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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text discusses dealers urged to purchase immediately due to rising production costs from war effects. It notes manufacturers initially absorb some costs, dealers cautious about future price shifts, and expectations that postwar normalcy will return slowly, driving current demand and pricing uncertainty.
Weston observers detail Decoration Day, community gatherings, and local personalities. Reports of births, weddings, school plans, cemetery beautification, and a Weston Leader subscriber note. including visits by Weston residents to Roseburg and Athens, a Pendleton jail case, and upcoming shows and festivals in Milton and Weston.
Readers note a reunion event as Watts and Rogers plan to meet in town with DeMons arriving yesterday to join his brother EO DeMons and other locals for the gathering. A church conference assignment and district meeting updates appear alongside.
Weston High School held its 1916 commencement with an address by Professor W R Dmugia of Whitman College, an invocation by Rev N D Weed, and diplomas presented by William MacKenzie. Recipients included Mamie B Barnes Carl H Brandt James Kirkpatrick Ferot T McBride Ruby K Price Ruth E Read and Gladya B Smith. The board praised the faculty, urged district consolidation, and juniors toasted the graduates. Alumni banquet followed at Society Hall with toasts and a poem Prophecy by James Kirkpatrick.
A slate of Friday evening events for the Gold Medal Contest under the Umatilla County W C T U includes selections such as A Perfect Day by Carrie Jacobs Bond, Invocation, The Result of Treating, piano pieces, Vera Bellew’s Intemperance in Nothing to Me, Red Rum, a vocal solo by Alice May, What a Picture Did, Good Savannah, a Mary Douglass Chisholm declamation, and Lorene King piano solo, with the Young Crusader bonnet class of Girls presenting the medal.
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