JOHN DAT USI! Steiwer St , Carey
a nf i e l d
NEAR COMPLETION
TEN DAYS WORK WILL COM
PLETE LITTLE LOST VALLEY
SECTION.
WORK DONE IN CGW VALLEY
Road Worker» Move To Vale To
Spend Winter Month«—Concrete
Workei» Done.
From the Malheur Enterprise.
Despite the rainy weather of the
last two weeks, the Malheur county
unit of the John Day highway which
runs from the foot of the Brogan
hill, through Cow valley and Little
Lost valley to Unity Beam creek
section, is practically completed. The
entire stretch covers a distance of
over twenty miles. Tom Craig, sub
contractor for H. C. Boyer of On
tario, wound up the Cow Valley
stretch this week. Only the last
ends of the work remain to be fin
ished on the Little Lost Valley
stretch, which has been constructed
by Brown, Drummir, Smith and Ene-
beck.
Good Road Construction
Again very favorable reports
reach Vale regarding the construc
tion of this particular section of the
John Day highway. It has been
said that the grading excells any
road in this country. The Little
Lost valley section was also a most
difficult road project. Its construc
tion necessitated the filling in of
two very deep cuts and the levelling
of rather a steep hill. However, the
contractors have exceeded highest
expectations and have built what has
been called a masterpiece road.
Surfacing Next Year
The surfacing on the stretch from
Austin to Unity has just been com
pleted, and it is understood that the
surfacing on the Malheur county
unit will be done in 1926. This will
complete one of the finest road pro
jects in Oregon, a road that opens
a new country to long needed devel
opment.
TURKEY SHIPMENT
YALOED AT $1000
From the Malheur Enterprise.
R. E. Weant, local dealer, has es
timated that turkeys for the holiday
trade valued at about $7000 have
left the city this week for Payette,
where they have been loaded into
cars and shipped to the far eastern
market. Every day in the week
farmers of tha county have brought
in truck loads of fine, fat birds, and
they have been picked at Mr.
Weant’s headquarter« In the Diven
building.
Again this year, county farmers
have been fortunate hr growing a
produce that has brought a topnotch
market price. On Wednesday tur
keys jumped from 86 cents per
pound to 40 cents, the growers'
price. “Turkey growers are sure
making the money,” says Mr. Weant.
"Last year I paid as low ns 20 rents
for most of the turkeys bought. I
am glad to sect hem get the price,
however,” concluded the dealer.
The $7000 valuation of last week’s
shipping includes some thousand
turkeys, most of them having weigh
ed around fourteen pounds.
They
also complete the season’s shipment
cast. From now until Christmas,
the birds will be shipped to the coast
and used for local trade.
One of the finest turkey sales was
that Of Fretwell & Inma"n, of Owy
hee. The birds were unusi-ally large
weighing around 16 pounds, and
were perfectly fattened on com. The
birds grown by Orvall Scott, Mr.
Coon, Geo. McLaughlin, of Vale, by
J. L. Pope and John Norwood of
Jamieson also graded high.
DELINQUENT TAX SALE ON
PROPERTY VALUED AT $482,000
On Saturday, November 19th, at
» courthouse in Vale, Sheriff C.
. Glenn will sell at public auction,
bject to redemption, to the highest
ider for cash, all the right, title
d interest in and to property ly-
j in Malheur county, on which tax-
have become delinquent since
20.
The lands will be sold for
sea and accrued interest, to sat-
’y game to Malheur county, debt-
The land is valued at $482,000,
cording to the decree of foreclos-
e signed by Judge Dalton Biggs
November 28th.
Practically all of the land to be
Id at public sale next Saturday
nsists of farm land, and lies in
rious parts of the county. The
linquent list for 1920 also in-
ides a few outlying lota in Vale
d other town sites.
There will be no better opportun-
r for prt'Sy“ *lvo land buyers, and
:ich interest in the «ale has al-
ady been manifested.
P'M • ror III
THE CALL FOR A MAN
Wanted: A man who can find things to be done with*
Walter Looney is here from Port
land looking after business interests. out the help of a manager and three assistants.
A man who ^ets to work on time in the morning and
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Cowgill an
nounce the marriage of their daugh does not imperil the lives of others in an attempt to be
ter Ethel to Russell Dentei, at Cer- the first to quit work at night.
vallis, Oregon, on Thanksgiving
A man who is neat in appearance and does not sulk for
Day. They will continue their stud
an
hour’s overtime in emergencies.
ies at O. A. C.
A
man who listens carefully when he is spoken to and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lambert are
moving their household goods to the asks only enough questions to insure the accurate carry
45 ranch at Owyhee, Nevada. Mr. ing out of instructions.
A man who moves quickly and makes as little noise as
Lambert will visit relitives at Wei-
ser and Baker until spring.
possible about it.
Mrs. Mary Shepherd will leave
A man who looks you straight in the eye and tells the
this week for Stevenville, Montana, truth every time.
and after the holidays will enter the
A man who does not pity himself for having to work.
State Normal at Dillon.
A man who is cheerful, courteous to everyone and de
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baltzor of
»
Cow Creek are spending the week termined to “make good.”
A man who, when he does not know, says, “I do not
at Caldwell.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ditton visited j know,” and when he is asked to do anything says, “I’ll
at the Stanford home Saturday”.
try.”—Powell River Digester.
I
ÜULLLOt. Ill
COI]«IÏ AGENT WORK
A valued subscriber to The Voter
submits the following brief analysis:
'‘Steiwer ? He was in the Senate REPRESENTATIVES IN VARIOUS
when I was a member of the House; COUNTIES PROVIDED FOR IN
heavy, distant, not constituted to
TENTATI \ E BU DG ET.
make close affiliations; not an ora
tor; very ordinary as a speaker; we
Work of the college in coopera
have better timber.
“Judge Carey? A brainy man; tion with Oregon counties through
excellent lawyer with genial person the county extension agents last
ality; would be my choice of the year met with more than usual ap
proval by the people, reports F. L.
two.
Ballard, county agent leader. The
'‘Stanfield? His usefulness to the
number of extension agents cooper
state is incalculable; we want re atively suppoited by the counties
sults, accomplishment; he knows how promises to be greater next year.
to get results; is in a position that
All of the 35 college county rep
could not be caught up with in 10
resentatives
are provided for in ten
years by equally able man, and none
so able to get results; he as a trader tative budgets made out by the coun
and a trader always gets more re ty courts for 1926. In addition,
sults than a scholar or a lawyer in Polk county has made provision for
a legislative mix-up.”—Oregon Voter. an agricultural agent, Clackamas
The above estimate of the #nndi- for a county club leader, and Uma
dates for the Republican nomina tilla for an assistant county agent,
tion for United States Senatorj according to Ballard.
brings out the situation exactly, and 1 The widespread adoption of fed
it is unnecessary to add that, for the eration wheats east of the Cascades,
next few years, Oregon needs the development of alfalfa as a forage
most influential and able man avail crop in the Willamette valley, and a
big increase in vetch acreage in the
able.
The present time is most critical. coast counties, are three pieces of
We have outbuilded our ability to extension work that have attracted
much attention during 1925. Due to
pay.
the three-year demonstration pro
Accrueing interest has taken the
gram carried on by the extension
form of taxation that simple econ service, the acreage of fedt1 ratio t
omy will not reduce or legal advice wheats totalled approximately 400,-
relieve.
000 this year. The average increase
It is a predicament that nothing in yield is at least five bushels per
but constructive business will re acre.
lieve, by placing more valuations on
the tax rolls.
Who is offering to, or who can,
deliver the goods?
STANFIELD.
ROAD BOOSTERS MEET
Judge H. Lee Noe, of Malheur
county, was asked to accompany
Judge Johnson of Harney county and
an advisory committee to Portland
this week where they went for an
important conference with the state
highway commission, the bureau of
public roads and state forest serv
ice. However, Judge Noe was un
able to attend. The meeting was
called for the purpose of making up
the road budget for the coming year,
and no doubt money was included to
match the bond issue of $200,000
which Harney county will spend on
roads.
The proposition now facing Har
ney county is to get the most prac
tical roads designated by the high
way commission the first of the
year, thus putting the state in a po
sition to share expenses of road
building with state funds.
As $35,000 was included in the
Harney county bond issue for the
construction of the Bums-Drewsey
road to the Malheur county line, a
section of the proposed Central Ore
gon Highway, it too will likely be
designated by the state highway
commission.
1
OWYHEE
Mr. and Mrs. Overstreet and son
Robert and the faculties of the King-
man and Owyhee schools visited at
the Lowe home Thursday night and
listened to some popular old time or
old time popular music on the Lowe’s
new Silvertone.
Our box supper was a great suc
cess from every viewpoint and $24.-
75 was realized from the sale of the
beautiful boxes and the lovely cakes
and special lunches. Harry Evans
did the auctioneering and received
top prices for each box. We enjoy
ed the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Doc
Pullen from Roswell, and Mrs. Frank
DeBord and daughter from Payette,
as all these helped with our pro
gram.
Mrs. Evans and daughter Mrs.
Hennis received a much appreciated
Christmas gift from Mrs. Evans'
parents in Colorado. It was round-
trip tickets to visit them and they
will leave Saturday.
Mr. Evans
will ship out to Colorado a car of
apples for the Idaho Equity about
the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klingback en
tertained at a big farewell dinner
for the Evans Sunday. Those pres
ent were the honor guests and Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Fisher and Rev.
Snow.
It was decided at Sufiday School
that Rev. Snow would hold a series
of meetings at the schoolhouse this
week.
After this writing Mrs. Thomas
Lowe will take over the correspond
ence and we sincerely hope she may
have the cooperation in this work
that we have always received. Mrs.
Ixiwe’s telephone number is 73F12
and please call her when you have a
news item, for news from each fam
ily is what the absent ones rejoice
in. So please take time to help her
as rhe i* a T.-ry, very busy lady
and it seems that she is given every
thing to do K-cause she is so willing
and kind.
JORDAN VALLEY T
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Mrs. Hayiett and son Daniel, Jr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Strode were,
IT MAKES ALL THINGS NEW
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Fahin Sunday.
While it seems impossible to say anything new on the
Miss Irene Stitzel spent Monday subject of Christmas celebration, the miracle of the sea
and Tuesday the guest of Maxine son is that tlio custom of nearly 2,000 years makes prac
Hayiett.
tically all things new. The aged become young again
Tom Creicher is visiting his niece
through their rejoicing in the delights of the grand-chil
Mrs. J. W. Baltzor.
Miss Edna Lee spent the week end dren with the thing that once made their own eyes open
at the Cliffs, as the guest of Miss wide in wonder—memories of their own childhood also
come back to them.
Margaret Hardisty.
It is not simply a jest that papa also likes to play—
It was intended at the beginning
of school on Cow Creek to have a even though he may say it is just to test them—with the
month’s vacation at Christmas, but toys he buys for the youngsters. Thus, while the holi
as the weather is so nice it has been
day is particularly a festival for the children, emphasiz
decided to postpone the vacation un
til later, when the weather will be ing the story of the Babe in the Manger, it also has for
more stormy. There will be no holi the elders its pleasures and the wider significance of
days except Christmas and New ¿hat world-inspiring event in Bethlehem.
Year’s day.
The program committee of the
SIDELIGHTS
Cow Creek literary society is in
charge of the Christmas tree and
Mohammedanism, too, has its modernist problem .ac
program to be held at the school- cording to recent reports which tell of the dismissal of
house.
\li Abd-el-Razek, famed scholar, from the University
Ted Blaekstock of Squaw creek of Cairo, and his subsequent movement for a reform of
Every land has its Christmas cus was a business visitor at the Ditton
lam. With an engaging personality and a new brand
toms and superstitions, but it is only ranch the first of the week. Jle
since the Christian era that the spir- ] took home the herd of purebred Rel if religion he will not lack for enthusiastic followers.
it of kindness and good will has pre Polled cattle which have been pas
Those who buried King Tut were apparently determin
vailed all over.
turing here this fall.
ed that he should stay put. His mummy was found to
The Christmas stocking originat
The debate for the next meeting be firmly glued to the bottom of his gold coffin with a
ed in Italy and the legend goes that of Literary to he held December 18
dried pitch-like material, which defies removal.
good old St. Nicholas of Padua is ir,, Resolved, That there is more
responsible for it. He had a habit pleasure in pursuit than in possess
Students of the University of Alabama recently took
of going about the windows of the ion. The speakers for the affirm a
a
vote on the advisability of the United States joining
poor and slyly throwing in a knitted tive are Mrs. Chevally, Mr. Hayiett,
the
World Court, with an affirmative result. This ought
purse of money. After a time the [ Daniel Hayiett, negative, Maxine
purses were hung just outside th e , Hayiett, Irene Stitzel, R. A. Ditton. to settle that little matter and relieve our statesmen of
windows, so that he might skip n o : Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ditton and further worry about it.
one. In northern Italy it was so family called at Hayletts Sunday.
Qute a stir in prohibition circles has been made by the
cold that a stocking was substituted
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wolfe spent
and hung by the chimney place, and the past week at railroad points on recent report of the united committee of a large group
slipping down the chimney he would business.
of reform organizations, which says that if present en
put his gift there.
Miss Lydia Thiel was an all night forcement is the best the government can do it “ought
The Russian children fill their guest of Mrs. Riley Wyatt Saturday. to be pitied for its imbecility and damned for its incapa
shoes with hay ten days before
E. F. Baltzor returr/'d home Wed
Christmas and place them outside nesday from Homed ale with lumber city.” In reply Secretary Mellon described the prohibi
the door, so that St. Nicholas may and winter supplies. Mr. Baltzor is tionists’ session as “a meeting of radical reformers to
have food for his horse, for this is rebuilding his house on tha Spring blow off.”
the time he makes the rounds to
ranch.
It may or may not be of interest to know that Feng,
find where the good children live,
Robt. McConnell Js laying new
before going out to take the gifts. floors in his house on Mahogany Mt. famed “Christian general” of China, is a teetotaler; a
The Bulgarians think th at the ani
non-smoker, and a plain dresser, with a decided liking
mals talk with each other on Christ
for ice cream. He has also been described as a “special
mas night; the sheep walk in a pro
kind
of Christian, who teaches his soldiers to pray well
cession about the place, and the bees
and
shoot
better.”
hum in their hives.
In Sweden and Norway, thirteen
Clubwomen of Sioux Falls edited a newspaper for one
days are given over for the Christ
i
day
and kept all crime news off the front page.
mas festival and are called “Yule
days,” or “Tretten Yule.” For days
Charles Vincent of Glencoe, 111., mistook his war medal
In 1924, 593 Oregon people died
the house mother is busy making ev with tuberculosis. Best estimates In for a piece of candy in the dark and swallowed it.
erything spotlessly clean.
Boughs dicate that probably 5000 are afflicted
from the juniper and fir trees are with the disease. Careful studies show
Charles Ames of Carleton, Minn., was freed of a
spread upon the floor. The family that between the ages of 15 and 40, charge of making home brew by order of Judge H. J.
go, in turn, to the bake house, which which may be called the best years
Gannis, who said he sometimes made it himself.
has been made warm, and here each of life, more Oregonians die of tuber
culosis
than
from
any
other
cause
of
takes a good wash from head to
A number of girls at Columbia University have adopt-
foot. This is considered an import death and the same Is true through
out the United States as a whole. All ted small turtles as pets, since dogs and cats have been
ant part of the ceremonies, for in this is In spite of the fact tuberculosis
many cases it is the only bath taken Is known to be preventable and curu- barred from the institution.
until next Yuletide.
alile.
Congressman Hoch of Kansas declares that many ru
The children of today, and of all
“We know enough about tubercu ral mail carriers have soft snaps, working only three or
the days to come, will be glad that losis to scotch It within a generation.
the Roundheads of Oliver Cromwell’s It is not lack of knowledge, It Is lack four hours a day, while the farmers they serve must
time, and the Puritans of New Eng of application of knowledge that im work from dawn to dusk.
land, did not succeed in losing pedes our progress.” These were the
Russian dives have found the wreck of the English
Christmas off the map, as they tried words of Dr. Allen K. Krause, leading
so hard to do. The Bay Colony of American authority on tuberculosis, ship, Black Prince, sunk 59 years ago with eight mil
Massachusetts did prohibit the mak when he vi«lted Oregon last summer. lions of treasure.
He aiso pointed out that the knowl
ing of mince pies, for a time, and edge which makes physicians confi
Mrs. R. C. Shelton of Chicago buried her pet canary
declared that trimming the house dently assort that "tuberculosis Is pre
with greens was a wicked and pagan ventable and cureahle’’ Is not knowl in a small mahogany coffin which she had made for it.
custom. But we have good author edge regarding medicines or treat
ity for even this custom, for Christ’s ments that can be called “specliic
only day of public honor on earth cures.” It Is knowedge regarding the
was marked by the strewing of palm fundamental rules of healthy living.
It Is disregard of the rules of healthy
branches before Him on the day of
living that permits tuberculosis to con
His entrance into Jerusalem.
tinue as so great a menace to humane
In pagan days the boughs of holly life. It Is knowledge of these rules,
and spruce were supposed to be and care In their application which
placed so that the sprites and fairies will eventually overcome tuberculosis.
might have a place to hide, and bring It Is the tremendous progress In this
good luck to the family. But the direction which has made possible the
Of Rural Schools in Mal^ur County
Christian world has given a spiritual 'tO 'f i reduction in the tuberculosis death
meaning to even this custom. The rate in the United States within the
We have Elementary Grade
boughs of fir and spruce signify the last 15 years, and the 28% reduction In
Oregon's
rate
within
the
last
ten
years.
power and love of God, which shall
Christmas Seals finance the cam
flourish as a green bay tree, and live
paign of the Oregon Tuherculosls As
to endless time.
sociation which is speclficly designed
to meet the need of teaching health.
~I wish to cordially endorse the com Public Health nurses are put Into the
ing anti-tuberculosis campaign In Ore field In Oregon.
Health teaching is
gon, through the sale of Christmas taken Into the Oregon schools. Liter
Seals. I note with pleasure the report ature Is distributed, exhibits are pre
of the great decrease In the death rate pared. and every known channel of
from tuherculosls In our hone- stale, teaching health Is employed.
during the past fourteen years, and be
Send in your order now.
The objective of the health teach
lieve that this Is due In a large ing Is to overcome tuberculosis by
measure to the money derived from striking at Its vulnerable spot.
the sale of Christmas Seals.
“The Christmas Seal campaign Is
a most worthy one and I consider It a W hon T h o y Do, Thoy>ro F at
distinct privilege to be able to add my
A Portland woman la having a dr«e*
VALE, OREGON
trslimony to the great number who mink- of red, white and bine, heran*-
hold a like op’n'on ••
ahe «ay» thuf they are rolora that were
HON. N. J. SINN O TT. , never known to run.—Portland Ex
IN MANY COUNTRIES
CHRISTMAS SEALS AND
TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT
J
TEACHERS!
REPORT
CARDS
Malheur Enterprise
U. S. R ep resen tativ e from Oregon. •MM.