The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-07-12
BREvITIES

See A. Phillips. state agent, TOT
Dayton carburct0rs.
Allan Garnett left this week for
Portland, where he expects TO fol.
low his trade.
Miss Eugene Scholl, who IL
studying for the nursing profession
at The Dallcs. Is guest Of Mrs. IL.
l.. Hedrick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hilyard OF
The Dallcs are visiting at the home
Of Mrs. Hilyard's mother, Mrs. a.
A. Kecs. In this city.
A meeting Of representatives OF
Oregon towns interested In the nor.
NAL school bill was held yesterday
at the Hotel Portland.
The Misses Zilla and Edra Simp-
ron are guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
II. Price. having returned with
them from WElla Walla.
straycd- sccrrel mare 4 years old,
weight 400. with sucking colt;
also brown mule. weight 100,
branded d. Reward. j. M. Ban
ister.
The Twelfth Balloon Company.
in which Earl Olsen is serving as
sergeant. has been ordered TO
France from Camp Morrison, Vir-
ginia.
w. N. Oliver writes the Leader
from Reed Point. Montana, that
prospects for a grain crop are bet
ter than average in that locality,
although the need Of rain is felt.
]. A. Ross was in town Wednes-
day from his Pilot Rock farm.
His place is in the foothills and
the prospects indicate a good yield
Of fall-sown wheat. He begins har-
vcsting next week.
Harry Beathe was nearly struck
by lightning somewhere in the
Blues last Tuesday. II seems the
thunderbolt grew discouraged when
il found what il was up against,
and veered off into the timber.
Lloyd Couch. who spent his boy
hood in Weston, visited here few
days ago In company with his bride,
an Enterprise girl. They will make
their home in Enterprise. where
the bridegroom is engaged in gar
age work.
The wedding Of Miss Ferol Nc.
Bride and Mr.. c. T.. Clark of Seat
tie was solemnized June 26. 1918,
nj Seattle. The bride is former
Weston girl, and has many friends
in this city, where she attended
high school.
l.. w. Hodges, the electric light
man." trimmed number of Wes-
tons shade trees this week in order
10 make room for the wires, and
considers himself rather fortunate
that he personally did not get trim
med in the process.
Dorothy, the little daughter of
Mrs. Mark Henderson, Is i'll with
smallpox at her home in the up
lands, and the hounsehold is under
quarantine. The case is mild
one, and the young patient is al
ready out Of danger.
A new pumping plant, to be OPP
Grated by electric power, will be }
installed by the city at the station
above town. to be used during the }
dry season in connection with the (
gravity system. Orders to quit ir-
rigating will be issued tomorrow.
Carl Roe, former newspaper man
and now district manager of the Q
Kerr-Gifford Co., was In town Tues h
day from Walla Walla. Frank d
Price says that Mr.. Roe has gone up v
in the world, but the Leader man
permits himself few doubts on S
the subject. I
Jack Chaplin brought in this !,
week sample of spring sown bar .
ley grown on potato ground, that y
rather puts crimp into the theory 7
that spuds are due to cut down an \
ensuing grain crop. The heads are =
well filled, and the yield is various :
" prophesied at from 80 to so +
bushels per acre.
After a brief furlough spent r
with parents and friends, Lowell i
Hyatt left Saturday for New York y
City to resume his duties as naval n
fireman. He hopes to be assigned i
to a destroyer and to hunt instead q
of being hunted by the Hun U j,