Be Fair !
Always
Fair ! '
We All
Make
Mistakes!
EDITORIAL PAGE
Conducted by James L. Corey
It is a truth no familiar as to be
almost a platitude, that we gain real and
permament benefit only from those
things we acquire through our own
effort and at the cost of some hardship
or personal sacrifice, and that we value
them in exact porportion to the degree
of effort required to obtain them: and
it is also true that we find no means of
growth and development in advantages
which are bestowed upon us as a gift
from some one immeasurably richer
and more powerful than ourselves. And
just behind this truth lies the question
of the great primul right given to all
humanity the right to work.
Fruit Market
Watermelons have been coming into
the Enterprise market from the Imuuha
country the past two weeks' and selling
at good prices. Other fruit has been
- rather slow in coming in. Teaches
have sold ut $1.00 per box in Enterprise,
while down around Napa, v California,
they are selling for $2.00. Just four
times that received any previous year
for this fruit. California. Oregon and
Washington have enjoyed a fair crop
of peaches this year but owing to a
complete failure in the east these high
prices are due. In California they are
now offering fourteen cents for dried
peaches where the price before this was
six and one-half cents. There seems to
be no question but that the high prices
prevailing for the early fruit will con
tinue for the peach, apricot and pear
crops.
' Batter Goes Up
Portladd manufacturers and dealers
have decided to raise the price of butter
in the retail markets from, 70 to 75
cents a roll which means a price of 80
cents. This advance will he made by
the Hazelwood Cream Co. Down east
they consider 20 cents a good price.
The diaryman is king out in this land.
The local butter market this week is
70c per roll. .
"I
seek not to make men read
but to make them think."
Montesqueieu.
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman of Spokane
are in the city looking for an investment
in the cigar manufacturing business.
State Superintendent Ackerman
delivtrtd a very instructive lecture at
the M. E. chnroh Tuesday evening.
George B. Clark was arrested the
fore part of the week upon complaint
of Mrs. Clark, charging him with incest.
He was bound over to the November
term of court, with bonds at $2500.
Wra. Zurchor was up in court this
week charged with leaving a dead calf
in the ditch. IIo was declared not
guilty by the jury. ,
That Singer sewing machine at
Ashley's is now down to $47. Someone
will get a bargain. Now is the time to
grab it.
Fred Savage is off for a vacation on
the coast.
Miss Joyce Craig has returned to
Walla Watla. She will visit a few days
in Portland with relatives.
Mrs. S. M. Hanville is in the citv to
take op her duties as a teacher.
Owing to illness Prof. Mulkey will
not be able to lecture here as advertised.
Prof. U.J. llookonberry of LaGrande
will substitute for him at Flora.
The Teaohers' Institute at Joseph
inn weea naa wen attended by some
thlrty-threo teachers. All report a
very successful meeting. State Supt.
Ackerman and Prof. II. J. Hoekenborry
of La Grande assisted Supt. Kerns.
ENTERPRISE
OPERA HOUSE
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Do You Thinh?
The great mass of us today accept our standards without thinking.
We used to think, but we do not now. We have let our commercial
prosperity establish for us a set of machine-made standards. People
who are ready for the beauty that grows out of honesty and simplicity
will reach out for it; those who are not, will not be grateful to have it
thrust upon them. It is hard to make people regard unwelcome in
formation as a benefit. And when you get on the farther side of life
you will feel that the most important thing in life for you is what it
has taught you.
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FRIENDS
With the next issue of the News-Record the announcement of my
successor will no doubt be made. Having accepted a position else
where I wish to say to those friends and well-wishers who have ex
pressed regrets that a chance was to be miuln. that it ia mv intninn tr.
return to the newspaper field in Wallowa county in the near future.
The News-Record has been sent forth each week knowing it would
carry good cheer and blessing to Borne homes and heart, and, I trUBt,
to many. 10 tnose who have extended their hearty support, and good
will, I wish to bay. individually. I thank vnul
' Did you ever think how transitory most of the friendships of life
n ' ... La it . . i 1 . 1 .
uio mm very sugni me ue mat Dinasus even to those whose company
we enjoy, and whose pleasure we would promote? How easily change
. . f ... 1 ! . - - 1 . .i . t . . . .
U1 V' ur uiruuuibmiice crowas out me oia occupants of the heart and
welcomes new ones in! We are surrounded with pleasant people here
in Enterprise, their Bociety fills a large place in our lives, their respect
and esteem is hiehlv valued, we are elad to reneivfi nd render faur.ro.
but let us be removed from them but a Bhort distance, just so that the
omits or our daily meflo not intersect each other, anl somehow they
fade imperceptibly but surely away, just a- the mist fades or the
closing day darkens.
And the dead they whose life, while living, seemed a necessity to
our own, apd whose death waB like an eclipse of all our joyous being
how eaBily we become accustomed to their absence, and daily duties
and new-found loves bridge ovef the gloomy chaos which their de
parture made. v
But Bome friendships live; some loves tale such deep hold upon
the heart that
, "Time but the Impression stronger makes,
As streams their channels deepelr wear."
Did you ever so into some rich old nictura pallerv nVrn th rna
ww I O m J J vi IT U1JO
were hung with glowing maBter-pieces of nature and life grandeur to
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uwo mo boui, ana Deauiy 10 aeugnt the eye, and where the ceilings
were illuminated by the hand of genius and radiant with the very
smile and triumph of art? Those pictures come and go. Where you
find a favorite today a new-comer will hani? tnmnrrnw hnt. th (.n
" a vuw . vj iitovucu
miraclea of art stay steadfast in their-place. -No-change disturbs them,
but there they remain, growing ripe and mellow with age.
Just bo it is with the heart. Many pleasant occupants come and
go, but there are those who stay, like the frescoes on the walls and are
an integral portion of the heart itself. He who has such friends whose
memory is a picture gallery, where in frescoed beauty smile the faces of
unfading love is rich indeed, rich in goods that cannot be purchased
in the market, and wtioBe value does not fluctuate with the price of
gold. That you and I, may have such friends, and deserve them, is
the wi eh of James L. Corey. N
mirers of Wallowa county. He has been able to grasp great beauty in
our hills and valley. Each scene has had its value to him, from
the fragrant, green "Alder Slope" that stire the memory and affection
to the "Neglected Farm" with its melancholy meadows, empty gray
house and wistful flower patch that radiates desolation and Borrow, as
is often seen in the Williametle valley.
Said he. "I have traveled all over the state of Oregon, have Been
many beautiful homes, fine ranches, fine people but, here in Wallowa
county, I have found my ideal of a future 'home. It has been truly
named when you say it is the "Switzerland of America," and I ee no
reason after the railroad has been finished into your valley why' yon
should not have a city here of at least five thousand inhabitants in a
very short time."
LooK Here Neighbor
There is a very concise letter in this issue from Mf.' A. C. Miller.. It
covers the pointq honestly, fairly, and correctly.
Read it carefully before you contradict yourself agajn in your next .
issue. ' . ..
' You'll admit it is a good thought.
Fine advice.
The editor of the News-Record stands for fair play, a fair fight.
Any other method is the way of the thug, the sandbagger.
A decent man's brain is polluted by considering such practices. "
Stop it man You have a good paper; one of the beet in the county.
Wait until you know the men of Enterprise. Stand from under. Get :
out of the anvil chorus: Leave the hammer brigade.
Be fine. Be. broad. Rp n. man
And you will be successful, no doubt, as others have been.
Your senseless talk against a few of the citizens of Enterprise cannot
injure the community. '
It does injure ou. . '
Are you bettering yourself ?
Are you improving bonditio'ns by that line of attack? V v. ;
Don't you think your energy is misdirected?
Recoils sometimes kick hard.
"Madness jn great ones must not unwatched go."
Did you note the lyrical quality of that poetry, that prose, which
you have quoted in your last referring to Enterprise, hasn't it a rare
swing, a vigor as individual as that of Carlyle, and yet, a melody like
unto the cadence of Pater.
Don't you think'it would apply more aptly to yourselves? - .
Then another thing.. ,. x
By BUch tactics VOU do not tret tn crpther Onn man ia fiohfirxr thk
w r o O ---w . vw mjhii aw MfjMviaag VU7
other and in his personal, private, grudge he brines the town, other
people into it. That isn't fair. That isn't manly.
Stop it. Quit it. --It isn't worth while. It creates nomine but
disgust. Boost. It's better. It makes Homet.hintr.
For Beautiful Enterprise
Ever and ever this truth will stand, where the vine twines over
the cottage door; where the green, umbrageous trees, swaying to and
fro, in the Bummer winds, cast their grateful shade o'er the greening
lawns, or the blossoming buds of odorous flowers; this is Home, that
spot where the heart of man ever centers, the comfort of hi declining
years.
Here, at Enterprise, in the richest soil on the face of the earth,
under the most benign sunshine, in the most salubrious climate, we
all of us, may have such a home. ' '
And the value of it will last beyond the years of our life and into
the future, amid a posterity which will say of us:
"They builded well."
And for us, in the present, while we are yet alive there is also re
ward, the actual reward that comes of beauty, the potential reward
that comes of effort.
This newspaper believes in the City Beautiful, believes in it aa an
actual force in the material development of this community; believes
that it brings actual, financial returns.
Let us make a City Beautiful of Enl. rprisei There is not . A
that grows anywhere that will not grow hero and a united effori will do
niucn, to make this the most beautiful city in northeast Oregon.
A Word of Praise From a Strang'er
We were visited Sunday by Mr. Jason B. Wilkinson of Mason City,
Iowa, a very able business man of that city. We inquired of him his
viewa as to the future of our 'county and eity, from his, a stranger's
viewpoint. In his response, Mr. Wilkinson epoke slowly and with
some hesitation. There was no sparkle, no enthusiasm, just a few
plain words from an essentialy simple man, as the greatest are often
simple, yet what he said made clear his title to rank among the ad-
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-Soap!
7-room house, outbuildings,
large "barn, acre of land, on
stream of water,v plenty of
shade trees, only two "blocks
from business part of town,
$l,325.pO, $450 with your
own time .on "balance:
When we say it is a snap
you can depend upon it
Daniel Boyd
Secy, of Wallowa Law Land and Abstract Company
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