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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1914)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 1014, HEPPNER HERALP. HEPPNER, OREGON. PAGE THREE INDUSTRIES and INDIVIDUALS Men and Businesses With Whom Pros perity and Success are Associa ted in This County. steel, the Metal Age reached its zenith, i There were several tires in the fur-'ago would have been looked upon as 1 took a little journey to the black- uace when I happened around and I strange vagaries of impractical watched them we d and reset a tire, ineorists. By E. G. H. The progress of man upon this earth has been divided into four periods, these in honor of his impliments of production. Early man labored with stones and his age was called the Stone Age, following him a few mil lion years were those who discovered metals and the period was named the Metal Age. With the fertile brain of Watt and Stephenson came the use of steam and the Steam Age was ushered in. Today we are living in the Elec trical age, that is the most of us are, some are still in the Stone Age, Mexi co for example. The Metal Age is by far the most interesting age of all. Prehistoric man mined on the surface or dug into a mountain horizontally, and thus made a cave. Copper was known centuries ago. Long before the days of the North American Indians there was a people who worked these cop per mines. Who they were, where they came from, whatever became of them of these things we know noth ing. They used steam and cold water was dashed on the heated rocks and thus was the nugget of copper liber ated. Copper implements were made and carried hundreds of miles and sold or traded. Iron came in later and was a great discovery because it could be hardened and with the invention of BLACKSMITH & GARAGE An Up-to-date General Repair Shop. Any and All Kinds cf Work Promptly Done. Garage Work A Specialty. OIL and GASOLINE RQSSEN BROTHERS Kardman, Oregon smith shop owned by Mr. W. P. Scriv ner, of this city, a few days ago where I found one of the most complete wood and metal shops in Eastern Oregon. It would be interesting to see the old (shop that Mr. Scrivner first started his present business in and compare it to what we find in his present shop. Mr. Scrivner is a native son of this state and came to Heppner in 1888. The first six years he worked in the i ap simson shop doing the woodwork which drifted in. In 1896 he decided to make the start for himself and rent ed the small wooden buildini? which stood on the lot which his present building now occupies. Mr. Scrivner's capital consisted mainly of good health, experience, and a desire to do. He managed to keep the landlard in terested in his future until he finally bought the property. Business grew and the old shop was moved to the back of the lot and a larger and better building took its place. To this was buit an addition for the woodwork department, which is now separate from the blacksmith business. On entering his shop one sees three furnaces on the north side, with shoes and the iron stock properly aranged. On the south side is the shoeing space where probably twenty horses could be tied. In the rear of the building is placed the power-driven machinery ana me space used tor repair work. A gasoline engine furnishes power for the trip-hammer, which is one of the great labor-saving machines, a thing unKnown wnen Mr. Scrivner served his term as apprenticeship. It also operates the iron cutter and cold tire setter, a machine costing $:!00 so I was told and which will cut iron one inch in thickness as easily as a quarter-inch strip. A Champion uptire set ter, a small machine but which make tire setting a thing of pleasure I noted here and it represents ninety Woodrow Wilson dollars. I saw them drill holes by machinery in a few seconds which would have been hours of toilsome work a few years ago. The emery stand, one of the creat in ventions of recent times, is here and with the grindstone and turning lathes maKe tne shop as complete as one could desire. Iron-working is a far different occupation from what is was a few years ago. It usedto be exactly wnai tne names implies, a black, bur densome and blighty business. "The Village Blacksmith's" life such as the poets sung bore no relation to the actual smithy any more than the glorious harvest songs correspond to the dust, sweat and grime of the har vest fields. The wood shop is directly behind the blacksmith shop and a complete stock ot material is always on hand. Mr. benvner is a Class A man in this de partment and many wagons which he made when he first ;ame here are on the road today giving useful service. The machinery is all driven by power and it is a matter of a few minutes to make or repair any part of a wagon or buggy. Outside the main building I noted a brick furnace for heating wagon tires. This eliminates all danger of spreading fire and economizes on fuel. all a matter of a few minutes. A few weeks atro this shoD eauioDed a set of Tractor wheels with new tires which weighed two hundred and fifty pounds each and were eight inches wide, a iob Dracticallv impossible for the average shop, tor heavy worK oi this kind they have a moveable crane which makes it possible to handle this and do it easily. Four men are employed by Mr. Scrivner, all experts in some depart ment. It would be a difficult under taking to find four men who under stand the various parts of the busi ness as these men do. Mr. Scrivner dons the apron and is on hand early and late and no job is pronounced fin ished until his approval is secured. In the Spring a new and modern struc ture will occupy his 66-foot lot. The present structure, together with the room occupied by the Commercial Club will be replaced by a modern shop in every particular. It has always been Mr. Scrivner's ambition to have a model shoeing room and in the new building special attention will be paid to make the horse shoeing corner a desirble place to be in. The office will be modern in every particular. Withal, Mr. Scrivner has always found time to enter public life. He has served his city on the council and tne school board, and contributed to every worthy cause undertaken in the town. Ihe benvner family are mem bers of the M. E. Church South and the good work which that institution has done and is doing reflects much on their membership and loyal service. Mr. Scrivner is a Mason and stands high fraternally. His success in his business is due to the application of honesty, intelligence and elbow grease. Of course he has prospered. All pay, however, is automatic. We are all down on Nature's time-book for five dollars a day and the reason why we don't get it is because we have deducted a part for lack of intelli gence, a part for too little "elbow grease" and a part for various other shortcomings. To those who are not on chummy terms with what is possible to be done with iron and wood, 1 suggest a trip to the Scrivner black smith shop, located in north Heppner, the county seat of Morrow County. When institutions that have stood for ages are being pitched into the melting heat of burning powder, by those who have always claimed to be defenders of such institutions, then long established rules and customs ceased to command respect. ine institutions or today are built upon international markets and world- Mike Marshall recently bought the camp buildings used by the Thevoy Bros., on the Echo-Coyote cut-otf. For the last ten days he has been tearing these down. Now he is raft ing the lumber down the river to his ranch at the mouth of Six-Vale. Charles Marshall returned from the Pendleton hospital last week. Ik had been in the hospital for several weeks receiving treatment for a brok en arm. ihe arm was tiroKen in tne wide commerce. But those markets j early summer but failed to heal prop are gone, that commerce driven from the seas. It is not necessary to take a course in the economic interDietation of history to understand that those in stitutions are shaking when these foundations are blown up with ex ploding shells and shot to Dieces with artillery and ground under the feet of marching armies. What comes out of this chaos will depend, more than we can realize to day, upon the ability of Socialists to realize the situation that confronts them. For such a situation no other body of people has anything to offer. All other political parties and philoso phies are based upon the theory that present institutions will continue for- has been erly and it was found break it again. necessary to LEXINGTON ITEMS MOBDUZE THE FORCES BY HEPPNER BRANCH NO. 1 Capitalism has declared war upon its own civilization. The world is just awakening to that fact. Those who have not been caught in the crazy blood-lust are in fierce revolt against it. Thousands and hundreds of thous ands of persons who six weeks ago had never thought such thoughts are now crying out that the world must make and end of the forces that have plung ed half the earth in a wild riot of killing. There is demand, as yet wild and incoherent, for an extension of governmental activities, lhere are countless proposals for common action being enacted into law that a month wire ojLivjLflir r7 Pi When they feel the commerce and industry, the laws and international relations which are the very condition of their existence tumbling about their sars they are helpless. But Socialists have always said that tnese institutions were doomed to pass away. To be sure. Socialists hoDed and expected that the change would come gradually and in time of peace out tne rulers ot today, the "eon- servatives," decided to smash their creation, to drown in blood the civiliza tion they have always posed as defend ing. Socialists alone have seen beyond the society that is now passing away. They alone have builded for the society that is upon us. This emergency demands that Socialists should mobilize their forces for action. On the strength of the Socialist movement, on the judgement mat rules its actions, on the power it shows to meet this emergency depends the direction that events will take iunng the next few years. Socialists themselves do not as vet realize this. But fortunately, before the crisis was upon us the order had ?one forth to mobilize the Socialist orces during a "Red Week" beginning September 6. During that week every energy that :an be brought to bear must be used -o built up a powerful, intelligently directed, democratic body, ready for the work that is upon us. During that week millions of new workers must he reached and told ol the work to be done and enlisted to lo it. During that week thousands of Socialists who have once served in the ranks and have dropped by the way side must be called back to the ranks. The reserves must be mobilized also. The problems that will be met in the legislative hall this winter will be the : problems that the Socialists, and no j one else, have been preparing for years to meet. There must be many l Socialists in those bodies when they meet. ! "Red Week" must mobilize the iurueH oi socialism ana put tnem in the field equipped to begin the great est task that has ever confronted the people of this nation. j I Mrs. Ed. Burchell and little son and Mrs. Galy Johnson, were Heppner visitors on Monday evening. Mrs. L. W. Hill, a former resident of the vicinity of Lexington, visited here on Monday. Beauman's threshing outfit moved tc Frank Munker's field the first of the week. . Frank Beymer and wife visited Mrs Beymer of the hotel and other rela tives here recently. The Hynd Brothers have started tc haul their winter's fuel. They make about three trips to the ranch eacl: Jay. Art Parker has purchased the Kar: Beach house and after moving it or, some other lot will make a nice home out of it. Mr. Leach had some gravel hauled this week and will soon have some more concrete sidewalk on one side of his residence. School will open next Monday with Mr. Stephen Doak as Principal and with Misses May Severance, Gilbreth. Smith and Fern as the other teachers. Mr. Scott had Mr. Beach to install a trough opposite the Tum-a-Lun Lumber office on the vacant lots for 'he public. This was needed and is low placed just where its houkl be. Miss Winnies Smith, who was a rraduate of Monmouth last year, left on Monday morning to commence her duties as a teacher. Mr. Hodson jrought her to the train in his new 'ord. Miss Gertrude Beymer is expected lere this week from Hardman. She .vill reside with her grandmother, Mrs. Soothby and attend school here this winter. Mr. Fuqua is under a contract vhereby he will place a new board sidewalk in front of the restaurant and le will also make some repairs on the ivery barn, the property of James Carty. John Moore is working in the Kerr Clifford warehouse and Gus McMillan s taking his place on the dray. As school is about to open, there is the usual rush for houses. If some of our citizens only had the capital to erect some houses on their vacant lots, they could easily rent them. CARS EVERYWHERE EXCEPT IN PERSIA. Detroit. Aug. "Ever since I re turned from my last trip around thu world I have wan ted to shake hasui with the man who guides the destinies of the Studebakers, for I found this car everywhere," exclaimed Charles S. Osborn, ex-governor of Michigan, in his characteristically breezy man- as he bustled into the othce of E. R. Benson, vice-president of the Studebaker Corporation. Mr. Benson warmiy greeted his old friend, but modestly disclaimed credit for Studebaker achievement. "I have been in every country, lit tle or big, on this globe, from arctic to antarctic," continued Mr. Osborn, ' and every place that boasted of any motor cars at all had the Studebaker. In fact, I have ridden in them all over the globe, and I never found a Stude baker owner who was not satisfied. "On my last trip, which covered 67,000 miles, Mrs. Osborn and I tried to pick out some of the odd places of the globe, the little known regions. For example, we have traveled ex tensively in Central Asia and the Transeapian district. The only place I can recall where we did not find a Studebaker car was in Persia, and there were no motor cars there of any kind." "No doubt you met our Constantin ople dealer," Mr. Osborn suggested. "He has lectured with a chassis cut out at Roberts college." Mr. Osborn declared that he un doubtedly had. He said that he had made eleven visits to Constantinople and had been there during three sieges. Both he ana Mrs. Osborn had been under fire and had the unpleas and experience of seeing men fall on all sides of them. Although the vic tims were but the width of a dest away from the Michigan travelers, the latter miraculously escaped all in jury. Mr. Usborn told ot many more experiences, and he packed into nis brief visit with Mr. Benson more travel-talk and adventure than a Bur ton Holmes would usually offer in an evening's entertainment. The ex-governor's experience with the Studebaker in foreign countries had stirred his sentimental interest, he told Mr. Benson, because, as he confessed, he was really a Hoosier and he had known the Studebaker family intimately as a boy. Let O. M. Yeager draw your house, barn and cellar plans. Peoples' Cash Market HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor Open for business nnder new and experienced management, Solicits and will appreciate your patronage. Fresh and Cured Meats A DIFFERENCE. ! i COME TO ID) A IT MIA will be given in pavilion on the the new dance Fair Grounds in rrway 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. The senate has passed the bill to create a bureau of government in surance to insure ships sailing under the American flag and carrying American cargoes against the risks of war. It is "paternalistic," but congress faced a condition rather than a theory. Democratic theories have not fared well of lute. The "hands off!" prin ciple has lost its etiurm. The government at Washington is paternalistic, but it is not Socialistic. It is willing to do anything to help business, but it will do nothing to help tne workers, they must still rely up ; on themselves. The government does not purpose to deprive them of their self-reliance. When it was proposed to extend the war risk insurance to the men and officers nailing American ships, the senate would nave none of it. If a ship shall be blown up by a floating mine and destroyed, the government will recompense its owners and the owners of the cargo, but the families of the men will have to look elsewhere for relief. i It is natural enough that a con-1 gress composed of the representatives ! of the interests of property should be i more concerned in insuring cargoes I than in protecting seamen. i j The working class is not represent-! ied in congress. Without representation, by its own confession, it considers that it has no j interests to le safeguarded or pro ! moted by legislation. The only in terests for congress to consider are the interestn of rupital the interests j which it represents. I I.et there lie no confusion in the public mind. Congress is going in strong for paternalism wherever it promises to help business. But it draws the line at helping the working class. That would I Socialistic. And Socialism is "dangerous." (Paid Adv.) 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 S liberal share of their patronage. We do our best J to merit the same. Come and see us Any and all information will be gladly furnished by The SECRETARY Heppner, Oregon Any owners of a 191.1 or 1S1 1 model Ford tar, wh. denim to trade name in on new Studebaker nhould M-e the local agent, J. 11. Sparks, at onre. 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. CASTLE WK'K ITK.M.S I 8. II. lioardman is helping Mike Marshall move his lumber from Coyote. Jamei Bellamy ha a number of j fine hog to wll. Head h in ad in thin ! paper if you are in need of Rome good ho". I At the it penal school meeting held i laitt Thumduy it was voted that the l)iHtrirt furnmh trannportation to the pupil living over two milei from the rhnol houne. .Special to the Herald, Sept. 4 School opened laxt Monday with near ly a full attendance. There aeemii to be quite achool npirit in the com munity and everything pointa to a ! fucccf ul year. The New Fall Book of Styles of the STAR TAILORING CO,, him Jinit t-een received and we InviU your innpectiun of tame. Every man woman and child nhouhl rend the "The European War at a (jlance," a brand new book, mid what Inn plunged Europe into tli m terrible rataitlrophe. Money cannot buy thin bonk, it in not for ale, but in order to give our ruHlotnem thin valuable information, we will gladly Rupply a copy of mime free of charge with every Suit of Overcoat Order. Sam Hughes Co.
