Among Our Neighbors • • f Voters in school district 2, St. Helens, passed a measure call­ ing for a tax of $68,936.11, which, based on assessed valua­ tion, is 21.8 mills. This is a decrease of four tenths of a mill as compared with last year. * • • St. Helens golfers defeated the Broarcliff club at Clatskanie No­ vember 23, 25 Mi to 26%. • • • The Altruistic club, an organ­ ization connected with the Py­ thian Sisters lodge, has under­ taken to aid the needy in St. Helens and nearby places. • « • It is expected that two addi­ tional state highway patrolmen will be soon placed on duty ev­ ery night along the Lower Colum­ bia River highway between Port­ land and Rainier. A petition to that effect has been signed by officials of towns affected, due to the large number of hold-ups reported. • * • Clatskanie high school suffered the second robbery within a month when thieves entered the night of November 26 and stole 15 typwriters, two adding ma­ chines and a number of smaller articles. On Halloween night the manual training shop was broken into and about $200 worth of tools taken. * • • Rainier high school defeated St. Helens high school 14 to 6 at Rainier Thanksgiving day. This breaks a four-year tie be­ tween the two schools, and gives Rainier permanent possession of the Davis-Herman football trophy. • * • A couple giving the names of Don K. Kerrigan and wife were arrested by federal author­ ities in Seattle when caught pas­ sing money orders made out on blanks stolen recently from the Orenco post office. The pair twice robbed the Orenco store. 1 Measurements of Time by Old Water-Clocks An early means adopted for the measurement of short periods of time was by noting the quantity of water discharged through a small orifice In the containing vessel, says an article In the Montreal Family Herald. If the vessel would empty Itself between sunrise and sunset, a certain number of markings equally distant on the aide of the vessel would enable one to tell what por tlon of the day had passed by the height of the water. This crude measure of time was called a wa ter-clock. When the Roman general, Julius Caesar, was carrying out Ida con­ quests of Gaul, he crossed to Brit­ ain for the first time In the latter part of the summer of 55 B. O. In his account of the expedition he tells of many things be had oh served among the Britons, and one was the water-clock. Through ac­ curate measurements by this clock he found that the midsummer nights In Britain were shorter than In the south of Gaul or Italy. He ascer­ tained the fact, but he did not know the cause—the spherical form of the earth and its revolving on Its axis not at right angles to the plane of Its orbit. terested visitors, mostly mothers, were present. Doris Rae Estey unfortunatly fell at school recently and in­ jured her right knee. Her par- , ents took her to their physician at Tacoma, who put the injured limb in a cast. She is again at­ Logging operations by the Ore­ tending school. gon American have ceased Sun­ Mrs. Fletcher’s parents of Port- day night. The shut down will land spent Thanksgiving with December, their daughter and son-in-law be for the month of ~ at least. here. The crane crew and train 106 A delightful card party are engaged this week in picking up spilled logs where the track given at the W estlin home urday evening in honor of is soon to be torn up. A number of the unemployed Westtin’s parents, Mr. and men from this place are batching Boyer of Portland, who spent at the old upper I-P camp, until Thanksgiving with the Westlins. work is resumed after the hol­ Besides the immediate families, idays. Among those encamped those present weTe Mr. and Mrs. there are Milford Fields, Ben H. W. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bollinger, Gus Custer and Joe Womstaff, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bremis, and Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Shaffer. Ridenour. Joe Womstaff received a few Mrs. Florence Fraser, Mrs. lines from Harry Nakata, this Theodoria Lambert, and John week, saying that he and his party Womstaff and family enjoyed had arrived safely in Yohohama, Thanksgiving dinner with the Joe Japan, November 11. Harry had Womstaff family. been foreman of the Jap crew Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred DeClus- .gafcg here since 1923, until his recent ion were dinner guests of the departure for Japan. Westlins on Thanksgiving d.y, A delightful given! — —----- program was ® ....... r P. H H. Peterson a and family and in the advanced room at Camp|the Bemis family r were dinner McGregor school last Wednesday guests at the Egte home * on afternoon, by the Camp McGreg­ Thanksgiving- or Junior Republic club. Arne A lovely Thanksgiving turkey Stories Anderson, superintendent of the club presided. About twenty in- dinner with all the trimmings was served to the men at the by IrvinJ\€obb cook-house on Thanksgiving day. A delightful Thanksgiving par­ Sackcloth Old Symbol WAS FOR PURPOSES OF ty was given at the Dodge home CONCEALMENT of Mourning for Dead at I-P headquarters camp, last Sackcloth Is mentioned several Thursday evening. OT so very long ago the mili­ i times In the Bible. It was a coarse Bruno Reif and his sister, Mrs. tary attache of one of those texture of a dark color made of Ida Engstrom of Powell Butte, flywheel republics In Centrul Amer­ goats' hair. Smith’s DIctorlary of Oregon visited their sister, Mrs. ica, where they are always having the Bible quotes two verses to sub revolutions, came up to New York stantlate the statement that the John Womstaff Saturday and from the legation at Washington on color of snekcloth was dark or Sunday. The Dusenberry baby who was Important official business. Calling black, One verse Is Isaiah 50:3—”1 upon a military tailor on Fifth ave­ clothe 1 the heavens with blackness, taken ill suddenly Sunday even- nue, he explained his mission. There and 1 make sackcloth their cover ing was taken to Vernonia Mon­ had been a change of administra­ Ing.” The other verse Is Revela day evening by her parents for tion In his country—the first one. tlon 11:12, the second half of medical treatment. Dr. Eby was It would seem, In nearly ulne which reads: “and the sun became called to the Dusenberry home months—and the new government black as sackcloth of hair; and the had decided to alter the uniforms moon became as blood.” Sackcloth Sunday evening to treat the baby. Misses Marion Larsen and Bor- of all branches of the national de­ resembles elllelum of the Romans, fense. named after the province of Cilicia geny Sather, high school students It was the visitor’s purpose to In Asia Minor. In which was situ­ were visiting their parents, over give the contracts. He lmd brought ated Tarsus, the native city of St. Thanksgiving vacation. with him special designs, hand-col­ Patil, who knew and at times fol­ Mrs. Paul Dodge and Mrs. H. ored In the chosen effects. There lowed the trade of tent maker, that C. Ridenour called on Mrs. P. ensued a busy time In the tailor la. the making of tents out of clll- shop. It would seem that the fancy clnm. the cloth made of goats' hair. H. Matson and her new daughter,