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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1910)
';,. ' WALLOWA. .. By the Enterprise Press. The soil is deeper, fairer, in Wallowa, t Old Wallowa; And the air is purer, rarer, in Wallowa; The streams are ever clearer, The blue skies are ever nearer," And the bird songs always dearer,' . In Wallowa. ' , . . . . .. .......... Oh, the hills are green and rolling, in ; Wallowa, - Old Wallowa, And the mountain shoulders bowling o'er Wallowa; Pine forests quiver lightly, And the stars shine ever brightly, While the gay moon swoons on nightly, In Wallowa. The peach bloom and the apple, in Wallowa, Fair Wallowa, Dot the green with pink and dapple, in Wallowa; Here the virgin soil is crying, Here the mineral is lying, Here the spirit never dying . Of Wallowa! City and County Brief News Items - Oakes carries a full Mae of Lowe Brothers' Paints. 108tf W. E. Boner of Joseph la In town today attending to business matters. Deputy Sheriff Cvow made am of ficial business trip to Joseph Tues day. - , .. Mr. and Mrs. L. Lloyd, of Ironaha, are at the Hot LakeSanatorhim and will remain, there several weeks. . Beautiful Player Piano for only $375 direct from the factory. F. S. Ashley. - 108tf Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Haney spent a few days this week with friends Sn Lostlne. Aubrey Haney Is visiting friends in , La Grande, having gone to at tend the Lewis-Pack wedding. Japalac, Tarnish stains, linseed oil at Burnaugh ft Mayfleld's Chester Riley and Park Wilson are visiting to and around Paradise and other points la the north portion of the county. Mr. and Mrs. A. B, Wood and little child returned to Walla Walla, Wash., Tuesday morning. Doors and window and all kinds of builders hardware at Keltners. Mr. and' Mrs. D. S. Burdett and two children of Joseph were in the city Friday and made a pleasant visit at this office. Byrd M. Ault and Brim French left Friday morning for La Grande where they attended the' track meet held Saturday, May 21. - Ice Cream Freezers a brand new stock at Keltner's. ' Mrs. H. " C. Cramer and .little daughter went to Wallowa Friday' to visi with the family of Forest Sup ervisor Harris, and other relatives. County Surveyor Merryman. is add ing to the appearance of his resi dence property on West Residence street, by giving It a, bright, new coat of paint. - ' The splendid work of Chamber lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets is dolly comJmg to light. No such grand remedy for liver and1 bowel troubles was ever known before. Thousands bless them for curing con stipation, sick headache, biliousness, jaundice and indigestion. Sold by all druggists. Master Procter Hug, little son of Marshal and Mrs. Charles Hug of this city, loft for a visit with his grandmother at Elgin, Tuesday morn ing. . M'. E. church services: Preach ing by the pastor at 11 a, m., and by Rev, A. L. Ho,warth of Joseph at 8 p. ra. Other services at, the regular hours. S. P. Rathbon, a friend of Dr. and Mrs. Moore of this city, lopresent- ing the Brandagee Klncaid Co., of Utica, N. Y., was la Enterprise sev eral days this week. . Miss Nina Mack of Joesph passed through Enterprise Tuesday niorn intg on her way to Salem, where she will attend the funeral of her great grandmother, Mrs. S. L. Thatcher. Wednesday of -this week, at the home of the bride's grandparents In La Grande, Earl Pack and Mlssi Ber nlce Lewis were united In matri mony. The many friends of the hap py couple wish them a long and use life of mutual happlniess. ' C P. Ragsdale departed for Mln- am Friday morning, where he will' engage in marking the spring lambs on" his sheep ranch there. While Mr. Ragsdale had not yet begun shearing, he states that the prospect Is for a good wool clip this year. Rev. W. H. Gibson of Enter prise will preach oa Sunday morn ing at 1 o'clock, end in the after noon at 3 o'clock at the Hopewell Baptist church otherwise known, as the Hammack church . on Swamp creek. It Is suggested that the neighbors bring a basket lunch and spend the noon hour together. A cordial Invitation Is extended to all. The many acquaintances of Edwin Holmes, son of Mr. end Mrs. Eugene Holmes of Wallowa, will be pleasant ly surprised to hear of -his matrt moni&I union wilh Miss Florence Hol- 'ister of Portland, Tuesday. The ceremony was performed in the First Presbyterian church of that city, end the happy pair with Mr Holmes parents, returned to Wallowai Wed nesday. - Never hesitate aboutt giving Cham berlaln'a Cough Remedy to children It contains no opium or other nar cotics and can be given with ImpUc It confidence. As a quick cure for coughs end colds o which children- are susceptible,' it Is unsurpassed. Sold by ell druggists. New Jail Cage Is Ready to Assemble Up-To-Data In Every Particular With All Modern Equipment -. Weighs 23,000. The new jail cage arrived from the Pauley Jail Co., of St. Louis, .Mo., this week, and is now ready to be assembled. The county offic ials have telegraphed for a man to assemble or set It up, and wHhin a weeds or ten days this will be done. The cage Is equipped with every n.odern device known, to Jail cages, including the lock box where levers lock and unlock each cell within tho cage. It Is made of hardened steil, burglar proof, and the "total v. eight Is 23,000 pounds. , Prisoners at Work. , The county prisoners under -direct supervision of Charles Crumpacker, has been put to work on the new nave been put to work on the new court house grounds. The recom mendation by Judge Knowles and' the g.cnd jury that this be done, has caeed favorable and approving talk among the taxpayers. . Our Few Real Needs. "As civilization and culture make peo ple more prosperous aud more comfort able they are proue to forget how few aud simple their real needs are. We need sleep, but not much of it, aud most of us are usleep exactly wben we ought most of all to be awake. We. need food, but it is not necessary that food should be cunningly disguised with a thousand devices to tickle the Jaded and surfeited palate, for the main trouble is that we eat too much aDd not too little. We need clothes to wear, but the one suit of fur that lasts certain animals all their lives is so beautiful that some men spend their whole time In search of it. We need heaven and the sense of a higher pow er directing our lives aud our desti nies, but we speud most of our time refuting and denying the possibility of anything bigger or better than we are. We need the love of friends, and therefore it is the more strange that we should speud our time not in Im proving ourselves, but In decorating our bodies, filling them with food and bustling them about over the earth In seurcb of ever freshing sensations. Philadelphia Ledger. MRS. JEAN MORRIS AT,' . THE CHRISTIAN' CHURCH Mrs. Jean. Morrte, beginning Tues day evening, May a4, will give a-, se ries of lectures at the Christian, church, this city. Her themes will be "Character Building" and "Char acter Study." Daily from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. she will give character. delineations In the parlors of ' the church. A collection will be taken at each meeting. : - , A touch of rheumatism, or a twinge i neuralgia, whatever the trouble Is, Chamberlain's Llnlmentt drives away the pain at once end cures the complaint quickly. First application gives relief. Sold by ell druggists. GOES TO ROSEBURG TO HANDLE REAL ESTATE C. E. Vest, well and most favor ably known In and around Enter- I-iise, left Wednesday morning for Roteburg, where he will engage in the real estate business. He leaves here a wide circle of personal friends v-Lo dislike to lose his citizenship, bu'. who wish for him every measure of happiness and prosperity whr- evei be goes, ,. , , Mr.. Luther Greeno and Miss Hat- tie Biggs of near Lostlne, were mar ried at Lostine May 6. , Mr. Gree no Is from Joseph. He has been em ployed by the Contact Mining end Milling company, south of Lostlne, and will camp out at the mines) with his young bride for the summer, con tinuing to work there. ' Heckling Humor. A parliamentary candidate was hold ing a meeting In Auld Reekie at which the heckler wax much Id evidence, and the embarrnsed candidate failed give a single answer which was Judged to be satisfactory by the audience. To ward the end of the meeting an elector rose and quietly asked. "Sir. would you tell us what might be the name your second Initial stands for?" The unfor tunate candidate, greatly puzzled at the purport of the question, asked In what wny the Information could inter est the audience. "In this way," ex plained the interrogator "we should be able to see if you rould answer one question !" London Tatler. . REAL ESTATE FIRM Payne & Sheets ENTERPRISE, OREGON. "(, .-We handle Eaoches and City Property. We ceo exchange your land for city property, or visa-versa, r - We have some fine residence lots for sale. ; ... W Mil Business Lota. " o ; Make Loans on Land. '-: Writ Your Insurance, " U The Poor FUh. This melancholy tragedy happened In Holland. A fisherman who caught a salt herring placed the fish In a tub full of salt water. Every day he took out some of the salt water and re placed it with fresh. In a few days he hod the herring living in fresh water. But, not content at stopping here, be decided to try another plan. Every day he took a little water out of the tub until none was left, and ibe her ring was still alire. The next course was walking. In a month or so the herring had developed feet and learn ed to walk, and be accompanied bis master on his Journeys. One day as they were crosslug over a narrow bridge the berring caught sight of the water. Reminiscences of former days flashed through bis head, and he re solved to try the water. But while still gazing at It be fell In, and before his master could aid blm be was drowned. Cleveland Plain Dealer. ENTERPRISE AND WALLOWA COUNTY. Enterprise is the growing, lively county seat of Wallowa county. It is centrally situated in the county. It will draw from the vast land and stocK and general agricultural and mineral resources of the county, sufficiently to become eventually a big inland county seat. It is a city of generous, busy hustlers. It is rapidly building up with stone buildings. In time it will be Known as the "Stone City." Millions of the best building stone, soft and free from lime and hardening on exposure lie within half a dozen miles of Enterprise. There is water power enough flowing right through the center of the city to run all the spin dles and wheels of a great manufacturing center. Enterprise is surrounded by as fine wheat land as lies out of doors. It draws from some of the best fruit land in America. When you come west, come to Enterprise and looK Wallowa county over on the 0. R. & N. rail road from La Grande. w . ,. . Q m C3 ll C3E9 13 E3 r wr Q I 1 D D THE Q J ENTERPRISE PRESS 0 i i The Verdict The lecture was over, and the gen- tletnau who did the talking strained his ears as he followed the audience out of the ball to gather in. so far as he could, what sort of an Impression he bad made. As he drew near to the doorway two old gentlemen who were making their way out Just ahead of him rendered a verdict. "Well. Bunkslde," said one of them, "what did you think of lt?' "I've beard worse," said Bankslde. "Did you think It was at all Illumi nating?" asked the other. "In an old fashioned way, yes," re plied the venerable Bankslde. "I don't quite catch your point, said the questioner. "Why, It was illuminating, but it struck me as having more gas than electricity about it," explained the critic Judge. 0 D D D 9 Is prepared to do the best of HIGH CLASS JOB WORK Let Us Show You Advertise in the News Record and the Chieftain and see your profits grow. . D D D D D D D Halley's Comet and the Moon's Eclipse MJqnday Evening, -May 23, for Nine Hours Phenomena May Be ' 8eisn. Tha First TaUgraph Lin. ' After the formal opening of the first telegraph line built for commercial purposes between Washington and Baltimore Trofessor Morse and bis as sociates offered to sell the invention to the United States government for $100,000, but the price was considered too high. The government bad appro priated $30,000 toward the construction of the Washington-Baltimore line, but after a short period of operation the postmaster general, to whom President Polk had 'referred the matter, wrote, "Although the Invention Is an agent vastly superior to any other devised by the genius of man, yet tbe operation between Washington and Baltimore has not satisfied me that under any rate of postage that can be adopted Its revenues can be made to cover its expenditures," On Monday evening next, lasting until 10:30, Halley's comet will light up the heavens. The moon will be In total eclipse for that period. The brilliancy even of Halley's comet will from now oh. through the future be totally eclipsed, however, by the scintillations from our brand new Furniture stock and Bargains In quality and prices; including our non- tufted Sealy mattresses, one-mdnute washing machines, White sowing ma chines, rugs, art squares, linoleums and carpels. - In fact a complete line of furniture involving all the latest designs and finishes at sledge hammer prices. FRED S. ASHLEY, The Home Furnisher. An Easy Curs. A correspondent for a local paper writes that bis sister sent him four fun - lines which are guaranteed to cure any case of strenuoslty In the family. The lines are to be repeated three times heartily In tbe face of any domestic difficulty. Here tbey are: The dog la In the pantry; Tbe cat Is In the lake; The cow. Is In the hammock. What difference does It maker Nautilus. Mors Interesting. "Were you Interested In that ac count of tbe Washington man who suddenly dlsoppeared?'' "Well. I'd.bnve been more interested In au account of a man who gradually disappeared." - -, . Call and see us when In town. ' Office In Lltch Building. . Enterprise, Oregon. . . i ' Two Signs. "To snuff a caudle out accidentally Is a slgu of marriage." "Tea. and to turu down a lamp In tentionally is a sign of courtship." All New and Modern Throughout FINEST ROOMS IN THE CITY Rates 50c to $L50 THE SAVOY ' Cor. Jefferson Ave. and Elia St . LftGrande, Oregon D. C ERICnOUX, PROPRIETOR Hot and Cold Water, Steam Heat and Electric Uati In Every Rooix . ; One thorn of experience Is worth a whole wilderness of warning. Lowell. The Onion. Tbe onion has been so long In culti vation (but lis original form is not def initely known. There are so called wild onions that grow in tbe woods. Nobody ever tastes them but once, aud there Is about tbe taste no suggestion tbat cultivation or anything else could ever make them grateful to tbe human palate. In all probability tbe onion Is a native of western Asia and adjacent parts of Africa, since It is mentioned In old Egyptian writings and tbe Pen tatencb. . . Tart Repartee. Of Sir William Harcourt, Disraeli once said lu his affectedly cynical way, "He has the three essential qualifica tions of success in politics a flue per son, a loud voice aud no principles." To this wben It was repeated to blm Harcourt rejoined, "Leaving out tbe first two qualifications, it might al most be applied to 'Dizzy' himself." An Autobiography. ' Mrs. Chugwater Joslab, what Is an autobiography? Mr. Chugwater It's tbe story of a man's life written as be thinks It'ougbt to be. Couldn't you tell tbat from tbe word Itself V Chica go Tribune. Cornered. WIfle Did you poHt tbat letter I I gave you? Hubby Yes, dear: I rar ; rled It In my band so I couldn't forget it. and I dropped it In tbe first box. I remember, because WIfle There, dear, don't say any more. I didn't give yoo any letter to post. W. B. APPLEGATE. Notarr Public . Collections made. Real Estate bought and sold and all business matters attended to. Call on or writs mt. ; .... . . PAHADISE OREGON. A 8uecete. Byker I attended a successful steigbt of baud performance last ulgbt Pyker-Beally! Byker-i'es, I lent conjurer a counterfeit bait dollar, and he gave me back- a good one. On Better. First Chlld-We've got a new baby at our bouse. Second Child (contemp tuously) We're got a new pa at ours, Presbyterian Btaudard. This being called me. whatever It Is, consists of a little flesb, a little breath and lbs part which govern. Marcus Aurellus. was driving a four-horse team when some of the animals started to run. He tried to get into the heavy wag- to get hold of the reins, when the hind wheel of the wagoni caught and ran over his left foot, bruising terribly but not breaking any bones. Mr. Thompson la about. though on crutches. ' ' Milk Wagon Accident. Dairyman: W. W, Zurcher also this week met with an accident which damaged his dairy delivery wagon. As he was driving along the king pin, according to report, In some manner lifted out of the bolster, let ting the wagon down to the ground with a thump. Strange to say, not bottle was broken, and the loss was only to the vehicle Itself. Eminence. The rood to eminence and pow er from an obscure condition ought not to be made too easy nor a thing too much1 of course. Jf rare merit be the rarest of all things it ought to pass through ' some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue let It be re membered, too, - that virtue Is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. Burke. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liv er Tablets will cleavr the sour stom ach, sweeten the breath and create a healthy appetite. They promote the flow of gastric Juice, thereby in due In g good digestion. Sold by all druggists. SHERIFF MARVIN, IS 8ERIOU8LY INJURED (ContlD'3d from front page.) men, working the road' some distance ahead stored the runaway team and being near the home of Mr. Makln, the latter got out his auto immediately and rushed the hserlff home. It was at first feared that the officer had suffered serious If not fatal internal injuries, but happily this proved not tbe case, and though he was Insensible for some five minutes or more, he miraculously escaped with nothing worse than bad bruls&t as stated. His many friends Lbrougnout the county will ay m pa -hize wUh him and wish blm speedy recovery. Another Runaway. Another runaway that might have proved fatc.1 occurred on Main stieet Thursday afternoon. ' Al. Thompson OFFICIAL. PROCEEDINGS OF COUNTY COURT (Continued from first page.) Q.-A.' Boner marker 4 00 P. Legora, axeman 2 00 E. F. Sargeant. salary road . supervisor 30 00 S. D. Keltncr, hardware 40 V, J, Hammack, road fund., 18 68 G. H. Lathrope, road) work .. 60 00 S. C. Hlroelwrlght. road work 35' 00 !ee Bros., road grader 18 00 Poulson & Prater, repairs .. 6 75 Joe Clemona, road supervisor 38 73 V. J. Hammack, salary road supervisor 88 25 R. W. Colpltts. lumber 12 82 3 A. Bishop, lumber 64 88 8calp Bounty. P., Williams .1 50 ... 4 60 .... 21 00 .... 3 50 .... 3 00 ' 1 50 , . . . . 1 50 , . . . 1 50 1 60 .... 2 00 .... 6 00 .... 1 60 .... 1 50 1 50 2 00 1 50 .... 1 50 1 60 1 50 .... 3 00 P. Winner ...4 H. Foster .... P A. Foster Ernest Wright . . . .' Jrnea Bloodsworth Roy Nevlus .... lames Allen .... ....... rhos. Morgan it. A. Shlnn . I. W. Dale II. Knapper a. D. Roberts U O. Ward , Win. Cook Zex Richards V, A. Wlnlags r. J. Orr r, Brandon S. R. Bowlby , Samuel Shuefelt 12 50 Slmer Shuefelt 16 50 r. Monroe 4 60 1 T. Taggett 1 60 4ugli Vancil 2 00 I". F. Jacob 3 00 (. N. Doak 3 00 .. P. AverLll .... 1 60 rank H. Pierce .... .... 54 00 '. H. Cook 1 60 '. M, McFetrldge 9 00 t. F. Smith 48 00 at Loftus .... 1 60 I. B. R-eU " 3 00 V. M. Curry 3 00 Vm. Blaln 6 60 P. E. Knapp 1 60 J. J. Jacob ...... 1 60 (Continued next week.)