The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-06-15
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor-
nation OF Our Readers.


oregon's official war service regis
tration totaled 63.s0o,
AEalea Lodge. l. O. q. r.. Of Riddle.
will buy u 500 Liberty" bond.
The Oregon State Bankers aSnocia'
ton convened at Marshfield last week
Pendloton was the fret city In tho
state that met lis Liberty Bond quota,
Approximately 10000 young men Of
MultnomAh county registcrod for war
service,
The fourth older Girls conference OF
eastern oregon convened in la GrAnds
Saturday
Tho fund for the woman'p memor'
iai building At tho uniSerSi,y has
passed $4,000,
The Dallas commercial club has de-
oided TO hold an old fashioned eole-
hraslon on July I.
Tho Oregon oateopathie association
will hold It's mid,yeAr meeting In sA'
lem. June Is and l6.
Charles l.. MeNary. appointed to
succeed the late Senator Lane. was
sworn In last Friday.
J, slults. a carpenter Of Corvallis.
committed suicide by shooting him.
aslf through thc head.
The Lebanon mohair pool OF $500
fleoeen or about 10000 pounds was sold
At 6iis cents n pound.
The dentists Of tho state Of Oregon
will hold their annual convention In
Portland June II. Is and id
Excavation for tho first unit of tho
WittenbcrE King evaporaiing plant at
Salem has already been started
frvino =, Gardner. ot Riddle. has a
hen. n. O7tt. that has just completed
a record al III eEgs In a. many days.
Returns from all tho counties In tho
state give a majority of 1879 in IA
,or Of tho ss.ooo.oo state road bond
issue.
Federal authorities are inyes,igat'
ing reports that forged registration
cards for the aeieetlvc draft are being
sold in Portland 10 protect some who
failed to register,
A circular has been isaued and sept
TO posts Of the Department Of Oregon.
q. 4. n, Announcin. the sudden death
on June : Of H. g. Fargo, exdepart'
ment commander
Several wage increases were granted
by the state board Of control to om
pioyes at various state institutions at
tho request OF the superintendents Of
such institutions.
The II. s. Clio Company, with head
quarters at Salem and with branch
office ut Roscburg. has leased n tract
OF ground at Riddle and ia preparing
70 erect n prunc warehouse
while on guard duty Rt one of tho
tunnels between Mosler and The
Dallea, Private NJ, N. Miller. OF Com
pany X. was struck by n paas!ing
freight train and severely injured,
r. d. Hctxel. director Of the extern
sion service at the Oregon agriculiur'
nj college, has been offered the presi'
dency OF the New Hampshire agrieul'
turnl college and has the offer under
consideration,
r. 7. Tooze. city superintendent OF
schools OF Oregon City, has rejected
flattering offers from Roseburg aud
will remain In charge OF local schools
having recently been elected to serve
another term.
Oregon's largest Liberty loan sub
scription 10 date was made Saturday
when Max II. Houser. grain exporter.
authorized the purchase, through
three Portland banks, OF $2bO,OOo
worth OF bonds.
Delegates from California, Washing
ton and British Columbia ports as
sembled Mt Portland Monday for tho
annual district meeting OF the Coast
Maritime association, continued In SEES
sion during the week.
Out OF the i04 students who gradual.
ed from the Corvallis high school
only 10 were nble to be present, the
rest having either enlisted In the army
or navy or been released to boost along
the food preparedness campaign.
The bean crop OF Linn county in
1917 will be 1900 per cent greater than
TINT of 1915. The pork failed 10 keep
pace with the beans, however, for hogs
shows a 20 per cent decrease In num-
ber from those in the county last year
The salmon run In the Columbia
river continues extremely light and the
catch at present is small. Many OF
tho gillnetters have placed their gear
on the racks and practically all the
seining grounds have ceased opera
tions.
GOysgnOv withycombs has named the