The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1916-04-06
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Cur Readers.


A new hospital building, to cost
$4,000, will be started soon at Salem
A cold storage plant for handling
deepses fish Is proposed for Coos bay
Plans are being drawn for a new
100000 Methodist Episcopal church at
Astoria.
Tho 1915 road tar for Multnomah
county will raise ,631, ,O2lSs for roads
and bridges.
Every sawmll in the Albany sec.
tion OF the state will be running soon
after April 1.
Benton county farmers have organ.
lied the Taxpayers League with about
400 members.
Silica deposits, recently discovered
near Oregon City. are to bo developed
this summer
Two volunteer student drill com.
panies we're organized at the Univer.
sity OF oregon.
New lines OF boys aud girls indus.
trial club work have been Instituted
in Lane county.
Mount Angel has Just oomplstsd a
b000.foot sewer system at an approIi.
mate cost OF $4,000.
North Powder will have a $4,000
school house, II the bond issue carries
At the coming election.
The proposition to create the North
Unit irrigation district carried in
special election at Culver.
Several leading business men OF Dal.
las will plant 10 acres to peppermint
this year a. an experiment
Fiftytwo cars probably will com.
prise the total shipments OF broccoli
from Douglas county this season.
George Il, Mcleod, OF Portland. was
appointed by Governor withyoombe ne
. member OF tho state board OF for
estry.
The enlarged Oregon City high
school. which represents n total In
vostment OF $4,000. was dedicated on
Monday.
English walnuts raised In the Co.
guile valley are pronounced by Calf
fornia experts to be the equal OF any
on the coast.
A sheep shearing plant unequalsd BY
any in the country Ia now being built
at Echo by the woolgrowsrs OF that
nelghborhood.
Ralph Il. Riley. OF Murphy. has been
elected by the board OF trustees a.
publicity manager OF the Grants Pass
commercial club,
Dates for the Southern oregon Dis
triet Federation meeting OF women's
Clubs In Ashland have been set for
April 20. 81 and rs,
A West Side Farmers Week and
picnic Is TO be held In McMinnyille
Juno III 10 "a. under the auspices OF
the MoMinnyille grange.
+. A. Phillips. OF Baker. recently
shipped IS cars OF cattle to Denver
buyers. other shipments will follow,
making a total OF 1000 head.
At a meeting OF farmers at Rossburg
approximately 200 acres OF land was
pledged for the growing OF sugar beets
In Douglas county this year.
Daniel w. shshan. OF Enterprise. 10
the first man to seek the honor OF be-
ing a presidential eleotor, and he an
nounoss himself for Wilson.
Sheep TO the number OF 6o.soo. and
cattle to the number Of $3.50 will be
grazed In santiam. Dssehutes and Cas-
eade national forests this season.
The highest rating in the Coast Ar
tillery corps federal inspection has
been given to Fifth company OF Al
bany. commanded by Roy r. Knox.
The route proposed for an electric
line to connect the willamette valley
with central Oregon is from Salem
through Minto Pass via Mil City to
Bend.
The oiyics department OF the Ore
gon Federation OF Women's Clubs has
set April 90 to 20 as the time when
all the clubwomen will hold . clean
up" week.
Jacob Mortenson, OF Oak Park. Ill.,
president OF the Silver Falls Timber
company. has ordered the erection OF
a $500, 900 lumber mill on q site chosen
at Silverton.
The custom OF holding a monthly
sales day In Dallas. established by the
Dallas Commercial club some time ago
but discontinued for a few months,
has been resumed.
Statistics gathered by ]. A. Church
ILL., superintendent OF public instruc'
tion. show that 1896 students will be
graduated from the high schools OF
the state next June.
More than 25O0 men will be working
in the Snake river copper mining dis
trict OF Baker county, according to
M nitaIists who have visited this cop