The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-06-28
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Sksiohed for lnfor-
nation OF Our Readers.

The annual session OF the umpauA
baptist association WAS hold 10 Rose
burg
Qurstlonnaires are being mailed this
week 10 YOUNG mon who registered In
tho draft June g.
Formation of two companies OF tho
umAtillA county guard from the old
Pendle,on company has been eomplet.
cd.
The loEanbcrFy season Ia In full
blast In the umpqua valley. and the
different sections arc scenes OF great
activity at tho present timo.
Peter Au,Ecn. president OF the PENN
sula national bank at 81 Johns was
almost instantly killed IN an automo'
bile accident near Portland.
Tho annual eampmcetlne Of the
Seventh Day Adventist church OF east.
er Oregon and southern idaho opened
At Baker and will eontinus until June
80.
Oregon will play highly important
part In the Fourth OF July program for
tho emergency fleet corporation and .
minimum OF ~ wood hulls will be
launched In this district
J. D. Farrell. president OF the Orc
Washington Railroad q NaViga.
tion company. viii he the corporate
head OF the Union Pacific system in
the west. with headquarters Of Port.
land.
George A. Steel, pioneer in Port
land. twice postmaster Of the city,
builder Of lta first electric lines and for
ono term state treasurer OF Oregon.
died at the Good Samaritan hospital
in Portland
Loren Combs 10 dead and Robert
Potter and Gordon Rambo are suffer.
ing from serious injuries a. tho ro.
anl, Of being caught in cioudburst
In Little Bnekhorn creek. about ss
miles west OF Fossil.
Prohibition OF the sale anf use OF oil
kinds OF fireworks and perfectly safe
and noiscicss Fourth OF July are asked
ny State Fire Marshal Wells in q let
ter being sent out 20 the mayors OF
cities throughout Oregon.
A German church. located In the
northwestern part OF Polk county. has
ceased the use OF the German language
and In tho future at all services, ineiud.
Ing Sunday school and the weekly
prayer meeting. English alone will be
used.
The fret cast Of the big slxton
propcllers for tho emergency fleet
ships was successfully poured at the
Astoria Marine Iron Works In the
foundry department The casting In
the largest Of lie kind ever made IN
the state.
A campaign 10 enlist Portland bust.
ness men for farm service In Oregon
At harvest time will be started ON July
] by J. w. Brewer. federal farm help
specialist. In cooperation with com.
mittee representing various civic or.
ganixations.
sheriffs throughout the state are
experiencing considerable difficulty
In retaining competent deputies, due
10 increased wages In all lines Of In.
dustry. according TO complaint made
n the state convention Of sheriffs In
session in Portland.
Chester J. Hogue. Oregon secretary
,t the West Coast Lumbermen's asso.
'iatIon. has obtained temporary leave
II absence that he may take charge OF
work on a se0,o0o,000 !
'hipyard now being built BY the Union
ron Works at San Francisco.
Confronted with serious short 4
Ige OF drivers due to many OF It's EN-. {
,loyes entering military service. the
lorst a King Automobile company, op. q
rating o jitney service between North /
Send and Marshfieid, is contemplating \
Employing young women drivers to re. 9
lace the men. 7
A serious milk shortage In Portland I
nay result from the scarcity Of hay q
nd feed and the high cost OF labor, /
wo factors which are becoming O
urdens that the milk producing farm. b
rs cannot bear at the present prices c
I wholesale milk and which 10 SEM Ii
M many milk COWS to the siaushter. Il
ouses. Il
The state highway commission must n
dvertise for bids on highway repair G
Tork as well as for regular construo.
on work, and II no satisfactory bid
J received the commission may then