THURSDAY AUGUST 18, 1827
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings of
the Week Collected for
Our Readers.
The Hell Joti<<* brlilgn ov»f Km ky
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be ileiMee(e«i Heptvrober 17.
Mr* lln' i Uuatail. lot year * of ng«,
died nt Hie hniiiv ol her duuKhter,
Mr*. II M'lihaw, In Aalorin last week
Mr. aud Mra. II X Matthnw* Inal
week obaerved i|Ulelly ul the hum*
In Salem I heir 67th wedding anniver­
sary
With an average attendance of Sil
pupil*. the high achool of Fureat
Grove taxi year coal the taxpayer* a
total of 336 976 44
Mra John rtrutt, <0. of Creawell,
waa killed laat week when the auto
mobile In which ahe and her huahand
were riding overturned
Tha Du Hoi* lumber mill, now being
erected on the alle of the old Mene-
fee mill In Weal Rainier, will employ
SO men on a alngle ahlfL
Grading of the new Union high
achool cauipua at Italnler la being
ruahed to completion before the open­
ing of the term In Heptember.
Horace May, while at work on a
threahlng machine near Condon Sat­
urday. (lipped and fell Into the cyltn
der. hl* left leg being torn off at the
knee.
Nine car a of paara were ahlpped to
the eaatern market* from the Medford
packing houaea recently. making a
total of 15 to be amt from the city
ao far.
According to figure* being complied
at Coquille by County Aaaeaaor Bey-
era. Coo* county will have more than
>1600,000 In value* added to the tax
roti* thia year.
Hoy Hewitt, profeaaor of law at the
Oregon Agricultural college, ha* been
appointed dean of the Willamette
univeralty law achool. It baa been ao
nounced In Salem
Portland dropped to fifth place
among the rltle* of the Pacific roaal
In valu* of bulldlag permit* laaued
during July, accordlag to the aurvey
of S W Straus A Co.
Darlas the paat achool year there
were 431* atudenta enrolled In the
grade and high achoola of Union coun
ly. according to the annual report of
the county superintendent
Arrangement* are being made to
entertain a large crowd at Wheelar
August 34 37 when tha Nehalem Hay
fair ta held. Voting I* now In prog
rea* for a quaea for tha event.
A thread ay racing program will be
one of the feature* of the annual ldnn
county fair to he held In Albany thl*
year, The fair will open September
13. rioting Friday night, the 16th
After having been ahut down for
two year*, the Ackley Lumber .com
pany of Klamath Falla. einpJnyluK
about 50 men. hat renewed ita Opera
tlona. Two ahlfta have been started
The recent >10.000 road bond elec­
tion held In Waldport waa tarried
two to one. and the city council will
act with all poaalble a peed to aril the
bond* and have the roads built before
aprlng.
Mia* Margaret Boyd. 23. resident
of Enterprise, and teacher In Buker
high school, broke all record* for
swimming tho length of Wallowa lake
laat Saturday when ahe accomplished
the feat In two hour* 36 minute*.
Union plumber* of Eugene have
gone on strike following a refusal of
the master plumber* to sign an agree,
ment giving tba Journeymen >9 a day,
affective January 1, 1323. Between
30 and 35 men are out of employment.
Because an Increase In population,
and resultant gain In voters has cre­
ated a burden on election boards, the
number of precincts In Klamath Falls
will be Increased from 17 to 35, It
waa announced by County Judge God
dard.
A crew of electricians of the West
Coast Hydro-Electric corporation ar­
rived In.Wnldport last week to con­
nect Waldport with light and power
from Toledo, giving a 24 hour service
The Job la expected to be done within
ten dayx.
Klamath'* dream of a mammoth
Weyerhaeuser lumber mill aud exten
■Ive logging operation* I* near fulfill
ment. Thl* was Indicated by George
L. Ix>ng, general manager of the Wey
•rhaesure Timber company In a brief
but carefully worded *latemunt to the
pre**.
The new toll telephone line has
been completed from Rhododendron
Inn to Oregon Trail tavern, Govern
ment Camp. Battle Ax* Inn and Swim
The line I* connected at Rhododen­
dron Inn and give* direct service to
Portland.
Dry crook, a Curry county stream
near Port Orford, which dries up each
summer, Is being seined a* usual and
the oe-in-tered fish are being taken
f ,,m tho pool* and liberated' In Gar­
rison lake, a mile aud a half from
Port Orford.
PAO» FIVE
.THE BPRiNGFIKLD NEWS
Funeral services (or Judge Hamu*-*
Townshrnd Burch were held lust week
In the old family home at HJckreull.
Judge Burch, who wae In bis 97lh
year, bad lived In Polk county fur
so years and waa the county's oldest
resident.
Pendleton sportsmen assisted game
wardens and employe* of the atate
game coinmlaalon in llbvratlng 6600
baa*, croppies anil rat flab In the Mc­
Kay reservoir Iasi week. The fish
Were ahlpped to the man made lake
from lukra and «lough* near Portland
and are expected to thrive lit their
new nrquatl«’ abode.
Between 30.000 and 4(1,000 wild mua
tang horse* of eaatern Oregon are
dying of thirst In Deerhutua and
Crook counties, according to advices
received by A. L. Croaa. loud ot tbe
stale work of tbe Oregon Humane so
clety. A dearth of water already ha*
brought about tbe death of buudred*
of the roaming raualanga.
A decision favoring tbe city of
Koaeburg lias been handed down by
Judge Kendall In the action brought
by A. W Raahford enjoining the city
from tbe collection of d«< license The
city recently Imposed a license fee of
35 for male dog* and *1U lor frmal- a
aud a number of dog owner* combined
to prevent tbe enforcement of the or
Silver Jubilee
for M cG raw o f the Clam a
COOPERATIVE FORESTRY
FUNDS FOR NORTHWEST
The Bunday School Oroup Gather­
ing held under the auspice* of the
American Munday School Union, will
be held on Bunday August 38 at the
State Flab Hatchery on the McKenzie
River, la the announcement made by
Kenneth A. Tobias the local mission­
ary.
' The Group Commissioner* met at
Leaburg August 8 and took care of
tbe preliminary plans—Leaburg. Vida,
Lt-Blue and Lone Cedar Bunday
schools being represented. It Is ex­
pected that several other Bunday
Schools will take part In the gather­
ing.
The program) aa planned will be dis­
tinctly evangelistic In nature. The
speaker for the day will be announced
later. One of the Interesting features
of the day will be the young people*
hour In the afternoon In which the
young people will have charge of the
session and will take up the fields of
service that young people can And In
Christian work today Several musical
numbers will also be Included In the
program This gathering will be the
eighth gathering to have been held
on these grounds In the last seven
year*.
Over ninety thousand dollars of
federal funds have been allotted un­
der the Clarke-McNary reforeetratlon
act to Oregon and Washington for co­
operative forest protection during tha
current fiscal year, according to tha
District Forester's officer, Portland.
The Oregon allotment will be 347,455
and the Washington allotment 344.343,
a total of 391.697 This Is a substan­
tial Increase over 1926 which shows
expenditures for Oreenn 339,139 and
Washington 333.320. a total of 372,369.
The percent allotment ts the largest
yet made under the Clarke-McNary
law.
The Clarke-McNary law enacted by
Congress. June 7, 1924, authorizes
federal appropriations to help guard
state and private forest land from Are.
The Act is a recognition that the
federal government, the state* and
the private timber owners each has
an Interest and a responsibility not
only In the protection but the per­
petuation of the forests of the nation,
and that each should bear Ita share
of the responsibility and cost.
Has Operation—Mr*. Norton War­
ner underwent an operation at the
PacfAc Christian hospital yesterday.
A special camera study of Tho*
A Edison as he appeared thia week
at Department of Commerce offices
Veneta Woman Hare—Mrs. Sidney where he discussed the rubber in-
Eversoll of Veneta spent a part of
try—m his attempt to find a
’ r Edison was
Wednesday visiting In Springfield
Mrs 8am Woodyard. also of Veneta,
was a visitor here on the tame day.
dluaure.
Condition* Improved In Oregon ap­
ple orchard* In the paat month aud
estimate* of the crop have been
raised 243.000 boxes aim* tbe July
report of the government. The com
tm-rclul crop of (be slat* la now
placed at .1 162 000 lanes, which com
pare* with 6,100,000 boxes produ. cd
laat year aud 4.603.000 boxes tbe live-
year average.
Price Robinson, a Norway termer,
near Marahfleld, broke the neck ot hia
prlie bull when be fell acroae (he an
Imal'a back after being toaeed into tbe
air. The trail. being led through a
pasture, charged Mr. Roblaeou and
toaaed him high In the air. Coming
down upon the bull * back, Mr. Ronln-
aon was badly hurt, but tbe bull'*
neck waa broken.
D. L. Neldenbelaer, Glendale mill
worker, was brought to Hoaeburg re­
cently. charged with starting a string
of forest fire* on Stout* creek, a trlb
utary of (be South Umpqua river near
Perdue These were the Incendiary
fire* started laat Sunday, a total of
34 fire* having been started, nearly
20 of which obtained a fair start be­
fore being brought under control.
There were three fatalities due to
Industrial accident* In Oregon during
the week ending August 11. according
to a report by (S’ atate Industrial ao-
eldest commission Tba victim* ware
John Dorr, Portland, mill worker;
John D. McKeaxie. Lostine, truck drlv
er. and James A. Neeley. Coquille,
wood cutter. There were 3(3 acci­
dent* reported to tbe commlaalon dur
Ing the week
An army ot grasshoppers which re­
cently took poHStaa on of an unplowed
field near Turner a few day* ago.
moved across the road onto tbe Chas.
Nannemann ranch, where It has done
several hundred dollar* damage The
grasshopper* stripped six acre* of
corn of It* leaves, destroyed the ear*,
stripped the foliage off two and one
half acres of strawberries and later
played havoc In a filbert orchard.
The total production of milk by 1*71
cows In 76 herda tested by J. O. Pol
tin during July for the Tillamook
County Cow-* Testing association waa
1,616.600 pounds. The butterfat pro­
duction from those dairy herda, ac­
cording to hla report for »he month,
totaled 69,350 6 pounds, which gave
an average production of 969 pounds
of milk and 41.67 pounds of butter-
fat, and an average test of 4.29 per
cent.
The total resources of Oregon'* 26.9
bank*, a* disclosed In official reports
aa of June 30. 1927, amounted to >335,-
960,161, according to an abstract pre­
pared by Frank C. Bramwell, retiring
state superintendent of bank*. This
total waa smaller by 310,030.017 than
the resources reported one year ear­
lier by 273 banks, It waa slightly
larger thnn the 3-731.452,497 of assets
reported by 280 banks on June 30.
1926.
Points off tho railroad on the coast
of southwestern Oregon and north­
western California have been provid­
ed with express service between Ban­
don and Crescent City. The Ameri­
can Railway Express company has es
tabllshed stations along the way at all
Important communal center* and the
express la transported by the Coast
Auto lines. Thia arrangement gives
a strip of country 140 miles long a
dally express service, aa well aa mnll
as often.
Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterinarian,
was re-elected to the office at a meet­
ing of the state livestock hoard helg
recently. Harry West of Scappoose
was elected president ot the board,
while M. R. Briggs of Prineville was
elected vice-president.
Unless an organization Is perfected
In time to market the 1928 and 1929
prune crop and stabilize the price,
thousands of acres of prune trees In
Oregon and California will be pulled
out or abandoned, according to Sey­
mour Jones, Stule market agent.
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SCHOOL CROUP GATHERING
TO BE AT FISH HATCHERY
John J.
Here from Pengra—Miss Edith Wy-
land of Pengra waa a Springfield
visitor yesterday.
"Mugg»v" Napoleon M c­
Graw, leader of New York Giants
for 25 years, a i hr looks today when
baseball paid it* highest tribute in a
silver jubilee,—gift*, bronze tablet*.
•taio r, and rvrr'thing.
MOTOR CARAVAN TO CO
¿ over M c K enzie pass
The B u ie Motor Association will j
conduct a' caravan of motorists from
Portland across the McKenale High- '
way to Bend, visiting Klamath Falls,
Crater Lake, aud Josephine Cave, re­
turning by way of the Pacific High- '
way to Corvallis thence by way of
Newport and Roosevelt Highway to
Hebo and back into Portland by way ,
of Wlllaiulua and Sheridan
This caravan Is conducted with the ,
idea of teaching motorists the value
of knowing Oregon. With the num­
ber of tourtsU that Oregon entertain»
It I* highly deslraole that Oreginanx
themselves know more of their own
s u u . Motorlsu are Invited to Join
thl* caravaTi at any point on lu route
and to continue as far as they desire.
W
etherbee -P owers
20 1
A nnual
Reductions
The Year’s
Greatest Values
The caravan will touch Portland,
Malem,
Albany,
Eugene.
Bend.
Klamath Falls, Crater Lake, Medford,
Grants Pass, Josephine Caves, Rose
burg, Corvallis, Newport, and Port
land.
The date of this caravan will be
August 20-36. Overnight stops will ;
be made at Eugene, Augu*t30, Bend.
August 21, Crater Lake, August 22,
Josephine Caves, August 23, and Cor­
vallis, August 24.
PACIFIC CTOCK SHOW
TO BE OCT. 29 TO NOV. 5
The premium list of the seventeenth
annual Pacific International Livestock
Exposition, to be held at Portland.
Oct. 39th to Nov. 5th. inclusive, is now
being distributed. Extra copies may
be had from General Manager O. M
Plummer. 211 N. W. Bank Bldg.. Port­
land, Oregon.
The toUI amount of cash prltes of­
fered in all the various departments
approximated 3100.000 and Is divided
about as fo llows: 311.000 In the beef
division, to which the breed associa­
tions from the various parts of the
country have added 37.000; the dairy
department 311.800 In addition to
about 32.000 by the breed associations:
the sheep classification carries 36.600
of our money and about 32,000 addi­
tional of breed association money; the
draft horse class 33.750; the fat clas­
ses, roughly around 35.000; In the
Horse Show department, which Is
second to none In the country, 312.500
of Pacific International's money nnd
322.500 In stakes and In entry fees,
making n total of roughly 3-16.000 for
the Horse Show, which again makes
It load the world. In the Land Pro­
ducts department 34.600; dairy pro­
ducts show about 3L000; for Boys an '
Girls club work 35,000; Judging con­
tests of various kinds 33.250. There
will nlso lie a divisional show of the
American National Fox Breeders' As­
sociation with prizes aggregating sev­
eral thousand dollars riven by the as­
sociation Itself. The district this year
will probably comprise Oregon, Wash­
ington. Idaho and Alaska, with per­
haps some other territory taken In.
B rew er In Town—Roy Brewer of
Fall Creek was a visitor here Wed­
nesday.
TYPEWRITER RIBBONS— Assorted
makes In black and blue In stoc* at
t ie News office. For the conveni­
ence of customers who have hither­
to not been able to get ribbons In
Springfield we have started this
now line of ribbons for Underwoods.
Remingtons. Royals, L. C. Smith, |
and other makes.
tf.
$125 “Birchfield”
Mohair Davenports
*98 50
Built to "Birchfield" standards of quality—spring back styles cov­
ered In plain or figured Mohair with outside backs and arms in
matching velours— loose cushion seats reversed in brocades, 374.50
arm chair to watch, 359.50.
Rugs Reduced!
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$55.00 High Grade Axminster Rugs all per­
fect in pattern and quality, seamless
9x12 room size, large assortment.
Now $49.50
$12.25 9x12 Size Nationally Advertised
Felt Rase Rugs, splendid assortment ol
colors and patterns, all perfect, Now
$9.85
$1.25 Hit and Miss Pattern Rag Rugs In
scatter size 24 x 48 inches, Now 79c
Greater Values
Lower Prices
$75.00 Wood and Coal Kitchen Range, all
white enamel panels, buffet shelf and
French Plate cooking top, Now $67 50
$110.00 Electric Range one of the latest
patterns, but in black finish, a fine buy
for someone at, $89.50
$41.50 “Herrick" Refrigerator, full fifty
pound ice capacity, white enamel inter­
ior on odorless spruce, exterior of solid
oak, Now $36.75
$2.50 Seven Piece Ice Tea sets in newest
shades of colored glassware, pitcher
with six distinctive shaped glasses,
Now $1.89
$25.00 Double Deck Coil Bed Springs, with
helicgl tied top. Heavy angle Iron
frame, choice of full size or single,
Now $15.95
$1.25 Print Linoleum, several patterns to
select from, but the quantity Is limited,
all best quality and not seconds, Now
square yard 89c