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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1917)
The Possibilities of Development for Malheur County are Unlimited Let Every Citizen, Community, Town, and the County as a Whole, tyork in Unison and Make the Best of Every Opportunity GUd THE BEST DEVELOPER Of a Community Is a Wide Awake And Representative Newspaper. Your Suggestions and Cooperation Arc So licited To Help Make The "Enter prise" A True Representative of Vale, and .Malheur County. Send a Sub scription To Friends Whom You WiBh To Welcome To This Country. The Enterprise Is Absolutely Independent, Treats Everyone With The Same Fairness, Is Always Progtessive, and Urges Your Activity In The Develop ment of Malheur County's Great Pos sibilities. Let All The Malheur Towns Work Together For a More Prosper ous and Better County. ADVERTISE IN THE ENTERPRISE The Paper That Is Read1 In Every Nook of Malheur County. It Has More Readers Because It Prints More Reading Matter. People Pay For The Enterprise Because They Want To Read The Best Reviews Of North western and World News; The Most Thorough Reports of Southeastern Oregon Irrigation, Stock, Farming, Oil, Mineral and Community Progress The Latest Market Quotations; All Filings in the U. S. Land Office, Vale District; Malheur County Official No tices; Real Estate Transfers; County Seat News; Correspondent Letters From Every Section in the County. ot Q-tary VOLUME VIII NO. 43. VALE, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1917. MALHEUR COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR COUNTY FAIR PROVES SUCCESS FIRST DAY'S RACING DRAWS GOOD CROWD Programs, Carnival, Auto Show, and Exhibits at County Fair arc Drawing Big Crowds. With weather favorable, the exhib its all in place for the opening day, nnd the first day's program of racing and other events "pulled off" in ship shape manner, the Malheur County Fair, the only fair held in Southeast ern Oregon this year, got away in a manner that speaks highly of the On tario citizens to whom the success of the week is largely due. The community exhibits of agricul tural products from Nyssa, the Bou levard, and Adrian (Bng Bend and Kingman Kolony combined) are all' wonderful displays of the products of this county as well as works of art in the arrangement and display. Other individual agricultural exhib itions, vegetables, fruits and grains, are excellent. Also the poultry dis play is very fine this year. The art and needle work departments are ful ly up to standard. Many automobiles are on exhibition and the auto show is a dandy. The stock pens are not as crowded as usual, but a splendid showing is entered, nevertheless. The first day's racing events pleas ed everyone. Alferata Sage won from May MaGee in the ladies relay, the fnvorite race on the program. Other attractions are the daily balloon as cension and the big street carnival of the Sound Amusement company which administers to the jovalty of the crowd throughout the day and even ing. Many people from all parts of the county are in attendance as well as o goodly number from Idaho, the Ida ho people having two special days at the fair. While the attendance has been fairly good, the farmers are now in the midst of the grain and fruit harvests and are short handed at that, all tending to diminish the crowds to' some extent. Schools Well Represented. The school exhibits at the fair are better this year than usual due to the untiring efforts of county school sup erintendent Fay Clark. Nyssa, Jam ieson, Valley View, Owyhee and Jun tura are all making an individual ex hibit. A large general exhibit is. also in place which represents many of the schools. Good Industrial club cxhib itsgfrom oyer the county are attract ing much attention. Canning demonstrations are being given by the various school teams, Wednesday the Vale and Owyhee teams held their contest, Mrs. C. C. Mueller is advisor for the Vale girls and Mrs. Lilas Bigelow for Owyhee, Thursday Brogan and Jamieson hold their contest, Mrs. Arden Reed advis or for Brogan and Mrs. A. B. Cox for Jamieson. This is one of the new features of the school work and is causing comment wherever given. Roseburg $3000 street improve ments here. Redmond Irrigation power plant with gigantic capacity being construc ted at Oden Falls. Hubbard Construction on new S. P. station here progressing. Vale Boys Escape Soldiers Arrive Across the Sea Ca blegram Gives Relief to Anx ious Parents. Seven of the boys from Vale, who enlisted in the U. S. Aero service last April, made record time in crossing the ocean. A cablegram received by the parents of Robt. Harlend, of this city, gives important news regarding the safety of the lads. The cable gram reads: "Arrived safe. Tell Emma." Sign ed, Robert-Elmer. The signature denotes a joint wire from two boys, Robert Harland and Elmer Harris. Emma is a sistqr of Elmer Harris, and the place of send ing has been stricken out by the cen sor. The rest of the Vale boys, who ac companied the above two, were: L. K. Bullock, Clifford Cole, Harland Divi en, Lynn Moudy and Clifford Wetzler. In just what country the boys are, is the subject of much discussion, and will not be settled until a letter is re ceived from them. That they have gone to England for avratlon train ing, or to France for active service, are conclusions, either of which may be correct. At any rate, they arrived safely, and the fact that Vale has sev en boys at the actual battle front, bhould make her citizens proud of the signatures that hang framed in the postoilke. Commerce Chamber Elects New Officers Vale Chamber of Commerce Names Robt. D. Lytic as Head Impor tant Committees Named. Monday evening the Vale Chamber of Commerce met in the chamber rooms and after voting the proceeds of the carnival for the nmo.unt of $103.00 to the Red Cross chapter, pro ceeded to elect new ofneers and direc tors. The meeting was called by President Leo Schmidt and the following were elected to the various offices: Presi dent, Robt. D. Lytle; vice-president, Dr. F. J. Brown; secretary, George Huntiiifeton Currey; treasurer, G. F. Wildhaber; directors, Saxon Humph rey, C. C. Mueller, Frank SasserTT. T. Nelsen, and Dr. Brown. Several very interesting discussions followed which resulted in the ap pointment of the fo'.lowing commit tees. Committee to investigate camping ground facilities for auto tourists and to work with committee of city coun cil to improve same: C. C. Mueller, Leo Schmidt and J. A. Hurley. Committee to represent Chamber of Commerce at proposed meeting to form library association: George Huntington Currey, Robt. D. Lytle, John Rigby and H. C. Eastham. Committee to solicit funds for the Sumpter Relief: Jay Kimball, Ross A. Soward and G. F. Wildhaber. Committee to confer with city coun cil in investigating needs of improv ing the city's water service, appoint ed after adjournment, Dr. F. J. Brown, T. T. Nelsen and Saxon Humphrey. Kennedy-Woodard John A. Kennedy, popular manager of the Brogan Trading & Lumber com pany at Brogan and Miss Frances E. Woodard of Brogan were united in marriage by Father Moriarity at Vale Wednesday afternoon, September 19, and left immediately for Ontario, from where after taking in the fair they will leave for a short wedding trip to Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Ken nedy are well known and popular young people of their community and have the best wishes of a host of friends throughout the county. DRILL IN NEW STRATA Directors and Stockholders Visit the Western Pacific Oil WellWork Progressing Rapidly. Last Sunday a party of Boise men and Gas company, visited the well and were very pleased with the showing that isw being made under the superin temlency of Engineer Gibbs. The par ty consisted of President W. N. Reeves, General Manager W. D. Mey er, 0. H. Allen, H. J. Syms, E. W. Johnson, Frank Ensign and were join ed at the well by Mr. and Mrs. George Huntington Currey of Vale. After all had enjoyed a splendid dinner prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Mc Fadden, the party witnessed the bail ing operation in charge of chief driller Chas. Besgrove. Many gobules of oil rose freely to the surface.of the water in the spillway after being emptied from the bailer. The new hole is now down a little past the depth of the first hole which had to be abandoned and now that the drill is encountering new stratas the spirits of the crew and directors have greatly revived. German Submarines SCHOOL OPENS Monday Morning Finds School Ma chinery in Perfect Running Order One Position-to be Filled Once again Monday morning at eight thirty found the students of Vale, books under arms, school bound. Every department started off with a hum which gives promise of a good year. High school enrollment is well up to standard and a few students are yet to enroll, who have stayed on the ranches until the completion of har vest. The grades show a little falling off from last year's opening week. One position in the high school de partment remains unfilled to date but Mrs. G. F. Wildhaber is ably handling this work until the board can secure someone to fill the vacancy. The grade teachers are all here and have already become familiar with their work and surroundings. Superintend ent G. A. Ruring is very optimistic over the year's outlook and says Vale will make a better mark this year than ever. Oregon is expected to increase its acreage of fall sown wheat DO per cent over the same acreage of i017. An incrase of 41 per cent in the acre age of rye is also asked for. TWENTY-FOUR MALHEUR COUNTY BOYS CALLED BY DRAFT, LEAVE WEDNESDAY FOR TRAINING CAMP Wednesday twenty four more of Malheur county's young men were sent to the training camps under the selective service net. One of the number, Taine Rcmick, who registered from Watson was given per mission to report at Camp Lewis at American Lake from Senttlc. The others of the 24 called, all left with the exception of Arritola from Jordan Valley who it is reported has not yet received his notifica tion to appear. In his place Templeton Rico was awarded the honor of going among a number of anx ious substitutes. 24 more will be called on October third according to the present plans. The boys leaving Wednesday were given a God speed at the Vale Depot and at Ontario were made the honored guests at the county fair. A second list, supplementary to the list furnished a few weeks ago has been certified back to the local board from the district board at La Grande. Other lists will likely be certified back later. The list was composed of Elbert Charles Johns6n of Ontario, John Irl Johnston of Parma, Irwin S. Moudy of Brogan and Victor Hamilton of Hunting ton. 21 Left Wednesday. Following nrc the boys who loft Vale Wednesday for service at Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash Official Rulings on Selective Draft Law Compiled for Men Chosen SELECTIVE SERVICE LAW Official Rulings of Provost Marshal General to State Officials Ex plaining Many Points. The following, designated as Form 42, from the Office of Provost Marshal General, Washington, D. C, dated September 4, 1017, arc Compiled Rul ings of Provost Marshal General, No. 11, on matters pertaining to the se lective service act. l'o governors, adjutant general and members of local and district boards To secure uniformity of interpreta tion, compiled rulings of the Provost .Marshal General on questions concern ing the execution of the selective-service law will be published from time to time and forwarded to the govern ors of the several States for distribu tion to local and district boards. Ten copies of each should be sent to each ooard. These compilations will be numbered in a scries of which the present compilation is No. 11. E. II. Crowder, P. M. G. PART I. (a) Requests of selected men with . special qualifications for special as signments or to choose a branch of the service. Men are not drafted for any special iranch of the service or for any spec ial work. All must report to a mobil ization camp With the contingent of cheir local board. When they arrive at camp a careful inquiry will be made into their special qualifications and, in so far as it is compatible with tjje public interest, each man will be as iigned to that duty or to that branch of the military service where he can render the greatest benefit. (b) Selected men not to be ;ransfcrred to the navy. The selective-service law does not authorize a draft for the Navy. There fore selected men may not be trans ferred from the Army to the Navy. (c) Requests for delay in reporting to mobilization camps in order to close up business or adjust private affairs From the day of the drawing every registrant knew the approximate or der of his liability for military service. Even though he had a claim for ex emption or discharge pending, pru dence should have dictated a shaping of his affairs with the purpose of clos ing them up quickly. The interests of the Nation will no.t permit any delay in the furnishing of the several incre ments of the quota from each local board. Tentatively, however, the dates on which the incroments are to go from home are: Five per cent of the net quota September 5, 40 per cent Sep tember 10, 40 per cent October 3, 15 per cent as soon after October 3 as practicable. As long as local boards insure that no man is sent to military duty whose order of liability is so late that he will not be within the quota, such boards arc not absolutely con trolled by the order of liability in sending men to military duty. While, ordinarily, men should be sent to the colors in the exact order of their lia bility to be called for physical exam ination, there is room for the' adjust ment of very great hardship, and lo cal boards have authority, in cases of such hardship, to defer the call of an individual until a later increment if, by so doing, they will not impose great hardship on others and if the appli cant for thi.s favor Is himself without fault or negligence. Local boards must furnish the pre cise number of men called for by the adjutant general of the State on the day named by such adjutant general and they have no authority whatever to defer the call of an individual if such deferment will reduce or delay the increment to be so furnished. (d) Accptancrs on physical examina tion by local boards of men who have previously been reJectiM on physical examination by military authorities. ington. Serial No. 783 England, George Barron, Brognn, Ore. 015 Liebormnn, Willinm Franklin, Westfall, Or. 437 Cockrum, Lee B., Ontario, Ore. 1178 Turcman, Charles L., Ironsides, Ore. 433 Beam, Thomns M., Ontario, Ore. 1045 Duncan, Cecil Warren, Jordan Valley, Ore. 1031 Riggin, Edward Robert, Ontario, Ore. 707 Parsons, Anson Harry, Brogan, Ore. 1020 Harris, Irving Arthur, Ontario, Ore. 75 Schweizer. Otto Herbert, Nyssa, Ore. RFD 772 Woods, William .Edgar, Bonita, Ore. 721 Godwin, Willinm Thoma3, Parma, Ida. R. 3 203 Jensen, Wilford Franklin, Weiser, Ida. 313 Rcmick, Taine, Crowley, Ore. 809 Brandon, Henry Pete, Watson, Ore. 550 Worthley, Bert Sewell, Vale, Ore. 770 Wilson, Jnmes Montjoy, Bonita, Ore. 882 Rust, Theodore, Riverside, Ore. 1211 Tate, Frank Lawrence, Vale, Ore. 7(i0 Rutledge, Adrian Shaffer, Bonita, Ore. 5G Reed, William Ephley, Westfail, Ore. 54 Spaulding, Jackson, Westfall, Ore. 050 Mngginc, Charles George, Westfall, Ore. 1032 Rice, Templeton, Payette, Ida. Some men who have been rejected as physically unfit by military author ities on examination for commissions, officers' training camps, and otherwise hnve been accepted by local boards as physically qualified for military ser vice. The selected man usually feels that his case has been prejudiced by this result. It is to be remembered that no man's physical condition re mains constant from month to month or even from day to duy. Local boards can not be controlled jby the result of prior physical examinations, and no exception in the operation o the selective-service law can be made in such circumstances. It is to be re membered, however, that a man may be commissioned or assigned to a training camp from his status as a drafted man, and also that before he is finally accepted for duty in the Na tional Army he will again be examin ed by the military authorities, (c) Assignment to nonmilitiiry ser ' vice. The draft is for the purpose of in creasing the Military Establishment. Registrants may in certain circum stances be exempted or discharged to enable them to continue in nonmilitary pursuits, but after they are selected for military service they may not bo assigned to nonmilitary service, f) No substitution in favor of draft ed men. The selective-service law specifical ly prohibits the acceptance of sub stitutes for men selected for military 3uty. The obligation is personal and can not be transferred. (g) No discharge for dependency not within the relationstiip specified in regulations. Local boards have no power to grant discharges or hear claims for dis charge by or in respect of a registrant when such claims are based upon the circumstance that persons not within the degree of relationship specified in the regulations are dependent upon the registrant's labor for support. (h) Credits for registrants who enlist voluntarily. Local boards have received credit on their gross quotas for men who have enlisted voluntarily prior to July 1. They will receive credit on their gross quotas under any subsequent call for men who enlist or have enlist ed voluntarily since June 30. No credit can be given on net quo tas for voluntary enlistment at any time. No man who has been called by a local board is eligible for enlistment in any branch of the military service. In case such men do enlist the depart ment under which they have enlisted will be requested to discharge them and direct them to report to their lo cal boards. If they are not so dis charged or do not so report, no credit ean be given on the net quota, but credit will be given on the gross quo ta under the next call. Local boards can receive credit on their net quotas only for men induct ed into the military service of the Army through the medium of the draft and who are actually accepted for service by the military authorities-. (i) Disposition of men who have fail ed to report to local boards upon call but who report to the adjutant general when called by him as pro vided in Ecctlon 3, form 25, In some cases persons reported by local and district boards on Form 140 A as having failed to report for phy sical examination, will report Jo the adjutant general of the State when called as perscribed in section 3, form 25. In such cases the adjutant gen eral should direct such persons to re port at once to their local boards. The local board should order such persons to mobilization camps as provided in mobilization regulations entering their names on Form 1G4-A and treating them in all respects as though they had been certified to tho locul board from the district board on Form 161. The dereliction of such persons in failing to report for physical examina- Name nnd Address Order No. 5 14 31 38 40 42 43 45 69 05 6(5 07 81 84 93 98 102 103 106 108 110 114 200 125 tion should be investigated by tho lo cal board and the result of the investi gation should be reported to the com manding officer of the mobilization camp to which they are sent, (j) Registrants called by a local board who have enlisted or who have join ed service aboard. All persons called for physical ex amination who fail to report arc to be reported by local boards on Form 146-A. See Form 25. In case the local board has any information of the whereabouts of such persons, it should inclose a statement of such in formation. In some cases such persons have al ready enlisted in the militnry or naval service of tho United States; in some cases they have enlisted in hospital or ambulance units abroad; in some cases they have enlisted in the armies of an allied power. In all such cases they are in default, but the final disposi tion of their cases will be decided by the War Department after the casee with all attending circumstances have been reported to The Adjutant Gf. nyr nl of the Army as provided in section 4 of Form 25. Such persons are au tomatically inducted into tho mili tary service of the United States as provided in section 3 of Form 25, and if they are located and accepted into actual military service of the United States the local board to which they pertain will receive credit for them by a means soon to bo announced. But until they afo so accepted, and until such means are announced, local boards should disregard them as a cre dit item. The general rule, from which there is and will be no departure, is that a local board receives credit on its net quota only for those men cre dited to them on Form 161-A from n mobilization camp. A second general and invariable rule is that local boards can not be credited on their NET quo tas for VOLUNTARY ENLISTMENT because all voluntary enlistments have been, or will be, credited on their GROSS quotas. (k) No date set for second call. When nnd whether there will bo a second call is within tho discretion of tho President. There is no date sot for it second call and, so far as is known, no second call is in present contemplation. (1) Local and district boards may re open cases. When a board is convinced thut it is in error in refusing exemption or discharge, it may in its own discre tion reopen a case and extend the timo for proof up to the time tho registrant is called for military duty. After thut time it may not do so. When a board is convinced that it is in error in granting an exemption or discharge, it may reopen the case at any time, (m) District boards may not reopen physical examination unless result is appealed. District boards may request local boards to reopen a case, or they may request the appeal agent to appeal a case in the name of tho Provost Mar shal General ut any time, but they may not reopen a physical examina tion or any other question within the originul jurisdiction of a local board on their own motion in the absence of an appeal. In case district boards feel that physical examinations have not beep properly conducted, or that the final decision by the local board In other matters should bo reexamined, they should request the appeal ugent to ap peal the case, or they muy apply to the governor to request of the Provost Marshal General n review of the phy- clfttl nviimlntittnti till t. ..lvl.lrwl ri n r r.n (7 of Form 11. i fn) No person not in quota to be sent with quota. A registrant whose oruer of liabili ty is to Into that ho is not within the quota of a locul board can not, oven on his own request, bo advanced and sent with the quota, (o) More than one selected man in a Teachers Institute A Big Success Resolutions Passed by the Attending Teachers Favor Hoover's Food Conservation Plans. With State Superintendent J. A. Churchill in charge the Malheur coun ty teachers institute closed a success ful three day session Friday, Septem ber 14, at Ontario. With such emi nent educators as, Superintendent Churchill, Professor E. D. Rcsslcr, Dr. E. S. Conklin, Miss Ida Mae Smith and Professor H. C. Seymour, as lec turers, the county teachers are high in their praise of the work accomplished at institute. Resolutions drafted con gratulated County Superintendent Fay Clark upon the excellent arrangement of the program and on the general management of the institute, thanked the city of Ontario for its generous support from Commercial club, Parent-Teacher association and general public. The attending teachers also placed themselves on record as sup porting the food conservation plans of Herbert Hoover and the administra tion, nnd ns favoring the County Unit as tho proper unit for taxation and ad ministration of tho schools of the state Following is a complete report of the resolutions as passed: Resolved: That we, tho teachers of Malheur county assembled in institute, congratulate Miss Fay Clark, county school superintendent, upon the ar rangement of the program, the obtain ing of such excellent instructors, and lecturers, and on the general manage ment of the institute. Resolved: That tho Malheur Coun ty Teachers' Institute heartily thank the city of Ontario, the Commercial club, and the Parent-Teacher associa tion, for the courteous treatment, en tertainment, nnd consideration shown to them during tho institute. Resolved: That we as citizens and teachers of our respective communi ties lend every effort to the plans of the administration as outlined by Mr. Herbert Hoover, for the production nnd conservation of a food supply ade quate" to a successful carrying on of the war. Resolved : That we as a body go on record as' favoring the County Unit as the proper unit for taxation and idminlstration of the schools of tho state, and believing that the future of the rural schools depends largely upon the adoption of such legislation necessary for constituting the coun ty as such a unit, urge upon the Leg islature of the State of Oregon the emergency of this measure. Resolved: That a copy of these re solutions be sent to the papers of the county for publication. Signed II. R. Douglass, Chairman, Mrs. May Roberts, Secy, E. B. Nedry. single family. Tho fact that more than one person is selected from a single family is not of itself ground for exemption or dis charge. (p Enlistment of persons after ex emption or discharge. Persons may not bo "exempted to permit them to enlist," nor, under the President's' regulations, may a person who has once been called by a local board thereafter enlist, even after ho has been cxemptd or dischargd from draft. This rgulation may bo modified by the President after all quotas aro Vale's Quota For Vale to Raise $75 for Library Fund for Sammies Campaign on Next Week. Ike Robinctte has been appointed chairman of tho local council to raise Vale's quota of $75 for the library funds for the Snmmies, He has ap pointed the following on the council nnd they will meet some time this week and arange the details of tho campaign to be waged beginning next Monday. The other members of the council are W. F. Sasser, C. C. Muel ler, A. M. Moody, Chas. Flynn, Ross A. Soward, Paul G. Freeman, R. D. Ly tle, Walter Powers, P. J. Dunaway. With Governor Withycombe as the head of the Oregon War Library Council, an energetic campaign has been begun to raiso Oregon's $25,000 quota of the million-dollar fund to equip every army camp and canton ment in America and France with li braries. Many of the most prominent men and women in Oregon havo been appointed by Governor Withycombe on the Oregon Council. Organizations are now being per fected In every city in tne state lead ing to war library campaign week be ginning September 24th, when it l hoped that Oregon will more than ubcribe her quota. The war libraries will bo issued to the army Y. M. C, As, the huts of the MASS MEETING CALLEDMONDAY CIVIC IMPROVEMENT CLUB TO DISCONTINUE MEETINGS Library Association to be Formed Invitation for Memberships Open to All. Because of the pressing need of all women as workers in the various de partments of Red Cross work and the inability to take care of other clubs and rightly do this work the members of the Civic Improvement club, which has for so many years faithfully serv ed the demands of civic work in Vale, have decided to discontinue .meetings. This leaves the Public Library which has been fostered nnd under charge of the Civic club entirely without a head. Thinking that the citizens of Valo and community, tho borrowers of books, will bo willing to Share in the labor of tho up-kcep of the library a com mittco of ladies who have been cleso- ly associated with tho library work since its beginning in Vale, have call ed a mass meeting for Monday even ing, September 24, at eight o'clock, In tho Chamber of Commerce rooms, to organize a Library Association. This association as proposed will have a membership mado up of all who ore Interested in seeing tho library main tained and built up. This meeting is open to all the peo ple of Vale and surrounding commun ities, there will be no limit upon mem bership and all are welcome.- If you are interested in tho upbuilding of an institution which will secure for your community good reading within reach of all and especially of our boys and girls, be sure that you attend this mass mooting Monday evening, Sep tember 24, nt the Chamber of Com merce rooms and put your shoulder to tho wheel which in its revolutions shall eventually give U3 a library second to none in the state. " filled but, for the present, exempted or discharged registrants may not en list voluntfy-ll. Jt; is. further to bo re marked tnat an' nppliacuon of an ex empted or discharged man to enlist would be ground upon which a local board might inquire whether his cer tificate of exemption or' discharge ought not to bo revoked, (q) Appeals to President not to be sent direct by individuals. Some appeals have been made from decisions of both local and district boards direct to the President. Thero is no authority for this, There is no appeal to the President rrom the de cisions of a local board, and appeals to the President from the decision of a district board must be filed with the district board fls prescribed in section 47 of the regulations and may not be sent direct to the President. To so send them will merely result in their return for compliance with the pro scribed procedure. (r) Meal tickets to be used as lodging tickets. Section 6 of the mobilization regu lations (Form 31) provides' that meal and lodging tickets will bo furnished local boards. No lodging tickets were sent as indicated by this paragraph, but meal tickets may bo altered to fit tho requirements of lodging tickets and handled in the same manner as for meals. (a) Certain classes Included in the (Continued on page 8,) War Library is $75 Young Men's Hebrew Association and thoso of the Knights of Columbus, while in addition at the larger camps, larger central libraries will.be main tained, probably In buildings to bo pro vided by the Carnegie Library Foun dation. ' La Grande 9500 head of sheep wero shipped from Elgin, Wallowa, Lostlne and other Wallowa county points to Chicago. Rcedaport New sawmill to be built here. CANYON ROAD IMPROVED Cottonwood Road Grade Worked into Fine Shape by District Road Supervisor and Men. Road Supervisor John Hanklns of district four, has had a crew of men and teams working on tho Cottonwood Canyon road grade between Vale and Westfall for some time, with the ro jult that the grade has been much 1m proved and is now in good condition for travel. This road has been almost mpaBsable during the dry months. Tho public will bo pleased to hear of tho improvement of this road cspeclaly he residents of the Westfull country ind travelers of the Juntura or Burns roads.