Weston Leader Round Up Items and Local Notices
Weston Leader reports on Round Up visitors including Fred McGrew and Judge Wood, plus residents in Athena and Pendleton. Notes births and illnesses, school enrollments, col lege staff changes, obituaries, and forthcoming recitals by Lela Saling and Gail Williams at Pendleton Presbyterian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lela Saling
Gail Miler Williams
Presbyterian Church
Pendleton
Woman's Society of the Church
Weston
Walla Walla
Herbert Garr Read
Portland
Northwest
Early Action on Food Act Wanted by Washington
Washington reports to the Department of Justice note profiteering in shoes and other apparel and higher sugar crop prices. Assistant Attorney General Ames asks Chairman Haugen for expedited action on administration amendments to the food control act. Hollis Sugar Corp of California sells the new beet sugar at 11.60 per 100, above the 9 current aid crop price. The department cannot act until amendments pass due to a House Senate rent control dispute in the District of Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Justice
Department
Haugen
House Agricultural Committee
Ames
Hollis Sugar Corporation
California
Sugar Equalization Board
House
District of Columbia
Kelso Blaze Destroys Kilns. $100,000 Fire Outbreak
A Kelso Washington fire started at midnight Saturday and destroyed 6,096,000 shingles in the McLane Lumber Shingle company kiln, plus 5,000,000 shingles on wheels and on a track. Damage is estimated at $100,000 and described as Kelso's worst fire. The blaze began in the kiln farthest from the mill, spreading rapidly before workers could control it. The night crew was present but overwhelmed as flames tore through the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelso
Wash
McLane Lumber
Potato Yield Falls Washington and Oregon Tribute at Fair
The agriculture department reports September 1 potato yield at 123 515 carloads down by over 22 000 from last year with most states showing declines as local supply potatoes are not in carload totals. In Salem 4000 people gathered at the new livestock stadium on the fair grounds to honor the late Governor Withycombe and recognize Oregon’s war service and youth who served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie McBride
Fan
E. F. Averill
Exchange National Bank of
Spokane
Averill
United States Bureau of Biological Survey
Pendleton
Anice Barnes
Thelma Anderson
Homestead
Oregon
Hiawatha Rebekah Lodge
Robert Proudfit
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Salem
Iin
Withycombe
Notice to Subscribers Renewal Prices for The Leader
Notice to subscribers states that the subscription expires October 1 1919 and urges prompt renewal Rates are two dollars per year one dollar for six months and fifty cents for three months It notes The Leader is discontinued at expiration
Strayed horses from George Winn pasture roam Milton area
A blue mare two years old branded IP on right shoulder and a yearling unbranded gray mare remain missing from the George Winn pasture near Milton. The two year old mare carries a circle brand under the letter H on the left shoulder. Reward offered. Contact Ralph Kinnear Milton Or.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Winn
Ralph Kinnear
Milton, Or
Health tonic ad promises clear skin by cleansing bowels
An advertisement for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea claims that blackheads blotches and pimples stem from improper bowels. It says the tea regulates the bowels cleans the stomach and clears the complexion in a natural way. The ad ends with a testimonial by H. Goodwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
H. Goodwin
Adv
Farmers Exempt From Antitrust Laws in House Action
The Washington house approved an exemption before the deficiency bill passage, shielding labor and farmer organizations from antitrust prosecutions when they join to raise wages or sustain fair prices for farm products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Theodore P. Shante Called by Death in New York
Theodore Perry Ghonts, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit and former head of the Panama Canal Commission, died after months of illness in New York. The piece notes wartime price pressures and calls for fair terms compared with five years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore P. Shanté
New York
Theodore Perry Ghonts
Interborough Rapid ‘Transit Company
Panama Canal
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Fred McGrew
la Grande
C. J. Smith
Athena
John Hagen
Umatilla
Tom Booker
Dalton
N. P. Bennet
Sidney Tuckers
Canada
Samm Tucker
Normal Heights
James B. McDaniel
McDaniel
Athena Reboot
Geo. B. Carmichael
Seattle
Carmichael
Ladies’ Guild
Marvin Price
Price
S. J. Culley
Warren A. Wood
Gold Beach
S. E. Powell
Corvallis
Montana
Baker
William Baker
Adams
Associated Students of the College
Salt Lake
George Ashworth
Utah
Claude Warren
D. W. Warren
Estopia
Wilbur Muckle
Connell
E. M. Warren
Sidney Warren
Jones
Pinkerton
Tollgate
Hugh Taylor
Pullman
Hugh
146Th Artillery
Weston Leader
Frank Harris Davis
Weston High School
Davis
Painless Parker
E. R. Parker
University of Oregon
Otto Lindstrom
Morrow County
A. W. Lundell
Lindstrom
Lundell
Mr. Lindstrom
Ione District
Ellis E. Pinkerton
Charles L. Pinkerton
S. A. Barnes
E. M. Smith
C. W. Avery
Milton
J. D. Whitman
Hass & Sauer
Baker's Goods
Davis & Ellis
A.W. Lundell
Cethrraft Guarantes Connolly Nosteralee
Dhs
Bees
Justin
LAMM
Weston Mercantile Co
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