The Oregon Daily Journal from Portland, Oregon • Page 7

THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL', PORT LAND, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 8, 1919. STATE OUTLINES ITS GET MEN ON FARMS OUR ROAD WORK Wltwer from Jlerman Witwer, desertion Mary Smith from Pevy Smith, cruelty; Verna Sarah Hagar from Alpha Zeldtus Hagar. cruelty: Parthenia Dukehart Bryant from Blinn S. Bryant, desertion. LINE OF.

PROSECUTION WHO KNOW THE WORK CONTRACTS MADE Golf Balls StolerT From the Building Of Municipal Links The office of the municipal coif links was broken into several days ago by thieves who stole eight dozen golf balls valued at $58. Inspectors Gordon and Wright are investigating. J. Williams and C. Keller of Gresham reported their rooms entered Tuesday night while they were stopping at the Van Dyke hotel.

Williams says he lost $42 and Keller $10. MURDER HEARING BY HIGHWAY BODY SAYS PRESIDENT KERR Oregon Drainage Association and Irrigation Congress Opens Fifteenth Annual Session. I "like CRalces?" asks District Attorney Tells Jury He Can Prove Liard Killed Deputy Sheriff Twombley. Two Grading and Two Paving Projects Are Ordered Started Will Cost About $750,000. 13 SILVERTON WOMAN NEW LAWS ARE TO BE URGED Wider Power to Handle Road Work and for Control of Roads To Be Asked From Legislature.

DEAD AND MANY OF FRIENDS MOURN LOSS Mrs. Nora Haberly, Wife of L. B. Haberly, Passes at Age of 48; Four Children Survive. SCHOOL INSPECTOR NAMED Office of Chief Medical Inspector Is Also Created.

Two positions in the health department were abolished by the city council. They are the positions of school inspector with salaries of $60 a month. In place of these the commissioners created the office of chief school inspector at a salary of $150 a month. This official will be required tq give full time to the service of the city. The office of chief medical inspector at a salary of $185 a month was also created.

This is a full time position. The office of physician in the health office at a salary of $125 a month was created. The incumbent of this position will be required to devote two thirds of his time to the city service. Eoosevelt Honored By Rotarians at Weekly Luncheon Portland Rotarians, at their weekly luncheon at the Benson hotel Tuesday noon, paid tribute to ex-President Roosevelt and to Mrs. K.

Piatt, deceased wife of a member of the club. Dr. Lloyd C. Douglas, president of the Ann Arbor, Rotary 'luJb. delivered the main address.

Speaking of future conditions of labor resulting from the war and the returning to civil life of the soldiers, he predicted some serious difficulties and appealed to the Rotarians to aid in righting these troubles. To meet the financing of the district convention of the Pacific Northwest Rotary clubs to be held at The Auditorium February 20-21, the club will require a registration fee from each member. "Get people -on the land who are qualified as farmers," urged President W. J. Kerr of the Oregon Agricultural college, before the fifth annual meeting of the Oregon State Drainage association-and the Irrigation congress at the Imperial hotel this morning.

"Make it possible," he continued, "for them to finance irrigation and drainage projects. This must be done by proper legislation. "We must meet the present food situation. We must send supplies to starving Europe until she is on her feet again, and to do that there must be peoplei on the farms. The farmers must be able to get labor.

There must be a shifting of the labor that is overflowing industry at present, back to the farm where there is a shortage at present." President Samuel Brown of the drainage association cave an address nf tmJ- Outlining the evidence to be offered by the prosecution in the case of the state against John Cyril Liard. District Attorney Walter M. Evans said before his opening statement to the Jury was interrupted by adjournment of court, that the state was prepared to show that on the night of the murder of Frank Twombley, Liard drove with Augusta Carlson to the railway station in Vancouver and. returning, stopped at the Oregon end of the Interstate bridge, held up Bridgetender Herman and then drove rapidly away. Herman, Evans said, was prepared to identify the prisoner positively as the man who held him up.

Other evidence will be including that of two eye-witnesses of the killing, showing that Liard was the man who killed Twombley. identified as belonging both to the bridge tender and Liard were found scattered along the St. Johns road. Evans will conclude his statement to the jury at 2 o'clock this afternoon, when the court will reconvene after adjournment in respect to the funeral services of Colonel Roosevelt. Kiwanis Club to Receive Charter At Next Meeting The Kiwanis club held its weekly meeting at the Portland hotel Tuesday.

The club will formally receive Its official charter on January 19, the presentation being made by O. Samuel Cum-mlngs, international secretary, of Chicago. Governor Withycombe, Mayor Baker and other state and county officials will be present. Captain Jack Hamilton, who has had four years' experience in the English and American armies, related some interesting incidents at Tuesday's luncheon. The Portland Kiwanis club elected Charles M.

Andrews, district freight agent for the Southern Pacific system, as representative to the district convention at Tacoma, January 17. Native of "Yamhill Dies at Amity, Or. Amity, Jan. 8. John SimkJns, a well known resident of this vicinity, died in this city Monday at the home of his brother, Fred Slmklns, after an illness of over a week.

Mr. Simkins was born in Yamhill county, near Hopewell, where all of his life except three years was spent. He was born on Dec. 14, 1863, and died at the age of 05 years and 23 days. He leaves to mourn his loss besides his wife 10 children, Cleveland of Harvard university Adling-ton of Hopewell.

Elmer J. of Oregon City, Mrs. Ruth Kirkwood of Hopewell. Mrs. Jennie Bush, Hazel, Margaret, Beatrice and Pauline at home also four grandchildren, besides three brothers and eight sisters.

Funeral services were held at Hopewell on Wednesday morning. Interment was made in Hopewell cemetery. Victory Memorial Meeting Saturday Because out-of-town members of the Oregon victory memorial committee could not attend the meeting called for Tuesday at Mayor Baker's office, no' attempt was made to transact business. Instead, another meeting was arranged for Saturday noon at the Portland hotel. Mayor Baker has been informed that out-of-town members will be on hand at that time.

Thenwhy- not get the best? Better satisfaoniorthe same money whenTDuW fmrnrnm ome in which he referred to the Lablsch region, showing what was done for it by nroner dralnatre. TT plained that a few years ago nothing Mrs. Nora Haberly, wife of L. B. Haberly of Silverton and daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. George and Nellie Calligan of Hood River, died in this city Tuesday night at the age of 48. Mrs. Haberly resided in Silverton and came to Portland recently for medical treatment. She is survived by her husband and parents, four children, Carl Floyd.

Marie and Harriett Haberly, and by four brothers, George, Hubert, Wilbur and Carl fi. Galligan. Mrs. Haberly was born in Ohio and had resided at Hood River and Silverton for the past 28 years and was well known to a large circle of friends in both sections of the state. J.

P. Finley Son have charge of the funeral arrangements. naa been growing there and that now there are thousands of tons of garden produce grown there annually. He was followed bv Jav ITritnn. nrest- Varon Smith Arrested Varon Smith was arrested Tuesday night by Deputy Constables Dennick and Watkinds on a warrant charging dent of the Irrigation congress.

Dr. R. P. Teele. associate chief dri him with a statutory offense.

He was I released on deposit of $500 cash bail. irrigation Investigator of the department of agriculture, spoke on "The Extent to wnicn Drainage Can Be Avoided by Careful Irrigation." The session this afternoon heiran at 2 o'clock with an address by W. H. Forest Service Will Move to Postoffice Escapes From Cedars Iena Fuller escaped from The Cedars Tuesday evening, for the third time within a few weeks. The matron reported that she was "under heavy guard and must have escaped from the second story window." Arthur West Arthur West, 45, of 1204 Woodward avenue, who was fatally injured Tuesday at the Willamette Iron Steel company, fell about 50 feet in two falls.

Instead of 20 feet as was first reported. Kyewitnesses say he fell from the boat about 20 feet to the dock from where he rolled off and fell 30 feet more on top of ASS FOR crawrord on "Settlement of Reclaimed Lands." Other speakers for the afternoon Include W. L. Powers, Fdgar B. Piper, R.

H. Brown, W. G. Brown. J.

Elrod. Professor T. A. H. Teeter of the Oregon Agricultural college.

Burr Beals, Judge Cunningham, George J. Cochran and State Senator George T. Baldwin. At 6:30 there will be time out for dinner, which win be a Dutch treat. At 7:30 the sessions will be resumed.

fte Original 5 t3PtiM Contracts for road work, the cost of hich la estimate at approximately prc let Tuesday by the state highway commission. The projects and successful bidders were aa follows 5radingr Columbia river highway between Hood River and Mosier, A. D. Kern. $242.641.

64, (Jradinjr Columbia river highway between Arlington and Blalock. K. T. Johnson. $119,296.

Pavini? F'aeiflr highway between Salem find Oervais. Blake Compton, 7.35 miles. Paving: Pacific hicrhway between Aurora and Oervais, Oskar Iluber, 10.65 miles. The paving- Job are post road projects In which the federal povernment will cooperate at the rate of $10,000 per mile. Twotype of asphaltlc concrete pavement were hid on.

The one selected consists of a three and a half inch base with a one and a half Inch top. Cost Plus Bids Submitted A bid to do the work a cost plus -15 per cent profit basts was submitted by Warren Bros, company. On the Hood Rlver-Mosler Job there were four, bidders. The second low bid was that of Oskar Iluber. $264,270.95.

The engineer's estimate was $301,468.60. This was $58,826 In excess of the low bid." On the Arllnpton-Blalock Job there were only two The second bid was that of Kiliott Scropgfns at $171,305. The engineer's estimate for this work was $111,845. This was $7450 under the low bid. In the contracts it is stipulated ttiat the contractors will take over the asphalt which was boupht by the state.

In the Mo8ier-Hood River project, the imit bids of the successful contractor were 48 cents per square yard for common excavation and $1.04 for solid rock. There Is to be a tunnel 200 feet in length and the unit bid for this was $57 a lineal foot. Needed Legislation Discussed legislation to make the ptate road laws more effective were discussed. It was decided that a number of modifications X1 the present laws would be submitted to the legislature which, based on the past experience of the commission, would secure a smoother administration. Among these was authority for the commission to make locations of mala highways where the location has pot already been made.

The forest service will move Saturday, from its present headquarters in the Beck building to the new Postoffice building, where it will occupy the entire fourth floor and a part of the fifth. This is one of the first of the various federal offices which will eventually occupy the building, to move. Divorce Decrees Granted Decrees of divorce were signed by Presiding Judge Stapleton in the following cases this morning: Jtflia Goerk from Rudolph Goerk. desertion Lucy I. a log that was lying in the river.

Noumhlns Digestible No Cookinc Cottrell from L. R. Cottrell, cruelty Stella Harrison from Henry Harrison, desertion Vernon I. Reynolds from i Fred I. Reynolds, cruelty; Etherl B.

carry 1919 War For Infants, Invalids andGrowing Children. Rich Milk, Malted Grain Extract In Powder pie Original Food-Drink For All Ages. I OTHERS ar IMITATIONS 1918 Thrift Stamps may be exchanged for 1919 War Stamps. Postoffice and ban Stamps. Workmen had to secure a rowboat to rescue him from the log.

Mr. West died about two hours later at St. Vincents hospital from a fractured skull. He is survived by his widow and three small sons. The coroner is investigating the accident.

Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock Thursday morning at the Miller Tracy chapel. Mr. West was born at Beverley, East Yorkshire, England. He had been in the United States 28 years and in Portland for 10 years. He was formerly employed by the Coast Shipbuilding S.

H. Green Stamps Given on All Charge Accounts Paid in Full on or Before the Tenth Day of Each Month Don't Fail to Get Your Green Trading Stamps Mail Orders Carefully and Promptly Filled by Experienced Shoppers, Otit-of-Town Customers Are Urged to Make Fullest Use of This Splendid SpecialliService The Standard Store of the Northwest 40c Coffee 29c Thursday -OWK Imperial Roast Coffee, a TELEPHONE YOUR ORDERS MARSHALL 4800 A-6231 Home Patterns For February are now in. Also spring number of Home Journal Style Book, showing advance modes for coming season. PORTLAND AGENCY FOR HOOVER ELECTRIC CLEANERS Olds, Wortman Kin Reliable Merchandise Reliable Methods standard 40c quality. -No deliveries except with other purchases made Grocery Department on the 4th Double Trading Stamps.

Joseph II. Wolfenden Joseph H. Wolfenden, age 32, died Sunday last of Influenza. He was sales manager of the Oregon Motor Car company and resided at 446 East Fifty-eighth street. He had been identified with the company for the past two years and before that was a salesman fqr the T.

S. townsend Creamery company. Mr. Wolfenden was a prominent member of the Arleta Baptist church and is survived by his widow, two young daughters, his mother, brother and sister. The funeral will be from the church of which he was a member Thursday at 2 :30 p.

m. P. Lerch has charge of funeral arrangements. Double Trading Stamps ScasTSSAll Over the Store 1.1U8 -win sorre me aiincuiiy oi wcauiis Silk Waisting Women's $9 to $12.50 Novelty Boots At 98c Yard At $7.98 Mrs. Ida May Reimer Mrs.

Ida May Reimer, wife of Otto Reimer, aged 28, and a native of California, died in San Francisco on January 2. Mrs. Reimer was the mother of Margaret Reimer and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.

R. Dingle of 651 Ankeny street. Two brothers are William Mason and George R. Dingle, and a eister is Mrs. Laur McKenzie.

-Yamhill and Polk counties, which has been a bone of contention. Another location made by the legislature' is the junction of the branches of the highway near Junction City in Lane county. "There is a movement on foot to extend the east side branch around through Coburg and make the junction south Eugene. It is felt that the commission, by reason of its knowledge of all conditions, is better qualified to make locations than the legislature. Authority Sought Another recommendation is that the commission has authority to determine where hard surface should be laid and Main Flor-SpIendid quality Japanese Tub Silk Waistings in many attractive striped patterns.

Full 32 inches wide. Also 26-Inch QQA fancy striped taffetas. Sale price, yard wOC Colored Plush $3.98 Main Floor--High-grade plush from our regular stock very! desirable for women's and children's Coats, Scarfs, etc. So Jnches wide. Shown in gold, rose, green, purple, brown.

EXTRAORDINARY SAVINGS In addition to extremely 'low. prices on all remnants and odds and ends every department of the store offers, many special bargains in seasonable merchandise particularly wearing apparel and household supplies. It will pay you to visit the store every day 'v Double Trading Stamps given with charge or cash purchases in all departments. W. R.

Forster W. R. Forster, aged 28, a resident of Independence, died from influenza at the home of his brother, 442 East Nineteenth street north, this morning. J. P.

Finley Son have charge of funeral arrangements. Main Floor 8 -inch and 9-inch Novelty Laced Boots a few buttoned styles included. Footwear from best makers. Young women's Shoes of tan calf with medium low heels and imitation wing tips also same style in gray calf black kid with gray cloth tops gray and field mouse kid boots with cloth' tops, covered Louis heels tan with cloth tops to match, military heels gray or ivory kid and numerous other short lines. Regular QQ 39 to 12.50 at IO Sale Curtain 1 buyers and to give the buyers the option of a coupon or registered bond.

It is probable that the commission will Women's SUITS $29.98 prepare a draft of the bills it wishes enacted into law and submit them to the senate and house highway committees Samples Bargain 1st Floor Special lot of 1000 Curtain Samples, to be closed out Thursday at sacrifice prices. Fine for bathroom or other small windows. Curtain 48c Samples bu macadam or pavement. Under the law the commission does not have any option and in some cases it is made obligatory to pave where a macadam surface would be sufficient to meet present traffic conditions. Another qtiestion is that of cooperation between the county and state on maJntenance of state roads.

The legislature will be asked to modify the law to give the commission authority to make it mandatory for counties to cooperate on a scale determined by the commission, not to exceed 50 per cent. This subject, however, involves a legal question which will be submitted to the attorney general. The legislature will also be asked to Kive the commission power to erect and maintain guide signs, to fix the speed limit at 30 miles an hour, regulate loads it nd tires and plant trees at the road-' side. ltevoiTlng Fnd Wanted The commission also wants to create revolving fund of $30,000 in order to nabie the state highway engineer to have on hand sufficient funds to meet emergencies in the discharge of workmen and liquidation of other small claims. Authority is also wanted to transfer one fund to another and to return all moneys from sales of old equipment and interest on deposits to the highway fund instead of the general treasury.

Permission is also asked in the matter of bond issues to make" the denominations of the bonds as requested by the $6 to $7.50 Boots Special $4.98 Main Floor Women's Boots of kid and calfskin, laced or buttoned styles, medium or high heels. Popular pointed toe or the more conservative round shape. Gray or fawn cloth tops or plain black. Welted soles. Excellent range of sizes.

Boots of standard 16.00 and JS7.50 grades, QQ priced for Inventory Sale at only DTt0 to be introduced as committee bills. Plans for Paring Ordered. Ben Sheldon, representative-elect from Jackson county, brought before the commission a plan to capitalize the motor vehicle license fees and provide for a bond Issue of $7,000,000 or $9,000,000. as it might be considered best. With a 50 per cent increase of the license fee he estimated that it would be possible to carry an issue of $11,000,000.

The commission instructed the state highway engineer to prepare plans to pave the road from West Salem to Dallas. This will bring the pavement up to the neighborhood of Derry. It is proposed to make it a post road project, in which the federal government will participate. Hugh Brady Injured City Grappler Hugh Brady sprained his wrist and injured his hip Tuesday when he slipped on an icy pavement and fell while alighting from a street car on his way to -work. Captain Jacob Speier, harbor master, sent Brady home.

Second Floor A special group of high-grade suits formerly selling at much higher prices. Beautiful models made up in broadcloth or wool velour, trimmed with fur. Also suits of gabardine, burella and silvertone. There are many smart tailored styles as well as the more dressy models. Good assortment of wanted shades.

IOQ QQ Inventory Sale DiVUO Cotton Petticoats At $1.49 Center Circle, 1st Floor Plain colored Sateen Petticoats in the panted shades, also many with fancy figured flounces in various good colors. Priced special for Thursday at onlv each tD-Lfx Large assortment in this offering. Voiles, Marquisettes, nets and laces. White; cream and ecru. While they last.

AQn Priced special Thursday at OL Curtain AO Samples tOv Voile, Marquisette, net and Jace curtail. samples in a great assortment of patterns. White, cream ecru. While any last, QQ they are priced special at yOL Sale of Crib Blankets 1 Jjf FURNITURE Hundreds of Pieces in the Inventory Sale at Good Savings With special low prices now in force and Double Trading Stamps with all purchases, people in need of Furniture should make their selections at once. A few specimen offerings in the sale.

Mahogany Furniture $24.25 Mahogany Dressing Table, special at $19.50 $22.50 Mahogany Council Table, special at $19.50 $34.75 Mahogany Rocker, priced special at $29.75 $32.50 Mahogany Nest of Tables, special at $27.50 $35.00 Mahogany Tilt Top Table, priced special 29.25 $20.00 Mahogany Tea Table, priced special at $15.50 Other Good Specials $59.50 Overstuffed Chair, priced special at $52.50 $125.00 Overstuffed Davenport, priced at only $95.00 $21.00 Ivory Breakfast Table, priced special at $17.50 $15.25 Piano Bench $13.80 $28 Reed Desk at $24.00 $2.50 Oak Tabourettes $1.98 $2.75 Sew. Table $2.19 $3.50 Folding Card Tables, priced special at $2.98 Great Inventory Sale of Dinner Sets Third Floor Decorated American and English semi-porcelain and Haviland Co. French dinner sets in a variety of beautiful open-stock patterns on sale at special low prices. American semi-porcelain fancy white sets of 42 Pieces $5.04 5o-pc. set $6.84 60-pc.

$9.40 English semi-porcelain, with neat decoration. Set of 50 pieces $11.40 set of 60 pieces $15.45 great values. Haviland Co. Dinner Sets, green spray, gold knobs. Set of 60 pes.

$56.03 too pes. $81.59 Single- Crib Blan At 48c kets In fancy- fig Voile Waists Special at $1.29 Thursday Special, Center Circle, 1st Floor Main Floor Dainty Tub Waists in many pleasing with tucks, plaits, laces, embroideries, etc. Plain white, striped and colored voiles and organdies. Ct OjQ Good range of sizes. Sale price for Thursday at only DA.7 ured These usually sell at 75c.

Thursday special at 48c Af QQn Single Crib Blan-fL kets in fancy figured patterns. The grade usually selling at $1.25. Special at 89c SHIRT SPECIAL Starch and Soft Cuff Shirts 1 3 for $4.00 COOPER'S UNION SUITS, regular $2.50 values Sale price. MEN'S SHAWKNIT HOSE, 35c pair-By the box Basement Millinery Sale Inventory Sale Embroideries FOR THE WOMAN who prefers to make her own undergarments, this sale pre Untrimmed Hats Price sents extraordinary savings. Embroideries At 25c Embroidery in small or 18-inch Flouncings Embroideries At 12y2c Swiss and Cambric Embroidery Edges in widths 2 to 6 inches.

Great assortment of patterns. Also beading and beading edges. Special at 12 He Embroideries At 69c 27 ank 40-inch fine yoile Flouncings in many beautiful new patterns, suitable for dresses'; Also 27-inch Baby Flouncings, priced at, the yard 69c 10c YARD I Thursday and Friday the Basement Millinery Store will have on sale a great lot of Untrimmed Hats at just half regular prices. Turbans, sailors, droops, side rolls, soft crowns and various other styles. Black with facings oipink, rose, blue, green, red, sand, grey and other shades.

Also black and other colors. Hats for women, misses and children formerly selKng at $1.48 up to M.98 priced for Great 2-Days' sale at 74c to $2.49 each. Double Stamps With All Charge or Cash Purchases Made Thursday Robinson Detlor Co. ONE BUCK SHIRT HOUSE 353 Washington St Majestic Theatre large patterns. Well worked designs on excellent quality material.

Remarkable values 25c NEAT EMBROIDERY EDGES, SPECIAL.