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THE 000000090909900009900te • STATE NEWS : IN BRIEF. HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. NORTHWESTINFANTRY CALLED WE MUST GROW MORE FOOD TEST ALL SEED CORN RADIUM LACE FOR WAISTS WHY? California, Oregon, Idaho, Montana Financing and Feeding of Allies Two Yield Per Acre Can Be Greatly and Washington to Arms. Most Important Problems. soocccccccccccc0000000000 Increased Thereby. James Edson, of Carlton, an import er and breeder of fine horses, this week shipped two Belgian mares to I. N. Lemon, of Grass Valley, and three Percheron stallions to parties in Con don, Or. The State Board of Education has recommended that the high schools of the state give to any pupiLwho wishes to join the National guard, full credit in all those subjects in which he has made a passing grade. “Total deposit in the 26 banks and trust companies of Portland equaled $87,326,383.61 on March 5, 1917,” said Superintendent of Banks S. G. Sargent, of Salem, in issuing the com parative statement of Portland banks. A representative of four surety com panies which furnish the bonds held by State Treasurer Kay and his employes completed an exhasutive examination of the treasurer’s books for the com pany and report everything to be sat isfactory. With eight men a party to one in dictment and four others indicted on other counts, the March term of Cir cuit court for Benton county will not be required to try a single case. All those indicted have confessed and re ceived their sentences. While livestock and agriculture will be given the big swing at the State Fair premium list this year, textile, art, manufactures and other depart ments will not be overlooked. Manu factures, in particular, are to be in duced as never before at the fair. More than $1250 has been raised among the merchants of Roseburg for the Strawberry Festival to be held there in May, according to a report filed by the soliciting committee. In addition to this sum approximately $200 will be realized from concessions. The city council of Ashland has au thorized the purchase of several thou sand feet of electric light stringers for night decorative effects in the streets during the round-up and celebration there on July 3, 4 and 5, and which will be left up for illumination upon all special occasions. Railroad officials are making des perate effort to rush through hay ship ments to various Eastern Oregon and Idaho points to curtail the losses from the acute feed famine. For the past several days shipments of hay, some of them in trainload lots, have been given the right of way over all other freight. The Klamath county lumber mills are preparing for a record run this season as soon as the weather permits. The logging operations of the Pelican Bay Lumber company, the Klamath Manufacturing company, and the Al goma Lumber company, which have the three largest mills, are in such condition that there will be no short age of logs early in the season at least. Potatoes stand second only to lum ber in Oregon’s exports, according to data compiled by Allan C. Hopkins, of the University of Oregon School of Commerce for the United States de partment of Agriculture. In 1916, Mr. Hopkins finds, 35,791 tons of po tatoes, or 2386 carloads, were shipped out of the state, bringing approxi mately $14,000,000.- This sum is an average of $20 each for every man, woman and child in the state. While high school districts in many parts of the state are making arrange ments for establishing military train ing squads under the provisions of an act of the last legislature, which goes into effect May 21, there seems to be grave doubt as to whether they will ever be able to perfect such squads under the terms of the act, owing to lack of equipment. San Francisco, March 25. — Orders have been issued for the mobilization of National Guard infantry regiments, one each in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, and three in California, immediately and at full war strength, it was announced Sunday at the head quarters here of the Western depart ment of the army. Oregon’s Third regiment of infantry has been called to the colors. Orders came late Sunday night from Secretary of War Baker direct to Gov ernor Withycombe, who promptly com municated them to Adjutant General White. The orders from the Secretary of war came to the governor by telegraph in the following language: “Having in view the necessity of affording a more perfect protection against the possible interference with postal and commercial facilities on the military channels and instrumentalities of the United States in the state of Oregon, and being unable with the regular troops available to insure the faithful execution of the laws of the Union in this regard, the President has thought proper to exercise the author ity vested in him by the constitution and laws to call out the National Guard necessary for the purpose. “I am in consequence * ztructed by the President to call into the service of the United States forthwith, through you, the following units of the National Guard of the state of Oregon, which the President desires shall be assembled at the place designated to you by the Commanding general of the Western department at San Francisco, Cal., and which said commanding gen eral has been directed to communicate to you: “Third regiment, infantry, Oregon National Guard. “BAKER, Secretary of War.” OREGONIANS GUARD BRIDGES Portland Artillerymen Called Out to Defend Arteries of Traffic. Portland — Oregon National guard troops have received their first call to war duty. Acting under orders from Governor Withycombe, the Eighth company, Coast artillery corps, Oregon National guard, of Portland, was called out Fri day night, by Adjutant General George A. White to guard the North Bank railroad bridge across the Columbia river, connecting Oregon and Wash ington, and the Harriman railroad bridge in Portland. No other troops are to be called out for the present, but the National guard is ready for any emergency. They will guard both the Oregon and Washington ends of the bridge, as well as the approaches on the Oregon side, which included the separate bridge across the Oregon slough. By arrangements made by General White with Captain Ernbach, United States army, in command at Vancou ver barracks, the two platoons of the Eighth company will be quartered there. Arrangements also have been made for their subsistence at the army post. • As in time of war the North Bank railway bridge would be of the great est importance, General White issued his orders for their guarding at once. Both the North Bank bridge and the Harriman bridge have for some time been under guard by watchmen and private detectives. In the present .critical period, however, it was felt that these two traffic arteries were of too great importance to be subjected to any danger of damage, and so troops will protect them indefinitely. Sheriff Gage and his deputies, of Marshfield, found 80 bottles of whiskey in the berth of the sailors on the steamship Breakwater, and arrested A. T. R. Would Hear "Dixie” Erickson, E. Ross, John Christensen, on War Front in France John Takkis and Walter Wiltermeier. Jacksonville, Fla.—Theodore Roose- The sailors could not give bail until the agent communicated with the home veit, in an address here Sunday, said office in San Francisco and was author he would have a division of American soldiers in the trenches of France ized to sign for $150. within four or five months if permis J. Fred Larson, interested with sion would be given by the govern Portland capitalists in a plant to estab ment. The statement was made just after lish at $200,000 shipbuilding plant at Florence, the seaport town of Western the band had played “Dixie,” and Col Lane county, made the first announce onel Roosevelt had remarked: “I ment of the project at Eugene, when would like to hear that tune against he stated that $150,000 had been sub Von Hindenburg’s line in France. ” The Colonel said the United States scribed toward the project in Portland and that the remaining $50,000 will be should carry the war to Germany. He pleaded for universal military training. subscribed in Lane county. As the fruit of agitation lasting two Women Plan to Fill Men’s Places. years, the O.-W. R. 4 N. company has New York—More than 15,000 mem determined to institute a motorcar bers of the Long Island Council of service between Elgin and La Grande. The service is an experiment and if Women’s Clubs petitioned the Mer unprofitable will be abandoned. chants’ association to provide an op portunity to teach them how to take The price of common labor, it is the places of men workers if the men concluded, will be forced higher in are called to the colors. A letter sent Marshfield, for there is a scarcity of to the association by the executive men. The Riverton mine, which has committee of the council asked if wo recently renewed stopes and the entire men could daily visit the merchants’ interior of the property, is short about establishments while their employes 20 miners. are still in their positions and learn Another Hyde-Benson case has been under the direction of these employes decided in favor of the state, Attorney such work as women could do. General Brown receiving word from Fellowship is Memorial. Circuit Judge Calkins, of Jackson Cambridge, Mass.—The Harvard cor county, that he has so disposed of the cause in that county, involving about poration announced recently the accept ance of a gift of $24,782, to establsh a 2300 acres of school land. fellowship as a memorial to Victor I. N. Clark and G. Callighan, of Chapman, the aviator killed in action Oakland, Cat, have taken a long-term near Verdun while a member of the lease of the box factory in North Bend flying corps of the French army. The from the Southern Pacific Railroad fund, which was raised by 74 persons, company and bought the machinery will be used to award a fellowship an from F. W. Kern, who formerly nually to a student from France. Chapman was a member of the Har operated the industry. The new own ers will repair and make additions. vard class of 1913 Washington, D. C.—Government offi cials look upon the speeding up of the foodstuffs production in the United States as one of the most important means of assisting in the war against Germany, should the United States take an active part in it. “Of the most important two things that this country could do for its allies in case of war—namely, to finance, and to feed them—perhaps the more im portant is to manitain a steady flow of foodstuffs to their shores,” says an authorized statement by Assistant Secretary Vrooman of the department of Agriculture. “It looks,” the statement adds, “as though it would be a good business stroke for the farmer this spring to sow his normal oats acreage to spring wheat and it is certan that would be a valuable step toward national agricul tural preparedness.” Since the policy of stimulating food production would have to be supple mented by a policy guaranteeing the farmer against loss due to possible overproduction, the department holds that congress alone can deal with this question effectively, although the de partment can do something toward speeding up production within certain limits. Work Can Be Done In Late Winter or Early Spring When Time Other wise Would Be Lost—Simple Tester Described. Mr. Average Farmer, Is your time worth $4 an hour? That sounds like a get-rich-quick scheme, doesn't it ? Well it Isn’t J. C. Hackleman of the Mis souri college of agriculture figures that you can make that much testing seed corn. The average Missouri farmer raises about twenty-six acres of corn each year. He fails to test his seed corn whereby he loses $1.50 (this is a conservative estimate) an acre. Mr. Hackleman says that about ten hours of actual labor would be required to test the seed for the 26 acres. By such testing the yield can be increased at least. $1.50 worth. Hence the time required to test the seed is worth about $40, or about $4 an hour. The ft- more corn a farmer grows the more money he can make by the test. The man who raises 100 acres can increase Pockets are becoming quite a distinc tive feature of milady's frocks and dresses. The draped pocket in this gown is strikingly novel and quite pro nounced. The delicate blouse is of silk radium lace and paisley georgette and the two go to make one of the most pleasing combinations seen yet. The hat Is of the turban style slightly re modeled and adorned with pompon. Plan Acreage of 30,000 in Field Peas This Year Spokane — Pea contracts closed re cently by S. B. Coon, industrial secre tary of the Spokane chamber of com merce, with farmers on Peone prairie, will bring the Spokane county pea acreage this year up to 10,000 acres, exclusive of nearly 20,000 acres in the Fairfield section. In the extension of pea culture in the county the chamber has worked in conjunction with J. R. Shinn, county agriculturist Mr. Coon closed the contracts for the Barteldes Seed company, of Lawrence, Kan., which agrees to pay the growers 21 cents per pound for peas delivered before December 1, 1917. Peone prai rie in the past has raised some peas, but for the first time this year it will produce peas for seed. The seed company furnishes the seed, which is paid back when the peas are delivered, and it also provides the sacks. It sent its order and 100 bush els of seed peas direct to the chamber of commerce. These are the Alaska variety, and the company expects to get 1000 bushels for seed purposes from the Peone Prairie growers. Coal Mines Inspected. Marshfield, Ore.—G. W. Evans, of the United States bureau of mines, with headquarters in Seattle, is in specting the coal mines of Coos county with a view to increasing their output and adding needed efficiency. Al though Coos county has 250 square miles of coal area, the mines have been unable to furnish fuel for local consump tion during the past winter and the situation called for vigorous measures. The inability of the mines to supply coal is due to the manner in which they have been operated. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT Portland—Wheat—Bluestem, $1.75; fortyfold, $1.71; club, $1.71; red Rus sian, $1.65. Oats—No. 1 white feed, $39 per ton; barley, No. feed, $40.50. Cattle—Steers, prime, $9.25@9.65; good, $8.90 @9.25; medium, $8.25@ 8.75; cows, choice, $7.75@8.00; me dium to good, $7.00@7.50; ordinary to fair, $6.507.00; heifers, $6.5009.00; bulls, $5.00 @8.00; calves, $8.00 @ 10.00. Hogs — Light and heavy packing, $14.00@14.50; Rough heavies, $13.00 @13.50; pigs and skips, $12.75@13.00; stock hogs, $11.50@12.75. Sheep — Wethers $11.25 @11.75; ewes, $8.75@10.00; lambs, $12.75@ 13.50. Millfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $35 per ton; shorts, $35; rolled barley,$43 @44. Corn—Whole, $52 per ton; cracked, $53. Hay—Producers’ prices: Timothy, Eastern Oregon, $20@21 per ton; al falfa, $16 @ 17; valley grain hay, $12.50@14. Butter — Cubes, extras, 381@39c ; prime firsts, 371038c. Jobbing priecs: Prints, extras, 42c; cartons 1c etxra; butterfat, No. 1, 43c; No. 2, 41c. Eggs — Oregon ranch current re ceipts, 27 @ 27ic per dozen; selects, 29c. Poultry—Hens, 19020c per pound; springs, 18@20c; turkeys, live, 21@ 22c; ducks, 22023; geese, 12@13c. Veal—Fancy, 14i@15c per pound. Pork—Fancy, 18@183c per pound. Vegetables—Artichokes, $1.1001.25 per dozen ; tomatoes, $4 @ 4.25 per crate; cabbage, $5(6 per hundred; eggplant, 25c per pound ; lettuce, $3.75; cucumbers, $101.50 per dozen; cauliflower, $2.753 per crate; pep pers, 50c; sprouts, 122c; rhubarb, $2 @2.25 per box; peas, 121015c per pound; asparagus, 15@20c per pound; spinach, 9@10c. Potatoes—Buying prices: $2.7503 per hundred. Onions — Jobbing prices : * No. I, $909.50; No. 2, $6 per sack. Green fruits—Apples, 90c@$2 per box ; cranberries, $8 per barrel. Hops—1916 crop, 4@7c per poind; 1917 contracts, nominal. Wool—Eastern Oregon, fine, 30@35c per pound; coarse, 40c; valley, 40c; mohair, nominal, 60c per pound. Grain bags—Car lots, 104@ 102c. f I« SLIM HIPS STILL IN VOGUE Barrel Skirt, Hung Low, Permits No Voluptuous Curves In These Models. Corn From Tested Seed. his earnings at least $150. This is practically clear gain since testing Is done during late winter or early spring when the time would otherwise be lost. Seed corn testing is comparatively easy. The ears that have been pre- viously selected for seed are labeled to correspond to the spaces occupied by the grains from those ears in the germinator. If any of the samples of grain show poor germination, the ear from which they came can be found from the label on the space the grains occupy, and can be eliminated. One of the simplest testers is the sand box or sawdust. It consists of a box about 4 Inches deep and 30 inches square, with about two inches of sand or sawdust in the bottom to hold the moisture or to keep water from stand ing around the corn. A piece of old sheeting or other cloth that will ab sorb moisture, but will not allow it to stand on the surface, should be stretched over the surface and marked off Into 2-inch squares. Put six ker nels from various portions of the mid dle of each ear to be tested into one of these squares and give the ears and squares corresponding labels. Cover the box to prevent drying and keep it at room temperature—about 70 degrees Fahrenheit—for six days, then find the ears from which kernels failed to ger minate, throw them into the feed box and retain those that showed a good strong test Figures, based on the acreage and yields in Missouri during the last eight years, indicate that the losses Incident to neglect of seed corn testing will amount to about $11,000,000 this year. That amount is worth saving. SOILS NEED MUCH DRAINAGE Results Given of Surveys Made by United States Department of Agriculture. “According to the soil surveys made by the United States department of ag riculture about 65 or 70 per cent of soils here need drainage,” said Pro fessor Crabb. “Of this amount from 25 to 30 per cent is badly in need of drainage and from 40 to 50 per cent would be greatly benefited by drainage. Orchard surveys that have been made by the New York state department of agriculture show that from 25 to 30 per cent of the orchards are only fair ly drained, 10 to 12 per cent are poorly drained and 2 to 10 per cent are badly in need of drainage. SWINE CRAVE FOR MINERALS Supply of Coal, Wood Ashes and Char coal Should Be Kept Before Ani mals at All Times. Provide plenty of stone coal, wood ashes and charcoal for the swine. You’ve seen the sows trying to eat the soft stones they root up. You have heard them cracking some- thing they found In the ground. They want minerals and especially lime. It has been thought that the loose hip model which is now called the bar rel skirt demands a specially curved corset, but this is not true. Corsets cut according to the latest designs are more than ever snug below the waist over the hips as well as in the back and front. The backs and fronts are liter- ally flat and even when this effect is only achieved by widening the waist three or four inches It is done in order to produce the proper outline. Anything but a snug hip treatment would make the new skirts look decid edly frowsy, and since the draping usu ally begins six or eight inches below the waist, and that is set low, there must be a definite line from which to expand. Also most of the arrange ments are so devised that from one angle at least a smooth, unbroken Une is given. Sometimes two draped scarfs are applied to the sides of the skirt and these leave a slender hip panel plainly visible, sometimes the flare is produced by a straight piece of material drawn across the front of the skirt or shirred into a belt and then left to hang In graceful cascades at the sides. In this arrangement the back of the skirt is treated In a similar manner or Is loft perfectly plain. In either case the ac tual hip line is not obliterated nor al lowed anything but the slightest curve. Two Tones In Everything. The season’s agog with two-tone ef fects, lettuce green and gold, beige and wistaria, rose and stiver, and among the others every now and then Is black over white. It never occurs the other way, however. Some of the very prettiest blouses are of white rather heavy crepe or chiffon veiled in very thin black gauze and some women have discovered that while the one thickness transparent sleeves are very unbecoming, making their arms look unpleasantly bare, an inner lin ing of white tulle achieves perfection. A most becoming blouse is of white georgette veiled in black, box-plaited so that the effect is that of a stripe. The neck is cut square finished with a mitered band lightly embroidered In rhinestones and the sleeves are incred ibly full, not only box-plaited but gath ered as well so that they bulge at the elbows and droop at the wrist most gracefully into a wristband of em broidery. If it takes nine tailors to make a man, why should too many cooks spoil the broth? And if the worst is yet to come, why does every cloud have a silver lining? Which is best, to count your chickens before they are hatched or look before you leap? If you should look not upon the wine, how is it that a little wine for the stomach’s sake is so frequently urged? Is travel the greatest educator, or doesn't a rolling stone gather any moss? If all things come to those who wait, why is it that nothing ven ture nothing have? Of course, a patient waiter may be no loser, yet time and tide. It is said, wait for no man. Everybody knows that a stitch in time saves nine, also that it is never too late to mend. What goes up must go down— food prices are very much higher. Age is a great improver, yet the good invariably die very young. To Revive Blankets and Laces. In the Woman’s Home Companion are the following directions for clean ing fine blankets and laces : "Blankets cleaned In the following way will be as soft as new : Put them in two warm solutions of white soap, using one pound of soap and two ounces of borax to each eight gallons of water. Follow with two warm rins ings and a warm solution of one-half ounce of oxalic acid and one-third pint of acetic acid to 15 gallons of water. If the blankets are colored omit the oxalic acid, otherwise they are cleaned just as white ones. Dry in the open air if possible. To make them look particularly well when they are dry, lay them on a table and brush the nap tn one direction on both sides. “Fine laces should be cleaned in the following way : If of silk use the dry cleaning method, if of cotton baste them on a piece of white cotton cloth and handle them repeatedly in a boil ing solution of white soap, using two ounces of soap to each gallon of wa ter. Rinse well, and put them in water to which one teaspoonful of oxalic acid to each gallon of water has been add ed. To give necessary body, pass them through a solution of one ounce of gum arable to one quart of water. When nearly dry, pull into shape, lay them on a well-padded hoard and press them on the wrong side with a cloth over the lace.” Paper Napkin Is Passing. The American paper napkin is rapid ly passing out of existence. The pa per manufacturers have threatened to stop making them altogether. During the last year they have steadily in creased the price, but the cheaper res taurants have clung tenaciously to the paper napkin idea and gone on de manding them. The laundering con nected with the cotton variety was con sidered too much of a nuisance. Now, however, one by one, each large paper firm has quietly dropped its paper nap kin trade. As one firm declared last week : "We have been making 2,000,- 000 paper napkin» a day, and even so cannot keep up with the demand. There is more money in other Unes of goods, and we cun no longer afford to spare the material.” Developing Alaska. John Noon of Seward, Alaska, talk ing in New York the other day, de clared that a vast empire is now In the making In Alaska. Gold mining is proceeding on an extended scale, he says, and many men are making fortunes. Coal deposits are being un covered and agricultural possibilities, especially in Matanuska valley, are being exploited profitably. In this valley last year 2,000 tons of farm products were raised and sold at good prices. In 1916 potatoes brought $47 a ton for home consumption and but ter 50 cents a pound. In Tanana dis trict the 1916 production of agricul tural articles reached 7,000 tons, all sold locally. Feminine Fripperies. Jabots are back in favor. But they are never the skimpy jabots of yester day. They are of cascade variety, de signed especially to be worn with a suit of the Incroyable order. There are some very effective gloves for street wear of heavy cream kid, bound with brown and stitched with brown. The paisley rage has extended to handbags. And the newest ones are made either with a metallic clasp or drawn up In a shirring of silken cords. Stencil patterns pursue us still. Use for Apple Peels. They have just made their way Into the realm of bagdom Bags of silk Delicious apple jelly can be made are shown in many sorts of stenciled from the peelings of apples. Put the patterns and these are usually mount peelings Into a jar, cover with cold ed on metalic frames. water, and let cook slowly In the oven till the peelings are tender. Then The Coat Blouse Remains. With the predictions of the skeptics strain, add one pound of sugar l’or all to the contrary, It now seems as If each pint of liquid, and boil till it the peplum, or perhaps it should be jellies. Called the coat blouse, is here to stay for the spring and summer months, at Vexatious. least as far as sports Wear is concern ed. And certainly with separate skirts “I certainly would like to pick up a promising so well for the coming sea- son, there is every reason for believ newspaper that wasn’t full of big black ing that this may be the case. They headlines,” said the fractious man. “Tired of reading war news?” do give a more finished appearance to an uncoated woman, and no one can "Yes. And to make matters worse. deny that they allow a great deal of I’ve reached the point where I believe freedom In athletics. nearly everything I read.”
