The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-11-22
BREvITIES

Two desk telephones 10 sell or
trade. Inquire at this Office.
Mn. j. o. Wood Of North Yak
lima, Wash. Is visiting her mother.
Mrs. Susan Tucker.
Accompanied by Mrs. Watts. DR..
+. ID. Watts left Tuesday on a busi.
nc@ "Trip 10 Portland.
Mrs. Cora Simpson Of Walla
Walla was a guest during the week
Of her sister. Mrs. J. II. Pirce.
School was resumed last week In
district No. II on the Wild Horse.
where Mrs. Edith frakcr is teach
ing.
A daughter was born Friday ev-
dining 10 Mr.. and Mrs. Claud Price,
at the Price homestead north Of
town.
Mrs. X. G. Sailing and Miss Lois
Sailing motofed Saturday 10 Waits.
burg, where they were Sunday
guests Of the J. +. Kershaws.
Joe Hodgson is now n miller.
having gone to work at the plant
Of the Weston Milling Co.. which
he acquired in a deal with W. l..
Robbins.
\ Henry Dowd has been III with
influenza at Whitman College,
where he enlisted in the S. A. T. C..
Favorable reports are heard as TO
his condition.
Walter Milton Is taking his por.
table fuel factor 10 the Umatilla
river, where he will be employed
this winter in saving forty acres Of
hver timber for Raymond Badgett
near Mission.
John L. Beam. formerly Of Wes-
ton, has brought suit against Nellie
w. Beam for divorce. alleging that
she deserted him in September Of
last year. They were married in
Albany, Oregon, in 1900.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis II. Geiss and
their two children were taken to
the Pendleton hospital Monday
from their farm. All are suffering
from the "ilu." Mr.. 'Geiss being in
the most serious condition,
The Andy Barnett stock of gro
ceries was taken In charge this
week by w. II. Gould. trustee in
bankruptcy. The appraisers, who
went over the stock Wednesday,
are L. c. Rogers, Frank Price and
Lester 0'Harra.
The mountain harvest this year
was not really finished until last
Monday, when q small patch Of
grain was threshed at the Ernest
March place. This is said to be
the latest threshing ever done in
the mountain country.
Several cases of Spanish influenza
have appeared at Athena, which
hitherto has been free from the epi-
demic. Among the households af-
flicted are those of Arnold Wood,
John Stanton and Edgar Forrest.
School had been reopened at Ath-
ena, only 10 be closed again.
The Weston schools, closed for
some time because Of the "fu,"
will be opened again next Monday.
kilograms have been sent to all
teachers who were absent during
the enforced vacation, asking them
TO return. All local influenza pa
tients are getting better, and no
new cases are reported.
The potato crop planted last
spring with such joyous confidence
by Bob Hodgson and Leon Lundell
was harvested this week. These
young men put in ten acres of
mountain ground, and II hungry
cows hadn't broken into their patch
and feasted on the spuds their re-
turns would have been gratifying.
As it Is, the crop exceeded expec-
tations, not more than a third of it
having been destroyed, when it
looked like a total loss.
After finishing his seeding, Sim
]. Culley has put his "cat" and
teams to work In plowing summer
fallow. He is plowing to a depth
Of nine inches or more in order 10
get under and break up the sole
leather crust formed by constant
summer following at an almost
uniform depth. The process is
quite difficult, and only eight or
nine bottoms can be hauled by the
"cat," when ordinarily twelve are
used. The plan is experimental in
o measure, and only a limited acre
age will be so treated.
While the new Food Administra.
tion ruling which permits of the
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