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Be Fair ! Always Fair ! ' We All Make Mistakes! EDITORIAL PAGE Conducted by James L. Corey It is a truth no familiar as to be almost a platitude, that we gain real and permament benefit only from those things we acquire through our own effort and at the cost of some hardship or personal sacrifice, and that we value them in exact porportion to the degree of effort required to obtain them: and it is also true that we find no means of growth and development in advantages which are bestowed upon us as a gift from some one immeasurably richer and more powerful than ourselves. And just behind this truth lies the question of the great primul right given to all humanity the right to work. Fruit Market Watermelons have been coming into the Enterprise market from the Imuuha country the past two weeks' and selling at good prices. Other fruit has been - rather slow in coming in. Teaches have sold ut $1.00 per box in Enterprise, while down around Napa, v California, they are selling for $2.00. Just four times that received any previous year for this fruit. California. Oregon and Washington have enjoyed a fair crop of peaches this year but owing to a complete failure in the east these high prices are due. In California they are now offering fourteen cents for dried peaches where the price before this was six and one-half cents. There seems to be no question but that the high prices prevailing for the early fruit will con tinue for the peach, apricot and pear crops. ' Batter Goes Up Portladd manufacturers and dealers have decided to raise the price of butter in the retail markets from, 70 to 75 cents a roll which means a price of 80 cents. This advance will he made by the Hazelwood Cream Co. Down east they consider 20 cents a good price. The diaryman is king out in this land. The local butter market this week is 70c per roll. . "I seek not to make men read but to make them think." Montesqueieu. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman of Spokane are in the city looking for an investment in the cigar manufacturing business. State Superintendent Ackerman delivtrtd a very instructive lecture at the M. E. chnroh Tuesday evening. George B. Clark was arrested the fore part of the week upon complaint of Mrs. Clark, charging him with incest. He was bound over to the November term of court, with bonds at $2500. Wra. Zurchor was up in court this week charged with leaving a dead calf in the ditch. IIo was declared not guilty by the jury. , That Singer sewing machine at Ashley's is now down to $47. Someone will get a bargain. Now is the time to grab it. Fred Savage is off for a vacation on the coast. Miss Joyce Craig has returned to Walla Watla. She will visit a few days in Portland with relatives. Mrs. S. M. Hanville is in the citv to take op her duties as a teacher. Owing to illness Prof. Mulkey will not be able to lecture here as advertised. Prof. U.J. llookonberry of LaGrande will substitute for him at Flora. The Teaohers' Institute at Joseph inn weea naa wen attended by some thlrty-threo teachers. All report a very successful meeting. State Supt. Ackerman and Prof. II. J. Hoekenborry of La Grande assisted Supt. Kerns. ENTERPRISE OPERA HOUSE Watch for Next Announce , ment Do You Thinh? The great mass of us today accept our standards without thinking. We used to think, but we do not now. We have let our commercial prosperity establish for us a set of machine-made standards. People who are ready for the beauty that grows out of honesty and simplicity will reach out for it; those who are not, will not be grateful to have it thrust upon them. It is hard to make people regard unwelcome in formation as a benefit. And when you get on the farther side of life you will feel that the most important thing in life for you is what it has taught you. ' FRIENDS With the next issue of the News-Record the announcement of my successor will no doubt be made. Having accepted a position else where I wish to say to those friends and well-wishers who have ex pressed regrets that a chance was to be miuln. that it ia mv intninn tr. return to the newspaper field in Wallowa county in the near future. The News-Record has been sent forth each week knowing it would carry good cheer and blessing to Borne homes and heart, and, I trUBt, to many. 10 tnose who have extended their hearty support, and good will, I wish to bay. individually. I thank vnul ' Did you ever think how transitory most of the friendships of life n ' ... La it . . i 1 . 1 . uio mm very sugni me ue mat Dinasus even to those whose company we enjoy, and whose pleasure we would promote? How easily change . . f ... 1 ! . - - 1 . .i . t . . . . U1 V' ur uiruuuibmiice crowas out me oia occupants of the heart and welcomes new ones in! We are surrounded with pleasant people here in Enterprise, their Bociety fills a large place in our lives, their respect and esteem is hiehlv valued, we are elad to reneivfi nd render faur.ro. but let us be removed from them but a Bhort distance, just so that the omits or our daily meflo not intersect each other, anl somehow they fade imperceptibly but surely away, just a- the mist fades or the closing day darkens. And the dead they whose life, while living, seemed a necessity to our own, apd whose death waB like an eclipse of all our joyous being how eaBily we become accustomed to their absence, and daily duties and new-found loves bridge ovef the gloomy chaos which their de parture made. v But Bome friendships live; some loves tale such deep hold upon the heart that , "Time but the Impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deepelr wear." Did you ever so into some rich old nictura pallerv nVrn th rna ww I O m J J vi IT U1JO were hung with glowing maBter-pieces of nature and life grandeur to - .i t i i . i i . uwo mo boui, ana Deauiy 10 aeugnt the eye, and where the ceilings were illuminated by the hand of genius and radiant with the very smile and triumph of art? Those pictures come and go. Where you find a favorite today a new-comer will hani? tnmnrrnw hnt. th (.n " a vuw . vj iitovucu miraclea of art stay steadfast in their-place. -No-change disturbs them, but there they remain, growing ripe and mellow with age. Just bo it is with the heart. Many pleasant occupants come and go, but there are those who stay, like the frescoes on the walls and are an integral portion of the heart itself. He who has such friends whose memory is a picture gallery, where in frescoed beauty smile the faces of unfading love is rich indeed, rich in goods that cannot be purchased in the market, and wtioBe value does not fluctuate with the price of gold. That you and I, may have such friends, and deserve them, is the wi eh of James L. Corey. N mirers of Wallowa county. He has been able to grasp great beauty in our hills and valley. Each scene has had its value to him, from the fragrant, green "Alder Slope" that stire the memory and affection to the "Neglected Farm" with its melancholy meadows, empty gray house and wistful flower patch that radiates desolation and Borrow, as is often seen in the Williametle valley. Said he. "I have traveled all over the state of Oregon, have Been many beautiful homes, fine ranches, fine people but, here in Wallowa county, I have found my ideal of a future 'home. It has been truly named when you say it is the "Switzerland of America," and I ee no reason after the railroad has been finished into your valley why' yon should not have a city here of at least five thousand inhabitants in a very short time." LooK Here Neighbor There is a very concise letter in this issue from Mf.' A. C. Miller.. It covers the pointq honestly, fairly, and correctly. Read it carefully before you contradict yourself agajn in your next . issue. ' . .. ' You'll admit it is a good thought. Fine advice. The editor of the News-Record stands for fair play, a fair fight. Any other method is the way of the thug, the sandbagger. A decent man's brain is polluted by considering such practices. " Stop it man You have a good paper; one of the beet in the county. Wait until you know the men of Enterprise. Stand from under. Get : out of the anvil chorus: Leave the hammer brigade. Be fine. Be. broad. Rp n. man And you will be successful, no doubt, as others have been. Your senseless talk against a few of the citizens of Enterprise cannot injure the community. ' It does injure ou. . ' Are you bettering yourself ? Are you improving bonditio'ns by that line of attack? V v. ; Don't you think your energy is misdirected? Recoils sometimes kick hard. "Madness jn great ones must not unwatched go." Did you note the lyrical quality of that poetry, that prose, which you have quoted in your last referring to Enterprise, hasn't it a rare swing, a vigor as individual as that of Carlyle, and yet, a melody like unto the cadence of Pater. Don't you think'it would apply more aptly to yourselves? - . Then another thing.. ,. x By BUch tactics VOU do not tret tn crpther Onn man ia fiohfirxr thk w r o O ---w . vw mjhii aw MfjMviaag VU7 other and in his personal, private, grudge he brines the town, other people into it. That isn't fair. That isn't manly. Stop it. Quit it. --It isn't worth while. It creates nomine but disgust. Boost. It's better. It makes Homet.hintr. For Beautiful Enterprise Ever and ever this truth will stand, where the vine twines over the cottage door; where the green, umbrageous trees, swaying to and fro, in the Bummer winds, cast their grateful shade o'er the greening lawns, or the blossoming buds of odorous flowers; this is Home, that spot where the heart of man ever centers, the comfort of hi declining years. Here, at Enterprise, in the richest soil on the face of the earth, under the most benign sunshine, in the most salubrious climate, we all of us, may have such a home. ' ' And the value of it will last beyond the years of our life and into the future, amid a posterity which will say of us: "They builded well." And for us, in the present, while we are yet alive there is also re ward, the actual reward that comes of beauty, the potential reward that comes of effort. This newspaper believes in the City Beautiful, believes in it aa an actual force in the material development of this community; believes that it brings actual, financial returns. Let us make a City Beautiful of Enl. rprisei There is not . A that grows anywhere that will not grow hero and a united effori will do niucn, to make this the most beautiful city in northeast Oregon. A Word of Praise From a Strang'er We were visited Sunday by Mr. Jason B. Wilkinson of Mason City, Iowa, a very able business man of that city. We inquired of him his viewa as to the future of our 'county and eity, from his, a stranger's viewpoint. In his response, Mr. Wilkinson epoke slowly and with some hesitation. There was no sparkle, no enthusiasm, just a few plain words from an essentialy simple man, as the greatest are often simple, yet what he said made clear his title to rank among the ad- I -Soap! 7-room house, outbuildings, large "barn, acre of land, on stream of water,v plenty of shade trees, only two "blocks from business part of town, $l,325.pO, $450 with your own time .on "balance: When we say it is a snap you can depend upon it Daniel Boyd Secy, of Wallowa Law Land and Abstract Company I