The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-02-07
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For Sale-Six young mules. broke
to work. Charles Belts, phone so
Fl3. Athena.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Culley
have returned to the Culley farm
from Walla Walla.
Bring us your poultry II you
want to exchange il for cash at the
highest price. Weston Market.
M. A. Baker has gone TO the
Adams neighborhood 10 do some in
terror work at the farm residence
of Carl Mcconnell.
Miss Florence Simmons gave an
enjoyable party at her apartments
Saturday evening in farewell to
Miss Lora Gaylord.
]. F. Slower Of Freewater and
son. Lieutenant Clark Slower, who
served in the aviation branch Of
the United States army.
Miss Lora Gaylord, niece of DIR.
and Mrs. F. d. Watts. is leaving to-
morrow on her return home to
Williamson, Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Mortamer,
formerly of Weston, are here from
Echo for a visit with MIR. Bassett,
the father of Mrs. Mortamer.
CLYDE Stages of Milton and
George Phillips of Freewater were
in the city Sunday attending the
funeral of the late Charles McLain.
BY order Of the city council all
water rent must be paid by the
10th of each month or the supply
will be cut off at the main. F. G.
DuPuis. superintendent.
Following closely upon the heels
of Rulon Smith, Virgil Lundell has
gone to Pendleton to accept en-
ployment. Damon and Pythias were
as total strangers compared to these
two popular young men.
Clarond Rhea is sick with influ-
neza at Endicott, Wash, where he
was lately engaged in trapping.
His neighbors on the uplands car
ried out a little wood-cutting bee
for the benefit of his family.
Private Ray Taylor, a soldier
from Richland, Oregon, who was
reported as missing in the casualty
list, has been heard from and is
alive and well. Private Taylor is
brother of Mrs. r. Morrison of
this city.
Fred j. johnson Of Astoria,
grand chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias for Oregon, visited the To-
cal lodge Wednesday evening and
inspired its members with an ad-
dress along the lines Of fraternity
and progress. The local lodge is
confidently expected to grow as the
result of his visit
George Trede has sold his Dry
creek holdings, LA acres, to L.
Bussell of Milton for S7250. Some
cattle, horses, hogs. hay and farm
machinery were included. Twenty
acres Of the place is in alfalfa,
ten acres in garden and the remain
der is pasture land. Mr.. Bussell
and family will take immediate pos
session.
Charles McLain, pioneer resi-
dent Of this part Of the county,
died Friday evening Of asthma at
his home in Athena. Mr.. McLain
was Sc years old and is survived by
his widow and three sons, Sidney
James and William McLain. The
remains were brought to Weston
Sunday for burial in the I. O. o. r.
cemetery here.
Floyd Fox and Clarond Rhea, the
mountain trappers, received total
of $395.90 for 80 coyote hides.
This sum included the bounty Of
GA each for Is females and SO
each for II male coyotes, the bal
ance coming from a Chicago fur
house. For two weeks of their
trapping they earned at the rate Of
So per day apiece.
Athena Press: Dutch" McPher-
rim has returned from Seattle,
where he was forced to give up his
job in the ship building yards on
account of the strike. He says he
was in a position to lay by $50 per
month, which he considers a fair
margin of profit for his labor, when
the strike shut him out. Conse-
Dutch" does not feel
very kindly toward strikes.
A farewell party was given Sum
day evening to Tom Eagleton, sailor
boy, by his cousin, Miss Maxine
Scrimsher, at the j. E. Scrimsher