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Pleases
Everv an
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.
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.
I. O'Haira
ana
GROCER
(Phone Main 241)
- - HABERDASHER
(Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Our Specialties)
a I
For 11-tnas
Cigars
Tobaccos
Candies
Kirkpat rick's
Confectionery
f The
us
DR. C H. SMITH
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Brandt building
WESTON
OREGON
H
CHOICE CANDY
CIGARS and ,
TOBACCO
CARDS, BILLIARDS
and POCKET POOL
BARBER SHOP
and BATH ROOM
D. R. WOOD!
DR. W. C. HUGHES
Dentist
Office in the Elara Building, Milton,
Hours, 9 to 12 and 1 to 5.
plHBIMIIWIflB
Established 1865
Preston-Shaffer Milling Co.
Athena, Oregon Waitsburg. Wash.
American Beauty
Pure White and
Upper Crust
Made of selected Blues tem in one of the
best equipped mills in the Northwest.
Sold in Weston by
L I. O'Harra and D. R. Wood
WESTON LEADER
CLARK WOOD, fwktUm
SUBfCRIr7ION RATES
Strictly in Adjunct
Tin. Year f I 60
Six Mouths 0 75
fnar Months 0 Ml
ADVERTISING RATES
Per Inrh per montli 0 80
Per Inch, mm Insert ion . 20
IwkI. tier lineesrli insertion..... 06
county court to "lay down" now would
bo to confess that Ita road policy la a
failure and that tha apparently apian
did atretch of highway up tha Wild
More would better have been left un
built Macadam may not ba flaw lata
but It la battar than dual and mml, and
we believe that tha county court will
alact to ace Ita cherished project
through and will ba JuatilUd In ao do-1
Int. Had tha McComaa candidate,
Gilllland, baan olactad county judge.
thara would have bam much mora of
logic In tha contention that majority I
of tha taxpayer do not favor comple
tion of thia road.
BEGINNING H03THJTIE3
Them that haa Rata." In addition
to Ita annual maintenance of about I
$36,000 the Monmouth Normal haa re
ceived from the atate a 14000 heatlt.g
plant, fOO.000 firU dormitory and a
110,000 gymnasium. It now aaka tha
legislature for $50,000 for a new train
ing school which It will probably get-
being located in the WillamatU valley.
Monmouth worked for one achool only
-itaslf-ln 1910, while Aahland and
Waaton worded for three. In 1910,
and again at the recent 'election, Polk
county caat an overwhelming vote
airainat Aahland and Waaton. It evi
dently pay to be selfish here In Ore
gon, for Monmouth haa become the
pampered pet of the atate while two
other normal echoola of at Wait equal I
merit are "left outside the breeat
work a." Waaton, in fact, waa larg
er achool than Monmouth at the time
of the aenatorial debacle In 1909.
AW
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fRIOAT
DEC 18. 1914
Entered at the aettefflct at Wulen. Ortgea,
m Miend-clan wall autttr.
Now that Oregon baa abolished capi
tal punishment we fear that F. Billiken
Boyd, ed. of our eat. Athena con temp
will never get his just deserts.
We are prone to wonder op this way
as to just how much af tha Taxpayers'
Association is an association of tax
payers and bow much is E. W. Mc
Comaa.
Germany ia due to reap a whirlwind
of vengeance through "sowing to the
wind" in its wanton and useless bom
bardment of defenceless towns on the
English coast.
Umatilla county's assessed wealth
baa grown to nearly fifty millions, bnt
it is sad to reflect that John D. Rocke
feller could still easily buy the entire
county for a golf Unks. j
Charity ia merciful rather thae ex
acting, generous rather than logical,
and it is easy to find reasons for not
giving to a charitable cause such, for
instance, aa Belgian relief.
HOLT WAR INDOIWED.
(Monday Crawfish.)
After mature reflection and sober
deliberation on the part of Ita entire
ed. etaff. The Monday Crawfish haa
decided to endorse tha Sultan of Tur
key's pleasant proposal to make the
present treat conflict a holy war.
Holiness la all that la needed to
make the war a regular tallapalooaer.
Add a pinch of holiness to the other
Ingredient Oermaa "culture,' Rns
llh "love of liberty." French "enllaht
enment," Russian "patriotism." Jap
anese "proaresslveness and plain
Belgian mlaery end you should hava
a stew that will leave the corridors of
time In need of fervent fumlaatlon.
Severs! distinct varletlea of Chris
tians are earnestly enacted In whole
sale mutual murder. Buddhists. Mo
hammedans, Jews and fthlatolats are
all mixed In tha melee with tha pro
fessing followers of tha Prince of
Peace. There la no altar on which
tha dova may alight without wetting
her feet In red.
Aa If this were not religion enough
to make any wsr holy, the crescent.
aa of old. must be uplifted against the
cross. No such cheerful prospect of
holy homicide has arisen since the
Crusades, and everybody In Europe
who could ret away for the summer
went down to Palestine to fight the
Saracens for the Holy Sepulchre and
any holy Jewelry and sacred silverware
that might be lying around loose.
This paper Is strong for all this holy
stuff the holy Zeppelins, dropping
holy b mbs, the holy dum-dum bul
lets, the holy Cossacks, the holy sub
marines sinking holy battleships (be
whole holly horror.
All these things are holy If only you
get the right point of view, and the
Sultan haa our heartfelt thanka for
calling our attention to the fact, which.
otherwise, not being very religious
ourselves, we might hsva overlooked.
If anything can be done to make the
war any holler auch aa getting the
headhuntera of Borneo or the canni
bals of Central Africa Into It by all
means let It be done without delsy.
Civilization should not be Jeopard
ised for lack of a little holiness, when
that commodity la as plentiful aa cot
ton and aa cheap, almost, aa human
life. . ......
J2.
'TWj
Je, '
(J. E. Murphy in Oregon Journal.)
reie-ia AT
IMPORTANT EVENTS
CUBE
WINTER SNORT COURSE JAN. 4-JO
Agriculture, Including Agronomy,
Animal Husbandry, Dairying. Horti
culture, Poultry Husbandry, Insects,
Plant and Animal Ulseises, Cream
ery msnacement. Marketing, etc.
Home Economics, Including Cook
ing, Home Nursing, Sanitation, Sew
ing. Dressmaking and Millinery.
Commerce, Including Business Man
agement. Rural Economics. Business
Law, Office Training. Farm Account
ing, etc. Engineering, Including
thnmamrk snd Mnadbulldlnc.
FARMERS WEEK FEBRUARY 14
A general clearing house session of
six days for the exchange dynamic
ideas on tha most pressing problems
af the times. Lectures by leading
authorities. State conferences.
EXTENSION SERVICE
Offers lectures, movable schools. In
stitutes snd numerous correspondence
courses on request.
MUSIC I Piano, String, Band, Voice.
No tuition. Reduced rttes en all rail
roads. For further Inf. rraa Ion address,
The Oregon Agrkaliural Collage,
ftwU-lHo-l-l) CUMVALUa. trMHMN
NOWS THE TIME
TO PAY THE
LEADER MAN
VOtriUS RIGHT, NEIGHBOR?
(Athena Press.)
There Is apparently no valid excuse
for leaving the uncompleted line In I
the Weston-MIIton link of the county
road Improvement, and commencing
work from Pendleton, westward. It
would seem the height of folly snd
bad-management to leave thla road
uncompleted and begin elsewhere.
when the machinery Is on the ground
ready for the work. The county court
owes It to the Bast 'end to complete
thla thoroughfare, both from the
standpoint of amount of travel over
the road, and the fact that Athena
and Weston contributed largely to the
road fund, in Cash, tabor and material,
and In reality set the Dace for the
county to follow In the matter of per-1
maneat road Improvement. This part I
of the county pays the bulk of the I
taxes and should have a voice In the!
matter which will be affected by tha I
uncompleted road. Why not couple I
up between Weston and Milton, and
have a completed thoroughfare, then
move to the west part of the county I
and do likewise?
At Your Service
Omnibus or T&xic&b
DAY OR NIGHT
Phone No. 203 or leave order at
Main Street Barn.
General Livery and Feed
Business.
E. M. WEEKS
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NORMAL SCHOOL BALANCE
WILL BE KEPT INTACT
The virility of J. E. Murphy' art ia
aeen to good advantage, we think, in
the powerful cartoon which the Lead
er ia privileged to reproduce else
where. Other artists have treated the
aame etriking theme with more or less
vigor, but it has been reserved for
Murphy to give to Winter figure of
terrific majesty. One viewa the
picture with an involuntary shudder
and a sensation of utter dread, al
though "toasting his shins" by the
fireside.
It look to n aa though the present
county court were committed to the
Wes ton-Milton macadamized road ex
tension and will have to "renig" if it
heeds the mandate of MeCo beg par
don, the Umatilla County Taxpayers'
Association. Judge Maloney ha long
stood for the building of macadam
ized highway from Pendleton through
to the atate line. ' Commissioner Cock
burn based hi campaign largely on
the completion of the gap between
Weston and Milton, and won. For the ,
At a recent meeting of tha normal
school campaign committee It was de
cided to dispose of the small balance
remaining of the campaign fund by
placing It in the local bank In return
for an Interest-bearing certificate of
deposit, until such time aa It may be
expedient to use the money for "nor
mal school purpose only."
The committee haa had several re
questa for portions of the fund from
public movements of a worthy nature.
These were difficult to refuse, yet the
committee finally reached the conclu
sion that It would have no right to use
the funds for any other purpose than
that for which they were subscribed.
These requests were therefore denied,
as will be all similar requests In fu
ture. It was decided not to return the
balance pro rata to' the subscribers
for the reason that tha several
amounts would be so small as to be of
little consequence to any of them.
It Is not considered probable here
that any attempt will ever be made
again to have the Eastern Oregon
Normal restored. However, should a
change of sentiment ever be Indicated
on the part of tha voters of the stats.
the committee oecldnd that It would
be well to hava a small aum available
for the preliminaries of another cam
paign. '
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rriplloa far aK IAHOH aatf mart
cm patrMaliflMr. Kuk nfmom
rAT(k)Ta BUILD POrtTUMIg for
yea. Oar rrw bookMa UU ko. wbMtolamt
Mad Mn yom mommy. Writ tly.
D. SWIFT & CO.
patc NT LAWVena.
303 Seventh St., Wathinrrto, D. C.
The James Nelson farm of 10 acres
near Havana station haa been bought
by Dave Bain, a son-in-law of J. T.
Lienallen. for 151,000. Mr. Bain has
been farming the place for the past
four years.
WOOTCB FOR PUBLICATIOV. p
Isolated Tract,
PUBLIC LAND SALE.'
Department of the Interior,
U. 8. Land Office at La Grande, Ore.,
November list, 1914.
Notice Is hereby given that, as dl
rected by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, under provisions
of Act of Congress spproved June 27,
DOS (14 Stats., 617), pursuant to tha
application of Herbert Hopkins, of
Weston, Oregon, Serlsl No. 010021, we
will offer at public sale, to the high
est bidder, but at not less than IJ.OO
por acre, at 10 o'clock a. m., on the
14th day of January. 115, at thla of
fice, the following tract of land:
NEK NWK, Sec. 22, Tp. 4 N., R.
i East. WUIametU Meridian. Serial
No. 01103.
Any persona claiming adversely the
above-described land are advised to
file their clalma, or objections, on or
before the time designated for sale.
F. C .BRAMWELL, Register.
; NOLAN SKIFF, Receiver.'
HOMER I. WATTS
Attorney-at-Law
Practices In all Stat and Federal
Courts.
ATHENA, OREOON
L
Eight-Foot Cedar Fence Posts
tarred or untarred, , at right prices
Large supply of
Lehigh Portland Cement
Kemmerer
Lump Coal
Dry Slabwood and Cordwood
either sawed or in 4-foot lengths
WESTON BRICKYARD
, i ' V '!:- f,v,
tiMti,.ti .iieiiaoi(-ffiein . Imt n, mn nnuiinii i inr
The land of Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers
CALLS YOU
With SUMMERTIME in WINTER.
Govt,
Orrroooa and Indoor Sports-Boating. Swtr-iuTHma. Drnvisa.
Polo, Tennis. For rest and recreation, ja Morula is delightful.
For Safety and Comfort, go via the '
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co
through Portland. RETURN THE SAME WAT. ,
CALIFORNIA IS 8TAGINO TWO BIG SHOWS
Celebrating Completion of th Panama Canal
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
. , San Francisco, February 20 to December 4, IMS.
Panama-California Exposition
San Diego, January 1 to December SI, 1915.
They represent the highest and best of
. human endeavor in the world of art, sci
ence and industry. SEE BOTH OF TEEK.
Tickets, information, etc., upon application to
W. W. 8MITH
Agent O-W. R, AN. Co., Weston, Oregon.
R. BURNS, D. F.iF.A.
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