The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1921-02-04
Oregon News Notes

! which 80 people we're engaged. result
ed In the death Of I'LL OF tho pests.
The g. IIelenu flour mill has been
destroyed BY fire with n loss OF about
$4,000. partly covered by insurance.
Retail prices at bend OF lath and
common grades Of lumber have been
cut SO q thousand. a drop OF about 20
per cent.
The big mill at Dewitt. which was
burned last fall, Ia belnk rebuilt, II
viii employ 100 men and cut 100000
feet a day,
On account OF q minor operation.
Governor olcolt has had an enforced
absence from the executive office for
several days.
Organization Of the Oregon Mint
Growers association has been formed
at Eugene with y. u. Wallace OF Linn
county m president
MrH. Drusilla Nee. a pioneer Of Jack
son county. who crossed the plains In
1853. 10 dead at her home In Central
Point. aged ~ years.
y. o. Harris. q prominent Benton
county farmer, died suddenly at Cor.
Wallis. Harris was known as the bean
king OF Benton county.
Approximately 100000 will be spent
this year for improvement OF Marion
county roads. This ineiudes 100000
OF the bond issue voted two years ago.
Marshal c, Aubrey. aged % years,
died at Roseburg last week. Mr.. Aw.
brey was a veteran o. the Mexican
war and fought with Fremont In Cali.
fornia.
The Y. NJ. c. A. and various. frater.
nal organizations at The DRlles will
conduct an employment office In an
attempt to solve the unemployment
situation.
Bertrand d. Dotson suffered a ST.
we're injury when a one'pound shell,
sent as n souvenir from the war zone
In Europe. exploded In the family
home At Eugene.
A meeting OF melon growers at Vale
resulted In the forming OF an assoeia.
tiou. the purpose OF which 10 TO grow
and market melons and cantaloupes
on a large scale.
Tho Lane county court has set aside
the sum Of $4,000 for an earth I'LL to
take the place OF the long wooden
bridge on the county road between
vAnetA and Elmira,
A six weeks course In teacher train.
ing, under direction Of the Oregon
State Normal school. has been desig'
mated 10 be held In Pendleton from
June 81 10 Angus, 6.
II. Bruce Mcpherson OF Howell.
Mich. has Rold 10 tho William Nc
Pherson estate tract OF several hun
dred acres OF timber land In the south
ern part of clatsop county.
A resolution protesting to the post.
office department against the closing
OF the lobby Of the Eugene postofilce
after . O'Clock at night, was passed at
n meeting OF the city council.
The sale OF saB0,00o worth OF Jack.
son county road bonds has been de.
cided upon by the county court. Bids
will be opened March and no bids
will be accepted for less than par,
At a meeting Of tho Deschutes coun.
ty court. d, II, Gates. of Terrebonne.
O. II. Hardy OF Alfalfa. and W. W.
Van Meter OF Redmond. were appoi0ted
OF the Deschutes county fair,
A new logging railroad grade, Is
miles In length, tapping a new area OF
Brooks. Scanlon timber, has been CON-
pleted near Bend, Steel will be laid
on only the first two miles this year.
But one Umatilla county ex.service
man Is In the state hospital at Pondle-
ton for mental disability, while there
are seven other ex-seryice men In the
hospital from various parts Of the
state.
Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Ferguson, one
Of the oldest Of Oregon pioneers, died
last week at the home Of her daughter
In Haines, aged 94. She had been
resident OF Baker county for nearly so
years, :,
Tho Oregon highway commission Is
authorized TO construct the Columbia
liver highway through government
ands in the vicinity of the Cello
ANAL by the terms of bill which the
,enate public lands committee instruct
ID Senator McNary to report on favor.
IDLY.
The 11th annual production OF the
oendleton round up was staged at a
oss last September, according to fig
Tres made public at the annual meet
ng Of the board OF directors and stock
lolders Of the Northwestern Frontier
A deficit Of $25S6.6S waf
,enorted