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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1923)
yilPJyis 1 i NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAUNTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. If you have anything to be hauled. If you have anything to be shipped, If you have anything to be transferred to or from Portland, Call E. M. H U R ST Aurora Telephone 615 Portland Telephone Broadway 7660 Portland Office: 73 Front Street Baggage at Dock or Depot in Portiand carefully looked after. RATES REASONABLE SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FANCY and UTILITY UMBRELLAS An excellent line of ladies’ Um brellas in the popular handle types and color tones. Umbrellas in cot ton, mercerized cotton and Taffeta EXCELLENT QUALITY MODERATE PRICES Good Stout Parasols for the School Children, tcc Merrill and Humming Bird H O S IE R Y Pure thread silk strand, free from artificial weigh ing, clear and lustrous, luxurious in their softness. These umbrellas and silk “stockings will make an ¡deal Christmas Present Sadler & Kraus AURORA MEAT MARKET An Up-to-date Sanitary Meat Market that handles every thing b e s t in m e a ts fresh and cured. OPEN EVENINGS DURING HARVEST SEASON W URSTER BROS. Aurora, Oregon W H E N YOU AGAIN USE Stumping Powder Try a Box of Giant Special Number 2 The Cheaoest Powder you can buy. It has 165 sticks in a Box, where other pow der has only 100 to 120 , Try a Bo be convinc Hardware G. A. EHLEN Implements Assessed valuation of property in Oregon, exclusive of public utilities, this year aggregates $15,879,880.16 in excess of the valuations last year, ac cording to a statement prepared by the state tax commissioner. Valua tions as reported by the assessors in all counties of the state total $.901,- 672,976. The volume of products canned by the Ashland Preserving company will be at least 50 per cent greater this John S. Herman has been appointed year than during any former year, and postmaster at Clarno, Wheeler coun the entire product has been sold. An ty. average of 75 persons were employed The annual meeting of the Douglas during the season. County Taxpayers’ league will be held The Clatsop county court^ will open in Roseburg December 20. bids December 6 on the construction The plant and equipment of the of a reinforced concrete bridge across Haines Record, a weekly newspaper the Necanicum river on Broadway at published at Haines, was destroyed by Seaside to replace the present struc fire. ture, which it reported to be in a Large shipments of stock were made dangerous condition. from the upper Wallowa valley, 92 car An oil lamp, knocked from th ? hands loads being shipped from Enterprise of Henry Linster, manager of a re- and Joseph. sfrt at East lake, near Bend; as he was The Southern Piicific company re passing through a low doorway, start ported to the Oregon public .service ed a fire, which resulted in $20,000 commission that it has a shortage of damages. The hotel, bath-house, boat approximately 930 cars. house and 19 boats were burned. The Eastern Oregon Light & Power Members of the Ku Klux Klan from company has filed with the public every section of western Oregon gath service commission application for re ered in Salem on the occasion of the valuation of its properties. first ceremonial of the organization Fire broke out in the basement of held in that part of the state. Officers the new Baptist church at Corvallis of the klan estimated that between and before it was subdued had done 5000 and 6000 persons participated in damage estimated at 110,000. the ceremonial. / Work is being rushed on the McKay George Neuner of Roseburg, until dam near Pendleton. About 200 men recently district attorney of Doug are employed and double shifts are be las county, who has been at McMinn ing used on tunnel and rock work. ville investigating the financés of Tuesday’s special election in Oregon, Yamhill county is in Astoria to assist which resulted in approval of the in the- prosecuting' attorney of Clatsop come tax law, cost the taxpayers of county in investigating a number of the state between $75,000 and $100,- bootlegging cases. 000 Oregon walnuts this year are of The Hood River Traffic association higher quality than ever before, ac composed of all fruit shippers in the cording to reports received at the county, have petitioned rail lines to offices of the Oregon Growers Co-oper adopt a practical emergency rate on ative association at Salem. It was apples. said that practically all of the 1923 Five hundred Knights of Pythias crop has been contracted, at prices from southern Oregon attended a dis satisfactory to the producers. trict convention of the order at Med Sufficient digging of the main crop ford at wliich 70 candidates were in o f Oregon potatoes had been done by itiated. November 1 to indicate that the aver Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, Portland age size of the tubers will be much physician, has been decorated with the below normal, which will reduce both legion of honor by the French gov yield per acre and ¡percentage, of mar ernment for her hospital service dur ketable tubers. In some fields the potatoes are so small that the crop ing the war. Operating and maintenance of way will probably not be dug. Work on the two new bridges to be officials of the Southern Pacific sys tem are expected to arrive this week constructed at Harrisburg and Albany, on the usual pre-winter inspection trip in- Linn county, probably will be start ed early next spring, according to an of the lines of Oregon. One hundred and sixty-three car nouncement made by C. B. McCul loads, or approximately 78,900 head of lough,: bridge engineer for the state central Oregon lambs, have been ship highway department. Mr. McCullough ped out of Bend this fall to be fatten gave out this information after he had received word from Linn county to the ed for the spring markets. effect that the bridge bond issue had The dryest fall in the 52 years dur carried. ing which rainfall records have been Grappling with a supposedly rabid kept by the United States weather bureau, with only one exception, is coyote which had attacked him, Ken neth Edwards of Fort Rock, 14 years the present season in Portland. old, held the animal until his father, The Portland Railway, Light & Pow William Edwards, killed it with a er company has been granted a fran club. The boy was badly bitten and chise by the public service commis was brought to Bend to take the sion to construct a pole line along the pasteur treatment. Deschutes national Columbia River highway between Port forest men believe there is danger of land and Scappoose. a serious outbreak of rabies in central Mary Seymour, the last of the Wasco Oregon. tribe of Indians, which once inhabit Miss Bernice Cameron, manager of ed the basin where The Dalles is now the Medford office of the Postal Tele located, and from which Wasco coun graph Cable company, has received ty was named, died at The Dalles at word from the executive offices in the age of 113 years. New York that she won in the semi One hundred and twenty-nine mills annual banner contest which the com reporting to the West Coast Lumber pany offers to its successful managers men’s association for the week to in each district. The territory in November 3^ manufactured 109,354,044 cluded in the district in which Miss feet of lumber, sold 83,801,089 feet and Cameron competed includes Oregon, shipped 102,915,836 feet. Washington and Montana. An extension of time to July 1, Preliminary hearings were held at 1924, has been granted the Southern Bend before State Engineer Luper in Pacific for construction of the Maple- the adjudication of the water rights ton-Cushman road, which is being re of the Deschutes rivér and its tributar built to replace the one taken as a ies. The adjudication will make water roadbed for the Coos Bay line. rights in Central Oregon a matter of The constitutionality of the law re definite, permanent record, and will quiring a county to return to a city prove of great value in the develop 70 per cent of the road taxes collect ment of this region, as it will assure ed on property in the city limits is to for all times just how large a water be tested in a suit brought by the city supply users can depend on for the of Astoria against Clatsop county. future. The Cottage Grove city council and The Thanksgiving turkey market the forest service practically have ar opened at Roseburg when a buyer pur rived at an agreement whereby the chased a carload of prime birds at 35 sale is permitted of about two billion cents a pound. The turkeys were feet of timber upon the Laying creek shipped to Hartford, Conn. The birds watershed, which supplies the city. making üp this carload were obtained Officers of the Tillamook County in the vicinity of Yoncalla and Oak Creamery association have requested land and were choice fowls. It is the public service commission to is anticipated that the price this year sue an order compelling the Ameri will be 35 to 37 cents. Douglas coun can Railway Express company to ex ty’s crop will be about 10 per cent tend its free delivery zone in the city greater than last year, it is estimated. of Tillamook. Laxity in business methods, illegal La Grande is planning its future transfer of Yamhill county general water supply from Mill creek, near funds, to three road funds and dis Summerville, where three springs sension between county officials were come o u t, of the ground, supplying found in the administration of Yam each day more than 7,000,000 gallons hill county finances, in a report re of water. The system will require a turned by the grand jury at McMinn ville. No criminal charges were made. 15-mile pipeline. The Stout Lumber company, oper Findings of the special grand jury ating two sawmills at North Bend, is indicate Yamhill county is in desper preparing to open a large area of ex ate financial straits. The findings dis cellent timber in the Seven Devils dis close the fact that the county has a trict, fifteen miles southwesterly from net deficit of outstanding warrants of the city. Several miles of logging I $46,771.34, which is declared to be railway from the timber to the head | more than $41,000 allowed by law. The of tidewater on South inlet will be i total liabilities of the county are $154,- constructed and two logging camps \ 832.63, with the assets totaling $108,- 060.69. will be operated. . People to Get Acquainted With Oregon for Oregon Ask for Oregon Products OREGON M AKES IT BOTTLE FEEDING r will be successful If Demtos. the ialite MOdl- ßer, lo used. Doctors ___ ___ endorse Donaos, At druggists, Sample on request, DENNOS FOOD CO. F n S u d . One. Oregon Industries Deserve Oregon Patronage Everytime you buy an article made in Oregon, you are helping to employ Oregon people in the manufacturing o f Oregon goods. You are keeping Oregon money in Oregon. A campaign N o t a r y P u b lic is on in the interest o f “ Oregon Made Goods,” and “ Oregon Industrie«.” It is more than worthy— an idea that means money to you. Look the Representing Pacida Stete« Pire Insur label ance Company, Springfield P. A M . InuraneeCo., Fire Association o f Phila, LOUIS W EBERT at Patronize Your Home Company FIRE & AUTO INSURANCE Assets ovei $1,000,000 Pacific States Fire Insurance Company of Portland, Oregon Fire Insurance AURORA Robert R. Rankin Attorney at Law “ Tops ’em A ll” Offleee with The First National Bank ef Aurora and Tops Recovered $12.50 to $40.00 Oregon Auto Top Co. 14th & Couch Sts, 508 Platt Bldg., Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore. Asqaith & Hocken Painless Dentistry DR. E. H. PREHN Molalla, Oregon The home of good dentistry P AINTIING APER HANGING AND TINTING All Work Neatly Done Aurora, Ore. Phene 8012 A t Monitor on Thursdays G. C. GIESY FEED STORE ............. .. — WHOLESALE and RETAIL — --------------- - Flour, Cereals, Poultry and Dairy Feeds. H ay and Seeds N O V A C A T IO N FO R SURELAY An ail year round feed! Your poultrymen friends should have it and can have it—give them SURELAY. 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