The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-10-26
OREGON news NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly skotched for lnfor-
nation oil Our Readers.

The seventh annual potato show
was held q, Redmond
Lsne county will start a sysiemssc
plan NJ sintcr upkocp on l,S roads
t,ouriep at the state penirontiary
subscribed for $3.50 of Liberty loan
bosds.
Mrs. Caroline u, Parker. pioneer ~
Lane county, died St her home prar
n~Itcr.
Twodoilsr wheat is creating sn &C.
tive demsad for fsrm lands In Linn
county.
Hood River lumber concerns arc hc.
inE affected seriously because OF lack
OF ears,
wiiiism ~ Reeves. = prominent
stock buyer OF Linn county. died at
the Lebanon hospital of pneumonia.
Portland han been selected rs Que
Of the five distributing oeu,ors for
publicity for the biz pledge card cam
psiEn.
FurnishinEs for their own elasH
Ycoms aYs being constructed by bend
hoys who arc taking manual training
in the high school.
Forest fires. although not yet do
ing any danage To green timber, are
creating concern among timber own.
ere IN Coos county
An sstors ,o prevent waste Of food
In the two gifis' dormitnFieE At ore.
Ecu Agricultural college 10 being in
s,i,ut~d by the Girls
State Fire Marshal Harvey Wells
has issued an appeal 10 all school
teachers Ia the state TO hold Al loaa,
weekly fire drills In their schools.
ON December the timber on a
portion Of the Oregon q California
grant lands IN Coos county will be
suctioned of to the highest bidders.
The grand lodge Of ElkS has ad'
vised Senator Chamberlain that Il had
allotted $4,000 10 equip q Red Cross
hosplta, unit for the University OF
owsgon.
The auxiliary schooner Paulina.
sister ship TO the May and the sixth
vessel constructed at the MeEachern
shipyards. vas successfully launched
at Astoria.
Portiands servant giris are pro
pairing TO form q union for the uplIft
iNg Of their craft and for tho i'm
provemen, Of conditions under which
they work.
No hope for Immediate rolief In the
car shortage In this state is held out
Ia q telegram received by the public
service commission from Commission
ey =. J. Miller.
The tath annual convention OF Orr
Rou Baptists Ia being held this week
at The Dallss. beginning Monday
evening and continuing through Fri.
day afternoon,
The Oregon Irrigation Securities
company has certified the issue Of
s?2E.oo0 bonds by the rayettc Oregon
Slope irrigation district Of Idaho and
sastern Oregon.
Superior weight nnd better team.
work gave the Oregon Aggies' foot
ball team the big end OF e6 TO
score In their game with the univer
slty Of idaho At randlcton.
The 500 cash prize offered for the
best five bushels OF potatoes exhih'
tied AZ tho seventh annual potato
show NJ Redmond was awarded 10 :,
y. Mustard. Of Powell Butte,
Charles Otis. OF Klamath Falls, was
killed At Odessa when the logging
locomotive Of the Odessa Logging 4
Timber company, Of which he was
manager. got out OF control aud ran
down the mountain.
The United States has filed n patent
which deeds the Saddle mountain and
HumbuE forest districts near Astoria
10 the state Of Oregon, This is part
OF the land which will compose the
Saddle mountain park. .....
The school OF commerce Of the
University OF Oregon is making a sur.
vey Of the wool situation In oregon
with view OF finding out how the In.
dustry is affected by competition
from foreign countries.
Sixteen miles OF new road suitable
ror automobile travel have been com.
pleted this fall on the old Willamette
military road TO Fort klamath by I
he forest forces and the Lane county I
sourt working together,
Grants Pass has completed its quo
10 for the new warcamp community
recreation fund. the first In the Unit I
ID States to turn in It's share. accord
ug TO announcement from western /,