A Timely Tip Goods Will Be Higher
The notice urges buyers to anticipate needs for the coming season as inventories show heavy stock and prices are expected to rise. It emphasizes buying now to save money and to prepare for next winter.
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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
4
The notice urges buyers to anticipate needs for the coming season as inventories show heavy stock and prices are expected to rise. It emphasizes buying now to save money and to prepare for next winter.
A fine lot of children’s shoes advertised with sensible service shoes neat and pretty. Formerly selling for $2.50 and up, the price now reduced to a current figure not specified in the fragment.
Store advertises a clearance on mackinaws stag shirts fur lined coats and heavy warm garments with price reductions of two to four dollars per item for next season. Local shop emphasizes large stock and savings during sale.
Real money saving bargains on choice garments left from stock reductions. Prices reduced to be attractive as next season's style will change little. It will be to your advantage to buy now at a decided saving over next season's prices.
A shoe sale offers one lot of ladies' shoes valued to five dollars with most of the best sizes available though not all sizes remain. The lot is marked to turn into cash for only a reduced amount.
Weston Mercantile Co reports travels to Ritzville Pendleton and Vancouver notes. Obituary for W B Mays. Red Cross officers named. Library adds titles and local no tes. Emory Reynolds guards Lemon Grove station. Hortense Baker faces Mayo Bros. surgery. Local visitors return to Portland. charity concert planned. Snow blankets area aiding wheat crops. Messiah base solo performed at Milton.
Gertrude Van Winkle returns to Weston high after two day illness. Some students fear semester exams next week while exempt pupils look forward to a short vacation. Mrs Pinkerton's room wins pennant for attendance again. basketball girls anticipate a game with Waitsburg Friday. They plan car trips Friday afternoon. Grade enrollment rises with three new pupils in Miss Tipton's and two in Mrs Pinkerton's rooms.
Upland residents enjoyed a New Year watch party hosted by T. C. McCarty. Attendees included Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Lockwood and Mrs. Herman Goodwin among others. The January Lay Dies Guild meeting at Mrs. Lillian Fredericks’s home featured greetings, a camouflage musical number, and a light repast. The next meeting is scheduled for February at Mrs. Frank Graham’s home.
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of stockholders of the Weston Mercantile Company will be held in Maxonic hall, Weston, Oregon, January 16, 1918, at o'clock p m for electing a board of directors and transacting other business. Weston, Or., Jan. 3, 1918. J. H. WILLAAME, Secretary
First class piano tuning and repair work presented by A W Lundell musician. Renowned for precise tuning and reliable service, offering expert maintenance and restoration for pianos.
A Detroit Free Press quip suggests a mock cure for social ills by passing a law compelling husbands and wives to dance together at all times. The line frames the craze as short lived unless such sweeping regulation were enacted.
Washington reports that 20 percent of through passenger trains on major railroads will be discontinued and others reduced to lower speeds. Director General McAdoo says this frees motive power, labor, and facilities for coal, food, and war-related supplies, with a gradual nationwide effect.
The Church of the Brethren lists Sunday January 11 1918 services: 10 a.m. Sunday school and preaching, 1 p.m. Bible study Life of Christ. Elder John Bronewitz signs the notice.
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