Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-06-05

The Adventist camp-meeting at
Milton is in fall blast and drawing very
large audiences.
-Messrs. John Hill and A. A. Wild
er, Of Milton were noticed on our streets
during the week. Il
Father Cenrady, Of the Umatllla
Reservation, was visiting friends IN
Weston last Monday.
Mrs. Geo. Hayes returned home
this week from an extended visit to
friends in PendIeton.
Mr.. Jake Proebstel and wife took
A trip to Waiia WalIs last Monday, re-
t,Ynins the same day.
The total rainfall during May was
4o2 inches, the greatest tall during
May iii fourteen years.
Charles Cleve, 6f the firm of Hollis
& Cleye, Centerviile, was in Weston,
Wednesday last, on business.
Misses Ida Sailing and Edith Wood
are spending portion Of their vacation
with friends ia Dayton, W. L.
Deputy Grand Master Clark, of
Albany, visited the Masonic Lodge at
this place last Monday evening.
MIR. Mcdonald, living few miles
from town, is hauling brick from Nell
sons brick yard for the erection of
| fine residence.
| Sailing & Co. received this week the
FIRST consignment of new wheat sacks tc
Weston, and are advancing moneJ on
tAe coming wheat crop.
Merchants report collections last
NJ onday as being better than for several
montl.s pasta good Indication of the
return OF better times.
1t was reported on the streets yes
terday that Alex McDonald, of Center
vile, was married this week to Miss
Sadie Lancaster, OF Walla Walla.
The LEADER is Informed that Prof.
Geo. E. Owen has heen elected princi-
pal of the Eastern Oregon Normal
Scheel, with Prof. J. Nj. Taylor as as.
sistaRt.
--Walla Nalla papers complain that
An organized band of horse thieves in
fest that county. From reports receivec
= now and thcn it is evident that the,
;, sometimes visit Unatilla.
Mr.. T. J. Kirk is making arrange
mcuts to build a twe-story brick i'll Cen
terville, the lower story to be used a
1t store room and the upper story as
d hall for the use Of the secret orders o
'r the town.
=" Several samples of new petatoe
were shown TO the cditsr this week; bu
lie none of them were worthy of note e1
<. cePt three or four exhibited by "Grand
y pap" Nelson, those being about the siz
10 OF heH eggs.
Old Esq. Depuy now ofIiciates q
s. clerk in the Golden Rule Hotel in Pen
H. dletoa, at which place his land-offit
re shingle floats to the breeze. His b,
at nisn coanteHance is missed Oh til
streets Of Weston.
rn Besides the most improved methot
r. of primary teaching, the kindergarte
RS will be taught in the Normal Scho
ly next year. A large number of studen
frem abroad are expected to be On haz
ly at the opening, Sept. Sth.
es -Mckanlass' Concert Co., that w;
IT, to have exhibited in Weston last Satu
sd day evening, went to pieces in Wal
'se Walla, and Westonites missed seeil
the grand sight of maa ''playing t,
a banjo's at once" Too bad.
,ry The Fourth of July Commit
ay have decided to give the grand ball
me the evening Of the third, as ba!I-got
to would have very little time to ''tp t
vas light fantastic after viewing the fl
fell workD ep Saturday evening.
Fishing oxcurslonists to the { II
bo tilla DC not seem TO return as jubila
it this season as last. Big catches ;
the gsscrally reported, hut the ligiitn,
re- Of their fish-baskcts, together with tn
Sc. woe-bcgene countenances, tells diff
er- eat story.
IL Farmers in tho lower end of |
N.Y. county are seriously complaining OF t
in depredations of the mischievous grou
tial squirrel. The last Legislature pas:
uP- a law offering reward for their seal
hes and some eutcrprislng youth ought
to 20 in and make fortune.
arS' MIR. A. D. Stillman, of Milton
ron been appointed special deputy sher
and is on the trail of the thieves v
oon stole his horses few days ago. !
, at last heard from him was that he
1 in tracked the thieves to Baker county
ions was confident of over taking them.
and The Weston Cornst Band is
irty proving rapidly and now play some
'oa- cellent music. The boys gave a G
the cert from the balcony of The Mars
ppcr House, which was highly apprecia
by the listeners 1t Is their intent
civ. to give an oPen-air concert semi mont
ou,d daring the summer months.
lpty The Walla Walla Union remal
low "a Walla Walla man is building a
Jas. brick store at Weston for n. Duseai
John Il Co., and the Wcstonians don't
Ad. it a hit" The Union has either
any s'isinformed, or judge the people by
oun. own narrow -mindedness. Weston
like tractors and bricklayers have all
work they can possibly do before
weather sets in, and the numbe