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■ * Aurora AURORA Published E very Thursday Midway Between Portland and Salem, on the Pacific Highway and S. P. Ry. Five Rural Routes, City Water, Electricity, Auto Camp Grounds. A u rora Pioneer Laid to Rest Sales Day George Kraus a pioneer of 1863 passed away at his home in Aurora on Sun. eve- May 29. Age 79 years 8 mo. 21 days Born in Pittsburg Penn. Sept. 8, 1841, In early childhood he moved with his parents to Bethel Mo, When his father’s death placed the responsibility of a family of ten on him at the age of four teen. Vhen twenty two he left Mo. for Ore. crossing the Plains with one out of the five largest trains sent to Ore, by the Dt. Kiel colony tinder the supervision of Professfr Wolfe the train consisted of One^Hundred and Eighty people, forty wagons, one hundred and fifty yoke of oxen, forty mules and thirty cows, after a journey of six months arrived in Aurora in the fall of 1863 when he made his hrme untill his departure. He was the last surviving member of the trustees of the Aurora Colony whose charter dated from Aug. 30. 1844 to 1882 and the beginning of which at Aurora in June 1856. He was one of the youngest trustees of that remarkable company of people who cleared homes out of a wilderrless and lived a community life of contentment and prosperity while under the direc- of Dr. W m, Kiel which was conducted in a most successful manner, During the colony days be had ch arge of the shoe making and repair shop and a member of the famous colony brass band. Later he devoted his time to farming. In 1879 he was married to Elizabeth Giesy daughter of John Giesy besides his wife he leaves two daughters Orletta a teacher in Portland and Geo rgia at home, two son’s John, farmer and Arthur, a member of the Sadler and Kraus firm, Five grandchildren and a brother Wm. Kraus, a resident of Aurora. He was at all times active in progressive work for the city and surrounding commsnity, Serving for years in the city Council, school boaid and all local affairs, As a kind, faith ful, honorable man in all walks of life and a loviug husband and father, his death is mcaarned by bis family and^by a host of friends, Friday, June 3, the Aurora Grammar School closes a very successful school. Many cities and towns are now put- a day set year, due to the hearty co-operation of ! *'ln® ° ” a w®e ^ a es a^ • f l D & r t bv 4,t‘ “ — ——i— - a- — as a bargain parents, ^pupils and teachers. The I , . ! day. It is proving to be very success- eighth grade class consisting of Evadne j ful wherever it is being tried out. Hurst, Eva Grazer, Eileen Burkholder, George Armstrong and Harold Knorr i Each merchant places some articles on sale at a greatly reduced cost, and pa- have received their diplomas, earning I trons visiting the various stores save a them with exceptionally high grades. . . . . The sixth and seventh grade, too, have nea* f un?’ . an in J" e ™ean time busi- ness is stimulated and more goods are earned remarkably high grades in thej I sold than would otherwise be disposed State Examinations and deserve a j of. The Observer has endeayored to great deal of praise, The teachers are g it merchants to do something which planning to close the school year with > would aid business and offer special a picnic for the pupils. inducements to bring multitudes to Aurora. Sales Day, Auction Day, Dol- I lar Day or Bargain Day is a good idea, j But if started should be made perme- _ j nent every Saturday, Get people to Fruit conditions in western Oregon I understand that on a certain day, each up to June 1 are as follows, according! week *n Aurora, merchandise can be to advices received by the Oregon j Purchased at a saving. It would not Growers Cooperative Association: Itake more than a C0UPle or such A p n les- Willamette Valley, big crop Sa,es Da-V unti11 the buyinS Public in with large sizes and good quality i this vicinity wouid be coming to Aurora Rogue River valley, big crop. Umpqua i Aurora business men should get toget- valiey, heaviest crop ever shipped, ! her on some such idea< formulate a plan Cherries—Willamette v a lley ./60 t o 'and 8tand by it. It would pay in 70 per cent crop. Umpqua va.ley 60 j more ways than one. per cent ________________ Pears—Willamette valley, same asj last y e a r ^ . ' , Prunes—Willamette \ valley, rive bottom lands promise fair ciops. Oth- 1 er orchards will have light crop. The prune crop of western Oregon estimat | eJ at 50 per cent Seldom one sees a more intelligent appearing, studious or more beautiful High School graduating class than “ You can get anything you want, if that of the Woodburn High School at you want it bad enough to get it’ ’ We j the commencement exercises Monday heard a Chautauqua Lecturer quote the i night. Twenty-eight of them, Aurora above, and it is as true as can be. A j was honorably represented in the town composed of boosters can’ t stand All voters, taxpayers and citizens are 1 class by Henry L, Bents, Jr., one of still or g o backward. It never has been Mr. Bents is justly known. Aurora is the best situated in invited to attend council meeting ne: t the graduates. Monday night. Important matters re pr ;ud of his diploma, and we are all Oregon for an ideal little home town of garding fire protection, etc. that the glad to see our young people coming two or three thousand people. If the public is interested m will come up. i to the fore in their school work, so es town isnt that it is the fault o f the sential to the coming generation. The people. Two things can make Aurora Be there. auditorium was crowded. Prof. M. H, and in making Aurora we are making Cornish of O. A. C. made the address each indevidual better, richer and more Mr. and Mrs. Grover Giesy and child that we dident like. In a good and in- contented But first, we must be a un ren were Portland visitors Friday. | teresting talk. Dr. Thos. Sims preser.- ited town, a. community working to ! ted the diplomas, Prof, of the Wocd- gether. If you are in business you burn School is leaving this year and must boost the town to boost your bus the.town is regretting his departure iness the more families moving in, the ¡greatly. better your business. If you are a re tired, rich home owner, the better Legal blanks, aufo dealers’ - blanks. the town, the more valuable your ht ld- Order by mail, phone or call. The Au i lgs and better advantages for your rora Observer has in stock: family. We must all get together, pull Promissary Notes. together and rejoice in our neighbors Notice of Protest, Certificate of Protest. Next Wednesday evening after sup prosperity. Nothing could be gained We need a united, Warranty Deeds. per we will have another “ Cemetery1 any other way. General Leases, Clean-up’ ’. Bring axes, Wed, eve, buisy. commercial club-- one that 'will work for Community upbuilding. We Bill of Sales. June 8. must welcome newcomers and herald General Power of Attorney. broadcast our good features and draw Mortgages (large). The funeral of Geo. Kraus, Tuesday ing attractions. Lets organize, lets Quit Claim Deeds. was one of the largest ever held in work for one purpose; lets put Aurora Satisfaction of Mortgage. Aurora, Friends and relatives for miles on the map-then get at least two things Contract o f Sale. around and from Portland and Salem all important for getting people in our Partial Release of Mortgage, Contract Notes. Rev. Geo. Koehler, of Salem officated town and money in our tills. Sales Contracts. at the home and at the grave. The Receipts, Etc., Etc., Etc. 20 for $100 50 for $2.00 100 for $3.50 pallbearers were pioneer friends of the NEW CONFECTIONERY man who had been close to them for two geuerations. They were ,Geo. Scheuler, Joe Erbsland, Chas. Snyder I will open a new confectionery, start Chas, Becke. Wm Miley, John Scholl. ing Sunday, on the river at south land ing o f Wilsonville Ferry. Open Sun L. W, Charles is the new foreman of days only from 9 to 7. Soft drinks, the Observer office. Mr. Charles is at candies, etc. Special for opening Sun home to our country, having been day, June 6, soda water 5c per bottle. raised at Newberg. The family have Theodore Resch. : moved to Aurora, and located in the ; Snyder house recently nicely remodeled. Fruit Conditions W oodburn Com* m encem ent Let’s Go! Important Council M eeting Mail Order Printery Berry Growers A re Pooling Two meetings, one to be, shows the berry growers are meaning business. At the Clackamas meeting Tuesday night the pool quoted prices in straw berries at $2 per crate and seven cents £ pound for logenberries. The Clacka mas Association has a standing offer, we hear, of $2. for strawberrirs wait ing for the pool. A Big Meeting of Berry Growers, to which all are urged to come, will be held this Friday at 2 p. m. in Hubbard, to talk over means of disposal of this year’s crop, and other business re garding picking, etc. Plans will be submitted on these lines with ideas and particulars of the pool. We are told that support of loeal banks has been granted to care for harvesting if the farmers co-operate. Free loganberry juice with lunch will be served. It is thought pickers will receive about 22 cents per crate for strawberries and 2 cents a pound for logans. The straw berries show signs of blight. Meeting this Friday in Hubbard, Saturday in Woodburn. The school district division question comes up, in Salem, tomorrow, Don’ t think it will be devided. STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN Sealed Bids: I have a light six Mitchell touring car; will sell to the highest bidder—any price. Highest bidder gets it. See car at Butteville garage; test it, and put in sealed bid. On July 1 the bids will be opened. Cash or bankable paper, Butteville Garage. Prunes A nyw ay A few days ago the general report was that there would be almost no prunes. Recent reports from authen tic sources rather indicate 50 percent crop io w e s t e r n - O r e g o n ., 1 R iver bottom lands will have a fairly good rop. Other orchards that were at Arst reported as without hardly a prune are now found to have 25 percent of & crop. Henry Snyder visited relatives in Portland several days last week. The editor of the Observer will go to Portland the 7th, to the Land Settle ment Conference. Two train loads from the middle west states will con e to Oregon in July, and this meeting is to arrange for their arriving. If our readers have any suggestions, any land to offer, any opportunities, it will be well to tell us. The fare from Oma ha and K. C., will be $62.50 for round trip, leaving July 19th Men! I Mr. and Mrs, Elmer Zimmerman of Portland visited relatives in Aurora Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. W. Eilers lormerly of Buteville : was in Aurora Londay. Mrs, Eilers is well known around here and is living in I Salem now. M ISTLAN D O R C H E STR A NO. 14 AURORA, MARION COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 2, 1921 VOL. XI. A urora School O ut $1.50 a Year Lois Melvin and Ester Ledtke of Hub- i bard visited at the home’ s of Aileen j Snyder and Theoda Gribble over the | j week end. Mr, and Mrs. WmEhlen o f Eugene were in Aurora visiting Mrs. Ehlen’ s [mother Mrs, Henrietta Will. Ten for 10 cents. Handy size. Dealers carry both. 10 for 10c; 20 for 20c. It's toasted. M ARKETREPORT Butter Fat 26c Egg per dozen 14<; Butter, 2-lb. roll 35c Broilers 18c Ducks, 22c to 25c Turkeys, old 25c 3eese 15c Old Roosters, 7c Hens, 14c to 20 Cascara, 8c Lard, 15c Potatoes 75c to $1.00 Wool 10 to 16 Morris Optical Co. Eyesight Specialists 204-11 Salem Bank of Commerce Bldg. SALEM, OREGON Oregon’s Largest, Most Modern, Beat-Equipped Exclusive Optical Establishment. 5000 buyers in this field W hat Other Tow ns are Doing Late W ire and Postal News of People and Communities OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Commercial and civic organizations of the state, headed by the Portland Chamber of Commerce, are preparing to make a concerted drive to bring the Principal Events of the Week battleship Oregon to the Willamette river as a training ship for the Ore Briefly Sketched for Infor gon naval reserves. mation of Our Readers. Nine persons were injured, one fa tally, when an automobile stage en McMinnville’s new Rotary club has route to Grants Pass from Klamath Falls struck a cow and upset in a received its new charter. Redmond will join with Bend in ditch three miles east of the Grants celebrating the Fourth of July this Pass city limits on the Medford road. Reductions aggregating an annual year. saving of approximately $300,000 to Salem Cherrians have voted to at tend the Portland Rose Festival in a gas customers of the Portland Gas & Coke company will be made effec body. tive June 6 through an order issued Corvallis will have a new $50,000 general hospital according to plans of by the Oregon public service com mission. physicians and business men. Edgar B. Piper, editor of The Ore Brownsville has voted a bond issue gonian, will deliver the commencement of $25,000 to purchase the plant that address at the university of Oregon supplies that city with water. June 30. Commencement will be cele The Hessian fly, said to be the worst brated this year by a reunion of the grain pest that has appeared in Ore class of 1896, which will be its 25th gon, has been found in Lane county. anniversary. The postoffice clerks, rural carriers The schools of Sherman county rank and city carriers of the state will hold first in efficiency in a comparison of their separate conventions in Eugene, educational and financial factors cov June 25. ering a period of six years, compiled More than 200,000 pounds of spinach by J. A. Churchill, state superintend grown in Wasco county has been de ent of public instruction, Multnomah stroyed by the flood waters, of the county ranks second and Morrow third. Columbia river. Sheriff Terrill of Jackson county, in An award has Ijeen given to a Port a public statement, demanded that Dr. land firm for the erection of a new E. J. Bulgin, who is holding evangel two-story grade school at Hood River istic meetings in Medford be called to cost $27,511. before the grand jury and give evi Professor S. M. Babcock, principal dence to support his recent charges of the Prineville grade schools, j and that Jackson county has a “ no-ac all teachers under him have been re count” sheriff. tained for next year. The Newberg Berrians, comprising E. B. Hughes, funeral director of 50 representative business men of New- Atoria, was named by Governor Ol- ¡berg and berry raisers Of the sur- coxi a m e m b e r o f th e -rtate em b a Id l «nndtng territory has been organized. ers' examining board. The organization formed primarily A survey of the prune crop in the o give publicity to Newberg ancr principal counties of the - state indi tise its possibilities from the stand cates that Douglas will be the banner point of general farming and berry prune section this year. growing. Growers representing 32 acres of The opening of a permanent office strawberries adjacent to Oregon City by the State legion convention com agreed to pool theif products and to mittee for the purpose of handling the stand together for a fair price. immense amount of * business and ar An Oregon Products exposition un rangements to be made for the Amer- der the auspices of the Astoria Cham cian Legion state convention, which ber of Commerce and Ad club will be convenes in Eugene on July 1 and 2, held at that city July 14, 15 and 16. was authorized at the meeting of the Salem plumbers have announced a executive committee of Lane county donation of two free shower baths for post No. 3. the Salem automobile tourist camp Because a reorganization of the ing grounds, one for men and one for Crook county bank, which failed at women. Prineville several months ago, offered According to action taken by Ump difficulty and did not appear to be qua post of the American legion, the feasible, Frank C. Bramweil, state su Hanna field south of Roseburg will be perintendent of banks, issued a charter leased and fitted up for an aviation for' the new Bank of Prineville, which landing field. wilL opeir for business about June 1. The proprietors of three restaurants The old bank suspended business De and one hotel in Eugene were fined cember 27, last. sums ranging from $10 to $20 each for At the annual meeting in Canyon serving milk not up to the standard City Enterprise was successful in se provided by law. curing the convention of the cattle Mrs. Edna C. Brownton of La and horse raisers’ association for next Grande was elected president of the year, William Pollman of Baker, was Oregon chapter of the P. E. O'. Sister re-elected president over his vigor hood at the tenth annuaL convention ous protest; Fred Phillips of Baker, held in Woodburn. first vice president; George Russell, C. C. Page was appointed by the Prineville, second vice president; Wil state industrial accident commission liam Duby, treasurer, and S. O. Cor- to have charge of the collection of rell, secretary, both of Baker, were all, claims of this department that unanimously re-elected. necessitate litigation. The total cost of printing and mail No referendums on any state-wide ing the voters’ pamphlets, containing measures passed at the 1921 session measures to be voted on at the spe of the legislature had been filed with cial election of June 7, is $7983.77, ac the secretary of state when the time cording to John W. Cochran, deputy for such action expired. secretary of state. Pamphlets were Punch boards are lotteries under the mailed to 357,288 registered voters. Oregon statutes, according to an opin The cost of printing and binding ion by Attorney General Van Winkle was $3365.53; wrapping and mailing for * the information of Robert D. cost $1046.06; postage, $3572.28. The Lytle, district attorney for Malheur cost was paritally offset by one paid county. argument by the Women's Legislative The Tillamook Consolidated Indus Council of Oregon, which paid a fee tries, with a capital of $100,600, has of $110. been organized at Wheeler in Tilla Payments of $28,000 inheritance tax mook county to handle dairy products has been received from the John and preserve fruits, vegetables and Clarke estate in Multnomah county by sea foods. State Treasurer Hoff. It was around Certification o f $75,000 in bqrids of this estate that the inheritance tax de the Grants Pass Irrigation district and partment fought out and won its con $125,000 in bonds of the Wallowa Val tentions concerning the provisions of ley Improvement district wa3 approv the 1919 amendment to the inheritance ed by the state irrigation securities tax law relative to exemptions. The commission. estate claifned an exemption of $10,000 Lower insurance rates under the for each of the lineal heirs under this Workmen’s compensation act were de amendment, whereas the inheritance nied employers engaged in lumber op tax department -was willing to allow erations in eastern Oregon in an order only one $10,4)00 exemption for the en issued by the state industrial accident tire estate, this interpretation of the commission. ---- ----- •-------------------- aoi bsu** upheld by the supreme court,