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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1926)
C E N T R A L POINT A M ERIC AN PACE TWO CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN An Independent Wee kly Paper Published at Central Point, O re go n , and Entered Thursday o f each week in the P o a t o ffice th ere of a* S e co n d Class Matter JOHN B. SHELEY ami NETTIE B. SHELEY, Editors CLARENCE SHELEY, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six Months..........- ....................................................................................... -41-00 One Year ................................................................................................ -.......$2.00 Ail Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance Advertising Ratea Given on Application T H U R S D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 23, 1926 Old-time Hood River residents say the crop of acorns was never heavier than this year. Harvest of the Tokay grape crop In Josephine county has started. It Is estimated 20 cars will be shipped. William P. Ellis, attorney for the public service commission for more than 12 years, has resigned, effective October 1. When Mrs W. J. Perry of Bend opened the end of an unusually large egg. she found inside an egg of aver age size. A prune drier owned by Hugh Guth rie and located 314 miles south of Sheridan was destroyed by fire with a loss of about $12,000. With the biggest agricultural and livestock exhibit In Its history, the fifth annual Klamath county fair open ed at Klamath Palls. William R. Estes, prominent hard ware merchant of Oregon City, was killed at his place of business by the explosion of an air tank. The state irrigation securities com mission certified to $140.000 of bonds issued by the Medford irrigation dis trict for development purposes. A contract for the construction of a new Baptist church building at Cot tage Grove has been let to H. E. Wild er, Eugene, at a price of $17,827. The Cectllan club and the Royal Troubadours, high school social organ izations were ordered disbanded by directors of the Salem school district. The aggregate cost of operating the Salem public schools during the com ing school year has been fixed at $344,877, according to a tentative bud get. U bolt of lightning shattered the telephone in Anton Mallar’s lunch room In Sandy and stunned Jack Barnett of Sandy who was sitting at a nearby table. Pour forest fires were reported from the vicinity of Three Creeks butte, northwest of Bend, leading forest of ficials to believe that these fires were of Incendiary origin. Mrs. Myrtle Williams, 21. of The Dalles, who was injured when an auto driven by Gerald Wilcox of Antelope struck the horse she was riding near Criterion, died at Maupin. Albany will hold a special election November 2 to vote on the question of repealing the tax limitation clause In its city charter restricting Its gen eral fund budget to 8 mills. Transfer of the budget-making pow er of the state to the governor, and making him fully responsible, Is pro posed by I. L. Patterson, republican nominee for the governorship. Pat McGinnis, who was found dead in a cabin In an Isolated district 14 miles from Baker, was murdered, ac cording to a coroner's Jury verdict. R AD IO A T W A T E R - K E N T SET S CU NNINGH AM TUBES EVERE ADY B BATTERIES PH ILCO B ELIM IN ATO RS A T W A TE R KENT SPEAKERS and WESTERN ELECTRIC CONE SPEAKERS On Sale at the B attervi Electric Shop Open Evenings for Demonstration i-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- No clew to the slayer has been found. For their heroic work in battling a forest fire on the shores of Pamelia lake. In the Santlam national forest in August, lone and Iris Hewitt of Sherwood, have been thanked by for est officials. A $30,000 hotel, six stories high, 100x112 feet, containing 125 rooms, will be constructed in Baker within the next year, It was announced by representatives of a group of east ern capitalists. The state game commission has cre ated a 2500-acre game preserve at Al ford station, north of Harrisburg, on the Pacific highway. Chinese pheas ants will be liberated on the new refuge this fall. Miss Ella Nolan, 43, of lone, com mitted suicide at the eastern Oregon state hospital at Pendleton. Remov ing the drawstring from her skirt and tying It to a heating pipe in her room, she hung herself. The Rainier Pish company shipped two carloads of the fall catch of sal mon to New York Sunday and another carload was shipped to Boston Wed nesday. The gillnetters. trappers and seiners report heavy catches. Mining excitement is running high in Wallowa cuunty following the dis covery of a vein containing gold, all ver and copper on Lick creek, near Enterprise, which rough assays indi cate will run $100 to the ton. The University of Oregon has re ceived permission to establish an ex tension course in the Salem high school building during the coming year. The course will feature liter ature, health, education and similar subjects. The largest timber deal made at Marshfield In years was completed be tween the Western White Cedar com pany and the Stout Lumber company, involving delivery of 40,000,000 feet of white cedar logs to the Western White Cedar company within the next two years. T H U R S D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 23, 1 9 2 « beaches In Curry county. Under the tejms of the contract the state la to receive 7V4 Per cent of any gold that may be extracted from the sands. Inspectors of the Northwest Dried Fruit PackiDg association have sent out word that prunes in many sec tions c? th-3 Willamette valley are turning black at the pits, and suggests that drying be atopped. according to word received by J. O. Holt, manager of the Eugene Fruit Growers' associa tion. The Inman Lumber & Development company, Incorporated to carry on business at Port Orford, where it has taken a 50-year lease upon the wharf of the port of Port Orford, has started a crew of men to work preparing a camp at the proposed location of its first dam at the mouth of Rock creek, a tributary of Elk river. Despite the heavy prune losses In Marion county, due to rains, the pack will be normal, according to W. F. Drager, Salem prune packer. Mr Drag- er estimated the pack for the district at between 60,000,000 and 70,000,000 pounds. Approximately 42,000,000 pounds of the pack already has been sold or is under contract. September 23 is the last day on which the secretary of state Is author ized to receive arguments and photo graphic cuts for publication in the voters’ pamphlet for the November election, according to announcement at the state department. Printing of the pamphlets will get under way by September 28, the secretary of state said. Approximately 280,000 of these pamphlets will be printed. Tracts of valuable timber land ag gregating 18,616 acres In all have been added to Whitman national forest in Oregon by executive proclamation is sued by President Coolidge. The addi tions to the forest, all of which were made from public land acreage now under control of the department of the Interior, includes timber in Grant, Union and Baker counties abutting the Work on the Improvement of the channel and bar of Tillamook bay Is about to begin, the powerful 20-lnch suction dredge Natoina, owned by the Port of Astoria, with pontoons, pipe and all necessary equipment, having arrived at Garibaldi. Just as It completed a jump of 15 feet from the ground to the limb of a pine tree, a cougar weighing 130 pounds, one of the largest reported slain for some time, was killed in the headwaters of Evans creek, near Salt creek, by W. Martineau of Gold Hill. A second petition for rehearing of the cases of James Willos and Ells worth Kelly, convicts, who sre under death sentence for the part they play ed in the break at the state peniten tiary August 12, 1925, was filed In the state supreme court by defense at torneys. The Silver Creek Placer corporation of Merlin. Josephine county, has filed application with the state engineer j covering the appropriation of water j from Silver. Rawhide, Little Rawhide and Lake creeks for mining purposes. The cost of the development was esti mated at $10,000. One thousand dollars In transporta tion money was appropriated by the Oregon State Pair board to guarantee the attendance of approximately a dozen uniformed drum corps and bands on American legion and Roost er day at the state fair at Salem. Friday. October 1. Hay from only two counties in Ore gon—Malheur and Baker—was consid ered In connection wtlh plans for a quarantine on hay shipments from cer tain counties in Oregon. Idaho. Cali fornia, Wyoming, Colorado and Neva da. to prevent entry Into Montana of the alfalfa weevil, it is said. The first arrest in the campaign of the Douglas fire patrol against in- i cendiariea. who were said to be re sponsible for the heavy forest fire j losses of the last year, was made when : Floyd Finley of Elkton was brought to j Rose burg charged with setting out numerous fires near hta home. The state land board has authorised ! Gus C. Moser. Portland attorney, and ; Charles Hall of Marshfield, to extract gold from black sands along the present borders of the park on three F o r Ren t— 3 -r o o m house with water ■idea. inside. Inquire of Mrs. C. E. Lightning at Woodburn killed Edith. Lamb, Cantral Point. 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pokorny. and Stella. 33, sister of Mr. Pokorny. WE BUY— SELL AND Two other daughters, Elsie, 14, and EXCHANGE Antoinette, also were struck, Elsie be ing burned from the knees down, and FOR Antoinette with left foot burned. The girls had been picking cucumbers on W H A T YOU HAVE the Pokorny farm southeast of Wood- Before Selling or Buying See Us burn. and had gone under a tree when the storm became severe. A dog with them also was killed by the lightning. PRICE 2ND HAND STORE 31 South Front St., Medford The state highway commission re fused to approve the boundaries of the proposed Falls Clty-SUetz-Newport road improvement district. The pur pose of the district was to construct a highway from Falls City to Newport, via Siletz and Valsetz. The proposed road would shorten materially the dis tance between Willamette valley points and the coast. Refusal of the Phone 1261 highway commission to approve the proposed boundaries of the district was based on protests received from Medford - Oregon Lincoln county officials. E. Leslie PLUMBING BUY YOUR GRAIN SACKS FOR LESS it— VALLEY HIDE & JUNK CO. 221 N. Fir St. Phone 1176 Heaters For these Cool Chilly Mornings— $5.00 to $13.50 Peoples Electric Store Phone 12 214 Medford, Oregon W . M ain St.