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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1914)
r I COUNTY OF HARNEY The Biggest County In The State Of Oregon, Best In The West CITY OF BURNS The Biggest City In The Biggest County In The State Of Oregon BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 4, 1914 NO. 21 VOL. XXVII She fpmtllefda. BRING ABOUT CLOSER BUSINESS ASSOCIATION Co-Operative Association Recently Or ganized Move Toward a Greater Development and "Get Together" Spirit. Harmonious Crystallization of Mutual Interests Good Business Now that the Harney County Co-Operative Association la a full fledged business concern, the articles of association having been accepted by the state au thorities and tiled with the county clerk of this county, active work will begin in the organization. A meeting is to be held today at Harriman to start such business aetivities as may be placed be fore the board of directors. The Times-Herald hopes this organization will flourish and be a success as it is one of the best propositions toward the develop went and advancement of this section that has ever been put on foot From this organization similar ones will taring and branch out in such lines as are of nutual benefit to the farmers. I A creamery, pooling of stock for the market, co-operation with the organization recently taking erer the flour mill and promoting ft PMking plant, etc., all can be. worked harmoniously together to the advantage of the country. The primary object of the esso-l elation just organized was to pro- a L. ... ...il...v I I'nin 1 I 1 ! 1 1 I B WCl Hie IllClllucia Bwmnnwmi and make it possible to secure I the necessary fencing to keep; the pests from destroying the grain fields. It is learned from I one man who has been observing elosely, that the rabbits have! disappeared to a great extent, I yery few being seen in his jottr neyB out through the valley, but o doubt there are large numbers yet remaining and the fencing of crops will -be necessary, .lust what has become of the rabbits isn't known, some say they have tone to the bench lands, but fewj are seen in that territory. Another pest that is going to be a great nuisance in the imme diate future are the gopher or "sage rata". They have become quite numerous and while no great damage has been done in this county, other counties are nding them quite destructive and it will be only a matter of a little time until local farmers will have to take steps to destroy HfiftBKVKo&E aSrfg 15c. Per Cake, 2 for 25c. WE ARE AGENTS Rexall Drug Store REED RROS. Props. I 1 The Burns MRS. ETTA CUMMINS, Prop. Best Surgical Room and Equipment In the State Outside of Portland. Nice Rooms, Good Care and Com fort for Patients-Reasonable Terms Graduated Nurse In Charge The Q Stands for quality in Ham, Bacon, Shoulders, Lard If you want quality ask your merchant for the U brand stamped on the skin The mild, sweet cure packed by the Geo. W. Youme process. If your dealer does not handle It 'pnone - . . - them. It might be well to take this matter up at once and not 1 wait until they are really a peat They are going o be a pest that must be reckoned with therefore must be considered. The co-operation of those most interested in such matters is the right spirit and the tendency of the farmers to help themselves is commendable. They will find every public spirited citizen of the country ready to assist them in whatever way possible and their efforts should meet with financial prosperity for them s. ilvea and therefore the whole country. Closer association by the entire people of Harney county would bring greater pros perity to all and the Harney County Co-Operative Association is one of the factors to bring such feeling. Catholic Church. 1. On Sundays and Holy days of obligation Holy Mass with sermon at 11 a. m. 2. On week days Holy Mass at G:30 a. m. All other services, besides those mentioned above will be announced in church. All invited and welcome to the divine services. Sick-calls promptly answered at anytime. Religious informa tion and instructions willingly imparted at the Franciscan Residence. Rev. I'ius Niermann. O. F. M. Pastor of The Church of the Holy Family. Found Cur for Rhaumatltm. '"1 suffered with rheumatism for two years and could not get my right hand to my mouth for that length of time," writes U-e L. Chapman, Mapleton, Iowa "I suffered terrible pain so I could not sleep or lie still at night. Five years ago I began using Chamberlain's Liniment and in two months I was well and have not suffered with rheumatism since," For sale by all dealers. The Stronicest appeal to the most refined taste Is made by Harmony Rose Glycerine Soap Purely Vegetable, Deiiately Perfened Hospital Brand .,.. IVIIann "- Selling Alfalfa Hay Will Deplete the Soil. The farmer who sells alfalfa hay from irrigated lands geta for it just one-half the actual value of the fertility elements that it contains, according to investiga tions carried on by Professor Scudder, agronomist at the Ore gon Agricultural College. The hay ordinarily brings about $6 a ton in the field, while the value of the nitrogen, phosphorus and potash that it containes is worth at present prices $11.95. "It is thus seen," says Mr. Scudder "that the common prac tice of selling alfalfa and clover hay from irrigated fields is ruin ious from the stand-point of fer tility. Although the wonderful plants manufacture about one half of the nitrogen content from the air, this supply is -needed to maintain the nitrogen fertility of the soil. "Alfalfa and clover are raw products which the cows and pigs convert into finished form, leav ing valuable by-products to en rich the soil. A good grade cow will produce 300 pounds of butter I fat a year which is worth $100. 'l'I... ..I.... ..;..l.l 7IUUI imiinilo nl skim milk, which is worth $35, and 16 tons of manure worth about $37. As in some other cases, the by-products are nearly as valuable if rightly utilized as the primary product itself. This is especially true on sandy irri gated lands since these soils are deficient in humus and nitrogen." Native Plants Best. "Farmers could often improve their home grounds by planting shrubbery that appears to be at home among its surroundings," says Professor A. L Peck in the Oregon Countryman published by the Agricultural studenta at Corvallis. "And what can seem more at home than the shrubs and trees that grow wild in the district. Few of our people real ize that we have here in Oregon a number of native plants that are very valuable for ornamental use. Eastern people know it, and nursery catalogues list many well known and often thoroughly despised Oregon species. It is to be regretted that while dis tant people see the beauty in our native material our own people must send to California or Chile or Australia for some odd outsider to plant on their grounds. Why is it that so many prefer an apparently dying palm or a mon key puzzel or a fearfully distort ed and weeping ash or willow to a neat, well-grown and thrifty specimen that looks at home? They are making sad mistakes in collecting materials that always appear half Btarved, homesick, crippled and freakish, instead of planting materials that harmo nize with our natural plantings in this big country of ours." While It Lasts. The Experiment Station will sell a limited amount of the fol lowing highly recommended grains in small quantities to each purchaser. Swanneck barley: 50 lbs or ltaa at Be (This was the highest yield ing barley out of 29 varieties tried on' the Station last year, shatters very little and is of good quality. ) Sixty Day Oats: 100 lbs or less at 4c (This was third highest in yield of 15 varieties on the Sta tion last year. It is the earliest high yielding oat known and con tains ten or fifteen per cent more kernel per unit of weight than ordinary oats. ) Shadeland Climax Oata: 200 lbs or less at 2ic (A good yielder but two or three weeks later than the Sixty Days. ) Address your communications to The Experiment Station rinliTH will be honored in the order they are received. For Sale Registered Clydes dale stallion, George Chamber lain. No. 11872, 10 years old. weight about 1900 lbs. An Al breeder and acclimated. DeBire another horse as I have a number of young mares of his get to breed this year. Have also a stallion 2 years old this spring, Hired by George Chamberlain, and a num ber of work horses for sale. '...n :... .... ',. rimu Wil li an, write vi '"""-i - son, Burns. Oregon. 14tf. EDUCATION IN PLAY PLANNED BY STATE Pamphlet Prepared by Superintendent Churchill to Go Into All Oregon Schools. Tendency is to Revive Picturesque Customs of Yore and Prevent Children From Moping Play and education, equipment. anxious to get information as to types of school buildings, games how mnch ground they should nf various kinds, festivals and buy for the school Hi te and how specials days, athletic meets and athletic badge tests, field meets and other forms of exercise are tnnirs discussed in a pamphlet' which Superintendent of Public, Instruction Churchill is distribut-j ing among the schools of the I state, Mr. Churchill's idea is to teach the children hw to play ' wholesome games and have re-1 cesses devoted to such instead of leaving the children standing about basements and school grounds, when thev should be getting needed exercise, says a Salem news dispatch. Mr. Churchill was assisted in the preparation of the booklet by L. H. Weir ad Mrs. Stella VV. Durham, Portland secretaries of the National Play-ground Associ ation. The pamphlet is entitled "Practical Recreation Manual for Schools." The booklet is beautifully il lustrated with photographs of playgrounds from every section of Oregon. These show that in each section there are a few schools which are keeping the play-grounds abreast of Modern thought on the play-ground movement. The purpose of the bulletin is to show what may be done in all schools with little ex pense. A photograph from Dis trict No. 6. BentQO County, shows a play-ground well equip ped with simple apparatus, and dozens of children with happy, smiling faces. It has been found that in many schools the children do not know how to play wholesome games that were played years ago and that many of the teachers do not remember them well enough to teach them. This bulletin giVSS a large list of games suitable for the various grades, carefully classified, with full directions how to play each game. Among the games for the primary divis ion are: Cat and mouse, rabbit's nest, blind man's bull, simple tag games and a number of sing ing games, such as mulberry bush, Ixndon bridge and farmer in the dell. For the intermediate division are found shinney, Kuth and Jacob, rabbit's nest, prison er's base, blackmail and many others. For the advanced grades, volley ball, baseball, handball, tennis, soccer, fox and geese, blackman, follow the leader. One chapter is given to the equipment and the preparation of the school grounds. At the be ginning teachers are reminded that "A great deal of trouble and poor results come from the fact that too much attention is paid to apparatus and not enough to the vital points of the play ground, snch as space, surfacing, beauty and especially the play leader or leaders." All over Oregon new schoolhoiises are being built and the Directors are BUICK MOTOR CARS Fours and Sixes FIVE-PASSENGER CAR Price $1183 Most Economical and Most Powerful Car on the Market for the Money A. K. RICHARDSON, AgU BURNS, - OREGON it should be arranged. The bulletin gives them suggestions as to the extent of the grounds, grading, sufacing and drainuge. One chapter is devoted to feBti- vals and special days, including the patriotic holidays, Arbor day, May day, Halloween, Thanks- giving day and even Valentine' day is not overlooked. Little children are always anxious tobe allowed on and after June 7. observe Valentine's day suggestions are given to and ' ' I teachers as to how some literary and historic value may be given to the day's exercises. Stubbling in of Grain Unprofitable The stubbling in of grain is being practiced more or less in the wheat sections of the North west, liy stubbling in grain is meant the seeding of grain on fields that have not been plowed since ttie removal OI me previous crop. There are apparent ad vantages and disadvantages in the practice. The advantages lie in the saving of time and equipment in plowing, in the plumper and better quality of kernels and in the larger area that may be covered. The dis advantages are that the yields, on an average, are about one- third less and occasionally both seed and labor are thrown away. The straw is commonly shorter and in an adverse year is hard to bind into linn bundles that will not scatter. The fields dry out quicker than on plowed ground and are harder to plow the following year while the physical condition of the soil is not as good for the subsequent crop. Weeds, notably Russian thistles and tumbling mustard much more numerous on are stubbled ill fields, as are also insects in some cases. The re flections upon one's credit and standing as a farmer must also be listed among the disadvant ages. This is the advice of the Department of Agriculture. Look to Your Plumbing. You know what hapixms in a house in which the plumbing is in poor condition everybody in the house is liable to contract typhoid or some other fever. The digestive organs perform the same functions in the human body as the plumbing does for the house, and they should bo kept in first class con dition all the time. If you have any trouble with your digestion take Chamberlain's Tablets and you are certain to get quick relief. For sale by all dealers. Just received a nice line of new winged collars they are the latest. Williams-Zoglmann Clo thing Co. LATEST DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE NOUS (Fruiti Our I'ortliiml Oorrttpomtrm) PstWltn the dates of May 9 and June 7, intending settler. will have the right to make se lection of homesteads In tfSOl I to be set aside from the Deschutes and Paulina forest reserves. Of this land 20, (KM) acres is located in the Upper Deschutes Valley, being for the most part covered with jackpine. From the Paul ina reserve nppioximately 200,000 acres will be open for entry. most of it in the Fremont and Fort Rock Valleys. This is chief ly sagebrush and rough land. Of the Deschutes Valley land about lC.OOO acres is said to be good land, that is, land suited to agricultural purposes. It is esti mated that it will cost $25 to $60 per acre to clear the jackpine land; and from $5 to $10 to clear 'the Hagebrush land. Water in j this tract can be had at a depth of about 20 feet, while in the Fort Hock section it is reached at j an average depth of 150 feet, Formal filings on these lands will Under a recent ruling of the ......I'll .. I I ( l.. . Vt ( I 1 . 1 - 1' ... .....I ... . nJDlUI llllllK'l 111. ,., ill! Ill .11 Ml KUI den produce may be shipped di rect from producer to consumer when properly packed for ship ment. This provision also in cludes farm and garden imple ments, castings, parts of mnch-1 inery, etc. This should be of immense benefit to farmers with in easy reach of towns or cities, as oll'ering an outlet for fruit, vegetables, eggs, poultr and butter which have heretofore been of little value on account ot 1 excessive transportation rates. As ah aid to Oregon farmers who are becoming more and , more interested in hog raising, the Agricultural Department at Washington is sending out a number of instructive bulletin ;, of which the following is a par tial list: No. :i7!, Hog Cholera; No. 22, Feeding Farm Amm lis; 205, Pig Management; 88 . Altai ! fa: ;r72, Soy Beans; W2, Utilisa tion of Logged Off Lends; 850, Dehorning Cattle; 272, A Succ- ; essiui nog and oeea torn rami; 272, Hoys' Pig Clubs. Any farm er who desires any or all of these bulletins may obtain same free of charge by writing to any of the Oregon representative! or senators at Washington. Oregon granges will meet for the annual three days business session at Monmouth May 19-21. 1 Complete arrangement ate be- ing made for entertainment and accommodation of visitors. Klamath County farmers and dairymen have organized the Klamath Co-operative Produce Company which is expected to establish and maintain grain ele vators, Hour and feed mills, creameries, cold storage plants. meal packing plant and a mer cantile establishment. The com pany plans to start work al onci on the, creamery which will be located between Klamath Falls and Merrill. Market Report. Receipts at the Portland Union Stock Yards for the week ending March 2H were: Cattle 1816, calves IK), hogs 44S1, sheep, is I. Fairly heavy receipts of cattle the early part of the week, with a few loads of extra choice steers going at a good 25c bitter thin preceding week. Very liubt offerings Thursday and Friday and market ten to 15 cents lower. Receipts of hogs during the week were not heavy, Huyers forced the price down about ten cents. Extreme tops selling around $8 H at the first of the week, closing at $8 75 at the end. A moderate run of mutton for the week's business, strong de mand for lop grades and market continues about in line with last week's quotation, Prime lambs $i BO to $7 (K); yearlings $5 75 to 800i ewes $4 80 to $5 0(1 and shorn stull' 75 cents less. Cough Medicine lor Children. Too much care cannot be used in selecting a cough medicine for children. It should be pli a sant to take, contain no barm ful substance and be most el ft c tual. Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy meets these requirements and is a favorite with the mot hers of young children everywhere. For sale by all dealers. WHOLE STATE WILL BUILD GOOD ROADS High and Low, The Rich and Poor, Are Expected to Don Overalls and Turn Out With Picks and Hoes on April 25, Good Roads Day. Systematic Planning Needed to Make Success Plans already are well under way for a "Oood Roads Day" in ( Iregon, a day on which high and low, rich and poor alike will don overalls and jumpers and go out into the highways and byways, and incidentally the Pacific High way (wherever that may be said to differ from a byway), and help to improve the condition of the roads, says a writer in the Oregonian. Missouri has shown the way in this public road building by con structing a road across the state in a single day, doing work con servatively estimated worth $2, (lOO.UOU. other states have fol lowed out the Missouri idea with similar enthusiasm, and now Oregon will attempt to prove that, if she hasn't good roads, she has the desire and the will to get them at least. Qovernor West has set aside April 25. which falls on Saturday, as a public holiday on which good able-bodied citizens are expected to turn out with pick or shovel, drag or hoe. The municipal officials have shown proper interest by falling into line with a committee under the chairmanship of the Mayor himself; while clubs, fraternal organisations, state school offi cials and county officials, together with many prominent men co gnizant of what is wanted in the way of road construction, like J. H. Yeon, Amos Benson, Major II L Howlby, Samuel Lancaster, have foilen into the procession. Prom now on an effort will be made to perfect a huge organiza tion throughout the state, which, at a given moment, will com mence work that will not end until night is upon them. The idea is excellent and all thai is necessary is thatthe plan ning be systematc and that it be 1 aken seriously. While some will look on it as a picnic, it is hoped that all who undertake it will do THE FRENCH HOTEL DAVID NEWMAN, Prop. Strictly First Class. Splendid Service, Fine Accomodations, Commercial Headquarters Sample Room In Connection, Reasonable Rates BLUE MT. Daily Line, Burns SCHEDULE: l.KAVE AKK1VE 11, mis 6m Canyon City ' 6:90 p m CmtyonCily 7ra I'rsirle City Ilium PialfM Cily . 2:30 p m CunvonCilv 7 pm Uurn Unooii Fare. Hums-Prairie Citu, $ 0.00 ji Round Trip, - Express Hates 2 1-2 PLEASANT, SCENIC L. WOl THE WELCOME PHARMACY Is The Place to Trade -WHY- First: Promptness, accuracy and fair dealing.' Secend: We carry a wall assorted stock of Drugs, Chemi cals and Druggist Sundries. Third: We guarantee every article we sell to be just as represented or your money refunded. If you are a customer of ours you know this. If not, be come one and be convinced. J. C. Welcome, Jr. so seriously and not do their , work in a haphazard manner. This good roads day should accomplish much in acquainting thousands, hitherto ignorant on the subject of the state of the roads at this season of the year. It should acquaint them, too, with what is necessary in the way j of road building if waste is to 'be stopped and road-building money is not to be thrown into ' chuck holes and mud holes to be 'swallowed up by another Winter's rain It also should prove to them, when they come face to face with conditions, the real, need for permanent highways. One of the best ideas advanced , is the participation of the child ren. Miss Goldie Van Bibber has inaugurateda '"roads course" in her school in the mountains, a course which already has been copied far and wide, while her ! pupils have started on the con struction of 100 yards of road outside their respective school houses. This "good roads-' day will not do so much as this for all the school children, but it will do a great deal in educating them to the needs of the community so that when they grovv up they, too, will be pulling ardently for a network of lasting roods through out the state. Straight at It. There is no use of our "beat ing around the bush." Wo might as well out with it first as last We want you to try Cham berlain's Cough Remedy the next 1 time you have a cough or cold. There is no reason so far as we can see why you should not do I so. This preparation by its re markable cures has gained a I world wide reputation, and peo- i pie everywhere speak of it in the highest terms of praise. It is for sale by all dealers. STAGE CO. and Prairie City - - - 11.00 Cents, Prairie to Hums ROUTE ALL THE WAY DENBERCiProp. J