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HiiSnnBnnaBHanannBHnnacnannannannnnan ..MHNnnnnnniififiannnagDauuD uuu a a a u u Ire ffflKDl (0) from Enterprise to LaGrande and R etUril Custom Made Suit a We Will Pay Railroad Fare IHAVENOREPRESENTAIWEINENTER U a a famous Stine-Block Ready Made Suit LAGRANDE, . OREGON D a THE NEWS RECORD K V (Twlce-a-Week.) AW IMDBPBNDKNT Formerly the .Wallowa News, astab iished March 3, 1899. f - - - Published Wednesdays ana Satur days at Enterprise, Oregon, by ? THE ENTERPRISE PRESS Office East side Court HoSquare Entered as - second-class . matter January 2, 1909, at the postofflce at Enterprise. Oregon, under the Act of March 3. 1879. Subscription Rates: One year $2. elz monthe $1, three months 60c, JSc Is given. J I. ij. Pltzer went to Walla Walla Frllay to. enter a hospital for am op eration. Mrs. Margeret Bunnell, of Portland, came up from Wallowa, Sunday, to vlalt her sister, Mrs. O. M. grains. A letter from R. D. Sanford, re newing his subscription, for, another year, states that he Is much, pleased with his new location at, abuiu.hu. Born to the1 wife of Luther, camp bell, at the home of her parentsv Mr. and Mrs. Emll Gaertner, on Swamp Creek, January 24,' a) daugh ter. Tha. rM service examination of applicants for census enumerator of Land Opening Umatilla Project HERMISTON, OREGON February 10,1910 'WEDNESDAY1! FEBRUARY 2, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Walker Franklin ar "i rived here Saturday. I. T3orn to the wife of Geo. W. Hyatt, i Saiturday, January 29, a son. ?.' 3. J. Maglll and J. B. Williamson of Loatine were to thto city on toust- " seas, Monday. I'. Attorney D, W. Sheahan oee to 'Portland Thursday as attorney In a $!sult In the Federal court iVn., SK cents at Fl- f ' cock's restaurant 2nd door south of t-'R. P. & Z. 64W1 i t : Watch this Space for Further the schoolhouse, Saturday, February 5, at 1:30 p. m. Th i, J. Jordan horse sale Sat urday waa veil attended and the horses brought good, prices, totaling The highest price brought ')y one animal was $155. Fred Savage, book-keeper at the V. J. Funk & Co.'s store, went to Portlai h Saturday for a couple of weeke visit with home folks. a Mrs. J. M. Hbcketb of Eugene, aim MJsa Watt Hoekett of Condon, moth er and stater of Dr. C. T, Hockett, are guests at his home 1th this city. Mrs. Geo. W. Frazler, wife of Je well known Flora merchant, was brought here Monday for medical treatment, and! is at the Hotel Earner arise. Mr. Frazler accompanied heT. Mr. andi Mrs. Clarence E. Vest and i.mrhtAr Rnld lve Thursday morn tag, Mr3. Vest and Enid going to Luzon, Wash., to visit M. vest parents, while Mr. Vest goes on a prospecting tour to southern Oregon indi California. Josenh Hei aid: Letters received iw him narenta, from B. W. Ruralble, who with his bride, formerly Miss Tininv Starr, la taking am extenaea iaririiiur nnr sta'e that they have TW- --0 ' " vailed for Cuba, where they expect to remain for several days Misses Florence anil Nora Reed, ovulate hv Miss Lottie Duncan, ?av a most succeseflul party at the home of Samuel Brker, (Friday even ling, January 28, In honor of Mr. Ba ker's birthday. The evening, was enjoyably spent in playing games with an occasional Instrumental ee lection by Miss Ava Oonbway or a long by Miss Ethel Weaver. A de licious supper wns served. Mr. Ba ker was 111 win rheumatism and while he could not take much part in the sports, he enjoyed seeing the others have a good time. For the above occasion rourtl trip Mckets will be soldi to Henmlstom Oregon, at one first-class fare and onethlrd. Sale dates Feb. 7 and 8. Final! return Mm It February 20. Children 'of -half fare age, one-half of the above rate3. ; W. M. MoMurray, : General Passenger Agent O. R. & N. Eskimo Courtship. t Tnrni wiin doath scenes astonish. the consenting "Yes" of a bride at mar riage shocks an Eskimo woman. Not must hridfi show bersell uncon- gentlng; she must. If she respects her self and tribal traditions, screuui auu ,tR,rtria with all her might when her 66 ' . wooer or his envoy enters ner iixuiuy residence and, laying boia upon ner, drags her. usually by the topknot to her new home. She may be pre sented with a new lamp and water pall by her bridegroom, ana sue is as ceneral thing niignmy pieastsu i her change of estate. But she is far too circumspect to snow ner pleasure or affection and keeps up a noisy dem onstration until she feels that she has done all that a well brea maiaen .honiii An If she does not exercise proper discrimination in this matter her lord sometimes stratcnes uo uw , her feet so that she cannot run awuj to her parents. Harper s Bazar. Japalac. varnish stains. Unseed oil t Burnaugh & Mayfleld's. ItACOMA FIFTH CITY IN POINT Or AntM Continued from first page. PUBLIC SALE. R Musgiave will sell at public at tho Red Front barn, Enter- orise, Saturday, February 19, at 1 nvinrk oharo: 10 well broken worlc 1 horses., 2 yearling 'colts," 1 fall colt, 7 good dairy cowa, cream 7 calves; 6 shoa'.si, 5 dozen' cnKKw, 500 pounds cured pork,' 75 pounds lard., almost ne;w hack, AY men a.u nhti half-truck wagon. 3-imch Mit chell high wheel .wagon, 3 bottom 14-ineh Oliver . chilled' plow, B sec tions of steel harrow, 4 sets har ness, 2 wheat racks, 1 hay rack, 15 tons of hay, some straw, nouseuoiu goods, washing machine, and other articles too numerous to mention. All sums of $10 and .under casa. S'ums over 10, note drawing 8 per cent with approval security .will be accepted. 2 per cent discount for cash Sam Pace, auctioneer. PRE-INVENTORY REDUCTION-; S ALE . . '' , ! -.i-.'.-.t- . . ' ' "-. 20 Per Cent Off on any . SuitOL f Glomes TO FORM WESTERN FAIR ASSOCIATION (Continued from First page.)' co. an Washington's Birthday. It to ex poctciV by roaarlcna that the bushes will thrive In. their adVpted country' is we' I as In their own clfine. . Slate-wide biiteres't la showw hi the development congress to fee held a Eueene February 11 and 12. Com monwealth Day, the fifty-first anni versary of the admission of Oregon a state, will be celebrated on February 12. Questions 06 general in terest, such as the conservation of the state's rejources, extentton of irrlcaUkwi country conddtlons. and aducaUoual suibjects will be taken up. - An instance of the advance. In real ty va'.ues hv PorlUnd during the past jO var was brought up thla weeK when the corner at Fifth and Morrlt- oitt streets sold tor $W5 and an ad dittonwl $110,000 was paid for the ;ranaferd of the leases. Peter W levenisott. who sold the property wned it for 61 years. It was lit- a rally forced upon hkm as apir. eatly of BttU vaVue. He was .then owei a week s waea by th owner of the nroperty. who al borrowed Severson's sliotgun and lost it. The man who he'.d the tot offered the property In lieu of the we'n .wages Mid the mlssm weapon. Beveraon demurred but finally was forced to accept the lot to cover the double debt. irganlzatlone in the fruit growing llstricts was solicitecl. Tnisi i sxitent of the movement which the Jpokane Chamber of Commerce has injustly called an effort to "rob" that jlty of the Apple Show. Seattle's vhole interest In the matter Is to tMi the show to the Northwest, vhere It will best serve the welfare it all sections. Train disnatchln by telephone ire- jtead of telegraph is the latest im provement installed' by the Great Northren. on, l'.a Una betweeni Minne apolis aWd Seattle. The Spokane IDH- 4slon, extending from Troy, worn. Ijvenworth. Wash, is behig squlpped for this service, which is 'r nmrlor t the old method. The mh&nlsim la simple and reMwea o a minimum the danger of wrecks and congested conditions of former lays, chargeable to telegraph dJaw Tha AntkSalcon League does not elieve the time la. ripe t try tc( oust h Hoinor business from large cities u the Northwest according to Rev. V. J Herwte. newly appointed' exaie lupeiintendent of laho. He saya nat the League advised against try- m ta win at Wallai Wallai and Norm Jaklma. where defeats were sustainc Jd. hut undertook the fight only on A Instance of the local prohlbfclonr ats "The league la not trying to lose the Saloons In Spokane, Tacoma and Seattle," he continued, "not yet. nit tax five years th tune win oe iDe.'1 Superintendent Herwlg saya ris has hopes of seeing Idaho go. dry j wlthui a short time because ae women, vote there. ' ' I On tha ve of the Balllnger Plnchot Investigation by Congress, Major J. K Jallaln of Seattl has asked tae Oovenunent for lease of 6,000 acrea f land in the Matanuska coalflell la. Alaska. He offers to pay a, royal- cy of flty cent a a ton on all fuel nlned. - Such an arrangement, it ta figured, would net the government $2,000,000 on the deposits in question, nallalne was the originator of the Alaska Central railway project, out f , 8eward, whk-h recently went through foreclosure proceedings. The opening of these coat-tlekis are of great Importance to the Northwest, TEACHERS' INSTITUTE The following program has been .rrlnri. fnr the Wallowa County Teachers' Local Institute to be held a,t Enterprise, Ore., Feb. -12, 1910, beginning at 9:30 a. m.: Opening Song. Qvonth arxA Elehth Grade Gram mar : Max Wlla'on, Josepn Grammar That I Like ' Prln. C. G. MacK, juiuerpe Classics .. - ....Supt. H. H. Bronsori, WaJJowa Violin So'.o ..........Edna Ragsdale Ideals.. Mrs. Ivanhoe, W. C. H. S. History ....Wilbur VanlPelt, LosUtoe 1:30 p. m. Music Ladles Quariei History Through the Grades , Supt A. H. Voder, Joseph Teaching of Fractions . . . .Supt H. K. Shir, W. U. . a. TnatniMTlftntftl Dllt ..... i Misses Olmsted aula Payne- . ( -., Geography " . . . '. J. W. Kerns, Enterprise Analysis In Arithmetic County Supt. J. C. uomej Music ..Mixea urUel. Every teacher im the. county wno can possibly attend this meeting should be there, and all otner per sons Interested are welcome, iet us make this the best local teach ers institute ever heidi m Wallowa county. " ' ' - - ' S.TELLA M. HOOPJ3K, bee. A. G SMITH," President. : In the stoce. Don't miss this Opportunity to Get a Bargain C H ZURCHER AINPSOUISCEMENT , . :' - We wish to thank our patrons for the business during the past year and beg to state that we ate in the same , oK I stand with a larger ana more uK-w-uaio r : Jewelry than ever before, and will be pleased to attend to your every need in that line. All Work Guaranteed. Your Patronage solicited , Martin Larsen & Co. Jewelers ' ;.' Successors to Larsen & Carpenter 1 , ' ' I - PARADISE. - The Widow Was Comforted. "There is no uccouuting for the con struction which some people wllr-pu. upon certain passages of Scripture." re marked a clergyman. "1 reniembe. the story of one clergymnn who wen; to call on a woman whose husband had recently died. He hnd expected quite naturally, to nnd her neunuro ken with the burden of her sorrow and was greatly surprised when sho greeted him with a very happy sialic and ushered hlui into the parlor. well er sister,' he snia at lengiu. you have my warmest sympatuy. "Thank you. aoexor,' n-pucu widow casually. '1 did feel rerv bad very bad indeed. But I cam. across a verse of Scripture which com forted me very much indeed. - r "And what was the verse, sister? inquired the clergyman. "'1 don't remember Just where to End it,', replied the widow, 'but it was mode up of only four words-four helpful words-"Whv aeed 1 carer Turner's Littla Afterthought. An F.ncllsh critic's reference to Tur ner's flue picture -The Wreck Buoy' reminds a faithful newspaper reader of a curious anecdote in connection with it. When Turner first sent this : picture to the Royal academy It was hung among several brilliantly colored pictures. On varulshlug day Turner found the effect of his dull gray ren dering of a stormy sea altogether 0tv,iio.i hv Its brlcht surroundings. Without a moment's hesitation he painted In the lighted buoy in the fore ground, and its dub of crimson light showed so brilliantly In its gloomy set ting that Turner's picture became the prominent one, aud Its rivals on each side were cast into the shade. It Is 11, a it trim, that the most notice able feature of the picture should have been an afterthought.-Boston Tran script - " varnc c t .iiiim;iii v UUWII M J Branch Hesse of Baiter City Hide and JunK Co. - Wett f If Eari Highest Market Price Paid .. for Hides, Pelts. Fur, Junk of all kinds, Rubber, Brass and ' Cast Iron -:- - Beginning Feb. 1: 18ic per pound for dry beef hides; 15c per pound for dry sheep pelts. Will buy . wool. -:- - "" offerrlng a new supply of fuel. t ". w 1 nir.nfiH iprwiTFTT in RI'll I)FB I ENTERPRISE, OREGON 1 X " The Shrewd Banker. Thirteen years ogo a banker lent a farmer $1,000 with which to buy stock. The furinor, of course, gave his note. The borrower lost on the stock deal and had hard luck generally, so he couldn't pay the note. Later he went away,. and after many years he made good again aud returned. The banker tri,xA tn miwt his note, but it was outlawed by a lapse of thirteen years. Oue day the banker stopped at the man's farm and admired his fine pump kins. The farmer made him a pres ent of two large ones - V - - "I'll Just, credit these pumpkins on your old note." the banker said. - 111 fiirht " the farmer said. ' . Th.i ravivpd the obllcation. - The hnnbr hrnnirht suit and recovered In full for the note and Interest Kansas City Star. . - ' .'Life's Limits. All Indications nolut to the fact that lona than ten miles below our reet a red heat is roniutulned permanently nnH trithin twenty a white neat len miles above us we Uve tne piiuess n. fur llow lero. of Interplanetary space." To what a uarrow tone of delicately balanced temperature la life confined? - ' . Lena Drawn Out Judce What is vour name? Pris oner J. J. J. J. John Jones. Judge- Why do you have so' many Js in your name? Prisoner The preacher who christened me stuttered, sir. London Answers. " Paradise, Jan. 27. Jess Conley'9 house on his farm was burned down recently, , ' - ;-. Leonard McWi:!l3 was severely Injuril by being kicked by a horse A young man by the name of Har ris ,wae thrown from a sled by a runaway team and hia collar bone broken. I W. C. Straley ssnt three loads pr wheat to Enterprise to-day. - : G; M. HendTlckson has ' applded for census enumerator for this dis trict. - ' ' Bailey Shelton was up from the Grande Ronde river to-day. ' David a: Id Maude Mahon left for their home at Nez Perce, Ida. Mrs. W. B. Applegate a.id her two small children went wl.h them. , GeM-jce Cannon. Ward Clonlnger and a Mr. Co.e rode-the I. O. O. F. goat at Flora last Saturday night. A reDort reached here that a war rant was out in Asotin County, Wash. for Frank Norton for deserting hia wife and children. Here is Your : Chance $10.00 Down and $10.00 a Month Without Interest . : One-quarter block of level land, 120 feet . . by 120 feet, rich soil, v all under town ditch. ' ; Pr.ce, $150.00 " ' 1 2 EHTERPRISE REAL ESTATE CO 5 (Otct Barness Siop) ' j 8 I V