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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1926)
PAGE TWO CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN THt JRSDAY, MAY 20, 1926 CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN Lumbermens association manuiactur- money at the Independent Gar Why take your cars to Medford leal ed 106,295,380 feet of lumber, sold 118,- when you can get a better job for age at Central Point. adv A n In d e p e n d e n t W e e k ly P a p e r P u b lie k e d nt C e n tr a l P o in t, O r e g o n , an d 945,838 feet and shipped 127 321,813 E n te r e d T h u rs d a y o f e a ch w e e k in th e P o s t o f f ic e t k e r e o f a . S e c o n d C l a n feet, as against 110,918.194 feet manu M a tter factured by 109 mills the previous JOHN B. SHELEY and NETTIE B. SHELEY, Editors week, 109,480,099 feet sold and 125.- W e A r e M a n u fa c t u r e r s o f CLARENCE SHELEY, Business Manager 420,003 feet shipped. SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oregon Canning company’s ......$ 1.00 cannery at Newberg started 1926 op Six Months One Year .. ........$ 2.00 erations. It Is barreling strawberries All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance and canning gooseberries. Company A d v e r t is in g R a tes G iv e n on A p p lic a t io n Our Constant Aim is to Keep O u r Quality and Prices officials state that the cannery will Absolutely Right. Do Not O ld e r From Out-of-Town pack many times the amount of fruit Concerns Before Letting Us Figure on Your Bill. that It did last year and the plant will operate more nearly to capacity than It has for many years. From this time on through the sum mer season, all those going camping Medford A MODEBlN MILL Oregon in the national forests of Oregon are B r i e f R e su m e o f H a p p e n g in s o f th e W eek C o lle c t e d fo r Our advised to consult forest supervisors R eaders or rangers regarding the need of camp DOORS, SCREENS, WINE »OWS AND SASH, WINDOW AND DOOR F RAMES, MOULD INGS, CABINETS Oi ALL KINDS THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926 Oregon News items of Special Interest TROWBRIDGE CABINET Shipments of Oregon onions In the ing vote in a special city election hav season Just closed totaled 678 cars. ing authorized the issuance of $25,000 Plans for a community playground in bonds for the erection of a new were approved at a meeting in West building. port. At the dinner for the members and Prank 8. Ward of Portland was re frieods of the Metbodipt Episcopal lal Creek Logging company, subsidiary appointed a member of the state board church held in the Woodman hall at of the Wheeler-Olmstead Lumber com Myrtle Point, It was decided to build pany, bid $8 a thousand for the Crook of pharmacy. a $15,000 church, $7000 being raised at ed River Indian reservation unit. Re W H. Vogel, Union, has accepted an ceipts from the timber sale will be di this time. offer to manage the 1826 Union live verted to Klamath Indians. The unit Application to make approximately stock show, which will take place June cost the successful bidder approxi $3,000,000 worth of addition to its pres >, 10 and 11. mately $240,000. ent power unit at Oak Grove has been Merchants and residents of Mill The first catload of shad caught by filed with the federal power commis City on the main road have raised a sion by the Portland Electric Power commercial fishermen since the open fund to oil the road, in order to escape ing of the season on the Umpqua river company. the dust nuisance. was sent to New York last week. Ac The Ladd & Bush bank, the oldest cording to reports from packing plants Paul Ager, Bend, was awarded the financial institution in Marion county, Albert prize, given to the best all at Reedsport approximately 20,000 will double the capacity of its present around senior man on the University pounds of shad were in the car. Sev quarters In the next few months, ac of Oregou campus. eral additional carloads will be ship cording to announcement made at Sa Miss Ellen E. Lauder, 17 years old lem by A. W. Bush, president of the ped from this port within the next few weeks, it is expected. The sal was seriously burned Sunday night by institution. mon catch has been exceptionally a boiler explosion In a bathhouse at Kerry, Clatsop county. Four proposals carrying appropri light. The twenty-two national forests of J. A. Johnson, high climber, died at ations for public improvements and- a SUverton hospital as the result ol increasing efficiency In city depart Oregon and Washington have 39 per a fall of 130 feet at the Silver Falls ments will go before the voters of cent of the merchantable saw timber Salem at the municipal election to be of the 159 national forests of the Timber company camp. United Statea and Alaska, according The first annual trade exposition held May 21. One side of the home of E. L. Elliott, to a recent timber stand survey re and food show to be given under the auspices of the American Legion was district attorney and ex-state prohibi ceived at the district forester's office tion prosecutor in the Klamath Falls in Portland. The two states, compris held in Eugene last week. ing the north Pacific district, stand More than 186,000 trout have been district, was wrecked by the explosion first in the amount of national forest of a quantity of dynaiftlte, set off by liberated In the streams of Marion timber, while Oregon stands first in county during the past few months, an unknown hand. the list of states. Lumber mills and camps In the vi according to Game Warden Averlll. J. W. llurran. one of the oldest ex cinity of Marshfield are reported to traveling salesmen on the coast, cele be operating nearly at capacity. One xjld-Time Press Censor brated his 93d anniversary at his lumber company is working three of Reactionary Mind home, 660 Fourth street, Portland, re shifts, and from all indications will The first Englishman of any distlnc- [ continue for some time. cently. tlon to take up journalism ns a pro Mock’s bottom will be Portland's fession was Sir Roger I’Estrange, who The annual spring book review pro gram was held last week In the Port air mail field If the fliers find they died 221 years ago. He was an ardent pamphletper on land central library under the auspices can land there temporarily, the city the epoch of the Restoration, and In of the school department of the li council has indicated In conference 1012 was made “surveyor of the with Postmaster Jones and Verno C. brary. press,” the censor of all books and j Gorst, air mall contractor. pamphlets and the editor of a mo Portland's 15th fatality since Jane Contract for the construction of a nopolistic newspaper, called the In ary 1 as a result of automobile accl dents was recorder recently when Mrs large new fish-holding pond at the telligencer. The reactionaries and die hards of Mary Schalenger, 45, died at 8t. Vin Klaskanine hatchery near Astoria was let at the state fish commission meet today would certainly welcome Sir cents hospital. ing In Portland recently to McClean Roger with open arms, for he wrote Coyotes are numerous in the Board- that the publication of any but the I & Fulton of Astoria, for $5450. man section and two ranchers have most carefully edited news “makes I Miss Alta Baslor, member of the the multitude too familiar with the lost lambs from their flocks. The coyotes are bold and raid the flocks senior class of the Parkdale high actions and counsels of their superi school, was chosen queen of the Park- ors, too pragmatical and censorious, j during the day. dale strawberry festival. The berry and gives them aot only a wish, but a At a meeting of the Berrlan council fete will be held on the grounds of kind of a colorable ligbt and license and heads of all committees last week. to the meddling with the government.’’ the Parkdale grade school June 11. It was decided to hold the annual He failed miserably in his attempt A total of 293,836 republican and Newberg berry festival on Saturday to stamp out the freedom of the press democratic voters have registered for —or Its early Ideal—and when de- ; June 6, this year. the primary election to be held in Ore prlved of his monopoly, he himself Oregon Trunk railroad. Northern gon May 21, according to a sta’ ement turned to the publication of an tin- j lines subsidiary, became the owner ol issued by the secretary of state. Of official "catchpenny" sheet, called the two acres of South Riverside city park the total registered voters 211,658 are Observer.—Oilciigo Journal. for which It paid the Klamath Falls — republicans and 82,178 democrats. park board $15,586. T ribu te to Franklin The first scutching plant to be es Oregon prunes will be of exception tablished in connection with Salem's I For 68 years Benjamin Franklin ally fine quality and free from scab served his country and mankind, and new $650,000 linen mill will be con history affirms the Judgment of his this year, according to reports broad slructed at Slayton, according to an ' contemporaries, expressed most not- cast by Robert C. Paulus A Co. to tbeir nouncement made at Salem. The ably In the tribute adopted by the brokers in all parts of the world. scutching plant will cost approximate j national assembly of France upon an- J. R Wood, steward for the C. H ly $25,000 and will be completed by j nouncement of his deqth. Offering the Wheeler logging company at Camp July I. ! resolution, which was seconded by No. 4. la lost In the North Fork Sal uround ___ was .._. broken last week on Rochefoucauld , and Lafayette, ' Mlra- m on berry country and searching par bean declared: the first unit of a bachelor's hotel, “The sage whom two worlds claim ties have so far failed to find him. which is being erected at Klamath as their own, the man for whom the lone received the greatest number Falls by Mr*. Ora May Young. The history of science and the history of of points In the first Morrow county first unit will coat $41,000. and accord empires contend with each other, held declamatory contest, winning over 35 ing to Mrs. Young, uegotigtiona have j without doubt exalted rank in the hu schools It Is planned to make the already been made for construction man race Antiquity would have contest a permanent annual affair. raised altars to this mighty genius, ot a second unit. who. to the advantage of mankind, l>r U. O. t hi bach, dean of men at With the Coopers apur lateral high the Oregon Agricultural college, will way opened and surfaced the entire compassing In Me mind the heaven* and the earth, was sble to restrain address the graduating class of La distance to the mil.- high base camp alike thuodertxdta and tyrants. Ku- Qrande high school May 36, when 33 thia summer. Hood River post, Amerl- , rope, enlightened and free owes at senior* will receive their diplomas. can Legion. Is making preparations to least a token of remembrance to one A barn sad approximately 500 small entertain a record crowd at the sixth X res text men who have ever chickens on the ranch of A. Render annual Mount Hood legion Climb !" ot near Santa Clara, were burned Iasi scheduled for July I. 4 and 5. ophy “ *"1 o f ,,brrt* week. A small chick turned up tIn The Sllvsrton Food Products com- English Penciled Indian Runner flame under an Incubator, causing the pany began tta 1926 pack last week Ducks, $4.50 per pair. Ducks now fire wtlh gooseberries The cannery will , laying.— K. G. Henselman. 423 King Efforts are being made to obtain far exceed the amount it handled last St., Medford. Or». Phone 532x. -8 passage of an ordinance banning Sun year and hope* to bring Its park up to 1 — “ ” day funeral* In Pendleton. Ministers $150,000 before the season closes. The A <'ert« in y ou "* l«dy who will and undertakers. It was said, are strawberry pack Is one of the moat tm tfrwduate this spring is expecting a moat Interested In the proponed ordl portent, and this wUl begin la aboat nic* watfh o f P**«* o f jew-elry as nance. twa weeks. • graduation gift. Why disappoint Cottage Orove's ramshackle city hall During the week ended May $. 1*7 h' r ’ th* la to go, the voter* by aa overwhelm mills reporting to the We#« Coast _ _ B r ic k I c e C r e a m at D a m e n C a fe . J WORKS Saturday Specials— COMB HONEY, per lb............................. . COCOA IN BULK, lb......................... .............. 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