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a She is making her home with her son. Hiram Parker, in North Albany. Albert Humphrey is a brother of Mary and Julia Parker. He is 88 years old. He crossed the plains in 1853 and married Lydia Fronk.

He has two children, Ed. Humphrey of Albany, and Mrs. G. F. Skipworth of Eugene, and four grandchildren.

He is living in Eugene with his Three long tables were spread yesterday afternoon under the large trees on the Parker lawn and the relatives gathered here to enjoy an oldfashioned dinner with fried chicken. Several pictures were taken during the day. Harvey Parker of McMinnville acted as toastmaster and called upon Dan Frazier. Mr. Frazier expressed the wish that all those present might be there again next year.

J. K. Weatherford of Albany, gave the main address of related the history of the family and emphasized the fact that they were all law-abiding citizens and took an active part in the civil and social life of the Willamette valley and Oregon. He said: "No one has done more in building up this part of the state and in helping to stabilize the government than the Parker family. Such families wonderful asset to a state." Mr.

Weatherford paid high tribute to the three pioneers in whose honor this reunion was held. Ardyth M. Kennelly read a "Thrilling Incident in Crossing the Plains," which was told her by Mrs. Mary C. Parker.

This true story, which won first prize in a pioneer essay contest, is as follows: In 1853, Mary C. Parker began her long journey across the vast desert plains, to Oregon. There were only a few wagons in their train so they did not have protection from the Indians. Mary Parker was a very pretty young woman, with her glinting red gold hair and laughing blue eyes. She had a merry smile for everyone.

Her Three Pioneers of Oregon Honored at N. Albany Reunion AGES TOTAL 270 YEARS; 133 RELATIVES COME FROM FAR AND NEAR Members of the Parker family from Canada, Washington and all parts of Oregon gathered at home of Hiram Parker Sunday afternoon in honor of Julia Ann Parker, Mary ine Parker and Albert Humphrey, Oregon pioneers whose combined ages are 270 years and who had children and grandchildren present numbering 133. Mrs. Julia Ann Parker is 83 years old and married Allen Parker March 18, 1852. They crossed the plains that same year, making the trip in six months by ox team.

Mrs. Julia Parker is making her home in Toledo where her husband was in the sawmill business for many years. Mr. Parker was also sheriff of Linn county for several years, and was in the state legislature from this county. Julia Ann Parker is the mother of eight children, five, of whom are living, and she has 13 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

May Catherine Parker is 90 years old and crossed the plains in 1853. She started from Burlington, Iowa, April 4, and crossed the Missouri river May 4. She was six months on the road and had many experiences with the Indians. Mary Catherine Parker was married to Mose Parker in 1856. In 1857 they purchased 3601 acres Pereson's in the Butte, Albany they Prairie lived where til the death of Mose Parker in 1905.

She is the mother of eight children, four of them living, and has 15 grandchildren and 16 sister, Julia, was also quite attractive. One day the two girls had just ridden into camp on their prancing pinto ponies, calling gaily that they had just seen much game during their ride. But to their surprise they saw by the light of the campfire, five Indians, conversing in low tones with the captain and his assistants. When the girls came into view the Indian chief gave a cry of delight saying "Man sell two girls get forty ponies." Of course the captain not being experienced with Indians, laughingly replied, "Guess I'll sell the girls. Oh sure I will." The Indian frowned, and with much disgust written on his face, he said, "Red man no joke, come get paleface girls tonight, bring ponies, white man must sell." Then Captain Brewster saw where he had made a great mistake, not to be remedied very easily.

He dismissed them with a gesture of his hand, but Mary and Julia clung to him desperately, crying "Oh, Captain, why did you say it? Do you not remember when about fifty miles back we came upon a train and found them all murdered 'Thinking except the one Indians for the would same not reason? sider them serious, they had consented to their offer, then refused to make the trade. Oh, see, see, in the distance the Indians are riding towards us with their ponies." Then she added with a sigh of anguish, "Forty ponies for Julia and Turning slowly Mary went to her campfire, where she knelt and prayed in a low sweet voice: "Dear God, I pray thee to take us safely to Oregon, 'your country," and please make right this terrible mistake." She made lovely picture kneeling there in the firelight. Just at that moment the captain shook her by the shoulders, and whispered, "Mary, hide, they are ing." With that' warning he Obscure Doubles Risk Lives for $25 to Protect Famous Moving Picture Stars LORETTA, RUSH DIVING I of FLAMING GASOLINE, 200 HORSE a FOOT LORETTA RUSH The daring work of Loretta Rush, an unheralded double, in Richard Walton Tully's "Flowing Gold," which starred Milton Sills and Anna Q. son, alone saved the picture from the garbage can of financial failure. Do you remember the thrilling scene where apparently Anna Q.

Nilsson dived from a house top into a river of flaming gasoline. Anna Stays on the Bank That was Loretta Rush. The edges of a big tank had been camouflaged to represent the banks of a stream. A partition had been built across it and extending down a couple of feet into the water. On one side of the partition galIons of gasoline were poured and ignited.

On the other side there was no oil or fire. Loretta plunged headlong into the flaming furnace, passed on down into the cool water and emerged on the other side of the partition, unharmed. Loretta Rush's dauntless daredeviltry has added wreaths of glory to the cinema crowns of many stars. Miss Rush doubled for Shirley Mason, of the Fox Film company in "The Eleventh Hour," by swimming the swift waters of a mountain stream. Then she doubled for Ann Little, heralded by her press agent as the "girl without fear" in a serial, "The Eagle's talons," and dived off a mountain cliff 100 feet into mountain rapids.

The biggest punch in "The Storm." a thrilling photoplay made by Universal, was the scene where a canoe carrying a girl, was buffeted down a whirling nountain stream. Persons who saw the picture will recall that Virginia Valli, the star, was thought to be in the dangerous canoe drive. Stars Play Safety First As a matter of fact, it was Janet a The Albany Democrat W. L. JACKSON and RALPH R.

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Ads containing less than 12 words are charged the same as 12. Classified contract rates given on application. THE SPRINGFIELD-EUGENE ROW WEEKLY EDITION The citizens of Springfield have become aroused over the proposal launched by certain business men of Eugene, who dominate its chamber of commerce, to bond the university city for $175,000 to purchase a site for the Southern Pacific railroad shops two miles west of the city and trade it to the company for the site which the railroad picked out at Springfield for that purpose a number of years ago. They have inserted page advertisements in the Eugene newspapers in which they allege that the Eugene movement is promulgated only by speculators, who will reap the benefit of the sale of the proposed site, and in which they set forth Springfield's claim to the railroad They also made a showing to the effect that the car shops at Springfield, three miles east of Eugene, will be just as beneficial to Eugene, from an industrial standpoint, as they will be two miles west of Eugene; and from the standpoint of the city beautiful, Eugene' will be better off with the shops at Springfield. More than this Springfield eitizens ae preparing to send a delegation to San to protest against the Eugene move to the officials of the railroad.

Sympathy will be on the side of Springfield, we believe, in the contest, if Eugene people should go so far as to vote on the bond issue. It is clear that the little city, overshadowed by the big university center as it has been for years, has been living on in hopes that some day the Natron cutoff would be built and with the extension the car shops with its big payroll would materialize. It is also pretty well understood that the railroad company is committed to the Springfield site in return for the public spiritedness of its citizens in obtaining for it a sufficient acreage at a reasonable price. After all these days of hoping, no one can blame Springfield for flying into a passion over the Eugene proposal. The point raised by the Springfield people, namely that the shops will do the Eugene business men as much good at Springfield as they will several miles west of the city, seems to be well taken.

The greater part of the Springfield payroll is spent in Eugene today, and its payroll is of no inconsiderable amount, with the Booth-Kelly sawmill located within it. In would seem as though the shops, if they are to be located in that area, ought to go to Spingfield. Morally Springfield has a claim on them. And industrially they will profit Eugene business men just as much, aside from the increment that might go to a few persons from the sale of options on the proposed new site. THE POINT OF VIEW chirk up a bit? WHOM IS HE TALKING ABOUT The Eugene Guard admits that it doesn't enthuse over the recent Santiam Pass expedition.

Its stand is quite positive. "No," it says, "The Guard doesn't enthuse over any attempt to make it appear that either route (the McKenzie or the Santiam Pass), is passable when it isn't passable, except by the manful bucking of snowdrifts." But since that O. A. C. student crossed the McKenzie summit in his Ford bug, may we not expect The Guard to It has remained for that pungent writer, George Putnam of the Salem Capital- Journal, to define a "hick town." For several years, the word "hick" when used in connection with the word "city" or "town" has been accepted as the nth degree of opprobrium.

We are incliied to think that his category of characteristics is too broad, perhaps; for, if it exact, there are few towns anywhere that will not fit be the description. Nevertheless his point of view is of interest and for the benefit of our readers his we are going to pass definition along. He says: hick town is one that permits a passing show A to stretch an advertising banner across Main street- free publicity stunt denied the A hick tax-paying town is merchant, that and giving a jay look to the burg. handbills to strew the streets of the business distribution sections, of dodgers and one sanctions the pedestrian, scare the horses and litter the autos. pester the A hick town is one that turns, over section streets to that itinerant a of the best city rols for feeble minded, called a carnival, to bamboozle and fol-deaggregation of freaks, fakirs, for a small hand-out for some local uplift.

boobs the A. hick town is one where residents are community pride, that they fail to water mow in the lawn, personal and so lacking goes to seed on curbings and vacant lots and unpaved streets grass of unkept weeds. are a sea A hick town is one where the autos park in instead of where reverse, back side to, block heading in, they turn around in the middle of the middle and of stand in files three deep for long stretches of time the in the street. A hick town is one where snooping sneaks and sleuths force of the police tap parked the for pockets of tourists, smell breaths and search auto a few minutes on the street at night on suspicion, every without, warrant. is -well perhaps you know such town with some hick characteristics, not thousand a or at least a town a miles away.

We presume that the patriots of every town who read the above will wonder if Brother Putnam is talking to them. Mrs. Dennis Watkins, Bedfast for 8 Years, Dies Near Jefferson Jemima Elizabeth, wife of Dennis Watkins, died at their home 3 miles east of Jefferson at 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening. She had been an invalid for many years, and the last eight and a half years of her life she had been confined to her bed. Jemima WINITA BROWN peared.

Mary arose, took her little Bible in her hand and climbed into the wagon. The Indians came into the camp and said with a sneer, "Huh, white man ready sell girls, white man very much fool." The captain did not mind their insults, and said with a grim smile, "Listen here Old Fire Chief (he was called that because he always set his enemies' dwellings on fire) that was just a joke, Indian must not try foolishness with white man, hit the trail at once." The Indians were outraged and muttered, "Red men get paleface girls yet, come again when the sun rises, then white man be sorry." But the Indians never returned. God answered Mary's prayer, and that is why she is sitting in her arm chair, her golden hair has turned to silver, a lavender gown is draped loosely around her, she is sitting in the sunlight and she is as beautiful to me, as when she prayed that night, long ago, by her camp fire. Harold Starr gave a reading, "Miles Standish and Priscilla," and George Parker a reading, Between Two Fires." Following this Ardyth Kennelly gave two character dances, assisted at the piano by Miss Ruby Parker. William Parker holds the record among those coming the farthest for the Parker reunion.

Mr. Parker left Stavely, about 60 miles south of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Friday night at 9 o'clock. He traveled more than 1000 miles and reached the scene just before the big dinner. His coming was a surprise even to his own family who live at Tangent while he was in Canada looking after his 1050-acre wheat ranch. Those present were: Mrs.

Minnie Parker Moss, Portland; Mary C. Parker, Albany; Albert Humphreys, Eugene; Julia Parker, Toledo; Mr. and Mrs. W. P.

Small, Albany; Mrs. Hannah Havens, Arlington, Allen P. Hughes, Toledo; Clyde MeMillan, Toledo; A. B. Hughes, Toledo; Margaret, A.

Vivian and Albert Kerns, Vancouver, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Weatherford, Albany; Mrs.

W. S. Parker, Toppenish, Mrs. Russell Parker, Albany; Mrs. R.

S. Van Cleve, Toledo; Mr. and Mrs. J. Francyl Howard and son Jimmie, Albany; Mrs.

A. Hughes, Toledo; Louise Weatherford and Mrs. W. A. Anderson, Portland; Lottie Mrs.

Mary E. Portland; Albany; Cowan, Judge and Mrs. G. F. Skipworth and Harold and Helen Skipworth of Eugene; Mrs.

Gretchen W. Parker, Eugene; Virgil Allen Parker, Eugene; Mrs. Clifton L. Parker, Tangent; Miss Hazel Parker, Toppenish, Washington; Enyd Kerns, Vancouver, Mrs. Clarence Parker and C.

A. Parker, Oregon City; Mrs. Young. Toledo; Allen Cowan, Portland; Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Parker, Salem; Edith Young, Toledo; Carrol T. Starr, Tangent; Fielding, Clifton and Perry Parker, Tangent; Thomas Cowan, Vancouver; R. L.

Weatherford, Corvallis; Harvey Parker, McMinnville; S. Parker, Toppenish, F. D. Moss, Portland; J. K.

Corvallis; A. W. Weatherford, Portland; Russell and Hiram Parker, Albany; Ralph Van Cleve, Toledo; C. D. Frazer, Portland, George R.

Olsen, Albany; Wayne E. Parker, Tangent; Frank A Parker, Toledo; Annette Weatherford, Edwin Parker, Mrs. D. L. Parker and Mrs.

Realto Weatherford, Corvallis; Julia Jones, Newport; Oneatta Van Cleve, Toledo; Rowena Van Cleve, Toledo; Harvey Young, Toledo; Mrs. W. H. Parker, Salem; Mrs. C.

Portland; Mrs. H. F. Wilkins, Portland; Anne E. Franklin, Toledo; Denver L.

Parker, Corvallis; Glenn Parker, Albany; Lowell Parker, West Linn, Hugh Parker, Toppenish; Leo Olsen, Albany; J. W. Young, Salem; Winston Parker, Toppenish; Harold Olsen, Albany; Roscoe Howard, Toledo; Don W. Young, Toledo; Mrs. Z.

W. Cowan, Vancouver, W. E. Parker and Mrs. Perry Parker, Tangent; Francis Olsen, Albany; George M.

Parker and Helen Starr, Tangent; Mrs. Lulu Parker, Albany; Dorothy Cowan, Portland; Alfreda Olsen and Mrs. W. E. Parker, Albany; Mildred Cowan, Vancouver; Ardyth Kennelly, Clorine Olsen, Ruby Parker and C.

E. Clifford, Albany; A. J. McMillan, Toldeo; Rowland Parker, Albany; Gertrude McMillan, Toledo; Mrs. Harvey Parker, McMinnville; L.

T. Parker, Toppenish; Harry F. Wilkins, Portland; Evelyn Cowan, Vancouver, Marion Kennelly, Albany; Lowell and Maxine Parker, Oregon City; Enita and Donald McMillan, Toledo; Carolyn N. and Robert H. Starr, Tangent; H.

C. Young, Franklin Wilkins, Robert, Jean, Pera Francis and Betty Ann Wilkins, Toledo; William W. Parker, Tangent; Donald, Leo, Harold and Marquita Olsen, Albany; Lawrence Cowan, Vancouver, and Richard H. and Geraldine Parker of, McMinnville. 50-50 PARTNERS PROVIDE THRILLS I.

O. O. F. OFFICER TO BE GUEST OF CANTON TONIGHT L. D.

Porter, a member of the local I. 0. 0. lodge, who was elected Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, at the recent meeting at Ashland, will be the guest of honor tonight at a meeting of the members of Alco Canton Number 20. The meeting is also to include delegations from the Fourth Bttalion which includes Salem, Silverton, Lebanon, and Albany.

W. E. Wardworth of Harrisburg, district commander, will be in attendance to participate in the program. Refreshments: and a social hour will be featured. All members and their wives are expected to be in attendance.

BROTHER SAVES LAKE CREEK BOY HALSEY, June 15. (Special)--Gordon Palmer, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lyman Palmer of Lake Creek, was rescued from drowning by his brother, Thomas, the first of last week.

The slipped into a creek where the water was five feet deep while playing on some fallen trees. Mr. Palmer and the older son were sawing logs nearby an dThomas, hearing the splash, went to his brother's rescue. From SalemProf. and Mrs.

B. F. Franklin of the Willamette University faculty, formerly of Albany college faculty spent the week end in Albany as the guest of friends. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF LINN Department No. Two RUTH E.

HELT Plaintiff, VS. BERNIE A. HELT Defendant SUMMONS. JANET FORD By RUSSELL J. BIRDWELL HOLLLYWOOD, June 15.

(NEA) -There is a little band of girls in the film town who risk their lives almost daily for the glorification of fabulously paid motion picture stars. They are the "doubles," the shadowy selves of film celebrities, who put the punches in the pictures. The hazardous and treacherous feats that you behold on the screen were enacted by one of these girls -never by film star who receives the glory of the big thrill! These girls risk neck and limb for $25 per day. They are the daredevil's own kin, and range in age from 19 to 25. There are few motion picture stars who have attained their pinnacle in the film firmament without the aid of doubles at some time or other.

Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Norma Talmade almost without exception, all of the "big ones" have been aided in their climb to fame by the services of daring doubles. Doubling for Mary In "Tess of the Storm country" it was little Elsie B. Ware whom the fans saw in all of the water scenes instead of "Our Mary." And in "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall" it was Marilyn Mills on her beautifully trained Arabian horse, Beverly, who leaped over a crumbling hill instead of Miss Pickford. wall and a slid half way down a steep Miss Mills escaped unhurt, but her horse suffered slight injuries and was retired until the injuries had healed. Winna Brown.

an expert Loretta Rush and Janet Ford, both of whom hold championship medals for diving and swimming, have also doubled for Miss Pickford. TO BERNIE E. HELT, the above named defendant: IN OF THE STATE OF OREGON, You are hereby quired to appear and answer the complaint of the above named plaintiff in the above entitled Court now on file with the Clerk of said Court, on or before the 13th day of June, 1925, and you are notified that if you fail to appear and answer said complaint as hereby required, the plaintiff will apply to the above entitled Court for the relief demanded in plaintiff's complaint, for a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff defendant and that plaintiff be given a decree of divorce; and for such other relief as Court may seem equitable. This summons is published for six consecutive weeks in the Semi- Weekly Democrat, a newspaper published weekly in the City of Albany, Linn County, Oregon, commencing with the issue dated the 30th day of April 1925, and ending with the issue dated the 11th day of June, 1925, pursuant to an order duly made by the Hon. B.

M. Payne, County Judge for Linn County, Oregon, and dated April 27th, 1925. WEATHERFORD WYATT Attorneys for Plaintiff. Postoffice address: 122. West First Street, Albany, Linn County, Oregon.

Semi A30 M7-14-21-2874-11 Scallops Make This Dress "RED" THOMPSON TAKING HIS over 200 CLIFF ELSIE WARE Ford, one of Hollywood's most fearless doubles. Miss Ford has doubled for Priscilla Dean, Louise Lorraine, Norma Talmadge, Florence Gilbert, Anna Q. Nilsson, Louise Fazenda and Enid. Winna Bennett. Brown has "made up" in the attire of countless stars and essayed for them daring stunts which have immeasurably increased their popularity.

Miss Brown jumped from a second story window, breaking an artery in her ankle, while doubling for Priscilla Dean, and threw her horse backwards over a cliff for Colleen Moore in "The Daughter of Mother McGinn." She rode the camel for Pola Negri in "Bella Donna" and did all the horseback in riding for Norma Talmadge "Ashes of Vengeance." She even doubled for Joseph Schildkraut in the riding scenes of "Song of Love," and did the riding for Constance Talmadge in "The Dangerous (Maid." Connie was supposed to have been the "dangerous" maid but in reality it was Miss Brown. Men Also Are Doubles Besides the group of girls, there are a few men who exist in this film town by their iron nerve. For instance, Ray "Red" Thompson doubled for Barbara LaMarr in the fire scenes of "The Shooting of Dan MeGrow." Bobby Rose does most of doubling work for Ruth Roland, hailed as the "nerviest girl in films," Harvey Perry has donned feminine attire and doubled many times for Shirley Mason; "Red" Thompson doubled for John Bowers in the fall from a horse into a pool of water in the Columbia river--a distance of 200 feet in Monis "Quincy doubled Adams for Milton Sills in the fall from the top of a moving 'train in "The Honor System." Burch was born in Kentucky, November 18, 1850, and died June 14, 1925. being 74 years and seven months old. On April 4, 1869 she was married to Dennis Watkins who, with three children survive her.

The children are: Mrs. Minnie Banks, Mrs. Virgil Weddle and Walter Watkins, all of Jefferson. One son, Mark Watkins, and an infant daughter having preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at the home on Tuesday afternoon at Laughs, thrills, an occasional sob and more laughs are the ingredients that make "In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter," now playing at the Globe theater, one of the most entertaining and pleasing pictures of the year.

In this second screen venture of the famous partners, Abe and Mawruss go into the motiton picture business, 'and it is the complications that result from their attempts to produce a picture starring a vampire that produces the hilariously funny comedy situations. Of course, the wives of the partners do not approve the vamp idea, nor is the situation simplified when the bank refuses to extend more credit at a critical moment. THREE large tucks, Anished The intense loyalty of one partner with scalloping, make an attrac. for another prompts Abe to take a tive hemline for this girlish frock wild automobile ride to save Mawruss of green pussy willow. Scallops also and Director Alfred E.

Green has adorn the collar and the very short this ride thrills sleeves. The front Is belted, but the packed into galore. back is held in place by three rows And every thrill ends in a laugh. of shirring..