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CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL PAGE 8 MORE SACKS NEEDED 1 BY GRAIN GROWERS Spokane. The conference of grain grower of Oregon, Idaho and Wash ington, In eslon here, vu asked by lU executive committee to approve of the suggestion of urging the federal government for assistance In aecurlng 10,000.000 grain aarka to handle that portion of the 191S crop which cannot be handled In bulk. Last year sacks were purchased at 15 cents and It was aid that dealers are now asking 25 tents for last year's holdover sacks. Governor Krnest Lister, of Washing ton; Clarence Ousley, assistant secre tary of the department of agriculture, addressed the conference. Mr. Ousley aid In asking for Increased g acre age that the battle front Is In the grain fields, the stores, rattle ranges and the kitchen. The conference assured the United States government of a grain crop frem the Inland empire In 1918 approx imating, aa aearly as estimate can be made ea crop conditions at this time, between 55.000.000 and 5S.000.000 bush ls. The 1917 production totaled about 45.000.000. Idaho and Oregon delegates Informed the executive committee that they could get along without additional grain sacks and 60 per cent of their crop would be handled this year In bulk. CHARLES W. FULTON DEAD Oregon Statesman Passes Away at HI Portland Home. ( Portland Charles W. Fulton, n TTnited States senator from Oregon, prominent lawyer, and for many years an active figure In the politics of the state, died Sunday afternoon at his home, 686 Weidler street. In the 63th year of his age. Death resulted from a complication of ailments which con fined him to his borne for nearly three months. Senator Fulton had not been physi cally well for a number of weeks pre ceding Thanksgiving, but his wonder ful capacity for work kept him in his law office until early in November, when he was obliged to give up his active career and seek professional treatment About this time he was forced to take to his bed and, although at times his condition showed indi rections of recuperating, he gradually failed in strength and his passing was not unexpected for the last two weeks. I Senator Borah Defends Wilson. ' Baltimore. Md. Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, In an address to an immense Patriotic Defense League meeting In the academy of music vig orously defended President Wilson's administration and congress against what he termed "the wild criticisms' of some men who, he said, could not forget partisanship, but whose real In tention was to get at the bottom of ome of the mistakes that have been imade In the preparations for war. THE MARKETS Portland. Oats No. 2 white feed, $59 per ton. Barley Standard feed, $57.50 too. Corn Whole, $75; cracked, $76. Hay Timothy, $27 per ton; alfalfa, $23.50. Butter Creamery, 51c per lb. i Eggs Ranch, 46c per dozen. ' Potatoes $1 125 per hundred. Poultry Hens, 23c; geese, 1820c; iucks, 2627c; turkeys, live, 25c. Seattle. Butter Creamery, 53c per lb. . Eggs Ranch, 55c per dozen. Potatoes $27.00 per ton; Yakima Gems, $30.00. Poultry Hens, 2527c; dressed, J832c; fryers, 30c; turkeys, live, 2830c; dressed, 3638c. CATTLE MARKET STRONG Trime Steers Helling As High As Sll Hog Tops Reach $10.23 The run of cattle at North Port land, Monday, reached about 25 cars, with light offerings ' of hogs and sheep. The record sales for the day reached $11.50 with an average market at about $11.00 for medium weight steers. Hog tops reached $16.25 with but few sales because of the short offer ings. Lambs sold as high as $15.00 with prices down to as low as $9.50 for the poorest grades in this division. AUTO SHOW FEBRUARY 7-13 AVill Include Display of Trucks and , Tractors This Year ' The Portland Automobile Show will be held this year on February 7 to 13 and will Include motor trucks and farm tractors. It will be the largest display of gas driven vehicles ever displayed In this state, and will be well worth the time of all who can to attend. I'KIMCVILI.K MAX WKIS lr. Horace llrlknap Jr. anil MIm (ilailys Amlre Married Jan. SM Horace P. flelknap and Miss Gladys Andre wero married yester day at a simplo ceremony at the First Christian church. Rev. H. H. Grittls officiating. There wore no attendants, and the wedding guests were limited to relatives. Or. Bel knap's mother, Mrs. 11. P. Holknnp. of Prineville, and the parents of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. William Fer guson, of Pendleton, were among the guests, llobart Belknap, a member of the army, stationed at Camp l.ewls. also came on for the wedding and another brother, Wtlford Bel knap, who Is a student at tho Uni versity of Washington, attended the ceremony. During the ceremony, the organ ist of the church played "I Love You Truly." The bridal party and rela tives went to the Hotel Benson where breakfast was served In the Rose room. Covers were placed at an exquisitely appointed table tor fourteen. The bride, who la a charming girl, was attired In a smart Uilleur of navy blue broadcloth, worn with small blue toque, and a corsage of orchids and hyacinths. Dr. Belknap is one of the best known young physicians, a son of Dr. H. P. Belknap, of Prineville, who was unable to attend the wed ding owing to illness. He is a grad uate of the University of Oregon and a popular member of Alpha Kappa Kappa. He is a partner of Dr. Harry McKay, and is identified with sev eral of the steel and shipbuilding concerns as house surgeon. Mrs. H. P. Belknap, Sr., who Is prominent in club and patriotic work in Prineville, will remain for a visit of several days In Portland. Dr. and Mrs. Belknap left for a brief visit in the North. Oregonian. APPK.VL TO THK PKOPLK Or' OKKtiON" State of Oregon, Executive De- partment, Salem. Oregon has responded royally to President Wilson's appeals for the Red Cross and the Army Y. M. C. A. He now asks us to supply generous aid for the relief of the sufferers in Asia Minor. For three years the Armenians and Syrians have passed through un told suffering in massacre, deporta tion and starvation. The only agency that has been able to help the suffering survivors is the Amer ican people. American relief money distributed by Americans still ' re maining on the field has been the means of keeping thousands alive. Reports of American diplomatic and consular agents and other Amer- ' lean residents who have recently re ! turned from Western Asia indicate ! that the 2 million survivors, ' mostly women and children of whom 400,000 are orphans, are on ! the verge of death by starvation un less they receive immediate help. Exiled from home, robbed of their possessions, wandering in a desolate land, their only hope for the barest necessities of life is in American charity. In view of the fact that govern ment aid is impossible and that the American generosity is the only means of keeping these starving peo ple alive, I appeal to the sympathy of the people of Oregon to con tribute generously through the Ore gon Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, Ben Selling, Treas urer, Portland, Oregon. (Signed) JAMES WITHYCOMBE, Governor. SOLDIERS VISIT PRIXEVILLK Fort Columbia Boys Here For 'Week- End Basketball Games The Crook County High and Prineville basketball teams easily won the two games played with the Fort Columbia team on Thursday and Saturday nights. The High School won with a score of 18 to 10 and the town team 36 to 4. The games were exceptionally clean and greatly enjoyed by the large crowds present. It was in deed a pleasure to have the boys here and we hope they will return sometime. The following boys from the Fort were on the team: Frank Brosius, Norris Bixby, Hugh Hutchinson, Neil Todd and Wm. Dunevan. PARENT-TEACHERS MEETING A Parent-Teachers meeting will be held Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the High School. The following program will be given: Music, Mrs. Edwards; Talk on Con tagious Diseases, Dr. Gesner; Music, High School, and selections by the Men's Quartette. FREE GOVERNMENT SEEDS A small lot of free government seeds have been received by the Journal, from Congressman Sinott for distribution. MILL CREEK NEWS (By our Regular Correspondent.) Wesley Kyle, who hss boon living at the Hctna cabin near the Oehoco irrigation dam, was burned out last Friday, all of the household goods being destroyed. The youngest child came near being burned In the house as Mrs. Kyle was not In the house at the time. One of the ditch men. who discovered the Are, got there In time to save the child, just before the house fell in. Mr. and Mrs. II. L. Payne went to The Dulles. Saturday, to attend tho dehate between The Dalles and Prineville. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Price wero in town Tuesday on business. Mrs. John Heyns spent the week end at Prineville. Mrs. Dave Rodgers. who has been visiting relatives for the past two months In this section, left Monday for her home in Portland. Mrs. Una Dinwiddle and Dewey Fayno spent the week-end at Mrs. Lawaon'a home. Miss Pearl Russell went to town Tuesday to spend week. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Calavan went to town Monday on business. HELD ITEMS (By our Regular Correspondent) Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Cross are the proud and happy parents of a fine boy who arrived at their home last Thursday evening. Joe Bryson is moving a few head of horses to the lower Mays ranch. S. D. Kennedy Is on the sick list at this writing with la grippe. Alex Ricknuin, wife and (laughter were visitors at Tom Rickman's on Thursday.1 Alex Amnions and C. A. Cube were business visitors at Held lust Monday. Mr. Balfour, who Is driving stage between Fife and Prineville, finds the roads in had condition making It very Inconvenient for running the trucks at present. Anna Burchtorf was a business caller at Hld today. INSURANCE FOR EVERY FIGHTER The Treasury Department is mak ing every effort to have every mem ber of America's fighting forces take advantage of the Government-Insurance plan, which Secretary McAdoo asserts to be "the most just and humane provision ever made by any nation for its soldiers and sailors." The purpose is rapidly being achieved, the insurance having passed the third billion mark in the total of policies written, and there are many military units in which every member has taken Insurance. The automatic Insurance provided by the law Is only partial and limit ed protection, payable only to wife, child, or widowed mother and ceases after February 12, 1918. It Is Im portant, therefore, not only for the soldiers and sailors of the country but to their families and dependents that before that date they avail themselves of the full Government protection, which can go as high as $10,000 and Is payable to a wife, husband, child, grandchild, parent, brother or sister. The law also provides for the re education and rehabilitation of the totally disabled and monthly com pensation to those disabled. BANQUET FOR SOLDIERS A banquet was tendered the sol dier boys from Fort Columbia Sat urday evening immediately after the game, in the Ladies Annex rooms at the Commercial Club. The guests were the three basket ball teams and their ladies. NOTICE OF CONTEST Department of the Interior, United State. Land Office. The Dalles, Orenon, January 25. 1918. To James tawremre, of Howard, Oregon, Prineville, Oregon, Contentee: You are hereby notified that William 0. Balfour, who irives Prineville, Oresron, aa hi post-office address, did on Dec. 28, 1917, file in this office his duly corroborated application to content and secure the cancellation of your homestead Entry No ., Serial No. 09984 made Feby. 21, 1912. for NE4 SE4, Section 8, Township 14, 8., RanKe 19, E., Willamette Meridian, and aa (trounds for his contest he allefres that said James Law rence has wholly failed to reside upon, im prove or cultivate and sold and removed what improvements he originally had on said land for more than three years last past; that he is not enlisted or Is actually engaged in the military or naval service of the United States as a private soldier, officer, seaman or marine or a member of any other organiza tion for offense or defense authorized by Congress during any war in which the United Stab may he engaged. You are, therefore, further notified that the said allegations will be taken as con. teased, and your said entry will be canceled without further right to be heard, either be fore this office or on appeal, if yon fall to file In this office within twenty days after the FOURTH publication of this notice, aa shown below, your answer, under oath, specifically responding to these allegations of contest, together with due proof that yon have served a copy of your answer on the said contestant either in person or by regis tered mail. Yon should state In your answer the name of the post office to which you desire future notices to be sent to you. H. FRANK WOODCOCK. Register. Date of first publication January SI, litis. Date of second publication February 7, 1918, Date of third publication February 14, 191K, Date of fourth publication February 21, 1918. 12t4c J. L. McCullough arrived in the city this morning from Portland. The Journal la only $1.60 a year CORN WILL WIN DEMOCRACY'S WAR America's Greatest Cereal Crop Is Now Moving to Market. MAINSTAY IN NATION'S CRISIS. Surplus Wheat of the United State Ha Been Sent to Famine Threat ened Europe. America's great corn crop, exceed ing S.OUMHIO.IKIO bushels, will save the world's food situation, olllciul of the United State food administration be lieve. Corn 1 the nation' best food cereal, housewives are beginning to realU. It contain all tit elements needed to keep the body in a tut of beulth and when used according to the scor of tried recipe, especially wheu com bined with an added portion of oil or fat, will buhihIu life Indefinitely. In dian warriors In colonial day lived on parched com alone for many day at a time, and at Valley Forge parched corn was at time Ilia sole ratlou of the Continental soldiers. Owing to transHirtatlon dllticultle caused by the war tho corn crop moved timre slowly to market this year than ever before. Now, however, the cereal Is reaching the millers ami eoiisitmeis. In the meantime the nation's surpltu wheat has been sent to Kurope. To. lay there are approximately HO bushels of com for every Amerlcun. This quantity is greater by five bush els 1 1 1 11 11 In former yearn. Corn has become the nation's uta'n stay in the crisis of wiir. Just aa this cereal saved the first American colonists from famine on ninny occasion, Just ns It served as a tuple food during tlie War of tlie lter olutinii anil during the Civil War, King Corn bus again come to the front In the tuition's buttle with autocracy, . Corn meal Is finding greatly lucres ed use in the milking of ordinary whit brenil. Hundred of housewives and ninny of the larger linkers are mixing; '20 per cent, corn menl with wheat flour to make leavened bread. This kind of a mixture Is worked and baked In the same recipes and with the same methods thnt apply to straight wheat bread. Corn bread using corn meal entire ly to gaining a greater popularity than ever before. Housewives are coming to realize that every pound of wheat saved In America means a pound of wheat released for shipment to th nations with which America I aiuwcl ated In the war. There are a score of corn product that today possess unusual Importance for Americans. Corn syrup for sweet ening corn cakes and buckwheat cake iniL for use in the kitchen Instead of granulated sugar Is one of the leading product made from corn. Corn oil, excellent for frying and for every other purpose filled hy salad oils, Is appearing on the market In large quantities. It comes from the germ of the corn. MADE-IN-GERMANY LIES CIRCULATED IN CANADA Canada Is also having trouble with Mude-in-tiermany lies calculated to hinder Canadian food conservation ac cording to an official statement re ceived from the Canadian food con troller by the United State food ad ministration. The stories bothering Canada are of the same general character as those the United States food administra tor recently denounced in this coun try, such as the ridiculous salt and blueing famine fakes and the report that the government would seize housewives' stocks of home canned goods. The Canadian food controller esti mates that when the people listen to and pass on such stories, each one has the power of destruction that He In a battalion of soldiers. "Stories without even a vestige of foundation have been scattered broad cast," said the Canadian statement. "Nor have they come to life casually. They have started simultaneously In different parts of the country and In each Instance have been calculated to arouse public Indignation. "They are Insidious, subtle, persist ent. Bit by bit they dissipate public trust, the great essential In the work of food control. "It lies with every Individual to for-! bear from criticism ; to refrain from j passing on the vagrant and harmful ! story, and thus the more effectively j to co-operate In work which is going I to mean more than the majority of , people yet realize." THE UNITED 8TATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION 8AY8: There I no royal road to food conservation. We can only ac complish this by the voluntary action of our whole people, each element in proportion to It mean. It I a matter of equality of bur den; a matter of minute caving and (ubstitutlon at every point in the 20,000,000 kitchens, on the 20,. 000,000 dinner tables, and In the 2,000,000 manufacturing, whole sale and retail establishment o the countr, Portland Daily Telegram and the Crook County Journal both one year for This offer is good only until February 1, 1918 after which date all clubbing offers and other inducements will positively be withdrawn. This applies to both new and renewal subscriptions. 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