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

Linn comfy hanks now have deposits
sEgreEating tB.soa.2Od7S,
Tho convention Of the State Fedora
tion Of Labor opened In Bend Monday
Marion county's apple crop this year
will net tho growers more than $780,
600
Dcekhands and tlrcmcu OF ror,lands
river steamboats, went on strike last
week.
Hood R.ssr apple growers have nov'
er experienced 90 severe shortage OF
apple packers,
Tho price Of milk in Pcndleton has
raised TO IS cents for plnis and 20
cents for quarts
More than $3.50 was cleared at q
dance given ny Tho Dalles Hospital
Alumni association.
Fire which started IN the upper story
Of the Masonic temple IN WoodbuFn
caused q damage Of $4,000.
J. l.. Stalker disposed Of his 1903
acre ranch situated In the vicinity OF
siiverton 10 EDWARD Olsen.
The Oregon Dairy Council will have
four delegates TO the national dairy
shew this week In Chicago,
Road construction In Oregon will bc
$1,000 .....A sksa,ah sha AinIaF hy
tho state highway commission.
Cranberry raiaers near Marshfieid
arc short OF help and have tho biggest
crop In recent years TO harvest
The Salem phez company expects 20
press more than 100000 pounds Of
apples during the present season.
Two new paving plantn. each coat
Ing In the neighborhood OF $4,000. are
to be purchased by Marion county.
Pear growers Of tho Hood River val
10y In a number OF instances win real
lac $4,000 an aero from their cropa this
year.
Forty.sive thousand gallons OF vine
gar will be manufactured by the Eu'
gene Fruit Growers association this
year
The accumulation Of materials await
Ing shipment 10 rapidly nearing con-
geation nj the Southern Pacific depot
In Brownsville,
Taxpayers OF coqullle have voted u
bond issuc OF $4,000 for purchase OF
n alte and 10 construct new high
school building.
Advertisements have been Issued by
the umatllia Indian agency inviting
bids for tho sale of 7s7 acres OF choice
Indian aliotments
Two fatalities and total OF bSs
accidents were reported to the indus
trial accident commission for tho week
ending October 9.
The second annual dahlia show given
In Oregon City under the auspices OF
the 81. Paui's Episcopal church guild
was largely attended.
Dr. william Sunderland Mott. for
more than 30 years q resident OF Salem
and one OF the best known physicians
In this section OF the state. 10 dead.
Salaries OF all county employees
whose pay 10 not regulated by state
laws, we're raised by the Douglas coun'
ty court from $40 to $50 per month
with the number Of motor cars con-
atantly increasing In Portland the traf'
flo problem as shown by the September
record Of accidents. 10 becoming more
acute.
Home nursing will be a part OF the
curriculum OF the future high school
girl In Portland. according 10 plans OF
the Portland chapter. American Red
Cross,
A large touring car ran off the Co
lumbia river highway near Rainier ana
plunged down an ombankment 100 feet
Matt Armstrong Of Astoria suffered u
broken leg.
Because large picture OF the former
kaiser appears in the new geography
the Parent. Teacher association at Eu'
gene has passed q resolution condemn
ing the book.
A. C. Barber, state insurance COM
missioner. has sent out more than
1000 circulars calling attention to fire
prevention day. which has been des'
ignated for October 0.
The state board Of control has start
cd an investigation to determine the
responsibility for fire which de-
stroyed much property at the state
training school for boys,
james Davidson and his brother'in'
law, John Flelds wealthy farmers OF
Nebraska, have purchased three Lane
county farms aggregating l54l acres
OF land for approximately 100000,
r. Lee Steiner, warden OF the Oregon
state ponitentiary, has left Salem for
n trip as far east as New York on