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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1907)
7 No Gounty Debt, No Gity Debt, and Farm Lands SellinA Below Their Real Value : NE An Electric Railway would Double the Present Land Values Between Wallowa and Grande Ronde valleys nrv Write a Letter, or Send News Record to Eastern Friend and Bring a Set tler to Wallowa County. VOL. 1, No. 30 Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon, Thursday, November 2i, 1907. Whole Number 450 u WALLOWA COUNTY IlnlM the largest corpi per acre, year in ml year out, on tbe lowent priced laDd, quality considered, lu: all the West. Great area of finest wheat land untouched by plough, lou of It open to Homestead entry. Unexcelled cattle, hog and sheep country, valleys specially adapted to Imy, potatoes, sugar beeta and other big money making crops." Natural Irrigation; unfailing water. All fruit "of temperate tone row One and tbeollmate Is perfection ol four aeasona kind. Kallrcad Into heart ol county'lB being con structed, which when completed will give Portland, Seattle and Hpnkaue markets and price". Now Is the time to oome before land goes up to lUi real value. Bell your quarter section east of the Rockies, and with the proceeds come to Wallowa County anu buy a section ol land that will return Jar more per acre than the laud you sell. County officials: County Judge, O. M. Corkins; County Commissioners, Bam Lltch, W. C. Wilson; SuerlfT, J. M. Blukely; County Clerk and Recorder, J. A. French; Treasurer, F. A. Rearls; Assessor, S. L. Pace; Huperin tendent of Hchools, J. W. Kerus; Surveyor, H. K. Merry man. COMING EVENTS AND DATES TO REMEMBER. Saturday, Nov. 23 Last day of Special Prize offer. Thursday, Nov. 28 Uuhealthy day for turkeys. "Brown's in to n" at the opera 1 ouse in the evening. . LODGE DIRECTORY. I. O. O. F. Enterprise Lodge, No. 153. Emerald Bebekuh Lodge, No. 119. K.of P. Enterprise Lodge, No. 94. Junnlta Temple, No, 7, Pythian Bisters. , Masonic Enterprise Chapter, No. 80, Royal Arch Masons, meets first and third Tuesdays of each m nth In Masonic Hall. All visiting Royal Arch Ma sons welcomed. W. T. Bell, High Priest. D. W. Rheahan, Secretary. Wallowa Lodge, No. K2, A. F. A A. M., meets second and fourth Sat urdays of.eaoh month In Masonic Ilall. Visiting Masons welcomed. J. A. Fbench, W. M. W. C. Boatman, Secretary. Wallowa Valley Chapter, No. 60. (). .. 8., meets first und third Satur days of each month, in Masoulo Hall. Visiting Stars are always wel come. Amy E. Fobsytok, Worthv Matrons W. C. Boatm!, Secretary. M. W. A. Ksgle Camp, No. 10197, M. W. A. Aneroid Camp, No. SMi, K. N. of A. W. O. W. Enterprise Camp, No. RS5, W. of W Almoin Circle. No. 278. W. of W. ' SPECIAL. AND CALLED MEETINGS. , Jerseys For Sale. High grade Jersey heifers, fresh next spring. Call at H. B. Davldhizer'e place on Prairie Creek, or phone the Wallowa Valley Cream company at Wallowa or Enterprise. A Fine 320 Acre WELL IMPROVED Dairy Ranch or Timothy Will produce two Only PER All in cultivation except 50 acres; only one and one-half miles from Enter prise, he county seat. 1 ' This can be made to pay 10 per cent on $100 per acre as a timothy ranch, Plenty of running water, only 80 acres needs to be irrigated, the remain der sub-irrigates. Good water right. DANIEL BOYD, Secy, of Wallowa Law, Land and Abstract Company CANDIDATES HOW III CONTEST Fine Start Hade by Several In District No. 1 Open Race for the Prizes. . DISTRICT NO. 1. Candidate. Votes Lida Flowers ' Enterprise 11155 Lucile Corkins " 9000 Zora Combes Enterprise Harold Kinney Joseph Evelyue Green " Myrl Donnelly " Mrs. Joseph Lay " " district no. 2. Nellie Davis Wallowa S75 Mayme Johnson Wallowa Anna Edwards Los tine Cora Williams " Sudie Womack ' " Homer Bemlss " Bethel McKenzie v " Mrs. Reta Fitzpatrlok " Lenore Goodman " O. F. Mays " E. W. Southwiok Falrview J. E. Tulley : Wallow Fred G.Potter " Maude Davis " Margaret Boner " Mrs. Alice Daisley Lostine district no. 3. Thomas Rich Fruita 600 G. C. Boldiug Troy Nathan Halsey . Prairie Creek Wellie Simmons " " Lelah Cole Flora M R Applegate Appleton Lillie Yager Arko Myrtle Thomas Flora MrsLuoy Duley " Bessie Friddles Grouse Thirty-three candidates are now en tered or have been proposed by friends for the News Record's $405' prize con test. It 1h barely started, work only beginning In many parts of distriot No 3 within the last day or two. Securing a few new subscribers will put any candidate among the leaders. An nouncement of. the winners of the special prize will be made next week Candidates are asked to seud their sub scriptions and coupons iu time to reach us Wednesday of each week. The payments on subscriptions are what count. With payments you re- ceive extra votes as follows: For every 25 cents paid on back subscription. 50 votes extra For$1.50 on advance subscription (old).... 450 " . ' tons -to the acre ACRE Ranch For $1.50 on advance subscription (new).... G00 " " For $3.00 on ndvance subscription (old or new) 1500 ' For $5.00 on advauce subscript! m (old or new) 3000 " " Each new subscriber secured by a candidate receives the News Record until January 1, 1908, free. New subscribers and those now on the list who pay a year in advance are given their choice of the following premiums freer One year's subscription to .'the American Fanner; the News Record sent 3 months to any address in the IT. 8. outside Wallowa county, or an order for a cabinet photograph, (4.50 size, at the Fall man Studios in Enterprise. Oratory Contest Among Schools Princiral W. E. Moore of the ccunty high school has proposed a county declamatory contest among the schools, the idea being to.divide ' he county into live or six districts and hold a contest iu each district some time this winter. Later in the spring have the winners of the district contests engage in a final test to be held in the county high school, gold and silver medals to be awarded to the winner and second best by the high school board. This prop osition, will be, submitted to all the schools ot tbe county and it is hoped to bold the first contests this winter. County High School Notes. Vance Thomas of Paradise enrolled in the first year class Monday. The bookkeeping books have arrived and tlio regular class work was begun. Tuesday. The class in physics is wrestling with some perplexing" problems these days. The litorary society has been reg' ularly instituted and is known as the Avant Courers. The temporary officers areas follows: President, Eula For sythe ; vice president, Vernon Cork'u-i ; secretary,, Amy Olmsted; treasurer. Asa Craig; wrgeant-at-artne, Fred Holmes. 1 he question for debate next Friduy is "Resolved, that the Japnnese should be excluded from the United States." On Deeeror er 20 the Pendleton high school debating team will meet the Wallowa county highs in the first debate of the season. The final arrange ments are not quite completed. The students are planing to begin the publication of a high school paper next spring, similar to those issued by other high schools. icejcouise ot study bas been ap proved by the state board. State High School Debating League. There is considerable interest being manifested in the State High School Debating league. The following schools are represented in the Eastern Oregon division: Hood River, Pendleton, Wallowa County High School, Ontnrio, Baker City, The Dalles. The schools, paired as follows, are to meet in the first preliminaries Dec. 20: Hood River debates witli The Dalles, Pendleton debates Wallowa Countv High School, Ontario debates Baker City. The Inter-High School debates have been carried on in the state of Washington for the past two years and have proven successful. This is tbe first year that Oregon has taken bold of the work. These debates awaken interest, aroure enthusiasm, cultivate school patriotism and home loyalty. They offer good mental discipline and bring into nse the power of logic, the command of language and self possession. To stand before an audience and not feel a touch ot the "stage scare" is an accomplii-h- ment that few people possess. The only way to become a successful pahllc speaker la to speak before the public not only speak but have control of the thinking powers. Good debates will cultivate this habit and give the boys and girls who have natural talents along this line a chance to develop. Not only this but deb ites properly managed will arouse a spirit of activity through out t he school and exert an influence the tendency of which is to "wake up" and "be doing." This influence does not stop with the school but is felt by the entire community. The people soon take pride in their debating teams and will give the school a loyal support that it may have strength and efficiency to cope with other schools. Rumor Was Fake. There was no truth In the rumor current in Enterprise but Thursday that two of the largest departme.it stores in Portland had failed. INTEREST 111 PLANS OF ELECTRIC ROAD Wallowa County May Be Included Iu Washington & Oregon Traction Company Route. Much Interest Is ' manifested in Enterprise in the Washington and Oregon Traction company of Walla Walla, recently incorporated to build electrio railroads into the undeveloped wheat regions east and south of that city. It is reputed to be a solid atl'ulr with plenty of money back of it. Among the published plans of its in tentions Is one to build up Mill creek, tunnel through the Blue Mountains to the head of Little Salmon, down that stream to the Grande Honde, up that river to the mouth of Courtney roeek, thence into the interior of Wal lowa county. Such a road would go through a large fertile territory west of the mountains, the Edou and Grouse countries and reach the largest and best timber tract iu Eastern Oregon. Back of the new traction company is supposed to be the North Coast road and the latter is a child of the C. M. & St P., which is building to the Coast. There is a strong feeling in Enter prise that the Walla Walla road should be met half way. There is enough money in this county to build an electrio line up Trout and Davis reeks and down Courtney canyon to the Grande Rondo. Engineer, R. I. Long, late of the O. R. & N., believes the route a feasible one, and a few hundred dollars will demonstrate It. The O. R. & N. may not complete its road for years, and in the meantime the farmers of this county will lose the cost of a road several times in lower prices for product. Many of the O. R. &N. right of way deeds In the valley and canyon became voidable if the road is not completed by March 1, 1003, and the way will bu clear for a valley electric road also. Many of the leading men of the val ley are very much in earnest about a road to the Little Salmon and on to Walla Walla. One wealthy fanner says he will take foOOO worth of stock, and $5000 more if needed. Walla Walla connection would give fur iSV Hh-ten Sh . - cwtrhmy nofc,vine tuvttK iiuwn c.. cm icaco. WILL YOUR. TURKEY TATE GOOD IF YOU -SIT DOWN To THE TABLE -SHABBILY CLAD? JoME PEOPLE THINK IT S UNNECES SARY TO EAT TO LIVE. EATING WILL MAKE YOU "EXIST" BUT YOU MUST WEAR GOOD CLOTHES ALSO IF YOU WISH To "LIVE." THESE THINGS WILL HELP YOU To ENJOY YOUR TURKEY: NICE, SUIT, READY-TO-WEAR, STYLISH PAT- 64 1 WELL-MADE, FOR BOYS, REMEMBER US IF OR ANYTHING IN lower freight rates than the O, R. & N. extension. It Is likely a represen tative will go from Kuterprlse to in quire into this Vi:lla Walla company and see what proposition it will make. Show Rich Ore. H. N. Williams, I). Moore, Jesse and Tom Walker passed through Enter prise Tuesday on their way home from doing assessment work on their claims in the Lick Creek mining district. They Iwul a lot of rich ore that proves they Hurely have good claims. Mr. Williams says that the rich streak in the pay ledge of the Magnet mine is now 17 inches wide and widens the deeper they go. The Walkers did assessment work on the Last Chance. A mine named the Greenhorn was loeuted in the same district for G. V, Williams. Jealousy Cause Of Man's Murder - Millard Donnellv, aged about 23 years, son of Mrs. J. M. I onnelly of josepn, was stauneu iu tne neck bv a fellow miner named West at Cornu copia, Monday morning about 1 o'clock, and died in a few minutes. Both men worked on the night shift and were re 'turning to the shaft from the mid night meal. A quarrel arose over a girl, who favored the attentions of Don nelly, and West whipped out the knife and stabbed his companion. West is an older man than was Don nelly. He is now in jail at Baker City, charged with murder. Millard's broth er, Alex Donnelly of Joseph, was at Baker City on busiuoes and left for Corn ucopia early Monday morning iu com pany with the sheriff and coroner. He teler honed the ead news to the boy's home in Joseph and a brother-in-law, J. W. Rankin, startod with a team for Elgin to meet the remains which will probably be shipped from Union. Millard was a young mau well thought of in his home town of Joseph and general sorrow ia felt at the tragedy and deepest sympathy expressed for his widowed motlfer and other relatives. Cornucopia isa mining town in Baker crunty directly south across the moun tains from Joseph. Mr, and Mrs.O. H. Brady 'have moved from the rooms over T. M. Dill's oflieo to the O'Brien house in the southeast part of town. iff.,:?1; - .; THANKSGIVING RES O LVE.D ! THE TOP WHO IS NT WELL DRESSED. "rbU MUST HAVE G00DAPfWELT&RECH ARE YOU on UP J . mm Ki -r. . .AT THE TERN, SPLENDID FITTING CLOTHES FOR MEN, JMJ GOOD QUALITY, IRON-WEAR SJT6 YOU FIND YOU NEED TABLE LINEN, NAPKINS, TABLE FURNISHINGS. RESPECTFULLY, W. J. FUNK CO. HI FOR HARD TIMES Wallows County Out of Debt, Low Tax Rate Assured and Great - Natural Riches. A splendid showing for 'Wallowa county's financial condition was made in the eemi-annual statements of tbe county officers published in Inst week's News Record. The county entirely out of debt, unpaid current taxes due $22, 021, and $5752 cash on hand. No county in the state of Oregon can beat that. If hard times should come the citizens of no county will feel them less. With abounding natural riches, no interest on county debt to pay and, if necessary, almost no county tax levy, the people of this favored section would certainly be "strictly in it." This happy condition was not always thusly. One year ago there were over $40,000 wortli of outstanding warrants ' ...1.1. Oiieiln . . . uutmiu wiiu riuuu interest uue on them. The years hack of that were all of the same character, some worse, some bi tter, but all showing liabilities in excess of resources of from $20,000 up. Thousands of dollura of interest were paid by the tax payers then ; not a cent now. The county oourt has re ceived lots of condemnation because it made a large tax levy and stopped the interest payments, .but probably every one in the county today is proud of the splendid financial showing revealed by the Bemi-nnnual statements. SUPPLIES CHEAP FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER. Turkeys are reported plentiful, but aro commanding a fair price in the Enterprise market 12 conts for dressed young turkeys; dressed chick ens $3 a dozen; eggs scarce, eyen at 30 'ets! Vegetables and fruit are plentiful and comparatively cheap. Squashes retail at 2a cents a pound.' A few hogs were recoived this woek ; 4c is present quotation. Grain Market. No change in grain market: Wheat 00c bu., oats $1 cwt., rye Oic cwt., barley 8Te cwt. Flour is $4.50 bbl. TH WAY su -r ! TOP. 11 $8 HOUSE ORDER iff JIM .osrr' .r:f:j