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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1921)
4 t . '4 l EADER -A.Hi,Jr ...... i . . - t-- " ft - VOLUME 13 new ad:.:k;istratio!I assumes authority Cabinet li Sworn In ind An RSuncimtnti of Appoint monto Mode. WehiBgteB. D. O-Trsaefsr of ad- mlalstrstlve gnthority from dsmoerstle to KTtifcUcta headi via completed with U Ml1lf It of thi new tab lBt. The CfTlM took PllCO ,h executive depsrtaieats. Chsrles B. Hugh, seeretary Of etsie. til be Ural ! be sworn la esd Wfll II. Mr, peetmister general, the Itii. Appolatmeats of tha asslstsols I lo mUmI officer! announced. I. b. Rati of lo was renamed en slsisat secretary of sericulture, sad . J. Meaning of pea Diego. Cel, wai selected aeelstaat secretsry I1' ABBogacemeel also wss made (bat Mijor-Oeoeral Mirth would eoettnoe tempersrily aa cklcf of naff a4 (bat Assistant Secretary of War Wllllsms would ba continued for the preeeni. fblaf aesiBlsata whose terms of of flea etplred with tba Wllsoa admin Isfratlea have tendered Ihelr reelg aitleas. but miay "HI ba WBtlaod la office for a time. Belda appointments to ba msde to otbar depertnisot. tba bow admin lafratloB also la to recommoBd to Ma gma promotloBS for amy officers. Harding raaha Precedent BraaklBg , a precedent which baa tool alaco Ua dsys of Waahlagtoa aal Jeffersos. Presides! Harding ap peared at aa eiecuMve sessloa of tba aaaala to pretest aomlBaUoaa of bla cabinet effleara. WHbln lean tbaa ten mtautee afier bo bad floUhed bla addrets of five minutes, iba aaoato bad confirmed all tas nominations. Mr. HardlBg eubmiued (bo nomlna. iIom orally. reeding the nemes oao ...by oao from tba Hit ba bald la bla ' hiad.- They referred Immediate ly to committees, which bid been poll ad la advance, aad at tba samoa were raid tha chilrnun of ieb Interested comwtttoo sroaa aad gava Iba bbibI . i out aad favorable raport of tba co r mlHaa for fOBflnnailon. Ladga Ra-tlaatad Sonata 4.aadar. Senator todio of MaarhuNtia. ; floor trader, and olber republican of flfara of tbo annate orgaaltatloa wart ' rUrld without oppoaltlon. , Betldai rwletlnf BoBator Lodga , floor laador.' tba aaBata republleana again rhoaa Senator Cummin of Jew for prildBt pro tempore and Sea j ator CortU of Kibhb for. leohifr ; man and partp whip. Senile democrat! la ciueue po , fected reorginliatloa tor the bow id mlBlatratlon by onanlmoui reflection of all tbelr oflc,era. Beaitor Under ' wood ef Alebama again waa cJioten chilrmin of tba eaucua and party lead er, and Senator Hitchcock, Nebreflka, I waa rnilo tlcehetrmto.' with Sea ' ateri King. UUh. eeeretarr. "4 OerrA Rhode liland. whip. : t , To Helrttreduee Immlgrttlan Bill. The Immigration reatrletlon bill, 1 which, waa "pocket. reload" by Preil s dent WIIiob, will be one of the tint . meaaurea Introduced at the coming apaelal lenlon of tha lxtyeTentb , eongren, aeeerdlng to congresaloBil leadera. It wai the plan to lead It to ;rrtldent Harding .with -the leait poi i i alble delay ai proponent regard III early eeietment aa Boeeeaary to keep - out hordee of undeolrable ImmtiTanta ' from Soutblra Europe. Some 'alight modlfteitlona la the bill may be mada. Many lenatora Bra known to deilre to , laoreiie the S per cent HmltiUon (a S per cent. V. ; Coegreia Will Convene In April. Freeldeat Harding announced that the apeclal aeiiloa tf coagresa would ' bo eilled not before April 4. tod might be a week liter. " , The annoupcement waa made after b White Houie dinner which repub lican leadara of eoBgreia attended. The conference laited four boura and the preildeftt'tajd tbe leglilatlTO pro - grim bid been' dlieuiied. The president said thla waa the be ginning of a program of corporation. .Varloua aubjeela were discussed, he added, In an attempt to ascertiln the most Importait to be taken up by tba neit eongross. 1 -, .'. , , ' After bla gucits' had drpirled, the president came out o tho front por tleo of the White-House to Hl,ito the newspiper correspondents, about . .10 of whom were present. ' ' "We Ueeussed a taxation program tor the'eeMloB." the-feresfdowrsild. i sannnnannnBi snWgani snmnMsBBBBi 1 . ... ' " "' "We were trymg la determine wBica was the real pressing basin for nivitr t. emargSBry tariff leglalatloa nr a compute rti(oo of tbe tat sehedQlee. -Wa passed the metier Bp for (Briber roe fere, re iftef there bed Veea a caatese of tba co aim I tie fa charge of that leglstetloa. It means tbst fastrwd of gotnl ime a eeseloa of eongiwM wllboet bnowlng whither w are going, we are trying to csnf-ssi ike whet alttntloa aad arrive at program. WESTON MOUNTAIN PEOPLE ORGANIZE COMMI'NITT CLt'B ' Weeton Mountain, March eery aucetful eoclal affair erne en joyed at the WreVm Mountain erhool house Marrh B. The men brought saw, hammers ami the neetesarjr material and erected two trwlngs and two teeter boards on the school play ground They put In a busy day, and tho result of thslr efforts is a credit to the community. A hot rhlcken dinner was screed by the la dles at noon and the Uble literally groaned under Its burden of - good thlnga to eat ' , Later In the afternoon a Communi ty club waa organized. There waa some discussion aa to whether the mountain would Join wHh the Wee ton club or form fta own elub. The majority, however, were In faror of a separate organisation. Instead of forming men's and women'a bureaus, one elub will function for both, with a special men's committee to look af ter their part of the business. Will Hall was elceoted chairman of thla committee. Mrs, Boy Hyatt waa unanimously elected president of the club, 3. W. Bowers vice president and W. L. Rayborn aecrvtary-treaaurer. Mrs Mark Henderson Is chairman of the social committee and Mr. E. E. Faust chairman of the refreshment committee. The club was launched with a membership of 44 and a con fident feeling that by the nest meet ing there will be at least 00 mem bers. Theru will be ome aocial event at least once a month. Winter Preelphatloei. January and February In this eec tion were moist months, aa all will agree; yet the precipitation waa only eighteen-hundredths of an . inch in excess -of the normal for the past ten years, according to the figures of M. A. Baker, Weston weather ob server. The total 1921 precipitation for these two montha waa 6.67 inch es, an eiees of MO inches over the same months last year, which were extremely dry. For February. 1921, the precipitation was 3.68 inches, an excess over, normal of 1.11 inches. No molsluro fell in February, 1920. - Trip to Columbia Pleasant One, ftnee tho completion of the road to Echo,' tho automobile trip to the Col umbia river is described by those who have made it, as being one of pleas ure. This trip gives the people of this part of the county opportunity to pass through tho great Irrigation projects of the west end. Allies Occupy Cnnan Cities London Negotlatlona over the Ger man Indemnity were broken Monday and action came Tuesday .with the march of French. British and Belgian forces Into Germany and occupation of a large section of her richest msnu fscturing country." The penalties to be Inflicted on tba Oermans by tha allies for non-compliance with tha reparations demands' will Include: nrst Oeeupatloa by allied troopi of the elUss of Dulsberg and Duessel dorf and Rohrort' Second Each allied country will place sorb a tas on German merchan dise as It may deem proper. Third A customs' boundary along the Rhine, under allied control, will be established. The territory to be occupied Is In the heart of the great Industrial region of the Ruhr valley with Essea, city of sleet and munitions, Its center. The three elttea are commercial ports into which flow the trsifto of the Ruhr Iron region. These cities adjoin the British lone of ocupa Mob. at Cologne. The American lone la at Coblens, 7B miles farther, south, and the French sons. at 'Mayence, another T6 miles south, Tha proposed Of cupatlqn does not Involve mnrchlug Inland beyond the Rhine, except in the Immediate vicinity of the occupied elttea. ,V ', . . v ' Oermany will appeal to the league of nations sgslnst action of the allies In imposing penaltlea for Bon-fulflll-Bitot of her repsrstlons obligations. WESTON, OREGON "ll V : SprtrtsrFicHon FROM OVER THE! HILL. 5. J. Culley, prominent Weston ie said on account of the reflectors farmer, waa in town Monday. t, that go on the 'upper part of the in ,Tbe parking in front of E. C Bog' aide of the globes, being not yet in er a home has been ftlSed wrfth. new place. aoil, and will be seeded to blue graes. Wheat' raisers of this section be- Mrs. Vernon O'Harra and little gah-plowing operatlona this week, daughter, Vernita.-of Weeton, are n reports' being that in most Instances the city, visiting at the J, E. Jones' the soil is" In prime condition for home. turning under. , A larger number of r. S. Le Crow relumed homo fronf 'teams are "being used in plowing this his Montana stock. .ranch, Tuesday, year than last On. many of the ranch A foot of anew, coven the ground at ea both teams arxt caterpillars are the ranch. . doing the work, aa the result of feed Spading and geoorai yard work to Jieing: cheaper. and gaa higher in under way in Athena thla week," wjtfi, jrice than it was last season, here and. there a few garden seeds. The members of the Athena high being planted. . , aohoo) base ball team and corps of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Keen, add assistants were at work Saturday in daughter, Hiss Zola, are home froQtt putting the base "ball grounds in a their viait of several weeks .in Los proper condition for practice games Angclea. Miaa Keen's, health bM preparatory to beginning the ached been greatly improved by the trip.' ule of conference gamee in the near Mrs. S. C. Stanton and sons CJeve future. ' . , and Deli this week moved to the EV After long months of intense auf mer Buohcr place in. the. north part fering, Mrs. Lottie Walker, wife of of town, which they lately purchased. A i. Walker paaaed away at her D. D. Fay, Aeld secretary for the. home in Athena, Monday, at the age Albcrtina Kerr home. for, babiea at of "63 yeara. five montha and t9 Portland, was in the city this week, days. working in the Intereete of. the in- Mr. and Mrs. Charlea May of Wea stitution. .. ton mountain, visited friends in the A party comprialng Mr. and Mra."eity Wedneaday. Wm. Mcpherson Mrs. Lula Reld, Miaa Mrs. Perillla Jane Woody, mother Rea Allen, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Preat-of Irs. Ci Cannon and Mrs. Tbeo bye, Mr.' Grant Prestbye and ,Mr. Re Bush of.thia city, died on March 4th Hopper made the drive to tho Colum vat the home of her aon, Edwin, at bia -ia Echo Sunday. The gentlemen Independence, Wash. The remains of the party enjoyed the "aport of .were brought to Athena for burial shooting jack rabbits. " " ' Funeral services were held at the ' The 12000 insurance held fn flie A, 'hohie of Mrl arid Mrs. Cannon. 0. U. W; order by the late " A. ' & ' Idra. Martha J. Maya celebrated McEwcn, waa received by Wa "widow hc filVi birthday at the home of her within ten daya after presentation 'daughter, Mrs: C. A. Barrett In this of the policy, the entire amount be- city, Monday of this week. A family Ing promptly paid. dinner waa served in honor of the hp Friday evening, March 4, Mr. and py' occasion. Mrs. Maya has not been Mrs Jess Gordon were' treated at enjoying the boot of health for aome their farm residence with a "genuine, time, but ia mucfi better now than for old-fashione'd 'surprise party by the several weeka. Thia venerable and young people of the neighborhood, lovable lady came to Oregon in 1852 To the number of twenty-two thcy and haa been actively identified with assembled at the Gordon home.bearv the progress and growth of the Inland Ing lunch baskets laden with good "Empire since that tim. things to eat, Every one present ' had a most enjoyable time. Jess ex- Barncs-DUton. presses the hope that the neighbore Mr gidnfy A BarnM ,nd MiM will come again-and bring their my B;,ton wew united ta lunch baskets. marriage Saturday noon at the Prea- The great picture, D inty.' now. m chuwh , Pendlcton. Th, being screened at the Aid theatre brjde ,8 ,ar Echo ,nd tho Tendleton. will be shown one week Md a well-known overseas from Sunday, on March 20th, at the th- Bon of Mf and Mri. g. Standard.- In- thisj.lg 1 ' A. Barnea of Weston. Mr. and Mrs. favorite boy actor, Wesley (Frecklca) .Barne8 n,ke their home in Ath Barry haa an important rolo. where the bridegroom is em- Manager Rex Hopper" informe tho d b ?ntion.shMn Co.. Press that the Standard Oil company ' . . contemplates the reconstruction and sssssaass enlargement of its Athena plant Jhs spring. Work will begin 1ft about thirty days, states Mr. Hopper, or pa soon as the eontracUcan be let And the Sao Francisco office has written Mr. Hopper to supply it with names of contractors In this vicinity. Jacob Narkaua waa in, town from ' his mountain ranch, Wednesday. 'He i says there is a, great depth of anow on the summit of the Blue mountains ' cast of his place and also consider- able snow yet remains on. the, north slopes lower , down. He anticipates : plenty of grass, on mountain ranges this season. Mr. Narksus is one of' the largest owners of cattle in this part of tho county. t Athena's street lighting system was tested out 'for 'the first time Saturday evening. . The long delayed transformer arrived Saturday morn-' ing. and was shortly connected up with the. system of stand lamps on . . Main and Third streets. The mw. X system, in the opinion of several eit- v iaens has . advantages over, the . old,, but it is. observed that the lights are . not ao brilliant Thia is due, so' it . FRIdXy. MARCH 11. 1021 ID Its toasted 8 cigarette ' Oregon tTews Rotes Professor L D. Edwards, noted so alclM, aged ft, died suddenly at La O reads of heart trouble. Oopkers have destroyed mora taaa ees aeree of ereaari' tree at Dafisr by eating the tree root. The Oregon Mlat Growers' Coopera tive association completed It orgaav laatloa at Carvallla last Satarday. . ReedjusiatsBt of leaiber frelkt rates bu placed Medford oa the sane basis aa Klamath Fatla aad Weed. Cat A eouaty-wlde eqnlrret aeiaeaiag eaaipalga In Waaeo eoualy baa result ed In the killing of lM,ftO ( the peeu. Aftr flrat eettlag fire to bia koasa In fortlaad, Roy D. Martetu. 40 years etd, shot aad killed biauelf with, a skotgua. frank U. Warren of Portland haa teadered bia reels-Ratios ia Ooverner Ofooit aa a aseajker of tha state flsk aommiesloa.' Independence post of the American) Legion Is to have aa aoxillary- Twenty six wemea have signed (be applleeties for a charter. ; .' A eompaay of Tfohtlneat eotiaeee men aad fannere of Lake eenaty kaa aeea formed to prospect for oil ta Goose Lake valley. ' The state highway department baa asked for blda oa graeellag the section f the MeKeula highway between Be oBd Ind PrinevlUs. A few hours' before' he waa ta ba takes to the county poor farm, James M. Gillette committed suicide by shoot log himself at Seaside. ' It Is estimated that about ?00.0O pounds of wool kave been sold at Peadletoa daring tha last few days at II aid J eeate a pound. Lake Oeboco has' a total storage capacity of 47,000 acre feet of water and tho indicator now ahows lifiOt acre-feet la the reeervelr. Approximately 7S0.O0O basbels of wheat has been algaed by firm era at Sherman and Morrow eonaUee to tho Oregon Wheat Growers association. The week of March 20 kaa been designated by the farm bureaua of tha state as the time for aa organised "smpalgn against tha digger squirrel. The passenger train between Eugeaa and Corvallia laa been taken off and the only service between the two cltlea la a mixed freight aad passenger train. The women in the University of Ore gen are better students than the men. aocordtog to an official acnolarehlp report made by the registrars office. Twenty-five hundred dollare wu pledged by atndeata of Willamette uni versity at Salem last week tor tha erection of a new gymnasium ta east IM.OM. A apeclal school election will be held In Albany on March IS ta veta upon a proposed issuance of $40.ae In bonds to erect a new public school building there. ' There are 2000 Chinese pheaaanta on the game firms near Eugene and Cor vallia to be released within the next few weeks, according to Gene Simpson, . manager of the farms. One-half million pounds of Oregon prunes are being seat ta Hollaad by tha Oregon Grower' Cooperative asso ciation. Shipments are also ea route to London and Liverpool. , The county court of Malheur county will appropriate from the county emer gency fund 110.000 ta assist the high-" way commission in improving the road from Vale to Ontario. Nearly a million and a halt dollar waa the value of grain and forage crops produced on the 60,000 acres of land In the Klamath and Horsefly Irrigation districts last season. , Earth tremors that awakened resi dents from slumber have been report- ' ed from Sweet Home and Cascedia. It is believed a giant avalanche In the nearby Cascades waa responsible. ; By a vote of more than two to one tha taxpayera of the Astoria school dia- trlct hive authorised a bond Issue of ITS.000 for the purpose of erecting an , annex to the high school building. Oregon Agricultural college has fur- niahed three new county agents In the . l..t few daTe-Wllluwa a Tucker for Crook county, E. W. McMtndea for Clatsop and P. C Holtbaugh for Jack- on'. v ' ' Provision for a $3000 appropriation -for the maintenance of the Hermlston experiment 'station is included in a ' ' $15,000 appropriation allowed by the conferees on the agricultural appro-, priatlon bill. " ' Members of the Oregon public serv ice commission met in Portland on March 8 to' consider applications' for tha state highway commission for the 1 week ending March $, according ta a elimination of 14 grade crossings over - report prepared by tha atata Indus, the tracks of the Oregon-Washington trial aceldest eemmlsaion. The vie Railroad s Kavigatlon eempany be-ltims ware Bea ,' Emerson, evttehata, tween Pendleton and Huntington. The Portland, and George Gardaer, tons cost of these eliminatlona will gre- mtU ooa tractor. Portland. A total at gate $500,000. ' 434 accidents were reperted. .. NUMBER 40 HUGHES 0H.II! I0S CESSATI0II0FO : v , i "Notes to Costa Blei tn Pt tma Declare HettiIMM; Uutt Cease. Waahlagtoa. . C. Ceesatlea) af hostilities between Costs Klca stad Paaama was denvasded m novaa wen tke sUU deparuaoat dlaaatcnad ta lks goveramenta of tneee two (paw -triee on order of Charles . H aghast -new' eeeretary of etata. , ' Thlg aettoa wee the flrat of . aba Hard'ag admlaletretloe) In the esewa of fv-ri(n affaire aad waa , seal ta have been beeed aaeej fee grenade of aread erpedleeey". ss the dlsanta. be tweeei the Cwatrsl Aaeerleaa rerssOea layotvd ,- fa tercets fa fne Pa--aa eaaal Bona. At the an.en of preetdewt BJsv4 mg and .the . state department.. Beer tary of the Navy Denny haa dtspate war vessels ta both the Adas as Psetfle sides of , Panama ta pre eel Amerlcaa Hvee sad tntereete. . A The oltlmaum wee teeoed a asV vices that Casta Biaaar fOreea had in vaded territory la Ul north of ranaaM whleb tndlspnUWf belongs ta Paaataa. Tha state department, in tho note to Panama and Costa Rica la aader stood to have declared that a settle ment of territorial dlapatee between the two countries should be mads in accordance with the nward of Chief Justice, White of tha Catted Stats supreme court. . Oregon Kews Kotes ...-? . , Because of aome severs .wind sterna last winter, the telephone llaee la the Saatiam national forest suffered esa slderable damage aad more repehr work will ba necessary this year (haa usual. '."V:. .- Applleatlena for federai farm maae, which have beea held op in Deeckuteo county peadlng the aaarema ceert da eUion beaded down tase week.-w easily exceed tleO.OO. It la eetimtted. There are Ave farm lean aaaeclaiieaa tn the county. The puhlle service eontmlssiea. In an order Issued at 8aleaa, reduced tke transportation ratee an nil foot wood, pulp weed, cord wood aad weed bolta. Thla action waa taken upon tha initia tive af the commission, after ntvestt gation af complaint. Prod P.'KeadalL neethweat manager for tha American Can casnpaay. with headawartera In Port land, waa nassad by Ooverner Olcett aa a member, af the state,, fish eoramlsjelon. .created nader the new segregaUon lav enact ed at the recent session af the legisla ture. Steam-heating ratee of tba .Ketta western Electric company, whieh apeo ates exclusively in tha elty of Pwrt land, were increased from U ts nJ per cent In an order issued by in) Oregon public service cenuetsslss. Tia new chargea became effective aa at March l. ,. A weather-report compiled by bar Chads, superintendent of tha Ran River experlmeat station, shown tbpa the six months ended Marc t ae record for mid-Columbia, rainfall and) lack of sunshine. A total af SLtf tnehsa of precipitation fell during tb past six months - The case of Jack Rathie Bad. Jifs Owens, now In the state penReatiafp awaiting execution for the part ther played In the murder of Sheriff TH Taylor, of Umatilla county will he argued before the supreme count dor Ing its eastern Oregon session at Pe dletoa la April. k , With more than II. laekee f pen clplfation to tar since September 1 and the mild open winter, fruit and ether crops of record-breaking proportloaa are expected In the Rogue river valley. frult CTP ' 9T a ace oy ne aeavyeemnf of buds on the treee. The United States reclamation sere Ice haa advertised for bids tar tha eonatructlott of the lower Lest River diversion work, located '' about twe miles southwsst of Merrill, ta eennee tion with the Klamath Irrigation pre jeet. The work will, cenaiat In oeav etructing a concrete dleereien dam aad coacrete keadworka. ' There were two fatalrtiea in Oregon due to induatrlal aceddeata in tha