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HltUrfcal Cat TwiceaWeek Saturday Edition THE NEWSRECORD ALL THE OFFICIAL NEWS OF WALLOWA COUNTY IN THE N-R ALL THE NEWS WHILE 11 It NEWS TWICE-A-WEEK NEWS RECORD ELEVENTH YEAR., NO. 103. ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1910. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER Wants vjent a wora sin'gie mseruou, ys centa a word 2 Insertions. Special rate3 by month and year. Dressmaking and plain sewing. Sat isfaction guaranteed. Miss LUla FlowerB. 103bm RESOLUTIONS. At a recent meeting of Emerald Rebekah lodge, the following memo rial resolutions were adopted: To Brother and Slater Cramer and ' family;. Whereas, The All-Wise Father ,who rules la love,' has seen fit to call1 from this" earth the dear son! of Brother and Slater Cramer, be it . Resolved,' That ' the 'members, of Emerald Rebekah Lodge do here with extend to Brother and Sister Cramer and family, their heartfelt sympathy In their. sorrow and be reavement and be lit further Resolved, That a copy of these res olutions be forwarded to Brother and Sister Cramer and copy : be . hand- ed to cation. the News Record for publi- (Signed) EVA WILLiGEROJDT, ABBIB BURNAUGH, BBRTHA CRONIN, Committee on Resolutions. To' Sister Weathers and Family: Whereas- .God In his wise provi dence has called from this earth, to a home above the aged father ofj our sister. Alta Weathers, be it Resolved, That the heartfelt sym pathy of the Emerald Rebekah lodge be extended our slater 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 n the News Record. BVA-WILLQERODT, . ' 'AB'HIEI BURNAUGH, , , BERTHA CRONIN, . Committee oa Resolutions. ALTOGETHER, NOW, WHO ' WANTS THIS $5 GOLD, PIECE, t' .lo'Davis'nasTih'nTs "possession active dollar gold piece. - He found It oni Clean-up Day. He holds it, subject to a description by the loser, whereupon, after sundry other mat ter have been attended to, it will be turned over without a quiver of soul or the bat of an eye. Any. one who can give the correct date, Lon say and tell ..where it 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 cola after paying for. this notice. And inasmuch as the print er wants to break even, "and insure eiough prosperity to. go around, he will charge double price for the no- -tice. Now, don't all speak at once, ' gentlemen. There will be a meeting of the Twilight League at the Wallowa T1-. tie &Abstrac company's, new brick office building, Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. - EaA of the four. clubs are asked to sand delegates. " . N B S m I Yaw ciosi i i . Cliase and Sanborn's Teas and Coffees have a nation ll reputation for quality- ' v. superior quality. We Have the Exclusive Agency in Enterprise w; J. FUNK j. CO. NEW. CHRISTIAN PASTOR AC CEPTS ENTERPRISE CALL Rev Gifford Ernest of Creston, Wash., has accepted . the call ex tended him by the Christian) church church of Enterprise, and may ar rive In this city in time to fill the pulpit Sunday. - In. the event that he does not find it possible to reach Enterprise by that time, the pulpit will be filled by Mrs. Ellen MY Hun ter of iPortland. Mrs. Hunter has for some time been engaged as teach. er in, the . Chinese mission of Port land, and latterly has' been associ ated with the work of the C. W. B. M. of Oregon. In the event that Rev. Ernest arrives for Sunday, he and Mrs. Hunter will divide the pulpit for that day. . , Many Marvin. , Flora, April 21 The census taker say about, ha If the boy babies un der t,wo years old in these North Country precincts, are' named Mar vin. This is a straw Koine to show the popularity of Wallowa county's hustling sheriff with the ladies. Oh, Edgar! ' ' : Breezy Notes From The Flora Country Acreage In Fall Wheat Greatly In J creased H. A;. Thomae Near Death. Flora, April 21 The wet spring haa retarded plowing but the warm weather of the last few days has dried out the ground and farmers are rapidly catching up with their work. The acreage In fall wheat greatly Increased over any pre vious year and the stand Is good and color and gene.al condition excel lent. . ' ' Several of the Lost Prairie farm ers have contracted their -'.' hogs aruugh George Cannon to: Combes 4t"Hotehkiss at " 9 cento ' delivered In Enterprise. About 400 head will be taken, out, by May 10. William Fordice, well, known Lost Prairie farmer and stockman, is In very, poor health from 'stomach -and heart trouble. -. H. A. Thomas, one of the earli est pioneer ".residents of, Paradise, i very low of the affection from . which he has suffered -greatly the I last t,wo years.. It is feared ha will 'not live many days. His daughter Venus has designed from her posl tionr as operator in 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 eee, Mr. Thomas Tuesday. Mrs. Thomas' sister, Mrs. ' W. C. Wilson, accom panied the doctor In. Mr. Wilson came ln today. " ' Harlow A. Thomas settled in. Par adise In 1886, the same year asl Mos es Austin and family. These were (Couti-Auei on page O.ree.) 'Vmhw viMillhroiuifl (I 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.! 1 A considerable number ot stories has been writteni of the west, m iome Instances these Btorjes, have been merely stories. There have been colored accounts of tbi or that ocallty foisted upon, easterns commu- aitles. There have doubtless been exaggerations of - soil and climate, mineral and water ,. power, land and opportunity. Enthusiasm lias spur red to some of It, and the. desire for gain has spurred to some of it. But a It all there was a keen desire to serve,' Moreover what ie now the ast was once the west, and It too sent back the same stories of tne aom of plenty and the cornucopia 3pilllng golden dreams and silver loud of wealth and a profusion, of wnrvthlnir that is best and most de sirable- and -that' ealivcM thei ver- ige human breast .with the hope of possession. Such 8Wri Obsolefe. - But such sort of stories Is obso- ete. It is a brand that passed away with the passing of ignorant cred- illty - Today it is not possible to "fool" tie 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 modem, means of communioa- lon and transportation, Is awake o the opportunities! of the earth, everywhere. Government reports serve this public with detailed Infor mation. Travel ha 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 devlUe song, they would walk right in., turn around, and walk right out again. 8tmple, Truth Telling. It 1 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, ya rledi 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 daw upon the settler that these hundreds of thousands of aores of land la Wal lo,wa county reveal a future agricul iurai and horticultural greatness that 4 really appalling u its great- u ess. In some portions of Wallowa coun ty are wheat lands thousand si of acre of them equal If not superior to the famous "Palouee" lands which adjoin the county on the north. Back in the states of the middle wes the fanner 1 delighted with a wheat crop of twenty bushels to the acre Sometimes he eat twntT.fJv hnxh eV and ,when, in exceptional cases, one there gets thirty bushel to the acre mere Is a vision of riches and bedizened prosperity, that swoon in hopes of eternal opulence. : In Wallowa county, after breaking u the new ground, rolling It and first planting to rye, the farmer can raise from thirty to forty bushels of wheat to the acre regularly ; and out here he feels more like getting dis couraged that It la not forty-five bushels, than like growing enthusi ataic over a big yield. That is the difference. Some years ago lit was held popu larly that oats could not be raised in an adjoining county in the Grande Ronde valley.1 People who had never tried said it was "too sandy." Like all new countries some one ,wlth 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 could be raised In the Grande Ronde valley. So It was with Wallowa county wheat, apples, pears, plums, cherries, and vegetables When these were triad and the crops cared for abund ant yields came and the agricultural and horticultural possibilities here were demonotrated. "Frosto" was the great cry. But with cultivation and continued working of the soil, loosening It and caring for It as it is cared for everywhere, "frosts" be- on' to disappear. I : A Parallel Case. - A parallel case lis found im the his- ory of Illinois development. Today Illinois stands at the head of the corn, producing states, having . Tvon over Iowa last year for the first I roe In history of corn, raising. No Jne today would dispute Illinois' right to the . claim ot being a com producing at&la, -unleue lie, . wonted. be laughed at. But in the de velopment of Illinois, the time was when settlers rode across the rich prairie land, ignoring it vlth disgust, to settle along the streams, and to hop down a tree and grub out a Uurop for every hill of corn they planted. Until some one -with initi ative enough and courage enough, onceived that possibly he might raise com -on the Illinois prairie. foday the prairie land lai the great est corn land of that state. There le another similarity also: When settlers began turning over :he bottom lands of Illinois for corn, 3verybody in the locality "took" ma- arlal fever. The river bottoms jwairraed with ma'aria. People had he "shakes" and malaria enlarged he settlers livers until practically he only medicine used by the doc- :or was quinine or niuemaBs m both. The ,wr!tsr has met one pio- leer physician who, in the early day, ased so much of both that ha named his team of pon'-es one "Quinine" and the other "Bluemasa." Settlers onred to flee such a country. At Intervale everybody nearly, in a giv an, locality, would be sick. Turn ai g up the damp, poisoned soli let loose fevers and discouragement Mid added hardships. But cultiva tion outlasted malaria, thwarted the fever, eliminated1 it, and brought corn and riches and comfort and oappiness within a generation, The similarity exists, Im ihat con tinued cultivation In portions of Wal lowa county where frosts, occur, will hi time eliminate the frosts to the extent that cultivation In Illinois bottoms eliminated the fevers. But there ie In reality no compari son between early Illinois and present Wallowa county. Here there are no fevers, no unhealthflul conditions of any kind, no epidemics. The cli mate la clear, serene and healthful. The puret . a. id coldest drinking water that can be found anywhere pours down from the eternal snow of ibe mountains, 8prlrg bubble from the foothills, and the water Is piped to Enterprise. , Sunshine is prevalent and the . skies practically alwaya amile. Nearly every farmer has a spring or several springs on his homestead or ranch.' And above all, lnetead of cultivating fevers out 3t the soil, all the farmer haa to do is to stick a picrw Into the ground and raise a crop of wheat or oats or other product. The wheat be't, like the eastern corn belt, is becoming more defined every year. The bread consumer of the world are finding out scien tifically just where wheat can b grown to advantage. The consump- DEATH RECORD. Mrs. Elizabeth Putman, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. E. iMerryman, In this city, at 8:15 this Saturday morning, April 23. Mrs. Putman's maiden name was Elizabeth Coulson. She was bora In Linn county, Missouri, July 1, 1839. She was married to Jonathan J. Putman, la Missouri In 1860. To gether they crossed the plains to J Missouri again, where they lived for number of years. Six - children were born to them, two of them dy ing in Infancy, and one at 16 years of age; those living are: William L. Putman, Ida Putman Landonl of Albany, Ore., and Mrs. Mary P. Mer ry man of Enterprise. Mrs. Putman, had resided here since August, 1903, and has a host of friends ,who sympathize with, the bereaved ones. The funeral will be held from the M. E. church at, 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, conduct ed by Rev. C. E. Trueblood. Frank Boyer and W. S. Davis Arrive Gejnljlemi Originally From Kansas Here, to Look, Over Prom la-, ing Wallowa. Mr. Frank Boyer and W. S. Davie formerly of Kansas, arrived In En terprise Thursday evening on the O. R. ft N. train from LaGrande, com ing from Portland. Both, gentle men have been looking over the Wil lamette valley, Investigating the land possibilities) there, climate, soil, and the probable development of that worthy section. But they were not entirely satisfied to snap up realty before continuing the search, and re in Wallqwa county fo 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 speak for themselves to these gentlemen and to all prospective settlers. En terprise and surrounding territory offer great prospects to all comers who locate here, and the future of WaUowa will respond with good values to every Investment that, Is made, ' WHITE FRONT Livery, Feed and Sale Stable R. L.. DAY, Proprietor Good Rigs Fair Treatment Horses Bought and Sold Special Attention to Commercial Trade Rates for Regular Boarders Bus to and From Trains Best of Help Employed Home Phone Open Day and Night One Block North of Hotel Enterprise 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 eut, $3,200.00 City Uot, 3lOO to 9300 Resldne Property, $60 to $3,000 Fire Insurance Surety Bond ' Live Stock Insurance ENTERPRISE, : : : OREGON iCartfm Banking Insults thi Saftty of Dipostts." Depositor! Have That Guarantee at WALLOWA NATIONAL BANK OF ENTERPRISE. OREGON CAPITAL 160.000 SURPLUS 160.000 Wc Do a General Banking Business. Exchange Bought and Sold on All Principal Cities. Geo. W. Hyatt, President Geo. H. Craig, Vice President Gko J3. Ckaiq J. H. Dobbin Oko. SONS OF 1 1 LW DROWN LITTLE FELLOWS WENT TO CATCH FROGS FOR PAPA'S SUPPER NEVER RETURN. One of the saddest acoidents in the recent history of Enterprise occurred Friday evening, when Land mm L., ten years old, and William V., eight years old, both sons ot Mr. and! Mr. w. H. Diaworin, were arownea 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 little bodies. The accident hinges on a moat pa thetic Incident. Mr. Dllworth's fam ily had arrived only twenty-four hours before. On Friday the little fellows went scojring 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 legs' for supper. Not knowing there was such a thing as a reser voir on top the hill, and suspecting that the boys had foundl a seeping ?pning, the father encouraged thero in their youthful frog catching. The boyg took a ttra pail, bent on catch ing frogs for their papa's supper, ud evidently boarded a frali raft jn the reservoir. This raft. In all probability was tipped in some way to spill the tota off kito the water jome five feet deep, where they were drowned without' a soul to hear any outcry. i Father Searches. Once during the afternoon Mr. Dll worth stopped at, the house where his, family are temporarily ilvlng. Yrs. Dllworth stated that she (w worried at the boys' absence, but the father spoke lightly ot their being- goutf, .saying vthat poflslMy they bad gone to the ball grounds. . Sup per time' came and the father went home to find the boys still missing. Mrs. Dllworth at thU time learned that there wis a rewrvolr on the hill, and the father Immediately went to It. He found the cap of Wil- (Contlnued on page 3.) W. R. Holmes, Cashier Frank A. Reavia, AjwU Cashier DIKKOTOKS W. Hyatt Mattib A. Holmes W. R. Holmes ' to dreams of ease and incite to (Continued on last page.)