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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1917)
v. in 7 S 2i iKfi UliiL its s SALE C1" cn i I ! FREE with Each Suit . i i i ii. a special inducement we will rive FREE OH CHAKUb wicn eaen uoy win, a watch that sells for $1.00 to $1.25. The quality ol our boys suits is well Known, are the "Best Ever," fully guaranteed the most serviceable, styiisn uoh &u u mnrlvPt. Your hov will look we ( tressed in these suits because tney nave ine 4 I t ? t t f r t t ? T T t As good as they on flip snap and style about them you so much desire in a suit. Our line is very complete, com prising over one hundred suits. Novelties, serges, corduroys, etc., and the price ranging from $10.00 down to $1.38. .VV;y.YViV.VV.VAWAV.V.V.V.V.V.VAV.V.V.V We will take LIBERTY BONDS in exchange for Dry Goods, Shoes, Clothing, &c. Remnants Reduced You will always find splendid ma terials at substantial reductions on our remnant table. MILLINERY MILLINERY Mrs. Rabb is here every day and showing pretty new hats making to order and retrimming. Jnst today she has a new shipment of trimmed hats and they are beauties. Select your hat here where you can get what you wish at the price you wish to pay, and be assurod of the individuality in style and color you ho much enjoy. Between $15 and $35 we can show more high grade coats, suits and dresses than any other store in the country. Better assortment, newer features, showing the best styles tailored by experts. Many new things this week. BREVITIES I lie second regular nice the Saturday Afternoon the club year was held Octolcr 'JO at the home of the president. Mrs. K. J M. Simth. Mrs. Simth and Mrs. E. O. DcMoss were the hostesses. After the business session, during Dr. and Mrs. F. D. Watts arrived which the method by which club home yesterday from their Tort- members might aid the Red Cross land visit. auxiliary was discussed, a nroirrani Mrs. R. G. Sal ret Rabb and Mrs. motored to Walla to attend the "Kermes Roy Lieuallen has leased the G. W. Mitchell place in the Basket up lands. Mr Mitchell contemplates a of thc cIu,; going 10 vuuiornm lur me wuui-r. Merritt A. Baker is preparing to leave Saturday for an extended visit with his son, Bayles, and daughter, Hortcnse, at Lewistown, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Porter enter tained thc Weston school faculty WE'LL PAY MORE POSTAGE AFTER NOVEMBER 2 Jing, Mrs. Marga- was given on "The Presidents of the nw even announc re. J. H. Williams United States." Mrs. DeMoss acting raU.Si t0 takl. t. a Walla yesterday as leader. Pumpkin pie and coffee aml wc supp0S0 t were afterward served by Mrs. S. A. Barnes and Mrs. J. H. Williams. Mrs. Uden of Seattle, a house gue6t of Mrs. Wilbur Woods, was present and other friends Friday evening at "The Locusts." The evening was spent in music and games. Ice cream and cake were served. Marvin Adkins is entitled to wear the spud belt for supremacy among local gardeners. He dug no less than 40 sacks of "netted gem" po tatoes from the Bulfinch garden on Water street, where he . planted one quarter of an acre to this prolific vegetable. i While driving a band of 118 cat tie from Cove, Oregon, to Touchet, Dr. J. C. Baddeley of Athena lost some 20 head of them from the Toll In the course of one of his inter esting letters to his Weston home from Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C, Private Jim Kirkpatrick of thc Engineers describes the recent Grand Review of all the troops at the camp. It was an impressive military pageant, ten miles' in length. Camp Greene is credited with having made the largest sub scription to Lilierty Bonds of any camp in the United States. All the Weston boys are now "bloated liond holders" minus the adjective. G. W. Staggs and Iley Winn have completed their land deal, where by Mr. Staggs Incomes the new owner of 240 acres on Dry creek for a consideration of $42,000, or $195 an sicre. This adjoins the up per ranch of G. W. Staggs & Son on Dry creek and increases it to 720 acres. Their lower ranch contains 600 acres, making a total of more Although the Weston Leader lin-s frequently advertised his business, our postmaster has never so much an responded by making a single con cession on postage stamps. Helms ecu a raise in Ktal fleet Noveinlur 2, the editor will have to pay him as much as anybody else. He is developing into a worse mon opoly than Standard Oil or the pa per trust. As an apology for his offense Postmaster Van Winkle sub mits the following announcement from the department another free advertisement: "Pursuant to amended sections 399, 400 and 402, Postal Laws and Regulations, Mstnirastcrs shall on and after November 2, 1917, toe that postage is paid at the rate of three cents an ounce or fraction thereof on letters and other first class matter except drop letters. All drop letters, that is, letters mailed for delivery from the office at which msted, including those for delivery by city, rural or other car rier of such office, are required to have postage paid on them at the rate of two cents an ounce or frac tion thereof. Postal cards are re quired to 1m: prepaid two cents, and therefore the one cent postal cards must have a one cent postage stamp affixed to them in addition to the one cent stamp impressed on such r. ,p.'U" , We Can "Take Your Evs,ry n n who r! a tfun risks hir hibicctnuy. Whnt. sjcriiicmg to JjackJ-in J; . t i 'I. you buy helps van thc Wr tf August 25, 1916, Mrs. Van Hoy offiect Lm Secret of Ztppellna. preceded her husband to the grave. Amorion Truinlnu Camp In Krnci. The departed pioneer was known a uumbT of moriran army offlrn as a good citizen, a man of probity inspi-ciod ih" ficrman Zfpplio Mil and industry and of kindly eharac brousht down lnirt by Fn-nrh tvu- teristics. About five years ago he united with the Church of the Brethren, and continued a member until his death. Funeral services were conducted at the late home of the deceased Tuesday afternoon by Elder John Honewitz. Interment was had in I. O. O. F. cemetery. tnra Haturdny. Tbe marhloory ami Inatrumxnta of thr almhlp mr un dmaKil, firm lntanc of lla klo4 alncn th lioRlnnlng of th war. All lh- German almhlp nfrrcta are now known to llin Americana. Notice of the Construction of Sidewalk enrds. Post cards Drivate mailinir Gate corral. He is naturally anx- than 1300 acres of wheat land cards bearing written messages ious to get track of them, and will which they will handle in future. mimt have two cents postage pre- appreciate any information that lo- Th(. party ltf Athena hunters, paid on them. Postmasters at offi- cal stockmen or others are able to t;ain pamDrUn, Homer Watts, Bill ces of address shall be careful to give- Dobson and Fred Boyd, returned rale up with thc proper amount of John Banister junior will have Sunday from their long stay in the postage due on all mail reaching some beans after all from ten acres . region of the Continental Divide, their offices with the postage hi. which he planted near town if dry and report splendid sport. Four sufficiently prepaid." weather continues long enough to elk fell to their guns. ' permit of getting them in the sack. Work on Weston's new concrete Death Calls a Pioneer There was hardly a sign of a pod on gidewaks j8 progressing favorably. the vines until after the September Gasoline nower was applied to the Khnlhv S Vn Hov. an old and Saling-Snider mixer thus expedit- respected pioneer of the Weston ing operations. neighborhood, died at an early hour J. K. Jones had the misfortune Monday morning at his home in this Tuesday to lose one horse of his city, aged sixty years, black farm team. The animal died Mr. Van Hoy was born June 8, of lockjaw ' 18-r'7. Kentucky. He was mar- , ' , f , , n ri,!"1 ScptemlMT 20. 187!), to Mary R. W. Brown and family left in j m umJ ,.amt. lfJ ()n.gun wj(I) their car this morning for a vis.t nj(( family in 18r,. They located with friends at Walla Walla. M Dry cm;k( but jn rect.nt yt.ar!, Mrs. O. M. Nevin letf yesterday had made Weston their home for Portland, where she will reside They were the pan-nls or seven ram. ine poos men Degan ting on" and matured rapidly, vines were cut this week. "set- The L. R. Van Winkle received news yesterday of the death of his uncle, Isaac N. Van Winkle, at Portland. The deceased was 80 years old and a pioneer of the Willamette valley, where he settled in the sixties. He is survived by biB widow, one daughter and four sons. Among the latter is I. H. van winKe, as- Notice is hereby given that pur suant to ordinance duly passed by the Common Council of the City of Weston, Oregon, it Is projiosed to construct cement sidewalks on both sides of Main Street between Wash ington Street and Broad street, ahd the south side of Main Street be tween Broad Street and Armar Street, thc cost and cxtense of con. strucling the same to In- made a charge on and to Im; paid for by the' lots and parts of lots and parcels of land fronting upon said portion of Main Street in proportion to the frontage of the respective lots and parcels of land. Any person desir ing to remonstrate against said pro posed improvement should file such remonstrance with the undersigned within ten days from thc date hereof. , Dated this 17th day of Octolier, 1917. ANDY.T. HARNETT. J Recorder of the City of Weston. Portland Shipyard Strike Over. Portland. Or. Virtually unanlmoui Tnte of th union affiliated with the motal tradri council of Portland and vicinity having brn recorded. 7nno workman, after being out on atrlke for four and five wrokn. reaprctlVAly, returned to the yaxda Tucaday morn-Ins. Wc do not mean this in a belligerent sense, but that wc can take your measure properly for your FALL SUIT Wc represent the well known Field & Roberts and Z Herald lines. Orders taken for KNICKERBOCKERS WESTON BATHS. BARBER and TAILOR SHOP R. L. Reynaudl W. M. PiUrien C. H. Bliho Peterson & Bishop LAWYERS Pendleton, Or. r rcewalcr, Or. I Seattle Shipyards Resume Operations. Seattle. After being Idle for almost onn month, the shipyards of the Scat tie district resumed operations Mon day rooming. It In expected that work will be pressed to the maximum capac ity of the plants, many of which art working on Kmcrument contracts. THE MARKETS Portland. Barley No. 1 feed, 149 per ton. Hay Timothy, $27 per ton; alfalfa, 2. Baiter Creamery. 4c. Eggs-'Hanrh. B3c. Potatoes ILSOttMi a hundred. Seattle. Butter Creamery. 4c per lb. Cgga rtanrh. "c. Potatoes MO H B0 per ton. PURE ARTIFICIAL ICE Weston Transfer Co. Davis & Ellis NOW'S THE TIME to my your Weston Lcudur "sub" mmm sitstant attorny stfoeral of Oregon, duriuj; the winter. children, four of whuin burvivc. Tom Gould was over from Milton this week, iM'iw? interested in Wcs toa'B biduwalk operation. Senator Chamberlain has romo home from Wanhlnjrton for a rest and a visit at his Portland hume. Iruila mrliaaiHipwirns1iirtlifaini orn Tli-lu fur rati at AftCH noon pn imntMWHr. Hand ntertnrm pAT(Nra build ronruMia voti. OurfrbookMtfUbe. wbmtlulMvmt ml you wmy. WrHltly. D. SWIFT & CO. 303 Seventh St., WashlngtM, 0. C.