THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1914.
HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON.
PAGE THREE
PROMINENT PEOPLE OF
JiM COUNTY
Facts Forced From Familiar Faces
By E. G. II.
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WILLIAM E. LEACH.
Ex-President Eliot of Harvard said
a short time ago, "If you can produce
enough to satisfy your wants and
provide a surplus for the future, "sou
can be termed an educated man."
This is surely a different view of
what we have considered an educa
tion
are no longer considered necessary to
culture they are tolerated but not
encouraged. "We recommend some
thing practical," educators say and in
troduce the subjects of applied sci
ences. Girls and boys in school are
living now, not preparing to live.
They are not trying to get an educa
tion by mousing over old books. They
are doing things
History of wars, of battles and
kings is now supplanted by the his
tory of the developement of indus
tries, inventions and their applica
tion to work. The heroes of our
young people are not the men who j
have killed, wasted and destroyed, j
but those who have built railroads
through the waste places, men who
have settled the farms by the way
and men who have opened stores to
provide the comforts of life to every
one who will come and exchange for
a fair price their money or commodi
ties. Among the names of those busi
ness men in this county who have
shared its upbuilding is the name of
William Leach of Lexington. Will
iam Leach is a son of James and
Belle Leach, who came from Harris
burg, in the Valley, and settled at
Blue Mountain station near Weston.
Soon afterwards they came to Lex
ington and arrived there the year be
fore the railroad came,
fore the railroad came.
Leach was born of educated par
ents; that is, they were competent,
honest, simple, efficient people. He
was dowered with good health and a
habit of work. H worked hard on
the farm, attended the local school
and with the money he saved work
ing at odd times for his neighbors he
attended the Agricultural College
at Corvallis. He stayed two
years there, grubbing hard but thank
ful for the opportunity. Technical
ly, this ended his schooldays but par
adoxically, he has been going to
school ever since. Any man goes to
school who has a healthy, happy, ac
tive, curious, receptive mind.
The next two years found him in
the sheep business in Wyoming. "I
saw some of the finest country that I
ever saw in my life, during that time.
There was plenty of game. Elk,
antelope, and fish were plentiful. I
remember once when we were driving
some sheep, we were stopped at Jack
son's Hole, in Wyoming, and the peo
ple there would not let us through.
About that time the Indians were on
the warpath and during the excite-
"I think it will run pretty close to that I have ever been.
$5000," he answered. Brown shoes j "We need to raise more than wheat
are handled almost exclusively and however. A few years ago there
Brown by the way is the largest shoe ' were few cows here, scarcely any one
firm in the United States, which is to had chickens. I have a number of
say, in the world. For new shoes and farmers who have a balance in their
shoe news, everyone goes to Leach's, favor on my books. Eggs and cream
In the drygoods department there is are doing it. I have also noticed that
a lady in charge. All business men the people whose cattle graze on the
know the reason for this. This is no , hills have larger cream checks than
"staple" department but goods rang- i those who run their cattle in the val
ing from a few cents a yard to a few leys. I want to see more people
dollars a yard can be found here in ! living on the land. I have not made
large assortments. It matters little
how your taste runs, you can always
satisfy it here.
Furnishings for men and women
are hobbies with Mr, Leach. I noticed
the Fall and Winter sample book of
down on Big Horn
Horn Hot Springs."
"I came back to
River near Big to the careful dresser.
I next visited the furniture depart
Lexington and ment. The furniture looked fully as
rented a place north of town for one
year. The store here, which I now
own, was started about' two years be
fore I came back from Wyoming and
was owned by my brother and Mr.
Nichols. I bought an interest in the
business after I decided not to farm
longer and the firm continued with the
three of us at the holm for five years
at which time Mr. Nichols sold us
his interest. About a month ago I
bought the interest of my brother but
nice as the pictures you see in the
papers. Many a man nas naa wu
liam furnish his home taking every
p' Ucle right out of stock. In the
hardware line, he handles everything
from needles to harvesters. Granite
ware, tinware, alumium ware that
wears, is here in abundance. All plumb
ing devices, and in fact everything
that a first-class hardware store
keeps in stock can be found at Leach's.
I In his stock room I noticed that he
the store will still be run under the handled Heppner flour. I was also
names of Leach Bros. informed that he just unloaded six-
As I entered the store I saw the ( teen miles of wire fencing. I saw his
groceries arranged on the right side oil supply and saw several automobiles
and the drygoods on the left, with drive up and fill a, the curb with a
the shoes in the rear. There were two long delivery pump. Everything was
large show windows in the front and arranged for convenience and for
these were being cleaned and re- j despatch with the least amount of
decorated. Some great man once t labor. This was especially true of
said that the show windows are the his office. A Burroughs adding ma
eyes of your store. Leach Brother's ! chine allows the bookkeeper time to
store has never had optic trouble, so use her energies for more profitable
I am told.
Mr. Leach told me that no one con
cern handled all of the kinds of
groceries that he sold, so he bought
from several houses. Every brand
that I knew and many that were
strangers to me were there. I noticed
that he carried a large stock of break-
work.
I ask Mr. Leach how he had accumu
lated the twenty odd thousand dollars
which he had invested in the store.
"I got it by working, no one gave it
to me," he said.
"Do you still think that there are
good openings for a young man here,"
anything from my land, simply be
cause I was not there. What we need
most here are more farmers living on
their own land and raising a little of
everything and the sooner we see
that, the better it will be for us all.'
Mr. Leach is the President of the
Morrow County Fair Board and ha
given his time and money for several
months in order that it might be a
success. He is a mmber of the I. 0.
0. F. and a Republican in politics.
He has been Mayor and a Councilman
at various times. He married Miss
Minnie Thompson of Lexington and
has four daughters and one boy. He
so loved his wife and family that he
built a new house two years ago and
contemplates taking a vacation soon
at Rockaway beach.
Mr. Leach is no villager, even if
he does live in a small town. Ht
knows the big things from the little
things. In his store there are no old,
shopworn, out-of-date goods. Every
thing is new, up-to-date. If he can't
get what it is worth, out it goes for
what it will bring and the Profit and
Loss is charged up to Experience. He
is a man of few words, an incessant
thinker, and carries off twice the bur
dens of the ordinary man. He is still
a young man, ballasted with brains,
equipped with common sense and as
Mr. Pruyne would say, "he is wired for
service." He thinks constructively and
his life is an affirmation. Such men
can only make conditions better for
their having been here.
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mian
MOTOCYCLES
FOR -1914.
fast foods. Leach's store is a city ; I asked
business placed in a country town.
He handles Kellogg's Wheat Flakes,
which some dealers don't know is
"I don't know of a better place in
the country for a man without money.
If a young fellow will come here and
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i head light, electric tail light, two sets high amperage storage bat
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I aaa ! e I If m . 1- . f .
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7 H.P. Twin Two-Twenty-Pi .e, Regular Model 225.00
7 H.P. Twin Two-Sixty, Standard Model 260.00
7 H.P. Twin Light Roadster Model 260.00
7 H.P. Twin Two Speed, Regular Model 275.00
7 H.P. Twin Two Speed, Tourist Standard Model 300.00
7 H.P. Twin llendee Special Model (with Electric Starter) 325.00
Vices F.O.B. Factory
JOS. BURGOYNE
Agent for Morrow County. LEXINGTON
CONFIDENTIAL CHATS
Farmers and Farm Facls.
being made. ''Business in breakfast show that he wants to do something,
foods is growing every day with me," he can't help but make good. I don't
said Mr. Leach. know of any place where you can buy
I noticed that he had the entire land for twenty and twenty-five dol
rear of the store filled with shoes, j lars an acre that will raise fifteen to
"How much have you invested in twenty-five bushels of wheat to the
shoes, Mr. Leach," I asked. I acre. Most certainly not in any place
Michigan
o You Want To Take a Trip
To Detroit,
Free of Charge
THE STUDEBAKER AUTOMOBILE COMPANY ARE
NOW OFFERING THIS TRIP FREE TO THE
FIRST THREE BUYERS OF THEIR
SIX CYLINDER CARS IN MOR
ROW COUNTY.
This trip includes railroad fare both way. and allows
$10 each day for expenses, for fifteen days. At Detroit
you will be the guest of The Studebaker Company and
will be taken through their immense factories and will
be shown in detail just how each and every part of the
world's leading automobile is made. The regular price
of the Studebaker "Six" is $1575 f. o. b. Detroit or $1700
in Heppner. The price of this trip is not tacked on to
the price of the car but you can still buy the car at the
same old price and have your trip to Detroit Free pro
vided you make your purchase
BEFORE AUGUST 15, 1914
Only a few weeks more until that time. If you are in
terested call on me or write for literature or demonstra
tion. You can have your car delivered n Heppner or
you can pick it out at the factory at the prices named
above.
Purchasers of cars under this offer do not have to take the
trip in person or immediately. The time limit is Jan. 1, and
thev have the privilege of sending any person they choose.
J. B. SPARKS
HEPPNER, OREGON
Agent for Morrow County.
J. J. Adkins is reported to be im
proving slowly this week.
Harvey Scott was m from Black
horse for some supplies.
R. W. Beckett was in Saturday look
ing for a few harvest hands.
Will Straight was in from Buttci
Creek and took out some feed.
John Shaw was in Portland last
week with cattle which he shipped.
Theodore Anderson, a prosperous
Eightmile wheat farmer, was in Saturday.
Charley Valentine, who lives eight
miles down Willow Creek, was in for
some supplies.
Ora Adkins, who lives over on Rhea
Creek, was in the County Seat to do
a little trading.
J. C. Brown came in last Saturday
from the Blackhorse country and was
Been to take back a watermelon.
Arthur Wills, one of the up-to-date
fruit farmers along with other things,
was in from Butter Creek Saturday.
Sand Hollow had two good repres
entatives in town Saturday, when
John Edwards and R. B. Rice dropped
in.
Mr. Henry Gay, our most widely
known reader in Rhea Creek, was in
last Saturday to get a few articles
for the Sunday table.
Percy Hughes and Lon Wattcn-
berg came in from Butter Creek lust I
Saturday to see some of their, friends
and to transact business.
Ed. Hunt came to Heppner, Satur
day and took out some horse millinery.
; Ed. Bays that everything and every-
' body is all right in Khea Creek.
D. O. JuHtuH was in town IhhI Sat
urday. Mr. JuHtuH in putting up al
falfa now. Mr. Justus drives Home
of the bent horses in the county.
Will Kummerland, from the Clark'
Canyon country, wan in Heppner Sat
urday. Will is one of the large wheal
farmers of that part of the country,
j Ralph Benge, who liven between
' Heppner and Lexington, was in llepp
' ner Saturday. Rulph has over a
thousand acre of wheat this year and
wc under-bland that ho ban a good crop.
Mr. and Mm. Ix-u White have added
another name to the I ill of Sand Hol
low citizen. They have a new haby ;
girl that arrived last Friday night.
Lee nays that she in a welcome guest.
One of our readers, Kent Kakex, of
Blarkhorse, is the pround father of a !
baby girl. On Wednesday of lHt !
week Mrs. Rakes cave birth to a seven
pound daughter and the baby and its
mother are in excellent rondition.
Mrs. C. W. IjiwHon dropped into the
Herald office Saturday for a little
printing. She said that the grans
hoppers had paid her a short visit.
Mrs. Lawson is well known for the
excellent gardens she has every year.
John McCblloiigh loosened up to the
extent of one cartwheel whnh puts
him in good standing with the financial
dep't. of this paper. John had the
misfortune to Ion four of his W4
horses recently by lightning. He says
that they were- worth about $i'iOO and
he had no insuranre on them. John
is thinking of applying for memlr
ship in the Moral Htiad, as he is
well atit'iaiiilud with I't i- uUi Cori.cti
eppner Garage
Now Equipped with a Complete
Blacksmith's Shop
All Kinds of Repair Work Done Quickly
We have a furnace for making
all kinds of
Buggy, Wagon and Automobile
Springs
Michael Sepanak, Expert Workman,
ia in charge of this department.
We are agents for
Ford, Overland and Mitchell
Automobiles.
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We have it, will git it, or it is not made
We Specialize on the following:
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The Haiti, Webber and ItittendorlT wagons.
The Velie Carriages, Ituggies & VAc.
The John Deere and O.iver Plows.
The Van Itrunt and Thomas Gram Drills.
The Dain, Duck Rakes and Stackers.
The Fairbanks and Stover Gasoline Engines.
The Russell Steam Kngines and Threshers.
The Act motor Wind Mills and i'umps.
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The China nil Varnishes and Graining Compound.
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The Sharpless Tubular Cream Seperators.
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