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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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By HERBERT QUICK
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(CapjrlEbt by The BobU-Merrill Company)
8YNOPSIS
, CHAPTER I. Jennie Woodruff con
temptuously refuses to marry Jim Ir
win, young farm hand, because of his
financial condition and poor prospects.
He Is Intellectually above his station,
t and has advanced Ideas concerning the
. possibilities of expert school teaching,
lor which he la ridiculed by many.
CHAPTER II. More as a Joke than
otherwise Jim la selected as teacher of
the Woodruff district school.
CHAPTER Tn.-ilm,7n "his new posi
tion, sets out tg make stanch friends
cf his pupils, especially two boys, New
ton Bronson and "Buddy" Simms, the
latter the son of a shiftless fanner.
Colonel Woodruff, Jennie's father, has
little faith in Jim's Ideas of improving
rural educational methods. He nick
names him the "Brown Mouse." In Il
lustration of an anecdote.
CHAPTER IV. Jim's conduct of the
school, where he endeavors to teach
the children the wonders of nature
and some of the scientific methods of
farming, as well as "book learning,"
Is condemned.
CHAPTER V. Jennie Woodruff Is
nominted for the position of county
superintendent of schools. The school
Doard grows bitter In Its opposition
to Jim and his innovations.
CHAPTER VI. At a public meeting
Jim roundly condemns the methods of
teaching in the rural schools, and
makes no friend thereby.
CHAPTER VII. A delegation of
prominent women condemn Jim's meth
ods of teaching, but he is stoutly de
fended by his pupils, especially Newton
Bronson.
CHAPTER VIII Jim has Christmas
dinner at Colonel Woodruff's, and lis
tening to him, Jennie begins to do some
thinking concerning his ability and
his prospects.
CHAPTER IX. In the evening Jim,
as well as he knows how, courts Jen
nie, without, however, making much
progress, though she is quickly losing
her poor opinion of him.
CHAPTER X. Jennie, elected county
superintendent of schools, receives so
many complaints from people of the
, district concerning Jim's methods of
teaching that she finds herself com
pelled formally to ask for his resigna
tion. After she has left, Jim Is visited
bv Colonel Woodruff, who atronalv
urges him to refuse to resign, and
offers to back him. Jim agrees to
tick, lor a while at least.
CHAPTER XI. A meeting of the
school board, which had been gathered
to "get" Jim, is confronted by Jennie,
who upholds htm. He conducts an ex
amination of his pupils at the meet
ing;, to prove that be is not neglecting
thulr "book learnlo" by the introduc
tion of other subjects which he con
siders of Importance. The splendid
showing made by the children converts
many, who had doubted, o his views.
CHAPTER XII. The novel Ideas
which Jim has Introduced have been
talked about outside the county, and
he Is visited by Professor Withers, ex
tension lecturer at the state university,
who invites him to deliver an address
at the next annual meeting of the
. Farmers' Institute.
CHAPTER XIII. Professor Withers
is Impressed by many of the innova
tions made by Irwin, and so Informs
Colonel Woodruff and Jennie, some
what to the astonishment of both. The
colonel suffffests to Jim that he fthe
colonel) se?k election to the school
board, replacing Cornelius Bonner, im
placable enemy of Jim Irwin.
CHAPTER XIV. Feigning sickness
Newton Bronson, younester whom Ir
win has redeemed from idleness and
folly and set on the right path, and
who almost worships the teacher, keeps
his father from voting at the school
board election. Bronson Is a friend of
Bonner, and would have voted for him.
As It Is, Colonel Woodruff Is chosen
for the position, owing to Bronson's
afcsence,
CHAPTER XV. Jim convinces the
farmers of the district of the advan
tages to be derived fronua co-operative
creamery, and It Is agreed to establish
one. His rise to a position of leader
ship in the community, and high re
sponsibility, has made a distinct differ
ence In Jennie's feelings toward Jim.
which she Is forced to acknowledge to
herself.
CHAPTER XVI. In hi' address at
the Farmers' Institute Jim makes a dis
tinctly favorable Impression. After the
meeting he Is offered a position as'
teacher In another district, with a con
siderable advance In salary, and agrees
to consider It
CHAPTER XVII. Jim's friends urge
him to remain at his present post,
leading citizens of the district assuring
him that they are "proud of him."
CHAPTER XVIII
Old Man Simms Speaks.
Young McGeehee Simms was loiter
ing along the snowy way to the school
house bearing a brightly scoured tin
pall two-thirds full of water. He had
been allowed to art as water super
intendent of the Woodruff school as a
reward of merit said merit being an
essay on which he received credit In
both lansuage and geography on "Har
vesting Wheat In the Tennessee Moun
tains." This had been of vast inter
est to the school In view of the fact
that the Slmmses were the only pupils
in the school who had ever seen In
use that supposedly-obsolete harvest
ing implement, the cradle. Buddy's
essay had been passed over to the
class In United States history as the
evidence of an eyewitness concerning
farming conditions in our grandfa
thers' times.
The surnameless Pee, Colonel
Woodruffs hired man, halfed Buddy
at the dnor.
"Mr. Simms, I believe?" he said.
"I reckon yu nuiKt be lo!;m' for
my brother, Raymond, suli," said
Buddy.
"I am a-lookln'," said Pete Impres
sively, "for Mr. McGeehee Simms."
"That's me," said Euddy. "but I
hain't been doln' nothin' wrong, suh 1"
" I hare a message here," said Pete,
"for Professor James E. Irwin, ne'l
whut-hn within. tttt.' n'.n't ho'"
ne-g insiae, i recKon," said Buddy.
"Then will yon be go kind and eon
descendin si to stoop to lor as to j
Jump so high as to give him this let
ter?" asked Pete.
Buddy took the letter and was con
sidering of his reply to thla remarkable
speech, when Pete, gravely saluting,
passed on, rather congratulating him
self on having staged a very good
burlesque of the dignified manners of
those queer mountaineers, the Slmmses.
The note was from the colonel:
"Please come to the meeting tonight,
and when you come, come prepared to
hold the district up. If we can't meet
the Pottawatomie county standard of
wages, we ought to lose you. Every
body In the district will be there.
Come late, so you won't hear yourself
talked about I should recommend
nine-thirty and war-paint."
It was a crisis, no doubt of that;
and the responsibility of the situation
rather sickened Jim of the task of
teaching. Only one thing kept him
from dodging the whole Issue and re
maining at home the colonel's matter-of-fact
assumption that Jim had
become master of the situation. How
could he flee, when this old soldier was
fighting so valiantly for him in the
tranches? So Jim went to the meeting-
. How could he Impose conditions on
the whole school district? How could
the colonel ejepect such a thing of him?
And how could anyone look for any
thing but scorn for the upstart field
band from these men who had for so
many years made him the butt of
their good-natured but none the less
contemptuous ridicule? Who was be,
anyway, to lay down rules for these
substantial and successful men he
who had been for all the years of his
life at their command, subservient to
their demands for labor their under
ling? f ' H"
i'tie season was nearing spring, and
It was a mild thawy night The win
dows of the schooihouse were filled
with heads, evidencing the presence
of a crowd of almost unprecedented
size, and the sashes bad been thrown
up for ventilation and coolness. As
Jim climbed the back fence of the
schoolyard, he heard a burst of ap
plause, from which be Judged that
some speaker had Just finished his re
marks. There was silence when he
came alongside the window at the
right of the chairman's desk, a silence
broken by the voice of Old Man Simms,
saying "Mistah Chairman I"
"The chair," said the voice of Ezra
Bronson, "recognises Mr. Simms."
Jim baited In Indecision. He was
not expected while the debate was in
progress. There is no rale of manners
or morals, however, forbidding eaves
dropping during the proceedings of a
public meeting. Therefore he listened
to the first and last public speech of
Old Man Simms.
"Ah ain't no speaker," said Old
Man Simms, "bat Ab caln't set here
and be quiet an' go home an' face my'
ole woman an' my boys an' gyuhls
wlthonten sayin" a word fo' the best
friend any family evah had, Mr, Jim
Irwin." (Applause.) Maybe Ah'll be
thought forrard to speak hyah, beln'
as Ah ain't no learnln' an' some may
tblnk Ah don't pay no taxes; but
seeln' as how we've took the Blanch
ard farm, a hundred an' sixty acres,
for five yeahs, an' move In a week from
Sat'day, we pay taxes In our rent. Ah
reckon, an' howsomever that may be,
Ah've come to feel that you-ail won't
think hard of me if Ah speak what
we-uns feel so strong about Mr. Jim
Irwin?"
Old Man Simms finished this ex
ordium with the rising inflection, which
denoted a direct question as to his
status in the meeting. "Go on !"
"You've got as good a right as any
one!" "You're all right, old man I"
Such exclamations as these came to
Jim's ears with scarcely less grateful
ness than to those of Old Man Simms
who stammered and went on.
'"Ah thank you-all kindly. Gentlemen
an' ladles, when Mr. Jim Irwin found
us, we was scandalous pore, an' we
was wuss'n pore we was low-down."
(Cries of "No No !")
"Yes, we was, becuz when a man
gets in a new place, he's got to lift
hlmse'f up to what folks does where
he's come to, or he'll make a place
fer himse'f lower"n anybody else. In
the mountings we was good people,
becuz we done the best we-could an'
the best any one done; but hyah, we
was low-down people becuz we bated
the people that had mo' learnln', mo'
land, mo' money, an' mo' friends than
whnt we had. My little gyuhls wasn't
respectable in their clothes. My chil
dern was Igernant, an' trlflln', but I
was the most, trlflln' of all. Ah'll leave
it to Colonel Woodruff if I was good
fer a plug of terbacker, or a bakln
of flour at any sto' In the county. Was
I, Colonel? Wasn't I perfectly wuth
less an' triflin'?"
There was a ripple of laughter, in
the midst of which the colonel's voice
was heard saying, "I guess you were,
Mr. Simms, I guess you were, but "
"Thankee," said Old Man Simms, as
if the colonel had given a really valu
able testimonial to his character. "I
sho' was! Thankee kindly! An' now,
what am I good fer? Caln't I get any
thing I want at the stores? ('ain't I
Sit a little money at the hank, if I
trot to have it?"
"You're just as pood as any man in
the district," said the colonl. "You
rl-in't ask for more than yon can pay.
end you c;m g-t I'.il you ask."
"Thankee," said Mr. Simms gravely.
"What All tell you-all Is rlk'ht.. ladies
and gentiemen. An' what has made
the change in we-uns, ladles and gentle
men? It's the wuk of Mr. Jim Irwin
with my boy Raymond, the best boy
any man evah hed, and my gyuhl, Ca
llsta, an" Buddy, an' Jinnie, an' with
me an' my ole woman.
"He showed us how to get a toe-holt
into tnis new gentry, ne tea uvea tne
children what orto be did by a rentln'
farmer in Iowsy. He done lifted us
up, an' made people of us. He done
showed us that you-all is good people,
an' not what we - thought you was.
Outen what he learned In school, my
boy Raymond an' me .made as good
crops as we could last summer, an'
done right much wuk outside. We got
the name of beln' good farmers an'
good wukkers, an' when Mr. Blanchard
moved to town, he said be was (lad to
give us his fine farm for five years.
"Now, tee what Mr. Jim Irwin has
"We 0w It All to Jim Irwin."
done for a pack o outlaws and out
casts. Instld o' hi'din' out from the
Hobdays that was laywayin' us in the
mountings, well be Ilvin in a house
with two cMnileyg an' a swurunln' tab
made outen crock-ryware. Well be in
debt a whole lot an' we owe It to
Mr. Jim Irwin that we got tie credit
to git In debt with, an' the courage to
go on and git out agin !" (Applause.)
"Ah could affo'd to pay Mr. Jim Ir
win's salary myse'f. If Ah could. An
there's enough men hyah tonight that
say they've been money-he'ped by his
teachin' the school to make up mo
than his wages. Let's not let Mr. Jim
Irwin go, neighbors! Let's not let
him go !"
Jim's heart warmed. "There isn't a
man In that meeting,'' said he to him
self, as he walked to the schoolhous
door, "possessed of the greatness of
spirit of Old Man Simms. If he's a
fair sample of the people of the moon
tains, they are of the stuff of which
great nations are made if they only
are given a chance.
(To becontinued)
Hundred Dollars ' ($300.00), attor
neys' fees, and the further sum of
Twenty-eight Dollars ($28.00) costs,
together with the costs and expenses
of such Bale, said sale to be made
subject to the confirmation of said
Court.
Dated and first published this 5th
day of February, A. D. 1924.
GEO. McDUFFEE,
Sheriff of
41-4 5 Morrow County, Oregon.
GILLIAM & BISBEE'S
COLUMN
Miss Muriel Bell is still confined
to her bed at Hotel Heppner with
an attac'k of grippe.
Mrs. L. V. Gentry, who has been
ill for two or three weeks, is still
confined to her room.
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A car of poultry supplies just ar
rived. Anything and everything for
the Hen.
Lots of Mill Feed and Dr. Hesse's
Stock Tonic for your Live Stock.
Will Thompson, who has been liv
ing at Los Angeles the past year or
so, drove in yesterday from that
city and will visit for a few days
with his brothers and other friends
here. Mr. Thompson is engaged in
the auto park business in the Cal
ifornia city and is prospering. His
place will accommodate 100 cars and
they are coming and going all day
and until midnight. Parts of Cal
ifornia are suffering from a protract-
etd drought and cattle are dying by
the hundreds for lack of water. Mr
Thompson made the trip from Los
Angeles to Heppner, about 1,400
miles, in five days.
Sheep Dip and Lice Exterminators
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and Poultry.
Our Spring Stock of Single Trees,
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"We have it, will get It or
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End to
Guesswork
When you transfer an amount of
money to another person, for any
purpose, you are entitled to a record
of the transaction that is Clear on all
points tlije date, the amount and to
whom, paid.
Keep a reasonable amount to your
credit in a checking account with the
First National Bank. Pay with your
personal check on the Bank. Then
you will be suro at all times. Your
checks will provide an accurate, re
liable record of disbursements.
First National Bank
Heppner Ore.
IN THE C1RCVIT COURT Of THE
STATE OF OREGO.Y
For the County of Morrow
First National .
Bank of Roberts, J .
Idaho, a corpor- Lotice of sher.
ation- Vff's Sale on
Plaintiff, .oreCioSure.
vs. .1
Walter Rietman, J
Defendant, '
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That undjer and by virtue of a fore
closure execution and order of sale,
issued out of the Circuit Court of the
State of Oregon for Morrow County,
upon a Judgment and Decree of
Foreclosure made and entered there
in, on the 20th day of December,
1923, in a suit wherein the First
National- Bank of Roberts, Idaho, a
corporation, was plaintiff, and Wal
ter Rietmann, was defendant, and to
me directed, I have duly levied upon,
and will sell at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash in hand, at
the front door of the County Court
House in Heppner, Morrow County,
Oregon, on Wednesday, the 5th day
of March, 1924, at the hour of two
o'clock P. M. of said day, all of the
right, tite and interest of said de
fendant in and to all of the follow
ing described real property, to-wit:-Walter
Rietmann,
Lots Three (3) and Four(4),
and the South Half of North
west Quarter and the Southwest
Quarter of Section Two (2), in
Township Two (2) North of
Range Twenty-six (20), East of
the Willamette Meridian, con
taining 319.07 acres, according
to the United States Govern
ment Survey, in Morrow Coun
ty, Oregon.
Said sale to be of the whole of s-'aid
described lands, or so much thereof
as may be sufficient to satisfy the
Judgment of the Court, in the abov
entitled cause, to-wit, the sum of
Three Thousand One Hundred Twenty-seven
and 05-100 Dollars (?3.
127.05), together with interest
thereon at the rate of eight per cent
per annum from the said 20th day
of December, 1923; the sum of Three
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