PAGE SIX THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON Tuesday, August 7 1923 TiifnT.TiiTnTnTi LOCAL NEWS J J g J J J J J J J Man ley D. Hileman, of Gurdane, vas registered at the Heppner hotel Sunday. L. Van Marler visited Grant coun ty during tho week on a business trip.' ' Robert Dalcomb, merchant of Mor gan, was a visitor in Heppner Sun day. !. j? ; (',. N. -WiiHon, of tlio Monument coim!ry. wa a week end visitor in Heppner. W. V. Mahoney and family went to Portland Friday for a few days' visit. FOR SALE New 60-cylindr Auto Knitter. For particulars en quire at tho Herald office. 14tf Ab Miller, of thp local Standard Oil offico force, was an Arlington visitor Sunday. Wm. Heudrix was in town Satur day from his Heppner flat ranch looking after business affairs. Ij. Wingfield, of Spray, shipped several cars of sheep out of the Heppner yards Sunday morning. J Jr. D. It. Ilaylor, eye specialist of l'ortland, was hero a few days dur ing the week on a professional trip. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Shurto and Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Paulson and daughter, Dorothy, visited friends at Arlington Sunday. Mrs. Kay Case and daughter, Miss Velma, left Monday for Seattle to spend their vacation with Don Case and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. 14. R. Clark and Misses Odelo Groshen, Pearl Hall mid Annie Uolieity were at Arling ton Sunday viewing, tho ruins and railing on friends. Mr. and Mrs. It. E. Alstolt were in town from their Ithea cree kraneh Saturday. Wheat harvest is under way on the Alstott ranch on Eight inile and Is making around 25 bush els per acre. .Too Es'kelsou was in from Lexing ton Saturday and reports the wheat on the Kskelson ranches making 25 bushels and better. Mr. F.skelson now lives at Salem but runs up oc casionally to see how things are run ning on the farms. COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS.! .J. .J. 4. 4. 4. .J. 4. 4. .J. .J. .J. v.uiF.vn,i,r. ano iacf. The Flelcher Family, of Pendle ton, will give a vaudeville program and danco at. the Fair Pavilion Sat urday, August 1 1 1. 1 1 . General adniis itiim 25 cents. Dancers $1.11). Dance nod program starts at !) : 1 5 sharp. Irene Hpnigur, who manages Hie l.alniirell filling Htitlion ami soft drink parlor al I 1 d man, is tin1 guest of Mr. and Mrs. l.aloiirell for 11 I'i'w days ami the two ladies are enjojlng a cimping trip on upper Willow creek. Mr. and Mrs. A. I.. Ayers 11 nil Mrs. Ann.'. Spencer have returned from a rip to Portland where they spent some time. They also went out to V.'ll'iioit springs' l"1 fl'w (,ayil m" found weallier loil cold and damp for i-.;i,itort and soon returned to 111" Miss Marguerite l.oughuoy, of T.iroma. who has been visiting her sister. Mis. Waller E. Moore, foi Neeral weeks, returned to lier home last Thursday accompanied by Mrs. Moore and son who will visit In Ta- cmua tor wiime time. Mr. and Mrs V. V. Calkins and children. 01 Spokane, were in town interda lor a short time. Mr. Cal kins h making busiui'ss Irlp thiour.h tho wlieat belt ill the Inter rat el his smut machine and Mrs. Calkins and the children are making the trip with him lor the outing. II" 1, pul ls business good. Mr. and Mrs. I'lias. 11. l.atourell 1 I.- .in..... .ml family enjoyed a ledum: trip beyond the D1UI1 ciih.1i rimil last week and report having had a fino '' Mallory creek yield e.l :iiinui 1'iue sptvimeus of the finny iribe as did some other streams .,..!, iilim'.ether about 4rt imi j trout and nut one less than eight inches In length. Oscar It im. formerly engaged .he nitibic Dusiuess iniv, Court met In regular session on Wednesday, August 1, 1923, at the court houso in Heppner, Oregon, with all officers present. Court approved, continued or dis allowed tho various claims present ed against tho county as per nota tions on face of claims. Court read tho road petition of E. F. Smith et al and appointed W. G. McCarty to act with regular viewers in viewing said road and August 4, 1923, set as daito for making survey. In tho matter of the road petition of 0. T. Ferguson et al, the court having read said petition and also tho remonstrance against said road, and there being no more signers on the remonstrance than on the peti tion, the court denied said petition. The road petitions of T. J. Jones and J. It. Ashinhust were continued. Following claims were allowed : Northwest Printing Co., sheriff, $7.60. Gazette-Times, office, $128.85. Ilushong & Co., Treas., $31.65. Glass & Prudhomnfe, office, $123.99. S. Hughes Co. C. H $6.60. T. J. Humphreys, C. H., $112.95. Patterson & Son, jail, $7.25. Eph Esk,elson, poor, $7.00. C. C. Chick, poor, $32.50. C. It. Walker, health, $14.50. Co. Agent, Co. Agent, $225. A. E. Perry, watermaster, $8.50. L. V. Kutzner, T. B. cattle, $3.62. M. L. Case et al, coroner, $124.74. V. & S. Nat. Rank, roads, $334.95. First Nat. Hank, roads, $78.55. Jay Hiatt, No. 17, $23.43. State Acc. Com., roads, $101.96. Fred Bell, No. 17, $2.99. W. Ij. McCaleb, Gen., $166.66. S. Shaw, H. H. B., $13.23. Tum-a-Lum Lbr. Co., H. H. B., $374.65. W. L. McCaleb, Gen., $8.15. Martin Held, H. H. B., $548.69. Peoples Hdw. Co., H. H. B $8.07. Clyde Equip. Co., H.H.B., $3.66 city. Standard Oil Co, H.H.B., $571.66. Watt Shipp Co., H.H.B., $126.63. Feenaughty Mach. Co., H. H. B., $24.65. Howard Cooper Co., H. H. B $162.69. J. W. Kirchner, H.H.D., $136. W. 0. llayless, roads, $60.80. H. McDuffee, H.H.B., $99.75. Carl Cason, roads, $10.50. T. J. Jones, No. 7., $6. V. Ij. Warren, No. 9, $4. C. O. Ayers, market, $3.50. It. h. P-engo, market, $28.80. Eddie Chidsey, market, $120. Humphreys Drug Co., Gen., $2.20. Phelps Gro. Co., II. II. II., $163. J. 1!. Calnius, II. 11. 1!., $30.75. Bank of lone, No. 14, $312.14. F. & S. Nat. Hank, rds, $2211.96. Arlington Nat. Hank. No 2, $11.47 First Nat. Hank, roads, $ 1 5 '.' S . 1 8. j 11. 1'. Stone, dog, $10.50. lieu. McDuffee, Prohi., $30. W. Matteson, Prohi., $50. C. II. Oral, sealer, $15.34. W. W. Sniead. Cur. Ex., $24.01. C. C. Chick, physician, $10. S. Shaw, keeper, $25. Daisy llecttet, Wld. Pen., $25. Sadie Morey. Wid. Pen., $17.50. Amy McFerrin, Wld. Pen., $17.50. F. V. Gordon, poor, $25. Ida Fletcher, poor, $15. Jess Kirk, poor, $30. Andy Cook, poor. $30. Dick I.ahue, poor, $25. II. Ij. Henge, Co. CI., $5. Ij. It. Davidson, Co. CU $21. Heppner Herald, road, $6.40. W. M. Ayers, sherifi, $25. Lena S. Shurte, library, $177.10. Pac. Tel. Co., Cur. Ex., $12.48. CECIL Mrs. Geo. Redford and daughter, Mrs. Bowers, from San Diego, Cal., visited with Mrs. Geo. Krebs at Hie Last Camp on Saturday before leav ing to call on other old friends in Morrow county. Clairo and John Calkins from Pendleton made a short stay in Cecil on Saturday. They were on their wak to -work in tho harvest fields above lone. Misses Minnie Lowo and Georgia Summers accompanied Bob Lowe to lone on Sunday. Mrs. Spalding and daughter, Mrs. Palmer, who have been spending their vacation at Ritter Springs, call ed on Mrs. T. H. Lowe of the Highway House on Sunday be fore going on to their home at Lone Rock. These ladies Informed us that Peter Bauernfiend, respected citizen of Cecil who is now at Ritter Springs, Is deriving so much benefit from the waters and the mud baths which have recently been built at Ritter, that he feels like a two year old and is able to work against time any where. L. D. May of The Dalles Is visit ing his brother, T. W. May, at the Lone Star ranch. S. A. Pattison, editor of the Hepp ner Herald, and also resident agent of New York Life Insurance Co., was calling on his friends around Cecil on Sunday. Clifford Johnson left for Portland on Sunday, returning to Cecil on Fri day driving a fine Willys Knight car. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Perry and daughter, Miss Crystal Roberts, of Ewing were calling in Cecil on Sun day accompanied by Misses Bertha and Carrie Moore of Lone Rock who are visiting with Miss Crystal Rob erts. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Duncan and daughter, Miss Mildred, of Busy Bee ranch were visiting In Cecil on Sun day. R. E. is expecting large returns from his bees this year. Miss Mil dred is taking lessons from her father and we expect to hear of her becoming the second to none apiarist of Morrow county. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hynd of But terby Flats, accompanied by Miss Mildred Henriksen of Strawberry ranch, left on Sunday morning for Granite, Ore., where they will visit with Herb and Jackie Hynd who are camp tending for Hynd Bros', sheep near Granite. Mrs .Alf Shaw of Btttferby Flats spent Wednesday at tlie homo of Mrs. Melville Logan at the Willows. Mrs. S. P. Wright of Tulsa, Okla., is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Noble, near Rhea Siding. Alf Shaw was the busiest man in Cecil on Monday. Alf was superin tending the unloading of a car of posts which was shipped in from Tacoma for Jack Hynd. Cecil depot, water tank and wind mill are looking like new since the O. W. R. & N. painters have had their paint and brushes at work. Emery Gentry, district manager of West Coast Life Insurance Co., made a short stay in Cecil on his re turn to Heppner from Portland on Friday. Miss Annie Hynd arrived in Cecil on Tuesday from Portland and visit ed with h,er sister, Mrs. T. H. Lowe, before returning to her home at Rose Lawn, Sand Hollow. Sunday, July 29th, thermometer registered 100 degrees. Cool winds during the rest of the week, ending August 4th. N. I. Morrison, state patrolman, has arrived in Cecil and will take up his residence at Rock Cliff for the present. Cecil can' tbeat 'em hollyhocks, Mrs. Smead. Considering the intense heat and want of water, I question If we could not truthfully Say we do beat 'em. Wo can boast of holly hocks grown on the ground behind Cecil store averaging nine feet three inches. All the attention these have had are sand storms, wind, intense heat and no water. Beat thtsr. Railroad Earnings Are Not Guaranteed MKS. tfVA'lS NOW TjKADS IN HOLLYHOCK K.tCE Mrs. P'. Devin reports a hollyhoelt growing in her yard that measures 11 feet t inches, beating Mm. Smead's flowr mentioned last wek by 5 inches'!- This is a poor place to stop in trie competition and some enterprising floriculturist should turn th sprinkler on tiw hollyhock bed an try to raise the limit to 12 feet. What's the matter with making; Heppner known' to- the world as the Hollyhock city?" Let's go. A common impression exists that railroad earnings are in some way guaranteed by the Governrdeut. This is not a fact. The railroads were paid for the federal Control period a fixed rental and were given an optiou for continuance of this basis for six months thereafter. This arrangement expired August 31, 1920, since which tithe nothing even resembling a guarantee has been it effect Under the constitution a railroad has always been entitled to earn a fair return upon its prffperty devoted to the public tlse, the percentage which constituted such fair return being a question for dyeterminatioi by th AtuPtS. The transportation: act says ''Is the exercise of its power fo-' pC'escribe just and reasona bly raites, the Commission, shall . . . , adjust such fates so thai carriers .... will, under honest, etfficteht and ecbnomical man agement .... earn an aggregate aonilal net railwar operating incomof equal, as nearly as may be, trt a" fair' retuf upon the aggrega4e value" of the cbmnlon caprtaii property, gUiftg "due consideration .... to the transportation- needs of th country and the rteCBssity .... of enlarging stSBh facilities ins opder to provide the' people of the,' United State' witft adequate trans portation.'' For two' years ending March 1, 1922, sicti fair retiWW was fixed at 6 Jer cent. Since then it lias": ijetfh reduced 6jf th,e commission 60 5.75 per cent; In no yea, however, have the railrOiSI secured the? fair return contemplated by the Act, as tho following will sliow: " Yearr 1920? 1921' 1922 Percentage'actually earned 4,14' .11 m. m - Judge and Mrs. W. T. Campbell made the trip to Teal Springs and return last Friday, covering about 160 miles during the day. Judge Campbell says he discovered on the trip that other counties than Morrow have some bad roadi, In fact that once you leave this county going in that direction you- lave all good travel conditions behind. Mrs. W. O. Minor and son, Stanley, accom panied them to the springs and will remain there for several! weeks. eatre AltLlNliTOX W il l, KEItl 1I.H TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, AUCC.7-8 HARRY CAREY in "THE KICK BACK" A Texas Ranger Story Round 1, "FIGHTING BLOODS" By II. C. Witwer in now in towu today has tanning at Iitwoh, is ... Mr otto says h a Bpa ndid crop this '" he has put considerable erege of .,ew land under water and cultiva tion duiuiK tli Pst '' Alflf! and melons M' his principal crops and both mt pn.Utic till season. T! A SiitKb. supervisor of agrtcul Hire for tlu Uulon Pacific U. It. Co.. ...Mdlim out bookbt contaluinK , m r.w.11,.0. fur ni)le dishea which is ,.,!!, the .llentiou of cooks, house wives and " M Kood thi,,ga to cut. The booklet will no doubt ,to its part In creating ,k., t,i.r -nolo crop in the ....... u, vjinitli should turn t.i" l itionto a book of recipes for wheat a demand (o northwest The business district of Arlington looks pretty well cleaned up since the big lire of a week ago but the people of that live town tire optimis tic and say the town will soon be- re built and will be better than before. During a wsit in the fire-swept town Sunday a representative of the Herald found the people optimistic and already making plans for re building. Many of the business es i.,Ki;oi,.,,,.niu urn ncain running in .,,,,,, ,r,irv (mailers and dolni, a ushing business. Jack Jarvls, pro- prletor of the l'ulni couiecuonei) , and drug store engaged a small room about the lime his former store "fell about daylight in the morning and by mid afternoon he was selling . Ice croaiii over an Improvised coun ter as fast as ho could dish it out. The barber shop re-opened the same day ou the front porch of one of the i proprietor's homes and later moved iuto 0110 corner of a garage. lee harness shop re-opened in a corner of the picture show house and the meat market was preparing to re suuio business lit another corner of Ilia garago. Mr. McDonald, proprietor of the Arlington hotel where tho fire origi nated, is planning and says the town just must have a hotel. He was plan- g to re build this fall betore tne THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, AUG. g. and. 10 WALLACE RIUD in It is entirely 'lear, therefore, that the law in no-sense govw--antees the eamSugs of the railroads. If EC-did, tho Govm ment would owe the railroads more than a bMlion dollars for deficits in 1920, lS'21an'd 1922. Since January, 1&23, the earnings of tfrt railroads as & whole hav.e been tfetter than for the same peslotj in any of t6e throe preceding yStrs, but the rate of retnMi--is still lowei" than the Interstate Commerce Commission lis-prescribed aJ reasonable. The Transportation Act has not been the cams of increases in railroad rates. cSe or the. authors "of the AiAt -lias "said : : "Rates have advawfced simply because the nest of mainten ance and operation bsw more than doubled simw pre-war days--while railroad rates; ak,eii as a whole, are nttr about 54 pef cent higher than they were before tho Govern amat took ovest the railroads at the bgtoBiDg of tho y,e"ar 191iT" The price of transportation can only be red axed. as-the costii of transportation Is reduced and the railroad'afreostof living has increased in like ffttfportloo to that of ihe individual. Every effort, however js being- made to reduce?t.t Constructive suggeAShas are always welcomesr C. lEIGKAY, Omaha, Nebraska, Presidents August 1, 1923. isntiiiiBiiiiiiKi'itBBffiiiiiihiiiiiiiiiia m m w,' m' m : fOBiy NOT CAXDI1ATR TO' BAY, MAYBK TOMCTOEOTV (CDmtitttrtd from Page Ota)) "THE GHOST BREAKER"' Comedy drama of spooks and giiosts Chas. Hutchinson in 13th episode o"SPEED" Aesop's Fables and Topics of the Day SATURDAY, AUG. at Rudyard Kipling's "WITHOUT BENEFITOF CLERGY" adapted for the screen-by the author Snub Pollard 2-reel comedy, "HEWLY EtCH.'" SUNDAY AND MONDAY AUG- i and 13 GLORIA SV ANSON in "THE IMPOSSIBLE MRS. BELLEW Beautiful gowns, French bathing girls and everything FELIX in "THE BONE AGE" comrtituents, however, that, this wnnrg- will be righted just as. soon, as. the truth becomes ffonerally kmiwn that the real interests of the p-)Ble in vrious parts of t4!e eartb do- trot conflict. "The Tariff The tariff iB a joke, but it's apt to hang on, tootle detri ment of both America arid foreign jcotmtrtes, until the people team that ispeciat privileges do not gay. Our inatton needs no special?' ifctrileges land won't be perfectly liappy until kt settles down to doing that share of the world's work for urttieh it has the greatest natural capaiffty. Ship Subsidy Giving a bonus for incapacity is a brilliant procedure, provided our object to waste money and keep the world's work from being done. Wealth can be produced so easily that there need be no great cry concerning expendi tures, but our objection to the ship subsidy is that it wuld seriously hamper shipping. . "Soldiers' Bonus? Tho proposal to give a bonus tp veterans of the late war Implies tbt the soldier can not hold his own tm competition with others, and is a Insult to the ex- service man. If the ex-service men aro unfitted, because of wounds, oil other disability, for tho normal co't petition of life, they should be mrle fit immediately; and all the resouvees of modern scUcoee should bo de.ted to tho task. Agricukuu-e The great tauble with farming Is that it involves too much unnecessary work. Thero is no reason wby agriculture may ot hope I to come abreast of the ottwr indus tries in the near future, if the farmer will turn his attention to modern in dustry methods instead of to the problem of borrowing coney. There is no food scarcity. Te problem is ! not one of how to increase produis i tlon, and thereby pile up a surplus ; for speculators to play with, but how to simplify production and distribu tion bo that less human energy haU be wasted In the process mly agency inVsight with power, to i stablish such & system,, and it looks . is though the government womld do . fo presently. Whether we shall Have an actual railroad system then, r further trouSte. will depend "much on whether th government tries to , run tho roads ftroru the floor of con gress or hires somebody whij knows . how to do tti job and lets him do it "Prohibition; Booze had iso go out when modem Industry and; tho mo-i-tor car cam to. Upon only one con-. ditlon can tfi nation let iij come, back. Thy is if we are willing to, abolish nt.iru industry aod tho niP--tor car. "Peace- The only wa to assure world petee is to give w'Id serviceu. Incidentaity, this . pays enormously;; but, uutfl the people find it out, w, may enjoy the luxury of continuedi fighting." THIS. TOURIST MUST BK A TVPICAIj KOAP HOt9 Mifo Shurte, of isrlingtoni wa iui towr a few days diroing th,e wettki; ni buess. IJuring tho rewnt. disastrous, fire, in his town Mr. Shurte was dejirtta mJ as t special policemtia ti help preserve order.- After daylight and whil,e the fire was yet BHjywldvring and liable to break out agiUc at any time, Mr. Shurte was station! at the lower end of Main street to di vert traffic by a detour to avoid the fire hose which was yet laid on the main thoroughfare. A tourist driv ing a big car with California license came along and Mr. Shurte waved him a signal to tak the detour and avoid crossing tho hose line. The tourist stopped and shouted: "Here, you! You have no right to obstruct te highway; grt that hose out of tho way.'' Mr. Shurte politely in formed the man that he must fak tJ6. detour. "I'll do nothing of tho kind," re turned the tourist, "I am going to travel the highway." "Well,'' rejoined the traffic man, "there are two things you can doj either take the detour or back the way you came, but if you try to Wo arc now issuing regularly our weekly il lustrate J descriptive program. If you do not get your copy, ask for one. cross that hose we have a concrete Railroads There should be rail-1 Jan j,ere tor 8ucn (eitew3 aa JX)U anii road system in the United States in-!whie lt ia ia the hurned district and stead of the antiquated network of lua). De a little warm for eomfort, in financial corporations, wnicn tase you go it you dent do aa I tell you." toll along the nation's highways to day. The fellow took the detour without further parley. Bet he's a typical 'I "The government seenu to be tU;road hog out on the, highway ft' fa. products.