The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-07-19
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Skeiched for lnfor'
nation OF Our Readers.

harvesting mas soEun IN tine urandc
nonic valley
La Grande In TO have n liberty Choir
ua Of approximately 200 voices,
4 100000 cherry crop for the Milton
Frrewater country has just been mar
hrtrd.
Itnsohnrg's new rannory began oper.
atioua last week with u run ON logan
berries
A Acptic tank for rendletona sew
age will he constructed aa soon as
possible,
Thomas Reynolds. Agod Is, was
drowned In tho Willamette river near
Springfield.
The planing mill al MeAeham. owned
by ]. D. casey. burned to tho ground
with loss Of $500,
Dallas will soon be almost a preach
erlcss town. all the pastors but one
leaving 10 engage in war work.
The .s,h annual meeting OF tho
Presbyterian synod Of oregon will
NEE, at Eugene from July % TO 20,
The coming session OF tho oregon
annual conference Of tho Methodist
church will be held In Portland In Sep
tember
Tho firs, two cars OF 1915 wheat
from umatilla county were shipped
from Adams aud EAa,iand stations last
week by H. W. coiliua
Mayor Gates of Medtord has issued
an order prohibiting tho use In public
aud private meetings Of amy alien en-
emy language In that city.
With tho labor shortage 80 serious
that farmers cannot handle tho hay
crop, young women have begun work
In tho fields In some partu OF Linn
county. u
An average OF almoa, 10 per cent
Of orcEoaa CLERGY have either partly
or wholly given up their church work
and are now engaged in army or Y.
NJ, G, A. work
Pear orchards In tho north end OF
jackson county will not tho growers
a 90 por cent crop OF good quality
fruit while tho apple crop wiz aver
age IS por cont,
A break In the a line canal Of the
umatilla project. near Hormiaton. dur
Ing u storm put the irrigation system
on tho project out of commission for
two or three days,
After week OF persistent search
Ing. tho body OF Vernon A. Forbes.
who was drowned last Sunday evening
In Crescent lake, about 70 miles south
OF Bend was found.
Fuel dealers In Oregon who have
not turned In their reports 10 the
fuel administration have until July Is
10 do so. After that their coal sup,
plies will DO Gu, off.
Twenty additional Oregon Agricul.
tural college students and four faculty
making ~ persons In all.
were sent TO the special 60,day train.
Ing camp which will open at the Pre-
Bldio July IS.
AZ the residence OF 8, p. Timber
lake. In Newberg. tho Roelofson clan
gathered Sunday from all over Oregon
Tor their annual reunion and picnic
There we're nearly q hundred persons
N attendance.
In the thirty.fifth week Of the storrs.
Conn. test the "oregons" from the
agricultural college at Corvallis won
he honors for the week with a re-
yield of So eggs.
Since its inception. November I.
.9l4. tho Industrial accident commits.
don has disbursed ts,404, ,SS7.45 out of
ecelpts aggregating $4.tsl. .622,57, or
lad up to June 30 this year. according
o the report for the fiscal year
The large farmers elevator at Bates
two miles west Of Milton, on
he o..W. r. & N. tracks, is nearing
completion and lacks only the instaIla
ion OF additional machinery to be
eady for the annual harvest run,
Henry oMalley, formerly in charge
I Clackamas hatchery, has been pro.
noted to the position OF representative ,
I the United States fish commission ,
n the Pacific coast, with general su.
ervision In that part of the country.
The Baker Commercial club has ap.
ealed for assistance from the govern. /,
rent through Representative Sinnott
} revive the Sumpter valley irrigation
rniect. oomnletion OF which would