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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1916)
Dr. Alfred F.Sempert . Gradual and Reglster-d DENTIST 'szr ernes uou&s i , I.OO U 11:00 A. M. ! -I 1:00 I 1.00 P. Mn ri BRANDT ULIX1., upstairs . : 7'-. l v. : , '.' ' I. - - ; Herbert W. Copeland Eyesight Specialist will be In Weston on Saturday; Feb. 12, 1916 , Consultation and examination i v f jre fro. Price rwasonabUj and work Ant elaas. I Mjgf Remember tb data. Oas. H. Carter Dan P. Smyth 1 Carter & Smythe lawyers v PENDLETON . . . OUEtiON W. M. ramN C. K. BluSe Peterson & Bishop ' uvvtts PvnJUnn, Or. , PrawaUr, Or. ompare ana wsmer Our VEUOW TAG PRICES ;i:s biinir to you. Thousands or pracucai, inniiy fkii know this. They plan for weeks and months ahead to take advantage of this annual bargain feast to the fullest extent. ; Ar n mw of thewaf If not, why not InaaatitraU rlfht now. Don t ; i ir . t yur;f lo d.i thla, tt (nvat:rt thoroughlwr Can you. in Jua-ru-.' ry.wirr:r, aflitrtl t k this o.p.lult pans wbaii It maana that iwjt i;-n th.r IJ iikt .t will bo buying tl aama rn-Ja at vlrw frmn 15 to S5 tvrttiX m..r f..r tbmr Tbafa oihi of tha baaulie of DAVlS-KAStK S JAN IAKY SAl.K-almit avary nrtiela tn tha immeitaa aluck is included, roduca ft ivtt t I rfi--vBTt, lha tvfcla and Eitda ami Iba DlaconUnuwi paturna. U ; ) - nilcrtktiit apply on lh ninal slaila. Bll-yaar-rouiid ttacaaaithM " ' ill V R.5.yrti (.ukiooii buy anyway at tba ragular prlcoa. 'itemcinbep. Yellow Tag prices are reductions from Davis-Kaiser's Kock Bottom. Plain Figure prices, and not frt'm Sliding Scale prices. It necessarily follows that every Yellow Tag price represents a real, bona fido saving. . 8o nma, kwk. Tha Uwgtt yoo lot tha mora It will pWaaa u. You will not ba urxed to buy. Always welcoma at Darla-Kssor you know-mor than waleoma. ; UIS - Complcta Furnlaliorg of Homaa, omcea, Church, Schools 1040 AMer St. (Odd Fellows' Templa) - WALLA WALLA, WASH. lair : m a " 41 X a t . at if : - w.nrri . CALIFORNIA Magnificent hotels cater to your every want, and you eat, drink, sleep, play and live out-of-doors. What better way to gain true rest and health? To wjoy every minute of your California visit, ask the Orcgon-Washlngton Raflrcad & Navjgajjon Co. UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM to plt W trip. It i easy when Ylt 1.1 . it eutav mnxuV' " M f BREVITIES I I nave lhra . f M fcereis for aaia at una dollar earn. Mr. I Wo4. ' n.v W. a. Payne of thla city la a- alstins Rev. O. A. Ilarmoa, formerly af Athena, la revival service at Appla- loa, Wash. , . Unlnr rar aervlc (a all aolnta. . m.hi. Alas livery and feed alabV aaBoelte lha Mauallea lilathimlta shop. Lets McHrlde. Mr. a4 Mm. Will Hum and B. C. n..ra wera absent Ihla nl bualnssa trip la Wnehluraa. Waah where Mr. llora haa lead Intereeta. Mr, ft, P. Miliar of rstsrpruH.. Wallowa county, waa here daring lha mt for a visit wtlh her stater, aira. Kdward Anderson and brother, J liiosigren, r I im needing moaey badir alara lha rtra a.hu-h destroyed ir buaiaeae, ana must Inelet upon prompt settlement from IhoM Indebted lo ma. K. M. Xaam, (Adv.),, la view of lha "lump" of grain bags to sieve eenla. lha Kagle reporta tnai several MIIU farmer ara planning elevators p ihelr oarp la ordar lo ml out lha each problem la future. Credit patrons of lha Weatoe) Meat Market ara notified herewith that wa will hereafter charge mtereei ai iaa par cant on aarr arcount wlihla thirty daya aflar ama la raaaarao. l-arry di Wabar, John Haamar, ona of Waaton'a aub. ataallal farmara. haa baan anjoylng milt hla laU amoaa old rriaoaa and araaaa la North trollna, hla aa tla alata. Mr. Haantar la aipactad homa la February. Arranaamanta hava baaa mada by tha Saturday Aftaraooa flub of Wra. i... i. nrtMt Tha N Mlnlaiar ai Athana aait Monday avaaln. Thla la tha muairal romady play whl h waa x BucL-aaafullx alvaa hara a Caw waaka lift Tha Praaa raporta that a aambar ol Athana farmara hara b-an raaomt hunarv nma birds la that lhbor- hood. Tm Urrraara Is raring for twa flucks of phaaaanta and ona roray or iiimmrtan nartrldaaa at nis raneo north of Alhana. Kotlra la haraby glraa to tba Wom an of Woodcraft that Fvdora circis kin tit at Waatoa has changad Its ragular tnaatin night from tha flrat and third Tuaadaya to tha first and third FYIlaa la aawh mosth, Allrf Kirk pal lit k, O. N. T.-'ir ft; but truly, you could hardly i-iojiUbly in any other way as by the prices our J&nuary Yellow HA ftSi Af ..uWVI 'VewtawaJwi "l ""ll 1 V?.f !'. or wricc uie vjcnti - i - , . , SER GO. alurdar was a big day in tha h.at atarU Ihroughaut lha Inland Kmvlra, by raaaoa ef lha subalsnllal Bdani la prlrw and tha artlva buying of M. If. Mouaar, tha big roriiana buy.r. Kvra prior la laat Saturday, lluuwr kf aradliad wNh kavlag bought fla million buahata alaoa lha flrat of lha yaar. Tha purrhaaaa of hla ran. diatoa ag'Bl Halurday aggrrgataf lt.t bufhtui st ana dollar par buah. at. ui lha rum day Haalua farmara dlapoaad of about H. buahals at lha dollar rata through Frank frtra. managar at lha Waatoa Warahouaa rompany. nral of lha larg local holdara war parauadad to lal go by lha tempting prtra off.rad, but ana of lha largaal atlll baa hla whaal. Imm yaar ha naarly hit lha top of lha mar kat, aad la aWdanlly ambitious la ra paaL . flural Mall Carrlar (lay Umlth and hla faithful govaramanl mul. did mini marry gilding tha othar day aaar lha HanH March pla aa Iry rraau. whara thara la a rary aiaap grada. Whaa flay sad hla aulfll atartad dowa lha grada a anowailda atartad wiib thorn and rarrlad thara fur dlaunra of It fact to tha bottom. Tha alalgh and mulas war aaarly burlad la tha anow but (! was on top, aad wllb rharartarlalla anargy ba bagaa to gig lham out. la thla ha eurraadad. and finding hla rig undamagad. rama oa Inl tow without furthar mlahap. , Walla Walla' a flrat raid uadar.tha Waahlngtoa dry law waa mada Batur- day Bight by tha pollra. wba roan an unlawful quantity of whlakay la aoft drink amporlum rondurtad by ("harlra roltar. Pottar rlalmad that ha had lafl lha booaa In bla plar pro para lory to taking It on a trip which ha and hla wlfa wara lo maka, and had no notion of disponing of It un lawfully. Ma waa put undar bonda lo appear In tha auparlor rourt Tha da fan da nt la a bob or tha la's Chart Pottar. lha vetaraa ataga drlvar who waa a familiar flgurs la Waatoa In plonaar tlmra. Waatnn rattlamm raport that th.lr .. . hrrda ara keeping fat and frlaky and will evidently roma through tha win ter In good ahapa. despite tha pro. longad period of anow. Feed Is aald lo ba holding out wall, and no ansloty Is felt oa Ihla arora. I. P. Uausllaa and Kalph Tucker ara feeding- at their reapsctlva ranchea In lha luotnina. Mrlirlda brothers and Jake Karkaua In tha Iludaoa Hay dl.tr let. and John Thorn nana at hla homa placa oa tha ITmalllla rlrer. la tha aggregata theaa stockmen ara wtnlartng aaarly ona thousand head. Thara Is talk In baseball rlrclea of tha revival of the Western Trl-alala league for lha coming aeaaon, to co tain tha towns of Wslla Walla. Ba ker. Pendleton aad La Grande. Theaa aam towns mnfle up tns oio inter state leagua about II years ago. whea profeaalnnal ball waa first Introduced n lha Inland Bmplra. Than, ana sine professional ball In this section has never bean abls to psy Its own way, snd his depended for support upon ths generosity of fandom. Mr. James H. ftturgla of Walla Wal ls, alder son of Mrs. Una H. Bturgls of Pendleton, and Miss Cecil Anns Poyd. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Poyd of Athena, war united In mar- rlaga Saturday at Portland. Tha wed ding was quietly aolemnlrad at ths Hanson hotel. Doth brlds and groom ara prominently Known, ana nave many friends tn'wl.h them happiness. Mr. snd Mrs. Bturgls will ba at boma In Walla Walla after February II. This from ths Milton fcsgls Is about ths most pathetic cold snsp Item wa hara had tha sorrow of reading: Tha worst complaint wa hava heard about tha weather haa been lha fart that several MOtonlte have bean unable to eat breakfast until so lata In the morn ing, owing to ths fact that their fate teeth froie solid In tha water la which they had been put to sosk ths night before." Residents of Weston war deprived of thalr wster supply Saturday and It was generally supposed that tha res ervoir had been emptied for the pur pose of cleaning It. On tha contrary. It emptied Itaelf of Its, own' accord through a bursted pips crossing Pino creek In tha Brehm field. Chief Wil son repaired tha break, and the r ervolr waa aoon full again. Ernest Cooper haa ao far recovered from tha effects of hla recent serious accident as to ba abla to make an oc casional trip to town. H evidently takes mom than a couple of broken ribs and a punctured lung to keep Mr. Cooper In the house. Ha is pre paring to leave In tha spring for Roy. Idaho, near which placa he haa leased 480 acres of state land. ,. - -,.. Acting with the Oregon delegation. Congressmen Nick Slnnott has intro duced a bill In congress lo appropriate 111,000 for the building of bridge across the Umatilla river at Thorn Hollow, and Mission. When the bridges are built, the county court hsa agreed to refund to the federal gov ernment one-third of their coaL Standing on the bed on which lay hla wife and child, H. M. Spencer, a Wasco, Oregon, rancher, atunned a mad coyote with the butt of hla shot gun and then beat the dangerous beast to death. After -fighting wlta Spen cer's dogs the coyote entered the cabin door, the rancher having flrat fired at It and missed. , Mr. and Mrs. X D. IMley or North Yakima, Wash., were here tor several days on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Orval Duncan. Mr. Riley and Mra. Duncan are father and daughter, and this waa their first .meeting for twelve yeara Mr. Riley la superintendent of a hop and grain farm near North Yakima. Herbert Baker, .rural mall carrier on Route No. l, waa prevented Mon day from making hla rounda In the Lamar neighborhood by a, bad .wash out on the road near' Pine creek. Re pairs were subsequently mada by nearby realdenta. ' , ' Anson B. Woods came over from Walla Walla Monday on very pleas ant business, which Is said to havs consisted In the receipt of a check for his wheat crop, sold to the Wes ton Warehouse company. A not true bill waa returned by the grand Jury at Pendleton Saturday In the case of the police officers who were accused by K. W. McComaa of assaulting him during the December election riot Dr. Copeland has fitted many palm of glasses in Morrow and Uinat.llla counties where other tiecialista bad failed. See him in Wesun r eu. 12. A daughter waa recently born to Mr. and Mra. Rome Kemp at their home on Weaton mountain. Tell Watts & Rosrert what you think about lt-Tiie Uljf Ad. (Adv.) Ha what Wat la 4 Rogers offer lb t'blldran la Ulg Ad. (Alr.) Tba gralraV barjcals In aa auto my liudsuassr. P. l. H aUs. (Ada.) Mr. snd Mrs. M. i. NurDeaa ars as paetad iiiim tomorrow -,fraea their iWt la Bpohssa, Itottart T. Ilroan, former deputy elerk, will Im a r'ulllcn rsrHlldais iut Vhsoouuty cioraip nvemiiateiM Do nisi fall lose Pr. CuprUml at Mrs. Km lioaiiling Mts, WaeMtn, February II. If your yea need atten tion. (Aiir.) K. P. Johaaoa haa re-purchased the Johnson place la the foothills south east of Iowa from Will Koaa, who bss been farming II for arveral years. Clyde maris motored over from Milton Wednesday, aad raporta lha road la fairly good eondltloa be I wee a Wtua and Its Interesting northern suburb. , , , i Mr. and Mrs. Oakler Taylor of Wal la Wall ars lha parents of an elght- nnaod daughter, born January in. Mrs. Taylor was formerly Mies G India Richmond, - A. f'bllllne left Wednesday evening for I'ortlaud lo attend the automoMIe show, lie la especially Interested la tractors, which lis ntnuamplst htnuV liny la Weston. , . . in a casual sod familiar way. Billy Graham cut loose lha word 'heteroge neous" the other night in Odd FelluwS Mir, and Is now locked upon as sum thing of pbllolujftsU Count rv roads la Ibis neighborhood k..a hm. nMi had la snots because of the eoow drifts. Kl riy were an set In ooedsy by a deep drift near the McGrew plar Kllding out into ine anow. none or Ue occupants were in jured. , A new floor Is being told In lbs Sating building at the comer of Main and Water atresia and It Is being otherwise Improved for occupancy by K. Zehm and Orval Duncan, They will fit up tha lower story as a bil liard and pool hsIL ' - - (.., Mra. J. & Kali and Visa Mary Lans dale returned Tuesday from their visit to Ken English at Auburn, Waah.- J. R. English- who secom panled them from Wealon. stopped at Portland on the return Journey for a visit with Frank J. Van Winkle. Mra. Dora Buckroaa. slater of L 8. Wood of this city, died Tueeday at Mankato, Minn. Mrs. Buck man had been a resident of Waseca, Minn., for many years, and was highly regarded. Mr. Wood Is bow- th sole surviving member of a family Of fire brother and five aisle rs. Fir in a room occupied by a girl student In the girls' dormitory build ing, yesterday, burned a hole through the floor and destroyed the window cunaioa. It was extinguished by Chief W ilsoa, who happened to be near. 1 he girl is aupuoseu to nsvs leit a nre burning when she went to school. In tha circuit court Monday Charles Mortamer of Weston entered a plea of not guilty to an Indictment return. ed by the grand Jury charging him with larceny. The complaining wit la la Nat Hale, and a watch and i a mall sum of money are Involved. Mortamer claimed that be took theae for aafe keeping whilaiattendlng' Hate during the letter's Illness. . J. A. Lieuailen. 'chief of police of American Falls, Idaho, visited with Weaton relative and .friends Sunday while on his way to, Walla Walla to teatlfy in a case there.. Jess aaya that American' Falls Is a fin town and he la glad ha landed there. He Is kept quite busy Jailing bootlegger under Idaho's atrlngent dry tow. aa hla Juris diction ta not very far' from the Utah line. Revival aervicea wilt begin 8unday evening. February t. at tha ' United Brethren church and will continue for at least two weeks. The revival will be conducted b,y an evangelist from Philomath,' Oregon. "Rev. Guy Fitch Phllps, assisted by tne local psstor. Mr, Phil pa has recently been holding union meetings In Portland at the United Brethren and Evangelical churches. . ; . ' Tom' MeCarty,' who resides on the ITtoe place ami is looking after the Keen pi ace on Weston mountain, per formed an unusual stunt Monday by killing a lynx with a pitchfork. He found the animal on ton of a pile of timothy hay in the Keen barn, and af ter calling nia wife to see it aailed into it with the fork. The lynx showed light, but was soon impaled and help less. It measured more than three and one-half feet In length. WESTON MOUNTAIN WEATHER PUZZLE Hack Wirmtr Tu&peiatoj TUa U Ui Law- ' land SwwlaH 1)0 behes. Some Interesting weather facta were obtained by 'phone Wednesday from C Wi Avery, manager " of the Blue Mountain sawmill, twelve mile east of Weston, Snow is now 53 Inches deep at the mill, with a loose top layer of about It Inches. The total anow fa '.I aince winter began haa been ISO Inches During the cold weather la the low lands the temperature was fairly warm at the sawmill, ranging from 10 to SO degrees higher than at Weston. When a minimum temperature of 14 degrees below aero waa registered here, the mill thermometer read 14 degree above a difference of S8 d greea In the mill's favor. Thla dia crimination on the part of the weather gods toward the "mountain district Is unprecedented lo local weather his tory. The temperature - even grew warmer aa the summit of the Blues waa approached. At the Lucie n Oat chet. place near the aummlt It waa four or five degrees higher than at the sawmill. Were It not for the SI Inchea of snow, the aeveral popular summer resorts In the' Blue moun tains might make a tempting bid for winter patronage -if the aame pleas ing brand of winter climate could be guaranteed In future. ' ' The Chinook thaw Friday and Sat urday in the lowlands was followed by another heavy faN of anow, ranging In depth around Weston from eight to ten Inchea With ' a much milder temperature than that of the preced ing week, a quite Ideal brand of win tar weather waa provided. Tha Chinook melted the anow la the hills and caused several troublesome washouta on the O.-W. R. A N. One of them, on Dry creek, was soon re paired. Another on the Wild Horse i between Pendleton and Havana, caug- with tie llig! WAWl It seems that Hardware, Lumber and Implements are on the UP Toboan ' and keep going up, in Bpite of our sending word down to Wilson three differ ent times. To help balance up matters for our customers and ease up on ourselves a lit tle we are about to make th following change relative to discounts. , . A Discount is a saving not generally figured on. How would it suit you if on and after February 1st we remember the children, the good wife or (if you're an old batch) the tobacco pail? We to place in The Farmers Bank of Weston in behalf of the Children (Your Children) an amount equal to five percent of your cash purchases or cash settlements made before your account is placed on Our Ledger every thirty days and on all goods that will bear a discount Said amounts to be placed in interest-bearing Certificates as the sums justify, but to be kept under W, & R. guardianship as a protection to all concerned.' Think this over and tell us your idea of it. WATTS BASKET BALL JINX PURSUES WESTON HI Last week waa a disastrous one for the basket ball losaera or westoa High. Friday evening the first team of boys lost to rrrndals at Ferodsle he 23 to 21. Saturday evening in tne home court, th girls' lost to the Pen dleton girl by S to tl. and th sec ond team of boys lost to the Miltoa Juvenile by t4 to It. It looked like easy plcmng lor wes- ton during ths esfller stages of the slrls contest. Plsylng In fins form. and with the effective co-operation of her team mates, Gladys Smith tossed basket after basket from the field be fore Pendleton began to score. Soon, however, the visitor . began finding both themselves and the baskets, and afterward ahowed aupenor team work to that of the local defenders. Their Junoesque Jumping center became re markably agile, their forwards nimble and accurate and their guards alert In the second half the visitors drew rapidly away and finished ths game with a good margin. Weston was handicapped by the loss of Its Jumping center. Miss Ferol McBride. who wss Injured In the first half In a collision with one of the Pendleton girl She plucklty finished the halt but had to be carried home during the Intermis sion. She hss since recovered. Th line-ups: Weaton Smith and Cooper, for warda: McBride. Read and Proebatel. centers; Pric and Banister, guards. Pendleton Rugg and Temple, for wards: Chestnut and Ferguson, cen ters: T. Thompson and C. Thompson. guard - ; Smith aeored all or Westona i points. Temple scored IS for Pendle ton. Rugg tossing the remaining two. The game Waa fast and furious be tween the Milton and Weaton eecond team neither team leading through out the contest by more, than two points. Burgy starred for the local The line-ups and points scored were: Weaton Burgy IS and Ray Gould i. forwards: Webb S. center: Otis Gould J, Tuck Smith and Cooper, guards. Milton Kyle 14 and SheKon 4. guards: Markham, center: Crlmmlns S and Lane 4, guards. ed by torrents of water sweeping down the gulleys, proved much more serious, and held up the trains for two days. Weston received Its flrat mall Tuesday since the preceding Saturday, and ita people were quite at a loss without their daily papers. The mall trains have since been running regu larly, v. Because of snow drifts, the road between Weston and Athena was al most Impassable for several days. Be low Adams, along the Wild Horse, the vounty road was washed out In aev eral places, rendering travel by auto mobile Impracticable. Fine, fresh and beautiful hut alto gether auperStious snow la today fall ing and drifting. ,. 130 d'i CLUB RATES January 15 to February 15, far $2.50 In advance Two gents' or La- ! dies' Tailored or Plain Suits eleaned and pressed, and one pair Trousers or Skirt sponged , ', and pressed. (Regular rates, 13.50 to U.) Try our hand and electric mas- age i or tne lace ana scsip. First-class Workmanship. ' Clean Bath Room. fJ9 1 Shoes Shined for Ladies - and Gentlemen. Weston Baths and i Tailor Shop I R. L. Reynaudf DR. W. C. HUGHES . Dentist Office In the F.lam Building, Milton Hours, 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 igostof and gTS A good time to fill your coal bins. We have plenty of Spring- Canyon and Kem merer coal. Weston Brickyard, ; mtt ilffitciiv . - assuasta i.aiiai "", .ai, I I "'ii . : j .. s ii i1 r - J Reds , , A Brass Bed of Artistic High Quality ITS impossible to illustrate all the beauty of this bed. all Its refinement of design and elegant simplicity. Wc want you to see it, whether you need a bed now or not. If its remarkably low price does not induce you, we will not urge you to buy.; , You will have to see it to realize just what an imposing effect it creates. ... J The Leader Prints Butter Wraps Home Merchant Prices ; 25 pound pail stock food 2.25 12 pound pkg. stock food ..... 1.00 7. pound pkg. stock food..... .65 2 pound pkg. stock food .25 Comparison of dosage two - tablespoonfuls twice daily. WE GUAJUUtTEE THESE 60035 looiiwio's Iroi Store 1 Weston - , - - ' - LiVliig . ,. , . r .... Sa : S! Mail Order and Ped- 1 dlers Prices 25 pound pail stock food M.M 7 pound pkg. stock food .GO 3 pound pkg. etock food ... .SO l' pound pkg. stock food ... .2T Two tablespoonfuls three . times daily. Mi ii Ore:; ii )