The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1921-01-28
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of The Week
Briefly Sketched for Inior'
nation OF Our Readers.

Antined.
The willanina high school, studen,
body IL planning TO visit the lsElhla'
ture soon.
Klamath county banks have agreed
60 finance customers who desire 10 buy
registered stock,
First steps towards organization OF
q post OF Veterans OF Foreign Warn
have been taken st Albany.
During 1890 4is.ip3 tons crossed out
over the Coos Bay bar. the value os
the shipments being ts,7tb,6io.
This years taxes In Coos county will
aggregate nearly si.Soo.ooo. which 10
$4,000 more than ever before.
Tho c. X. spauiding LoEging com
pany. which closed tie Salem plant
last fall. resumed operations last week.
A number OF wheat sales were made
In Athena last week on the baslc price
quotation OF ti.So per bushei for No. !
Grade.
An association which proposes 70
erect memorial monument TO the
pioneers Of Linn county was organised
al Albany.
Pendleton's library circulation dur
lnE the past year to,aied over $4,000.
The branch at Athena had q eircula'
ton OF Bi5s.
The Foster i.issnber company mill ae
Ri,neT. In Polk county. will resume
OPERATIONS In about so days with . full
force OF men.
The Albany Cooperative Creamery
company during las, year made $4,000
pounds OF butter end did sasa.ooo
worth Of business.
College registration a. Oregon Agri'
cultural college now totals ste7. -
compared with $3.50 at the end OF the
second term last year.
Charles Brown. who escaped from
tho prison flax field At Salem In 1915.
has been captured In Seattle and VIII
be returned 10 Salem.
Tho recent high water In Linn eoun'
~ accomplished ono beneficial result.
In that the floods directly and indi.
rectly dcatroycd hundreds OF rodents.
Alice II. Ricn Of the Northwest divi'
sion OF the Red cross has arrived In
Roseburg and will remain In Douglas
county permanently as health instruc'
tor.
Since March,. 1917, when the inter
state bridge a, Portland was opened
to traffic. its net returns to Multno'
NAH county have aggregated 1884,
Gallo.
Farmers OF the vicinity held = meet.
Ing at Nyssa last week and petitioncd
the banks 10 extend loans and credits
40 that they may be enabled to par'
chase seed.
Medtord 10 to have one OF the beat
motor speedways on the Pacific coast
as a part OF the new county fair
grounds 10 be laid out on the outskirts
OF the city.
MIsa Katie Minert. who at the No
ycmber election was elected treasurer
of Morrow county without opposition.
has presented her resignation to the
county court.
During the recent high water ap-
proximately 10000 yards OF earth was
washed down on the Roseburg.Myrtle
Point Highway. doing thousands OF
dollars In damage
owing to the drop In the price OF
cattle and the high price OF materials,
the $4,000 alfalfa meal mill recently
completed ut Nyssa will not begin OPP
erations for some time,
Two big slides on the Lewis q Clarke
railroad In clatsop county have block
ed all traffic on the road, and the
opening Of the logging camps will es
delayed for some time.
About 1lo skilled and unskilled
workers gathered at Hood River re-
Gently for the purpose Of forming labor
unions and taking out charters from
the Federation OF Labor.
About 5000 acres Of desert lands IN
Harncy and Malheur counties in the
Vale and Burns land districts Will be
omen to public homestead entry from
February 25 to March II.
Daniel Webster Crigler, aged "a
years. died at McMinnville last week.
Mr.. Crigler was a veteran OF the In
dian wars and participated in many
engagements with the scouts Of Buff
falo Bill,
The better sires campaign In Kla'
math county recently passed the 5000
mark. More than that number have
agreed In writing to breed all live
.toelr. .kent on their farms 10 pure bred