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o' 1 MiNaK MKALLi, mmnerOREGON. PA.C.E THREE PROMINENT PEOPLE OF MORROW COUNTY Facts Forced From Familiar Faces By E. G. H. Mrs. J. T. Knappenberg As a single drop of aniline will tint a whole cask of water, so will the life of a good person influence a whole community, yes, a nation. There is no influence that can equal or take the place of a mother's love. The lessons learned at the mother's feet are the lasting lessons of life. Lincoln paid his mother this tribute, "All that I am or all that I expect to be I owew to my angel mother." "When were you born?" was once asked of Robert Louis Stevenson. "May Tenth, Eigh teen Hundred Eighty," was the instant reply and Robert and Fanny Stevenson looked quickly at each other. It was their wedding day. Ameng the Prominent People of Morrow County is a woman of inter esting personality, kind, generous, sympathetic, withal dignified. She is a friend, a helper, a counselor, and a mother. I met Mrs. Knappenberg a few days ago at lone and she agreed to tell me some of her experiences in this county, what is being done at the present time and what we can reason ably expect in the future. She was very busy but as you have probably observed, when you want a thing done, ask a busy man, the others never have time to give you a courteous reply. Mrs. Helen V. Knappenberg, daugh ter of Isaac and Helen Violott, was born in Monument, Oregon. "My parents came to Oregon from the East and settled at The Dalles where father went into business. We moved to Hardman eight years later as my father was rapidly failing in health. There was no road and in many places we had to cut our way through. Father went into the stock business and after his death two years later, my mother continued the business and still has considerable stock on the old home farm where she still lives. Mother had twelve children and we all helped at home." "Did you have an opportunity to go to school, Mrs. Knappenberg?" I asked. . "Yas, we had a school four miles from, our house. It was a log house with no floor and the seats were made by splitting a log in the middle and driving wooden pegs in it on the under side. We always had a man for a' teacher and he used to stay with the pupils and I was always glad when it came to our turn to keep the teacher because we wore never afraid to go and come from school. The term lasted three months and three of us would ride the horse to and from school. Wages were not high in those Notice of Sheriff's Sale. By virtue of an execution and order of sale issued by the Clerk of the Cir cuit Court of Morrow County, State of Oregon, dated the 15th day of June, 1914, in a certain suit in the Circuit Court for said County and State wherein George C. Burton, Trustee of the Estate of Thomas N. Wilson, de ceased recovered Judgement against J. M. Turner and Carrie S. Turner, defendants for the sum of $500.00, with interest thereon from January 1st, 1912 at Eight per cent, per annum, ?0.00, Attorney fees; $22.85, taxes paid with interest thereon at Ten per cent, per annum from Feb ruary 13th, 1914, and the further sum of $24.60, costs, which said judgement was so recovered on the 13th day of June, 1914. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that I will on Saturday the 18th day of July, 1914, at the hour of 2 o'clock, P. M. of said day at the front door of the Court house in the City of Hepp ner, Morrow County, Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in hand the following de scribed real property to-wit: SH of NEy and NWVi of NEH of Section 35, Tp. 1 N. R. 25 E. W. M., taken and levied upon as the property of aid defendants, being the real pro perty mortgaged by said defendants to plaintiff to secure payment of said urns and ordered sold by the court to satisfy same, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy said judgement, together with costs that nave or may accrue. Dated this 17th day of June, 1914. Marion Evans, Sheriff of Morrow County Oreeon. ATTENTION Threshermen I make business of repairing Com bine Harventers, Threshing Machines, Engines, etc., and guarantee all my work. Experience has nhown that money cao be saved by having machin ery put in working order before harvest and you should not fail to hav your repair work done early. Don't wait until harvest starts, you did last year. i Ernest Sifser, &ox 238. Heppner, Oregon. days for teachers." "When were you married to Mr. Woolery, Mrs. Knappenberg?" "In 1888. Mr. Woolery came to Monument six years before and run sheep. He made good at that and then went into the store. We sosd general merchandise and lived in th- rear of the store. I helped regularily in the store and we made money. Later we moved to lone." "What success did you have in lone." "Well, the first six years were terrible years. The wheat burned up and people did no I. have enough to eat. Stores s through the valley were being duscd up and conditio is were getting de-j'orate. Finally Mr. Woolery took the lust $25 that w i had and got on the train for Port'ian 1. When he got there he told the Allen Lewis Co. how bad things were here and they consented to send a man to find out. He came back with my husband and found things just as they had been represented. The firm then allowed a certain amount of credit and stipulated how much we could give each family. This was deter mined by its size. Many farmeri came into the store and handed over to us the-deeds to their land begging us to take them to square accounts. I remember when John Harbke and Frank Griffin were ready to give up and quit. Mr. Woolery told them that they were getting suDDlies enough to live on and to stay by it a little longer. They took his advice and the next year a good croD nut them on their feet again. "At the time of Mr. Woolerv's death we had the store and 19000 acres of land. We were farmine the Kinc place, 5 miles south of town. It consisted of 2500 acres of good land and all modern equipment. At one time, probably sixteen vears acn. we had 5000 sheep in the Sand Country where we had considerable land. When Mr. Woolery died it was a bio- job to straighten up the business and get things into good working order. We sold the store in 1904 and got rid of some of the land and we are now farming the rest." I asked Mrs. Knappenberg to tell me some of the incidents that happen ed in her early life and the first vivid picture that came to her mind wat the trip from Monument to Heppner to escape from the Indians. "We had always seen the Indians. As a girl I played with them and no one ever thought verv much about it. At Longcreek, just twenty miles from, Monument, the Indians captured nearly every one in the settlement and either tarred and feathered them or scalped them. When the news came to us we set out at once for Heppner. We camped one night. at Parker's Mill and I remember how 1 almost frightened my mother to death when I got through th guards and Was picking strawebrries when they found me. I had never seen a town before and when we approached Heppner it was all that my brothei could do to keep me in the wagon box. There was one Btore, a black smith shop, a saloon and about a dozen houses. The people had built a small fort and when we arrived it was so crowded and so many were sick that mother refused to go inside. We stayed in the blacksmith shoD. The water was bad and many took sick, especially the children. Mother said she would just about as soon be scalped by the Indians as to die ol sickness and she said if the rest would follow her, she would cut a road to Willow Creek. They agreed and mother led the way, cutting tlu bushes and trees with a hatchet At the creek's bank they made a clearing and piled the bushes to make protec tion against the Indians. The men stood guard. The sick members got better and after the news that the Indians had gone another way wac brought to us, we abondoned the camp and left for home. We were gone two months. "When we reached Hardman the neighbors made a stockade around oui house and most of the people stayed with us for a long time The Indiani had killed all of the cattle and horsee and it was great hardship on the people to replace them. It was a long time before we saw Indians again. The squaws were the first to come but the country was better set tled and we did not fear them so much. "Money was free in those days. $20 gold pieces were common. Chil dren were given small pieces of change to play with. There was no railroad and we got our provisions from The Dalles. Once a year father I went there but when the roads got : better he went twice year. We often went six months without getting ;mail. If someone happened to be coming out from The Dalles, the poKtmanter there would send out the mail with him. He would take it as far as he would go and Oen give it to the next farmer who panned it on to his neighbor. "What did you get for Christmas preenU, Mrs. Knappenberg?" "Our regular Chritmaii treat was a Imx of apples which w always , brought from The Dalles. Mother usually made us a rag doll and once in a great while we got a few sticks of candy. I never saw fruit grow until I was a large girl. We used to have some dried fruit which we bought. We children used to think it was a great treat to get a piece of choke cherry pie. Mother made jell with elder berries. We had a few wild gooseberries and currants but not many. I remember the time when Mr. Woolery came back from Arling ton and brought some oranges. I never saw a banana until after I was married. "Did your fellow come to see you in an automobile?" "I never even saw a buggy until after I was married. He used to come on horseback. We rode in wagons or went on a horse. The women always had theirhorses but the men went out on the hills and took any of them. I can remember how my mother used to go most every Sunday to visit my aunt who lived three miles away. Two 'of the children sat in front and one hung on behind. Just then Mrs. Knappenberg made -cnie remark about the floor and that gave me another question. "How did you make your floors and what kind of carpets did you have," I ventured. "We didn't have carpets and the floors were made by splitting poplar logs and planing the one side. They made the whitest and cleanest floors I have ever seen. They were hard to keep clean and I can remember how mother would make us get the jack plane and plane out the grease spots. We didn't spill much on the floors." About that time we heard lound cheering in the direction of the park and being thus reminded that it was the Fourth of July I asked Mrs. Knappenberg what the people did to PROFESSIONAL COLUMN F. DYE, DENTIST Pemanently located in Odd Fellows building, Rooms 4 and 5. Dr. A .P. CULBERTSON Dr. H. T. ALLISON PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS Office Patterson Drug Store Heppner, . . Oregon Drs. WINNARD & McMURDO PH YSICIANS & SURGEONS Heppner, - . Oregon Dr. F. N. CHRISTENSON DENTIST Heppner, Oregon Offices with Drs. Winnard & McMurdo C. E. WOODSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in Palace Hotel. Heppner, Ore. SAM E. VAN VACTOR ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Heppner, Oregon S. E. NOTSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Office in Court House, Heppner, Ore. WELLS & NYS ATTORNEYS-ATLAW Heppner, . Oregon KNAPPENBERG & JOHNSON ATTORNEYS AND COUNCILORS AT LAW lone, .... Oregon W. L. SMITH, ABSTRACTER Only complete set of abstract books in Morrow County. HEPPNER, . . OREGON FOR FINE UP-TO-DATE HOMES See T. G. DENMSEE, I ARC HITECT AND CONTRACTOR. LOUIS PEARSON I TAILOR i Heppner, . . Oregon. C. O. PRENTICE, !. V. M. Veterinary Hurgeon and Drnlinl Offire: Patterson's Drug Store Phone, Main 123 Heppner, ... Oregon amuse themselves. "Dancing was the chief means of amusement. We often went long dis tances to dance. The houses were small and the music was furnished by some of the boys playing a French harp of a juice harp, but we had good times. They were all square dances and I remember the first time I ever danced a round dance. I went to Haystack, where my first beau lived, ana ne taught me how to waltz. The people were very friendly, everyone was yotir friend and you could sneak to anyone." ' "Was the weather as warm in the summer as it is today?" was my next question asked in desperation. j 1 guess the summers were about i the same as now. The winters were 1 colder and I remember how we used ! to put a box on a cowhide and use j that for a sled. We had open fire places that wewould gather around in ' ine winter time. - On asking how she made her clothes, Mrs. Knappenberg said that inese were made bv hand. T,tfr on they bought a sewing machine. It! was one of these old fashion Howe ! machines and they thought it was one of the greatest inventions of the age, which is true. She told me how she would stand on a box and turn the ! machine because the operator could not sew and make the machine go at the the same time. Calico dresses were the vogue and she did not have a ready-made piece of clothing until after she was married. Mrs. Knappenberg married Mr. J. T. Knappenberg in 1909. We intend to say a few words about this e-entle- man in this same column in the near future but will merely state now that you can trust him until it does ap pear. Being one of the largest land owners in the county and also con versant with farm facts, I asked Mrs. Knappenberg to tell me what she thought of present conditions, what the future had in store for this coun ty. The first thing that she said was that the quicker we get away from one crop system the quicker we will go ahead. As it is generally known, Mr. Woolery was known as the "wheat king." He believed in wheat and had every acre that he could get undei .the plow into wheat. "It was not farming, it was merely scratching,' said Mrs. Knappenberg. "We would have done better if we had farmed less and farmed better. I intend tc sell one-half of the Whitehouse dairy farm just as soon as I can find a buyer and devote my money and energy to what I can profitably han dle. Big farms are the cure of this state. We want smaller farms where the farmer can do most of the work himself. A good farm hand can't be secured. If he does amount to much he is working for himself." When I asked her if many farmers bought eggs and butter from the stores, she said that they did not buy so much now as they did a few yean, ago but there was no excuse for them to buy any. When she first came here not one ranch in ten had a cow, now nearly every one keeps a few. Mrs. Knappenberg has four daugh ters, daugthers that any woman could be proud of, and when I asked her why the young neonle did not ntv on the farm, she said that farm life must be made attractive to them. "Even in town here we can furnish them with something to do. My youngest daughter, Joie, has two Shetland ponies, three head of cattle and some chickens. She is always doing something. The main thing i to give them something that they will be interested in and work for." Mrs. Knappenberg is no reformer, she believes in reforming yourself. In the matter of voting she said that suffrage should have been given to women in the beginning. It is true that women are not students of gov ernment, but it is because this part of their training has been neglected. In conclusion I can say that the character of Mrs. Knappenberg dis plays all the primal virtues of in dustry, economy, integrity, which go I into the making of woman and into jthe making of a nation the simple primal virtues, the things for which I there are no substitutes. Youthful I because she always has smile, and smiles make health. They lubricate , the relations of life and make for good : digestion and sweet sleep o'nights. j All life is pleasurable if we lead the ;life of activity, tempered by modera tion in all good things, the life lived ;by that able woman smiling of fare, kindly of heart, Helen V. Knapprn berg. Andy Km) bought a new header while in town Monday. He alxo wihe to thank Jualire domett for procuring a Huhiu-ription for the HeralfJ and entering it to hia credit. The JuNtice nay that Andy wax about the only man in town that didn't be lieve that he nhol hid cat and for that reason he paid for the Kuhiwription. Bob f'arnon of Fpray wai in llepp. ner on Sunday. He Ih one of the big nlock men of thin county and nhipperj ,200 head of cattle to Coffin Hro. at Yakima. Tws-Si(T Standard Model. , tver achieved. 7 H. P. Twin equipped with Electric Head l.iihl. Electric Tail t iM. Electric Signal. I no Seta Storaje Batteriea and Corbin-Hrown Rear-Drive Speedomet er. Price $260.00. See Catalog lor detailed deacription. 60,000 brand new "red machines will go outover the Indian trails during the coming year the greatest motorcycle produc tion in the history of the industry. They will flash forth fully armed with "Thirty-Eight Better ments for 1914 ! Armed with powerful and beautiful Electrical Equipment! Armed with a New Standard of Value which must completely overturn all existing ideas of motorcycle worth. 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