MAUPIN
Devoted to the Interests of Southern Wasco County
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VOL. 1, NO. 47
MAUPIN, SOUTHERN WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1915
THE YEAR $1.50
Wapinitia Department
Pechette and "Pierce
Wedding
Oue of the unique evetits of the
season was the wedding of Miss
Blanch Pechette and Mr. Frank
Pierce. They were married at 3
p. m, last Sunday on the summit
of Mt. Hood, Rev. Geo. IS. Wood
oCciatiug. Mrs. Wood attended
the bride, while Chester Pechette,
brother of the bride was beat man.
This is the tirst time that a wed
ding has been solemnized on Mt.
Hood and it created quite a sen
sation. The many friends of Mr.
and Mrs. Pierce wish them a long
and happy lite.
Wapinitia Items
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Woodside
inade a business trip to . Maupiu
Monday.
Messers Clinton Knopf and Jess
Cox startep for the Willamette
Valley Monday. They will work
diuing the fruit harvest.
Mrs. E. t. Nelson's friend, Mrs.
Oscar Johnson came out from The
Dalles last Saturday to attend the
funeral of little Harry who was
v,,-;,i c,1n nftpmoon at the
Uliuviij
Kelly cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Clias. Cox made a
trip to Maupin Monday.
MissCelia Flinn has had some
kind of a swelling on her fiinger
the past week but is better now.
I.lr. and Mrs. L. D. Woodside
made a trip to The Dalles Wed
nesday in their car. bringing out
with them a new Studebaker car.
A A. Amen began building on
J'llius Shipley's new house last
Mnndav.
T. E. Morgensen of Tyg;h VaU
lev brought a load of peacUes
'erratics, tomatoes and ground ch:r-
ries to Wapinitia last Wednesday.
Milt McClure is on the sick list
this week.
Sidney and tem Wilson, Rob
'ert and Binkie Tapp started to the
inonntains last Sunday to fight the
Henry Nelson Passes
Away
The little two and one-half year
old sou of Mr. and Mrs, E. L
Nelson passed away last Saturday
moraine at 1 o'clock. He was
sick about a week with complicat
ed bowel trouble and later it ran
into brain fever,
The funeral was preached at the
Nelson residence at J. 30 p. m. last
Sunday, by ReV. Ellis of Maupm.
A large concourse of relatives and
friends followed the remains to the
Kellv cemeterv where it was laid
to rest.
The many neighbors and friends
of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson extend their
heart felt sympathy Little Hen
ry, with his sunny disposition will
be missed by all.
AUTO WRECKED
LAST. NIGHT
U. A, Moad and D. M. Sliat-
tuck started for Welches Camp the
fore part of the week, but owing
to trouble with the machine neces
sitating repairs, they had to stop
fat the Suimnithou.se and call for
Mr. Fischer's assistance, and were
uutil last night getting home. In
an interview this morning we are
informed of the complete wreck of
Mr. Moad's car last night just
above J. W. Ward's who brought
them in lust night. It seems that
in coming to level open country,
they put un higher .sliced than
they realized until the machine
went oyer and they picked them
selves tip some distance from it.
D. M- has his head bandaged,
and Dolph says he can l ell more
about his hurts when his air
iconics in.
great forest fire which still contin
ties to burn.
Amonc those hauling graiu to
the Maupin warehouse this week
are James Harphan, Monore Mc
Comber and Lewis Walters.
A. l' Evick brought a load of
dry goods up from Maupin last
Wednesday.
Willie Cray, brother of James
riroii r,f this nlace. came down
from the mountains last Monday
His home is near Friend.
Clyde Flinnt instead of "making
while the sun shines," is haul-
ing hay.
Revs. Staines and family and
Geo. Wood and wife returned from
the mountains Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs. Jake Davidson
started last week for the beach, to
be Roue indefinitely.
ChaS. Walter and fa:nH.Y started
across the mountains last Thurs
day t? be gone three or fshr days,
Mvand Mrs. E, jU. waon ex-
tpmV-the r thanks to uie mauy
friends who so kindly assisted them
during the illness And death of
their little son Henry.
Dr. Shannon reports that Mr.
N W. Flinn is on of the happiest
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men in The Dalles Hospital, as he
is now able to wheel himself around
in a wheel chair.
Miss Faye Driver is on the sick
list this week.
MrSi Nell Harvey and daughter
of near Wamic were visiting her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Driv
er last week;
G. G. Magill came over from
Wamic last Friday tc collect his
threshing bills, Floyd Eubanks
bringing him over in his card.
Jim Madron and Mack Holla
man came home from the moun
tains the first part of the vveel
leBving their families in there.
There will be a dance in tin
new school house which was com
pleted last week, next Friday
night: Everybody invited.
Peter Olseu ,ahd family retuniod
home from tlie mountains lust Mon
day. They report a line time and
lots of berries.
N. W. Flinn, Who has been con
fined in The Dalles Hospital since
the fjth of June, wishes to thank
the owners and hands on the Ma
gill tlnd Gillis threshing machine
and all the neighbors who so kind
ly gave their services in threshing
his crop. Such kindness is deeply
A Playground
. (Conlributed)
Plenty of room for dives and dens
(flutter and crlar of sin)
Plenty of room for prison pens,
(Gather the cnmnals in; ;
Plenty of room for jails and courts
(Willing enough to pay),
But never a place for the boys to
race,
Never a place to play.
Plenty of room for schools and
halls,
fi-entv of room for art,
'lenty froom for teas and balls,
Platform, stage and mart.
'roud is thcity ; she finds a place
For many a fad to clay
But she is more than blind if she
fails to find ' '
A place for her youth to play.
lenty of room for shops and
stores,
Mammon must have the best),
Plenty of room for running sores
That rot in the city's breast.
Plenty of room for lures that lead
The heart of youth astray,
But never a cent on a playground
spent
No, never a place to play.
Give them a chance for innocent
sport;
Give them a chance for fun;
Better a playground plot than a
court
And a jail when the harm is done.
Give them a chance; if you stint
.them now,
Tomorrow you will have to pay
A larger bill for a darker ill,
So give them a place to play.
appreciated, and he hopes 10 be
ible in some way in the near hi
ture to repay each one.
John and Van Moad returned
horni fimi the scene ot the lor
est fires Saturday night, Van
having been sick all the time
while there. The boys say the
tire is very large and was by
no means under under control.
Mrs. A. C. ' Moad returned to
Duhir Monday evening to assist
her sister, Mrs. Me'.l Sigmond,
whose "children are sick with jaun
dice, Mr. Sigmoiid coming 'for her
witkTiis car.
The Hunts Ferry warehouse, a
covered structure over two or
dinary stories in heighth with t
floor space of 60x100 feet and ar
adioininsr high walled platforn
of the same dimentions, also i
new one across the track 40x1 0(
feet, already appears to have itf
capacity nearly exhausted with
the 300(30 sacks of grain whicl
are now in storage.
The highest number of sack?
of grain received in one day uj
to Wednesday was 2U65. Wed
nesday's receipts showed 192'
jacks. Thirty or forty thous
and'more sacks are expected fc
come in
Receipts have been issued th
last two weeks to the following
persons not included in our pre
vious lists of names;
Mrs. G. A. Ward,
R. B. Driver,
E. M. Confer,
Mrs. C. Weberg,
J. M. McCorkle,
Emil Merta,
F- M. Walters,
A. F. Evick,
1, E. Walters,
W. I. Driver,
I. N Grab tree,
Johny Karlen,
Bleakney Bros ,
R. J. Muir,
J. 1. Wast:
J. Shipilin,
J. 0. Chastai'ti,
F. A. Morrovv,
J Jlamm'er,
R. I. Davidson,
R. W. Meyer,'
W. II. McAtee,
H. H. Harphn,
Frank Batty;' '' ';
P. H. Mott,
' Slusher Bros ,
Isaac Mckinley, ,
Sam Brown,
Joe Gray,
G. C Alleru
J, W. Ward,,
Claude Wilson,
C. G. Sksasberg
L. K. Kelly,.
Sarah P. Henderson,
Grist of Local Items
Kilkd Large Mountain
Lion
In a letter dated August 30,
vrittin to W. H. Stacts by his
irother Jack Staats who is pack-
ng for W. E. Hunt's sheep
amps near Detroit in Southern
Oregon, he said Mr. Barnes and
his partner had stopped with
hem a few days. Jack told of
tilling his first mountain lion,
vhich was a monster and had
killed four sheep before he got
t, iind said to tell all hunters
vho want veal game to come in
lis section.
Mr. and Mrs. Shattuck
Home
Mr. and Mrs. Bates Shattuck
returned Sunday evening after a
fortnight's tour of other parts of
Oregon, having visited Bend,
Sisters, and crossed the Cascades
over the McKinzie Pass to Eugene,-
viewing. Conallk the
coast at Newport and Vacosnf.
interest on the road, returning
horn" by way of S.i.lem, Port
land, and over the Olumbuv
scenic highway, having er.j .um
a most interesting and inspirit
trip. ;
Mrs. F. M. Fowler and Jay
Fowler made the round trip here
rom Wamic over the new White
Ivor roan Monday aiternoon,
irii.ging a lot of delicious sweet
iorn. l ney limes manager was
)reented with some which was
ert airily fine. Mr. Fowler who
vas hurt last week, is getting
dong very well.
Mrs. D. M. Shattuck, in her
bse ice at Welches Camp thi.
summer, has sacrificed a treat to
the other ladies of Maupin. Mr
Shattuck has been having some
ine tomatoes and cucumbers out
f his own frnrden on diplay and
iale
(J. II. Crofoot and Lester hnv
een hauling wheat for F. S.
hemming.
H. M. Green,
L. E. Bentley,
Fen Batty, .
Geo. Magill,
Parish Fleming, ,
' E. H. Taylor,
D. B. Appling,
Ira Grisham,
J. S. Brown,
G. W. Mallati,
Victor Suppah, I
Tommy Payfettev
Frank Gable, .
U. S. Mail Insurance
The following instructions ef
f'ective September 1st, were re
ceived at the local postoffice this
week: . .
Fourth class mail matter .shall
not bo registered, buVna.v b..
insured against loss in 1 awunt .
equivalant to it.ct'inl a.U.f',
but not to exceed5 h nny '
case, on payment ot. ajm ,.
cents; not to exceed" SiS.'te'i i
on payment of a fee df. ti cent;
not to exceed $50 on pynifct...
a fee of 10 cents; or not to .ex
ceed $100 on payment of. a fee of
25 cents, in addition to the post
age, both 'to be prepaid by
stamps affixed: but indemnity
will not be tdioved in r ises of
loss of such mail addressed to
the Philippine Islands, unless the
loss occurred in the postal ser
vice of the United States. '
The following indemnity will
be paid for loss of insured pats
eels mailed on n ' sftfr.
ber 1, 1915. s
Covered by ar3 c
up to $3; 5 cent M' "J- y
cent fee to oU;
$100. . .
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1 Has opened his blacksmith shop in Maupin and is now 'pre
$ pared to do all kinds of J
1 shoeing and Genera!
1 Rebairina
I All work done neatly and promptly j
1 at a reasonable price
i
X fair Bhare of the patronage is solicited
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FISCHER'S GARAGE
Auto Passenger Service Auto Delivery Truck
Prepared for Long Trips or Outing Parties
A Complete Line of Automobile Accessories
MAUPIN, OREGON
Cement and Lime
All Rinds of Build
ing Materials
What
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with investing some of this1 year's surplus in a good home
of your own, built just to suit your taste? . .
Nothing is nicer or. a better investment- , . t ' .
By means of our plan books, prospective home build
ers are able to get an idea as to the cost of a home, de
signed exuetly as they wan to have ij. .
It will cost less than you think at the home of
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