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TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
Leaders in Freedom’s Cause
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.
THE MARKETS
Portland
Wheat — Rig Bend bluestem. hard
winter, 60Hc; aoft white and western
white, 51c; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 49*4c.
Hay—Buying prices, f. o. b. Port
land; Alfnlfa, Yakima, (13.50.
Butterfat—Pound 11© 13c.
Eggs—Ranch, IE© 16c.
Hogs—Good to choice. $3 7504.60.
Cattle—Choice steers. $8.0007.00.
Lambs -Spring. $3.7504.10.
Seattle
Wheat—Soft white, western white,
herd winter. 50c; western red. 60c;
oorthern spring, 60c; bluestem, 60c.
Eggs—Ranch, 17018c.
Rutterfat—Pound 15c.
Hogs—Good to choice. $3.7504.25,
Cattle-Choice steers, $6.00© 6.50,
Sheep—Spring lambs, $3.7604.10.
Spokane
Cattle—Steers, good. $6.00 0 6.50.
Hogs—Good to choice, $3.6003.75.
Lambs—Good to choice, $3.5004.00.
Thursday, June 30, 1932
Central Oregon poultry grower« have
received $2500 In cash this season
frotn the Central Oregon Hatchery for
hatching eggs used In the plant. More
than 171,000 chicks and poults have
been hatched by the hatchery.
Plans have been announced by the
Southern Pacific at Marshfield which
center ail passenger and freight traf
fic In the depot grounds at Elrod and
Broadway, closing the present pas
senger depot in the Roger« building.
Recognizing Its vnluo as a food for
I game. Gene Simpson, superintendent
’ of state game farina, has ordered win
ter blue grass seed to be fed young
i birds. The seed ia raised by Hanley
and Hoover In the Rogue River valley.
Erection of a signboard six by eight
feet on which greetings to tourists
wMI be painted has been authorized by
the Ashland Chamber of Commerce.
The sign is to he pui up at the Inter
section of the Boulevard and the Pa
cific highway.
Miss Dora Bruno saved Charles Sig-
frid Jr., 8. from drowning. They were
both ciatndlgging in the surf on the
Seaside beach, when Charles stepped
Into a crab hole. Miss Ilruna dived
after him. rescuing him after be had
gone down twice.
Jobs and food from farms will co
op-rate If the Marshfield community
chest plan works out as expected. Miss
Ellen Rudnas announced there would
be workmen supplied to farmers who
can pay in produce, such as can be
An ordinance to tax chain stores used on the moment.
has been tabled by the city council of
Two sehool tearhera from the Marsh
Klamath Fails by a vote of 4 tc 1.
field schools have chosen a business
University of Oregon law school will venture In the future for livelihood.
maintain a summer school this year Miss Mary Matley and Miss Ether
for the first tlmo In school history.
Hettinger, who resigned this school
The U. S. S. Hulburt. under the com year end, have purchased the Wood
mand of Captain Powers, will grace burn hotel at Woodburn.
the Fourth of July celebration at New
A shortage ot approximately 25 per
port.
cent in Lane county’s tax collections
Fourteen deaths and 402 traffic In for the year was seen by county of
juries resulted during May. Charles ficials following the announcement
(1>— F R IE D R IC H W I L H E L M V O N S T E U B E N . P r u u U a ( « « r a t w ho f o u ,h t for U e p e n d « . .
H i . u o tirto « e f fo r t. C « . . , « ! I k .
j Pray, state superintendent of police, that collections of 1931 taxes for the
i b l M t disheartened A m erican handful of p a trio ts in to a discip'.ned and e ffec tiv e a rm y .
first half ot this year showed a de
reports.
<2 >— N A T H A N A E L G R E E N E . The Scipio A fiic a n u s of the
R evolutio n.
H e saved the South by the b rillia n t s tra te ry th a t ruinad
C ornw allis.
The annual report of the Pendleton linquency of 34.7 per cent.
( 3 ) — J O H A N N D E K A L B . P ro m in e n t m ilita r y f i r u r . in th e W a r ta r Independence. H e died of eleven w o u n d , a t the B a ttle of C am den.
A resolution deploring Introduction
; Grain Growers’ association shows a
ETHAN ALLEN.
H e ro of T ic o n d e ro (a .
D escribed in R e v o lu tio n a ry annals aa “ A re a l bucko, of alm ost ( ii a n t ic statu re
profit of $7445 for the last year. The ot the higher education initiative bill
streE eth, w ith a flo rid idea of freedom aa the fo rtu n e of th e b ra ve , and no pale idea of him s e lf.”
on the ground that it is a wasteful and
profit a year ago was $4700.
would go around, but be preferred to soldiers who decisively smashed the
A gold rush developed near Lake- destructive program parading under
gc through. He was the Stonewall Indian power at Fallen Timbers. The I view last week. Gold la reported in the guise of an economy measure has
Jackson of the Kevoiution.
Indians called him “Black Snake” be paying quantities near Willow ranch, been adopted by the Lane County Tax
payers’ Conservation league.
Stony Point, Monmouth, Brandywine, cause he worked so fast.
Just across the California line.
Germantown—scores of great and
General Wayne returned to his coin
Motor vehicle license plates for the
A very tipsy Con lesser fields of the Revolution—saw maud to rev g .e from British garrisons
The Lane county chapter of The Red
period
July 1, 1932, to June 30, 1933,
tinental soldier ran Rayne’s valor and his military ability. the nortbe-j forts they held so long Cross has announced a plan of placing
went
on
sale at both the Salem and
afoul of that rigor
He loved to fight and he could fight after the Revolution. Moving eastward j a life guard at every know-n public
Portland offices of the statu motor ve
ous disciplinarian. With serene contempt of danger and again, lie was stricken with gout, com swimming place In Lane county.
Brig. Gen. Anthony death he went Into many a battle cer plicated by au old wound In his leg.
hicle division on the 15th and up to
Farmers of the Tuie lake region,
Wayne, one night. tain that he didn’t have a chance to Not quite fifty-two years old. he died
this week has shown a decided slump
He gave the man a come back alive, but that only made December 14, 17iM5. at Presque Isle— facing total crop losses by the swell over the same time last year.
ing lake waters, appealed for federal
verbal d r e s s i n g
him, apparently, hurry on. When a Erie, Pa.— Philadelphia Ledger.
Claiming that many berry growers
aid in building dikes. Thousands of
down, it is related. bullet hit him in the head during the
are
without funds and will be unable
acres have been flooded.
The d i s c u s s i o n
gallant onslaught at Stony Point, he
TICONDEROGA
to buy auto license plates in time to
aroused admlratloD was sure he was going to die and In
Local people of Florence and a num
get their berries to market, a resolu
in all present. Gen
sisted on being tarried up through the
ber of tourists enjoyed the recent sight
tion was adopted at Oregon City re
erai Wayne beine battle so he could breathe his last
1 of a novel visitor to the Oregon coast,
able with his lau
cently by a group of farmers, asking
within the captured fort He lived,
an enormous California gray whale,
gunge, and Ue then threw the fellow and this capture, which ’or that time
a moratorium on the car fees.
■ plainly visible from Heceta head.
into the guardhouse.
saved the Revolutionary cause, was
The voters of Dallas have voted
“My, the general's mad at me,” the hailed as one of the brilliant military
L. E. Bennett was injured seriously
down
by u majority of 26 votes a pro
Intoxicated patriot commented, even exploits of the war.
at Bend recently when a ladder on-
posal
to
issue bonds to build a new city
proudly, “Jus’ ole Mad Anthony, that'»
which he was standing while painting
After the war. when British agents
hall. A city charter amendment pro
what he is—Mad Anthony Wayne!”
a high sign was struck by a truck and
stirred up Indian warfare in rite Nurih
viding for the appointment by the
That, it is reported. Is the origin ot west territory. Generals Hcrrnar ano
Bennett was hurled to the pavement.
council of auditor and police judge
the nlckna.ne given one of the greatest
St. Clair suffered notable defeats from
Charles Redding of the class of 1928 was also voted down by a majority of
fighters of the American Revolution
the red warriors. President Washington,
at
Willamette university has been 192 votes.
though it is more likely that this able troubled by his fears that Wayne was
elected president of the alumni asso-
and beloved leader of men, who forged brave and nothing else, nevertheless
The plan proposed by the Roseburg
i elation to succeed Carl J. Hollings
the Scotch Irish and Pennsylvania sent him on to handle Hie situation—
Chamber of Commerce to increase but
Dutch farmers ot the “Pennsylvania n feathpr In Wayne's cap. because he
worth. Redding is a Portland attor
ter and egg consumption throughout
Line” into the toughest fighting outfit and SL Clair had long been hitter ene
ney.
the United States has met with con
of the war, earned his designation by mies. Wayne's army was pretty much
The skeleton of a human leg, from siderable favor, judging by the many
his reckless, dashing, eager courage.
riffraff. and he spent months drilling,
In the Name of the Great Jehovah the knee down was found on a gravel
letters received from governors of
If he couldn't go through. Wayne drilling, drilling, turning his men Into
and the Continental Congress!”
bar on the Willamette about eight states, chambers of commerce and
miles above Lowell by C. F. May, a other organizations.
tude of republics, comments a writer diers were gathered into groups and
firherman. The shoe was still on the
in ttie Milwaukee Journal.
It is estimated by the county agent
the officers, by torchlight, read to them
foot
Tlie Colonists five months after de
the words of the pamphlet:
of Jackson county that between 1800
flaring their independence were well
There should be a 50 per cent cherry and 2000 acres of orchard land were
“These are the times flint try men's
ttigh hoMteti Across New Jersey's souls. Tiie summer soldier and the crop harvested in the Ashland district swept by the recent hail storm. Some
AH America hows frozen marshes Washington's ragged sunshine patriot will, in tills crisis,
this year, according to Thornton Wiley, ot the orchardtsts estimate a loss of
reverently to the remnant of an army fled desperately shrink from ttie service of his country,
one of the largest growers in the val 100 per cent and others from 50 per
memor; ot George
Two days before Christens. 1778 but he tha. stands It now deserves the
Wasliington
But General Washington resolved as a last Io vp and thanks of man and woman. I ley. Harvesting of Bings started last cent down. Some of the loss may be
week.
what of the men
salvaged by thinning.
deg|>erate measure, to make a surprise Tyranny, like hell, is not easily- con
■>ry of another who. attack upon the Hessians at Trenton. quered. yet we have this consolation ! Della Woods, 16, Philomath, five
Directors of the Astoria Chnmber of
with only his pen
But the chances of victory were so with ns. that the harder ¿l.e conflict miles west of Corvallis, was seriously Commerce have adopted n resolution
helped as much as small! The Americans, frozen starved tlie more iorious the triumph, what injured when her throat was cut as
any in achieving and discouraged, were losers almost we obtain too cheap we «teem too she was hurled through the windshield urging the city council and the city
manager to make an earnest effort to
Washington's tri before they started. As the American lightly; 'Ils dearness only thnt gives
of a car driven by Paul Bauer, 16, also work out some plan by which Astoria
umph?
commander sat gloomily figuring his everything Its value. Heaven knows
householders may use excess city
Tom Paine, who chances a pamphlet was brought In. how to put a oroper price upon its of Philomath.
Oregon is returning to the horse era. water for sprinkling at a rate that
arose to aid Amer fresh from Philadelphia.
goods, and It will be strange. Indeed,
ica I d its darkest
"The Crisis" was the title and “Com
if so celestial an article as freedom according to Dr. W. IL Lytle, Biate will not be prohibitive.
hour, and for a re mon Sense” was the writer. Washing should not be highly rated.”
veterinarian. Lytle said the gas pow
Another step in the unionization of
ward won only contempt and curses! ton rend, then shouted In Joy.
“These are the times Hint try men’s ! er farm machinery age has left the churches at Bandon has been taken.
Truly a stark reminder of the grati-
The drums were sounded, the sol souls” was the battle cry nt Trenton. Oregon ranch, with a resultant imple
Representatives of twe Presbyterian,
ment cemetery.
Methodist and Baptist churches have
Residents of Jetty, a little settle appointed a committee to draft plans
ment four miles west of Wheeler on of union. The Church of God and the
Sketch of
the Coast highway, had their first elec Methodist Episcopal Church,. South
tric lights last week, when the power have withdrawn from the movement.
West Point
company received permission to cross
The President’s cup for 1931, tho
the Southern Pacific tracks.
Made in
highest award of the American Jersey
The largest band of turkeys in Polk Cattle club, has been awarded to a
1780
county
this season will probably be cow owned by John Kopplin of Gas
to
raised by Lloyd Stephens of the Smith- ton. IBs cow, Rinda’s Rossalre’s Tus
by Major
field district, who already has 2500 sle, a senior three-year-old, was award
poults and expects to add enough to ed this coveted recognition with a rec
Re
L ’Enfant
finish the year with that many mature ord of 15,592 pounds of milk contain-
birds.
t ing 1042.81 pounce of butterfat
Honor and Fame to
Brave ‘Mad Anthony’
Paine’s Pen Factor
in British Defeat