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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL Into the Hall Fame OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Assembled for Information of Our Readers. At the opening of the Lake county wool market a quarter of a million pounds was sold for 19 cents a pound. The Medford Elks lodge has voted to approve the petition of Grants Paes residents for a lodge to be granted Grants Pass. W . W. Work of Albany suffered a broken arm when his automobile be came untnanagable on the Newport- Albany road and overturned. Laundrymen from all sections of Oregon gathered in Salem recently for the annual convention of the State Laundrymen’s association. Construction work on the Owyhee project is progressing rapidly with more than 400 men employed on the dam and tunnel contracts. The Pendleton Pioneer club has ded icated a concrete bench In Pioneer park to the late Mrs. Aura M. Raley, often referred to at the “ mother of Pendleton.” A warning to merchants and individ uals to beware of bringing infected cherries into Douglas county has been issued by A. C. Allen, horticultural commissioner. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON E CE N TLT there were un veiled In the Hull of Fame on the campus of New York university, busts of nine great Amer icans. It Is a remarkable fact that of these nine Im mortals who have thus taken their places In this American Valhalla, seven were natives o f the same state and five of them were graduates of the same university. Insofur us Massachusetts this year Is celebrating Its tercentenary and hon oring the men who helped add to her renown as a colony and a state, the ceremony at the New York Institution might properly be regarded ns a part of the tercentenary celebration. For those seven men all sprang from the soil o f the Old liny state and five of them were graduated from H arvard! The nine who were thus honored In this year’s ceremony Included two statesmen, two historians, an author, a poet, an educator, an Inventor and a Jurist. Their names and their rec ords of achievement are ns follows: John Quincy Adams was born In Braintree, Mass., July 11, 17(57. After graduation font Harvard he practiced law In Massachusetts and lirst entered public life In 171)4 when President Washington appointed him minister to Holland and two years later minister to Portugal. In 1797 be became min ister to Prussia, and nt the end of Ills career In that post returned to Massa chusetts where he was elected to the state senate In 1802. The next year he was elected to the United States senute. President Madison appointed him minister to Russia In 1809 and he played an Important part In arrang ing the treaty of peace which ended the War o f 1812 between Greut Brit ain and the United States. Adams was next appointed minister to Eng land, and nfter an absence of eight years abroad he was called back to America to serve as secretary of state under President Monroe. Adams’ principal achievement as sec retary of state wus the treaty with Spain, whereby Florida wus ceded to the United States fur $6,000,000. In the campaign of 1824 he was elected President over Andrew Jackson when the election was thrown Into the house of representatives, hut in the election of 1828 Jackson was the victor. How ever, the ex-PresIdrnt did not long re main In private life. In 1881 he was elected to congress where he remained, representing the same district of Mass achusetts. until Ills death 111 Wash ington February 28, 1848. George Bancroft, born In Worcester, Mass., October 3, 1800, was also a Harvard graduate. After studying abroad he selected history as his special branch and soon became wide ly known, both In Europe anil Amer ican as a historian and teacher. The first volume o f Ills greatest work, “ History of the United States,” was published In 1834. When James K. Polk became President be appointed Bancroft secretary o f the navy and his greatest achievement In this posi tion was to win the title of "founder o f the United Stntes Naval academy” hy establishing the training school for our future sea captains at An napolls, Md. Bancroft died In Wash ington, January 17, 1891. James Fen I more Cooper, born in Burllnglon, N. J„ September IS, 1789, was the author who immortalized the American Indian In Ids "Leather- stocking Tales,” and whose sea stories revolutionized the literature of the sea. One day while reading an English novel he made a remark which has become a classic of would he au thors: T believe I could write u better story myself." Encouraged hy his wife he attempted It. and In 1820 Ids first novel “ Precaution" was pub lished anonymously. It attracted some attention In England and It encour aged him to continue Ids writing. The result was “ The Spy," published n year later, and "during the winter o f 1821- 22 the American public awoke to the The Oregon-Washington Water Serv ice company of Salem spent $5470 In Its unsuccessful campaign against the municipal ownership amendment at the recent election. Recent rains have Increased the prospects for average yields in all the major crops of Baker county. Less wheat and more barley and oats were planted this year than usual. The Eastern Oregon Librarian asso ciation has been organized at Baker by librarians from all parts of eastern Oregon. Miss Mabel Doty of La Grande was elected president. The Marion county court has pur chased a new concrete mixer and here after no small bridges will be built of wood. The old wooden bridges will be replaced with concrete culverts. Contracts for the Installation of ornamental street lighting on Klamath | avenue and for the 14th sewer unit were awarded by ordinances passed by the Klamath Falls city council. fact that it possessed a novelist of Its own." Cooper died in Cooperstown, N. Y., September 14, 1851. One phrase, “ Give me liberty or give me death!” Is synonymous for the name of Patrick Henry, "the Ora tor o f the Revolution.” Born nt Stud- ley, Va., May 29, 1730, the future ad vocate of freedom was nn Indolent pu pil In school und a failure 111 business. But when he took up the Rtudy of law he found himself and soon became known as one of the most brilliant law yers In it stnte noted for Its legal lu minaries. By 1703 he had acquired renown as an ornior and this was In creased In the famous "Parson’s Case" when he denied the right o f the Brit ish king to abrogate acts of the co lonial legislature. Henry was an Influential member of the Continental congress front 1774 to 1770 and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 17715 he was chos en governor of Virginia nnd served un til 1779. He sat In the legislature from 1780 to 1784, again served as governor from 1784 to 1780, nnd once more, from 1780 to 1790, was a mem ber of the stnte assembly. He de clined to serve In the Constitutional convention and opposed the ratifica tion o f the Constitution. Again in 1799 he run for the legislature aud was elected hut died In Charlotte county, June 0, 1799, before he could tuke office. Elins Howe, Inventor of the sewing machine, was another Bay Stute prod uct, having been born In Spencer, Mass., In 1819. In 1S43-43 he ex perimented with a lock-stitch sewing machine and finally perfected it, se curing a patent in 184(1. For years he vainly sought recognition of his Inven tion, both In this country and In Eng land, where he sold Ids rights In 1847 for 50 pounds sterling. While absent abroad Ids patent was Infringed upon hy others, but eventually the courts decided In Howe’s favor, und after years of wretched poverty Ilowe sud denly found himself wealthy. In 1803 he erected a large sewing machine fac tory at Bridgeport, Conn., where he died In 18(17. James Bussell Lowell, born In Cam bridge, Mass., on February 22, 1819, was one of the famous groups of writ ers which Massachusetts gave to the nation during the middle half of the Nineteenth century, nnd of them all Lowell was undoubtedly the most ver satlle. Having been graduated from Harvard In 1838 he Immediately en tered the Harvard law school, took Ids degree In 1840 and began to practice. After several years abroad Lowell returned to become a teacher in Har vard and to enter upon an epoch In his life as a scholar and critic, lie became the first editor of the newly established Atlantic Monthly In 1,857, resigning In 18(51 to hecome associ ated with the North American Review In 1.8*54. lie resigned that [sadUou In 1872 and again went abroad, where the famous English colleges of Oxford ami Cambridge conferred degrees upou Extensive limestone deposits have him. In 1877 he was named United States minister to Spuln and In 1880 bedn found In the Black Butte quick wus transferred to England, returning silver mine In southern Lane county. to America In 1885. On August 12, It Is eald the deposits are sufficient to warrant commercial development. 1891, he died In Cambridge. Horace Mann, born In Franklin. E. V. Mathews of Fossil was killed, Mass., May 4, 179(5, after his grad and Dan E. Flory, also of Fossil, was uatlon from Brown university became Injured when their automobile crashed a teacher, and then a lawyer. He was into a Columbia Gorge auto stage near n member of the .Massachusetts legis lature from 1827 to 1837, and from Warrendale on the Columbia highway. The Oregon strawberry crop this 1837 to 1848 served ns secretary of the Massachusetts hoard of education. year was estimated by the depart Mann visited Europe In 1843 ami ment of agriculture at 13,230,000 quarts brought hack with him reports on for on an area of 9450 acres, as against elgn school systems which attracted 14,700,000 quarts on 10,500 acres last wide attention. Due to his efforts the year. school system o f Massachusetts was A pledge of cooperation In the ef entirely reorganized and became a model for many other stutes. From fort to bring the 1931 convention of 1848 to 1853 Mann served as a mem the state department of the American her of congress. A fter his term was Legion to Roseburg has been given over he became president of An Umpqua post by the Roseburg cham tioch college In Ohio nnd served there ber of commerce. until his death In 1859. History hus Except In cases of extreme emer preserved his fame as the founder of gencies and when the distance is rear the normal rc I ioo I system In this coun try and "father" of the American pub sonably close, the Eugene fire appara lie school system. tus hereafter will not be taken out of John Lothrop Motley won his the city limits, according to a decision fame as a historian of a European of the city council. country. He was horn In Dorchester. A union high school building will be Mass., April 15, 1814, ami wus grndu nted fom Harvard In 1831. He then erected at Lowell, near Eugene, at a went to Germany to study, and upon cost of $35,000. The voters of Lowell, his return to this country "Studied law. Signal, Eula. Warner, Unity and Fall although literature was more to his Creek met and voted by a large ma tuste. lie published nn American nov jority in favor of the bonds. el In 18159, but It attracted little at The secretary of state apportioned tention. After a short career at the among the various counties In Ore American legation In ltussia he re turned to America again to serve a gon a total of $56,249.43 for county fair purposes. The tax for county fairs is term In the Massachusetts legislature A fter ten years of hard labor, dur one-twentieth of a mill, based on all lug which he returned to Europe and assessable property in the state. found It necessary to rewrite much of THE M ARKETS that which lie had already written, he Portland published Ills “ History of the Dutch Wheat— Big Bend bluestem. $1.16; Republic" In 185(5 and was Immediate ly acclaimed both In America and soft white, western white, $1.03; abroad. Along with these literary hard winter, northern spring, western honors came a call to public service, red. $1.01. nnd from 1801 to 1807 lie served as Hay—Alfalfa. $20 per ton; valley American minister to Austria, and timothy, $20.50® 21; eastern Oregon from 18(50 to 1870 to Great Britain. Motley died In Dorchester, England, timothy. $22.50®23; clover, $17; oat hay, $16; oats and vetch, $ 16@ 17. May 29, 1877. Butterfat— 27® 30c. A statesman, a writer, an educator Eggs—Ranch, 20@24c. end Inventor nnd two historians— such Cattle— Steers, good, $11@11.75. was the contribution of Massachusetts to the 11X50 Hall o f Fame ceremonies. Hogs—Good to choice, $9.50®1L To make It complete, she nlso provided Lambs— Good to chocle, $8®9. a great Jurist—Joseph Story. He was Seattle Isirn at Marblehead, Mass., In 1779. | Wheat— Soft white, western white, Harvard graduated him In 1798 and hard winter, western red and northern Salem saw him begin practice os a spring, $1.04; Big Bend bluestem, lawyer In 1801. He was elected to congress In 1.808 \ $1.16. and In 1811 became speaker o f the j Eggs— Ranch. 21® 28c. house. Soon afterwards President [ Butterfat— S4c. Madison appointed him associate Jus Cattle— Choice steers. $11®11.50. tlce o f the Supreme Court o f the Unit Hogs— Trime lig h t $11.15©11 30. oil States, and during his long career Lambs—Choice, $8®9. of 34 years on that high tribunal he Spokane assisted In the development o f Amer j Cattle— Steers, good, $10®10.50. lean constitutional law and In fixing Hogs— Good to choice, $10.75. the status o f the Aqierlean admiralty. ! Lambs—Medium to good, $8©$.25 patent nnd equity Jurisprmleuc*. IW died In Cambridge la 1515. Checks aggregating $12,220.14. repre- ■entlng a seventh dividend of 7.3 per cent, were being mailed by the state banking department to 326 depositors of the defunct Bank of Jordan Valley, Malheur county, which closed Its doors January 24, 1925. The Winona rabbitry, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Fred VVourms of Tualatin, suffered a real loss a few days ago when their recently acquired goat ate all the pedigree tickets from the front of the rabbit hutches. Valuable data were consumed by the goat. Total resources of the banks of Ore gon Increased from $127,688,959.93 in the year 1909 to $348,911,906.92 in the year 1929, according to the annual report of the state superintendent of banks completed recently. The gain since 1909 was $221,222,946.99. SUMMER STEPS OUT IN G A Y PP.fNT; COMES NOV/ A “WHITE SEASON” A ND again summer “ goes stepping with a smile in gay young frocks of colorful prints. The very swan kiest prints silhouette their bright flower motifs against pure white back grounds this season—an effect which Is delightfully summery. The charming little frock In the pic ture is decidedly new. In the first place the bemberg canton crepe of which It Is made patterns crimson and green posies on white— a refresh ing color scheme this and so distinct ly a thls-season feature. Indeed these white shoes, and as many more at her social position demands. Long white sports coats are posed over either white nr pastel frocks, and with these coate white kid shoes either all white or dellcutely trimmed with pastel, black or blue are smart est The white kid shoe trimmed with brown leads for street anil spectator sports wear, and will be worn with pastel frocks and suits regardless of their tint, as was the case at Palm Beach tills winter. Next to the brown- trimmed shoes comes that trimmed T o demonstrate the possibilities of dusting orchards on a commercial scale by airplane the Northwestern Aerodusting company and the Oregon State college extension service will dust the prune orchard of H. A. Win ston at Winston, Douglas county. The plant of the Owen-Oregon Lum ber company at Medford will operate one shift, of nine hours, this summer. The concern will also operate one log ging plant as at present in the Butte Falls district. This means the employ ment of between 300 and 350 men. Reports indicate that the prune crop In the Estacada locality will be much better than expected some time ago. Growers who thought the crop would be an entire failure now state they will have a fair crop. Caterpillars are said to be numerous and causing some trouble. * Thirty-five cents an hour for com mon labor for forest fire fighting, when the labor Is obtained from cen tral labor markets, is the rate fixed by the state forester's office, the var ious fire-fighting associations and the United States forest service, for such work during 1930. A large brown bear, which attacked Herbert Francis Jr., 12-year-old Bend hoy, was chased away by the boy’s stepmother, who hurled stones across the Deschutes river as the big animal approached the lad. The boy, fright ened by the bear, dropped to the ground. He did not see the animal until it was 25 feet away. Forty-foot-high sand dunes moving 25 or 30 feet a year threaten to de- etroy central Oregon’s "lost forest," a four-mile-square tract of pine timber In the isolated interior of Lake county, more than 30 miles distant from the Paulina mountain timber belt. Some of the dunes have reached the out skirts of the miniature forest. From present indications, the apple crop in Oregon will be considerably larger than last year and may closely approach the good crop of 1928. Pro duction ln the Hood River valley prom ises to be nearly normal this season. In the Rogue river valley a large apple crop is expected in alternate seasons and this is the year of heavy produo tion. The Consolidated Oregon Gold Mines, Inc., has completed construc tion of a 60-ton flotation and amalga mation mill at Snow Creek mine, 1H miles west of Granite. The mill was Immediately put into operation on a one-shift basis. A new boarding house and an assay office are being built and new assay equipment is being in stalled. Charming Little Frock. dainty prints are proving quite the fabric fad of the hour. Very often the print is in a single color such us i a stenc11 eflrecl ln lmle «reen on white. perhaps navy on white or that which is quite the thing this season—black on white. It is plain to be seen that this de mure maiden is exceedingly fashion wise, for she knows what's what in accessories, wearing a white clieapeau and white kid shoes, as she does, with this color-touched white frock of hers. The Importance of white gloves, while footwear, white headwear cannot be overrated. This trend to white Is obvious also in the coat realm, the latest being to top one's colorful frock with aD all-white coat of unusual weave, adding hat. gloves, shoes and pocketbook in immaculate white. Verj often the kid shoes and the pocket- book are trimmed with a wee bit ot color, repeating an outstanding tone in the print or pastel of the frock. As worn with the now-so-popular crepe sports dresses In monotone pastels. with black, and next In order the white shoe touched with navy blue. There will, however, be an equal number of all-white shoes worn fot naturally the while frock calls fot the white shoe. Tile sweei girl graduate will doubtless require the all-white shoes, and there will be about 260,006 of (hem graduating from high schools and such shortly. Best of all most of the kid of which modern shoes are made comes In wash qualities that can he easily kept clean with soap and water. For the most part where trimmings in color are used, there is very little of the color. Narrow bands, appliques, small motifs and pipings usually do the trick, except In the spectator sports types which often have toes and heels of brown, black or blue. Perforations are also much used as a trim. In the representative group here with the white kid shoes shown at the top to the left are ln a one-strap buckle model, the vamp and strap of Herbert Beyers, manager of the Douglas County Turkey Growers’ as sociation, was named one of the 12 delegates from the western half of the United States selected to appear be fore the federal farm board at Salt Lake City, to assist in formulating plans for the formation of the pro posed Northwest Turkey Growers’ as sociation. % It will soon be as difficult to get a lunch in Bly, as for the well-known camel to lope through the eye of a needle. Three lunch rooms in that southern Oregon village were ordered padlocked for a year by United States District Judge McNary for violation of the national prohibition law. No one shall be in the places during the year, but the fixtures must remain I d the rooms. The Rogue river valley one-crop strawberry yield has suffered a loss of at least 50 per cent, according to growers, as a result of continued cold and wet weather. However, the one- crop berry in the valley is planted only for barrelling, while the ever-bearing varieties are planted for market, and with intensive irrigation the ever-bear ing will make a heavy crop until late next fall, which will overcome the loss to the early crop. * '- v h W h it« Fo o tw ea r Being Emphasized. Because of uncertain market condl- I tions Marion county cherry growers nfilt# footwear and headwear vie with are planning to establish a maraschino self-colored accessories. plant tor the barreling of Royal Annes It la well worth while keeping la Growers say such a plan was neces mind a vogue Is now far on Its way, sary for the protection of their In highlighting white accessories with navy or black cloth suits— not forget terests. The Jackson County Game Protec ■ flag the white gardenia on the lapel tlve association will oppose the grant of the smart tailored Jacket Referring again to the dress In the ing of permits for the construction ol picture. Its little cape sleeves also In any power dams in the Rogue river ot j dlcate Its last-moment styling. the taking of water for any purpose j A "W hite Season.” other than irrigation, that will reduce While Is so Important this summer the stream flow. that the average woman cannot afford j 'o go without at least one pair of white lizard. A pair of white kid T strap shoes (below to left) fashion the unusual strap and trim of white lizard. In the circle white kid eboes for spectator sports wear are trimmed with black kid heels and tips, also per foratinns. White kid pumps with s touch of pastel trim are worn with (he cunning suit of pasiel pink Inrquard khaki knot, pictured at the top The bolero worn with the one piece frock Is scalloped all'around as is (he hem line o f the dress. JULIA BOTTOM LET. <£X. 1111. W estern N e v ip a iw r iJnion.)