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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1923)
OREGON NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected for Our Readers. Always Cool—A Man's Place Refreshing Drinks, The Famed Hoffler’s Candies Agency Hazelwood ICE CREAM Tobacco, Cigars, Smokers’ Articles Pool and Cards y/ernonia Hazelwood See the Sign HAMS PRIME anti you can order oi e itoin us with the feeling that your family i? going to have A REAL TREAT The same applies to our Legs of Lamb and Veal, Chops, Steaks, Stews, etc. Everything in meats here High Class and Desirable —i Emmott & Culver Vernonia Meat Market. Home Merchants Carry the beat of gootia, and appréciai« your patron ige. Investigate their prices, Prineville's new 8200,000 hotel open ed for business Monday. The Southern Pacific company has reported a short«« of 20S cars. Herbert Vanduyn has been chosen mayor of Coburg, to succeed John W. Conoway, resigned. The cement plant at Gold Hill, which has been closed the past three weeks, will resume this week. Receipts of the state Industrial ac cident commission during the month of July aggregated 8328,822.88. Establishments of a beet sugar fac tory at Prineville at a cost of ap proximately 81,000.000 is proposed. Supervisor W. F. Ramsdell of the Whitman national forest reports re ceipts of 8180,097.58 for the fiscal year. A caravan of 80 autos made the annual walnut excursion through Yam hill and Washington counties last week. A branch of the federal prohibition enforcement office for Oregon has been located In the federal betiding la Medford. Thomas W. Summerville, one of the most prominent pioneers of Lane county, died at hl» home at Harris- burg at the age of 82. September 18, 19 and 20 have been set as dates for the annual Clatsop county fair which will bo held at the Astoria port terminals. Mrs. Lillian Hayes, wife of Bldward Hayes, homesteader of the Gaylord vicinity in Coos county, committed sui cide because of family quarrels. F. W. Wooley, insurance agent, has been appointed city manager of War renton In place of Mrs. R. B. Barrett, who has retired because of QI health. The Btate highway commission has announced that the bridge over the Willamette river at Springfield will ba closed for repairs for a period of 80 days. Harvest operations are in full swing at Heppner and wheat is turning out better than moot farmers expected. The yield runs from 20 to 88 bushels per acre. Presbyterian congregations from all the principal towns of Central Oregon united in outdoor services on Tumalo island in the Deschutes rfvei below Bond Sunday. The livestock market nows servioe of the United States department of agriculture will be extended to Port land and will begin operations about September 1. In order to allow the pupils to labor in the fruit harvesting and shipping field, Medford’s school board has post poned the opening of the school» until September 24. The new American bank at Marsh field, Incorporated last month with 888 residents of the Coos Bay section as stockholders, will be doing business by November 1. The Modern Woodmen of America have decided to erect a permanent building on the state fair grounds at Salem. The structure will ooet ap proximately 85000. Pieces of ore assaying at more than 815,000 a ton have been found on the Red, White and Blue mine at Mal heur, according to T. 8. Glenn, part owner of the mine. Joseph A. McAllister, since 1817 sec retary of the state desert land board, has filed his resignation with Ray Luper, state engineer, td become ef fective September 1. Moro money was collected on the Columbia river interstate bridge last month than during any month since the bridge was built. The income during July was 888,140. A temporary school building will be erected at Westfir, seat of the now Western Lumber company's 21,000,- 000 sawmill near Oakridge, for the children of company hands. Eighty-five fires were reported tn government national foreets of Oro gen and Washington for the ten-day period August 1 to 10. according to the forest service fire report. William M. Pearoe of La Grande has been removed as a member of the state board of optometry by Gover nor Pierce. He wtll be succeeded by Oeoi George 8. Birney, also of LaGrando. Mrs. 8. T. Holopeter of Medford was killed when an auto in w riding wont into a gntch to back down a grade on a narrow stretch of road between Coquille aad Rendon. Fourteen per cent above normal was the production of mills reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen’s asso ciation for the week ending August IL according to a report made public. period new I I The eoldierw' ml—inn has soldiers' bonos bonus com commission loaned to veterans in In Oregon a total of 211,008,000 211.008,000 out of a total author author ised fund of 280,000,000, according to Hopkins, . a statement Issued by A. C. Hopkins. secretary of the rm—•rf — Of 4400 paid, appnirtmataty loans actually paid. 1000 have been placed hi in Mi Multnomah 1800 county. Upon the suggestion of C. H. Fake of Salem, Ben Dey, attorney for the company, has rue- rec Southern Pacific company. ommended to the state highway do de partment aad to the public service périmant commission that approach«« to all rafl- gradually, road crossings be graded up gradually. and thereby assist In in the elimination of accidents. The Eugene chamber of oommerce has taki taken steps to have the name “Natron cut-off," cut-off,” which Is the designa deslgna- tion tlon of the now railway soon to bo Oekrid"«, tn Lane cosm- coun built between Oakridrre, ty, to Kirk. Kirk, In in Klamath county, chang chang- ith cut-off. cut-off." 1 The ed to "Bugeno-Klamath Klamath Falls chain ber will be asked chahiber to oo-operate. co-operate. A of 7804 A total total of 7804 Chinese Chinese and and Mon- Mon- I golian pheasants were released In Oro- Ore- i gon in tn 1923 up to August 15, it was re- : ported by Gene M. Simpson, suporin- superin tendent of the state game farms. Twc farms are maintained by the state, one near Eugene and another near Cor vallis. Of these 5788 were released at Eugene and 2141 at Corvallis. A total of 28,882 eggs were gathered dur ing the months of April. May, Juno and July, aad from these 13,522 birds were hatched B R&L BARBER SHOP Physician & Surgeon Sanitary Shop SHOWER BATHS Al all Times, K* if C. L. TAYLOR, M. D. Z5C Mike L. Miller, Prop. Office First National Bank Bldg. Forest Grove »Oregon An Up-to-date TONSORIAL PARLOR Phones- rnonee. °® ce. Reaidence 922 092X3 ■Mari