PAGE SIX
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8. 1931
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
her cousin. Mr» J I' Hull at Lowell. Bruce Wheeler. I.. K Park», elder»;
Wild blackberries, large and luscb
Mr. anil J P. Hull entertained Mi Taylor Circle, J m m Plielp«| A4 luo
ous, are ripening up in the hills of
and Mrs. Thuiilus Power* Jr. mid »oil. Wheeler, J W Wheeler, Frank Smith.
Garfield, about four ml lea from Esta­
Allen, Ml** Florence Elliott, Ml»» E E K ilp a trick, K K Schrenk, dea-
cada. Tile berries v ere found on vinos
Ruth Ityilell mid Ml»» Elisabeth Tollin' nina; Mr» Maggie SIewurt, Mrs. K.
J shclteiea from frost ahd warmed by
Y Swift, Men. I’. N Laird and Mr».
ni dinner New Tear'» day.
the winter sun on clear days.
C
I». William», ileuroiie»»«»
.Ml»» Cur* John, who spent Hie hull
Principal Events of the Week A new kind of dog and eat food has
days with her parent» at Plen.imil
Mr» Luella llrlatnw »pent the holl
been placed on the Astoria market.
Assembled for Information
H ill, returned Io Scoitahurg where day» wllh her nephew und family al
1( Is manufactured by (he Columbia
»he
1» teaching.
Independence.
of Our Readers.
River Packers' association from scrap
Ml»» Erma Isilril, who teaches ill
fish, cereals and vegetables. Pish,
lleml high »ehool, returned to lleml
thrown away ordinarily, are used.
Visit from Weltervllle Joe Hart of
THE MARKETS
Suturilay ufler »pemllog the holidays
Wallervlllo
wir» a buelneaa visitor In
Forgetting that his car was in gear,
Portland
with her parent», Mr ami Mr» I*
Sprinatletil Wnlnesday.
Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, 70c; Louis Kirk of Banks attempted to
N U-Ird
toft white, western white, 6*c; hard crank it. It started up, ran into Kirk
The* PlenHunt tllll basketball tenm
winter, northern spring, weatern red. and knocked him down, and then cir­
will play Klmlru Friday at the Plea«
Thurston Man Here Charlea Hast
cled about the street and into the
Me.
mil Hill gytnnaeiunt
Ing» of Thurston wus a visitor in
front
of
the
Banks
confectionery.
Hay—Buying price, t o. b. Portland:
Al the annual election of officer» ihl» city yesterday,
Alfalfa, »17.5O01S; valley timothy.
More than 30,000 automobiles vis­
at the Pleasant Hill church last Sun
*17.60; eaatern Oregon timothy, *190 ited Champoeg park during the year
day the following were elected for
Go«» to P o rtland M rs C liffo rd W ll
*20; clover. 14; oat hay. *14; oata and 1930, according to a letter received by
the coming year: II. C. Wheeler. E »■>■■0 left fur Portland Tuesday In bo
vetch. »1J.5O014.
the Marion county court from Albert
Y. Swift, E. P. lautlii, C L. William». with her ninlhcr who la III.
Butterfat—24 0 27c.
Toaler, custodian. Toiler estimated 1
——
Eggs—Ranch, 14024c.
Scene fro m the hilarious comedy "R educing," s ta rrin g M a rie Dressier
that 120,000 persons entered the park.
Cattle—Steers, good, *8 7509 15.
and Polly M oran, a M etro Goldw yn M ayer picture now cur­
Of this number 781 came by steam­
Hogs—Good to choice, *9 25 0 9.50.
boat.
re n t at the Pox M cDonald
Lambs—Good to choice. **.5007.00.
The market for the small lumber
Seattle
mills of the Cottage Grove section has ! "REDUCING* IS FUNNY
Wheat—Soft white, western white, been bolstered during recent weeks by
picture at M c D onald ♦ UPPER WILLAMETTE
♦
*6c; northern spring, hard winter, the demands of the Standard Season­
western red, 64c; bluestem, 68c.
Marie Dressier and Polly Moran
Mr. unil Mrs. Kenneth Pnulson were
ing society, which has had sufficient
Eggs—Ranch, 12024c.
bridge plank and structural timber have scored snoBher comedy "ten- called to Portland last week by the
Butterfat— 29c.
business to keep 15 of these outlying strike" with "Reducing, " their latest death of Mrs. Pnulson'» sister Friday
O /zw /zts/v F O X W I S T C O A S T T H I A T W fS ,
Cattle—Choice steers. *7.50 0 8.50.
Metru-Uoldwyn Mayer picture which
Alvin Olson is confined to his bed
mills operating p*:t time.
Hogs—Good to choice, *9.5009.66.
opened
last
night
at
the
Fox
MclXwuld
with
the
measles.
The oldest residence now standing
Lam ba—Choice. *6.6007.
MARIE
The Jonlun family Is having the
T he Funniest
In Lebanon was badly damaged by a for four days.
NOW
Spokane
"Reducing' has been admirably ul- measles.
DRÇ55LER
fire which caught from an overheated
W
om
en
on
E
a
rth
Cattle—Steers, good, 67.5O0S.25.
PLAYING
Owv POttV
Pleasant Hill high school started
stove. The rear part of the house was reett'd by Charles "Chuck" H*«ner,
Hogs—Good to choice, *9 00.
MORAN
built by Rev. T. L. Woodward in 1853. who also wielded the megaphone for Munday. January 6.
Lam be—Medium to good. *506.
when he took up the land as a dona­ "Caught Short." the previous comedy
The Pleasant lllll basketball boys'
tion land claim. The main part of triumph of the hilariously funny pair. team deflated the Creswell team last
Official census figures for Astoria
The picture poke« fun at beauty Friday and the Pieasunl Hill girls
the house was built in 1862.
give the city 10,349 inhabitants.
parlors in the same hilarious way lost to Creswell.
The problem of removing a group of
Fire, believed to have been of in­
its predecessor took a fling at Wall
houses from deep center field In the
Henry Dlckmunn bad the fourth
Street.
cendiary origin, destroyed two build­
T he N orthw est P re m ie r
baseball park at Bend was solved re­
finger
on his left hand amputated
ings in the business section of Harris­
H its M e rry Pace
0» the Biggest Pun Feet
cently
when
fire
of
unknown
origin
Monday.
January
5.
The
finger
was
burg.
What happens when the buxom Miss
E v e r F ilm ed . , .
razed the struetuies. Baseball team
broken and »mashed several weeks I
SEE IT B E F O R E S A T U R D A Y N IG H T
W. L. Johnson, a pioneer of Ashland, managers anu fans have been attempt­ Dressier loads her extensive tribe
ago
in
an
auto
accident
but
an
effort
has celebrated his 93d birthday. In ing to find some means of getting rid aboard a Pullman, and unloads them
was made to »ave the finger. In­
spite of his advanced age he is still of the houses for the past ten years. st the Grand Central station. New
fection set In and II became neces­
York,
starts
the
laugh
ball
rolling
active.
SUNDAY
sary to amputate the finger.
As proof of the fact that things
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson A. Bartlett of grow ''bigger and better” in Oregon. and it doesn't stop for an hour or
The intermediate Endeavor of the
more.
Ontario celebrated their 60th wedding Eli Fellows in the Highland district
BRINGS—
In his years as a comedy favorite Pleasant Hill Christian church elected
anniversary with a family reunion re­
near Beaver creea, 13 miles east of on the stage of every English speak­ officers Sunday. The following were
cently.
President, Felma Circle;
Oregon City in Clackamas county, dis­ ing country. Leon Errol never found elected:
The Union Pacific system formally played two turnips, one weighing ten
Fou r Fam ous
a more exacting audience than the vice-president. Lore« Laird; secretary
dedicated the new *150,006 two-story pounds and the other six. They were
Funsters
Verna
Wiley;
pianist.
Mildred
Swift;
one which one day witnessed his fam­
union station to the city of La Grande turned over to the state chamber of
In a M irth
ous collapsing-knee capers in 1‘ara treasurer. Harold McLeod; chorister.
at an impressive ceremony recently. commerce.
F ille d
Earl McLeod.
.4 mount's Hollywooi studio.
Farce
The year of 1930 has been a good
Miss Nova Jeun Wilson of Independ
As the comical crook who heads
The November report of the cow­
year and when the state total of build­ testing association in Tillamook coun­ the fun division of "Only Saps ence spent the holidays visiting with
ing permits is issued, Klamath Falls ty shows a decided slump in the pro­ Work." Errol was going through his friends at Ixyweli, her former home
la expected to be second to Portland. duction of milk and butterfat. The re­ antics In one of the big scenes of the town.
Astoria's police department has port shows that milk production for play.
Misa Elisabeth Tollne of Clilca«o
found a new use for confiscated moon­ the 107 herds was 1,062,301 pounds,
In the sea of smiling face Errol a student at Oregon State college
WEDNESDAY—JOAN CRAWFORD in "PAID’
shine. It is mixed with kerosene and which is 448,299 pounds less than for spotted the solemn visage of a vet­ spent the holidays at the home of
used In the radiators of the police the previous month. Butterfat
eran stage watchman. The comedian
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cars.
outdid himself to make the dour face
a decrease of 26,076 pounds.
Floyd B. Moffit of Lostine has
Because of a technicality in the Ore­ crack Into a laugh. He ended with
moved a house from Enterprise and gon school laws, it will be necessary particularly hilarious knee-collapse,
ALL SALES
aet it up on hia Lostine property. It to hold the Medford school bond elec­ and a broad grin lighted the bleak
BUY NOW
pan" of the watchman.
was loaded on wagons and hauled by tion aga.n, it was announced by E. H.
FINAL
AND SAVE
At the same instant there was a
teams.
Hedrick, city school superintendent.
muffled
st
ream
and
a
wanting
shout.
Two robbers appeared as uninvited The law requires that the first notice
859 Willamette
The struggle to stifle his mirth had
guests at a wedding party in Klamath be published 15 days before the elec­
Falls, and after holding up seven per­ tion, and that neither the publishing been too much for an electrician of
the overhead light crew
Rocking
sons, escaped with about *8 In cash date nor the election day count.
with
suppressed
laughter,
he
had
lost
and three watches.
That the non-skid blacktop on the
his balance, and only a frantic clutch
Seventy-five pounds of tin foil has Columbia highway in Hood River coun­ at a friendly beam kept him from
been sent to the Shrine hospital in ty is dangerous in cold weather Is tailing thirty fe e t
I
Portland from the Redmond grade daily attested by the number of wrecks
It
was
a
triumph
for
the
genius
schools, 28 pounds of which was col­ occurring on that section. The snow
of Errol.
lected by the first grade.
fills and packs hard on the rough sur­
“Only Saps Work" will be seen and
face,
and
with
a
frost
becomes
a
glaze
Southern Pacific officials have au­
thorized the beginning of their *200,- of ice, and it is stated that with this heard at the Fox McDonald Theatre
000 development plan of filling in their condition prevailing, automobiles can on Sunday next. It Is based on one
of the famous mystery-farces by Owen
property on the west side of Lake scarcely keep the road.
Davis, the distinguished American j
Ewauna, at Klamath Falla.
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dooley, be­
playwright.
1
lieved
married
longer
than
any
other
The Newport chamber of commerce
and the city council are petitioning couple in the state, celebrated their
the state highway commission to def­ 69th wedding anniversary recently. JOHN MONTGOMERY DIES
FEATURING BIG REDUCTIONS IN EVERY DE­
initely locate the Oregon Coast high­ Married in Chicago, they crossed the
AT LEABURG TUESDAY I
PARTMENT — A 1931 EVENT FOR EVERY
plains to Auburn, Baker county, 1862,
way through the city of Newport.
John
O.
Montgomery,
a
resident
of
the
scene
of
the
first
gold
discovery
Fifty acres of strawberries are to
WOMAN IN LANE COUNTY
he put out on the Mike Svoboda farm in Oregon. Dooley is a builder, and the I>aburg vicinity since 1903, died
a few miles east of Scio, according to the original owner of the old Dooley Tuesday afternoon at the family home
W. J. Turniiige, who has recently Mountain road, which bears his name. at the age of 98 years. He would have
Losses in merchantable timber, logs been 99 If he had lived until Feb­
leased the farm for a term of years.
and
logging equipment due to forest ruary 17. He was born at Abbtngton,
Beautification of Pilot Butte park at
Entire Stock Coats
H undreds
of
beautiful,
fires
in Oregon during the past sea­ West Virginia on February 17, 1832
Bend has been Included in the state
high
grade
dresses
to
and
came
to
Oregon
in
1875,
settling
highway program of work for the un­ son, were the lowest since 1916, ac­
choose from. All except
in Union county where he made his
1/3
1/2
cording
to
Lynn
F.
Cronemiller,
state
employed. Besides burning dead trees,
i'pring d resses deeply re­
forester. With a record of 1200 fires home until he moved to Leaburg In
unsightly boards are to be removed.
Buy now and gave. One duced
in forested areas during the season, 1903.
Taxpayers of Oregon will be called
Three New Croups
Five sons and two daughters sur
group 24 Beautiful Sport
covering 52,670 acres, losses amounted
upon to pay »6,842,949.09 toward sup­
to *79,697. In 1929, 1472 fires burned vive. They are John, Jack, Rube,
port of the state and its various activ­
and Dress Coats, trim ­
over 298,235 acres, the loss for that Will, Gett, Mrs. J. F. Edwards, and
ities in 1931, according tt the tax levy
season amounting to more than *1,500,- Miss Leone Montgomery. They all
med with lovely furs, In
promulgated by the state tax commis­
live in and near Ixiaburg.
000.
sion.
latent styles
The funeral services will be held
According to L. D. Wilcox, county
The millage tax in Baker next year
fruit agent, In connection with the this afternoon at 2:00 o’clock from
R egular Values from »12.76 to
will be 46.1 mills as compared with
*39.50. Good sizes.
southern Oregon experiment station the Veatch chapel In Eugene. Rev.
Regular $59.59 to
47.6 mills thi3 year. The reduction
at Talent, there are 86,000 acres of Clay E. Palmer, pastor of the Con­
was effected despite the reduction In
$69.50 Values
tilled land in Jackson county, of which gregational church In Eugene, will of­
assessed valuation from *27,058,907 to
35,000 acres are under intensive Irri­ ficiate and Interment will be made
*26,650,139.
H at b r in g long lines In
gation. Livestock aijd their products in the I. O. O. F. cemetery.
E very Coat Less
Owing to the fact that kippered sal­ are valued at »1,645,000 annually.
very new est styles
than
W
holesale.
mon Is in much greater demand than Fruit is valued at *6.000,000 annually. IVAN BRENT’S PAROLE
SATINS
CHIFFONS —
E very Size to 46
the fresh or canned variety, the Em­ The total annual Income from all other
VELVETS
TAFFETAS
IS
REVOKED
ON
FRIDAY
pire packing plant near Marshfield, sources, such as grain, poultry and
_____
in pastel and bright
V E R Y S P E C IA L
hag Installed equipment to kipper 1000 vegetables, Including the above values,
shades and black.
Ivan Brent’» parole was revoked by
pounds per day.
is set from *8,000,000 to *10,000,000. Circuit Court Judge G. B. Sklpworth,
The Prouty Lumber & Box company
Ellis Graves of Upper Highland, f,’r|4ay and he was ordired to serve
mill at Warrenton which has been shut near Oregon City, with a crew of men, } out ^Is sentence of four years in the
down for some months, will be re­ has started cutting piling on his place Penitentiary at Salem on a conviction
Reductions
opened about January 16, according to for shipment to Japan. The piling is of manHlaughter. Brent was convicted
George Byers, office manager. The trucked to New Era, where it Is dump­ In 1929 of manslaughter In connection
One group • Fur Trim m ed
mill will give employment to about ed into the Willamette river and rafted with the death of Kenneth Dillard in
150 men.
and towed to Portland.
an automobile crash. He was charged
Dress a n d
Untrim m ed
Mail to the Beaver creek section of
Seven persons lost their lives as the with falling to stop at a stop street,
Lincoln county Is now routed from result of fires in Oregon during Da- ’•»seeding the speed limit and driving
S port Coats.
See these
Just 42 Hats Left
Closing 'nut liat»
» OC
Toledo to Bayview over an old dirt
wonderful values.
Hat» to »7.50 for V *
road, the mall carried at present being
CltiHlng out Hat» *8.50 to
required to use a four-horse team to
»14.75
get the light hack back and forth
every other day.
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Fox W est C oast T heatres
.MHOKAL»
,s
BEARD’S
Annual January
CLEARANCE
Continues
COATS
to
DRESSES
OFF
$6.95-$9.85
$12.75
Lovely Formats
$35.00 20% to30%
M illinery