Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-16

from salem, is ~ years old and chose
the 23d engineers corps.
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Felt top card tables regular $3.50
tables, special today and tomorrow
$198.-Hamilton Is.
: Only one of the six escapes from the
prison last week is now at large. Two
were caught at Pendleton one, a white
man, and the other the Indian. Two of
te negroes were gathered in at Trout
dale and one Bridal Veil they evident
ly trying to reach eastern Oregon over
the road up the Columbia. One white
man, Higiey, is still at large.
Felt top card tables $1.9s, special to-
day and omorrow.-Hamilton s.
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Robert Periich who is camping on
Long Island near New York City with
his company writes home that the
weather is so chilly down that way
that camping out in tents in that part
of the world would be fine training for
an Arctic explorer. Other letters from
the boys "down east" seem to indicate
a fine appreciation of the efforts of
the Red Cross in supplying them with
woolen sweaters and garments.
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Felt top card tables, regular $3.50
tables, special today and tomorrow
$l98.-Hamilton s.
Friday, Dec. z, will be known in all
parts of the country as Red Cross day
at the theatres and moving picture
ed by Henry B. Dawson with the an
provaI of President Wilson. According
to letters sent out to all musicians. all
are asked to cooperate with the thea
tres in offering their services free for
that day. The American Federation of
Labor has requested all musicians to
give theirrserviees free for the one dav
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Special-A 75c Golden Star mop and
a SOC bottle of polish for SIC. S.
Hamilton.
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ElW1n HAYES, sent to the state hos
pital from Multnomah county in 1908,
eloped from that institution this morn
u
mild form of dementia. He walked away
this morning, disappearing in the thick
fog and as he left no trace it was sug-
gested he might have climbed up on
the fog and forgot the way down. The
fog was thick enough this morning to
give credence to the suggestion.
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Why buy tin cans? Get the full va,-
ue of your money. Phone 67 for fresh
roasted coffee and tea VIM. Gahlsdort.
Red Cross headquarters has arranged
with the Salem hospital to give pre-
liminary course to women who intend to
prepare themselves to go to the front
as aids for nurses. To become real
Red Cross nurse woman must be a
graduate nurse, but there is a great de-
mand for nurses aids. Mrs. Frances ID.
Whitehead and Mrs. George M. Post
are the first women in Salem to answer
the call and take advantage OF this
offer of preliminary training, before of
fering their services to the country.
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According to a recent ruling of the
National Red Cross, the department for
where the young soldier had been help
ing before his enlistment. If the young
man had not been doing his share, the
relief department of the Red Cross will
not aid. But before help is given, it
must be shown that the young man had
been doing the right thing before his en-
listment. This decision was brought to
the attention of the Commercial club of
Salem m letter recently issued to COW
er such cases.
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The government work in the deep
SO far progressed that it is expected
they viii be opened for river traffic
about Monday, Nov. 26. The new gates
at the upper end Of the lock just deep
cned were swung yesterday and those
for the lower end of the lock within a
few days. The third set for the lower
lock will be swung next week. The
lower lock has been deepened so that
seven feet of water will flow over the
sill instead of two feet heretofore. The
Graham line of boats will resume SER
vice between Corvallis and Portland as
soon as conditions permit.
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