The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-10-03
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor-
nation Of Our Readers.

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ed France was 20 years.
| Portland will celebrate armistice
day, which falls on November H.
There is a great shortage of dwell
ings and rooms in The Dalles this year.
Public night schools opened Mon
day in six of Portland's school build
ings.
Registration in The Dalles schools
surpasses that Of last year by 211
pupils.
An army retail store has been open
ed in Portland at Fourth and Pine
streets.
Prices at which Gull apples are sell
ing in Hood River are far above those
Of former years.
Women workers in the Sheridan can
merry in some instances are earning as
high as 81 day
Twenty-three elementary schools
and six high schools Of Lane county
still lack teachers
A. 3. Rowland, wellknown busi-
ness man Of Corvallis, died suddenly
Of heart disease, aged 58.
Construction work on the new unit
of the Eugene Fruit Growers associ-
alton plant is almost complete.
The Clatsop County Dairymen's
league announces an increase in the
price of milk Of 40 cents hundred.
A charter for new bank at Maline,
klamath county, to be known as the
State Bank of Maline, has been issued.
The Chemawa Indian school near
Salem has among its scholars "a young
Indians from the Umatilla reservation.
Two 14-year-old girls, arrested by
the Portland police, have confessed to
the robbery of 12 business houses of
the city.
w. w. Johns, Oregon pioneer Of
1852, and for many years resident
of Salem, died following stroke of
paralysis.
With the opening Of the new pack
ing plant Roseburg now has three big
prune packing establishments in full
operation.
Judge Harry H. Belt of Polk county
donned soteralls and went to work in
the orchards to help harvest the big
prune crop.
!. Julius H. Barnes, United States
wheat director and president Of the
United States grain corporation, will
visit Portland October 9.
With large membership Illahe d.
vision Of the Ladies' Auxiliary Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Engineers,
was started in Roseburg.
Reports received at the offices of
the Oregon public service commission
indicate that the car shortage situa-
tion is becoming more acute.
Shipping of sheep owned by ranch
ers in the Antelope and Maupin coun-
try from summer to winter range will
be started from Bend this week.
At special school election in Ore
gon City, $4,000 in bonds was voted
for the immediate erection of gym
nasium and manual training school.
Strict enforcement of the curfew
and "after-hour laws" to break down
the juvenile delinquency has been or
dered by Mayor Baker of Portland.
Because Of the great shortage of
labor in Douglas county prune and ap-
pie growers have suffered loss amount
ing to several thousands Of dollars.
Governor Olcott has received tele-
gram inviting him to be present in
Portland on the occasion of the visit
there of the King and Queen of Bel
GUM.
R. L. Schee. formerly secretary Of
the Prineville chamber of commerce,
has been appointed to the position of
executive secretary of The Dalles
chamber.
Between 1S,OO0,0O0 and 2O,0O0,O00
early spring Chinook salmon eggs will
be taken this fall at the state fish and
game commission hatcheries on the
upper Willamette river.
The Union Oil company of Califor-
mia was granted franchise by the !,
city Of Pendleton to erect warehouses
and storage tanks for : 'uting
plant TO. eastern Orr
Some China ..aned
more Try ago
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me meat