Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-19

tive to the disposition of the warn
ing post recently removed from the
center of Capitol street at Union,
was received by the council at it's
meeting Monday night. The COM
street committee. The letter was
from the S. p. company.
r. e. McCroskey, of the Phez
company, left Salem today for
Washington, where he will sit
several cities. He expects to be
gone several days.
| l.. !. Chaplin, of the Kings
| Products company, left Salem to-
| day for Benton county, where he
will transact business for a few |
days.
| Somebody stole his spotlight off
| his automobile while it was parked |
at the corner of Capital and d
streets, E. B. Polzel, 1908 S. 18th
street, complained to police last
night.
The suit of Frank NJ. Keeney
against the Puyallup and Summer
Fruit Growers canning company,
was reviewed before a jury in De-
partment No. /, Tuesday, Circuit
Judge Bingham presiding.
The Pomona grange will hold it's
monthly meeting at Stayton,
Wednesday, October 20. Changers
from all Marion county districts
will be present. With other speak
ers, Seymour Jones will discuss the
measures to be passed upon by the
electorate at the November cleo
ton.
In the first game of coed bas-
ketball in the doughnut league
recently formed at Willamette uni
versity, the Petticoat Pirates, cap
taned by Ruby Rosenkranz, de-
feated the Jazz Babies, Al.
Wednesday night the Beta Chi
sorority of Willamette university
will initiate the seven girls pledged
this fall, Winifred ST Clair, Esther
Parnougian, Mabel Stanford, Paul
inc Rickli, Lorlei Blatchford,
Margaret Legge, Gretchen Brown.
Rev. J. w. Anderson, of Port
land, member of the Oregon Bap-
tist Missionary conference and
recognized worker among colored
folk, was present at meeting last
night of the Salem business league
of colored men. A we'll organized
club has been formed and topics of
general interest are discussed at
the monthly meetings of the club.
In an affidavit filed with Clerk
Boyer, Tuesday, Mary Johnson,
plaintiff in the divorce action of
Mary Johnson against Hiram A.
Johnson, asks that a trial judge
other than Circuit Judge George G.
Bingham be assigned to hear the
action. The affidavit gives no
grounds for this action, other than
Mrs. Johnson's statement that she
believes that she would not re-
ceive an impartial trial in this
court. The case was recently
transferred to Marion county from
the Multnomah county court, upon
motion of the principals to the pre-
cedings.
c. Van Patten will erect a $4,000
residence on State street between
21st and 23rd streets in the near
future, according to the building
permit issued him yesterday by
Mark Poulsen, deputy city re-
cordsr.
Permit to erect a $4,000 building
in south Salem was branted the
Salem hospital board this morning
by Mark Poulsen, deputy city
recorder.
Labor in Salem is being well TAX ;
en- care of at the present time, Po-
lice Judge Earl Race, who con-
ducts free employment bureau in
the city hall, said this morning.
The recent storm, however, has al
most paralyzed business activities,
he stated. Men applying for jobs
are at present being put to work
on the city sewer at 21st and
Trade streets.
Julius Adler, 40. an inmate of
the state hospital, escaped yester-
day afternoon, according TO police.
He is described as being five feet.
eight inches tall, weighing 140i
pounds, and wearing dark clothes
and q gray cap.
A shotgun found in a shack ri
the corner of Bellevue and Univer-
slty streets was taken to the po-
lice station last night by officer
Victor. The shack. he said. is. the
club room of some small boys A
tool house on the same corner was
broken into, the bluecoat stated