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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1921
Page
1
Washington report forecasts total winter wheat production at 620,287,000 bushels with 8,000,000 bushels area abandoned. Acreage planted and harvested rise versus last year while May first conditions imply a yield near 16.3 bushels per acre.
Insurgent Polish forces crossed the Oder and captured Kozel after hard fighting. Civilians fled in panic as interallied reports describe a French control officer sheltering in a Kosel barrack seized by Poles. Casualties were reported at the Krandrain railway station with Poles driving out German forces after three days of combat.
Washington reports that Henry Albers a German native convicted in Portland for espionage has not cleared through the recent government confession of error but has been remanded to the district court for a new trial. The supreme court had reversed judgment.
In a stylized dialogue the young man asks how his compositions please the professor. The elder replies they may be played when Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Meyerbeer are forgotten, and the moment of recognition is delayed.
In Athena the town team faces Milton Freewater at home Sunday at 2 30 pm. A May 17 cleanup at City Park and May 25 cleanup day for alleys and streets are planned. The Etude Club met for a profitable session and Athena High plans commencement services with ministers from nearby towns.
Laman Sanford Wood a civil war veteran and longtime Weston resident died May 19 at his home on North Water Street. He was 89 years old, served in the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery, fought at Gettysburg and other engagements, and was postmaster of Weston for many years. The funeral was held at Memorial hall with Masonic and G A R honors. A prior Mother's Day social by the Saturday Afternoon club at Memorial hall drew about twenty-five elderly women for a luncheon and program.
City council unanimously orders a special election for July 15 to vote on five charter amendments aligning city provisions with state law on officers elections street and sewer improvements and indebtedness limits. The measures will be published in the Leader and printed for distribution. Community leaders arrange financing for Weston street work.
Oregon counts veterans exemptions in Lane county Founders Day events at Champortg. Enterprise Branch Line Club buys 120 acre Wallowa Lake tract for Elks camping. Oregon coast trolling ban case moves in Astoria circuit court. Great Northern sells Flavel terminals to Spokane Portland Seattle. Governor Olcott to appoint Ward to state board of pharmacy. New hotel planned on Columbia River highway near Dodson with 600 acres homesite plan. Postal Telegraph prepares Port Astoria line. Albany Creamery to replace plant after fire. Marion County pays Oregon Anti Saloon League secretary for liquor raids. Oswego tunnel project to end high trestle on SP electric line near Portland. Hamestead miners push Red Ledge mine near Snake River with $30,000,000 ore expected.
Washington reports that President Harding plans U S participation in allied supreme council talks and reparations deliberations. George Harvey will sit as U S representative with observer roles for Wallace and Boyden, with Harvey empowered to initiate discussions as directed.
Paris The United States resumed its seat on the te morailied council of ambassadors with Hugh Wallace the ambassador attending from Washington He was welcomed at the foreign office and placed at the right of Jules Cambon as president The council discussed Upper Silesia and urged Poland to calm its Polish population A communication was sent to the interallied commission to issue a formal statement denying any decision on Upper Silesia’s partition after the plebiscite.
Washington officials announced that war department slacker lists will be published in the Congressional Record. Representative Johnson of South Dakota, a veteran, requested the publication and faced no objection. He argued it would render the lists privileged and shield newspapers from liability for errors.
The article notes matches are affordable for most of China’s 400 million people and demand grows with population. Chinese producers have thirty years of experience, yet rely on imports from India and Hungary for distribution. War disrupts supplies, boosting local manufacture and imports of solar material for many products.
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