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The matter of help never meant more to the farmer than in this year of nineteen sev
enteen. With large'sums at stake, both in the harvest and in the seed planted, help
is scarce and expensive. Farm machines cut down the coil of production. It costs
less to own machinery and use it than not to own it at all. It is expensive to
do without machinery when crops are as valuable as they are at present
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If You Need New Machinery This Fall
now is the time to order it.
Prices are steadily increasing. Such is the demand that or
ders are subject to delays. If you would avoid vexation and
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bother and have your machine when the crop demands it order now.
WINEGAR & LORENCE, Monmouth
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
I., a - ..... a retting process at liie state pen i ten-
a,ul Birls iu the girl,- inuustriai .cUool. t o the crop prospect. '
Miss llcrtlia Aitiiatis, saiesiany at - - '
I he i'o tons or nax wnien was reueu
! last full has been scutched and work-
will assist In harvesting the berry
I crop of the Willamette valley. i the Cmpqua hotel at Itoseburg; Mrs,
n, !iti onnimi mnpntirin Ore. ! Alice Allen, a Roseburg nurse ; W.J,
! gon State Pharmaceutical association,
Weaver, proprietor of the Umpqna ; ed up into fiber of good quality. The
bewail at Seaside Tuesday and will
hotel at Roseburg; J. M. Hurt, travel-
1917 crop, which Is still growing, is
reported to be In good condition.
N. Campbell, registrar of the Port
land United States land office, has re-
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continue until SaturJay night. , ;' "c c '
Kuporti received from growers In 1 company, of Portland; E. L. Parrott,
..... , , nanitnlint nd Flovd Miller, son of a
Marion county indicate mat great " " .' . I rolvPd hiilletin from Washington an-
kprs will be needed to prominent IMllarn randier, are suuer- r -
KerS Will Ue lieeUCU lO . . . . . . nnnnnlmr tunlut vo II una fur Ihp Ell a
. ins from Injuries which they sustained """ -
(when Mr. Parrot-is car left the road
1 and turned ovr at a point near Can-
numbers of pick
handle the berry crop this year.
Announcement was made by A. H.
Ftroo in nrotrnn ilnrlnz .Tune caused Lea, secretary of the state fair board,
insB nf $r,4 6o( . 1 that the board has decided to put on ' yonvllle.
That the Belland law enacted at the . T)0,1Eillg fir. and Kovernment
! Mm ntfitn. fain I .A.,.iH t tl.A 1 l 1 n II A rt .
me o.aVC .... icuchi cnoiuii ui me icBiivu.w w cruiRors gave an estimate ol lTU.tiiiU,-
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r.xperimeniB lor me i-uiurui ui uio proiilo'l hip sale oi sannon caugui iu aqq (,t
l'he fifth annual Chautauqua opened ' an automobile show in connection with
In Dallas Tuesday.
Molnlla's two-day celebration and
round up was a huge success.
The eastern Oregon slate conven
tion of Christian churches was held
In I.a Grande.
of five sections of Siletz Indian reser
vation land In Lincoln county. The
sale will be held some time in August
and will be public. The timber is
Strawberries are growing so large ,
onion mildew are being conducted by j the ocean ort the Columbia river dur
the department of plant pathology at ; lug the closed fishing season is un
the Oregon Agricultural college with i constitutional was the decision of Cir
promising results. j cult Judge Kakln at Astoria.
Complete figures compiled by United j while the number of automobiles In
Scores of men, women and children
will be needed to harvest the crops of
Polk .county this summer, and unless
this demand is supplied, fully 50 per
cent of the fruit and grain yield will
in Harrisburx that 18 of them till an i States Atturney Rt,ames Rhow lhat ! the state registered up to June 30 this j be toBt Women, girls and boys to
ordinary berry box. ' i
Actual construction on the Klamath :
Falls municipal railway commenced at ;
Klamath Kails Friday. !
since war census day, June 6, 364 men . year 8 greatly In eJCess of the nunv
of military age have been permitted to tr registered for the first six months
register at Portland. 1 0f iaPt year, the number of motorcycles
A large cattle transaction took place ; nHg dropped off, according to a state
ment Issued by Secretary Olcott.
Moving with expedition in its efforts
pick the heavy berry crop now fast
ripening are especial'.)' wanted at this
time, but steady work for an unlimit
ed number of men from now until the
hpn r. A. flnriev and Arch Wassom. , i.auj , eooratarv ninnit t ,..i .... i. .t
The tenth annual tnreeuay comen -rHBhllrl, ,lrrhasP(i iTiin head of ....... u .,,., ... ... ... .. .
,. , . . Chironract'c as.'O o . iviuvmg wuu cApt-uuiua m no cuuub onereu.
lion or tne urego i . ; Durhum stetfrg from George Brown of promote ,he gUte hlgnway work Att()rney.Gcneral Brown advises .
Ciaiicn was neiu in ruumuu. n.m. tmnnn .. . t
T'x.vvv j me state nignway commission nas au-1 o, Krlckson, district attorney Kir uiat-
Five meetings will be held in Linn j vt,rtlsed for proposals on a large gQp county, that the theory upon which
county this week under the direction I amount 0f road work, the proposals to a justice of the peace in that county
of the United States department of he ol)ent,A iuiv ?0. at the office of S. I rM.pntlv dismissed llnuor rases acainst
on survey of the portion of the pro
posed road from Eugene to Deadwood,
In the coast mountains. The three
links of this highway will be the pro
possd road from Florence to Ktigene,
the road from Eugene through the
McKensie pass to Mitchell and the
John Day highway from Mitchell to
Ontario, on the Idaho boundary.
District Forester Cecil announced
that approval has been given by the
secretary of agriculture to coopera
tive road work in Oregon Involving
$1,114,194, which is distributed to 15
projects. This amount is matched by
the state, assisted In some Instances
by counties. The project on which co
operation is authorized by the secre
tary are as follows: McKenzle Pass
road, Eugene-Florence road, Pendle-ton-La
Grande road, Medford Klamath
Falls road, Oehoco creek road, Canyon-Tille-Galesvllle
road, Reedsport-Coos
Ray road, Little Nestucca road, John
Pay road, Flora Enterprise road, La
Pine Lakevlew road, Pilot Rock-Prairie
City road, Crescent Klamath Falls
road, and Zigzag road,
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Work on the new $14,000 addition
to the chapel of the Oregon normal
school at Monmouth has started.
The next national convention of the
Mu Phu Epsilon, national music sor
ority, will be held in tu;:ene iu 1919.
Seventeen branches of the Red Cross
society with a total membership of
1GT1 have been formed in Linn county.
Deer in the uiounta.iis have suffered
severely from the lung winter, says
Charles Hoskins, an Echo sheepman.
The main railroads in Oregon have
abandoned their attempt to get a 15
per cent increase In intrastate freight
rates at this time.
The little town of Flavel was visit
ed by a biaze which destroyed two
frame buildings with the loss of ap
proximately $-500.
The American Home Economics as
sociation convened in Portland Tues
day, July 10, as a section of the Nation
al Education association.
Hood River has shipped 80 carloads
of strawberries and it is expected
Gems In Terse
agriculture to teach farmers how to
exterminate digger squirrels.
John W. Bowman, carpenter, shot
and killed his wile and then sent two
bullets into his own temple, dying al
most Instantly, at Pendleton. Friends
said Bowman was jealous of his wife.
Chin Bing, the first of six alleged
Benson, chairinau of the commission ! o. Sund and A. White Is unsound. The
In Portland. attorney-general holds that all the
Net profit In total shipment of ore ' state needs to prove is that the liquor
from the Blue Ledge mine near Med- j came into the defendants' handB and
ford during the last three months Is j that the burden Is then Bhifted to
between $75,000 and $100,000 in copper I them to prove that they secured such
alone. The ore yields from $5 to $7.50 liquor in a lawful manner.
a ton in gold and silver, the net re-!" Dissatisfaction of the Klamath In-
gunmen implicated in the murder of j u(s ,n thQge meUlg being $10 000 in dlgng culminated a tribal meeting,
the same period. ! at which Clayton Kirk, Charles Hood,
Since the workmen's compensation j Abraham Charley, Drumer David, Har
law went lirto effect on November 5, j rison Brown, Samuel Clinton and Sup
1914, up to June 30, 1917, the receipts ' erintendent Asbery were speakers,
of the state industrial accident com- j The Indians declared themselves cap
mission have been $2,283,558.96, while I able of self-government and aBked that
the disbursements have been $301,322.- j some of their vast resources be made
04, according to a financial statement available for Immediate use. Criticism
Billie Eng, an Americanized Chinaman,
In the recent tong war, was found
guilty of second degree murder at La
Grande.
! Fire prevention will be taught in the
! schools of Salem, and representatives
of the state fire marshal's department
' will make a complete survey of the
city, according to plans which have
been outlined.
Several deputy state fire marshals
have been sent to the eastern Ore
gon grain fields to aid farmers and
warehousemen tJ give the fullest pro-
issued by the commission.
Four fatal accidents and 352 non-
of the present practice of the Govern
ment in dealing with the Indians was
fatal accidents were reported to the ; made and resolutions were adopted
state industrial accident commission ! "king the government to give the
during the past week. The fatal acct-
that fully 100 carloads will be handled fre M d dents were: Joseph Streimer Portland,
A i.nn " va n n itnifi lama a Ail Lr In a I lfO.
before the season closes. , needed food uppUrti. '"
Bids will be opened at Roseburg whUe thtre , ,njury t0 ; gon City, trespasser; J. 1. ( uddeback,
July 28 for the Douglas county road he n cropg of ,ne gKat whegt ; Portland, construction; Paul Corchan.
bond issue ol aia,uw auinorueu i lt immediately tributary to Pendle-1 v"'w"""fio"'6
tiie recent state election.
.cicm ton. fanners are wginning to oe ap- - , t ltched camp and 8tarted work
Bevs in the state training school , preheMs, e rej:arding the effect of the11" now belBg put 'W-,he ater'
Eighty tons of the 1916 crop of flax
Indians a chance.
Work of opening the central Ore
gon highway, which will extend from
the Idaho 'state line to the sea, was
begun last week, when a crew o
engineers working under the direc
tion of the state engineering depart-
AMERICA.
I)ATIENT ahe ! long suffering,
our land;
Wlee with the strength of on
whose soul in calm
Weighs and considers and would
understand
Ere It gives way to anger; fearing
wrong
Of her own doing more than any
planned
Agninst her peace by others deem
ed more strong.
MOTHER of many children alien
born.
Whom she has gathered Into her
kind arms
Safeguarding most the weakest,
most forlorn
The mother's patience she has
learned to know,
Which pomes trifles by with smil
ing si-urn;
The mother's hopefulness, to an
ger now.
VET, oh, beware; nor, overbold,
presume
Upon a gentleness enllnked with
power!
Her torch still bums, to kindle or
consume.
And 'gainst the time when she
must prove her might
Vast energy la stored In her aoul's
room,
Undreamed of strength to battle
for the right!
-Florence Earle Coates.