Tuesday, August 23, 1Q21
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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We Carry
"foot Rest Hosiery'
FOR
MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
CASH VARIETY STORE
HELEN V. SMITH, Prop.
PARKERS MILL
Sept. 3, 4 and 5
Ball Games, Foot Races, Boxing
and Wrestling
Pavilion Dancing
Joy Giese's Orchestra is coming
back. Oh Boy!
Old Fashioned
Barbecue Dinner
Monday, September 5
Wrestling Match
R. W. VOLLE, of Heppner
vs.
CHARLIE BENNETT, of Monument
Broncho Busting, Bulldogging
FREE CAMPING GROUNDS
HAT approximately $700,000,000 is required by
the public utility companies of the country to pro
vide service for an additional million inhabitants,
is one of the interesting facts brought forth in the
recentlv published report of Senator Willard M.
r.aiiipr'. Committee on Reconstruction and Production.
After a searching inquiry into the various conditions bear
ing upon the housing situation and the country's industrial pro
duction, the Committee finds that the business of puUic util
ities has outgrown their plant facilities owing to the inability
of the companies to finance improvements and additions nec
essary to take care of the increased service demands.
"Prior to the war," Btatrs the Comnrttee, "it is estimated
that the normal annual requirements of electric railway, pas,
and electric light and power companies for extensions, better
ments, and improvements 'was about $500,000,000, proportion
ed as folows: Electric railways, $250,000,000; gas com
panies, $125,000,000; electric light and power companies
? 123,000,000.
The Committee has been informed that for four years not
over 40 per cent of such betterments has been made, leaving
an accumulation of about $1,200,000,000. If this sum is ad
ded to $700,000,000 required alne for new residential build
ings held in abeyance, a total of approximately $2,000,000,000
seems necessary for the public utility program in the immedi
ate future.
"The question of placing these businesses on a sound
financial basis in order that credit may flow to them is the
same question which confronts steam railroads nnd housing,
but in the case of public utilities the rase is more difficult be
cause there is no central body as now provided in the case of
steam railroads which miht adjust rates in proper relation
to operating costs and capital investment. The utilities like
wise suffer in their effort to secure new capital for necessary
extensions of service by the almost insurmountable difficulty
of having to compete for such capital with municipal, state pnd
similar tax-exempt Isecurities. Until these problems are sol
ved the public should recognize this underlying reason for
much of the faulty service and for the failure to provide the
additional facilities urgently demanded to meet community
needs. Paid Advertisement.
HOLDS WILDERNESS IN SCORN
Japanese Adventurer Thrives on Such
Perils as Might Well Daunt
Even the Bravest.
Jujiro Wada has always played a
lone hand. Up and down the northern
fringes of civilization he has pioneered
for 30 years. He has been in the thick
of every gold rush from the Klondike
to Hanson Creek. He is an expert
trapper, hunter, cook, prospector and
dog-team driver. From Athabasca to
the mouth of the Mackenzie, all old-
timers know the little yellow wilder
ness adventurer.
Soon after the discovery of a gusher
well at Kort Norman last full, winter
closed the trails to the new oil
bonanza on the Mackenzie. But it did
not shut out Jujiro Wada. Ice and
snow and howling blizzards have no
terrors for him. Employed by Van
couver capitalists to go to Fort Nor
man and stake claims for them, he
struck out for Peace river with a team
of dogs in the dead of winter. For
1,200 miles he mushed alone through
the frozen, wolf-haunted solitudes,
staked his claims and came back
across the snow to Peace river.
Now he has been employed by a
New York syndicate to go to the top
of the world on a hunt for gold. A
rumor has long been bruited about the
arctic that Herschel Island conceaJs
rich gold deposits. The little Jap will
soon leave for the north prepared to
spend nt least a year on this thunder
riven, desolate rock in the arctic seas.
If he uncovers treasure, there will be
no delay in bringing out samples. No
matter if it is 00 degrees below, Jujiro
Wadn will hnrness up his malamutes
and break trail back toward civiliza
tion. That's his way.
CANDIDATE GOT ONE VOTE
Humiliating Practical Joke Played on
Italian Who Had Made Himself
Politically Unpopular.
Solicitor Gandolfl of Cremona,
Italy, besides being a poet, is also a
bombastic meddler In political matters.
Because of this It was arranged by a
party of jokers to bring him forward
as a candidate for the polls. The elec
toral committee was duly constituted
and Gandolfi's name was entered on
the government lists.
The unlucky solicitor was forced
during the fortnight to do his own can
vassing and to drive about from vil
lage to village delivering speeches.
When election day cume, no voting pa
pers having been distributed by the
committee for him, It was found that
the only vote he received was his
own. His discomfiture may be imag
ined, but it Is said that a radical
cure for his political tendencies has
been found.
A still more unfortunate candidute
was a communist in the same town
named Lodolini. After the commun
ists had officially announced their In
tentions to carry him, the manllisap
peared. It was found that the Fas
clstl had selzej him at night time and
driven him to Casalmaggiore, where
he was forced under the severest
threats to remain during election time.
Once Lodolini returned to Cremona
to see his wife, but the same night
the Fascist! again entered the house
and forced him to dress and drove him
again to seclusion and meditation over
the rules for the Third Internationale.
New York Tribune.
Making It Clear.
Clarence was trying to explain to hit
plsymate the distinction between the
troall dog and the larger one, and thla
It the way he expressed himself: "The
little do Is the baby dog. and the big
on It the mama dog, Juat Ilka your
mama."
Sour Milk.
Among the many uses for sour milk
It tnst of silver polish. Put the ill
erware In the liquid and let It remain
for 20 to 30 minutes. Then wash at
usual. It will look aa If It dad been
polished.
Signs of Age.
"Uncle Dunk Is getting along In
years," regretfully said a resident of
the Oznrks.
"Eh-yah," replied an acquaintance.
"He's aom'erg about eighty-one, ain't
he?"
"Yes, and I skurcely ever seed a man
ao old for his years as he 'pears to
be of late. He rid Into the county seat
with me tuther day. We got thene
about nine o'clrtck In the morning and
before 5:30 he came around wlnir I
was talking swap with some fellers,
and 'lowed that as he didn't know no
body In town skurcely and hadn't any
business there, no-wny, and uuthin'
had happened of any Interest so fur
and didn't 'pear likely to, he was Just
about ready to go home. Uncle I Mink
is feeling bis age powerful." Kansas
City Star.
Milk From Peanuts.
The common peanut is the source
of a new substitute for miik which
so closely resembles its profot1. po
that it turns sour and curdles, pro
duces buttermilk when churned and
may be made Into cheese, say.s the
Scientific American. The flavor, in
which the nut characteristically per
sists, is declared to be praotlcailv its
only point of variance with cows
milk. The new lacteal product orig
inated In the laboratory of tin Amer
ican university where the peanut ker
nels are converted Into four times
their volume of milk, varying from 4
to 8 per cent In fat content and from
2.4 to 3.3 per cent In protein. The
cost of production Is said to be con
slderahly less than the market price
of dairy milk.
Boy Scouts Aid Birds.
The birds In the neighborhood of
St. Louis have had their housing prob
lems reduced to lowest terms by the
act of the hoy scouts of St. Louis, who,
as a result of a contest, provided 2,.'S"8
well-built bird houses, which have
been placed In the public parks and
other reserves. The winning troop
turned out C51 bird houses. The
scout executive writes that much In
terest nag roused locally, not only In
the house building which It Is pro
posed to make an annual good turn
uwlit;'. hut also. In, the acoutt thera-nelve.
HERMITS LIFE HIS CHOICE
Man Who Has "Flocked by Himself"
for Twenty.Five Years Will
Have No Other.
A hermit leads a fascinating life.
So W, D. Clark says, and he ought to
know, for he has been a hermit in the
tirctic wilderness nearly a quarter of
a century. '
"Once a hermit, always a hermit,"
says Mr. Clark. "A hentiit wants no
body's pity. He enjoys his solitude
and wouldn't trade It for the pleas
ures and excitement of cities. I have
been In civilization a year now and
I am going back home to the wilder
ness as quickly as I can. There are
no fakirs, swindlers and thieves there."
Mr. Clark's home cabin is on the
headwaters of Peel river, ISO miles
from Herschel island and lit) miles
from Kort McPherson. His nearest
neighbor is Till miles away. They see
each other once a year. With the ex
ception of this man, Abe Schafer, Mr.
Clark Is the only human being in a
thousand square miles of country. The
Indians do not go that far north and
the Eskimos do not come that far
south.
"I have seen 10,000 caribou In a
herd," Mr. Clark said. "They go to
the arctic coast In the spring to have
their young and in September they re
turn south to the edge of the timber,
where they can find shelter and moss
on which they live."
The mercury goes 75 degrees below
In winter, Mr. Clark says, but It Is
the most healthful climate In the
world. Old-timers up there, he de
clares, do not know what sickness
means.
DUNTON'S CASH MARKET
O C. Dl'XTOX, Prop.
Will open about August 15th, j . ; .
Next Door to First National Bank
SWEET CIDER
Made Daily a Specialty
Canned Fruits and Fresh Fruits Direct From the Willamette
Valley
POTATOES, OMOXS, KJ(JS AXD HOXEY
Look over my goods and get my prices
Open 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 6 P. M. Saturday evenings to 9:00
House riione, Main 93
WORD HAS MANY MEANINGS
When One Mentions "Fish," the Sylla
ble Is Susceptible of More Than
One Construction.
"All Is not fish that swims" reflected
the sapient philosopher as he beheld
a summer girl taking to the ocean.
The sapient philosopher was formulat
ing a great truth when he came to
that conclusion.
The whale, for Instance, although It
unquestionably swims, Is. more closely
related to the cow than to the minnow.
The seal Is closer kin to the dog than
to the fluke.
To a great many fishermen the word
"fish" see Latin "piscls" and Dutch
"vlsch" (the snme word) possesses
only the verb form, "to fish." Catch
ing fish Is not a necessary part of the
piocess of fishing. The thing is "to
fish," and Is not primarily to
catch fish. (See fishermen on the
banks of the Seine In Paris, "fishing"
all day without even getting a bite
from a minnow.)
A famous Englishman by the name
of Izaak Walton was one of the most
persistent patrons of the verb "to
fish." The word "fish" was also ex
tensively used during the war In an ef
fort to save meat for the fighters.
Exchange.
Bigamy for a Lodging.
A Le Mans signalman has just been
condemned to two yeurs' Imprison
ment for bigamy which, he avers, he
committed in order to find In the pres
ent "crise de Logemeut" somewhere
to lay his head.
He Is a man of fifty-five and he re
cently married a widow of seventy
five who offered him a room liv her
cottage on the firm condition that he
should marry her. This he did, de
claring that his wife was dead. One
of his wives was dead, but the police
tracked down another, who deserted
him some time ago. The unfortunate
man has now had "crlse de Logement"
solved for some time, at least. Paris
Figaro.
Osmiriduim in Tasmania.
Itecent exploration and develop
ment have revealed enormous de
posits of osnilrhlium and gold-bearing
gravels In the valleys of the lame
rivers of the western iIII-hii of Tas
mania, which Is the sole producer on
a large scale of point inelal oMnlrid
lum. For the first half of l!r'fl the pro
duction was 1,0! Ci ounces, valued Bt
41,042, i March, not, the local price
reached 42 10s. per ounce, states the
London Times Trade Supplement.
Florence Oil Stove
Asbestos Wick
Bakes Boils
Roasts Toasts
Cook in a cool kitchen
Peoples
Hardware Co.
Blackbird Fed Thrush.
A lady of Penzance who Is a great
lover of birds, says Mr. W. II. Hudson
In his recently published book, "Ad
ventures Among Itlrds," noticed that
a blackbird and a thrush always came
together to her lawn where she was In
the habit of placing food for the birds.
Then she noticed that the blackbird
feil the thrush, picking up the crumbs
of liread and putting them Into Its
mouth. Looking more closely, she dis
covered that the thrush's beak had
been cut off clo-e t tit. bead, prob
ably by a steel trap or a sudden-death
spring trap, such as the children In j
Cornwall coinmouly use to cal'h or
kill small birds. The thrush was in- j
capable of feeling Itself. j
Hay and Harvest
MACHINERY
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WE Carry the Famous
fl.il. C.LIN
Mowers, Rakes. Headers,
Binders, and Threshers.
Better look up your repair needs
Now and avoid costly delays
after you start cutting.
GILLIAM & BSSBEE
"We Have it Will Get it Or it is Not Mode"
A Super-Hero.
"Anything unusual In the court of
domestic relations this morning?"
"A young woman who married a bo
gus war hero wants a divorce."
"That has happened before."
"Put Oils fellow has large Ideas.
He claims to have won the buttle of
the Martie." Hlrmlngham Age ilfrald.
Reward of Merit.
"What's the most attractive feature
of farm lifer asked the city dweller.
"Knocking ofT work on Kuturday and
going to town In the flivver," suld the
truthful agriculturist. Ulrinlughsia
Age-Herald.
Fresh Fruits
and Vegetables
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