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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
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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
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New Crop Raisins Cur
rants, Citron, Orange
and Lemon Peel, Etc.
Uli
mi
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. ’’
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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<rt
that any considerable amount of flax
'killed a wildcat near the north limits
will b' raised in Belgium, Ireland or
Russia and that it will devolve upon I it the city lli ■ sum ■ day, the beu.-t
the United States to furnish the great- , weighing 35 puunus.
er part of the fiber needed within the I
next few years. It is well known that | Held for Stealing Automobile
the Willamette Valley and other parts
jf Oregon can produce flax fiber equal
to the very best European product and
Roseburg Or., Nov. 11 -L. M. White
he b«)ieves that this is Oregon’s oppor and Charles R. Stroup are in jail here,
tunity to attract the attention of the charged with stealing all auto in Col
world by her flax production. In the fax, Wash, and driving it aB far as
vicinity of Salem it has been demon Cottage Grove, where it broke down.
strated that one acre of flax will pro Sheriff W. (iole, of Colfax, will take
duce from 560 to 600 pounds of clean the prisoners to
Washington as
fiber which at present prices should j soon as the requisition is honored by
make this crop as profitable a« any the Governor.
thing the farmers can raise.
Within the last few days steps nHVe
Righi to Free Wood
been taken to build an electric line be- I
Astoria and Seaside. It is believed
Electric Sparks
Roseburg, Or., Nov. 12 The Com
that the necessary right of way can be
secured practically without cost and missioner of the General Land Office
that work on the line will be commenc has made a ruling that all homestead
We will all have lots to be thankful ed within a short time.
aetlkrs may annually take from nearby
for thia year.
Work has been commenced on a can land, timber valued not more than J.r0
Almost every man loves his country ning plant at Houlton. The last few on the stump This is to rc.ieve horn. -
I enough co talk for it.
years has seen such a remarkable in slenders and aid them in building sheds
And they ought to put a double war crease in the output of fruits and vege houses or fences.
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tax on phonograph records.
tables in that territory that some
It ia reported that E. Mahoney; pro-
means of taking care of the surplus
i prietor of the Chocolate Corner, will
has become imperative.
A dove of peace will come home to
The First National Bank of Canby . instai1 a motion picture resort in the
roost if you wdl give it leave.
opened its doors for tbe flr«‘ time last Orth null in me near future.
We understand that Boston fans use
| just as much slang as anyone.
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PORTLAND LETTER
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