The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-03-19
ERlEF NEWS OF OREGON

the Dead OK project included in the
Owyhee project
Bids will be opened April at st.
Helens for the $3GO,O00 bond issue ic-
Gently voted by Columbia county Tor
permanent highway constructiUl.
Dairy cows in Coos county this year
are selling for much higher prico
than ever before, due to the increase
in the dairy business and the efforts
to better the grade Of the dairy stock.
The county in which a schooihouso
is located has jurisdiction in trying
cases of crime in or near the building.
according to an opinion of Attorney.
General Crawford.
The Corvallis commercial club has
started campaign to In. 1ase its
membership to 500 and to become
more effective in developing Corvallis
and Benton county commercially.
Counties which have collected in.
terest on delinquent taxes without di.
vldlng IL with its taxpaylng districts
share of the money, so AttorneyGen-
eral Crawford decides
\ false reading of Daboock butter
fat test Is a violation Of the weights
and measures law. according to an
opinion written by Attorney.General
Crawford for Deputy State Sealer of
Weights and Measures Buchtel
Citizens of Glendale have organized
the GlendaleCow Creek Good Roads
association. of which Mayor Coe OF
Glendale Is president The associa.
tion starts off with u membership Of
30.
The Portland chamber Of commerce
has filed n protest with the oregon
delegation against the proposed rc-
moyal from Portland OF the purefood
laboratory of the department of agri-
culture, The delegation viii try to
have the order OF removal rcsclndcd.
That there are thousands of acres
OF fine land In Oregon from five TO %
miles from railroads that may be pur.
chased for from $50 TO $50 an acres.
Is the assertion OF Mark Woodruff
publicity agent OF the Portland. lsu
gene y Eastern railway
IN Attendance average OF 96.07 per
cent, 2Ni1 pupils on record In Polk
county 1865 pupils neither absent nor
late, are some OF the Items In n report
issued hy II. G. Seymour, county su.
porlntondcnt, Tor the month OF Jsnu.
AIRY.
Tho forest service rs spending S23OO
for roads during the coming summer
In Baker and Grant counties. within
the Whitman national forest Tho
service plans to open new and short
or road across the mountniE5 between
Sumptor and lower John hey Nally.s,
a distance ot approximately 90 mites
Miss Mollie Towne OF Phoenix, Tor
merly deputy county clerk. has nn-
nounced her candidacy for the legia.g-
turo on the democratic ticket, the Lrst
wcW'r l' OREGON tp topk Legislative
honors Miss Towne has studied law
o"u Dos usun admitted 20 practice,
II is reported that the O.W. Il, a y.
company will build cutoff on It's
Umatilla. Spokane line from Cold
SPRINGS siding on the Columbia river.
acroys the irrigated section. through
the town of llormlston, connecting
with the Echo.Coyote cutoff about
miles west OF liormiston.
George Stewart Jr. representing
McMnnyille college. won the annual
intercollegiate oratorical contest of
Oregon az Albany Lisle Hubbard, Of
Pacific college, took second place. and
Eric Bolt, of Willamette university
was third. Stewart spoke on Tho
American Press and World Peace.
Plans for IA federated college and
religious training school will be con
sidercd this spring al the annual ore
gou conferences Of the United Evan,
gelicaL United Brethren and Evan
grlicnl Association denominations.
The conference of the United Evan
geical churches will be held at Dal-
las beginning April 4.
The Anti-Saloon league OF America.
whose headquarters ana general pub
fishing house Is in Wcsterville, Ohio.
has determined to throw the whole
power of its organization 10 the as
sistgncc Of the Anti-Saloon league Of
Oregon and the other organizations
cooperating with il for dry Oregon
this year.
Believing that AN cighthour law
having application 10 farms, dairles
and other agricultural pursuits would
be- an Injustice the Linn county 20
mona grange has passed a resolution
protesting against such reeulltiOn.
It Is recilcd that such "A law would bo
wholly mpracticab'e TO the conditions
peculiar 10 farm industries.