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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CITY OF PRINEVILLE
VOL. XX
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1915.
NO. 6
CHRISMS EXERCISES
Automobile to Be Kept Back
One Block.
SANTA WILL ARRIVE BY 7:30
A Community Christmas It
Everybody's If You do Not
Come, You Will Be Loser
The Community Christmas tret- is
here and it in up and it in a beauty.
Tlit? court hounse luwn is the place,
and It in a Rood one for, the tree
looks just like it grow there.
Perhaps trees would bo the better
vxpre.won, for although there is a
big tree some 25 or 30 feet in
height, which in a beauty, having
turn purloined from Unfit; Sum's
diminishing supply by Supervisor
Homer Rosa, there are also a num
ber of little one that arc ground
About on the lawn in fetching fash
ion. Electric light are being placed
by the Deschutes Power company,
and it goes wiihout saying that it
will be well illuminated.
The com mi tec is making one rc
quest of the crowd that all should
heed, and that is that all autos be
kept off the street adjoining that
block. The reason is obvious, so
pleaae remember and assist in the
plans by complying with this wish.
Tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock
the band will start the exercises on
the steps at the court house by
playing a number of selections that
are appropriate for the occasion.
All singers are asked tob? present
at thiit hour also, as there will be
no delays in the festivities from
start to finish.
The speaking will start promptly
at 7:13 and following the invocation
by Rev. Van Nuy.s, address by Kev.
Knm-icy, the songs which will in
lude double a male quartet in a
selection for the omission, Santa
will arrive as per advertised pro
gram and attend to the remainder
of the program.
All who wish to assist the less
fortunate ones of the city are re
quested to leave whatever they wish
to at 0. C. Claypool's store any
time beforo 2 p. m. on Friday and
tho Boy Scout will attend to the
distribution of the same.
The Community Christmas spirit
broadens and the treat is no longer
limited to the children. We can now
say to all, it is your Christmas. It
is hoped that every one will feel ob
ligated to their community suffi
ciently to help keep this spirit
always a Frineville asset.
Artisan Lodge Has
Pleasant Evening
Members and friends of the Arti
san lodge spent a pleasant hour
after lodge last Monday evening.
Chances were sold for 5 cent each
entitling the holder to draw a
promising lpoking package tempt
ingly placed beneath a bewitchingly
decorated little Christmas tree. All
tho chances were taken and none
wf.ore disappointed in the statuary,
-ejiinaware, ahd glass ware drawn.
Special numbers of the evening
were a reading by Mrs. H. P. Bel
knap, a solo by Floyd A Rowell,
who was cheered to an encore and
song by Master Hyde with appol
ogies to Tipperary.
DelicioiiB refreshments of sand
wiches, doughnuts and coffee and
tea were served by the refreshment
committee. The next meeting is
Installation of officer .s '
Crooked River Road
To Be Improved
The Prinevlllo Commercial club
and 'farmers along the Crooked
River road between this city and
the Forest ranch are planning an ex
tensive improvement of the road In
tho near future.
The county court has pledged sup
port to the move and the farmers
arc donating work of men and teams.
Many of the bad places will be
graded and the bJ curves removed
from the road.
Each man in Prineville is" expect
ed to donate two days work, and it
is expected that this will put the
road into first class conditicn.
This will enable the mail, freight
and passenger service to be improv
ed greatly to this point and will be
of great benefit to the people living
along the route.
The committee in charge of the
matter hnsdecided that it is possi
ble to secure $.'!000 or $1000 in cash
and labor for this. road.
Engineer Kelly Com
pletes Steel Bridge
County Engineer Kelly returned
from Paulina the last of the week
where he has been for the psst
several weeks installing the new
steel bridge at that place. This
structure was purchased over a
year ago from the funds that were
being expended by the Commercial
Club of this place in road improve
ment in that vicinity, and was badly
needed.
It stands across Beaver Croek
just east of the Paulina creamery,
is eighty feet in length, and supplies
a want that has been felt there for
yenrs.
A foundation was installed for
a reenforeetl concrete bridge across
the South Fork of Crooked River at
the P. H. Davis place which is a
few miles this side of Paulina. ,
This bridge will be built in the
spring, and will be a better invest
ment Mr. Kelly thinks, than any
steel bridge. The first cost is some
15 per cent less than the steel bridge.
The large item of freight is elim
inated in the latter kind of struc
ture and the matter of decking and
painting a steel bridge will never
be necessary for the concrete struc
ture.
It is a class of bridge that is be
coming more popular each year, and
will no doubt be seen .throughout
the west especially in more remote
localities.
Grippe and Colds
Popular Just Now
Prineville, and in fact the entire
country is suffering from an attack
ot la grippe.
Reports from eastern points say
that the cases are very servere in
many instances, and that everyone
almost is suffering from bad colds,
grip and occasional cases of a very
servere type of pneumonia.
The local high school had some
forty vacant seats in the assembly
room on Monday and the school was
discontinued until aftor the holidays
on Tuesday for the reason that
there were so many absentees that
it was deemed advisable to do so.
Many pupils are absent from the
grades in the public school, and the
school is being carried on under
difficulty. . '
The usual symptom; of aching
bones and sore muscles abound and
many adults are . confined to their
rooms.
The damp weather and lack of
either extreme cold or sunshine is
said to have something to do with
the presence of so many cases.
Program for the Com
munity Christmas Tree
COURT HOUSE LAWN;
7:00 o'clock sharp.
Song
Invocation ....
Song
Address..... .
Song
Song
Selection
Santa Clau8....t
BETTER MAIL SERVICE
Present Contractor Will Meet
Both Trains Daily.
ONE TRIP VIA POWELL BUHE
New System Would Mean Better
Service for Prineville and all
Country East
A plan has been worked out. that
will without doubt give Prineville
two daily mails each May from the
railroad and will shorten the time
for the incoming morning mail from
one to three hours.
Of the four mails daily, two of
them will be routed by Powelt Butte
postoflice, a one incoming mail j
and the other outgoing. This will
connect this country with Prineville!
in a much better manner than at '
present, and will be a great eon-1
venience to the residents of the!
neighborhood.
Under the present condition, it
takes longer to get a letter or other
parcel of mail from Prineville to j
the II. J. Edwards ranch for ex
amine, which is but six miles awnv. i
and in a country that naturally
comes to Prineville as a trade cen
ter, than to get the same article
from that ranch to Portland.
This is a matter in which the
community should be and is vitally
interested.
It is an improvement that will in
jure no one and will benefit the en
tire community materially. If you
have a friend in congress, write him
at once and tell him to assist in get
ting this change made.
Rabbit Drive at
Powell Butte Sunday
A rabbit drive at the Wilson school
house at Powell Butte Sunday was
well attended. Less than 100 rabbits
were killed in the fore loon because
of a short drive being made. In the
afternoon less luck is reported.
Next Sunday there will be another
drive, and the plans are being more
carefully laid this time.
The people are requested to meet
at Powell Buite postoffice and make
a drive before noon. After dinner
a second drive will be made. The
drives are planned between the
postoffice and the butte, where the
rabbits are very plentiful, and it is
thought a large number will be
killed. The meatj will be shipped to
Portland and distributed among the
poor there. . 1
All your new resolutions made?
FRIDAY EVENING DEC 24
Band Concert
. "Joy to the World"
Rev. Van Nuys
"Holy Night"
...Rev. George H. Ramsey
."It Came Upon the Midnight Clear"
"There's a Song in the Air" I
Double Male Quartette
The Old Gent Himself j
FOSTER, SHIPP, WAL
LACE ARE ELECTED
Only 229 Votes PoIled93
Were Women Voters.
D.F.STEWART ELECTED MAYOR
Dr. Hyde received More Votes
Than any Other Candidate
Peoples Abo Elected.
C. W. Foster. J. B. Shipp and N.
G. Wallace were elected councilmen
at Monady's election by decisive
majorities. v
D. F. Stewart received 188 votes
for mayor there being no other can
didate for that office, or recorder or
treasurer. H. D. Peoples received
182 votes for treasurer, and E. O.
Hyde was elected recorder by the
highest vote received by anyone in
the contest, 194.
Dr. J. II. Rosenberg received 94
votes for councilman and W. Joe
Smelzer 68 votes.
J. B. Bell and R. W. Zevely re
ceived one vote each for mayor and
M. D. Powell and Lake M. Bechtell
one each for councilman and
treasurer respectively.
A total of 229 votes were cast of
which number 93 were the ballots
of women voters. J. B. Shipp was
the last candidate to vote. He ar
rived at the polls just eight minutes
before they closed.
The light vote is accounted for
by the fact that there was but little
contest in the election.
Farewell Party to
Bells Monday Evening
A reception was tendered Mr.
and. Mrs. J. B. Bell at the Annex
rooms' in' the CommDrcial Club
building Monday evening.
A merry crowd of annex and club
members packed the place to capa
city and an excellent time was en
joyed by everyone.
Music of the highest order was
provided by the "Mute," band. It
required intelligence and education
of the highest order to hear and ap
preciate it and the Journal repre
sentative was told that it was good,
he notposessing the above qualifica
tions. Jay H. Upton established an
eviable reputation also as a vocalist.
After the program the party was
treated to refreshments and the
guests of honor were presented with
appropriate gifts and every effort
made to cause these people to feel
that their departure is really re
gretted in tho community.
A Merry Christmas to all.
Talented Student Dies
Here Very Suddenly
Mr. and Mrs. Ilershey are suffer
ing the sad and sudden bereavement
of their young son Kenneth. Some
what ill on Sunday, on Monday a
high state of fever developed. Medi
cal attention was given but naught
availed to prevent his decease at
8:30 p. m.
Kenneth was 13 years of
age, and was a student of the C. C.
H. S. He was a splendid boy whom
to know was to love.
The family are prominent mem
bers of the Methodist church and
have hosts of friends who sympa
thize in their unspeakable sorrow.
Mr. and Mrs. Hershey left Tues
day afternoon with the body for
Gateway, their recent home where
Mrs. Monner, their Only daughter
resides. From Gateway the parents
left for Walla Walla, their old home
where Kenneth was born, and where
the remains will be buried nearhtose
of the grandmother, who died
over a year ago.
Journal's Contest
In Whirlwind Finish
The Journal's contest which closes
promptly at 3 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon is commencing to look
like the close of a political campaign
with everybody claiming victory.
The only differenceis that there
will be first, second, third, and so
on in this race while in politics
there is but first.
All preprations have been made
and the judges will be on hand
promptly at the close of the contest
to start the official count of the
votes. The result will be announced
on bulletir-s in front of the Journal
office as soon as the count is com
pleted, which we hope, will be
early in the afternoon.
We announced last week that no j
standing of the candidates would be !
given until the final count is made.
We have no count of the votes that
have been received in this office
since last Thursday, and will have
none until the official count, so that
we could not give out information
to any candidate if we wished to do
so.
Any rumor that you may hear
should be considered as false, for it
is impossible for anyone to know
the standing. The votes are placed
in the ballot box as received, and
this will be unlocked by the judges
only.
We have but one final word about
this contest. That is that the con
test closes at 3 and any votes com
ing in one minute late will not be
counted.
W.CT.U. Speaker
Here Monday Evening
Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, well
known as a temperance reformer
and speaker of the W. C. T. U.,
spoke at the Methodist Church Mon
day night.
In referring to the war in Europe
and its influence upon the temper
ance, she said their prohibitary
measures were all war measures,
with the exception of Russia, for
the lesson had been learned, that a
nation can not be trusted in the
hand of drunken men. Further,
drunken soldiers can not shoot
straight. The temperance move
ment has added eleven states to the
dry side in the last fourteen months.
Prohibition has not only gained
geographically, but two-thirds of
the employees in our steel works ere
on the water-wagon, the railroads
have demanded total abstinence cf
their help, medical profession is not
continued on page 8.
PRINEVILLE,
Latest Addition to Group of
Wells on S. Smith Place.
WATER IS CLEAR AND PURE
Flow Was S.ruck at a Depth of
240 Feet After Passing
Through 100 Feet Clay.
A strong flow of artesian water
was located at a depth of 240 feet
on the C. Sam Smith place which is
within the city limits on the north
west side of the city, on Friday
evening about six o'clock.
The well flows a stream about a
foot wide and some three or four
inches deep. The water is clear and
apparently free from the sulphur
that is to be tasted in the water
from some of the wells in the city.
The well is being capped and fitted
with fixtures so that the house and
grounds can be plumbed from it as
soon as Mr. Smith gets the building
up on the new site.
The well is an 8 inch hole and
provides the strongest flow of water
from any artesian well in the city.
There are but two' others in the
basin in fact that are in the same
class, these being the John M. Elliott
well and the A. J. Noble well.- .
The "formation through i which the
drill passed in this well is quite dif
ferent in some respects from some
other locations where wells have
been drilled. While none of them
have been much deeper if any than
this well, water has been located in
some instances almost 100 feet near
er the surface.
The first 100 feet below the sur
face the formation seemed to be a
mixture of quicksand and gravel,
and was very hard to drill. At about
100 feet a large log was drilled
through ana after about 40 feet
more of gravel and sand, some sand
an other aquious substances and blue
black clay was encountered.
After going through about 100
feet of this the flow was foi nd.
It is thought that it is strnoger at
this point because of the increased
depth over some of the other wells
Billboards Ordered
Off The Map
If you have a John Barleycorn
billboard on your back lot or a front
lot either for that matter, or any
deeded land that you own in the
state it would be well to have some
one wreck it before January 1, or
puint it out and replace it with one
telling of the merits of some brand
of breakfast food. '
pistrict attorneys of the st'.to
have passed the word and will tak .
steps to enforce this advertising
provision of the law on January 1.
The same law provides for the pro
hibition of liquor ads in newspapers
and by the means of posters.
The fine for the violation of this
law is not less than $100 and not
more than $500.
"I will not permit any violation
of the bill board or newspaper sec
tions of the new law." said District
Attorney Wirti yesterday,"and will
enforce the law just the same on
January 1, as if it had been in force
for a year. Everyone knows that it
will be in force, and everyone has
the opportunity to find out all about
it before that date, so that arrests
will be made January 1, if any one
fails to observe the new law on that '
day."