fag Twd The Maupin Times AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C. W. Semme, Editor C. W. Semitic and E. R. Simmii Publishers Published every Thursday at Maupin, Oregon Subscription: One year $1.50; tix months, $1.00; three months, 60cts. Entered at second class mall mat ter September 8, 1914, at the post office at Maupin, Oreon, undr the Act of March 8, 1876. PHEASANTS WERE RELEASED Laae Cunty Receive Largest Nomber, Linn County Nest During: the last fiscal year a total of 18,885 Chinese ph&ants were liberated by the Oregon State Game Commission in the various counties of the state. Lane county received 2,120, Linn 2,031, Marion 1,595, Benton and Union 1,380 each, Yam hill 1,300 and Polk 1,180. Other counties where experience has hown that the birds will thrive goodly numbers were liberated. The commission nmv has on hand at it three farms several 'thousand .iunese jmt.sswms ana mey are oe-i ing held for breeding purposes. Still Keeps HsaUh Wasco county is reported as be ing the healthiest county in Oregon. If report, made to the State Board Df Health are to be taken as made. For the week ending February 23 there were but seven communicable diseases reported, they being two of flu, four of smallpox and one of pneumonia. New Style Cher. Truck The CorvallL Creamery company's driver came to Maupin Tuesday at the wheel of a new style Chevrolet truck. The machine rode on six wheels, two extra ones being at the rear end. The idea of the six wheels in that the two additional ones tend to equalize the load and permit of hauling a much heavier consignment of creamery products and other freight Preparing for Fishing Season " " . Tom Henneghan, the town's cham pion fisherman, has been busy of late overhauling his fishing tackle. He has wrapped his rods, shined up his spinners, made ome leaders and has even got a bunch of bait cans ready. He, evidently believes in preparedness. -2A ron saint of Ireland, Vjf" with a regular old-time St. Patrick's Yep m ted M"-m Legion Saturday. March 16 INSPIRATION BY eck's Supper Cafeteria Dance Tickets 4n These Dances have always been the event of the season, and this will be the best ever given by the Society. Went To Grass Valley Dr. W. A. Short and his crew of "Wildcats" went to Grass Valley Wednesday afternoon to play a game of basketball with the players of that town. This is the fiat game the local boys have played with Grass Valley and according to re ports are taking on a vry fast team. The Maupin "Wildcats" have been defeated only once this season and think that they are more than a match for the Grass Valley team. Later Our team got skinned. Got Cheap Gas R. W. Richmond and wife and Rilla Powell drove to Portland last Saturday and from there went across the river to Vancouver. At the latter place R, W. laid in a supply of gasoline, for which he was required to i. U cents a gal lon. They returned home Monday. Af (er Painting Jobs ' "Shorty" Miller has demonstrated that spring is really here. He has donned his working clothes and is now hustling painting and paper hanging jobs. Shorty slings a hefty brush and when it comes to adorning walls with paper he is there both ways from the ace. Pine Grove News '( Walter Sharp is cutting wood with Tim Linn's power saw. Ed. Davis end sons are cutting wood near home. Frans Walters and son were Mau pin visitors Monday. Alice and Dorothy Davis went home to their parents over the week end. , Leonard Farlow and wife (nee) Florence Mathews, came out Sunday from Portland to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Mathews. Carl Powell is doing Fred Ault's chores at the McFarlane mill while Fred is at Portland for a 10-day period. ; Andy Booth is cutting wood on the Turner tract for Fred Ault. Carl Powell will start to work for Roy Batty Monday., Wm. Moore will help Davis and ?on in lambing, starting on the 15th. Frank Richerdson is still bed ridden. . Among the Pine Grove men who were in town for the phone meet ing last Saturday were, J. S. Brown, chairman of line 25, E. A. Hartman, O. S. Walters, directors of line 25; Ruben Walters, Oscar Walters, St. Patrick's Day, the one day of the year when all warm blooded Irishmen throw care to the Winds and engage - 's-ei ' V 4-1 av -nt A laa I " m . . -C A I an 4 Catholic church will Hall, Maupin, on Columbians $1.00 ttfs MAUPriN Hurold Walters, Fred Laughlin, N. Q. Hedin. Gertrude Laughlin returned from Portland and Corvallis, where she has been working for the winter. Her father, Fred Laughlin, met her on Satuvdoy at the O. W, depot Pine Grove Sunday school had 30 at last Sunday's service. Ruth Mathews has charge of special fea tures during March. Committees appointed for Easter programs are follows: Music and program Mrs. N. G. Hedin, Mrs. Fred Laughlin; committees on egg hunt Mrs. Chas. Cox, Mrs. Walter Sharp; Committee on decorations Ger trude Laughlin. Ruth Mathews, Lillian Washburn, Lillian Cox. A dinner, cafeteria style, will be en Joyed. Later announcement will be made as to the speaker and pro gram. Linn and sons axe about to strt cutting saw logs at the Davis tract Snow is still deep in the tim ber. Farmers are driving polls and mending fences. Carles Lewis and family visited friend; and relatives at Pine Grove' Sunday last Phone meeting at Wapinitia Ir rigation company's office last Tues day was attended by a good many patrons of line 25. New books and new officers wore elected. O. S. Walters is secretary-treasurer of the line and directors were elected for one.two and three yean'. The an nual meeting will be held March 5th each year. Mrs. Birdie Cox taught cchool for Mrs. Lester West on Monday whilo the latter was "listening in" on the Hoover inauguration event at Wash ington, D. C Prof. Broughton took his pupils to a neighboring radio to give them the educational benefit of the inaugural ceremonies. Farmers telephone directors from all this section held a meeting at the Derthick cchool house Wednes day to consider repairs to the main line of the system, and other main tenance matters. Iris Sharp visited at the home of Mrs. Lester West Monday night her teacher bringing her back Tuesday. Walter and Mary Sharp and their family have moved to the home of John McCorkle, where Mrs. Sharp will cook and Walter will do spring farm work. ; Mrs. Fred Ault and two daughters came in from Portland on Tuesday and will reside at McFarlanes' mill. Mrs. Ault will run the cook house. St. Patriek. celebrate the day Day 1 i Style If TIMES The girls will attend tho Maupin school next fall. Mr. Ault 1ms com pletud arrangements to build a home in Maupin for tho convenience of the family while the girls are at tending school. Melvln , Walters has comploted making a violin, he a Ing local soft and hard wooJ In Its construction. He played on It at Pino Grove Sun day school Sunday and it sura sounded like a good instrument ; Dr. Lawrence Stovall and friends paid the Julius Shepflin ranch a vis it last Sunday. Walter sharp sold a pig to Oliver Resh and chicken to the Hotel Kel ly at Maupin thU.week. CryUal 'Dode) Hartman Is visit ing with Leonard Webcrg and wife. The McFarlane mill will not be gin sawing until April. Snow still blocks the west Pine Grove highway. It 'is rapidly melt ing before the warm winds. Canals ar.d creeks' are full to overflowing. W. B. Keen writes from McMlnn villo that ho and bta wife art doing nicely, making no complaint regard-ln- health. Mr. Keen is 81 years of sgo. Wapinitia Items Spring is here warmer weather and lots of wind. Among those going to Tygh Val ley hist Saturday night were Mr. and Mrs. Lew McCoy, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hartman, Joe A. Graham. Gertie Laughlin has returned from an extended visit at Portland. Eugene and other Valley points. She will remain at home during the spring months. Mr. Borlin, the Wamic blacksmith, was at Wapinitia lost week getting a supply of machinery and plow ex tras of E. A. Hartman. A number of telephone patron.", went to Maupin last Saturday and attended the open telephone meet ing. - H. E. Lewis, maintenance mnn on the Wapinitia cut-off, has recently got a new truck. He has been busy on the road since the big snow. Our nigh school is especially well equipped with Ford bugs, the latest to grace the parking space in front of the school hone being the insect of Robert Holman. The only way the bug can carry the name "car" is the license plate and gasoline they use. Prof. Broughton took the basket ball team to Tygh Monday evening, where our athletes played the Tygh team. - The Bible Sunday class recently organized under the school study plan and taught by A. Lincoln Hart man, is now engaged in studying "Great Epochs of Sacred History." The class was organized under the study plan of the Moody Bible insti tute of Chicago, and is getting along fine. The members are now taking the second examination, having passed the first one with high cred its. A division of the class Is at Wamic. John Fitxpatrick was in town a couple of days tho first of the week having come down from his Nena sheep ranch on business. Rev. W. A. Mathews was in from Sjmnasho la t Saturday. . Grandma Delco recently moved back to town, after spending of the winter with her, daughter, Mrs.' Anna Pachctt. Richard Delco has written his grandmother to send his things to him in the Valley, as he has decided he will not return this spring, hav ing secured "employment in that sec tion. Rev. Everett Hazen came back to usual duties Sunday and deliver ed his first sermon for some months. He stated he intends to hold evange listic services here in the near fu ture. Morris Dclore, son of Charles De lore, formerly of this place, fa here visiting at the Delore home. P. H. Evic recently completed overhauling his car and now it is in shape for the spring season. Al Dunning was here recently while on his way from the reserva tion, going across tho Deschutes to i sist in lamping. Thos. Kienzle was up from his Deschutes ranch the first of the week. Joe A. Graham is busy building boxes to hold emergency fire ap paratus in preparation of the sum mer fire season, V. B. Tapp mode a business trip to The Dalles the latter pat of last wrek. H. E. Hammer has been hauling hay to th ! hitt shnp ranrh Jimmy AbVrf. l.aulcd ',. fodder to Wapinitii, H.-rij t.i!inb i from,here. Bobby Pu'Mson hnulod. a quan lity of hay to Wapinitia for the fl&chlcrs, ihcy hauling t to the ranch from here. The recent snow and cold weather caused Hachler to run short of sheep feed. Hirschel Hollis and Roy Baxter came over from the Shaniko section Tue. day and culled on friend hero that day, Tho Ladies Aid hu resumed It usual get-together and meet for work each Friday. It Is rumored they plan another social soon. Crystal Hartmun has spent several days with Vlvan Wberg lately. Mrc. Mary Marquam, Mrs. Ernest Hartman' lster-ln-lw, a daughter of Mrs. Knight of Dufur, living at Marquam, Oregon ( with the latter' son-in-law, Mr. Bontley, also of Mar quam, with Mrs. Knight And daugh ter, Fern, were callers here Saturday afternoon. J. E. Hartman and family spent Sunday afternoon at the Bothwell home. The High school student spent the greater part on Monday at the Batty home, lltenlng to the inau guration excerlses over the radio. On the way out they found Jack Howard stuck' in the mud with his auto. After getting him out an other car of the party alsovwent Into the ' mud hole, After those delay they heard most of the program Jack Howard is teaching tho Batty school. County Commissioner Kelly and wife and county Engineer Christ Fauerso were thb way Tuesday In spectlng roads. They went up Pa quett Gulch, Inspecting that grado. Sam Wallan, driver of the school bus to the Hachler school, ono- day last week had his car buck and not willing to return home. Fritz Hach ler hauled it to Frank Brown's, where the car was taken apart,' but the ailment was not discovered until they took the muffler off and It was dl covered to be filled with mud. They cleaned out the cur meandered along as sedately as an old cow. Telephone meeting has been quite numerous lately. Many from here attended the one held at the Der thick school house Wednesday. Everett Richmond brought In i truckload of farm machinery for E, A. Hartman oh Wednesday. POWER FARMING IS URGED Labor Saying Equipment Is Key to Prosperity Power faming will enable the farmer to find prosperity in the future, in the opinion of Dr. E. G. Noure, of the Institute of Econom ics, Washington, D." C, a speaker at the 82nd annual farm and home week held under the auspices of the University of Illinois. The farmer will be a busineits man, according to Dr. Nourse. He will use mechanical power to im prove his businer and he will be come an active participant in com munity life with many contact. By appplying all the labor saving equip ment available, and t the same time co-operating with fellow, fanr. ers in the sale of his produ' e and In financing his operations, tho pro gressive farmer will bo prosperous and Tucccssful. ELEVEN YEARS AGO From The Times March 6, 1918 R. W, McShane, a former resi dent of Maupin, died at Portland on February 25, death bobig caus ed by blood po'on. Tho family had been visiting at Moxee City, Washington and while there Mr. McShane developed a sore on his face. As the sore spread he decided to go to Portland for treatment, but it was unavailing, as death quickly ended matters. ' Dr. Elwood writes that he Is at tending to the health of Uncle Sam's boys at the big snwmilla at Tillamook. , x o The new Maupi-n drug store build ing is nearing completion. The brick flue was put in yesterday and with a little nvore work the rear rooms will be ready to be put in use. The main store room being finish ad in wood and will havo a comer entrance from both, streets. N. G. Hedin is moving his raw mill to the low setting at the mouth of the gulch and will sown have It sawing again. H;din says he has about 126,000 feet of lumber on hand, all of which will be used in construction work. Born On Monday of this week at Criterion, a daughter weighing 8 1-3 pounds t0 Mr, and Mrs. L. B. DcCamp. Last week the ladies of 'Criterion attired in the Hoovor suitpf, nerved a dinner to the crowd w'nich had gathered to listen to R. A. Chase and Miss Backen boost tire thrift stamp sales. The school I children at Criterion haver over $90. .00 Bigned up- R. C. Jory and family arrived Sunday from Silver C ly, ' New Mexixco, where they had i bwn for Mr. Jory'a health. He is nrarclv Im proved. ' . ' , Vlolot Miller, Laura Gootjen, Fern Muyhew and Louise Moigen sun have organized a members of a uirls buHkutball tuam, and are be ing Instructed In the play of th game by M,r. L, S. Stovall. rLASSlnIb LOCALS WANTED To rent farm furnish ed. M. J. Coomrad, Wamic, Or. 1044 WORK WANTED Woman with girl IS 'want work cooking on ranch for the summer. Addres Care of Muupln Times. 18-tf. FOR SALE 1060 fln, wool Ram. boulett yearling 'ws. Delivery before or after (hearing at Coo don, Oregon. Carrlco A Newman, Condon, Or. I8-t8 GERMAN POLICE DOG FOR SALE Phon 26188. Albertlna West, Wapinitia. Oregon 16-t2 CANNED HUCKLEBERRIES 1 have several case f huckl berrle for tale at fC.OQ par case. Will soil quart can at 00 cent each. Berrle were canned in th field and are , nice, large and ' fresh. Call on Nick Karolu. . FOR SALE New Zealand hp Romney buck, fiv two-year-old, thru Rambouleta; two Guernsey bulls, one yearling, on two-year-old. Albert Hill, Wamic, Oregon. . 41-tf PIGS FOR SALE About 81) feeder pig for sale also six brood sow . Call Burt Scott, Wamic, Oregon. 7-t2 KOIl SALE -1 2"ot McCormfck header, In first clans condition. Price $100.00. Ed. lUrrling, Shaniko, Oregon. FOR SALE A No. 6 Molotte cream separtor, 150.00 j Vaughan wood saw, $50.00; set of heavy harness, cheap; one light harness, aUo ' cheap.. Mrs. Anna Bradway, Smock Prairie. 45-tf FOUND Pair of gold bow rlmles spectacle. Owner may( have same by calling at thl office, identifying glas.es and paying for this advertisement 48-tf NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice -l hereby given that Joseph J. Dyboll, administrator of the Estate-of John E. Dyball. de ceased, has filed in the County Court of the State of Oregon for Wasco county, his final account a such administrator, and that Mon day, the 18th day of March, 1020. at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. ha been fixed by said court a th ilme for hearing of objection to oaid report and tho settlement there of. . ' JOHN GAVIN. Attornay for Estate. Joseph. .1. Dyball, F21-M14 AdminlKtrntor. CRANDALL . UNDERTAKING CO. QUIET SERVICE ' LADY A33ITANTS The Dalles, Ortcea. Pboae 5-J Your Watch Haywire? If it ( not rloinf? its work brinjf it to The Tirnos office and Mr. Seromes will send GUY A. POUND ioii"'(af'urip? Jeweler sunt Watchmaker bu.sw(i' in V. Lindqulst TUB DAI4K3 - - OKKGON t WERNMARK SHOE STORE Shoes and Repairing Waaco County 'a Exclusive Shoe Store ''hoes for th General Repairing 'Vhola KflinUw lh Dalles, Ore. WhiteRestaurant PRIVATE BOOTHS Where the best 35 cent meal is served in The Dalles Next The Dalles Creamery C. N. Sargent, Prop.