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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-02-23
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Sherih SsoRTsr ciaf4s nas return
cd to this city after taking Fred Hayes
to the State Reform School at Glen
dale The boy was sent up for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses.
lie will serve two years in the reform
school and one in the penitentiary.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-20
Executors Sale Of Real Property

Notice is hereby given that |. as En-
ecutor of the last will of Charles Gun
ningham, Deceased, by virtue of au-
thority vested in me by the terms of
said will. will offer for sale at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash
all Of the following real property be-
longing to the Deceased at his death,
aud now belonging 10 his estate, in
the City OF Pendleton, umatilla Coun-
tY, Oregon, to-wit: Lots numbered s
and Z in Block Is of Arnold Il Raley s
Addition TO the Town of Pendleton,
with all tenements, hereditaments and
appurtenances thereto belonging or an
pertaining, at O'Clock in the after
noon on the 2lst day of July, 1917, at
the front door of the Court House OF
Umatilla County, Oregon, in Yhe CITY
of Pendleton in said County; said sale
Viii be made subject to the following
liens on said property:
III A lien for street improvements
ON Webb Street abutting ON said prom
erty for SAIL, rs, with interest thereon
ut the rate of percent per annum
from date Of sale,
I'D The lien of q mortgage secur-
ing note for $1,000, with Interest
thereon at the rate of 8 percent ner
annum from July IA. 1917, payable an
nually, as shown by the Records of
of said Umatilla County.
tSl The lien for proposed improve
ments on Willow Street adjacent to
said property. by authority of The
City of Pendleton, a municipal corpor-
alton, the amount of which Is not vet
determined said lien being not yet re-
corded
Said sale will be made subject to
10y the County Court of
The State of Oregon for Umatilla
County.
Dated June 20, 1917.
MANUEL PEDRO,
Executor Of the last will of
Charles Cunningham, Deceased.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-20

The following people from Wes
ton and vicinity were at Bingham
Springs last Sunday: Mr.. and Mrs.
Newt O'Harra. RufFord Price. Joe
Narkaus. Vada Smock, Blanche
Smock, James Smock. Fred Greer.
Edna Ross, Daisy Waddingam, ]. +.
Licuallen. Ralph Tucker. Vida
Greer, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Greer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ross King, Mr.. and
Mrs. james King, Eldon King, viii
Hall. Roy May, Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Fox. Mr.. and Mrs. J. II.
Price. Claud Price, Mrs. Z. c.
Price, Josie Lavender, Anna Laven-
der, Frank Lavender. DR.. Sempcrt,
Eliza Morrison, Thelma Anderson.
Those wishing to donate cakes for
the Weston soldier boys who are
members Of Company +, Second
Idaho. may take their gifts Sunday
morning to the residence of Mrs.
Frank Graham. These cakes will
form part Of Il shipment which the
ladies of Grangeville. Idaho, are
making 10 the Idaho troops. This
may be the last opportunity to send
dainties to the soldiers for some
time, ms they will soon be shipped
out of Utah to an unknown destna-
tion, il is said.
Are you in thta market for a. pi-
ano? If SO. why not call and in
speet the new sample piano at the
DeMoss Furniture Store? It's a
beauty and is guaranteed for ten
years. An excellent used piano is
also for sale at a sacrifice. See De-
Moss or Lundell,
An O-W, steam shovel is taking
1ig bites out of the right of way
lear Pine creek trestle, which is
icing filled now at a rapid rate.
Leon Lundell has taken the ap-
orentice's chair at Reynaud's bar
'er shop, Lloyd Ritchey having
rome to La Grande.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-20

In the Circuit Court of the State OF
Oregon for Umatilla County.
William r. Hirst, Plaintiff, VS.. Eliza.
beth Hirst, Defendant.
To Elizabeth Hirst, Defendant above
named:
In the Name of the State of Oregon.
You are hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint Of the plaintiff
filed against you in the above entitled
suit, within six weeks of the date of
the first publication of this summons,
to-wit: on or before Friday, the 24th
day of August, 1917; and you will take
notice that il you fail to appear and
answer the said complaint or otherwise
plead thereto within said time, the
plaintiff for want thereof viii apply to
the Court for the relief prayed for and
demanded in plaintiffs complaint,
namely: for decree Of the Court for
ever dissolying the bonds of matrimony
now and heretofore existing between
plaintiff and defendant, and for other
relief.
This summons is published pursuant
to an order made in this Cause by Hon.
Charles H. Marsh, County Judge of
Umatilla County, Oregon, in the abb
sence of Circuit Judge G. w. Phelps
from said county. The first pubIica-
tion of this summons will be made in
the Weston Leader on Friday, the 18th
day of July, 1917, and the last publica-
ton will be made on Friday, the oath
day of August. 1917.
Dated at Pendleton, Oregon, this
Ilth day of July, 1917.
PETERSON & BISHOP,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Post Office address: Freewater, Or.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1917-07-20
The Farmers Bank Of Weston
Established 1891


One hundred thousand people subscribed to Eng
lands first war loan of 81, 75O 0O0, ,O00
After three years of grim war; eight million people
in England subscribed to their great FIVE BILLION
Victory Loan. If the people of the United States
had subscribed to the Liberty Loan in the same pro-
portion there would have been twenty million sub
scrbers and the amount would have been fourteen
billion instead of two billion
This is to show what can be done and what we will
be expected to do
Begin saving now for the next loan, which will prob
ably be called for within three months
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
H%OLLENSYILLE ITEMS

Mrs. Mary Bybee, Of Santa Fe, is
the guest of o. r. Cauthorn and
family. 49, Rev. and Mrs. John Pos
ter, Of Canton, have returned home
after a fornight's visit with Mrs.
Love. - Born, TO Mr.. and Mrs. Dave
Roberts, a son, June the 18th. 49,
Milt Householder and b. G. Berrey
each received a Ford last week.
B, G. Berrey and F. l.. MCGEE de-
Mexico Monday at $14.5 per hun
dred. Mr.. Berrey's lambs weighed
67A BIS. and Mr.. McGee's weighed
SO lbs. - Claude Slonaker delivered
some old ewes to Roberts at 81. 80
per head. - w. w. Dowell delivered
a load of 215-lb. hogs to H. Mundy
at SIS per hundred on Monday and
alter Dowell a lighter load at $14.-
80. - f. l.. MCGEE sold fourteen
220-lb. hogs to Roberts and Cant, de-
livered at Thompson, Wednesday, at
$15 per hundred weight. - Everyone
is invited to the ice cream supper at
Long Branch Baptist Church on Sat-
urday night, June 23rd. - The ma
ny frieds of o. E. Howard are glad
to see him again. He has been at
Wodmen, Colorado, since December.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
PARIS PAPERS GIVE
HALF THEIR SPACE TO
PERSHING'S ARRIVAL

PARIS, June Is. Although this
was n of the days when the popular
Paris 1-cent newspapers are restrict
ed to two pages, to economic on pa
per, they devoted the greater part
of one of these pages to descriptions
of the arrival of Maj. Gen. Pershing
and his staff.
Typical among the comments is that
by Maurice de Waleffe in the Jour
nal: "tThere are no longer any Py-
renees' said Louis XIV, when he mar
ried a Spanish princess. There is
no longer an ocean, Gen. Pershing
might say with greater justice as he
is about to mingle with our the DEM
ocratic blood of his soldiers.
"The fusion of Europe and Amer
lea is the enormous fact to note.
Henceforth there is but one human
ace in the Old World as in the New,
and we can repeat the words of Co
ethe at the battle of Valmy: From
today a new order of things begins"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
KIMRALL YOUNG
SUES FOR HER PROFITS
Famous Moving Picture Star Only Re-
ceived $1,000 a week Which She
Says Was not Enough
FILMS CLEARED IMMENSE SUMS
-Four Subjects Alone Cleared $500, 900
and She Asks For a Receiver to
Secure Her Portion

NEW YORK, June 10. - Perilous
pitfalls of business innocence and
mincing of millions are cited by Miss
Clara Kimball Young, motion picture
star, in an action for an injunction
and an accounting by filing a complaint
in the Supreme Court against Lewis J..
S~elznic, the Lewis j. Selznick enter
prises and the Clara Kimball Young
Film Corporation.
The name Of the last named defend
ant would make it appear that the
brilliant young beauty of the films
had brought an action against herself,
which is what is known in motion pic
lures as a "cut back"
But that is just the trouble, Miss
Young asserts in her complaint.
She says Lewis j. Selznick, her direc-
tor and preceptor in motion pictures,
and head of the companies which bear
his and her name, made her
vice-president and treasurer, but
wouldn't let her work at these jobs.
Her position as a business executive
and treasurer, she alleges, was more
like a dream scene.
Miss Young AYERS in her complaint
that Mr.. Selznick is a mar of mature
years and wide and varied business
experience and hat he has taken ad-
vantage of her business inexperience.
She says she was to have received
stock to the amount of $4,000 0 in
the Clara Kimball Young Company,
and was to have handled the funds.
She was permitted to handle motion
picture money only, and all she receiv-
ed. she asserts, was her salary of ST.
900 a week. She wishes through the
courts to find out how much really is
due her. She asks that the corpora
tons be placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver and for an equitable distribu-
ton of the assets.
Regretfully Miss Young recites the
names of four motion picture plays
produced by her own - in name.
company, in which she was the star
and which she declares in three month
Melted the corporational-not the
real-Clara Kimball Young $500, 900.
The fateful titles of the four features
are "The Foolish Virgin" "The East
est Way" "The Price She Paid" and
"The Common Law"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
VENICE ITEMS

Miss Maude Douglass, of Dallas.
Texas, cane home Sunday for a sum-
mer's vacation. AL Coil shipped a
load of hogs to St. Louis Monday
night. - Mrs. Gale Douglass and
Mrs. Carter were shopping in Mexico
Saturday. - Quite a few attended
the show given at the Opera House
in harrisburg on Saturday night.
- Misses Ida Coil and Clara Sutton
visited at Jim Coils in Martinsburp
Saturday night and Sunday. The
little infant daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Scale is i'll this week
from an abscess. Mr.. ,Jewett
Meador is up from the camp at JEFF
ferson Barracks on a furlough. -
Mrs. Marion Cox who was confined
with rheumatism, is improving at this
writing. - Mr.. and Mrs. McMa-
han were in Wellsville Monday on
business. - Walter Dunn and family
attended the dedication exercises of
the new Methodist Church at Mont
gomery City Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
MOLINO ITEMS

Mrs. Lugenia Tanner, after a
months visit with H. l.. Weaver and
family, left Friday to visit her sister
Mrs. W. b. Marshall, Of Mexico. -
Button Turner, of Joplin, who has beer
the guest of his daughter, Miss Edith
Turner, the past week, left Thursday
for Macon City, accompanied by his
daughter, for a visit. - Miss Leota
Weaver was the guest of Miss Mary
.Cawthorn Thursday. - Master Leon
ard Robinson, of Mexico, is visiting
his grandparents, R. L. Robinson
and wife. - Mrs. Annie Davis spent
a few days in Santa Fe last week. -
James Camplin and wife Of Santa Fe,
were Sunday guests of John Heller
and family. Glad to hear Mrs.
Montgomery Of Mexico, is improving
from her recent illness. -- Mrs. D..
w. Littrell, of near Fisher school, is
quite i'll with nervous trouble and
rheumatism. Mrs. j. G.. Ware
is i'll with gall stones and heart trou-
bic, is thought to be improving some.
. DR.. F. p. Wood, of st. Louis,
was a Moline visitor Saturday and
Sunday. - James Dudley and wife
were the guests of A. j. Cawthorn
and family. = d. H. Cauthorn and
wife, of Mexico, spent the weekend
with j. p. Cauthorn and family.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
Finances
BLIND TIGERS BURNED;
WARRANT ISSUED FOR
ARREST OF PREACHER

MARION, ILL.,, June Is. = A war
rant has been issued for the arrest of
Rev. Marion Boles, of Johnson City,
charged with firing three johnson
City bootleg JOINTS" which were de-
stroyed. The warrant was issued at
the instance of Bill Ring, of johnson
City, a former saloonkeeper, who has
been in Jail here for bootlegging.
On the night of Tuesday, June 5,
Tom Russell was shot to death, and
Henry Weaver was injured in one of
the places. On the following night
someone poured kerosene over the
three "joints" and applied matches.
They were all destroyed. A watch
had a narrow escape from death
in the flames.
Rev. Mr.. Boles, for whom the war
rant was issued, is one of the best
known Christian Church ministers in
Southern Illinois.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
CHEAP POWER FOR FACTORIES

THE visit to this city Monday of T.
B. McCaulley, H. E. Chubbuck and E.
D. Bell, of the Mckinley System,
and their encouraging statements
concerning the erection of a trans
mission line bringing cheap electric
power here from the Keokuk dam
means much for the industrial devel-
opment of Mexico, as well as this
section of the State.
They represent the largest system
of interurban lines in the world and
have 1000 miles of transmission pow
err line in operation today. The rec
ton of the power line shortly seems
probable, though the building of the
Mckinley System road Through at
this time apparently is not considered
practical.
The visitors were most favorably i'm
pressed with Mexico and the country
surrounding it. Cheap power, such
they would supply through the
Mexico Heat & Power Co., would
mean much for the development of
the factories we already have and al
be the means securing similar in
stitutions.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
ONLY SOUND MEN WILL.
Be IN THE NEW ARMY.
National Army VIII Take the Best
Manhood of the Country to
Fill Its Ranks
HIGH PHYSICAL STANDARD
Army Surgeons Say Nearly 40 Per
Cent Of the Men in the Selec-
tive Drafe viii be Rejected

WASHINGTON, June 20. - Amer
ica's new armies will be made up of
the finest physical manhood of the
nation.
Army surgeons yesterday estimated
that nearly 40 per cent of the men
brought to the colors by selective
draft will be rejected upon the first
physical scrutiny, so severe are the
examinations. Probably 2 million
men must be drawn to get the $685.
900 for the first levy. At present the
reflections in the regular army average
DO to go per cent of the applicants.
After undergoing the severe exam
nations imposed by the army sur
geons, the chosen ones will form the
best army physically in the world.
In no other army are the physical re-
quirements so hard to meet. Even
Germany's armies are picked on a less
stringent scale of requirements.
Here are the general requirements
for the army:
Height not less than five feet four
inches nor more than six feet.
Weight not less than 1913 pounds nor
more than 100 pounds.
Lungs and heart must be well night
perfect. Any heart "murmur" dis
qualities. Hearing and sight must be
good. Color blindness is not neces-
sarily a disqualification.
Chronic disease or mental disorders
cause rejection. Loss of fingers or
toes OF an ear are disqualifications.
Flat feet or deformed feet are
causes for rejection. The surgeons
examine closely for any Affections of
the kidneys or chest. At least four
molar teeth are necessary.
"This war will be won by young
men," said an official of the medical
corps. "That's why we will win.
we've got the most and the best young
men,"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
ALTON OFFICIALS IN MEXICO

A. P. Titus, Vice-President and
General Manager of the Chicago &
Alton Railroad, was in Mexico with
his special a Friday, accompanied
by Chief Engineer Douglas, General
Roadmaster Morris, Division Superin-
tendent Marquette, Roadmaster John
Martin, and Division Passenger Agent
j. E. Fish and Assistant General
Freight Agent j. F.. Vosburgh.
These officials went over the new
Mexico Brick Plant in West Mexico,
and arranged for a complete system
of tracks which will be put in imme-
diately. Mr.. Green is pushing the
work on the new plant in all its de-
partments, and expects to be able to
deliver brick from there early in
September.
Big ammunition plants in the East
are rushing him with orders which
he cannot supply in his old plant, and
he is anxious to deliver the goods,
which means thousands of dollars to
BE- raid cut in Mexico for labor.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
YOUNGS CREEK ITEMS

We are having fine weather and
fine roads now - Thod Boulware
sold Bob Mundy So head of hogs
at l5c, realizing $1,045, a neat little
sum of money these hard times. He
also sold Joe Jones a cow and a
calf for $40. - Mrs. Jennie Settle. of
Mexico, spent the weekend at j. G.,
C~rawford's. She called on a few of
the old neighbors. - Several from
this neighborhood attended the Sum-
day School Convention at Bethel last
Sunday evening. Some report it
very interesting indeed. The speech
es were good and the singing splen-
did. The next meeting will be at
Olivet sometime in the early part of
November. - Rev. White filled his
regular appointments at Long Branch
Saturday evening and Sunday morn
ing. There was no preaching Sum
day night. The pastor went over ts
Paris to attend the ~protracted meet.
ing which is going on at that place.
- Johnnie Ellis, mother and wife, and
Mrs. Alice Asbury motored to Mex
leo last Monday. - G. T. Schieffer
lost two fine ewes from eating young
cuckle burs last week. - Almer Mum
dy lost six head of fat lambs, strayed
or stolen. - Marion Boulware and
Roy johnson motored down to John
Bledsoe's last Sunday evening. -
Mrs. Henry Lowery and daughter,
Mary, of Paris, Mo-, are visiting her
aunt, Mrs. Gabe Elsear, since Sat
urday. - Ferdinand Albright, of III
inois, has moved to the Johnnie Ellis
place.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
FITTING THE BOYS
10 FIGHT in FRANCE
ENDLESS TOLL AT FORT RILEY is CON.
VERTlNG CIVILIANS INTO BATTLE
LEADERS.

Fort Riley reminds one of a big foot
ball camp. The regular army Off
GERS and instructors are the coaches
driving the squads up and down the
field in the final, desperate days of
preparation for the big game. Ev-
cry minute counts. The air is filled
with a eommingling of sounds. There
IL the hoarse, authoritative commands
of the coaches and the ~ceaseless
pounding Of heavily shod feet on the
turf.
The young men-they are college
men almost entirely-are necessarily
leaping forward in response to some
order. They line up and are off
again. For the first few days there
may have been some joking and smil-
ing, but no more. These days they
the putting forth every ounce Of
brain and energy to stick on the team,
to make a place and hold it for the
greatest game Of all. OF the twenty
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
"ME UND GOTT" AGAIN

BERNIE, Switzerland, June 16. -
A telegram from Berlin says Empe.
ror William has addressed the fol.
lowing message to one of the Greek
diplomatic representatives abroad fol-
transmission to former King Con-
stantine:
81 have heard with wrath of the in
famous outrage committed upon you
and upon your dynasty. l assur you
that your deprivation IA be only
temporary. The mailed fist of Ger
many, with further aid from AL
mighty God, will restore you to your
throne, of which no man by right can
rob you. The armies of Germany and
Germany's allies will wreak vengeance
on those who have dared so in~solently
to lay their criminal hands on you.
We hope to welcome you in Germany
at the earliest opportunity. A thous-
and cordial greetings from
(Signed) "Your William"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21

six hundred young men in training in
the officers reserve, it is estimated
that about n in four will be drawn
for the first batch of commissions.
Everyone must make his best showing
in the eyes Of the coaches.
1t is as serious as football; and the
statement is not made lightly. In the
last days Of November seriousness
reaches a point on the football squad
when the men simply mean it. They
mean it with everything they have.
They are going to win or they are GO
ing to be ground to pieces in the dirt
trying. Such is the character of the
American youth.
That is the spirit the men are show
ing at the camp. They are working
as hard for their officers as they
would have for Bert Kennedy at Kan
sas or Bill Roper at Missouri. At dusk
they have the same dog tired glow and
there is something about the big din
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
BABIES ALL TO ONE GRAVE

LONDON, June 16. Arrange
mcnts are being made for a public
funeral for the thirteen school chill
dren killed in Tuesdays raid, whose
bodies will be buried in one grave.
A monument will be erected over it.
A bomb dropped directly on the
school building and pierced the roof
and the two upper floors, without
claiming victims there, but burst in a
room on the ground floor in which
thirteen children, hardly more than in
were killed.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
ELECT TOWNSHIP OFFICERS
Clyde W. Ellis Heads Salt River Sun
day School Body

The annual Salt River township in
terdenominational Sunday School con-
v~ention was held at Bethel church on
Sunday. The following officers were
elected: President, Clyde w. Ellis;
Vice. President, 4. c. Berry; Secre-
tary, Miss Pauline Flynt; Elementary
Superintendent, Miss Hattie Brown;
Secondary Superintendent, Mrs. J..
E. Durkee; Adult and Home Superin-
tendent, Mrs. j. j. Wood; Teacher
Training Superintendent, Mrs. Ian
Jones; Management, R. B. Kerr.
The following program was given
at the opening of the convention:
utilizing Boys Activities" Mitchell
White; Making the Graded Roll Eff
Gent" Miss Anne Lewis; Trio, by
Misses Edna Green, Elizabeth and
Frances Bolts; Realizing Our Aim,"
Miss Josephine Wallace; "Home Co
operation" Mrs. Richard Baker;
"The Value of Organization for the
Teen Age Pupil" Miss Ellen Carter;
"The Call" C. M. Fox.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
We extend our appreciation to the
people of Bethel Church and commu-
nifty for their hearty cooperation
with our township organization and
for opening their church to the con-
vention.
We extend our thanks to the town.
ship officers and speakers for max
ing the program a success.
We recommend that the officers
arrange to have the township rep
resented at the State Convention at
Maryville in November and that the
township pay the expenses of said
delegate.
We recommend that we have a meet
ing just before the State Conven-
We recommend the following stand
ard for Salt River township:
100 per cent of schools with Cradle
Rolls-12 schools.
rs per cent of schools with Home
Departmental schools.
rs per cent of schools with organized
.een-age and adult classes-9 schools.
so per cent of schools with Teacher
Fraining-6 schools.
This mean that Salt River lacks 2
Home Departments, 2 more schools
With Teacher Training Classes and 2
nore Cradle Rolls.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1917-06-21
TOO MANY "FLAPPERs" HERE

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 16. - Fifty
five per cent of the women of the
United States, according to stats.
tics, are "flappers," Mrs. Raymond
Robins said yesterday. Only As Of
every 100 work for a living.
"They are in a class just above in.
.dustry," Mrs. Robins said. "They
are a supported class. They do moth
ing in industry and do not enter the
professions. They merely exist.
"We want to recruit the 'flappers.
We want them to fill the places of the
nien who have gone to war. The
'flappers' are the nations great re-
serve force of women. l believe they
will volunteer their services"
A flapper, as defined by Noah Web
ster, is a young game bird, especially
a duck not able to fly we'll.
"'Flappers, " said Mrs. Robins,
ARE women whose wings are untried,
who will find them in the service
their country"