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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1915)
We ;Wsant Your usiness We promise you prompt service' and lowest prices consistent .with best quality. ' We pay you Thirty-six Percent Per Annum on yonr cash purchases. Return $15.00 in Cash Coupons and receive 60c in Cash or Merchandise FREE r J C27 hero c::o-cni joa'll cento t:ck A lot of people bar here tz larly because they like oar service our gnods. They know with us if lwsy "Customer First." Yew cmat get anything but the very best brands and the choicest vegetable, because we handle on the best. Our prices are riffht, too, coiuUering the high quality of ererythinf . Your order H delivered on time and in rood condition. Phone orders get ipecial attention. LL WE OFFER 20 percent off ON ALL SWEATERS JjB3 TCil o (Phone Main 241) GROCER HABERDASHER f defeat. It hasn't the Vote to win wbaa opposed by an ffresaiva, united and confident minority party, chastened and schooled by the faw Wen year that are the fruit of lu error,' and eager to anawar the partWnahlp note Chilian- which the president w pugnacious snoagh to sound In hi In dianapolis aditraae. Wilson is a sincere, able and ceneei enliuue prolJmt, and ha been eepee lally ueeful to the nation, we think, in aviMding serious trouble with warrin Mexico and warring Europe. With militant president like Roosevelt a hit lieutenant Uncle Sam would now be In poaeeeaion of Mexico City and una b!e to let go. He might have resented the iavaaiun of Belgium to such an tent a to have Joined the Alliea against Germany, or England' Interference with neutral commerce te such an ax tent as to have cast In hie fortunes with Germany. Any other eouree than that of careful aloofness which Wilson is persuing would be fraught with ex tram danger. We believe that Wilson ie entitled to renomlnatioa and re-election, but tik wise believe be cannot be re-elected. He ie handicapped by hie party' Im mediate record of extravagance. Its fondness for the pork barrel, its Insist ant demand that every Republican of fice-holder be decapitated who cnuld possibly be reached with the partisan axe, and by Billy Bryan's regrettable leanings toward the apoile system. This whilom idol of Democracy, we fear, hath feet of clay. To summarise and submit, there'll be no political accident In 191&. There msy be so axe, but it will he wieldrd with fell design by a reunited g. o. p. there msy be a ent, but it will be made in the Democratic party. The Leads, has already reconciled itself to the inevitable. n nows, wz somsi Stimulated and inspired by the Lxad CB't poetic and beautiful tribute to the Portland rose, Al Long, a newspa per friend of our who run the Hills- bora Argus, sends ae the following whimsical brain-child, which be enti tle "Annual History:" How Portland erows About that rose The whole world know And when one goes To see the rooe. He'll psint his nose. By Heck! And wear good eiothee; But. Gee! Suppose That some one mows Him brake eee knows How bed-it race: He U I eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Smoke up! Cigars ; Tobaccos Candies Kirkpatrick's Confectionery The White WESTON LEADER GUUX WOCQL INwWtwr We fancy Sim itkm sl weald rssls- PAYING THE PRICE OF WAR ili i IJs I't i Jill 1 1 Mil Ml VW 1 'm TI1F. I1MITFJI SlAtfcS. 'fhfrP' 1 I w .'r-r- - y m. 1 4 (J. E. Murphy In the Oregon Journal.) ing in the CrswfUh cartoons will suc ceed in her evident smMtion to maks neat and raie a brood of litlje envs in Bra. Collins' waste basket, we U be bound that she will llnd the atmo- pher and associations congenial , J. i The Baker county senator who seeks repeal of the "blue tky law" on the ground that it is a serious detriment to the mining industry of the atate, needs to be reminded that it in no wsy pre vents SMne-ewners from developing their awn xaiaea with their own capital parrrspber is thankful gwa m sn wse dum d am mhat ht eevs Imert: in, lj lu mps auf-i nuIttC. wmc m alt tkw choicest tnptiam tkaa t 4w .fcrqtt bp iamf ondr " ftier A -n we are esabled te euB A hfltrvcm aisin ts- the miuasv 'Mmncliv'' e SLtiasmom turn StncS-r a jCeYaar I Jhm Tear at ir luMnwthe 0 -f rimr Mnnfha 0 f AOVEtTltlNC RATES rr Inrh per niontli fl ftp Per Inrh. one. iitnerlion !P ltrhla, r tine each innertion. .... Oft nwg, sue mrr iwltlmc i 1! thnt 5 eaeocsr jerratmirtiar 'he -pnAiKxi tii AnAuiritm faaa iiMt jmmhj 3m i imla samAmi is fas 3w Bmkl tadkeC: .!" Wrier tle and itmeg Uju te t oeww sew tone. Ounrs sUis Jsek . that CHOICE CANDY CIGARS and TOBACCO FRIDAY FEB. 5. ICI5 ettrc4 at the petteHir al WuImi. Ortjaa. at Mcsae-clan mail sutler. DR. C H. SMITH Physician and Surgeon Office in Brandt building WESTON OltEOON CARDS, BILLIARDS and POCKET POOL Omtr AnnlA frfor and other Soft Drinks J. B. Farrcns I BUCDATS rot THE DOfOOUTS DR. W. G. HUGHES Dentist Office in the EUm Buildinff, Milton, Hours, to 12 and 1 to &. Established 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. ; f Athena, Oregon . Waitsburg, Wash. American Beauty Pure Whited 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 The victory of the Democratic party in 1912 was due to political accident Its defeat in 1916 will be due to politi cal design. The Republieans again want to occu py the places at the pie counter which they lost through quarreling over the stools. Victory in politics breeds dia cord; defest, harmony. Obsessed by their long lease of power, the Republi can leaders failed to realize the mag nitude of the revolt within their ranks until it bad split their party asunder. Otherwise they might have taken step to placate the recalcitrants by discard ing both Taft and Roosevelt and nomi nating a candidate satisfactory to both factions. - From Roosevelt down the Progres sives were, in fact, dissatisfied Repub licans. ' Msny of the rank and file msy have been moved by a spirit of ideal ism; not so the leader. They wanted power and preferment, and failing of success they proceeded to shear the Taft faction of its strength for had Roosevelt been nominated there would i have been no revolt. The Leads saw this clearly at the time, predicting that the Progressive movement would prove to be ephemeral and that the campaign of 1916 would be fought out between the two old parties. It held to this view at the height of the Progressive wave, despite the predic tion of so acute a political observer as Samuel G. Blythe that the g. o. p would be disrupted. Getting back to the pie counter- that is precisely what the Republicans design to do, and their design consists in compromise and harmony. With the exercise of the least degree of political prescience their success is practically sssured. They will fsce a minority party no longer unified by defeat but partly demoralized by power as is shown by the disagreement be tween the president and senate a to precedence in pie cutting. They can win with Hughes, Cummins or Borah. Its beet friends must admit that the Democratic administration has been only partially successful. Had it been It wasn't altogether because be was wfllin; to work that a man was sent to the inaane asyhim from Weston, al though such may be locally regarded as an unusual aberration. The Leader never supposed that it could tolerate a Republican filibuster, but finds this loquacious pastime rather diverting when directed against the ship purchase bill With wheat at around two dollar bushel next fall we'll expect our farm era to be wearing gold-braided jump er and diamond-studded galluses. With a Billy Sunday and a Banker Hunday within its gates, staid old Philadelphia should be careful to side step a possible Black Friday. TheYonkera, New York, man who was fined for wearing a straw hst in zero weather would be justified in eon sidering it the last straw. A boy named Lucien Gumm who ran way from hi home at Kelso, Wash., hs been found, and it is now hoped that be will stick. Weston contains not a few elusive youngster who seek to qualify as boy scout by dodging the police after the curfew bell. eminently so it would still be in danger Paradoxically enough, we ought to rejoice that the "war tax we are paying is at least taxation without representation. About the most cheerful tidings ' have lately heard from the front is that the German War Lord I losing his voice. The wsy a Colorado labor leader hammer the junior John D. I enough to Rockefeller to hi foundation. Turkey i occasionally able to break into the war new by losing from a regiment to an army corps. We do not approve of the ship pur chase bill, and trust that Congress will govern itself accordingly. a comma Ktrnirr The Monday Crawfish now conducted by Dean Collins, ha pinched us again. We are moved to hope that the Inquis itive specimen of "Mephitis Ameri cana" which Tige f nds so embarrass- Oct- Ineai Werta! seas!?' ought to for has rcuferaa- staff the Win- Shre. Xasneeuts, roots who had see craJ trre frogs hi hi stomach, as sfaeeJd sorely be able to "put the bop a his fast one." Whatever other view hi enemies may entertain concerning the informs tion which Oswald West sends the Oregon Journal from Salem, they'l have to admit that it' capital stuff. Senator Barrett plan to save the state one million dollar every two rear, and if he could only save the Leader hslf as much w will give him better job thsn he hs at Salem. Our slow-pay subscribers might be bit more considerate if each had to grind out his own copy of the Leader on the old G. Wash. . General Villa denies thst be Is dead, but may not be so well Informed as the Carranzaiatas. IXM-AIi FANS AT SEA. A letter srae received thla woek by Secretary DeMoss of the Commercial Association from E. B. Casteel, base- bsll enthusiast of Pilot Rock, which he has turned over to local fans. Those find themselves St sea, not knowing whst to say to Mr. Canted. It la question whether Weston csn get tesm together for the Kit season, as several of lis players have gone sway, snd it has absolutely no material In slant for the backstop's position. The text of the letter follows; "An effort Is' being made to reor ranlie the Blue Mountain Baseball Leaue with Athena, Pendleton, Wes ton snd Pilot Hock, leaving Milton Preewater out. There la soma talk of taking Hermiston and Echo In, mak Ing It a real county league. We feel that as long ss the hard surface road Is completed from Pendleton to Wes ton that transportation wilt be cheaper, and as Pendleton will be out of the Trl-State that the league can finish without a loss. Kindly take this matter up with the fans snd business men, snd we can get the proposition started early." The adantage of leaving Milton Preewater out Is not quite obvious, to The Leader baseball editor, as the twin towns ars liberal patrons of base ball and help to swell the leagua's gate receipts. TWO CANNY SOOTS. Ws clip, the following yarn from a department of ths Btsnfield Standard ran by the "printer's devil." It sounds as though It might be so: The boss says last summer Dr. Keld snd Horace Walker went fishing and they agreed that whoever caught the first fish would stand treat. He says Doc Is the best fisherman in these parts snd hs thought he'd lost before they sarted, but In telling about It af terward. Doc. said: An'. dye ken; Horace had a guld bite, an' wise sae mean he wadna 'pu' In." "Then you loutT' asked the boas. "WU. nae," said the Doc; "I dldna' pit oncy bait on my hook." Eight-Foot Cedar Fence Posts tarred or un tarred, at right prices Large supply of Lehigh Portland Cement Kemmerer Lump Coal Dry Wood, sawed or 4 -foot WESTON BRICKYARD .. ' 'jt , . ,v IHlll i liiWl.ixn.ftli si-'t I1!' Iff-:iiir UlK t.i. frtf tTifrlU-ikaa sCsjsxf 'nxfa'.es7islUr1t Vlll ftt IwAw's'tt J Butter Wrappers Furnished and Printed at the Leader office Sixty (minimum) $0 75 One hundred 1 00 Two hundred Each additional hundred.. 50 30 FORM The land of Sunshine, Fruit and Flowers CALLS YOU ' With SUMMERTIME in WINTER Outdoor and Indoor Sports-Boating, Surf-bathing, Dm vino, Colt, Polo, Tennis. For rest and recreation, California is delightful. For Safety and Comfort, go via the v Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co through Portland. RETURN THE SAME WAY. CALIFORNIA IS STAGING TWO BIG SHOWS Celebrating Completion of the Panama Canal ' Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco, February 20 to December 4, 1916. Panama-California Exposition San Diego, January 1 to December 81, 1915. They represent the highest and best of human endeavor in the world of art, sci ence and Industry. SEE BOTH Of THEM. Ticket, information, etc., upon application to W. W. SMITH Agent O-W. R. 4N. Co., Weston, Oregon. R. BURNS, D. F. P. A. Walla Walla, Wash.