It's a sure thing
THAT NOWHERE
IN 1911
Will You Get
Better Cigars
Pipes and Tobaccos
Better Candy
or half as good
Hot Battered Popcorn
and Hot Peanuts
Than at--.
PRENTISS HOMAN
Next Door to Bank
REOPENED
The Red Front
Blacksmith Shop
by the reliable
blacksmiths
XV. p. Hambleton fl Son
Machine Repairing
Horseshoing
Same old stand
Enterprise Oregon
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R. R. FLACK, M. D. C. V. S
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist
County Veterinarian.
Enterprise, Oregon.
Annual
Clearing' $ale
COME!
What your money will buy. With such goods as
we sell, a clearing sale means something worth
while. It's isn't simply that you have a chance at
this season of the year to buy merchandise for less
money than is usually paid for it, but you have a
chance to buy unusually good merchandise at less
than usual.
All Dress Overcoats
All sheep-lined Overcoats'
All Wool Blankets
All Suits
Now is the TimeThis is the Place
C. H. ZURCHER
The Men's Outfitter
Cole! Weather Comfort
Depends on Good Stoves
"Superior" Stoves and Ranges
E3t on thl Market
1 carry a complete line of Bath Tubs, Basins
Bowls, cte. PRICES RIGHT.
S. bsLm CL.ARK, a blks. south Hotel Enterprise
Wallowa County Title &
Abstract Company
A. C. MILLER, President
Office In PnmnftTlv'B T1PW V,rif1r
new Court House, Oldest and most complete abstract plant ; ;
in county. Abstracts of title furnished promptly and cheap-
ly. Insurance written in largest and strongest companies. 1 1
Money Loaned at very Lowest Current Rates
4.i4iitti4,tti,i4 .
WMITfS FRONT
1 Livery, Feed and Sale Stable
R . I DAY,
Good Ris fair Treatment' Horses Bought and Sold
Special Attention to Commercial Trade
Rates for Regular Board atrs Bus to and From Trains
Best of Help Employed Home Phone
Open Day and Night One Block North of Hotel Enterprise
THE NEWS RECORD
- ... (Twlcea-Weetc)
AN iNDEtENBENT NEWSPAPEfc.
Formerly the Wallowa News, estab
lished March 3. 1899.
Published Wednesday and Satur
days at Enterprise, Oregon, by
THE ENTERPRISE PRESS
Office East side Court House Square
Entered a second-class matter
January 2, 1909, at the postofflce at
iJnUrprise. Oregon, under the Act or
vlarch 3, 1879.
Subscription Rates: One year $2,
tlx months $1, three mouths 50c,
ma month 20c. On yearly cash-in-idvance
subscriptions a discount of
!Sc U given. '
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1911.
GOOD ROAD BOGIES.
There are some peP'e who are
never happy unless they are seeing
bogies. They imagine the direst re
mits from the simplest causes. Thia
Is especially true about new and
intried things like good roads.
Unless we are misinformed, none
jf the five good roads bills before
ihe legislature takes the making
and control of roads from the coun
ty courts. Automobile speedways
will not be built unless the coun
'y court orders the same. In fact
ihere will be no change, from; now un
less .the county court takes the in
itiative. These bills simply provide ways
and plans by which a comity i may
build permanent roads If It wants
to do so. ,
Bonds, roadmaklmg machinery, auto
mobile speedways and all the other
SEE!
Reduced
20
per cent
hnU1intr rmrtncifA ftvnf rvf t
i4.t
Proprietor
bogles are products of .the Imagina
tion. The people of each county
will continue to be 1)036 of the. roads
en their county.
True, one bill provides for a state
highway commissioner but hi work
will be mainly advisory. If he is a
.-scientific roadanaker he ,will be a
good investment.
Except running a newspaper, there
Is no business or trade that, so many
people think' they know all about
as roadmaklmg, and really know so
tittle. ' " "
FREE LIBRARY.
Enterprise city council has set
lslde for the public library one-half
nill of the levy for city purposes.
This is a generous- provlsdom for the
?irst year and the money wisely ex
pended will give the library a good
tart. It will be a useful Institution
'rom the beginning.
The library under the fostering
are of the ladies of the; Improvement
ia.sociatlon, has already a large num
ber of books, especially of the popu
ar kind fiction and the reference
olumes that come from the state
a-111 be of aid to students. It la
now kept open two afternoons, each
week, but after the tax money be
comes available it la the Intention
o add a reading room with maga
zines, papers, etc., and keep it and
fhe library open every afternoon
ind evening.
Of course a board should be ap
pointed to watch over the needs of
he library, its administration and
nanagement, and If we are pardoned
he advice, we would suggest the
oard be composed of onej member of
he council and a library committee
'rom the Ladles- Improvement assocl
ition. Experience proves that in educa--lonal
matters and la all matters that
certain, to the moral or mental up
'ift of a community, -women are more
iffective workers than men.
"GOOD PEOPLE."
What would the world do without
"good people"? We mean the good
people of the churches, who give
Treely of their time to church- work,
benevolent work and above all feel
that true, charity that maketh all men
brethren.
The non-church goer, the busy
man of affairs, the young manj ofj ex
igerated ego, even tho these clas
ses may be "good" in the sense of
'jebig moral and upright, are too
likely to undervalue the "good people"
if the churches, in the case of the
well-headed youngster, he ,wlU af
'ect to, sneer at them.
Dut the "good people" go along
luietly doing what they conceive to
be their duty which Is doln good
and are happy da: a way beyond the
understanding of most ofi us.
Trouble comes. Sickness and death
'.ay their heavy hands on the light
hearted and thoughtless, as on all
athers. Perhaps strangers In. a com
.inunlty are called suddenly to face
affliction. Who comes then without
calling, without request? The deso
late home is bended-, the necessary
meals are prepared. Crepe and signs
of mourning are produced. A minis
ter of God gives his services and
ipeaks words of consolation. Singers
itlll the throbbing nerves with sol
smn music. Beautiful flowers grace
the casket containing the loved one's
form. There in the time of trouble
uid sorro.w all things that we have
been taught are fitting and appropri
ate are done, and by whom? The
"good people."
They are the salt, of the earth and
ue day will savej all peoples.
PROSPEROUS TILLAMOOK.
Tillamook county in. its teolatlon
was not unlike Wallowa. While
much nearer to Portland, yet it, was
farther from a railroad than this
county was before the extension of
'-h line two years ago.
Tillamook, however, had frontage
on the sea, and If Its products could
be brought to the coast, cheap trans
portation bore them to the outside
markets. That little word IP
stood in the way. It represent
ed Immense difficulties. Tillamook
was a hard country la whWh to
make good roads. Mountain, and bot
tomsthe two extremes but. alike m
being costly road bases oom posed
HI OB'S:
'-Jn m i,in m nr ' - ir-n.-i
R. L. DAY, White Front Livery, Enterprise
mostly Tillamook's surface.
The greater the difficulties, the
greater was the Intelligent determin
ation of the people to overcome them.
That IF cost lots of money $300,000
In the last three years, and a furth
er levy amounting to $125,000 fof the
coming year but they have the
roads, all the year round roads, and
'.he people ,who paid for them are
not sorry theyi spent the) money.
Tillamook is said to be the most
prosperous county in Oregon In pro
portion to Its population. It has
6,206 people, over 2,000 fewer .than
Wallowa county. Lincoln county, ad
joining . Tillamook on the south,
ought .to be even more) prosperous.
It has similar resources, similar soil,
mountains and timber, and it has
had for years a .railroad as well as
sea frontage. But Lincoln- Is poor
and the population Is sparse, it has
the ordinary dirt roads, which are
really no roads at, all.
Senator Aldrlch has made public
his bill to give J. P. Morgan and
3'andard Oil the sole right to is
?ue money In the United States, with
he power to contract or expand! our
currency at will and to grant, or
withhold credit to any bank, to any
merchant and to anybody else at
pleasure. Some people say Aldrlch
ju&ht to be lynched-, but we kinder
admire the audacity of the cuss.
We are for his bill. As the Oregon
ian - says, the derned fool people
hlnk they are too smart anyway.
. Bowerman's ' snap judgment for
political purposes in favor of the
Pendleton site for the Eastern Ore
gon Insane asylum, has been turned
iown. This gives a possible chance
d the site being decided on merit.
If that is done' Union will win
hands downv Why should the state
spend fifty or a hundred thousand
dollars for a site when It already
owns an ideal site at Union?
By all means spend millions and
millions fortifying the Panama can
al; also millions to defend the; North
Pole that Peary says he found. AH
the nations but ours are thieves
uid cutthroats, waiting to swoop
down and steal all we have. The
way to have peace is to carry a
gun. The man who carries a gun
never gets into trouble, does he?
There seems to be a regular epi
demic of petty lawlessness in the
county lately. Fortunately few real
ly serious crimes are-committed.
there having been but one arrest
tor selling intoxicating liquors, most,
af the offenses being murder, shoot
ing affrays, stabbing soirees and like
petty matters.
Speaker Jerry Rusk is unreason
'ib.e. O-aly two weeks of the legis
lative session wasted and he is al
ready scolding them for not getting
down ;o business.
Wanted
To the Citizens of Wallowa County'
It is our purpose to handle any business
entrusted to us in such a fair and liberal
manner as to maKe the customer's rela
tion with this banK satisfactory and
profitable. 1f Aside from our excellent
facilities, this bank has the advantage of
a large capital and substantial list of
stockholders. It is also a State Deposi
tory. If you are not a customer we
invite you to become one.
Stockgrowers and Farmers National Bank
Wallowa, Oregon
"-ilfWIV
Long Distance Service
over the telephone makes neighbors of your
friends miles away. Bad roads are now in
order. Use the service of the
Home Independent Telephone Co.
Long Distance service to all pointi in Union
and Wallowa Counties.
SafikttaeMKB
INFORMATION CONCERNING 8TH
GRADE FINAL EXAMINATIONS.
Sfate of Oregon, Department of Pub-
liclnstructlon, Saiem.
For Wallowa County.
L DATES:
Throe examinations annually. Bach
county superinilendeiiitt to select
momGhs for his county.
(a) January 19-20, 1911.
(b) May, 11-12, 1911,
(c) June 8-9, 1911.
(d) SspUmber 7-8, 191L
2. PROGRAM:
(a) Thursday phystology, Writ
ing, History and. Civil Govern
ment. (b) Fridays Grammar, Arithme
tic, Geography, and Spelling.
3. SOURCES OF QUESTIONS:
(a) Arithmetic Practical Artti
b and to the County Superinbein
metic Smith.
(b) Clvia Government United
States Constitution.
(c) Geography State Course of
Study; Red way and Hinnnan's Na
tural Gchool Geography.
(d) History List of Topics from
History Outline to Stoibo Coiir&e
of Study and Current Events.
(e) Grammar Buohlca-a Modern
English Grammar, no diagram
ming. (f) Physiology Graded Laesone to
Physiology and Hygiene Krohn.
(S) Reading The teacher will
dent the applicants c&aea standing
fei reading, which win be taken
by such superintendent as ch ap
pUcaot-s standing an the subject.
(h) Spe'Jln,; Reel's Word Les
sons. (I) Wrl iig Speeimcaa of penmm
euij as indica'jod in- copied mat
ter and from manuscript fan Lan
guage. -
Respectfully submitted,
3. H. ACKERMAN,
Supt, Public Instruction,
The first examination fox the year
J, D. Huston, the Seattle horse
buyer, has been here 10 days,
buying horses. He has pur
chased to date 30 some head.
He shipped one . car Tuesday,
and expects toship another car
soon, so if you have any good
Chunks from
1250 pounds
and up to sell, you will find him
at the White Front Barn in En
terprise. He wants horses fat
and good hair. He is in the
market for all the good market
able horses you have, and aims
to pay the
Highest Market Price
So if you hare such, call or
phone
SHB&l
will be held January) 19-20.
17c4 J. C. OONiLET, Supt.
FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS.
Are .tonic la action, quick In. re
sults. A special medlclnie for ail
kidney and -bladder disorders. Mary'
C. Abbott, Wolfeboro, N. H.. says:
"I was afflicted with a bad! case of
rheumatism, due to uric acid' that
my kidneys failed to clear out of my
blood, i was so lame in tny feet,
Joints, and back that it was agony
for me to step. I used Foley Kidney
P Ills for hree days when I was
able to get up and move about and
the pains were all gone. This great
change In. condition) I owe to Foley
Kidney Pilla and) recommend them to
iny one suffering as I have." Bur.
laugh & Mayfield.
Oregon shipped greea fruit, dur
ing the past season amounting to
3,500 cars;
ESCAPED WITH HIS LIFE.
"Twenty-on years ago I faced aa
iwful death," writes H. B. Martin.
Port Harrelson, S. C. "Doctors said
I had consumption, and the dreadful
ugh I had looked like it, sure
Mough. i tried everything I could
!iar of for my cough, and was under
the treatment of the best doctor) in
Georgetown, g. C. for a year, tout
could get no relief. A friend advised
to try Dr. King's New Discovery.
I did so, and was completely cured.
I feel that I owe my life to thia great
throat and lung cure." Ita poetttvoly
guaranteed for coughs, colds, and aU
bronchial affections. 60c and $1.00.
Trial bottle free as all druggist.
NOTICE I. hereby m that all aoppUettiona
i " . 7 ,r" 1 " be Bled in mr
. . , " Kraaic
ana Diana forma to be need in
makinc application will be furniahed noon n
TiVi HAH VET W. HARRIS. Saparrtar.