The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-08-29
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor-
nation OF Our Readers.


Oregon Agricultural college.
Senator McNary has introduced a
bill to donate captured German can
non to the city of Pendleton.
A big black bear weighing $50
pounds was killed In the Polk station
neighborhood, north of Dallas.
Bids are being advertised for con-
crete bridge over Canyon creek at John
Day, on the John Day Highway.
Central Oregon's potato crop will be
the biggest and best that has ever
been produced, according to reports.
On account of the prune and hop
harvest, opening of the schools at Dal-
las has been postponed until Sept. 20.
Two designations in the clerical force
of the Roseburg postoffice leave one
vacancy, for which there is no appli-
cant.
Pendleton sheep shippers are ex-
pressing anxiety at present, owing to
a shortage Of cars for shipping their
stock
Forty-eight teachers have been en-
ployed for The Dalles schools during
the next term which opens here Sep
tember s.
Governor Olcott has received an in
vitation from Secretary Daniels to re.
view the Pacific fleet at San Francisco
on Labor day.
Portland tailors and shoe repairmen
have made demands for substantial
advances in wages to go into effect the
first Of next month
- Boston attorneys have approved the
validity of 100000 worth of Oregon
state highway bonds recently sold to
eastern bonding houses.
Contracts aggregating $3O,956, for.
the improvement of six streets in the
business and residence districts of
Bend, have been awarded.
John Vanderveld, Banks postmaster,
has resigned. His resignation has
been accepted and Henry Atlee has
been appointed his successor.
Jeanette Rankin, of Montana. first
woman to hold seat in congress, is
in Portland visiting at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Herbert Bragg.
Stock to a total of $50, 900 has been
subscribed for the new hotel which it
is proposed to erect in North Bend.
The total cost will be s1O0O0o.
In the opinion Of several citizens Of
Silverton, the city council elected last
November is not qualified and all busi-
ness transacted by that body is illegal.
The Salem Fruit union shipped to
points in Canada a carload of dried
loganberries, for which the organiza-
tion will receive approximately $685.
900.
More than a dozen carloads of sur
plus army canned food is now en-
route from Fort Mason, CAL, to Port
land for distribution throughout Ore
gon.
Herbert Num-, state engineer, has
received samples of road signs which
it is proposed to install at conspicuous
points along the state highways of
Oregon.
There were total of 566 accidents
In Oregon during the week ending
August 81, according to the weekly re-
port of the state industrial accident
commission.
An effort is being made to have the
county courts of Linn and Benton
counties take over and operate the
ferry across the Willamette river at
Ingram island,
An ordinance has passed the Pendle-
On city council providing fine and
Imprisonment for any person making
any unnecessary disturbing noise with
in the corporate limits.
Numerous violators of the state fish
and game laws we're convicted in vari-
ous parts of the state during the last
few days, according to reports made
to the game commission.
Just as the last load of hay had been
baled in the fields of William Roberts
and George Bowers, near Brownsville,
the stacks took fire from the engine
and were totally destroyed.
Eighty-fiye dollars ton for pears
delivered at the canneries at Sheridan.
Woodburn and Lafayette is the price
received for the Salem Fruit union
pool, according to announcement.
The first unit of the big cannery of
the Puyallup and Summer Fruit Grow
ers' association in Albany. which will
be one of the largest plants OF she kind
in the state, began work Monday morn
ing.
The selection of J. N. Burgess OF
Pendleton to succeed W. L. Thompson
as member of the state highway COM
mission following the latter's removal
from eastern Oregon to Portland on
Januarv I 1QoO has mat with auprov