The Monmouth herald., October 13, 1916, Image 4

OREGON NEWS NOTES
j tie day's ran. The engine was on
; center and he attempted to throw It
! off fc tumninf on the snckes of the
,0OOD
Ul UUUJIML III I ..HUH c
Completion of eitensWe improre-
menu bow coder way tt the United
ant Occurrences of Put 8u,M fuh utctTJ 8-ound' auk
air,as station win pre Liacumai
count; one 01 the bet rich hatcheries
In the r&ited Statee. At the present
time a hatrhery building 5ixl00 feet
li under construction and t large force
of men tu beea at work an the
g-nunds for several weeks
Hiring disposed of hia entire itock
Import
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.
A case of Infantile paralysis Baa ,
been discovered near Amity. !
Arrangements are rapidly being 1
completed for the erection of a chelae ! of liquor, Daniel Hannuk, owner and
factory at Stanfield. j master of the gasoline launch Union,
Total registration la Multnomah ' which had been dispensing wet goods
county thla year will aggregate
proximately M.COO totea.
ap- j outside the mouth of the Columbia
river for several daya, brought the
It ia estimated that the prune crop craft into Astoria.
In Una county will total about IM'O.
000 pounds, dried, this season.
Fire In the Schmidt building at Tea
dleton gutted aeveral stores and of
fices, ra using damage estimated at'
flflO.oWi.
Details of the cost of paving the
Columbia rlvr highway from Sandy
river to the Hood river line ahow a
total of $46.703.17. !
The supreme court of Oregon has
held that a Justice of the jcpe was
Forty timber cruisers and land ex
aminers, assisted by aa many compass
men, are now actively engaged In clas
sifying the 0. k C grant lands, accord
ing to Louis L. Sharp, chief of the
field division of the United Slates
general land office.
Heads cf ten state institutions un
der the supervision of the state board
of control submitted estimates of their
financial needs for the next two years,
totaling i:.M:.515.54. This Is 1430.-
a Judicial officer and his term covers : wi.M more than the appropriations
a period of si yea-s. ! made for the 1S15-1916 biennium.
There were reported to the state J The Josephine county court hat of
Industrial accident commission IT4 ae- j fered a reward of $100 for Information
cldi-iita, of which one was fatal, dur- j loading to the arrest and conviction
lug the week ending Thursday, i 0f the party or parties guilty of ma-
With more than Si undertaken In ' liciously killing cattle in the Provolt
attendant;, the 12th annual conven- and Murphy districts on the Applegate
lion of the Oregon Funeral Directors'
tuutnciatlon was held In Fortland.
An increase of IS jkt cent in new
students of all elatitte and of fl per
cent in the lre.lmeB class is reported
at the Oregon Agricultural college
Apple growers of Linn and Benton
counties ar expecting to market the
biggest crop or apples that ever reach
ed the consumer from that district
The 40th annual reunion of the So
ciety of Southern Oregon Pioneers waa
held at Jacksonville Thursday with
more than COO members In attendance.
Records compiled by the state In
surance department show that during
September fires occurred in 43 Oregon
towns, causing a total loss of 1335,310.
A grand market and rummage aale
held in Medford last week for the ben
efit, of w oundod French soldiers made
a net profit of more than (1200 in two
daya.
According to the report of State
Treasurer Kay for the three months
ending September 80 there was on
that date a balance of $1,138,802.80 in
all funds.
Johnnie Stump, of Monmouth, prob
ably won more prises at the state fair
than any other boy in the state. He
won a dnien prites of different kinds,
valued at over $1000.
An eight hour day for employes of
the Northwest Steel company, Port
land's giant shipbuilding plant, was
announced Friday by J. PL Bowles,
president of the concern.
Sale of 2& tons of flax tow from last
year's crop to the California Cotton
mills of Oakland, Cal., for 7 cents a
pound, f. a b, Salem, was authorited
by the state board of control.
The oar shortage situation reached
the high water mark Friday. The to
tal number reported abort on the
Southern Pacific ' lines to the public
service commission waa 1739.
Receipts of the state Industrial ac
cident insurance commission from No
vemhw I, 1913. to September 20, last,
were $1.4374S1 49, according to a
statement issued by the commission.
river, about 10 milea from Grants
Pass.
In constructing the Natron-Oakridge
branch of the Southern Pacific in
Lane county, 11 miles of wagon road
were destroyed when the county's
right of way was taken over. A new
road has been made by the railroad
company and formally accepted by
the county.
Increases In the demurrage rate
charged Oregon shippers for holding
freight cars beyond the free time limit
Is urged upon the Oregon public serv
ice commission by the Southern Pa
cific company. In recommendations
submitted by the railroad for relief
of the present car shortage,
The Oregon public service commis
sion has abandoned its proposed In
vestigation to determine the value of
the properties ef the Oregon Trunk
railway, because of action by the In
terstate commerce commission which
has undertaken the valuation of all
railroads In the United Statea.
For the purpose of ascertaining pub
lic sentiment It is proposed in Linn
county to request the county court to
submit to the people a proposition to
increase the tax levy tor road pur
poses. It Is planned to make a great
er Increase than permitted under the
Bingham law regulating taxation.
A timber sale approximating $340,
000 was made by the government, the
timber being on the middle fork of
the John Pay river, Whitman national
forest, and amounting to 124,000,000.
The buyer was the Pacific States Tim
ber Investment company, of which
Frank B. Mitchell, of Baker, is presi
dent O. H. Todd of Eugene, representing
his brother. A. N. Todd A Co., of Kala
maioo, Mich., the largest peppermint
buyers in the country, has been in
Linn county buying up the oil of pep
permint which has been distilled this
year. The Linn county crop this year
is estimated from $7000 to IS0O0
worth.
The Oregon City locks around the
The proposed early establishment ot falls of the Willamette, boucht by the
a second steel shipbuilding plant in J federal and state government at a
Portland is the latest development in j cost of $300,000 from the Portland
the already rapidly growing marine j Railway. Light Power company are
construction programme of this port, j practically useless at the present' time.
Several hundred delegate, repre- because of the shallowness of the low'
sentlng women' clubs throughout the er lock chamber at the present stage
state of Oregoa gathered Monday at i of the river.
Seaside for the 16th unnual conven- j Engineers' maps of the channel of
tion of the Oregon State Federation j the Columbia river and the Willam
of Women's Cluba. j ette, an(J alw) of the fflouUl of c
The slate board of control has ap- j lumbia. showing the new 40-foot depth
pointed a oommiasioa of three to in- j that has been obtained, will be nub-
vestlgate and report to it upon the
neede of the Oregon state training
school tor boys and the state Indus
trial school for girls.
Captain George H. Dunbar, formerly
master of the dredge Chinook, but dur
ing the past tour rears master ot the
government surrey steamer Arago,
committed suicide at Astoria by shoot
ing himself 1b tbj bead.
To keep pace with Its new era of
agricultural and industrial develop
ment, Josephine county w ithln a year
plans to have completed in Grants
rasa, its county seat, a new court
house to cost between $70,000 and
$80,000.
W. D. Jones, engineer on a thresher
operating at Malin, was instantly
killed w hen be started the engine for
l - v . a i .
usneu By me rortiand chamber of
commerce and circulated widely la
ahipping circles to advertise the mer
its of the port.
At the end of the first year ot co
operative shiproenta of livestock by
the farmers of Lane county under the
direction of C J. Hurd. marketmaster
of the Lane county Pomona grange,
&0 carloads of livestock and 40.000
pounds of wool valued at $100,000
have been sold in the Portland market,
according to figures submitted by Mr
Hnrd.
At a meeting of farmers held at
Corvallis at the can of State Grange
Master C, E. Spenee, resolutions were
adopted nrglng that the state of Ore
goa acquire lime deposits is the state
and operate same by convict lxhnr aM
Here is This Store's Platform
Day In and Day Out, Told In Three Short Sentences
A Higher Standard of Quality
A Higher Standatd of Value
A Higher Standard of Service
Which U only another way of
saying that we sell the right
merchandise at the right price
in the right way.
THE MONMOUTH MERCANTILE CO.
which pays highest prices for farm products
hoc
i1foCZ3OCZ10(c
furnish the product at cost with rea
sonable percentage added, to provide
for a sinking fund to the farmers of
the state to use in reclaiming their
landa.
State Engineer John H. Lewis has
Just completed a trip of Inspection
over a large part of the proposed high
way from Florence on the coast of
Lane county to Klamath Falls. The
Florence to Klamath Falls highway is
being urged as one of the roads to be
constructed partially from funds to
be received from the federal govern
ment under the terms of the Shackle
ford bilL
Tangible evidence of the prosperity
which is growing in Oregon at an
amaring rate is furnished in the com
bined statement of state and national
banks and trust companies made pub
lic by State Bank Superintendent Sar
gent All records for an increase In
resources and deposits in a similar
length of time were broken in the per
iod beginning June 30 and ending Sep
tember 12, when the statement were
prepared
BUSINESSMEN ARE
FOR NEW. NORMAL
PORTLAND CHAMBER OF COM.
MERCE STRONGLY ENDORSES
BILL FOR SCHOOL TQ BE LO
CATED AT PENDLETON.
Portland. Ore.-The Portland Cham
ber of Commerce, which stands at the
head of the businessmen's organitation
of the state, recently endorsed the
measure proposing a Normal School at
Pendleton in a resolution, giving the
following reasons:
"We believe that Eastern Oregon is
reasonable in its demands that such a
school be located east of the Cascade
mountains, hence we recommend its
location at Pendleton as the most logi
cal for the following reasons:
"First, it is a city of some site, hav
ing aa enrollment of over 1.000 grade
pupila.
-Second, Pendleton ia very accessi
ble, having over twenty passenger
trains each day from five direction
"Third. Its location is at near cen
tral aa could be expected, making it
easy ot access at a moderate cost to
the students.
"Fourth, it i. cur understanding
that the cltitens of Pendletoa propose
to donate a very favorable site for the
school.
"Fifth, many other advantages are
A good public library. ,rTerU
churches, pure water and a liv.. 1
hgent community that will take pride
tt Progress of jhe school"
Curieua.
1 dont fefl L . j
bed of the f rtn as he took of his
wat in t!.e ..See, preparatory to
ttt'Tur 1orn fit his 3Pi 5jile
twuto w-uh me is that I harent '
wrtaaUhooli 1 don't feelwej
tn!fsi 1 te went. 1
Pendleton Normal School
Proven Necessity
(Copied from Portland Oregonlan.)
MONMOUTH, Ore.. June 26. The Oregon Normal
school opened this week . . . students enrolled 785.
largest on record for state Normal in Oregon ....
how to care for large student body a problem ....
800 being crowded into auditorium with seating ca
pacity of 550. Galleries filled with extra chairs in
aisles. More than 150 students seated on platform.
New boarding houses completed, additions to room
ing houses built and tents used. One hundred girls
sleep on upper floor of school ,
The official school report gives 150 grade pupils
in Monmouth, for teacher practice.
Read what those you have elected to handle the
affi rs of your state and who are thoroughly informed
regarding school conditions in Oregon have to say
concerning measure 308 on the ballot at the coming
elet'ion:
By James Wlthyeombe. Governor of Oregon:
"Orrcon is unquestionably in need of more normal
schoo work and rndlton is the logical place for a
school of this class in luutern Oregon."
By J. A. Churchill, Stat. Superintendent cf Public
Instruction:
.L tru thM ,h T0,r f 8tats will assist In
raising the standard of our whooli by estabUuhing a
Mala Aormal School at Pendleton.'
By P. L. Campbell, President of the Univeraity of
Oregon:
iJ15L'fa,A.0l,t ,oul,l0'J Normal ttchsol is urfently
needed in (.irejoa.
yCoHegs'Kerr' Pre,ident cf th 0refl" Agricultural
r 1S.II,C' ,h P?Pl of Pendletow are initiating a measure
t -ui .fs U,hm"" 01 Normal School at that place,
ii ui give me pleasure to support this measure."
ay J. H. Ackerman, President Oregon hormal School,
at Monmouth:
aZA,.n n1'i of the situation will convinea any
i,i d on n?d Nomal School tn Eaxtern Ore
!"n and Pendleton fill, all the government requirements."
By the County School Superintendents of Oregon:
8un.S5T. V"" 1 lh tn- " County School
a7mh iS ? T. ?! ,h su, Oregon, In convention
SuiT lhJ"1,ht bM" '""ets of the school, of the
illll.i .J'a 'nc"d families for the training of
nu , L th-"-f"r, endorae the initiative
measure to establish a Normal School at Pendleton."
By Mra. Charles H. Castntr, President of the Oregon
Fsderstlon ef Women's Clubs:
Sch,ooT,Vend;.ll,i0r k,," KtmtS
Prof. Robert C. French, Former President of the
Normal School Located at Weston:
cMl'!i'VMbh,hm,M 01 uh "l"4 at some
re'Ce1 ,0Uo"tone"dl,0,, WOU'd lrMt
B-h!ky Ea-President Southern Oregon Normal
iiUlC ard of RcScn,s f Oregon Normal School
dedares that "the necessity for additional Normal
school facilities in Oregon is apparent."
fortland Chamber of Commerce endorses measure
w and say Pendleton most logical location for Nor
mal school in Eastern Oregon.
308 X YES IS A VOTE FOR YOUR CHILffl
(Paid Adv.)
Eastern Oraron Suit Normal School Committee,
Br J. H Gwinn. Secy.. IVndleton. Ore
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