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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1920)
V . w .iff 1 A Jolt to the High Cost of Farming More truth than poetry in the above. Our store is now finished and is over flowing with new goods bought in the Watts and Rogers way. With new goods and an up-to-date store we are now in a position to give you what vou want service. We cordially invite you into our new home, and will take pleasure in quot ing you on your needs. We know we can save you money. Yours for a Bumper Crou WATTS & ROGERS ATHENA, OREGON Saturday, March 20, is BROOM DAY. A high grade house broom for 96c. it in the following month, and It In charged that In one if those In stances an agreement to purchase had born entered Into between tho treasurer and the broker befora the bond were even voted. The (mention that stick out like a naia wart relates to the ivbkom why Mr, lloir could m't have bought ' these bonds himself ami aaveil 1KI Man Oregon Jt;i7,fK0 In commissions. S. A. C. TENDERS KITCHEN TO MEMORIAL HALL COARO - Tuesday evening, following the motion picture entertainment, the Saturday AftcriitHin rlub publicly de livered to the board of directors of Memorial hall the kitchen In its present state of arrangement anil equipment. During the past year the club haa centered ita aetivitiea upon providing a auilable and con venient kitchen for the hull and each member has generously contributed both time and money with this object in view. Appreciation was expressed for carpenter work donated by Henry school SchrueJer and Marvin Trice; elcc-' farm. trical work by Glenn Morrison; ma The McLouth family will move terial furnished by V. C. KiUpat- mxt week to, their mountain rnm h, rick, and the efforts of C. W. Av- recently purchased. Albert will re cry in pioinir water into the kitchen main and continue his Mivery bus t no expense to the club. Mention imos for Athena merchants. was made or the Jones & Jones contribution of a quantity of white t "OVER THE HILL" The American legion Is arranir- Insr yreut boxing card for ftitur. day. April it, at Pendleton. Robert CopHM-k returned Mondny from Hot lake, somewhat improved In health, lie left Arthur still at the aanataiiiim. Mm, Kliia I'iukerton and son, Frank Kly and family were Sundny Kuests tit the home of Mr. and Mrs r'rvd I'iukerton on Current street. Mr. mid Mm. Joseph N. Scott mid iIiitiKhters, Margaret and ruulino of Pendleton, were dinner guest Sun day of Mr. and Mrs. M. I.. Walls. Mr. W. R. Storms, wife of the tlnptiKt niinister in Weston, with her daughter and children, was a truest at the decree I'ayne home Saturday. Wesley, the young roll of Mr. and Mrs. Mcl.outh, had tho ill fortune to lose the tips of three, finger lust week, while working "with machin- Charlcs Williams this week muved Ins family to the ranch south of town. Ruth and Frank will attend in Athena, inline from the ISllJIMsi 7 vest I WW II 1 I mm I WESTON LEADER CURK WOOD, Pbllhr MRS. It GOODWIN. Assistant Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES SMctlv in Afbnct The Year 12 00 Six Months 1 00 Three Months 0 60 ntlDAT, HAICH 12, --- - 1920 E nitres at tht sdotlict st Wsitsa. Orcjea iiccvnddau mallmatttr. y ADVERTISING RATES Regular, per inch per insertion 15c Transient, per inch per insertion 20c Locals, per line per insertion ...10c enameled kitchen utensils, and that of the Weston Mercantile Co. cm bracinir three dozen cups, saucers and plates. Thanks were extended to the public for co-operation in J,he various enterprises which furnished the funds for the work. Following is a statement of mon- m con- the very heart of the covenant If changed in any material respect tho power of this article and conse quently of the entire covenant is nullified. He does not apparently mojveJ ,nd txpvnM object to an interpretive reserva- ncction with tho kitchc prwJcct. won. a.mougn ne piaimy regaros RcceipUN0V. n, 1919, lunch af such as supernuous. It seems to us tcr picture hoWi joq 50. Nov- u case wherem the personal and do- proceeds of Thanksgiving market. Iitical antatromsm undoubtedly felt 263.36. JaB. 20f 1920, lunch served Arthur ouglu will by a large number of republican..-, nirtur hw u?n. ....! property and build a Work on income tax returns tins been strcnuou un Attorney Watts and 11. H. Hulmnls the m.l week. l!oth have put in Ioiik hours tus.ilmir with long columns of Inures. Workmen are putting in a new bridge at the point where Wild Home creek crosses Third street. The work will be rushed to completion in time for the hardsurfaclng to begin. Mrs. Lulu Read has purchased the residence property on Fifth street occupied by II. I. Watts, from Mo. M. U I-ecpcr. At some future time take over the modern home STANDARD THEATRE Wednesday March 17th Also International News nnd Rood Comedy. Orchestra Music. Shows at 7:30 nnd 9:15. Tickets, 25c and 50c there. senators towara wuson occause or choose . u t B 0,,u,"u Expemlitures-CofTi-c pots $3.50, Mrs. Minnio Willaby was in Tort- j ir T o . . dl8ne market supplies $12.92. land this week where she went to at- and Uncle Sam'a clearly set forth question is one that should be en- Profiteers say there is no race so easy to successfully play as the hu man race. Jack Lait is responsible for the ob servation that powdered noses can't smell news. - uuijr, v rantre 174 hR ramm mn nn Anuvn tpn.i h.-r mn f'lvl. im.l..rw...,t in his letter. The u k v.'. rh,.... tiar. t i ..r.ii.. i.. . i..i i ten doxen Community silver tua- hospital. Clyde resides with his spoons $31.00, carpenter work $15.00, family on a farm near Condon, Gil painting and papering $10.00, plumb- liam county. ins $79.56, lumber and hardware xn M, jolllll cttmo UJ, $10.00; advertising, janitor work, from h.-r homo in Wn,,.f $13.00; total, $277.49. an(r MH...t ,i, w k t th i 1 Balance in treasury, $23.07. Mr. anj M. Melville Johns west of Dr. F. D. Watts, as president of town. Flint Johns is also hero from the board of directors, in a few .Vancouver, assisting his brother in happy remarks acknowledged the Mry spring work on tho farm. lender ana appointed .Mrs. r.. M Divorced from her husband, Mary Pickford wil be better able to qualify as "everybody's sweetheart." We clip the following as one of the latest and most poetic of "tin lizzie" pleasantries: "For Sale - une ford car witn piston rings; two rear wheels, one front spring. lias no fenders, scat or plarrk; burns lots of gas hard to crank. Carbu retor busted, half way through; en gine missing, hits on years old; four in the" shock absorbers, and iwo. inrec Smith cugtoian of silver, Mrs. Ella spring; has Lavcmlar, and Mrs. C. F. Hulflnth to cveryining. act with Mrs. SmJth a3 rarc.Ukers in con- President Wilson has jtaaiaior ousted, sure docs leak; ot kU community property omerenuai s cry. you can near u nection with the kitchen, squeak. Ten spokes missing; front The c!ub ia()ies thl.n fUPnhd evidently all- bent; tires blowed out-ain't cake and coffee to cvervono froe of developed just about a pronounced worth a. cent. Got IoU of speed; charge, and those present regarded a case of "disability" as Niagara will run like the deuce; burns cither the affair as one of good fellowship Flta- as or tobacco juice. Tires all off; and jnoi,,,, enjoyment. I been run on the rim. A damn good HT I J . A. . . 1 . - lucre uuvn v seem mj uk any ue- ford for the shape it s in, mand for Hoover except among the voters, according to Cleveland Press. If rural teachers do not get a liv ing wage, the "little red school house" may really develop red ten dencies. .,( , The bird man who flew seven miles high above Dayton, Ohio, ex emplified a different and Jar more daring game of "seven up." Much as we admire the Pacific Coast farmer as the kingpin of in dustry, we trust that his judgment in holding high-priced spuds for still higher prices will not be justified. We rather fear, that if the Great Jehovah- should happen to hand him a constellation he would ask for the milky way. ADRIATIC PROPOSAL .In the western territory of the United States last year, 412,469 meals and 128,584 beds were supplied in 32 Salvation Army homes. President Wilson says that he is unable to distinguish the difference between a nullifier and a mild nul lifies Perhaps one would modify by nullifying and the other nullify industrial by nifying. There Gary Taylor, who recently wns promoted to the managership of a new J. C. Penney store at Kijksville, "l;(, Mo., has now established himself in that city. "The Taylor household tlwro was recently saddened by the death of ono of Mr. Taylor's sisters and her infant child with influenza. The Athena High school baseball team is gettinc well under wav in practicing for the season's confer ence games. Tho grounds will soon be put into first-class condition. Ihc district trakk mw-t will be held 10 DIDTIV IfinCDTPn Athena this year, and the local 10 rAIilLI AOULr ILU thlt't; rc soon to round into form to compete in the different events. William McPherson caught a steel head trout in tho loivcr Umatilla river Sunday that measured 32 inches and is in line to win the $25 prize rod offered by Watts & Hogcrs for the longest trout cauirht durlnir Washlngton.-Prtsldent V.'llsm th.c Rh,ng wson. Harold Haynio, cepts with reservations the proposal of v'no omj)anicd Mr. McPherson, the British and French premiers that 8,80 cauhi KHd-iI steel head. Italy and Jugo slavia undcrtako a sot- When Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Caton tlcment of the Adriatic guestlon. He arrived homo from a winter's stay las also putvhniied the Mrs, Un ul;. tier house on the West sid anil will mov it to the Third street site. The hou:tn will be remodeled in bun galow style. I.enora L. Troth has tiled suit or divorce from Morgan I.. Troth, whom mIiu v. in marrieil in 1.HJ4. She alleges desertion. The plaintiff, who resides in Athena, has rrtnincd Homer I. Wutls an her attorney. The couple have no children. The infant child of Mr. and Mn. Walter Hoohor, born about tin dnys I Moiidity uinl un buried Tuesday, The young parents have tiie sympathy of many Athena friends In their bereavement. Mrs. G. Kopriva, wife of the pi tr of the Metlmdi.Ht Kpt.wpitl church, arrived home IKt evening from .S;ioknm when nil Mrs. II. A. Itarrett and her little daughter, Genevieve, have both xrn ill this week at their home on North Fifth street. Mm. It. II, Hill vUiled yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs ta Otis Whitcmmi, in Walla Walla. Mr. and Mrs, A. A. Fuss, who spent the winter in Portland, re turned home luht night. Miss 'llnlnin ('rnliill was in the r"y from Weston Wednrsdit". uidciwcnt it surgical acrutiuu. In the on-hard districts near Med ford, robin mid sparrows feeding upon rotten and fermented apples, became intoxicated and went stag irering about, flapping their wings in a iiio-.i undignified manner. Conn i led lo tion by one thousand moiiiim to force down the high cost recently of living was decided Ukjii at a miu meeting held in Spokane. if m v.. I i President Outlines Basis For Settlement but Objects to Treaty of London. JUN V-ill, ""vjli 'Willard P. Hawley Jr. of Oregon CifV flflvintr VMI tho tVtreria ii n brought by his wife, we are hopeful he ?reaklnf. that the . Hawleys will disappear from the front page. beach, and the flight of trulls. At all events, it is more likely '8 apparent that not a few sov that Bryan will control the demo- i"n citizens look upon world erotic Convention, as predicted by P6"6 firefly competing with a Mark Sullivan, than that the con- erchlight, compared with the ques vention will control him. tion getting beer with a "kick" . in it. Herbert Hoover says his ambition is to remain a "common citizen. ays that if Italy and Jugo-8!avla pre- California, they found their house are at least three things fer to abandon the so-called buffer outn of town had been broken into the average person never tires of state containing an overwhelming ma- an" robbed of many valuable artl watching: the blaze of a wood fire; jority of Jugo-Slavs and desire to limit t,cs' bedding, etc., and that lumps of waves against a the proposed free state to tho coroua aml dishes were broken. It is rc- a flock of separatum of Flume, placing tho sover- Parted that at the C. L. Woodward etgnty in the kague of notions with- noml wet of town, tho house was out either Italian or Jugo-SIav control, entered and table linens were miss the United States is willing to leave the determination of the common fron- A splendid display of fishing tier to Italy and Jugo-Siavla. tackle is attracting the attention of The president says ho "cannot poa- all who pass tho Watts & Rogers lbly Join" the premiers' suggestion store, hether you be angler or that the memorandum settlement of not, you cannot resist the temptation December 9 be withdrawn; declares to stop and "rubber" at tho artistic that "Albanian questions should not arrangement of what is considered Top prices paid for Old Metal, Rags, Sacks, Hides, Wool, Etc. About $7.00 for Old Iron J. R. Reynolds Water Street (second block north of Main) f; 1 I i ! ru WESTON . - . . . OREGON rD A quaint philosopher remarks We are inclined to think, however, tha ve Brc a" in favor of doing the be Included in tho proposed Joint dis- to be one of the most complete lines cusslons," and reiterate that the Unit- 01 fishing tackle to bo found any that he will always be regarded as mo8t ood to the greatest number- very much of an uncommon citizen. an the greatest is number one. -President Wilson's letter to Sena- Tnt Salvation Army distributed tor Hitchcock contains what seems 650,032 pounds of coal to the poor to us is unassailable logic. He ,ast yea" in the western half of the points out that the United States United States. took a stand for universal peace that ed States cannot approve of the execu- wncre tn Lastern Oregon. Of tion of the terms of the treaty of Lon- course, Bob Proudfit had something don. to do with designing tho window dis- Finally, he expressed the "earnest play hope that the allied governments will W. C. Emiiiel has received news of not find It necessary to decide on a the death of his cousin, Itev. Harry govern- IS. Einmel, which occurred while ho course which the American maue a ueep impression upon r,u- mere seems to be some reason accoraance wun us reiterated wai serving as secretary of the Y. rope. He does not say, although for the acceptance of State Treasur- tatement will be unable to follow." M. C. A. with American troops in this is a well known fact, that our er Hoff'e invitation that his bond Tne President's note to the premiers the vicinity of Rozdalncy, Siberia, government propaganda, spreading transactions be investigated. As the D0W be,n" considered by the allM The young man contracted typhus throughout Germany, had much to Oregonian points out it is pertinent nPree council at London. Mean- while 'doing outpost duty in the do with winning the war by damp- to inquire why the state treasurer time, direct negotiations between Jugo- swamps of Siberia. Ho leaves ening the spirit of militarism so long cannot bid directly for the bonds of BlavIa, and Italy are proceeding. widow and four children at Hood drilled into the German people. Now Oregon municipalities instead of ' River. Mr. Emnicl was born at Day- he says in effect that the United paying brokers two percent. There During 1020 eight counties in the ton' 0n'"' nnd httl rved as pas States should cither make good on are two instances that seem to call Inland rmi, ,m i...;i.i i tor of the Methodist church at Her- .,..,!.... .1 ..A ni. I iiinwil, aim MIBU ttb X'UCK nnu ivcn- will miles build of r , , V . w "'wk mateiy im m e of permanent " ' ' i"' """ "l ",B wraspon highway at an expenditure of $2,- " iuciid, wuim, umi. nu iwu- unuer oaie oi iMovemper l l'Jia: an- 375 000 Vivo nf h. : w-ay course is open; that if we do other by the City of W.rrenton W.Jhington and three in ' Idaho. Preparatory to moving to Athena not choose to fish we cannot even under the same date of issue. Both Adams county, Washington will lead Dr V IV witu h hn fh . i . cut bait Article Ten he regard. were delivered to the etate treasur- with 70 -DYttSSfc ' Sirt -S !2,S ToJ Current! lie' an expenditure of $2,- Iuano- was ,,uriea 1,1 b'- oeria. . eston mm J. F. SNIDER GENERAL GARAGE WORK Good Mechanics-Good Equipment " cAll Work Guaranteed AJAX and DlllOfi HES at the right prices Auto Supplies Try Us GENERAL BLHCKSMITHINC at Snider Shop