The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-13
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lntor.
nation Of Our Readers.

The flnh annual Chautauqua opened
in Dallas Tuesday.
Molallas two.day eelebra,isn and
roundup was a huge success,
The eastern oregon state eonren'
tion OF Christian churches was held
In La Grande.
Strawberries are erowlng so large
in Harrisburg that rs OF them fill an
ordinary berry box.
Actual construction on the klamath
Falls municipal railway commenced at
klamath Falls Friday.
The tenth annual three-day eonven'
tiou OF the Oregon chiropraetie asso
citation was held in Portland.
Work on the new $4,000 addition
10 the chapel of the oregon normal
school al Monmouth has started.
The next national convention OF the
Mu Phu Epsilon, national music sor
ority, will be held in Eugene in 1919,
Seventeen branches OF the Red Cross
society with a total membership OF
1911 have been formed in Linn county.
Deer in the mountains have suffered
severely from the long winter, says
Charles Hoskins. an Echo sheepman'
The main railroads in Oregon have
abandoned their attempt TO set 10
per cent increase in intrastate freight
rates at this time.
The little town Of Flavel was visit
cd BY blaze which destroyed two
frame buildings with the loss Of ap
proximately s25Oo.
The American Home Economics as
sociation convened in Portland Tues
day. July 10, as a section of the Nation
al Education association.
Hood River has shipped so carloads
OF Strawberries and II is expected
that fully 100 carloads viii be handled
before the season closes.
Bids will be opened at RoseburG
July rs for the Douglas county road
bond issue OF S555.oO0 authorized at
the recent state election. q.
BOYS in the state training school
and girls in the girls industrial school
will assist in harvesting the berry
crop of the Willamette valley.
The 2Sth annual convention, Ore
eon State Pharmaceutical association
began at Seaside Tuesday and will
continue until Saturday night.
Reports received from growers In
Marion county indicate that great
numbers of pickars will be needed tc
handle the berry crop this year.
Announcement was made by A. H
Lea, secretary OF the state fair board
that the board has decided to put on
an automobile show in connection with
the state fair.
Experiments for the control OF the
onion mildew are being conducted by
the department OF plant pathology at
the Oregon Agricultural college with
promising results.
Complete figures compiled by United
States Attorney Reames show that
since war census day. June 5, 364 men
OF military age have been permitted II
register at Portland.
A large cattle transaction took place
when C. a. Gorley and Arch Wasson
of Harrisburg, purchased 100 head oil
Durham steers from George Brown, oi
Corvallis for $4,000.
Five meetings will be held in Linn
county this week under the direction
of the United States department oi
agriculture to teach farmers how To
exterminate digger squirrels.
John W. Bowman, carpenter, shot
and killed his wife and then sent two
bullets into his own temple, dying al
most instantly, at Pendleton. Friends
said Bowman was jealous of his wife.
Chin Bing, the first of six alleged
gunmen implicated in the murder OF
Billie Eng, an AmericaDized Chinaman.
in the recent tong war, was found
guilty of second degree murder at La
Grande.
Fire prevention will be taught in the
schools OF Salem, and representatives
of the state fire marshal's department
will make a complete survey of the
city. according to plans which have
been outlined.
Several deputy state fire marshals
have been sent to the eastern Ore
gon grain fields TO aid farmers and
warehousemen to give the fullest pro.
lection against fire that might destroy
needed food supplies.
While there is yet little injury to
the grain crops of the great wheat
belt Immediately tributary to Pendle.
ton, farmers are beginning to be ap-
prehensiye regarding the effect Of the
heat on their crop prospects.
kIiss Bertha Althaus, salegIady at