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S K Notsov. IF YOU WANT ALL THE NEWS OF MORROW COUNTY WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HEPPNER HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST ID1D VOLUME X HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUL 10, 1923 NUMBER II 4-1-24 MM? NEK. 0 DEFENDANTS APPEAL L0ST1N SUPREMECOURT A copy o the supreme court decis ion in the damage case in which James Carty brought suit against F. A. McMenamin and Patrick Ward for damages growing out of the leasing of grazing lands, was received here by Woodson & Swee'k, attorneys for top plaintiff, a few days ago. The higher court affirmed the decision of Judge D. R. Parker, before whom tho case was tried in circuit court here a year ago when a decision in favor of th e plaintiff was rendered. Mr. Carty entered a contract with .MeMenamin & Ward by which he .leased some 13000 acres of summer sheep range in the state of Washing ton, it being represented to him that it was good summer range and that the price charged him, 20 cents an acre, was the same price the "defend ants were paying the people from whom they leased it. Mr. Carty sent an agent to inspect the range but it is alleged that the defendants did not take the agent to the land iii question but showed him othe.- lands which they represented as beiiig of te sanu; class as the land, iney were leasing to Carty. Later, when Carty took hi3 theep to the i singe he found that ii was lot summer range at all but range of value on.) in early spring and late fall. He also found that the defendants were paying only 15 cents an acre to the owners instead of 20 as they had rep resented to him. One point of interest in the case and upon which the decision seemed to hinge to a considerable extent, was a clause in the leasing contract in which the de fendants claim to make no representa tion to the plaintiff as to the value or ..grazing quality of the range. Carty, in his complaint charged fraud and deceit on the part of the defendants in their -dealings with him and the court held that the position of the defendants in pleading the above provi sion of the lease is untenable and says: "The law is otherwise. If a party is guilty of fraud in making a contract, he cannot exculpate himself from the consequence of his own wrongdoing by a provision in writing that his fraudu lent oral representatives shall not be .used against him in a case in which fraud and deceit is the gist of the cause." The decision handed down follows in almost every instance the brief filed in the case by Woodson & Sweek, attor neys for Mr. Carty. The amount of damages awarded Mr. Carty in the circuit court and affirmed by the supreme court is $1875.00. MOUNTAIN CAMPERS ARE MAR OONED BY RAIN AND MUD A party of Heppner folks made up of Peter Prophet, O. H. Hendrix and E. Albee and their families, went across the Ditch creek summit last Tuesday morning to spend a few days camping and fishnig in the Potamus creek ex pecting to return Friday. Heavy rains coming on Thursday and Friday made the grades impassable, however, and it was not until Monday afternoon that they reached home. Barring the hard experience of bucking mud on the home ward journey, however, they report hav ing had an enjoyable trip but home no doubt looked good to them Monday night. BOARDMAN . . . , .... ,f Boardman, Or., July 7. Several car loads of Boardman people attended the Meacham celebration and report a fine time and a pleasant trip. Those going were Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Hendricks, Mrs. Charles Breeding and family, John Brice and family, Opal Waggoner, Charles Barnes, H. E. and Clay Warren families. Misses Ethel and Edna Broyles, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Murchie, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ballinger, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Carpenter, Lyle Blayden and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Liingman. The families of William and Norma O'Donell, brothers of James O'Donell, visited at the Porter and Conley ranch last week. Mrs. M. B. Signs and family were in Boardman last week. L. V. Woodard of The Dalles was a business visitor in town last Wednesday. Mrs. Charles Breeding and children are visiting at the T. E. Hendricks home. Mrs. Breeding is a sister of Mrs. Hen dricks. Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson and children of New Plymouth, Idaho, ar rived Saturday for a visit with Mrs. An derson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Biayden. The picnic on the fourth was much en joved by the few remaining in the com munity. Afttr a basket dinner a tine program was given, races and other spurts were enjoyed. Free ice cream was served during the entire day. Mr. Klaces with Louise and Fred spent the Fourth at home, returning on Thurs day to Yakima. Mrs. Jacob Marty of Portland is vis i:irg Mr. Marty ar.d Carl. Tom Hendricks ar.d Jce Curran made a business trip to Hermiston on Satur- rs. Bradrhaw and family of LaCrose. .-h.. are hire visiting her :-vr. Mrs. V; O. A. Beck d mother, .-.n. c.n. INVITED TO SPEAK AT VANCOUVER, B. C. District Attorney S. E.Notson has re ceived a letter from L. C. May, president of the International Law Enforcement Officials league, asking him to make an address at the meeting of that body to be held at Vancouver, B. C, July 23-26. The association embraces all law enforcement officials in nine western states and British Columbia and Al berta, in Canada. Mr. Notson and Sheriff McDuffee will attend the meeting if they can arrange to get away from their official duties at home at that time. The last meeting of the association was held at Portland and was a most important meeting in working out plans for better law enforcement. WHEAT IN RECEIVE FINAL CHECKS FOR 1922 Final statemenst and checks covering the 1922 wheat crop handled by the Ore gon Co-operative Grain Growers have been mailed during the past week, ac cording to a statement published in the latest issue of the Producer, official organ of the grain growers associations. The average prices for 1922, basis No. 1, are about the same as those of 1921 although there is a difference in the re lative values of the several varieties of wheat handled. Last season red wheats brought more money on the whole than the white varieties while this sea son the latter were the better sellers. The association officers attribute this change to the fact that this season, due to the fact that the associations have increased west coast prices as compared with the middle west, large quantities of Montana red wheat grown by unorganiz ed producers were dumped on the west ern markets, lowering the price for the red varieties. With the largeJy in creased membership in the Montana as sociation which has been secured during the last three or four months, it is hoped that this dumping will not be continued in the future. The associations this year have pre pared statements showing the average prices returned to growers on a basis of local shipping points, and exclusive of all deductions. J I I ! I ?" i" I I I I i-LOCAL NEWS ITEMS V i I 4 2 ! -I I I ! -I- v - I" Mr. and Mrs. Peter Farley and chil dren spent the Fourth visiting their friends Mr. and Mrs. Pat Connell, on Rhea creek. Mrs. D. E. Gilman returned from Port land Sunday evening where she has been visiting friends since the W. R. C. con vention at Grants Pass last month. Mrs. Gilman has been endorsed by the Ore gon W. R. C. and Grand Army posts for the coveted position of national presi dent of the organization and a spirited campaign will be carried on by her friends and admirers from now until the date of the national convention which meets at Milwaukie, Wis., in September. M. C. Marshall, well known stock man and rancher of Boardman, was a visitor in Heppner Saturday even ing. Mr. Marshall reports that he has been losing a number of sheep lately from his band and on the 4th while himself and family wpre at tending the celebration at Arlington somebody stole 16 head from a small baud in his barn lot. He proposes to take some steps to apprehend the thieves and with that in view is of fering a substantial reward for in formation leading to their arrest and conviction. F. L. Harwood returned from Port land early Thursday morning where he went Monday night to be on the ground ready to help welcome Pres ident Harding and party on the ourth. Mr. Harwood says the trip was one continuous round of pleas ure with but little time wasted sleep Ing. He exchanged smiles with the President which would indicate that each was well pleased with the other. Miss VivianYocum, offico deputy in the sheriff's office, and Postmaster W. W. Smead also went down for the Harding celebration. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mahoney and thjeir daughters, Misses Doris, Kath leen and Patricia, and Mrs. Kenneth Mahoney left Sunday morning for Bonnrs Ferry, Idaho, where they will spend a week or ten days visit ing friends. They will also spend some time visiting friends at Spo kane while on the trip. Captain Everett May, military in struejr at Clemson College, South Carolina, i she-re visiting his sl.-ut-r, Mrs. Guy Boyer, and many old time fri-nds. Captain May is a former Morrow county boy but has bw n in the er,t and south for some tli;'.. He is making the trip in his car and drove from South Carolina to Hepp ner in jut 13 days, eomir.;; by the northern route through the DakoUs r.ni Montana and expects to return by the southern route. L NEED CIVIC TRAINING University of Oregon, Eugene, June 30. (Special.) "Are you giving your students any training for effective cit izenship?" asked superintendent W. J. Cooper" of Fresno, California, in his ad dress before the educational conference at the university June 30, on the sub ject "Education for Effective Citizen, ship." Going on to develop the idea of giv ing high school students a sound basis of civic knowledge, Mr. Cooper said, "There are three essential things in the development of civic knowledge. First, knowledge that will enable me to select the right men for public offices; know ledge that will help me to vote for the right persons to represent me in gov ernment. I don't recall anything that I was taught in school to help me in my selection. We should work out some sort of a criterion for the future voter to use In selecting people to represent him." The second point in the development of civic knowledge is learning to act directly as a law muker, according to Mr. Cooper. This is the sort of train ing, he said, that high school civic classes should offer and do not. "Thirdly," said the speaker, "there is what I shall call the inspectorial side of civic knowledge. Civic classes belong in the street discussing paving, the ad vantages and disadvantages of different materials. They belong in the city hall, the court house and in the state legis lature if they can get there." Mr. Cooper traced the development of civic education from the time of the Civil war when it got its first start down to the present when the vast scope of its subject matter is just beginning to be realized fully. The first so-called civic books, said the speaker, were nothing more than statements of clauses in the federal con stitution. This attitude toward civics arose as a result of the Civil war. "In the late '80's and "90's with the growth of railroad and standard oil combines school masters began to analyze th question of civics anew. They saw that they had given too much time to federal government. They made a place for state government in the civics books. Then in 1900 we began to be confronted with another civic problem, that of city government. We added that, and thus we find the changing emphasis of sub ject matter in civic education tending gradually toward practical application of civic education." SUNDAY SCHOOL HAS NEW QUARTERS The Sunday School which formerly met in the I. O. O. F. hall has se cured the building on Willow street formerly occupied by the IJlkhorn restaurant &nd have fitted the four rooms as a permanent meeting place. The Bethel Sunda .y School is non denominational including attendants from no less than six denominations. The Bible school, with W. O. Dix, superintendent, and Mrs. A. M. Phelps in charge of the primary de partment, neets at 9:45 every Sun day morning. An interesting course of Bibl study is pursued by a num ber of adults every Wednesday even ing. The public generally is cordially Invited to attend all services held at Bethel Chapel and a hearty welcome is assured. IO.VE MAKES THE EAGLE .SCREAM LOUD JULY 4th lone had a b Ig, old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration last Tues day and every rne that attended re ports having a good time. A big delegation went down fro Ht.ppr.cr and ..elpcJ their neighbors celebrate the nation's natal da id a proper an ! itii.g manner. There was a well organized pa- ule, an intcicsting' program, plenty of sports and a 10-lnning ball game be- ! twren Heppner and Ion,e. Hon. 3. K. Notson, of this city, de I'verr.d the address of the day, re ceiving hearty applause for the ex- cil'.er.t ideas expressed. The ball game was one of the moat inteiisting of the season in this county. At the end of the ninth in n lit the teams were tied with a 3-3 score and In the tenth a fumble on tl e field gave lone the coveted run and the game. A dance was held in the evening a.id those present say it was all thai iou!d be desired. Sill 00.00 IUAVA III) 1 00.00 I will pay the above reward of ; $1 00 to any person furnishing nit i information that will lead to the ar rest and conviction of any per.-:on or persons having in their poshes., ion and holding any hhw-p bearing my brand. My brand is a Circle Bar, (a i circle with bar across.) i Dated Boardman, Oregon, this . Tth d;.y of July, Vt'.Z. ; M. C. MARSHALL, I lltf Boardman, Or';. HI STATE CHAMBER TO HAVE Portland, Ore., July 3. (Special.) A. S. Dudley of Sacramento, said to be one of the best Chamber of Commerce men in the United States, has been se lected as Executive Manager of the Ore gon State Chamber of Commerce, begin ning August first. The Board of Directors of the State Chamber authorized the appointment of a highly-trained organization man as a step in the state-wide development pro gram to be undertaken jointly by the Portland and State Chambers. Dudley was selected by a committee of Directors composed of E. B. Hall of Klamath Falls, I. E. Vining of Ashland and Roy T. Bishop of Portland. The new Stato Chamber executive will devote a major part of his time to the state outside of Portland, particularly along the lines of cooperative marketing and the general strengthening and bet terment of agricultural conditions, ac cording to State Chamber officials. This line of work is one in which Dudley is particularly well qualified, and is exactly in line with the state-wide de velopment program for which a fund of $300,000 is now being raised in Port land. Dudley was formerly an assistant sec retary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and for the last three years secretary-manager of the Sacramento Chamber. Under his supervision, the Sacramento Chamber has developed into one of the leading development organiza tions of California and recognized na tionally as a model of its kind. J. W. Brewer, General Secretary of the State Chamber, will be retained in his present position. FOREST SERVICE NEWS A new telephone line has been con struced, southward from Ellis Ranger station to Rimrock, a distance of about ten miles. At Rimrock a horse pastura will be fenced and a small cache of fire fighting tools established. K. P. Cecil and T. P. Flynn of Hit Portland office were in the Gurdane dis trict a few days in connection with the construction of the Western Routo road. Tho route between Ellis and Ditch creek ranger stations was decided upon and part of the way located and staked. Some location work was also done between Ellis(r.nd Ukiah. It is planned to clean the right of way and burn the brush this season, then next year do the grading. Forest Examiner Bottcher who is in charge of improvements was at Ellis Ratiger station and supervised the lo- ( cation work on the Ellis-Rimrock tele phone line. Ranger Groom of tho Hepp ner district assisted in the work of construction. L. M. Bowles who is in charge of the warehouse and dispatcher's at Ukiah, was a visitor in the district the last of the week. Mr. Bowles, in company with Ranger Woods, visited at Arbuckle lockout and familiarized himself with the lay of the land and the fire hazard. Mrs. Fred Casteel and the boys moved from Albee to Ditch Creek Ranger sta tion the first of the week to be with Mr. Casteel during the summer. An attractive new fence of peeled poles has replaced the old yard fence at Ellis station. The work being done dur ing the rainy weather, at odd times. FORMER HEPIWER WOMAN ACCEPTS RESPO.VSl- 1JLE POSITION Mrs. Lena M. White, known in Portland as a business woman ana an executive, is to be house mo! her of one of the cottages on the chil dren's farm home near Corvallis, says th,e Oregonlan. Mrs. C. T. Webb, wife of the superintendent of the home, will have charge of the other. One "Of the twa cottages on the farm is already completed and the other will be finished and ready for occu pancy in 10 days. One of these cot tages Is known as the Wiilard and the other the Oregon. These units of the farm hone will take care of 40 dependent children. Already more than 80 applications have been re ceived for admission to the home. Mrs. White was a former well known Heppner girl, being the daughter of Mrs. W. W. Smead and a sister of Mrs. W. O. Bayless. Special music Sunday, 11 a. m., 7: 45 p. m. Federated Church. Come. resh from the factory I FRESH m V to BACCO f B ROLL YOUR OWN VVI1H I l Ri "La Croix Papers Attacke WILLAMETTE DEBATERS RAISE TEMPERATURE IN MINNESOTA Robert Notson, who is a student at Willamette University, returned to Heppner last Thursday evening to spend his vacation. Mr. Notson was captain of the Willamette debating team that made an extended tour through the mid dle west and south las spring when they won five of the six debates in which they took part. He says the trip was a very enjoyable one despite the fact that they encountered one man's size blizzard in Dakota and 15-below weather in Minnesota. At one point in Minnesota the thermometer registered 15 below when they went into the hall to start the debate and when they finish ed it was thawing the snow and the Minnesotans declared it was the Ore gon hot air dealt out by the Willamette boys that wrought the change in tem perature. The Pacific Co-operative Wool Grow ers' assocaition has been joined this spring by 300 wool growers, bringing the membership to nearly 2500, accord ing to the reports made to the meeting of the directors of hte group held Sat urday, says the Orcgonian. The in crease, it was said, was largely due to the fact that the association's 1922 wool prices were from 3 to 10 cents above the figures obtainable locally. The association's reports on tho wool market recoived from London on the opening of the colonial wool auctions on June 26 were to the effect that greasy continental Merinos wore down 5 to 7 1-2 per cent, while greasy Capes were steady; ordinary crossbreds were down 6 per cent for fine and 7 1-2 per cent for medium to low. The chief buy era are continental operators, America not participating to any great extent. Some buying is being done for English account. VISITORS FROM ORIENT HERE Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hemperly were here for a few days the past week visiting her brother, Joseph Snyder. Mr. Hemperly is a salesman for one of the big flouring mill machinery manufacturing companies and since 1905 they have spent much of their time in the Orient selling modern milling machinery in China and Japan. Their latest visit to those countries, from which they but re cently returned covered four and one-half years. Mr. Hemperly is well versed In the business and political situation over there and is of the opinion that the world has nothing to fear from the Japanese because of the understand ing between the United States and England on the far eastern situation. China, he says, Is a different coun try from what it was before tho es tablishment of tho republic and the cutting of the queues as the people ao fast taking on western business methods and need watching In bus iness deals. Mr. and Mrs. Hemperly Just miss ed by a few days being passengers on the train which was held up by Chineso bandits when many Ameri cans were held prisoners for weeks. While In Heppner Mr. Hemperly looked over the Heppner flouring mill. His son wiio is a practical miller with oxperienc eln country town milling in the Pacific northwest is now in China superintending the installation of milling machinery but wishes to return to this country and settle down In some small town In the milling business. ( Martin Ileid and wife were among the Heppnerites that visited Meach am for the big celebration lant Tuesday. HONESTMEATS Morrow County Meats for Morrow County People Get our Prices on Hams, Bacon, Lard We want to handle your Harvest Trade The Central Market G. B. SWAGGART 'BBBBMIBIBBBMOHI MARKET ACENT URGES CO-OPERATIVE SELLING C. E. SPENCE, Market Agent, 723 Coorfr House, Portland, Ore. The potato growers of Oregon should have a strong co-operative marketing as sociation, organized along the California contract plan, to put this industry on a profitable and dependable basis. Many sections of the state are natur ally adapted to potato growing, and it it said that but one state, Colorado, can equal Oregon in the quality and quan tity of this crop, yet for years with few exceptions the Oregon farmer ha not received the cost of growing the crop. Last fall thousands of bushels wera left in the ground because the market prica would not pay for the harvesting and marketing. The potato crop of the state should be pooled through a solid co-operativa selling agency. This is simply a thor oughly businesslike way. Through it trained men can do for the growers what they ennnot do for themselves individ ually; markets can be stabilized; new markets can be found; ample credit can be obtained; grades can be estab lished, and it would seem that through these channels the potato industry could be made stable and profitable. The Pacific Co-operative Wool Grow ers is an illustration of what may ba done by poducers pooling and sticking. Farm market specialists who have in vestigated the various wool pools in tha United States, state that this associa tion is the most efficient wool-marketing organization in the country. It now has a membership of about 2600 in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and northern Califor nia. It sells the output sorted, graded, and scoured. This puts the fiber intot strictly merchantable classes, and sheep men state they get from three to ten cents more per pound than outside prica for ungraded stocks. The potato crop of Oregon can ba handled in almost the same manner as wool. A strong membership is necessary in organization, then capable manage- , ment. And the success or fallura of nearly all the marketing associations depends on management success, in putting at the organization's head men who thoroughly understand the job and who are capable of handling it. With out this efficient management, member ship or anything else goes for naught. Oregon grain growers should not ba excited or scared over the newspapar stories of record-breaking crops of the country generally. There will be a larga production in the northwest, but this condition does not prevail throughout the middlcwcst, so stato those from that section. Weather conditions have been unfavorable, hot and dry, through, most of the middlcwest wheat belt. Hood ltiver has seen the folly of sell ing apples around 70 cents per box that cost about one dollar to grow. Now tha growers propose to organize a strong marketing and distributing agency and stabilize the industry. All over tha country producers are forced to a real ization that individual marketing is no longer profitable and that only through organized pooling and marketing can they succeed. The state market master will giva as much assistance to consumers' organi zations as to producers, when this class become enough interested to taka tha initiative. So far the consumers hava shown but little interest in any move ment to co-operate with producers and shorten the line and rcduco tho costs between the grower and the consumer.. The state market master si ready to as sist any co-operative proposition that is founded on a solid basis. PARKERS MILL HOLIW SI-DAY CELEBRATION A three-day celebration was heM at Parkers Mill Tuesday, Wednes day and Thursday of last week and tho usual good timo Is reported. There were fair crowds present Tues day and Thursday with a big gath ering on tho Fourth. There were the UHual sports, danc ing afternoons and evenings and a regular round-up In tho afternoon of each day. Many went out from this cily and other parts of the county as well as Grant and Wheeler coun ties were well represented. a n B B ks If