Oregon Senator McNary Plans Farm Leaders Visit
Washington advices indicate Senator McNary will invite farm leaders to discuss possible legislation. Invitations to groups will go out in two to three weeks as he seeks farm sentiment and outlook. He also backs broad use of frozen credit mobilization to aid small banks and clients and pushes river improvement plans before the harbor board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon Journal
Washington
McNary
Willamette River
River and Harbor Board
Committee On Committee
Major Stuart
National Forester
Oregon
Meier
Stuart
Congress
District Rebekah Convention Held In Freewater
The district Rebekah convention gathers in Freewater on Monday October 26 with delegates from Umatilla county lodges. A formal program by Freewater hostess lodge Integrity 175 features Mignonette Lodge Athena, duets by Mrs Adta Michener and Mrs Ada Montague, outside guard Mrs Maude Logsdon, and Ethel Meldrum president of the Rebekah Assembly of Oregon will deliver the principal address.
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Rebekah
Freewater
Umatilla County
Integrity
Mignonette Lodge of
Athena
Adta Michener
Ada Montague
Maude Logsdon
Ethel Meldrum
Rebekah Assembly of Oregon
Quail Return to Game Farm with 69-Bird Brood
Eight pair of California Valley quail escaped high water at the Eastern Oregon Game Farm and returned last week with a brood of 69. Manager Lawrence Demalgalski closed a pen to move the birds to a larger enclosure. The birds remain in exhibition pens and will be released in various county areas after hunting season. The farm suffered water damage but logged its most successful year, releasing over 10 000 game birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Valley
Oregon
East Oregonian
Umatilla
Lawrence Demalgalski
Demalgalski
Brother Killer Charged in Pike County Kentucky
Lloyd Cantrell alias Will Williamson, a Bend service station operator, was arrested in Bend on a telegraphic grand jury indictment for the murder of his brother Caleb in Pike County Kentucky on November 16, 1916. Cantrell admitted the killing was accidental and said he had previously killed a man named Mullins in Pike County and was paroled after five years.
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Caleb
Pike Ty
Kentucky
Lloyd Cantrell
Will Williamson
Bend
Cantrell
Mullins
Pike County
Whitman Conservatory singer wins Atwater-Kent audition finals
Miss Jones Nye a 21 year old Whitman Conservatory senior won the California bound state final by singing Una Voce Poca Fa from the Barber of Seville. The Hood River native performed as No 21 at Seattle Tuesday night in the radio audition finals.
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Jones Nye
Whitman Conservatory of Music
California
Atwater-Kent
Seattle
Miss Nye
Hood River
No Profit for the Mills Grinding Grain for China
E. H. Leonard of the Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. says Pacific Northwest flour mills will grind a second Chinese government order totaling 300000 bushels. The deal won’t be profitable. mills will be paid little, and there is uncertainty over which Preston-Shaffer plants will mill or if the work will be farmed out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Northwest
E. H. Leonard
Preston-Shaffer Milling Company
Walla Walla
Leonard
Preston-Shaffer Company
Coppock and Ringel Guernseys Win Again at Umatilla Fair
The Coppock and Ringel Guernsey herd collected thirteen ribbons at the Umatilla Project Fair in Hermiston over two days, led by a championship and multiple firsts and seconds. Open dairy cattle prizes went to Coppock and Ringel, with notable wins in age classes and dam progeny. The fair drew large crowds, with gate receipts over 500 dollars on the last day, and featured 4-H displays, high school bands, and a Pendleton Hermiston football game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guernsey
William Coppock
Louie Ringel
Hermiston
Coppock
Mr. Ringel
Irrigan
Pendleton
Bank official predicts stock market recovery underway
J Henry Helser of the American National Bank Portland and chair of the state advisory banking board says the worst is over and a new upturn should gain momentum in January and February after possible December dips.
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J. Henry Helser
Securiies
American National Bank
Portland
State Advisory Banking Board
Scout Ends Own Life in Camas Prairie Veteran Indian Scout John L Baxter
John L Baxter 72 a veteran Indian scout and Camas Prairie resident for 54 years killed himself in bed Tuesday with a pistol bullet. Baxter and his brother in law Al Hull shared a homestead near Soldier where Baxter filed on land in 1886 after a decade as a scout Indian fighter pioneer merchant and public official.
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John L. Baxter
Camas Prairie
Baxter
al Hull
Soldier
Hunters Return from John Day Camp with Two Buck Deer
A hunting party led by Leonard Geissel Norman McIntyre Dale Stephens Bryce Baker and Wil ford Miller returned from the John Day hunting grounds with two buck deer after a grand camping trip in the fore part of the week.
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Leonard Geissel
Norman McIntyre
Dale Stephens
Bryce Baker
Wilford Miller
John Day
County Accepts Corn and Hay for Road Taxes in Candler
Citizens may pay road taxes in kind with corn or hay. County commissioners set corn value at 75 cents per bushel and hay at 1 cent per pound.
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Candler County
Georgia
Machine shop to move north of town for alterations
Virgil Zerba plans to relocate the building east of the Athena Garage to his farm north of town. He will make suitable alterations to convert the machine shop for farm use.
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Virgil Zerba
Athena Garage
Football race narrows to four area schools
The eastern Oregon high school football race narrows with four teams remaining after Baker beat Pendleton 8 to 0 and La Grande defeated McLoughlin 36 to 6. La Grande travels to Enterprise this weekend while Ontario and Baker stay undefeated.
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Oregon
Baker
Pendleton
Buckaroo
la Grande
McLoughlin High
Milton-Freewater
Enterprise
Ontario
Nomination Sought for Oregon Supreme Court Justice
Loyal Graham of Forest Grove filed with the secretary of state a preliminary petition for nonpartisan nomination to the Oregon supreme court next year. He would oppose incumbent George M. Brown, department No. 3, in the primary. This is the first filing under the 1931 act establishing a nonpartisan judiciary.
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Loyal Graham
Forest Grove
Secretary of State
Office of Justice of
State Supreme Court
George M. Brown
Graham
Oregon
Bend Mill to Close at Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Plant
The Shevlin-Hixon Lumber mill in Bend will close starting yesterday affecting about 1400 workers with payroll near 1.6 million dollars. Only the shipping department stays open. the mill ran about 22 percent of the time in the past year and is expected to reopen in mid March.
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Bend
Shevlin-Hixon
Idaho Stock Show at Portland University Exhibit
The University of Idaho college of agriculture will present a carload of sheep fat steers and hogs at the Pacific International Live stock exposition in Portland. The consignment is described as outclassing the university's recent Portland entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
University of Idaho College of Agriculture
Portland
University
Memorial Notice for Mrs Hannah Armstrong
A summons answered at 92 Train describes the journey of the boat and wagon team that brought Mrs Hannah Armstrong to the northwest where she spent 60 of her 62 years. Mrs Armstrong died at Walla Walla on Tuesday.
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Hannah Armstrong
Northwest
Whole Wheat Becomes Regular Diet for Drought Areas
Local farmers in the middle west adopt cooked whole wheat as a cheap nutritious cereal. Nebraska extension expert Margaret Osborn lists 20 cooking methods from muffins to meat loaf basis and notes wheat’s energy, protein, fiber, and vitamin B content. She warns stomach sufferers seek medical advice before starting the diet.
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Middle West
Margaret Osborn
Nebraska College of Agriculture
Miss Osborn
Engineer Andrew J. Wiley Buried in Idaho Valley
Andrew J. Wiley, 72, renowned for helping build numerous western dams, was buried Wednesday on a bench overlooking an Idaho valley fed by one of his projects. He died last Thursday in Monrovia, California, while inspecting a proposed water storage site.
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Andrew J. Wiley
West
Idaho
Monrovia
Cal
Oregon counties urged to budget for insane care in 1932
Attorney General Van Winkle informs counties that under the 1931 law each county must include an item in their 1932 budgets for care of the insane in state institutions. He adds no formal formula will be issued by his office.
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Oregon
Vanwinkle
Ofce
Hitch Hiker Dies After Hermiston Crash
A hitchhiker, unnamed, died Tuesday morning from injuries after a car driven by a motorist who had befriended him left the road and overturned near Hermiston Monday night, the county sheriff’s report shows.
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Hermiston
Barber Injured in Wreck Near Mountain Home Idaho
Tom Matthews a former barber of Walla Walla is in a Boise hospital near death after an auto accident near Mountain Home Idaho. He had left three weeks earlier and bought a shop at Mountain Home.
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Tom Matthews
Walla Walla
Boise, Idaho
Mountain Home Idaho
Matthews
Mountain Home
W C T U County Convention Held in Athena Yesterday
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union county convention met in Athena with broad attendance from nearby towns. The program included sessions on reports, youth roll call, memorial service, international relations, and a keynote on what Oregon pays for war, concluding with officer elections for the state convention in Albany.
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Athena
C. H. Northrup
Baptist Church
C. H. Gemmell
Helix
W. H. Albee
Esther May
Chas. Betts
W. R. Wyrick
Clementine Ingram
Hermiston
Pendleton
Milton
Freewater
A. V. Constant
Rieth
Roy Penland
Higgenbottom
D. E. Nourse
Oregon
Florance Berkeley
R. B. McEwen
Helix Light Line Union
F. O. Swanson
C. A. Patton
Walter Jones
Loyal Temperance Legion
John Gallogly
Hermiston Union
Albany
Sparse Fall Wheat Seeding in Umatilla County
County agent Walter Holt reports light fall seeding of wheat in Umatilla County as farmers delay planting awaiting rainfall.
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Umatilla County
Walter Holt
Sullivan Offers Alibi in Homer Bidwell Case
Defense lawyers will try to prove Willard Sullivan was in Idaho when he allegedly murdered Homer Bidwell, a Union rancher shot on his farm. Mrs. Bidwell testified to a prior alleged arson attempt on the Bidwell home.
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Willard Sullivan
Idaho
Homer Bidwell
Union
la Grande
Bidwell
Sullivan
Montana Couple Visiting Son in Glacier Park Area
Here from Montana Captain and Mrs Prestbye are visiting at the home of their son E C Prestbye in Whitefish. Captain Prestbye plies a pleasure boat on a lake in Glacier National Park during summer and will go to Portland for an eye cataract operation after several days visit.
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Montana
Mrs Hattie Tucker Dies At 41 In Weston
Mrs Hattie Anne Tucker wife of Sidney Tucker of Weston died at her parents home Mr and Mrs W H Gould in Weston Monday morning at age 41 years 11 months and 11 days Funeral services were held at the Church of the Brethren in Weston Tuesday afternoon.
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Hattie Anne Tucker
Sidney Tucker
Weston
W. H. Gould
Church of the Brethren
Trout fingerling plantings listed in October 5 bulletin
The fish and game commission bulletin notes fingerling trout releases at several streams. Rainbow in Camas creek totals 6 000, Meacham creek 20 000, South Fork Walla Walla river 40 000, Uma-tilla river 216 800, hatchery origin at Bingham Springs.
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Bingham Springs
Fish and Game Commission
Camas Creek
Meacham Creek
South Fork Walla Walla River
Umatilla River
Harvested Potato Crop on Marion Hansell’s Foothill Ranch
Nineteen workers harvested about a thousand sacks of potatoes from Marion Hansell’s eleven acre foothill ranch. They completed the task in two days, stacking the tubers in pits after gathering the yield.
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Marion Hansell
Violin Believed to Be Stradivarius Owned by Swaggart
J M Swaggart of the La Mar gulch neighborhood inherits an old violin thought by observers to be a genuine Stradivarius. The instrument moved from a road show performer to Dick Donica then Nelson Swaggart before passing to J M Swaggart after the elder Swaggart’s death. Inside back inscriptions read Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat anno 1788.
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J. M. Swaggart
la Mar Gulch
Weston
Swaggart
Athena
Centerville
Dick Donica
Donica
Nelson Swagfart
Antonius
Cattle and Sheep In Oregon Livestock Report
The October 1 Oregon livestock report shows cattle in fair to good condition with thin cattle in dry areas and western states generally fair to good. Sheep are below average for October with poor to fair fall feed in many areas and early lamb shipments due to poor pasture. Winter ranges are poor in several states and Western sheepmen face financial strain in securing feed.
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Oregon
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Southwest
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
Nevada
Idaho
Montana
South Dakota
Colorado
Wyoming
Federal Farm Board Extends Loans to Oregon Growers
The board reports loans totaling 523245 dollars in Oregon up to September 9 under the agricultural marketing act. Advances reach 326000.10 with repayments of 20219. Associations representing grain fruit wool poultry and dairy interests aided by their respective groups.
Laurence Pinkerton Plans Gold Fish Pond at Golf Course
Laurence Pinkerton will build a large pond at his golf course to house a breeding stock of 150 goldfish. He will source the fish from F. Hampton near Genessee Idaho and plant pond lilies and other aquatic plants to beautify the water feature.
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Laurence Pinkerton
F. Hampton
Genessee
Idaho
Regulation Mandates Horse Padding in Mexican Bull Ring
Mexican bullfight arenas will require horses to wear protective pads to prevent goring. The new rule aims to shield the mounts from bulls as they are unable to defend themselves, relying on the picador’s lance for defense.
Dalberth Taylor Receives Tuberculosis Free Cattle Certificate
Dalberth Taylor received a certificate from the United States Department of Agriculture confirming an accredited herd of grade Jersey cattle is free of tuberculosis. The document allows intrastate shipping of cattle without a tuberculin test.
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Dalberth Taylor
Jersey
United States Department of Agriculture
Intangibles Tax 19 Ruled Void by Oregon Supreme Court
The U S Supreme Court refused to review Oregon’s intangibles tax case, Upheld Oregon ruling that the 1929 act is unconstitutional as applied to individuals, mandating a refunds totaling about 894000 dollars to taxpayers. The Oregon tax commission plans prompt repayment.
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Intangibles Tax
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Oregon Tax Commissioners
Oregon Supreme Court
Supreme Court
State Tax Commission
Circuit Court of Oregon
Marion County
Redfield & Wood
Marion County Circuit
Salem
United Supreme Court
Oregon
Game Commission Adopts Yearly Budget of 395000
The state game commission on Tuesday approved a 395000 budget for next year based on about 390000 in expected revenue. After deducting 127000 for the state police fund, allocations covered stream work 6000 hatcheries 140000 engineering 14000 educational publicity 10000 game farms 45000 office administration 16000 miscellaneous 16750 Mia Denny 600 game supervisor 5200 bounties and rewards 6750 commissioners' expense 3500 river patrol 5000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Game Commission
Mia
Denny
Whitman and Athena Alumni Clash On Local Grid
Whitman Sigma Chi and Athena high school alumni face off in a colossal football contest this Thursday afternoon on the local gridiron. Read as Eldon Myrick Lee Foster Ralph McEwen Edwin McEwen Arthur Crowley Walt Huffman Wilford Miller Orel Michener Jack Moore Wayne Pinkerton Bryce Baker Stafford Hansell Cecil Pambrun George Pambrun are listed for Athena with Wilbur Harden as referee Lisle Gray as head linesman.
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Whitman Sigma Chi
Athena High School
Athena
Eldon Myrick
Lee Foster
Ralph
Edwin McEwen
Arthur Crowley
Walt Huffman
Wilford Miller
Orel Michener
Jack Moore
Wayne Pinkerton
Bryce Baker
Stafford Hansell
Cecil Pambrun
George Pambrun
Wilbur Harden
Lisle Gray
Unusual Farm Operations Sighted Near Athena
J. E. Jones noted unusual seasonal work on his mail route north of Athena. He observed Frank Sanders feeding his fall wheat crop and later saw Grady Herndon threshing outfit harvesting grain with parts of the field appearing a trifle green in the mountain farming district east of Athena.
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J. E. Jones
Athena
Frank Sanders
Jones
Grady Herndon
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Quail
Game Farm
China
Coppock and
Ringel Guernseys
California Sun
Barbara Marquis
Beverly Hills
Calif
Dunaarquis
Kaye Don
Lake Garda
Aly
Don
Mate Tr Don
W.C.T.U
Tucker
Old Stradivarius
Game Commission
Whitman
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