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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1921)
t-age 4. n p T cigarette Its toasted Sh'eiFhborhood Roy Morris of Paulina is attend ing court this week. The N. S. S. C. met with Mrs. Stanley Balfour last Friday after Boon. B. S. Dobbs has been spending a umber ot days at the ranch on up per Ochoco. Abe Weiss returned last -Thursday from a trip to all parts ot Eastern Oregon and Portland. Mrs. H. R. Slavins, Mrs. Carrie Brady and Joe Staring motored to Redmond on Tuesday. Frank Winer is again in Prino 'rille after being absent for some time In Portland and other points. H. J. Day of Bend is visiting his sister, Mrs. Ray Schee, and other rel atives in Prineville for a few days. F. A. Hackleman is in Prineville this week from Barnes, as one of the jurors during this session of court. Mrs. Carrie Brady is in town for a visit with her mother, Mrs. H. R. Slavens. She is the mother of Joe Slavens. H. A. Traver and family returned to Prineville from Clarno, Oregon, where they have been located for several months. 'Warren Brown returned to Prine ville the first of the week to attend to business interests here. He has been working in Portland. Granville Nye returned to Leban on Saturday, after being in Prine ville but a few days, as he received word ot the illness of his daughter. Edith Wonde'rly has left for Pau lina, where she will teach school for the next two months. She will re lieve Miss Elsie Montgomery, who Is ill with appendicitis. Mr. Becaas, the enterprising pro prietor of the Prineville Steam Laundry, is having the sleeping ap artments over his place of business papered and otherwise remodeled. Dr. Horace Belknap will be in this city from Nampa, Idaho, on the 13tU and 14th, of this month, to assist his father in surgical work. Mrs. Bel knap will accompany him. She just recently returned from a trip to New Tork City, Mrs. D. W. Medley and little son Tommy, left Monday night for Le banon, where she was called on ac count of the serious illness of her mother. They do not expect to re turn again this year. Mrs. E. J. Wilson was hostess to the Carnation Club at the Masonic rooms yesterday afternoon. The Thursday Night bridge club was entertained at the home of Mrs. , W. W. Wirtz last week, and Miss Marjorie Tackman received high score. The scores of each evening will be kept, and at the end of the season the six lowest will entertain the six highest scores with a ban quet. Miss Marion Allen was un animously elected as keeper of the record book. ltd Kb mm eS Lynn Nichols left last night on a business trip down the line, Seth Rodman of Dufur was a bust nes visitor in town last week. Ira Hindus, the Paulina sky pilot, has been making a visit in town. Mrs. C. B. Harmau of Hampton Butte is visiting friends in this city The Shumia Club will meet with Mrs. Jay I'ptou next Tuesday, March 15th. Archie Gibson ot Post is in the city today visiting friends and rela tives. Mrs. Susan Hiney is slowly recov ering from a severe attack ot U gripp'e. J. W." Johnson, rancher of the Post country, arrived in town Tuesday for a short visit. Porter Quinn, a resident ot the Suplee country, is in Prineville, on a business trip. Roy Gray is in town this week In connection with business during the present term ot court. Rev. M. R. Gallaher left Monday night for Spokane, where Mrs. Galla her is ill in a hospital Howard Davis left Tuesday night for Bend, where he will visit with friends for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Manford Nye are spending several days in this city. Mr. Nye is on the Jury list The old location of the Ochoco Creamery has undergone a thorough cleaning and painting the last week J. W. Gilchrist, Powell " Butte rancher, spent yesterday In town paying taxes and attending to other business. The sheriff's office is Just complet ing the sending out of the thousands of tax receipts to property holders in Crook county. Mrs. Atldie McCoy was elected as Master Artisan at the last meeting of the order, and Eugene Hiney was elected inspector. Robert Osborne, an old-time' sheep herder of Crook county, arrived the first of the week. He has been lo cated at Marshfield for some time. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Wolff left Mon day night for Los Angeles. They have been making a long visit with their daughter, Mrs. Fred Hoelschei. The Methodist ladies aid -met at the home of Mrs. Pickett last Thurs day. An enjoyable program was rendered, and the hostess served de licious refreshments. The rock crusher started to work in earnest Tuesday, near the Crook ed River bridge, and took out 48 yards for use on the road. Up to that date time has been used In get ting the machinery set up and in working order. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. V. V. Harpham in this city on Tuesday. Mr. Harpham is the well known forestry supervisor for this section, and Mrs. Harpham formerly worked as bookkeeper for J. E Stewart & Co. The little lady has not yet bees named. The ladies aid of the Christian church met for a social time last Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Lily Wonderly, it being her 55th birthday. Twenty ladies of the church were present and enjoyed the program. Ice cream and cake were served. The K. of P. hard time, old time dance, which occurs the 17th is be ing widely advertised by the means of very unique posters in the differ ent windows of the business houses. They were painted by Hi Roller, and range all the way from a hobo's view of the affair, to the version of Jiggs. The dance will surely be one hot old time, if all reports can be be lieved. , Ike Ward, Wade Houston and George Noble formed a party which inspected the Ochoco road Tuesday, as far as Jones' mill. Walter Bar ney, of the highway department, took them over the road. Mr. Ward nearly" fell in the Ochoco, losing his balance, when he was trying to de termine how deep the water was by means of a stick, but Mr. Huston resqued him before any serious clam age was done to bis temper. The members of the Carnation Club will be hostesses to their fami lies at the Masonic Hall on Friday night, March 25. This is the first large social event that the club has given since the new rooms have been in use, and extensive plans are undr way to insure the enjoyment, of a good social time. The officers of the club, Mrs. M. E. Brink, Mrs., Geo. Euston and Mrs. Reppa Hamilton, have charge of the evening. Mrs. Fred Llpplncott, who liv ihd i:tm la verv 111. CROOK James Inglis was Friday vIsIkt In Prineville from Suplee. Robert Carlnnd of Maupln regis tered at the hotel on Monday. J. M. Baker ot Madras whs a busi ness visitor in this city Saturday. Colonel Johnson returned Tues day morning from a trip to Portland. Lawrence Lister Is among thot" down from Paulina as una ot Hit Jurors. Vernon Faxton is the court report er for the March term. He Is from Portland. Judge N. G. Wallace returned yes terday morning from a short trip to Portland. The little daughter of Enos Roso has been very seriously ill durii.g the last week. George Senecal, Suplee rancher, has been a business culler in Prine ville this week. Ray Schee was called to his old ho'me In Iowa Saturday morning on account of the Illness ot his father. MrV Asa W. Battles left Saturday night tor a two week's visit with her mother and other relatives In Port land. Mrs. Charles Elkins attended the spring fashion opening at the Lynch & Roberts store In , Redmond last week. O. L. Babcock, Indian Agent ou the Warm Springs Reservation, was in town a couple ot days this week on agency business. W. P. Myers and H. H. DeArmond, Bend attorneys, have been in Prine ville this week in connection with the session of court. Charles Houston of Roberts was a business visitor in Prineville Tues day. His son Sumner Houston was also in town from Powell Butte. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bryant arrived yesterday tor a visit with relatives in Prineville. They are located on the K. D. Huston ranch at Paulina. Otto Gray and son Harold of Pau lina are In the city this week. The former is attending court and the latter is visiting at the H. P. Bel knap home. L. J. Ogden, who recently sold his property In Central Oregon, Is leav ing this week to make his home near Crookston, Minn. He expects to live on a farm in that country. Mrs. Alta Bowman carried off the honors at both the afternoon and ev ening "bridge clubs during the last week. Mrs. Henry Howard enter tained the afternoon club last Fri day at her home, and Miss Louise Jordan was hostess to the evening club Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Ted Carlson. This past week has been bounty week in the clerk's office. Norman Evans, of Brothers, collected bounty on three coyotes, Olvin Thompson of Hampton Butte on one, Kenneth Thompson three, Frank J. Reif of Combs' Flat three coyotes and three bob cats, and Ira B. Higgins of Pau lina brought in for bounty 23 coy otes and four bobcats. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR RENT Furnished house, will rent part or all. One block from Main St. Enquire at this office. 25-26p. FOR SALE Seed Rye and Marcus Wheat. Lewis Regelsberger, Prineville. 25-tf. NURSE) Will be at liberty March 10th. Confinement cases prefer red. References. 226 W 8rd Street. 2gp LOST Two packages of door locks and hinges, somewhere on the first mile of road west of the de pot. Finder please at Journal of--flce. 25c. LOST Pair of De Luxe Auto chains in brown canvas bag on Sunday evening on Ochoco Road. Finder leave at Journal office. 25-tf. FOUND Pair of scissors. Owner can have same by proving proper ty and paying for this ad. 25c OREGON PRUNES Choice .or.-j chard run Oregon Italian prunes, j 1920 crop, in 25 or 50 pound boxes,! or more, delivered anywhere in Ore gon by parcel post or express pre paid, at 12 cents pound; by freight j to any railroad station in state, at j 11 cents, In 100 lb. lots or more. ! Quality guaranteed. Send remit- j tance with order to Oregon Prune ! Co., 732 Morgan Bldg., Portland,! Oregon. 25-2tc. I HEALTH If you are not feeling well 100 percent efficient, see Dr. Long, at the Healthatorium, and j get the pinch removed from those j starving nerves. Rooms 4-5-6 : Benton BIk. 25-lt COUNTY JOIRNAL WANTED -To buy, 150 range cows, or 100 steers. Write B. L. Harris 814-8 9th Ave., Yakima. 25-26. STRAYED One bay mare. 6 years Diamond brand left shoulder, about 1100 pounds. One bay gelding. 2 years old. These ani mals will be sold within 10 days, if not called for. Hamilton Sia bles. 5p. AHOIT tM'HOfO LANDS The Ochoco Irrigated Farms are situated on the Ochoco project, all i less than eight miles from Prineville, j In the geographical center of Ore ! gon, This land was placed under Irrlga 1 Hon by the crentiou ot au Irrigation district, under the state luws, lu 1917, and received a fifty percent supply ot water tor the first time In 1920. The canal system and storage res ervoir has been entirely completed since the irrigation season opened In 1920, and lu 1921 will. for the first time have all the water necessary tor the thorough Irrigation ot these lands. All indications at this time point to a reservoir full of water long be fore the irrigation season opens this year. A part ot the lands bars been un der Irrigation tor a number ot years and alfalfa and other profitable crops have been produced on parts ot the district for many years. The lower lands In the project art underlaid with artesian water, more than a dosen strong wells, none over 266 feet deep, being scattered along the bottoms. The lands are practically all suit able for Irrigation, and while rolling in some Instances, have no rock and no hardpans, but have a soil and gravel covering at least to the depth ot the artesian wells, or 265 feet, all of which appears to be of washed formation. Rural mail delivery six days per week touches many ot the tracts, telephone lines owned by the farm ers are available tor everyone. Two electric power lines pass through the center of the district, and the City of Prineville Railway passes through the project, with two sidings on the lands tor the benefit ot the farmers Six daily trains, with an occas ional extra freight, have been run ning over this road for the past year and a half, carrying a heavy traffic to the connection with the Oregon Trunk at Prineville Junction. The altitude Is 2865 feet at Prie vllle, and is not more than 8050 Bt FARMERS I have the following implements at low prices to sell for cash, in order to close out If you want any implements, get my Special Cash Prices. Prompt attention given to orders COLLINS W. ELKINS any point under the system. Sunshine for about 326 days per year is the rule, and the tempera ture rarely gets below ero In win ter and above 100 above In summer, although the district Is subject to the same unusuul extremes as all other parts of the world, as J4 de grees below sero. recorded In 1919, during Deceniher, clearly proves. The lowest temperature this pres ent winter to tint end ot January was 4.5 degrees above Sero. The project, which comprises !1. 9S7.7 acres. It being watered by Im pounding the flow of Ochoco river Ave miles east of l'rlnevllle, the data having a capacity ot 47.000 sere ft. to which should bf added the flow of McKay, Johnson and Lytle Creeks, and the excess flow ot Ocho co, during the busy part of the Irri gation season, whlrh will flow Into the dam while it It being drawn out. Fllingi under the ttate laws pro vide title to all the above mentioned waters. Area water surface at elevation ot crest ot dam, about 1180 acres. Length ot reservoir, 8.88 miles. Length ot shore line, 10 miles. Storage capacity, 47,000 acre feet. Ochoco Dan Maximum height above river bed. 125 feet. Volume, about 506,000 cable yards. Length along crest 1000 test. Width on top, 20 feet. Thickness at base, up and down stream, 600 teet. Spillway capacity, 10,000 cubic feet per second, normal; 10,000 cu bic, teet per second, extreme emer gency. Greatest recorded flow ot Ochoco Creek, 1060 cubic feet per second. The canal system, dam, water rights and all property Included In the system are property of the land owners under the project, and were built and paid for by the Issuance of $1.350-000 six per cent bonds, some of which have been Issued for three years with a maturity date of twen ty years. Interest on those bonds Is paid by direct taxation, which also provide! a sinking fund, which under no cir cumstances should make a greater tax payment than 85 per acre an nually, for the period mentioned, af ter, which the land owners will own without debt, the entire system. Control of the district and Its af fairs Is provided by the election of a board of three directors who have absolute charge of the district's affairs. 4 Regular Caen , 3 OLIVER 12-Inch CHILLED PLOWS, ...822.00 tor 15.00 1 OLIVER 16-inch CHILLED PLOW $27.60 tor 2100 THREE OLIVER 16-inch STEEL PLOW $36.60 for $08.00 ONE OLIVER SPRING TOOTH HARROW, 17 teeth $42.00 tor $34.00 ONE 26-tooth SECTION SYRACUSE HARROW 416.00 for ($11.00 ONE 30-tooth SECTION SYRACUSE HARROW $16.00 for 18.60 ONE 14-tooth GARDEN CULTIVATOR $14.50 for 411.00 ONE 7-tooth GARDEN CULTIVATOR ..-...$13.60 for 0.00 ONE 14-foot WHEELBARROW ALFALFA SEEDER 18.00 for 10.00 ONE 3-inch MITCHELL REGULAR WAGON GEARS Special 110.00 200 rods 28-inch PAGE STEEL FENCE, Special at 60c per rod. ONE nearly new 14-lnch OLIVER CHILLED SULKEY PLOW, 08.00 TWO nearly new 17th SYRACUSE SPRING TOOTH HARROWS 30.00 GOOD STOCK OF OLIVER, JOHN DEERE AND SYRACUSE PLOW SHARES AND REPAIRS ON HAND BE SURE TO SEE THIS STOCK. TIII'ltslMY, MAIM II 10, llal Mtk potannan Language. The ihiirwcleis of the liinniHl.'e of 5Ick,iiiiiiiiiIu. like the l4l,vptlnn, we it originally lileri'Kl.M'blc, aiul the wv el ill liuiitlrcil of Mciluca by un mix ill uhHli I he language wan n picM'l In writing, may now tin traced lo the I'l'iiluiil lilcroglphli. One of I lie early plume wnl a a ere rent and star, and the iftcliirw nut employed lo express an Iik'hmh lieu or exorcism, ur anything cup, die of driving the evil plrlt from lln ImhI) uf which It had tukcu pus- S.'hsllMI, Illumination of Manutcrlptt. The art of palming iiiiiiiuserlpts Willi miniatures mill ornaments In no art of Die imiwt reiinl antiquity. The !'.: pHnn 'ii i rl containing portions of ihe Itltiml or "Hook nf the Dead," lire ttrnitiiiciited with drawings slid 'ulnred pictures. The Persians. Hin dus mid Chines Inn Illuminated manuscripts with great beauty, none of which coniN-tM with those of the western nation In antiquity. ' Caprl, I h yen cc i ii Ul have walked dews tn the I'lietiln Mnrtnu with ine yester day. It I down niie of those wniiiler All roads hewn mil of the slile of the cliff, which ine grout used to here, and I cuiiie hack up the old step. Hitch views! The tea in afternoon light, the Kariiglliml rocks below, m often pa In I ed slid photographed, the opleudld cliffs uf Caprl to right and left I , , .James M. Taylor (Ut ters), Working ef Psarl. There are two kinds of shells used In the manufacture of small article, the porcclaneous and Ihe uucreoti. The furiner are extremely hard and tan he worked only with the appa ratus um-iI by the lapidary. The lat ter are mare generally used ami may he sawed, filed and (umed with tome facility. The pieces should lie roughed out ou a common grindstone. Afier turning they should he smoothed with pumice slime ami waier, and Nillshed with rotten atone with sulphuric acid slightly diluted. Had Warning Enough. A Vet Norwood m-m who described himself its a poet told the magistrate thnt he had twice been knocked down by a motorcyclist, fiur opinion Is that he shmild have given up poetry wIm-s lie was knocked down the flrtt time. London I'mirh. Experiment with Air. A mnn wished to measure the force that drives the 'sup iipwurd In trees and sh'nb. lie rut a vine unci tied t bladder over Its end. In two hours the Madder ns greatly distended, and Inside of three hours It burst with a plop, so rrc:it win (he force that drives snp upwurd.