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VOL.
XX
SCIO. LINN
COUNTY, OREGON,* THURSDAY,
YOt R -CHS. RIIT1DN I XI-lEE-i
on the dal«- stamp«-«! in th«- space be
low
To th«»*«- who pay promptly tn
advance t>..- *ube«Ttp»t©t) price U Jl.i-tl
per year. The price is |l.if paid
«luring y»ar.
The paper ia not sent
i to auhaeni>cm who ar< more than one
ytear lit arreara.
t
OREGON NEWS NOTES
Principal Events of the Week
MARCH
I.
!!»17
NO. r;i
The tto»»l»urg public »«bool* werv
rloartl an4 the eblldrvn w»r» onleml
off thr alrtrl* »to! away from public
itatheriiiK» last week brrau»» of an
epi l.-tnl« of meaale* In IlcaeburK and
th«- *urr«>un«!lii^ country
'
Knrourakvd by the greater return*
to be mail«' through the growing of
beet* for the *t;gar factory, a num
brr of thr hopgrower* In the Grant*
I’*** dUtricl are digging out their
hop)»rd* an«l will plant beeta thia
aeaaon.
I>ate for taking rffwt of the new
ml«-* promulgated by (hr Interstate
«-omtnerre « turn!«»Ion In an effort io
rrllere the unprrcodrni«*«! «-ar »hortag«»
which ha* gripped tht* country, ha*
hex-n postpone«! fnsn February 31 to
March 15.
Xtljuldul General Georg» A Whit»
ha* reaummt 111* place at the head of
the Oregon national guard, following
hi muster out at Vancouver barrack*,
Wash., a* captain of troop A. Oregon
• «> t
wt.ch wa* disbanded after
nln» month»' »ervlce on the California
border
Major W W Wilson, who
actiul *■ adjutant general In the ab
»rnrn of General Whltn. reaumed hi*
former position a* Inapsctor general
1
The Chamberlain
Medicine
Coos Bay coal being sold in
Briefly
Sketched
for
Infor-
Company, Des Moines, Iowa,
Medford.
advertise net only in this country
n ation of Our Readers.
Portland broker was roblied of
but in foreign lands. z\ copy of
a roll of bank notes while skep
each issne of every newspajMT
P
II,-ton la to 1«
a > tn- unity
ing in a chair trying to save a $2
r
, style «how Thursday and Friday
containing their advertisements
Pullman fare.
A aeries of teachers' institute*
is sent to the office of thr corn-
St Helens Clatsop county lets
b«- h« Id In th- different cities
pany as a proof of the insertion
town* of lj»n<- county
contract
for I tin • grtuling and
of the advertisement, Some of
Susannah Wiltfung youngest
An ■ normoua Influx of « astern pro-
paving at cost of $4.2,000.
the papers bear names of places, daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth pl<> onto Oregon farms with the com
Grants Pass Indications are
which require one to recall for Wiltfong was born Fib 10, 1850 Ing of spring Is predicted.
that
this city will lose sugar fac
The
Silver
Falls
Lumber
company
gotten geography or refer to the in Liportt- County. Indiana. At
will start Its newly construetcd big
tory
built
here last year owing to
atlas to locate. Some of them th«* au’e of ten years ahe was left
mill at Silverton on March 13
fact
that
sufficient quantity of
are particularly curious as they an orphan hy her mot .-'r. With
Arrangements are being completed
beets
cannot
l>«- secured. Many
are published in the vernacular her family in 18413 she crossed for the cstabl.shment of a tannery and
other
communities
are after
or native languages which might the piains to Oregon, first settl glove factory at Klamath Fall*
Out
of
230
accidents
r«-p->rte«l
to
th«
plant.
be likened to the carefully writ ing io the eastern part of lh«»
Eugene Pacific Tel Ji Tel Co
ten notes of a shorthand writer. state an I afterward* coining to stat« Industrial accident commission
during the w«--k. not one was fatal
•v
ill
s<M>n have Marshfield con
Here are the well known Chin- the Willamette Valley.
The district convention of th«
nected
with this city by fine Imo
es«- characters arranged in verti
On July -I, 1866 she was mar Knight* of Pythias of Union and Wal
II. mu«.« of the prevalem e of rable*. giving first class service.
cal lines leading from top to bot ried at Sciot » Alexander McDon lowa counties was held In Wallowa
An epidemic of nrasles ha* swept the entire east en-l «»f I'malllla county
tom, the lines arranged from ald. To this union were born
Brownsville Canne.y here has
Gateway and alm«t every family ha* been placed under «tuarantlne by
right to left.
twelve children, hine of whom either has had or I* having this dl* th« alate lita-stock sanitary board. many more orders than it can fill
The Burmese language, as are living, m follows: Mrs G A ease
I he «juarantlned district Include* the for 1917.
printed is composed principally
Th«- Coos amt Curry Fwlr association town* uf l|e||x. Adam*. Athena. Free-
I
Cottage Grove cannery will
of a combination of circles. Some Mrs Will Hut 'hen . McMinnvili, . ha* d--»lsi «’ed Hept« niter 1J to 15 In water aud Milton
operate
this season.
Nearly 500 Oregon me tn tier* of th«
one wittily suggested that for Mrs J N Lotig. Seio, Mrs E B clusive for the date* of th- annual Elk* order fra*t««l on elk meat al the
l«ebonon S P Co has lnrge
fair
this reason circulars would be Fletcher, McMinnville, Mrs E E
The now coast guartl station at th« Washington birthday banquet given force rebuilding 2000 ft trestle.
properly printed in this language. Munsey. Lebanon, Erank of Me mouth of th«» Hlvslaw river, about by the Eugene lodge <>f thr order
Prineville Oregon Spokesman
Cingalese, the language of hama, Mrs W E Evans, Lebanon three mil«* from Florence. will b* IMegaUoti* were present from Mar»h
new
paper to be published here.
field.
Salem.
Albany.
Itoaeburg.
Me«!
completed May I
Ceylon, is also curvilinear. Jav and Roy and Ralph of Scio.
Attendance at the meeting of the fort! and other cities.
Eik City Alder timber being
anese and Siamese are composed
Aft« r her marriage they moved
Under the provision* of the new In
Western Oregon < hrlstlan Endeavor
largely of vertical lines conntcled three miles «Tst of Scio where union at - Salem
- -
(Concluded < n paite 3)
last week total 4 be heritance tax law which will become
effective May 31. a«'cor«llng to th«»
by loops at either top or bottom the chi dren were all l>orn.
tween two an<i loot)
Th«- l.sne county Bomona grange, at term* of the act the fee* to be derived
but rarely at both.
In thia vicinity the remainder
by Clyd ■ Il
«It». sup-rvlsor of (he
a
meeting
at .«anta Clara, pasted r«*>e from that source will increase mat
The four hundred million peo of her life was spent with the
Cascade (vAtional forest
erially.
probably
In
an
aggregate
of
What in < «limbi« -> I by thr state tag
ple of India have nearly fifty exception of seven years spent lutlons opposing th«- proposed 16 oou,- ISo.000 for the biennial period.
00« road bond Issue.
commission to be a mraauro of prime
di fferent dialects or vernaculars. at Philomath, Benton county.
Th«-
Eighth
company,
company.
roast
artil
Katherine M I Wan. supervisor sr<!
Importance coning before thr iirople
The Chamberlain Medicine Com
She also haves two sisters and parole officer at th»- stat- Industrial lery, Oregon national gur.rd. «»tab at thr special election to I»" held In
llahetl
I
th«-
high«-««
merit
mark
record
pany advertises in ten of the two brother«. 33 grandchildren school for gills, baa submlited h r res-
June, la the proponed constitutional
ed for the 1916 target prat tler of na
principal ones. The I’rdu is a and three gr> at grandchildren. ' Ignatlon to the state board of control.
amendment doing away with the pro-
To «1« ide upon tin- purchase of a itonal gurrd big gun companlrai. ar-
sort of script and is so chaotic in
Eally in life, Mrs McDonald new |I5, i U o > si « '<ir th, • tral - ¡icol cording to flgur«'» mailr public by th<> sent po vision* that all 'axatl->n shall
be "«•<|ual.‘‘ leaving th«> "uniform pro
shape that it is impossible to re united w ith the B iptist Church. of K'.amath Falls, the
h«»d b >urd war department militia bureau
vision In an«l allowing taxation upon
The
army
engineers
have
made
an
duce it to the movable ty pe form. ever living a faithful Christian ha* caP««l for a sp-i icl • Pctl- n March
various claaae* of property
adverse report on .he propose«! furtb
Papers printed in the Urdu lan life. Besides many
relative« 7
Ths president ha* nominal«*,! th«
Money fr >m the rural credits fund er Improvement of Nehalem bay Oil
guage are therefore first written and friends she leaves an aged
following
Oregon postmasters. bring
will be available for letvilliig purpose* the ground that the commerce to (>’•
out by hand and a plate made by husband, they having celebrated to the farmer* of the »talc by th* beneflte«! would not Justify >he et thr flrat presidential postmaster* ap
the lithograph
process. The their Golden W«-dding one year middle ot Mar< h or the first part of penditure that would be require«! to pointed In Oregon since last Septem
ber
Volnry E I.««-. North Powder;
provide a 13-foot chaunel from Nr
“Oudh Akhbar,” a sixteen page ago Ia^t July, all the children April.
J
W.
VandervrI'irn.
Banka. Shelby F.
Portland ha* another shipbuilding halein to thr bar
daily published at Lucknow in being present at that time.
Iteaderlck. Halfway, Clark li Foster,
County Rupert nt rn«l ent J
Alton
plant, the Coast Shipbuilding com
this language, claims a circula
Oay ton. Il «y I.
Pritchett, Gaston,
party, a It -'».««o con—rn,- which «III Thompson and County Agriculturist
Edgar I. bavldeon. tuwego. I<oy J.
tion of about 5,(MM). It is Mid
The News has on hand a lim engage In the building Of wooden II A . Blanchard have Imen busy or-
Bhoad*. Pow- r, l»al«> Buckner, H< Io;
ganlrtng Industrial clubs In Dcachut«-*
that in order to handle th's cir ited supply of the Atlases men ships.
W. W Wilson. Yoncalla.
Circulation of petition* asking for a county. Four clubs were torm«*d with
culation it requires an office force tioned in clubbing ufTer on page
Approximately 35 bill* relating to
recall
election against County Ju«U'«r a total membership of 34 boy* and
of about 200. Fortunately for 2. Come in and get your copy, as
school
election* and the adminl*tra-
girls who will raise potato«** thl* year
J II. Messick anil County Commlss on
tlon of sch »«I affair* were passed
the managers, the wages pa'd tu it is here waiting for you.
for
rompetltlon
In
the
*tate
prize.
er J P Ritter, ha* been started in
natives are only a few cents a
Contraei* t«v purrhase brra-coll tn be during the 1917 session of th«- Irglala-
Baker county
-O-
Perhaps th« moat Important
grown
on 300 acr<* of Ijine county lure
day.
With 430 bills enacted Into law the
measure »,« thr bill which removed
farm
land*
have
been
signed
by
H
A
sewlon
lawa
of
1917
will
ho
ths
l*rg
The company advertises in
the property «iiiallflcallon of *■ hoot
Four hundred pounds of choice
Baser an<1 W T Ijinglels. of th«- West
newspapers printed in thirty t, wo vetch seed for wale. J 1) Dens* •■st volume of session law* ever pub ern Broccoli asaoelnHoii, recently form electors, making It possible for any
lished by the state
The volume w 111
Cit'.gen who ha* reside«! in a school
languages, Besides the vi rnucu* more
ed In Eugene. Fifty farmer* have ac-
b«t ready tor »ale early In May
28
district for 30 days Immediately prior
lars and the well known Europ
opted
th«-
terms
offered
by
the
rotn-
II II Ila; mond. administrator of the
to thr election to vote for directors.
<»•
Itaymond »state. soil a half section pany. The crop I* expert«-«! to total
ean languages, French, Spanish,
With thr exception of those law*
of attest land near Weylund station, •0.000 rrat«oi.
Portuguese. Dutch. German, etc,
declaring an emergency, those which
Green beef hides are worth northwest of Helix, to H. H Parris,
In response to a letter from District
the list embraces a number of 17i' per pound, veal hides 23c at
hsvr been referred to the people, or
well known Weston farmer, for 135, Attorney Evan*, of Multnomah coun
those which ar«- to become «-ffn-tlve
languages which untii compara the Sanitary Murk« L
ty. and *|*o (O numerous request*
000.
at some specific time provpr I within
tively recent times possesstnl no
Making preparation for thr coming from southern countie* of th» *tate
themselves. all laws «if the leglslstlvn
flax season, the state board of control Governor Wlthyeombe 1. trying to
alphabet but for w hich the Ro
assembly which Just closed will go
has arranged for letting contract* to •end *oni» «pcctal agent* to the Cal
man alphabet has been adopted.
Into effect May JI. under the provi
Include a minimum of five seres and ifornia line to endcaver to curb Illicit
sions of the conatltutlon that all lawa.
To an American newspaper
a maximum of 7&0 acres to any one ••quor ahlpment* from tming made
not di-clarlnc an « m- rgency. ar«- to go
man it is interesting to note the
scro»* the bonier
man
Into effect 9«) day* after thr adjourn
Under provision, of M ,aw
manner in which the colonial
When a new law goea Into effect In
ment of the legislature
May. It will be a mlwlenu-snor In Ore bf the legt.lat-.re It «m t(. rompill
English newspapers are made up.
Considerable legislation Increasing
gon for a person with Insufficient •ory on all who desire to engage In
Thev still cling to the methods
the power of the public service com
funds In the bank to raah a cheek, the manufacture of butter an«! chee.»
mission was enacted by the recent
which were practiced in this coun
providing be does it with intent to de to sacure a license from the dairy and
legislature, and the commission ts pre
try fifty years ago, the advertise
food commissioner Thl. Keen.« mu.t
fraud.
paring to administer the new sc--.
be
se<
ur«
’
«|
on
or
before
July
|,
1»J7
ments being upon the first few
A marker for the old Ore gen trail.
Probably the moat Important law
south of Eugene, has been prepared and on ths first ot July of FBrh
pages, followed generally by
paaard was what was known aa the
and will be set up st Coryell I'ass. on
the heavy editorials, then a few
thereafter. A fee of fl I* prescribed. certificate of public ne««»elty bill
th«- Pacific highway, between Eugen»
The old military highway, the pion t'ndsr the terms of this measure a
meager cable and telegraphic
and Goshen, when the weathsr gels
eer road running through the Can- utility, before entering a field already
items, afterwards the local news.
better.
cades, which ha* virtually been abar • aerved. must flrat secure from the
It la reported that some of the
The local news consists princi
doned for many year,, will be opened commission a certificate of public
officers of Crook county may resign
pally of the proceedings of the
to motor traffic for the first time thl* necessity It also gives th* commi»
their places as a result of the r»4uc
fall, offering a scenic highway unex- slon power to esterni tn. service of
legislative bodies, town council,
tlon of their salaries by the legists
celled for grandeur tn the northwest, utilities now tn the field, and which
school beard, etc. Contributions
ture. and th» elimination of two de-
Saturday, March 3rd
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(Concluded on paire 2)
Tickets,
->uty officials.
vconllng to an announcement mad»
may hereafter embark In business, Ln
the stai«.