The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1922-12-21
OREGON news NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Principal Events of the Wee
Briefly SketChed for Infor-
nation of Our Readers.

a tieup of large crew engaged in
packing apples near Imbler.
The Roseburg turkey market is by
far the most inactive the Umpqua val
ley has known for many year
The annual convention of the Oregon
State Teachers association will be held
In Portland December 27, 2S and 29.
Plans of incorporation for a $780,.
600 tourist hotel at Ashland have been
drawn and were sent to Salem for fill.
ing.
Scott Ward, rs, native of Oregon and
pioneer resident of Linn county, died
at his home in Albany after three
months illness.
Salem Heights received first prize
for the best community exhibit of veg.
etables, including corn, at the Marion,
Polk corn show held at Salem
The Bank of Woodburn has compiled
statistics, showing the berry pack in
Woodburn in 1922 amounted to $685.
594 pounds, valued at $2O1, ,2S4.54.
Contract for the construction of the
Griswold union high school at Helix
has been let to the Waale & Shattuck
Construction company of Portland.
The Southern Oregon Hampshire
Swine Breeders association was form
ed at Grants Pass, when 80 breeders
from Jackson and Josephine counties
met.
The Eugene chamber of commerce
directors voted to back Astoria's re-
quest for $3,000,000 government ap-
preparation to assist in reconstructing
the city.
Because of the heavy snowfall and
unfavorable weather conditions in cen.
trail Oregon, work ON a number of irri.
cation projects has been abandoned for
the winter.
Jesse p Webb was pardoped by Act
ing Governor Ritner after serving
more than II years for the murder OF
w. A. Johnson in Portland hotel on
June 20, 1910
Ground was broken for the first cot
td6C VI IuS w. ". l.. ". CHlluTen b lhTIu
home near Corvallis Saturday after.
noon, according to announcement by
officers of the farm home corporation.
Articles of incorporation were filed
in the state corporation department at
Salem by the Worlds Electro-Industri-
al exposition, to be held in Portland
in the year 1927. The capital stock is
$5,OOO,O0O.
Snow, varying in depth from two to
three feet forced suspension of the
Pelican Bay Lumber company's log
ging operations near Kirk. Two camps
employing about 2SO men, were closed
for the winter.
Francis T. Wade, prominent attor.
ney of Moro, was appointed district
attorney Of Sherman county to sue
ceed G. M. Huddleston, who resigned.
The appointment was announced by
Acting Governor Ritner.
The grading ON the Shea hill cutoff
on the Lebanon-Cascadia road is about
completed, and the rocking will start
in few days and will continue this
winter, until the road is fully complet-
ed This new road is 3.S miles long.
Vincent Astor of New York city,
head of the Astor family and direct
descendant of the Colonel John Jacob
Astor who founded Astoria as a fur
trading post in 1871. telegraphed the
Astoria relief committee $4,000 for its
fund.
| Announcement of the letting of the
contract for reconstruction of the cen
trail Oregon irrigation district main
flume south of Bend has been made,
the Warren Construction company's
bid of $136,09S90 being accepted by |
I the directors.
The cost of commodities In Oregon |
has increased approximately 10 per |
cent during the last year, according |
to bids received by the state board of
control for supplies to be furnished
to the state institutions during the
next six months.
Alvin M. Owsley of Texas. national
commander OF the Amerlchn Le6loh
and rated as one of the foremost ora
tors of the country, will arrive in Ore
gon on January 4 and will address a
mass meeting in Portland on Friday
night, January 5.
The state highway commission, un-
der the laws of Oregon, has authority
to condemn lands for right-of-way pur.
poses within the boundaries OF incor'
porated towns and cities, according to
decision by Judge Percy Kelly of the
Marion county circuit court.
Because the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph company refused to comply
with an order issued by the public
service commission requiring the cor
poration TO set up and keep separate