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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 11, 1914)
I i J i j i I i r ., , tt. ess.ttttttttt! "v Flin BUG 0i That Pleases Every Elian Get him something useful this year something he can wear with pleasure and satisfaction. He will surely appreciate a nice Necktie, Silk Hose Supporters, Handkerchief, Silk Hose or a Box of Sox; and perchance he would like a pair of warm lined Gloves. r V And fill him up on a Christmas dinner he will not forget Let us help you with Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Figs, Cluster Raisins, Dates, Tillamook Full Cream Cheese, Assorted Fancy Cookies, Olives, Pimientoes, X-mas Candies and Nuts, Chase & Sanborn's Steel Cut Coffee. GROCER (Phone Main 241) - HABERDASHER (Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Our Specialties) Ll For l(-mas Cigars Tobaccos Candies Kirkpat rick's Confectionery fThe ons DR. C It SMITH Physician and Surgeon Office in Brandt building WESTON OREGON H CHOICE CANDY CIGARS and TOBACCO I CARDS, BILLIARDS X and POCKET POOL BARBERSHOP and BATH ROOM D. R. WOOD j DR. W. G. HUGHES Centist ... Office In the Elam Building, Milton, Hour, to 12 and 1 to 5. , Established 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. Athena. Oregon Waitsburg. Wash. American Pure White and Upper Crust Made of selected Bluestem in one of the best equipped mills in the Northwest Sold in Weston by L I. O'Harra and D.R. Wood WESTON LEADER CURK WOOD, Milbhtr W1IKATH BTllONQ IHWITIOX. Pacific Northwet wheat, oata and barley a-rora have eattr control n tha maklnc of prices for cereals at thla lima, providing hr-y da no! over do the )b, say "Hy' Oihen In the Onon Journal. ' Tha demand for Cereal from Ku rope la eatraordlnary. Grower ehould not for moment be mWlead br tha temporary ehowln: of wheat and Inea In price ellhar her or abroad be cuae auoh conditions are the maklna of the foreign Interval who want to buy. Only by forclnjt temporary weakneea In the prro are they able to secure their supplies. That, at leaat, la the way they flfure. Demand for all cereala from Ku i. niMniJiiun. Br viral more carrot of oata have been sold to Ru- rope durlnf the wee ana it ib qun likely that every buaW available In the mirthweat will be wanted by the warring nations. Wheat price ehowed a very aharp thMnihiiiii (ha world durin the week and there la little doubt that they will go higher eventually. mer i. mrMMt iKnHiM of aoppllea thla aaaaon and ao much stock la belng waated by warring natlona mat mo shortage la the met acute In the hls tory of the world. The fart that a ahorter crop next year will be ahown hv.m ii intllratlona. makes the pres ent poaltlon of the wheat market that much atroniter. RecenUy there naa neen mor t i. naninulatlon In the Price of ahlpe for carrying cargoea to Europe. Prac tically all the recent "" iu r.aia abroad haa been ab sorbed by the ahlp ownera In the face of the fact that aalfla rrom mr !" aturf trade, there la no demand for ships. Other ahlpptng trail w oe mormllsed therefore. If prleea are not manipulated, ahlpa should be cheaper. There la aome eviucncv in a break In charter price for ahlpa. . i . fnr January and Feb ruary loading are being offered at a reduction from preaent prlcea ana ir train growers do not aell too freely at preaent. a further aharp loaa will be ahown. Thla muat therefore be added to the price of wheat, oata and barley. WlflC AKE KB FOCK DOUUST Brother Miller, of the Stanfleld Standard, ta getting mercenary. 'Darn It all. Where's our four cel lars" he howla ls a head line. Be in, a friend of the administration we hove a notion to aend him four dollara and quiet hla yawplnf. But we have another and better notion that Boyd ourht to do It iietcn to hla Ule of woe: 'The Regional Reaerve banka opened last week and floating arouno in country aomcwhere are about four hundred mllllona of dollara In emer ncy currency that la. If wo have the dope right. That would make about four dollar tor every man, wo mA rhii.i in tho country. All thla-In addition to the money that waa .ii-,t ha in circulation before the regional banka opened. Now we have been looking forward to the releaeo of all thla money, expecting that we would, of courae. get our four dollars. But whero to It? We aald nothing about thla laat week becauae we want ed to give William McAdoo and Paul Waring a chance to get on their f"et and attend to the distribution. "But ten or eleven daye have gone by and yet there la nothing doing. Thla plaeee ua In an emoaraaamg po sition. We had learned tnat tne kki Island railway waa to hsve been put .. - ui. ii auction and we ex- wtnl to be able to buy It. Now look at the hole we are In! Any day they. may decide to put up the railway ana , - ... without our four dollara, We have made up our mind to one thing. If William mcaooo BELGIAN RELIEF. IS I ASKED OF WESTON ( In common with other Oregon towne Weaton la expected to do Ita ahare to-1 ward feeding tha davoled Belgians. now starving through no fault of their, own. Below la the text of a teller re-1 celved by the editor of The leader; thla week from the Oregon Belgian: Relief committee, appointed by the governor, of which Hamuel Hill la chairman. It makes an appeal to the good people of thla community which we think they wilt not be alow In heed Ingi rieas ask the mayor of your city to act aa chairman of a committee of three, of which yourself and the post master constitute the other two, to so licit Muds for the relief of the starv Ing Relglsns. Oregon. Washington and Idaho will aend a ship-load of provisions aalllng from here during thla month; the urg ency of your action Is apparent. Mwey collected should be receipted for and tha namea of contributors and amounta given should be published In your paper. Checka made payable to the order of the Chairman of our Com mittee will be endorsed by him, and the receipt sent you by the treasurer. Only non-pcrlshntle provisions are acceptable, and are as follows: Flour, brans, peaa, rice, condensed milk, fruits and vegetablea dried or In tin cans, canned aalmon and cured meats The railroads will transport to Port land In carload and leas than carload lota free of charge the auppllea con tributed ;shlp to the Relirtan Relief Committee, car Municipal Dock. Portland, and It la needless to aay "ship aa soon aa possible." Belgium waa a neutral country. All will agree that these starving Innocent people should be helped; feuding non- combatanta should commend Itself alike to all. The British. Dutch an.l German governmrnta content to the shipment of auppllea; our govern ment endorsee It. Remember, tnese Belgians were Industrious, peaceful, honest and law-abiding; they have loat their all: they must have food to survive the winter. Put your hsnd In your pocket, and consider how you would feel If their condition waa yours, (live an mat you can. and help feed aa many of those deserving people as poasioie. Aa an Illustration. IMS will buy and deliver In Belgium a 4-puunil sack nt nur- thla sack of flour will feed a starving mouth for three month. Kilter Bit PMsaeoU. Amsterdam. Pro. 9 Berlin die natch,' recrivml her today announ-e that the Kaiser la seriously III with pneumonia. lay we heard worse news, and always the Emperor hung back. Perhaps hl hinilns back (for which no one will give him the credit) waa the moat heroic action of any aover elgn of all history. Surely when the real and secret history of Germany dea aeo the tight that splendid pa tlenco of an Impatient man will be recognised and admired." The Ocrmans have all the time sold ik.w iti.l ni want war: but It waa forced upon them. Now It la declared that the Emperor did not want war but It waa forced upon him. Who then, wanted war? SIJBICiriPTIOrl KATES Strictly in Adtsnct v at an "... . . n -i for president, we win rciurc j ufi", ni wKiw "it.- j -.in laava him Iiai on nia rnnr nnnrnR w ADVERTISING RATE! Per Inrh per month .JO SO Per inrlt, one iinwrtinn, 30 l.nrtIM, per line each Insertion..,.. Oft PRIDAY DEC II. 1914 Pstcrcd at tha pesleffica at Vastea, Oragea, at Mcead-clsH assll aiaHtr.. Perchance tha Teuton will find their Lodz a parlous burden. Aa well for T. R. to lav "the death at Maxiean civilization" to the Angel Gabriel a to ascribe it to the Wilson administration. "inii Wa rare little whether it is to be Judge Maloney or Judge Marsh, since both are good men and likewise ahem good Democrats. Great Britain declines to Kcoffnize the existence of an aerial sovereignty, and thus considerately leaves at least one inalienable right to the Creator. Now that Miss Fern Hobba has land ed a $3600 state job it is in order for Mma tactful voun? man to point oat to her that Hobbs is somehow lacking in euphony. White this is also their festal season we would not in prohibition Oregon- sing the praises of Tom and Jerry as exemplifying the proper sort 01 cnrisi- maa spirit. back." WHO STARTED THE WAItT Haa tho Judgment of the world or at least the antl-uerman wono unjust to Emperor WIlhelmT asks the Oregonlan. He haa been held reapon alble for the present mighty debacle by moat lovers of peace and naiers 01 militarism. He could have prevented ,w. m.inn. hot h did not. He was accredited with ambitions of an Alex' r.Ar and tha d cairns of a Napoleon He had for many years been getting ready to use tho mailed fiat ana wnen the time seemed opportune the War Lord struck. Early In the war there were stories that tho Emperor waa really against the war. but they were not wiaeiy credited. But now the effort to pui Emperor Wllhelm forth as an apostle r noara la revived bv Gertrude Ather- ton, the writer, who sends to the New Tork Times a letter from a woman in n..m.nv whnm aha describes as a "very gifted British woman who has been married for a number or years to a German occupying a high posi tion." There Is this paragraph: "Then w knew that the Emperor AIA ntt mian war In orlvate he had ao often spoken of hi mission to keep the peace. We knew how he held the war party back, even tnougn mey re viled him and accused him of over- partiality for England of a love of ease of 'taking fine words Into his mouth, but moaning to aacrlflce Ger many to his clinging to peace.' Each Hatins? each ether cordially. Taft and Roosevelt at least find common ground in criticizing the administra tionchiefly because neither is doing the administering. ' IJ' m!XM'-' ' " " " laassaasasassMBM Still, wa da not think the averasre chorus girl need have much to fear from the measure now op in Congress to "regulate the interstate transporta tion of immature calves." The lot of the country editor is an humble one. but he would nevertheless prefer it just now to being President of Mexico or Sultan of Turkey or Kaiser, even, of the German empire. The Oreeonian ridicules Unclebmt as a sort of military Rip Van Winkle, but we notice that our good uncle has suffered neither in honor nor prestige and is still at peace with a warring world. .. . A DARING BASE RUNNER. On of the Desperate and Winning Chances Mike Kelly Took. Hocb 8. Fullerton. the baseball writ er for the American Magazine, tells s story sbout Mike Kelly, the fa mous player of Boston and Chicago, generation ago, aa follows: "I believe tb most desperate and brilliant bit of base running I ever witnessed and the climax of taking cbnnces was by Kelly. Tb score was a tie lute In tb game- Runner were on second and third bases, on out, snd tb opposing infield was drawn In to cnt off tb runner from tb plate. "Kelly was the man on second. As tb ball waa pitched Kelly was on a run at top speed toward tblrd. The ball was bit sbsrply to tb shortstop, who scooped it perfectly and threw bom. Tb runner going from third slid desperately toward tb plat, where tb catcher wa waiting Kelly bad rounded tblrd baa at top speed and waa coming op the path behind the other runner, screeching 'Look ont for Keir it the top of his voice. "As the runner from tblrd slid be hind tha nlstfl. trvlne to get past tb catcher, be was tagged out, but before tb catcher con 10 toucn nm ana aive back to protect the plate Kelly slid In front of the rubber, dodged binder tb catcher and scored tb winning ran." . Wet Weather Comfort Three Dollars Buys a lot of It TOWER'S FISH BRAND REFLEX SLICKER West k wbra yoa work. Csaaot absotb wsMi hire e every drop sad tsept yea ay and coa. tonslla. la every seas a tmk out, moemiiBnint, , A tag bay aay way you skat. sou narffum TittKiu lit. 75 0. -rfJvVES 1 ITnYrift. h. '3BWW 1I I Mi- U l CsMbf Fnm StWBcta Csmatcai Is Christmas Candies, Goods and Novelties O.ATXW T.s Ecoiomy Store ml mm NOTICE sXHl PCBUCATIOX. ImoUUxI Trac. PUBLIC LAND BALE. Department of the Interior, V. S. Land Office at L orande, ore., November 21st, 1(14. Notice la hereby given that, as dl- ji A ku Ih, fnmmlutAIIM tha General Land Office, under provision or Act or congress approvea june 11, lyuo fit Biais., Bin, pursuant 10 wis nnllratlnn of Herbert HoDkln. ' of Weston, Oregon, Serial No. 01002J, we will offer at public sale, to the high est bidder, but at not less than 13.00 per acre, at 10 o'clock a. m., on the nth dav af Januarv. IBIS, at thla of fice, the following tract of land: NE'4 NW14, 8cc. 22. Tp. t N., II. ! East, Willamette Meridian. Serial No. 011083. Any persona claiming adversely the iabove-descrlbed land are advised to file their claims, or objections, on or before the time designated for sale. F. C .BRAMWELL. Beglster. . NOLAN SKIFF, Receiver. ' 1 t A.'. . . -sv. Ml Tia AT " aa - I Eight Foot ceaar renco . u tnn-etl or untarmi, ni ngiu j- w.- Litrpo supply of Lehigh Portland Cement Kemmerer Lump Coal Dry Slabwood and Cordwood cither sawod or in 4-foot lengths WESTON BRICKYARD I PURE DRUGS Patent Medicines Toilet Articles Wall Paper Aldon's Candies H. GOODWIN Druggist, Weston, Oregon Are You Hesitating? aa to where vou should place that or der for grain ami fowl fr your live Htock? IlrsitHt.i no longer. W can irivo vou inrluliitnlilo vviilenro that It will be to your great aHvantag to Imlifn it with u, the kind of proof that make it way In court facta. fr our heat customer will tell you of the quality of our good. Hofld Hsrley. Oat and Wheat; Klour, MilUtufT anil Chicken Feed. I'boii No. 2H1. D. 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