the
»late hoard of higher education. MANY ATTEND STAR PARTY
Keuhner la a graduate of Oregon
HERE TUESDAY EVENING
State college.
Sixty people attended the New
Year's party of the Eastern Star
SCARLET FEVER CLAIMS
which was held Tuesday evening. A
SMALL BOY ON TUESDAY regular lodge session, the first of the
Dean, the small son of Mr. and year and the first to be presided
Mrs. Clarence E Caudell of Spring- over by the new officers, was held
field, died of acarlet fever, Tuesday at 8:00 o'clock and the husbands and
al the home of hla parents. Orave- family members were then Invited In
alde funeral services will he held this for the social evoning which consisted
afternoon at the I-aurel Grove ceme of games and refreshments. Mrs. C.
tery with Rev. Ralph Mulholland of­ E. Wheaton. E. E. Fraedrtcks, Mrs,
ficiating. Walker-I*oole chapel will Sidney Ward, Mrs. Clifford Wilson,
Mrs. John Ketels, Mrs, C. F. Eggl-
have charge.
mann, Miss Margaret Gorrle, Mrs. C.
O. Van Valxah, end Miss Lillian Olson
To Meat At Cottage Grove
had charge of arrangements for the
party,
The I-ane County Chamber of Com­
merce wll meet Friday, November 16,
at Cottage Grove. Tho chamber In PAST STAR OFFICERS TO '
that city wll have charge of the pro­
BE ENTERTAINED HERE
gram.
Mrs. Gertrude Wilson will entertain
at her home on Emerald Heights
Speaks tq Lions
Saturday afternoon with a compli­
A. F. 8. Steele, aocretnry of the mentary party honoring Mrs. W. C.
Eugene Chamber of Commerce, will Wright, retiring worthy matron of
apeak to the Lions club at tomorrow the Eastern Star lodge. Mrs. Wilson,
noon'a meeting. Mr. Steele will talk who la the new worthy matron, has
on development of Lane county for also invited all of the officers who
the mutual benefit of all communities. served under Mrs. Wright.
Municipal Court Judge David
Moylan of Cleveland, who lost both
arms In a railroad accident, dis­
poses of 400 cases a day and makes
entries in his record with a pen held
in hla teeth.
Victory over the Pleasant Hill high
group waa a surprise os the Hill
Billies are rated among the strongest
of the district this year, having won STRANGER WANTS WORK;
two games from Eugene high before
SUGGESTS DISCHARGE
Christmas.
The lineup In this game was luiwr
ence Roof, center; Dale Summers and
Francis Deeds, guards; Harry Harring­
ton. and Ix>Roy Nice, forwards. The
final score was 37 to 46 for Spring
field.
Lum Anderson was named truant
officer for the Springfield school dis­
trict at the meeting of the school
board on Monday evening. The meet­
ing was devoted to a consideration
of bills. The district recently called
!n a outstanding warrants and had
a cash surplus. Another check has
t c .a received by tbe clerk since that
time making the financial standing of
the district very good.
CHORAL GROUP SENTIMENT
ASKED BY FORMER LEADER
No. 62
New Committees
Made a t Chamber
a meeting of the officers and di­
rectors.
1. M. Peterson was re-appointed sec­
retary of the Chamber by Mr. Barnell
This is the only official post that
was not filled by election.
F. B. Hamlin. W. A. Taylor, two
former presidents of the Springfield
organization, and Mr. Barnell, will
be the delegates to the monthly meet­
ings of the I-ane County Chamber
of Commerce. H. E. Maxey, president
of the county organization, will alao
attend these meetings.
Taylor, Hamlin, and Carl Olson
were appointed on the honor com­
mittee. They have the management
of the Community hall under their
supervision. Any person or persons
desiring to use the rooms for any
purpose will have to confer with the
members of this committee.
W. C. Wright. C. B. Wheaton and
M. B. Huntley are the new members
of the membership committee. H. E.
Maxey, Welby Stevens and W. P.
Tyson are members of the roads and
highways committee. The new In­
dustrial committee consists of Maxey,
I. M. Peterson, Stevens, Wright and
Dr. W. C. Rebhan.
The executive committee of the
Chamber of Commence Is considering
the publication of an advertising folder
telling about Springfield and this com­
munity.
The regular monthly meeting of
tbe Chamber of Commerce will be held
on January 23.
People who read tbe egotistical ad­
vertisement which a New York young
man ran In a paper there and which
was later carried In the news columns
of many dally papers as a humorous
news item should listen to Mayor
Tyson explain an incident which oc­
curred here Tuesday.
Acordlng to the mayor, a stranger
accosted him and told him that he
had come to apply for the position
of fire chief, stating that he was not
a resident of the city, but that he
would move here. When he was In­
formed that a man bad already been
appointed to tbe position he replied
that he knew that, and added that
he had heard some criticism of the
appointment so he had come to tell
the mayor to oust him and appoint NEIGHBORS OF WOODCRAFT
himself.
PLAN FOR INSTALLATION
He produced credentials to show
that he was qualified for the position,
Old and new officers of the Neigh­
states the mayor.
bors of Woodcraft met at the I. O. O.
F. hall last night to practice their
WALTERVILLE RESIDENT
work for installation which will be
PASSES AT HOME SUNDAY held at the next meeting. A short
program will be prepared for the night
A. L. Vaughn. 80. resident of Wal­ of the Installation.
tervllle for the past nine years, died
All of the lodge furniture has been
suddenly at his home at Waltervllle taken out of the W. O. W. hall and
on Sunday evening at 9:00 o'clock. stored. The building has been sold
Mr. Vaughn was born In Harrisburg to the Masonic lodge and it is making
on June 12. 1850 and spent his entire plans to refinish the upstairs for
lifetime In the Willamette valley. In their own lodge quarters.
1872 he married Miss Ellen Hallaway
who survives him. He also leaves
three sons, Ed Vaughn of Springfield; COWART HOME RAZED
John Vaughn, Crow, and Frank
BY FLAMES ON SUNDAY
Vaughn, at Waltervllle; besides 17
An overheated heater Is believed to
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Wednes­ have been responsible for the Ore
day afternoon at 2:00 o’clock from which badly gutted the interior of
the Walker-Poole funeral home In the A. J. Cowart home at Fifth and
Springfield. Rev. Velile Pruitt of­ Wall streets on Sunday evening at
ficiated. and Interment was made In 7:30. The Cowart family was not at
home at the time of the fire, neigh­
the Mount Vernon cemetery.
bors turning In tbe alarm. About
31,000 damages was done to the prop­
PETER LAFFERTY PASSES
AT HOME OF SON SUNDAY erty by the fire and the water used
in extinguishing the flames. Wall
Peter Lafferty died at the home of paper near the stove caught tire and
his son, Cleve, at Lowell Sunday eve­ soon the whole Interior of the living
ning at the age of 89 years. He was room was a mass of flames.
born at St. Paul, Oregon, and had
the distinction of being one of the HAND CAUGHT IN WRINGER
first persons to be born In what Is
ONE FINGER LACERATED
now known as Marlon county. He
married Marian Plueard In 1890 and
The small daughter of Mr. and Mrs
they made their home near Molalla Isaac Webb met with a painful ac­
until three years ago. He was a mem­ cident early Saturday evening while
ber of the Catholic church, and Is playing with the clothes wringer. She
survived by two sons, John and Cleve. managed to get the wringer started
both of Lowell; one daughter, Mrs and taught her hand In It. One finger
Katherine Abercrombie, of Modesto. was cut open by the pressure of the
California; twelve grandchildren and rollers and it was necessary to take
four great grandchildren.
several stitches.
The remains were sblpped to Mo­
lalla by the Walker-Poole chapel In
MAN GASHES HIS FINGER
Eugene. Funeral services were held
WHILE CHOPPING WOOD
from the Catholic church there.
Several people have been asking
Erneet McKinney whether he planned
to direct another choral group In
Springfield this year and he Is anxious
to find out the sentiment of the ma­
jority of the singers. He is willing
Io direct or participate In such a
vciduro i f there are sufficient people
who are willing to attend practice
regularly.
McKinney requests that
mi mhers of last year’s group let him GLEE CLUBS TO PRESENT
know their desire by phoning him OPERETTA AT HIGH SCHOOL
at 182M.
The combined glee clubs of the
high school will start practice Mon­
CIVIC CLUB WILL ELECT
day on tho operetta, “The King’s
NEW OFFICERS TUESDAY Wardrobe”, according to Ernest Me
Kinney, director, who will have charge
New officers of the year 1931 will of the performance. The date for
be elected at the meeting of the Civic the presentation has not been decided.
club on Tuesday. This will be the There will be eight principals and a
first meeting of the group since the chorus of about twenty voices in the
first week In December, they having operetta. Mr. McKinney has gone
taken a recess during the holiday over nearly twenty different operettas
season.
In selecting "The King’s Wardrobe”
for presentation here.
BRIDGE CLUB TO MEET AT
ADRIAN HOME ON FRIDAY MR. AND MRS. WRIGHT TO
SPEND WINTER IN SOUTH
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Adrian will
entertain for the members of the
Bridge club at their home on Friday
evening. The club was to have met
with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wilson,
but Mrs. Wilson was called out of
town Tuesday and will not be hero
Friday evening.
L I V I NKW SPAPKR
IN A L I V I T O W N
I. J. C O W NEW
Peteraen Re-appointed Secre­
tary; Other Committee« Re­
viled by New Official*.
New Roster of City Employee*
Announced Monday by Mayor
Standing committees for the Spring
at Special Meeting of Council;
field Chamber of Commerce for the
year 1931 were appointed Friday night
Take Over Duties Tuesday;
by W. K. Barnell, new president, at
Tyson Thanks Hinson.
Division« to Cot First Trial juat returned to Eugene from a world games played In a period of two
This Year; First Cams with tour, will apeak at the union service weeks Is the record set here this week
Albany on January 16.
of tho Springfield churches to bo held by the Independent group of btsket
Hpringflnld high mhuol ha» eight
basket hall gum*» nn It» schedule
which was announced at the high
Nt hiwl thia week by W. E Buell, prln-
i I [ml. and Norval May, coach. The
local player» will open their attempt
for the dlalrlrt champlonahlp at Al-
lutny on January 16 when they meet
I ho Alhntiy high achonl quintet.
The »chedule (or the local team
icud» u h follow» January 16, Albany
there; January 23, University high at
Eugene; January 30, Cottage drove
here; February 6, Eugene high there;
February 13. University high here;
February 20, Cottage drove there;
February 27, Eugene high here;
March 6, Abany high here.
A new dlvl»lnn of the dlatrlct haa
been worked out by the high achnol
athletic officials and 1« being tried
thia year
It divide» tbe dlatrlct Into
two division», the north and eouth,
with la n e county and Albany con
»tltutlng the Mouth division. They will
play their game» andethen a aerie»
o f conteat» will be urranged to deter­
mine the winner» between the two
division». The successful team will
represent the entire dl»trl»t.
Hpringflnld high »chooi defeated the
lllll Billie« from Pleanant lllll here
last night 16 to 12. llert Tomaeth do­
ing uio»t of the basket making for
the oi al team Tbe lineup was Hersey
ToniHiith and I4oyd Mattison, for-
warda; dllbert Ernatlng, renter; Bert
Tomaeth and John l.ym h, guard».
A aurceaaful year 1» anticipated by
the local high acbool team. Their
victory laat night place» them strong
er than the Eugene high team which
haa bowed twice already thia aeaaon
to tin- lllll Billie».
A
NIGHT POLICEMAN
World Traveler to Address Con­ Two Thurston Squad« and Plea­
gregation at W. C. T. U.
sant Hill Bow to Local Star«;
Walker Cop« Victory.
Annual Service.
Harold E Kuntt, traveler who has
" T lw People's Pap er"
Mr. and Mrs. 8. C. Wright and
Mrs. Wright's sister, Mrs. Barrett,
from Canada, left Springfield Tuesday
morning for Portland where they took
a boat to California. They expect
to spend the balance of the winter
visiting In the Golden state.
A. J. Cowart was named night
policeman for the city of Springfield
Monday night at a special meeting
of the city council. He takds the
place of Fred Hinson, veteran night
officer, who has served the city for
the past eleven year» under five dif­
ferent mayors.
The only other change In the per­
sonnel of the city officials made
Monday night was that of street com­
missioner. Robert Pirrle waa named
to this post succeeding George Vallier.
Dther officials renamed to th«fr
posts are Lum F. Anderson, police
chief; Hugh Joliff, fire chief; L M.
Peterson, city attorney; Dr. W. H.
Pollard, health officer; E. E. Kepner,
city engineer, and Mrs. Frances M.
Saltsman, librarian.
The appointments were made by W.
P. Tyson and were ratified by the
members of the common council. They
became effective on Tuesday morning.
Two new members of the city coun­
cil took their oaths of office at the
meeting Monday. They were G. H.
Jarrett, appointed to fill the vacancy
caused by the removal of W. C. Mc-
I^igan to North Bend, and Fred Freee,
elected last fall to take the place
ot W. C. McKlln. Holdover members
of the council are Herbert Cox, and
W. A. Taylor.
Council committees for the year
1931 will be announced by the mayor
at the regular monthly meeting of the
council on Monday evening of next
week.
In making the appointment of Cow­
art to the night watchman position,
Tyson declared that he and the city
of Springfield owed a great deal to
Fred Hinson, incumbent, and that his
record has been very satisfactory In
every respect. The cnange was made
because oi a desire to distribute the
city positions among several people
and to those who needed gainful em­
ployment the m ost
LOCAL LODGE GROUP AT
COBURG INSTALLATION
A large delegation from the Spring-
field Rebekah lodge went to Coburg
Tuesday night to witness the Joint
Installation ot officers of the Rebekah
and L O. O. F. lodges there. Those
making the trip included Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Black, Mrs. Johns, Mrs. Sam
Richmond and daughter Helene, Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Findley, Alice Doane,
Mrs. Clara Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Asa
Peddicord. Mrs. Wanda Barnes, Doris
Girard, Dorothy Girard, Mrs. Enoch
Stuart, Meda Catching, and Mrs. A.
B. Van Valzah.
MILL TO OPERATE FOUR
DAYS OF TH IS WEEK
The Springfield mill of the Booth-
Kelly lumber company is operating 4
days this week, having started Wed­
nesday morning. No annuncement has
been made as to the future operations
of the local plant.
SPRINGFIELD MAN AGAIN
HEADS SAFETY COMMITTEE
L. E. Danks was re-elected chair­
man of the safety committee of the
Southern Oregon district of the Moun­
tain States Power company employees
at a meeting held here on Monday
evening. The other members elected
to the committee for the year 1931
are E. W. Albers, Springfield, C. R.
Michaels, Junction City, and W. R.
Frank Ingersoll severely cut the Smith of Cottage Grove.
index finger on his left hand Monday
while he was cutting some kindling MISSION SOCIETY MEETS
wood at the home of his sister at
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Glenwood. It was necessary for a
local physician to take several stitches
Mrs. Emma Olson entertained the
to close the wound. Mr. Ingersoll members of the Women's Foreign Mis­
lives at Mohawk.
sionary society at her home Tuesday
afternoon. The study group was led
SCHOOL BOY INJURES ARM by Mrs. L. K. Page. Refreshment
ON PLAYGROUND MONDAY were served.
The next meeting of the group will
LaVerne McPherson, student at the be held on the first Tueoday ot Feb­
Lincoln school, received a dislocated ruary at the home of Mrs. Will Maybe
arm Monday when he was playing oa on C street.
the school grounds. He was taken
to a local physician’s office for medi­ REBEKAH’S MAKE PLANS
cal attention.
FOR INSTALLATION SOON
Meeting Postponed
The meeting of the Chysanthemum
club which was to have been held
at the home of Mrs. Mande Bryan
last night has been Indefinitely post­
poned because of the Illness of Mrs.
Bryan.
V
Plans for the installation of officer«
of the Rebekah lodge were discussed
at the regulary weekly meeting of
the group which was held at the I.
O. O F. hall on Monday evening. Doro­
thy Girard will be the Installing of­
ficer. Tbe Installation will probably
take place on Monday of next week.