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ELEVENTH YEAR., NO. 103.
ENTERPRISE, WALLOWA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1910.
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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. " .
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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
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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
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to dreams of ease and incite
to
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