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About Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1902)
r ENTERPRISE MEAT MARKET. R. L. DAY, PROPRIETOR, Located in Wallowa National Bank BuiH n fl ing. J Clioice Line of Meats always on hand, llEF. rOUK, Muuu.s, nnd S.1US1QE CURED KEATS A SPECIALTY Men rise. Oregon. 5 Livery & Feed Stable OUR CORRESPONDENTS. INTERESTING ITEMS From Various Sections of Wallowa County. L1NAHA. T'X'obth of Bank Biilpixg yf BEN BOSWELL, . . Proprietor. FIRST CLASS TEAMS A.YD FAGS, The Best Hay and Grain. PARK AND WASHINGTON, PORTLAND, OREGON The school where thorough work is done; where the reason is :ys given; where confidence is developed; where bookkeeping aught exactly as books are kept in business ; where shorthand is Jteasv; where penmanship is at its best; where hundreds of itopers and stenographers have been educated for success in L There thousands more will be. Open all the year. Catalogue free. A. P. ARMSTRONG. LL. B., PRINCIPAL L. J. COVERS TONE, Watch-maker, Jeweler and Optician, Wallowa, Oregon. I respectfully solicit a share ol your work, and will try to merit your patronage. Waitham Watches A Specialty. Last week. The atmosphere lias been quite smoky but is clearer at this writ ing. Joseph Melotte and family have moved into their new house. One or two cases of small pox in this neighborhood and nearly every oiw is taking precautions in the form of cream of tartar. Mildred, the voun daughter of J. D. Hamilton was quite seriously burned recently. She was setting by the stove when she fainted and fell over on it upsetting a coffee pot of boiling water on herself scalding her right sille, hand and arm. Remedies were promptly ap plied and at present she is getting along as well as could be expected. Mr. Henrietta Reams has rent ed Mrs. Belle's house and with her children is keeping house while she teaches, School began Septem ber 15. Bert Sprague left last week for Salem to place his seven-year-old laughter, Susie, in the deaf and dumb school at that place. It is rumored that Joseph Hayes, Sr., has 6old his ranch for $10,000. The men of this vicinity worked out their road tax recently by plac ing a new floor on the bridge. The winter apple crop is short this season. L. J. Rouse, ef the Chieftain, was down on the Imnaha. during the last week. Melotte Bros, have their third crop of alfalfa stacked. There are numbers of people pissing daily with loads of fruit anl melons. residence which is to supplant the old. Mrs. J. A. Blevans claim? the blue ribbon for the biggest potato grown on the Imnaha or in any other section of Wallowa connty during 1902. It weighs 3 lb. 8 or. It is known as the L. J. Rouse potato. Marion Coverdale, wife and little daughter, Lulu, after spending sev eral days pleasantly with friends and kindred on Upper Prairie Creek passed through the Park last week enroute to their home on the river '20 miles above Fruita. The first snow of the season to eray the mountains around the Park fell on the night of the 24th n't. bince then cold south winds have prevailed that presage snow on the mountains and rain below. W. G. Bcith, one day last week had reached the last hard pull on Saddle Ridge Hill when thq double trees broke and there being no stay chains to the wagon it shot back down the road as if thrown from a c.i tap.iu.it. Walt threw on the brakes and jumped. The point of the tongue slued to the embank ment which brought the wagon at rieht angles witn the road. By this time the wagon, with its 14 cwt. of salt, flour, sugar, bean3, etc., had gained such momentum that it turned over and over broadside, down the road, its contents spilline out at each turn of the wagon till all was spilt. Had the tongue lued the other way, wagon nnd contents would have gone into the river, SO rods below, Walt is giv ing his spare moments to the in venting of a doubletree that won't break. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shevlin, Sept. 20, 1902, a son. Died, Sept 20. 1902, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shevlin. JOSEPH. Sacred Heart Academy LaQrande, Ore. Conducted by the Sisters of St. Francis. Select Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies. Academic Preparatory Kindergarten Course are conducted on he same principles ai those pursued by our Schools of Philadelphia. Music ami Painting receive special attention. Letters o( inquiry directed to Sister Superior. s Li if I 1 ENTERPRISE DRUG STORE. I . FORSYTH E..... PROPRIETOR .Caees a Complete Stock of. DRUGS AND PATENT MEDICINES. son ptions Urefullv 'pounded. We have got a choice lot of BUCKS in Enterprise. For particulars call on or address Wm. Makin. J. E. SMITH LIVESTOCK CO., riLOT ROCK, Oregon. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY 1002 Opening Announcement. COLLEGE LI HEll.VL ARTS.Sept. 10. COLLEGE OF MUSIC, Sept. 10. COLLEGE OF ORATORY, Sept. HI. COLLEGE OF ART, Sept. IB. COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY, Sept. lfl. Tuition Rate Reasonable, NORMAL DEPARTMENT, S.pt. Hi PREPARATORY DEPT., Sept. ltt. lUVSlSBSS DEPT., Sept. 10. COLLEGE OP MEDICINE, Oct. 1. COLLEGD OF LAW, Oct. . Catalogue tent upon application. Board and room at Boarding Hall, $3.10 per week. Good board with furnished room cun bo hail m tlio city for $2.50 to, $4.00 per week, in private families. Students can board themselves for even if 1.00 per week.. John H. Coleman, President, Salem, Oregon. 3ackeye Vapor Bath RICK, $5. Cabinet V rrcw ir.r..r, nilMT CTHDP VUUUUUcS ' mini oiuivl La Grande, Oergon. v, QUARTERS FOR Linseed Oil, Varnish, ttt.'ng Oils, All kinds of Brushes, Glass, Cement, Building Paper and Paper Bags, Doors and Wall paper .a. specialty. PICTIBE FRAMES MADE TO ORDEK. 'ar mail orders terprise Photograph Gallery S. C. SMITH, Proptietor. 'd in th nnUcWnv. Enterprise, ure. ? Donnw Pictures YieWS, ftreoscopic work Photo Buttons Wsor DortmitR on rlolh for fancy work.. ivoaaK Wcs. or do rmtrlrodak finishing. Copying oren- ' to Order in CRAYON, PASTEL or BROMIDL. Gallery closed on Sunday. FRUITA. Last week. Will Baiter is herding sheep in t '.e vicinity of Red Fir Springs. It is reported Etq. Marks has s n.ill pox in his family. Mrs. Sims and daughter, Misb D.tisy, of Upper Prairie Creek and Mrs. John Boner, of Scotch Creek returned to their respective homes last week after a delightful sojourn of a fortnight with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Guyan, of near Fruita. A forest fire 15 miles in width has been raging in the brakes of Snake river for two or three weeks just above the Seven Devils on the Idaho si le of the river. The tim ber destroyed had no commercial or loral value by reason of its in accessibility but the immense graz ing area, totally destroyed, is n serious loss to stockmen over there. The first killing frost for Sep tember visited Fruita the night ol the 16th. Corn, beans and squash vines lie all withered and dead, Miss Lidiiie Martin, of Joseph. has been errrying the mail from Imnaha to Fruita and back the past week. Lou War nock, the con tractor has been and is l.aulm; 10,000 feet of lumber from C W Meek's sawmill on Prairn Creek t Imnaha with which to build a hotel Lou will be the host an 1 he has ; hos. of friends. Ifarry Hjpe, a young man wel an l favorably known by a recent d-il beta me owner of the Freeze o il sawmill an 1 the James Wisnei Homestead. By a later deal John Owen became leaser of theso prop erties. Mr. uwtn nexi spring win push this mill to its fullest cutting capacity. FRUITA. Mr. and Mr. English, of Enter prise, are among the busy workers at F. F. Rich's big orchard. Sam Adams is almost ready to raze the old log cabins in which he and Mrs. Adams have lived and pntf-riained bo long. The material is waiting the builder of the new Bucket Frank Kernan left on Mondays stage for Portland to be at the bed-1 H side ol liis tathea who is still suffer ing from the amputation of his 'eg. Marshall McClain arrested two boys for running horses through mainstieet on Monnay. Snpt. Conley went to Enterprise on Saturday to hold an examina tion "for permits for teaching. All who applied were successful. Those who secured permits were: J. M. Conner, Miss Jessie T. Post, Rich-' ard Windsor and A. Fleshman. A party of four consisting of Jerome Freedman, Ed. Miller, Fred Rawley and J. Y Kerns went down to Wallowa Tuesday to see Jerome, Victor and Edward made Knights. It was a long cold ride for the boys but yet they said they j enjoyep it. When you see Jerome just ask him if he U satisfied. J. D. McCulley and wife got home from the valley on Wednes day evening. W. T. Pell and family are mov ing down to Enterprise this week where Mr. Bell goes to take charge of tne store that the F. D. McCully Co have fitted up there. Mr. Bell and family are going to mcve into the W. J. Funk residence. Frank Winston who had his leg broken by the kick from a horse, called Or. Thompson who set the leg and reports the case as improv ing. Enterprise got the Ott wedding but Joseph got the Ott charivari. Miss Belle McClain, who has 'icen stopping in Joseph for three r four years contemplates return ing to the east in a lew days is all 's well. Lawrence Caviness was on our treet doing business on Wednes-lay. The irrepressible Jim Blakelyj vas in our little city on business! v ednesuay. The public s:hool children organ zed a Literary in J. W. Kerns 00m on last Saturday and elected 1 1 1 1 1 rtitj 1 r rtffl-AP.j P.Ai'ilnni 11-. I' I H-, IJJC, VI 1 1 1 VI C . I lUlilUIlt, 1 linnie Johnson: Vicu-Pres., Agnes ; .eslie; Secretary, J. B. Potter; Her-i a1 ieant-at-arms, uusseil Mcbulley. They will render the following program on Friday, Oct. 10th : S ng by SchoolMy Old Ken tucky Jlome. Recitation Nellie Foster. Comic Reading Jam?s O'Sulli van. Song Mabel Vest. Dream Sam Amey. Composition Mamie O'ftulli van. Experience Elmer Akin?. Reading Mabel Dodson, Song by School The Old Folks at Home. Composition Delia Ellis. Recitation Homer Hayes. Comic Reading Roxee Adams. Recitation Harley Hamilton. Reading Laura BOner. Reading Clarence Boner. Song by School--The Old Oaken Tour Horse pwj i wants are supplied here the best combination of leather and labor. The harness will fit. and the saddles are easy riding and the latest styles which is sure to give satisfaction. The quality of our horsewear is the best and our prices right L. BORLAND'S Harness & Saddle shop. EfJTEKPKIjSE, - RED FRONT Livery and Feed StablQ Enterprise, Oregon, G. W. Hcnsley, Proprietor. Best Hay and Grain. Careful Attention Given to Stock, Open Day and Night. M onev To Loan On Real Estate. SEVEN CENT IHTEEE8T C. T. MeDanicl, Wallowa, Ore. White Front Limit an fed Stable, Proprietor, PRENTISS IIOMAN ...... - - Enterprise; Oregon. Best Haj and Grain First class Teams New Rigi Free eamp ho with cook tov.