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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1915)
CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL A BANK BOOK overtops almost everything in importance in business life. It means freedom from worry, freedom from disputes about payments, better standing with those with whom you do business. We shall be glad to have your account and you will be glad to have one here after you learn its advantages. The First National Bank Of Prineville, Oregon. The Oldest Bank in Central Oregon Capital, Surplu. and Undivided ProKts, $150,000.00 Mad-Dog and Coyotte Proof Screen Doors! FOR SAEE BY A. H. LIPPMAN & CO. People living in the country should buy no other kind A Dollar in the Bank Is worth two in the hand, because it is safer. It soon grows and begins to work for you. We pay 4 per cent interest on time deposits. Crook County Bank, Prineville, Or. City Meat Market J. W. HORIGAN, Prop. Choice Home-Made Hams. Bacon and Lard Fresh Fish and Oysters Fruit and Vegetables in Season STOP That cough by using our White Pine and Tar (mentol ated) Cough Syrup "Our Name Your Assurance of Best Quality" PRINEVILLE DRUG CO. PRESCRIPTIONS Exclusive NYAL Store Any Kind of Wood Work and Milling Work Making Autos into Trucks. Water Tanks and similar work. Shop with Ed Harbin JOHN E. WHISTLER OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. Will Appeal Married Ttacr.tr Cast. Portland. By s uuanimous Yote, the school board determined to appeal to the supreme court the rase Involv ing the dismissal ot Maud L. Richards as teacher In the girls' school of trades from the recent decision of Judge Morrow that Mrs. Richards Is entitled to her position and also her salary during the time she was uuder suspension. University to Add to Requirements. Eugene. Further tightening of the screws at the university In an effort to raise the standard even higher la the edict circulated about the campus. Ten per cent will be added to all re quirements during the coming year. Required hours of study will be In creased, lesaont will be longer, gen eral standards higher, the field of study larger and the depth ot subject greater. The tightening Is not In the univer sity alone, says President P. L. Camp bell, from whose office the order comes, but characterizes high school work throughout the state. School Fund Interest Lass. Salem. State Treasurer Kay an nounced the apportionment of the In terest on the school fund, and It Is $13,424.95 less than last year, while the school population is 3865 greater, the total Interest for this year being $360,066 and the total school popula tion 205,752. Last year the Interest totaled $373,490.95 and the school pop ulation 201,887. This makes the per capita apportionment this year $1.75, as compared with $1.85 for last year. A considerable sum In delinquent In terest could not be collected this year prior to the apportionment, and this accounts for the total being less. BOND ISSUE DECLARED VALID Supreme Court Decision In Favor of Proposed Kendall Road Pleases. Roseburg. One 'of the most enthus iastic celebrations ever held In Rose- i burg was the jollification celebration ! on the streets here after receipt of : news that the Oregon supreme court j had rendered a decision upholding the city la the $.100,000 bond issue recent ; ly voted by the people of Roseburg to aid Kendall Brothers In the construe ! tion of a standard gauge railroad ex ' tending from the city 30 miles east to ' the timber belt, and the construction of a large sawmill near this city. The celebration assumed the propor tions of a strawberry carnival and Fourth of July celebration In one. Attorneys and others Interested In the case are of the opinion that this decision will end all litigation In the matter, and that Kendall Brothers may now safely proceed with actual construction of their projects. Gets Job at 0. A. C. Dallas. E. M. Smith, former county clerk of Polk county, has accepted the position of auditor of the state agri : cultural college at Corvallis and will move to that city about September 1. Prineville, Ore. Pioneer Phone 166 Heavy Damage is Caused by Storm. Baker. Bridges were torn out, roads gullied and part of the O.-W. R. & N. track near Durkee was swept away by a cloudburst in this vicinity. Standing grain In the Burnt River country worth thousands of dollars was destroyed Housekeeper Awarded Estate Eugene. Elizabeth Murray, who kept house and cared for James San ford for 13 years on condlton that he leave her his property when he died, was not left anything by San ford's will. Court upholds her and she will receive $25,000 estate. Church Union is Proposed. Eugene. Demand for the elimina tion of church competition In small towns unable to support several de nominations, the radical but chief theme of the third annual State Inter Denominational MlniHterial Confer ence In session here, took expression In the creation of a state-wide inter denominational church commission, delegated to work out some method of unification, Eastern Oregon Lumbermen to Testify La Grande. Eastern Oregon lum bermen decided to send representa tives before the federal trade commis sion whan it sits In Spokane August 6, to present problems of manufactur ers and dealers, and the Western White Pine association's plan to enter Into the National association's adver tising campaign, which contemplates an expenditure of $50,000 annually In the Interest of lumber, was heartily in dorsed at a meeting of the Eastern Oregon Lumber Producers' association which convened here. RUSSIA LOSES BIG POBTON BALTIC Germans Have Captured Mitau And Are Within Striking Distance of Riga. London. The Germans have cap tured Mltnu, the capital of Courland, and are now within striking dlslancs of Riga, the seat of the governor gen era! of the Baltic provinces and Rus sia's greatest port on the Uultlo. Warsaw is ready for the evacuation which was intimated by the Russian war minister In his address In the Duma. Pur days there has been au exodus of the population. Factories, government Institutions and hospitals have been moved and the city hat been stripped of everything that might be of military value to the Teutons. With the taking of Mitau and the favorable progress of the fighting east of Ponleweach, according to the Her lln statement. It would seem that com munication by rail from Courland and Kovno eastward has been severed by the Germans. With the ports of Memel, Llbau and Wlmlau already In their hands, should the Germans be successful In their quest of Riga, they would hut Russia off entirely from the sea by way ot her southwesternmnst governments. The German and Austrian campaign for the possession ot Warsaw was met by the Russians with strong counter offensive movements against the at tacks from the Vistula, near Ivangor od, between the upper Vistula and the Bug, and In the Narcw sector nrar Rozan. KAISER DECLARES CONSCIENCE CLEAR London. Emperor William has Is sued a manifesto to the German peo ple on the occasion of the anniversary of the outbreak of the war, according to a dispatch received In Amsterdam from Berlin. In the manifesto, which was Issued from the main headquar ters of the German army, the emperor says: "Before God and history my con science Is clear. I did not will the war. After preparations for a whole decade the coalition powers, to whom Ger many had become too great, believed that the moment hud come to humili ate the empire, which loyally stood by her Austro Hungarian ally In a Just cause, or to crush It in an overwhelm ing circle. No lust for conquest, at I already announced a year ago, hat driven us Into the war. "Full of gratitude, we can say that God was with us. The enemy armies who boasted that they would enter Berlin In a few months are with heavy blows driven ha. k far east and west Numberless battlefields In various parts ot Europe and naval battles off near and distant coasts testify what German anger In self-defense and Ger man strategy can do. No violation of International law by our enemies will be able to shake the economic founda tion of our conduct of the war," BRITAIN HOLDS FIRM Maintains Orders-ln-Council Ars In Accord With International Law. Washington. Three notes from Great Britain and one from Germany, all dealing with the commercial rights of neutral nations in wartime, are be fore Secretary Lansing. The first British note defends the orders In council, the second Justifies the allies' efforts to cut off Germany's export trade and the third defends prize court proceedings. The German note continues the discussion over the sinking of the American ship William P. Frye, and Is said to Justify Ger many's course In sinking merchant ships provided she pays for them. The United States shortly will re ply to the British notes, but It Is not known what course will be pursued regarding the German note. Grand Aerie of Eagles In Session. Spokane, Wash. Spokane and the state of Washington officially wel comed delegates to the grand aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, which open ed its session here Monday. On a stage representing an Indian camp Governor Lister and city of ficials delivered addresses of greeting to the visitors, and grand officers of the Eagles responded. Trade Wltn Germany Falls Off. Washington. The effect of the war on the trade of this country with Ger many is clearly shown In a statement of the declared value of exports to the United States through the ports of Hamburg, Kiel and Luebeck, made public by the department of commerce, During the first six months of 1914, these ports sent to the United States goods valued fit $14,994,585. This year, In the same period, the shipments amounted to $1,153,257. ' Prineville Commission House Dealers in all kinds of FARM PRODUCE Hay, Grain, Flour and Feed. Forwarding Storage and Commission Buyers of tildes, Pelts and Furs ' JACK SUMMERS, Manager STHC UNIVUISAL CARS The Ford S A Great Utility Because it serves all the people. Tlie popular choice because it gives better service at a lower cost Popu lar again, because it is simple and easily understood by everybody. And with all the refinements, it is still the same dependable Ford, and sells for . $60.00 less than last year besides the plan of sharing profits with the buyers. Buyers will share in profits if we sell at retail 300,000 new Ford cars between August, 1914, and August, 1915. Touring Car $490; Runabout $440; Town Car $690; Coupelet $750; Sedan $975, f. o. b. Detroit with all equipment. Firestone, Goodyear, United States and Michelin Tires, a complete stock on hand. A full line of oils and gas C. W. WILSON THE FORD GARAGE Agents for A JAX TIRES 5000 MILES GUARANTEED In new location over McFarland Bros. Shop 1 Montgomery & Mayfield's Tire Hospital ii Hello ! Say, do you know the Pilot Butte Telephone Company has more miles of line and a larger num ber of subscribers than any other telephone company in Crook county and at cheaper rates? Telegraph connection is made at Red mond with all outside points. Main office Prine ville, Oregon. 1 1 i