50.000 BELGIANS MINING
COIL FOR
(By Associated Press)
AMSTERDAM, March 24. — Piles
of coal covering scores of acres are
being heaped up around the collieries
at Charleroi, Liege and Mona, where
nearly 50,000 Belgians are working
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in night and day shifts. Although
there Is great shortage of eoal at
places less than a hundred miles
away, none of the coal is being moved
as the German authorities require all
available means of transport for mili
tary purposes.
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
Dr. C. L. Hale's office, while he is
out of town, will be conducted by Dr.
W. \V. Trabue.
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CHURCH NOTICES.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Preaching service 11 a. m., “An
Ideal Prayer" (Lenten Study); Sal)
bath school 12 in.; preaching servicos,
7:30 p. in., “The Call of Repentance.”
The Bible Study Class will meet on
Friday evening .instead of Wednesday
evening, at 7:30. May this Lenten
season mean to you one of heart
searching, prayer and sacrifice for the
Master, who died to free you from the
power of sin and death. The music
for the evening service is as follows:
Prelude.Sachs
Solo—“Lead, Kindly Light" . . Dykes
Mr. H. T. Sorvlk.
Violin Solo—“Nearer My Bod to
Thee".Mason
Postlude.Graun
The public Is most cordially invited
to join us in all the services of the day.
A. G. SHRIVER, Pastor.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
There will be no services nt the
Episcopal church, as the rector is
holding services elsewhere.
PACIFIC COAST
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SAN FRANCISCO. March 24. — To
finish In four swimming races, and
breaking either a world's record or a
Pacific coast record in each Instance,
! but falling to win a single event Is
i the unique experience of Norman
Ross, star swimmer of Stanford Uni
! varsity and the Olympia- 'Hub of San
i Francisco. ____
Ross competed‘•(fT tjjm recent 11m
I Pacific meet held In Honolulu and ,
j was opposed by a field' in which
! world’s champions such as I.ndy Ran
ger, Perry McQlllivray and other
noted swimmers were his rivals. Four
records were shattered, and in each
instance was only a few inches be
hind.
Since his return from the Islands
Ross friends have been asking what
the trouble was with him as lie did not
j win a single event.
"It doesn't do any good to tell them
[that I swam better than I ever did
[ before," said Ross. “The fact that
1 I did not win overshadows the fact
' that I finished second each time In
better thnn the original world's
mark.”
Hates for the four major champion
shiii tennis tournaments to be played
this year In the northwest have been
announced by Walter A. Goss, Port
land, sectional delegate of the United
States National Lawn Tennis Assocla
tion. They follow: Inlnnd Umpire
! championship, Spokane, Wash, June
l '0 to July 4; Oregon State Champion
ship, Portland, Ore., July 23 to July
28; Northwest Championship, Tacoma
Wash., July 30 to August 4; Washing
ton State Championship, Seattle.
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Wash., August 6 to August 11.
(loss Is communicating with the
various northwest clubs endeavoring
to arrange to send the champion
northwest doubles team to play In the
national doubles tournament at Ixing
wood. The northwest has never been
represented In the national doubles.
It Is expected the usual number of
California players will come north
again this year, as the Portland, Ta
coma and Seattle tournaments follow
close In order.
The Montana State College basket
ball team, a contender In the Ami
tour Athletic Union's national basket
ball tournament, closing today at Chi
cago, has a fine record for the season
The buelnes smen of Bozeman have
guaranteed the expenses of the State
College team to Chicago.
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Northwestern bowlers will roll for
championship honors at the fifth an
nual Northwest International Bowling
Congress tournament, to he held at
Portland during the week of April 24.
According to J. Warren Blaney. man
ager of the Oregon Alleys, where the
tourney will be held, between sixty
and sixty-five teams will be entered
in the five-man event and about 200
In the singles contests.
Spokane and Seattle nre to send
six five man teams each. It ts ex
pected Vancouver, B. C„ will be repre
sented by three and Tacoma by two.
Already twenty-five Portland five-man
teams have applied for entry blanks
Several Oregon towns, including Cor
vallis, Eugene, Salem, Albany and As
toria are planning to send teams and
entry blanks have been sent on re
quest to eastern Washington points.
Campbell and Park, who set the
northwest doubles at the 1915 tourna
ment In Spokane with 1252 pins, and
Charles Hermann, who won the north
west singles title In Portland in 1914,
will be members of the Vancouver
team In the coming tourney. Charles
Kruse, who holds the northwest nil
event record, will roll with the Port
land five.
According to an official of the Seat
tle Athletic Club, the Pacific North
west boxing and championship meet
was called off because of the impos
sibility to arrange contests, nearly all
the amateurs of real ability having
gone into the professional class. The
tournament was to have been held
March 15-16.
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NOTICE TO COAL CONSUMERS.
Beginning March 19 we will make
sidewalk delivery only of coal. Cus
tomers whose coal cannot bo deliv
ered from wagons or by chute will
hereafter arrange to have their coal
in.
ALASKA TRANSFER CO.
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Oldtlmers at Nome state that the
long continued uniformly cold weather
which has prevailed during the pres
ent winter is unprecedented since
white men have been in the country.
ENGLAND COMMANDEERS'
LARGE AREA LAND
(By Associated Press)
LONDON. March 24. — For the use
of encampments and other mllitary
purposes 150,000 acres of land have
been taken over In England by the
military authorities Building* on
these lands, valued at £2,500,000, have
also been commandeered.
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A recent report received at Anchor
age stated that the Ice on the Mata
nuska river was In excellent condition
for freighting and that seven ton toads
were being hauled over It.
EASTER WAISTS
Wo are now showing a full Tine of the latest creations
in waists, which are very classy.
They include Chiffon, Crepe and Silk and Over-lace
Waists.
ROLFE’S
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