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Page 8 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL Christmas Comes But Once a Year And When it Comes it Should Bring Cheer to all the Home Sec Here: , We are determined to close out all our Holiday Goods and Beginning Fri. Morning Dec 17th will Sell These Lines AT A BIG REDUCTION! GET BUSY!! Toys Dolls Balls Builder Sets Slippers Fancy Ribbons Bath Robes Hand Bags Gift Baskets Aluminum Ware Fancy Dishes Fancy Glassware Christmas Boxes ( for men Fancy Suspenders Jewel Cases COLLINS W. ELKINS W. C. T. U. Speaker Here Monday Evening continued from page 1 prescribing liquor as formerly, the druggists are asking that they be not required to keep it in stock in dry territory, and it is now known that the barkeepers have a total ab stinence society. Oregon must re member just now that the force and power of the people is necessary be hind the law to compel its enforce ment. Law is not self-enforcing. Har concluding remarks were direct ed especially to the workers and work of the local W. C. T. U., maintaining that the strength of the organization was not in its leaders, but resident in the membership of the local organization. Bend School Census 5hows 744 Pupils The figures of the school census just completed by School Clerk Overturf, show an increase of 272 children of schoo! age in District 12 in the past year. Altogether there are 744 pupils in the district as against 472 a year ago and 469 in J913. If the growth continues in the tsame proportion it has up to the present time, the district will be en titled to rank as a district of the f rst class in a short time. To be in the first class the school censusm ust bhow lfiOO pupils. The district then is entitled to a board of five direc tors and certain other advantages. Bend Bulletin. 1915 DECEMBER 1913 SP.M TW T F 12I13M5116I17M 19202122 202728293031 Oil SHERIFF'S SALE. By virtue of an execution and de cree of foreclosure duly issued out of the Circuit Corut of the State of Oregon for Crook County and to me directed on the 18th day of De cember, 1915, upon a judgment and decree rendered, entered and docketed in and by said court, on the 10th day of December, 1915, in a certain suit in said court, wherein Mortgage Company of America, a corporation, was plain- ! tiff and Jens Hasselberg, Guy E. Dobson, as administrator of the Es tate of Hjalmar Olson, deceased, the unknown heirsof Hjalmar Olson, deceased, and also all other persons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described in the complaint herein, were defendants, in favor of the plaintiff and against asid defendants, by which execution I am commanded to sell the real property described in said execution and to be hereinafter described to pay the sum due the plaintiff of Fifteen hundred forty-one and 43. 100 Dollars, ($1541.34) , with inter est thereon from the 27th day of ! November, 1915, at the rate of 8 jper cent per annum until paid, to I gether with the sum of One hun j dred twent-five Dollars, as a reason able sum adjudged as attorney's fees in said suit and the fu -ther sum of Twenty-eight and 50.100 ($28.50) , as costs and disbursements taxed in said suit, and the costs and expenses of execution and sale.l will on the 22nd day of January, 1916, the said day being Saturday of said week, at the hour of 2 o'clock, p. m., of said day, at the north door of the County Court house in Prine ville, Crook County, Oreogn, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in hand on the day of said sale all the right, title, and interest in said real property which the said defendants or any of the defendants herein, and all persons claiming under, by or through said defend ants in and to the real property hereinafter described in said execu tion as follows, to-wit: Lot 3 and the' East half of the southwest quarter of Section six, (6) , and the east half of the northwest quarter of Section seven, (7), all in Town ship sixteen, (16) , South of Range Eleven, (11), East of the Willamette Meridian, m the County of Crook and State of Oregon, or bo much thereof as will satisfy said judg ment and decree, with costs and ac cruing costs. Said property will be sold subject to confirmation and redemption as by law provided. Dated at Prineville, Oregon, this 21st day of December 1915. E. B. Knox, Sheriff of County, Oregon. Crook NOTICE OF CONTEST Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office, at The Dalles, Oregon, December 14, 1915. To Webster A. Riant, of Post, Oreogn, Contestee: You are hereby notified that William S. Gittings who gives Post, Oregon as his post office address, did on November 22, 1915, file in this office his duly cor roborated application to contest and secure the cancellation of your homestead, Serial No. 06356 made March 30, 1910, for KW1SKJ, SEi SVVJ, NJSWi, Section 18, Twp. 17-South, Range 20-Kast, W M and as grounds for his contest he al leges that said tract of land has been wholly abandoned by the said Web ster A. Riant for over two years last past; that he has sold his home stead house upon said land and the same was removed therefrom ; that he has wholly failed to reside upon, improve or cultivate the said tract of land as required by law for over one year last past. You are, therefore, futher notified that the said allegations will be taken as confessed, and your said entry will be canceled without fur ther right to be heard, either before t this office or on appeal, if you fail to file in this office within twenty ' days after the fourth publication of this notice, as shown below, your 1 answer, under oath, specifically re j sponding to the allegations of con ! test, together with due proof that you have served a copy of your answer on the said contestant either i in person or by registered mail. ' You should state in your answer the name of the post-office to which ; you desire future notices to be sent j to you. H. Frank Woodcock, Register. Date of first publication, Decem ber 23,1915. Date of second publication De cember 30, 1915. i Date of third publication Janu jary 6, 1916. i Date of fourth publication Janu ary 13, 1916. NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting of the Mill Creek Livestock Association will be held at the Commercial Club Hall in Prineville on the 8th day of Janu ary, 1916. 6t3c. Raymond Calavan, Sec.-Treas, Now turn to the clas sified ads on page 3. STOCK REDUCING OO In order to raise cash money we will at greatly reduced prices sell all our Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Linoleum, Couch Covers, Draperies, Vacuum and Carpet Sweepers, Building and Shelf Hardware, Doors, Windows, Paints, Oil, Glass, Wall Paper, Brushes, Wall Oil Cloth, Tin, Enamel, Granite and Woodenware, Stoves, Ranges, Heaters. GoodsSold for Spot Cash and on Contract Only All Goods Guaranteed Free of Livestock A.H.LIPPMAN&CO. i A