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OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.
A campaign to remove unattractive
end irregular sidewalk advertising
signs In Eugene and to replace them
with signs of more uniformity will
soon get under way in Eugene after
loug agitation before the city couucll.
The
old Oregon Trunk railroad
' crossing over The Dalles-Callforuia
highway near Madras haw been de
stroyed by (ire of undetermined origin.
One of the most dangerous obstruc
tions on the highway has thus been
The aauual <-oav«ntloa of Oregon
removed.
Obriatiao church was held at Turner
By killing 30 lougara during the 13
last week.
months enuiug Juue 1. Bud Kmlxley
Mr. and M ra William Gauntlett of
of Fall Creek,. Lane county, bus wou
Bandou celebrated their golden wed
the ,175 cash prile offered by the
ding at their home recently.
state game commiaaion to the hunter
Caterpillar« stopped a train a few with the largest kill of cougars during
day. ago on the Yaquina branch of (he year.
the Southern Pacific railway.
. Starting July 1. village postal daily
The Eastern Oregon Pioneers’ asso ery service was insliiuted in Vernonia,
ciatlon will meet at the camp grounds which was the first town in Columbia
on the John Day highway July 25. 26. county to have such service. Two de
and 2*.
liveries are made daily within the city
Hay balers are being put in cvndi limna. and one delivery a uay to Ore
lion by owners in the Dayton vicinity gon American hill.
in anticipation of a good run to begin
More than 6000 acres of flax will be
July 15.
harvested in Marion county this year
Claude Hale, Imbler mayor and dep aa against 4000 acre« laat year, ac
uty sheriff, was struck by a hi'.-and cording to F. J. Galbraith, snperiu
run motorist when he attempted to (endeut of the Miles Linen company.
»top the speeding car.
He estimated the crop would average
W ith weather conditions improved 25a tuna to the acre.
materially, both black and Royal Anne
A new star mail route between Med
ibarries began flowing into Salem ford and Prospect was inaugurated
canneries from all parts of .Marion recently with additional deliveries on
county.
lha route. A Sunday morning delivery
The Astoria chamber of commerce baa been added to the line. A star
will send a delegation to attend ths route has also been extended from
laying of the keel of the new United Medford to Applegate.
States light cruiser Astoria at Bremer
Everett Williams of Cove has the
ton, September 1.
record of picking 1000 pounds of cher
• e e e e e e e e e e e e e e » home of her parents at Coast Fork.
at Shedd last Bunday Mra. Baugh
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U P P E R W IL L A M E T T E
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Miss Leola Eubanks. of California. went down Friday and returned with
• •« « » • e e e e e e e e e e
Is visiting at th. home of her slater, her husband Sunday.
Mra. O. H. Wangelln, mother of
Mra. E. B Tinker, returned to Plea
sant H ill Tuesday. July 3, after hav
ing spent the winter with her daugh
ter Mra. P. J Elliott and Miaa Etta
Wangelin In Phoenix. Arliona. Mlsa
Wangelln. who expected to come with
her mother waa unable to make the
trip because of III health.
feelle Olson, who Is employed In
Eugene, spent last week at the home
of her parents. Mr and Mrs. Andy
Olson, at Pleasant Hill.
The Pleasant H ill Girl Scouts, that
were recently organised, met Tues
day afternoon at the girl scout cot
tage on the Jordan ranch Nine more
girls joined, making a total of 33 The
new members are Ruby Hyland. Mild
red Swift, l.ucetta Baughman, tails
Humphreys, Shirley Warner, d e lla
Drury. Emma Drew. Derwlna Brown
and Blanch Wheeler. A new patrol
was formed with the following offi
cers: Mildred Swift, master; Ruby
Hyland, assistant;
l.ucetta Baugh
man, scribe. The afternoon was spent
in rearranging the Interior or the
scout home and cleaning It.
Clella Drury, who has been for the
past week In Washington, returned
last week.
Miss Nina Dilley, who is employed
nt Portland, spent the Fourth at the
Mrs. Jesse A. Phelps
Mrs. E R Kilpatrick and her two
children and Mrs. W ill Sharp slid
daughter have gone to 8alem to pick
cherries ln sn orchard 17 mile» north
of Salem Miss Verna Wiley accom
panted them to Salem Mr Kilpatrick
la attending summer school.
Gerald Kahler and Mlsa Olga San
dlin. of Monmouth, spent the Fourth
and the weekend following at the
home of Gerald Keblera parents. Mr
and Mrs T F Kahler
Floyd John haa gone to Meadow-
view to work during having
Mr and M ra
William
Laird, of
Long Beach. California, are visiting
at the home of Mr and Mrs P. N
Laird.
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Mlsa Ella Baugh spent part of
week with her aunt. Mi
William
Culver. In Eugene, returning home on
Wednesday.
A. W Weaver and Frank Crampton
made a trip to Bend last week.
M r and Mra. John Price and fain
tly motored to Notl laat Sunday and
vlalted their eon Curtis and family.
Mr. and Mrs Ray Baugh and family
visited M r and Mrs. Robert Davla
I
Mr, and Mra. Arthur Buyers aud
family and Mlsa Ida Weaver from
Purtluud vlalted the latter pert of
the week at A. W. Weaver's.
Mr and Mrs C | El||„n, „ f Rend,
wero callers at John Edmtaton'a on
Monday
Arch Shough. who works at Alsea,
spent the week end with hta family
here.
Announcement of a 330 prise whi - I t
Is being offered by the Manufacturers
Association of Washington, with of
(lean In the Arctln building, Seattle,
Washington, for the best ten word
answer Io the question
Why Is i
North*es| Made Warm Air Furtia o
, Better”?
The only rules to the contest ara
' that the answers emphasise fnrnacea
and warm air heating systems manu
LANE F A IR G R O U N D S G E TS
factured In the Parlfle Northwest, and
N EW P O U L T R Y B U IL D IN G that from one to five slogans m«r
be submitted. They must not he post
A new poultry building la In. I ng marked later than July 10, and seat
erected at the Istue county (air to the address given above
grounds thia week It la being built
Teacher Visit»— Mlsa Wilma Scort.
Just south of the Four It club build
J lug mid la being constructed to care teacher at the Braltaln school, wb i
for the large Increase In (he number la now attending the summer session
of poultry exhibits which are antlrt at the Southern Oregon ei mat
; paled thia fall at the county fair. The school at Ashland, waa a visitor at
i building la a modern exhibition atruc- the N. W Emery home Saturday.
¡lure and will provide all the facilities
Returns from Medford Mrs. I M
needed by poultry exhibitors.
Peterson returned
Friday eveulag
from Medford, where she hart spent
Washington People Leave Mr and a week visiting at the home of h>r
Mrs Hike Dean and daughter, Betty, brother, L. A. Bendler.
and Mr and Mry. Kopplah. all of
Aloha. Washington, returned to their
Recovering from Operation — Ray
homes Moiulav after having spent the Gott, who recently underwent an op
week end visiting at the home of J eration f i r appendicitis Is reported
W. Chase. Garden Way
to be recovering nicely
Unde Jim Whitford, believed to be rles on the L. Townsend farm, north
the oldest Mason in point of years in of Salem, in 13 hours one day laat
thn country, died at the Masonic and week. Williams received ,16 for the
dastern Star home near Purest Groce, day's work. The previous high record
at the age of 103 years.
in 13 hours was $00 pounds.
The Eastern Clackamas County
Pioneers' association held its annual
picnic recently in the Eagle Creek
Grange hail and picnic grounds with
nearly 100 in attendance.
Two Myrtle Point men. Bert McMll
Ian and H. P. Gjeliatad, are sluice min
ing for gold on the beach near Heceta
Head. Some years ago thia style of
mining was carried on successfully at
this same point and a considerable
amount of fine gold obtained.
A bee which got under her eye
glasses so frightened the driver of a
California car on a highway near Red
An alectric smelter wilt be erected
mond that ahe loat control of her car on the Hague river near H ill this sum
and the machine went into a ditch.
mer, according to plans announced at
Growers an a rule are getting bettei Medford recently by Dee w i l l i a m ,
prices for berries thia year than last, engineer. The company will quarry
reports the Western Oregon Packing and smelt ore la the district. The
corporation of Corvallis. The demand plant will employ about to men.
for berries is reported to be excellent
The Bend fire department has issued
aa order that all sprinkling and othei
lawn irrigation work must be sus
pended for one hoar after a fire alarm
has been sounded, to secure sdequair
pressure.
AU of three school districts and
parts of seven others near Haieey
were formed into anion high school
district No. ( by the U na county
school district boundary board a few
days ago.
Of the 11,77* loaas made by the
state to world war veterans under the
state aid act. only (53 properties have
been foreclosed. This was announced
by Prank Moore, secretary of the state
bonus commission.
Lester Brookshire of Mitchell acci
dentally swallowed a large shoe tack.
The lad was brought to Prineville
where an X-ray plainly showed the
tack In such a position that It was
thought best to leave It.
The decrease In the population ol
Umatilla and Morrow counties, as re
ported by the 1930 census, automat!
cally will decrease the salary of CIr
cult Judge Fee of the sixth judicial
district from *6000 to »5500 a year.
A group <X airplanes is dusting 200«
acres of central Oregon’s clover field,
near Redmond. The sulphur dustiny
Is done early each morning. Abou
three seconds are required to the acre
Dusting from the air Is very effective
The annual fish fry held at thi
Crooked Creek hatchery In Klamatl.
county recently was the largest even’
of its kind ever held In the county
Several hundred people enjoyed the
200 pounds of fish furnished by mem
hers of the Klamath Sportsmen's as
•oclatlon.
T H E M ARKETS
Portland
Wheat—Big Bend bluestem, 31.0 7 54;
•oft white, western white, 9354: hard
winter, northern spring, western red
,154 c.
H a y — Alfalfa, new crop, *11.50; vai
ley timothy, »20.50021; eastern’ Ore
gon tim othy. »22.60 0 2 * ; clover, ,17;
oat hay, *1«; oats and vatch, »1».
B ntterfat— 27030c.
Bggs— Ranch. 20 0 23c.
Cattle— Stoers, good, „ 5 0 010.25.
Hoga— Oood to choice, *9 25010 *0.
Lambs—Oood to choice, ,5 .1 (0 7 .5 0
Seattle
W heat Soft white, western white
hard winter, western red and northern
spring, ,4 c ; Big Bend bluestem, *1 07
■Cg«— Ranch 20025c.
B attartn t—34e.
Cattle— Choice steers, *9 010,
Hog»— Prim e light, *10 3 5 0 1 0 .,,.
Lamb»— Choice, * 7 0 * .
Spokane
Cattle— Steers, good, *7 .5 0 0 *.
Hogs—Good to choice, ,10.25.
lA m bs— Medium to good, , ( .6007.
An organisation that will handle the
bulk of the pear and apple crop of the
Umpqua valley has been effected
Growers who are not members of the
association will be given an outlet for
their fruit by paying a specified price
per box for packing and marketing.
L im ite d
T im e
O ffe r
Curry county residents were sating
»melt for several days recenUy when
a tremendously large run entered the
harbor at Port Ortord. For two days
ths fish were ukan by dip nets and
other available receptacles. The run
»»« one of the largest reported there
in some years.
P la c e s t h is
Two hundred and ninety-seven new
families located in Oregon during the
first six months of 1930, according to
the regular monthly report of the Ore
gon slate chamber of commerce. These
families, according to the report. In
vested 31.282,384 in Oregon property,
including 50.514 acres of land.
GENERAL
Visitors at Rockaway beach ob
served a herd of more than 100 sea
lions swimming in the breakers and
close inshore. The herd is evidently
following a school of fish that has
been passing the last few days. Many
eastern razor clams have been coming
in on the beach the last week.
Harvesting of the cherry crop be
gac with a rush in the orchards In the
hills surrounding Sheridan, and most
of the young people of that vicinity
are busy at the work. A bumper crop
Is looked for in some of the orchards,
and hundreds of tons of Bings, Royal
Annes and Lamberts are ready for the
harvesters.
A big swan, guardian of three cyg
nets which recently emerged from
eggs in Bend's mirror pond, gave bat
tle to a string of pack mules and won.
The mules, brought from the dry range
to be watered, retreated from the
stream and left the swan in possession
after the huge bird attacked with
wings and beak.
The largest shipment of black cher
ries ever to go out of The Dalles to
the eastern trade, an entire train of
nine cars, on a special schedule, left
recently consigned to Chicago and
Philadelphia. The cherry train was
to «top at Umatilla to pick up several
cars of fruit from the Yakima district,
and at Pendleton for any fruit that
the Milton Freewater area might have
available.
Tillamook again took almost sweep
stakes honors In bntterfat production
In Oregon for the month of M ay, ac
cording to the official report Just M-
• • • d at Corvallis by the extension
service of the Oregon State College
W ith 11< herds on test, producing an
•▼«rage of 43.1* pounds of fat, this as
•ocaitlon ranked Bret «"»"ng the tan
dairy herd Improvement ansoclsUoas
fc the state reporting lost month, and
•iso had the honor herd, consisting »f
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