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MALHEUR COUNTY FAIR, ONTARIO, OREGON, SEPT. 20 21 AND 22, 1922 -FUN 3 DAYS -1000 WAYS 0niati0 VOL. XXVI ONTARIO, MALHEUR COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922. NO.. 37 mm 1&4J FIVE THOUSAND WILL . BE SPENT ON SPORTS Program for Thirteenth Annual Mal heur County Fair Gets nigger - With Every Meeting of Com . mltteo Barbecue Latest Added Attraction The premium list ot tho Thir teenth Annual Malheur County Fair which will be held in Ontario, Sep tember 20, 21 and 22 this year, is off the press and is now being dis tributed. Premium offerings are made in the ten departments of swine, poultry, farm products, fruits, apiary, boys' and girls' club work, educational, bread, cakes and pas try, canned goods and preserves, fancy work and infants, wear and flcnyers. Liberal cash rewards, equal to. those of the large Fairs, will be offered in all departtnens. A new feature added to the prem ium list this year is tho First Annual Snake River Potato Show. Sever al hundred dollars in cash premiums are offered in this department. It is' anticipated that this feature will draw large exhibits. Literature has been mailed to the potato grow ers in Malheur and adjoining Idaho counties. County agricultural agents throughout Oregon and Idaho have been requested to cooperate in mak ing this first annual event a success. Encouraging reports are received throughout Eastern Oregon and Southwestern Idaho. Community Exhibits Especlalley large community . ex hibits are expected. A number of communities havo 'already reserved space for their exhibits, and have promised larger and ' better dis plays than ever before. It Is anti cipated that this feature of the Fair will greatly excell all former re cords. Club Work Reports from County Club. Leader H. R. Wellman, indicate that club work" in Malheur county is well or ganized, and that the club exhibits , this year will be an attractive fea ture. Club members throughout the county have been preparing their exhibits and . have grown choice crops especially for the Fair. This work is of great educational value, and Is one that Is increasing in volume from year to year. $5000 For Entertainment a mpftlnc- of the committee in charge of sports and entertainment was held last Monday evening. The details "of the program and purses offered are now bejng worked out. The total offerings for races and sports of all kinds will aggregate $5,000.00. Twenty-five of tho wildest kind of range horses have been secured for bucking contests and wild horse races. This feature of the program will be onovof special attraction at the Fair this year. Horses and rid ers of the best In this section will participate In. this the ever, popular frontier sport. Automobile and motor cycle races will be on each day's program and liberal cash prizes are offered. A number of persons have already voiced their Intentions, pi partici pating in these thrilling'eventB, and it is anticipated that these races will be particularly entertaining. Free Barbecue and Parade A free barbecue.' providing tlfe choicest of beeves free to all Fair visitors, will be on the first day's nrneram. A monster parade will also be staged on the first day through the business streets of On tnrln leadine to tho Fair Grounds. ThU narade will bo several miles in length and will Include many new, novel and unusual features. It is planned that the program for the three days will be varied so as to furnish a continuous variety of entertainment to Fair visitors. The evening program, up town, will be of the clean, wholesome kind. A particular effort is being made to eliminate the offensive car nival entertainment, and at the same time provide features for the enter tainment of everybody after his particular taste. Many new and novel attractions are being planned. Arrangements are now being maa for tho follewing: Sage Brush Trail, Seven Up Jack's Place, A Trip to the Moon, and The Submar ine Girls, Thn Ontario Chamber ot Com merce will bold a-amoker on next Wednesday, August 23rd. to wnicn have been Invited delegations of business men front Vale, Nyssa, Fruited, Payette aa New Plym- UNTRUE RUMOR ADRIFT ABOUT OADET UNIFORMS For tho past two weeks, rumor has' beendrlftlng about Ontario to the effect that the uniforms which the R. O. T. C. here are purchasing from the government are second hand goods. Just where theso un truo and misleading rumors or iginated, neither Sergenat Abon droth or J. A. Turnbull are able to flgre out. But both declare author Itively that the uniforms are direct from the army commissary and no salvage goods are Included -in' tho lot. "If tho uniforms wo aTe get ting wero salvage stuff "they would cost only about $6.50", said Sgt. Abendroth, "which Is a substantial difference between the nev, com plete uniform Just for the commis sary for $15.50." t Sergeant Abendroth Is anxious for all students to- get measured as quickly as possible, in order that tho uniforms will arrive here- in time for the R. O. T. C. to put on an exhibition at tho Fair. SMOKER PLANNED FOR REPRESENTATIVE MEN Commercial Club to bo Host For Gathering of Men From Nearby . Towns Unity' of Effort In Securing Mutual Co-opcr-' ntlon Is Aim For tho purpose of bringing to gether representative men In all the Snake and Malheur river valley communities to discuss the means by which each can aid the other in their -community undertakings and for the mutual interests ot 'all who seek the development of this re gion, the Commercial club has ex tended an invitation to ten repre sentative men in Payette, Welser, Frultland, in Idaho, and Vale and Nyssa in Oregon to a smoker to be hold here" next Wednesday evening. Several .of tho communities have horse shoe pitching teams and tho Commercial club desires to put on a real championship contest, during the Fair and thus bring all of the towns closer together in the good time which such a contest will pro mo'to. ' An interesting program has been arranged for tho gathering and it Is expected that a largo crowd will bo on hand to take part in the smoker. BOY 3COUT TROOP AGAIN ORGANIZED IN ONTARIO For some time the Boy Scouts have been actively working here, being organized a few weeks ago, and Is now headed by J. A. Turn bull. For several times in tho past six years the Scouts have been or ganized, but each time was aban daned through lack of Interest and cooperation. Now the boys are closely associated and great Inter est Is being taken in the work, and Mr. Turrtbull Is- highly pleased with the prospects for an active organiz ation. After spending tho summer In post graduate work at, tho Univer sity of Missouri at Columbia, Sup erintendent ot Schools and Mrs. J. M. McDonald returned to Ontario Wednesday. On August 11, at the State Nor mal school at Cheney, Wash., oc cured tho graduation of Miss Jessie Griffin. She is the second Ontario girl to graduate from there; Miss Gladys Udlck graduating last spring. Miss Griffin Is to teach in the city schools at Seattle the coming year. President C. W. Tenney passed through Ontario Saturday, returning from a coast trip to interview teach ers and students who are going to attend Gooding college this fall," which opens September 11. outh, These delegates will bo re quested to Join In the working out of a program for the entertainment of Fair visitors. As this Is the only county Fair in this section It Is al ways patronized by people from neighboring towns and comniupni tles, and It is the plan of the man agement to provide such features ot entertainment that will meet the approval of Fair visitors. It should be remembered that It is not an On tario Fair, but It Is officially a Mal heur county Fair, and it Is even more than that, it Is the Fair of Bastern Oregon and' Southwestern Idaho. Snug Fortune Made by Dairyman Near Buhl in Seven Years of Work In Just seven years from the time that he took a 40 acres tract then all In sago brush, Ben Shlck has made a fortune. Tho story ot this romarkablo man and his achieve ment was tho most convincing of the many emphatic revelations unfold ed before the party of dairy spe cialists who visited Idaho and Mal heur county, Oregon last week. No less astonishing we believe it will prove, to many people of this section. Thus it appeals to the editor of the Argus who was priv ileged to be one of the party on the tour. Mr. Slilck was a carpenter at Buhl, In 1915. He had never mllked a cow In his life when he bought the forty and paid down but $100 on tho purchase price which was $140 per aero. Soon after he took possession ho bought nine grade Guernseys on a contract, not a cent down. From that beginning he has raised several fine calvos, for he Imported a registered bull, and has sold tho progeny for $5,000. Be side this he has. secured In milk checkBt $21,000 In seven years, or a total of $26,000 from tho herd. .But this Is not all. Possessing as ho does a trained mechanical mind ho has himself-built tho fin est silo on the tract. He has con crete laterals over his entire 40, which has so well designed a fall that he irrigates across tho 40 from one ditch. His feed mangers are of concrete with Iron pipe stan chions for each of the herd which now numbers 40 head. All these 40 cows are fed from the products of his ranch, and he was able to sell last year a small stack of hay besides. He did use too, a ton of bran and a few hundred pounds of grain. That his farm is a remarkable one, and his record exceptional Is true, but he had no physical advan tage which his neighbors did not likewise possess. These neigh bors told the visitors that Mr. Shlck has been their best friend, their greatest helper. He has loaned them the forms he built for his silo and for his concrete mangers and ASTERN OF.EG0N DOMES .GOING TO DO LA GRANDE Sessions of Amusement Order Have Record Smashing Program Be for Them Tyros Ready With tho 2nd annual convention of the Pacific Northwest association of Dokle Temples two weeks away frantic haste is notlceablo In all Eastern Oregon points where Dokies and" Knights ot Pythias reside Most of the lodges In Union, Wal lowa and Baker counties are enter ing floats in the "parade and several points in Umatilla county aro doing tho same. This convention is draw ing a big delegation from every town and hamlet in eastern Oregon, and the reasonls that there will be 2 days of unalloyed fun and amuse ment not only for tho Knights ol Pythias and Dokies, but for the publlo at large. Tho convention opons on Friday, the delegates attending from Dokle Temples In western Canada, Wash ington. Idaho. Montana and Oregon. Tho program for the two days starts off with a big ceremonial at i o'clock at Which Tyros will be brot in from all the nooks and crannies of the entire Eastern Oregon sec tion, In fact some Tyros are coming from Canada. Dokies from this whole section of the state are rig ging up candidates for Initiation, knowing that the honor of being Initiated in a class of this kind ap peals to everyone. Friday night is stunt night, and arrangements for seating 400 peo ple at the Fair grounds have been made. This program Is free and open to tho public, although sec inn will be reserved for Dokies wearing their Phezes, One of the feature numbers will be tho bnter- t,rin Philharmonic orchestra ana the Enterprise Madrigal Club. Numbers will bo rendered from me ridiculous to the"subllmo. Saturday morning and Saturday nMnrnoon also appeal to the publlo at large because the contest for big cash prizes between drum corps, pa trol teams and bands will be an In teretitlng treat tor everybody. This ditches. He has taken days to show them how to mako similar structures for their farms and ho has never charged any of them a cent for his services. The manner of a dairyman that he has ihode himself can be gained from the follewing: Nine of his cows under test last year produced an avernj ot 5253 pounds of but ter fat. TJils Is ten pounds above the average 'tor the Guernsey cows of the American that were under test last year. His best cow pro duced 714.9 pounds. All this has been dono In seven years. HIsfarm is clear of all debt save a $3000 federal farm loan and he has money enough In the bank to discharge that, but he Is to Use that money to build a modern home, for this Is all this farm lacks to make It an ideal property., Tho herd Is all paid for and is worth as much.lt not more, than the ranch itself. Mr. Shlck Was offered this spring, when others were going broke and ranches were being sac rificed, 520,000 for his 40, but he figured that if ho did sell ho would loso monoy were ho to take tho cash and loan it at the prevailing rate, of Jntorest. This Jtory of Bon Shlck will bo carried in farm Journals all over this nation. It will bring to the attention' of the dairymen of Amer ica the possibilities of this region as tho ideal dairy country. It is a concrete examplo of what a dairy minded man can do hero. Of course not all .men can do this, but. there is no denying that it can bo done. Ben Shlck has proven this. It might be added, too, that ho has no largo family to milk his cows. He milked them all himself, until the number grew so largo that a hired man was needed. All the facts given above were verified and from theiestImony of neighbors The eastern exports at first could hardly believe tho statements which they heard oft repeated about Mr. Shlck. They were "from' Missouri," they had to be shown. They were shown and thoroughly convinced. RECORD WHEAT YIELD IS PRODUCED ON OREGON SLOFE Dicklow, Spring Wheat. Yields Seven ty Bushels Per Aero For Dead Ox Flat Rancher on Twelve Aero Meld Oregon Slope, Aug. 15, Special: What Is belloved to bo the record yield of spring wheat, on the field basis was. threshed hero last woek by A. A. Gutteridgo. Tho field, containing twelve acres, yielded . at tho rate of 77 bushels per aero. This yield Is more than six times the averago yield of spring wheat fur tho United States, and thoreforo speaks well tor both tho soil and tho farmer who raised It. Tho Dick- low variety of spring wheat was used and the threshed wheat Is of good quality. On another field containing ten acres Mr. Gutterldge harvested 70 bushels per acre. of tho same kind ot wheat. A two aero field ot Fed eration yielded 02 bushels per acre. Howevor, ho does not consider this a reliable comparison between tho two varieties owing to tho differ ence in the land on which it was grown. Ho thinks that tho Feder ation may outyleld the Dicklow -under like conditions if more seed is sown than ho used this year. NAME OMITTED IN LAST WEEK'S TEACHERS LIST Last week when tho Argus carried the story about the opening o( school, and the list of teachers for the East and West Sides and tho High school, pno name was omitted in the forco for the west side grade. This teachor was Mrs. J. W. Spring er, who will teach arithmetic In tho Cth, 7th and 8th grades. too, Is freo. Saturday night comes the closing event In the way of a monstrous parado In which several thousand people will be represent ed. La Qrando Is making arrange ments for entertaining the biggest crowd that has evor been In this city. FARM BUREAU COMMITTEE ELECTS NEW SECRETARY At a meeting of the county com mittee of the Malheur county- farm bureau held at Ontario last Satur day, P. M. Boats of Oregon Slope was chosen to succoed Thomas W Clagett of Ontario, as secretary of tho organization. Mr. Clagett ten dered his resignation because of pressure of other work which will keep him out of the county much of tho time for the next few months. His resignation ns secretary was ac cepted by tho committee, but he Is retained as a member of tho board. It developed at the meeting that there aro about 373 members in tho county organization, some fifty hav ing enrolled since tho last mooting. Tho board instructed tho secretary to communicato with the stato farm bureau with regard to marketing turkeys for tho members this fall, and to work out some feasible plan whereby assistance could bo ren dered members having birds to mar ket them to best advantage. LEASE HOLDERS MADE DRILLING IMPOSSIBLE A. F. Boycr In Letter to Argus Gives Reasons For Not Attempting to Drill For Oil When Hero Still Ready to Proceed The Argus this week received the following letter from A. F. Boyer .who Is in San Diego1 California, giv ing tho reasons which accutated him In not undertaking to drill for oil hore this summer: "As I havo rocelved many letters from Ontario asking why I did not drill an oil well there after I had been promised money to do so, I wish to state that when I startod to got leases I found that much of the land I needed had boon leased by parties who oither could not . or would not drill, but who havo field tho -leases for sevoral years and are still holding them tor speculative purposes. "I offored to drill a woll if thoy turned over to mo 6000 acres of their leasos in ono body. But this thoy refused to do, although I was told thoy held 18,000 acres of leases, So I was compelled to stop becauso I could not get leases with out paying for them too dearly. Butl I will say, If tho land owners will let their leases run out so that peo- plo who would open the oil indus try in tho Snako river basin, then I will bo glad to como back and provo that oil can be found by my electric process Just tho sumo as down hore in California, where I locato oil for somo of tho biggoBt oil com panies. It you will print this in your papor, I will bo much obliged. Yours truly, A. F. Boyer." 1025, 10th St., SanDlogo. RELATIVES JUST LEARN OF WEDDING OF COLLEGH COUPLE Just rocontly Mr. and Mrs. Con nell Cox who llvo flvo mllos south west of tho city, learned of the mar rlago of their son, Dwlght, who was a sophmoro at tho O. A: C. la'st term, to MIbs Lillian Barnes ot Cor- vallls, daughtor of Mr. and Mrs. Robort Barnos of that city. The bride too was a sophmoro at the Agricultural college Tho younn couple wont from tho collogo town to Salem whero tho ceremony was porformod, and returned to Cor vallls, making no announcomont of tho Interesting event. This summor when Miss Torrossa Cox, Bister ot tho groom, wont to- visit hlra In Portland whbro ho 1b working she loomed of his marriage, and ad vised her paronts. Dwlght Cox Is woll known hore In Ontario, for ho graduated, fro tho O. H. S. n tho class of 1918. REPUBLICAN COMMITTED TO MEET STATE CHAIRMAN George W. Hayes, chairman ot the county committee has called a meet ing of tho Republican central com mittee to bo held at. Vale on August 24. In tho evening a banquet will bo given In honor ot Waller L. Toozo, Jr., stato chairman who is making a campaign tour of tho Btato, In his call for tho mooting Chairman Haves particularly urged all the women members of tho contral com mittee to attend tho gathering. TUNNY CAUGHT AFTER Stnto Department nt Wnslilngton is Asked to Request Cnnadinn Authorities to Turn Over Fugitive Wlfo Went to Meet Htm H. II. Tunny who left Ontario about March 20 leaving behind him many creditors, was captured at Lethbrldge, Province of Alberta, Canada on August 9 upon a circular letter sent out by Sheriff H. Loo Noa. Ho is being hold there under arrest, according to a wire received by Sheriff Noe, until extradition papers can be forwarded to the State Department at Washington, D. C. It will be necessary for tho papors to go. to the Commissioner of Jus tice at Ottawa, the Canadian capi tal before Tunny can bo brought back, unless ho waives extradition, which apparently he has not dono. Tunny after his departure advised his buslnoss associates hore, and tho First National bank that ho had gone. In a letter to the bank ho admitted that tho cattle? which ho had mortgaged to that institution were not in existence. Tho matter was placed before tho grand Jury, and an indictment returned against him and it was on tho warrant Is-, sued upon that Indlctmont that ho was apprehended in Canada. For several months following Tunny's disappearance his wife and family remained hero. Somo time since they wont to Boise where Mrs. Tunny announced that she was to rosumo her studies and training for a nurse. It is understood here that she loft Boise some tlmo woek before last and gave her destination as Payette Lakes, but it has since boon - learned that she went to Canada. Beforo she reached hor destination, howevor, her husband had been caught by the Canadian authorities. While In Canada It has been learned that Tunny took tho alias of H. H. Bush, or D. A. Bush. How long It will bo beforo Tunny can bo brought back to face trial on tho charges against him is not known, but it Is bollovoa possible that ho can go brought hero In tlmo for the Septembor torm of court. OF IRRK SEES WARMSPR1NGS PROJECT With Chief Engineer F. E. Wey. mouth and J. B. Bend Malinger of Bolso-Pnyetto Project Sponds Day in Valley A. P. Davis, director of reclama tion of tho U. S. Department of tho Intorior was in Malheur county last Friday to view tho Warmspringb Project and tho proposed oxtonslon which tho directors of that district aro asking tho govornmout to build. Arrangements havo been mado for a cooperative ourvoy of tho pro posed oxtonslon. Tho Reclamation sorvlco has sot aside $5,000 for this work and a similar sum Is to bo se cured by tho directors ot tho Warm springs district. On tho way back from vlowlng tho lands under the proposod oxtonslon tho directors wore In Ontario for soveral hours and met with a num ber of mon horo Interested In Irri gation development. Tho visitors wero very tacturn rolatlvo to Irri gation dovolopment. No statoment of vlows concerning tho Owyhee district could bo obtained from them. FIBE WIPES OUT HOTEL AT BROQAN ON SATURDAY Tho Brogan Hotel which has long stood as a monumont to tho ambi tions of D. M, Brogan, was totally destroyed by tiro last Saturday. How tho flro originated Is not known, nor 1b the loss sustained by the owner, S. Oltolson of Los An geles, for whether the building was Insured or not could not be learned, Tho only occupants of tho build ing at tho tlmo were Mrs. Mary Coloman who operated tho res taurant, and hor brother, M. F, Blls moyer who had the pool hall. They lost about $2,000 In equipment with but $300 Insurance. A : i it i t t?s , m l.j J ti)fa'yll"l''-JflJiijlij r JJtoJri.JpiJ.m iwrrrnuMMifl-T-i i -- 'ntr """r p- .mtji ..,