The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-08-31
BREvITIES

Wagon and buggy 20 trade for
Jersey milch COW. g. {. Ellis.
W. A. Barnes cropped about 1900
sacks of wheat from 73 acres at his
nome place near town.
Members are asked to remember
that the local library board VIII
meet next Monday al 2 y. ~. ~ the
library room.
J. u. Hart and family were IN
town Saturday while motoring to
their home near Walla Walla from
Camp McDougal.
Frank Sailing aud family were
here from StanGeld Saturday and
Sunday, and went huckleberrying
with the X. G. Salings.
After an extended visit with his
aged parents at Weston, James
Reeves left Friday on his return to
his cattle ranch in Arizona.
W. 4. Woods has sold his cottage
property on the Heights TO Ernest
Ross. who will move to town with
his family in time for the opening
Of school.
A. p. Perry bought a fine bunch
of mountain beeves the other day
from ]. L. Walden. The herd IN
cluded ten head. and brought an
average Of SO each.
Snap Good g room house with
bath, pantry and closet; barn 2Ox
30: woodhouse. work shop, cellar.
good well. lots Of shade. Lot o3x
III. Andy I. Barnett.
In spite of the unfavorable season
c. F. BuIfinch had a fine crop OF
German Red wheat at his place
south Of town. His 34-acre field
yielded is bushels TO the acre.
Miss Ethel Duncan is visiting her
mother. Mn. lyen 0'Harra. prior
TO her departure for Vancouver,
Wash, where she will be the guest
of her sister. Mrs. DR.. Brown.
For prompt service when in trou-
bic call at sMcndwell Garage or
phone No So. Rent ear and service
car. New equipment Autos wash
cd and polished, l., Pennington.
A heavy pump fell on George
Nesbitts foot while he was engaged
in dragging il out of well at the
Ia Rue place, and he is far from
enjoying period of enforced idle
ness,
Loren Maybee. who is now
wireless operator in the government.
service, is pursuing course of
study at Mare Island Navy Yard.
He expects TO be sent to the Phil
ippines,
Mrs. Frank Smith of Walla Walla
is visiting relatives here while re-
covering from the operation which
she recently sustained. She will be
Joined soon by Mr.. Simth while on
his annual vacation from duty at
the Baker-Boyer National Bank.
Early spring sown barley Jared
well this season, having beat out
the hot wave. w. 4. Woods had a
splendid yield--no less than 1900
sacks from 100 acres at the Price
Bros. ranch on Dry creek. He
sowed the barley in March, on sum-
mer fallow.
Mr., and Mrs. Henry Dodson of,
Asotin, Wash, motored through
Weston Sunday on their way to
Pendlcton. Mrs. Dodsonisa grands
daughter of the late Martin Buff,
who was one of the earliest settlers
near Weston, and conducted from
tier inn and stage station.
Three hundred acres of i0-bushel
wheat was destroyed by fire Satur-
day afternoon on the Geo. E. Per-
niger ranch on the Umatilla reser-
vation near Pendleton. II is be,
licved the blaze started from a trac-
ton engine. Effective work pre7
vented the loss of 5000 acres of
grain adjacent.
Sergeant Elmer Tucker of the,
Medical Corps Of the United States
Army was in town few days last
week for q visit with mother and
brothers. "Bish, as he was
known in his college days, is sta
toned at Fort Lawton near Seattle,
and says that he finds army life en-
tirely to his liking.
Key & Johnson have been thresh-!
ing between 20 and rs acres daily
with their stationary rig, and not
an hours time has so far been lost