Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-07
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON
WHAT OREGONIANS READ.
State Library Commission Gathers In
tere sting Statistics.


1t will undoubtedly be interesting
to the people of Oregon to learn what
books are generally the most popular
in the state. The Oregon Library
commission has a method of keeping
tab on the popularity of books sent
out in the travelling libraries and those
bought for the school libraries of the
state. The most popular books in the
$1,000 purchase of 1908 for the pub
lie schools were: Carpenter, North
America; Washington, Up From
Slavery: Saunders, beautiful Joe" :;
Alcott, Little Women "Sunbonnet
Babies Primer; Eggleston, Stories
of Great Americans for Little Ameri-
cans; Carpenter, "Europe'; -,
Foods; or, How the World Is Fed
Carpenter, South America; Sewell,
Black Beauty; Andrews. Seven Lit
tie Sisters; Baldwin, Fifty Famous
Stories Retold"; Carpenter, Asia ;
Defoe, "Robinson Crusoe'; Ris,
"Making of an American; Hale, Man
Without a Country; Baldwin, Amer
lean Book of Golden Deeds; Lord,
First Book Upon the Birds of Ore
gon"; Wyss. Swiss Family Robin.
SON; Lane, Industries OF Today
The most popular books i'll the free
travelling libraries circulated through
the 100 different communities in the
state are:
Alcott. "Under the Lilacs"; Alden,
Moral Pirates; Bacheller, "Dri and
II; Brown, Two College Girls;
Brush, "Colonel's Opera Cloak
Chambers, Maid at Arms; Fox,
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come;
Greene, "Pickett's Gap; Mitchell,
Amos judd; Munroe, "Flamingo
Feather; Ollivant. Bob, Son OF Bat
tie; Rice, SANDY; Stoddard, Talk
ing Leaves; Webster, when Patty
Went to College,; White, "Blazed
Trail' Strange Stories of Colonial
Days.; Strange Stories Of 1872;
Beard, "Outdoor Handy Book
Brady, Border Fights and Fighters -;
Brooks, True Story OF Lincoln ;
Burton, -Four Amer can Patriots"
DuChaillu, wild Life Under the
Equator; Dumas, Count OF Monte
Cristo"; Kieffer, "Recollections OF
Drummer Boy; Hornaday, 1.-TWO
Years in Jungle; Roberts, "Kindred
of the Wild; Slocum, ."Around the
World in the Sloop Spray y; Steven
son, "Treasure Island; Thwaites,
Daniel Boone; Willard, "Tramping
With Tramps'; Williams, Romance
of Modern Engineering.
There is a great amount of studying
being done in the debating clubs III
the state, and the schools and colleges
are busy with discussions OF public
questions. The most popular subjects
for debates in Oregon just now are
the questions Of:
City Government by Commission
Municipal Ownership of Public Utll-
tiles Government Ownership OF
Railroads." ship Subdies" Tariff
TRUSTS" "Asiatic Immigration
"Strikes,' Grades Unions" Indus
trial Arbitration,' "Injunctions,'
"Woman Suffrage
The young people of Oregon are
preparing themselves for citizenship
in these debating societies. They are
devot:ng good part of the time to
Oregon questions, the four state de-
batting league questions this year be
ing on Oregon school conditions
the raising of school funds, apportion-
ment OF school funds, county unit OF
administration, and free textbooks,
and in every debating district in the
state these questions are to be
threshed out. and somebody is going
to learn something about actual con
ditiOns and the means of remedying
them.
Every one seems to feel that the de
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