Crook
County. Journal
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER OF CROOK COUNTY
VOL. XXII
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RAILROAD
PRESENT ROAD SHOULD BE BUT
FIRST LINK SAYS STRAHORN
Railroad Builder Believes There It Great Future in Store
for Prineyille
TIMBER IS WONDERFUL ASSET FOR THE CITY
Mining and Agricultural Possibilities Great Prineville
Railroad Could Be Made Part of System
for Interior of 'the State
Robert E. Btrahorn, builder of
railroad of the tint Importance tor
many years, associated with aome of
the moat Important developments
ever undertaken by the Harlman sys
tem, and one of the few big men who
haa been able to look Into the re
sources of an undeveloped country
and forecast what will he ikihhIIiIii to
make of such a comuiunlty aa sur
rounda Prineville. completed a thor
ough inspection of the local situation
last week, and was very enthusiastic
in what he found here.
In an Interview we are able to give
aome of the Ideas this man has con
cerning Prineville, and Ret a glimpse
of his Idea of the development it
aeeds. We uoto him ns follows:
"A you know I have promised you
tood friends of Prineville on each of
my two former very abort visits to
come over some time and take a
good look at your back country,
which Is about the only comparative
ly undeveloped section of Oregon
with which I have not been quite fa
miliar. I am here this time to do It.
This visit added to the others makes
me more than ever hopeful that at
some future time In' some way not
now clear we may be able to link up
my railway activities and whatever
of hnlpfulness in development and
constructive lines I may be able to
add to your splendid achievements
ore.
This because you are my kind of
people, doing wonderful work In the
kind of a country I love and, well, I
guess because ever since boyhood I
have been a gourmand for just such
opportunity and just such association.
Now, having been the whole length
of the Crooked river country and en
joyed a glimpse of the Bear Creek
and John Day valley, having followed
the Ochoco and Us imporatnt tribu
taries to their heads, inspected your
coal fields on the McKay creek divide
and noting your other mining Inter
ests to be added to your two billion
feet of pine timber, all Immediately
tributary to Prineville, I can form
aome opinion of your subsidiary re
sources and Indulge In some very In
teresting forecasts of your future.
These districts and these resources
when properly developed by wagon
roads and railroads, which you have
now so well started to do, will sur
prise you all with their prodigal re
turns, provided that you keep your
shoulders to the wheel in a persistent
push for every worthy development
project.
These outside Interests and dis
tricts will grow and promote Prlne
ville's prosperity Just In proportion
to your efforts to push and help thera.
They rightly look for you to take the
lead.
By referring to these as subsidiary
Interests and resources you will know
that my mind dwells chiefly on the
magnificent agricultural develop
ment now RBSurred right here in sight
of Prineville. The statement that
you are now so soon to turn an ample
supply of water on to some 22,000
acres of rich, deep, sandy loam land
does not tell the story or paint the
picture. The fact that all these acres
are massed so completely within
.about ten miles ride around the city
ic
BUILDER
that they lie the most Ideally for Irri
gation and natural drainage of any
' similar area I have ever seen, at an
elovatlon of less than 8,000 feet, with
' sheltering foothills all around and
scarcely an acre of waste, a downhill
i haul to the railroad, which runs
through tbem, a fine domestic water
supply near the surface some artes
ian, raising well above the surface
these and other considerations may
' rightly lead you to bank upon this
Increased agricultural development
I doubling your population and busi
ness In a very few years. This always
with the proviso that speculators are
I eliminated and that the soil is act
ually properly tilled. With this done
you have accumpllKhcd wonders in
getting this great Irrigation project
so nearly completed on such a sub
stantal basis, Insuring a minimum of
maintenance charges in so short a
time.
Being now In the golden age of
pine lumber, you will need above ev
erything else next to the railroad to
got action on your forests. This is a
manufacturing resource which, when
utilized will profit you beyond all ex
pectations. Not only will It bring a
vast sum of monoy Into the country,
but It will lend a stabilizing Influence
to farming operations by furnshlng
a big home market tor all products.
We only have to look at the $200,000
monthly payroll at Klamath Falls to
realize this. The pine forests of the
northern states are about gone and
those of the south will be In five
years at the present rate of cutting.
In the forests of Central Oregon,
therefore, lies the hope of the white
pine users of America and of most of
them in the world besides. I would
therefore, urge your united and per
sistent action toward realizing on this
asset while everything Is so propit
ious and before every other commun
ity gets its bunch of saw mills.
How about your railroad T Well,
having devoted the best years of my
life to projecting and building rail
roads and therefore being an enthus
ast, (as one of the chief railroad men
of our country remarked 'an audac
ious one"), you must expect me to
say it is the best thing you ever start
ed. Those of you who have worked
so hard to get this greatest of all de
veloping influence deserve more
credit than you can ever hope to re
ceive from all the boosters and all
the slackers combined. Sorry we are
not all ready to celebrate its comple
tion this minute. But these big things
all come hard and high, especially
in these perilous times. You still
have a. hard road to travel to get a
real railroad Into operation so that
It can give the class of service which
the people expect and which will
make it nearly enough Immune from
auto truck and Jitney competition to
enable it to pay Kb way. But you
must sot your teeth together for the
last hard pull, partly because you
have started, but mainly because It
will pay Prineville richly to do it By
this I do not mean that It will probab
ly be a satisfactory Investment In it
self, but that the vast benefits Prine
ville will derive from Its proper com
pletion and its wise operation as a
I'HINKVIIXK, CROOK COUNTY, OIIEOOX, AUUIHT 2, lig.
FAREWELL SERVICE
FOR CROOK CO. BOYS
Patriotic Program Given At M.
Church, Sunday Night
LARGE CROWD III ATTENDANCE
Plan Will lie Followed In Future As
Karh Party Is railed To
The Colors
The churches of the city united In a
special patriotic service Sunday night
at the Methodist church, the occasion
being In honor of the eight men, who
left here Tuesday In the draft.
Patriotic songs, addresses and spec
ial music componed the program of
the everilnx. Dr. J. H. Cervln acted
as chairman of the evening. Speak
ers of the evening Included J. H. Up
ton, Rev. Van Nuys, Her. Fertig, and
Captain II. L. Bhoults, who gave a
very Interesting talk on army life and
the benefits derived from It.
The church was appropriately dee
orated with American flags and the
flags of the allied nations.
A large crowd attended the ser
vice and It has been decided to honor
each quota which goes from Crook
county.
Those who entrained for Camp
I-ewls ase ar follows: Batt Moche,
Guy C. Sumner, Emmel Reeves, Ru
pert B. Stewart, Bam Rltter, George
L. Baler. Melvln Weberg , Frank
Mertsching and Captain H. L. Shoults
was an alternate.
w. s. s.
RED ('HONS WORKERS MEET
The material for Red Cross work
hns been received and the workers
are requested to meet at the Red
Cross rooms Wednesday. The hours
will be 10 until 4:30 o'clock on Wed
nesdays and 1 to 6 o'clock on Fridays.
All who possibly can should attend
these meetings.
MUST USE LESS SUGAR;
ALLIED. NEEDS GROW
Americans Asked to Use No More Than
Two Pounds Per Person
' Per Month.
Shortage May Last Until Beginning of 1919,
When New Sugar Crop Arrives.
After making a careful survey of the
world sugar situation the O. 8. Food
Administration has asked the Ameri
can public to USB NO MORE THAN
TWO POUNDS OF SUGAR PER PER
SON A MONTH until January 1, 1919.
Increased sugar demands from the
Allied nations where the present sug
ar ration Is already reduced to the
lowest possible level and the need of
keeping our army and navy supplied
are two of the leading causes of the
curtailment of America's sugar ration.
Americans ure requested to mnke
two pounds of sugar per person (half
pound a week) serve for all sugar
uses In the household Including cook
ing and all sugar served at the table.
Public eating places, as well as
housewives, will be required to limit
their use of sugar to two pounds for
every ninety meals served. In the
C. 8. Food Administration's cafeteria
at Washington, where employees of the
Food Administration take their noon
meal, one pound of sugar Is used for
every 120 meals served. I
The U. S. Food Administration Is
confident that the American public will
heartily agree to reduce household use
of sugar here to a level more nearly
equal to the present restrictions
among the Allied nations.
The situation which the United
States faces In its efforts to maintain
a fair distribution of sugar to the Al
lied world Is as follows:
stimulus to other development will
be worth the price.
I have never been In the past and I
am not now so enthusiastic on this
railway extension on the basts of its
merely being built to Prinevlle. My
confidence in its desirability has been
based on my feeling that the line
would ultimately be extended and
figure as a great developer of the
back country in probably two direct
ions. This is the large stake you will
have to play for when this unit is
completed and you thus have some
thing of value to offer to attain the
larger result. This is the way Kla
math Falls is figuring and our twenty
mile extension down there, besides in
suring the completion of about anoth
er twenty miles, has already stimu
lated development on a great and im
possible scale without the railroad.
It also has an important bearing on
the financing and completion of my
entire Oregon, California. & Eastern
project.
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Hpncial Attention To lie Given Mili
tary Training This Year
E. E. EVANSAT HELM THIS YEAR
HUff Of Teachers Has Many Changes
From Lat Year A lilg
Attendance Prombied
Crook County High School will
open Its doors for the coming school
year on Monday, September . A
nine months' term will be conducted
and the school is scheduled to close
fin May 23, 1919.
mi ui urn ucpariments, wnicn in
clude the English, Science, Normal,
Commercial, Home Economics, Man
ual Training, and Military Training
will be conducted as usual.
Special stress, however, will be
placed on Military training and ad
ditional instruction along different
phases of this work, such as trench
warfare .the bayonet charge and hand I
grenade practice, will be given. The ;
school was among the first high '
Rcnoois in tne state to introduce Mil
itary Training, and it Is now consid
ered one of the most valuable and im
portant features of the institution.
E. E. Evans, who for a number of
years was In charge of the Commer
cial Department of the school, heads
the school as superintendent this
year. The following teachers have
be-n chosen: Mrs. Wedding, English;
Miss Delphla Meek Taylor, Science;
Darrel C. Davis, Commercial, Miss
Ethel Thomas, Assistant Commercial;
Eva Jackson, Home Economics; and
R. R. Davis, Manual Training, and
Military Training. The Normal De
partment still remains without an in
structor, although the vacancy
probably be filled soon.
will
Ths sugar supplies throughout the
country, In homes, stores, factories and
bakeries, are at low ebb; the produc
tion from ths American beet and
Louisiana cane crops have been dltap.
pointing; the yield In Porto Rico has
likewise been smaller than anticipat
ed, and ths Inability of the United
States and the Allies to secure sugar
from Java and other distant source
on account of the "Imperative call for
ships for the movement of troops and
their supplies has materially reduced
the supply from such quarters. Added
to this already difficult situation, the
quantity needed by the Army and
Navy greatly exceeds earlier esti
mates; we must send a large amount
to France and Italy to take the place
of the great volume lost through the
German and Austrian Invasions, dur
ing which much beet land was over
run and many factories destroyed; we
have to supply certain quantities to
neutral nations under agreements; and
finally ever fifty million pounds were
lost recently through submarine sink
ings off our Atlantio coast
The Food Administration Is confi
dent that the American people, with
the record of wheat savings behind It,
havtng by voluntary savings sent 140,
000,000 bushels of wheat to the Allies
after practically every bushel had been
exhausted from our normal surplus,
will with the same spirit save the
sugar situation of the world.
LECTURE ON WAR
Next Sunday Night At The Methodist
' Church
By special arrangement with the
people of this city, there will be a
mass meeting at the First M. E.
Church here, next Sunday night, at
which time there will be a war lect
ure by Mr. Wm. S. Dixon of Chicago,
Illinois, on the subject of "Hitting
the Hun."
The lecture will be given at 7:30
p. m. and all of the pastors have kind
ly given away to the service. They
have cancelled their own church ser
vices as originally planned for next
Sunday night. There will be no oth
er services in the church buildings
here at that time, so there be no con
fliction in any way.
There will be a community chorus
to furnish the music, and some local
talent music also of a special nature.
Mr. Dixon will also sing one of the
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
YANKEES RESTING
Here Is a detachment of the American troops that did such brilliant
fighting on the west front, converting the Hun offensive Into a Hun disaster
and retreat They are resting by the roadside, smoking. Joking and light
hearted, and ready to Jump Into the fight again.
PUN TO ATTEND THE
INTER-STATE FAIR
Go to the fair and take your whole
family and your own products
that you know are of a different kind
from someone's else. Exhibit that
pretty pair of pullets or that rooster
of which you are so proud, and take
some extra sized fruit or grain. Get
the boys and girls interested in rais
ng some fine poultry, a pretty ani
imal or In making a special kind of
Jelly or choice bread, for nearly al
ways prizes are offered for any of
these things. You have no idea what
a great help It la to attend these fairs
and exchange ideas with your friends.
There are all kinds of exhibits;
take yours and make a gain over the
year before it. Now in all probab
ility you will want to make a spec
ialty of a certain kind of seed potato,
or a certain breed of cattle. Is there
any better place to set forth your
product than at the fair? Perhaps
you have a special breed of poultry,
one that has proved a winner. Ex
hibit it at your fair; be there and 1
watch the interest it creates. You
will enjoy It. j
No one will be more interested in a I
good fair than the ladies. Each will
notice how their neighbors are doing '
their work and talk over new ways
of preserving and canning and mak-
ing delicious cheese; and how proud
they are of a new idea set forth, of an ;
extra large vegetable that you pro
duced and cultivated in a different
way from the ordinary. There is no
better way to set forth your products
than at a fair.
No one should stay away from the
fair, no matter hoy busy one is. Take
the whole family and attend, and i
above all take an exhibit; if not a
large one, take a small one. Take an
interest and your boys and girls wiy
strive the harder to improve and aim i
to make their exhibits better than
last year. New deas are Dut forth '.
by speakers. Hear them, try them.
improve by attending, and you will j tion were sung. This was a nation
always be known as a progressive . wide movement, every city, village,
farmer. j anQ- hamlet responding to the call of
the President. Just as the grand old
newest war songs, which has been Liberty Bell in Philadelphia ceased
published only a few weeks, and is J ringing, at sir o'clock, all patriotic
entitled. "The Blue Star In The Win- ! citizens joined in singing the Star '
dow." j Spangled Banner, followed by other
An efort is being made to get the ' patriotic songs,
band to play under the flagpole at j Mrs. J. H. Rosenberg, who Is chalr
7 p. m., and they will also nlav at the man of the Musical Denartment of
church building, where the
is to be given.
lecture
Mr. Dixon has traveled extensively
and has appeared before some large
audiences in this country, as well as
in Canada. He will show some of the
atrocities of the Hun, expose some of
the principles that underlie the act
Ions of the Kaiser, and tell some first
hand Information from the boys at
the front who are fighting our bat
tles. There will be no charge for admis
sion, so that all will be free to come
and hear the facts that will be pre
sented. The four-minute men of this city
have consented to be on the platform
on next Sunday night, as well as some
other representative citizens.
w. a. s.
CHAIRMEN APPOINTED
Women Are Preparing To Assist In
Liberty Loan Drive Next Month
The women of Crook county are
making preparations to help with the
next Liberty Loan campaign.
In Crook county the women sold
over Nineteen Thousand Dolars worth
of Bonds in the second drive and
Twenty Thousand in the third drive.
Let us make it double this time.
The chairmen of the different pre
cincts have been apointed by Mrs. H.
P. Belknap, County Chairman, who
will appoint their workers to assist
the Men's Committee. The chairmen
are as follows: Prineville. Miss Hazel
Sulivan; McKay, Mrs. Numa McCoin;
Upper McKay. Mrs. B. L. Ktdwell;Rye
Grass, Mrs. Lynn Nichols; Ochoco,
Mrs. Jessie Parrish; Johnson Creek,
Mrs. Norris Morgan; Howard, Mrs.
Lee Blevins; Post, Mrs. Clarence
Stover; Paulina, Mrs. L. M. Miller;
firizzlv, Mrs. Joe Smith: Rear Creek,
Msr. Jim Cram; Barnes, Mrs. Chas.
Shormnn : Crooked l ivor. Mrs. Mary
L. McDowell; Powell Butte, Mrs.
Chas. Charlton.
FOR CITY OF PRINEVILLE
No. 43
BETWEEN FIGHTS
FOURTH LIBERTY LOAII !
COMMITTEES NAMED
Following is a list of men who will
be chairmen of the Fourth Liberty '
Loan drive: West Prineville,' G. M.
Cornett; East Prineville, J. B. Shipp;
Powell Butte, J. F. Rice; Paulina, H.
J. Lister; Suplee, Herb Angell; Held,.
Frank Hackleman; Newsom Creek.
Homer Norton; Breese, J. R. Breese
Pringle Flat, J. Floyd Houston; Bear
Creek, Henry Carlin; Mill Creek, J.
W. Stanton; Upper Ochoco, W. A.
Donnelley; Upper McKay, Alex Hin
ton; Lower McKay, John Grimes;
Montgomery, Henry McCall; Fife, J.
J. Romberg; Dry Lake, Fisher Lo
gan; Roberts, Claude Dunham.
A. G. Clark of Portland, was in
Prineville yesterday maknlg arange
menta for a big rally to be held here)
September 9. Prominent speaker
will address the meeting.
w. a. s.
, yAXCEY-NOBLR WEDDING ....
Ceremony Performed) At Home
Of
Bride Near Prineville
S. Orval Yancey and Miss Audrey
M. Noble were married at the bride'
home near Prineville. Rev. J. H. Ger
vin performed the ceremony at 4
o'clock Sunday, August 25. Only rel
atives were present.
Mr. Yancey is a prominent rancher
of Prineville and the son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. W. Yancey. Mrs. Yancey I
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Noble and recently finished at O. A.
C.
Mr. and Mrs. Yancey have gone to '
Portland for a tew days and will re
turn and go to their ranch at Comb'
Flat.
W. B. B.
NATIONAL SONG SERVICE
Large rrow1 Ta f Part In Common
ity Sing Tuesday Night
A community sing was held on the
Btreeta Tuesday evening at which
time oil tha nitrlnK. . .
i the Crook County Women's Council
ot Defense, led the singing.
w. s. s
MOTHERS' PARADE SOON
All mothers In Oregon who have
sons in the service, will nave a par
ade on September 21..
Mrs. J. H. Upton has charge of the
arrangements for the parade to be
held in Prineville.
w. s. s.
FRANCE AND BELGIUM
GET AMERICAN SUGAR
Ninety-five per cent of all refined
sugar sent from the United States to
the Allied nations went to France and
Belgium during the first five month
f this year.
France got 72 per cent, or nearly
83,000,000 pounds, and Belgium receiv
ed nearly 11,000,000 pounds, or 23 per
cent
In each country this sugar was doled
out by a strict rationing organization.
The entire amount to the Allies In
these five months 23,791 tons, almost
half of which was shipped In May Is
only about one-half of 1 per cent of
our total annual consumption.
ONE 6POON, PLEASE.
Make one spoon of sugar
Do the work of two.
Keep the program going
Until the war Is through.
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