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(Ptttarjw W)t vm The Ontario Democrat IAlHRr7K!OUNTY. ORKUON, THritBDAY DKt'FMl'M 12, 1918 NO. 2 wak m drive is mm mmm tiM.nv.vn coi ty luwr- NOBl.V T() (ALL FOR KTN1M4 FOR 8RVKN URRAT KB. LIKK Oltt..MXATIOSS GOOD RESULTS IN SPIFE OFI t U Action of Foreign Corporations Sur prise tf'.imo of them Are Ornrr oes Others Even Ignore Intern Requesting; Assistance. W W. Wood, county chairman of tha War Wo'k drive, makes the following- report of I hi Campaign In Mil hour county, and mora particularly In the Ontario district. Tha flrtt quota assigned im by the tata cor Httee waa $11,400 for tha county We were Inaraaftar requsttd to Increase thla by SO par cant, mk lag a maximum quota of 117.100 Br agreement with Mr. Eastham. tha county wm divided Into two parti. Tha Octcrlo Dlatrlct In eluded all of the inake rlvi.r ftlley, and the Vale. District Included tha remainder of Ontario Putrid Included all of dartook to ralaa 68 par cant of tha oounty quota and the Vale District 45 oar cant Thla care Ontario a minimum quota of $02T0. and a maximum quota of $0,406 Tha niliilnium quota, for Vale Dlatrlct waa 96,180. and the maximum quota JT.00S. The local committee at Ontario consisted of Maaara. II B. Coekru), .W. 8. Ijixon, . H. Tent, W. V ' man. P J Uallegcr. D. M Taggort. and W W. Wood O. K Aiken had charge of tha publicity department, while Prof. K H Douglas ami Nl seVay. Clerk looked aflat th,- Viuwrv . Boys and Ulrls part of tha drive. A club of f 100 subscribers was or ganised, and proved to be a popular part of the campaign The following . We honored mem bars of the 9100 flub In this drive, to-wlt A I. . tockwm, J U. Uleckaby, E. C. Van Peti s Watson. Tip O'Nell, Tom Broiusn. Dalton lljggs. I. Adam, John Wood, K.ank Radar, H. ' C. Boyar, David Duiibur, E W llowland, 8. D. Dorman, Standard Oil Company, Eastern Oregon Land Company, and the Oregon and Weet- ern Colonisation Company. The Standard (ill Company was requested to contribute $100, but evidently was not satisfied with 'this small amount, and gave the local committee a happy surprise by sanding In a check for in- no Instead. Local coniniltteea war appointed la (ha various districts surrounding Ontario, and all of them rendered splendid servlre Tha work at Nyaaa waa placed ta charge of a committee composed of K M Dean, Hay Wilson. II T Frsi. ele. f C Hunt, and Pater Tensea. This committaa tuads a splendid start, but tha "flu" came along and caught Dean and Wilson, and sent them to bed, ao tha hardest part of the work waa left to the other mem bens of the committee They were equal to tha oooaalon. however, and secured eattefactory results. A large proportion of the funds at both Nyaaa and Ontario were secured by voluntary subscription, without any sollc'tetlon. Tha following Is auromary of tho results of the drive, as the same ap pears at the date of this report. District Total I . . $ 27.5 IB 321 lb 98 124.15 2 4 50 20 14.26 81 840 60 22 . 163.75 49 46 and 47 . 204.09 68 1 . . . 270.02 4 118. SO 72 7.60 Total $2,581 12 Ontarto N lli 6,081 .78.75 i my - t 8.249 1 . t.TO . O.St Total Ontario Diatrtot Vale Total 10.001. 14 The amount of pledges la the Nyaaa district is estimated, as we do not have a full report of them at I V J N Mrs I K ra King her mother "f Ik deatl White Pine wh' i' the camp of t bar Co ' 'ogs which struck stantly. His neA his cheat crushed - ta here Tin 1 MO .i M. . hnahand ,u i workln i In i l .oil Iliad him n broken and V Mrs. blvens wenl to White Pine Monday evening and brot tha body home. Funeral sarvlcas will be hM (rum the Babtlst church Sunday af ternoon at 2 '90. Mr. Blvens waa 84 yaara old and leaves beside his wlte, hla mother. Mrs. Mary C Hlvens and a brother C. E. Blvens and a stater, Mrs. J, n. Morgan all of Denver. His mother and Mrs. Blvens' brother, Hiram Gordon who la at Camp Lew Is will arrive here for the funeral servlee. Mr aad Mra. Blvens came to On tario two years ago from Steamboat Springs. Colorado, where they were married tea years ago time. Mr Eastham Informs me that there are still two or three precinct In hla district that have not reported, and when these reports are in. ii will bring the Vale dlatrlct up to $8,600, or batter. That will place tha oounty well over the $ 16,900 mark, aad to naagUirig to be a sat isfactory showing in view of the advaree conditions under which the drive waa made Tha local expenses of the drive en far reported are $66 70 which ta tor adverttotaf, stationery, postage aad telephone bills The quotas for several rural dls trlcta would have been larger II all the residents of those districts bail placed thalr suhaorlpttaae at home la several Instances, however, thev nubacrlbed at Ontario, aad tba'JBBd the effect of cutting down the topi would be Impossible to segregate all of those specific Instsnoes without s great deal of work, which we think the results to be obtained do not Justify. Oeorge Harper was chairman of District number 0. Hla district Is "parealy settled, but he waa abb i i i ore a i uhscr vtton of II r,0 per head for every human being In the dlstrtat. Mrs. W. (luv Thompson selected her own committee and canvassed District number IX, which 1 the Owyhee district. Fourteen Vlci.o. hove and girts were obtained In ttiti: district, with an aggregate suberrlp tloa of $66 00 Th following per sous were solicited to subacrlla ami refused to do so, to. wit 8. D H'galow. J Kyger. and K I. Mac Utterly rict number 22 ta loos ted on 1st. Mr John II Howard had charge of the work in thta dis trict, and produced sallefactory re sults ,.; Number It is a district juat acrose from Welaer Mrs K. 1 Patch handled the work la this district III an able tuauaer. and has no . ause to be ashamed of the results pro duced. Hgns Oft Is the cbsinusu who had charge of district number 30 Me found but two men in his district who refused to subscribe to the fund, snd these mil are Mr. Wiley Prekea an 1 Mr. Bd Decree. Dlsirlrt number 91 la the largest t oh Dead Ox Flat The work hare was In charge of thst "grand old war horse" Frank M. Northrop, snd a committee of able aaniatants. The loyalty of the people In that dls i Oct Is atteated by the fact that they subscribed the remarkable total of To l M BcNHM "''ii Kex Merqu fell the honors of conducting th--i.iuipalgn In the ast half of dattrl t number 88. Tba only man ths foued wlio would not respond was Mr ,.r, who claimed I hat he waa ..oor to make a euucrUili r I ..ii key was originally ap pointed cha'.rgtaa ta district sembei 96. but was stricken with the "flu. " aud could pot serve Ira T Dall m substituted in his place and to gether with S;ck 8 ml lb and K H Bull Suit this distn was Mr red very as' n lly man encoentered In ho refaaed to Mhearfee Lsawav. im iiuiuie.il Mr A Vou Reedeu suede a thor- : ougn Oauvaaa of dtetrtet number 40, ihtalned aatiafaitory results, ta this district Mr J H FarWv aUlec i that be wee unable to contribute while Mr A M Jaeokee aad J K tilltSTS AT DRAINAGE SCHOOL TO BANQUET Commercial Clab WiU be Hosts At Dinner For diectarers aad) Those who Attowdr Pro- The Drainage and Irrigation school of the Extension division of ( A C. opens here Friday and on Satur day evening following tha final lec ture the Ontario Commerc'.al club will be host for a turksjr dinner at the Silver Grill. An Interesting program covering every phase of Irrigation farm prob lems has been outlined and will be carried out Among other things the Malheur Drainage system will be inspected. BUT WM ONTARIO HOY III KM OK Itill AT IIOMi: IN OKOVIM,K,W.aiH. Among the victims of "flu" well known to Ontario boye and girls war John Melvln Babcock who died t Orovllle, Wash., on November SO. Hla body was brot to Ontario last neck and funeral services were held here attended by the bereaved fam ily and his former chums. John wss only 16 years old. bul waa a big boy for his age. He was born here on Or tobcr I, 1008, and lived here until the family moved tp Washington lnt summer. OUT W S.S. Mr and Mra. W W. Hlnton return ed yeetarday from Hot Lakes where they were called by the sudden death of Mr. ninton's brother. Mra. K W twaglar and daughter, lone, have recovered from attacks of the Inflaensa. o Miss Emma Wilson has been visit ' n x st the home of Mr and Mrs A. Uramee for the pact few days She has been here demonstrating tha uses Of nut butter st K A Kraser's store for the Huloa Meat Co of Portland. Morrta t'onwajr. son of Mr. and Mrs nway who was here for several days this week left last night for his home In Portland. He came here en routc from Ke Wet Florida where he waa in training at the Naval Air Station Mica Joyce Turner who has beam Hi with the "flu" at the fells In Caldwell Is reported better m." rler sister, Mlaa Margorla who went to laid wall to take care of her has re turned home. Mr ad Mrs D. B, Pay toe. formerly of Raker, arrived In Ontario the first of i he weekend Intended to send their small son to school here Mrs J P Hill la beck at her work at the Purity Bakery after several daya lllues with tonsllltls ' . Sgt Irving Harris Is enjoy iuc n furlough from army life at Camp Lewie and Is vlsit'ng with his parents here In Ontario J I' Hill Is expected to return on 1 si ii r day from Vancouver Harrarkr re ha has been a member efthc Spruce corps Ernest Bar. us the Purity Hakerv s baker Is reportel Improving after a i week'a lllneee. District Attorney It W rtwagler Is in Portland this week attending the aeaalona of the Uraad Lodge of III- K of I' aad Incidentally to assist Sen Julian Hurley win the honor of twins ted Vice Chancellor fommun i I iiiloQeld of Skullear'.ngs wax lutarlo vlll. H over Sunday Wearer both refused to com nea aleo refused t tribute to the fund statin,. did not believe in work of M J and that it was the duly a4 went to fuili ah the .,: with the things which Hit District number 46 ami 17 r In the Big Bend territory l were ai.lv lobked after by Mm I i of that section She states that the results would here been much larger ttojBB. H the bay aud oth been marketed at tha time ..- made (Continued ea. Page 8i "FLU" AGAIN SHOWS SIGNS OF ABATEMENT Fow New Case ta Pact Week Type of Hlncsu. Heenaa to be Ieee Vtralnet Than In Paet. The "flu" epidemic appears to be receding again. After the flare up of last week there haa been no new cacec reported thin week, and many of those taJtoW 111 laat week are making rap'.d recovery- The doctors assert that there Is an apparent change In the character of the attaoks which their patients are withstanding as compared with thn first caeca, the dlaeeee now ap pears to be leas virulent. The only death of the past ten days was that, of Ignatius Faulkne- son of Mr. and Mra. Pat Faulknet He la the second victim In that fam ily In lees than 10 days. Mr. aad Mrs. J R. Fortler and their eon Edgar were taken III last Friday but all had light canes and arc much better. BOT W.B.I. C. M. Beaumont of Kingman Knl ony waa In town on business Wednes day o Mra. Hcraehel Browne left Stindav evening for Missouri where she will visit her psrents pending the return of her husband from the Coast Artil lery service. Mr and Mra. H. R. Douglass enter tained at oarda laat Saturday evening Their guests were: Mr and Mrs P. J. Gallagher. Mr. and Mrs W II Hrooke snd Mr. and Mrs O K Alkaa. a , Mr. and Mrs. Fred W Plstt and children of Parma spent Sunday at Ihehomeof c. W. Plait o LaRuc Blackaby who lias bean a candidate for a commission at the officers' training camp at Camp Ta lor Kentucky arrived home last night deo. Howe, O. F Neeeo snd Rev C. H. Blom attend the convention o' the Baptist laymen st lio:ae on Tues day. est C. W. Johnson and A H Defies, business men of Ellenaburg. Wn . were registered at the Moore hotel Monday and Tuesday. Mr. and Mra. T M. McDnnlula'atid children arrived Monday from Sen Francleco. They will make their home near here until after Mr Mc Daniels haa nnlahed his work on vYariiisprlngs project. Mise Vivian Weaver of Wi luirg. Wn , is visiting with kef broili ar aad sister Mr snd" Mrs Wesley Potter at the Moore hotel now She iiad been leachlux In Wushlngtou but her school was eloaed Iherc s short lime ago on account of the flu Mr. and Mrs A.cble Myers si able to be oul doors again after un del going a rather severe attack of tonallitls I'bey ere going i Drew aey the last of I lie week Itoy Smlili. deputy fount) i lark. came over from Vale on Sun. I... to visit friends and lelaihea Me re turned home on Monday The friends of Mas Lucy Thomp son aided her In celebrating her birthday, yesterday evening, by giv ing a dinner in her honor si th. ' Teacherage The gifts wort hfol in MtC In tag. 'n a hUK" baakel aud . asion.-cl great 101 1 lineal among the gm prow ntiitlon The guests were Mra Fdtia Li HI H. Joi v Helen 6ml w is Mtl.HI I R MO) 'M i i . f larenee Vandivei ef H i an dlecnargrd from I I i x ' hi het a , two armistice was algnsif. ex. -i there in mid ocean wireless or were received which turi back "There was a ai soldiers ofl thet boat bl ewe i said Vaedlver aa he walked up Koii st ret yesterday afternoon i lea for a barb FOKMKR ONTARIO WOMAN IB MARRIED AT I.KRANON OKI- The folowlng information t aken from the Lebanon, Oregon, Expre-. will no doubt prove of Interest to a large number of Ontarlana who are among the friends of one of the prlti rlpels: "Mrs. Cordn Marquis, daughter of Mr. and Mr. W H. Cecil, recently be came the bride of Benjamin Hunting-1 ton, Jr., of Drain. Oregon, which will I he their future home. ' Mrs. Hunt Ington la a woman of personal charm who baa made friends with all who ' have met her during brief visits tn I l-ehsnon She is a trained nurse, who haa been very success ful In bet calling. Mr Huntington Is a mem ber of a well known pioneer family of Southern Oregon He Is a suc cessful buslnece men, and as served at chairman of the various liberty loan drives In his community it -haa served two terms In the Oregon legislature and Is now mayor of his home town. Mr. and Mrs. Hunting ton are now making a brief visit at the home of her parents." BUT W 8.H HIGH SCHOOL NOTES - A atudent body meeting was held yecterday morning at which a heated dltcusslon of an annual for this year took place It was flnslly decided against having one, the chief reason being that o ng to the amount of i work to be made up there would not he sufficient tl-in for making up n god annual nmmlttee wes ap pointed to see whether a pager or some other substitute would take the place of the former Owachec " At thla same meeting on account of the long eheenoe of Jack Peterson, I the atudent body treesurer. It was de cided thst another waa needed at once and nomlnatlona were placed open for new rand I'.atua John Odell waa clocted unanimously to fill he. vacancy. A committee waa also ap pointed III I ...!!...' til - I schedule The Senior girls have undertaken in conduct in. Red Croee campaign In the high lu-iug the lied Cross Roll Call we MwOt sh p Tlie Seniors have also declared thst they "guess It Is up to them to put pep Into the high school thai year." We haven't heard whet the other rlasaee have to say about ihl The benefit obtained by the high school boys thru military drill is clearly hhnwu by Hie rapid ' lions they have made after enicrln; th service. In the laat laaue or th -i -i if, g given the fol- names of Ontario 8. A. T. C. boy who gained tholr promotions af ter two months' training: F'rst Ser geant Arthur If fockrum and for porals Donald foiiklln. Dorr De.ir aa I. I'm. Fred M Orsmse .iii.l J Bryan Neel in the last Iceuc el IBM 0 A C lisroiueter we noticed the name of ...11 It.'.l.leli Bg III lug Sino'li; the 1) girls chosen out of three hun dred candidates for the O A. C uih Miss Von lleedcn was tod as on alto Martin Moore returned the first of ii. .. ii. m ih-hh; absent tor corns .mil ,,t illness Catherine Nebb relumed Monday after an absence a io Influanaa al her lioiite oilier pupils who have n , ovcred from attacks of Influeuxa and arc now buck at school .ire Lola ate I Hurry Neece and Bid du James McCrelglil unil orl er arc now ubsenl on ucc. uui ot the In ueiixa. Misa Trceaa Cox has been made an Honor men. lie! ,,! ihc I illverslly of .ii ill M H S Ontario Ho In I aaualt) i.i.i gMaaBXtj Bepnrtad xuiongi he Oregon names m ri .. , lists wei .. i .-. rtobert i-ii i i. . in v v. i .-, sioirr mahmh u i m kill ii d W.lhoul taklug their man. i Into their confidence Ray Frank Un. Ontario's Bight marshal!, and Miss , oa.ii cere married el the liaptlst personage last Saturday v-, Hav f II HI. ic Tba young couple are uow receiving the ougrat ' as of Ibeir eurprlaed Irleada. . father, seven I iee slaters. The body wes "JOilT IS SLOGAN OF CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN HKIi CROHH COMMITTK.KH COM PLETING PLANS FOR KKM'INt. MM'AL CHAPTER MKMIIKM HHIP UP TO WAR RA IH Mf MBFRSHIP UP TO WAR BASIS Will Not Hoilrlt Children i l lor 10. They May Jln, of t'l.niwi, Bet Can be Members of Junior Onran i at Ion. "Join." That ta the slogan chosen for the Red Croee Christmas drive which takea place next weak. And the committees under the di rection of Mra. W. 'j. Plnney are anxious that Ontario Chapter will standard. Thla can onlv be done by a great effort , which should be largely voluntary on the part of the people. Headquarters for the drive will be eetebllshed In the Rmtaon A Adam offlc... opposite the post Of ge, where memberships can be se cured all week, on Wednesday a regular drive will be made In tb .liy and In the country whore pos sible, but meny homes can not be visited on account of the "flu". These will he listed and visited la ter. No effort will he made to aollcli memberships from children under 16 for the regular ObaptaW hut will be aaked to enroll In tha Junto organisation Of course parents who desire whole family membership may have them. The local committee has appointed f 0 Defreea. treasurer of the Mem bership Drive and N. Alexander la f!ua chairman. II P Davidson, chairman of I It., I Croae War Work Council haa Issued the following statement con , .in ng the need for membrsbii In the organisatien: "As we shall conduct no further campaign for war funds, Hie Itnll fall will constitute the vary founda tion of Red Cross effort In the future and I firmly believe thst re fat oi the Bad fioss will be devoted to nice which can not receive taea than the whole hearted and active support of the whole gUBkBffaM peo ple and Its ability to realise thai the future will be dependent upon that rt alone 1 urge you and your assistants to exert redoubled effort to mske Ibis Roll fall In Hie period of transition from War to Pi such a tremendous success thai our Red Cross orgsnlxstton. which hei been hull) lo such huge propoi lions nut or love I ef fort during the war. msy continue to be sn agency yf human service worthy of the whole American Hon " BUY W.S I. Ohliuery. ;. ! Ii. i lie. Deceiui i ske. Oregi n The deceased was 81 years, 6 mouths i I B do "id gad l-eves a wlx dl I' ' - ' i cl.. linn l 'ill I. d ..I Mai t H evouieif mil -liti tlii preni s I hay foiuid ll irg- i i i Hi' it , tas-n.- g. i.h.i :..iea and as wei i rjj-.s from Ha- I oiisc Tl,- ' I.. IS Is uuiei: al sevei. Isr IhBI I rin.lng liar- bee.. avalwaeeau rl Wllllsin i' old sou or Mr aad Mrs. Clifford Boulevard, died Mou- t resu.l of i fu-,u Funiral seril- I ; info daughter of Mr and Mra. O.E Moore, died December 4, 1016, of lei Burial was made Friday afUrnoou In the Ontario id l Mooie In, i in ibis c.ty fur g brief lime aud the sympalliy of Hie entire i an' m unity is . them nud to Mr snd Mrs I ew