The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-05-11
BREvITIES

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health, after q serious and protract
ed Illness.
Miss Oda Coyle Of Milton WA
entertained Saturday and Sunday
by Miss Dorothy ProebStel.
Good liye.ro0m house and lot e
trade fof stock Ia the Weston Mcr'
camille Company. Andy T. Barnett
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wurzer left Tues
day In their automobile for u visit
70 the Wurzer farm near Odessa,
Wash.
! have one new Ford touring ear
left Of the recent carload shipment.
II you are In the market, let me
know. lhone 2Gl. II. l.. Hedrick.
Il is announced that the National
Honor Guards will give u jitney
dance at the old Far Store building
IN Milton Wednesday evening, May
18th.
Spring has at last arrived; 50 has
the carload OF Fords. Touring sea-
son Is on. 80 et me talk Ford 70 you
FOR economy. efficiency and service.
II. l.. IIedrick.
Good ueAS for the dogs is heard
from the city council. which has au.
thDrizcd the mayor 90 proclaim
that the muzzing regulation Is no
longer in force.
Weston autos are 50 greedy for
gasoline that II. l.. Hedrick was
compelled this week to replace his
l75 gallon tank with new one Of
32D gallons capacity.
Jim kirkpatrick. member Of r
company at Boise barracks. has writ
ten home for his baseball togs. He
is playing with the company team,
and says that it's a good one.
+. c. Rogers and j. NJ. Price re-
turned Monday from their Montana
trip. They travelled sis OF seven
hundred miles BY auto. and are en-
thusiasic over Montana's roads.
However, they made no land invest
nicnts.
Mrs. Ben Lee ii reported to be- :
dangerously i'll at her home on the
Weston uplands. Last fall Mrs. Lee
sustained An operation at the Mayo
hospital in Rochester. MINI, result
ing in much improvement. but re-
Gently suffered a relapse.
County Superintendent Young
has announced the school apportion-
ment on the basis Of 81 per capita
for children Of school age and S.
extra to each district whose teacher
attended one Of the county insti-
tutes. Weston's share is $l9ll.
J. r. Short. an alfalfa farmer
near Umapine, was shot and killed
BY boy Of Ii named Colwcll fol- /
lowing a quarrel between Short and
he boys father over a horse that +,
he had sold TO the elder Colwell s
hat had not been paid for Short ,
Sas go years old and left n large !
a,nily. The boy claims that he /
lhot in self defense.
Considerable qualification or !
wen more than that has been oc- !
,asioned III the Leader office by re. /
'ent subscription payments from
he following friends of the paper:
viii NorDean, A. w. Lundell. ], !,
4. Padberg. A. J, Probcstel, w. s.
edwards. j. NJ. Ashworth. j X.
english, L. Al. Smith. G. Il. Rob
nson, j. II. killgore, Earl Kinnear.
!. c, Fitzpatrick, Walter Beamer,
Allen Richal.
Walter M. Pierce, state senator
rom Union county and in early years 4
i Weston teacher, greeted old-time
ricnds in this city this week. Wal
er is having joint debates with 4.
/. Adams, state highway commits
ioner, on the road bond issue. He
axes the view that now is an mop i
fortune time to pass bonds and I
ave roads. with the nation at war !
md labor scarce and high. He IA /
.ors road building by means Of mill {
age taxation. :
Since the published report the S
God committee of the Weston Com {
nercial club has received replies 9
rom six more farmers who will /
aise more produce this year along J
he different lines set forth in the |
letter. They are Louis /.
Will Beathe junior, \
'eter Natkaus, Henry Sans, G. w, 4
Vim and Mrs. Nellie Blackman. {
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