The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-09-13
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Skeichsd for lnfor.
nation OF Our Readers.

part Of Polk county.
Thc,whr department has ordered for
the use OF the allies 100000 pounds
OF oregon prunes Of the 5000 size
Close to 5000 sacks OF HphaEuum
moss were gathered from the Sand
Lake moss boEn by citizens OF Tilla.
nook county last week
Colonel William II, G. Bowen. United
States army. retired. has hecn zap
pointed commander Of the students
army training corps at the University
OF Oregon.
School at Dundee has been closed
to give tho pupils and teachers an op.
portunity TO assist In harvesting the
immense crop OF prunea grown In the
community.
A big farm tractor demonstration
was held at Linaomau Junction, 10
miles east Of Portland. Twcntyalx
makes OF tractors and So different trac.
tors we're entered.
A. u. Mathews. OF Thuraton. killed
q balky horse. had n complaint issued
for his own arres, on charge OF cruel
~ TO animals and paid fine OF $40
In Justice Wells court.
W. y. Durand, assistant cashier OF
the Redmond Bank OF Commerce. was
killed when the automobile which he
was driving went on the grade In tho
eastern part OF The Dalles,
In view OF probable shortage OF
labor for gathering tho apple crop. tho
Hood River Apple Growers association
10 urging attendance at the annual
packing and grading school
The annual Oregon conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal church is TO be
held In Portland. September 25 TO 30.
under the direction OF piahop William
orvillo Shepherd OF Chicago.
United States Wood Administrator
Green has finished for the time being
the valuins Of wools In Portland ware
houses. An additional 100000 pounds
OF wool was appraised In the past 10
days.
A new high record for packing
peaches was made by Mrs. Ed Eyerson
of Portland. who packed $40 boxes OF
peaches In nine hours and minutes
on the Frank ogle ranch near The
Dallea,
The evergreen blackberry crop In
Lane county this year will aggregate
400 tons and bring $4,000 into the
county. according 10 n. J. Adams, fo--
mcr member OF tho state highway con-.
mission.
Use OF yellow pine for airplanc con'
atruction has been approved by the
government. and the Blue Mountain
region of tho whitman national forest
IL coming to the front with ita quota
OF material.
Ira A. Hanshuett. bachelor. who
has lived alone on farm near Fall
creek. southeast OF Eugene. for the
past five or six years. was burned TO
death In brush fire on his place sev.
eral days ago,
Government disapproval OF extensive
expenditures for road work induced
the Douglas county court TO issue an
order suspcndlng an highway improve
ment. except where work Ia imperative
10 keep the roads passablo.
Tho total fire loss In the state for
August. outside OF Portland. was $685..
ais, according to figures prepared by
Harvey Wells. state fire marshal. The
most serious loss was that Of 100000
worth of hay near Lakeview.
Owing to the continued dry weather
OF the past summer which resulted in
tho drying up of springs In the coast
mountains from which the water sup.
ply Of Dallas Is obtained, water fam.
Inc is feared unless the fall rains set
In earlier than usual.
Finding OF human bones In the ruins
Of the washington county poor house
at Newton, which burned Thursday.
made II certain that John Reinbcrger
and Rudolph strainer. two inmates
who were missing, were cremated.
Both we're about so years old.
That Lloyd Ansonl 1s-year.old son OF
J. q. Anson. OF Telocasct. captured five
Germans lonc.handed while acting as
message bearer for an engineers com'
pany in France, Is the information
coming to the parents, He was men,
toned in dispatches for his bravery.
With lead of 81 eggs over the
second pen in the contest and but an.
other month to so. indications are that
honors in the seventh annual Inter
national egglaying contest at Victoria.
D. G., will go to the pen Of Barred
Rocks. sntarsd. hx -orhHon- -AEricultnral