The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-01-03
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The department OF agriculture In
ITS annual aggregate crop value com
PARSONS, says that the total value of
thlrteen crops in Oregon embracing
al the crops raised on the farm for
1918 was $S3.2S7OOO. This was a rec.
ord-breaker yield. In 1917 the aggre-
gate Tor these crops was $73,457, 600
Mail service to Canyon City and
Prairie City, Grant county, having
peen cut off by the strike on the Sunni
ter valley railroad, Second Assistant
Postmaster-General Praeger has prom
lsed Representative Sinnott that spe.
cial service will be provided by stage,
either by way of Condor and Fossil
or via Yukiah.
The Sumpter Valley railroad com.
pany mas filed with the public service
commission new passenger tariff in.
creasins the rate from 4 cents, the old
rate to cents mile. On the basis
Oh the passenger business done on the
ROAD for the last three years, this
would mean an additional revenue of
about $4,000 year.
With but 264 appeals filed in 1918 a
remarkable decrease in cases coming
before the supreme court is shown in
statement issued by Court Clerk Ben.
SON. In 1917 there were 1872 cases
The falling off is attributed largely 10
the prohibition law and the workmen,s
compensation act removing personal
INJURY cases from the courts.
Figures included in the renort q,
the state industrial accident commits.
sion show that accidents reported to
the commission during 1918 have av.
eraged "a for each day Of the wear
OF total of more than $4,000. For
1917 the total was slightly more than
lo'oOO. The increase is due largely
10 increased activity in shipbuilding
While no definite action has been
taken by state or United States author.
tiles, the federal government. it was
recently announced, may apply s64 900
to the construction of the proposed
Loop road, which will connect the
Columbia highway with the old Barlow
trail, located in the upper Hood River
valley. In this case Oregon will ex-
pend like sum.
county Clerk Brown estimates that
1000 Umatilla county citizens whose
names appear on the registration
books of the county have failed II.
vote at any of the three elections dur
ing the past two years. The office lis
now engaged inf' eliminating, these
names from the rolls. -Four thousand
names is about 40 per cent of the total
registration for the county.
The Baker Commercial club will
send Joseph N. Teal, of Portland. and
D, G. Eccles and Frank Gardiner. of
Baker, to Washington to confer with
railroad administration authorities
there on the situation on the Sumpter
valley railroad, provided the railroad
administration has IAN open mind on
the. subject, according to advices re-
ceived by the public service commits.
sion.
A state fund for providing subsidies
for high-class bulls in order to elm.
mate entirely low breeding strains. is
plan which is being advocated by
cattle men of the state, particularly
for dairy herds and legislation to pre-
vent the sale of bulls for breeding
purposes unless such are eligible to
registry, will be presented to the legis-
lature, State Veterinarian Lyle has
announced
Organization of an $500, 900 concern
with e. B. Kingman as president and
A. W. Miller, vice.pTesident and treas.
urer, to build and operate sawmill
of 100000 feet capacity, either at Eu-
gene or in the company's timber in
the Alsra country, has been announced
at Eugene. Construction work on the
plant is expected to start soon and the
mill probably will be in operation
early in the spring
A flock of 275 milk goats, inspected
and graded by experts of Oregon Agri
cultural college, will arrive at the
Portland Union storkyards about Jan.
uary 20 and will b" offered for sale to
the children of Portland city schools
in the hope of developing an important
industry among city children. The
milk-goat project has received the in.
dorsement of the school authorities of
the city, who have arranged for the
formation OF "SOat clubs" among the
school children.
Efficiency Can Be overdone.
1t may be that the new and much
vaunted religion of efficiency can be
carried too far. A little less of it, at
times, might work no great harm. Not
that we would decry efficiency, mind
You. Doubtless it is fine thing. But
look what 1t has done to the Ger
mans.