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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1926)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926 CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN Mabel, 20 miles northeast of Eugene, will be sold at auction by the sheriff February 26 and 27. to satisfy a Judg ment for more than $253,000 held by — the Continental & Commercial Trust Brief Return« of Happengia« of the Week Collected for Our & Savings bank of Chicago and a Reeders second mortgage of approximately $3 ¡3,500 held by the Dollar Portland Tillamook will hare free delivery of All military training camps for Ore- j Lumber company. The sale will in mall beginning May 1. gon citizen soldiers will be held with- i clude about 7000 acres of timber land Hop contracts are beginning to be in the borders of Oregon this year for j and 8ty miles of logging railroad, and the first time since the war, accord practically all of the town of Mabel. made at Salem for the 1926 crop. Oregon News Items of Special Interest Fire starting from an overheated stove destroyed the Oakrldge hotel at Oakridge. "Plans are being drawn for construc tion of a $20,000 new school house in the Pine Grove district of Hood River. February 1 marked the starting date of lambing operations among many big sheep outfits that produce early lambs. A series of one-day farmers’ lnsti- tutes or extension schools has been arranged by O. S. Fletcher, Lane coun ty agent. Whether teachers employed in the Salem schools shall receive salary in creases probably will be decided at the polls at the May election. Fourteen rural telephone lines run ning out of Woodburn have been trans ferred by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company to an incorporated company. Reports from the mountains east of Albany give the information that snow fall is deficient by about four or five feet this year, as compared with nor mal years. Thomas K. Campbell, incumbent, has filed his candidacy for the repub lican nomination for the office of pub lic service commissioner from the state at large. The Pacific Newsprint Mills, with headquarters in Portland, has been in corporated by Joseph H. Rowan, V. A. Johnson and T. B. Handley. The capi tal stock is $100,000. Work has been started on clearing for grading of the 6.88-mlle stretch of Redwood highway between Kerby and Selma, by McNutt Bros, of Eugene. A force of 60 men is clearing the right of way ing to Brigadier-General’ George A. White, commander of the Oregon na tional guard, who has returned from Washington, D. C„ where he conferred with war department* officials. ' Location of Fort Williams, establish ed on Sauvles island about May 1, 1835, by Nathaniel Wyeth as the first American foothold in this state, will be shown on future maps of this dis trict issued by the United States geo logical survey, according to word re ceived. Trucks operating under private con tract with no fixed terminals cause the same degree of damage to the highways as do trucks operating under the classification of common carriers and should be compelled to pay their just proportion ot money required for the maintenance of the traffic arteries, according to a brief filed in the state supreme court by the public service commission. The brief was prepared by W. P. Ellis, attorney for the public service commission in the suit brought by the Purple Garage company and other truck operators to restrain the commission from enforcing the state automotive transportation act against these carriers. The large Booth-Kelly Lumber mill at Wendling and the camps above closed Saturday for two weeks. The mill then will resume operations and the Springfield mill will close for tw-o weeks. It is expected that they will To obtain funds for Pacific college alternate in this way until the market at Newberg a campaign will be launch is better. ed Thursday to raise $100,000. The Lincoln county grand jury in Thirteen men students now are quar session at Toledo, took no action in antined in the University of Oregon the alleged deportation of Japanese infirmary at Eugene as a result of an laborers from the Pacific Spruce saw epidemic of mumps. mill at Toledo, last July. The matter Organization of poultry men of Des was presented to the grand jury by chutes county will come up for con District Attorney Conrad at the special sideration at a farm marketing con request of Governor Pierce. ference to be held in Bend Thursday. Because of the growing importance The safe in the Southern Pacific of the potato crop in Klamath county, station at W est Fir. near Oakrldge, a potato show will be staged at was blown open and $200 In cash Klamath Falls next October, accord ing to announcement by the chamber taken. Twenty-two persons met violent death in Portland in January, accord ing to an official summary prepared by Coroner Smith. of . commerce. The potato crop last year yielded $250,000 and estimates are made that this will be doubled this fail. The public service commission has Reservation of public lands In Coos authorized reductions in rates on saw- county as public parks and camp sites logs shipped from Hulbert and Coch was proposed in a bill Introduced in ran to the log rollways at Menefee and the house by Representative Hawley. Oswego, on the lines of the Southern Governor Pierce issued a requisition Pacific company. The reductions for the return of T. W. Lyle, who is amount to 27 cents^ and 32)4 cents on wanted in Harney county on a forgery 1000 feet from Hulbert and Cochran, charge. Lyle was under arrest ■ in The voters of Salem at the election respectively. Idaho. next May will be asked to vote a William Cole and George Cabel, Co Salem and Canby probably will be special tax levy of $5000 annually for a period of three years to finance the come within a short time the most lumbia county prisoners, escaped from activities of the Salem zoning com prominent bulb-growing sections in the jail at St. Helens after confeder the United States, according to Jan ates on the outside had sawed away mission. do Graaf of Holland, who is spending two bars. The Yamhill County Game Protec a few days there investigating condi A proposed amendment to the agri tive association met Tuesday night at tions. Mr. De Graaf is part owner of culture appropriation bill to allow $30, McMinnville for the purpose of dis one of the largest and oldest bulb pro 000 for drilling wells for stock in the cussing the advisability of closing ducing corporations in Holland. Modoc national forest was introduced coast streams to commercial salmon A deficiency appropriation for rivers by Senator McNary. f.jhing. and harbors which will make immedi Herbert Armstrong, of the Menasha Mrs. Emma Bryant, school superin ately available the sum of $286,000 for Woodenware company, North Bend, tendent of Washington county, has an deepening the channel at Tillamook was chosen president of the Coos nounced her candidacy in the May prl harbor will probably be added to the County Fire Patrol association at a maries for the republican nomination first deficiency bill when it reaches meeting in Marshfield. to the office of state superintendent the senate shortly. Chairman Francis Under the direction of I. M. C. An of public instruction. E. Warren of the senate appropriations Definite plans for enlarging the committee has notified Senator Mc- derson, county club agent, a series of meetings of the Boys’ and Girls’ clubs plant of the Oregon Pulp & Paper Nury. of Clackamas county are being held company at Salem were made at a The suit brought in the federal court in various parts of the county. meeting of the board of directors. Con-! In Portland to test the constitutional trolling interest in the mill is now The cement block Ferndale schoo*. ity of the state gasoline tax law will owned by Fred W. Leadbetter of Port two miles north of Freewater, was be appealed to the United States su gutted by fire. The building was erect land. preme court for final determination, A huge tusk, thought to be of some: according to announcement made at ed in 1909 and it is estimated could pre-histori- animal, was found by work the attorney-general's office in Salem. not be replaced for less than $20,000. men engaged in digging a sewer in Judge Wolverton of the federal court Rhea Luper, state engineer, announc Salem. The tusk measured seven feet j held that the gasoline tax law is con ed the completion of the adjudication in length and approximately nine stitutional. of water rights on Burnt river and Its inches in diameter at its thickest tributaries in Baker county, involving j The state lime board, at a meeting 245 water users and covering 27,425 point. £ in Salem, cobsldered the opening up The rainfall in Pendleton during and development of four new lime de acres The appointment of M. E. Weather- 1925 was slightly more than the nor posits. The lime would be used in the mal of 14 inches, according to figures manufacture of fertilizer. One of the j ford of Arlington as county judge for compiled by Major Lee Moorhouse, of deposits is located eight miles north of Gilliam county was announced by Gov- ficial weather recorder. The precipi Silverton in Marion county, another | ernor Pierce following receipt o f the tation during the year was 14.16 near Dallas and the third on Marble : resignation of L. E. Fowler from that position. inches. mountain in southern Oregon. Another Mother of six children, although only The state land board sold to Frank deposit Is near Gold Hill, not far from 29 years of age, Mrs. Sylvia L. Fisher, Boutin of Portland approximately 30,- the state lime plant. wife of J. W. Fisher, died In a boe- 000.000 feet of yellow pine timber in Reclamation is as deserving of state Klamath county for a consideration , aid as primary and secondary educa i pital at Bend after she took poison of $162,752. Money derived from the j tion. main highways or agricultural Ex at her ranch house four miles east ol , sale of the limber will go Into the irre- periment stations. Secretary of Inter that city. The flax plant at the slate peni ducible school fund. ior Work declared in a letter to Sena Jennie Greathouse. 65. of near Craw- tor McNary of Oregon, in which the tentiary at Salem will he enlarged in fordsvllle. was taken to the Linn roun- cabjnet member defended the section the coming spring in the way of build ty jaii at Albany, when she failed to 1 of the pending interior department ing new, large, concrete retting tanks pay a fine ot $350 imposed upon her supply bill requiring a pledge of state that will practically double the present in the Justice court, on a charge o f ; assistance from Oregon before con 1 capacity/ j possession of mash fit for the manu struction on the Vale, Raker or Owy Sisters, located at the east approach to the scenic McKenzie pass country, facture of intoxicating liquor. hee projects is authorized. Cullison and associates of Portland Directors of the Portland chamber prepared for the coming tourist soa- were successful bidders for the con of commerce hare authorized the for son by organizing the Sisters chamber tract of cruising 10#.#00 acres of tim eign trade committee of the chamber of commerce. Dr. H. L. Vincent Is ber land in Coos county for $25,000. in make a surrey to determine what president of the new organization. William O. Crosby, known In cea- The concern has until February 1, specifications and < learsm es for a pro 1927. to complete the work. The cruise posed bridge spanning the Columbia tral Oregon through his work in in- will start within the next two weeks rirer at Longview and Rainier would I vestigating the water holding posaiblli The spread of smallpox and other give assurance that If the bridge ta ties of the Benham Falls storage reser contagious diseases in Albany haa built It will not obstruct navigation voir site, died recently in Boston, caused the authorities concern as to of the river. The chamber is opposed friends In Rend hare been notified. The city council of McMinnville rot the methods in which to combat the to present specifications calling for epidemic witbont closing all public 155 f » 9 t vertical clearance at low ed to hold an election on the question of Including the college campus in the gatherings More 'han loo cases of water. smallpox were reported In the last two The mill and timber holdings of the corporate limits of the city and of vot- weeks. , Cooe nanjfe Lumber company at . ing on the $54,000 tionds for the $544,- ' j PAGE THREE J 000 building campaign of the college, j W a t c h m a k e r s , Jewelers and Speaking before the Marlon-Polk ‘‘THE TREASURE HOUSE” ; Realtors’ association at Salem. Frank (Long Famous fo r Diamonds) ! Durbin, Marion county dairyman and Use Our E a s y Payment Plan. hop buyer, urged a reductlou In taxes Confidential Credit System for the support of higher leerning and advocated additional state aid in the Main at Central Telephone 81 education of farmers. 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