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HERE ON JUNE 8
The Southern Oregon group con
ference of county agents and county
agricultural councils will convene In
Medford June g and will continue
until June 12. Among those who
will be In attendance are the follow
ing? . County agents C. J. Hurd, Doug
las county; C. D. Thompson, Jose
phine county; C. C. Cate, Jackson
county, and H. R. Olalsyer, Klamath
county; R. V. Cllbertson, Washing
ton, D. C, staff of county agent sup
ervisors: members of county agricul
tural councils from Douglas, Jose
phine and Jackson counties; Prof.
C. I. Lewis, head of department of
horticulture, O. A. C; Dean A. B.
Cordley, school of agriculture, O. A.
C; Paul V. Marls, 'stato leader of
state agents.
The Itinerary and program follows:
Sutiirday, Juno 8
10-12 a. m. Meeting of Jackson
county agricultural council.
12-1 p. m. Lunc.1i at Hotel Med
ford. . , '
1-2 p. m. Meeting with Jackson
county agricultural council.
2-4 p. m. Visiting fertilizer dem
onstration .being carried on by south
ern Oregon branch Experiment sta
tion 7 miles east of Medford. A
dozen various fertilizers and combin
ations of sulphur are being used here.
4-5:30 p. m. Visiting Washburn
orchards. Study of effect of sodium
nitrate; also demonstration of var
ious kinds of grafts, blight control
methods, etc.
Sunday, Juno I)
8-8:30 a. m. inspection of breed
irig cages being used In codling moth
control work. ,
8:30-12 a. m. Visiting Southern
Oregon Branch experiment station,
observing cover crop demonstrations;
various pruning systems; -blight re
sistant pear stocks, etc.
12-1:30 p. m-Plcnlc lunch In
Llthla park at Ashland.
... 1:30-2:30 p. m. Lecture .by Sup
erintendent F. C. Relmer of the
Southern Oregon Experiment station
concerning his recent trip to the
Orient. Matters of professional and
general Interest will be discussed.
Remainder of the afternoon will be
spent in any manner agreeable to the
party. I
3-6 p. m. Visit farm of Benton j
Bowers. Inspection of lleroford
cattle.
Monday, Juno 10
7-10:30 a. m. Visiting Modoc
orchards. Mr. Sumner, manager of
this property has developed a sys
tematic plan of orchard management,
water distribution, etc. There is an
excellent herd of purebred Duroc
Jersey hogs on this property, which
Is one of the largest fruit holdings In
the county.
10:30-12:30 p. m. En route to
Grants Pass, visiting bean fields on
Evans creek and terminal of State
Lime plant.
12:30-1:30 p. m. Lunch at Hotel
Josephine, Grants Pass. '
2-4 p. m. Meeting with Josephine
i agricultural council.
4-5:30 p. m. Study of office
methods, mupping, charting, etc., in
office of C. D. Thompson.
Spend night at Grants Pass.
Tuosdny, June 1 1
7:30-10:30 a. m. Visiting Rlver-
1 banks farm. C. E. Nlles, manager of
this property has developed it to a
marked degree in the five years ho
has been in charge. He will explain
his plan of future development, rota-
1 tlon system, etc.
10:30-12:30 p. m. En rouU to
: Grants Pass and lunch at Josephine
; hotel. '
i 12:30-3 p. m. Visiting farm of
F. R. Steele. Here is an excellent
j example of the value of sweet clover
1 shown on burned over lands. Mr.
j Steele has a nationally famous herd
' of Berkshircs.
j 3-5:30 p. m.-Visitlng farm of Roy
j McGee of Glcndale. Mr. McOee has
: just completed a very successful hog
j feeding trial and his results are
i worth noting. '
j Cars of County Agents Glaisyer,
; Cate and Thompson will be available
I for use In covering the counties to be
: visited. Should the size of the party
be such that additional machines are
necessary they will be commandeer
ed. All expenses aside from auto
transportation will be borne by lndi
, vldual members of the party.
Members of the party will gather
at Hotel Medford not later than 11
a. m., June 8. -
i RAKKR. Ore. Frits Ruder. eon.
victedu t Canyon City yesterday for
killing K. K. MeCne, early last spring,
was sentenced today to six to sixteen
years in prison nnd to ny a fine of
; 91,0(10. Under killed Mi-Cue nfler a
qunrrcl over pasture land owned l)
Under, and used by Medirci Under
' pleaded self defense. He is the son
ef a prominent and wealthy fuiuily.
TO LIST 10
THE KAISER
WASHINGTON'. June 5. Today,
on the anniversary of America's first
manpower mobilization, another mil
lion youths, the estimated strength
of the class of 1918, register on the
first station of the journey to the col
ors.
When their draft registration cards
come into their hands, they come to
the disposition of a swift, smoothly
working and practiced organization,
whose agencies In eery country-side,
hamlet, and city of the land have as
sumed successfully the task of dis
criminating between the nation's
need for men who can fight or work,
and its additional need for men at
home to support its dependent popu
lation. Spells (iernuiny's Doom
.,, Observers, foreign and domestic,
military and civilian nlliio, class the
performance to date undor the Amer
ican selective law as the most tan
gibly successful of Its military ef
forts, and regard the accretion to the
manpower reservoir of the young
sters who had not reached their ma
jority one year ago as the most cer
tain assurance of the final downfall
of the Prussian autocracy. Be it near
or far, the day of allied victory can
not be evaded, the practical military
view is, so long as the rising flood of
the American armies, drilled, equip
ped and equipping, can be turned to
the European battlefront.
75 Per Cent Kffortivo
Provost-Marshal General Crowder,
who supervises the draft, fixes the
tentative number given above for the
day's new total, and llkowise from
the experience tables of tho year
places tho number of potential sol
diers to bo added to the list today at
750,000, concluding that the class
will be 75 per cent composed of mili
tary effectives.
As they assemble at the registering
stations today, the total of men rais
ed by the draft in the United States
for its armies will pass 1,300,000. Be
fore tho end of the present month,
the mobilized total will have passed
1,500,000, for the Immense military
machine that owes its existence to
the readinoss of plain Americans to
fight Is moving forward to a goal
that will meet President Wilson's de
mand for "force force to tho utmost,
and force without stint."
The 4500 local boards thruo.it the
country who take the burden of "the
work have named registering clerks
for every 100 of the young men with
in their Jurisdiction. Men absent un
avoidably from their homes on regis
tering day may apply to any board
for their cards. Xomes as recorded
will pass Into the existing classifica
tions of registered men and, in ac
cordance with their physical qualifi
cations, their status as td dependents
and as to Industrial or agricultural
occupations, they will be assigned to
class one, two. three, four, or five.
The overwhelming majority, however
as indicated by the estimate given.
the provost marshal general expects
to find placed in class one.
Call Only In Turn
They will go to the foot of the list
of 1917 registrants In each class, and
will not be called, the regulations
provide, until those above them have
been taken, unless by trade or educa
tion they are fitted or specialized
army service, then they may bo called
sooner. The system of determining
the order of their cnll as among them
selves the provost marshal general
has not yet fixed, but the general ex
pectatlon Is that some sort of a lot-
tory of the type previously used, will
be conducted on a national scale. Yet
of this officials are not certain, be
cause the recurring draft calls come
more .swiftly, and run to larger totabs
now, and the classification has come
to be more important than tho num
hers. A late order number will serve
only to postpone for a few days the
Inevitable call to the training camps.
National purpose to see that no in
dlviduals evade service Is expressed
in the regulations, wherein are voiced
the command of the government to
peace officers of all descriptions.
United States marshals, secret ser
vice men, and city police, that they
shall assist exemption boards In scan
ning lists and combing out attempt
ed evaders of' tho registration.
Figures available show that no
other country participating in the
great war has the actual resources In
men that the United States has
Against the provost marshal gen-
oral's estimate of 1,000,000 for the
American military class of 1918
which Is added to the almost 10,000,.
000 total of 1917, can be placed the
German annual Increment of 600,000
the French of 400,000, and the Ital
ian of 3."i0,000. And all thesa classes
In other countries have been called in
advance.
Washington Use of steel for auto
mobile license plates Is to be re
stricted.
CLOWNS MUST PASS
AROUND
''Here comes the clowns," suy the
town folks, i
"The joeys are at it now," rcniurl:
the men on the "front door," nr niiiin
entrance to the circus, and they can
tell by the rollicking music ol'.the bi;j
show bund. People with tho show
don't have to look into the big tup
to tell Mint acts are on they iden
tify them by the tnnsie.
And "joeys" are clowns, you know.
Nobody knows where they got the
name, but it was an old name before
the first 'American circus in the sev
enteen seventies. With the Sells
r'loto circus coming to Medford Juno
8. there are sotiie -111 clowns itml they
all wear full moon smiles jit! like
the chap in the picture. And u clown
doesn't lust long with this circus if
he fails to bring just such .smiles to
the faces of the grown-ups nnd full
chested laughs from the kiddies.
In the two-inile street purntle the
clowns, with their baud instruments,
ride little Rocky mountain burrows,
to the great deJight of the hoys and
mrls of the laud. And the clowns can
play, too. In the opening spectacle
o the performances, "The Ilirth (if
the Rainbow,'' in which (II0 people.
including scores of bullet girts and
JtJO animals lake purl, the (downs are
PLANT POTATOES
CAN'T SELL
EXPERT'S ADVICE
CORVAM.IS, Or., June !i "When
you can't sell potatoes, plant them,"
is a saying of one of tho best known
and most -successful potato planters
In Oregon.
The Oregon Agricultural college Is
advising as liberal planting of pota
toes as possible. When potutoes are
so cheap that it is difficult to sell
thorn, many farmers decreaso their
acreage or drop tho potato business
entirely, nceordlng to ProTessor Hys
lop of tho O. A. C. This results us
ually within a year In so Bhort an
acreage that only an excoptloual.yleld
per aero will provide enough pota
toes. Such a crop often coimunnds a
rather high price, because of actual
scarcity.
When potatoes aro scarce and tho
price Is high dozens of farmers go out
and buy seed at fancy prices and In
crease their acreage, says tho agri
cultural expert. This, carried out
over the entire state or nation results
In an enormous increase In acreage
and In tho available supply of pota
toes and In low prices. The Oregon
acreage was large In 191C, an unus
ual potato year. A potato failure In
the eastern states resulted In nn un
usual market. The unusual exper
ience of a big crop and high prices
here resulted.
The next year, 1917, it Is pointed
out, saw tho entire United States
planting potatoes in abnormal quan
tities and Oregon fairly outdid hor
sclf in tho planting of high priced
seed. Conditions reversed. We had
an enormous acreago and a floor sen
son. Eastern states had an enorm
ous acreago and a good yield per
acre. Our surplus had to be market
ed elsewhere. While the yield per
aero was small tho surplus, due to
our very largo 1917 acreagae, was not
salable for good prices in many in
stances Literally thousands of bushels of
potatoes aro left In Orego"n and the
1918 planting promises to be small.
There are still many acres of land in
the Willamette valley, the lower Co
lumbia and the coast that may be
put into potatoes. Carefully sorted
and treated seed stork planted almost
any time from now until tho first of
July, on reasonably good land, offers
many opportunities for nice returns.
Kven later planting on Columbia
ovorflow land Is permissible. The
Oregon Agricultural college did not
encourago field planting of potutoes
In 1917 because It was sure tho
planting waft being overdone. In
1 9 1 S 1he college advises liberal plant
ing of fields ot potatoes In both east
ern and western Oregon. I'lant at
least some of the potatoes you can
not sell, Is tho advice of tho agricul
tural exports.
BAKER CALLS FORI
WASHINGTON', June 5. In a
statement issued today thru thn
American Hed Cross, Secretary of
War Baker called upon the Kcnerat
public, civilian hoppltals and training
schools to ro-operato actively to se
cure an ample supply of nurses to
meet the needs of the army and navy.
SMILES
OR STEP OFF SHOW
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assigned in the roles of king's jest
ers in the beautiful groupings and
evolutions of the pageant. "Sun
rise," the world's most " beautiful
horse, recently lirnuglit as a pre-oin-incnl
feature from the English ro.uil
stables, heads a euvnlcnde of mount
ed chnrnclers in the spectacular ex
truvugaiizu.
VAKE UP U.S.A.
ILLUSTRATED TALK
AT PAGE JUNE 14
On Friday, Juno 14th, u Illustrat
ed war lecture entitled "Wnke U,
America!" which bus been given with
great success In practically nil large
cities of tho country, will be tho at
traction at the Pago theatre. Tho
lecture will be given under tho aus
pices of the county council of defense
and will bo free.
Tho management of the Pago thea
tre has very patriotically dotted the
theatre and mov.v.tf plciuro equip
ment for tho evening, aa well as the
regular Pago orchestra. , Tho county
council of defense arc very grateful
to Mr. and Mrs. llergner for this gen
erous assistance.
''ako Up America" Is financed by
tj. 11. Patterson of Dayton, Ohio, a
wealthy capitalist who gave this as
his contribution to tho causa-of pre
senting tho true facts regarding tho
war and tho issues involved to the
American people. When the lecture
was given at San Francisco recently
It was attended by 9000 people, and
packed houses have been tho rulo
everywhere.
Medford is tho smallest city on tho
coast where this film will ho shown,
and may consider Itsolf fortunate Tor
being midway between San Francisco
and Portland, which made a stop
fiomcwhero en route necessary.
In addition to the lecture and film,
there will bs a short musical pro
gram, under tho direction of (leorge
Andrews. A quartet will render the
"Star Spangled Banner" and "Keep
the Home Fires Burning" which will
be illustrated on the screen.
. This Illustrated lecture Is endorsed
by the national committee on public
information and the National Council
of Defense. There is no question
that the Page theatro will he filled to
its capacity tho night of Jinie 1 Itli.
STARTED AUSTRIAN RI01
WASMIXliTON, dune ."i. Aus
trian soldier ri'turiiin t'rnrn th;
prison eantps in b'ussiu appa reni l
itintifjjated the recent revolts in the
Austrian army, aecurdinu; to tier
man newspaper, which have publish
ed accounts of the iiprisitiL's, A dis
patch i'rom Switzerlhnd today quoto
tbe pa per. as saying tin- trouble
started in the Slavic battalion of flu
Ninth infantry at .Iudcuhourr,r and
extended lo Czech and Serbian regi
ments tit id at ol her h I nl ions. The
Slavs killed their Herman ot'tii-ers
but finally were driven into the
mountains and Hide diiitnrd alter
seven li'-btinu'.
New York Y. M. C. A war coun
cil derides to- ak for $ 1 0'l,0(if),M0o
fund to maintain war activities
ahroad.
a A Sign of Danger!
. J Dandruff and liw hairs can't come
together without T R O U B L E
SfaVHERPICIDE
p nrji Hki,,s Dandruff Germs..
Application! ftt the better barter ikoM
CUArantMd by The llrrpkkl tit.
DON'T WIRELESS,
WE WON'T SHOOT
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NKW YOK K, June 5. "Pmi't
your virt'lfss and wo wim't shunt," is
the newest "lmulo in (lonihuiy" war
dogim, under which the einteror'H
suhinnrine roimnnnders m' earryini;
their nniain of .'rightfulness into
Ainerieaii. Atlanlie waters, aeurd
in; to persons atnon 2."i0 survivors
of the steamship Carolina, who were
brought to this port aboard u coast
wise schooner early today. The
Carolina was destroyed by U-boat
ttunfiro fid miles off tho Helawaru
("apes on Kundny evening.
Stories told by passenirers ami crew
of the sunken vessel indicated that
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NOTICE TO WATER USERS!
COMMENCING TUESDAY, JUNE 4th, 1918
Irrigation Hours Will Be As Follows:
4:00 A. M. to 11:00 P. M.
MONDAY,' WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY, cn the EAST side of the Streets
running North and South, and NORTH side of all Streets running East and
West.
TUESDAY, THURSDAY AND SATURDAY, on WEST side of all Streets
running North and South, and on tho SOUTH side of all Streets running
East and West.
SUNDAY FORENOON on the EAST side of all Strect3 running North and
South, and the NORTH sido of all Streets running East and West.
SUNDAY AFTERNOON on tho WEST side of all Streets running North and
South, and tho SOUTH sido of all Streets running East and West.
Wasteful use of water or USING AN OPEN END HOSE for irrigating will not
be permitted.
Corner property will be governed by the street on which the house is numbered.
WATER MUST BE SHUT OFF IMMEDIATELY IN CASE OF FIRE
ALARM.
DO NOT USE A NOZZLE LARGER THAN ONE QUARTER INCH IN DI
AMETER. Do not set sprinkler so that it will interfere with traffic on sidewalk.
Do not have leaky faucets or fixtures on your premises.
DO NOT ALLOW WATER TO RUN TO VASTE DOWN THE GUTTER OF
STREETS OR ALLEYS.
Violators of the above rulc3 will be punished to tho full extent of the law.
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the ships ) uar old chief wireless
operator, played it spectacular part
in the dramatic raiding of the Caro
lina. When the submarine messaged the
'don't wireless and we won't shoot,"
Yojiel defiantly repeated his "S. 0.
S." signals which he hud already bo
Kim flashing and was on the vere
of answering iueries from Cape May
and the Brooklyn navy yard station-;
tor the Carolina's position when Cap
tain T. K. I). Ihirhour, Void's com
mander, ordered him to riuit Ids key
and see whether the Crcrmans would
keep their pledge, passengers de
clared. Captain Harbour said he derided to
accept the proposition laid down by
the I'-boat commander because hp
believed dissent would Imvoi meant
forfeiture of tho lives of the women
and children nhoard tho vessel.
Washington Woman Bulfrago for
Hawaii was authorized In a senate
bill passed 'by the houso and Kent (o
the president.
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NEW YORK, June 5. The Amer
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Mcngcl Is another victim of submar
inn attack. She was sunk Sunday
afternoon 175 miles off New York
and 1 1 mon of her crew wore brought
here today by a Danish stoamshlp.
Tho Mengel, according to the crew,
was on hor way to Xew York with a
carno from tho west African coast.
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the men bad taken to the boats at
the command of the U-boat comman
der. Tho Samuel C. Mengel was a vessel
of St 15 gross tons, was built In 1916
; at Hath, Malnn. her owners of record
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