Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-03-29
dissertations

Roseburg. - The extremely co,o
weather of December in Douglas coun-
ty is blamed by broccoli growers for
their inability to ship only about hale
the usual tonnage 10 eastern markets
this ear.
Woodburn.-An attempt to ron the
c. C. store in this city Friday night was
frustrated By Captain Grover Todd,
who was returning home from his
place of business.
Bend.-To change the government
of Bend from the present couneilmanle
system to the commission form, is the
object of a movement started here by
the Central Labor council of this city.
Albany.-W. w, Poland. a promi-
nent farmer residing near Shedd and
president of the Linn county farm bu-
reau, will probably be a candidate for
county commissioner of Linn county
at the coming election, according to re,
ports here today.
Eugene.-Professor Joseph Schafer,
member Of the faculty of the Univer-
stiy Of Oregon for the past 20 years
and who has accepted the position as
head of the department of history at
the University of Wisconsin at Madi-
son. left Saturday for his new post.
lie was accompanied by his family.
Portland,-Thomas A. Sweeney has
Joined Representative Macarthur ana
II. e. Smith in the race for the repub-
lican nomination for representative or
the third congressional district. Mr.
~Sweeney's slogan is "Americanism
Without Compromise"
Lebanon.-The stockholders of the
Lebanon cannery, now q part Of the
A. Rupert Canning company, today re
ceived a 10 per cent cash dividend and
a stock dividend Of rs per cent. which
makes the earning of the plant for
last year to the stockholders SO per
cent.
Gold Hill.-The old Gold Hill Lum-
Der q Railway company's sawmill
plant on Sardine creek, six miles out
from Gold Hill has been sold to c.. @.
Wolbro, +, c. Goetz and A. C, Stewart
Of Seattle, who will remove the equip.
ment to Jump Off Joe creek in Jose
phine county.
Portland-Creation of al automo-
bile theft bureau in an effort to curb
thievery in automobile, adjustment Of
the old war emergency squad and Ell.
larging of the district now patrolleo
from the st. Johns police substaticn
are among the important changes in
the policing of the city announced by
an order isued by Chief Of Police Jen-
kins.
Albany,-Members of the First Pres
byterian church OF Albany favor giving
women the same rights as men in ar
of the councils of the church, wen TO
ordination to the ministry, A vote of
The members Of the church was taken
recently on three questions: First, as
TO whether woine should be permsuec
20 serve as elders; second, as to wheth-
er women should he ordained as min
listers and, third, as to whether women
should have the same rights as men in
all of the assemblies of the church,
Eugene.-Two new sawmills will be
erected in the upper Willamette coun-
try southeast of Eugene at once. nc
cording to announcement made in this
city.
Eugene.-That he has been com
PEELED to pay an allotment to a woman
not his wife is the complaint of a sol.
der friend of Robert Hazby, a grocer
of this city, who has been called upon
10 make affidavit that this friend, who
has been in the army for two years or
more, is a single man.
Roseburg on the Tiller-
Crater lake cutoff road viii be resum.
ed this season, II IL believed, as the
forestry service has advertised for bids
on the bridge to be constructed a. III.
err This road is considered a very i'm,
portant n and Is being built by the
county, state and federal government,
each cooperating equally.