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THE HEPPNER HERALD
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
S. A. PATTISOX, Kditor and Publisher
Entered at the Heppner, Oregon, Postuffice as second-class Matter
THE HEPPNER HERALD. HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, November 29, 192 1
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THE WALLULA "CUTOFF"
Ever since Joshua commanded the !
fun to stand still and made good
the thinking public has admitted that
nothing is impossible. Of coursse
all of us sometimes have a feeling
that all is not going In a manner ex
actly in accordance with our own
ideas, but what's the use to holler?
If you haven't got a dollar or two
you are in a sore predicament, finan
be inserted in the constitution of the
; United States and no one but a bank
robber or a thug nil be allowed to
carry fire arms.
A school is going to be started fo
, the purpose of teaching policeman
i that tlhey must not in anv wav assist
the nefarious practice of bootlegging
and won't be but a short time until
bonds are worth nearly as much as wr
paid for them, freight rates have been
reduced and about the only thing
any of us have to worry about the
coning winter is: "Are we goin to De
able to eat every time the dinner bel'
Paw ses the only differents be
tween a kiropractor and medickle
fississhun Is that the kiropractor ad
mits that he knows how to do it.
I have furgotten the name of are
car but paw is bussily engaged in be
... . ... ou ar m a sore predicament, finan-
A matter 1 hat is just now creating' more than ordinary ciaiiy, but nearly every one knows a
interest in this section of eastern Oregon is the nronosal bootlegger, and it is said thev .
roming from the Portland chamber of commerce to divert sti11 dins a flourishing business. The
. . ,. - profiteers are p-nttino- tv
d forest road-f j5 "e g?'ting more 8c-
mi
m'irat e
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wii:i:n s 1 mm a ui uic leuciai nosi i oau aim loiesi i uau ,., .,, , , ,
., . 1, . :i 1 , , , . ,u c leuerai government has be-
y , miuii iu i: u tUi.uiL- aim u men .11 no an is in uic i- gun to issue pardons to the sptUtir,,,
iw mu (,vj,i)uv, a ti 110111 me untiniJiLLLu Lauvt-j a v no nuiea to use a Max-
highwnvs of the state and have it applied to the construe- im silenw. in the central states
lion- of what is known as the "Wallula cutoff," a proposed rn is bein" ust'd for fei while
i-i , ,1 1-1 -ii r n .i i-i i there are residents of every state
kighway.not yet on the map, which w.d oilow the Colum- who ,v0;iId be glad rigu nJ
01a river I nun Umatilla, where it leaves the Columbia river the fUei off the Cobb. Cotton the
highway, to Wallula, where it will connect with the Wash- law product has gone up and the fm-
inglon state highwav system. ishp1 pr"duct has come down, it'll
The ornposed highway is appropiatelv named the "cut- " ,, Put a cotton eEr-
. ' . 11 : r, ,, mPnt n the Statue of Libei'tv riHn
11 hunt, it will, to start with, cutoii u ana nana the winter months -
ravel route between spokane and other
I Portland; nil oil Pendleton from the tn "-"k is loaning money
. . ' . . . .... to tanners who own thai- o.
it the use of the Oregon- ash- anrt it ,snt the fauIt of th; ;.
m and llCIiliner unction ment that each of us rin
1 .1 f. a
secKcrs ""
rv U .1 :
oon
e in order to see the water flow down hill in the
on their right hand and a waste of sand and rock
the policemen will all resign to take
up the profession of selling fusil oil
without a prescription.
The November ozone goes through
our clothes faster than a prohibition
officer goes through the effects cf an
alleged woman bootlegger but this
isn't a bad place to live.
We don't need our geography to
tell of 716 places in the world that
have fewer things to be thankful for
than we have.
A republican president with the
democrats right on their trail may
help some, and then agr.in it mayn't.
If wheat was selling for 2 5 cents a
bushel and wool for a nickel a
pound, we'd still keep right on living i skule room.
anu the only dttlerence there would
be was that we had more things ti 1
kick about.
rings Ana most ot us will eat. even ! .- cj u- , "
. L in tuuuiieu iu ins ruiiie inese days
if we are not eating exactly what we I . . , .
, . . a , an a iiiveiiun a parasoi mat can be
wanted to eat at this particular meal. l-riQj k . .
; carried oaver the carbewrayter on a
Pdrcftnallv urn dovo fntmA ..nrl nil
r V,- l V, damp dny- He also rites t0 deroit
rnnnlTir.no thai if -n-a nm nKl l
What Women Think
By Mary, the Girl Reporter
oil, as, ll hui
:irom the main ti
noi l hern point s am
same through route; cut o
iii"1oii hi;!'hwa' between I'endh
via. llei oner Irorn trie use ol tourists and home
Irom tlie northern route and induce them to save 30 miles
C'olumlii
We are organizin a brass band
up to skule an as soon as the yell
You can't make us think this little 1 leeder has been choosed the dif
old land of the free and the home of ! ferent 'karaktprs will be picked out
ior tnair plaices.
Jack Dcmpsey and Theda TSara is go
ing to the ever lasting bowwows. No
sir; we'll not believe it until we hear
the bow-wows baying, or at least see
the kennel where they should be
and are not.
The war debt is being paid at the
rate of a billion .1 month T.iiw.rtv
wUu, n c are ame io . e d or gQ
siana me neat ot tne summer, we! . . , .
, Are direckter of sience ses the ree-
have been able to live through the , thair ,g 0 mutch dipthe
following winter-and we are going j garlet feyer in t feunt
to take .another shot at it this winter. I ,s bpcawse thai. hag been an 7 p
stipplie of yelloe paiper sints the ar
mistick was sined whitch must be
j used up.
! Are techer got boxin gloves for .
the debaiters to use in arbitratin
questions of dispewt but she found a
brick in 1 of the gloves yesterdy an .
took them away from the debatin
sossiety. She ses she may get
swords for them now.
The ladys ade met last wensdy an
discus-ted the neer east releaf. Thay
past a resolootion that the neer east
was gittin nearer but the releaf was
not.
Paw ses about ever organization
in the wurld has struck now ecksept
the institushion whtieh was'organy
sed for Uhe prevenshun of crueltie to
members of the neaver sweat club.
He thinks therell be an uprisin thaire
sune.
Are teecher beleeves in kaptile'
punnishment or she woodent have
made Gordon Bisset stayin thirty
5 minnits after Ekule with onli her
an Gordon as sole ockypants of the
Unkel Silas ses if it was possibel to
cash the chears of the patryotic pub
lic whitch was cheared when the Am
merican Leagon boys marlwed by it
woodent be neeessary fur congress to
taik enny tnoar axshun on the bonus
bill.
n iiwihi im w.m.ummiuMajm.mmm.9Mur
wStar Theatre To-night
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on ineir lelt.
The cliief resaon advanced by Portland spokesmen for
1he building of this link is that it will save tourists 30 miles
in distance which would mean one hour in time from
points north and east to Portland, and no doubt their be
lief is that the cutoff will divert a little more of the tourist
'ortland and away from western Washing-
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e development of a big territory in eastern Oregon
is tributary to Portland and a supporter of Port-
1 ravel t owards
ton noints.
The road, if built, will also help divert travel from the J it
route south from Pendleton via. Heppner, Spray, Bend and i
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lard the
which i
kind's business institutions thereby, eventually, causing her
1o repeat the painful and expensive operation, so often per
formed by that city in the past, of cutting off her own nose
to spite her face.
Portland is a mighty fine, l'g city and it is destined to
lucerne bigger ami liner as the years go by but it will not
liecnjue bigger ami liner if it continues to listen to would
be leaders, whether within or without the chamber of eoni-
i have not vet discovered eastern )ret,n. That's
ami's U ading cit iens.
their own little affairs
, u ho nave 1
g trout,
iceni lo
with Mime ot Portl
ie so wrapped 1111 in
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Dropped?
Just Imk At Our Stock Ami! Forget The
Distressing Past
thai thev have
willt the d
1 Ik y can si
never found out t
iiie o! he Cascadt
TI ev kick visii v.
to ee over the ranj
t here are people h tin
at the w orld does not end
, because that is as far as
md thee need a neriscone
They perhaps do not krmw that
up this way that have produced a.
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large proportion of the tonnage that has built up Portland's
commerce and made thai line city what it is today.
Another funny thing about a lot of Portland people
is that they seem to know there is a country called eastern
Wash in:; 1 1 1 1 , , 1 1 1 1 1 remain in densest ignorance regarding
ii:.tern (iregon. They seem to know that there is a Col
umbia Kiwr highway that was built from,
I mali'h.i ! r I he eoress nui'l oec i, connec
Wallu'a eutoi'f winch, they hope, will tap some tra.de ter
tiu ry in ea.stern -Washington. All that type of Portland
mind thinks there is of eastern Oregon is the right of way
for the Columbia river highway and south of that, to the
California line is void -something like everything looked
the mi eii'i.g beioi e the lii'.t day 'ol creation.
What eastern Oregon wauls to see done
share ol the federal 1 a.d iimicv
bae il e-.leti.led where il will do ea.-lern Hn-i'im
.
jmmu'. N.' I twd to build a road lo tap trade terrioirv lor
' 111 anoilier slate hile helping to covert tourist
imercial travel .:wa irom rich agricultural, fruit
-hiel s t I1.1t wen Id be sure to give lour
a favorable impression of Oregon.
I hvgou's highwav svslem has been bui't kirgelv
ortlaiut to
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Practical Holiday Gifts
Trunks, Hanbags and
Suitcases
A large stock of well
articles in this line. . We are
have vou look them over.
selected
glad to
heaters? Yes, and Ranges,
Too
(treat Western and Portland lines
best. I.et us tell you why.
Knamelcd Ranges Blue white
grav.
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state as a whole, including Portland, to trv to
ler's web of the hi;:hvvav svstem that will
every lly (tourist or homeseeker ) ) into the metrop-.
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u nai impression 01 (uegon, as a siaie, is likely to he
gained by the tourist who follows the Columbia river all
the way from Pendleton to Portland? Isn't he likelv to
think that when he heard Prank llranch Riley talk about
Oregon somewhere away back east that Prank llranch
was guvini, him? Wouldn't it be better for Oregon and for
Portland to have (he tourist see that wonderful country
between Walla Walla and Pendleton and the almost equal
ly rich country between Pendleton and Heppner and the
country beyond?
Pattern Oregon has a lot of uncompleted h'rjiwavs;
(lie Oregon Trail, the Oregon-Washington, the John Pay
The Dalh - California and the Ochoco. the e,.im,.t ,',. .0
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wnicn win mean womieriul development. 1 he state am
the counties are broke- bonded to the limit ami these ro tds
are unfinished, and it there is a way to induce the federal
government to assit in completing these unfinished high
ways Portland should have enough vision and good, horse
sense to cut out the cutoff, forget eastern Washington for
awhile and take her coat off to help eastern Oregon, the
Pig rich empire that has. practically unaided, built herself
to her present position while helping build Portland trade
and commerce.
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Brass and Art Steel Beds
A beautiful assortment of patterns
at very reasonable prices.
Hand Painted China
A beautiful assortment, all bright,
new decorations.
Wm. Rogers 1847
Silverware
Enough Said
New Rugs Here; More in
Transit
0 x 12 Tapestry Brussels, now
$25.00
$85.00 Axmisters. now. $50.00
9 x i-i Seamless only $45.00
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Rngs, Rockers, Dressing Tables, Fcotsccfs
Way Down in Price and Quality Better Than Ever
Do Your Christmas Shopping Now
Case Furoilyre Company
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