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
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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.
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COME TO
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MIA
will be given in
pavilion on the
the new dance
Fair Grounds
in
rrway
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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.