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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1920)
BREVITIES CHRISTMAS IS JUST ONE MONTH AHEAD OF US ONLY 30 DAYS AWAY NOW-ANI) ONLY 25 DAYS IN WHICH TO DO YOUH HOLIDAY SHOPPING. Come to hoc the uplendid assortment of merchan dise we are showing for Holiday Gift choosing. Here you will find the things f hat will make gifts of the "worth-while" kind gifts that will 'last that arc k'autiful and useful. TOYS FOR THE CHILDREN AKE HERE IN WONDERFUL ARRAY EV ERYTHING TO DELIGHT the childish heart and make- Christmas REAL for the little ones. DOLLS WHEELED GOODS . GAMES - HOOKS The Largest and Most Complete Stock in Walla Walla. Furniture, Rugs, Bedding, China, Glassware, Sil verware, Art Objects for Home Decoration, Kitch en Supplies. PIANOS and EDlSON PHONOGRAPHS Quality Goods at Lowest Prices THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Complete Home Furnishing Department Store 10-20 Alder St., Wnlln Walla. Wash. n . . . f J q r A o T 1 wl ci p S Pool. Hall O Lest Ye Forget Frttt SUck at Crip inlet rcj Sulk Cioty h ti ft. Hoy m, tell her your tnle of woe with fi nice box of enncly 35c to $( 8 o Davis Q Davis) g WW WESTON CASH MARKET FUESlf MEATS OF ALL KINDS HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR UVESTOCK. HIDES. PELTS, &c. HASS & SAUER I Good second-hand iinno for HW $60 cash, balanco f 10 per month. In quire itt thin office, Dependable Sp&rH Plurf Dodge Cars Service Trucks SUd4ji Mikes ol Tim Oils and Supplies Expert Repairing All Work Guaranteed MILLER & BOOHER WESTON "GARAG Mr, and Mm. C. K. KUk were din ner guests Sunday of Dr. and Mr. C. II. Smith at their attractive liomt In Athena. Mr. and Mm. Kllnworth Wood and children journeyed Wednesday to Lewiiton, Idaho, to share in a boun tiful Thanksgiving dinner at the borne of Mr. and Mrt. W. K. .Woods. Mr. and Mr. E. M. Smith dined upon Thanksgiving turkey and pump kin pie at the hoipitabto home of Mr. and Mr. Nelson II. Jonea. During the thunder atorm last Friday evenlnK J. N. York lout a IlelKian mare for whirh he had re fuiied an offer of 1270. The luckless animal was struck In the bead by a bolt of lightning whirh broke numer ous bone. Thin make the third an imal that Mr.' York ha lout from a lightning stroke in recent yearn. W, M. Davis has sold to Lurk-n Cagnon a tract of garden and alfalfa land containing acre near Wild Horse creek for 14000, The tract will be occupied by Mr. (jagnon't son, Clarence. MUs Louise Rintoul win a week end jrucitt at the homo of Dr. and Mr. C. H. .Smith in Athena. At Monday evening' meeting of Stephanie Temple, Pythian Sinters, a nioiit enjoyable social sciion wai held. Those present were entertain ed with music and games and re galed with clam chowder, ice cream, rake and codec. The refreshment were supplied by a committee of KnighU of Pythias, and Claude Price cooked the delectable clam chowder in a manner that would have done credit to a Waldorf chef. Clem Duncan and family of Spof- ford were among the Thanksgiving day guests of Mr. and Mr. Iven 0' iiarra. The Yakima section has shipped more than a million dollars worth of potatoes this season. Apple grow ers show a disposition to hold their product pending a favorable turn of the market, although shipment to date aggregate 4725 carloads. Prof, and Mrs. F. C. Fittpatrick and Misa Frank Harris Davis motor ed to Pendleton Friday on combined business and pleasure trip. That Spokane banks are not call ing loans Uf farmers who are holding wheat in expectation of rising price is indicated by the figures submitted in response to the call of the comp troller of currency effective at the close of business November IS. For the most part banks are continuing the farmers' credit and supporting them as best they can. The same conditions appear to obtain through out the Inland Empire, according to a Spokane dispatch. It nml 1 oa j oil , 1 Hi so IS YOUR' CONSCIENCE CLEAR? WE have been FAIR, LENIENT, and PATIENT, but Patience sometimes ceases to be a virtue. Those who are owing us a Past Due account, should Pay at Once and save themselves Added Costs, incon venience and worry. A word to the sufficient, This is Last Call. wise should be positively the Most Respectfully Yours, JONES & JONES. Etas was missed by Mr. Goodwin save a quantity of opiates -kept in a cabinet drawer, although it was evident that th store had been thoroughly ran- Stevens Lodge, KnighU of Pythias, gacKed untii the drugs sought were conferred the third rank Wednesday founj. The cash register had been evening upon J. V. Smith and Victor opened but none of the chance left Thoeny, V. L. Marr has disposed of his in terests near Antelope, Oregon, and together with his family ia visiting at the home of Mrs. Marr's parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Hopkins. """V , v """ " " ' the basement of Memorial at .St. Anthony's hospital. Pendleton, , . ,. nnA u miw therein had been taken. The robbery is ascribed to out-of-town drug fiends grown desperate for lack of their accustomed "dope." A Peninsular pipeless furnace of the larger size has been installed in hall .by in suc- City Drayin g W.VAV.V.V.VAV.V.V.V Drs. A. D. & R. A. FRENCH OPTOMETRISTS French Optical Parlors 15 E. Main St.-Phone 653 Walla Walla, Wash. Leave orders at resi dence (Marsh cottage) south of Weston Mer cantile. Phone SGI. GEO. A. LINDEKEN 1 Swwwwvwwivw HEMSTITCHING DEPARTMENT A. M. JENSEN CO. Hemstitching, Pccot, Chain Stitch ing Embroidery, Braiding, Plain Stitching, Button Holes and Buttons Covered, Pleating. MRS. C. E. FERGUSON Phone 936, Walla Walla, Wash. You Need Your Home Paper and it Needs You THE WESTON LULLS will ROLL, GRIND or CLEAN your grain, and will give prompt atten tion to orders for anything in its line. International Stock and Poultry Food Hay, Rolled Barley, Oats, Wheat and Millfeeds. Chicken Feeds, includ ing Corn, Wheat, Scratch Food, Bone, Shell, Grit, Meat Scraps and'Fgg Mash. WOOD and COAL. J. A. LUMSDEN - Proprietor wnero sue auoniiwa an upr. ,u Tuesday nirht lhe Monday for the excision of her ton- ncw furnacc radiatw, cheerfui " warmth for the crowd at the picture J. E. Jones has received the wcl- 8),0Wi and it wjj be a source 0f pro. come news of an improvement in the noUnced comfort during the winter, condition of hia mother, "Mrs. Jerry xhe improvement was bought for Jones, who resides at Lovilia, Iowa. the han, anj installed by Jones & She has been very seriously ill. joneg wjthout charging a dollar of George Rouse, local insurance profit. Its cost, including the neces man, has returned from a visit to sary excavating and the building of Baker and Ontario. He made the a brick flue, was $435, this sum be trip by automobile, and had a hard iug subject to a cash discount of five time getting back across the moun- percent tains. Miss Viola Gerking has just return- ' The Warren Construction company cd to her home near Walla Walla, ia . strengthening Weston's Main after an extended visit with her street bridge with heavy timbers, cousin, Mrs. O, V. Gerking Purcell., The company's motive is not wholly Realising that Thanksgiving day is altruistic, as it wants its employes the festival of home-coming, Esther to get across' the bridge safely with and Gail" Williams accompanied by' big, rock-laden trucks. Misses Edna'Cargill and Alta Knox, Joe Clodius writes to Iven O'Harra and Pryor and Lowell Smith, arrived from San Diego that he is "feeling in town Wednesday evening to share okay" and -going fishing twice a in a delicious holiday dinner at the week. He says that San Diego's J. H. Williams residence. Additional streets are alive with "blue jackets" guests were Mrs. Edith G. VanDeu from 80 war vessels stationed in the sen of Pendleton and Mr. L. Halscth. harbor. . . John F. McNee returned from Port- The grade pupils of Weston school land Tuesday to celebrate the national gave a very enjoyable entertainment feast day with the H. Goodwin house Wednesday afternoon in the High hold. school assembly room. A dramatiia- The Women's Missionary society tion of Longfellow's "Miles Standish" of the M. E. Church, South, will hold by the pupils of Miss Isaacson's room a bazaar and supper at Memorial occasioned much favorable comment, hall Saturday afternoon, December Wendell Phinney as Captain Stand- 4. Articles suitable for Christmas ish, Miss Maxine Culley as Priscilla, gifts will be on sale and the chicken and Cecil Greer as John Alden, pleas- supper will be served at 6 o'clock, ingly interpreted their respective ; Mis8 EliM Morrison and L. I. 0 characters. Songs and recitations Harra were Ruests cf Mr. and Mrs. one of the most noteworthy num- Dey winn Thursday to partake of a bera being given by Raymond Banis- dciiciou8 Thanksgiving dinner, ter comploted the program, which ; Xne Charles Schaal family were up was witnessed by a large audience of from Pendleton Sunday to visit for school patrons. a few hour8 wjth the R. L. Reyn- Druing show time Saturday night a'uds. Goodwin's drug store was entered Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Van Winkle en and robbed by unknown thieves who tcrtained Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Greer at took out an entire window at the (tinner Sunday, rear, about six by nine feet in di- ' Laundry work done at home. Mrs. mensions, and set it down without H. R. Riley, S. Broad street . breaking a pane of glass. Nothing Taxieab service. Wm. Beaton. Carrying the Crops. (The National City Bank, of New York.) It has been well said that the portion of all crops which is not wanted for consumption until months in the future must be carried somewhere, and that it may as well be carried in the hands of the farmers as elsewhere. Indeed, that is the best place for it, if the farmer can afford to take the risk of further declines, and always subject to the obligation which rests upon the farmer as well as every one else, to pay his current debts with reasonable promptness. The whole busi ness structure rests upon the expectation that men will do as they agree, and that the flow of payments in trade will be kept moving." Anything like a general suspension of the payments which fall due in the regular course of business, . compelling merchants aud others to default upon their obli gations, would make the whole situation so much worse that the farmers along with other people would be worse off be- cause of it. Nobody is justified in refusing to meet his ob ligations when they are due because it will cause him incon venience or require a sacrifice, for his doing is likely to hold up a string of payments and cause inconvenience and sacri fice to many people. Everybody should do his part to main tain conditions as near normal as possible. A farmers' con ference in Washington last week resolved in favor of selling to meet the regular demands for consumption, and this is putting it very well. The Farmers Bank of Weston BUTTER WRAPS at Leader Shop of book by Mm WtLf CUbor5 '-",- ' ' ' -v- " " ' ' ZaneGrey B. M. Bower - Harold Bell Wright William Mac Leod Raine Burroughs Rex Beach Jack London Gene Stratton Porter Pi