Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-12-18

)NDAY, DEC. IS, 1916.
4 *% y + %&* y y *#* 80
: COMING EVENTS &
x x
i December 81, %, 2S.-carnival =
+ at Armory. X
< January COMPANY NJ annual x
x homecoming. X
X January l.-Elks' New Years x |
X dance at Elk lodge. x
X Jan. Annual Cherrian ban x
X quet. x
x January 2.-Knights of Pythias !;
X annual Homecoming. %l
X Jan. S-13 = Marion County *
x Poultry Show. *
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+ y X X X * - >: X \ X 4 X X =:
The evangelistis campaign of the First
Methodist church will begin next sun
day evening under the direction of the
Rev. Frank Mathis and his singers.
Ward Wolfe, who enlisted in the ma
rines, left yesterday for Mare Island,
near San Francisco, after a 10 days
furlough, spent in visiting with his
home folks in Salem.
The Elks are planning for big New
Years dance to be given at the lodg,
rooms Monday evening, January l. As
this is their first dance of the season
efforts will be made to make it an un
usually successful affair.
o.
Salem doesn't happen to have any
streets named Philid or Military. Hence
the letters will be held up and finally
sent to the dead letter office that have
been addressed to Mr.. William Parks,
412 Philip street Salem Oregon, and
Mrs. A. J. Bellows, $40 Military street,
Salem, Oregon.
/ A Christmas party will be given at
the Old People IS home Friday afternoon
from until 0 clock under the auspices
of the Epworth league of the First
Methodist church. All old people of the
church will be special guests. Refresh
ments will be served and friends are in
vited.
Business at the Salem postoffice is
about 20 per cent better than one year
ago. In order to accommodate the grand
rush of those who mail during the last
week, table with a weighing machine
has been placed IN the lobby, whereby
one man weighs and estimates the
amount of postage necessary while the
regular stamp window sells the stamps
The Salem Rifle club will hold its
Irregular Monday shoot and drill tonight
in the old armory. Extra lights have
been placed, the old stage removed and
/ general improvements made. The shoot
tonight is open to all. The high school
basket bali teams have made arrange
ments to play in the old armory on the
evenings of Tuesday and Friday of
each week.
Since the government is offering ad-
vantages in the way OF education and
Lpromotion to the young men who enlist
i'll any of the branches of the service
enlistments have been coming in at both
the navy recruiting station and that OF
the infantry and artillery service. Sat
urday VIM. L. Leach enlisted as fire
man, Frank w. Tibbett of Shields. Ore
; gon, and William Meyers of Salem
rural route one, enlisted today and viii
) be sent at once to the naval training
station at SAM Francisco.
} The golden chassis of the Studebaker
with its $4,000 worth of gold plate vii
be placed on exhibition by Wick Bros
at O'Clock Tuesday morning in tn,
Derby building. 1t will arrive by ex
press early in the morning and vii
leave for Portland at s clock in thu
evening. The public is invited to com,
and see. This is the first time tn,
chassis has been shown in the smalle
cities, About a year ago it was on ex
! hibition in Portland.
A meeting of the policy holders of tn,
! Lower Columbia Fire association wa
held at the Grange hall in Salem las
! Saturday, December 16. District Nc
: 3, of Marion county, was represented
by fully one-half the risks in force eth
! er in person or by proxy. AS a resul
of the meeting, j. Voorhees,, of Wood
burn, was unanimously elected to sue
! ceed himself. r. r. Ryan was chairma,
of the meeting and W. II. Stevens, sec
retary.
Further work in the development o
the flax industry of Oregon was take
: up by the joint committees of the Eu
gene and Portland Chambers of Com
merge and the Salem Commercial clu
7 at a Meeting held in Portland this after
] noon AJoseph H, Albert, president o
! the Commercial club; Ivan g. McDaU
I iel, manager; Theodore Roth, directo
! of the industrial department, and T. {
7 Kay, represented the Salem Commercia