THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1926 CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN of w eights and m easures, left Tues- day for Philadelphia, w here he w ill A n I n d e p e n d e n t W e e k l y P a p e r P u b l i s h e d a t C e n t r a l P o i n t , O r e g o n , a n d represent Governor Pierce at th e open- E n t e r e d T h u r s d a y o f e a c h w e e k in t h e P o s t o f f i c e t h e r e o f a s S e c o n d C l a s s lng of the sesqui-centennlal exposition M a tte r Harlan Jones, 13. Eugene boy, who JO H N B. S H E LEY and N E T T IE B. SH E L E Y , E ditors saved the life of Ruth Burnside, 16- CLA R EN C E SH ELEY , B usin ess M anager year-old girl swim m er. In the m ill race SU B SC R IP T IO N R A T E S at Eugene. April 28. received a gold S I .0 0 m edal from the Comrade clubs of Em $ 2.00 gene. A ll Subscrip tions M ust Be Paid in A dvance A bill to reim burse the sta te for A d v e rtisin g R a te s G iv en on A p p lic a tio n $355,453 In fish in g licen se fees col lected by the governm ent from fisher men using Sand island at the entrance to the Columbia river was Introduced by Senator Stanfield. CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN ( O REG ON W EEK LY IN D U S T R IA L R ep resen ta tiv e H aw ley. It is a g r ea t and m uch n eeded m easure o f r e lie f R E V IE W fo r th e c o u n tie s w hich have b een d e S e n a te Bill 3 2 5 5 , to refu n d about prived o f th e taxes. $ 5 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 to eig h tee n O regon coun- C annon B each — 14 0-a cre h o tel ties fo r ta x e s lo st from railroad and w agon road g r a n t lan d s fo r fe ited , property sold fo r $ 2 0 , 0 0 0 , fo r beach has b een favorab ly rep orted in th e d evelop m en t., sen ate, his is S en a to r S ta n fie ld ’s K lam ath F alls— G round broken, bill, also introduced in th e H ou se by fo r new C ou n try Club house. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1926 Oregon News Items of Special Interest B rief R esum e of H ap p en g in s of the R eaders The port of Coos Bay recall tauea by more than 300 votes. The renom- . Inatlon of A. H. Pow ers as the regular candidate for port com m issioner was assured. North Bend piled up a ma jority against the recall while Marsh field broke about even. The Mountain S tates Power com pany had net operating incom e of $422,785.81 during the year 1925, or an increase of $89,424 71 when compar ed with the year 1924, according to the annual report of the corporation filed with the public service com m is sion. W eek C ollected for Follow ing an Inspection of work on the R o o serslt highw ay in Curry coun ty, D ivision Engineer Chandler ot Grants P ass said the work was pro g ressin g rapidly and the contracts like ly would be fully com pleted th is f a ll Our hatcheries. Additional ponds at the M cKenzie hatchery recen tly installed enable the officials to retain the trout until th ey reach a len gth ot liv e or six Inches. Abolition of capital punishm ent, sh iftin g consideration of application for pardons from the governor to a state board of pardons and paroles and creating a state board of control to be com posed of the secretary of state and tw o appointees, are proposed in a petition for an am endm ent to the Ore gon constitution subm itted to the state departm ent at Salem. The secretary of sta te has referred the petition to the attorney-general for ballot title. It will go before the voters at the gen eral election In November. Directors of the Oregon linen m ills, to be established at Salem this year at a cost of $650,000, will have to pay | $26,000 duty on m achinery ordered for the plant, according to a telegram re The secretary of the interior has ceived from Senator McNary. The j subm itted a favorable report on the m achinery Is being shipped to Salem grant land tax bill in congress, re from Liverpool. m oving the most seriou s obstacle to The federal public buildings bills, the passage of the bill, according to a as agreed upon by rep resen tatives of telegram received from W. H. Gore of the tw o houses In conferences, would Medford, chairm an o f the com m ittee perm it the sale of Portland's old fed appointed by the county judges' a sso eral building by the secretary of the ciation of Oregon to work for the pass treasury and construction of a new age of the m easure, which w ill re building on all or part of the same turn over $5,000,000 to the state of Oregon, being distributed am ong 18 site, o f in som e new location. Six additional p ostoffices have been counties in am ounts equivalen t to raised from fourth class to presiden ta x es lost on revested grant lands. tial grade by decision of postoffice The sen ate com m itte on public lands authorities. The o ffices affected are has already made a favorable report. Boardman In Morrow county, Cochran The sta te laundrymen held a two- In W ashington county; Malln in day convention in Corvallis. K lam ath county, Marcola In Lane Sllverton straw berry grow ers are re county and W estflr In Lane county. porting finding root w eevil In their “Trail to Rail” is the title of the fields. celebration to be held in Eugene F rancis W illiam s, 9-year-old son of August 19 and 20 to mark the com Mr. and Mrs. W. R. W illiam s of Max- pletion of the Southern P acific com ville, was killed on the Columbia high pany's Klamath Falls-Eugene line and way. "Klatawa" Is the nam e of the pageant R oseburg's annual straw berry fe sti to be staged. A prize for the best name for the celebration was won by val was held Thursday and Friday w ith a record-breaking crowd in at Mrs. E. F. Judkins. tendance. Reports received by the W est Coast Betw een le.000.006 and 12.060 000 young rainbow trout will be carried over In the state fish hatchery on the M cK ensle river for distribution la the fall or winter, according to Malt Ryck man, superintendent of sla te fish M embers o f the sta te em ergen cy ( hoard w ere called to m eet in Salem T uesday to consider applications for deficien cy appropriations aggregating approxim ately $70,000. T he Oregon sta te cham pionship trapshooting tournam ent will be held at th e C orvallis Rod and Gan club grounds beginning Friday, and will continued until Sunday. A United States em ploym ent office at Arlington during the harvest sen son tn G illiam and Morrow counties w as urged at a m eeting of G illiam count y wheat grow ers at Coadoa. W. A Dslstel 4 » w .r state sealer Industrial concerns in Oregon dur ing the past eigh t m onths have paid personal injury dam ages to workmen, based on court judgm ents, aggregating $900,000, according to figures made public by the state industrial accident com m ission. R evocation 6 t the quarantine order resulting from the foot and mouth d is ease in California tw o years ago waa recom m ended by m embers of the Ore gon state 1,«eslock sanitary board. The recom m endation was sen t to Gov ernor Pierce. H. G. Kennard, w aterm aster, In co operation with the state engin eer’s office, is m aking a hydrographic study of the Malheur river to determ ine the return w ater that will be availab le for use when the Vale irrigation project is constructed. R etail prices of food in Portland in creased one per cent In April and 3 per cen t betw een April, 1925, and April, 1926 according to figures of the bureau of labor statistics. Since 1913 the retail cost of food in Portland haa risen 41 per cent. SHOE REPAIRING W ith B est Q u a lity M ateriaJ I pay postage one way—cash must accompany order M en’s h alf-soles ................$ 1 .5 0 H ee ls L adies’ h alf-soles ............. $ 1 .0 0 H ee ls e x tr a .............................. 2 5 c M en’s P an co so le s ............. $ 1 .2 5 B o y s’, $ 1 .0 0 ; L a d ies’ .............7 5 c JAMES C entral P o in t M c D o e x tr a .............................5 0 c w e l l O regon FERTILIZERS SULPHUR — LAND PLASTER — SULPHATE OF AMMONIA — SUPER PHOSPHATE (M ixed F er tiliz e r s fo r A ll S p ecial C rops) M IL K M A K E — ECONOMY EGG MASH — HOGEATS (A ll P ure— N o F iller s U sed — B e st fo r L e ss) PEERLESS—That exceptional baby chick Mash— Baby chick Scratch—Purest for less—Every feed for the Poultryman. ( W e do G rin d in g , S te a m R olling, C l e a n i n g ) A SK U S A B O U T Y O UR F E E D IN G Medford PROBLEM S Farm Kureau Co-Operative Exchange Oregon B rick Ice C re a m a t D am o n C afe. Two new burner hou ses at an ap Lumbermen's association for the week ended May 15 showed that 108 m ills proxim ate cost of $14,000 are being produced 114.627.416 feet of lumber, built by the Silver F alls Tim ber com sold 120.564,138 feet and shti ped 107,- pany at Sllverton. 175,223 feet. T his brings production P lans for the erectiqn of a new $65,- for the first 20 w eek s of 1926 to 1,983,- 000 church edifice w ere announced by 230.519 feet. 2.110.175.408 feet sold and the congregation of the F irst P resby 2,059,342,032 feet shipped. terian church of Astoria. The Taylor m emorial com m ittee of Attracted and b c r lld e r ed by the Pendleton has cabled A. Phim ister ligh ts of Grants Pass, a sm all spike Proctor, noted sculptor now In Rome, buck ran into a confectionery on the to begin work at once on a bronse busiest corner in the city. equestrian statu e of the late sh eriff N els K. Bue. 54. em ploye of the of U m atilla county, killed several East Oregon Lumber company, w as years ago. The statu e Is to he finish Injured fatally at Enterprise, when he ed by 1927 and will be unveiled at fell from the m ill tram to the dry kiln Taylor Memorial park during the 1927 tram. roundup. Slight d ecreases in the rates of the Cereal crop conditions In Oregon on C onsolidated E lectric com pany, with the whole are favorable, though winter headquarters at Canyon City, have wheat in som e of the Columbia river been ordered by the public service countries suffered from early dryness, com m ission. the recent rains com ing too late to be The second annual Jersey Jubilee, of much benefit. Spring sow n wheat sponsored by the C lackam as County prospects appear good. It Is believed that the earllneas of the season will J ersey C attle club, w as held at the put the bulk of the wheat crop beyond C lackam as county fair grounds at Canby Saturday. danger of sum m er winds. Forty acres of land, just outsid e the Oregon w ill receive a larger share of the $7,500,000 fund appropriated by etty lim its of Klamath Falls, w ere j congress for road construction in na leased for an aviation field which will tional foreats during the fiscal year accom m odate airplanes from all sec- | 19S7 than any other sta te except Idaho, tions of the coast. The m em bers of the M ethodist E pis th e United S tates forestry service has announced The Oregon allotm ent Is copal church of C orvallis dedicated a $1,097,077 o f the whole sum. of which new place ot w orship Sunday. The $580,591 la to be devoted to highw ays new building cost f 120.000 and Is mod ern In every respect. and $516,486 to road developm ent Reports received by W estern P ine M anufacturers' association tn Portland showed that for the week ended May 15, 32 m ills had orders on hand, totaling 2971 carloads, or 77.- 146.000 feet Orders received during the week totaled 1002 carloads, or 26. 062.000 feet, a total o f 3973 care of order«. < r a total of 103.396.000 feet; th is was *1 per cent of the normal. W hile prospects im m ediately follow ing the heavy bloom indicated that Hood River valley would have a large pear crop this season, the young fruit has dropped in such qu antities that grow ers now predict less tonnage than last season. Mail your shoes to me for prompt and serviceable j but the last few miles are less fun/ A glorious day’s o u tin g bu t w hen th e car tu rn s for hom e all th e fun is gone for one of th e fam ily. T here’sd in n er to get for a late and h u n gry crowd. And th e stove, of course, is cold! K indling and fuel to bring in. Never m in d th e floor now it ’ll have to be sw ept later. So m an y th in g s to be don»», and the fire to be w atched! In eigh teen hundred other hom es near at hand, there isn ’t any kitchen-fire prob lem tod ay—or any day. Electric ranges are in these hom es. A cooking heat is ready at th e turn of a hand. IN F R O C R & 3 S *TT m a c tu a l a m t d r cim t o f c u r r a n t f o r «Am tr i e c o o k l n f and tl| h ;ln | , to g e th e r, la h o rn « « In t h i s n e i g h b o r h o o d . la IS .» } m m o o c h . E conom ical,* clean, convenient and m ore efficient, electrical cooking is the choice o f every housew ife. And if it is only a m atter of tim e, why not now? A wide selection of m odels to fit any kitch en , and term s to m eet your wishes, at th e nearest dealer's. T H E C A L I F O R N I A OR I, GON P O W E R C O M P A N Y