The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-02-28
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A cooperative shipping association
| formed In August, 1918, by members
/ Of the farm bureau of Linn county
4 has shipped 26 carloads of livestock
| from six towns The saving has been
50 cents hundred pounds, or $4,000
on the 26 carloads. The present mem
bership is 1T farmers.
United States Jackson is dead at
Copperfield. He was born in Halifax,
| Nova Scotia in 1852 and when a small
boy moved to the United States. He
was a government guide and scout in
| Arizona during the Indian wars with
Geronimo, the noted warrior chief.
Mr.. Jackson came to Oregon 20 years
ago.
According to state engineers who
arrived in The Dalles last week to
work on the preliminary surveys and
estimates of the Columbia river high
way, the route from Seuferts to the
Deschutes river has been chosen by
the state highway commission. 1t will
follow the original line, approximately
along the railroad grade.
All the northwest national parks are
well cared for in the appropriations
for their support and maintenance,
contained in the sundry civil appro-
priation bill just reported to the house.
Crater Lake park receives almost the
total sum asked for by the interior
department, and the sum named will
care for all requirements.
Grain growers in idaho, Oregon and
Washington, organized as the Inland
Empire Shippers league, filed with
the interstate commerce commission
an attack upon the 25 per cent in
crease in freight rates on grain and
grain products made by the railroad
administration last June. The COM
plant of the shippers asserts that the
increased rates from points in the
three states to Portland were, when
exacted, and still are inherently and
relatively unjust and unreasonable,
by comparison with other portions Of
the general freight rate structure.
They ask for a return to former rates
and reparation.
The railroad tie business, which has
been big industry in the eastern
part of Linn county during the last
year, received a jolt last week when
the purchasers announced reduction
of SO thousand feet on all new con-
tracts and that they would not let any
new contract for more than 80 days.
Purchase in Portland of 100000 bar
rels of flour for European export has
been authorized by the food admins
tration grain corporation. Nearly 49,
100000 is involved in the purchase and
approximately 100000 bushels of
wheat will be required to manufacture
the flour, and five SS00-ton steel
steamers will be needed to transport
it.
James Fullerton, of Eugene, editor
and publisher of the Hornet, a folio
size paper issued at irregular inter
walls and devoted to attacks on the
University of Oregon and various per-
There is more Catarrh in thfs section
of the country than all other diseases
put together. and for years 1t was sup
posed to be lncurable Doctors prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly falling
to cure with loccl treatment, pronounced
II incurable. Catarrh is a local disease,
greatly influenced by constitutional con-
ditions and therefore requires consttu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine. manufactured by F J. Cheney 6
Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is constitutional
remedy, is taken internally and acts
thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces
of the System. One Hundred Dollars re-
ward Is offered for any case that Halls
Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
II. j. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.