Oregon News Notes of General Interest
Fire destroyed the Oddfellows hall at Prineville. A corn and potato show will be held November 17 at Moquille. Washington county seeks 208 care for a new hospital, and a rail line survey Mount Angel to Miagare is finished. The Pacific International Live Stock show comes to Portland the week of November 19. The Hod River valley fruit industry suffers from car shortages. A duel in Portland ends with one man killed and multiple Malians involved. A cement plant costs 900,000 and opens next week. Grace Presbyterian church dedication is set for Albany November 18. Senator McNery is home with neuralgia. The Salem golf club opened its new clubhouse near Pinter. Twenty-one road districts in Lie county vote on a special tax. The Dalles endures a windstorm causing shipping damage. A boy named Lewin Squier is killed by a train near Salem. The Oregon Agricultural College faculty support bond quotas. A property dispute delays road bonds in Tillamook. Frank Geelan dies from a logging camp accident at Big Creek. Leland E. Moe of Albany passes away. Edward Billings dies near Springfield. Fort Stevens housing work continues. Mrs. Cantnor of Hood River is reelected president of the Oregon State Federation of Women’s Clubs. Tillamook county road bonds face supreme court injunction. Meantime, a marriage linked to Governor withroomba’s chief clerk is announced. Muflowo’dn Ball is tomorrow evening.
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Montana Lands Buyers List At Helena And Hingham
Satisfied purchasers in Montana renew interest in land near Helena and Hingham. The list includes buyers from Pendleton and nearby towns in Oregon with acreages ranging from 10 to 1780. The note invites prospective buyers to compare Montana land with Umatilla County opportunities as dividend paying investments.
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Helena
Hingham
Umatilla County
Joseph Hodgson
Weston
Oregon
Albert Gets
Beavert
Pendleton
Peobler
U.S. Herald
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Bowers
Sam Thompson
Boyden
von Zerha
Athena
Jown Geb
May Crowley
Adams
Ed. Dupuis
Mr. Prutzett
Nick Blanchett
Ordinance for Main Street sidewalk construction Weston Oregon
Ordinance 255 declares building a sidewalk on both sides of Main Street from Washington to Broad and the south side from Broad to Armour Streets. It fixes assessments against benefited parcels, notes emergency, and provides hearing and filing details with the city recorder.
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Broad Street
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Weston
Oregon
Onli
Lot
Recorder of
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Boe
Sange
Armar
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Wuld Lin
Weston di
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Mod Street
Armor Steet
Walt City
Weston ordinance on sidewalk construction and bond terms 1917
A draft Weston City ordinance outlines sidewalk improvements on Main Street with bond provisions and bidder requirements. It sets a $5000 project amount, performance deadlines, insurance and indemnity clauses, bid deposits, and city payment provisions, plus publication and bidding rules.
American Troops Hold French Trenches Early War Vigor
Report from the front describes American infantry in French trenches near No Man's Land. First American shell struck a German group with no casualties observed, while a wounded American officer and a German POW died in the field hospital. Artillery exchanges continue as both sides probe the line.
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America
Triah
Wilson
Leutenant
Signal Corps
Wholesale profits to be regulated by cost under food admin plan
Washington announces that wholesale profits on nonperishable foods will be governed by prices actually paid, not market conditions, with rules taking effect November 5. Profiteering by food processors will be barred after November 1 under a licensing plan to curb undue margins, restricting sales to distributors seeking excessive profits.
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Washington
Food Administration
Christmas rules regulate wartime gifts to service members
The war department outlines mail rules for Christmas presents to American Expeditionary Force members. Parcels under seven pounds and boxed in wooden containers may travel by post or express, with a maximum twenty pounds for certain shipments. Food items must be canned or jarred and plainly marked Hoboken NJ for delivery.
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War Department
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Hoboken
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