The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-03-14
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lntor-
nation Of Our Readers.

the establishment of shingle mill In
Reedsport.
South Umatilla county plans to erect
a $4,000 school building for high
school purposes only.
Ithas definitely been decided by the
Graves Canning company to erect a
$4,000 cannery at Woodburn.
An epidemic of smallpox has hit the
state school for the deaf, and 70 chill
dren are now under quarantine.
The state securities commission has
approved a bond issue of $4,000 for
the Hood River irrigation district.
Plans for the formation of Linn
. county chamber of commerce were
launched at meeting of the Albany
chamber.
The Coquille corn show had larger
line of exhibits this year than had
been shown before, a total of 5000
ears having been offered for exhibi-
ton.
Recent rains SO saturated the
ground that o portion of the paved
highway about mile south of Rose
burg has been undermined and made
unsafe for travel
Charles d. Latourette, a prominent
Oregon City attorney, recently present
ed to Oregon City ten drinking foun-
tains, seven of which already have
been installed in Main street.
Representative Hawley hopes to
complete his work with the house
committee on committees in time to
leave for Oregon this week. He will
be accompanied by Mrs. Hawley.
A special school election to author
ize the floating Of s2S,0O0 in bonds for
the construction Of new school build
ing in Bend has been announced. The
election has been set for March 20.
First Lieutenant Ralph NJ. Wilcox,
of Portland, and Second Lieutenant
Lewis c. Beebe of Cottage Grove, have
been awarded distinguished service
crosses for extraordinary heroism in
action. a
OF 40 accidents reported last week
to the state industrial accident COM
mission, one was fatal. The victim of
tho fatoI oooidant uac Top,ao Moro1ro
who was killed in connection with
shipbuilding in Portland.
Mrs. ]. R. Norton of Hood River was
drowned in the Sandy river, about 20
miles east of Portland, when an auto
mobile in which she was riding with
her husband left the grade, crashed
down the embankment and into the
stream.
Nine million dollars Is now available
( for road and trail construction, main
tenance and survey work within the
national forests Of Oregon and Wash
ington, according to an announcement
made in Portland at the district forest
headquarters.
Braniold Zanatta, unnaturalized
Italian, was arrested near Prineville
by Deputy United States Marshal F. B.
Tichenor. He is accused of threaten
ing to kill President Wilson If prevent
ed from bringing his wife to this coun'
try from Italy.
1t is costing $2.12 thousand feet
more to produce lumber in western
Oregon and western Washington than
the mills are able to get for it, ac.
cording to figures presented at meet.
ing of the West Coast Iaumbermen's
association in Portland.
The legislature just closed exceeded
all records for bills passed, although
tagging behind the three preceding
sessions for the number of bills intro
duced. The number of bills finally
passed was 436 out of S21 introduced,
or over SO per cent passed.
Ninety per ceat of the votes cast
at the special election in Umatilla
county favored the issuance by the
county, of $1.O5O,OOO in road bonds.
Less than 5000 votes were cast against
the proposal and only four of the GA
precincts. all small ones, returned un-
favorable najorities
The chambers of commerce of North
Bend and Marshfield have jointly ap.
pealed to the commissioners of the
port of Coos bay to take steps toward
securing for the harbor a powerful
harbor tug. The plan is to have the
tug for aiding in unloading large ves-
sells and for towing over the bar.
Bids opened by the county court for
$277,000 worth Of Douglas county road
bonds were disappointing to the off
scials, and acceptance Of proposals was
deferred. Morris Bros. Of Portland
bid approximately IS cents on the dol
lar. while the bid Of Freeman. Smith