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SCIO. OREGON. NOV. IB. 1920
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Prlnch'’l Event» of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Reader».
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LW .ÍT 1 *
Twenty eight mH«* of trail« w*ro
built in lb* Cascade national forest
durlog th. psal »<> .»nn. a. < nrdlng (o a
report of N. F Macduff, supervisor of
th* foroal
Ixuit aummer lightning raa*«d 34
fir»-* In lhe Cascade natloual for<ut,
ao-oriTIng to the annual report on fir**
Just finished by N F Macduff. *up«-r-
vlaor of the for rot
Organisation campaigns hav* been
launched In all tbe existing farm bu
reau countlro. «hlrh are exp«-d«-<| to
bring the total ni*<nb*raliip Io the
Mate up tn 10.004.
The highest priced Ilamt>oulll»< ram
at th* ram sal* held roeontiy In Halt
lutke was bought by th* Canalngham
Bheep company of Pendloton.
The
purchase prlro was 11300
Work on th* pow*r plant *lt* on
Tumalo cr**k ha* bean suspended foe
the winter, tbe crow employed com
pletlng thrir task juat aa heavy snow*
B>ad«< further labor Imposalbl*.
Georg* W We« fa* of Halem la anw
employing a force of men digging
Mrawberry planta, and he rxprota to
ship a million of th-tu to Watsonville.
CaL. where they have bee* «old
Plan* ar* being made In Mount Ver
non. a Grant county town, to pip* mln
oral water from the springs n*ar that
place Into th* town, where a new hotel
and bath hou*«-* will be ennatructed
Th* name of ««very trail aad every
eroek la th* Caacad* national fnreot
will b* plainly marked oa a new map
of the forest sow h*lsg compiled by
N F Macduff supervisor of the forsot
Mrs It A. Booth nf Kugep* baa
given a memorial window to Willam
ette university, to b* Installed In Wal
ler hall. The gift la la honor of Mrs
I.urla Anna Grubbs, daughter of Jason
De*
The Hatro 4 Rogers Const ruction
company, which haa bws building the
Willamina A Grande Road* railway,
has turaed over Ils unfinished coo
tract to the Hpauldlug Lumber o*m
paay
Th# laraeet cl«*# of cuadWata# ever
laltl >t*4 into aay Indo# la I-an* coun
ty joined Kugen# ramp of the Wood
men of the World
Moro ths* 340
m«a from differeat parts of Lna* Boun
ty war* tah*a Into th* ordar
Ail election dop* was up**t la Ma
coin county. The county, by regie in«
tlon 4 to 1 republican, gav# Harding
a tto-1 vote and defeated ChnmMr
la'n by a small majority, then d#f#al«d
every republican candrintn. with on*
exception, who had d*moeratlc op
position.
Two Over on towns. Vmcaila. In
Douglas county, with a populatlpu of
about 300. and Burna, county seat of
Harney county, with a population of
about (no. el*cted women to th* office
of mayor In the election
Yoncalla
also elerisd an entire administration
of women.
Oregon coantleu hav* been nppor
O*n*d 1131.433.41. roprmentlag 34 per
«ent of the receipt* from forest re
**rv* rental*, aal«-# of timber, *tc.
from fores', reperve# for th* year ond
lag Jun* 30, 1*30. Thia money was
recotved by the stats from th* fed
•ral government.
A ft ar a strenuous trip of persons]
Inspection of the »urveyed routa from
Neskowin. in southere Tillamos coon
ty. over th* divide Into the Salmon
river country to (Mie, thence to Naw
port, walking nearly th* entire dis
laaca Governor Olcott, sc com pan led
by Herbert Nuaa. stat* highway eagls
e*r. and Or. II. K Lro Hlelsar. arrived
in Newport.
A cot sc Ide* re is th* vote of t.tan
goenty In the elwctloa I* that the two
Hawleys—W C Hawley for r»Hse
tloa as representative in eongree* from
the first district aud
I. lie* ley tor
dairy and food com miss loser—ran al
most oa a per, there being just one
vote difference betwea their reaper five
totals. W C. Hawley gecotved 4304
votes in th* county and C. L. Hawley
reeel vod 430*.
Th* volume of busin»** bandied by
th* state treasurer's office during th*
last bleaalal period ended H*ptetnb«r
10. lOfO, aa shown by the receipt*, ex
eroded that of th* previous biennium
by mor* than 11 >.000.000. according
to a report prepared for consideration
of th* legislature at It* next session
In January. Tbe receipt* of th* office
for the bleaalal period ended Heptem
ber 10 of thia year totaled M».4O4.-
Old 1«
Albany is afflicted with a m,a»lro
epidemic. *4 children now bring eoa
fined to thrir born«a by lllmaa from
th«- dlfcose
Tbe II obmmuu Coal
M<dford, haa begun active operation*
for th* winter, a force of 10 men be
ing employed.
Th«- Marshfield Mill A Timber com
pany's nets • b«lrlc mill la no* in full
< v ration
It baa a capacity of >4.0*«
fret per day.
Fire of apparently incendiary nature
totally deetroyed the Rhode* A Cot-
t*ral sawmill near Gold Hili, causing
a lose of IBO.noo
The Oliver Falla Tlmlier company at
Silverton la Inatalllng new machinery
and the mill will resume operation*
In a few weeks
The Polk County Observer, pub
lished at Dallas. haa launched a re
call movement directed against County
Judge Robinson
Two ranch homes were burned in
Hood Rlvsr valley last week, th* Hr««
beginning In both 111» lance* from
«park* on th* roofs.
With a total of 4374.141 to her cr«d
It. Astoria aland* flfty alxth of all the
citire In the United States In alas nf
postal savings deposits
Forty-one of th«’ 4* fires In the Han
tlarn national forest last summer were
-Bused by lightning, according to the
supervisor of the forest
fine of the largest storage tanks In
-astern Oregon, capacity 400,000 gal
long la soon to be built In Baker by
th* Htandard Oil company.
Burglars entered th*
Belli well.
Hangs A Markabury store at Cottag*
Grove and escaped with goods worth
briwern flf.OO and 13000.
Work conducted by the forest serv
ice In tbe eradication of poison h«-m
lock la eastern Oregon ha* turned in
a net profit of tdHO for the year
Th* Union Bridge company of Port
land ba* been awarded a contract to
construct a st re I bridge across Ixmt
river nt Olone In Klamath county
Salem Insurance agent* assembled
at a banquet and perfect«*! a perman
ent organKatlon. which later will be
.ifftllaled with the national aa*o< la tlon
Oregon’s flax Industry gives promise
of receiving great Impetus through th-
contemplated establishment In Haleiu
of a large Oax products manufacturing
plant.
Hix crates con Lal til ng 13 pairs of
young tTilna pheasants from th* state
game farm at Corvallis were ahlpp«*l
last »wk to Juntura. In Mnllyur
county.
Croat Statssman'a Hobby.
Gladstisic In hla day was quit* an
axman.
The groat Englishman u««-d
t«» slip *w*y fnsn the caro* of *tat*
and hl* hlmrolf <«ut to hl* natal* at
Hnwsrdcn. «riro lhe haft nf hl* trusty
ax and M the “chip* fall wb»ro they
may." Tn him th* rxi-rri»- afforded
th* m(«f romplctn ninntal ro«t that hn
could And With <-oat off and shirt-
slrov** rolled up th* prime minister
would tackl* a tree several feet In di
ameter. ami k«-e|« at It until lie hail re
duced it I* corS*«MNi. He was forever
consulting his friend* ay to the ad
vtaablltty of cutting d«»wn this tree
or that tine on hl* estate So proud
was he <«f hla wood chopping ability
that he even hail himself photograph
ed With hl* fnv-wlte ax at hit t*love«1
pastime: and *o great was his reputa
tlon sad *•> ardent his admiror» that
be »a* fropu-ntly being |»re*enle«l
with an ax an a mark of esteem J
nnr Hn>e be had more than JO ax
tn hla cwtlei-tlon.
NATIONAL FLOWER OF FRANCE
Iris. ar Flaue de LI* Was Originally
Callad tha Flevr-da Levlo—Valuad
for Ita Madia ^yi Fu rpasea.
The Irta, ar thè flour de Ila. la the
national flower of France.
It was
originally called the fl. ur-det.oota
Th« ancient* vat-«d It highly for me-
dlrinal pun«»—< A powder "made from
th« root mlirl with honey. ««< um-!
for broken l--t.es. and It ws* also ron
•Idrred beneficisi for snake and aror-
pl<m bite*. A valuable perfume and
oil was alan obtained from the Irta
The legend a* to bow the flower re
r*lved It* name <■«■* l»aril to the
GN*rk*
tri* was the m.-xsenger of
the goda, and the rainbow was dedi
cate«! to her. On her birthday. Juno
Invited all the flowers to celebrate
the occasion.
They all «moie In
their prvuie«t frocks.
Among them
were
thr«-«
sinters.
gorgeously
dressed In gowns of purple. yellow and
rod. and who were unknown. Ill nee
they had no name they were called
Iris, because thrir gowns were the
col-r of the re In turo
Mince fri* was tbe messeng.-r of the
gods, and eohducted the souls of dead
w..meti Io their Anni routing place, 'ba
Gre»-k« decorated the grtIVM of thrir
women with purjde Irta
This flownr was widely used In old
Il «lrwf>d
Egyptian archttecturv.
power and eloquence to the Egyptians,
und was. therefore, carved -n the brow
of the ttpblnx. and upon tbe sceptm
of thrir kings.
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Crowning Triumph.
Utile Norman nnd bls two play
fellows were boasting about their
parmta and their belotiglnga. "My fa
ther. “ said Norman. "Is goinl to build
a rtm- house with a Mi-eple on It."
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