The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-05-04
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly skstchsd for Infer
matIen Of Our Readers.

this year as usual
A chapter Of the American Rel
crcss society hes been organized o.
nend
The demand foF loEanbcrios prom
isea TO eclipse all previous records THU
year.
Farmers Of eastern oregon eIpec, q
good ercp. although the season Is de-
lsycd,
A branch ~ tho federal reserve hanh
si Fan Frpuclsco IL 10 be established
IN Portland.
The Douglas county court has or
dered . special county bond election "a
BE- held on June 4.
The union and walloNa couu,ies
pirs association held its annual meet
inE ~ la Grande.
The Southern Oregon Association Of
Odd Fellows lodges assembled In
Grants Pass last week.
The Marion county Young Peoples
eociety Of Christian Endravor held It's
convention at weodburu.
The Albany commercial club and the
Albany Retail Merchants association
have decided no, 10 merge,
Quite = number Of umatilla county
farmers are showing disposition 10
contract their 1917 wheat crop,
Approximately 5000 persons from ell
over Polk county witnessed q flag
raising ceremony held in Dallas,
Portland's recruiting office has pro
vidsd more than 1000 recruits for the
United s,ascs navy since April !.
BOY scouts Of PcrilRnd are 90 co
operate with the state tlah and game
commission In the protection OF game
and fish.
Tho ninth annual commonwealth
conference viii be held on the campus
Of thr University Of Oregon At Eugene
May i7is.
All but three counties ot tho 30 In
Oregon wore represented by delegates
attending the statewide good roads
conference held Ia Portland last week.
Governor wi,hycombe 10 10 be the
head.liner at the state eneampment OF
the Grand Army OF the Republic 10 be
held at Forest Grove June ss, ~ and
80.
s.ockraiaers In the Oregon national
forest rcgiona report the past winter
10 have been a hard one. aud an q 70
suit stock conditions arc below nor
NAL.
Tho war department has notified
Senator Chamberlain that authority
has been granted TO recruit battalion
OF engineers for tho Oregon national
guard,
Oregon was the second state In the
union In proportionatc recruiting for
the regular army between April and
~ by contributing SpS per cent Of her
war quota.
Nino hundred pupils, representing
% school districts ct Washington coun'
~, participated In tho annual county
spelling contest and Juvenile carnival
In Hilleboro.
A meeting OF ministers aud laymen
Of Linn, benton and Lincoln ccuntiea
was held at Albany TO organise for
the purrGse OF be,terlng moral con
6llions IN the army,
Tho Eugene chamber OF commerce.
has decided to abandon the Lane coun'
~ flax experiment for the comins
year, in view Of the war and the dc
mand for food crops,
Robert N, stantleld OF stanfield,
speaker a. the oregon house Of repre-.
sentativos. Ia representing Oregon at
the meeting OF the council OF national
defense at Washington.
Representatives OF four Chinese
tongs. which have been engaged In
warfare internationally since last Feb
ruary, have signed permanent peace
agreement at Portland,
Samples Of rock from a nitrate field
said to cover $500 acres, In Lake and
Harney counties. have been brought to
Bend by residents OF Burns, who have
located claims on the tract.
An increase IN wages of cents an
hour. amounting TO more than $4,000
4 year, was granted by the Portland
Railway. Light q Power company 70
its 1900 irainmen on all lines,
That there ls not enough hay In
Lano county to last the farmers until
the first new hay 10 cut and cured
was nm assertion made by g. ]. Hurd'
a prominent farmer Of Eugene.
wiIford Ailcn OF GrAnts Pass was sp'
pointed on the state industrial &C.
cldent commission to fill the vacancy
caused by Lieutenant Colonel carie
Abrams bsisx called 10 tAe eolofE