The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-11-01
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation OF Our Readers.

The city OF st. Haienn VIII build
municipal dock.
Portland banks made n new recors
Friday. when clearingn totaled iis.
i60.2is.
Tho annual meeting Of the Oregon
nutter and cheescmakors' association
will be held In Portland December II
l3.
Thomas y, Paxton. city editor oI
the baker Morning Democrat. died nj
Baker OF pneumonia. following influ
enxa.
A Wind storm al Hood River took
large part Of the valleys unpickcd
apples. estimated at 30 per cent OF the
mlllIonbox crop,
Henry r. 6lanaer. n young farmer
living three miics north Of Lebanon.
committed suicide nl hia home by
shooting himself with a rifle,
The new T6'foot concrete bridge at
TyEh valley has been completed and
will be ready for traffic aA soon as
the approaches TO the bridge are com.
pie,ed.
John A. Muldriek. a wcll.known
Grant county eapisaiist. passed away
al his homo In Canyon cits OF pnec-
monia. following an attack Of influ'
enxa.
December 90 TO IS are the dates set
for the annual meeting Of tho Oregon
State Teachers association In Port
land, An attendance OF between 1900
and 1900 persons 10 expected.
Fraternity activities. with the ex'
ecption Of meetings of purely busi'
mesa character. will be suspended at
the Oregon Agricultural college on &C
coun, OF n ruling BY the war depart.
nent.
A committee OF the Oregon Dairy
council has reported that there has
been decrease OF $4,000 dairy cows
in Oregon since January ], 1918. Thia
report IL based upon a census OF milk
cows September l.
Lady.bugs will be collected by forest
service men and freed in wheat fields
OF Oregon. according 90 District For.
eaier Cecil This decision follows q
plea made by wheat growers who last
year los, heavily through aphidcs.
The federal administration has ad.
yiaed that the Oregon public service
commission raise rates for the sump'
ter Valley railroad, thus providing
funds with which TO pay tho increased
wages demanded by the striking EN-.
ployes
Multnomah county has been denied
permission by the public service COM
mission 20 construct crossing at
grade over the o.w. II. 4 n. tracks at
Osborn avenue. In Portland, the com.
mission holding the crossing too haE.
Ardoua.
Through efforts OF the business men
OF Albany and Salem and tho Portland
chamber OF commerce development bu.
roau. steps are being taken to organ
ize an Oregon chamber Of commerce.
OF all the states commercial
An order has been received from
army headquarters at San Francisco
requiring daily nose and throat spray
treatment for employees in the ship
yards and sawmills Of North Bend as
4 means Of checking the spread OF
Spanish influenza,
Since December 10. 1915. ls7 wooden
ships have been launched In Oregon
yards and those at Vancouver. Wash,
which are in the territory, having
,apaclty OF ae3.3o0 tons. according to :,
statement complied by the Portland
,hamber Of commerce.
Mrs. Laura A. Beck, OF Portland, a
widow. 60 years OF age, 10 the oldest
tudent enrolled In the University Of
oregon at Eugene this year. She do.
lares she docs not believe In years,
md just TO prove II she has begun
working toward degree in the uHf
'ersity,
with a mayor. five councilmen,
recorder and two water I
commissioners to be elected November
at Rainier. 90 little interest has been
AIKEN that nominating petitions have
cen filed for only three candidates, =
ne each for recorder, treasurer and :
School teachers are entitled to their
ay for the time the schools are closed
urIng the influenza epidemic, Super 7
ntendent Churchill says, basing his
.atement on an opinion Of Attorney.
eneral Crawford In 1906, when slmi. =,
IT conditions arose during Q scarlet T
,yer epidemic.