Our Spring
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LADIES’ PUMPS,
OXFORDS, STRAP SLIPPERS
and SPORT OXFORDS
Are Ai riving Daily.
Make Yuur Choice Early.
Haltom Smith Co.
Vernonia, Oregon
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REVIEW OF WORK OF
OREGON LEGISLATURE
bill. Most members bellsvettuat Das
sage of an Income tax at thfc (session
is Inevitable. The only debatable ques
tions are how to avoid doubled taxa
tion and too much admlnlstratlve^over-
head.
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First Week Sees Little Work
k Done Outside of Organiza*
tion of the Two Houses.
Budget Commission Reports.!
Few Bills Introduced.
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FOUNTAIN GRILL
You Will Appreciate
the Appointment and Service
Rendered here. A Delightful
place to discuss that Business
Deal, or a Social Conversation
Our Lunch the Best
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Coffee Unexcelled
When in Portland
STOP
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Empress Hotel
Sixth and Stark Sts.
Center of Business District
Moderate Prices
C. H. URIE
Contractor and Builder
Ready to figure on any Job.
See me before letting yotir build
ing contract.
Vernonia,
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Haute BUIt Of all kin<ls kept in stock
or manufactured on short notcia.
We carry a stock of Dry Finish
Lumber from which to make your
selection. Al1 kinds of inoulmnRs:
roofing paper: lath, windows, doors.
No order too small or too large. T^t
usflgure witn you.
gait Orwoofl Lumber Co., Clotskmih, Oro.
CHURCH SERVICES
Vernonia Church of the Evangelical
Association, Sunday Services; I’reach-
iiig 11 a. m, and « p. m. Sunday school
Aga. m. Young People's Alliance 7 p.m
Prayer Meeting Thursdays 8 p. rp.
Choir practice Tuesday 8 p. m.
Vernonia Meat Market
We are now located in our new
building and prepared to give
Best Service In
all Fresh Meats
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The governor would designate the '
department to be headed by each com- '
mfssloner and would be authorized to
shift the commissioners about at an/
time the good of the service demand
ed such a shift.
Fifty-nine of the 64 abolished com
missions would be resurrected in the |
reerganlsatin under the super com- |
missioner plan.
The only agencies actually abolished I
under the proposed reorganization i
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would be the state audit committee,
legislative service' and reference
bureau, securities committee, commit
tee of tax investigation and the state
emergency board.
The bill provides for the appoint
ment of sub-commissioners to'head the
various activities in each department,
similar to the commissionerships in
effect under the present organization
and at the same salaries now obtain
ing except that the salary of the tax
commissioner would be increased from
$3000 to $4000. Instead of three high:
way commissioners, three industrial
accident commissioners and three pub
lic service commissioners as a present,
however, there would be only one com
missioner for each of these sub-de
partments.
Astoria Asks Relief.
Pure Lard
The Best on the Market
Insist on
Having
The
BEST
Quality
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Canned Goods
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« protect oiir customers hr
handling only such brands of
canned good® whoge inakeiH
have high r. piitationu to »ip
ho’il.
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1 here are numerous poorer k
grade« marketed which we have |
car-fully avoided in rejecting I
for our trade, though ^e might 1
profit more by handling then», 1
The prcea of these better
grades a-e low enough to suit
all.
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LANE & CO.
“THE DOME OF THE MARKET BASKET ’
Vernonia,
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LOWEST PRICES
Alien Land Bill Irrtrod'.'-ed
Governor Names Department Heads.
The question of state relief for the
stricken city of Astoria will receive at
tention this week. A bill Introduced
in
the house provides for an appro
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priation of $500,000 to aid in rehabili
tating the city. Proponents of the bill
are anxious tor prompt passage of
the measure, as they feel that aid from
the federal governmeat depends large
ly upon the action of the state legis
lature.
Indications are that the measure
will not get through without consider
able opposition. Many members from
Enstern Oregon, as well as from other
parts of the state are said to be op
posed to the appropriation.
During the week a measure propos
ing an income tax is likely to be placed
In the legislative hepper. The in
come tax law outlined by Speaker
Good business requires good station Kubli is the only one in sight. No
other member has Indicated that he
ery. The Eagle prints it.
has in preparation an income tax
Brand
The recommendations of the state
budget commission were ready for the
legislature when it convened Monday.
They call for appropriations aggregat
ing $6,416,832.23 for the biennium of
1923 and 1924.
The $6,416,832.23 is the amount
recommended for actual appropriation
by the legislature. Requirements for
the biennium for those state activities
supported by fixed levies or continu
ing appropriations are estimated at
$13,388,696.78, and requirements of self
maintaining boards, commissions and
departments are placed at $27,363,-
809.23.
The free text book bill fathered by
Representative Woodward of Mult
nomah'county is likely to arouse con-
The oppon-
siderable controversy,
ents of the free text book bill will
base their fight largely on the ground
that it will increase taxes, while those
who favor the bill claim they have
figures showing that in other states
free text books have not materially in
creased taxes.
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Representative Woodward has also
sponsored a bill extending suffrage
to all qualified voters in school elec
tions and another to prohibit the I
wearing of sectarian garb in any pub
lic school.
While a similar sectarian garb bill
was defeated In the 1921 session, in-
i. ’cations are that there will be little,
f any, opposition to the bill in this
session.
A farm bloc and an anti-log-rolling
block have been organized .in the
house.
The farm bloc will vote as a unit
against measures which do not seem
to be a good thing from the farmers’ I
viewpoint, while the anti-log-rolling
bloc is going to insist that every
measure be considered on its merits
and not traded or log-rolled through
the house.
Snlem. — Aside from organization
little of importance was accomplish
ed during the first week’s session of
the state legislature. This is not un
usual, however, for It is the habit of
legislatures the country over to do
very little real work during the first
week.
While there is said to be an under
current of resentment in certain quar
ters over the committee appointments
of President Upton of the senate and
Speaker Kubll of the house, it is not
believed It will result in upsetting the
organization plans in either house.
Every session finds a number of mem
bers displeased with their committee
assignments, but usually their resent
ment disappears when the session gets
ddwn to business.
A clash between the senate and
house ways and means committees
marked the first days of the session.
The differences seemed to be largely
over the appointment of a chief clerk
of the Joint ways and means com
mittee. Pressure "has been brought to
bear on both committees by a large
element in both houses and harmony
Is looked for this week.
One remarkable i feature of the ini
tial week of the present session was
the small number of bills introduced,
as compared with'recent sessions. It
is hoped by some members of both
houses that this record will be main
tained during the session, so that the
1923 st non will make its record on
the importance of ti.e bills passed aad
not on the number of measures la-
troduced.
During the first week twenty bills
were introduced in the senate and 43
in the house. Four joint resolutions
were also offered in the house.
The first measure of major impor
tance introduced was offered by Sen
ator Hall of Coos county, proposing
the abolishment of 64 boards and com
missions and merging all other state
departments under four general heads.
The four departments proposed in
the Hall bill would be known as the
department of business control, depart
ment of labor. Industry and public wel
fare, department of agriculture and
natural resources and the departmeat
of publii works and utilities.
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The secretary of state and the state
treasurer would each be constituted a
commissioner in charge of one of these
departments, with two other commis
sioners to be appointed by the gover
nor with consent of the senate at sal-
aries of $4500 each per year, except
that the commissioner of public works
and utilities should receive $6000 per
year.
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All aliens not eligible to citizenship
in the United States would be barred
from ownership of real property or
control of corporations in Oregon un
der the terms of a bill introduced In
the house by Representatives Bailey
and 1 Huston.
The bill is modeled closely after
the California anti-alien land law and
is similar to a bill introduced in the
1921 session of the Oregon legislature
and defeated because of the federal
opposition to the measure at that time.
Wv ar* unusua'lv particular as to the qual
ity of tea* and coffees we sei—hot1» >» b reward®
where it grow-», ho v it is Mended, and how it is
handle I after it reaches us.
Better Ice Cream Wanted.
Two bills directed at ice cream
manufacturers were introduced in the
house, one by Overturf and the other
by Cary.
The Overturf bill would increase the
amount of milk fat In ice cream from
8 to 12 per cent; from 6 to 9 per cent
In fruit ice cream and from 6 to 9
per cent in nut ice cream.
The Cary bill would increase the
percentage in plain ice cream from
8 to 10 per cent; in fruit ice cream
from 6 to 8 per cent and in nut ice
cream from 6 to 8 per cent.
Only natural-born or naturalized
American citizens could be employed
by contractors on public works being
done either by the state or any muni
cipality in it, if a bill introduced by
Representative Hurlburt becomes a
law. Violation of 'the • proposed law
would be penalized by a fine of from
$50 to $500 or jail imprisonment of
from 30 to 90 days.
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We carry a large variety of teas and coffees
♦ o satisfy a.l la&tes Meiel ■ t II ns what brand
hoc have been buying «nd wv’ll give yon Rome-
thing well worth trying.
We Help You Lower the Cost of Living,
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ergerson Bros
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House Commends Highway Body.
Expressions of warmest commenda
tion for the present state highway
commission and its work were contain
ed in a resolution introduced in the
house by Orafiam and adopted with
out a dissenting vote. Not only did
the resolution express confidence in
and gratitude to the members, but it
also declared that the rapid develop
ment of the state during the laBt five
years had amply demonstrated the wis
dom of the road program.
An effort to prevent the change of
party registration and keep democrats
from voting In republican primaries or
republicans from voting in democratic
primaries is made in a bill introduced
in the house by Representative Kuehn.
Legislstivs Brevities.
The appointment of T. H. Crawford
of La Grande as a member of the
board of regents of Oregon agricul
tural college was ratified by the sen-
ate. Mr. draw ford succeeds Governor
Walter M. Pierce.
The first bill to receive favorable
consideration in the senate was in
troduced by Senator Strayer of Baker,
and provides for the designation of the
east and west road through the state
as the Old Oregon Trail.
The first county salary Increase bill
bobbed up in the house when Repre
sentative Miles introduced a measure
having for its purpose an increase in
salary for the treasurer of Columbia
county from $1000 to $1200 a year.
Changing the date for paying the
first half of all taxes from April 8 to
.Tune 1 is the purpose of an amend
ment to the tax laws introduced In the
senate by Senator Johnson of Benton
count,.
Cream Station
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For the benefit «nil convenience of the dairymen of
the Nehalem Valley and 10 help »well our
already large outpii» of Maid O’(’l>»ver
B 'tltr wj have installed a
Cream Buying Station
Coyle,& Coyle Meat Market
and ready io receive cream and pay Spot Cash for
same at Portland Delivered Price less a small
handli ;g ind transports»'on Charge. Deliver your
cream to the station and end your worrits about lost
cans, spilled cream, and del ived remittances.
Mutual Creamery Co.
Port I and
Vernonia *
Why Go To Portland?
THE FOREST GROVE GENERAL HOSPITAL
Graduate Nurses in Attendance.
Surgical and Obstetrical Cases a Specialty
Forest Grove, Oregon.
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