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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1916)
PACK TWO TWB ONTARIO ARQU8 THURSDAY. BEPTEMBKR 7, 1919 ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE COMMUNITIES ABOUT ONTARIO JORDAN V.M.I.KV. (Prom On- kyflH.) Miss Jones, a gueit t llM Skinner home for several weeks, left Thurs day morning for Drewney, In Harm county where she will teach this fall And winter. Mr and Mm Kohout and family. Mian HtuPticI and Mr. (lain visited Mr. and Mm Kill at thf Gd)conda MM '"' a"nAmr MIm Stoeuel re mained at the camp for her vacation Mlae Amy and Alice McDonnell are expected tomorrow from their home on the Owyhee, the former to go to I'ocatello, where Hhe haa a po altlon in the city schools, and the lat ter to her school on lower Cow creek. A portion of the machinery for the Dlackaby company's new elevator hai arrived. Pete MacDonald, teamster for the Clrcle-llar ranch, came In Sunday af ter a load of iiuppllet. li J. Maloney the Irish mining king of Mill croek, South mountain, wrm In thin week after supplies. Mr nnd Mm. Harry l-ooney return cd last Saturday from a week's vialt t Iloliie and other outside point Mr. and Mm 1 It Hagler of Mr Hermit t were In town Tueeday morn ing, en route to Vale on a business trip. Jens Roberts returned to the Juni per last Sunday, completely mte red from the caae of blood-polnson-In In hlx arm Hay Skinner of llerkeley. Califor nia, la visiting hln lirotlierH In thl valley He wan grettlng old friend In town thl week. t 'hurley Strode came up from the Ruby ranch lat Sunday and went out to the Juniper to take part In the fall round-up. Hrummontl llrotlier brought six ty bead of home down from the Junipera the firm of the week, driving to Murphy for Hhlpim m Misses Frances and Klalre (Hover were In town Sunday. Mi Klalre hat a position In the chool at Vale for the coming hcIiooI year. The grain harvest I now on in thla valley. The crop ha suffered somewhat from frot and le than an average yield I evpected. Mr. and Mra. Harry Scott ami fam lly will return from the ranch to tlielr town Lome to be ready for the i ii i ii k of school MM Monday. IUiu Hums laat Monday evening a barn be longing to Henry Hcbranim and oc cupied by Frank Carter wa totally destroyed by fire. Home small chll dren were playing In Hie building and it la supposed that they Mtarted the fire Two Spun i-li women obmrinl the Miioke and rushed in and res cueil the little ones, Jut in time to avert a tragedy I'rom ia NBMMI to Hie ii hi r m given by the firebell and buril work indented a spread of the ii.iiiii-- to uiljolning buildings A atrong wind wan blowing al the time. aajaj m II. I.I to III-III. I I nil At their preliminury hearing at V.ihipu lut Mnniluy J N Mcllride mill MM Acvedo were In lit In IM district court on tin- thai go M having liiiior In tlnii possession, In Onla lion of the laws of Idaho McHrule's bond m mod at IttNi in delimit of M ll It'll he Was lilkcll (II J.lll Hi Caldwell Aeedo secured hull in the xil in of $1000 uml (II released The llnise Ki k-.l Mi .mil ttft l.ie Suiiiei'v illi- wen in Ironi Iheir lunch thin week Huve hail iiiili' .i iiii in ins gait. IM li' Mill nl .in argument '' liail hull wilh one ni his oldI iiinl gentlest IHfaHi during IM (OHI "i which IM I.uier emphasize, i big ltd ni Km I'l'iiiiiu ersy by landing both hlud feet with considerable force on Dave's right hip and arm. Society Note. The Indian colony was substantial ly increased by the arrival, a few days ago, from out of the somewhere of other dusky bucks and squaws, who pitched their tepees Just a little hevnnd Chief Jena Wlnnemucca's wickiup. The newocme's who are headed by Chief Sugar Bam and bl nqunw, Sugar Susie, are not altogeth er ntrangern, having boen here fre quently during the laat thirty-five or forty years. Sugar Susie la, In all probability, president, or chieftain vs paln-ln-the-fare of the society of ancient I'lute damns, or something like that, and the other squaws of the party are evidently ancient member of the name society. No extra no dal function have as yet been announced. VM.I.KV VIKW. School did not begin here thla week owing to the delay in arrival of a Waterman Waterbury heating plant The director hope to get It Installed tills week so to open nchool September 11. Moat of our high school pupil will attend the Ontario high nchool this year. The W. (J. Armntrong family ac companied by Mm. Harmon, Mr. MrliunlaW and Jolly Armntrong spent Wednesday visiting at the Crane ranch on Dead Ox flat. LMM week Mr II Oft' father, Mr. Fee, arrived from Mlnnenota to spend the fall and winter with the Ofta family. Miss N'lna Maker, who ha npnnl the lanl two weekn with her counln, Mrs. Will Drown, returned to her borne in Ontario laat Thursday. I.lttle llaxel Hall, who ban been III during the last two weekn, in rap Idly Improving. Mm. (Jus Itelch spent Saturday af ternoon at the W. 8. Itee ranch. Jolly Armstrong of llolae I visit ing his uncle, W (1. Armstrong, for a few days this week. Mrs t'haa. Johnson and daughter and Miss Anna Armstrong visited Rev. C. C. Pratt and family In On tario last Saturday Mr I A Williams of Ontario vls ited her daughter, Mrs Will llrown, laat Friday (irandma Keen spent the week end in Ontario the guest of Mra. Helen Clement. Mr May Kenney of Ked Hliff, California, was the guest of Mra. A. II Friisier a few day laat week. The Mlase Keller called at Wll lard Hull' ranch laat Sunday. Mm. Itutli Harmon and duughter of Itoise, accompanied by Mm Har mons Mister, Mrs I) McDanlal. and duughter of Nampa are visiting their parents, Mr and Mrs W. U Arm ntrong, this week. t F, Hees I unending the sessions of the circuit court at Vale this week rHl'ITLAVD Several hundred of the ranchers about Frultland were badly disap pointed laat Saturday because the film for the free picture show fail ed to arrive. They will not be fool ed again, if the association can help It. At a meeting of the association last Monday steps were taken to pre vent a recurrence of the delay which was due to the fact that the films were shipped to Naw Plymouth In stead of to Frultland. Hereafter the plcturea will come one day sooner and go to New Ply mouth later. The business men were more wrought up over the mis take than the ranchers. i ! of Money. The surest sign of prosperity ever given here wan the action of the Frultland state Dank returning to County Treanuror Sarah Handy, the county funds on deposit here. The reason for this Is that the bank al ready has no much money on hand on which it has to pay interest that there was nothing to he gained by holding county funds and paying two and a half per cent Interest thereon. I iuiiIhii'I Man Inventor. It F. Tusalng of this city Is a full blown Inventor, or will be when he gels letters of patent on an apple slier he has evolved during the past year. Mr. Tusslng sent a modal of I his Invention to patent attorneys In Washington. I) C . for filing with the patent office, laat week. The model worked perfectly and when placed on the market will be a means of saving fruit men large sums of money thru Its automatic operations which formerly required many hauda. The mix-up between the county rnninilssloners and the commission ers of the road district la still unset tled. Uovarnor Alexander made an ad dress to a large gathering at New Plymouth ast Sunday night In con- .xtftli.a u.111. ,1... It' ' T IT ' - , i. , it'll null in. . . . . R"u" I Ing. The governor declared that Idaho's prohibition law waa the best In the west but should be strength-' ened by a conatltutional amendment so that it could not be tinkered wilh every two year. tlloPH At-TKK DRAISAOK. Alnike or a mixture of clover can usually be established following druiuuge, and the roots of IMM I MM will uld in making I siih-soll, thus aiding rheuiii'ul and huclenal activi ties. A short rotuiiou should be gdopfd. -ui'li M clover, gram ami cullivuted crop This rolulmii including the use of closer and mi.ui use once in each three years, should Insure yields that will couipurc rggj favorably with returns (nun natiir g) drained Mills nl (he same region. Tins after drainage cropping is recommended h VY I. Towers, the O. A. C. ii ligation and drainage IMC j lallst He says that drainage will in lias ji nit larger return., DHK.WHKY. I From Pioneer Sun) Cha. Cranmer and family were visiting In town Saturday. Their daughter. Miss Mulile, had a very narow escape from serious Injury laat week while driving a hay rake. The horses became frightened and ran, breaking the tongue out, depos ited Miss Mable in front of the rake, the tougue entering the ground drew i lie rake In the air over her which caused her escape from injury. Mrs. 'i. miner ami children called at this office while in town The stockholders of the Drewsey I IJecluiiiatinii Ditch Co held a gener al review meeting last Sunday audi refreshed their memories of the con-, ilition- of the (.ast uml present audi future, etc Till ditch covers about :1000 .i. 1 1-. of Oregon's richest soil. The bountiful crops of ha. grain j and vegetables now In view speak I elo.iienil for the removal of the' sage brush stll launder said ditch. . . r-a E-TTTsSJamS- m jSBSlE" ik' r aV aVsai at ismMR L-M.tggWpi B T H.T- gaT ' A I T ' M (i glV iJt m m ! ll vlliA l . L aH WT '"J mWP ggggggggglggB ngaal ggggB T 1 t gaggggggga M gggaVV gggggWsgfl aVTieggfll Fji H g&V fl W RgJagV agS HI V9 pP jriiitg"j m 39RafttogggggggMM? w l'erc M Johnson, the hustling land man of Vale, who with ('has. I.eMiiiue, are scouring the mountains north of here for "Mowich," cume down from I he camp Tuesday even ing after more becon ami beans. He SJ ii taken solid food to keep in sight nl fresli tracks of the deer lie says ('has. prefers beiuui to wild meat of any kind and hunts for ex-only. Rumor bus it that a bunch of cattle thieves unit brand Jugglers were caught near l.awen last week with the goods in their possession. It is hard work for some people to learn eolution. or to git an old idea out of their skulls. That kind of raw work is out of dale in this re gion many eas oarg nihiiih nih nih in gum many years ago I'loueer Sun. (iRKATKIt l no MII.KAOK. Frequent use of our Sunday and Week-end rates will add many miles to the life of your auto tires. It makes a nice change, too. Ask about our cheap excursions. Agent O. S. I. R It. Co 33-38 Scene from "The MaaqiMTadJara" al Difiiinluml satunbn, Sieinhei Dili MISS KSTKI.I.K. Ct'RRKV lusfiuclor in I'iano Teachers Certificate from Cin cinnati Conservatory of Music. Phouu 170 K 7th Annual Malheur County Agricultural Fair Sept. 19-20-21-22 Fastest Harness Races Ever Held in Snake River Valley Twelve entries for the 2:10 pace Six entries for the 2:14 trot 15 horses from California, 12 horses from' Montana, 6 from Colorado, al so others from Alberta, Utah, Idaho Washington, Oregon and Wyoming. Over fifty entries in 2:20 class. Also fastest running races ever given here with many entries in each race Novelty races will be pulled off be tween the main harness and saddle races. Something doing every minute from the sound of the first gong to the last State will make Fish and Game ex hibit, said to be the best in the Unit ed States. Stockmen are going to have more and better animals then ever shown before. Fruit, grains and vegetables will be there in abundance showing what Malheur county can do in an off year The ladies are especially interested this year and have been working so they can excell all past displays.