The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1918-06-13
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly sketched fer Infor-
nation Of Our Readers.

hao ~,
The Oregon Bankers association
met Saturday at Bend for the 18th
annual convention.
A three days picnic and reunion e;
Linn county pioneers was held nj
Brownsville, ending Friday.
q. f. Spence, Of Oregon City, was
reelected master OF the Oregon State
Orange In session at Salem.
The eleventh annual convention OF
che Oregon association OF Title Men
was held Friday in Portland.
Labor on Coos hay n about 90 be
onionized in every branch n the local
labor council movement terminates
successfully.
II is expected that the state lime
board will ask the emergency board
FOR deficiency appropriation Of $4,000
instead Of $4,000 at It's next meeting
The department Of Oregon. United
Spanish War Veterans. are plauuig"
10 hold their annual encampment and
convention at Portland June q.
Al the annual commencement exer.
cises OF the Oregon normal school a;
Monmouth. to be held Wednesday.
June 10, 1856 graduates will receive
diplomas.
The state highway commission has
been authorized by the capital issues
committee at Washington 10 issue aud
sell at once another $500 900 In high.
Wy bonds.
Not including ~ counties. which had
not reported their repatriation. 3424
Oregon young men who have become
2l years old since June G OF last year
have registered
An ordinary scrub" hog brought
1896 when sold at auction at the
Urlon piock show at La Grande II
was purchased and redonated TO the
Red Cross several times.
The sawmill OF the Fischcr Lum.
Der company, three miles back OF
Marcola on the Mohawk branch OF the
Southern Pacific. rs miles from Eu.
gene. was destroyed by fire.
Eleven carloads OF flour. returned
by patriotic Oregon householder and
dealers for shipment 10 France. has
been paid for aud taken In charge by
food administration officials.
Frank Ransom. OF Portland. who for
several months has been serving In an
important position with the lumber
committee Of the war industries board.
has rendered his resignation aud ex.
poets 10 return 10 Portland.
That The prune industry h increas
Ing rapidly every year In Polk county
II proven by a survey recently taken
by county officials. when II was dis /
covered that there are now $500 acres J
OF prune orchards In the county.
Oregon aud California railroad lands I
In the Bull Run forest reserve will /,
be withheld from entry by the commits.
sioner Of the land office until legis.
lation has been passed by congress
taking II from general entry. thus pro.
teeting Portlands water supply.
Since the beginning OF the war the
fir and spruce producing mills OF Ore
son and Washington have supplied
the government with tSb. .0OO. 900 feet
of lumber. exclusive OF the airplane
spruce manufactured by the govern,
Inents own plant at Vancouver. Wash.
Abbott Lawrence. pupil IN the sev.
Hnth grade at Westport. holds the In.
llvidual record for the sale OF thrift
stamps since the opening OF the war
savings campaign In the schools, hay.
AK sold sa,b6O worth. according TO a I
'eport received by Superintendent !
'hurchill.
Immense sums subscribed TO liberty I
oans have not affected bank deposits.
which, ON May 10, amounted to sls4,.
1873 ssS,b7 In all OF the banks aud trust
OF the state. or AN increase
4 s25,l724O72s over MAY I, 1917, ac, 9
ording To statement issued by Sup. !
OF Banks Bennett.
The lowest fire loss record In Port, =
and for 10 years was established dur. a
ng the first six months OF the fiscal z
ear 1918, The fire loss for this PEE, 4
iod was SS4,47l5S, This sum is yir. n
nally one-half OF the fire loss in the a
rst six months of 1917, when the az. n
regate loss totaled sl56,i35.47
Three fatal accidents were report $
d TO the industrial accident com 4
lission tor the week ending June q, II
ut OF total OF 572 accidents recorded. y
he fatally injured workmen were; s
hr!s Il. Rowe, Sumpter, dredging: 4. o
Church, Portland, shipbuilding; 81
arl Muths, Portland, shipbuilding. "
Some extensive improvements are o.
be made at the Klatskanine river ol
Im0n hatchery. The fish commits.
oner recently acquired some addi- A
Dnal land aud plans TO expend in the In
,ighborhood of $1,000 I'm betterments. In
he first work TO be done will be T.
increase the number OF rearing j
nds 50 that at least 10000, 900 fish W