THUHHDAY, DKCHMHKH 26. 1830
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UPPER WILLAMETTE
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Tim «Irl« anil laiya iHiakutball l « m i
nhuparoood by Mr anil Mrs. K K
K H fn lrli'k . M r and Mra Fred Hilla
iDd Mr. and Mra J. A. Itm lpa, mu­
to mil Io Fiorane«. Friday and played
Ho- Florence high school tonine Tiia
i 1 a mil H ill girla worn dnfealad but
I hi- laiya were vlctnrloua The young
folk« wore royally I reeled by the peo-
, la of Fiorano« and given a flab ban­
quet a lta r Ilia gunin
Hut unlay the
tiilinä wont Io (bn bearli where aome
nf them enjoyed a dip In the o o a u .
.tolurday night they returned to Maple-
li.il w lo re the glrla were again do
fi i ' . i I at baakethall but the boya were
»l.-ti ri
The young folha and their
ih>p«roBI returned Munday. Thoae
v h » went • to Florence were Verna
W iley, Lorwe l-alrd. Zella Mauney,
Hvi’lyn I'helpa, Mildred Hwlft, Ollie
Tui ker and llonnln Jeanne T in ke r ami
Althea Ituughman. Floyd Mauney, Ku
ri-n« feehlea, Haymond llllla , Sheldon
Sluts, Henry Olson, Enrl Mel-nod,
Noble W lieeler, Frentlre Wheeler and
Hubert I'helpa.
Mike (Miley and Kenneth MrKensle
motored to Florence and Mapleton
laet weekend to wltneaa the high
rrhnol baakethall gamea.
Mr and Mra. W illiam Ito « » and
two children of Florence apent the
week end with M r and Mra (xiula
t Irele and family.
Itougtaa Kahler, who la attending
the Kla'e Normal arhool at Monmouth,
i »l»litrg friend» at I'h-aeant 1HI1.
Frtenda of Mra Bertha Manning
(*<>ntey will he glad to know that
.he haa Improved enough In health
t . he removed from the l*aclftc t'hrlat-
'an lioep t * l tn Bugi-nn to the home
' h<-r niece Mlaa Alta Manning in
Hprlngfleld.
The I ’leaaant lllll boya baakethall
tram won a second victory over the
Futon« high arhool team Monday.
At the regular annual meeting of
the tipper W illam ette Mutual Tele
ph on e company held at the old Wood
man hall at l*teaaant H ill Haturday
It S. Merriam wzs elected preatdent.
Krneat Hchrenk reelected aecretary-
treasurer,
T h e following dlrectora
were elected for the different llnea:
A. C. Ackina. line 61; J. W. Wheeler.
lie 11; W illiam f n i u n , line 11; O.
K lllahop, line 31; Howard Merriam,
lin e 16; Rrneat Hchrenk, line I t . Mra
Hchrenk waa re-electer tlneaman for
the coming year.
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THURSTON
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Mr«. Inet Flanigan from Portland
«pent Wednesday at the W eaver home
There »»» a Chrlatmaa tree and
program given at the Community hall
Tie eday evening
The program waa
g'vep by the grade school aaalated
by the Munday school.
Ixvrsne high school baakethall team«
played Thurston’s team» la»t Friday
■vcnlng on the local floor.
Both
Thurston teams won.
Thurston high school basketball
teams motored to Warcola Monday
■ ventng where they met defeats by
the players there.
Vida high arhool baakethall teams
will play Thurston's team Friday eve­
ning on the local floor.
Mr and Mra. W right and daughter
from I x m Angeles are visiting Mra.
W right's parents, Mr. anil Mra. A. It
Mathnwa.
Mra. M artha McKinney and Mr. and
Mra. Jack Ottoraon and fhmlly from
Merced, California, are visiting Mr.
tnd Mra. Irn Orgy. They arrived on
Tuesday evening and plan to motor
on to Tncoma. Washington, to visit
relatives anil to atop over on their
return trip.
Mra. Davenhlll and daughter from
Portland are spending holldaya with
her parenta, Mr. and Mra. A. B.
Mathews.
Mra. Ile rt W eaver la III with the
flu.
Mra. Genevieve Beaman, who la
principal of the echool at Gold Beach,
Is spending holidays with her mother,
Mra. Ruelah Hnrblt, and other rela­
tives here.
Mlaa Hasel Russell, who la attend­
ing business college In Portland, la
«pending holidays with her parenta
here.
Mlaa Hasel Bdmlston left Wndnea-
day evening for Oakland, California,
to spend holldaya with her brother,
I-oren Edmlston.
Mr. and Mra. W illiam Henson and
fam ily and M r. and Mra. Hubert Gray
'eft Wednesday for Klam ath Falla
io spend holldaya with Mrs. Henson
and Mra. Gray's parents, M r. and
Mrs Robert Herrington.
MOTORISTS MAY NOW
BUY HALF-YEAR PLATES
The date on which half year II
cense plates for motor vehicles may
he purchased In Oregon waa advanced
to Di Hem her 2« by H al B. Hoes, sec­
retary of state. The change waa made
so that people who desire to give
cars for Chrtalmaa presents and others
who are purchasing automobiles may
do so and need only purchase half
year licenses Instead of the three-
fourth« year plates which ordinarily
are required up to January 1 of the
new year.
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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
CREGOiJ STATE CEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the V.'eek
Assembled lor Information
ol Our Readers.
n< n Wunier, 41, a farmor In the Pe
l>ue district, near Ltallua, was gured to
death by a bull.
Following a three week«’ shutdown,
the factory of the Astoria IJo« corn,
puny has resumed operation.
PAGE SEVEN
One of tbe major road oiling p ro
Jecte for Jackson county the coming
year will be the oiling of the Apple-
gate road from Ruch to Provolt, or to
tbe Josephine county line. This w ill
give an oiled or paved highway from
Medford to Provolt.
Put In nf the Prairie City r bool will
have a l.rard new gymnasium for (lie
1931 «..liter basketball aeaaun. 'Cha
structuru la scheduled for completion
by Januury 16. It is ol frame and costs
>16,000.
Consolidation of tha Bank of C o m ­
merce and the Batik of Wasco, at W uk -
co, was announced recently. Thay will
take the name Bank of Commerce and
occupy the bulld'ng of the former bun:«
of that name.
A White Wyandotte pullet belong­
ing to John Bowman, a Bandon blgb
school student, was awarded honors
as tbe grand champion bird of tbs
first Bandon egg and poultry show.
I t Is said to be one of the finest blrdj
ever exhibited In Oregon.
T in Es. k r n Orcson L I-h i ft Po- r
company at Union has completed a
new 17000 office building and dwelling
and a >6000 out door sub station to re­
place the old plant that was destroy I
by lightning last July.
Tbe first meeting of sheepmen tn
southwestern Oregon was held at Ban­
don recently. There are about 26,000
sheep In Coos county and 176 growers.
The animals graze principally on cat-
over land and bill slopes. There Is
room for at least 100,000, It Is said.
The Idle of a pet squirrel brought
January 15 haa been act by the Co
j quills Odd Fellows lodge for the for-
math Falls. Hire waa bitten December
< tnal dedication of Its >40,000 temple,
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completed there about a month S-n.
Bobbers made away with the entire
On this occasion grand lodge o fflc t.s
stock of the C. B. Johnson grocery
of Oregon will be present.
store In Aahlaud. The robbers used a
Dying In their sleep, three chili' so
truck.
lic ued to death near Albany v.. t
A large chicken-thieving horned owl
th , residence of Carl Eeofeld was «le­
was caught In the J. H. Talley poultry
st oyed by fire. The victims
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yards n<-ar Bediuond. Its wing span Ocrdon Hmlth, 6; Oran Braith, 3, and
was 41 Inches.
V< Ima Meefeld, 8 years old.
Joel C. Htuglll was nominated by
W ith one local store burglarized a
President Hoover to he postmaster at
short time ago sod 16 gallons o f gas<>
Baker, and John A. McCall to be post 1 linn stolen from a garage rei
master at Klumalb Falls.
business men of WfllamlDa took ac­
daatb to Mrs. Em ma Anderson of Kla­
MANY COLLECT BOUNTIES
EDWIN MILLER WINNER
ON PREDATORY ANIMALS
OF SEWING CLUB AWARD
Many bounties on predatory animals
ten
days.
Among those
The East Side M ill A Lumber C trl
A cooperative plant to manufacture I pany of Portlaud, through Its pteai-
poultry and dairy feeds w ill be es­ I dent, has given out Information that
tablished near Oregon City If plans of It Is making arrangements to bi gin In
the string the cutting of SO.O j O .W
leading dairymen and poultrymen ma
I feet of standing timber located on the
terlallxe.
west aide of Squaw mountain, near
The Willamette valley Older Boya
I Estacada.
conference closed Its session at Albany
V.lth Interest e ual to that In the
following devotional and group meet j
recent auccea.«,ul p.une conference,
Inga. The conference will be held next
: many cherry growers from both east-
year at Eugene.
ern and western Oregon were in Cor
Bend's airway weather station, one
i vaili j for the three-day conference a l
of the five points In Oregon that will
short course tauied by the horUcu-tur-
send data to Portland every three
al department to consider critical con-
hours for the use of ineteorologlala,
ditions In that Industry.
la now In operation.
Buraeva, 1-yearold baby girl, and
The Medford school board has de-
Estel, 3-year-old boy, children of Mr.
c'ded to use concrete Instead of brick
and Mra. Fred McDaniel, were burned
in the construction of new buildings
to death In a fire which destroyed the
to take the place of the Washington
McDaniel home near Bend. Mrs. .Mc­
and junior high schools.
Daniel had put the children to bed and
State, county and city officials had was at the home of J. H. Buchholz,
parts tn a public and city-wide cere­ next door, when the McDaniel home
mony at Grants Pass when the new w m found to be enveloped in flames
molurcoach terminal of Pacific Grey-
Oregon's irreducible school funds
hound Lines was dedicated.
are available for use tn the purchase
The liver fluke disease Is affecting of textbooks for Oregon schools, in tbe
many sheep In Lake county.
The
opinion of I. H. Van Winkle, attorney
greatest loaa has been suffered by genera], who ba» so advised i . O. Bail
Jerry Cremin, who has lost several ey, state senator from Multnomah
hundred head out of his band.
county. Senator Bailey la engaged In
A new box factory will be In opera­ drafting a free textbook bill for In
tion at Eugene soon. It was announced traduction In the forthcoming legists
by Fred Volght, one of the owners of tire session.
the Terrill A Volght box plant that j
In cases where certification does not
was destroyed by fire tn June.
apply In fact, it la Illegal to use the
For the first time In four years the word “certified" In connection with
price of bread dropped at The Dalles. potato sales, according to an opinion
Pound loaves are now retailing nt two handed down by the attorney-general.
for 15 cents. The pound and a half The opinion was requested by E. R.
loaves now retail at two for 26 cents. Jackman, state potato certification
Coos county has expended about board member, of Corvallis. Jackman
1400,000 upon Its road work during objected to use of the phrase, "certi­
1930. according to figures from the fied seed potato company,’’ In the title
records of the county clerk's office, of a Portland firm.
this Including new work and mainten­
Twenty-seven Oregon counties will
ance.
participate In the distribution of >191-
Hood River county Is the only coun­ 772.64 In federal forestry funds this
ty In the state that Is without a coun­ year, according to word received by
ty Jail. The present courthouse Is a 1 Governor Norblad from the United
wooden structure, part of which was | States department of agriculture. The
used 46 years ago as a one-room school amount represents 26 per cent of the
house. Hood River county paid Wasco gross receipts from rentals and timber
county last month 1180 for boarding sales from lands Included in national
forests In this state and w ill be pro
Its prisoners.
rated among the counties.
TH E M ARKETS
The first six miles of the new high­
Portland
way around the rim of Crater Lake
Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, 77c;
will be constructed next year, accord­
soft white, western white, 17c; hard
ing to. E. C. Solinsky, superintendent
winter, northern spring, western red.
of the park. The right-of-way Is clear
86c.
and blda will be advertised for this
Hay— Buying price, L o. b. Portland:
winter.
Alfalfa, >17.60 0 18; valley timothy,
Approximately 10.000 acres waa add­
117.60; eastern Oregon timothy, 1190
ed to land already classified for refor­
>20; clover, 14; oat hay, >14; oats and
estation at a hearing before represen­
vetch, >13.60 0 14.
tative! of the state forestry board.
Butterfat—27030c.
This brings the total acreage classified
Eggs—Ranch, 14020c.
for reforestation In Clatsop county to
Cattle—Steers, good, >1.260 9.
108.000.
Hogs—Good to choice. 27.75 0 » .
The Wendllng mill of the Booth Kel
Lambs—Good to choice, 18.6007.00.
ly Lumber company, which has been
Seattle
Whent— Soft white, western white, Idle for a number of weeks, haa re
northern spring, hard winter, western aumed operations. It will work three
days a week. The Springfield mill of
ted, 66c; bluestem, 72c.
the company will be closed until the
Eggs—Ranch, 22031c.
first of the year.
Butterfat—24c.
Bourne la the smallest town In Ore­
Cattle—Choice steers, >7.7501.60.
gon,
according to the 1930 census,
Hogs—Good to choice, 18.760».
which gives It a population of one
Lambs—Choice, >6.60 0 7,
person, D. L. McConnell, caretaker for
Spoksns
the E and E mine. Rourne, a mining
Cattle—8teers, good, >7.26 07.76.
town near Raker, had a population at
Hogs-Good to choice, >8.60 0 8.66.
one time of about 2000.
r .am he—Medium to good,> 6 0 ).
collecting
funds from the bounty fund are W.
J. Hubbard of Wendllng, >2.00 on a
bobcat; Brittain Asb of Oakridge,
>6.00 on coyote and bobcat pelts;
Kenneth T yrrel of W alterville, >4.00
for coyotes; and Kenneth W «Ilace
of Jaaper >10.00 for cougar pelts.
schools.
A larger number of men are bunting
The officers of the clnb are Bisque
and trapping this year than usual due, Hmlth, president; Roland Farnsworth,
probably to the difficulty In obtaining vice-president; Edwin M iller, secre­
employment. Local merchants have tary. Other members of tbe group
been doing a good business In steel are Charles Cole, Lloyd Shipley, Ken­
traps during 'he late fall.
neth W alker, and Richard W right.
Plans for the large addition to the
Presbyterian church at Astoria will
be given to contractors and bids will
be opened December 20, It was an
nounced by tbe church building com­
mittee. The total expenditure will
amount to between 320,000 and 122,600.
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Not
In the
sense of
custom, but
with a genuine
appreciation Of our
p easan t association
during the past year
we extend to you our best
wishes for an old-fashioned
Merry Christmas
and a
Happy
New Year
The map of Oregon soon will have
a new postoffice near Clifton, where
tbe Bradley-Woodard Timber company
has begun construction of a new hem­
lock sawmill to cost about >260,000.
The company has filed application for
a postoffice under the name of Brad-
wood.
tion, pooling contributions to pay li.e
The treasury department has an
nounced the site of (he new Bend post j salary of a night watchman.
W ith a program that will make tbe
office. It win be at Wall and Frankllu
The state tax levy for the year 1931. event one of the largest waterway
streets and will cost 116.000.
’ based on the valuations for the year
observances along the Pacific Coast,
Construct Ion work on the north Hun
1930, will aggregate 16.842.949.09, or
Coos Bay will hold Its second great
tlam highway will not be started until
approximately >40.500 leas than the
transportation celebration In July,
next spring. It waa announced by mem I tax levy for 1930, hazed on the 1'. 29 when the entire district will mark the
hers of the Marlon county court.
! valuations, according to an es’.lKSto j completion of the >4,000,000 harbor
The mill and warehouse of the Ore ) prepared by tha state Lax commission. ' project
gon Feed and Flour company at "t ur­
Clamming beaches of the Astoria ! The Clatsop county court is prepar­
ner waa deatroyed by fire with a loaa b laches are being endangered by oil
ing to request the Oregon delegation
estimated at 260,000, covered by Insur
tille re d to have been Jettisoned off
In congress to aid In the passage of
anre.
the coast, according to reports. It Is tha bill pending In the lower house
The 1931 road construction program stated that tide sands from Hammond
providing for the return of >100,000
of Klutuuih county calls for an ext en- to Gearhart are heavily coated wl.h
paid by the county for the Tongue
oil, which Is held as a menace to the
diture of more than 1200.000, of which
Point naval base site. The measure
1116,000 will be spent on market I bivalves.
has passed the senate.
roads.
Edwin M iller, student a l the L in­
coln school, was presented with a
bronze watch fob at the offlee of
Arnold Collier, Fonr-H club leader, re­
cently for being the first member of
Ihe “ Busy Bees," a bachelor sewing
club at the Lincoln school to complete
his work for the year. T h e award
was offered by Lawrence M offlt, for­
mer principal of the school and now
assistant county superintendent of
have been paid out to hunters In
tKi» part of the county during the past
The assessed valuation of public
!
service corporation property In Ltnn
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county for 1931 is >34,269 less than
• for 1930. The valuation for 1931 Is
>4,246,640, bringing the total assess­
j ment of the county to >29,881,860.
| For the first time In 10 years the to
tai is under >30,000.000.
David Anthony Nork, 4, was scalded
to death near Klamath Falls when be
, fell Into a vat of boiling water pre­
pared to scald hogs. The boy’s father
1 had been butchering hogs and was
, preparing to scald them. W hile hs
stepped outside the shed momentarily,
the child fell Into the v a t
Of >4 fires In the Santiam national
j forest dating tbs fire season. 14 were
' man-caused, one tncendalry, accord­
' ing to a report released by 0. O. Hall,
supervisor. The total area burned
was 1 » acres, of which 147 acres
were cohered by the only class C fire
of tha >4. Tbe estimated loss was
>2163.
Daring the first 11 months of this
year 33,277,776 has been Invested by
newcomers to the state of Oregon
farm lands, 88.221 acres being involv­
ed, according to a report of the land
ssttlement department of the Oregon
State chamber of commerce. The re­
port shows 865 families coming Into
the state to become farmers.
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STORE NO. 1
125 East Broadway, Eugene
STORE NO. 3
960 Charnelton S t, Eugens
STORE NO. 2
88-96 W est B roadw ay, Eugene
STORE NO. 4
15c
29c
Heinz White Vinegar
No. 2
Can
PEACHES
Fowlers
No. 21/g Can .....
Alsea full cream
Pound ..............
Schilling's
12 Oz. Can
17c
X^HRISTM AS symbolizes a groat many virtues that are
Brotherly Love— that we are
to regard the whole human family
..17%c
Baking Powder
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trite among mankind.
19c
G r a p e fr u it
25c
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Quart
Pint
S tre e t, Sp rin gfield
Lima Beans
Seaside
^ /a c
No. 1 can
Fancy Chocolates
Pound
M ain
CHEESE
PEARS
Rosedale
No. 1 Can
500
as
one
high and low, the rich and the poor . . .
species—the
It teaches that
to relieve the distressed is a duty incumbent on all men,
and that truth is a divine attribute, and the foundation
of every virtue . . . These virtues are particularly applica­
ble to Christmas, yet we subscribe to them for 365 days
in the year, that as we m ingle with our fellowmen dur­
ing the year we may find tim e to practice these cardinal
principles which naturally m ake for a better world.
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