The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-12-14
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lniOr-
nation OF Our Readers.

day
'rh" second annual Polk county cor
show viii be held In Independence u,
eembcr ~ and 20
4 number of prominent citizens o
RoscburE have organized the Amer
oan Defense Society
Sarah G. Gaines. lot 70 years real
dent of OREGON. dlod a, her home II
Pottland A. tho age of -
The state irrigation securities com
mission Monday started an tour o
I'll tho projects IN central oregon.
Horace Kerr. son OF President ". !
Kerr. of the oregon Agricultural col
lsEc. died al his home In Denver Colo
Regular boat service on the upper
Willamette has been resumed after a
four months iAyoff on account Of low
water.
County clerks from all parts Of the
state mot In Portland this week TO
attend the annual convention OF county
elorss.
The annual convection Of the oregon
association OF county judges and coun.
~ commissioners opened IN Portland
Tussdsy
Presley Comeeys. one Of the best
known pioneers Of Lane county died
al his home in Eugene at the age Of
81 years
Linn county contributed t10s0 30 TO
the state game fund from the issuance
~ liccuRcB In tho firK, II months Of
this year
cyrus n walker, oldest living white
man born IVES, of the Rocky noun.
tains. Friday celebrated hm seventy.
ninth birthday a, his home In Albany
Drill a, the University ef Oregon
will h. taken mp this term under the
rules and regulations Of tho United
States reserve officers training camps.
RoHeburg WAS selected IA the next
meeting place NJ the Oregon State
Horticultural society at a session OF
that society In annual convention At
Salem
Rabid coyotes are again u menace in
Lake county and Fanchers and stock
owners are becoming alarmed at the
many dcpredations that are being re-
ported.
Tho Farmers Union Of oregon will
initiate u bill TO repeal tho road bond.
inK measure to tho rnd that the last
$4,000 900 proposed cannot be raiaed
and spent
with more than goo delegates from
all sections ot eastern Oregon In at s
tendance. the seventh annual session q
Of the Older nnys' conference convened
at La Grandr,
In line with other development /
throughout Coos county. new coal G
mine will be opened at point seven
miles below Coquille. contiguous TO I
water shipping =
The preparation OF corn as war a
time food Is being made feature for Il
women IN connection with tho Western 4
Oregon Corn Show being held In Eu' t
gene this week k
Physicians from every part OF tho o
Willamette valley attended the ban
quet and semlannual meeting of the. q
Central Willamette Valley Medical as. c,
sociation at Albany d
l.. s. Hinds OF WRsco Gillian conn. o,
ty, has purchased the Cornett ranch "
$4,000 acres In the Powell. 10
Suite country In Crook county, The II
price was reported 10 be 100000, II
The frat annual hotel exposition OF
he oregon State Hotel Mems associa- el
ion, which was held In Portland, was al
marked by the presence Of hotel men III
rom more than 40 Oregon towns, In
One meatless and wheatless meal ali
'ach day In addition TO the wheatiess IN
md mentless days Of each week. aud n,
ne porkless day are the latest or In
ers received from Herbert Hoover. III
Representative Macarthur has intro,
uced bill adding 20 the Bull Run on
crest reserve all Oregon 4 California 70
rant lands lying within It's boundaries +,
his bill Ia designed 10 protect Port. be
and's water supply, RI
Ono Of the al accidents reported or
D tho state industrial accident com. ri
lission during the week ending Dee IN,
mber were fatal, The fatal case wa
'as j. n, Powell. OF Portland, killed
! shipbulldlnR operations los
All retailers engaged in Iobbing or
usiness are classed as Wholesalers, =.
nd will, accordingly, have TO take out du
wholesalers license, say official in de,
ructions received by W, II. Aver, no,
'deral food administrator for Oregon. lnr
Representative johnson Of Washing. ths
u Will iatrpduss q bill In congress hol