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VOLUME X
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1923
NUMBER 14
"HEPPNER SHOULD PUSH
SPRAY ROAD" CARSNER
Hon. R. J. Carsner, of Spray, was
in town for a few days during the
week and, as usual, was boosting for
the Pendleton-Prineville cut-off, lo
cally best known as the Heppner
Spray road.
Mr. Carsner is the father of the
idea that the gap of only a few miles
between Hardman and Spray is one
of the most important highway con
necting links in the highway system
of Oregon yet unbuilt.
Mr. Carsner has spent both time
and money in the interest of the
project and has urged on the people
of Heppner the importance of having
the link built, not only as a means
of offerig a direct line of travel
, from this section of Oregon to Cali
fornia and other points south of us
but also because of the local import
ance to Heppner of a good road into
the interior.
Mr. Ca.rsner recently called at the
federal forest road headquarters at
Portland where he was assured that
money is now available to make a
survey of the road through the for
est reserve which has already been
placed on the road map of the state,
and suggested that Heppner business
interests should lose no time in get
ting action with the federal road
people in an effort to have the sur
vey made at once. 'There are plenty
of other projects such as this one,"
Mr. Carsner said, "that are after this
federal road money and it behooves
Heppner to get busy and go after
her share."
Senator Booth, while yet a member
of the state highway commission, is
credited with the statement that the
Heppner-Spray project is one of the
most important in the state that can
be built with an equal amount of
money.
Heppner Commercial club met a
month or more ago and reorganized
with a new set of officers with the
avowed purpose of getting behind the
project. A committee was appointed
at that meeting with power to act in
the matter, but so far as the Herald
has been able to learn noiliing has
been done.
Several years ago when the Com
mercial club was functioning, it is
recalled that a similar committee
was appointed to put over a rural
mail route from Heppner via Lexing
ton, Jarman corner and Lena and
back to Heppner. The committee
failed to act and the mall route was
permitted to sink into a peaceful
sleep from which it never awakened.
Today's Herald carries a new3 story
from Lexington to the effect that
after several years' effort on the part
of the people of that town, headed
by the postmistress, the postoffico
department has finally established a
rural route out of Lexington cover
ing a large part of the territory
which was to have been served with
the proposed route out of Heppner
which the Commercial club and its
committer allowed to die abornin'.
Are the Commercial club and the
commercial interests of Heppner go
ing to allow the Heppner-Spray road
to die the same sort of death?
LEXINGTON- STORE
. ' MAKES IMPROVEMENTS
Joseph Burgoyne & Son, o! Lex
ington, pioneer merchants of that
town, are this week moving their
stock into a new room recently fit
ted u'p adjoining tho old store where
they will have more floor space, bet
ter light and more modern conven
iences. The new room is handsome
ly furnished and well lighted and
j the fixtures are at once attractive
f' and up-to-date.
Following tho custom of modern
grocery stores in the larger centers,
the old idea of many and high
-helves for the display of goods has
been abandoned and only two shelves
are placed over the bins behind the
counter. Everything is freshly pain ed
and papered and the general ef
fect is most pleasing.
Frank Burgoyne. manager of the
-ore, says business is picking up
nicelv since harvest started and he
expects a good business this fall.
Guv Huston and family were in
from' Eightmile Wednesday and
while here added to the pleasures of
home life by purchasing a Chenev
phonograph at the Harwood store.
BIG CROP GAME BIRDS THIS
YEAR REPORTS SIR. ALBEE
Game Warden Elmer Albee re
turned from Boardman last Thurs
day where he was looking after game
interests.
Mr. Albjee says there is a wonder
ful crop of Chinese pheasants and
Hungarian partridges on the project
this year and the young birds are
practically fully grown. Driving
over the project early Thursday
morning, he encountered many flocks
of the birds so tame they would
barely give room for the car to pass.
Grouse are also a good crop in the
upper valleys and the mountains, Mr.
Albee says, but the Hungarians in
the upper counntry made a poor
hatch, because of the frequent rains
at hatching time.
PEOPLE NOT SATISFIED
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University of Oregon, Eugene,
July 28. Co-operation of state edu
cators in the people's survey of the
Oregon schools lately authorized by
the Oregon State Teachers' associa
tion was urged by State Superinten
dent J. A. Churchill, in his address
before the Principals' club of the
University of Oregon summer session
recently.
"Public education is under fire at
present," said Mr. Churchill, point
ing 011t that people over the country
are criticising the school and ques
tioning its efficiency. Almost every
speaker at the recent convention of
the National Education association,
Mr. Churchill said, had mentioned
the widespread dissatisfaction of
the public with its institutions. At
tacks in Oregon papers, he contin
ued, drew his attention to criticisms
made in this state. The people's sur
vey of the state schools, to inaugu
rate which a committee has been ap
pointed by the president of the Ore
gon State Teachers' association, is
designed to meet this criticism. This
committee, according to Mr. Church
ill, will draw up a number of ques
tions to bring out what particular
aspects of the school may bo objec
tionable to the p ublic. The result
is to form a basis for reorganization.
Mr. Churchill urged tho school
men to support this survey and
asked that each principal in his own
district determine the features of the
school which the people deem inad
equate. MISS LUOLA ItENGE GIVEN
SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Miss Luola Benge, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Benge, was given
a most pleasant surprise last Satur
day evening, the occasion being the
young lady's 16th birthday.
Mrs. Benge arranged the affair
and so cleverly was everything man
aged that tho party was a surprise
in fact as well as in name. Through
the connivance of Mrs. Benge the
young lady was invited to spend the
week with friends in the country and
when her hosts brought her home
about 8:00 o'clock Saturday evening
she found the Benge lawn ablaze
with light and color and about 35
of her classmates and other young
friends on hand to extend her a
hearty welcome.
Miss Benge was completely sur
prised and it was Borne moments be
fore she could fully realize just
what the demonstration was all
about.
The evening was passed on the
lawn which was illuminated with
lanterns and the young people enjoy
ed it juat as the younger set know
how to enjoy such affairs. Punch
was served during the evening and
at 11:00 ice cream and cake in quan
tities to meet all demands were serv
ed in the dining room.
Miss Benge received a number of
handsome presents from some of her
Immediate friends, perhaps the most
prized being a blue-blooded Airedale
puppy from Mr. and Mrs. John
Wightman. The puppy is a prince
of his breed and his brothers and
sisters have a market value of sev
eral dollars but since Saturday night
the value of this particular canine
has been advanced by his new owner
to a cool million.
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URGED TO GETTDGETHER
(Oregonian)
Sixty-five per cent of the wheat
grawers of the 11 important produc
ing states, if organized, can demand
profitable prices for their products
and lift from the shoulders of the
farmer the burden of debt that now
is his problem. Such is the opinion
of W. R. Brown, president of the
American Wheat Growers Associated
and he is here or tho purpose fof con
convincing farmers and business
men of the importance of co-operative
grain handling.
Mr. Brown sees many farmers
growing despondent with the market
conditions that confront them and
giving up their lands or planting
them to other products, and believes
that the remedy for this is the estab
lishment of a fair price for wheat
that will yield reasonable returns on
capital invested.
Throughout all the 11 states
where wheat growing plays a prom
inent part in the financial and indus
trial life of the communities, organi
zations have been formed that have
as their ideals the carrying out of
co-operative marketing plans. The
farmers are not able to carry on
their work of co-operative marketing
without the aid and advice of the
business interests in the various
states and as a consequence advisory
boards are being appointed.
The advisory board for the Pacific
northwest, as announced yesterday
by Mr. Brown, consists of the follow
ing: Dr. E. 0. Holland, president of
Washington State college, Pullman
Wash.; B. F. Irvine, Oregon Journal,
Portland; Charles H. Stewart, vice
president, Northwestern National
bank, Portland; J. K. McCormack,
president Union Securities company,
Spokane; Governor L. F. Hart,
Washington; J. G. Kelly, Walla
Walla; I. M. Hunt, vice-president
Ladd & Tilton bank, Portland; Geo.
Phillips, ex-president Retail Mer
chants' association, Spokane; H.
Samuels, Wallace, Idaho; J. Q.
Adams, president Farmers' Union,
Spokane; Soren Sorenson, president
of Farm Bureau, Ellensburg, Wash.;
Paul Weyerauch, president Blalock
Fruit company, Walla Walla; John
W. Langdou, vice-president Baker
Boyer bank, Walla Walla; Ben C.
Holt, Holt Manufacturing company,
Spokane; William Short, president
State Federation of Labor, Spokane,
and Nathan Eckstein, Schwabacher
This committee will act in an ad
visory capacity to try? garin growers.
Each man has been chosen, accord
ing to Mr. Brown, because of his
sympathy for the wheat men in car
rying out their co-operative market
ing plans.
"There is no group of men in the
United States today who require the
attention of business men and bank
ers to such a degree that the farm
ers and growers of wheat do," de
clared Mr. Brown. "The farmers are
entitled to the same price control for
the purpose of securing a reasonable
return on their investment that other
lines of business are. The manufac
turer produces an article and places
a price on it, and receives that price.
The farmer goes to great expense
and labor to grow and harvest his
grain and then is compelled many
times to accept prices that are below
costs of production."
Mr. Brown said that the grain
crop of the country this year would
be in, the neighborhood of 821,000,
000 bushels. Of this great produc
tion 671,000,000 bushels will go in
to domestic uses and the remainder
will be exported. The American
Wheat Growers Associated will con
trol approximately 100.000,000 bush
els of the output, but this is not suf
ficient to bring about desired re
sults. "The talk of the great world sur
plus of wheat is all bugaboo," de
clared Mr. Brown. "The entire yield
of the nation is all consumed. Dur
ing the last 12 years, if records w
correct, there would have accumu
lated in this country a wheat sur
plus of 1,000,000,000 bushels. If
there has been a surplus, where is it
now? It has been used up and the
surplus idea Is all talk. If wheat had
been 50 rents a bushel higher last
year the farmers would have made
money, the nation would have b"-n
far better fixed financially and the
crop would have been all consumed."
HEPPNER LADIES ARE
UN Dl
One of the pleasant social events
of the summer was the birthday
party given last Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
W. P. Mahoney, the occasion being
the birthday of Mrs. Emilie Sherman
Kelly, Mrs. Olive L. Frye and Mrs.
Paul Gemmell.
Mrs. Kelly is a real pioneer, hav
ing come to Heppner in 1877 with
her husband and children, the trip
being made from Iowa to San Fran
cisco by rail then to Portland and
The Dalles by water and from The
Dalles to Heppner by wagon. They
rented what is no wtho Cleveland
place for a year, then bought the
ranch they still own farther up the
creek. Mrs. Kelly is a native of Ver
mont. .
Mrs. Frye is also an old resident
of Heppner, having come here with
her husband from New Hampshire.
The two ladies are both much loved
by a wide circle of friends.
Mrs. Oeiumell, while not a pioneer,
happened to share the date as her
birthday and so was accorded a part
of the day's honors.
Arrangements for the party were
initiated by the ladies of the Bethel
Sunday School but the popularity of
the ladies was too great for the
guests to be confined to the limits
of any organization and altogether
about 40 were present.
The afternoon was spent in an all
round good time and a short pro
gram added to the enjoyment. Those
favoring on the program were: Miss
Luola Benge, reading; Mrs. Grover
Young, vocal solo; Mrs. Opal Clark,
reading, and Miss Dorothy Pattison,
vocal solo.
Remembrances of the occasion
were pivsented tp the honor guests,
Mrs. Kelly receiving an electric
warmer, Mrs. Frye an elegant piece
of cut glass and Mrs. Gemmell a
salt and pepper shake. Mrs. Kelly
and Mrs. Frye were also each pre
sented with a pair of silk hose h
that premier ladies' man, L. V. Gen
try, who never misses an opportuni
ty of making himself solid with the
ladies.
With the refreshments came the
birthday calces, one being presented
to each of the three ladies. When
the cakes were cut Miss Lulu Hager
drew the piece with the ring in II
and was consequently acclaimed as
the next bride from the party. Mrs.
Grover young also drew a ring from
one of the cakes and Mrs. Kelly
found a silver thimble in her pori
Appropriato birthday cards were
also presented to the ladies by Bethel
Sunday School.
Mrs. A. M. Phelps acted as spokes
man in presenting the glfis and Mrs.
Kelly, who was celebrating her 75th
birthday, though still alert and ac
tive, replied in her usual happy vein.
She assured her hostesses that she
appreciated the party and everything
that had been done to make the oc
casion such a happy one, but she also
declared that in her 75 years of life,
46 of which being spent in Heppner,
this was the first time that any grou;
of people, men or women, had been
able to put anything over on her and
get away with it. She had been de
ceived, she said, and by her friends,
and they even went to the length of
inveigling Judge Campbell into be
ing a party to the plot. The party
had been planned quietly and when
the two ladles left home they
thought they were going to spend a
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HOLLYHOCKS WHO CAN
BEAT 'EM
Mrs. W. W. Smead believes she is
the premier hollyhock grower in
Oregon, or at least, if anyone can
beat her record she would like to
read about it in tle Herald. Mrs.
Smead has one stalk of the old fash
ioned favorite flower that measures
10 feet 11 inches and another that
has readier the heighth of 9 feet 4
inches.
; Mrs. Smead says the plants came
up of their own sweet will and "all
she has done was to give them a lit
tle water occasionally and Heppner's
wonderful sunshino and toil has
done tho rest.
Mrs. Smead has started something
and it is up to other hollyhock grow
ers to not let her finish it.
Who can beat her record?
SOI BAD GRAIN FIRES
Within tho past week several grain
fires have been reported with con
siderable heavy losses:
Fire which is said to have start
ed in tho. road fan into John E.
Johnson's field, northwest of lone,
on Tuesday and destroyed 40 acres
of good wheat. Mr, Johnson had no
insurance.
On the same day another fire on
the ranches of A, A. McCabe and R.
W. Lleuallen, also near lone, destroy
ed 240 acres of fine wheat. It was
insured up to 20 bushels per acre.
A hot box on the combine is said to
have started the fire.
On Thursday wniio the harvest
crew at the Fred Lucas ranch near
Lexington, was at dinner, fire broke
out in a feed rack where three mules
and two horacs were tied and the
animals were badly scorched before
they could bo released. One mule
was blinded by the flames and had to
be shot. The causo of the lire Is
unknown, but is supposed to have
started from a dropped match rtr
cigarette spark. The animals be
longed to Earl Eskelson.
A daughter was born to Mi', and
Mis. Clarence Howell, of Hardman,
at tho Heppner Surgical hospital,
Monday, July 30. Dr. McMurdo re
ports all well,
Wheat on tho Warner ranch, north
of Lexington, made an average of
3 4 bushels per acre, harvesting
having been finished there last week.
interesting Facts
Facts, real facts, should ho the foundation for
our conclusions. We marvel at the stability of
the modern skyscraper and wonder why. A fact
says, "'a perfect balance." The structure stands;
the years roll by; we live on. There is a similari
ty between human bodies and buildings some
stand and some fall. The likeness goes farther:
a fact is created. We find that a perfect balance
means longer life with human bodies as with
buildings. Now, for a perfectly balanced body,
there must be a balanced menu. Another fact,
for the balance meats are a necessity, and this is
where you and are mutually concerned. You
are going to buy meat and I have meat to sell.
May I now quote you a few more facts? Six
months ago the Central Market changed man
agement. I5y this change the public, you and
your friends, were benefitted by a general 20
reduction in prices. Rather unusual; in fact very
unusual and it was done without competition.
Why was it done? Because by so doing I could
better serve you, the public, and by better serv
ing you I wvmld eventually receive greater bene
fits. I wanted your satisfied patronage. I want
it now, and T will continue to want it. Our meats
arc wholesome; they satisfy that healthful hun
ger. Our service will please you.
rc make city deliveries. Our truck delivers to
your ranch house. We are here to stay, to serve
and to satisfy.
Look for our Weekly Specials They Are
an Added Inducement
The Central Market
ARLINGTON SUFFERS BIG
FIRE LOSS MONDAY A J.
Flro broke out in the Arlington
hotel at 2:00 a. m. Monday and be
fore the flames were brought under
control two Dusiness blocks in the
heart of the town were destroyed.
Every building in tho block on
which the hotel stood was destroyed
Including the city hall, Lemon fc'
Snell'8 garage, Arlington Hotel meat
market, Jarvls' confectionery and A.
J. Coe's pastime.
The block immediately across the
street, in which stood the post otfic
and the Arlington bakery, both new
concrete buildings, and the Butcher
residence, also a new building, as
well as a number of old woodon
buildings also went up In smoke. A
call was sent to The Dalles for assis
tance but before the fire team from
that city got on the road tho fire was
under control and the call for help
was countermanded.
No lives were lost and only one
man, the hotel cook, was slightly
burned.
Miss Agnus McDanlel, of Heppner
who was employed at the hotel aa
waitress, was slightly injured wheu
she jumped from the window of her
room on the second floor. She came
out to Ion,o today to visit friends.
LEXINGTON GETS RURAL ROUTE
Mr. and Mrs. Breshears were In
town from Lexington Sunday, where
Mrs. Rreahcare has served as post
master for a number of years.
While In town Sunday Mrs.
Breshears informed a Herald re
porter that Lexington has finally
won her fight for a rural mail
route into tho rich farming;
country north or that town and that
she has been notified that tho ser
vice will be inaugurateu September
4th. The service will extend nortli
to McVevitt's corner and will total
52 miles. The service will be tri
weekly. EfforU to have this routu
established have been under way for
four years and tins petition was onco
refused.
Mrs. Ilresheara has been active In
tin; matter and final success in secur
ing the route was largely due to her
efforts.
Arnold l'ieper and his mother,
Mrs. John l'ieper, of. HlaekliorBe,
were in town for a short time Tues
day. Mr. l'ieper has been on the
sick list fur some time and has not
yet fully recovered.