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Page Six LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE, Wednesday, February 10, 1932 OVER Phone: Mornlnfji, Main 600 Allccl Aid The regular meeting at the Allcel Ladles Aid society la to be held to morrow altarnoon at the home ot llr Bruce Clark, ilrs. Bay Pullsr and Mra. Irwin Mow are the assist ing hostesses. Is Metier David Irwin, aged resident of the neighborhood beyond Island City. Is reported to be Improving from his recent very severe Illness. Snow Illsarralised Plans '' The snow and wind storms which visited the Cove locality on Wednes day Interfered very materially with several parties scheduled for that neighborhood on Thursday. Wednes day and Wednesday night, the snow had drifted until the roads were at most Impassable. .The Dorcas society of the Baptist church was to have met at the home of Mrs. Storey Mor- rls but only two ladles succeeded "I Portland. Mr8. stack tor getting there so the meeting was four WMkJ w(th hlubMU, who postponed until next wejk Thursday.. n a Portlttn1 hoepl(U, reported Mrs. Lee Chllders and Mrs. Mary Gray that ne lmproVKl now anQ pros. went because the roads In Lower Cove for u recovery wnlch waa were not drifted. Mrs. L. M. Laird and jsometnlng rather , doubt when Mrs. John Miller entertained the Ladles Guild of the Episcopal church i 'at the home of Mrs. Laird but only eight ladles were present and they found great difficulty In getting there. : Bridge was played at two tables, Mrs. Louis Presto winning the high score and Mrs. L. J. Chad wick, the low score. A dainty lunch was served ar ter the games. Mrs. O. E. Barker has lnvltcd the guild to a quilting at her home at the next regular meeting, which will be pn Thursday, Feb. 18. 1 1 as Carbuncle Leo Nledcrer, of pry Creek. nas been having a very painful time re r?Titit with a rnrhimri. urhtrh mm on the leaders of one of his legs. making it very difficult for him to tirnlfc- ftnrt aim mnrf him verv 111 Frequent trips have been necessary frcm Pn of thia writer. -to physicians In La Grande. This IsJ President Hoover and many other a very busy season at the NIedcrcr's big statesmen have been telling' His with lambing right at lta height. Vlr- what to do to pull through this de gll Sanderson and Ernest Pugh, oppression. We have a solution that the neighborhood, have been assist- we know will be a good thin? for the ing with tho chores and Mrs. Irene : , Conrad has been helping her sister, Mrs. Nledcrer, In the house. Ilavo A Hrurt Most school boards do. And moat KChocl board members remember when they were young. But It remained for thp school board at Joseph to have 0; chanco to prove that very thing. A week ago skating at Wal lowa Lake was to use a high school ers expression "heavenly." The ice was perfect, so the story goes. Along In the morning tho skies and other weather Indicators promised a storm A SEASONABLE RECIPE t'tililioge ati nratin (To be served with roast pork) Shred the cabbage with a medium sized onion. Cook in salted water until tender. Drain. Transfer to baking dish a:id cover with a medium white sauce. In which has been melted cup of grated cheese. Sprinkle with buttered bread crumbs and bake for 30 minutes. Lot brown nicely on top. ON THE AIR Station KOAC KxU'iislon Service TlmrMlity, rclirttury II 7:00 a. m.. Good morning medita tions, led by Dr. John S. Burns. 7:16, Setting up exzrciscs, directed by James Dixon. 7:30, Scanning the headlines. 0:00, Potpourri. 0:00. ityth melcdles. 0:30, Organ concert by Byron Arn old. 10:00. Homo economics observer. . iu:ui, lomorrowa meals, 10:1B, Pood ractn and fancies. s.un a huh wuj a ui liuuitu keeping. 10:47, The magazine rack. 11:00, The home garden. 11:00. "Orowlng A.nlcos mid Rho dodendrons," Theodore Van Veen, 11:30, Morning matinee. 12:00 (Noon), Farm hour. 12:10, In tho clay's uows. 12:23, "flurul Fire Protection." L. B. OavlB. 12:35, Market reports, weather forecast. crops and 1:00 p. m., Vaudeville. 1:30. Orgun program from White side theatre. 2:00, Around the campus. 3:00-8:30. HomtmaKor hour. 3:05, Using Oregon prod un: gon Flour In Making Biscuits.' Alta Garrison. 6:65 p. m., Market reports - Oru MIhs set - ond broadcast or wheat and livestock 6:00. Fox Whltraldo theatre organ. 6:30, Farm hour. 0:33, in tho day's news. 6 :45. Spot market riorts and Weather forecast. 0:60, Market reviews hops, live stock, raiiKo and pasture notos ami dried prunes. 7:16.' With the poultry flock. Pro fessor A. a, lunn. 7:30. The homo garden: "Garden Structures." H. A. Bllinnrd. 7:46, Physics In everyday life: "Tho Theor and Development of tho Phonograph," James M, Morris. 8:00, Music of The Masters. 8:15, College nlKht. 0:00-0:30, National collet I uUi ptuy. crs, Friday. I'rhruary Vi 7:0Q a. m., Good morning medita tions, led by Dr. William Schoeler. 7:16, Setting up exercises, directed by James Dixon. 7:30, Scanning the headlines. 0:00. With Uncle Sam's naturalists. 0:16. Ryth-melodles. 10:00, Home economics observer. 10:05, Tomorrow's meals. THE VALLEY Mabel B. Morton, Valley Newt Editor very soon, which would spoil the skating, so the board proclaimed half holiday and Joseph went skat ing. Vllt Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Witherspoon who live oa Criciet Flat, had as their guest, last week their niece. Mrs. Jay , 7,r- 4" . :,.rT Stop, Off- to go'to W.,,a wan, the i par? Rev. B. B. Smutz, pastor of th!of tnia month- wnere 8he win enter Methodist churcii in Joseph stopped'? "H ui Off unii vtsiteti with frif-nd in thi vniir iatti hf from Boise where he had been at tending a church conference. Hrtnut From Portland Mrs. Burr Slack, of near Enter- prise-, formerly of this valley, visited hrA ' MAu- i h. -,. h' , he went to Portland several weeks ago. His many friends and relatives here will be glad for- this news from him. Ah One Man Hw It Mrs. Robert Clark, who lived for many years In the valley, before the j am'y went Into the florists busl- receives and r$ads with great in terest each week, her old home town paper, the Jewell County Republican, a weekly published in Jewell county. Kansas. A week or so ago, Mrs. Clark found a couple of squibs In a letter wnicn a correspondent had sent in rm one ot the rural districts. At hcr request, and because we know our readers will be Interested we are on WJaay two m WW OlUJ average farmer: Stay at home and don't go to town only once a week Better made It two weeks U possible. Cut wood, fix fence, scatter those old straw plies, haul out the surplus manure that has been accumulating for many years, clean out the hen houses, get the brooder house j?ady for spring chicks, make some single trees and doubletrees, get the old Implements fixed up and save buying new, fix the harness and give them an oiling, and many othor Jobs too numerous to mention. The Jobs as outlined, will be hard on the young generation but the quicker we get j can the better off wo will be; but stay at home; If you have saved your gas bill and tires you have saved; a lot. There seems to be no end to tho decline In the hog market. We don't hear anybody telling how much money they made on their hogs this winter as we did lost season. That's one trouble with us farmers, if wo happen to be lucky and make a prp- lit everybody knows It, but whoever heard a business man in town ever eay a word about the profit that be is making when he buys three articles for one dollar and then sells them at j a dollar apiece. No slrce, he's too ; smart, but tho farmer must tell his i profits If ho has any. Why can't we ; keep our mouths shut? ' I e of llic Oregon Stulc Collt'gc 5501(0 10:33, How's and why's of house keeping. 10:47. The magazine rac,:. 11:00, Morning- matinee. 12:00 (Noon), Farm hour. 12:10, In tho day's news. 12:23, "Electric Hot Bed Construc tion and Operation," C. J. Hurd. 12:36, Market reports, crops and weather forecast. 1:00 p. m,, Vaudeville. 1 :30. Organ program frcm White side theatre. 2:00, Around tho campus. 3:00. Honiemakor hour. 3:05( Heading In tha home; "Book Companlcns," Miss Lucy Lewis. 3:46-4:00, Bettor health: "Cnro of the Teeth." U. 8. public health ser vice. 5:65 p. m., Market report Second broadcast of wheat and livestock. 0:00. Fox Whiteside theatre organ. 0:30-0:16. Address: "Lincoln and Communism,'' National Security lea gue. 0:45, Farm hour. 0:45. Spot market reports and weather forecast. 0:50, Market reviews butter, cheese, dally feeds and fetd grains, 7:00, In tho day's news. 7:16. "The Vegetable Seed Catalog In lielatlon to tho Garden, " Professor A. O. Bouquet. 7::io, Bu.siiiusA Institute of the air. H:00, Miuio of The Mantors. 8.16. The Or tuna our fathers knew: "Customs and Habits of the Oregon Pioiipr." Dr. J. B. Horner. 8:30-9:00, Oical comiKwcrs and their works: "Mmdclsanhn," Byron Arnold, sulunlitv, IVltriiury 13 1:00-2:00 a. m.. Tin Oregon Utg- 7:00 a m Goo;l morning medita tions, U-d by Mrs. Ralph Parker. 7:15. St twining tho headlines. 8,00. Potpourri. 0:00, Hytli melodies. 10:00. Morning matinee. 12:00 (Noon), Furm hour. 12:10, In tho day's news. 12:36, Market mtorls, crous and wouthw forecast. 1 00 p. m., Around the campus. 2:00-3:00. Vaudeville. 6:66 p. m . Market reports ecund broadcast of wheat and livestock. 0;00, Dinner music. 6:30. Farm hour. 0:33. In the day's news. 6:50, Weather forecast. 6:50. Market reviews wheat, wool. Portland livestock. 7:00. Itands-Strltmater orchestra 7:15. Your farm reporter at Wash ington. Residence looaj Country women's lui) a Mrs. Bert Grout, of Orange Hall, win do ine nostess to the Country- women's club Friday afternoon at her home. , Concludes VMt 1 j Mre- Bessie Oliver, who has been . spending several days at the home of t'eumm.rv. i. h.. k Madeline has '" P1 he heart set on this line of' WOrfe for a Intlfr tln-10 nnrt urn hollaoa she will make a good nurse. finite III Genevieve and Glenn Tvmwf. rhll dren of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lone, of Cricket flat, were reported to be quite HI of the flu last week. o Have Aid Mrs. L. J. Chadwlck and Mrs. Charles Hancock entertained the Lad lea Aid of the Cove Methodist cnurcn at a silver tea Wednesaay at WIB "we vi aisa. vnaawiCK. mere were aoout 30. women present and af- ter a splendid afternoon """"v luncheon was served 0 flan Illrtlidar Sunday, Mrs. Albert Stein, residing near Island City had a birthday and lt was very happily celebrated. Not that there was any big party, or any guests present, but because Elolse, the elder daughter in the Stein household prepared the dinner, and on Saturday the had also baked a lovely angel birthday cake. Elolse Is Here Is an excerpt from a letter yearH of age' wnile lne helfers clv Deen sam 01 tne mDtner antl or many a pupil at the Island City school, and from oao of our friends up Dry creek li flt two showed a slightly less P? the neighbors. Hence In the tran we do not wonder that her mother way, a section we ordinarily see quite living percentage than the three JJit ,. unmet. 0 To The lake Mrs. Haskell Bloom, of Cove, was taken to Hot Lake Friday afternoon for treatment. We have not been informed as to the cause of her trouble. o Hnve (Jreat Trip . Tho grade school children of Cnve mado a trip to Imbler Wednesday af- fccrnoon. There was a basketball .game on, and of course that meant an ex- citing time. But the game did not provide all the excitement. There were 15 children taken over in three cars. That day it snowed. And It blowcd. The trip over was by the Today The Hill Billy Says liirerWajr Complex 787 ycare B. c. a voice from the ' hills of Tckoa In Israel reminded the peoplo of the condition they were in and what would bo the consequences. Amos the speaker was a sbcepherdcr. ' A-D- the voice of the hills agala In strong- j cr terms. Jesus the Son of Man was a poor carpenter's boy. Read His ser- I mon on tho mount. j This year 1032 the voice of the, hills Is still heard. The message Is the same. No improvement on Its de- ' livery. But conditions have come aoout that nearly all understand. H, n'ui,:-' , uunarea, minions only a fow score "u Y,T lUlU wX-fo pcop e really desire war." Rcad his artlClo 111 Jnnllnl-v Cratmnnnlrnn ' ' ...... mm snecp, moose and caribou oc- Inuccont men, women and children Cuplcd largo areas in the wist and arc wantonly murdered In Manchuria, north. Over most of this same area, aix thousands ot "our boys" are "over mountain Hons or cougars, lynx, bob there." Bcmembor what "over there" cats, and wolves wero found, while on meant In 1017 and 18? lots of bor- the western plains coyotes were num rowed money Is piling up In. Wash- crous. All these predators followed Ington. You Know what Napoleon tho game herds and tho surplus fur wild about war and money. Looks nlshcd food for great numbers. At bad. Heavy thunder roaring In the tho name time, the primitive Indian high mountaliu. But the voice of tribes existed much as the predatory. the hills is heard above the roar and over mo valley it rolls on. Wo fully understand that our pet theory, superiority Is our disease. It has turned Into an Inferiority com plex. Wo are afraid. Our reliance up on others to do our sharo has broken uown our own initiative. Wo are obsccssed. Helpless. Prcccdonts that made us dodge tho Issues am no more available. Our superiority, pold and possessions that defied tho fair bartering of reelprc- Pinion uuyuiK and selling comniocii ties and the labor of others at enor- moun profits does not any more satis fy our craving for life happiness. For It haa nlunl u. into 1 mrhl heap of Inextricable debta. Profits unearned, but held by a few bflton nalrcs hold the sway over a billion " , , " f,L '"e settlers on the Atlantic seaboard and Utah, of absolute pauperism. M wlUementB pilflned w-eStward thls Our anxiety to win over other lm- Wftrfaro followed the gradual west paired our mind so wo furiously wnrd m0Vement to such an extent plunge ahead faster and faster Into tnat tho cougar and wolf are now a reckless uncontrollable velocity. We greatly reduced In numbers and exist Invent machines ahead of our knowl- only In small numbers In the far edge to run them. With them we west. destroy life and property which is J Not to the coyote, he of smaller appalling. One single life of the size and abundant resourcefulness, eight killed In that aeroplane the In days of yore, the coyote was prob- otlier day can never be restored by ably a scavejiger compared to tho all the aeroplanes evcr made. Three wolf and followed his larger relative, quarters of our energies are spent for cleaning up kills left by wolves and destruction war and murder. And cougars, with occasional birds and we fully know all these things. smaller mammals snapped up be- Wo are wrong. We know it. The voice from the hills gives a remedy, Wo undemtaud It today. Are we go ing to proceed on to our inevitable destruction, or are wo nolna to annlv the easy and glorious remedy? The voice from the hill says: Hu manity must go on. Man as a race lv lot vtt. Hrtnmnrl Hut mnn'i (Hon nf iiutririi.v ..r if th piuf Will nnt ram frnm hi. In.rHliUnn. belng of his Idea that Is doomed but mtiat mil", iilmnnlf Turt niAthrwl IViam l. On. 1. Ckxr, nature wny. Man must live "under his own fig treo" and pick his own fruit, niust quit living off others. Barn all he taken. Cllve all he get, for giving la the only earning he has. Olve first-take no moro than what la given. That is 'equality. Neither superior nor inferior. the stomachs of summer-killed coy That In the Oolrten Ptile. Life, peace otes. Oroue. quail, phewwnte and Lower Cove market road, but driving wa o hard, the return trip was made by the way of Union. $ut there were drifts between Union and Cove, also, we are told. One car got through by eight o'clock In the evening, but the other cars were snowbound and had to be extricated by a crew of men from town. i inland Aid- Tho regular meeting of the Island city Aid Is to be held tomorrow. Thursday afternoon at two o'clock at the home of Mrs. Garrett piokland. 0 pumd ' Af,ent. - A'"- went to Portland Saturday, accompanying a shipment of livestock h W Ktart Meetlngs- v- August Hunderup. of Port- land. began a series of evangelist ujs at the Cove Baptist church1 meetings i Sunday venlng. Hev. Hunderup. it;folks rr 7Z mate" "astocul on"th oThemwh leb hrZ.r'1''eP!'' 'm drirtln an1 at aboui tour develop, strorchaxacten ooyl anS sonallty and his meetings promise o'clock, they started for their homes .girls . ' - muc& success. 9 :To Hospital . j Mrs. W. (I. Miller, of Cricket Flat, (wao taken very ill, last week, and was rushed to .the Grande. Ronde hospital for ihedlcal attention. ; o u Ktelit At It We were far from lurnriwd thf week when we read in some "Amity" i wirws in ,ne xncftiinnviiie paper tnac !an American Art Annrprlntinn rlnh i had been organized at Amitv unrt Mm ' !E. P. Mossman had been made tho instructor. So we see Mrs. Mossman la keeping up the good wori and people In the Willamette valley are to share her talent along this line; now as people of the Grande Ronde valley have In the past. I o L'n lirr Creek Wov otten, nut which our common sense 'has told us to stay out of. of late. "You people around La Grande don't even know what winter Is. Wish you could see the drifts and the snow we have on the level out here. Many places you go right over the fences on sklls and four-foot stumps are completely covered. The last nig "blow" of Wednesday and Thursday. I filled nearly all the roads, making It; almost impossible to get through with j aiui sieas. xnursaay, jonesr wooden, our mall carrier did not even Set 10 Summervllle from his home. Both horses wero down and ne had quite a little difficulty get- unB tnem out. There were only six PUP" Dry Creek school that day out of the possible 24. This Is ready going to be one of the winters we will tell our grand-children about. I do not think the ground hog saw his shadow out here. He would have had a hard time digging out to the out Bido world, whero the sun waafshln ing." .. (lad Flu Mrs. Johnnie Henner, a student of the E. O. K has been ill of the flu and spent somo time at her home In Haines. . TREMENDOUS INROADS MADE BY COYOTES OBJECT OF By Stanley .lewett (Blojoglcal Survey) When white men first set foot In tho New World, countless numbers -' - - b anged-ovet of largo game animals such the land from the Atlantic to the Paclflc: antelopo ranged the prairies froin Saskatchewan t? Mexico; moun- ... v. animals, killing only such game as. was necessary for food and clothing. with tho settlement of the con tinent by Europeans using firearms, clearing the forests and plowing the plains, ever pushing westward until ' now reaching the Pacific shores, nearly all this onco primitive condl-: tlon Is changed, somo species of game ftro ,learly extinct over wide areas, J wh" those remaining are pushed evcr uackwnrd to the wilder areas, j wlllcn- fortunately, are now nearly all j embraced within our national forests ' capltol dome in Washington, D. C. and national parks. With the gradual Owing to tho depredations on llve dlsappearance of these larger game stock and poultry over the western animals, the wolf and the couear. 1 states, stockmen demanded federal """""' w UnRblc 10 flatlsfy thelr as In former times, naturally turned to the j farmcrs' livestock and caused such t losses than relentless warfare was I tween times. With the disappearance I of the larger predators, the coyote t became tho arch criminal of the ! mountains and plains. Possessing an ftppctite as varied as his habitat, tax- lng game birds and small animals, yet being strong enough to constitute, a serious nxenace to large game and livestock, many sheep, hogs, calves. rcr antelope fall a prey annual ''. t H hOUC Of these are aVall- blf thp covol!e eats KraPes- !""kM' J'f toads, frogs. Ush. and even carrion, apparently with equal relish. As proof of his Insatiable aDoe- tlie for game, during examinations J hoof8 and otner u Q f T and atlDneii .n. rt fo,,nrf in Called to Jury I Leonard Parsons, Harry UeKab and i Johna than Green, of Cricket Flat, were called to 'La Grande last week to do duty on the Jury. I Attend Conference The two granges of Union county, north of Elgin, were very well repre- sented at the lecturers schools held last week In La Grande, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Waelty, Mr. and Mrs. John Oekeler, Miss Lois Witherspoon. Mrs. many friends. This Is his letter: mingled with James Moss whose mo Mary Waelty, John and Arnold Wael-i "Word has come of the passing of lives- wCTc as pure as Ihe lily; and ty. J. E. Witherspoon and Walter Gek- James, Moss, my schoolmate of the I whose- memory Is as fragrant as the eler going trom Cricket Flat grange' and Mrs. Dave Townsend, Miss Ina Scott and Bill Townsend going from. the Rockwall grange. . o Entertain at Qulltln? Last Wednesday, Mrs. Etta Welch, of Imbler, entertained a few friends at a quilting. Those present, who en - Joyed, the day quilting and visiting, nere Mrs Anna Part Mm Mnn 'w,,,, ,7. o .v7 T v sancern. Mr.and Mrs. E. B. Long, Art wv, wm v. Alter quite a long while of shovelling (Continued on Page Eight) Give Results of Winter Feeding !At Exp. Station f By II. A. Llndgren The Union experiment station at Union, Ore., conducted an experiment !n determining the effect of breed- ng neers caive at two years of .oge' comPar;d with other heifers calv- ? 03 tnree's- The test brought out the fact that at the end of four years the heifers .colving as two's showed a 36 greater return than' those calving at three "",' more than made UP ,n the Ufe of tne heifer btttuss the etra calves secured b? thc two vcar oltls, Tbe mature w!'8ht of the heifers calving as two's waa about 75 pounds less than those .ca'v - ng at three years old. In this same test the lots were win- tertd with light and heavy feeding, Here again as In the case of the steers, the light winter feeding show- ed the greatest profit. The light rat- - ons consisted or straw witn a small xetd ol airalfa. The steer feeding test which was completed several years ago clearly demonstrated the fact that growing Sirers can be wintered satisfactorily on straw they will eat supplemented with a aally feed of one pound of cotton seed cake, When this test was run the feed cots were higher than at present. At tliat time It was shown that with bar ley at $30 a ton the cost of. a pound of digestible nutrients was 1.0 cents; with alfalfa at $a a ton each pound of digestible nutrients cost 0.8; with good pasture at 80 cents a month the cost of a pound of digestible nutri ent Is 0.3 of a cent. For economy of production naturally advantage of tho grass season needs to be considered. AMONG SHEEP MUCH PLANNING monly found, while the stomach of ' one old female coyoto killed In Har- 1 noy county contained the remains of 12 young sagehens taken at one meal. ' Abundant evidence Is at hand to show tho enormous toll taken by ' coyotes In the waterfowl nesting areas In Harney, Lake and Klamath counties where these cunning animals, systematically hunt the nests and eggs and young of ducks, gessc and othor waterfowl. The coyoto is without doubt tho most aggressive wild animal In Amer ica. Its range originally extended frcm Costa Rica In Central America to Southern Canada and from the plains region to the Pacific coast. During recent years, these animals havp extended their range north through Alaska to tho shores of the Arctic .ocean, at least near Point Barrow whero Charles Browcr, the local grader, recontly Becured a skin of one killed near his post. This iti not all. This adaptable beast has. strange as It may seem, established Itself m parts of New York state, In Tennessee, Georgia, and even In Florida where, farmers report rather serious losses among poultry and livestock. In fact, one was recently killed in. Maryland not far from the action against this common enemy. Thrcugh this, the present statc-coun- ty-federal co-operative campaigns ; organized ond supervised by the bio- l lmrlr-Ai sllrvnv nt thri II rlonartmont I of agriculture are being carried on actively in Oregon as well as the oth er western range states. In our own state, this war against predatory hnUnals is a co-operative project in which the state department of agri culture, tho extension service of state college, the U. a forest service, and tho state game commission all ao tlvely work with the biological sur vey to control the depredations to game, poultry and livestock. The Oregon Wool Growers' association and many local livestock and sports men's association and Individ it a Is have given valuable assistance In their respective localities. Since this organized effort was started in Oregon In May, 1915, there have passed through the offices of the biological survey the skins scalps of 63,628 coyotes. 6364 bobcats, . 135 cougars and 30 timber wolves. , Some game bag If all were placed to gether or. worse still, if all were ' brought back to life and turned loose : among our game and livestock. Progress has been made In decreas- j lng the number of predators with j noticeable Increase In game, and a j saving of livestock, but the )ob Is not done. Coyotes Increase rapidly, I people are negligent In taking action, j and wide areas still remain breed-' lng grounds that so far have had! no control work done, due to lack of sufficient funds. Let's all pull to- j gether to keep down the super-anl-1 mitl fttnnne nnlmnl't. th mrntx nrrh. A TRIBUTE TO John B. Homer, who Is a recoe I nlaed authority all over the state on the question of pioneer history, ' sends the following communication In regard to some of the nromlnent pioneer men of this valley, which was his old home, and where he has not only numerous relatives but also sixties. We attended the Russell school, located near the site of Moss Chapel. Our teachers were James and Andrew McCall, W. H. Parent. Judge Harrison. Levi J. Rouse. Harsha (White, J. R. Kellogg and John T. Outhouse, first public school teacher of Portland. ; -while my lot has since been cast in academies, .colleges and univer- .itiA. t ,.. -. ,. . . I ' J..T, . ! probably becauKjI have ., ' rV. P . . "The William Moss family were among the leaders of the community. Jemes was the oldest son; and long i before- the kodak was invented, a 1 scene was photographed on my mind ot j times ana uonn, ms orotner. ana their faafcer, with axes on their shoul- a ere ana inner pans in tneir nands, i treading their way toward the moun- j tain woods on . atvfday mornings, ' where the father and sons - work-pd ' and thought and talked more like brothers than relatives of two gen- PmfinnB ; -.The father and son ro r. genial, consequently they were en- joyable society for one another. In- deed It was easy for the sons to bei : companionable with such a father, ' who. as Dr. J. B. Hulsey. a practlc- lng physician of La Grande explained, always carried sunshine in his coun- tenance; and as much could have was natural for the sons and daugh ter to imitate their parents In dally life with the some precision that they imitated the Spenceiian copy book In school. "Such singing as we had In that school! If the sound waves in that : school house could have been talned In the wooden walls, and the walls and songs could now be repro- duccd. the public could better un- dorstand whv we. who were children then, have been humming those songs from that time till now. The mel- odles of those songs have lingered In our lives, while their sentiments helped to establish us In the funds-, mentals of character; and character Bave standing and credit, wher- ; ever " wont' Particularly Is this tlue ot " 05 James Moss. : whose promise was as safe and sure . " "'stu ""'" "Last summer James Moss pointed to one of his farms, which he could have sold at a good figure, but he hd said, "My wife Is my partner. She' helped earn the farm. She has good Judgment, so 1 left the matter to her." That partnership was similar j to those of the earlier pioneers of the neighborhood, among whom wero j William Moss, Thomas Owsley, J. R. i Kcllog. James McCall, C. A. Gilham, J. T. Hunter, George Ackles, and oth er notable men. IrcoMEll i piW you tire tnviied - MBp terest and educational entertainment than ever before. Morn "Initios" ihan lui . . , ell and show what "Caterpillar" equipment is economically doing in your community and elsewhere. A real get-together-something doing every minute. Talks by factory men to help solve your particuiar problem and answer your questions. Meetings full of action, interest, enjoyment -for auyonft interested in power equipment. Meetings are free to all . . Plan now to foe on hand . . You ean't afford to miss a minnte of these sessions. Don't forget the dates. February 17 and 18 In Our Salesroom Buiatlng r A nEA THE. PIONEERS - i "There were so many men of noble f and able tvra in the community that j they cannot all be mentioned; but, I of one thin? all may be assured There are scores of grandparents and great-grandparents now living who I refer with gratification to the days at Russell school where we met and I Jose. "JOHN B. HORNER." -r -FEAKElHt'ROWNS MARK - E.WtLV .SPRING HATS PARIS oP Hats with crowns as peaked as Baby Bunting's hood are a new note in early spring chapeaux. They are knitted of silk and wool, designed -with a scant brim which turns down in front and up in the back and a crown which rises to a sharp peak. A little ribbon cocardc Is the only trimming. WALLOWA VALLEY STAGES Leave for Wallowa, Enterprise, Wallowa Lake from UNION PA CIFW ST A GE DEPOT 9:45 A.M. 4:00 P.M. Reduced Fares Heated Busses Careful Drivers Express Carefully Handled ' 11 j gft lj k : ; j ON THIS ONE THING THE ; DOCTORS ALL AGREE DOCTORS all agree that most illness comes when the victim allows himself to sink into a run-down condition. The best health insurance, therefore, is a sWorig, vigorous constitution. Keep up your resistance against disease by eating plenty of fresh dairy pro ducts, especially butter. And when you buy BLUE MOUNTAIN BUTTER you know you're getting the best. ; ? Blue Mountain Creamery 1109 Washington Phone Main 60 I' 2 caterpillar33 days are hro again new unn oeiier movies 1426 Jefferson Ave. Grande, Oregon 11 MEETING Ji Wheels And Runners George Allison, who came troax Los Angeles last fall to carry tho mall on the Haines route (and who Is Jokingly accused of never having seen snow before) may bo a green, horn as to Biue mountain wintfli4 but is adept at adapting himself to new conditions. Recently when he found part of his route covered in deep Bnow and part of It over the bare Old Oregon trail, he improvised a vehicle on which he could either put wheels or runners. He used tho latter until he struck the highway, then changed to wheels on the front and came rolling Into town. Now. with some of the roads packed down and traveled, he uses his auto part way, and from Coles on he uses a sled and horsss with the wheels still available If it becomes necessary to use three sorts cf conveyances. North Powder News. 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