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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON MONDAY, AUGUST 5. 1918. DO YOU KNOW WHY--- A Bachelor Dter is Sack A Sad Affair? Crsin for this psper Ejf fis&Sr I'M C O.N, TO H, WB.L.JOE- 1 I ifs t " wtut newer C- 1 I to sew 1 N Omt will. Cfe.aTfMNtS BE Mte C the BOXS TO .lvg'Me e AOOO Time. iuSr inetiae wop scours - So IN ' DUE SEASON me COMES the. OP HON Oft' ro-ee SNUNTEf3S BLIfHEL TO we OF THE TIME ("heres to cco ) " , . iwu j OUO JOE (KNO THE " 1 Pooaouo 1 - r TH Bo-(S J l00ce 0. poj 1 WHoSe MiOSr ,J . . Ineugs rnaon- Utcc y Fiies. WoHtguTf y TQ KWw y 1 -r r ' a VfSs V f I owes - TeMC ' j pes.rne, MttMHMMMM)MHtMMMMHMMHHMMM Willamette Valley News j - cme Hop Growers Say TTioy Will Let Crop Go WACONDA NEWS (Capital Journal Special Scrvio.) Waeonda, Or., Aug. 5. I. M. Bales was a busiiu'!t visitor iu Woodlmrn Sat urday. Threshing began in this district Mon day and is now in full swing. The wheat will average about ten bushels to the acre. Mil-s KiiKsoll has refumcd after a brief vacation near Molalla. Walter Nu.siun and Will Ahlgren will be called to enter tlie draft army Aug ust 5, and will leave Woodburn on that date. The Misses Violet I'elton and Mae Hall att.'mled the Bridg'c'ay celebration in 8alem last Tuesday. W. Al Jones is confine! to Vis home on acouut of a severe at lack of malaria. Charles Vinyard is home after three weeks in the national army. Ho was fi?nt from Fort McDowell on account of physical disqualification and is now awaiting a call for limited service. Mr. and Mrs. Georf.o Thurnian and Mr. and Mrs. Walter J.'uson returned Tuesday from a trip to Crater Lake. Mr, and Mrs. Georg.j Finney and dau ghters Emma and Marie of Sheridan, accompanied by Mrs. G. W. Mark e were in Wneouda Friday. Mis. Carl Gillis, of Portland, and Mrs. Iiawrence of Salem, were visitors at the J. C. Havage lionic on Thursday. Miss Loverno Palmer was a Salem visitor one day last week. THE WACONDA FIRE. Waconda,, Ore, Aug. 2. Editor of the Capital Journal: On the night of July :i0, 1018, Mrs. David Kceno and two children, nnd Mrs. Habcrt and son, (af ter returning from hill 2, where, they had been spending the evening with Hiss Hilma Elnora Aghlgr.on) stood talking as women will befifro parting at the north of the Oregon Electric warehouse at Waconda. Thero was no odor of smoio, lie great structure pave no evidence that at about 1:30 it" would bo a $60,000 loss. Although they noticed that a board had U?en pried off whero some one might enter, whilo talking, they noticed across th.? ravine where the chool house stands, strange flashlights, they must have been weird like, for Mrs. Habert said, "they made the cold chills run over me," at about the same tinv, or a little earlier, Mrs. Etta Park who lives on hill 2, on the Ralem-Cham-j ioeg road, heard an auto sneak into the school ground, at 1.30 she again heard the sneaking auto, jumped from ben op ened the door, and saw two nvsn iu the Auto without lights, they nearly ran iutoi ttip mail box. She seemed to them, asl an unwelcome observer, and instinctive thoughts of being shot flashed across her mind as she watched them sneak past, dash north, at the some instant lie saw a long streak of fiio In the warehouse and she ran screaming to waken the slumbering town, meanwhile J. C. Savage and family awakened; He ret tlie electric engine in motion to fill the water tank, his wife rushed to the phono to call-Salem fire alarm, and the neighboring country people. lliln.a Aghlgren heard, either Mrs. Habcrt 's awakening scream or Mrs. Parks', and rushed to her phone. On hill 3, George fcthepard heard the hollowing, he raced across a foot log like a rabbit. Albert Kgau's auto came from the south like mad. He yolVnl fire at every farmhouse liruca Jones' maclfine canio tearing down from Tlnpinerc, picking up those who Albert had awakened. They met an aoto going south, who was it, had the sneaking auto machine backtracked. J-'roin all four roads farmers tore into town, came with their milk cans. George Thurman whirled from his bed and on top of the Halert house was comman deering, above the roar of the fire. Even children were carrying buckets of water as Savage's store of new tin buckets were handed out to the fire workers. But ajas, they had all been caught nap ping. An awful odor mingled with the omoke. Was it gun powder, or was it a djad eat I Who was on the school ground f We extend our sympathy to all, especially to Mr. and Mrs. Markce, who lost their home and Waconda ex tends heartfelt thankg to all who so quicklr responded to her call. ELLA M. FIXXEY. Independence, Or.. Aug. 5. Hops around Independence will produce a fair crop this year. There is some wor ry about pickers, as applcaitious for jobs are coining in slowly. Because of the great reduction of acreage, the number of pickers required, as compar ed to former years, is small, and iu all probability there will be sufficient help when the picking scasorropens. A proju iiient hop grower here has this to say: "Looking at it from any angle, there is no rosy future for the hop industry. It seems to .be almost certain that it will bo abandoned. The prediction is being .rnada that there will not be 5000 bales grown iu Oregon in 1920. There is a large acreage in the Independence district, which will be ready for pick ing within a few weeks, and because of the present conditiou relative to marketing and possible prohibition, there is no sale. This has led gome growers to decide. not to pick this years crop. ' ' A great dil depends on what con gress does u:bout prohibition legisla tion when it convenes the last of Au gust. The passage of the prohibition bill would put a crimp in hop prices, and practically all hops already sold would remain in the hands of the growers, for most contracts, if not all of the.ni, carry a proviso annulling the agreement if prohibition is put into effect or nation wide prohibition legiS: lation is passed. No other industry just now is so uncertain as hop growing." Oregon Prune Crop Is Being Damaged O. A. C, Corvallis. Aug. 5. The prune root borer is causing a heavy drop of prunes by girdling the trees near the ground and shutting off the sap when it is most needed. The dam age being done the crop is estimated to bo 10 per cent of the total. Not only is the ciop being reduced but young trees are being killed outright. Much of the damiage from this in sect can ibo prevented by coating the trunks and base of the trees wilh a whitewash made of 50 ponnds of stone lime, 1 pound I aris green or dry lead arsenate, 5 gallons concentrated lime sulfur, one half pint blaekleaf "40,", and 1 pound glue dissolved in hot wa ter. Slake the lime and add the ingre dients separately. Mix to a good thick paint and apply wilh a brush, taking particular care to cover tho bark thor oughly, advises' A. B. Black, special federal field agent at O. A. C. LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS , President American Society for Thrift At no time! since the be ginning of the war has the value of American thrift been more spparent than now. While our military forces an turning the tide, we have, through the practices of thrift and economy, marshaled our economic forces with such energy that within recent weeks an entirely new aspect has been given the situation. While hunger is stalking abroad in Hie countries of our enemies, goading the people ever onward to revolt and surrender, Hie practices of- American thrift in the last year have brought us to a place where it is now officially declared that the period of our anxieties in the matter of food is ended. So sacrificial have we been in the readjustment of our personal habits that the 220.000.OJO people of the great allied nations can press on ward in the fight undisturbed by any such conditions as confront the peo ples of the Central Empire. We have readied a place, in our eco nomies where we are able to send abroad substantially 100.000,000 pot.nds of beef a month and we are told that during the next twelve months we can export 18,000,000 tons of pork, -if need le. Our economies in wheat have brought us to th: place where there will be a gradual improvement in the quality of our bread p.nd the quantity to be used. Our fat sup plies are pronounced ample and we are in a position to begin to build !up reserves against the possibilities .of poor crops next year. Not alone in food is American 4 thrift beginning to tell in a colossal way. Through tlie introduction of various economics, stopping of leaks and a general tightcning-uf) process we will be able to save 25,000,000 to 3O.CC0.OCO tons of coal a year in the 250,000 industrial plants in the United States without in any way reducing the quantity or quality of the output. In the Pittsburgh district alone a saving of 81,000 tons of coal a year has been- effected through more efficient practices. One might, no doubt, with the same splendid re sults, run. the entire g&mut of our activities. Whetever the flag floats today, there you will find the prac tices of wartime thrift. But these great victories, made possible by the practices of patriotic thrift, should have the effect of spurring us on to even greater suc cess just as the success of our soldiers abroad is an incentive to them to fight the harder. There must be no let-down in thrift at home any more than there should be a let down along the battlefronts of France. - - '. ' " 1 Let us bear in mind also that while our practices of thrift are bringing assured victory to our cause. we arc receiving invaluable personal results through our thrift practices. We have been notoriously lax and slipshod in . matters of personal economy. Our general ' habits of thriftlcssncss have not been without their deteriorating effects. We have needed something to bring us to our senses, to teach us that personal thrifttessness is invariably a step downward toward failure, that no man can genuinely succeed in life who is not first of all thrifty. Two or three years ago American thrift was a jest. Today it is a noble actuality the most powerful force that has-been brought to bear against the sinister aggressiveness'' of German?. ' CAPITAL JOURNAL CLASSIFIED DEPT. QUICK REFERENCE TO FIRMS THAT GIVE SERVICE ON SHORT NOTICE 8 . WHERE BUYER AND SELLER MEET WE RECOMMEND OUR ADVERTISERS g EVEBTTHTNQ ELECTRICAL lolem Electric Co., Masonic Temple, 127 North High . Telephone Mala 1200 STOVE REPAIRING Pig Has Daily Walk And Bath Three Times a Week Taking his pig out for a walk each day, allowing hci- to eat cherries, and giving her a b.'th and brushing turec times a week is the practice of Andrew Sanders of hcotls Mills, au enthusiastic pijr club nieiiibci who is working for a prize at th j sii.te fair next fall. "My pig is hoking fine but i eui afraid tho fdienago of grain will set he. back," he writes to H. C. Seymour, fate i:!i':b lender at O. A. C. "1 bought my pig in April when t weighed 15 lbs. It now weighs 70 ponnds." rtilvcrtoi Appeal. Survivors Of Tanker Sank By Submarine Washington, Aug. 5. Thirty sur vivors of the tanker O. B. Jennings, saink Sunday about 100 miles off the Virginia coast by a TJ-boar, have reach ed Norfolk, the navy dtpartnient an nouneed today. The captain and thir teen men are still missing. A wireless call was received yester day noon from the Jennings stating she was being shelled by a submarine. Naval vessels seat to the positions indicated picked up tlie survivors. The Jennings was a tanker of 7.S90 net tons belonging to the Standard Oil company and built in 1917. Seventeen Percent Increase . In Orders Received New business received by the fir pro ducing mills of Oregon and Washington last w.-ek was nearly 0.000,000 feet, or 17 per cent in exeess of the new busi ness of the previ.ins week. Orders for tlm week aggregated 61 -764, 2-10 feet, of which 45,900,000 feet will move by rail, 7, 014,154 by water and 7,t5u,08t'i feet will.be delivered lo cally. Despite the healthy, state of the rail business, the government administratiou is supplying more than enough cars to meet the present demand. A total of 1809 cars were moved last week, thus re ducing the balance of unshipped rail buriiies on the books of tho mills to 7713 cars. A year ago this balance was nearly 12,000 cars. The present balan ce is the lowest in recent years and is due to the car distribution service which lias kept the mills well supplied through the spring and summer. It is anticipated, however, that when the heavier movement of grain begins which will be within the next few weeks cars will not be so plentiful. The mills now report many inquiries from retailers and jobbers for their fall supplies of lumber. As soon as the har vest is over commercial business doubt less will be exceedingly brisk. Indeed, present demands are substantially in excess of the demands a year npo. In addition to the indications for a lively movement in commercial lumber, prospects for government orders of var ious kinds cause the mills to prepare for busy times ahead. The Douglas fir requirements for tlie government 's munitions plant on Neville Island near Pittsburg have gone for ward and are being delivered an schc du'e time. Other government needs such as can tonment stock, ship timbers for eastern yards and material for munitions plants will 1 e filled, it is understood, as foon as the orders are formally approved by t!ie proper officials. Anticipating heavy demands during the late slimmer and early fall the mills are runn-iig to full capacity nowand are producing nearly their normal output of lumber; The cit for the last week at 121 mills was 76.159,780 fvt, which was within l,m,220 feet or 1.53 per cent of normal. f "'4 Jf jr. - ' ' 5 it , 1 It rv tl if fiM ,- -Mil i7, I r-, r li ""ti i.t . t l 'i STOVES EEBUILT AND BEPAIEEU 50 years experience. Depot, National and American- fence. Sizes 26 to 68 la. high. Paints, oil and Tarnish, etc. . Loganberry and hop hooka. Salem Fence and Stove Works, 854 Court street. Phone 124. . FOB SALE 250 acres. 100 in cultiva tion, bplance in pasture ani timber , Fine stieam of water, good buildingi and good road. 3-4 mile from a live ly saw mill town; Will tako good house and lot in Salem as part pay ment. Price $00 per acre. Phone 470 Square Deal Eealty Company. U. S. Bank Building, Salem. 7-17 REAL ESTATE IF ITS EEALTT or a business, yon will sell quicker, buy better, trade easier thru our system of buying and selling without commission. Up-and-doing people everywhere use our July booklet to save time and money Call or write Oregon Bealty Ex change Inv. Co., Inc., 28 Breynian Bldg., Saletn Ore., Eugene, Portland, San Francisco. 8-8 IMPROVED 10 acres, 6 1-2 miles from Salem, for rooming house not over $4000 Equity in 17 acros, for Salem residence, not over $3000. price $4500. 640 acres millions of feet of saw timber, plenty of water, 3 miles from saw mill on tho railroad; good stock proposition Will take $3000 in trade bslanco cash. Easy terms, $15 per aora. Socolofsky. 341 Stato street 8-17 BRING YOUR TRADES I can match you. C. W. Nieincycr, Heal Sstate Agent, Canada Lauds, 544 Statu street. THE MARKET ; ORi-EY C TUTTie ,(lEFT) ihe DtAn o Flit TON CHAIN ANGLERS. ' jnd -Hit PICK qf A MESS cj BLUE BASS CAUGHT MOUMiKiHT fVt mis DTVIL BtK , FLY in ht CENTER 5 the BOARD .' AT (.OE.BRANO oj SYRACUSE ,(R,eMT ) Grain Wheat, soft white .". $22.03 Wheat, lowor grades on sample Oats 85c Hay, cheat, new $5e lay, clover, new $23 Hav. oat $25 Mill run $.10 Dry whito beans 7 7MiC Butteifat Butterfat 53c Creamery butter 1 55c Pork, Veal and Mutton Pork, on foot l(f17e Veal, fancy ,. l-lftflSVaO Hteorg 7(ffi9c Cows 4(S(iV4c Spring lambs lOcc Ewes....- r. .... .4(5)6t Lambs, yearlings - 0(cj7c Eggs and Poultry Eggs, cash 40c Eggs, trade - 41 c Hens, dressed, pound 32o Old roosters - 12(ft13c Frys - 25c Broilers, live - 22(u.25c Hens, pound 22e Vegetables OSTEOPATH DBS. B, E. WHITE AND B, ?. WAL TON Osteopathia physicians and nerve specialist. Graduate of Amer ican echiol of Osteopathy, Eirkville, .Mo Post graduate and specialized in nervous diseases at Lot Angelea Col lege. Office 505-508 U. S. Nat. Bank Bldg. Phone 859. Residence, 1620 , Court. Phone 2215. Dr. White Bcs. Phone 469. SECOND-HAND GOODS BUY, SELL and EXCHANGE- Men's clathea, shoos, hats, jewelry, watches, tools, musical instruments, bieyeflos guna, rifles, revolvers, suit cases, trunks, cameras, typewriters and furniture. Capital Exchange, 337 Court street. Phone 493. 8-3. SCAVENGER SALEM SCAVENGER Charlee Bool proprietor. Garbage and refuse of all kinds removed on monthly contract! at reasonable rates. Yard and cess pools cleaned. Office phone Mala 2247. Residence Main 2272. LODGE DIRECTORY KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS MEET AT McCornack hall on every Tuesday at 8. P. Andreses, O. a W. B. UU son, K. B. ts S. MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA Oregon Cedar Damp No. 6246.meets every Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in Derby building, corner Court and High streets. B. 7. Day, V. C.j J. A. Wright, clerk. t SALEM HCM4.NJS BtHJlKTY D. D. Keclor, president; Mrs. Lou Tillson, secretary. All osses of cruelty or neg lect of dumb animals should be re ported to the secretary for investigation. BOYAIi NEIGHBORS OF AMERICA "Oregon Grape Camp" No. 1360, meets every Thursday evening in Derby building, Court and High St. . Mrs. Pearl Coursey, 214 Court Bt, oracle; Mrs. Melissa Persons, recor der, 1415 N. 4th S. Phone 1436M. Dromedary; dates $6 Apricots $1.75 Ketaii races Creamery butter 60c Flour, hard wheat $o3.2a Country butter 55c Eggs, dozen 45c Sugar sales limited to two pounds in Salem and 5 pounds to rural purchasers. For canning purposes 27 lbs. at one purchase. PORTLAND MARKET Potatoes...., old l otatoes, Aew ... Onions, Bermuda Onions, Walla AValla Artichokes Cabbage Carrots . Tomatoes, crate ..... Turnips Beets Cucumbers ... Cantaloups Watermelons Peaches, crate - Fruit Oranges .". Grapefruit, California Lemons, box Bananas . 75c .....,.. 4c $1.75 $2.75 ..... 75e 4fo49 2e $1.10 2e 2c BOtfSeOe $3-25(a.3.75 2,c $1 .. $7.75a $3.75 ... $a.5oaio - 8c Journal Want Ads Pay Portland, Or., Aug. 5. Butter, city creamery 43 I'-ggs, selected -local ex. 4750c Hens 22ifc23e 0 Broilers 252fle (iecse Kle Cheese, triplets, 27(28c Daily Livestock Market Cattle Receipts 1150 Tone of market 25 to 50c, higher Prime steers $1 t.75fo 12.75 Choice to good steers $11&12 Jledium to good steers $!'(( 10 Fair to medium steers $8ft.9 Common to fair "steers $5('a8 Choice cows awl heifers $.50(ft9 Medium to good cows aud heifers $fifa7.50 Fair to medium cows and heifers $4.505.50 Canners $(a4.50 Bulls $C(u-8 Calves $8.50(0111.50 Stockcrs and feeders $7(a 9 Hogs Receipts 1100 Tone of market 50 to 55c higher Prime mixed $M5ai9.15 Medium nrixed $ I 18.85 Rough heavies $17.40f 17.90 Pigs $ 1 0f 10-30 Sheep .' Receii'ts 1300 Tone of market unchanged East of mountain lambs $1314 Valley Iambs $12.50(5 )3 Yearlings. $9.50g 10.50 ' Wethers $S.50(a9.50 .. Ewes $0(S6.50 DENTIST DR. T. I UTTER, DENTIST, BOOMS 413-414 Bank of Commerce bldg. Phone 606. 11-4 DR. CARL MILLER, Dentist, Room 414 Bank of Commerce bldg. Phone 606. tf WATER COMPANY SALEM WATER COMPANY Offie corner Commercial and Trade street Bills payable monthly In advance. FINANCIAL MONEY TO LOAN Oa Good Real Estate Security THUS. K. FORD Over Ladd & Bush bank, Salem, Orego SECOND HAND GOODS BUY, SELL and EXCHANGE - Men's clothes, ' shoes, hats, jewel y, watches, tools, musical instruments bicycles, guns, rifles, revolvers, sot cases, trunks, cameras, typewrite S and furniture. Capital Exchange, 3j7 Court street. Phone 493. , UNITED ARTISANS TTftnitn iiun. bly No. 84, meets first Thursday of each month, at 8 p. m. in I. O. O. F. hall. Norma L. Terwilliger, M, A.; O. A. ViWbert, secretary, 340 Vw ens street. FOR RENT FOB RENT Business location at 161 north Commercial, will remodel te suit tenant. See E. M. Klinger, 408 State street, Salem. tC BILLIARD PARLOR for rent, wltl yt without fixtures; will remodel ts suit tenant; best location in city. IS, M. Klinger, 463 State street, Sa lom. tf RAILROAD TIME TABLES (la effect June second) 8 ALUM- GEER LINE No. 73 Arrive at Salem 9:10 a.m. No. 74 Leave Salem 3:00 p.m. ALEM, FALLS CITY ft WESTER 161 Lv Salem, motor 7:50 a.m. 163 Lv Salem, motor 9:33 am. 165 Lt Salem, motor 1:40 p.m. Through car to Monmouth end Ailis 101 ijv oaiom, motor ..4:jo p.m. 119 Lv Salem, motor .5:58 p.m. 839 Wy frt. Lv Salem.., 162 Ar at Salem 164 Ar. at Salem 166 Ar at Salem 168 Ar at Salem 170 Ar t Salem W0 Wy frt Ar Salem . 5:00 a.m. .9:10 a.m. ....11:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. ..8:35 pjB. 7:20 pjn. 2:30 p.m. OREGON ELECTRIC Bouthbonna Traim ' Leave Arrivs Arrive B. 'Portland Salem Eugens 1 0:30 am 8:35 am 10:50 am 6 Ltd 8:30 am 10:11am 12:25 pm X 10:45 am 12:50 pm 8 2:05 mn 4:15 Dm fl:3Snn 13 Ltd 4:45pm 6:40 pm 8:50 pm 17 0:05 pm 8:07 pm Salom only 19 9:20 pm 11:20 om Salem onlv Bl 11:45 pm 1:55 am 6:60 am 'North Bank Station (leave Jeffersua Street 10 and zu minutes later) Train Bo. 8 6 10 Ltd 7:33 am 18 14 11:20 am 10 Ltd 1:55 pm Northbound Lear Arrive Bugene Salem ,12:06 am 4435 am 7:15 am 9:45 am 1120 iin 1:50 pm 4:00 pm Arrive Portland 6:50 am 9:25 am 11:30 tm 1:20 pm 3:55 pm 6:45 pm 7:40 pm 10:00 pal 10 ..4:10 pm 5:30 pm 22 5.25 pm 7:55 pm xNorth Bask Station (Arriv Jefferson Street 15 minutes earlier) .'Leave Cor valli. CORVALLIS CONNSCTIONl Leave Corvallis Arrive Salea 8:25 am....Nortlbound....9:45 am 12:18 pm..Northbonnd....l :50 am 2:41 pm....Northb3und..4:00 pm ; 4:10 pm..Northbound....5:30 pm 0:18 pia Nortibound.7:55 pm 8:35 am....Southbound..9:67 am 10:15 am..Southbound..ll:33 am J2:50 pm....SouthboinC...S W pm 4:15 pmSouthbound....5:40 pm 0:40 pm.J3outhbound.8:00 pm