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''wflWWBBBRl(SfcKt lwfetjl. ... ...., li Sli'.IIUllBmnuHu.jiu ttfcurttf xxrv ONTARIO, MALHEUR COUNTV, OIJE(K)X, TJIUHSDAY, JANtTAHV 1, 1020. NO. 5. 2t?gtt0. llwp BREITHAUPT IS MADE l WlH rib r;jl. IIISA1) t)X FLAT ItANCIIEIt SIC LKCTEI) HV (X)L'NTV AMtlt'Ulj- Tl'ltAL COUNCIL TO HAVE CHAHOE OP WOHK.KTAItT- INO JANCAHV I. VALE TEMPORARY LOCATION Hitiirliri-H Meet In Ontario Monday ..With .1'. .li. .Ilnllm-il anil Make Choice New Mini Has Hint tiOiiK I'riirtlml Exicrlonre. li. It. llrlotlmupt, who for tho past two years linn owned mid opcrntcd n inncli mi tho Dead Ox Flat wan so lucted County Agent nt a mooting of tlia tompornry council ot tho County Fnrm llurcnu, hold In tlio officer of tho Ontario Coiuniorclal club horo Monday nftornoon. At tho samo moetlnR tho council, consisting of V. V. Hlckox, Foto Ten son, C. M. Ileatimnnt, of tho Nyssn and Adrian dltitrlclH, und Mr, Ciimmu of Vale, selected Vale oh tlia torn liornry hondquartors of tho nnent and nntnod tho salary nH $2700 jior year. Mooting with tho motnbors of tho rnlinoll wok P. li. Ilallard of O. A (' . who In In charRo of tho oxtonslnn work. In Enstorn OroRon. havltiR charRo of tho County AKrlculturnl OROntS. Mr. Ilrellhaupt, tho nowly np polntcd .iRont, Ih bo woll known In Enstorn Oregon that ho will require no Introduction to motit ot tho rniich oth. Ho Is u Krnduatu of O. A. (' with tho class of 1010. That fnil nntl In 1011 ho taiiRht aRrlcuIturo Jn tho Pendleton HIrIi School and In thu full of 1011 opened tho AKrlculturnl Ex peilment station ut Hums. OrcRO'i. which ho oparatod for nix and n half yearn, resigning In tho fall of IS 17 to niovo Into tho Snnkn lllvcr valley. Ho purchased an 80 ncro tract on Dead Ox Hut, Which ho ilorelniiAl and whoro ho continued on hls.own nccount to do experiment work . Ho Iiiih, nlnco comliiR to thin section. taRon an acttvo Intorcnt In tho pub lic affairs of tho county, IioIiir cspo dully Interested In tho Reed roads inovomont. Ho represented tho Pay-otto-Oregon Slopo rcRlon at many ot tho mootlngs prior to (ho road bond Issue, wns ono of thn rommlttco that wont to Portland and Is tlioroly nc iiunlntod with that phaso of tho county's program. Having llvod In tho cattlo regions, having also boon a hay rancher, ho Ih tlioroly oqulppod with n practical kuowlodgo of tho problems of this le gion from overy anglo. P. S. L..T0 ENJOIN LFASE TO STANFIELD WnniiKprliiKs llourtl Offered $5(1,011(1 for Grilling Hlght on IjiiuIh Itcrcutly Condemned From, P. H. I, Action Started. Thru Its local nttornoys nrooko & aallagher of this city, tho P. S. L. company has filed notice on tho board of directors of tho Warm springs Irrigation District ot Its In tention to contest tho loase ot the lands about tho Wormsprlngs Itesor volr to tho Stanfleld company. It Is understood that tho Stanfleld Interests have offered the district $50,000 for a 99 year loase on tho meandor lands about tho reservoir, and tho company contests that right. Tho grounds of tho company's ac tion are based on the terms of tho order of Federal Judge George 8. Ilean In tho condemnation suit. It Is their contention that the district has condemned meroly the right to over flow tho lands and does not possess the property In fee simple. Of courso tho directors take the opposite view point and the action will be con tested. Mrs. Henrlotta Payne left Satur day for Southern California to spend the remainder of the winter enjoying the orange blossoms and balmy breezes of the Pacific, While she Is away Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Taggart have taken her residence on Idaho street. They moved Into the house on Monday. "" LOCAL AND PERSONAL Tho Tuesday lirldgu club met thin wook nt tK6 homo of Mrs. B. M liislg. MrM.'.H. O. Whltworth of Web sor was tho out of town guost pres ent. Mrs. Florence Johnson was tho hostess for n Christmas dinner party nt her homo on Indiana avenue which numbered 17 Riicsts, Including Mr and Mrs. William M. Walker and family, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Van Vnlkonburg, family nnd Mr. and Mrs ('. B. Johnson nnd son Emmctt, Mrs Ivn Fox, and I), a. Stroup. In tho ovcnlng tho party adjourned to the Wnlkor home. Tho central tlictno of tho decora tions of courso was n festive Christ mas troo whoso green boughs wore Indon with brllllnnt coloring nnd lights nbovo which, nestled In the topmost branches iiiidr n limpid moon, whoso rays proved onHcliiR In tho "moonlight" numbor. Miss Salllo Almond, who Is ono of Undo Barn's onl'stcd nurses assigned to tho Ilreniorton Navy hospital, where sho cares for disabled sailor boys, spout tho week In Ontario, the guost of Mr. nnd Mrs. A li. Danny and E. II. Allan of tho l'urlty Dokory. Miss Almond Is curouto to Ilreniorton from hor homo In Fall Hlver, Mnss., whoro sho spent hor furlough from duly Blin loaves tonight for IJrom orton. CHARTER FOR LEGION ARRIVED THIS WEEK MoviIhk Called For Next Wodnenthij EteiiliiK nt Oimnierrhil Cluh Hooiuh Charter Itull Will lti Completed Soon. A tomporury chnrtor for Ontario Post Ko. G7 of tho American Legion nrrlvod this week and tho officers for tho post havo called a meeting for next Wednesday ovcnlng. Tho meet lug will bo hold In tho Commercial club rooms at tho City Hall. "Tho chnrtor recolvod Is n tem porary ono," said Karl Illaokaby, sec retary of tho Post," to bo used mil II tho Charter Itoll Is complotc, when tho names will bo transferred to the permanent cliurter. At tho mooting noxt Wednesday, to which ovory oxsorvlco man Is urged to attend, It Is planned to arrango for tho closing of tho chartor roll, so that all who wish to bo listed ns chartor members should bo present. Mrs. It. n. Iiurenco of Ulvorslde, which was a 'uisy city tills summer wlillo tho Wnrmsprlngs dnm wns under construction, enmo to Ontario this weok. II, Long of tho terminal city of Crnno was roglstored at tho Moore Crane also furnished another guest. Will Klesonhock. Soven of tho Freshmen girls from O. A. C, gave an Informal party to tho N. N. Club and othor O. II. 8. girls Monday evening at tho homo of W. I. Tumor, on Montana nvenuo Fortuno tolling, stories and music followed by a Waldo Hall luuchoon nnd dance, furnished a Jolly tlmo for all. Tho hostossos wore: Amy Can Hold, nuth Lackoy, Viola Hustcd. Dolta Hill, Cecil Logan, Mojorlo und Dorothy Tumor. Mr. and Mrs. Frunk Itader had n family dinner gathering at tholr homo on Christmas day, Mr. nnd Mrs. Elmo Poarson camo over from Wolsor for tho day and R. A. Trous- .l1n a U.i.n. ...no nl.n nrABOnl Mil I r, I it. ...I tf. T)n.lnt flua auiiuuy flir. umi . """"'i ., Ireno Ilader, nornard Uader and Master Harrison Itader and Mr. Trousdale went to Wolsor where they wore tho gests of Mr. and Mrs. Pear son. W. C. Hills of McMinnvllle, Oregon, spent the holiday season In Ontario a gueBt at the homo of Mr. and Mm li. Adam. Miss Crystal Wast and Miss El 'e aibson of Nyssa wore tho guests of, Ontario friends during tlie ween . Itoacoe and Donald Conklln of O A. C, were homo for the hollda " with their parents, Mr and Mrs F ' II. Conklin. P .J. Gallagher leaves next week to , attend tlio sessions oi ine urcgon Irrigation Congress; Miss Lavlno Sniljh Is spending tho weok end in Boise. Otto C. Miller ot'Decd Ox Flat, ac companied by hlsfyoung son and his brother spent Saturday In Ontario ONTARIO PRESSARY ' TO ERECT BUILDING! Concrete, IlilllilliiK to He Elected fol I'liint mi King HHect ut Houtli Edge nf Cltj Con- (met It Let. 1.. I. Hlrsch of tho Ontario Modern I'rossary lot thu contract for the erection of nfnfctory building for the prossary to J. A. Drapor, this week. .. Tho building which will bo ot con crete, wilt bo eroded on tho five lots purchased of Mrs. A. A. llrowno, which nra located on South KIiik street near tho edge or tho city limits Plans nro being prepared for tho htuldliiR nnd call for n Btructuro 3rxlio. In this building will he located thu cleaning plant with Its gsrollne washers, rub cleaning devices, drier and other machines. A full base ment will be oxcnvnled and n gravity and distillation system lustulltd to add to tho efficiency of thn plant. Thn prossary will maintain nu up town offlco whoro Its now Hoffman stoam press wilt rare for that typi of work, Inrlulug alterations, ropalrs, etc. Tho new steam press was Just Installed nt tho shop during tho pnsl wook. flj With tho new building nnd addi tional machinery tlis partnership, which Include I.. I. Illrseh and HlrKchol Ilrowns, will Imve tho most modoru and tlioroly oiiulpped plant of Its kind In ISHslorn Orgon and Wont cm Idaho, IC.-.MAItlXH (iOIW TO PAI.O AI.TO TO HKCt'PHHATH HEALTH Clint Pinnoy, ox-marlne, who has been III for some tlmo loft Tuosduy evening on No. 0 for Palo Alto, Cali fornia, to enter tho government sani tarium there. Tho young man's nll monts dato from his days In Franco when ns a mouihor ot tho famous Rlxth Murines lis saw service In four major offensives'. Including somo ofi isitm, .... ..U...K ""li Kdltli arlfflth of Itlchmoud, it llftn minting thaT. HIT MlM10lir,l0 MH rrnnlcy.H ,,. ,'s" engagod lnt Ho ex- . thu wannost "Dovll Dog poets to ho gono for several months In California. J'UKI. HITCATIO.V tiltllTI.V mcia.viis itiwniicrio.VN Tho fuol situation In Ontario has so greatly Improved during tlio psst week that the fuol commission this weok removed nil restrictions upon busluoss houses iihIiik fuol. Tliure aro no fnmlllos In positive ncod of coal and tho amount ot fuol arriving eaoli woek Is moro than sufficient to caro for Immcdlato needs. Fuol permits aro still required to secure coal hut If conditions continue to Improve oven this systom will ho abandoned. Tlio Ontarjo Modem Prossary Is securing tho play In tho Oregon-Harvard gamo, play by play, today and thoro s a great doal of Intorest being shown horo In tho contest. Oregon Is tho favorite of local football enthusi asts, but Harvard has bnckors, too. Mr. and Mrs. L. I Hlrsch went to IloUo Monday. Mr. Hlrsch returned In tho evening but Mrs. Hlrsch ro mnlned over In tho Idaho capital. Thos. J. Joyce, ono ot tho many members of that numbrnus clan re siding In tlio vicinity of Juntura, It registered among tlio sheep mpu at tho Mooro. "DOUG" WINS nnht r Rrviith nimMnr War Loan Orar Commissioning Douglas Fairbanks yV JMssssssssssssim n tu& issslssssssssssssssK ssssssssflsBsBssssssfiflnT'HsIbi TsssssssssssssssaBssB &hV'BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBH BigK JslSMlSSSWSBSSSWSSSSSSwlsstsBWsSSwBMsBMp4 fifBSSSSMsSSSMlsSWSBBSWSSSB ?. PROSPECTS FOR NEW YEAR HAVE BUSY HUE I'nM Vvnr Him Keen Prosperous ji till lliixluesM Men llellexe That 11)20 Will Ho Keu I letter Than lt)ll). Ontario Is optimistic concerning 1020. It Is tho gonornl opinion of bushiest men Hint conditions arc suoh that tho city and surrounding country will show greater progross (luring tho next 12 months than woro ttcordod In tho 12 that havo J lint pnsscd, During 1010 Ontario launched Its paving program, nnd Its houso build ing campaign. Neither wero com pleted during tho year nnd tho bene fits will largely accrue during 1910. During tho past year, too, tho county road bond Issue wns passed nnd u ronl road program started. Tills Is now under way and tho city and country wilt feel Its benefits during tho year. Mkowlso tho Wurmsprlngs Innds will ho uudor wntor this coming year nnd tlint will mntorlally aid In tho de velopment of the city and county. That Ontario wns prosperous this yosr Is Indicated by tho nbsonco of business failures and tho addition of ijevornl now firms to tho city's rolls. A roll call of all tho business men of tho city will royoul u spirit of op timism Hint spoils progress In u rlly, for nil nro united In the firm belief mint 1920 holds much In store for Mills section, and for Ontario In par ticular. MISS CIIAM.KV It KM I (INS llltlt POSITION IN II. H. I'ACri.TV Word was rocelved tills week of tho resignation of Miss Ponrl Cranlcy. teacher of music and art In tho High School. Sho wns called homo to nrnnd Forks, N. I)., by tho death of her brother and could not return Tho school board this wco kolectcd' "HITCH l.(J" OX VEHICLES , DAXOICHOl'H, HAYS MAItSHAI, Thoro must bo no moro 'hitch- Ing' on sleds or nutos on Oregon ' street or on any street oho block baok from Oregon street," says Marshal 11. C. Farmer. "Already many drlvors havo reported that they havo vory nearly Injured hoys, and. thoy fear that somo ono will bo serl- ously hurt unloss tho practice Is stopped nt once. It should not ho necessary to warn tho pur- onta of Ontario of this danger. Tho streets nro slippery nnd r cars skid In splto of caroful driving nnd tho drlvors cannot ho blamed If boys 'hitching on' get hurt. Hut If tho parents do ! not act, tho officers will, and that should not bo norossnry," says tho marshal who dnos not ! like to have to arrest small hoys - and yot who dnos not want thom Injured. J. O. Modkln of Westfall spent tho. first of tho week In Ontario getting acquainted with friends from tho In terior who havo "como out" for tlio winter. HIS COMMISSION tatlon. 12th Federal Reserve District, 8, 8. Director for Southern California, LOCAL AND PERSONAL Don I'ayno nnd Pink Docker came In from Westfall this wook to get nc nunlntud with tho cattlo situation In tlio lower valley. They registered at tho Mooro Tusday. Miss Virginia Itoynolds of Twin Falls, who was n member of tlio O. II 8. class of '17 spent n portion of tlio weok visiting friends here. Her motlior, Mrs, 1), F, Itoynolds, passed thru tlio city recently returning from Crane, lirra sho was called by tlio Illness ami ile.it h of hor grnmt son, tho llttlo Wcltenliellor boy. Mr. nnd Mrs. Amos Itoethlor of Westfall spent tho weok In Ontario Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ilnndlcy nnd sou nnd Mr. nnd Mr. and Mrs. M. U. McEndroo leave tills week or tho first of noxt for Long Heach, California, whoro they will spoud tho winter. If thoy find tho location they seek they oxpet to iiiulio tho doldoii Rtnto tholr future homo. Word lias boon received by friends of tho snfo arrival at I-ong Ilcnch of J. A. Walker and his sou Molvlu, who motored to that city from Ontario to Join tho rost of tlio family ylio pro ceded them nearly two months ngn Tho Walter family will remain In California until April whon thoy will return to Ontario to occupy tho homo thoy purchased Just prior to tholr do pnrturu, on East Idaho nvenuo. Tho I-ndles' Aid society of tlio Con gregational church will hold Its an nual business mcctliiR nnd cordon of offlcors on Woducsdlny, January 7, at tho homo of Mrs. Anno Door, Thn meeting Is called for 2:I0. Mrs. F Leslie Ilody nnd daughter, Murliil, havo boon III during tho past weok Eucli ot thorn, however, Is re ported to bo Improving. TO BE ERECTED AT ONCE lltjetlr Hiij.luei.'.' Man Hliif J,eiiM on llulldlng Which T. II. Moolo In to lltlllil lit Ouro for ltotlllng WoiKn, W. It. HlgRlnbotham of IJavotto. proprietor of tho Pnyotto IrWtllng Works, this wook signed n contract with T. II. Mooro for tlio erection of n building which ho Is to uso ns n manufacturing plant horo In Ontario. Under tlio tonus of tho contract Mr. Mooro Is to havo work stnrted on tho building at once and It Is to bo completed by April 1 so that Mr. HlHKlribothuiu will ho nblo to get started for tho summer trade In tills soctlon. Tho building Is to bo of concroto. 17x50 fcot and will ho located on lot C, In block 3, tho block In which tho Ontario Furniture company Is locat ed. In fact tho building will bo Just north of thn furniture store. Mr Hlgglnhothnm has been Inves tigating the possibility of coming to Ontario for somo tlmo and was ao tuatod In his determination by tho advantage ot tho city as a shipping point ns well as tho advantageous looal market. Ho camo horo as a result of correspondence with tho Coiuniorclal club. An epidemic of too much Christmas or a now phaso of grip gorms made llfo inlsorablo for n largo portion of the youthful population of Ontario this weok and kept tlio men from the doctor shops busy. The members of tho Carnation elub opon tholr 1920 senson as tho guests tills ovonlng nf Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cockrum nt a dinner, following which flvo hundred will bo played. Tlio club this soason Is having u sorlos of dlnnor card partlos. Mrs 8. A. Stanfleld or Malheur wns a guost at tho Mooro on Monday. I Herald Stanflold ont to Holso on Tuesday on busluoss. I Jay nibble motored over to noise on busluoss and pleasure bout Tuo- da) MUs Ireno Rador, nornard Hndor and E A Troutdale worn among tlio iOntarlans who nttonded the big danco given In honor of Nyssa's ro 'turnod scrvlco mon by Golden nulo ' I.odgo A. F. & A. M nt Nyssa Tuos- day ovenlng. Superintendent E. n. Conklln of tho Njssa schools was ono of tho fow 'Malheur county teachers to nttend tho State teachers' association con Ivontlon at Portland tills week. IIo returned today, PLANS FOR POULTRY SHOW NOW COMPLETE lll'HINI'SH MEN M'ltXISH IIVW CIAL HACKIXU MOItH THN IjUOO IN PltEMU'MS TO HE DISTItlllt'TEl) AMONO POL'LTIIV OWXEItS. FORTY-FIVE CLASSES LISTED Itcuevwil or Poultry Exhibition mill Peruiiiunut OrKaulntlon Phiiiuc I Ilanqliet Will Ho (lieii on Open. Iiij( Day, January U'J. Ontario business men furnish d tho necessary financial hacking for tho 1920 Poultry Show, which Is to ho hold hero January 22, 2,'l, nnd .1 C. W. Davidson, representing tho Commercial club, secured tho sub scrlptloii of 27i to stngo the show and did that In hut a fow hours In t Friday. This fund, together Willi tho Interest shown by tho poultry raisers In Malheur county and over on thn Idaho sldo Insure tho sticrvi of tho ovent. So koou hns been tho Interest man Hosted Hint F. LcbIIo Ilody, secrotnr of tho Coiuniorclal dub, hns arranr ed far tho staging of a banquet on tho opening night for tho fnrmntlon of n pormnnent organization of the poultry fanciers. Details at this ban qtiot will bo made public lator. Tho show this year will ho staged In ono of W. E. Lees' billings on Ore gon street, next to lloyor llros.' 0 O. Wherry, tho woll known poultry mnn of Payette, Idaho, has been so loclcd to JikIro tho show. Tho committee, Dr. A. a. Moore, H. II. Tunny, and C. K. Dlbbln nt Pnyotto, and Mr. Ilody completed tho premium list thin week and entries aro divided Into 45 classes, permit ting a wide showing of tho fowls rnlsod In this soctlon. w. V NEW YEAR'S PRESENT Perhaps tho lleot Xews Item of the New Year Is Announcement of New Pumping Plant Norili of Fair (irouniN. Perhaps tho host Now Year's gift to Ontario Is the announcement made today by W J. Plnnny, ngont of tho Orogon-Wostorn Colonization com puny, Hint they nro to build at mice n pumping plant to Irrlgnto -ISO acrei In Hoction 33, Just north or tho Fair grounds, In this direction only hns (hero been llttlo progross toward tho dc volopmont of tho land about the city That thoro is room for ninny pronpi i oils ranches In that soctlon has long boon known and It hns been tlio hope of tho city that tho flat would bo under cultivation. Tlio start to ho mndo now by tlio company iiioaux tho ultimata realization nf a family on overy subdivision of that region That tho laud is In demand is evl dont, too. Mr. Pinnoy on Wednes day closed contracts for the salo of 102 acres of tlio bcctlon. Dr E H Fortnor purchased SO ncros that ho had alroudy cloared. nnd O-o F Duf field bought 52 acres Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Orelg enf r talned at a Christmas bridgo parlj ut tholr homo on Morfllt streot Sutur dny ovwilng. Tlireo tables of I rldee. were played, a Christmas troo with Rifts contributed by all pro ' it proved one of tho fun producing events. Tho gnosis present wr Messrs. and Musdamo II II W' t uoy, J. It. Itasmussnu, W F Hon n, Ivan E. Oukos. and (leo. Iv Aiken Mr. and Mrs W. W Lotson v ill enlertulu ut dinner this evening, ono ' tlie Tiny Now Voar events staged In Ontario. Thoy will havo as tbn gnosis Mossrs und Mosdumes E M Orelg, H. I) Dormnn. II II. Wliltu' A. J. alovor, W. II. llrooko and O, o K Aiken. Judge nnd Mrs. Dalton Illggs wrrp tho hosts for n family dinner partv nu Christmas which Included tho ii "i family. Dr. and Mrs. W J Were Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Allen. Mr and Mrs. Hugh Allen and MIsb Itcnn Illggs and Mr. uud Mrs. L. N U ecie