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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5. 192«
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Lane County Farmers Union News
O FFIC IA L PUB LICA TIO N LANE COUNTY U N IT wO. 14
PRUNE MARKET PROBLEM
COULD BE MADE SERIOUS
I HOP PICKING IN LOCAL
Champ Hoosier Speller
Community News
By Spacial
YARDS TO START SOON
average crop, in spite of reports to
the contrary.
The hot weather early In the spring
during April, combined with the dry
season, has caused the hops to ripen
early and to bear very lightly
Corra sponde-ta
The prune situation is such that
Hop picking alll start earlier than
there 1» no need tor Ute growers to be
usual this yuar. according tu Welby
disrouragto. says C. J. Hurd, agricul
GARDEN WAY
a trip to northern California this aeek* Stevens, local grower.
Usually the
tural economist of the college exten
via the McKensle pass.
picktug fioes noi begin unii! atout
I .aat Friday the Sunshine club met
Hulbsrts L tsve— Mr and Mrs. T II.
»ion service. Producers are In a bet
Robert Doyle of Arugo spent the Augnai 30. bui thla year luost growers
at the home of Mrs, Jay Fish for thetr week end at the Cooper ranch
ter position than they were a year
Hulbert
left July It for Newport for
will begin to pick thè llght hopa or
bi montly meeting. It wa» decided to
Ago. reports show production and
Ernest Schlnk, C. C. Curts and fu s g I c s Oli Auguat 9 The crop wlll b. a »«cation of three weeks From the
represent the community with a float
holdover surplus considered
Donald Kahler are expected to reluru very light <hla year, only hair a crop eoast town they are going to Hood
at the "Trail to Itall" celebration. The fro m Meadowvlew Thursday where h„i„K expected.
River to stay until the Ural of the
“Crop production cannot be accur
members present for the meeting they have beeu threshing the last few
atety forecase," says Mr. Hurd "The
The late hops will ripen about year Mr Hulbert has been working
were: Mrs. Marvin Chase, Mrs. Horner weeks.
get was unusually good but sixes hard
September 1. In the opinion of Mr si the I'astlme Pool Hall
Chase. Mrs Lester Cyr. Mrs. A W I
Jy run to normal, which may bring the
stevetis, which Is the usual time for
Ferree, Mrs. George Fish. Mr». A. C. |
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northwest crop pretty c l o s e t o
the harvest He doesn't think there FOR BALK—Carbon parier In la rg e
Travia,
Mrs.
W.
II.
Anderson.
Mrs.
normal."
ehret». H i l l Inches, settable rev
will be more than 85 per cent of the
Henry Cook. Mrs. Wilson of Eugene
Nop growers of Clackamas and Mar
making traglags. The News Office.
The California crop is estimated at
aud Mrs. Jay Fish.
I Ion counties are securing their pickers
>54 to 175 million pounds, the Oregon
Work on the new playshed for the ^or ***•
crop This years' hopa,
* a
a t 60 to 75 million pounds of dried
school has begun It la to be built so from Present Indications, are to be of
prunes, giving a total of 334 million
• Betty Robinson, 11 years old.
that the community may use it for a -
fl1**** quality, and harvesting will
pounds, with almost no holdover sur is the spelling champion of Inoiai.a
basket
ball
pavllllon
and
othe
gaui.
s
»»usually
early (his year
plus The California output last year and is now on her way to W a s h
Dick Maxwell has returned from 1 Apprehended while attempting te
was 314 million pounds, the Oregon ington, D. C., for the natimia
«
Newport where he spent the last week
«»sollns for their oar. Joe Wal
crop 41 million, with enough holdover spellirg “bee" scheduled for Jute
ITth
lace
and
C h arlo » Fester
trusties
who
.
es
the
guest
of
John
Koke.
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surplus to bring the total to be dis
Mr. and Mrs William Schick and escaped from the stats penitentiary |
posed of to 405 million pounds. This
676 DEPARTMENT STORES
HARVEST
IS
EARLY
FOR
family
left last Saturday for Rotan. Monday, were recaptured at Bly. on
was 71 millioa pounds more to go on
the
Klamath
Indian
reservation.
9-12 Willamette St., Eugene, Oregon.
the market than will be offered this
ALL CROPS TH IS YEAR Texas where they will make their
E llie Conger of Beecher Rock on the
home. Mr Schick has been employed
year.
Bluslaw. about 60. met almost Instant
A general shortage ot crops, due to at Chase Gardens.
Prune drier capacity as wall as pro
A. W Ferree, a local dairy man. has death when tbs car driven by W B. ■
duction must be taken into considera the dry weather this year. Is appar-'Bt
Neeley in wlhch be was riding struck I
tion in estimating output of dried In the local harvest The only crops returned to h it home after s n extend a truck o n the J u n c tio n C ity Florence '
not
hurt
by
the
extreme
dry
weather
ed
trip
east.
He
spent
some
time
prunes. Mr. Hard points oat . Present
highway about 17 miles west of Junc
capacity in Oregon and Clark coanty. are the fruit and nut crops, tlthough visiting his father tn Pittsburg. Penn tion City.
cherries
were
lig
h
t
The
shortage
Is
sylvanla.
bis
destination
Enroute
he
s.
Washington, is around 3 million
Bight firemen wore Injured, one
not
serious,
but
hope,
grain,
and
hay
visited
many
friends
and
relatives.
In
pounds a day The average tim e of
A "«ale" would be as much out of place in our mod
crops are all sh ort
eluding his brother In Denver. Colo seriously, throe were overcome by
drying season before the fall rains
em
methods of merchandninj; and storekrrping as
smoke,
and
damag«
la
excess
of
6100
Ordinarily threshing in the neigh- rado. relatives in Constantine. Mich .
aet to and «poll tt. la 3« days. Thia
000 was done «ben fire swept three
would a cew on F ifth Avenue in New York
borhood
o
f
Springfield
starts
(he
last
friends
tn
Cedsr
Rapids.
Iowa,
Salt
•om ewhat arbitrarily limits output to
floors of a brick building oecapled by
•0 million pounds in the whole north- of July, but this year It was a full two Lake City. Utah. Cheyenne. Wyoming. ths Pacific Stationery A Prtatlng com
A cow on F ifth Avenue would attract a lot of
weeks
early.
Hay
la
generally
in
the
Spokane.
Washington,
and
ChlcagL
111
West, even though the crop should
pany la Portland
curiosity but it would not provide much satisfaction lo
shock
by
July
4.
while
this
season
it
where
he
was
in
business
before
com-
ran somewhat above that mark. The
The public service com mission de
those who hapjwned along at the time.
present capacity may be Increased was all in by that date. Hops also ing w e st Mr. Ferree Is glad to get
nied a petition filed by residents of
are
early
this
yeear,
the
picking
of
back
to
Oregon
and
states
that
much
Slightly by converting natnral draft
■-ana county asking that the applica
^Ahgra merchandising and selling methods are right,
to recirculation system, but of course the higgles beginning next week In interest is shown in Eugene by East- tion of the Southern Pacific company
I
erners.
naer-by
yards.
An
early
spring
with
Bnfavorable weather may tend the
prices are as low all the tunc aa they can |a>»tibi> be
hot weather during the growing sea
Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Chase and for permission to substitute busses
ether way
mad«.
for
street
cars
on
the
Eugene-Spring
The 1936 prices have been slightly son is the cause of the light crops daughter, Jean, have returned from a field line be rejected
hich are general throughout the vacation trip to Gate Creek.
W e prefer to give jroj the lowest powibte price«
Under the 1935 figure, oaring to the
The Oregon hunter wlll find a great
Mrs. W. H. Anderson entertained
light s t a r t e d
between different Willamette valley.
•very day ins ltod of a! intervals at so-called '«airs."
number
of
birds
next
fall
when
the
There will be a large crop of wal Mrs. Elixa Stevens of Springfield, and
marketing interests. On the other
season It open October 17 to 14. ac
hand the growers are getting the sup nut and filberts o f goood quality in Mrs. C. I. Anderson and daughter. Jan-- cording to F M. Brown, chief deputy
You want your dollar to buy at least a hundred cents’
of Bend. Oregon, last week.
the
local
orchards
this
year.
Last
port of business and professional
state game warden Chinese pheasants
worth
all the time rattier than |>art of the time
W. H. Anderson made a buslnes.«
men of their communities. A n d pre year the walnut crop was very short,
and grouse will be particularly pli-n I
trip to Salem last week.
but
this
season
the
trees
have
a
very
sent prices encourage wider consump
We do not hold "sales " W e do not change our
tlfuL Brown reported.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Bailey of
large number of nuts on them, ' rune
tion both at heme and in Europe.
price,
from day to day.
W e neither "reduce" nor
Threshing
of
fall
grain
Is
virtually
i
trees are bearing heavy, although Bend and Mr anti Mrs. Leslie Bailey
completed
tn
the
Harrisburg
district
“raise"
prices
except
in
instances
where markci con
were
guests
at
the
Jay
Fish
home
for
FOR SALE— Payroll sheets, printed there are lets of prunes falling now
and the outfit» have gone right Into
ditions compel us to do so. We sell for cash at low
and in stock at the News office due to the dry weather. The quality !a few days last week.
the spring grain threshing Fall whe’at
Form satiable for road, construction of the prunes will be excellent, how
price- alike to all always.
was the poorest It has been for several
work, sawmill«, « c , with a b le to ever.
UPPER WILLAMETTE
seasons, averaging only about 11 or
compute workmans compensation
Threshing is well under way, having
You can oJaoys do as well here as your ncgliboF—
and deductions. No employer shoaid
1A bushels to the acre.
Mrs. Frank Storer and two children.
be without these t ' -ms when they started shortly after the Fourth Fall
no better^
Prod
net
loo
of
lumber
by
>f»4
West
eaa be purchased tor a few ceats grain Is average, but the spring grain Melvin and Joseph, who have been
Coast Lumbermen's association mills
Is light, as is the vetch and clover visiting at the home of her parents
CALL AND SEE Dr. N W. Emery crops.
Mr. and Mrs I. F Circle at Enterprise was nearly 3.000.004 lees tor the week
ended July 34. compared to the week
• o prices on plate and other work, tf
Welby Stevens, local farmer thinks returned to her home at Portland previous
There was a decrease of
a season like the presant one shows Tuesday, August 3.
more than 6.006.000 feet of new orders
the need of irrigation. The Irrigated
Otto H. Wangelln, father of Mrs E booked, and a decrease of more than
• OFFICERS OF LANE CO UNTY •
gardens show the contrast between B Tinker returned to Pleasant Hill 6,004.004 feet In shipments.
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FARMERS' UNION
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irrigated and non-irrigated tracts Wednesday from Deerhorn Sanitor-
• C W Allen, Vida. President.
• and the value of irrigation. He be ium where he has been taking treat
• W. I. Seale. Eugene, Vlce-Presl- • lieves the Benham ditch, which takes ments.
• dent
, water from the McKenzie to irrigate
Douglas and Jerry Kahler. BelleTntl
• Betty M Kappanf. Cottage Orove • the L. C. Abels ranch, could be ex Emma Olson, Bonnie Jeanne Tinker
• Secretary-Treasurer.
• tended at small cost to cover the land and Marie Louise Elliott are picking
• Walter Morgan, Creewell. Confine-» surrounding Springfield. Over 15.040 blackberries for Taylor Circle at En
f tor.
, acres could easily be watered by th's terprise.
• H. H. Smith, Eugene, Doorkeep- • ditch at a cost of >30 an acre, accord-
Mr and Mrs. R. P. Laird are attend
• er.
. lag to Mr. Stevens. "It Is unusually
ing the Legion Convention at Marsh
• O. L. Clement, Wa tervUte, Chap- e dry th is year, but there Isn't a year field.
• lain.
but what irrigation would be a bene
D. O. Linton la plowing the Hyde
fit to the farmers sometime daring the
ranch preparing it for seeding.
ManLn ’» kax
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wheeler left for
A Cow On Fifth Avenue
Would Be a Curiosity
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The Best of all that Grows
FRESH DAILY
D on’t Forget
to do your canning now while the
fruit is at its best.
HOME 9 R 0W N MELLONS, PEACHES, CARROTS
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TIME AND PLACE OF
LOCAL MEETINGS
PHONE
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Canary—First Wednesday, Third
Saturday, Farmers Union Hall.
Cloverdale—Second and Fourth
Fridays. Cloverdale School House,
Creswell—First and Third Tues-
day», Croswell, M. W. of A, Hall.
Coast Fork—Second and Fourth
Thursdays, Farm Union Hall.
Danebo— First Tuesday, Danebo
’ School House.
Doreno—Second and Fouth Tues-
’ days, Dorena Churoh.
' Hadleyvllle — First and Third
’ Thursdays, Hadleyvllle School
" Heceta— First Sunday of each
1 month, Heceta School House.
Jasper—Second and Fourth Wed-
’ nesdays, W. O. W. Hall, Jasper.
' Lorane—Second
and
Fourth
' Wednesdays. I. O. O. F. Hall.
’ McKenzie local, second and
• fourth Wednesday, 8 p, m. I. O. 0. 1
• F. hall, Waltervllle.
' Mt. Vernon—First, and Third
' Wednesday. Brasf.eld Store.
’ Silk Creek Meets First and ThJvd
’ Thursday at Cedar School House
Spencer Creek—Third Friday.
Pine Orove School House.
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Trent—Second and Fourth Wed
nesday«
H easant Hill
High «
School Bldg.
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Vida—Second and Fourth Sator- '
days at Mlnnsy Hall.
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Secretaries will please send hi
Urns and place of meettnff and
changes of date as they may so-
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