Collections DECISION PENDS
RED CROSS WILL Tax
Not Low in Lane
IN FORESI CASE
HANDLE RELIEF
TOWN AND VICINITY
Visita Friends K W Smith ot
I ’ettland spent the first part of the
week In Springfield visitine with
his ninny friends.
Leave lor Coast— Mr. mid M r-
Reports Indicate That Btisi-
Jess Cross an spending two weeks
ness Depresión Does Not State Offers to Take Over on the coast.
Governor Meier’s Committee
Affect County Payments
Lands Here. Abstract is
Visits Parent*
Nick Kugel oi
for Lane Meets With J. M.
Salem spent the weekend l.i Salem
Necessary,
is
Ruling
Devers to Make Plans
in most other counties of the
ROAD MONEY IS COMING
Program to Aid the Unem­
ployed Not to Start Imme­
diately, Judge Says
All emergency county and state
road work In Lane county for the
comma winter to provide employ­
ment will be handled through the
Red Cross coapter. The chapter will
regtstei the workers for the county
court.
state tax collections at the present
time are much behind those of
other years, this being laid as us
nal to the business depression.
Lane county Is not suffering
from this curtailment of taxes, as
collections here for the first half
of the year are approximately the
same as in other years. The second
half taxes will be due November 5
after which the delinquent period
starts.
There is approximately 55 per
cent of the 1930 tax still outstand­
ing. according to Lloyd Howe, in
charge of tax collections at the
sheriff s office. The total tax for
the year is $2.257.510 of which $1,-
346.845 is delinquent.
visiting with his parents.
COUNTY IN COURT SUIT
Expense is Too Much Says
Members of Court in Com­
menting on New Law
Goa* to Portland—J M. (.arson
spent Friday In Portland ou a busi­
ness trip.
Decision as to whether Lane
county will deed to the state be­
M ayor to Portland— W. P. Tyson,
tween 10.000 and 12.000 acres of
Settlement of money alleged due
logged off forest land that is owned mayor ot Springfield, was a bus! for his management of the McCre­
by the county for non-payment of ness visitor in Portland on Tiles die Springs resort from Juue 1. 1030
day of this week.
taxes la still held tn abeyance.
to August 1, 1931. Is sought In a
A conference on taking over this
Hunting in Coast Region— Harry suit filed in circuit court Saturday
land was held last week with the Harrington was hunting tor deer in by Louis A. Brode against the Win
county court and representatives of the coast country near Marshfield mo Hot Mineral Springs conr-any.
The plaintiff states that tor his
the state forestry department.
the first of the week.
work as manager he Is enlitl-'d to
The department informed the
On Hunting T rip — Jim and Pud $200 a month with board aud lodg-
court that it will be necessary for
Pumphrey left Monday morning for ug for 14 months. Further amounts
Lane county to provide an abstract
a hunting trip. They headed up the due are $380 for rental of furnish
of the property before the state can
South Fork.
ings. $280 for rental of car and $470
take it over, this being on a ruling
Return from T rip — Mrs. Ira Nice due Pearl Brode for services. The
of the state attorney-general.
latter claim has been signed over
Members ot the county court are and Miss Virginia Christie have re­
to the plaintiff.
of the opinion that the abstract turned from a visit with friends at
The complaint states that of the
would be too costly and there la a Long Beach. California.
amount due between $600 and $600
probability that the county will not
Vislta
W ith
Parents — Mias has been paid.
consent to this.
W ilma Scott spent the week-end
Upper Willamette
ters. Thelma. Nina and Theta, of
the Coast Fork district have re­
turned from an extensive automo­
bile trip through the middle wesL
They were gone six weeks and
visited relatives. They visited East­
ern Oregon. Idaho. Utah. Colorado,
Nebraska. Iowa. Missouri. Kansas,
New Mexico. Arizona and Califor­
nia. They visited with Mr. and
Mrs. D. G. Linton of Orland. Cali­
fornia.
The women of the Pleasant H ill
community will meet at the home
of Mrs. G. W. Jamison Wednesday
aftenoon. On election of officers
will be held.
At class meeting held at the
Pleasant H ill high school the fol­
lowing
officers
were
elected:
Freshman class— President. J. B.
Brown; vice president. Vona Up­
ton;
secretary. Doris Mauney;
treasurer, Ethel Engle; council re­
porter. Myrna Laird; class reporter
Clyde Kimball. Sophmore class—
President Dick Noble; vice presi­
dent, Howard Park; secretary-treas­
urer. Emma Lou Baughman, report
er, Marie Maltzan; sergeant-at-
arms, Helen Settle; class advisor,
Mr. Price. Junior class— President.
Jark Doane; vice president. Caryl
Ix*rd; secretary-treasurer. Lucetta
Baughman; reporter, Loretta W il­
liams;
sergeant-at-arms,
Cecil
Drew; class-athletic manager. Zella
Mauney
Senior class— President,
Harold McLeod; vice president, Al­
thea Baughman; secretary-treasur­
er, L ad le Jordan; reporter Blanche
Wheeler. The first student council
meeting Was held Monday, Sept­
ember 21.
CRUELTY ALLEGED BY
WIFE; DECREE ASKED
Cruel and lnh iman treatment are
alleged In a divorce complaint filed
In circuit court by Elizabeth R.
Peters against her husband George
F. Peters.
The couple married at Portland
May 31, 1924. and have no children.
The plaintiff asks $50 a month.
N O T IC E T O C R E O IT O R 8
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned has been duly appoint
ed administratrix of the estate of
D. B Smith, deceased, and any and
all persons having claims against
the said estate are hereby required
to present said claims, duly veri­
fied as by law required, at 446-6
Miner Bldg.. Eugene. Oregon, in
Ijtn e County, Oregon, within six
months from the date of this notice.
Deled and first published Sept-
ember 24. 1931.
Date of last publication October
22. 1981.
L. A. S M ITH , Administratrix
of the estate of D. B. Smith, de­
ceased.
Address L. A. Smith. Eugene.
Oregon.
FRED E. 8M1TH. Attorney
for Administratrix.
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the county engineer suspended
work Iasi week and It Is not known
when they will be employed again.
The uncertainty as tn what the
county road program will be (or
the rumiug winter led to this decis­
ion. accordtn.; to P. M. Morse, coun­
ty engineer, who says that tn his
14 years as county engineer in Lane
(his Is the first time that the staff
has been rut down.
in the past the surveyors worked
through the winter months laying
out routes for roads contemplated
(or the next year. Under present
conditions it Is not definitely known
how much money will lie available
for road work next year In the
county.
STATE PLAINTIFF IN
SUIT FILED IN LANE
Suit III collect $118 1» from the
A M Mullock company was filed
by ' the atate Industrial accident
comiiilsslon in circuit court here
Thursday.
Friday and Saturday by Glenn O.
The firm engaged In sawmill ope­
Itown. examiner.
rations la alleged to owe the atate
howu la now ou a circuit of sev­ commission for compensation cost»
eral ritlea where these examina­
tions are being held and Just com AGRICULTURAL AGENT
pleted a number of teals at Dallas
WILL BE FAIR JUDGE
N O T IC E
OF
SALE
On October 1st, 1931. at the hour
of one o'clock P M. at 837 Pearl
street. Eugene, Oregon. I will offer
for sale and sell to the highest bid­
der for cash, one llulck Roadster,
Motor No. 656.403, license number
31.3286 Cal. to aat^ify a lien of
$26.00 and coats of this aule
J O H N 1. M A R S H
(S 24—0
Last winter the county spent ap
proxlmately $13.000 for emergency
employment to aid the Jobless and
this had cut Into the amount of
funds now available for road work.
P R IC E
S T O R E NO. 1— M in er Building, Eugene
DEFENDANT ASKS FOR
DEFINITE COMPLAINT
In (he suit of Rose K. Mann ver­
sus E. C. Mann In which a wife
seeks damages from her husband
for Injuries in an automobile ac­
cident a motion was filed in cir­
cuit court by the defendant Friday
seeking to have the complaint
made more certain and definite.
The suit seeks to collect Injury
Insurance
by the defendant through
Broiled Sardines
the plaintiff. W hether the defend­
Select a doxeu good-sized sar­
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dines. Broil them (or two minutes
car tn which she was Injured Is
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the quesltcfn asked by the defend
neatly on six small pieces of thin
ant.
hot buttered toast. Place a quarter
of a lemon by each and put a little
maltre d'hotel butter on each, pre­
M arriage License Issued— A mar­
pared by creaming two tablespoons riage license was Issued at Port­
of butter with the Juice of half a land Saturday for Dale P. Cheshire
lemon, a little nutmeg and a tea­ of Junction City and Olive Marie
spoon of finely chopped parsley.
Gerber of Bpringtleld.
I 'o iis ta b l.-
I)
O. » Fletcher, Lane county agri
cultural agent. la Judge of fruit
and farm crop* displays nt the an
nual Clackamas county fair which
opened Imlay nt Canby.
Mr Fletcher each year la Judge
at one or two county fairs in the
atate.
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S I . 19
SNIDER’S CATSUP—
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17c
BAKER GIRL F L O U R -
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89c
98 Lb. Sack.
TOMATO SOUP— Van
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5c
8 1 .6 8
GOLDEN BELL FLOUR
49 Lb. Sack
85c
DILL PICKLES— Happy
Vule. No. 1 Can
5c
98 Lb Sack.
S I.60
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Men’s Heavy
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19c
85c Heavy Guaranteed
WORK SHIRTS
Blue or Gray
59c
89c
$1.00 Hickory Shirts
$2.50 - $3.50 Children
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Btale traffic officers of lame
county were at Salem Thursday
and Friday to attend a school of
Inotructlnn directed by Captain
Nile* Sergeant RllaRsberg and Of
fleers l.lilunl. Howard. Morgan and
Ross altel'ded from Lane.
State game wardens also attend-
Fulop’s Department Store
Thi program for next Saturday
The district has 45 pupils and It
ia on rural home work and is of seems necessary to hire a second
interest to every rural housewife In teacher and enlarge the school
Lane county. Miss Skow says.
building, according to the report
The program w ill be heard here made at the office of the county
superintendent.
from 9:30 to 10:30 a. m.
Let your old heater help
* ou to own real heating
comfort next winter. Pre­
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warmth into your home
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p rices on th e fam ous
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ust the right tvpc and size for your home at a price that
nakes it possible for you to put the Montag in, at once.
Sec the Montag display in our windows. Let us help
ou to convenience and volumes of warmth, next winter . . .
nd many other winters to come.
County Official Lets Out 8
Men Employed in Road
And Bridge Work Here
There are now 2« residents at
the Lane county (aim , according Io
a report of Victor lloarv, superin­
tendent
During the coming winter It Is
expected I hat the couuly will have
to ptovld>' care for a much larger
iiutnhi r ol men anil women and nt
readv there arc a uuinber of ate
plications, the superintendent says.
First Time in 14 Year« of P. DRIVER TESTS WILL
BE HELD NEXT WEEK
M. Morse in Office That
I
Back from McMinnville — Jim
Curtailment
Necessary
Ellis returned Sunday from Me Louis A. Borde, Manager of
Examination of the applicants
Minnvllle where he spent the week­
McCredie Springs Seeks
(or stale automobile driver«' Been
Eight men employed In road unit
end with relatives.
sea will be held In Eugene next
Accounting for Work
bridge surveying at (lie office of
This agreement was reached at
a meeting here yesterday when j
M. Devera, attorney for the state
highway commission, met with
Governor Meier's special committee
on unemployment in Lane county.
M i. I>evera is on a tour of the
slate to contact the various county
committees and lay preliminary •
plans for the emergency road con
>ttuc(lon program.
Judge C. P. Barnard of the coun­
ty court, Carl G. Washburne and H
L. Edmunds compose the Lane County Agent Summarizes
county committee. Mr. Washburne
Work Against Gray Diggers
The new forestry laws provides at Vida where she visited with her
was oat of the city and unable to
in Lane for Season
that the state may acquire 100,000 parents.
attend the meeting.
It •» not known yet Just how
Summary of the number of acres of this land but not to exceed
Wendllng People Here— Mr. aud
much rtate money will be availablt acres and cost of poisoning laud in 15 per cent from any one county. Mrs. W illiam Sayles of Wendllng
for work on state highways In the war against gray diggers this The state pays five cents an acre were visitors In Springfield on 9ut
Lane county. The program of em­ season is announced by O. S. in taxes on the acquired land and urday.
ergency re'lef work. Judge Barnard Fletcher, county agricultural agent. twelve and one-half per cent of all
Move to Eugene — Mr. and Mrs
points out. Is not something to
The xeport is for neglected land revenues. The revenues would be
start immediately but is Being where the poisoning is done by dis­ from grating fees and timber cut­ W. R. Dawson have moved to Eu
formulated with the one end In trict supervisors and costs are a ting in the future when a program gene where he is employed as auto­
mobile salesman.
of reforestration had matured
view to proviie much needed work part of the tax on the property.
during the winter months when the
The 14 supervisors worked on 83
labor demand is at Its lowest.
tracts, covering »834 acres and us­
Return from T rip —Clifford W II
Lane county will receive for sec­ ing 273 pounds of poisoned barley. BRIDGE ON ELMIRA
son and Harry W right returned
ondary market roads, these being The cost was 190.59. Labor *a s 50
ROAD TO BE DECKED Sunday from a business trip to
roads that connect directly with cents an hour and the barley eight
Medford and Klamath Falls.
County bridge crews w ill start
state highways, about $75,000, this cents a pound. The supervisors
being about $25,000 from the M ult­ worked a total of 337 >■* hours. The this week on the redecklng of the
Visit at Silverton— Mrs Mary Mc­
nomah county distribution and $50,- cost per acre was 1.937 cents and Elmira road bridge, a span of 80 Pherson and her two daughters.
00( from the one mill return from each supervisor worked on 29.13 feet, and the repair of the 80 foot V lm ie and Lulu, motored to Silver-
bridge on the Noti road. says P. M. ton Sunday to spend the day with
the state.
acres an hour.
The law provdes that counties
In addition there were 12S0 acres Morse, county engineer. The en­ friends.
mav budge* a n
nt for mar­ of government land poisoned by gineer Monday made an inspection ,
ket road purposes. Judge Barnard adji ■ nt property owners. The gov­ of these two bridges.
Return* from Vacation — Miss
Bridge crows are now completing
say* that Ij»ne county may budget ernment provided 36 pounds of bar­
Lulu McPherson, cashier at the
a new bridge west of Creswell re­
some $50,000 to $60,000 to provide ley for this work.
Mountain States Power company of­
cently destroyed by fire.
emergency work on market roads
fice here returned to her duties
other than those that connect with
Monday following a two weeks'
ATTENTION
CALLED
TO
state highways thus giving all parts
vacation spent here and in Port­
RURAL HOME PROGRAM SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
of the county the benefit of the
land.
construction program.
>
IN CLEAR LAKE BIG
Attention is called by Miss Ger­
trude L. Skow. county home de­
Seeking advice on the problem of
monstration agent, to the “Land caring for an Increased school en­
Grant College Hour,” a nation-wide rollment In the Clear Lake district
radio tie-up given the fourth Sat­ a number of resident* of the d*s-1
trict were here last week.
C. D. McPeek and three daugh­ urday of each month.
L
CDSTS REPORTED
Resort Owners
Pacing Lawsuit
ENGINEER GUTS
SURVEYING STAFF
REPORT ON C O U N T/
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$1.00 Boys’ Caps 69c
20c Hop picking
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$3.50 Men’s Dress
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$3.50 Men's Sweaters
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$1.50 Boys’ Ixmg
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UNION SUITS
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TERMS OF SALE - C A S H O N L Y
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$12.50 Auto Trunks
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$2.50 All Wool Sleeve­
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$1.69