Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-18

,. Mrs. O. B. Wales Of Toledo, Wash,
who was visiting her husband in Port.
land, where he has been i'll at the Good
Samaritan hospital for the past two
weeks, arrived in Salem this morning
for visit with her mother, Mrs. Field,
and her sister, Mrs. c. +. Patterson, of
2Sl5 South Cottage street
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The eleventh annual Rose Festival
will be held in Portland on WedneS-
day, Thursday and Friday of June Is,
IA and 10. Plaeards have been placed
announcing the event. The Cherrians
will decide next Wednesday wevening
whether they will attend in body. The
invitation to help in the event was read
to the Cherrians at their last drill ev-
ening.
Next Sunday will be Willamette uni
versity day at the First Methodist
/ church, At the morning service the
chorus choir and university glec club
will furnish special music. Addresses
will be made by DR.. b. l.. Sleeves, prcsi-
dent of the board of trustees; Prof. +.
Won Eschen and DR.. r. ~ Avison.
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Tomorrow the school children of Ma
rion county will gather ON Willamette
field for the Marion county annual field
day and carnival. Baseball will be a
feature of the day. There will be pic
mic lunch and Hebel's Cherry Bud band
will be on deck with plenty of LIVELY
music.
This is a Journal circulation story
Some time ago there was Il story printed
in the Capital Journal stating that the
police matron had place for boy
between the ages of l2 tnd IA years to
work in good family. Within few
days she got seven, replies Two came
from Portland, one from Eugene, one
from Aumsville, and three from Salem
All said they saw the story in the Cap
ital Journal.
The Portland people are just little
peeved because special writer in this
week S Golfers Weekly nicknamed the
city "The Spinster City" Also be
cause the article sa>d IT has been the
custom of the conservative element to
give all new comers the once over and
if they did not muster about right, it
was intimatcd that the said newcomer
had better move on to Astoria or Ore
gon City,
| The most important choice in life is
the choice of a vocation or life work.
Rev. James M. Heady who is a special
| ist in Vocational Guidance viii lecture
lat AAo JTp,A EriI ut
8 p. m. on this subject DR.. SOuthwick
of Meadville, Penn, will be unable to
be present as previously announced. At
the conclusion of the lecture the first
steps in arranging for a school Of Voca-
tions to be located in Salem will be
Imade. SIS
An educator has suggested that it
might be fine thing to arrange good
lold-fashioned Friday afternoon spelling
match between the older students of
some country district near Salem, and
the students of the Salem high school
or one of the junior high schools Well,
there is just one guess as to what the
country boys and girls would do to the
city pupils when it comes to genuine
spelling match
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The teachers training class for be-
.ginners and primary workers in the
Sunday schools will meet at the Y. w.
G. A. rooms at 2:30 'clock Saturday
afternoon. There has been much inter
est manifested in this work on the part
of Salem teachers and those living near
the city. The subject for discussion
Saturday afternoon is "Practical Pri-
mary Plans"
Two Salem young men left for Port
land this morning and are now in the
service OF Uncle Sam. They are Edward
u. Wallace Of the Keene & Gardner
lJewelry store and William f. Perlich
OF the Steusloff market. They both en-
Hsted IN the quartermaster s corps.
Other enhstments today include Luther
u. Cook, "a, in the engineer s corps;
Cecil W. Allen, 20, of Turner, engin
GERS corps; William II. Reed, 81, Tur
ner, engineers corps; Richard T. Riden
hour, 10, independence, hospital corps.
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Let's talk about the weather. For
the past nine days the official weather
recorder at the 0. G. T. dock notes that
the wind has been from the south and
that every day has been cloudy and also
that so far, the month of May has had
two clear days. Yesterday the temper
ature ranged from 54 to Al and the
stage OF the river dropped another
notch, with record of 60 feet above
the low water mark.
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Harrle Hoxie, who was employed in
the state insurance commissioners Of
flee, and who is now at the officers
reserve corps training camp at the
Preside, San Francisco, writes Commits
sloner Wells that he likes the life so far
but that there is prospect of plenty of
work He is located in a brick bar.
racks with light, airy rooms. He saysl
there are about 200 men in this barrack