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VOL. IV.
ECHO, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1909.
NUMBER 22.
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COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES
Enttrtiinlnt Program Rendered by
the Eighth Grade Class at the PI.
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CLASS GRADUATES WITH HONORS
Eight Young Hen and Women of the
Echo High School Receive Diplo
mat From This Excelent Institu
tion of Learning Teachert and
Pupils Receive Congratulations.
The Commencement Exercises
for 1909 of the Echo High School
were held In the M. E. church
in this city Friday evening last,
and proved an event long to be
cherished and remembered by
the large assembly of friends
and relatives of the Graduating
Class present.
Excellent music for the oc
casion.was rendered by the Echo
Symphony Orchestra.
The seating and standing room
capacity of the large church
building was taxed to its utmost
to accommodate on this occasion
the enthusiastic friends of edu
cation in Echo, who are justly
proud at all times of the excel
lent school facilities offered here
and with the results of the efforts
of the proficient corps of teachers
employed.
The program rendered by the
young- people was highly cred
itable and interesting, showing
deep interest in the work by the
pupils and proficient training
on the part of the teachers. The
program throughout was attent
ively listened to and heartily ap
plauded by the enthusiastic
audience, and at the close teach
ers and pupils alike were the
recipients of many congratula
tions. The eight young men and
women to receive diplomas were:
Fee Clifford Esteb, Lawrence H.
Malcolm, Willard W. Atcheson,
Zena Houser, Vina Houser, Ruth
Jeanette Godfrey, Frank Nelson
Young and Antone Cunha. At
the close of the program the
Class was brought forward and
Supt. Frank K. Wells presented
the diplomas. In a few well
chosen remarks adapted to the
occasion he admonished each of
the Class of the grand achieve
ments to be attained from higher
educational work and that each
should continue their labcrs in
this line.
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We have a full supply of No. 1 Manil
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Also full line of Nails and other Hard
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SPECIAL -Saturday Only --16 lbs
Best Granulated Sugar $1.00 spot cash.
Only One Dollar, worth to one person.
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Echo may well and justly feel
proud of her public schools, and
the proficiedt corps of teachers,
who so successfully guided the
educational work the past year,
have been re-engaged for next
They are: L. W. Keeler, O. A.
Cannon, Margaret E. Winniford,
Verna M. Vanander, Mayme E.
Rippey and Roberta Rippey.
The Board of directors are
men who take a deep and en
thusiastic interest in educational
work; men who have been
chosen to fill this important po
sition from among our most pro
gressive citizens, and they will
use every honest endeavor to
promote and further the best in
terests of our schools, and as a
result of their labors in the past
Echo today has a school system
that many towns of two or three
times the population cannot
boast of. The directors are:
Joseph Cunha, John Dorn, E.
E. Elder; clerk, Louis Scholl, Jr.
The program as rendered fol
lows: Overture Echo Symphony Orchestra
Invocation Rev. M. A. Metcalf.
Iiuet Vivian Bailey, Mrs. Croarkin.
Class History Zena Houser.
Recitation "How Ruby riayed"
Fee Esteb
Quartet Misses Peterson, Godfrey,
Messrs. Hosklns, Cannon.
Oration "The Marvel of Nations"
Willard Atcheson.
Vocal Solo Mrs. E. P. Croarkin.
Class Prophecy Ruth J. Godfrey.
Music Orchestra.
Address Rev. W. H. Bleakney.
Presentation of Diplomas
Supt. Frank K. Welles.
Class Son;
Benediction
DRIVING TEAM STOLEN.
Some time during last Monday
night a party unknown en
tered the barn of William
Slusher at Nolin and stole his
fine driving team. On the discov
ery of the theft the next morn
ing Mr. Slusher sent out a de
scription and enquiry to different
posts but so far no trace of the
missing animals has been found.
One of the animals is a gray and
the other black and both were
branded 96 on the left stifle. If
the partise are caught they
should be given the limit and an
example made of them in a way
that would put a stop to further
practice of this kind in Eastern
Oregon.
VISITING HER DAUGHTER.
Mrs. William Wedkine and
daughter, Anna, of The Dalles,
Oregon, visited in Echo a few
days with her daughter Mrs. C.
L. Bandy. After a very pleas
ant visit they returned home
Sunday.
W. tt BOYD
ATTENTION FARMERS
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BIG SALE OF
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Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds of Wool Sold in Echo ii
One DayOver $50,000
In Cash Change Hands.
RHODE ISLAND MAN PURCHASER.
The Wool Averaged in Price Paid
Nearly 20 Cents per Pound
Echo by Far the Best Wool Market
in The State of Oregon Today.
Monday last was truly a
record breaker in Echo in the
matter of wool sales, 250,000
pounds being disposed of to one
individual.
This one day's sales of wool
in Echo brought the sellers $50
000 in clean cash.
The purchaser of this large
amount of wool, 250,000 pounds,
was Mr. J. P Dufour, of Rhode
Island state, and the price paid
was right close to 20 cents per
pounds.
The sellers were:
AntonoVey, 121,000, for which
he received 823,000.
William Slusher, 70,692 pounds
for which he received $12,700.
A. A. Cole, 55,000, for which
he received $11,000.
The sellers say they are per
fectly satisfied with the price
paid.
Echo is by far the best wool
market in the State of Oregon
today, and with tbe promotion
of irrigation and the develop
ment of the rich agricultural and
horticultural resources of this
prolific section it will not be
many years before Echo will
stand foremost among the pros
perous cities of the Northwest.
FROM SCOH CITY KANSAS.
Thomas Williams and wife, of
Scott City, Kansas, are Echo
Visitors with a view of perman
ently locating in this section.
They are guests at the Echo
hotl, Mrs. Williams being the
ao tier of Mrs. W. H. Gillette,
wife of the proprietor of that
popular hostelry. Mr. William
owns 160 acres of land near
Scott City and has a deal now
pending for the sale of the same.
FARMER A BANKRUPT.
Harry E. Bartholomew, a farm-;
er in the Echo district has filed
a petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy. He gives his liabilities
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as $12,000 with no assets,
Among the creditors for smaller
amounts are the Bank of Echo,
Union Meat Company of Port
land, George Miller &. Co., of
Echo. Minor & Co., of Heppner,
and the heaviest creditor is the
First National Dank of Heppner.
He claims to have no assets.
MONEY TRANSACTIONS.
Tuesday was a banner day for
money transactions in Echo.
Before noon Tuesday $72,000 had
changed hands .and passed
through the proper channels of
the bank of Echo. This institu
tion is fast assuming its place
among the stable and leading
banks of the state. The trans
actions Tuesday forenoon were:
R. C. Speery Sheep Company,
for sheep sold and delivered,
$30,000.
Antone Vey, for wool, $23,000.
William Slusher, for wool,
$12,700.
A. A. Cole, for wool, $0,550.
TO SUMMER RANGE.
Dan P. Smyth, eone of the lead
ing sheep men of Umatilla
county, will this week ship 3800
head of sheep to Duncan, Ore
gon, where they will be placed
on summer range.
A FREM SHEEP
FOUR MONTHS OLD, IT HAS SEVEN
FEET, FOUR FEET Of
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William Barker has at- his
livery stable in Echo a freak
sheep whfch is certainly a
wonder and a freak of nature.
The little fellow is only four
months old. but is hearty, well
and sound in every particular,
and came from the band of sheep
owned by In all, the
sheep has seven feet, four of the
feet being on the right front leg.
Mr. Barker is making arrange
ments to take tbe freak to the
Seattle Fair where it will be
placed on exhibition. It is cer
tainly a curiosity and should
prove a good drawing card.
WOOL SCOURING MILL NOTES.
Mill running like clock work.
Wool is being scoured in ele
gant shape.
Hoskins clip finished and now
scouring on the Stan field and
Speery clip.
0 ing to the railroad transit j
rate not going into effect until i
the first of June, buyers are!
holding their wool back at dif-1
ferent points waiting for the :
rate to go into effect before ship
ping wool to be scoured.
Many hundred thousand
pounds of wool will be shipped
vj iivuu iur Bwuriui;,
Every Eastern buyer that has
been here and visited the mill
says the v col scouring mill of
Echo is the best they have seen
in years.
HE WAS SURPRISED.
Ray Smith was surprised Mon
day when Archie Malcolm
walked up to him and banded
him his purse containing $50.
Ray had lost his purse near the
wool scouring mill and did not J
miss it. Archie found and re-'
turned it to him. Lucky it fell ;
into honest hands.
Steamed rolled barley, at the ; I
Henrietta Mills. Farmers please ' t
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lake nouce. l nis metnoa sortens ;
the glutin and retains the same, j
greatly increasing tbe food value i
a barley.
HEAVY SHEEP
SHIPMENTS EAST
Speery-Stanfield Livestock Company
Ship 6,000 Head to The Chicago
Market Monday Last
IMA DPIA A fA BABI IBh
MARKET.
Over One Hundred Carload of Sheep
Have Been Shipped From Echo
During the Current Month-
Greatest Stock Shipping point on
The 0. R. & N. Railroad.
. Monday last the Speery, Stan-
field Livestock Company shipped
from Echo six thousand head of
ewes to the Chicago market
where the sheep have already
been sold to the Nolin Sheep
Commission Company.
This consignment of sheep
made up a train load of twenty
one cars. Enroute to Chicago
they will be unloaded and fed
and watered at Mountain Home,
Idaho. The price paid for the
sheep by the Chicago Commisson
firm was $3.75 per head.
Also on Monday R. N. Stan
field shipped 1500 head of year
lings to the Union Meat Com
pany at Portland. The price
paid was not given out.
During the current month over
one hundred carloads of sheep
have been shipped from Echo to
different markets.
As a stock shipping point Echo
stands foremost among all the
towns along the O. R. & N.
TO ATTEND SCHOOL AT SALEM.
Miss Beulah Barker, who for
the past three months has been
employed in the Echo Repiste-
office, took her departure M
day morning for Salem w'
she will attend school,
young lady will stop off
nt lone at which place s.
visit with friends for a
so. The many friends
young lady in Echo wish
pleasant time and a sue
year of learning.
The Saturday Eve
at the Racket Store.
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Grand
Removal
Sale
Stoves and
Ranges
ATA REDUCTION i
Before we Move,
and in Fact We will
Sell EVERYTHING
at a Redaction in
Order to Save the
Expense of Moving.
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