The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-12-21
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of The Week
Briefly Skeichod for lnfor-
nation OF Our Readers.

Tho MoAier Frultgrnnerh' Ansoeia
tion has shipped 10 date about 10000
boxes Of fruit
Rains OF last week caused series
ot heavy slldes on the Tlllamook lin,
ot tho Southern Pacific
Tho annual convention ~ the Oregon
State Teachers association viii b.
held IN Portland December 27.2a
orgapiIatlon ~ the Loyal Legion oi
Losgcrs and Lumbrrmcn 10 meeting
with much success In Coot county
Out Of tho lump sum appropriated
by congress for vocational education.
$4,000 has been allotted 10 Oregon,
More than 5000 men who volunteer.
ed for tho army. navy and marine
corps enlisted In Portland last week
Benton county has war industry
thA, 10 doing cutie 4 business, u tent
pes mill. situated west nf Philomath,
Because ot the many eulisImcu,s Rt
Merrill ranohors are alarmed as 10 how
10 handle their crops In the future,
The Linn county court has bought
another tractor to be uhcd in hauling
RTavel TO the vArioua parts of the
county
A record price NJ isa for ten boxes
OF extra fancy Hood River apples was
received q, an auction sale in New.
York city recently,
r. r. Ross. Of Santa Clara. was
awarded first prize for II" best bushcl
~ corn exhibited at the western ore.
Eon corn SHOW AT Eugene,
A Simpson for Governor league"
was formed by North iicud ara Marsh.
field leaders to inaugurate boom for
J.. j. Simpson, for governor,
Ninety cents pound for seed corn
Was raid at tho auction sale held In
connection with the weatcrn nreean
corn show, held II Eugene last week
Lists complied by tho university adj
minis,ration offices show that nearly
saS University of Oregon men are no"
enlisted IN some branch Of military
service,
Coming In contact with n high ten
sion wire In some unknown manner
while working with some plumbing
frank nay. OF La Grandc. was instant
~ killed
A contract for the erection OF n
sIoo. 900 milk condenRing plant In Han
IA l.aE Hsa A.
Joplin Condensed MIR company. OF
Portland,
r. O, Waite was Killed and Roy
LSomis. a brakeman, was injured. near
Candy, when work train aud gaSo'
line spceder collldcd on the Southern
Pacific tracks
l. l.. Steiwer, Of the banking flrm
Of steiwcr g. Carpenter. has offered TO
provide tundE to purchase 100 pigs Tor
Wheeler county boys and girls VINO
will enter the state pig club,
Secretary Baker has written Senator
Chamberlain tina, the war department
cannot accept the oregon building ut
40 Il Ia not suitable for military use
A contract has been let for the con-
s,ruction of n pipe line across the
0ohsso valley q short distance east OF
prinevllle by the ochoco irrigation dis
triet. The length is about @bSo feet
Nerth Bend was ep fete Saturday
on the occasion OF the launching OF the
first wooden weasel built under direct
contract from the emergency ileet
corporation at the Kruse Banks ship
yard.
Lloyd Riches. manager Of the weekly
OreRonian at Portland, has been Ap'
peiuted seeretary of the Oregon state
Material association TO I'LL the unex'
psrsd term OF Philip s. Bates who has
resigned.
George Gundlack, pioneer resident
Of Grant county, was found dead near
Prairie City. He was hauling freight
10 Canyon City and 1t Is presumed he
sustained the fatal injuries when his
wagon overturned.
The shipping board has created
new shipbuilding district at Portland
and named Lloyd J, Wentworth, OF
Portland, to take charge Of II, Port
land has been part OF tho northwest
district, with headquarters at Seattle
Exclusive of Lake county the cost
OF maintaining the public schools OF
the state for the year closing In June
of this year totaled $1s7476S1l, ac'
cerding to figures prepared by State
Superintendent of Public instruction
Churchill.
Thirty.four university OF Oregon
students, among them several promin-
ent In athletics and other student
body activities. have withdrawn from
Glasses dpTips the past two weeks