The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-11-15
OREGON News NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Sketchsd for lnfor.
nation Of Our Readers.
Portland will appropriate ,a,saS.,7O

Tho Western walnu, association
convened at MeMinnvills Wednesday.
Miss Daria Sawyer has become
tester for the Linn county Cow Tcat
Ing association.
Farmers and homcmakrrs'k week
will not be held At tho oregon ARrl'
cultural college this wintcr.
Plans are being made for holding
thu annual Pork county corn Hhow In
Independence December - and II,
In tho Hiilsboro city election an
initiated measure closing motion pic
turo theatera on Sunday was defeated.
s7s 20 Ia.
Three hundred and seventeen boxes
Of pears shipped 10 the Earl Frui.
company IN Chicago by Dugald Camp
bell. OF Eugene, sold for iii.t.ss'
g ofieials OF tho big oil companies
represented in Oregon have announc'
ed that service stations and garages
will resume Sunday gasoline sales .,
once.
Z Multnomah counIy's road pro-
KrAmme for 1919 calls for an eIpondi'
ture OF t7?s. .tsT5O. according to the
tsptAtivo estimate Of contemplated
work.
The Marshfleld city council has
adopied one of the most drastic dance
ordinances In tho state. requiring IT.
esnse and restrictions tha, arc very
rlgld.
II IL feared that Influenza may
wipe out Hood River valleys few ro-
naming Indians. Tho epidemic has
struck a village north Of the city OF
Hood River.
The public service commission has
suspended tho action OF the American
Railway Exprcsa company In diseon'
tinulng offices at sumpter. whitney
and Prairie.
Robbers entered tho citiHena' State
bank At Grass Valley. dynami,ed the
vault and escaped with a number OF
Cancelled checks. some valuable seeuri'
,iea and q small sum Of money
Women osficiAls In the town OF
umatilia. elected two yeara ago. when
they went out ahd made spirited
campaign against the men. were re-
turned 10 once In the late election
Oregon soldiers TO the number OF
l6s. OF which 90 are from Multnomah
county, have been returned to their
homo state from the various camps
and cantonmsnts on account OF tuosr'
culosis.
Mlss Pearl snsdsker has the dis
tinction OF being tho first woman TO
take up COW testing association work
In Oregon. The association, listing
7ei cows. OF which she has charge
IL IN Tillamook.
Tho big prune packing plant OF the
California Packing corporation To-
Gated In Dallas has just received an
order from tho United States govern
mont for about 100000 pounds OF
processed prunes.
Linn county will have an expert
enced delegation In the coming SEES
slon Of tho legislature. for every man
elected TO n legislative once from
that county has had previous service
In the Oregon legislature,
Tho postoffice department has no
titled Representative Macarthur that
since no one will take the postmaster
ship at Pleasant Home, Multnomah
county, the department is consider
ing the dlscontinuance of the office.
The heaviest Crater Lake travel In
the history Of the national park 10
renorted for the season OF 1913 by
AsaIstant Superintendent II. y. Nom
yer. He reports 1900 visitors regis
tered on the park books up to Noyem'
Der /,
Coos county has established tu.
berculosls department at the county
farm near Coquile for tho purpose
OF furnishing attention 10 peop'o sN
flicted with that disease during the
time the state institution at Salem 10
overcrowded.
The Coos q Curry Telephone COM
pany has applied to the public serv'
;ee commission to be granted author
ity to impose toll rate between Co
guile and Myrtle Point; also 10 oe
granted increase on certain rentals
and service charges.
Professor II, d. scudder, OF the ore
gon Agricultural college has been en-
gagged In field investigations IN the
vicinity OF Amity, and from that vi
cinity south to Independence, the past
ten days. in connection with plsps LOT
a practical demonstration farm. -,
10000. -at.a fan aTahanRNn eefyf