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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
4
A local ad lists children's shoes at reduced prices and highlights warm clothing and coats. Bargains include machinawry items and fur lined coats with savings of two to four dollars per garment. Limited choice garments remain for sale with emphasis on value.
A series of visits from Walla Walla and surrounding areas keeps Weston lively as residents and relatives travel from Boise Milton Caldwell Wallace and Dayton. Notable events include Merle Dickenson’s kerosene accident and the Women’s Missionary Society meeting at the Methodist church on January 9 1918 with officer installations and devotional services.
Weather records for December 1916 and 1917 show 57 and 66 degree highs, 7 below zero and 50 above on Dec 29. Local events include New Year gathering at the Lieuallen home, omnibus purchase by Milt Swaggart, explosive license notices, visits from G W Maybee and others, a broken arm from a jitney, birthday party for Harry May, and wartime notes on miller protections and military transfers.
United Brethren Church continues evangelistic meetings with 11 a.m. preaching on The New Song. Attendance has been strong and the meetings run through Sunday evening before transferring to the M. B. Church, South for each evening of the following week. hb. BF Wiggle, Pastor.
First class work in A. W. Lundell Mus.
Notice announces Weston Mercantile Company stockholders annual meeting at Masonic hall in Weston Oregon on January 16 2018 at 2 oclock p.m. for electing a board of directors and other business. Weston Or January 3 1918 J H Williams See
Order of services for Sunday January 6 1918 at the Church of the Brethren includes 10 a m Sunday school Bible study at 7 80 p m preaching by CWB at 6 80 p m and 7 30 p m Bible Life of Christ procedures.
German forces struck a heavy blow on the western front, briefly forcing a foothold in British trenches between Marcoing and La Vaquerie before counterattacks reclaimed the position. Attacks also reported along other fronts near Ypres Verdun and Cambrai, with no decisive gains noted.
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