The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-08-02
BREVITIES!

II. Eas GSihus
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Wheeler
were up Saturday from Pendleton.
Mrs. l.. Dawson of Elgin, Ore
gon, has been the guest for a few
days at the home Of her cousin,
Mrs. Della Winn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cole were
here from Pcndleton Wednesday,
attending the funeral of Mr.. Coles
uncle. the late o. T. Douglas.
]. A. Lieuallen came up Sunday
from Heppner to visit his son Earl,
prior to the latter's departure from
walla Walla to join the National
Army.
Corporal James Kirkpatrick, one
of the Weston soldiers serving in
France, writes home that he would
rather read the Weston Leader than
the New York Herald.
F. C. Greer is operating his COM
bined harvester in the Helix neigh
borhood on the farm of his sister,
Mrs. Minnie Walker. Mrs. Walk
er's wheat is yielding better than
so bushels.
Merritt A. Baker has returned
to his home in Weston after an alb
sence of ten months, during most
of which time he was an honored
guest at the home of his son Gill
bert in Salt Lake City.
The first shipment of new wheat
from the Weston neighborhood
went out Friday and Saturday
from the Weston Warehouse Co.'S
elevator. II weighed No. l in
grade, and wss billed to The Dalles
and Seattle.
After a visit at his former
stamping ground" in Weston,
where he was the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. H. Nelson. ]. H. McFar-
land left Sunday for Buhl, Idaho.
He win spend some time there on
the irrigated farm of Henry Du-
ran, prior to his return to Eugene.
w. A Graham has gone to Marsh
field, Oregon, where Mrs. Graham
Is visiting at the home of their son,
Herman. He expects to engage in
carpenter work there during the
remainder of the summer and fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham will probably
return to their home in Weston to
reside during the winter months.
Grasshoppers, which have been
such pestiferous and numerous up
land visitors this season, have near
ly destroyed the crop Of Walter Gil
more. Ground which he was at
much labor in planting was swept
almost as bare as floor. Walter
had short crop last year, too, and
thinks it's about time he was look
ing for rabbits foot.
Newt 0'Harra is driving an El-
gin SIX with considerable pride and
pleasure, and is inclined to think
that luck has begun breaking his
way. He won the car at prize
drawing put on by the Home Guard
of Freewater for the benefit of the
Red Cross. Numbers were sold at
one dollar each, and Newt happen
ed to buy and hold the lucky one.
J. W. Fehr and family have
moved TO the Weston neighborhood
from the Grande Ronde valley to
make their home, and will reside
on little Dry creek. Mr.. Fehr has
identified himself with Weston's
agricultural activities as a member
of George Otis crew. He is a
brother Of E. w. Fehr of Pendle-
ton, who came up Sunday to visit
him.
George Phillips was in town yes.
terday from Freewater. George
Is a bit inclined to congratulate his
brother Fred and and himself that
they resisted the temptation to
seed their 800 acres of summer
fallow in the Oregon hills to barley
last spring. They would hardly
have raised enough barley to feed
the jackrabbits. while as it is the
ground Is in fine shape TO put into
wheat this fall.
Sidney Murphy is now flying
with an instructor over Mather's
aviation field in California. Begin
ming July %, he goes up an hour
each day for eight days with the
teacher, and after that will be sent
up alone. Sidney had eight weeks
Of aerial school work before be-
ing put to the crucial test in a
in which SO many students
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