The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1914-12-25
BREvITIES


Dreamland motion pictures at wea.
ton opera house next Monday and
Tuesday evenings.
the untimsly death OF his norre
horse sunday night spoiled good
team for Austin KEGS.
). J. Besler. the well-known local
iewelsr, has been confined 10 hii
homo during tho week with Seriou'
illness.
Daughters we're lately bestowed BY
La benevolent stork upon Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Phillips and Mr.. and Mrs. Geo
-. NeHblt.
Mlas Fay Warren. who has been
Teaching school at MaryAyille. Wash.
has arrived for n holiday visit with
her mother At Weston.
Cab service 20 the depot or 10 any
part of town. day or night 70 cents.
Ring the Marshall House or Btamper'l
livery barn. Iafe Mcbride.
Mr., and Mrs. Herman Graham are
EolnK 20 Puget Sound 10 make their
home, having sold their s0-acre farm
south OF Athena 20 n. a. simpson.
Mr.. and Mrs. } II. Key came In Bat
urdny from the farm TO consult DIR.
smith. Mrs. Key having suffered Sc
vercly OF late from bronchial trouble.
G. NJ. Price and Lester wllsey dis
posed of their wheat crops Saturday
10 Frank Price. agent OF the Weston
Warehouse company. receiving ti.iOh
per bushoL
Henry waddinRhnm and his son
Frank returned Sunday evening from
pleasant visit 10 the Wesley ,iarders
near Ashland and 20 Geo. J. Wadding-
ham at Portland.
Miss Nancy Stevens OF Lexington.
Nebraska, arrived wedn Haday for a
Christmas visit with her sister. Mrs.
George Ferguson. at the Kern ranch
on Weston mountain.
Jimmie" Garden. an old pioneer on
wheels. was up from Pendieton during
the week. Jimmie" lived at Weston
IN its stage coach days. and IL still
rather fond OF the old town.
Weston students OF the o. A. G. re-
turning home Saturday for the holi-
days were the Misses Edna and Gladys
Banistcr. Elmer Tucker. Herman
o1iarra. Leonard Blomgren and Zane
lanAdnlc.
Why pay per cent for farm loans
.k.
by applying to Maloney a Gwinng
Inquire of or write 10 either J. II.
Gwlnn OF the Pendieton Abstract
Company. or ]. w. Maioney OF PEN
dicton. oregon.
For the first time In the history oi
the state a foreign market has been
found for Oregon onions. ten carloads
having recently been shipped 20 Eu-
rope via the canal and New York.
This new outlet has caused a sharp
advance In prices.
Dick English lef, this week for q
Christmas visit with friends in Port
land and Ashland. Reports are cur
rent To the effect that Cupid has as
much 10 do as SAINT. Claus with the
holiday pilgrimage Of this popular
mountain bachelor.
Loren Maybcc. weston's young
wireless operator who lately completed
a station al his home. has received his
government licenses from the radio
Inspector at Seattle. and Is now ready
to capture mcrsagcs from out OF the
cIrcumambicnt ether.
Much improved In health and minus
about 80 pounds Of surplus 'embon-
point" Joe CiodIus returned this week
from an extended stay at Hot Lake.
He left Tuesday for, visit TO his
brothers home near Waitsburg. ac-
companying his nephew in motor
car.
Mrs, Ross Kennedy and infant son
left Monday for their future home at
Fruitland. Idaho. after fortnights
visit al the home Of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. NJ. o'Harra, near Weston,
They formerly resided at Pullman,
Wash. but Mr.. Kennedy has taken
position with the bank.
II your property doesn't suit you.
why not trade it for something that
does? | have made trades for other
Weston people and they are satisfied.
Let me make a trade for you. have
some good trades and fine buys In
wheat land. II YOU want to trade or
buy write 70 Chas. s. Bassett. WASH
tucna, Wash,
d, q. Ross, a Umatllla county pio-
- rana lis
the long winter OF 1854, predicts "a
dmilar winter this year. Present at
mospheric conditions are similar In
every detail TO those which preceded
the big snow of 1884" says Mr., Ross,
''and unless am badly mistaken we
win surely get big one this year"
O. f. Edison. for many years a
leading miller OF Hilsboro. oregon,
died recently OF paralysis at the age
OF T2 years. Prior to moving TO WASH
ington county. about l5 years ago, Mr.. |
Edison conducted FIGURING mill at
Weston He served one term in the
Oregon legislature, was veteran OF
the civil war. and Ia survived by a |
widow and four grown children.
Rev. ]. w. Goode. Free Methodist
minister. called Saturday evening at
the bunk house on the DR.. Kern place |
on Weston mountain and held mems
He had an attentive lcongre-
CATION of s5. which included the Kern
ranch force of wood-choppers and
other mountaineers. The worthy man
Of God broke up poker game, but the
men say that his sermon was well
worth the Interruption.
Milton Eagle: H. A, Williams, well
known local sportsman. made killing
tho other day which his friends think