The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1922-11-30
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Wee
Briefly Sketched for lntor-
nation of Our Readers.

John Gildorn, for 6S years e resi-
dent of Marion county, died at Salem
at the age of S8.
Miss Ulma Aldridge, IS, died at
Haines from strychnine poison taken
with suicidal intent.
The Womens Welfare club at Fos-
sill is making preparations for an old
fashioned community Christmas tree.
At a special meeting of the city
council plans were made to establish
chlorine system for the Candy water
works.
A recent census shows 1925 chill
dren Of school age in Clatsop county,
ATT of whom are attending the public
schools.
More than 80 fruit growers attend
ed the pruning school conducted by
the Umatilla county farm bureau at
Milton and Freewater.
The directors of the Jackson County
Fair association contemplate the hold
ing of two-day automobile and motor
cycle meet next June.
At special election held at Beaver
ton the taxpayers voted levy of $4,000
bonds for the purpose of erecting an
other public school building.
James Wisener, Herman Markham
and Murphy Brothers of Freewater
have sold their crops of 5000 tons of
alfalfa at a price of $40 per ton in the
stack.
At least three rural school districts
in Lane county are contemplating the
erection of larger school houses at
once, according to E. J. Moore, county
superintendent.
Pendleton's municipal septic tank
and sewage disposal plant will be com
pleted, in December. The plant will
cost approximately s6S,OOO and the
property $4,000.
Oregon hops are selling readily on
very steady market. Between 1900
and 1000 bales changed hands in the
past week or ten days at prices rang
ing from to II cents.
Work on the new Salem hospital
discontinued last spring for want Of
finances, was resumed last week, the
money having been pledged for COM
pletion of the first unit.
Jack McIver, a laborer at the new
highway bridge at Winchester, was
drowned when boat in which he and
two companions were crossing the
Umpqua river capsized in midstream.
Clarence Smith, a farmer residing
on south Deer creek, about ten miles
east of Roseburg, was killed when a
wagonload of posts turned over on top
of him, crushing him to death in
stantly.
Fourth-class postmasters have been
appointed in Oregon as follows: Cove
Orchard, Mrs. Henrietta Addis Grow,
Church C. Sturtevant; Perrydale, Siet
Van Staaveren; Skies, Mrs. Sadie M,
Spurgeon.
A proposed amendment to the state
constitution providing for single tax
in Oregon has been filed with the Sec
retary of state. The measure will go
before the voters at the general elec.
tion in 1924.
Residents of upper Terrace street,
just within the city limits of Ashland,
are much perplexed as to what pro-
cedure they must take regarding deer
that nightly invade their orchards
and gardens.
The Oregon potato crop this year
is estimated by F. l.. Kent, agricultural
statistician Of the department OF agri-
culture, at 4.S30,O00 bushels, produc-
ed on $4,000 acres. or yield Of ZOE
bushels per acre.
Members of the Willamette Valley
Flax and Hemp Growers Cooperative
association must comply with their
contracts, according to a decree hand
ed down by Judge Bingham in the cir
cult court at Salem.
The Salem city council passed an
ordinance authorizing the sale OF
bonds in the amount of s1S.5O0 for
the purchase of additional fire-fighting
equipment. The bonds were voted at
a recent city election.
Rev. Peter R. Burnett. pioneer min
ister of the Christian church. having
lived in Oregon since 1886. died in Eu-
gene at the age of so years as a re-
suit of injuries incurred when he was
struck by an automobile.
All records in the cost OF combat
ing forest fires in the Santiam ma
tional reserve were broken during
the last season. when only sSTs.12 was
expended. according to the annual re-
port of c. c. Hall, supervisor.
Walter NJ. Pierce. democrat, defeat
ed Ben w. olcott. republican. for gov.
ernor at the recent general election by