The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-12-20
BREVITIES

Mrs. j. II. Key has been quite
i'll during the past week.
Ten acres timber near Blue
Mountain sawmilI for sale, j. d.
Watts.
Four young work horses and one
saddler for sale. See Newt O'Har'
ra. Weston, Or.
Corporal j. V. Stephens Of Pilot
Rock was reported in yesterdays
casualty list as having been killed
in action.
Constance Hyatt Of Weston Is
among the sixteen teachers who
are taking the examination this
week at Pendleton.
Lost On Weston mountain road,
one saddle, initiated ID. X. s. and
contained In gunny sack. j. M.
Wroe. phone l6Fl4. ...
Mrs. l.. II. Dowd returned We'd
nesday from McMinnville. where
she has been nursing her daughters
through the influenza.
Postmaster Van Winklc is wear
ing the smile that won't come
Oft" as the Yuletide draws nearer.
He thoroughly enjoys playing the
role Of first assistant to Santa
Claus.
Bert Ferguson, "A popular young
man Of the uplands who was lately
in the army at Camp Lewis, was
united In marriage TO the girl of
his choice while on his recent visit
10 Iowa.
In the recent Red Cross member
ship drive Normal Heights terri
tory was covered by Miss Doris
Barnes and Mrs. Herman Goodwin.
They report hearty cooperation
in the work from the homes visited.
George Schnitzer is back from
Seattle, and commends it warmly as
a busy burg. Everybody. young
and old, is working, he says. He
was compelled to leave his own
job and return because Of an in
jured hand.
Ernest Ross secured a Red Cross
membership for himself and wife
and each Of their three little gilrs.
This Is n fine example, worthy Of
emulation" says the Red Cross
worker who enrolled the Ross
family. -...
Herman Stages and Frank Law
ender arrived home yesterday from
Corvallis. where they were enrolled
In the S. A. T. c. The other Wes-
ton boys who were in the same or
ganization are expected home In q
few days.
]. A. Stolp, formerly of Weston,
has ordered the address of his Lead
er changed from Worley. Idaho, to
Rockford, Wash. Mr.. Stolp has
leased 4s0 acres of land seven miles
southeast of Rockford, and writes
that plenty Of rain has fallen there
Winter wheat is looking fine, he
says.
The Rocky Ford vicinity above
town is being visited these days by
numbers of Weston folk who are
eagerly gathering Christmas green
cry and Telling shapely trees, They
say Il is certainly privilege TO
have woods so close to town from
which such beautiful decorations
can be secured.
A quartet of kindly-disposed
Weston ladies assembled recently at
the home of Mrs, Mary Licuallen
and made two quilts for Mrs. Dan
Sewers, who has influenza in her
household. The quilting party In
cluded Mrs. Hattie Wilsey, Mrs.
Ella Lavender, Mrs, Grace Lieuallen
and Mrs. Mary Lieuallen.
Crop conditions are reported as
very favorable in the Weston coun-
try, following an almost ideal seed
ing. Winter wheat is looking well,
although not so far advanced here
as is usual at this season. Decem-
Der outlook for fall-sown wheat is
reported to be 100 percent in uma-
tilla county. The state acreage is
the largest on record, being $685..
900 acres.
Mrs. ]. w. Jones Of Missoula,
Montana, Is visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w, H. Beathe, Flu
conditions In Montana are reported
by Mrs. Jones to be quite desper-
ate, entire families being wiped out
in some instances. She herself
nursed the railroad construction
crew of Mr.. Jones through a siege
of the epidemic. There were twelve
patients quarantined in three box
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