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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1910)
The Madras Pioneer VII MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1910. NO. 6 A UK AS. IMCB Ul ribvuimui! - . a m I -j IIUIIH i Pound of Cure D GROSS venom V AND l JL 1. a. urn m A mnena REVENTION No. 1498 m m t n MAIN STREET IMPROVEMENT Gutter Drain Al most Finished LUMBER FOR SIDEWALKS Has Been Ordered Ons Lamps Will Soon Light Street At Night. ADRAS . II Drilling Co, FHIH liUAKAN I ccU Till R W L U IIIIUIUULII MADRAS, OREGON I I The work of constructing the gutter drain to grade on Main Street was taken up the last of the week and will be completed in a short time. The Oregon Trunk engineering department 'put on a crew and set the stakes and the street committee of the city council lost no time in put ting workmen on the job. This will insure that the streets will be in better condition the coming winter than ever before, and the improvement is viewed with sat isfaction by every citizen. But this is not he best part of it. The council has ordered 13, 600 feet of lumber for the con struction of cross walks and side walks,a portion of the lumber now being on the road in from the sawmills. The sidewalk grade is to be established and the construction of sidewalks or dered at once. Where the prop erty owners fail to provide the improvement the city will build the walks and assess the costs against the property. The plan at present is to order the con struction of walks from the foot of the hill south of Hahn's store to about a half block north of the bank and Hotel Madras, on both sides of the street. The ordi nance recently passed by the city council regulating the construc tion of walks on this street re quires that they be built of lum ber two inches thick, six inches wide, laid on five stringers, the walk to be 8 feet wide. The cross walks are to be 4 feet wide. Progress has also been made in the matter of installing the six large gasoline lamps on Main street. Prices have been re ceived from two supplying firms, and the order will be forwarded right away. The plans for swinging the lights now is to suspend them from arms on poles, instead of attempting to put them over the middle of the street. With the street drained, sidewalks and cross walks built and fir3t-class lights in the busi ness part of the town it is believ ed that the council and the peo ple will begin to realize the value of these things and that civic pride and real town building will take front place at Madras. New Umbrellas and Sunshades it 5 Wc have just received a large shipment of umbrellas, suitable for all kinds of people and all kinds of weather. Positively 'the largest assortment ever shown in Madras, at prices that. will tempt the most fastidious customer to buy. Do. not miss this opportunity to save money. Call and see our line. PRICES from 50c to $3.00 EACH FREE!-$10 Dinner Sets-FREE! EVERY WEEK Next prize will be given on Wednesday, September 28. Don't forget the date, you may be the winner. Central Oregon Mercantile 0 -: u o in p a n y :- R. T. OLSON, Manager MADRA&. - - OREGON MADRAS MAN AFTER THE CUP Goes to Spokane Exposition Spokane show. He has been appointed by the county court as a delegate from this county, as was also G. Springer of Culver. Besides the exhibit he is tak ing to Spokane, Mr. Reuter has a duplicate exhibit which he will take to the county fair at Prine ville next month. WITH DRY FARM EXHIBIT Will Compete for Silver Cup Offered by The Portland Commercial Club. Tillman Reuter leaves Friday for Spokane with his dry farm exhibit which he will enter in the competition at the Dry Farm ing Exposition for the silver cup offered by the Portland Commer cial Club for the best dry farm exhibit grown by an Oregon farmer. Mr. Reuter's exhibit comprises about 80 specimens of grains and vegetables pro duced by him on his dry farm near Madras. Besides his own individual exhibit he will also take along for show a few speci mens grown by others. His ex hibit will weigh in the neighbor hood of 700 pounds, and the reason he is making such an Drilling at the Oregon Trunk well at Metolius has been sus pended this week while a pump pit nine feet in diameter and six- een feet deep is being excavated at the surface. At a depth of 875 feet a layer of boulders and other caving material was en countered and it will be neces sary to put in ten-inch casing in order to proceed with the work. The casing is now arriving and will be put in as soon as the pump pit is completed. When the well which is being drilled for the railroad company is fin ished the drillers will begin on two wells for the Metolus town site company for a city water supply. These will be drilled at points about three thousand feet from the location of the rail road well. if early start is to make sure of getting there in time to properly arrange it at the exposition. Mr. Reuter's specimens in clude the following: 14 varieties of potatoes in peck lots. 6 varieties of potatoes in small lots 20 varieties in all. 10 varieties of oats in sheaf. 6 varieties of wheat in sheaf. 3 varieties of barley in sheaf. 1 variety of rye in sheaf. Alfalfa in 3 cuttings, first, second and seed. 3 varieties pumpkins. Summer and winter squashes. Carrots. 6 varieties onions. Onion seed. Watermelons. Muskmelons. Sweetcorn on stalk. a varieties field corn in ear and stalk. Rronnd cherries. 5 specimens of beans on bush and dry. 3 varieties peas. Black lettuce seed. Amber cane. Sand vetch. 2 varieties threshed wheat. Mr. Reuter is going after that cup, and he's going after it right. His past successes along this line is a guarantee that he will carry nfe cnmi nf the nrizes at the EXCAVATING PUMP PIT AT METOLIUS WELL WAREHOUSES CROWD ROOM Madras Will Have Many PRISONER RESISTS, BIG FIGHT FOLLOWS Marshal Culp had a lively time with some railroad laboiers on the street last Friday after noon. He started for the lock up with one man who was be having disorderly when the man turned on him for fight. Other members of the gang butted in to help the prisoner, while several volunteers rushed to the assist- miv if mi ance oi tne marsnau mere was a free for all fight for a few minutes, the dignity of the law finally prevailing. Next morn ing three of the troublesome ones were brought before the recorder and fined a total of $150, on the charge of resisting an officer. The fines were pajd BIG SHIPPING FACILITIES Oregon Trunk May Enlarge Plans To Provide More Industrial Trackage. DR. HAROLD CLARK STUNG BY SCORPION Dr. Harold Clark was stung by a scorpion the other morning which had crawled into his trousers during the night. When the doctor put on the gar ment the reptile got his work in just above the man's knee. Car bolic acid was immediately ap plied to kill the poison, although a knot as large as a hen's egg raised where the bug made the injection. Since the swelling disappeared there is a sore spot the size of a dime to commemo rate the event. DEATH OF MRS. CURTIS Mrs Burrie Curtis, formerly Miss Burrie Eagles, died last Tuesday night at Centralia, Washington. Charles Eagles, her brother, left here last Sun day night, having been advised of her serious illness. William Eagles, an uncle of the deceased, and his daughter, Mrs. Silas White and Mr. White left here last evening to attend the funeral. The local office of the Oregon Trunk is being flooded with ap- plications for warehouse sites at the station grounds in this city, and Engineer Griswold is doing his best to get these . ) affairs straightened out to the satisfaction of all. The local Farmers Union were' among the first warehouse com panies to apply for a warehouse site, and they have been endeav oring this week to determine upon a location so as to com mence work at once. It is un derstood that all that remains to be done is to get the approval of the mansger of the Oregon Trunk for the lots selected. The Farmers building will be 66x250 feet and will be built somewhere in the Madras yards. Much of the material is already piled on .the yards. Madras businessmen raised $300 in about half an hour Monday evening to insure the erection of the' building at this place, as the site available made the cost of the foundation more than the farmers had calculated upon. Four applications each for sites with 250 foot trackage have been received from outside com panies, whose identities are not given out. Mr. G. W. Harris is here today representing one of these companies. He states that his people will build a ware house 250x90 feet. The demand for warehouse room at Madras has so far ex ceeded what the Oregon Trunk , people estimated would be re . quired that it is likely that the railroad company will have to extend their industrial trackage and enlarge the plans for the Madras station grounds. Madras is readily recognized ,by the big concerns to be the I future shipping point for all the I north part of Crook County, hence the scramble for ware- house sites as the date for the arrival of trains at this point draws near. A conservative estimate of the amount of wheat harvested in the Madras section this year places the total in the neighbor hood of 1,000,000 bushels. As soon as warehouse accommoda tions are provided, the growers can haul their grain in and put it where they can realize upon it. Present activities would indicate that there will be facilities for handling great quantities of freight at this place as soon as the trains arrive here to haul out the grain and other products. Madras State Bank MADRAS, OREGON TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Money transmitted to all parts of United States and Canada 1. M. Conklin, Proident and Gen. MiV 5 C. E. Romh. Vice.Preiident DIREQTORBi C. E. RouBh, M. Put, J. C. Robinson, Uobt. Rea, J. M, Conklin, 1J. M. Conkl DIRECTORS! u i I VS (&, UViv i