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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”