The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-12-20
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Sketchsd for lnior'
nation OF Our Readers.

FreswA,sr Ia suffering from an spi'
demie Of typhoid fever.
Cove farmers are plowinE by niEht
An we'll M by day In the endraNor TO
&C., their fall plo~inE finished.
A grain.grAdiEE school was held for
three days at nufur for the benefit
of the grain growers OF wAseo county.
A fund Of several hundred dollars
for the aid of the new CEseho'alovak
republic has been raised In Linn eoun'
~,
with exhibits far superior in quality
10 those Of any previous show. tho
annual weAiern Oregon Corn Show
was held in Eugene last week.
Al special school election. the
taxpayers Of st. Hslsna voted TO build
a new school house and TO incur
bonded Indebtedness OF $4,000 for
that purpose.
The emergency board has created
deficiency appropriations for tho next
legislature 20 take care OF amounting
to tSbs.sss. according TO figures com
piled by Secretary oleott
Spanish Influenza has passed under
the iiai Of quaran,inablc diseases In
Oregon a. tho result Of action taken
BY the state board OF health Al its an
nuai meeting. held in Salem.
The state convention OF the Chris
tian Endcavor society will BE- held In
Albany In February, II tA expected
that about 500 delegates from all sec
,iopa Of tho state will attend.
A shipment Of 2s.SsT pounds Of tow
has brrn made BY tho board OF control
10 a packing company AT Philadelphia
the tow being from flax grown n, tho
prison. and IL commands 4 price OF %
cents a pound. or 17sst for tho ship
inent,
Children In the MeAlpln school, sew
sral miles east OF Salem, protested
when their teacher pasted u picture OF
tho ex,kaiser alongside that OF Prest
dent Wilson on th6 wall Of the school
room, and 40 a result of the protest
Ahe resigned
without tho slightest congestion In
the movement Of the Hood river val
Icy applc crop OF this year. tonnage
of almost 100 carloads has been
moved to points OF distribution. with
more noticeable celebrity than In the
past seven years.
An eightday open season Tor Sh''
nose phcauanta In umatilla county VIII
bc sought by representatives OF the
umatila County Fish and Game club
nj a meeting In Portland this week
Shooters want at loast Two Sundays
open on this game.
Prevalence OF Spanish influenza IN
many parts OF the state led the exeen'
tive committee OF the Oregon state
TeacherH' association 10 postpone In
definitely the general sessions OF the
convention set for Portland, pecern'
her 90, u and Is.
C. A. Morcy, a ranchcr, age 10, shot
and killed Alfred schaeter. neigh
bsr, in A field near sehaefer's home
40 miles from Heppner, Morey then
drove 10 Lexington and surrendered
to a deputy sheriff He said schaefer
had invaded his homo.
TO avoid the possibility OF having "a
restore the Influenza ban on public
gatherings In Eugene, Mayor G. U
pe,erson ordered that all cases OF the
d,sense must be quarantlned and pro
blbt,ed the holding of public or pri
yate dances until further notice
Production OF cheese handled by the
Coos and Curry Counties Cheese as
aoclation for this year up 10 Novem'
her totaled i.e2e,75o pounds, for whicn
Ssss oss.57 was paid to the dairymen
with two months remaining OF the
wear the total production will probably
exceed 100000.
q. 9. Grant, Of Dallas one OF the
most prominent Angora goat orceae's
IN the Pacific northwest was re
elected president of the National Mo
hair Growers association, In annual
session at Phoenix. Aris' Mr. Grant
has held the presidency OF the asso'
citation for several years.
out OF b4,46e cases disposed OF oy
the state Industrial accident commits
sIon from July /, 1914, to November
40. 1918. there were but % appeals BY
vorkmen from the decisions OF the
commission. or an average of one ap'
neal in 2475 cases, according TO state
men, issued by the commission,
Damages to the amount OF sls'1Vs.o, '.,
were awarded the government ssa,ns'
willard N, Jones by Jury IN the teo
eral court at Portland Ine so'e1n a