The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1922-07-07
OREGON NEWS NOTES

The city Of Coquille, Coos county,
has launched project for municipal
water system involving construction
Of Rink creek storage reservoir, which,
together with Rink creek would furn-
ish the necessary water for the city.
Advertising signs along the right
of-way of Oregon highways will be re-
moved at once, and signs on private
property removed whenever permis-
sion can be gained, according to
decision by the state highway COM
mission.
r. H. Thomas, for fourteen years
school clerk in Portland district and
for fourteen years prior to that
principal in the schools Of Portland,
notified members of the school board
that he will not be candidate for
reelection.
Triplets, the aggregate weight of
which was eighteen and three-quarters
pounds, was born to Mr.. and Mrs
Carl F. Palmer of Cottage Grove at
the home Of Mrs. Palmer's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Deer, 791 Grand
Avenue, Portland.
The public service commission
granted authority to e. G. Isham,
operating the Isham transfer at Grants
Pass and vicinity. A permit was grant
ed,to w. A. Cornell Of Newberg, auth
orizing him to conduct freight trans
portation business at Newberg and
vicinity.
Cannerymen, fishermen and citizens
of Astoria were jubilant over the an
nouncement from the Washington
state fisheries department that no
purse seiners had been licensed to fish
inside the three mile limit and that
the fish commission would not take
such action.
Reports of friction between the COM
mercial fisheries bureaus of Oregon
and Washington over operations of
fishermen at the mouth of the Col
umbia river are without truth, accord
ing to Carl D. Shoemaker, master
fish warden of the Oregon state fish
commission.
The Marion-Polk County Realtors
association, at a meeting in Salem
decided to start an investigation to
determine whether or not an oil pro-
ject at st. Paul, several miles east
of Salem, is being honestly conducted
and the money of investors is being
used in sinking the well.
The favorite "bad road" leading into
Scio Is being graded and rocked by
the county court. This road, known
as the cemetery hill road, was impas-
sable during the rainy season Of the
year, making residents two miles east
OF Sclo go nearly six miles out OF
their way to come to town.
After faithfully performing her
duties as chief operator for the Candy
Mutual TELEPHONE company for the last
161s years, Mrs. r. Soper of Candy
has rendered her resignation, to take
effect in two months. Mrs. Soper
will 60 to Newberg, where she Is to
make her home. with her sons.,
The election recount suits filed in
Portland by w. w. Banks against w.
]. H. Clarke for state senator, and
John Coffey against R. ]. Kirkwood,
Herbert Gordon, e. R. Campbell and
Louis Koehn for state representatives,
both on the Republican ticket, re-
ceived backset when Circuit Judge
Phelps ruled that more definite allega-
tions Of mistakes on the part Of cleo
tion boards must be given.
Hundreds of letters have been re-
NSifVu at tuc OlllCtS VI the DuDllC
service commission with relation to
the recent order unscrambling the in
terests Of the Southern Pacific and
Central Pacific railroads. Most of the
letters received from points in west
ern Oregon urge the public service
commission to protect against the
segregation Of the railroads interests,
while majority of the letters receiv-
ed from eastern and central Oregon
approve the dissolution.
Ten years in the state prison was
the punishment meted out by Judge
]. A. Eakin Of Astoria to Robert Drake,
who pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging him with assault with In
tent to rob. He entered the Knappa
State bank, seeking money. but fled
after firing four shots at the men in
the bank. He was captured a few