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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 $9,000,000 freight and grain
terminal voted at the last election,
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Mat— Clubbing Arrange— t With
W« have, therefor«, made
arrange ment with THE
HER whereby any fans
THE OREGON FARMER 1$ 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.
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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."