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•r-t'jpr »**»*•■ OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Bristly Sketched for lafop- nation of Our Readers. The next meeting of the Oregon •tate grange will be held In the spring of 191$ in Salem. Miss O. Shaw was appointed post master at Pleasant Home, vice Mrs. C. J. Britton, resigned. Everett, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Green, of Haines, died from Injuries caused by the kick of a horse. Henry M. Hansen, Salem corres pondent of the Portland Telegram, has been appointed Senator McNary’s drowned in the gowrnment canal at Celllo while In bathing. As the result of co-operation be tween the government and state au thorities a shad hatchery has been es tablished at 8L Helens. George Palmer Putnam, private sec retary to Governor Withyoombe, has resigned, and the resignation has been accepted by the governor. Contract for the new $50,000 women’s dormitory building of the University of Oregon was awarded to Van Patton A Son, of Salem. Forty-one thousand one hundred motor vehicle licenses have been is sued so far this year, approximately $000 more than all of last year. A class of 40 applicants was licens ed to practice dentistry in Oregon at a meeting of the Oregon state board of dental examiners In Portland. A . B. Cordley, Corvallis, baa been •lactad chairman of tba state lime board In place of Warden Charles A. Murphy of the state penitentiary. County Judge J. B. Dodson, of Yam hill county, whose home was In Mc Minnville, died at 8 t Vincent’s hospi tal at Portland following an operation. 8. M. Reaggn of Hillsboro was elect ed president of the state Veterinary Medical association, which hold Its annual meeting In Salem last week. Paying $175 an acre, George Perlng- er, one of the largest farmers In the oounty, bought the John La Roque allotment on the Umatilla reeervation. Mrs. Henrietta B. Whitney, widow of George M. Whitney, pioneer pastor of Eugene who died in 1995, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George A. Westgate, in Portland. The MMade-in-Lebanon Fair,” was largely attended and was a decided success, both from the standpoint of exhibits and .producing funds for the Chautauqua association. Cal Neal, who is employed at the Oregon Portland cement quarries, a few miles south of Roseburg, wss killed almost instantly when he was knocked beneath some loaded ore cars. The Shanlko wool sale, set for June $$, has been postponed to July $. Owing to the late, cold season aad the scarcity of shearers, not over half the 8hanlko clip has been shorn to —the unile of tire satisfaction. This man has found a manu facturer he likes to do business with, whd fulfills all his ideas of what a concern should be in its policy and methods, The company that makes stands back of every Fisk dealer to see that every user -gets his full money's worth in m ileage and tire satisfaction. The Portland oommlaslon of public docks has taken stepe to select the site of the $9,000,000 freight and grain terminal voted at the last election, ' RED CROWN TH E Mat— Clubbing Arrange— t With W« have, therefor«, made arrange ment with THE HER whereby any fans THE OREGON FARMER 1$ the paper which is devoting itself i to the farming activities and in Oregon. It haa a Mg organisai tractive dubbing offer. THE OREGON FARMER, 1 Year.............$1.00 THE NEWBERG CftAHK, 1 Tsar....... ..JIJO $2 JO By Spadai Chtttag Rats, bethfer..... .... $1J0 The Newberg Graphic Nnwbnrfl, Omgon th en for months. Franklin J. Miller, who has been se lected by Senator McNary for admis sion la the government’s naval acad emy at Annapolis, Is a son of Frank J. Miller, chairman of the O ngon pub lic service commission. One hundred good road boosters of Yamhill county, repraoontlng Carlton, Nswborg, Lafayette, McMinnville. Sheridan, Amity and Yamhill, met In McMinnville and organised a perman ent good road association. Attorney General Brown has advis ed District Attorney Gehlhar, of Mar Ion county, that the county may go ahead aad advertise tor bids on the construction of a saw intercouaty bridge over the Willamette river et Salem, and that the eon tract between Polk aad Marion eoontles as to the paymeat for the bridge holds good. During the past week 9S$ aeeMents. ed which one was fatal, were reported to the state Industrial accident cost mission. The total accident resulted In the death of J. ManDuhoff, a log ger Who was killed at Bliad Slough. Decision to erect and maintain a Masonic home in oo-operatlon with the Eastern Star was reached at the business session of the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons for the jurisdiction of Oregon. Three hundred members of the Girls' Honor Guard of Oregon, representing most of the $9 organisations and 4954 members la the state, assembled In Portland during the roue festival Inst week for the first annual convention. The Pacific synod of the Evangelical Lntharaa church wUl hold Its Sanaa! oonveatlon In Portland from Juno 1$ to 94. Delegates, ministers end laymen will be present from Oregon, Cali fornia. Washington and British Colum bia. Can. Present indications point to record strawberry prices for ths Hood River aad White Salmon valley this season. Ths ruling quotations remain at from 19.50 to $4 a crate, and local shipping sgenciss are not able to meet the demand. The first arrest, of alleged slackers In Ban ton county was made whan Deputy Skerrlff O. E. Holdermsn brought in Charles Tassell ami Clor- snee Esteep from Alpine and lodged them In jail pending advice from fed eral authorities. A survey of the proposed road from Eugene to the coast as provided in the state highways commission’s plan tor road improvement in the state will be made at oase. according to an an nouncement made by E. J. Adams, state highway commissioner. Dr. J. Howard Miller, a well knows Portland and Astoria dentist, died at 8L Vincent’s hospital In Portland 10 minutes after he had fallen from a fourth story window of the Morgan building. Ths police express the be lief that he committed suicide. ~ Newberg Auto Co Hearings before the Oregon public service commission on the railroad’s application for a I f per cent Increase is intrastate . freight rates probably will start In Portland la the first week ed the application for the organisa tion of the First National bank of Madras. Miss Lillian Tingle, principal of the Benson polytechnic school for girls, of Portland, will give up her position to become head of the new department o f household arte, fa the University of Oregon. The first car of fat hogs ovsr ship ped from Burns, has topped the Seat tle market at a quarter above any grevious pries sod the animals a n Fhk The* For Sale By J. W. Painton Newberg, Oregon John M. Mann, member of the bonne of the last legislature, and re cently elected city commissioner of Portland, has filed his resignation legislator Withy- combe, as the city charter prohibits him from holding the two offices. The April results of the first Cen tral Oregon C ow Testing association show a steady increase iA the produc tion o f butterfat and it Is hoped that, with the improved methods adopted by the association this Increase in butterfat production will steadily ad- County Agent Blanchard of Crook : and Deschutes counties, reports that j $297 worth of poison has killed about j 41,400 Jockrabblts, at a coat of abottt - one half cent per rabbit, which ia one j tenth of the amount paid by Crook county aa a bounty for each rabbit' killed. United States Senator Charles L. j McNary, justice of the Oregon su - j preme court, former dean of the law college of Willamette university, and . Senator George E. Chamberlain, form er governor of Oregon, received the degrees of doctor of laws, at the com mencement exercises. Oregon schools hsve responded no bly to the call to anna. StaUatlcs gathered by J. A. Churchill, superin tendent of public Instruction, show that np to the time of the closing of \ school a total of 1191 students have enlisted either In the national guard, the regular army or the navy out of the high schools, colleges and univer sities of the state. The state highway commission, at n j I meeting ia Portland attended by Com- j ■listeners Benson and Thompson, de cided to defer any action looking to ward a definite road-building pro grams until after the state supreme court decides whether the state board of control can issue bonds under the | Bean-Barrett law to match the $1.900,- 000 of Federal money available. That the rodent poisoning campaign now being carried oa by seven of the county agricultural agents of Oregon with the co-operation of the United States biological survey will result In the saving of 1900,000 worth of food crops from the ravages of harmful rodents, ts the belief of R. A. Ward, who la representing ths bureau of bio logical survey in this work in. this state. George A. White, adjutant-general of the Oregon national guard, inform- I ed sheriffs of the s’ ate, at the sher iffs’ convention in Portland, that In recognition of their good work In handling the war census. Governor How Little It Costs T o Attend Chautauqua On the Season Ticket Plan Y ou w ouldn't bu y a ticket at every station if you w ere going on a long trip w ould you ? D on 't attend Chautauqua that w a y either. B u y a through ticket. It saves you m oney. Single admissions are nearly three times the amount o f a season ticket. Twenty-two Attractions $ 2.50 A bout 10c Each T h in k of hearing the R oyal Venetian Band for a trifle over [ten cents, or the M ilitary Girls in full evening concert, or the Alpine Y odlers— only ten cents to see the w onderful M a w - son Antarctic Pictures, the m ost thrilling films ever show n. Newberg Chautauqua W eek July 8 to 13 J. L. V A N B L A R IC O M Staple and Fancy G roceries Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Mr. Wells, ’’and it is one which will give protection to the cttlsens, as well aa assets and companies whs are oon- ductlag baauieas la a legitimate moa ner."
