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CK(X)K COUNTY JOURNAL
Powell Butte
News
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Mr. Ida Davis and daughter Miss
l.ucy Paris have returned to their
Portland home after a three weeks
visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. W.. Bayue
The twin children of Mr. and Mrs
lerril Osborne were operated on re
cwttly by Dr. Hosch for enlarged ton
sils. They are gating over it nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. George Shobert, Miss
Ehobert and Miss Ethel Shobert were
guests at the home of Jesse Shobert
last week.
The Edward school house is being
Itioved this week and will be located
right on the highway, in a nice cen
ts al place tor the pupils. Land was
secured from the Mofflt ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Foster have
returned to the Virgus ranch after a
camping trip in the mountains.
Mrs. Gladys Stout has gone o
Trineville where she will spend tho
v ii.ter at the home of Dr. H. P. Bel-
; Mrs. E. A. Bussett and
i Ff.-.e Bussett spent Sunday in
ji-. amend. ' , They attended services
and said goodbyes to Rev. Hazleton
and wife before they left for M.E.
Conference. ...
. Mrs. Yates was hostess last Wed
nesday to Powell Butte Sorasis. A
very pleasant time was enjoyed by
all present. Delicious refreshments
were served.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Milner are
chaperoning a large party of young
reople on a camping trip in- tho
mountains. In the party are the
S'isses, Orsa and Ada Sears, Gladys
and Grace Pauls, Mr. Will Paul aud
Otto Paul and other.
Grandma Spray was a guest at the
home of Frank Kissler recently.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Stewart, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Roberts and daughter Ina
and Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Agee are it
home again after a motor trip across
the mountains, through the valley
cities and Portlanc, returning home
by the highway and The Dalles. They
enjoyed the trip very much.
Mrs. Ross Bussett has returned
from a business trip to Portland and
other Willamette valley points..
Mrs. Ila Foster, who has been in
Prineville nursing Mrs. Walter Mor
ris has returned to her parents' home
tere where she will visit for the sum
mer.
Mrs. Mary V. Charlton has recov
ered from a very severe attack of
ptomaine poisoning.
Miss Orsa Sears, a trained unrse
fiom The Dalles and her sister Miss
Ada Sears are guests at the home of
their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
D. A. Gates.'
Mr. and Mrs. M. Sunday of Gresh.
am, are visitors at the Roy Roberts
home. Mrs. Sunday and Mrs. Rob
erts are sisters.
Mr. and . Mrs: J. P. OCallahan
have gone to Salt Lake City where
Sir. O Callahan will purchase some
tine sheep for his ranch here.
Mrs. George Whitsett was a re
cent visitor in Bend where she was
the guest of Mrs. Henry Whitsett.
Haying has commenced on the
Wurzweiler ranch. Arthur has
tiree mowing machines going and
the work will soon be on to put the
snond crop of alfalfa in the stack.
,T.uy others are ready to begin and
f.re only waiting for a little more
si ttled weather.
Bill Spencer has two headers at
wurk in the community. The grain
if good and over-ripe for cutting,
s me comment has been made that
i. ' is shattering badly.
Gren Beard will start work with
lr big thresher about the first of
ti-s week or just as soon as there is
ei . ugh grain cut to keep him busy
a"pr he does start.
.Mr", and Mrs. Green Beard, Myrtle"
1'weet and Mrs. C. M. Charlton were
business visitors at Prineville Sat
urday. J. J. Chapman has a fine bed of
the Everbearing variety of straw
berries that have made a wonderful
.yield this season, affording all the
family neded.
; .Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Wurzweiior
lecently visited Portland, Corvallis.
I'elknap Springs and other points,
making the trip In their car.
! Mr. and Mrs. John Driscoll of Red
mond were visitors in the Powell
Butte vicinity. They like to get out
among their former neighbors oc
casionally. George Shobert and his son Jesse
fcave each rented land from W. F.
King of Prineville and will move to
It soon where they will reside for the
next three years or more.
Frank McCaffrey has gone to Join
Yynn Nichols and others of the part
nership in the oil well. They are
boring In Wyoming.
Shannon Philips of Portland, a re
presentative of the Tru-Blu Biscuit
Company, when at home, was a guest
last week of his old home friends tie
'A. W. Baynes family.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
The city treasurer of Salem reports
a total of $64,541 In the city treasury.
The water supply of Roseburg was
shown to be chemically pure when In
spected. Portland has been made western
headquarters for the Democratic na
tional committee.
Rev. J. Groschupf, formerly of Spo
kane, has been Installed as pastor of
the Lutheran church at Baker.
' The fund being subscribed at Co
quille for a new Methodist church
has already passed the $6000 goal.
Thirty-eight portable school build
ings are to be constructed Immediate
ly for use of the Portland schools.
C F. Hartwig of Bend claims that
he can lure electricity sufficient to
develop 60,000 horsepower from the
air.
The Gale tract of 10 acres adjoining
the University of Oregon campus at
Eugene has been sold to the univer
sity. Miss Celia Gavin, city attorney of
The Dalles, has been appointed a mem
ber of the Democratic stats central
committee.
The U. S. S. Birmingham and a
division of six destroyers paid a visit
to Astoria during the American Le
gion convention.
Permanent headquarters of the
American Legion's Pacific coast com
mittee to combat radicalism have been
established In Portland.
Work has been begun on the three
story fruit packing plant of the Ore
gon Growers' association at Myrtle
Creek in Douglas county.
St. Helens shows a growth from 742
in 1910 to 2220 in 1920, and Clatskanle
from 747 In 1910 to 1384 In 1920, ac
cording to the census figures.
The state fish commission made an
investigation of property near Rose
burg with a view to selecting a site
for an exclusive trout hatchery.
With the coming of the haying sea
son, the Bend lumber mills are losing
many employes who are leaving for,
work on Oregon and Idaho ranches. "
Portland railway officials report
there Is some Improvement In supply
of cars for loading lumber and other
products from the Pacific northwest.
Nearly one hundred young people
representing Presbyterian churches
throughout Oregon have met In Al
bany to attend the summer conference.
The city of Hood River has let a
contract for the construction of a com
bined city hall and firemen's head
quarters at an estimated cost of $33,
174. Following the wrecking of their
church, partly destroyed by fire, the
Baptists of Bend are planning to erect
a new fireproof structure to cost $35,
9Q07""' "--"rjSV5WBK3.
The annual encampment of the
pioneers of Wheeler and Gilliam coun
ties was held at the Julia Henderson
pioneer grounds, 13 miles southeast of
Fossil.
Dr. Clyde Mount of Portland was
elected president of the Oregon State
Dental'associatlon at the business ses
sion, which concluded the annual ses
sion In Portland.
Manufacturers and public service
corporations In the Portlaad district
use sawmill refuse for fuel to a great
er extent than any other section of
the United State" . -"aST3L
The Buehner Lumber company at
North Bend has begun construction of
a monster smokestack. It will be of
concrete 110 feet high with a diameter
of 10 feet at the top.
The orchard of George Webb at The
Dalles, one of the finest in the entire
tate, hgi been leased to Japanese in
terests, mis orchard consists of about
CiOjicres of bearing fruitT----
The RoSeTjuFg city council unani
mously" yoted to fight the new rates
granted by the Public service com
mission to the Dou;;las County Light
& Water company of Roseburg.
Josephine and Grant counties both
show decreases, according to census
reports. Josephine county, 7655, de
crease of 1912 or 20 per cent; Grant
county, 6496, decrease of 111 or 2 per
font.
Attorney-General Brown has sub
mitted to the state land board a pro
posal to transfer what are known as
Hyde-Benson lands from the United
States government to the state of
Oregon.
Recent rains have damaged consid
erable hay in Lincoln county, but the
loss Is more thun offset by the In
creased yield of late- crops. A bumper
crop of berries an J potatoes is now
assured.
Property owners In Brownsville who
have property abutting on Main street
and Spalding avenue In the district
which the city council proposed te
pave have filed two petitions asking
the circuit court to grant Injunctions
against the contract entered Into be
tween the council and L. E. Ilerold,
Salem' rnutrnpUir
The report of the Clackamas county
superintendent of schools for the past
year, shows an Increase In salaries
paid teachers In 1920 of from $11 to
14 per month over the previous year.
Due to the faulty diet In moat In
stances, 30 per cent of fifty six chil
dren examined by dortors In connec
tion with baby conferences In two Ben
ton county communities, were under
weight
Attorney General Brown has ad
vised State Treasurer H-ff that he
would not pass on the h guilty of the
Heppner $100,000 water bond Issue
until all the proceedings attendant
thereon were supplied.
Frank Davey. who will represent
Marion county in the next legislature
is preparing a bill providing that spe
cial seasons of the legislature can
consider only measures specified In
the call of the governor.
Portland's 26 banks and trust com
panies segregated $152.28.516 at the:
close of business June 30, this year.
reports the state superintendent of '
banks. This Is an Increase of over 20
million dollurs In a year.
The Astoria realty board will form
a holding company to ptirrhaae the ;
property to be uaod as naval bane site !
and deed the property to the govern-'
ment, according to a plan which has :
been adopted by the board. '
Rev. Father Arthur Lane, rector of
the Albany parish of the Roman I'ath- j
olic church, has received notice that
he has been appointed by Pqpe Bene- j
diet XV, a prothonotary apostolic of
the church with the title of Monalgnor.
The body of Mrs. Eddyth Knox,
young Wichita, Kan., woman, who dis
appeared near Albany, was found In a
ditch near town. Suicide, prompted j
by despondency over the death of her ;
husband two years ago, ia believed to '
have caused her death." "
The contest of the will of the late j
Henry L. Plttock, founder of the Port- j
land Oregonian, who accumulated a ;
fortune that reaches nearly $3,000,000,
will be carried to the Oregon state
supreme court by Mrs. Caroline P. '
Leadbetter, daughter of Plttock. j
B. W. Kern of Portland Is In the
Benton county Jail awaiting a grand
Jury Investigation on the charge of
grand larceny. Kern is charged with
having stolen $1055.62 from the Amer- j
lean Railway Express company, for
whom he was a railway messenger. J
Prominent residents of southern
Oregon have petitioned Governor 01
cott to extend executive clemency to
W. E. Butler, under a penitentiary' j
sentence for the killing of McDonald 1
Stewart in Jackson county, 'it is 1
claimed that be acted in self defense, j
Reorganization of the child welfare '
commission of Oregon presages a
prompt and thorough Investigation of
Portland baby homes with a view to
ascertaining the reasons three such
homes had refused to accept recent
charges from the Oregon Humane so
city. , !
Mrs. Edward F. Mathus, operator
of a children's nursery In Portland,
was found guilty of a brutal" and vi
cious assault on three-year-old Edna
Romansky" by " a municipal court, j
Judge Rossman sentenced the woman
to Ix months' Imprisonment In the '
city Jail - .Jgftii-
Marshfield was named as their eon-1
vention city for next year by the '
members of the Oregon State Elks'
association in session, st Salem, No
other city was candidate for the
honor. Dr. J. H. Rosenberg, of Prine
ville, was elected president of the
association. - - J
Unless the stste emergency board la '
called into session to supply funds for
the operation of the state livestock
sanitary board, payment of Indemnity
for the slaughter of diseased cattle
will cease, according to information '
sent out In a circular letter by Dr. '
W. H. Lytic, state veterinarian. j
Hereafter patients committed to the i
state school for feeble minded by coun- '
tycourts and brought to the Instl-
tutlon before the superintendent has .
notified the court of his readiness to '
accommodate additional patients, will
be returned Immediately to the county
from which committed at the county's
sxpenTiT
After examining every phase of the
present milk controversy, United
States Attorney Lester W. Humph- 1
reys of Portland announced that the
government could not prosecute any of
the interests concerned for manipula
tion of prices or violation of the anti
trust laws. Humphreys said his In- '
vestlgation, personally conducted with
the aid of special agents of the de
partment of Justice, had satisfied him
that the government has no cause of
Ion against the producers, the dis- '
tributors or the producers-distributors.
Portland officials will await fur-
ther Investigation before they take
too seriously the plans for the con- ,
structlon of a $50,000,000 terminal ex
change building and the unification of
the terminals in Portland, Seattle and
Vancouver, B. C as presented to the
city council by A. P. Gillies, president
of the Consolidated Amerlcanadlan
Terminal association. The association
will construct and finance the build
ing and the whole project which will
Involve a total of $150,000,000, states '
the president The ' matter has been "
referred to Commissioner Barbur, who '
has turned It over to O. Laurgaard, city j
engineer, for Investigation. i
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Saturday, Sept. 1 1, 1920 at 2 P. M.
One half block north of the First National Bank
Household furniture and fixtures from the
George F. Kelley Ranch
Electric Range
Electric Wash.. Machine
Wicker Furniture
.Sewing Machine
Ice Chests-Refrigerators
Heating Stoves
Dishes, Pans and Kettles
Beds and Bedding
Furniture-Utensils-Rugs
Children Toys
In fact many dozen of other articles that are too
numerous to mention.
. Sale Starts at 2 P. M. Sharp, Saturday Sept. Uth.
TERMS CASH
Col B. L. Reynolds, Auctioneer - R. L. Schee, Clerk 1
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We appreciate Childrens'
trade and show them
every courtesy
When school opens the pupil will be ready to start with a full equip
ment Something will be needed In Pencils, Pens, Erasers, Inks, Cray
ons, Writing Paper, Tablets, Rulers, Drawing Materials, Paste, Compo
sition Books, Lunch Kits, and Text Books
Let the children come to our store for these things. They will re
ceive the best attention we can give them. j . , j:(:g
PRINEVILLE DRUG CO.
Headquarters for School Books and School Supplies
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