The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1916-10-06
BREvITES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+, +, csiss was up from rsndls,ou
Saturday.
Dr. +. y. Watts was absent during
the FIRST Of the week on a business
visit to washtuena.
Mr.. and Mrs J. A. McRao motorcd
Wednesday 10 walla walla. accom-.
panied BY Mrs, 7. Kirkpatrick.
J. I. Snider has improved his cot.
tage property on Normal Heights
with a new porch. kitchen and bath
room.
Stephanic Temple, Pythian Sisters.
win resume It's meetings next Monday
evening. All members are requested
to be present.
Mis. Mark Ray is under DR.. Smiths
care at her home on the Reed and
Hawley uplands with serious attack
Of kidney trouble.
Lester Stoddard, 20 years old, the
son Of a millionaire lumberman Of
La Grands, has gone to Australia as
Mormon missionary.
A cornstalk about twelve feet high
Is displayed at Frank Prices Office As
an example set by Weston country for
Missouri and Kansas It was raised
on the John Banister place.
II you like good music como early
and enjoy our half hour concert BY
our Concert Band. starting at 7;so p.
m. "The Girl Of Eagle Ranch. ."Wea-
ton. Thursday, October IL. (Adv.l
Two dozen students have been en-
rolled at Pendlston for a high school
cadet corps. The federal government
furnishes the equipment frss OF
charge and the uniforms arc secured
at nominal cost
Three head Of stock, besides hay
and farm machinery, were burned to
death In q fire Saturday which de-
stroyed the J. NJ. Labadie barn near
FreewateF. The loss was $1,000 with
little insurance.
Those indebted TO me who overlook
cd The annual payday October LIST. are
herewith advised that Il Is not yet
too late. l viii still be glad to oblige
with my autograph attached to q re-
ceipt. l. I. o'Harra.
Contractor Ashworth and his force
Of carpenters, consisting Of WIN Gra-
ham. Charles Van Hoy and J. b. Gor-
don. left Wednesday for Lamar gulch
to begin the construction Of A. I. :
Swaggart's new bungalow.
c. T. Diamond. merchant Of Turk.
WASH, who is i02 years old, walked
eight miles the othc. day while going 7
to Spokane. IIe refused to be inter-
viewed, saying it was business first, j.
last and all the time with him. 7
Says the Condor Globe: "Robert y
Nelson raised 30 acres Of wheat on his !,
homestead this year which paid him y
$3.50. This il better than $4i per 4
acre. Is there any ether country in
the world where a single crop will q
more than pay for the landi
"
Ralph Sailing harvested e5 full
sacks Of beans from 40 acres Of his
summer fallow near town, and at
liz cents per pound, the present +.
market price In Portland, he could ~
realize little more than $1,000 for
the crop. cost him s2l0 IN cash "
not counting his own labor. and while
ne found that raising beans Is by I
10 means q pastoral idyll he never N.
+heless feels well repaid for utilizing
lie summer fallow. He was able. w
Ilso, to employ considerable local la
,or.
Herman 0'Harra writes that when
IL rot located in the Arcadia club at ~.
to resume his work at the =.
}. A. G., he missed something ter -,
IDLY, and school life seemed 10 have 4,
ost its SAVIOR. For a week or two
q could not imagine what the trouble
vas, and finally remembered that he
ad failed to subscribe again for the WI
Weston Leader-which Is known and
onored In student circles as the "Pea tor
follow Gimlet." Having hastened
. remedy this oversight, his life at Mo
ha pnliann hn.,... ri -. ...,ft L. aif4