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About Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1913)
Advertising is the yeast that raises your sales but like yeast it must contain the proper compounds '""I """J" . THE CIRCULATION Tho largest ftnchei home In every tectlun of Gilliam County THE GRAIN MARKET Wheat-CSub C8, Forty- Fold 68, Bluestem 73. Barley $-'0 GILLIAM COUNTY'S LEADING HOME PAPER VOL 24 CONDON, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1913. NO. 20 WHEELER CO. mil COMPETE FOR PREMIUMS Hat Been Asked To Jain in Tri Connty Fair. SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED BY 0. A. C. AS PRL'E TWO HARVEST CREWS AT WORK IN GILLIAM WHEAT FIELDS .V SHOWS DIFFERENT METHODS Other Prim Worth Going After. Morrow County May Bring Special Train. The Condon Business Mens' Association met in the court house Tuesday night ' It was decided to invite Wheeler county to bring exhibits tocompete with the other counties for the prized offered. In discussing the pre mium lists it was decided that nil business houxes contributing $25 or over should be entitled to nn advertisement in the list. It might be well to call attention to the fact that all copy for these ads must be turned in to the printing committe within ten days. The various committees made reports and, while nothing definite has been accomplished, arrangements are rounding into shape. A letter frcm Pres. Kerr of 0. A. C. was read to the effect that the college will offer a scholarship as a prize and this is well worth goingaftcr. Several parties at Lone Rock have asked that the sports include a one and one-half mile horse race. Mor row county has asked that the Condon base ball team play three games at that fair and they will in turn send their ball team with a special train to the Tri-County Fair. It in probable that the ball games will be in the fore . noon. W. B. SHELLEY IJLUEBRISTOW . W. Bert Shelley and Miss Lillie Bristow were married Wednes- day evening, August Cth, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Cham ness in this city by Judge D. R. Parker. Mr. Shelley has been a resident of Condon for several years and at present is doing very well in the life insurance business. Mrs. Shelley comes from Eugene. They will take an auto trip through the interior as a honeymoon. NEW" .AND SCRIP By Act of Congress nearly two thousand acres of approved land scrip is now available for use only in Oregon. It is the best and cheapest scrip put on the market in several years. Wit go quickly to patent. Take any land subject to homestead entry. Can furnish in application from forty acres up, as long as it lasts. We guarantee validity. The price will attract you. If you need some of it prompt action is necessary. Write or wire us. THE COLLINS LAND CO. Helena, Montana. FOR SALE Second-hand In dian motorcycle. In first-class condition. Call at the Wheat City Garage. . 20tf - 0 AA r DESTRUCTIVE STORM DOES MUCHDAMAGE Strikes Saturday Afterccon in Ferry Canyon. DAMAGE TO CROPS IS ESTIMATED AT $2S,CC0. Some Lose Entire Crcp. Glncrs Lose From One to Twelve Buthels Per Acre. SERIOUSLY HURT WHILE THRESHING Joseph Tatom had the misfor tune to get his clothes caught in a shaft on Geo. Smith's thresh ing machine and was severely shaken up. Dr. Low wa9 rushed to the s-. e in an auto and re ports that while no bonea were broken it will be some time before Mr. Tatom will be able to be around again. . M. M. Lewis renewed his sub scription to the Globe this week. FRANK LEGHORN EDITHJLARK Mr. Frank Leghorn and Miss Edith Clark both of Arlington; weie married in that city at one o'clock Weduesday afternoon at the home of the bride's parents, Rev. G.R. Moorehcad officiating, i After the ceremony and dinner! were over the couple immediate-j ly took the train for 'Portland, where they will' spend their I pect to make their home in Pendleton. CONDON'S MAIL ORDER BUSINESS REACHES AN ATTRACTIVE FIGURE- Approximately $72,000. Sent to Mail Order Houses Each Year. Cash Business Which Should Go To Home Merchants. Scars, Roebuck & Co. Lead. STARTS THRESHER IN NORTH GILLIAM Geo.' S. Smith started up his threshing machine the first of the week on the Van Winkle place near Arlington and from the reports everything is running fine and lots of wheat turning out. The amount of business sent to the mail order houses in J a year from Condon is enormous, in fact to ore who has never given any thought to the matter it is staggering. Sta- tisticsshow that approximately $200 per day, $6000 per J month or $72,000 per year, are 6ent to the mail order housts for supplies. Three-fourths of this amount is sent in money J orders and the remainder in express orders, checks and J drafts. Is it any wonder that the mail order houses flood J this territory with catalogues in an effort to get a share of this good business? Sears, Roebuck & Co, probably get the largest share of this business with the National Cloak and Suit Co. a good second. Thus $72,000 is sent out of the community every year. Not a cent of it ever gets-back to I the buyer nr does the expenditure of this amount benefit J the community in any way as it would if spent here in Con J don. These mail order houses do not help pay the taxes as J " the home merchants do. Ahso this is necessarily a cash J business. The mail order houses will not carry the farmer J on their books during a year of poor crops. Many people who now owe the local merchants are sending cash to the j mail order houses every week. The community cannot be J built up in this way. What is the remedy? SIX-GUN MAN IS IN COUNTY JAIL . A man beating his' waf W tire main line last week drew his gun on Conductor Shirey when the latter put him off the train. He was arrested in Arlington, given a preliminary hearing before Jus- tice Collins and bound over to appear before the grand jury in December. M. D. Shanks bro't him to Condon and turned him over to the sheriff for safe keeping. Another destructive hail storm struck Gilliam county late Satur day afternoon and much damage was done in Ferry Canyon. Al though the hail vrs considerably lighter than in the previous storm it wa3 accompanied by a high wind. It is estimated by those who have been over the path of the storm tl.at the dam age amounts to $25,000. One or two farmcis lost all of their wheat and other fie!d3 were damaged from one to twelve bushels per acrcr At Lewis Couture's place the storm was at its worst. His machine shed was demolished, a buggy was ruined and the top torn from his bi? mogul engine. Other farm ers who sustained losses are II. Ii Johnson. E. N- Beck, E. C. Maley, W. K. Farrar, Oscar M&Tey, J.I. MumVk-lohn J)ysart; A. K. York and others. York- had his grain insured. J.D. Weed has a new 1913 Reo. It is eauiDDed with electric lights and an electric self starter. Mr. and Mr?. A. Meresse left Sunday for a few weeks vaca tion which they will spend in the Willamette Valley and on the coast If. M. LEWIS MARYORENDORF Ms M. Lewis and Mary J. Oll endorff were united in marriage Wednesday, August 6th, in the Hotel Oregon parlor in this city Justice Hollen officiating. Mr and Mrs. Lewis are well known and respected residents of May villeand will make their home there.. FOR RENT-Star Hotel in Condon. 13 rooms in good shape. Call on or address John Knox, Condon, Oregon. d24pd. NEW WHEATTO MARKET The first car of 1913 wheat to be " shipped from Condon was billed out yesterday by the In terior Warehouse Co. It was all fortyfold and of the beat quality. Fishing with dynamite along the streams in the Pine Ridge neighborhood is liable to be an expensive sport if certain parties don't watch out. DESTROY THE WEEDS Attention has been called sev eral times through these columns to the law which exists in regard to obnoxious weeds. No attempt has ever been made, aparently, to enforce this law although it isj a good one. If enforced it would mean better crops for Gilliam County. GOOD WORKON STREETS The work on the streets pre liminnrv to navinir is nrotrrfs- - i ri . " SJ 'sing rapidly. The sewer con nections are all made as well as the connections to the water main. The actual paving will commence in the near future. Dan Pleasant went to Portland this week to undergo an opera tion for appendicitis. .. Last re uorts say he is getting along nicely. 32 BUSHELS PER ACRE The wheat crop which is now being cut and threshed on the Dunn ranch two miles west of Condon is averaging 32 bushels per acre. AUTO BUSINESS GOOD The lining of the county jail with steel was finished yester day. . In Oregon licenses have, been issued for 12, 129 automobiles and new ones are being registered at a marvellous rate. Figuring the average price at $1,000 there is invested in Oregon 12,129,000 in automobiles. Estimating the license fee as averaging $3.50 this means almost $50,000 road money for the state. In Oregon there ia one auto to every fifty six people. In Gilliam county there is one auto to every sixty one people. Mrs. J. H. Bosquet left yester day morning for her h(me inSt. Paul, after visitiner her son. A. Bosquet. CITY COUNCIL HAS VERY QUIET SESSION The city council met Monday night with Mayor Burns presid ing and councilmen Campbell, Cooke, Fitzmaurice and Hire present. Bills agairst the city lowed, i There was no business of any importance. 1 MORE STOCK IS SHIPPED THIS WEE A carload of hogs was shipped Sunday to Portland by, the Arl ington Lumber Co. J. E. Reynolds shipped a car of cattle Monday to the Portland market A fine daughter was born this week to Mr. and Mrs.E.Froman DEEDS FILED Till?! ACTivmr Myra V McKay to F E Pierce, 160A $1150 F E Pierce to J M Hoag, 160A . 1 State of Oregon to D Hardie . 80A 600 Mary Brown to Elsie Golden 1440A 1 J S Perkins to F L & Roy Montague, lots, Arl. 10 J P Rudolph to L A Edel- man and D Ward 80A 10 Sheriff to Wade & Wade Co . 150A 1200 W J Edwards to L C Prid- more, 40A . C00 L C Fridmore to Ed Mc- Ccnnll, 239.81A 4200 PATENTS U S to Myra V Stanton 1G0A ' Suits filed in Circuit Court -Interior Whse . Co vs J F Crane Y ii RobeTtsVs I Cflsennelt et'at , v.j t ,;. v c V Notice for Bids. Sealed bids w$l) be received fit the county clerk's oflice, Condon, Gilliam County, Oregon, on or before the hour of noon, on the 3rd day of September, 1913, for all or any part of, 18 cords of No. 1, 4-foot slab wood; 20 cords No. 1, 16-inch oak wood; 20 cords No. 1, 16 inch pine wood; 10 tons No. I coal. To be delivered on or before .September 20th, 1913. Each bidder must accompany his bid with a certified check made payable to C. N. Laughrige, county clerk of Gil liam county for the sum of ten percent of the amount of the bid. The court reserves the right to re ject any or all bids. .. C N. LAUGHRIGE. Coast, C1L .