Weston
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VOLUMI.43
WKSTON, OREGON, FIUljAY. AUG. 13, 1020
NUMBER 11
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OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
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Principal Events of fho Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.
Foreign Imports received at port
Innit iturlnK the mouth of Juno amount-
ed i S'.IKO.HKS.
I'avIiiK work has Ix-Riin nn the rw-ven
mll union of ihi' Pacific lilKlma
ncirih of J. ffi rwm.
Ilrnlon county tin hit it threshing
outfits. From present Indications (he
crop will txi (lir lit In )i-m
Im-reaand rales lira allowed the New
berg Teli-phono roAipnny by an order
of th public service commlaalon.
Foreat fire reported by the air
piano patrol of (ha fittest service to
taled 31 diirliiK (hit latter hnlf of July.
At a mxotlni of llm slate hltthway
rommlaalou In Portland, Aiigua! 24.
1.1,1a m opened on f l.&Oo.ooo (
hliihway bomU.
J, ('. Nelson, an Orrftitii pioneer, died
t hla homo In Nl-rg- at the age of
3. With hi parents h lorati-d In
ih Chrhalcm valley In 1S4S.
The flmt unit ut the l.anrfrll valley
Irrigation district In Klamath county
ha mtl- application to the atat to
approve a omul laaue of 1197.000.
Oregon has a population In 1920 of
TftS.SSB. according to census fl(-iir.
which la a gain of 110.620 or 14 4 per
rnt over th 1910 figures of 873.765.
Fred Peterson, 76. a native of I Kin
mark, was burned (o death when hla
cabin on the Mohawk rlw-r. 15 miles
northeast of KtiKn. wos destroyed
by fire.
W. I. Nutters Of Allegany tiaa been
het to the grand Jury In t'ooa rotinty
on the charge of ai'llliiR rorka for
rhlltlni bark to Improve the weight of
the bark.
Monday. (September . Ijitwr day.
baa Ix-on ndcclcd by Hood Itlver aa
the date for formal celebration of the
opening of the completely paved Co
lumbia Itlver highway.
Wheal harvest la under way In Mor
row county and the grain la of first
class quality. The yield la a fair av
erage although many fields were In
jured by tlio hoi weather.
Oregon Is suffering from a shortage
of librarians, according to Mla Cor
nelia Marvin, state librarian, who tiaa
a list of eight Important posta In the
stale that should be filled.
Notwithstanding the gasoline short
sue, the number of automobiles visit
ing Crater lake so far Ibis summer hat
exceeded Jhe number that visited the
resort during the entire season of 1919.
Approximately 95 000 motor vehicles
arc registered In O.eison, according to
a statement made at the office of the
secretary of state. This la one car for
about every eight persons in Oregon.
The fruit Growers league of Med
ford has opened an employment bur
eau with t ho object of cooperating
with other fruit growers In the allo
cation of pickers throughout the val
ley
of lU'i iise In ruse gambling is allowed.
, I orgsnUiitlon coimnundera of the
N il i-ul i-'inril of Oregon have been
tiiitlwiln il by Ai!.' Ti'iii (iensral White
I i suspend drills during the harvest
si-uaoii so that guunUiiieii may help
diiiliiir the Oregon fruit and grain crop.
Attractions of boat races, automo
bile) races, a carnival and the blggnat
agricultural, horticultural ami Indus
trial exhibit of many years will fea
Jure (hla year's Wasco county fair to
be held at The Dalles October 4, t,
and 7.
What l sulci to bn the largent Mill
yet captured In Oregon wa raided
near Newherg by federal revenue of
ficers w ho selted 160 gsllons of c rn
uiiMinahlnn whlaky and 100 gallons of
corn mash. The still was said to have
a capacity of loo gallons a day.
I'hlllp Oil, 45, a farmer of Hubbard,
was kith d almost Instantly when his
light touring rsr rrsahed through the
railing of the bridge over I'uddlng
river, Juat outalde of the city limits
of Aurora, on the Pacific highway,
and fell a distance of about 40 feet. i
I'ecauae of the tendency of members
of the dental profession to come from
(he eastern aisles to the west, while
few go from (he west to the csat, the
slate board of dental examiners haa
plsred Its disapproval on a proposed
reciprocal exchange of dental licenses.
Officials of the socialist party have
filed In th office of Bnra A. Kozer,
sceretsry of slate, certificates of nom
ination of candidates for presidential
electors, secretary of state, dairy and
fcod commissioner and commissioner
of the public service commission for
the western, Oregon district.
Not less than 1858,000 will be net
ted this season to loganberry growers
within a radius cf len mites of Hsleni,
according to an estimate of J. I
Van Itoren. berry buyer of Haletn.
The crop disposed of at a figure But
flcieiitly high lo bring ibis amount It
estimated at 4.600.000 pounds.
While cutting hay on his farm a few
days ago Fred Lorkwood. a rancher of
the North Fork rountry In the western
end of Lane county, cul off both feet
of hla J year-old daughter, who was
playing In the tall oata. The llttla
girl was not seen by her father until
an Instant before the sickle hit her.
Following the breaking of a dike at
Brownsmead In the eastern part of
Clatsop county, approximately 300
acres of fine farm land were Inun
dated and damage estimated between
17000 and 8ooo has reunited. About
300 feet of the dike collapsed as a
result of the sand foundation giving
away.
Wasco county's population, accord
ing to census figures, Is 13.64$ men,
women and children. An apparent
decrease of 2788 since the 1910 cen
sus, totaling 16.3.1i persona, is ex
plnlucd by the county being redlstrlct
ed and nearly one-third of the resi
dents transferred to another county
since 1910.
Don't t! It's Friday the Thirteenth
"Over the HilT
. Death Calls Mrs. L H. Dowd
Mm. Kmniii June Dowd, beloved
wife of Lewis H.Dowd, departed this
life Atiimat 7 tfl'll at Waulitiiene
ion puouc .err, CD,... . Wnllhill(rto, nftpr , , mvM from
Issued orders granting service rata In- anne,,
creases to the Deschutes Telephone Mr j)owt WJW fonnery Kmnm
company of Clackumaa county and C. Jnm, DiHmon,( Rm) wun tho llttUKh.
A. Bradford telepho.to lines In Grant ur ,)f KoVi mld Mr8..(JcorK0 p. DiH8.
coo'Ky- more of Whitehall, Wiaconsin. Sho
During the fiscal year ending June W0I, b()rn Sotcmbcr 19, 1809. April
80. 8S0 dcnllsli wero licensed to prac- 27, 1893, she was united In marringe
tlce In Oregon. Of these, 184 were t L4.wjg.j1, n0wd of Dnllna, Wtscon
non resldenl. The licenses of 81 don- .jn. They were tho parents of itino
tlsts were revoked because of non-pay- children.' one son dying- in infancy,
'went of foes. Mrs, Dowd came to Weston with
July wag an exceptionally dry month ncr huabuml and family in 1005, lo
in Astoria and th lower Columbia catng on Weston mountain. Last
river district. Becoming to the records fau they moved to Washtucna. Sho
In the local weather observer's office, was converted in early life and unitml
The precipitation for the month was with the Baptist Church of White-
,9 of an inch. , hall, Wis. Sho was an earnest and
The special committee of state Icgls- consistent Christian woman and a de
lator! appointed to Investigate the voted wife and mother. The grief of
slate game and fish commission will the family is shared by friends into
meet In Portland August 18 to hear whoso circles she came and who rrc
anyone who has a complaint to make opniied and admired her virtues,
against the commission. Tho deceased is survived by her
While testing out a forest service husband; three sons, Hugh, Ralph and
radio outfit at Eugene, human voices Henry, and five daughters, Mrs. Ruth
were picked up by tho Instruments. Gould, Alice, Pearl, Margaret and
It was learned that the voices came Rheuamy Dowd. She also left a
from Portland through a wireless tole- number of brothers and sisters. Geo.
phone apparatus In thnt city. R. Disamore of Amity, Oregon, a
Klre destroyed the Strange Shlnglo brother, and Mrs. Sarah Knosberg of
company'a mill, four miles from the Barren county, Wisconsin, a Bister,
city llnilta of Portland on the Llnnton were among those present at the
road, and burned four dwellings, four funeral.
bunkhouses and a boarding- house, The remains were shipped to Wes
wlth a total losa of about 160,000. ton for interment. Servicca were
The Klamath Falls council has de- held at the Baptist Church Sunday
elded not to remove dice and card afternoon by Rev. W. R. Storms, who
games from pool rooma and other pub- paid feeling tribute to the worth of
lie pluces but will amend existing or- tho deceased. Appropriate hymns
rilnanres by providing for revocation were sung.
llarvi-kt crews are rushing work
along at a high rate since the rain
and it is said a number of machines
will operate Sunday in order to fin
ish hurvesting the following week.
Mihn Kittle Sharp, who taught
school on the Sound, returned home
from Portland Wednesday and will
spend the remainder of her vacation
at the home of her parents.
The Preston-Shaffer Milling com
puny hod a force of men at work this
week removing the wires from the
electric. li(?ht poles on Main street.
Tho poles will soon be removed.
Burn, to Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Willa
by, on August 10, 1920, a daughter.
.Mrs. Mary Tompkins of Walla
U'ulla is viaiting at the home of her
daughu-r, Mrs. Arthur Coppock.
Kred Kadtke of the Athena Depart
ment Store, U spending the week in
the mountains. Mr. Hadtke has been
in poor health f.ir the past month, but
is recovering.
ALLIES AGREE 0N
AID FOr: POLAND
Troops Will Not Be Used But
Economic Move Is
Planned.
Hythe, Kncland. Great Britain and
Fiance are convinced that the bolnbe
vikl Intend to capture Warsaw and
set up a soviet government in Poland.
In Drltish and French circles it la
admitted that the situation has
brought a crisis only second In gravity
to that of 1914.
The allied conference here reached
a complete agreement on plana for
d'-nllng with the Russo-Polish crista.
They include the relmpositioo of
the blockade, but on the advice of the
experts no allied troops will be employed.
II You Purchase NOW
For the period of our August Sale we
.are selling
THE LESTER PIANO
for $133.00, a reduction of $1 15.00 from
the regular price.
The lister is a Standard High Grade
Piano, the product of one of America's
most reputable makers. The Lester
Piano Company of Philadelphia build
but one piano, concentrating all their
facilities and skill on this one instru
ment. Their reputation of over thirty
five years of successful piano making
is bound up in this one single product.
You will be proud to own a Lester
proud of its fine appearance, exquis
ite tone. The beajitiiul cases are uer-
fect in design and finish; genuine ma
hogany that fits almost any decorative
scheme in the home.
We ask that you investigate then
we'll leave the decision to your judgment.
THE PRICE IS $135.00
including bench to match.
We also offer for the period of
The August Sale
THE ARMSTRONG PLAYER
PIANO
with ten Rolls of Music of your own
selection and a Bench to match at a
greatly reduced price
$395.00
This is your opportunity to place MU
SIC in your Home at a very substantial
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fttT tho nrpmlon toMawt tit pssw
Dipping themselves in the brine of lmpan tne blockade on Rula ,,,
the Pacific, .Mr. and Mrs. II. C. Mat- . ... ,, ,. ,h,.
aiMre to Poland, Lloyd George got
M. Milleranl to withhold application
cf aid until after the preliminary re
sults of the conference at Miritk be
tween the bolshevik and Polish rep
resentatives are known.
M. Miilerand, who bad urged the
French policy which Included th
tisun arc on their way by auto to take
another dip, but the second dip will
be in the Atlantic. The couple spent
last night in the park camping
grounds, proceeding on their way to
Walla Walla this morning. Mr. ml
Mrs. Mattison are both linotype oper
ators and for four years Mr. Matti
son operutcd a machine in the com
posing room of the Portland Orego- M'l and strong defensive meaa-
uri'n. was oongea to yield somewnac
to the milder policy of the British
premier, who was determined that no
allied aid should be used in Poland. '
Establishment of a defensive line
in Poland, considered by the confer
ence, if carried out would, according
13 opinion here, be regarded by the
hritish and French as more than a
plan to aid Poland; it would be in
effect a cordon sanitaire, to keep the
bolshevik from western Europe. But
from what happened et the closing of
the conference it was considered that
much would depend on the bolshevik
attitude at Minsk.
man.
W. P. Willaby is up from his home
in Portland to look after his farming
interests.
Henry Dell and Vvtt Richards spent
a day with their families at McDou
gals this week.
Mrs. Henry Wood ia visiting at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Alf John
son, in Walla Walla, this week.
A bulk-t from a "22" pistol found
lodgement in Russell Cardcn's leg and
it is still there. The boy says he took
aim at a hawk, pulled the trigger and
the pistol failed to go off. He swung
it downward and the cartridge ex
ploded after hanging fire for several
seconds. The bullet entered the low- ,,.. erccinii Tft or un n
cr part of the leg, passing downward lUINl b-SSlUN TU BE HELD
and lodged between the bones. Drs.
Sharp and Smith failed to find it by
probing and the lad was taken to
Pendleton, where the X-ray disclosed
its location. It will be left where it
is unless complications should arise
necessitating removal.
Max Hopper, assistant cashier of
the First National bank, is taking his
annual vacation at the present time.
Marion Hansell spent a portion of
the week with his family at McDoug-
al camp. .
Matt Johnson and family have been
camped near Toll Cate this week,
garnering the huckleberry crop.
Athena is enjoying the advantages
of street pavement, the Warren Con
struction company having completed
the hard-surfacing of Main and Third
streets from the alley below Jeffer
son street south to the bridge at City
Park. The spaces on each side of
Main street, left to facilitate laying
cables containing electric wiresfor the
new lamp stands when they arrive,
will be hard-surfaced later by the
Warren people. In the meantime the
electric and telephone poles will be
removed from these spaces.
Mis3 Vernita Watts left yesterday
evening for California, where sho will
enter Mills college. She was accom
panied as far as Portland by her
mother.
The child born Monday to Mr. and
Mrs. Don Wilkes lived but a short
time after birth.
Washington, Idaho and Oregon Com
mission to Sit Together.
Olympia, Wash. As the state's
questions Involving allowance of in
creased freight and passenger rates
on local traffic as fixed by the inter
state commerce commission fcr In
terstate traffic are common to the
northwest, the public service commis
sions of Oregon and Idaho will sit
with the Washington commission on
Tuesday, August 17, in a bearing be
ginning at 10 A. M. in the senate
chamber here. The common problem
before the commissiops of the three
northwest states will be to harmonize
local increases asked with the re
quired increase necessary to guaran
tee a return of SH per cent consist
ent with the recent Interstate com
merce commission ruling.
Bandit Villa Surrender.
San Pedro, Coahulla, Mexico. Fran
cisco Villa marched into San Pedro
Monday night between the lines of a .
cheering populace which greeted him
with cheers of "Viva Villa." Behind
him came his band of faltMTul follow
ers, which, with their leader, surren
dered to the De Is Huerta government
under terms agreed upon recently at
Sabinas.
The Watts Monument.
The current number of the Granite
Cutters' Journal, published at Quincy,
Mass., contains for its cover design a
half-tone reproduction of the monu
ment erected to the memory of the
late Jennie Gaines Watts, in the Ath
ena cemetery- The monument, which
is of Barre granite in broken column
design and figure, was done by the
famous sculptor, Angelo P. Ambro-
Deny Story League Formed War Staff
.Paris. The foreign office has is
sued a categorical denial of dispatches
of a press agency, purporting to be
from San Sebastian, stating that the
council of the League of Nations had
decided on the creation of an interna
tional general staff.
Professional Men Help In Harvest.
Bismarck, N. D. A twilight army
of bankers, lawyers, doctors and mer
chants doffed white collars and step
ped out into the harvest fields in an
sim, and is considered to be one of hi3 effort to relieve what threatens to be
best works of the season. serious farm labor shortage.
The Huckleberry Crop.
The bountifurhuckleberry crop in
the Blue mountains is drawing hun
dreds of people mountainward, with
the result that all camps are filled
and even out-of-the-way places,
wherever water is obtainable, camps
of huckleberry pickers may be found.
Not since 1894 has there been such a
prolific crop of the mountain berries,
and the high cost of other varieties of
fmit is one incentive that causes a
complete harvest of the huckleberry
crop.
151 Profiteers Convicted.
Washington. A total of 151 convic
tions have been obtained in the cam
paign of the department of justice
against profiteering.
London. War between the allies
and soviet Russia over Poland would
be "an intolerable crime against hu
manity," and British labor has warned
the British government that organized
labor will be used to defeat such a
wa. This decision was reached at a
meeting of the leaders of British labor.