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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1912)
The Madras Pioneer IX. nn ri 'in 1 1 n 1 1 1 HI HIGH SCHOOL polled Vote Was Favor Of and 13 Against ,-ynRY BOARD ACTS MM0ldal Notice, are Issued suoerlntcnJent, tne HIh School Dorame... Will be Called lhe special Election or .... .n held in iool districts in inoiu.v... J. ... c.,l.iv nf last tXJuniy ouvu.- -.large and representative Of the (llStriCLS waa im .)..! fhf time oi uiu . cuph n busy season. greral of the districts moru i U1 t han at me -Al mnnlintrt;. which 5CI1WI iii-v-v..-o- to show the interest tnat taken by the residents to tr.! li;U Qr-hnnl nu ll union w-.w. in this part of the i. i kHnotimtr 11111.1 i : wuil ! - 1 TT 1!w mifftfo stormed lon enough to go f Mw. rote. Une rnan-inionna wic thn firnr 1 1 . L. L 1 1 1 V " " " 'inga resident of Ore- hich was over nine years. 1 1 . 1 iil I if i districts where there my dissenting votes cast the proposition, they n 1 n .ll Tf H ,1 KOuna mine, vanum uiiu t as shown by the official i m . i .1 1 rri i' vii t: nuniu i i i v wi of and 13 against the 'it... i - j-i-.i t in the ten districts of the High School district includes districts No. 13, m Aa cr an r.a r.n -., ,11.11, UV, Ul, UU, US UIIU returns of the election presented to the District n i r .i ii ind favorable action was mthemnttop hv thn mom. - ...v.vv. MJ VI.W t.aw... present and final action k taken by County School .,,, w i 4 Wl U H that official returns from inn in thn i UW1IN A-UJT T l" Everything was in order nr Trt thn nj.u.i l l -a . niv OVIIWI law UIIU Ontu Af T71 ....I. v V iii vines. wn as tne notices are is- -.. uiou n;ia 01 me result wecion from the County ran Hs-.j.r r rt WCI1IIHI1I U I lift n - - . the Union Hirli Snhnnl Will be called idsitm nntn.i. ... 11 -o" vviiuauin ior me use 'Madras Pubilc School build-. h has been donated for of the High school as u,,t. will accommodate wiuuis, iree of charge to ninHigh School District, 1150 at the same time othnr 7" "liters in connnoiinn 116 Union High Schonl will t . ... " p anu looked after, tihj . ""B"aHe ot equip 7 instruct the clerk to' 86(1 by thn R..r.n:l.J-l. IKK. tilbUIIUVillb " '"siruction. .Present. j,u t. hcfii,. . ,Vi tut hub villi 1. v ! nn twf 11 "K inn irii. ."uiinir i 11 tu; "iiiiiiu will "good C!.AU,, win County in H, the benefit of the 1 iinir 1 v. i 1 . " retory. . . . MADRAS, CIIOOKCOUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 8th. 1912 -JLL REUTER AGAIN GOING . AFTER PRIZES Nearly all Natlona and Dry Farming States to be Represented by Exhibits at Lothbrldge, i. in thin nnu.l.. Oretron won the chief awards at the Intematonal Dry Farm in ir. Congress last year at Colo rado Springs and the year be fore at Spokane, and it appears to have an excellent chance of duplicating its former successes at the congress to be held at Leth bridge, Alberta in the fourth week in October. Former successes were chiefly due to the excellertt exhibits en tered by Tillman Reuter, the pioneer of dry farming in Ore gon, and Mr Reuter is now en listing the assistnee of men in every dry farming section of the State. The exhibits will consist of grains, grasses and vegetables grown by dry-framing processes throughout eastern and Central Oregon, in the sections that can- not, be irrigated. 'tfr Reuter himself will again be a large exhibitor. He will bring to Portland, in the near future, a display of dry farming products to be placed in the Chamber of Commerce to arouse interest in the coming congress at Lethbridge. Vice Prosident Morgan, of Spokane, representing the Inter national Congress in the United states, will return to Oregon the latter part of this month, and will endeavor to organize an ex cursion from Portland to Leth bridge to attend the congress. "It is claimed that the Dry Farming Congress at Leth bridge will be the greatest agri cultural convention in the world during 1912 ", says Mr Morgan. "Combind with it will be great sectional gatherings and all quarters of the globe will be rep resented both in attenednce and by exhibits. Every nation in the world has been invited by Canada, and 30 have accepted. The dry farming states in this country are to be represented by delegates and exhibits. The United States Government will be represented by an exhibit, the collection of which cost $10, 000. His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada, will open the con cress formally Monday morning, October 21, acting as the official representative of the Govern ment of Great Britain. Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Ag riculture of the United States, will resDond on behalf of Presi dent Taft. Daily sessions will be held, both afternoon and even- intr. r.hrnuorhout the week and Dr James Widstoe, international president, also president of the Utah State Agricultural College, one of the leaders of the dry farming movment, will preside. 44 The sectional conventions, to be held at the same time will be nine in number and will com prise conferences on soil tillage mofhndn mnnhinerv crODS. and crop breeding, agricultural for estry, livestock and dairying, w r ntrnVnlrnrnl education. farm management, scientific research, noricultural col eges andexpen ment stations and the Internation al Congress of Farm Women, 44 Twenty Western States and four provinces of Canada will contest for supremacy in the" ex position of dry farming pro ducts. Government exhibits will be made by Uruguay, Australia, SCHOOL BOARD SELECTS TEACHERS Mies Lowther, Miss Smith, Miss Arelnsmler and Prof. Wesson of The Dalles The Board of Directors of the Madras -Public School have an nounced their selection of teach ers for the coming school year which are as follows; primary department, Miss Catherine Lowther, Intermediate depart ment, Miss S. Areinsmier, ad vanced grades 6, 7 and 8, Miss Elva J. Smith, and for Principal Frofessor Wasson of The Dalles. With the establishment of a Union High School, Professor Wasson will probably be accepted by the Union High School Board, as principal had it not have been established the Board intended to carry on the ninth and tenth grades. Prof. Wasson has been well reccommended, and is a capable person to organize and establish the Union High School. New Bridge at Bolters At the lasc term of the County Court, contracts were signed up with the Coast Bridge Company, for the construction of two-more new steel bridges ,one tobelocat ed across Crooked River at Prine ville, and the other across Trout Creek at Bolters. The bridge at Bolters, is the one most interesting to the residents of Northern Crook County, as many have seen times when the present structure was very un safe and the new bridge is to be built with concrete foundations and a steel frame, which W'N make it a substantial ant) safe bridge for the traveling public. The contract price of each bri dge is $ 2100.00. RECORD CROPS FOR CROOK COUNTY Every Section of Oregon Is Resorted to hsve Good Crops Many Sections New Reeords will be Made CROOK COUNTY GETS $5,613.48 Interest on School Money Invested by Stats Divided Among the Differ- . 1 ant Counties Bolivia, Russia, Hungary, Tur key and other countries. Their will be a machinery exibit that will probably be the most com plete farm machinery show and power demonstration ever mad? on the continent. A traction en gine, valued at $2500.00 is of fered as a prize for the best bus hel of hard wheat grown in 1912. "In the official .programme, more than 100 men of world wide fame are listed; residents of rail roads, of this and other countries well known authorities in all phases of agriculture, and ex perts in the various lines of farming will make addresses. Lethbridge, itself, is making great preparations to entertain all visitors in aa splendid man- ner". Oregonion. In a trin out over the northern part' of Crook County Monday, which covered the Agency Plains the Lamonta country and the Culver district, the writer had occassion to make, and from the grain fields passed and the harvesting machines in opera tion, including the Combines, Headers, and the commcn binder. it seems to him that this is cer tainly the year of plenty for all of Central Oregon this part of it at least. The grain on the Agency PlninR. we are told is turning out from 30 to 35 bushels per acre for the hiehest thrashed so far of wheat Jrom fall sown grain, while several pieces of volunteer wheat has averaged fourteen to sixteen bushels, and one piece we were told averaged eighteen bushels per acre, all of these be ing better than the fall sown grain last year. The J. C. Sothman thrashing outfit that has been in opera lion during the past week, has been turning out some good yields, most of it averaging aboujt thirty bushels of wheat, there being very little if any other grains thrashed in the sec tion known as" the Round Butte country. On the Plains there has been some barley thrashed, that aver aged fifty bushels per acre, and many more pieces can be seen that are very much better than this particular piece and will probaby run sixty bushels or better. In every country in Oregon the crop prospects are excellent and in many of them will surpass any previous year. It will his year in Crook County, in the number of acres in crop and the yield per acre of all cerial crops now being harvested, not a singe section has there been a failure according to all reports. In the Williamette Valley, east of the mountains and in the southern part of the state the story is the same? with heavy yields. It is estimated that the total wheat crop of Oregon for this year will be about 18,000,000 and many of the old wheat raising counties, new records will be established, in Umitilla, Wallowa Baker, Serman, Wasco, Union and Gilliam counties, several of which have had nearly a total Salem," Or., July 31. School children of the State number 189,506, according to the census completed thrpugh the office of Superintendent of Public. In struction " and to-morrow thre will be divided among the coun ties of the State $352,481.16 by the State Treasurer. This division will be made on the basis of $1.86 for every school child-in the State enumer ated under the census, between the ages pf 4 and 20 years. This money represents the in terest which is received by the State Land Board from loans on public lands, the loans being made at the rate of 6 percent per annum on first mortgage real estate loans out of the-irreduci-ble school fund of the State. In Crook Cunty there are!?, 018 children of school age, that is between the ages .of 4and twenty years and the county will receive as their part of this school fund $5,613.48. Qlover-Sellma Marriage Married: At the new steel bridge on the Deschutes river, Wednesday July 31, Lewis C. Glover anil Laura E. Sellma were uiit'ed, marriage by P. A. Chandler, "Justice of the Peace. Culyer Tribune. COLONEL ROOSEVELT CHOOSEN CANDIDATE Progressives Form New Party at Chicago Con vention . NO OPPOSITION VOICED aovcrsor Johnson of California Se lected to Run for Vice President Third Party Shortened to "Progressive" Chicago, Aug. 7, Singing 44 0nward Christian Soldiers." and the "Battle Hymn of the Repubnc," the delegaces to the first National convention of the new Progressive party tcmsg proclaimed Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, as their candidate for President, and Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of Californif , as their choice for Vice-President. Marking a departurein" the proceedings of National con ventions, , the ,two candidates then were notifiedof their nom ination, ' and, in, the midst of deafening cheers they apDeared before the delegates to voice their acceptance and to pledge - failure during the past two sea sons. The oats crop of the State is estimated at 16,000,000, and the barley crop at 2,000,000 bushels. A'griculture was never better than this year. It is a bumper season all around, and it means prosperity for the farmer and everyone directly concerned with the farmer s welfare; and that includes almost everybody in the-iState. If there is any adverse factor in the situation, it is the chance that some, of the crops may be so large they will have to sell for less money than in other years. The surplus to be marketed, however,. is so great that the total income will be enormous. The wheat crop this year will net the farmers of Oregon about $12,5000,000. The oats cror will bring in half as much money as the wheat crop, and the barlev crop wilr produce a million. The other grains -and hay will also add a vast sum to the state's wealth. BhH 1 - A Typical Harvesting Scene on the Agency Plains Around Madras 6k v9rjf3WTL ViHM49rSwxvsB mhM1? BSr KEr jv3& m Colonel Rboievelt. their best efforts to lhe coming campaign. The convention adjourned at 7:42 P. M. with the delegates singing the 44 Doxology "in a lusty voice. During the three days it was in session there was not a roll call or a ballot. The delegates asked no such formali ties either in placing their candi dates in nomination or in voting for them. There was not a voice of opposition either to Colonel Roosevelt or Governor Johnson. The delay in nominating them was due to the large number of seconding speaches allowed. As has always been the case in National political conventions, the bulk of the work of the pro gressive gathering was carried on in the committees. The only semblance of a conflict of oninion on the floor was a brief debate today as to whether an hour's recess should be taken. The point was not material, but an one delegate expressed it, 4 4 we just had to fight about some thing to make it a regular con vention". One of the interesting second ing speeches of the dav urn q that of F. R. Gleed, of New York, a negro. Gleed said the negroes had faith in the new party; to right the wrongs of the race. (Continued on ith pago)" 41 . 44