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PAGE 6 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL OCTOBER 25, 1917 FA1RVIEVY OWNERS BUY HERR1TT RANCH $.10,000 DEAL rlOSKIt KOR LAND AND CATTLE ST0CK6E1NGTAKENT0 RANCHES Armstrong Rent 9fl Rnrh Fruit Come From Mitchell Smith Bros. Lease Sw Mill MEADOWS NEWS (By our Regular Correspondent.) left here Saturday and are trailing the bands ot sheep out ot the prairie to their winter feeding grounds. Miss Hagonburger spent Wednes day night with the Ed Merrltt family. R. E. Jordan is here from the lower Muddy Co.'s ranch looking after the interests of the company In Summit Prairie. Wade Huston is at work running lines ot the Muddy Co.'s holdings here. A crew ot men is also busy building a road from the main ranch to the old Mulrahill ranch now owned by the P. L. ft L. Co. T. L. Coon and family and his brother, Leston Coon, have left the employment ot the Muddy Co. here and started to Prineville today. 4 - 3 BARNES ITEMS (By our Regular Correspondent) Messrs. Cofoid and Nichols were In Meadow, Monday, and closed a large real estate deal when they purchased the Ed Merritt ranch. We understand the consideration was $51,000 but at this date the particulars have not been given out. Lloyd Yancey, who brought in a bunch ot cattle to the Cram ranch here in Meadow, was called to Prine ville, Sunday, by the illness of one ot his sisters. Jim Cram was a Meadow visitor a couple ot days this week but left Tuesday with a bunch of cattle he old to Cofoid, Mace &. Nichols ot the Fairview Stock Farm. Messrs. Jones and Baynard were In Meadow this week and took out a band of Dickson ft McDowell catle that have been in pasture here. Henry Eller and several of his friends spent Sunday and Monday la Meadow owing to a break-down with his car as he was passing through the prairie. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Merritt went to Redmond, Wednesday, to meet Mr. Merritt's sister who came from Pet- aluma, Calif., to visit with her brother and family for a time. Mr. Merritt had not seen this sister for nearly thirty years. George Crosswhite went to Prine ville this week. H. F .Kimble and Ira Swift left Meadow, Wednesday for Hay Creek and way points. They expect to be gone several days. Messrs. Craft and Bigham, pack ers for the Muddy Co. sheep camps, Places Extra Power Behind the Dough Here is a baking powder that has 20 to 25 per cent more leavening power than other baking powders. It is double acting, which means that it has two leavening gas-actuating ingredients instead ot the nsual one. With it, dough or batter can be mixed and let stand up to twelve hours be . fore baking. and a perfect raise results. Modern manu facturing sets the price low 25c a pound. To pay more, or even as much for less i s wasteful. Send 4c in stamps for the new Crescent Cook Book. CRESCENT MFG. CO. Seattle, Wash. (11-14) Crescent Double Acting Baking Powder The valley is much In need ot rain at the present time. Dr. and Mrs. Siamons were callers at the home ot Bert Demaris last Thursday. Harry Hackelman passed through here on his return from Silver Creek with a band of horses. Chas. Barnes was a passenger on Thursday's stage from Prineville, where he has been the past ten days enjoying the fair and having some dental work done. Ira Cox and wife returned from Mitchell last week with a load ot apples and other small fruit. J. R. Whittiker, who Is teaching school at the Barnes school house, has moved his family down from Hampton Buttes to the Alex Am nions house for the winter. Thomas O'Kelley and Lew Stan clift are trapping In these parts. Sid Rogers and Jim Cram made a trip to the head ot the river in a car Thursday. Fisher Logan and wife came home from Prineville last week. Everett Nye is again on the road hauling freight for Frank Craln. F. T. Armstrong has rented the 96 ranch for three years. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson will move to their home near Prineville. KM Tt JAEGER BROS. In htlnr, SINrwirs, TWO SPECIALS IN WATCHES offered for a limited tlm by thla leading jawalry and ailvvrwara housa. H-rwlwatch,adJuBted,Kyar gold-filled cm, well 1Q Cfk worth U at apacul iVaVU 17-Jewel watch, ad jutted, gold- .-.-; j 140 Ladira' Brta watchaa at SIS, !6J0,J0,KJandup. Aganta ft" th. ealabrated Grata walchaa, SIS and up. Full cut DUmondt tlO and up. A moat woodariul vatua la OUR SPECIAL $100 DIAMOND isrrD DDAC 131-113 Slatk at, PORTLAND, Oil, Ml n . i , iOwaa, aay FMtlwd -J$)r VirmV mj POST ITEMS (By our Regular Correspondent) Several from here attended the Round-Up at Paulina and report a good time. E. B. Knox was at the ranch last week sowing his fall grain. Frank Post and family and Mr. Muller, of Alfalfa, visited at J. R. Post's, Sunday. J. W. Johnson is doing some carpenter work for F. M. Wood at Paulina. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hayes were in Prineville, Sunday. C. R. Henry and Homer Norton were Prineville visitors Monday. J. W. Johnson has finished paint ing the n school house. It Is quite an improvement. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller visited with Robert Demaris and family the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Newsom visited at Norton's, Sunday evening. John Price, of Prineville, visited home folks the first of the week. R. E. Smith has been accepted In the hospital corps of the U. S. army and is stationed at Vancouver, Wn. County Superintendent J. E. My ers visited our school last Tuesday. MILL CREEK NEWS (By our Regular Correspondent) about 45 chickens last week. They have a great many chickens and ex pect to make several more ship ments. Oscar and Dewey Payne, of Prine ville, spent the week-end at the home of their brother, Harvey Payne. F. T. Jones, of I'pper Mill Creek, was hauling wood to town last week. Miss Esther Bermaster who Is at tending High School, Is home for the week-end. Mace & Cofoid passed through this section with their stock cattle one day last week. They have pur chased hay in the prairie and ex pect to winter their cattle there. Dr. Fox called at Mrs. Lawson'a home one day last week. Mr. Russell and daughters were in town one day last week shop ping. The Smith Brothers, of Grizzly, have leased Barney's saw mill on Mill Creek, and taken the contract of sawing the lumber for Twohy Brothers. Mrs. T. B. Price and Mrs. H. Payne called Saturday afternoon on Mrs. Cowles. Charles Cowles went to Prineville on business Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Coon 'passed through this section on their way from the prairie to Prineville, one day last week. Former Dalles Woman Hull-Ides Mrs. John Caviness, wife of a Baker business man, committed sui cide at her home yesterday after noon, ahoting herself with a revolv er. Poor health is believed to have caused her to end her life. Mrs. Caviness lived in The Dalles befor her marriage. Her mother, Mrs. W. H. Young, and her brother, Grover Young, ot this city departed last night for Baker. The remains of Mrs. Caviness will reach The Dalles on the 8 o'clock train tomorrow morning. The funeral will be held at the Crandall undertaking chapel Sunday afternoon. The Dalles Chronicle. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cram passed through this section with a bunch : of stock cattle one day last week. I Two wagon loads of fruit passed I through this section from Mitchell the last of the week. I I. M. Blevins, of Ochoco, was in I Prineville on business last week. I Price's made another shipment of I The Journal la only 1.50 a year. For new and old stomach trouble use Adamson's Digesteze. Price 60c or six boxes for $2.50 postpaid to any address in the United States of America. For sale by D. P. ADAMSON & CO Prineville, Oregon I. MMSfk .IT WSr-tvy'Hil . tor I l JUauuuuuv?i N. s UXTRA LARGE TOP I FEED OPENING I LARGE MICA I FEED DOOR I VENTILATE! 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The final action of the Oregon Con gress of Mothers and Parent Teacher associations In closing its four days' convention at Eugene was a vote n authorize the investment of $250, the annual pledge to the University of Oregon woman's building fund, in lib erty bonds, to be held in that form until money Is needed. A real estate deal of some magni tude was made when J. W. Blgss and J. M. McDade purchased 12,000 acres of the choice lands of the famous Trout Creek ranfh, In the southern portion of Harney county, from Thomas & Walters of Chicago. It Is the intention of the present owners to stock this ranch with sheep and cattle. Published reports to the effect that the state lime board contemplates no lime developments are untrue, accord ing to Warden C. A. Murphy. The board is now negotiating with J. II Beeman, of Gold Hill, for a lease on his lime deposits, and as soon as It is entered into a plant will be installed, he declared. The royalty proposed is eight cents a ton, he said. 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