"Lay on, MacBMf!" in .1 i . i. ii I. i i . f i' We're not asserting that MacDuff is the name of your favorite hen, as it is more properly a gamecock's monaker. But she'll lay on just the same lay early and often if you'll only feed her properly. Tickle your chickens' gizzards with GROUND BONE OYSTER SHELL POULTRY SHELL CHICK FEED GRIT and MEAT SCRAPS WE WILL BE GLAD TO SUPPLY YOU L, 1 O'Haira GROCER (Phone Main 241) - - HABERDASHER A A A ) TTTTTTTTf T tr tTTT TTT y'wwwwwww ia'w'w w rWW W W -ar w - -w-vr w -w w -w ! Qmnlfp nn ? uniuau up I Cigars Tobaccos Candies Kirkpatrick's Confectionery f The DR. C. H. SMITH Physician and Surgeon Office fai Brandt building: WESTON OREGON H CHOICE CANDY CIGARS and TOBACCO . CARDS, BILLIARDS X and POCKET POOL Choice Apple Cider and other Soft Drinks J. B. Farrcns WE8TON LEADER CLARK WOOD, rsMWwr SUBSCRIPTION RATES Strieili in AfbMntt DR. W. G. HUGHES Dentist Office in the Elam Building, Milton, Hours, 9 to 12 and 1 to 5. m Established 1865 Preston-Shaffer Milling Co. Athena, Oregon . Waitsburg, Wash. : American Beauty "Pure White I 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 Hip Year Pi Month! Fnnr Moulin... .! AO . 0 "n . 0 AO ADVERTISING RATES Per inch per month 0 IH Per inch, mm insertion 3(1 IxiehM, Kir line each insertion OA FRIDAY FEB. 19. 1915 Entered at Mm peiMfic at Wests. Orttjo, as Mcend-claM axil avrttcr. FAiiia uuns -sees the light." The farther s farm is away from a live town the less the land is worth. Population as well as productiveness makes for higher values. These facts are so obvious as to need no supporting argument. When the farmer helps his nearest town he indirectly helps himself. En lightened self-interest should therefore prompt him to buy at home what he can get at home, and to send away for such articles only as his home town merchant is unable to supply. He is striking at his local churches and schools, his local opportunities for pleasant community life, when he helps s big mail order house to cut a huge dividend melon as was recent ly done by Sears Roebuck. Never a slice comes bis way, although he has contributed to the profits. The mail order bouse contributes nothing to the support of his community institutions. When too late Hans Garbus, an Iowa farmer, "saw the light." This is what he says in a letter to an agricultural journal: "We farmers need awakening to the fact that we have unmistakably reach ed the period where we must think and plan. I am one of the alow Ger man farmers that had to be shown, and I am now giving my experience that others may profit, for knowledge Is more expensive now than ten years ago. Twenty-nine years ago I began my farm career. I had an old team and ISO. Our furniture was mostly home madechairs, cupboard and lounge made from dry goods boxes, neatly covered with ten-cent cretonne by my girl wife. We rented eighty acres. Being a boy of good habits I got all -ceded machinery and groceries of our home merchants on credit, until fall crops were sold. The first year was a wet season and I did not make enough to pay creditors. I went to each on date of promise and explained conditions, paying as much ss possi ble, and they all carried the balance over-another year. They continued to accommodate me until I was able to buy a forty-acre piece of my own. . 'As soon aa I owned these few acres the mail order houses began sending me catalogues, and gradually I began sending my loose change to them, tt- f ling my accounts aiana in mj numv town where I had gotten my irMm- mo.lmlon when I needed It. We then had one of the thriftiest tittle village In the stle good line I of business In all the branches, mr I chants who were wilting to help an honeat fellow over a bad year, and a town, full of people who came twice a week to trade and Visit. Our little country town supported a library. high school, band, ball team, and we I had big eelebratlona every year. "A farm near a live town soon dou bles In value. I sold my tarty acre at I a big advance and bought an eighty. gradually adding to II until I had 10 acre of the brat land In Iowa. I then felt no need of asking favor, and found It eaay to patronise the mall order agents that came almost weekly to our door. I regret to My that I wsa the first In the county to make up a neighborhood bill and send It to a mall order house. Though we got bit every once In a while, we rot the habit of sending away for start "tirwduslly our merchants lessened their stock of goods (or lack of pat ronage. Finally w began to realise I that when w needed a boll quickly I tor machinery, or clothing for sick ness or death, we had to wait and send I away for It. which wasn't so pleasant. One by one our merchants moved lot places where they were appreciated, I and men of less . energy moved In. Gradually our town has gone down; our business house are "tacky" In ap-i pearance, a number are empty, our I schools, churches and walks are going down, we have no band, no library nor ball team. There la 00 business done In th town, .and therefor 00 taxes to keep thing up. Hotel Is closed for lack of travel. Oo down to the depot I when the freight pulls In and you will see the sequel In mall order package. I "Nine year ago my farm was worth I tits an acre; today rd have a hard matter to sell It at tl7 an acre. It la too far from a live town' so every I farmer has said that wants to buy. It I wanta a place near schools and I churches, where his children ran hsvel advantages. I have awakened to the I fart that In helping to pull the town down. It has coat me IS.tOO In nine) rears." THE DANGER OF TOO MANY DILLS Between them, John Bull and Kaiser I BUI have squelched any romantic long- ing we may have ever indulged for "A I Life on the Ocean Wave, Horn on I the Rolling Deep," T ,iilniF rTm? ft?ftggJ. J , t '. ' 1 , ' .V f , .' 1 (J. E. Murphy in the Oregon Journal.) TV,.;..,. Timtan, SJCl l.k I books circulated at Athena aa against WOMAN MAKES SUCCESS ISO at Weston but perhaps they may have more time to read in the suburbs. OF MOUNTAIN FARMING -1 11.1 .HflWPtitJ 1 11 "" TaOU.. .. Chicago tailors say that man needs 1006 a year to dress on, and we will (Pendleton Tribune.) Pond care-free wife, what would you henceforth try hard not to And this do If the husband whom you married sum inadequate. in your young womannooa wer. 10 leave you to fight out alone the bat- fmmtmA AO. Hivi nn hmm tut itnmii)i . , ,v . ,j- call the world cruel and cold. 01 trouble-nor any other of mundane I u do M u Heubcrger did nature. The Palo Alto. California, man who tie of life. Would you become aiscouragcn una or would you do s Mary rieuocrger urn 1 Mary Heuberger la a mtie. pieaa snt mannered woman who live on ... . . . t . . . ..!! f..r 111 l.i Him I, i. ... jit .... . . w inn mountain. wi i u, m .. Cartoonist Murphy will perhaps agree . M Kh. with us that the legislature ia not alone CI,BlM, a dcrW l,rng forever the in being embarrassed by too many bills, bonds of mstrlmony connecting her ... with her husbsnd. John Heuberger w . . . . . . . bonds that still held the nr' Music may have charms, but certain bu onIy u , worry n(l , handicap, savage breast are not perceptiDiy ltaT ,n has not seen him for 11 years, soothed bv the American notes. I This Is her story: When botn were young ana mr wmm mnM rn.., than brlnrs In the We may be permitted to judge from ,roi Mary married John his witticisms that the Oregon senate Heubereer. It wss In Iowa, back In ha mn fWMMnnnal hritrht Dsv. I 18S3. ro cniiaren wcrv uwin "' rlage. Thinking to better their condl- Just about now an ounce of discre- ' hey moved to California. The 1. K.,,.. ..,A r.t ..U. nusoana oen m ", ..... R. , hv hard work were wasted The wife becamo a nurse. The hus band, becoming more hardened ss he more and more became a slave to his This week' timely rain will put reckless habits, deserted her II years W,rii In Ida nnnim airain arith mn I BIO. Then the lone Wife began to I . . 1 . . 1 Ok. m ms.i nar own nvina. m.v iliwu the part of Uncle Sam. abundant grain crop. Our own was at least a eivil war. JARMAN TAKES CHARGE OF FREEWATER STORE boarding house, end worried along In a humble way. She was alone now, and It Is when we are alone sometimes, that the gr?nt power within ua asserts Itself. 80 It wss with the deserted wife. She wss free to do as she pleased and the out come mattered little. Who cared? The boarding house down In California was traded, sight unseen, as the boys sny when they trade knives at school, for 1(0 acres of farm land on Weston Mrs. Houbergnr tried to D. B. Jarman. former Weston mer chant, has taken a position with the I mountain A. Schmidt Mercantile Co. at Free- runt tha land bv communicating with water, and will have full control of persons from her California abode, but their dry goods department. Mr. Jar- the rents did not come, so she rusolvcd man and family are moving to Free- to make her own home on the land. water this week to make their home. I Today, uo on Weston mountain. Mr. Mr. Jarman was engaged In mer- Heubcrger has a comfortable home. chsndlslng In Weston and Athena fori She has been-bold enough to experl- t years, and has an enviable reputa- m,nt In farmin and has developed Hon as a progressive businees man and the diversified Idea. Bhe has fru't, upright citizen. Ho waa successful In hogs, vegetables and chickens and a both towns, and the recent closing of bank account the Jarman Department atore at We- Talking with her attorney. Will M. ton was In no sense due to any failure Peterson, Mrs. Heuberger told how. In of the business Itself. It waa well con- the summer, she often arises at I ducted and paid a good profit, but un- o'clock In the morning and begins the fortunate outside land lnvestmenta long drive to Pendleton, where she caused Mr. Jarman's financial dlffl- disposes of the produce of her farm cultlee. In a word (or phrase) "side- to Pendleton merchants. The trip Is walk farming" was responsible. At made In a day, and by reason of her that, he was not compelled to Close eary rising Mrs. Heuberger Is able to his store, but did so voluntarily In or- return at eventide In time to care for dor that aM of his creditors might be the chickens and hogs before she ro- protected and their claims fully satis- tires to rest from the day's toll fled. He turned over all of his prop-1 . What would vnu have done. con. erty and ends his bustaeas career at tented wife. If Mrs. Heuberger's lot Ivnl 'ft WT- V- -Wr r 1.. .Mi Elght-Foot Cedar Fence Posts tarred or untarred, at right prices Large supply of Lehigh Portland Cement Remmerer Lump Coal Dry Wood, sawed or 4-foot WESTON BRICKYARD hialiW?r.itefck.4iV,,XU-i.irltti.f Vtrt.Wi IXHIihl mi I Butter Wrappers Furnished and Printed at the Leader office Sixty (minimum) $0 75. One hundred 1 00 Two hundred 1 60 Each additional hundred 0 30 Weston with a clear record. From two to three montha each year. In the fall, Mr. Jarman will take vacation from the Schmidt store and had been your lot? go on the road for an eastern rubber wf th" " J"1 wpr house, making his headquarters at Denver. He Is well qualified as a salesman; and should "make good" In that capacity. Prior to coming to Ore. gon he received his business training In Chicago. Much regret la expressed at Weston Wayne Compton, Owenn Compton and Irma May. Among those present were Mr. snd Mrs. Henry Compton, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Faust,' Mr. snd Mrs. Ben Lee, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Dowd, Mr. and Mrs, W. L. Rayborn, Mr. and Mrs. A. population. wr lha ilnurfiin n( Ur Jiritinii mil vn. r. una Mrs. &a. i newer, r, his estimable family, whom Freewater n1 M- w ,. Mr. and Mrs. Itoy l. lnrt.rt fnrtunata In addina- to Ita MV! Mra. Jack Stamper, Mine Maggie VBUWH nnMli. 4 - l nil1 ford Price, Bert Ferguson, J. R. Eng lish, J. 8. Nell, Raymond Ferguson Honntali School EaUrtalmnent Vne;ter re.rg,on; f.";" J r iac?nDur-, ej. xiHnnaii, tf. rerua.n, ci- The Lincoln's Birthday program at mer Ferguson, Will Gould, W. Kay, O. the Weston mountain school, district I Olson. No: it, was successfully rendered In every way and pleased a large num ber of patrons who assembled at the school house. School Supervisor J. A. Teager was among those present, and he speaks In praise of the .program and of the work of tho school, of which H. W. Cope land Is teacher. It Is quite evident that the splendid supper served to all present also made a hit with Mr. Teager, who Is credited with the words: i ' "For a really good time, a big feed and a thrill of educational enthusiasm, district No. 4 ranks with the best." Tho program was rendered as pub lished In last week's Leader, with th exception that three pupils contribut ed pleasing number . whose, names Th Brigand. Pullman Porter-lfcisn. yo" sho' a in dusty. Passenger ire!gnedly Well, you may brush off about a nickel's worth. JodB. More than we ne la more than we need and only bard en to th bearer. Pence. On Thing Settled. "I understand Jone ba Just fallen Into a llttl money." -. "That so? Beside buying a ear. what do you suppose be will do with Detroit Free Press. WiWMMiWa WESTON to $35.95 $57.95 San Francisco and return San Diego and return vu Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co. and connections. LIBERAL ST0P0VEX PRIVILEGES FIRST SALE DATE FEBRUARY 20TH Local Lodge Directory For (all Information, ticket, etc dreu W. W. SMITH, Afent, WesUn R. BURRS, D. r. P. A., Willi Will 8TEVK.N8 LODOK NO. 4t, K. OF P. Mt every Wed needs . evening. J. K. Enfflish, C V. Clark Woodr K. of H. A 8. WWTON rDOB NO. US, A. F. At A. M. Meet every secovMV ami fonrth Haturilay In each month. Kkchartl Morrison, W. M. U. II. Davis, Meg. WKSTON LODOK NO. M, I. O. O. f. Meets evsry Thursday erenlnif. W, H (lould, N. n. A. A. Kevs, Kee. rieo.; V.. U. DeMoss, Kin. Hec. WIJiTON CAMP NO. 1)2, W. O. W. Meet Hie llrsl anil lliirtl Kalunlsv of each nionlh, Monro Tamer, C, C:, 1. i. Ileeler, Clerk. KURKKA AHMEMBT.Y NO. ti, UN Wi A rtlwiiiH. Meeift the Hint and third Montlnvs in each month, Nel lln Maylieu, M. A. 'rance C, Wood, Secretary. 8TKPHANIE TKMPLB WO. W. PY- thlan HUiers. Meet th seetind and fourt h Mondays in eah month. Ann O'Harra, M. K. V. Alio K. Prhr, M of H. & V. HIAWATHA HKBEKAH LODGB No. HH. Meets tha second am) fourth Tuesdays of euch month. Anna O' Ifarra, N. O. Odessa Klrkpatrktk, liec. 8e. Lottie Urgndt, Fin. Hee, CKKSCF.NT CHAPTER NO. fj, O. ; K. 8. Meets the second and fourth Fridays of each month. Mrv K. Homes, VV. M. Alice K Hrice.'Seo. Pittsburg, Ps. There are tft.OOO men on the payroll of th U. 8. Buet corporation.