The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-07-05
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Skeiohed for ln'or'
nation Of Our Readers.

The Lane county war board has re-
commended that the county court pur'
chase side arms for rs deputy ShcrlffS'
Destruction Of tho Johnson Sa~mill
q, Coauillo by fire threw 80 mrn out
Of employment, and caused loHs OF
$40. 900
-Four serious fires which were burn
Ing near the klamath national tores,
have been rEllnEuiphrd and two others
are undcr control.
Sales Of white flour may be resumed
by oregon dealers beginning Friday
July s. under permission Eran,cd by
the food administration,
C. r., Richards was shot and Instant
" Killed BY his divorced wife on the
Rickards ranch, east Of The Dalles'
Mira. Richards used rifle.
Oregon ranks fourth among tho
states In tho percentage Of physicians
furnished 10 tho medical reserve corps
Of the United States army and navy
A census o. North Bend completed
recently by 9 directory concern shows
an increase In the population OF moro
than 1900 during tho last two years.
Designated spruce campo under EoV'
ernmenI supervision are to work 10
hours a day during July 20 meet an
emergency need for aiFplAne materials
The Astoria school board received
letter from tho capital iasues CON-
mittee Of Washington declining 70
authorize the proposed $4,000 issue
OF school district bonds for new school
buildings,
The cranberry marshes In the viein.
fly OF Astoria are now IN full bloom.
old,ime cranberry growers admi, that
they have never seen anything like
the bloom on the marahes that 10 seen
this year,
The eleventh annual convention OF
the Oregon chiropFaetie association
will be held Thursday. Friday and
Saturday. July 4. 6 aud 8. at Portland.
with delegates presen, from all sec
tions OF the state.
All men IN attendance at the summer
school OF tho University OF oregon will
be required 20 take part In track
meet TO be held on KincaId field on
the afternoon OF July 4. The contest
viii bo between companies.
The little village OF Harbor which
nestled on the south side OF the Cheteo
river In Curry county, 10 reported TO
have been practically wiped out by q
fire which started In the C. a o. log
ging camp IN tho neighborhooa,
Approximately 200. or 10 per cent OF
the 1000 selected men sen, to Camp
Lewis from Oregon under the last call
are being turned back by the eSamin'
crs aa rejects" Tho percentage has
risen 70 high that draft leaders are In
dismay.
State Fuel Administrator Fred J.
Holmes has announced that the govern
ment will not curtail supplies OF fuel
oil 10 steamers and railroads OF the
northwest. About onehalt OF the oil
consumed in Oregon 10 said TO 90 to
these two classes Of users.
Tho first completed initiative petit
tion providing for repeal Of laws Of
the last legislature fixing compensa'
tion for publication OF legal notices
and recurring advertisement OF dclin.
ouent taxes In newspapers we're filed
with the secretary OF state.
The Lebanon Canning company has
lust completed n $4,000 addition TO the
plant In Lebanon and have added about
$4,000 In new machinery and equipment
which will about double the capacity
OF the plant for handling fruit and
vegetables for canning purposes.
A return to the manufacture and use
Of victory bread, with 26 per cent sub
utitute and rs per cent wheat flour, on
the part OF bakers and hotel and res
taurant men OF the state for the sum-
ner 10 authorized In notifications sent
from the state food administration.
The state highway commission has
received notice from tho government
that II has approved the project for
grading six miles OF the highway be.
tween Union and Telocaset. on the old
oregon Trail This is q post road
project. The estimated cost is $4,000.
Prohibitionists Of Oregon, assembled
in convention at Portland Saturday.
with J. p. Newell as chairman and
Mrs lAdah Wallace unruh as secre-
tary. indorsed the candidacy Of Oswald