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AURORA
Published Every Thursday
James Miller and Fellow Attorneys
Win Important Case in California.
The Motor Carriar, a San Francisco
publication, tells of an important de­
cision regarding passenger traffic on
the California highways.
“ The Motor Carriers’ Association
has achieved a signal victory in its long
continued campaign to block unlicensed
and illegitimate competition with the
regular stage lines on the State’s high­
ways.
The victory consists in securing a
permanent injunction in the Superior
Court in San Joaquin County at Stock-
ton against an unlicensed operator who
has persistently carried passengers un­
der the guise that he was running for
an employment agency. Not only was
the association successful in securing
the injunction but it was also success­
ful in establishing as a legal precedent
that the Superior courts have concur­
rent jurisdiction with the State Rail­
road Commission in determining such
cases.
The Association was represented in
the proceedings by attorneys Harry A.
Encell ana James Miller of San Fran­
cisco, who presented a list of authori­
ties to show that the court had juris­
diction in the premises, and by Attor­
ney Lafayette J. Smallpage of Stock-
ton.
Oregon City Completes Plans For
Celebrating July 4.
OregogÜitv, Oré., June 30.—Special.
—A41 arrangements for the dedicatory
ceremonies and, celebration to be held
at the Atkinson Memorial park at Six­
teenth and J ackson streets on july 4,
under the auspices of the Buena Vista
Civic Improvement club, are complete.
The new flag, six by nine feet, will
be unfurled to the winds from the 60-
foot mast at sunrise, when buglers
from the Willamette Falls post Ameri­
can Legion, will sound reveille.
Features of the afternoon will be a
Uriel pageant to be-put on by- the ' chil­
dren band concert, and during the
intermission of the concert at 3 o’clock
little Edna Jones, talanted girl of Glad­
stone, will make her appearance in sev­
eral vocal numbers in Highland cos­
tume, —Oregonian.
Coming Events
July 4, Celebration at Wilsonville.
July 9-22, Willamette Valley Chau-
taugua at Gladstone.
July 19-21. Fourth annual Mt. Hood
climb.
Aug. 18-23. Buyers, week at Port­
land.
Aug. 21-28, Lutheran chautauqua at
Gladstone.
Sept. 18-19-20. Pendleton Round Up.
Charles Kraxberger of Macksburg,
was a business visitor in Aurora Mon­
day.
Fire Threatens Canby Homes.
ITEMS OF ST A T E W ID E INTEREST
A forest fire in Canby Gardens onthe
highway, between Canby and New Era,
raged for several hours Sunday after­
noon, and for some time threatened
homes and other property close by.
Assistance of those residing near that
section saved the property.
The property, where a small brush
fire was started Saturday, is owned by
Dr. C. H, Shank of Salem. On Sun­
day a strong north wind fanned the
flames into adjoining property and be­
fore nightfall more than 100 acres had
been burned over.
Department Store Burglarized
Miller’s Department store in Salem
was the victim of burglars Sunday
night to the tune of about $2000 in
silks and other fine goods. It is thought
that entry was effected through the
sky light and the goods were carried
off in an automobile which had been
stationed in the alley back of the store.
No trace of the thieves has as yet
been obtained.
You Know I t
„Life on earth is but a few days, the
best you can do is a kind act to your
neighbor and a respect to those that
have gone before and to yeurself.
Now why not make this drive a success
and have our last resting spot a view
of beauty forever rather than a partly
grown-up wilderness.
Of course you may say I am doing
my part now and why worry when
I am gone. Your self-pride and respect
does not entitle you to - use this argu­
ment.
Let us all pull together and make it
a success and easy for the com­
mittee. Mail your donation and
pledge. Volunteer to help canvass,
let every one know that you are ' inter­
ested. By doing this we will soon have
something to be proud of. The com-
mittee expect to start canvassing
next week, so donl, be surprised when
they call on you.
Aurora Lutheran Church
Sunday school at 10:00 a. m., German
service at 10:15. English service at
11:15. At the English service Mr.
Collins Graham will give a report of
the convention of our Church in Port­
land.
July 4th at 8 p. m., Dr. Gohdes, from
Columbus, Ohio, will lecture in the
Odd Fellows Hall on the interesting
subject, “ Benedict Arnold, and the
Lessons he Teaches.” We once more
invite the patriots of Aurora anu vi­
cinity to crowd the hall to capacity.
Tuesday Evening, July 8th. Dr. Goh­
des, will deliver another lecture in our
church entitled, “The Most Seductive
Deviltry of the Age.” The public is
urged to take in this lecture likewise,
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Non-resident motor vehicles in Ore­
Blanco Masonic lodge of Marshfield gon on June 13 showed an increase of
celebrated its 54th anniversary of or­ 3% per cent when compared with
ganization.
figures compiled a year ago, accord­
All of the rooms of the new Albany ing to a report prepared by the state
general hospital will be furnished by highway department.
fraternal organizations.
An ultimatum, has been delivered
Summer session registration at Ore­ to the county court of Linn county
gon Agricultural college has ’shown a by the state highway commission to
the effect that unless the court signs
decided increase over last yeir.
the agreement for the Albany bridge,
Ronald G. White has resigned the
no bridge will be built.
postmastership at Falls City to become
A cougar, out of its invironment and
cashier of the Bank of Falls City.
Formation of a Clackamas County thoroughly frightened at the prospect
Holstein association was completqg of no trees to climb nor underbrush
at Oregon City by about 50 breeders to hide in, utilized the manger of an
old barn near Wasco as a place of
of the county.
refuge and was killed with a shotgun.
Plans were made at a meeting in
Birkenhead last week toward organf. The sale of cigarettes at all con­
zation of a Pioneer’s society of the struction camps and at two summer
resorts—those at Odell and Crescent
Nehalem valley.
lakes—in the Deschutes national forest
Portland was chosen as the meeting has been stopped, as a measure for
place’for the 1925 annual htate con­ protection of timber against fire, it is
vention of osteopathic physicians at announced.
the convention in Albany.
Miss Celia Bollman, private secre­ Farmers in Umatilla county, and
tary to Governpr Pierce, Mas been ap­ particularly those in the wheat belt
pointed a member of the federal parole j who own bottom land where some
board for the Oregon state peniten­ j alfalfa and green stuff are grown, have
| launched into warfare against a pest
tiary.
; of grasshoppers that threatens to
Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state,, i clean up some fields,
wllf leave early in July for Salt Lake-
City, Utah, where he will attend the ; On his return home a few minutes
annual convention of secretaries of after he had watched a shipment of
i caskets unloaded and had jestingly
state.
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, picked out the coffin he would prefer
The United" States department of i to be buried in, Matthew B. Keys, 69,
commerce has decided to establish in ' dropped dead in Pendleton as a re­
Portland a separate district vof the sult of heart disease.
bureau of foreign and doinestic com­
The state treasurer’s office has
merce.
started
action in Lakeview to collect
Four moonshine stills have ’ been
located in Lane county during the 1: over $150,000 from the executors of
last week by F. A. Zellner and. William r the Bernard Daly estate, covering in-
Keller, federal prohibition agents from |!heritance tax upon that part of the
v estate that was left to the Bernard
Portland.
J Daly educational fund.
Mrs. Ella Shultz Wilson was elected
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Mrs. Anna Stevens, 71, wife of Jas-
secretary of the state fail hoard to
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H. Stevens, and a pioneer of the
succeed .Fred Currey, who-has resign­
ed. Mrs. Wilson" will assume her "new I Grande Ronde valley, died at La
|;Grande. Mrs. Stevens was a daughter
.duties. July. 1- H
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The $500 robbery of the postoffice treasurer, who died a few years ago
at Spring Brook, in Yamhill countyf at the age of 96 years.
resulted in the arrest of Michael
Dr. James A. McBride of Pasadena,
O’Keefe and Peter Shelbourn, two
Cal., his brother, T. A.-McBride-, of
Portland youths.
the supreme court, and Justice Bur­
Complete audit of the records and nett are planning a visit to the Mc­
finances of the state military depart­ Bride and Burnett homes in Yamhill
ment has been requested by George county, where the three were born
A. White, adjutant-general, in a letter more than 70 years ago. .
to Governor Pierce.
The Deschutes river flow is the low­
Residents of the Dee district, in est in recent years, running 1400
Hood River county, have voted to sub­ second feet, in spite of the fact that
mit to the patrons a bond issue for stored water at the Crane Prairie and
the construction of a new school Crescent lake reservoirs _is re-enforc-
building to cost $25,000.
ing the flow. Lack of snow in the
Steel crews have begun stringing mountains is given as the cause.
girder steel on the Waukoma inter­
Taxes to _ be collected in Oregon
state bridge which will span the Co­ during 1924, based on the valuations
lumbia river, connecting Hood River for 1923, aggregate $40,155,083.30, ac­
and White Salmon, Wash.
cording to a summary prepared
The first large shipment of lambs by the state tax commission. This is
from Umatilla county this season was a slight reduction when compared with
made when 20 carloads, owned by the the tax collections for the year 1923.
Smythe interests, were loaded and
Le Roy Ledgerwood, manager of
started for the Chicago market.
the Mehama fish hatchery, states that
A new state game farm for eastern an attempt was made recently to dy­
Oregon will be established before the namite the salmon racks across the
end of the summer. The site has not mouth of the little north fork of the
yet been selected, but it will probably Santiam river, to allow the salmon to
be somewhere in Umatilla county.
go through to the headwaters of that
An epidemic of rabies in which 14 river.
cattle became infected was reported
Anticipating that forest fires will
from Klamathr county to Stanley G. soon break out again, Nelson F. Mac­
Jewett, predatory animal inspector of duff, supervisor of the Cascade na­
the United States biological survey.
tional forest, has issued an order for
Governor Pierce refused to declare all fire lookouts to take their stations
July 5 a legal holiday in Oregon, as again. They had been off duty for
requested by a number of Portland some time owing to recent rains and
bankers and heads of financial insti­ lack of fires.
tutions in other sections of the state.
The work of pouring concrete in the
Mrs. James C. Stuart of 461 Benton construction of the new dam in Immi­
street, Portland, was named national grant creek, which is a part of the
committeewoman for Oregon by Will Talent irrigation project in southern
R. King, who is to succeed Dr. J. W. Oregon, has been started, according
Morrow as Oregon democratic national to information received at the offices
of the state engineer. It will require
committeeman.
There were five fatalities in Oregon several months to complete the dam.
A county-wide organization of
due to industrial accidents in the
week ending June 26, according to a sportsmen’s organizations of Umatilla
report issued by the state industrial county was completed at a meeting
accident commission. The victims in Pendleton attended by hunters and
were J. S. Goin, Stanfield, road con­ fishermen from Hermiston, Helix,
tractor; Kenneth A. Nichols, "Aroo, Pilot Rock, Echo, Umatilla, Adams and
Idaho, choker setter; Elmer B. Shull, Pendleton. The name of the organiza­
Hermis^pn, laborer; Charles A. Lind­ tion is the Umatilla Fish and Game
quist, West Linn, chaser, and Joe Protective association.
Taxation of electric light and power
Martin, Carlton, 'faller.
The largest bread-baking contest companies in Oregon, Washington,
ever held in connection with club Idaho, Montana and Utah has increas­
work west of the Mississippi fiver took ed 42 per cent in the last three years,
place at the Oregon Agricultural col­ according to statistics assembled by
lege when more than 190 girl club George L. Myers, president of the
members baked two loaves of bread Northwest Electric Light and Power
apiece to- demonstrate the skill ac­ association, and presented at the asso­
quired in the junior summer session. ciation’s annual convention at Gear-
Rosetta Gallitin of Jackson county heart. -
was awarded first prize, Barbara Potts
of Washington county, second, and
Babe Pomeroy of Klamath county,
third.
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NO. 27
Another Pioneer Called by Death
Suddenly at the last, at about 11:45
o’clock Tuesday night, Charles Snyder,
member of the Original Aurora Colony,
passed to the Great Beyond. For some
years Mr. Snyder has been suffering
with heart trouble and his demise was
not unexpected, Mr. Snyder was born
Feb. 16, 1844, near Canton, Ohio;
crossed the plains in 1855, stopping
first at Willapa, in the state of Wash­
ington, and coming to Oregon in ’56.
Under Old Colony government he per­
formed the duties of a carpenter and
was a member of the famous Aurora
band, which captured many laurels in
contests-over the state in the early
days. After the incorporation of
Aurora he was the first one' to be
elected a councilman. He leaves sur­
viving him his wife, Mrs. Christina
Snyder, two daughters, Mrs. J. M.
Will, Miss Emma J. Snyder; three
sons,'A. C. Snyder, L. T. Snyder and
E, J. Snyder, all of Aurora; and the
following grand-children: Percy S.
Will, Leona M, Will, Diana M. Snyder,
Aileen L, Snyder, Henry V. Snyder,
Carl Snyder, and Agnes Jean Snyder,
Funeral services will be held at the
family home Thursday, today, at 2:30
p. m.
Another Pioneer Passes
Samuel Stauffer, second son of Theo­
dore and Catharine Stauifer, for a long
time a resident of this locality, died
Tuesday, July 1st, 1924. Mr. Stauffer
was born in Shelby county, Missouri,
Dec. 16, 1853, coming to Oregon in
1863. He leaves surviving two broth­
ers, William and Henry Stauffer, and
three sisters, Mary and Elizabeth
Stauffer and Mrs. John Mills.
Banks in Aurora to Remain Closed
July 5th.
Both the Aurora State Bank and The
First National Bank of Aurora wish to
announce that they will be closed all
•isCy Saturday,
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Presbytepan Church
Sunday School at 10 a, m.
Christian Endeavor at 7:30 p. m.
Evening service at 8:00.
Bible Class Tuesday 8:00 p. m.
It was indeed gratifying to see so
many from Aurora attend the North
Marion Sunday School convention in
Gervais on Sunday last.
“The Door” will be the subject of
next Sunday evening’s sermon and
everyone is cordially invited to attend.
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Holstein
Breeders Organize in
Oregon City.
At a meeting held in the Chamber
of, Commerce Building, in Oregon City
last Thursday, some fifty cattle raisers
of Clackamas county organized a county
Holstein association, hereafter to be
known as the Clackimas County Hol­
stein Association.
Following is the list of officers elec­
ted : W. C. Culbertson, of Canby,
president: F. H. Frentz of Molalla,
Vice president; William J. Paeth, of
Estacada, secretary; T. L, Seely, of
Woodburn, Treasurer. The executive
committee includes F. H. Frentz, Mo­
lalla; George DeBok, Williamette, E.
J. Moulton, Aurora; T. L. Seely Wood-
burn; E. Hunsiker, Clackamas; W. C.
Culbertson and W. J. Paeth.
Local and Personal
Fruits and vegetables on ice at Mil­
ler’s.
Miss Bess Calkins, of Portland, was
the week end guest of Mre. W. F.
Prahl.
Mr, and Mrs. Vernon C. Turner, of
St. Paul, Minnesota, were the Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. Prahl.
Miller’s serve good meals at reason­
able prices.
T. G. Ruth, who has been employed
at the Observer office during,the past
month, left Wednesday morning. His
place is taken by J. F. Currie, of Van­
couver, Wash.
Mrs. Will R. King, of Portland, is a
guest at the home of Mrs. J. W. Sad­
ler. Mrs. F. W. Settlemaier will be
the hostess at an entertainment given
in her honor this afternoon.
The Campfire girls gave an interest­
ing and successful lawn party on the
A, W. Kraus lawn last Friday night.
The proceeds amounted to $20.00 net.
.Hejsry Kreis and „party , attended a
Klan meeting in Eugene Saturday.
Several hundred people attended the
annual picnic of the Luther Leaguers
at Bran’s Park last Sunday.
Mr. Roy Zimmerman was seen Tues­
day at his old hang out, the First
National Bank.
Fruits and vegetables on lee at Mil­
ler’s.
R. E, Keefover and fami ly and
olarence Thompson and family gave a
picnic at Silver Falls Sunday to D. C.
Avery and family, W. P. Stokes and
family, A. Perkins and family and Mrs.
Mary Avery, all of Portland, and Miss
Talbott, of Los Angeles, California. A
very pleasant time was had,
J. Beigbeder fell out of a cherry tree
on^the Kaufman place last -»Friday af-
noon. He was attended by Dr. Giesy
who did not find any really serious in­
juries, though he was pretty badly
bruised.
-MEMBER
"FEDERAL RESERVE
„SYSTEM.
A ll American Citizens will observe
Our Independence Day Anniversary
on Friday * inn
Your feeling of personal independence
will be enhanced if you have a substan­
tial cash reserve in the bank.
Carry Your Account, Commercial or
Savings, at th e—
AURORA STATE BANK
■ERVICE IS OUR SLOGAN
I a FETY IS OUR WATCHWORD
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