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IF YOU WANT ALL THE NEWS OF MORROW COUNTY WHILE IT IS NEWS, READ THE HEPPNER HERALD. WE PRINT IT FIRST
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VOLUME X
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUF.SDW MARCH i8, 1924
NUMBER 47T-
Mor
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OF HEPPNER BALL CLUB
SOLYAN AND FISHER WILL
PITCH AND CATCH
Practice Started for Season and High
Hopes Are Held for a Place
, In the Sun
Walter LaDusire was chosen to
manage Heppner's ball club tor toe
coming season at a recent meeting
and "Speck" Aiken was again arart
ed for caDtain. Training has start
ed at Gentry field and high hopes
are entertained by Heppner fans that
their team will find a place in the
.sun before the season ends.
Much joy was created in fandom
Thursday morning when a telegram
was received from Jack Solyan, ac
cepting the offer made by the club.
Solyan will be accompanied by
"Bud" Fisher, an ex-league player,
and he will wear the bird cage mask
and take Solyan's hot ones right off
the bat during the season. So'.yan
pitched lor Heppner two years ago
and is a favoiite with Heppner fans.
Several new players are being
whiooed into shape for the coming-
season among whom are Jap Craw
ford, Carl Cason, Kalph ftioore ana
ttnval Parker. All of these are said
to be promising youngsters and it is
probable other young players win oe
developed before the regular season
opens.
A sehedule of gani,es is being ar
ranged and will be made public at
an early date. Condon, Arlington,
lone and Heppner will doubtless tan
gle for the season's sport and other
teams may be added before final ar
rangements are made.
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CECIL
Master Billie Logan of Fourmile
was Calling on his pals at Cecil on
Saturday i
W. G. Hynd and David Hynd of
Sand Hollow were visiting Hynd
Bros, ranch, Buttejrby Flats, on Sat
- urday and Sunday.
. ;'. ; Miss Cleta PalnlateeV of Windy-
nook, accompanied, by Misses Thelma
.and Gertro Morgan of Broadacres,
were-exercising their horses and pay
ing calls in Cecil on Sunday.
; Mr. and Mrs. Karl Farnsworth
and childjren of Rhea Siding were
visiting in Arlington on Monday.
J. W. Osbosn of Fairview ranch
and Walter Pope of Cecil were call
ing on their Arlington friends dur
ing the week.
Mrs. Hazel Logan returned to
Fourmile on Monday, accompanied
by her brother, Cecil Ahalt, of Los
..Angeles.
Mrs. Geo. Perry of Ewing was vis
' iting her daughter. Miss Crystal
Roberts, in Heppner on Tuesday.
Miss Crystal is a student of Heppner
high school.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lindstrom, from
their iranch near I6oue, were visiting
:at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Lundell at Rhea Siding on Thursday.
; i Mrs. Roy Scott and daughter, Miss
Cora, who have been' visiting at But
terby Flats, left for Heppner on Sun
day, where they will visit with Mrs.
Jack Hynd before leaving for their
home at Freezeout.
John Krebs of The Last Camp and
T: H. Lowe of Cecil were doing busi
pesa in lone on Friday.
Peter Bauernfiend, Cecil's right
hand man, spared enough time dur
ing the week to 3pend a few hours
iimongst his friends in lone,
Ray" Halferty of lone was a busy
man around Cecil on Friday hunting
up his horses. -
Al. Henriksen of the Moore ranch
near H,eppneir waa making the dust
fly around Cecil on Friday, but he
departed a "sadder but wiser" man
, when informed a dance would be
held in Cecil Hall on April 5th.
W. A. Thomas of Dotheboys hill
-was busy hauling baled hay from
"W. H. Chandler's ranch on Willow
creek on Thursday.
Mr. C. Poe of Wells Springs, was
tloing business at Butterby Flats on
Wednesday.
C. D. Sennett of The Willows has
been busy during the week pruning
trees around Cecil.
" Miss A. C. Hynd of Butterby Flats
was calling on Mrs. Frank Madden
at The Willows on Thursday.
Mr and Mrs. E. R. Gildner of
Tameron. Idaho, spent Thursday and
FHrtav in the Cecil district- before
leaving to visit friends in Portland.
Noel Streeter was the proudest lad
in Morrow county on Saturday when
a fine new bicycle arrived on the lo
cal for him. No less than thr.ee other
hnv r-velist3 arrived to welcome ixoei
and his cycle.- Cyclists sports were
the main events for tne rest oi in,e
day at Cecil. No' accidents were re
ported at the end of a most perfect
dav.
Mr. and Mrs. Qpo. Noble, accom
panied by Johnnie E. Shufeldt, left
Rhea Siding on Friday for Vancou
ver. Wash., where Geo. will have
charge of a section crew. Our best
wishes go with them in their new
home.
We understand now why R. A,
Thompson is making so many hur
ried trips to The Shepherds Rest.
We hear htat R. A. has founded a
iome for old men some where in
Heppner and his first inmate was
oL-Qn frnm Peril in the person of
ctnn.an'-a-Walf " Sad to relate
Stpp-an'-a-Half." tike the cat, has
mo hack and we axe resolved to
refuse to allow R. A. to take any
more of our dear old men from Cecil.
A. MINOR ENGAGES
IN BUSINESS HERE
Friends of C. A. Minor in Morrow
county, and they are legion, will be
pleased to learn that he has again
located in Heppner and established
himself in business here by taking
ove,r the real estate and insurance of
fice in Hotel Heppner building which
has been operated by L. E, Van Mar-
ter. The deal was consumated a few
days ago and Mr. Minor has already
taken over the business.
Perhaps no other man in Morrow
county is better qualified to handle
real estate, especially in the line of
farms and stock ranches, intelligent
ly than Mr. Minor who has spent
practically his entire life here and
has been one of the county's largest
operators in livestock growing and
marketing. He knows soil values to
the dot and can be depended upon to
give reliable information about val
ues, etc.
Mr. Van Marter will remain with
Mr. Minor for a time, after which
he will probably engage in some oth
er line.
PATROX-TEACH ER
ASSOCIATION MEETS
The Patron-Teacher association
held a regular meeting last Tuesday
afternoon when an interesting pro
gram was given and with only a few
members present to enjoy it.
The meeting was opened with a
piano solo by Velma Huston, fol
lowed by a vocal duett by Kathleen
Monahan and Marjorie Clark.
Miss Christ s room provided two
pleasing special numbers, the first
being a song entitled, "The Caterpil
lar and the Bee," the other being a
dance called "The Seven Jumps.
Both numbers were good and elicited
applause.
A. recitation by Elaine Sigsbee was
also well received.
Mrs. S. E. Notson then gave "A
Short History of the Patron-Teacher
Association," which proved of
much interest to the members pres
ent. The program closed with a selec
tion by the high school orchestra, an
organization with which the patrons
of the school are much gratified be
cause of its so capably filling a Ion?
felt want in the school and town.
A business session followed the
program at which, after the minutes
of previous meetings had been read
and approved, the committee PTe-
viously appointed to confer with Mr
Sigsbee relative to showing educa
tional films at special matinees, re
ported that satisfactory arrange
ments have been made and that the
films will be shown at children's
matinees at but -trifling cost to the
association. The films are sent out
free by the University of Oregon.
The 4th grade having brought out
the 6greatest number of visitors to
association meetings during the
month, were declared winners and
entitled to a half holiday from their
school work.
The publicity committee was in
structed to make arrangements for
advertising the Vaudeville show he
ing put on tomorrow evening by lo
cal talent for the benefit of the as
sociation.
The treasurer reported iu on
hand.
TRAP SHOOTERS DIVIOE
HONORS LAST SUNDAY
At the trap! shoot on the Heppner
field last Sunday Heppner's first
team won over Arlington while Ar
lineton's second team won over
Heppner. Much interest was shown
in - the contest by local sportsmen
and a good crowd defied the cold
March ' wind in order to enjoy the
6 sport.
The line-up and scores follow:
- Arlington first squad:
Snell, 83: McMillan, 77: Kurtz, 34
out of 50 birds; Leghorn, 2 5 out of
50; Wheelhouse, 15, out of 25; Leg
horn, 22 out df 25; Montague, 4
out of 50. , Total, 387.
Heppner first squad:
McMurdo, 81; Latourell, 78
Vaughn, 40 out of 50; Clark, 33 out
of 50; Bowker, 86; Knoblock, 80
Total, 398.
Arlington second squad:
Montague, F., 74; Montague, B
65; Kurtz, "58 out of 75; Leghorn,
22 out of 2 5 Lemon, 57; Blackburn
64. Total, 340.
Heppner second squad:
Doolittle, 74; Duncan, 61; Bisbee
60 out of 75; Stone, 10 out of 25
Reed. 51 out of 75; Clark. 19 out of
25; Shively, 37 out of 50; eigler,
26 out of 50. Total, 328.
Change now to the
brand that never
changes and you'll
never change again.
Had 2,500 Offers;
AiTliii'itld Turner of Bourne, Knulaml, usUed u newspaper to tmd him a
wife, and received 2,500 offers, lie
bride, and here they are.
n CO-OPERATIVE
WOOL ASS'N GROWING
ASSOCIATION OPENS AX
AUEACY IX NEW ENGLAND
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Boston Branch' Will Handlft Co-Oper
atives' ools Suitable of f
Worsted Industry
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(O'i'egonian)
The raoidly increasing business if
the Pacific Co-operative Wlol -G'jrf-
ers has necessitated the opening of
an office in Boston from which woola
will be oftfered to the mills of the
New England district.
'This will greatly increase our dis
tribution in New England, particu
larly of those wools suitable for the
worsted industry," said R. A. Ward,
manager of the Pacific Co-operative
Wool Growers. "It is not unlilceiy
that we will carry small stocks of
wools in Boston, particularly those
styl,e-3 for which the demand is par
ticularly confined to the eastern sea
board." The organization now represents
over 2700 wool growers of Oregon,
Idaho, Washing and California, who
market their graded wools directly
t omills In an orderly manner ana
at their true market value.
The Pacific Co-operative Wool
Growers has also opened an office
in the Santa Fe buildiitg, San Fran
cisco, under tlie supervision oi w.
P. Wing of the California Wool
Growers' association. This office
will serve tbe California members of
the association. The main oftice of
the Pacific Co-operative Wool Grow
ers is in this city.
The association's Boston wire on
market conditions follows:
"While the wool market ha3 re
mained auiet through the week, pric
es are firm in all lines. A hand-to-
mouth policy in buying is being fol
lowed by the manufacturers. How
ever, they say that if one-third of a
normal demand should aeveiop tne
supplies of wool in this country
would be about sufficient to meet
the requirements. Low washed and
scoured wools, both foreign and do
mestic, continue to show a talr
amount of business. Wool noils are
moving freely, but the stocks are
very limited in amount. Mohair is
showing more actively for the past
several days.
"Contracting in the west and tne
strong foreign markets have Keen
the center of interest locally through
the week. Buying in the west has
eached a considerable volume. The
average price paid thus far seems to
be around 28 to 42 cents, with pos
sibly some choice lots having moved
at slightly higher price. Sales have
been consumated in about all of the
larger wool-growing states, such aB
Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Texas,
Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon
and a few also in adjoining terri
tory."
RHODE ISLAND RED
HATCHING EGGS
Place your orders now for pure
bred Rhode Island Red eggs for
hatching. These eggs are from the
famous Maguire strain and rank
with the best in Oregon. Rather
than see these eggs go on the mar
ket for ordinary use, and to help im
prove the poultry stock in Morrow
county, we are selling them for
hatching at the low price of 50 cents
a dozen.
CHAS. H. LATOURELL,
46-tf Heppner, Ore.
I-OR KALE Pure bred Perohion
stallion. Ten years old March 10
46-48. MICHEAL KENNY, Heppner
Picked This One
selected Miss Lilian jsnape to be ins
KIOF C INITIATE BIG
. CLASS HERE S
MANY VISITORS PRESENT
FROM OUTSIDE POINTS
Frank LoneiRtm, of Portland, P
cipal Speaker at Banquet
In Evening
rin-
Pendleton Council of the Knights
of Columbus held a work meeting
here last Sunday, when a large class
of Morrow and Gilliam county resi
dents were initiated into the order
by Supreme Director Frank J. Loner
gan, of Portland, assisted by State
Warden James Riley and his staff.
The work meeting was h,eld in T.
O. O. F. hall and lasted from 2:30
P. M. until about 7:00 when a ban
quet was served at Hotel Heppner.
Besides the grand officers and
work team from Portland, there
were many other visitors from Pen
dleton and other eastern Oregon
points.
The banquet was presided over by
Past State Director J. H. Peare, of
LaGjrande, who most happily Intro
duced Bishop McGrath, of Baker,
bishop of the diocese of eastern Ore
gon; State Deputy P. J. Hanley, of
Portland, and Jameg Mollahan, of
Hjeppner, all of whom responded
with brief but inspiring remarks.
The principal address of the even
ing was given by Supreme Director
Frank Lonergan, of Portland. Mr.
Lonergan's th,eme was patriotic
Americanism and his remarks
teemed with patriotic utterances.
The addresses were interspersed
with other numbers in which Miss
Kathleen Monahan favored most
gracefully with Irish folk dances and
Miss Ste,ele and Mrs. Walter Moore
gave severali charming piano and vio
lin number?. Miss Monahan also
favored with a vocal selection.
OXTARIOX MAN ANNOUNCES
HIMSELF FOR CONGRESS
Ralph W. Swagler, of Ontarion
has announced that he will be a can
didate for the nomination for con
gressman from this district on the
Democratic ticket at the May prim
aries. Mr. Swagler has practiced law at
Ontarion for 12 years, has served as
district attorney in his "county, and
has been prominent in Democratic
politics for several years.
It nominated anil elected, Mr.
Swagler says he will endeavor to im
prove agricultural conditions botn
be remedial legislation and by such
International co-operation as will
tend to establish European finances
so that a market can be found for
products of the American farm. Re
duced freight rates on farm products,
rigid economy in government and
careful attention to the best Inter
ests of eastern and central Oregon
will also receive his best attention,
Mr. Swagler says.
Thinks Farming Doesn't Pay
Jim Mollahan, who spent a few
days in town during the we, end.
reported to the Herald office that
everything looks fine in his section
sd far as the stock business goes. Mr.
Mollahan, who has been farming for
several years, quit that line of en -
deavor after last season's experience
and thinks he is In luck to be out
nr i, "I'irpn if tho MeSarv hill nas -
. 'ifAiiohon fi'u'ro "nd wheat
goes up to $1.50, the other feilows
who manufacture and sell to the
firmer n-iii ralup thpir nrlcea to cor-
respond with what he Is getting and
If he pets an extra dollar or two tney
will take it way from him and that's:
. . ... . , i - . I
mat. no cuuciuutru.
IPBOHIBITIOX DIRECTOR
I HERE MONDAY, MARCH 24
Dr. A. J. Linville, federal prohi
bition director for Oiregpn, will befh
Heppner Monday evening, March 24,
when he will address a public meet
ing in the Christian shurch. Mrs. Mc
Alister, of th,e state W. C. T. U., is
accompanying Dr. Linville on his
tou,r of the state and will also ad
dress the meeting. Mrs. McAlister
may hold a women's meeting in the
afternoon of the same day if they
arrive in time.
Th.ese meetings are being held
throughout the state as part of a
comprehensive program to acquaint
the public with the general problems
of prohibition enforcement as met
with by the federal officials.
The meeting is free to th,e public
and those in charge extentl a gener
al invitation to everybody to b,e pres
ent. "ALL ARE INTERESTED IN
FARM PROBI ,EMS" SPE X CE
"You fellows don't make any mo
ney. You don't buy anything from
me except - overalls for yourselves
and Mother Hubbards for your wives.
You don't buy any furniture except
the cheapest. You don't buy kitchen
utensils except tinware. The only
way I can make any money is by
buying up mortgages on your farms
and foreclosing on you, but I don't
want to make money that. way. I
want to make money as a square
merchant and I can't do it unless you
fellows are making it."
This wafi the opening talk at a big
co-operative meeting in California by
one of the big interests in Fresno,
and then he told the growers if they
would organize right and dig in to
help themselves, he would put every
dollar he had in the world behind
them.
The interests of the farmer, mer
chant, banker, lawyer, teacher and
worker are closely allied. When the
producers are prosperous the other
interests are certain to be, Oi;egon
needs business men like this Fresno
department store proprietor to walk
into the co-operative movement and
help put it across.
8 8 5
If all the cattle in Oregon were
marketed through one big co-operative
selling association, the stockmen
would be placed on an even basis
with the packers in the fixing of
prices. This plan has been worked
out with wonderful success in sorao
of tbe middle west, states, and the
official reports are on file In the
state market agent's office. These
stock growers operate their own
stockyards. They control the stock
all the way through.
8 8 8
The margin between the flour
price and the bread price, for a bar
rel of flour, has spread from $10.40
to $18.30, while the price of wheat
to the grower is below the cost of
production. The department of agri
culture stales that a pound of bread
that cost the consumer 5.'3 cents In
1913, in Minneapolis, now costs 9
cents, while flour which was $4.43
a barrel in 1913 is now $6.89 from
the makers.
8 8 8
The Portland Chamber of Com
merce has reversed its first decision
and is now strongly backing the
wheat export bill before congress
and will send representatives to
Washington to work for the law. At
STOCKMAN LOSES $500
DOG TO COYOTE POISON
POISON BAIT SCATTERED
WITHOUT WARN IN GIS CLAIM
Veteran Rancher Also' Complains of
Requirements of Income
Tax Law
"Yes, I'm a crank and a kicker and
I'm proud of it," declared B. F.
Swaggart, veteran stockman and
ownar of the Eastern Oregn Stock
Farm, out near Swaggart butte in
the country north of Lexington. "I
try to stay at home and look after
my own affairs and dig a living out
of the ground but these government
offic.'als won't let me. Do the best
I could with my stock and farming
business," continued Mr. Swaggart,
"I w.ent behind $10,000 last year
and then had to come to town and
hire a lawyer to help me make out a
statement to Wie government show
ing that I am broke and don't have
to pay any tax. Th,en, to make mat
ters worse this big, government of
ours hire a government man to trap
and poison coyotes and one of them
puts out poison right , beside my
fence without giving any notice to
the neighbor -and my dog gets the
poison and dies. That dog was wor th
more than $500 to me beacuse he
could do more with my stock than
any man I could hire, at $100 a
month. Whait mor.e would you ex
pect It to take to make a man a
i crank and a kicker?
Going into oeiaus Mr. swaggan,
who called at the Herald office the
other day, said that he lias seen on-
ly on,e coyote on his range in the last
three months, out juri me same uic
1 government! trapper has traps set all
j over the country catching mostly
j badgers and dogs. He only visits the
1 trans about once in every week ot
I ten ' davs and when an animal is
! caught and cannot got looe by pull
ling orf a foot, or aleg It generally
dies of starvation. He has given no-
tice that no more traps are to he set
on nis rancu aim nan um n..-in
bring suit against someoouy lor in.
volna nf hla dnp.
BAUMAN TAKES COUNT
LEGIOX SMOKER DRAWS
RECORD CROWD OP FANS
Finch Wins Over Nordeen Followiaff
Several Good and Snappy
Preliminary Bouts
Clarence Bauman, Heppner's fa
vorite son in the boxing game, took
the count last night at the Legioa.'
smoker when Art Bibby, of Grass
Vall,ey, floored the Heppner man -three
times in the third round of a
scheduled six-round match. Bauman
was game to the last and kept com
ing back for more as long as he was
able to regain his f,eet, but the rangy
boy from Sherman county was too
much on the job for Bauman's ef
forts to avail.
The men had previously met in
two matches, both of which went to
a draw, and it is said both went In
to last night's ev,ent with the fixed
determination to either win or take
a 'knockout. Frlendtf of Bauman sajr
that he has lately been boxing with
men so below his class that h,e haa
lost some of his old-time punch and ,
it seemed lust night that, for som
reason, he failed to show his usual
form from the start.
B. It. Finch, of Heppner, and KhI
Nordeen, of Pendleton, put on an
other lint battle of six two-minute
rounds. While I he men were rather
evenly matched, Finch showed tha
best form all the way! through. Tha
first, second, fourth and fifth were
easily his rounds and the others wera
not far from being ties. Finch won
the match with some to spare..
"They'll quit calling him the littla
school teacher now, I guess," re
marked one Heppner fan at the end
of the scrap.
The show opened with Bob Alstote
and Bob Burside, two local boys, act
ing as curtain raisers. Both boys ara
husky and went after it for all th era
was in them, and while it was called
a dray, Burside showed a shade bet
ter training than his adversary.
Brick Hall and Leonard Schwarta
followed in a hot three-round fight
in which Schwartz got the decision.
Blackw.ell and Blahm, also local
kids, followed In a three-time whirl
in which Black well had tho best of
it. A heavy swat on Blahm's neclc
put -him to sleep-for tho oounti -
Denipsey, of Boardman, and Wag
ner, of Springfield, followed with
three lively rounds which ended iu a.
draw. ,
Then enme a challenge match be
tween Francis Doherty and Uusaol
Wright and the two kids were both,
unquestionably out to win in four
minute-and-a-half rounds. The judg
es gave Wright the decision, but to
many fans it looked like a draw.
The crowd was the largest ever
sepn at a similar event in Heppner.
being estimated at close to 500, at
least 25 per cent of whom were lad
ies. The American Legion has made a
record for Itself in this event and the
members declare the standard will
be kfpt up in the future.
the recent Portland meeting of tha
chamber and the wheat growers of
eastorn Oregon, the bankers stated
that many wheat growers have
turned their ranches over to tlv
mortgage companies; that they ara
going deeper and deeper into dt
and that unless some measures Ilka
thd export bill gives them Bpeedy re
lief, they will leave the farms in
great numbers this summer and fall.
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Minnesota is showing the nation
what co-operation can do. The stata
is leading all other states In the
movement because those who under
stand agriculture are directing it. Im
its co-operative dairy work Minne
sota is getting 12 cents per pound
more for its butter fat than Nebraska.
and 8 cents more than Wisconsin.
North and South Dakota and Iowa.
Of farm products it markets almost
half the entire states production.
and In live stock one-half of tha
shipping Is handled through co-oper
ative associations. Of 20,000 cars
of live stock handled the averafia
cost was a trifle more than $8 and
the net average profit more than $4,
against a handling cost of $16 thru
commission men and a loss of $4
the difference between success and
failure.
What Minnesota is doing and ban
done, Oregon can do, when the cat
tle men, fruit men, dairy men and
others will come to the one way ot
thinking, unite solidly and put. thosa
at the head who know the work. Tha
leaders of the co-onerative work in
Minnesota state that united acthm
of farmers is the biggest factor tffl
save the Industry of anything so far
suggested that, the farmers must
save themselves.
TRAIN IAD OF MILK
FOR NEAR EAST CHILDREN
A carload of condensed milk Is bo-
Ing assembled In Oregon and Wash
ington to be sent to the children of
the Near East. This car will bo
joined by other cars collected on tha
coast and In the Middle West and
by the time these various cars havo
reached Chicago It Is expected that
at least one solid tralnload of milk:
will be the tretlsult. Transportation
:s furnished free by the various rail
roads. "There is nothing so essen
tial for our children In the Near
East as milk," states J. J. Handsak
r, Oregon Director, "and there ara
more than 100,000 underfed or
phans for whom this mllli Is belnff
collected."