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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
ssoo PersonaI Expenses.

r. n. Stanfield yesterday filed with
the secretary OF state his statement
showing total personal expenses OF
$4,000 in his campaign for the repup-
lioan nomination for United States
senator. The receipt shows this was
paid to John w. Kelly for personal
services. A statement filed several
days ago by w. c. f, Pruitt of Pen
dIeton. showed that In behalf of stan
fields candidacy he had expended
s26.S4162.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
Water very Low:

1t is veky seldom that trouble over
shortage Of water is experienced this
early In the season and this may ae'
count for the shortage of water that
developed yesterday and the day be-
fore in the local supply. To judge
from reports coming from all sec
tions this will be very dry season
with the lowest water In the streams
known in a good many years. 1t is
said the UmatIlla river near Echo Is
as low now as II usually gets at any
time in the ordinary season.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
VIII sing at Picnic.

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Rose are at
tending the Weston Pioneers picnic
today, as Mr.. Rose was on the pro-
gram for solo and duet work both
morning and afternoon. He says he
is beginning to feel at home there,
as this is his fifth year for singing
there Mrs. Leila Sailing is another
Pendletonite who appears on the pro-
gram and is singing national anthems
In appropriate costume.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

date OF birth and other items inserib-
ed upon II, and fits into an opening
in a small cardboard box. The Ma
jor has lately had some correspond
ence with the company regarding an
old time wood clock which he secur-
ed a short time ago.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
Acndcmy studcnts Lcave.

Francis Carroll OF Walla Walla,
Donald Bitney OF Freewater, Peter
Heinen OF Huntsville. and Gertrude
johnson Of Turner, Wash, all stu
dents at st. Joseph's academy. left
for their respective homes this morn
ing.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

Mrs J. F. Burke of Grants Pass.
president Of the RebelSah Assembly
of oregon. is visiting at the home Of
Mrs. II. J. Taylor. Mrs. Burke was
visitor at the Adams Rebekah lodge
last night.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

Aiiss Elsie Robinson has arfifeI
here from Corvallis where she a
student at the OREGON Asricuitqfa
college. and win spend The summer q
PendIefon na n guest AZ the home n
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
Back from Hcppncr Convention.

Mr.. and Mrs. Kyle Long have re-
turned from the Degree of Honor
convention at Heppner, bring with
them in their Studebaker Mrs. Wal
ter Jones, Mrs. Frank Deebach and
Mrs. Johnny Smith.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

Have Conc 20 Bingham Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. II. Bryson and
Miss Elsie and Margaret Mcdowell
left last evening for a weeks stay at
Bingham Springs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

Miss Marie Rust who has been at
tending st. Pauls school at Walla
walia. has completed the, course there
and arrived here last night on her
way to her ,parents' ranch south Of
Pendleton, for which she left this
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

Mrs. II. f. Dodge and daughter.
Dorothea. arrived here this morning
from Spokane to join Mr.. Dodge, who
is with Bond Brothers, and to make
this city their home.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
Gets Anniversary Medal.

Major Lee Moorhouse has received
10 medal from the Seth Thomas clock
company to mark that firms l0Oth
year, of which he Is very proud. Tho
ymedal has Mr.. Thomas picture ana
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

Il Is no wonder farmers are much
worried over the lack OF rain when
It is known that May was the driest
month OF the year, and the record
for MAY for a number Of years The
total precipitatIon for the r1onfh was
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
Irstrucllng in Ncw I,ates.

H. w. Hicks, representing the pas
senger department of the O.-W. r.
& N. is here today, instructing con-
ductors concerning the new passen-
yger rates. effective June 10.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
news NOTES OF PENDLETON

morning. Miss Rust plans to leave
for Portland In about two weeks to
enter st. Vincent's hospital to take
a nurses training course
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
Wants 70 Enlist.

John b. DUNCAN wired County
Clerk II. T. Brown this morning, ask
IN gfor release, so that he can
volunteer in the navy. The request
came too late, as Mr.. DUNCAN is In
the call made for the June "a draft.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

d. w. Bailey, attorney for Ben f.
Brown against Henry Il. Hill; ct al,
has filed with the circuit court the
complaint in the action. 1t is suit to
clear up title to farm land.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
portlandcr Herc 10 FisIl.

w F. Watkins arrived here this
morning to enjoy visit with his
cousin, NJ. j. Foster, and also to test
for himself the famed fishing waters
of Umatllla county.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
lundergoes Minor Operation.

The small lson of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Gibson OF Pilot Rock, Is re-
covering nicely. foIsowing a minor
operation which he underwent at 81.
Anthony's hospital yesterday.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

NatftC AO ott oiStSt0
MIR. and Mrs. w T. Campbell are
in town today from Heppner' having
come to see the latter's sisters. Miss
Mary and Miss Ellen Young, who LEFT
for Ontario, Canada. The young
women came from Summerville, near
La Grande,, and took the train here
this morning,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

for May is 1.4s inches August Is
normally the dry month Of the year
ahd the record for last month IS less
than the amount that Is considered
normal for August. The heaviest
rain was on MAY sth and Of this not
q d~0n fru q, fhc T"~t Focf district
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

Constance and Merrel Finley, stu
dents at st. Joseph's Academy, left
this morning for their home at Wal
la walla for the summer vacation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
student Goes Home.

Miss Inez Farrls, a high school
sophomore at st. Joseph's Academy.
left last night for her home at Duns
can, following the completion Of the
term
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

this late date could save the crops In
the vicinity OF Pilot Rock.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

Mrs. John Balding and small son
arrived here today from Dover, Mon
tana, for a visit with relatives in the
hospital here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
Leaves for Kansas.

Joseph LAu. who has been an at
tendant at the Eastern oregon state
hospital, left yesterday for Larnet,
Kansas.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07
Mrn .Iontcr MIITtary sefvIce.

Leland Stanford Hevener left here
last night for Fort Dodge, Des
Moines. Iowa, where he will enter the
military service. He was accompanied
by his mother.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-06-07

IlIIUN IUT ItIII-.
The directors of Riverside school
district east OF Pendleton are ready
"a receive bids for building the addl-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
McEIrOy's Dance PIeases

The dance at the X. of G. hall Sat
urday night given by J. G. McElroy
of Portland was a great success. 1t
was conducted in a thoroughly prop
er manner and met with the approval
of the Moscow dancers. Mr. McElroy
carries his own band, consisting OF
four musicians, each an artist i'll his
line. Harry Mcdaniel, pianist, and
Harold Terwilliger at the drums made
a great hit. Mr. Nash's singing was
immensely enjoyed, as was also his
banjo work. Roy Huddleson, the KY
Throughout the evening the jovial re-
marks of Mr.. McElroy kept the crowd
ir gay humor.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
Fire on an Unprepared Farm Usually Makes Clean Sweep

full of dust and dirt and become Of
fensive. Water can be kept from
freezing in all except very low tenn
peratures by adding a couple Of pounds
of common salt to each bucketful. A
single bucket of water may check a
fire when the delay in getting water
from pump would allow the blaze to
become uncomfortable. In buildings a
long way from water supply, cask
or tub of water from which to refill
buckets is very desirable.
There is a right and a wrong way
to throw water on a fire. Don't
become excited. Spread the water
with sweeping motion all over the
flaming material. Water thrown hastily
may miss the blaze or fail to spread
properly over the burning material.
A fire chief of an eastern city at q
demonstration put out an angry fire Of
oil-soaked material by calmly applying
ten cupfuls of water where they would
do the most good.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
Moscow Hotel Arrivals

H. H. Hunting, S. E. Lee and wife,
w. H. Edwards, G. E. Merwin, Port
land; John Gaiser and wife, w. M.
Van de Vanter, R. A. Headrick and
wife, Moscow; P. H. Steinhart, G.
X. Patterson, Philadelphia; D. S. Dav
export, Frank Bates, Joe Carlson, V.
H. Brown, R. c. Lee, M. H. Thorp, F.
G. Matchette, w. E. Nelson, o. NJ Sny-
der, Spokane; Willie H. Watts, A. A.
Mcdonald, Potlatch; Ross Howard,
Clyde Ferguson, Stanfeld; F. E. San
ger, Pullman; Paul Perkins, Lewis
ton; Fay Hamilton, F. W. Straw, M. H.
Rhodes, Tillie Chesley, Lewiston; Nels
Liberg, Genesee; Don Foster, Seattle;
H. M. DriscOll, NJ F. Harland, M L.
Hagan, F. Amos, Troy; F. E. Scho
field, ST. Joe, Neb.; A. E. Mckenzie,
Denver; w. L. Rice, Lansing, Mich;
Ralph B. Knepper, Kendrick.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11

Millions of dollars worth of agricul-
| tural wealth-much of it foods de-
} stroyed by fire in the United States
| every year. At normal prices and
with an average crop 1t would take the
value of the greater part of the potato
| crop of the country to offset all that
| is lost annually through the fires on
| farms.
| This is dead loss to the nation
for the fact that most individual losers
are partially reimbursed through in
surance does not in the least reduce
the drain on our national resources
and it is loss that is largely pre-
ventable. Simple ways to reduce this
great waste are suggested in Farmers
Bulletin 9O4, 'Fire Prevention and
Fire Fighting on the Farm" issued
for free distribution by the United
State department of agriculture.
The fire bucket according to the
writer's of the bulletin, is the Oldest,
er, and should be in every farm build
ing and home not equipped with more
elaborate fire-fghting equipment.
Round Bottom Buckets Best.
Any kind of bucket filled with water
and placed handily is good, but spe-
cial fire buckets with rounded bottoms
like a kettle are best. There is no
temptation to use such buckets for
ordinary purposes and they are much
more likely to be left hung on the
brackets or in the round holes cut for
them in shelves. Any kind of fire
buckets should be specially painted or
labeled and never used for any pur-
pose other than fire fighting. They
should be placed near entrances and
near the top of stairways or ladders
where they can easily be reached on
entering the building or loft. Several
buckets nested in a barrel of water
are an effective device.
Needless to say, the fire buckets
should always be Kept filled by replac-
ing the water lost by evaporation.
If the buckets are covered, water
will not evaporate so rapidly nor get
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11

ing the short recess. The managers
say that they do 80 per cent better
work as result. There is a lunch
room, operated at cost. The bureau
has supervising matron, who ad
vises the girl employees, most of WHOM
have come to Washington recently
for war time employment on patriotic
grounds. She helps them obtain
lodging rooms and in other ways.
Experts at Work
Speedy typists are carefully chosen
from the throng, and arranged at the
long work desks in the center of a
group of slower workers. This ar
rangement promotes group speed, and
better office morale, the efficiency
men in charge declare. Blonde girls
are assigned places between brunettes
for the bureau management believes
blondes are of more nervous temporal
ment, and the brunettes provide a
steadying influence.
Each check is typed individually,
and government law provides that
checks also must be signed individu-
ally, rather than stamped mechanic
ally. The signing is big task. Sig
nature duplicating machines are used,
ten checks being signed by each origi-
nal signature of pay clerk.
How Clerks are Chosen
Even the choice of pay clerks is
a lesson in efficiency. Not person.
ality, not training, but length of
patronymic names is the determining
factor. Men with short names work
at the signing machines, for more
short names can be signed daily than
long names. This is the reason the
jobs are held by E. Hibbs, D. Mills.
J. l.. Betz, G. A. Ball, and M. Cox.
Yet with all the efficiency methods
# this big office, it must shortly go
nto the discard before the automatic
heck writing machines, now being
Perfected by M. E. Bailey, the chief
lsbursing clerk. These machines, by
single operation, will stamp the
heck with the name of the payee. the |
mount, the address, the name of the
older, his organization sign and the |
erial number of the check.
Ten Billions Insurance
In addition to this disbursement |
'ork, the bureaus life insurance bust
ess includes the receipt and CLASH
cation of 10000 applications daily
ON men in camps, for an aggregate
$300,0O0,OOO of insurance. The to-
i number of applications received up
} the present is about 100000 and
lie total value of policies sought is
ore than $1O,0O0,O00,0 900.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
Examine Beans for Poisons.

The port laboratories Of the bureau
of chemistry of the United States de-
partment of agriculture are giving
special attention to detecting poison
GUS beans offered for import to this
country. According to the annual re-
port of the bureau Of chemistry, the
high price of beans has led to ship
inent of so-called Burma or Rangoon
beans from Asia and tapiramos beans
from South America, which are known
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
CARING FOR
DEPENDENTS /
~, OF SOLDIERS
HOW UNCLE SAM LOOKS AFTER
THE WIVES AND OTHER
DEPENDENTS AT HOME
ENORMOUS SUMS PAID
MORE THAN TWELVE MILLION
DOLLARS A MONTH PAID
OUT TO THESE PEOPLE

WASHINGTON last Of the
February pay checks, carrying money
allotments by soldiers and sailors an6
government allowances to their de.
pendents at home, went into the mails
today. More than 100000 checks
have been written and an extraordi-
nary effort has been made to have
the dependents get their allowances
early in the month.
The average amount of each check
is about $25, and the total monthly
disbursement runs above S12,000,000.
Usually the allotment from the SOL
dier's pay is about SIS, and the gov
eminent family allowance about $40,
the exact amount being fixed by the
number of dependents.
Three shifts of clerks have been at
work. Acres of typists of
them-24 hours of every day have
clattered away on batteries Of type
writers in several Of the largest floor
spaces in Washington comman-
deered dancehall above the municipal
market, an abandoned hospital, and
factory building recently remodeled.
Regardless of the wholesale guam
tity of documents, each letter and
each check is regarded as a distinct
human document, on instructions of
the director of the bureau, William
c. Delaney. Every woman typist and
man sorting clerk has been impressed
with the idea that the welfare of a
soldiers family may depend on the
speed, accuracy and personal interest
shown b, the bureaus workers,
}v Task Is Big One
SO this is the task and the spirit
of one of the governments greatest
bureaus, the Treasury Departments
Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Con-
gressional criticism of delays in the
distribution of allotment and allow
ance have been met with assurance
that superlative promptness, impos-
sihie in the past because of the dis
order following the sudden creation
Rl u ESW SySIeiit 70 SuppldHI Cle Oiu
pension plan, will be displayed in the
future.
The bureau expects to have checks
for March remittances ready for mail
ing on the morning of April 1 and
by that time much of the vast human
machine has been built for preparing
the pay checks will be scrapped Ma
chimes will do the work better, it is
than men and women.
In the meanwhile, this is the way
the human machine works: Experts
in office management have devised
special schemes of office routine.
More than two thousand young men
and girls can not be managed effici-
emily by haphazard methods. Regular
recreation periods in the middle of
the morning and afternoon are pro-
vided There is piano and grapha-
phone, and the girls may dance dur
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
Auction Sale

Walter Barbour will sell at his
place one and one fourth miles south
east of Lenville and seven miles north
west of Juliaetta on Friday, March Is,
two work geldings, weighing 1900
pounds each, one good mich COW and
calf, three dozen chickens, farm i'm
plements and other property. Usual
terms of SALE C. E. Walks, auctioneer
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
prevent bLAzES
ON every FARM
Fire Buckets Should Be Handy in
Buildings Not Otherwise
Protected.
LOSS ANNUALLY Is IMMENSE
Salt in Water Keeps Emergency Sup
ply From Freezing--SpeciaI Fire
Pals With Rounded Bottom
Are Most Favored.
LOSS ANNUALLY is IMMENSE
SAWDUST CHOkES OIL
BLAZE.

Have a bucket of sawdust
ready to choke an Oil blaze-es-
pecially in the garage or around
the gas engine. Adding two or
three pounds of common soda to
a bucket of sawdust improves it
as an extinguisher. Spread it
with a scoop. Water is of little
use where Oil is blazing-it may
spread the flame. Sand, while
good to smother fires, is bad
thing to pour on machinery.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
AMERICAS AGRICULTURAL
ARMY.

In the field of agriculture we
) have agencies and instrumental
ties, fortunately, such as no 9TH
, er government in the world can
show. The department of agri-
culture is undoubtedly the great
est practical and scientific agri-
cultural organization in the
world. It's total annual budget
Of 100000 has been increased
during the last four years more
than Y per cent. 1t has staff
Of $4,000, including a large num-
Der of highly trained experts,
and alongside Of 1t stand the
unique Immigrant colleges,
which are without example else
where, and the SO state and fed
eral experiment stations. These
colleges and experiment stations
have total endowment Of plant
and equipment of $172,OOO,OOO
and an income Of more than $780,,
100000, with 10,271 teachers,
resident student body of 125,OOO,
and a vast additional number
receiving instruction at their
homes. County agents, joint Of
ficers of the department of agri-
culture and of the colleges, are
everywhere cooperating with
the farmers and assisting them.
The number Of extension work
ers under the Smith-Lever act
and under the recent emergency
legislation has grown to $500
men and women working regu-
larly in the various communi-
ties and taking to the farmer
the latest scientific and practical
information. Alongside these
great public agencies stand the
very effective farmers them
selves which are more and more
learning the best methods of CO.
operation and the best methods
of putting to practical use the
assistance derived from govern
mental sources. /. From Presi-
dent Wilson's message to farm
ers, January 81.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11

to yield hydrocyanic acid under some
conditions. Shipments indicating the
presence of hydrocyanic acid were
to health. These poisonous beans are
varieties Of lime beans Of various col
ors, and in shape may not be unlike
the common navy bean. On careful in
spection they may be distinguished
from the common bean by the fact
that, unlike the common bean, they
show distinct situations, or stripes,
radiating from the eye to the edge.
There are also other less noticeable
differences.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-03-11
STORE GASOLINE UNDER
GROUND.

Gasoline is never safely stored
until it is in an underground
tank. The vapor from a single
pint will render the air In an
ordinary sized room explosive.
Heavier than air, the gasoline
vapor rests near the floor or
ground, and q person standing
may be unconscious Of the dam
ger until he places a lantern In
the danger zone.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-10-30
BOTH TICKETS ARE INCOMPLETE
Nominees Are Lacking for Places in
Legislature.
by United Press.

10y United Press.
JEFFERSON CITY. Oct. 29.-Both
Democratic and Republican parties
will go to the polls this year without
complete tickets.
When the time for filing nOmina-
tiOns to fill vacancies expired last
week official ballots were made up
with the Republicans lacking nOmi-
nees for four state senators and two
congressman. The Democrats were
shy a state senatorial nomination
from the Fourth District.
Democratic nominations were COM
plete for a congressional ticket.
Republican candidates however,
were minus in the Second District,
now represented by W. W. Rucker.
Democrat, of Keytesville. and the
Eleventh district, represented now by
William L. IgOe, Democrat, of st.
Louis. There was no one named on
the Republican ticket for state SEN
ators in the Sixth, Eighth, Twenty
second and Twenty-fourth districts.
Official ballots for November cleo
ton have been sent to all election Of
ficials.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-10-30
Urie and Parker
Are at Camp Pike.

JudsOn Uric, tackle on the foot
ball team, and pitcher on the base
ball team at the University last year,
gives the following address in let
ter to Coach Schultz: Fifth Co. 4th
Bri.. l. C. o. T. S, Camp Pike. Ark.
He writes:
"Slusher and DippOld, and young
Parker are here too, all in the same
company. The work is sure stiff here.
No extra time; and 12S TO the minute.
Local paper said something about try
ing for a game with you. II you
come you sure will have bunch of
rOoters. l like the army fine. plenty
of coed eats. | weigh 1S5 now"
(Urie was slated for a tackle posi-
ton on this years team This is
really a bit of Missouri. My athletic
work certainly has helped me so far
in camp. and | am glad that ! took
that track work this fall Thus
writes Bahlman Parker, star fresh
man middle distance man at the Uni
versity last year. His address is:
Fifth Co.. 4th Bri., I. C. o. T. s., Camp
Pike, Ark.