The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-12-06
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation OF Our Readers.

MoTe tudu 9l1,UUV WAS Teditzeu ILOm
the tag sale held in Portland In the
interests Of the Waverly baby home.
Petitions are being circulated ask
ing that Glen r. Metsker, district at
torney for Columbia county, be re-
called.
The 33d annual meeting of the Ore
gon State horticultural society will
be held in Roseburg December 5. 6
and Z.
Work Of demobilizing members of
section B, of the s. A. 7. c.. at the
Oregon Agricultural college. began
Monday.
The Oregon Baptist state convention,
which was scheduled to meet in Port
land last month, has been postponed
until October, 1919.
Demobilization of the Students
Army Training corps unit in the Uni
versity of Oregon began Wednesday,
and the university will return to its
pre-war status.
A second wave of the Spanish in
fluenza, which surpasses the first, is
sweeping over klamath Falls, in spite
of the fact that the restrictions had
not been removed.
The Scissors, last of fleet of 20
auxiliary powered vessels built at
Portland for the French government
by the Foundation company, was
launched Thursday.
J. D. Farrell, president Of the O.-W.
R, G N. railroad, has been appointed
by Governor Withycombe as member
of the state fair board to succeed Mrs.
Edith Tozier Weathered.
Nineteen horses were burned to
death when fire destroyed barn at
the Chemawa Indian school. Several
set of harness and 1000 bushels of
grain and so tons of hay added to the
loss.
In one check for $S0,SS7,39, benefit
ciaries under the estate of the late
Theodore B. Wilcox, of Portland, paid
the inheritance tax for that estate.
The total valuation of the estate was
81, 2,S92,4S4. M...
Total bank deposits in the state ag-
gregated s226, 1881, 7O3.44 November l,
according to statement issued by
Superintendent of Banks Bennett.
This is an increase from August 81,
1918, of $29. ,2S5.24.
The death of John Olson, contractor, \
of Portland, was the only fatality re-
ported to the industrial accident COM
mission out of 430 accidents, reported
for the week ending November 2S, inA
elusive. <,
The woman's dormitory at the Eu-,
gene Bible university was destroyed
by fire and the matron and 10 girls
in their night clothes by cut
ting the screens on the sleeping porch
and passing through them to safety.
Life insurance companies will be
called upon to pay out something like
5000, 100000 in extraordinary losses
because of the influenza epidemic, ac-
cording to statement issued by In
surance Commissioner Harvey Wells.
The newly completed $4,000 con-
crete bridge, just erected across Hood
river by the state highway commits
sion, has been thrown open to traffic.
The bridge is approximately 500 feet
long, 1t replaces an old steel bridge.
Following the usual custom, the
Hood River Apple Growers associa-
tion sent to Chicago refrigerator car
loaded with gift boxes OF fruit sent
by Hood River residents to friends
and relatives in that city and points
of the Mississippi valley.
At his own request Warden Murphy,
Of the state penitentiary, retired Sat
urday and was released from his bond.
In the interim before Robert L. Stew
ems, the prospective appointee, takes
charge Deputy Warden Burns will
have control at the institution.
After a conference between Chair
man Miller, of the public service COM
and officials of the Spokane,
g Seattle Railroad company,
the road has decided to suspend its
order for reduction in the passenger
service schedules between Astoria and
Portland.
Much uncertainty prevails at Marsh
field regarding the numbering business
and the closing down Of several indus
tries indicates that operators are going
carefully until new bearings are estab-
lished. These retrenchments have
thrown between 800 and 400 men out
Of employment.
Oregon dealers buy fish, delivered,
at an average price Of III cents a
pound retail it. at 17.s cents pound
and make an average profit of 342
per cent, according to survey Of fish
market conditions of all states, re-
Gently compiled by the United States
food administration.
Railroad telegraphers and agents of