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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1920)
mas ingestions VVC8TON LEADER ClARK OOD, NUMm MRS. H. UOODWIN. AuIiImI tel sUMCRII'llON HAItl ,., it 4J-lH The Year UJ Si Month J l hrvo Months 0 w A perplexing p just now is what we are gotnjT to face mil lUSt now IS wuai v i " hr.r ns ji Christmas remem brance. I" our stock you will hml 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. It's 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 11 KR Silver Ware Percolators Electric Toasters Pyrex Ware Aluminum Ware Electric Irons Electric Sweepers Carving Sets Nut Pick Sets Potted Flowers AdvertUInt' Kt Display, Regular, per im-h .. Display, Transient, per inch Locul Reader, per lino ,.:Mc ,'.10c 1N I WATTS & ROGERS ATHENA, OREGON FRIDAY. DEC. 14. rl..l ! tlta "talflc t Wt.lee. Oraa.a .tucond cUit mallmtlUi. Emergency tariff legislation, passed by the present congress, Ut apt to prove a remedy more danger ous than the ill it acek to cure. It will be ill-considered make shift, hodge podge of clasa legiala tion, obviously (or the benefit of agri cultural interest at the expense of other interests. The p. o. p, will be wiso to take year at leant for ita tarilT building. The task is both del icate ami difficult, and cannot be hur ried profitably. The farmer will come out all right. Throughout this section at least he continue to be reckoned anionic it niost sub stantinl citizens, whoso broad acre are worth more money than ever be fore, in the unlikely event that he would consent to part with them. . E- mi, m.lfg--JnBg.Wftmj1' 'HI-HGHT" UTHH DRY P. T. Harbour PHONE 273 BUTTER' WRAPS at Leader Shop You Need Your Home Paper and it Needs You MERRY CHRIS11S! 1 As was perhaps to be exiected. this is the way it looks to The Wall Street Journal: -In other words, the United States government has neith er money nor credit to extend to farmers combining to influence un fairly a world market which is and ought to be beyond this country'a control. In plain terms, what the North Dakota banks have attempted and what the Federal Reserve board 4s asked to attempt is to finance tot tering bull pools formed by ill-advised fanners to create artificial prices for cotton and wheat." The esteemed Pendleton Tribune wants us to pay six dollars a year for that paper and receive two dol, li.rs for our own. We are rather glad of this excuse to cut tho "Trib" V, from our exchange list, as we were really petting the- worst of it on the mor Uxttjon js inevitable, this plan old basis of an even swap. nas much to commend it. For one thing, it would reach the spendthrift. !t is another evidence of New " York's smirking provincialism that The lrjCphonc company's loss this its people evidently prefer to be l-ir jn Oregon was $691,000, and it robbed or to die there at tho hands h(S on rlltimlltcj deficit of $824,000 of thugs and murderers rather than fof lg2l Tnig j,Mictes how little to move to a good, safe town like ,nybody knows of the other fellow's this. business most of us having hereto- - 1 1 ", -fore regarded the telephone proposl- At least ten million people are evi- m(nt dently doomed to die of starvation this winter in China. It is another We Mgume tj,at if Portland doesn't reason why American people should ,jue ju duty Crater Lake is due to be thankful that they happened to be bccome , destrt j,utto and Mount bom in this particular section of the ,Jood , hole in th, grounj. globe. . . ..Telephone Credit.. The telephone company will he compelled to borrow laiye amounts of money in the next few years, not only to extend its service to new subscribers, but to take care of the constantly increasing use of the service by present subscribers. A lender in business will demand of n borrower ample security and will insist that its value be maintained without deterioration. He must k shown that this security has an as sured earning power. " He must be satisfied that his investment is safe; that it can Ikj disposed of at any time without loss and that it will bring him a continuous return. At the present time this company's oj)erations in Oregon are conducted at n deficit. Its exjcnscs arc greater than its revenue. No return is being received by its stockholders from their property in Oregon. Not even the interest on its bonds properly chargeable to its Oregon properties is being paid from Oregon receipts. With new capital scarce and commanding high rates of return, a business showing operating results such as these will find it difiicult, if not impossible, to secure money for its neces sities. We assume that the people of Oregon wish to treat the utilities doing business in this state justly and fairly, and in this belief we have asked the Public Service Commission to approve a schedule of rates increasing our revenues. The amount asked for is relatively small to the individual rate payer, but the ag gregate will place us in a position where we can obtain the out side capital necessary in our operation. Under present conditions an adequate telephone servico efficient and sufficientis dependent upon higher rates. Vh9 Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Cm NOTICE TO PATKONS Dependable SptrH Flutf VISIT our furniture store while making your gift 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 Tunch board, gld rags, jaz and flivver get more "play" than the Red Cross in communities where a good share of the people have about as much conception of life's significance as a bunch of Fijians. President-elect Harding will be lost indeed if there should happen to be a strike on the part of the busy cab inet makers. "Every Man an Athlete" is the new sports slogan adopted at O. A. C. If every athlete is likewise a man, the college is certain to enter upon a ca reer of greater usefulness and glory. With the Georgia Peach as man ager, if the other clubs expect to put anything over on Detroit they'll have to Ty Cobb. There are no less than seventy-six millions of people in the little king- Trade will be permitted with soviet Russia at the trader's risk but it will not be at the Russian "trader' risk. Walla Wallans who seek to "sturt dom of Nippon, but friend California Homcthing" with their city adminis- Dodge Cars Service Tracks SUud.it fcUktl of Tilts Oils and Supplies Expert Repairing Ail Work Guaranteed MILLER & BOOHER WESTON GARAGE would evidently like to contribute few thousand more. tretion will now have a Hill to climb. When it comes to scrapping the k-airuc. let .us hone that Uncle Sam The news that the price of govern ment owned ships is going down joc.,, have to scrap the league leaves us unmoved, as they cannot DC used in navigating the Wild Horse or Pine creek. vc sinner ni siisffp There would be more occasion for rejoicing if the Pfymouth Rock hen would only unite in that great ter- We usually think of Uncle Smn as tall, but this year he is about fifteen hundred millions short. It's a merrier Christinas for the farmer who sold his wheat whilo the centenary celebration by laying a few selling was good. eggs. Some people there are whose ob jection to the importation of Cana dian products does not extend to their favorite kind of Christmas spirit. Our sympathy goes out to Hard ing in his effort to conciliate the Irreconcilable. D'Annunzio reminds us of a mite t'int isn't right. K AT COSTb We are overstocked on auto robes and horse blankets and must have money, -and have decided to close out these two items at cost. They are all the famous 5A robes and blankets and we have them in a large va riety of colors and patterns. COME EARLY BEFORE THEY ARE PICKED OVER. And there's a chance for cement ing family tics between the nations should an international court lead to international courting. wiiniaWoiiMMuo mm Milton, Oregon (Phone 122) Bootleggers Nabbed. On the home stretch of .his short tenure in the sheriff's ofllce Jinks Taylor is landing hard and often on the moonshiners. One still was cap tured yesterday, together with some liquid contraband, in the Frecwater neighborhood. The moonshiner, one Claudo Anderson, was taken with his Jonathan Bourne objects to the ' . . . T """"" , x',i..i Kienards' court at Atncna. award ui mc iiuwi vmav HEMSTITCHING DEPARTMENT A. M. JENSEN CO. Hemstitching, Fecot, Chain Stitch ing ' Embroidery, Braiding, Plain Stitching, Button Holes and Buttoni Covered, Pleating. MRS. C. E. FERGUSON Phone 93(1. Walla Walla, Wash. In order to avoid much unnecessary incunvrniviue, we must request that all tatroiis ho prepared to pay their bills when our collector calls. We also desire to notify them that all of our own responsibility for service ceac when electricity is delivered. PRESTON-SHAFFER MILLING CO. BIG CHRISTMAS TAILORING SALE! Save $20 to $30 m in on all World Tailored Suits Flail fteductloB. Prices lew si tatf will It ant Spring. WESTON BATHS. BARBER and TAILOR SHOP i R. L. Raynaud t t Dr. S. L KEI1IARD Veterinary Surgeon t Phone Main 253 I Perhaps Rockefeller's memory was aha taxed, since it seems to have dipped a cog in making out his an nual statement. Phone 83 DR. Residence 275 N. P. RENNET" Dentist Weston Mercantile Building Weston. Oregon to Woodrow Wilson, athan Bourne? Oh, why was Jon Another Freewater culprit, whose name is Hill, was found with two ten gallon containers full of intoxicants, and and brought by the sheriff before Justice wh0 Richards. Hill was put under bonds A negro footpad held up friakori Portland nolieeman tried to draw his pistol instead of 250 to appear next Monday for the color line. examination. The sales tax proposed by Otto II. Wheat Condition Good. Kahn New York banker and econo- The condition of Umatilla county's mist, would reach all the people in 200,000 acres of winter wheat is in 4lini. - 1 ti b aK,iun ffintwl Im 1 0n twrr,ilit- orrfirf 1 i ri cr in by their buying power, and would the recent report of the bureau of 3 yield $000,000,000 annually. Since crop estimates. City Draying Leave orders at resi dence (Marsh cottage) south of Weston Mer cantile. Phone S61. FASTIMH FOOIi XXAXaXa J T is not all over yet. We still -have plenty of candy left Some nice, big boxes and some nighty fine bulk'csndy. GEO. A. LINDEKEN llo)uu taught your barrel el flout? II not, kIijt notT DAVIS and DAVIS