The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-10-17
!. OREGON NEWS NOTES
y. :. , GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for infor-
nation Of Our Readers.

" members.
The Coos county teachers institute
was held in North Bend October Is
IA and Is.
\ State money on deposit in the banks
throughout Oregon on October ag
gregated $3.647,S3s.37.
| The building fund for the new Laus
anne hall at Willamette university
has reached nearly $4,000.
/ Sumpter will vote on new charter,
embodying the commission form Of
4 government, on December 8.
It is believed that the total prune
| production Of Douglas county for
1919 will be about 100000 pounds.
Thirty-four pupils Of Middle Grove
school in Marion county earned 4 total
Sof $1,000 during the summer vacation.
OF 1000 schools in the state OF Ore
gon, $50 have been unable to open
this fall on account of lack OF teachers.
Thomas A. Brasfield, SO years old,
one OF Baker county's earliest settlers,
died at the home Of his son in Baker.
Captains Of all ships coming to
Portland hereafter will be entertained
by the Portland Chamber Of Com-
merce.
Plans Of the Silver Lake irrigation
district Of 5000 acres have been sub
mitted to the state engineer for ap-
proval.
Marriages in Marion county during
the quarter ending October !, out
numbered divorces practically th b
to one.
Rev. William Ridgely Powell, oneof
the oldest clergymen in Oregon, died
at his home in Portland at the age Of
81 years.
ForstEie FIRST tinls ~ aexsn years.
Baker has d city isolation hospital,
established to accommodate case Of
smallpox.
Miss Rosalina Espinosa, graduate of
the University of Colorado, is the new
professor of Spanish at the University
of Oregon.
The Dalles district Columbia river
conference of Methodist Episcopal
ministers was held in The Dalles Mon
day andf Tuesday.
Miss Anne Elizabeth Arnspiger, a
resident Of Oregon since 1853. died
at the home Of her sister, Mrs. Mary
Rhodes in The Dalles.
Multnomah county road budget for
1920, as tentatively prepared by the
road department. calls for total ap-
preparation of $1.20O,OOO.
Organization of county farm hu-
reau was effected at meeting In
Klamath Falls Of farmers from all sec
tions Of Klamath county.
Eight Eugene dentists will care for
the teeth Of ~ children in the Eugene
public schools during the present
school year free of charge.
Demands were presented to the
board of education by the teachers of
the NorthBend schools for an increase
in salaries Of $40 a month.
Physical examination Of Umatilla
county school children is revealing
that the majority are in need of medi-
cal, optical or dental attention.
Plans for the enlargement of the
fish hatchery on the north fork Of the
Umpqua river has been made by the
Oregon fish and game commission.
Heavy frosts last week killed plants
in the big tomato and potato fields
around Dallas and damaged the ripen-
ing fruits to the amount OF several
hundred dollSrs.
With the discharge from Good Sam
aritan hospital Of Portland's fir& case
of influenza foc the winter seas the
city is now without single OF
the dreaded disease.
w. D. Devarney of Portland ap-
pointed by Governor Olcott as nem-
ber Of the child welfare comn ion
to succeed Fred Lockley, also ofsSort-
land, who has resigned.
The thirty-thirl grand encampmsnt |
Of the Grad commandery of the
Knights Ten lars of Oregon met in
Eugene with 70 delegates from diff.
ferent parts of the state.
Five thousand boxes of tomatoes
from five acres Of land at billiard Is
the record made by T. B. Evans &
Son. The fruit brought a price Of
more than 80 cents box.
Curfew ordinances which require all !
boys and girls under the age of is .
years to be off the streets By . P. IA.
after October 4 win be strictly en-.
forced hereafter n Eafern