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Independent, fearless, free; Not tied to any party; Will support best candidate for office regardless oi. party
VOL. XXIV.
»'IO. LINN COUNTY, OREGON. MARCH 10. 1921
NO. 30
To Keep Tab oo Wild Dock*.
INAUGURAL TALK PUT
ON SPOOL OF WIRE
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Ten Mile» ol Steel Wire to Repro
duce Addre»»; Film» Record
Event When Desired.
Washington, March' 6. Ten mil«-*
of thin steel wire, wound on a spool
will carry President Harding's inau
gural speech to posterity. In the
office of Representative Fordnoy.
250 feet away from the platform on
which the president stood, were th«'
machines, combinations of telegraph
telephone, and dictaphone, that re
corded the sounds of the event.
Using three machines, two com
plete rec.-rds of his speech, the ap
plause and music were obtained.
Each of these spools contain five
miles of wire, and one will ta .pre
sented to the national museum and
the other to Mrs. Harding.
By running these wires through
the reproducing machine 50 or lOu
years from now, Harding's speech
will tw heard bv those now not evet
boin, and in conjunction with the
motion pictures of the event a com
plete ami authentic story of the
•vent will ta had.
The dictaphones, plugged into the
telegraphones, picket! up the speech
that had been inci eased in volume
by loud sneaking telephones installed
on the stands. The miles of wire
were magnetised in such a way that
when the machine was reversed the
sounds that went into it were repro
duced accurately and distinctly.
The telegraphone which did the
recording was invented by Valdemar
Poulson. a Dane, some years ago. Il
does not employ needles or wax discs
but obtains the record by magnetiz
ing the steel wire. The dictaphone
When a wild duck derides to move
from his summer home in the Cana
dian wilds he neglects to leave a for
warding address to indicate wheat
his winter quarters are tn ta estab
lished.
The bureau of biological
survey. U. S. department of agri
culture. is working on a method to
offset the duck's carelessness
This
consists in trapping th«- birds an!
marking them with aluminum leg
band a that carry a num her and the
legend "Biol. Sure . Wash., D C ”
When a banded duck ia killed, the
hunter removes the Land and re
turns it to the Biological Survey
with information showing when and
where the bird was recovered.
During the past autumn a Cana
dian collaborator of the Survey op
erated a duck trap at take Scugog.
Ontario, where he capture I and
banded over 200 biack ducks and
mallards, with a few ring necked
ducks and blue-winged teal. Some
of these were killed near th«* place
where they were banded, but others
were from such localities as to indi
cate approximately the routes taken
by these birds In their journey to
the southland.
In all about 25 of these ducks have
been killed and the bands returned
from points in Ohio. Indiana, Ken
tucky. Tennessee. Arkansas. Missis
sippi, Louisiana and Texas
One of
the blae-winged teals was killed near
Port of Spain, Trinidad. British West
Indies, more that 2500 miles from
Lake Scugog, where the band was
attached.
The systematic banding of birds
as undertaken by the biological sur
vey will furnish con« rvationiats
i
with much valuable information.
Boy Kill» Wildcat.
On
Sunday
morning,
Farm and Home Reminders.
NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
From the O. A. C.
Becks Up Rumor.
There are 16 new rhceee factories
and two butter factories In Coos and
Curry counties.
Professor L. D Edwards, noted mn
slcien. mt<’d Si. died suddenly st La
Grande of heart trouble.
Gophers have destroyed more than
<00 acres of orchard trees «at Dufur
by eating the tree roots.
The Oregon Mint Growers' Coopera
live association completed Its organ-
tutlon at Corvallis last Saturday.
Readjustment of lumber freight
rates has placed Medford on the same
basts as Klamath Palls and Weed, Cal.
A county-wide squirrel poisoning
campaign In Wasco county has result
ed In the killing ot 100.000 of the pests
After first setting fire to his home
n Portland. Roy D. Marietta. 40 years
old, shot and killed buuaclf with a
shotgun.
Prank M Warren of Portland hut
tendered his resignation to Goveruor
Olcott »• a member of the state fish
commission.
Independence post of the American
Legion la to have an auxiliary Twenty
six women have signed the application
far a charter.
A company of prominent business
tnvn and fanners of Laika county baa
been formed to prospect for oil In
Go es laMie valley
The state highway department has
aski-d tor blds on graveling the section
ot the McKensle highway between Red
mood And Prineville.
A few hours before he was to be
taken to the county poor farm. James
M Gilletts rommlltsd suicide by shoot
Spring planting of vetch should
Washington. March X
A mu tiled
ta made as early as (roasiole either
storm
broke
Io
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in
the
capital
to
ion fail er early spring plowed lands.
day
m the result of publication in a
Sown alone the rate is 90 pounds to
the acre. With ««ata. use 60 pounds Washington morning pa|rer of what
vetch «nd 4H oats to acre
Combin was said to be the shipping board
ation crop is beat, l-ecauac if vetch I alate picked by President Harding.
should fail there is still a likclihotrd The outburst was due to the inclus
ion in the list of the name of Colo
that the oats will make a crop.
nel Charles A. Forbes of Spokane,
Some don't« in little tot’s diet— and came from the California dele
tie. doughnuts, fried potatoes, fried gation.
George E. Chamtarlain'e name al-
cabbage, fried ham. fried egg*, hot
ao
was included, but thia brought
bread. pancake, biscuit, coffee or
no
protest
California's outcry was
tea. rirh rake«, rich puddings, rich
not
aimed
i«i»inail.v
at Col. Fo.bea,
stew» or anuos, candy, ex.*ept a*, end
but
m worded was a protest against
of meal. Use plenty of milk cer
denying representative« to ths 900
eals, fresh vegetables and soups.
miles of California coast with the
ports of San Francisco,
Angeles
Normal chick growth calls for
and San Diego.
some such muscle forming foods as
milk, egg or went scrap with grain
JORDAN ITEMS
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JORDAN ITEMS
and ground feeds
A small amount
of bone meal added to the mash la
ad visable.
Nicholas Enders went to Portland
There should ta a large planting on business Saturday.
L
En d Grimes of Mill City was seen
of clover because of the short clover
acreage and cheapness of seed. on the streets of Jordan .Monday.
Whenever
possible Oregon seed
Mum Froma Hilgar, who was op
should be sown.
erated on recently at Scio hospital,
is reported improving nicely.
The best variety of oats for west-
John Thomas and wife were Sun
ern Oregon conditions for spring day guests of the M. J. Krantz.
planting are three-grain, victory.
Mrs. Frank Undornan is on the
Swedish
select and banner. The beat
tn< hlmw>li
sick list.
It la satlmatsd that about 100,000 varieties of wheat are huston for
Clyde Thomas and wife motored
pounds of wool havn been sold at heavier lands and defiance for mel
to
Salem Monday.
I’etidleton during the last tow days at low soils. Because of unfavorable
, IS and Jo cents a pound.
Joe Schwindt and «laughters mo
planting weather last fall there 1»
I eke th-hoco has a total storux«
an unusually large acreage of land tored to Albany Thursday.
Jaromir ••«Parity of 4T.0O0 acre fart of water
that received the sounds is similar
for spring planting.
Waller, the 10-year old son of Joe and the Indicator now «hows 19.000
to that commonly used in detective
acrefaet in the reservoir
Walter, killed a wildcat on Mount
j Approximately 760.000 bushels of
and other work.
A covered tax or bMket should
Prosjiect
wheal has been signed by farmers of be used in transferring chicks from
Shermaa and Morrow counties to the
the Incubator tn the brooder, as
j Oregon Wheal Growers association.
Ffre Show
chilling
at Chia time frequently
| The week of March >0 has been
I designated by the farm bureaus ot the cause« bowel trouble later.
An impromptu free entertainment stats as the time for an organised
was furnish«-«! « couple dozen spec itmpalgn against the digger squirrel.
The Oregon beekeepers association
The passenger train between Eugene
tators Friday eve ning
will meet In Portland March 16 17
Two young fhen. who have long and Corvallis ha« been taken off and
1 the only service between the two cities Beemen are asked to bring samples
fa-en at loggerheads over some un
ta a mixed freight and passengnr train of honey, wax, and special equip
explained matter, invited each other
The women In the University of Ore ment.
tn a fight tn the finish. The invita gon an- better «Indent» than th- men.
tion wa« accepted.
Accompanied according to an official scholarship
by the gallery the boys adjourned ' report made by the registrar's office
Seasonable Goods
I Twenty-five hundred dollars waa
SCHOOL NOTES.
to the lot back of Dr. Prill's office
pledged by students of Willamette uni
and went at it. Went at it is right, ; varsity al Raiem laat werk for the
FORMALDEHYDE
I for what the !>oys dan't know about
erection of a new gymnasium lo cimi
The seniors presented a play at
BLUE VITRIOL
I boxing would make «everal books.
Un.ood.
.Mill
City Friday evening to an ex-
LIME-SULPHUR SPRAY
I -They toed an imaginary scratch
ceptionally appreciative audience,
SHEEP DIP
Provision for a (.1000 appropriation
' and commence«! slugging from the
Nearly »till was taken in at the
»LINSEED OIL
for the malntrnnnce of the Hermiston
I call of time. After twenty minutes experiment station is , Included
, . . .
CRUDE CARBOLIC ACID
ta
in a door. Although the truck ride was
I or so. when hr hinl loat several good
appropriation allowed by the Colt! and the roads rough an enjoy
NEATSFYN/T OIL
teeth.
<>ne
was
willing
to
«piit
if
the
conferees
on the agricultural appro- able tine was had by nearly all the
DENATURED ALCOHOL
other would, and then the curtain pnstlon bill.
party. Mill (Xty and Mr. Winters,
At price« that conform to pres
waa rung down.
the school principal. were very cour
Eor
aale-
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tuna
tame
grans
hay
ent conditions
Chas W Warner.
teous to the visiting Scioites.
Store
YOURS FOR SERVICE
SHIPPING BOARD LIST
SETS CAPITAL AGOG
Rhubarb of delicious quality and
color can be produced in a cellar or
Principal Events of the Week outhou«e. under a milt! heat. Har Senator» Threaten to Carry War to
vested at this time of year it brings
Briefly Sketched for Infor
12 to 14 cents a pound and finds a
White House if Harding
mation of Our Readers.
ready market.
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»1.76 THE LEAK
For this week, Saturday ano Sun
Twenty-five men met last evening
day evenings, at the Peoples Theatre
and
formed the Scio Rod and Gun
will ta presented "The Fighting
Club. D’ C. Ficq was elected pres
Chance ”
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On Wednesday and Thursday. ident. C. W. Bragg vice president.
March 16 17. “Outside the Law.* Ed Wrssly secretary-treasurer.
A committee was «(¿pointed to
will fa- given.
look up shooting grounds an«! other
Adv.rt.rn i. The Soo Tn bos. .nd get matters and to report at next meet-
ing, March 21.
Mrs. Enders. who has been nurs
ing Mrs. Boudingheimer, returner!
to her home Sunday.
Erie Phillips, who has la-en in the
employ of Balsiger & Son at Lyons,
the past few years, has resigned for
gtMsi. he says, and is spending a f< w
weeks' vacation with “the old folks
at home."
Hobart Cunningham, engineer of
Scio-Jordan hydro light plant, spent
a few day s here lust week survey Ing
and attending to other buMtnena, re
turning to Portland Friday.
ORKtgrN .M’ IT.
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The Parent-Teacber aaeociation is
providing an entertainment for the
next meeting. Thu rati ay evening,
March 17. that Is ao old that It ia
new. Pupils from neighboring dis
tricts have been invited to partici
pate in a grade school spelling eon-
test
Any district overlooked nleam-
consider thi« a cordial invitation A
free for ail contest (not alight) will
probably follow.
GENUIh
DURHAM
tobacco m ikes 50
Mood cifl a.
for
10c