The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1921-01-13
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for InfOr-
nation OF Cur Readers.

La Grande's budget for city expenses
for the coming year is s1O6,l6O
The church OF the Latter Day Saints
held a three-day leadership institu
tion at La Grande.
Dallas physicians report that sever.
al cases OF influenza have made their
appearance in Polk county.
From two and one half acres on
Hale creek, near Weston, Oscar wlnn
harvested 500 sacks OF potatoes
A total Of s2O50O will be required
to defray the expenses OF the board Of
/ control during the next two years.
Jasper Turner is under arrest at
klamath Falls, charged with the mur.
der Of his wife near Beatty last May.
A census Just completed in Clatsop
county shows 1856 children OF school
age, an Increase OF 90 over last year.
The 39d annual meeting OF the ore.
son State Horticultural society will
be held In Eugene December 2, 3 and
4.
Ministers from all sections OF Mar.
ion county gathered In Salem last
week and formed a county organiza.
ton.
Sunflowers are making a remarkably
good showing In Harney county. Al
one place 81 tons per acre was the
yield
There are 20 cases OF contagious
disease under quarantine at La
Grande, ranging from smallpox ~
diphtherla.
A division OF Polk county is propos.
ed, cutting off the south part and
creating a new county TO be called
willamette.
The new prune packing plant erect
sl at Scots Mills by the oregon Grow.
ers' association 10 complete and pack.
lng has begun.
Every school In Umatilla county
which has made application to the
school superintendent for n teacher
now is supplied.
Farmers and orchard men around
Dayton. Ysmhill county. are bscom
ng interested In the planting OF IN
bert orchards.
During recent high Wind In Coos
Bay, the Mcdonald q Vaughan log
boom broke. releasing logs estimated
at 100000 feet.
An experienced miller has arrived at
Burns and the flour mill at that place
will soon be turning home grown
wheat into flour
approximately only one-fourth OF the
Marion county potato crop has been
taken care OF ne 4 result OF the bad
weather conditions.
Production OF lumber In Oregon and
Washington for the week ending Nov.
ember 10 was 69.ses,5Ss feet. or 20 per
cent below normal.
District interes, bonds In the amount
Of sll5.275 will be sold by State
Treasurer Hoff on December l. &C
eordlng 10 announcement.
Two carloads OF hops raised In the
country adjacent to Grants Pass were
shipped TO London last week. The ship.
mont weighed 7i.SOO pounds.
Isaac Higgins. an early settler OF
Eastern Oregon and q veteran OF the
Civil war, died In a Heppner hospi
tai last week a. the age OF 70.
The HOOD Riyer-White Salmon Ferry
company Is building a large sidewheel
ferry hOat which will have a capacity
OF 10 automobiles. II viii cost about
$4,000.
Colonel ]. w. Lathrop, for many
years a well known character In that
part Of the state, dropped dead in a
livery stable in klamath Falls a few
days ago,
A company has been organized st
Eugene with the plan OF building
houses and selling them TO people on
easy terms, The first residence is
just being completed,
BY cutting one half mile OF new road
through the lodgepole pines, ths forest
service is decreasing ths length OF tbs
Crane Prairie road from Bend to Elk
lake nearly two miles.
Mail boxes in PrinsVills have been
assailed by vsndals in the last week
or so. and have been tsmpered with
to such an extent that the federal
have been notified,
Thomas Everett May. OF Corvallis
has been appointed a captain in in
fantry regular army and Fremont
Byron Hodson, North Bend, has been
appointed . second lieutenant.
The tax budget OF Clatsop county
recommends a levy OF ,427,slss0, or
just $1,000 less than that for last year
the appropriations are $3.50. Use
for road work and s4s.3bs for bridges.
1t will require t77ofo to maintain