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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1926)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1926 election November 3 to obtain funds to be used In Improving the approach es of the Broadway bridge In Port land. In an effort to cut down expenses, the government is going to do away with its rat killer at Portland. Silver creek falls, a few miles south of SUverton, may become a national park, according to word re cefved. Clyde B. Altchlson of the Interstate commerce commission spent last week In Wallowa county resting and viewing the scenery. Contracts for grading and surfac ing 41.6$ miles of Oregon highway for a total cost ot $328,925 were let or referred to the engineers for letting Pendleton post of the American within a few days by the Oregon state highway commission, meeting In Port Legion has enlisted Its services with those of the police of Pendleton in land. A. W. Tyler of Olympia. Wash, attempting to run down a thief who was elected district governor ot the among other things, stole a ’-..-ief case from the automobile o f F. M. Klwanie clubs of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and the panhandle Bistline, a lawyer of Pocatello, con of Idaho, at the closing session of taining records of the proceedings the ninth annual convention at Eu of the Idaho state American Legion convention at Lewiston. gene. 8ome 125 officers at Rotary club towns and cities In the states of Ore gon, Washington. Idaho and British Columbia, met at Astoria tor the an nual two-day conference of executives The spring salmon fishing season of the first district Rotary interna In the Columbia closed at noon Wed tional. nesday and marked the end of one of The Tillamook city water commis the poorest seasons in the history ot sion has filed with the state engi the Industry. neer application for permission to ap Wounded by a stray bullet two propriate water from Fawcett creek, weeks ago while hiking on a lonely for municipal supply, and for storage mountain trail, Lew Lawson of of 200 000 gallons of water « t an esti Gallce, 45 years old, died In a Grants mated cost of $35,000. The prune harvest Is on through out Yamhill county with many times entire families working in the orch ards. Growers uniformly report a heavy yield. Pass hoepltal. An oil lease covering 1160 acres of land near Merrill in Klamath county has been taken by Charles G. Adams It Is thought drilling operations will start this fall. The federal power commission has authorized the issuance of a prelim inary permit for two years to the Prairie Power company of Prairie City for a proposed project on Straw berry creek In Grant county, with 1000 horsepower capacity. Mrs. Helen Kyron, 37, of Warren Damage estimated at $100,000 was ton. committed suicide following a quarrel with her husband, John Hy caused when fire starting in an aban mn. an employe of the Warrenton doned shed owned by the Edlefsen Fuel company spread to three build Lumber company. Hulling of alfalfa seed will start ings occupied by the Crown Mills, September 1 at Boardman. About manufacturers of flour, cereals, poul 300 acres have been left for seed try and dairy feed, at Portland. and about 30 acres qt sweet clover seed U to be hulied. Properties of the Wind River Lum ber company and the Dalles-Mosler Timber company were sold by the sheriff at Hood River to satisfy Judg ments of about $150,000. sections ot the country, according 1« for violations ot tne atzie promemon Louis Olson, who Is in charge of the laws In the state of Oregon during bad check division of the Salem po the month ot July, according to a lice department. report prepared by William Levens. Citizens of Pendleton will be given state prohibition director. Approxi an opportunity at the November elec mately 145 of these defendants plead tions to vote on an amendment pro ed guilty or were convicted in the vldlng for bonding special lighting dis courts. Fines assessed aggregated tricts and Is the first step in the $23,702.50, with fines paid in the plan of the Pendleton Commercial as amount of $13.055.90. A total of 468 sociatlon merchants’ committee for gallons of liquor was destroyed and obtaining a modern business district 20 stills were confiscated by the of street lighting system. ficers. Silver gray squirrels are proving At a special election held In Barlow such a pest to walnut growers of Mc to determine the matter of a location Minnville that orchardists are organ tor a proposed new high school buMd- izing forays to shoot them. The ani tng for the union high school dis mals climb the trees, bite into the trict, the 30-acre tract of George H. twig holding the walnut and when Brown, si'uated In Canbv. was select it has dropped to the ground scurry off to their holes. Considerable dam age to the orchards has resulted. Two applications by the state high way commission of Oregon for ap proval of bridge plans have been ap proved by the war department The dspartment approved revised plans for a bridge to be constructed over the south fork of Nehalem river, one- quarter mile east of Mohler, and for another over the north slough of Coos bay abou t four miles from North Bend. Forfeiture of the construction con tract entered into by the Medford Ir rigation district and the Rogue River Canal company was authorized by Rhea Luper, state engineer. The for feiture was requested by the irriga tion district on the ground that the irrigation system had not been com pleted in accordance with the con tract. The state engineer has auth orized the Irrigation district to com plete the project which will cost ap proximately $75,000. A FEW REAL BUYS IN REAL ESTATE Using finger prints along with the signatures of all persona Issuing checks apparently Is the only mean* of halting the flood of worthless paper that la now being floated la dlfferem r WE BUY—SELL AND EXCHANGE FOR WHAT YOU HAVE Before Selling or Buying See Us PRICE 2ND HAND STORE 31 South Front St., Medford Buy where you can get your money’s worth in good used cars MASON MOTOR CO. 6th & Bartlett Phone 366 Medford There were a total of 198 arrests Width of the right of way for the Santlam highway now Is in dispute between the Linn county court and the state highway commission, ac cording to members of the county court. It originally was the under standing of the court that a 60-foot highway was satisfactory, but now it Is understood the state wants an 80- foot road. Some damage to fruit crops was reported at Roseburg as a result ot the recent electrical storm. Pears and apples suffered from wind and Remarkable work in the control of rain which caused a heavy drop and forest fires has been done In the Pa- some breakage of trees. cifto^northwest, where the worst fire The city ot Eataca/ia filed applica season was experienced since 1911, In tion In the offices ot the state engi the opinion of J. C. Klrcher, forest neer for permission to appropriate Inspector from Washington, D. C.. on water from Pall creek for municipal Inspection tour along the Pacific purposes The cost of the proposed coast. development was estimated at $40. Marlon county this year will pro 000 . duce approximately 3.500.000 pounds Joseph Klppes, about 35. a miner of n.igllsh rye grass seed, according employed at Cornucopia by the Gold to estimates made by Harley O. Reef Mining company, was killed In White. The largest previous crop of stantly when he was flung from a this seed was less than 1,000.000 bucket of the cable tramway which pounds. The seed Is selling at $4 hangs 700 feet above a mountain can to $5 per 100 pounds. A bean disease is prevalent In the yon. northwest this season which appears The Multnomah county commission- to be the same as that which affects era plan to submit a bond issue ot sugar beets, reports M. B. McKay, $$$1.000 to the voters at the general plant pathologist of the experiment station at Corvallis. The disease In some cases has damaged 50 per cent of the crop, he says. Establishment of the boundaries of a proposed road improvement district 120 ACRES— Plenty o f water, under sought In petitions submitted to the good fence, 70 acres under culti state highway commission by resi vation, will produce grain, alfalfa, dents ot Polk and Lincoln counties fruit or vegetables, close in. will be considered at a hearing to be $8000 terms, or will exchange for held by the commission at Falls City city property. on Saturday. September 11. 180 ACRES— Good buildings, all Weeks of undercover work gather fenced and under cultivation, close ing evidence and obtaining “ buys" in, a real buy. came to a head at Klamath Falls 710 ACRES— On Pacific highway, when city, county, state and federal worlds o f water, joins Government range, an ideal sheep ranch. 100 officers combined in one of the big acres o f good alfalfa land, 120 gest liquor raids ever held In south acres can be used for grain or ern Oregon. Thirty were taken In alfalfa, a small cash payment with the wholesale raids. Including ten wo long term on balance. men. 12 ACRES— 1H miles from city, Sullivan 41 Sullivan of Portland good modem house and out-build- have completed their contract for ings; small family orchard. 6 acres grading five miles of railway extra in a lfa lfa : will sell or trade. sion into the national foreeta near Cottage Grove for the Anderson * Middleton Lumber company, which will start this year upon a cut of 40. ooo annually for ten years la federal timber. ed f y • vote ot 415 to 14. At this election a straw rote was taken to get the sentiment of patrons on the question ot bonding the district for $100,000 or more (or the creation of a building fund, and the eipression was almost unanimously in favor of the bond issue. Suits for Fall : If You want the latest in Suits Shoes, H ats or Furnishings at prices to fit your pocket- book M c P herson « School Suits, sizes 32 to 46 Our Fall Oxrords are also in the very latest McPherson’s Across from Groceteria The Center of Town