The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1920-12-09
OREGON news NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation of Our Readers.


county calls for an expenditure Of
s66O,OOO.
Ashland's city budget for the coming
year is $4,000, necessitating a levy OF
23.5 mills.
The American National, fourth OF
klamath Fails banks, opened for bust
ness last week.
For county road and bridge purposes
Lane county has expended during the
year s2S4.246.O7
Exports moving from Portland to
foreign ports during October we're val.
ued at ss.459,e63.
Division state highway engineers
from all sections OF oregon held two
days conference in Salem.
During a roundup by the police In
Salem l6 drunks and alleged bootleg
gers. were taken into custody.
Twelve houses are quarantined in
La Grande for scarlet fever. 10 for
smallpox and for diphtheria.
The people OF Springfield are plan
ming to hold community Christmas
tree on a prominent business street.
At the municipal election in Bend
last week the 1921 budget OF $40. .299.50
was adopted by a vote OF 239 TO 20.
The mills OF the Eugene Excelsior
company In Eugene will resume op
GRAFTON after having been idle for n
number OF weeks.
The Peudleton water department at
present In laying nearly half n mile OF
new mains on streets where paving is
to be done shortly.
The Yamhill Mutual Telephone com.
pany has filed application with the
Oregon public service commission for
an increase In rates.
There we're two murders. four sui.
cldes and six deaths from accidental
causes In Portland and Multuomah
county during November.
First Lieutenant Amos o. Waller,
medical corps. 9Th oregon infantry.
has been advanced to the rank OF cap.
tain in the national guard.
Earl Pearcy OF Forest Grove has
been elected president OF the oregon
State horticultural society to sue
ceed J. o. Holt OF Eugene.
A tide OF 10 feet 7 inches last week
flooded large portion OF the southern
part OF Marshfield and put several In.
dustries out OF commission.
The Klamath Logging company. re.
Gently organized with a capitalization
OF $3.50. 900. will build u saw mill In
klamath Falls next spring.
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
wrought by a fire which started In the
basement warehouse OF the General
Cigar company In Portland
Reports OF the Eugene banks show
that the deposits OF the three institu
tions increased more than n million
dollars during the past year,
Next years convention OF the Ore
gon State Hotel association will be
held at Astoria. Il was decided at the
recent session held at The Dalles.
The Salem Floral society has chang.
ed It's name TO the City Improvement
league and has announced a program
OF city Identification and betterment
Lake county has sac farms. a de-
crease OF l63 from the number In 1910.
However the number OF acres OF i'm
proved land shows a large increase.
All street work in klamath Falls
has stopped for the winter, During
the summer and fall approximately
sls5,OOO was spent by the city on paw
ing.
Naval radio men engaged In testing
receiving apparatus at Tongue Point,
near Astoria. last week picked up a
radio call from Nauen. in northern
Germany.
The Oregon Humane society esti'
mates, In figures filed with the secre'
tary OF state. that its needs from the
state for the next biennium will be
about $4,000.
The annual poultry and pet stock
show OF the Oregon Poultry and Pet
Stock association will be held In the
municipal auditorium in Portland De
eember ls to is.
L. ID. Roberts OF Turner met with a
loss when his herd OF five milch COW 5
broke away. got on the railroad track
and were all run down and killed by
a railroad train.
Ranches bordering the banks OF
Coos river will be served soon by a
highway skirting the southern bank OF
the river from Eastside to the fork, a
distance OF eight miles.
A convention will be held at Dallas
on December IS to nominate a candi'
date for county Judge. after which petit
tions will be circulated for the recall
OF Judge A. b. Robinson.
There were four fatalities due 10 In
a,,.t.faI aoofdanta In OraQon durinQ