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THE ONTABIO ARGUS, ONTABIO, OBEQOST, THURSDAY, NOV. 9, 1922' v v. Rex Guilford, AHco Van Buren and Wllfod Wobor, the Pig club boys who won blue ribbons on their pigs at the Mainour County Fair, left Saturday for Portland to try their luck. Englo Johnson and family of Seattle are here looking after their land, and may dtclde to enter the poultry business on a largo scale. Itov. J. B. Story has been here for a number of days visiting old time friends and looking after business interests. Geo. K. Aiken of tho Argus and James Lackey were visitors in this vicinity Saturday. Dick Graham left Saturday for Baker where ho will spend the win i ter. M. Green, has been busy for A some days orectlng a silo 12x20 ft., I and has lumber on the ground for J the erection of another which will ; be ready for use soon. . M. A. Patch has been confined to his room for a number of days with rheumatism. ( Head lettuce growers will soon ,'(,, complete shipping for the season. I.jyrue crop has yielded fairly well I and of a good quality. ( Robert Weber made a business trip to Portland Saturday and will ' take in the livestock show before returning. W. R. Douglass, father of Rev. f R. P. Douglas, returned Saturday aftor an extended trip, to his boy hood home In Missouri Hugh L. Taylor is one of our or chardlsts who can boast of apple blossoms in October. Day Dee left a few days ago for Baker on an extended trip. I. W. Hope and Leo H. Schmidt of Vale were business visitors here Monday. v&iSx5 ''fc1!.' fl 11!!! In these days of high prices and advanced liv ing costs you have a double incentive to save. The savings bank account of today represents the foundation of many a fortune of tomorrow. Building up a reserve is not difficult after you have begun it, but the important thing is the start. We invite you to make that start with us. Directory of Ontario's Business Firms J HOME MADE CANDIES RADER BROS. ,1 DR. J. A. MC PALL pttrb antj nELiriOTTH Dependable Merchandise I PURI3 AND DELICIOUS Not the Cheape3t But tn8 Beflt. Eyesight Specialist Taka a box homo for Sunday Eye Glasses and Spectacles BON BON candy HHOP X B. lu Tompkins, Prop Signs ' BYRON TURNER REIHBEN & RYAN 1 ONTARIO NATIONAL BANK The Oldest Bank in Malheur Tb H G Eat8 County "Service that Serves" , pi,;, Tii CaplUlnd Surplus $100,000. Phones 3 and 131 -" BLACICABY JEWELRY STORE 9Cl5 Home of PURITY BAKERY? g "Gifts that Last" HOTEL WILSON '! ' Ernest Barcus, Prop.JJ : The "Homey" HoUi of Malheur All Kinds of' Breads. Cake. ONTARIO PHARMACY . County. Good Meal. 40c and Pastry O. M. Castleman. Prop. Prescription Specialist Victor Phonographs Rexall Remedies WELLS DAIRY Eastman Kodaks TROXELL IMPLEMENT CO. Phone 34 W2 H- n DDICK Farm Operating Equipment Service day and night. Tuber- Plumbing and Heating McCormlck. Deerlng and P. & O, cn,ar eow c,Mn Bnd , Domestic Water Systems tar equipment. TAGGART HARDWARE CO, " : Malheur County's Largest THE INDEPENDENT MARKET Hardware Store Phones 6 and 135 M0R "$!, BH0P i " IK IU Good To Eat We Have It novelty SHOP j 0 BIcOHEIGIIT HARDWARE l It It'a Farm Produce We Buy It Palymre Waists Women's Dresc&s And Sport Clothes Satisfaction Guaranteed BBBHMBHHnBHnHHlBKBMBBMBHiMIHHHIIMHHMiBMB' A. R. Grant is home from a threo months' visit with, relatives in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. He reports having had a most en joyable time. Mrs. Prod Pullon and threo chil dren of Nebraska, are here visit ing with her sister, Mrs. M. H. Green and family. P. A. Record of Monrovia, Calif, spent a Bhort time with Mr. and Mrs. E. Record recently. Riverdale residents who have been losing so many big fat hens and canned goods in tho past few months would rejoice if the "gyp sy" camping outfit would evapor ate. Misses Jennie and Kistie Patch are making somo wonderful im provements on their place by en larging, replasterlng and installing water works and electric lights. fr baptist oinmcii 4, 4, Biblo school at 10 a. m. Morning worship at 11 a. m. Service at Arcadia, 3 p. m. Junior and Seniar B. Y. P. W. at 6:30 p. m. Special Song Service and Gospel Message at 7:30 p. m. American Sunday school Union representative will speak. Prayor service Wed. at 7:30. Rev. J. C. Austin will bo with us. Preparations are In progress for our special meetings under Rev. S. J. Deld, beginning Dec. 3rd. Chas. Blom, pastor. CARD OP THANKS We wish to express our heartfelt appreciation, to our many friends, for their sympathy and kindness ox tended us during our recent loss. Albert Cook and daughters, Mrs. Ada Wilson, Gertrude Wilson, Aden and Marlin Wilson. VALLEY VIEW Mr. and Mrs. II. Brown were visit lng Thursday at tho W. B. Brown home. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Brown Visited Sunday with her mothor. Apple pickers packed up camp Saturday n.ftor a six weeks' period of apple picking on the D. Sleep ranch. The Valley View Drainage Dis trict held a meeting Monday after noon at tho now school house. Tom Dawies, who has been mov ing the cottage now has the work completed and it is ready for oc cupancy. Miss Mabel Breekan, who is teaching near Vale, visited in On tario Sunday. Mr. Amidon reports tho weather back east to bo much warmer than It is here. ALMOST PUT HIS FOOT IN 11 Visitor In Small Town Found He Had to Be Exceptionally Careful About Offending In-Lawa. There Is a town In the Southwest There the families have Intermarried co such an extent that It Is difficult for an outsider to make the leusi criticism of one person without the danger of offending some family con nection. When an unfortunate visitor commented on this fact to Mr. Jones, the postmaster, Mr. Jones nodded. "Bill Perkins that's our sheriff complained of that no longer ago than last week," said he, according to the Philadelphia Ledger. "You see, It tpok him more'n a week to arrest Frank because Frank got wind that he was wanted on n little matter of sellln' moonshine, and he went on a round of visits amongst his relatives, aunts, nephews;ln-lnw and I don't know what all, ana It wasn't till he had had his fill and went back home to his wife that BUI could make the arrest without seeming to kind of butt in, as you might say, and spoil the reunions." "I should think he would make a strange sort of sheriff," said the vis itor, "waiting all the time for senti mental reasons and then arresting a man when he went home, Just be cause his wife wasn't a relation I" Whereupon the postmaster drew himself up and assumed a remote ex pression. "That's as you look at It," he said In a chilly tone. "I may be a bit prejudiced in Bill's favor, as he mar ried my son-in-law's youngest sister. Anything that concerns him concerns we, you understand." Dates From FTfteentn Century. Interesting discoveries have been made at "Ye Olde Griffin" hotel, Am- eraham, England, a coaching honse dat ing back to the Fifteenth century. The digging out of a leaking water pipe has brought to light a perfect example of an early Georgian fireplace. It has wide seats on either side and an Im mense hearthstone In the center, with an old-fnshloned spit above It On the hearth were some old coins, one with the date 1037. High up In the chim ney Is a recess which tradition says was used as a hiding place during the political persecutions of two hundred years ago. Montreal Family Herald. Named After Balfour. Large numbers of Jewish, children born in Palestine during the last month have been given the first name of Balfour, after the British acting foreign secretary. The enrl of .Balfour Is the author of the Zionist declara tion bearing his name, and Is also cred lted with bringing about the approval of the Palestine mandate which Re cures establishment of the Jewish na tional home. 5IM483 fl YEA.TS DISASTER RELIEF COST Red Cross Aided 145,000 Vic tims in United States Losses Total $30,000,000. Seventy-two disasters, with hun dreds reported killed and Injured, and more, than 145,000 either homeless or requiring usslstance, called for emer gency relief measures and the ex penditure of $l,441,4S0.:iG by the American Red Cross during tho flscal year ending June 30, 1022, according to a statement based on tho forth coming annual report of the Red Cross. The greatest toll of life was taken by hurricane and tornado, while the overflowing of rivers, the breaking of dams and torrentlul rains drove the greatest number of people from their homes. The property loss was estimated at more than $30,' 000,000. The year's disasters reported in eluded twenty-six floods, nineteen tor nadoes, fifteen (Ires, four epidemics, two theatre collapses, two shipwrecks (one an olrslilp), and n bridge col lapse, mine explosion, railway colli sion, and a drought. Of the floods In the United States that at San An tonio, Texas, caused the greatest property loss, $0,000,000 and the high mark of fatalities, 100, while the flood In the vicinity of Vlcksburg' and Natchez, Miss., forced 31,000 parsons from their homes. A National Calamity In the Red Cross disaster! relief records there will probably remain for many years one calamity which touched nearly every state with a sense of horror and of loss. 'This was the distressing collapse of ,the roof of the Knickerbocker Thpatro la Washington, D. C, resulting1 In ninety-six deaths and 12,1 persons injured. Situated in the center of the beauti ful Northwest residential fecetlon, this motion picture theatre was patronized by many persons of prominence both In the official and civil life of tho Na tional Capital, whose family and per sonal connections rndlated out over tho entire country. The horror was Intensified by n terrific snowstorm which, though it retarded, did not block Red Cross relief. Airship Crash Finds Aid at Hand The crash and destruction of the U. S. Army's large airship Roma In Vir ginia last February with the loss of .14 officers and men and 11 Injured was the first disaster of Its kind to call for Red Cross relief In this country. The suddenness of the accident tested the preparedness ol the organization and of the Chapter at Hampton, Va., but the response was Immediate and relief furnished tho survivors, also funds for tho expenses of relatives of the dead, who came from long distances to claim their own. In the year's oversea record for aid rendered by the Red Cross are "wo fires in the Philippines, one In Monlla, which destroyed 1,000 homes, with a loss pf $1,500,000 and 5,000 persons tnnde homeless, the other at Tonlo which drove 8,000 from their dwellings. In medical relief that was quick and effective the smallpox epidemic In San Domingo, which hod a total of 22,000 cases with 225 deaths In a single day, tested the readiness of the Red Cross for action, nnd tho same con be said of the San Domingo hurricane, which killed 12 persons and reduced the homes of 182 persons to wreckage. A flood in San Salvador, with a death toll of 50 and 2,000 refugees, was also effectually handled by the local Chap ter of the American Red Cross. Relief Machinery Perfected The year has seen tho further per fection of disaster relief administra tive measures In every field of Ameri can Red Cross activity, and that tho work may be carried on to still greater accomplishments the American Red Cross Is appealing for widespread re newal of membership during the an nual Roll Call, to be conducted this year from Armistice Day (November 11) to, and Including, Thanksgiving Day (November 30). FRAGRANCE ON PRISON AIR Electric Perfumer In Cleveland County Jail Arouses Mind to All Kinds of Possibilities. Attar of roses and sweet scents of Arabyl There's an electric perfumer at the county Jail. It casts all kinds of sweetness on the prison air. Just turn the button and the Jail becomes a garden of roses or fragrant with the scent of orange blossoms. The other day the atmosphere of the Jail reflected the aroma of the for est cedar. It might have been Norway pine, sassafras, crab apple blossom, but it Just happened that the perfumer was charged to dlspenso an aroma tinged with forest cedar. The machine has possibilities, tho sheriff believes. It might be employed to awaken the prisoners each morning with scents of violets and soothe them at breakfast with odors of ham, eggs, corn fritters, grapefruit and other viands not on the regular morning menu of coffeo and butterlesa bread. Oh, yes, Indeed, the machine has pos sibilities. At night It could discharge the odor of pineapple or fits or dates, and any prisoner with a good sense of pmgll and a strong Imagination could readily go to sleep and feel that he was in nawali. But the perfumer is In Jail only on trial ClnveUnd PUln Dealer. Help to Help Others You can't "give until t hurts" foi (,'ivlng an American dollar to Join the American Red Cross helps you to help itliem who are hurt and who need relief. John and Eleanor's Dream By ELLA SAUNDERS (, 1922, Western Newspaper Union.) Tliclr dream had come true at last. John :ml Eleanor looked at each other with Startled eyes, as If unable to be llevejlt. After two years of city life an apartment, modest, hut In quite a nice;' district they had their country cottage. The cottage they had always dreamed of. It was John who had fouid It. It was a little, old-fashioned plate with about half an acre of gar (!(), Just within the commuting rcglou, yfct untouched by modernity. There )rvas not even n bathroom when they rented It. John had had that put In. The wholo thing had been a surprise ,to Eleanor. ' Sim stood among the hollyhocks with shining eyes. "It seems too good to he true," she said. "The dearest place I John, won't we be happy 1" They were. Eleanor revelled In her gurden. John mowed the lawn In the evenings. They had no cares, no one to bother them. In the evenings Elea nor sewed or read, while John, when he was not detained at the office, as frequently happened, went through his accounts and correspondence. "We'll save all the expenses of a holiday now, dearest," said John. "I shall simply knock off work for a couplo of weeks and stay here with you." That event happened a few weks after they had moved in. It was tho latter part of August, scorching hot; John sat In his shirtsleeves all day under the big maples, going througn letters and wishing that ho had his stenographer with him. "John, dearest," suld Eleanor, bend ing over him, "don't you think you ought to get a little exercise now that jou're free?"' "I've thought of that," answered John, smoothing down his waistcoat. "Trouble Is, there are no golf links anywhere foi miles around. I wish some one would start some." "But, dearest, how about those nice country walks we planned?" "Nothing against 'em," answered John, "except that we've worn out the country." "Worn It out?" queried Eleanor. "Yep, that's what I said," John an swered briskly. "Wo know all the roads 'round here. We know Farmer Giles' black cow and Farmer Hen d rick's blue one. We know the pretty cottage with tho Jasmine nnd honey Miclclc nt the bend of the rood. We know Oh, everything that's know able, including Mrs. Miller's blear-eyed kid that makes faces at us." "Oh, I know, I know," said Eleanor miserably. John wus getting tired of their dream, that was the trouble. That was why he brought all his work home. John was moping. "The clear, starry skies, tho wonder of the duwn, the sound of singing birds, the music In ench rill of water these were not for John. Eleanor would be glad, for John's sake, when his holiday came to an end. Something seemed to bo coming be tween them that autumn. Tho old, sweet confidence seemed gone. Some times Eleanor would detect her hus band sitting In his chair, staring moodily at her. At such times her heart would beat faster, and she would wender: "Con there bo any one else?" One night she could bear It no longer. "John, won't you tell me what has come between us of late?" she begged, "Is there Is there some one else?" John kissed her sadly. "No, darling, Just business troubles," ho answered. Could she bellevo him? Eleanor looked nt him doubtfully. After that (he shadow that had fallen between them grew blacker and blacker. "Dear, what'd you say to a little Jiiiuit to town this evening?" John asked, "Just to keep In touch with things. Wo mustn'st become back numbers, even If we do live in tho country, must we?" Eleanor agreed without enthusiasm. The spell of country life had taken hold of her. But for John's sake It wus strungo being at the theater again. They watched each other, each afraid of seeming too appreciative. They dined at a fashlonablo restau rant. "It Is nice In a way, Isn't It, Elea nor?" said John. "But It doesn't come up to the glories of sunset and dawn, und the hum of the trco-touds, does It?" "N-no," said Eleanor. She was so absorbed In her thoughts that she did not realize where they were going until John helped her out of the taxi. She stared about her. "Why, its our old upurtment house I" she exclaimed. Without a word John led the way Into their old apartment on tho ground floor. Eleanor gasped. It was all fur nished ready for occupancy. She looked at her husband, and a sudden light curae to her. "Oh, durllngl" she cried. "Did I guess right?" "You did. But but " "We'll have our things sent out this week, old oaken bucket and all. I'll attend to it. "You'll stay right hero. This is where our real life begins." Wealth From Alaska. The mining Industry In Alaska, which began in 1880, when the geld tl fliers at Juneau were first exploited, lias produced more than $418,000,000 worth 'of gold, silver, copper, tin, tnnjfcten, antimony, coal, petroleam. insrble, gypsum, chromltes, platinum tna palladium. ftSSi$$S So They Wero Married By CLARA DELAFIELD WSJSSfetf (, 1822, Western Aenipsper Unlun.) "That's Mr. Ruthwuy, cushler of our bank. Well preserved old gen tleman, Isn't he? That's Emily Ruth way. Fine looking )oung wouiuu! Yes, they were married last year. A very good catch I mean mutch, for Emily. "You see, Jim Bowkcr had been hanging around Emily for nearly seven years. When they began couit lng, Jim worked In Wessel's feed store for $18 a week, nnd Emily was clerking In the department stort Blum's department store; you'll see It on the next corner. Jim and Emily seemed struck by each oilier, but neither was any sort of catch I mean match. Emily is rather plain, isn't she, though marrlugo has improved her. Jim? Oh, he's hanging around soiuewheres? "Well, sir, Jim wnsn't exactly what you might call a saver, and Emily, she wanted to get married, like any other young woman. It wasn't In any sense a love match, you understand. When folks have been courting for six years, if they aren't married, they never ought to be. But they'd sort of got used to each other, and they honestly meant to get married some day. "Emily was ready on the drop of the hat. But Jim hud never saved a cent, and there got to be some talk about Jim's running around with tho youngest Eden girl. People us'ed to twit Emily about it, and naturally she didn't like It. Also they were be ginning to wonder how soon she and Jim would get married, and whether It was coming off at all. On Febru ary 14 somebody sent Emily a comic valentine the old-maid kind. That stung. Emily grew rather desperate. "Well, old Mr. Ruthwuy had been a friend of the family for years. Wid ower for 20 years, no family, most of the money that exists in our town, etc. A splendid catch. But all the women had long ago stopped setting their caps for him. Couldn't catch him. He was a wily old bird. Jolly as a sandboy, and full of Interest In life, and, ns I was saying, he'd known Emily since sho was a baby. "And that's where the catch I mean the match came In. You sec, he was suspicious as sin of all tho old maids In town, but Emily why, sho was a buby. Emily was almost like his own child, the way ho looked on her. He sure thought ho was safe with Emily. Besides, wasn't there Jim Bowker? "Emily went to him, I'm told, cry ing, and said Jim was running round with the Eden girl, and what was she to do. Old Mr. Ruthway fell for her like a child. "'Do?' he shouted. 'Make the darned young cuss Jealous, of course. As long as he thinks he can have you whenever he wants you, why natu-i rally he doesn't care to trouble. Make J hlra think you'ro running round with! somebody else.' f "'Oh, Mr. Ratlin ay, it's all very well to say that, answered Emily, 'but you know I couldn't play with a man's heart In that way. Now If It wus you Oh, Mr. Rathway, won't you let Jim think It's you?' "Now maybe she didn't uso exactly those words, because there was no third party present to henr. But old Mr. Rathway fell for It he sure did. And he took Emily to the next church Boclable. "No end of a stir that made, and the old gentleman began enjoying the fun, and perhaps, too, he enjoyed hav ing a pretty girl to go about with fairly pretty, anyway even at his time of life. Anyway, Emily led him on and led him on, and thu next thing was that Joe Bludsoe caught 'cm kissing under the elms. "My, It run through the village like wildfire, And the next thing was Emily's going to Lawyer Jenks, heart broken. " 'My life's ruined from love for Mr. Rathway, who won't carry out his promise to marry me, she said, or words to that effect. 'Of course Lawyer Jenks was no fool ; he knew as much as any one of us, and a little more, but the next thing was a breach-of-promlse suit for $25,000. "Well, old Mr. Rathway wasn't a fool, either. He loved his money, and he knew any Jury in Travis county would soak him to tho limit, the old bloodsucker. And then well, you see, as I was saying, Emily had led him on and led him on, an that in the end ho came to the con clusion that maybe he'd rather have a pretty young wife than lose $25,000, and be the laughing stock of the town. "So they wero married last year. Rules him pretty stern, too, they say sho does, but sho looks after him, and I guess tho old gentleman's never re gretted the step he took. Of courso he doesn't know all the town's wlso to tho affair. "Jim? On, he's still hanging round Emily, at a respectful distance. Old Mr. Rnthway'a got hardening of the arteries, and, as Emily's still got sort of sneaking fondness for Jim well, maybe it was a quiet way of saving up enough to start them with homo of their own, after all." The entlro living population of the globe, divided Into families of five persons each, could be placed in Texas, each family with a home on a half-acre lot, and there would still re main tome vacant lots. i--.tw-a.wriiiHrsnrrarnsUiisMiaMiiMsJlissii MNMMfc..."-' " '