The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-11-07
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor-
nation OF Our Readers.

county.
Tho federal road building on ths
Prinevilio Mitchell highway has boon
finished for tho season.
Only 30 to 20 par cent OF required
rolling stock 10 being supplied 10 lum'
Dor mills OF Baker county.
Twelve OF tho Is applicants taking
examinations at Salem for admission
TO tho bar recently were successful.
Thirty.Sovsn applicants took the ex
animation In Albany for positions M
census cnumerators In Linn county.
More than thirty aerss will be set
out In ioEanbcTriea and strawberries
this coming sprinE in clatsop county.
Methodists OF Amity ara building n
$4,000 church oditico on a new sito
near tho business eon,sr OF tho city,
Psndletog citizens will be asked to
donate $500 for the building OF .
church for tho eolored people OF the
city.
Seven thousand farm record books
published by Oregon Agricultural col.
ieEs have been ordered by sb banks
OF the state.
Five persons were killed and isi In.
Iured in the si2 automobile accidents
within tho city OF Portland during the
past month.
M.a~ .,.t.. LII .n,a. axhihit. In
tho annual horticultural show TO be
held at Oregon Agricultural College.
November 67.
Astoria held cranberry day on Sat
urday. November l, Every bakery and
restaurant In tho city served cranberry
pie aa the leading diah on that date,
After having been for so years n
landmark OF Glendale and the Cow
Greek country. tho old Clarke hotel at
Glendale was completely destroyed by
fire.
No fatality was rtl ortcd TO the state
industrial accident commission during
tho week ending October 30, Tho
total number Of accidents reported
was tss.
Total expenditures Of the ntate high.
way department, from March !. 1919.
10 October 20. 1919. were s6.722,0ibla.
according ,ofa report prepared BY ths
commission.
Rainier business men have purchas'
cd 27oo feet OF water front on deep
water which they expect 10 donate 10
any industry which will locate there
with q payroll
Tho new opon'alr pavilion recently
completed at tho state tuberculosis
hospital at a cost OF approximately
$4,000. was accepted by the state
board OF control.
While the cargo lumber shipments
from tho Columbia river during tho
month OF October we're tighter than
for the preceding month. they totaicd
we'll over a0,o00,0oo feet.
In response 10 an advertisement for
bids for 10000 cords OF wood 10 be do.
livored 10 the state institutions. the
state board Of control received pro-
posals for less than 1900 cords,
Pavement OF that section OF tho Co
lumbia river highway extending from
the Multnomah county line to Shell
Rock mountain. has been completed.
The distance ia fifty.seven miles,
A coal famine is threatened In The
Dalles as the result OF the order issued
by Director OF Railroads Hines, which
gives tho railroad administration con.
troll OF all soft coal now In transit,
A carload OF choice Polk county ap.
Pies grown by members Of the fruit
growers association is being made up
Il the packing plant of the association !
n Dallas for shipment to New Zealand.
w. A. DalSiel. deputy state sealer OF g
weights and measures. visited moro
han 400 towns and cities In the 4
.hree me.ths ending September 80, \
1919. according TO the quarterly report I
At meeting OF officials and prom
nent residents OF Yamhill county held a
Il McMlnnville. the county court de- d
.ided that all bridges built in the fu. c
ure will be Of permanent construc. p
Ion.
Beautiful fall weather has helped
armers OF the Condor section to fin L
sh their harvest, and those who have 1
,een forehanded with their work have s
own several hundred acres of fall a
rain. c
The Mount Hood Railroad company 4
as removed 42 carloads OF sheep II
rom Dee. where the animals were I
saembled from loEged-off tracts and b
atlonal forests during the last two Il
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