The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1920-11-25
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly SketChed for lnfor-
nation Of Our Readers.

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Of several weeks.
Electric contractors and dealers Of
Oregon will meet in annual convention
In Salem December 7.
Miss June Dalton, a student in the
Burns high school, has been elected
manager Of the baseball team.
Ranchers in the southern part Of
Coos county have petitioned the coun-
~ court for bounty OF s75 on co
votes.
A turnip weighing "a pounds a
sugar beet rs pounds and a potato 5ik
pounds ate on exhibition at Cottage
Grove.
One OF the very oldest OF oregons
citizens. Mrs. Lucretia Jane McKen-
non, died at La Grande at the age Of
9s years.
Fifty men are now employed on
road work on the Mckenzie highway,
and despite the rains, good progress
In being made.
Shaw a Burton OF klamath Falls
are building a modern sawmill near
that city with n capacity Of $4,000 feet
OF lumber a day
While hunting ducks, Alfred Johnson
OF South Inlet in Coos county. was
shot In the back by a companion who
had a 25.35 ealiber rifle.
The Baker Improvement club has
secured an option on tract OF land
In that city and has formulated plans
for a park and playground.
The Douglas county farm bureau 10
holding mass meetings throughout the
county In an attempt TO Increase the
membership from 1856 TO 1000.
More than 4.OOO.OOO eggs have been
taken from eastern brook trout at
Elk lake. The eggs will be taken TO
the hatchery on Tumalo creek.
The records show that the money
order business transacted at Astoria
is the largest OF that OF any postoffiee
In Oregon outside OF Portland.
Manufactured goods and products
of Southern oregon will be shown AT
a community fair TO be held at Ash.
land thA first week In December.
Two.yearold Ruth Smith died at
Burns as result OF injuries received
from falling into a boiler OF hot water
which was standing on the floor.
Mohair growers OF Oregon. through |
the Oregon Mohair Growers assooia.
tion. have decided 10 petition congress !
TO place an import duty on mohair.
Ebert Dyer OF bandon is offering |
to give 200 acres Of land In iO-acre |
plots. TO settlers who will agree 10 |
plant and raise berries on the tracts
Marshfield In planning an aviation |
field and an auto camp ground for the |
coming season. The city council has
purchased property suitable for both.
Increasing the acreage OF the Una,
tilla national forest TO over a million
acres. the Wenaha forest will on July |
|, 1921, become a part OF the Umatilla
forest.
Rufus NJ. Smith. we'll known pioneer
Of Polk county. is dead at Monmouth,
lie crossed the plains in 1853. locating
In Polk county, where he had lived
ever since.
Two fatal accidents out OF a total !,
Of 263 industrial casualties were re-
ported to the state industrial acci'
dent commission for the week ending
November IL,
John b. Yeon OF Portland has ac
cepted appointment as a member OF
the state highway commission, TO fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
Of Simon Benson.
Approximately $4,000 In prize mon
sy was distributed among the stock
OF the northwest last week at
the Pacific International Livestock ex.
position In Portland.
The SUM OF S35.769 was left In Lane
market road fund this year
10 be applied to next years fund, ae-
seAhAhb w VI |
Morse. county engineer.
Amendment OF state prohibition
avs TO make them conform with the
act will be asked by the Ore
son Anu'Saloon league at the next
session of the legislature.
Ten carloads OF fine brick have been
,ent by the Forest Grove Clay Prod
iets company to Eugene to be used in
he new buildings being put up on the
University OF Oregon campus.
Bids were opened this week at
Falls for the lease OF 10000
Ieres of reclaimed land in the Tule
axe bed The highest price In the
bidding is said TO be $500 an acre.
Daring safe robbers operating in
Portland late Saturday night with an
Id touring car carried away a 500
'ound safe containing $1,000 from the
ome Of Ding Wing. wealthy Chinese.
Governor olcott will leave Salem
his week for Harrisburg, Pa, where
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