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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1910)
fpffitt IS M J4 vrri j til "Jcil VOL. 27. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1910 RAINMAKER EMPLOYED Hatfield Will Again Op erate in Sherman , County. Charles M Hatfield, tbe Los An gelea rainmaker, was a Portland visitor Monday, . leaving in tbe evening for Wasco, Sherman coun ty, where he has a contract to in crease the season's rainfall for'tbe benefit of the wheat farmers of that district says the Journal. Hatfield reached Portland, San day morning, coming from Yolta, Merced oounty, California, where he has just closed a contract with the farmers of that section. Dur ing the past season there the coun try received a 1U men rainrall as against a five inch fill of the year before. After fulfilling his con tract in Sherman county this sum mer the rainmaker will return to California and put in twa plants near Voita for the next season there. Monday next the operation of persuading the vagrant moisture to come down to earth will be com menced in Sherman county and kept np continually until July 25. The contract calls for one and one nnd one half inches of rain. Hat field's apparatus consists of a se ries of elevated stations, canvass enclosed, containing a larffe num ber of trays and disks. In these disks and trays various chemicals are placed, and the whole mass is heavily charged with electricity. This current is maintained throughout the entire time of the contract. It is contended by the inventor of the system that the chemical changes produced by this means will cause overhead mois ture to condense and precipitate in the form of rain. Ball Team Organized. A number of players and base ball enthusiasts came up from lone Jast Sunday for the purpose of organizing a Morrow county team bv taking tbe best material from both Heppner and lone. The players got together, tried out a little in practice, organized with Joe Cronan as captain and the following players have signed np: Walter Rood. Harry JayneB, Daffy King, Ernest Clark, Sam Ganger, Mr StoDe, Cy Aiken. Wil lis McCarty, Levi Morgan and Ralph Jlymer. Morrow county has the timber for a winning team. Mr Crouin will make a good captain, having a cool baseball head as well as being a crack play er. Negotiations are under way to secure a pitcher. Tbe first game will probably be with Condon, however, the neces sary arrangements have not been completed The boys should be encouraged and we will have a good team this season. The contracting firm of Twoby Bros, who are straightening the 0. R. & N. track between Pendleton and Yoakum, have now got well started with their work. They now have nearly 200 men em ployed on the different gangs and they expect to more than double the force in a short time. The main camp of the company is about three miles west of Pendleton. The marshal of Corvallis picked np in a street there a Spanish piece of 1802, the size of a quarter and bearing the words "Carolus." The coin is badly worn and battered, making other words undecipher able. Better Feeding. From a letter written by Dr, Withyoombe, director of the Ore goo Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, the following extracts are taken. The Northwest offers unlimited opportunities for producing high class beef. Despite tbe fact that corn may not be available, other feed stuffs equally as good can be produced in great abundance. Good killing stuff can be seenred from well cured wild or alfalfa hay. There is little waste in feeding wel cured alfalfa hay cut at th e prop er season, but when overripe or coarse its value will be increased from 20 to 25 per cent by running it through the cutter. Some grain or succulent ieea should be fed with hay to fatten cattle. In Dracticallv all of the stock feeding dfstricts the field pea or fodder can be grown. If these are ensiled and fed in the following ration 15 pounds of al falfa or wild hay, 30 pounds of 'corn or pea silage and 5 pounds of rolled barley, a gain ot pounds per day should be secured for a period of 90 days. It would put the steer in prime condition and thus add from 1 to 2 cents per pound to the value of his initial weight Another excellent feed for fat tening cattle is a combination of alfalfa and beardless barley hay. These may be grown separately or in many instances grown together advantageously. For example, fields where alfalfa is not thickly set should be. thoroughly disced with a soike tooth disc in tbe BDrinc and beardless barley drilled in and the whole cut for hay. This combination js excellent for put tine beef cattle in the very best condition for market Prime mutton can be economic ally nroduced from the same feeds sucreested for cattle. In Eastern Orecon the crincipal winter fat tening feed should be alfalfa and heardlesa barlev hay and rolled barley. Bros. Thomson i - Heppner, Oregon Extend to you a cordial invitation to 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 Glass Merchandise all Departments We are now ready to show Goods for the Spring Season 1910 We carry a full line of Staple and Fancy Gro ceries, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes Agents for Collegian Clothes Standard Fashions School Notes. Oathe 19th inst. I visited the school in district No. 15. Tbe teacher, Miss Josie Eskelson, and the pupils were busy with the re view work of the closing week of school. I was much pleased with some work in rapid calculation. The pupils bare been doing some work in picture study. They have studied copies of a few of the world's famous paintings and have learned something of the painters. Their study of the painters was made the basis of work in com position. This feature of the work has proven very profitable, There is some talk of buildioar a new school house before the next term opeos. The proceeds of a box social, $04.00 have been placed to the credit of the building fund. In the afternoon I visited the school on Social Ridge. Miss May Severance teaches this school. This school is small. The pupils are interested in their work and are doing well. The pupils have been experimenting with a school gar den. Their plans have been inter fered with Bomewhat by the squir. rels. However, the study of plant ue UDder such difficulties is not without profit. The pupils ren . . . aerea an interesting program on Arbor Day. I was much pleased witbjSomeof the stories written by the pupils in their language work. On Friday laBt. Mrs Jessie Phelps closed a successful term of school at the Llackhorse school house. Accompanied by Assessor HendricsoD, I visited the school a shortime before noon. At tbe noon intermission, quite a number of the good people of the district came in. They brought with them well filled baskets, and a large table was arranged aorosa some of the desks. Upon this waa placed an abundance of good things to eat. After the dinner had been properly disposed of, the pupils. assisted by Mrs J F Wilder and Mrs Joeie Brown, rendered an ex eellent program. At tbe close of the program, everyone went home feeling that this had been very pleasant and profitable occasion. The people of this district take lively interest in their school and are determined to keep it op to a high standard. 8. E. Notsou, Co. Sapt. -.11 Hr"' -m WF For, ACW"""3 making 1 .r fine, . m r- 1 orpiain il&iU2lly valuable ana savmjj. rich, r...,Sv?fl Indispensable For Home Balling Methodist Episcopal Church. Services for Sunday, April 31. Sunday school 9:45 a m. Epworth League devotional meeting in the church basemeit,6:30 p m. Preach ingatll a m and 7 p m by the pastor, Walter L. Airheart. Sub ject morning Bermon: "Tbe Life Everlasting." Evening: ''The Re pentant Malefactor," M. E. Church, South. May 1st. Sutdav school at 10 a.m. breaching at n a. m , by pastor. Subject: "The first com- mandmenL" Epworth at 6:30 p. m. Preaching at 7:30 p. m., by Prof. W. II. Martin, president Co- umbia College, Milton. The pub ic is invited, E. P. Warren, pae- tor. A man on a small place near Goshen is making a success of poultry raising on a small scale, such as hundreds oi others might do in Oregon. lie has hatched 300 full blood White Leghorn chicks already this spring and has orders to hatch something over 1000 chicks for other parties. Old Jailbreak Recalled. The escape of five prisoners from the United Staffs peniten tiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, by using dummy revolvers made of wood recalls to the minds of old timers in the Northwest the cele brated delivery of the King coun ty jail, at Seattle in 1894, by Tom Blank, a desperado under sentence of death. Previous to the Hnrrv Tracy bunt it was the most noted jail break in tbe history of the Northwest. Blank made a dummy revolver out of pieces of wood, stuck them together with chewing gum. One night he proceeded to hold up the jailer with this weap on, took the latter's keys, delivered fourteen prisoners from the jail and locked the jailer in, . together with a man accused "of wife beat ing, wnom UJank said was so mean be onghi to stay in jail. Raisin Day April 30. ADVERTISED LETTERS. The following letters remain un called for" in the poet office at Heppner, Oregon:.' Boyer, J S,' letter; Brooks, Mrs Minnie, card; ttolan,' Mr Patrick, card; Gisear, Charlie, card; Giar- hart, Miss Winona, card; Gascb, Rudolph, card; Mrs John Mobley, 8 8 Rose, Geo Bpondiles, Mrs Min nie Sutherlin, cards; J E West, Wm Williams, J G McGee, letters. The above da'e has been set apart as an annual event by the people ol California in w Inch all are asked to join by eatins? raisins in the form of "raitin bread" or ia any form that may be desired. The object of this special day is to create a wide spread raisin sen timent that will rpsult in a greater demand for that fruit, and to di rect the attention of all good housewives to the exctlleoce of the raisin as an article of food. Tbe good people of the Northwest are invited by their neighbors t participate in the pleasant custom and "break" raisin bread on April 30. . - During three i or four days last week sales of orchard land in tbe immediate vicinity of Medford to tal nearly 500,000. As high as $2375 an acre was paid for a bear ing orcnard, and $428 for unplaut ed, upland. The first rose of 1910 in Eugene has bloomed oat. One appeared in Boseburg about a week earlier. Wkr tmm af rerT With beadache, biliousness, conatip- tlon and tbe ills it entails, when Foley's Or I no Laxative wilt relievo sod care yoa. u tonee ap ell tbe digestive o frani, earriee oft the Waste matter ana timolatee tbe howela to their normal activity. It ia a eptendid epring medi cine. All drogKista. Special, Six Days BARGAIN-SALE Of Low Shoes Worthy of Your Most Careful Consideration Women's Low Shoes, Reg. Trices $3.25 to $4 Choice for G days com. Friday morning $3 15 $2 50 Women's Low Shoes, in Black vici kid with pat. leather tips, special for six days $1 90 1 75, 2 25 Misses Low Shoes, in patent leather and vici kid, special for G days $1 45 $2 25 Boys' Low Shoes in black vici kid, with heavy welt soles special G days $1 SO $2 00 and 2 25 Women's Canvas Ox. spl. $1 45 $1 50 Misses and Women's Can. Ox. spl. 95c The Cash Shoe Store