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Valley News 0a 8 ttUtife lEtftttttU) IteW Want Ads VOLUME XXV. LA GRANDE. OREGON, FRIDAY, .JULY 1. 1927 NUMRER" 2Y8" Over The Valley MiiIh-I K. Mortun, Valley Xeus Kdllor iMiiilHii-y Crop at Us J'cnk - Zut'k Chandler, of lrulldulo, la miu of tlit local growers of sniu.ll iruilH who have had un excellent tiia lit y of strawberries on the, mar kets thin KeuHon, ami ho is of the opinion that tho season Is right iov at Its height. Mrs. Chandler has about one and one. half acres In the berries ami he grows but wo varieties, the Senator Hunlnp ;tnd thi! It. M. Kelloggs and of these he is expeetlng to have In the neighborhood of 2UU crates be long the season ahull have closed. One part f his patch, Mr, (.'hand- says, bus been very produc tive this year, the remainder hus produced only a fraction of a nor mal crop. 11 he has any partiality toward either of the two varieties of berries which he markets, Mr. handler, says it is toward the It. M. Kelloggs. While they ure not of such a deap red color, yet they larger und are better lor table use. J nose wno nave ueen ouymg Mr. Chandler's berries will know that this berry is the one which has n bearing so many twin berries this year, the blossom having had more petals, and the fruit forming two very large and fully de loped berries Joined together at the stein end. 'lhe Senator Uun- ps ;ye also very good and are of much darker red. It Is these berries which Mr. Chandler iul rod need into this locality t iiuong fruit growers about I'ft vears ago, The Kellogg berry plants were secured from It M. j Hogg, of Michigan, who has pro- ) pointed the variety and who sells his plants as pedigreed, registered j Mock. Mr. Chandb-r will have no, berries this season neither will he j have peaches, but of his Delicious , ipph-s and Winter Hanana apples. he in expecting a good crop. Mr. Chandler believes in having more than one line in ens1 there Is fail ure of any one particular fruit or berry. Last year he had no berries but a bumper, crop ot' cherries, this year the case Is reversed. He Iso raises Home cattle ami hobs and produces on his place enougu hay for the use of his livestock. o Here is a GimmI One Wednesday the valley editor was in the Island City grocery, store when a young miss, seven, eight or mi. came in and usked for two 3jboNes "f strawberries. I-.ee, Itey ;1h)U1h was about to procure them At "her w hen she added. "My Yiother said for you to send the 1 iottein st ones you had as she w ant ed thein lor shortcake" Needless ?jt say. Mr. Reynolds selected the 1j nicest, ripest berries he had. Il.etues Soon Tor Vancouver 9 Wilbur I, Hrock, of the Dry Srreek neighborhood, expects to Qhave soon for l'ortland and from there will go to Vancouver, l. C. t that city he will meet Mr. Nor linnn S. Itraden. of New York, who viee oreshbnt of the Wcsting- ShoiiHe Kleetrk- corporation, with whom ho will have a lew u.ijb visit. Mr. Hrock ami Mr. liraden were college classmates at Whit man college leaving there 22 years , ago. but always keeping their warm friendship started in colleno days as one of their prize possessions. "Mr. Itraden lias come lo be one of ( the big men In the electrical nnnm try and while his home and his business interests have nlways kept him in lhe cast his heart has been in the west. Mr. Hrock, who has been in the newspaper field for many vears and has been connected with several of the large Washing- ' ton dailies, was until the last five or six weeks associated with Mr. V'.ruce Dennis, formerly of this city, .w owner and publisher of the Klamath Kails pa Business interests and personal auemiuo t his farms in this valley, made it necessary for him to come to his ranch in tin: Dry creek vicinity. o Atleml I in Jo's AVehling Raymond ami Kdwln Richards living on the Cove road, were in Hostess Cakes See Display in Show Window All Kinds from 15 to 45c For the Fourth of July Salads - Cold Meals - Cottage Cheese Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Free Delivery Phone Main 80 Pattison Bros. Grocery I Hlgin over the week end attending the wedding of their uncle. Mr. Joe Tracey and Miss Visa lieem, w hich was an event of Saturday. They returned home on Sunday. o DiitertahiM l or (incst Miss Marion Ueiss, of Cove, en tertained u company of of her girl and boy friends recently, com plimenting her house guest, Miss l.oreta Wilsos of Milton, Ore. Tho evening was pleasantly spent with games and contests and enjoying the lovely refreshments served by the, hostess. o Curst J'loni SKkan Mrs. Kdith Clrlswold came Wed nesday from Spokane for a visit with her granddaughter, Mrs, Henry Counsel I, of I. add Canyon. She will visit also in i.ostiue, be fore returning to her home. Ml-s .Johnson Itetuuis Home Miss Mabel Johnson returned to day to her home in l'ortland lob lowing u very pleasant visit of a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Tit iim llvinir tlitu si.ht nf Teloeaset. i To Inetigute I toad Situation A me'ting is being called prob ably for Saturday evening at Sum merville when residents of that section and I try creek who are In- tr rested In good roads and who 'are not discouraged even in the j face of the election returns Tues- day. w ill discuss solutions ot tiieir road problem, 't hese citizens aru very anxious that they may nave a road which will connect the two existing market roads, the Suni merville and the Koothill. They will attempt to make some sort of u proposal whereby they nuiy offer to the county board a certain suin, this to be matched by the board and a road constructed in keep ing with lhe market road law. The movement is being instigated by Miles Woodell, rural mall carrier out from tho Summervjlle office. Mr. Woodell is carrier on a route 32 miles long and one of the most difficult roads in the county. There are t7 families in the locality to be served by this road. Has Week Kml GucMs Miss Winifred Halsey. of t nion. spent the week end with Miss Are ta Titus at Telocascl. Mrs. Cora Ti tus at the same time went to l-add Canyon where hc Vas Uk -guest of Mis. W. 1 i'eeblcr. o Mo(! to Itfliicli tor Summer Mr. and Mrs. Hi. Rhodes ami family have moved back to Iheli country home, Spring Hill Uauch, three miles down the canyon from Telocaset. where they will reside, this miipmer. They have been spending the winter and spring in La Grande. o Gct-Togrlhcr Club .Meels The Get-Together club or lite I. add Ctinvon neighborhood met last week with Mrs. U Drum smith. A splendid program was offered, Mrs. Hoppei being cnair nuiu of the committee in charge. The club meets ugain next Thurs day with Mrs. Alma Kwln. o Attend Reunion al l'.lgin Mr. and Mrs. Charles llili and family, of Telocaset, were among those attending the Hug family reunion at Klin last Minda. Mine Into New Home , Mr. .and Mrs. Claude Wright have recently moved into their lovelv home, just completed, in Kruitdale. The house is modern in every regard, is stucco finished and consists of five rooms, o (ini,T (n telehrnie t Members of I'leas-uit. Grove Lr,..,,,,. have arrange. 1 for a big j .-rti, of July Celebration which they will hold in 1'basanl Grove j next Monday. Al 1 I o'clock in the ! morning a patriotic program will ! be given, which will be followed ! by a pienic dinner. A base bull game will be called in the utter- 1 noon, the grange team to meet a j team from Klgin. There will be a j j horseshoe pitching contest and j races for which both first and see- oud priy.es will be given. The IVs- j ; tivities whleh wiil close with u big; ! dance at night will lie held In tho 'grove two miles west ot Hummer- Ville. j Visits In ,u (.ramie j Miss Isabel HlinmnilH. of the Diy creel; neighborhood, is visiting j with her friend. Miss Anita iriek- i son in J,n Grande. : o 1 turner ltei(ietits VMl (ieorge and Thornton Corpe, of California, are visiting among their relatives and friends at Cove. They were former residents of that place. o Lntcrtains It ridge Club i Mrs. O rover (Jrimmett Is enti r I tattling the members of the Island ' City llriilge club this afternoon at her home near Iai Grande. Girls Sewing Club Meets I '('he Girls Hewing club met Wed nesday ul teriioon at t he homo of 1 their leader, Mrs. Jissie iMniel, of I Cove. There are S 'Ven meliiberju jthis organization and tiiey are t-n- . deavoring to finish their project, j IMuni I'l""" Trip M ' and Mrs. lirov i r Ciilmniett. j I residing near l.a Grande, are ex-' ! eeedingly enthusiastic ovrfr an auto i trip from which they have recently returned. The trip covered the newly advertised " "ariboo Trail" covering together with a side trip or two, about 2(HX milcM and re quired two weeks travelling. It was unite delightful throughout so report the travelers, despite the faei that the highway is not com pleted in some localities and is nil her narrow in others The ceii-H-ry is beautitul, lakes, hills and rivers dotting the line of travel are magnificent. Mr. and Mrs. Grimiuett started from this city, going first to Walla Walla and on up to Spokane, from, there driving westward over the Sunset high way tu Wenatchee. Here they met the Okanogan -Cariboo trail which they followed up into and through Canada. This trail was first used by white nun In the days of the great fur companies. The Indians used it. then the Hudson Hay Co.. followed it carrying their furs on that route by the hundreds of Ihou tiunds of dollars; it was followed also during. the gold rush. Going north, from Weiialchee through Chelan and along lhe edge of the beautiful Lake Chelan, ifcp through ( Mtanogati, TonasUet. across the border .line.iilto Canada just be low' Ollvei", juist "VaKseaiix" (Hlrd i Sanctuary) lake. the Okanogan I falls, and then tor a whole day 'along Lake Okanogan, on north as far as Salmon A.arm. At. that lake, the trail turns westward and runs along the whores of oilier beautiful lakes to Marble Canyon when it turns south through a beautiful and west count ry to Vancouver li. C. The travellers on south to Kenine. and t hen came Tacomu and on to ( lienaiis w nero 'they stopped and visited the K. K. Kiit ley family, formerly of, this community. At chehMis Mr. and Mrs. Grimmell took the Ocean Meuoh highway, which look them through the Her Hon of giant for ' el trees to Raymond, ami South lb nd. then through the hills, laler i lhe. cranberry bogs to l.ongbeach j and Seaview, Wash. At I't. KMice ' they took the ferry lo Astoria then motored down tho coast to Seaside for a visit, returning by the Col umbia River highway to l'ortland ami on home. Their first long ! trio bv num. Mr. Uriiu- ni'tt an over thi h ucinn very eiilhuslastic r of seeing the looking forward le anticipation to ing expedition. country, and 'a i w itii consul' ral another sight-S' o VNitlnu' Grand I'mi'iit The Misses Harbara and lti-Uy Counull, of l.add Canyon, sire gmsis of th- ir grund-p cuts. Mr. and .Mrs. ! Tillon at Lost inc. o Hiince Crowd Small The dame given Saturday ev. ing by tin- riMnib'-rs of the TV caset grange at their hall was GRANDE RONDE IS SPECIALLY SUITED FOR BERRY RAISING Since ls:;i, Karl J. Stat-kland, of Cove, and his brothers associated with htm. hc.ve been raising ber ries and fruits both for local and foreign markets and it is said to be very largely through, their efforis that that particular locality has at ' (he present day a nation-wide rep- . utation for the quality of iruit pro- : dtleed t here. un t heir different farms and ranches scattered over ; thai seetiou of tho valley, they : have developed large fruit bear- , ing orchards and berry grow ing j patehes. At present their straw-j berries are demanding their almost undivided attention. On the ranch just this side of j Cove, Hie home of G. G. Stackland. j (hey have ten urns of strawberries j from which they have already ; marketed about 3 2 ft crates, with j the season just at. its height, an in- j dieation that this year's is a light. crop. Karl Stackland states that j with a leu per cent crop, an acre should ield from a ton and a MtiartMi to a ton and a half ot the berries each season. This, tigure will not be reached t,bjs year. The berries which have been t marketed thus far this year from (the Staekhind pafehes have been te Improved Oregon which. have ! be-n generally accepted a.s the best berry for this locality, follow ing much careful experimentation, however. Mr. Stackland questions this belief and is ready to place another berry as the one w hich for all purposes Is hisl adapted to this soil and climate. Some time ago. Mr. stackland obtained and set out on hf place Hint ( nch of the Sen ator Dunlap. Doctor Hurreli. Gib son and Kthelhurg No. 121. He" has watched thoso very carefully and after such a study, he gives it as his honest opinion that while all four of these are superior to lh Oregon Improved, the Kthel hurg and the Dr. Rurrell are both unusually good, but 1 In former, particularly as lo soil and climate is pro ing considerably t he best berry for this valley. It is very heavy bearing, is far superior for canning and lias oilier outstanding characteristics. While for the other varit ics t he crop is right, now at its height and ten days will see tho production dwindle down very rap idly, the Kthelhurg will not ready for market until next week, I'rnOng Gnoil Horry Mr. Stackland lias also set out tills year two acres of the Im proved Clark Seedlings, which are proving to be a very good berry in lliis valley and which t con tinually giowing In he eslimnfion of berry men. Tie stales that, to this acreage or seedlings he ks giv ing his very best of care and at tention, ami will have this fall from it an abundance of plants for sale and for res-tting. That this valley is very nearly ideal for t he producing of large berry crops. Mr. Stackland is very firmly convinced. At present. tended bv a ralher small crow di d, to the iv as Mir due in all probabilities stormy evening. M nsie ; nished by an orchestra of th ree pieces from Medical Springs. 0 O. A. C. Student Home Harold Sehroeder. of the Chapel neighborhood, is al home for lhe summer vac and is working In the liay t The young man is n junior a college, o- I- III in llo-pnal Mrs. C. Knautz, of mar Conby, is ill and a patient :i Or.uidu Lolidc hospital in La Orainle. o I ;nthiisiatdic thiT Com so The yollllg people ItOIII Cove and hiibler who wen- privile.d lo .peud two weeks recently at Cor valiis as students al the shorl enuise at lhe Agi ieiiltilial College are great ly etilhusiasi ov-r l lie work which they did. and th- pro gram airanir-d for the slu.hms there ihls summer. Carmen and .lane haniel, Harrel Weilior and Allen Mills, of Cr,ve and ciiilord Conrad, of Imbler, were the livo n presenlallves from this comity 1 among the total of fifo a.teitdilig. girls and --" boys. The cnis were divided into Li sections oT j -li, curb and took n n hilcm-ivi! I home-making course, cook ing-. s- w -; ing. decorating, home lmproe- llienl. etc. The boys Were p.ie. d in similar groups and took a I si i a Ight agricult at e coin's s1.n k 'judging, demonstrations, etc. Font cia:-scH ivere held each morning. All J assembly was h- hl each aflern-M.n ' and ill the eetiines were edn a , 1 jo mil ph t ores, part ies, et c One I day during the session l tsi s 1 1 om ' 'oi'vallis ea : te. th of each of the ; Ihn (I' ll!!!. '1 I and Ml.-s Jane I ianb'1 was s I i d as tip- om out of the C 'Whose )e(h MlOW'd the be-t (m 1 he second Monthly of 111! course the chamber of corn men j ! oU CorvaltiS look Ho- whole coin . puny to tip- movie w lo re ti:y v it 'll ?... d and llinioilily eii)o 'I j -Casey at the I Iat .' Wcik- Toward rurebred Herd I .1. H. Kilby, w bo mil so mi ' long innM d tiom La (Iran i" i onto a l.irin in l-idd Canyon, i Moss m his fi ilioii R the- S d- a oi in-' 1 hi oiigh small hegmn.iu to bring the He stock on his pho to lhe hlg!) Ol perteetion and to e' ure ant ma is- and fowl of th" b' 'i-. In hogs. In- is r.tiMi: .' th' Ohio TmproMl t'htft r Whiit hawng impo?t', his otiglna! Mock Horn Hi" Fh.lheiid Hon Hain !t m (Ccii'.iiiu d ou Ta-c S.) growers arc putting on the market barely eiioiitth to supply the de mands of this locality, and as Mr. Staekkuid looks back over the his tory of fruit growing in the valley j and looks forward to future pros- i peels he makes this statement: "If business men. or capitalists in t his valley, would put up I ho J capital in amount to one-half that which is being spent in excess ot t any justification for hotels, for in- ! .stance, at the present time, for the erection of a canning plant or a iruit dryer, it would do more good lor the people of I'nion county and ! tor t hemselves than If spent for nnylhing else. A little town like Sheridan in the Willamette valley : net ded $M.m0 to enlarge their cunning plant, to lake care of fruit i produced in that locality. A tew business men in that town sub scribed $4. oeo in a few minutes and they have borrowed the bal ance, and consequently have a plant which can satisfactorily take care of increased production. 'The only thing lhal is holding Tnion county people back from go ing on is raising fruits and berries extensively is the fact that thero Is no canning factory. If any In crease is made in production the fruit grower runs the risk of over running the local market and then ho is out. Situ.itcd as we are with a plant or establishment here to lake care of any excess crop, the growers would undoubtedly plant sufficient acreage not only lo sup ply .such a plant or cannery, but also al the same time would pro duce enough so that they might branch out and find long distance fresh fruit markets just the same as Hood River does at present. AnoMier Phase "There Is another phase to it. The fruit gathering seasons eoine almoMt entirely during the vaca tion season, and the gathering of I For Your Auto Trip I .lOnThe; SEE THAT YOUR CAR IS IN PROPER CONDITION AND EQUIPPED ALL AROUND WITH FULL SIZE Gum-Dipped Balloons- Low Old (Ti 30x3!2 Cord $7.35 29x410 Balloon $8.40 315.25 Walloon ... . $15.35 Made in the Great Economical Firestone Factories THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING DAY I Mr. ami Min. Oliver I'errlu. pioneer in I lie Grande Itmide vnlley, will quietly celebrate llielr oOth w (Hlillug aniilvcrjiiy Sun day, duly a. such crops as might be grown, as suggest ed previously, would give, employment to a large class of people and at a time when work is usually scarce, if u man at pres (lit has but an acre in berries and he finds at the closo of the season that that acre has only paid out. 'or made a very small profit, there heaped up by companions to mark lis still tho fact thai ho has paid the spot of burial. He remembers 1 a good sum to thlse w ho have been i how tho company ran nut of pro ; picking and would have, otherwise i visions and nil were held at Rolce ll n w ithout this Income. Looking ; where they were obliged to work iat it from this point of view it , for food and other necessities. Hut would be a good and big under- in time they moved on. entered ! taking. With greater production this beautiful valley through I,add tiu re would be un accompanying canyon and established w hat Is j large company of new wage earn- still known as the Iowa settlement. I ers pickers, packers, truckmen, j Hail lo Wall box makers, etc." Tho laud was given out In three IQ Prices On le Id Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Perrin Will Celebrate 50th Year of Wedded Life Sixty-four years ago today, sonte-i w hero more than hnlf way out from Iowa to this Grande Rondo valley, there might have been seen a long, long train of prairie schooners, per haps 30 or 40 wagons all told, bo sides other equipment, livestock, etc. moving slowly, slowly yet stead ily on toward a land a land which none of them had ever seen, but toward which all from the oldest to the youngest looked with longing eyes. Somewhere, In that train there was a chunk of a boy, a lad of 11 vears Just the age for a boy to be alivo to all that was going on about him, sensing the dangers an did tho oldest perhaps .and likewise thrill lug at the adventure, at the daring of it all. That very spirit of adventure, and new experiences of each day. the hope ever held before them. all these brought a very decided spirit of happiness. On the other hand there was tho ever-present fear, fear of danger, unknown, but ahvays expected. The dangers to come from wild and unknown ani imils. the sudden appearance of savages who might In a very short time annihilate the entire train Just a host of terrors, some of w hich appeared, ami some which did not. This young boy remembers how many of his playmates became 111 along tho w ay, measles, w hooping cough ami other diseases. Ho can y,.t nee, en tubed when some of them sue to the diseases, (In fact some six or seven of them died on the way) the feed boxes were re moved from tho sides of the wagons, and these were constructed 'into coffins in which his friends Iwore buried, and piles of rocks' Ol A Now is the time to take the uncer tainty out of your tire equipment. Miike the Fourth of July trip one of Safety, Comfort and Economy. We have every size. Better see us to day. Prices are lowest in history. PERKINS I MOTOR 1 . CO. . ways, squatters' rights, homestend- ing and preempting. This boy was not yet of age, and his father was lead. Therefore it was necessary for him to wail either until he be came of age or else possessed money In his own name to pur chase laud. I '.ecu u.so he was a minor, ho could not even borrow money from his nod her to acquire property. In time he did come In to possession in his own mime of acres ami acres of this fruitful soil in this valley. lust five days after this train left Iowa, another train titarted un Its long Journey. This train was made up of 30 wagons, drawn by oxen and two teams of horses, and at times the milch cows were press ed into service. Their trip across tho prairies was made without any serious trouble, so the woman who was a little girl of five years nays. She remembers quite distinctly the events of the trip, and that there wore three members of their party who died on the phi ins. They were from the fifth day of May un til the ninth day of September mak ing the journey and in the early fall they, too entered this vulhy ! through Hadd canyon. Fourteen years passed, and they tell us they were H years of hard toll, of hardships, yet yea re of hap- plness that coiucH to lives lived in ml a certain freedom. simplicity And after these 1 years, on the third day of July, U77. these two, this boy and this girl, w ere the principals in a happy weddiui; , ceremony, Oliver I'errln. lhe bid I of II years when his family left 'their home In the Hawkeye state for the land of promise in lhe w ami laiciudu May, who, as a little girl of five, had made the lontr Journey across the pralrlei-.. I'oikI Memories Oliver I'errln and Huelnda May I'errln were married at Cove iia years ago this coining Sunday, and today at their humble home at I in bier, they are living over a-tain in their memories those other days. (Continued on Tago 8.) my
