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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1928)
TIIK MA WIN TIMES' U: Personalities :- Ming Sena PctorHon, county hculth nurse was in Maupin uit Tuesday.. Cecil ChuMtnln and wife took in the Tygh Valley dunce Inst Rukunuy night. o ' Hurry T. Lewis braved tho hard roads and cnmo in from Wnplnlfcln Monday, t Earl Crabtres wa registered at t tht Bunk hotel at- The Dalles lunt Suturduy. ' , Among others who attended the dunce' ui Tygh last Saturday night were IIitrve'lMorrlH and wife. Minn Marjorie Tillotson visited at , The Dalles lunt Saturday, returning to Maupin stage. on Sunday evening'! Charley Kramer went " to The Dalles on Monday to take treatment for a cae of incipient paralysis of hli left hand. George Miller waa in town on Tuesday, coming from Tygh Valley for the purpose of having Dr. Short fix up his molars. Earl Scott of Dufur whlled away a few hours in Maupin last Friday and incidentally taught some Mau plnltrs the "inside" of penuchle. Floyd WcLeod straddled his faith ful cayuse on Tuesday and made one of his periodical vlslta to Maupin. Floyd lives in the Criterion district. J. S. Brown and wife were shop ping in Maupin on Monday. They re port the roads as becoming better and therefore making travel easle?. Among Maupin people registered at the Bank hotel in The Dalles Inst week end waa Mrs. J. C. Pratt, who was in the county seat on Sunday. EAST MAUPIN NEWS Bob Bell ,1s superintending tho placing of a new roof on the 0. W. depot. Mrs. L. D. Kelly visited at the Tony Connolly ranch Saturday and Sunday. Jim Runic has become n 'tare,' lie Id at work as a regular on tho 0. W, wction, Duve Donaldson hu 'about con cluded that trapping is no good, so Ih tuklng up his traps, set up river. Jerome Buzun of Ncwburg wan at the Hotel Kelly Inst week, huving come hero to attend the funeral of his daughter, Mr. A.' T. Llndlcy. . o John Fltzputrick was down from the huge snowdrifts around Nenu Sunday and Monday. He found good accommodations at Hotel Kelly, Mrs. 0. J. Williams received word from Walluce, Iduho, the first xif the wick, telling of tho death of her uncle, Wm. Orr, who wa cremated when his cabin burned at Murray, that state. Deceased was Mrs. Clarke Richardson's brother. Attended Tygh Dance. George Tillotson and wife, Mrs. Jean Wray, Mrs. Maud Joynt and Vcrla Lewis made up a party which attended the dance at Odd Fellows hull at Tygh Valley last Saturday night. OREGON NEWS NOTES Gal Ice Rebuilding the wrecked Rogue River bridge will cost Id,. 830. Marshfield Lout grading dono on Roosevelt highway, south of Win thester Bay. During 1927, Oregon graded 79.4 miles, macadamized 139.3 miles, re-, surfaced 60.3 miles, and widened 33.7 jniles of state highway. 1 ' . Oregon state banks had $310,664, 231 deposits, October 10. Curry county pays $26 bounty on every coyote scalp taken In county. Astoria -Eastern capital may locate here with new paper mill. Transcontinental lines promise 68 hour service to Chicago," May I. Corvallis State college start furm mechanics winter course. "Seaside Signal" is bought by C. S. and Harry Beall and Max Scha fer. Oregon City Auditorium of the West Linn school, seating 1,000 js ready for use. Baker R. G. Amidon Co., mining corporation, orgunized with $50,000 capital. l'mdleton Woolen Mills plant has CO machines on overdue garment orders, ' Dayton Ernest Douglas raises 600 bushels of corn on 9 acres at Grand Island. Crane Eastern Oregon Live Stock Co. erects 22 buildings at Krenchglen. Ooo "OOOO 0 00000OO000 00 O a PICKED Ur ABOUT TOWN o Oooooooooooooooooooo cr John Confer is posing as a weath er prophet. Tuesday morning's red nunrise cauncd John to prognosticate more winter, making his prophecy on wcathir prevailing here in past years. At any rate the most of the 'people residing in Maupin would be pleased to ace the snow go off and the bare hills appear again. It's fixed we mean the local road truck. The vehicle gave up on the Criterion grade shortly after the fall of snow covered that highway and when Jess Temple attempted to use it to scrape off snow refused to do its duty. New parts were sent for and as soon as they arrived were installed and the truck placed in operation. The state is losing money every time that old 'junk heap takes to the road. - A new truck would caune Mose Addington to rejoice and at the same time do more and better work. Dr. Elwood wonders at the incon sistency of some people. Last Sat urday night ho was enjoying a .social game of cribbage with "Dad" Rich mond when the call came in sum moning him to the East side. He answered the cull in time to offici ate at the birth of a baby girl, but he wonders how the game would J have terminated if the call had been delayed a few minutes. " , x Mm II. F. Bothwcll still retains her prestige as teacher of music. She is teaching a large .number of young people, having a class num bering 25 enolled. Her class of pu pils learning the fundamentals of piano playing is a large one and her advanced pupils are showing great proficiency in the art x ' '4- Frank Dyer aways keeps his word. Just before he departed on his recent visit to the coast he held a confab with his hens, promising that If they did not pep up and show an Increase In egg production something would happen to them. When he canie home he discovered a slump in, the egg bucket, so took 20 of his feath ered pets to the meat markist -just to make his word good. , x George Tillotson has fooled a great mtfny people during the past two weeks. He "run a hwt year's model Ford on the horses in his show room, and quite a number have ex amined the car, thinking it waif one of the new models. Tho local Legion jiost is consider ing staging a. smoker before long. In order to be prepared to take part "Stub" Lister has fitted himself out with a complete gymnasium outfit, including punching bag, boxing gloves and other things usually Uf,d in training. "Stub" has aspira tions and showi a willingness to learn all there is to the fight game and we predict will make a good showing when pitted against some one of his own class and weight. Theodore Radtke Is busy these days excavating a low floor in the shop end of ihe Maupin garage. When ho has taken out sufficient dirt he will get busy spreading a concrete floor and will then move his shop equipment to the room it formerly occupied. Thede is a hustler and will soon have as nice a shop an there is in tho country. THE BANK HOTEL x rh en place in Ths Dalles to take the rancher and out-of town fallow feel at bom. r,sis5i!!s! "SUPREME AUTHCRITV" WEBSTER'S fiEW INTERNATIONAL -T712 MERIUAM WEBSriXR Because Hundreds of Supreme Court Judges concur in nighest praise cf the work ai their Authority. 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