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SPECIAL EDITION COMMUNITY BUILDERS' SERIES NO. 1 mtot0 KW- '- XXIV ONTAHIO, MALHEUR COUNTY, OllEQON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920. NO. M. DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF THE AGRICULTURAL, COMMERCIAL AND COMMUNITY INTERESTS OF THE MALHEUR AND SNAKE RIVER VALLEYS. GIVING THE HISTORY AND GROWTH OF THE INDIVIDUALS AND FIRMS PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF THIS GREAT BUT PARTIALLY DEVELOPED EMPIRE. OTHER EDITIONS WILL FOLLOW. "I m JktttM. L MEET HERE SATURDAY vi:iHi:it. pavktti:, cai.dwhm, AXD .NAM PA OIIGA.NIZATIOXS to in: hi:phi:si:nti:d at (UTIIKItlNO TO COXSIP Kit PKOIH.KM. NON0TICEOFHEAR1NG AS YET lYhrimry 10 Omihloiril Too Hliorl Notice In Which to (hither Ihtlu for Aili'iialc Piexoiitulluii or Cum1 nl 'Ihlx Time. On Saturday at tho City Hull will hu held unotlior meeting of tho power users or thu Hmiku mill Mul hour vnlloys. Thu meeting Ih called for 10 n. in., and will bo mora ropru sonlullvu of tliu UHorH of thu valluy than that which was hold two weeks KO. Thus. W. Clugott, chnlrmuu of tho .Mnlhour County Powur usorB, wlm called thu mooting Iiuh recolvod ml vlcus -from thu committee appointed at u recont mooting In Wolsor that thay would bo ruprosonted, and slm liar advlco comes front Nuinpa and (fuldwoll. Puyoltu users will bo hvro, too, no that tho gathering will bo comprohonslvo ami will ho ublu to uU for practically ovory powor user In thin soctlon. Am yol no official advlco hint been received from tho Oregon Public Hurvlcu Commission or thu Joint hear ing scheduled for February 10 ut llolsu. Thu only notice of thu wan "that whlch-nppenrod In tho popors under a Bnlum ditto line. I Senator Jullon A. Hurley, who I lk. ... ..!. InJl VrlilitV 111 lllu t uriivuu in uimmu wi .... return from tho Hpeclal session, futld that Just prior to hU departure hu hud a talk with Commissioner Fred '(). Iluchtol, who Bald that tho datu had not boon net and tliut uinplu tluio would bo given tho people to prepare for tho hearing. It Is Uio generally oxprossed opin ion of tho ruuehom that they will not bo (ililo to propuro stutumunts of all tho powor UBOd and bring other data for tin uduquuto Hhowlng hoforo tho Iduho meetliiK ou February 10, and If tho hearing Ih hold then they will ask that further tlmo bo given thorn by thu Oregon commission. CAIRO FARMERS Indian! ions Point to Kiron-j Com. iiiiuiitv llurt-uu Then In tho Vj Very .Near Future. Following a thorough discussion of the matter at hand by Hioho pros enl'nt fi well utteudoil mooting of tho formers of thn Cairo district last Friday night at tho Cairo Orange Hull, preliminary steps wero takou for tho organization of a farm bu roau, unit committees wero naiuod to completo nriaugcmeiitB. A member ship committer of flvo was appoint ed, namely: C. P. LaM'.e-. Ira Dale, lluim Oft, 0. W. Dean. Arthur S. King nnd.V. V. Hlckox. persons wishing to Join tho organization hhould got In touch with ono of theso men. A committee wan also named to arrange for tho final organization meeting and another to prepuro winking plans for submission to tho mombors nt tho final meeting. The next meeting takes placo at tho Cairo Orange Hall on Saturday nlgh.t, February 7, at which tlmo W. W. Ileal, master of the State Qrango of Idaho, will be present and speak on farm bureau projects. Cairo Is one of the last thickly populated communities of tho county to take up the farm bureau organiza tion work, but all Indications point toward a strong community bureau there .In tho near future. Mrs.. II. C. Iioyer la 111 at her home, ono of the many victims of tho prevailing "flu." "Cl'ltMJV" MAHTIiV Wll.h kstahi.ish ovmnasicm "Curloy" Knstloy, n well known PukIIIhI In thin part of Oregon, Iiuh been in Ontario slnco tho flrnt of tho week Interesting tho business men and young people In establishing nu up-to-dnto gymnanlum here, lllu en terprlgn Ih receiving cordial oncour ngemont and ovnry Indication points to tho fact that Ontario will shortly hnvo ono of the most modem gym nasiums In the stnto. Mr. Knstloy linn rented the 551m mermnu building and Ih moving IiIh oqtilpmont of boxing gloves, rlngH, tumbling bnrs, puurhliig bags, etc., from Vnlo. tin expects to IiinIuI Bhowcr baths and n Meant room, In fact ho will hnvo nu establishment of which Ontario will ho proud VALUE OF COMMUNITY Ciimmerrhil dull Hcrrrliiry Si'Im Fnrili Purpose of Special IMI limit of Argus lo Curry OiiIiiiIo'n Meiigo. P. LUHLIK llODV Socrolnry Commercial Club. Advertising Ih tho life of com merce. It Ih tho volco of Moiling. Advertising develops new markets and strengthens old ones. For some tlmo past tho Ontario Commercial club ha realized that trado which rightly belongs to tho merchants of Ontario has been going ebnvhere. An Investigation was ordered and an analysis of thu whnlo situation made. Tho conclusion arrived nt was Hint tho pcoplo residing outsldu of the city did not roa'llto how Important n point Ontario really is. When tho statement Ih maila that Ontario Is tho natural trading me tropolis for n largo territory often tlmo tho remark is allowed to pass without comment, and In a few In stances It Ih doubted, hut th i-"- has always lxfln dlspe:iiti witlnf lorlly upon InvoMlwtlon Thin nroso thn question as to Jiow to drivo homn tho truth of tho nwir"'' i to tho largest number of people ut n minimum expense. A commercial club Is usually n conservative body of public men which makes cortaln of Its powder and then fires. In this rase after months of preparation tho method adopted by tho Ontario Commercial club was to deliver Ontario's mas- sago to all Interior points by sys tematic educational campaign, and tho medium adopted wiih throic'i H local newspaper. The whnlf ito- could po be told li on ' "'" -" wc too big n task there fore a po clal edition of tho Argus will bo Issuod twlco a month for fi motif' dealing with dlffu ent phase of On tario's growth and development. This, tho first Issue, handles .mat tors civic; the noxt will deal with the merchants; tho third with tho Commercial club; fourth schools and educational facilities; and so on until ovory activity of tho city's wolfare has boen covered. Ily this method It Is hoped that thousands of Interested parties heretnforo not trading at On tario will at least bo mffldeiitlv In terested to come and look th field over. Itefore the series Is completed photographs of over 2f0 prominent merchants and professional men will appear, so that a closer relationship between Ontarlo'H live wires and tho huvlng public will he established. Tho Commercial club stands spon sor for these issuos and any sugges tions will ho ghullv accepted This Is your Club: use ft. Our activities are not confined solely to matters pertaining to tho City of Ontario, but we are vitally Interested In all mat ters relating to our torrltorv. If your friends desire copies of theso issues mailed thorn give us their names and wo wijl see that thoy re ceive tho whole series. Mrs. Henry Bejers sold bor 1G5 acre ranch on tho" Island southeast of town to O. V. Halloway last weok for a consideration of $16,000. PRESENT LARGE FLOCKS OF CROWS A MENACE rOf.NTV AOK.NT D. It. IIUKIT. HAl'PT, TOtJirriIKU WITH III-. OUHHHTS i:. i:. HOIt.V AM) I. V. (MHIHIM.HOX OP POHTI.AXD PIjA.V WAIt OX PIWTS. ASK COUNTY FOR $600 FUND I'Imii lo I'm? About Four Tout of Shelled Oirn, Soaked hi Arlrix, tit lilt (.'rounds Where '11 icy Connie giilo Nightly Hffoiv 'KiiIiiji to Itucist on ('Ditv Island. That tho original small flock of crows, which began roosting on tho small Isand, now known as Crow Island, about four miles ! road southeast of Ontario, nhout ten or twelve years ago, has grown to such hugu proportions slnco then as to Jin ja serious monaco to fruit and nil crops, nun even io sunep unit nogs, IH tho concensus of opinion of farm or In the Sunka Itlvur valley both In Oregon and Idaho. Tho present otl. mnto of tho hugo floak Ih placed at 200,000, which will bo Increased to a half million hy full If steps are not taken nt oncu to oxlcrmliiutu them. With this In view, County Agent Ilrolthuijpt called Into service sev eral days ngo Illologlsts K. K, Horn .and I. N. Qnlirlolsou, who hnvo been engaged for tho pant few weeks In exterminating rabbits In the wivst pnrt of tho countv. Tho young men nrrlvod hero a weok ago mid sine then have been watching tho hnhltH of tho crows Attack I,li Animals. Tho amount of damngo that IIimo crows accomplish may ho gained from tho experience of nt toast two ranchers, ami of II. II. Tunny of the Ontario Meat & Grocery compiinv Tho slaughter house of tho Moat & (Irocory company Is local d hut a mllo or two from tho nosllnit place of these crows and il'irlir; tho heavy Inflow, whllo tho crowH vo s hungry thev iiwl io I' lit ou llr hacks of hogs foelwis 1., tho slaugl ter house grounds and dollborntoly devour the porkers. They nlso attacked some jof the rattle, Ou tho C. C. Hunt ranch the crows havo eaton all tho corn off the shocks and rnued a heavy loss. On the K. S. A D. rm-'i It has boon npwNir' to c-.ploy n mnu to koep tho hungrv hlnlj off tho p'ico. I Whllo Mr. Horn, who ha watched tint flight for t-rt!l nights, place tho number of c-iwt, at two hundred int"iid. SIri' p. W. Jonns, who ;took him out ft flnt night to watch tlo-i. pImcom thi iicinhcr nt nearly ti i.'.llllou, and l!. t I., what tho lay- man would think, but Mr. Horn "unfd n nurr !' of flights and by . tHtlmatliti. ilio number to arrive In a given period believe his estimate, whllo conservative, Is nsnror tho exact number than tlmt glvon by Mr Jones. BISHOP PADDOCK TO SPEAK HERE SUNDAY Well Known Dignitary of Fpl-ropal Chuicli to Hold Kortlco nt Masunle Hull Kiinday livening. Illshop lloliert I,. Pnddoo't, Kiilsco I pal bishop of Eastern Orogon, will he I In Ontario Sunday to hold a special service at tho Mnsonlo hall Sunday evenlAg. The sorvlco will commence nt 7:30. Illshop Paddock has not visited Ontario for some time and slnco each of his visits Is a memorable event among tho members of his church thoy aro looking forward with pleasure to his visit hero Sun day. A cordial Invitation to overvouo is extended for tho service Sunday. Mrs. II. C. Smith departed Tues day ovonlng for Nampa to spend tho week-end with bor sister, Mrs Mc'Corklo. WORK ON JOHN DAY IS KCKNIO WOXDKItH ALONG ItOl'Ti: i.v hemi: slctions said to HIVAIi THAT OX Till: COMAL IDA HIGIIWAV hklow tin: dallks. UHITTO COST ABOUT S700.000 laical Work I'nihraces Present Acllx Won llrlwci'ii Calm mill Njs'.a and HurwjIiiK of tht I.luo Piom Hun. Ilnglon to Onliiilo mi Old Oregon Trail Itlds to lie Called For on Yiilclliognti Heel Inn, Approximately $1,100,000 will havo been expended on the great John Day highway y next fall, par tially completing ono n.lho grandest scenic routes, It Is said, to ho found anywhere In tho Pacific Northwest, rivaling In every way oven that on tho Columbia Highway below Tho Dalles. Vtiut Is considered to ho ono of the most commanding bits of scenery along tho Highway Is through tho famous fossil beds In Wheeler county, between Dnyvlllo and Sarvlco creek, a distance of about 48 mllos, running through gorges, or canyons, resembling In formation and appear unco that of tho (Irand Canyon of tho Colorado. It is ou this unit that tho heaviest construction work Is being dono anil will cost In tho neighbor hood of $700,000 when finished. Hut hoforo ronchlng tho fossil beds tho routo, It Ih bulloved, will be run by tho government through tho For ost Keservo across tho Strawberry mountains from Unity Into Prairie City. It Is a beautiful section, the mountain streams and Strawberry lako, near Pralrlo City, providing tho finest kind of trout fishing. Tho John Day Highway as routed runs from Nyssa and Ontario to Vnlo, Drogan, Sarvlco Creek, Unity, Pralrlo City, John Day, Mitchell, Fossil and Condon connecting up with the Columbia Highway at Olex, In dill lam county. From J. F. Joyce, tho Stnto High way Commission rosldont engineer, the Argus ou Tuesday obtained thn following Information concerning tho locnl situation, together with that which Ih bolng dono along tho Highway. At prosont grading Is under way ou what is known as tho government and stato project No. 28, botweon Cairo and Nywn, tho con struction of which will bo completed, Mr. Jnyco said, Home tlmo tho latter part of March. Tho plant for sur facing thu two mllos from Nyssa will bo In running order hy February S and will speed up construction con siderably. , llnglnccis Win king V. II. Drlukhnll, a locating en gineer ut Wolsor, Is now engaged In surveying a lino 40 iuIIm In nil be tween Huntington and Ontario. He Is at prosont operating nut from Wei sor. Plans will soon bo roudy for work to bo dono botweon Vnlo and Tlrognn, about 24 mllos That work Is to npon soon and the county will shortly advortlso for bids. From Ilrogan to what is known as tho Cow Valley section tho contract has al ready been lot mid somo work wus dono last fall. In Novombor Con struction will bo ronnwed Just as soon as tho weather will permit and It Is hollovod will bo completed somo tlmo In August. It Is understood that tho Forest Department has set aside $100, OOP for tho routo thru tho Iteservo between Unity and Pral rlo City. Tho unit between tho lat tr namod point and JmIiii Day, 20 mllos In all, was flnUhoiL last full and coiiBeciuently today Irif tho best portion of tho Highway, costing about $200,000. Grant county and tho stato are also to spond qulto a sum of money this summer between John Day and Dayvlllo, 3C mllos. It is estimated that about $900,000 worth of work Is already launched between Storvlco Croek and Nyssa. Wheeler and, Gilliam counties, too, havo expended a considerable sum (Continued on Last Page.) .Mits. ni:x hi:awi:aiii) victim OF IXFI,Ci:XT A'Plll'ltXS Word was received In Ontario Mon day of tho denth of Mrs. Hon II Sea woard nt Hums, on Sunday, following it short Illness. Pneumonia, follow ing Influenza, Is believed to hnvo been tho cntisa of her death, tho tho exact details woro not given In tho wlro which J. II. Senwcard received from her husband. Mrs. Senwenrd was called to Hums In Novombcr hy tho Illness of rela tives and remained thuro until she herself becnino a victim of tho dis ease Funeral services wero hold Tuesday at HuriiH. Mrs, Soaweurd was 25 years old nt tho tlmo of her denth, having been born In Harney county nnd lived either In Harney or Malheur nil hor life. Sovon years ago sho was mar ried to Mr. Scawcard, who, with her mother, Mrs, Finn, of Hums, two marrlod sisters, Mrs. No rah Martin, and Mrs. Nottlo Mnso nt Hums, two hrothors, Joo Kino of Ontario and Kdmond Fino of Hums nro left to mourn hor loss. VIRTUE BE PAVED NOW Pel It Ion Signed by Majority of Prop el ty Owners Hocks liiipt-owiuoiit , of HI reel Fiom .Michigan to Ciillfoi'iihi. Only ono resident property owner refused lo sign tho petition circulat ed by U. Hlrsch nsklng thu City Council to Improvo Vlrtuo street from Michigan to California nvenues by paving. Already inoro than half the property represented on tho street Ih listed hy tho owners. The petition will bo presented to tho Cltv Council nt Its regular meet ing Monday night. It Ih tho plan of tho proponents of the paving to havo thn surfacing laid 24 feet whlu with a 211 foot parkway between the prop erty linos nnd tho curbing. Tho property owners bollovo that slnco there will bo practically no heavy travel on tho street n single courso concrete paying will servo their needs. It Is understood that tho property owners nu tho north end of Vlrtuo street nro also circulating u petition to carry tho work thru to their sec tion 'giving n paved thornfuro north nnd south thru tho rosldonco section of tho city.' MKH. X. A. MACOMH, AX oitnoox pio.Ni:i:it, Dii:s After nu lllnoss of long .duration, Mrs. N. A. Macomb, thu niothor of I.ostor Macomb of Ontario, passed nwny at the ago of 75 years at Walk er, Oregon, Inst Monday morning ut 2 o'clock. Funeral services took placo at tho Congregational church In Welsor yostordoy aftornoon. Inter ment bolng mude In tho Welsor cem etery. Her husband died In Long Valley, Idaho, In. 1903. Sho Is sur vived by a sou, I.oster, of Ontario, n daughter, Mrs. Cnlllo Ashley, of Holso, a daughter, Mrs Itoslo Nord strum, of Handon, Oregon, n son. II N. Macomb of Valdez, Alaska, and n brother, tho only one living fit her family, O. T. Mansken, who has been a resident of Ontnrlo for years Mrs. Macomb crossed tho plains with her husband nnd night children, with an ox team from Arknnsas to Oregon In tho summer of 1877, set tling first nt Pralrlo City. From Pralrlo City tho family movod to Junturu, Oregon, In 1878. living thero until 1889, when thoy took up their rosldonco at Long Vallny, Idaho. Slnco tho death of her hus band, which occurred at Long Valley In 1903, Mrs. Macomb lived among hor ohlldron. HOMP.DAI.P. llltlDOi: OPT ACAIX Tho trestllng work under the railroad brldgo across thn Owyhee, river on tho Homedulo branch was knocked out by an len Jam again on Tuesday afternoon of this week, leaving tho train on tho other sldo. This brldgo was washed out about ton days ago. Train sorvlco has not yot boon resumed. HEAR MANY SPEAKERS I.IOHTIXO PHOHI.r.MH DISCI 'Hsr.ll IIV KXPKHTS OF TIIU IIDISOX COMPAXV II. I.. COOK OF Till: IDAHO I'OWIIlt HIS- Cl'HSKH fixaxci: FAIR-REORGANIZATION URGED Club Assumes Obligation or Poulli Show Made XecesMiiy by tho Cn expeiled XiiiiiInt or Kill lies Made Show Declared Heal Hihti1, Following tho G o'clock dinner of mombors of tho Ontnrlo Co'nmorcTuI Club, hold nl Flfer's Weilnwdny aftornoon, tho club assembled nt tho city hall to discuss matters of lm portnnco to thn city and vicinity. President W. W. Wood, nftor Sec retary T. II. Hotly had read somo In teresting correspondence, called upon mombors for expressions upon whnt should bo dono with tho deficit or nhout $90 crenlod by tho poultry show held last weak, Mr. Ilody ox- plnlnlng that It was duo to tho fact that thero wero nenrly fiOO birds on oxhlhlt when thorn were not over hnlf that number expected, necessi tating nn expenditure of a ronsldor nblo sum of money for coops, otc Dr. A. O. Mooro was of the opinion that that show could bo mndo self. supporting by charging an ndinlftslou feo of R0 or 7B conts, hut vas very much opposed to nn nntrnnro feo. 1 Io said that thoro woro morn and better hints on exhibit hero than nt tho Holso show where an admission foo of 7B cents was charged. That stato also contributes $7C0 annually, nhout thn same as Oregon gives for tho Malheur County Fair. A motion was finally adoptod that tho clpb assume tho Indebtedness. Mr. Drnuo, station ngont, advo cated that soma nrrangomnntH bo made so that thn high school stu dents could havo a permanent hall In which to glva their entertainments nnd parties. Thero Is no hall ado quato nt prosont, tho studonts bolng compelled to hlra n noar-hy Grange hall for ench affair. It was suggest ed that thn city hall rooms bo used for tho purpose- ponding other nr rnngoments. President Wood also called attention to tho petitions of adjacent school districts to Ontario and Nyssa which will soon ho filed for thn consolidation of those Schools, tho children being nearer thn Ontario schools lo attend hero nnd those nearest Nyssa to attend thero. Ho was of the bollof that tho oousolhhi Hon would bo effected. County Judge IS. II. Tost spoke upon reorganizing tho Mnlhour Coun ty Fair, which Is at prosont governod by tho laws of tho Molhour County Fair association. It should lx re organized undor tho laws of I he stato, ha said. Whllo tho fnlr Is it big thing for tho whole eounty, thn Judgo said It would always be iniir or loss up to Ontario to make It u success. The stnto laws riHiulrw thai a rommittoo of three ho saleoted from tho Grange, hortlculturo ami agricultural soolethw. beforo prlxe inonlos can bo lawfully dlshurtwd. and thoro was no such committee In existence ut present. Hut tho propo sition being mainly up to Ontnrlo, Me suggested that the president nppolut a rommittoo of thrao to confer with him In rognrd to tho selection of tin' fair committee After n motion wus adopted to that effect, the president ohoso A I. Cookrnm, II II. Twin) and II C. noyer. President Wood then being will ml away. Mayor Jonos took tho chair Soon aftorwards II I, Cook, of the Idaho Powor company, and K I., Dee of thn Kdlson Light Works, nr rlvod nnd tho rot of the ovonlng the club moiuhurs went entertained hy Interesting lectures by tho two gon tlomen. Mr. Cook reviewed thn re markable development that had been mado slnco tho open flame arc light was invented In 1870 up to tho won derful gas filled Mazda lamp of today. Kven this, ho said, Is only 10 (Continued on Last Page ) ! HIT 'fc 9HW 6. . .. A r