The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-04-04
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation Of Our Readers.

More than lf$a0 chaaren are ex-
pected to enroll for bcySs and girls
club work in Oregon tilis Year.
Gearhart Park, near Seaside, is to
have new summer resort hotel repre-
senting an investment of $4,000.
Fire starting in trash piled around
the burner resulted in the destruction
ofathe Mckinley sawmill, near Bend.
At meeting of Heppner lodge No.
1858, B. P. o. g., it was definitely de-
cided to erect lodge home in Hepp-
ner
One thousand dollars or more in
| jewelry was stolen by burglars from
the Madsen jewelry store at Cottage
Grove.
A S1,00O,O00 bond issue proposed in
Linn county for road construction may
be voted upon at the special election
in June.
Such high prices are being offered
already by Gamers and shippers for
strawberries that 1t is said there will
be very few berries for home con-
sumption.
An effort to secure for The Dalles
the Pacific coast manufacturing plant
planned by Henry Ford, was launched
at meeting Of the board Of directors
of The Dalles chamber Of commerce.
Mrs. R. p Boise, widow of former
justice of the Oregon supreme court
and member of widely-known pioneer
family, died in Salem at the home of
her daughter at the age of 81 years.
A junketing trip through the Pacific
northwest as far as Seattle is under
contemplation by the Cherrians, a
Salem boosters organization, which is
now arranging tentative plans for a
summer excursion.
On Thursday and Friday, at Eugene,
will be held convention of the Ma
tional Farm Loan associations of this
state for the purpose of forming a
state association and to discuss mat.
ters of mutual interest.
The 18th annual convention of the
Pacific Coast Rescue and Protective
society embracing Oregon, Washing
ton, Idaho and California, was held
in Portland Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday Of this week.
! Surveyors are engaged in locating
the new highway between Pendleton
ali Echo. The road will be changed
tFfollow the Umatilla river and will
be a part of the Columbia river high
way through the county.
Eugene and Lane county will bear
one-half Of the expense of maintain
ing the federal labor bureau in Eu-
gene until such time as congress
provides for the maintenance of the
service throughout the country.
No battleships, cruisers or sub
marines are available for the Rose
Festival at Portland in June, accord
ing to a communication forwarded by
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roose-
velt, to Representative Macarthur.
Announcement of the award Of a
$275,0OO contract to Fordham & Nc
Laughlin, of La Pine, for the compile
ton Of the Morson irrigation project,
between La Pine and Crescent, and
embracing 2750O acres, was made.
Governor Olcott has reappointed as
members Of the state board Of health
DR.. F. M. Brooks of Portland and DR..
Andrew c. 81 lith of Portland. He
also has appointed DR.. w. B. Morse
of Salem to succeed DIR. A. c. Seeley
of Roseburg.
The public service commission was
not able to issue its order in the Pa
cific Telephone rate case by April 1,
as 1t had expected, but an effort will
be made to get the order out before
April 20. The case is one of the most
yoluminous ever heard by the public
service commission.
| The big job of charting the unsur-
veyed marsh lands of the lower Klam-
aath lake, which has been going on for
the past three months under the di-
rection of Fred Mench, United States
] cadastral engineer from Portland. has
been completed so far as can be done
| at the present time.
Consumers Of gas and electricity
must pay an increased rate for these
commodities in the towns Of Rose
burg, Grants Pass. Medford. Ashland,
Talent and Phoenix. The public serv-
ice commission entered an order grant
I ing to the Oregon Gas G Electric com
pany authority to increase its rates,
the order being effective April 1.
The referendum can not be invoked
by the people Of Oregon on the joint
resolution adopted by the last legis-
lature ratifying the national prohibit