The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-10-05
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sumption. Tue principal was,| IL
said 10 be- In apples and pcncb plumt.
which ara heluf alluvcd To rot on the
trees, The community rs ~ far from
q MARKET that transportation Chargcb
d. not warrant shipping
Harvesting Of the bcnn crop hGs
begun In Polk county The average
yield IL bciworn $50 and $50 pounds
per acre. which Ia not A. good ~ oH'
pcrtrd There are noarl, 1000 actea Of
land around Monmouth m bcana.
An amendment was adopted IN the
senate Ia The deficiency bill which
will permit Oregon and several other
s,atra to receive immediate benefits
under the vocational education bill.
Oregonn share amounting TO $500.
Three Of the IL cities In the United
statcK that have ovUrnubncrihed their
war library fund quota are In Oregon
says Telegram from national head
quarters in Washington, u. G.. To W,
l.. HrewBtcr state director They are
Lakovlcw. independence and Mon
mouth,
During tho pas, season a company
organized at Grants Pass has been
catching and shipping a thousand
pounds OF salmon day from the
mouth of tho Rogu" river. Th" fish
are iced aud sent 10 Coqulllc By auto
truck and from there shipped by rail
to market
Prineyillc. October 60 to &c. will be
the Mecca of cluhWomen from all over
the state. Everything In in readiness
and II Is expected that the nth annual
convention OF the oregon Federation
Of women'A Clubs will be one Of the
most succeastul in the history Of tho
organization.
To facilitate the handling Of a large
block Of yellow pine in central Oregon.
officials OF the Hrooka'Seanlon Lum'
bor company OF Bend are negotiating
wtah ahn RhevHnsFiixun company os
Rcnd and tho Huron Timber company
Of Saginaw. Mich. for the purchase OF
approximately go. 100000 feet Of tim
bcr
An editorial susgcstlon that the
pioneer rritca. stnrics and facts ni
southern Oregon should be collected
and preserved huA met with support
by the papers Of Granta Pasa. Ashland
aud Mcdtord and n move Ia under way
to have the libraries Of the three cities
made collecting agcncigs for that pur
pose
President Wilson has signed two
land bills affecting the status OF tracts
In the Oregon forest reserves. The
frat eliminates certain lands In the
WaliowA national forest amounting 10
i6,6ba acres, The other lands arc
located in the Fremont national forest
In Lake county This part amounted
TO l5.024 acres,
\ smaller quantity Of cgRs durinf
tho next year il the outlook from
Douglas county. as the result OF high
prices OF feed. According 10 poultry
men. about three tons of chickens are
being shipped from Roscburg weekly
aud similar quantities so from Riddle
Myrtle Creek, Oakland. Yoncalla and
Drain.
Fourteen hundred turkeys in one
flock being driven across field was
the unusual sight that residents ot
Fossil saw recently. The birds were
owned hy Thomas. Mckinley aud
James Huntington, three brothers, whc
have homcsteads IN the Rluc noun
taIna In Wheeler county, They were
on their way to market Il drive oi
more than 40 miles, mostly across the
stubhle fields of Gillian county.
The car service commission, at the
request OF Senator McNary. will order
an immediate investigation of the corr
plaint of the Portland chamber of com
merce with reference To shortage OF
cars on the Southern Pacific to move
Oregon products, The chamber says
the situation is made worse by ths
withdrawal of Coast'wise ships II
reports a surplus of cars on the o,'W
n. 4 N. company and the Northern
Pacific,
Governor Withycombc, p, l., Camp
bell president of the University oi
Oregon; Or. w. r, Foster, president Of
Reed college, Or. w, J. Kerr. president
of the oregon Agricultural college; j
A. Churchill, state superintendent OF
public instruction, and J. II, Ackerman
president of the Oregon state normal
school, are among those who will ad,
dress the Oregon convention of Parent
Teacher associations, to- be held ip
Eugene, October II to 20,