Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-22

The Maccabees will hold a special
meeting Wednesday evening to hear an
address by DR.. j. O. Van Wrinkle. He
will speak on "Our Duty to the Or
der. g." He has been physician for the
order for a number Of years.
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Editor to speak in Swedish church.
The Rev. A. Il. Dmd, editor of "'Vastra
Sandebudet," =" San Francisco, California
will speak in the Swedish church, corn
er South 10Th and Mill streets, next
Thursday, February "a, at p. m. All
welcome.
Washington birthday was observed
this afternoon by the students of the
! nigh school when all in the
assembly room to hear an address on
Characteristics of Washington, by
the Rev. James Elvin. The high school
orchestra and glee club furnished the
music.
The oregon state hospital today re-
ceived a message from Sheriff Quine of
Roseburg, stating that an escaped pa
tient by the name of Harry Pratt had
been captured at Glendale. Officials
from the asylum will return Pratt to
the institution tonight.
The chemical class of the high school
was pretty well splashed with tar this
morning, in the course of their studies
as to how tar was made from coal. I'm
der the supervision of the chemical
teacher Herman Clark, the class visit
ed the gas plant and one of the operat-
ors in demonstrating how tar was made,
either pulled the wrong stop or pressed
the wrong button, Anyhow, the class
seeking after practical knowledge re.
ceived fair sprinklng of tar and it
is now taking up the study as to what
effect tar has on clothing.
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Did you write these letters? Posted
ON the bulletin board of the Salem post.
office are letters, so mis-directed that
delivery could not be made. As there
was no return memorandum ON the up
per left nand corner of the envelopes
they will eventually find their way to
the dead letter office at Washington
Several of the mis.directed letters are
as follows Miss Daisy Butler, Route
| l, Nevady County; Mrs. A. A. Woelfel
Il2 West Walnut street, Salem, Ore
gon; James Koeningstin, NorfOld, Nor
folk; Mrs, Roy Burgett, 1921 Bluff
street, Salem, Oregon.
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A clock to be lighted by electricity
will be placed ON the curb of the side
walk in front of their iewelry store by
= Gardner and Keene. Permit was Civ
en- by the city council last evening. Al
the clock will be on the same circuit a!
the upper globe of the cluster lights, il
will be lighted until O'Clock eacl
morning The height of the clock viii
, be 10 feet, and the dials, 30 inches il
diameter The dials will be made o.
opal ribbed glass suitable for illumina
tion and the numbers will be in blacl
D.. and in Arabic figures, the minutes be
e ing shown by dots. The hands will b,
' covered with diamond polish to protec
them from snow and rain. The valu
of the clock is $3.50 and it will be in
$ stalled within 30 days.
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Since the first of the month, the fol
1 lowing persons have become intereste,
in the dividends paid and to be paid b.
the Standard Oil company and are nov
watching the daily market quotation
5 Of gasoline; Carl +. Williams, Charlie
. H. Long, Willamette Valley Prune as
sociation, c, NJ Roberts, Paul John
son, A. IL. Caldwell James Ingles c.
l. Gardner, and GNber Bros, all of Salem
Q They are now owners of Ford cars, pun
: chased since the first of the year. Al
! so the following out of town buyers
I Thomas W. Bmnk, rural route >; Wa
4 ter Domes, Mccoy; @. j. Pugh, Fall
Q City; c. W, Forrest, Turner; A. V, Mey
G ers, rural route ), and Gerald VOlk, hN
G ing on the Garden road.
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!, Although the seating capacity Of IN
d First Congregational church is 700, thi
y has been found entirely inldequat
since the establishing of moving piC
lures for the sunday evening services