TBI MAUPITN TIMES " Personalities Miss Sammy Creighton vUtod at The Dalles Wednesday, o - Hugh Knlicht wai In from Criter ion a few hours thin afternoon.' o Tim Linn and wifo wore In Mau pin from thi-lr Pine Grove home on Monday. Q in i Frank Crenjrcr spent a couple of duys thl week visiting with friends at The Dalles. Chas. Crofoot went to Monmouth on Mond:ty, taking hi daughter, Velma, to tho normal school ut thut place. After spending several weeks at the state metropolis, Mis Kdna Derthick hm returned to her Mau pin home. Addle Wray, who hint been at tho home of parent on tho Flat, re turned to 111. school work ut 0. A. C. on Monday. Freddie and Madge Shearer Hpent Saturday and Sunday at the home of their brother, Marcus, returning to The Didlcs Monday. Those of Maupin'a tumlier- who have been away for the holiday are expected back to return to their du ties not later than Sunday. Lcwia Derthick ha returned to Portland after a 10-day visit with hi: father and brother, 0. I!, and Elza Derthick, on Bakcoven. Andy Smith and wife braved the element and fame up from the f inh hatchery at Oak Springs yesterday to do their weekly trading. Budire Greene, Wm. Doughton and Kloyd McCoy were among those from thin part to attend the dance at Tygh Valley Tuesday night. Robert Lewis wa In Maupin to day, getting ready to accompany Georife Tillotson to his newly ac quired rattle ranch on the John Pay. George Tillot on and wife visited with Mrs. Tillotson'a parents Harry T. Lewis and wife, at Smock and als0 spent a few hours In Maupin to day. Wayne DeJanvier and wife went 'xoau jiaAu ji'i'tr jv A Legion mm. Hall Music furnished by The 'COLUMBIANS' the popular orchestra from The Dalles q will be served by the ladies Auxil- iblll3p6!f fary, an a" 'mow what at means Watch for announcement of Smoker on January 19 VV vyvvt t The Dalles on Wednesday and thero Mrs. DeJanvier will attend to Mrs. Karl Patrick, who is In the hospital. Hrltton Slusher has been confined to his bed severad days this week with the flu. He say he has all of that ailment he care for and i glad to be bio to be out gain. o Marcus Shearer and wife expect to go to The Dalles on Saturday and when they return will be accom panied by their son, Dick, who has been with his grandparents the past week. o Mi.; Ruth McCorkle has returned to her school teaching duties at Powers, after a visit through the holiday with relative on Juniper Flat. Mi s Tillotson i another Maupin lady who la touching in the Powers school. Business took The Times man to The Dalle on Wednesday, thereby P il ing it impossible to got the paper out on time. From next week 'in our sub criber may look for the mper to go Into tho postoffice each Friday morning. o Mrs. Slulla Scdey and husband are at the home of the former' par ents, H. E. Wray and wife. The Sudeys recently came up from Chilo quin, where Mr. Sedey is engaged with a telephone construction crew, and while here his wife wn taken ill wilh the prevailing flu. Docin't Like 'he Rain In a letter to The Times Mrs. Anna S. Dradway, writing from Wil 'iur, Oregon, says : he is not one tittle bit stuck on the climate of the Umpquu Valley. Mrs. Bradway .ii yn all it does there is rain, rain, rain. nothcr I log Killed Autni t arriving in Maupin from he north hint Saturday reported he killing of a large sow on the top -f the Maupin grade. Thut portion if the highway seems to be a fatal olace for hogs, several of which have met dimister by being hit and killed 'y automobiles. A Round-About Trip On Wednesday Dr. Elwood was 'ailed to the Georgo Lcdford home in Smock Prairie. He also had a all to the Ted F.ndershy home on 'he Flat near the White river can yon. The two ranches are but three niles npert but to reach the Enders- vt ft " -" ueoioimm '! L by place from the Prairie the doctor had to come around by way of White river grade. Ho logged the di. tance and when he reached the Endcrsby home his speedometer showed he had traveled 44, ft miles, Some argument In favor of better road communlca tion. Has Nw Crindtr George Morris ha a new style feed grinder set up at the Maupin warehouse. The new machine con tain., all the better features of the one he has been selling. In addi tion it has a feeder attachment and all moving parts have ball bearing. Ranchers interested In feed grinders are invited to inspect the new ma chine at the warehouse. "INSIDE" INFORMATION . This is a fine time of year to try some of the old-fashioned yeast raised good things like coffee cake, doughnuts, and sweet buns or roll . Sornetirncs the kitchen must also be the laundry, although this ar rangement is never desirable a hav ing the laundry work done in a separate room. When it b necessary the equipment for washing and ironings should be grouped in one part of the room, and the center for preparing and serving food placed conveniently in relation to each other. If you did not put up any spiced peaevhes last full you can prepare some now from canned peaches. Drain the (irup from 8 to 9 halves of large canned peaches, and save it. Press Into each piece B whole cloves. Make a sirup of three fourths cup of tho fruit juice, three fourths cup of vinegar, and three fourths cup of sugar. Spice with 3 bladeii of mace and 2 or 3 small pieces of stick cinnamon. Add one eighths teaspoon salt. Cook the peaches in this sirup 15 or 20 min utes, or -until the peaches have ab orbed some of the sirup. Allow them to stand 3 or 4 hours before serving so that the flavor will blend. 1 Stock up with some of the at tractive cotton print for child ren's school clothe when attending the January "white" sale:". These goods are usually displayed at the siime time ns the plain white mater ials on neitrby counters. The cold er days are good sewing days, and if you plnn your little girl'."! spring outfit somewhat ahead of time, you ' ' a Maupin, Oregon I can get it well under way before it Is needed. The Bureau of Home Economics has some help In the form of a leaflet entitled "Dresses for the Little Girl," or Leaflet No. 20-L, which may be had free for the asking. Styles are suggested that are easy to make, easy to launder, and comfortable. INTERESTING NOTES The nut of the Tagua palm of Ecuador produces much of the to called vegetable ivory used by the button Industry of the United States and Europe. In two years more than 1,00,000 pound of reindeer meat was ship ped out of Alaska, The Japanese government ha purchased 6,000 Canadian hens for its experimental poultry station. Among a party of Moroccans that arrived in Algiers wa a giant 9 feet 4 inches tall. The most expensive trans-Atlantic telephone call made took place when an American vbitor to Lon don rang up a businscs associate in New York City and talked 95 min utes at a cost of $1,425. The medicine kit carried by the Byrd Anatarctic expedition weighs more than a ton. A part of southern India ha the enormous rainfall of almost 500 inches a year. Tripoli has three Sabbath days which the religious population in sist upon observing the Christ ians, Sunday, the Jews, Saturday, and the Moslem,", Friday. SNAPPY STUFF The sale of a dozen cold storage eggs as fresh products cost Carl Bergman of Madison, Wis., $4.16 per egg. Testimony given by Mrs. L. R. Maier of Chicago convicted her on of burglary. Dr. Bedjet Sabit Bey, a noted sur geon of Constantinople, baa per formed monkey gland operations on two Turks more than 70 years old. George Clayton of St. Louis was finedl $50 for stealing a 15-cent package of cigarettes. ELEVEN YEARS AGO From The Times January 4, 1918. W. B. Keen passed through here Tuesday enroute to Portland to at tend the irrigation congress. He re cently made a trip to the ditch in take and reports no snow there, al though he got soaked with rain. The canal is compleed to the L. C. Henneghan ranch and has a capacity of 15 to 20 thousand acre feet of water. The mill in McCuhbins gulch is running, getting out timbers for bridges and culverts. A little daughter arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Davis at Wapinitia, Sunday, December 23. o Mi Lena Hachler and Frank Mc Coy were married at The Dalles last week and have returned to their home at Wapinitia. Ewen McLennan of Criterion made sale of his extensive posses sions in that rection last week real izinz $100,000 therefrom. Mr. and Mrs. John Dclco were made happy over the arrival of a baby boy at their home on Christ mas day. John Lewis has bought the Evick stock of merchandise at Wapinitia and will continue the busine s at the old stand. T):l TTn About JTlUli, UpS Town During the past two years we have published in this column little stories concerning people of our town. In them we have not been prompted by malice of personal animosity, rather being urged by a pirit of levity. We call it our "josh column," and trust the stories contained therein have been taken in the spirit in which they were give to our renders. Somfe have taken offense because we have in advertantly touched a sore spot but we have never sought to injure or hold up to ridicule anyone mention ed in the column. We expect to continue along the line of the past, therefore if anything appears un der the above caption which may seem to be aught but a joke, we ask THESE ARE Facts That i 'i' i r H H m i j.in - j ,m. W y r -j' : -v'"1 1 Worry and care will not protect you from incon venience, perhaps serious loss, if you keep securi ties, jewelry, wills, deeds and other valuable papers at home. Only the fact of the positive protection of our Safe Deposit Vaults will abolish this worry, and give you calm assurance of your safely. You get this peace of mind at a low yearly cost. Right m your home today are valuables, the loss of which, by fire or theft, might be very serious. Do you dare not to protect them, to give yourself freedom from this worry and care? Your cannot afford not to give yourself this pro tection. Thousands of dollars in valuables are lost each year by people who take this chance. It's un necessary! Positive protection is available to you. And at a cost so small as to be negligible. We invite you to inspect our vaults. You're sure to find a visit interesting. To appreciate the safe guards we have provided. You'll agree this is one of the soundest, most fundmental precautions good judgment can suggest. Come in today. Maupin State Bank (INCORPORATED) that the one aggrieved come in and tall us wherein they have been in jured. Happy New Year to all. Morris Greene is a husky young feller but when rhematism takes hold of him he becomes as a howling kid. At any rate he strenuously ob ject; t0 -having his "leg pulled" these days. He has a touch of rheu matism that would make almost any man talk out loud in church. Johnny Williams one of the native sons of this part, has been down with a varied experience with ill ness, .but the la: t touch so incapaci tated him that it did not take more than a blanket and light quilt to hold him in bed. Farmers need to keep a system of books as well as the merchant. The Johnson Farm Record, of which we wrote a week or so ago, fills the farmer's need in the bookkeping line and we are ratisfied that once used no farmr would be without it Come in and examine the copy we have. It will cost nothing to look the work over and may be the means of saving you many dollars in the course of tks year. Our boy won a turkey in a raffle. He brought the bird home and stak ed it out near his bug. Last Fri day he went to feed hi3 win and was much surpri ed that no welcoming gobble greeted him. It was thought his or her birdlets had gone to furnish the piece de resistence for someone's dinner. On Sunday Arthur Creighton found the turk and surrounded it with a piece of tumble weed, brought it back and now tho holiday bird is again roost ing beneath the Ford bug. x Joe Kramer likes privacy, es pecially when he is talking Ford car. The little cubby-hole designed Trucking Long DUtant Hauling A Specially INSURED CARRIER ELZA O. DERTHICK Phone S188 Wilson Painting Co. House and Sign P-A-I-N-T-E-R-S-I PAPER HANGERS and DECORATORS Call, Write or phone, Times Office. Maupin, Oregon. "J SAFETY FACTS Abolish Worry a an office in the big garage was too small for Joe, he being a little larger than the ordinary man, so he ha built himself a private room oveT the other office. Now our worthy Ford dealer can take a prospective customer away from the world, show him the superiority of the Ford car and get hk name on the dotted line without everybody overhearing and seeing the confab. Lonis Mayhcw ha ideals which reach above truck driving. He has visualized ease of a barber's life, how that tradesman works in good clothes, rakes in the little old two bit pieces and how he manages, if he is economical, to accumulate a por tion of this world's goods. Louie went to Portland Sunday and will enroll as a student in a barber col lege. No more hauling wheat for Louie; no more shoveling White river rand in a truck rack; no more wrestling with wood none of that for "Swede." In a few month-; he will blossom out in a white coat, wear his heir pompadour and in a sweet voice will holler "next," and iroceed to divest faces of their hirsute growths. He'll be a barber. Cream Separator Bargains Model "C" Viking with stand capacity 550-600 lbs., in A-l con dition. Price $35.00. Model "C" Viking fame capacity as bove in good condition $27.50. No. 4 DeLaval, about 300 lbs. capacity, in fair condition, can be had for $15.00 Model "A" 'absolutely new Viking table model, capacity 160-200 lbs. (for home use) price $27.50. No. 2 Primrose, bronze bearing machine, reconditioned by factory and as good as new, $37.50. SHATTUCK BROS. 7-t3 Maupin, Ore. ZELL'S FUNERAL SERVICE Undertaking and Embalming AMBULANCE SERVICE Call Maupin Drug Store Phone-345 . . Dr. WM. KENNEDY DENTIST DENTAL X-RAY Fint National Bank BIdg. The Dalle, Oregon Phone 391 I 1 ii.