OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
Paving of the highway connecting
Marohfleld with Coquille ha» twrn
completed.
■ggs were sold In Kiutme last week
by producer* at 15 cent* * uoraw, the
Io* cat price in 13 yetuw
The city of Halmi ha» purchased *
motorcycle to be used by the traffic
officer of th. police depart in -nt.
At a apralsl election In Vale bonds
of 336.000 were voted for enlarging
and extending the water system.
IJncoln county resident» »re rejoic
ing over the announcement that thera
will bo plenty of gasoline thia year.
The Oregon Wood Product» company
In Salem la buay turning out broom
handha at »he rate of <000 per day.
Waler now cover* half the old bed
of Silver lake, in Itcachutra county,
which had bean dry for four year*.
Dy action of the carpenter*' union
of Astoria. the minimum wage scale
has bean reduced from <8 to $7 50
The J.-ese Ix.wer sawmill on fb-ar
Creek. Creswell, which was destroyed
by fire recently, will be rebuilt at one*.
The p-naua report for Marion county
show* that the number of farma In-
ervurad from 3490 In 1*10 to 3*81 tn
1M0.
Jasper Miller, widely known pioneer
and n*id<*nt of Benton county for 40
year*. Is dead at hla home in buwltt,
aged 76.
The Reedsport Lumber company baa
posted notices reducing wages, making
*3.36 per day the minimum for com
mon labor.
Th« Aatorla Flouring Milla company
haa closed a deni for the sale of 14.-
000 barrel* of flour to the ('»echo-
Slovak government.
Elka in Corvallis have secured a
charter for a lodge. It will bo known
a* No. 1412 and will atart with a char-
ter membership of 75.
R. N. Ferguson of Oregon Agricul
tural colleg- Is mixing 1040 quart* of
rat and squirrel poison for use by
Linn county farmer*.
Roseburg again haa been designated
ns headquarters for officer» of the
Indian aupcrviaorshlp for California,
Oregon and Washington.
The greater part of the stock of the
Bank of Prineville haa been subscribed
and It is thought the bank will open
about the middle of April.
The city of Corvallis voted on a’
5100,000 bond Issue Tuesday for the
purpose of making needed extension*
to the city's water system
Thirty-eight men and 10 women otr
tallied positions through the Eugene
office of the United State* employment
bureau during th- past week.
There were 401 accidents tn Oregon
Industries In th* week ending March
81. according to a report Issued by
the state accident commission.
The Pendleton Commercial associa
tion now has an enrollment of 40$,
and a drive has bran started to In-
cr<as»- th- tO'-tubenihlp to 500
lake OchtM» has a total storage Ca
pa« tty of 4T.000 acre feet of water,
and the total amount in storage at th*
pr- raut time I* 3M.5OO acre tee*.
Th«- Jchnson mill at R-edsport ha*
starti-d cutting an order of 10,000.000
feet of pulp wood for the Crown-Wli-
taunette Paper mill* at Oregon City.
Vmatllla county »hrrprum expect to
pay 10 to 12 13 cents a he»«l to shear
ers this e>-*aon. a decrease of last
year'i price. which was 17 1-8 cents.
After being Idle for several months
the St Helena shipyard haa resumed
work. Thirty men are now buay. and
the force will soon be Increased to 50
The National Home Economics con
vention for the year 1*32 will be held
In Corvallis. Ix-adlng educator* from
all sections of the United States will
attend
Governor Olcott haa appointed Dr j
David B HIU of Pendleton and Dr
Frod W Haynes of Roweburg a* mem
her* of the stats board of dental ex
amin«»«*.
At a man* meeting of taxpayer* ta
Canyon City It was determined to call
a referendum on senate bill 388. which
raised the aalarle* of Grant county
official*.
II) a vote of nearly threw to one.
Albany'* taxpayer* have approved the
|4«i.oou bond issue to provide funds'
for tMilldlng an addition to the Madl
son school.
Officials of th* weights and mew
suras department have undertaken an
lnvestigalton of the marking of boxes
an<l container* used tn the candy trad*
of the stat*
Earl Hatea, manager of th- Cora and
Curry Telephon«» camp**}' -t:.i
that th» cotutru< tlon «-«invmpla
for th»- coming year will be «¡>v It-
mately $35.00*
An army siege gun which. «»:t>!«■
resolution of th« recent ie.- statt
haa bran prvacr.ted to Ibwlgwi« k p
<• t B
I lem. ha
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gun haa bran turn«-^ over In :! ■ stat«
by Sedgwick post rut will bo platee
on the slate capital ground*.
Robert A. It «'th <»f 1
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terra as stats hi«. •
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expires on April 15. w-.'.i ' r
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ed. according V’ ai»l>
:it by
Governor Olcott
A medical detach n.«-n' of the Or ? -i
National Guard will l-' f- r.;
.» Al
bany. Th« detachment wilt « • ;<- of
one sergeant, on* corporal and raven
flrst-cla»» privates.
Approximately $18.000 appropriated
at the recent rasslou >>f th«- i
«¡al
WIN be expended in UBpft»»in«
Capitol and supreme court bu. il
at Salem this year.
Following report* that B*«.'d was
third city In Oregon tn th' et p
ment of alien labor. Invest! ».«I - i
in
veal* only two men are <mpi<
that city who are net eitla« n*.
The state land board has rec
check for 517,700, covering lu
I
ment of >7.60 an acre for deed* to
i I
canceled by the govern tr«- n'. In
called Hyd«--Bcnaon rale«tlon*.
Pro
The Hood River County Gat
tectlve association has relccutcd 24
pairs of valley or cre*t«d quail 'tn out-
lying sections of th«; valley. Ti M birds
wer« from the state game farm
An old Roman eoln, daling btu k to
the fourth century, I* twin <x!i. -, -■!
In Eugcno by George D. Prater, who
obtained the piece while nerving with
the Fourth engineer* in Franca,
Fr«'derlck Goll«rtnan. one of th«
earliest pioneer stockmen of Malheur
«wunty, died at Vale last Thur-wlay He
was 81 year* old. and built th- first
Irrigation ditch in Malheur valL-y.
With <«« regular patrons th« Ha
lem city library now
mon- than
one-third of the City's entire populu
tlon on Its Hat of book reader* and a
total of 15.950 book* on it* shelve*.
Insurance companies operating In
Oregon received net pr« . turn- of $10..
26K.429 during the year 1930 accord-
Ing to a report proper«! by A. 8
Barbu r. state insurance evur.niissiouer
*
Reply of Portland and Vancouver to
the petition of Puget raund porta and
Astoria for a rvto artugw.f the Colum
bia basin rate aa»e. In which the inter
•late commerce eommlaalon recently
awarded a 10 per cent differential to
the formdr cities. to end from the ter
ritory south of th« Hnaku river, ba*
bran Isau-d
Railroad ortkfal* now believe that
all danger from slid«* on the branch
Í
line, running from Ira Grande tu Jo-
»«•ph. I* past. During Ike nn-ath of
March, the Wallow* county pr-opl"
have bran forced to r> fur a number of
days without freight, beeau*' of a
large slide which occurr-d a tew mlk*
on the other »id** of Elgin
The Oregon public arrvice ramml*
•ion haa extended th« suspension of
proposed ihervtun-4 transport»; Ion rats
on milk and milk product* to juu «-
Application tor lnrrvas«d charges for
transporting milk and milk pioducta
was filed with th« commlsalon by the
Ameilcan Railway Express company
several month* ago
At a ai- ■ al siectlon In Bandon to
VOt(- $110.000 bond* to purchase the
Bau <1 .in l\>wer company property and
•tail a municipal hydroelectric
to in»'
Hay
(train
Botatoea
plant on Willow creek tn northern
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
Curry county carried by a vol* of
«3 to 10.
M. Q. RKE1»
MemU r* of ths joint committee of
Office A llmny Stats Rank
the assoc lat Iona of th* plant depart,
ALBANY, ORE.
meat employes of the Pacific Tel»
phone A Tsli-grspb company bava I____________ ________________
»ui a letter to ths Oregon publlo
service commission thanking that
body for It* action tn Increasing the
rat«* fur servi« rurnlabed by that
oorpot aUOU.
WANTED
Morrison & Lowe
UNDERTAKERS *
Dian* for the Fl «h lake dam. to be
ronstruet- d on Little Butte creek tn
connection with the development of
the Medford Irrigation district, ware
appâte.! by tbs stai» «nstneer.
ar. The
dam will provide water fur ih» irriga-
tlon of approximately 14.000 arrea of
l*n<l In Jackson county. The oust of
the dt'vciopmeol was ealmated at $1,-
35i'.iHX>.
Calls Attended to Prornptlji
Dav or Miifht
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DR. A. G. PRILl-
Pùvsieian ani S gurod
Calls Attended
Day or Night
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Gives Year-Round Tractor Service Railroad I ime Fable
Arrival and Lk'lmrturo of ì’a.o<cngvr
Trains
Wootlburn-Snrlngfielil Branch
WEST SCIO
North
South ■
7:55 a m.
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Curvali)!« & lùmL rn
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HUNKERS
To Albany
To Detroit
Hill a m
. 1:44 p n>
Motor service discontinued.
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ATTORNEY AT tAW
801-1 Nuw First National Bank Bldg.
ALBANY
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Albany, Oregon
THE SCIO STATE BANK
w. A. Ewing,
a . E. RandaU
President
Vico Proa.
E. D. Myers. Cashier
Hurt a bank account tdday and
provide for your future.
You will Itnil a checking ac-
rounl very convenient for your
business transaction«. We pay
intcrust on lim« depraita.
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FARM TRACTOR
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Linn County Distributors
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RURAL CREDIT LOANS
Our twenty year rural credit plan of
loaning money to farmers, h*l|>e you to
get out of debL Under our form of
i«»nn the fatal amount of interest paid
<lur ..g its entire perled of twenty years
is actually I«»» than 6$ p«r eant InlcresL
Write ua for booklet.
OWEN BEAM. Agent.
133 Lyon St *
Albany, Oregon
DR. HCQ
DENTIST
Office I lour* i
is your protection. it is a protection now being enjoyed by more
than
Eophon farmers in llio United States.
I aj I us toll you all about the Eordsoii tractor an<l Fordson
service. 1 -cl ti* demonstrate the Fordson on your own farm.
Come in and let us prove everything we say.
TKK.MM IF WANTED
FRED T. BILYEU
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SCIO, OREGON
»to 12 A.M.
130 to 6 PM.
FEDERATED CHURCH
900. OREGON
Sumlay School 10 A. M.
Church 11 A. M. and 8 P. M.
Christian Endeavor 7 P. M.
All cordially invited.
H. B. ILER. Pastor