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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1916)
T V "rHTUSDAY, 8EPTEMHEU 7, 1 0 1 fl i THE ONTARIO AWll'fl PA'. THHEE REXALL REMEDIES NYALS REMEDIES THE ONTARIO PHARMACY LARGE LINE OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES SCHOOL BOOKS, TABLETS, PENS, PENCILS, ETC. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY EASTMAN KODAKS AND SUPPLIES EVERY BODY KNOWS IT W hen YoiiWtar Tailor Made Suit There U a peculiar distinction In the fit and workmanship which puta II In a claaa by it aalf, and the wearer In a claaa y himself, with other tailor garbed men. When we make It your ault la made to fit you, and not a wooden dummy. No two forma are exactly alike, hence no ault patterned aftnr a dummy will give you an exact fit, auch aa you get when we take your In dividual meaaurementa. $20.00 to , $50.00 And anywhere between COPE THE TAI'()R Opposite i'ostoffli I'hine 105 W LIFE IN JORDAN VALLEY TODAY 1$ NOT IN IT WITH OLDEN DAYS Wm. F. Schuabel in Jordan Valley Express Draws Vivid Picture Comparing Past With Present. Recalls Old Time Dances. Expert Service Reasonable Charges and The kind of treatment Steady customers deserve Is the principal upon which we do business. Accessories carried for all kinds of cars. Gasoline, Lubricating Oill and Supplies. Ontario Auto Co. PETE DU FORD, Prop. Phone 134 Ontario Laundry Down Town Office Everhart's Initing Learning and Labor THE OREGON AGRICULTURAL GOLLECE In ita Si lekAatl aai Horty-eiglit " pertinents la ruajagtd il llic (treat work i uniting Uaaralao anil l.aimr. Forty -eighth School Year Opens SEPTEMBER 18, 1916. Degree Courses requiring a lour-year high school ircurtiou, arc oUeicd in the following. AOEICULTUKB, 16 Departments; COMMKKCK, 4 Departments, BNGIN BBK1NG, ti Departments; MINKS, 3 Departments; FOKHSTRY, 2 Depart cuu; HOMK RCONOUICt, i Depart euL;au.l PHARMACY. Vocational Coursea requiring an Eighth Grsde preparation for entrance are offered in Agriculture, Dairying, Commerce, Hort--.tr v Home Makers, and Mechanic Arts Pharmacy with a two year high school eutrauce requirement. SCHOOL OH Ml'SIC Piauo, String, Band and Voice Culture. Catalogue and beautiful illustrated booklet free. Addreas Tun Rgistbab, i w-i-K-is u a-7-is) coavai.ua. oaaooti One night, a year ago, after an ab sence of twenty years, I was In Jor dan Valley once more. Aa night came on I aauntored all alone thru the town. I wanted to be alone. I wutitnd to aee the changea that had taken place 1 wanted to look up old landmarks My thoughts MM of the past and with the past. Things looked so different. Many of the old landmarks were gone. New things had taken their places. I listened for familiar voices but they were hushed, some forever. A lorie aomeness crept over me; I fell like n stranger In a strange land If I hud only heard the crack of a six bImhiIit, or the yell of a cowboy, I would have cried for Joy; hut all was still, not a sound was heard In my wanderings I landed behind the big hotel barn I was Inspecting all that remained of J It llaxter's old pioneer home, the old stone chicken house While I was standing there In reverie there pealed forth the sound of a piano The sound came from the direction of the Jordan Vallev hotel. The sound aroused me. "A dance!" I said. "Wonder who N playing? Wonder who Is there? I believe Pan 'miners, Jonnv (iniii..i, tleorge Speed. Tom Mci'aln. tie Mills family and all the I of tin- families and all the old cow-punchers must be there. I'll go over and aee and surprise them " I went slowly over toward the ho tel. The piano still clunked away It was a funny tune I never heard It before In Jordan valley The Mel came by jerks, a few bars and than a reat, another wild start, another jerk, another raat. "What's the matter th the player?" 1 thought What I he trying to play? Where did I ever hear such music before?" It came to me Ilka a flaah, "I know where I heard It In Chicago, on Stale street." New li.ni..- Make Hit. 1 remembered shipping horses to Chicago for the Jordan valley stock nteu. I remember sauntering down State street one night and there I heard that kiud of music. It was ragtime. I entered and there aaw "l.lttle Kgypt" dancing the llootchce t'ootchee. Hut I am here In good, old Jordan valley, why have ragtime? 1 quietly approached the window and looked Into the ball-room. There was a lot of young boys and girls crowding around the plauo player They all seemed to have lots to aay to the musician. Every now and then he would throw a fit and there would peal forth a few bars of rag iIiiih His music came by starts, Jerks and fits. All of a sudden there was a scattering from that piano. It looked like a mustang hud Jumped in the center of that assemblage and was dealing solar plexls blows in all directions. I was wrong again. The pianist had humped his back and was clawing the keys for all he was worth. The dance had started in earnest. Every young man grabbed a partner "Grabbed" is the right word Every young man threw a kink in his back; gave his shoulders another hitch and humped his back like a broncho about to buck. Then the couples began to sway their bodies The young men put more humps in their backs; now It seemed they were try ing to unscrew themselves at the waist. I looked, I watched, I listen ed. "That must be a prelude to the hootchie-cootchle?" I said to myself. "How did tliiH dunce come here? Who are those dancers? I must be dream ing. No, I am not I left Jordan val ley twenty-two years ago, then the wild and wooly west, now I come back and it is civilized New people, new thouQghts, new ways." Country Gone to "Hell." All I aaw there, recalled to me an Incident of earlier days on Carter creek. Jeff Carter had gone over to Succor creek to visit the Oates ranch. In the evening I was sitting alone In front of his cabin awaiting hla return, I happened to look In the direction of the Gates ranch and hare came old Jeff on the dead Jump, only hitting the high spots. His sombrero push ed back In the front, his long, while mustache fluttering In the hreaie. I wondered what waa up Could It he the Indians were after him again? At last he brought up his horse In front of me on a great slide, ami he fore he dismounted, he said: "Hill, this country Is going to hell, there Is a preacher over at the Gates ranch!" Well, dear reader, I did not think that way when I saw the new styles In dancing; but, as I peeped thru that window, a change cum' over my vision. Just as you aee the change, the fading away of one picture and the appearunce of another at a pic ture show. The picture before me faded away and once more I saw the Jordan Valley ball room of yore. I could see the brilliantly lighted hall. I in u 1.1 see ull the faces of the first married ladles of the valley; I could see once more the happy, smiling faces of the young girls of Hint time; I could again see Nick Maher, John ('miners, Jim McMahou, Charley Orel, Tom McCain and doxena of others I can not remember. I could again see the faces of the old or er chestra: Mra. Whalen. Hen Boyer, I.011I" Schuabel and myself. Again I could see the four crowded and all squared off for the quadrille and again I could see Dan Conners ralae hla hand as signal to me and call eut: "Hill! l.ei'.-i buck!" And again I could hear Dan call "Honor to yer partners!" I looked for the Virginia reel, the mlnuette, the lan cers, but In vain. I awoke, my dream had ended, th past Is the past and the present la here now There la not much of the past left but memories. Hut, dear reader, those memories I will always cherish. They will never fade nor die while I live. It brings back mem ories of good, true women and men, people I loved better than anything else on earth. Kather would I alt down near some corral In Jordan valley or on the range and whittle and talk to some old pioneer than to be the greatest king that ever lived, for In the old days every man was a king of all he surveyed. II. low I give you a few of the old time dunce calls. They may be of Interest of some of the younger set. Dun. - nils of the Early Days. Honor yer partners. Rights the same. Balance you all First couple balance and swing, 1'romenade the inside ring, Promenade the outside ring, ii.ii.uico and swing and cast off six, Ladles to the right and gents to the left Swing the one you swung before, Down the center and cast off four. ' Swing the one that comes to meet! you. Down the center and cast off two All dances pretty as you can, Turn your "taws" and left alleuiau First gent out to the right, Swing the girl that curls her hair, Then the one that looks so fair. Then the one that puts on airs, And now the belle of the ball, sir. Gents chasse and put on style, lc.-Mih and a little more style. Little more style, geuts, little more at le. Honors yer partners, rights the same, Balance all; awing. First lady out to the right; Swing the man that stole the sheep. Now the one that hauled it home, Now the one that eat the meat, I And now the one that gnawed the bones. First gent swing yer opposite part ner, I'l'lieu yer turtle dove, Again yer opposite partner, And now yer own true love. Halance all; awing First couple out to the right, Cage the bird; three hands round Hlrdle hop and crow hop in Three hands round and go It again. Alleman left; back to partner And grand right-and-left. Come to yer partner once and a half, Yellow hammer right and Jay bird left, Meet your partner and all chaaae, You know where and I don't care. Heat your partner in the old arm chair. Salute partners; lady on the left, Eight hands up and circle to the left, circle right back and don't you atop. First lady out to right Swing daddy l.annlgan, Then mother Flannlgan Now the old man agin- - Swing partner round, Left hand lady round, Right hand to partner, round and round. Come to the pretty girl, Watch her close; Treat 'em all alike. Second ludy out to right, Swing Mrs Jinks, Then Captain Jinks, And now the dude of the army. Three hands uround and the gent cut a caper; Chase the 'possum now the coon. Then the pretty girl round the moon. When you get straight, Hun away eight. Some of the cowboys are very bright ind original In their dance calls, ex temporizing the rhymes and Jingles aa the dance progressed. It Is, per haps, the infectious spirit of genuine, hearty enjoyment which gives these dances their Indisputable charm. Wm. F. Schuabel, In Jordan Valley Expreaa. MAKING DRAINS EFFECTIVE. "If drainage Is to be successful from an agricultural standpoint prop er farm practices must be employed to aid in making the drains effective and the net returns larger," says Professor W. L. Powers, of the O. A. C. irrigation and drainage depart ment "It will facilitate drainage If the tile la located In the most porous For Artesian or Natural ICE Call up GOLD STORAGE The Only Sanitary Ice in Town Phone 157-K The Palace Meat Market Opposite Dreamland I lilsii MEATS SALT MKATN i Kl l MEATS HAl'HAGE 1.AKD Uetter meats for the same money I'rioea Never High Quality Never Poor Come in and see the new market Telephone 111 STEWART & WRIGHT Proprietors strata and the soil allowed to slack several week before the back-filling Is performed Sod or straw placed In the lower part of the trench will aid writer in entering the tile. After drainage, lime and manure will be more effective and enduing " '.III II li TIKE MM K M.I Frequent trie of our Sundar and Woek-end rates will add many miles to the life of your auto tirea. It makea a nice change, too. Ask about our cheap excursions. Agent O. 8. la R. R. Co. I8-3C Bailed Hay First Cutting F. S. 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