The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-02-16
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnior-
nation Of Our Readers.

Oregon Retail Merchants association
viii be hSld In Portland Rebruary 10
to 81.
Committees have been appolnted TO
proceed n, once with the erection OF
new $4,000 Christian church at
Milton.
baker lumber mills wcrc compelled
10 close down because OF the car short
age. Nearly 200 men were thrown
out OF work.
Hundreds OF acres OF ground are
being prepared this year for the grow
ing Of sugar bee,s tor the Grants rass
sugar factory.
Cheese men OF Coos and Curry eoun'
~ will make campaign to stand
ardlse the manufacture OF cheese In
the two counties.
Thirteen hundred acres in the sec
ona unit ot the West umatilla irriga'
tiun project will he opened TO home
stead entry March {,
The Willamette Valley Mint Grow
crs' association was permanently or
ganlsed at meeting of the mint grow.
ers Of the state at Albany.
Ashland has decided to repeat the
Rogue River roundup and celebration
upon an even iarEer scale than last
year during the coming July.
Rogue river IL to have bridge so
miles from its mouth, II will be the
only bridge between Grants Pass and
the ocean. more than leo miles.
Reports sent In from county agents
Of Oregon show that numerous farm
lean associations arc being formed In
accordance with the rural credits law.
A demonstration wool car Of the
department OF agriculture. which is
touring the United States at present.
will visit Oregon from February - to
March :.
Ernest V. Jensen, OF Portland has on
exhibit vt the state capitol concrete
model OF the Cecilo canal which he
is DESTROYS to place on. exhibit at the
state fair.
Voters oG West Linn at a mass
meeting authorized an election on
si4.o0D bond Issue for the construe,
,lon Of modern school building in
the district.
AT county meeting recently held
hv the Moro County Farmers union
resolutions were passed fayoring the
employment Of county agricultural
agent for that section.
According TO the figures OF the sem
ester Just closed. the women Of Paclf-
ie college and academy at Newhers
are emphatically better from stand
point OF scholarship than the men.
Not willing TO be oatdone by the
residents OF Umatilla. the voters OF
canyonvilie al The regular city elec.
slon held there Tuesday elected wo-
men 10 all seats on the city council
nirths in Oregon for the year end
ing December 81. 1915. reached total
Of ig.sSs, according TO the report OF
the state board Of heal,h. Just issued.
During tho same period there were
sTiS aeaths and 1859 marriages.,
Seventeen young elk. the increase
from the herd now in Mallowa county
brought originally from Jackson Hole
several years ago By the state fish
and game commission. have been sent
10 salem and Crater Lake national
park
The eastern halt OF the Christian
Enaeavcrcrs OF 0regon will convene
at la Grande Friday. Saturday and
sunday, February 10, II and ~. This
is the first Christian Eaceavor con.
xention ever held In eastern Oregon.
aud at least $50 delegates are expect
ed.
Plans arc being laid by the Stan
field FruAgrowers' union for the cou'
ssruction ot q cold storage and pack
ing plant. The new plant will be
equipped with gravity carriers and the
latest types of grading machines, max
ing i, the most modern Of any in the
northwest.
A large attendance Of growers, far
mers aud dealers Of the northwest
who an Interested in She question Of
federal stanaardization of grain Is ex-
peetesl AZ the meeting Of the federal
grain standard bureau in Portland on
wednesday and Thursday. February
II and is,
Governor withyeomhs granted q
pardon 10 Edward 3. Dsni-
sen. indicted as George G. HUFF on a
charge at cxtortien. tried in jackson
.as.nts convicsed bat released under
lsoad pending appel and again taken
ata custody cs the charge Of surety
,ampany. who alleged that penison
ampea his bond
The waters OF Klamath river aad
;pencef creek within certain ooGndsr.
= are 10 be closed 10 fishermen this
seek ter = period of four months.
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