The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1920-05-07
OREGON NEWS NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events OF Tho Week
Briefly Sketched for Inior.
nation oil Our Readers.

The total registration Of voters In
Iano county at tho present time 10
1870
Several employees OF the state library
at Salem have been granted salary In
creAsea.
John W Todd. superintendent Of sa'
lem public schools. has been elected
president Of tho Salem Rotary club
a sturgeon 90 large that II required
tho united efforts Of three men to Got
1, out Of tho water has boon caught
near Oregon City,
Attorney General Brown has given
an opinion that thore IL no Law In orc
Eon To prevent man or woman from
working on Sunday.
Superintendent J. 4. Churchill has
returned from q tour IN Eastern ore
Eon In ,hs in,ores, Of the educational
institution measures,
Roy W. Finseth. youngest son OF Mr.
and Mrs. ?. A. Finssth of Dallas com.
mltted suicide by shootiaE himself
with a as.caiibcr revolver,
Miss Pauline Kline. OF Corvallis. will
be rcappoIn,ed ~ a member OF the
board OF inspectors OF child labor when
her present term expires on May 81.
A definite price. according TO ship
pers. has been set on contracted apple
boIes for the year The shocks will
cost the growers from rs TO 30 cents.
The Jersey Calf club at shedd will
exhibit on May g. Fourteen OF 20 men,
bera ere ownerA OF registered purebred
hslfcrs. and tho res, own high grsdes.
Tho union and Baker county forest
fire patrol associations are TO be d.
yidcd into two separate organizations,
according TO ,. A. Elliott. state forest
er.
on the ruins Of the mill burned last
fall at Enterprise. the Fast Oregon
Lumber company has built 4 larger
mill. which will begin operations about
May Is.
Fire resulting from an explosion in
tho engine room Of the mill OF the
Buohner Lumber company plant at
North Bend did damage estimated at
$4,000.
The spring fishing season on the Co
lumbia river opened at noon Saturday,
May ]. and there we're fully 5000 gill'
net and trolling boats In tho water on
that day.
A cherry banquet is proposed by the
chamber OF commerce OF The Dalles
for shriners who pass through that
city on Juno 81, Cherries In oil styles
will bo served.
Seventeen cents n pound for straw
berries and II cents pound for cher
ries were the offers made Willamette
valley fruitgrowera at Salem Saturday
by Puyallup buyers.
Wilson II, Blain. 70 years old, and .
member OF ono Of orcgonb earliest
pioneer families. Ia dead at Dayton.
Ohio. according to news Just received
by q brother at Albany.
Lee Hollenbeck, 20. and Frank Lew
10. 90. employed on tho steamer Re
lief. were drowned In the Coauille river
while loading tfilk on tho boat at the
Painter landing near Tampa.
Bend builders expect record year
for 1920, Permits for construction Is
sued to date total sloS,aS0, as against
$49.976. the valuo OF building authoriE-
cd up TO this tImO last year.
Mrs. Sophie Tors. 43, wife OF Charles
Fors. Astoria contractor, was instantly
killed when the automobile in which
she and her husband were riding turn.
cd over few miles south Of Astoria.
Registration in Douglas county to-
tails ssss, OF which 66s6 registered ~
Republicans and 2b76 as Democrats.
The total registration for tho Novem'
bsr election Is expected to exceed i2,-
900,
Being abort handed in his office,
while the coming election itself vastly
adds TO his duties, Sam A, Kozer, can.
tlidate for secretary of state, will not
be able to leave his duties to make an
active campaign,
The oakrldge Lumber company,
which recently bought 100000 feet OF
timber in the Cascade national forest
above oakridge. has the ground clear
ed for the erection of its mill. three
miles from that town
May II will see the start OF the
Simply Truck caravan, n solid con-