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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1910)
Orcon TTlntnvlcnl Sociy kalis' VOL. 24. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1910 NO. 120 MEETING OF FARMERS farmers Educational and , Co-operative Union of America. Farmers of Morrow county met at the court bouse last Saturday and organized a lodge of the Farmeis Educational and Co-op erative Association of America. Organizer Chaa. Hill, of Pend leton addressed the pieetiog. The organization starts out with a membership of 16, with the fol lowing officers: Pres, F P Vaughn: vice pres, G W Thomson: sec-treas, A S Akers; chaplain, C N Jonee; door keeper, J F Wilder; conductor, Chester Gammel. The Farmers Educational and Co-operative Association of Amer ica, is a secret organization and its objects are for the promotion of farm interests in general. The organization is growing rap. idly, Morrow ciunty having two unionsone being already organized at lone. There are now 3,000 members in the state of Oregon, School Notes. The Dalles Chroniole: Fred A Ilacklet of Wapinitia came to the city, bringing the hides of 60 coy. otea and 3 wild cats. He has a unique Way of trapping these ani mals. He kills them by means of dynamite caps p'aced in bait, to which an insulated wire is attached and this is connected with a bat tery a short distance from the trip. Whep the animal takes ho'd of the bait, the cap exp'odes, killing it instantly. Men are being employed to plant 30,000 fruit trees at Sutherlin. In the 15th inst I visited the school at Hardman. The work was moving along smoothly. Sev eral families have found it neces sary to move out to their ranches, and this has reduced the number in attendance. Hut those who are in attendance, almost without ex ception, are making good use of their time. The seventh and eighth grades are doing especially strong work m grammar. Prof. Gibbons seems to know how to make the work interesting. Miss Ward's pupils are awake on Ian guage work, also. 1 was much pleased with a drill in rapid work in numbers, which Mrs. Robison gave one of her classes, The pu pils in the primary room have been provided with some excellent supplementary readers, and the re sults prove that the board made a good investment. The pupils iu Prof. Gibbon's room have been umng some of the five ceot classics for supplementary reading. The advanced division hasabul etin board upon which clippings of interest are posted. The liter ary and debating society is doing excellent work, and the pupils of the school take an active part in all the programs. The school gave an interesting entertainment a short time ago and with the pro ceeds bought a new organ. The school board is determined to make their school just as effi ctent as possible, and the people seem to be ready to endorse the actions of theboard. Some new maps have been ordered, a new bookcase has been purchased for the library, and it ia likely that a new encvclopedia will be pur chased soon. One member of the board is a subscriber of the Amer ican School Board Journal ' On the 17th inst, I visited the school in district No. 8. Miss Ze na Mettie teaches this school. Some new shelves for the books and ap paratus have been placed ia the school room since my former visit, Several of the larger pupils have dropped out on account of the rush of spring work. The pupils remaining are orderly and diligen in ineir wort, ine pupils are making arrangements to observe Arbor day. It seems that the con ditions are. favoroble for the grow ing of trees in the school yard. Those who have sent in requests for copies of Dinsmore'a Teaching a District School will receive them as soon as the copies now in the hands of others have been re turned. The demand seems to be much greater than the supply, but by passing the books around, all who wish to read them will be able to do so. Nearly all who have ead the book have found it very interesting and helpful. S. E. Notson, Co. SrfpL MOT STATION John Sprowls Looses Fingers. John M Sprowls met with a se rious accident out at nis place on Rhea creek last Sunday afternoon. wmie Handling a gasoline engine while in motion his right hand was swept into cog wheels and rhe first two fingers of his right hand were ground and torn off. Dr Kistner dressed the mangled hand. - Arlington Record: Oranges are shipped 1300 or more miles to Ar lington and sold for less than apples that are raised in our owu or adjoining counties. Raise mora apples and less wheat and you will have a larger bank account and a smaller mortgage. GRAND DEMON STRATION TRAIN O. R. & N. Eclipses Former Efforts in Exhibits. Thomson Bros. Heppner, Oregon Extend to you a cordial invitation to j call and inspect their new Spring line of Ginghams, Percales, Prints, Galateas, Colored Indian Head Suitings All the Latest Shades in Shantung and Mira Silks Soiesettes, Alberta Satins Everything in Dry Goods, White Goods, Notions and Furnishing Goods Up-to-date, Reliable and High Class Merchandise all Departments We are now ready to show Goods for the Spring Season 1910 We carry a full line of Staple and FancyiGro- ceries, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes Agents for Collegian Clothes-Standard Fashions Carrying 40 people including experts representing all lines of agricultnre and associate indus tries; the O. R. & N. special eight cars pulled into Heppner latt Monday morning on schedule time rvnen the demonstration train was bere last fall, the principa t i lectures were lectures covering the diflerent hues in agricultural, horticultural and interests of the farm in general. IT? 11- Al r . ... tune mis metnoa was Dotn in teresting and instructive and has produced results, the experts then stated thait the next train would bring Jess talk and more practical demonstrations in the way of ex hibits that would be more impres sive. At the meeting lasf'Monday the railroad company certainly de livered the goods. Six cars filled with exhibits pre sented a grand experiment station on wheels. The allotted time of only four hours could but furnish a glance for the great throng of spectators who crowded the cars during the entire time. A. 4. Morse was in charge of the train and his genial good na tnred way helped to make peopl feel welcome. Dr. Jas. Withy comb, director of Oregon Experiment Station at Corvallis, opened with a short in troductory address briefly 'stating the objects of the visit of the train. U. O. Lively, of the Portland Union Stockyards followed Dr, Wthycombe. Mr. Lively spoke of the benefits to the livestock in dustry that would come from the establishment of the big stock yards. He stated that the live stock market now in Portland was better than any other place in the United States. That the former monopoly opposed the stock yards owing to the competition that had been forced among the buyers. , He said that in sending away for live stock for our home market "we were standing in our own light as business men. Prof. H. D. Scudder, agronomist, of Corvallis experiment station offered a few remarks as to the objects of the train. The cars beiDg thrown open for inspection were soon packed like sardines. The dry farming car was in charge of Prof. Scudder. In this our mere were exuibits oi sous in different states of cultivation, seed germination tests, vegetables, and in fact numerous valuable exhibits that would require much time and special study to master. Next to the dry farming car was the horticultural car filled to overflowing wit!; drawings of fruit oichards, trees, tools, grafting iDg demonstrations, in fact every thing that pertains to the planting, use and care of an orchard. The dairy exhibit car was an in teresting feature. Here were all aorta of tests as to milk and feed ing, the building of stalls, and practical demonstrations of mod ern and profitable dairying. . WHEELS r I) tezsrovos tho flavor The poultry car attracted much attention. Dr. Withjcomba in his address called attention to the natural advantages offered in Eastern Oregon for the successfu growing oi poultry, Here were exhibits of many different breeds of fowls both old and vonne- o Dressed fowls, inenbatora, houses, nests, together with all sorts of exhibits showing the proper meth ods used in successful poultry growing. There was a car devoted to dry farming machinery, poultry houses, fences, et. The stock exhibit consisted of low, blocky Shrop and Cotswold sheep, the Poland China hog, a big mare, showing the "type of draft animrls, and Jersey and Holstein cowb showing grand specimens of the milking breeds. This is said to be the finest dem onstration train ever put out by any railroad in the United States. Jake Wattenberger went out to the Miller place on Rhea creek the first of the week to build his shearing sheds for the machine shearing plant that he will operate there this spring. After returning from Echo, Mr. "Wattenberger will start the Minor plant at the Miller place where a large cumber of sheep will be sheared. 1 Osmin Shaner Dead. Osmin Shaner died at the Heppner Sanitarium this morning at 7 o'clock. Mr. Slianer who is a ranger in the Umatilla Nationa' Forest started out on his work a few days ago. Being attack ed with inflammation of the bowels be stopped at Parker's Mill and hia condi tion soon became such as to alarm his friends. Dr. Kislner was sent for and Mr. Shaner was harried to tne hospital be ing brought ia yesterday by Al Ayera and Frank Ward. Deceased was brought up in Morrow county. He was a young man wtU known and had many friends. Collins Wireless Telcphoue Amuse Large Crowds. J. H. Curry, Oregon manager for the Collins Wireless Telephone Company,, requests us to announce that the stock holders and their friends in and around Heppner are invited to witness free demonstrations of the Coilina Wireless Telephone which will be conducted in Heppner during the remainder of the week. Conversations are carried oq from the building near Gentry's black smith shop to the Palace hotel, and even a whisper can be heard over the Wireless Telephone. Tli new of bota bemlspnerfe Wekl Oresootu. Ticket No. 817 Entitles the holder to the $25.00 Free Phonograph Outfit If ticket is not presented by April 9th, a new se lection will be made. SEE YOUR TICKETS r in. JMMM mm sum It Costs You Nothing To have your shoos hob nailed, if you ret them here. We handle nothing but the be.t proven, and nio.-t satisfactory work shoes made by Buckingham & Hecht and the "Western Shoe Co. These lines have been sold on merit for vears. and even pair is guar anteed. 3, ?3.50, 3.75, 4, $4.50, .?'". The Cash Shoe Store Shoes Bought of us Kept in Repair FREE