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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1908)
The Wallowa CountyAnnual TO BE HELD IN WALLOWA, OREGON, OCTOBER 8, 9 and 10, 1908 '" Offers liberal premiums for exhibits of Wallowa County products. If you have anything to exhibit, whether stock, produce, grains, or chard .products, inerfils, or any product of -' tbe5lcovihty, we solicit a liberal exhibit. The Fair will be bigger and better than ever. Many Attractions, Good Programs, Fast Races, High Class Sports, Good Times V The flailroad wilfbe running HELP, MAKE THE Address all Communications to OREGON,, BUILDERS Are you doing Iwliat you can to populate your State? OREGON NEEDS'PEOPLE, Settlers, honest farmers, mechanics, merchants, clerks, people WltE brains, strong hands and a willing heart capital or no' capital, " .' . ' ' 4 ' The ' Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. Southern. Pacific Co. Lines in Oregon, are sending out tons of Oregon literature to the East for distri bution through every available agency. Will you not help the good work of building Oregon by sending us the names and ad dresses of your friends who are Ukely to be interested In this state? We will be, glad,, to, bear the expense of sending them complete information about OREGON and its opportunities. COLONIST TICKETS will be on sale during SEPTEMBER and OCTOBER from the East . to all points la Oregon. The fares from a few principal cities. are From Den ver.j.. $30,00 From Louisville .$41.70 " Omaha.;....... 30 00 " Cincirnati 42.20 " Kansas City. . .30 OO Cleveland ...... 44.75 " St. Louis... i'...; 35.50 " New York 55.00 ! " Chicago.. .... . . '38.00 . TldKETS CAN BE PREPAID. If you want to bring a friend or relative to Oregon, deposit the proper amount with . any of our agents. The ticket will then be furnished by' ; telegraph. . :'' WM. McMURRAY, General Passerger Agent. ; Portland, Oregon. Oh G. A. R. Train To Toledo Alice M. Bell Writes' Interesting Re count of. Trip Through Utah . and Colorado. ' Knox, Stark county,' Ind., ,';"Sept;-3.' il908. Editor News Record : . I thought a sketch of my trip here might, be -.of Interest to you and some, of you readers who are known to me,. .,1 From Enterprise I made one o a party that was sent forward in one riages. Leaving Enterprise,; at ,4 a m, August 21, we breakfasted a WallOwa.' I phoned to my.v gooc, friend, . Mrs. John ' McDonald, whe hastened over to suaae. imuus ain tell me that in a reply Jto a lette: from me she had ' tried to get me word by phone to come, and stoj with her a few days and we coult find a chance for me to go, other, wise than by stage, as having on,ct gcue over in a wreck there,' fha'ye a horror of the Wallowa hill. Hdw ever she failed to get me word ow ing to neglect isome '.place. We saw the track-laying .macnine Ul'WBiiowa csujuu . ...-it . n .1 I. nto'o ant ' ually laying track. Quite a lot o. Wallowa county 'people were on th'i train from Elgin to La Grande en route to Portland. At La Grahdi the crowd 'was so "denaa, one'oulc not find his car. "Aunt Hannah" (widow of ex sheriff Rogers) was on her way' U Union to take charge of the hbrrit of my sister. Mrs. S. "A. Pursel while she and Mr. Pursel - attendei the Q. A. R. convention at Toledo Ohio, to which my sister goes aa t delegate from Oregon W. R. C, and he aa a Grand Army , soldier. At "Aunt Hannah" and I could not ge' to the chair car we slipped on aiy . way between the Pullmans. Aunt Hannah said. "Stay here, Allle, I've foreotten some'-hlne and off she waddled, and I said, "Here I stay till this train goes, my ticket wat regular trains into Wallowa, FAIR A SUCCESS the Secretary, Wallowa, Oregon. paid for." And when the colored porter unlocked the doors he bowee politely and told me to go rlgh. through the car ; to the chair car; when I got there I found Mrs. Rog ers had managed to get her belong lngs and get on. I phoned from the depot and was met at the waiting room of the Central railway by al the sisters I have, viz.: Mrs. Mar) R. Thomson and Mrs. Esther E. Pursel. I found some changes for the bet :er in the good old town of Union. tt went dry last June and now thi jld Mike Woodard saloon is fltte. ip for an electric theatre, which '. aad the pleasure of attending wltl ny sister, Mrs. Thomson, on Satur Jay evening, and found a crowdei .louse and a very fair entertainment. The old Wilson saloon is fitted ui is a waiting room I believe, for thi Central railway. It did my hear joci to, see this improvement fo. he better In this old town for whlcl I have a tender spot In my heart; r.uv I spent, some of the happles Uays of my girlhood; here In one room of what. U the high achoo building. I taught; here where yel i. , i Neuralgia. Sciatica. .Rheumatism. Backache. Pain inchest. Distress in STOMACH. Sleeplessness stanMs the home and the old "Moun tain Sentinel" office. I had a good home and a deir mother aid t brother by whose side I worked a. the printer's case'. On Sunday after m.on I visited the Silent City of the Dead that lovely cemetery where for some years our mother ha: rested and where last March that be loved brother was laid to re3t by her side. Three special tickets had been sent for to Portland for Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Pursel and .myself. They did not come until Sunday morning ween we drove to the depot and signed for them. The extra ticket was sent for on the chance of my coming, and the agent , telegraphed to Portland for an extra berth ;foi me. On Sunday my brother, E. S McComas' wife and daughter came to see me and on Sunday night my dear old and only remaining brother. E. S., came to stay over night at Sister Mollie's where I was. On Monday morning we were off and glad to get started. Superin tendent Hunter of the Rock Island came from Portland to Salt Lake tc look after the comfort of the 0. A R. people and their friends. The car in which we were was a specia. tourist, the seats making into e ' lower berth at night. ' We found that a lower berth had been reservei for Mr. and Mrs. Pursel, but f strange gentleman was to have the upper berth; however" through the kind and patient efforts of Superin tendent Hjinter ere' night he hae changed the ' gentleman to anothei and given us the whole compartment, myself the upper berth. We arc quite sure the G. A.- R. party have t very grateful . recollection of thi! gentleman,- who, ere leaving the ca. at Salt Lake City, presented ever) lady of the party with a box of choice bonbons. '" At Salt Lake City we were to laj over a day, as other delegates jolnet us there from California, Nevada anc Utah. We were met-there by a. dele gatlcn from the city, taken on the street cars through the prlnclpa streets, and had it not been we were two hours late, they had Intendet us to visit their fort; were takei to the tabernacle to a grand orgar recital on that fine pipe organ, alsi listened to a beautiful singer, one Emma Ramsey Miller; thence to i grand spread at the I. O. O. F. hal where for souvenirs there was lah by each plate their state flower, the Sego lily; attached to it were lont white streamers on which was print ed, "Salt Lake City, 1909," thel city being1 a candidate for the G. A R. encampment for 1909. After din ner we were ' taken to the Saltalre Beach where we were turned loose to view the lake, take in the amuse ments of that beautiful resort untl 4:45 when the train was again li readiness and conveyed us to the depot. I have omitted to mentloi. that the music. furnished for us oi the 'street cars and to the lake wab played by a band of eight ladlei dies and It was fine. From Sal Lake there were threa special car of G. A. R. people, nine cars in all. But as I am making this too lenghty will close now, by saying I am her with relatives,' Mr. and Mrs. J. W Lindley. The lady being my moth er's brother's daughter, we are cou ins. Her sister. Mrs. Angle Turner who happened to be here from Green .own, Howard county, Ind., Is als. my cousin. They are just lovel; o me, and later perhaps I may tel you how Angle and I "took i,iT the ajreat, noisy, crazy city of Chlcag. together. . Knox, Ind., September 7. I believe I "left : off" at Salt Lake Jity. Other G. A. R. delegates hat ing joined us there, making thre special cars for this order, ..the . W it. C. and their friends, , the trail .lulled out Tuesday evening, Augus Jo, about 6:30 p. m. While. Utal ind Colorado are made to "blosson is the rose" wherever they .can lrri jate, we saw a lot of desolate) sage brush country which will need i good deal of water yet to make i i "garden spot." When we- awoke Thursday morning we were, gettlnt Into picturesque scenery, nooks, ane valleys in the Rockies. We passec FOR i VJ!1 JlfU W' I through the pretty little town o. Rifle, Colo... where the companion who has passed on to the great be yond, once spent a winter of his life the winter of WOO. A bulletin board assured us tha. the finest apples and the fattest cat tle on earth were to be found there Onward through the Grand Junction country, where peaches, melons apples, plums, canteloupes, tomatoes, equal to the Imnaha country, were displayed In the windows of every town on we flew through the Rock les, now between mountains tower ing on either side, with the mouths of shafts gaping at us from the hill sides, now shooting through tunnels now catching glimpses of valleys and canyons where the silvery Col orado, the Grand, Eagle and othei rivers wended their ways. On Thurs day evening, as the sun was sink ing we entered the Grand Canyon of the Colorado., The conductor called "Everybody to . the rear who wants on the observation car," and there was a hustling, and such a glorious ride! Darkness had fallen ere we got fairly settled. So much does the roud curve around the mountain sides that from the rear of the tenth, or observation car, we could see our en gine ahead of us, and a red globe hanging on the outer side of the train, near the center, a danger sig nal swaying In the breeze that alsc swept the sparks backward over us and towseled the hair of many e bareheaded passenger, while over head towered ' the' mighty overhang lug peaks of the Rockies, and far, far above them could be dlscernet a line of sky, like a railway In the heavens from which the stars seemee" to twinkle at us like electric lights from the car windows. ( Later, the gentlemanly conducto: who had charge of the G. A. R. spec ials from Salt ' Lake to Chicago, grouped together some who coule" Jing familiar airs such as G. A. R. longs, etc. We had among us a ?entleman from Hood River, Ore., l Mr. Billings, who played both flute and violin very nicely, and we 'lad quite an impromptu musicale, ilso a merry jig executed by an old soldier, one Dr. Jamleson of Boise, da. I might Bay that. Mrs. Hlggins, Iepartment commander of the W. R. C. of Oregon, was quite ill on the train most of the way .from Union o Colorado Springs. My sister, Mr3. Pursel, delegate from Union county, Oregon, nursed her, and Dr.. Jamleson Undly prescribed for her free ol charge. We were somewhat behind ime, owing to hot boxes, etc., anc he conductor told .us we would have o lay over at Colorado Springs. We leard G. A. R. people saying, "These :ars are to go straight through .o Chicago. " The conductor said 'Well, we'll see." At about 11 p n. he came around to all the berths: 'Tickets, please, sorry to disturb al! you good pedple, but these three :ars of G. A.' R. people go on a special train to Chicago, so must see your tickets, please; all right, sorry to dtsturl) you." More anon, ALICE M. BELL. NOTES OF COUNTY FAIR. Wallowa, Sept. 14. The Wallowa jounty fair to be held in Wallowa, Jctober 8, 9 and 10, will be one o. -he best ever held in Eastern Ore son. The exhibit of products wil je full and representative of the var .oub Industries of the county. The imusement program will be the best jver known. There will "be some hlng doing' every minute at the Vallowa county fair. ' The committee on races have had tome difficulty "in regard to the ace track. There is a difference t opinion as' to 'the kind 'of track wanted. Some who have running lorses want a straight track, while others want a circle track. The committee Is. busily engaged on he question and we will hear a de cision In the near future, i ' The committee of sports has de- :Ided: to have a football game with loseph. 'a' relay race, races of 50, 100, '20. 440. ami 880 varrls resnectivelv. , , . 'a standing broad Jump,' a running Take the d the . ' r J an Harness and Saddles L BERLAND, Will supply your needs in the Leather Goods line more cheaply and five better satisfaction than any other dealer in Wullowa county. ' Let him lit you out for the season's work. Repair work a specialty. MAIN STREET. R. I. LONG CIVIL ENGINEERING and GENERAL LAND SURVEYING Hydraulic and Irrigation Engineer ENTERPRISE, OREGON. PHONE HOME 115 J. D. WALOK Real Estate Dealer Mitchell Hotel Block JOSEPH. OREGON Red Front Livery and Feed Stable First Class Accommodations Best of Hay and Grain ONE BLOCK SOUTH OF HOTEL ENTERPRISE broad jump, a nhoL put, and a has ke;t hall game. Other features are , proposed and it is probable that i they will bo added. ! ! Governor Chamberlain has written that he cannot come to the fair, and ! It is yet undeclde.l who will be the speaker. Some good orator will be . secured. ' . . . I The committee on concessions have been busy and from present indica tions there will be some excellent attractions booked for the fair. CROWDS WILL WELCOME RAILROAD AT WALLOWA Wallowa. Sept. 14 Following Is the program for the railroad excursion and picnic day here next Sunday: Firing of salute upon arrival of train. Music by bands. Address of Welcome to Wallowa by L. Couch. Music by band. Response to Address of Welcome. Trip to picnic grounds. Music. Arrival at grounds. Luncheon. Music. Address of Welcome to Wallowa County by Judge J. B. Olmsted. Response to Judge Olmsted's ad dress. Return to town. The Wallowa band wlll'be assisted by the Enterprise band. Upon the arrival at the grounds, the Enter prise band will proceed to dinner and the Wallowa band will discourse music. Then the Enterprise band will play while the Wallowa band It at dinner. Other speakers will probably be called at the grounds and specia music may be added. The following committees have been named on reception: Wallowa O. W. Gregg, E. A. Holmes, U. T. McDanlel, John Mc Donald, William Slierod, II. M. Roun savull, J. L. Maxwell, R. McCrae, S. T. Combs, Bruce Cox, R. II. Jonas, A. L. Tulley, Hector McDonald, D. Mc Lean, Tlieo. Williams. Joseph F. F. McCully, Albert Wurtzwelltr, J. D. McCully, J. H. Dobbin, J. A. Rumble. Enterprise W. W. White, J. B. ME Little Tablets S3 Pain is Gone. KNI THE HARNESS AND SADDLEM AN ENTERPRISE, OREGON NOTARY PUBLIC BOSWELL & SON PROPRIETORS. Fruit Trees From Spraying Fluids Myers' Spray Pumps. Pruning Hooks and Saws' FORD C. POTTER WALLOWA, ORIiGON Before buying nursery atock or nursery nupplles of any kind write tne for prices. Olmsted, A. C. Miller, Judgo Reavls, W. R. Holmes, Q. W. Hyatt, and A. F. I'oley. Lostlne S. L. Maglll, S. L. Mc Keuzie, Fred Fltzpatrlck, S. 'W. Miles, and S. I. Cf ow. Flora F. S. Johnson, T. M. Gil more, L. Austin, W. H. Baker. Paradise William Straloy, W. B. Applegate. Appleton Miss Applegate. Troy I'eter Flcker. Grouse Mr. Silver, Sr. Bartlott, T. A. Bartlett. Promise T. C. Miller, M. F. Doud. Imnaha Leonard Johnson, Jack Johnson, J. A. Denny. Powwatha George L. Post, F. M. Ghormley. Leap R. K. Heikott, J, A. Down ing. 8 LOT 3 $450.00. Those lots are In Boyd's Subdl vision and when the city water la distributed on them, they will sell easily at $l.r0 each. They belong to client who will make the right terms to reliable parties. BURLEIGH & BOYD. The News Record, $1.50 a year. If you have Headache Try One They Relieve Pain Quickly, leaving no bad After-effects 25 Doses vt;uu Nova QU ln R..1L- tibial buiu in - w - i i