Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-22

ing the fighting in Flanders that he
was wounded. He was for a time con-
nected with 387th machine gun battal-
ion.
Stop that cough with Mountain
Balm Cough Remedy. Satisfaction or
your money back. At nearly all drug
and suburban stores. If
M. Buffe-Mo left today for
San Francisco on her regular buying
trip to secure new millinery stock for
the spring and summer season. She will
be gone for several weeks.
Friends of Willamette university
will note with interest the news that
Peter W. Severson of Portland, one of
the most liberal benefactors of the
university, recently passed away at the
age of SS years.
The Valley Motor company has re-
Gently sold to the Kapphahn Dray COM
pany two-ton G. M. C. truck, especial
ly adapted for dray purposes.
.
The river is acting rather queer
these days. Ordinarily when it has
reached flood stage and begins to re-
cede, it just keeps on reeeding. During
the present high water the flood stage
was Monday morning. at 1876 feet.
Then the water fell to 17.5 feet Tues
day morning and liza feet this morn
ing. But the rains of the past "a hours
have added another volume of water
and at l o'clock today, the river had
risen to IS feet.
The subsidence Of the influenzS opi-
demie is marked by the final clearing
up of all the waiting list of funerals
at the undertaking parlors. During the
past few weeks the undertakers have
found themselves driven almost day
and night on account of the dead
brought into the city from outside
points, there being at times half doz-
en- cases waiting attention. With the
funerals held this afternoon both the
Rigdon and Webb & Clough parlors
are without caskets.
One or two minor cases were on the
docket in Justice Unruh s office this
morning. L. h. McMahan brings suit
against Zulma Bohannon to- recover
the amount of $3.50 and costs. An ac-
tion was instituted by the firm Of
Busick & Son to recover the amount Of
a bill from VIM. Yarnell.
Chief of Police Varney calls atten-
tion to the practice of some auto driv-
ers of cutting corners on the business
streets. This habit is likely to prove
a short cut to the police station, as it
Is punishable by fine. Drivers are ex-
pected to turn at the center of the
intersection. Not long since a bicycle
rider came perilously near to a serious
accident by dodging around "blind
corner" with an automobile cutting
in from the opposite direction.
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The river yesterday started to fall
to normal condition but the rains start
ed all over again and during the "a
hours ending at s o'clock this morn
ing had succeeded in falling only one
tenth of foot. The stage was ia
above zero. The rainfall for the "a
hours ending at clock this morning
was 1876 inches, making total of o.I
inches since the damp spell began just
one week ago today.
.
Representative A. r. Hunter of Is
land City and Z. Cooke Patton hap
pened to meet each other last evening
in the house of representatives. The
only unusual thing about the meeting
was that last night was the first time
they had met for 20 years. About that
long ago they both were attending
Bishop Scott's military academy in
Portland, now known as the Hill mill
tary academy.