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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1910)
J: THE r r h , , JfWaKjcur enterprise AND VALE FLAINDEALER. Published every Saturday, by The Malheur Enterprise Publishing Co. VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1910. B. M. STONE, Manager. J. J. McGRATH, Editor. ONE YEAR, SIX MONTHS, Subscription Rates : Strictly in Advance. $2.00 1.00 Corretfponbence Advertising Rates : DiBplay Ads, per issue, 50 rents per inch; by the month, $1.50 per inch. Locals, 10 cents per line one insertion; 5 cents per line each additional insertion. Legal Notices, $1.00 per inch first insertion; 50 cents per inch each additional Insertion. Sixty (60) words constitute nn iwh. Table or figure work, $1.50 per inch first insertion; 7." cents per inch each additional insertion. Entered hs second-class matter at the post office, Vale, Oregon. Sloppy JScwspaper Attacks ANY paper worth its salt must stand being attacked now and again, and no paper minds a little scrap provided the fellow delivering it avoids getting sloppy. Some of those sage brush jour nals often fall over themselves for columns in the attempt to keep up with their desire to pour out their innocuous billingsgate, and the worst of it is that one feels no more like striking back than he would feel like delivering an upper cut to a baby. As an instance, the attack recently delivered on the Enterprise by a paper calling itself the Nyssa Sun, or some such name, and which was reproduced in a paper published in Vale, is positively unanswerable, becansp it contained nothing, and you cannot reply to vacuity. The genius which presides over the destiny of that sheet may be judged by tho fact that one of the leading items of news in its last issue was the relation of the fact that the editor had been invited to dinner, had "excepted" the invitation and had appreciated the grub. Now, what, can you say when a little abortive imitation of a paper says nasty things about you ? You surely cannot stoop to enter into an argument. There must be two sides to every argu ment, and it would be useless to stoop, anyhow. But, lest any people should be led astray as to the position of the Enterprise on the question of the formation of the proposed dis i 1 r y-x l i i i i tncts under tne noise-uwynee projects, it is oetter to say once again that the Enterprise is not in any way opposed to the plan The same statement has been made over rind over again, but some people have evidently not reached that stage of mental develop ment which permits oneto "observe the difference between oppo sition to a scheme and a warning against certain dangers which confront those interested in carrying the scheme out. The Enter prise never opposed the formation of the districts. It merely published a communication from Colonel Wood and editorially com mended the Colonel's views. That its position was the correct one has been borne out, and Colonel Wood has succeeded in convincing his opponents that "he was right all the time and, therefore, that the Enterprise was right. But that fact will only penetrate some mindsjvhen it is too late. Indeed, the Enterprise has requested several m'&j .who hold different views to express themselves in its columns but ijjpt one has taken advantage of the offer. The editor f the Sun of Nyssa is evidently too busy eating dinners and writfng about them to pay any attention to measly ditch matters. Of course, an invitation to dinner might seem to be a very important circumstance in the career of our esteemed contemporary and one could, therefore, understand why he devotes so much of the extremely valuable space in his journal to the auto biographical sketch of his career as a gourmet. But, the period occupied in the relation of his appreciation of cheap grub, if spent in carefully looking into the attitude of the Enterprise in the ditch matter, might have saved him from manifesting his utter inca pacity, and his absolute inability to read English correctly. But if the eHusion of the Nyna Sue can be described as slop, what can be said of the journalistic qualities that dictated the re production of the stuff in another paper ? Poor Malheur County ! May Heaven save you from your self-styled editorial friends. Vale lioomitif 'PALKS with the business men of Vale this week show clearly that this city of our's is marching forward at the double and has been doing so for the past year, while the near future has in Store an advance compared to which even the great strides of the immediate past will look small. Although this fact is exceedingly gratifying, it should always be borne in mind that citizens who are ambitious should never re lax in the effort to hold their town always before the gaze of out siders. The start means as much in the race between cities as it .does in a contest of sprinters. When a country like this becomes advertised in other sections it is a matter of vital importance that1 Vale should always lv made to appear as the chief city. Let the words "Vale" and "Southeastern Oregon" appear to be almost' synonymous terms as "SeattU " and "Puget Sound," and strangers! will be attracted here first. ! It is also important that every man, woman and child should' remember and associate the name of Vale- with all the enterprises, and, industries of this section. If ou speak of the oil fields re member they are the Vale oil fields ; remember the railroad is the1 Vale railroad ; that the Malheur project is the Vale .,rm..,r .i ; every other way keep this town of our's to the front. If care is taken there is no reason whatever whv Vale should not bo the great (own of the section. It stands in a'countrv second to none, but legitimate advertising brings its reward. Greater im portant is attached to advertising now than ever before as the dueovery of oil will mean the sudden growth to large dimensions of some town m this vicinity. The oil will come and Vale must be the town. 1 he business people of Vale should always be alive to the possibilities. It means fortunes for them. In the meantime, even without taking into view the great fn tureprom.se. the people, of Vale are more than satisfied, and the New ear looks bright and rich as gold To the Editor:- Permit me space to say a word in regard to the item in your last issue stating an engineer had been sent for to go over the field and estimate the cost of a water and sewer system for Vale. My reason for writing this letter is that whether we get such water and sewer system depends upon the citizens of Vale themselves, for while the May or and Council can obtain a plan and cost of same the people of the town must themselves authorize the improve ment through their votes, and so I de sire to add my word in urging its need and the immediate necessity that some thing be done. Sometime ago one of our town boos ters invented the slogan "You can find it in Vale." Were he to go away from home he would learn the reputation Vale has abroad is that it is the place to get bad water and typhoid fever. Those who stay here at home do not realize how much our town is being injured through our neglect of these matters. My work takes me pretty well through Eastern and Central Oregon and wher ever I have been the past fall I have heard of the scourge of typhoid fever from which Vale was reported to be suffering. Sitting in the hotel office in Ontario last week I heard one traveller cautioning a man who was to go to Vale on the morrow that under no circum stances should he drink any water as there were still five or six cases of fev er in town. Going on down to Nyssa I found the public schools closed, (one teacher having died and another being ill), and that it was charged they must have contracted the disease while at tending the Institute at Vale. I know also of a man who came here last (sum mer intending to make this his home. Instead, after staying a day or two, he went back to Ontario where he has since purchased over twenty-five thous and dollars worth of business property. He has said to me he regards the fut ure of Vale as assured and that he came here intending to locate and in vest his money, but that when he walk ed around our town last summer and breathed the impure air from our open closets, knowing typhoid fever had broken out, he decided he could not under such circumstances bring hisjfam ily here to live. Aside from the chief consideration, which is the loss of human life and the risk we all run, our town is being ser iously injured by the reputation it is getting and it is imperative a repeti tion of the experience of the past sum mer be averted through immediate steps being taken to install a pure wat er supply and a means of disposal of our sewage. Every man and woman interested in Vale and its future should do all in their power to build up a pub lic sentiment favorable to a sale of bonds for immediately installing this improvement. No time Bhould be lost, as with every prospect of a large in flux of new people the coming spring, the move is the more imperative. Thomas W. Clagett. MALHEUR ENTERPRISE. MODERN WOODMEN i CHRISTMAS TREE ELECT OFFICERS: FOR MISS HELEN CLARK The following officers were elected ' Santa Clans in nil the panopoly of for the year ending Dec. 31, 1910 by the jM)Wrr visited the reception hall of the Modern Woodmen of America, VaIe Drexel Hotel on Christmas eve, bring Camp No. 5496, at a meeting held Do- jn,r t() th(1 fajr vming Kiu.t of honor, Miss Helen Clark, and her bevy of Lyndel G. Dell. prc,tty iuie frjen(s Hs well as to mary J. Edwin Johnson. favom Krowp lip chiMren, H delightful Thos. E. Mcknight .isnrtm.,nt nf n,.,.i(,lls tovs. which cember 27: Counsel, Advisor, Clerk, Banker, Escort, Watchman, Sentry, El wood L. Clark. C. P. Stiles Lota Scott, J. J. Dickerson. friends, were heard to remark in awe some whispers that Mr. Clnus spoke in a voice strangely suggestive of the hol iday tones of Mr. W. W. Caviness of Vale. But that fact never hurt his reputation a bit and soon the horrible suspicion was forgotten in the joy of gathering in the lovely presents hand ed out in profusion. Mrs. Johnson seemed to forget no one, ond her guests big and little had a lovely time that brought p'eusant reminiscences. A Happy and Prosperous New Year To my many cuatomcrs and inten,l,v customers. Manager for 3 Yrs., Francis Ilagg. precious r inged from railroad trains and statues in miniature of the great colored glad iator to tiny mites of dolls. The spacious hall was comfortably filled with Mrs. Johnson's guests when the sleigh bells of Santy were heard in flip distnni'p nnd excitement immediate- v reigned amongst the expectant little or hay can now obtain the very best 1 DfAnirDlVfi i nnos Thp siisnpnsp was not nrolonced fmm Charles Thebaud. He has 500 i . ! however for soon the groat and only 1 1 f the best hay to sell as well as Painted China, ' Diamond TJio Vwlios nt nil tlin Thpsmnns from I r -m .1 1 - r. i . ' 1 . . . . U"U8 ..... .... ; mr. Liaus appeared ami, auiT mu , ,, ,..; .fnii:in(, a nnr . nwn n; in t lf ! 1... n ... vr.,,im, Won lBU J' ulm "V"V"J 111 have turned in their graves could they j ,.n..,iniu, ' i ...n,wr,.l in i,P si,:fi lot of the very UNCLE DAN'L WAS 1 crititnwc MNfUfAWS 01 ALLIUM J, 1U11AU VVUk j -v T AND HAY FOR SALE j U. W . Fropst Any one needing milch cows, stallions , p ih. , ,. T 1 vvatcnes, uut Glass, Hand Poi'n nrl Pi-i'vin TV Roscius to Richard Mansfield would bcKt hrced of iimrpniH nnrl. wnni (r II to le sate . " j only gaze at the production of Uncle i lH,ver tjrcsonio tas 0f distributing the 1 cows and young short horn bulls Dan'I at the Grand Opera House, vaie, I p)vcious thint,Si Afu,r the first eN Oregon, last Wednesday evening. The j (iuisjle shot.k of meeting the eminent Roman would probably describe the ..(, entlcrnan f;l(.e to faf.c some of the little ladies or, rather, some of their contemporaneous gentlemen milch ! county Droduction as "cultus." while the more up to date Richard would no doubt be satisfied with the very expres sive "rotten." Neither, of course, would expect to witness an epoch mak ing preformance in our own dear, clas sical temple, but there are some things which happened last Wednesday even ing that would certainly make either of those mentioned or any other sit up and take notice. If those travelling companies only did their best, no one would mind, miserable as the best of the best of them might be, but when they manifest such a contempt for their audience that pays its money as to utterly refuse to call the least attempt to carry out the pro gram intelligently it is time to make a halt. It would be a pity to stand by and see the people of Vale buying gold bricks from every sharp aggregation that t takes Bit into its lovely head to play us for suckers. As to the play, it need only be said that a drama, which proves one moment that one of the principal characters is at the bot tom of the sea, and the next moment shows him to the audience without pre paring it in the least for the awful shock, is really original. Such delight ful, painstaking methods as that de serve to be recorded, and those who obtain money by such methods deserve careful notice. He has a lot of fresh milch cows coming now and will sell them ut vtry reasonable prices. Mr. Thebaud is noted as a man who keeps only the first class brand of everything. of MRS. WEANT ENTERTAINS IN HONOR OF SISTER Mrs. R. E. Weant entertained last Tuesday several ladies in Jhonor of her sister, who is also Mrs. Weant. Whist was played and the following ladies were present in addition to the hostess and the guest of honor. Mesdames Morfitt, Cook, Dunlop, Wheeler, Ham ilton, Lee, Roberts, J. Diven, Claggett1, Geo. McKnight, Mueller, Hadley, Eastham, Martin, L. Cole, Halliday, Johnson, Caviness, Hurley ond Miss Florence Duidop. LIST OF JURORS FOR COMING SESSION The following in the regular jury panel drawn for the coming sitting the Circuit court next Monday. Thos. Walsh, J. Edwin Johnson, W. L. Gibson, George H. Bodfish, L. A. Walker, D. M. Nichols, Henry Sherwood, J. L. Pope, Frank Fairbairn W. H. Pennington, Thos. Turnbull, J. H. Fenwick, T. B. Fiser, E. R. Ehrgood, E. W. Grant, Wm. Jones, Frank Cummins, F. J. Johnson, J. D. King, J. D. Billingsley, Fred Curry, W- H. Pinkston, Arthur Holly, T. T. Nelsen, Frank Palmer, J. C. Beam, Bert G. Roberts, A. G. Kingman, J. A. Feltrm, Jesse Thompson, M. J. Philpot, Big Bend Vale Nyssa Malheur Ontario i Nyssa Stone Snake Rivtr Ontario Barren Valley Ontario Ontario Nyssa Three Forks Bully Ontario Vale Ontario Juntura Ontario Roswell Vale I W atson Nyssa Big Bend Owyhee Nyssa Beulah Three Forks Safe Banking is Our Business and We Want Your Banking Our business has grown to such an extent, that we refuse any business embodying a risk. We want the business of the FARMFR, the RANCHER, the STOCKMAN, the HOME PEOPLE. This Bank is For You We offer you the services of a strong, sound and safely managed bank, and assure you our assistance in time of need as far as safe banking will permit, and no further. This is Not a One Man's Bank Our directors meet monthly, and investigate the loans and general condition of the bank. Does This Kind of Banking appeal to you, as safety and protection to de positors ? We heartily thank our many customers, for our growing business, and assure you we wish to aid you in your respective lines. Our Customers Our Reference First National Bank fVale Best line ever shown in Vale and the prices are right. 25 year Waltham Watch Given Away Saturday, Jan. 1, 1910. 0. W. PR0PST THE JEWELER Malheur Enterprise Vale, Oregon Please find enclosed $ fa months subscription to the MALHEUR ENTERPRISE, in advance. Signed Address Subxrription: 6 months $1.00 12 monshs $2.00 Bayles & McDonald ! CONTRACTORS i & BUILDERS Shop one door East from Enter prise Office C. E. Bayles Local Architect Office Drexel Hotel T. A. BARTON Undertaker Undertaking Rooms, A street, three blocks east of U. S. Natl Bank of Vale. Phone No. 4 sa in a uiven i iway $425. Eilers Piano WflsWT . Sit" hi i We Have a Limited Amount of The Vale Hand is an institution il.ni .1......... i. .. . ni m .1 IIHI I. 1 11 1 r If 21 1 T . l M S IIPIUm i. Dill 1 uf ,,Ut rWtorwtic that c. -vv'4.c uui uuippririaie what ttiev poss.-ss If ih that they have one, and a y.od ,,,. In view vf the minor that auses iv.uivt the fact, but now ne It would he a .ity to lot it no OATS CORN and Ground Feed hceins to Im curri'iit h ir u ..,.. for SALE- MERCHANTS WHOLESALE CO. V. T. Co. Warehouse 0rvKvn To be given by the Malheur Enterprise to the ladies of Malheur and Harney counties. The Malheur Enterprise offers the people of this vicinity this pri.e as a means of establishing themselves in this country. 1 he Lnterprise wants to reach every home in Malheur and name)- counties, and it also wants to send thousands of its i ' copies to the more densely populated States so that it can do its share to draw from those congested districts and help populate the two counties whose resources have not begun to be developed-Ma heur and Harney. The Malheur Enterprise offers its patrons the greatest public' lty contest ever attempted in Vale. Read the Conditions of the Contest Mow Votes Are Secured In all cases where votes are issued subscriptions must be paid or prepaid. The full amount of money must be sent direct by mail, paid to local collectors i i i . or brought to tins ofhee. The paper will delivered bv mail or bi y mail or by carriers. a3 requested. Value Of Special Votes Price For every 6 months subscription $ 1 .00 I year " 2-0 2 4.00 " " 4 " " 8.0) Vote 250 600 1500 500 Who May Enter This Great Contest Any woman iscl.gible. provided condition, set forth below are complied with: l undid.ites mul reside in the district or territory designated ! r,n,l; i , ii i , , es to another after receiving them for herself panM No employe of the MALHEUR ENTERPRISE or member of an employe's family will be eligible .s . candKlate. In case of a tie. pn.es of equal value will be given each of the contests, tied. - T11Sr T V0UR HOME 3 DAYS A EXPIRATION Contest Closes Feb. 22, 1910. I' ' fu'.her inUnu.ion Jdr, ell CONTEST DEPARTMENT Ol" THE MALHEUR ENTERPRISE Vale, Oregon I i. . r r t t r