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CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL - PAGE 8 HAS VERY BUSY WEEK tGirls Giving Time to Physi cal Culture Stunts DEBffi POLITICAL . ISSUES School Play is Announced for November 24 Assembly on Monday Only Last Monday all girls enrolled in the gymnasium classes aDpeared on the field in their regular "gym" suits. There were present quite a .number of spectators and : pro nounced the wrk fine. A great many results in the way of better standing and .sitting positions are already apparent, to say nothing of huge appetites we are develop ing. We are always glad to have visitors. We practice Mondays, r Tuesdays and Thursdays. Miss Jackson is planning a track meet for girls in the spring and Miss Wilde will direct the basket ball and tennis. The Alpha and Ochoconian foot ball game, which was played last Thursday proved clearly the supe- riority of the latter in the science of the game. We hope to see another such exciting game soon in which the former will match "pep" and score with the latter. "The Servant in the House" will te played at the Commercial Club Hall Friday evening, November 24th, by the following cast: James Ponsonby Makeshyfte. D. D., the most Reverend, The Lord Bishop of Lancashire, Leo Cram The Reverend" William Smythe, Vicar, Hobart Reams Auntie, the Vicar's Wife Violet Lister Mary, their Niece Estelle Conway Mr. Robert Smith, a gentleman of necesssary occupation, Sylvain Michel Rogers, a page boy Clyde Clark Manson, a butler Rader Frewett Synopsis of the play " will be given in the next issue. Remember the Cast. Mr. Baughman announced last Wednesday morning that on ac tount of stress of school work, de bates, contests, plays, etc,, that we will hold assembly only one morn ing of each week; "making it food" and , that morning will be Monday of each week at which time, in addition to special music " andjaddresses we will nave what we call 'Senior Speeches.' Alma Ljpp man will sp'eak next Monday morn ing. It will be worth hearing Miss Lippman's record as a student lias been unparalleled. .Last Friday's discussion of the Rural Credits' Amendment proved to be a "heated affair." Hen drickson did himself "proud" for bisfirst appearance, setting 'forth elearly and forcibly the main issues f the question and making a It Isn't Enough That You Trade at Home TELL YOUR NEIGH BORS TO DO LIKEWISE If every man and woman in this town will trade with the home merchants Uwill make for an ideal community. EVERYBODY WILL BENEFIT IMMEDIATELY strong plea for the Rural Credits Amendment. Prewctt, in his usual calm and decided manner, followed with a concise summary of Hon drickson's work and a liberal ex planation and argument for the negative. Visitors, members of the faculty and other students ex pressed their opinions, giving "a reason for the faith that was in them." Next Friday we will discuss the "Single Item Veto Amendment." Miss Doris Fischer representing the Alpha and Oscar Payne the Oohoconians. . Portland and Seattle Market Quotations Portland. Wheat Club. $1.39; bluestem $1.46; red Russian. $1.38; forty-fold. $1.41; red fife, $1.39. Hay Timothy, $18 per ton; alfalfa. $15.50. ' Barley No. X Feed, $36 per ton. Butter Creamery, S9c. .". Eggs Ranch, 40c .' . Wool Eastern Oregon, S2c; valley, S2c Hops 1316 crop, 1012c Seattle. Wheat-Bluestetn, 1.48; club $1.41; forty-fold. $1.43; red Russian, $1.38; ttfe. $1.42; turkey red, $1.50. ' Barley $3t per too. Butter Creamery, "37c Eggs 50c, - OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERALJNTEREST at Important Occurrences of Past Week Briefly Compiled for Our Readers. Hermiston held Us dairy and hog" ehow last week. The new Washington school build ing in Eugene will be dedicated No vember 3. A petition to recall County Judge Reasoner has teen filed In Washing ton county. ' General James Jackson, a veteran of many wars, died at bis home in Portland aged S3 years. The 18th annual meeting of the Ore gon Historical society will be held Saturday, October 28, In Portland. Clyde W. Riddel, of Laplne, has been appointed postmaster at the new office at Pringle Falls, Crook county. The football team of the university of Oregon defeated the university of California at Berkeley, Cal., by a score of 39 to 14. Hood River's high school building and the $30,000 annex to the structure, now nearing coinplition, will be heat ed with oil. , Any qualified elector of the state of Oregon can vote for presidential electors in any county of the state, Attorney-General Brown advises. Approximately 70 carloads of ap ples will be shipped from Douglas county to the eastern markets during the present, -season, it is estimated. Henry Seffield, a farmer living near Halsey, reports a yield of 1800 pounds of Russett Burbank potatoes from the planting of 18 pounds of seed in the spring. J. L. Berry, city auditor and police judge of Seaside, was ousted from his municipal positions at a special recall election, by a majority of 32 votes out of 358 cast. With the exception of the drugstore, the business section of Crascent was wiped off the map when fire destroyed two office and store buildings and a hotel of 30 rooms. Nearly one-twelfth of the population of Oregon's prison was ordered freed by Governor Withycombe last week when he signed three conditional par dons and 35 paroles. Lumbermen and officials from all parts of the western United States, British Columbia and Washington, D. C, convened In Portland Tuesday for a two-day conference. To provide immediate funds for use of the Indians on the Klamath reser vation, a plan is announced by Super Intendent Freer for the disposition of $200,000 worth of timber annually. The Oregon Box & Manufacturing company has closed a deal with Mrs. Emily Hopkins for 30,000,000 feet oi timber located on the south side of Tillamook bay and consisting prin cipally of fir and spruce. The fund for taking Insane patients to their home states has been ex hausted and several of them will re main in he state hospital at Salem until after the legislature acts, ac cording to Superintendent Steiner. Oregon loses $1 per month for ev ery man, woman and child In the state from damage inflicted by insects and rodents, estimates a farmer writing to Labor Commissioner Hoff. He fig ures the total annual loss at $9,600, 000. .: Try a Want Ad in The Journal It pays TROUT PLANTED IN BLUE I The Forest Service has planted 5000 Steel Head and Rainbow trout in the streams leading into Big Summit Prairie. 'pie little fellows .wore taken through ' I'rinevillo yesterday by ranger Bluke in his auto, ami were planted yesterday evening and to day. They were brought from the feeding ponds at' Bend and another shipment will bo brought next week for planting in the waters of Mill and Canyon Creeks. MAGKENSEfTlORCES ENEMIESJO RETIRE Huge Force of Germans, Bui gars and Turks Hammers Russo-Roumanians. London. Under command of Field Marshal Mackensen, who directed th Teutonic steam roller through Serbia, a huge force of Germans, Bulgars and Turks Is striking heavy hammer blows against the Russo Roumanian line. The Roumanian fort of Conatanxa has been captured by the Germans, the Berlin war office announces. On practically the entire Dobrudja front, the Russians and Roumanluns have given way under the first shock of this mighty offensive, official dis patches Indicate. Part of the line of fortified works behind which the Russo-Roumanians retreated when they fell back 40 miles under Mackensen's first great blows several weeks ago, have boen surren dered to the enemy. The retreat, how ever, was orderly, the official reports Indicated, the Russo-Koumanian.-fulling back on previously prepared posi tions. In all other sectors of the Balkan war theatre, the fighting is growing more violent, with the approach of winter interfering with activities on other fronts. Saloniki dtapatches re port the arrival of fresh Russian and Italian contingents, while the Serbs press their advance on Monastlr, In dicating that the allies are preparing to press their Macedonian campaign with the utmost vigor. . AUSTRIAN PREMIER IS ASSASSINATED Vienna. The Austrian premier, Count Stuergkh who was aasasHtnatcd while at dinner by Ludwig Adler, pub lisher, was shot three times. Count Stuergkh. was dining at a hotel when the publisher attacked him. Three shots were fired, all of which took ef fect,, the premier dying Instantly. The assassination was purely politi cal and was induced by his refusal to convene parliament, according to the admissions of Dr. Friedrlch Adler, his assailant, shortly after his arrest. Dr. Adler is an eccentric and super radical Socialist, sometimes known as "the Liebknecht of Austria." He Is editor of "Der Kampf," Dr. Adler's arrest was not accom plished without the wounding of two men who leaped at him after he had fired on Count Stuergkh and before Austrian and German officers over powered him. The wounded men are Baron Aeh renthal, brother of the late foreign minister, and the head waiter of the hotel in which the shooting occurred. BRITISH TAKE TRENCHES Sweep of 5000 Yards on Somme Front it Success. London. Advancing on a line of 5000 yards between the Schwaben re doubt and Le Sars, on the Somme front in France, the British troops have pushed their line forward from 300 to 500 yards says the official state ment from general headquarters in France The British captured Stuff and Reglna trenches and took several hundred prisoners. - Previous to the attack an attempted offensive on the part of the Germans was repulsed by the British. Three strong attacks against Sallly Salllisel, on the Somme front, failed, according to the bulletin issued by the French war office, the Germans sus taining heavy losses. They made similar attempts between Biacbes and La Maisonnett and were generally re pulsed. , 't i Serbians Defeat Bulgarians. Paris. Desperate fighting in the bend of the Cerna, on the Macedonian front, has resulted favorably to the entente forces. The Bulgarians coun ter attacked in strong force, but were defeated by the Serbians, who inflict ed heavy losses on the attackers. V The Journal has the largest paid cir culation of any paper in Central Oregon EUROPEAN OWNERS ORDER MANY SHIPS Heavy Demands on Shipbuild ing in America to Continue After the War. New York. Norway and other Scan dinavian countries will com lime, to make heavy drafts on the slilplmlUlttiB and manufacturing resources of tho United States wlillo the war last, and for at least a yeur after It ends, ac cording to Trygve Hurth, of Chris tlaula, Norway, ono of four represen tatives of leading financial and com mercial Interests in Norway, who ar rived hare on the steamship Bergen fjord from Christlanla and Bergen. They are to remain here for tome time, Investigating manufacturing and financial subjects of Interest to Nor way. According to Mr. liarth, Norway has placed orders with American ship yards tor more than $200,000,000 in new ships since the war began, which are building In Portland, Seattle, San Frajiclsco and Philadelphia. Alao on the Bergensfjord came sev en Norwegian steamship captains, who are to Inspect and take back to Nor way tome of the vessels that have been built According to several passengers, the Norwegian ship owners have deter mined to use a great fleet of vessels In the Pacific and make a bid for a greater part of the business now con ducted under the Japanese flag,' JAPANESE LABOR ON -COAST FORMS UNION San Francisco. The first step In an attempt to solve the Japanese, labor problem on the Pacific coast was ta ken here with the announcement that nine Japanese labor unions, which will affiliate Into a separate Japanese labor council, have been formed and that the movement would be extended through California, Oregon and Wash ington. It.' Suzuki, president of tho Labor ers' Friendly society of Japan, who fathered tho organisation of the Jap anese unions, declared that he would have 30.000 Japanese workmen In Cal ifornia members of such unions with in a year. When this is accom pitched, as it wilt be In California, Oregon and In Washington, no longer can It be charged that the Japanese here are a menace to the American wage earner. Mr. Suzuki expressed the hope that within a year or so the Japanese un ion would be permitted to affiliate with the American Federation of La bor. CAR SHORTAGE IS SERIOUS Railroad Men Say Conditions Will Be ' Further Aggravated. ' " New York. Railroads of the United' States are suffering from the greatest i shortage of cars ever experienced at this time of the year, according to fig ures made public here. On September 30 there was a net shortage of 61,030 cars. This compares with a surplus of 131.027 cars on October 1, 1914, and of 78,299 on the corresponding date last year. , The greatest shortage Is In box cars, totaling 33,016, while coal and gondola cars total 19,872. The great est shortage of box cars Is In the granger states. Railway men say the high point of the shortage will be reached next month. American Exports Set Record. Washington. American exports made a new record during September, when $512,847,957 worth of goods was sent abroad. American export trade Is approaching the $5,000,000,000 mark. The total of exports of the 12 months ending with September was $4,971, 945,883, exceeding that of the same period the year before by $1,794,181, 699. World Wheat Crop Falls Short. Rome, via Paris. The total wheat harvest of the world Is estimated by the International Agricultural Insti tute as 7 per cent below the average and 25 per cent below that of last year. The Institute's report Includes, for the first time, the crop of Euro pean Russia, which It estimates to be 20 per cent less than that of last year. Washington Not Alarmed. Washington. Officials indicate that as an international affair little Im portance It attached to the action of France in seizing an additional square mile of territory contiguous to. the French concession in "Tien, Tsln, in defiance of the Chinese foreign office. Germany Protests to Norway, Christlanla, via London. The Ger man minister has presented to the Norwegian government a note protest ing against Norway's embargo on the submarines of belligerent countries. Why Not Trade at Home? ff Let us figure with you on anything you want in the line of Furniture, Wall Paper. Paints, Oils r Glass, Building and Windows The only - Licensed Undertakers in Prineville ALL GOODS STRICTLY CASH LIPPMAN & COMPANY "' -. ... J I J E-ME R II J MmA PEKCY R. SMITH JU JL V I POWELL BUTTE Harvest Ball FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 When the frost it on the pumpkin And the fodder is in the shock Leave all your caret and worries Put on your dancing frock -The ladies come in gingham Gents in overalls blue We'll trip the light fantastic The whole night through Powell Butte Community Hall Farmer's Supper Served, Good Music 4m i Auction Sale Thursday NOVEMBER At the Chas. H. Foster Ranch on Jap Creek one and one-half miles east of the McCall Ranch, 1 will sell to the highest bidder THE FOLLOWING 1 Team Msrei, weight about 10X10 lbs each 1 two-year-old Gelding 1 Colt, four months old 1 Milch cow, 1 Heifer, S months old Trio of Geese, 18 Turkeys Chickens Five Stands Bees 1 Set Double Tlarness 1 McCotmick Hinder, 1 Cultivator 1 Boil Packer, 8 feet, 1 Grain Drill 1 Deer ing Mower, (ilant 1 Champion Hay Rake 1 Hixteen-tnch KulKy l'low 1 two and one-half inch Waxon 1 Hack, 1 2 horsepower Ktigine 1 Pump .lack 1 Pump Outfit for 40 fot well, complete 1 Garden feeder, 1 8pgy Pump 2 Grind tones 1 pair Scales, f)()0 pounds 1 sixhole Range 1 Large Kitchen Cabinet 1 1 (eating Stove 1 Edison Phonograph 100 two and four-minute Records 1 220-ngtr Incubator . 1 200-Chlck Brooder, 1 Morrill Chair Three Rockers One Couch and Mattress Two Iron Beds and Springs Linoleum and one Mirror, 18x40 Chas. H. Foster OWNER Classified Ads work while you sleep; you will find them a very quick medium for your wants Materials, Doors Many Other 'Things too Numerous to Mention Sale Starts 1P.M. TERMS t Under $10 Cash Oyer $10 8 months with ten per cent Bankable Paper Pinnkey Reynolds AUCTIONEER