The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-06-27
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL lNTEdEs

! Company G. of the new regiment OF
Oregon national guard was mustered
into federal service at Eugene with
72 men,
| Governor Ben Olcott has accepted
an invitation to be present at the
Fourth of July celebration at Eugene
this year.
Josiah Wills, 1916 graduate Of the
Oregon Normal school, has been
chosen county school superintendent
Of Polk county.
Dairymen of Clatsop county are
planning to start cheese factory for
the use of the surplus milk which
is produced there.
Fifty head Of Jersey cattle brought
$17,275 at sale at the farm Of Henry
Stewart. near Albany. One three-year-
old heifer sold for SLIPS.
The Oregon bureau Of mines crew,
which recently left Portland to engage
in field work in southern Oregon, is
operating south of Gold HILL
The forty-fifth annual meeting OF
the Oregon State Medical association
will be held in the Elks' lodge room
in Portland, June 26, 81, and 2S.
The Heppner Hotel association has
accepted the plans of John v. Bennes,
architect, for three-story, $4,000
structure to be built this summer.
Moses Mansion, county commission
er of Polk county, died at his home in
Dallas, after an illness Of only few
hours. Mr.. Mansion was So years
| old.
Twelve hundred persons attended
| the Lane county Salvation Army home
service fund ball held by the Eugene
Elks lodge. More than 5000 was real
lied.
A majority of union labor men Of
| Portland are favorable to the Mooney
sympathetic strike, according to re-
ports received by the Central Labor
council.
| Authorities at the state hospital for
the insane report the escape of
| Thomas Loveall, age 81, who was com
mitted to the institution from Medford
on June Z.
Three fatal accidents out of total
OF 5O7 were reported to'the industrial
accident commission during the past
! week, according to, the weekly acci-
dent report.
| Governor Olcott has issued pro-
clamation calling on the people of Ore
7. gon to lend all possible financial aid
to the drive for funds in behalf of the
Salvation Army.
Rev. A. ]. Hunsaker of Yamhill coun-
ty, who first came to Oregon in 1S47,
was elected president of the Oregon
! Pioneer association at its annual con-
vention in Portland.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars is the
estimate of the value of the property
! left by, the late w. N. Matlock OF
Pendleton, according to the petition for
the probate of his will.
Total deficit of the Portland Rose
Festival association as a result Of the
Victory carnival amounts to about
$4,000, which will have to be made up
by private subscriptions.
Organization of an association of
| physicians of Deschutes, Jefferson and
Crook counties were perfected in Red
mond, when DR.. ]. F. Hosch of that
CITY was elected president.
| Members OF the Oregon Dairymen's
league in convention in Portland de-
clared to man that they are not
getting enough money for milk-the
price must go up. they insist.
M. H. Nickelsen, reelected to the
post at the annual school election in
Hood River, is the dean Of Oregon
school clerks. Mr.. Nickelsen has serv-
ed in the position for 20 years.
William ]. Clarke, who died in Port
land at the age of 81, was native
of Salem and retired newspaper
man. For some years he was editor
and publisher of the Geryais Star.
Forty-two members Of the Reserve
Officers Training Corps division of
the college regiment left Corvallis TO
attend the annual six weeks encamp-
ment at the Presidio, San Francisco.
BY a vote of 3276 to 1870 the pro
posed Portland school bond issue of
$2,500,000 was defeated in special
election which was marked by light
4te and comparatively little interest.
4 Ideal weather and visitAgs estimated
at from 500 to 1000 itributed to
] make Millions welcoml home to the
I soldiers of eastern u Atilla county
yable ar%app-o iate occasion.
Sisher-Storey sawmill At Tole-
,-.s, which was destroyed by fire last
week, will sbe impediaAly replaced
by modern miIl to cost $15O.OOO. and
which will cut 10000 feet each Shour
shift.
With candy so high and flowers so
expensive, the cheapest way out for