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VOLUME VIII
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1921. J
NUMBER 8
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LOCAL MAN PATENTS
AUTQ STEER DEVICE
WM HAYLOR, NOTIFIED HIS
APPLICATION' GRANTED
New Idea Will Simplify Steeriiig )
Save Tires And Add To
HXO.VHSIIS
"William Haylor, well known jew
eler, has been recently notified by
Thomas E. Robertson, commissioner
of patents at Washington D. C, that
his application for a patent on an im
proved stering device for automo-1
biles has been examined and allowed.
The principal feature of Mr. Hay
lor's invention is that instead of the
steering mechanism being inside the
front wheels on the auto the device
is placed within the hub and in direct
alignment with the vertical axis of
the wheel.
Claim is made that the new device
will effect a considerable saving on
wear of tires in turning as well as to
relieve the undue strain on the steer
ing gear.
Th invention also provides an im
proved hub for steering wheels
whereby the same may be pivotally
secured to the front axel.
Another advantage claimed is an
improvement of the stub axel or
spindle so as to provide a guard for
the same and an additional support
lor the wheel in case the spindle is
broken. An improved method for
securing the spindle to the front ax
el as to permit the easy turning of
the spindle and permit the spindle to
be adjusted in relation to the front
axel is also provided. The device is
claimed to be durable in character,
efficient in use .and simple and easy
to manufacture and one that can be
placed on the market at a reasonable
cost.
Mr. Haylor is now working on
another idea that has to do with ap
plying the driving power of the en
gine to the front wheels of the car
instead of to the rear wheels as is
now practiced. This idea, Mr. Hay
lor claims, will increase the efficiency
of the engine in a marked degree
pointing out, in proof of his claim
that a car can be backed up a steep
er grade or through deeper mud or
vetors who are putting in much time
sand than it can be run forwards.
Heppner has a number of other in
ventors who, are putting in much
time and study on different devices.
Willard Herren. has perfected and
improved a safety device for firearms
which is said to be practicaly per
fect in effectiveness. His patent has
also been allowed and it is under
stood he is now considering some
flattering offers for its' use.
Mr. Johns, of the Univertsal Gar
age is also an inventor and is said to
have finally perfected a real lock nut
that will stay put a problem that
has puzzled inventive genius for
yearB.
Jeff Jones tells the Herald that
we made a mistake last weelt in re
porting that he had bought
a Fordson tractor. It was a Ford
roadster that he purchased from the
Latourell Auto Co. Charlie Vaughn
sold Mr. Jones a Yuba tractor a
year or so ago and when he read that
Jeff had bought a Fordson he won
dered what it meant. Meetnig Jeff,
(Charlie asked, "What did you want
to buy that Fordson for Jeff?"
"To start that Yuba you sold me,"
replied Mr. Jones and Charlie won
dered again just what it meant.
I. V. Tomlinson, who has a three
mile contract for grading the high
way north of Lexington, was in. town
on business Saturday forenoon.
Mrs. W. C. Dowling and baby
son, of Payette, Idaho, arrived
Wednesday evening to visit her moth
er, Mrs. Eugene Slocuiu and other
friends.
Emery Gentry returned Wednes
day from Kennewick, Washnigton,
where he spent a few day visiting
friends.
John Padberg took out
new
Holt junior comDine inursaa iu m ip Board, following a conference be
take care of his big wheat crop now twf.n secretaries Mellon and Hoover
coming on in fine shape. Twenty- and Sf.nat0ISi capper of Kansas, Ken
Fix mules will be required to oper yon of Iowa stanti-ld of Oregon and
ate the machine and it will harvest !Gof,djnK 0f Idaho, ftates that are lar
many acres each day. eiy affected by the livestock situa-
.Tnhn KIlkenr.D and L. V. Gentry tion ; Julius H. Barnes former United
have Just shipped a few bands of
theep to Montana, to summer range.
The animals were driven to Wallula
where they were loaded.
OFFER $1.00 FOR WHEAT JULY
DELIVERY
While the merket continues to
fluctuate from days to day, the gen
eral trend seems to be upward.
Carl Yount, a leading grain buyer of
lone, who was in town the other day
reports that some buyers in his sect
ion are offering to contract wheat
at $1 00 tor Jujy delivery, Mr. Yount
I estimates the coming crop as a re
cord breaker in quanity and thinks
if the price will stay around a dollar
or better that Morrow county will
come into her own again this fall
with a whoop.
E. R. Huston has also been auth
orized to pay $1.00 for July delivery.
SI
STAN FIELD TELLS CHICAGO CON
FERENCE OF URGENT NEED
Morgan Offers .$25,000,000
Matched by Equal Amount
In West
If
CHICAGO, 111. June 15. (Spe
cial) Many of the leading bank
ers of Chicago and the Far West met
here today to decide whether or no'
they shall raise a $25,000,000 fund
to loan to western livestock raisers.
J. P. Morgan, and other eastern
financiers are raising a like amount
and it is the plan to pool $50,000,000
for the livestock industry of the
northwest. The conference was
held in the Blackstone hotel
Western bankers who attended
asserted there was need for prompt
action. On the other hand the Chi
cago financiers who were invited to
be present frankly confessed them
selves at a loss to determine in ad
vance just what the federal reserve
delegation under the leadership of
John R. Mitchel are to do.
"There is need for promt action,"
said Senator Stanheld of Oregon,
"for the sheep men of the far west
are particularly at a crisis, if they
are to be saved from bankruptcy
they must be given help in the form
of long term notes. The usual six
months notes will hardly do. That
will not be giving them a helping
hand. It will react on the public in
an upward movement. The sheep
industry has suffered a severe jolt,
has been hard hit and ewes are now
selling for $8 where only a short
time ago they were bringing more
than twice that."
W. L. Thompson, vice-president of
the First National Bank of Portland,
said no time was to be lost In meet
ing the situation.
"The way things have been going
for the sheep and cattle men of the
far west was all wrong," he said.
"There should and there must be a
change.
"It is not good busines to have our
livestock men in a position where
they must dispose of their cattle and
sheep to met their notes. That means
they must sell cattle that are used
for breeding purposes. If that is con
tinued, it means simply that in a
very short time there will be only
scrub stock raised. And we don't
want that. The banks too, must be
protected. There should be a way
out for the livestock men. They
need help."
The Chicago financiers, D. R. For
gan, Fred Kawson, John It. Mitchell
and W. G. IVnton asserted they are
going into the whole affair with an
open mind.
Theypointed out that the cattle
loan pool formed here last fall for
approximately $22,000,000, loaned
les than one-tenth of the amount sim
ply on account of the fact that proper
collateral could not be furnished and
"banks cannot gamble," said Mr.
Forgan.
The meeting was held at the re
quest of the Secretary of Treasury
Mellon, and was arranged by John H.
.vineneii, or tne federal reserve
States wheat director, and B. M. Ba
ruch, financial advisor to the pro
posed $100,000,000 farmers' finance
corporation.
WOOL CONTINUES TO MOVE
W. W. Smead reports having pur
chased 90,000 pounds of wool with
in the week. The purchases includ
ing Lawrence Sweek, 3 8,000 pounds;
L. D. Swick, 15,000 pounds, at 19;
Pat Healev 21,000 pounds at 19 1-8;
Chas O'Rourke, 17,000 at ISc, mak
ing a total of 220,000 pounds for
the season.
Wagner of The Dalles bought
John Hayes and Newt Robinson's
clips at IS cents.
NEW CHEF AT HOTEL PATRICK
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hamilton arriv
ed from Portland during the week
and have taken charge of the culin
ary department of Hotel Patrick, ac
cording to an announcement made by
Manager Van Slyko, of that popular
hostelry Mr. Hamilton comes highly
recommended as a first -class rum in
his line and the patrons of the din
ing room seem to be well pleased
with the change. Some re-arrangement
has been made in the kitchen
and among other improvements is a
fine new refrigerator big enough to
take proper care of the food supply
'during the summer season.
AMERICAN LEGION DANCE
Saturday evening, June 25th, at
the pavilion, immediately following
the exhibition of war pictures at the
Star Theatre. Good music and a
good time. Help the building fund.
Advertisement.
NEW PERFECTION BLUE FLAME
OIL STOVE DEMONSTRATION
Gilliam & Bisbee announce the date
of Thursday, June 23rd as Demon
stration Day for the famous New Per
fection Blue Flame Oil Stove at their
store, when an experienced lady dem
onstrator will show by actual demon
stration just what the New Perfec
tion Blue Flame Stove will accom
plish in the way of fine cooking and
baking at a minimum of trouble and
expense and with the maximum de
gree of comfort and pleasure a cool
Kitcnen insures as against a room
overheated with a wood or coal
ran ge.
Every woman in Heppner and the
surrounding country is cordially in
vited to be present at this most in
teresting event.
The demonstration will last all
day.
Make our store your headquarters.
Advertisement.
Miss Audra Grogan left Monday
morning for Portland where she ex
pects to spend the summer. Miss
Grogan wil enter a business college
in the city next fall.
George Dykstra returned from
Bend Sunday evening having made
the trip out by wagon with his son
who took a bunch of catle to his De
Chutes ranch. They camped along
the road and had a fine trip. Mr.
Dykstra met B. L. Lewis, former con
ductor on the Heppner branch who
has a position on the John Day high
way now being built. Mr. Dykstra
says he has travelled eastern Oregon
for many years but never saw such a
crop prospect as he did on this trip.
Miss Ethel Copcnhaver, of this
city, and Mr. Harley S. Swift, of
Hardman, were married Sunday
morning at the residence of the
brides parents, Rev. E. L. Moore per
forming the ceremony. A number of
guetsts were present and an elab
orate breakfast was seived.
C. A. Lord, of the Portland For-
f i ry office, and J. C. Kuhns, forest
supervisor, of Pendelton, were here
Sunday and Monday looking over
the Ditch creek road with a view to
completion of the project The gentle
men agreed to recommend thet road
asvntilled to aid as soon as funds
are available. W. L. McCalehand W.
O. Minor accompanied them over
the route.
Mr and Mrs Spencer Alters drove
to the new mining district in Uma
tilla county one day last week and
filed on a couple of mining claim.
Mr. Akers brought back samples of
the rock carrying native silver to
the amount of 45 ounces with sereial
dollars per ton in gold.
Condon won last Sunday's game
over lone In a score of 7 to 11. The,
wheat citv hovs trot wise to Ttockv's
curves and batten him hard. A num
ber of Heppner fans attended the
iratne.
Mr. and Mis. George Strand, Mr.
and Mrs Ben Burroughs, and Mi.ss
Fitzmauriee, w 11 known Pendleton
people, spent the day in Heppner
last Sunday calling on Mr and Mrs.
Sam E. Van Vactor and other friends.
S. W. Spencer, of theFarmers &
Stockgrowers National Bank, took a
long drive though the wheat growing
districts Sunday and reports the big
gest wheat crop in sight ever pro
duced in the county.
H. H. Anderson who has hern
making a trip through eastern Wash
ington and northern Idaho looking
over the sheep and wool situation re- pattered they would have the oppor
turned to Heppner early last week ; tunity of observing an accomplished
and reports that general financial biscuit builder in action. It Is fur
conditions show decided promise for ther reported that when the oven
early improvement. Mr. Anderson ; door wan opened for an inspect ion of
who is connected with the Columbia jthe finished product the biscuits were
Ilasln Wool Warehouse Co. has been so light and fluffy that they arose
traveling throughout the Pacific j from the oven like a flock of .pigeons
northwest for years and saya that he from a barn, and went soaring
has never seen such wonderful crop j through the air. The boss Iminedi-
proepecta before
DAMAGED BY FROST
SHEEP EN'IERINCi (il RDANE DIS
TRICT IN GOOD CONDITION
Mule SWiiiner's Riscuit Float Thro'
Air Adding To High Cost
Of Living
GURDANE, Or., June 17. (Spec
ial) The regular spring mainten
ance work on roads and telephones
has ben completed for the Gurdanej
district. For tthe next month it will
be stock driveway business and next
the locating of sheep assigned to i
this district and then it, is fire.
Severe freezes have rccetntly re
duced the prospective huckle
berry crop. In some places
notably in the vicinity
of the Jones Prairies, so severe was
the freeze that the half grown leaves
are turning brown and falling off.
A few places are reported to have
escaped the freeze.
J. D. French, of Gurdane and
Phil Higgins, of Lena, representing
the Five Mile Cattle association,
were in the forest inspecting that
part of the Five Mile Drift fence that
has been completed.
The trail sheep, to the number of
about 100,000 are now entering the
Gurdane district of the Umatilla for
est enroute to summer range in this
district and in other parts of the
mountains. All of the sheep are in
much better condition than for sev
eral seasons and the lamb crop is
unusually large. Many sheep men
place the estimate for Umatilla and
Morow counties at 120 per cent.
Last season's crop was estimated at
from 75 per cent to 80 per cent.
Very few new names are noticed
on the crossing permits. The old
familiar ones are coming along in
regular order, indicating that the
majority of sheep outfits in Morrow
and Umatilla counties are able to
weather the present financial storm.
Ross Brown of Lena recently cal
led upon Ranger Woods at Gurdane
and made a purchase of Western
Larch post timber. Mr. Brown ex
pects to establish camp at the Coal
Camp on the head of Little Butter
creek, and will soon have the fence
posts ready for market. The for
est service has a large sunoly of ex
cellent post timber at this point and
Mr. Brown expects to make addition
al purchases as more timber is need
ed. Every forest, officer Is now in the
saddle early, long, and late patroling
driveways, issuing crossing permits
and atending to the general stock
driveway business. Also acting as a
bureau of information, endeavoring
to answer: "How far Is It to
"How do we go from here?"
"Is tthere horse feed at...,...?"
"Can't you give me some grass for
my sheep?"
"Have ye seen any thing of the
bean-heaver?"
Mr. Alf Gentry has been engaged
to salt the cattle on the Five Mile
cattle range. lianger Woods has
been assisting him in becoming ac
quainted with the range and to
gether they have been working out
salting anil grazing plans for the
season. About seventeen hundred
head of cattle and onehundred head
of horses have been alloted to the
Five Mile range,
, , ,:,
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i an l" cookh in general is a report
from one of the Five Mile Fence con
struction camps. According to the
report, it el io the lot. of the mule
skinner to build the breakfast bis
cuits. As he measured out the in
gredients with a swift and accurate
hand, the mule-skinner informed the
hungry ones that bis accomplish
ments were not confined to the fine
art of mule whacking, but on divetrs
occasions he had constructed bis
cuits that had been eaten with more
or less gusto by hungry men and
i boys, and now If they would Just
(stand back so as to keep their eye
sight clear and not get dough-be-
alely ordered that each man in
NO WINDOW DELIVERY OF MAIL
SUNDAYS, HOLIDAYS
As a penalty of being classed as a
second class post-office, after July
1st the delivery window at the local
I postoffice wil not be opened on Sun
days and holidays. Such are the in
structions recently received by tthe
local postmaster who informs the
Herald thtat his orders are impera
tive and come from his superiors at
Washington D. C.
Because of the volume of business
transacted, the Heppner postoffice
was recently advanced to the second
class order to take effect July 1st
ihis advancement, the postmaster
informs us, automatically carries
with it the order forbidding the open
ing of the window on Sundays and
holidays. This arrangement will en
tail much inconvenience to the pat
rons of the office, particularly to
those living 20 to 2 5 miles from town
who, during the busy harvest, sea
son onen come to town only on
Sundays for their mail.
The mails will be distributed on
such days as usual and the box ren
ters will be able to get their mail as
at present.
L
BILL TO RE 25 GENTS
PAY ON SCOURED INSTEAD
GREASE BASIS
OF
No lU'port Ixxiked For llefoi?
July 1st. Iiig Fight
Expected
WASHINGTON, June 16. (Spe
cial.; vvmie me wool schedule in
the new tariff is not complete and
is one of the primary causes of the
delay on getting this measure on the
definitely that the tariff basis for
floor of the house, it is now "known
the importation of wool will be on a
scoured basis, and not on a grease
basis.
iiie uuiy win ue cents per
pound, and the American producer of
wool will be protected to the fullest
extent of this decision.
Lumoers and metals are a schedule
that the ways and means committee
is also having much difficulty with.
An effort is being made either to
keep lumber on the free list or put it
on a retaliatory schedule, which
means that countries not levying
duty on forest products of the United
States would get free entry for sim
ilar products s;nt across our bord
erg and would have to pay a duty
similar to that imposed by them on
our products.
In spite of all assurances to the
contrary, there appears no prospect
of the tariff bill being reported to the
house much before July 1st, and it
wil have a stormy passage in both
houses.
Cliff and Ed Rugg, well known
farmers of Rhea creek, were in town
Saturday watching it rain. Wheat, in
their section will be ready to har
vest early in July they report.
camp be supplied with a butterfly or
biscuit net In hopes of keeping
down the soaring cost of high living.
FACE VALUE FOR
LIBERTY BONDS
come in
Latourcll
HEPPNER CITY WATER
SHOWS HIGH PURITY
HEALTH HOARD ANALYSIS SHOW
NO TYPHOID GERMS
Bacteria per c. c 5 Hut ft Morq
ThiHu Famous Hull Rim
Water
Heppner folk may quaff Willow
creek water from tthe city distribu
tinpsystem witli tho asurance that
they are not introducing any typhoid
germs into theirs systems and that
lie percentage of ordinary bacterid
is so low as to be well nigh neglig
ible according to the report just re
ceived from tihe Oregon Slate Board
of Health by Water Superintendent
W. S. l'ruyn a few days ago, the re
sult, of an analysis of a sanmlo of!
city water recently submitted.
The report made in the technical
language of the chemist, is "Bacteria
per c. c 5. B.. Coli per c.c.0.."
B. Coli means tho dreaded typhoid
germ and the total absence of that
menace to the health of the commu
nity is decidedly comforting, while
the percentage of ordinary bacteria
is the lowest ever found in any
sample of Heppner water analyzed
by the state board of health, and la
only 3 higher than Portland's Bull
Run water supply which Is famed.
all over tho country for its nuritv-
When Heppner's supply was drawn
from the two deep wells the bacteria
showing used to run around 60 pec
c. c.
The samples are taken from the)
pipe line below the chlorlnation
plant which, shovs that that system
of purification of water is all that
has been claimed for it
FRANK EVANS PASSES AFTEIS
SHORT ILLNESS
Frank Cliford Evans, son of Mr,
and Mrs. Marion Evans, passed away
early last Friday morning after an
illness of but a few hours. Heart
disease was said to be the cause oC
death.
Deceased was a native of Ohio hav
ing been born at Roxbury in that
state October 5, 1880, but. had been
a resident of this county for many
years. The funeral was held Mon
day from the family home six miles
north of Heppner.
W. B. Tucker, who farniE'extensI
vely on Blackhorso, was In town Sat
urday and reported that, things could
hardly look better in his section. Mr
Tucker was the first man, in this part
of tho county to start sowing his fal,
wheat last year, bcglnlng the work
right after the first heavy rain late
in August. He, Unbilled early in Sep
tember and now has some 600 or 700
acres of grain that Is hard to beat.
The crop is thick and tall much oC
the grain being as tall as an ordin
ary mun's head. He will start head
ing and threshing soon after tho
Fourth and figures on a 30-bushel or
better crop.
Edward Nolson, returned from.
Salem, Thursday evening where ho
has been attending Willamette Uni
veisity the past school year. The
Nut Hon family contributed three stu
dents to old Willamette the past year.
Miss Mary being a member of the
senior class and Hubert a member of
the Freshman. Edward finished tho
sophomore year last week.
We will take your Liberty Bonds at
face value for any used car in our
sales rooms. If you need a good
dependable car for every day use,
and see us.
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