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* OREGON NEWS NOTES OF 6ENERAIINTEREST A Safety-First System Checks eKminate the danger of * loss or theft of funds when on vacation or business trip. W e issue these in denominations of $10, $20, $50 and $100. They may be cashed almost any (dace, but, only upon being counter signed by the rightful owner. rT * R A V E L E R S Savings and Checking A c counts at the U . S. National Bank are also means o f protection in handling and keeping money. UNITED STATES [ONAL Parlor Pharmacy “Q uality Store” Ice Cream to Please Yseag mi OM alike must be perfectly flavored by the finest fruit flavor*. Ice Cream par ex cellence — that means ours — must be properly frozen. Delicious, cooling and refreshing, it always revives the .fa tigued and often relieve« headache. L V .N S M When In Need of a Plumbee — --- — " CALL ~ - — j ---------- EL L. EVANS, 501 1st St., Newberg Phone Black 23 Residence Blue 6 J. L. V A N B L A R IC O M - Staple and Fancy Groceries Fresh Fruits and Vegetables W e please the most particular. Phone us a grocery order and aee If our prompt service doesn’ t surprise you. We want your trade ing p o in ts ,» the test fo r gasoline. Crown has die boiling pome* n Through California is a favorite route for those seeking diversity o f scenery, opportunity to visit many attractive cities en route and enjoy the best in travel. One Way Fares First and second class to the East and South apply via California. The trip can be made very economically. Summer Excursion Fares Round Trip to principal cities in the East will be on sale certain days in August and September. These tickets apply over practically all routes. A*k your local agent for particular* or writ« John M. Scott, General Paaaenger Agent Portland, Ore. S o u t h e r n P a c if ic L in e s Principal Evants of tha Waak Briefly Sketched far Inform mation of Our Readers. Ptrea have done much damage this aeaaon In Curry county. Mid-Columbia fishermen are plan ning for a rich harvest this season. The supreme court, now on its va cation. will reconvene September 4. Albany may have an agricultural and stock fair and race meet October 11, 12 and 13. Astoria will celebrate Ita 22nd annual regatta August 31, September 1. 2 and 3. Telephone girls of Portland have or ganized a union affiliated with tha American, Federation of Labor. Reporta to Abe public service com mission Indicate an Increasing car shortage on the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon. Shock caused by the fire that de stroyed Sumpter and took all his pod- sessions caused the death of V. R. Meador, aged 74. Corvallis will vote on September 4 on several bond issues and a referred ordinance to clone the moving picture theaters on Sunday. Orlo D. Center, director of exten sion at the University of Idaho, has been appointed extension director of the . Oregon Agricultural college. Shipbuilders In Portland and on the Columbia river are protesting against insurance ir.tes that they are required to pay on vessels under construction. Th e elevator at Shuttler * Station, Gilliam county, is nearing completion, and is almost ready to receive grain. The elevator will hold 123,000 bushels. Lane county farmers are enthusi astic over results obtained by using a squirrel-poison formula prescribed by the United State* department of agri culture. Tha Pacific highway «through the northern section of Linn county, from Albany northward to the county boun dary line at ^pfferaon, will be pavad next year. * The heaviest run of salmon In several years is in progress at tha. mouth o f the Columbia river and every* cannery is working to capacity pack ing the ftah. Governor W ithycoube baa issued an appeal to the citizens of Oregon asking them to give aid to the sufferers from the f're which practically wiped out the town of Sumpter. Governor Wlthycombe says that be cause of the dry weather that baa prevailed the 300 acres of flrx being harvested by the state will be prac tically a total failure. The Eugene Woolen Milla company is delivering khaki cloth to the United States government at the rate of 3000 yard* a month. The mill has con tracted to supply 25,000 yards. Dr. J. L. Masson of Myrtle Point, who is examining dairy cows for the state livestock board, has condemned 36 head of cows afflicted with tuber culosis in the Coqullle valley. Milo Lantz. aged 49, well-known resident of Molalla, was instantly kill ed while putting hay into bis barn. Mr. Lantz was standing on the load, using a bay rake, which fell and struck his heart. Because of high price of feed small flocks of poultry in the state are being reduced at an alarming rate, accord ing to E. J. McClanahan, president o f the Oregon State Poultry Breeders’ association. That students may ~ive all possible aaatstance in getting in the crops, the authorities of Pacific college at New- berg. have decided to postpone tha opening of the fall term which was to have been September 17. Though It was held almost a month later than ordinarily because of the lateness of the season, the Cove cherry fair, held last week, was altogether successful. There was a large attend ance from surrounding districts. For the third time in Ka history tha 30-year-old town of Ruthton, an O-W. R. A N. station and home of a big planing mill of the 8tanley-8m!tll Lumbar oempeny. burned, the fire aatailing a lost of more than 126,000. Governor Wlthycombe baa appoint ed W. O. Trill, of 1 ossil, as district attorney for Wheeler county, to suc ceed J. K. Starr, who resigned to go to the Presidio, San Francisco, where, he hopes to obtain a commission in the army. Despite the drouth, Lan* county farms will produce an average crop this year and the farmers will re ceive more money when It la market ed than for many years, according to a statement Issued by County Agri cultural Ageut ftobb. The state board of control received bids for a second time on the $40d^ 000 Issue of Bean Rarrett road bond«.. the second bids being ashed for to aecertain whether a better figure could be received on shorter term bonds. The highest bid was from E. H. Rollins A Sons, of Chicago, through the Capi tal National bank, of Salem, for «388.- •40, dr 97.01 on 100. Tble is approxi mately 310,000 better than.the highest bid the lest time. A cloudburst In (be Terebonne sec tion. which Includes rich Irrlgntad Is Mat Treaehsry, but Faar, Thai lands utterly destroyed the entire Moves ths Springs. crop, and washed out a number of Handled Intelligently, a uiule Is a roads. Seven inches of rain fell in most willing worker, hut there are a sue hour, and huge hailstones aided few unwritten laws that cannot be in besting the crops into the ground. transgressed with Impunity. A mule Oregon apple men will be given an will seldom make uioie than tw o at opportunity to get additional training tempts to move a load. On tha first in the naweat and beat methods of strain be will throw his whole force grading and packing apples and pears Into tbe collar, and a mule can pull 60 per cent more in proportion to hie at a fruit packing school to be held weight than a horse. Science is dumb by the horticultural department of the at the question whence comas that Oregon Agricultural college, Septem latent force which neither horee nor ber 4 to 15. ass possesses. . Out of every 100 pupils attending A fter a short rest the mule will make the public schools of the state, ap n second attempt, but tbla la seldom aa proximately 95 never missed a day sustained as the first. I f tha load still during the lest school fear, according refuses to move, tbe team might aa wall be unhitched. At times tbe mules to the annuel reporta of county school cf the Newberg Feed C b « w ill not even exert enough force on a superintendents being filed in the third attempt to move an empty wagon. office o f J. A. Churchill, superintend Mules are charged with treaehsry ♦4 4H 444 4 4 M 4 M 6M M M M I ent o f public Instruction. only by those who have uever given Federal licenses to millers, elevators an intensive study to their habits. and warehousemen to transact busi Mules defend themselves from that ness under the regulations of the which they do not understand. They O f Q . M . K E IL IN G U Hoover food administration will be is become accustomed to being harnessed and mibamessed while colts, and it sued in e few days, according to infor Bas.721 WynaoaMIt,PbsasMack 14B Is traditional that a mule never kicks mation received by M. H. Houser, In ♦♦»♦♦4 9 H 9 4 4 9 M M 4 » > •» ♦ ♦ » • while being saddled or harnessed, Tbe charge of grain buying and distribu beast knows what that means tion in the Pacific northwest. ' But it la also traditional that a mule During the month of June employes, sleeps with one eye open. He In al in Oregon who were Insured under ways alert to what la going on about W . J. S A U N D E R S the workmen's compensation law , him. I t la never safe to stoop down labored an aggregate total of 1,225,976 suddenly to pick something np behind work days. During that game month or at the side o f a mule. That la to there were 17 fatal accidents and 1321 him an nnexplained action. Ha can accidents all told, reported to the state not fathom the intent back o f It, and Canate Walk. B a it e Fissi*. Can he generally lets fly with one or both cro* RlmA. or Pkn, Cenni Sidewalu industrial accident commission. beets by Way o f protest. PHONE BLACK iM Unusual crop conditions this year A person who baa barn eased and tm- are resulting in a shortage of straw harnessed a mule for months may for and now the Oregon atate hospital, get himself and stoOp for something which uses a large quantity o f straw at the animal s heels. Then the mule, for stock feed and bedding, is paying docile for so many days, begins to kick. 13 a ton for baled straw This is When tbe luckless driver regains bis C H A S E & L IN T O N nearly three times aa much as hag senses he imagines the mule had been waiting craftily all those weeks Just G R A VEL COM PANY been paid heretofore for straw. to get a good opportunity to kick him. James Tompkins o f Gaston was mis —Los Angeles Times. taken for a deer by his hunting com AU kfnds o f gravel for con- panion, John Miller, as he was re ENDLESS CHAIN LETTERS. coate work, cement blocks, turning to camp, and received a or wood work furnished on charge o f buckshot over the heart a f The One That Started the Ball Railing a distance of 84 feet, killing him in short notice. In This Ceuntry. stantly. The accident happened about The first o f tbe “ endlees chain" ten miles west of Cherry Grove. Telephone White 85 schemes that have proved abch an an In the last six weeks eastern Mult noyance to postal officials'in all coun nomah county farmers have lost more tries waa launched oh June 27. 1886. than 100 animals from the seme cause by a young girl. Natalie Scbenck, of that caused the death o f livestock in Babylon, N. Y. Her project waa pure J. H. GIBSON, Mgr. Klamath county, according to S. B. ly benevolent and was animated bp a spirit o f patriotism. Desiring to Hall, Multnomah county agriculturist. T h e only A bstract Books in raise a fund for tbe aid o f American Bat the' apparent poisoning, declares soldiers then fighting 8paln, she orig Yam hill County Mr. Hall, ts a contagious blood poison, inated the endless chain Men as an which is incurable in tbe advanced adaptation o f a scheme that had a Yamhill County Abstract Cow stages. O b m o n vogue in England until It waa stopped M c M in n v il l b . A bean crop of at least 50 per cent by act o f parliament. Tbe “chain" was started 'with four is assured in the W illam ette valley, ac letters written by Mias Scbenck to as cording to the estimates of the Salem Fruit company, which has contracts many girl friends. Each waa asked to contribute 10 cents and write four with bean growers throughout the similar letters to other friends. A few valley. In some localities there w ill days later tbe Babylon postofBce be hardly 26 per cent of what was gan to get busy, and as tbe days went •xpectsd a month ago, while again a by the postal officials got busier and ■umber of growers report fine con busier until they were fairly buried un ditions. der tbe weight of mall Which descend W. B. Ayer. Oregon’s newly appoint ed upon them like au avalanche. sad Safes a Specialty A hurry call went to Washington for ed federal food commissioner, chosen t y National Administrator Herbert C. extra help, and mail was delivered to S. P. Timberlake, Prop. Miss Scbenck by tbe truck load. Now Hoover to take charge, of tbe con that young lady la-aran to feel the e f Office phone Black 100 servation work in Oregon, has opened fects o f the scheme. Her home was Residence phone Red 79 his campaign with a strong appeal for littered from cellar to garret with let the patriotic Individual help of every ters, letters and more letters, all con Oregon man. woman and child In the taining dim es' Before tbe thing died inauguration and support of the out o f ita own accord she had received eeeeeeeeeeeesssseeeeeeeeee more than a quarter o f a million dimes. Hoover plan. Fakers all over the world heard o f it, Four of the 292 accidents reported P IA N O S A N D P L A Y E R and, aa fakers will, they immediately to the state Industrial accident com got busy. Hundreds o f thousands o f mission during the week ending people were swindled out o f money in August 16 were fatal. They were: ‘ A N D R E PAIRE D this manner until tbe postal authori Iwschikie Sueyoshi, of Cochran, and ties put an end to it. Tbe famous > 564 First St NEWBERG, ORE. # Floyd Hayden, of Neveratill, killed In endless chain prayer, which threatens logging operations, and J. Acker, Port endless punishment to any |>erson who land. killed in shipbuilding operations, breaks it. has been one o f tbe hardiest < »eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and William B. Edmonds. Buxton, kill- survivors o f «11.—New York World. ad in logging operations. I! W . R . M O R R I S Despotism as s Govsrnmsnt. Governor Wlthycombe has express Unlimited power is tbe ideal thing ed the opinion that the proclamation of when it is in safe bands. Tbe despot Governor Lister, of Washington, de AND REPAIRING 1 k ism o f heaven is tbe one absolutely claring In favor of tbe principles of perfect government. An earthly des P lw w W i l d 7 « NEWBBJtO < L tbe eight-hour day in the lumber camps potism would be tbe absolutely perfect o f that state might cramp the lum earthly government if tbe conditions ber industry of the northwest if fol were the same—namely, the despot tbe lowed ou t., He bases his contention perfectest individual o f tbe human I. W . H IL L oa the competition which mills of the race and bla learn o f life perpetual. northwest must meet from the milla But as a perishable perfect man must Tàtari* C M * Werks o f the south, where wages are lower. die and leave his despotism in tbe hands o f an Imperfect successor an A fter seven months of caretul In earthly despotism la not merely a bad vaetlgation and arrangement of the form o f government; It is tbs worst financial and construction details, a possible.—Mark Twain. syndicate headed by Stephens St Co., with offices In San Francisco, Los A Uts Far Old Rubber. Angeles, San Diego and Coronado, Old hot water bags make fine holders Adm inistrator's Notice o f F inal Cal., and by Clnrke, Kendkll A Co., of to use when wringing cloths out o f hot Settlement Portland, baa underwritten a $900,000 water, for compresses, facial massage, bond lasue of the Ocboco Irrigation etc. Cut tbe bag all around tbe aeam. project. In Crook county, Oregon, and Cut tbe stiff top off and you have two flat pieces o f rubber. This la a great baa let contracts for Immediate con protection to tbe hands, and hotter wa struction work. This work is to begin ter can oa September 6. T o tbe Twoby Bros, company, of Portland, has been anrnrd- etf the contract for construction of the project dam and the first 164 miles Home," is in a little eontbern "garden o f rest." o f canal. Notice has been received from Tbe grave Is that o f Mias Harry Har Washington that testimony in sup den at Athena, Ga. She was the sweet heart o f the composer, John Howard port o f tb# application of the W il Payno.—Argonaut. lamette Valley Lumbermen's associa tion to the Interstate commerce com * Lava and Friendship. mission for an order to require tbe Love le tbe shadow o f tb# morning, northern railway lines to grant Joint wblcb decreases as tbe day advances. through rates from points on tha Frjfndsblp la the shadow o f tbe even Southern Pacific to Minnesota and ing. which strengthens with tbe get the Dakotas w ill be heard befora Ex ting sun o f life. aminer Marshall In Portland, Septem As Usual. - ber 20. This is known aa the Port Willis—Mow did tbe automobile acci land gateway case and It will be fol dent occur? (Bills— In tbe usual man lowed by bearing of the case of east ner; tbe road turned one way and tbe SHILOH RELIEF CORP8 NO. 28.— ern Oregon lumber producers against car tbe other.--Town Topics. Meetings held the fcxf and 4th Thurs the Sumpter Valley railway for Joint to» day of aaeb month at 2:30 P. M. in tha through rates to points on tbe U a Only tbe man who is in the wfrong I. O. O. F. Hall. Ion Pacific system la tbe Intermons- must win at once. Tboee who are right Mra. Elizabeth Clemmena, Pres. can afford to wait. tatn states. Emma L. Snow, Sec. B IL L The Plumber new mux «! 202 fust monuments V. A. VINCENT .... MONUMENTS if Carpester aid Concrete Worker The N ew berg T ra n sfe r Co. C. W. K IE N L E ;• : Pianos Tuned I :: House Moving if mi
