Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-09

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4 Word this morning from the home
Of Chief of Police Cooper was to the
effect that his condition was improved
somewhat, but that he was yet far from
being out of danger.
The fire department was called out
at 9:l5 this morning to the corner OF
Summer and Center streets to extin
gdish a chimney blaze. No damage was
reported.
Librarian Flora M. Case desires to
call attention again to the fact that
the lecture which was to have been Civ
en- tonight at the public library has
been postponed in order to give all op
portunity to hear the Canadian army
officers at the armory tonight.
Warden Murphy started yesterday
with a big truck for the state S new
lime quarry at Grants Pass. He expected
to reach there tonight. The truck is
for use in connection with getting out
the lime.
The high school cadet corps will as
semble at the high school building at
f7:15 this evening and march in body
to attend the patriotic meeting which
will be held by the three Canadian ar
my Officers, Major 3. Il. Edwards Lieu
tenant Colonel Mcmillan and Captain Z.
y. Cook.
H. D. Lamb, of Freewater, was in the
city yesterday on his way to Los An
geles. Mr.. Lamb won third place in
the recent state checker tournament
held here. While in the city yesterday
he and l. Greenbaum got together in the
Commercial club rooms and had a little
checker tournament all their own. Mr.
Greenbaum said this morning that Mr..
Lamb fully defended his title.
Members of the chess and checker
department of the Commercial club met
at the club parlors Monday evening and
matched wits withone another for two
or three hours. From social and get
together standpoint the meeting was
very successful, there being fourteen
players present and large number of
onlookers. This department is
in charge of Messrs. |. Greenbaum and
d. W. Fisher, and it is planned to have
every Monday evening. Those
in chess and checkers are in
vited to get in touch with the managers
of the department and to come to the
meetings.
Word received by friends in the city
from Fay Anthony who was employed
for several years in the local telephone
office, states that she is now in Wash
ngton, d. G. She says one of the strik
ng differences between this section Of
he country and that is the marked 1
Inference in the war spirit manifested I
L the two places. i'F Every one has to
rave a pass even to breathe here, al /
nost.' she states. 'eSoldiers and sailors
If every kind and nation are here, and
here are more colors of uniforms than
have ever seen.'
The police department desires to call
he attention of the owners of automo-
,iles to the fact that tomorrow is the
asst day of grace allowed for securing
lew license numbers. After tomorrow
nyone who drives a machine without a
lew 1918 license will subject himself
0 the hands of the police, as they arc
nder orders to enforce the law. The
apartment would also drop a word of ,
warming against the driving of ma ,
hines without tail lights lighted. The
ustom is quite frequent one and is
rohibited by the state law.
Mrs. Hattie M. Jackson, county
latron, has taken charge of the two
yeeks old infant that was found Mon t
ay night on the door step of a home
n north Liberty street. The matter |
ras first reported to the police station
nd the child was placed in the Deacon
IS hospital by Mrs. Sarah Dorsey, local 9
olice matron. The mother, to whom the
hild was born in the Deaconess hospital
nd who had just left the institution
efore abandoning the infant, said her
anne was Myrtle Williams, that she
ad married a sailor, and that her par
ats would not let her come home with
le child. Her home is thought to be
Albany or Eugene. Directly after
aving the child at the north Liberty
rect home Monday night, she was
en to buy a ticket for Albany. The l
fant is boy.
The annual meeting and election Of
'ficers of the Salem Rifle club which
as called for last night, has been post
med one week, or till next Tuesday,
ght, January 10th. Only a few of I
e members showed up last evening ow-
g to conflict with other occasions. The
ub has secured the use of the new ar
ory for rifle practice, which is to
, much preferred to the old armoryi
/ the top floor of the city hall which
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