The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-03-02
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Skstchsd for Infer.
nation OF Our Readers.
pondlo,on 10 10 have a community
style show Thursday and Friday.

BE- hold In the different cities and
towns o. Lane county.
An enormous influx OF eastern pco
pie onto Oregon farms with the com
ing OF spring II predicted.
Tho Silver Falls Lumber company
viii start its newly constructed bis
mill At silyerton on March ~.
Arrangements are being completed
for the establishment Of tannery and
glove factory At Klamath Falls.
Out Of ss0 accidents reported 70 the
state Industrial accident commission
dursag the week. not one was fatal.
The district convention OF tho
Knights OF Pythlas OF Union and Wal
iowa counties was held In Wallowa,
an epidemic of meaAles has swept
Gateway and almost every family
either sas had or Ia having this dis
ease.
The Coos and Curry Fair association
has designated September ~ 10 Is In
elusive for tho dates Of ths annual
fair,
The new coast guard station at the
moth Of the siuslAw river, about
three mlleA from Florence. viii be
completed May 1,
Attendance At the meeting OF the
Western Oregon Christian Endeayor
union az Salem last week ,o,alcd be-
tween 900 and 1000.
Tho Lane county Pomona sranse. at
. meeting n santa Clara, passed roso'
iutions opposing the proposed te,o0o.'
900 road bond Issue.
Katherine n. Doan, supervisor aud
parole officer at the state industrial
school for girls. has submitted her res'
iEnation TO the state board Of control.
To decide upon the purchase Of
now $4,000 site for the central school
Of klamath Falls. thc school board
has called for special election March
T.
Money from the rural credits fund
will be available for lending purposes
10 the farmers Of the state BY the
middle OF March or the fIrs, part OF
April.
Portland has another shipbuilding
plant. the coaS, shipbuildlng com.
pany. a 100000 concern. which will
engage In the building OF wooden
ahips
Circulation OF petitions asking for .
recall election against County Judge
]. u. McS.lck and County Commission
or J. r. Ritter, has been started in
Baker county.
With $50 bills enacted into law tho
session laws OF 1917 viii hc the iars.
cat volume OF session laws ever pub
lIshsd by the state. The volume will
bo ready for sale carly in May.
II. II, Raymond. administrator OF the
Raymond estate. sold n half section
Of wheat land near. weylund station.
northwest OF Helix, 10 4. 3. Paris.
Weston farmer. for sS5..
boo.
Making preparation for the coming
FLAX season. the state board OF control
has arranged for letting contracts 70
InciuGa minimum OF five acres and
4 maximum Of 750 acres to any ono
man.
Whom new law goes into effect In
May, IL will be misdemeanor In Ore
gon for a person with insufficient
funds In tho bank 10 cash q check.
no does II with Intent TO do
'raud.
4 marker for the old oregon trail,
,outh of Eugene. has been prepared
md will be set mp at Coryell Pass, on
he Pacific highway, between Eugene
md Goshen. when tho weather gets
better.
II Ia reported that some OF tho
,ffIcers OF Crook county may resign
heir places as a result OF the reduc.
Ion OF thoIr salaries by the legisla'
ure, and tho elimination OF two de-
,uty officials, -
The Roseburg public schools were
,losod and the children we're ordered
NJ the streets and away from public
gatherings last week because Of an
,pldemic OF measles In Roseburg and
he surrounding country.
Encouraged by the greater returns
o be made through the growing Of
,eets for the sugar factory, mum.
,er OF the hopgrowers In the Grants
lass district are digging out their
Iopyards and v i plant beets this
eason.
Date for taking effect Of tho now
ules promulgated by the Interstate
ommerce commission in an effort to
slisye the pnpreesdsnted car ahortase