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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1914)
BRIEF NEWS DISPATCHES TELL HAPPENINGS ALL OVER JL I PS j RECEIVING miER 110?' "V1 ' ' Iff Ik A fer Opportunity Awaits You mi ' mj niA ' 'n i M.i MONEY TAKES WINGS! LOOK !HERES THE WAY TO STOP IT ! A MAM will start downtown with $50 in hit pocket. On hit wj he .will pass a bank. If he deposits $40 of his $50 he will be more sparing in his expenditures. Money will not TAKE WINGS! little enrrenoy and a FAT CHECK BOOK is a better combination than an elephantine WAD OF GREENBACKS and an ANAEMIC CHECK BOOK! The Ontario National Bank SAVING TIME ky TELEPHONE vwbtfj3x Means Not Only Time But Money. Do you ever consider how long it takes to travel the distance from your house to the Doctor and Merchant and what time you save by telephoning? If your time is worth anything, you cannot afford to be without a Telephone. Malheur Home Telephone Co. Best Job Work at The Argus Office '' r m VJ U M T " BSBBB .1 illtS- fB ft LI 1 1A JSx yWLLM UWW j RIGHT ON THE MINUTE No time wasted in wait- " ing for rigs from the Ontario Livery. Our service is promptness itself, and our horses and carriages are equal in appearance to the best private outfits. Vehic les clean, comfortable and easy going, and horses of the kind that get there. The Ontario Livery, G- JSSmm Ontario, ..... Qrifoi tttttttttttttttt:ttttttftiaattttttfttt Wm. McBratney FUNERAL DIRECTOR And LICENSED EMBALMER Calls Answered Promptly Day or Night Day and Night Tnones Liceised in Idaho & Oregon ONTARIO, OREGON oonoooooooooa:oooo0oaoooooo During the last ton months more than $250,000 has gone Into the con struction of business blocks and dwell ings In Astoria Plans are under way for a big cele bration at Molalla on February I in honor of the opening of the Willam ette Valley Southern Electric. Milwaukee will spend from $30,000 to $40,000 In the construction of a ran nlolpal water plnnt to supply null Hun water through meter from Portland. The new steel bridge over the Yam Mil river at Dayton has been formally accepted by the county officials and thrown open for the use of the public. More than 1,000,000 letters and post cards were delivered In Portland dur ing the past week, according to esti mates made by Postmaster F S. My ers. Mrs. Mary Doak, one of the oldest residents of Wasco county, who had passed the century mark, died at the home of her son, A. C. Dnak at Pleas ant Ridge. Plans for the new public building at Pendleton have been completed and bids will be asked for In February, ac cording lo Information furnished Con gressman Slnnott The annual meeting and election of officers of the Oregon and Washing ton division of the Trnvelers' Protect ive Association was held at the Mult nomah hotel In Portland. After January 1, Portland will have 61 fewer saloons, one loss liquor wholesaler, three fewer grills and five less grocery-liquor establishments than are In business In the city at present. County superintendents of Oregon have gathered at Halem to pass upon the papers written upon by applicants for teachers' certificates during the recent examination. All but five coun ties are represented. Rx-Judge Heneca Smith, pioneer Portland attorney, a former heavy property owner, and one of the most prominent residents of the state, died at his home after an Illness of several months. Me was 70 years of uk- Wh'sky Kun, an old mining camp a few miles above Uandon, has taken on new life during the past all months and several mining concerns have em ployed men, dredging and sluicing. The greatest values found now are In platinum. Provided W. H. Chapln. convicted In Multnomah county of latreny by bailee, can make restitution to Mr. and Mrs William Qrace, an aged couple whom he defrauded by larceuy, he will be given a pardon, according to .an an nounceme.nl made by Governor West State Architect W. C. Knighton as sorts that the regular charge for serv Ices on the state's building projects from March 22, 1911, to December 22, 1914, would have been $64,495.78 while the operating expenses of his office were $42,467.99. a saving of $22,229.79. An attempt la being made on Coos nay by Deputy Clamo Warden Thorn as, of North nend. to create a game reserve of all the area of Pony Inlet Inside the bay shore, and about all the mud flats In the upper bay, compris ing In all over five square miles of water. The Jury failed to reach an agree ment at Koseburg on the statutory charge against Hoy Karnutn Indicted In connection with the death of Fdna Morgan, whose body was found In the ruins of a barn which had been de stroyed by fire eight miles east of Qlendale, December 8. State Unnk Superintendent Sargent recommends In his annual report that the "loan shark" law he amended so as to allow a minimum charge or cost of $1 per loan. "The provisions of the present law practically prohibit the making of small, short time loans, which are really the most needed by deserving borrowers," says Sargent. In a letter to Senator Cli.'.mberlaln, the forest service disapproves the rec nmmendatlon of Superintendent Steel that 130.U00 acres of the National For est land be Included in Crater Lake Nntlonal Park The forest service contends that the land In question Is not suited for the national park and la chiefly valuable for national forest purposes. Labor Commissioner Moff's weekly report of accidents shows three per sons were killed, the fatalities occur ring at Halnler, where Isaac Cuppand Frank Story, loggers, and t'harles Hy ron Mammons, railroad employe, were victims. Fifteen of the 41 accidents reported occurred In activities con nected with the lumber and logging Industry. The total number of acci dents Is not as large as during the fall teason becauae many Industries are shut down now. In his annual report to Qovernor West. State Forester Klllott directs particular attention to the fact that the forest fire haxard of the future de pends chiefly upon how thoroughly the present-day operators dlapose of the slash resulting from logging, wood chopping and other woods work, and asserts that even today, with the log glug Industry of Oregon In Its Infancy, areas covered with uubumed or par tially burned slash are by far the greater source of dangsrous aud da:n- tvl"" ftrAs FIGHTING IS STORPED REPULSED BY U. S. J. H. FARLEY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND ENBALMER LADY ASSISTANT Personal Attention Given To All Funeral Promptly Day Oa Night Phone 6-1 w Calls Answered Ontario, Oregon Plot For Native Uprising On Christmas Eve Is Nipped In The Bud Washington. Details of native up risings In the Philippines, beginning Christmas eve. were given In a cable message received from Uovsrnor-Clan-ral Harrison. The report minimised the exteut of the trouble, but said that small bodies of Filipinos had assembled la Manila and NavoRs Christmas eve. and at tempted to make trouble. As a re sult 40 men were arrested and one man was shot by a policeman. Uovernor-Oeneral Harrison reported that the disorders had been suppress ed; that everything was quiet and ef forts were being made to arrest the leaders. He added that nobody of any Influ ence or standing was concerned' In the movement, that It was "small and unsuccessful" and was connected with the campaign of Rlcarte. who has con ducted a revolutionary propaganda from Hongkong for several years, up pealing to the most lguoraut classes of Filipinos. President Wilson favors the passage of the Jones bill at the present ses slon. Officials close to the White House said that the recent troubles would not affect Mr Wilson's advoca cy of the bill. In view of the quieting reports submitted by the war depart lent. Resident Philippine Commissioner Queson said then.- were no specific grievances against which the Philip pine people oontd complain and that there is absolutely nothing in ths talk of a revolution." NEAR THE BOUNDARY General Scott's Intercession Results In Agreement With Mexico Washington. Secretary liryan re ceived word unofficially that the plan propoeed by lirigadler-Oeneral Scott, chief of staff of the United Statea army, for the preveutlou of firing Into American territory along the Meal can border, has been agreed ou by all factions. Enrique C. Llorente. Washington agent of the Uutlerres government, of which Ueueral Maytorena at Naco Is a supporter, was advised that the lat ter had accepted the plan suggested by Oeneral Scott. It provides that Qeneral Hill, of the ('arrant forces, should abandon Naco and be permit ted to go unmolested to Agua Prleta, already held by a portion of his troops and General Maytorena. who has with drawn his forces southward from Na co, would agree not to occupy Naco, Honors which would thenceforth be come absolutely neutral. From the American point of view the arrangement was -favored because fighting at either Agua Prleta or No gales would not be close enough to the American towns to produce the same situation as had eilatsd for several months at Naco, where stray bullets constantly fell ou American soil. 21 Ships to Trail Oregon in Canal. Washington Twenty-one modern battleships flying the Sure aud Stripes will .ollow the Oregon, the old bulldog of the navy, through the Pan ama Canal, when the Atlantic fleet goes to participate in the opening ceremonies of the Panama Pacific exposition H. C. Boyer was a Huntington vis iter Saturday. Mrs. H-C Whitworth entertained the Carnation Club Saturday. Mrs. H. Al Andrew and family of Falk Store w. clement receiving the high score. and Ernest Wilson of Nvssa were guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilson Christmas. Cha. Peterson spent Christinas with his folks of this place. The Store That Makes Christmas More Than Merry For You For Something to Eat You cannot eat better or feel better afterwards than by using our special brands of groceries those groceries that appeal to the stomach-that are exceptionally wholesome And easily digested-that leaves no distressing after-effects. McCoy Brothers, Grocers vwvvvvv flsssssssap GRAND MASQUERADE BALL At The Moore Hall Saturday Night January 9 Grand Prize For Lady and Gent Wearing The Most Ridiculous Character Only masked characters allowed on the floor until 10:30 Spectators 25 cents Loyal Order of Moose Lodge to Be Organized in Ontario 1 iu you know that the Luvai. Okdkk ok Moomk initiated more members in 191H-14 than all other fraternal organisations combined? Do you know that the Supreme and Subordinate Lodge assets of the Loyal Okdkk ok Moosk are four and one-half millions'' Do you know that the sun never seta on the Loyai. Okdkk ok MoosrT Do you know that a large percentage of our leading citizens, in cluding the President and Vice-President of the United States, are members of the Loyal Okdkk ok Moohk? The Vice-President and also Speaker Champ Clark start January 1st., on a lecturing tour through the South in the interests of the Order. Do you know that the Loyai. Okdkk ok Moohk gave the sick, distressed and needy $2,00u,000 in 1913? Do you know that a correstondence school will be started shortly at Moomk.hkakt for the benefit of memlers, and the lodge rooms will be converted into instruction rooms, where traveling teachers will give a special instruction, to promote by education and organised ef fort, a higher public apirit and better social and fraternal order? Do you know that Mooskhkakt will train the hand as well as the mind, making the boy and girls mentally and physically capable to cope with the battle of life, the Supreme Lodge recently having purchased 1,000 acres at Mooseheart, 111., where a vocational and industrial school has been etablihed, also a home for the aged and widow and orphan. That the Superintendent of the school ia a former Superintendent of the Public School of Chicago, having reaigned there to take up this work? Do you know that we welcome any white man of good moral character to become a member of the Order? Our Ritualistic Ceremony is beautiful and ennobling, and to wit ness the portrayal of the work by the degree team is well worth the initiatory fee. The obligation is such that no man need heeitate. There i no "horse play" in the Moose ritual. There are approximately 700,000 Moose in the United State and Canada, representing 1,600 lodge. Moose lodges an- found in all im portant cities of the United State and Canada. New York, Phila delphia. Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Cleveland and San Francisco have each over 10,000 members. Portland now has a membership of about 2,000 and at the end of the present campaign will have 5,000. LaCramlc and Baker have an active membership of about 500 each, comprising the best citizens of the towns. Do you know that there are thirty-three MMse Iodge in thi State and that they have an approximate mem!erhi of over 16.000? Do you know some of the finest clubs quarters in the various town of the State are owned and kept for the use of their meinlters? The Loyal Okdkk ok Moosk i an Aid to it member. If mis fortune overtake a brother, if sickness or accident or business re verse befall him, it EXTENDS THE HEI.PINC HANI). For him it speaks the "Good Word," contributes to his purse and helps to overcome difficulties. They pay Sick and Accident Benefits, also Burial Expenses in such amounts as may be determined by each local lodg;e. Free medical attention to members and their families by adoption of the subordinate lodge. Two dollars and fifty cent iter quarter, payable quarterly or semi-annually. No assessment. No benefit paid for first six months. For Full Particular Apply to G. A. CHILDERS, Deputy National Director 1 MOOKK HOTEL I n