East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-09-10
Nine Blocks to Be Paved
This Fall; Business Good,
Many Farmers Liquidate.
BY ]. s. HARVEY.

: and old fashiored in a lot of way
and I has been quite true. Cur tow
lis old, quite lot older than Pendle
buildings and old ways Of living for
long while; but majority of ug hav
made UP our minds that we will llav
the good things of life and stay righ
here to enjoy them. The city ha
started program of building by let
ting the contract for some PAWN
which will do us all kinds Of good
land before long predict that gre;l
many Of our old buildings will Civ
way to modern new homes and tina
within the next five years, we'lI b,
fdressed up in altogether differen
clothes from the ones we're wearing
now"
When Claud Barr secretary Of the
county federation of commercial or
CARNATIONS, and were here yester-
day, we heard nothing from the eight
or ten men with whom we talked that
seemed to me to express the real spirit
I, of this town and the people who live
here any better than the foregoing re-
mark from c. d. Avery, city recorder.
Mr.. Avery isn't the sort Of man from
whom one would expect any "airs or
pretensions," If the impressions Of a
stranger are worth consider. ng, and
he seemed to hit the nail on the head
as to the heart of Weston.
Have Ambitious Program.
! From the city recorder and from
Mayor Nelson H Jones we heard OF
some of the constructive things that
weston plans tofdo and in already do
ling.
i The contract. or rather. two con-
tracts with the Warren Construction
Co, have already been let for paving
work which will cost the city about
$4,000 in round numbers. Bitulithic
paving viii be laid on Water street by
widening the state highway from 16
to 80 feet and adding concrete cutters
and curbing. The state highway will
be done on length of seven blocks.
Two blocks on Main street will also be
paved, and then, one-half block on
Franklin street will be improved. In.
addition to this. the present wooden
bridge over the creek on Main street
will be torn out and replaced with a
reinforced concrete structure. With
blocks of pavement to the streets of
the city. Weston expects to keep the
mud off of her feet this winter very
nicely because work on the contracts
viii start as quickly as possible, ac-
eording to the assurance which has
been given the city council by Pat
Lcnergan.
Improve Water System.
The water system is being improved
some every year. and during 1921,
about $4,000 has been spent in replac-
ing old wooden pipe with modern
steel pipe. Until recently, the town
has suffered from shortage of water
in the dry months which has been
barrier to the keeping of attractive
lawns but the construction of the res
ervoir on Pine Creek has changed this
according to MIR. Avery. The water is
piped distance of about three miles,
and during the months of summer
when the creek bed is dry, the water
is filtered through bed of gravel
which makes the supply unexcelled.
the city recorder declares.
1t is interesting to at least one Pen
dletcnian to hear of some trouble that
Weston has encountered. which is
common to Pendleton and to many
another town in Oregon. The levy
possible under the original charter of
the town was 1e mills and as Mayor
Jones said, with the income derived
from such low levy. all the city
council could do was to meet. inspect
bills. and if they We're not too high,
then htey could be paid
"But there was mighty little left
over to do any of the things here that
are needed to be done" ne said, $50 we
started movement to Increase the
levy, and as u result of our recent elec-l
ton. we now have limit of S5 mills.
The proposition carried by big mar
gin, so we can have the money to ac-
complish things which before we
would have been powerless 10 do"
City of Many Churches.
The population of Weston is about
500, and in proportion to its popula-
ton. believe the town has more
churches than any other municipality
lin Umat,lla county. Ed Wood, asso-
ciated with his brother, Clark Wood
one of the pioneer newspaper men in
Eastern oregon. in the publication of
the Weston Leader said he thought
there was six here. He named them
over and count showed that he had
designated seven.
"By gosh. l guess maybe YOU had
better ask somebody else about the
churches" said Ed. I'm not as well
posted on that matter as | ought to
be"
The Episcopal. Baptist. United
Brethren. Methodist. Dunkard and
Christian Science churches have build
ings and congregations here.