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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1914)
FROM THE TAXPAY- ME GRANGER'S CORN OUR CANDIDATE EOR THE STATE SENATE An Experienced and Suc cessful Man. HAS BEEN SPEAKER OF HOUSE Jewelry Home Visitors' ER8 STANDPOINT I Should he purchased from your home jew eler who stands ready at all times to make it jrood. We have the late pat terns and standard makes to select from. Excursions What the Nyssa Journal is Talking About. Some Things You Should Observe. A SENSIBLE WAY TO VIEW IT SHOW CORN SHOULD BE SEED ssg-ss-ssssi EAST Via Union Pacific System Very low round trip fares from Ore gon Short Line points to Denver, Kan sas City, St. Louis. Minneapolis, Chi cago, St. Paul and many other points. Tickets on Sale: October 24, Nov. 21, 23, December 19 and 22. Limit three months from date of sale See any Oregon Short Line agent for rates and further particulars. 0 ?, rgJn"Tw- "- I I W( IMUlll C I I U .'. '' AdCi ''' w w w w P w w W w mr W1 I Wm. McBratney I FUNERAL DIRECTOR And LICENSED EMBALMER " Pnlla AikuitiJ Prnmntlv Hav nr Vim-tit w Calls Answered Promptly Day or Night s O Day and Nlqhi 'Pnones ONTARIO, It ej F w "af ij 9 -9 7F J. H. FARLEY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND ENBALMER LADY ASSISTANT Personal Attention Given To All, Ft nek a us Promptly Day Or Night Phone 64w THE RIGHT DRUG STORE '& the store that always tries to give you just the things you call for and does not try to substitute something else instead. F you ask for a specific article and your druggist tries to persuade you that they have something else just as good, thus substituting before your yery eyes, what would you think that druggist would do with your prescription when ne is be hind the prescription case and you can't see him? We always try to supply just the things called for and if we do not have it we will get it. We re gard substitution as stealing. What do you think? Buy your drugs from us and get what you ask HILL'S PHARMACY for. COLE YOUNGER Hors Shoeing and Plow Work my Specialties. All work Guar anteed. Moderate Prices. C3in licensed In Idaho & Oregon OREGON g O w w wF Tt 9 P w Calls Answered Ontario, Oregon IKIfffv From the Nyssa Journnl. Looking at the eourthous question from the taxpayers standpoint It would appear that Vale'i Idea of the cost of such structure Is very extravagent. In fact they claim It could not possibly be done for less than 1200,000. Ontario has shown they can erect a beautiful, commodious, modern structure for $25,000 and the money Is in the bank to do It with. No expense to the tax payers at all. Is it not reasonable to presume, that if the taxpayers vote to leave the county seat a Vale, the clever politicians of that community will see to it, the taxpayers of Mal heur county are put to the expense of building a court house costing 9200, 000. 8uch a move if properly engi neered would be a stroke of genius, absolutely precluding the possibility of ever moving the county seat away now being made by Vale to the voters of Malheur county is one for sym pathy. They claim they are being de bauched and ruined. If Vale is per mitted to retain the county teat and carry out their Ideas of what a new court house should cost, the taxpay ers, (with a $200,000 burden saddled upon them) would then be nsklng for sympathy. In this controversy the tax payers of Nyssa are vitally Interested. It is a matter of dollars and cents In moro ways than one. The county must soon have a new court house and either the taxpayers must expect to erect an expensive one at Vale, or must decide at the polls November third to accept the gift offered them by the citizens of Ontario. A two hund red thousand dollar burden or a $2r.,00ii present. Ontnrlo will be a moro convenient location to ?. per cent of the county's population. Shall the ... per cent scattered about the wide thinly populated stretches, the other side of Vale dlscomode the densly settled, rich agricultural Nyssa, Owy hee and Dig Mend districts? Do the Nyssa farmers und citizens prefer to pay extra car fare, extra telephone costs, extra hotel bills, Just to give Vale a chance to have the county build a court bouse that cannot be moved? We believe not FORTUNES IN POTATOES, GROWING DESIRABLE SEED Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallls, Or. Oct. 10 A heavy demand for disease-free potatoes of standard vurlely and desirable type, and not a Mimic source of supply In the entire l' lilted States, is the situation that confronts the potato grower. In some part. of the ecuntry, however, auch seed can bo rown, while in other parts, including some of the heaviest producing M-ulons of the entire country, it hi impossible to grow seed of this l.in.l, and it must be imported from those parts where it can be grotvi., ir else the industry will have to be abandonee. Aitcng the places in which hetd ot DM ncMrcd quality can be grown, Oregon is one of the best and most cuuw-uieut to market. Herein lies the opportunity of the Oregon potato grower. Seed of such variety as liurbank, or other stand ard variety, that Is produced in this state free from Insect and disease pests, may, if properly inspected and passed, bring a price considerably above the market price of potatoes for food purposes. California growers have a standing offer of a bonus on such inspected potatoes, and they would rather get the potatoes In Ore gon than un where else, because of convenient r und a nearer approach to their climatic conditions. "Let growers who have land upon which potatoes have not been grown prepare and plant It to as good seed us can be had, after being thoroughly treated with formalin, and crop of potatoes that should meet the demand will probably be produced," says Prof. Jackson, of the Plant Pathology department of the Agricultural College "Hy practicing crop rotation using those crops that are non hosts to the potato disease f ung. and by continually sele ting seed in the ri. hi- and treat ing It with the standard fungicides, the crops should be kept free from Infec tion and up to the standard of the varieties grown The Agricultural Col lege alll be glad to cooperate with growers." Save your seed that will get a yield and get it ripe. Show com should he seed corn. 8elect 10 ears of a type and size of ear and kernel that you aro willing to work with nnd depend upon as a crop for the next 20 years. That means unusual care. The Judge at a corn show will en deavor to award first prize to the ex hibit that will give the largest yield of good mature corn per airs with the best kept record of how It was grown. The stock breeder realizes the Im portance of selecting animals that show strong breed characteristics. It is just as Important to have a good type and breed characteristics In corn as in live stock. Mongrel corn generally means some ears so large that thev never mature and therefore, hare low feeding value. Some ears so weak that they give no yield. Barren sta'ks and "nubbin" stalks will be common Scarcely no two ears are alike. Some will ripen In 76 days and glvo low yield. Others will require 110 days and never get ripe. The type or vari ety of dent corn best suited for most of the Irrigated land In the Snake River Valley and other districts that have similar soil, altitude and climatic conditions should be an ear rang ing from 84 Inches to s 4 Inches In length and a well proportioned ilia neter. A district that will not safely ripen n dent corn H Inches In length should irow the flint varieties. The flint varieties mature In a shorter season than do the dent varieties. There are extremely fow districts where it Is safe to nttempt to grow a large 10 Inch ear. Too many ears will be soft. It Is liable to spoil lu the crib and, in any event, It will have poor feeding or market value. The shape of the ear should be cylindrical, tapering moderately, short, bunchy ears should be avoided as as should also the weak slender ear. The kernels should be uniform In width, thickness and In depth The kernel that Is too blocky will likely be disappointing when It Is 1 1 -I I.-1 The thin kernel Is generally irregular anil lacks strength. The very deep kernel Is liable to not ripen. The ear that tapers all the way from butt to lop will necessarily show kernels that taper In width and depth from butt to top. Look out fo-r "runnliu out" tendencies. The first Indication Is slick, short flinty kernels on sharp pointed ears. Dent corn has a natural tendency to revert to the flint type. Wide furrows between the rows of kernels Is also an Indication of "runn ing out." A well filled out butt and tip Is desirable. The tip kernels will be shelled off anyway for planting. Oo not dry the ears to fast. lie sure to hang the seed ears where there Is good air circulation. (Signed) ORANOE COMMITTEE. THE GERMANS HAVE THEIR IDEAS OE HONE PROTECTION At a meeting of English manufactur ers In London recently the following "tuu commandments" w .-.- read by Sir George Pragnell, who said they bad ii en circulated In thousands through out Germany during the last three years: 1. in all expenses keep lu mind tin interests of your own compatriots. 2. Never forget that when you buy u foreign article your own country is the poorer. 3. Your money should profit no one but Germaiih. 4. Never profane German factories by using foreign machinery. .". Never allow foreign eatables to be served at your table. 6. Write on German paper with a German pen and use German blotting paper. 7. German flour, German fruit anil German beer can alone give your body the true German energy. 8. If you do not like German malt coffee, drink coffee from German col onies. 9. I'se German clothes for your dress and German hats for your head 10. Let not foreign flattery distract you from these precepts; and be firm ly convinced, whatever others say, that German products are the onh ones worthv or tsMlMM "f UM (Mf man Fatherland. Frank Davey, of Harney county, Republican nominee for Joint Repre sentative in this district, has a legis lative record of fidelity to the common people of which be Is proud ami re fers to the Journals of the house of 1903 and 1907 to substantiate It. He was the first man to battle for the right of the people to name the U. 8. Senators and went down to de feat, to the last ballot, for the people's choice in 1903; he has been a consist ent supporter of all popular legisla tion since; he was the first man to for mulate the plan for reducing the size of the legislative calendar, which has saved the state thousands of dollars; he introduced the first bill to place the state printer on a flat salary In 1907, and though It was then defeated It has been since enacted; he made In 1903 the flrBt successful fight against the unjust salary grab of legislative clerks which was usual at previous sessions. at the session of 1913 he was chair man of three committees, made 110 reports besides his other duties and had no clerk; In 1907, as Speaker, he put a stop to the then strong effort for appropriations for Expositions, wH ' were sought by a lot of professional exposition promoters; he cleared tin floor of pernicious lobbyists and spoil ed their business; he fought every species of graft and everything smack ing of the Influence of grasping cor porations or political trickery . he was probably the first representative from the Willamette valley who SMiiputhl.ed with the needs and rights of Kastern Oregon and allied himself with Its members to procure what the u anted. These are hut a small list or things to his credit, but will serve as an Index of bis course lu the coming leglsfa-ture. THE HOLDUP OF BRIDGE THAT IS NEEDED AT HARPER To the Ktlitor of the Argus: The Vale Enterprise attempts to misinform Malheur c t taxiayers about the Harper llrldge episode, hut forgets to repeat the telephone talk of what the man at Vale Mild to the man at Harper when the rouuiy seat fight opened. They do not Inform the dear people how Sammy lol bis bead and gave Harper to understand that if the did tint stand In with Vale III the county seat fight, Vale might see that Harper did not get their bridge. The Enterprise does not un cover the fact that the counts eourl called for bids for the Harper llrldge three mouths ago, ami that tin OOHI ty Go llasloliers opened tin i.l.l 01 the loth ol September at the Mime time the county heal fight win. started, and that they expected to let the ion tract tor building the Harper hrhl i one or the rive bidders that wa lie i. at that meeting, it was then that tin man or Vale called Harper and bad a red-hot chewing mati h and made hi threat to stop the building of tin bridge The Enterprise does not inform the public how Sammy und his hunch then dug up a chad 1. 1 1. r law to Muff the county court iron building the Harper brlilm- this fall. They do not mention how Hiln MUM hunch persuaded one of their nut ol town stool-pigeons to get reach with an injunction to stop tin- count) court from building the Harper Bridge The result is that Harper nm.-i wait until next spring to get their bridge. This fall and winter Is tin- Ideal time for building the bridge while He river i low. The- Bridge Builders were wil ling to take count) warrant- and wait until spring for their mom , hut vln dlctlve Vale goes under cover und gets an outside stool-pigeon to tuki advantage of a technical!! ot law that has always been ignored to en, barrass the county court in using the credit of the countv In .'.milling a very much needed bridge, even though the building of the bridge this fall would save the taxpayers thou of dollars and be a great i on. . ne m c to Harper, not until next prlBf can the county court build the Harper bridge and no one is to Maine but Vale and there is not a member of tne county court living tPlllMt Ol Vale who will stand up and deny tlili. statement. How much longer will tin crowd "i wIM cat ollwc-il i.ooisc-i pose as defender! of tin- taxuayai II VICI'KIt TAXI' WKi: ' Official watch man for the rallriiads of this section. W. W. LETSON, ONTARIO. OREGON. G. L. GREGG Auctioneer My 30 years experience in this lino gives me full confidence in my ability to give you. lust class service. Dates can be arranged at this office or at Weiser. All I ask is one sale to prove my ability. Reference: ('has. Young. Fniitland, Idaho. Phone 91, WEISER, IDAHO. I.onis C. Kelvin Physician & Si hukon in-net.' witi ni prw-Mtr nvi-u TWJTrnnnr; ONTARIO, OREGON Dr. W. O. Howe TVPTOTTQT Telephone No. 732 First National lUnk lildg. DRS. PRINZIN6 & WEESE Ontario, Oregon Office infNcw Wilson Block. DR. D. BUKTT DKNTIST Office 2nd door east of Ontario I'har . macy on Nevada Avenue Near R R Depot Mcculloch, & wood I.AWYKRS Rooms 1-2 3 First Nat'l Hank Hldg. Ontario, Oregon OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS I'll II Mllll IT HKAHS Oil. I'AI UMC MhAIIN i isd us i en American Mchool ol Os teopathy. Kirksville, Mo. Wilson Itl.M k I. -I. phone. I.'. I Ills H. H. WHITNEY I'HVKKIAN aniliSlktiEON Office in I. Ok O. F. Hldg.. Ontakio, Okwjdn REX MARQUIS TOCK INIPKUTOR OV MAI.IIKlK TO I M Y DF.IM'TIKN Emery Cose. Brogaft. W. ll (Veil, Ontario Bert High, Vale. C C, Morton, Old's lerrv. N. O. White, Weber Hrnlge. .1 I. Holly, Itiumi-w Ah-- I'eiinv. .Ionian Valley. Joe BankorTer, Mcliermitt J Boy dell i Nyssa NY II MeWilliams .limtiira Win Kllie, llniH-i I. M. Seaward, Ontario Bridge C. MC60NA6ILL ATTORNEY AT LAW Will Practice in all Court Notarv Public. Office over Puetollne Transfer. Baggage and Express Meet All Trains john landjn;ham D. b. COLCOHU. M D. Office ill New Wilson Block