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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1911)
. " 1: The Hcppner Gazette E.Ublinhcx March 80, 1883. ISSl'ED THURSDAY MORNING. VAWTKR CRAWFORD Editor and Proprietor delves of the bonding act lor road pur poses paused at the last general election. The coraniiSHion, who represent all parts of the state, are hopeful Unit much will be accomplished in the good roads movoraent by the enactment of these measnres. EVtTft3 at the Postofllce at Heppner Oregon, u ecoiid-clasa matter. Siibkcrlbllou Itatt-ii. Qn year 1 00 Jix mouths .75 Thiuu months 50 trriirle copies 05 4d vt-r IIsIuk Kale. replay, transient, running lesB .than pop ionth, first insertion, per inch, 25s. Hireqiient insertions 12c KplV, regular 12c Loi-aJs, first insertion, per line 10c fcobseqnent insertions 5c IiojIso resolutions, one insertion. per line 5c Cbtfreh socials, and all advertising of entertainments conducted for pay, at ieolar rates. Thtjbsday, Sept. 21, 1911 A Montana firm gels the oontract tor building the $"(00,000 branch asylum at Pendleton. Another case of patronizing home industry. Now say ! Why dont you get a bunch of those Fall Colonist Folders of J. L. Wilkins, at the Palace hotel, and also a lot ot the Morrow county booklets and forward them to your friends in tbe East, and other parts of the country Now is just the time to get thisliterature out. It is all paid for and should b used. Get busy and send it along. ENDORSES CREAMERY Also Some Other Good - Ideas Noted. (lilt DISTRICT FAIR. From all accounts the Third District Fair and Round Up recently held at Pendleton, was not only the most sue cessful one yet held under the auspices of tiie Association, but one of the most important ever held in the Inland Em pire. From all sections of the Northwest and from uiauy states east of the llocky Mountains people flocked into Pendle ton. The Hound Up was doubtless the drawing card for thousands who- are lways in search of "thrills" and would croes the continent to witness a horse lace or a prize tight, but othar thous ands were interested in the products and development of the country, and took advantage of the Fair to inform them selves npon its resources and produc . tions. So far we have beard nothing but praise for the efforts of the management in getting together suitable exhibits to fairly represent all sections ot the Dis trict. It was a big job and required bercalean and untiring effort for its Accomplishment. But loyalty and per severance was rewarded, and its effects will tell mightily for good in the years lo come. The people of this county, owing to lo the shortage of crops and the general cry of "hard times," did not take hold with their usual zeal and enthusiasm find as a consequence this section of the District was not so fully, or so well leprepented as it should have been, and yet after all is said our showing was nothing to be ashamed of. In fact we are rather proud of it. , The exhibits showed conclusively, so far as quality is concerned, that Mor iow county products, grains, grasses, iruitaand vegetables, occupy a promi nent position in the front rank, while eume of them are in a class to them e elves. Scientific farming, dairyiug anu fruit- raisiDg will " eventually give U9 the prominence to which we are by nature ted environment entitled. Milo rnaise is fonnd to be an excellent substitute for corn on the dry lands of Central Oregon. Experiments made with it the past season prove it will make a good stock plant for tbe semi arid districts. Because of its successful introduction into tbe interior, many farmers will probably plant large tracts to this crop next year, feeding it to cattle and hogs.' The annual convention of the Oregon AVoolgrowers' Association will be held in l!aker Nov. 14 and 13. Problems that confront the woolmen will Vie taken up and diei'uascd and the tariff will be one (it ibe Itii.itZ features of geueral in ter est. .ret beceti'.stj the Pacific No: tbwest will fjilow the tpeninK of the Panama canal, according to 'rntrd N. Baker, retire J steamship owner, who is now on a visit lo Portland. Inductions of one third an! oi.e-haif in freight rates are j'reihiiiJ on shipments to aud f:om tbe Auui.tic coafet cities. Oc'.ui er 1 has been pet finally as the date i:jr the opening of the new Southern -',3c line to Tillamook and adjoining t-i-i-VioDs of the coast country. A tiortion c! t'se new road is alreaJy in operation I ut cr. tt date trains will be rua from School Notes. By ?. E. Notson, Co. School Supt. On the 13th inst. I visited the school in District No. 0, which is presided over by Miss Bertha Huston. Twelve pupil are enrolled. The equipment of this school is very good. Tbe room neatly papered, and1 the walls are very tastily decorated. Ventilation is well provided for, each window having a window-board. I was pleased to note that the program provided well for tbe primary pupils. On the 14th, I. visited the school in District No. S3. Here Miss Clara lteid and eleven pupils are getting nicely started upon the work of the new year. The building is in excellent condition The floors have been scrubbed, the sash-curtains washed and ironed, and the windows and walls washed. A new coal bin has been built. The well-kept library is iostalled in an excellent book case. A good clock is proyided. A thermometer hangs near the teacher's desk. Window-boards will be placed in all tbe windows soon. I was pleased to note that tbe pupils were thoroughly tested for the thought in the reading work. The class in agriculture are doing much observation work. Miss Reid fol lows the precept, "Do nothing for the pupil, which he can, with reasonable effort, do for himself." I next visited the school in District No. 15, where I found Mies Elizabeth Slocnia and nine pupils working diligently and happily together. The schoolbouss bas been recently rebuilt and is in excellent con dition. AVindow-boards are provided for all the windows. Each pupil has a san itary drinking-cup, A water filter will be installed as soon as it can be procured. This school has a fine flag. Every pupil of school age in the lrrigon district is enrolled in school and and was present the first dy of school. That la a record hard to beat. Notice to Taxpayers. Notice ia hereby given that ail persons who paid one-half of their taxes last spring should pay the remaining half on or before the firtit Monday ia October, thereby saving penalty and interest, which the sheriff must add to the tax if it becomes delinquent. J. C. II AYES, Sheriff. Notice. A sppc'al meetinj of the ptocHioldors of the Morrow Warehouse Milling Co. will be hei! at the Company's office ut Ileppner, Oregon, Tuesday, October 10, 1 ! 1 1 at 10 o'clock A. M., for the purpose of considering the adoption of new By Liw., and for eu -h other business as may iegaily cowe betore the meeting. E. I). EKOYV'N, Secretary. :it t r; 1 A the line to tL other, and j itvii'itr fatrvice wiil be tstabiitLed. A cpeiial session of the legislature to -;;-.ict gooJ rea ls legislation has leen ttc ir.mecded by Governor West's com-Tiiifit-joD, which has just met and out lined fevera! bills. These provid for tx 1t aid, a s ale highway couimisbiooer, tul iji ecai::ct- ttuciies to avaL! tUeiu- D. II Gilman departed for Car son, Wash., this morning, to look after interests over that way. He states that the development of the tract of land that he and others of Ileppner are interested in over there ia going on nicely, and be fore a great while they will hnve completed their irrigation pystem and then the tract will be placed on the market. Ileppner, Oregon, Sept. 13, 1911. Editor Gazktte : I have beard sriuuh about the Booster Club. Last night I attended a meeting, and I believe some missionary work should be done among the Boosters, as they evidently believe the creek bottoms the only land tnat will admit of diversi fied farming. I believe you arc wrong; I also believe that ttie demonstration people have done this county much good already. Discing the stubble soon alter harvest and packing the soil has proven to be of the greatest value. But I will not waste time theorizing. I have lived in what is now Morrow county for over thirty years and have seen with my own eyes positive proof of all I claim. Now from the talk on last night a lot of the Boosters think it would be a feat to keep a hog or a cow on bve or ten acres of hill land. There is hardly a farm among the hills that there is not from five to ten acres that will grow good alfalfa. There used to be a good field on the Bill Handrix place. I'll bet Haddleston don't know anything about that. James Hams had a piece below Ilardman on tbe place now owned by John Adams, that was as fine as I ever saw on tbe creek bottoms, and that on the Hendrix place would average with tbe oreek alfalfa. Wash Thompson's orchard last year grew as fine apples as could be grown anywhere. This land is quite the high est of all tbe surrounding country, the orchard sloping to the north. The farmers have grown on these hill lands grains that have taken as many diplomas as any like number of farmers in any part of tbe United States. When I was ranching 'I sent potatoes to the Portland carnival that took the diploma and I took diplomas on potatoes at both Buffalo, N. Y. and Charleston, S. C. These potatoes were grown with out a drop of irrigation. .1 grew sheaves of oats and wheat that were five and six feet long. It was difficult to put three Hungarian prunes ia a Mason pint ar. I picked 5( Duchs apples from three trees less than one inch in diam eter that filled a bushel box. Everyone remarked about what a good ranch Cummings had. I s Id it and about all it has produced since is weeds. I know it is a safe proposition to take half section of this hill land and demonstrate just what can be done. I am sure the results would exceed all our expectations. I have been traveling over the county for 15 days and find there is a splendid crop of potatoes, a good crop of prunes, a large crop of splendid pears and a great many apples, but last Spring's freeze caused people to think their fruit was killed, so they did not spray with arsenate of lead and the apple are quite all so wor.ny they are unfit for use. I don't believe in misrepresenting. I wish that some of these Boosters inigln go with me in ray rounds and see some of the things I gather. I will bring up a peach today that grew in Morrow county on a tree loaded to the breaking point. W. B Ewing asked if t'nev were any good. I cut otio and he siiid he never tasted so de.icious a flavored peach. Iliere were tliree or tour trees just loaded, 1. JJ. Mathiews lias tnree trees of same variety. On? of the trees was broken down after being propped Percy Jarman has about throe tree ot same variety literally broken down with fruit. I have named the peaches Wnt tenbu ger'a Ch jice, and have about 000 udded for next fall delivery. Now Mr. Editor, I want time to finish this. Tbe real ob ject of this meeting was to discuss and devisa means for the establishing of a creamery here. Now I know a creamery ill do more for our cmnty than any other one thing. Any good average dairy cow wil' jive a sure return of $100 a year. This can be increased to but to be conserva tive, call it $100. Every farmer can keep ten cows, it don t make any oilier- pnee whether lie is on the lull or on the creek bottom. I don't mean that the creek bottom is Dot preferable, but be can succeed on the hili. He has a clean income of f 1000 a year; then the milk will help to keep several hogs and chickens. In fact anyoLe supplying cream to a creamery must have hos to eat tbe milk. would soon produce more pork and lard than the entire county would need. Pork has been selling all summer at 18 cents a pound. If a creamery is estab lished here, in less than two years the farmers receipts for cream alone will ex ceed $100,000.00 a year. Then the milk fed to hogs and chickens will make a enng sum. You Know the consumer does not get tbe retail price only when he supplies his table, and to that extent be can count his pork at 18 cents, his lard at 15 oents and his bacon at 25 cents. Have any of you ever given any thought as to what our farmers pay out for -but tar, pork and lard in 12 months ? The gross amount would astound even myself. Let him produce this. He can do it through the dairy cow. It is all moonshine to say it can't be done. They could not make anythin in the Willamette Valley until they got tbe dairy cow and then wages jumped from $20 to $45 per month, with a lively demand for labor. There is lots of choice dairy cows for sale in Oregon at reasonable prices. am quite certain I could get a pledge of 500 cows in ten days and this would give the farmers $50,000 a year for cream alooe with good prospects for much larger returns. The time is ripe for a creamery. It will give us greater prosperity than any other thing in fact it is the one thtng that will put life into the industrial de velopment of Morrw county. Harry Cummings, Mr. Cummings has written on thi creamery proposition, and can come up with more good talk, but it is tbe desire of this paper to hear from others. We are all interested, and the columns of the Gazette are open to all to discuss the matter. Let tbe public know what you think about it, and if you will handle some dairy stock, say so. Give ns the benefit of your "think so." Thousands Killed Two Bits. For Send 25 cents to SELKIRK CHEM ICAL COMPANY. Healy Building. Port land. Ore., for a packet of SELKIRK BUG KILLER, two tablespoonfuls of which will rid any house of all vermin, bugs, roaches. Sure death to animal lice of every variety; frees poultry ot ticks, mites. Is a most effective PLANT SPRAY, endorsed by leading Agriculturists. AGENTS WANTED in this territory Write today and become a user of SEL' KIRK'S. For Sale. 325 tons of first quality Alfalfa hay on Batter Creek, Umatilla Co, Write or phone The George & Miller Co.. 3t. Echo, Oregon All kinds of pumps to be had at Gilliam & Bisbee. Carpets sewed laid and lined by The Case Furniture Co. Phill Cohn pays highest cash price for hides, pelts and furs. Try a set of those Asbestos Sad Irons in Gilliaua & Bisbee's win dow. Picture framing promptly and neatly done at Case's Furniture Cl OIOIC, louse for sale or rent with one acre ground. Inquire 1st Nation al Bank. tf Do it now ! Not only good, but cheap. Talk with Suiead before instiling. tf. You can't get too many chickens. We'll get rid of them for you at top prices. Minor & Co. Highest cash prices paid for hides, pelts and furs. See Morrow Warehouse Milling Co. tf. Grain of any description taken in exchange for Waitsburg and Idaho Hour. Call on Phill Cobu. Fol'ltky Theres money in it for ou. We cun handle all you raise. Minor & Co. For Sale Eor Cash One 3 Stuaebaker wagon, one spring wagon. Call at Palace Uotel. Insure your bouse with the Ore gon Fire Relief of McMinnville the old reliable company. Geo. J. Cubbis, Local Agent, Thomson Bros. OT WEATHER Is here now. Why not get the habit and come and take a look at our many thin materials for hot. weather. We have them in all varieties of white and colored lawns, just the thing to keep cool in. We carry a full line of ,& . Corsels - In all prices. Also the famous Memo Corsels, $3.50, $4 Ouomsok: BROS, of the AMERICAN LADIES' TAIL ORING CO., of Chicago, and invites ladies to inspect and select samples and the unrivalled fashions. FRENCH DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY. Natter Building Heppner, Oregon , ANNOUNCEMENT T HAVE JUST RECEIVED The A New Fall and Winter Line of All Wool Samples from two of Chicago's largest tailoring houses. It is to your advantage to have your measure taken by a tailor, thus insuring' you correct style and perfect fit. ' PRICES, $15 to $4 Louis Pearson, Tailor w E ARE CARRYING THE best grade of Blue Stone and Formaldehyde this Fall. . x Slocum Bm& Co, Main Street, Heppner, Oregon -J-.-g:.r. An unlimited market for poul try. The Portland market is yours. We haye arranged with Portland connections to handle all thechick- With a creaoierr here the farmers eca we can get. Slinor & Co. - FIRST. NATIONAL BANK OF HEPPNER Invites your Banking Business. Foreign and Domestic Exchange sold . Letters of Credit and Travelers' Checks issued- CAPITAL STOCK - - - - $100,000.00 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS M. S. CoKRiu.u.t., 1'reg : J. 15. Natter and J. II. Mt Daley, Vice Tres. ; T. J. Mahonkv, Cashier; Clvdb Brock, Assistant Cashier; A. L. Aykrs, W. O. Minor, Frank Gilliam. ESTABLISHED IIV 188! 0