The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1920-08-19
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of The Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor-
nation Of Our Readers.

picnic at Woodburn.
The increase In freight rates will
cost Hood River apple growers an ap
proxlmate 100000 this year.
The Krieg & Higgons warehouse. 10
Gated in the railroad yards Of Lebanon
was completely destroyed by fire.
During the six months preceding
August deaths In Klamath Falls mum
bered Sc. The number OF births re
ported was 81.
Apple box shocks will cost Hood
River growers 2S cents a box this
season. The price OF last year ranged
from i5 TO 2S cents.
Jabes II. Gwinn. OF Pendleton was
elected supreme master OF arms for
the grand lodge, Knights OF Pyihlas,
in session at Minneapolis.
Plans are being made at Pendleton
to entertain 600 delegates to the an.
nual convention OF the State Fedora.
ton OF Labor. September 10.
Under the auspices OF the Multno.
nah county farm bureau. a series OF
poultry meetings and cullinE demon.
stratlons will BE- held this week
After six weeks OF drilling through
lava rock, an abundant flow OF water
has been reached at the Grlsez Lum.
ber companys mill In klamath county.
There are 1891 farms In Linn county
and i05.44g acres devoted 70 Agricul.
tural aud horticultural crops this year
according TO a survey Just completed.
Samuel Mlnchin. who lived on a
farm between Dundee aud Dayton.
was struck by Southern Pacific olec.
tric passenger train and was instantly
killed.
20 per cent dividend Is being rs.
ceiyed by stockholders In the Cottage
Grove Canning company. Gross sales
n the company In 1919 amousted 10
$4,000.
with the mercury lowering around
~ degrees. RoseburS last week faced
AN lee famine The two local plants
stated that the ammonia shortage was
responsible for the condition.
W. o. shoup. OF Marshfield. about
~ years Of age. was killed by the
Davis slough logging train when his
GOT caught In n railroad frog aud he
Has thrown beneath one OF the wheels.
H. l.. Plumb has been appointed
supervisor OF the Deschutes National
forest TO succeed Norman l.. Jacob,
san. who has resigned 20 accompany
The Irwin s, Cobb expedition this fall.
The record for all the 40 years OF
\ugus,s which have been tabulated at
he weather bureau In Portland was
broken Thursday when the tempera.
ture climbed TO ss degrees at o'clock.
Melvin olinger. IS years old. son OF
Jasper ollnger OF Milton. was acct.
IDENTIFY shot and killed by MansfOrd
Britain. companion. az sailings
camp In the Blue mountains. east OF
Milton.
NJ II. Harlow. Lane county commits.
sioner who has one OF the best cherry
orchards In the county. said he gather,
ID "a tons OF cherries Off his eight
acres this season. this being the rec
,rd crop.
All work on the construction OF
pier 3 ut the port terminals at Astoria
was stopped temporarily when the
absrers and carpenters. totaling about
l25 men. struck. and the other EN-
oloyes were laid off.
Two hundred men employed In con-
'tructlon OF the Willamlna Grand
2onde rAilhcad. , ten-mile feeder be
ng built from willsmina into the tim.
'er districts west OF there. are out
N strike FOR an eight-hour day and
more pay
The IRland Highway association will
live picnic at Manning. in Washing.
on county, August ls. The association
5 advocating the building OF state
Highway through Forest Grove. Banks.
ianning, Buxton. yernonia. Mist and
ewel to Astoria.
approximately 100000 young Chi
ook salmon are 10 be released from
he KlaskaniAe river hatchery during
he coming few weeks These young
lsh, which range In length from three
0 seven iReheE will be turned loose
a lots OF about 100000 each.
Following an order from the state
OF banks closing the doors
{ the bank OF Jacksonville. H. John
ON, the president was put under ar.
est by Prosecuting Attorney Roberts
nd placed iR jail charged with per
lry in nlsstating the true condition
the bank TO the state bank exam
ler
Application 10 appropriate rs second
set OF water from Wilson creek for
lunieipel power development has been
led with the state engineering de-
artment by the city OF Bandon. The
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