The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1918-07-18
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfer-
nation Of Our Readers.

Ne OF approximately 200 voices.
A $4,000 cherry crop for the Milton
Freewater country has just been mar.
kstsd.
Roseburgs new cannery began oper.
ations last week with q run on logan
berries
A septic tank for Pendleton's sew.
age will be constructed as soon as
possible.
Thomas Reynolds. aged IS. was
drowned in the Willamette river near
Springfield.
The planning mill at Meacham, owned
by J. ID. Casey, burned TO the ground
with loss OF $500.
Dallas will soon be almost a preach.
srisss town, all the pastors but one
leaving TO engage in war work.
The 2sth annual meeting OF the
Presbyterian synod OF oregon will
meet at Eugene from July 30 to 2G.
The coming session OF the Oregon
annual conference OF the Methodist
church will be held IN Portland In Sep.
tember
The first two cars OF 1918 wheat
from UmatilIa county were shipped
from Adams and Eastland stations last
weak by n. w Collins.
Mayor Gates OF Medford has issued
an order prohibiting the use IN public
ana private meetings of ANY alien On
emy language In that city.
With the labor shortage 40 serious
that farmers cannot handle the hay
crop. young women have begun work
In the fields in some parts Of Linn
county.
An average OF almost 10 per cent
Of oregon's CLERGY have either partly
or wholly given mp their church work
and are now engaged In army or Y.
NJ. G. A. work.
Pear orchards IN the north end OF
Jackson county will net the growers
= 80 per cent crop OF good quality
frult, while the apple crop viii aver.
age 55 per cent.
A break In the A line canal OF the
Umatilla project. near Hermiston. dur.
ing a storm put the irrigation system
on the project out OF commission for
two or three days.
After a week of persistent search.
Ing. the body OF Vernon A. Forbes.
who Was drowned last Sunday evening
In Crescent lake. about 20 miles south
of Bend. was found.
Fuel dealers In oregon who have
not turned In their reports 20 the
fuel administration have until July -
to do so. After that their coal sup. D
plies will be cut off
Twenty additional Oregon Agricul.
tural college students and four faculty
members. making ~ persons In all.
were sent to the special sO.day train.
inE camp which Will open at the Pre-
sldio July 49,
Al the residence OF =. p. Timber,
lake, Ia Newberg. the Roelofson clan
gathered sunday from all over Oregon
Tor their annual reunion aud picnic.
There we're nearly a hundred persons
10 attendance
In the thirty fifth week OF the storrs,
Conn. test the "oregons" from the
agricultural college At Corvallis won
The honors for the week with a re-
marksble yield of e3 esgs.
Since III inception, November 1.
1914 the Industrial accident commits,
sion has disbursed s..e4 ss7,S out OF
receipts assresatins st.t3i .s22.5T. or
hsd up to June 80 this year. according
% the report for the fiscal year.
The large farmers elevator at Bates
station, two miles west OF Milton. ON
he o.'W, H. a n. tracks, is nearing
completion aud lacks only the iustsls,
ion OF additional machinery to be
'sAdy for the annual harvest run.
Henry oMalley, formerly In charge
y ClsekamAs hatchery, has been pro I
noted TO the position OF representative
u the United States fish commission /
N the Pacific coast. with general su. I
'erNision In that part of the country. 4
The Baker Commercial club has ap.
'esled for assistance from the govern I
aent through Representative sinn0tt {
0 revive the sumpter valley Irrigation d
roJect, completion OF which would {
'sier about so,eoo aerss east OF Baker, r
The state game commission Of Ohio e
making an effort to get that state y
toeked with China pheasaRts The d
'inn Ringneck Pheasant farm. of Al. 4
any. shipped 5000 pheasant eggs to d
he game commission there in the past o
~ weeks.
Fire which broke out Ia the finish. II
" shed OF the Western Cooperage y
1mpany in 81 Johns practically De b
royed the shed, together with large 4
mount OF the valuable machinery. ii
ne loss Is estimated AZ between S2s,. 81
~ and $4,000. @
Owing 20 the fact that but $3.50. 900 m
the bond issue Of sI.S00. 600 asked @