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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1919)
Devoted to the Interests of Southern Wasco County VOL 6, NO. 10 MAUPIN SOUTHERN WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 19,1919 THE YEAR $1.50 A HfifW c 0) mas No Roses Now Portland, Dec. 17. Dear Mrs. MorriBon : Enclosed please find my check foi $1.50 to pay for paper another year. We are here in Portland doing nothing and have lots of help as there are thousands out of work Bod the high cost of Hying is something frightful, and the end 13 not in sight. Potatoes are $-" per cwt. and the cold spell Iihh sent wood up to $ 10 50 per cord. All the water pipes are frozen and bursted. The plumber are hav ing their harvest, $1 75 per hour, and they don't Beern to he in a very big hurry at that. The mow lias piled up in the streets six feet deep in places and traflic vyi's at a standstill, but the gentle Chinoik wind and rain has started things going again. I suppose you people haye had BO,me winter up there. Well after all the Flat is not such a bad place to live. One, if he mirks, can make a good living, ami if he does not work he does not derve to live. I am looking forward this coming summer to a bumper on the Flat as there seems more i.f cooperation in ppii it. Well I haye written quite a letter. Yours very rcpectfully, W. B Keen. At the Churches SENT IN BY OUR The Wapinitia United Brelhern church makes the following an nouncements for Sunday, Decem ber 21st: Iiihle school, 10 a. tn. Preaching service 1 1 a. m. Sutijeet, "The Incarnation" Christian Endeavor (5:80. Preaching 7:30. Subject, The Second Coming of our Lord Everybody in this community is cordially invited to attend these services. J. I. Parker, Pastor.. It Pays to Pay Cash at Jory's" F. M. Jory When Goods in Need of - Our Prices Dependable Are Right GROCERIES FRESH VEGETABLES BLANKETS Gas Air-o-lite Lamps It Pays to Pay Cash' at Jory's" IF M ANNOUNCEMENT , We have opened a garage at Tygh Valley and will strive to give you real service at a reasonable price. Bring us one job and you'll be a booster MORROW (EL TUNISON Car, Truck, and Tractor overhauling' Oxy Acetylene Welding' Vulcanizing' and Retreading' Service Car at Your Call Wapinitia Items Late last Thursday evening Mr Dunk who has a homestead on W.ip'mitia bills, arrived here, hay ing been all clay coming a dis tance of eight or nine miles. The snow was about four feet deep on the 1 1 i 1 f and a cold wind drifting thesnov. lie came for helf to get his f'Uiily as they were about out of wool. Friday morning, he with J"e O'Brien, Ora Mayn nnl, Ed Iter mrd, Clyde Flinn and Mr. Slautm:, each withsonio extra horses, Mm lul for the homes'ead and arrived l Inn e about 5 o'clock. The bam being about 3-4 of a milt; from the house ihey all went to help care for lle horses. By this time the it wits a regular blizzard and three of the party wandered five hours before reaching the house and the other three would not attempt, staying in the barn all night without any lire, very little bedding and nothing to eat. Ed Bernard froze one of his feet and came nearly freezing to death as they could hardly keep him awake, Saturday morning idey 'put the family consisting of M- Doak and G-month-old baby and two small children on horses ami started, but none of them expected to reach here as the drifts were ten feet deep in places and mer cury. r0 below zero. They reached an Indian camp about b p.m. where they went in and warmed up and arrived here about f) o'clock. Mr. Stanton suffered a frozen ear, Clyde Flinn a finger and some toes. The baby and little girl were each frozen some but all arc doing fine now. The past cold spell has been the worst in this country for 31 years s the old timers say. Tempera ture was 34 below zero Thursday morning and played around S50 several nights and only above 1 until Tuesday, when it greatly moderated and some rain fell. Many oj the birds died. Owls and ducks have been found frozen to death. It is expected ' all the 'China pheasants will die as they cannot stand the snow. George Osborne and family have been on the sick list the past week Dtvid Snarpe has been suffering tho past week with a spell of neu ralgia. School was resumed Monday, the roads being opened. Mrs. Maud Wall has been quite sick the past few days,. Our teleph ne connection with central suddenly stopped Thurs day evening and only remedied today, Thursday. I Joe Graham bought the Mayn- ard property at Wapinitia, $45,000, Walter Sharp bought the Shields ( place of D(e Woodside, 30 acres' for $1500. J. M. O'Brien lost one of his best work horses this morning. j Dee Woodside will butcher 15 fat hogs Friday. j Lu Kelly brought up today 1500 pounds of delayed mail. Mr. SOLID FACTS SOBJECf NO. 6 Potato Culture lo I i v weak plant is allowed I finm the " pecinlh' a 'Veleei' is chosen fur the lit xl si ed and the i-pacta Is in lie H 11 Say Mr. Farmer, did you ever see a 5 acre patch of potatoes on Wapinitia Plains? Would you be surprised to see a 40 acre tract of the good old Irish standby just over your line in your neighbor's Held say next ye'ar or in two or three seasons hence? What about the potato, is it a standby, does it pay? If it did not pay you last year or in past seasons, did you "Toss up tho sponge'' and say spuds can't be grown on Wapini tia Plains. What about your seed spuds. Did ou first pick out your table potatoes, then piik out some for the hogs and w hn,l were left use for seed, or djd voii use the stine good judgement in seed selection that you did in selecting and ecreening, fanning and vilroling your wheat seed? Now be fair, my friend, don't tack your indifference or your careless ness on to the potato and say "It can't he done." Listen to what experience has developed where men of sound, mature judgment are 'nuking good raising "spuds" for the world markets. Just be cause a potato can ne grow n w ith nut care or thought in a sort nf ''iialf return for time and seed sp nl way'' is no reason to think Lit it t no better way exists. Unlike wheal seed, potatoes do not want a firm seed bed. They grow rnpidly and demand expan pansion space, which i.s best, obtained in mellow, deep soil, where moisture content is uniform throughout the growing .season. Irrigation, divided into two or perhaps three waterings incurs the proper moisture element. Po tatoes are of a high percentage of water, and do best where soil i muist and warm. Space forbids me lo explain details hi seed se lection, but bold fust to this truth "Like begets like." Choose the type oi seed from tlie lot of vour crop or from what voii buy a near in conformity with the com mercial potato type is you can That is do not select seed less than 3 ounces per tuber and ex pect pound spuds to predominate in your crop. Many and exhaus tive have been the tests along this hue and it has been absolutely found that careful seed selection year after year raises the crop yield and crop type also to from 50 to "200 percent and that men who are leaders in spud culture not only select seed of good type but grow special plots wherein no and ' lot lied d bed go as seed for Hie gei eral lie'd crop. You may say this seems overdrawn, but how about (he "Grand Sire" of your choice herd of Pole-augus entile, is not this the tried and true rule. Why not do likewise with ihe potato? Then it is a fact that fully or oyer mature seod potatoes do not pro duce the bumper 'crops. Nitther immature seed, only slightly so : However, insure more vigor and harder yields. If your 'Irain or variety luck vigor it is advi able to get new seed I'n in dill'erent locality. Rotation aids in keeping out potato blight or other disease. A good size seed potato is from Hotlines to 12 -ounces. A story j too long to herein print might be iviilten on the question of treating seed, and cutting sesd, etc. Don't cut seed in field and plant it, few minutes later ns the open pores may bleed out the strength. io . (to lust page) Home Burns The farm home of John and Arthur Dyer six miles Fouthenst of Mniipin was destroyed by tire Friday afternoon. The fire is supposed to l.av started from an over heated stove in John Dyer's part of the house while he was at i he barn. The home was com fortably furnished and provisioned for the winter, the entire being a total loss without insurance, ex. cept an amifull of bedding which Ji in Rusick who was there dress ing a mutton, saved. Mrs. Dyer and the children are staying for I he present at the home of Geo. Shively until conditions permit of rebuilding. Davidson Bread at E. A. CyrV, Postmaster Turnor has put re placed Ihe broken g'a.in the olliee lobby will) new, making the place much more comfortable. Buy jour Xnus Candy Crac'..er Jack at E. A. Cyi's. and Dr. H. C. Dak DENTIST ires lOTpiiini NOTICE TO PATIENTS: Will be absent from from Dec. 13th, to Dec 23rd, inclusive mi office The Window of the Soul - THE EYE Most precious gift to Man; As the busy years of life go by, Preserve it whihi you can. HERBERT W. COPELAND, Principal of Maupin School, also graduate and licensed OPTOMETRIST treats cases cf hypermelropia, presbyopia, rryepia, and astigmatism with properly fitted glasses. See him on Saturdays or evenings, net at any time that will interfere with school duties. MOKKOW MILLING COMPANV" Hepner, Oregon, May 1!3, 1913. To whom i! may concern: During- ihe past year Dr. Heibert W. Copeland, Eyesight Specialist, has bitted live pairs of glasses for myself and family, and all 'have given entire satisfaction. Dr Copeland is s. .ilful, careful, and reliable, and I take pleasure in recommending hitu to any one needing the services of an eyesight specialist. L. H. Bnggs. ' f X BAUMGARTNER 11 LAWYER Mmplm iregomi SOME OF THE THINGS THAI wc. CAN DO FOR YOi DO YOUR NOTARY WORK, SELL 'YOUR FARM FOK tuu, RENT YOU A SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX, BUY YOUR WHEAT, PARLEY AND OATS, TAKE CARE OF YOUR BANKING BUSINESS. DO YOUR UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER WORK. CIVE US A TRIAL. WE CAN AND WILL MAKE GOOD MAUPIN STATE BANK M, Roberts has been making the trij TTTTTTTTTnT (to lust pag?;