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on the date «tan jx d lo the sp.i
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lo th«Mie who pav promptly in
ltdvance th< «ubscrtption priee i» ().(»•
per year. The price I» (L?5 if paid
durmg year.
I he paper is not »ent
lo «ubscrilicrs who are more than one
year in arreara.
Orrgon Development New» in Line of
Industries.
Payroll»,
and
Produrla
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
of Labor and Enterprise.
Empire crab cannery running
to full capacity, 70 to 100 dozen
daily.
¡’Ians completed for new hos
pital at Roseburg Soldiers Home.
Eugene Chamber of Commerce
unanimously approves Bean bill
placing () & C land grant lands
on tax rolls, as adding $500,000
to revenue.
Lebanon and Roseburg making
winning tight to establish fruit
canneries.
Florence subscribed more than
its share of $10,000 to proposed
shipyard.
Estacada still plugging for a
cheese factory and shingle null.
St Helens lumber shipments
for the past week were nearly
four millions. Shipyards there
will build boats for the govern
ment. Also flour mill.
Ground broken for erection of
a cheese factory at Heppner.
Independence securing a iUgar
factory with large acreage of
beets.
Brookings wharf being built to
give vessels 25 feet of water.
Canby building a bungalow
home for the United Artisans.
St Johns Lumber (.k> w ill build
dock 100 by 250 feet.
Portland business men are de
manding abolition of the unreg
ulated jitney and that operator»
take out bonds of $2,500 for each
fare.
North Bend to have two more
factories employing 150 addition
al men.
Government planning to build
1.000 new ships, many of which
will be constructed at Pacific
Coast shipyards.
Laws that provide political in
spectors to put factories out of
business are not needed out west
so much as state co-operation to
start payrolls.
Haines opens modern cheese
factory this week.
I .a Grande and 0 W R & N
agree on $22,000 overhead via
duct
North Bend Box factory clos
ed two years will be operated on
enlarged scale.
Oregon banks gain in resources
over a year ago $38.563.449.
Warrenton drain tile, hollow
tile and sewer pipe plant starts
April 7.
Salem Presbyterians will erect
large Sunday school room.
Madras -Jefferson county to
get a substantial brick county
building.
Linen manufacturer from New-
York in Oregon to locate a fac
tory.
Portland - First big steel ship
built in Portland yard launch' d
Saturday.
The present war crisis has
Ed» «rd J flail «. &ios earliest set
tier la dead
The farmers of Junction City havs
organixad a co» testing association
Portland has a population of 8SS,-
753 according to Polk'» rib directory
The flr-t annual automobile »how
Oi her return from church last
of Bsk-r «III op.-n Thursday sveu
Sunday, Mrs Ehza Crabtree was
Ing. April 5
met nt the door by a1* of her
Albany may have a policewoman to
chi'dren who came during her give »:>< ■ «! attention to children on
abs »r ce, and reminded that it the streeta at night
Condon «til hold It» fourth annual
was the anniversary of her birth.
race meet, L. ginning Monday. June
They had prepared a bounteous S. and continuing for the day»
dinner and ea?h had brought a
Un Sing I 'loved to be a member
birthday cake,
the excehent of th<* Hip Hing tong «a« »hot lu
quality of which can be testified hl« rcotn in Valeria » Chinatown
Twenty five cases
i-asi-i of chickenpot
to by the News fami'y.
It is
and mumps have been reported In
need!ess to say that they a11 on i Amity arid vicinity In the last month
joyed the happy occasion to the
Thousand» of tons of baled alfalfa
limit
Triose present besides hay are being shipped from Echo to
Mrs Cn. 'tree and son John were, various points in «astern < in-gun and
Mrs Mary
Young and three , Idaho.
The fourth annual convention of
chiklren, Mr and Mrs David th* Oreg :i Cattle t. Herse Breeders'
Horseb irgh aud four chikiren, As«< < talk n. i »ill be held at i.a Grande
Mr and Mrs Ernest Titus and I April 31 25.
Birthday Surprise
two ch ! Iren and Mr and Mrs
Otto Rann.
Mohair Pool
The Annual mohair pool is now
being formed at Scio, Oregon,
with Riley Shelton as secretary.
Those d'-siring to pooi ma\ phone
or write hi the num! • r of fleect s
the grower desires to consign to
the pool.
Party who took brown hat at
school rally list Friday with let
ter E in band, please leave with
Waiter Bilj e i.
brought home to our people the
great value of our indist.ies to
the nation. Factories, mines,
railroads and power companies
are all ready it 'he drop of the
hat. Laws to pr< t-ct ami encour
age them should be the order of
the day.
Elmira sawmill resumes opera
tion w ith 40 hands.
Estacada to get sawmill P R
L & PCo t j furnisn site.
Beaverton will supoly i>>0,0t)0
bricks for Portia id post offi ce.
To save declining grain export
trade Portland will try to issue
$3,000,000 bonds for public grain
warehouse.
Home industries, state payrolls
and home merchants deserve pa
triotic support.
Coos Bay Bay Park mill is be
ing improved to cut 100,000 a
day. Twenty-two millwrights
at work.
Bandon- I«ocal shipyard may
get contracts.
Prineville—$53.000
railroad
contract let. To start at once
with all local labor.
Prineville-Shipment of local
jackrabbit skins brings 11 centa
each.
I), lbs plans first unit of strict
ly modern, fireproof, reinforced
concrete hospital to accommodate
150 patients
The Girl s National honor guard nt
i Oregon »ill atari at one* to tu»tu
i comfort bags tor members of the Orr
gon National guard.
The South) rn Oregon Idstrtct Fed
eratlon of Womens Club» will con
I vi ne in Granta I’n»» for a three day
I teasIon, begll’ilng April 13
W T (’arridi, who came to Oregon
In ISC« and was deputy Sheriff in
I . Ion ci-unty In early days, died In
Kug'-n« at the age of 72 years
\i’ r:c will b«- hra Iquarters for the
new revenue cutter Just completed al
Baltic,) -re. which ta to replace the
Manning on the Pacific omst.
M ny requests b< ing r*< -hid by the
state highway department for bridge
designs Indicate there Will be mtn h
bridge construction this season
Th<- t'oos county court ha« turned
over to the «tate highway department
th<- supervision of the expenditure of
the (3*3.000 county bond Issue
Women stud tit» of the Oregon Ag
rlcultural college who are registered
In agriculture have organised the
Worn n't Agricultural association.
Major Carl Abrams ha» hewn pr<r
moted to be lieutenant-colonel of the
Third Oregon. He will tn- succeeded
a» major by Captain Daughtery, of
Portland.
Canyon City. Grant county, looks
like old times, as the result of a Jump
in price of chrome Iron ore from 17
to ('.'.' a ton at Prairie City, the ship
plr.g point
Officials of the Houthern Pacific are
considering plan« to distribute all the
fuel nil uaed by their locomotive« In
Oregon from a dep<-t to be established
on Coos bay
Forty pages will Ive Includ'd In the
elector's pamphlet which will contain
the measures to lw* voted on at the
special election In June and the argu
mints thereon.
The stock industry of Grant county
Is suffering the heaviest Iosa es
pericnced In the history of the county,
according to estimates of forest offlc
ers and others.
The estimate of the reproduction
cost of the line» of the Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph Company in Ore-
gon. as prepared by the public servie»
conimtealon. Is llo.DJi.ltoj.
Captain L. K. Pavla, who died at
Newport, was probably the last sur
vivor of the colony of Eugi-ne people
that settled on Bouth beach when the
Ya'iulna Lay country was opened
Reclamation of D.’.l acre» of rich bot
tom land lying between the Columbia
and Oregon sloughs In Multnomah
county. Involving an ultimate outlay
of approslmate’.y (300.000, Is sought.
Aa soon as weather will permit, the
i’nlted States forest service will mak*
of a road over the tnoun
. tain» through the Wenaha national
forest in I'nlon and I instill« coun
ties.
The setting of the machiner» of a
- Itoo "00 day product» plant at War
ronton in motion has b«en delegated
to Governor Wlthycumbe. and he will
perform that aervlce on Saturday,
kpril 7
V study of the IVougla» fir timber of
1 Oregon with a view of preventing
rotting and other defects tn the trees
will N- mad* by E P Melneeke. forest
pathologist of the depaitment of eg
rtcullure
The «ar department haa named a
coast defense battery on th* Island
of Oahu, Hawaii. "Battery Henry
Adair, in honor of Lieutenant Henry
F Adair, of Portland, »ho was killed
at Carrltal
Tw<> hundred and righty two Indua
trial ari-ldrn:« of whlih two «ere fa
tai. I» the ri-eord for the past week,
according to report» received by th*
»tali- lndu»trlal accident commission
i
were K Onaka o' Astoria, who w «»
employed In > »«»mill and Fred Wil
Hams of Gaston.
Mayor Alb<-e of Portland forced
!• vlers of the warring Chines* tong«
to «.. II a
- .t*\ , ■
. covering Mult
num ah cojuty. and to agree to sign a
I* rmiih'-nt peace pact before the rud
of 3o days.
In order to have at Irait &<>>> auto
tnoh.1) « al th* d!»|'- sal uf the military
■ iithorltlea on a moment's notice In
•
i-ui'-r, '-m .
the Motor Alliance
»»« formally organi«!il at a meeting
at Portland
With applications on hand for Irian«
amounting to (53,500 out of the rural
crédit« fund the state land tmard haa
de< Idrd to advertise at once for the
n-le of (35u.m>ii worth of « per cent
rural credits bond*
Helping f.i nier« of the state to per
feet thi-ir operations so a« to eliminate
Imuy«'» Is the project which ha* been
. started recently by the extension sert
ill", of the Oregon Agriculture college
In a number of counties
Authorties are somewhat alarmed
over reports from one or two range
dtatrlcta of the Grande Ronds valley
| that rut.td goyatM BMMttaM **0 b.t
several domestic animals and that
».mi- valuable animal» have died
Plans to make Crater I Ake national
park easily accessible to autoinobtlists
are being put before members of the
! highway commission and officiais of
the forest s.-rvlce by Mayor I' E
Gate» and II I. Walther, of Medford
With promise of considerable build
Ing activity. Increased postal receipt«
and «ubatantlal gains In bank clear
ing«. the month of March h«« been a
r-<i letter month for Portland aa In
dlcallng Improv' d business conditions
County agent Jay L. Smith of Coos
county, has announced that arrange-
mints have Iw-en made among the
bank» of the >-<>unty to extend ■ credit
of (SO.tyoo to ranchers who desire to
purrha** thoroughbred stock for their
dairies
During last year there were organlx
ed 577 Industrial clubs, with an aggre
gate membership uf 13.105, according
to a bulletin Issued by Superintendent
of Public Instruction Churchill, re
viewing the Boys' and Girls' Industrial
Clubs of Oregon
About <000 acres of rich Tule lake
land lying between the acreage to be
open'd by the government next month
to homestead entry and the present
water line of Tule lake can be leased
this year, according to an announce
ment of Project Manager Camp
Total deposits In the banks of the
state of Oregon on March 5. 1*17.
were (1<3..'"!,54* «9. or an Increase of
(35,4*1.469 51 over the amount shown
In th* report of March 7. 191*. accord
Ing to a statement Issued by H G
Sargent. Superintendent of banks
Plate glass windows were broken
and awnings fell under their load
• h*n two Inches of hall fell in Oregon
City In the course of the worst hall
■nd electric storm in the memory of
llallatonea two
th* earliest settlers
Imhes in circumference were found
after the storm
Two accidents which recurred al
th* sam* place within on* hour of
Rally a Success
Over three hundred anti fifty
jieople participated in the school
rally held here lust
Friday,
seven schools being represented,
Many have been heard to
press themselves as having
joyed the occasion immensely
County Supt Ida M Cummings
made a rousing speech that was
heartily applauded and the pro
gram was carried out substan
tially as published last week.
New Garage
Fred T Bilyeu has the founds
tion laid for a parage on the bite
of the old hotel just south uf
bridge. The structure will
40 x 80 feet, and as soon as
weather permits work will
rushed on it. Mr Bilyeu who
haa the local agency for Ford
cars has contemplated this move
for some time, and will no doubt
enjoy a liberal patronage as SI Hill
as the garage is ready fur busi
ness.
Biq Dunce
A dance will be given at
Richardson Gap hall by the ban-
ketball club Saturday, April 7
Everybody cordially invited.
each other brought death and Serious
Injuries to two employes of the <1 w
It A N a few miles east of Baker.
Joseph Fruncla. a laborer, wns killed
and C Itesllnia Is In a hospltul suffer
Ing Irotn internal injuries
Governor Wlthycombe. In common
with governors of oilier northwestern
states, has Issued a priM'lumwtlon set
ting April I« Ji as "western eonsum
era' week." ■nd In that time a move
incut will be carried forward It
encourage the consumption of local
product» In the northwest for the en
couragement of home Industrie»
Iteprenentath ■■ Hlnnott
Sinnott haa been
notified In has another vacancy to
till at the Annapolis natal academy,
and will hold u competitive examlna
tion May H at Klamath falls. Mke
view,
Ontario.
il«-nd,
Baker,
la*
Grande, 1‘endleton ami Th* Dalles,
open to ■ Il bunn flip- residents of his
district. between the age» of^lH and
20.
Spence Wortman, deputy sealer of
weight« and measures, within a few
days will Ingin gathering a directory
of all wood dealers In the alate
It
la hla plan to notify them all that to
sell wood by the load rather than by
the cord nr fraction of a cord la tin
lawful and that the district scalers will
be Instructed to prosecute any viola
lion of such provisions
Sheriffs of two counties are hunt
Ing for th* slayer of Thomaa Cava
naugh. a prominent young ram her of
Brownlee district In Baker county,
who «aa las' Seen nn March 12 While
there la no proof that he was murder
ed. a bloody'eabin and th* fact that
the missing man failed to keep an
appointment
with
his
cousin
Welter. Idaho, haa convinced
authorities that he m>d with
pl»y
Pis ns for a big cooperative
nery in Albany were launched at an
Institute attended by more than Joe
farmers and fruitgrowers of the viol
nlty. W H Paulhamus. of I'uyallup.
If the farmers of the
Wash . spoke
section will plant 1000 acres of Wilson
strawberries. 500 acres of phenomenal
berries and too acres of black rasp
berries. the Oregon Electric Railroad
company promisee to build s big can
nery at Albany and turn It over tn
a co-operative company to operate
and Mr Psulhsmus will handle the
produi t uf toe pianl
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