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JnlL MAUJr Devoted to the Interests of Southern Wasco County VOL 2, NO. 18 MAUPIN. SOUTHERN WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 1 1, 1916 THE YEAR $1.50 J1MJL5 SENT IN BY OUR Wapinitia The welcome chinook struck here Sunday night, and the four feet of snow which covered the ground is fast diminishing, there being now about 18 inches which is full of water. The creeks are rapidly rising. Clyde Flinn experienced a cold bath Tuesday while going from his home to W. R. Maynards, crossing the creek with a team arid hack. The horses became entangled in rhe ice and he had to climb out into the water, which was about three feet deep, and Unhitch the horses and leave the the hack standing in the creek. Our stage man is experiencing considerable difficulty in getting in with the stage on account of the bad condition of the roads, it being after dark when he reached here Monday. Rev. M..H., Staines was given a surprise at his home here Tues day by his wife preparing a sumptuous dinner for him and his 11th grade pupils, the occa sion being his birthday. Those present were Messers Harold Gabel, Robert and Vincent Tapp and Clyde Flinn and Misses Rova Huston, Ruby Wilson, Winnie Tapp and Ivy Flinn. All join in wishing Mr. Staines many more Buch happv birthdays. David W. Sharpe who is attend ing the Holt Caterpillar school at Spokane Wn., is very enthusias tic over his. course of instruction. He writes "the instruction is very broad in scope considering Me limited time allotted, and yet the various experts and profess ors are surprisingly thorough, making every detail of their par ticular clear and plain. This is especially so in Caterpillar field repair, and operation department, In the motor adjustment division, and in the magneto or ignition tlasst There are also lectures by Various oil experts." Mrs. thil Mott is very sick at present, pneumonia, and has been the greater part of last week. Dr. Dodds of Duftir was called Slide on 0. T. Road Monday evening a mistaken or der was received, ordering the local Oregon Trunk section men down to Sherar to clear the track of a landslide. Ou their return from there they encountered a small slide on the track, having fallen since they had passed, which nearly wrecked their hand car. They cleared it away and coming home found that they were wanted six miles above Maupin to assist the Frieda crew to remove a landslide from the track, which kept the two crews bard at work for ten hours before it was sufficiently clear to allow the trains to pass. SNOW MELTS RAPIDLY BAKEOVEN CREEK VERY HIGH Bridges Spanning It Wrecked Deschutes Flooding Island Above Steel Bridge Is to see her last week. Calvin McCorkle has purchas ed the Geo. Magill farm east of here, consisting of 240 acres. Even the deep snow and the storms cannot stop the social gatherings here for most of Wapinitia was out Friday night to a dance given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E, L. Nelson. Miss Maude Paquett was able to resume her studies again Tues day morning, after an absence from school of three weeks on account of lagrippe. A social time was enjoyed at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Staines last Friday night. The evening was spent in playing parlor games, mating tjanay ana pop ing corn, i Mrs. Osel Brunner is on the sick list this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peterson have been real sick with tha la grippe, but are reported better at present. Mr. Peterson ;rwas able to be out Tuesday for the first time in three Weeks. Jim Hartman went up to his homestead pn Tick Ridge the first part of last week, and while there the big snow came ancJie. was unable to get home until last Sunday Miss Lois Batty went over to Phil Mott's last Friday to assist in caring for Mrs. Mott who is still quite sick. Mr. and Mrs. Volley Endersby who have been living the past win ter with Volley's father, U. S. Endersby, had the misfortune on coming home to do his chores the first of the week, of. finding that one of his straw stacks had blown Yesterday afternoon the railroad bridge at tlie mouth of Baktoven creek was the scene of con siderable watchful interest. This stream lias swolen to a mighty torrent, carrying logs and underbrush and moving rocks with its muddy cur rent. The water is over the wagon bridge which may yet go out, and if it does will probably carry the piers from heneath the railroad bridge, as the earth has already washed from under them leaving them suspended from the stringers and rails. The current has washed the fill nearly all away from the southwest approach .of the bridge. Fear is entertained that the freight cars on the sidetrack below the. warehouse may be carried, away or damaged One of them is loaded with hay for T. A. Connolly. Nine or ten cords of wood belonging to the Turn- AI,um Company were washed away and something like five hundred posts were floating against the store houses of that company. The Deschutes is the highest it has been for a number of years. Chouinard's island is bidding fair to become covered as it was one time six years ago, After considerable downpour of rain last ulght , conditions are not expected to improve very soon, Traffic on the O. W. R. & N. will necessarily be suspended for a number of days. Some washouts are holding a train between Maupin and Mc Lenuon's. A slide some place between here and Bend is holding an O. T. train on that end of the Hue. while another makes the trip between the slide and Fallbridge and transfers passengers, mail and express. over on 10 head of his cattle, smothering them Dee Wright and E. A. Hart- man have sent to The Dalles af ter a carload of hay to be shipped to Maupin. ' W. R. Maynard made a trip to Maupin Tuesday taking a load of dressed hogs and shipped them to Portland. . ' r FISCHER'S GARAGE . Auto Passenger Service Auto delivery truck Prepared for Long Trips or Outing Parties A Complete Line Of Automobile Accessories MAUPIN. OREGON What New Buildings Do You Need This Year? a hew Chicken House? - a new Granary? : a Machine Shed? A new House r A new Batn? A Silo? A new Hog House? ' If you Want and need due or more bl these improvements you Should be petting your plans for therri shaped lip now and Tum-A-Luni Manning Service Vill help you not only in planning each building but In locating it o the best advantage in relation to your otheV. buildings. A Farm Plan i a gdod thing tb have id mind ' and on paper we will help you prepare one U you wish. Thes6 Are Planning Days There's no bthfcr thne dt the year when you can do it so well. You can tid it id the best Advantage at this office. No exta cost. jse 'us soon and bfien. ''See PETER KILBURO about it" Tum-A- Lcm Lumber Company (to late for last week) David Sharp left here last Saturday for Spokane, Wash., where he will attend the Cater pillar school. - Miss Nellie Harphan came up from Maupin last Sunday to visit with her sister, Mrs. May Barzee of this place, returning to her home Tuesday. Mr. W- J- ratt wno na8 been visiting with his daughter, Mrs. G. E. Wood of thi3 place, left here last week for his home in Salem. P. J. Olsen made a trip to MaUpin last Sunday to meet and consult with the County Commis sioner who arrived at that place Sunday. N. W. Flinn made a trip to The Dalles last Saturdayi return ing Sunday. He went to receive medical treatment for his limb. Miss Ruby Wilson is visiting at the home of Miss Lois Batty this week Chas Delore and family why have been staying at the home of John Ward and also "been vis- itinlr with Mrs. Delore's sister, Mrs. Francis Walters returned to their home Sunday. Will and Ora Maynard butch ered 12 tine hogs Monday. A. F. Evick has been engaged the past week taking an invoice bf the stock of 'gtods at his store here. ' Mrs. Ollie Wei erg who has been receiving treatment at The Dallas hosp! tal' for the feast few Weeks, is expected home soon. Al Daniels who has been vis iting friends and relatives at Ranier and The Dalles, returned to this place last week fend is stopping at the home of W. R Maynard until the storm is over Repbrt comes to us that Will Shields formerly of this place was married at Silverton last week. Misa Winnie Tapp and Sidney Wilson were guests at the Ben Oabel home this week. Sidney Wilson who has been employed at the power plant at White River, returned to his home here Saturday. A dance and a social time was had at the home of L D Woodside last Friday night- About 51 were present. Everyone who at tended report a fine time. Grover C. Wilson, formerly of this place, and Miss Anna May Appling were united in marriage at Portland, the latter part of last week. Mrs. A. Batty and Miss Lois who have been visiting at tha home ranch the past two weeks, returned to this place last week. Mrs. Chas. Delore still contin ues to be quite sick. Mr. Jamie ' Abbott returned home , last .week from Portland where he has beehgoing to school. x t Mrs. Phil Mott is on the sick list this week. We know of no one who will appreciate the storm breaking up as Earl Barzee, as the water pipes are all frozen and he ha3 to carry water from a near-by neighbors to furnish water for his hotel, Doubtless it must have been a false prophet who prophised that last Weeks Storm was the last of the season, for. it seems that old king winter had just given us a foretaste of what was to come, for we have now the worst snow storm yet. Sun day dawned bright and clear and it looked as if the Chinook would strike, but instead the snow commenced coming down and has continued most of the time since then and is now about 3b nches deep without any pros pects of a Chinook The feed shortage has almost become alarming. It is reported that horses and cattle are dying by the hundreds on the Indian res ervation as there wasn't much feed put up for them in the fall, and it is also said that a thousand head of stock Over in the Eagle creek country are without feed Courfefct With the snow lying S feet deep and still coming down and the mercury dangerously near the eerrj mark, and your neigh bor out of wood ftnd your own supply so short that you feel you dare not share any, and you hitch up your team and spend a day trying to get some for him that is real courage. The Way You See It It is astonishing to what an ex tent the traiued habits of a lifetime dominate the mind and will make their appearance at most unexpect ed occasions. An old printer had heard one of his companions speak very en thusiastically of a certain book and author, and was anxious to borrow the. same from its enthusiastic owner who had been lauding it highly. Upon its return to the owner he was asked how he liked thebeok. His reply was ''Well, Bill, if that book had been set in small pica leaded it would have been much better." WamicNo. 1 Criterion Chronicles Just a few facts concerning winter in our gection: First snow fell on November 8th Continuous rain or snow since with the exception of about 20 days of nice weather. Have had 6 feet of snow in aggregate up to the present and 8 feet on the level at one time. Temperatu has been to 12 below zero with young blizzards in evidence at different times. Very few people are complain ing of the rigorous winter weather just passed and we are now listening to the soughing of Chinook wind which is fast melting the snow and making us think of spring time with its at tendant pleasures, singing birds, early gardening, etc. Attendance at school has been Very irregular for several weeks, owing to - hard travel and cold weather, the young scholars generally remaining at home. ' Maupinites who have been short of fuel and have been burning cedar fence posts at 15 cents pen as per report, should realize the sympathy from thiB quarter regarding that state of affairs. For several weeks past the "short' 'ones here have brav ed snow drifts from two to six feet deep and after several hours hard work for matt and beast, returning with fuel enough to last perhaps two days. The Winfrees left last Monday for Maupin, returning Saturday with a small cargo of feed. Loco DeCamp started Thurs day for Maupin and after wandering in a heavy fog for nearly three hours, found him self at Hurst's a distance of only 2 miles on his journey which he finished the next day. Pv J. Kirsch wertt to The Dalles, being a witness before the grand jury in a stock case. H. M. Green delivered some pork to hungry Maupinites on Tuesday. ' Ueve Mathews with an in povished snow plow, opened up the road from his farm to Mau pin last Thursday. This, "plan could be profitably fopd otners aiong me line- r Mail Carrier Millcrienjoying the ''strenuous fifeTthese davs. On the return trip last Tuesday darkness overtook him in a blinding Bhow storm and being unable to see the road he wander ed around for two hours entirely lost until coming to a fence for the second time, which he recog nized. He arrived that night at 12:30 having been 9 hours on the return trip. Don't pick up worries and troubles, you can get then! any where along the roadway of life. (too late for last week) A very peculiar dust storm swept this place last Thursday. A heavy snow fall preceded the dust storm which made its ap pearence about half past four in the afternoon. The east and southeastern Bky and horizon during the storm, presented a peculiar- glow, casting a brassy color over the fallen snow; This state of the storm continued till nightfall. The snow was cover ed thickly with a fine dust. This place has experienced another cold wave, the tempera ture falling to as low as 6 degrees below zero on the night of the 29th. About 20 inches snow has fall en during the past week, about 8 inches having fallen Sunday and last night: , Sleighs are dashing in every direction, their occupants sure enjoying the good sleighing. , In the contest for the watch offered by Jim 'Lake last week) Percy Driver held the winning number. V. ' Miss CrysUrPrte,VwhoHs teaching at the Oak Grove dis trict on Juniper Flat, phoned to her mother here Saturday, that she had some very rough travel ing through the snow on her way to school, the snow drifting by A iFew Reports Grover Sluslier's valuable horse that has been very sick is reported as being much improved at this writing. 4 Dolph Moad's valuable milch cow Brownie has been very ill this week, and is supposed to have beeu either poisoned or iujure'd in some way. Tom Muir brought his saddle poiiy in from pasture Monday, having found that he had been left to his own resources of rustling' grass under the snow. 1 G, L. Harpahu's handsome jack, -Early Riser, is getting' his voice . in a serious condition from over strain of his vocal organs', A favorite dog of Al Philamlee's' is suffering from an almost ainputa tion ol a front foot, having caught it in a No. 4 coyote trap. , , Rover, the handsome shephard ; " dog, who if convenience would permit, grace the Times office fire-' side with becoming dignity, is suffering from the effects of having' his foot caught In a tiap set for ' coyotes. Mrs. McMilliau, who .is caring for him, says he will recover' ' with due attention. .'.'' ; the sweeping winds that are pre valent on Juniper Flat, and she; having about half a mile to go to her boarding place, encounters some very deep snow. S . A card from Claud Ferguson of Toppinish to relatives here, announced the rapid recovery of Mrs. Ferguson who has an at tack of scarlet fever. H. F. Woodcock returned to The Dalles.after spending a week at the home of his son, J- H. Woodcock. Ralph Buzauatue in Monday for medicine, for Roy Crabtree who is quite sick, PAY AT County Depository NO CHARGES Bring Your Tax Statement WITH YOU 444444444444444444444 4 If in Need of a 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Range ). M. Conklin returned Portland Monday evening. Jee Us Before Buying ?f5Ve have bought twelve of these tine Ranges at Reduced figures and will offer them to the trade WHILE THEY LAST at VERY LOW PRICES vSHATTUCR BROS. General Merchandise from 6 0 6 0 O O O O O t o O 4 O O O s o o o o o o 0444 4444444444444444444 40