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TIIVHHDAY JUNK 2. 1»27 THK 8PRINOWBLD N W B PAGK EIG H T OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Eight Salem canneries will attrt <H>- •ration* June 1 on gaoaaharries. The strawberry crop will follow Fire Insurance agents of Eugene hare effected a temporary orgsniss- tlt-n and will organise permanently at the a e it meeting. The »tale board of control has awarded contracts for a new dining room and Ice plant at the state home for the feeble-minded. La Grande has no fear of a water shortage this summer. The two new wells and the Bearer creek supply »re tarnishing M4J.4OO gallons dally. A sits has been purchased and work will start soon on a new armory at Baker, to cost from »20.040 to JJO.OOO. the money to be raised by popular sub aeriptioa. T. M. Gerow. Eugene architect, is designing plans for a new school gym nasium and auditorium at Marshfield Bonds amounting to $70,000 will be issued to finance the building. Dedication of the Lane county cot tage at the W. C. T U. Chiluren't Farm Home at Corrailis will occur June 1». The building has beea com pleted and will soon be furnished. Albert W. McDermld. 41. of Seattle. a steeplejack, was hilled at Baker when he fell from a .m okeetack on the Oregon Lumber company mill 7$ feet to the roof of the engine room. The organisation of a Reedsport Merchant's Protective association Is definitely under way Heavy losses have been sustained by the merchants through improper placement of credit. There will be a new Church of Christ building erected nt Sweet Home m the near future. The officers al ready hare had the blue print made Thia will be quite an improvement to the town. Grain operations on Tuls Inks are seriously curtailed by high water in (he »«.000-acre basin, and as a result (he annual crop will be below that ol last year. Klamath County Ag*»< C. A. Henderson reported The interstate commerce commie sion designated Portland aa one of three western cities In which hearings on western livestock rates will be bald within the next two months by the commission's examiners. Between 700.000 and $04.00« baby chicks were shipped by Salem baby chick hatcheries during the last year according to figures prepared in Salem recently Thia years shipments will exceed 1.000.000 baby chicks. It was said. The city of Ashland has filed with the state engineer an application for permission to construct the Reeder gulch reservoir for the storage of 800 acre-feet of water In Jackson county. The estimated coat of the project was $350.00«. Portland la suffering from sn spt- W e G ive ¿1% G reen D iscount S tamps ¡Lie,’ ■i»' ......II ■■■ ! I ,n ¡. y -«T -in r.ìi/T The Crisis .in The critical point in some dangerous illness it at hand. Physicians nurse and friends anxiously await results from the medicines that will decide whether patient will recover or not. What If the medicine is carelessly prepared form ingredients impure and below the standard on which the doctor has been figuring. r.iu.- ___ n- m I * id ' There can be no question of the medicine Is pre- pared by us. We make sure of every ingredient ’ I We don’t trust to what a manufacturer tells us but test everything ourselves and determine exact power and potency. .► <*~ in Our system is such that accuracy in compounding is insured in every case. LET US FILL YOUR N E X T PRESCRIPTION Ketel’s Drug Store 942 Willamette St., Eug ene, Oregon. ¡25th Anniversary] Jap Pongee-Big Value! 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Grading of ths athletic field at ths Rainier Union high school waa begun last week by John L. Urooks of St Helens Th» work of tutting the field Into-shape will be completed by Aug ust 1. It is claimed for the fluid that It will be one of ths best in Columbia county. Actual construction work on the new nurses’ home at the Oregon state hoapltai will gal under way within the next two weeks. according to an nouncement made In Salem by Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, superintendent of the institution It will cost approximately $150.00« Construction ol ten mUes of logglug railroad at an estimated coat of $100. 000, will be undertaken Immediately by the Shaw Bertram Lumber com pany of Klamath Falls. It waa an nounced. The logging road will tap timber holdings of the concern in th- Squaw Fist district. 40 miles east o. Klamath Falls. Within two or three weeks motor Ists may again pass entirely around Mount Hood on the Mount Hood loop. That was the news H. B. Van Duxer of the Oregon state highway commis sion received from the comm lesion's snow removal crew Improvement of the Chllolquln- Klamaih agency roao became a cer tainty with the receipt of word from J. H. Scott, state market road engi user, that the state highway commis sion had designated the thoroughfare aa a market road. • Van V slish ss Visit— Dr and Mrs land, were visitors during ths holidays Two hundred thousand po'uu«.. R. C. Van Valaah and daughter, Anns, at lha home of Mrs Bernice Van Val wool were sold with sealed bids at th and Dr. <’. O. Van Valsnh. all of l*ort sali wool sale hold lu Condon Iasi week Prices ranged from 31 Mi cents • pound to 22 \ cents. Klamath county's share of Oregon and California grant land tax refund was received by the county treasurer In ths form of a Untied Stales treas ury warrant for $111.85503. Dependable Eyeglass Service Dr. Royal Qick CalUornla-Orogoa Power company development work In southern Oregon under construction or ordered, will en tail an expenditure of IS.OOO.OOO This does not include a proposed further development that will mean an addr I lionat sx. endlture of at least another million. With 80 87 laches of rain In Astoria alaoe the rainfall year started gepleni her L that city already has 3 S3 Inches of precipitation over the normal rain fall for the entire year. The norms- annual rainfall In Astoria. based on records extending bach more than 70 y<t«ra. 1« Inches. Portland has been named cooven (ton city for the meeting ol the Ns tlonal Tuberculosis ssaoclatlon nsxi year, according to word received from Mrs Sadie Orr Dunbar, executive sec retsry of the Oregon Tuberculosis as so latlon. who la attending Ihe con vent ton In Indianapolis. Ind. Value of eg«» asodled by the Con tral Oregon Poultry Cooperative 1» the first gear of Ita eglst.ooo amount ed to over »36.000. It was auaouoced at ths anoual meeting of Ihe co-opers tlve In Redmond Verne Llveeay ol Plainview has been re-elected presl d-nt of the Mid slate Association 01 Poultrymsn One-half of the $13.000 needed by the McMinnville chamber of com tneree for th« qprehase of the Hun' cannery building and plant was ol tained last week by a solicitation com mlttee headed by W L. Osborn, dot» | assesso r After the purchase the cannery It will be used as the r celvlng plant for fruit during the co:« Elghy fires In Oregon, outside of Ing season Portland, during April, resulted In Following »he receipt of the su losses aggregating $334.410. according preme court decision holding that Ih to reports filed with Clare A. I*«- law passed by ths recent leglslstur state fire m -rshsl. The ¡argent single anthortsing ths removal of ths county loss fcr the month was repr»*ent~d In seat to Medford from Jacksonville ws the destruction of a general store and constitutional s i an Informal confer contents in Wasco county, with loss •a ce of Msdford olty officials. Il ws. estimated i t $75.000 decided to go ahead with preparation, Eight aatomobile fatalities reported for construction of ths nsw city hall from Portland during th» four weeks courthooM building nt onen. ending April S3. J937. were twice as Residents of Oregon must watch many as occurred In tha’ city during thslr stsps a U tils mors closely from (he corresponding period a year ago OB. If they would escape an argu Portland has been the scene of 42 msnt with the courts Last flatardsy fatal motor accidents during the IS 370 nsw laws enactsd by ths last lag weeks ending April S3, as compared lalature became affective. Ihe »0 day. with 4» during 52 weeks ending April since ths eloss of the session slapslns 34, 192« st midnight Friday The»« 370 net The student body of Linfield col laws are la addition to 31 emergency lege at McMinnville by a vote at 14« measures passed at tha last session to $7. refused to uphold the honor already effective ccuncll. a student organisation, which Douglas county will enjoy a reduc had voted for suspension of two stu tion In general taxes of more than 2 dents charged with violation of the per cent as s result of the psymsnl honor council's rules agslnst smoking. by the government of the Oregon A The students also by a vote of 173 to California tax refund. It Is estimated «4 voted for repeal of the rule against I »outlas county’s share of the Initial smoking. payment was the largest to bo re The Marion county court will ask reived by any county of the state, a. the highway commission snrt federal It has more of the revested lands than officials to assist financially in the any of the other 1« counties concern proposed improvement of the road ed. Douglas county's check amounted over the mountains from Salem to to $1,471.540 S# Bend by way of Minto pass. It has Oregon cherry growers have beer been estimated that the cost of this Invited by the United States tarlfl road would be $60.000 less than that commission to send representatives tc of any other proposed road across Washington. D. C., to attend the hear he mountains. ing June 28 In connection with th« Approximately 2*0 OOO sets of pas- coat Investigation of cherry produi <enger automobile license plates will tlon now being conducted under tb be required to meet the demands In commission's direction. Pacific coast | 1928. according to specifications mall growers had requested an Increase In [ ed to various manufacturers by Sam the present tariff rats of two cents 0 I A. Koxer, secretary of state. The col pound on cherries. In order that they ! ers selected for 1928 are a white back might better meet foreign competition I ground with black figures and letters Peach growers of the Brogan vlcln I These colors are directly opposite !ty report that prospects for a bum pet i those adopted for the plates now In crop are very good. Pear was felt use. earlier In the « ason that all th. Whether wild rice, food for water peaches were killed by the heavy I fowl. Will grow In the Deschutes < oun frosts In April, but orchardlsts now | try will ho determined by next fall. say that only a small percentage wa* it was learned in ¡lend with the an Injured and, bar. - A further loss, th* I nouneem ent from local sportsmen that yield will be up to normal. There It I the rice was being planted in widely more water In th Willow crook reset scattered parts of the Deschutes basin voir than there hau been at any tlm* ! Some of the wild rice was planted a> in the past th <• years, so no los i Creswell, O'Dell and north and south from drought Is expected I Twin lakes. The results of the growth A bullet accidentally fired from : of the rice will be checked in the fall gun In the pocket of James F. Tonuy Fruit growers of the Rogue River Redmond city marshal and Deschutet valley, as well as delegations of fruit county deputy sheriff, killed Ills 4 packers and others Interested from year-old aon, James. In Redmond last other parts of the state. Including the week. It was believed that a knlf< Hood river section, Portland and Eu In the pocket pressed against the gene and from the Walla Walla. Yak, pistol trigger. Toney was seated Ir. ma and Wenatchee districts of Wash a chair In hls home, his two smal ington and some from California, at sons. Bobby and James, .playing or tended the demonstration of the fruit the floor, near their mother. Th* cleaning contrivance In Medford Iasi bullet passed between two of Toney’s week, which cleans off all the resdue fingers and pierced the boy’s heart spray. Coinciding with the June 28 specie One of the oldest banks In the Wal state election, a special county anc Iowa vx/tAi*«./. county, the Bank me * First ..«w -w ——- of —. Joseph city election win nwiu m « will oe he held In »*•» La v> Grand*- dosed Its doors last weak owing to ( p Bt,t(ong already are being circulate« financial difficulties. Slow paper and to place a measure on — - the - - ballot —« pro lemanda for payment of outside ac posing to reassign $398,000 In un counts Is ascribed as the reason for spent road bonds for construction ot (Uspendfng business. new county highways. Including a 21 The belief that there Is oil beneath mile road from Union to Medics he rich farm lands In the vicinity of 3prlngs. and a BumnservIlle-ElglG McMinnville Is prompting plans for connection with the Toll Oats road he drilling of four wells throughout over the Blue mountains to conned :he county, the first of which will with the Umatilla county road via for erobably "spud In" soon at a point est service highway. an the Yamhill river. *O P T O M « T R I« T — I Y I I I Q H T » p e C IA k l» T 878 WlllAmett« St. Eugene. Or«. JUST ONK THING. 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