Regular Portland Letter Hill Visit to Result in State
In a Portland dispatch a Hill visit is reported as yielding a state level outcome. The piece notes political maneuvering and anticipated moves by state leaders following the visit.
03 Jun 1910
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Newspaper
Monmouth Herald
Location
Monmouth, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1910
Page
1
In a Portland dispatch a Hill visit is reported as yielding a state level outcome. The piece notes political maneuvering and anticipated moves by state leaders following the visit.
Portland reports Louis W. Hill's 1500 mile motor tour across Oregon with optimism for population growth and railroad expansion. The First National Bank of Portland doubles capital to 1.5 million, becoming the largest in the Pacific Northwest. Florence hosts a successful Rhododendron festival. Willamette Valley crops are bumper and a 100th anniversary Oregon Agricultural College jubilee is planned June 10 to 14. Road-promoting tours in Eastern Oregon return with renewed highway interest across ten counties.
Y P S C E program lists performances including instrumental solo vocal solo recitation and trio. Participants include Mabel John Burton Arant Loetta Shore Tawital Clark Lorena Wares Elbert Arant Elva Lucas and others. Admission 25 and 15 cents plus ice cream and cake for 10 cents. Emma Parker rue Burkhead Sara Hyde Jet Lorain Johns Lizzie Clark.
An accident on the Bogynska place near halfway to Dallas injured Mrs. Livengood and Mrs. J. L. Fishback after a dog startled a team returning from a Pioneer Reunion. Both carriages carried six people. the Livengood passenger was seriously hurt and Mrs. Fishback unable to walk. Other party members escaped uninjured.
The notice lists estates with sale of personal property granted and final accounts approved, guardianship of minors with Lillie J Baker appointed and bond set at 100 dollars. It also details numerous real estate transfers in Dallas Falls City West Salem Independence and surrounding areas with values and acreages, plus 1910 crop sales to Horst Company and related entities.
The article extols the American public school system as the world’s greatest institution and defender of equality of opportunity. It contrasts this with England where class distinctions steer education, suggesting such a policy could erode democracy and may hasten the decline of Britain.
A Riverside column reports residents changing residences and travels to Salem and Portland. D B Taylor sold 40 acres of hops and a south town farm for 13000 dollars. Roswell Shelley, a former merchant, died in Portland and was interred in the local IOOF cemetery. Twenty-three autos arrived with a 107 person party, after lunch at the Masonic hall, en route to Albany.
Department Commander James P. Shaw of the G A R was to lecture in Independence next Tuesday but a Wednesday letter announced he is ill with pneumonia and cannot speak.
The East Oregonian notes that laws are not justified by state reimbursements for expenses but by achieving a higher standard of citizenship for residents.
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