No Lots for Sale in Madras Temporarily Withdrawn
The Madras Townsite Company withdraws all unsold lots from sale due to unsettled railroad conditions. Sale may resume next year as Oregon Trunk Line efforts to reopen Deschutes canyon proceed. Bend petition with 600 signers cited. broader outreach anticipated. Also notes residents Joe Rich family moving to Methodist Hill and Sam Compton reporting resumed mill work at Willow Creek.
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Madras
Portland
Oregon Trakc
Deschutes Gorge
Reclamation Service
Central
Oregon
Deschutes Canyon
Oregon Trunk Line Railway
Sam Compton
Willow Creek
Arranging for Santa Tree Progressing Nicely
The community plans a Christmas Eve program at the hall starting at S o'clock with music and readings followed by gift distribution. Residents are urged to bring wrapped presents by four o'clock that day, clearly marked, for careful handling by committee members. A petition for a new mail route has been sent to the post office department, strongly signed by four towns: Madras Redmond Laidlaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office Department
Madras
Redmond
Laidlaw
Mead proposes 10000 for dry farming experiments in Oregon
At the Boise Irrigation Congress Prof Elwood Mead chief of investigations for the Agriculture Department offered to fund 10000 as part of a cooperative grant for experimental farms in Eastern Oregon if the state matched 5000 per year for two years. He noted drought and demand limit federal capacity and cited Cheyenne Wyoming where dry farming yielded strong results. He urged Oregon legislature to support the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irrigation Congress
Boise
Elwood Mead
Department of Agriculture
Oregon
Ead
Mead
Cheyanne
Wyo
Prof. Mead
Campbell
Portland
The
Oregonian
Washington
Sanford, Sill & Company Put In Hands Of Receiver
Sanford Sill and Company, a large mercantile firm, made a voluntary assignment for creditors with R L Sabin as assignee and William McBeth of Portland taking charge for the assignee. The move follows crop failures and poor Fall collections, with a potential reorganization planned. H B Sill will relocate to Portland while Sanford and Hadley stay in Madras to wind up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanford, Sill & Company
R. L. Sabin
Merchants' Protective Association
William McBeth
Portland
H. B. Sill
Messrs
Sanford and Hadley
Madras
Lucy Lowther Dies of Typhoid at Age 2 4 Months
Lucy Lowther daughter of Mr and Mrs C W Lowther died of typhoid at home near Culver on Tuesday morning December 11 1906 She relapsed after a meal and died three days later The two year old girl was the eldest child and had taught music in the community since moving from The Dalles four years ago Cremation? interment at Grey Butte Cemetery yesterday as sorrowing friends gathered Lucy was known as an accomplished musician with many devoted neighbors.
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Lucy
C. W. Lowther
Culver
Lucy Lowther
Dalles
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Life Speuraner Hardy Monde
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Motasowrs
Cashier
H. WaLpwin
Aust
1St National Bank
Jaineville, Oregon
1866 PLC
Alenthy Hin
SON Land CO
Hie Panies
Onxcow
Wats and
Capa
Lena M. Lamb
C. E. Roush
J. H. Lockard
McTaggart & Rye’s
Distange
Mila Claus
W.& M. A. Robinson & Company
Bend
Crook County
Bend Bulletin
Joe Rich
Salem
Methodist Hill
Mr Rich
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RR. L. Sabin
Clarence Watts
Boho
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