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Crook County Journal
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1911.
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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.
No. 7 cook stove for gale, npnrlt-
new. Inquire at the Redby. 9-14-2tp