GJlje (fihttarin Argua
County Official Paper
An Independent Newspaper
Published Thursdays at Ontario,
Oregon, and entered at the Ontario
post oillco for distribution as 2nd
class matter.
O. K. Aiken, Managing Editor
SUBSCMPTION One Year, J2.00
P. M. Boals is spraying for alfal
fa weevil. This is tho first work to
bo done along that lino on the
Slopo, and It will bo watched with
interest by tho hay growers.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lattl? enter
tained at Sunday dlnnor In honor of
tho fortieth wedding anniversary of
tho lattor's paronts, Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Mahoitoy ofPayotto.
Mrs. Dlllard and (Mrs. Pcavey of
Oklahoma aro tho guests of Mrs.
Arnor Gcrton.
Tho letttico growers of tho Slope
hold a meeting at Park school
houso Friday ovonlng to decide on
tho question of where the Dead Ox
Flat growers should pack their Iot
tuco. Mr. Dean, tho director of
Malheur county, was presont and
gavo a talk on what has been ac
complished by tho association. Af
tor thorough discussion tho meet
ing went on record fuvorlng Welsor
for tho packing and shlppl? point.
Mrs. L. n. Ilrletllaupt of Ontario,
spont sovprnl days last week with
Mrs. 0. A. Karst. Wbllo on tho Flat
Mrs. Brlothaupt organized a muslo
class, and oxpects to glvo lessons at
tho Karst homo.
Miss Mario Hownril of nlrdlng Is
land, spont Sunday with Mrs. C.
Welchor.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wilcox, Mr.
and Mrs. Arnor Gorton and Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. Miller motored to Camp
boll's Hot Springs Sunday ovonlng.
E. Frost, wifo and daughters, and
Chnrlottq Brown wero Sunday din
ner guosts at tho Stanley Brown
homo In Ontario.
Mr. and Mrs. Clauses Andrus and
son motored to Bolso Sunday and
spent tho day with friends.
Mrs. L. It. Brlothaupt of Ontailo,
and Mrs. C. A." Karst and daughtor
woro dlnnor guests Friday ovonlng
of Mrs. Waltor' Davis.
Virgil Attorbury, small son of
Lnwronco Attorbury, had his tonsils
lomovod ono day last week.
Dr. Itav,loy MoVIckor and brother
CJnyton, of Boatilco, Nobr., arc
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mason
'Clough. Dr. Mcvlckor roconuy
graduated from tho university, at
Dos Moines, Iowa, in osteopathy,
and oxpocts to locato In tho west.
Mrs. Ainer Gorton nnd hor guests
Mrs. Dlllard and Mrs. Poavoy, 011-
'reserving
SID WftQTwir
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and a cool kjtchen
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this year by using a good oil cook
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controlled heat directly under tho
utensil. Your task is shortened and
your kitchen Is kept cool, clean and
comfortable.
To insure best results, use only
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Joye a several days outing In the
mountains last week.
Mrs. J. P. Walker of Payette, en
tertained Tuesday in honor of Misses
Rhona and Ruby Tomlln of tho
Slopo. '
Mrs. P. M. Boals entertained at
dinner Saturday in honor of the
birthday anniversary of Mr. Boals.
Music on tho Violin by Dr. McVlck
ors, with Mrs. Brlethaupt at tho
piano, was much enjoyed.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Tomlln en
tertained at their homo Wednesday
evening in honor of Misses Ilhena
and Ituby Tomlln and Jean Bartsho.
Tho evenlng was pleasantly spont
in games after which refreshments
woro served by the hostess. About
twenty guests were presont.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Vincent and
Rova Miller wore guosts of C. Wel
chor and wifo Sunday ovcnlsg.
Tho Dead Ox Flat basoball team
mot their old rivals, Wootlspur, on
tho Payette High school diamond
Sunday afternoon, and took them
to another defeat by n score of 12 to
C. This gives our boys a clean re
cord for tho season, and tho boys are
looking for new worlds to conquer.
Batteries, Culbcrtson and Miller;
Rolmcr nnd Harland.
NOTICE FOR PU1HJCATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. Land Offlco at Vale, Oregon,
May 24, 1922
NOTICE is heroby given that
Altomqnt Sutton, of Payette, Idaho,
who, on July 9th, 1917 mado Ad
ditional Homestead Entry, No. 05043
for NNWVt Sec. 14 and ENE,
Section 15, Township 17 South,
Range 4G East, Willamette meridian,
has fllod notlco of intention to mako
Final Threo Year Proof, to establish
claim to tho land above described,
boforo Reglstor and Rocelvor U. S.
Land Offlco, at Vale, Oregon, on the
Gth day of July, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses:
' George Harper; of Welsor, Idaho.
Chas. McBrldo,- Ralph Griffith, C.
C. Dodge, all of Ontario, Oregon.
THOS. JONES,
Register
. NOTICI TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed bids will bo received by
the Clerk of School District No. 39
(thlrty-nino) until 12 o'clock Juno
28, 1922, for tho building of a new
school house.
' Plaus and specifications may bo
seen at Malheur County Bank, Nys
sa, or at the offlco of I. E. Oakes,
Ontario, Oregon.
A cortlfled check for five per cent
of tho amount of tho proposal must
accompany each proposal. Tho board
of Directors resorvos tho right to
reject any and all bids.
JOE KOOPMAN (Clerk)
Nyssa, R. F. D., Oregon.
Thoso who deslro to register for
Mrs. Cox's music class during tho
Lsummor may mako arrangements by
calling. COJ. It.
FOR RENT Two room apartment,
furmlshod. Call COW.
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THE ONTAEIO AUGUS, ONTARIO,
AN ORVILLE
By MILDRED WHITE 2
Copyright, Mil, Western Newapaper Union
Diana's elder sister brought her
argument to a climax.
"Remember, my dear," she said
grandly, "that you are an Orvllle."
"Well," asked Diana testily, "exact
ly whut does that mean? First, and
always, I am uu American, and If my
mother chose to fall In love und marry
Into an aristocratic old fnmlly, why
should I be coutlnually persecuted
with the fact?"
Gwendolln' shrugged.
"Mother was a sweet nnd lovable
lady. You greatly resemble her pic
tures, Diana. But she wore herself
out endeaorlng to live up to the re
qu!rementsof father's family, falling
dispiritedly In the end. Mother's tastes
and ambitions were simple and home
ly, like J om s, my dear. The lest of
us are all OrUlles. And I don't mind
confessing here, In the secrecy of my
boudolr.Uhnf my marriage was made
In accord with the dlctntes of father's
family. I owed them that. Aunt Phyl
lis Orvllle talked with me often con
cerning my duty, and lknew what
would bo expected when Grandmother
Onllle, In my girlhood, sent me
nbroud. I was supposed to repay that
kindness by a gratlfjlng marriage.
And I did. Gordon Is a banker, com
ing from one of the finest families in
Boston. There wns a boy In the co-ed
college I attended "
Gwendolln paused. Her usually
shurp black eyes were filled with
dreams.
"Neer mind that episode," she
went on. "I merely refer to It to show
jou tlint we nil hnve our loe uffnlrs
and that they are easily put In nbej
ance. I admit I rather fancied this
stranger admirer of yours, until Lois
Adorns learned accidentally of his
boarding plnce. My dear I Think of a
man of the slums presuming to force
his nttentlons upon you I I declare It
makes me furious when I.reaJIze how
Lois must hae laughed In secret over
our humiliation."
"She need not laugh," Diana said,
her quiet tone In pleasant contrast to
her sister's excited one. "John Dalton
Is a nmn, whether he lives In the
slums or the exclusive park, though
that 'slum' remark is an exaggeration,
lie does board, he told me so frankly,
In nn old and shabby part of the city.
He Is trying to make his way up. In
his profession, alone and unaided. He
thought," added Diana hrncly, "that
w e could marry sooner that way. And
nothing In the world," the girl raised
her loely, fluRhcd face, "Is of conse
quence to John now, save our mar
riage and his profession." '
Gwendolln Jumped to her feet.
"Good heavens I" sh.e exclaimed.
"Has jour affair gone as far as thot7
Wlmt will father say, If you persist In
Oils foolishness?" the sister walled.
Dlimn arose.
"I don't know," she replied. "I guesa
I'll go ami nsk him." . -
Her father wus not In any room
of the upurtment which they shared
together, so she sought him later In
his ollice.
"Futl.cr,"'tlie young, loed daughter
asked abruptly, "what became of
Aunt Phyllis Oryjlle, and why were
my slstera obliged to live up to her
snobbish standards?"
"Ui ought up like a princess, I'll Ills
was," be bald. "We Orvllles hud a
ptetty line home, big stone pliice facing
Onllle conrn vl'hyllis Inherited the
propel ty and disposed of It, I suppose,
long ago. Foielgners and business
blocks luno crowded out the court. It's
:ulled plain Court sticet now. I ueer
drle dowu that way tarnishes mj
menioiles."
"Court street," repeated Dluiut. "Fa
ther, I cume to talk to jou about Court
street. It's where a mini Ihes that 1
loe." ,
"Loe," whispered Colin Onllle. He
stilled uow ut his daughter.
Diunu nodded. "John Is a eh II en
gineer, futhur," she went on, "und yotir
own friend Mr. Stewurt thinks a great
deal of htm. But Gwendolln Is hu
miliated because I want to marry John,
for I lyu an Onllle, mill he lives ou
Court street." The sentences came In
a confused rush.
DellbetuteJy her lather urose and
t;ot Into his coat. "We w 111 go and see
Just wlieie ha Is," he said. "We can
tulk things oer on the way."
It was u dlugy house of past gran
deur oh, ery far past, with crowd
lug stores on either side, and children
chattel lug nrouud It In a foreign
tongue.
CoUu Orvllle grasped his daugh
ter's una. "Dlttnu," he cried, "my
dear, this la my old home." He shook
his bend sadly, then smiled his whliusl
cat smile. "That, for the lasting glory
of a proud name, and a proud houso."
An old lady opened the door. Slio
was a tall, white-haired woman, and
she opened to them us one conferring
u ftnor; then all at once her sternness
melted Into ono longing cry.
"Colin," she aald, "Oh. Colin I"
"To think," Diana's father said
later, as the three sat In the old parlor
together, "that you murrlcd n poor
man abroad, Phyllis, my dear, and
wero too proud to confess to your fatu
tly. And to think that jou came back
ngalu to live ou hero In secrecy per
bups In want "
"Oh, no," the old lady answered htm,
"1 have made n living, Colin, and I've
bad so'tiie reiUlj nice boarders. There's
an exceptional young man stopping
with me now, n Mr. John Dalton"
"1 know" luughed Dliinn, tremuloua.
sturr) o)ed; "thnt joung man Is golnjt
to marry nu Onllle, Aunt Phyllis."
OREGON, THURSDAY JUNE 15, 1922.
THE PUBLIC FORUM
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All communications must be
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printed. The Editor.
OUU COUNTV AGENT
The editorial in your issue of
Juno 8th, entitled "Benefits of Di
rection" stales the principle under
lying tho employment of a county
agent by Malheur county. Prob
ably nothing can bo snld to alter the
beliefs of thoso who oppose our
having an agricultural adviser, but
in view of the continued opposition
on tho part of some of our tax-payers
to same I desire to state, for the
benefit of that portion of the public
which is Ignorant of the value aris
ing from tho work, why It is that
tho Ferin Bureau stands solidly bo
hind tho retention of tho county
agent. .
Tho retention of thjs official whom
Mr. Becker is pleased to call useless
and "a farmer of tho farmers" by
tho County Court Is primarily duo
to tho Insistence of tho County Farm
Bureau on same. The responsibili
ty for the employment rests upon
the latter organization. Our mo
tivo In this iscjthat thereby our coun
ty may obtain tho benefit of State
and National assistance which other
wise would bo lost. No man of In
telligence Inveighs against the ac
tivities of tho National Department
of Agriculture, or bemoans its cost.
The saving which it has mado for
tho agricultural interests of tho
country, thereby adding to the
wealth and prosperity of tho nation
Is beyond calculation. Tho work of
the county agent is designed to do
for us in a smaller way what the
department is doing nationally.
The space allotted me does not per
mit of a recital at this time of what
has been accomplished by the work,
but In the opinion of unbiased ob
servers progressive farm methods
and new measures are adopted five
or six years sooner In counties hav
ing agricultural agents than In coun
ties where they do not have them.
A striking instance of this is
found In the State of Kansas, where
a wheat developed by tho Kansas
Experiment station and distributed
In 1918 through county agents. pro
duced over .a period of years .an
average of 3.5 bushels per acre, over
any other winter wheat grown. It
would seem in viow of the higher
yield obtained that farmers gener
ally would have changed to tho
higher yielding variety. Did they
do so? In thirty-threo counties
having county agents in 1919, 1034
farmers adopted and grew the new
wheat, while In fifty-ono counties
without county agents only 329
farmers grew it.
We have an illustration of tho
same thing nearby. Those who are in
torosted In farm matters. know what
tho development of Hybld 128 wheat
at tho Pullman Experiment station
has dono for tho wheat farmers of
tho Northwest in tho way of in
creased yields. Over in Union
county which has a county agont,
ftvo carloads of this seed were sown
last fall; while In Baker County ad
joining where, they aro saving the
salary of a county agont none was
sowed so far as can bo learned. In
Union county there are more than
160 silos; there are but few in Ba
ker county. Sulphur and land
plnster tiro applied to alfalfa In
Union as a wido-sproad practice,
whllo In Baker county tho applica
tion is rare.
Other illustrations of the benefits
which follow tho employment of a
live county ngont could bo given.
If Mr. Becker and his confreres will
tako the trouble to Inform them
selves as to what is being done by
the county agent nnd the Farm Bu
reau to improve conditions as they
now exist amongst our farmers they
will find they represent tho only
construct,lvo force that Is Booking
to improve fiose conditions.
Tho Farm Bureau has no quarrol
with Mr. Beckor or anyone olse over
the subject ofBOOd schools or of
their teachers being well paid. Wo
stand for more and better schooling,
not less. Howevter, Mr. Beckor's
statement that tho salary of the
county agent comes directly out of
tho pockets of the tax-payers of the
county Is only partially true. In
ono way tho county really pays none
of It whatever. Tho budget for this
year nnd for the years heretofore
has been made up from funds sup
plied from Malheur county, the State
ot Oregon, and the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. The county
' .ama wat AAnUlhl
has never yet contributed nn amount
equal to the county agent's salary
and in effect tho salary is paid by
tho State of Oregon and tho U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Tho
money which the' cpunty appropri
ates Is nearly, but not quite, suffi
cient to pay the current expenses of
conducting tho work. In other
words, the county appropriates neart
ly enough money each year (this
year tho amount is ?2G00i00) to
pay for office expenses, including
stenographic assistance, office sup
plies and equipment, car upkeep and
travelling expenses. It amounts
practically to payment by tho coun
ty of tho current oxponses Incident
to the work of a county agent fur
nished us by the State and Federal
Governments.
Thomas W. Clagett.
EXCURSION KATES MADE
TO PORTLAND FESTIVAL
On account of tho annual Rose
Festival at Portland, Ore., June 20
to 23, the Southern Pacific an
nounces that it will grant excursion
rates to Portland on Juno 16, 17, 18
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Pacific Northwest and inasmuch as
it follows close upon the Shrlno
convention in San Francisco the
railroads look for an unusually
large attendance at the celebration.
SERVICES AT CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCH SUNDAY
Services will be hold at tho Con
gregational church, next Sunday.
Rov. LaVerne Phlllpott of Bolso,
who will act as student pastor In
Ontario this summer, will preach.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rov. C. W. Du Bols will hold
Episcopal services In tho Masonic
Hall Sunday evening, Juno 18 at 8
o'clock. A cordial , welcome Is ex
tended to all.
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