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
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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.