The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1921-03-11

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tive association completed its orgss-
isstion st Corvallis last Saturday.
Readjustmsnt OF lumber freight
rates has placed Medford on the same
basis a. klamath Fails and Weed. Cal.
A county.wids squirrel poisoning
campaign in waseo county has result,
Cd In the killing Of 10000 Of the pests.
After first setting fire to his home
in Portland. Roy D. Marietta. 20 years
old. shot aad killed himssK sith .
shotgun.
Frank NJ Wares Of Portland hss
rendered his resignation 70 Governor
oicoit as 8 member Of tbe state Hsh
commission.
Independence post Of the Ameriean
Legion is 10 have an auxiliary. Twenty.
six women have signed the sppiicstion
for q charter.
A company Of prominent business
men and farmers Of Lake county hes
been formed to prospect for oil In
Goose Lake valley.
The state highway department has
asked for bids on Eraseiing the ssctisB
Of the Mckenzie highway bstwssA RED
mcnd ana Prinesiile.
A few hours before he vas to be
taken TO the county poor farm. James
M Gillette committed suicide by shoot
Ing himself at Seaside.
Il 10 estimated that about 100000
pounds Of wool have been sold st
Peadietos during the lsst few days st
Is and 20 cents . pound.
Lake ochoco has . total storage
capacity Of 1900 scre feet Of water
and the indicator now shows 1s.0Oe
scre-feet In the reservoir.
Approximately 100000 bushels Of
wheat has been signed by farmers Of
Sherman and Morrow counties to the
Oregon Wheat Growers association.
The week OF March 70 has been
designated By the farm bureaus Of the
state as the time for an organized
campaign against the digger squirrel.
The passenger train between Eugene
and Corvallis has been taken off and
the only service between the two cities
is mixed freight and passenger train.
The women In the Univcrsity Of Ore
gon are better students than the msa.
according to an official scAclarship
report made By the rsgistrar's office.
twenty-five hundred dollars was
pledged by students Of willamette uai-
versity at Salem last week for the
erection Of new gymnasium to cest
$4,000.
A special school election will be
held In Albany on March IS TO vote
upon a proposed issuance OF 34o.eee
in bonds TO erect new public school
building there.
There are 5000 Chinese pheasants on
the game farms near Eugene and Cor.
Wallis to be released within the next
few weeks, according to Gene Simpson,
manager OF the farms
one.hslf million pounds Of Oregon
prunes are being sent 10 Holland by
the oregon Growers Cooperative assc-
citation. shipments are also en- route
to London and Liverpool.
The county court Of Malheur county
will appropriate from the county emer.
gsncy fund $4,000 to assist the high.
way commission In improving the
road from Vale to Ontario.
Nearly q million and half dollars
was the value Of grain and forage
crops produced on the $4,000 acres
Of land in the klamath and Horsefly
irrigation districts last season.
Earth tremors that awakened resi-.
dents from slumber have been report
ed from Sweet Home and Cascadia.
It is believed a giant avalanche in the
nearby Cascades was responsible.
BY q vote Of more than two to one
the taxpayers OF the Astoria school dis
trict have authorized bond issue Of
$4,000 for the purpose Of erecting an
annex to the high school building.
Oregon Agricultural college has fur.
nished three new county agents In the
last few days-willissn q. Tucker for
Crook county, E. W. McMindes for I
Clatsop and r. c. Holibaugh for Jack. &
son.
Provision for $4,000 appropriation
for the maintenance Of the Hermiston
experiment station is included in
$4,000 appropriation allowed by the
conterees on the agricultural appro-
prlation bill.
Members Of the Oregon public serv.
ice commission met in Portland on
March s to consider applications for
the state highway commission for the
elimination of ~ grade crossings over
the tracks Of the oregon-wsshington
Railroad 4 Navigation company be
tween Pendleton and Huntington. The