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Aurora Observer AURORA Published Every Thursday Midway Between Portland and Salem, on the Pacific Highway and S. P. Ry. The First National Bank of Aurora N Opens Doors Saturday The public at large, farblies, town smen of Aurora and citizens o f adjacent country are invited to visit the new First National Bank, at Aurora Saturday af ternoon from 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 oclock. Thè building has been remodeled, new fixtures are installed and a splen did new. modern, fire and burgiar proof safe set up. The officers of the new bank will be on hand to entertain you. The bank is a member of the Federal Reserve System and is designated as a State and County Depositorv. Also the O. A. C, at Corvallis will co-operate with the bank in the aid and organizing o f State Live Stock clubs for young and old. An improvment to the appear ance of main street is the new bank building all painted up, and a large crowd is expected at the opening. Five Rural Routes, City Water, Electricity, Auto Camp Grounds. It is Always News H0MESEEKERS AURORA AUTO TRUCK A t an open meeting o f the Aurora City Council Monday night, it was decided by the council, with hearty approval o f every citizen present to purchase a combined auto chemical, hose and ladder truck for better Are protection. Mayor Ehlen explained that the Council had considered and approved the project but wanted the endorsement o f the taxpayers— which they got without an objection. The fire apparatus in question will carry two 35 gallon chemical tanks and can be used in emergencies outside o f the fire plug limit. Aurora will be on an equal with any city several times her size in the way o f fire protection, and no doubt insurance rates will be lowered thereby. Financially the town is in good shape at present. Having the best water in the state and an unlimited supply. The town is not in debt and has pavement, water, light and ifralks. BERRY GROWERS SET Stop, Look, Listen N O . 15 AURORA, MARION COUNTY, OREGON. JUNE 9, 1921 VOL. XI. GRAND OPENING $1.50 a Year PRICES FOR PICKERS 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 Buttevi,lle garage; test it, and put m sealed bid. On July 1 the bids will be opened. Cash or bankable paper, Butteville Garage. Excursion Bound for Oregon, to See Our Many Offerings Train Load of Homeseekers Leave Omaha July 20. / J i lt is estimated that 125 “ hand picked” homeseekers will leave the middle west in July, for Oregon. The special train will arrive July 25. Var ious towns will be visited in our state from one half a day to a day each. This train is the first homeseekers ex cursion since the war, and is to be followed up by more— in fact the work o f locating more people in Ore gon has just begun. Parties are now east and will re main there rushing out Oregon Pub licity. At a big meeting in Portland Tuesday, Aurora was represented and we are trying to get some o f these people to this part o f the Valley. In a few days we will be advised as to about how many we may expect, and o f what they are looking for in the way o f land. What Aurora wants to do is “ go get ’em,” and that’s what we will do when opportunity permits; and we will make the opportunity. A well written advertisement, ac cording to an exchange, is always a news item. It tells what, where'and for how much. It is the advertiser who speaks and the reader wlio gets the message and it is glad news for both. There is a pleasure in know ing that you can, part with something to supply another’s needs, just as it is a pleasure to know where you can get something that is needed. He who has the habit o f the knock er has within himself a self-genera tor o f acid, and this acid eats into his own energy and corrodes what would otherwise be his own enter prise, Throw away the little gossip ing chit-chat hammer. A lovely birthday surprise party was given Friday evening, June 3rd, tor Theoda Gribble. Games ' and dancing made up the entertainment for the evening and everyone enjoyed themselves very much. At a late hour lunch was served at which a large birthday cake with candles was the center o f attraction. A fter which the guests left fo r home with many hearty wishes for more ‘ ‘ happy birth days. ’ ’ Those present w ere: _ Lois Melvin, Esther Ledtke, Carl Ehlen, Kenneth Bents, Helen Kerr, Aileen Snyder, Norma Gribble, Bird Coon, Henry Bents, Harry Ehlen, Helen Vandeleur, Martin Russell, Lester Cole, Mrs. Albert Ehlen, Mr. and W oodbum, June 4.— A t a largely attended meeting o f the North Mari on Berry Growers’ association this afternoon it was decided to pay 1 cent fo r loganberry picking and y% cent bonus, 1 ^ cents a pound and V /2 cent bonus fo r strawberries; 2 OREGON LAND SETTLEMENT cents a pound and 1 cent bonus for raspberries. The association adopted PORTLAND, Ore., June 7 th— the prices set by the Salem commit (Special)— The State o f Oregon is tee, which are 5 cents fo r loganber ries, 7 cents fo r raspberries and 5 on the right track at last in regard to land settlement, and the plans un cents fo r gooseberries. dertaken this summer for bringing Legal blanks, aufo dealers’ blanks. Milk and Health Order by mail, phone or call. The Au settlers from the middle west, if fol Mrs. Gribble. L et’s tread the “ Milky W a y ” like rora Observer has in stock: the Baltimoreans. Dr. E. Y. McCol- lowed as a consistent policy for a Promissary Notes. lunn o f Baltimore started the milk number o f years, will bring Oregqn up Notice of Protest, W IL L CELEBRATION drinking idea and has become very to her rightful place in rural pop Certificate o f Protest. popular. Schools and all business ulation and development, according Warranty Deeds. houses o f that city advocate “ A A pleasant Birthday and Family General Leases, to C. C. Gignoux o f Omaha, Assistant quart a day for every child.” Em Bill of Sales. reunion was held at Louis W ill’s at Supervisor o f Agriculture o f thd5 Un ployes do their work better when General Power of Attorney. given a treat o f milk in the afternoon ion Pacific System, in an address be Grand Island Sunday, June 5 Being Mortgages (large). at the shop, store or factory. Many fore the Oregon State Chamber o f his father’s, Leonard W ill’s, 60th Quit Claim Deeds. children o f underweight ard those C om m erce la n d not 1 lenient <Voi . birthday. A large table with lots o f Satisfaction o f Mortgage. undernourished have been pltt in the good things,* including tlife' birthday ence. W Contract o f Sale. rank where they should be. The old. cake, with 60 candles, was set out in Partial Release of Mortgage. The conference o f representative |cow is the “ foster mother o f the the shady yard, which every one en Contract Notes. world.” Take good care o f her, so business men and commercial club joyed. Those present were Mr. and Sales Contracts. Receipts, Etc., Etc., Etc. ¡that she will produce more milk, and entertainment o f the first trainload Mrs. Leonard Will, o f Sherwood, Mrs. 20 for $100 50 for $2.00 100 for $3.50 jet every child o f Oregon drink more o f settlers who will arrive in Oregon Triphine Will, Elisabeth Forstner, ¡milk and have better health. A good from the middle West on July 21st, Lizzie Will, Clara Will, Bertha Stark, slogan fo r the advocates is this: Jonas M. Will and Percy Will o f Au and to formulate plans for a con “ Tread the Milky way; rora. Mr. and Mrs. August Will Mr. tinued land settlement policy for the and Mrs. Earl Kocher, Mr. and Mrs. Drink a quart a D ay.’ ’ future. Geo. Scholl, Lenore, Irene, Elvera, ‘ 1 Oregon has been a step or two be and John Scholl, Leland Kocher, Les NOTICE hind the parade in the past in regard ter Will and John Stauffer o f Hub Notine is hereby given that the to land settlement,” declared Genoux bard. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Will, My \rsyai«1 administrator .of .the ns- in pledging the unqualified support ra and Mary W ill o f Needy, Mr. and te o f Mary Anna Bowers, deceased, o f the Union Pacific System to the Mrs. Geo. Standage, Margaret Stand- has filed his final report as such ad- present plans, ‘ 1 Here tofore, there has age, Dr. and Mrs. Henderson, Helen nty Court o f been no organized plan for bringing and Dorothy Henderson o f Portland, ttlers to the state, or to take care Mr. and Mrs. Harry Carver o f Spo n fo r Marion p --^orrt lliîS o f them after their arrival. You are kane, Wash., Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. ,n the right “track at last, and your Will, Sarella, Mildred, Cecil Will and s -is certain.” Mr. and Mrs. Louis Will o f Grand William Hanley, a director of the Island. p | P'i(t r- jar- State Chamber, who has just returned '•Vivi JjA. Ff) its Norn the middle West, declared that • ; 1'li ldk: Westerners are ready; to Administr:Û or ’.Qve and are interested in Oregon. An increasingly large number o f these said Estate. NAPOLEON DAVIS, Attorney for substantial farmers can be brought to Oregon each succeeding year, f he Administrator. said. First publication June 9, 1921. Secretary Quayle’s report of, the Last publication July 7, 1921. progress made in the land settlement plan thus far was received with en »;♦ ♦;» *;• thusiasm by the assembled delegates. It was pointed out that a great in terest in the homeseekers’ excursion t to Oregon in July was being mani fested throughout the middle West. T More than 1,000 inquiries had been A new size package 1 answered thus far, according to the T report. T en for 10c. The fullest cooperation in the land V e r y convenient. settlement plans o f the State Cham ber was pledged by the delegates Dealers carry both; T f from various parts o f the state who lOforlOc; 20 for 20c, were present at the conference. These T delegates included: Charles Hall, OF A V R O R A It’ s toasted. Klamath Falls; Leslie Butler, Hood T River; George W. Hyatt, Enterprise; T Has M e d to reach you all with an W. P. 0 ’Brien, Astoria; Thomas B. Kay, T. E. McCroskey and A. C. invitation to call on us on Open Bohrnstedt o f Salem; E. E. Brodie, ing D ay. Oregon City; R. H. Jonas, Beaver ton; John Henderson, Opal City;! Harry W . Gard, Madras; J. H. Ful-1 This Bank is Owned by Sixty-three T ler, Ashland; W . A. Reid, Marshfield; of Your Neighbors and Friends. T H. A. Joslin, Dallas; M. D. Morgan, Optical Co. Harrisburg; R. L. Schee, Prineville; Come in and get acq Satur W . E. Meacham, Baker; L. Antles, Eyesight Specialists Bend; Gordon J. Taylor, Molalla; day, June 11th- 204-11 Salem Bank of Commerce Paul Robinson, Aurora; Alfred A. Bldg. Aya, Roy T. Bishop, Wm. McMurray, SP E C IA L H O U R S F O R O P E N IN G D A Y T N. U. Carpenter, John Ferguson, SALEM, OREGON Ralph Ackley, George L. Hurd, W. I. 1 to 5 p. m. — Griffith, F. M. Rummell, Mrs. Win Oregon’s Largest, Most Modern, nie Braden, Wm. H. Crawford and Best-Equipped Exclusive Op tical A. R. Johnson. Establishment. Mail Order Printery BEAUTIFUL TOWN _______ 5 0 0 0 buyers in this field There will be a loganberry crop o f j approximately 10,600,000 pounds in Bit of Information on Aurora i Marion county this year—an increase o f 2,800,000 pounds over last year Room Here For You when there was 7,800,000 pounds. CITY OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES Marion county’s acreage in bearing Aurora is beautiful; Aurora is one I loganberries has increased about 550 o f the richest little cities o f the I acres in the past 12 months, and is west; Aurora is the best located ¡now approximately 2400 acres, as town o f its ’ size in the state o f Ore I against 1922 acres which were bearing gon; Aurora is the center o f the best last season. tree^ and vine fruit section o f Oregon; For this huge crop the growers will Aurora needs more industries; Auro |receive an averageprice o f about four ra needs a cannery; Aurora offers ! cents per pound, or approximately farm land cheaper than most sections $464,000. j Highway goes through Aurora, the Profit Held Assured town o f beautiful homes. j Such were the carefully calculated Aurora, Oregon, is an incorporated j figures given out this morning by a city o f about 450 inhabitants, on the j ■ , 1 ....„ „ . .... .......... .. . i . „ _ ,, ’ . . __ ! prominent loganberry grower who is mam line of the Southern Pacific, 28. . miles south o f Portland. It is situ-1 ,u’ld to bc 011e o f t,ie *oxmty>S most ated midway between the metropolis reliable berry experts, and the capital o f the state— Salem—-, While, on the face o f things, the in Marion County, in the heart o f the , . .. , . . , .. V , w , ' slump 111 price paid to growers is richest section o f the beautiful Wil- j . n lamette Valley, surrounded by the j dismaying— an average o f about 12 fertile farms arid hop yards o f the cents per pound was paid last season greatest hop-growings region in the — authorities say that the grower will vorid. Five rural mail routes center j be able to realize a satisfactory pro- at Aurora, converging from a rich | ■ ,, • , , , 1 , , ^ , ,, tit on this season s crop .- country naturally tributary to the . city, and providing daily ; touch with | ■ 18 ^ear’ *U 1S estimated, the lo th# trade centers o f the nation. Rural j ganberries will average two and one telephone lines network the surround- half tons to thé acre. Ninety dollars ing country, making communication is the average cost per acre for pre rapid, cheap and-easy. Thus country paring a crop. Figuring but two tons residence is made pleasant and agree- to the acre the return, at $80 per able.v Aurora is supplied with pure ar ton, would be $160 per acre, or a pro tesian water by a municipally owned fit o f $70. This would be a return of water system. Electric lights and 10 per cent if the grower values his power. The town has cement walks, land at $700 an acre. paved main street and good auto camp grounds free to tourists. D on’t expect limited advertising space to 'do the work o f full-page and half-page copy. I f your inclination is to cramp your publicity up into as small a layout as possible you are going to reap proportionate results. All advertising is worth what it costs but the kind we urge you to indulge in is that- which returns at least 300% on the investment. This form o f publicity, however, is. based on a spreat that makes everything else look i mall in comparison, including pour ompeti to r’s place o f business. J. C. Moore and A. II. Smith spent the week-end in the Alsea country. M A R K E T REPORT Butter Fat 26c Egg per dozen 14c Butter, 2-lb. roll 35c Broilers 18c Ducks, 22c to 25c Turkeys, old 25e Geese 15c Old Roosters, 7c Hens, 14c to 20 Cascara, 8c Lard, 15c Potatoes 75c to $1.00 Wool 10 to 16 MISTLAND ORCHESTRA i i t f 1 t t 1 1 è s ervice Is Our Slogan ? f I t t ? Dr. Giesy Home in Aurora § afety Is Our Watchword Many Classes o f Investments t f $fjp ¿First National lank f X T X 1 I f X X i I i X T .. .... ...................... .............................. Morris « Have shown large shrinkages in value during the last y e a r - stocks, bonds, real estate, etc. But you haven’t noticed any shrinkage in the value of a saving bank investment, either in principal or interest. If your money is here, it earns a fixed rate you can depend up on, f f Our time certificates of deposit do not depreciate in value. Aurora State Bank Aurora, Oregon Time Savings ’ Checking Accounts (Under Exacting State Supervision)