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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1908)
V The News Record Uives All the News, City and County, Official or Other wise. H. WAV livery Taxpayer Receives a Copy of This or Next Week's News Record, II u IU V V 4J VOL I, NO. 37 Enterprise, We!tova County, O;e:on, Thursday, January 9, 1508. Whole Number 457 LODuE DIRECTORY. I. O. O. F. Entcrprtw Lodge, No. 15H. Emerald Bebeknb Lodge, No. 110. K. of P. Enterprise Lodge, No. 04. J nun Its Temple, No. 7, Pythian Hlxtera. Masonic Enterprise Chapter, No. 80, Rnynl Arch Mason, meets first mi l third Tuesdays of each uic nth In Munonic Hall. All vlRlting Rnjul Arch lu song welcomed. J. B. Olhstead, High Prlmt, D. W. 8HKAHAN, Secretary. Wallowa Lodge, No. 82, A. K. & A.M., meets second and fourth Sat urdays of each month In Masonic Hall. Visiting Masons welcomed. C. H. Zurcheb, W. M. W". C. Boatman, Secretary. Wallowa Valley Chapter, No. 50, O. . 8., meets first and third Siitur duys of each mouth. In Maonio all. Visiting; Star are always wel come. UI.IVI Lockwood, VI. M. DANiKr, Boyd, Has. M. W. A. Eajrle Camp, No. 10197, M. W. A Aneroid Camp, No. 3542, R. N. of A. W. 0. W. Enterprise Camp, No. 535, W . of W. Almota Clrele, No. 278, W. of W. T H H 10 WEST TAX LEVY LO Only II 12 Mills Levied For State, County, Road and Ssksl Purposes In 1938. YMsnfe By and For allowa County Readers FORSALE. CLEAN SEED It YE, delivered anywhere In Enterprise for 1 per cwt D. C. Conker, Bnterpriso. 87tf WANTED. COONSKINS 75 cent each for 7 tanned skins M m. Pntman at E.B. Wheat's jewelry store. EnterprlKe. SfitS FOR RENT. BOOMH Furnished or uufuru:lied tiulmble or high school students. Inquire at News Record office. . v Marriage Licenses Pec. 28 Win. E. Leffel nnd Alice Kernan. Dw. 30 E. L. Buchanan and Mabell . Tnrner. Dec. 30 Luther Campbell and Hattie Gaertner. . Doe, 31 John II. Long and Ethel Maxwell. Dec. 31i-Qtiincy Trump and EfHe Daniel. Jan. 2 F; R. Clemens and Beulah Wroy of Grossman. Jan. ""4 Harris "-M."' Flowers and Alvina E. U ess of Euteiprite. Jan. 8 John Mr.Culloch and Dorothy Bergh of Smith Mountain. Grain Market. No change in gtuiii market: Wheat 60c bu., oats 90c cwt , rye 90c cwt., barlfv 85c cwt. -Flour Is 14.60 bbl.: -V-? v . . . The levy fixed by the county ! court for the current year ia 11J nulls, probably one of the lowest if not the lowest in the state of Oregon for 1908. The levy as made Monday is as follows: - For state purposes, 1$ mills. For county purposes, 4 mi J Is. County school, 3 1-10 mills. County road, 1 9 10 mills County II. S., 1 mill. Total 114 mills. The court found the amount of money needed for current expenses during year 1908 to be as follows: State $ 9303 45 County 24969 22 County school 19351 1-5 County road 118G0 87 County II. S. ......... . G242 80 Road Supervisors Appointed. Dist. No. 1, A. A. Greer, Wallowa. " " 2, F. W. Hammack, Los tine. Dist. No. 3, Frank Melotte, Enter- " " 4, W. P. Newby, Joseph. " " 5, O. W. Chambers, Prairie Creek. Dist. No. G, R. L Scott, Divide " " 7, S. C. ' Hiinelv, right- Fruila. Dist. No. 8, Jack Johnson, Imnaha, "9, George W. Harris, Pine Creek. Dist. No. 10, Sam Weaver, Trout Creek. Dipt No. 11, 0. L. Berland, Para diee. Dist. No. 12, Wm. Meirill, Lost Prairie. Dist. No. 13, Lafayette; Wilson, Grouse. Dist. No. 14, Walter Miller, Prom ise. Diet. No. 15, II. Mench, Flora, 1G Sam P. Warnock, Mud Creek. Dist. No. 17, Olaf Anderson, Pow watka. " . Dist. No 18, Peter Kuehl, Smith Dist No. 21, George Conrlnev, Eden. Dist. No. 22. Curl Bue, Leap. ' 2:), ThouuB Stump, Butte. - Dist. No. 21, Geo. Robertson, Pitts burg. The judges and clerk for 190S 09 were selected. (The complete list will appear in ' next week's News Record ) ." Petition of J. H. Yenglin for a county road granted. Bond of road supervisors fixed at $500. 11. C. Cramer and Joner Trump appointed road viewers. The action of a cpecial Toad Continued on last page. I Mountain I Dist. No. 19, r Joseph demons, I ICureka Stale Levy ' ; Offset by F. R; F. Wallowa county must contribute to the state treasury, this year $8895, or $912, 50 more than last year. The state tax levy, was announced from Salem Thursday, the total amount to be raised by all the counties being $1,160,000, an increase of $125,000 over last year. The sum apportioned to Witllowa means a tax in this county for state purposes of ; 1 1-2 mills. As an offset to the increased state tax, Wallowa countv gets a windfall of $1793.70 frcttj the distribution of the ten pr- cent FcreKt Reserve fund. This 'fund is apportioned among the counties in porportion to the- number of acres of reserve in each. Of the total 10,463,535 acres of reserve in Oregon, 1,358,5G0 acres are in Wallowa county, entitling this county to $1,153 09 of the $13,980 total rentals in 1907. The remain der, $640 07, of the total coming to this county, is the 1906. apportionment.-, - This money must be used for school and road purposes half to each County Treasurer Reavia is daily expecting a warrant for the amount.. -, ....,.,,.... Sim Gets H. S. Job." At a meeting of the county high ecliool board Monday the j )b of print ing 1600 copies of a catalogue for the county high school was awarded to the Wallowa Sun on its hid of $3.23 a page. The Chieftain bid $3.45 a page and the News Record $3.G5 a page. eMDEH OF-EDEfi WITHOUT Breezy Tl'rite-lij .of One. of Fsircst Parts of Wallova Electric Road Coming. llilll 1 ""s. . J 'ft iX 'V. RESOLVED U r.CJlHAT JNOW 15 NOT THE OMLY THING THAT FALLS THIS TME OF THE YEAR, OUR PRCES ARE COMING bCWN ON JoME OF OUJ VERY BEST VALVES. IZ D0NT WANrAY LEFT- 1" - - JtW 'W I .JjiiilBluW warn I in ....7; .: w 1 ftiisVr': -rt :-v fcl&i'Lm YE, 0UR.TR.ICE-S HAVE FALLEN BUT THEY HAVE NOT FALLEN ON .SHIPPED IN "FAKE" .STUFF. THEY HAVE FALLEN ON WHAT WE HAVE LEFT OF THE REGULAR. LINE.S OF GOOD MERCHAN DI.SE. IT I.S IMPOaSaSIBLE YOU KNOW To BUY . JU.ST VHAT YOU ARE GOING TO .SELL AND No MORE. WHAT WE HAVE LEFT OF OUR WINTER CoATaS AND FURaS WE .SHALL .SELL AT THE FOL LOWING PRICEaS: $ir coaTaS now $10 J 5 " " 9 11 " " 7. 10 " " 7 9 " " 6. $4.50 CoATaS NOW $2.90 25 FURaS now 2.00 '7 . 6.85 5.90 3.65 1.90 . 1. -50 FURaS REDUCED TO 90C ALaSO GREATLY REDUCED PRICEaS ON MEN'aS AND BOYaS' .SUITaS AND OVERCoATaS. RESPECTFULLY, - W. J. FUNK-AND COMPANY. 1' Troy, Ore., Dec. 31; Ed. News Record : Dear sir I have collected some notes which might be of some interest to some of the readers of the News Record, if not all of them, as regards the sett lenient of the north end of the county. In Eden there will be in Feb ruary, 1908, patented laud over four thousand acres; laud settled on, surveyed land, but not on the market, but has been settled over fivi yuars, 0000 acres ; and land held under the squatter's right, urisurveyed but settled for about five years, eleven hundred twenty acres ; making a total of over eleven thousand acres, though some of this land is in the bounds of the Wenaha forest reserve and com prises about one third of the land available and considered very valuable for agricultural purposes. This today has the poorest of rouds In the county, and 1 think I can safely say the poorest in the state, and even every foot of the roads that open up this vast amount of and has been built by donation work without cost to the county. Now the Edenites feel some better. they having good prospects of a road via Troy to -the county Beat, and are uglily elated over the thought of a bridge across the Wenaha. or Litt e Salmon river. To show their appreci ation of the fact they as a body, are pushing the road from the top of the hill to the bridge, a distance of about one and three-eighths miles, and thoy have used excellent judgment in locating the road bed on a very easy grade which is not as much as tea per cent in any place. They feel quite different now to what they did some three years ago when James Chadsey was the supervisor. The court required a bond of $500 of hhn and approprlatsd 50 cents to his district. Now these tteople blame Enterprise fcr this when Enterprise had not been represented in tho county court tor several years until the worthy bam I.itch was elected. Since thon we got a $2600 bridge across the Wenaha and $500 a propriated on tho Troy hill, which we were much in need of and 1 think we deserved also. I must Bav we are very thankful. Now for the Grouse side of the river I wish to say there is deeded land llf- teen thousand two hundred acres; un deeded land, but ready for final proo', eight thousand acres; making a total of twenty-three thousand two hundred acres. But a portion of this land lies in Washington, as the state lino ru ns through Grouse flat, but virtually all of them would use the road that goes up the 1 roy hill more or less. Grouse fltt has several threshing machines and they thresh approxi mately from 35,000 to 60,000 bushels of grain annually. But there is a small portion of this grain ground and the caase of it is roads are too bad to haul grain over. Mr. Boston, a farmer from Grouso, takes a load of grain to Enter prise but at tl.e river ho has to split his load and make two trips up the hill, which taki s him one extra day. Could you expect us to do otherwise than bowl for assistance from tho county court. Now as to the quality of our grain. Mr. G. W. Hyatt told me that our grain could not be excelled in the county. Troy postofflce from Jan. 1, 1907. to July I rame year sent out one hundred sixteen registered parcels, and from July 1 to Dec. 19, 1907, sent out 70 regis tered. Grouse sent out from July 1 to Dec 19, '07, twenty-eight registered par cels. Bartlett sent out from July 1 to Dee, 19, '07, forty-four registered pat eels. Troy's postollico money orde receipts averugo $300 per month. Grouse's average money receipts aro about $600 per month. Work is progiessing nicely on the bridgo. I met a tiavcling man last week and I saw him pick up a copy of the News Record and he said thet e was at least one good pater published in Wallowa county. That man knows a good thing when he sees it. The young folks are looking for a good tinie tonight New Year's eve i.t Evert Richman's dance. Asnistant Forest Ranger Albert Baker returned from Walla Walla Dec ember 29, and reports exciting news of the electric road down Salmon river. He says they are going to work at once mi the grade. Snow is most all gone on the river; hardly enough left to go in coftee. I Award of Prizes. I Owii'g to the time required to hear from some of the prize winners in dis taut parts of the county, the complete award of the prizes in tho News Rec ord's grat $4.,5 prize contest that ended December 28, cur. not bo an nounced until next week. The orders for the prizes are being sent as last as the wishes of the successful candidates are made known in order of their position. County School Census. The total enumeration of persons of school age, over 4 and undrjr 20, aa corrected from the clerks' reports by Supetlntendeiit Kerns, is 2699, a decrease of 7 since February, 1907. To Take Census Of Enterprise A census of the number of inhabitants in tho city of Enterprise will be taken, the eity council at its session Wednes day night directing Marshal Miller to canvass the town for that purpose. Only the number will be taken and it is thought tho enumeration will occupy but a few days. The marshal will bo busier than a little boy killing snakes in doing the work laid out for him by council. In addition to 1 umbering tho people, he is to build a tool box under tho band stand in which to keep the city's shovels, picks, etc., and worse than that he is to hunt up tho borrowers of tho aforesaid hovels, picks, etc, secure th ( tools and never len.l them to anyone anymore. He is also to put In' a culvert on For- sytho street between Main and West Aorta streets, locate all need-'d repairs li: sidewalks and notify property own ers to repair same, have lumber baulod at once tor needed crosswalks, go around with Couneilmen Aikins and Graves and see where street lights aro needed. These few things he is to do in addition to looking after tho peace and good order of the town. The last r anted job is a sinecure, and be can devote all his time to the side issues. Tho telephone and htreet vacation or dinances were postponed nntil the next regular meeting. The council is not dispo.-wd to vacate to exceed 30 feet of East Greenwood street where it passes tho high school. It is now the only open street leading on to tho hill in a distance of five or six blocks. EVERYONE IfiVITED TO S. H. S. DEBATE Citizens of Enterprise Will Throw 'Open Their Homes to Guests from The County. The gates of Enterprise will be thrown wide open Saturday, January 18, when tho Tendleton and V allowa County high schools will meet in debate at the opera house in the first series of the Oregon High School Debating league. All of Wallowa county is invited to be present, hear the debate, enjoy the fine musical program following, and be sharers iu the hospitality of the citizens of this city. That the attendance may he repres entative of all parts of the county, a committee consisting of S. L. Burnaugh, C. II. Zurchor and J. W. Kerns was appointed by the Commercial club to see that personal invltatkns are sent to people in all sections and to prevent duplications. Every householder in tho city will entertain guests from over the county to the extent of Ida re sources. An admission fee of 25, 35 and 60 cents will be charged to the debate to help defray tho expenses incurred, Wallowa high must pay all the expenses of the visiting team and chaperons, and of the judges, who must como from outside the county. Tills includes railroad, ttage.and hotel bills. Pendleton has chosen the following for judges from a list of 15 submitted by Principal Moore: Judges J. W. Knowles and T. II. Crawford and County Superintendent Bragg, all of La Grande. The llrst two are now in Enterprise and have consented to act. Tho splendid musical prozrom follow ing the debate will be free to everybody. The night's. pleasures will end in a fine bauquet at Hotel Enterprise for the high school students, visiting students, olllcials and judges. Tho commercial club at a meeting Tuesday night took up the matter of a dormitory, ai d it was agreed that ar rangements should be made for a boarding and rooming place at op.ning of next fall term., where out-of-towu students would bvi accommodated at actual cost. t County High School Notes. ' Tho new Cro well oe bluet is .being usod to good advantage by tho physics class. Continued on last page ant to Make A Change? Read Neely and Young's advertisement in Twice-a-Week Spokesman Re view of HAZELWOOD Irrigated Farm Lands Call at our office for litera ture, prices and particulars DAN I EL BOYD, ! Sec. Wallowa Law, Land and Abstract Compaojr 1
