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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1913)
100 acres of fine nnge brush land, deep rich sandy soil, first class water riht. I miles from Jntario. Price $50. per acre. Terms ffiven with low rate of interest or would trade for Block or other property. Must be lispoed of soon, as I am engaged in other business. Postoffice Box 94 Ontario, Oregon ii " ggEM A. McWILLIAMS, Proprietor. I SAVING TIME kv TELEPHONE! Means Not Only Time But Money. Do .von i'vit consider how long it tuk'H to trawl tin- distance from your liouw to tin Doctor und iTrliarit nnl u hat time you save hy telephoning? If your time is worth atiythitiK. you cannot allot I to lie without a TclephoM, Malheur Home TelephoneCo. A Complete Line of I Vetoing Statummj At the Argus Office FREE A special prize will be given on Thurs day of each week to the candidate mak ing the largest gain in votes that week. Judges: II. B COCKRUM W. V. HUMAN ROBERT ODELL ONTARIO LAUNDRY Leave Bundles at Any Hotel or Barber Shop Prompt Attention Given All Orders. ONTARIO LIVERY Best Equipped Livery in the city. Headquarters for Stockmen. Horsea Bought and Sold. AUTOMOBILE BRIEF NEWS OF 0RE60N The recent election held at Molalla, to decide whether the town should be come a municipality, resulted la a four to one vote In favor of Incorporation. At Bonanza two big business build Inns were destroyed by fire. They were occupied by a general merchan dise store, confectionery, drug store and barber shop. The Florence council Is obtaining estimates of the cost of water main, with a view to Installing a 10 or IS Inch main through the business sec tion of town for fire protection. Reports from Baker say that on September 1st the Oregon Mill A Grain company and the Rock Creek company, operating the two largest flour mills lu Baker county, will be consolidated, gree being sustained. Dr. M B. Marcellus, health officer of I'ortland, has written to the state railroad commission, asking that the express companies be compelled to adopt a more hygienic system of ship ping meats. I. H. Van Winkle haH been elected dean of the law department of Willam ette university, at Halem, succeeding Charles McNary, appointed as a su preme court Justice. The new dean wan for eight yearn assistant attorney general of Oregon. Redondo B Sutton of Portland, has been commissioned a second lieuten ant of coast artillery at Fort Monroe, Va. Sutton Is a West I'olnt graduate, and a brother of the yoting marine of fleer who met an untimely death at Annapolis three years ago. Corporation license fees remaining unpaid In the state became delinquent August Id, and Commissioner Watson Is lurklng over the list with a view to enforcing collection. Suits against the delinquent companies will also Include a $100 penalty In each case. Twenty elKht sections of timber Innd In the district lying southeast of .! w ell. In Clatsop count), contain '.4H,37!, nun feet of timber, according to the cruise n-tiiriiH flleil with the MMKj MMM at Astoria The banner sec tion of the district contains MJ9MM fret Criuiipi d while swIiiiiiiIiik. Miss l.n virne Wlll'tl. IS years old. was re cently drowned In the Willamette riv er near Huston. .She was in -coiiipnii led In the water by her brother. 12 years old, whom she selxed ami almost drowned In her frantic efforts to es cape li.irn filled with hay and grain was fired and destroyed by u bolt of light nltiK at Carson station, on the t'nlted rtallway. 'J7 utiles out of Portland. ,n one of llle wnisl (let trie storms ever known In that neighborhood. It was owned by Henry C. Carson, whose loss is him An automobile owned and driven by V. W. Kent of Drain upset on the stage road .'l! miles west of Itosehurtt. ami Mrs Mary llolyfleld, mother of Mrs Kent, was Instantly killed Mrs Kent sustained two fractures of Un arm, but'he- husband and three smull children escaped unhurt. t'nless Governor West commutes his sentence to life Imprisonment. I. em Woon. a Chinese, convicted III Port laud In ISM, of killing l.e Tal Hoy. mill be hanged A inundate of the su preme court of the t'nlted States was received bv (he clerk of the state su MM... x . Mf2!HIHHH H 4&MMMw " -- ' :dMMMN-i--! S m j n "BHMMMMa- Mft Bargain Day tin liafgaiu hay. vuioli iii Saturday of taoh purchase niailr, thin making uo votf- for krooda. Ml gtkkda bearing l I to the preme court, the verdict of the Ore gon courts of murder In the first de- M. A. Mayer, Owner of the Mayer dale fruit farm, has shipped the first carload of prunes this season from Mosler He has sold his entire crop, estimated at 6000 crates, to a New York firm. The Mosler prune crop Is not so large as that of last year, but Is of better quality, and Is command ing prices very satisfactory to the growers. Identified as "Tallow Rill" or J. B. Allison, one of the beat known yegg men and ho dup artlsta on the crime calendar, the body of Joe Barron, the man who was shot In the holdup of the Soo-Spokane train at Portland, and who die. I the following day without making known his Identity, will be held at the morgue until further de tails are received of his complete rec ord. Announcement has been made at Marshfleld that the Southern Pacific railroad company Is arranging to de velop the coal fields of Coos countv. Oregon towns now using coal from Washington, Wyoming and Utah mines can be supplied. It Is said, with Coos county coal at a large saving In freight expense. The Southern Pad - flc owns tue Beaver Hill mine, the largest producer In the Coos Baly fl I ' where It Is linking a shaft. Frank O Hwaggart and Sam McGee, two campers In Wallowa county, were treed by a bear In the north woods near Enterprise. They fired at the animal, hut It paid no attention to their bullets, and charged straight for them. Kacl sought a friendly tree ant remained In Its branches during a drenching rain, while bruin stoo-' guard bemath. Tiring of Its vigil, the bear finally ambled off Into th woods and the campers escaped, rnc Ing back to camp with such speed thf they 'listed a five rail feme. It li said Next Jay they returned for theli hat. Qot Evsn With the Lawyer. Many years ago there lived in ('urn den. Me, two uclk'hlior. Dff Huse Ml .Indire Thayer I he dm tor hud MM sloii to sue a in. in mid of ionise em I'IommI his neighbor, the Juilire. as hi counsel After a session of court he met the JiiiIlt and iiskcil about hi i ne The JihIkc said It was continued Meetlnu li In i iigiilu alter another se -ion mid .-i-Kinu iikiiIii nlioiit his case Hie km me iin-wer whs then ' A, it co-t or :i MMfe ti it was j box of Fayette apples last year wattaMi, the doctor thought by the e,rwl, n the Santa Rosa orch llnie It wns settled, after paying the ! . . , , , . , , .... .. indue, he wnuid g nothing. ar,i ft)r which he paid 10. lie Home time afterward the Judge was I gBVS that he always bought four mill, ted with a felon mid. of course. , . li, i .i employed i ighboY. the doctor Aft watermelons every fall for which er suffering h wiuie he met the doctor . be paid f I each. mid said "I'll. tor. tin- thing I- thing Is get- I liuu ii lout vei -low is I have wall. ed the MM iilghls for a week. What are you doing to It 7" The doctor, who stammered, loud ly replied, "Co-co continuing It, by Oeorgi!" The thin on Soiled Milk. What causes the formation of the 4k I ii on (he surface of Polled milk and of hot cim oa that Is iii.nl.- with boiled uillk'.' Ir. Pen her of l....iin. France. .11) that It Is the result of the dlslu tegriilliiu of the lime MMMMI In "e milk llent separates the lime and the casern. tnl the Mine coiublues with carbonic n Id from Hie air to form a thin 11 : 1 11 of carbonate of lime This lllili -ii'ioii- Hie undissol cd cast-in III the milk as well as some coagulated .illulllic 11 .Hid fut. weak, votof will bo doubled "ii all l 00 1 i'nt for i cortain lin dollar will bt i I in atoek. FRUITLAND HEMS The Fruitland Drug company traded their stock of goods to O. C. Starr for land at Bliss, Idaho C. K. Huntington and Miss Marie returned Tuesday from a visit with friends in Portland. They have given possession of their home, which they sold re cently and are now staying at the Moore hotel in Ontario. The Queen Esther Circle met Wednesday afternoon in the ! Kpworth hall. The state examinations will be held in the school house Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. This in another ..... opportunity for those who Wish j to take the 8th grade examina tions again. O. C. Stout was able to com mence work in Johnson's store again Monday. He has had quite a siege with blood poison caused by poison ivy. Mr. and Mrs. John Heeler and family and Miss Maggie Heakley were guests at the Frank Eldridge home Sunday. Mrs. Fred Griep and children Bald and Klmer, left Thursday for a visit with Mrs. CJriep'sson, Victor, who lives at Forest i rove, Oregon. T. T. n and wife, of Fair banks, Alaska, are visiting with ('lias. Stevens and family. Mr. Stevens and Mr. Davis had been sihnol chums, but had been separated lor nearlv Iweuty-live vi-iira. Mr. I'.ivi- i 1 1 1 li.i-' 'I a D. liealiliiii ami family were guests at the Smith Bros, home Sunday. A farewell surprise was given Miss Kthelyu Weir Wednesday afternoon in Stegner's hall. About thirty-four of her friends helped her enjoy the afternoon. Daintv refreshments were served EUv, 0. F. Deal left Monday for the Methodist conference, which will be held at I.adrande from Wednesday until over Sun day of tliih week. CONTEST Six Orange Spoons and 1 Pie Knife Wm. Rogers Make will be given Thurs day, September 4 GOOD FOR 100 VOTES Fur 13 Mr. Manser returned Friday from a business trip to Midvale. Mrs. Sadie Shank and daugh ter, Mary, who spent several weeks in Boise, returned to Fruitland last week. Messrs. E. E. Hunter and M. R. Powell left Thursdsy for a a trip to Nahcotta Beach. George Ewing, of Lelha, Ida., visited friends in this vicinity Sunday. Miss Nellie Cook, of Nebraska, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. F. Carnenx. Mr. Edgecombe has accepted the position as manager of the Payette flour mill and will take charge next Monday. Prune packing will commence in full blast this week. Messrs. Ady and Moreland commenced work Monday, Fruitland Pack ing association Tuesday, Denny fc Co. Thursday, besides several individual packing houses. J. D. Hunstock traded his property here for land in Cam bridge, Idaho. He will give possession "bout September lf. Rev. E. A. Berry and two sons from Meadows, arrived Satur day for a visit at the 11. B. Kiu nison home. I rain bervlce. West bound. No. 1? Oregon Wash Ltd I til a m No. 75 Huntington Pass 9.40 a m Mo. 0 Fast Mall 0:15 p m No 77 Huutington Pasa 0:33 p m No. 5 Oregoo Wash Kx press 0 :50 p m East hound No. 18 Oregon Wash Ltd 2:51 am No. 70 Boise passenger 8:50 a in No. 0 Fast Mall 1 1 ill a m No. 78 Boise passenger .'1:50 1 m No. 10 Oregon Wash Kx press 4 :40 p m Vale train leaves at 0:40 a. m ra mming at 3 -.HO p. in Notice Healed proposals will be received by the City Recorder of the City of Ontario, Oregon, uu to toe hour of 8 o'clock 1 ie . n tbe 'JHtb dy of August. I'.'Ki, for tbe coiislriirln.il of about 0000 feet M sewur lu sail City aeei nlnik' to the plana and specifica tions tbsrefor on file altb said City Kaonrder All proposals must be filled, marked "Proposals for Sewer Construction.' aud addressed to Harry B Urauel. City Recorder. On tario, Oregon. Tbe bids will I opened by tbe Council at tbe above named hour aud the contract awarded. The Council reserves tbe right to reject auy and all bids. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check for 5 per cent of such bid. By order of tbe City Council. t Harry it (irauel. City Recorder. Mi