u. IF YOU HAVE A GOOD BUSINESS,ADVERTISE AND KEEP IT; IF YOU WANT A GOOD BUSINESS, ADVERTISE AND GET IT
VOLUME VII.
IIEPPXHR, ORE., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1021
NUMBER -13
MORROW COUNTY WILL
m FOOD 10 GHIHA
13. -H. ..TOXES ..APPEALS ..FOK
STAltVlXO ...MH.LrOXS
Business Men at Tiiinclieoii Oiler
Food fop Stricken Shan
tung I'rovince
Between thirty and forty Hepp
ner men met at an informal lunch
eon at Hotel St. Patrick Friday
noon to hear an appeal for food for
the starving millions in Shantung
province, China, when B. H. Jones,
of Portland, who is making' a tour of
eastern Oregon in the interest of
that worthy cause, "was the princi
pal speaker.
Mr. Jones drew a Brief hut vivid
picture of the terrible conditions in
Shantung which have been brought
about by a three year crop failure
due to an unprecedented drouth.
There are 50,000,000 people there
'f-?peaker said, one-half the pop
?Sn of the, United States, who are
rlly facing starvation.
' - iiousands have died and the peo
ple are still dying by the hundreds
daily. Children are being thrown
into wells by famine and grief crazed
parents, and the rivers are clogged
with the dead bodies of men and
women who have thrown themselves
into the streams to end the hunger
pangs grown unbearable. Three
cents a day, the speaker declared,
will feed a man there, which means
that every dollar's worth of wheat
sent over will prolong a human life
for more than a full month.
.Mr. Jones also called attention to
the economic importance of the re
lief movement to this country. Onlv
food stuffs are asked for,' wheat be
ing the principal need, and he point
ed out that this fact will have a ten
dency to help the wheat market sit
uation here at the ipresent " - es
well as to save the lives of millions
of future consumers of Oregon's
staple crops. The importance of
showing a neighborly feeling to
ward the Chinese people in their
time of need was also pointed
and the speaker said that such
action now is bound to cement the
friendship and solidify the trade re
lations of the two countries.
The Chinese relief movement is
being carried on through the Ar
menian relief organization, and the
quota called for from this county is
around three thousand dollars, to be
paid in wheat or other food supplies.
S. E. Notson, county manager for
the Armenian relief movement, and
W. W. Smead, who has also been
active in, the work, called the meet
ing Friday, at which the unanimous
sentiment was expressed that we
proceed to malce up the quota at
once.
Roy V. Whitois, A.S. Akers and
J. W. Frit sen were appointed as a
plan committee to organize and put
over the drive, and S. E. Notson,
Vawter Crawford and S. A. Patti
son were appointed a committeo n
publicity. The plan is to enlist the
co-operation of tne Farm bureau in
the work and carry it through with
out delay.
Mr. Jones has already visited all
of the counties east and north of us.
and the plan is to have the food
supplies gathered at the various
shipping points on a given date,
when a car 'will start loading at
Wallowa and pick up all supplies
between that point and LaGrande.
There it will be joined by the Baker
and Malheur shipments and pro
ceed towards Portland, gathering
up all supplies enroute. Each car
will be placarded with the names of
,ies loading them ana eacn
3
! or package will bear the leg-
Oregon Relief for China.
FEDERATED CHFP.C'H
Christian Endeavor meets at 6:30
Sunday evening. Topic: "What One
Thing Can I Do to Push Our C. E.
Up a Notch Toward Success." Lead
er: Philip Mahoney.
We have abig new plan in. view
for the year, including social and
special meetings Come and wel
come. 7
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50 good cigarettes
for 10c from
one sack of
GENUINE
DURHAM
TOBACCO
BULL"
UMATILLA POWER PROJECT
BOOSTEUS MEET AT
WALLA WALLA
A big crowd of enthusiastic boost
ers for the Umatilla power project
met at Walla Walla last Saturdav j
to hear the possibilities of that great
undertaking discussed and cxniainod '
Judge G. W. Phelps, prep;-'--' -!
the association, presided and Strnh-!
en A. Lowell and Fred Stiewer, of
Pendleton, and H. A. Rands, Port
land engineer, were the principal
speakers.
Ex-Ciovernor Play of Spokane, and
the members of the joint committee I
irom the Washington
legislature I
I were present. Governor Hay ex
; tended an invitation for the next
meeting of the association to meet
jat Spokane, which was accepted. It
it. iuHo puinnea to nota a meeting
at Portland in the near future. M
though the exact das for these
meetings were not definitely rixed.
TO BUSINESS PEOPLE
Rev. Livingstone, pastor of the
First Christian Church, delivered a
splendid sermon last Sunday even
ing, his theme being the relation of
religion and business.
A special invitation had been, ex
tended to the busines men or Hepp
ner and many not members of the
congregation, were present.
The belief that a pr6fessed christ
ian cannot carry his religion into
his every day business is erronious.
the speaker declared, and argued
that the application of the golden
rule, which is the foundation of
practical religion, when applied to
busines affairs will certainly open
the way to chebest measure of true
success.
Speaking of the unsettled condi
tion of business all over the world
at this time the speaker quoted
from the current number of the
Literary Digest that what is needed
in the busines world today is the
application of the Golden Rule
which Jesus taught nearly 2,000
years ago. He also quoted from a
financial paper published in Seattle
to the effect that what is most
needed in the busines world today is
an old fashioned revival of good, old
fashioned religion.
Mr. Livingstone cited anumber of
sucesful busines men of the present
day who have combined their re
ligious principles with their busi
ness methods and because of that
policy have prospered to an unusual
degree.
The speaker also pointed out that
the business world has elevated its
standards within the past 2 5 years
and that methods then employed Iry
many business men in their daily
dealings would not be countenanced
tor a minute now.
The discourse was practical and I
heiplul.
JOHX DAY ELKCTIOX CO-
VKST CASE FILED
The first step toward untangling
the John Day irrigation district
election snarl will be taken, up to
morow morning when Saru E. Van
Vactor, representing a number vf
taxpayers in the district, will file
a suit in the circuit court contest
ing (he election of C. C. Clark and
Edward Reitman as directors of the
district. The suit is brought in tlie
name of Al Henriksen, of Cecil, who
is a taxpayer in the district, against
C. C. Clark, Edward Reitman and
M. D. Clark, directors of the district
and alleges failure on their part to
properly canvass the ballots cast in
the recent election for C. A. Minor
and Arthur Wheelhouse who were
candidates for directors at the elec
tion and who received a large ma
'v of the Totes cast.
Tlie old directors, two of whom
C. C. Clark and Mr. Reitman, were
candidates for re-election, refused
to count the votes for their oppon
ents on the ground that they were
not properly nominated lor tho posi
tion. Wood-;on & Swe k are associated
with Mr. Van Vactor in the case.
j Card of Thanks
j Mrs. Swcegart and myself wish
to thank the peon of H 'Ppner in
gener:i! and Dr. Chick, who atteml
I edits, Mrs. Ray Moore at whose hns
I pit.al we received stmh thought I til
care, and to the nurses who in in is
! teiMl'o us, both professional and
1 others, who lent their assistance
I when needed during our recent sp
inous illners. The ability, skill and
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care given oy an win io-m-i ut
gotton. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Swaggart
WILL WHITE HISTORY
OF
COIXTY
The study club of the Patron-
Teacher association held its regulah
Monday evening meeting in tne par-
lors of the Federated church last
evening when plans were discussed
relative To talking up the work of
writing a history of Morrow county.
The work is being undertaken for
nnmnw nf Catherine and com-
piling data -which will commemor
ate the deeds and keep alive the
memory of the early early pioneer
the men and women who neipea
to wrest thin section of Oregon
from the wilderness and who plant-
Jed the seeds of civilization -ere.
, 0, 0. F. CONVENTION SATHLETiGS, ORATORY
10 ASSEMBLE HERE; AT IE If 13-14
500 MEM;;EKS OF
EXPECTED
'f'HAIX (JA.XG"
Fill DAY
Spexicl Sleeting of (irnml Lodge Also
To lie Held Decree Work
Banquet Features
Five hundred members of the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows are
expected to visit Heppner next Fri
day aud Saturday, the occasion, be
ing the regular annual district con
vention of the order. The district
comprises Morrow and Umatilla
counties.
The visitors are expected to arrive
Friday evening and the first work
to be taken up wil be in the En
campment degree, which will be put
on Friday evening.
Saturday fore-noon the district
convention wil be held and in the
afternoon a special meeting of the
grand lodge will convene, when all
members in the district who desire
will be given the opportunity of
taking the grand lodge work.
A grand banquet will be served at
6 o'clock Saturday evening by mem
bers of the Rebekah lodge and it is
expected this wil be one of the big
gest "feeds" ever given in Heppner.
The district convention and the
errand lodge session will be held in
tv,ci Ucii,. nm.iiinn unit tlfe hnnauet
wilt he sewed in the exhibit hall
for the reason that the crowd will
be entirely too large to be accommo
dated in the big lodge room and
banquet hall in the I. O. O. F.
building.
Grand Master Ambrose Johnson
and Orand Secretary E.E. Sharon,
both of Portland, and Grand War
den Bowman,, of Pendleton, will be
present and it is possible that other
officers of the grand lodge will also
be here.
LADY EI.KS
LIVETV
PIIOMISE
EXTEHTAIXMEXT
To show their appreciation of the
splendid new building recently com
pleted, a number of wives, sweet
Tiearts and sisters of members of
Heppner lodge of Elks are prepar
ing an entertainment to be given in
the near future which promises to
eclipse anything of the kind hereto
fore attempted in Heppner. The
repertoire is being kept a profound
secret, but enoughhas leaked out to
indicate that the show bill will he
of such a degree of merit as" will
mane everyoony loruiua.e emiu6
to attend glad to be there
While no official statement has
as yet. been made as to just what the
progiam will be, the husband of one
of the ladies interested in promoting
the affair, and who occasionally
...I,.. 1- 1 ! JMlnll Q Vltnt
- '" " "".t " wi1, m.oh.
'ably be a farce; there will certainly
be a rosebud chorus and just as
I surely will there be a bunch of spec-
itiiilies that will make glad the
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near oi any noriii.ii ihuhi w
herd, while that chorus in puaran
teed to make all the old bald-headed
members wish their wives were
making a tour of Europe or the
south seas.
The date has not yet been fixed
but it will probably be within the
next two or three weeks.
VAVX W1XS OA'Ell JOHX-
SOX AT COX DO X
In the wrestling match at Condon
Saturday night, Curtis X'aun, of
Boardman, and Heppner, won over
Will Johnson, of Condon in two
straight falls, the first bout lasting
but three minutes and the second
four minutes.
Vaun will meet Hadley here on
nrvt Friday evening and plans
am also under way for a match for
Va'un at L-ewiston, Idaho.
icnni'vT Ti INH'K CRUSHER
DELAYS I'.OAD WORK
A serious accident to the big
county rock crusher on Lower Rhea
creek, has slopped work until a new
crusher can be installed. The big
machine, which lias a capacity of 30
yards of rock p :' hour, was working
fine when tin- brealcdown occurred.
Tlv rock is being prepared to sur
rr.ee the state market road from
Jordan to th" concrete bridg.
Ith"a creek.
on
EPISCOPAL (.1 ll.D WILL
SERVE.. DI.XXEtl
T..ia nf in- Enlsconal Guild
wiMserve dinner in the Otto build -
ing Thursday evening, February 24,
from four to f ight p. m.
The menu will include sandwiches
and salad, baked bean pie, coffee
and tea. Price 50 cents for adults
j an(1 25 cents for children
,
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! W. R. Irwin is confined to his
home with an attack of erysipelas,
C. W. Shurte, who travels for a
, farm implement house, came in
f Saturday evening and has Bince
been confined to his home with a se
rious attack of lagrippe.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aiken enter
tained a number of friende at a
pleasanx card party Monday evening
Dainty refreshments were served
and a good time Is reported.
ALL PUHT.fr SCHOOLS IX THE
COUN TY MAY TAKE PAIIT
Summary of !;.i!es mid Regulations
of the .Morrow Athletic and
Declamatory Association
(By E. R. Curfman of lone)
The public school of Morrow
county constitute the membership
of tlie :ftoeiation, and each school
district constitutes a contesting di
vision. The association is under the
control of an executive committee
consisting of the county school sup
erintendant and the principal of
each of the following schools: Hepp
ner, Boardman, Irrigon, lone, Hard
man, Lexington and Pine City. The
officers for the association this year
areasfollows: Lena SnellShurte, ex
officio president; M. B. Signs, of
Boardman, secretary; and F. R.
Bennett ofLexington, treasurer. Any
teacher from any if hool in the coun
ty may attend any meeting of the
executive committee and speak and
rote on any subject before the com
mittee. The rules and regulations
of the association may be amended
.at any time by a unanimous vote of
the executive committee.
All money coming into the posses
sion of the association must be plac
en 111
ed in one general fund, and all
?'aiin,s against the association, must
be approved by the committee before
being paid. If there should be more
than $200 remaining in the general
fund, after all claims against the
association have been paid, at any
meet held, such surplus must be dis
tributed among the schools of the
county in direct proportion to the
number of contestants up to 25
from each school district who took
part in the meet, both athletics and
declamatory. All money thus dis
tributed must he used for athletic or
library purposes.
The meet is to be held in lone
this year. The declamatory and ora
torical contests will be held in lone
on Friday night, May 13th and the
field and track contests will be held
in lone on, the following day, Sat
urday, May 14 th. The Umatilla
county meet is to be held on the pre
ceding Friday and Saturday. The
change in date was made so as not
to conflict with the Umatilla meet.
Flexibility
No grammer grade contestant is
allowed to compete, who has been
dropped or marked absent for mpre
man 15 days of the time for which
,.ne najj bppn re,stm,d or w, ,
not been in regular attendance in
school forat least four months. All
contestants must be making passing
grades in all their subjects.
Not later than seven days before
the time for the meet each principal
of the town schools is required to
send to the county school superin
tendant eight emiies of a list, giving
the name, date of birth, grade, num
ber of days absence, and weight of
each contestant from his district.
The, weight is not required for high
schord contests and those who wish I
to take part in the declamatory con
test. The rules and regulations in re
spect to eligibility of high school
contestants is the same as those of
the Oregon High School Athletic As
sociation. Field mid Truck Meet
The field and track meet consists
of two separate contests, one for
high school students and one for
grammar pupils.
The events for the high school
boys are as follows: 50-yard dash,
100-yard dash, 440-yard dash, one
mile run, 440-yard relay race, 220
yard low hurdle race, javelin throw,
discus throw, shot put, pole vault,
j runnint; hlph
. broad lump.
jump, and running
Events for high school girls: 50-
i yard dash, Kio-yard dash, A 11-up
Indian club race, 200-yard relay
I race, obstacle race, baseball throw
j for distr.nw, and basket ball throw
1 for goals.
The grade track and field meet
consists of two divisions each for
boys and girh. Roys weighing 1 !
pounds or more and girls wi-icliing
100 pounds or more are to be in
division A . I.'ms weiebhisf Iws than
110 pounds rml cirM v.-.-i:.'!iii!t: :'
than lo pounds an: to be i" divi
sion B.
Tlie events for liie gnule boys at"
as follows: Division A - ino-yawi
dash, one-half inih- run, 22i'-anl re
lay unee, 120-yard low hurdle race
baseball throw, running high jump
and running broad jump. Division
IS-.50-;.rd dash, baseball throw,
running broad jump and running
i high jump
The ew-nU for the grade girls are
as follows: Division A :o-yara i privileged to seek advice irom iu.n
dash, 220-yard relay race, 20 yard j parents, and others,
low hurdle, Ali-up Indian club race, Ka(., tl),.ay,,r H required to fur
baseball throw and bafiketball throw. ! nfl co uny school Kiiperlnten-
In the relay races each school is -'af,nt four typewritten copies of
required to have four runners, ' njH Hen ctlon not later than the hIx
cept In the Indian club races here ; t( n)lt f)f April, or one month before
each school must have six runners. ; tr,. tmt of the contest. The county
Each school shall not have nior ' (,UII(.r:ilt.rnl'n. will approve of the
than thn-e contestants In any ev-nt B,.,.rtioiin in the order of their re
at any one time except In the relay c,,i. The orations In the A divi-
. . ,.. .. 1 1 in , , .. 19TO uifirHu'
races. o Darucipani is aoow.j ...
more thant hree events, not includ
lng the relay races.
. Spaulding's 'Athletic Rules con-
stitute a guide in conducting all
athletic contests. Information con
eerning the Indian club race may be
found in the recreation manual to -
PEXP1.ETOX KI.1MIX A TED
I'UOM STATE 1.IDAT-
lXCi CONTEST
The debate between Heppner r.nd
Pendleton ui,".ii school teamn which
was scheduled for a date early m
March will not take place, for the
reason that Pendle'on has been iv.l
ed out. of the state debating league
because of unsportsmanship in send
ing two of their debaters to "listen
in" at a debate in which the Slan
fiild team took part recently. The
contest in this district had nar
rowed down to a triangular contest
between Heppner, Stanfield and
Pendleton, but recent action leaves
Heppner and Stanfield to settle the
question of which school will rep
resent this district at the eomlns.'
state contest at Salem.
The final contest between the two
towns will be held on March 5th,
when Heppner negatives go to Stall
field and Stanfield negatives come
to Heppner. The open shop question
will be the subject discussed.
L NEN WILL MAKE
PRODUCT INTO CLOTH
(il'OWERS PLAN TO MAKKET
PRODUCT AS CLOTH
Washington ..Slieep Owners Declare
They Will Eliminate.. Middle
mini From Dealings
SPOKANE, WASH., Feb. 17.
Wool growers of Washington are
planning to market their product as
cloth instead of raw material thus
of middlemen, as the result of a
report made by a special committee
comprised of Dr. S. B. Nelson of
Washington Slate College and Wil
liam Hislop and R, A. Balsch, Spo
kane. This committee according
to Mr. Hislop, has made a report to
Thomas Drumheller of Walla Walla,
president, that the plan is feasible
land has been worked successfully iy
wool growers of seme parts or Mon
tana and Illinois.
"The plan, -which we believe can
be handled profitably," said Mr.
Hislop, "is- to contract with manu
facturers to make the Washington,
wool into cloth and for the Wash
ington wool groweiB .association to
establish a department for market
ing the cloth with the makers of
clothing.
"We had some Washington wool
made into cloth in the woolen mill
at Washougal, and the experiment
was successful. The cloth was made
into suits by local tailors and the
finished suits cost from $41 to $51
each. The cloth for these suits,
however, averaged $12. GO a suit. At
tint time we based the cost of wool
at 40 cents a pomm, wane ..-
vailing price in Spokane is
about 1 2 cents a pound."
just
XEW KECOUD RACKS A X I )
FILES INSTALLED
A fine new steel record rack and
filing cabinet, has been installed in
the big vault in the county clerk's
office al the. court house, which will
add much to tlie convenienc" of the
office force as well as assure bel
ter protect ion to valuable county
records. The record rack will ac
commodate 105 of the big county
record books, and the filing cabinet,
will furnish safe keeping lor hun
dreds of court files. Rapidly In
creasing accumulations of valuable
records made the installation of tlie
new furniture imperative.
sued by the state department of ed
ucation. The high school that wins the
greatest number of points will be
awarded a silver cup, which becomes
the permanent property oi me nigii
i school that wins it three successive
' im(.s. ,
The school winning the mgnesi
number or points in the grade evenls
will be awarded a pennant. The in
dividual wirim-rs or lirsl, second or
third places will be awarded print
ed ribbons.
.... Oratorical mid Dei laiualoi y
( ontests
In Hie oratorical and declamatory
contcHs there are tour divisions.
Th" A and P. division include high
vibool students only. The C divi
dim includes pupils "f the fifth. Hi"
sixth, the seventh, and lb" eighth
'..,-adcs The D division includes
mpils of the first four grades. Tlie
elections in the A division must be
orations, and in all other divisions
recitations. Each speaker Is entitled
to choose bis or her own selection
-i,i,.i, m.eii not be original, and Is
M musi ui i-."u
th.. recitation! in the 11 division not
more than 1200 words; the C divi
sion not more than 1000 words; and
the D division not more than 750
words In length. The Ilrst prise
fin each dlvls.on is a goia imraiu a-n
j the .eccmd prise is a silver medal.
WHEAT IN ENDORSE
GRAIN MARKETING PLA
OXE-HAI.F KEOUIJED HUSH EL
Aa: ALItEADY SIGXED
Practically Xo Opposition Met With
At Any Point in tlie
' County
The educational campaign for the
proposed cooperative wheat market
ing plan which has been in progress
in all parts of tlie county for the
past week has met with unanimous
favor not. only among the wheat
growers, but, generally speaking,
among the busines men of tlie vari
ous districts according to reports
coming from the field.
Meetings were held last weelc at
lone, Lexington, Gooseberry, Rhea.
creek and Morgan, and at all these
places the marketing plan was gonei
into in a most thorough manner and
practically no opposition was met.
with. Growers showed a keen inter
est in the subject and many ques
tions were asked ,at the various
meetings by groweiB who sought,
more light on the subject before
giving it their endorsement.
It was not expected that much, if
any wheat would be signed up at.
these meetings which weio planned
to be purely educational, but so
hearty was the endorsement of the;
plan at. various places visited that,
many farmers insisted on signing m
contracts as soon as the meetings
closed. The result was that by the
lime the final meeting was held.
350,000 bushels had been signed
up, or almost one-half of the 150.
000 bushels required to be signed ill
this county to put. the plan over. ,
The signing up campaign is on.
this week, and; it is erpecled that
before Saturday night the amount
asked for in the beginning will ba
exceeded by a considerable margin.
The campaign this week will be in
charge of the following well known
growers :
Dan Barlow, Eight mile; Belt
Ward, Heppner; RuTus Snyder, Lex
ington; Ed Rugg, Rhea creek; Er
nest Heltker, Morgan; Howard An
derson, Eight. Mile. C. R. Peterson,
Gooseberry; Joe Devine, Lexington.
' Farmers wanting to join with the
marketing movement should nee any
one of this committee during tho
present week. Contracts may also
be signed up at the office of County
Agent Hunt in the Roberts building
or at the office of the Tri-State
Terminal Co., or the contract may
be signed and' mailed to the olTice of
the county agent.
It is the wish of those in charge)
ofthe work tohave t liecounty quoin
signed up by Saturday of the pres-
ent week.
In the Ilardman district, when!
only 17 wheat, runners bad been
listed as prospective signers, It",
signed contracts at tins meeting at
that, place.
IMPOKTAXT TO OREGON
SHIP
ins
Oregon shippers who have chimin
against the railroad companies dur
ing the time of federal control must
fill' (be same with the Inlerslalo
Commerce Commission on. or beforn
February 28, 1 ! 2 1 . or they cannot
be considered by that body, accord
ing to advices received here I rem
the Public Service Commission of
Oregon.
Under the law tlie statute of limi
tations runs to that date ,and m
claim filed later than February 23
can bo considered.
The time Is short and shipper.-
having any claims of this natuvs
should act promptly.
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r.AMI'.INU. AND AIJ,
KINDS OI' OUT DOOK.
WORK. C.KT YOURS
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