Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-02
Fruitland News Items
Capital journal special service

(Capital Journal Special Service)
trultland, Or, Nov. 2.-Rev. Stocker
of the church here will organize sing
ing classes here soon. He proposes to
give free instruction to all who NAV
come. This is very commendable move
ment. He will teach the fundamentals
OF vocal music giving instruction in the
art from the very beginning.
Ii Jesus were on earth now would
he be a pacifistR He PROBABLY would as
he was such when he was here before.
Yet, he believed in preparedness, and
self defense. He said: "If the good
man of the house had known in what
watch the thief would come, he would
have watched and would not have suf-
fered his house to be broken up. " Matt.
24.43. Well we don It wish the house of
this great nation to be broken up by
thieves and murderers and intend to hee
to it that it shall not be.
Word has come that Robert CroshaW
in the service of the United States at
Fort Stevens died qm,e suddenly a few
days ago. Robert was a Fruitland school
boy. His parents having removed from
here about three years ago, So this sad
ity and the sincere sympathy of all is
extended to the bereaved family. Nelson
brother is a member of Company NJ,
and sow service on the south border last
summer. While the family lived here
the boys being quiet and orderly got
the name among some of the other boys
OF being cowardly. Still these two cow
ards are the only Fruitland boys among
the half dozen others who had the cour-
age to face the enemy by enlisting in
the army.
A literary society will be organized
and started here in the near future.
Il. M. Mitchell is again principal of
the Aumsville schools. He goes back and
forth in his Ford car a distance of
eight miles.
Miss Helen Eoff is attending school in
Salem.
Chas. Sturges and family have be-
come Fruitlanders. They come from the
Pratum district and occupy the Whiting
property on the hill south of the church.
Yes, nickle piece for fresh ranch
eggs paid at Salem is good enough price
and helps the country housewife a lit
File to buy her high priced sugar, shoes
and butchers meat.
The food conservation cards for Fruit
land have arrived and are given out
from the school. 7
sit is naught, it is nought, sayeth
the buyer, and when he goeth his way
he boasteth." Solomon IS credited with
saving this probably 5000 years ago,
and it IS about the same today.
"a, a less
cat and dog7 Remember these arc food
conserving timesl
The school clerk reports four babies,
four four-year-olds, on his census this
fall.
A writer in Tuesday IS Capital journal
warns about sending our soldier boys
over on the other side Christmas good
things to eat for fear our German en-
emies will send poisoned food. That IS
possible. A year S experience has taught
us that a miscreant who will kill babies,
poison wells and stock will not stop at
any kind of criminality.
The Huckestein and Weismanlsm
form of German evolution has failed to
humanize to any remarkable extent the
Teutonic character. The cave man with
his club is almost in hailing distance.
TIE disciples back in the days OF
Christ understood food conservation
practice. When Jesus fed the five
thousand men besides women and child
rem they took up the fragments that
remained-twelve baskets full. - Matt'
14:2O,21. Also chapter 15:31-3S, for an
other similar occasion. "The fragments
that remained" These were worth saw
inc. In these strenuous days there are
many times twelve and seven baskets
of fragments that remain" IN the
millions of families in the United States
Do not on any account throw them
away. They are valuable as Of old.