Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-03-03
Picked Up On The Street
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w. s. FITTs-Royal Chinook is bring
4 ing royal price to all right now-45
cents pound; I've seen the time when
\ it sold for 10 cents. But to offsett this
we are selling smelt as low as three
cents pound-by the box. There is
an imemnse demand for the smelt right
now, as it's the cheapest thing on the
market. During the month of Febru-
ary we probably averaged in our mark
ct 1000 pounds week, or sometaing
like $4,000 pounds for the month. Farm
{ ers come in here and buy them up bv
the box, and put them in brine to carry
them through the whole season. They
1 tell me they are better in the salt than
when fresh. One farmer who put up
smelt according to my directions told
me that he had smelt that had been in
brine for year and were as gooa as
ever,
Manager Boll.-While the county
court is talking about the big trucks
cutting up the highways, they want to
give the Willamette Transfer Company
credit for about $50 worth of work in
/ iplankiag a stretch of road near Brooks.
There's mighty bad piece of highway
/ there and our boys spent one whole
night working on it. If there IS any
body that's making good their wear on
the country roads it our company.
We're taking produce right from the
farmers door into the marker VI TWO
cents above the price paid by the com /,
mission man. :"
&C. N. Needham.-There NAV be a lot !
of people going out of the poultry bust
"ss hut there is just as many going |
into it, judging from the number of
orders for baby chicks. Most or the
orders come from people who are TAX
ing it up as a side line, and the major
ity of them testify that they are doing
well in spite of the high cos. o4 reed
Tho back yard poultry colony is going
to be a great fad this season, and the
fact that so many have quit the bust
ness makes the chances all the better
for those who stay by it. We are get
ting most of our stock from the big
hatcheries in California at present.
d. A. White.-Sweet clover is no new
experience in this section. We have
been selling the seed in small quanti
ties to the farmers for several years,
but few will bother with it, since it is
only good for a clover crop. Just now
we are getting puite number of calls
for the white blossom sweet-clover, ,wnlenl
is a very different proposition. Those
who have tried it say that you could
hardly tell it from alfalfa, and that
they have known instances where cattle
would leave the best of alfalfa to eat
the sweet clover. There are hundreds
of acres Of it in eastern Oregon, and
they are findinng it one of the best
hay crops known. For some reason the
farmers of this section are slow about
taking hold of a crop of this kind"
Iconoclast.-I just noticed that some
one was tearing down the old shack
at the rear of Barnes Store, and it's
about timer There s lot more Of the
SAME type in Salem, and they re nuis-
ance-an eyesore-a disgrace to theI
city. Do you know visitors always sized
up the inhabitants Of town by thel
looks of the buildingsg 1t would be al
mighty good thing for this town if we
had about $50 fires, with the fire-trueks
all chained up"
DR.. Doney.- willamette University is
recovering from the results Of
the war and The Influenza and every
thing is running smoothly, though the
enrolment is not quite back to normal.
We are looking to large influx Of new
students during the year. was pleas
ed with testimonial from Capt V. L.,
Lloyd, who was recently returned for
his discharge from the army. He is a
boy who went directly from the univer
sity to New York, with no other "pull f"
Than his education and his capacity, i
md is now acting as attorney for the
Continental National Bank, of that
sity. When 1 asked him as to how
much his schooling at Willamette help 1
ID MN in getting into such position, :
he stated that although he came into
competition with graduates Of some Of rs
he great institutions if the East, he g
,elt that his work at Willamette had hi
,iven just little bit the edge on all RI
# them" lb
Aiss Case of the Public Library al
1T is gratifying to see the extent to Il
which the reference library is being b,
Ised BY the students Of the high school l..
nd the university. There Sre many is
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