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About Enterprise news-record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1910-1911 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1910)
City and County Brie! News Items Contractor Sam Hawortli came In from La Grande, Friday. A. Mayfleld and family moved from Lostlne to Enterprise, Fri day. . C. S. Haniey is erecting a aouaej on his tots on Litch street Alder View. The "Wooligrowr9 association is holdiing a meeting today to the court house. Rev. W. S. Crockett of Lflsttoe wLU occupy the puiliplit in the Chris tata, church tomorrow evening. Mrs. Amanda McFarran i quite 111 of pnieumonia at th home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Morgan, of Prairie Creek. Mrs. C. H. Ford and two children of Zumwait returned Friday from two weeks visit with her people at Garfield anid Spokane, Wn. Luther Johtieom of Loyjor Valleyi the young man bitten toy his sheep dog in Joseph canyon, left Wednes day for Portland' to take the Pas teur treatment. Scarlet fever is reported abat ing in both Joseph and Walflowa. The quarantine will be lifted at Joseph the first of h weak and the schools .rcpen.ed. No deaths from the disease have beeni reported'. Wallowa Vatey Chapter, O. E. S., will visit the Joseph chapter Wed nesday, night, January 4. Thei degree team of the viaiiting chapter -will .confer the degree oa thie several can--i i .1 . ' Dr. C. A. ,Ault has received word from Doctor Wildiamsoni of Portland that J. P. AverM of Swamp Creek la slowly improving in a prtivata sani tarium. Dr. . Aul t accompanied' Mr. AverlH to Portland three weeks ago- ' . Dr v. Tt Fladk'a family arrived J Tuesday. I The Fair store and Jackson) & Wea- mrougn ver sold 4,000 Chriatmas cards. G. F. Conley and two children, of Corvallla are visiting hia bromer, J. C, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Max Gum'emnta re turned Thursday from their wedding trip to Portland. The continuation of the absorb ing Tracy serial will be. In- aextj Wed nesday's Ne.ws-Record. Forest Sunervlsor Harvey Harris. came up from WaUowa, Friday, to attend the Woolg rowers meeting, Sat urday. Attorney DamteV- Boyd return! home Friday from Salem, where he had beem presenting the matter, of parole for John Bare to Acting Gov ernor Bowerman. with a successful resiuilt. . The Sun ouobes City Health Of ficer Groeorv as statln'E there are now but as von caaes of scanlet . fev sr in Wallowa-and that there ;have ;eon. only IS cases aitogamOT aaiw :he. start of the, epidemic. Roger Kay has boen appointed' station agent at Lostlne, succeeding ftalekrh Goodman, who was trans ferred to Ashland. Rogea is the youngest station agent la the state lot yet having reached hia 21st birth day. Aunt Mary Wright was delight fully surprised Tuesday, her eightieth birthday anniversary, by a number at old friends and neighbors, who same unanmouooed t to spend the Jay with- her, bringing a fine dinner with them. ' A Very pleasant day was) passed, filled wlttt'ttael cheer jf Christmas time. A number of reminders of the occasion) wre given to Aunt Mary. Her Idlest son, Wil liam Wrlgh and the following ladies were 'present: Mesdamest Weatherly, D. F. Salsbury, S. B. Combes. H. E. Oakes, C. A. Audit, Serepta Weaver and W. W. White. Wallowa County Title & Abstract Company A. C. MILLER, President ; ; Office in' Company's new brick building opposite front of! ' new Court House, Oldest and most complete abstract plant ; ; in county. Abstracts of title furnished promptly and cheap-; ; ly. ... Insurance written in largest and strongest companies. . , Money Loaned at very Lowest Current Rates i XBHUEIEICIIEaBLEIBSXSIIIBXlSiaEEIEZlXKfraiafiiaESS Enterprise Livery and Sales Stable BaKer & Smith, Proprietors Fair treatment to everybody. Bus meets all trains 10 eta Commercial Trade a Specialty. First Class Rigs. Phone Orders Carefully Followed Horses Bought and Sold Feed For Sale Open Day and Night Pure Bred Black Percheron Stallion at this barn for service KEMttaNmUaKlliK&aBEaKEXBBaUI L. Stag gs filed on a homestead miles noriuieaa Jt uiwivi, U. S. Commissioner can Roe, Thursday. , E. F. Johnson, one of the big sheep men of the county came up from 'Wallowa, Friday, to attend the Woolgrowers meeting. Sheriff Edgar Marvin, returned from La Grande, Thursday, -with Ed ward .Smith, the tailor, who made too free- with the stock in Gum ertnan's shop7 wheni lef t in charge. La Grande Observer: Ed. Rumble of the BoltonnBodmer company left Thumsday mormtoig for San Francisco where he joins Mrs. Rumble and! the two -will go to Hawaii to spend two months. Enterprise io&ge Knights of Pyth ias, held high Jinks in their Castle Hall Friday night. A long and thrilling program was carried out, to the crossing of the last t and dotting of the last 1. Over 50 members were prcaent to enjoy the: otumts, amdl leach did a , big stunt , himself whiem It came to the good supper that top ped off the night's fun. The members of the) Wmt One class of the Presbyterian' Sunday school were tendered' a banquet by their teacher, A. J. Boehmer, Thursday evening. ' The affair ,was , on of the most deilightful social functions of this winter. Covers were laid for twenty-five and the, repast served in seven courses. The following toasts . were entertainingly given: Original Poem, "Don' You Wish You Were a Wlni One," Miss Amy Olmsted: "Harmony," Archie Miller; "The Sunny Side of the Street,'1 Miss Murray; "New Discoveries! of! Married Life," Lfco Forsythe; "Olassi Proph ecy" Mr. Boenmer, Asa craug wi clever witticism as toast-mcster kept the table in uproars of laughter, in a more serious vein the. Rev. Samuel K&rria gave a brief but Interest ing talk to She class, followei by Draver. Vocal solos by M'fea Davis anil Miss Boehmer and an- instrument al stflo bv Miss Clmsfcedi wore appro- ckylod numbers 'on tho program. In porting the company by request of Mrs. Boehmer song a favoriuo hymn, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again." Through the jleadorship of .Mr. Boehimer .the claso not on'y en- Joy earnest study but have created a social side not heretof ore) apprecia ted, and are having many piensont tnosi this wintior. SIDNEY ANDERSON. Thi Young Man Takes Tawney'a Placa In Congrats. Cent a word single insertion, -1 cents a word 2 insertions. Special rates by month and year. N " "if? 4 Men. and teams wanted to haul lum ber. For particulars sea the E. M. & M. Co. 70btf. Hall's Rooming House. Everytindng new and modern, hot and cold wat er, electric lights, free baths. Board if desired. Reasonable rates. Block west I. O. O. F. hall, Joseph, Ore. Mrs. Ellar Hall, proprietress. 70b6m. .AST SESSION TODAY OLD COUNTY COURT. BRIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK The total resources of Yale Univer sity, not including equipment, art, book and ' other collections. ar fie- ured at 124,000,000. The steamship Mauretanla upon its arrival In England December 23. barring accidents, will be the first ship in the history of the world to make the round trip from the old world to the new in the short space of 12 days. The measure locating the perma nent capital of Oklahoma at Okla homa City passed both Houses of the legislature. i Charles D. Drew and Charles Nar- dell, former "Boss" government weighers, who were convicted of tak ing bribe money for the false weigh ing of sugar, were sentenced to 10 months each in the New York peni tentiary at Blackwell's Island. The Stork train from New York, bearing 63 orphaned and foundling babies,, to be adopted by Texas fami lies received a warm reception at Houston, Texas. in Boston and vicinity numerous patriotic and historical societies' eb served tthe 137th anniversary of the "Boston Tea Party," when, as a pro test against the action of Great Brit ain in levying taxes on the colonies, a party of citizens disguised tnemselves as Indians and threw overboard cargo of tea rather than pay the taxes necessary to land it WANTED. MISCELLANEOUS. LYMAN POSTOFFICE OPEN;, DOINGfMORE BUSINESS. DR. C. A. AULT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offlca In Bank Building. Horn phone both office andX residence. X C. T. HOCKETT, M. D. V tinr)iAi i at a tin piinrrAU TI1I51UAPI AMI SIKUCUH I Offlcn In Litch bulkllnar. Room no. Horn ma, ruont iu u J 4i tuiu retsuieucv. a t DR. W. L. NICHOLS. J 1 ; Osteopathic Physician I ', . 135-137 Utch Btdg. ! j ' Tuesday, Thurodp.y and Stur ! l . 1 T 1- I V. J St Jk. A t uay, ruwie tn. two, turn A few weeks ago a Washington dispatch in the daily papers said 'the posstofflce of Lymanv on Dr.y Ridge i in this county, had been discontinued. This .was a xnisilaike as the following letter from 'the postmaster shows: Dear Sir: I notice In your paper "that this office has beeni closed' be cause of insufficient Dusmess Jow I don't know ;wher you got) such news as that, but at any rate you should be a little careful about, pub lishing something that Is not ai fact. This office is not closed but is still open and doing business. Our business is on the increase. Cancella- is- going to show a great deal better for this quarter tham it did last. - Please correct statement in your paper and oblige, HARRY L. MURDOCK. P. M., Lyman, Ore! Emerald Rebekah lodge No. 119 has elected (the following Blew offic ers: Noble Grand. Cora Borland ; vice grand, Bessie WlUgerodt; treas- urer, Bea Weathers; recording sec retary, Alta Weathers; financial sec retary, Abble Burnaugh. They will be InsLal.led) Wednesday night. J. A. BURLEIGH ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office In litch Building. Enterprise, Oregon. SHEAHAN & COO LEY LAWYERS ENTERPRISE; Practice In 8tate and Federal Courts and Interior Department. &4444t W. C. KETCHUM DENTIST - ENTERPRISE J Office In Lltca Building. Room ! ! 121. Home Independent Phone. THOS. M. DILL ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in Litch building. Room. 107. Enterprise, Oregon. DAM DSL BOYD - ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Practice In all Bute Courts ana Interior Department. Careful at- X teatloa to all business. CHARLES THOMAS LAWYER - ENTERPRISE, ORB. Practlee ki State and rederal 4 i;ouria ana bl iepi. wi" e " We Need the Money We have the goods and . they must be turned into cash. To show, even Missourians, we are in earn est, look afthese prices. You know these goods and you know the regular price of them, and you know that these prices are less than cost laid down here in Enterprise: , i $45.00 Toledo Range, with warming closet, beautiful looker and splendid cooker $36.00 $50.00 Toledo Range,' warming closet and hot water reservoir - - - $40.00 $65.00 Steel Malleable Range heavy, non destructible best on earth - $52.50 '- Lots of coal in town and you can buy a coal stove of us-cheaper than you can freeze $ 9.00 Coal Stove for .... $ 7.00 $15.00 Coal Stove for - - - $11.00 $28.00 Howard Combination, coal or wood $22.50 $17.50 Wood Stove - - " - - $13.50 S 4.50 New Perfection Oil Heater - - $3.50 Manv other articles in our store reduced jn propor tion. Come NOW. These goods will not be re placed at these prices. S. D. KELTNER'S HARDWARE ENTERPRISE, OREGON . The present county court to hold ing its final session- today to clear up old- matters of business. The new county court, lni which L. Couch succeeds Sam Lltchi as commission er, win meet next Wednesday. Circuit Court Suits Filed. Dec. 22 McCully Merc. Co. vs. Geo W. and Thos. G. Wolfe. Dec. 29 W. A. Pattorsonr vs. J. K. Marlin I Probate Record. Estate Peter Pordney: Order for partial payment of claims. Estate John.' Williams; Order al lowing claims, ebc. Guardianship of Alice Snell, a min or; Order confirming sate or real es tate. Marriage Licenses. Dec. 21 Max Gummorman, : 23, tailor. Enterprise ; Nellie Mabel Hanson. 18, Enterprise, 1 Dec. 22 William J. Daley, 27, la borer, Wallowa; Ella F. Feagins, 17, Wallowa. Dec. 24 Herbert L. Browning, 25, clerk. Enterprise: Katharine P. Kay, 22, Enterprise. Dec. 27 Edward F. Rich, 24, labor. er, Joseph; Bessie A. Thompson, 18, Joseph. ' Dec. 27 Samuel B. Armon, 22, la borer, Wallowa;. Alvlna Lortie, 18, Enterprise. Dec. 27 John W. Fine, 30, stock man, Chlco; Florence Tinsley, zs, Chlco. ' 1 NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS Karl Hagenbeck, the noted collector and trainer of wild animals, Is dead at his home near Hamburg, Germany. Frederonka, the Russian Socialist, whose extraditftm the Russian gov ernment has been seeking and whose trial attracted much attention all over America, was discharged from cus tody at Winnipeg, Canada. A boom for Representative James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, chairman of the House committee, for the govern orship of the Isthmian canal zone has has been started. Mr. Tawney was defeated for re-election.- , Willis L. Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau, denies the charges of "mismanagement, extrava gance and irregularities" in his de partment made by James Berry, a former employe. John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil income is $19.32 a minute, according to the quarterly dividend of 10 per cent, amounting to $10,000,000 on all the stock which has been authorized by the directors. It Is estimated that Rockefeller, since 1882, has received $180,000,000 In Standard Oil dividends In addition to $100,000,000, his equity in the profits of the concern. Since 1882 the company has disbursed $709,812,620 out of 1U profits of 11.129.442.064. leaving a surplus ol $419,679,444. 29S acres Alder Slope, $28,009.00 80 acres Alder Slop, $ 8,000.00 ' 160 acres hill land, about six miles out, $2,000.00 320 acres, 12 miles out, $3,200.00 City Lot, 3100 to $300 , Rosldeneo Property, 36 SO to $3tOOO Fire Insurance Surety Send Live Stook Insuraaee FARMERS UNION ADDS ELEVEN NEW MEMBERS. T W McAUater of La Grande, who was recently elected state presi dent of the Farmers Union, and State Organizer Cox met ,wlth the Enterprise union to the court house Wednesday. An open meeting was first neid a, which there was a goodly attend ance, and the object and aims of the order explained. Eleven) new members were added to the roll of 'the local union.. From now on regular meetings of the local union will be held. J. A. French Is president and1 C. A Mc Alteter secretary of the Enterprise undon. On mY rfltail ADDles. but it is lmroposslole to re-tail a dog.. It was not "Mrs. Partington,'' but some other worn am -who observed that the Sterling famUy must have been large and very rich at owq time, Judg ing from the great quantiy of sllvr- Iware marked wKh their name. F0REIGN NEWS BITS The London police use finger print records to Identify more tnan 7,uuu prisoners a year. The Russians propose the Impost tlon of a tax on unmarried men and women of marriageable age. The tax is graduated according to the Incomes of the offenders. There is general rejoicing through out Ireland over the breaking up of the big estates and the purchase of them by the tenants who live on them. The landlords are appar ently satisfied, as tbey get their money in a lump sum. Suffragettlsm Is having another spell of activity In England Just now. It is the worst spell the country has ever had, Just as each of the swells which preceded It was worse than its predecessor. The announcement that the munici pal council Intends to propose a tax on cats baa raised a storm ot conster nation and indignation la ParUlaa households. . W. E. TAGGART, ENTERPRISE, ' : : The Pioneer leal EitoU Mm. : : OREGON QiCartfiti Banking Imuns tht Safity of Dtpostlt." Depositors Have That Guarantee at WALLOWA NATIONAL BANK OF ENTERPRISE, OREGON CAPITAL $60,000 -SURPLUS $66,000 We Do a General Banking; business. Exchange Bought and Sold on AU Principal Cities. Geo. W. Hyatt, President Geo. H. Craig, Vloe President W. B. Holmes, Oaahlei A. J. Boehmer, Asst. Cashier Geo .8. Obais J. H. Dobbw BtUOTOM Gao. W. Hyatt Matto A. Heuo W. R. Nolmh WHITES FRONT Livery, Peed and Sale Stable R . U. DAY Proprietor Good Rigs Fair Treatment Horse Bought and Sold Special Attention to Commercial Trade - RateB for Regular Boarder ' Bus to and From Traim Best of Help Employed Home Phone Open Day and Night One Block North of Hotel Enterprise Get Your Plumbing Done Before Cold Weather Starts I carry a complete line of Bath Tubs, Basins Bowls, ete. PRICES RIGHT. "Superior" Stoves and Ranges Bst on tMm Market S K CLARK, a blks. south' Hotel Enterprise I r