The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1919-01-02

lille W. Holford, Baker, mining
cert NJ. Bivens. Ontario, numbering
50 A. Wood, Portland. traveller on
rlic highway (sutomobile collision }
Nearly 1000 applicants for work
many OF them recently discharged sol
dicrs, are being placed daily In Oregon
by the United states employment serv.
'.a, despite the surplus OF unskilled
aDor and increasing scarcity OF posi-.
IONS, according to statements given
out by wilfred 8. Smith, state federal
rployment director.
oregon poultry breeders are asked
TO send data on their breeding stock
20 U. l.. Upson, o. A. c.. Corvallis, fed.
.ral poultry representative. Breeders
asked TO give name OF breeds car
4 number ~ breeders, Incubator
IDaOity, estimated number OF hatch.
Yg eggs for sale and total OF chicks
be hatched next spring.
The now mlk.condenslng plant built
g. Bandon last summer by Giebisch 4
aplin, and now owned by the North.
v'st Process company Of Portland
vill begin operating March /. The
plant has a capacity of 1000 cases a
IHy and will afford a market for all
.Ho milk produced in southern Coos
and northern Curry counties.
Following an appeal from the Baker
commercial club. the public service
commission telcgraphed to Director
prouty. OF the railroad administration.
asking that some steps be taken to
save the Sumpter Valley railroad from
threatened strike and possible dis.
1strous consequences TO the section
which that railroad covers.
The state and local oranges and sew.
ral woman's clubs will be behind an
ofIort at the coming session OF the
legislature TO have repealed chapter
13i, laws Of 1917. establishing certain
dover and curtesy rights OF wife and
husband. The main argument against
the present law ls the claim that II
interferes with the right TO make Wills.
Salem has been closed tight again
because Of the rapid spread OF Spanish
influenza since the ban was lifted a
few weeks ago. Schools. thcaters,
churches. poolrooms and public places
~ all kinds have been shut down. the
use OF pool and card tables being pro.
hlbitod entirely. In addition restric.
lions are placed on the entire business
section.
r. l.. Kiger. a Umapine ranchcr, was
fatally burned when a flye.gallon can
~ distlllate which he was carrying In.
10 his house exploded. setting fire 10
his clothing and to the house, lie
Jumped through a window and man
aged to reach an irrigation ditch.
whore he was found by n neighbor,
lie was taken TO walla walla hos.
pital. where he died.
white the great majority OF the log.
sins camps In the Columbia river dis
trict have closed down for several
weeks the Palmer camp. on the Wal.
iuski is sin In operation The com
pany expects TO finish cutting It's tract
here about the middle OF February
II the weather conditions permit. and
80 will continue operating until then
" lthOut interruption,
Three Portland boys in the United
States army In France have been dee.
GRATED simultaneously with the dis
.lnguishcd service cross for bravery In
action. according TO information re.
reived. They are Major Serene r..
Brett tank corps. Major Karl ], Sven
,on. medical corps Private Ernest G.
Kyle. stretcher bearer Two OF them
were born In Portland.
Wooden fiyc.masted fore and AFT
.chooners are by Tar the best type of
vessel to be- constructed for lumber F.
'arriers. contends Captain William !,
eyres. OF Astoria. inspector OF hulls f.
'or the emergency fleet corporation. .
He urges that coast yards which are .
practically idle as the result OF the /
cancellation OF government contracts
,e utilized for the construction OF that /
lass OF vessels
Failure 20 make required reports TO .
he food administration has caused the
'eyocation OF the milling license OF the
Fischer flour mills. a large concern of
iilycrton, This is the first milling
license in this district TO be revoked
\ representative OF the grain corpora
ion division OF the food administra
ion was placed in charge and will
emain al the mill until the ban on
urther business is lifted
The report of the fir production
,oard. H. II, Van Duzer, chairman,
hoWs the remarkable record of SEQ,
OO, 600 worth of timber, allocated and
Xpedited at an expense OF but IL
ents per thousand for supervision and
representing less than