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.
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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.
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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.
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'- 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.
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