Children's Shoes
There is nothing more not
iceable in the line of dress
than the kind of shoes worn.
The little folks are just as par
ticular as the older ones and
you make no mistake when
you buy either of the follow
ing makes: The Sterling, Atlas
and Little Ked School House
Shoe. No better shoe made.
While we do not cut the price
on these staple values, they
are exceptional bargains at the
regular price.
$1.50, 1.75, 2.00
Ladies' Shoes
Just received a full line of
The John Strootman Ladies'
Shoes. This is the best wear
ing shoe that was ever brought
to Heppner and always give
satisfaction. Are made from
full stock, widths, B, C, D, E.
$2.50, 3.00, 3.25, 3.50
i
Shoes
Are Shoes
Never in the history of this store was there a time
when we had such a complete line of up-to-date shoes in
stock. We carry the best makes and sell them at living
prices. We have just received a large shipment from the
lactones and are highly pleased with them, knowing that
these shoes are just what the people have been looking
for. We have shoes to suit all classes.
Men's Dress Shoes
You cannot be well dressed unless you wear a dressy
shoe and that is the kind we carry.
The Smith, Wallace Shoe, vici kid, canvas lined, latest
last, hand sewed sole. It is a beauty.
Selling for $4 75
Peerless, vici kid, kid lined, extra heavy extension sole,
English back stay, latest toe.
Selling for $4 00
Men's Shoes
The Century style, a very
good shoe for medium heavy
wear, cut all in one piece, with
no seams to chafe the foot,
most economical, practical and
serviceable shoe made. Price
$2.75
White Oak Shoe, upper made
of soft leather, full stock, un
lined, bellows tongue, riveted
seams, medium weight exten
sion sole. Just the thing for
all-around hard wear. Price
$2.75
Nap-a-Tan Shoes This is a
very durable, water proof shoe,
oil tanned, never get hard and
will turn water. Too much
cannot be said of this shoe, as
it never fails to give satisfac
tion. The only place these
shoes are manufactured is in
Napa, California. Price
$3.50
VEGETABLES
No better place in town to
buy your vegetables, because
they are always fresh. They
are bought every morning.
.MINOR k COMPANY
GROCERIES
Our Grocery Department
is the pride of our store and
we carry the most complete
stock in Heppner.
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The Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday Morning.
Warnook & Michell.
Entered at the Fostofliee at Heppner Oregon, as
second-class matter.
Thursday August C, 1903
These hot days make it easy to
realize how nice a city park would
be.
The Blue mountains will soon
be giving up the wealth of black
diamond?, and some day Morrow
county will be the Pennsylvania of
the We6t.
The Gazette would like to see
more interest taken in the queston
of needed public improvments that
have been talked of by a few public
spirited citizens. There are several
matters that are certainly worthy
of investigation at least.
by the people of our sister state for
a long time and the result is plain
to all. The fair will help Wash-
It will help Oregon more.
ington.
at least. The railroad people will
not give away valuable property
for something that will do them
no good. Governor Chamberlain
is taking an active part in the port
age road project and says that the
state will proceed with prepara
tions for early construction. While
the state board will exhaust all
As mining progresses in the
Willow creek coal field the outlook
grows brighter all the time. The
fact that a great coal field has been
discovered is now settled beyond a ' means to carry out the provisions
reasonable doubt. A new tunnel of the bill, present conditions are
which has just been opened known such that it will only take a small
as Conser tunnel will soon be amount of cold water to chill the
The seaEon has arrived and with
it the reports of the hunters
puncturing their companions with
bullets just because they made
noises like deer. A man who
could not hit a deer in a hundred
shots always kills a man the first
shot.
It now remains only for the peo
ple of Oregon to do as they ought
to to ' make the Lewis and Clark
fair a success. United States
Senator Foster of Washington, has
made public the statement that he
will pledge his support to an ap
propriation of 81,000,000 from the
government. Senator Fostei re
gards the exposition as an enter
prise of equal importance to both
states, which will be of great value
to the entire Northwest and will
aid in the development of the
whole coast The spirit shown by
Senator Foster has been cultivated
whole enterprise, but the Inland
Empire can wait. We will have a
voice some day.
How many of the residents of
Oregon make any systematic effort
to advertise the resources of the
state? tlow many of the business
men of the state take the trouble
to call attention of the public to
the opportunities awaiting thrift
and industry in the West? How
many letters that are sent out of
Oregon to friends and business ac
quaintances, contain any allusion
to the matchless resources of the
country? Every man who writes
a letter to outside points should in
close something about the state,
It should become a practice with
everybody, to say a few words or
inclose a few plain facts about the
vicinity in which they live. It is
the onlv wav in which the state
at mi
can be settled with a desirable
It looks rather blue for the port- class of people. It is just a mat
age road at Celilo. Whether the ier of business advertising. If
road could be properly built inside people don't hear of the opportu
of the appropriation of $1G.",000 nities of Oregon, they will go to
has always been a question, but ! some other state that is seeking
now the problem of a right of way settlers by spreading the news of
is the greatest obstacle. The O. i their resources. East Oregoman
K. & X. refuses to give any of thp
company's right of way. There is
not enough money to buy a right
of way and build the road. It
looks now like there would not be
very much accomplished before
another session of the legislature
mined. The Conser shows one of
the finest seams yet discovered in
the field. The vein U four and
one half feet thick of pure coal
without any foreign substance
whatever and the quality is very
desirable.
The negro as a part of the en
listed force of the United States
navy is to be eliminated. The
elimination will be gradual by let
ting the blacks go as fast as their
terms expire and to hereafter dis
courage the enlistment of colored
men. Where white men are forced
to treat negroes as their equals,
whether it be in the navy or any
other place there will be trouble,
and this well known fact has forced
the new policy which is a wise one.
At the present time of the 29,000
enlisted men in the navy, 500 of
them are black.
"PALACE
MAXl'FACTl'KIJKS OK
FJNE CANDIES
H. D. Wood & Co
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LEXINGTON NEWS.
Lexington, Aug. 5, VM.
Johnny Leach is battling with
typhoid fever.
W. B. Tucker left hero last week
for his former home in Missouri.
Ellen Fawcett is sick with
typhoid fever this week.
The threshing season has open
ed, several machines having start
ed up tbis week.
An addition to the Methodist
parsonage is being built tliis week.
Mrs. W. F. Carnett and daughter
Miss Trannie, returned from Walia
Walla, Monday. Miss Trannie is
greatly improved in health.
Belvedere
FINEST WINES,
LIQUORS & CIGARS
One hundred empty barrels for
pale. Five hundred barrels of ex
tra fine eider vinegar on tap. . . .
HEPPNER,
ORE.
l Harness,
saddles
FacR
GillS
Officials of the St. Louis Exposi
tion announce that the opening
day will be May 1, 1904; that there
is no intention of recognizing any
possibility of delay or postponement.
The treasury department has or
dered the Salem postoffice com
pleted and bids for 810,000 worth
of work has been advertised for.
A gang of noted crooks and
thugs has been arrested at
Kootenay, Idaho, for stealing G,
000 worth of diamonds from Sid
Scott a prominent sporting man
in Spokane.
F. S. Bramwell, field manager of
the Grand Ronde sugar beet crop,
says about one-half of the acreage
sown near Union in the early
spring was plowed up, on account
of the exceedingly dry weather.
The largest line ever
shown in Morrow county.
Just received a big line
of new harness made of
the best stock for hard
service in freighting and
farming.
NOBLE
SADDLES
Need no introduction.
All sizes,plain and fancy, I
for hard service.
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