Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-08-17

damage necessitated run by the
Salem fire department Monday af-
ternoon at 4:55 o'clock, to a home at
5S2 North Church. Burning paper set
the grass afire. it is said.
j. Q. Holt. packing manager for
the Oregon Growers Cooperative as
sociation, arrived in Salem Tuesday
from Eugene.
The fifth marriage this month in
Judge Bushey's office was that of
Louis Kobow and Maude McMorris of
Salem. Mr.. Kobow is a farmer near
Salem. Witnesses of the ceremony
were Mrs. Byron Benjamin Herrick
and c. M. Morris.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Socolofsky of
Ell Tampa, Texas, will arrive this
week for an extended visit with their
uncle, d. d. Socolofsky. The visitors
may decide to make Salem their
home. Walter H. Socolofsky, former
ly Of Salem. now in the employee Of
construction company of Walla
Walla, WASH, will also be in the city
the last of the week to visit with BID
cousin, B. r. Socolofsky. arriving
from Texas
State Engineer Cupper has been
asked by the directors of tht Ochocho
irrigation district to make an inspec
tion of the huge dam which is now
crica IlU IN, Jota
acceptance. The dam is 1876 feet high
and contains 100000 cubic yards of
earth which has been sluiced from
the immense reservoir which it forms
The dam and distribution system TO-.
the irrigation project cost approxi-
mately $1,250,00O.
A charter has been granted to the
State bank of Scots Mills by VIII H..
Bennett, state superintendent of
banks. The bank is capitalized at
$4,000 with the following officers:
Charles Scott, president; A. L. Brough-
er, vice president; ]. o. Dixon, CASH
ier.
G. f. Smiley of Umatilla county,
owner of large quantity of wheat
in the stack which, was destroyed in
two separate fires, evidently of in
cendiary origin, last week, has been
exonerated from any blame in con-
nection Herewith in report made
by H. H. Pomeroy, deputy state
fire marshal to A. G. Barber, state
insurance commissioner.
Mrs. e, Kapphahn and children
and Mrs. Paul Marnach and Pauline
Maj mach are spending two weeks at
Rockaway.
Mrs. c. w. CHM of Portland arriv-
ed in Salem last night for a visit
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. J.
Purcell, who live near Halls Ferry.
f. P. Harrington Of Portland, for
merly living in Salem, spent the week
end visiting friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Stewart went on
a week end camping trip at Vitae
Springs near East independence, re-
turning Sunday night.
DR.. and Mrs. L. e. George, DIR. and
Mrs. L. L. Baker and Miss Grace
Hobbs were IN Salem Monday on
their way to Portland after having
visited for several days in the Crater
Lake region. DIR. George and DIR. Ba-
ker are two prominent dentists Of
Eugene. Miss Hobbs home is in
Portland. They were travelling by
motor, and stated that the roads
from Crater Lake were very bad in
some places.
On October 5 taxes on the Oaks ad-
dition will be due, City Recorder Earl
Race told members of the city coun-
Gil at their meeting Monday night.
A car, believed to have been stol-
en- and left in front of Pattons book
store Monday, was later found to be-
long to C. d. Hartman of Silverton.
Stating that a man was prowling
about her neighborhood Monoayl
night, Mrs. Hawks, 1918 South High
street, asked police to investigate. Of
ficer Engle, after visiting the vicinity
stated that he believed Mrs. Hawks
had been unduly frightened by a