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VOLUME VIII
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1922
NUMBER 49
BASE BULL SEASON 10
OPEN NEXT SUNDAY
ECHO AM) HEPPNER TEAMS TO
FLAY HERE
Manager Van Matter Says Outlook
For Season is Very
Encouraging
Ho Ye! Ho Ye!
Baseball fans, Attention!
Get yourselves ready for the first
game of the season Sunday, April 9th
for on that dalj the Echo Eat'emups
will be here to try conclusions with
the Heppner Hashmakerd to see what
the coming season promises the fans.
This will not be a game to decide
the world's championship nor any
thing of that kind, but just a sociable
meet to see whether the swatters of
the past can still swat and the leg
artists can still beat the little old
sphere to first.
To a Herald reporter Monday, Man
ager Van Marter, of the Heppner
team, 'reported things in pretty fair
shape. "The outlook mip-bt be bet
ter, of course," declare Van as he
lit a cigarette and sent a cloud of
smoke into the blue, "if we could
sign Ty Cobb for Heppner it would
undoubtedly strengthen our batting
average and if we could swipe a bat
tery from one of the national league
tjams it might help out some but at
that, we are going to be in shape to
make a good showing for the season
if the boys will just get wise to the
rseponsibilities of the situation and
get in and work, work, wont; practice
practice, practice every available min
ute from now until the end of the
season. The fact is," continued Van
who is something of a philosopher,
"playing ball is a good deal of a psy
chological proposition. A winning
team has got to think it's going to
win rght from the turnloose and it
lias got to think it so hard and so of
ten that when the umpire says, 'play
hall it KNOWS darn well it will win.
That spirit In the team backed up by
the same spirit in every individual ran
in that team's home town will over
come every obstacle and bring victory
and the joy of achievement to that
team and to that team's home town.
It makes hard work, team spirit and
loyal backers to develop a winning
team, though," continued Van, "but
the hard work will develop the team
spirit and community backing, and
the community backing and the team
spirit will develop the hard wor'k and
faithful practice, so you see, It is
something like these 'revolving funds'
to help poor but worthy students
through college. Every fellow that
needs it gets helped then pays the
money back to help some other poor
fellow so that everybody is heltw
. and nobody is out anything. It's the
same with baseball. The team can
help the town and the town can help
the team Rnd we all can have a tar
nation good time helping each other.''
Mr. Van Marter turned an ankle a
week ago Sunday while working out
with his "boys" and was on crutches
several days but he is "on his nw
again and hopes to be able to take a
whirl at second when the season is
fairly onened.
The finances of the team are in
pretty fair shape, Van reports. BubI
nes men of Heppner came through
with a freewill offering of $230.00
the other day and the dance, and tag
sale netted $120.00 and the manager
says the feeling is that Heppner is
always ready to back good baseball
to the limit.
A crackerjack battery Is In sight
for Heppner's team for the coming
seasorfand the cream of the local tal
ent is being skimmed off to make
what we all KNOW will make Hepp
ner show up like a diamond in tin
can alley when the season is over.
The ball field at the athletic
grounds is being worked down to a
frazzle and an entire new outfit of
suits and othe euipment have arrived
and are ready for Sunday's game
game. In the meantime Manager
Van Marter wants every man in the
neighborhood who feels like a b
player to come forward and show
what he can do. The man who can
show better ability for a given posi
tion on the team than any other fel
low will have the place, the manager
says regardless of the color of his
hair or whether he is bow-legged or
straight shanked. "I'm not getting
v,p a beauty show," concluded the
manager, "It's ball players I'm after.
Leo Hill, of the Universal Garage,
went to Portland Monday morning on
a short business trip.
movie cexsous and fire mar
shals FAIL TO AGREE
Motion picture censors, like many
other persons who seek to govern
(he affairs of other people have some
peculiar ideas. In New Yor'k state
recently they cut out a fire prevention
reel on the grounds that showing
pictures of incipient fires started
through carelessness or ignorance
might incite some child to start fires
as experiments. The same identical
reel was shown at the Star Theatre
Sunday night and it happened that
two or three state fire marshalls who
are here on an inspection tour, were
present. At the close of the show
the fire marshalls went to Manager
Sigsbee and congratulated him for
having shown the fire reel declaring
it to be of the highest educational
value to people children as well as
grownups in causing them to think
twice before being careless with fire,
matches or sunglasses.
FIRE MARSHAL MAKING SUR
VEY OF HEPPNER
George W. Stokes, James Gleason
and Horace Sykes, of the state fire
marshal's office are in Heppner this
week making an inspection and
survey of the city in the interest of
fire prevention. Mr. Stokes, who
visited Heppner soon after the big
fire four years ago expressed great
satisfaction to a Herald reporter yes
terday at the excellent conditions he
finds here now as compared with his
visit at that time. "You can say
this," said Mr. Stokes, "that Heppner
today, is one of the cleanest cities of
its size in the state. Conditions as
to fire hazards are very good and the
Sprit of co-operation we find among
the people is gratifying."
Mr. Gleason is an electrical en
gineer for the fire marshal's depart
ment and he is paying particular at
tention to electrical wiring, motors
etc. Mr. Sykes is engaged mostly
educational features of the work and
gives talks and instructions on fire
prevention in the schools.
GOOD MORNING JI IH1E
It is nbw Judge Gilliam, if you
please, following the appointment of
L. L. Gilliam to the position of city
recorder and municipal judge at the
regular meeting of the city council
last evening. Judge GUlliam fills the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Judge Tom Hughes who forsook
judicial honors to take up the bur
dens of a freshman at the University
of Oregon last fall.
LOCAL RAILROAD MAN
MAY INHERIT MILLIONS
FIREMAN LEE IV LIVE FOR
SHAKE IX ENGLISH ESTATE
Called
to Portland Monday to
Consult Wi'li LnwyeiVHandlinK
Matter
To step from the cab of a railroad
locomotive on the Heppner branch
into the possession of millions may be
the lot of R. C. Lee, fireman on the
Heppner branch run, who went to
Portland yesterday to confer with at
torneys who are looking after the in
terests of American heirs to the Em
erson estate in England which is said
to include real estate in London tc
the value of many millions of dollars.
Mr. Lee was not unduly excited
over the good news as he took the
train yesterday morning, but he ad
mitted that if the promised windfall
materializes it will not be unwelcome.
Many years ago it appears that the
original owner of the property with
his wife came to this country and
that both died suddenly after their
arrival and all trace of them wad
lost for a number of years. The
family was an old one in England
and one branch which later came to
America Included Ralph Waldo Em
erson, the famous man of letters
among it descendants.
Mr. Lee's family also belongs by
direct descent to the Freak or Frake
family, of England, which also In
volveg an immense estate in that
country which has not been account
ed for to the rightful heirs and at
torneys are also working on that mat
ter with the expectation of recover
ing large holdings in England, to the
heirs in this country.
With tvro such prospects In sight
Mr. Lee at least has fome pleasant
things to think about while shovel
ing coal into the fire box.
Of These 20 Were Chosen to Livethe
Rest to Face Death
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(By J. J. Handsaker, Director of !
Near East Relief.)
I have often read of children being
refused admission to orphanages and
dying from hunger and cold, but I
did not think such things were pos
sible until I was chosen to pick 20
children out of a group of 200 or
more last August at Erivan.
Except for their rags, their dis
eases and their starvation, these
children were as attractive as any I
have ever met. The orphanages
were overcrowded, the food supplies
short and we did not dare to take in
more for fear of imperiling the lives
of those already in our care.
HOTEL PATRICK HAS NEW
MANAGER
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dean arrived
in Heppner Friday evennig from
Portland to assume the management
of Hotel Patrick taking the place of
Mrs. Pyle who has conducted the
hotel for the past six months and who
resigned recently on account of 111
health.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean come to Hepp
ner with the highest recommenda
tions as competent hotel people and
Mr. Foley has full confidence that un-.
der their managment the Patrick will
be conducted in a manner that will
assure entire satisfaction to all pat
rons of the hotel, both commercial
local, and tourist.
Mr. Dean has had many years ex
perience in the hotel business haVing
been connected with the Majestic
hotel at Spokane for a number of
years where he became thoroughly
familiar with conditions in the Inland
Empire, learning the hotel needs,
Ikes and dislikes of the people of
this big bunchgrass country includ
ing farmers, stockmen, miners and
business men.
From Spokane Mr. Dean went to
the New Richmond hotel at Seattle,
where he spent several years, going
from there to the Mount Ranter
National Park hotel in the capacity
of chief clerk and where they handl
ed 51,000 guests last summer. Mrs.
Dean has also had extensive hotel ex
perience with the housekeeping de
partment of Hotel Davenport at Spo
kane as well as in other places. They
have both had hotel experience In
smaller towns and prefer the small
town rather than the big city where
timate personal contact with his
guestB.
Mr. Dean took charge of the hotel
Monday morning and to a Herald re
porter who Inquired concerning his
plans he replied that he had no state
ment to make other than that
by courteous treatment of his guests
and close attention to little details
which go to make the modern hotel
a real home to those who stop there,
he hopes to make good with the
people of Heppner and tho traveling
public. '
HARRY
CVMMIVftS
INSANE
ADJUDGED
Word was received by Charles
Swindig a few days ago from Mrs.
Harry Cummings, of Portland, that
her husband had been adjudged in
sane and taken to the state hospital
at Salem.
Mr. Cummlnes. who has been a
familiar figure In Heppner for years,
suffered a severe attack of blood
poison some time ago and went to
Portland where his wife and daught
er reside for treatment. About a
week ago he returned to Heppner for
a day or two when he seemed to be
considerably unbalanced. He return
ed to Portland and the next day .was
placed under restraint and taken to
the hospital. He has long been con
sidered erratic and his friends will
hope that under proper care at the
hospital he may irln nil tnentsJ
faculties.
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In Erivan, 4,000 children are safe
under the American flag. While we
were rejoicing in abundant harvests
at Thanksgiving time the children
outside of these orphanages were dy
ing like flies. Six years of war has
left the country prostrate. The
people are quick to recover from dire
poverty, once they have a chance,
and now that peace has come to the
Caucasus, they are hopeful that the
worst of their troubles may be over
by spring.
The great anxiety of the Near-East
Relief workers is for the immediate
care of 100,000 children in
the orphanages and the rescue of
great numbers outside.
INDUSTRIAL REVIEW SHOWS
TIMES BETTER
The following industrial notes
gleaned from all parts of Oreeon
shows that business is on tho up
grade. Let's all cheer up and get
ready to meet the wave when it hits
Heppner.
Klamath Falls calling for bids on
26,680 yards of paving.
.viyrtie point Standard Oil to
build distributing plant here.
Oakland Drilling for oil starts.
Union to lay walor mains prior to
paving.
Roseburg New concrete block
building started.
Portland Artisans to add 4 stories
costing ?1 50,000.
Lancaster to build new 2-romm
school building.
State Highway Commission lets
$1,000,000 road contracts.
Corvallis, Monroe and Bellfountain
telephone line to be rebuilt.
Roseburg to vote on bonds for ad
ditions to schools.
Dallas Machine & Locomotive works
monthly payroll $5,000.
Astoria $203,700 paid monthly to
men employed In logging camps.
Eugene Field good for sash and
door factory.
Astoria Pacific Power & Light Co
reduces gas rates 15 per cent.
Oregon-California Power Co. build-
ig une irom Springfield to Rose-
"urKi
Vale high school to have radio -
phone with 3,000 miles range.
Astoria Contracts awarded to
complete Seaside road.
Eugene I 5-apartment building to
be erected.
Vale cuts Bchool budget
cent.
Cascade Locks "Bridge
Gods" (o cost 4.;o.nnft
25
per
of the
Milton box factory has record of
starting 9 years ago with 7 men and
daily capacity of 1500 fruit boxes
and expanding until now It empoiys
over 100 men and has a capacity of
17,000 boxes.
Gates now has standard high
School.
Eugene wants clothing factory.
Tillamook plans armory.
Union Pacific and O. W. R. ft N. to
eipend $5,000,000 on construction.
Sherwood pushing for 200-man
shoe factory.
State Is paying $2,042,008 a year
an bond Interest.
Marshfleld New cedar sawmill to
be built at Rock Point.
Of 34,000 service men In the state,
12,000 will take loans.
Durkee force of men opening
Lost Tral mine.
Monmouth Contract let for new
First National bank building.
Hood River Dee Flat forming 2,
000 acre irrigation district.
Estacada to have new $20,000 oil
station.
Midland 12215 beef cattle worth
$730,000 have been shipped from
here.
Stayton woolen mills enlarging to
employ 100 persons.
Hood River apple shipments total
2803 carloads.
W. 11. HAKRATT ..RE-APPOIXTEI)
hk; H W A Y COM MI SSIOX E R
Friends of W. B. Barratt as well
as all citizens of the state who are
interested in the work of the state
highway commission, will be grati
fied to know that Governor Olcott
has r e-a p p o i n t e d him t o
the commission, the action taking
effect April 1st. Mr. Barratt was ap
pointed to fill the vacancy on the
commission occasioned by the death
of Edward Kiddle and has proven a
most, efficient, pains taking and fair
minded official.
In performing his duties as com
missioner all sections of the state
have looked alike to Mr. Barratt, and
his hard-headed horse sen.se in help
ing to work out the many problems
of highway building has been a valu
able asset to the people of the state.
The action of Governor Olcott will
doubtless meet with general approval.
To attempt to improve on the present
personnel 5f the commission R. A.
Booth, John Yoen and Mr. Barratt
would bo a rathet difficult ta'k.
EX-SERVHT
MAX GOES EAST TO
WED
Tat Prior, who has been working
for Pat Connell and Frank Monalian
since returning f rum France where he
spent three years in the trenches, left
Friday morning for New York City
to meet "the sweetest girl in the
world" and soon after his arrival in
Gotham there will be a wedding. At
the depot. Friday morning Tat said
that when ho came west he thought
thought he might find a girl out here
but that Barney Devlin "beat him to
it," but after thfaking again of the
New York girl he added that, "maybe
the joke was on Barney after all."
Mr. Prior was' wounded twice dur
ing the war and after reaching New
York he will receive several hundred
dollars as bonus money which he and
the "sweetest girl in the world will
make good use of starting house-
vain
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PATTERSON FAMILY UICTURN TO
HEPPNER
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Judge C. C. Patterson and family,
I w,1 moved to Portland a couple of
' years aB llave returne(1 to I"'M,nPr,
an(1 wi" af'ain make their home here.
-TnPy nn lvo(1 VrMW evening and are
! getting settled In the apartment form
erly occupied by them In the Oilman
building on Willow street. Judge
and Mrs. Patterson s-ay they are glad
to be back in Heppner and their
many friends here will rejoice to
again have them for neighbors.
RECEIVE RADIO STUFF
VIA. ELECTRIC LIGHT WIRE
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 31
A new development In radio by which
i music, news, lectures and other foruiB
! of speech can be received by attach-
j ing tho usual receiving Inlrfrument
to the electric lamp and eliminate
j tho antenna, as well as relieving the
congestion of wireless broadcasting
; in the uir w:ih announced todav bv
Major General Squier, Its Inventor
and chief signal corps officer of the
army.
The first public demonstration of
the new "wired wireless" was held
in the wlgnal corps' headquarters to -
day. The wholrf operation of Instal
ling the device for receiving conslHt
ed merely of removing a bulb from
a lamp on General Squire's desk, In
serting (he receiving plug In the tame
manner as electric fanH, vacuum
cleaners and flat Irons have been at
tached to the lighting circuits. The
broadcasting station, It was explained
was connected with the lighting cir
cuit through a lamp receiver at
another point.
The invention W btdleved by signal
corps officers to offer a great utility
to owners of electric lamps every
where and, the general said, couM
bring to every home where there Is a
lighting system the concerts which
previously have been broadcasted
through the air and received through
the antennae.
Another advantage claimed by the
Inventor is the relief of congestion of
tho t. Ir which It offers In a modiflt rl
degree and which Secretary Hoover
recently called upon the National
wircl'-tiB conference for a solution.
Broadcasting over greut distances
by uso of the Invention Is believed to
be possible, but the use has not been
attempted as yet. The Idea was con
ceived lei(s than a week ago, General
iSquIer said. I
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REMAIN ON WILLOW 01
RIGHT-OF-WAY TANGLE SET
TLEI WITHOUT DAMAGES
Road Meeting Tuesday Evening
Showed Sentiment Strong
Against Clwiiigo
Strong sentiment against chang
ing the location of the Oregon-Washington
highway from the original
route down Willow creek to tho
i Junction to a new route from Rhea.
across the flat to Arlington was ex
pressed at a meeting of citizens of
Heppner, lone, Rhea and other inter.
esteir points called by the commer
cial club last Tuesday evening.
W. B. Barratt, member of the high
way commission, was present and ex
plained the situation with a itate
ment of the actual conditions, viz:
That properly owners on the crook
in Gilliam county were demanding
prohibitive damages; that tho Gil
liam county court had flatly refused
lo acquire such fight-ol'-way ; that
the commission is anxious to com
plete a connection of the highway
with the Columbia river highway and
that the commission is and has been
a unit In wishing to follow the water
level; that the Survey across tho
flat is only tentative to dotermine
whether that route is feasible in caso
no other solution should be possible.
A committee was appointed to ac
company Mr. Barratt over the route)
Thursday and when the trip was
mado and the matter threshed out
with the property owners everything
was settled amicably, the right-of-way
being given without cotrt. It ii
now believed the highway will lm
completed as originally planned and
this county given a direct outlet to
tho river. I
P-T MEETING NEXT TUESDAY
The regular meeting of the Patron
Teachers association will bo held en,
Tuesday, April 31, in (he high s-choel
auditorium at 3:30 p. in., Nomina
tions for officers for the coming year,
will he made at (his lii.ie.
The program will he as follows;
Songs. ...Seventh and eighth grade
Song Mrs. Mario Cochran
BLANCH FAHY,
Secretary, j
ALICE IN IIUNGLItLAM) AT Till)
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"I saw 'Allco in liungeiland' in
1 I'ortlarxi recently, and I asked Mr.
Handsaker to bring It to Morrow
county. I was so Impressed Willi
this wonderful film that I want every
person In Morrow county to see It
Just as far an possible," stated Mr.
Notson, county chairman of Near
East Relief.
"Alice" was discovered by a party
of Noar East Relief workers in a
great orphanage In Constantinople.
Sho hud been rescued from the slums
of that city, one of the 14,000 child
ren in that city owing their lives to
America. Allco accompanied them
on their trip and bo endeared herself
to the members of the party that iii
was adopetd and brought to Arnerlra.
In the pictures she Is shown as
she visits the greut orphanages, hos
pitals' and rescue nonius of Southern
Russia and Armenia.
A matinee, especially for children
j ,"lt "P''n to adults, will be held at
3:45 P. M. today, Tuesday at tho star
Theatre and a regular show ut 8:l)i
P. M. Wednesday tho pictures ill
be shown at Lexington and Thursday
at lone.
Mr. Handsaker will bo present at
all the showings of tho picture and
will (ell of tho mining ofAlice. Ad-
flon Is free
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