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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1911)
VOL. 23. NO. 8. IIEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1911 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR. U mrrm wmjumm ng'-'itM ?pm rrqn rw.wi prm I Diversified Farming. i r&JssBaO iJklS KSfSia Bffiia isMsni LSl! Ji xlJ bIJ Is the Center of Morrow County. It is the home of the Jersey cow and the Hen From January first to May eighth our merchants have shipped 11,210 dozen eggs, worth $2,131.04. V7iu- urauat'ry in xne same nine nas put on tiie market 11,02 t pounds ot butter, winch brought $3,510.14. This from 100 cows owned by 40 customers. Our sixty-five farmers (we have room for one hundred more) sold from the crop of 1910, 100,000 sacks ot wheat and 000 sacks of barley, worth approximately f 150,000. We have thousands of acres of idle land left and we invite you to come and share it with us. general stores. LEXINGTON has a good school,' two churches, a public reading room and library, drug store, flouring mill, 2 grain warehouses (combined capacity 90,000 sacks), hotel, livery stable, barber shop, pastime, blacksmith shop and plumbing establishment, lumber and wood yard, banking facilities, and CREAMERY, but no depot or express agent. O.-W. R. & N. Railroad Co. please sit up and take notice. LEACH BROTHERS Genet-ill Merchandise and Farm Implements. Will sell you anything; from a needle to a threshingiiinchine. W. F. BARNETT & CO. Carry a One stock of Gen eral Merchandise, and are always ready to nttennd to your wants. OUR DRUG STORE is owned by our genial postmaster, W. 1. McMillan. Billy will always do the square thing by you. JOS. BURGOYNE for Fancy Groceries and Gents Furnishing Goods. It will pay you to call on Joe when in town. Mrs. E. A. Beymer at the Lexington Hotel will give you rs good a meal for the money as you will get in the County. LIVERY STABLE If you want to get somewhere, Call on Pete Beymer at the Lexington Stables. An automobile is not in it with Pete's teams. Traveling Men Take Notice. Barber Stop J. E. Gentry will attend to your wants in this line. You will lind Gene aa up-to-date fellow. TUM A LUM LUM BER COMPANY C. O. BURROWS, Manager. Keeps a fine stock of Lumber. Wood and Coal always on hand. Call on or write for prices. BEACH & ALLYN Will attend to your Blncksmith ing and numbing. Keep on hand Windmills, and Gasoline Engines, Pipe and Fittings, Sinks, Bath Tubs and Fixtures. Give them a call. CREAMERY. II. RASMUSSEN, Prop. Our creamery will buyyourcream and sell you butter and ice cream. Will furnish Churches and Lodges with the best of ice cream at wholesale rates. Try it. PASTIME. If you want to pass a pleasant hour, call on R. H. Lane at the Office Pastime. Howard will show you a good time. FLOURING MILL. Joe Burgoyne has Flour and Feed always on hand. KERR, GIFFORD & CO. WAREHOUSE. Capacity, 00,000 sacks of grain LEXINGTON WAREHOUSE. JOS. BURGOYNE, Proprietor Capacity, S9,000 sacks of grain. AFe Yoii Sai with the Style, Fit and the Wearing Quality of the Clothes You Wear ? If you want something "difFerent" without payirlg more come and see us. The tailoring we offer you will meet your tastes. It will please your purse, too, for we offer you hand-made tailor ing as high-class as that done by exclusive Merchant Tailors in the big cities. Yet our range of price is less than half what they ask. Universal ALL WOOL Tailoring will more than please you. If you want to give us a trial if you want to see over 400 of the most beautiful fabrics on display anywhere it will be well worth your while to pay us visit. Louis Pearson JO' f mfM !, "k "dy mi Mi -' . tmm The Red, White and Blue. Hurrah! for the Hed, White and Blue, To our flag we loveso dear. We stand for right with all onr might, For foes we have no fear. So let the banner wave from shore to ehore, Over monntaiu. dale and sea. And God will bless for ever more Our flag and the Land of Liberty. Free we must be. from all tyranny, We atand for right, with all our might, For the Lsnd of Liberty. Our heroes and our noble brave, Who lought for freedom sake, Who gave to us our noble flag, We cheer their gallant deeds. On every school house iu tnls land, Our banner shall forever wave. A nd young and and old in this free land, Will decorate our herOeB gravei, free we must be, from all tvranny. We stand for right with all our might, For the Land of Liberty Dick Beamax. Merchant Tailor Heppner, Oregon High School Notes. The following are the names of the teachers employed to teach in the Hepp ner schools next year : 11. II. Hoffman, rincipal; Mr. J. H. O'Suliivan, Pots dam, X. Y., first assistant ; Miss Lilah Clark, Portland, Or., second assistant; Miss Elsie Young, Dulnth, Minn., com mercial department; Miss Mable Fuller, 7th snd eighth grades; Miss Beulah Barker, 5th and sixth grades ; Miss Win- nifred Winnard, 4th and 5th grades; Miss Florence Lusted, Green, Iowa, 3rd and 4th grades; Miss Ethel Reid, 2nd grade; Miss Anna Quick, Berthoud, Col., 1st grade; Miss Ella D. Funk, music and drawing, ises to be -one of the social affairs of the yoar. The annual commencement will hp heldon Friday evening, May 26. at Roberts' Opera House, at 8 :30 o'clock. The class has bioken away from the old time "essay and oration" plan, and will give the beautiful drama. Tennvsnn' Princess." Nothing of the beauty and charm of the original poem has been lost in the dramatization The theme is tbe social position of woman, the time is trie lorn century. The costuming will be beautiful and elaborate. Do not forget the time and place. Tickets will be on sale at Patterson's drug store, Monday, May 22, st 8 a. m. Dinner Parry. By J. Garfield Crawford. Mar, I i . . "'" "iue iiih ursr. are; toward civili zation when he took a crooked stick and began fo till the soil. Upon cultivating 'he soil he became master of the plants and shaped them to serve his purposes. With the plow, the savage life of the hunter and the nomad life of ihe herder gave way to that settled agriculture mat now yields our food supply and up on which rests our modern civilization. The heathen Chinese has truthfully said that the American people are a meat eating people. Although we may not agree with tbe balance cf the state ment that "the American is so barbar ous; he slashes flesh with great steel knives ; let their women go any place u piauo wim mem ana even stoop so low as to allow the women to appear with them on the street," we will have to admit that we are meat eaters. The great commercial woild is calling for the products of the soil to' feed its millions of shop workers and tbis call must be answered. The mechanic, th miner, the office man and the shop gir all must be fed. It will be years before tbe run-down farms of New England and the South will be able to supoly more than the immediate demands of their own people, so the job of lillin the mouths of the cities has fallen upon the farmers of the Great Flains and the Pacific West. Oregon is to contribute her share bub is to prosper and become a great commonwealth, and Morrow county must be a part of contributing Oregon in order tnat Morrow county may be come a factor in this food production it will be necessary for its farmers to get tbe best possible results from the soil Not that Morrow county farmers are not getting all that is possible from their soils at the present, for these farmers are just as good as any farmers and know their business thoroughly, but there never was a business which failed to progress, but what fell, and this is just exactly the same condition that exists in farming. rV I . J ! . 1 1 .. . j. lie wea nas loug prevailed all oyer the West that, "I most make a good crop this year to buy that homestead of Jones's joining me, " or "I have just got to get hold of Smith's place in order to give me a farm of 2000 acres and to give me control of the water shed, and square my place out." The thought seldom occurs that "1 will improve my present farm by fertilizing, plaoing bet ter stock and housing my machinery," but the farmers have been "land mad" and have had the desire to be masters of vast estates, and Morrow county far mers have been juet as progressive in accumulating real estate as any ot their neighbors. Hut the day is fast coming when the man with the small farm is to be the man who feeds the world, because he is FIRST NATIONAL BANK HEPPNER, OREGON Established in 1887 A general banking business conducted. Exchange on all important points of the world. DIRECTORS OFFICERS M. S. Corrigall, Fresident J. P.. Natter, Vice President T. J. Maiioney, Cashier Clyde Brock, Asst. Cash. Four per cent, paid on time deposits. M. S. Corrigall J. P. Natter T. J. Ma HONEY Frank Gilliam A. L. Ayers The Board of Education has cor eluded to establish a' Commercial Department in the high school, and have employed I Miss Elsie Young of Doluth, Minn., a regular graduate of shorthand, book keeping, typewriting, etc., to take charge of tha work. This will avoid the necessity of our young n.en and women 1 going to Portland or elsewhere to obtain a business education. A complete and thorough business course will be addled to our high school course of study. In auuition to tins systematic instruction in drawing will be given in the first eight grades. Miss Funk will have charge of this work. The necessary apparatus for the teaching of Physios and I hysiography will be installed by the opening of school in the fall. It is the intention of the Board of Education to make our public schools second to none in the state. - A very delightful dinner party was the man who will farm his land proper fin on at tne Home of Mr. and Mrs. and he is the man who will raise a few F. C. Marquardsen on Monday eve- head of stock, have his truck patches mng in nonor of their eon, Earnest, sna small orchards and his poultry pens nei were spread lor twenty-one Land is becoming too valuable to be youiigpeople at :30, Mrs.Marquard- held in vast estates and farmed in th sen.as hostess, being assisted in serv- shiftless manner that it now is. Th in .... u.jv. i Hturson and ansses overcrowding of the cities is going to Dunlan and Crowley, teachers of the force the industrious man back to the High school. After dinner the party soil and the shaping of the political gov wn PTlTrtn i.iiwl o ......1.... I Ml L . iu Kiuuus games i erumBui in oring aoout a policy o in iimjuL iniet' uours, ine sanies Deins "ttomes for American C t zens." and millionaire," "piffo," "flinch," and these homes are to be founded in the chantecleer, arranged in a pro- open country and not in the hnddW-iin ic.-sne order, and prizes dvcn for tenement house. mi- mk'toiui contestants. The first Civilization like water follows the prize, a tieautiful boqnet of carnations course of least resistance, and tbe cheap was won by Miss Janet Crawford, lands of the West are the ayenues of anil the consolation prizes went to sscana for thin nvflrerna-.linir nnn.lit; they, should? These men havs workei hard and many of them have given their liyes in trying to pile up an inheritance io r their children. There is a way around such a condition. Let us fjgura. First: Let us farm just enough larii that we can comfortably handle, say 201 acres. Second: Procure five head of brood sows of one of the imorovfid hr,la Build esch a small house and lot. Third: Plat your land and then fence it so you will not have to be wor ried over your stock. Fourth: Rotate your crops. On most of the farms of Morrow coun ty of 200 acres, one can count on 41 acres waste land or bunch grass, thea 10 acres for the truck patch, house and barn, which leaves 150 acres (or tha fa-m. Divide the farm up as follows: Put under hog fence 10 acres and sow to rye; 10 acres to cow peas ; 10 ncrr-s t kaffir corn or milo maize; 60 acres to summerfallow and GO acres in wheat. In the early spring allow your sows to run on the wheat, for your wheat should be sown in the fall, and after it is up to a good height, take them 06 and put them onto the rye. Rye should be planted in tbe spring. Ten acres ot rye will pasture the sows and their in crease through tbe sum-ner and experi ment have proven that the hogs will ba almost in prime condition. One acre of cowpeas will pasture 12 head of hogs for an average of 35 days. Cowpeas are very valuable as pasturage in the fal as they carry a great deal of protein and a fattening hog at this time needs a large amount of protein in ita ration. Cowpeas are becoming recog nized as a food of great feeding and fer tilizing value. The plant wilt make a good growth on rather poor, soi', ani furnish feed in late summer and early fa.l when other green crops may ba short. Then there is tbe 10 acres of kaffir or milo which will furnish the fattening ration and plenty of fodder for your milk cows. You will have (30 head of good 200 pound pigs tor the market which will give you a profit of ?:i50. Sixty acres of wheat will clear you 350. Sisty acres of summerfallow will carrr 10 head of ewes and their lambs; and the 40 acres of bunchg-aps will furnish pasture for 5 uiilch cows and 6 head of brood mares. Your ewes will clear ynn $40 per year and the cows will bring in $60 and the mares will return a divi- uena oi fiuu. itiese are conservative figures most conservative. I can eight farmers in Oklahoma and Texas wh are doing better than the above on land that they caye to keep a wagon sheet over to hold it down. The farmers who have alfalfa can raise hogs so easy that it is hardlr worth one's while to tell about it, but the dry land farmer is the man who must utilize every inch of his land. On tha Dalhart, TexaB, experiment farm, milo and kaffir planted as late as June 15 haye matured and made splen did crops. Tha soil on this Dalhart farm resembles the lands of the Woolery estate in townships one and two North. The sun never beat down any hotter on that country, winds were never mor drying, and the winters not half so ir regular and blasty as they are iu th Dalhart country, so, it these crops w:H make good on the plains of Oklahoma and Texas, why should they not be wealth producers in Monow county? I think tllev wiil. The big packing houses want yoar stock just as bad as the miller want your wheat. The sandwich needs a filler Hist as bad as it needs a crust. Morrow county can supply both. Miss Edith Slocutn and Mr.Ellis Hend- ricson. The following; were the guests pres ent : Misses Ruth Forbes Rrnwn. Minnnlena Cameron, Virginia E. Crawford, Lota M. Humphreys, Edith Slocinn, Elizabeth Sloeum, Marie Hairer, Janet Crawford, Tena Devin, MaryCurrin; and Messrs. Earnest .Marquardsen; Ray Rogers, Harold Conn. -Marshall Phelps, Sidney Hal- lock, haiph Kenton. George Peck, i-.m.-ry Moeum, Ellis Hendricsou. Jesse turner, and Walter Yeager The Juniors give their reception to the Seniors Friday evening, May 19th, at the Commercial Club. About 100 in vitations have been issued. This prom. W. C. T. U. Lecture. On next Tuesday evening at the M. E. church, South, Mrs. Jackson Fil baugh, of Seattle, will lecture in the interests of the campaign of educa tion being inaugurated by the V C. T. I. of the state of Oregon. Mrs Filb.ingh is the wife of a prominent Seattle lawyer, was verv nrltve in the recent camnaiirn in ih.it civic righteousuwrt, nnd is spoken of iimi'i-ij lu unant woman and line speaKer. Hon t fail to hear her on next lueeday evening. of the cities. The farmers of Morrow county today are simply conducting ex perimental farmers for those who are to follow, and to this end they should not content themselves by sitting down to the one crop idea. Railroads have been running trains up and down this continent carrying demonstrations and agriculture experts, showing and preaching improved farm ing methods; urging farmers to diversify, to raise more and better stock and to conserve tbeir soil. Such men as James J, Hill have seen the "handwriting on the wall" and are trying to fortify them selves by getting the farmers along their great railroad systems to be ready to handle the fast approaching conditions. These men know better than anyone that no country can prosper unless its farmers are prosperous and can eea that every dollar invested in the farmer at this time will return many fold in the years to comr. Morrow county is a wheat section and I remsmber that it was only a few years ago when it was the third county in the state in wheat production, but have Morrow county farmers prospered l:ke j The Circus. The AI. G. Dames" Big 3-Rinsr Wild Animal Circus gave two ir- forinances in Heppner yesterday. It di.l not attract as large crowds ua other shows of a similar nature have, but this is Derlwms nu-in.r t- , - -- the fact that they gave two performa nces in lone on Tuesday, and many of the people of the country at tended there, cutting down the crowds at, Heppner. This show is a sn!en.r,.i xhibition of wild animal training. ml the handling of the lions, tigers nd leopards shows rem.irk.ihle tience, courage and iierseverar.ee on the part of their trainersns manv f these beasts shmii to be quite rocious. On the whole the show is well worth seeinsr. It is clean ;in.I Tree from many 'of the obi.vtlonal itures that attach themselves to i.uiy traveling shows. Get one of those Vaeanm carpet eaners at Gilliam & Dishes s nJ try it, if yorj like it. bay it for S0.0). if you think it is not what it ought io ue, return it.