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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1011.
TIEPPXER HERAI.P, UEPPN'ER, PRECOX.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE OF
MORROW COUNTY
Facts Forced From Familiar Faces
By E. G. H.
Food is the primal need. We get
our living out of the soil, and no man
can be healthy, happy or wise who is
separated long from lerra rirma.
The child will dig in the sand before
he can talk, and find satisfaction in
the exercise. And a knowledge of
the soil and of the things it will pro
duce when rightly manipulated is the
foundation for sanity and efficiency
in every walk of life. My business is
to write, to fill the semi-weekly with
copy. I can do several other things
but I get the most out of the game
of expressing my thoughts via Royal,
which is a good machine. I find that
my knowledge of trees, plants, cattle,
bugs, pollywogs and butterflies, gain
ed by living in a farming community,
forms a valuable addition to my
vocabulary.
It is no new thing when I say that
city boys, and grown ups too, take
more kindly to the business of farm
ing than do country lads. The rea
son why farmer boys sometimes hate
the farm and are filled with a desire
to get away from it is because they
have had a double dose of the farm.
Too much of anything is bad. This
accounts for so many city people on
the farms today. A few days ago I
cook a little journey to the home of
E. M. Shutt and family, which is just
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An Up-to-date General Repair
Shop,
Any and All Kinds of Work
Promptly Done. Garage Work
A Specialty,
four miles north of the Egg City,,
otherwise known as lone. Mr. Shutt
lives in a community composed of re
tired lawyers, editors, teachers, hard
ware men, jewelers and some from the
respectable callings and I am told that
they rank well towards the top in the
list of successful farmers of the coun
E. M. Shutt was born back in
Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania produces
two important crops, newspaper men
and coal. As a boy he worked on the
farm doing much the same work as
boys in the Keystone state do now.
He had educated parents and the
chief educational influences of his life
were the teachings of his father and
mother. He would have been educat
ed if he had never gone to school at
all, however, he took all of the degrees
that the Little Red Schoolhouse has
to offer and then went to the Pitts
burg High School, winding up with a
course in the University of Hard
Knocks.
Shutt always wanted to be a law
yer and when a boy was in the habit
of reading everything that pertained
to law. After he came to the state
of Oregon he devoted his spare time
to the study of -jurisprudence. But in
his visits to the court rooms he grew
disgusted with the practice. Justice
is a thing we read a great deal about
but experience so little. Shutt would
have made a good lawyer because he
has a good memory. Remembering
faces and names comes natural to him.
A few cases are on record, however,
when he failed to associate the name
with the face, much to the joy of
the Court House crovU.
He was not in the state long before
he gravitated into the newspaper
business. The work agreed with him
and he prospered such as few news
paper men do. He owned and operat
ed several papers in this state and
was the last owner of the Heppner
limes, rditors who have worked
with him say that he had a high
sense of newspaper ethics, he was
honest, straightforward, and few men
ever held the confidence of their
readers as did E. M. Shutt. While
there may be some doubt as to wheth
er he was the best editor the county
ever had, nevertheless, he stood high
in the Literary League.
f or eight and one half years he was
Sheriff of this county. His adminis
tration of the office was impartial,
and was characterized by a strict re
gard for the law and its enforcement.
It afforded him an opportunity to visit
all sections of the West and his eyes
were always eager to see. He met
men in every walk of life, men raised
in every circumstance and from this
He was going to make him walk to
Heppner but after the fellow had
walked several miles, Shutt's heart
began to soften and he let the man
ride. Thev took turns riding the
so it was here, conversation is the rule
and nothing but gossip is tabooed.
After we had finished dinner we
listened to the graphophone in the
parlor and ended with a little round at
horse until they reached Heppner. j the piano in which everyone partici
When he locked him in the cell he ! pated. Mr. Shutt then took us out
said, "The next time you break out, ; to see the ranch. He has two large
take my advice and don't follow ttie j orcnaras, one or wnicn was near me
trail." It was only a few days until! house and where nearly every variety
the man succeeded in breaking away 'of fruit can be found. Peaches of all
and taking Shutt's advice eluded his j kinds, pears, plums, grapes, prunes
pursuers and never was found. i and apples made arches of the branch-
Another time he went to Monument es so neavy was tne yield Beyond
OIL and GASOLINE
RQSSEN BROTHERS
Kardman, Oregon
experience his mind and heart took on
a universal aspect; he was not bound
by tradition and custom ingrained in
those who have never traveled, seen
or experienced.
To give an interesting sidelight on
his kind and generous nature, there
was a man held in the county jail tor
some slight offense who broke jail
and made his way over the snow cov
ered hills into the Sand country. It
was no hard job tracking him along
the trail and Shutt came to a pile of
bushes where the tracks ended and
underneath the brush found his man.
to look for a Chinaman who had kill
ed a man at the Junction. He was
supposed to be in a house and with
another man he searched the place
and could not find no trace of the mis
sing Chink. At last they found a
door leading to the garret and search
ing this they found the Chinaman.
Several hundred dollars in money was
found hidden in the garret and the
laundry man, together with the
money, were turned over to the
authorities. Everyone said that the
Chinaman would never be taken alive
but he yielded to the common sense
expressed in Shutt's view of the matter.
In all his experience with criminals
and others who he dealt with for eight
and one-half years, he never had any
trouble and never was resisted. He
never gloried in exercising his
authority, he was modest, unassum
ing, yet determined to do his duty.
Two years ago Shutt and family de
cided to go into partnership with Na
ture. They bought what is acknow
ledged to be on of the finest
alfalfa ranches in this county. It
lies four miles north of lone, all bot
tom land with the creek running
through it and also watered by a
spring which never goes dry. We ar
rived at meal time, something which
had been calculated beforehand, and
driving up at the gate, we saw Frater
Shutt just coming from the field. He
stopped at the watering place to give
the horses a drink of the cool spring
water and noticing us, welcomed us
to his sanctorium. Here we met Mrs.
Shutt, wife and companion maximus,
Lawrence, the son, Essie the daughter,
and Miss Flower, a friend of the
family and schoolmate in Salem of
Lawrence.
To the Shutts the main thing in
life is to live. Making money, strug
gling for positions, show and appear
ance are the side attractions and
transitory in their good. There is an
atmosphere in this home saturated
with moral, intellectual and social
sunshine. Mr. and Mrs. Shutt are
not villagers, they have seen life from
all sides and have installed into the
hearts of their children that righteous
ness is a form of commonsense and
morality pays. If the world is re
deemed from sickness, woe, want and
worry, it will be through the influence
of men and women who have been
raised in homes such as the Shutt's.
The dinner was an old fashioned din
ner, where everyone helps himself. I
noted that nearly everything in sight
came trom the tarm, which is right
Ladies Attention
I am the agent for the Fay Ideal stockings. These are especi
ally good for small children and school children. They button
to the waist and eliminate supporters entirely. They are the
dependable kind that wear well.
and proper. It has besn said that
sociability and eating go together. We
talked as we eat, and exchange con
fidences. Friendship is hygenic. And
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the orchard were fields of alfalfa three
and four feet high ready for the third
cutting. Going back to the house we
saw his Holstein cows, forty in all and
finer animals it has seldom been my
pleasure and opportunity to see. Mr.
Shutt says that he intends to keep only
the best animals and it would be no
great surprise to many people if we
would see one of the best dairy
ranches in the county here in a few
years.
f arming is no new thing to Mr.
Shutt and he realizes that it is a seri
ous business. He is always willing
and eager to learn better ways of co
operating with Nature. In the matter
of irrigating he has found that irri
gating in the winter is profitable
practice. At that time the water is
tilled with a sediment which is dis
tributed on the land and enriches it.
In the matter of fresh cows, these are
watched so that the greater amount
of milk will be obtained in the Fall
when the price is high and flies are not
bothersome. He fiiids that it pays to
raise a few chickens and turkeys.
When Mr. Shutt decided to locate on
a rancn ne spent several months in
search of a place which would meet
with his ideals in the shape of a ranch.
Morrow Lounty, he said, appealed
more to him than any part of Wash
ington, Idaho or the state of Oregon.
Here is land of medium price and
which is certan to advance steadily in
value, perputal water, a good com
munity and many advantages, a com
bination which is spelling happiness
and success. "I do not know of a bet
ter place or I would be there now,"
Mr. Shutt said. Eastern Oregon is
the last Inland Empire which is now
just receiving the gentle touch of pro
gress and as a land or opportunity, it
offers to the home seeker an oppor
tunity to develop his destiny and with
congenial and healthful assistance.
The Shutt family form a little in
dependent community of their own.
They are dependent in few ways.
Ihomas Jefferson said that "Those
who till the soil are the chosen people
of God." Farming implies working
with one's hands. No life can be well
rounded where the Individual has not
been brought up to work and to work
intelligently with his hands. Only in
this way is he able to sympathize with
the world of workers. Mr. Shutt is on
chummy terms with all the wonder
ful things that creep, crawl, run,
climb, swim and fly. His work will
injure no subscriber, he has no apolo
gies to make and he can enjoy
sweet sleep o' nights, something
he said he never experienced
when occupying a public position.
He has three hobbies, fresh air, plain
food, and gymnastics. Every day he
epends a session at tne flying rings
and the trapeze and to these must go
the credit for his youthful presence.
Mr. Shutt is a great democrat; he is
of the demos. His days of poverty,
struggle and obstacle are still before
nim unforgotton. He has great re
spect for old people and his love for
the young is unfailing. He is just the
average man focused the strong,
able, practical, athletic type of Middle-West
man. A good man to know.
Velvets, Ribbons and the best in Hair Goods are always here
aud in various assortments. . . A visit here will acquaint
you with what witt be in vogue this Fall and Winter.
HERREN MILLINERY PARLORS
Mrs. L. G. Herren, Prop.
Peoples' Cash Market
HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor
Open for business nnder new and experienced management,
Solicits and will appreciate your patronage.
Fresh and Cured Meats
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The Herald
Costs The Same
IS WORTH MORE!!!!
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The First National Bank
OF HEPPNER
Oldest Bank in Morrow County
Capital, Surplus and Profits
$140,00000
Your Banking Business Will be Appreciated
Any owners of a 1913 or 1914
model Ford car, whe desires to trade
same In on a new Studebaker should
see the local agent, J. B. Sparks, at
will be given in
pavilion on the
the new dance
Fair Grounds
The People's Cash Market Is making
special prices at the present time on
bacon and hams. If you need any of
these now it the time to take advant
age of the reduced prices. It Is a
good babit to drop Into their market
occasionally, it will mean money in
your pocket.
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 nrst-cla&s store, and we ask everybody for a
liberal share of their patronage. We do our best
to merit the same.
Come and see us
MONUMENT ITEMS.
Cropps returned Monday .
,iem wnere ne nau i
Dr. C. F,
morning from Salem where
been with Mr. Rounds Hon.
( F. L. Boymer and wife have been
1 visiting L. E. McBee Bnd family, of
Cecil.
M. Rounds and son have returned
home.
'Friday, Sept. 4
and the proceeds will be used to help along
the Second Annual Morrow County Fair.
Music by Six-Piece Orchestra.
In the meantime don't forget that there are only a
few more days before the fair in which to
prepare products for exhibition.
Any and all information will be gladly furnished by
The SECRETARY
Heppner, Oregon
O. M. Yeager, Contractor, will do
your building, repairing, etc., and take
tour wool, hay or anything of value
In exchange for the work.
Jack Hynd was
laHt of the week.
up from Cecil the
Dillard French went to Tortland
with sheep Sunday morning.
Harry Morgan was in Heppner last i
Saturday from Sand Hollow. j
Jesse Kirk and son left fo'
land on Sunday's train for a
pleasure trip.
Port-little
Jay Devin, one or the prominent
Sand Hollow ranchers, was in the city
laHt Saturday.
YOUR NEW SUIT
That you expect to wear during the
MORROW COUNTY FAIR
Should be ordered very bood
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.
If your paper does not appear regu
larity, let uh know and we will see
that you get it.
Rev. (toulder leaven tomorrow for '
Weston where he will attend the M.
E. Church South conference.
J. T. Kirk went to lone, Sunday, to
see hia new granddaughter, the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. rred Ritchie.
Father O'Callahan and Butler, or
Ilermmton, wert Heppner visitor over
Friday. Father O'Rourka entertain
ed them.
The big edition of the Semi-weekly
will be sent to every state In the
L'nited States. Hava a tiicture of
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it.
The New Fall Book of Styles
of the STAR TAILORING ( 0 haa Just been received and we invite
your Inspection of name.
Every man woman and child should read the "The Kuropean War
at a Mane," a brand new book, and what ha plunged Kurope into
this terrible catastrophe. Money cannot buy this book, It is not for
aale, but in order to give our customers this valuable information,
we will gladly supply a ropy of same free of charge with every Suit
of Overcoat Order.
Sarin Hughes Co.
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