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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1926)
PAGE TWO CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN JULY 22, 1928 There were three fatalities In Ore feet to 77,173,403 feet for the sa’ne CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN DOG STAR A BLAZING SUN An Independent Weekly Papee Published at Central Point, Oregon, and gon due to incustrial Accidents during period and shipments decreased from Entered Thursday of each week in the Postoffice thereof as Second Class the week ending July 15. according to 117,433.950 feet to 74.876,094 feet. Looking at the sky on a clear night Matter Officials having supervision over this time o f year, you will see a great a report prepared by the state indus trial accident commission. The vic the tax rolls in the 18 Oregon coun star whose brightness surpasses ail • JOHN B. SHELEY and NETTIE B. SHE LET, Editors tims were Fred Peu-rsteiner, Bray ties which will benefit from the ad other distant suns that hang in space. CLARENCE SHELEY, Business Manager Hill, planer feeder; George E. Balrey. vance of tax money on the Oregdn It is Sirius, the Dog Star, which sends SUBSCRIPTION RATES Salem, driver, utod Edgar S. Berry, and California grant lands have been Six Months $ 1.00 ' us twice as much light as the next One Year $ 2.00 Vernonla, undecker. A total of 857 requested by Senator Stanfield to pre- | brightest star, ijirius is vastly big- All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance accidents was reported curing the | pare the billings which they will pre- j s' at to the interior department, be- I ger than our own sun and so far week. Advertising Rates Given on Application | awa ythat it takes more than h Frederick L. Miller. Portland jewel ! ginning the work by bringing the rolls j years for its ray to reach us. Those j up to date from 1915. when the last TH U R SD A Y , JULY 22. 1926___ er. filed an appeal in the United States that started in Ogtuher 11)17 will not supreme court in which he challenges j payments to the counties on the O. j reach us until this month. If the the section of the Oregon automobile I & C. lands were made under the I Earth circled round Sirius as it does law under which he was convicted of Chamberlain-Ferris act. It will require approximately $2,- I our sun, we should have hotter manslaughter In connection with the death of Mrs. Alma Hall In Multnomah 000,000 in addition to funds now obli I weather in midwinter than we now Brief Resume of Mappengins o f the Week Collected for Our county. Miller qontendg the law is gated under the state bonus law to have in summer. We know one Readers unconstitutional and the Indictment comply with the recent ruling of the I world does circle round Sirius for returned against him in the case was state supreme court that members of j large telescopes rcjveal a huge globe the student army training corps were i which moved around it. Although Insufficient.. Clackamas county has bought a new Production of lumber for more than members of the United States army this plant is 20 times as far from of which three were of an incenulary county farm, to cost $15,0)0. 100 Pacific coast sawmills decreased 'Hiring the world war and are entitled Sirius as we are from the sun, it origin. to benefits under the loan provision Albert Parker. 34, of Mapleton, was Considerable activity has been from 114,118,688 feet for the week of the act. f; was estimated that more must receive a tremendous heat. The drowned in the Sinslaw river. shown in the prune market in Douglas ended June 26 to 73.152,430 feet for Earth’s dwellers seem to have picked Pamella lake, which has been dry county during the last few days. Al the week ended July 10, according to than 1000 members of the student army training corps would be eligible a better planet on which to live. ing up again, has been closed to fish though buyers have covered every sec the weekly report of production, or for loans under the state relief act. ing. tion of fhe county It is estimated that ders and shipments, issued by the WANTED TO TRADE— Gdod town Rev. Joseph Y. Stewart of Albany 1 less than 70 per cent of the crop has West Coast Lumbermen's association. property for small. improved House for Rent— Five rooms, close tract o f land near Central Point. New business fell from 124,588,686 was elected moderator for 1926 27 at | been contracted. n. Inquire at this office. Inquire at this office. 4p the annual Presbyterian synod at Eu- j R. A. Sawyer of Portland was elect gene. ed commander of the Spanish War Japanese orchardlsts of all parts of veterans at their annual convention the Hood River valley have organized at Baker. For senior vice-commander a Japanese Parent-Teachers associa Lee Hurst of Albany was elected, and R. A. Campbell of Portland was elected tion. • Fire destroyed the hop drier on the Junior vioe-eommander. The Eastern Oregon Light A Power A. F. Luther farm in the north Albany company has filed application with district. The loss Is estimated at the state engineer for appropriation $3000. of water from the Grand Rondo river One of the largest prune crops In for the development of 1364 theoreti the history of Yamhill county Is as cal horsepower. The cost of the pro sured for this fall, according to a re posed development was estimated ai cent survey. 1810.000. Oregon News items of Special interest About 2000 3-Inch fish In the pools of the Gales Creek hatchery died last week because of a rise of temperature in the water. Fifty-two laying hens on the poultry farm of Arthur Bryant at Franklin, 17 miles northwest of Eugene, died from the heat. Frank Meoefee, exmayor of The Duties and prominent legal p.'i'.r.tlon er of Oregon for many years, died at Olympia, Wash., aged 60 years. Grasshoppers are eating up the po tato and hay crops on the farm of Overton Dowell Jr. on Mercer lake in the w-'stern part of Lane county. The city council of McMinnville has authorized an intensive campaign on the European earwig which Is said to be spreading through the community. A huge brown hear, followed by two cubs, after killing the horse of Dewey Nelson, forest patrolman at I .arch mountain, chased Mr. Nelson up a treo. Three women were Injured when a rock weighing nine pounds was thrown by a Must through the walls of the home of E. E. Wert In the outskirts of Oakrfdge. W. Frank Shelley superintendent ol the Umpqua division of the California Oregon Power company, was shot perhaps fatally, by his wife Wlnnogen Shelley, at Roseburg. Domestic trou hie was given as the cause. With recent sales at Salem of 779 hales of hops the 1926 crop has passed from the hands of the growers with the exception of 62 hales held by an Albany producer. The Oregon crop for 1925 aggregated 75,000 bales ami was the largest since prohibition went Into effect. The head, mounted and stuffed, of the first moose ever killed in Oregon, at least so far as the records show, was received in the offices of the state game commission in Portland. It Is a cow moose, and was killed by a train in Coos county when it was humped off a trestle. The state motor vehicle department, which has occupied the house of rep resentatives Hnd state senate cham ber at Salem during the last two years, will be moved Into the building now occupied by the Capital Business col lege, according to announcement made Tillamook county has awarded A by the secretary of state. Guthrie A Co. of Portland the contract ■ Proceedings were filed In the cir- to bore a 204-foot highway tunnel on ! ' cult court at Salem against Sam A. the N’eah kah nie road. The contract [ I Baser, secretary or state, to enjoin price was $15.334.40. I him from placing on the ballot at the Reconstruction work on the entire November election an initiative ineas- distribution line of the Pacific Power j ure prohibiting the use of fish wheels A Light company In Freewater began I and seines In the Columbia river east! last week. The cost of the work is | of the Cascade mountains. estimated at $12.000. F G. Leary of Portland was elected | The state highway commission at a president of the Oregon Baptist con- j meeting to be ...................................... held in • Portland d July vent ion. * at the closing at M ” U l t .......................... “ * « • session -e 29 will open bida for the construction MinnviIle. Rev. W. II. Robbins of of approximately 35 miles of road ¡yid Pondlctou v»At» liamt'd vice-president, s number of bridges. | Prof» At-r K S. Cardiner of McMfcn- To vote on creating a Union high 'ille historical secretary, Rev. C. S school district comprising Catiby, Mun I Tunncll of Portland recording secre A©rf, Union Hall and six other dis tary an«! \\\ O. ¿Sims of Portlund treas trlcts, a special election will be held urer. In Canby on Friday, July 30 . According to Hugh Sproat. secretary The annual meeting of the Oregon of the Oregon Wool Growers’ associa Irrigation and drainage congress will tion. practically all of the l m wool be held at Hood River October 14. 15 clip is in the handj 4>f buyers and and 16 The dates were set at a warehousemen. There is. he esti meeting of the directors In Portland mat«»*, about lgHM) tHH) our ot th* 18,- 000.00*' polled Clip remaining In the Applications and Inquiries forecast hands of growers. Tfc rag«» price ing early construction of a hotel cost to growers was abou cent* per ing at least $25.000 at Odell lake, ac pound. cessible front the Natron cutoff rail An alt (creation near Mi.VinnvUle road. have been received at the forest over disp naitlon of a h.iy ero p bet worn office at Bend. William Mm kalten ami Ja mes Wat- An election held Tuesday In Milton ters and his two sons, Ch arles and to determine whether or not the city should Issue bonds of $3o.00i) to pur l*e$ter. If3 a to a running ftgh t between the parti ea, Markahen arnuiwl with a chase a new Diesel engine for the jackknife and Watters wltl> a pitch city light ami power plant resulted in fork, and resulted in th»> stabbing ol favor of the plan. 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