The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1921-03-18
BREvITIES

Protect your wife and family In The
Bankers Reserve Life Insurance Co.
Geo. House. Weston. Ore.
Kellogg eyer.bearlng strawberry
plants at $3.50 per hundred. 9. W.
DeGraw.
Daily wire reports from the Chi.
eago wheat market. received for sew.
eral months by the Weston Ware.
house Co. at the offlce Of Manager
Frank Price. will be continued one
month longer. They inspire much
interesting conversation, which of
late has not been especially optim'
istic.
A Weston family were awakened
ut an early hour the morning Of 81.
Patrick's Day by the sound Of the
piano. They do not believe In ghosts
and the head Of the family Ii not .
Sim Feiner. but he thinks the tune
sounded something like Wearing Of
the Green" After puzzling over the
mysterious screnadc for n time be
reluctantly decided TO leave his COM
Portable bed and go into the front
room to investigate. lie found the
household kitten doing n cake walk
on the piano keys.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. W. Proebstel, sr.,
are again at Hot Lake. where Mr.
Proebstel Is receiving treatment. He
Is reported 10 be improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Adams and Mr..
aud Mrs. Emery Stages "Dodged"
20 Pendlcton Friday and took In the
auto show.
Mr. and Mrs. Il. c. Beamer and
daughter. Naomi, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jess Gordon Of Athena were dinner
guests Sunday Of Mr.. and Mrs. En-
cry Stages.
j. NJ. Wroe and family are moving
to the Ernest Haney place on Wild
Horse mountain. The farm they nre
vacating on Weston mountain viii be
occupied soon by the owner, J. 0.
Hyatt, who is returning with his
family from La Crosse. Wash.
Mrs. Smith Payne and children left
Tuesday evening on their return
home TO The Dalles. Mrs. Payne
has been visiting her mother. Mrs. i.
T, Wicker. whose serious illness con-
tinues.
=. T. Harbour has been retained as
deputy assessor for Weston district.
by Assessor X. o. Hawks. Mr. Har-
bour. who has n large amount Of ter
ritory TO cover, began his work Mon
day. DO not dodge when you see
him coming, for he will get you
anyway.
The ninc-ycar-old son Of William
Fehr has been very i'll with pcriton-
tits at the family home in the Pea
Ridge district, but is reported BY the
attending physician, DR.. Mckinney.
TO have shown this week slight
improvement. Mr.. Fehr is reported
10 be III with appendicitis. -
A baby weighing only three and
onc-half pounds was born Monday TO
Mr.. and Mrs. II. 7. French at their
home in Weston. The child died the
following day.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Williams were
pleasantly entertained ut dinner Mon
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
c. Dcarth, the occasion being a Gel
cbration of Mr.. Dcarth's birthday
anniversary.
A fire alarm turned in Tuesday
morning brought out the local fire
department and a good share Of the
towns population. A blaze was no.
ticed by Harry Beathe on the roof Of
Mayor Jones' residence, and was ap-
parently started by a spark falling
near the base Of the fiue. 1t had not
gained much headway, and was for
tunately extinguished with the aid Of
a garden hose. The damage was in
considerable.
A son was born Wednesday morn
ing to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hunter
at their home on Washington street.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Goodwin are ex-
pected home Saturday or Sunday
from Hot Lake ssnatarium. Mr..
Goodwin was operated upon at the
sanatarium for hernia, Monday Of
last week, and has since been prog
ressing favorably toward recovery.
Jess Stages has returned from Pull
man, where he has been pursuing the
study of pharmacy at Washington
State Collegs. He is visiting at the
home of his mother. Mrs. E. W.
Achilles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Lundell were In
Milton Sunday, visiting at the home
of Mrs. Lundell's parents. Mrs. Lun-