The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-01-25
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Skeiched for lniOr.
nation OF Our Readers.

James Ellison. resident NJ Albany foi
The pas, 20 ycars, died there, aged SO
years
tn. Farmers Creamery company nj
Carlton is installing plant for the
manufacture of cottage chrchc.
The president sent to thu senate tho
denominations Of Edith II ward post.
master at stanficId and II. {. Small,
postmaster Rt Turner
Herbert Num-. state highway "a.
SINGER was elected president Of the
Northwest Society Of Engineers at a
meeting held In Portland
George q, Watts. Corvallis soldier.
Rnd Private tlaudc n Perrin, ~ Mon.
roe. With the American rsPedttionary
forces In France died n pneumonia.
The oregon pcniicnuafy service ilag
hah 10 stArH and the 18th iS soon 10 be-
added. m another prisoner hak iust
been pardoned to fisht for hiS country,
Two of Douglas rounty's pioneers
died last week, r q, Dubcll. Nc years
old. passed away al Riddle. and Graf.
ton worIhlnsion died at Myrtle Greek,
An organized effort Ii under way for
The draining ot 1900 arroa ot land In
the southwestern cotner Of Marion
county. knosn aS the Ankcny bottom,
The consolidation Of Oregon rural
schools aH wartime measure OF econ
oniy In advised strongly by the oregon
normal school department Of rural odu'
cation
oregon farmers proapcrcd 40 cX
rcrdihgiy during the past year tia,
they are from 90 "a loo prr cent better
off than they were year aEp. accord
inF to estimates
MandiuR Olsen. Owner ~ the fine
Newell farm and stock ranch Il,
seEhcrs, a FEW miles south NJ Forest
Grove. died at liib home from the re-
suits OF holtiunictsd wounds made by
q razor blade.
Bend will be the convention city OF
the oregon State Federation Of Labor
In 1919 That Was decided by the
unanimous vote Of the delegates at.
tending the fifteenth annual convcn.
tion at Astoria,
Fifty four men and women gave
euticlo from their limbs for n skin
grating operation designed ,o save the
iifo OF Harry q, wcigcr. soldier OF
the spruce division. at 81 vincont'a
hospital nj Portland.
The bcs, record Of any rural mall
carrier In Oregon In the Eale OF war
savings stRmpa II claimed by Roy Han
vile mail carrier ON route No. out
Of Ncwberg one day lust week his
sales amounted 10 between $1,000 aud
$1,000,
The car service committee has Rd'
viaed Senator Chamberlain that in
atructlons have been sent the local car
committee at Seattle To investigate and
take steps 10 remedy the ear shortage
complained of by lumber mills at
Baker.
The authorities at Astoria have
doubled the military guards about thc
milR. wharvcs and warehouses; In tho
city. IL Ia thought this action was
taken with view of preventing any
dIsloyal act by German sympathiEcre
or agents.
Sergeant George II, Mullin, of Post
land. who. according TO press dia
patches captured ''pill,box' single.
handed, and rushed II Hnlpcr's post,
destroying the garrison, on the western 4
front, is nephew OF Mrs J, NJ. Shelley. I
Of Eugene, ........
ThcNart Legislature changed the law |
relative to Arhor day so that Il will \
hereafter be- observed on the second q
Friday In February In all schools west i
NJ the Cascade range and on the sec. c
,nd Friday In April in schools east OF (
The mountains.
Tillamook county interests, are TAX. '
hg up with the state highway com. r
mission a proposal that service. 4
lble automobile road be constructed
through the Grand Ronde Indian res. 3
'rvation to tap the extensive spruce 4
'cglons Of the county. e
During the past week 5o4 accidents Q
we're reported to the state Industrial Il
Iccldent commission. or this number, II
our were fatal. as follows; Jack Il
Astoria, shlpbuilder: A. y. Il
lreedon. Portland. shlpbuilder; Ankle II
iocum, Sheridan, logger, c.
ON account OF war conditions, three n
i Forest Groves leading churches will
AVE only one pastor. To this end u
tops were taken toward organizing the r,
hree churches = Methodist, Christian "
nd Congregational--into one federated CT
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