The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-04-19
BREvITIES

Mrs. 8. l.. Kcnnard Ii improy
ing, after a serious Illness.
Mrs. Cecil Hampton Of Pendletor
Is visiting the II. j, Bakers.
DR.. and Mrs. y. d. Watts lcfl
Wednesday for a few days visit u
Portland.
Little Lora Lucas was taken q
Pendlcton this week for Skin
grating operation.
Run into by the car Of n Milton
pcddler, the Neild automobile wai
partly wrecked the other day.
The Weston Milling Co. today
added new motor truck TO IL
constantly increasing equipment.
Mrs. Minnie Walker was here
from Helix Saturday evening 70
attend "our Minister'S Honey
moon.
A social dance Is announced for
tomorrow evening at Weston opera
house. with music by Payant's Jazz
Band.
Harlow B. Richmond. who is
again actively engaged in ranching
in the Helix ncighborhood. was in
town today.
A new awning and new screen
doors for the Weston Cash Market
show that Manager LundelI believes
In "fxin' up"
am now handling supplies for
Overland cars; also vacuum cup
castings Of all sizes. and batteries.
DR.. s. l.. Kennard.
p. J. o'Brien Of the Inland Truck
and Tractor Co.. Walla Walla. was
in town during the week. talking
Yuba tractors to Weston farmers.
Silver" Davis has shod the
Davis & Ellis truck with a new
pair Of rear tires. The Weston
Transfer Co. must be going some.
Bud Nelson has received two
ton Nash truck for demonstration
purposes, having taken this agency
along with the Chalmers and Dodge
cars.
Frank Price Is wearing q patch
over his left optic the result of
penetration by flying barley boards
which a doctor was required to ex-
tract.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Moser were
visiting at the Kirkpatrick residence
in Weston Sunday while moving
from Anatone, Wash, to the John
Edwards place ip Morrow county.
! have re-opened my ice cream
parlor In the Brandt building on
Main street, and will serve the cell
ebrated Hazelwood ice cream. New
soda fountain installed. Mrs. Z. E.
Zehm.
Geo. b. Carmichael lost a good
work horse today in a singular
manner. The animal was frisking
and playing around and fell as it
entered the barn, breaking a leg.
All that could be done was to
shoot 1t.
While excavating for the west
wall Of the Nelson building work.
men unearthed battered relic
which no one was able to identify
until II was taken to Porter Gra-
ham. He at once placed it as
plume stand from the hearse used
by the late Uncle Tom Purcell in
his undertaking business more than
four decades ago.
Private Marion Pennington. 10
years old. died In France April 8 of
pneumonia. according to a message
received by his father, who resides
in Eugene. His Is thought to be
the first death in the Sixty-tifth
an organization Of Ore
gon boys. The young soldier was
the youngest of ten children. One
Of his brothers, Lawrence Penning-
ton, resides in Weston.
Andy Barnett visited Pendleton
Saturday and an X.ray examination ]
was made of a troublesome knee
which he injured year ago. A !
growth in the region of the knee |
zap was disclosed, and an opera [
Jon for its removal was not consid.
ared advisable, through fear that a
,tiffened Joint might result, The
eg was placed in a plaster cast by {
he attending surgeon, In the hope s
hat if the joint is kept inactive for i
. time the growth may be ab.
iorbed, s