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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1918)
SPRING TOPICS BREVITIES You probably expect on early nprin this year why not bo prepareil for it? The first fine day you'll want to jret out in the pardon -art' you am plyjjupplied with garden tools? Wo have some re maining over from last year on which the prices havo not been advanced. For Your Spring Hrm-o Cleaning you will need O'Cedar Oil, or U.jull Veneer, Old Knj?-' lish Floor Wax, New Aluminum Cooking Utensil, Odd Pieces of Furniture; perhaps a New Hug-a New Range; wo will make you u liberal allowance on your old range. Spring is in the air; you'll Hoon get the fever get ready for it. v Vho Davis-Kaser Co. Homefumlshlng Department Store Pianos Music Phonopapbs 10-20 Alder Street WAV If WAV T Walla Walla, Wash. SHE'LL LIKE YOU BEST la Our Band-Tailored Suits J !i Practical Patriotism WE SELLO 'The best is always tho cheapest." " CIGARS TOBACCO , CANDY and CONFECTIONS fi i t 0.K.CAIIDYSH0Pf Hreathea there u man with soul bo dead who never to himself hath said, as a .well groomed lady passed hia view: "Some class!" Surely tho rule works both wavs. Remember, mcn:--,,SilE will like you best" in a high class real Custom-Tailored 'garment. See Our Big Spring and Summer Display. WESTON BATHS. BARBER and TAILOR SHOP R. L. ReynaudJ 1 have 3'JO acres good wheat land near Lind. Wash., all In crop, for ale at a bargain. This will beitr clow investigation. F. D. Walt. r Odessa IlrkpaWck 1! AWAWAVVAVAVAVAVA5 Chaa. H. Curler Dun I. Smylh Carter & Smythe UWYOtS rendition Oregon It VULCANIZING BATTERY RECHARGING PROMPT REPAIRING g0T New Ovcrlmid cur for lilra ft Pennington & Ollarra QUALITY is our watchword. The furniture we sell is good furniture. DeMOS T How about yrun bin? Get your order in. W. & H. New Overland ear for hire, nuire ut McndwHI garajte. Ollarra. C. F. MrConnell and family w-rc un from their Adam farm for ('llHUlttUqUM. Cyril l'rH-llfl ha accepted a Mition In the Haker-Uoyer Nation al Hunk of Walla Walla. Services will be conducted at 3 p. m. next Sunday at the Kpiscoal ehureh ly K-v. Alfred Ixckwood of Pendleton. All are invited to at tend. W. L. Ituyborn. Will Hull, L. II. f)owd and T. J. McCarty, acornpan led by their respective families, were among the Upland citizens who attended the Chautauqua. Wanted- Ked Mexican lieait. Send samples, stating amount iu have, whether hand-picked or n cleaned. We are cit-ih buyer. Or egon Fruit ('., Portland, Ore. At the United Brethren church, (reaching Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:ao p. m. All other service at the usual fiour. You and your fumilv are invited to attend these services. K. F. Wriggle, pastor. ' Judge and Mrs. G. W. Phelps, Judge and Mrs. C. H. Mansh and Merle Chessman, city editor of the Fast Oregonian, wire in Weston Unlay while motoring through to Milton. Their trip has to do with the Junior Ked Cros drive and other war work. The Northern Grain & War, house company of Portland has acquired the Dement Bros, flour milling plunt in Walla Walla for a consideraiton of $'.'00,000. The Dement mill ha a capacity of 650 barrels per day and is the largest in eastern Washington. Connell' famous Red Cross war pig, by which 750 was raised in two days at Pasco and Connell, will tour the Inland Empire to further swell the Bed Cross fund, according to Editor E. G. Bonney of Connell. lie own the animal and always re serve the right to make the last bid in order to keep it in Red Cros work. At Connell the pig changed hands 30 times in a few minute. E. S. McFadden, advance repre sentative for the Ellison-White ' Chautauqua System, left Saturday morning for the south after success fully assisting the local committee to "put it over" in Weston thi year. Mr. McFadden made many friends for himself and the company during his stay in the city. He is a cousin of Lieutenant Curran (Pete) McFadden, now in the service in France. What is thought to bo the largest check for charity ever sent from the Northwest was one for $70,000 recently mailed to the American Committee for Armenian and Syr inn Relief from Portland, by the Oregon branch of which J. J. Hand saker is secretary and Ben Selling treasurer. Thi check is -part of Oregon' quota of $150,000 for the relief of more than two million sufferers in Asia Minor. The handsome and commodious new school house on Dry creek wa the acene recently of an interesting debate and program given by tho Literary society. The relative mer it of the tractor and the mule were discussed, with tho result that the poor mule had to give place to the demand of modern progress In agriculture. The program was var Among Zeke K ..-Sr X. Jk 9 w m2 thetl ' 0--' 11 .ft j ' I THIS IS HE Engine directly behind seat One man in seat . One man on bag platform- End with 8 of 10 horses you aire ready for businei rw I I. Youi i r ii Si53- SP 111 NOW WATTS & ROGERS Methodist Service Flas The Weston Leader is on a Cash Basis Subscriptions, Jobwork and Advertising A common-sense and logical ser mon on the duties of Christian citizenship during the great war which he declared to be a "war to ena war was given oy kcv. r. t. Downs of Milton to a large congre- the gation Sunday evening at the Meth- watgaassas . l; U TU,. Iv.k Curt. -v Prcston-Shaffcr Milling Co. Established 1865 v Athena," Oregon . Waitsburg, Wash. American Beauty Pure White lour Made of selected bluestem in one of the best equipped mills in the Northwest. Sold in Weston by Weston Mercantile Company InA , nm-i divortinir. odist church. The church and Sur ings by Mis Godbold and Gail day school flag was unveiled, and Miller William. contained 22 tar. representing the . . ' . B, ' following Weston soldiers: Leonard (Dumpy) Blomgren, . jmer Tuckeri Herman O'Harra, Weston soldier boy in France, ' is Qrval Waiden Lloyd King, Willie studying the language of our Ct0uld Jim Kirkpatrck. Sidney French aide and never neglect a Barnes Maybee, Claud Oli- chance to practice it upon the i po- Carmen Oliver, Ruford Price, lite and smihng natives. Not long gM Murphy, Dr. C. H. Smith, ago he walked into a shop to buy a Robert . :hant in the eye, gesticulated, w E,mer Ferguson( LanS. 8 drugged hi shoulders and parley- dalC( Wftrd Leonard Btom- fi gren certain article and looking the mer chant in the eye, gesticulated, 6 vooed in approved Gallic fashion. When he had finished hi calisthen ics and was gasping for breath, the shopkeeper dryly replied in perfect English: "We do not keep it here." A recent basket social at the La Mar school house netted no less than $90 for the Red Cros. Bert Richards of Athena was the auction eer, and lucn was tne persuasive The Farmers Bank of Weston Established 1891 Feature of the musical service were the "beautiful violin solo by Miss Brown of Columbia college, and singing by the Wcjston male chorus. Announcement I herewith announce myself as a ii i i r lii eloquence of the well known Athena canaiaaie lor ine Kt-puoncan nom- j. that the basket sold like ."" v""y . the Sahara, and UDJe 10 OIwuie ,vie" "l S Jurist oink lemonade in one of them brought no less than $8.60. Link Swaggart was the purchaser in this instance, and de clared it to be among the best in vestments he ever made. The pu pils gave an excellent program un der the direction of their teacher, Mis. Clara Stent, ' the primary election May 17, 1918. J. M. ASHWORTH. Be Prepared The third Liberty Loan drive will start April 6th, commemorating our entrance in the war. 1 If you cannot buy bonds, buy War Savings Stamps or Thrift Stamps. They all help to win the war. -' . ' Be prepared to lo your part, and assist your lo cal chairman whenever possible. ; For Sale Cheap Two good work horses, sound and true; 2600 lbs., h 9 and 12 years; also good work har- ness and a few household goods. $ Qnn Davie Xr Fill's a V!