Oregon Historical Society.
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Volume 42, Number 44.
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 1926.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
BOY SCOUT TROOP
ORGANIZED HERE
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Lodges and Legion Join
In Giving Boys Support
of the Community.
ACTION CONCERTED
Citizens' Advisory Council Formed to
Give Assistance; Milton W.
Bower Is Scoutmaster.
Shortly many Heppner boys' will
again be proudly wearing the uniform
of the Boy Scouts of America, the re
sult of the effort of local fraternal
and other organizations which cul
minated this week in the organization
of the Citizens' Boy Scout Advisory
Council. And after more than a year
of inactivity a smile of gladness has
bespread the countenances of old and
new members of the scout troop, In
being allowed the privilege of donning
the scout uniform, and participating
in the w6rk and pleasure it signifies.
The recent agitation to get the
scouts going once more was brought
to a head last Thursday evening when
members of Boy Scout committees of
various lodges and American Legion
heeded the call of H. J. Hickerson,
representing the Knights of Pythias,
and met at the Heppner Hotel. As
evidence of the whole-hearted desire
to have an active Boy Scout troop in
Heppner, it was unanimously voted
that the members of the committees
present at this meeting form them
selves into a permanent organization,
to be given the name of Citizens' Boy
Scout Advisory Council, and as such
take the steps necessary to starting
and successfully maintaining a Boy
Scout troop.
To this end Milton W. Bower, pastor
of the Church of Christ, was unani
mously elected scoutmaster, and a
meeting was arranged with the boys
at the schoolhouse Monday afternoon.
A large number of boys attended this
meeting with the Citizens' Advisory
Council and signified their willingness
and desire to become Boy Scouts,
whereupon Mr. Bower immediately ar
ranged to have two more meetings to
carry out the work of preliminary or
ganization. Represented In the Citizens' Boy
Scout Advisory Council to date art
the Knights of Pythias, Elks, Odd Fel
lows and American Legion, and the
hope has been expressed that other
orders of the city will join in, making
the support unanimous. James M.
Burgess, superintendent of schools,
is president of the council and Jasper
Crawford, secretary. Those present
were Harold Cohn, representing Elks
and American Legion; H. J. Hicker
son, deputy Grand Chancellor Com
mander, Chas. Thomson, W. 0. Dix
and Chas. Jones' representing K, of
P.; Jas. M. Burgess, school and Amer
ican Legion; Jeff Jones, I. 0. 0. F.;
Miltdh W. Bower, Church of Christ,
and Jasper Crawford, newspaper rep
resentative. In bringing the organization of the
scouts to a head, orders represent
ed in the council have pledged their
support through their representatives,
and it is hoped that by this means a
program can be worked out whereby
each order will have a separate and
distinct part in helping the Boy
Scouts and at the same time work in
harmony. Harold Cohn,, represent
ing the Elks and American Legion,
asked that the privilege be reserved
for the Elks to take the boys to and
from their summer camps, as they
have done heretofore.
In like manner other organizations
will have a part, such as giving smo
kers and entertainments for the
scouts during the winter and at such
times as they cannot be actively en
gaged in their own work,
Mr. Cohn expressed the sentiment
of the advisory council in a talk be
fore the boys at the school, in which
it was promised that they should have
a club house of their own and be pro
vided with the equipment and funds
necessary to have a live organization.
Mr. Bower is already getting the boys
into action, and has chosen Tuesday
evenings for the regular meetings,
Supt. Burgess to Remain
At Heppner Next Year
At a meeting of the board of edu
cation on Wednesday evening, the
question of retaining Jas. M. Burgess
at the hesd of our schools for another
year, was taken up, it being under
stood that he had an offer to go to
another field. By unanimous action
of the board Mr. Burgess was elected
to remain at the head of the Heppner
schools for another year, and has con
sented to do so. '
Under the direction of Supt. Bur
gess the school has made fine progress
so far this year, and by his reelection
at this time he will be able to more
fully carry out plans for the future
work that he has in mind, and which
has the support of the school board.
The corps of teachers for the coming
year will be chosen at an early date.
CARD OF THANKS. .
We extend our sincere thanks to
the many friends and neighbors who
so kindly assisted us in every way in
our hour of need and at the burial of
our beloved mother and sister. The
floral offerings were many and beau
tiful, and for these, also, we are very
grateful.
CLARENCE M. SCRIVNER.
MRS. A. L. PUTNAM,
MRS. E, M. CURRAN.
Wheat Conference
to Have Dr. Spillman
The Eastern Oregon Wheat con
ference at Moro, February 11 to 13,
is to have the cooperation of the fed
eral department of agriculture, as
well as the state college extension
and station specialists.
W. J. Spillman, consulting econ
omist of the federal bureau of agri
cultural economics, will attend to
consult with the growers and their
committees on various phases of their
problems, chiefly in those of farm
management and of world supply and
demand of wheat. Dr. Spillman has
for the last several years directed
the moBt searching investigations in.
these factors of economical produc
tion and comes prepared to place his
findings at the disposal of the grow
ers. Although now at the national cap
ital Dr. Spillman gave much of his
early life to the solution of western
problems. He made a specialty f
western range grasses while teaching
science at the Oregon State Normal
school and later conducted investiga
tion of ranges for the government.
He then went to Washington State
college as head of the agronomy de
partment, and engaged in extensive
wheat breeding. One result of his
work is the famous Hybrid 128, much
used in the west.
When called to join the department
of agriculture he was made chief
uis'touomist. Later he orjanied the
'farm management section and direct
ed its early Investigations. Since
being made consulting economist he
has probed its early production costs
and supply at home and abroad, and
is considered the country's leading
authority on these matters. He is
coming not to make speeches but to
confer with the growers and give
them the benefit of his information.
Another source of cooperation by
the government is the bureau of ag
ricultural statistics now at work
with L. R. Breithaupt of the college
extension service in collecting and
arranging data on the world's sup
ply, demand, and tendencies in pro
duction and consumption. The, fig
ures will be tabulated and charted by
the department experts in such man
lier as to make their significance
readily plain to the growers in their
work of projecting a program.
Heppner Rod & Gun Club
Starts Year's Activities
Charles Latourell was elected pres
ident, Leonard Gilliam, secretary and
Frank Shively, assistant field secre
tary, at a meeting-of the. Heppner
Rod and Gun club last night. The
club expects to become active at
once; and take part in the state shoot
to be held soon.- Immediate steps
will be taken to put the club ground.!
and clubhouse in shape, and neces
sary supplies ordered.
The club also passed a resolution
to be sent to the state fish and game
commission, expressing the sentiment
of the club that those parts of Big
and " Little Butter creek, recently
closed to fishing for a ten year per
iod by the commission, be reopened.
In the opinion of the club the condi
tions under which, the commission
has a right to close streams to fishing,
do not exist in the case of the
streams mentioned, and they have
considered it an unjust procedure.
Most of Reseeding Loans
Are Repaid in County
Morrow county had repaid $89,
305.86 of the $100,823.61 borrowed by
farmers from the state for reseeding
purposes last spring, on January 1,
1926, leaving a balance of $21,517.76,
according to a report from the office
of Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state.
Applications to the number of 129,
for which 141 notes were given, cov
ered the amount borrowed by .this
county. The report gives the status
of the whole account as follows:
Of the $1,500,000 made available
from the sinking fund of the Veter
ans' State Aid Fund, to be loaned to
farmers, for the purchase of seed
gruln for reseeding areas upon which
the growing crops were frozen out
during the winter of 1924-25, by the
legislature of 1925, an aggregate of
$396,431.29 was loaned to 536 farmers
of six counties in Eastern Oregon dur
ing the year 1925 by tho State Board
of Control. Of the total amount
loaned $369,928.69 has been repaid on
the principal and $10,601.22 has been
collected in interest to January 1,
1926,. leaving a halancof $26,602.80,
outstanding on tho principal of the
loans on that dute. These loans were
made pursuant to the provisions of
Chapter 18, Lows of 1925.
FORMER RESIDENT HERE DIES.
John T. Cantwell, for many years
a resident of Heppner and Morrow
county, who for the past several years
has resided at Walla Wallal, died at
his home in that city on the 19th of
this month. His death came suddenly,
as relatives here were not aware of
his serious illness when the news was
received. His son, M. L. Cantwell,
and a sister, Mrs. Martha Wright of
this city, were in attendance at the
funeral, Mr. Cantwell rushing on to
Walla Walla after driving home from
Portland the day before his father
died, and was able to reach his bed
side but a few hours before he passed.
AUXILIARY TO MEET.
The regulnr meeting of American
Legion Auxiliary will be held at the
dining room of Hotel Heppner on
Monday evening, February 1st. Host
esses are Mrs. J. D. and Mrs. Harvey
Bauman. New members are especially
requested to be present at this meet
ing as there will bo work.
MRS. D. A. WILSON, Sec.
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With the opening of the new se
mester the seating arrangement of
the high school assembly has been
changed somewhat. Though the 'or
der is still alphabetical, students who
occupied back scats last semester have
front ones now, and similarly those
who were formerly In front have
been moved to the rear.
The chorus class is devoting its
class time to work on the operetta
to be produced in the course of the
next few weeks. During the regular
chorus period the songs which are to
be featured in the operetta are prac
ticed, and in addition evening re
hearsals of the cast principals are
-held four times a week, under Miss'
Denn's supervision.
Two new sections of bookshelves
have been added to the school library
on the wall next to the office. These
are being used to accomodate the ov
erflow which followed the acquisition
of new books from the library of
Mrs. Woodson and from the puchases
made possible through the donation
from the town library and P. T. A.
funds. Re-cataloguing of the entire
libary is nearing completion, and
within a short time all volumes will
be readily accessible, numbered ac
cording to the standard Dewey deci
mal system.
The enrollment of two additional
freshmen has brought the member
ship of the newest elass up to 13.
Gertrude Doherty and 'Henry Peck,
both mid-year graduates of the 8th
grade, are the two who entered this
week. Others in the January, 1930,
class are Virginia Dix, Mary Beamer,
Katherine Bisbee, Evelyn Swindig,
Thelma Starkey, Duane Bown, John
Parker, John Sharp, Roderick Thom
son, Nolan Turner and Harry Wells.
In connection with their study of
the ocean and its life forms, members
of Miss Simpson's geography class
recently wrote themes describing the
pobable experience of a deep-sea diver
with emphasis on the different kinds
of p'ant and animal life to be met on
such an expedition.
No basketball games have been
s-clioduled for this weekend, and un
less a lust-minute arrangement is
made the Heppner high team will not
play in an interscholastic contest un
til the following week end, when it
meets lone at Heppner the night of
Fcbuary 6 and Condon at Condon on
February 6.
Coach Finch and several of the high
school football players are planning
to go to Portland to see "Red" Grange
famous football star, in action Satur
day on Multnomah field.
Student body taxes have been low
ered from one dollar to seventy-five
cents per semester. This action was
first taken by the student council in
a meeting Monday afternoon, and was
approved at a general student body
meeting held Tuesday. '
Louise Thomson and Howard Mc-
Duflee, editor and business manager
of the annual, are making definite
arrangements with the printers and
engravers for the Hehisch work. Mem
bers of the staff are being given in
structions about their dummies and
other preliminary arrangements.
TO THE LADIES OF HEPPNER AND
VICINITY:
Melvin & Ridgeway will be at the
Curran Hat Shop Friday and Satur
day, Jan. 29 and 30, with an advanced
showing of coats and dresses.
Dwight Misner, extensive grain
grower of lone, "was a visitor here
today. ,'
Douglas Fairbanks in THE MARK
OF ZOKKO" at Star Theater Sunday
and Monday. Don't miss it.
Mrs. M. B. Scrivner Was
Long a Heppner Resident
Funeral services for the late Mrs.
Martha B. Scrivner, who passed away
at her home in this city on last
Thursday afternoon, were held at
11:00 o'clock a. m., at the Methodist
Community church Sunday, Rev. E.
C. Alford, pastor, officiating and de
livering the discourse. A larpe num
ber of friends and neighbors .filled
the church and later accompanied the
remains to the cemetery where they
were laid to rest beside the husband
who departed this life several years
ago. .
Mrs. Scrivner suffered a stroke of
appoplexy from wh-'ch she failed to
rally, and her death came peacefully
at her home on South Court street,
where she had lived for the past 35
years. She had always been en ar
dent church worker up until about
four years ago when attacked by ill
health she was not able to get about
without much effort. She was a mem
ber of the M. E. church, South, and in
years past had much to do with the
success of -that church- in this city.
Martha Baunam MeekJ daughter of
Eli and Nancy M. Meek, pioncens of
Eastern Oregon, was born near Mound
City, Mo., August 26, 1856.' In her
early womanhood she taught school
and music for a livlihood and was one
of the early teachers of Gilliam coun
ty, to which prat of the state her
parents moved when she was yet a
young woman. At Condon, Oregon, in
the fall of 1891, she was united in i
marriage to William B. Scrivner, and
they immediately came to Heppner,
which place has been her home ever
since. One child, Clarence M. Scriv
ner, was born to them, and he, with
his two little daughters, Marie and
Norma, are her sole immediate sur
vivors. She also leaves four sisters
and four brothers, these being Mrs.
A. L. Putnum of Fossil; Mrs. E. M.
Curran of Portland; Mrs. S. P. Shutt
of Harrisburg, Oregon, and Mrs. Clint
Ogel, residing in Kansas. The broth
ers. are Wm. Meek of Bend, Oregon;
J. C. Meek of Drummond, Idaho, and
Joe and Clarence Meek, whose present
addesBs is unknown to the members
of the family here. Besides these,
the passing of 'Mrs. Scrivner is re
gretted by a host of friends in this
community where she has been an
honored and respec'.ed citizen for so
many years.
NOTICE OF SALE OF ANIMALS.
Notice is hereby piven that by vir
tue of the laws of the State of Ore
gon the undersigned has taken up the
hereinafter described animals found
running at large upon his premises in
Morrow County, St.iie of Oregon, and
that he will on Saturday, the 13th
day of February, 1!08, at the hour, of
10:00 o'clock a. r.i., at his place
(known as the Walter Rood ranch) on
Heppner Flat, 8 miles west of Hepp
ner, sell to the !. ghest bidder for
caslrf the snid uni.nals, unless the
same shall have been redeemed prior
to that date; said animals are describ
ed as follows:
One bay mare, blotch brand on left
stifle, sorrel colt ut side.
One bay horse, brand T J connected
on left shoulder, strip in face, about
10 years old.
One bay horse, orand bar T F on
right stifle. '
One small mare mule, 3 years old,
blotch brand on le't shoulder.
One brown 2-yeni-old horse mule, no
visible marks or brands.
S. FRYREAR.
FIVE ACRE TRACT
FOR SALE At llermiston: house,
chicken house, fruit and berries; lots
of shade, plenty of water for irrigation;-
1-2 mile from depot on highway.
$600 down, balance on terms. Write
Wm. DoVore, Box 674, Pendleton, Ore.
By A. B. CHAPIN
LOCI.K ITEMS
A little change in the weather today
would seem to indicate that Heppner
may yet have some winter. It has
turned some cooler, but is foggy. Re
ports state that there is a heavy fall
of snow between 3 and 4 feet on
Ditch creek, and it reaches well down
Willow, creek, being somewhere be
tween 15 and 18 4nches at the Ras
mussen mill. While it was raining in
the lower country last week,-it was
snowing in the mountains, and there
is now sufficient snow there to guar
antee plenty of water for irrigation
purposes in Willow creek valley the
coming season.
At the annual election of stock
holders of the First National Bank of
Heppner, M. S. Corrigall, W. P. Ma
honey, John Kilkenny, Frank Gilliam,
Jack Hynd and W. E. Moore were
chosen' directors, and these elected
M. S. Corrigall, president; W. P. Ma
honey and Frank Gilliam, vice pres
idents; W. E. Moore,-cashier; ' K. K.
Mahoney, assistant cashier. The re
ports for the year showed the banlc
to be in excellent condition.
Get your magazines at Gordon's.
Word received here this week an
nounces the death of Mrs. Robert L.
Shnw at her home in Vancouver, B. C,
on Friday, January 22, and her burial
took place at that city. Mrs. Shaw
who was formerly Nettie Sloan of
Heppner, had been a sufferer for a
number of years with cancer of the
breast, and death resulted from this
affliction. She is survived by her
husband, one sister and two brothers.
C. J. Walker has opened up his law
office in the front rooms upstairs in
the Humphreys building. While pre
paring himself more fully for his
profession, Mr.- Walker has been
teaching for a number of years in the
schools of this county, but he is now
ready to take on any business that
may be entrusted to him as lawyer
and advocate before the courts of
Oregon.
Boneless tamales at Gordon's.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Cowins, who have
been ill at their home east of Hepp
ner, suffering severe attacks of la
grippe, are reported to be much better
now, and able to be about again. Be
ing well along in years, relatives were
pretty much concerned for several
days.
Mrs. A. L. Putnum of Fossil and
Mrs. E. M. Curran of Portland, sis
ters of the late Mrs. M. B. Scrivner,
spent several days at Heppner, at
tending the funeral services and re
maining over at the home of Clarence
M. Scrivner for a visit.
Homemade tamales at Gordon's.
Supt. Jas. M, Burgess visited Pen
dleton over the week end, meeting
with other members of the director
ate of the Upper Columbia Athletic
League, of which he is the chairman.
Ralph Thompson, who has been con
fined at the Morrow General hospital
for several days, suffering from ton
silitis, wns able to return to his Wil
low creek home today. ,
Mrs. Clay Clark returned home on
Sunday from Morrow General hospit
al where she was confined for a few
days, suffering an attack of pleurisy.
Tamales in the husk at Gordon's,
Johan Troedson was a visitor in
the city today from his farm north of
lone. He reports lots of moistur
and the grain coming along fine.
Chicken tamales at Gordon's.
LAND SETTLEMENT
NOW INTERESTING
EASTERN OREGON
State Chamber Reports Many
Counties Waking Up to De
velopment Opportunities.
Looking forward to the opening of
Northeastern Oregon to new settlers,
an enlivened interest is being taken
at the present time by the Biue moun
tain region counties in land settle
ment work for the ensuing year.
Arthur Foster, manager of the
Land Settlement department of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce, has
just returned fromia three day trip
into this section of t'.ie state and re
ports a lively interest, particularly
in Wallowa and Union counties.
On Tuesday last, Mr. Foster met
with the Union County Chamber cf
Commerce at La Grande, and in the
evening of the same day attended a
meeting with the Union county agri
cultural committee at Hot Lake.
On Wednesday, January 20th, the
regional meeting of the secretaries
and directors of the chambers of com
merce of Union, Baker, Wallowa and
Malheur counties was held at Baker.
Mr. Foster was speaker at the noon
luncheon and talked on land settle
ment work.
On Thursday, January 21st, a meet
ing was held with the Wallowa cham
ber of commerce at Enterprise.
Mr. Foster reports that Wallowa
county is greatly in favor of the state
wide development plan for new set
tlers. Interest is also being taken
in Baker and Union counties for the
formation of new irrigation districts
in that Bection.
"More than ever before the land
settlement idea has hit Eastern Ore
gon," said Foster. "Incredible' per
haps that a Miami breeze has wafted
its way to the Pacific Nothwest, yet
the great land east of the Cascades
is awakening to the fact that there
are millions of acres of wonderful
soil within its borderB to be claimed
and reclaimed. We are looking for
ward to a great year for Oregon."
On Saturday, D. J. McLellan, pro
ject manager and 'secretary of the
Tumalo irrigation district of Des
chutes county, and E. M. Wright,
president, were in Portland for a
conference with local land settlement
committee. They report a wonderful
progress in that recently opened dis
trict of central Oregon and state
that they have just secured a great
deal more land having state contract
titles, and that there are available
now to settlers many choice tracts of
Carey Act land at one dollar per acre
as well as more improved tracts at
from five to twenty dollars an acre.
Endeavorers Will Present
Play Tuesday, February 9
The Christian Endeavor society of
the Heppner Church of Christ is put
ting on its annual play in the Star
Theater at 8:00 oclock Tuesday eve
ning, February 9th.
Those of you who saw "When a
Feller NeeSs a Friend" last year may
expect something even better than
that in "A Poor Married Man," which
is a farce comedy of the most laugh
provoking nature.
A professor marries a charming
young lady whose mother insists on
accompanying the pair on their hon
eymoon, much to the disgust of the
groom. His friends mistake the moth
er for the bride and relate to the pro
fessor sundry escapades of the moth
er's husband and her daughter. Pro
fessor Wise naturally thinks they .ar
referring to his wife instead of her
mother. A dashing college boy and
a pretty reporter add to the profes
sor s growing suspicions. Finally he
becomes convinced that his wife
means to poison him. The bride, who
has married the professor at her
mother's instigation, learns that she
really loves Billy, and when the moth
er learns that Billy is wealthy and
that he is in love with her daughter,
she determines to divorce the profes
sor from Zoie. She is successful in
this and in the first instance mar
riage is proved to be a failure. The
professor marries again and selects
a girl who will not encumber him with
a mother-in-law, but to his horror
her innocent old father is trapped
into a marriage with the woman who
caused all bis former troubles, and
Mts. Iona Ford once more becomes
the professor's mother-in-law. But
Billy, who has been on a trip around
the world, has located Mrs. Ford's or
iginal husband in China. All ends
happily and all pronounce marriage
u distinct success.
The cast is: Professor John B.
Wise, a poor married man, Crocket
Sprouls; Doctor Matthew Graham, a
country physician, James Thomson;
Billy Blake, a popular college boy,
Earl Merritt; Jupiter Jackson, a black
tramp, Ellis Thomson; Mrs. Iona
Ford, some mother-in-law, Helen V,
Fredreckson; Zoie, her charming
daughter, Velma Fell; June Graham,
a little Freshman, Mary Crawford;
Rosalind Wilson, a college, reporter,
Ethel Moore.
BARBER SHOP MOVED.
Dick Wells desires to call attention
to the public of, Heppner and vicin
ity that he has removed his barber
shop from the Heppner Hotel build
ing to the room adjoining Dave Wil
son on the west side of Main street,
where he will be glad to welcome all
his customers.
TO THE LADIES OF HEPPNER AND
VICINITY:
Melvin & Ridgeway will be at the
Curran Hat Shop Friday and Satur
day, Jan. 29 and 30, with tin advanced
showing of coats and dresses.
IMsWeelt
By Arthur Brisbane
The Monkeys Tried It.
Imagination's Power.
Corn Low, Hogs High.
Zero Will Help.
Charles Garland, an earnest young
New Englander, inherited a large for
tune, refused at first to take the
money, saying no man had a right
to money not earned. He changed
his mind and drifted into a side
track. Convinced, perhaps, that he
was an original thinker, he decided
that marriage was an unnecessary in
stitution. Now he is arrested, be
cause a young child born on his farm
died, having for its mother an un
married girl.
The young man should realize that
his experience was tried by our al
leged simian ancestors for thousands
of years before man appeared, and
abandoned by our human ancestors of
100,000 years ago.
Not to do away with marriage, but
to make men WORTHY of it, is the
task of the human race. "Away from
the monkey life" is a better motto
than "Back to nature."
.Imagination is more powerful than
fact. James Dempsey, not the Demp
scy you mean, owns a restaurant.
Two men entered, held him up, he .
delivered his money.
A policeman dashed in, arrested
the man "pointing the gun" at Demp
sey. The only gun was two fingers
that bad been pointed.
The. second man escaped, came back
that afternoon, pointed one finger at
Dempsey, and the latter again gave
up what money he had.
Corn prices are low, "hogs are
high." This puzzles farmers and
packers. Corn and hog prices should
go up and down together, siace the
pig is really corn changed into meat.
There is always something to puzzle
and distress the farmer. He has no
sufficient national organization, and
after election day he hasn't much
influence in government, compared
with railroads and other big financial
units.
r
At the midday luncheon club in
New York you can see eating at the
same time those that control ten
thousand millions of dollars. Far
mers are scattered all over the land,
and if you could get them together
there Vouldn't be any hall that could
hold them.
Uncle Sam is riding along on vel
vet. Severe competition abroad in
the world's markets at home is said
to be ahead of our producers. But -everything,
including Providence,
seems to be with us now.
Citizens of Minnesota get from
their state university interesting in
formation about their state. It con
tained the beginning of life on this
planet, in the form of algae, two hun
dred million years ago. The first life
came as soon as the earth's temper
ature fell below the boiling point.
One of the first real animals was
an ancestor of our frogs and sala
manders, living on land and in water
with a foot four inches in diameter.
It is from the five toes of the sala
mander, you know, that we get the
five fingers on each hand, according
to the evolutionists.
Mathematicians wish that sala
mander had had six toes. That would
have given us the duodecimal system,
which is based on our ten fingers and
thumbs. The duodecimal system
would be a great improvement on the
decimal, twelve having four divisors,
ten having only two.
Mr. Green, of the American Feder
ation of Labor, predicts an early end
of the coal strike, now distressing
the East and other parts of the coun
try. The thermometer at zero may
help. Americans are "docile," as
Northcliffe said. You must pinch
their pockets hard to make them take
action. And, unlike mine workers,
and owners, the people are not or
ganized. CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to extend to the many
friends our deepest appreciation of
the tender expressions of sympathy,
manifested in the acts of kindness
and aid given and in the many and
beautiful floral tributes coming from
loving hearts to us in the hour of
grief over the departure of our be
loved mother. Words are empty ves
sels at times like this.
Mr. and Mrs. Vawter Crawford.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Atherton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Crawford.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Crawford.
FOR SALE Or will trade for Port
land property, 402 acres in Blue
mountains, known as South Jones
l'rarie. Margaret Jones, 777 Sandy
Blvd., Fortland, Ore.
Dr. Johnston reports the arrival of
a seven-pound daughter on Saturday,
Januray 23rd, at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Rulph Jackson in Lexington.
Douglas Fairbanks in "THE MARK
OF ZOKKO" at Star Theater Sunday
and Monday. Don't miss it.