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The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-09-14
Harry williams was over from Sill
yer Creek Thursday.

Harry williams was over from Sill
ver Creek Thursday.
Tom Allen was over from the p
Ranch the other day.
Prestley Smith was over from Di-
amond early this week.
Sidney Mcneil was among our bus
mess visitors during the past week.
Emil Baker has been visiting with
relatives and friends in this Vicinity
for some time.
Mrs. George. A. Smyth was a. yisi-
tor to our city during the fore part
OF this week.
Byron Terrill returned this week
from visit to his mother in South
ern Oregon. W
Geo. l.. Buchanan was in town
Thursday renewing acquaintances
and greeting his friends.
All rules are broken In modern
warfare. We learned lately that
Haig got Ham on the flank. We
used to get bacon there In the good
old days.
Rev, u. s. Hughes. OF Enterprise.
who is to succeed Rev. w, r. Shields
in this city as pastor OF the First
Presbyterian church. writes that he
will arrive here Immediately follow
ing the meeting OF Presbytery the
fore part OF next month.
MIR. Hoover has come back to this
country TO tell us how many hundred
million bushels OF wheat and pounds |
OF beef we must supply for the use OF
the allies next year All right MIR. !
Hoover. what we have done once we |
can do again. And II has been an !
bit OF work too.
We find that some of the local |
people contemplate q third cutting |
of alfalfa since the recent rains.
This is rather unusual In this vicinity
as II has generally been the custom
to leave the third crop for pasture
but the hay crop being short this
season has been responsible for the !
proposal to make the third cutting.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-09-14


Homer Cecil is over from Silver
Creek.
Fred Riddle is among our visitors
in threshing operations but II has
! helped the range.
The high school pupils had pic
mic at the Camp Grounds north OF
town last night
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Page and their
little son were in town for few
days this week.
John Gearhart and Sam jenkins
were among our visitors from the
Van country during the week.
c. j. Wolter was in town Thursday
from his land holdings In the Wagon
tire section. He states his health is
much improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. T.. Cole came In
from the Sod House Ranch wednes-
day and Mrs. Cole ana rbeir son left
the following day for Portland.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
BURNS. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
100000. THE BANK THAT
MAKES YOUR Q 9 3 9 SAFE"
ACCOUNTS INVITED.
Jap McKinnon told the writer the
other day to announce that since he
had received. the nomination at the
primaries for county commissioner
that he would make the race.
Frank Cawlfield and his nephew
were here for a few days during the
week from the Calamity Creek
country. Both registered while In
town as they could not get TO their
precinct for that purpose on registrs-
tion day.
w. N. Monroe, justice of the peace
and farmer OF Catlow Valley, was
here Monday, having brought over
some of his neighbors who had bus
mess before the land office. Mr.. Mon
roe made application to make final
proof while in town.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-09-14

| hCCOUNTS INVITED.
CouRty Commissioner Hass arriv
ed home from Portland Thursday
night after attending a demonstra.
tion OF tractors and road machinery
Judge Levens will likely be home this
evening.
More rain this week. Farmers
Will be encouraged to begin their
fall seeding with this additional
moisture. We can't have dry seasons
continually so this may be the time
to make big killing in crops.
G. w. Clevenger came over from
Prairie City Thursday night on "A
hurried business mission and started
on his return there yesterday after
noon In order to be at the bedside OF
Mrs, Clevenger. who is seriously Ill
with typhoid fever over there.
Joe Carter, the fruit man, has es-
tablished a fruit and produce stand
in the rooms adjoining Gemberling's
store. His son is In charge and they
expect to keep d supply OF seasonable
fruit and vegetables on hand. II
they haven't what you want they will
try and get II for you. Visit the
stand and get prices on fruit for can
ming and winter use.
Furniture For Sale--Because of
our moving away we will dispose OF
some of our furniture, among the
pieces we have sanitary couch.
bookshelves, new gas stove. mahog-
any dresser and wash stand, oak
morris chair, oak desk chair. oak
rocking chair, hail seat and glass
serving table, telephone table.
springs and mattresses. baby crib
J. /. Gault.
Cal Geer informs us that he has
traded his property at Riddle to Mrs.
Charles Anderson OF this city for
property here. The Anderson prop
erty consists OF the old Anderson
hotel and the big barn in the rear,
together with six lots. Mr.. Geer will
have quite a farm to look after In
that patch OF ground. Mrs. Ander-
son expects to go to Douglas county
TO reside that having been her home
for years before coming to this place.
Charley Foley took his departure
Monday for Indiana where he plans
on entering a law school. However,
he insinuated to the manager OF this
great religious weekly that Il was
more attractive TO him to be one OF
the early ones to go over TO France
and help push hole in that Hinden-
burg line toward the Rhine there
fore II Is most likely we will hear
of Charley embracing the first oppor-
tunity of getting into the ranks. He
registered before leaving home.
A telegram Wednesday from Port
land announced that Judge l.. Il. 4
had been instantly killed.
No further information was available
At that time but the Oregonian which
came In the last mail contains an ac-
count OF the accident. He fell down
The elevator shaft in the building I'm
which he had offices. Judge Webster
vas well known in this country
where he had practised considerable
n the courts and was also associa-
ed with others In business enter
rises. Deceased was sc years old.
Many friends In this county regret
'is pntimely end.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-09-14

Frank Johnson is over from Prime
Vile this week on business before
the board of equalization but since
Judge Levens is not present there
has been no session and he expects
to have to come back for that pur-
pose later.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-09-14
So BSC RIBE NOW
" UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Fou RTH LIBERTY
LOAN
Application for Bonds cnn
be made through this bnnk.
HARNEy COUNTY NATIONAL Z
BANK or BURNS I

Married--At the home OF the bride
In Catlow Valley. on last Sunday,
Sept. s, Mr.. Aubrey S. Hebener and
Miss Belle Park. Justice w. N. Mon
roe performing the ceremony. Both
are we'll known and highly respected
residents OF Catlow where they have
the best wishes and congratulations
OF many friends. Judge Monroe
gave this Information to us upon his
arrival in this city last Sunday even
ing.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1918-09-14

w. l.. Best was visitor from Sill
yer Creek yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
READING A BOOK

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 The people whom you meet on the street in days walk-how many of them ever read a book? You take it for granted that they all read something and so they do But in many instances they stop with newspaper or with sign boards. Librarians know that about 10 or 12 per cent of the population come to the public library. Then there must be considered the superior persons who think public library is sort of char itable institution-"for the poor and that kind of people"-they believe that a social disgrace rests upon those who use municipal libraries. They would as quickly send their children to found- lings' home.
 Others buy their books at railway news stands or take literary counsel from the girl in the hotel office. at the desk where newspapers. novels, theatre tickets and pepsin gum are sold. Here's what every body's readin'," she says. "They say it's lovely"
 They take her advice and buy tho book and feel, thank heaven, that anyway they are up-to-date. The feminine half of this class has been epitomized by MT. George Ade in his brief but sufficient descrip- tion of one girl-"she knew that Column bus discovered America and what kind of complexion cream to buy-and she let l it go at that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
SPEED IN MOBILE

From the Mobile Register.
 Building a five-room house from the ground up, and family moved in be- fore supper time, was the record in housebuilding at the Chickasaw Ship building company's plant Monday. Ground was broken, foundation pillars erected, the fiye-room house, with hall and front and back porch completed, all plumbing connections and bath put in and water turned on, the electric wiring finished and the house plastered and painted throughout, between z a. m. and 5:30 p. m. The residence was built according to plans and in keep ing with the other one-story buildings being erected by the company. It is To- cated in the white village and the fam fly for whom it was built ate supper in the house last night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
HOT WEATHER DoNT's

From the New York Evening Sun. ....
 The following list of hot weather
 "don'ts" was given out by public health officials: Don't overeat. or drink anything ex- |cept water. Don't overwork; exhaustion may lead
 to ill9ess. Don't wear clothing so heavy as to produce precipitation. Don't fail to select cool spot to sleep in. If necessary move your bed Into the parlor or against window. Don't allow flies. mosquitoes. bed bugs or other insects around your house. Don't fail to bathe daily and change Ian clothing, if possible. whenever in |perspiration Don't fair to clean your teeth alter eating; keep them in good repair Don't take patent medicines. If taken lill. consult physician at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
BOOK FROM SPIRIT WORLD

From the Mobile Register.
 The New York courts are to pass upon no less a question than whether soul in the spirit land can write book to be published in this country. If Mark Twain, for example, did, as disembodied spirit, write or create a certain novel called "Jap-Heron," then, if said novel is published at all, it must bear the imprint of Harper & Brothers, for Harper & Brothers have contract to publish all of Mark Twains works. If the man who got the book from Mark, or says he did. proves that he did, he loses his right to the publication; if he doesn't prove it, he cannot publish it as purporting to be Mark Twain's book. for Harper &s Brothers alone can publish for Mark Twain. Looks like the defendant in this case stands to lose. no matter what way the court decision goes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
above the two hundred thousand


 Two years ago, when industrial de- pression was acute, there was a shrinkage in the school population, but the recent rapid growth of the Birmingham district is reflected well in the large gain made in the school enumeration in the city proper.
 In Birmingham and its environs there is a population of quarter Of a million or more; and the most cheer ing fact is that Birmingham is just now coming to it's full stride. As great as has been it's increase in population in the last ten years its growth within the next two years will be nothing short of phenomenal.
 Capital.is pouring into the Bir- mingham district and the army of wage workers will gain in numbers at prodigious rate. Never in its his tory has Birmingham's great destiny been so clearly foreseen as it is to- day. After the war the advance of the city will be practically limitless:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
ITEMS FROM THE HOME TOWN

From Stars and Stripes.
 "At a pretty home wedding at high noon yesterday, Miss Eleanor Tracy Downes became the bride of MT. Boz well Alexander Spencer. Twoscore friends were present and bade the hap py young couple adieu on two weeks honeymoon. MT. Spencer is the son of |J. w. Spencer, the will known furni- ture dealer, and the bride" --
 We needn't finish it. It's just typl> cal "society" item that we all read from time to time in the home town paper.
 Gives us funny sensation, doesn't if? We realize that some people still are getting married and going on honeymoon trips, and, for all we know taking baths in hot water. Not that we have any objection to Bozwell getting married. We just-but then we can hardly analyze it.
 But when we came across an Item like this we don't have any trouble defining our emotion:
 "Eigty-four men left yesterday for Camp -. This is the largest single eroup to leave since the declaration of war"
 And as the great preponderance of items is of the latter trend. there can't be any mistaking the general impress sion the home town paper creates.
 We know that the old gang is com x,,;+I, r;dac and cannon and shells and other things to make war with, and that when they all get here-oh' F oyi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
THE TREEs OF PICARDy

Elizabeth Hanly, in The Bookman. Now April turns my orchard boughs
 To rose anc snow along the lane. Las- year, they say, the stricken trees,
 Knowing they would not bloom again. Were ruddier and lovelier In Alsace and Lorraine. A monarch at the garden gate.
 My maple rears his stately head. This year on Ypres scarlet sod
 A sap.lng maple grove burns rcd: Canada's little exile trees
 Above her exile dead. Beyond ouroriver's placid rim
 The poplars whisper secretly. How can you welcome spring aEaii
 Next year and all the years to be. But to be hewn for crosses new o trees of Picardy? My populars bend their boughs to n And say. We stood on Calvary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
MADE A GOOD START

From Everybody's Magazine.
 A very small but live boy applied te a great merchant for a job.
 The great man sized him up with twinkling eyes, for the one situation oper needed a bigger parcel of human ex- lperience and asked what position hs wanted.
 "A chance to grow up in the business mister.''
 well. we are more or less being de populated by the drafts. What is youl motto. my son?''
 "The same as yours,' was the ready answer
 What do you mean?' asked the pug zled merchant.
 why. on the door there-'Push.' 7
 He got the job of keeper of that very door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09

| Alert contemporaries who published obituaries of Maxim Gorky may have been somewhat surprised, if not disappointed. to hear that he was reported arrested sometime after being reported dead. < < #
 The Chinese are said to have discov- cred America long before Columbus ever thought about it. They also originated the jazz band centuries before there was such a street as Broadway.
 x < # Candidates will find there is nothing quite so effective for mailing a cam paign lie as a large display advertise ment. The business office is welcome to use this for what it's worth. # # ~ l. While it's all very well to say you arc helping to defeat the Kaiser by wearing your old clothes, man shouldn't get the idea that nothing more is expected of him.
 # x
 When a citizen is fuming, fretting and perspiring at every pore it doesn't seem possible that he raised such hullabaloo last winrer because his water pipes froze
 * * #
 The fact that the Clown Prince" ac- cepts decorations he hasn't earned should cause no surprise in the case of a man who accepts living he hasn't earned. y # T,
 Four German war lords have failed to win decisive victory for "kultur." We have an idea that there will never be 3 fifth to attempt it.
 The German idea that President Will son seeks world domination is due to their belief that nothing else is worth fighting for
 Since 15o U-boats have been sunk. is it any wonder that Fritz is not keen about taking chances in U-boat?
 # E
 Lloyd George talks like a man who can we'll afford to snap his fingers at Pots dam and all it stands for.
 < # #
 It's remarkable how quickly some wal profiteers acquire the manners and habits of tired business men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
Planning For a
 Fitting Celebration

ID IRMINGHAM'S semi-centennial, |W three years hence, must be fit
 tingly observed, and if the war IS
 over by that time--and it probably
 will end before 1920-the celebration
 should take the form of an exposition
 with pageants on an elaborate scale. President Arthur c. Crowdsr of the Chamber of Commerce lis to be com lmended for the initiatory move he IS making. He has taken up the matter none too soon. The plans he outlined lin yesterdays Age-Herald made a ready appeal to all public-spirited clti-
 zens and that he will have hearty CO., operation goes without saying. With the war behind us this country will enter upon an era of prosperity far eclipsing any period of develop menu III oCner IlIIleS, anu CNSi DooJ | in every section of the United States will be ready to celebrate any worth while event.
 l Right now when Birmingham has | just attained the forty-seventh year
 of its age, the city is a great manu- lfacturing center. By 1921 its popula-
 ton will not only show a wonderful increase, but Birmingham will be a
 very marvel in commercial leadership. The varied industries here number today about four hundred. Three years hence they should number close to 1000.
 Birmingham will be an ideal place flor an exposition and ideas along the lines suggested by MT. Crowder will lbe carried out with enthusiasm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
AFTER LUDENDORFF

of German militarism incarnated. No wonder the German populace worshiped him and put him in niche even higher than that reserved for all the highest" For all the successes he had won against weak Russia. he accomplished no more on Germany's western battle front than his predecessors, nothing more, that is to say, in decisive results. Whether Hinden- burg be dead or insane or simply super anunated, it is commonly understood that for months past his sword has been wicided by Ludendorff. Indeed, some students of the war declare that Luden- dorff has been the real power behind Hindenburg all along. Certainly Luden- dorff has been the protagonist in the more recent German offensives-those that were to storm a way to Paris-aud also in the late German debacle. Will he be sent packing after Won Falken- hayn and von Moltke? If so, who win be his successor, and what will be the new strategy of Prussianism, thrice and four times defeated under the leadership of her greatest chieftains?
 The deluge whether near or far, is com. ing inexorahly on, as Ludendorff and Germany know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

No man should knock the modern
 style in women's apparel. Flrty years
 ago a man had to take chance when he married Now he can see what he
 Is getting.
 When a real man sees a woman car
 rying a poodle he always forgets she
 is woman. A mans waist line is at the top of his trousers, but woman moves ners around to suit the styles. A woman wants to be straight up and down in front as far as her bust And she doesn't care how far that Is off the straight line. In spite of all the time she spends in front of mirror, a woman never sees herself as others see her. Any man can take things as they come. But it takes an optimist to part with them as they go One of the amazing things in life is how regular a man can be in ms bec habits
 When you owe a man money il makes him mad all over to see your name in print as contributor to some charity.
 | It doesn't matter how mannlsh woman tries to act. she has to si
  while to keep her nervous system wei reg gulated
 | No matter how badly she wants g husband. a girl should never seem over anxious. The girl who does more thar her share of the counting seldom lands l the fellow.
 i! When a girl jilts man he never realizes what a good fellow he was until some other woman marries him | You might imagine that depot agent in a country town was the presi' dent of the railroad. But he isn't. A wife can tame man into wearing jclean shirts and socks. But she never gets him educated into forgetting to say them things" or to quit poking ihis knife into his mouth when he Is | feeding.
 l A man thinks more of himself after Inc has taken a bath. If you don't be-
 lieve it. take one and see
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
vIRTUOUS CITIES

From the New York Evening Sun.
 London is the wickedest city in the world and next immediately after comes New York.-Louisville Courier Journal.
 Why not name the virtuous cities in order: Louisville. Berlin, Vienna, Buda- pest?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09

Tommy succeeded in locating per sistent "cootie" under his shirt, near his heart. As he bent his head in re- moving the offender bullet whizzed past where his head had been. He held the mite between his fingers and re- minated: T can't give you the Victoria Cross, but I'll do the next best thing. I'll give you a home for life"
 And he replaced the cootie beneath his shirt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
PARLEz-voUs FRANCHISE

From Stars and Stripes
 It is an infamous libel to say, as some do. that the only French the YankN has learned is "Fini."
 He can say "C'est la guerre" and has been known to do so on occations.
 He can say "Camoufiage' and does say it just about every other sentence
 Above all, he can say "Liaison" and uses that elegant expression for every imaginable form of contact. juncture or union. It seems not improbable that when he goes home at last. he will surprise and grieve the old folks by referring to the Liaison station at Washington. singing The Liaison For ever, Hurrah. Boys, Hurrah'' and up- setting the gents furnishing store around the cofner by demanding a liaison suit of underwear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
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A NONRESIDENT

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 An English tourist was sightseeing in Ireland. and his guide had pointed out the Devils Gap. the Devils Peak and the Devils Leap to him. Pat" he said, the devil seems to have great deal of property in this island"
 "He has, sor. replied the guide: but sure, he's like all the landlords--he lives in England"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
Julius Caesar.

BEGINNING THE DAY-HeIp me to come today, Lord and Father, asking no boon but desiring simply to walk with Thee and feel myself in Thy presence. Without Thee I am confused by many voices, I wander among vague paths, I am dismnyed. With Thee I am satisfied. Thou art rest and home and heaven to my soul. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
OUGHT!

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 T hear that you said was the biggest fool in town"
 No. sir; did not I do not consider you capable of taking first rank in any, thing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
THE REAL THING

From the Nashville Tennessean.
 A pair of movie lovers who have been doing the Romeo and Juliet for six years have just married four days after tho divorce of the male star. We'll, the love that can live and thrive through half g be the real thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
Al FAR WORSE PLIGHr

From the Charleston News and Courier. Its sad thing for country whom 1t gets into the hands of lawyers" said
 the Kaiser to pr. Davis. the dentist
 Maybe so. but what about country thas gets into the hands of war lords?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
LEARNING TO SHOOT

From Everybodys Magazine
 At the first target practice of the new recruits, the rookie from the. sixth squad was earnestly obeying commands. when the captain loudly shouted. Fire at willr'
 The rookie looked about in dazed manner and cried. "Who in the devil is will?''