The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-11-08
OREGON news NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for infor-
nation Of Our Readers.

nliieS east VI Eu6euc, cuIdlllu6 d lOSs
of $4,000
Dates of the Pacific international
livestock show, annually held in Port
land, have been announced as Decem.
ber to Is.
All of the schools of Linn county
were closed Monday by orders issued
by Mrs. Cummings, county school SUI
perintendent.
Fire Prevention day in Oregon as a
day of celebrations, mass meetings and
parade was Indefinitely postponed
from November 2.
The farmers of the Union section
are nearly through their fall plowing
and seeding and the apple crop, which
was very light, is practically all ga
thered.
Superintendents of all state institu-
tions will receive increases in salaries
If the legislature adopts a recommen-
dation decided upon by the state board
of control.
Thomas Jefferson Hayter, one of the
oldest surviving pioneers of Polk coun-
ty, passed away at his home in Dallas
after an illness of several months due
to old age.
Basing his figures on census taken
of 851 homes in the city, w. R. Ruther-
ford, superintendent of schools, estim-
ated that there are 500 cases of influ
enza in Eugene.
James Oscar Rich, Of Eugene, who
suffered fractured skull when a
speeder from which he fell ran over
him near Mapleton, died from the in
juries he received.
Recent heavy rains, coupled with
| rigid enforcement Of health regula-
tions, have produced a marked i'm
provement in the Spanish influenza
situation in North Bend.
Through Mayor Magnus Saxon, the
city of st. Helens has presented to
Mrs. J. H. McKie silken service flag
bearing four stars, representing her
| four sons in the service.
Senator Chamberlain appointed Sla-
tor Marcellus Miller, IS years old, of
Roseburg, as his candidate from the
state at large for the United States
military academy at West Point.
Heavy onion losses, such as occurred
last year in Oregon, may be prevented
or to large extent minimized by pro-
viding for adequate ventilation, says
H. P. Barss, plant pathologist at the
Oregon Agricultural college.
Miss Lillian Tingle, of the depart
ment of home economics at the Uni
versity of Oregon, has been appointed
vice-president of the National Coun-
Gil of Executive and Administrative
Women in Education for the state of
Oregon.
The average daily population for the
biennium at the Soldiers home has
been 14S, according to the report of
Commandant Markee, just issued. OF
these lat were engaged in the Civil
war, 21 in Indian wars and four in the
Spanish war.
While the tug Pioneer was attempt
ing to enter Coos bay, towing the lum-
ber-laden barge Wallacut, with a crew
| of six men, the tow line broke and the
barge was carried on the south spit.
The sea was rough and the barge lost
her mast and cargo.
Representative Sinnott has desig-
mated as his appointees to West Point,
Charles o. Canham, of Nyssa, princi-
pal, and Walter Marshall, of Voltage,
alternate. To Annapolis he designated
Robert Emahiser, La Grande, princi-
pal, and Joseph B. Weller, Mosier, al
ternate.
Lack Of accommodation for emer.
gency cases and pressing need of more
room, accentuated by the exigencies OF
war, are pointed out in the biennial
report of DR.. G. c. Bellinger, super
intendent of the state tuberculosis hos
pital, filed with the state board Of
control.
An order authorizing the sale o.
2,34S,O0O feet of Port Oxford cedar OF
the Coos Bay wagon grant lands at ;
price of not less than $S Thousand
feet was signed by United States Dis
trict Judge Wolverton. Timber Gu
from the tract will be used for air
plane stock.
A secret indictment charging hin
with accepting $3.50 from Fred A. Mat
son, former prisoner, caused the ar
rest of Charles s. Sheridan. forme
guard at the state penitentiary. Sher
idan is the first person to be takel
into custody as result of the prisol
parole investigation.
The great decrease of the dairy In
dustry in Oregon and the butcherinI
OF large numbers OF milch cows durini
the past year, which has been reporte'
in a number of press articles recently
is not indicated In klamath county, Il
the belief of w. p. Johnson, Of tn