The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-08-08
OREeaa!A! NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly skeiched for lnior.
nation OF Our Readers.

Dallas 10 to have pcs, Of the Ameri
can Legion.
Klamath Fails ls assured Of another
larEc box factory.
A go q month ralsc IN salaries was
granted Fossil teachers
Work on the highway between Dallas
and Salem has been begun
Mas irenc Appleeatr. 30 years old
and q pioneer OF ists. died at Yoncalla.
The Benson hotel Of Portland has
been sold 10 Ex-Governor l.. II. Hanna
of Fargo. ~ D.
The city Of Ya,nhlll through the
state board Of health. has filed plans
for q new water aystcm.
Governor oieoti IL at cannon Beach.
where he will pass . few days with
Mrs. o.snlt and children.
kuEsnO real estate men declare tina,
there IL not q single desirable rest
dsnco in .he city for rent
The Astoria board Of education has
now compigtcd tho eorpa Of 81 teach.
ern for the next school year.
Notification has reached Marshfieid
national guard officers that the Marsh'
field company has been accepted.
The lumber shipment from the Go.
iumbia 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 RoseburE are likely 10 be
the bases OF oneration for airplancA
on forest service patrol duty In Ore.
son.
The annual report OF o. G. brown,
county superintendent. shows there are
BSs7 pupils Of school ase In Douglas
county.
Success Of tho alrplane forest fire
patrol In Oregon Ia assured according
10 a statement OF n. A. Elliott. state
forester.
County Fruit Inspector Il. c. Arm
strong Of Benton and Polk counties has
been named blight inspector for Doug.
las county.
An increase OF nearly 10 per cent
was made In Eugene bank clearings
for tho month Of July over the same
period last year.
Judge John 9. Coke IN the circuit
court at Msrshfield has upheld the
state isv prohibiting the shipment Of
crabs from Coos Bay
Portland firms secured the contract
for 100 cases OF eggs advertised for
by the Alaskan commission for ship.
mont TO the far north.
with The opening Of the Stanwood
sawmill for the saving Of railroad
tics, there are nov five sawmills active
In the vicinity OF Brownsville.
State Insurance Commissioner Har.
voy Wells has closed up the affairs
OF his office and turned II over to A.
g. Barber. his former deputy.
Unless the demand for lime In.
creascs the state plant at Gold nm
will close indefinitely. according TO
q. W. Courtney superintendent.
Members Of the State Fair board.
designated September %, the first day
OF the 1919 fair. as withyeombe day,
In honor OF the late Governor Withy.
combe, -
Since tho organization OF the Oregon
Fruit Growers Cooperative associa'
tion three weeks ago total OF 5000
acres Of prune orchards has been
signed.
Eight workmen we're fatally injured
In Oregon during the week ending
July 81. according TO tho weekly re-
port Of the state industrial accident
commission,
The v. n. Dennis Construction com
pany OF McMlnnville and c. w. Cook
Of Sheridan were awarded the contract
for paving Sheridan streets at approx.
mateiy 20 per yard.
W. J. Edwards Of Mayvllle was
chosen president Of the pioneers OF
Gillian and Wheeler counties at
at Julia Henderson pioneer
grounds near Fossil,
Spray or suffer tho consequences of
worms In your apples is the warning
sounded 70 Oregon fruitgrowers by
Leroy Childs, superintendent Of the
Hood River experiment station.
Since the enactment of the irriga-
lion district law by the state legisla-
ture in 1917 bonds In the sum OF sS.-
sos 900 have been certified by the ir.
rIgatIou securities commission.
The purchase of two tractors for