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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1920)
Full News Serrlcc For All County Communities Largstt CireulaUoa la Eferr Reetloa Of Malheur County Best Medium For All County and Outside Advertiser, ADVERTISE IN THE ENTERPRISE The Only Paper That Circulates Throughout the Whole of Malheur County... It Ha More Readers Be cause it Print More Rending Matter. People Pay for The Enterprf'-.i cause They Watit to Y ora " . . Review s of v- Q V-VT ,'u World News; th J: l ..uugh Reports of Southeast... Oregon Irrigation, Stock, Farming, Oil, Mineral and Community Progress, the Latest Market Quotations; all Filings In the V. S. Land Office. Vale District ;Mal heur County Official Notices; Real Estate Transfers; County Seat News; Correspondent Letters. TOUR CO-OPERATION Suggestions and Support are Solic ited to Help Make The "Enterprise" a True Representative of Vale, and Malheur County. Send a Subscrip tion to Friends Whom Vou Wish to Welcome to This Country. The Fnterprise is Absolutely Independent, Treats Everyone With the Same Fairness, is Always Progressive, and Urges Your Activity in the Develop, went of Malheur County's Great Pos sibilities. It is Your Paper and is Working to Develop Your Community. Let all the Malheur Towns and Settle ments Work Together for a More Prosperous and Better County. The Home Newspaper, Read in Kvery Nook of Malheur County. TTI VOL. XI. NO. 15. VALE, OREGON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR REPUBLICANS ENJOY FETE Party Traditions and Aspirations Discusesd at Washington's Birthday Meeting. I'll Say So Home Pride Back of Town Means Prosperity for AU To Enjoy a Home Ton Must Own It, Looking toward the November elec tions of this yenr, many Republicans of Malheur county assembled in On tario last Tuesdnv in honor of the i again anniversary of the birth af George j cheapest thing in the world today. In Washin'gton, and incidentally organ- jdustry, that covers a lot of territory; ized the Republican Countv Central but the greatest institution, the foun- t (By JIST HUNT.) Do you know trie name of the greatest insti.tution in America? Schools, you say, but you're wrong. Churches then; wrong again. News papers, we thank you, but guess Money, oh no, money is the LYCEUM MONDAY. As the first number on the Lyceum course shown in Vale this winter the Ward-Waters company of dram atic artists, entertainers and musi cians will be heard at the Rex theatre Monday evening, March 1. Mr. Ward is a character make-up artist of unusual ability, Mrs. Ward in impersonations and whistling ducts with her husband is a great favorite of the Lyceum stage, while Miss Edna Falk contralto soloist de lights her hearers with a deep rich voice of beautiful mellow quality. Commitee, formed a county Repub lican Club, enjoyed a splendid ban quet, and heard a number of stirring addresses. The, banquet beginning at 8:30 p.m. was presided over by J. W. McCul loch who called for a number of talks on subjects of party and public inter est. Among the speakers were Geo. W. Hayes, county chairman, J. D. Zurcher of Portland, F. M. North rup of Dead Ox Flat, P. J. Gallagher of Ontario, R. N. S.tanfield candidate for Senator, E. M. Dean of Nyssa, Robt. D. Lytle, candidate for District Attorney, W. A. McKinnie of Junt ura, E. B. Conklin of Nyssa, W. H. Brooke likely nominee as Delegate from Eastern Oregon, Cyril Brownell who would have Wood nominated, W. W. Wood of Ontario, A. A. Gut ridge of Dead Ox Flat, George Hunt ington Currey of Vale and Geo. A. Aiken of Ontario. The meeting organized the Malheur County Republican Club electing P. J. Gallagher as president, A. G. Means secretary, H. B. Cockrum as treas urer. The republican club plans on taking an active part in the coming campaign with the purpose in view of re-establishing the G. O. P. in the saddle of national, state and county government. Republican precinct Committeemen from all parts of the county met in Ontario Tuesday afternoon and elect ed Central Committee officers for handling of political affairs during the coming campaign. - George W. Hayes of Vale was elected as Chair man, David Graham of Juntura, Treasurer; A. G. Means of Vale, Sec retary. Party business affairs were talked over and the organization of the Republican women of the county taken up. Women delegates present from various precincts of the county asked that they be taken into the county J (Continued on Page Eight.) dation of civilization, the stabilizer of nations, the principal to which all other institutions are secondary and subservient is the home. Those four letters h-o-m-e mean more to the past, the future of Am erica and the world than any other combination of language may it cover in fine type the pages of an encyclopedia. Where a man's home Is, there will his treasures be stored, and the Good Book adds something about his heart accompanying his bank book. " The best towns, the best counties, are those which have the most and best homes. That's true every time. Also, the best people for a town or a county are those who own their homes in the town or county. A man may visit a long while away from home. Where a man happens to live more or less temporarily does not always indicate his home. Here are a few rules to help you find out where your real home is located. Your homo is the place you are CHAMP CORN GROWi SETS HOOSIER RECORD PROBLEMS FACING STRIGeWORLD Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in Europe Follow the Great World War7 TURNS IN REPORT. NOW WEAK AND HEARTBROKEN BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUBS " ASK LITTLE OF COUNTY Federal Government And Agricult ural College Cooperate With County In Industrial Club Work. H. C. Seymour head of Industrial Club work in the state and County Superintendent Mrs. Hurley spent Wednesday of this week in confer- In Mourning and Poverty She Counts Her Dead and Looks With Eyes of - Sadness Toward the Threat nlnj Future. Article II. WANT FUNDS FOR MEMORIAL SHAFT Bronze Tablet To Be Erected The Court House Yard Memorial Day. In By FRANK COMERFORD. August 1, 1914, was the day. On that day Germany declared war on Russia. The Br alarm rang around the world. Peasants In the Sold straightened their backs, listened nod looked Into the sun confused, wonder ing. Flags were unfurled, bands played, faces were white, tense and ence with Farm Bureau and school taIked ja groupg en ,he glwet cornerg authorities mapping out plans for, Women laid down their brooms nut the carrying on of the club work in i aside their washing, and talked In this county during the coming year. whispers ; sad lights were In their Industrial club work in Oregon yes. Children stopped playing. Some is carried on with a combined fund thlll8 had happened. Evil things were from the Federal Government the abttd- AuSugt nd 4 found France Agricultural College and the county d. - -- v. mj vi ii a on rci ri 11 ml iu Mrs. C. F. Casey of Rome was in Vale last week and while here turned in $16.00 to the Red Cross treasurer as the final report on Roll Call week. The Rome territory is one of the farthest out and hardest to work sections of the county chapters but they never fail to get their full report and it is always a good one. Lytle Announces Well Known Attorney Announces Candidacy for District Attorney Active Public Record. wherein the work is undertaken. It is estimated that $2150 is needed for the work in the county this year. Of this fund the federal govern ment will provide $1000 with an ad ditional $150 if the work is begun in April. Oregon Agricultural College rope the fire of death had started. For four long years heart-sicken-Ing years the world ran red. Men waded through mud and blood, fought, suffered, cursed, prayed, while back home In the manless houses women and children worked, cried, prayed anrl n it I wl FPli i .1 .1 will put up $500 leaving a balance 1 rwh T . Jr "' " . 1. j . ' Dth poisoned every breath the of ony $500 to be raised in the peopie breathed. GREAT FUTURE SEEN BY NEW JOT PUSHER By WM. FRANCIS F. SEEMAN. With pleasure I salute the resid ents of Vale and Malheur County, and I am very grateful for the very pleasing welcome extended me on my arrival among you. For the past several years have had my eye centered on Oregon generally, as an outsider looking in, and now I am This week Robt. D. Lytle announced his candidacy for the Republican no mination for District Attorney. Many friends of Mr. Lytle have ex pected his announcement for some time and so far no other candidate has been mentioned as a contender for the nomination. Mr. Lytle was raised in LaCrosse, Wisconsin where he graduated from the public schools and later first studied law under the prominent firm of Miller & Wolfe. In 1906 he moved to Dickinson, North Da kota where he continued the study of general law and practiced before the Department of the Interior in all matters pertaining to the public lands in the states of Dakota and Montana. Mr. Lytle came to Malheur County Preston Moody, 13-year-old boy of Fremont. Ind., Is not only the champion boy corn grower of his state, but he has set a record for all Hoos'ers both big and little to shoot at in number of busb els per acre production. In win. 'ne bis championship for 1919 sed 147.3 bushels on one ground, a new record in Liberal use of fertlllaor planting is his seert' The Julian Lowe Post No. 35, American Legion of Malhc-ur County is to erect a bronze tablet which will be mounted' on a granite pillar, in the Court House yard and is to be dedicated on Memorial Day, May Slst 1020. Their appeal should be heeded by all of the residents of the coun ty, for they need the co-operation of the citizens to raise the funds necessary to carry the memorial to a successful issue. "Help it grow." The tablet will contain the names of all of our boys from this county who so bravely gave their lives to make the world safe for democracy, therefore this appeal should not go unheeded by any individual who resides in the county. Make your checks and money orders payable to Memorial Fund, Julian Lowe Post, American Legion and mail to A. M. Grubbs, treasurer. M fast M you can. The man or The list or those who made tne . woman who has no real home is glad to be in as much as possible. Your home is located iu the beat town in the world, as far as you are concerned. Your home is your refuge from the cares and enemies of the world. Your home is your kingdom, in it you feel a sense of possession, a spirit of responsibility which uplifts instead of depresses. Your home is the center of your life's ambitions. Here your children grow up and qualify for the inherit ance which is to be theirs. Your home is influenced by the character of the other homes in the community, by the good or evil dis tractions of the community, so your home is located in the community where you take the greatest interest in social and public affairs. Now my advice to you is if the place where you are, is not your borne, just pull stakes and get there county for this work. Furthering of Industrial Club work activities in the county was discus sed at the county organization meet ing of the Farm Bureau and re ferred to the proper committeeman to see what might be done for the providing of funds by the county to curry on the work. Prominent men of the bureau are enthusiastic over getting all assist ance possible to further the work and all possible will be done to get the necessary $500 to put in with the federal government and O. A. C. funds. Already over the county a number of schools have organized their own local clubs and are getting down to work, many others can be inter ested and some are anxious to take up the work if funds can be secured. BULL MOOSER GETS PLACE JN CABINET Washington Gasps As Bainbridge Colby Is Made New Secretary of State. It is over now, It Is finished. A stunned, numbed, weak, heartbroken Europe Is again sitting In the sun of peace. Europe Is In dirty black rags. The blnclj Is mourning, the raijs are poverty. Her face is deeply lined trenches mnde by suffering. Her eyes are downcast and dead. Hope flutters glad to say I am an insider, looking for an unobtrusive opportunity to , 5n m5 forminff - partnership with iook lurxner in, wun eacn ana every one of the residents in the vicinity. I am desirous of furthering the very commendable policies of the publisher and owner of the Enter prise and of being ever ready to co operate with the citizens of the com munity, in any and all things look ing toward the development of this wonderful country of yours and which, when I have proven myself, I hope you will allow me to call mine. Words are inadequate to express all of my first impressions on my advent among you. The wonderful opportunities agriculturally are to be equaled in no other favored spot of this entire country today, you have water and plenty of it which other less favored places have not. and your land generally speaking is sur passed by none, especially is this so when the great range of crops is taken into consideration. . I under stand that you have a County Agent Col. R. G. Wheeler at Vale under whom he continued his law study and was admitted to practice in 1916 by the State Law Board. Mr. Lytle married just before coming to Vale and has owned a nice home here for several years. Since coming to Malheur county Mr. Lytle has taken an active part in all public affairs, serving two years as president of the Vale Chautauqua Association, One Year as President of the Vale Chamber of Commerce and is at the present NEW EDITOR OF THE ENTERPRISE Wm. Francis Seeman Becomes Managing Editor Currey Con. tinue As Publisher. weakly In her brenst ; fulth has faded : located here to co-operate with you in from her soul. Her Lome is a house ! cated here to co-operate with yo'i in of darkness. The tire on the hearth 'overcoming the various problems of supreme sacrifice now stands: Reuben B. McKinney. Julian T. Lowe. Clarence W. Haward. Orrin Woodcock. Charles II. Parks. Robert Boswell. .Elbert Johnson. Harry Oliver. Earl Duggan. James R. Fcnwick. Earl Carnow. Albert S. Turner. Raymond A. Lam. Porter D. Nash. Edwin Thyberg. The proceeds now on hand, derived from various sources follow: Recent .-how at the Rex Theatre $77.00 Dance given at Bungalow Hall 24.25 Donation Alexander Co., Vale .500 Donuted by Mr. and .Mrs. C. C. Mueller . .. The Majheur Enterprise The new Secretary of State Bain, bridge Colby is a skillful lawyer, a spellbinding orator, and has in past been for both Teddy and Wilson. He has the unqualified support of Wil liam Randolph Hearst. He nominated Theodore Roosevelt at Chicago in 1916, but when Hughes came up, he went campaigning for Wilson. He is wedded to no party, has no pet theo ries of international law or its appli cation in the worlds affairs and is reputed to be in absolute accord with the President, which is in all prob ability one of the reasons' for his ap pointment. Troops Guard I. W. W. City Montesano Sheriff takes decided Exception to soldiers Occupation. De nies Danger. Fully equipped for the field, with hosts of ammunition, four officers and 82 men, a provisional de tachment of the 35th, U. S. Infantry, from Camp Lewis, Washington, ar rived in Montesano and immediately, went on guard duty in connection with the Centralia murder trial. Eugene Bamett was recalled to the stand and asked about the parcels post matter sent just after the shoot ing on Armistice day and he stated that the package coitained bulbs and that he sent it to his mother. It is rather indefinite as to when the trial will be completed and a decision had. Packers Prosecution. Wholeasle prosecution of Salmon j Packers, is likely, especially those j packers operating in Alaska are i charged with canning cpoiled fish and est institution of any? I'll Fay so. Jit is further charged that the army. What do you say? J after extensive disclosures spoilage i - j of last summer, under a resale con- PLAN NEW SCHOOL. jtract under whjch the paclu!n, re. .... r, i i . . :.L ..!..) . ... , a . . . .ur. ileum iii. i .urs. .-.mnn 01 i ne ; j)ui rliased tne spoiled Il.-n, Is me J Warren School, I'i -trirt 'i't mar Nys- ; iniony in the army investigation be 5.00: mi, were in Yi.!? la-t week to coii-ult f0re the Hcavi ttubcommittee, and 50with County Supei iiiteiidci.t Mi. it has created a sensation. ! has turned to cold gray ashps. The kettle no longer sings, It moans. Her mind is weary, her body Is wasted. Hunger has rnlilipd her of her strength. Her stockinnless, shoeless feet are blue from the cold. Her lips wear starvation color. lee In the winter's wind lashes her shivering, half-nnked body. She mumbles as she stares va cantly into spare she Is tired, so tired. As I beheld her It seemed to me that a fare so troubled and sad must never have known a smile. I listened to her mutterlngs. I found that she was counting. Over and 'over again she counted on her thin, tired, worn hands she was counting her dead. Thinking of Hr Lost. She was thinking. Her eyes looked over the hundreds of thousands of square miles of war tone, slashed ( with trpnrheq. nlttpd nnA nnrkmnrlrprf hy shells. She sees where they fell. No tears are In her eyes. Long ago the hurt had reached the point where tears dry up. Row upon row, line upon line, mile upon mile, whlte palnted wooden crosses mark their graves. For the most part thpy were her youngest born, her most beloved, who dug deep In the soil to sleep for ever In the dark dugouts. As they fell bleeding from steel and lead, choking from gas, writhing In agony from Are, they proved In the dy ing word they spoke that they were mere boys, as they had shown in their fighting that they were brave men. To about as useless to the community they are living in as is the gas en gine without an electric spark. But lucky is the human whose home is where he is living, and fortunate is the town or community that is blessed with people whose homes are where they live. Home pride back of town pride means progress and prosperity for all. And to enjoy a real home you must own it. Landlords build houses and deal in rents. Homeowners build "caRtles" (grent or lowly) und deal in joy and happiness. After all isn't the Home the great- up-to-date scientific farming, and this is undoubtedly the forerunner of many other innovations that will from time to time be instituted as we all get together and work for them, for we get nothing in this world only as we work and work hard for it. That is what makes anything worth while in its acquisi tion. The sheep and cattle industries are and evidently have made remark able progress and today those pro ducts and the by-products thereof are beginning to be better known in the market centers. The sheepmen and the cattlemen are to be very highly commended for what they have accomplished, for the writer fully realizes the up-hill work of these industries in a now country where no one in power will for a long time listen to the requests for the assistance that is necessary be fore a new country can be developed to any great extent. The Enterprise shall continue to further the policies, many of which are "just dreams" that have undoubtedly been of ben efit to the community and shall ever stard ready to assist the indi viduals of the county collectively, in each and every venture and enter prise that tends even in a small way to promote the interests of the 1 sfNT 4 injv,,.' Ta W . Robert D. Lytle. u itw.c. ...rj K.u..cU mnr me.- , . irenerallv. sage, and the red popples remember ! C0UIUy senerauy. the last word of Europe's dying sons, ' If m years or observing residence who went out Into the great beyond . in the irrigated section of Arizona with this last word on their Hp, has taught me anything that you "Mother." may apply here, will merely say to She has finished counting; an ache lyou "ask and you Khali receive." . shudders through ber bent body. She , The writer hopes to "make good" time President of the Malheur Coun ty Development League, which orga nization he fathered and guided in the successful campaign to finance and establish the present compre hensive County wide good roads program. During the war Mr. Lytle served without pay as Government Appeal Agent in administering the Draft act. In the fall of 1918 he closed his law office, stored his furniture and library, attended the training camp at Eugene and was under orders to report at Camp Fremont, Call fomia when the armistice was signed, after which he reopened his office and resumed his law practice. 1000-FOOT TUNNE NEARS C0MPLETI0N Sand Hollow Tunnel Nearlng Com pletlon Ditch Work Progressing Rapidly. sighs and sobs, "Seven and a half mll llou of my sons srs dead." Her thoughts turn to the living, her arms open to receive them, she holds them to her heart. They have come, but how? Some with sightless eyes, doomed to grope through the world In a never ending riarknes, a night without stars or moon ; sunless, Mark, hopeless days, and these, too, young men In the very morning of their day. inner senrenren m snenrc near , . i . 4u0f ,n, ...... , ,,, , . ibeuaty, and it seems to me that witn and d'ltnh. Never icn n w she heur """ , . among you, believing in living and let live a very homey old adage. Climatically you have a very healthy climate, seasonable enough for good fruit and table products and it has made a very favorable impression as compared to my im pressions of that country lying on the other side of the Cascudes. The trees and the like over there are all beautiful, but we don't live on the same effort we can make two dollars here for every ono that is made over there. Let us all produce as this is a Dirt is flying rapidly these days in the finishing up work of the dis tribution system to serve the lands under the Warmsprings Irrigation project. The South canal a branch of the Nevada ditch has been completed and the work of enlarging the Nevada ditch is nearly finished. The pump ing plant is being installed and other canals will be reached as fast as possible. The large amount of work yet to be done on the J. II. Ditch has been started. One of tho special features of the spring construction work is tha pro This issue brings to a close th active editorship of the Malheur Enterprise by George Huntington Currey. Mr. Currey will continue as publisher of the Enterprise but will devote his time to the business of the Currey Development and Land Company which new organization will be announced soon. Wm. Francis Seeman, the now managing editor of the Enterprise, comes to us, after some six years residence in Arizona, most of which was spent in the Salt River Valley under the Roosevelt Dam irrigation project, the largest in this country, having gone to Arizona after a rather serious physical collapse while practising law, entered the newspaper field and has since been on the staff of various periodicals and the Arizona Magazine. He served ten months on the coast at San Diego, where he was connected with the San Diego Union and incid entally conducted the Coronado Tent City News. Mr. Seeman comes very highly recommended by the Gover nor, the Governor's Secretary who is also the proprietor of the Prescott Daily Miner-Journal, and other of ficials of the State of Arizona, also by the Arizona Gazette, leading evening paper and the Arizona Re publican, the leading morning paper in the State. His Inst position was Editor of the Arizona Magazine which he con ducted to a successful issue, and ia today known as the official magazine of that State. Mr. Socman is very enthusiastic over the more or less similar coun try and conditions that prevail here in comparison with the country he hails from. - An article appears else where in this issue of The Enter prise in which Mr. Seeman gives us his Impressions as a stranger in our midst and especially his impressions relating to the vast opportunities of Vale and all of the County of Malheur. WILL UNIFORM VALE BiSE BALL PLAYERS Will Uniform Basebull Team Dis . cuss Fourth of July Celebration. their voices nor will they hear her. Still others In wheel chairs, dwarfed, legless. More hobbling on crutches, limping on rsnes. Some with empty sleeves. Many with great scars, where once was a handsome face. e see. wie.n n, ner nenrt weens; . . ,,r,in,i,.M. nrnnH. i around tho hill and been a constant flit, turn -!'-- ' . . Fourth of July and Basoball were the main topics of discussion at tha Chamber of Commerce Tuesday Luncheon and both received favorable mention from all present. Chairman Doctor F. J. Brown called upon sev eral speakers for opinions as to the organization of a baseball team to represent Vale during the coming season. It was the decided opinion of all present to uniform and equips twelve men for a local team, all team members to be unpaid. Plans were also discussed for arranging a sche dule with five or six other local teams. General discussion also followed the report of the Committee appoint ed the week before on a Fourth of July Celebration. A Committee with C. M. Robinette as chairman was ap pointed at the luncheon to proceed with the arrangements. The commit tee re porta that a canvass of a lurge part of the businessmen had shown that all favored celebration this year. On account of the absense of so many of the local sportmen interest ed in the organization of a local Fish and Game Commission it was decided not to touch upon that subject but to make that the principal topic for discussion at the coming weeks meet ing, and Art Kessler oi c of tho local fishermen was appointed as Chair man for next Tuesday's meeting. Red Cross Nurse Comes. tired, but he must eour.l on. grens being made by Trent Johnson . , . ' . . I . AAA . . I time when our great on me excavation or me iuvu ieei I Icountry needs production to reduce tunnel which will not only raise the Miss Mclvar, Red Cross Nurse of Ihigh priees. j level of the Sand Hollow water line, Seattle arrived in Vale Monday of Pray let us all get together, put j but will make safe the ditch which, this week to assist local doctors in ..... . .L.i.Lik...,,.;..., ...,.t.l t fl a.i I . - ..... our shoulders to ine various wn(uwi"i ' ""- """""icanng tor inlluenza patients. Local need of nurses is not as great as it was a few weeks ago when so many were suffering with attacks of the disease, however, the dectors still have need of this cooperution in tak ing care of the rases where reul need and careful nursing exists. The Red Cross nurse who has been here sev. i.a Inluliiil Iha m.nalml She 1 counting them, the V.'.f;iorri7. IP""'1"' advertise and thereby put the wounded of the war. ; this county and the town of Vale on War's Frlohtful Cost. j the map for all time to come. Let us llrr vole. Il hllskv. h. r h.n.li. . . Kl"P "l l""c u""' ": Si und ,hL' "'t of Vale paved, good to tho a lislf million of ber fon were marked road-, - thai boon "nilinf and prisoner" In tint ottb lal i communities, to all points in the wr core. AIhi.t of ibese Imve come countv lailioad improvements und so source of trouble. John II. Lewis, formerly Engineer manager of the project is in Vale this week making anangements to take up the work of adjusting the farming water rights of thd "wet" lands with in the district. j Hurley relative to plan. for a new Ji.-. Alsbcrg, chief of the bureau h k to ber. but -he d' not question ! on lin, on. J tru.'t you will in the Mrs. (', E. Carter, Mr. and Mr Mail yours in row while you think of it. Don't wait. $llfi.25'two loom tchof.l to tiike the of rhernUtry, testified that 100,000 th'-m lie dure not. 1 heir fa'-es tell ir future, accept, my humble -f- Jack i'llzer motored from Ontario Place or tne present one room build-, cans of the bad fith was returned to, '' ui tti'M "" "-''" "J ;forU f,f co.oreratjon as an acupUd 'Sunday to take Miw Mell Carter ing in mat oisiiir.. nn packers under the retsle contract. (Continued on Page Eight) i member among you, to Jar.jiesor.. ,eiul weeks and bus been at Jamicson the past few days will leave for her home this week and Miss Mclvar will continue until she is no longer needed. I 1