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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1923)
OREGON NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Oregon prune week will be observ ed the week of December 11 to 17. Corvallis high school claims the Willamette valley football champion ship. 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 £ . M. HURST 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 John R. Byers of Oakridge has been named postmaster at a new office In Lane county to be known as West Fir. The Walla Walla Railway company has authorized the construction of an extension of its line from Milton to Umapine. Apple shipments from Hood River this year to date are nearly 100 per cent heavier than for the same period a year ago. Clearances of export lumber cargo at the Portland customs house for November were 37,763,900 feet, valued at $1,167,055. lltllllllllllllH I CHRISTMAS! I aa ri r. = 1™ ^^^ — - _ ^ 73THE GLAD TIME has come again, when the VS' Spirit of Goodwill is manifested, when every heart is stirred with the warmth of devotion, and every true bond of friendship is manifested by generouslyjgiving. Caristmas is right before us. It beckons us for early preparation. There is no time to lose. Our Store is fully prepared for a bounteous Yule- tide. It is replete with nice things for Holiday giving. This Store is the Treasure House for Christmas Gifts. You may select the useful, the practical, the ornamental, for Mother, for Father, for Sister, for Brother, for the Baby, for Dear Friends and Relatives. We believe you will find it profitable and pleasant in selecting your Christ mas gifts at our Store. Sadler & Kraus AURORA MEAT MARKET An Up-to-date Sanitary Meat Market that handles every thing b e s t i n m e a t s fresh and cured. OPEN EVENINGS DURING HARVEST SEASON WURSTER BROS. Aurora, Oregon BUY A Maytag Washer FOR YOUR WIFE FOR A Christmas Present —Your wife will appreciate it. The new ALUMINUM Tub will not shrink and fall to pieces. Hardware G. A. EHLEN Implements The fourteenth annual convention of the Oregon Butter Makers’ associa tion will be held in Portland Decem ber 13 and 14. Members of the Oregon Music Teachers’ association from all parts of the state met in Portland for a two- day convention. The Oregon Growers Co-operative association of Salem will arrange 15 exhibits in connection with the observ ance of prune week. Curtis L. Hawley, state dairy and food commissioner, died at the age of 54 in Portland, following an illness of four months’ duration. The ninth annual meeting of the Western Oregon Walnut Growers’ as sociation was held in Salem, Wed nesday and Thursday. Bids for grading the 3%-mile sec tion of the Roseburg-Reedsport high way will be received by the bureau of public roads on December 19, ac cording to word received in Roseburg The government has set aside the sum of $85,000 for the grading of this section, and is preparing to start work without delay. The interstate commerce commis sion, in a letter received by the pub lic service commission, has admitted that its valuations of properties of the Sumpter Valley railroad in eastern Oregon are incorrect. Engineers em ployed by the commission will be ordered to make an investigation to correct the errors. When a car loaded with logs broke away on a heavy grade near Coch ran and came turtling toward the lo comotive on which they were work ing, D. C. Hemminger, 29, engineer, and H. C. McKiddy, 24, fireman, jump ed to escape injury, only to be killed by flying logs from the car, which struck a derailing switch. A. E. Burghduff, state game war- len, Ben Dorris and Harold Clifford, members of the state game commis sion, and Matt Ryckman, superin tendent of state hatcheries, announced upon their return to Eugene from Coos Bounty that they had decided to es tablish a new trout hatchery on a small stream just south of -Bandon. The limit placed on loads of trucks on Lane county’s gravel and macadam roads a short time ago has been rais- Bd, after a large number of truck own ers had protested against the limit as being so low that they would be un able'to operate at a profit. The limit was changed from" 300 pounds to the inch width of tire per axle to 350 pounds. Permitted to spend Thanksgiving day with his-family at Fossil, Henry D. Keyes, county judge of Wheeler county, must return to The Dalles and serve 20 days in the county jail there, in addition to paying a fine of $250 as a result of a sentenee in the justice court at The Dalles on a charge of having intoxicating liquor in his pos- I session illegally. During thé first 28 days in Novem ber a total of 23 fatal accidents were reported to the state industrial acci dent commission. This was said to be the largest number of fatalities re ported to the commission during a similar period of time in the history of the department. The most deaths occurred in the logging and milling industry. Completion of the extension of the Oregon-Washington Railroad Naviga tion company’s tracks from Crane to Burns is hoped for by July 1. The labor situation in Salem is far from satisfactory at the present time, according to announcement made by the federal employment bureau. W. E. Kyler last week sold his 320- acre farm north of Irving to John Michelbrook of Richland, Wash., the consideration being reported to be about $70,000. Advertisements for rock for con The practice of soaking or “ swell ing” oysters before offering them for struction of the north jetty on the sale, a common custom among certain Umpqua river have been sent out by dealers, has been prohibited by the. .Captain George Mayo, United States army corps of engineers, in charge of state dairy and food commission. A short course in dairy manufactur-' the first Portland district. Bids are ing, including butter making, ice to be opened December 27. The con cream making and cheese making, will tract will involve about $230,000 and be given by the Oregon agricultural ; the total cost of the project will be about $553,000. college January 7 to February 2. O. C. Boggs, appointed special prose The new wing of the eastern Ore cutor in Jackson county during the gon state hospital at Pendleton has been formally accepted by the state. administration of Rawles Moore as The new wing will provide accommo • district attorney, was removed from dations for approximately 250 addi ; office through an order isued by Gov ernor PierCe. Liquor cases in Jack- tional, patients. son county previously assigned to Mr. Robert Egglesham was killed and Boggs hereafter will be handled by William Graham was injured, perhaps Newton W. Borden, who was appoint fatally, when a wagon in which they ed district attorney to succeed Mr. were riding plunged over a cliff on Moore. the Lace creek road between Blachiy Prune growers of the Umpqua val and Swiss Home. ley will adopt cattlemen’s methods of Deschutes county’s tax next year Celling if the trip to be made this for county purposes will require a week by R. E. Holdridge and Otto slightly less millage than that in ef •Watzig of Riddle is successful. The fect for the present year. Next year’s two prune-growers have loaded all of millage will be 15.65, as compared to their 1923 prune crop into a freight a present millage of 15.84. j car and are going to Montana in an The state treasury has received attempt to sell direct to the retailers from the motor vehicle fuels tax a of Butte, Great Falls, Billings and total of $4,667,128.48, according to a other cities. statement prepared by Sam A. Kozer, Revision of freight rates and elimin secretary of state. Receipts for the ation of bedding charges sought by month of October aggregated $220,- the Oregon Horse and Cattle Raisers’ 524.83. association, Portland Livestock ex The Southern Pacific company has change and Northwest Livestock Ship notified the public service commis pers Traffic league, will be contested sion that it will comply with the order by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle issued by the commission some time railroad, according to an answer filed ago and proceed immediately with con with the public service commission at struction on new depot facilities at Salem. The railroad corporation asks Oregon City. that the complaint be dismissed. The Oregon supreme court has re : Members of the state tax commis versed an opinion handed down a sion will meet in Salem this week, week ago and holds that the organiza when plans will be outlined for the tion of the Jordan Valley irrigation organization of the state income tax district was legal.- In the former department. Initial income reports apinion it was held that the notices of under the law are due before March Blection were insufficient. 15 of next year. Earl Fisher, state tax Though the margin of profit will commissioner, under whose direction aot be large, the Oregon Growers’ Co the tax will be collected, says it will operative association of Salem has require between 30 to 50 employes to sleaned up its Spitzenberg apple crop operate the department. Mr. Fisher at prices ranging from $1.26 to $1.35 estimates that there will be approxi a box for extra fancies and from 61 mately 70,000 income reports the first to 85 cents for less choice grades. year the law is in effect. There were . nine fatalities due to Oregon pensions have been granted as follows; Alfred Q. Desert, Silver- industrial accidents in Oregon during ton, $12; Van E. Hallberg, Baker, $12; the week ending November 29, accord Henry Hockenyos, Portland, $15; ing to a report prepared by the state Maney Bernard, Portland, $12; Fred industrial accident commission. The erick Petzold, Portland, $12; John victims included John Goss, Hood McPherson, Oregon City, $12; Frank River, brakeman;/ William Trankle, London, fireman; Pasquelle De Vin- Gard, Albany, $15. Business on the lines of the South eonzo, Linnton, laborer; Manuel Ja- ern Pacific, company has increased cobo, Fort Klamath, quarryman; Lee Penn, laborer; Herbert approximately 23 per cent for the Nichols, year 1923 over 1922, according to a Smith, Portland, checker; Frank Ott, letter received at the offices of the Wauna, dry kiln puller; F. C. Stevens, public service commission from E. L. Portland, loader, and Fred Colclough, King, superintendent of the Southern Estacada, brush burner.- A total of Pacific lines in this state. 645 accidents were reported. jPeople to Get Acquainted W ith Oregon for Oregon Ask for Oregon Products » OREGON MAKES IT BOTTLE FEEDING r will be suceesaful It ___ _ druggists« Danube, the milk modi fier, la used. Doctors endorse Dennoa. At Sample on request. D E N N O S F O O D CO. Portlands Ore. Oregon Industries Deserve Oregon Patronage LOUIS WEBERT 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 Notary Public is on in the interest o f ‘ ‘ Oregon Made Goods,” and “ Oregon Industries.” It is more than worthy— an idea that means money to you. Look at the Representing Pacific States Fire Insur label ance Company, Springfield F. & M. InuranceCo., Fire Association o f Phila. Patronize Your Home Company Fire Insurance FIRE & AUTO INSURANCE Assets over $1,000,000 AURORA - OREGON^ , '. Pacific States Fire Insurance Company of Portland, Oregon O. D. EBY “Tops ’em All” ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Oregon City, Oregon Tops Recovered $12.50 to $40.00 Estates, Trusts, Confidential Advice Oregon Auto Top Co. 14th & Couch Sts, Portland, Ore. Painless Dentistry DR. E. H. PREHN Molalla, Oregon The home o f good dentistry l Asquith & Hocken AINTIING P APER HANGING AND TINTING All Work Neatly Done 2 Aurora, Ore. Phone 5012 At Monitor on Thursdays 0. C. BIESY FEEI STORE 1 Flour, Cereals, Poultry and Dairy Feeds. Hay and Seeds [We buy Potatoes, Wheat. Oats, Hay, Vetch and Clover Seed] SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK ONLY J j I No. 1 Eastern Oyster Shell— 100 pound sack ________ Linseed Oil Meal— 100 pound sack. _______ Sperry Surelay E gg Mash— 100 pound sack____________ _ Molassine.Dairy Feed— 100 pound sack_____________ We $ 1.30 $ 3.00 $ 2.75 $ 2.10 pay Cash for Poultry, Eggs and Country Produce Store Phone 9 AURORA. OREGON Residence Phone 2 6 O U R STORE I S FULL O F .H oliday G oods. Come Early and Get Your Choice - - We haye the things that will please all, the grownups as well as the little tots. It does not cost you anything to Look Around W ill-Snyder Co. “ TH E STORE OF M E R IT ”
