The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-10-31
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation Of Our Readers.

erty in Lane county this year is SlO6,-
351 less than last year.
The paving Of the Columbia river
highway between Cascade Locks and
Wyeth has been completed.
Teachers of Coos county have or.
ganized for the purpose of demanding
minimum salary Of $1,000 per year.
Approval Of Sunday, October 26, as
"go-to-Sunday school day" is given In
a proclamation issued BY Governor o.
colt.
The recently organized Albany Fair
association is planning to raise $4,000
to prepare grounds and purchase equip
ment.
An unidentified ex-service man was
instantly killed at The Dalles while
attempting to board westbound
freight train.
Multnomah county faces the largest
tax delinquency in Its history, unpaid
taxes on the 1918 roll totaling more
than $1,O0O,oO0.
The large mill on Coos bay Of G. A.
Smith, idle for over nine months, has
resumed cutting lumber with small
force of 200 men.
The Clatsop County Bar association,
at special meeting, decided to raise
all the fees for legal services approx
mately so per cent.
Mrs. Mary Catherine Mcqueen, SIS
ter of the late Robert Eakin, justice of
the supreme court, died at the Salem
hospital at the age of GA years.
John w. Gruner, geologist from Min
nesota, has arrived at the Oregon Ag-
ricultural college to take up his duties
as assistant professor of geology in the
school of mines,
Nine veteran foresters of Lebanon
and vicinity have left for the Santiam
national forest, where they will plant
$4,000 fir and white pine trees ON
South Breitenbush creek.
After burning over 800 acres of yell
ow pine and second-growth timber,
Tres which have been raging in the
pringle Butte section, 80 miles from
Bend, were brought under control.
Apples are piled ceiling high in the
Albany cannery store room, and Man
ager w. r. Scott expects to have ap-
pies enough to run the cannery at
capacity speed until the first of the
year.
Daniel Schnell of Tigard was In
stantly killed when the motorcycle on
which he was riding collided head-on
with a truck, about half mile from
Multnomah station on the Capital
highway.
Apple shippers in Oregon were de-
MED a commodity rate for the ship
ment of apples in bulk in refrigerator
cars, for use In manufacturing pur-
poses In the east by the railroad ad-
The special city election for the
purpose Of submitting charter amend
ment to the voters, increasing the
annual city tax levy from to II mills,
will be held In Portland on Wednesday.
November 49,
A fatal accident occurred at the Big
Creek Logging company's camp near
Knappa, when Charles Fulton was in
stantly killed and his companion, John
Warner, was SO severely injured that
death is expected to result,
Profiting by the experience of recent
years, when fall grain has yielded
much better than the crops planted In
the spring, farmers In the Willamette
valley are rushing now to get as much
grain as possible planted this fall.
A warrant for s115,4O5.74 was re.
ceived by Governor Olcott from the
United States treasury, In payment OF
the sum due the state OF Oregon from
revenues collected by the government
from national forests of the state.
An organization of good roads advo.
Gates was effected at Coquille. Its aim
Ia to become an advisory committee to
the county court, which requested as
sistance and advice from men ac-
Quainted with the county's needs.
The Hood River apple crop has even
surpassed preseason estimates, both as
to quality and quantity. The yield will
exceed 100000 boxes, and the apples
are running more than ever before to
the extra fancy grade and desirable
sizes.
Creation Of a park on the summit of
Spencer's Butte, mountain 1000 feet
high, six miles south OF Eugene. to be
reached by scenic road. 10 suggested
by a number Of Eugene men as suit
able memorial for Lane county sol
diers, sailors and marines who gave
up their lives during the great war,
with several small flurries of snow
already encountered. It will be only a
short time before crews on the Old
Oregon Trail will be compelled to leave
the higher levels and commence work
from the foot Of Cabbage hill. between
PendletoH and La Grande, heading to-