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Newspaper
Ione Independant
Location
Ione, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1931
Page
4
Local column notes a six member group, titled Independent Six, with brief mentions of activity and a regional focus. Names and specific events are not fully readable. The piece reads as a short social or political note from a community paper.
Saturday Harlan McCurdy received word of his father John R. McCurdy’s death in Roseburg. McCurdy had left the train at Arlington for southern Oregon. Miss Mildred Smith of Benbke-Walker Portland is home for the holidays and will return January 4. Mr and Mrs Cole Smith and family spent Christmas with Mrs Smith’s sister Mrs J W Lloech in The Dalles.
The fragment discusses English and American language shifts like fortnight and week end, contrasts transportation and social trends, and critiques U S policy debates on Prohibition and Hoover's commission. It links cultural borrowing, streetcars versus buses, and the prospect of minority reports in government inquiries.
Fraternity officers Bristow district president John Clark and Mary Swanson marshals along with other grand officers were listed as attendees. Nineteen visitors from Heppner and five from Morgan joined several guests as refreshments and a preaching service at the Baptist church marked the event. Mr and Mrs George F E Tucker and daughter Maxine were Christmas dinner guests of Mr and Mrs W L Wakely in Lexington.
High School alumni notes trace Ina Hartwell from Kelso to Seattle and then California where she married T. J. Sheppard and raised a son Robert. Robby Cason recovers well after an appendicitis operation at The Dalles hospital. Members of Lone and Arlington families are mentioned amid holiday travels, moves, and church society elections for 1981, with Swed ish Lutheran Missionary Society at Carl Bergstrom home electing officers.
The passage explains pay for what you use with a back of the meter investment in millions. The meter records electricity use accurately to ensure fair billing, likening meter checks to grocery and butcher scales. No mystery in meter reading.
Pacific Power and Light Company hosts guests at Itleppner and dinner gatherings with the McNamer Swanson Lundell Kincaid and Mason families noted. Christ mas day at the Kincaid ranch includes Cotter Mason Godfrey Kin caid and Harold Kincaid among others. Frawley Clarke Produce Co. of Portland will be represented by W. M. Eubanks in this territory for turkeys and shipping dates.
Clark and Linn offer carpentry and painting services in Lone Oregon with per hanging and general repair work. The notice emphasizes home maintenance tasks and skilled craft for residential projects.
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