CROOK CVVNTT JOVRXAIj (M-roiii ii i, 1010. PAGE 2 Crook County Journal BT GIT LAKOLLETTE Entered at the postofflee at Prine 1lle, Oregon, m second-class matter. rCBI.ISHEO EVKRT THVRSPAY Price It. 00 per year, payable strict ly in advance. In case of change of address pleas notify at at once, glT Inf both old and new address. MIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE i OCNCKAL OrPICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES NOVEMBER SEVENTH On November 7 the people of this county will vote on the (220. 000 road bond issue. On that day one of two things will happen. The people will vote to put. on a road building campaign that will serve almost every part of this county with good highways, bring together, the business centers of the state, de-j velop the business of Prineville, the Prineville railroad, the farms and the ranches of the county, or they will vote to block al road building by the! will halt all road building of every nature for years, stop construction on the Crooked River-Redmond high way and deal the county a blow that it will not recover from for years. This is not an overdrawn conclus ion; it is a statement of fact. Opposition to the bonds is develop ing in the most unexpected quarters. As one might expect, however, the strongest opponents of the measure so far observed are either on or near good highways now, and thus do not have the interest in the plan that tbey who will be more directly bene fitted have. The man who attempts to use ar gument against good roads is in the class with the man who opposes pro hibition. He has no case. All evi dence is against him. The only logical statement we have Iheard against the present road pro gram is that money being expended at this time is to a large extent wast ed, that the dollar does not have the purchasing power it had at one time. This last we admit. The facts are, however, that road work being done, while expensive, is far from money wasted and the high er the cost the more it is offset by the fact that our dollars are more than doubled by the state and nation, for the first time in th history of this country, This is possible because of the fact that the slate highway commission has been brought to see the great need for roads in this part of the state and the opportunity ts too valuable to be lost. The nation and state and other counties in all parts of the west are doing the thing this county Is plan ning to do, and Crook county cannot afford to take this backward step now and vote down this bond issue. Friends of the bonds should not think the issue will be voted without effort. To the people of the Crooked River country: Poet, Paulina. Suplee, and Fife, and residents of the Bear Creek and Camp Creek country The Journal wishes at this time to sound a warn ing: The bond Iwue may b lont! If it is lost, it will be because you do not work hard enough for it. Do not get out and vote for It. It is your opportunity to get out of a costly, almost Impossible road situ ation. Almost all of the people of the county realize your need for the Crooked River Highway. Many will vote for it. Many others, we cannot tell Just what percentage, will not. A friend of the bonds said yester day that the danger lies in the failure of those wishing the bonds to get out and vote for thorn. Work, talk, and vote for these bonds. They must not be allowed to fail. Nov. 7 WITH THEJXCHANGES County court was in session Wed nesday of this week Judge Henry D. Keyes and Commissioners R. E. Wright and Mike lukek being pres ent for the purpose of selling the $44,000 bonds voted last spring for road building. The bonds were sold to the Clark-Kendall company of Portland for $4fi,7'!5, being at a pre mium of $2,735. The purchasers are to pay the cost of executing the bonds and are to refund to the county all in terest that may accrue up to the time of actual delivery of the bonds to the company. When the former ISO. 000 road' bond issue was offered for sale by the Wheeler county court there were few i bids and the court was able to get in the neighborhood of only $500 prom-! ium. This time the competition was keen, six bids were made, and the court made the splendid sale as de tailed above. The court has ordered a tractor for road work with a roller attachment, so that the machine can be used not only to pull a grader but can be con verted into a roller for packing the roads. Fossil Journal. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. George Wheeler, after an absence of 12 years, returned to Prairie the latter part of last week from a tour of North America, South America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, making these countries on the vaude ville circuit. Saturday evening he pulled off one of his stunts at the El ectric theater, which was well enjoy ed by all present. Grant County Journal. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the County Court of th Stats of Oregon for Crook County. In th Mutter of Nea! A. Thomas, Deceased. NOTICE is hereby given by the undersigned, administrator of the Estate, of Neal A. Thom as, dereaacd. to ail creditors of said Deceased, and to all persons having claim against said Estate, to present the same with proper vouch ers as required by law. to the undesigned at the office of M. R. Elliott, in the city of Prine ville, Oregon, within six months from the first publication of this Notice. Dated this 27th day of September, 1919. NEAL A. THdate J. A. WILCOX, Administrator of the E estate of Neal A. Thomas, 47t5c Deaaeaed. MIGHEL GROCERY COMPANY HEADQUARTERS FOR FANCY GROCERIES WRITE OR PHOXE CS FOR WHAT YOC NEED IS THE GROCERY LIXES WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF THE GROCERY BUSINESS PROMPT SHIPMENT GUARANTEED 1 ifcM Vacant rooms and dwelling houses are at a premium in Dallas, Hood River post of the American Legion was formally launched with 55 members. The Coos county teachers' Institute was held In North Bend October 13, 14 and 15. State money on deposit In the banks throughout Oregon on October I ag gregated $3,647,838.37. The building fund for the new tans anne hall at Willamette university has reached nearly $40,000. Sumpter will vote on a new charter, embodying the commission form of government, on December 9. It Is believed that tho total prune production of Douglas county for 1919 will ho about 8.000.000 pounds. Thirty four pupils of Middle Grove school in Marion county earned a total of $1200 during the summer vacation. Of 4000 schools in the stato of Ore gon, ISO have been unable to open this fall on account of lack of teachers. Thomas A. Drasfield, 83 years old, one of Raker county's earliest settlers, died at the home of his son In Baker. Captains of all ships coming to Portland hereafter will be entertained by the Portland Chamber of Com merce. Plans of the Silver Lake irrigation district of 8000 acres have been sub mitted to the state engineer for ap proval. Marriages in Marlon county during the quarter ending October 1, out numbered divorces practically three to one. Rev. William Rldgely Powell, one of the oldest clergymen In Oregon, died at his home In Portland at the age of 81 years. For the first time In seven years. Baker has a city Isolation hospital, established to accommodate a case of smallpox. Miss Rosallna Esplnosa, graduate of the University of Colorado, Is the new professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon. The Dalles district Columbia river conference of Methodist Episcopal ministers was held lu The Dalles Mon day and Tuesday. Miss Anne Elizabeth Arnsplger, a resident of Oregon since 1853, died at the home of her slBter, Mrs. Mary Rhodes in The Dalles. Multnomah county road budget for 1920, as tentatively prepared by the road department, calls for a total ap propriation of $1,200,000. Organization of a county farm bu reau was effected at a meeting In Klamath Kails of farmers from all sec tions of Klamath county. Eight Eugene dentists will care for the teeth of 72 children in the Eugene public schools during the present school year free of charge. Demands were presented to the board of education by the teachers of the NorthBend schools tor an increase in salaries of $20 a month. Physical examination of Umatilla county school children is revealing that the majority are in need of medi cal, optical or dental attention. Flans for the enlargement of the fish hatchery on the north fork of the Umpqua river has been made by the Oregon fish and game commission. Heavy frosts last week killed plants in the big tomato and potato fields around Dallas and damaged the ripen ing fruits to the amount of several hundred dollars. With the discharge from Good Sam aritan hospital of Portland's first case of influenza for the winter season, the city is now without a single case of the dreaded disease. W. D. DeVarney of Portland was ap pointed by Governor Olcott as a mem ber of the child welfare commission to succeed Fred Lockley, also of Port land, who has resigned. The thirty-third grand encampment of the Grand Commandery of the Knights Templars of Oregon met in Eugene with 70 delegates from dif ferent parts of the state. Five thousand boxes of tomatoes from five acres of land at Dlllard la the record made by T. B. Evans & Son. The fruit brought a price of more than 40 cents a box. Curfew ordinances which require all boys and girls under the age of 18 years to be off the streets by 9 P. M. after October 1 will be strictly en forced hereafter In Salem. A committee of five of the Portland police department appeared before Mayor Baker, with a request that there be a horizontal Increase in salaries of approximately $20 a month. The seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding the Oregon City Congrega tional church will be made the occa sion for the holding of the 71st state conference of the Congregational churches of Oregon, a three-day ses sion being called for November 4, I mil Q. Elnven parrels of land, the property of various members of the Indian col ony on the Umatilla reservation near Pendleton, will be offered for sale to the highest bidder on November 81. Issuance of $900,000 In bonds to fl nanoe irrigation of $8,000 seres of the lngell valley $0 miles east of Kla math Falls was approved at a special lection of taxpayers of the district. To study methods of logging used In the central Oregon white pine belt, nearly 150 members of the Pacific Logging etuigreaa which held its tenth anuual session tn Tortlaud, visited Rend. Hundreds of census enumerators are wanted and the supervisors of Oregon are wondering if they will se cure enough to make the canvass. Oregon will require about 930 enu m orators. Knough money was taken In at the state fair at Salem over and above ex penses to pay off the entire debt con tracted for the construction of the stadium there and to leave over $10,- 000 surplus. Mothers and fathers of Oregon boys with the American expeditionary fi'ivi'S in Siberia may expect their sons home in a short time, the war department has advised lien S. Fisher 1 f Marshfleld. Clatsop post, American legion, Is nuking good progress In Its campaign !o induce Astoria business men to withdraw their patromiKO from the Toverl, the Finnish daily, accused of disloyal utterances. A nurse whose duty It will ho to v sit thy homes of children who are absent on account of Illness and to supervise health In general In the schools of Kugene is to bo employed by the beard of education. Paid up members of the American Lotion in the state of Oregon numlier 9002. according to tho report which Presiott W. Cooklngbam, state treas urer, was authorised to forward to na tional headquarters of the Legion. After thoy had been made by 10 ex service men to kiss the American flag, the eight I. W. W. members who were held In the Baker county Jail pending action by the authorities, left Baker quietly upon being requested to do so by the police. Following a reorganization of the board of directors of the Central Ore gon irrigation district, George Moore becomes president of the district, and an order has been issued for a bond election on November 25 to vote on bonds amounting to $240,000. That the present basic price for wheat Is fully Justified by the condi tion of the world market and the dearth of world production was the declaration In Portland of Julius II. Barnes, federal grain director, tn an address before the chamber of com merce. A kissless winter! This Is the edict of the Portland municipal bu reau of health. "Ding bust It," com mented Health Officer Parrlsh, with professional dignity. "I know this ts going to make me one of the most un popular parties In the little old state, but it can't be helped. Influenza is responsible." The resignation of W. L. Thompson as a member of the state highway commission became effective October 15, Mr. Thompson having made this request tn a letter to Governor Olcott J. N. Burgess, of Pendleton, began his duties as Mr. Thompson's successor on that date. Since the organization of a state highway department in 1914 there has been expended and contracted for Up to date the sum of $21,071,666.97 of state and federal funds. To this Is to be added approximately $2,000,000 of county funds expended under the su perintendence of the state highway department Js'ew rules of the Industrial Welfare commission governing the employment of women In industry became effec tive Tuesday. Most important of these ts the 48-hour week, which will super sede the present week of 54 hours. The wage minimum for experienced adult women has been placed at 21 cents an hour, or $13.20 a week. Bank deposits of Oregon on Septem ber 12, 1919, showed an Increase of $52,186,616.26 since the call of June 30,1919, and of $91,514,905.83 since the report of August 31, 1918, according to a statement Issued by Will H. Ben nett, state superintendent of banks. The total deposits are $288,441,623.93. The increase is general over the slate. Ten yearsln the state penitentiary for stealing an automobile was the sen tence handed out to Walter Willis by Judge Gatens of Portland, and the same Judge sentenced Joe Gonla to five years in the same institution for the same offense. Judge Gatens has publicly announced that no mercy may be expected by automobile thieves In his court. After a heated contest In which the relative merits of La Grande and Pen dleton were at Issue, delegates from La Grande at the state federation of labor convention In Bend won the se lection as the 1920 convention city. The convention delegates voiced their disapproval by a vote of 61 to 27 of a resolution to petition President Wil son for the Immediate release of all Individuals Imprisoned under the es pionage act FOR EASY WASHING TRY A TH0R Jr. ELECTRIC 1 -S -!..- 1 i , A ft v. - J,-V ' J. PRICE $110 Guaranteed operating- cost not to exceed 3c an hour Des Chutes Power Co. PRINEVILLE, OREGON Who's Your Banker? ARE YOU forcing the merchants of your com munity to finance your busi ness by allowing your ac count to become overdue? They need this money in their own business to take care of their wholesale ob ligations, to buy more stock and to pay their running expenses. If you haven't the money to pay your account on the firsl of each month, the right thing to do is to make an estimate of the amount of money you will need, how much time you will require for the loan, and then see your banker. If the bank will not loan you this money, you are not en titled to credit from a merchant. Being one of a series of display editorials, the purpose of which is to create a bet ter understanding between the local merchants and the consumers.