The Oregon branch of the Modern
Woodmen of America held its twenty-
fifth annual convention. or silver ju
bilee, commemorating the anniversary
LIGHT UP!
of the first lodge west of tue Rockies,
at Portland last week.
Friday was Frances K. Willard day
In the public schools of Oregon.
every school in the »tate exercises
were he d in commemoration of the
life, history and achievement* of the
great woman educator and reformer.
Albany merchants will organise
The George Palmer Lumber com
chapter of the Oregon Retail Mer
pany of La Grande has been Bold to
chants' association.
the Bowman-Hicks company of Kansas
All Sizes and Priced Absolutely RUht
Union county la now harvesting the
City. The properties include the man-
largest crop of apples that has been
ufacturlng plant In La Grande and
grown during the laat few years.
timber holding* covering 100,000 acre*.
University of Oregon’s medical
The total value of Marlon county’*
school has received a gift of 850,000
taxable property, exclusive of public
from the Rockefeller foundation.
utilities, la $37,496.030 for 1922, ae-
Operators of motor passenger and
cording to a recapitulation made by
freight lines of Oregon assembled in
The figures
Assessor Steelhammer.
Salem and formed a state organica-
show an Increase of $98,560 over last
tlon.
year.
seventeenth annual convention
The refrigerator car shortage, ac
of the Oregon Parent-Teacher associa-
cording to Hood River apple shippers,
tlon held a three-day session at Eu-
has reached a serious stage Unless
gene.
relief comes quickly every storage
The work of building a breakwater
and shipping warehouse In the Hood
to protect the state fish hatchery and
River valley will huve to cease de-
the county bridge near Oakridge lias
liveries.
been started
Approximately 2100 tons of onions.
Tillamook's school budget for next
year calls for $59.610, which is a re sufficient to load three freight train*
duction of about $2500 from the pre of 47 cars each, were harvested this
year by grower* in the Lake Lablsh
vious budget.
Within the next two weeks three district, about nine miles north of
large Japanese steamers will load 6.- Salem. The estimated value is placed
000,000 feet of lumber at North Bend by growers at $45,000.
NO JOB TOO LARQE OR TOO SMALL
Applications with which to apply for
for China and Japan.
The estimated total valuation of the their 1923 motor vehicle license* have
tax roll In Wasco county is in the been mailed to the state's various
neighborhood of $20,850,000, or about motor vehicle owners by Secretary
Let Me Figure on Your Painting, Papering
$150.000 more than the 1921 estimate. of State Kczer. The mailing consti
A new cluster light system and a tuted 125,075 separate parcel*, which
and Decorating.
bridge across the south Umpqua river, went to virtually every postoffice in
in the southern part of the city, are Oregon.
Wilful deceit and misconduct in hl*
provided for In the Roseburg city
budget.
profession was charged to Lon L.
Mrs. A. O. Pound of Aumsville is Parker, Portland attorney, by th*
searching for her husband, 51 years grievance committee of the Multno
of age, who mysteriously dropped from mah Bar association, which has in
disbarment
proceedings
sight October 19 while on a trip to stituted
Salem.
against Parker in the supreme court
Vernouia
Oregon
Pendleton’s new hospital, St. An- at Salem.
The city water of Eugene I* abso
thonys, built and equipped at a coat
of $300,000 and declared to be the lutely pure and the malady that ie
finest in th* Northwest, was dedicated now prevalent among students of the
Sunday.
University of Oregon Is not the result
It looked like a house where there were a grandfather and a
Dwelling construction in Bend has of contaminated water, according to
reached Its highest point since 1917. Professor Sweetser, head of the depart
grandmother; where holidays were warmly kepi; where there were
During the past month permits were ment of botany and bacteriology at the
boisterous family reunions to which uncles and aunts who had been
taken out for new buildings valued university.
born there would return from no matter what distances; a house
Validation by the state supreme
at $47,155.
where big turkeys would be on the table often; where ‘the hired
The second annual floral show will court last week of the organization
man' (named either Abner or Ole) Would crack walnuts on a
be held by wholesale and retail florists and $180,000 bond election proceed
flatiron clutched between his knees on the back P°rchi it looked
of Portland under the auspices of the ings of the Central Oregon Irrigation
like a house where they played charades; where there would be
chamber of commerce November 14, district will mean that the district can
long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreathes of hotly at
start immediately on the construction
15 and 16.
Christmas time; where there were tearful, happy weddings and
of
the flume aouth of Bend, replacing
The
Bend
Chamber
of
Commerce
great throwings of rice after little brides from the front steps;
has tabled the request of A. W. Arnold the worn-out structure now in use.
in a word, it was the sort of a house to make the hearts of
Another source of supply of timber
for indorsement of his plan to build
spinsters and bachelors very lonely and wistful — — __ >9
a wooden rail road from Bend to for the sawmill at Garibaldi has been
procured by the Whitney company,
Lakeview.
u
O. D. Bare, who killed his father I which concern has contracted for 30,-
Instead of the above, it was the abode of a single, lonely man.
j
In
a
quarrel
at
the
ranch
home
on
000,000
feet
of
choice
pine
and
hem
Within its walls occurred the strangest Christmas party ever held;
♦
recorded by America’s great and many-sided story-teller with the ’ Calamity creek, near Drewsey, was ac lock situated on Kiger hill, a mile and
a
quitted by a coroner’s verdict of justi a half to two miles east of Garibaldi,
singular magic which he alone knows how to employ.
4
which property is owned by Georg*
fiable homicide.
♦.
S. A. Stanfield, brother of Senator Kiger of Tillamook.
The Eugene chamber of commerce
1 Stanfield, is reported to have purchas
t
ed 15,000 lambs in Central Oregon last baa adopted a resolution favoring tn*
week for the Stanfield interests, for plan of II. H. Corey, state public serv
ice commissioner, which advocates the
shipment to Idaho.
»
A big log hotel being built at Elk completion of the Natron cut-off, th*
* Sounds Good, and is Better thst it Sounds.
lake in Deschutes county will be ready extension of the Deschutea-to-Odell
line,
the
extension
of
the
Oregon
short
by next summer for tourists, who are
visiting that resort In constantly in line to Odell and extension of rail fa
cilities to Lakeview.
creasing numbers yearly.
The state of Oregon has more law
The 1922 grape crop of Clackamas
county has been the largest in years, yers per capita than any other sec-
and the fruit is of exceptionally fine tlon of the United States, with the ex
quality.
The grapes have found a ception of California and the District
of Columbia. This information is set
ready sale at 4 to 5 cents a pound.
Convenient, Homelike,
After investigation, the Baker city forth in a table, based upon the
Painting of all
commission has completely exonerated last census, which shows thst Oregon
Modern
And Any Kind
Frank Littlefield, captain of police, of has 1424 lawyers, which is one for
all charges preferred against him by every 550 Inhabitants.
— See —
A successful prune-barvesting season
his fellow officers some weeks ago.
haa been completed in Union county,
The
Pendleton
duck
club
la
the
name
C. 0. McLEES
of Pendleton’s newest sportsmen’* or with Cove and Union as the two cent
12th and Washington Sts.
VERNOMA PAINTER
ganization. Over 1000 acre* of land ers. Together th* two town* shipped
Portland, Oregon
CATSUP
near Cold Spring* landing, on the Co 53 carload* of prune* to outside point*
lumbia, have been leased and feeding and a large quantity is being kept in
th* warehouse* drying. Despite the
has begun.
The rains of the laat few days have fin* crop, several of the orchardlsta
washed out a section of the rock walls failed to realise profits, due to th*
of the new Mapleton-Cushman road low market.
Street light* were turned on at noon
being built by the Southern Pacific
company down the north bank of the day and automobillsta found their way
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about with headlight* burning whan
Sluslaw river.
Home Made Bread,
Harold Transue, 12-year-old son of the wont sand and duat atorm in the
Cakes, Pies and
W. O. Transue of Baker, who ha* been memory of the oldest inhabitant swirl
missing from hl* home for more than ed down upon the city of Klamath
Doughnuts
a
month, haa beeq picked up by Stock- rails Friday. A strong gale carried
Cold Drinks, Ice Cream
Call at the
ton. Cal., authorities and will be re ash** and duat from the midland die-
Cigars, Cigarettes
trlct, recently awept by a grain and
turned to Baker.
Light Lunches at all times
Following the stormy weather and tul* fire, over a widespread are*.
Formerly Tlpton’a
A tract of 9681 acre* of public land
southerly winds of the laat few day*
In Sesseman Bldg , West of Bank
In
the Klamath irrigation project we*
J
- U/h».
__ _ it Order
- .
there has been a slight improvement
When You u.
Want
from
Anything in the Painting Line
In the catch of silversldes at the mouth opened to homeetead entry Saturday.
you want done, and done right
of the Columbia river, although tfee Under provision* of an act of congress
See . Vernonia Painters.
I
’««»VI hl
90 day* preference right will be grant
<ake is not large.
,
2 Mlle* South J Of Vcraoala
c7S7»r«ki<f 'Cuney” snyeu, star quar ed to ex-aervice men of the war with
Germany
after
which
any
land*
re
Hough
and Dresged.
terback on the Albany high school
football team, died In an Albany hos maining unentered will be open to fil
Quick Delivery.
Rntioh
n
pital from complication* due to pneu ing by pereons qualified to make home
Both in Dress and Sports wear-
monia and injury received In a foot stead entry in the United States.
BEAVER lbr CO.
Priced very reasonable,
Fred Noah, 19, an expert high climb
ball
game at Salem.
solicit your trade.
A shipment of 26 boxes of Newtown* er of Coos county, with a carelee*
and 16 boxes of Sp!tz<*nberg apples swing of his *gjijM0<ng belt, threw it
CHURCH 8ERVICE3
tree which had
from Portland to Buenos Aires aboard over the top < e
been
topped
yjid
fell
132
feet
to
the
the ateamer West Katan may revolu
tor sale
Vernonia Church of the Evangelical
tionize the movement of Pacific north ground, striding in a sitting posture Association, Sunday Services; Preach
on the sdid earth. Both pelvic bones
lox Hound Pups
west apples to South America. Th*
NOBLE DUNLAP
ing 11 a. m, and 8 p. m. Sunday school
Forest Grove
test shipment is to determlae whether were brok. n and he suffered a frac 10 a. tn. Young People’s Alliance 7 p.m
Well bS8’
r‘Rht Prf®**-
Vernonia,
Oregon.
Well-bred stock.-Earl Rateman
Mell Orders Promptly Filled
the apples will carry to the Argentine tured ekul', but be lost conaciouaneee Prayer Meeting Thursdays 8 p. m.
G>1- Creek, Oregon
’
only a moment. He la said to be r»
without refrigeration by Piciflc
Choir practice Tuesday 8 p. m.
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wise vessels.
Principal Events t>* the We«<
Briefly Sketched for Info»
mation of Our Reader«?
I lie Largest and Best line of
Flashlights and Batteries
in the Valley
THE HAZELWOOD
Confections, Ices, Cigars
Tobaccos, Magazines
Painting and Paper Hanging
CONTRACTOR
“SEE HILL FIRST”
F. A. HILL
Mrs. Housewife
What will we eat?
Easily answered in the famous
DEL MONTE BRAND
Quality Canned Goods.
Apricots, Tomatoes,
Pumpkin (Oh, you pies)
Pineapple, Pears,
Loganberry, Peaches,
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Auplc Sweet Spud
Sauerkraut.
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A Short Serial Which Will Be Printed
in the Columns of
The Eagle, Commencing Next Week.
Lane & Co. Sell lots of It Here
STOP HERE
Sign Painting
Del Monte Brond for
QUALITY
Made Famous and Pure by the
Palace Hotel
California Packing
Corporation
Sold the World Over.
Reeds New Confectionery
“HOME BAKERY”
$ Look for “Del Monte” on every Bottle or
&
Can. Play Safe.
LUNCH ROOM
Painting - Decorating /
NEW BAKERY
it
LUMBER
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Fashionable Hats
Mrs. Richards'
Nctelly Shop
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General Building
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Carpenter Work
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