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.
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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.
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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.
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EDITORS SEE HARDMAN
(Continued from Page Two)
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We are agents for
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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
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