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GILLIAM COUNTY'S LEADING HOME PAPER VOL. 29 CONDON, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 8, 1918 Armistice Is Not Signed Says Washington; Report Premature The report reached Condon yesterday morning that Germany had signed an armistice and (freed to tha allied Urma for peace. At first tt appeared to be authentic and tha rejoicing waa gen eral Toll morning, however, aapecial dlapatch to tha Globe from Portland CITY ElECTION IS VERY UNINTERESTING Very little interest was taken in the election of city officers Tuesday, in fact. many people forgot that there was a city ticket to be scratched. Only three names appeared on the ballot and these were M. Fitz maurice for mayor and J. C. Sturgiil and John Jackson for couiictlmen. There was no op position to any of the offices. M. Fitzmaurlce received 104 votes, J. C. Sturgiil 106 and John Jack ton 109. That the people are. well satisfied with Myrtle Fergu son for treasurer is shown by the fact that 91 wrote her name in on -the ballot and re-elected her. Howard Snyder received 16 votes for councilman, 'electing him to that office There were 123 voters who were not satisfied with the entire ticket as it stood and these wrote in 43 names for the various offices to be filled. CHRISTMAS BOXES MUST BE SENT SOON The following Instructions have been iiaued by the American Red Cron In regard to the tending of Christmas par cels to the boys overseas. To avoid any duplication and to make aure that each parcel la correctly ad dressed a "Christmas Parcel Label" is being Issued to every man abroad. Every man abroad will mail hla label to aome relative or friend who will be entitled to send him a parcel by com plying with the conditions set forth. The relative or friend who receives a "Christmas Parcel Label" will tee Mrs. C. (I. Hornet, Mia. J. J. Port wood or J. C. 8turgill for information and cartons. The cartons are specially manufac tured and are 8x4x8 inchea in aise, and may be filled with any combination of articles that fit in and which are not barred from Christmas parcels by tl.e Post Office department. The weight of the parcel must not exceed two pounds fifteen ounces unwrapped. When carton la filled it must be taken to the local committee for inspection. All notes and messages will be removed and It will be wrapped, tied and weighed. One of the committee will attach the "Christmas Parcola Label" bearing the name and address of the recipient. The person sending the par cel shall then in the presence of the Red Cross representative, affix atamps at the rate of 12 cent for each pound or fraction thereof. The Red Cross Inspection label will be placed on the parcel and it will De mailed by the Red Cross committee. No Christmas parcels can be mailed later than November 20. No duplicate can be Issued if a "ChristmasParcel Label" la lost. This rule cannot be altered by anybody. Another Gilliam Farm Named Mr. and Mrs. Julius Kot.h of Mayville havo decided that they should use printed envelopes for their home which they call "Meadow Brook Farm." Every farmer in the county should - use printed Stationery just as much as the business inan in town and if a farm has an appropriate name so much the better. . Frank Hollen is able to be at the store again after an attack of influenza. : , - Dr. W. H. Reynolds returned from Monument Tuesday to re main for a few days. aayi that aa yet there ta no truth to the report; that the armistice haa not yet beon algned and that yesterday's report haa been denied from Washing ton. It la only a question of a abort time anyway for the Hun la licked to a fraule. WAR WORK DEMANDS INCREASE IN QUOTA United War Work Campaign Committee Condon, Oregon. You are urged to impress upon your paperi the fact that Director Davidson and every official of the drive urge ail possible publicity that people must give now more liberally than evtr as heaviest welfare work la yet to be done, probably covering years. Use every means at your command to im press people in regard to this. . ., Thia telegram was received last night and la self-explanatory. The quota for Gilliam county in thia campaign is SS60O, but It is asked that it be increased by half, making the quota $8400. The local committee advisee however that Inasmuch aa ratines have been made and notices mailed the raiae asked for must be met by voluntary subscriptions. No more notices will be mailed. This increase of fifty per eent haa the unan imous endorsement of tha thirty-five members of the National Executive Committee and the unqualified endorse ment of President Wilson and Secretary Baker. If you haven't aent in your assessment, juat add GO per cent more to it and mail It in. Those of ou who have sent in your checks are asked to donate again 60 per cent of your rating. fay your assessment to the bank or remit to the United War Work Com mittee, Coadeit,- Oregon, and don't fail to do this at once that Gilliam county may not fail to raise It full quota. The money is needed more after an armistice baa been signed than be fore because the work falling on the welfare organisations ia much heavier and will continue to be for probably two years. Thia may be the last drive for funds for these'organitations so let us show our appreciation to the boys by paying our assessments with, a 60 per cent raise at once. JAMES SHELL IS KILLED INACTIOJUEPT.30 Beneath the lillies in some battle- scarred field of northern France, an other horo'a grave haa been filled by a Condon boy. James Shell, one of the first borne boys to go under the draft, met his death there September 30. "Killed in action" said the message which arrived in Condon last night and everyone stopped for a short time in reverent homage to the memqry of this man who had given his all that his land might not be desecrated by the Hun. The memory of such heroes will be the greatest monument they could have and the words "Killed in Action" "the moat glorious epitaph. . , COMPANY ADJUSTS FIRE LOSSES PROMPTLY The Pacific States Fire Insur ance Company has a reputation for paying its losses promptly and this has been well illustrated in Condon recently by the quick action resulting from the fire which destroyed the Hardie home here. f. T. Hurlburt, local agent for the Pacific States, had insured this property and notified Mr. Kertchem, the adjuster, who arrived here Tuesday of last week to estimate the loss. On Friday, two. days . Jater. . Mr.v Hardie received a check for the full amount of her policy from the company. A. B. Robertson and Mart Blakely returned Tuesday from a business trip to Monument. A. B. Bower is suffering from an attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Gerald Burns is seriously ill at her home in this city. HENRY PERRY CALLED TO FINAL REST Henry Perry has been called to join the ranks of the Gilliam county pioneers who have passed over to the other side of the di vide to the valley of peace where there is no more pioneering and in his passing Lone Rock and Gilliam county have lost a re spected citizen and a fine neigh bor. , , Henry Perry was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, April 15, 1838, and came to America at the age of 24 years. After living in Pittsburg 28 years, he came to Oregon May 3, 1887, settling on a homestead where he lived until his death October 29, 1918. He was married November 7, 1864, to Mary Ann Moore, her death occurring one year later. He was again married April 1, 1875, to Eliza' Donaldson and to this union were born five children, one of whom died in infancy. Two boys and two girls grew to manhood and womanhood. They were Margaret A, Mary A., William D., and Thomas H. His wife passed on July 5, 1889, two years after settling near Lone Rock, Mary A. died April 30, 1901. at the age of 23 years and William D. died June 10, 1906, at the age of 25 years. Margaret A. Hamilton and Thomas H. Perry survive, also his Bister, Mrs. S. A. Scott of Lone Rock, three grandchildren, one of whom is Oliver P. Rinehart now . in France, three great-grandchildren and a number of nieces ' and nephews. At the time of his death his age was 80 years, 6 months and 14 days. He united with the Presbyterian church when a young man and was a regular attendant at church and Sabbath school until ill ' health kept him away. Funeral ser vices were held in the M. E. church at Lone Rock Thursday afternoon after which he was laid to rest in the Lone Rock cemetery beside his wife and children and a brother who died many years ago. CARTRIDGE EXPLOSION INJURES BOY'S HAND Clinton Hambleton, the 12- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Hambleton of this city,, had his hand severely injured Wednes day afternoon by the explosion of a 44 , calibre cartridge. ' He had taken the bullet out of the brass shell and filled the vacancy with wax. Then he set the cartridge on the cement floor and discharged it with a chisel and hammer. The shell exploded and a piece of the brass cut the palm of his hand quite badly and severed one of the arteries. - A physician was called and dressed the wound. : v CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank the kind friends and neighbors who so kindly and willingly assisted us during the illness and death of our dear father and" brother, Henry Perry, and also for the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. M. A, Hamilton and Family Mr. and," Mrs. Thomas H. Perry i Mrs. S. A. Scott and Family. Tom Port wood is 'a new sub scriber to the county official newspaper, the Globe. James Hardie sprained ! his wrist severely Saturday evening when the Ford he. was cranking balked and kicked back. : ' R. J. Carsner of Spray .was in Condon yesterday, ... . . . WHATDOES OUR MAYOR MEAN TO INSINUATE "The unwritten law in this county which says two terms for sheriff" looks today just about the same as a Kansas silo after being struck by a cyclone. The people went to the polls Tuesday and pole-axed that "unwritten law" and put it where it belongs in the archives of ancient his tory and in doing so registered their approval of the conditions in the .sheriff's office by telling J. W. Lillie to stay for another term at least All this in spite of the fact that the editor of the Times and the mayor of our city, arose last week in all his official dignity and told the people: "We do not think any man should have a life lease of any of the county offices besides it would not be a bad idea to change con ditions over at the courthouse and give some one else a chance to serve the . county." What conditions did our mayor have in mind ? Does he think there is something wrong with the way the officials are handling the county business? And why did he not explain these "conditions which should be changed?" Our mayor should have explained if he wished to jret results for the general impression - seems to be that he was just peeved about something and' his reference to "conditions" a lot of bunk cre ated by himself to start a sus picion in the minds of the voters. He probably overlooked the fact that the average voter in this county is just . as intelligent as he is, if such a thing maybe said without violating the dignity of our mayor. ; Did we hear any thing about changing the. con ditions Jn the city, and giving some one else a chance to serve the city? Neigh, neigh but that is a different horse. Our mayor and Times editor said further: "Things have been lovely over there (courthouse) for quite a while but there are a number of honest voters who think it is time to pry some noses loose from the county hog trough and there are quite a few Repub licans who will aid in a general cleaning." It is true things have been "lovely' over there" for Dan McFarlane has kept the courthouse and grounds in fine condition, we all know that. But what everybody wants to know is, whose nose is going to get the. pry? And where is the trough? And what is it? The people wonder about these things and want to know. Our mayor should tell them. )t is true that 'quite, a few Republicans did aid1 in- the cleaning cleaning the! unwritten law" and electing a Democratic sheriff in a Republi can county quite true. Our mayor also ordered: "The fifth of November is the day to dp this much needed job, and see that you do it right." The peo pie did it "right," allright, and nice and brown at that, but per haps they didn't understand our mayor. He should have ex plained the "conditions" he re ferred "to and told what he knows about "noses" and "hog troughs" and it is not too late yet to do this for the people want to know these things after election just the same as before and. they are too intelligent to pay attention to mere insinuations. Such direct hints should be beneath the dig nity of our mayor. ; Will Shea is at Oregon City and wants his Globe sent there. He says the influenza is bad there and says "if I don't get it I am awfully tough or luckv ...,,...-, VERY LITTLE INTEREST SHOWN IN ELECTION - The election in Gilliam county was very quiet. Not much in terest was shown in any of the contests for the various offices. Gilliam county gave a majority to every republican candidate ex cept in the contest for sheriff, in which instance many of them voted for J. W. Lillie, democrat, and A. S. Bennett for Justice of Supreme Court Following are the official figures on the candi dates: Bean 82, Mulkey 569; McNary 530, Slaughter .8. West 362; Graham 262, Sinnott 564, vvarmholtz 15; Tierce 323, Ramp 15, Withycombe 553; Hoff 524, Mason 288, Sears 23; Evans 82, Johns 614; Bennett 168, Coke 6. Olson 13. Campbell 17; Brown 636, Cannon 343;' Churchill 735, Lusk 52; Gram 691, Nikula41; Johnson 51, Williams 704: Cochran 670, McFarland 52: Stewart 525, .Wright 372. Wilson 265. . Following are the figures on the county candidates: Maid- ment 673; Lillie 535, Wade 366; Schroeder 729; Graves 666, and Kirschner 638. In Sherman county the vote for representative was as follows: Stewart 385; Wright 805; Wilson 30J. Wheeler county, cast an overwhelming vote for Stewart and Wright so these two 'candi dates will represent this district in the state legislature. WIUHOLLEN WOUNDED BY SHRAPNEL The Hollen family received letter this week, written October 12, from Will Hollen in France in which he said he had been wounded by a piece of shrapnel in the left leg above the knee on September 29. At the time of writ ing the letter he was in a base hospital in southern France and getting along nicely. He waa fighting with his com pany in the Argonne sector when he was wounded. Mrs. Walter D'Nelly arrived this morning from Toronto, Can ada, for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Smith. Assessment Summary Is Good There are 11,352 more acres of land this year on the assess ment roll than last. Of this amount. 6,842 are tillable acres and the remainder, non tillable. This increases the total of tax able property by $1,256,540. The improvements on these acres have also raised in value over $100,000. Town and city lots are not so high as last year, but improvements are considerably higher. The amount of grain on hand this year was very much lower than last year as is shown by a difference of $392,290 in valuation. Merchandise and stock in trade have fallen off a little while farming implements Summary of Assessment Roll for Gilliam County , for the Year 1918 ' EUi E. Campbell, Aiseisor f : NuraW - i Valuation Acre, of tillable land ., 203533 Kt76.40i.00 Acre, of non-tillable land 32R45 I.4Ot.US.0O Improvement, on deeded or patented land, y , " 46. MO OS Town and city lota i ..... " KU.TTO0O Improvement, on town and city lot, . ...,' ...' 869 SUVA Improvement, on land, not deeded or patented ' ' r,13&n( Grain , -. ' eO.S3O.O0 Steamboat,. UUonarj enffme, and manufacturing machinery . - 2S.nO.0D Merchandiae and stock In trade . " " . 16a.6M.00 Farming Implement, 8S0.0M.uO Monev. notes and account, - S80.aiS.OS Share, of tock . .1350 IS9.S7T.tt Hotel and office furniture - ' H'0-0 Horaea and mule, ' , 1 TWO . 6So.tli.0a Cattle - 7712 r ' ' su.SSO.OS Sheen . - . :- 81181 ' 1 : LUMSOAS Swine ' ... - . 21T ... SSVafctOO Dog, 109 1A50.OO Wool ! . :0.875.0rl Automobile , 833 5an.67C.uo 1 , ' Total value of taxable property a, finally equalized by the t 1 I '.' County Board of Equalization ' tio.ait.1iK Thi, doe, not include railroad, and other Tax Commieion,virhici HOW WILL YOU I WHEN THEY CO"! By Bruce Barton 1 I lifted the receiver of th ephone. and almost droppl agujn in surprise, for me ; was that of my good old fr and I supposed him far awi France. "What, back so soon?" I claimed. "Detailed for spl duty?" ' I "Yes, back,'' r he answe j and it struck me that bis v j was slower and older, as tho the weeks of his absence been years. "Back but not special duty. There thert another reason." i And then I knew that he m be wounded. ... ! Wounded while here at bor I still . pursued my ordini course. Wounded to prot my home. Wounded to ke my children safe. It came ov me of a sudden, as it never b before, that I am debtor to hi to'an account that I never c; repay. They will all be coming bac , before long. Some wounde some grown strangely old. Bi most of them well and normi enough, thank God. . I And" we- will stand long th sidewalks to see them pass. Hot shall we feel that day, I wonder Will their eyes say to us, "Wt! were hungry for a bit, of sweet and you did not think to send it.'f "We were cold and you let tht! hut fires die; wewere lonesome' and the movies stopped because! there were no funds to carry on."! Will that be the message of their eyes to us? ' Or shall we stand confidently in their presence, greeting them as men who have nothing to re pent. As men who in their ab sence gave freely of wealth and time, that there might be warmth and cheer and comfort over there? They are coming back some day, perhaps before we think. And what will be the' message of their eyes to you? , Send in your assessment have almost doubled. Nearly twice as much value in money, notes and accounts were given in this year. Horsei mules, cattle and sheep have increased in number and value while hogs have decreased in ' both. There , were nearly $40,000 worth of wool on hand thia year compared to none last year " There are 49 more dogs this year, than last and these increased the county by practically. $(100. . There are 102 more auto3 j this' year and , these are worth", nearly $70,000 more. It is., a good, roll and brings Gilliam's valuation' up to more than ten raillion dollars. piililw i-orpnrnfi Vi-lyi. r