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VOLUME IX
IIEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1923
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GAME PLEASES FANS
LOCAL TEAM WINS FAST GAME
AVITH 2-4 SCORE
Record Crowd ail Gentry Field Watch
With Inteest Best Game
of Season
"Best game of season, so far," was
the verdict of between 300 and 400
enthusiastic fans who thronged Gen
try field Sunday afternoon to wit
ness the Boardman-Heppner game.
No grass was allowed to grow be
neath the feet of any of the 18 play
ers for the game was finished in 1
hour, 3 5 minutes flat. Irving Mather
umpired the game with evident sat
isfaction to everybody, and Jack Gor
ham, for Boardman, and L. G. Drake,
for Heppner, kept score so accurate
ly that no second game had to be
played to settle the matter.
Boardman went to bat with a bang
and the second man up was able to
score the initial tally. Heppner fol
lowed, suit and went the irrigators
one better by scoring two times in
the first. Then for several innings
it was a sort of saw-off with two
nice, big goose eggs as prizes. Then
Heppner gathered in two more and
in the 9th canto Boardman picked
up another score, making a two-four
same.
Captain Speck Aiken is credited
'with two of Heppner's scores, Paul
Aiken with one and Brown with one,
whilo Boardman's two scores were
brought in by the two Macomber
brothers.
The game was snappy and to the
point. No time was watsed by either
side and the decisions were eminent
ly fair and left no ground for wrang
ling. Mather has a voice that easily
carries his decisions to tho bleach
ers and he is not afraid to use it
and that, in itself, is worth twice the
ump's salary.
Boardman players and Boardman
fans are of the quality of sportsman
ship that is good to mingle with.
They are persistent, consistent and
insistent rooters for their team but
fair and square.
The line-up and score:
Keys p Broughton
King c Watkinn
Macomber, N. lb Aiken, S.
Lower 2b Ward
Rand 3b Van Matter
Lea v S3 Elwood
Wagner rf Aiken, P.
Macomber, A. cf Allen
Mefford U Brown
Score: Heppner, 4; Boardman, 2.
Time of game, 1 h. 35 min.
C. C. Calkins writes the Herald
from Spokane asking to have his
copy of the Herald sent to his ad
dress in that city and adds that all
is going" well with the Calkins family
and that they are getting settled
both in home and business. Mr. and
Mrs. Calkins recently moved to Spo
kane where he has organized the
Calkins Machine Co., to manufacture
and put on the market the Calkins
dry process smut treating machine.
"BIGGER, BETTER THAN
EVER" HEPPNER RODEO
SUCH WAS SPIRIT OF
NIGHT'S MEETING
LAST
McNamer, Gantry, LatonreU, Who
Made Success Last Year,
Are Retained .
That Heppner will have a bigger
and better Rodeo meeting in 1923
than we had in 1922 was the dictum
of a largely attended (meeting of
boosters at council chambers last
evening. And that idea contains no
shadow of criticism of what was ac
complished last year. It only means
that the experience gained last year
will be a big help towards making
a still greater success.
The Rodeo last year was managed
and directed by an executive com
mittee consisting of C. W. McNamer,
L. V. Gentry and Chas. H. Latourell
and last night's meeting showed its
appreciation of their work by unan
imously electing them to the same
position for tho present year. J. J.
Nys, who served as secretary-treasurer
for the Rodeo last year, was
also complimented for his valuable
work a year ago by being re-elected
treasurer, but the duties of his
former job being rather too much
for one man who is busy with his
own affairs, the two offices were
segregated, Mr. Nys being re-elected
treasurer and L. E. Van Marten was
elected secretary.
Rodeo matters were pretty thor
oughly discussed at the meeting and
it was decided that considerable
worlc must be done on the track, the
intention being to move the track
some 60 feet farther west which will
necessitate considerable grading and
filling at the lower end turns. Per
manent fencing will also be put up
and a stable to house stock entered
for 'the various events will be
erected. ..-.
The executive committee was give,
authority to appoint sub-committees
and to have general charge of the
business.
The committee started last year
without a dollar in the treasury and
with guarantees by tho business
men of some $1200.00. The track
had to bo graded, bleachers built,
corrals and fences constructed and
when the show was over a deficit of
only some $500 showed on the books.
Headed by Mr. Gentry, who donated
his big barn for the occasion, a big
country dance was given in January,
the proceeds of which practically
wiped out tho indebtedness.
While the dates have hot yet been
definitely fixed, it is probable the
big show will be held on September
27-28-29. -
FARM AXI RANCH LABOR
SCARCE
Farm and stock ranch hands are
scarce in Morrow county this spring
and farmers and sheepmen are find
ing somo difficulty in securing need
ed help. Unusual activity in the
lumber camps in western Oregon and
Washington is given as the cause of
the scarcity of labor here.
Base
IONE
vs
HEPPNER
Gentry Field, Heppner, April 22
2:30 O'CLOCK P.M.
This game will be a corker the game we want
to win. Each fan must do his duty by backing
up his home team. Come out and see the game
. ADMISSION 50c
Every Fan Should be There
BY WHAT AUTHORITY?
A prominent and reputable business man of
Heppner informed tne writer the other day that
recently a stranger who introduced himself as
an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan approached
him and asked bluntly which side he was on
Klan, or anti-Klan. Receiving an evasive reply
the stranger retorted: , "Well, as soon as we are
organized here, you will have to line up on one
side or the other."
By what authority, may we ask, does a
stranger, a paid propagandist, if you please, for
an oath-bound, secret, masked organization,
come to a reputable citizen of this or any other
town with a statement like that?. Was the state
riient a covert threat, or was it simply a bluff?
. The business man referred to has several gener
ations of American born forbears behind him and
has been a resident and tax-payer in Heppner
for years. By what authority, then, should he
be lined up by a stranger whose only stake in
Heppner is the salary or commission he draws
from headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia, on the
other side of the continent?
Another substantial business man of Hepp
ner, the other day, while speaking of the attempt
to organize the Klan here, said in substance: "I
will have nothing to do with any such organiza
tion. I will not even go to hear their lectures
because I am convinced that only dissention and
strife and bitterness between former friends and
neighbors "can come out of it. Heppner has had
trouble enough in the past with flood, and fire,
and panic, butr thank God, we have always been
friends and neighbors through these calamities
and have been able to help one another weather
these storms and we w,ill yet pull out of these
hard times if the oranizers will just let us alone
and quit trying to sow seeds of discord and strife
and religious bigotry among us. God only
knows, though, what, will happen if they suc
ceed." This man spoke as he did because of his
knowledge of what hhappened in other Ore
gon towns. Pendleton is' a good example. Once
it had the best get-together, stay-together com
munity spirit of any town in Oregon but when
the Klan organizer got in his wprk stirring up
religious intolerance and racial hatred the spirit
of friendliness was replaced by bickerings and
bitterness and residents there say it will take
years for Pendleton to recover.
Medford is another example. For years that
t nvn worked together like a well trained team,
but when the Klan became well organized many
reputable citizens armed themselves declaring'
that np man could tell when shooting and a gen
eral riot might break loose.
Does Iieppner want to encourage the bringing
about pf any such conditions here?
If let alone, Heppner citizens will never organ
ize any such society. It is only the paid propa
gandist, trained to arouse the religious intoler
ance and bigotry, that seem to be latent in so
many minds, that is resposible for such work.
Will Heppner people listen to his blandishments
and aid him with their money and influence in
solving such seed? The Herald sincerely hopes
that they will not. Better, much better, that we
continue in the old way of helpfulness, and kind
ness and tolerance and charity one to another,
allowing the paid organizer to go his way.
, The Master Christian, than whom humanity
has no safer adviser, has told us, "Whatsoever a
man (or community) soweth that shall he also
reap."
Can Heppner do better than keep that text in
mind ?
KLAN PLAYS PART IN
REMOVAL OP HEADS
OF STATE HOSPITAL
Salem, Ore., April 11. That the
political cards are all stacked for the
removal of Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner and
Dr. L. F. Griffith, superintendent and
assistant superintendent of tho state
hospital for the insane here, "with
in the next 40 days," and that their
successors have already been chosen,
1b the declaration made to several of
the employes of the state hospital
by C. C. Starr, oranizer for the Ku
Klux Klan, during the past few days.
Starr, whoso purpose in approach
ing the employes of the institution
was to induce them to join the klan,
told his prospects that Dr. Stelner's
Job is to go to Dr. Grant Smith of
Portland, and that Dr. R. G. McCall
is to be Dr. Griffith's successor. He
also assured them that membership
qualification in appointing minor em
ployes of the Institution in tho fu
ture. He urged that all of tho pres
ent employes who hope to hold their
Jobs Join the klan at once.
While he laid claim to "Inside in
formation' 'regarding tho plans of
those who hold the Jobs of Steiner,
Griffith and other employes of the
asylum in their hands, Starr refused
to reveal the source of this informa
tion. He would only say that he "had
It straight."
It also developed today that at
least one guard at the peiltentlary,
a hold-over from the old regime who
has been retained because of his in
timate knowledge of the workings of
the institution and his familiarity
with psychology of the convlc.e mind,
has been recently approached
agents of the klan who advised him
that he could not hope to hold his
position unless ho Joined their organization.
IS DEDICATED SUNDAY
INTERESTING ALL-DAY SERVICE
WAS HELD
120,000.00 Editfico Replaces the Old
Structure Destroyed by Eire
Twelvo Months Ago
A large congregation of worship
ers gathered at the new First Chris
tian church building last Sunday
morning to take part in the impres
sive services by which the handsome
edifice was dedicated to religious
purposes. Tho services lasted all
day and well into the evening.
The program opened at 10:00 A.
M. with a short session of the Bible
school when a short program, includ
ing roll call and announcements, an
address by Floyd Ross and a prayer
and praise service was given.
Tho dedicatory services were held
at 10:30 with the following interest
ing program: :
Orchestra.
Doxology.
Invocation.
Scripture Reading Floyd Ross.
Offertory.
Anthem Choir.
' Sermon Floyd" Ross.
At noon a basket dinner was serv
ed in the basement of the new church
and a pleasant social hour was
passed.
At 2:30 P. M. memorial services
were held with the following pro
gram :
Orchestra.
Hymn.
Scripture reading.
Prayer.
Cornet Solo, "Tho Holy City" J.
P. I'erwick.
Communion Hymn.
The Lord's Supper.
Memorial Services.
"The Old Days and the Old Ways''
Vawter Crawford.
Addregs Floyd Ross.
Hymn.
Benediction.
In tho evening, at 6:30 Christian
Endeavor service, led by Reid Bu-
seick, was held and at 7:30 auother
prayer and praise service with scrip
turo reading and sermon by Floyd
Ross and dedication vows, led by W
O. Livingstone with responses by the
congregation, was held.
Tho new church ediflco is a sub
stantial structure, modern in all its
appointments and a credit to the
town and county. Tho cost, when
fully completed is estimated at about
$21,000. A considerable amount of
that sum had been previously con
tributed and at the services Sunday
$8,000 more was contributed to the
building fund.
Tho new building replaces a wood
en structure which was destroyed by
fire February 17, 1922. The old
church was dedicated February 15,
1897, and served tho congregation
as a house of worship 25 years and
two days.
Much of tho credit for putting over
the building program during a period
of unusual financial stringency Is due
to tho building committee of which
E. R. Huston is chairman. Other
members of tho committee are Mrs.
T. J. Humphreys, Vawter Crawford.
It. W. Turner, Charles Thomson, T.
E. Chidsey, Mrs. E. R. Huston, C. C.
Calkins, Mrs, Neva Clabough, Miss
Alma Devlu.
HEPPNER ELKS' LODGE
NSTALL NEW OFFICERS
DISTRICT DEPUTY EBERHEART
CONDUCTS CEREMONIES
Officers and Members Complimented
On Initiatory Work
Exemplified
Heppner Lodgo No. 358, Benevo
lent and Protective Order of Elks,
Installed a new set of officers last
Thursday evening when District
Deputy Exalted Ruler Colin B. Eber
heait, of LaGrando, was present and
conducted tho installation ceremon
ies. Frlor to the installation of offi
cers and during the regular order of
business three new members, Irving
E. Mather, of Heppner, Mead Gil
man, of Monument, and A. E. Feller,
of Arlington, were initiated into tho
order.
New officers installed were:
Earl E. Gilliam, exalted ruler;
L. L. Gilliam, esteemed leading
knight; Frank Turner, esteemed loy
al knight; C. L. Sweek, esteem
ed lecturing knight; Gay M. Ander
son, secretary; Walter E. Moore,
treasurer; J. G. Cowin, tyler; W. A.
Richardson, trustee. .
Appointive officers named were H.
A. Conn, esquire; H. A. Duncan.
chaplain; Glenn Jones, inside guard.
lollowljig tho installation Mr.
Eberheart addressed the lodee civ-
Lig them an informative talk on lat
est Instructions coining from the
grand lodge. Ha also took occasion
to compliment the retiring officers
for the efficient manner in which
they conducted the lodge business
and the initiation of new members.
About 75 members were present
and after adjournment coffee and
handwiches were served in the din
ing room.
AGED LEXINGTON
CITIZEN PASSES AWAY
Charles Wright, an aged resident
of Lexington, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Emma Brahears,
Monday after suffering an attack
Sunday night from which ho failed
to recover consciousness. Mrs. Bra
sheaiB is js only surviving relative.
Funeral services will bo held at St.
Patrick's church tomorrow, Wednes
day, at 10:00 A. M conducted by
Rev Father Gios.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gorhatn and
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bellenger were
here from Boardman Sunday enjoy
ing the ball game.
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from the
factory
FRESH
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now 1 f 1
I ROLL YOUR OWN WI1M i
I RiiL Croix Papars AttarkaJ I '
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WHEN YOU
BUY MEAT
It is a comfort to know that you are getting
only first-class product, handled in a modern
and sanitary manner.
Every department of our establishment is
open to your inspection.
CENTRAL
MARKET
G. B. SWAGGART
2? i In the klan Is to be the principal