The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-01-26
OREGON NEWS NOTES
Of GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Inior.
nation OF Our Readers.


The new steamer Ernest II, Mey,
was launched from the Wilson shi
yards at Astoria Saturday.
Dallas is TO be made the test static
for the investigation OF brown rot an
other diseases OF prune trees.
The population mark at the orcgo
state penitentiary has declined to t5J
record for the past two years,
The annual convention OF the Ore
Eon Retail Grocers' association wa
held, January -, "a and 20 in Salem,
The state Editorial association an,
the Willamette Valley Editorial asso
citation held a joint session at Salem
The Union opera house. one OF tn,
finest buildings OF its kind in Eastern
Oregon. was completely destroyed by
fire.
David G. Bruce and Mrs. Johanna
Hanson, pioneers who crossed the
plains TO Lane county In 1858. died at
Eugene.
Attempts are being made by the
officials OF the Salem commercial club
10 interest capital for fine linen fac.
tory in Salem.
The House Of Representatives has
passed a bill providing for an appro-
priation,. of $4,000 for a postoffice
building at Hood River.
The Roseburg W. c. T. u. has com.
piled statistics showing there was
shipped into Douglas county $So.5OO
worth of liquor in 1916
The Dalles land office is swamped.
The office staff is five days behind in
the work of transferring the applica.
tions in the record book
The Oregon State Federation OF
Labor opened sessions of its annual
convention at Salem Monday. to con.
tinue throughout the week.
William Doyle. who last February
killed Mrs. Mary A. Wilcox and her
daughter. Maggie Jones. was convicted
OF manslaughter at Klamath Falls.
Improvements by the Bend Water.
I.ight & Power company to be com
pleted within the next nine months
will cost between $4,000 and $4,000.
Plans to erect a mill for handling
hardwood lumber in the Willamette
valley are being considered by the J.
Al Pattison Lumber company, ltd, OF
Portland.
Three men lost their lives and one
was seriously injured in fire which
swept through the second and third
stories of the New Ross rooming
house at Portland.
Out of 1000 carloads of apples pro-
duced by Hood River valley .ast sea.
son, a yield almost twice the tonnage
of any former year, only about so
remain unshipped.
The Portland chamber of commerce l
will be represented by four delegates
at the annual meeting of the national
chamber of commerce in Washington,
D. c., January 81 to February 2.
There will be no public building TO
iouse the branch postoffice at st. u
Tohns. The item in the omnibus build G.
ng bill appropriating $4,000 for .
'ostoffice building at St. Johns was 81
eliminated a.
coryell pass, on the Pacific high. =
ray about four miles south OF Eugene,
fill be marked with an iron plate by
.ewis and Clark chapter. Daughters .
+ the American revolution, in the d'
ear future. p'
The Eugene chamber OF commerce so
as voted unanimously to approve the ~
OF the United States cham To
nr of commerce fayoring single item pa
pto power for the President Of the IN
nited States.
For the championship OF the Central 70
'illamette district OF the Oregon high m'
hool Debating league. the high III
hools Of Albany. Eugene and Philo. I'M
ath will meet In triangular debate or'
February 2. az
The annual conference Of the presi. ole
nts and faculty members Of the non. oi
Inference colleges of Oregon was CIV
Id at Albany college last week with
the sectarian institutions Of the Du
lte represented. cat
A gigantic scheme whereby all the rel
1mineut high schools of Oregon will rou
m an association for the promotion val
interscholastic athletics is being the
hered by w. u. Fletcher, coach OF 1--WE
Salem high school basketball tra'
lad. sid'
large number of hardware men enl
m all parts Of the state are expect II
to attend the 11th annual conven- nou
j of the Oregon Retail Hardware Tor
Implement Dealers association, nav
ch opened its session at Portland peti
inesday. Dec
oyernor Withycombe issued a pro- cIpa
nation declaring the dissolution of nrS'
domestic and 3 foreign corpora mn
5 and forbidding them from at. mon
1tfng further TO do business In the Prin