Approximately 22 per cent cf the
OREGON NEWS NOTES automobiles
now operating In Oregon
are non-resident machines, according
by the state highway de-
OF GENERAL
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Principal Events of the Wr e
Brietly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
TODAY
is the day you should begin to experience the
satisfaction and enjoy the profit that comes
to the owner of a Fort Ison. The weather and
tin* ground are ideal for plowing.
BUY A FORDSON
today—heat the weather man and get that
field plowed easily, cheaply and quickly.
Demonstration dav or night.
$ 484.60
' DELIVERED IN COTTAGE GROVE
WOODSON’S FOR FORDSONS
Pure ice delivered daily at your door. Keep
your food cool and tasty. Use it in your
hevera ges.
REFRIGERATORS
—sold at wholesale prices with a small de
liverv charge added.
Cottage Grove Ice Co.
Hartéis <S¿ Safley—Rear Uit.v Meat Market
Chcrro Hour
You camml iro w rong In buy a flour that makes white ami
light bread witli that n a tu ra l nu tty flavor. ( ’IIERRO flour
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assures you nf a superior quality.
Use nIKK*HO Flour and he suit* of getting
flour made of old wheat at the right price.
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T e n d e r meats that lack
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the best meats y o u r money
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bine tenderness and fine
flavors because wo secure
o u r beef from source« tha t
g u a ra n te e this com bina
tion tn us. A I'resli stock
nf all kinds of steaks,
chops, roasts, p oultry and
beef on hand at all times.
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If you saw it first you saw it in The Sentinel
Expenditures for educational pur
poses In Marion county for 1921 to
taled $772,298 46
Itusiness was suspended In Iiend
Wednesday, the date of the unnual
nierehants' picnic.
September 16 and 16 has been set as
the dates for the 12th annual Hood
Klver counly school fair.
Lloyd Murray, who escaped from
the state hospital at Salem six months
ago, was captured near Scto.
Work haH been begun on construc
tion of the foundation of Astoriu's
proposed new $:i()0.000 hotel
Rev. Joseph Hoberg, well-known
Methodist minister, died at his home
In McMinnville. He was 94 years old.
An organization for the co-operative
m arketing of their crops Is being form
ed by grape growers of Josephine
county.
Ten thousand persons are expected
to attend the celebration Septemlier 9
of the completion of the new railroad
to Vernonla
B artlett pear shipm ents started last
week from the Rogue river valley, the
first few carloads being consigned to
Salem canneries
With the opening of the annual hop
picking season a few days away, Lane
county growers are predicting a short
age of help In the fields.
Members of the Progressive Busi
ness Men's club of Portland presented
20 band instrum ents to the state train
ing school hoys at Salem.
Plans are practically completed for
the second annual northwest hay and
grain show, which Is to be held In
Pendleton Septem ber 18-23.
Fire swept through a half block of
Ihe business section of Slayton, com
pletely destroying the buildings and
doing damage estim ated at $45,000.
Damage estim ated by fire officials
at $50,000 was caused by a fire which
swept through the W ebster garage
in Portland and burned 33 motor ve
hicles.
A small pocket of gold, seven miles
from Kerhy, yielded over $1200 In
free gold. Two prospectors stumbled
on the vein and took the metal out in
three days.
Plans for one of the most extensive
displays ever made to represent Lane
county at the state fair at Salem is
being worked out by officials of the
local board.
A measure authorizing the city
council of Eugene to issue bonds In the
sum of $15.000 for the purchase of a
new fin pump truck, will be on the
November ballot.
Approximately $13,000,000 voted for
the relief of the ex-service men has
been obligated by claims already ap
proved by the world war veterans state
aid commission.
A coyote suspected of having rabies
waB shot on Fast Main street In
Klamath Falls by Frank Pecholt, after
the animal had bitten a dog anil
frightened residents of the neighbor
hood.
Ole Paulson, 50, gave himself up to
Sheriff Ed Ellingsen at Marshfield,
declaring that he had burned his $7000
dance hall at Coaledo on July 16 after
It had just been furnished. The hall
was insured for $6000.
The new grade of the La Crande-
Joseph highway Is now open and the
old Wallowa hill grade, which was one
of the most treacherous of mountain
roads In eastern Oregon, is no longer
used by autom obllists.
Oil tests being made In the Sweet
Home country are boosting the value
of the land there, and In some cases
persons owning property adjacent to
ihe scenes of operation are asking
prohibitive prices or refusing to sell.
Prunes are looking well in Douglas
county, but continue to drop heavily
in Lane and Marion countlea, accord
lag to the summary of crop conditions
in Oregon issued by the departm ent of
agriculture for the week ending Au
gust 15.
Approximately 1600 persons will be
employed in the Salem canneries dur
Ing the next aix weeks, when more
than 3750 tons of pears and 1800 tons
of blackberries will be processed and
prepared for shipment to the eastern
markets.
An eastern blarksnake measuring
five feet two inches In length was
killed near the depot at Heppner. This
Is the first specimen of blarksnake
ever found In this part of Oregon and
speculation is rife as to how and when
Is snakeship arrived.
Unless loganberry growers of the
W illamette valley are ussured of not
less than six cents a pound for their
product next season, many of them
will dig up their vines and engage In
other business This was the an
nounremeut made at a meeting of a
large num ber of growers held at Lib
erty. I-ast year loganberries sold as
low as 2H cents a pound, while this
season most of ihe berries were m ar
keted at four canto.
! observations covering 4609 miles of
i road.
Carl D. Shoemaker, state m aster fish
warden, has announced that the re
quest made to the fish commission
by packers and fisherm en for a five-
day extension of the spring fishing
season, which closes at noon August
25, will not be granted.
According to a report from Deputy
Game W arden Shoem aker of Newport
the state game departm ent will soon
plant the Yaquina hay with a goodly
supply of silver-side salmon und trout.
The report stated that 300.000 salmon
would he planted and 175,000 trout.
Admiral Gregory, chief of the bu
reau of yards and docks of the navy
departm ent, spent a couple of days
at Astoria Inspecting the Tongue Point
naval base property and conferring
with Lleutenaut-Com munder Church
relative to development of the station.
Oregon Is to receive from the fed
eral government an allotm ent of 46
Liberty motor trucks, according to
H erbert Nunn, state highway engi
neer, on return from American lake,
W ashington, where he completed a r
rangem ents for shipping the carriers
into this slate.
Buck herds, when three or more of
them are running together In ('rook,
Deschutes, Klamath, Lake and Jack-
son counties, must be dipped twlc-p
between August 15 and November 15,
according to announcem ent made by
Dr. W. H. Lytle, secretary of the state
sanitary livestock hoard.
Another of Salem’s oldest landm arks
has given way In the march of prog
ress. A crew of men have torn down
a dwelling erected by George Neal In
the year 1850. The house was plas
tered and lathed and In its day was
one of the most pretentious structures
In Oregon. It was located in North
Salem.
Appointment of Captain C. D. Rauch
of Portland as referee to take testi
mony in the Injunction proceedings
Instituted against appearance of the
so-called Green fish bill, an initiative
measure designed to close the Colum
bia river to all except gill net fisher
men, was announced by Judge G. G.
Bingham at Salem.
Work on the third unit of the Ore
gon Pulp and Paper company's plant
at Salem has been started. This unit
will provide facilities for the manufac
ture of bond papers and will give em
ployment to aproxim ately 75 men. The
new unit will cost $300,000 and will
Increase the total cost of the plant to
more than $1,000,000.
Picking of fuggle hops started In
Marlon county Monday, and the pick
ing of clusters should start within the
next two weeks. The recent rains
proved beneficial to the hops, and
estim ates have placed the yield at
55,000 bales. E arlier in the sea3on
it was predicted that the entire crop
would not exceed 40,000 bales.
Ground at Twelfth avenue East and
Hilyard street in Eugene has been
selected for the site of the new $100,-
000 hospital to be erected by the Eu
gene Bible university, according to
announcement. In addition to the city
building n 32-acre tract south of Eu
gene has been selected for a simitar
itim and convalescent building.
The Shea hill section of the Fos-
ter-fascadiu road now has the official
approval of the federal government.
Copy of the agreem ent signed by Sec
retary of Agriculture Fall has been
received by the Linn county court,
whereby the governm ent gives $28,000
to aid in the Improvement of the road
way. Linn county will match this
sum.
A new attendance record for nation
al guard drill in a harvest and vaca
tion month was set for July, 1922, by
the Oregon national guard, accordiqg
to the monthly report of drill attend
ance Issued by George A. White, adju
toot-general. A total of 1763 rltizen
soldiers attended each one of the four
drills held in arm ories during the
month.
Potato diseases are less prevalent
In Deschutes county this season than
last, according to Professor Hyslop.
of the Oregon Agricultural college,
who has completed his field inspec
tion for seed certification. As a re
sult 30 per cent of the registered
fields passed inspection, which is a
high percentage considering the high
standard required.
Solution of the acute problem fac
ing the pear growers of Ihe Rogue
River valley was reached when the
Umpqua Valley Canning company
leased the cold storage plant of the
Roseburg Ice company. On account
of the railroad situation the grow
ers found themselves unable to ship
any except their very best fruit, and
It appeared that heavy losses would
occur. The cannery has not sufficient
capacity to take care of the surplus
as it ripens, but by obtaining the cold
storage plant ran continue the sea
son until the latter part of October,
and will, in this m anner, take care
of all fruit which cannot be shipped
in a fresh condition The cannery
expects to put up about 400 tons of
litis ynar.
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