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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1913
Page
3
The notice lists heavy outings per yard and percales 28 to 36 inches and bleached damask and mercerized damask table linen in 56 to 72 inch widths. Special pricing is noted with table linens in blue white and red white at 25 cents.
Advertisement highlights a new line of ladies coats with emphasis on style and value as customers are urged to inspect options before buying. Prices are advertised as ranging across the catalog.
A local ad lists low prices on canned goods and staples. Items include 3 cans corn, 3 cans tomatoes, pink salmon, ground chocolate, oatmeal, rice, beans, lard, bacon, sugar, and canning jars with varied discounts. Prices range from 25 cents to several dollars per package or quantity.
Oregon teachers form a local branch of the National Grade Teachers Association in Eugene. Ground breaks for an $8000 gym at Oregon Normal School Monmouth, to finish in 60 days. Henry Hill announces fast steamers planned between the Columbia River and San Francisco. Prohibition gains by six votes as towns go dry. Women’s votes influence land surrender results. Industrial welfare commission sets minimum wages and 64 hour week. Bend apple combines Spitzenberg and Jonathan flavors. A bottle from the Siberian coast is found off Yaquina Bay. Jackson County accepts pay for Dollarhide toll road section for the Pacific Highway. Senator McCulloch prosecutes blue sky law violations in Multnomah County. Southern Pacific freight rate cut on canned goods. State-wide fundraising for Thanksgiving game donations to charities. Chamberlain backs Milton Wheeler for US Army colonel on retired list. Governor West commutes Lem Woon’s sentence to life. Oregon public ownership league forms in Portland. Farmers to receive telegraphed crop news. Hunters warned. season ends with fatalities and injuries. Water power site survey funds set for Columbia River development. Ada Wallace Unruh opposes Millionaire Benson bill on liquor manufacture. cites beer, wine dangers and saloon influence.
Attorney General rules 6 percent tariff discount nullified by treaty proviso and customs officers will disregard it. President Wilson orders Senate caucus on currency. Myers bill offers western states 250000 acres for roads. U S government weighs arms export to Mexican factions as Huerta note posture draws critique. Brevities note constitutional amendment push and peace treaties with Honduras Panama El Salvador Guatemala. Tumulty eyed for Democratic National Committee chairmanship.
Prineville reports Felix Jones and Roscoe Brown found dead on Grizzly mountain near J. W. Jones sawmill. Authorities suspect jealousy over Brown's wife sparked the fatal rifle duel with both men shot at close range. Jones from the back and Brown in the chest, bodies 36 feet apart.
Pendleton reports from Umatilla county sheep camps show many flocks moving from fine wool breeds to coarser types. Breeders are also aiming for early or winter lambs, driven by high meat prices and tariff-driven changes in the wool market.
The Oregon county boards place equalized taxable property at 835,268,527 for 1913, excluding public service corporations. This is a 42,173,346 increase from 1912. State tax commissioners Eaton and Galloway say the December 1 levy will be about 5 mills to cover recent appropriations.
A Lane county delegation of prominent grangers agreed to appropriate 2000 dollars to hire an agricultural expert for Lane county. The state will provide a similar sum under a law passed by the last legislature.
Salem North Carolina Maris field worker for industrial fairs visited 22 schools in Grant county to promote fairs. He reports teachers and pupils show lively interest and a new record is expected next year.
Greenhorn-Kelly and Larson, pioneer prospectors in the Greenhorn district, report a quartz deposit with unknown extent showing free gold values ranging from four thousand to seven thousand dollars per ton.
Klamath Falls reports steps toward an experimental farm for Klamath county. The county court is asked to levy funds to hire an expert and operate the farm. Court members show willingness to support the project as farming in the region remains experimental.
The North Pacific conference of Unitarian churches will meet in Hood River on November 11 12 and 13 with representation from Oregon Washington Idaho and Montana Unitarian churches.
Plans are practically complete for a weekly market day in Klamath Falls. The chamber of commerce and the Klamath Water Users' association endorse the movement to connect producers with consumers directly.
Police report two 17 year old Independence boys suspected of a double burglary in Albany. The theft totaled about $300 in doctor’s instruments six pairs of shoes and $10 in cash from a local shop. Authorities pursue charges and identify suspects.
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