Oregon Legislature In Final Week Before Adjournment
The Salem legislature enters the last week of its 40 day session with many key measures to decide. It passes a high school military training option, road and irrigation codes, and a health certificate repeal for marriage licenses. The senate advances rural credits and grain bureau proposals while debating anti-cigarette and anti-picketing bills.
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Oregon
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State Law Board
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Evening Reveries A Column On Home and Self Worth
Pleasant prose urges readers to value honest self worth over pretension. It counsels workers to excel in current roles, avoid grumbling, and strive to make the home a center of civility and warmth led by women, with Sears Roebuck noted for vast but not superior trade.
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Sears
Oregon towns report industrial projects and shipping boosts
A compendium of Pacific Northwest updates shows ABIARY MALSNGNI Eugene paying $10,000 monthly to 188 Pac Tel employees, Medford planning water mains for a box factory, Beedesport advances like a cold storage plant and a new hotel, and large timber holdings by International Paper Co. in Umpqua country. Portland officials announce $1,250,000 road expenditures for 1917 while Bend plans a $3,000 pumping plant and Coos Bay ships more lumber to San Francisco in early January.
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Beedesport
Albany
iLinn
Flovence
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Portland
L.C. Gilman
North Bank Roads
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Bend Water, Light & Power Co
Oregon Electric
International Paper Co
Boston
Umpqua
iAstoria
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Griffith
Coos Bay
San Francisco
North Plains—Beaverton Brick & Tile Co
Beedesport—S. P. Co
Cottage
Eécles
Ogden
Utah Bay
Columbia River
Coast
Tilamook Bay
Mcmsnnville
Salt Lake
North Bend Mill and Lumber Company
Bend Water Light ‘& Power Co
Florence
Salem
Utah-Idaho
Sugar
Eols
Furnitude Mfg
Cote Cecile Lamber
Townley plans national growth for Nonpartisan League
The Nonpartisan League, led by A. C. Townley, announces expansion from Fargo to St Paul and plans to work in four more states Iowa Nebraska Michigan Wisconsin, with North Dakota Minnesota and Montana already organized. The aim is public ownership of key marketing industries and eventual federal control of grain elevators, with a national gathering in St Paul within two years.
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Minneames
Smate
Towa
Nebraska
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Wisconsin
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Minnesota
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Nonpartisan League
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Far East
Roseburg to Myrtle Point State Highway Debated by County Court
Roseburg officials and Douglas County leaders urged state funding for a Roseburg Myrtle Point highway survey. The engineer estimated 7000 dollars needed for a complete survey and county officials pressed for earlier construction spending, with Coos and Douglas counties offering 1000 dollars each to back the project.
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Myrtle Point
Coos County
Douglas County
B. F. Nichols
Nichols
Camas Valley
Marsters
J. John
Eugene
Marshfield
Oregon Senator Proposes Highway Code Committee
In Salem on February 7 Senator Eddy introduced Senate Joint Resolution 2b to create a highway code committee. The panel would investigate state and county road laws and report back next session, with members including Senate and House highways chairs and officials from county judges, public roads, the attorney general, state engineer, and county engineers associations.
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Roseburg Commercial Club Urges State Highway Designation
The Roseburg Commercial Club passes resolutions asking the state highway commission to designate the wagon road from Roseburg to Myrtle Point as a state highway. The county plans one new bridge this year and to improve the four miles of road. Automobiles travel year round to Camas Valley, about 25 miles away.
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State Highway Commission
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Coos County
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