The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-07-30

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A DoLLAn Cor that Tag. Hoe Watts
4 Rogers BiT Ad.
n. Payne wns business visitor aI
l'endIeton "Wednesday.
Grain sacks At oos cent bilow tbs
market. Bee Blg Ad. or ask Watts a
Rogers.
sliaz McQnision and son Wesley oi
Polk county. iown. are visiting hil
sister, Mn. w. II. Hall.
Says the Past oreRonian Of wednes-
day. ''It IL reported here today that a
prominent reservation farmer has
been offered IS cents for bis elub
CROP
Charles Morrison, PeDdletos ~.
loon man wbo fell Into cellar back "
an Athena store July II and sustained
fracture " the skull, died Tuesday
night.
Colonel johnson u among the noun
tain farmers who hnd berry growing
profitable. Hc marketed lOBlf crates
% mrawb berries this season from one
acre of ground.
O. w. Cralgen returned "Wednesday
from nm outing ~ WallOwa lake.
having come 10 the conclusion that
the lone fish which he caught was the
only one left In its waters.
Manager slower of the Weston Mer-
camille Company IL making his head
quarters at ths Hotel Continental.
firUndway, while buying in New York.
ne writes that he Is nDding bargains
galore.
Rain fell here yesterday forenoon,
the harvest bot doing no ma
terial damage. Considerable benefit
70 the RrowiDg crops IL reported from
the mountain, where moisture Is time
ly Just now.
No Weston wheat has yet been sold
this season. and growers appear 70 be
BY prevailing prieeA A iew
Pendleton farmers are said 20 have
been letting 90 OF few thousand
bushels az SO cents.
J. w. Jones. construction foreman
on the Northern Pacific. was here
from MiEsoula. Montana. for few
days this week. looking after his
property interests Mr.. Jones ~ now
regarded as n Weston man. and re-
reiyed the welcome due 20 a home
romer.
J. 0. Davis has arrived from WASH
tucna. Wash, for visit with his wife
and sons, who are eDcamped on the
hanks OF Pine creek, near the Sailing
residence. Mr.. Davis will leave next
week for Prescott, Wash, 70 begin
his preliminary duties as superintend-
snt Of the Prescott schools.
Reports from neighboring wheat
districts say that Lowell Rogers Of
Adams harvested 26O0 sacks from one
quarter section Of his land; that Ma
rion Hansell had an average yield Of
Isi bushels per acre from the Wiliaby
quarter; that y. A Dudley has begun
.hreshing n field west OF Athena Of
which he says: "Thls looks 70 me
ike 45-bushel wheat, II have ever
;ut any in the county"
q. A. r.. McGrew came up this week
rom Portland and has been again
accorded the freedom Of the city. in
,Iuding q good share OF the country
iereabouts. His son and daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic Il. McGrew.
viii arrive soon from Portland 20 make
heir home In the Weston neighbor-
hood They will farm the Morgan
place. which constitutes part OF the
AeGrcw holdings near Weston.
An unusually good crop for this sea-
lon was obtained bS Ralph Sailing from
50-acre field Of wheat adjoining town
IN the east. After about Two and one
lalf acres had been cut for hay the re-
nainder mada $50 sacks, or an aver
lgg Of about ~ bushels. There was
leauiiful stand on this field early in
he season, and ID would likely have
,yeraged ten bushels more had fayora-
,le weather conditions continued.
Professor and Mrs. T.. Il. Geiss, for
nerly OF tho Weston teaching force,
nutored through town "Wednesday
With MIR. and Mrs. Lewis Geiss, They |
ave spent eight weeks Of their vaca-
ion Id tfapel. having been north into
'anada and south into Old Mexico.
hey found Mexico interesting yet
iferinR few Inducements as perma-
tent abode, and did not linger long.
'hey visited the rival California expo
itions, ard returning north, attended
he big Shriners' convention Mt Seattle.