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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
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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.
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