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The Hcppner Gazette
E.Ublinhcx March 80, 1883.
ISSl'ED THURSDAY MORNING.
VAWTKR CRAWFORD
Editor and Proprietor
delves of the bonding act lor road pur
poses paused at the last general election.
The coraniiSHion, who represent all
parts of the state, are hopeful Unit much
will be accomplished in the good roads
movoraent by the enactment of these
measnres.
EVtTft3 at the Postofllce at Heppner Oregon, u
ecoiid-clasa matter.
Siibkcrlbllou Itatt-ii.
Qn year 1 00
Jix mouths .75
Thiuu months 50
trriirle copies 05
4d vt-r IIsIuk Kale.
replay, transient, running lesB .than
pop ionth, first insertion, per inch, 25s.
Hireqiient insertions 12c
KplV, regular 12c
Loi-aJs, first insertion, per line 10c
fcobseqnent insertions 5c
IiojIso resolutions, one insertion.
per line 5c
Cbtfreh socials, and all advertising of
entertainments conducted for pay, at
ieolar rates.
Thtjbsday, Sept. 21, 1911
A Montana firm gels the oontract tor
building the $"(00,000 branch asylum at
Pendleton. Another case of patronizing
home industry.
Now say ! Why dont you get a bunch
of those Fall Colonist Folders of J. L.
Wilkins, at the Palace hotel, and also
a lot ot the Morrow county booklets and
forward them to your friends in tbe
East, and other parts of the country
Now is just the time to get thisliterature
out. It is all paid for and should b
used. Get busy and send it along.
ENDORSES CREAMERY
Also Some Other Good
- Ideas Noted.
(lilt DISTRICT FAIR.
From all accounts the Third District
Fair and Round Up recently held at
Pendleton, was not only the most sue
cessful one yet held under the auspices
of tiie Association, but one of the most
important ever held in the Inland Em
pire.
From all sections of the Northwest
and from uiauy states east of the llocky
Mountains people flocked into Pendle
ton. The Hound Up was doubtless the
drawing card for thousands who- are
lways in search of "thrills" and would
croes the continent to witness a horse
lace or a prize tight, but othar thous
ands were interested in the products and
development of the country, and took
advantage of the Fair to inform them
selves npon its resources and produc
. tions.
So far we have beard nothing but
praise for the efforts of the management
in getting together suitable exhibits to
fairly represent all sections ot the Dis
trict. It was a big job and required
bercalean and untiring effort for its
Accomplishment. But loyalty and per
severance was rewarded, and its effects
will tell mightily for good in the years
lo come.
The people of this county, owing to
lo the shortage of crops and the general
cry of "hard times," did not take hold
with their usual zeal and enthusiasm
find as a consequence this section of
the District was not so fully, or so well
leprepented as it should have been, and
yet after all is said our showing was
nothing to be ashamed of. In fact we
are rather proud of it. ,
The exhibits showed conclusively, so
far as quality is concerned, that Mor
iow county products, grains, grasses,
iruitaand vegetables, occupy a promi
nent position in the front rank, while
eume of them are in a class to them
e elves.
Scientific farming, dairyiug anu fruit-
raisiDg will " eventually give U9 the
prominence to which we are by nature
ted environment entitled.
Milo rnaise is fonnd to be an excellent
substitute for corn on the dry lands of
Central Oregon. Experiments made
with it the past season prove it will
make a good stock plant for tbe semi
arid districts. Because of its successful
introduction into tbe interior, many
farmers will probably plant large tracts
to this crop next year, feeding it to
cattle and hogs.'
The annual convention of the Oregon
AVoolgrowers' Association will be held
in l!aker Nov. 14 and 13. Problems that
confront the woolmen will Vie taken up
and diei'uascd and the tariff will be one
(it ibe Itii.itZ features of geueral in
ter est.
.ret beceti'.stj the Pacific No: tbwest
will fjilow the tpeninK of the Panama
canal, according to 'rntrd N. Baker,
retire J steamship owner, who is now on
a visit lo Portland. Inductions of one
third an! oi.e-haif in freight rates are
j'reihiiiJ on shipments to aud f:om tbe
Auui.tic coafet cities.
Oc'.ui er 1 has been pet finally as the
date i:jr the opening of the new Southern
-',3c line to Tillamook and adjoining
t-i-i-VioDs of the coast country. A tiortion
c! t'se new road is alreaJy in operation
I ut cr. tt date trains will be rua from
School Notes.
By ?. E. Notson, Co. School Supt.
On the 13th inst. I visited the school
in District No. 0, which is presided over
by Miss Bertha Huston. Twelve pupil
are enrolled. The equipment of this
school is very good. Tbe room
neatly papered, and1 the walls are very
tastily decorated. Ventilation is well
provided for, each window having a
window-board. I was pleased to note
that the program provided well for tbe
primary pupils.
On the 14th, I. visited the school in
District No. S3. Here Miss Clara lteid
and eleven pupils are getting nicely
started upon the work of the new year.
The building is in excellent condition
The floors have been scrubbed, the
sash-curtains washed and ironed, and
the windows and walls washed. A new
coal bin has been built. The well-kept
library is iostalled in an excellent book
case. A good clock is proyided. A
thermometer hangs near the teacher's
desk. Window-boards will be placed
in all tbe windows soon. I was pleased
to note that tbe pupils were thoroughly
tested for the thought in the reading
work. The class in agriculture are doing
much observation work. Miss Reid fol
lows the precept, "Do nothing for the
pupil, which he can, with reasonable
effort, do for himself." I next visited
the school in District No. 15, where I
found Mies Elizabeth Slocnia and nine
pupils working diligently and happily
together. The schoolbouss bas been
recently rebuilt and is in excellent con
dition. AVindow-boards are provided for
all the windows. Each pupil has a san
itary drinking-cup, A water filter will
be installed as soon as it can be procured.
This school has a fine flag. Every pupil
of school age in the lrrigon district is
enrolled in school and and was present
the first dy of school. That la a record
hard to beat.
Notice to Taxpayers.
Notice ia hereby given that ail
persons who paid one-half of their
taxes last spring should pay the
remaining half on or before the
firtit Monday ia October, thereby
saving penalty and interest, which
the sheriff must add to the tax if it
becomes delinquent.
J. C. II AYES, Sheriff.
Notice.
A sppc'al meetinj of the ptocHioldors
of the Morrow Warehouse Milling Co.
will be hei! at the Company's office ut
Ileppner, Oregon, Tuesday, October 10,
1 ! 1 1 at 10 o'clock A. M., for the purpose
of considering the adoption of new By
Liw., and for eu -h other business as
may iegaily cowe betore the meeting.
E. I). EKOYV'N, Secretary.
:it t r; 1 A the line to tL other, and j
itvii'itr fatrvice wiil be tstabiitLed.
A cpeiial session of the legislature to
-;;-.ict gooJ rea ls legislation has leen
ttc ir.mecded by Governor West's com-Tiiifit-joD,
which has just met and out
lined fevera! bills. These provid for
tx 1t aid, a s ale highway couimisbiooer,
tul iji ecai::ct- ttuciies to avaL! tUeiu-
D. II Gilman departed for Car
son, Wash., this morning, to look
after interests over that way. He
states that the development of the
tract of land that he and others of
Ileppner are interested in over
there ia going on nicely, and be
fore a great while they will hnve
completed their irrigation pystem
and then the tract will be placed
on the market.
Ileppner, Oregon, Sept. 13, 1911.
Editor Gazktte :
I have beard sriuuh about the Booster
Club. Last night I attended a meeting,
and I believe some missionary work
should be done among the Boosters, as
they evidently believe the creek bottoms
the only land tnat will admit of diversi
fied farming. I believe you arc wrong;
I also believe that ttie demonstration
people have done this county much
good already. Discing the stubble soon
alter harvest and packing the soil has
proven to be of the greatest value. But
I will not waste time theorizing.
I have lived in what is now Morrow
county for over thirty years and have
seen with my own eyes positive proof of
all I claim. Now from the talk on
last night a lot of the Boosters think
it would be a feat to keep a hog or a
cow on bve or ten acres of hill land.
There is hardly a farm among the hills
that there is not from five to ten acres
that will grow good alfalfa. There used
to be a good field on the Bill Handrix
place. I'll bet Haddleston don't know
anything about that. James Hams had
a piece below Ilardman on tbe place
now owned by John Adams, that was as
fine as I ever saw on tbe creek bottoms,
and that on the Hendrix place would
average with tbe oreek alfalfa.
Wash Thompson's orchard last year
grew as fine apples as could be grown
anywhere. This land is quite the high
est of all tbe surrounding country, the
orchard sloping to the north.
The farmers have grown on these hill
lands grains that have taken as many
diplomas as any like number of farmers
in any part of tbe United States.
When I was ranching 'I sent potatoes
to the Portland carnival that took the
diploma and I took diplomas on potatoes
at both Buffalo, N. Y. and Charleston,
S. C. These potatoes were grown with
out a drop of irrigation. .1 grew sheaves
of oats and wheat that were five and
six feet long. It was difficult to put
three Hungarian prunes ia a Mason pint
ar. I picked 5( Duchs apples from
three trees less than one inch in diam
eter that filled a bushel box. Everyone
remarked about what a good ranch
Cummings had. I s Id it and about all
it has produced since is weeds.
I know it is a safe proposition to take
half section of this hill land and
demonstrate just what can be done. I
am sure the results would exceed all our
expectations.
I have been traveling over the county
for 15 days and find there is a splendid
crop of potatoes, a good crop of prunes,
a large crop of splendid pears and a
great many apples, but last Spring's
freeze caused people to think their fruit
was killed, so they did not spray with
arsenate of lead and the apple are quite
all so wor.ny they are unfit for use.
I don't believe in misrepresenting.
I wish that some of these Boosters inigln
go with me in ray rounds and see some
of the things I gather. I will bring up
a peach today that grew in Morrow
county on a tree loaded to the breaking
point. W. B Ewing asked if t'nev were
any good. I cut otio and he siiid he
never tasted so de.icious a flavored
peach. Iliere were tliree or tour trees
just loaded, 1. JJ. Mathiews lias tnree
trees of same variety. On? of the trees
was broken down after being propped
Percy Jarman has about throe tree ot
same variety literally broken down with
fruit. I have named the peaches Wnt
tenbu ger'a Ch jice, and have about 000
udded for next fall delivery.
Now Mr. Editor, I want time to finish
this. Tbe real ob ject of this meeting
was to discuss and devisa means for
the establishing of a creamery here.
Now I know a creamery ill do more
for our cmnty than any other one thing.
Any good average dairy cow wil' jive a
sure return of $100 a year. This can
be increased to but to be conserva
tive, call it $100. Every farmer can
keep ten cows, it don t make any oilier-
pnee whether lie is on the lull or on the
creek bottom. I don't mean that the
creek bottom is Dot preferable, but be
can succeed on the hili. He has a clean
income of f 1000 a year; then the milk
will help to keep several hogs and
chickens. In fact anyoLe supplying
cream to a creamery must have hos to
eat tbe milk.
would soon produce more pork and lard
than the entire county would need.
Pork has been selling all summer at 18
cents a pound. If a creamery is estab
lished here, in less than two years the
farmers receipts for cream alone will ex
ceed $100,000.00 a year. Then the milk
fed to hogs and chickens will make a
enng sum. You Know the consumer does
not get tbe retail price only when he
supplies his table, and to that extent be
can count his pork at 18 cents, his lard
at 15 oents and his bacon at 25 cents.
Have any of you ever given any thought
as to what our farmers pay out for -but
tar, pork and lard in 12 months ? The
gross amount would astound even
myself. Let him produce this. He
can do it through the dairy cow.
It is all moonshine to say it can't be
done. They could not make anythin
in the Willamette Valley until they got
tbe dairy cow and then wages jumped
from $20 to $45 per month, with a lively
demand for labor.
There is lots of choice dairy cows for
sale in Oregon at reasonable prices.
am quite certain I could get a pledge of
500 cows in ten days and this would give
the farmers $50,000 a year for cream
alooe with good prospects for much
larger returns.
The time is ripe for a creamery. It
will give us greater prosperity than any
other thing in fact it is the one thtng
that will put life into the industrial de
velopment of Morrw county.
Harry Cummings,
Mr. Cummings has written on thi
creamery proposition, and can come up
with more good talk, but it is tbe desire
of this paper to hear from others. We
are all interested, and the columns of
the Gazette are open to all to discuss
the matter. Let tbe public know what
you think about it, and if you will handle
some dairy stock, say so. Give ns the
benefit of your "think so."
Thousands Killed
Two Bits.
For
Send 25 cents to SELKIRK CHEM
ICAL COMPANY. Healy Building. Port
land. Ore., for a packet of SELKIRK
BUG KILLER, two tablespoonfuls of
which will rid any house of all vermin,
bugs, roaches. Sure death to animal
lice of every variety; frees poultry ot
ticks, mites.
Is a most effective PLANT SPRAY,
endorsed by leading Agriculturists.
AGENTS WANTED in this territory
Write today and become a user of SEL'
KIRK'S.
For Sale.
325 tons of first quality Alfalfa
hay on Batter Creek, Umatilla Co,
Write or phone
The George & Miller Co..
3t. Echo, Oregon
All kinds of pumps to be had at
Gilliam & Bisbee.
Carpets sewed laid and lined by
The Case Furniture Co.
Phill Cohn pays highest cash
price for hides, pelts and furs.
Try a set of those Asbestos Sad
Irons in Gilliaua & Bisbee's win
dow.
Picture framing promptly and
neatly done at Case's Furniture
Cl
OIOIC,
louse for sale or rent with one
acre ground. Inquire 1st Nation
al Bank. tf
Do it now ! Not only good, but
cheap. Talk with Suiead before
instiling. tf.
You can't get too many chickens.
We'll get rid of them for you at
top prices. Minor & Co.
Highest cash prices paid for
hides, pelts and furs. See Morrow
Warehouse Milling Co. tf.
Grain of any description taken
in exchange for Waitsburg and
Idaho Hour. Call on Phill Cobu.
Fol'ltky Theres money in it
for ou. We cun handle all you
raise. Minor & Co.
For Sale Eor Cash One 3
Stuaebaker wagon, one spring
wagon. Call at Palace Uotel.
Insure your bouse with the Ore
gon Fire Relief of McMinnville
the old reliable company.
Geo. J. Cubbis, Local Agent,
Thomson Bros.
OT WEATHER
Is here now. Why
not get the habit and
come and take a look
at our many thin
materials for hot.
weather.
We have them in all
varieties of white and
colored lawns, just the
thing to keep cool in.
We carry a full line of
,& . Corsels -
In all prices. Also the famous
Memo Corsels, $3.50, $4
Ouomsok: BROS,
of the AMERICAN LADIES' TAIL
ORING CO., of Chicago, and invites
ladies to inspect and select samples and the
unrivalled fashions.
FRENCH DRY CLEANING A SPECIALTY.
Natter Building Heppner, Oregon
, ANNOUNCEMENT
T HAVE JUST RECEIVED The
A New Fall and Winter Line of All
Wool Samples from two of Chicago's
largest tailoring houses.
It is to your advantage to have your
measure taken by a tailor, thus insuring'
you correct style and perfect fit.
' PRICES, $15 to $4
Louis Pearson,
Tailor
w
E ARE CARRYING THE
best grade of Blue Stone
and Formaldehyde this Fall.
. x Slocum Bm& Co,
Main Street, Heppner, Oregon
-J-.-g:.r.
An unlimited market for poul
try. The Portland market is yours.
We haye arranged with Portland
connections to handle all thechick-
With a creaoierr here the farmers eca we can get. Slinor & Co. -
FIRST. NATIONAL BANK
OF HEPPNER
Invites your Banking Business. Foreign and
Domestic Exchange sold . Letters of Credit and
Travelers' Checks issued-
CAPITAL STOCK - - - - $100,000.00
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
M. S. CoKRiu.u.t., 1'reg : J. 15. Natter and J. II. Mt Daley, Vice Tres. ;
T. J. Mahonkv, Cashier; Clvdb Brock, Assistant Cashier;
A. L. Aykrs, W. O. Minor, Frank Gilliam.
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