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

Linn comfy banks now have deposits
aggregating s5,9O9,2o475.
The convention of the State Fedora
tion Of Labor opened in Bend Monday
Marion county's apple crop this year
will net the growers more than $780,.
900. o
Deckhands and firemen Of Portland'a
river steamboats, went on strike last
week. a
Hood kiver apple growers have new
or experienced SO severe shortage OF
apple packers.
!, The price Of milk in Pendleton has
raised to Is cents for pints and ~
cents for quarts
More than $3.50 was cleared at q
dance given by The Dalles Hospital
Alumni association.
Fire which started In the upper story
OK the Masonic temple in Woodhurn
caused damage Of $4,000.
a J. L. Stalker disposed Of his 10S-
acre ranch situated In the vicinity Of
Silverton to Edward Olsen.
The Oregon Dairy Council will have
four delegates to the national dairy
show this week in Chicago,
Road construction in Oregon will lbe
pressed forward through the winter by
the state highway commission.
Cranberry raisers near Marshfield
are short Of help and have the biggest
crop in recent years to harvest.
The Salem Phez company expects tq
press more than 100000 pounds Of
apples during the present season.
Two new paving plants, each cost
ing in the neighborhood of $4,000, are
to be purchased by Marion county,
Pear growers Of the Hood River val
ley In number of instances will real
! ize- $4,000 an acre from their crops this
year.
Forty-five thousand gallons of vine
gar will. be manufactured by the Eu
gene Fruit Growers association this
year
The accumulation Of materials await
ing shipment is rapidly nearing con
gestion at the Southern Pacific depo
in Brownsville.
Taxpayers of Coquille have voted
bond issue Of $4,000 for purchase O.
| site and to construct new higf
school building.
Advertisements have been issued BY
the Umatilla Indian agency inviting
bids for the sale of 7S7 acres of choice
| Indian allotments.
Two fatalities and total of 5S|
! accidents were reported to the indus
trial accident commission for the weel
ending October 2.
The second annual dahlia show givel
in Oregon City under the auspices 0
the st. Paul's Episcopal church guilt
was largely attended.
| DR.. William Sunderland Mott, TO
| more than 80 years a resident Of Salen
| and one OF the best known physician
in this section Of the state, is dead.
| Salaries OF all county employe
whose pay is not regulated by stat
laws, were raised by the Douglas cour
ty court from $40 to $40 per month.
with the number of motor cars col
stantly increasing in Portland the ira
fic problem as shown by the Septembe
record of accidents, is becoming NOR
acute.
II Home nursing will be a part OF tn
curriculum Of the future high schot
girl in Portland, according to plans
the Portland chapter, American Re
Cross.
A large touring car ran off the q
lumbia river highway near Rainier an
plunged down an enibankment 100 fee
! Matt Armstrong of Astoria suffered
broken leg.
Because large picture Of the form'
kaiser ap ars in the new geograph
! the Par Teacher ass III ion at q
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