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Weston-eader VOLUME 43 WESTON, OREGON. FRIDAY; MARCH 4. 1921 DAr. NUMBER 39 1 nrnnir rttlrn f auric MLLcir WHEN TRAINS MEET Ortzoo Rewi HoUi lli iluud River county court ha. la wnh4 lb aalary of lb frelt In spector to f HIO year. A electric cancelling machine hat DC TT yifi Elephant On His Hands m Train Jump! From Track beea receives piece u operation Directly Into Path of Another. Fetter, led Talrlyeeven bod lee were recovered from lit wreck Han day tight whea the Ceaedlsa and tba raterstete Limited, on tba Michigan Central end the New fork Caairal Ifaee, respectively, crashed at a croea tag bar a. 0tae serea of alfht of lha bodies, which were badly mutilated, may never ha leeatlfled. Tba Mlrblgea Central trala bad been derailed by the automatic block system. It plunged shMd od lha ilea Bill It eama to rtat across tba Naw Tork Caatral right of way. with two day eoachea at tba point of Inter auction. At aoarly ality mllaa an hour, tba Kaw York Central trala fa ma oa, tba tiara of Ita headlight warning many of tba doomed peeMogere, who leaped from tbatr aaata. Oaa or two reach ad tba doors, but aot oaa escaped tka eraeb. Tba wrack occurred at tbla lonaly Junction point, which la about It miles from fblrafa. by tba Band post office Total tai levlee la tJalen county for tka yaar lit" ahew aa Inrraaaa from tflMU tl aa 1111.141 M. Scarlat favor aad maaalac have reached tba apldamlo rtage la several seetkms of Donglea county. Tka wool aad wobtlr grower, of Laae county mat at Bageae aad or gaalsed a cooperative association. Tba atata Irritation ami titles cam ailseloa ka approved tka emfre Issue of H.leO.OOO of Medford Irritation dis trict bondc. Tka Clatakaala kraut plant. oaad by tba Oregoa Packing eoeraaay, kaa eloeed tka season wltk a total output of loO toaa. Tba road fond of Columbia eoanty. laeludlftg Boma ipaclal tales voted by several road dlatriets, amounts to al moat IJOO.OOO. A 21 foot taction of tba pavement oa tbo Columbia blfhway, Just weet of Clatakaala. waa carried away Sua day by a alldo. tha material, with the exception of a antes- iaea, which la of myrtle Mid waa eecarwd at Marehnald by Mr. Beneoa. Tha aarfaaw of tha altar at inlaid wltk twenty-nine trienfles of highly burnished weed, correspond Ing to the charter number of tha le aal lodge. Mr. and Mra. Lao Beekner and Mr. Fred Bocknor will laaro tomorrow' for Montana, wharo tkey will aa employ ad oa tha La Craw atork raneb. aa J rhllipaburf. FARM L0A!1 ACT nrnirtn wtn Isgrosatini (33,009 FROM "OVER THE HILL. P. 8. La Crow loft Tucaday are nine to aptnd a week on hit a lock of her eerioua Kinase at her home ta Spokane. At teat aceounta aha was reported to be morerlfljr. from a ear fical operation. l Mra. E. H. Caton waa again taken to Walla Walla, after ependinf a few day a here. Tom Caton came down from Spokane to meet hia mother and other mam ban of the family. The well being driven oa the Bob't. Coppoek residence property oa cor ner of Fourth and Adams a treat, by Mr. Weet, had reached a depth of til feet at quitting time last arming. Mrs. M. M. Johns, who has spent the winter here with her eons, left Sat urday morning for her home at Van . .I.., i. ,n tourer, Wash. WMhmatoa. VVe arrm Mrtfcc, fjl mlwmA l ! atHirOft JeC4? gart, nee roaa. will ragret to learn n(mt rCy ScaatW.i Louis Audette, who raUed wheat on a ranch south of Athena, la down from hia home In Alberta. He la credits to farmer dtrowgs federal twa basks, was declared rsftd M meeaV preme aoura. In aa opinion, whlok Lobdell of th faraj teem Vserd efared remeeed every shadow of fee Heft as to the leatdfty of (be aeaAa ey their boads. he eonrt hard eongraan had aathonty to esUkttsh Dm bad banks and to exempt the bonda frets) state taxation. He aaaooneed there wwrtd be en Immediate Issne of farm ban s ' to flnaBce the hundreds ef mitr - of dollars la leaaa a rarer ed by .w board. - " . ' . Farm loans sggregatrag mora then U.00,M have been bald up etaee May, 1110, aa a result af Uv dnit. ' Applleatloaa to thla aaaenat we auspend telephone aervke at Athena Alben Petersen, government trap. Mnf, n MonUna. : from I p. m., March th, to 13 noon, par at Cklak, la Cmatllla county, re- (fn. D. H. Sanders left Saturday Sunday March 0th. ports a month s catch of II coyotes for Corvallis for a visit with her In- j, j. LieuaUrn, who recently return- aaa taree aoacatt. valid mother, Mrs. Ashpaugb. d from California, where he and his i Ksyaood 0. Esaeiuan, former nei R. L. and E. L. Cnrlctenacn, aona oi family snent the winter at Lonr anwaanraT all al riTmam all f si nalalliaai. uM TJC'eam yaal aia-an Ian Vat oil TVm tm t. t .t . . fa wa. r a i to HJ'lrn.w! wS 'Jrttlckf MM ,m " -iddleton. Idaho, visiting at the home ,ng hi ,iUr, Mr. Caton. gaa Central trala crew falM to ob- PM" l?"' ofr,U,,Lm' .!':. . Mr- Mn' "' ho aarva atoa alanaJa at tha intersection mvwn UD rmrani ww vmmw owpnrne, (pant the winter at ealem, returned I. .w. .. lot perarnae. gottae: tae tatenor or rrea Kaa tka ana uuiy rinnenon week. Mr. Hales is emBloTcd oa V-..:a 1. .nr.vr. the raeetat of aasneatlan ZZZZiZZ &T?"m' UJrJJSSLSTt " 71 rh0m"n r"Ch BOrth- erip in tteir automobilea with haviag .topped with rlmloner derail awitek. f fV'lv weat of Athena. th, ,xetptim . t milea in the I-tfa aaaeuacemaat. On, MarA L . Tne oapy aaugnier 01 r. ana mrs.ft Miss Gladys Dickenson waa token mountains, where ther shloDed their !. " r fw " , . . . j ram.lr.a- MM ama f UnA h. the penaiBg WBOn VOBBimWrai King's dominion, aad has flatterta nBOOBe4 ' fetTmen farm crop prospects for the coming sea- " meUta U' ' eon. Born, March d, 1M1, to Mr. and decision ef the cenrt. Mra. M. W. HanssIL a boy. Offldsls pieced the total amoirat at Famllica of Charles Gerking and w aaeyaace n r.orr. B. WoodwaH ere home from K SI Bjmay umes Tks Pacific Power is Light company CONFERENCE Oil MANDATES INVITED Paris The council of the League of KaUons, la IU reply to the Assericsn : ; note on the mendatee enostlon, In vitas the United 8latas to send a rep resentstlve to the Bast meeting of the council, to be held In April, It waa learned bare. The reply was cabled to Washington by the American em bassy. Concerning the Island of Tap, tha reply says the council was obliged to aecspt the deelalon of tha supreme council. It Indlestea, however, that the whole eoeetlon may be reopened If the Waeklngtoa government eeee fit to eeod a plenipotentiary to dla cues the matter. kaa asked permission of tts public j,cj, Murphy, died Monday of spinal to tha eaniUrium at College Place Kmc cooiiHi.iH w meningitis, alter an liineas 01 sever- this week for treatment. She has rates sod street csr fsres In Astoria. Harry Wilson, a laborer of Eugene, baa left for his old home la Boston, Maia., declaring his lateaUoa of walk ing the entire distance from coast tr coast. The tSipayers of Aatoria school df trtei voted oa the queation of authoris ing an Indebtedness of 171,000 for the kulMIng of sn annei to the high school building. . , A aew entitle has been purcbeesa by the Hood River fire department at a cost ef 111,000, snd a bow fire hall coating fM.000 haa been finished and equipped. John MeCue, an expert logger em I days. been unable to attend school for soma Scott D. Fisher and Henry Schroe- time, der are at work on tha interior of the John Benson, who in the past haa new home for the local telephone ex- displayed considerable art In wood change. The switchboard will he work, haa completed a beautiful al moved from the present locstion to tar, which he presented to Pythian tha naw location, second door wast'of Lodge No. 29, K. of P., last evening. the First National Bank, Sunday, a'nd C. O. Henry and York Dolt furnished A CAKG0 OF WHEAT LOADED 27 YEARS AGO cars on the railroad, between a coup le of stations. James Henderson expects to lea re on March 16th for hia old home in the north of Ireland for an extended riait with re Is tires. He haa leased his land holdings in Alberta for a year In order that he may be free to make the trip.' Jamea haa promised the Prose man a blackthorn cane, cat from n hedge In old Erin. A Dry Fiah Ladder. That old, old story relative to the annual negligence on the part ef the authorities in not providing a suit able ascending place for aalmon over the dam on tha Umatilla river, below Hermiaton. ia verified by Robert thai tlsUsLeeo had been adrsaeeal to Tl JM farmers aad that appltestioaa ' from 111.714 persons thea pesdiaf tailed Wn.000.000. six mmFi ' SH0T.BY QJTfcl Cor. Despite tba appeal for clone) easy made recently by the Cork cwaV poratlen. the six Irishmen in JkO hera whoae deatha were fixed far Monday en eharges of levying war against th crown forces, were ev.ecq.ted by taw military. The men were abet h who was at the dam last blche talOTT PANAMA PRESIDENT SAVED . Treeps Step Mob That Ireaka Into Maneten. Panama. One person Is deed and when the presidential guard fired upon a mob which broke Into the eiecutive raanalon here. American troops arrived at the home of Freatdent Porras Juit la time to ssve the prealdent'a life! The stuck upon the palsee wss In stigated by men who had become maddened over a published Interview In which President Porras was quoted ss ks?!!5 deelsred himself favorable to a diplomatic settlement with Costa Rica after Panama had recovered ter ritory Costa Rica forces seised last ' week. It ia asserted the mob which broke Into the palace Intended to as (ssslnsta flenor Porras. . J&ZZ&SSXZ First One Dispatched By Firm Having 5: C Instantly killed when he waa struck by a falling tree. Tha annual report of the Mount Angel Creamery company shows that during tha last If months total aales amounted to 1114.000 and 1104,000 wss paid to patrons for buttsrfat. , : With the exception of measures Local Offices in Many of Our Inland Empire Cities. . 1 1 ,. m i -t. .v th an nenim van. i dhut a ends of steelhcads battering them- rthy. Tbomae O Brien, .and Jahn Allea. ';.''.". The first five were mdanined Ci: selves against the impassable obatru ction, and plenty of surplus water diverted from the head of the ladder. Mr. Proudflt aays that only a little attention to the matter by those in authority, would place the ladder in Pendleton Tallte Base Ball. The baseball warble is abroad in the land, with tha reault that bats, One day in the fall of the year, ducts of their new cereal mill 27 year ago, ia a memorable one in should be called "Kerr'a Rolled the history of Kerr Glfford 4 Co., Osts" "Kerr's Wheat Flakes," fm MmTn auxTeri., from wound, 'oarry.ng sm.rg-nc, clau.es. .11 bill. on. of tha wall known Portland con- -Kerrt T-ncake Flour." etc. It waa condition for th. smon toacend it,. nrM.i.t rirM ,tnon passed at the recent session of the corns dealing in grain. On that alao decided that every sack or the river to their spawning grounds. legislsture snd algned by the governor day a big four-masted aailing vessel package of these food products will become operative oa May 21. lifted anchor and pointed her prow should, as well, bear the distinctive Farm bureau repreeentatlvea from- toward the open aea with the first picture of the old four-maated sail all parts of ths stats have been at cargo of grain ever assembled by ing vessel which carried the first work ths past week obtaining mem- that firm for export to foreign lands, cargo of northwestern wheat e& bera among the airmen of Columbia Since that day many, many ships ported by the firm. So on the county. A total of 4S wss signed, of every kind and description have shelves of an ever-increasing num- A msis meeting Of the farmers of been loaded and dispatched by this ber of grocery stores throughout the the county wss held at Baker Sstur- Arm, but the one to be longest re- greet northwest is appearing the numbered Is tne Tour-matter wnicn round, rea carton containing ine marked the beginning of the foreign Kerr's Cereals, on each of which exportaiton of northwestern ' grains is a faithful artist's reproduction of by this firm. Its place in the his- this ship, which holds such a promt- at the spring se.aon commenced near tnr of Kerr Gilford A Co. is deft- nont position In the early history from Blu MrontJn te,, to th. Bend with the laying of concrete cul- nd, a picture of the old of Kerr Gilford 4 Co. Inc. independent article. Athena has not SSIier Sllll retains a position un uio m company naa quiv.ij auTaiivvu - . ,. . . . . . want. wall of one of tha main offices' m its manufacturing department, and " wn- Portland. Two or three years ago Kerr Gif ford 4 Co., now known as Kerr Gif. ford 4 Co. Inc., added a manufaet- an atuck apoa th crew lereaa)j rjrlpsey,. Cotraty Cera. ' Ja'JsWtfJ' Alias, whose home was ia Tipnetwof' waa aeateneed for ttiwMbtg tea volver aad smmualtioa. ' - . It waevhta eejteata whlei tjekiart beach confirmed ternary 4. fa ij elding that 4 etato of war erteted IreUnd, grring the mtlitarT fuj) aiej day for tha purpose of organising the wheat growers of the county Into the Oregon Cooperative Grain Growers. Central Oregon's first hlghwsy work balls and mitta are in demand by the M aet without Interference by J : sana-Wl youngster, ana inw ami court. - 1 heads the world over, are beginning ."i "rS rSnt LOAN JO , RUSSIA EXPISia out with dope covering the county seat town: to the effect that she haa plenty of good material that's just rarin' to go. Pendleton says aha win be satisfied this year with anything -Was Lawa Repeal Voted by Senate. Washington, D. C. The house reso lution provldjng for genersl repesl of wsr-tlme lsws wss sdoptsd by the anate. Virtually all laws passed dur ing ths va? rrould be repealed by tha raaolutlon eicept a few given special exemption, Including the trsdlng-wlth-the-eaemy act, tba liberty bond act ad the act creating the war finance eorperation. Casts Nlea Farce Tsksn, 4 Killed. Panama. Four Costa Rleans were ' killed and nine wounded and two ' Panamanians were wounded In fight ing at Coto, oa tha Paclfle aide of the Coata Rica Panama frontier. Tha Coata Rlcan force which occupied Cota waa captured. verts on, the Bend-Horse Ridge road, recently authorised by the etsta comr mlaaloa. The Winchester hoepltal for the cure af tuberculoid, which was originally proposed to establish at Winchester, Douglst county, has filed notice of dis solution with ths state corporator aonrmiaaloner. Colta, calves and other livestock K the Topsy vicinity of Klamath county, having dlaappesred rapidly within tha last few weeks, W. L. Fratn took the trail of a mountain lion and after four days succeeded In killing It. Obligation Contracted by , Keren sjta Government Maw Payable. T. Washington, TX C Certificates. af .Indebtedness, signed by a represent tire ef the Kerensky goverameDiJel' Ruaala for a loaa of $Uf .0O0.0OO hare expired, the aenate waa . Informed y Secretary Houatoa. . The ebltga ttea therefore, la a demand one, he added, with interest aad principal, payable, immediately but no atepa have, been. the -product of ita cereal mill is mar- Farmers Working Roads. keted through the usual wholesale Farmers in the territory tributary channel to the grocers, and from the to Athena have been . working the grocer to those who enjoy a ae- roads during the past week, with the taken toward collection. uring department to their business., lighful breakfast made from TC,uit that the country highways are The debt now amounts to, mora and most naturally it pertains to northwestern grown wheat and oats. much better condition for travel- tkaa 1200.000,000, he said. , grain. They began competing with The Kerr'a Rolled Oatd has become ing than formerly. Tha county The information was given in a eastern concerns in preparing soma a particular favorite with the eourt let it be known that no funds ipoase to a senste tesoluUea and aaiei of the northwestern grains a. children, and frequently when sent re available for road work, and if that the advance, had beea made 'to breakfaat foods, and nowJ instead of to the grocery to get a package of the farmers had not turned out and the Russian government for Jta era shipping the grain east and having rolld oats they can remember noth- worked, the . thoroughfares would purposes, it manufactured into breakfast foods, ing of the name, but do remember (0on have become impassable. The and again shipping it out west, or it is the red package with the pic- road, most instances have been using eastern wheat and oats "for ture of the ship on it dragged, with .satisfactory results, western food purposes, they are tak- The company has received many whil in other instances work of a ing the western grain and making compliments on the fine quality and mor. permanent nature has been ae- it into breakfast cereals equal to flavor of their Rolled Oats, Wheat complished. or even better than those . put out Makes ana rencsKe Flour, ana au Partial Payment to Rallreada Signed. Waahlngtou. President Wilson signed the Wlnslow bill authorising partial payments to railroads under previsions of the transportation act. Walla Walla Valley Crops. According to County Agent W. H. Talley, crops of the Walla Walla valley, exclusive of wheat, were by the eastern manufacturers. from people who are in a position to worth more than five million dollars. When this branch of the business know a good breakfast dish when Apples represent more than one mil-; was being considered, ono of the they taste it. Many families vary lion, prunes approximately 1540,000 very first things to' consider was their breakfast cereals and dishes and cherries 1180,000. The wheat some distinctive name . and trade from day to day, by using K.err'1 crop of the valley, five million busht mark by which thia western product Rolled Oats one morning, Kerr's els, added IT.500,000 to the grand to- could be known and recognised by Wheat Flakee the tal. Alfalfa hay brought in nearly a the merchant and the consumer. . For fakes made from Hia 77th Birthday Anniversary. At their beautiful home in Glendale, California, the 77th birthday anni- versary of Henry. Koepke, Sr.,, waa moat fittingly observed on Febru ary 18th, when hia estimable wife next, and pan surprised him with a enrprise party Kerr's Pancake the guests . including the uma- million dollars, even at tha prevail- over thirty Vara the name of "Kerr" Flour the third morning. taw county eoiony wintering aiuong ing low prices. Dairy products are has been well known , among the All of these can be obtained Beach and other Southern California Army efiyMOO Approved by Senate,! not included in the estimate, al- grain raisers of the northwest, in tnrougn tne grocers, u your grocer pmw. ""'Y,' Waihingtpn. Tha ssnate psased though the valley contains 10,000 fact there are few farmers who have does not have them in stock, be sure spent and a splendid eneJ0,, ieT" .... - . ..mxiiKa A.ir r.tft. Tha niruraa InHlrata not at. anma Uma anlii their wheat, and ask him to olace an order with ved by Mrs. Koepke. The afternoon i' tha annv bill rrerldlna for an army of that the martyred Dr. Whitman oats or barley to Kerr Gifford 4 his wholesaler, so you can be using was spent with old friends tn taucmg H17teoa, builded better than he knew. Co., so it waa aettled that the pro- the best aa soon as possible. over old times. Teddy Roosevelt wets Naval Feat St Augustine, Fie, Preatdent-elect Harding formally announced the ap pointment of Ddwin Denby, Michigan, as secretary of the navy and Colonel Theodore Rooaerelt of New Tork aa assistant secretary. Theodore Room, veil U1 make hia first appearance ta the federal government in the me capacity aa that fa. which his lata father atarted. ' President Slgna Alien, Preperty life Waahlngton. President WUsda atgned a bill providing tor the return by the alien property ' enetodlaa.' at property seised during tha war sad which belonged to women eltiseo of the United 8tatea and the aOlea wha married enemy snbiects before . tha declaration of war.