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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1911)
Place Your Order Now For Attractive Calendars For 1912 EAUTIFUL LI OF SAMPLES TO SELECT FROM AT THIS OFFICE The Madras Pioneer Published every Thursday by THE I'lONEEK PUBLISHING CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATE8: One year $1.55 x moiitlis 80 Tliree iiutilthA 50 nVKRTISINO RATK8 ON APPLICATION Entered as second class matter August in, 1904, at the Postofflce at Madras, Ore under the Act of Cotmress of March 3, 1879, THURSDAY OCT. 26, 1911 HOME ENTERTAINMENT A great deal of credit is due the ladies who took part in the home talent entertainment, "A Spinster's Convention," at San- ford's hall last Friday evening, The play was advertised exten sively an people from Haycreek, Grizzly and other out of the way places were among the audience that filled the hall. Every detail of the performance was carried out without a hitch. The cos tumes were gorgous, the jokes were classy, the songs catchy, the stage setting and wall decor ations were grand; even the at mosphere around the convention seemed permeated with the em blem of single blessedness, while the actors sang or talked of only one thing that an old maid wants above all else in this world a man. This move on the part of the ladies to promote home enter tainments has rounded itself into one large club to which every lady ana gentleman in town is invited to become a member.. The aim of the club is to rent a hall suitable for their purpose, and from time to time through out the winter months give clean and wholesome entertainments. That the people want amusement of the kind given last Friday night was evidenced by the fact that the largest crowd ever gathered in Madras for a similar entertainmont was present, The ladies back of the move ment are and encouragement in their undertaking. A well known statistician of one of the principal stock .yards of the country says-the livestock of the United States numbers more than 200,000,000 head or an average of three animals to each inhabitant, and their value is ap proximately $6, 000, 000, 000, a sum greater than the value of all the gold eyer mined in America, or than all of the money ever coined by the United States. It is by far the greatest single producing industry of the nation, furnish ing meat, milk, clothing, and liv ing motive power for the multi tude of its inhabitants, and over 80 per cent of the enormous corn crop of the country is fed to live stock on the farms. He also says there is no over-supply of any kind of livestock in the United States. on the tree at the same time. A nursery company has bought the tree and will try to establish new ever-bearing variety. Someone has suggested that the "Spinster Convention" last Friday night was the first gun in a big campaign the old maids are expecting to launch against the bachelors when leap year rolls around the first of next January. The world series game between the New York Giants and Phila delphia Athletics has been de layed for almost a week now on account of bad weather and rain soaked grounds. Why don't the management of the big leagues in the east transfer their world's series games to Central Oregon where the warm sunshiny weath er at this time ot the year is always conducive to outdoor sports. Redmond will hold a potato show on November 2. This is the date the O.-W. R. & N. dem onstration train arrives at Red mond and the two events will undoubtedly bring a very large number of farmers from the sur rounding country to Redmond. At the same time a meeting of dairymen will be held to organ ize an association. Lakeview will add agriculture to its high school course as soon as its new building is finished. This is a new and important fea ture of the course of study and one that progressiye communities are adopting. 25,000 COLONISTS COME TO OREGON After Reaching Portland They Look Around Before Deciding On Permanent Locations An apple tree near Albany has been sola lor ijuU(J. it is ever bearing, maturing iruit at all seasons ol the growing period. deserving of support with buds, blossoms and apples The last of the Fall colonists to reach local destinations for the current season of low rates ar rived in Portland October 18, and from information received at railroad headquarters they are following the example of thou sands of their predecessors who have come since the season opened in September, and will remain here several days looking over the field before deciding on where the will locate permanent ly. More than usually, this Fall, the immigrants are flocking to the terminal cities, no matter whether they have fixed destina tions in mind outside of these cities. The human nature ele ment has played a strong part in their decisions, for moat of them have wanted to get all the trans portation they could for their money, and so have flocked to the terminal centers. This feature of the situation has rendered it practically im-j possible for the railroad officials or commercial bodies to deter mine just what sections of the state are receiving the greatest influx of new population. It also has added to the usual difficulty of determining just what propor of the entire Coastward move ment is to be a permanent pop ulation and what percentage has come out simply to see the coun try and take advantage of the low rates. It will not" be known just how heavy the volume of this class of traffic has been this season until all the transcontinenal lines have checked over their ticket sales from the Eastern and Middle Western selling points and the passing of the immigrant tide through the gateways to the Pa cific. Ihe number of persons who have come to Oregon durinir the colonist period this Fall will nrobablv run close in 2R.nnn. Thin is a good business compared to iormer years, but is not up to the record-hrealcintr iidn nf Inaf Spring, which was so great that it caugnt ine railroads napping. ronianu Telegram. T . j - j . I i umr m w -mmr mm v mm -m m w mm Jm jm m JW w. ' jm m m m . Jf m an TOMMY McCORMACK, Prop. ' mi mj m w mm, m mm i mmw I M. 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