; ot 9 TTof 0 Crook County Journal COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1911. Kntr4 at th postoffli at Prlnrille ftCOr-oi, i -otid-clv tnatbrr VOL. XV NO. 43 COUNTY FAIR OCT. 11 TO 14. J. J. Hill Offers Silver Cup and Ribbons. LARCE DAILY PROGRAMME Town Will Have Special Day School Day a Big Feature. The 1911 Crook County Fair promise to be the best that Prine ville lift i ever had. We umlerstan J that the management 1 doing everything possible to make thii (air a big lucces. The day are named at follow: Wednesday, 1'rioeville; Th urn Jay, Itadmnnd, Hater and adjacent territory; Fri day, the llend, Laidlaw, La I'ine auction and "School Day"; Satur day, Madraa, Culver, Lamoota, Hillman and adjacent section. All grower of dry farming pro duct will be interested to learn that J.J. Hill, through bit medium, The Great Northern Railway, ha offered prizes in the agricultural department. The first priie it an elegant lilver cup to be awarded to the individual making the beet diaplay of dry-farming product. This beautiful cup i now on exhi bition in D. !'. Adamion'i drug tore. Mr. Hill ha very generouiily signified hi willingness to award pri.e to all winner In the dry farming produce division of the Fair Society' premium lint, ao that first and second clasa priie winner in clan 2 division "K ", and clan 2, division ''(" in the lair premium Hut, (ree pagea 13 and 20,) will also be presented with one of the magnificent Great Northern premium ribbon. These have just arrived and Secretary Fox states that they are superior to lat year. If you rains either farm or garden produce, see that you got one of these beautiful rib bons. Tho premium list are being mailed daily but because of the difficulty in procuring a complete list, there may be tome delay. If you have not received a list, write Secretary J. S. Fox, Prineville, for one. Baseball promise to be one of the interesting event during the Fair. A yet no outside team ha been scheduled to meet Prineville' champions but it is expected that Portland or bouio other outside team will try to capture the honor held by our boy. The various local team are going to continue the tussle for the championship cup. A team from Condon has expressed a desire to have a chance at these honor. The running boys will be on hand, the broncho busters, the basket ball enthusiasts, the school children's Bports and many other attractions. A good stock parade is anticipated and the horsemen are already busy at the track. The Prineville Harmony Band has been practicing up for some weeks in anticipation of the great event, and we are assured of good musio and plenty of it. Last year, School Day was the biggest dny at the Fair and it is expectod that teachers and pupils will unite to make it even better this year. Arrangement have been made whereby all pupil of the public schools, who take part in the "School Parade," will be admitted to the fair ground free. The number of parties who have applied for concession permit are larger than ever, and those who like the "aide fthowa" will have ample variety in thl line. The ludiee of the Baptist church have applied for permission to run a refreshment tent. They atate that they will have soma one on the ground all the time and will aerve three meal every day. They hope in this way to raiae fund enough to aeut their new church. The following will answer everal inquiries that have already been aaked. Monday and Tues day, October Oth and 10th will be devoted to the entering, receiving and placing of exhibits. Wednes day 11th, the grand opening, fol lowed by the judging of a lock. The moat important question that confront the fair manage ment at tbi time, is how far will the people of Crook county co-operate with them in making thi ex hibition worth while. It reU with the people of the county to make a kucceaa or failure of thia fair. Gather op all the exhibita you can, whether livestock, farm, garden, or house product and bring them with you. Then gather all your friend, neighbor and relation together and come to the fair for a good, helpful, rolick ing, aocial, time. Normal Department Now Open. The Normal Department of the Crook County High School began work last Monday under the di rection of Mr. Mabel Wood. Mr. Wood is a graduate of Ferria Institute, Michigan, and ha done much post graduate work at the University of Chicago. This, together with her successful ex perience of supervision ia Texas, Illinois, Michigan and Colorado, givea to the Crook County High School and the teacher of Crook county the advantage ot in struction from a most competent teacher. Mr. Wood is an ener getic, enthusinstio educator and is much pleased with the outlook for educational work in thi county. The Normal department is re ceiving more attention thia year than ever before and it is expected a large class will enroll. If the young people in the county who expect to teach and the young teacher who have had no special training realized what an excellent opportunity was offered them in this training department, the present class would be twice what it present enrollment i. Heretofore many of the schools of Crook county have been taught by teaohers with little or no ex perience but the coming of the railroad means more competition for thi section and the untrained teachers will soon be forced out of the best positions. Even from a financial standpoint, the progress ive teacher of today cannot afford to teach without professional train ing. One or two years' work in a good training school means an in crease of at least 25 per cent, in one's salary, beside being of far greater value to the young minds they are directing. Superintendent Ford ia con stantly urging his teacher to make better preparation for their work and the Normal Department of the Crook County High School invites all students and teachers who are interested in better school work to come or write Principal E. L. Coe or Mrs. Mabel Wood for further particulars. Hay Baler For Sale. Bran new Steel Beauty Hay Baler; capacity 10 or 12 ton dally, lor aale at a bargain. Inquire at J . E. Stewart & Co.'. 8-lil-luip Hekbert Rideol'T. A NEW WAY TO BOOST OREGON Tli man nn the jrroiinil I. Oregon' boat I m mi xral Ion agi-ril, armriiiiiK to K. C. LfHy. Ami I-ly oiilit to know, ImaiiMt Iib i. the iin-ral Immigration Aiptil "f the tiri-at Northern Kailwav, with hraliiiHrterii at St. Paul, Minni-Mita, IjMt irintr, iliirinir the immigration period, l'rraiili-nt I.. W. Hill in.trurted Ihut a check lie mle of each train enter Oregon ami Information aecurrd as to how the newcomer happened to itn to Oregon to live. Kevenly-llvc per cent renpowled that It through the in llticnce of friend already on tite ground and prospering that the move waa nude. OREGON I HOKIKWM uatnuran Kvery eastern man tn Oregon after harveating hi. fimt crop, become, an en-tliu-ia.tic booater. lie wanta hi. friend, in the et to oume west and .liar. hi. good fortune. Mr. Leedy ba. already sent out thou sand, of the tireat Northern Railway's new bulletin, on Oregon, and many new settler havo moved U) Oregon on thia account. The Oregon bulletin shown aboT It a 3(1 page, handsomely illustrated book, with a four odor .late map and four color cover. It contain, many letter from trcgon lamieri and will be dis tributed throughout the east wherever we. can find interested people. Send the names of your eastern friend, to whom you would like thia free booklet sent to K. C. I-eedy, (ieneral Immigration Agent, tireat Northern Kailway, St. 1'auL Hog Raising Pays in Oregon. From statistic furnished by the Portland Union Livestock yards we learn that of the 6243 head of bog received during the month of August, this year, Oregon furnished only 977 head while Nebraska shipped 4463 of this number. Last year, Oregon,' for the same month, furnished 1733 hogs while Nebraska supplied 4331, showing a decline of 50 per cent on the part of Oregon. Some of the farmers of this state have realized that Oregon' neglect is causing a loss of thousand of dollars each year to the farmers and have taken steps to remedy this matter. A few of the Crook county farmers have studied this quostion and have begun to stock their farm with good hogs. One year ago, Leo LaFollette, of Prineville, bought b'ix brood sows and will have 65 hog ready for market by the early winter. This does not include his brood sow which now number 8. Mr. LaFol lette summered all his hog on four acre of alfalfa and at the same time fed them slop composed of middling? mixed with skim milk and water. He fed about 400 pound of this mixture per month. II figured that hi alfalfa field was worth 124 and hi other feed 125. He had 20 spring pigs that weighed 20 pounds each, when put into the pasture and 100 pounds at the time of taking out. He ex pect to pen and fatten his hogs in from 8 to 10 weeks and that this will take 8 bushels of wheat or its equivalent to the hog. The aver age spring pigs will weigh about 175 pounds while last year's hogs will average much higher. The local markets pay 9 cents for fat hogs and wheat ia worth 75 cent per bushel. A little figuring will Bhow that the 20 spring pigs would net Mr. LaFollette not less than 178. He says that he has given very little time to caring for his hogs and that he expect to increase both' the number and profit next year. He think the best profit are made on spring piga because tbey can be marketed before winter. Portland's Trade Excursion to Burns. Portland' trade excursion to Burns and the Central Oregon cities will leave on the morning of September 29. The return will be made October 5, following a week of strenuous traveling by automobile and the newly con structed railroads of the inter ior. There is a good deal of interest in the Portland business colony In the forthcoming excursion. It will be run under the auspices of the Portland Commercial Club with the dual purpose ot giving the Portland business men au opportunity to become acquaint ed wifh tbe central part of the state and its resources and also to permit them to attend tbe coming session of tbe Central Oregon Development League on October 2 and 3. About 50 prominent business men, many of them beads of firms, will go on this trip. The party will arrive at Redmond at 8 o'clock on the night of Septem ber 29 and tbe excursionists will join in celebrating the coming of the railroad to Redmond. The excursionists will reach Bend on Saturday night and attend a meeting there, leaving for Burns Sunday morning. At the con clusion of the Development League meeting there tbey will leave for borne via Prairie City and Baker. There promises to be another party leaving Portland Septem ber 30 to cover the same route, these being members of tbe spe cial excursion to Klamath Falls who will not return in time to leave for Burns on September 29. This second party will join the muin party at Bend Satur day night, September 30. St. Paul Northwest Land Show. How the wonderful alfalfa plant has been brought to Amer ica, acclimated in zones further north than it has ever known be fore, together with graphic de monstrations as to its value as a food for stock, will be shown at the Northwestern Land Show in December, in a great exhibit to be known as the "Alfalfa Pal ace." This exhibit will be installed to show samples ot alfalfa seed and samples of the hay, various methods of curing, the mixing of it with corn and other grains. Finally, its effect when used with grain to make a balanced ration for livestock. The Northwestern railway lines have arranged to install this exhibit and it will be made especially interesting to the Northern states. Some states have imagined that tbe legume plant known as alfalfa would not be adapted to their climate, but the plant breeders at the experi ment stations have stretched the alfalfa belt northward and one of the features or the show in St. Paul next December will be to show the success with which al falfa is produced in the North. Governor Eberhard of Minne sota has an article in the North west Farmstead of September 16, dealing with the results to be obtained by exhibiting products I of the soil at the tame show. The governor says the show will take hundreds of people out of bis own state into tbe states west of Minnesota; that there will be one satisfaction, these people will still be customers of the Minne sota markets and, other people will come from the states east to take the plaie of Minnesotans who are drawn further west ward. Tbe governor says his experience has been that such exhibits have brought thousands of people to his state and the coming show must result in many new settlers and investors for the states of the Northwest. To talk over the plan origin ated in Helena last May of the Northwestern states joining one another for an organized adver tising campaign, Will A. Camp bell, secretary of the Northwest Development League, will spend a month in the Northwest visit ing many towns and cities. "Just to get acquainted and tell tbe commercial clubs about our first work, the Land Show, ia the whole object of the trip," said Mr. Campbell before leaving St. Paul. "Expect to attend all the fairs and see all tbe live com mercial club secretaries I can find." Can Not Issue Hunting Licenses. Hunting or fishing upon re ceipts furnished by notaries or justices of the peace will not be allowed in tbe future, according to instructions recently issued by State Board of Fish and Game Commissioner.. Deputies all over the state have been told to arrest any hunter or fisherman who fails to show a regular li cense in his possession, upon de mand. The holder of a receipt will be treated in every way as though he had never made appli cation for a license. The reason for this action is plain. In the past, notaries and justices of the peace, who have authority to collect for licenses, issue receipt and mail the money to the county clerk, who in turn mails a license to the notary or justice to be delivered to the ap plicant, have failed to do so, pocketing the money and advis ing the applicant that a receipt is equivalent to a license. To stop this petty grafting, Game Warden Finley insists that li censes, in the future, will be rec ognized as the only evidence of a right to hunt or fish. "We have a fairly complete record ot notaries and justices who have retained money belong ing to the game fund," said War den Finley, "and they are locat ed all over the state. These men have actually accepted money for licenses and made no return of it, nor have they secured 11 censes for those who have made application. By arresting those holding merely receipts for the licenses, we will shortly run down those who have been guilty of this fraud." It is provided by law that any justice of the peace or notary in the state may receive money for the county clerk on applications for hunting or fishing licenses, and the game warden has no dis position to place an obstacle in the way of hunters to thus easily secure their rights. He is firm, however, in his intention to break up a practice which has proved demoralizing to many public and semi-publio officials in all parts of Oregon. Subscribe for the Crook County Journal. 11.50 per vear. COMMERCIAL CLUB HOLDS SMOKER Send Large Delegation to Burns. WILL HAVE BOOSTER FUND Will Send ExhibiU to Both the Hill and Harriman Railroad ' for Advertising. A good representative bunch of business men met at tbe Commer cial Club room Monday evening ' for the purpose of discussing and' formulating nlans far th crowth and advancement of thi section of the country. Tbe pipe put every one in good humor and made them ready to consider tbe business of tbe evening. Tbe most important question considered waa the plan for sending a large delegation to Burns to at tend the Second Central Oregon Development League to be held October 2nd and 3rd. It was de cided to send as strong a delegation as possible from Prineville. The following committee wag appointed to work out tbe details of trans o . m- portation: Messrs Stinson, Winnek, King, Baldwin, Adamson, Rosen berg and Haner. ' The Commercial Club is deeply indebted to Burns for many courtesies and help in the past. Their Urge delegation, beaded by Wm. Hanley, was an important factor in making our convention a success. " " ' The Prineville Commercial Club has never taken second place, when it came to boosting Central Ore gon, and we believe that it will measure up to it previous stand ards and prove to our sister city, Burns, that we are willing and ready at all times to join forces for the advancement of this section of Oregon. A booster fund was discussed and this subject was left to tha executive committee who were in structed to appoint a finance com mittee to secure funds. The disposition of the exhibits being collected by the club, waa the next subject to receive atten tion. Recommendations were made to the eexecutive committee that after retaining an exhibit for the Club, this exhibit be divided, between the Hill and Harriman lines for further advertising pur poses. It was also decided that if the Oregon and Western Coloni zation Company decided to have an exhibit at the St. Paul Land Show, that it should be assisted from the exhibit collected by the Prineville Pommercial Club. Tbe subject of increasing the membership was discussed and each member was appointed a com mittee of one to secure a new member for the next meeting, New Hog Feed For Central Oregon. Milo maize is found to be an excellent substitute for corn on the dry lands of Central Oregon. Experiments made with it in the past season prove it will make a good stock plant for the semi arid districts. Because of its successful introduction into the interior, many farmers will prob ably plant large tracts to this crop next year, and feed it to cattle and hogs. 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