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About Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1910)
City and County Brief News Items Alfalfa seed (or sale at R. 8. & Z. C. E. Vest has sold his dray and business to J. P. Sanders. White Loaf Flour, $3.00 par bar rel at E. M. & M. store. Keguihr meals 23 cents at Pid cock's restaurant, 2nd door south of K. S. Z. 64tf E. M. Smith of Hotchkiss, Colo. Is here looking over the country with a view to locating. Riley '& Riley wants your Wool and Horse Hair. Mr. and Mrs. "W. J. Putman are at La Grande where Mrs. Putman Is taking medical treatment. Edison Phonograph recoi ds for February are now on sale at .G I. RatcUffs furniture store. 79tl Big line of Breakfast Foods a Funk's. To appreciate the $3 picture tor 9S cents at Ashley & Bue's, call and Bee them. Ex-Sheriff J. M. Blakely went to La Grande Thursday on a business trip. Riley & Riley wants your Scalps. Pelts and Coyote Hides. Mrs. William DaUley was operated on In the Wallowa hospital the first of the week. See S. K . Clark, before buying water pipe and fittings and all plumb ing material. He will save money on your bills. Phone blue 7. 64btf. Daniel Boyld left Thursday morn ing for a trip to Portland, The Dalles and other outside points on a week's trip. Riley & Riley wants your Money and everything you got for the only place in town to buy or sell anything 1b at Riley & Riley's. M. L. Lareen and family have moved from the Hyatt building Into their new home, just completed, on Mount clair Avenue, Alder View. W. C. Fleener of Los tine fell from a.wagon while loading baled hay, Wed nesday, and fractured the bone of his left leg and badly sprained his right ankle. Miss Jessie McDonald of Walla Walla and Mr. Wm. Marsh, also of that city, were married Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the home of .tie bride s uncle and aunt, Mr. and .Urs. Hector McDonald of Lower Valley. Miss Grace Wood has moved the Enterprise millinery store Into the rooms occupied by M. Larsen'B Jewel ry store, Mrs. Zurcher's old stand. The rooms are being painted and repapered, and put In neat and at tractive shape to receive the new spring stock. Mls3 Wood is still: clos ing out her winter goods at low prices. Strained Honey 12 Vic a pound a Funk's. The mason work on A. C. Miller's new office building on River street la finished and It la now ready for the carpenters. Contractor C. G. Hoist went to Joseph, Friday night. A card from J. W. Allen at Los A.igeles changes the address of his :'.per to 2007 Huron street. He Is i:i the employ of the Los Angeles Railway company as conductor, and he and his family are enjoying the winter. State Evangelist Gregg will begin -irotracted meeting at the Christ n.i church In this city, Sunday morn ing, February 6. Rev. Gregg has been e; f il in his work la Dther places and the members of the church lure are locking torwarj to an inter eotlnc meeting. He was formerly located in Nebraska and has been In the Oregon state work for about a year. White Hbuse Coffee at Funk's. Mis., Nina Mack was here from Joseph Thursday visiting County Clerk and Mrs. W. C. Boatman. New Biadsmi Firm Poulson & Prater At the Red Front Stand All kinds of Blacksmith ing. -:- Horseshoeing a Specialty. Enterprise, Oregon A. C. Carpenter High Grade Watch Repairer Manufacturing Jeweler Old Postoffice Building. Japalac, varnish stains, linseed oil at Burnaugh ft Mayfleld's. Get yoir winter cabbage and sauer kraut. A. M. Wagner, Enterprise. A number of Enterprise young people went out to Alder Slope school house Friday night to a spelling match. Wallowa Sun: It is reported that Rev. Harris of Enterprise made a good Impression at Elgin high school last Friday afternoon before an audi ence of the fair sex. Will Wright came in from Medical Springs, Wednesday evening, called (y the Illness of his mother. Aunt Mary Wright, who Is considerably better and is able to be up. Mustard Seed. All mustard seeds coutain a ferment, myroslne, and a glucoside called siual bine. This ferment acts upon the sinalbine In the presence of water, producing the essence of mustard In which Is found the characteristic ex citant. Small Enterprises That Paid. "A Pensylvania girl writes me hat she gathered and washed feath rs and down for a whole year," says Vnna Steese Richardson in Woman's lome Companion for February. "The lext summer she nialle It up into pll .ows, using attractive ticking and hintz, and sold them to guests at a noun tain resort e:gbi miles away. She offered the pillows at a trifle less hau the price asked In city shops. ut the appeal to city folk lay in the act that they were real feather pil ous from the country. "A girl who lived in New Jersey, within commuting distance of New York, started a ho'.bed raising fresh lettuce and radishes. These she bold ly carried to New York in a suit case aiJl sold to-other people .working in the office where she was employed 'i Inlay that girl has a good-sized truck-farm, employs several hands and does not have to work In a city office. "Away out in Nebraska a farmer's daughter tried to do the same thing, believing that she could induce the reen-grocers in .the nearest town to handle her fresh letuce and radishes rather than thbse shipped in by com mission merchants. The dealers were afraid to give her any encouragement Her supply might not be up to the standard. She might not raise jntough to supply them and then they would not know how much to ex pect from her and how much from the commission merchants! "The girl made a house-to-house canvass among housewives and offer ad them freshly.picked vegetables at the same price as they had been, pay ing fVr the hothouse supply shipped in. She was just brave enough not to cut under the prices of the local giocers. Her list of customers grew. She came to town three times a week The green-grocers discovered that she was cutting into their trade. They capitulated. Today she supplies them aLl, sends hothouse products to town three times a week In winter, and garden truck every day in summer. WANTED L. R. ALDERMAN FOR SUPERINTENDENT Straw Vote Over the State Shows Him as Choice Salem, Ore., Dec. 30 The teach ers of Oregon have chosen L. R Alderman for Sta'.e Superintendent. March 19 of this year, Charles H. Jones, editor of the Oregon Teach ers Monthly, sent out circular letters to each of the county superintend ents asking them to nominate candi dates for state school superintend ent. The superintendents responded generally and the fallowing ca-tli-dates were named: L. R. Alderman, of Eugene; E. D. Ressler, of Cor vallis; A. J. Churchill, of Baker City; R. F. Robinson, of Porltand, and P. L. Campbell, of Eugene. Mr. Jones took these candidates as a basis for a "straw vote," and in the January number of the Oregon Teachers Monthly will make the following anr nouncement: "The Oregon Teichers Monthly's straw vote contest for slate board superintendent closed December 25. Altogether 1609 voles were cast and sach mnty in the state was repre sented except Curry and Lake. The voiea were fairly well distributed and the fo'liwhig are the results obtain ed: L. R. Alderman, 916; E. D. Dres sier, 218; R. F. Robinson, 182; P. L. Campbell, 139; A. J. Churchill, 101; tttering. 53. The candidates In no way have taken any special In terest in the matter. So far as we know, no solicitation or pressure by them has been brvmght to bear upon any of the teachers. The candidates Stone Setter and Engraver Enterprise, Oregon VIA Portland l. literature on wn, were all well kno.vn to the teachers." L. R. Alderman, associate professor of education in the University of Oregon, who wins in the straw vote contest by the teachers of the state received over four times as many votes as hie nearest competitor. The present superintendent, J. H. Acker man, who will have had 12 years of successful work In the office is not a candidate for re-election. Mr. Alderman was born in Yam hill county 37 years ago of a pioneer family. He attende1 the Dayton pub .ic school and later was. a student at McMinnvllle college. While there he represented his college in the first intercollegiate oratorical contest. He entered the University of Oregon in the fall of 1895 and graduated in June, 1898, with an A. B. degree. He svas a hard student, an able debater and was honored by being elected president of the stjdent-body. After graduating he taught schcM In Halsey and Brownsville, in Linn county, and was then elected vice principal of the schools of McMinnvllle Next year he was elected principal, which position he held for three years. In 1904 he was elected superintend ent of schools for Yamhill county. While in this position he started the school fair, to bring the schools and homes closer together. Under his leadership 1500 children had home gardens and over 600 girls made bread every Saturday under the in struction of their mo'.hersi. In the spring of 1907 Mr, Alderman was elected superintendent of the city schools of Eugene. While in this position he started many kinds of industrial work and also got the co-operation of hi? teachers, pupils and parents, so that the school board raised his salary and offered him a three year contract, but two slate schools offered him a position He accepted the position be now holds in the state university. I He 4s a man of vigorous health and has a strong personality and biioad sympathies. WASHINGTON LETTER By CARL SCUOFIELD, tpccial Corn pondent. Unless something happens Washing ton will have lu the coming three months one of the most brilliant Bea cons ever known here. Instead of the overcrowded stnte receptions at the 71 M t? THE TOAD OF A THOUSAND WO-NDER5 to Los Angeles and R $55.00 RETURN LIMIT 6 MONTHS Corresponding low rates from all other Southern Pacific and 0. R. & N. points. For attractive and interesting any of the famous California sorts, including San Jose, Santa Cruz, Del Monte, Paso Robles and Santa Barbara, call on or write to ncnuKHAT, Gen. Pass. Agent, Fortlana, Oregon White Tiduse "there will be exclusive levees, where it will be deemed ns great an honor to be seen as in u court drawing room of the old world. While the cabinet ns a body will not lend much brilliancy, ninny of Its mem bers being lu mourning, the social ! world outside will catch the spirit in troduced by Mrs. Taft and will help to round out u memorable winter. Rich Congressmen. Multimillionaires are invading the house of representatives. That legis lative body today Is more thickly In vested, so to speak, by "predatory plutes" than at uiiy previous period in its history. One of the Dfteep richest men In this country Is a representative in congress from YonUers, in the state of Xew York. His name Is John E. Amlrus. and his wealth Is estimated at $i;0,000,000. He is a chemical king, controlling to n great extent the pro duction of medicinal drugs . in the United States. Nearly nil of the pep Mn manufactured in America comes from his mills, whence the name "Old Chewing Gum," applied to him JoUing ly by his fellow congressmen, though, as n mutter of fact, he puts on the market no such commodity. One of the most remarkable men in the present house is Daniel V. Lafeau of York, Ta. ne likewise was a born fortuue builder. He started in life us driver of a con) cart nt $1 n day. Ev ery cent he possesses he has made for himself, and his wealth today amounts to not less than $3,000,000. He owns silk mills, banks, dairies and automo bile factories; but. Industrially speuk iug, he Is chielly conspicuous as the caudy king. Washington Fourth on the List. Washington is fourth in the list of American cities when one considers the area of asphalt streets. New York comes llrst. with Chicago mid Philadel phia following in the order named. The uational capital has 4.000,000 square yards of this sort of street paving, according to advance sheets of the census olllce bulletin on the subject. In this city there are 1.300,000 square yards of macadamized streets, while the area of cobblestones Is so small that It Is hardly worth estimating. Chicago aud Detroit are strong on ihe block wood streets, having be tween them more than two-thirds of the wood block pavements In the couu try. Names of the White House. It Is still the "White House" from which President Tuft sends his annual message instead of the "executive wnu-. sion." by which it bad been formally designated before Koosevelt's day. But even that stilted title lacks the supportjif longus!ige. The early pres- '.j.-X'-- V ?; ,y- .i..'-"V''' winter re ' iiTtnts described U ns the "president's house" ir the "president's mansion," according to personal tastes, lu the earliest plotting of Washington the capitol and the White House were delf:n:ifod by mimes which would hardly be understood by the newsboys '. of this hy today. It cured one "con gress h uise" and the other the "presi . dent's house." The White House is j the common sense designation because ' specific and in accord with popular usage. ! White House Expenses. ! The entire expense of tae White House, including the salary of the president and cost of clerical and of- lice assistance. Is a little more than the sum allotted by the Hollanders to Queeu Wilheluiius and Is certainly not an extravagant ratio of expenditures, contrasting the proportions of the two countries. The total appropriation for this year for telephone service, automobiles, housekeeping, cure of conservatory and greenhouses, printing, lighting aud the multifarious trilles necessary to keep up such an establishment is $277.2.15. the lowest sum expended In the maintenance of the White House since 1 004 except during the last two years of the Itoosevelt administration, when n recoiid was made by keeping down expenses to about $1GJ,000 each year. With the exception of these two years the expenses have been higher, chiefly owing to appropriations for re pairs and additions, which vary from year to year. The highest executive expenditures ore about one-tenth of the civil list of Germany and oue ! eighth that of England. A Unionist Congressman. I The workingiuen of the country have one member of congress who Is a worker mid comes grimy from the mines. He Is Wllliaui B. Wilson, who was twice elected to the bouse from the Lycoroing-Tloga district of Penn sylvania. At eleven years of age be became a worker in the mines near Blossburg, Pa., and later on became Interested In labor mutters, finally be- : coming secretary-treasurer of the Unit ed Mine Workers of America. Mr. Wil son has n -fund of information at hjs command and can tell where nearly ' every ton of conl mined In Pennsylva nia goes for consumption. Twice a a Democrat on a labor platform has be been elected In a district that Is claim ed as rtepuhllcan. ne is n round head ed Scotchman, quick In his movements and as a member of the committee on census Is of great nld In the Industrial and mining fentures of the worlt. It would seem as If an attempt had been mnde to sidetrack Wilson, as he hn been loft off both the committees on labor aud mines and mining, features of which he Is fully conversant. .. -: Uf!': vr ' '- --- i I IS t; yti Z is '0? j. - ' i I Notice Notice is hereby gLven that all persons are notified not to glv Agnes Nachbaur, Sister of Mns. Ada Ueaudion, and Charles Nachbaur (Aliases Wilson) at Joseph, Wal lowa County, any credit, aa we will not be responsible for any debts con tracted by her. Signed by her parents, FRANK NACHBAUR. MRS. FRANK NACHBAUR. Hlllsboro, Oregon. 23c 1 Every Day at HARRISON'S CITY MARKET BEEF,. PORK, VEAL MUTTON FRESH FISH EVERY DAY FRESH OYSTERS IN SEASON Sausage of all kinds Hams and Bacon Sugar Cured For Dinner-Corn Beef and Cab bage, Wienerwurst and Sauer Kraut. For Breakfast-Liver and Bacon. For Supper-A Nice Steak. Mincemeat. Chickens at any time. Orders delivered in a few minutes. Telephone your order for a nice roast or boil and it will be there in time to cook for dinner. Ceo. A. Harrison River Street THE GOOD TOBACCO SHOP HGMAN'S If You Prefer the Best Brands of Cigars or SmoKing Tobacco you can always get what you want here. Fine line of PIPES The same is true of all our Stock. Come in and see PRENTISS HOMAN'S Next Door to Bank Uprise, - - Oregon
