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IF YOU WANT THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS. READ THE HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST. i . natflllild li t India D (, "1 VOLUME VIII HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL i8, 1922 NUMBER 51 NEW SUPERINTENDENT E. H. HEDRICK, OF DRAIN' WILL HEAD REITS EH SCHOOLS Highly Recommended as One of States Foremost Educators. Other Teachers Chosen Heppner public schools will be con ducted under the superintendence of Prof. E. H. Hedrick, of Drain, during the coming school year, according to announcement made by the local school board recently, a contract with that gentleman haVing been signed a few days ago. Prof. Hedrick, who is superinten dent of the Central Point schools in Jackson county, at present is a resi dent of Drain, Oregon, and, although a young man, has been engaged in the professions of teaching for a num. ber of years. His first term ' of school was taught at Cecil, in this county in 1910-11 and residents of that .district gie him high praise as an instructor and manager. He is a graduate of Oregon State Normal and of the University of Oregon and ' has had experience as' principal and sup erintendent at Monmouth and Cen tral Point. Mr. Hedrick comes to the Heppner schools with the highest recommenda tions as to his qualifications as an ed ucator, some of which speak of him as one of the coming men of the state in his profession. He is 34 years old an ex-service man, a mem ber of the Elks and Masonic frater nities and will no doubt prove a val uable acquisition to the town and community. Other teachers already elected to positions on the faculty are: Mrs. Bernice Dafoe Hopper, music; Miss Norris, domestic science and art; Mrs. Edna Turner, 1st grade; Miss Faye, 2nd grade; Mrs. E. E. Clark 3rd grade; Miss Quisenberry, th grade; Miss Turner, 7th grade; all of whom are now niemibers of tne faculty. Other positions, ex Cfpt that in the opportunity room which will be discontinued, will be filled later. Prof. James, whose contract with the district expires at the end of the present term, has not announced his plana for the future. MIKESELL-DAVI9 Miss Gjladystine Davis, of Lexing ton, and Mr. Loren E. Mikesell, of Heppner, were united in marriage at the home of the bride's parents, at Lexington, last Sunday, April 16th, Rev. W. 0. Livingstone' officiating. Only the immediate relatives of the young couple were present. Mr. Mikesell is -a valued employe of the Standard Oil Co. here and Is is one of Heppner's best respected young men and his bride is one of Lexington's most charming and talen ted young ladies. Immediately following the cere mony Mr. and Mrs. Mikesell left ir their car for a two week's honeymoon which they will spend at Portland and Eugene, and uponitheir return they will make their home in Hepp ner "Spec" Aiken, who 'Is attending Columbia University In Portland, Journeyed up to his home town last Saturday to help "Pap" Van Marter's gang play ball. "Spec" returned to Portland Tuesday morning. Serving At Hotel Patrick Ewy Sunday Chicken For DINNER from 12:00 to 2:00 FOR SUPPER From 6:00 to 8:00 FATROX-TEACHERS HOLD INTER ESTING SESSION At the regular meeting of the Patron-Teachers association held ' last Tuesday afternoon an enjoyable mu sical program was given. Pupils of the 7th and 8th grades gave three numbers and Mrs. Marie Cochran,, of Klamath Falls sang a solo. Nomination of officers was in Order and received attention. The annual election will be held at the next regu lar meeting. Resolutions were adopted extend ing the thanks of the association to Prof, and Mrs. James for their pains taking work in the schools during the past two years.l RAISING CLEAN' HAY The hearings on hay grades held recently emphasized the fact that clean hay always! commands a pre mium, and the district that is known for clean hay can easily dispose of its hay when other districts carry this hay over. The hay from the Touchet Valley is known all over the Northwest for its quality, and has1 been the keenest competitor of the Hermiston district during the past year. Mr. Burlingame, who owns and op crates more hay land than any other one man in the territory, attended the Hermifton grade hearing and he states that any field can be 'cleared of cheat By 'proper cultivation. He spring tooths his hay as much as six times tach spring, and gets good re sults. This agrees with the recommenda tions of the Hermiston Experiment station. Late cultivation with a spike tooth harrow, if the ground has been pre viously well spring toothed, will help greatly. If the cheat, does get by cultivation by no nivalis allow it to ripen. If cut green it will get by the grader, but matured cheat grass is' cause lor serious dockage. OREGON COOPERATIVE HAY GROWERS. Hermiston, Or. LOCAL ODD FELLOWS TO CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY tO,'W ANNIVERSARY OK ORDER APRIL 2th All Day Program Will Be Held. Public Invited to Evening Program Willow Lodge, No. 66, I. O. O. F., will celebrate the 103rd anniversary of that popular order on Wednesday, April 26th to which all members of the order within reach of Heppner are invited. Deputy Grand Masted S. F. Bowen, of Hermiston and Grand Marshal M. F. Watts, of Athena, will be pres ent and will take part in the cere monies. There will ' be a special Mating of Willow lodge held at 3:00 P. M. and a banquet will 'beserved at 6; 00 P. M. to all members of the order, at 8:00 P. M. a highly in teresting program will be given in the lodge room to which the public is cordially invited. Following is the evening pro rrara: Piano Solo Mrs.;Loa B. Taylor R't-ding Mrs. Mayme Moore Address Deputy Grand Master S. F. Bowman Selection Lone Balm Lodge Reading .... M,ss Addie Quissenberry Whistling 8olo Misg Elizabeth - Phelps Selection ....Hardman Rebecca Lodge ! Address Grand Marshall i - M. L. Watts Vocal Solo Mrs. Helen Walker .Selection lone Lodge No. 1$5 'Address S. E. NotBon Selection Lexington Lodge Fancy Drill Degree Team ; -...Heppner Rebecca Lodge Social Time Rev. Father Malloy, of New Zeal and, who has been here for some time vteiting his friend, Rev. FatherCant well, was reported quite ill last even ing but much improved this morning. Father Malloy Bfcrved In an Irish regiment as Chaplain all through the world war and was almost con tinuously at the front. Besides being wounded several times he also suf fered from shell shock and his pres ent illness ig' ascribed to his war experiences. LEXI PRESENTATION OF "THE AMA ZONS" PLEASES BIG AUDIENCE Latent Ability of Student-Actors Brought Out By Careful Coach ing of Mrs. lone Wells Students of the English depart ment of Lexington high school are no second raters as stage entertaiin ers according to the verdict of the big audience present at the high school auditorium in that town last Thursday evening when members of the English classes' put on the three act iarcial romance, "The Amazons," a most interesting and effective play. The young students taking part dis played much real ability on the stage their latent histrionic talents having been carefully developed and trained by their efficient instructor, Mrs. Tone T Wells, who coached the play. There were several unique charac ters portrayed. Two calling forth much applause and many laughs were Monsieur De Grival, the Frenchman, portrayed by Herman Hill, senior, and Lord Tweenways, the non-athletic Englishman, played by Fred Harper, freshman. Lord Litterly, the Oxford athlete, was well presen ted by Dallas Ward, sophomore. The "eccentric" Lady Castlejordan was admirably played by Gladys Benge, senior, who also gave much dignity to the part. Her three athletic daughters, "The Amazoi.s," were well presented by Wilma Leach, junior, Maxine Gentry and Hulda Tucker, Sophomores, who most admirably looked and took the parts. Rev. Minchin was well played by Lawrence Beach, sophomore, whose manner isms were quite characteristic of the part. Fitton, a game keeper, taken by George Tucker, junior, and a double role of Youatt, a servant, and Otis, a poacher, by Elmo McMillan, sophomore, were very good. The presentation was most creditable as to point of detail. LOCAL BUSINESS CHANGES During the past week R. M. Hart, one of Heppner's pioneer, business men, disported of his confectionery store on Main street to Henry Schultz, of Condon, who also bought out M. W. Hammer's bakery business which is operated in the Hart build ing. Possession of the two businesses is to be taken over by Mr. Schultz on May 15th. Mr. Schultz was in business at Echo before going to Condon several years ago and he enjoys a high reputation as a first class baker and good busi ness man in both these towns. Mr. Hart still retains ownership of the building and has leased It to Mr. Schultz for a term of years. Mr. Hart has not decided just what he will da but may take a vacation from business for awhile. Mr. Hammer also states that he has no immediate plans for the future but will engage in business at some other point when he finds a suitable location.1 Hill & Johns have also disposed of the Universal Garage ito Wilbur Browning, who will continue the business in the Oilman building on Willow street. I BASEBALL Pendleton Independents vs. Heppner Sunday at Gentry Field CO-OPERATIVE SALES ARE BEST SAYS R. A SHEARING IS HELD BACK BY UN FAVORABLE WEATHER Maiket for Eastern Wool Expected to Open Tn Per Cnt Below Contract Price (Oregonian) Most of the wool buyers havejgone to the Yakima country, where the season is about to open. Shearing in that section started somejUme ago, out. nas Deen ncia oacic Dy Daa weather. A few small lota of Yakima wool have been sold in the past few days. Medium grades are worth 18 to 23 cents and fine 23 to 2 5 cents. It is probable the coming week will see a brisker movement in Yakima wools. Eastern Oregon shearing Bhould begin in about ten days around Echo if the weather is favorable. It is the opinion of wool buyers that pri ces on Oregon shorn wool will iopen about ten per cent below the highest quotation that prevailed during the contracting period. i Advices received yesterday from Utah were of an inactive market. Shearing has been delayed by bad weather in most of jthe Utah sections. "Recent developments in the wool market," said R. A. Ward, general manager of the Pacific Co-operative Woolgrowers, "indicate that-thls sea son will be a year when wools con signed or marketed co-operatively through growers associations will bring more than thosP,Sold at shear ing time. Contracting of clips ceas ed quite a while ago. Unless some thing unus'ual develops, a slow sea son is In prospect and sales at shear ing corrals are likely to be at conser vative figures. This is to be expect ed under the uncertainties which ex i,h'tPoncerning the tariff situation. , "Buyers do not care to operate ex tensively under the present emer gency tariff when wools so purchased will have to be sold under the per manent tariff which may be consid erably lower. This past season, the various wool marketing organizations have served their members well dur ing a very bad wool year. It is log ical to expect them to serve growers to even better advantage now that a semblance of normalcy has re turned to the wool trade. "Some 60,000,000 pounds of wool were marketed to good advantage co. operatlvely last year, and it Is expect ed that this quantity will be doubled in 1922. The soundness of the plan of orderly marketing of wools co-operatively and properly preparing them for market Is now quite gener ally recognized by leading sheepmen throughout the range states." A. A. "Zip" Moeller, of Oregon City arrived In Heppner Thursday and will affix himself to a good job in or r.round Heppner and grow up with the country. "Zip" Is a nifty ball pitcher and last year played In the Willamette Valley league, his team annexed the pennant at tho end of the sor.son. Moeller will help put some "zip" into tho Heppner team this season. Mrs. S. W. Spencer returned from Pendleton Saturday where she visit ed friends for a week or so. LEGION WILL PUT OX MEMBER SHIP CAMPAK,V At a meeting of Heppner Post American Legion last Wednesday evening it was decided to put on a membership campaign for six weeks ending June 1st. During this per iod the annual dues will be reduced to $1.75, per year which includes " a subscription to the American Legion Weekly. The local post now has 36 mem bers and an effort will be made dur ing the campaign to push the roll up past the 50 mark which will entitle the Po&t to two delegates to the state convention which will meet at The Dalles uJly 27, 28 and 29. HARRY COIMIXGS PASSES Word reached Heppner last Thurs day evening of the death of Herry Cummings which occured at the State Hospital at Salem, Wednesday, April 12th. Mr. CUmmings was an old time res idnet of this county whero he had been a unique figure for many years. In the early days he was engaged in the sheep business but of lateyears he resided in Heppner where he owned property near the depot. He was a man of ideas and IdealB and although erratic in mmny ways he had the courage of his convictions and cared not who disagreed with him. Hud only a fraction of his dream g materialize! into realltios he might have revolutionized many things in this world. He suffered frohi a Severe attack of bloed polr.on some time ago and went to Portland for treatment whero his mind became affected r.nd he was taken to the Bt'ito hospital a couplo of weeks ago. His widow and one dzughtiT, who reside In Portland, survive him. Jack Hynd was up from Cecil Wed nesday looking for Lum Gordon, the official weather prophet. Jack says he is entirely fed up on Lum's brand of weather of April weather and he sure had blood in his eye. Gordon is in a safe place out of town but he grapevined a message to the Herald saying that while the people may not like the kind of weather they have been getting they must admit that he haa' told them the truth about It. IS AT F. A. McMENAMIN NOTIFIED BY PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Twenty Days Allowed For Compli ance. Ferry Will Soon lo OiK'ratlng F. A. MicMenamln, who acted as at torney for A. H. Straight and the county court in the mrtler of their application to tho Public Service Commissions for a crossing and right of way over the O. W. II. & N. tracks at. Boulder to connect the Columbia River highway with the landing of Boulder-Alderdale ferry, received a notico the other dr.y that the np;.ll cation h;is been gra..U'd. Twon,.y days ure allowed ftom t' e date) of the petition for compliance which was April 12th. Testimony was taken In the mat ter at Ilermlhtom, Ore.ion, on April ?th and consldnrable testimony wan taken, Mr. McMenamln appearing for " petitioners and W. A. Uobbins for the railroad company. j The company contended that a j grade crowing at that point would be highly dangerous and urged that If any crossing (be granted that an ' underway crossing be ordered. The j plaintiffs urged that anything but a grade crossing would bet Impractlc jable and after hearing tho testimony j Commissioner H. H. Corey rendered j the decision as above Indicated with CommltfBloner Rushtel concurring. The decision will make the service j of this Important ferry available soon ! and will benefit many people on both sides of the river who need more j direct communication than has here i toforo been possible. Henry Gfty, who recently sold his Rhea creek ranch to Robert Alstott, has bought the VValden Rhea farm at the mouth of Butter creek and Is inov Ing his household goods (hero this week. The place contains 60 acres, all alfalfa land with 40 acres already in crop. The place W six miles from Hermiston arid in considered a most desirable farm home, L FAILED TO FUNCTION FATAL FIRST FOOZKLED LOCAIi TEAM AT lONE Pitcher Blew Up, Came Back, Tenut Follow! Suit. Umpire Had Own System "Pap" Van Marter's boys handed Mm a frst class "blowout" nt Iouo last Sunday and the lamentable re sult was a final Jscore of 10-4 in favor of the Egg city. It all happened in. tre Crsi. inning when for rfomo un known reason, Broughton, who had been half way on the sick list all weslc, simply failed to function and let in 7 big, 'elegant tallies faster than ou could reel off the days ot week. This so queered Griffin that he couldn't -have stopped a collapsed toy ballon and the basemen and field ers promptly fell in line and forgot they were alive. One well known fan put it this way: "In dat flrat chapter de pitcher had absolutely nothin', not even support." In the second and subsequent in nings up to tho end of the seventh, "Zip Moeller, iHeppner's new pitcher, took the box and after he delivered his first ball the boys pricked up their ears, rubbed the cobwebs out of their peepers and came to llfo playing ball and from that, time until the end lone had all they could con veniently handle. After the second Griffin retired and "Spec" Aiken was transferred from second to tho cat cher's place where he played a Ann game. "Pap" Van, himself, took "Spec's" place at second and in spite, of the fact that ho had been goln, on three legs for a couple of weeks because of a badly sprained ankle, he proved that a real ball player vever gets too old or too lamo to do Ilia d st in a pinch. He played the gamo like the, veteran that he is. At the end of the seventh Moeller covered home plate to flag "Dutch" Id ilman, who was coming like a cy clone from third, and whllo ho goc his n ian and ended the inning, he alsi got "Dutch's" spikes in his leg leav ing a gaping wound 7 inches long and that bared the bone. "Dutch" ha had other similar accidents in th past and while nobody believes tin doe." It intentionally, it would be. nighty comforting to base runners o competing teams If he could be per suaded to play the rest of tho season In his stocking feet. Tho accident Kent Moeller to the hospital and liroughton went back to the box and in the two final innings he pitched line ball. Alter the first canto it was a good game and that first blowout can only be accounted for on the theory that It happen.- to the best of 'em once in awhile. Blake, who umpired the game, 'is entitled to special mention. Hluko Is some umpire. He bus a system all his own, thii Ins and outs of which are like a Chinese puzzle to the ordin ary hard-boiled fan. Strikes and balls all look alike to Blake and a litlle matter of ten or fifteen feet iu deciding whether a runner was safo or out, or whether tho ball panned over the plate, didn't disturb hi young life a-tall. As an umplro Blake is entitled ,lo a nickel plated wrist watch studded with diamond the size of a baseball. He is in a. ! class by himself. After the first Inning Heppner scored four to Iono's throo and If th Hook of Rules permitted, we would Just, rub out that first canto and claim tho game, But, svelng It don't we won't, A game Is scheduled for the Hepp ner grounds next Sunday, April 23rd, with the Pendleton Independents which promises to bo a humdinger. Pendleton fans bet their money on the Independents and say they are the real article. FORMER HEPPNER HOY WEDS IN IDAHO Announcement of t'tc approaching wedding of Searlo Adklns was recelv ej from Em melt, Idaho several days ago, (lie wedding being for last, Sunday. Ills bride is a Mini Russell, of that city, and la said to be a most charming young lady. Mr. Adkins, who is a son of Mrs. Mattle Adkln.i, of this cily, W connected v.ith tho leading undertaking buslm-sH at Em melt and Is a rising young business man. Many friends hern will t.in j iu usual felicitations. ,