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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1917)
EAQE TWO THE MALHEUR ENTERPRISE SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1917, -- -- The United States National Bank 3 Total Resources Over $600,000 UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK VALE, OREGON THE YEAR 1917 Will witness a great change in Rogers News Stand. Larger stocks of candies, cigars, a great er variety of magazines and periodicals will take their places on our shelves, and we will strive by our service and the quality of our goods, to merit your patronage the coming year J. D. ROGERS Phone 98 Vale, Oregon The Co-operative Store will pay its first div idend the 15th day of January, 1917, and we ask the customers to get their dividend tickets in by the 5th day of January, 1917. We also ask all who owe the firm any thing to pay same as soon as possible as we have to have all accounts collected in order to determine the amount of the dividend. And don't forget that this is the last month that you get dividends on this year, so buy ev erything that you can use, as the more you buy the larger the dividends will be. Thanking you for all favors you have ex tended us, We remain, the Vale Meat Co., Inc. The first Co-operative Store in Malheur Co. A. II. CHESTER, Mgr. VALE MEAT CO. A. II. CHESTER, Mgr. VALE, OREGON WK WISH AT THIS TIM 13 TO EXTEND TO OUK MANY CUSTOMERS AND Fit I ENDS THIS SEASON'S GREETING, AND WISH YOU THAT SAME PROSPERITY AND SUC CESS THAT YOUK LIBERAL PATRONAGE HAS MADE FOR US Freeman's Store Vale, Oregon News From Over Malheur County HOG WEIGHS 564 POUNDS RIverdale Man Butchers Hog that Weighed 5G4 Pounds Miss Stansbury on Visit (Special to the Enterprise.) RIVERDALE, Oreg., Jan. 9. Christmas and New Years passed off quietly in this part of the moral vine yard no scrapping, murdering or marriages reported end everything moving along as usual with abun dance of snow and a moderation in the weather. Mrs. Charles Johnson, who has I'ecn suifering for several years with u cancer of the breast, is much improv ed and has been gradually growing better for several months to the de light of her husband and friends. She made a trip to Boise a few days ago where she spent some days with friends. Miss Elsie Gibson has returned to Cambridge to take charge of her school after spending the holidays with home folks. C. II. Spiccr butchered the biggest hog on the flat recently which weigh ed 5G4 pounds. The lard rendered from the fat, which has not been weighed was enormous enough to do a common family a couple of years More and more farmers are learning to butcher and prepare their own FINDS A DEAD BODY IN ROAD Prof. Hooker, of Fruitland, Is Engag ed to Take Dead Ox School, and Will Finish Year. (Special to the Enterprise.) DEAD OX FLAT, Oreg., Jan. 8. Dead Ox Flat is hidden by about a foot of snow. The past week has been very warm and thawing weather ob tained day and night The dry farm er should be pleased as such weather undoubtedly will draw tho frost out of the ground and allow the water from the melting snow to enter the soil and store moisture for the spring crops. Mrs. A. T. McDonald has been quite sick with a severe cold the past week or ten days, but has sufficiently recov ered to be about again. I. I. Culbertson is having butter milk hauled from the Farmers' Coop erative creamery at Payette to mix with chop for his hogs. He gets it for lc per gallon and a such a figure can well afford to haul it that dis tance. We suppose te milk is high ly attenuated but nevertheless would mako fine swill. Pof. Hooker, of Fruitland, has been enagaged to finish out the school year at the Park School to succeed Mrs. Chamberlain resigned, and ev eryone seems to entertain revived hopes of a successful finish of a poor ly begun school year. Mr. Hooker is meat and thus helping to cut down an oW war horse jn pedag0gy and is the high cost of living. fast gainjnf, the iost control of the Miss Edith Stansbury has return ed to Glcdale, Oregon, where she is teaching school, after spending the holidays with her sister, Mrs. E. J, Patch. The nnnual meeting of the 'River side Telephone company will be held at Charles Johnsons Saturday, the 13th of January, at 1:30 p. m. It will perhaps be placed on a more sol id financial basis and new phones will bo installed as fast as the proper ar rangements can be made, This flat is and has been for over a year, in need, and very much so, school. It is to be hoped the good work will grow better to the last thus making up for some of the loss sustained during the early part of the term. To the casual observer it does not appear that a teacher in this school gets the proper assistance from the patrons. A teacher to be at his best in any school needs backing. Some people are long on criticism but woefully short on helpfulness. When a pupil takes home a tale of woe it is bad practice for the parent to man ifest sympathy with the often imag inery grievance. This only invites and cultivates the dissatisfaction CIVIC CLUB WILL SERVE LUNCH Civic Improvement Club of Brogan Electa Officers and Traveling Library Statement Made. nf Knmp now rnnf1 linim nilrvnvnrl nnil opened to the public. The people here h,ch mW be Browing in the mind of are very much disgusted with some tho pupil. Rah, for Sinnott! As a result of his efforts to create a demand for jackrabbit fur, we note a St. Louis hatter has offered about 5c per pound for the fur. Now, nimrods, get nim ble. Unlimber your artillery and to put it very mild mov the ,fur s,fc Loutaward rapidly. n.o ii, wuuiu uiuy uiiie uit! iur irom about twenty rabbits to weigh pound one should be able to make oodles of lucre. But there is tho car shortage in the wajr. Oh, my! there seems al ways an impediment to rapid pro gress. We .were in hopes the jack rabbit would be exterminated in a jiffy. Dod gast the ding busted The Tuskegee Institute of Tuske- of the county officers' ways of doing business, or no business in this part of the county. Repeated requests have failed to get the proper author ities to attend to this matter and nearly every letter has been complete ly ignored and there is little love in this part of Mai heur for some of the county officials of the past year and some that are holding over. If the people here are not worthy of any favors why not be game and say so, llOBITUARyj kBaoBari.'SBnMBHBaanHBaH (Special to the Enterprise.) BROGAN, Oreg., Jnn. 10. The Civic Improvement Club met at the home of Mrs. Schlottman on Thurs day afternoon. The report of the 11 brarian of the traveling library,, for the past six months, showed a bor rowing list of 50 people, number of booke loaned, 130; number of books in the box, 55; amount taken in as fines, $1.91 and expenses for postage and freight, 74c. The report was ac cepted. The election of officers re sulted in Mrs. Willis being elected to the office of president, and the other officers were elected to hold over for this year, being M.rs. Schlottman, vice president, -Mrs. Goodwin, recording secretary, Miss Schlottman, corres ponding secretary, and Mrs. A. A Reed, treasurer. Mrs. Reed,. Mrs Schlottman and Mrs. Allstrom were appointed a committee to meet with the Grange committee to discuss ways and means for building a com munity hall. The Civic Improvement Club pledged $5 towards the building fund, and will give more as soon as possible. Mr. and Mrs. Dean and children who have been staying with Grand ma Tschirgi for some time, left for their home in Weiser Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Weaver of On tario, are visiting friends -for a short time. "" Mr. H. Seeling, who taught the up per grades during the fall term, is lo cated at Bonanza, Ore., where he is teaching 7th and 8th grades, and man ual training. Some of the boys have had -post cards from him Tho committees from the Grange Aid Society and Civic Improvement Club met on Saturday afternoon and made plans for the community hall. Organization was formed with Mr. Loveless as president, Mr. Mitchell, vice president, Mrs. Goodwin, secre tary, and Mrs. Reed, treasurer. The subscription list is open, and any con tributions for that purpose may be paid to the officers or to Harry An trobus. The following school notes have been handed in. Those neither ab sent nor tardy for the month ending Dec. 29, in the upper classes: Ernest Logan, Eunice. Malone, Cora Rouse, Pearl Tschirgi. In Mrs. Jamiesoh's ropm: Amy Pierce, Minnette John son, Anna Johnson,- Laura Malone, Margaret Dean,. Ray Chinn, Clyde Cole, Roy Viernow, George Pierce, Gladwin Tschhirgi, Raymond Glas cock, Dorothy , Cole, Ross England, Neil England, .Herert Viernow. Be cause of leaving, Brogan, Margaret gee, Ala., reports 54 lynchings for Dean has been .dismissed, and Edith On Aug 15, 1901, nt Elk City, Okla homa, God intrusted to the love and care of O. V. Holloway and wife, their first born, Lloyd F., and after the tho 1916 record in the U. S. as fol lows: Ala. 1, Ark. 4, Fla. 8, Ga. 14, Kans. 1, Ky. 2, La. 2, Miss. 1, Mo 1, N. C. 2, Okla. 4, S. C. 2, Tenn. 3, and Tex. 9. Only one northern state snort, nut nappy period of 10 years, with a black mark. Not a single re 5 months and 22 days, claimed His publican state in the black list Food own again from near Ins father's for thought. home, Ontario, Oregon. A Mr. Gay, a very old man and dis- To those who knew him best Lloyd tant relative of Mrs. Fletcher Better- was an exceptional child unusually ly, arrived at the home of Mr. Better obedient and thoughtful of his par- ly a few days ago to spend a few cuts' and teacher's wishes, not easily weeks with the family and other rel influenced by tho many temptations atives. He has taken a homestead thrown about him. in Idaho and came down tn Pnvpttn He first entered school at Bethel, to purchase lumber for improvements Oklahoma, from there he spent two on his claim. His former home was years in the public schools of Ste ward, Iowa. From this place his par ents moved to Ontario, Oregon. After attending the Ontario City school for ono year, he entered tho Newport, Ore. On Wednesday of last week, as Blaine May, a homesteader on tho South Jacobson, was on his way to the home of H. J. Benson of Moore's newly formed Lincoln No. Gt district Hollow, made n gruesome discovery, irom wnicn no graduated in uio com- finding a hat in the road and on fur mon branches. At tho beginning of ther observation discovered t.hn Hp.h1 this present school year ho entered tho Freshman class of tho White- Settlement High School, Where ho was always found doing his work faith fully. body of Jack Lynch, a homesteader near Mr. Benson's place. Tho cor oner wns notified and on Thursday the body was taken to Ontario to be pre pared for burial. It is supposed ho Having nil tho characteristics of a was on his way in from his usual ner- truo student ho was nlways a pleas- iod of outside work and attempted to uro to nis teachers and a favorite of walk from Ontario to his homestead his schoolmates. nnd was overcome bv fatie-uo and cold wo are sad ami overwhelmed with and died by the wayside. His only sorrow at Lloyd's absence, yet lined Known relative is a sister in Chicago, with everlasting gratitude to our Mrs. Ray Chatfield was taken to a Heavenly Father for having loaned hospital in Weiser last Thursday, suf- to us lor so iinot a space of time his fering with some stomach trouble. V.'' precious life, thereby giving us such a wealth of sacred memories. That everyone who knew him lov ed him, and that those who knew him best loved him best, is a comfort to us and wo humbly bow to "God's lov ing and tender caro of His own. Father, mother, brother and other relatives, with a host of friends and schoolmates arc left with an inheri tance of loving memories for which wo are truly thankful, MAY ROBERTS. James Davis has been poorly for several days and went to Payette to day to consult a physician. I. N. Chatfield is very poorly also tins winter. DEAD OX. RESOLUTION He it resolved that in the death of Lloyd F. Holloway, tho 'Whlte-Set- tlement School has suffered nn irre parable loss and that wo extend to the bcrenvod family this -beautiful FANGOLLANO CELEBRATES Miss nillle Bruere Wins Spelling Match at Fangollano District. Lots of Snow. FANGOLLANO, Oreg., Jan. 8. The people of Mud Flat had a little floral offering as n token of our sym- dance and party at the Fangollano pathy and love. hall and all reported a nice time. Signed, Schoolmates and teachers, Those present were: Eve Knotting- Mr. and Mrs. Will J. Roberts, ham, Clara Buere. Blanch Slayton. Annio Corliss, Fldrcnce and Willis Villa has promised to bo good if Corliss, Frank Spencer, Sari Willsey. we will let bygones bo bygones. Ho Edd Bedford, Henry Slayton. William might havo waited to see whether tho Hildabrand and Victor Uuere musi- Kaiser gets away with it beforo fol- cians. lowing Wilhelm's exampic, Charles- Wo are having a little snow, not ton News and Courier. mush but tnoush (or the school child. Johnson has been registered as a new pupil Tho boys of the school met Monday to organize a club. They have elected Allan Schlottman, president, Evan Allstrom, secretary, John Malone, treasurer, and Art Brooks as advisor. The boys will take up some of the ex tension work as outlined by the Agri cultural College. Monday afternoon, the girls also formed a club, with Cecil Logan as president, Alice England, vice resident Cora Rouse, secretary, and Eunice Malone, treasurer. Mrs. Malone has been asked to serve as advisor. The girls will learn to sew and other use ful accomplishments. A Literary Club, with meetings ev ery other Friday evening at the school house, has been formed by the boys and girls. Alice England is president and Leonard Cole secretary and treas urer, and Delcia Rouse, vice-president Mrs. Jamieson, Cecil Logan and Cora Rouse are a committee on programs. Rev. Luscombe of Vale held preach ing services at the school house Tues day evening. The Civic Improvement Club will serve a nice sandwich for 6c and a cup of excellent coffee for 5c on Sat urday, Jan. 27, at the Trader's Day Sale to bo held in Brogan. The pro ceeds from this lunch are to go to the fund for building the community hall. Every body is urged to buy as many sandwiches at 5c each and as many cups of coffee, at 5c each, as the ca pacity of their stomachs will hold. For the proceeds are for a good cause. Come and eat, January 27. WE CAN SUPPLY Your wants in Furniture. You don't need to send your orders to outside dealers; patronize local dealers and help build up your own city. At our big store will be found the best makes of Furniture, Upholstered Goods, Book Cases, Desks, Linoleums, Car pels, and everything to furnish your home or office complete. Full line of wall paper just arrived. TUMJ T. T. NELSEN, Vale, Ore. DREXEL HOTEL European Plan Vale, Oregon Steam Heat, Hot and Cold Running Water Rates 50c. $1.00. $1.50 Nice Warm Rooms by the Month $10.00 and up. MAIL ORDERS The Warmsprings bonds are sold, and the future of Vale is assured. Incidentally, the future of the Vale Drug Store is assur ed, and right now we are specializing in mail order bus iness. Send in your order for any thing, and you may rest as sured that it will receive the same prompt attention it would if you brought it in person. We are equipped to meet any demand for drugs, pro prietary medicines and sick room supplies. We specialize in hot water bags, bandages, absorbent cot ton, surgeon's plaster any and all articles needed to re plenish the home medicine chest and for first aid to the injured workman. Thermos Bottles, Baby Bot tles and Nipples and Rubber Goods in Great Variety. .. Phone 31. Vale Drug Store s z RANGE AND ALFALFA. land at low prices and on ten year terms at a rate of interest that makes buying cheaper than renting or leasing. Stockmen should buy while the buying is good as range and alfalfa land is going to increase rapidly in price. OREGON & WESTERN COLONIZATION CO. A. W. Trow, Agent, Ontario, Oregon. ren to go sleigh ridiiig. Dad Slayton isn't having very good luck trapping these cold dnys but wo guess he would rather sit by the stove anyway. Edd Bedford was seen in the Flat from tho Rinehnrt yesterday. L. V. Buere has just returned from Harper with' a load, o.f freight. u. J. Knottingham came down from Washington to spend the winter 'iir Big Mud Flat. Louis Buere has just finished a new house and. has moved into it. Jim Bunyard passed enroute to the mountains to cut posts. The children had a -spelling match Friday. The one carrying off the hon ors was Miss Billio Buere. 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