The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-09-28
BREVITIES

Miss Cleo Conncll of Caldwell
lndho, is visiting her aunt. Mrs H.
u. Davis.
/ am now prepared To serve meal'
at the Fred DupuiB residence. Mrs
Laura Shanks.
]. II. Clodius is visiting rclatiVct
in Portland and enjoying mctropol'
itan sights and scenes.
Mis- Ruby Price left this morn
ing for Pullman, Wash, TO begin
her studies at Washington State
College.
W II. Singer has sold l2O acres
of hls farm in the Basket uplands
for $4,000, receiving $4,000 in cash
and "A house and lot in the suburbs
Of Walla Wnlla.
Lost Extra wire wheel and tire.
33xiI of Detroit car. between Pen
dlcton ard Weston. Finder please
notify j. A. Mulrhead' Daytoh'
Wash. Reward.
Sow good seed. not tares, If you
would reap a bountiful harvest.
We arc thoroughly equipped to
clean your seed grain and clean II
right. Weston Milling Go.
For prompt a-rvico wh"n in tr"u-
bic cali ut McndwclI Garage "r
phone No 81. Rrnlcar and service
ear. New equipment, Aut0s wash
cd and polished. l.. Pennington.
Steven V. Knox. a veteran W"s-
ton lawyer who Is aaid I" b" more
than unc hundred years old. was
lately removed from the county hos
pltal tu the Eastern Oregon hospital.
A horse ridden by the eight year
old son Of ". NJ. johnson fell Tues
day, severely injuring the boy. The
more serious wounds were in his
head. which was cut and bruised.
DR.. Watts is attending him,
DR.. A. +. Sempert was driving
shis Country Club in Milton the other
day. when another car, carelessly
driven, ran into il and put it strict
ly out of commission. Doc did not
learn the offending motorists name,
but got his number. y
United Brethren Church Preach
ing at II a. M. subject. "txposl-
ton Of the Third Chapter of He
brews." At $ p. M, Our High
Priest" Sunday school, prayer
meeting and Y. p. {. Il. at the
usual hours. Everybody invited.
About 100 cars Of prunes have
been shipped from the Milton-Frce-
water district this season, breaking
all previous records. Most of them
have been sold at prices expected to
net the growers $3.50 per ton.
The value of the crop is estimated
at 1925, 900.
Honoring the teachers of the
Weston schools, a reception will bc
given at the Masonic hall Friday
evening, October 5, at s p. m. The
affair is under auspices of the Sat
urday Afternoon Club. and all pa
irons and friends of the school are
most cordially invited to attend.
After submitting to an operation
for the relief of rupture. Rudolph
procbstel was in the hospital -
DAYS mt Pendleton. He is still
weak, and is recuperating at his
home here. Rudolph received Il
conditional discharge from Troop
u, which he hopes soon to bc strong
enough to rejoin.
Hamp Booher sold eight head of
hogs the other day to Jack Read of
Athena for sixteen cents n pound ~-
or S27l.20 for the bunch. These
porkcrs were fattened on stubhlc,
Later on Hamp will feed his cows
and pigs on eighty-pound squashes
raised with only a few drops of
rain from the time they were plant
ed. Such is our.wondcrful climate
as the late Charley Bessercr was
accustomed to saying.
Ray W. Clark, 20 years old, and
]. j. Mcdonald, 40, were electro
cuted Friday while working below
Umapne. The cable of a derrick
they were using came in contact
with the power line and Clark tried
to pull it free. He was instantly
killed, and in trying to release the
body Mcdonald also fell dead.
Burning and smoking, both bodies
had to be left in the road until the
power could be shut off at Walla
Walla, when they were released
from the deadly wires.
A most delightful reception was
recently given at the Methodist
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