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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1915)
How About a Clean-up and Paint-up Campaign in Ontario? Wm dhtfapri Representative Newspaper of Ontario, Malheur County and Snake River Valley. mm. i VOLUME XVIIV RULES ARE FIXED EGR CORN SHOW THIS p Meeting Held in City Hall Monday in Interest of Annual Contest EXACT DATE IS NOT SET YET Only Three Districts This Year But Same Ter ritory Embraced Instruction to contestant, and rules which will govern the content, were fixed Monday afternoon when W. R. Shinn, county'agriculturist, and A. (J. Kingman and E. B. Conklin of the Pomona Grange committee held meeting to map out the preliminary work for the corn contest to be held Lh.s fall. The exact dute of the content has not yet been fixed, und will be tuken up later. Throe districts have been decided upon for this year, instead of five However, the same territory is cm bruced. The rules have not been changed much from lust year, the greatest change being in the per cent allowed for acreage of corn and for the written report. The new rules follow: 1o all Contestants of Pomona Corn Contest: Keep u complete record of the prep aration of seed bed, the cost of need, fertiliser und labor, the receipts from the crop, etc., so that you will huvc no trouble in filling out the blank spaces at the close of the season. This re port is of great importance and should show the actual cost of mak ing the crop, as well as the profits on the acre. Kill out this report promptly for each operation as it occurs and you will have every item available at the close of the season. We want a report from every contestant even if the yield is small. The county is divided into three dis tricts, vis: Big Bend-Nyssa, Boulevard-Ontario, and Willow River-Dead Ox Flat. For each district cash prises of 160.00, $25.00 and $15.00, for first, second und third prises respec tively with a special prise of $100.00 for best acre record in Malheur coun ty have been assured. Only one cash prise will be awarded to one contest ant. There must be at least ten con testants from each district to secure the district prises. Supplementary prises of merchandise and furm ma chinery will be announced later. The committee is planning a corn carnival which will probably be held at Ontario. Prizes will be awarded at that time. Plans are being perfected to muke this carnival truly education al, thoroughly enjoyable and of spec ial interest to farmer.-. Kill.- Governing the Contest. The following rules will be followed in determining awurds in the contest. 1. This is a one acre contest, awards are to be given on the product of an acre of ground which must be in as compact a form as possible. 2. The following score will be used in making awards: Quality, 40 per cent; Quantity, 40 per cent; Written i(i mi 10 per cent; Acreage of corn grown by contestant, 10 per cent (one per cent will be allowed for rain acre of corn grown by contestant up to and including ten acres). :. The ground will be measured and the crop harvested under the sup i tvision of a committee appointed for that purpose. Further particulars i will be given before harvv.-t. 4. Kach contestant shall exhibit two bushels of corn from his tract as a sample of his product; the quality of his crop will be judged by the sam- ole exhibited. This two bushels ex hibited is to become the property of the Pomona Grange to assist in paying expenses. Build Stand Pipe. A sixty-foot stand pipe is brine built on the pipe lino OX th" Ontario N'yssa Irrigation Co., commonly known as the "Shoe String Ditch" and will be completed within n few dins About ten men ure employed on the work. The stand pipe is bring built of steel and wood. ELEVEN FORDS ARE SOLD THIS SEASON Eleven Ford cars have been sold in Ontario this season by the Ford agency here. One carload of Fords ar rived last week, and have all been sold. Another car load has been or dered from the factory and is ex pected here about the first of the rronth. Those who have purchased cars this season are: Nelson P. Grover, Minster Bros., Ben Thomas, Rev. Brown, A. Anexdale, and the Oregon Western Colonisation Co., who have purchased three cars. Out of town buyers were C. M. Crandall of Vale, Henry Fields of Nyssa and Harold Lofton of Ironside. "UNCLE SAN" MAN LIKES ONTARIO Collector of Main Post Of fice in Chicago Would Locate Here C. R. Barker, collector of the main postoffice of Chicago, is in Ontario this wei'k, and has fallen in love with the country. Mr. Hurker is on his annual vacation, and this year routetl his trip through Ontario. His ticket calls for a trip on to Portland and Seattle, but Mr. Barker has decided to cut out the coast trip, and will spend all the time his leave of absence will allow in Ontario. At present he is looking around for a location, and says he is coming back to Ontario to locate as soon as he can make ar rangements. .. D Spencer DiM. F. D. Spencer ,agd 34 years dieb at the Holy Rosary Hospital Tuesbay afte noon. Mr. Spencer jwas brought from Pay ette a few days ago and uuderwent an operation for appendicitis. Peritinitis set in a few hours later. Those who survive him are a wife who is with her sister here Mrs. Robt. Mab bux, a father, who lives in Kruitlund and a Lrother Fred residing near Payette. The funeral was heldjfrom the Meth odist Church at ten o, clock thi- morning. Rev. Pratt officiated. MANY SCHOOLS TO BE IN CONTEST The L'ighth Annual Mulheur County Declamatory Contest will be held in Val- Saturday night, March 27th. Tin- schools which have entered for the contest up to the present time are N'yssa, Westfull, White Settlement, BvOgM '""I Vale, and some very in teresting declamations will be enjoyed by the big audience that will be in attendant.-. Ontario will not be in this year. A. G. Kingman of Owyhee was an Ontario visitor Monday. Further information regarding Un contest can be obtained from an member of the Committee or from the County Agriculturist, Ontario. A. G. KINGMAN, Nyssa, Oregon, FRANK MILI.KR, Parma, Ida. R. D. 3 K. B. CONKLIN, Ontario, Oregon, Committee. THE ONTARIO ARGUS, THURSDAY. MARCH 18, 1911 EEC REND BRIDGE T IS LET Coast Bridge Company to Erect Structure at Cost of $24,150 The contract for the construction of the Hig Pond bridge across Snake rive was let Monday to the Coast Bridge company of Portland, the cost of construction to be $24,150.00. This was considered a very low bid by the county court, as the estimated cost of the bridge was about $.10,000 and bonds to that amount were voted by the county to pay for the work. Construction work is expected to start in the near future, and the mix up on the sale of the bonds, will not in any way intcrefere with the comple tion of the bridge, according to coun ty officials. EMMETT MAY GET NEW COUNTY SEAT Northern End of Canyon County Idaho is cut off. Election in May. The Gem county enabling act per mitting a vote to be tuken on the di vision of Canyon county for the pur pose of forming a new county to be known as Gem out of the northern end of Canyon county and that section of Boise county known as the Squaw val ley, will become a law through failure of the chief executive of the state to act upon it within the time limit al lowed him 10 daya following ad journment of the legislature. It is con ceded that creation of the new county will follow when the election is held there this year so that the recent leg islature will have created a total of four new counties, making a grand total of H in the state and giving to the senate of the next legislature that number of senators. The other new counties are Benewah, Boundary and 1'eton. The act creating this county is A. F. Boyer Says Local Climate is Finds Snow a Foot Deep in Spent Winter in Texan Marketing Apples. "It is the finest weather I've seen since 1 left here last fall." This was the expression of A. f, Boyer on re taining home Friday from lexas, where he lias been uil winter dispos ing of some 6,000 boxes ot apple raised on the Boyer fruit ranch lust season. He was accompanied l Mn Boyer who has bei n with him all winter. This section of the country certain ly hus a wonderful climate," continued Mr. lioyei. "lii Texas we have a cold rain one day, anil the next day the sun will shine and the thermometer will run up to about 70 degrees, and a dcn.-,e Steam Will lalso out of tin earth. You can almost see the ma- laria in the at .- phero. We wen- in Galveston pint of the time, going there first expecting to find a better climate. But it was little better than Houston, and .so we finally made our headquarter.- in Houston. "The apple market wa bad. When I left there tea days ago apples wen selling for fifty cents a box. I did not sell any apples for less than $1.00 per box, which, including freight means about fifty cents paf box f. o. b. ONTARIO TO HAVE BASE BALL TEAM Meeting Held and Plans Discussed-Committee is Appointed Present prospects for baseball in Ontario this season ure of the best, and it is very probable that plans will terminate in one of the best ball teams that has ever ropi canted the city. A league including Boise, Nam pa, Caldwell, Vale, Payette, Weiser and Ontario is proposed. Several of these towns have already organised, and there is every indication that the plans will be perfected. A meeting was held last Thursday night in the Commercial club rooms at which time the prospects were talked over, and a committee was appointed to rrrange for the finances. This com mittee consisted of R. W. Swaglet, I.en Christiansen, Fred Kice, Wilmer Boyer ami A. Anexdale. MASONIC GRAND MASTER COMING W. C. Bristol Will Visit Three Lodges in Ontario Tomorrow J Night W. C. Bristol, State Grand Muster of the Masonic lodge will visit three local Masonic lodges in Ontario to morrow (Friday) night, when the Vale, Nyssa and Ontario lodges will meet in the local hall. Joint team work in the third degree will be put on, and a banquet will be served Lodge will be called to order at TlM sharp. All visiting brothers are in vited to be present. known aa senate bill No. 07, by Hayes. Emmett is named aa the county seat. Sixty per cent of Un qualified electors within the territory to be formed into the new county must be in favor of its creation. Im mediately upon the passage of the act und when the time limit expires for it to become a law, which is tomorrow, the secretary of stute is required to (Continued on page 6. ) Far The Best Iowa and Nebraska. He Onturio. We did not loM any money m our apples, however, and that is much bitter than many growei., have done "On our way home we vi it. I Oklahoma and in Iowa. All of Iowa and Nebraska VI N und r a blanket ol .-now about a foot thick when we left there the middle of last week. It is cold there, and looks very little like I ;iiig. Tin., side of the Korky moiin tains, however, we encountered no JtOV, und here in the Snake rivet we found pring Mather." Mr. and Mi- Boyi I loft ' h I iber 'ith and have been gom since then. The apple; haw- been hippod to them from time to Uma, tea carloads in all, having been I! lated that it took hlsl nine day- tof a car of apple.- to go from Ontario to Houston, which wa.-. the boat freight si rvice he had encount red in thi i ial years that the Boyi I apples huve b. en marketed m 'lex.. Mr. and Mi.- I'.oyei expect to n main in Ontario most of the summer leaving early in the fall for California to visit the Panama-Pacific Kxponi tion before attain going te Txa fot the winter. Furnishes Kunming House. V.. v.. lleCa) of Rlvcrslds wt h Ontario Monday and while, hero pur chased the flirniahittgl for the new rooming hOOM and hotel which he i establishing at Riverside. Mr. McCity states that Riverside is growing rap idly, and that the little town evidently has a good future. PAYETTE IS VISITED BY PETTY ROBBERS The Opera cigar store of Payette was robbed last Thursduy night jvrrt before midnight of $,'17.50 in rash. A stranger was in the store when Mr. Brubaker, the proprietor, locked up. It is believed another mnn was hidtlen away when the store was closed up or that the stranger hut! slipped open the lutch on the side door, through which he Inter enteretl. R. M. Hutchins' cur wns tuken Inst evening from in front of the Meli dist church where he was attending services. It was found later in the evening turned over in B ditch on the bench sevi m! miles away. E WORKER IS INJURED BY EALL Foreman C. A. Harshbarg- er Falls Twenty-Five Feet And Injures Hack C A. Harshburger, ion-man of one of the gangs constructing the new steel In idee across the Snake liver, was seriously injured Wednesday night when he slipped und fell about twenty-five feet, lighting on his feet. His back was injured by the shock, ggsj it is thought he sustained inter nal injuries. He was sent to the Oregon Short Line hospital at Salt Lake, on the train leaving here at t. : Thursday evening. The accident occurred just at six o'clock as the crew was going off shift, ll.ii -iii. .ii eai was coming down from the top of the bridge where he had been working. In falling, it is said he turned over twice in the an. finally landing on his feet. He came here about a week before the accident occurred from Nyssa where he had been a foreman on the new bridge at that pluce. His brother, Ben Harshbatgei, foreman of another gang here and has Im-cii i mployed on the Ontario bridge since work started, several weeks ago. Dr. Poague, the local physii iun for the O. S. L. did not think bis iajurioi would prove fatal, but stated at thi pre.-, lit tune it was impoaaibli to tell just bow bad the internal injurii TIS HELD IN ONTARIO Cii -,it court was In Id in Oni ii o th first two day.- of thi week, OVOral eaSM having been heard. Mun.la., th i ii ul the Wi - ' I id I o. I Bohr, i and wife wa i ...id and a lit i i mn I- mien d In laviii ol tin Ian ' , on pany. The suit wa b a , lit to nl'i.i . . the p. i n .r i i lunnaiH ol i contra) t, In wlui b the lain! COI d that 1 1 ' tain land should be r. 1 nun the lien of ige. i thi ease of David Dunbar VS. 1). Magill, et ux , C A. Martin, C. K. Cunningham( R. M. Ds Armond and John Martin, wa.- up foi bearing, Thi nvolved a di.-p gate of payment of several promis sory notes. Mi. .Morris Solium i- and family of Wei l t wen- here Sunday the .1 Mr. and Mr... Whitworth. NO. 12 FRUIT GROWERS HOLD MEETINGS IN .WO H. A. I'm ham Delivers In teresting Talks to J Fruit Men REPRESENTS BIG ASSOCIATION Gives Valuable Advise as to Manner of Packing and Shipping II. A. Piirhum. head salesman of the North Pacific Fruit Distributors As sociation, with headtuurters at Spo kane, spoke lust Wednesday evening at Payette and Thursday evening at Kruitland. He guve many interesting phases of tho business, and the meet ing was an open or round table dis CUSsinil with the purpose of helping the fruitgrower in his work. The association has been in btisines.i but two yeuts und out of u business of over live million dollars only four hundred und eighteen dollurs have been lost through crediting, which speaks well for the business miimip.i moot. The association hus done Jaisi neas in almost every statu in tho union, in twenty of the leading cities of Canada and in ten or fifteen for eign countries. Some of the foreign cities were Bristol, Liverpool, (ll.is cow, (uttenburg, Hamburg ami Buenus A) res. In enumerating the drawbacks to great success in the business, Mr. Purliam guve Home valuable advice a to hurvesting, packing und shipping. Also the kind of apples to propogute was discussed. In the Idaho Oregon district, which comprises Malheur county of western and southern Ida ho, forty -five per cent of the apples raised can be stored, while fifty per cent must be sold as soon a.- harvested. In the Hood River district scventy nine per rent can be stored while only twenty-one per rent must be sold at once. I bo. gives a better chance I'm disposing of the crop without ovei loading the market. As to hurvesting ami packing up ples, Mr. Purham said that the apples generally are left on the lite too long Then ufter they are puked tht v art generally left out in the mhi ami ai sometimes put in the cooline- nl.n t when they are hot. The ... i wrong conditions. Applet I,, ild 1 picked ai are ' nd The be.,t way to li.nvi t i- to on' q the afternoon aii! baul into tin) plan' in the nn.riile I hi ; tool. Wl . II pii l.i i! I .ilh1 kept in tin shade p Cooling plan) i ild le i in tin day time t'. I and opt I" d at in, i I fr.-h air hi filled p Mi fort) five degi 1 1 1 1 of I W.I- illtli ' thi. I I 1 t to ocl'1 e . Th ..' ti'ling the plai t timed to -how., tin- foil) with ware, fruit. When apple i are in .it .ii aftei l ing picked they will not Stead up lorn- a hi h. iv. Igaoriag thooa rules foi results ill d- all I'at lion in hip The shippers have ao Idoo "i tie tlitiou of the Ii Hit win ii it 1 1 a de tlnatlon. And to prove thii M Purham relatt d i veis Inten tin) count ol how one shipp. i w a eon vini i d thai 'i ''it, In- th. mi, i.i . line condition when shipped, was in a veiy bad state when it reached ' destinat ion. Another phase of the shipping U tion is that a car ol apples moving will gg down more in a week than I even weeks in storage. Also ship ping by venter is just tg I ' (Continued on pare 4.)