Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-01-15


realize what an extraordinary op-
portunity it is, are really buying a
! few little things for next Christmas;
and there are always birthdays, we'd
dings, anniversaries, ETC., through the
year. Sc our $l.00 window display
former values to $3.50.
More trouble for the housekeepers.
| Butter advanced five cents a pound last
! Monday and now today flour is up five
cents a sack, and from the present up
ward quotations Of onions, even that
useful vegetable will soon become a
luxury.
The basketball boys of the Lincoln
junior high school are plucky players,
but today fortune did not break quite
right for them. In the game played
this morning at the high school gym,
nasium with the Grant junior high
school, the first teams of each school
played, with a score of II to 0, in favor
of Grant. The score of the second teams
of each school was 7 to 4 in favor of
Grant.
An order was issued today by Associ-
ate Justice II. j. Bean naming February
3 as the date for the hearing of the
arguments in the case of the Central
Oregon Irrigation company against
the Public Service commission and the
Central Oregon Irrigation Water Users ;
association. This is q test case brought
to test the authority of the Public
Service commission to regulate the rates
o fan irrigation company.
On account of the heavy snow storms
and the difficulty of handling lumber
and Of driving teams during the bad
weather the Spaulding Logging COM
pany has been closed down since WED
nesday noon. The snow in the woods
near the Black Rock camp is five feet
deep making it impossible to bring
out the logs. Both the Black Rock
camp and the mill here. will continue
to be closed until the weather mod
crates.
Since the first meeting called by
Winthrop Hammond Of those interest
ed il the forming of a local chapter of
the Sons of the American Revolution,
it has developed that there is an
abundance Of material here to form Il
strong chapter. The Daughters of the
American Revolution have already an
active organization here and it is ex-
pected that the chapter of the Sons
will be organized with fair meml
ship at the meeting called for Tuesday
evening, January 25.
Silver Bell Circle, Women of Wood
craft, held its annual installation of
Officers las: evening at the Mccormack
hall, the exercises of the evening being
conducted by Mrs. Julia Davis. The
new Officers are: May Moores past
guardian neighbor; Elsie Matlock,
guardian neighbor; Sarah Mcdowell,
advisor Norma Leffingwell, magician;
Effie $. Wright, clerk; Anna F. Miller,
banker; Minnie Kellogg, attendant;
Nina Case, inner seminal; Julia Davis,
outer sentinal Ethel Hall, musician;
Caroline Business, Delta billiard and
Eliza Darling, managers.
.
Mrs, De Long, assistant pastor of the
White Temple Baptist church of Port
land, will occupy the pulpit of the First
Baptist church tomorrow, morning and
evening. During the absence of the reg
ular pastor, DR.. Hinson, who has been
engaged in evangelistic work, Mrs. De
Long has occupied the pulpit of the
Portland church. DR.. Petty, secretary
of the Home and Foreign Missionary
society in the northwest, was unable to
fill his engagement here.
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DR.. Arthur Patch McKinlay, princi-
pal of the Lincoln, Portland, high
school, will deliver an address next
Friday evening at the public library
auditorium. He has chosen rather an
unique subject for his address, one that
is at least different from the others,
"Belated Dispatches From C. j. Caesar,
Campaigning in Belgium 81 b. c." The
lecture will begin at 1880 O'Clock in or
der that opportunity win be given to
attend the entertainment the same ev-
ening at the opera house, DR.. McKin.
lay is head Of the department Of lang
uages in the Portland schools. He is
Harvard graduate, has taught in Port.
land Is years and two years in the