The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-09-21
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor-
nation Of Our Readers.
Aandon 10 talking OF bonding the
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Tho myrtle wood industry Of south
ern Oregon 10 increasing.
Tho Coos and Curry fair was held
at Myrtle Point last week.
Tho annual Morrow County fair was
held at Heppner las, woek,
The sixth annual Columbia county
fair opened al 81 HclenS "Wednesday
A state grain inspection office viii
he opened In Psndlcton within n iow
days
Linaaip county 10 coming into prom
insneo rAplsy AZ stock and dairy
county @
John u. Bowdcn. one OF eastern ore
gons oldes, pioneers, died At Baker.
sEed ~ years
The senate Sunday held n special
session 10 hear eulogleA on tho late
Senator Lane. Of Oregon,
The fifth annual southern wasco
county fair Was held a, TyEh valley
September IL. 10 and 20,
Not lees than zoo piEs from ,hr hoyb'
pig eluhn Of Oregon wiil he shown al
tho oregon state fair this year,
Tuesday the hisEeAt county fair ever
held by lhr Linn County Fair asSoci.
alton. opened It's satea at seio.
The n. G. Eccles interests, ot Os.
den. have purchased the htmetallic
mine near Grccnhorn from Anthoay
Mohr
Portland in 1915 had the loweat in
fan, death rate OF any city with a
population Of 10000 or more in the
United states,
y. II, Brown. Of Deer Park. Wash
has been named aS county agricultural
agent In Merton county by the Oregon
Agricultural college,
Five more counties, Benton. Una
tiiia. ClaekamAs. Baker and Marion.
have joined the group Of is that main
tain county agricultural agents,
George A. White. adlutantgcnerRl
ef Oregon. has been assigned to active
duty IN orders placing him with the
Forty.tirst Infantry division for ser
vice In France.
II In definitely settled that all s.ud'
eu,s Of the military science at the
Oregon Agricultural college will get
FREQ uniforms from the United States
war department
County tachers instItnlea are nov
being held In the various counties OF
the state. They began laHt April In
Lincoln county and will cud in Mutt
nomah on December !,
The house appropriations committee
adopted an additional item Of $4,000
to cover the deficiency for fire protec.
ton ON Oregon and California and
Coos wagon road grants,
Miss Junia Todd has resigned her
position as dean OF women at Will
annette university 10 accept n similar
position at Simpson college Indian
ola, Iowa, her alma mater,
Tho announcement of the sale oi
bonds and tho award OF contracts for
the ochoco irrigation project has
caused a general activity In real cs'
tate In and near Princvillc
Al the present time there is one
automobile for each group of IL per
sons In the state Of Oregon, and rs
rer cent of all tho cars, or slightly
more than one In three, arc fords,
Emery olmstead, president Of the
Northwestern National bank of Port
land. was elected vice president OF tho
Oregon section Of the Pacific North
west Tourist association at Seattle
Guy W. Talbot, Of Portland, was
elected president Of tho Northwestern
Electric Light & Power association. In
convention at Spokane, and Portland
was chosen as the 1918 convention
city.
II. 8. Dixon, q Prinevillo stockman;
W. II. paughtrey, president OF the
Union stockyards, Portland, and u,
p. Marshall, a Pendleton farmer. were
named as judges OF tho Roundup at
Pendleton. a,
Hood River Bartlett pears for can
ming purposes reached the high water
marx OF $3.50 per ton last weck {. o.
b. Hood River. This Is the highest
price ever paid in Hood River for
canning stock. a.. s..
The Lane County Poultry associa-
tion which holds It's annual exhibition
IN connection with the Lane county
fair October =. and S. announces
that there will be large cash premiums
and more special awards than In the
past.
Attorney General Brown has filed
In tho supreme court briefs for tho