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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1926)
CENTRAL POINT AM ERICAN PAGE T W O CENTRAL POINT AM ERICAN A n Indépendant W eekly Pnper Published nt C entral P oint, O regon , and E ntered Thursday ot each w eek in the P o s t o ffie e th e re o f as Secon d Class M atter JOHN B. SHELEY and NETTIE B. SHELEY, Editors CLARENCE SHELEY, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six M onths........................................................- ............................................- ...........$1.00 One Year .......................................................................................................................$2.00 All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance A dvertisin g Rates C iven on A pp lica tion T H U R SD A Y , M ARCH 18, 1926 Oregon News Items of Special Interest B rief Resum e o f H appengins o f the Readers W eek C ollected fo r Our T H U R SD A Y , M A R C H 18, 1926 W . G. T R IL L appropriation of $4 000.600 for hospital here has been postponed until next construction has made funds available Friday night. A large num ber of A tto rn e y -a t-L a w — N otary Public P h one 341 for the Portland project. local entrants is expected. C entral P oin t - • - O regon The public service commission is- ; Miss Gladys Dole, whose home is W a t c h m a k e r s , Jew elers and sued an order dismissing the lnvestlga tion of intrastate freight rates on near here,' is assisting Miss Pankey ‘‘TH E T R E A SU R E H O U SE " fresh, dried and canned fruits and at the telephone switch board. Miss vegetables. Members of the commis Dole expects to remain until she be (Long Fam ous for Diamonds) Use Our E a s y Paym ent Plan. sion said the rate structure on these comes proficient at the work. Confidential Credit System commodities had been adjusted satis N U -L IF E . W H A T IS I T ? factorily to all concerned. REDDY & CO. Something we all desire. You can Following receipt of press reports obtain Main at Central Telephone 81 inform ation regarding it at that the senate Judiciary committee Mary Mee’s Drug store. Medford, Oregon had returned an adverse report on Wallace McCamant of Portland, as a | President Coolldge’s nomination of i yVVW AVAV.SW ^AVAV.VAVAV.'.V.\\V.-//AW AViViV. Judge of the ninth circuit court, t movement was launched at Salem to [ have President Coolldge withdraw the nomination of Mr. McCamant and recommend to the senate the selec tion of John L. Rand, justice of the Oregon state supreme couyt, for the position. Approval of the feasibility of the Idaho-Oregon-Nevada cut-off was given A Full Line of Lumber and Building Materials at a meeting at Ontario of represents fives of Idaho, Oregon and Nevada, but no formal action toward designa tion of the route to California as a def MEDFORD, OREGON inite highway project was taken. Gov ernors Moore of Idaho, Scrugham of Y ard and O ffic e — 113 South Fir Styeet Phone 118 Nevada and Pierce of Oregon attended the meeting, which was called by the F A U L A. and A L L E N R. SM IT H , P r o p .. latter. Nevada and Idaho have desig nated their parts of the road as state V.V .V .W A V .W .V .'/A ’.V highway, it was explained, but Gover nor Pierce has not yet done so, making It impossible to obtain federal aid for the project. A delegation composed of W. H. I Gore of Medford, chairman; Guy Cor don, district attorney of Douglas coun I ty; Victor P. Moses, county judge of Benton county; James H. Owen, Med ford lumberman and tim ber owner, and A. C. Dixon of Eugene. Lane coun ty mill man and timber owner, were elected at Roseburg tc represent 18 One Day Only Oregon counties before congress in pressing the claims advanced in a bill submitted by Senator Stanfield which provides for an appropriation to reim SATURDAY burse counties for lost taxes on re vested Oregon and California lands, and which if passed will advance near ly $5,000,000 to the state of Oregon, MARCH • to be distributed among the 18 coun ties in which these lands are situated. Rogue River Lumber Company The acnual sweet pea show will be in the hand if the secretary ot state held In Rainier June SO this year. and attorney-general, and approval of Mrs. Virginia 8. Stone has been ap the title and petition forms is ex pointed postmistress at Yocum, in pected soon. The public service commission has Lake county. The Oregon state fair board at a issued an order requiring the Waldport special meeting at Salem Increased its water works to install additional pumps or tap other sources of supply race purses from >17,500 to $22.500. to afford adequate service to the pa Wednesday, May 5, is the date set of the corporation. for the annual Jersey Jubilee to be trons Petitions containing the names of held by the Clackamas Jersey Cattle more than 700 cltlsens were presented club. to T. A Llvesiey, prominent hop dealer The Salem district of the Oregon of Salem, in an effort to induce him conference, of the Methodist Episcopal to enter the contest for mayor of Sa church, held a three day conference at lem at the municipal election. Newberg. The Mount Hood Railroad company Albert D. Jones, 45, salesman, was has reduced its rates on pears, packed killed Instantly when his automobile In other than standard shipping crates went over a steep grade on the Coos from 26 to 20 cents on 100 pounds, ac Bay highway. cording to announcement made at the Portland was the leading city of the office of the public service cotnmie- Pacific northwest In value of building slon. permits issued in February. Permits The Portland Better Business bis. were valued at $2,502,090. reau. with capital stock of $600 and Medford is the only city in the state headquarters In Portland, has been in outside of Portland with two rifle corporated by Paul T. Shaw. C. C. Colt, units, a new company of 50 men hav Frank Freeman, et al. Articles were filed in the state corporation depart ing been organised recently. The public service commission fixed ment. March 23 as the date of hearing the Stock-watering places will be estab application of citizens of Eugene for lished In the Modoc national forest extension of the present street-car sys under a bill introduced by Senator tem. McNary. The cost of digging wells or Fire losses In Oregon, exclusive of providing watering places by other Portland, during February aggregated means would not exceed $30,000, it was $435.965.55, according to a report pre stated. ------- o------- pared by Will Moore, state fire mar Reward of $750 for the arrest and Roy Jones gave a five-hundred shal. conviction of any person who may stag party at his home, Friday night. The first sessions of the state Older have been implicated in the dynamite Among the guests w ere: M. M. Kin Olrls' conference were held at Eugene. explosion at Bend In which the lives dle, M erritt Hoagland, Mr. Ocker- Approximately 260 delegates from all of a number of persons were endan man, Kenneth Beebe, C. A. Boles, parts of Oregon attended the confer gered, was offered by the Deschutes L. C. Grimes, L. F. t’ickett, and H. C. Terrill. county court. ence. Herbert W. Campbell was electro One hundred and two mills reporting H. C. Terrill, Carl Boswell, Donald cuted recently at the substation near to the West Coast Lumbermen's asso Faber, and Forest Pickett were | John Day when he came in contact , ciation for the week ending March 6 guests of Rev. and Mrs. Johnson a t | with a high power wire carrying 23,000 manufactured 99.191,704 feet of lum afternoon. volts. ber, sold 109.251,501 feet, and shipped dinner Sunday ----- During 1925 the city of Cottage j ber, sold 109,251,501 feet, and shipped The Charleston contest that was | Grove spent more than $140,000 In ; 105,517,386 feet. sceduled for last Friday at the dance • public Improvements, among which j John Moore, Emil Knorr and Nor was a million gallon reservoir that ! man Moore, who on December 24 of cost $25,000. last year robbed the Scotts Mills bank, A second pine beetle control camp were sentenced by Judge Percy Kelly of 16 men has been established in an of the Marlon county circuit court to effort to check ravages of pine beetles serve term s of 10 years each in the In the Spencer creek area, west of state penitentiary Klamath Falls. Thirty-nine deer were seen along Arnett King, rancher In the Waldo the Eugene-KInmath Falls line of the Hills district, committed suicide by Southern Pacific on one trip made by hanging himself. Members of the fam R. M. Ferry and W. R. Ingram. Eugene lly attributed his act to despondency traveling salesmen, between tunnel COURTESY OF .-esultlng from ill health. No. 5 and Railhead, above Oakrldge, The Edlefsen Coai company of Port according to Mr. Ingram land. now operating the Southport A bill was introduced in the senate mine, south of Marshfield, expects to to reconvey to the state of Oregon develop the property this summer un title of the United States to Sand I WESTERN FARMER and til 60 tons dally ran be mined. Island near the mouth of the Columbia | What is declared to be the world's river, with a provision thst the United | tallest barber pole has been erected States reserves the right to perpetual j CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN In Ashland by the owner ot the barber 1 use of the land for military purposes. shop In the Ashland hotel. It stands Taxpayers of the Salem school dis 5$ feet and 7 inches in height. trict. at a special election to be held No outside baseball teams will be on April It, will be requested to auth allowed to play against the Oregon ortse the Issuance of bonds In the state penitentiary nine during the 1926 amount of $130.000 tor tho purchase season, according to announcement of Tuxedo park and the erection of the made by J. W Lillie, warden. firs* unit of a new high school build 2 :3 0 AND 7 .:3 0 P. M. Road and trail Improvements worth ing. approximately $15,000 will be made In The Bend city council awarded the j the Deschutes national forest during contract for the Installing of the muni the coming year, according to H. L. cipal water system pipeline to A. D ] Valuable Present» will be given away at Each Show; a $2.00 Present Plumb, supervisor of the forest. Kern of Portland. The Kern bid was j at Mary A. Mee’s Drug Store, and a $3.00 Present at E. C. Faber’s Dry Contract for recrulse of $1.500 acres $150.991 IS for the 14-mile pipeline | Goods Store, presented to Western Farmer subscribers by W . A. Crane, of Klamath tlmbyr land waa let by the from the south fork of Tumalo creek authorized agent. county court to Edgar A Gulllaon of which will supply the city by gravity ' Portland Contract price la 16 cents flow W ESTER N FARM ER SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS W ILL A D M IT an acre for a d> tilde run cruise. Nearly 200 coyotes and bobcats were i HOLDER T O AFTER N O O N OR N IG H T SH O W but not to both shows; Governor Pie ce signed papers aatV killed in Oregon daring February by orltlng the extradition of William 17 government hunters, according to holder of receipt to be accompanied by a grown person. Stone and Clt.ford Raker, wanted at the monthly report of Stanley Jewett I Alameda. Cal on charges of larceny of the United States biological sur | Presents given away at night show will be presented by opera house The men were arrested at Corvallis vey. Twelve bobcats, three cougars manager, publisher of American and Western Farmer representative. and 176 coyotes were included la the j The at te highway commission, at a meet I- g to be held in Portland animals slain. Sketches a.e en route to Portland | March <5. will open bids for the grad The picture will be the very best the management can obtain. Sub Ing of th < Cetlatly Point-Corvallla sac showing architects' conception of the scribe for the Cetitral Point American and Western Farmer N O W ' lion of the Corvallis Newport highway new $1.350.000 veterans' hospital to I The proposed measure for repeal of be erected la that city Passage of tha Oregon certificate of title law la | the first deficiency bill carrying an SA T U R D A Y SPECIAL 20 10 lbs. Petite Prunes - - 50c 4 lbs. Bilk Cocoa - - 25c 3 lbs. Spaghetti - - - 25c ’ FABER’S CASHGROCERY FREE PICTURE SHOW Sunday, April 3