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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1914)
TUESDAY, AUGUST, 18, 1914. HEPPNER HERALD, HEPpNER, OREGON, PAGPTHRP PROMINENT PEOPLE OF IIIM COUNTY Facts Forced From Familiar Faces By E. G. H. The present great war in Europe is hut another act in the great drama of life which has been playing since his tory began. "1 sing of Arms and the Man," wrote Virgil two thousand years ago and the world has been lis tening to his song to this day. We have hailed as saviors of the land the men who have gone to the batlefields and destroyed men, farms, buildings, roads, every manifestation of civiliza- Hebert W. Copeland EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Morrow County Dates For August Aug. 20, 21, 22 at Palace Hotel Hepp ner... Aug. 23, 24 at Beymer's, Lex ington.. .Aug. 25, 26 at Carle's, lone. "The window of the soul" THE EYE, Most precious gift to man! As the busy years of life go by, Preserve it while you can. School children needing glasses should be fitted at this time. Do not start the boy or girl into school work this year with defective eyesight un corrected. It means misery and bad lessons for. the child. BLACKSMITH & GARAGE An Up-to-date General Repair Shop, Any and All Kinds of Work Promptly Done. Garage Work A Specialty, OIL and GASOLINE RQSSEN Hardman, Oregon . tion. We have erected monuments to the men and boys who left the work of earning food, clothing, and shelter for themselves and others. But the real saviors of our country have been tne women who have maintained the homes, taken the care of the farm and the garden, and what business she could, for it is she that has done the constructive work, while her hus band, father, brother or eon has been away destroying. bearch tills countrv over and vnu will not find a monument raised, to the women who have stayed at home, whose hearts have been wrung with the anguish and misery of the uncer tainty of the fate of their loved ones, who have endured, worked, and sacri ficed, and- lived for their children and to maintain them. There are today thousands of women who are rendering their country far more patriotic and loyal service than has been accredited them and these women are the teachers found in the public schools of the land. One wo man who has served her state and country as well as a teacher in the schools is Mrs. E. E. Bleakman, of Hardman in this county. I saw Mrs. Bleakman for the first time a tew days ago. She was sit ting in a chair in the doorway of her store in Hardman resting from her morning duties in the store. In my talk with her she told me that she was born in Chester,' England, the oldest city of the Kingdom. As a child she atended the schools of her native town and after a period of five and one-half years spent as a pupil-teacher, she went to Glasgow, Scotland, to college. It was a big event in the young girl's life, this trip to Glasgow to enter college. Entering college for tne nrst time is an important event in any person's life. Torn from home ties, thrown among strangers with different ideas, manners and customs, probably the greatest good that one acquires is the ability to adapt him- sea to tne new conditions, to meet hu manity as it lives, pulses, and throbs, in its natural existence. She stayed here two vears. drinkine deep at the fountain of inspiration and knowledge. A short time after wards she met Mr. E. E. Bleakman, a young man of about her own age and before he departed forAmerica to make his fortune, they were engag ed. Mr. Bleakman came to Toronto, Canada, where he was employed on a boat. He soon rose to the rank of Captain and had charge of a boat. In 1869 he was married to his sweetheart who had journeyed across the Atlan tic and met him at Kingston, Canada. After two years the young couple re turned to England only to come back to the United States in 1874. They settled in Nebraska, not far from Black Carney Junction. They lived there six or seven years raising stock and doing some farming. Nebraska was on the frontier in those days and was noted chiefly for its hot winds and the size of the grasshoppers. One year they came in such numbers that the Bleakman's lost seventy-five acres of corn in one day. The field was stripped as clean as a city street. 'What few trains Dassed through the Icountry were stalled, the grasshop pers covering the tracks making it impossible to hold the wheels to the track. The family decided to move farth er west and collecting what property they owned- they started overland for Oregon. There was nothing especial happened on their trip. Once they witnessed the Cheyenne Indians tear ing up the Union Pacific tracks, but nothing of unusual interest marked their trip. They left on the first of May and when August arrived they were in the settlement in Boise, Idaho. Here they decided to spend the winter and take up their journey to Oregon in the Spring. At Boise Mrs. Bleakman taught in the public schools during the winter and in the summer they started for Oregon again. They came to Heppner in 1882 and a short time later they moved to Hardman. There were a few buildings there at that time, where the Hardman hotel now stands there was a small shack, a blacksmith shop ftood where her fiowergarden i-. now end a small grocery store directly across the street from her present store. Mr. Bleakman raised stock and did a little farming. Mrs. Bleakman assisted by teaching in the school. Just behind her store the. people built a small cabin to be used as a school. After it was built the next thing was to find a teacher. "They found out that I had taught school, so they asked me to teach the half-dozen children," Mrs. Bleakman said. "I had to take my baby to school with me and teach. The seats and desks were all made right in the town. We didn't have much to work with but we got along." Mrs. Bleakman's teaching experience cover's many years spent in Hardman, Yellow Dog, Gooseberry and Dry Fork. Wages were never high and often irregular, as the people who sent children to school paid most of the bills. The average country schoolteacher would refuse to meet the conditions which Mrs. iBleakman encountered and struggled wi,th. Learning was fraught with privations to both teach er and student, yet there emerged from those classrooms many a boy and girl who now looks back with joy and gratitude for the days spent under her supervision and direction. The great est teacher is not 'the one who can impart the most facts but the one under which we become different men and women. It might be interesting for some of our readers to know that the town of Hardman has had just two postmast ers and one postmistress. D. N. Hard man, the man for whom the town was named, was the first postmaster and C. N. Spencer, who held the office about a year was the second. For the last twenty-three years Mrs. Bleak man has been in charge of the office and while a Republican in politics, she has retained the office during the Democratic administration. The town of Hardman used to have another name. It was known as Raw Dog' and another settlement about a mile down the road was known as Yellow Dog. The postoflice was al ways at Hardman and the settlement at Yellow Dog was gradually absorb ed by Raw Dog. Mrs. Bleakman was very eager to put some of his relation on the mail speak about the discontinuance of the ,K Hst. Charley Heckman and II. E. ..uiuiiiaii-wiyiiuiiicut SlHJJtJ U11U U'C Hardman-Spray line. The people on S Warren gave us two good Woodrow the latter route have to go in some Wilson dollars and N. H. Leathers cases twenty-five miles for their couldn't see these men outdo him, so mail. The people in Monument now i he changed a gold piece to get in good 5rn?JfP,t.h Standing. George has a first-class Canyon City and Baker on the east. jstore and Indies nearly everything that man requires. Back of the store he has two hundred cords of cordwood that he took in on accounts, benefit ting his customers and to no small profit to himself. His chickens have made his name known over the en tire county, and wheiever good chick ens are on exhibition you can find among the best entries the birds raised by George A. Bleakman. Standing outside the store we saw. The natural outlet is through Hard man and when the administration at Washington changes, so Mrs. Bleak man thinks, the old stage line will be restored too. Mrs. Bleakman has one daughter, Mrs. Tracy who lives in Arizona, and three boys, all weli Known to people of this county, George, Bernard and Bert. Six years ago Mr. Bleakman died and since that time Mrs. Bleak man has had charge oL the store. Be ing a woman who is well informed about conditions here, I asked her to wsii me iusi wnat ner impressions were concerning the present condi tions and the future prospects. i do not know of a better place in this country for a young man who is willing to work than right here in Morrow County. Of course, he wili have to give up some of the pleasures of life but if he is very desirous ot making a place for himself, in this world, he can do no better than to go on one of the many farms near here which he can easily do. Especially are the conditions favorable lor him at the present time. 1 can see that the large farms are being divided, small farms are what we need. There are many farmers who do not raise enough pigs, chickens and cows. Every farmer should raise a goodly number of these. We don't need bigger crops but we need a big ger variety. We are coming to diver sified farming, so when we have a bad year for one crop we will have some thing else to depend on." Mrs. Bleakman has been a teacher, a worker, and a doer of the world. She has been raised in the hard schoo! of adversity, and havine exDerienced all of the privations entailed on those who have blazed the trail for future generations, yet we find her happy, cneertul, and tilled with that tender charm which is God's gift to woman kind. In no other period of history that I know anything about has the credit due womankind been accorded to them. We are advancing because we have recognized that in the erect' ing ot this Western Empire women have labored, struggled and sacrificed jontly with the men and as the minls of the generations yet unborn turn back and view this great pioneer work of the men and women of the declin ing generation, they will breathe a sil ent prayer of thankfulness and grati tude. spent their vacations in the mountains and with a little publicity, mora could be induced to come here. We took a short trip south of town to look at the country and the crops and found some of the scenery that inspired the man who originated the saying, "See America First." On re turning we stopped for a little gaso line and then departed for the county seat. We took the northwest road out of town, one of the finest stretches of natural road that it has been our pleasure to travel over. We passed the Adams land which has some of the finest summer fallow in the county. Mr. Stevens pointed out a pole fence which he built thirty years ago and was still in good repair. He said that Wm. Moreland, one of our well known he bought the first spool readers coming up the street and of barb wire that came to Heppner. .mother, Wes. Booher, drove up and It cost $18 in thoFe days, the same ordered a sack of Heppner flour, article costing aroundS.'l now, yet we That's the only kind I sell," said rant about the high cost of living; we leorge. "It's just as good as any and might better say, the cost of high he Heppner Milling' .Company are living. THE SECOND ANNUAL MORROW COUNTY FAIR HEPPNER, September 17, 18, 19 Free Attractions Daily Best Talent on the Coast has been Engaged to Entertain the Visitors Send or Bring in Your Ex hibits Early Don't Delay Buildings Now Being Erected in Which to Display Your Products No Lack of Space Your Help is Needed to Make This the Greatest County Fair in Eastern Oregon Eor Premium Lists, Information, etc, address the SECRETARY, Morrow County Fair HEPPNER, OREGON ood people to do business with. My .ustomeis all like the flour, I might add too." I happened to see one of the Rossen 3rothers and we w?nt over to see hem. They have a complete black mith shop, equipped to do or make mything. They have lately added a rarage and you can find anything -hat you need or which is handled in i first-class garage. The Rossen boys njoy a growing business and they are good people to know. I met Mr. J. L. Swift there. He is one of the pioneers of the Hardman country and among other good habits he reads the emi-weekly. Let us add that he" is low in good standing with the linan- lal department. On the street we met Mr. C. H. ilams and N. H. Leathers, two of our .veil known Hardman readers. We vatched an auto drive up to the walk md fill its gasoline tank from George 31eakman's new long-delivery tank. Jeorge told us that many people On the John Adams ranch we noticed the huge rock which appeared in the shape of a rectangle as if cut by human hands, so defined were its lines. On the Herman NeilBon ranch we baw another combine at work as ' we turned on the Rood Hill grade which separates Hardman from the Eightmile country.. Going north we saw the familiar names of the Hepp ner Garage and Haylor's Jewelry Store on the signs at the corner. We stopped at the Steven's ranch and Mr. Stevens left us. One hour later we lighted our lights on the edge of town and were soon reading the latest war news. The trip wai profitable for us as we learned what the people in Hardman expect in a good paper, which we will bring into the columns of the Herald. It demonstrated to us that some of the finest land in this county is owned by Hardman people and it also furnished an opportunity to meet some of the best citizens of this section. FOR SALE AT YOUR PRICE. One bay saddle horse, weight 1000 lbs., one black work horse, weight 1200 lbs. J.L. Wilkins, Palace Hotel. Heppner Garage LADIES I have the agency for NU-BONE Corsets and can recom mend its use to the ladies of Heppner and vicinity. All styles and prices. Mrs. M. L. Oney. tf: EDITORS SEE HARDMAN (Continued from Page Two) All Kinds of Repair Work Done Quickly We are agents for Ford, Overland and Mitchell Automobiles. we could see for miles in every direc tion. To the right we saw a combine working on the J. E. Stevens ranch being another son of Mr. Stevens. He has a fine crop this year, so I was told in town, going well over twenty bushels to the acre. On the left of us the fields stretched out end leHS in length. Ilefore us and beyond the town rose the mountains, covered with their pines and serving as a fitting background to the scene. The town of Hardman is located in the center of one of the finest wheat districts in this country. The land is gently rolling and does not wear out the individual in an effort to ex tract a living from it. Wheat was I yielding from twenty bushels per j acre and up.'moxtly up. Omar Stan- j tonWea. Stevens and Herman Nelson j all have fine crops. While there were i a few buildings vacant, the general ; appearance of the town in neat, clean ! and bears an enterprising look.Thc houses are well painted, the school had an inviting look, which is half the problem in education, the streets wen clean and everyone apoke well of the pluce, certainly a desirable haliit to "iiltivate. We stopped at the hole! and met Mr. Hams who had Ju -t finished helping with the dit-hea. We arrived after meal time and Mr. Stcveng put it mildly when he told Mr. llama that the Editors might be hungry. We aw that worthy gentle man depart for the rear and when he emerged he told us thHt we could have something to rut in a few minutes, .luat arore one for Mr. and Mru. IIhiiih, not forgetting Mia Hazel Huma, wuitrena maximua. (ioing down the at i eel we met Mr. E. E. lileaktnmi, the imiatreaa. After a few friendly word with her we proceeded to pain out a few of the latent rnpiea at the Herald which we brought along. The war news wan especially welcomed a it wait a day earlier than they ex wi t e l to find. I)y good fortune we hnpHned to hive few nuliM-ription LIihiKk along and were forced to fill out a duren of theae In-fore we journeyel over to Gaunt' drug trr. Here we found the lox tor and hi wife buay in the atore and abo found our old friend, (. A. Weak man, the popular ntire keeper, well known fancy rhii k en raider and general (Mnter for Hardman and Morrow County. On the way Inn k to Gwirge'n tore, M. Z. liiddle Mopped u and hud ua COME TO Gilliam & Bisbee For anything in the HARDWARE LINE " We have it, will get it, or it is not made We try to keep a complete, up-to-date stock of everything car ried in a first-class store, and we ask everybody for a ' liberal share of their patronage. We do our best to merit the same. Come and see us YOUR NEW SUIT That you expect to wear during the MORROW COUNTY FAIR Should be ordered very soon The new Fall Samples of the THE ROYAL TAILORS are now on display. Every suit guaranteed all wool, perfect fit and complete satisfaction. Phelps Grocery Co. Silk Faced Hose The Famous Holeproof brand, sold withe the usual guarantee. I Priced at 50c the pair Sam Hughes Co.