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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1916)
I .1 . MALHEUR ENTERPRISE Saturday, January 15, 1918. ready to go to work again. Cecil Madariaga has returned to school after a prolonged absence due to a sprained ankle. Anna Anderson, the Crowley teach er, visited many of the patrons of the school during vacation. The enrollment in school is increas ing. George Farber is tho Inst to en roll and Mace Armstrong has recently rc-entcrcd. RESPONSIBLE BANKING hSl jp li ;.f mte YOUR BUSINESS ' Your business is just'as-imporfani-to-you.as John D. Rocke'rf elltfr's business is to him. Re gardless of the business you arc engaged in or the size of it you need the advantage of mod ern banking facilities such as we furnish. We invite you to open an account with us and pre pare yourself for any unlooked for adversities that may be born of the present world's war. Total Resources over $450,000 We pay 5 per cent on money placed on time deposits with us for periods of six and twelve months OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS M. G. Hope President , I. W Hope, Vice-President . J. P. Dunaway, Cashier B. W. Mulkey, Ass't. Cashier Leslie L. Hope, Ass't. Cashier T. W. Halliday Geo. E. Davis UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK VALE, OREGON Mini e mm t School Department " Vaiit DirtctlM tf FAT CLARK, CoboIt Stheol Saptrinteadmt MHUHKHI t M-frU' 4-1 M r4-t"-M"i .-Erogan Notes. Plmer.PenmanshiD Buttons were awarded .fcflftenx students in the pen manship class last week. Tho general renovating which the school building received during the holidays is'keenly appreciated by both nuoila and.lteacherSr EolmogifathUep. H. S. '17 has dis-continued-Iyer school work in Brogan, having rimed t'o her home in Port land. Shorwill complete tho year's work in he schools of her home city. PupilB'ncJther'opscnt nor tardy dur ing the month of December are: Ern est Logan,. Kennoth Lockctt, Emmons r ' i m A I T 1. A Mlnnetteohnsonj Grace Clark, Anna Johnson.'GlndwiVTschirgi, Viola Ack ermon, Cora, Fem and Adelia Rouse, Evan Alttrom, Margaret Horn, Cecilc Gladys and Myrtle Logan, Carmol Lockett and Leonard Colo. Sixteen pupils are enrolled in the McDermitt school. This is the larg est attendance in tho history of the school, v The two schools in district No. 29 gave a Very interesting program Dec ember 24 to quite a largo audience. During -vacation weak a part of the program Was rehoaraed at the home of Mrs. WUmer Patch for the benefit of some who were unable to attend Fri day. The Annex school enjoyed a sleigh ride Wednesday evening, January G. Mr. Sam Powern furnished the sleigh and Uam and Mrs. Eunice Grant and Mrs. Spaulding chaperoned tho crowd. Eight pupils in tho .schools in dis trict. No. 29 will -write in the January examinations. Little Doris Froscr and her mother have moved from tho Annex district to Nevada. Doris will be missed by her little playmates in school. During the month of Decembor the pupils of the Cairo school were given a vacation of eleven days because of scarlet fever in the neighborhood. In Bplto of this fact a good Christmas program was prepared and given. Malheur City Notes. After a vacation of a week school has beeij resumed with renewed vigor. On account of the heavy snowfall, five of the children are unable to attend, thus making tho attendance rather small. Seven of the pupils have been nei ther absent nor tardy during tho four monthVpf' school. They are: Howard and Doris; White, Robert and Otis An derson, Gladys Howard, Ralph and DorotheiMorfltt The noma Credit system has been adopted In this school and parents and pupils are taking a great deal of interest in it. A certain number of minutes 's allowed for the perform ance of each task and when six hun dred or more minutes aro earned dur ing a month, ten per cent is allowed on a low grade In addition to thin, tho ono who has the largest number of minutes to his credit at the end of the year will be given a prize the clo sing day of school. Christmas Evo a program was giv en by tho combined forces of the school children and tho town people. Material was purchased for win dow curtains which aro to be made by tho school children. The Valley View pupils enjoyed a Christmas progrnm and tree. Miss von Ruaden's room gave n short play, "Christmas at Finnegans," that was appreciated by all present. After va cation these children were glad to get back to school work. Tho ninth grado pupils aro doing exceptionally well with tho advanced work that has been added this year. Verna Seweard and Helen Davis havo returned to Cord and will be en rolled in theschool there. Miss Se weard has been spending somo time in Westfall, and Miss Davis has been vis iting her aunt in the Steins mountain. Tho Cord and Mooroville schools gavo a joint ChriatmaB tree in Mooroville. In the Wado school, in tho Big Bend section, Edyth Swigert, Lyda John ston and Lois Scholes havo not missed a word in spelling during the three months' of school. Lowell Ashcraft of this school was absent last week be cause of illness. In tho Owyhee district thero is n little girl seven years old who lives thrco and ono half miles from school and has not missed n day since tho fall torm began. Just recently it was necessary for tho oldor children In the family to remain at home for the day and this little girl walked tho dis tance to school alone. Her namo is Esther Ferrell and all Malhour county should be proud of her record. The grading system that will be used on the report cards in the Nys sa schools is different from any used before. It aims to tell just how the pupil stands in his class and also hoyr well tho class. Is .doing in the work. The old system of numbers, or letters for numbers, never told how the child compared with other members of the class, and often made an unfavorable comparison when one teacher graded higher or lower than another. In the new system A will stand for the best work done in the class; B will repre sent tho next best work; C is average work and U unsatisfactory. If a child gets C on tho report card it means that he is doing average work and the other letters higher or lower. In addition to the letter which shows the camparative standing of the pupil in his class, there will also be a number that represents the rortt the class is doing, on a scale of 100, 100 being the best work that any class could do in this subject Thus if a child receives the grade C, 75, it means that he is doing average work and that the av erage in the class is 76. If a pupil receives a grade of C, 80, the number means that the average of the class are doing 80 work, those who get B and A aro doing better work about 90 and 100. Any standing below C means that more attention should be given to the work and any grade whero the average is below 70 moans that either th6 work is too hard or the entiro class need to do better. The schools of Nyssa and Arcadia were responsible for carrying out a community Christmas with union pro gram nnd 'an outdoor Christmas tree. The teachers of tho Nyssa schools meet on alternate Thursdays to dis cuss matters of educational interest. Tho books in tho reading circle course have been ordered and will be passed around tho circle. Usually a social time is also enjoyed. The pupils in tho Echave or Ore gon Canyon" school who took part in tho Christmas program are: Secun- da Laucarrica, Julia Echave. Dclfinn Coscorrosa, Virginia Echave. Martin Echave, Jesus Laucaurica, Julio Lau- caunca and Charlie Coscorrosa. Tho girls made pin cushions and the boys match scratchers to put on the Christ mas tree for their parents. Vale, Ontario and Nyssa hieh schools have entered the State debate league and are the only schools in the Eastern part of tho State to under take this work. Tho rules governing the eighth grade examinations will be followed closely this year and pupils failing in mora than two subjects will bo ex pected to re-write in all subjects in the next examination. Through an error made by the J. K. Gill people in Portland 'the wrong box of 'books were sent us. This means another delay in sending tho remainder of the library books to tho schools. r GREETING To the Citizens of Malheur County: We wish to announce that we have purchased the Drexel Drug Co. and have changed the name to "McGIL LIVRAY BROS. THE REXALL STORE." Profiting by thirteen years of business experience in Portland, we hope to make our store the best in this portion of the state, and feel sure that with the hearty cooperation of our new friends that our ambition will be fully realized. With reliable goods sold at reasonable prices, and backed by our personal guarantee; with accuracy and honesty in our dealings with you; with the earnest desire to please you in all your purchases, and make you perma nent friends of our store such will be our business policy. Make our Drug store, your store. If we haven't what you want, we will gladly obtain it for you. McGillivray Bros. Phone 32 THE REXALL STORE (Successors to Drexel Drug Co.) Vale, Oregon RULES GOVERNING MALHEUR COUNTY DECLAMATORY CONTEST Christmas found the children on tho Alfalfa Heights without n fir tree but they proved themsolvcs to bo moro resourceful than somo others and sub stituted a large buckbrush which made a very pretty Christmas trco. A good program was given and splendid time enjoyed by all. Mary Beelcr, Bculah Beelcr, Dick Ball and Mildred Ball won places on the December honor roll. Crowley Notes. Crowley school was opened January 3rd after a week's vacation. All seem to enjoy tho holiday vacation but were 1. All contests shnll be held under tho nuspices and direction of nn exe cutive committee, consisting of the county superintendent, tho city sup erintendents of tho three largest schools of the county nnd ono teacher nppointed annually by tho county superintendent. 2. Tho COUntV SUDorintemlent shrill bo cx-oflleio chairman of tho commit tee and shall preside at tho contests. 3. Ono contest shall be held nnnunl. ly on the last Saturday of March, in rotation, in Vale, Nyssa and Ontario. 4. Contestants must bo sixth. seventh or eighth grade pupils, and any school district in Malheur Coun ty, having pupils eligible under these rules, may enter ono contestant. 5. Each school shall pay tho ex penses of its representative. For tho purpose of raising funds to de fray tho expenses of contests, nnd to nrouso nn interest in declamatory work, It is recommended that try-out contests bo hold to select n contestant and nn nltcrnatc. 0. Tho time for delivery of a de clamation shall not exceed eleven min utes. 7. Tho oudience shall not applaud or manifest its approval or disapprov al of any speaker. 8. Any school wishing to enter a candidato shall report to tho county superintendent not less than one week prior to tho contest, tho number of tho district, tho namo and grade of the pupil, and tho title of tho selec tion to bo spoken. 9. Contestants shall nppcar upon the program by number, and theor- dcr of speaking shall be determined bjr lot. Precaution must be taken to keep tho identity of the speakers from the judges. 10. The judges shall be selected as follows: The superintendent of the school where the. contest is to be held rhall select three persons from a list of names selected by the remaining u t-mbers of tho executive committee, each of whom shall submit two names not later than March 1. The judges shall not be residents of Malheur County. 11. The following scale shall be used in marking: Interpretation, 40; Nat uralness, 30; Enunciation, 15; Mem ory, 15. 12. An agreement of two of the judges shall be sufficient to render a decision. In case two of them can not agree, the decision shall be ren dered in favor of the one having tho highest total of the three judges. 13. Tho trophy, a silver cup, shall remain in custody of the winning school until tho next contest. 14. Tho school entertaining the con test shall arrange the program, pro viding such numbers as will give va riety to tho entertainment. They shall bo entitled to the proceeds after paying expenses. Tho price of admis sion shall not exceed 25 cents. 15. Districts having a four-year high school may be represented only once by any one pupil. In all other districts contestants may enter again provided they are eligible under these rules and did not win the cup in form er contests. A girl doesn't mind freezing to death so much, if tho garb penetrat ed by the wintry blasts is fashionable. On tho othor hand, somo men aro a good deal moro generous at home than they aro down town. Compared with claims made for certain brands of pipo tobacco, the prospectus of a mining stock promo ter seems a violet by a mossy stone. HE IS Coming! Scit 15th Fan Burke Arthur Bauer Mr. Al. Jennings Himself and Company, in "BEATING BACK" LIFE STORY OF AMERICA'S MOST UNIQUE CHARACT ER, TAKEN FROM STORIES IN THE SATURDAY EVEN ING POST Audiences, for respectable A Bandit Story If you are impulsive, if you are oversensitive, if you have a quick temper, YOU should see "BEAT ING BACK." Complete Six Reels, in Comparatively little food goes to waste in tho homo where making his headquarters. a boy is V FIRE BLIGHT CONTROL Fire blight, tho most destructive of npnlo nnd near diseases, has caused great damage during the past season ! in certain parts of Oregon. The di sease has also made its nppearanco this year in certain localities not hitherto known to harbor tho disease. In order to prevent tho tremendous losses which usually follow the in- Morris Foster The animals mate and re produce. It is natural. The building of a home, the rearing of a family is an incentive to man to do honest work and pro vide, and the love of a good and true woman not only gives you added courage to face this old world from every angle, but is the best safeguard on earth. Al Jennings. AT THE REX ADMISSIQN Children, 10c Adults, 25c Lucy Peyton understand tho naturo of tho disease and tho methods by which it can bo kept in check. In order to meet the demand for information, Professor H. cursions of firo blight growers must P. Barss, head of tho department of Botany and Plant Pathology of the Oregon Agricultural College, will dis cuss this disease and the way by which it may be successfully controll ed, as part of a series of lectures pre senting the latest information in re gard to the principal plant diseases in Oregon, which will be given at the Winter Short Course, Jan. 10 to Feb. 4. THE VALE HOT SPRINGS SANITARIUM Medical Baths and Health Resort. Rooms and Board. Treatment of Rheumatism a Specialty - For Information address DR. THOS. W. THURSTON, Superintendent iritn YY-vn nr-rTATtM ct i xnm a nTTTHf nrniffn a xtv tr a t ts r a t tttttti nATmrnxr Ar-nriAHT yjijEj ii vi ormrmD oAiMiAiuuiyi vitiriiiM, iyiaijiuluiv tuuiui, uiinvjuis a