ÀÀioiuAiCiii OUL'leiy JACKSONVILLE, JACKSON COUNTY,“ OREGON, NOVEMBER li. 1911 with similar cases instituted against 1HE CITY COUNCIL packers in New York by the Weights and Measures Department of that David L. Curtis Stricken by state. E. J. Nedd is the Medford man­ Adjonmed Session Held Tues­ ager of the company and advices were received yesterday by Deputy State day Night. Mostly Rou­ Paralysis Died Oct 22. Sealer Buchtel from Charles L. Han­ tine Business Trans- son, County Sealer of Weights and David L. Curtis, 70 years old. died, Measures of Jackson County, of the acted. at his residence, *08 S. Michigan st. conviction. The law which he was Thursday morning. He suffered a stroke charged with violating provides that it of paralysis Tuesday noon, from which shall be unlawful for any person selling he never recovered. a commodity to include in the weight | The city council met in regular ses­ He was born in St. Joseph county, of the commodity sold the weight of sion at the city hall Tuesday evening, June 15, 1844. He was the son of James anything else, save the weight of the j the meeting having been adjourned and Nancy Curtis. He resided in this commodity. Nedd sold 38 pounds of from last week on account of the elec­ locality practically all his life with the bacon to the Fouts Grocery Company, tion being held in the council room. exception of few years spent in Jack­ and included in the weight the weight | Present—Mayor Britt, Councilmen i Florey, McIntyre, Norris and Prim; sonville, Ore. of wrapping paper, which a- On Sept. 19, 1868 he married Susan mounted to one pound and seven ounc­ Recorder Stansell and Attorney Han­ na. Minutes of previous meeting read Patterson, who survives him, he is al­ es. and approved. Reports of officers so survived by a sister Mrs. Alex Derr I read and ordered filed. of South Bend, and a brother of Osce­ The usual grisc of bills for supplies, ola. Law Will be Deferred street work, etc were presented to the Mr. Curtis was a man of inventive council, audited and ordered paid. genius. He secured many valuable pa­ The street committee were directed tents some of which are still pending. Washington. Nov. 9—President Wil­ to examine the condition of streets He was also at one time prominently identified with the Masonic order and son does not expect a Presidential pri- ! and determine what repairs should be I rnary law to be paesed during the next j ' made. the Knight Templars. Nearly all of his life was spent in session of Congress and some Demo- i ' A petition for street light in the ex- : the grocery business. At the time of cratic leaders do not believe one can be ! treme eastern end of town was pre- I sented and referred to the committee the Mishawaka fire he was the first to enacted to be effective in 1916. I on light with instructions to take up In his message to Congress last De- reopen his store. He was also the founder and proprietor of the Granger 1 cember the President urged that such the matter with the California & Ore­ store, which was located on Jefferson i a law be passed immediately, and ex­ gon Power Company as to installing blvd, Later he owned a grocery store pressed hope that there would be geu- same. at 329 S. Michigan st., and at the time e, al agreement to it. He is known still of his death he was conducting a store to favor primary law, but investigation THE LOCAL PAPER at 112 E. Sample st.—South Bend, In- has impressed on him the difficulties of the technical details. The chief dif- diana, Journal. f. culty encountered by the President -------------------- has been that of fixing a date for the D es Most for Least Money. Presidential primaries, Primaries now Bank to Reopen Soon are held on different dates in the states Best Investment a Com- and the question has been whether or mui it} Can Make Centralia, Wash. Nov. 11—The State not the legislatures can change the Bank Examiner yesterday published 3tate primary dates before 1916. Se­ the statement of the Union Loan & parate state and National primaries, Ex-Governor Francis once said the Trust Company, which closed its doors he has beed told, would prove expen­ following' of newspapers: “Each year here in September. The statement sive. the local paper gives from $500 to $1000 shows the bank's condition at the close in free lines to ihe community in whirl of business on October 31, when the | it is loca ed. No other agency can or Has Right to Keep Pupils deposits were $224,611.30. The affairs ■ will do this. The editor, in proportion of the bank appear to be in good con­ I to his means, does more for his town dition and it is expected that it will Salem, Or., Nov. 9. —According to I than any other ten men, and in all fair- reopen for business in the near future either as it stands or after a reorgan­ an opinion rendered by the Attorney- | ness he ought to be supported —not be- General’s office, it is legal for teach- | cauie you like him or admife his writ- ization. eis to keep children who are lax in | ing«, but because the local paper is the their studies and deportment, in after best investment a crmmunity cm Selling Wrappers With Meat school hours. Tile opinion was render­ m .ke. It n ay not be brilliantly editeu ed at the request of R. G. Dykstra, i or crowded with thought, but financial principal of the Buena Vista school af­ I ly it is of m re benefit to the commun- Salem, Or., Nov. 11—Consumers of ter experiencing trouble with two wo­ ' ity than the preacher or teacher. Un- cured meats in the state will be saved men who protested against keeping ! derstand me, I do not mean mentally thousands of dollars annually in the their children in after school hours. ' a id yet on moral questions you wid future should the Supreme Court up­ They called attention to a statute which find most of the papers on the right hold a conviction obtained against the provides that the school hours shall be side. Today the editor of the local Medford manager of the Union Meat from 9 in the morning until 4 in the papers do the most for the least mon Centra' Company for including in the weight afternoon. The Attorney-General s ey of any people on earth. of bacon sold the weight of wrapping office held it not applicable in cases Point Her Jd. se w« paper, according to Deputy State Sea­ where children were detained because ler of Weights and Measures Buchtel. of failure to keep up in their lessors Under direction of a government ex­ The case is the first of its kind to be or where their deportment was not pert, candy is being made from apple brought in the state, and is in line good. syrup. INDUSTRIAL REVIEW FORMER RESIDENT DEAD 1! m New Crop Raisins Cur rants, Citron, Orange and Lemon Peel, Etc. Uli mi mi Le ose Muscatels in Bulk Thompson’s Seedless, in Bulk Raisins and Currants in Car­ tons. All kinds Dried Fruit rand New Goods. LEWIS 7/ie Pioneer Store Jacksonville, Ore. ir ÌI II h il Manufactures Enterprises and Improvements, Providing Payrolls and Promot­ ing Development of Oregon The state election decided the fate of several new court houses and Norm­ al schools. i ' Cargoes of lumber leave Newport regularly for San Pe Iro. La Grande has a new industry for manufacture of fruit by-products. Hood River is erecting an apple e- vaporating plant. The Portland recall fell flat. The people voted no. The new hotel at Sutherlin has been opened to the public. A significant fact fact of the recent elections was the prominence of indus- li ies. Porter Bros. are planning to build a sawmill near Gardiner. Geo. Melvin Miller of Eugene begins wi rk on a $15,000 hotel at Florence. A new bridge across Thorn Hollow, Umatilla County, is to cost $15,000. G. 0. Richardson of Adams is manu­ facturing 200 dozen brooms from a crop uf five acres broom corn. An excursion celebrated the opening of the Willamette Pacific, November 10. Eugene woolen mills have large con­ tracts for fabrics for the European war. A $40,000 biidge is to be built across Nehalem river at Wheeler. By the last statement, the city of Portland had T,834,780 funds on hand. Nov. 5, Portland opened the new Na­ tional theater. The F. E. Wray farm near Silverton has just completed a Silo 16 feet in diameter and 34 feet high it will ho d 146 tons feed. Alvadore in one year has built 41 houses, a $6,000 school, a creamery and cannery. The new concrete apartment build­ ing to be erected by C. C. Hitchcock at Seaside will cost $10,000. Ashland wi.i spend $20,000 enlarging her water and light plant. '1 he Stanley-Smith lumb r C< ., has 25 men at work in its new mill al Green Point, Hood River Coutj. The Oregon City paper Mills cut their time to five days per week, b it short­ ened shifts to employ sixty more hands. Olet’ Johnson has opened the Pendle­ ton Creamery. An $18,000 apartment builoing is go­ ing up on the band. Road. James Hays, a Eugene hop buyer will nuiid a tine residence at Eugene. Amity is planning to build watei- works. A. K. Detwieler, a banner of Toledo Ohio has purchased an entire town ter $15,000. The town Grand Dalles, just across the Columbia river from The Dalles, Or. Il comprises 300 acres, a water plant and a few building . Det- w.elel says he intends to buliu up a manufactuiing town with people from Umo and Cahtornia, wliu preiet north­ ern i limate. Grand Dalles v. as origi­ nally laid off tor a maiiufactuiing city ai d large buiidi. gs were put up for j snoe facturios, tanneries and other in- dusties. Excursion trains were run from the East ail 1 many lo‘s Bold on the iugliiy-1 oiured Hlulemehtsof a Bap­ tist minister and promoter of the ear­ ly 'Seventies. The voters at the recent election had I one purpose—to kill any and all laws j which tend to retard the growth and development of 1 usiness entei prises. Lumber industry output at ail Ore­ gon Seaports is increasing. G. M. Grimes will erect a business block a Seaside. E. Kilfeather w ill al­ so erect an apartment. The first of the two Hill steamers to ply between Astoria and Frisco is to make a trial spin ihe last of this month. NO. 28 Consider the oyster. He never talks week. The bank is financed by qffi- and yet he is always in demand at eve­ cials of the Canby State Batik and oth­ er residents of Clackamas County ry banquet. Eugene is going to build a new Arm­ If some chemist will discover a way io make liquor out of cotton the prob- ory and bonds for that purpose to the amount of $2 ,000 miming ten years, 1 m will be solved. But if we give the Filipinos their in­ were sold last week at- par with ac- dependence, will we be expected t< ' crued interest. guarantee that it will last? Y de seems to think the illness of I her star foot ball player a greater ca­ FORMER DECISION U"HE.D lamity than an epidemic of smallpox T » would be. • No Limit to Damages That One can still order Spanish omelette in a restaurant withouT starting an in­ May be A warded Un­ ternational riot. 4» The Mass, workman buried 48 hours der Liability Act. in quicksand ought to help out with a thriller on submarine experiences. King Albert no doubt will be pleas­ 'Salem, Or., Nov. 10—In an opinion, ed with th« Czar's decoration, after written by Juitice Bean, Supreme having received the German badge of Court today in the cake of Joseph Mc- Claugrerty vs the Rogue River Electric culture. Belgium crushed to earth will rise Co., appellanr, reiterated a former de­ cision in the case which was to the ef-, again. feet that under the employers’ liability That Afiuascalientes convention claims plenary powers, but asks for act there is no limit upon the damages protection from the official it would de­ which can be recovered for the death of a person. pose. The plaintiff sued the company for Gen. Aguilar evidently took pity on the death of his son. i ames MeClaugh- the United States and determined on erty, who was an employe of th compa­ second thought not to shoot up the A- ny, alleging that the son’s death was mericans in Vera Cruz. due to the company’s failure to comply Mr. Carnegie showed rare discern- with the employers’ liability act. The m nt in erecting his peace palace a father received a verdict for $12,5)0. “Phe Hague. ” Suppose he had cho; - Under the law, prior to the passage of the employers’ li ibility act, the most ell Brussels or Antwerp. that could be recovered for the death Another cause for thanksgiving is of a person was $7500 and thecompat y that Congress did no worse. appealed. Possibly the English channel ia b - The Supreme Court holds that the ginning to have doubts as to its natio: - employer’s liability act had repelled ality. this law, and that umier the provisions of the later act there is no limit to the paper Thus far not even a scrap of guarantees peace between R..ger Sul­ damages which may be had for a per­ son's death. After listening to ti.e livan and . ecretary Bryan. evidence a jury was empowered under It’s not an easy task to convince a the act to fix the valu • of the life b st married woman that man is the no! - said the court. The company petition- lest work of the Creator. for a rehearing, and the court today, When the American forces moved in in passing on it, aoherad to i:s former to Vera Cruz that city had a magnifi- opinion. ent cathedra). It still has it. Belgium does not lack for friends. All it nee ls is a place to live in and call home Another thing the amateur strate­ gist cannot undest md is why a seaport should be necessary as an airship base. Japan is conducting the honorabh war in the far e-.st with all the court e y that it can instiil in o thirteen inch u If. lii inter D<. ¿tying Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­ vallis, Or.. Nov. 11 —‘To have cows freshen in i lie fall is of decided advan­ I tage to the dairy man*’’ says l’rufes- | sor E. B. Fitts, Extension dairyman i of the Oregon Agricultural College. “in the first place longer milking periods and greater yearly yields me : thus obtained. “Ihe maximum yield is secured nt I the time w hen the pl ire is ti e highest I The winter price ier,bullet fat is some times l(y per pound niure limn in sum- i mor. “Labor is empb yui to gcod advant­ Oregon Should Raise more age at a lime wtien little can be done on the laitr. Given good shelter and a- Flax. Electric Line Pro- bundance of home grown feed the cost of producing milk in winter is but v,iy poi.d For Aslo ia. little ; not e mat of summer, buccu- I lent teiu is coseima, to the besl suc­ Ban'r Opened at cess ami ,.ie use ol the sdo is recon - uieiide» ior Hourly ad kinds of gre.n Canby. food that cun ihus be pieserveu in lheir fresh and succulent condition. Portland, Ore., Nov. 10, (Special) 11 there is no silo on the farm roots or One of the in iustries in Oregon which I kale lurni. h a good substitute for en- has an opportunity to make a special i silage. ’’ * gro vth at this time, owing to war con­ ditions in Europe, is the fllax indus­ try Dr. E A Pierce, chairman of the Oregon flax committee, has recent­ ly written to thi promotion depart­ Centrai.a. Wash., Nov. 10 liowaid ment of the Portl md Commercial Club ; Gciblei shot and l.iiud a big buck deer invition its participation in this move­ insiile toe limits ol Centralia, bundaj. ment. He calls attention to the fact Tile deer wandered down Seminary Hill that the known flax producing area of I am I wa., uiscoveicd in the cow uastuie the world is comparatively small; that unler present conditions it is unlikely of a man named Trowbiioge, back of The Washington ichool. Philip 11 |p