Tuesday. December i m
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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER. OREGON
DR. R. J. VAUGHAN
I) KM 1ST
Permanency loca'ed in Odd
fellow's Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
ATTOKXEV-AT-I.AW
Office in Court House
HEPPNER, OREGON
DR. A. D. McMURDO
I'uvsiciax mi'i mugeo.v
Telephone 122
Office Patterson's Drug Store
HEPPNER, OREGON
F. A. McMENAMIN
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Office Phone .Main 643
Residence Phone Main 66 5
Roberts Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
WOODSON & SWEEK
ATTOnXKYS-AT-LAW
Masonic Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
SAM E. VAN VACXOR
ATTOKX E Y-AT-LA W
First National Bank Bldg.
HEPPNER, OREGON
DR. CLYDE R. WALKER
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
riione Connections
IONE, OREGON
WATERS & ANDERSON
FIRE INSURANCE
Successors to,
C. C. Patterson
HEPPNER, OREGON
MATERNITY HOME
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CUSTOMSOF GUAM
Island's Inhabitants Retain Prim
itive Manners.
Happy and Careless, Yet Vith a
Sense of Industry and Thrift
Farms, as a Rule, Culti
vated by the Family.
The increasing commercial impor
tance of Guam is illustrated in a re
cent visit of the postmaster of Guam,
principal city of our smallest posses
sion, to the United States in behalf of
better postal sen-ice for the island.
Curious customs and natural re
sources of Guam are described In a
National Geographic society bulletin
as follows :
"The fruit of the common tree (Par
ringtonia speciosa) the natives use to
stupefy fish.
"The fruit is pounded into a paste,
Inclosed In a bag, and kept over night.
The time of an especially low tide is
selected, and bags of the pounded
fruit are taken out on the reef next
morning and sunk In certain deep, holes
In the reef. The fish soon appear
on the surface, some of them life
less, others attempting to swim, or
faintly struggling with their ventral
side uppermost. The natives sconp
them In their hands, sometimes even
diving for them.
"In the mangrove swamps when the
tide is low, hundreds of little fishes
with protruding eyes may be seen hop
ping about in the mud and climbing
among the roots of the Rhizophora
and Bruglera. These belong to a
group of fishes Interesting from the
fact that their air bladder has as
sumed in a measure the function
lungs, enabling the animal to breathe
atmospheric air.
"Men, women and children of Guam
are expert swimmers, and are as much
at ease In the water as on land. As
they throw themselves into the sea and
come bounding from wave to wave
they remind one of dolphins.
"According to the testimony of early
writers, their houses were high and
neatly made and better constructed
than those of any aboriginal race hith
erto discovered In the Indies.
"They are a happy, careless peo
ple, fond of festivities, dancing, sing
ing, story-telling and contests of
strength and skill, yet sufficiently in
dustrious to cultivate their fields and
garden patches, build excellent houses
for their families, braid mats of fine
texture and construct canoes which
were the admiration of all the early
navigators. They were much given
to buffoonery, mockery, playing tricks,
jesting, mimicry and ridicule, offering
in this respect a gttyEkiy, contrast to
the undemonstrative Malayans.
"The natives of Guam are, as 8
rule, of good physique and pleasing
appearance. Owing to their mixed
blood, their complexion varies from
the white of a Caucasian to the brown
of a Malay. Most of them have glossy
black hair, which Is either straight or
slightly curly. It is worn short by
the men and long by the women, either
braided, colled, or dressed after the
styles prevailing In Manila.
"The people are especially agricultu
ral. There are few masters and few
servants on the Island. As a rule the
farms are not too extensive to be cul
tivated by the family; all the mem
bers, even the little children, lend a
hand."
VERY
A fortunate purchase of a
large assortment of
iViooopole
Jams
and
35
reserves
enables us to price same at
c per 1 0-oz. Jar
or 3 Jars for $1.00
Considering the price of fruit
and sugar this is indeed a bar
gain worth taking advantage of
elps Grocery Co.
All Kinds of Eats for the Holidays
Knew That Much.
The owner of a house on the South
side had a tinner to figure on putting
on a new gutter, relates the Indian
apolis News. When the tinner gave
him the price on the job the owner
exclaimed, "Why man, I would never
pay that price. I'll put It on myself,
first."
"Hut now stop mid think; you would
have to buy a level just to put on that
little piece of gutter," said the tinner.
"1 don't see where you would save
any money."
This nude 'be owner think. Rut the
next minute be replied, "Say! Don't
you think that I have enough brains
'.a know that all I've got to do Is
pour a hteket of water in that gut
ter. If the water runs out I guess1 the
Job will do."
Bsveranes With Meals.
Drs. i;. .1. Miller, O, Porgeitn. M. I".
Kehfuss nod I". H. Hawk of I'lillndel
pliia, have been testing the effect of
wuter, tea, coll'ee nnd coco on the di
gestion of locals of mixed foods. They
report to the American Journal of
Physiology (Baltimore) that one liter
of cold water, tea, either hot or cold,
or hot coffee drunk with a meal does
not delay the passage of the food from
the stomach, but the addition f sugar
to the coffee do-s slightly delay the
process. Coco markedly delays It.
Coffee, tea and water seem also to
stimulate gastric secretion, hut coco
delays It. nnd coffee with sugar and
cream has less effect.
Fund to Accumulate for Century.
"A professor ami Ills wife" have
rlneed S."0.tM In the hands of the
authorities of Cornell university, to
accumulate tin til the funds "amount
to about $'.''. .rw, when they wl',1 he
used for the founding ef nn Instltu'e
of pure and applied mathematics." Ii
Is estimated that the Institute will he
In operation at the end of 100 years.
THE HEPPNER HERALD, ONLY S2.00 A YEAR
Another Way.
"She's decided n.it to mnrrv as:tln."
"That so?"
'Yep. Says she's married three
men for their money and failed eio -ii
time. Now she's t.iing to srnv singe
am! try to sell oil stiv', to rbe.il."
A Newspaper Relic
F. E. Rummell hands us a copy of
the Boston Gazette bearing the date
of February 4, 1813, which is some
thing of a newspaper curiosity in this
day and age. The paper is a 5-cot-umn,
4-page sheet and set in minion
type. It contains congressional news,
Massachusetts legislative news, sev
eral communications relative to the
then recent defeat of Napoleon in
Russia, and many advertisements.
Paper was probably expensive in
those dayg as at present, for no dis
play advertising apr.ears in the Gaz
ette. Coid weather is reported 16
below at Portland, Maine, and at
Washington, Pennsylvania, on Janu
ary 11, 14 below. Only one joke ap
pears and it is a quip at the doctors
credited to Polyanthus and speaking
of prayers offered in Paris lor the
restoration of the King's health.
"The merchant quits his business to
throw himself at the root of the altar,
the artisan his work and the physi
c'..n his patients, and the patient is
so much better for it."
The paper has been handed down
in Mr. ummeli's family, and was giv
en him by his mother. It bears the
address of J. Brooks, written with a
quill pen. and the ink still shows up
rather distinctly.
Choice Cuts of the
Best Meats
Mule Cheaper Than Tractors
Mules are cheaper than U.uua.-. ,n
present prices of tractor fuel, a com
munication from members of the
county farm bureau to the associa
tion said. The farm bureau asked
that the asociation get together with
that body in a move to protest against
the present high price of gasoline,
which was brought about, the letter
said, by a shortage which existed six
months ago, and which now is no
longer extant. If necessary, the bu
reau can go into the gasoline busi
ness and obtain fuel here more cheap
ly than the Standard Oil Co. sells it,
the letter said. The bureau expressed
no desire to compete with in estab
lished company providing Just rates
'an be obtained. The letter was re
ferred to the association's automobile
committee.
EVERY HOTTSF.WTTTF'. WAHTCTncu rT7T- tttt: U
. ... ' oii,x. vEi i nui w .
Dest in meats to ner lamiiy. . She can be assured she
is doing so if she buys her Meats at this shoo which
is conducted in conformity with modern methods of
sanitary marketing.
Central Market
McNAMER & SORENSON, Props.
l'.link Sage IVeri'ies Kill Sheep
Sheep have suffered very little this
last t":ll from pohor.ous plant 'rou
'.s. One f-hipme.it unloading at
luntura were apparently poi-i n. c1
hvi;". eat in? berries that grow en
THE BR ICR j
McAtee (EL AiKen. Props.
Confectioneries, Cigars
Soft Drinks
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YOU ARE WELCOME
black saee or else they gorged then- . stock yards on hay before turnitu
lu;r!iP' naiKeMlDleMhem out. InYCStientinn. , bein
punt and died from overloading
Owners moving sheep had best ar
:.;nt:e to fill them up in the railroad
made to determine tht fue cause o
this loss at Juntura, which numbers
ome 1 300 head.