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The Brownsville woolen mill Is now
employing several shifts of men and
the machines are running day and
night.
Portland-Vernonia- Astoria
BOOST IT
A special meeting of Oregon dairy
men and representatives of allied In
dustries called to consider proposed
kgislatlon was postponed to Monday,
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January 19.
When you see a car with a Gates, ask the owner
how he likes his tire.
VERNONIA BRAZING & MACHINE WORKS
winter poultry show at the state fair
grounds. In event the show is author
ized it probably would be held In
January, starting In 1926.
Murdered in hla cabin home behind
a church in Bend, the charred body of
Aleck Roucbek, a citizen of Poland,
was found by firemen. After killing
A total of 481,127 tons were handled Rouchek, who waa etruck on the head
in the port terminals of Astoria dur with an ax as he entered his home,
ing the last year, according to data the slayer fired the bouse.
prepared by port authorities.
It Is believed that the board of en
The Northwestern Society of High
way Engineers held its annual meeting
In Portland Saturday, with more than
200 members of the organization in
attendance.
Where the most wear comes, that’s where you will
find the heaviest and sturdest construction in a
Gates Tire. To prove to your own satisfaction that
our claims of longer service is true, try a Gates
Tire on your own car.
Two hundred and fifty employes of
the city water bureau of Portland will
have to pay $50,000 in back taxes to ’
the government because of a decision
that employes of a publie utility, city
owned, must pay taxes as employes of
every other utility.
With the warrants all paid and mon
ey left In practically every fund of the
county, Linn county closed 1924 with
a balance of $149,761.18.
Steps have been taken for the crea-
tlon of a new school district with
Westfir, the new sawmill town two
mile) east of Oakridge, as the center.
Extra Heavy
Construction
the caik_d prize Chandler’s Hcrefcrda
won all other prizes in the Hereford
ClftM.
Although light snows continue to
fall throughout the Haines valley and
George M. Oeisendorfer has been foofthlll district adjoining, there is
recommended by Representative Haw not
sufficient mow to assure crop« In
ley for appointment as postmaster at the irrigated sections, where snows
Cascadia.
are depended upon for water through-
About 210 men are employed on the out the growing season.
government dam under construction
The state fair board, at its annual
on McKay creek, seven miles south of meeting in Salem Monday, consider
Pendleton.
ed the advisability of holding a mid
Purchase of a hook-and-ladder truck
for the McMinnville fire department
has been put In the hands of a com
ml ttee for action.
INLAND HIGHWAY
Herbert Chandler <'* T-’-'r "-n
prize on a
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ford range bulls at the Ogden livestock I
show at Ogden. Utah. In addition to 1
gineers will soon make a favorable re
port on the project to improve Tilla
mook bay. The report has been ap
proved by the board of engineers and
is now in the hands of the chief of
engineers for bls judgment.
Homer C. Parrett of Newberg, son
of Bam L. Parrett, president of the
United States National bank of New
berg, waa appointed county treaaurer
by the Yamhill county court. C. E.
Dukenfield, elected in November over
Mrs. Nellie Dodson, resigned.
No other tire
ever won favor
so quickly!
VIT
TIRES and TUBES
COLUMBIA TIRE CORPORATION, PORTLAND, OREGON
Gilby Motor Co
FUNERAL MARCH PLEASE
The rivers and harbors bill as re There was a man in our town,
ported
to the house carries provision
Nearly 1000 more homes were erect
And he was a speedy guy.
ed In Portland in 1924 than In 1923 for surveys of both Coos bay and the He turned the corners on two wheels
and the value was $4,094,125 greater Umpqua river with a view to their
Crossed crossings on the fly,
than the year before, Homes erected further improvement. The Coos bay Bu yesterday, the Extras say,
project calle for a 25-foot channel and
numbered 3997.
Thia wise man saw the light.
the Umpqua for a 22-foot channel.
His fliver stalled on the railroad
The compilation of groaa poetai re-
The curve in the Eugene-Coburg
Track—
celpta of the Medford postofflce, $55,-
highway
where Charles Adler, Port
Toot, toot! Ding, dong! Good
501.20 for the year, shows an Increase
of more than 9 per cent over groas land traveling salesman, was drowned
Night!
a short time ago when he drove his
receipts in 1923.
automobile into overflow waters of
The condition of W. J. Kerr, preai-
the Willamette river, is being straight “I’VE a little plant in the country
dent of Oregon Agricultural college.
close by a purling stream, where
ened to eliminate danger of similar
who has been seriously ill for some
the pressman never wrangle, nor
accidents in the future.
time. Is reported by attending physi
the walls bear scrawls obscene—
Approximately 40,000 sheep, moatly
cians to be improved.
and it’s there your little booklet or
ewes and feeder lamba. are being fat
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letterhead, won’t fail ti make a hit
i Richard H. Thornton, 79. one of the tened and wintered on hay grown in
state’s ablest lawyers and founder and
for style and wit, or to bring back
the Deschutes country,
In former
first dean of the University of Ore
—the kale.
years not more than a few thousand
gon law school, died at Good Samari
WHY
give your best to a mad house,
head were wintered in this section. A
tan hospital in Portland.
where price and rush prevail? Why
considerable number of the sheep were
Dr. W. J. Spillman, chief of the bu brought from Lake county.
burden a thoughtless printer, when
reau of farm management, federal de
a thoughtful one’s for sale? By the
The Hood River county court having
partment of agriculture, is on a trip
country stream, we will plan your
authorized the expenditure of approxi
through the Pacific northwest visiting
dream, for a salesman or the mail.
mately $35,000 In the purchase of a
the agricultural colleges.
suitable tract of land for a permanent
All travel over the Columbia high experimental tract, the Oregon legis
way between Hood River and The lature will be aaked to make appropri
Dalles was blocked by a 150-foot rock ation for maintenance of the Hood
slide which occurred at the tunnel River branch experiment station.
about a mile west of Mosier.
Because of unaatiafactory conditions
C. S. Fletcher, who for five yean said to exist in the wheat-growing dis
has been county agricultural agent at tricts of eastern Oregon, Governor
Moscow, Idaho, has been appointed to Pierce may go before the legislature
a similar position in Lane county and and urge an appropriation with which
will assume his duties February 1.
to purchase seed for those farmers
J. M. Devers, attorney for the state whose crops have been destroyed as a
highway department, has been re result of the late intenae cold weather.
quested to prepare a bill for presenta
A new railroad story comes from
tion to the legislature providing for a Curry county to the effect that the
tax on cigarettes sold In this state.
Chicago. Milwaukee A St. Paul rail
Enjoy an hour at the new
O. K. CARD ROOM
SO send us your little order, be it
large, or fine, or small—and if you
want to see me, I’ll be very glad to
call, but the plant is out here wait
ing, waiting to serve you well, so
the sooner we get together, th«
sooner your goods will SELL!’’
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“Pop” will be Manager
Rolo Drain died at the Eugene hos-
pl tai as a result of burns suffered
when a davenport upon which ha waa
■leeping several weeks ago caught
fire. He was badly burned on his arms
and body.
road proposes to build down the Or»
gon coast from Seaside to California
and thence on to Ban Francisco, prob
ably to attach to the Northwestern Pa
ciflc at Ito northarn terminus at Eu
reka.
George Hinkle and Clinton Bramber
rf utherlla are in tko Roseburg ho»
Vital suffering from injuries sustained
I I when a tree fall across their car while
they were driving on the Catapoola
road east of Sutherlin.
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Consolidation of >2 individual road
districts in Wasco county Into five
large districts for the purpose of mak
T-9 ing more money available for general
road purposes, was announced by
County Judge Adkisson.
J. E. CuHiaon and R. F. Edgar of
Portland have received a contract
from the Klamath county court to
cruise 76,000 acres of white pine tlm-
her land In Klamath county. They
will receive 20 cento per acre.
Mias Kathleen Milla, defeated can
didate for the office of county treas
urer of Tillamook county nt the fall
election, succeeded herself as the re
sult of refusal of County Treasurer-
elect Bryan to accept the office.
Lake county is clearing the tax rolls
of delinquent taxpayers by a foreclos
ure suit Involving more than 4000 de
fendants, representing property own
ers of the county whose taxes have
been unpaid for the last two years.
The resideaoe of W. A. Umbanhowor
on Grand Island, about tan miles south
of Dayton, upset and caused damage
estimated at between $$80 and $300.
The house was built on piles about six
foot in the air to put ft above high
water danger.
The accident was
thought to hare been caused by a set
tlement of the underpinning oa one
•Me following the recoat heavy tosena.
One hundred and nineteen mills r»
portlng to the West Coast Lumber
men's association for the week ending
January 3, manufactured 56.968,412
feet of lumber; sold 60.150,664 feet;
and shipped 77.44», 182 feet. New busi
ness waa • per cent above production.
Shipments were 2» per cent above new
business.
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Wishes the People of Vernonia and Vicinity
A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A BRIGHT AND
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
Welcome Strangers, Vernonia Greets You, Glad
to Meet You
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William P. Downing, a pro
figure In the dsvelopmsat st Bend tor
the past >3 yean, and the owner of
a hotel there, was shot through the
head in the room of Mrs. Ethel Nor
ton, an ex-employe. Death waa the
result of a bullet find by Downing*»
own hand, according to the story told
by Mrs. Norton.
At a meeting of the raw products
committee of the Rossburg chamber of
commerce, steps wore taken to deter
mine the amount of damage done to
the broccoli crop by the roeeat extreme
cold weather. The crop waa badly
hurt, according to ail Indlcationa, aad
the chamber of nimmirn is taking up
with agricultural experts the matter of
starting crops that will take the piece
of broccoli.
Neither the »smi t ary of state
aay other official has any right to
•et aside or extend the time tor en
forcement of the laws in thia state.
This was announced by Sam A. Koaar,
secretary of state, following receipt of
reports that in some parts of Oregon
motor vehicle owners apparently were
of the opinion that they were exempt
from placing 1»36 license platen oa
their oars aatil February L
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