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VOLUME VIII
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1922
NUMBER 45
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STATE HIGHWAY FUNDS
INNING TO RUN L
PRESENT SEASON WILL EX
HAUST FINDS NOW AVAILABLE
Building of Gilliam County Section
Of Oregon-Wa.sliiingtoii High
way Uncertain
Highway Commissioner W. B. Bar
ratt returned from Condon last
Thursday where he conferred with
the Gilliam County authorities on
highway matters.
Several miles of the John Day
highway between Rock creek and Ar
lington are to be improved this sum
mer and it has been hoped that the
Cilliam county section of the Oregon
Washington highway could also be
completed, but because of lack of
funds in Gilliam county and the de
pleted condition of the state highway
fund, that work now seems somewhat
uncertain, Mr. Barratt stated.
Gilliam county, however, is one of
the few counties that is not yet bon
ded to the limit for road purposes
and a way out of the present situa
tion may yet be found.
State highway money will all be
spent by the end of the present work
ing season, Mr. Barratt says, and un
less more money is available from
some source the work of the high
way commission will be over with for
awhile.
If the federal road bill, now before
congress, becomes a law Oregon will
be in line for $8,000,000 of Uncle
Sam's money if the state can get into
a position to match that money with
an equal amount, but as things now
"are it will take an amendment to the
constitution to permit the issuance of
enough more bonds to match the fed
eral quota.
Mr. Barratt is of the opinion that
the next legislature will probably fa
vor such action rather than see the
state lose this big amount of federal
aid because the i"Koa"ce of such
bonds will not act to increase the
property taxes of the state a dollar,
but will only mean, in effect, the
loaning of the" state's credit until the
motor and gaslaxes can take care or
the issu.e
If the federal road bill passes and
if Oregon is able to match it $16,
000,000 will be made available to
complete the Oregon hgihway system
and that amount, Mr. Barratt says,
will be sufficient to finish the work as
now outlined and give to Oregon a
road system of lasting benefit In the
development of the state.
MARRIED AT LEXINGTON'
Misa Cecil Scott and Mr. Ralph
Jackson, of Lexington, were married
at that place Saturday, February 25.
The brldeis the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Scott, and Is one of
the most popular young ladies of
that town. Mr. Jackson is a well
known young farmer of that section
and we understand the young couple
will make their homo on his ranch.
CONDON
ORGANIZES
CIAL CLUB
COM M En-
Condon business and professional
men organized a commercial club re
cently with James D. Burns, presi
dent; D. N. McKay, secretary and
publicity director. Judge D. R. Par
ker, who is also Condon's efficient
mayor, thereby bein entitled to
'he designation, "Your Honor," In
duplicate, made a speech In which he
outlined the purpose of the organiza
tion as n adequate water supply,
modern fire apparatus, auto . camp
grounds, more pulicity and lower tax
ation. Maybe Condon can get away
with a program of big, modern im
provements coupled with lower
taxes but if she does It will be the
first Oregon town able to do such a
thing in recent years.
QUAIJTY SEED POTATOES
Quality seed potatoes for sale.
Prices f. o. b. Heppner and Lexing
ton. American Wonder $3.75 rwt.
Rural New York'n 3.75 ewt.
Earliest of All 4.00 cwt.
All first class graded ? ed.
E. I. PAX SON.
Box 216, Hood River, Ore!
43-47
E. M. Phut! ha. b'en confine.! to
his home for a few days and the court
house crowd are complaining of a
depressing Quietude,
MRS. BEN'GE ENTERTAINS FED
ERATED LADIES AID
There was a large attendance of
members and guests of the Ladies
Aid society of the Federated church
present at the home of Mrs.
Ralph Benge last Tuesday afternoon
and the occasion was declared one of
the most enjoyable of the season.
An excellent program of papers,
readings, and musical numbers was
rendered during the afternoon and a
most enjoyable social hour along
with delightful refreshments round
ed out a most successful afternoon.
TWO-YEAR-OLD W ETHERS BRING
FAIR TRICES
W. W. Stabler was here from
Portland last week looking over the
sheep situation and while here bought
1000 head of two-year-old wethers
from Mike Kenny and 300 head from
Pat Connell, the price ranging from
$7 to $8. Mr. Stabler stated that he
expects to return in a short time pre
pared to buy any and all 'kinds of
sheep that may be offered.
J. O. HAG EI! WILL SPRAY OR
CHARDS OF COMMUNITY
The Farm Bureau has made ar
rangements to turn all the orchard
spraying work over to J. O. Hager
for the coming year. The county
sprayer will be used and Mr. Hager
will make only such charges for the
sprayer as will be necessary to keep
that machine in repair. The cost of
spraying last year was a little more
than we expect It to be this year be
cause considerable work had to be
done on the old machine.
There seems to be some confusion
on the part of some orchardists as
to just what they were having their
trees sprayed for. The dormant
spray does not prevent your fruit
from being wormy, but it does kill
the San Jose scale etc. In order to
clean up the Coddling Moth you will
want to arrange for two or three ar
senate sprays later.
Remember that the Farm Bureau
will have nothing to do with the
spraying this year and that you can
make all arengements with Mr. Ha
ger who is in a position to doi it at a
reasonable figure.
C. C. CALKINS
LICENSE PLATE COURT
HOLDS FIRST SESSION
Judge Cornett held his first real
term of "Number Plate" court this
morning as a result of the activities
of Highway Inspector Lieuallen who
has been nosing around in this ball
Iwiwck for a few days. Lieuallen
hag already demonstrated the fact
that' he is not color blind, being able
to distinguish between the dark green
plate of 1921 and the bright yellow
! one of 1922 at a range of 100 yards
or more.
In response to his invitation the
following auto and truck men paid
their respects and fines to Judge Cor
nett this morning, all being charged
with operating trucks or cars with
out a license:
Chas. H. Latourell, Martin Rcid,
J. C. Owen, Frank Hall and E. E.
Downing. Mr. Latourell was asses
sed $20 and the others $10 each.
SEED POTATOES
While seed potatoes have been lo
cated we are now trying to locate
certified stuff at some point where
merchants shipping in eating potatoes
could include them in car shipments
thus cutting down on the high
freight. It was hoped that some ar
rangements could be made in time to
announce it In this issue of the paper
but nothing definite has been arrang.
ed for yet.
Thf biggest factor In obtaining a
yield her Is the prevalence Of dis
ease. Many of these diseases cannot
be controlled by seed treatment. They
must be fliminatend by rogueing in
the field that is what it means to
pet certified seed. These potatoes
have passed field inspections and one
h'n inspection ;.r.d don't pass unl'ss
th y are practical;;- f,,.,. f, ora iis
' a!-.-. It would pay to plant a smal
ler iiriv.ij.-., of potato. : and u,-e food
see,).
Ka.ly i.ota'oes are ordinarily nine!,
he bi.t und-r diy l.ir.l conditions
li T". It is hoped that (ton,., one i,,an
in each town 'an arrange, to liav
?ood certified 1 d potatoes for sale.
C. C. CALKINS
SIBSGREBER IN A HUFF
T
Editor Herald:
If I am to continue taking your pa
per I want you to quit this weather
prophet foolishness and get Bill
Stewart back on the job. This thiug
is getting serious with us sheepmen
and if you think you are doing some
thing smart in stirring up all this
trouble and getting Mr. Stewart s
disgusted that he hi quit attending
to the weather, I want to tell you
that you are making a big mistake.
For 30 years Mr. Stewart attended
to the weatl.r here at Heppner and
with general satisfaction. But with
this man Gordon on the job and
claiming that we will have winter
until April 15th, and refusing to
change his prediction, we are simply
in a bad fix with lambing coming on
and hay going higher. It used to
be that when Mr. Stewart said it
would rain or snow or freeze or not
rain or snow or freeze, we all knew
that it would either rain or snow or
freeze or thaw out. But with Lum
Gordon saying just what It is going to
do and sticking to it, it simply gets
my goat.
With all due respects to Mr. Gor
don, I think he is just plain bull
headed and unaccommodating.
I mean every word of the above
and you can either quit fooling with
the weather or quit sending me my
paper.
SHEEPMAN '
Our correspondent is Informed that
Mr. Gordon some tim3 ago bought
Mr. Stewart's interest in the weather
business and he in turn informs the
Herald that he has turned over all of
his right, title and interest in the
business to P. A. Anderson, who rates
high around the court house as a
dead shot on weather predictions.
"Sheepman," therefore, may expect
a decided change in weather condi
tions unless Mr. tyirdon had his fing
ers crossed when he made the deal
with P. A. in which case his oiiginul
forecast may stand until April 1 5th.
We admit that at this wriling, (Tues
day morning) the outlook is not fa
vorable but it is only fair to give Mr.
Anderson a few days to get his sys
tem working after which, if there is
not a decided change for the better
we ''11 ta'lte drastic measures to got
Bill Stewart back oft the job and get
weather conditions straightened out.
This, It seems, Is about all the Herald
can do at the present time. Editor.
MKSDAMES LUCAS AND WARD
ENTERTAIN
Mrs. Fred Lucas and Mrs. Dell
Ward entertained a party of about 30
ladies and gentlemen at the Ward
apartments in the Fair building last
Friday evening at bridge. The rooms
were prettily decorated with carna
tions and Oregon grape, supplement
ed with colored lights the effect be
ing especially pleasing. Phil Cohn
and Andrew Rood jr., divided honors
for the prize, bcth gentlemen playing
their best just to prove to the ladies
that man is still a superior being at
something Dainty refreshments
were served after the games.
Frank Moore and family of near
Lexington are all reported recovered
from their recent attack of grippe.
Will is Jinks, who is spending the
winter with his stepdaughter, Mrs.
Dell Ward, Is recovering from his re
cent attack of Illness.
Judge Cornett, who combines the
poultry business and the dispensa
tion of justice, specializes In White
Leghorns and at the poBtofflce the
other evening he told a Herald re
porter that every evening when he
picks his eggs he finds two specimens
which measure 6 1-2x8 1-2 inches
each. The Judge did not exactly say
that one hen Is responsible for this
mammoth output but rather than
spoil a whacking good egg story we
will assume, for purposes of publicity
that such is the case. Some hen, is
n't she?
Cecil Lieuallen, recently appointed
a state highway traffic inspector,
whose duly Is to look out for traffic
violations on the state highways,
;cati:e in Saturday and is still r.
I Mr. Menallen's chief Mriploynn 11; ju 1
; now j. look out. for !at !tV.
licr-Il'-e pla.teH s till n m-f. !ll:d
' with drivi rs of o load' (1 till'!-:-- to
i !ip tl.eni s e t:i. error '.f t, ir
ways. Aff T trying to n'-ot' .
foii.c of (( country re.- d i ad, li
mit f . f-ni ! ppner, f.'ifil decided not
tto worry inuch about t-p edstors un
til the ground settles.
VETS' BONUS CHECKS
ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED
The first batch of soldiers bonus
checks were distributed last week
and Captain H. C. Brumbaugh an
nounces that the commission is being
deluged with inquiries from ex-service
r.ien wanting to know how soon
they will receive their money. Capt.
Brumbaugh says this will take time
as there is a total of 20,334 applica
tions to be examined and verified.
These claims are being examined at
the rate of 300 a day and 7,000 re
main yet. to. be passed on. Experi
ence has shown, however, that about
40 per cent of the applications have
to be returned to the applicant for
correction and of this number, a total
of about g.000, 2,700 are still being
held in abeyance because the appl-i
cants have failed to make the correc
tions or reply to letters from the com
mission. The work of the commission entails
much wor'k in verifying the eligibil
ity of applicants and an official rec
ord of every applicant must be secur
ed from the War or navy deportment
at Washington, D. C all of which
requires time and more or less delay.
Failure of any individual to receive
his check as soon as some friend who
filed his applicatio even later than
himself may thus be accounted for.
Eligible veterans should read the
instructions carefully before mak
ing out their applications and before
filing them with the commission,
should have them verified by their
local Legion Post, Red Cross or
Bonus Attorney. Such co-operation
will materially assist the commission
in making a speedy distribution of
the funds.
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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
A fine son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Renoe. in this city Tuesday
1 February 28th.
j Neil Doherty, sheepman of the lone
district, was a week end visitor here i
j returning home Monday.
j Mrs. E. M. Hulden and two young
sons, arrived from Portland Sunday
evening to join Mr. Hulden on their
Blackhorse ranch.
Mrs. Malcolm Church, of Dee, Ore
gon, in Hood River valley, is here
visiting friends. Mrs. Church was a
former resident here.
Virgil Fell, of Waitsburg, Wash
ington, who has been visiting his
cousins, Lloyd and M. L. Fell, for a
week or so, left for his home mon
day morning.
Milton Sparlock, who spent a part
of the winter trapping in tho North
Fork country, called at the county
clerk's office the other day with five
big bob cat skins and six coyotes and
received his bounty money.
Mrs. Roy Pickens and little son,
Billy, arrived from Baker Sunday
evening to Join Mr. Fickens who la
manager of the Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Co. They will reside
in the house recently occupied by K.
E. Crego and family.
Last Friday was a very beautiful
and rather delightful springlike day
but, true to form, Friday night
brought a couple of Inches of snow.
Lum Gordon says, "I told you so;"
and further he sticks to it that this
thing will continue till the 15th of
April. "Then," Lum says, "wo will
get a change and It will not be for
the worse, either." All of which is
encouraging, If not disheartening.
S. E. Stickle came In' from the
Hamilton country the other day
where he has been spending the win
ter trapping. Mr. Stickle was employ-
P(i Kv the pnuarn man o a -n
until UBt August when he quit and
went on his own. Ho caught about
$200 worth of furs during the winter
and is now taking a layoff. His
home Is In Lake county where he
lias 320 acres under a new Irrigation
project.
Lynn Purdin, reveral yora ago op
erator and foreman In the Herald of
liee, now ptibli.hor of the Ilwa'o
(Wash.) Tribtin-, last wr-.-k puhlii-h-'d
the Auditor's Animal r port, for
I'sK-Mie county, v, hi' h
;a':. s of his paper,
aijo'it 4S column",
hoi n malting food at I
111.' at,!., to pull mi h
filled ei-l,t
ai'ioi '.'at, 11;'
"Lv1.11" ll.'H
!v. aco and ,i
a f t Job of
'oil my patronaio liom South l;i n,
own, the county rl,owH that his
influence mti.'it cxtoLd beyond tin;
limits of IJwaco.
REDUCTION IN HAY FREIGHTS
ANTICIPATED
The Oregon Cooperative Hay Grow
ers have been carrying on a campaign
j for the reduction in freight rates. To
I this end they are filing one complaint,
jwith the Interstate Commerce Com
mission in Washington, D. C. and
another with the Public Service
Commission at Salem, asking for a
comprhensive review of freight rates
charged Oregon and Washington
shippers, and complaining of illgeal
discrimination by the railroad against
both hay growers and dairymen in
Oregon. They have received many
assurances of support from other or
ganizations, and as a proof of the
general interest in this, the follow -
ing clipping from the Oregon Journal
j win bo of interest
"The Oregon Public Service Com- j
mission in a statement, given out
Thursday, announced that, an attempt
will be made to cstablisl? 50-callod
joint rates in hay shipments from
east of the mountains through Port
laud to Astoria, Tillamook, Marsh-
field, Salem, Eugene, Albany and oth
er western Oregon cities. j
"The commission announced that
the situation is being studied from wheat and will co-ordinate the do
both state and interstate standpoints, mestic activities, arrange plans t
Present tariffs, the commission said, provide, finances for wheat growers
indicate that these commodities from who are members of the organization
Eastern Oregon, Washington, and establish a statistical department
Idaho move westbound to the various and advise in the general operation
coaBt markets outside of Ore5on at of the state organizations,
lower rates than to the Oregon mark-I ptn f ,i, .
ots I e formation of the fed
The explanation has been given, it TrnZX 6 dvance1. Urthor ttt
is said that from the haypioducing ' " f orBautlon com.
.... ., mitee in Kansas CI y, Mo., March 1
terntory served by lines reaching. Members of the L9'
both points of origin and destination.
through rates prevail, while In the
case of western Oregon markets the
rates to destination points are based
on a combination of locals over
Portland."
This Is the most important point
contended for, and is affected by the
healing to he held before the Public
Service Commission.
OltE(ON COOPERATIVE
GROWERS.
HAY
I
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E V hit Y
The law provides that
MAN MUST POISON the
"
found on his land or the land over
which he has jurisdiction. There Is
no excuse for any man failing to
comply with this law for you can get
the poison without cost by furnish-
ing the grain. While 3000 quarts of
poison have been prepared In dlf-
leieui uuiiiiituniLicn uuiiiiK tiio pitm
week there are many who for one
reason or another could not get In to
getpoison.
Because every man must poison
,0 has squirrels and to help out
Dse who could not get poison last
wh
those who could not get poison
week we make the following arrange
ments: Bring your grain to your nearest
town to be poisoned. For conven
ience we ask those at lone to leave
it at flirt Mason's store, farmers
around Lexington can leave it at
Harnett's store and around Heppner
will leave it at the county agent's of
fice. Remember that all you have to do
is bring in the grain. The poison and
other IngredlentB will cost you noth
ing remember too, that farmers In
every communty are working on this
in earnest and expect tho other fellow
to come aerOHB. Tho squirrels do
many thousands of dollars worth of
damage. They can be controlled by
getting out the poison at the right
time. Get your grain In at once and
you will be able to use It when tho
time comes. The squlrels will be out
with the first few warm days.
C. C. CALKINS
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Fleming left this
morning for Weed, California, where
Mr. Fleming expects to secure em
ployment with the Long Hell Lumber
Co., perhapH the biggest, lumbering
concern In the country. The Lorig
liell people are about, to commence
construction of a new camp '') miles
from Weed where their . petitions
will he carried on on an ' x1' -n. ye
f.'a.e, Mi...( l.ula Ij. ni.i-i a
ted Mr. and Mr:i. I-" f.i i n - t
C.U.i pen I, ( oatliloOll 1 ,
w ho ! pie. I'lll.l the I -1 ' -1 : ,
Will i'ive a free ex 11 I hi I .'('II
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t.ie 1 in i: fancy rllle K)i
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SQUIRRELS
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TO SELL GO
NEARLY ALL ACREAGE
COUNTRY IS COVERED
LV,
Organizing ConiniMtco
Ui Meet
ill
Kansas City March i to Ar
range Further Details
I 1 (Oregonijan) 1
DENVER, March 2. Plans for or
ganizing it national federation ot
wheat marketing associations for tlm
contract pooling bassis were adopted
by a conference of state association
. iMiuin.aiiy me entire wheac
ProdulnK territory of the United
.States at a meeting here today.
The new federation, to be known
as the American Wheat Growers,
Associated, will be placed in opera
tion as soon as the middle western
cooperative societies begin the actual
selling of wheat it was announced.
The new organization will consinS
of a board of directors selected by
uie various state organizations. Id
is to have control of exnnrt a.nlno of
mltteeare: George C. Jewett, general'
manager of tho Northwest Wheat
Growers, Associated, Portland Or., yr.
C. Landson, representative of tlm
; public, appointed to (ho board of
1 Kansas wheat marketing association
by the secretry of agriculture, and
O. I). Murley, president of tho Okliu
homa wheat Growers association.
1 The first action of the commute
I was to adopt a resolution declaring
I at nn end the antagonism which they
declared ,,lui MjBtl,(, h,,lw(,(,n th
United Stales Grain Growers, mcor.
poraled, and the co-operative society
of tho variouH stales.
J "Numerous accusal inns and char
K"s an to the met hods and purposes of
I each group have been made by rep re-
r""-"'V'H nl agents of the others,"
the resolution declared. -All of th.
-.auoiiH neretn represented must
! recognize the good faith and higti-
I Purposes Of all thH vnrlona 1-
fanning into associations the grala
' Rr0WPrs of AlI1PrIpa un( w " a
ourselves to conduct our respectl..
campaigns In conformity with thl
principles of fair nlv
solution was signed by J, A
Hull, director of the Nebraska Wheat
K'owers association; A. I). parH,,
mi ...
president of the
Colorado Wheat;
'growers association D J Murlot
Murley, president of the Oklahoma
, Whitim,o.- "n'uiuiu
Wheatgrowers association- w t,.
j Michael, president of tho ..K.unuw
I Wheatgrowers association, and C. If.
"jtio, J . u. rancake, W. M G Fck
har,lt "" v- Sin It I,, directors of
the United states Grain Growers, la.
corporntcd.
Organizations now represented In
lh programme for the national fed.
'ration Include nearly 20,000 wliea
growers, representing u pro,Iuctl,Ml.
of approximately 60,000,000 bushel,
annually. I addition to these, in
vitations to participate In the national
organization when established hai,
been Issued (o state organizations of
Texas, New Mexico, North and HouM
Dakota and Minnesota which recently
were formed. It Is estimated that
the latter organizations represent a
production, of 20,000,000 bushels an
nmilly. The United H,Ilf(.H Gnii(
growers, Incorporated, hao a member,
uhlp producing approximately J2J.
000,000 bushels of Krain annually,
a considerable portion of which h
wheut.
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