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SEPTEMBER 27, 1917 PAGE 2 CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL BY GCV LrX)LLKTTK Entered at the postofflce at FrlnevtUe, Oregon, as second-clasa matter. ri BUSHED KVKRV THl'BSUAY Price $1.50 per year, pax-able strictly In advance. In case of change of a rid row please notify us at once, giving both old'sud new address. overestimated. The community, like the individ ual, gains a reputation that is of great value by delivering the goods. Po your part by being at the fair and bringing the best exhibits you have. o rmS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGI ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES 3 raw A XKW EPOCH 80I.MKKS' l.KTTKIW Some of our subscribers are doubtless wondering why letters and bits of Information sent to the Journal recently concerning Prlne- villo men in the service have not been published. For the benefit of these, and others who may send us like com munications In the future wo wish to state that because of tho fact that almost all of these communications contain some information that should not be given wide publicity : at this time of International strife, they will not be printed in the Jour nal in the future. The war department has placed the press of the land on its honor concerning the publication of war information, and this course, iu our opinion, is the safe one for the press to follow, at present at least. o How easy the rain falls, since old J. Pluvius Is now on the Job. o "When the frost Is on the pumpkin" Next Wednesday marks the be ginning of a new epoch in the his tory of central Oregon's biggest and beet fair. ' After a doxen successful events during which it was known as the Crook County Fair, the name has been changed this year to the Oregon Inter-State Fair. The bars are down and open com petition is invited from stockmen in all parts of the country, to come and show their stock in competition with the local growers. The amounts of the premiums have been increased until they com pare favorably with those of state and district fairs throughout the Northwest, and the added impetus the fair will thus gain will insure nough stock of the very best qual ity to make a great show. The reputation of the Prinevllle country has been established in the beef markets of the west, and whenever Prinevllle is mentioned first class beef animals are at once suggested to the minds of buyers, which is an asset that cannot be OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAMNTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. The sixth annual Polk County fair was held in Dallas last week. Portland night schools will open throughout the city on October 1. The Oregon Dairymen's league has been formally organixed in Portland. Wharf and docks for the new saw mill at Reedsport are now building. Umatilla County's assessed valua tion this year will be about $50,000,-000. ! Wmhlnstnn rnnntv fruitzrowera be gan harvesting their prune crop Mon day. Clatsop county's annual industrial and school fair was held in Astoria last week. - The date of th Hermiston dairy ami hog show has been aet tor October 26 and 27. The federal reservs branch bank of Portland will open for business on October 1. Four hundred thousand trout fry were liberated In Fifteen Mile creek near Dufur. The Klamath School Fair associa tion is planning to hold an Industrial fair some time in October. The Washington county fair will lie held on the Pacific University campus at Forest Grove October S i. Governor Wlthyeombe has Issued a proclamation declaring Tuesday, Oc tober 9, to be fire prevention day. The 34th auntial convention of the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance union will be held at Albany October J5. U J. Scott, of llarrlsburg, met In stant death by coming In contact with a high tension wire carrying S:t,000 volta. About 400 carloads of prunes have been shipped from the Milton si-etlon during this season, breaking all pre vious records. During this year the state highway department has drawn plans for 25 county bridges, the total cost of which aggregates $500,000. Between 5.000,000 and 1000,000 pounds of prunes Is the estimate of Douglas county's present crop as made by a prominent buyer. The city of Gold Hill has purchased the McClure power site, water right and ditches for power purposes in op erating the city water plant. Curry county has requested the state highway commission to make a survey along the coast from the Coos county boundary to the California state line. Forty or 50 tona of the evergreen blackberries that grow wild In nearly every part of Marlon county are be ing delivered daily to the two can neries of Salem. Wlllalm Henderson Park wood, aged 85, the last surviving member of the Oregon territorial legislature that adopted the state constitution, ded Friday at Baker. , A start for better roads Is being made in Grant county In the survey of a post road from Pilot Rock to Long Creek. This road will up one of the best sections In northern Grant county. Qeorga Doll, who operate ths Llbby mine, near Marshfleld. is planning to aid in meeting the coast fuel shortage by reopening tha South Marshfleld coal mine which has been Idle R0THER5 ROADSTER The goodness of the car is seldom called into question. The thoughts about it are the same thoughts in thou sands of minds. ' The market grows by what it feeds on and what it feeds on is the performance of the car. Deep and abounding satisfaction surrounds the sale and the use of practically every car that leaves the works. It 111 pay yon to visit ns and examine this car. The gasoline consumption Is unusually low. The tire mileage Is unusually high. Roadster or Touring Car, $835; Winter Touring Car or Roadster, $1000; Sedan or Coupe, $1265 (All prices f. o. b. Detroit.) WALTHER-WILLIAMS HARDWARE CO. THE DALLES OREGON PLOTS TO INFLUENCE CONGRESS ARE BARED Message Sent By Bernstorff Asking Authority to Spend $50,000 is Revealed. Washlugtuu The American govern uaut's publtulty spotlight revealing German Intrigue lu neutral lands was turned upon ths expenditure of money by tha Berlin foreign office In an ef fort to Influence aougrvss on tht eve of the ruthless submarine campaign which drove ths United Status to war. Secretary Laming made public with out comment ths text of a message sunt by Couut vou llernstorff to Dor lln last January asking authority to use $50,000 to luflueuus oougraas through an orgaulxation which ths foreign office was reminded had per formed similar service before. Suggests Declaration Favoring Ireland To supplement this move Von Bern storff suggested an official declara tion in favor of Ireland for Ita effect here. The organisation to be em ployed was not named in the message, and Mr, Lansing did not discuss its Identity. This disclosure adds another chap ter to the amaxlng story begun with publication of the famous Zimmerman note, in which Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico and Japan against the UnlU-U States and which has Included the German-Swedish breaches of neutrality lu Argentine and Mexico. Lansing Exposes Deadly Csrm Plot How Germany "shamefully abused aud exploited" the protection of the United Slates by secreting In the tler man legation at Bucharest, after the American government had taken charge of Germany's affairs at the Roumanian capital, quantities of pow erful explosives for bomb plots and deadly mlcrobea, with instructions for their use In destroying horses and cat tle, was also revealed by Secretary Lansing. Von Igtl Papers Proof of Plots. Further disclosures of far-reaching German propaganda. Intrigues and plots In this country prior to tha diplo matic break with Germany were mads by the committee on public Informa tion. In a bulletin styled "Official Ex pose," the committee quotes numerous letters and extracts from letters setxed by the department of justice to April, 1918. In a raid upon the New York office of Wolfe von IgeL. Von Igel, In carrying on this mani fold pro-German aud antl-Amerlcan activities, the documents show, wss In constant touch with the German Embassy and with Count von Bern United States. storff, German ambassdaor to the VESSEL SINKINGS REDUCED I Navy Department Reports Decrease Trunin mv rt inn vmym Washington. "Submarine sink lugs of cpnvoyed ships 10 days ago amount ed to one-half of one per cent, and the sinkings of convoyed ships now are very much lower." This statement was made by Admir al Benson, acting secretary of tho navy. Admiral Benson said he had no available figures on sinkings before the convoy policy was put Into effect, but that since merchant vessels were given escorts of destroyers the num ber of sinkings bad shown a sensa tional drop. Ships of allied and neutral nations are being taken across the Atlantic under the protection of warships. Ships that have come through the Panama canal Join the fleets leaving Atlantic ports in this country In great numbers. Submarine operations recently in the Mediterranean around Gibraltar and around the Azores have been neg ligible, Admiral Benson said. Americans Under Firs In France. With the British Armies In the Field. American troops for the first time are under German fire in France. Two American soldiers have been slightly wounded by fragments of a bursting shell. A certain contingent of the American army Is now located directly behind the British lines, well ! within range of the enemy guns. The two wounded men are the proudest members of this contingent. I. O. O. F. Will Raise $2,000,000 Fund. Louisville. The sovereign grand lorlge, I. O. O. F by a unanimous vote adopted a resolution which authorizes its various state grand jurisdictions to raise by Individual assessment $2, 000,000, which will be devoted to the relief of Odd Fellows who enlist in the military service of the United States,, and members of their families. Ruaslans Take Offensive. Petrograd. Russian forces on the Riga front in the region south of the Pskoff high road took the offensive and after a fierce struggle occupied the German positions In the sector of Sllzene, the Russian war office announced. EVEREADY Flashlights in different shapes and sizes and EVEREADY BATTERIES You will find just the one you r want at this store Ice Cream Cold Drinks, and Lowney's Chocolates D. P. 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