The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1921-01-21
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week.
B.E Thornton has been quite Ill
the past ten days at the home OF ms
brother.in-law, Prof. +. c, Fttzpat'
rick.
A little son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Lisuallen is very i'll with pneumonia
and has been brought to town Tor
treatment
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo, W, Sprague
arrived this week from Camas,
Wash. TO visit Mrs. Frank Hide
brand, whose condition continues eX-
trcmely grave.
Mrs, ]. E. Stanheld and Mrs. Re-
becea Culley are in Pendleton this
week, visiting at the home OF Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Maloney. .
The bulge in wheat last week at
tracted but little local selling. In
the neighborhood Of $4,000 bushels
left the hands Of the growers at
priec basis ranging from sl.S7 to
$3.50 l-a per bushel for No. l.
Frank Price was the purchaser.
The Umatilla county contribution
TO European Child Relief has gone
out in the shape Of three carloads OF
-four. Two of these were shipped
from Pendleton and one from the
Preston-Shaffer mills at Athena and
Milton.
A Holstein COW owned by Ralph
Tuttle of Walla Walla holds the
worlds record for butter produc-
tion among two-year-olds, with
mark of lis pounds on SO-day
test.
A cooked food sale will be held at
the A. NJ. Ross furniture store Sat
urday afternoon, January %, under
the auspices of Swas-Te-Ka Camp
fire.
A contract for the formation Of a
cooperative wheat marketing asso-
citation, to be known as the Oregon
Grain Growers contract, will be
presented at a mass meeting Of Or
egon farmers at The Dalles on Sat-
urday. This is the information
brought back from the meeting Of
the State Farm Bureau at Portland
by the three delegates from this
county, w. w. Harrah, d. H. Mel
son and S. j. CuIley. Mr.. Culley re-
ports the session to have been a
most interesting one. Mrs. Culley
accompanied him on the trip.
Leonard Blomgren, former Weston
soldier who served with much dis
tinction overseas and was once
cited in orders for bravery under
fire, is now located in Los Angeles,
where he has a position. Since the
war he has had some interesting ex-
periences while seeing South Amer
lea and serving in the merchant
marine. ........
E. NJ. Schroeder Of Chesley, ontar-
10, cousin of A. NJ. Ross, is visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Ross at their home
in this city. He came down from
the north while on a trip to Victoria
and Vancouver.
Little Glenn Purcell celebrated
his sixth birthday anniversary jan
uary goth at the home Of his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Da-
wilson. Those present were: Lionel
Marvin, Johnnie and Rita Davidson,
Leslie and Emery Purcell, Lora and
Geneva Lucas. The youngsters en-
joyed themselves in shedding and in
the consumption of fruit and cake.
In letter to the Leader from
Reedsport, Oregon, w. A. Graham
writes that Weston still seems like
home to him. Incidentally, with a
couple of ''bones," he encourages the
Leader to keep on leading.
Manager Barnes announces "The
Girl in the Web" as the six-reel fea-
ture for next Tuesday night at Men,
orial hall. 1t affords the charming
vehicle for the first appearance here
in pictures Of Blanche Sweet.
A double header basket ball game
will be played tonight on the local
floor by boys and girls teams rep
resenting Pilot Rock High and Wes-
ton High. The visitors are said to
have cleaned up about everything in
their part Of the county.
Among books just received from
the county library for use Of high
school students in their reading
courses are: In Ole Virginia, Thorn
as Nelson Page; Old Creole Days,
George W. Cable; Ordeal Of Richard
Feverel, Geo. Meredith; Master Sky
lark, John Bennett.
Swas.Te-Ke Campfire met in reg
ular session last Saturday afternoon
in the club room at Memorial hall.
Following the transaction Of busi-
ness, an interesting program was
given by Misses Blanche Thorsen,
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