The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-01-17
BREvITIES

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Sec me for alfalfa hay, egg mash.
poultry foods or calf meal. Hodgson
the Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Mccormick
Of PendlctOn were guests Sunday 0f
the Richard Morrisons.
Several small lots OF barley were
bought lately by Joe HodgSon for
his Weston mills at $4S the ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Read are the
parents Of a little daughter at the
X. W. Brown farm near lone, Or
cgon.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Wroe left for Walla
Walla Tuesday afternoon TO attend
her sister, who is III at st. Mary's
hospital.
The Umatilla County Patriotic
Service League has passed resclu-
tions urging employers throughout
the county 10 give back their for
mcr jobs 10 returning soldiers.
Mrs. Clarence Wright Is III with
pneumonia following influenza at
Athena. where she has been visit
ing relatives. Both her children
have recovered from an attack Of
the epidemic.
Dick Powers writes these cheer
ing words from Synarep, Wash:
I'VE decided that we couldn't
get along without the Leader. and
enclose two dollars for another
year Of good reading"
With more or less resignation
w. L. Rayborn Is going back TO his
upland farm today TO bach, and will
try his best to get along with the
cook. His sons are coming to town
% resume their studies.
With J. W. Maloney as president
and c. +. Wales. late Of Sand
Point, Idaho, as cashier. the Inland
Empire Bank will be ready for bus
iness about March LIST in Pendleton
with a capital Of a quarter Of a
Jimmie Read was attacked with
Spanish influenza while working in
the shipyards in Portland. and has
been a patient in Good Samaritan
hospital. While in a serious condi.
tion for q time, he is now reported
TO be recovering.
Ruford Price was in town for
few days this week after visit
with relatives on Weston mountain
and the Umatilla river. He leaves
for New York City to re-
port for duty again aboard the u.
5. S. Wyoming, which has been in
irydock there.
Lost-Red and white spotted
nuley COW. both ears cropped, cir
lie clcaver on right hip, accompan-
ed by red and white spotted calf:
also g-months calf, branded circle l.
IN left side, one ear cropped, other
'plit; color red and white. Reward.
leave word at Leader Office.
Lieutenant Curran McFadden ar
lived home from overseas yesterday
lfter serving more than year in
france. He was met in Pendleton
" his wife and her father, Mayor
/. NJ. Banister, and brought to
Weston by auto. Lieutenant Nc
'adden is the first Weston soldier
Who saw service overseas to return
Iome.
Postmaster Van Winkle has been
otified by Milton A. Miller, coli
ector of internal revenue for Ore
,on, that forms for income tax re-
urns cannot be sent out until the
ew revenue bill now pending in
congress becomes a law. He wish
S this fact made known to relieve
he minds of such income taxpayers
5 may be growing anxious.
Several Of Weston's water mains
lere frozen during the recent
cold spell" and are now leaking
nd bursting, so that Superintend-
Mt Fred DuPuis has his work cut
ut for him. 1t was the prolonged
tretch Of frigidity that did the
usiness, as four above zero was
ne coldest temperature recorded
nd the water mains have hitherto
'ithstood much zero weather with
ut freezing. Moreover. they had
D covering Of snow to protect
lem. Superintendent DuPuis has
,und the ground to be frozen to
depth of Is inches.
Mrs. Homer |. Watts, prominent |
thena woman, passed away Sat-
rday at midnight, much to the sor-
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