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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
2
Scraps from a local paper recounts wartime talk about recruiting soldiers to face Kaiser forces, farm plans for summer fallow, and road bonding issues. It notes Oregon funding gaps, Weston fire memories, rising coffins costs, and humor about coffee, beans, and prunes for soldiers. It ends with poems and patriotic musings.
A fragmented wartime lyric fragment contrasts marching boots with a craving for a simple meal not coffee beans or prunes. It hints at battles abroad and the refrain My Country Tis of Thee used to steady morale under dangerous conditions.
A farm survey is planned in Umatilla county and nationwide under U S agriculture program. The county survey will be conducted by the national defense committee under county authority. S A Barnes will direct Weston and nearby areas with assistants W H Gould J H Price and G DeGraw named.
Wasco Oregon loses prominent banker and pioneer merchant W M Barnett after a cancer death at Good Samaritan hospital Portland He was born 1863 in Indiana and settled in Wasco i1 years ago building an estate valued at 160000 to 200000 He was highly regarded as a Mason Survived by widow four sons and four daughters Funeral services were held last Monday at the Wasco opera house with about 1200 in attendance and 214 automobiles in the procession A J Barnett a brother attended from Weston
Otto E Didion died Monday night of apoplexy at his Crockett area home near Freewater. A veteran of the newspaper trade, he worked with the East Oregonian and later helped publish the Milton Eagle with Bruce Shangle. In recent years he ran a Crockett job office and was famed as a linotype expert. Survived by a widow formerly Edith Crockett and two children.
The Weston Auxiliary of the Uma tilla Red Cross Chapter, 65 members strong, will meet every alternate Friday at 1:90 oclock in the Library room. The next meeting is May 18, featuring a silver tea from 2:30 to 6:00 oclock, with public patronage earnestly urged.
Tomorrow will be Farmers' Patriotic Day across Umatilla county with sixteen community meetings in centers. Weston hosts a cadet meeting at 2 p.m. led by W. A. Bailey. Goals include promoting labor forms, explaining a minimum price policy and anti-grocery speculation law, distributing labor blanks, sharing national food supply data, and surveying Oregon crop and livestock conditions.
The garbled text hints at a dry Arkansas scene with references to Gap Johnson and Kumper Hidge. It mentions children playing, a crowd shouting for Tene, and vehicles ripping along, suggesting a distressing incident amid a hot, dry day with limited clarity on what occurred.
Report of the Farmers Bank of Weston Wen ton at the close of May 1 1917 shows paid in capital and deposits figures and identifies E M Smith as cashier. The document is sworn to and certified by bank directors with the notary dated May 19 1917 and expires November 1900.
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