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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
10
Market report from Eugene lists prices for Mohair wool poultry dairy products and produce. Includes butter fryers hens geese ducks turkeys onions lemons oranges and fruits, plus livestock values for cows steers mutton hogs and dressed meat. Also notes grain feeds and milled foods with per ton and per bushel figures and dates implied by the listing.
Portland market notes 600000 pounds Valley wool sold with buyers active and prices from 22 to 25 cents per pound. Eastern Oregon wool stronger. hop market shows demand for 1908 and 1907 lots with offers around 9 to 10 cents. New crop bids around 12 cents with limited sellers. Also reports on eggs, poultry, meats, and a softening cattle and sheep tone at Portland Union Stockyards.
Market notes show California fruit the poorest of the season with crates selling as low as a dollar fifty in isolated cases while local berries suffer due to rain. Local stocks offer around 250 to 300 per crate for best items with Mosier stock up to 4.00. Butter prices likely to drop as cream and milk output rise. Eggs show weak quality with liberal receipts and prices around 22 to 23 cents per dozen.
Market prices list Portland area quotations across hops wool tallow hides mohair butter eggs poultry cheese grain hay and flour, with 1909 crop notes and regional items. Includes values for butter fat creamery butter eggs candled cheese and various meat poultry prices, plus hay oats corn wheat and flour figures across Portland and Willamette Valley markets.
A detailed market sheet lists prices for fruits vegetables meats and provisions. Items include bananas lemons grapefruit strawberries apples onions and potatoes with per crate per pound and per hundredweight rates, plus Portland and California lot prices for hams bacon veal lamb and lard with pack and rendering classifications.
Astoria Oregon May 31 The United Public Service company of Philadelphia paid the Astoria treasurer through the Scandinavian American bank $1000 as a deposit and good faith guarantee for constructing an electric railroad linking Astoria Seaside and Tillamook. The franchise requires work to start by August 7 1909 and finish to Seaside within two years from March 7 1909, with a final link to the north approach of Youngs Bay bridge. The United Public Service company is a subsidiary of F W Clark Co Portland Electric Light Power. The Seaside rate will be 25 cents.
Special correspondence from Pleasant Hill notes rain will save winter grain and nearly finish spring crop with one more good rain. Schools closed Friday with a ball game and ice cream social. Eighth grade graduates nine students passed exams. Aza McKenzie and family move to Linn county after twenty years locally. Wedding planned soon. E. C. Statzer advertises a beer wagon. Pomona lodge held fifth degree. next meetings scheduled at Irving and Lorane. Nancy Whitney returns from Prineville to Webfoot. Land deals increasingly sold to non residents, risking local improvements and social life.
Lost Valley reports June 1 activities with logging camp preparations for the drive starting June 1. local ordination at Mount Zion includes Frank Kelly being ordained minister and Williams Bowen as deacons. neighbor updates include visits, births, choir concert, a minor earthquake in Panama, and extreme heat with no damage.
Cc. H. Decker and wife, Mrs. R. A. Wadley and Miss Ruth Ray, all of Alma Washington, were reported to have arrived in Eugene yesterday.
The Minnesota party of twenty from Creswell arrived last night in a special Pullman car. They toured the city today visiting the University Hendricks Park and the Commercial club exhibit. After viewing Creswell they departed at 2:18 this afternoon to continue to Seattle for the exposition.
Four masked highwaymen raided a Petersburg Tavern party of thirty, taking 200 dollars in cash and 3000 dollars in diamonds before fleeing. A posse is in pursuit.
At the home of Mr and Mrs Al Campbell 273 Washington and Eugene on June 1 1909 at 9 Owen Lyons and Misa Alice Dick were married by Rev C A Wooley. The couple will reside in Eugene for the present.
Born to Mr and Mrs Wm Hogate at Cottage Grove a girl weighing eight pounds and a half.
Farmers welcome late rains as recovery helped by the moisture. F M Lord visited Eugene on Tuesday. Bert Beaver remains ill. Young Harold Gillespie fractured his arm at play. Dr Kuykendall treated him. Grubbs home hosted a gathering. E M Beck repairs a mill to be run soon. Eber Bolin comments on Jerseys. George Lord returns from Mill City. Dougal Rankin and Byron Rankin improving after illness. Grace Collins visits Springfield. Goldie Jacobs also in Springfield. Mrs F M Lord and Jewel visited Mrs J L Beaver. Uncle Josh Rankin to pitch for Walterville Sunday.
R W Kirkpatrick was born October 17 1854 in Crawford county Wisconsin. He moved with his parents to Minnesota at age 12 and resided there until 1889. He married Emma Blighton January 1 1883. Survived by wife and six children Dell Don Elmo Robert Ina Veltum and Louis Severns. He was known as honest upright and helpful to friends and associates.
Classified items show a Goat share request by John Vaughan of Springfield, R F D No 1 offering pasture and sheds for half of the increase, plus a separate sale notice for 278 acres near Blachly, Oregon to George Ehrhart on easy terms. Lane County horticulture notes invite growers to discuss ways to win blue ribbons at the Salem cherry fair and a June 5 meeting at Frank's Hall. Mrs J H McFarland suffered a fall with hip pain last Friday but recovered after a doctor found no fracture.
Restated endorsement from physicians and nurses for Kemp's Balsam as the best cough remedy. It has long been trusted by medical professionals and the general public. 25 cents at druggists and dealers.
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