The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-07-26
BREvITIES

Fresh milch COW and calf for
sale. J. 4. Jones.
See A. Phillips. state agent, for
Dayton carburct0rs.
J. M. Banistcr's wheat is reported
10 be yielding between 80 and 30
bushels per acre.
Lester o'Harra and J. w. Porter
are quietly "yacationing" this week
at Camp McDougal.
Monroe Turner. a former Wes.
ton boy. Is now in the army. and
is under training at Camp Lewis.
For Sale-At the bargain price
Of $f75. one Case automobile in
good condition equipped for roust-
about work. II. l.. Hedrick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Len Douglas. for.
merly OF Weston, arrived from
Portland Tuesday morning for
visit with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Della VIM and family have
gone 10 Garfield. Wash. for a visit
with relatives. and may also go to
Camp Lewis. Miss Odessa Kirkpat-
rick accompanies them.
A boy weighing nine and onc-half
pounds was recently born 10 Mr..
and Mrs. II. J. Driskell at the
home Of Mrs. Driskell's parcntSr.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. l.. Smock.
Miss Eliza Morrison has returned
10 her department in the store of
the Weston Mercantile Co.. after
pleasant vacation visit TO Van
rcouver, Seattle and other Sound
cities.
The self-propelled combine Of
Mrs. z. C. Price & Sons has been
working this week on the c. M.
Price place, where the wheat is
thought TO be going about 40 bush
els TO the acre.
A new electric motor with the
power Of ten horses has been in
stalled in the upper part of the
Weston Warehouse Co.'S elevator
here 10 increase the lifting capac-
ity. II replaces a fve-horse motor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Martin OF
Bremerton. Wash, are here for a
vacation visit at the home Of Mrs.
Martins father, Mr.. L. Nolte.
They will also have an outing at
Bingham Springs before their re-
turn 10 Bremerton, where both are
employed in government work.
A report is in circulation. accord
ing to the Alfalfa News-Tribune,
that Cecil Britten. who so myster-
iously disappeared near Toll Gate
about thirteen years ago, has been
located as an enlisted soldier at
Camp Lewis. His mother, residing
ut Soap Lake, has been notified.
1.-THE ship on which | sailed ar
rived safely last Friday at its des-
tination," is the good news receiv-
ed in telegram yesterday by Mrs.
c. II. Smith from her husband,
Lieutenant Smith. II is supposed
this means that the doctor has
reached France with the contingent
from Camp Lewis, but no details
are-given.
The large stationary outfit of
Key, Booher & Johnson--which is
among the most complete and sue.
cessful in the Inland Empire
been threshing on the home places
of j. H. Key and Alick Johnson.
Mr.. Keys wheat weighed out AZ
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Johnson's
fall wheat is estimated to have
made a similar average.
Linus Anderson has been doing
extra good work with his new Nc
Cormick combine at the Link Swag-
gart place near Athena, where he
Is reported to have cut % acres I
daily. Frank Berlin has been
threshing 800 sacks daily on steep
ground with one of these nifty
little machines. Mr.. Berlin's wheat ,
Is reported to be turning out S5
bushels to the acre. as is also Zeph {
Lockwood's.
Virgil Lundell left Wednesday ;
for Walla Walla, where he will be ,,
employed in the Gardner store. In
Weston loses and Walla
Walla gains good band man. He
will become member Of the Elks'
band at Walla Walla, which 1t is {
expected will soon be enrolled as a
national guard organization. Vir- {