The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-06-14
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor-
nation OF Our Readers.

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and II.
Tho Oregon Bankers association
met Saturday at Bend for tho 18th
annual convention.
A three days picnic and reunion OF
Linn county pioneers was held at
BrownSville. ending Friday.
q, E, Spence. Of Oregon city. was
reelected master OF tho Oregon State
Grange In session at Salem.
Tho eleventh annual convention OF
tho Oregon association OF Title Men
was held Friday In Portland,
Labor on Coos bay In about to be
unioniIed In every branch II the local
labor council movement terminates
successfully.
II Ia expected that the state lime
board will ask tho emergency board
for q deficiency appropriation OF $4,000
instead Of $4,000 at lis next meeting.
Tho department Of Oregon. United
Spanish War Veterans. are planning
10 hold their annual encampment and
convention at Portland June 81.
AZ tho annual commencement cxer'
cinos Of tho Oregon normal school at
Monmouth. TO be hold Wednesday.
June 10. 1855 graduates will receive
diplomas,
Tho state highway commission has
been authorized by tho capital Issues
committee at Washington TO issue and
sell at once another 100000 In high.
way bonds,
Not including i3 counties. which had
not reported their registration. 3t2t
Oregon young men who have become
Il years old aimee June OF last year
have registered,
An ordinary scrub" hog brought
Sss5 when sold at auction at the
Union stock ahow AT La Grando. II
was purchased and rodonated to tho
Red Cross several times.
Tho sawmill OF tho Fischer Lum'
Der company. three miles back OF
Marcola on the Mohawk branch Of the
Southern Pacific. IS miles from En'
gene. was destroyed By fire.
Eleven carloads OF flour. returned
by patriotic Oregon householders and
dealers for shipment to France. has
been paid for and taken in charge by
food administration officials,
Frank Ransom, OF Portland. who for
several months has baen serving In an
important position with tho lumber
committee OF the war industries board.
has rendered his resignation and ex'
poets 10 return TO Portland.
That the prune industry 10 increas.
Ing rapidly every year in Polk county
Ia proven by a survey recently taken
by county officials. when II was dis
covered that there are now $500 acres
of prune orchards In the county,
Oregon and California railroad lands
In the Bull Run forest reserve will
be withheld from entry by the commits
sioner of tho land office until legis.
lation has been passed by congress
taking II from general entry. thus pro-
tecting Portlands water supply.
Since the beginning OF the war the
ilr and spruce producing mills OF Ore
gon and Washington have supplied
the government with 4S5.000,00 feet
of lumber. exclusive OF the airplane
spruce manufactured by the govern
ment's own plant at Vancouver, Wash.
Abbott Lawrence, pupil In the sev.
enth grade at westport, holds the In
Alyldual record for the sale Of thrift
lamps since the opening OF the war
savings campaign in the schools. hav'
ing sold $4,5so worth, according to
report received by Superintendent
Churchill.
Immense sums subscribed to liberty
loans have not affected bank deposits,
which, on May 10, amounted TO 1884,
asa, ,sss.57 In all OF the banks and trust
companies Of the state. or an increase
Of s2b,l72.4O72S over May l, 1917 ac'
cording to a statement issued by Sup
erint endent OF Banks Bennett,
The lowest fire loss record in Port
land for 16 years was established dur
ing the first six months Of the fiscal
year 1918. The fire loss for this Pc
riod was sS4.47f5s. This sum is vir'
tually one.halt OF the fire loss in the
first six months OF 1917, when the az
gregate loss totaled sl56,435F
Three fatal accidents we're report
ed to the Industrial accident COM
mission for the week ending June 6,
out OF total OF $40 accidents recorded.
The fatally injured workmen were;
Chris r, Rowe, sumpter, dredging; A.