The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-08-15
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of The Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor-
nation Of Our Readers.

w. C. Latham, an Oregon pioneer of
1852, died in Albany.
"A post Of the American Legion was
organized in McMinnville.
Dallas soldiers, sailors and marines
organized a post Of the American Lee
gion.
! Eighty rural schools in Linn county
are without teachers for the coming
term.
Pulling of flax on the state farms
will be completed within the next 10
days.
P. W. Marx. formerly Of :sSetland.
was chosen as city engineer Of The
Dalles.
Fire losses in Oregon, exclusive of
Portland, for the month of July totaled
s421, ,23O.
| J. c. Perry Of Salem was elected
| president of the Oregon State Pharma-
ceutical association. a
The Hood River chapter Of the
American Legion has a chapter roll of
more than 100 names.
The city of Marshfield proposes to
buy the local race track grounds as an
aviation landing place.
Pendleton lodge of Elks will start a
campaign at once to finance the con-
struction of a new 100000 building.
Fred w. currey of Albany was ap-
pointed city chemist Of Portland to
succeed c. G. Galloway, who resigned.
Fire completely destroyed the dry
ing and storage sheds Of the Pine
Box Lumber company in Grants Pass.
William Albee, marshal at Helix for
a number of years, has been appointed
county game warden for Umatilla
county.
The Oregon wheat crop, according
to the bureau of crop estimates, will
make total yield this year of 49,
100000 bushels.
The state highway commission has
awarded Hood River county two gov
ernment motor trucks for use in high
way construction.
Bandon post of the American Lee
gion, has been organized by returned
soldiers and application has been
|, M do for a oho rtar
Contract prices for prunes advanced
100 per cent between April 2S and
July29, according to the records Of the
Marion county clerk.
Operation Of the new paving plant
purchased recently by the Marion
county court has proved valuable
asset in road building.
The harvest of fruit in the Rogue
river valley is now well under way.
Estimates place the value Of the yield
this year at s2,00O,O0O.
Tripartite control of the railroads is
pointedly opposed in resolutions adopt
ed by the Oregon chapter, American
Association of Engineers.
Twenty eight thousand pounds of T.
N. T. has arrived in Bend and will be
put at the disposal of the forest sery-
ice for making forest roads.
Linn county's 100000 bond issue
has been approved in every detail by
bond attorneys of the East and will
now be placed on the market,
Half a century's activity as a practic-
ing attorney in Yamhill county is re.
called by the death of James Mccain
at his home in McMinnville.
F. A. Olmsted of Portland was ap-
pointed by Governor Olcott to succeed
H. N. Lawrie as a member of the Ore
gon bureau of mines and geology.
Linn county ex-service men met in
Albany and named the local post Of.
the American Legion in honor of
George E. Chamberlain, Oregon's war
senator.
Dollar bills raised to IS by pasting
words and numerals over the original
designations have BIN passed in
towns about the ms of the Colum-
bia river.
With prospects of IA of the best
yields ever produced. estimated at so
bushels to the acre. threshing of the
250-acre oat crop on the state hospi-
tai farm has started
A post Of the American Legion was
organized at Dallas by Captain Walter
L. Tooze, Jr. About 25 former soldiers,
most of whom saw service overseas,
form the temporary organization,
One of the biggest hay crops in the
state of Oregon is being cured this
season on the Chewaucan Land com
pany's ranch in the Paisley section.
where $4,000 acres will yield an aver.
age of two tons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Rees Of New
berg have received French eroix de
guerre with bronze star awarded
their dead son. Private Lester G. Rees,
for bravery displayed under machine
gun and artillery fire.
City parks Of the state that are
able to pay travelling expenses for
elk will each be entitled to a pair
/; the cities desire them. This was