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PAGE TWO THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1926 CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN | port Issued by E. L. Kent, govern mental agricultural statistician. The Al. Independent W eek ly Paper Published at Central Point, Oregon, and condition of Oregon cattle on February Entered Thursday o f each week in the P osto ltice th ereof as Second Class 1 was 99 per cent against S3 per cent M atter laat year and sheep condition was 99 JOHN B. SH ELEY and N E T T IE B. SH ELEY, Editors per cent against 91 per cent. CLARENCE SH ELEY, Business Manager Improving Jnstlce court procedure SUBSCRIPTION RATES and possibly working out a plan to $ 1.00 substitute district courts for the pres Six Months One Year .. $ 2.00 ent Justice courts, is the purpose ot A ll Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance an organization of Justices of the A dvertisin g Rates Given on Application peace from many of the larger cltlee and towns outside of Portland, per THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1926 fected at a meeting held at Salem. E J. Noble of Oregon City was elected president of the organization. Brazier Small, Juattce of the peace for the Salem district, w»s elected secretary and treasurer. B rie f Resume o f Happengins o f the W eek C ollected CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN Oregon News Items of Special Interest tor five dollars. The pigs entered in the pig-feeding contese will be sold at public auction at the close o f the show. The auction last year yielded $6023.80 to club members, there be ing sold one hundred seveney-three hogs weighing a total o f three thous and six hundred six pounds. The pestiferous garden slug of whatever variety can be controlled in Oregon b” a combination o f repell- ants and poison bait, says Dr. ’ R. Mote, o f the experiment station. The repellont is bordeau mixture 4- 4-50 sprayed on the plants to be pro tected. Thebait is one part calcium arsenate mixed with sixteen parts of finely chopped lettuce and spread abont the infested ground. Leod ar senate will not prove offective— the calcium is needed. ------------------ o —* -------------■ A $2.00, 1926 Road, Radio and Railway map Oregon, Washington, California, U. S„ as a premium, at Mary Mee’s drug store. Ask about it. — 2t Watchmakers. Jewelers and “ TH E TR E ASU R E HOUSE” Use (Long Famous for Diamonds) Our E a s y Payment Plan. Confidential Credit System REDDY & CO. Main at Central Telephone 81 Medford, Oregon Our Work between Lebanon and Albany which was discontinued last Decembet will be resumed soon on the Santtam highway. The work beginning at the | Lebanon end of the road has been completed about half the distance tc Albany. The Albany end of the road is to be completed by the first of next September. Several other large road construction works will be undertaken this year In Linn county, including the new road on the Santlam highway from Snea hill to Caacadia. Readers Fred Westerfeld, Klamath Falls den Portland Immigration district who had tist, collapsed and died following a 10 no legal right to come Into this coun day fast. try was reported to the sub-committee The Southern Oregon Rabbit Breed on appropriations for the labor depart ers' association held Its annual meet ment by federal Immigration officials. ing at Medford. Members of the Bend city council Construction of the two Coos bay have announced their willingness to Jetties has advanced to the stage when submit to a vote of the people the dlsctuslon of surfacing the sand rock question of a managerial form of gov ernment for Bend. A commercial club • Is under way. In honor of John B. Yeon, the new special committee la now making a C. E. Secoy, whose ranch borders study of various forms of city manage bridge across the Willamette river at Ontario, milks 14 cows and during Harrisburg, on the Pacific highway 1926 his cream checks totaled $2033, or ment. will be named for the ex-highway com The l<ane county grand Jury return an average of 3145 per cow. mlssloner. This action was taken by ed Indictments against four men of Vandals broke into two school Oakridge including James A. Haynie, the commission In pursuance to a reso lutlon adopted by the legislature. A t hutldtngs at Albany and ransacked deputy sheriff and constable, and Dr. every desk and locker in the two build Leslie W Peate, Justice of the peace, Mr. Yeon refused to Indicate what bridge he wished named after him ings with a gain of 34.15 in cash. on charges that they had knowledge Grants Pass will ask the highway of the violation of th<- prohibition law self, and as the chamber of commerce commission to complete the section of and did not reveal these facts to the of Harrisburg asked that the new road between Deer creek and Hay's district attorney. The others indicted bridge be named for John B. Yeon hill on tha Redwood highway during were Harry Brown, pool hall pro the commission acted accordingly. 192«. Removal of the state lime plant prietor, and Jack Wright, barber. from Gold Hill to Salem to be operat A census jdat taken at the milling Five sororities on the University o. ed as an industry at the state peni town Of Garibaldi In Tillamook county Oregon campus. Alpha Chi Omega tentiary was decided by members ol shows a population of 1005. Three Alpha Delta PI, Alpha Omlcron PI, the state lime board at a meeting held years ago there were only 320 Inhabl Delta Gamma and Chi Omega, have In the executive offices at Salem tants. purchased sites on which to build new Less than 100 carloads of apples sre houses In the near future, according to Figures submitted to Governor Pierce by membervof the lime board indicat held unsold at H6od River by the university officials. ed that by removal of the plant tc Apple Growers’ association. The as Joseph I. Cavender. under 10 years' Salem for operation by convict laboi soclatlon's total tonnage for 1925 was penitentiary sentence for assault with the cost*of production could be reduc 1400 cars. intent to kill In connection with the ed to a point where the pulverised James A. McGregor of South Dakota shooting of R. L.’ Haines In Harney lime would be available to farmers al has been appointed head of the Che- county July 6, 1523. must serve the a price at least 31 a ton lower than li mawa Indian school to succeed Har term Imposed upon him, according to demanded at the present time. wood Hall, who has resigned because an opinion handed down by the state of ill health. supreme court. CASH PRIZE OFFERED B Y THE Mmw than 700 fret of highway was UNION STOCKYARD CO M PANY The Iron Dyke mine at Homestead covered and ¡50 feet carried away by believed to be worth about 15.000,000 an Immense slide which blocked the O ffe r o f $1525 in prizes to Ore Is reported to have been sold. The Roosevelt highway between Coquille Idaho Copper corporation, of which gon girls' and boys’ club members and Marshfield. Dr. Weed, said to be one of the fore fo r winning exhibits at the Pacific Francis Denny of Albany, father of most mining experts in America, it Internatinai Livestock show in Port 12 children, all of whom are patients the operating head, Is now the owner land next November, has been made In some Institution for the mentally of the property. by George A. Pierson, president of afflicted, was committed to the state Reoonstrtirtlon of the power lines the Portland Union Stockyards com hospital at Salem. from Albany south to Springfield and pany. O f this sum $450 will go for Oovernor Pierce has revoked a con west to Corvallis is nearly completed prizes in the 25-ear corn exhibit, and •/ dit tonal pardon granted to Harvey The work has been In progress since $1075 as premiums in the pig-feed Madsen, convict, who was released last summer and a large crew has ing contest exhibit. from the Oregon stste penitentiary been kept at work during the winter March 14 of laat year. This work was done by the Mountain Restoration of lower Klamath lake States Power company, which main least one acre o f corn. on the border of California and Ore tains headquarters for Oregon In Al gon to use as a bird reserve ts up to hany. the people of those states, officials of Checks aggregating $206.000 were gon, three in Idaho and two in Wash the biological survey say. forwarded to growers last week by the ington. F ifty dollars in prizes Gerald H. Clark. 31, of Eugene, was Hood River Apple Growers' assocla be given to the winners in each killed Instantly in a logging camp of tlon. The cash distribution was the trict. The winners o f first placi the Penn Lumber company at Me- third monthly melon cut by the c » each o f eight districts will then Glynn, west of Eugene, when a snag, operative since December. Growers given a chance to compete fo r an struck by a falling tree, fell upon him. have now received 31.452.000 on the ditional fifty-doliar prize. The pig-feeding exhibit will i Dismantling of the old steel bridge 1935 apple crop. Further remittances which has been replaced by the new are expected to swell this amount an sist o f a pen o f four hogs, all li mate*. Oregon, Iraho, and Wash highway bridge oyer the Willamette other 3300.000. river at Albany la under way. The Consideration of the nomination of ton will be divided into districts i steel Is to be cut Into short lengths Wallace McCamant for the federal ilar to those in the corn contest. and shipped to Japan bench by the Judiciary committee has W inner* in each district will receive The annual western white pine been postponed indefinitely aa a re a total o f < ne hundred twenty-five blister rust conference, attended by suit of the continued Illness of Sena dollars in prises and winners o f first foreatera and tlmhermen from five tor Johnson of California. McCamant'a place in each district will compete western states and by foreat service chief opponent, who wishes to address for on additional prise o f seventy- officials from Washington. D. C„ was the committee before tt passes on Me Camant's name Johnson Is ill at his held In Portland Saturday. For leading the 15 divisions of the home w'th influenza A Suit of Clothes FREE Tailored to Your Measure A sk Us fo r Particulars WEAVER’S STORE QUALITY and SERVICE ’ Central Point. Oregon Phone 61 V W .V W U N W A V A ’A V A W /.V W A V .W .W y W b W A W .W , Aa a demonstration of resentment over the mounting state levies against motor vehicles, a caravan of protest left Eugene Saturday on a atate-whh tour In the first round of a fight Request for an extension of time In against further prtpoeed tax burt.ens which to make hta decision relative on the automobile owner and esp vial to the offer of the presideary of the ly against the recent plan to add a.i University of Oregon was made by Dr other cent n gallon to the present Harry Wuxdburu Chase, president of gasoline tax In this state. Adoption of the Washington system the University of North Carolina Crooked creek unit, a valuable tract which vests In the state tax commts of pine tim'oer rn the Klamath Indian slon complete control over both statt reservation, will be sold at Klamath and local property assessments and agency May It. tt Is announced by the raising of all funds tor state pur reservation su> Hurt tie* T*>ere are M. pewes In Oregon through Indirect tax atlon. were the outstanding reeom 000,000 fart of timber la ’.he aalt mends!ion* of county assessors at a That forgot! ittons have been under meeting with members of the state way for ecm< time and are shorn to tax laveettgatlag committee at Salem he closed for the sale of a controlling The condition of Oregon ranges on Interest In the Mother G d t mine to Pacific system of the Southern pa ctftc railway In kuslnesegetung dur Ing the final business quarter of 1915. employea of the Portland dlvlaion were presented with a bronse plaque • maltt-nulli.m dollar copper company FVbn,,rT 1 » » » »* Per la New Y or’; city It reported at Baker , ***** wMh * **r fore and 77 per cent a T la preacnee of *<>no aliens ta tha ! cording ta a r * » - - ami real as com • “ ° " 'h year ago. t c livestock re Money Talks in Every language YES-- Watch this Space For Next Month’s Ad M c D o w e l l j a m e s Central Point - - ^ V A V ^ ’ A S N 'A S V .V .’ .Y .V .’ .’ .V .’ . 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