The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1919-07-11
BREvITIES

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Mrs. Mary y. Reeves.
Walter Bcamer left yesterday on
his return 10 the Cameron ranch
near Nobleford. Alberta.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. II. Price motorcd
Tuesday 20 Bingham Springs for
few days Of camping and fishing.
Second-growth dry cordwood. fir
and tamarack. banked out in coun-
ty road, at $500 per cord. Carl
Brutscher.
Services will be held Sunday AT
3 p. m. at the Episcopal church In
this city by Rev. Alfred Lockwood
Of pendleton.
Mrs. II. r. Smith is reported 10
be improving, after submitting at
Walla Walla TO an operation for the
removal Of a tumor.
Captain c, II. Smith sailed recent
ly from Europe, and spent the
Fourth Of July on the broad ATTAIN
tic, bound for home.
Thieves broke the lock TO Frank
Saling's garage in Pendleton Mon
day night and drove Oft with his
Buick Six touring car.
Mrs. Florence Emerson and her
nephew, Roy Erb. who is just
out Of army service, are visiting
here from Greer, Idaho.
Reports from the Pilot Rock !
neighborhood say that the crop will
be very light this year. Only the
best wheat will make twelve or fif-
teen bushels per acre.
M. c. Eagleton and family have
moved TO the garden tract belong
ing TO the II. Key estate, on Pine
creek below town. which they have
leased for a term Of years.
Jack Citizens drove over from
Walla WaIla the other day in his
homemade car. He picked the !.
parts out OF a junkpile and put
them together making quite a
nifty little bug"
The family half Of Weston'S new
hardware firm arrived recently
from Spokane. and are now COM
fortably domiciled in the +. G. Rog-
crs residenc ON Water street. They
are Mrs. r. ". Jones and Mrs. Mel
son II. Jones and two children,
Maynard and Audrey.
A party consisting of Mrs. J.. II.
Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. II. Good
win and Mrs. K. G. Sailing motorcd
Tuesday TO Pendleton 10 attend the
Chautauqua. Mr.. r. +. Milard.
fiutist on the Chautauqua circuit,
returned with the party and was the
guest overnight Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Goodwin.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Ross are well
coined back to Weston by their
many friends In this community.
having decided TO again make this
their home. MIR. Ross has disposed
Of his land and leases in the Pilot
Rock neighborhood, where he has
been successfully engaged in farm
ing. He also sold his entire outfit
with the exception Of a few work
horses.
David Cook Sanderson, editor Of
the Freewater Times, was found
dead In his bed from heart trouble
In Portland hotel, yesterday. Mr..
Sanderson was born In England 6S
years ago, and for rs years was
Methodist minister in Canada. Up
on taking charge of the Times ten
or more years ago, he became one
Of the most successful country pub
fishers in this section.
The Milton Eagle relates what is
considered a miraculous escape for
the Owen 0bert family when their
Overland car turned over on a steep
grade on the north fork of the Wal
la Walla river and rolled to the bot
tom, d distance of several feet.
Mrs. Obert suffered dislocated
shoulder and a broken collar bone,
while Mr.. 0bert and the two child
rem sustained only minor bruises.
Bert Piersol, for several years a
we'll known upland farmer, has
moved to Vale, Malheur county,
where he bought the Jinks Taylor
alfalfa farm of 800 acres. Eighty
acres Of the place Is In alfalfa and
the remainder Is pasture. Mr.. Pier
sol took over a herd Of dairy cows
with the place and viii engage
largely in dairy farming. He char.
tered a car for his household goods
and is driving his farm stock over.
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