Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-06-11

president of the board.
Mrs. Susan Mckinney has the homo
, of having been graduated from William
ette university in 1867. Hence at tn
banquet to be given Wednesday evenin
at the Marion hotel, she will represen
the class of half century ago. San
! L. Richardson will speak for the elias
! that was graduated a quarter of cen
: tury ago.
Army officials, through circulars is
sued to recruiting officers, are of tn
opinion that recruiting is not what i
should be. They intimate that the aver
age man thinks the other fellow will b,
drafted. The regular army needs mel
and all recruiting officers are urged t,
use every effort to secure recruits be
fore the selective conscription is made
i H. P. Barss, of Corvallis, plant path
ologist, and Charles R. Hursch, his as
sistant, were in the city Saturday in
specting the work of spraying that has
been done this spring. They were look
ing especially for the first appearance
of cylindrosporium in order that spray
ing may begin for this leaf disease Last
year spraying for cylindrosporium be
gan early in May, but there has been
no appearance of the disease this yeaI
as the season is about six weeks late.
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Thomas @. Wood, formerly with the
Portland Railway, Light & Power com
pany goes into the navy as apprentice
tmachinist Clifford c. Knight, who
has been with the Southern Pacific, en-
listed as electrician. They left this
morning for Bremerton, Thomas Nc
Gilchrist, high school student, enlisted
in the yeoman school and while attend
ing school for the next three months at
San Francisco, will be paid $3.50 a
month. Edwin j. Rudolph, of Albany,
enlisted as fireman in the navy and will
be paid $40 month during the war.
DR.. Ralph Watson, who is just home
from hospital service in France, will de-
liver an address Friday evening at the
armory. He will tell Of actual condition
and his experiences with the French
service and will illustrate his lecture
with slides. The lecture will be free
and will be given under the auspices OF
the Red Cross. With his brother, DR..
Matson is in charge of the open air
sanitorium in Portland.
The ceremony of presenting a flag
and flag pole to the city by the local
lodge of Elks will take place Wednes-
day evening instead of Thursday as
first planned. The Elks will meet at the
lodge rooms at clock and march to
Wilson park for the beginning of the
work at o'clock. Walter
L. Keyes, exalted ruler, will be in
charge of the ceremonies. The Cherrians
take part and have been requested to
meet in uniform at the armory at Z
o clock Wednesday evening and march
in body to the park. All patriotic or
ganizations in the city have been in
vited to attend.
The boy scouts are now to make them |
selves useful and will soon carry OUT
some of the ideas taught to every boy |
that has patriotism enough to join. At
a meeting held Saturday evening, Sa |
lem Heights scouts, No i, and Cherry |
City scouts, No. 2, met and offered theiI |
services in distributing Liberty Bond
literature to every house in the city. A |
N. Fulkerson is scout master for No. 1 |
and w. w. Craig for No. 2. A boy |
scout is known as tenderfoot when he
first joins. When he learns much of the
work and can pass an examination, hei
becomes a secod class scout. As he ad
vances in the work, he becomes a first
class scout. Out of the so boy scouts
n the city, only few have qualified
Is first class scouts.
Dean George H. Alden, of Willamette
received a telegram this
morning from Prof. Helen Miller Sem,
It Oakland, Cal, stating that she and
Mss Margaret Garrison would arrive
zone at s o clock Tuesday evening.
diss Garrison has just recently won the
Prohibition oratorieal contest at Los
Angelos in which she competed with
rators from all the coast states. The
ational contest will be held next year, ]
robably in Washington, d. C. For the
ational prohibition oratorical contest,
ne country is divided into four dis
riets, with two orators from each. The
oast states will select another orator
l 1910 anu tue elSht COHtealdhls VIII
len compete for national honors.
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A meeting of the directors of the
club will be held this even
lg to arrange for a, series of debates
4 the proposed amendments to the city
larter to be voted on at the city cleo
on to be held July 8. According to
red W. Steusloff, president of the club, :
lie Commercial club is not taking 5
and on the proposed amendments, but t
Just doing what it can to arrange f
hereby the people will be given an S
to hear both sides Of the a
lestion. The amendments proposed il
We the city council the right to re n
sess property where tax payers will h
It pay on account of technicalities in
lvertising or otherwise and to also t@
We the council power TO collect assess Z
ents after once levied. Another pro q
,sed amendment would permit the paw
g of street on the petition of a ma
rity instead of two-thirds Of the prop
ty holders. 1t is probable that ar
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