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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1904)
N ISS ass LOCAL. IHAKKKTS. ow About Printing The Gazette office was never better equipped for Artistic Job Printing than it is to day, having just received a large supply of NEW AND UP-TO-DATE TYPE which added to our already complete office, makes it one of the best shops in Eastern Oregon. Do you need LETTER HEADS BILL HEADS or ENVELOPES. If you do now is the time and the Gazette is the place to have it done. Can supply you with anything in the CATALOGUE OR POSTER LINE In fact we are prepared to turn out any job from a small card to a full sheet poster, and you can have col ored work if you prefer it. If you do not believe it, try us. Make a specialty of PRINTING BRIEFS Perhaps you are in need of some legal or land blanks, which we always carry in stock. Send for catalogue. We have a complete line of both LEGAL AND LAND BLANKS Come in and examine our line of cards and wedding stationery. THE GAZETTE HEPPNER, OREGON Gazette, $1 pr Year llcppner Quotations on Stapled Hought and Sold Here. KEf AIL GROCERY PRICES. COFFEE Mocha and Jaya. beat 5 per pound ; next tirade, 35c per pound ; pnekage - coffee, Lion and Arbuckle, 6 packages f.jr $1. RICE Best head rice 10c per pound; n xt grade cents per pound. KUOAR Cnne granu'atfd, best $6 85 ptr sack ; do 13 pounds $1. SALT Coarse (35c per 100; 40c 50 pounds K LOU It $4 45$5 00 per barrel. BACON 15'2() per pound. HAMS 16 18c per pound. COAL OIL $1 2$1 75 for 5 gal lons ; $3 50 per cas. VEGETABLES. TOTATOES lc p( r pound. CABBAGE 3c per pound. ONIONS 3c per pound. FRUITS. APPLES Green lc per pound. BANANAS 40c per dozen. LEMONS 30c per dozen. ORANGES 40c6Jc per dozen. LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY. Prices paid by dealer to the producer. CHICKENS $3 50 per dozen. BUTTER ranch, 40 and 50c per roll. EGGS 30c per doz. BEEF CATTLE, ETC. COWS $1 75!f2 00 per hundred. SlEfcRS $2 502 75 per hundred. VEAL Dressed, 5c per pound. SHEEP $1 50$2 50. HOGS Live, 4c(5c; dressed, 6Kc 7o per pound. COST Or : lltie YI Mt; .11 A U. S. State of Ohio, County of Toledo . Lucai County, j B Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he 1b senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & C., ding business in the eity ef Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Chenby, Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. seal A. W. Gleason. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Bend for testimonials free. P. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. United StuWM t'aia 7, 031,130 for tltel'at Fiftt'iil Year. Wa-hington, N.v 18. The annual report of W. S Sh i L- berger, Second Aneistant Post nant r-Gneral, kIiowb that th- annua' rate i expendi'.ure for all i lind mail transportation Hervice during the p.ist fiscitl .war was 8(57 931, 430. To this in added 2,150,053 for foreign mai s. The largest item in the postal's trans portation figure i ie the utar routes, which nu be- 18,743, aggregating 233,- 392 miles, and an annual rate of expen diture of 86,834,023; rsilroa-1 routes, 3008 in number, with 190,907 mileage and an annual rate of expenditure of $39,177,377; ra lway postoflice carj routes, numbering 284, with an agre g te length of 52,037 miles, and an an nual rate of expenditure of $5,518,234; and railway mail service (officers and clerks) 11,444 in number, involving an expendimre of $12,095,437. The num ber of miles traveled per annum by all classes of rcu'es of mail transportation in this country, among which are the star routes, railroad routes, epecial of fice routes, mail messenger routes, etc., ggregates 505,585,520. In Hawaii, the mail and messenger service at the various porta is now bo arranged as to conneot mil steamers at any time whether the steamers are running on regular schedule or at irregular inter vals. To indicate the large increase in the volume of mails carried by the rail roads it is pointed out that the expendi tures for railroad transportation and railway postoffice cafe during the four years 1902-1905, was $42,458,146, an in crease of over 17 per cent over the pre vious four years' period, whil the revenue of the postal service waB $139, 781,794, an increase of over 40 per cent over the previous four-year period. The report says it is evidently the de sire of the American people to send parcels of email average weight abroad, and that our rates of postage favor this practic '. A good deal of building is goirjg on in Corvallis. Many potatoes raised on a farm near Dairy, Klamath county, weigh from 2 to 3 pounds each. One day last week a train of 19 cars of cattle and 3 cars of hogs left Elgin for the Troutdale stock yards. Farmers in the vicinity of Haines raised a suiplus ot 25,000 pounds of fine apples, which they shipped to the mines around Sumpter. A Medford man one day last week received a carload of trees, 100,000 in number, from the Woodbnrn nursery, enough to set out 1,500 acres of grouad. Jack son county is going to be a world's wonder as a fruit producer. A business men's and citizens' association designed to promote not only the materia! welfare and push the growth of Ashland, but also for the mental and social im provement of its membership will soon be organized. A Lane county school district's directors have purchased a con siderable library for the U6e of the pupils. Good idea; good invest ment. Reading good books will help to keep not ouly the children, but the men and women that they will soon become, out of mischief. If a man is liable to commit a crime, what a fool he is to have his skin tattooed. A man ar rested in Bend for assault was recognized by a deputy sheriff as a probable California murderer, for whom a reward of $500 had been offered, and positive identification was made by figures tattooed on his arm. The deputy sherifl's good memory and close observa tion add $500 to his purse. i ac Morrow County, Oregon. Morrow County is a Dew country, and like all other new countries, is awaiting development. Located in tbe Colombia river valley, and skirted on the South with a spur of the Blue moun tain?, within the boundaries of Morrow county is a territory 75 miles in length by 35 miles in width, and containing 1,313,280 acres of land. Formerly etookreising was the principal industry, but lat terly the fertility of the land is bringing agriculture to the front. Immense wheat crops ace grown with iittle cultivation, tbe soil being mixed with a volcanic ash which is very rich in wheat-producing qualities. The 19C4 crop will aggregate 1,400,000 bushels, muoh of it from virgin soil. Morrow oounty hos thousands of head of sheep, horses and cattle. Tbe wool prodootien for 1904 was 2,500,000 pounds. Alfalfa and fruit growing are profitable industries, rapidly growing in importance. The oounty has al60 a great ooal field, eoon to be developed. rr ITT ine neppner irazette Is the best exponent of the industrial life of the town and county. Keeps its readers thoroughly posted as to their progress and development. A good medium to send to eastern friends, thoroughly reliable, wide-awake and progressive, $1.00 per Year in Advance Take advantage of some of our clubbing offers.