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HEPPNER HERALD. HEPPN'ER, OREGON'.
THURSDAY, JULY 3ft, 1314.
G. HARLAN
EDITOR
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PUBUSHED THURSDAYS
EDITORIAL SECTION
HEPPNER HERALD
L. K. HARLAN
MANAGER
SUBSCRIPTIONS $1 PER YEAR
OUTSIDE COUNTY $1.15
1 FOR SALE.
Six Horses two geldings and four
mares, all young, weighing from
1450 to 1600 pounds. Inquire at
Herald Office, Heppner, Oregon.
The Post Office System had its rise in the
days of Julius Casar. He established mil
itary post roads and despatched fast riders
which kept him in constant communication
with all parts of his empire. In slack times
they would also carry letters for private par
ties. In the early history of this country ,let-
ters were first carried by private parties.
The express business
Interior Mail Service started in much the
Being Discontinued. same way. William
llornden hrst car
ried valuable packages from New York to
Boston. The importance of this business was
soon recognized and companies sprung up in
different places doing the same business.
When the Federal government was lormed,
it absorbed the mail and express service, lhe
mails were slow. Letters went by carrier
and the heavier packages were sent by stage.
In the wet seasons the roads were often im
passible and packages were often months on
the way. The express companies were on the
brink of ruin whe ntlie politicians got togeth
er and ordered that no package weighing ov
er four pounds could be sent by mail. The
express companies then began to thrive. Last
year they reported nearly one hundred mill
ion dollars revenue.
Today we have better means of transporta
tion and the government is going back into
the express business. Then! seems to be no
reason why we must piously hand over to the
private corporations all packages over the
small weight limit, who charge all the traffic
will bear, coilect at both ends and still cling
to other business methods that would reflect
credit to the Malay pirates.
The theory that all governmental activi
ties are carried on under is, tlnt the govern
ment will render the service for a charge
that will cover all expense, except where for
the public good it does not receive what the
service costs. For instance, to carry a letter
from Heppner to Portland, the sender should
be and is willing to pay what the service costs,
However when the government, sends mail to
Alaska it seldom, if ever, receives1 what the
service actually costs. Many instances arc
on record where it had to charter steamers to
carry the mail there and the average cost per
letter was over $")()(). Yet, no one kicks about
that. We know that the government should
take the mail there, and do it reasonably often.
Now the big argument against the Star
Routes is merely the cost of operating them
There is a loss for the service rendered. Meas
ured in dollars this is so. They are far more
supporting, however, than the mail routes to
the Phillipines, Alaska, or auv other islam
possession, yei mese are maintained. 1 lus
servie'e should be the last to lie cut off. It is
a matter of no small importance to the penph
ot Morrow C ounty and the state of Oregon
You can think about it as you please but from
a dozen papers that have come into this otlie
ill the last week, we have seen where many
routes were discontinued. Thin means that
tlie interior parts of the state are being gradu
ally deprived ol their mail service and where
people can't get their mail, there they will no
go. If we want settlers to come to this state
we must at least provide this requisite o
easy communication.
A citizen of Heppner recently sent a lette
to a party living not farther than sixty mile
from here that regularly took a week for a n
ply, but after the discontinuance of the ol
swige line ami going over uie new "improv
ed route, it took sixteen days for an answi
to get to Heppner. I hat mav be good bus
iness ability in Washington but it would tak
something stronger than grape juice to get us
in a condition where we could see it in that
way in Morrow Count v, which is in Oregon
The parcel post it is also claimed has mad
mese rouies unproiiiaiue, and is the mam
cause lor their discontinuance, lhe routes
never paid when only letters were carried; it
H Hot to be expected that they would w ith th
parcel post. Tin1 (lovcrmneiit knew that
when it started. The parcel post does no
have anything to do with the continuaiici
the stage lines. They never paid and proh
ably never will, they were operated for tl
good of the people they served and the lest o
us have said that it was all right. Let tl
IVpartnieiit mant so much per hundrei
pounds for carrying the parcel post, so a man
can make an intelligent bid, and that element
is decided.
This government has been said t run by a
system of checks and balances. The legisla
tive lues little to do with the executive, like
wise with the judicial. Hut the Post Ollice de
pavtineiit seems to have secured a divorce
from the main government. They run things
much as did our late friend, Caesar. The Czar
of Russia the word Czar incidentally comins
from Caesar has nothing on the Post Office
politicians in this republic. At Pendleton, U-
matilla, and scores of other places in this state
and nearby states, we read of just such treat
ment as has been ladled out to us here. It is
high time that this Court of Inquisition be
dealt with by the Governor. Some exaggera
ted importance concerning their relation to
the people who they are expected to serve,
seems to have given them new prerogatives,
wholly inconsistent with the present plan of
government. We claim that the people living
on these stage routes should have the service
just as they have in the past and such peanut
policies as the Post Office Department is pur
suing are unwise, unwarranted and ecomic
ally exaggerated.
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PROFESSIONAL COLUMN
CALL ON
F. DYE,
DENTIST
! Pemanently located in Odd Fellows
I building, Rooms 4 and 5.
Dr. II. T. ALLISON
PHYSICIAN & SURGEONS
Office Patterson Drug Store
Heppner, - Oregon
Dr. A .P. CULBERTSON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office Second Door North Minor
Co. Store.
Heppner,
Oregon.
According to the Kansas City Star, the Mil
waukee Agent at Excelsior Springs, Missouri,
was offered a better station when theofficials,
who happened to come a-
Courtesy as a long one day, noticed that
Business Asset everyone about town had
a good word for the a-
gent. He accepted but the people of the town
ad a word to say about it. They refusetl to
et him go and made the Company pay him
le salary of the better station to remain in
Gxcelsior Springs. Last Friday, our friend
Wilkins told one of the officials of the O.-W.
R. & N. that they had a man in Heppner that
muld be in a bigger place. The official told
nm they needed a big man in Heppner so
icy kept him here.
Wo have no other object in view, more than
to state the facts. I might say that Jim owes
me eighty cents rather the company does
Inch, if business picks up, I expect to get.
But the thought expressed by Mr. Wilkins
was no idle drift of conversation. A station
agent can't afford to let his nerves get on the
outside his mission is to serve, to take the
gulf and that sifts through the ticket window
and to smile audibly. This is what Jim does
and when he is advanced we hope it will be
only in salary.
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A daughter of President Wilson recently ad-
lresscd an audience of five thousand people
in the auditorium of Chicago and pleaded for
a more neighborly spirit
Let's. Get among the citizens of that
Acquainted. great city. She asked
many people who lived
next door to them and they did not know.
I his is true in every large city and in many
owns. It is a matter of common observation
that such living breeds suspicion, distrust
nid a general disregard for the needs of oth-
rs and carries us back to habits of living of
our animal ancestors.
We are just now getting acquainted with
the world ami the people who live in it. Pre
judice, lear, and hostility are giving away to
friendship, mutuality and co-operation. As
we get better acquainted we find that we have
ess to fear from those about us. To further
this feeling, we suggest that the Commercial
Club take a day off and take a trip down to
the cities of Lexinirton and lone. Such a
trip can only result in good. It is a sort of
a bilateral contract, where both parties are
beiielitted. 1 Ins excursion could be planned
to take place a few dnvs before the fair, or
earlier. If time allowed, wc miirht iro the en
tire length of the branch. Communities such
as we live in can't afford to fuss, fume or
fight each other. It is true that people who
know and understand each other don't go u-
round detaining their fellow citizens. A trip
of this nature will awaken the common inter
ests of these towns and bring a degree of co
operation which will I lenetit us all that can
be accomplished in no other way.
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One physician gives it as his opinion that
there has been less sickness in the city this
summer than ever before ami it is largely due
to the absence of dust, the greatest foe to
health. Few towns or cities have as many
streets oiled as Heppner has.
It has been definitely determined that Presi
dent llucrU was so slow in leaving Mexico
City because the Government owed him two
month's salary, which he was anxious to col
lect.
Drs. WINNARD & McMURDO
I PH YSICIANS & SURGEONS
Heppner, - Oregon
Dr. F. N. CHRISTENSON
DENTIST
Heppner, Oregon
Offices with
Drs. Winnard & McMurdo
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C. E. WOODSON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office in Palace Hotel. Heppner, Ore.
SAM E. VAN VACTOR
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Heppner, Oregon
The Jack
Rabbit
E. NOTSON
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Office in Court House, Heppner, Ore.
WELLS & NYS
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Heppner, - - Oregon
KNAPPENBERG & JOHNSON
ATTORNEYS
AND COUNCELORS AT LAW
lone, .... Oregon
1 W. L. SMITH,
ABSTRACTER
Only complete set of abstract books
in Morrow County.
HEPPNER, - - OREGON
FOR FINE UP-TO-DATE HOMES
! See
T. G. DENNISEE,
ARCHITECT AND CONTRACTOR.
LOUIS PEARSON
TAILOR
Heppner,
Oregon.
C. O. PRENTICE, I). V. M.
Veterinary Surgeon and
Dentist
! Office: Patterson's Drug Store
! Phone, Main 123
Heppner, ... Oregon
The City Fathers have removed the weeds
and trash from Main Street. If some good
citizen will donate a few paper receptacles
wc can keep it clean.
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III his haste to leave Mexico, lluerta forgot to
salute the flag.
SUMMONS.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
STATE OF OREGON FOR MOR.
ROW COUNTY.
S. II. Holder,
Plaintiff.)
vs.
Frances M. Holder,
Defendant.)
To Frances M. Holder, the above
named defendant:
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREGON: You are hereby com
manded to appear in the above en
titled cauHe on or before Friday, the
21st day of Auuitt, A. I). 1914, to make
answer to the Complaint of plaintiff
tiled herein againut you, and in case
you fail so to appear the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relief
prayed for in the Complaint to-wit:
For a decree of said Court dinsolving
the bond of matrimony existing be
tween plaintiff and defendant and for
the custody of the minor child of
plaintiff and defendant. Oma Ethel
Holder, and for euro other and fur
ther reliof as to the Court may seem
equitable and just.
The time rewriled for the publi
cation of this Summons is six weeks,
and the date of the appearance of
the defendant is AucukI 21, l'.Ul.
This summons is published by order
of the Honorable C. C. Patterson.
JunYe of the County Court of Morrow
County, OreRon, which order wss
made on the J'th day of July, A. l.
IHM.
The date of the first publication of
this Summons is the Uth day of July,
1914.
m '. Van Vactnr
Attorney for PluintilT.
Garage
for .
GASOLINE
OIL
and all kinds of
REPAIR WORK
This department iu charge of skilled mechanics
General Livery
Special Attention to Train Service
Norton Winnard & EIra Hayes,
PROPRIETORS
Agents lor "MAXWELL 25"
LOCATED ON MAY STREET 1st DOOR EAST of PALACE HOTEL
Vic Groshen
Carries a Complete Line of
The Finest Cigars, Wines;
and Liquors.
Ice Cold Beer, Either Bottle or
Drught, To Quench The
Thirst These Hot
Summer
Days
Heppner, Oregon
"II 111 II FOR 110
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AND SAVE PAYING
RENT
We have several nice cottages
that can be bought on very
EASYTERMS
We invite your inquiries
Binns' Real Estate
J. H. cox
CONTRACTOR and BUILDER
I'lansand Ettimntr Furnished for All Kind of Building.
First CIumh Work ( hthj,
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