The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-03-28
OREGON.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

illness of ten days, aged SO years.
An ordinance has -oen introduced
in the Medford city council putting a
Ian on Sunday dances and regulating
all public dances.
Governor Olcott has reappointed J.
z. Reynolds, of La Grande, and w. HI.
ESavage, of Corvallis, to membership
on the state fair board.
With 81 different kinds of automo.
biles, trucks and tractors on display
Albany's first automobile show was
held in the armory there.
Sherman county will conduct cam
paign on March 81 to April 5 to obtain
complete records of all soldiers, sail
ors and marines OF the county.
More than 500 stockmen are expect
ed to invade Bend on April %, when
the annual convention of the Oregon
Cattle and Horse Raisers' association
will be held there.
The weekly bulletin of the depart
ment of labor shows vast improve
ment in the employment situation in
Portland, for last week, the surplus
of unemployed dropping from 10000
to 5000.
Walter Hill Kline, Of Corvallis, has
presented the Oregon Agricultural col
lege with collection Of framed por-
traits of celebrities, for the most part
portraits of the presidents Of the
United States.
Following recent action Of the Bay
Park and North Bend mills, the Bueh-
ner Lumber company, of North Bend,
has announced that beginning April
material reduction in the wage
scale will be made
Colonel John Leader, in clfargetsof
military training in the high schools
of the state, will visit high schools in
southern Oregon the week of April a.
He will inspect the organizations at
Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland.
Where only one Deschutes county
rancher was raising purebred live
stock two years ago, 20 are now add
ing to the quality of their herds by
the introduction of thoroughbred sires,
census of stock raisers recently
completed shows.
The Linn county court and county
agricultural agent, S. V. Smith, have
declared war on the gray digger squir-
rels. The court has advanced $100
with which to buy poisons which will
be distributed by the county agent
to the farmers at cost
. One hundred thousand sheep will
be under the control of Deschutes
national forest officials, it is estim-
ated In addition to 10000 which will
Craze on the Deschutes forest about
10000 in the Cascade and Santiam
forests have been transferred to the
administration of Supervisor Jacobson.
A meeting of the Western Oregon
Tie & Lumber association will be held
in Portland on March 20, when an eff
fort will be made to unite the various
lumber manufacturing associations
and independent lumbermen in a pro-
test against marketing conditions i'm
posed by the railroad administration
Colonel John l.. May, who recently
returned from overseas, where he was
commander of the 1929 infantry, was
named adjutant-ge@rals Of Oregon, in
an appointment sS&ounced by Cover
nor Olcott He succeeds Adjutant-
General Charles f. Beebe, who made
the request to the governor to be
placed on the setired list
The Southern Oregon conference of
the Seventh Day AGventists, which
was il. session at Suslerlin during the
past week, unanimously confirmed the
selection OF that place IS permanent
conference headquarters ana educa-
tional center. The former Sutherlin
hotel building and adjoining property
has been purchased for use as an acad
emy.
With enthusiastic expressions of
mutual good will 500 men and women
of southern Oregon attended the get
together meeting Of, the Grants Pass,
Medford and Ashland commercial
clubs at Medford and pledged them
selves to program of cooperative
service for the advancement of the
material prosperity of the Rogue river
valley.
State Engineer Lewis, Attorney Gen
eral Brown and Superintendent OF
Banks Bennett, comprising the state !
irrigation security commission. left
Salem Monday for Echo, where they
will investigate the Teel irrigation
project with view OF certifying 81