The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-08-01
BREvITIES

with Jones a. Jones.
The Ladies' Guild will meet
Thursday afternoon. August z. with
Mrs. Lillian Frcdericks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Thompson Of
Gibbon were visiting Sunday and
Monday at the ]. =. Jones resi-
dencc.
DO you want 10 increase your
mileage on gas and power Of your
machine by 20 percent II so. see
A. w. Lundcll.
n. G. Gettings. upland pioneer.
was IN town the other day and had
the honor Of meeting and greeting
Weston's leading journalist.
Mrs. Robert Pardew Of Fox Park,
Wyoming. and Mrs. y. M. Godfrey
Of orofno. Idaho, have been visit
ing their father. Porter Graham
Senior.
Private Leo Read landed July %
In Newport News. Virginia. after
serving IL months overseas in the
artillery. He Is expected 10 reach
Weston within a few days.
Having had his foot jammed
harshly against piece Of railroad
steel, Marion Dixon Is limping
around. He has temporarily sew
cred his connection with the o-W.
track department.
The following rates, which took
effect July 70, now apply on local
residence telephones: Individual
line S2.25, two-party line $500.
four-party line sl.75. The raise is
25 cents in each instance.
l.. L. Mann was In town Monday
from Pcndleton. Replying 10 In.
quiries from our crop reporter, Mr..
Mann said his yield Is exceeding ex.
pectations from his holdings south
and east Of Adams. II Is running
from 50 TO 3s bushels per acre.
w. NJ. Davis, whose farm resi-
dence was destroyed last week by
fire, has leased the brick residence
on north Water street now held by
Capt. c. II. Smith. The house will
be occupied by Mr.. Davis and fam
lily so soon as vacated by the pres
ent tenants.
AT the head Of Gcer Springs.
which for the past year or two has
been showing the pace to the rest
of the county, remarkable yield /,
Of wheat for this season is reported. 4
Parts Of the Thompson and Martin
holdings are said TO have yielded an
average Of so bushels per acre.
Having often wished to take part
ia one Of Weston's harvests. II. l..
Hedrick did not find himself foot
loose until this season. Letting life
insurance go for the nonce. he is
serving as header tender with the
John Banister combine. Mean
while, Mrs. Hedrick and children
are rusticating at Meacham.
Jasper 0'Harra was here from
Central Point, Oregon. during the
week, visiting his Weston brothers.
He went from here to Lehman
Springs to see his brother Frank,
and expects 20 take the latter with
him when he returns to southern
Oregon. He will remain in this
county until after the Round Up.
A. L. Swaggart. who has long
been prominently identified with
the pork industry, was in town the
other day from Athena. He looked
frightened, and admitted that he is.
He feared, he said, that the gov /,
ernment would not stop at the big
five" in its Investigation of the I
meat trust, but would reach out and {
gather him into its dragnet.
A. w. Lundell Of this city has
extended the real estate end of his
business by taking over the real es-
tate department Of Joe Kerley's es- :
tablishment at Pendleton. Mr..
Kerley will continue to handle the
insurance and grain buying end. i
Mr.. Lundell expects to spend about I
half his time in Pendleton, devot- :
ing the remainder to his Weston d
business.
Sergeant August Maugg and Ser p
geant Dennis Howard were here a
and Sunday while return h
ing home from overseas to Grange
vile, Idaho. These Idaho boys I
at the same time and serv. :,
ed at st. Nazaire, France, with J,
Blomgren, Kennard and
Kirkpatrick of Weston. They stop
ped here to visit Blomgren and a
Kennard, and the quartet had a p
Jolly good time together, t