Funeral service for John Henry Duncan, 91, one of the oldest Masons in Oregon, were held from Crandall’s this afternoon. Rev. Joseph Knotts officiating. The local Masonic lodge, assisted by Rev. Knotts, conducted graveside services at the Odd Fellows’ cemetery.
   Mr. Duncan was a resident of Sherwood. He was born in Missouri February 21, 1838. After the Civil war he lived in Kansas, Colorado and California, coming to Oregon in 1901 and settling near Sherwood.
   He became affiliated with the Sherwood Masonic lodge, although having joined the order in the seventies. He was a member of the South Methodist church.
   He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cecelia P. Duncan, who is 85 years of age and to whom he was married almost 69 years ago; a daughter Effie at home; a son Monty Fleet Duncan of McDonald’s ferry, Sherman county, where he was visiting at the time of his death; a son, E. L. Duncan of Portland, and six grandchildren, sons and daughters of an older son, now deceased.
   Mr. Duncan’s widow was injured almost a year ago when struck down by an automobile and has not been well since then. Funeral services were delayed nearly a week in order that she might attend.
   An interesting incident in the service today was that Rev. Knotts used the old Duncan family Bible, more than 125 years old, from which he read the twenty-third psalm. The Bible was given to Mr. Duncan’s father, Henry Duncan, who was born in 1801.

The Dalles Daily Chronicle
 December 19, 1928

BUTLER APPOINTED ON TWO COMMITTEES

   Reclamation And Public Lands Membership Announced

   True to pre-election predictions made by republican leaders, Congressman Robert R. Butler of The Dalles has been appointed to important congressional committees of which his predecessor, N. J. Sinnott was a former member. It was announced today from Washington.
   Congressman Butler has been named as a member of the public lands committee, of which Mr. Sinnott was chairman at the time of his resignation; and has also been appointed on the irrigation and reclamation committees.
   These bodies are claimed of particular significance, in view of the fact that Oregon contains large tracts of land in which these committees are definitely interested. Butler’s membership on the committees indicates that this state will have adequate representation in problems involving public lands, irrigation and reclamation, it is declared.
   Mr. Butler will also make appointments to the military and naval academies at West Point and Annapolis respectively, on the basis of competitive examinations conducted under the civil service commission at The Dalles, Baker, Pendleton, Bend and Klamath Falls, January 12, it is announced.
   Word of Mr. Butler’s appointments, and of the West Point and Annapolis examinations were contained in a telegram sent by Edward D. Baldwin, Mr. Butler’s secretary, to The Chronicle.

TRUCK COMPANY NAMED IN SUIT BY CAR DRIVER
   $1400 Damages Sought As Result of Bad Highway Crash

   A civil suit growing out of the numerous gasoline transport truck accidents in the Mid-Columbia this month was on file in the circuit court today by J. D. Hutchinson against the Arrow Transfer company.
   Hutchinson seeks $1200 general damages for the loss of his truck, which was virtually demolished about 1 o’clock in the morning of August 11 near Rowena when it was struck from the rear by a loaded gasoline truck driven by C. E. Jenner of The Dalles.
   The owner of the lighter vehicle also seeks compensation of $112 for the loss of a load of blackberries which were on the vehicle when it was struck; $100 for the loss of time involved in getting a new truck and court costs and attorney’s fees.
   Hutchinson cites several causes why he should be compensated. He declares that both headlights and the taillight were burning when the other vehicle struck the rear of the berry truck, and alleges that Jenner was driving at too high a rate of speed.
   The truck company sustained a heavy loss in the accident. The trailer went into a ditch and overturned and both trailer and forepart of the truck were badly damaged. Jenner said at the time that he saw no lights ahead of him.

COURT EVICTION ORDER IS ASKED BY LITIGANT
   A petition for a circuit court writ of assistance to remove claimants from property sold to satisfy a mortgage judgment was presented today by Charles Bernard citing Louis and Florence Comini in the petition.
   According to the document Bernard took judgment against the Cominis in the sum of $3250 in a mortgage action, and thereafter bid in the property himself at a sheriff’s execution sale for the amount of $3000. The defendents in the civil action were fully advised of the case, it is declared.
   After Bernard had purchased the property and received due title to it, he requested the previous owners to move, but it is alleged in the petition that they have refused to leave the property. A court order requiring them to give possession to the new owner is requested in the petition.

   MRS. MARTHA PAGE DIES
   Mrs. Martha Page, 80, a resident of Friend (OR.) for the last 26 years, died at her home there this morning at 6 o’clock.
   Funeral services will be held from the Friend church tomorrow at 2 p.m. with the Methodist minister of Dufur officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in the Kingsley cemetery. Funeral arrangements are being made by the Zell funeral home.
   Mrs. Page is survived by five children, her husband having died in 1929.
   Three sons, Harrison, Henry and Frank live at Friend; another son William, is in southern California, and her daughter, Mrs. Minnie Chandler, lives in Oklahoma.