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VOLUME 6
HEPPNER, OREGON; TUESDAY, JULY 29, 1919
NUMBER 13
MM. EIRiCK CONFERS
Good Intensive Faming Pays
Sherman County Paper Claims
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HOLD BIG WATER CONFAB
f OUESTIOX OF SECVKIXG MI1J- j
V TAKY DATA DISCUSSED j
Court Unwilling to Make Appropria
tion Without Letting Taxpayers
Know Object and Amount
Major W. H. Emerick, U., S. A.
who is in charge of the collection of
certain data for the War Department
through the agency of the county
courts, of some seven or eiglit west
ern and Pacific coast states, came up
from Portland Thursday of last week
and held an informal meeting with
the county court that evening when
a perfectly amicable discussion of the
matter was had, particularly as re
gards certain correspondence had be
tween County Judge Campbell, Gov
ernor Olcott and Adjutant General
Stafrin several weeks ago.
Ex! 1 acts from this- correspondence
, as well as comments upon a letter
written by the adjutant general to
Governor Olcott were printed in the
Heppner newspapers at the time,
which readers of the Herald will no
doubt recall, and in w'jich the adju
tant general suggested to the gover
nor that because of his "objection"
to financing the work Judge Camp
bell might be turned over to the War
Department to be dealt with.
According to Major EmertckT the
publication of the articles referred to
raised some commotion in military
circles anil it was to discuss the mat
ter and to dispel certain misunder
standings regarding the arfair that
he came to Heppner last week.
Major Emerick explained to the
court and newspaper men present
that the collection of data Is consid
ered of great importance by do War
Department and the plan adopted of
asking the counties to finance the
work Is being goneially adopted .ill
i ver the country.
M;t,';or Emerick, it will bo rcr-rlieC,
war, '.on, .on e lilac ago wlxn lie
br.ur.r.t out the blank:;, roniir,, etc,
to be liil.nl out under the direction
of the county court but Judge Cav.'.p
hell was out of town at the time and
Major Emerick, not being able to
wp'i for his return, was unable to ex
plain to the court just what was
w:i:tH. On Its face the work w'.iich
Teemed to be expected locked like
i;'iite a formidable undertaking, one
v l.ir li would require not only the
services of expert operatives but al
so one that would require a heavy
rinaneial outlay and Judge Campbell
'.r.vlng In view the present flnnncial
condition of the county and the
heavy demands being made on the
exchequer for road work and other
expenses contemplated when the last
tax levy was made, "hesitated at In
curring this additional burden unlet.s
it. could be shown to him th::t It was :
absolutely necessary for the public
weal. Judge Campbell therefore. I
wrote a letter of Inquiry to Governor .
Olcott concerning the niatter request-j
Inn some " Information but by no j
means refining to undertake the
ork. Governor Olcott, no doubt
, 'tiHlderine the mailer one belonging ,
' . '.tie military di'Jaitmcnt of the
-rite turned to letter over to Adju
tant Gencial Pt:ifrltl. The reply l'
letter, coming fifiM Ilie adjutant i
"cneral's i.l ire it n't over I. Is aign,i
Vic, v.a I if rause of wliad'M r pub
licity the n'luii has n relied in Mor
1 ow County. I
While nu direct allusion to ,r cx
! mutton ot this letter lm been ie- j
clvctl In Heppner fioin Gtnctiil Sts- 1
(tin tb Information lis come to
Judge Campbell through a third par
ty that Ceneial Slafrln has Intimated
Hut the letter wn written by a rleik
In Ills office and that .f sttned It
without beln awarw of Its contents.
If this Information Is correct. It
would Indicate that after havin his
p.Mon called to It in general
' self may consider the letter rulti-
r unfortunate and 111 advised.
The list of countlea enclosed In the
adjutant iteneral'a letter In the tor-
emor,
Includm- Morrow county,
the adjutant general' letter
which
stated was a llt of counties already
having made appropriations for the
purpose. Major Enteric staled the
other evening, was not list of coun
ties having tnsde appropriations but
was merely a list of estimates he him
self had made of the approximate
rost of the work for the several
counties. The writer of the letter
evidently did not possess accurate
knowledge of fhat phase of the mat
ter. Major Eroerlrk'i estimate for the
w-trk In Mot row county Is 1419 but
Charming Miss Josephine Dunn, six
teen years of age, has been flying a
plane over Atlantic City, doing nose
dives, tail spins and other stunta. She
has been called the most remarkuble
aviutrlx in the country. She hails
from Yazoo, Mich.
DITCH CREEK ROAD
M 6EI86 SURVEYED
IMI'IKH Ivl:T STAKTS OS MOM)
TO I5ITTKK
Conl Mine Hill (ieaile ltedueel J'rum
li ler Cent to H l ive Per
Cent Impracticable
Joseph Kirschner, of Condon
county surveyor of Gililuin county,
who has been employed by the coun
ty court to make a survey for the
new road over Coal Mine hill ;,ml
down Ditch cre.'k. is on the job with
a party of assistants and is niakiii;:
good progress.
The problem of gelling Coal Mint
hill on a five peieem '."ailc h:is prov
en a knotty ono and while finch r
made could be obtained by Kiartin
far enoii;i down, the expense would
greater than the county can afford
rt ttllw time. Th" guide will bo re
duce!! from around 20 per cent to 8
per cent, however, and that will look
mighty good !u the people who want
to '.lavel tlr.it load to ;et to Heopnei
to do their trailing.
The ic ad now Is now v.orki.'.i; mi
upper Willov creek and will soon b
itady to start on the new work on
Coal Mine hill ami the work from
'.iere to the Grant county line on the
road to Kilter will be pushed foi v.ri!
with all possible dispatch.
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'f I'o.vet offer the county court bun
r Iveil tor tindei taking the wotk
If fioin As-f!.for J. J Wells who has
'.mumI to undertaKe the wttik lot
$ "i!0.
The matter will be taken up at the
nt tegular meeting of the county
court v. hen a final decision will be
Ifirhcil.
To a Heiabl reporter Saturday,
Judge Campbell stated that !,'o 'i
spurit lated the fact that this data.
lnn roller.'.! Is and should be of
t ronfiilential nature and not fot
general publication, he also believes
that In considering any matter call
ing for the expenditure of public
money from the treasury of Morrow
county by himself and his swiclst.-s
Commissioner I'adberg and tlleaV
man, the tag payer of the county
hae a right to the fulle.t publlclt)
regarding the object n I sn.ounl ot
uch eiendlture.
Major Kmerlik, who b ythe way o
a most courteous and affable i-ntb
man. I a former Heppner boy, hit
father being conductor of the fir.i
train that came In to Heppner ovei
the H'ppner branch In ! J. A
Patterson, of thl city, was engln
eer on the game train and the majo
enjoyed a pleasant call ltb hi
fattier' old comrade while in ton
(Moro Observer)
This is the one year in recent
Sherman county history that fully
demonstrates that the right kind of
farming done at the proper season
always returns large dividends. The
writer has visited the experiment sta
tion at various times in the past sev
eral years when Superintendent
Stephens had invitations out for spe
cial days, such as the annual farm
ers picnic, and in a majority of cases
when the visitors' came upon the
farming exhibits showing the re
sults of work from the best to the
poorest and also the same work done
at 'different periods during the sea
sen, a number always considered the
exhibit as an endorsement of tTneir
work when finished late in the year.
number of times the exhibit had
apparently served to justify a slack
ness in farm work when the yield
from one piece of ground was not
compared.
There are few sopts on the face of
the earth where it is possible to raise
grain vithout considerable rain dur
ing the growing season, yet it is be
ing done C.iis year in Sherman county
with no rain fall since April of ma
tenrl benefit to the crop.
lioi'ovo May 1 there was a wonder
.',il prospect for a bumper crop; it
locked as though tho wheat fields of
Sherman county would return the
largest yield in the county's history.
Now while the prospects for any
thing of the kind has gone into the
di.card. theie is no doubt but that
tho heat crop of a large part of Sher
!'i;ki i.i c.s iMi'i;)
Fred Lucas who had a bad fall
'rem liia wind mill tower on his
ieppnei- Flat, ranch last Wednesday
ft Improving lvpidly and will soon
' o.rov.nd again. Mr. l.r.rr.u fell a
Urt"i:ce c' 30 feet turning complete
v oor in the air and landing cn 1M
':'. A b; no in hin ankle was brok
en "iici Dr. Dc.n, who was called lo
!!ond him, fen red his spinal column
v. Ig'il be injured but lortunately
I'.'n:; (.i that Had developed.
G. W. ll'ix who operated a bo;
Packard truck here last mimiiu r. br:
w'ao is- now alfalfa farming at liri-
gon was here a couple of days during
the week on business. Mr. Hux Is
more than pleased with his new loca
tion and says the north end of .'.oi
row county unquestionably lias a
great future, lies-ides a good acrear--
of alfalfa Mr. Hux also bus eight
acres of Alberta peaches now heavily
. ,u.. . i.i.i wiiii 'l be ho; s
., I, ;'u IP pptior market.
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Folks From the City
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j Notice of Meeting
To nominate directors f,,r the JoJin I).ty Irii'a
I tion District. Saturday, August jnl, at S I'. M.,
at the Hall in Cecil. All property owners in the
proposed district are ri'jiicsted to ,e there.
I
F. R. BROWN, ACTING SECRETARY
man county will be very good and in
some cases come up to or exceed the
average.
Usually the grower overestimates
his crop. This year it was the op
posite. Because of the lack of rain
during the main growing season it
was thought by a large number that
the harvest would be short and the
grain of inferior quality. The yield
where threshing is now under way
has, In the majority of cases, been a
pleasant surprise. Fields that the
owner felt dubious about the crop
are turning out 12 to 15 bushels per
acre and In a number of cases 20
and 25 bushels 'have been reported.
Despite the unfavorable weather
conditions the majority of Sherman
county farmers will make money this
season in raising wheat. Conditions'
for raising a crop must be exception
ally good when this is possible, but
in every case where an average crop
is harvested this year you will find
a farmer in charge who has profited
from the work of tlhe State and Fed
eral Experiment Station at Moro.
They have studied the effect of con
tinuous, consistent intensive culti
vation of their summer fallow and
have not been lead wrong by an ap
parent yield on poor farmed land
that did not hold up its end when
comparison was made at the close of
the harvest.
It costs as much cash outlay to
plow and wark land out of season as
in season. There is very little sav
ing made by poor farming in place
of good farming and never any real
saving when the crop year Is closed.
Xi l'(Ml,(i PAYS I'KKMIIM
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In certain sections of the fleece
growfng states wool pooling has
gained greatly In popularity. Small
picduccsgwho formerly were unaule
'to nvot their wool as individuals
Tti i'.ft'nine imin:'er can iioiv rem
bine V.:fi.i their ncifclniors nnft pro
(luce a i.r.ffirlent supply of graded,
ciuaiity wool to make it attractive
for the eastern wool merchants to
bid on (heir fleeces. Dining the hu t
year the various cooperative asso
ciations 'lave sold their wool for
p; ices ranging from 1 lo S cents pre
mium a pound' above the prices of
fered by the local buyers1 for the
same lips.
J. V. Frilsoh has taken over the
battery service end of the Heppner
gniage nhop and will operate bis
plant in the lionl end. The shop
proper, in the rein, 'has been pur
chased by Iiitnan i Thornton, recent
arrivals fria i'oi ll.n. l.
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Mrs. l'lilllp N. Moore of St. Louis,
Mo., president of the National Coun
cil of Women, Is taking a prominent
part in the campaign to raise $!.tXK.-
(KK) for a natioual memorial hnllrl.
Ing In Washington.
I'.UKST Mi ll NO IDLH Hill AM
UK KAYS
Ghi.Tty l-ine Millar)' III" foe
Heppner V,.sl ,Hlc (ll, Town
L'aitb
Kail Gilliam, who lel'l lle,pnei i,,
the September contingent of the
draft leached home Sunday eveiiin.;
pretty directly from France, bavine
landed cn this side July III. lie v,,::
demobilize:! at Camp Mills, t . i . . I
bis discharge from t'jie si ivic ami
beat it for Hie hest Utile obi tov n on
ea it b.
After a lew weeks training at one
of the California camps Mail war
sent east and from there sailed lm
France October 2Xth, anilng at
Iliesl November ft fl, three ilaK be
fore the armistice was signed. 1 he
boys were under ordeis to pt creed
to the front anil wore veiling pielly
close to real business when the Hen
iiult. T;.nl spent most of the wind i in
!'.resl and he says fhe condl'l nif
there us n -arrt mnd and othei dla
Mimloils wen. n no wl. ivrd- ,i n
mid he knows nil about wlj ti le
i eaiia to b ite w. t del nil the lieie
f'U tv.o Solid molllllH. He was do
lillliile lioevet. in be UK det.nlid i"l
mk in It libtaly latelln the Hindi
and "pen lour monthi at that j it.
ihi.li v.,i- Inside it e,,IM Iniii.drr.
i:ii and diy. and le al if'lu l dai i
in tb" t..tn by a ron ld' iihln tnstctn
li - i ..od lm k li.'biH i it him di 1'ie
I.l I lot the'ib.y (lllcf Ite tint. Mie
d b.ii k lo III.' st li lei. M l.lltflt van
''lit tu (iiliaany i, do tMLird dull
end he t.att be wmiM tatlier l in
HipluM'i tbsn f;ttiiMny sny n.mk in
tin' toad.
1 he only Id pjiiie, boys he met oti
Mi" other side ncii. "Kol" McCitly
uinl Jim l.alan. I Mii'arly is now a
lesldi'Mt of I'l.rllaiid, li nd i -t it
fi'iin Fiance a bIh. it Hint, una I u-
l.il.il lived bl'Hi HI a ,, y ,, ),,
b-'n wy for a ntimbei of yem.
"
IOMmiN M H lit iM, IMHiM
It does not slt taks a hlc Oio
to insk a totB frow,
Condoa la building a ro w f,fi,fiou
li'.dl. H iii'idi lln a bank buildine,
li'iililiiiK a n iot and and
I'd (t n' W eii 'itrn Oilier
ti'iii.dnK I 1mi n.riti ii iI;iI.'I says
tin- til.ib. Tlnn s
TN.h A H.YMl
M'ifl Marnsts Hps'ks stlred-d a
rtirctlnf of plrtqia show rtn-n In
H. Ml. al ink anl hll tint'
lo'ik a rid la hydrbplan, which
h It ff'St tltK-tirni
NO CONCLUSIONS KKACHKIt ON
VKXIXU Ql l'.STlON
alne of I'resent Mailt .u Contro
versy Gates Mfly Contract Con
Ktructlon of Gravity system
Ata conference last evening be
tween H. V. dates, Mayor Vaughan
and the city council on the question
ot the purchase of the water plant,
by the city no definite conclusion
was reac'iher and the parties at issue
seem to be in about the same posi
tion they were after a similar con
ference last January.
Mr. Gates made a proposition to
take water from Willow creek at the
Yoakum place, carry it. by covered
concrete conduit to the forks of the
creek and there deliver it to the city
alter passing It through his turbines
at an hydro-electric plant lie pro
poses to construct at that, place. The
city would then bring the water to
Heppner and deliver it to consumers,
ttiirough the present distributing sys
tem which with the wells and pump
ing plant would be turned over to the
city. The consideration asked for
was $40,000.
Mayor Vaughan asked Mr. Gates
to make a price on the present sys
tem but the latter declined to do so,
contending that the only fair way to
arrive at a true valuation of the
property Is by arbitration. This plan
the mayor refused to consider.
It Is understood that the valuation
placed on Oio plant by Hums & Mc
Connell, englneurs employed last
spring to make preliminary surveys
and estimates was slightly under
$20,000 and bh Gates placed a valua
tion of some $62,000 on the plant
last year when asking the public ser
vice commission for an increase In
rates and that body placed a valua
tion of Home $4 5,000 on the property
there was little chance for agree
ment Some talk was bad of taking the
matter into the courts for settlement
but was balled by Councilman Noble
asking Mr. Gates If ho would enter
into an agreement lo follow bis pro
i posed plan to the fni'ks of the crock
and construct a suitable pipe lino
fr t'aere to the city fo rJVO.OOO.
I Mr. Gali s replied (hat he coulil
j not give a definite answer oif band
but would figure on the proposition
jnnd give the council an answer soon
in mi:
m:it m n icvs i i;om
i iianci:
llymnn (Teddy) Hear, well known
Heppner boy w?io was clei k in the
I'alace hotel when tills country en
tered Die war in l!i7. ami who lin-
j mediately enllrted In f 1 1 service of
I his ronntiy, returned to Heppner Ins1
Tuesday evening after more than two
I years of nriny life,
Tiddy enlisted n t,,. finally bur
' I tiansrei red to the artillery
.and n'ler sblftim; from one camp to
another tinlll he got to see most of
1.1 it se I'lllled Mules bin regiment Wits
I sent otet , a t In May. 1'US. After
, rem hing Ft iim f the lerlinent w :ei
Hie t.t ri nse hi Id In reset r and the
but ., ill. I not gel llllo Hie f 1 '.tin . at
. nnv tlni"
j Teddy rpi., .( l,, end-t ii.ll.-ge lln
I fi ll and t ii.,,, t,. I h, . .dli allnn lull
, hif tn. I ),l fully itTld.it wll.'ll Itnti
i t It lull I e W III I ntel .
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I 1(1 ll Will ltstt (TM Of 0i.
JOKKH
'ay M Anderson, dtpiity rotinlv
jrlttk, Miehed ii f.l. ,,!,, Thtirstlitt
Mlilnr 1 1 inn Vancouver, Washing
ton, uiltl ing bint of the rtllltal run
Ilium nf bis bttither, Had Anileisori,
the w lf known foimi'i liebt ..,.,,
bmi r ami runt. ml. r dir Ibo lli'iii
w.'i;bt i biimpinniiblp Mi Amlen.,11
was i-inployi'il In the fttnndlfer ship,
yards and a fellow woikttan, In a
tutilifh attempt at pel .. i i.ii I n a
li'mtitul joke. Intn.tl sn air lw.se .,r
l.lln, tin. foin. i,f it,,, i,,,,ir ,.n.
terlng Anil-isun' hotly itfid if,.
in terrible Internal trijmi.s
Stiire.ii,s perfot recti a d.-lirai-.peistlt.li
Thtirtdsy bit at this Wl.t
In the patient imnvMrjr in si.lo't
ly In doubt
MMMV Hll kKV NVM It
At I'srkrrs Mill rtary Hnndiy
Unci stiintrirr rtMnnt In thw rounty
Try our Hnrf aMt Hund.y and .,n
will b mirr to ronts bs'k Mjk
ymii t.i. iwittiiqn, B ai,i,
by tlpftt.a fhi lastiiiag our m
atUatit.t. i ,t
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