The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-09-17
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he nay as well change ths adjective BY
substituting an for tho /.
The glad Industrial note that walla
walla has been packing sixty tons Of
prunes per day win scarcely interest
colensl Boyd. who 10 full Of them
already.
These eoplous fall rains are a POSI-
tive boon 10 several umatilIa county
towns we wot Of that haven't been do
Ing much brsgging Of late on their
respective water sys'sms
The following sad expression Of "An.
tumnal Grief In Rex Lampmsn's Sat.
Ev'g Ahbi moved our laehrymoss oilles
imp to such = iiood Of tears that he
didn't have TO sprinkls down when he
swept out the shop:
We are close on The idea Of Septem.
Der; the haze hangeth blue on the hills;
and sadly again we remember our trou-
blc with last winters bills.
The fiush on the forest Is hectic. and
hectic our thoughts - we peer-and
muse like q sAd-eyed dyspeptie the
way We sQuandercd the year.
We're as gloomy as Teddy the col.
onel, when he sobs for our national
wecl; and our spirit Is far. far from
yernal-s and We galp when we think
Yes. our days are IN seer and In yel-
low. But remains yet, TO comfort our
soul, the thought, we may find an um-
hrella. and stand of the bill for the
coal.
The reference 10 ''our soul' we as
scribe 10 poetic license. and not TO q
serious claim on the part Of Brother
Lampman to any such spiritual and un-
familiar attribute.
Colonel Roosevelt b somehow unable
to realize that he has been consigned to
political oblivion and his enemies are
afraid to use an axe.
It's about time for the agricultural
college TO send out some dope on tho
value Of straw hats for fall fodder.
Mr.. Beals Is herewith advised that II |
there hadn't been = change In the |
weather there should and probably
would have been in the weather man.
The Allies want 10 borrow 4 billion.
which is ss99. 999, 900 more than we
have about rs just at present.
We've just received the following
through the mails from some unknown
and hopelessly irresponsible contributor
who seems to have had bad spell:
AFTER many hours Of thoughtless
study and deliberatipn the appended
jingle sprang into being for your This
tledown colyum: se
''If an s and an and an o and U
spell SU,
And an Z and Y and E spell !. Ii
And an s and an ! and q @ and an II /
and an E and n ID spell eide
Then what in the world Is speller
to do
But go of and commit SIOUX EYE
SlGHED?"
Which we hope this one does; and
ven pay the undertaken.
Concerning the Turk, it's singular :
low 10 sick q man fights 90 well.
Mexico doesn't know football well
'nough to appreciate Uncle Sans In /
erference.
Zim. in Cartoons magazine, presents Z
IN antediluvian idea Of the farmer.
inns foolish notions are 20 little ap- =
'reciated here that well bet he .
ouldn't grift a ride in one Of cur I
Vheat kings latest seven-passenger /!
uzz wagons, nor sidestep the bulldog >
oon enough to hear piece on his Z
the wheat king's) $50 player piano. :,
his Il the way he ooses nisinthrcpic !
=
Farm life Is an ideal life, especially Il
d the story books and upon the theater q
tage. The farmer Ia his own boss and Y
l0narch Of all the acres that are not Y,
lastered with mortgages. He arises q
nth the little birds, hits up the hard d
ider In the cellar, then hies him 4,
hither 70 toy with the cattle--for milk
IL at four q. m. il one of the Joys Of
arm life. From the milking stool he n
yends his way to the woodpiIe and r
leefully chops up cord or two be. =
ore the breakfast call. When the
corning meal Is over his real life be-
ins. Blended with the buzz of rusty q
gong and profanity, the re-
laining eighteen hours are whiled
way. When the farm becomes so inn =
overiShcd that 1t will raise nothing
ut chin whiykers, he lets the mortgage
older do his worst. I"
Bulgaria's own standing has not
cen improved by her understanding
ith Turkey.
Hearing the school bells, the young
ers are sorry that they aren't old
rough to stay away and the grownups
lat they aren't young enough to go.
We fancy that the subsistence Of the
ar cloud between the United States
d Germany Is due in no small degree