The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-04-23


You and your children are safe u
/ you wear DFN. Lowe and Turner's
I RlaHses--eyes safe and price safe
/ they cost no more than the ordinary
/ kind and you have the benef.. Of their
skill and many years OF experience as
exclusive eye and nerve specialists
Dr. Turner Is recognized as one OF she
leading opthalmologists of the North
west Consult them at the Marshall
House hotel parlors. Weston. Thurs
day. April 30. until O'clock only
They do not go from house TO house
and have no agents One charge cov-
ers entire cost Of examination Glasses
land frames are fully guaranteed
( They will also be in Athena Friday.
April 30. and Helix Saturday, May /.
/ tAdv)
Audrey, the threc-year-oid daughter
OF T., NJ. Weeks. was the unconscious
4 heroine Of mysterious disappearance
I Sunday evening In the upper end Of
town. and the center Of IA neighbor-
hood sensation. She left her home
and could not be found. high or low.
| In nook or Granny, creek bed or old
wells, although some twenty residents
OF the neiRhborhood equipped them
selves with lanterns and Joined the
anxious parents In n frantic search.
All the while she was In an alley back
OF John Bcaton's barn, playing car.
penter with hammer and keyholo
saw. Not afraid OF the dark, the
youngster showed her only Sign of
alarm when she was finally located
and so many grownups rushed TO the
rescue.
Alva shumway, well known farmer
couse creek neiRhborhood. has pur-
chased a half section OF timber land
from Frank Sailing and quarter sec-
ton from the Sailing estate on wes-
ton mountain, about IL miles east of
Weston. The land embraces Saling's
camp, popular for many years as
quiet and pleasant mountain retreat,
and the consideration was In the
neighborhood OF SIS an acre. Mr..
Shumway has made other purchases
on the mountain and owns quite a
body of land up there, which II Is said
he win use for grazing purposes, hav-
ing bought a band of young stock in
Idaho.
A walla walla dispatch says that
George Drumheller. whose $4,000
check for his wheat crop last fall
brought him notoriety. expects to get
n larger one this year. Believing that
the price viii be as high or higher
than last year, when he received 81 a
bushel. he has planted $500 acres OF
land TO wheat which sets new rec
ord for individual wheat growing In
the Inland Empire. He declares the
outlook for more than an average crop
ls bright and expects 80 to SO bushels
an acre. He had to reseed zoo acres
damaged by frost.
Mrs. Robert N. Stanfield of Pendle-
ton, wife of Representative Stanfield,
was the guest Saturday and Sunday of
Mrs. Lillian Fredericks. Mrs STAN
field was once student OF the East
ern Oregon Normal, as was also her
husband, and much regrets the closing
OF its doors. She Is among the loyal
friends of the institution who worked
earnestly but In vain for its re-estab-
llshment, Mrs. Stanfield was accom-
panied to Weston by her daughter,
Barbara.
r. b. Barnes, late of Marshfield,
Oregon, came to Weston last week In
search of slightly dryer climate, ana
expressed himself as highly pleased
with the brand of weather on daily
exhibition here Mr. Barnes Is lust
about as tall a man as our fellow
townsman of the same name, ana
may belong to the same tribe. A few
days after his arrival he left with
Walter Webb for Vale, Malheur coun-
ty to Investigate a land proposition.
The Pendleton, Adams. Athena and
Weston auto stage leaves Weston twice
daily for Pendloton at . a. m, and p,
m Round trip. $i.75, Headquarters
nt Goodwin's drug store. A. NJ. Boy
don, proprietor.