The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-10-31
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Skeiched for Infor.
nation OF Our Readers.

The western Oregon corn show will
bo held In Eugene this year.
An agricultural department has beer
organized at the Newberg high school
Nine cars Of beef cattle were ship
ped from Durkoc TO the Kansas CIT,
market
William spayd. q Civil war veteran
and for many years a resident OF sa
lem. died at Seattle.
Tho dairymen OF Jackson county
have organized tho Jackson County
Cow Testing association
MONDAY dancing As cure for brain
fag has been adopted by the students
Of Reed college at Portland,
The first livestock show undertaken
IN DcBchutes county was put on in
connection with the Tumalo fair.
Eight school districts in Douglas
county are still without teachers. nc.
oordlng TO Superintendent Brown.
Herman Rosenberg. wellknown
umatilla county farmer. bought the
Bert Smith farm of 800 acres near
Yoakum.
I'd plogg. a resident OF Dallas. dis.
appeared October IL. and officials and
his brother In Portland are trying TO
locate him.
Bears and cougars are causing con.
siderable losses OF young cattle In tho
Dry creek section of the Sisters Mo
tolius range.
A sswmill three times the size and
capacity Of the one destroyed by fire
last July Is being erected at Peoria by
Liggett a Austin.
The freshman class OF Willamette
university has voted TO donate a walk
10 the university. and has approprIat.
ed the necessary funds.
One thousand gallons OF grape wine.
oonfiscated from Italian residents,
were poured into the Columbia river
at 81. Helens last week.
Preliminary plans are being made
for the Oregon Christian Endeavor
convention which will be held In al.
bany February 30, 81 and %,
Seven rural schools In Lane county.
three OF them Union high schools, are
closed because the boards OF directors
are unable to obtain teachers.
Fire, starting from the explosion OF
IN oil stove. completely destroyed the
women's living quarters at the plant
u tho Dufur Orchard company
At special election. Monmouth by
! vote OF 20 TO went on record In
avor of a gravity water system. vot.
ng 100000 In bonds TO pay for It.
Tho application of sulphur to alfalfa
and has increased the yield so mate.
tally In central Oregon that umatilla
Italia growers are going to try II out.
Judson T, Bowman. T5. a veteran OF
he Civil war. was instantly killed
'hen he was struck by Southern Pa.
ific passenger train near Grants
Ass.
Bids for approximately 157 miles OF
raveling, grading and surfacing will
Q opened at the Portland offices of
ne state highway commission on No
ember 4,
The She'll company of California
aid to the secretary of state a total I
I $1l76,9S for gasoline and distillate !
Did In Oregon during the month OF
eptember.
L, II, Linharger. cattleman, has
Ist shipped 200 head of cattle from I
reswell to ukiah, Cal, where they 6
III be fed and sold later to buyers t
that state. Q
In response to call recently issued c
z County Agent Hunt, representative p
rmers from oil parts OF Morrow
unty met at Heppner and organized a
farm bureau. o
The flshermen's strike on the Sius. p
" and Umpqua rivers has been called d
l. The fishermen are selling their II
lmon for the same price as before, 81
I cents a pound,
Morrow county was covered with b.
anket OF snow last week. Most OF II
. sheep are out Of the mountains or l.