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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1925)
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1925 THE LUMBERLOGUE PAGE ELEVEN "NOT GUILTY," SAYS SECRETARY RHODES Twin Hi llm Own Dragon Hlion l'i to Poor Advantage, Tliuisduy A, M. LUMBER AND MLIL WORKERS! Meet Here Pool and Snooker Tables Plenty of Card Tables Good Music Smokes and Soft Drinks Make this your hangout Pastime Pool Hall . 729 Main J, ). Hliodoa, socrolury f tlio l'ulliruii (,'liy Ciiiuinuulty club, wuilts It distinctly understood (lint It wan not 'his ruon ouklond Hint was overturned by tho truck crossing at tho oiitrunco lu Pollenu, City liut Thursday morning. Ithudes declares Ills green drugon to liu gentle und -well lioliavod steed, not given to temperamental behavior on curvoH. Kvnry in u n In I'ullcan City who unturod tlio Club Thuradny morning Joked Ithodoa about his suppoaed iiiuhIi up until Rhodu wuh forced to run home and look In bin garago ovnry half hour to muko certain that his car wil ranlly In tlio garage unload of being bottom (Ida up In tlio ditch. TAILORED CLOTHES are an economy made, as I make them. j. v. LOFQUIST Tailor 115 So. 9th St. Klamath Falls, Ore. Fine Materials Fine Workmanship COTTAGE GROVE IS LUMBERING CENTER l Mills Now Operating lit Vicinity of Willamette Town Hon lloo Hum Meeting lit Kugcno County ( lul) Hot-Air -Dogs It hw boon iomo time since Uob Koasler ha appeared on tha Job with chip In lila tiulr. or hud flour ou hi back, or ud his wuteh for a doormat. flcorgo Harrison la n wulklug Binpla of tlm rejuvenating Influence of vacations. Harrison's hair la barker In spota nlnca bo took bin two week vacation. Pollciinltoa do elaro that If ho bud stayed uwuy longed It would havo all been black. Wo understand that Kreoland Sta Icy unearthed a basket of long necked, demoiintnblo end Easter clRS tlio Saturday ulght beluga Eas ier Sunday. A well posted cllliun of I'ullcan City declare) that If Aco Juckaou makos no moro of u auccom with aviation than hu did with radio that lie will ihuve to walk until Paul IJunyan drive logs upstream on Iho Ills Oulon again. There aro 32 sawmills within a abort radius of Cottage, drove, 19 of which are actlvaly operating and shipping their producla. These mlllM and tholr longing activities employ 1000 men. The mills now operating aro saw ing 073,000 feet of lumber a day. The combined payroll of Iho saw mills and logging camps amounts to 1103.000 per month. Coltuge Qrovo was selocted as tho site for the huge plant of the Stan dard II rid ko company of Omaha, Neb., for drying lumber by forced air draft Instead of kiln drying. The first unit of tbo new plant now complete In a building 700 feet In leuglh, SO feet In width and 60 tout In height. Thla la the only plant of li kind In iho world and will represent an investment of t:r0,000. It In claimed that tills now prucvas of drying lumber by furred nlr draft wll lenabla tho company to ship their lumber to Etslcrn points at a saving of from completed, la u building 700 feet lu freight charges. It Is claimed the new procosa Is not only cheaper lliun kiln drying but greatly Increases tho tensile strength of ordinary wood aud also InervuKos Us roslslancc against dc cay. The new process requires from 60 to 90 days time to treat tho lumbor, and It Is estimated that tho capacity of tho plant when In full operation will bo 2000 carloads per year. Tho plant when fully lonu ed will Tlold 5.000.000 feet of lumbor. At Coltugo lirovo Is located a tie treating plant owned and operated by tha Southern Pacific railroad company for tholr own consumption, which dips ties In a solution of sine ozldo, this process prolonging tho lllo of tho Ho by lucroualng Us re sistance ugulnst rt and decay. The ties aro supplied by local mills un der contract. Tho plunt lion a cap acity of 90,000 ties per year, nnd employs 40 men with a payroll of 4,60O par month. LAIlOIt, LIMHKIl TALKED Labor condition and lumbor (trading rules woro chief Items of discussion ul the meeting last night at the Eugene Country elub of the Lane county lloo Hoo and Lumber men's club. Korty-flvo attended. w. K. Iteugniu, executive sec retary of the Loyal Legion of Log ger and Lumbermen, dlscuased la bor conditions ovor tho country In geuerul and pie northwest lumber ing district In particular. Tha new standard grading rules were the topic of L. A. Nelson, Ore gon secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen's association and chief of the bureau of grades. , Elbert lie be. editor of the Cot- tago Grove Sentinel, also spoke. Shaw-Bertram Speed One of tha boat tilings about baseball la thwt by tha Investment of a few dollars In baseballs, bats and glovcn ninny pleas-ant bours cuu bo paaaed. Another pleananl thing about run ning a pngu of h,oaxos upon husky lumberjacks Is that ono llvoa In continual drond of bolng 4oa(on tip (or some Indoscrotlon. Tho following poem was re ceived from Bhuw-B e r t r a m camp this week: Well things are rather speedy here, . when things aro running fair, Tho boys suro hit the ball and don't accin to care. Pete and Frank the hookers hardly touch thu ground. Thcy'ro Jumping everywhere In mighty leaps and bounds. llughslo runs tha lovers aud ho puts her rtfl't In high, Tho cut skinner ft. fds more gas, a-nd fairly soom to fly. Tho bunchors gulp tholr breakfast of eggs, spuds, and bots. And to the woods, ono grabs an axe anil starts to bounce the knots. Tbo skinner they call Duscy looks at him and atarU to grin. And says "fly- nt her boy for I'm going to drag them In, Cause wo'ro going to make her pay today, If tho riggln'U hold out. The swampers niuko the brush Just fly, for the bunchors aro right on tholr tall. And they wako'er pay when they cau, for they've got to have tbo kulo. John S. Elkhart. EWAUNA CAMP NEWS (JL1T8 JjAMK DUCKS for has il'oler Kttntx, a prominent Ohio . lumberman, who onoo Interviewed by a young roporlor In regard to some lumber operations ho wna con templating. Hunts hemmed nnd hawed, and protended to bo vory reluctant to dlvulgo' any of hla bus Inem to the proas. Hut at lust ho protonod to soften "I'll toll you young man, If you'll promise to be vory direful and not mlsquoto mo. I'll give you the dupo on this now deal. "It has nothing to do with lum ber. 1 havo been considering bran ching out hero of lata, and Jinvo purchased n largo ranch In Moxlco. j wonder If you tiro uwnro of tho largo demand for pet monkeys?" "No air, no sir, I can't say 1 nm." "Well, tho elomnnd Is fnr In ex cess of tlio supply. Monkeys can ha .grown very quickly, it'nd I Inlond to take advantage of this shortage of pot monkoys, That Is tho nbso luo low down on this now oporn tlon of mine, which most peoplo think has to do with lumber." Tho next day tho nrtlolo 'npponvod nn tho front pngu of tho young rcportor'a paper. Mr. and Mra. J. W. Ward havo Jiiat relumed from spending a sucond honeymoon with relatives ut Eagle Point. Mrs. any Head and tliroo children havo gone to California to visit bur mother. They will bo ono n cott plo at months. Dill Fairbanks, our Radio King, Is producing programs nightly from thirty-two stations In tho United States and Canada, Tho Woman's Community club of Chlloquln well entcrtnlnad Thursday nt this camp by Mrs. J. J. Vlllntr, who was nsslstod by Mrs. C. C. lleldrlrk and Mrs. II. C. Spink. 20 club women came In tlmo for dinner nt the cookhouse where Mr, Folt, tho chef, served a, Bplcndld moal. Then tho ladles rodo out to tho log ging operation on the trnln nnd saw tho' first log londed by tho now Mo- Orlffort Loader No. 2. Throe iiutomoblles convoyed poo- plo from Ewannn ovor to tho bhnw- nertrnm dnnco Saturday night Evoryono had a good tlmo nnd hope they will bo Invited again, Iko Loo logging contractor tho UIr Lakes Uox company graduated from the lame duck ward Ho walked with tha aid of crutches Salurduy, and Cecil Ely and Gus Stodry, the other mem bora of the Lumberman's Lama Duck Ward went Into oxccutlvo conferenco and blackballed him. Huns Anderson was considered to till tho vacancy but as ho Is also on crutches ho an daclared Ineligible so Ely and Stodry aro waiting for tha next log ger or mlllworkor to arrive nt tho hospital with hla right leg brokon Just tihove tho nnkle. . HACK FIIOH CAL1I'0N1. lAlkls Mnltel roturnod from Ca fornlit Thursday, whore ho him spent tho' -wliuor months. Mnttol worked for tho Swnn Lnko (Lumber . cony nun? twrj aeneous nito. ; I.KAVKH MODOC IOINT C. - K. Furdln, formerly black smith with tho Lnmm Lumbor com pany; has left Modoo 'Point , and moved to Klamath Falls. Furdln will work In tho bluck'smlth and ma- chlno shop for 1ho Kl-nmnth Lumber nnd Uox company, 81111'1'IXU 110,000 FKKT Ciilaniu.1 camp, tbo logging camp of tha Modoc l'lne company, Is at present shipping in the neighbor hood of fifty thousund feet per day to tho Utk Lukes Uox company's mill, besides supplying tho Modoc plant nt Aspgrove. Logging oparutlons Jiavo been elovyod up during the week on ac count or Inclement weather, how ever. Saturday morning bIx Inches of snow was reported at camp. On account of the number of swampers whn have cut tholr foot moro or less seriously during tho past woek, tho Modoc oompany Is ordovlng one hundrod pair of cast Iron shoes to protect, tho men from such slips. I IIUVH NEW CAU Ed Nlopoth, logging superintend ont for tho Chlloquln Lumber com pany. Is tho prn-.itl possessor of a Nosh Advnncod Six two door nodiin. Hoy lllohn of -tho Ewnniia . dry kilns Is now working nt Ewaunn limiting camp, . MISS SIIXLKNNAX VISITS Miss Myrtle -Mullennnx, who is at tending school -hers, spent Master vacation with hor father, Fred Mul lennnx, who Is woods superintend cut. for tho 'Modoc Pino company nt Calamus camp. , ' , You're D oin lo 0 rinei down I'mm jionoo .. 1(111 McMillan, Kb Chlldors, Pat Montgomery, and Brady itlontfom ory spont tho wook-ond In town from Mndoo enmp, rulurning Sunday ufiornoon, Yqu fellows in the mills and camps are getting into the swing of things. We're getting more news from the camps these days and we're tickled to death. Keep it Up This week some spring poet blossomed forth. We ought to get some bunk-houie poetry from you lumber jack bards every week. Write us an ode to your bull cook or your whistle punk. , , s Those Buny an Yarns! ' Five were received this week. We're printing the two best ones, but want some more. Weave us a Bunyan yarn and see if you can't win the buck Lumberlogue is off ering every week. And Don't Forget The Lumberlogue is your weekly newspaper. Six pages of news from the mills and camps every week. ..All of the gossip of you fellows and your friends. 1 SUSCR1BE Right Now! Just send in your subscription to The Evening Herald. You'll get all the news of all the world six days a week and in addition your own paper Lumberlogue once a week. It's a combination you can't beat. You can't afford to be without The Lumberlogue and we want YOU, Mr. MILL WORKER, and YOU, MR. LUM BERJACK, to join the ever-growing circle of FRIENDS and READERS. The Lum berloff Mt. me i