The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-05-25
BREvITIES

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Bundled wheat hay for sale. G
NJ. Price.
want 10 buy a secondhand. two
horse. riding cultivator. Andy 7
Barnett.
I. c. Hopkins and family have
moved back 10 their mountain farm
from the Helix ncighborhood.
Miss Edra Simpson Of Walla Wal
Ia was the guest Saturday and Sun
day Of Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Price.
William Brown has invested in a
Light -Four Overland. which he
bought Saturday Of the local agent,
IN. Kcnnard.
Frank Bryant. former Wcstonite,
was here Sunday from Duncan,
where he IL now stationed as sec.
tion foreman Of the o.W. X. & N.
The baccalaurcatc sermon at Co
lumbia college. Milton, will be
preached next Sunday at y .. m.
by DR.. Warren. Weston people are
invited 10 attend.
The Weston boys who wer in
training at Boise barracks, Idaho,
Ia fight for Uncle Sam, have all
been sent TO Ogden. Utah, 20 com
plcte their term Of preparation.
The Misses Dorothy and Marjorie
Bulhnch have returned home for
vacation from their school work at
S.eptOe. Wash. Miss Marjorie will
teach next year at American Falls.
Idaho.
Sunday school. 10 a. M, and Ep-
worth League. Up. m, at Meth
odist church next Sunday. but no
preaching. MS need 10 80 10 Walla
Walla for the presiding elder. W.
u. Smith, pastor.
The record price of so cents per
pound was paid ut Pcndleton TO
Manuel Pedro for 80. 900. pounds of
wool. He refused TO sell his lambs
for $s per head. William Pedro
sold 1900 head Of yearilng ewes at
$1,000 per head.
Representative Louis Hodgen was
a Weston visitor Monday from Una
pine. He Is strong for the road
bonds. saying that in his view
Umatilla county would be foolish TO
turn down this chance for hard
surfaced highway IL II ever expects
to get one
Kept out for time by eye weak.
ness which has Of late greatly i'm
proved, Lloyd Killgore was finally
successful after several trials in en-
listing In the navy. He was ac-
cepted after recent examination in
Portland, and returned home to
await the call to duty.
Elmer Moser. a pioneer boy of ,
Weston and a substantial stockman i
of Anatone. Wash. was here last /
week for a visit with his sister,
Mrs. James Kirkpatrick. and nu-
merous friends. He contemplates c
retiring from the cattle business &
and buying n wheat ranch. >
DR.. A. +. Scmpert left Wednes- /,
day for Portland to apply for en- i
listment in the dental corps of the n
Officers Reserve. If accepted, he
will remain in Weston and continue
his practice until called for service. a
He will then go to the training n
camp at The Presidio, San Farncisco. v
Miss Norma Smith is here from n
Salt Lake City to visit her parents. :.
Mr.. and Mrs. 4. NJ. Smith, and
will remain until after the pioneers
Miss Smith has employ .
ment with large department store y
in Salt Lake, and has just been pro- !.
noted TO better position at an "
Increase in salary. r.
With HafIler twirling and c.
Oliver at the receiving end, Weston
defeated Athena in well played
,all game at Athena Sunday, score
i've TO two. Arrangements will :.
probably be made for a picnic game u
1t Weston Friday. June s. with the IA
Athena team. For Saturday, June ls
}. the locals expect to take ON the q
rack colored club of Pendleton, n i,
.he Tigers. to
sh
Sim Killgore and family were c,
lere Sunday visiting relatives, from di
heir farm six imles west of Helix, a.
where he has di0 acres in wheat. ~ ~
dr. Killgore reports that the grain b,
S coming along fine in his neighbor- Ia
iood, and that the Echo country al On
o has splendid prospect this A.
Iayinr been an unusually favorable NJ