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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1919)
jixv at, 1010, chtxyk mirrwrw jnrtK n - yjj t'- " 'mlrr- "" g,IAPAMF?F WAY MTu""iiAnrftT"" 3 4 FREE HOUSE PLANS fm Prmeville Mills -J, . STANDARD FLOUR 4EAT MORE BREAD" THE WORLD OWES YOU A LIVING! But it is up to you to collect the obligation. You owe to yourself and to your family the comforts and convenienc es of a good home. Build the new home or remodel the old one NOW. Don't wait for lower prices they won't come. All commodities are on a new price level just as well get used to them. It takes less beef or wool or wheat or hay to build a house now than it did the same kind of a house five years ago. - , Come in and talk it over with us or drop us a line and we will come and see you. TUM-A-LUM LIBER COMPANY L. K. SMITH, District Manager PIU NEVILLE REDMOND, CUIiVEIt, MADRAS, GATEWAY Paopla Hav. a Curlou. Method of Qv ting Rid of a Callar Wh. Out ataya Weleoma. One. In a long while a caller eoroes to one's house or office or study and overstays hla welcome, write. Cleland B. McAfee, Id Forward. He of course l not conscious of thla breach. All lie need la aomethlnf to remind hlia U. tin UyeU lout enough. Ho far no device haa been discovered for end ing the call without risk of offense, though varloua formulas have been tried out. A few years ago a friend lold a group of acquaintance that he always received hla callers standing. nd saw to It that there were no hairs In the room. Needless to say. Hie culls were always short. It was the common opinion among hla listen ers that this would be bardpr on hlrn than on the callers. But that waa hla affair. Perhaps the Japanese have come aa near as any to solving, the problem. A missionary to that land tells how. when a person, makes too long a call, and apparently doesn't know it is time i ir nun io leave, they stand a broom I urwlde down somewhere In the houxe. Tlila la a charm, supposed to throw a rpell over the caller, and all unknown to himself he Is compelled to go home. The broom doesn't have to be aeen by the visitor; any obscure corner will do. The missionary tells of her own cook, not yet a Christian, who was no annoyed by callera who Interfered with the dinner hour that she waa Just starting to turn the broom upside down when the callers left Of course that confirmed the superstition. In America brooms have been known to rid a house of visitors, but ordinarily we adopt more drastic ways of han dling It to gain that result It la not clear whether th J method la more Interesting aa super atltlon or as a courtesy. Certainly It la not peculiar to that nation to con nect things which can have no real re lation, but It la of the very essence of the race to think of a way to get things done without offending. ' At any rate there ia the custom. OCHOCO PROJECT Land DIAMONDS HIDE IN AMERICA Gems May On. Day B. Mined on a Large Seal. In Thla Country, Say Geologist. Geologists, according tn rxhuim believe that some day dlamonda will be mined on very large scale In th. United States. They are confident there are valuable diamond mines bid den under this country, because many loose cuainonda have been found la various sections. There must be a par ent lode, they say, and this is believed to be In either the Rocky mountain or Appalachian range. Regular diamond cnimneys, like those of South Africa, were fouijrt In Arkansas in 1906, They were filled with periododlte, akin to the famous Klmherllte of South Africa. A farmer In Indiana, plowing a. gravelly hillside, found the first dia mond in America In 1837. More thnn 20 diamonds have been found In In diana In the last 20 years, and one anld for $1,200. Other valuable dia monds have been found In Virginia. North Carolina, Wisconsin. South Caro lina. Georgia. Alabama. Lnnlainnn. Idaho, Texas, Montana, Arizona and California. ' A laborer working in an excavation In Manchester, Va. found a stone weighing 23 karats In J855. Numerous stones, weighing from three to 21Vi karats have been found in Wisconsin. Just receiving its first years water. Crops of all kinds will double their yield, and grains are making enor mous growths. BUY NOW! Before the prices go higher. We still have some of the unimproved stuff at prices ranging from $45 up, but cannot hold them at these low figures much longer as the owners 1 wish to either raise the price or hold the land. Let us show you over the Projed. It will pay you big to get in before the rush. THE OCHOCO REALTY COMPANY OF PRINEVILLE GUY LAFOLLETTE W, B. RUSSELL J. E. BLOOM 13 Xiao Embroidery an Old Art Embroidery Is supposed to be one of the enrliest domestic arts, for It la I argued that it must have been em ployed for decorative purposes very soon after sewing was Invented. This would place It long before the art of weaving was discovered and back in ; the days when the skins of animals were the only material for clothing that existed. The earliest known spec imens of embroidery, however, are some fragments discovered in Egypt, and the earliest of these Is supposed to have been made about the fifteenth century B. C. Naturally materials of this kind disappear very rapidly, and It Is only in a very dry climate like Egypt, with Its sandy soil, that fab rics suitable for embroidery could survive. Dental Hygiene In Africa. The manufacturer of a popular den tal powder advertises that "Savages lend a different kind of life from us. and therefore nature takes care of their teeth without artificial help." Wellerhurn, the wanderer In remote places, saw this and laughed. "I know of at least three African tribes," he said, "that brush their teeth regularly. Each person carries a twig of a certain fibrous tree. They chew the end of it into ' a good bunch of bristles and spend a quarter-hour every morning cleaning their teeth thoroughly. They tie a string to the twig and dangle ii from the waist cord, if they have no other clothes to fasten It on. It is an Important thing to Uiem." The Needed Lubrication. A fervent, but unlettered, preacher among the mountain whites of the Car ollnag was exhorting his flok to come forward and take advantage of the "means of grace." . i "It air pride that's keeping you set tin' in yore seats," he cried. "Come to the altar and get down on your benders, and if they ulr too stiff with, pride, lie' em, He 'em, as it says in the Soriptur' with He of Putmos." New York Evening Post. Mid-Summer Bargains ! ALL SUMMER MILLINERY AT- HALF PRICE Hats for Children, Misses and Women at half price. Sailors, ribbon and flower trimmed, and hand-made hats of Georg ette and braids are In this lot. Some untrimmed shapes and an asortment of flowers. THE ELITE RUBY M. 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