The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-09-27
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly sketchsd for Infor.
nation Of Our Readers.
Tho seventeenth annual Polk county

Mra Barbara Loennig. aged 81 Year.
and resident OF Oregon for 30 year.
died nj Baker
The first Pacific coast smut confer
cnco viii be held at the Oregon AErl
cultural college October and 6,
A. a recent meeting Of Kiamatl
Falls teachers Il was voted 10 sub
scribe for no Hearst publications,
Six hundred farmers from all sec
tions Of Linn and benton counties at
tended big tractor demonstration al
Albany.
The fourteenth annual convention o
the Oregon State Funeral Directors
association will be held 10 Portland
October t5.
The Oregon Retail jewellers aasoelA'
iion has beaten every state In tho
Union In gain Ia membership durlng
the past year,
The plant OF the Albany Fruit Juice
company. OF Albany. will be used sew.
erAi months each year hereafter In tho
manufacture OF Iellies.
A community board to adjust any
differences between capital and labor
that may develop will probably DO
named In Albany soon.
A prune dryer on the farm Of 8, A.
Lasaelle. about two miles southeast Of
Albany. was entirely destroyed by fire,
causing a loss OF $4,000.
Wednesday Dcnd held n special clcc.
tion for the purpose OF voting $4,000
10 install adequate fire equipment TO
insure protection TO the city.
The erection OF the frat Y. NJ. c. A.
hut In Coos county has been started
at Powers. where about SO soldiers Of
the spruce division are employed.
The Tillamook. Fairview and Blaine
Red Cross organizations Joined In a
moas gathering picnic and brought IN
more than 1000 saeks OF sphagnum
moss
All Albany newsdealcrs have signed
an agreement not TO handle any Hearst
publications for tho period OF the war,
or until recommended TO resume their
sale by the national council OF defense,
With the arrival of $4,000 worth Of
machinery. active mining operations
will start at the holdings of tho set.
fern company. Of New York. on their
black sand chrome deposits In the
southern part OF Coos county.
The big paper mill strike ordered
In Oregon City. West Linn. camas and
Lebanon last October. and which orig.
inaily involved more than 1000 men,
was called off at meeting OF tho
striking mill workers In Oregon City.
Enthusiastic over the results OF the
past seasons work In handling fruits
and berries the directors OF tho Linn
and Benton Growers association have
decided to erect n canncry at Albany
In time TO take care OF next seasons
crop.
Development Of a power site at
Crescent. In northern klamath county.
has been undertaken by Dr. N. u.
winnard. OF Heppner. The power will
be used for pumping water on lands
In the Fort Rock district In Lake
county.
Some Oregon hopgrowers are still
harvesting their crops, but fully 10000
bales have been abandoned. II 10 fig'
ured that only 10000, or at the most,
$4,000. bales will be saved The bulk
u these harvested hops had previously
been sold on contract.
The government dredge Monticello
has been ordered to Cascade Locks 10
iredge the upper and lower entrances.
silt brought by tho freshet has been
In the locks and II Ii es-
.Imated the Monticello will be en-
,loyed there about month,
Governor Withycomhe notified At T,
.orney.G General Brown that he desires
IN investigation OF tho situation at
he state penitentiary, growing out OF
he recent discovery bringing to light
OF Irregularities In tho ,
OF paroles for conyicts,
During the week ending September f.,
o total OF 642 accidents were report !
d 10 the state Industrial accident
and three OF these were
ataL They are: Mike Jioyitch. Carl
add. quarrying; James Scraggs and
fred A. Mcintyre, Portland, shipbuild' J
M
The people OF Medford and Jackson
lille are up In arms and will fight the =
roposal OF President S. $. Bulls to
Ither stop the operation of the South .
rn Oregon Traction company railroad
otween Medford and Jacksonville or Q
israutls It and dispose Of the rails J