Local Notes and Notices From Chehalis Area
Local residents travel and return visits feature among Chehalis area notes. Forester FP A Elliott visits from Salem with the Miles funeral party, while B B Ridgeway leaves for Lake County to resume mining work. The community hears of marriages, deaths, church events, school work, and upcoming industrial fair plans under Women's Auxiliary Pacific College.
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Reva
Bray
el Modena
California
State Forester
A. Elliott
Salem
Miles
B. B. Ridgeway
Lake County
Pacific College
River Steamer Passes Under Madison Street Drawbridge
A high school student recalls watching a river steamer pass under the Madison Street lifting bridge. The bridge lowered after the vessel cleared, drawing crowds back to the scene before the observer’s train arrived, leaving the riverfront activity to continue.
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Madison
Ieee Ae Ea
Madison Street Bridge
Willamette
R.J
Opening of the Tumalo Irrigation Project
The Tumalo irrigation project becomes the first in the United States financed by a state. Seventeen thousand five hundred acres are opened under the Carey Act at forty dollars per acre with ten per cent cash and the rest due in ten years. Project engineer C Laurgaard in Laidlaw, Oregon offers details. The lands suit grains vegetables and stock raising, with frosts possible in fall and late spring, so careful inspection is advised before settlement.
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Tumalo
United States
C.laurgaard
Laidlaw
Oregon
School Board Endorses Eight Month Terms and County Supervisors
The resolutions commend Silenaal for use of McMinnville High School facilities and urge no less than eight months of school in Oregon districts. They express approval of the county supervisors system and recommend its maintenance. Signed by A. Stanbrough Newberg A Teats Shridan S David Titus Amity.
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A.€. Stanbrough
Newberg
A. Teats
Shridan
S. David Titus
Amity
Old fashioned mother remembered in tender verse
A nostalgic tribute to an old fashioned mother, not a gilded icon but a warm, faithful figure whose voice, patience, and gentle care guided children through infancy and illness. The piece likens memory to perfume and melody, cherishing her faded beauty and steadfast love.
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Gene
Johnsons Racing Car Sold To Wisconsin Buyer
Jack Johnsons famed racing car once the nations buzz has been bought by B C Rosencrans of Prairie du Chien Wisconsin. Built by Thomas Flyer Co with a solid aluminum one piece body cast in England the six cylinder engine develops 105 horsepower and a top speed of 90 mph. The machine cost 14000 dollars but Johnsons finances tied to a Chicago restaurant led to its seizure by Heileman Brewing of La Crosse for debt.
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Jack Johnson
B.C. Rosencrans
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin
Thomas Flyer Co
England
Johnson
Chicago
Heileman Brewing Company
la Crosse
Secretary rules 28500 acres in Deschutes Forest as timber land
Forest Supervisor Merritt at Bend reports the Secretary of Agriculture has declared 28 500 acres along the Me tolius River in Deschutes National Forest as chiefly valuable for timber and not to be entered as agricultural land. Yellow pine timber is estimated at 500 000 000 feet. Eighty nine applicants for land in this section will have their claims denied under this decision.
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Merritt
Bend
Secretary of Agriculture
Deschutes National Forest
Me«tolius
Hog Raising Contest Open to Oregon Youth
Oregon youths will gain a statewide hog raising contest next year supported by the Portland Union Stock Yards and the State Bankers Association. The program allows borrowed capital secured by parents or school principals to purchase hogs, with repayment after a full year of record keeping and reporting on operations.
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Oregon
Portland Union Stock Yards
State Bankers’ Association
Northwest
Imperial Hotel Announces Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner
The Imperial hotel will serve a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving day Thursday November 26.
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Imperial Hotel
Newberg Telephone Company Requests Subscriber Changes
Subscribers wishing telephone installations or changes in location should notify the company at once so proper numbers may be placed in the new directory going to press. November 24th.
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Newberg Telephone. Company
Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner at Imperial Hotel
A large Thanksgiving meal is offered at the Imperial Hotel on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, inviting guests to a big communal feast.
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Imperial
Publication offer for Oregon Journal and Graphic
An offer advertising one year subscriptions to the Semi- Weekly Oregon Journal and the Graphic for $2 and to The Weekly Oregonian and Graphic for $2.25. The deal promotes combined newspaper access at a reduced yearly rate.
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Oregon Journal
the Graphic
Oregonian and Graphic
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Porth
I. M
Paiker
Salet
Wm. Clemmens
Dayton
G. A. R. Post
Women’s Relief Corps
George F
Round J L. Haworth
L.W. Nordyke
Springbrook
Nordyke
Chehalis
Westington
The
Graphic
Henry Mills
Clyde Carey
George Sykes
Lewis Mills
Portland
Sykes
Mr . Sykes
G. A. Graves
George
P. M. Tallman
Pendleton
Melvin H. David
San Jose
Imperial Valley
Demsey Smith
Goodnough Hills
Washington
John
John Little
T. B. Wright
Dunbar
D. D. Coulson
Boise
Idaho
James Orchard
N. PF
Byers
Nome
Alaska
Bertha Nicholson
Caldwell
J. C. Ore
W.W. Nelson
Srareig
Baptist Church
John Sturdy
J. M. Lemon
Charles C. Whitely
Friends Church
A. Bis
Fairbanks Morse
Ftie
Atmperial Hotel
Cc. A. Morris
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