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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
9
Market prices listed include Mohair and Wool, eggs creamery butter and other dairy products, poultry, vegetables and fruit, and livestock such as cows steers mutton hogs with dressed and live prices. Also featured are prices for flour hay oats bran and various feeds with noted baselines and shortages such as cracked corn not in market.
In Portland November markets hay faces high Southern freight costs hindering California trade while demand remains steady and supplies tighten toward season end. Egg and dressed poultry guidance dominates, with instructions on proper poultry dressing and storage to avoid taint. Livestock prices edge higher as sheep and cattle tighten, hogs hold firm. local quotes for wheat, hay, potatoes, and dairy are listed alongside port district livestock outlook.
Lane County Abstract Co offers services from Rooms 2 and 3 in the Warren Block Eugene Oregon with reasonable prices.
The Oregon Supreme Court denied rehearing in State v Portland General Electric, confirming a $200000 stake from the common school fund as investment for the locks. An accounting yields ten percent of net revenue since 1897 to revert to the school fund. prior ten percent before 1897 is unrecoverable. The ruling clears the way for a joint federal state purchase, with $300000 already appropriated, making the locks free to navigators.
Roscoe Knox died at his farm near Post in Crook county on Saturday November 14 1908. Aged about 68 he lived for many years across the river east of Creswell and was known throughout Lane county. He leaves a large family with wife dead last spring and brothers Jerome Knox and others in Cottage Grove among his relatives. The remains were interred at the home ranch near Post on Monday.
Special correspondence from Crow notes a birth on November 11 1908 to G W Liles and wife a one pound boy. It mentions Dorris Hale recovering from appendicitis at Eugene hospital and Mrs Herman Beamister Nellie Gates also recovering after surgery. The piece notes upcoming weddings and eight families on the rural route not using mail benefits urging boxes to secure a permanent route.
Louis Renninger an old soldier and pioneer was found dead in his son's barn Wednesday evening around 6 30 after four searches failed to locate him. At first it was thought he had died from a kick but no marks were found and death was attributed to heart trouble. Coroner Gordon directed a justice of the peace investigation at Medford. Dr. Pollard's examination of the remains found no inquest necessary. Renninger belonged to J W Geary Post G A R of Eugene.
In Alma, Ed Pettit and John Johnson's hounds freed a large black bear after dark, neighbors aided in the hunt and grease from the carcass was saved. Ada Sutherland and her father moved their furniture to Walton, visitors from Kansas hunted wild cats, Ed Pratt and Bert Allegar faced a runaway pack horse, and Claire Hinkson lamented election results.
Milton and Miss Ne Thornton wed at Mapleton, with Rev Ti Downs officiating. Clayton Pope became a father to a son, witnessed by the bride’s parents and friends. a brief notice notes the couple’s union and local congratulations.
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