The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1921-02-18
CnECON news NOTES
or GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lntor'
nation OF Our Readers.

uNniucu % UNIV W "NesN fA's~
Bounties for - bobcats and four coy
otes were paid in Linn county last
week.
The city OF Sheridan has complet-
ed the sale OF $1,000 Of street paving
bonds.
Several cases Of smallpox and
scarlet fever are under quarantine at
La Grande.
Smallpox has made its appearance
again In Independence, Two homes are
euarantinsd,
Albsny's third annual automobile
show was held Friday and Saturday
at the armory.
orseon City 10 industriaily prosper
ous, the payrolls nov aggregating close
20 ss6o.ooo a month.
Albany's Shrine club has been reor-
ganiEed with a membership OF 80. Z.
d. Cusick Is president
Perry Titus, aged so, resident OF
Clatsop county for 4s years. is dead
at his home in Astoria.
During the month Of January. % ar
rests were made in Roseburg and fines
amounting to sIss were collected.
James Stephens. so years old. an old
resident OF Grant county, was found
dead in his bed near Mount Vernon.
The egg market in Salem Friday
reached its lowest point in seven years.
Eggs sold at rs cents dozen retail.
william B. Tucker. at present county
agent Of Ada county, Idaho. has been
appointed county agent for Crook
county.
The body Of Michael Hotf. pioneer
business man OF Baker. was found in
his woodshed, where he had hanged
himself
Fire losses in Portland In 1890 to-
tailed Sl,04s,742, according to the an
nuSi report Of Edward Grenfell. fire
marshal
The membership drive recently In
auguratsd by the Eugene Country club
has resulted in Is new names being
obtained.
The overhead bridge across the
Coyote cutoff east OF Boardman on the
Columbia highway has been thrown
open for traffic.
N.t. Nyai.cr vnavor NJ Carfton and
a long time resident Of that district,
died at McMinnville hospital, follow
ing an operation.
E. w. McMindes Of the State Agri-
cultural college extension department
has been appointed agricultural agent
for Clstsop county. ..
Owing TO an epidemic Of smallpox.
measles, influenza and other diseases,
the public schools at Yoncalla have
been ordered closed.
A short course for Commercial club
secretaries Of Oregon will be held at
the University Of Oregon for one week.
beginning March 2s.
With but 5s families in the parish,
Catholics OF Roy, in Washington coun-
ty, are erecting church edifice at
an expenditure OF $4,000.
The night train service on the Coos
Bay line will not be resumed until
weather conditions obviate the danger
OF trees falling across the track.
Mrs. Martha J. P. Quick, Oregon pio-
neer, is dead at Halsey, aged 80. Mrs.
Quick came to Oregon in 1S47 and had
lived in Linn county since 1859.
Worthless checks issued In Bend dur
ing the past six months cost business
men on an average of 500 month,
District Attorney A. J. Moore stated.
The Corvallis water commission is
starting proceedings for an election to
authorize bond issue Of 100000 with
which to build new 12inch pipe line.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L.. Woodard have
Just returned to Cottage Grove from
transcontinental motor trip OF 10000
miles. which consumed 19 months and
20 days.
The supreme court has upheld Cor.
poration Commissioner Handley in a
suit by Texas oil syndicate. to force
him to issue 1t a permit to sell stock
in Oregon.
F. F. Fisher, on the banks of the
Clackamas near Oregon City, claims
that his flock OF 1S0 hens in January
produced 1928 eggs, and for the year
25,532 eggs.
Hugh Boyle, citizen o. Scotland,
and Pedro Hernandez, Mexican, in
Jail at Eugene, are in line for deporta'
tion. Both are charged with robbery
and vagrancy.
Following investigations by a squad
OF detectives, one Of whom was a
woman, Wasco county officers have
made a roundup of alleged prohibi.
ton law volators.
January was hard month on bob