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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1914)
i19 Corvallls school tax reduces two mills. Roseburg will build a municipal feed barn. The Dalles postofflce building Is to cost $75,000. Oregon lias seven canity factories and 2 & 7 bakeries. Donald lias completed a doublo brick store. Halfway Bonds voted to erect a $5,000 school house. Clackamas will spend $15,000 in 1915 on a county jail. Silverton is planning cluster lights for its principal streets. Portland Flouring Mills will erect a warehouse at Albany. Oregon City reduces school levy from 8.3 to 6.7 mills. , Klamath Falls and Eugene fighting for lower tax levies. Frye & Co., Seattle packers will erect a market in Portland. Work has started on a fine new Catholic church at Prineville. Odel-Taylor Bros., evaporating plant burned, may be rebuilt. Coast lumber shipments last half of October reached 29,528,000 ft. Marshfield will establish a coffee club and free employment bureau. Klamath Falls New court house costing $100,000 nearing'completlon. Marlon and Polk counties will build $225,000 steel bridge at Salem. Bids are to be taken Dec. 15 on the Portland million-dollar post of fice. Warrenton will spend $150,000 on I water supply from Lewis and Clark river. Nov. 28 Gresliam and five school districts voted on a municipal high school. Multnomah county will erect a hospital to hold two hundred pa tients. Roseburg Dec. 7 the county-clerk will open bids on 11,400 feet of coun ty road. Seven vessels loaded at St. Hel ens last week taking 6,000,000 feet of -lumber. The Medford postofflce is to be built of Jackson county limestone or sandstone. Silverton Interurban Telephone Co. has been granted right to in crease its rates. Governor-Elect Withycombe says there will be no fancy trimmings during his term. Mayor Vincent and a committee are working for a municipal water plant at St. Johns. Medford Owens Bros, of Eau Claire, Wis., are planning to build a sawmill on Bear creek. The Hoke cannery at Medford has done a good business and will en large its plant for 1915. The effort will be made to revive some of the bills in the legislature that were defeated at the polls. Salem Insane asylum asks $774,- 711 appropriation, or $160,353 more than for present biennial period. The cost of school books is to be investigated and an effort made to reduce the cost to the people fifty per cent. Eugene, Dec. 10-12, will promote the vaiiipaign lo cui OUI $iUU,UUU Ktate expenses. The O-W. R. & N. Railroad Hhops and terminals are to remain at The Dalles and will be enlarged to be come the leading industry. vvyernauser interests that own twenty billion feet of timber in the Clearwater district are looking for a mill site on the Snake River. The coming legislature should pass resolutions limiting the number of bills to be introduced by each sena tor or representative to five and no more. R. J. Bowers of PIsnio, California has leased a salmon cannery at Til lamook and will employ from 35 to 60 hands packing clams, crabs and small fish. The State Tax Commission that lias raised percentages of values in nearly all counties is to be abolished, and one man will do the work in connection with the Railroad and Public Utility commission. Natural Phenomena. The following interesting informa tion has been received from Captain C. T. Podorson of the steamer Her man. He states that, while in Un alaska during the month of October, 1914, he was informed by Mr. Nokl for Dickanoff who lives on Hog Is land, that formerly there was deep water between Hog island and Amak nak island and that this pass was used by large vessels during the Yu kon gold rush. At the present time however, there is only 6 feet of wa ter at high tide, and the United States Coast and Geodetic chart No. 8860 shows that there was 67 feet of water. 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There is no economy in cheap coffee. ' & Remember: One Week Only at Our Special Money-Saving Prices Packed by M. J. Brandenstein & Co. San Francisco Portland Branch, 27-29 North Front Street see from his house on Hog Island on ly the top of the Russian church in Unalaska village. Today he jean see the whole church and most of the village of Unalaska which was for merly not In sight, showing that the locality has undergone a radical change In topography. I have for saie several head of Jr. sey cows and heifers. Some of these fresh now and others to become fresh soon. This is select stock.. lm. O. J. COX, Heppner. Ore. Burton H. Peck passed through Heppner last Saturday on his way to his Rhea creek ranch. He recently finished seeding several hundred acres to wheat in the vicinity of Lex ington. Mr. Peck suffered some hard luck this year from grasshoppers, loosing his entire corn crop, thereby being prevented from making his usual exhibit at the O.-W. R. & N. Corn Show. Milt Maxwell, the Parkers Mill merchant, was in the city on busi ness last Monday. Mr. Maxwell had just returned from southern Oregon, having spent Thanksgiving at Roseburg. Vawter Crawford returned home Saturday after a visit of several days at Portland and Eastern Washington points. While away, Mr. Crawford spent several davs with rnlativaa old friends at Waltsburg, Wash., his former home. It was in this town, over thirty years ago that the editor Of The GazettB-Tlmna rtavaA i.i early education and went through the first stages of the newspaper game as "printer's devil." J. T. Knappenberg, lone attorney and booster and president of the lone Commercial Club, was a Heppner vis itor Thursday evening. Harley Adkins SDent the ThanWa. giving holidays with his sister, Mrs. Will Howard at Stanfield. Mr. w ard Is superintendent of so.hnnU at Stanfield. Harley returned home Miss Leona I. Newton visited with friends at Stanfield several days last week. Carl and Earl Miller, of Lexington visited with relatives and friends in Heppner on Thanksgiving evening. Theodore Anderson and wife were visitors from Eieht Mile lust Woflnoct- day, to attend the jubilee concert at the high school. Thev panied by Walter Beckett and wife . - T VU 11.9 Sunday evening. ana Mrs. Ralph Beckett.
