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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
4
Local notes report visits in Walla Walla and Weston. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs. Price and Mrs. Price's family, and soldiers from Camp Lewis. Snowy roads cause several minor automobile accidents. The community shares Christmas meals, school program highlights, and farm business moves in the Athena and Weston area.
The United Brethren Church schedules daily services starting at 7:30 PM with a morning sermon at 11 AM. Rev B. Powell opens a union evangelistic series and choir leader Fitypatrek will lead splendid music as the pastor urges all to attend.
Rebecca Jane Tuttle born October 15 1838 in Wayne County Ohio moved to Iowa in 1851 married to Porter Graham Senior and died December 24 1817 at her Weston home at age unknown and remembered as a pioneer woman.
Weston attendees fill the opera house for a Christmas program with Nativity tableaux and costuming. About 453 people gathered, gifts prepared were nearly enough, and every child received a present. Special praise for two month old Charles Eugene Herrick and the programs organizers Claud Pride A J Mrs J H Willian Mrs R Proudfit Mrs C L Pinkerton Mrs Williams and Mr Landels.
Mudulph Prock of Weston who enlisted with Troop D and later received an honorable discharge for physical disability registered for the draft on the early Saturday. He underwent an operation to rejoin the Imatilla county troop, but his heart has not improved.
The Burley Advocate prints light verse handed in by Dad DeGraw and others that pokes fun at wartime shortages and Kaisers. It notes meatless Tuesdays wheatless Wednesdays heatless socks footless and seatless trousers and ends with a quip about aging and a political jab. Charles H. Carter and Dan P. Smythe of Carter Smythe Lawyers in Oregon are mentioned as associates.
The Italian Army reports a breakthrough at Monte Asolone with successful dislodgement of the enemy from a large portion of the peak. Allied forces push back Austro German troops along a three mile front, halting a threatened advance toward Monte Grappa and the San Lorengo valley as weather worsens the foe’s progress.
Washington reports a large hidden communications network used to send letters to Germany Austria and northern neutrals. Treasurers say Swedish ship and marine workers led the traffic and many are under surveillance. Officials expect arrests and note the channel was active since U S entry.
Order of services for Sunday December 40 lists Sunday School at 1 a.m. Hon om Spreett leads. Evening program includes 6:30 p.m. C W 8 7:40 p.m. Bible Study Life of Christ led by Elder John Bonewitz.
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