The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-08-08
OREGON NEWS NOTES
Of GEAERAl, INTEREST
Principal Events aof the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor- = Z
nation Of Our Readers.


can Legion. Fisa
Klamath Falls Is assured Of another
large box factory stai{ess q
"A $40 a NORTH raise in salaries was
granted FossilJteaehers. 59 5000
Work on the highway between Dallas
and Salem has been begun.
Miss Irene Applegate, 80 years old
and a pioneer of 1S43, died at Yoncalla.
The Benson hotel Of Portland has
been sold to Ex-Governor L. B. Hanna
of Fargo. N. D.
The city Of Yamhill. through the
state board Of health, has filed plans
Tor new water system.
Governor Olcott is at Cannon Beach,
where he will pass d few days with
Mrs, olcott and children.
Eugene real estate men declare that
there is not single desirable resi-
dence in the city Tor rent.
The Astoria board of education has
now completed the corps Of 81 teach
ers for the next school year.
Notification has reached Marshfield
national guard officers that the Marsh
field company has been accepted.
The lumber shipment from the Co
lumbia in July showed considerable
increase over the previous month.
Summer apples are moving from
Hood River to Portland in heavier
quantities than in any former season.
Salem and Roseburg are likely to be
the bases of operation for airplanes
on forest service patrol duty in Ore
gon.
The annual report Of 0. G. Brown,
county superintendent, shows there are
55s7 pupils of school age in Douglas
county.
Success CT the alrplane forest fire
patrol in Oregon is assured, according
to statement of r. A. Elliott, state
forester.
County Fruit Inspector e. G. Arm
strong of Benton and Polk counties has
been named blight inspector for Doug
las county.
An increase of nearly 40 per cent
was made in Eugene bank clearings
for the month of July over the same
period last year.
Judge John s. Coke In the circuit
court at Marshfield has upheld the
state law prohibiting the shipment of
crabs from Coos Bay.
Portland firms secured the contract
for 100 cases ofseggs advertised for
by the Alaskan commission for ship
ment to the far north.
With the opening Of the Stanwood
sawmill for the saving Of railroad
ties, there are now five sawmills active
in the vicinity of Brownsville.
State Insurance Commissioner Har-
vey Wells has closed up the affairs
Of his office and turned It over to A.
G. Barber, his former deputy.
Unless the demand for lime in
creases the state plant at Gold Hill
will close indefinitely, according to
c. W. Courtney, superintendent.
Members of the State Fair board,
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designated September %. the first day
Of the 1919 fair, as Withycombe day,
In honor of the late Governor Witty
combe.
Since the organization of the Oregon
Fruit Growers Cooperative associa:
ton three weeks ago total Of 5000
acres of prune orchards has been
signed.
Eight workmen were fatally injured
in Oregon during the week ending |
July 81, according to the weekly re-
port of the state industrial accident
The v. r. Dennis Construction com
1any of MeMinnville and c. w. Cook
If Sheridan were awarded the contract |
or paving Sheridan streets at approx
nately 81 per yard.
w. J. Edwards Of Mayville was
,hosen president Of the pioneers Of
lillian and Wheeler counties at
at Julia Henderson pioneer
grounds near Fossil.
Spray or suffer the consequences of
worms in your apples" is the warning
iounded to Oregon fruitgrowers by /
leroy Childs. superintendent Of the
Hood River experiment station.
Since the enactment Of the irriga.
ion district law by the state legisla-
ure in 1917 bonds in the sum of $3,-
10000 have been certified by the ir- |
igation securities commission.
The purchase of two tractors for
lse on the farms Of the state school
or feeble-minded and the boys in.
lustrial training school Is under con-
liberation by the state board Of CON
roi.
Percy Cupper. state engineer, has
'een asked to approve plans for the
angel valley irrigation district in
outhern Klamath county. Approx