The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-27
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the week
Briefly sketched for Infer.
nation OF Our Readers.

held at the state fair grounds July y
10 August s.
Newberg has lost two Of It's pioneers
in the death OF Elihu b. collard aud
Henry J. Noble.
Dried cherries are to be a product
af the Eugene Fruiterowers' assoeia'
don eannery in Eugene.
The crop OF clover seed in Lina
county is going TO be extremely short
according to late reports.
movement has been launched at
Narshfield TO organize the Southern
Oregon Development board.
The salmon run in the lower eolum'
hia has started again, after the inter
ruption caused by the June freshet.
The summer school which has been
ia session at oregon Agricultural col
iese for the las, two months. closed
Friday,
Because OF the spread OF forest
fires in southern Oregon an emergency
call has been sent out for more fire
fighters.
Superintendent Pollock. of the Alsea
hatchery. distributed 10000 young
rainbow trout in streams tributory to
Alsea river.
William Thomas, about so years old.
committed suicide at the Davis home,
south of Reedville. by hanging him
self from a rafter.
The fourth annual meeting OF the
Pacific Coast Association OF Port
Authorities will be held in Portland
September 4, 5, and s.
President Wilson has sent to the
senate the denomination OF Frank S,
Myers to be postmaster at Portland
for another four years.
Arrangements are under way for a
special meeting Of the Cattle and
Horse Raisers' association which Is to
be held in Lakeview September
Forest fires are burning more gen.
orally in the Butte Falls, Prospect and
Woodruff Meadows districts. and part
Iy in Crater Lake national park, than
for 10 years.
J. c. Hill, OF Curry county, credits
his dog with increasing the family
bank account by Sl29. as result OF
the animal locating coyote den and
killing six pups.
Fifty business men OF Prineville have
formed a Crook County Defense Guard
for the purpose Of assisting Sheriff
Knox in any kind of an emergency
that might arise.
The conference OF the Oregon Asso-
citation for the Prevention of Tubercu'
losis. and the Northwestern Tuberculo-
sis conference will be held In Portland,
October Is and 16.
A. ]. Oglesby. pioneer Of Lane coun.
ty and prominent in its affairs in the
early days. died at Breitenbush
Springs, east of Albany. of heart dis
ease. at the age Of rs.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
J. y. MickIe has gone to Atlantic City,
n. j., where he is to attend the annual
conyf ntion OF the National Associa-
ton Of Dairy, FOOD and Drug officials.
The Marion county court has signed
up contract for the construction Of
a new steel bridge across the William.
ette river between Marion and Polk
at Salem. The bridge viii
cost s237,901.
The United States engineering crew.
under Walton Hayden. has completed
the survey of north and south Coos
rivers, for data for use in government
work OF deepening the channels and
snags.
The president has renominated Her.
man Wise postmaster Of Astoria and
Ira. G. Mehrling postmaster at Falls
city. The senate confirmed the re-
OF Edward G. Worth, sur.
of Oregon.
According to Jackson F. KimbalI,
Iead OF the Klamath-Lake Counties
ire association, there have been
forest fires In klamath
ounty In the last two weeks, with
Practically little or no damage.
The schools of Hood River may open
wo weeks earlier than usual this !
ear, in order that vacation may be
allied II necessary at the height Of
season to allow the stu
ents to participate in the harvest.
AS a result of the recent ]. w. w. Q
in the neighboring coun. C
y of klamath, the citizens of Grants Il
ass have organized group of go +
ZEN into a home defense company c
nder the command of Sheriff George II
evils.
Incendiary destruction at klamath G
slIs Of the new milk house and new Z
equipment of the VII.
ms dairy. is evidence, say officials, "
at the menace of the l. w. W. has a
I yet been removed from these vi. e
iities. p
The Modoc Point irrigation project g.