The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1920-08-20
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of tho Week
Briefly Skotched for Infor.
nation OF Our Readers.

Three huaArod members ~ IN,
Knights OF Pythias held their annua
picnic at Woodburn.
Tho Increase In freight rates viii
cost Hood River apple growers an ap
proKimato 100000 this year
Tho Kriog & Higgons warehouse. 10
Gated In tho railroad yards Of Lebanon,
was completely destroyed by fire.
During the six months preceding
August deaths In klamath Falls mum,
bcred SO. Tho number Of births rc,
ported was g.
Apple box shocks will cost Hood
River growers rs cents box this
SeaSon. The price OF last year ranged
from Is to % cents.
JabeR II. Gwlnn, Of Pondleton. was
elected supreme master Of arms for
tho grand lodge, Knights OF pytblAg.
In session at Minneapolis,
Plans are being mado at Pendleton
to entertain 500 delegates 10 the an
nual convention Of tho State Fedora.
ton Of Labor. September 10.
Under the auspices OF the Muitno.
NAH county farm bureau. u Serics OF
poultry meetings and culllng demon.
atrAtiona will BE- held this week.
After ak weeks OF drilling through
lava rock. an abundant flow Of water
has been reached at tho GrlseE Lum.
ber eompany's mill In klamath county.
There are it9i farms in Linn county
and i06.tis acres devoted 10 agrleuh
Nral and horticultural crops this year.
according to a survey Just completed.
Samuel Minchin. who lived on a
farm between Dundee aud Dayton.
was struck by a Southern Pacific cleo.
tric passenger train and was instantly
killed.
A 90 per cent dividend Is being 70.
ceiyod by stockholders in tho Cottage
Grove Canning company. Gross salos
Of tho company In 1919 amounted 10
$50. 1000.
with tho mercury lowering around
% degrees. Rosehurg las, week faced
an Ice famine. The two local plants
stated that the ammonia shortage was
responsible for the condition,
W. o. shoup. OF MarShneld. about
II years OF age. was killed by tho
Davis slough logging train when his
foot caught In a railroad frog and no
was thrown beneath ono OF the wheels.
II. L. Plumb has been appointed
supervisor OF tho Deschutes National
forest 10 succeed Norman L. Jacob.
son. who has resigned 10 accompany
Tho lrvia s. Cobb expedition this fall.
The record for all the 10 years OF
Augusts which have been tabulated at
he weather bureau In Portland was
,rokon Thursday when the tcmpera.
uro climbed to 9s degrees ut o'clock.
Melvin oiinger, 10 years old, son OF
Taspcr olinger Of Milton. was acct.
lently shot and killed by Mansford
a companion. at Sailing's
amp In the Blue mountains, east OF
Milton.
NJ. II. Harlow, Lane county commits.
Toner. who has one OF tho best cherry
richards In the county, said he gather.
d 81 tons OF cherries off his eight
cres this season, this being the rec.
rd crop.
All work on the construction OF
'ler 3 at the port terminals at Astoria |
vas stoppsd temporarily when the
aborers and carpenters, totaling about
25 men, struck, and the other en-
loyes were laid off,
Two hundred mon employed in con.
truction OF the Wlllamina.Grand a
.onde railroad. ten.mile feeder be- I
,g built from Willamina into the tim. D
or districts west OF there. are out {
n strike for an eight.hour day and
lore pay.
The Inland Highway association will
I've q plrGG..c at Manning, In Washing I,
IN county, August IS. The association +,
advocating the building OF state !,
lghway through Forest Grove, Banks. I
Buxton, vernonia, Mist ond n
ewel to Astoria, -..
approximately 100000 young Chi.
ook salmon arc to be released from
10 Klaskanine river hatchery during
10 coming few weeks, These young y
sh, which range in length from three '
seven inches. will be turned loose ,
lots OF about 100000 each. y
Following an order from the state y
amlner OF banks closing the doors y
the bank of Jacksonville. II. John. n