Fight to keep Roseburg route for coast highway led by Binger Hermann
Douglas County Taxpayers League in Roseburg votes unanimously to oppose diverting the 5000 appropriation for a Roseburg to Coos Bay survey. Hermann urges unity with Lane County to block a Eugene Coos Bay coastal alternative and push eastern terminus at Roseburg.
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Roseburg
Douglas County
Lane County
Highway Commission
Marshfield
Eugene
Coos Bay
Taxpayers
Hermann
Douglas
Camas Valley
Coquille
Coquille River Canyon
Coos County
County Court of
Coquille Canyon
State “Highway Commission of
Oregon
H. L. Bownby
Héing
State Highway Commission
Oswald Vrest
Ben W. Olcott
Thomas B. Kay
Coos-Bay
Coos' Bay de-Camas Valley
Myrtle Point
Highway’ Commission
Willamette Valley
Said
Legislative Assembly
State of
Hood River Grangers Push for Roadmaster Role
Hood River county granges pressed for the appointment of county engineer C. M. Hulbert as roadmaster for next year. They urged increasing the road department budget by at least $1000 beyond the proposed $1000. The court plans to cut the overall budget of about $91,000 by $5000 to meet tax limits.
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Hood River, Or
Court House
Hood River County
C. M. Hulbert
Douglas County Taxpayers League Backs Road Law Retention
In Portland discussions Judge Marsters endorses a contract road system with bonds for districts while Commissioner Nichols supports a four district split led by a chief builder. Judge Riddle aligns with Nichols on abolishing the current road building method.
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Portland
Marsters
Nichols
Nichola
Riddle
Telephone Company adopts merit bonus plan for operators
Marshfield January 2 The Coos Bay Times reports that the Cgo and Curry Telephone Company will begin a merit bonus system for traffic department workers. Each operator may earn 5 percent monthly, based on promptness courtesy and rule adherence. Bonuses may also reward efficient handling of long distance calls and high collection rates at exchanges. Long-tenured operators will receive wage increases, with further raises after three years.
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Marshfield
Yeaterday
Coos Bay
Mts
Hall
Atention
Cops and Curry Company
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Pacific Company
Road supervision system opinions split among county taxpayers
Edwin Weaver C E Banning O Garrett S J Culver J T Spaugh and Commissioner E H Pinkston favored keeping the present road supervisor system. Commissioner Pinkston urged retention until a modern method is developed, while Commissioner-elect W S St John could not discuss the matter yet. Former County Judge Dexter Rice supported centralizing road authority with the County Court for accountability.
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Edwin Weaver
Myrtle Creek
C. E. Banning
Dixonville
Co. O. Garrett
Glendale
S. J. Culver
Camas Valley
J. T.spaugh
Looking Glass
E. H. Pinkston
Pinkston
New Year Disease Sweeps Through Citizens in Albany
A satirical piece from the Albany Knickerbocker Press portrays a mock epidemic termed the New Year disease. It jokes that the affliction appears each December and peaks after January 8, affecting industry, habits, and resolutions as people vow to reform and then relapse.
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Vandewear
Albany
End of the Year Reflections for Home and Family
The Home Circle column urges self examination of year end faults and moral progress. It stresses studying success and failure, improving character, and turning experience into profit for mind, morals, and social life. It praises family unity in winter and the value of a wife’s support.
Pope’s Welcome to New Year Jesuit Service at Gesu
The Jesuits observe New Year with eve services in every church worldwide. At Rome’s Gesu church the pope attends the service in person. The rite includes The Miserere and the benediction.
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Gesu
Rome
Call for Mothers to Offer Comfort to Motherless Girls
A plea for sympathetic guidance from Christian mothers to girl wards facing hardship and slander. The speaker urges mothers to look beyond outward appearances and secretly help, as mothers’ support could spare much suffering and preserve a girl’s character.
Your Local Paper Praised For Community Value
A local paper is extolled as vital to town life, reporting deaths marriages and sickness, guiding readers to courts and public enterprises, boosting business and keeping residents informed free of charge. It urges gratitude for the publication and its role in daily life.
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Coos
Binger Hermann
Douglas CO
Douglas County Taxpayers’ League
Telephone Company
Chas. Hall
Sp ‘Silberman & Sons
Chicago
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