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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1917)
t 18-92 Illinois Cooking Aluminum See our window display of cooking utensils Roasters, frying pans, double boilers, kettles, griddles The original aluminum ware. Made in America 35 kettles which QPFPI A I To introduce this ware we have en 3'Qk Ul a--1 we will sell as long as they last, each for 98 cts No More Treadle Pushing The portable, self contained, compact Western Electric Sewing Machines make sewing an unalloyed pleasure. Conven ient the machine can be stored on a closet shelf. Price complete, including motor $37 Lawn Mowers A new shipment ju received. Garden Tools Everything in this line for the Home Gardener F5 H WINEGAR & LORENCE, Monmouth - $ OREGON NEWS NOTES CP GENERAL INTEREST t Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. An all-Oregon Fourth of July cele bration is planned for Salem at the Btate fairgrounds. The Oregon State Medical associa tion is to bold its 43d annual meeting In Portland June 28, 29 and 30. One suicide, two fatal accidents and another accident that, may prove fatal were Qtie day's toll of death in Coos bay towns. , Percy Cupper, assistant state engl- j neer, has been appointed by the desert : land board as assistant secretary to that board. I Five hundred and forty-three stu- dents are enrolled for the summer oes-' sion of the Oregon normal school at Monmouth. The twenty-fifth annual session of Oregon yearly meeting of the Friends ; church held a very successful gather-1 tug at Newberg. Annual conventions of postoffice clerks, city letter carriers and rural letter carriers will meet at Albany Saturday, June 30. Portland's public auditorium Is with-, in two or three weeks of entire com pletion. It will be formally opened to the public on July 4. A shad hatchery is being establish ed by the state fisheries department on the Adams ranch in the Young's river district, near Astoria. I The public service commission has issued a digest, covering laws passed , by the recent legislature relative to railroads and public utilities. i The United Spanish war veterans ! and the women's auxiliary will hold j their annual encampment and reun-1 Ions In Hillsboro June 27 and 28. A number of wool Bales were re ported at Heppner when several prominent sheepmen sold their sea son's clips at 60 cents per pound. ( After being overcome by a sudden attack of heart failure, William L. Braishaw, circuit judge of the sev enth judicial district, died at Portland. Thomas Jefferson Stites, prominent . for many years In the public life of 1 Linn county, and a past grand master of the Oddfellows of Oregon, died in Albany, at his home, aged 77. Attorney Fred W. Wilson has been appointed by Governor Wlthycombe to the office of circuit Judge for Hood River and Wasco counties, to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Brad shaw. Figures made public by the war de partmcnt disclose that Oregon, In pro portion to population, has contributed more men to the regular army than any other state, save Nevada and Utah. Ralph D. Hetzel, who has been di rector of the extension service at the Oregon agricultural college for the last eight years, has accepted the presidency of the agricultural college of New Hampshire. Train baggagemen on the O.-W. R. & N. have complained to the public service commission that they are em ployed too long hours and ask if steps can be taken to obtain shorter hours of employment for them. Th.i first number of Oregon Ex changes, a newspaper for newspaper men, published by the school of jour nalism of the University of Oregon, has been Issued. It Is of magazine form and contains 16 pages. Word has been received that Charles White, a former resident of Ballston, was killed in battle In France recently. The northwest photoengravers will hold their seventh annual convention in Portland on July 16 and 17. One of the new and Interesting fea tures of the Oregon blue book for 1917-18, which will be issued about July 10 by the secretary of state, Is a section giving historical data relat ing to each county In the state. According to reports given out by the United States forest service la Eugene there is now ten feet of snow In the McKenzle pass and the road will probably not be open to automo bile travel traffic for more than a month. Out of 416 accidents reported to the Industrial accident commission for the week from June 15 to 21, Inclusive, but two were fatal, these being Wil liam Trebbel, Artor a, logger, and C. C. Nee!, Roseburg, cement factory employe. Governor Withycombe has an nounced the personnel of Oregon's ex emption boards, following announce ment from Washington that President Wilson had in everyca9e approved the local boards appointed by the state executives. The secretary of war sent to con gress an adverse report on the pro posed improvement of the Willamette river fiom Corvallis to Fugene. The local engineer recommended an annu al expenditure of J1000 for snugging and removing other obstnictions'but the river and harbor board reports that it is Impracticable to open this stretch of river to useful navigation for more than a few months a year except by locki and dams. It Is reported from Milton that horses are dying there of what Is known as "the walking disease." Earl Cooley, aged 18, from Harrlj burg, Linn county, Ib attending the boys' and girls' summer course at the Oregon agricultural college as a result of winning first place in dairy herd record keeping at the state fair in 1915 and 1916. Unable to attend the exercises which will mark the first dirt throw ing on the Strahorn road at Klamath Falls, July 4, Governor Withycombe has delegated George Palmer Putnam, his private secretary, to represent him there on that day. Paul V. Marls, state leader of coun ty agents, and W. L. Kadderly, farm management demonstrator, have made a week's tour in different parts of the state, making a survey of the farm labor conditions. Twenty-two coun ties were visited. No shortage of la bor is apparent. Representative Hawley introduced a resolution amending the sundry civil bill so that part of the $25,000 appro priated to protect the lands of the Oregon & California grant from for est fires may be used In protecting also the 90,000 acres of the Coos Bay wagon road grant. Employes of the state university, such as engineers, laborers and jani tors, if injured by accident while em ployed, cannot bring suit against the j university without special authority ; being granted by act of the legisla i ture, according to an opinion by At ' torney General Brown. Senator McNary hag Introduced bill authorizing the state of Oregon to select in a compact body 40,000 acres ' of land in the Santiam national forest for use as a state forest reseave, and j to relinquish In exchange, all title tc j an equal area of scattered school lec tions within this reservation. The city council has authorized a special election in Toledo, August 13, ; to vote upon three proposed bond Is- sues, an Issue of $12,000 to rebuild the , present city water supply line, $6000 ! refunding bonds to retire outstanding water bonds and $9000 to take up the present city warrant indebtedness. Representative Sinnott has prepar ed and will offer an amendment to the pending food supply bill authorizing the president to expend not more than $20,000,000 out of the $150,000,000 car ried by the bill, in constructing north west irrigation projects, in accordance I with the terms of the reclamation act. Word has been received by Superin tendent Swartzlander of the Umatilla reservation from Washington that bids within the $28,000 appropriated for two bridges across Umatilla river on the reservation had been received, and that the contract would be let Immediately. The government Is pay ing two-thirds, and the county one third. The old blast furnace and smelter plant of the Oregon Iron & Steel com pany, occupying five acres of land along the Willamette river at Oswego, were purchased outright by William Pigott, of Seattle, head of the Pacific Coast Steel company interests in that section, with the prospect that it will be placed In shape within about 60 days for the manufacture of pig iron. That Oregon counties Intend to be pulled out of the mud is apparent from the applications which have come in to the state highway commis sion, not only to secure aid under the $6,000,000 bond issue act for hard sur facing, but also from the demands which are being made for post-road money to be expended on a co-operative basis with the federal govern ment. ' Eleven creeks, all tributaries of the upper McKenzle river, will be closed to trout fishing on August 1 and will remain closed for two years thereaf ter, according to Carl D. Shoemaker, state game warden. The creeks to be closed are Ritchie creek, Johnson creek, Trout creek, Driftwood creek, Granite creek, Indian creek, Gate creek, Martin creek, Deer creek, Ennia -creek and Quartz creek. The headquarters of the Interstate commerce commission engineer! en gaged in making a physical survey of railroad property in the Pacific divi sion, may be moved from San Fran cisco to Eugene during, the summer, according to an announcement made by S. D. Clinton, engineer in charge of a crjw of 11 engineers, In Eugene In connection with the appraisement of Southern Pacific property. There we 12 crews working out of San Fran cisco at the present time. Plans of the state highway commis sion for Immediate paving of three Important stretches of highway, and the grading of two other sections, have been announced by Chairman S. Benson. In Umatilla county, as much of the Important highway from Pen dleton to Walla Walla is to be paved as can be done for $100,000. This work had been agreed on by the com mission some timu ago, and bids are now being asked. In Washington county, the long-notorious Rex-Tlgard road, a part of the Pacific highway, is to receive first attention, Starting at the Multnomah county line, several miles of this road will be hard sur faced. In Clatsop county, paving oper ations will be started from Astoria west on the Astoria end of the Colum bia river highway. Work for this year ii limited to $100,000. PLANTING SPINACH. A Favorite Crop Grown For Greens, nd All Gardeners Should Plant It Spinach Is perhaps the most favorite crop grown for greens, aud every home gardener should plunt It, Around Nor folk, Va., aud to the south of It large areas are cut at any time through the winter wheu the fields are not frozen or covered with snow. North of the latitude of Norfolk spinach can be planted in the autumn and carried over the winter by mulching with straw or leaves. The seed should be sown In drills one foot apart at the rate of one ounce to 100 feet of row, or ten to twelve pounds per acre. A rich loam Is required for success. There is perhaps no other garden crop which gives lis much satisfaction as spinach. Ordinarily It occupies the land during thv autumn and winter and does not Interfere therefore with the production of summer vegetables. Three or four ounces of seed plauted in the autumn after the summer crop has been hurvested will produce an abundance of greens for the average family during the late autumn and early spring. In gathering spinach the entire plant is removed instead of merely cutting off the haves. By se lecting the larger plants first the smaller or later ones are given room to develop. This method does away with the necessity of thlnnhg.
