The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-09-28
OREGON NEWS NOTES
Of GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly sketohsd for lni0r.
nation Of Our Readers.
The sixth annual Polk County fall
vas held In Dallas last week

The sir,h annual Polk County fair
vas held In Dallas last week
Portland night schools will open
throughout the city IN October l.
The oregon Dairymen'H league has
been formally organized In Portland
wharf and docks for the new saw
mill ., Reedspnr, are nov building.
UmatlllA CouniyN asassSed vAlns'
,ion this year will be about $4,000
coo.
washington county truitErowern be-
Gan hsr,es,ipg their prune crop Mon
day
cla,sop eoun,y's annual industrisi
and school fair VAS held In Astoria last
week.
The date Of the IlcrmiHton dairy and
hos show has been set for october e
and 81.
The federal reserve branch hank Of
Portland will Open for business on
October l.
-Four hundred thousand trout fry
we're liberated in Fifteen Mile creek
near Dufur
The klamath School Fair asSoeia'
tlon 10 planning 20 hold an industrial
fsir some time In October
Tue Washington county fair will be
held on the Pacific University campus
at FOREST Grove oc,obcr aS.
Governor wi,hycombr has isHued
proela nation declaring Tuesday. oc'
tober 0, TO be fire prevention DAY.
The seth annual convention Of the
oregon Womens Christian Temperance
unlou ~ili be held a, Albany October
IS
l. J Scott. Of Harrisburg, met In
s,Ant death by coming In contact with
. hish tension Nire carrying $4,000
volts
About 400 carloads Of prunea have
been shipped from the Milton section
during this season. breaking all pre-
vlous records
department has drawn plans for a6
county bridges. tho total coat Of which
aggregates $500. 900
Between 5000, 900 and 5000 ooo
pounds OF prunec IL tho estimate of
Douglas eounty's present crop Ms made
by n prominen, buyer,
The city OF Gold Hill has purchased
the Mcclure power site, water right
and bitches for power purposes in op'
Grating the city water plant
Curry county has requested the
state highway commission to make a
survey along the coast from the Coos
county boundary TO the California
state line.
Forty or 80 tons OF the evergreen
blackbcrries that grow Wild in nearly
every part OF Marion county arc be,
Ing delivered daily to the two can
neriea OF Salem.
Villain Henderson Packwood. aged
s5. the last surviving member OF the
Oregon territorial Legislature that
adopted the state constitution. died
Friday at Baker.
A start for better roads is bcins
made In Grant county In the survey
OF q pos, road from PILOT Rock TO
Long Crook Tha road will tap one
OF the best sections In northern Grant
county.
George Doll. who operates the Libby
mine. near Marshfield is planning to
aid In meeting the coast fuel shortage
by reopening the South Marshfleld
coal mine which has been idle for
several years,
William Wills. OF Seattle, has been
awarded contracts by the Port OF As
toria commission for the construction
Of the workhouse OF the new grain
storage tanks at the port docks. The
Is s56,9is.
A study OF the puzzling prune dis
eases that have been causing heavy
losses to Oregon growers for several
years has been taken up by the botany
and plant pathology department of the
oregon Agricultural college.
Rates declared to be preferential and
unjustly discriminatory against lum.
Dor mills of the Willamette valley
were attacked at an Interstate conf Z
merce commission hearing held in fed
eral court at Portland before G. II.
attorney.examincr.
The public service commission is
vested with full power to raise or low
er street railway rates in the cities OF
the state. providing that after a full
aud complete hearing tho facts Justify
such action. A,torney.Gcnersl Brown
has advised the commission.
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