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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1920)
n n 4.1 i! Ill AS Suggestions mm WEST ON LEADER . MRS. H. OOODWIN, AliUtt tdltw SUBSCKiniON KAUi Tho Year MJ Six Months Three Months 0 M J A perplexing problem that we face just now is what we are going to get for him or her as a Christmas remem brance. In our stock you will hnu numerous articles that will make prac tical as well as suitable gifts for fath er, mother, sister, brother or sweet heart. Come in and look. Its always a pleasure to show what we have. Below we have listed a few items ap propriate as gifts: FOR HIM Pocket Knives Razors Rifles Shotguns Roller Skates Coaster Wagons Sleds Tool Sets Hammers Saws FOR HER Silver Ware Percolators Electric Toasters Pyrex Ware Aluminum Ware Electric Irons Electric Sweepers Carving Sets Nut Pick Sets Potted Flowers WATTS & ROGERS ATHENA, OREGON MERRY CHRISTMAS! V! rISIT our furniture store while making your rrift selections. You will find many articles that will make pleasing and acceptable presents. A NICE RUG For instancewould please the wife. We have reduced our rugs from 5 to 20 percent. KIDDIE KARS Wheelbarrows and chairs for the little ones. ROSS Furniture Store Case 22-40 a 4-5 Plow Tractor Here is an efficient 4 plow tractor built and war ranted by the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co. It's the Case 22,40 kerosene tractor. Will pull five plows under favorable conditions. Has a four cylinder valve-in-head tractor motor. Burns kero sene economically. It has all cut steel spur gear. All working, parts enclosed and run in oil. Belt pulley is on crank shaft. Practical for all drawbar and belt work. Runs a 32x94 thresher with feeder and wind stacker. Then iin't a better designed and mora sturdily built or more dependable tractor nude than this latest Cue model. We'll prove it if you drop into our rtore end let lit explain. Whether you axe in the market now or later for tractor, we'll be glad to fee you at any time. DAVIDSON & HOFFMAN GARAGE . Athena, Oregon ai at a asvaN TER WRAPS Furnished and Printed at the Leader office One hundred 1 50 Each additional hundred..... 0 75 TERMS - CASH ONLY Advertising Rates Display, Regular, per inch .. Display, Transient, per inch Local Readers, per line FltlDaY. DEC. 11. ..20c ..25c ..10c 1(2 CnUitd t h peilolllt at Wtileit. Onjea t Meant (Uii mallmalUr. 1 1 I I ItORAH AS PEACE MAKER. Upon the principle that "half loaf i better than no bread," we are in sympathy with Senator Borah's proposal for bringing about by com mon agreement reduction of arma mcnt by Great Britain, the United States and Japan. The members of this proposed tripartite aro the only world powers of th first class in a position now to wage war and even they, especially England and th United States, would bo vitally han dicapped by the colossal war debts already incurred. Should they agree to gradual disarmament, or at least to abandon their armament pro grams, it will be a wonderful en couragemcnt to the disarmament plan of the League of Nation. The most essential thing in a pridcful. Jealous cow camp is to bring about the relin quishment of their weapons by its doughty gun men, if the desire Is to . avert rather than to encourage bloodshed. The tripartite powers would qualify as the only two-gun fighters in an otherwise popgun world. Should they lay aside their weapons it will mean that tho busi ness of peace has been embarked up on in earnest, and the business of war abandoned. NVc fail to fathom the argument of Secretary Daniels that the United States, already paying more than ninety cent cut of every dollar for war, must continue with a huge war program unless it joins the League of Nations. If it agrees with England and Japan to disarm, it will become to all intents and pur poses a league member, whether or not it signs the covenant Disarma ment is the great desideratum and indeed, the vital principle of the league. How this may be accom plished, by the league as a wholo or through the initiative of the pro posed tripartite, it matters not. With Germany powerless, and anx iuua herself to join the league, only sufficient force is needed to check the possible military aggresion of bolshevik Russia. Should the United States go forward with war prepara tion, who can say that it may not be come obsessed with the war lust? We cBiinot claim that in the pant we have been motivated solely by altru ism. Senator Borah's plan, or any plan that will discourage the growth of the military spirit in tho United States and throughout the world, is worthy of commendation. Ike TELEPHONE WANT DESIRES To give good telephone service. To keep its property in good repair and cxpund it to meet tho requirements of tho public. To pay wages sufficient to maintain an efficient and contented organization. To earn revenue that will enable it to borrow the money ab solutely necessary in its operations and to afford a reas onable profit to its owners. In the State of Oregon today our earnings are insufficient to accomplish these results and wc have asked the Public bcr vice Commission of the State to approve a schedule of rates which we believe will provide the added revenue required. , No question of stocks, bonds or capitalization is involved. The Commission will base its decision upon a fair value of our property for rate making purposes and our earnings and ex penses. We believe that the public, realizing the benefits of ade quate telephone service will support this effort on our part to insure the maintenance and development of a high standard of telephone communication. Vho Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. tilence passed them by. Are they grateful, to be consUntly grumbling over this, that or the other omis sion of Providence, when I'rovidence has really been so kind? , Now is the time when the man whose labor is chiefly mental to de vise how little he ran do for the money, is being summarily disat tached from the payroll. Attalia on The Columbia is devel oping sn expensive hole in the ground albeit everybody hopes that within a short time it will be oil well with Attalia. We prefer to consider the esteemed Oregon ian three score and ten years young, since it possesses so much of youth's virility and confidence. by tho Allies was rendered unrecog nisable. With Ireland staging a tragedy, burnt Cork is superfluous. NOTICE TO PATRONS FARM BUREAU MEETING AT WESTON DEC. 27TH "SAVE A BABY'S LIFET Says Edward Cookingham, director of the Liberty Loan campaigns: "There is not a heart in Oregon hard enough to withhold the money that will buy food and save the lives of Europe's baby war victims." The entire Liberty Loan sales organiza tion is back of the great Hoover movement for saving literally mil lions of starving children in Central Europe. So also are the Red Cross, Knights of Columbus, Jewish Relief Association, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Appeals to the people of the state ee made by the heads of rach of these organizations. "Ten dollars will buy the life of a child until next harvest," is one of the slogans of a campaign which touches the hearts and opens the purse strings of all who are not wholly oblivious to hu man suffering. "In the midst of this state's well fed comfort," we are told, "has suddenly been thrust the appal ling spectacle of 3,000,000 little child ren defenseless against starvation en trenched in the war devastated area of East and Central Europe. Every one with a heart, save a baby's life." The whole problem of immigration consist in letting the good ones In and keeping the poor ones out which is not so simple as it sounds. A counterfeit century note having been found in circulation, country ed itors will be put to the trouble of looking through their rolls. To the farmer who hasn't sold his wheat the "Do Your Christmas Shop ping Early" slogan is apt to convey a suggestion of irony. The Yamhill public market, once Portland's pride and Joy, is under fire for alleged profiteering. We'll te looking for a stall. A Farm Bureau meeting will be held at Memorial hall, Weston, Mon day, December 27, and is expected to attract a large number of representa tive farmers from this section of the county. Professor llyslop of Oregon Agricultural College will be the prin cipal lecturer. The subject of potato growing will be taken up at 10 a. m., and of wheat growing at 2:30 p. m. All farmers of this district are in vited and urged to come and hear the agricultural lore which Professor llyslop is so well qualified to present. NOTICE. Beginning January 1st, 1021, we, the undersigned, will conduct our bus iness on a strictly 30-day credit basis. All .bills are due and payable on the first of the month following purchase. Credit will be discontinued to all who allow their bills to run longer than the 10th of the month. On all out standing bills not paid by December 31st, 1020, there will be 8 per cent in terest added until paid. LIBERTY AUTO CO. -WESTON GARAGE. In order to avoid much unnecessary inconvenience, wt must request that all patrons be prepared to pay their bills when our collector calls. Wt also desire to notify them that all of our own responsibility for service ceases when electricity is delivered. PRESTON-SHAFFER MILLING CO. LET US BE GRATEFUL. This country's crops of 1019 were worth in round numbers, fourteen billions. The crops this year, al though larger, arc worth only nine billions. In money, that is. They arc worth just a3 much for clothing and sustenance. They, would be a godsend indeed, more welcome than gold or gemn, to Europe or Asia. In fact, the United States is enor mously rich in all forms of actual wealth. Unless a member of the lim ited pauper class, the poor man in the United States is only relatively ' poor in comparison with his more fortunate neighors. It is this fact, not actual poverty as it is known in huegry and suffering foreign lands, that makes for restlessness and dis content in our beloved republic, whose people arc possibly blesscd' beyond their deserts. Their children arcnot shivering in rags and starving for a crust.- War has spared them and pes- Warren G. Harding has been made a union printer for life, and ha can have a "sit" with us if things get too slow in Washington. Many 'other men draw $50,000 sal aries, but Judge Landis will get to see the ball games free a real and en viable privilege. A Kentucky observer thinks an e pidemic of kneemonia may be ex pected this winter, if epidemics fol low the styles. A Seattle thief who relieved his vic tim of a $500 bank roll gave him back $20 an example of touching gener osity. In tho alliance between Turk and Bolshevik it will bo difficult to de termine which has the worst partner. Looks as though the producer has been producing faster than the con sumer has been consuming. Normalcy is a word much nicer than is the process of getting back to the condition it defines. ' Ten dollars could be no better in vested than in the life of a child. . A Peppery Pair. The small team of government mules, celebrated throughout tho countryside which Jim Jones has put to work on his new mail route out of Athena, may be as dangerous as dynamite, but they are also as full of energy. Jim drove them 1C7 days in succession, with the exception of Sundays and holidays, on his Weston route, climbing upward each day about 2000 feet. During that time they covered a total of 4115 miles. They' are apt to get restless for lack of their accustomed exercise on the easier Athena route, and we will not be surprised any day to hear that Jim bas been spilled along the road. Disastrous Runaway. C larond Rhea had a disastrous run away a few days ago whilo going down the Harder grade into Blue Mountain station with a load of wheat and six horses. The lead team broke loose, frightening the other horses, and the entire outfit piled up at the foot of the grade. Mr. Rhea was fortunate enough to escape un hurt, but two of his horses each had an eye knocked out, and another was so badly injured as to bo 'rendered worthless. Miss Sabra Nason, county librarian, was in town for several hours Thurs day, re-arranging and classifying books In the local library. BIG CHRISTMAS TAILORING SALE Save $20 to $30 30 BDORP I on all World Tailored Suits rtul IMtaetlsa. Prlcu u low u they will It Mit Sprint WESTON BATHS. BARBER ' and TAILOR SHOP R. L. Reynaud f , x Have You Paid : YOUR BLACKSMITH BILL? i j ! If notwhy not? 1 1 J. F. SNIDER With the exception of General Wrangel who managed to get away the Bolshevik! have taken pains to see that every anti leader recognized Mrs. J. Harl Williams and Mrs. Lilian Fredericks visited friends In Walla Walla Wednesday. Dr. s. l mm Veterinary Scrgecs ij ' Phone Main 253 jj