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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. ,