The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-04-26
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Skotched for lnfor-
nation oil Our Readers.

will be held June 2t-2o,
Portland has reached tho $1,000. 90
mark IN war savings stamps sales.
Work on tho state highway bctweot
Oregon CITY aud New Era In progrer
sing rapidly,
County Agent KAblo Hayh that Hen
ton county never had better proHpccll
Of great crop OF fruit than al th'
present ..........
Tho Fifo.Wilsou Lumber company
ot BAndon. has sold its fleet OF thre,
vcsselH 10 q San Francisco hhlpplnl
company
G. u. Rude Pendloton cattle buyer
completed n deal In Jefferson county
paying 100000 for $50 head Of prime
beef stock.
Albany will have no city primary
election this year, Tho time has
passed within which TO flo petitions
aud no candidates filed.
An aaSignmen, Of 2i0 men from
various military campo Of tho country
at Oregon Agricultural college for
training will arrive May Is,
Anderson J, Harlow. pioneer who
came from Wellington. Mo, and set
tod In Lane county In 1851. died at
hls home five miles north Of Eugene
at the ago ot Sc years.
"Hank" Bryant. we'll known rail.
road man OF pioneer days of Oregon
and for many years conductor on tho
Heppner branch Of the o.w. Il. 4 n.
Co. died at Tho palleS
Formal dedication OF the Vista
House at Grown Point on the Columbia
river highway will take place Sunday
afternoon, May 0. andcr the auspices
OF tho Vista House association.
What may prove to be the nucleus Of
n state organization OF women TO be
known aH the Oregon Legion OF Home
Defense. an auxiliary OF the Home
Guard. Ia being organized At Salem
The indebtedness OF the City OF
Eugene has been materially reduced
In tho past fiscal year, according 10
tho report Of tho city treasurer. This
shows u total reduction Of tiib.23b,22.
War workers from every section Of
tho state viii meet In Portland on
May % and "a at the first Oregon
war conference. which II to bo held
under the auspices Of the state coun.
ell OF defense
The amount OF Hhip contracts Ore.
gon shipyards had on hand April IS
was si76.o0o. 900. according TO state
mont on the shipbuilding industry in
this district compiled BY the Portland
chamber OF commerce,
Hiram Terwilliger q pioneer Port.
aud citizen, died at his homo in South
Portland. aged rs years. For 20 years
no had lived In Portland. arriving
With his parents after an eventful
rip across the plains.
Dell Dlancott. famous all around
owboy and one OF tho best known
rontIor show performers OF tho west,
vas killed In action on tho western
ront on March 30. according 10 tcle.
ram received In Pcndleton.
A representative OF the state high.
ray engineers office will make re. {
OF tho road between 4
lamath Falls and Fort klamath. 40 1
lilies north, with the Idea OF iInprov. 4
ig this much Travelled highway with q
Indors. n
A worlds record In rapid wooden h
alp construction was established In
ortland Saturday when the hull OF a
10 steamer Wakan left the ways of Q
Ia Grant Smith.porter Ship Co. The Q
sel OF the Wakan was laid only 81 q
lys ago. Il
Attorney.Genoral Brown declared 1,
at 4 law providing for jackrabbit s
,unties In Harney county 10 invalid, Il
the light Of q supreme court opinion O,
,lding O similar law, enacted By the v,
'ople, under the initiative in Lake IN
unity, invalid. In
After soundly roasting" theNElectric
ght q Power company OF Burns,
arney county, for It's inadequate
uipment and poor quality Of serv. a.
}. the public service commission IN
MED the company's application for 10
increase In rates. M
training and courses de- 20
med TO prepare men and women for y
pclal lines OF war work are to be a
, features OF the University Of Ore w
MS 18th annual summer session, o'
ich will open this year on June "a 81
1 close August 2, w
rhe federal government will start In re
lew days on the restocking Of the WI
mad ayeA Of the Rantiana national co