The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-06-27
BREVITIES

beAh"H'f FffNS ses'NNN'
See J. II. Mcdaniel for bargain
in 40 acres Of timber land.
Joe Wurzcr returned from a re-
cent fishing trip 10 the Umatills
river. with a l5A-inch trout.
Miss Gladys Smith is enjoying q
two weeks vacation visit with hei
sister and brother at Nampa. Idaho,
Miss Artie Hart OF Walla Walls
Is visiting at the home Of her un'
Gle and aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. h. T..
Tucker.
0tho Reeder OF Athena has
bought Chandler touring tour
from Geo. Shields, agent for this
territory.
Mrs. j. II. Jones motored 10 Wal
Ia Walla Saturday with +. j. Jack
son and family Of Gerking Flat TO
attend camp meeting.
The contract for furnishing coal
10 the Weston school district was
awarded by the board TO Z. 7. Har-
bour. The wood contract went TO
DR.. +. d. Watts.
The mountain grasShopper fight
crs received a lot Of poison mash
Saturday Paris green being the
principal ingredient. They prompt
ly put II out, and IL is said TO be
making a killing.
c. d. Gabrielson Of Salem "A
celebrated Oregon cartoonist who
handles fire insurance as a side issue
lately rambled through Weston,
stopping TO call on the local agents.
"Gabe's" visits here are all too
seldom.
Robert Withee and family Of
Walla Walla were recent guests
at the J. p. Lieuallen farm. Mrs.
Withee was formerly Weston girl,
Miss Bessie Logan. Mr.. Withee
represents the Harrington Combine
Tractor Co.
F. A. Lundell Of lone. Morrow
county, came up TO attend the we'd
ding Of his grandson. Leon Lundell.
Mr.. LundeIl has "a grandchildren,
but as this was the first one to
marry he did not feel that he could
miss the event.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Davis left
this week for three months vaca-
tion trip. They have gone to Mol
son. Washington, where their
younger son. Claud Davis, is locat-
ed. They will afterward visit j..
o. Davis and family at Echo.
J. B. Hart. now substantial
farmer near Walla Walla, was re-
cent Weston visitor. Mr.. Hart was
the guest for a time of Trajan
Tucker on Wild Horse mountain,
which he saw for the first time
although he grew up" in the
Weston country.
A party consisting of Henry,
Jasper and Fred Sans returned
Saturday from a bear hunt on the
Salmon river. They saw no less
than thirteen bear, and got two of
them. They also saw the tracks,
said to have been i6 inches long,
of a giant silvertip. They put
forth no especial effort to make this
fellows acquaintance.
William N. Oliver, now a resident
Of Reed Point, Montana, has sent
together with his Leader subscrip-
ton a donation of $500 to Memoir
ial Hall at Weston. He reports
that crops in his locality are not
looking SO good as at this time last
year. Even with plenty of rain
from now on crops will be so per-
cent short of last years yield In
White Beaver valley.
S. 7. Gore, the we'll known archi-
tect and builder of Walla Walla,
was the successful bidder among
four although not the lowest for
the Alick johnson farm residence
northwest of town, work on which
is now on progress. This beautiful
home of the johnson family will
be of the bungalow type and will
contain nine rooms. 1t will cost
complete in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
Mrs. Mary G. Gillian lost work
horse In peculiar manner at her
place In the uplands recently.
While jumping a fence the horse
was wounded in the thigh by a
snag, and ,bled to death, No team
being available to move the animal,
which rested on a rocky ledge, It
was covered with bark and burned.
This is the second horse Mrs. Gill
liam has had the misfortune to
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