The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-12-06
BREvITIES

Ten acres timber near Blue
Mountain sawmill for sale. i. ID.
Watts.
am compelled Ia conduct my
business on a cash basis only. Joe
Hodgson, the miller.
Let us change tires and you may
take that dandy Ford roadster at
500 less. Watts a. Rogers.
Mrs. l.. II. Dowd was called 10
McMinnvilc Wednesday morning
by the illness Of her daughter
Margaret.
Stevens Lodge No. 10. Knights Of
Pythias. will hold election Of Off.
GERS next Wednesday evening. and
IA full attendance Is desired.
The residence Of Mayor II. ].
Watts Of Athena was raided Wed
nesday by county and government
officers and more than l25 quarts
Of liquor seized.
=. A. Mcbride and Mrs. 7. l..
Mcbride are influenza patients at
the Mcbride Bros. farm south OF
town. but the condition Of neither
is regarded as serious.
2. Harbour and Clark Wood
are leaving Sunday for Portland to
attend the Pythian grand lodge un-
less the flu lid is again clamped
down on orcgon's metropolis.
OF the Weston young men en-
rolled in the s. A. 7. G. at Coryal-
lis. Leon Lundell is serving as first
sergeant Of Company c, and Virgil
Lundel Is an orderly sergeant.
II Is reported that H. F. Alder
man has bought the Ben Walden
fruit and truck farm on Dry creek.
Bert Boylen, who has been occupy
ing the place, has moved with his
family to the Sam Phillips farm.
Mrs. A. P. Couch and three chill
dren have returned to Wallula. af.
ter q three weeks siege of infu-
enza at the home Of her parents
here. All three children were
afflicted, and were successfully at
tended by DR.. Mckinney.
The bear that has been making
It's home in the Will Burkhardt or
chard and living on apples met
death last week. 1t was treed by
the bear dogs Of Henry Sans and
brought down by shots from Carl
Brutscher's and Mr.. Sans rifles.
The first Weston soldier reported
In the casualty list TO have been
killed in action was Robert Brack-
en-. whose name was published Sat-
urday. Private Bracken was a
brother Of Mrs. Charles Marsh
all, who Is now residing at Stan.
field, Oregon.
Miss Wavel 0'Harra and Miss
Hazel Duncan are both i'll with
Spanish influenza at the home of
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Iven
O'Harra, south Of town. Miss
Duncan was attacked with the dis
ease upon going home from high
school last Friday evening, but so
far as yet reported no other high
school students are afflicted.
While Braden Gerking and John.
ny Rothrock were indulging recent-
ly in the time-honored pastime of
painting Athena red, young Roth
rock was shot in the foot by Coun-
Gilman N. A. Miller. who attempt /
ed his arrest. Several men were
required to overpower Gerking
and land him in Jail. Both young
men were mounted and riding reck- !
lessly.
Mrs. George Waddingham and
FIVE children have been III with in |
fluenza at their home In Walla
Walla, and Mrs. Della Marsh. sister I
Of Mrs. Waddingham, was seized {
with the disease after going over to
attend them. Some of the patients
are In quite a serious condition,
their illness having been aggravated ,
by exposure during a fire in the !
household caused by a defective {
fiue. |
Mrs. Sabina Morton has leased !
her farm holdings for a term of !
four years to Tilgman Beckner and ,
leaves shortly for Washington, D. !
c., to visit her sister, Mrs. Miles !
poindexter. wife of Senator Poin- ,
dexter. She will afterward go to J
Europe to follow relief work in ,
Belgium and France. Mr.. Beckner, !
lessee of the Morton farm, came :
from West Virginia about two !
years ago. and had since been asso- :,
ciated with E, A. Dudley In farm /
work.
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