Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, April 28, 1910, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextRESOLUTIONS. At a recent meeting of Emerald Rebekah lodge, the following memo rial resolution were adopted: To Brother and Sister Cramer and family: Whereas, The All-Wise Father ,who rules In love, hae seen fit to call from this earth the dear son of Brother and Sister Cramer, be It Resolved, That the members of Emerald Rebekah Lodge do -herewith extend to Brother and Slater Cramer and family, their heartfelt "sympathy In their sorrow and be reavement and be tt further Resolved, That a copy of these res olutions be forwarded to Brother and Sister Cramer and copy be hand ed to the News Record for publi cation. (Signed) EVA WILLGEKODT, ABBID BURNAUGH, BERTHA CRONIN, Committee on Resolutions. To Sister Weathers anjpTamlly: Whereas, - God in his wise provi dence has called from this earth to a home above the aged father ofl our sister, Atta Weathers, be it Resolved, That the heartfelt sym pathy of the Emerald. Rebekah lodge be extended our sister and family in their sorrow and grief. Be It, fur ther Resolved, That a copy of this res olution be forwarded our sister and a copy printed in the News Record. EVA WILLGERODT, ABBIE) BURNAUGH, BERTHA CRONIN, Committee oa Resolutions. Ed. Powell,, traveling salesman for the Flther Thomson paints and oils firm of Portland ,was In Enterprise Thursday. ALTOGETHER, NOW, WHO WANTS THIS $5 GOLD PIECE. Lon Davis has In his possession a five dollar gold piece. He found It on Clean-up Day. He holds it, subject to a description by the loser, whereupon, after sundry other mat ters have been attended to, it will be turned over without a quiver of soul or the bat of an eye. Any on who can give the correct date, Lon says, and tell ,where lit was found and whether the eagle- is crippled or not, and how many feathers It has In its tall, and .whether it screams every Fourth of July, or not, can have the coin after paying for this notice. And inasmuch as the print er wants to break even, and Insure enough prosperity to go around, he, will charge double price for the no tice. Now, don't all speak at once, gentlemen. ENTERPRISE OPERA HOUSE Watch for - Next Announcement : Chase and Sanborn's Teas and Coffees have a national reputation for quality superior quality. We Have the Exclusive Agency in Enterprise W. J. FUNK a CO. j 1 aUUBUBIBMEBBESKlKaSBU Not trie Least Alarmed. The lant time 1 was around here I was telling you about the comet," said the tourist. I remember, boss," grinned the freckled lad on the fence. "Didn't frighten you much?" "Not a bit, Btranger." "Well, listen. Since then I have found out that the comet will be equal to twenty full moons." "Good news, by heck! Tharll be more spooning than ever, dad won't have to burn so many candles, and the mules can feed at night and work twice ns bard In the daytime." "You seem to be a good prophet, bub. Do you know the tall of this comet will sweep the earth next May?" "That ought to please ma, sir, be cause May U housecleanlng time." "You seem to be the limit young man. Suppose you awake some morn ing aud dud there Is nothing left but the farm?" "Jitot what I am thinking, stranger. President Taft snys. 'Young man. stick to the farm.' and I guess lo that case I'd have to do it." Chicago News. Tooly Lurall "now far Is It between these two towns?" nxked the lawyer. "About four miles as the flow cries," replied the witness. "You nieau as the cry flows." "No." put in the Judge; "be means aa the fly crows." And their all looked at each other, feeling that something was wrong. Everybody's Mngnzlue. Improvement. The Laudlndy-At our table. Mr. PJIiiks, it is the custom to return thanks at each meal. The New Bonrdor-Tbnt's One! like it lots better ttia.i paying cash.- Uehoboth Sunday Herald. Breezy Notes From The Flora Country Acreage In Fall Wheat Greatly In creased H. A. Thomas Near Death. Flora, April 21 The wot spring has retarded plowing but the warm weather of the last few day has dried out the ground and farmers are rapidly catching up with their work., The acreage in fall wheat is greatly Increased over any pre vious year and the stand- Is good and color and general condition excel lent. Several of the Lost Prairie farm ers . have contracted their hogs . ..jgh George Cannon ta Combes & Hotchklss at 9 cents delivered In Enterprise. About 400 head will be taken out by May 10. Wllldam Fordlce, well known Lost Prairie farmer and stockman, Is in very poor health from stomach and heart trouble. II. A. Thomas, one of the earli est pioneer residents of Paradise, is very low of the affection from which he has suffered greatly the last t,wo years. It is feared ha will not live many days. His daughter Venus has resigned from her posi tion as operator in1 the Home Tel- ephone central at Enterprise, and came in Monday to be at her fath er's bedside. Dr. C. T. Hockett of Enterprise came in from Enterprise to see Mr. Thomas Tuesday. 'Mrs. Thomas' sUler, Mrs. W. C. Wilson, accom panied the doctor In. Mr. Wilson came iu today. Harlow A. Thomas settled In Par adise In 188C, the same year as! Mos es Austin and family. These were (Continued on page five.) . am CSgBBSMSBBIMBBaHi c Z3CECE2StBH3SBlEBMBE9Slat OPPORTUNITY GROWS HERE IN WALLOWA Rich Wheat lands Lie Waiting for Com ing Settlers. THE FUTURE HOME OF HORTICULTURE Enterprise, the Busy Coun ty Seat City, Made Up of Wide-AwaKe, "Live" Ones. A considerable number of stories has been written of the west. In some Instances these stories have been merely stories. There have been colored accounts of this or that locality foisted upon eastern comma- ities. There have doubtless been exaggerations of soil and climate, mineral and. water power, land and opportunity. Enthusiasm has spur red to some of it and the desire for gain has spurred to some of it. But la It all there was- a keen desire to serve. -Moreover what t now the east was once the west, and it .too sent back the same stories of the horn of plenty and the cornucopia spilling olden dreams and silver clouds of wealth and a jwofuadqa of everything that Is best and most de sirable and that enlivens the aver age human breast with the hope jf possession. Such Stories Obsolete. But such sort of stories Is obso lete. It Is a brand that passed away with the passing of Ignorant cred ulity. Today It is not possible to "fool" the eastern settler about lands, fruit belts, climate, soils, nor the business man about good business op enings. For the reason that the migrating public, taking advantage of our modern means of communloa- ion and transportation, is awake to the opportunities of the earth everywhere. Government reports serve this public with detailed Infor mation. Travel has widened the set tler's scope of knowledge and com prehension. Reading has taught him to have a care;- as to exactness of expression and correctness of re flection of any locality. And more than that the settler today has mon ey enough and time enough first, to come to see any locality he is Inter ested in. Such settlers would never be hoodwinked by any exaggerated' statements, however glittering and brilliant. In the language of the vau deville song, they would walk right In, turn around, and walk right out again. Simple, Truth Telling. It Is the desire of this paper to give at frequent intervals a conser vative account of the city of Enter prise and of Wallowa county. These accounts will In a large way be sent to the states of the middle west, in many instances to personal friends of the editor. And the effort, there ore, will be made to understate rath er than to overstate the wide va ried possibilities and potentialities of the city and county. First Impressions. The first Impression the newcom er from the east will have is the magnificent climate here, then the spanking good county seat city of Enterprise. After which it will dawn UPon the settler that these hundreds of thousands of aare of land in, Wal- Kwa county meal a future agricul tural and horticultural greatiiess that is really appalling in, u great ness. - In some portions of Wallowa coun ty are wheat lands thousand of acres of them equal If not superior to the famous "Palouse" lands which adjoin the county on the north. Back in the states Of the middle west the farmer I delighted with a wheat crop of twenty bushels to the acre. Sometimes he geta twenty-five bush.' e-w, and .when, In exceptional cases,' one there get thirty bushels to the acre there is a vision of. riches and bedizened prosperity, that awoon In to areams of ease and Incites to hopes of eternal opulence. In Wallowa county, after breaking u the new ground, rolling it and first planting to rye, the farmer an raise from thirty to forty bushels of wheat to the acre regularly; and out here he fee la more like getting dis couraged that k Is not forty-five bushels, than like growing enthusl atalc over a big yield. That 1 the difference. Some years ago it was held popu larly that oats could not be raised in an adjoining county In the Grande Ronde valley. People who had never tried said It was "too sandy." Like all new countries some one .with initiative enough and courage enough had to try It. One rancher tried, with the result that he raised 101 bushels of oats to the acre, and ever since then no one has disputed that oat a could be raised In the Grande Ronde valley. So It was with Wallowa county wheat, apples, pears, plums, cherries, and vegetables. When these were tried and the crops cared for abund ant yields- lame and the agricultural and horticultural possibilities here were demonstrated. "Frosts" was the great, cry. But with cultivation and continued working of the soil, loosening it and caring for It as it is care1 for everywhere, "frosts" be gan to disappear. , A Parallel Case. A parallel case Is found la the his tory of Illinois development. Today Illinois stands at the head of the corn producing states, having won over Iowa last year for the first time In history of corn raising. No one today would dispute Illinois' right to the claim of being a corn producing state, unless he wanted to be laughed at. But hi the de velopment of Illinois, the time was when settlers rode across the rich prairie land, Ignoring It with disgust, to settle along the streams and to chop down a tree and grub out a stump for very bill of earn they planted. Until some one vith initi ative enough and courage enough, ouceived that possibly he might rasa. porn on the Illinois prairie. Today the prairie land lo the great est corn land of that state, There is another similarity also:. When settlers, began turning over the bottom lands of Illinois for corn, everybody in the locality "took" ma larial rover. The river bottoms awarmed with ma'arla. People had Lhe "shakes" and malaria enlarged .he settlers' livers until practically he only medlcrhe used by the doc- -ors was quinine or bluemaaa or both. The wrltsr has met one plo- leer physician who, In the early day, used so much of both that he named aia team of ' pontes one "Quinine" and the other "Bluemaaa." Settlers JiiK-eVi to flee such a country. At interval everybody nearly, In a glv- 5n locality, would be sick. Turn ing up the damp, poisoned soil let oose fevers - and discouragements wid added hardships. But cultiva tion outlasted malaria, thwarted the ever, eliminated it, and brought corn and riches and comfort and happiness within a generation. The similarity exists, to ihat con in ued cultivation in portions of Wal- iowa county where frosts, occur, will m time eliminate the frosts to the extent that cultivation in Illinois bottoms eliminated the fevers. But there is In reality no compari son between early Illinois and present Wallowa county. Here there are no fevers, no unhealthful conditions of any kind, no epidemics. The cli mate ia clear, serene and healthful. rhe purest and coldest drinking water that can be found anywhere pours down from the eternal snows f the mountains Springs bubble from the foothliis, and the water is piped to Enterprise. , Sunshine Is prevalent and the skies practically always smile. Nearly every farmer has a spring or several spring n his. homestead or ranch. And above all, Instead of cultivating fevers out of the soil, all the farmer has to do is to stick a pio,w into the ground and raise a crop of wheat or oats or other product. The wheat belt, like the eastern corn belt, is becoming more defined every year. The bread consumers of the world are finding out scien tifically just where wheat can be grown to advantage. The consump- Continued on page aix The First "Lady In Trada." ' Perhaps the most notable instaooe on record of the feminine street trader is that of the "white widow." other wise the Duchess of Tyrconnell. the Frances Jeaulngs of the DeUrauitnont memoirs, who, at the time of the revolution In 1088. according to Hor ace Walpole, "being reduced to abso lute want on her arrival in England and nuable for some time to procure secret access to her family, hired one of the Stalls under the Royal Exchange and maintained herself by the sale of mall articles of haberdashery. She wore a white dress wrapping . her whole person and a white mask, which she never removed, and excited much interest and curiosity." London Chronicle. Appropriate. "He has invented a new drink." "What does he call itr ' ' "Love." "Whyr "Because it makes the world go round." Houston Post. - , DEATH RECORD. Mrs. Elizabeth Patman, died ftt the home of her daughter, Mia. H. K. Merrymen, In this city, at 8:15 this Saturday morning, April 23. Airs, Put man's maiden name was Elisabeth Coulson. She was bom In Linn county, Missouri, July 1, 1839. She wa married to Jonathan J. Putman, kx Missouri In 1860. To gether they crossed the plain to Colorado la the sixties, returning to Missouri again where they lived for a number of years. Six children were born to them, two of them dy ing in lufancy, and one at 16 year of age; those living are: William L. Putman, Ida Putman Landonl of Albany, Ore., and Mrs. Mary P. Mer ry roan of Enterprise. Mrs. Putman had resided here since August, 1903, and has a host of friends ,who sympathise with the bereaved ones. The funeral was held from the M. E. church at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, conduct ed by Rev. C. E. Trueblood. , Th Last Toaat. "I atmpose you all drauk a toast to your host?" "No. We cut that out" "Why, 1 am sure it was on the cro- ram, the last toast." "That was the trouble. It was the last toast, and so we cut it out" "But whyr "Well, you wee. It was to have hn drunk Btandlni(."-HouNton Post Frank Boyer and W. S. Davis Arrive GMSem Originally From Kansas) Here, to Look Over- Promla ing Wallowa. . Mr. Frank Boyer and W S. Davie formerly of Kansas, arrived in En terprise Thursday evening on the O.' R. & N. train from LaOrande. com ing from Portland. Both gentle men have been looking over the Wil lamette, valley, investigating the land possibilities there, climate, soli, and the probable development of that worthy section. But they were not entirely satisfied to snap up realty Deiore continuing the search, and are in Wallowa county to at. least spend the summer and possibly to purchase land holdings here. Wallowa county is pleased to be looked over. Her resources. Just beginning to be opened and drawn upon by human industry, will apeak for themselves to these gentlemen and to all prospective settlers. En terprise and surrounding territory offer great prospects to all comer who locate here, and the future of Wallowa will respond with good values to every Investment that 1 made. WHITE X Ulvery, Feed R. I. DAY, Good Rigs Fair Treatment Special Attention Rates for Regular Boarders Best of Help Employed Home Phone Open Day and Night One 293 acres Alder Slope, $23,000.00 80 acres Alder Slope, $ 8,000.00 160 acres hill land, about six miles out, $2,000.00 320 acres, 12 miles out, $3,200.00 City Lot, $100 to $300 Residence Property, $650 to $3,000 Fire Insurance Surety Bond live Stock Insurance W. E. TAGGART, ENTERPRISE, : : faCartfiu Banking Insurtt thi Saftty of DtposHt," Depositors Have That Guarantee at WALLOWA NATIONAL BANK OP ENTERPRISE, OREGON , CAPITAL 50.000 SURPLUS 150.000 We Do a General Banking Business. Exchange Bought and Sold on . All Principal Cities. Geo. W. Hyatt, President W. R. Holmes, Cashier Geo. 8. Craig, Vice President Frank A. Reavis, Asst. Cashier DIBKCTOMS Geo .8. Craig Geo. W. Hyatt Mattii A. Holmes J. H. Dobbin W. R. Holmes . , . SONS OF V. H, OIL 01 DROWN LITTLE FELLOWS WENT TO CATCH FROGS FOR PAPA'S SUPPER NEVER RETURN. One of the saddest acokler.ts In the recent history of Enterprise occurred Friday evening, when Land rum L, ten yeare old, and Wllllaia V, eight year old, both eon of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dllworth, were drowned in the old water system resorvoir. The bodies were recovered at about dark of the same evening, and Undertak er Ashley took charge of the Utile bodies. , . The accident hinges on a moot pa thetic incident. Mr.. Dllworth'a faro- 1 lly had arrived only twenty-four hours before, On Friday the llUle fellows went scouring the hills, and returned to the News Record office exclaiming to their papa, "We have a surprise for - you." Upon being questioned they replied that it was frog lege for eupper. Not knowing there was ouch a thing as a reser voir on top the hill, and suspecting that the- boy had found a seeping spring, the father encouraged them In their youthful frog catching,- The boye took a tin pall, bent on, catch lug frogs for their papa's supper, and evidently boarded, a . frail raft on the reservoir. This raft, In all probability was tipped in some way to spill the toto off fcito the water some five feet deep, where they were drowned without a oul to hear any outcry. ; father Searches. Once during the afternoon Mr. Dll worth etopped at the house where hla family are temporarily living. Dllworth stated that she (wae worried at the boys' absence, but the father spoke lightly of their be ing go:ve, saying that pcrtBlMy they had gone to the ball grounds.. Sup per time came and the father west home to find the boys still missing. Mrs. Dllworth at thU time learned that there ws a rewvolr on the hill, and the father Immediately went to It. He found the cop of Wil- (Continued on page five.) . ... Many Marvlns. Flora, April 21 The census takers say about half the boy babiea un der t,wo years old In thewe North Country precincts,' are named Mar vin. This- is a straw going to show the popularity of Wallowa county's bustling sheriff with the ladle. Ob, Edgar! Subscribe for the Chieftain. FRONT j and Sale Stable Proprietor Horses Bought and Sold t I to Commercial Trade Bus to end From Trains' ? Block North of Hotel Enterprise X The Pioneer Real Estate Man. : : OREGON