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OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. An InvoillKKlon will ba Hindi bjr tht slata (Ira marshal of tht rocant flra at Uend. Tha camui rapart ilvea Pandlaton population of 7387, an Incrwua o( 2927, or 65 par cant, Issuing ot 1100,000 bond's for har bor dvvelopuwot wn rotxd at meat lf cf tha I'orl ol i'ortlaud. Bnxliinliif July 1, dorks and carrlari of tba . Eugene pustoldce hava bad their iulur'1 Increased 1200 per year. Tha txtrometjr bot days In Southern Oregon recently caused many (oreat (Irea from tba electrical atoriui in tba mountains. Tb Aatorla city council baa author Med a landing alone (or bydroplanaa to ba constructed at tba (oot ot rNrty avcond street. In that city. flatter wheat and better prlcea for the l.lnn county product conitltute tba purpuae of a gnuiritl campaign launch ad by 8. V. Bmllb, county agent Oownor Olcott appointed W. D. McCurry of Portland, to succeed Ed' win A. Hatch, who baa resigned aa a Number of tha Oregon board of phar macy, The I, Inn county threahermen'a con rentlon will be held at Albany, July 17, to aatabllah i uulfurtn churga fur threshing and filing wages for tba mason. K, Woodson cf llnppner waa ap pointed a member of tha board of re- genta of tba University of Oregon to succeed Judge Uoan of l'ortfand, who resigned. , Frank M. Krlrkson, formerly bead o( the department of education In tba University of Idaho, haa been elected professor tf education In Willamette university. A term of from three to 10 daya In tha county Jnll awaits automobile and motorcycle epeedera In Bnlem aa the result of an ordinance passed by the city council. ' According to State Veterinarian Lytle thousand! of cattla trim West am Oregon are being shipped Into Idaho and Montana to replenish herds ot those statea. C. E. Woodson of Heppner baa been appointed to aucceed Judga Robert 8 Dean of Portland, resigned, aa a mem ber of tha board of regents of the University of Oregon. Surveys on a new road from Ukloh wore agreed upon In a conference be tween officers of Umatilla county and di'lcRiitlona from Uklah, Pilot Rock, Pcndlulon and Long Creek. Douglas county realty men have met and passed resolutions refusing to sell any land to Japanese, follow lug the visit to Hoseburg o( agents for a Jap anese colonisation schema. Attorney General Drown has been asked to give a legal opinion aa to whr.hor a director of an Irrigation rtlr.rlct la a "publlo officer" and sub ji it to recall by the voters. Timothy Newell, a Hood River orch ardlst, baa Invented a fruit grading machine with an automatic feeder. He has also perfected a wiping machine which may be attached to the grader. H, O. Summerlln was acquitted by g federal jury In Portland for the charges made by the government of setting fire to brush In the Umpqua national forest near Gravel Ford, Or. It cost Hans Pederson 1410,481.83 to build the Portland auditorium. Tha city puld him 1347,083.06 for the job. This fact was brou.it out at a aeaalon If the auditorium claims committee last week. Aa a result ot d series ot almost nightly robberies and petty thieving at the Salem automobile camp ground for tourists, a night watchman will be Installed to protect campora from further pilferlngs, Upon the recommendation of Attor ney General Brown, the desert land board of Eastern Oregon has voted to purchase and Install a (Ish acroon at the Tumalo creek dam, a few miles from Bend, County courts In making their an nual budgets of taxes should take car of mandatory, levies In preference to those levies of a discretionary nature, according to Justice C, A. Johns, In a supreme Court opinion. Linn county Is richer by 175,927 this year than at this time laat year, ac cording to the semi-annual report of tho county treasurer, who saya that there Is on hand a cash surplus of 1 132,020.69 In the treasury. . Oregon dairymen want to charge $1 per hunderwelght more for milk de livered to homes in Portland than for the same milk sold to condensarles. This fact was made public by Investi gator Lionel C. Mackay of Portland'! legal department, who has just com pleted an Im estlgation of the Increas ed price of milk as tar as Portland ' dlstrlbuttfra are concerned, . Linn county la facing a serious short age' of teachers, according to Mrs. Ida Cummlngs, county arhoul euptr Intendent, who saya that of the 276 teachers needed, only five have thus tar returned algned contracts. Professor C. K. Hale, former Port lander and native Oregonlan, has bein selected by University of Oregon ei eutlvet to act aa the uew dean of tba law school, taking tba place of Dean B. II. llopa, who baa resigned. Funds appropriated for the adminis tration of tha provisions of the sol dlers' educational aid act are avallubla only to ei service men dealrlng to at tend an Oregon school, according to an opinion of Attorney General Drown. Undivided opposition to any move toward tha sanctioning of professional boxing In Albany by the munclpu! authorities baa been presented by the churches of tha city, In which a cun vaas of the congregations was made. Recent action by the Port of As toria authorities In reducing rules fur handling and storing grain In the grain elevators of that pert to one half the rates In Portland and Seattle, may re sult In a rate cutting wur between the three cities. The county court sold the old Wasco county courthouse at Tb Dulles to Friendship lodge, No. , Knights of Pythias, for $12,750. Tha lodge will remodel It one of the oldest buildings In the city Into a beautiful lodgnroom and Pythian heme. In order to guard against the pos sible Invasion of Columbia river ports by the bubonic plague, which bos be come a serious menace at several parts In the United States, strict regulitions ot shipping were put Into tone both In Astoria and Portlund. Pendleton, Hermlston and Stanfleld will co-operate In entertaining and showing tht 20 members of the bouae of representatlvea waya and means committee Irrigation and drainage pro jects and the needa ot Umatilla coun ty on their visit July 16. The office ot county superintendent ot schools, ot Clackamas county, made vacant by the resignation of J. E. Cl- avon, was filled by the county court with the appointment of Drenton Ved der, who for tht paat all years has been county school supervisor. Because It offered to give pur and Interest accrued at tht time of de livery, tht First Savings bank of Al bany was awarded tha contract to buy 176.000 worth of tht 1600,000 per manent Linn county road bonds au thorised by the people In June, 1919. Fire losses In Oregon for the month of June, not Including the city of Portland, totaled $268,726, according to a report prepared by A. C. Barber, state tire marshal. Tht fires number ed thirty-two, the most disastrous oc curing at Whitney, with a loss of $G5, 000. A. M. Cannon, formerly of the Port land schools, who has arrived in Hood River to assume bis dutlea as superln tendent ot city schools, has announced that B. H. Conkle, who for the punt few years boa been principal of the Enterprise high school, has been ap pointed principal of the Hoed River acbool. Approximately 250,000 gallons of Toxas gasoline will be brought Intc Oregon this week In at attempt to relieve the shortage existing In Port land and the Willamette valley, ac cording to arrangements made by the Dealers' Motor Car Association of Ore gon and tbe Southern Pacific Hallway company. Organization of the republican state central committee was effected Satur day In Portland with the re-election ot Thomas H, Tongue ot Hlllsboro as chairman. Under tbe direction of the state committee, Chairman Tongue waa authorised to appoint an execu- tlvt committee ot 21 members, 11 of whom shall be members of tbe state committee, and ton women. This ex ecutive committee will select a treasur er, secretary and publicity manager. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, a total ot 21,878 Industrial accidents were reported to the state Industrial accident commission, ac cording to a statement just issued by the claim department of that commis sion. Of that number 157 were fatal accidents. The monthly average tor the year was 1768.41 non-fatal acci dents and 13.8 fatal accidents. The report shows that during die year the commission disposed of 1479 claims more than the total numbered receiv ed, this making an average monthly gain of 123.25 claims. Persons under 16 years of age who attempt to drive a motor vehicle in Oregon, are doing ao in violation of the provisions of the recently enacted motor vehicle drivers' licence law and are subject to arrest and fine, accord ing to a statement Issued by Secre tary of State Koier. Although the enforcement of the law has been sus pended temporarily, pending the is suance ot licenses to those who have filed their applications, the law speci fically prohibits the operation ot motor vehicles by persons under 16 years ot age, license or no license, and there is no excuse for the violation of this section of the act, Kozer explains. Edwin Nissen Local Buyer Pays highest prices for all kinds of Live Stock At Monmouth Hotel m-M-HW-H-WOH I KfrtfHttW 1 1 M r- Salem, Independence & Monmouth Stage Leave Salem Leave Monmouth Leave Independence 0. E. Depot Monmouth) Hotel Bearer Hotel 7:00 A.M. 8:15 A. M.i 8:30 A. M. 11W A. M. 1:01) P. M. l 5 p m fi;W P. M. . 8:16 P. M. 6:30 P. M. J. W. Parker, Salem, Oregon, Phones 44, 615 J. O. MATTHIS Physician and Suron Phonk 573 House 1 Office: I910 Dank of Cotnmerct Bid,-, Salem, Ore. STEVENS & CO. Dealers in . Second Hand Goods CSt. Independence Phone 1421 L C. PRICE, M.D. Office and residence Kurre Apartments . Phone 1903 Monmouth Grange 476 Mis the Second Saturday In Each Month at 10:3) A. M. Public Program at 2:30 p. m. to which visitors aro welcome. P. O. PoWELUi Matter. Miss Maggie Butler, Sec. WANTLD-Second hand tnnt about 7x9. Herald Office. 4tp 5 ,- Investment Department Mountain States Power Company Bylleshy Engineering and Management Corporation Engineers Managers H.M.ByUesby&Co.,SV Monmiuth and Independence Auto-Bus Schedule Umm MoMMtfb Lmvh IJ.p.kUk. 7.45 a. m. North Bound ,8.15 a. m. 150 p.m. " " 2.26 p. ro. 5.15 " ' " ' 6.43 " 10.00 a. m. South Bound 10.33 a. m. 3-15 P-m. " " 8.51p.m. 8.40 " ' " 7.12 " RAYMOND E. DERBY Proprietot A Good Building Material and an everlasting building mater ial at tha tame time. The Tile Works at Monmouth is making a bui'ding tile which will make any kind of building from a dwelling house to a pig pen cool in summer and warm in winter. Es pecially fine for your fruit, vegeta ble and milk house. We also have all kinds of drain tile. Drain tile is you- most ur gent reed. Get that wet land drain ed. We will do your draining for you if you wish, bt do it your self if you can. Central Tile Co., Mon mouth, Oregon. Larger Electrical Demands Show Community Growth T'HE electrical demands of a community are a sure index of its growth and prosperity. The figures given below show the total annual output of electrical energy supplied by the Mountain States Power Company during 1919 compared with 1916: Year Kilowatt Hours Output , - -"' 1919 . . . . 23,251,195 1916 . . . 15,592,699 Increase . . 7,658,496 A business supplying necessary services, required by people and industry 365 days in the year, and growing at the above rate, is a good one to invest in. This year many extensions and improvements will be made to the properties to keep pace with the demands for additional service. Your money can thus be put to work to good advantage to you and the community. Our 8 Gold Notes pay a substantial cash return regularly every 6 months. Many people have already become profit-sharing investors in Mountain States Power Co. Why not call or get our illustrated literature by using the attached coupon? "As a Matter of Fact" says the Good Judge It will actually cost you less to use the Real To bacco Chew. Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that. The full, rich taste lasts longer and a small chew gives more genuine satisfaction. Put up in two styles RIGHT CUT Is a short-cut W-B CUT Is a HWtHW-HMI 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 MONMOUTH MARKET Fresh and Cured Meats j Pure Kettle Rendered Lard Fresh Fish on Fridays J. B. 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