The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-09-19
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation Of Our Readers.

been in such demand as this season.
Harvesting of cranberries in the low.
er Columbia river bog lands has start
ed.
Marion county will produce more
than 200 carloads Of apples this sea-
son.
A new Jail for the Umatilla county
court house was recommended by the
grand jury.
The lumber industry Of the Coos bay
country is suffering as result Of a
car shortage.
Earl L. Fisher, county assessor of
Linn county for the past seven years,
has resigned.
Two babies were born in Portland
during the month Of August for every
death that occurred.
Truckers, flour packers and wheat
handlers employed in FIGURING mills of
Portland went out on strike.
The bond issue for the construction
of storm sewer system in Dallas
was carried at special election.
The mint growers Of the Willamette
valley pooled their mint oil for 80 days
and are holding out for So a pound.
Cottage Grove soon will have one Of
the most modern and best equipped
garages in that section of the state.
More than 300 students are now en-
rolled in the Pendleton high school,
the largest enrolment it has ever had.
It was with considerable difficulty
that rooms were found to house teach
ers employed in the Roseburg schools.
Aurora wants more water and has
decided to put down experimental
wells on both sides Of the Pudding
river.
All contracts for the Elks' four
story temple at Pendleton have been
signed and work is well under way on
the excavation.
Excavation for the placing of the
foundation for the women's building
at the state university in Eugene has
been completed.
William G. McAdoo, former secre-
tary Of the treasury, will be one of
the several notables to visit the Pen
dleton Roundup.
The Linn county road bond issue
has been approved and plans are being
completed for the sale of the first
block of 100000.
McMinnville will hold a monster
"welcome-home" celebration for the
returned soldiers and sailors of Yam
hill county Friday.
A government chemist representing
the division Of hydration, United
States department Of agriculture, is
to be located in Salem.
The Hood River apple crop from
present indications, will approach
close to the governments midsummer
estimate of 100000 boxes.
Forty accused bootleggers will be
given the special attention of the Unit
ed States grand jury, which opened
sessions in Portland Monday.
Miss Ethel B. Gibson, graduate of
the Northwestern college, Naperville,
III, has been secured as librarian for
the Grants Pass public library.
Shipments of cattle from Pilot Rock
Of late have been so heavy as to re-
quire all the stock cars that can pos
sibly be sent to the branch line.
The home of the late Supreme JUS
tice Frank A. Moore at Salem is to be
sold to a club of "a Willamette uniyer-
sity men. The property will sell for
$4,000.
An intensive campaign was opened
in Portland by members of the Ameri-
can Legion to get former soldiers. sail
ors and marines into the ranks of the
local post.
The housing situation in The Dalles
has become acute. Many of the sbusi-
ness enterprises have had to curtail
their work, being unable to get help
into the city.
A large number of sheep have been
brought into Lane county this year
and the number now in the county is
climbing back to what it was fouk or
five years ago.
Lieutenant Edward Everett Wilson,
2S, vice president of the First National
bank of Linnton, was killed at Car
ruthers aviation field near Fort Worth,
Texas. while flying.
Hearing of the application of the
Portland Railway, Light & Pewer COM
pany for an increase of rates on its
traction lines has been set for Mon
day, September %.
Miss Florence Engstrom, who has
served as stenographer in the offices
Of Adjutant-Genera Stafrin for some
time, has resigned. She will enter
the University OF Oregon.
George t. Saunders, indicted in the
Josephine county courts on charge Of
embezzlement Of s22Sl from the Rogue
river public service corporation. vas
acquitted at Grants Pass.