BREVITIES
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Mn. Loui Scholl of Echo
auet of Mrs. H. L. Hedrlck.
Having "sat up" the niuht be
fore, Andy Barnett went to slwp on
a load of log wood while driving
down the mountain a day or two
ago. He stopped to rest the team
in the shade of a group of trees,
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start, he was about two miles fur-
OVERLAND DELIVERY CARS 'qMW
ON TOLEDO MAIL ROUTE
Seventeen months ago the Toledo O
Branch of the Willys-Overland, Inc., A
sold six laotMli. ivlivery ears to
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Iamm Kinr rf IVndleton was fk..r rl.m-n th mountain, with the for use in hauling incoming and
here last week for a visit with her tre.m jogging peacefully along, outgtiing mail to and from the Kt
cousin, Katherine Lieuallen. The horses evidently knew where office and various railway station.
w t tx.-.. t.-A Kn they were giing and were on their The requirements which those
wMHi?VE? JJJS Vv. nd had eo.ne down a hill cars are called upon to fulfill are
Wednesday from three weeks ... f .hJI ,..,, ,...., i..alv all trips are
the faithful animals full credit, rush runs; the mail is held at the
Andy is also inclined to hand him- postoftice until the very la.t min
self a vote of confidence for not ute and only time is allowed to
rolling off the load. get to the depot and unload In
xi- ,vi i-i,i1,.i.v,,,iMr time for the train. The load com
...M, 9" Kirktriek and Mr. . . . . ma,,0 wilh
Virsl' Vv!,Tr.rtmmi bo no delay
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visit with friends in Portland
Mrs. C F. McConnell and chil
dren were visiting in Weston Sun
day from their home near Adams.
The Misses Hilda and Marvel Mc
Rac of Walla Walla were visiting
' friends in Weston during the week
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W. 0. Read of Athena is report- to IVrtland for a brier honeymoon. -ed
to have cropped 41 bushels to after which the begrooin will m)unt (f h tn(ffii.
the acre of that good old stand-by, enilst in the navy The bride is a , f
red chaff wheat. juccessful young . Sm-u art- ve!l with cobble
M&asM 3tS awetfa
trass-"--' sfffrSa ihh:
Gco.B.Carmich.e. has purchas- have tlie best wish,, of numerous JJ11 t'SJ-ft
ed an Overland Six Spocia'-a friends. . ni4fht wry Jay of tht. vvar
very attractive car from the local j N York has jUft completed a Each car has probably had more
agent. Dr. Kennard. 28 days' run with his Pride of than one hundred different drivers
Mr. and Mrs. Don Bennett and Washington machine and two 14- during these seventeen months.
J. ..!.,. f tVul!n Trtuhn haitr Mr. York's own Tl,.. l.iu.xt mil. air,, nf anv fit
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are visiting at the home oi Mrs. wheat averaged ousneisper acre, these cars is f. miles a any. ana mo
Bennctt'a mother, Mrs. Frank Hil- He threshed 440 acres for lley average is 5 miles per day al-
debrand. Winn that averaged 38 bu.shels. ways carrying a heavy load anil J
i w Pnr.nr nd fter O'Harra IIe finish his run on 40 "or ,f running at a speetl which is secial- V
J. W. Porter ana ixcr unarra lgce nonh of ,1,,rmi,t1 bv the Dolice depart-
SSato 5?S - th 491 bushels per acre. Not one of thc six 1200-.b.
enjoyment at Cnp McDougal ESS? JTbS SS 5S
Mi Anicc Barnes of Weston ha. JSSJ'iYSS have U.n lost during the entire
been secured to teach the LaMar " address Frank seventeen months of oieratu.n. .
SSlr mT'sLK &?K rtsrTre'tTvSed DR. S. L. KENNARD, tX-aler.
h?2JSf thShloHn0 disS with our new home and employment
. . . m ,,. ana are in warn oi huuhhk uui
No. 113 south of Athena, reports f'rT ' fj. ..
Wit viciuu kvauvd
Record Kept of Suar Sales
the Press.
After completing neat job of
harvesting with his McCormick
vunhine at the farm of Mrs. Wil-
ey, Eph. Tucker has moved to the All retail grocers of Umatilla
W. A. Barne ranch. He is being county have been instructed to keep
assisted by Mr. Gilliam as sack a record of all sugar sales from
sewer and Mr. Ellis as driver. August 1st. These records will l
Bert Piersol was in town Mon- turned in to the county adminif
day from the uplands, and reports f"d, J
afair-to-middling wheat prospect V11 ate.r. 1x5 by. .c. .offi;
in his neighborhood. He is bank- .ng up the individual
ing more on his poUto crop than consumers to see that they lave
anything else, having 25 acres of not purchased more than the.r
spuds that look very promising. Punds .Jr. montth J?-
K r Later on, it is anticipated, the
r . G. Lucas was m town monaay tate administration will issue in-
uw uuuiij divianai suirar caras.
Should the records show that
by buying from
stores, exceeded
from
is oper-
He de-
for a visit with
Shoshone, Idaho, where he
ating in irrigated land. He de- my person has,
21 tn. 1 A k Cum a .
Bcriucs ojiuoiiuiic as ui ...voi. v, several ainereni stores, exceeueu
live towns, and expresses great con- nj8 monthly allowance, the admin
fidence in the future of that section jgtration has authority to prohibit
of Idaho. the offender from securing any su-
The best yield of barley yet re- gar for such period as the adminis
ported from the Dry creek neigh- tration may fix, or the offender is
borhood was that of Preston Smith subject to prosecution under the
on the John Harder place, where hoarding act.
he cropped 35 bushels to the acre. Special permits for canning sugar
His wheat made about the same are still being issued by the admin-
average. The barley was spring- lsirsuun upon tutieiiiciiu diiui-ihk
Uie amount OI iruil which pcrnuii
desires to can. However, permits
will not be issued for sugar to
make jellies, jams or rich preserves
these being considered table lux
uries. In this connection, to help
out the housewife, Miss- Lorene
Parker, the home demonstration
agent, has prepared a recipe to
make jelly by using white corn
syrup as a substitute for sugar,
and will furnish the same to anyone
upon application.
sown on summer fallow.
Rulon Smith and Virgil Lundell,
popular Weston young men who
are now employed in Walla Wal
la, have decided to leave for
Portland next month to apw3Pnfor
enlistment in the service of Uncle
Sam. They will spend Sunday
with relatives and friends in Wes
ton. Reports from St. Nazaire, France,
say that Ernie Blomgren, Jim Kirk
Patrick and Sylvan Kennard have
been transferred from the 116th
Engineers to the hcaduarters com
pany of the 301st Stevedore regi
ment. For the present they will
continue to be engaged in clerical
work at St. Naaire.
Over on Dry creek the other day
Mail Carrier J. E. Jones saw the
past contrasted markedly with the
present in the shape of an old
fashioned cradle scythe and a com
bined harvester in active operation
in adjoining fields. The cradle
scythe even frightened his mules,
which are accustomed to modern
ways.
Private Cyril C. Proebtsel, in
ordering his Leader mailed to
Camp Lewis, writes that "I was
unfortunate in not getting with
the boys who left Pendleton with
the last draft, but am where I can
see them often. They are all in
good spirits and ready to go. I
am with a bunch of California boys
from Santa Barbara. If the spirit of
these young soldiers is carried
across, the Kaiser cannot last long."
R. G. Saling has purchased and
taken over the business of the Wes
ton Garage from Homer L. Hed
rick. Associated with Mr. Saling
will be Clyde A. Staggs, a former
Weston boy and well known garage
mechanic. Mr. Hedrick leaves next
Monday for Portland to take the
examination for a commission as
chief engineer in the American
merchant marine. He already holds
papers as first assistant marine
engineer, having followed the sea
lotaa tan ) ut 0,
Those "bomb proof ' Jobs do not
iwm. however, to be draft proof, es
pecially In the navy.
Without eiBEgeratlon, oar American
boys orcr there bare been fighting like
a bunch of wildcats.
FRANCO-AMERICANS
CAPTURE fISMES
Big German Storehouse Taken
By Allies After a Bitter
Struggle.
Paris. The town of FUm, Ger
many's great storehouse on the Also
Msrne bsttls front, has been taken by
the French and American troops, ac
cording to the French official com
munication. The Americans covered themwlvos
with glory In the band-to-hand right
ing In tha streets of Flimea when they
captured that German base. The fight
ing Is said to have been the bittercat
of the whole war, the Prussian guard
asking no quarter and being bayonet
ted or clubbrd to death as they stood
by their machine ruiir.
Flumes waa taken after a heavy ar
tillery fight. When the Americans de
cided to advance It was after careful
preparation and under a sweeping bar
rage of ahrapnel and gaa, the Infantry
advanced. There waa opposition from
machine guns, but the Americans
quickly silenced them.
The Veale river, which was flooded
owing to the recent heavy ralna, ham
pered the German rear guards which
were unable to ford the stream.. Moat
of those Germans were killed and the
rest were made prisoners.
Allied forces In purauit of the Ger
mans paiaed through veritable charnel
houaes.
Bodies of men and horses are min
gled with broken down vehicles along
side ammunition dumps, some explod
ed and otbera Intact.
Bodies of Germans found In clusters
beyond the range of the allied artillery
Indicate that severe punishment was
inflicted on the fleeing columns by
the aviators.
Neither will anyone object to the
substitution of chicken (or beef in
those harvest dinners.
The clover crop Is coming on fine, so
we shan't have to suffer from any do
verless days this winter.
Some enemies plot to wreck troop
trains, others merely conspire to get
rich off government contracts.
It Is too hot to do anything but lay
In that winter fnet Ton are craxy
with the heat If you don't do It
We should worry about those three
meatleas days a week I Just look at the
beans we've got coming In the garden 1
We care not bow often mother has
her day. but in Justice to all concerned
let's see to It that father gets his
nights.
ENEMY ON BRITISH
FRONT WITHDRAWS
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FORT SHOES!
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It will be gratifying to know
that you can come into your
home store and buy- a Hart
Schaffner & Marx or Cloth
craft suit the suits with a
guarantee as to style, material
and workmanship. Our prices
are less than the city stores
are asking and we are pre
pared to supply your wants.
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LADIES'
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Flvprv hniifipkppnm should have ;i nair of these
shoes. They are the real restful kind to slip on $
when your leet are urea tnese warm aays wnen
house work is taxing the efforts of home-makers. X
They are the soft kid, elastic sides and low heels
that sell regularly for $2.25 and $2.50. Our price t
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HARVEST SHOES
We are just in receipt of a delayed shipment of
shoes that were ordered particularly for this harvest
but were delayed in transit. In order to close these
out we shall sell them this season we make the
nrirp lowpr. Thev are 8-inch tons, licrht leather.
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We are making every effort to supply your
wants these trying times when so many government
regulations interfere. We ask your co-operation
and assure you we will do all in our power to serve
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country supplying'fruits, vegetables, etc., and will always keep the best in
thp. markets. .1
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Burlap famine threatens and price
of lea ther has advanced. Horrors I
What will we wrap our feet In next
winter?
The government's meat program Is
liberal enough, but not all of us like
our meat served as the government
likes its.
London. On the Brltlah front the
Germans have withdrawn between
Montdldler and Moreutl, a distance of
ten miles.
Advanced lines on a sector nearly
tiaie M av.ll 1nn tlAPttl lt T.A HftRMA
u.u m uiiiw vr9 - &
canal have been evacuated by the Ger- 1 , jtA VV VVVVt
mans and the Brltlah have puahed for- mmAWmWmnWAWVWtW
ward and occupied this ground. . -
Following the withdrawal of the
Germans In the region of Albert all
the bridges across the Ancra river In
the region covered by the retirement
have been destroyed. The Germans
are still holding the river crossing In
the village of Albert.
Further south along tha Avre river,
where the Germans retired from their
positions on the west bank, all the
bridges across the river bavs been de
stroyed and the roads leading to them
havs bsan dynamited.
la the reorganisation of tha rail
roads in the interests of conservation
and economy, will tfcs bigm amaan-ttrasula
nints that the Atlantic coast might
be sttacked have not interfered per
ceptibly with summer resort pstron
age. A great many Americans would
take" a chance for the sake of being on
bjiad to wttau Uis tre4-a.
( nttln mark, uvt ewrighu oM.lrmt or M
I-1'. ftvitU nwtlH. .tarlM. r phatn. mm 6
for FRII IAROH wl rwort
m imlrotmUUtf. BuknlanM.
PATENTS BUILO rORTUKtS
yn. Our trm bonktou bill how, oliM Iw lut
.! w n Write ,iial.v.
D. SWIFT & CO.
PMTlnT kAWTIHli
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The Prudent Man
will fill his coal bin when the fill
ing is good. Better order your
coal now, when I can supply you.
P. T. HARBOUR, Weston, Oregon
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i.iwroc I Phone 32FG Athena, Oregon I
Fsndklon, Or. f.Mwater, Or.' fyatottta
HOMER I. WATTS
Attomey-at-Law
.'raetlcea in all Stale and Federal
Courts.
'ATHENA, OKEQON