Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-24
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Continued from page eighty
High School Athletic association. At q
meeting held in Portland last Saturday
attended by Mr., Nelson, the principals
of the Portland schools were favorably
disposed, provided they would not be
obliged to changet their schedules. With
1.-The Portland high schools in the state
association, next season the Salem play
ers of the high school will have an OPP
lportunity to play Portland teams.
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Nero didn't play on a fiddle while
Rome was burning for the simple reason
the ancients had no such instrument. 1t
was Tyre. What we intended to say
was that Weather Forecaster Beals of
! Portland says there has been an excess
| of 2.33 inches of rain for the past two
months. However, the river is falling
with a stage today of 10 feet above
zero and the range of temperature yes
terday was from 50 degrees above, the
highest of the month, to 4S.
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At recent meeting of the Salem
Grange the proposed road bonding bill
was discussed and general opposition
to the bill was expressed. The State
grange will be invited to meet in
Salem in 1918 and a committee con
sisting of Mrs. A. V. Davidson, j, A.
Sellwood and A. W. Howell was ap-
/ pointed to act with the Master of teh
| Grange to confer with the Salem Com
mercial club and secure its cooperation
| in extending an invitation to the state
grange
It has been suggested by City Re-
corder Race that special days be set
aside when plants may be exchanged or
given away 1t is probable this sugges-
tion will be taken up by the Salem Flor
al society at its next meeting and some
practical arrangements maze whereby
those having plants will be given an
opportunity to exchange them. This plan
has been worked out by Charleston, S.
c., under the direction of the Civic club
and has been found to be very satisfac-
tory.
Achitect George M Post, A. A. I. A.,
! has been instructed by the building com
mittee of the city council to prepare
working plans and specifications for the
new comfort station at High and State
streets. As soon as these plans are com
| plcted, contractors will be asked to
submit bids. The comfort station viii
! be built under the sidewalk at the in
terseetion of High and State streets fol
lowing to some extent comfort stations
to be built in Portland.
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Here is two pieces of good news for
I by few cents dozen than last week
as the wholesale market broke four
cents yesterday in Portland This good
news may hold for several days. And
now comes lecturer on health and says
/ that cottage cheese contains more cal
ories of real food than anything of its
4 size that can be eaten while at the
same time the grover says cottage
cheese has not advanced in price.
! Ten thousand dollars cash, real mon
! ey, was paid this week for the 24-acre
improved tract one mile south of the
city on the Jefferson road. This is one
Iof the finest suburban tracts near the
1 city with 10 acres in Italian prunes and
an eight room modern home. The pur-
chaser is A. Bordner, of Highmore, $.
| D.. and the grantor is j. b. Hawthorne.
/ The transfer vas made by W. II. Grab
enhorst & Co, and Mr.. Bordner with his
| 20 ilxy MIL ts,b m ,F 10
home May !. After spending several
months looking over southern California
and other localities for home in the
west, Mr.. Bordner decided that The
Willamette valley looked more homelike
and that Salem offered the best educa-
tional advantages for his children.
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Through the Federal horticultural
Board, the department. of Agriculture
is making efforts to protect this eoun.