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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1920)
1919. according to tho annual The family of Mr. and Mrs. greenery, including a large tree OREGON NEWS NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wag Mr. and Mrs. J. K Fisher, of report of (' H McCullough, englnear and hollv twig -d ’ ades on the S. T. Payne, 4928 60th street staff, 7732 Woodstock avenue, Baker, arrived at the home of OF GENERAL INTEREST for the state highway department. Principal Events ui the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Th«' carrier delivery system for luull will !>■■ start««! In Ih'iid on April 1. Major Janna Bruce, Indian war vet- era* mid pioneer id Oregon, la <l<-nd ui M< Mlnnvllle, at tin us« of It2 year». l IirlktinuM bualni-aa In Eugene this eeusun exceeded that of Inal year by loo per cent. A fuel famine has been averted In Hood Hirer and wood and coal are fairly plentiful at tin- present time. For the Improvement of the coast guard service at Hltialaw, a ¡»foot tno tor boat has been shlpp« d to that point. The annual winter meeting of the Oregon Jersey Cattle club was held nt Oregon Agricultural college, December 31 • Oregon haa an approximate total of 968.759 acres In Irrigated lauds, ac cording to Percy A. Cupper, statu en gineer. Albany voters, 98 to SO, have ap proved an Increased Itjvy for school purposes on the lulu tax roll of Linn county. Charles llolstrom, for more than 20 years night watchman at the state cap ital, died ufter an Illness of about nine months. The llood Itlver county court haa adopted a budg- t that will raise a tax of II81.8S1.31, nearly 830,000 more than last year. Crews will begin work on the Hood Hlver Mosier stretch of the Columbia river highway ns soon as the snow clears away. Robert N. Htanflcld and Whitney Boise, both of Portland, were reap pointed menders of the Oregon laud settlement commission. Engineer II It. Jones has complete*! hts survey for the proposed Monmouth gravity water system, which It la estl mated will coat 866,000. Over 850.00» for produce and labor was paid out by the Cottage Grove cannery duHng the 1919 season. The total park was 289 tons. Bate tn automobile dealers have or ganized and plans are being made for a show to be given by the organisation on February 19, 20 and 21. Engi ne will hold a special election for the purpose of votlug 275.000 bouds to furnish funds for an aviation field and additional fire apparatus The Cottage Grove grange haa join ed the Commercial club In going oi. record as opposed to the proposed Issue of I2.0oo.ooo In county road bonds. K t> Warner of Pendleton was ap pointed by Governor Olcott as a mem Iter of the state livestock sanitary hoard to succeed the late J. N. Hur gsas. There wap one fatullty due to acci dent In Oregon during the week end ing December 28. The victim was Rwan N. Swanson, construction work er of Ruxton. Thirty Filipinos, representing the Filipino student body In Salem. Philo math and Corvallis, assembled at Sa lem December 30 to celebrate their na tional holiday. 8. T. Kesteraen. fireman on the Cal Ifornla, Oregon A Eastern railway, was severely Injured at Klamath Falls when he fell from his engine and was dragged 30 fest. Tony lx*ttls, recently discharge I from the penitentiary after serving 20 months for alleged nllen activities dur ing the war. la again under arrest, be lieved to be Insane. Johnson H. Smith, deputy collector of Internal revenue at Portland, was appointed federal prohibition director for Oregon, according to announce ment from Washington, D. C. G. G. Brown, clerk of the state land boaftl, has recommended to the board that ,200.000 of the state school fund be Invested In school district bom’s bearing at least 5 per cent Interest. A bill to hold the attorney general responsible for the operation of all leg islation enacted In Oregon will be sub mitted for ^lte consideration of the state legislature at Its special session In January. The city of Scio lias filed applica tion with the state engineer for the appropriation of to second-feet of wa ter from Thouuts creek for the devel opment of 326 horsepower for munici pal purposes. The Phea company, with processing plants and head offices In Salem, has received from a New York buyer an order for 65 carloads of apple cider to be delivered at the eastern city as soon as the product can be made. R. N. Stanfield, well known sheep man of easterh Oregon, has closed a lease with the Warmsprlngs irrigation district whereby he secures for 99 years the shore line of the district's largo reservoir at a reported consid eration of 150,000. The reservoir or lake will cover thousands of acres and tn midsummer and early fall the water will recede and expose several hundred acres, which will afford excellent graz ing nnd give access to plenty of water In tho dry season. A, proximately 165 bridge» and cul verts. representing a cost estimated at 11,896,7??. were under contract or ad vertised for construction durlrn the Because of the dlssatlsfu .ton ex- s. E., celebrated Christmas with pressed by consumers with r< :»rd to an informal one o’clock dinner. iat,« charged by th,- Douglas County Those who made up the family Vater a Light company a movement group were Mr. and Mrs. Payne, Is on foot at Roseburg to vote bonds nnd the Misses Della and Olive In the aum of approximately 1600,000 with which to Install a municipal plant. Payne. The Douglas county jail was «1« pop evening, Friday This ulated Saturday night about 11 o’clock Lnurc I wood Methodist Sunday ■ when the four Inmates escupí <1 afte; »awing their way out of the me.In caio school will entertain at a ban- and then dropping from a second story quel in the basement dining window to the ground. All of th‘* ee- I room of the church Mrs. Farley’s caped prisoners but oue were captured class, which recently won in the during th'- day. Tli<' confession of Leon Grannan, contest in membership and for who surrendered recently Io, the au- other pointe. tborltlis at Douglas. Arts., admitting that hr robbed the Shasta Limit«d at The wedding of Mrs. Isabel Yoncalla on th«' night of June 16. 1911. Handley and W. E. Whitman haa cleared up one of the griateat was aulemnixed Christmas Eve mysteries in Douglu» county crime an at five o’clock in the study of nuls, according to Sheriff Quin«*. Harold III.well. who has been held Rev. Owen T. Day, pastor of In th«* county Jail at Marshfield for the /Krlctn Baptist church, Mr. several months and parsed through ami Mrs, Whitman will be nt two trials for the alleged murder of Lillian l«euthold. a 16 year old girl of home to their friends al th«- Bandon, probably never will be con Whitman residence, 6720 S3 rd victed. Judge Cuke discharged tho avenue 8. E. jury of th«* second trial after It was Mrs. Lillie Perry, 4924 06th reported that the Jury could reach no agreement. street S. E„ entertained at a Indications that the state fish and family dinner i at 2:30 o’clock oil game commission will refuse to accede Those who en- to Gov< rnor Olcott's r> comuu-ndatlous Christmas day joyed the delicious viands in that William L. Finley be reinstat'd as state biologist and that the com cl udcil Mr. and Mrs. Dolph Coy mission will stand pat on Its action of and their children, Grace, Jim December 11, ousting Finley, are con- i and Ruth; Mr. and Mrs. Earl taln««l In letters r,celv«d by the gov ernor from Frank M Warren and I. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde N. Ftelscliner of Portland, members of Perry, Mrs. Lillie Perry and Roy the commission. Perry. 9 In compliance with a resolution adopted at a conference held In Port Paul Walker, <of Seattle land. Attorney General Brown will rived Tuesday of last week to draft th«' bill providing for an lncr«'a»e join his wife nt the home of her In payments to Injured »nrknu n under parents, Mr. and Mrs. George tho compensation act, according to an nouncement mad«' by members of the Snider, 4418 79th street S. E. stat«* Industrial accident commission. .Mr. Walker returned home i»\st The bill will be submitted for the con Saturday. Mrs. Walker, who sideration of th«* bglalature at Its spe- Vns some time ago called to rial session In January. Reports of excessive damage to the Portland by the serious ¡lines-, fruit and berry Industry of th«* Wil of her father,, will remain till lamette valley, due to th,- recent ft*ce*- Mr. Snider has improved suf lug weather, were emphatically deni« «1 ficientlv. Report of the patient at Salem by (’. I. Lewis, secretary of the Oregon Growers association, amt is that he will probably be al V. W. Brown, seer« tary of the Polk lowed to sit up in a few days. County Growers association. Especial Dr. anti Mrs. W. O. Boon, of ly does thia di-nlal apply to orchards, which the experts stat«* are practically 6930 46th avenue S. E„ gave a uninjured by the freeze. family dinner nt ♦ P- m. on Because of the present car shortax«' Christmas. rooms The Vi I* TV which la saJd to be hampering many decorated with aporopriate Oregon Industries and throwing thou sands of men out of employment. Fr«*d Buchtel, chairman of the Oregon pub lic service commission sent telegrams trf R. H. Alahton, regional director of United States railways at Chicago, and L. C. Gilman of S«'attle. district dlrec*- or of the federal railroad administra tion. urging that they a'd In relieving the situation. W. P. Andrews, forest valuation en gineer of the northwest district, bu reau of Internal revenue, who has bren In Portland since last September 5 in conn,*ctloii with questionnaires by tim ber owners, has completed his work and will return to Washington, D. C. The questionnaires are now being sent to Washington and the valuations placed on timber lands and timber products will be mad«* the basis of Income and excess profits taxes. During th«* period between February 26 and November 30, 1919. enough gas oline was sold In Oregon to operate each motor vehicle now llcenst^d tn the state for a distance of approximate ly 5400 miles, based on an average of 16 mile« to each gallon of gasoline consumed, according to a statement Issued by Sam A. Kotor, assistant sec retary of state. Nearly 30,000,000 gal lons of gasoline was sold to Oregon motor vehicle owners during the peri od covered tn Mr. Kozer's statement. Professor C. 1. Lewis, one of the staff of managers for the Oregon Grow ers Co-operative association, who has mad«' a deep study Into loganberry cul ture. advises loganberry growers here after to delay placing their vines on the trellis until spring to prevent freezing. Lewis advocate«] this sever al y«*iira ago. Th«* subject has been brought sharply to the attention of growers by the recent unusually cold weather which froxe many acres of vines In the Willamette valley that were on the trellises. As a phas<* of the purchase of mors than 13,000 acres of potato land be tween Powell Butte and Prineville by George I. Burtt, on«* of the biggest po tato buyers on the «oast, and associ ates In central Oregon an«l elsewhere, the Deschutes Valley Seed company filed articles of Incorporation. Capi tal stock Is llsted*kt 850.000. The in corporators are Guy K. Dobson. Red- mond banker. Mr. Burtt and Georgs L. Reid. A wide range of agricultural activities Is made possible by the arti cles, but It Is understood that the com pany's work will be chiefly the duction of Netted Gem seed for California market. Good printing Is the dress of business; thnt'a tho kind we do at the W Herald office. Subscribe tor the Herald, $1.50. lights, and the dinner table was graced by a small Christmas tree. Between courses Christ mas gift» were exchanged. Those prese/it were Mr, and Mrs. Atkwith nnd their son Billy; Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Berrv nnd their children, L'rdine and Cortis Jr.; Mrs. F. Stowe and her son Ralph, of Tacoma; Dr. and Mrs. Boon, Miss Mildred Boon, Harold Boon nnd Master Billy Boon. The evening was spent with music anil other so cial diversion. Mr. nnd. L'tah with Bessie nnd Mrs. E. Pass were Mrs. S. E. Mrs. Perry Denn of their little daughter Mrs. Denn's mother, Springer, of (¡rants Chrislmns guests <»f Smith. 6930 ««till street, Mr. nnd Mrs. Dean and daughter with Mrs. Springer, who has for several weeks been Mrs. Smith’s house guest, left for Grants Pass last Tuesday morning, where they stayed over New Year's visiting at the home of Mrs. Springer nnd also nt the home of Mrs. Nellie Olsen, a sis ter of Mrs. Dean. While in Portland the Dean». Mrs. Spring er ami Mrs. Smith »••• -e motor guests of Miss Varley, a cousin of Mrs. Smith, who took then- for an enjoyable ride through aiul beyond picturesque Oregon City, on the new road, return ing to the Smith residence after a visit to the Sellwood crema torium. were host and hostess at a Christmas dinner at 6 p. in. The decorations about the rooms in cluded a tree and sprays of holly, mistletoe, Oregon grape and lad rone brrry. Those pres ent were Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wacrstaff, Mr. and Mrs. L. Ges «•II, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wag staff, the Misses Grace Brown and Anabel Wagstaff, and Messrs. Milton Brown, H. W Oakley, Frederick Gesell. Rob ert Ix>uis t/esell and Edwin Wag staff. their daughter, Mrs. J. Bruce Polwarth, 3712 76th street S. E., the day before Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher will be mem bers of the Poiwarth household for the winter season. Mr. and Mrs. Poiwarth, their children, Rene, Isabel and Ruth, and Mr. and Mrs. Fisher were Christmti guests at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Daly on east Division street. Mr. Daly motored in for them and brought them back when the festivities were over. Give your Battery a Chance to get its "Second Wind” OIGHT now, after the hard service through the summer. If you know what hot weather and long night drives take out of a battery, you can appreciate the need of a "tuning-up” for the fall season with its early dusks and sharp mornings. Our Battery' Inspection goes a long way toward "keefflng a good battery good.’' Take advantage of it now. If minor repair? are needed, let us save you money by making them now. We do care ful, conscientious work, using Gould parts including the famous Dreadnaught Plates. Arleta Baptist Church He think ihr (,ould flattery u tl.e bett in the world. At the Arleta Baptist church next Sunday morning Rev Owen T. Day will use for his subject. "In the Beginning. God." In the evening he will speak on "A Critical Hour.” Next time you need a new battery, let us tell you why. Lents Garage AXEL KILDAHL, Proprietor Millard Avenue Presbyterian. At 11 a. m. the pastor, Rev. W. Lee Gray, will speak on "All His Followers.” At 7 :30 his sub ject will be "The Mighty Sword. Tabor 3429 WF SELL TlfFTtJATIEHY WITH 8919 Foster Rond HIE. Ùrt’tìdllllUlfhl 13 MIS City of Portland Recognizes the Superiority of the Gary Gaury Trucks gain recognition throughout the Northwest. The Fire Bureau of the City of Port' land is using six Gary Trucks. One Ton Contractors, lumbermen, timbermen. merchants, cattlemen, warehousemen, and farmers are using GARY TRUCKS. We can make immediate delivery. If interested and wanting to go on road construction, place your order with us for spring delivery, and pay for your truck in one season’s work. 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