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About Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1907)
THE GO!i 01 GLOBE H. A. HARTSHORN Pbltobr. FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1907. E. C Rogers was a business visitor in Portland the latter part of last week. t Chas. Wilkins and wife of Clem where Condon visitors last Friday. i- Hallie Rice and T. G.. Johuson took a fishing trip last week to the forks of Rock Creek and got about fifty fine trout Miss Eva Carlisle came up from Arlington Friday evening of last week. She is the guest of Miss Elsie Brown. Geo. Parman who was at White Salmon for a week attending to business matters returned Fri day evening. While there he saw W. H. Hornibrook and re ports that he is prospering. W. F. Allen, who has been vis iting with relatives and friends at Callao, Missouri, for the past two months returned Friday evening of last week. He re ports a good time and says that everything is looking prosperous back there but thinks that Gil liam is good enough for him. A nine pound boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Abe Moyer Tuesday evening, Dr. Gavey at tending. John Naze, an expert machin ist, came up from Portland last week and is setting up headers for the Hunt Hardware Co. Miss Wayfe Hockett who has been visiting at Salem and other points in Western Oregon for the past two weeks returned Tuesday evening. ' D. B. Trimble brought in a bunch of timothy last Saturday which is as fine a sample as can be found anywhere. It stands about 4 feet in height and the heads are well developed. This timothy was not sown but took root on the bunch grass sod from ' some hay which had been fed ! there and according to Mr. ! Trimble has never been irrigated. If timothy can be raised here it will be a great boon to the far ' mers of Gilliam County as they have always had to depend on ' headings, rye or straw for their winter feed. J. A. McMorris, the county surveyor, left Tuesday morning for the mountains south of Fossil on a business trip. While there he will also take a short vacation and endeavor to land a few trout He re surveyed last week the road which runs from Devil's Butte toMikkalo. - R. H. Robinson returned from Portland Sunday evening. While there Mr. Robinson pur chased a $400 safe. ; , The services at the Latter Day Saint church have been changed on account of the inconvenience to the members who live in the country, they, being unable to attend night services during the harvest months. . Sunday School has been changed from 2 o' clock P.M. to 9:45 A.M. Preach ing' services as uusal Sunday morning. The mid-week meetings have been discontinued and prayer meeting will be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. No services Sunday evening. Mrs. B. Wilks and daughter Bernice left Tuesday morning for Portland and Seaside where they will visit for a month with friends. RoyRailey an attorney from Pendleton was in town the first of the week. He was employed by Mrs. Shaffer in a road suit - The Standard Oil Company is to be fined several millions of dollars. Look out for a raise in the price of oil and gasoline. . . Al Searcy who has been work ing at Prineville for some time returned Wednesday evening. F. M. Pliter came up from Portland Tuesday evening and will remain until after harvest Chas. Baker left Tuesday for Gwendolen. He will work for Howard Tobey during the har vest months. Chas. Lord returned from The Dalles Sunday evening. Chas. says he had an exceptionally good time. i m. .i..n in i . . . i lir-- - W. H. Hornibrook and (wife were Goldendale' visitors i this week from their home at White Salmon. Mr. Hornibrook ts an attorney, and a good one too, and had a couple of cases before Judge McCredie this week. He is very enthusiastic over the little town of White Salmon and says it is making rapid strides toward a city, having now 400 people and new inhabitants com ing in every weak. --Goldendale Sentinel The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Hornibrook in and around Condon will be glad to hear of their success in their new home. L. E.' Laurence, the popular manager of the Home Telephone Company, has been busy this week installing new fixtures and improving the line in general He has stretched a new cable across Main street and has put in a new up-to-date switchboard terminal frame. A new switch board of the latest pattern will be installed as soon as it arrives. He is changing the system from the ground return to a straight metallic. Mr. Laurence is a thorough telephone man and when these improvements are completed he will have as good a line as can be found in the state. Victor Palmer and Lester Beardsley came up from Port land Sunday evening te work through harvest after which they will return to Portland. Victor reports that his father, J. R. Palmer, tas a good position in a blacksmith shop in Portland, and is doing welL ; C.S. Palmer who formerly con ducted a barber shop here and afterwards at Marshfield arrived in Condon Sunday evening from Portland. He was accompanied by, Mrs. Palmer- and, they wiH' remain for a month while Mr. Palmer is attending to business connected with his ranch. Clarence Wright brakeman on the Arlington-Condon branch, left Wednesday morning for two weeks visit with relatives and friends at Portland and . Wood' burn. His place will be filled dur ing his absence by Jurard Mc Queen. Mrs. Chas., Burgess of Pine Creek was in Condon a few days this week visiting her sister, Mrs. F. T. Hurlburt She left to join her husband in the moun tains where they will remain all summer. HOUSE EUR-.5 Ofl'A'H Frank Beeson, who lives about six miles east of Mayville, had the misfortune to lose his house and entire contents by fire one day last week. , , It seems that Mr. Beeson was away from home working in the harvest field for Fred Edwards and the three children left at home were get ting ' supper when the house caught fire from a defective flue. The children had plenty of time to remove most of the contents but left them so near the house that they caught fire and were entirely consumed. Mr. Beeson is still working for Mr. Edwards and the children were cared for by friends and neighbors. The Liberty Meat Market which has been closed during the spring months was reopened last Monday morning by W. F. Parks & Co., the former proprietors. All their meat will be butchered at home. Mr. Parks and Mr. Woodfin are doing the butcher ing and Jesse Hale is attending to the block and counter work. W. N. Pattullo was a business visitor at Clem Tuesday. Mrs. A. Larson left Tuesday morning for Salem where she will visit with friends. This climate is not agreeable to Mrs. Larson's health and she will probably remain in Salem all summer in the attempt to recup erate. She was accompanied by her son, Wallace, who will prob ably return in a couple of weeks. C F. Tharpe and sons, Will and Tom, who have been living in Portland for a few months .retur ned Saturday afternoon to work during ' th ;i harvest months. They came to The Dalles by boat and from there drove across the , country. Mr. Tharpe ex pressed himself as being surprised at the amount and quality of wheat in Gilliam County. An exchange says:" If you are superstitious about the number thirteen you had better give us your quarter dollars for on each one are 13 stars, 13 letters in the scroll of the eagles beak, 13 leaves on the olive branch, 13 arrow heads and 13 letters in the words, "quarter dollar." Now it's not safe to keep them so just bring them in and getcrdit on your sub scription for the full amount ; J,' C. Mersinger who formerly couducted a brickyard here ship ped his machinery last week to The Dalles where he will start a brickyard. He has already four or five contracts for large build ings in The Dalles. Miss May Garvis of Humbolt Kansas, passed through Condon Tuesday evening on her way to Spray where she will visit for some time with Mrs. 'Amos Hawes. ' , J?.. , . Ed. Clough who attended to business matters in Condon and the country south of here for a week or ten days returned to Arlington Saturday. Jas. Kirlin, who -has been in Portland ' for the past three months, ' came in - Wed nesday evening to visit with friends for a week or two. Mr. Kirlin formerly conducted a sa loon here. Frank McConnell who has been working in Portland for the past year returned Wednesday even ing and will probably remain until after harvest Steve Fletcher now holds the record for catching the most fish in the least time. He went to Thirty-mile last Saturday ev ening and when he returned Monday morning he had caught i alone and unaided, over eighty, fine trout This is, as near as can be learned, the largest sin-' gle-handed catch made this sea-, son. He fished up and down from the Maddock ranch. He went again on Wednesday morn ing and said he was going to get the rest of thorn. , L. T. Price's thoroughbred colt got badly cut in the. barb wire this week and had to bewriteup 0f the National Livestock shot Arthur Madden was rid-1 AMUn Aiwociatlon of Port. ing the colt and the saddle be.hn(L it MVB: 'Their Dolicies came loose. He dismounted and ! when he took hold of the laUgojijtic, eonuin every safe to tighten the cinch the animai; for the p,0tection of their became frightened and jumped j holders; they provide for the sideways. This turned the Bad-: greatest protection at the lowest aie ana me coit started oucKing and kicking, broke loose from Mr. Madden and ran down an embankment into a wire fence cutting it so badly that while it would ' probably have lived, it would always have been crippled and Mr. Price probably did the wisest thing in killing it The colt was one of the best in ' this section of the country and was quite a loss to Mr. Price. E. H. Green, general Manager of the National Live Stock Insur ance Association of Portland, came up last Thursday evening to look after business interests in this vicinity. He left Monday evening in company with J. C. Thrall General Agent, for Whee ler County to look after the in surance business in that territory. A. A. Carothers of Rock Creek was a Condon visitor this week. Mr. P. C. Parker who was here last week visiting his son, Dave, left Monday morning for his home at Oakland, Oregon. Mr. Parker expressed himself as being pleased with Gilliam County and says' he never saw better prospects anywhere. Mrs. C. H. Horner, who has been visiting relatives and friends at Salem for some time returned Saturday evening. She was accompanied by her Bis ter who is now working at the post office. Mrs. Bour, daughter Irene aud son Ed., who have been in Port land for a year returned Sunday evening. They will remain on the ranch for two or three weeks before going back to Portland. The Oregon State Library Com mission has established a free traveling library at John Jack son's confectionery. It consists of forty-eight books of history, romance, story books for the young, books of instruction and other varieties, all by the best of well known authors. The best authorities are now agreed that the love and reading of good books produce better results than any of the definite knowledge that teachers can instill into their pupils' minds. James Rus sell Lowell says: "The opening of a free public library is a most important event in the history of any town. A college training is an excellent thing; but after all the better part Of a man's edu cation is that which he gives himself, and it is for this that a good library should furnish the opportunity and the means." All you have to do in 'order to take advantage of this oportunity is to write your name on a card and pick out your book, A. S. Hollen was in from his ranch on Pine Ridge Wednesday. He says that crops in general look better this year than he ever saw before. ' . Ed. Dodson formerly of Arl ington, who has been in California for the past year was in town this week purchasing new appa ratus' for Enberg & Montgom ery's threshing machine. He will fork for Enberg & ' Mont gomery this season at $7.50 per day. The North Pacific Rural Spirit of July 10 contains an excellent ar rmarkfthlv f re from technl- cost and are 'as good as Govern ment bonds.' The company has ample funds for the payment of losses and gives everyone 'a square deal;' it pays losses in full immediately upon receiving proof of death and pays them in cases where an animal has been killed because it was badly injur ed, its growth has been phe nomenal while its methods and the personnel of its directors are abundant guarantees of its suc cess." 1 A picnic at the forks of Rock Creek was enjoyed by fourteen of Condon's young people last Sunday. They had the usual amount of trouble, got lost etc. but had a good time neverthe less. ' - Mr. Strickler who was former ly with the Portland Flouring Mills came in from Portland the latter part of last week to take charge of the Arlington Lumber Company's books. He was acco mpanied by Mrs. Strickler and they will probably remain all summer. L T. Price received a letter from W. E. Patten last week and he reports that Mr. Patten says that he is greatly encouraged by the outlook of his mines. He is now procuring supplies to open his group of five claims, the prospects of which show up better than ever before. Elder A. J.Moore left Monday morning for Spokane, Washing ton, where he will stay for a few days before going to Mon tana where he will remain for a month or six weeks.. Henry- Neel of Lone Rock brought three cars of fat cattle to town last Sunday evening and intended to ship them out Mon day morning. He put them in a pasture on the Shaffer ranch Sunday evening and when he went after them Monday morn ing they had broken out and scattered over the surrounding' country. Mr,, Neel immediately started out to round them up and by Monday evening had one' car load which he shipped to Portland Tuesday morning. By i Tuesday evening he had them all but seven and was unable to lo-: cate these and shipped the rest i Wednesday morning. Some of ' the cattle strayed as far south as ' Mayville and Mr. Neel was lucky ' to find as many as he did in so short a time. While in Condon he subscribed for the Globe and anyone knowing of the where abouts of the cattle will confer a favor upon Mr. Neel by leaving word at this office. 5