The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1920-01-09
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of The Week
Briefly Skeiched for Inior.
nation OF Our Readers.

EuN"us pulNHlHh PNiW" '" s'
made a Gain Of 400 per cent over tho
1918 record.
Revenues from tho state insurance
department for the year 1919 totAled
t2ss.osSoS,
Damage done TO umA,illa county
roads By the recent floods and wash
outs 10 estimated Al $4,000,
In Linn county. during 1919. there
wsrs go marriage licenses issued and
only 30 divorce decrcss granted.
Mrp, Mary A. Simpson. a resident OF
Linn county for 81 ysars. died at her
home In Albany, assd 80 years
Oregon was second among the states
Of the Union In tho sale OF treasury
sAviaEn certificates for November.
Members OF the Northwestern So.
eiety Of Highway Engineers held their
annual meeting In Salem Friday nish'.
Rev Edward Gittins. a well known
pionesr Methodist minister. died At tho
home Of his daughter In Salem. aged
70 years
Tho bond issue PROVIDING $4,000 for
water works and $4,000 for a city
hall carried At Rainier by q vote Of
1876 to a2.
More than 500 applications for real
estate licenses have been received a,
tho office Of the state insurance com
missioner.
A total Of s7se. .o0o36 was paid into
the state treasury As inheritance tax
BY the estate Of tho late Henry l.. Pit
took Of Portland.
Fall wheat In the weston vicinity II
looking excellent and has rot been
damaged by tho frost. according TO re-
ports from that section.
Nearly 100 Filipino studenin from
Corvallis. Phiiomath and other sections
Of the state gathered a, Salem and en-
joyed the annual banaust.
Damaged trestlss. due to high water.
are responsible for the uncertain train
service between Tho DAlles and Friend.
on the Grea, Southern raiiroad.
Seventy breeders o! purebrod stock
from all sections Of Linn county met In
Albany and formed the Linn County
Purehrcd Livestock association,
December cargo shipments OF lumber
from the Columbia were exceptionally
iisht In that pariod 81 vessels loaded
a total Of ai.SsS.Sst gecr of iumner
Tho total cash receipts OF the Oregon
supreme court for the year 1919 were
seiG0.ss. During the year 1913 the
court received from all sources sss2s,
According 10 announcement just
made, tho Methodist church at Rose
burg will begin the erection OF a $780,
600 church editlee early In tho spring
Out Of the 1866 homesteada filed In
the sluslaw reservation. only 1873 are
occupied by the original owners. es1
having been deserted and 400 changing
hands.
At meeting in Medford a number
OF Republican women formed Gen
erai Leonard Wood club and will sup
port him In the presidential primary
campaign.
Miss Catherine Beekley. graduate OF
the University Of Pennsylvania. has
been appointed an instructor In the de-
partment OF zoology at the University
Of Oregon.
with a membership Of less than 30,
the Christian Missionary alliance OF
Hood River has during the past year
given S246 toward Armenian and
Syrian, relief.
Members OF the oregon supreme
court prepared and handed down a
total OF s0i opinions during the year
1919. as against, a3s opinions during
the year 1918.
There was one fatality In Oregon due
10 accidents during tho week ending
January /. 1920. The victim was W.
Il. shaver. a logger. whose home ad-
dress 10 Seattle.
Tho Oregon Jersey Cattle club has
zone on record as favoring special
representative OF the American Jersey
Cattle club with permanent headQuar'
ters on the coast.
The unusual situation Of woman
presiding over a grange will prevail
In Linn county this year. Miss Bertha
J. Beck has been elected master OF
Callamette grange,
T, @. Hendricks. pioneer merchant
aud banker OF Eugene and first re-
gent Of the University OF Oregon who
died a short time ago, left property
valued at t4ib,OoO
The Salem salesmen's league, organ
i1ed at Salem recently, has received