News Notes From
All Over Oregon
Gleaned b y th e W e s te r n
N ew sapor U n io n fo r
B u sy P e e p le
ilA 'Y 27, 1925
Jack .McGuire of the University of
O r e g o n w on the Pacific coast finals
of the national oratorical contest from
a field of seven participants represent
ing universities of tbe coast. McGuire
Is now qualified to enter the national
contest to be held in Los Ar jeles.
June 6.
WM. S. CULBERTSON
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GENERAL DOREY
A R R O W GARAGE, Gansle Bros.
U . S. & C. T. C. T iro s N ew , lo w -p ric e d G ill
M o re service
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M O R E S E R V IC E F O R LE S S M O N E Y
Dedication of the new Umatilla
bridge on the Columbia hlgfWay has
been postponed, owing to the lnabll
lty of some of the principal speakers
to be present. The Intended date for
the dedication was May 22, but the
celebration will probably be set some
time In June.
J«.ck Smith, 1«. was drowned In the
Willamette river
above
Corvallis
while In swimming.
Bar elim inatio n » which were to he
ketd In Salem July 14 and IS w ill be
keld os July 7 and 8.
Work on Oregon's new railroad
The Clackamas county Jersey Jub
route east by the Southern Pacllfc
ilee was held at the Clackamas county
through south central Oregon, by con
fairgrounds near Canby.
necting the Strahorn line with the
At a meeting held at Halfway the Nevada-Californla-Oregon and rebuild
date* for the Pine valley fair were set ing the latter road to standard gauge,
for September 24 and 26.
will be started, probably, before the
Several hundred residents of Clat- end of summer.
tpp county attended the annual Scotch
Elwood Mead, commissioner of
krooaa celebration at Columbia beach. reclamation, with headquarters at
With a crowd estimated to be the
largest ever attending the annual
strawberry carnival was held In Rose
burg.
Fire losses in Portland for April
totaled 663,632.82 and Involved four
deaths, according to Edward Grenfall,
fire marshal.
RURAL E N T E R P R IS E
National Birthday
Uncle Sam Still
as Defense Day
After the Dough
Attention of Several Govern President
Favors
That Date
ments Called to Agreements
tor Test Rather Than
Made By Them.
Armistice Day.
Washington, has invited Governor
Washington, D C. — The United
Washington, D. C. — Formal disap
Pierce to accompany him on an In
Gen. Halstead Dorey, who has been State« government has taken steps ,to proval of the war department's selec
spection trip over (Jbe Baker and Vale
W illiam S. Culbertson of Kansaa named assistant to G overnorG eneral oollect not only the w ar debts owed tion of armistice day for the holding
irrigation districts. The governor has
vice chairman of the Federal tariff Leonard Wood of the Philippines.
by Europe, but the reconstruction of h second defense test and a recom
accepted. The dates have not yet
commission, who has been appointed
loans made after the armistice.
mendation by President Coolidge that
been determined.
minister to Rumania.
Several debtor governments have It be held on July 4, were announced
Bids for work on five Oregon high
failed to pay either Interest or prin by the W hite House.
way projects will he opened In the
cipal on reconstruction debts and in
The president. In a letter to Acting
Labor conditions In Oregon have office la Portland of C. H. Purcell, dis
consequence the Washington govern Secretary of W ar Davis, suggested
trict
engineer
of
the
bureau
of
public
greatly improved, according to the
ment has callsd their attention to the July 4 as a “more appropriate date”
monthly report of the United States roads, June 10, 11 and 12. Sixty-
agreements negotiated at the time the and directed the department, if It
Philadelphia.—
In
justice
to
business
seven miles of highways will be im
department of labor.
loans were made that there would be chose any other day than a national
there should be a curtailment of fed
proved by the government, which has
Osaka, Japan. — Eye witness ac eral bureaus and commissions engag no dtcsrlmlnation In the discharge of holiday, to hold its plane in abeyance
Salem w ill be the scene dt the next
set aside 66(6,540 for the work.
until the authosity of congress I» so-
counts from Toyo-Oka and Kinosakl, ed In Investigating the Industrial ma obligations of this character.
Oregon state encampment of the Odd
The ballot title prepared by the at agree that scenes of horror sim ilar to
Belgium Is said to have paid Great cured.
fellows. It was decided at the clos-
chine. Senator W illiam M. Butler of
torney-general for the referendum those witnessed In Toklo and Yoko
Britain about £8,000,000 on post arm
The president also advised the de
iar session of the order at A shlar*
Massachusetts, chairman of the repub
measure attacking the tobacco tax law hama during the earthquake of Sep
istice reconstruction and aid loans. partment to emphasize In its latter» to
lican national committee, declared
The Salem district of the Portland
Rumania also Is understood to have governors that participation of their
enacted at the last session of the leg tember 1, 1923, were enacted there
here in an address to the Textile Man
area of the Methodist Episcopal islature, Is sufficient and legal, ac
made substantial payments to nations states in tbe test is "purely volun
Saturday morning. The earthquake ufacturers’ association.
church held its annual conference at cording to a decision handed down al
which advanced relief funds, but Has tary.”
came very suddenly. The residents,
The time has arrived, he insisted,
8Uverton with 86 out-of-town visitors Salem by Judge L. H. McMahan of
panic-stricken, tried to escape to the when business, "seeking to stand four made no move to pay the United
The war department w ill accept the
in attendance.
the Marion county circuit court.
open but many were pinned down by square with the government," might States.
president's suggestion and hold Its de
T. H. Lonergan, national chaplain
The Jugo-Slavian government incur fense test on July 4, It was said to
Plans are under way to make the tbe falling debris *and died In the ask congress to give it credit for
of the American Legion, w ill attend annual state championship trapshoot. flames which Just as quickly followed
red a number Qi reconstruction debts, well-informed quarters here.
“good Intentions and sincerity of ac
the state convention of legionnaires which will be held at Eugene, Friday, the shock.
but has not made payment to any of
Acting Secretary of W ar Davis de
tivities" by halting the multiplication
to be held a t Prineville next month ns Saturday and Sunday, the biggest
her creditors, and for that reason Is clined to authorise any statement
The newspapers print varying esti of supervising agencies.
not held to he In the same position J pending his formal answer to PresF
the gueat of the Pendleton post.
trapshooting event of the year In pre- mates of the casualties, late reports
"Tbe government, with justice to
j dent Coolidge, which la expected that
Flood waters, the result of a cloud gon.
Eugene sportsmen, aided by placing the total at 1500. Property the members of the great American as Belgium and Rumania.
The debt commission sees no dis- * latter part of this week.
burst, tor« down Rlack Horae canyon Eugene merchants, have raised a large damage was reported to be between industrial family, can go further,” he
tinctlon whatever between pre and
and swept through the town of Lex sum of money to be used for added 50,000,000 and 75,000,000 yèn.
oontlnued, “and begin an elimination
post armistice debts Insofar as the oh-j z ~
.
ington? leaving In their wake dam prixes.
of certain of tbe boards, bureaus, de
ligation of the debtor nation to pay x J l L a l I v O I U l C r i l Ml
Sir John French, W ar Hero, Dies.
age estimated at least as high as
Warrenton is without fire protec
partments and commissions of Paul-
Deal, England.— The Earl of Ypres,
is concerned.
640,444.
Prying activity, and accomplish a sub
tion and minus a city commissioner
Some consideration Is being given j
The Orhgon Laundry Workers’ as ss the result of the action by Com better known as Field Marshal French stantial saving of the public payroll
|>y the Washington government of- ,
—
— — —
British World war hero, died here,
sociation held Its annual convention in missioner Warren, Fire Chief Lacey
without any loss of public service.’’
ficlals to a proposal to publish a list ! s t Paui jjln n . — A muilon-dollsr
aged
73.
He
underwent
pn
operatlqn
Pendleton with over 1U0 deelgates in and 21 members of the volunteer de
on March 19. Soon thereafter he was
of all debts owed the United States, motor bus and freight company, hack
N. P. Sued for Burke Blaze.
attendance from practlcaHy every city partment. in submitting their resigna
reported to be recovering but subse
showing not only the amounts due, ed by Great Northern railw ay Inter
Wallace,
Idaho.
—
Thirty
damage
in the state and many from Washing tions to the city ooaamisstoa. Inter
quently his condition became worse.
suits, totaling 6180,611, were filed in but in each case the total payments ests, filed articles of incorporation
ton and Idaho
ference by City Manager Francis In
federal district court here against the made on post and pre-armlstlce debts. here. The company, known as the
Arthur Coveil, crippled mystic and the operation of the fire and water
Williams Named Missouri Senator.
Great Northern Transit company, w ill
Northern Pacific railway as a result of
student of the occult, and L. W . Peare, departments was given as the cause.
Jefferson City. Mo — Judge George
operate a fleet of passenger kueseo
fire
which
destroyed
part
of
tho
town
farmer and mountaineer, were hanged
Members of the battleship Oregon H. W illiams of St. Ixiuis was appoint
and freight trucks, according to Uzw
of Burke, Idaho. July 12, 1923, and
In the execution chamber of the Ore commission ore at Bremerton navy
ed United States senator from Mis
articles filed.
gon state penitentiary at Salem for yard to arrange to hare the old fight
causod a I ors of approximately 61.000,
souri by Governor Sam baker to sue
The directors include Louts W HI1L
murders committed in Coes county.
000.
tag craft transferred te Portland har ceed the late Selden P. Sponr.er.
Ralph nudd, W. P. Kenney aad D. J.
Construction of a shade roller fac bor. The b a ttfa h ip has been condl
Salem, Or.— The necessity of addi Kerr, all of St. Paul. Mr. Budd w ill
tory for the Stewart Hartshorn com Honed by the federal government and
tional rail aervlco without unnecss bo the president, with M r. Kenney as
agneto electric co
pany. largest manufacturers of shades will be towed to Oregon waters by two ^ / ^ l b a n y _ ^ ) i r e c t o r y
sary duplication of Investment »»" vice-president and F. L. Paetzol-t sec
Official Stroinherg carburetor terv
la the world, w ill start at Bend be tugs
Six days w ill be required to
emphasized
by tho Oregon public serv retary-treasurer.
ice station.
Couservative prices Al
fore August, It was announced by E. complete the voyage- Present plans
work guaranteed.
119-121 W. Second ice commission ta an answer (lied in
The company, which is capitalized at
B. Oake, representative of the cons- call for tbe arrival of the battleship tn
connection with tho petition of the 61,040,000, w ill maintain headquarters
"
A r nello parlors
Portland on June 14. •
pahy.
Oregon Trunk for a certificate of pub
This is good advice; ’. ' l l you live
here.
(A beauty aid for every need)
lic convenience and necessity author
Members of the state board of con
Oregon pensions have been granted in Albany, trade iu Albany ; if you live
M r Rudd, president of the Great
St.
Francis
Hotel
t r * have authorised the construction as follows:
John Ferettl. Portland in some other town, trade in that town."
l’rcp.. W i n n ie m k d Rose. izing tha extension of its tine from Northern, said the company had not
Bend to Klamath Falls
o f-a new school building and cottage 612 a month; Clyde Legate, Portland Uut in these automobile ilays many re
decided definitely where tbe busses
siding elsewhere find it advisable to do
en and money are best when
It was said that this answer ex would bs operated, but ’’tbe plan is
oa the site of the children’s farm home 612; W illiam F. Harris, Portland, 612; at least part of their buying in tbe
busy.
Make
your
dollars
work
in
presses clearly tbe a lt Rude of the com
near Corvallis.
The strurture will Samuel C. Worrell, Portland. 616; larger town. Those who go to Albany
to study the situation carefully, aad
our savings department. A lbany S t a t e
cost 636.004, while the cottage w ill Henry Friedländer. Portland. 612; W ll to transact business will find the firms B a n k . Under government supervision. mission la eoBBuutlon with recent de Where an Improvement la service can
named
below
ready
to
fill
their
require
velopments in the central Oregon rail be offered we propose to operate bus
Ham McMillan, Silverton. 616; Elmer
cost 618,040.
ments with courtesy and fairness.
iss Sue Breckenridge
road situation.
Governor Pierce acted within the F. Drake, Bend, 611; W illiam Brolt,
routes supplementary to our tra in
Hemstitching. Stamped goods
Particular mention was made In the
soepe of his authority when he re Hillsboro, 618; Oeorge C. W hltely.
ACCESSORIES AND T IR E S
313 West Second street, Albany, Oregon answer to the fact that under the pro service In tho northwest.”
moved Dr. Thomas W. Rose as a mem Oakland, 616; Fred W ithrow, Eugene Ta-
Auto Supplies
Phone 452R
posed plan of the Oregon Trunk, its
J. H. A ll is o n
,ber of the state fish commission, ac 612; Jesse Talbert, Portland. 612.
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
trackage would parallel the line of the
Suit for. 6540.000 damages against 442 West First St
cording to a memorandum opinion
OSCOK AMES HARDWARE Southern Pacific company for 80
the
California-Oregon
Power
company
.Waded down in Portland by Circuit
J. LINDAHL, hardware,
E. M. Ammons, former governor o f
miles, from a Junction point near
was filed In circuit court at Klamath
The Winchester Store]
•
Dinnerware
j Udgs Hewitt.
Odell or Skookum to Klamath Falla, Colorado died at h it home In Denver.
Falls by the Fort Klamath Meadows
Tin
shop
in
connection
Finishing the year 1924 in 17th place
Albany, Oregon -'TIM 8O N T H E SHOE DOCTOR while Identical service might be af He was 66 years old and had been In
company for alleged flooding of lands 356 W. First St.
am png the different states of the union
Second street, opposite Hamilton's forded at a saving of more than three falling health for several months.
along upper Klamath lake, it was
1 b t * e race for export markets, O re
lbany Floral Co. Cut flowers ’ tore.
The Anti-Saloon league celebrated
and one-hall million dollars through
charged that the building of the power
nd plants. Floral art for'every
gon'ti merchandise shipments abroad
and
"Sudden Service.’ ’
its 32nd birthday Sunday.
It was
Joint
use
of
the
Southern
Pacific
company dam caused water to Inun and all occasions.
»
totaled 670,503.939. according to sta
founded in Oberlin, O., by a group of
tracks
between
these
points.
Flower phone 458-b
date thousands of acres of land own
aldo Anderson & Kon. distrib
tistics just released by the department
churches, throwing aside denomina
ed by tbe plaintiff corporation rend
utors and dealers for Maxwell, Chal
Phavenport
Music
company
offers
of eoaimerce.
tional
linos.
mers, Essex, Hudson A- Hupmobile cart.
ering It unsuitable for Irrigation pur ■Aw piano-case organ, good as new
Dr. Char lss R Erdman. Princeton,
The Oregon farmers' educational
Accessories. 19 pnlies. 1st A Broadalbin. DOROTHY ELLINGSON SANE
poses.
Estey organ, good as new
' N. J., was elected moderator of tho
and cooperative union closed its an
The state of Oregon w ill be glsd to Used Pianos.
, , BemWy
(he Pr„ byterta»
W OODW ORTH
DRUG CO. Confeaasd M .trlc ld . to Face First
nual convention at Corvallis with the accept all the artillery pieces among
V v
Brunswicks and Victrolas
Degree M u rd e r Charge.
church
In
the
United
States at the
astbnrn
Bros.—Two
big
grocery
re fle ctio n of all its present officers the allotment of captured German war
Radios
San Franoisco. — T rial of Dorothy convention in Columbus, Ohio.
stores, 212 W. First and 225 South
aad the passing of a number of reso trophies made to It, but there are no
Pianos sold on easy terms
Mam. Good merchandise at the right
RUIngson, 17-yoar-old confessed m atri
British government Is reported frt
lutions concerning particularly the stats funds available to pay freight
prices.
j _
__
e specialty shoppe
cide, on a charge of first degree mur be refusing to admit delegates from
subject of taxes.
charges from Newport News, Va. That
and stamped goods. der. was sot for Juno 16 by Superior Russia and other European enuntrie«
lite Cafeteria and confectionery 318 W. hemstitching
At an election In Gold H ill aa Issue reply has been received from t|ie state
Second st.
Albany, Oregon Judge Harold Loudsrback. Tho girl
who proposed to attend annual con
Home
cooking.
Pleasant
surround
Owner, Irene McDaniel.
off 615.000 water bonds for extending adjutant-general's office at Salem. In
ings.
Courteous, efficient serriee.
was accused of shooting her mother io ference of British communist party,
and reconstructing the city’s water answer to a communication sent to We make our own candies.
death in thslr home here on tbe morn which opams at Glasgow May 30.
pvstem was approved by an 8 to 1 every state by the war department
W . S. D u n c a n .
New
F U R N IT U R E A N D
ing of January 13.
The German government propose«
r Xe. The reconstructloa work on the detailing the articles allotted for dis
and
Dr. J. M. Seanland, medical super Increase tn tariff rates on Imported
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con>menc® “ • oon “ the trlbutlon by act of congress.
tntundent of the Napa state hospital, gr*ine to hope of stabllslng prices and
Tires sod accessories
bonds ' V ' ■»»rte te d
bought, solJ and exchanged at all times and his staff, seven other physicians, increasing home production. The pro-
Repairs
Yankees
Tsst
Canada's
New
Beer
j . .
’ keeping on display or offer
K ik k -P o l l a k M oto » C o .
presented a report to District Attorney 1>nw<,
u n ff
automobiles. It IP
Windsor, Ont.—Approxlmtely 76,000
«_ , er‘ , 'Im m oral periodicals would
B E N T. S U D T E L L
Brady, saying that a close observe, „ i s .
praattoally bar American mo
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• ’ persons. two-thirds of them Ameri CVjrtmiller Furniture Co., futni.
Phone 76-R, 123 N. Broadalbin at, Albany tion of the girl for a period of more chines from German market,
tn t u n
-igonment fqr * period cans. slrhsdy have paid between 6160, * tare, rugs, linoleum, stoves ranges.
than 20 days had determined that she , M r r Oeorge E. Chamberlain, w ife
to »600 or lmpi
provisions oi 000 and 6200,000 here to teat the Funeral directors. 427-433 west First
was In fall possession of her faculties 1 ex-Saoator Cfcamberlato of Oregon,
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. T n r f ^ e d at a meeting "kick" of the 4.4 per cent beer the street. Albany. Oregon._______________
and mentally responsible In every died az Washington. D. C„ Bunday,
I LLER GROCERY, 3M Lyon!
an ordinance in trod. ' .
first day it was placed on sale.
of the S a iM . city cou. ^ ¿ lfh e r
w«y.
She had bean In poor health for sev
(Successor to Stenberg Bros.)
W rite lor booklet describing ont 20-
Groceries
Fruits
Produce
eral years. She had lived In Wash
Portland m a ilt slued a
%vera<p flx. 215 Naw Oregon Statutes Effective.
Citizenship
net
fe
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O
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tal
W
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vats.
year Rural Credit Amortized lxians
ington since 1406, when her husband
Inr ratio In 1924 than the .
united
Salem. Or.— Approximately 235 laws Phone 263R
Washington, D. C. — Japanese and was first elected to the United -Mates
The loan pays out tn 20 payments, re
*1 by, 173 other cities in U
or comprising the harvest of the last sea
olman
jackson
tiring the principal. Cheap rates. No other Asiatics who nerved la the Uni
States providing new dwell.
^ y |e i sion of the state legislature, became
senate from Oregon.
Grocery—Baker y delay.
B ea m L a n d C o ..
ted States army, navy or coast guard
Hvlng, facilities for 4809 new fa t
Everything in the line of eats
effective at midnight Thursday.
133 Lyon street, Albany, Ore.
during the World war are not entitled nortnwestarn Line and Omaha Units.
Opposite Postoffice
scronllng to a compilation of bulk
to naturalisation, the supreme court
PermRs made by federal statistician
Chicago, III.— A consolidation of tha
ub Candy Co., First street, next
has decided.
Chicago A Northwestern railway and
H alf of the stale banks in Oregon are
door to Blain Clothing Co.
the Chicago, St. Pani A Minneapolis
Noon lunches.
not making a profit and must decide
Kansas Kx Qsvsmor Cleared.
at lowest rate of interest
Home made candy and ice Cream.
aad Omaha railway, the former of
definitely on a different policy or go
Topeka, Kan.— J. M. Davis, e ig p v which controls the latter. Is In pros
out of existenOA Frank C. Bran»« ell,
Real
Estate
Insurance
IM P E R IA L C /F E . 200 W, First
ernor of Kansas, was.acquitted of a pect through a stock exchange, It was
•tats supertntet.denZ of banks, dec tr-
Prompt service. Courteous treatment.
. Floral and
A
Harold G. Murphy Prop.
charge of soliciting a bribe for a p ar ¿iscloaed harm
*0 at e meeting of group 2 of the Ore
Music Shop
Phone 665
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