The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1922-07-13
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

Bends bonded Indebtedness has
been decreased s53.221 in the past
year and one-half.
The annual summer session water
carnical at the Oregon Agricultural
college is scheduled for July 21.
Two persons were killed and 51S
were injured in automobile accidents
in Portland during the month of June.
The Ladies of the Invisible Empire
is the name of a new organization
which filed articles Of incorporation
at Salem.
September has been announced
as the day on which the cornerstone
of the million-dollar Elk's temple will
be laid in Portland.
The forest fire situation in the
Tillamook country is becoming rather
grave, according to the latest reports
received from there.
With the cherry harvest nearing
completion Wasco county is now turn
ing its attention to the wheat, and
harvesting has started.
The huckleberry crop in the Blue
mountains this yesr will be unusually
large, according to Floyd Kendall,
United States forest ranger.
Although the highways Of the state
were crowded with motor vehicles
July 4, less than a dozen arrests were
made by state traffic officers.
Forest fires along the line Of the
Tillamook branch of the Southern Pa
cific have handicapped passenger and
freight service to some extent.
H. j. Overturf of Bend. whose ap-
pointment as an appraiser for the Spo-
kane farm loan bank was recently
suspended, has been reinstated.
Shipment of lumber from Bend dur
ing the month Of June was at the
rate of 3O.7 cars a day, new ship
ping record for the industry there.
The biggest three-day celebration
ever held in Union county was held
at Elgin. Eighty horses participated
in the races before 5000 spectators.
The Roseburg city council has put
into effect an emergency ordinance
limiting the loads of trucks operating
through the city to 400 pounds to
each inch of tire width.
Valuation of imports in the Oregon
district for five months ending with
May, according to official tabulations,
were $3.194,347, as compared with ST.
4O6,S46 for the first five months of
1921
The average grade for all milk dis
tributed within the city Of Portland
is as high as that specified by law
for certified milk, according to DR..
D. w. Mack, chief dairy and milk
inspector.
Men above the age of 15 years out
number women in Portland above the
same age by 5841, according to figures
which have just been released by the
department of commerce at Washing
ton, d. c.
d. L. Hamilton, aged forty-two, died
at Klamath Falls from injuries receiv.
ed when a logging truck upset, crush
ing his body and pinning him be-
meath a stream Of boiling water from
burst radiator.
A statewide association of poultry
men probably will be organized at
the national convention of instructors
and investigators in poultry hus-
bandry at the Oregon Agricultural
college this month.
Because of the increasing distance
between mills OF the Brooks-Scanlon
Lumber company of Bend and the log
ging camps, a new 50-ton Baldwin
locomotive has been added TO the COM
pany's transportation facilities.
Lack of cherry and berry pickers
is hindering operations at the can
merry of the Eugene Fruit Growers as
sociation, and may cause loss OF
a great deal OF fruit on account of
allowing 1t to become too ripe.
The big sawmill of the Booth-Kelly
Lumber company at Vending was
totally destroyed by fire last week
and 1t was with difficulty that the
planer and other units Of the plant.
as we'll as the whole town, were
saved.
A total OF 1874 teachers were re-
quired to instruct the 1921 children
enrolled In the Union county schools
during the year ending last June. ac-
cording to the annual report prepared
by Mrs. A. N. Ivanhos. county school
superintendent.
Because Of the damage resulting to
macadam roads from the open cutout
on automobiles, Herbert Num-. state
highway engineer win 90 before the
legislature at Its next session and
ask that the traffic laws be amended
SO as to curb this evil.