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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY
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CITY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY OF PRINEVILLE
VOL. XIX
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1915.
NO. 33
County.
EXPERT ON
ROAD BUILDING
Keep a Good Crown at all
Timei
Drain the Water Away
Grod Roads Are One of Mot
Valuable Assets For Any
Community
T)ie American Highway Aasocia
lion furnish the following on how to
make and keep the road dry.
Water, plus clay or ordinary earth,
when mixed, invariably forms mud.
On ordinary earth road the rain
and melting snow furnish the water
and the panning trafic the mixing,
and the result is muddy roads. Take
away the water or prevent it from
mixing with the clay or earth on the
road surface and little or no mud
will result. In other words, keep
your road dry if you wish it to re
main hard, smooth and free from
mud.
Except in very windy or arid re
gions, good drainage is the cardinal
principle in the maintenance of earth
'and gravel roads. Get the water away
from the road as quickly and com
pletely as possible. Water naturally
woks the lowest level. You can not
kwp water from falling on the road,
but you can assist its natural in
clination to get away to a lower level.
Kwp the ruU filled and the road
crowned with a slope towards the
side ditches of from thrw fourths to
one inch to the foot, and the water
will not collect on the road to soak
in and be mixed to mud by passing
traffic. Kwp the side ditches clean
and with frequent outlets to get the
water away from the road entirely.
Io not let the culverts clog up or
material accumulate in the ditches
and hold back pools of water to souk
into and soften the foundation of
your road. Water is an enemy that
will vun away if you will give it a
chance. Do not neglect to give it
every chance. It will pay and pay
well.
Like most other enemies, water is
not very destructive or dangerous
until it collects in force. Therefore,
get the water away from your road
in every availuble opportunity and
.before it has time to collect in
sufficient volume to be dangerous to
the road, and do not invite certain
disaster by makng your culverts too
small to care for the higest possible
storm. Furthermore, build the cul
vertssothnt the water will, of neces
sity, flow through them and not find
a way around beneath them. Proper
ly designed substantial wing and end
walls are the fortification which
protect the culvert from attack and
distruetion during severe storms.
Do not build dry weather culverts;
build them with a view of caring for
and protecting the road during the
worst possible storms.
Make your road dry, build it hard
nnd compact with a crown sufficient
to shed water rapidly to the side
ditches, and with umple culverts and
drains. To keep your road dry main
tain the drainage in good condition.
Drag your roads after each rain;
drawing fills in the ruts, smoots the
surface, and maintains the crown.
On a road which has been properly
dragged the rain finds no place to
collect and soak into anil soften the
surface. Unless the rain is of long
duration the surface is softened but
very little. As soon as the rain has
ceased it is still plastic, drag the road
again. Any depression or ruts which
have been formed during and after
the rain are thus filled, and the sur-
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face smoothed up and plastered over
with a thin plaster of clay ro earth
which packs and becomes very hard
under passing traffic. Therefore, in
order to make and kwp your road
dry, first provide for good drainage
and then maintain the good, drainage
by systematic dragging after each
rain. Diligent attention to these
points will, in general insure an
earth road fairly passable at all
times and very good most of the
time.
Council Meeting
m j t. l . : geiner and dcsi specimens seieciea
Monday illglU'after the bunch has become cured.
It is bcieved that some advantage is
Prineville has a new city attorney, j gained by dipping the butts of grain
The unusual feature of the matter , stalks in salt water or brine immedi
however is the fact that the legal ad- ately after gathering. Tie the bun
viser for the city government for 'dies or bunch securely at the butts
the remainder of the year is a lady. ! and hang in a dark, cool place with
Miss Biggs was appointed to fill
the vacancy by the resignation of
Judge Duffy which came before the
council at the regular monthly meet
ing Tuesday night.
A new ordinance regulating the
width of the cement sidewalks, in
which, by the way Prineville far ex
ceeds all other Central Oregon towns
in point of both lineal feet and
quality of the walks; was presented of the bundle desired. Show speei
and given two readings and left over mens of grain in-" bundles should be
until the next monthly meeting for at least four inches in diameter.
a vote upon its passage.
Present at the mwtingwere May
or Edwards, couneilmcn Reams, Fos
ter, Noble and Still, Marshall Poll
ard, Treasurer Rechtcll and Record
er Hyde.
The following bills were paid:
L. M. Rcchtell
Win. Triehel Sr.
Dechutes Power Co.
Geo. W. Noble
W. R. Pollard
$25.00
25.00
2.'!5.90
2.00
76.00
1.10
15.87
4.00
8.00
12.40
25. 00
D. P. Adamson & Co.
Yancey & Hendi ickson
Robert Moore
Jack Curtis
K. O. Hyde
Mrs. Maling
Married in Portland
A very pretty church wedding
was soleminizcd at the Third Bnptsit
Church in Portland at eight o'clock
Wednesday evening June Twenty
third when Miss Frances Catherine
Langford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Langford of Dry Lake, Ore
gon, was United in marriage to Mr.
Charles (V Lilly by the Rev. W. J.
Ben von,
H. Pratt who was formerly a
teacher in the local High School left
Frinovillo a few days ago for Klon
dike, Alaska where he will take up a
government position as agricultural
ist. Mrs. Pratt and their son accom
panied him.
Prepare Now for
the County Fairs
There will be at least three Agri
cultural Fairs in Crook County this
Fall, ami it should be the ambition
of every farmer to have .an exhibit
of his grains and other crops at each
of these Fairs. A good Agricultural
Fair is of value not only to the towns
or localities in which they are held,
but also to every farm and locality
from which the exhibits are obtain
ed. The man who wins a prize on
any farm crop either has better land
than his competitors or he has a bet
ter method of farming and prepar
ing his exhibits. Practically none of
the farm crops can be gathered only
one or two weeks before he Fair and
be made a Number 1 exhibit. Speci
mens must be gathered when in the
right stage of growth, treated in a
proper manner, and prepared proper
ly to make the the best exhibit It
will be only a short time until many
of our grains and grasses are ready
for harvest in this section. Speci
mens for show purpose must be gath
ered cither at or before the time of
harvest. Garden and farm crops of
all kinds must receive the same at
tention. Grain for show purpose
should be gathered when just start
ing to ripen. Single stalks may be
selected from the field and gather
ed together into a bundle for exhibit,
or a bundle of grain may be cut to-
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the heads down until cured. The tion, it should require buildings
grain will ripen somewhat after ga- j three or four time as large as any
thering, and it'is believed that the we now have at any of our local fairs
brine in the straw will tend to pre-, to hold these exhibits. Prepare a
vent shattering of the grain in the, large number of exhibits for each
head. After the-sample has been cur-! class, so that if one exhibit is de
ed, take it down, untie the bundle J stroyed or injured, another maybe
and strip the leaves from the straw. ' put in its place; or if more than one
Lay the selwted plants with heads exhibit per person is allowed, you
even in a wooden form the size
When the form is filled, tie secure
ly with cotton cloth or a ribbon and
cut butts off square. Cover with a
newspaper or sack and hang in a dark
cool place until date of show. Grain:
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samples treated in this manner will
be clean and bright and if tied with
dark ribbon usually make a very at
tractive exhibit.
Alfalfa or clover samples should
be gathered at the time they will
make the best showing. Take at
once to a cool, dark place and hang
with heads down until cured. Fruit
must be gathered when a litle under
ripe and handled carefully in order
not to bruise or break the skin. Peas,
beans, and crops of this nature
should be handled as advised for al
falfa and clover. Root crops cannot
be gathered until ripe, or nearly so
Care must be taken when harvest
ing for show purposes that the roots
are not broken until the specimens
are cured, and usually better show
ing will be made if all roots not de
tracting from the appearance of the
article are left on the specimen
Potatoes or other root crops, if ga
thered before ripe, will be injured by
hauling because of the tenderness of
the skins; will usually shrink badly
and will be scored low by the Judge
oi exhibit, wnere two or more
specimens must be included in an ex
hibit, uniformity is one of the very
necessary items for a successful ex
hibit. It is better to have all the
specimens in the exhibit of the same
size, color, shape, etc., even though
this necessitates leaving out one or
more especially good specimens, than
to have an exhibit containing speci
mens not uniform. -We
have had some very good ex
hibiu at all of our Fairs in this
County in the past, but the number
of exhibits in each class has been
smaller than it should be. With the
crops that we can grow in this see
may be able to win not only the
first but also the second and third
prizes. I would suggest that every
farmer in the County have one or
more exhibits at all of our County
Fairs this fall. These fairs are val
uable to all of us, but will prove of
greatest value to those who take an
active part in making them a success.
SYMPATHY.
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Tha Liberty Boll, a relic of tho Rev
olution, which left Philadelphia on a
tour of tho country July 9.
Bend Chautauqua
A Great Success
The chautauqua which closed
last night at Bend was a very success
ful event, both in point of attendance
and finance. The sale of season tickets
which was guaranteed by 40 resi
dents of Bend was over $400 below
the required amount on the opening
day but receipts from the gate were
good and the people were so pleas
ed with the event that more than
100 signed the contract for the next
year's service.
Portland and Seattle
Market Quotations
Portland.
Wheat Club, 11.03; bluestem 11.08;
red Russian, 95c; forty.fold, (1.04 ;
red fife, 95c.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $17;
grain hay, $12; alfalfa, $13.50; valley
timothy, $12.50.
Butter Creamery, 29c.
Eggs Ranch. 24c.
. Wool Eastern Oregon, 28c; valley,
SOc.
Mohair 31c.
Seattle.
Wheat Bluestem, $1.08; club $1.03;
red Russian, 97c; forty-fold, $1.05;
fife, 97c.
Barley $22 per ton.
Hay Timothy, $16 per ton; alfalfa,
$14 per ton.
Butter Creamery, 29c.
Eggs 24c.
Home Talent Play
Was a Good One
The drama, "Is Marriage a Fail
ure" was played at the Commercial
Club Hall Thursday evening of last
week. The play was a good one,
and the work of the characters was
very good. The only regretable thing
about the event was the small house
to which the play was made, for every
one went home well pleased with
the evening.
Max Hirst Dies at
Home Hospital
Max Hirst died at the Home Hos
pital Friday morning from lock jaw.
The infection was received through a
siratch on the finger, and developed
rjpidly after about eight days until
death came in about' twenty days.
I Mr. Hirst was a young man of Ger
man birth, who had but one relative,
a brother, in this country. The boly
was buried, at the request of the
deceased, on hw homestead at Bear
Creek Butte.
At the Redmond celebration Newt
Poindexter took the automobile race
and R. V. Randall won the Ford race
in T. J. Minger's roaster wheh he had
just overhauled. As usual Prineville
was among those present.
uarence uumiora ot uutur is
visiting relatives in this city.
SPANISH WAR
VETERANS HERE
Camp to Be Organized Next
Saturday
State Officials Comimg
A Number of Prineville Men are
Among the Organizers.
Banquet to hollow
A camp of the United Spanish War
Veterans will be institued at Prine
ville. Saturday evening July , 10.
Twenty-Four Veterans of the Spanish
War have signed an application for
a charter, and Roy W. Kesl of Port
land, Oregon, the Department Com
mander accompanied by his staff will
arrive here Saturday morning for the
purpose of installing the new organ
ization. .
The order is formed for the pur
pose of uniting in fraternal bonds
those men who served honorably in
the War with Spain or the incidental
campaigns; to promote their best in
terests; to assist former comrads or
shipmates, their widows and or
phans; to perpetuate the memories of
the war and preserve the records of
the individual members; to inculcate
the principals of liberty equal rights
and justice to all mankind of loyalty
to our country reverence for its insti
tutions and obdediance to its laws.
Under a law passed by the legis
lature of this state in 1913 the camps
and posts of the Spanish War Vet
erans and Grand Army of the Repub
lic are furnished and provided free
and suitable meeting places in the
court house of each county where
such camps or posts are located.
All soldiers who served in the Civil
War, living in this vicinity will be
made honorary members of the new
camp.
Those who have already signed
the charter roll are: J. B. Heyburn,
E. Rea Norrs, M. D. and B. Ferrell
M. D. of Bend, Oregon; John W.
Dennis of Sisters; Walter M. Eaton,
L. B. Housley and J. C. Stevens of
"Culver; E. L. Clark of La Pine, and
Edmund F. Price, John Malech, Geo.
F. Euston, W. J. Smelzer, Charles O.
Pollard, John D. Newsom, E. Wag
oner, John E. Whistler, L. Kamstra,
Jay H. Upton, JohnB. Bell, Thomas
Sharp and S. L. Reynolds all of
Prineville; L. Weaver and H. J.
Love of Redmond.
Ninteen regular and volunteer
regiments and organizations are re
presented in the above list of men.
A number of others who have not
had an opportunity to sign the or
ginal application for a charter are
expected to be present and join the
new camp on Saturday evening.
After the installation, a local
spread will be held at which various
city and county officials and other
guests will be present.
Lafflers Buy the '
Belknap Confectionery
Belknap's Confectionery was sold
.by the owner, "Peg" Belknap, to F.
E. Lafier of this citv. The confec-
j t jonery an,j Laner's studio will both
j bo moved to the Curtis building on
'Main street on or before August 1.
An electric lighting system will be
installed that will make photography
P'eonan tunas oi any, auu
at night A mo(krn ice crcam parlor
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will uc uioiailiru in ttiv iiuiu wiv
building.
Mrs. R. Hanson who has been visit
ing in Prineville, returned to her
home in Portland last Saturday.