The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1920-03-19
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of The Week
Briefly Skoiched for Inior.
nation OF Our Readers.

President Wilson TO be receiver OF pub
Tic moneys at LAkeviaw.
For tho flrst time In ~ years the
Baker county jail was empty five con
heeutive days last weo&.
l., G. Cavanash. 66 years old. re-
tired hop grower and stock raiser
dropped dead In tho Central cigar
store at Salem.
creawell, Lano county. has n post OF
tho american Legion. tho veterans OF
that part OF tho county having organ
iIed Friday night.
A characterization school. deal
ing with poultry. dairying and crop
management, was held at cAnyonvillo
Friday and Saturday.
A strong sentiment 10 developing in
Hood River county for n bond issue to
pave a loop valley road connecting
odell and Hood River.
Roscoe Dorsey died In tho wallowa
hospital AZ the result Of wounds from
pocket knives In the hands Of two Of
his plAymAtea = few weeks ago. lie
wss 10 years OF aEe.
Eight thousand acres OF public land
at Tule lake will be farmed this scar
by IcssoeH OF the government. The
highest price per acre will bo sia.26 AZ
against % last year,
Practically all workers In the state
are employed at present and thcre
will be a serious shortage OF labor
by Juno l. according 10 w. II. FitE'
gerald. federal director OF employment.
Kenneth H. Day. salcsmanagor OF a
big New York firm. who Is making q
survey OF The Dalies fruit district.
predicts that fruit will bo higher than
ever on account OF the small California
crop,
A large quantity OF tri.nitro.toluoi
allotted TO tho oregon state highway
by the war department for
use Ia road construction has been
ordered shipped from Camp Lewis.
Wash.
A movement has boon started In
Grant county to create new county
out OF tho northern portion 10 include
the towns OF Hamilton. Range. Fox.
Austin. Long Greek and su.
aanville.
State Prohibition Agent Frank Davis
ot Baker was arrested on westhound
train at Tho Dalies on Information tel.
rgraphcd ahead by tho conductor and
was placed In tho city jail charged
with drunkenness.
Work OF completing the grading OF
he Hood River Mosicr stretch OF the
Columbia river highway iS being do
aged by broken steam shovels. Two
y The big excavating implements arc
aid up for repairs,
The Florence Electric company has
lied an application with the Oregon
public service commission for an In.
'reaao In rates, The minimum charge
9 now 81. and the corporation asks
hat II be increased TO $3.50.
4 vocational training school for all
hose who have not as yet completed
heir eighth grade work and have
Iropped out Of school to 10 TO work
will be opened In the La Grande high
chool building in the near future.
The chief OF the United States
weather. bureau has declined TO estab
iah q weather station at oregon Agri.
'ultural college, Corvallis, asserting
hat II was impractIcable. also i'm.
'ossible by reason OF lack Of funds.
klamath county sheepralsers will
meet at Merrill. March II, in confer
nee with DR.. II. u. Armstrong. federal
inspector, 10 consider
Methods OF combating the spread OF
cables among southern Oregon flocks.
Every available certified Burbank
nd wh!.s Rose seed potato In Oregon,
ggregating more than 1000 sacks, has
cen purchased by Marion county
anchers, according to report filed
nth the county community federation.
w. D. Barnes, county Judge OF Des. :
hutes county. has resigned his office.
ccording to announcement made by
Governor Olcott. Robert w. Saw
er, Bend newspaperman was named
y the executive as Mr.. Barnes sue
essor.
Members of the Oregon public serv-
% commission will so to Bend on
Iarch 20. where they will conduct
caring with reference to an appllca'
ION OF the Central Oregon Irrigation
ompany for an increase in mainten-
nee rates.