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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1918)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1016 Mge four Tti'E Ivf ALHEUR ENTERPRISE 1 I; Malheur County Community News RIVERDALE .Completing New Pumping Plant ' Pioneer Resident is Called By Death. 1 P.tVEr.PAIiE. Ore., Nov. 0. Very little interest has been taken in the political campaign or election by our people this year. They arc moro in terested in the winning of the war. Lincoln and Annex schools have been closed for an indefinite period or until the influenza the new fashion ed name for lagrippe has run its cour se. . J. W. Cranor is homo from Wyo ming where he has been employed as carpenter in the oil fields sinco early last spring. Mr Cranor is look ing well and seems to have been enjoy ing the best of health while away. Miss Hassic Brookshirc is much im proved after having gone through after effects of being vaccinated for small pox at Boise some weeks ago and will soon bq out again. Mrs. Wright and little daughter of Utah are visiting the family of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Record. E. E. Record is busy packing his fine apple crop, the only fruit on the Flat this year. His orchard could bo called an everbearing, it never fails, even when all other orchards are slack' crs. Pasture and grazing were never be tter at this time of year, and stock of all kinds doing well. Very little hay is being fed or sold. Contractor Baker is progressing very nicely onthe concrete pump house af the Malheur District Improvement Company. The concrcto work will prehaps be completed this week. Carl and Otis Brookshire are fast recovering from severe cases of influenza. Carl will leave for. camp Lewis in a few days or just as he is able to make the trip. No new cases of influenza or la grippe to report and it is hoped the bone recking animals will take their departure. The price of fat hogs has dropped just as they are ready to be placed on tho market. However pork and bacon is going the other way, breakfast bacon being 53 cents, and all indicat ions point to its going higher and fat hogs will prehaps bo lower, until near ly all is out of the farmers hands, when the price will bound upwards on account of the "scarcity of hogs." It is with much regret that we note tho death of Mrs. Charles Johnson JOINT PUBLIC S ALE HAVING LEASED OUR RANCHES WE'WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION, WITHOUT RESERVE, AT THE SCHLOTT MAN RANCH, JUST EAST OF BROGAN, OREGON, ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY TUESDA Y November 12, 1918 AT 11:00 A.M. FREE LUNCH AT NOON ARTICLES IN SALE INCLUDE G head Work Horses 7 head Cattle G hend Calves Large number Fine Hogs .1 Duroc Boar Small Pigs Poultry Farm Machinery and Equipment Including: PIowh, Harrows, Hny Derrick, (iiih Engines, Separators, Wagons, Hacks etc. Various Articles of Household Furniture Including: Shoves Tables, Kitchen Ware and Bedroom Sets. TERMS OF SALE: ' All minis of $10 and under, Cash. On (hiuiih over $10, six mouths time will )be given on bankable notes drawing , 10 per cent interest per annum. H. SCHLOTTMAN) L. F. TSCHIRGI Owners an old resident here, which secured early Monday morning. Mrs. Johnson has. been sorely afflicted with a can cer of the breast for many years and for tho past few months has steadly grown more feeble until the end came She will be much missed by all who have known her so long as neighbor and friend. She loaves a husband and married daughter and to these wo join in expressing sincere sympathy in this hour of greatest bereavement. SAND HOLLOW Finish Fall Farm Work Organize Sunday School Work For Winter. SAND HOLLOW, Oregon, Nov. 8, 1918 Tho fall plowing is nearly fin ished and how glad the farmers and horses will be when it is. School was closed Friday by order of the State Board of Health. There are, as yet, no cases of influenza in this section. It was thought" that a case existed at Russclls Thursday. A physician was called and although the case was a suspicious one it was found not to be and several parties were made happy again. 'Mr. Craig and wife accompanied by Mr. Doano made a business trip to Vale Friday. Mr. Allen Twebaugh has gone to the hills with Gordons sheep and ex pects to b.e out a month or more. The grass is coming on nicely again and all range stuff should do well for a while. Trent Johnson and family motored to Ontario Sunday .and spent the day visiting relatives and friends. The people of tho community gath ered at the Russell home last week and organized a Sunday school. It was thought best not to take up tho work until after the influenza epidem ic had passed. Mr. and Mrs. G. M Trcgaskis vis itcd with Miss Curtis Friday evening and left Sunday for Raymond, Wash ington. Mr. Wm. Snider and wife and Mr. Kerr of Ontario, passed through here Saturday enroute to the Owyhee Can yon in search of a location for a stock farm. P. II. Johnson came down from the Hole In The Ground Friday and he says the grass is coming on fine. R. J. Prewctt returned homo from near Twin Falls late last week. Mrs. Ernest Hopper is on the sick list this week. Mrs. T. Cornforth and daughters visited the Robbins family Thursday. her husband while the schools are closed. John Fogle and wife have rented Mr. Beawmonts ranch, and the lat ter expects to spend tho winter in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs John E. Johnson and grandson Max- Johnson left for their home at Vale Monday. Mrs.- Johnson has been staying with her daughter Mrs. LeMoine while Mr. Johnson has been surveying on the Owyhee. Mr. Parsons of Apple Valley, who purchased the Sheldon ranch, is busy moving and getting installed in his new home. Mr.. Sheldon and family have moved to Boise. E. M. Blodgctt and family motored to Vale Friday of last week. A. C. Gundersen was a Nyssa vis itor Tuesday. f Mr Lukes and family are fully set tled in the Page home. Bob Wallace and family have mov. ed to the Walters house on the west side of the Kolony. ONTARIO Son Killed On Firing Line In France Influenza Claims First Victim. KINGMAN KOLONY Threshes 10,000 Pounds Beans from Seven Acres Estimate Cost of Drainage. J. M. SWANSON Auctioneer . KINGMAN, Ore., Nov. 7. A corps of engineers are here surveying and estimating the cost of the proposed drainage system for the Kolony farm ers. Several good crops of beans were raised in tho Kolony this year. Mr. Fogle has his all threshed and sold. He had over ten thousand pounds from seven acres. There aro no "flu" cases in the Kolony yet. However school has been closed for the past two weeks as n precautionary means to prevent its getting started. Robert Overstreet has returned from O. A. C. where ho went to take an officers training course. The Gov ernment has decided not to take boys under nineteen at present. II. R. Scott is to be ono of Malheur county's quota to leave on the 10th. Mr. Olson of the P. L. S. company, was in the Kolony the last of the week measuring the hay they have purch ased for tho winter. Chas. Milar of Drewsey was in the Kolony Saturday on business for the P. L. S. company. J. W. Ewing is spending tho week in Ontario. Proffessor Highsmith has moved into the Ewing place. Mrs. Highsmith who has been teaching school nt West- fall arrived Wednesday to stay with To our Customers, Friends and the Public The high cost of merchandise, the increase in freight and interest rates calls for double duty for our working Capital and makes it necessary to call attention again to the fact that we will appreciate having our credit custom ers take care of their monthly bills when statement is re ceived. Trusting to have your co-operation along this line we are Yours resp't ONTARIO, Ore., Nov. 8. Mr. and Mrs. Norris Lamb were here Sunday from near Caldwell where they have recently purchased a ranch. A. II. Chester from Vale was here Tuesday returning from Portland hav ing shipped a car load of cattle and hogs to the market there. The infant son of Mr and Mrs. Wm Kime died at Nampa last week from Spanish influenza. They have just moved here from Portland and was visiting Mrs. Kime's sister at Nampa when tke baby died. He was buried here Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Kime have tho sympathy of the entire com munity. Mrs. Alvah Highsmith a teacher from Westfall was here this week. The schools being closed there at pres ent. Mrs. Highsmith is going to Nys sa to spend a few days with her hus band who is one of the teachers there. E. F. and Johnie Seaweard went to Whitehorse on business this week. Gerald Standfield was in town Sun day from his ranch near here. Hnrvy Test is here visiting his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Test, from the naval training camp near Seattle. A number of, the boys were allowed to come home to vote November 6. Ham Brown from Nyssa was in town on business Thursday. Charlie Johnson received word this morning that their son had been kill ed in action in France. Mamie Rimers who had been cook: ing at Fifers died at Payette Wed nesday morning from Spanish influ enza. The news of her death came as a shock to her many friends. The funeral services will be held at Pay ette Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Brown received a letter from their son Glenn saying he was on a two weeks furlough at Malo resort France. Glenn's many friends here will be glad to know he is getting along so well. He has been in Franco over a year. From the peace news this morning his parents entertain some hope of his being home for Christmas. Mis. M. E. Dowling went to Boise this week. A. Zimmerman returned home Wed nesday from the east. Mr. Zimmer man says Ontario is having influen za in a very light form compared with some eastern cities he has visit ed lately. G. W. Mcssce died this week in the hospital from influenza. He leaves a wife and eight children to mourn his loss. The influenza situation remains about tho same. All cases are quar antined nnd the doctors report the situation well in hand. BIG BEND Voters Interested in County Contest Allied War Drive Planned to Win STORES AT VALE, CRANE. RIVERSIDE. OREGON VALE TRADING CO. We Specialize In Quantity and Quality in Everything: Under the Sun. DEPARTMENT CLOTHING DRY GOODS HARDWARE GROCERY IMPLEMENTS 4 BIG BEND, Oregon, November 7 George Swigert received word Frl day of the death of his mother in the East. Mm. Swigert hns visited rel atives here and made many friends who will bo sorry to learn of the death. James Nurse was in Valo Monday. School opened in District 47 Monday morning. Little Helen Cartright hns been on tho sick list the past weok. Miss Cuthbort was a county seat visitor Monday. W. J. Robinson and son Wayne went went to Ironsides Monday. Mr nnd Mrs Clarence Loi-dand nre tho parents of a daughter born Nov. 3. E. L. Tate and son Lewis and Mr. Gil were in Caldwell Tuesd iy. Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Klnhr Sunday November third n son. Tho committee in charge of the Uni'ed Wnr Work Drive have their plans well laid to keep the reputation of Big Bend in responding quickly to government calls. Mr. nnd Mrs. John Boswell and children wont to Vale Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Welsh and family went to Caldwell Tuesday to vote. EUction day passed very ciuickly in the Bend no particular interest being manifested as shown by the fact that chief interest centered around theftght there were only 54 votes cast. The for representative in which P. J. Gallngher won in the Bend over C. M. Crandall, the vote being 27 to 14, and also the contest for county judge which E. H. Test won largely over Judge Mc Knight tho vote being 41 to 13. Did one of these 200 letters come to you? , ... A DUSTY courier slid off his motor-cycle at the big double hut in a French town and tramped up to the canteen. "Got a note for' the secretary from my commanding officer, he said! He handed a piece of paper across the counter to a smiling middle-aged man. This is the note the Secretary read: We landed here three days ago miles from anywhere. Canjrou send us some supplies, especially writing paper? This is the first chance the boys have had t . ,:, to write home and we have no paper to give them. The older man' looked up and grinned. "Got you away off in the woods, have they?'.' - j , "I'll say they have 1" -..x "Can you carry anything? "All you'll give me!" From the shelves the secretary took big packages of paper and envelopes. "Too much ? " He asked. "It will be gone ten minutes after I get back!" said the boy. "Tonight," the secretary went on, 'Til drive out a truck with more supplies and a man to stay with you. And tell the boys that if their letters are finished, I'll bring them back with me tonight, and get-them into the mails." An "hour later that motor-cyclist whizzed into camp, loaded down with writing paper, and in ten minutes letters were being written p 200 American homes. The United War Work organizations know what letters mean to American soldiers. They know that fighters want to get letters and want to write letters. Sq in every hut arid on every ship your boys find writing paper, envelopes, ink, pens and pencils, and tables where they can get off by themselves and tell thetfolks back home how things are going. - Millions of sheets are given away free every week to American boys overseas. That 'is why the letters you get from your boy are written on the stationery of one of these organizations. It is one of the plans 'to bridge the Atlantic. Help keep the letters coming! Your dollars will-supply a whole Company for several days. Dig deep today; help tobind together France and here. Why you should give twice as much as yo'u' ever gave before ! Th nd l for a nm of 70$ greater than any gift vr asked for tine th world bwto, Th Oovemmeltt b 6ed thU sum at $170,300,000, By, glvlng,w the Mvin organlsatlona all at once, th coot and flbrt of six ad. dltlonal campaigns! saved. TJnltu Americana do give twic at much aa vr before, oar soldiers and sailors may not anjoy during 1919 their I 1,600 Recreation Building 1,000 Miles of Movie Film 100 Leading 8tag Stan 2,000 Athletic Directors 2,500 libraries supplying 5,000,000 books 85 Hostess House 15,000 Big-brother "secretaries" Millions of dollars of home comforts When you give double, you mat sure that every fighter has th cheer and comforts of these seven organ! rati oris every step of the way from bom to th front and back again. You provide him with a church, a theatre, a cheerful home, a store, a school, a club and an athletic field and a knowledge that th folks back home are with him, heart and soul I You have loaned your money to supply their physical needs. Now giv to maintain the Morale that la winning th war I UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN y WAP CAMP K 7A1 COMMUNITY 1TKX rAJ Tl AMtiicAH libra fri M ) y J 4Socutn I VJ ) H THIS ADVERTISEMENT .MApE POSSIBLE BY THE FOLLOWING PATRIOTIC CITIZENS . WHO PAID , : . . . FOR, ITS PUBLICATION FIRST NATIONAL BANK. MAXIIEUR ABSTRACT COMPANY, BOISE PAYETTE LUMBER COMPANY, AND THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK.