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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 24, 1925.
John D' Grandson
BY STATE COLLEGE
Argentine Dispatches Re
sponsible for Fluctua
tion ; Spuds Quiet.
Th wheat market has declined to
mm extent, due to declining de
mand abroad, substantial decreases
in the Chicago market and a smaller
demand on the part of exporters in
the northwest. The situation has
been complicated a good deal this
fall by the conflicting reports from
Argentina, the great delay in the
threshing of Canadian wheat, and
by the failure of Russia to sell as
much wheat as was anticipated ear
lier in the year. Conditions still
remain rather favorable in Argentina.
The grain in Canada ia practically
all threshed and is reported to be of
better quality than indicated in re
ports of two weeks ago. However,
the Canadian lake shipping season
is closed and an immense volume of
that wheat is largely out of the mar
ket until transportation on the Great
Lakes is again resumed. Our exports
of wheat have only been about 48
million bushels, and the total ex
ports from Russia are less than 12
million bushels. Small imports of
Canadian wheat have come into the
United States, but most of it has been
milled in bond and is being shipped
out.
It is probable that part of the high
price in early December was due to
speculators being short on December
wheat, and probably partly duo to a
rather sudden export demand. Good
hard wheat seems in position fo ad
vance in price, although statistics
do not indicate substantial advances
for the purely export grades.
The potato market has quieted down
considerably as shipping conditions
become a little more hazardous. Many
dealers have considerable quantities
in store and are in no hurry to buy,
the market being jery well supplied.
The present market depression fn po
tatoes is probably the result of the
dealers having loaded themselves up
pretty well somewhat earlier in the
season. Complaints ate being made
that the potato grading and labelling
law is being ignored in a great many
places and no prosecutions are be
ing made. If the law is to be effec
tive offenders must be prosecuted and
a few 50-dollar fines or 30-day jail
sentences will probably line up a
great many offenders without the ne
cessity for a large number of ar
rests.
Seed prices generally remain firm
although sweet clover is rather
cheap this year, growers being paid
about J6.00 to $6.30 per hundred on
the average foi it. This is on the
clean seed basis. A large amount of
alsike clover has been imported this
fall and there have also been sub
stantial importations of crimson clo
ver, white clover, English and Italian
rye grass nad Hairy vetch. .The red
clover importations have been small
due to rather small crops abroad.
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Gorham horn. Mrs. H. Ruckman
and Mrs. Gorham were friends in nor
mal school. Mrs. Ruckman is a sis
ter of Frank Hayse, the maintainor
of the state highway.
Mrs. Annie Marshall of Castle Rock
was a Boardman visitor on Monday.
Although living so near she very
seldom gets to Boardman.
Lowell Spagle is erecting a small
cottage en his lots adjoining the
Blayden property occupied by the
Hayse family.
Lauren Blayden, second son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. G. Blayden arrived
Thursday with his wife, formerly Miss
Ethel Fishback of New Plymouth Ida.,
for a visit with the Blaydcns and
Gorhams. Mr. Blayden and Miss Fish
back were married on Tuesday at
Payette, Ida., and came here on their
wedding trip. Lauren spent the win
ter with his parents last year and
has many Boardman friends who will
wish the newly married couple much
happiness.
Lee Meads plan to spend their
Christmas in The Dalles.
Nate Macomber and family left
Thursday for Pilot Rock to spend
Christmas with relatives.
Jason Vaught and a friend stop
ped at the J. F. Gorham homo Fri
day on their way to Klamath, driving
through from their home in Fair
field, Ida.
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BOARDMAN
MRS. A. T. HEREIM, Correspondent.
The group of young folks have re
turned from the various, schools and
colleges for their Christmas vaca
tions. Coming from 0. A. C. were
Uran Messenger, James Howell, Jr,
Alton Klitz, Edna Broylcs, Earl Ol
son. Adrian Bechdolt came for a
visit here with friends before going
to his home in nardman. Adrian was
a former resident here having attend
ed Boardman school when a child.
Tom West and wife and Mrs. Agnts
Stiles of Portland were recent guests
at the j. C. Ballenger home.
Boardman was visited by a disas
trous fire on Friday morning when
the Boardman Trading company store
building was burned to the ground.
Mr. Dillingham, who is the manager,
had living rooms in the back of the
store. As he was preparing break
fast Friday morning his oil stovo ex
ploded and flames covered the room
immediately. The building, which is
an old frame structure and one of
the first built in Boardman, was a
veritable fire trap and flames spread
so rapidly that nothing was saved.
Mr. Dillingham, thinking that some
of the stock in front might be saved,
rushed to the front door and Iti his
haste and excitement had difficulty in
getting the front dogr unlocked and
was almost overcome by the heavy
smoke. The Boardman Trading com
pany had purchased this building and
done some extensive remodeling and
moved in about the first of October.
Since the insurance rate was so much
higher in the frame building Mr.
Cobb decided to carry less insurance,
so consequently the loss was around
114,000 with only about 8,000 in
surance.
Mrs. E. K. Mulkey returned home
last week from The Dalles hospital
where she has been for several weeks.
She is recovering from a serious op
eration for tumor.
W. H. Mefford has taken a four-
horse team to Blalock Island and is
leveling land there. Work is pro
gressing rapidly, houses repaired, the
old pipe line taken out, fences fixed
and the boarding house put in read!
ness. Two families are living there
at present.
C. S. Calkins and family were the
recipients of a fine large Stradivara
phonograph as a Christmas gift from
their son C. C. Calkins and wife of
Spokane,
Wa have always contended that a
doctor, a teacher and a preacher had
the most difficult rolo in life but
the past years experiences have brot
the decision that the role of report
er is not so far behind. Recently
a man told us that h wasn't inter
ested in "who entertained for dinner
and who went where" that wasn't
news it was small town gossip. The
same day we received a letter stating
Each year TaTe University trives
a scholarship to the student need
in financial assistances John R,
Prentice won it He is the grand
son of John D. Rockefeller and is
working as a telephone operator to
par his way through college.
that there was so much news and
that there was so muchmhrd ruiupu
that so much pleasure was taken in
reading of the various dinners that
this- person wanted to subscribe for
the paper again so there you are!
We might write , editorials on na
tional subjects but they would be so
much better written in the Journal
or Oregonian or Digest than we could
write them that who would care to
read them? A small town paper
must of necessity contain the local
news, call it gossip if you insist; we
have no murder to write about, sel
dom any criminal news, for which
we are thankful, very few die here
for which we are also thankful; mar
riages are rather infrequent, so when
the matter is sifted down, the din
ners, parties, the plays, the goings
and comings of 'the people, consti
tute the bulk of our local news. We
try to get all the news of the com
munity, showing no favors, slight
ing none and when all is said and
done a paper is a community affair
and if you all were not so kind about
helping we wouldn't have nearly as
much news as we do.
The teachers have gone to their
various homes for Christmas vaca
tions. School closed on Wednesday
with the school program Wednesday
evening. Miss Ethel Beougher went
to Albany, Miss Elsie Silver to her
home in Astoria, Mrs. Wilson leaves
for Spokane to visit her daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Carr go to Spokane and
Pullman to visit Mr. Carr's parents
and Mrs. Mulkey will remain here.
W. H. Woodard' and family motor
ed to The Dalles on Wednesday to
do some Christmas shopping.
Miss Grace Rasmussen left this
week after a pleasant fortnight's vis
it at the S. H. Boardman home.
Mrs. Lillian Stevens was shopping
in Pendleton on Saturday.
J. R. Johnson and family were
Henniston visitors on Saturday.
Friends are glad to know that Mrs.
Clarence Berger is improving after
an illness of some duration.
Mr. and Mrs. Kate Macomber and
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Goodwin enter
tained jointly on Saturday evening at
a most elaborate -birthday dinner hon
oring Mrs. Ralph Davis. The members
of the Boardman families comprised
the guest list.
Election of officers of the Grange
was held at the regular meeting last
Saturday night. The following were
elected to the principal offices: mas
ter, Chaa. Wicklander; lecturer, Mrs.
C. M. Beardsley; secretary, W. A.
Goodwin; chaplin, Mrs. Chas. Niger;
gate keeper, W. Knauff; steward, Lee
Mead. We were unable to obtain
the rest of the officers.
Walter Olson and wife of Clats-
kanie arrived Wednesday to spend
the holidays with Mrs. Olson's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Blayden.
Mrs. Olson will be remembered as
Frances Blayden.
R. Wasmer returned to good old
Boardman on Saturday after an ab
sence of three years. He has been
in Florida most of the time since
leaving here, having a ranch in that
booming corner of the U. S. A. which
he sold recently and after visiting
an aunt in Philadelphia and at other
eastern points cante back to the
project. Mr. Wasmer is one of the
pioneers of this community and still
owns a ranch on the West End. His
many friends are glad to welcome
him again. '
Mr. and Mrs. Ruckman and Mrs.
Harvey Ruckman . of Imbler, Ore.,
were visitors at the Frank Hayse
home on Friday on their return from
Portland. They aluo visited at the
Epidemic Meningitis.
As a number of cases of meningitis
have been reported in Oregon it is
important that everyone should be
informed in regard to measures for
its prevention and control.
Two epidemics have been reported
one at Cochran and the other at
Klamath Falls. Epidemic meningitis
was not recognized until the begin
ning of the nineteenth century. The
first outbreak occurred in 1804 in
New England States and Kentucky.
Cerebrospinal fever occurs in epi
demic and in sporadic form. The epi
demics are localized and are rarely
widespread. As a rule the country
districts are more affocted than cit
ties. The concentration of individ-
als ia large chacks or barracks
seems to be a factor. Children and
young adults are most susceptible.
Exhaustion, over exertion, depressing
mental and bodily surroundings are
predisposing causes. Meningitis car
riers play an important role in trans
mitting the disease. The scientific
name for epidemic meningitis ia cer
ebrospinal fever.
Itis" means inflammation. Appen
dicitis means inflammation of the ap
pendix. Cerebrospinal meningitis
means inflammation of the nerve tis
sue of the brain and spinal cord. In
its common usage inflammation any
where means the effects of infection.
Cerebrospinal meningitis means that
some infecting organism ia attack
ing the brain and spinal cord. It
has been found out that there are
many different microbes which do
this, but a special one, the meningo
coccus, is accused of causing epi
demics of contagious meningitis.
Epidemic meningitis is transmit
ted directly by the transfer of secre
tions from the nose and throat by
means of coughing or sneezing, and
indirectly by coming in contact with
articles which have been contaminat
ed by such secretions. The time be
tween exposure and the first appear
ance of symptoms is from two to
ten days, but persons have been
known to carry theso germs in the
nose and throat for months before
symptoms develop. Persons recov
ering from this disease also have been
known to retain live germs in the sys
tem for months after they were ap
parently well.
Every case of meningitis and every
suspicious caso should be immediate
ly isolated and reported to the local
health officer. Meningeal irritation
is manifested by headache, vomiting,
rigidity of the neck with let ruction
of the head and rise of temperature.
In young children convulsions are
common. Early diagnosis is of the
utmost importance in the control of
meningitis, and no timo should bo
lost in calling the doctor in any sus
picious case. No child shold be al
lowed to return to school after hav
ing the disease without a proper cer
tificate of health from the health
officer or the attending physician.
Colds and catarrh should receive at
tention because they may not only
carry infection but are sometimes as
sociated with the disease itself.
CRUMBLY TEETH
Where there if a tend
ency to lime-deficiency,
toft teeth or weak bones
there Is special need lot
cod-tfref oil
Scott's Emulsion
of pure cod-liver oil sup
plies a richness of vitamins
that a child needs to as
sure sound bones
and teeth. It U taty
to taJt ft knettf
aw lotting.
m Bowae, MaoartaU. M. I. s-M
I WANT YOUR
CATTLE & HOGS
I buy anything from one head
to a carload, or more if you
have 'em. Prices right, deliv
ered at Heppner stock yards.
R. D. ALLST0TT
Phone Main 753, Heppner, Ore.
Tit hakes
Mlf STRonb)
n
Your cakes, pastry, etc.,
that everyone bakes for
Christmas, will taste bet
ter if vou use plenty of
pure, fresh sweet milk.
You can always depend on
the milk that comes from
Now is the time to
order your
COAL
for your winter
needs
TUM-A-LUM
LUMBER CO.
Heppner, Lexington, lone
Blackleg Is Prevalent
In Herds of County
Blackleg, one of the most destruc
tive range cattle diseases, haa been
causing some loss in cattle in Mor
row county. It is reported that it Is
causing considerable loss in Grant
county also.
While this disease is very fatal,
as most stockmen know, it is pre
ventable by the use of blackleg vac
cine or aggressin. At the present
time the vaccine is very cheap and
all young cattle that have not been
accinated should be treated at once,
as this disease which is caused by
a specifiic organism, is confined to
cattle between the ages of six months
and two, years. It has not for a
number of years caused any appre
ciable loss in Morrow county, and
many stockmen havo neglected to
Immunize their cattle and do not do
it until they are faced with a loss
In their herds. It should be borne
in mind that in almost any year the
loss of one animal will pay for
treating all of the young stuff in the
herd.
Any farmer wishing information
regarding the method of treatment
can get the same by calling on the
county agent.
' RHEA CREEK GRANGE.
Rhea Creek Grange meets the firct
Sunday of each month at 10 a. m.,
and the third Friday night of each
month at 8 p. m. Visiting members
welcome.
FOR SALE 53-horsepower Blowett
Webfoot tractor and two t'.irce-bot-tom
16-inch plows. Will ell with or
without plows and take In trade some
sood work horses. C. C, Hutchcroft,
Morgan, Ore., on H. C. Witrel place.
WANTED To rent ranch in Morrow
county; prefer near Heppner. Laur
ence E. Reaney, Lexington, Oregon.
FOR SALE Ford touring car, fair
condition; S76. Inquire this office.
WW WINTER
CROIW
The new winter "Red
Crown" is wild to go
crowded with mileage!
On sale at all "Red
Crown" pumps.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(CalUorala)
Alfalfc
Lawn Dairy
mm,mnnn,mn,nr,.n-.,nnam,
CARLOAD OF
FEED
CORN
NOW ON HAND
We can supply your needs from
one sack' up.
Brown Warehouse Co.
Phones: Warehouse 643, Residence 644
Accept this word of grveting,
'Tis old, yet ever new: .
A Merry, Merry Christmas,
A Happy New Year, too.
And we'll be here to serve
you in 1926 with everything
that's best to eat.
ELKHORN
RESTAURANT
ED CHINN, Prop.
With kindest remembrances and best
wishes for a Merry Christmas and
a very Happy New Year
Thomson Brothers
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