t
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL. INTEREST
The second train wrack wlthlu a ITEMS FROM AR LET A-
three years her home ha* been
Lr.urelwood Congregational
Ben I<eabo; Sunday School aupt..
weak occurred at Toledo, when a
in Mankato, Minn.
Mrs. Coffin
The«Jjitemediate C. E. of the VV. A. Pratten; asst, aupt., Mrs.
KERN
PARK
DISTRICT
freight engine crashed luto a string of
is again making a changr in her Laurelwood
Congregational Meta Snider; clerk, Miss Mar­
freight cars, »mashing the engine and
residence, having left Portlaml church recently elected a* fol­ garet Hart; treaa, Mrs Sadie Orr
New street-lights have been
Principal Happenings of the throwing ths care from the track.
for Albany,
where
her
son, lows: Pre»., Hazel Well«; vice Dunbar; organist, Mrs. Sadie Orr
Postmaster T A. Reeves of Hood placed in front of the Kellogg
Week From All Parts of the
Frank, lives and where she ex­ pre»., Mark Bradford; sec. and Dunbar;
assistant,
Hasel
River reports that the mall bandied at school as well as at other point*
State Briefly Sketched for
pect* to live for an indefinite organist I<oi* Handsaker; treas. Wells; Primary aupt, Mrs. T. N.
on
Powell
Valley
road.
that office during 1919 for outgoing
time. On Sunday last Mrs. Jones and
choirster, Norma Bicknell.
Information of The Herald trulns and for local delivery exceeded
Davis; deaconesses Mesdames
The
new
moving
picture
ma
­
Was again hostess, her guest be­ The
Sunday
school
of
this
Stella
Shorey and E. M. Heath.
Readers.
that of any paat year by 50 per cent.
i While playing battle with a gun I chine which has been purchased ing her sister, Miss Della Herd, church has also constituted Paul­ Those elected to new position*
ine
Pratten as sec.-treaa., Dor­ were Mr*. Meta Snider, mission­
thought unloaded, Ulen Klsber, •■year- for Kellogg school will short­ of Newberg.
ly
be
installed,
and
it
is
hoped
othy
Sniffer as pianist and Geo. ary supt; and J. A. Dnnbar, dea­
old
sou
of
Henry
Fisher
of
Leona,
was
Eugens wlU have an army »tors of
Cruikshank as .asst, pianist.
con. This meeting took the form
■hot and perhaps fatally wounded by by the patrons that it may prove MEETING OF WOODMERE
its own In a short time.
of great educational value to the
Next Sunday morning at the of a dinner in Lucky Cottage, to
IMPROVEMENT CLUB
Eugene building permits tn 191» the 12-year-old eon of William Currier.
Laurelwood
Congrega t i on a I which about fifty
Fruit slid berries in the Wllllagiette school children.
people
ast
tm.de a gain of 400 per cent over tbe
church
the
communion
service down and at the conclusion of
valley
were
not
damaged
serioualy
by
1918 record.
The
Woodmere
Improve
The business meeting of the
will be held, at which time the which the business was trans­
Revenues from the state Insuraao«- th« recent cold weather, in opinion South Mt.
Tabor
Community ment club will meet this evening
of
W.
it.
Hcott,
manager
of
the
Puyal
­
Rev. Mrs. Handsakgr will speak acted.
The ;eports showed all
(Friday,)
at
the
Woodmere
departtuent for the year 191» totaled
club will be held this (Friday;
lup A Humuer Valley Fruit association.
At bills paid, a sum of about seven­
,235.096 05
school.
Plans which were orig­ on aij appropriate subject.
evening
at
the
Kellogg
school,
at
Because of the eleventh-hour rush It
inated some time ago for secur­ the regular annual meeting of ty-five dollars still on hand for
Damage done to Umatilla county
j will be Impossible for the secretary of which time there will be a short
ing the hall over Volts grocery this church held Thursday even­ the. building repair fund, and a
roads by the recent floods and wash-
state to mail all 1920 motor vehicle program. One week from tonight
ing. the first, the following of- gratifying improvement in
the
outs Is estimated at »25,000.
into
the as a meeting place are still be­
license pistes for which applications the dass graduating
fic
era were re-elected: trustee, Sunday School.
In Ltnu county, durlug 191». there have been received before January 15. High School will give an enter­ ing discussed. President Blake*
lee hopes that the bidding of the
were 123 marriage llcena« Issued and
Work has been resumed at the tainment featuring "Polly-Anna,’
• ouly 30 divorce decrees granted.
dub
meetings' in a more nearly
the
GJa<i
Girl.
i Ochoeo dam after a short shutdown on
Mrs. Mary A. Hlmpeun. a resident of I account of the d<*-p snow. There is
central place will insure a larger
On New Year's day a delici- attendance.
Ltnu county for 61 years, died at her reported deep »now In the mountains,
A
campaign
for
c/us dinner was njoyrd at 7*:'O new members has been carried
home In Albany, aged 80 years.
assuring plenty of waler tor Irrigating I
Mill.-rd rvcnut. by the children on in a
Oregon was second among the states In thia section.
recent
house-to-house
of M.-s. I'lirtilx th Parsons and canvas in the Woodmere neigh­
of the Union In tho sale of treasury
Lumbermen of Klamath county re­
savings certificates for November.
port that more than ,6.000.000 worth th< ir families. Those present in­ borhood and about twenty-five
M.-mbers of the Northwestern Ho- I of merchantable timber has been ruin- cluded Mrs. P rswns, Mr. and or thirty new mendier* are ex­
olety of Highway Engineers held their . ed In that section by the western pine Mrs. Glen Snidtrs
and
their pected to enroll this week.
annual meeting in Halem Friday night. beetle since they first made their ap- daughter, Zo<, of 62 f 2 90th st.,
Key. Edward Ulttlns, a well known i psarawce three years ago.
Mr. nod Mr». Geo. Coir«.-/ and
Fourth United Brethren
plourer Methodist minister, died at tho
A preliminary estimate of the pro­ son Donald i nd Mr. and Mrs
The Fourth ' United Brethren
home of his daughter in Halem. agud duction of metals In Oregon In 1919. Chas. Demctier.
church has been observing the
70 years.
I compiled by the United States geo-
week of prayer, the following |
Friday
evening,
the
Sth,
the
Tho bond Issue providing »60,000 for ' logical survey, shows a decrease tn the
having
been scheduled as leaders j
of
the
water works and »20,000 for a city 1 sold and lead produced, but an in­ newly elected offices*
of
the
evening meetings: Cha*.
South
Mt.
Tabor
Community
hall carried at Rainier by a vote of crease tn (be silver and copper.
<’iub were installed with J. Bruce Guthrie, Mrs. Isabel Kelley, Mrs.
186 to 32.
0. V. Skelton of Corvallis, prof«
Mors than 800 applications for real ' sor of highway engineering at Oregon j Polwarth a* master of ceremon Edward Smith. Mr. Hunt and C.
Next
Sunday
estate licensee have been received at ' Agricultural college, was elected presi- lies.
The following were called H. Blanchard.
the office of tiro stale Insurance com j dent of the Northwestern Society of , by him to the front and intro­ evening the lay members under
mlssloner.
Highway Engineers at the annual duced in a delightfully humorous the chairmanship of Cha*. Guth­
A total of »226,000.36 waa paid Into meeting of the society In Halem.
wav: Pres.. Geo. W. Chilson; vice rie will have charge of the ser- 1
the alate treasury as inheritance tax
Howard W. Jeter of Port Orford, dep­ pres.. C. F. Carey; sec., E. E. vice, and there will lie special
by the estate of tbs late llrnry L. Fit uty sheriff of Carry county, lost bis Gilmer; treasurer, Mrs. G. E. music by the choir.
Some of
lock of Portland.
activities
of
thi*
life when a surfboat In which four Abrams, The following appear- the recent
Fall wheat tn the Weston vicinity Is men were attempting to reach the bow ed
as
entertainers:
Dorothv church include a good Christmas
looking excellent and has not b<*en of the wrecked steamer J. A, Chanslor O’ Mealy, Isabel Polwarth, Mr*. program, profitable watch-night
damaged by tbe frost, according to re at the mouth of Hixes river, upset in Kelley, the Franklin Jazz orche* service at which
Rev
Ira
V.
ports from -that section.
itra, led by Headen Metcalf and Hawley of the Second United
the breakers.
Nearly 100 Filipino students from
Clatsop county has donated »500 ■ to Burton A. O'Mealy.
Brethren church was the lead
'Corvallis. Philomath and other sections | the fund for paying the sifsnses of
ing speaker and at which there
of ths state gather« 4 at Halem and en two delegates who are to be sent to
Mrs. Madeline Johnson, of was also a abort program includ-
joyed the annual banquet.
Washington to urge tbe enactment at Hood Rfver is making an extend­ ing short speeches by laymen;
Ttamaged trestles, due to high water, j this session of congress of a law i ap- ed visit with her parents, Mr.
and a bazaar, held before the
are rrsponslb.e for the uncertain trait |
68th holidays, the proceed* of which
I prop rial Ing »2.500.000 for the construc­ and M rs. Fred Seeley of
service between Ths Dalles and Friend, tion of the proposed Roosevelt high street and Whitman avenue.
amounted to about $83.
on the Great Southern railroad.
Mrs. James Jones, 5262 68th
wsy.
.
Seventy breeders of purebred stock
Do you us« good paper w hen!
Preparatory to Installation of a mu­ street, entertained recently Mr*.
from all sections of Linn county met In nicipal light and water system, tbe S. Coffin
and
her daughter,
you
write? 111« Herald can
„Albany and formed the Linn County : city of Roseburg. through Its officials, Dorothy, her guests arriving the
print
anything and do it right.;
Purebred Livestock association.
filed with the state engineer an appli­ day before New Year’s and leav­
Subscribe for the Herald $1.00
December cargo shipments of.lumlxT 1 cation for water rights and approxi­
Tabor 3429 HomeD-61
ing Friday the 5th. Mr*. Coffin
per year.
from tho Columbia were exceptionally mately 1000 reel per second of water
formerly lived at 6804 Whitman
light. In that period 27 vessels loaded from- the North Umpqua at a point
X.
avenue, but during
the
past
Subscribe for the Herald, $1.50.
a total of 21,535.9114 feet of lumbar.
known as Whistler’s bend.
Tits total cash receipts of the Oregon | Contracts thus far awarded for fur­
»«treme court for the year 1919 were nishing supplies for the several stale
»9169.98. During the year 1918 the| Institutions for the first six months
court received from all sources »9332. j of the year 1920 Indicate that the
According to announcement just 1 prices quoted for the various com-
made, the Methodist church at Rose modlties are from S to 10 per
burg will begin tbe erection of a »25.-1 higher than when the previous
000 church ••dlflce early In the spring. | were opened In Tune, 191».
Out of the 1066 homesteads filed In
Percy Cupper of Halem. state en<l-
tho Sltislaw reservation, only 183 are neer; Whitney L. Boise of Portland,
occupied by the original owners. 634 and a third man to represent the in­
having been deserted and 299 changing terests of eastern Oregon, will leave
hands.
,
this week for Washington, where they
At a meeting In Medford a number will attend a meeting of the executive
of Republican women formed a lien committee of the Western States Re­
oral Leonard Wood club and will sup­ clamation association, which will open
port him In the presidential primary there on January 14.
campaign.
Senator McNary has urged the com­
Mies Catherine Beckley, graduate of mandant of the United States coast
the University of Pennsylvania, has guard service to establish a life-sav­
been appointed an Instructor In tbe de­ ing station at Port Orford. In a letter
partment of zoology at the University to Senator McNary, Willis T. White of
of Oregon.
Port Orford asserted that the lives of
With u membership of less than 60. the SI men who went down with the
the Christian Missionary alliance of tank steamer J. C. Chanslor two weeks
Hood River haa during the past yoar ago might hevs Deen saved.
given »246 toward Armenian and ;
A 2 mill tax on all the taxable pro­
Syrian relief.
perty of the state to raise funds with
Members of the Oregon supreme which to conduct the schools of Ore-
court prepared and handed down a i gon probably will be proposed at the
total of 301 opinions during tho year special session of the legislature this
191», as against 336 opinions during month, according to the members of
ths year 1918.
the Oregon County School Superin­
»
Thero was one fatnlity In Oregon due I tendents' association, which held its
to accidents during the Week ending annual convention In Salem.
January 1. 1920. The victim was W.
Statements purported to have been
H. Hhaver, a logger, whose home ad­ made by an Indicted I. W. W. In Port­
dress Is Heattie.
land to the effect that 75 per cent of
Tbe Oregon Jersey Cattle club has the men employed In road construc­
throughout the Northwest The Fire Bureau of the City of Port
gone on record ns favoring a special tion work In Oregon are members ol
land is using six Gary Trucks.
representative of the American Jersey the I. W. W. are emphatically denied
Cattle club with permanent hoadquar- In a letter forwarded by Roy Klein,
•
tert on the coast.
secretary of the commission, to Gover­
Contractors, lumbermenr tiinbermen, merchants, cattlemen, warehousemen, and
The unusual situation of a woman nor Olcott In reply to a request for an
presiding over a grange will preva'I. explanation of the chargee.
farmers are using GARY TRUCKS.
We can make immediate delivery.
If
la Linn county this year. Miss Berths
Nels P. Sorenson, wealthy Portland
interested
and
wanting
to
go
on
road
construction,
place
your
order
with
us
J. Beck has been elected master of timbennan. was fined »500 and set free
Csllamettc grange.
for spring delivery, and pay for your truck in one season’s work.
We also
tn that city by the six judges of the
T. G. Hendricks, pioneer merchant ■rate circuit court sitting en banc, fol­
have other good contract* to place trucks on, farmers in all part* of the
and hanker of Eugene and first re­ lowing the plea of his attorneys that to
gent of the University of Oregon, who hsnforee a sentence <^f six months' Jns-’
NORTHWEST are placing orders with US.
us.
The GARY has one full year
died a short time ago. left property prison in. nt Imposed by the municipal
factory guarantee.
We have some good territory open for dealers and dis­
valued at »415,000.
court, following Sorenson's conviction
tributors.
The 8alem Salesmen's league, organ­ on a charge of having driven an auto­
ised at Halem recently, lias received mobile while Intoxicated, would seri­
. the Indorsement of the local commer­ ously jeopardise his health.
cial club and will become affiliated
The state highway commission. In
with that organization.
the construction of roads and bridges
Investigation of the rural dance halls during the year 191» expended a total
near Salem Is to be taken up by the of M.I11.3MM A total of Ml miles
present grand jury because of many of paving waa under contract, of which
complaints that have been made re­ 163 miles have been completed. Ap­
garding their management
proximately 218 miles, or 4» per eent,
Tho building of the Warren Coopera­ remain unfinished. Of the 316 miles
tive warehouse store at Warren Is of rocking and graveling contracted
nearing completion, and will soon be 107 miles have been completed. Grad-
ready for occupancy. The association Ing contracts swarded totaled >85
will supply all Its members with goods mfl<4, of which 270 miles have been
at cost prlcea.
completed. "-
There’sBigGame in Sight
for those seeking the best vulcanizing
service at low prices. The place to
hunt for such vulcanizing opportuni­
ties is right here. Make it a point to
see the class of work we do at all haz­
ards. It will be a revelation to you in
vulcanizing workmanship that you will
be wise not to miss.
The Lents Garage
AXEL KILD AHL, Proprietor
City of Portland Recognizes the
Superiority of the Gary
»
One Ton
to
Five Ton
Capacities
Gary Coast Agency
Phone Broadway 2162
Seventy-one Broadway
PORTLAND, OREGON
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