The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1918-06-27
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly SketChed for lHiOr-
nation Of Cur Readers.

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\ Questionnaires are being mailed This
week to young men who registered IN
& the draft June 5.
x Formation Of two companies OF the
Umatilla county guard from the old
Pendleton company has been complet.
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The loganberry season Is IN fun
blast in the Umpqua valley, and the
different sections are scenes OF great
activity at the present time.
Peter Autzen, president Of the PENN.
sula national bank at ST. Johns was
almost instantly killed in an automo.
bile accident near Portland
The annual campmeetlng OF tho
Seventh Day Adventist church OF east
er Oregon and southern Idaho opened
at Baker and will continue until June
90.
Oregon will play highly important
! part in the Fourth OF July program for
the emergency fleet corporation and a
minimum Of ~ wood hulls will be
! launched In this district.
]. d. Farrell. president OF the Ore.
on-Wushington Railroad a Navga.
tlon company will be the corporate
head OF the Union Pacific systcm IN
the west. with headquarters at Port
land
George A. Steel pioneer in Port
land twice postmaster OF iho city.
builder Of its first electric lines and for
ono torn state treasurer Of Oregon.
died at The Good Samaritan hospital
IA Portland
Loren Combs is dead and Robert
Potter anl Gordon Rambo aro suffer
u irom serious injuries ne Jho fa
sHt oi loinr caught n cloudllnt
go LtHo Bucthoru orooh about 90
m.i.. Hoat of roa1
Prohibition of IHo aaia ana u.e of sll
hNfa Hroaorla pmro.t'y 'no
arI fonrlb ol Iub aro a.aad
iy aaU f.fo Nauhal Wells mn lat
Ger ho.ng ao0t oai 90 me mayors Of
c.t.w throughout oregon
A German church, located in ho
norhW, kcu part OF Polk county, has
ceased tllc usa of me Oornan Iageneo
aud in fhr uiurr at ail SERVICES. ma...
ing Sunday aehooi and ius wo
prayer mceilug, Euglish alone 500 o.
used.
The flrst east OF the big slxtou
propolloi for tho emergency ldot
ships was succHsuily poured ot lho
Astoria Narina Iron Works in The
foundry department Tho caatna 10
The largest OF its Kind eyor made n
the state
A campaign 20 enlist Portland husi.
uees men Tor farm service n Oroeon
az harvest lime viii BE- started ON Iuly
by }. w. Brewer, federal farm help
specialist, In oo.operlaiou with q csr
mlitee represtnlius ta5lous civic pr
eanisatons
shorIfia lhrougliout the state are
experiencing considerable mincmty |
in retaining competent depdtlos. duo |
TO Increased wages In an lines OF IN.
dusiry. according to complaint made /
al the state convention OF sherlffs IN |
session IN Portland.
Chester J, lioeue. Oregon secretary /
Of the West Coast Lumbormen's asso.
citation. has obtained temporary leave
OF absence that he may take charge of
construction work on SsOOOO.oOO
shipyard now being built by the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco.
Confronted with serious short
age OF drivers due 10 many OF It's en-
ployes entering military service. the
Gorst a. King Automobile company. op
Grating iiiney service between North
Bend and Marshfield. is contemplating
employing yonng women drivers to re-
place the men.
A serious milk shortage la Portland
may result from no scarcity OF hay
aud feed and the sh cost OF labor
two factors which are becoming
burdens that the milk producing farm.
ers cannot bear al the present prices
OF Wholesale milk and which is send.
ine many milk COWS to the slaughter.
houses.
The state highway commissiCs must
advertise for bids on highway repair
work as well as for regular construc.
tlon work, and II no satisfactory bid
Is received the commission may then
do the work b. force account. Assls.
'ant Attorney General Van wlnkle
holds, IN reply 20 nn Inquiry by state
Highway trfrf .tann.
More acc'.elis re.o reported 10 q
;ate industrial acc.een, oommiss,n
'or the week ending june 20 thsa
any other week since the compe
ZION act became effective. The trt,
number OF accidents reported was Cli.
OF which six were fatal The fatal
eases were John Maxwell. Portland.
shlpbuilding; o. e. Ayers. Linnton. {
Iumber Misunderstanding. A. Norana