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Newspaper
Ione Independant
Location
Ione, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1924
Page
4
The Ione Independent issue notes a one year subscription price of 9.5 sauce at 1.60 dollars per month. It mentions column concerns and a three month rate. The item appears as second class matter at the Ione postal facility in Oregon under the March 3 act.
The piece honors postal workers who face extreme winter risks on star routes. Carriers travel on snow shoes with 50 pounds of mail, risking snowslides and death. Routes like Rocky Bar Atlanta Idaho, Ellison Bay to Detroit Harbor, and Sandusky to island posts endure ice and spring thaws, with several carriers losing their lives.
The 1921 radio business value stood at about five million dollars and rose to sixty million in 1922. It doubled in 1923 and is projected to reach nine hundred fifty million by year end. The growth reflects rapid interest and satisfaction from largely experimental radio apparatus.
Paul Webb of Walla Walla visited Pat Medlock to arrange Miss Alta Pettyjohn’s move to her aunt Mrs. Webb. Several Morganites joined gatherings at End of the Trail ranch. John Gray shopped in Morgan. Miss Wilson from California visited Mrs Bauern. Eudora Hardesty and Gertrude Pettyjohn shared Thursday afternoon time.
Tillamook to host the B P O E convention August 14 15 and 16 promising the largest Oregon gathering yet. National Guard cooperation provides tents blankets and cots for delegates with four daily deep sea fishing trips two dances a night life guards on duty clam digging rides rodeo carnival and bathing beauty contest. A grand clam bake and salmon barbecue will feed about 4000 people free of charge at the fair grounds just east of town.
Hoot Gibson, Pendleton Round-Up's first all-round champion, will film a motion picture during the three days of exhibition September 18 to 20. Gibson brings 40 company members and will appear in Round-Up events to showcase his track and arena prowess.
The B. and B. store in Morgan will accept watches for repair by Haylor the jeweler of Heppner.
Smokers caused 174 forest fires and campers 119 on the National Forests of Oregon and Washington through July 31. Brush burning and lumbering account for 86 fires, railroads 25, incendiary 23, totaling 760 fires reported by the District Forester in Portland.
The report notes that sixty two percent of the freeman incidents stem from lightening and other factors while the remainder are attributed to the Forest Service, highlighting a pattern in the causes of these mishaps.
Swanson's Chop Mill now carries Valler paints oils glass screens and windows widening its inventory. Local customers can browse a broader selection for home improvements and repairs.
An 8 year old bay mare with a circle T brand on the left stifle is reported lame in the left hind leg. The note places this event in mid May, attributed to E H Turner. Mrs Alfred Knotts, a Pilot Rock telephone operator, is in town visiting her aunt, Mrs Perry Hopkins.
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