The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-05-18
CHEGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infer
nation OF Our Readers.

Canyonviile. town Of about $50
people. has furnished 10 recruits for
tiie army
Practically every man in Willamette
university is taking some form OF mil.
itary training.
- The Eddyyillo mohair pool, consist.
ing OF $4,000 pounds. was sold at gb
cents a pound
The waseo rounty Industrial club
held us annual Farmers picnic at
TyEh valley saturday
} According 10 the census estimates.
Oregon has l0s.iO0 men OF military
age, between u and 80.
Election pamphlets for the special
election June have been mailed TO
s3I. .6s2 registered voters Of the state.
Booster day. the annual festival
event OF Oregon City will probably be
eliminated this year on account OF tho
war
Plans have been completed for the
annual picnic Of the travelling men Of
the state. to be held at Cottage Grove
~May rs.
The Lebanon high school. TO aid the
war victims. will forego the pleasure
this year OF eating ice cream OF their
Nay-day festivities,
s. A. Sanford OF Roseburg and &.
X. Crosno OF Toledo have been ap-
pointed appraisers for the federal
loan bank Of Spokane
The dates for the annual Linn
county pioneer reunion and picnic to
BE- held az Brownsville have been set
for June 20. Il and %.
But one fatal accident was reported
Il 90 the state Industrial accident com
mission last week. while the noR.Iaial
accidents numbered 342.
All interior cities Of Oregon are
taking part IN the food.raising cam.
paign. according to reports from Grant,
Harney and Malhour counties.
A committee consisting Of five Nom
bers has been named to have charge
Of the 25l acres to be put into flax
By the Salem commercial club.
Potatoes and bean acreage will be
exceptionally large In the Willamette
valley this year II Is estimated To-
600 acres. viii be planted IN beans.
Tho Booth.Keliy Lumber company
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Ing so cents a day for all workmen in
the woods at Vending and Spring
field.
John Sherrar Harris. whose fame
as a breeder OF Angora goats rs years
ago was said to be worldwide, died
at his home near Salem. He was 81
years old.
G. L. Porter, OF Baker. has been
named by the public service commits.
sion as chief grain inspector under
the new grain inspection act which
goes into effect May u.
A concentrated campaign to exter'
inmate harmful rodents from the asri'
cultural areas of eastern and central
Oregon viii be started by the United
States biological survey,
Miss Bertha Dayis, of the domestic
science department OF the Oregon Agri'
cultural college, says that vetch seed
offers good substitute for beans and
is OF about the same food value.
The western Oregon conference OF
Seventh.Day Adventists viii hold their
annual conference and camp meeting
in Portland again this year. beginning
May 20 and continuing until June IL,
Earl Buxton. cashier of the First
National bank at Forest Grove, who
disappeared mysteriously March 3.
this year, is in Columbus, Ohio, ac'
cording to word received by lis fam
lily,
Due. 1t is believed, TO the cool, wet
spring, a small brown cut'worm has
made its appearance in umatilla
county and is doing considerable
damage to wheat. by working at the
roots.
F. c. Harley. mayor of Astoria, was
found guilty in police court Of fight
Ing on the public streets and fined
$40 with the option OF 20 days in the
city iail, The mayor said he would
appeal
Investments of alF the insurance
companies in the state OF Oregon on
December 81. 1916, amounted to S27.-
s5S.s49.S7. according to statement
just issued by Insurance Commission
er Harvey Wells,
All the railroad companies opera
ting In the state now have filed with