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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1913)
Oregon tfis'oroiitl u.-doty 2O7 fifcoiid St 77" "'si 1-1 IM L J.L JLL VOL. 30 NO. 3-4. HEPPNEK, OREGON, NOVEMBER 20, 1913. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEA It II.. THREAT OF DE He Will Be Important Witnessln Grant County Cattle Case. Wm. Handrix. a prosperous Hepp tier Flat farmer departed for Canyon Citv last week to attend conrt. He is a witness tor the state in the case of Johnson va Col v In. Before leav ing for the Grant oounty seat, Mr. Hfinrlrix received an anonymous let ter informing him that if he appeared ea a witness he would never gel out of Grant county alive. The case involvea several Gra rnnnlv stnckmen. Jas. Johnson the plaintiff and he chrges Ben Oolv and .lesKfl Goff with driving his enti nonch of cattle, whioh consisted of two carloads, off of hlB range and shipping them into Portland for the mnrl-nt. Johnson recovered the valu of the rattle bnt is poshing the caie to the limit. The Jubilee Quartet. The Southland Jubilee Quartet of mind voices, composed of four talented negro entertainers, render a program typical of the south with old plantation melodies and jubilee songs. An evening of solid enjoyment, not a tiresome moment. The interpreta tion of Dunbar as given bv Mr. Drav ton is considered by many the very bust in America. fifteen yeaia of study has made Prof. Barbour on of the best musicians and composers of the negro race. Several of his own compositions are included in tbe pro gram. The prima donna soprano poesoBses a remarkably high natural voice that few such singers possess No one should miss the opportunity of hearing this concert as the quartets, trios, duets., solos, instrumental num bers and readings are far superior to Anything of the kind on the Pacific coast. At Star Theater, Ileppcer, Monday Nov. 24. High School Note. This ie the week for the monthly tests. These delight of a bigh school student's life will come every four weess now instead of overy bis as heretofore. Of coursn everyone is rejoioine over the chance and it is exoeoted that the average cf scholar ship will be raised. We are sorry to hear that Hazel Rankin, one of our most popalar Jun iors is going to leave Heppner. Her father, Mr. H. B. Rankin has re ceived the appointment of supervisor of a forest district in the Valley with headquarters in Eocene and they will move about tho first of the month. There will be a bin double header in basket ball next Friday. The girls of the Senior and Junior clones will play the girls of the Soohmore and Freshman classes, and the boys of the Commercial Department will play the boys of the High School. These games should bn well attended especially by the pupils. The Commercial Department re ceived a new puoil this week in the person of Vane or "Runt" Jones. Vane attended Heppner High two years ago and we are glad to number him among us again. The new concrete walks around the building are about completed. Die woramen are now patting in the steps and the wall around the edge of the bluff. When all the work is finished we will have a very attractive yard. All we will lack will be a lawn and we hope this will be cultivated next summer. Eight pigs, six months, 1632 pounds, $123 00. This is a condensed t;tory of what has been accomplished by a farmer at Independence, Oegon, who recently hauled his pork to market and disposed of it. Each hog was 6 months old and averaged 2C4 pound, making an average value of 115 38 a head, or $2 56 per month per hog. "Never let your pigs make hogs of themselves," is the advice of a prominent farm exprert in urging farmers to hurry the growth of their trigs and getting them to maraet when from 6 to 9 months old. Notice to Patrons. AH users of water and lights are hereby notified to settle their unpaid accounts by January 1st. 1914. If this is not done the service will be discontinued. We need the money. Heppner Light & Water Co. IHRIGON ITEMS. Evangeline E. Poble. The Corev's have moved back to the rooms overhead ttieir store.. We will soon be needing a ferry. Some one come in and get busy. Irrigon'a vacant houses are rapidly filling up. Thnre are sveeral new families moving in now. Geo. Rand'i dairy is fast coming to importance. . Ha h now shinning cream 'to Tho Dalles creamery fre quently. The rye which has been seeded on the new level of the old hill by the depot is arhwing nicely, giving an appearance of spring. . The Thanksgiving turkeys are nice and fat and waiting for the axe. Peter Susbauer has a number of them for sale, sizes to suit everyone. Mrs. L. B. Kicker is exneeting a visit from her sister, MrB. Ray Furg ueson in the near future. Mrs Furg uesnn is a resident of Gold Field, Nevada. The hay crop has been slightly damaeed by the late rains hut some of our farmers are now putting up the fifth cutting. J. S. Cabbage is lead ing, having finiehed his filth. Mrs. J L Egbert is now able to get about her house. For some time past she has been disabled because of a very bad foot, which was affected by eczema. It is healing quickly now and her friends will soon sen her out and doing as of old. HARDMAN Mrs. Joe Howell is on the sick list. Hardman was treated to a light enow on Monday. The notices are ud announcing the oitv election on Doc. 2. Clarence Howell is able to be around on crutches again. Lotus Kohiscn is going on crutches now as a result of a horse falling ou him. Geo. Kirk has moved into the Mit Leathers douse recently vacated by Howard Lane. Chester Saling, Wm. Hendrix and Mrs. Foster Collins were called to Canyon City laBt week as witnesses in oourt. Hardman is forging to the front once more. The city has invested in a lire engine which has been installed for some time. The Odd Fellows are putting ud a house at the cemetary in order to give people shelter from the cold when there ia a gathering in the winter. Lost-On the streets of Hepp ner, an elks-tooth hat pin with initials M M engraved on it. Finder leave at this office. Ed Berry returned on Tuesday from the Meadow H me of Mr. and Mrs. Eon Eekelsin where he has been at work for a couple of weeks. Mr. Eskelson has bad some extensive im provements male on his residence; has moved it onto higher ground, built on an addition, and Mr. Berry hits been doing np the painting and papering. The little farm has been named "The Meadow Home" a mighty appropriate appellation. Emerson Keithley, of Eight Mile, mrkoted a lot of his wheat throuah the medium of a bunch of two cars of fat hogs shipped to the Portland market the past week. He is well pleased with the financial results of the venture and fignres his wheat brought him a much better price than it would have done marketed through the ordinary channels. Made Fine Showing. The Sherry string of hoi sea owned by B. F. Swaggart of Lexington, won 17 world championships during their 4000 mile tour since last December. These horses were bred and raise 3 in Morrow county. Some of these horses will be taken to Texas soon to com pete for a $1500 prize in a pony relay raoe. The Sherry string of horses per formed at the Pendleton Round-up this year, winning the ladies relay race. The string has traveled from Los Angeles, California to Winnepeg, Manitoba in Canada, within the past year. Lost. Lost On road, a shot gnn barrel. Finder please notify Harrison Chapin, Hardman. Oregon. Suitable reward. Ms. Clyde Brock and little daughter departed Wednesday for Salem where they will visit for a time with Mr. Brock's mother, and then go on to Lebanon to make a visit with the parents of Mrs. Brock. . CARDINAL CLUB WINS FIRST eilFHE Fast Game at RinkHesults In A 20 to 17 Score For The Locals. The Cardinal Club of this city defeated the fast lone quintet on the local floor last Friday night. The score was 20 to 17 at the end of the last half. It was a case of the best team losing, for lone displayed much better team work than their opponents. However, the Cardinals were very much handicapped in their team work by the condition of Hale, forward, who was barely able to stand on his feet during the entire game. He had an attack cf appendicitis just a few hours before the game and he displayed iron nerve by going in. Had Hale been in good condition the Cardinals probably would have run up a much larger score. A good crowd attended the game and the interest was in tense. During the intermission loyal Heppner rooters formed a serpentine on the floor and kept thing's lively between halves. For lone, Cochran and Blake did the basket shooting, while Sperry's foot work was a feature of the game. Sperry is fast and he handles the ball in superb style. The shining lights of the locals were at a par in their brilliancy. Rogers played a consistent game at center and did some excellent goal shooting. Ilallock showed up in his old form at guard. Crawford did some good basket tossing for fouls, making four out of four tries for goal. Cronan as referee and Case as umpire gave satisfaction as offi cials. There was some discussion of rules during the game, but then it was ever thus. The two teams will meet again on Thanksgiving at lone and good game should be the result, CATALOGUE HOUSES . ADVERTISE IVHY HOT THE LOCAL DEALER? From time to time readers of the Gazette-Times and other papers of the country are present ed with articles from the pens of fertile minded men whose object it is to show the wrong in pat ronizing the mail order houses. Good reasons are given, pro and con, and the object of this article is not to discuss the right and wrong of the situation, but to touch on some of the reasons which seem to bear weight in favor of the catalog house as far as Heppner is concerned. in the first place, there are three general merchandise stores, two hardware stores, and a fur niture store, m Heppner, all carrying lines of standard goods and wares, and all doing a reas onably good business. lhese houses are also carrying advertising space in the local paper, and herein lies the sub ject matter for a comparison of methods of the home merchant and those of his business-grab bing rival, the mail order mer chant. To treat briefly with the mail order house let us look at the method of advertising employed In the first place the magazine is made use of to call the readers attention to the location of the business. The magazine is used because of its country-wide cir culation, and a small ad in its columns brings many inquiries for catalogs, and thus does the mail order house build up a great mailing list. Once this list is acquired, it is followed up with a never ceasing string of advertis ing matter, with every article carefully listed and numbered, and always as many pictures of their wares as their mammoth catalogs can contain. And the price is given particular mention in big, bold-face type. This is part of their plan for drawing business by carrying it to the fireside of its customers. Their catalogs are prepared to attract the attention of prospective trade and it is seldom that one of their books does not pay for itself many times. Thus they have the evi dence first hand that advertising pays, for their business depends entirely upon the catalogs and other pamphlets sent out. This system of business makes it hard on the local dealer. He is forced to extend credit, (often times to people who have just sent their cash to the mail order house) and finds it necessary to "stick" the man who pays cash for his goods. Perhaps it is nec essary to do this, but it looks like the evil could be remedied to some extent, at least. Consider the home merchant's method of advertising. He is paying for an allotted space in the paper, as all good merchants should do, and is making what he thinks 13 good use of that space. When the spring goods arrive he marches to the print shop with his copy announcing the arrival of a new line of goods and invites the public to come in and "in spect." There is nothing said about the style, quality, price, etc. , but "the goods are here and ready for your inspection." A nice display is arranged in the window, which is an invaluable adjunct to the advertising busi ness, but not all of it by any means, and nothing more is said about the new goods. The town people will be attracted to some extent by the window display, but how about the country cus tomer who depends upon the paper to keep him enlightened ? He will not be attracted by the window display, as it is out of sight, but he will be attracted by a good live ad in the local paper describing the articles, giving the prices by all means, and augmenting the mechanical ap pearance of the ad by putting in some attractive cuts. A single ad should not run for more than one issue of a weekly newspaper if the advertiser wishes to benefit by his advertising. The reader is interested in the ads the same as he is interested in the news, and news matter gets mighty stale if allowed to run even two issues. And again, the fact that 'the new goods have arnved- does not attract the casual reader, If it said "Ladies' and 'Misses Coats at from $15 to $25" the reader forms a conclusion right away as to what the winter cloth ing will cost. If the merchant has a price on his goods, why not advertise it ? Does it not seem reasonable that people will go to his store quicker if they know before they leave home what their purchase is going to cost? The mail order house realizes that and makes a special cam paign along that line. Heppner Doctor Married, At Portland on Sunday, Nov 16, occurred the marriage of Dr. Harold T. Allison, of Heppner, to Olive J. Lockwood, of Port land. The wedding took place at 5 o clock p.m. at the home of the bride's sister, Dr. Mary L. Barn- hart, and was a quiet affair. Dr. Allison and wife will be at home at Heppner, after November 22, The merriage ot these young people would seem to be quite fit ting indeed. Dr. Allison is a leading physician of this city, coming here about a year ago to take over the practice of Dr. F. E. Boyden. He is a fine young man, well equipped with Know ledge of his profession and is en joying an ever increasing pract ice. 1 he bride is a trained nurse by profession and was in the em ploy of the St. Charles hospital here for several months the past summer, making many warm friends during her stay in this city. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank all those who kindly assisted during the sickness and death of our belov ed husband and father, Mrs. O. P- Hendncson and family. $100 Reward. I will pay $100 for the arrest and conviction of the party or parties stealing my cattle. My cattle are branded M C on right side, and have right ear split. tf. James Carty. i E. W. Rhea came up from his Butter creek farm Wednesday. LEXINGTON ITEMS. Chas. Burchell was a visitor to The Dalles and Portland on Sun day. Mrs. Emma McCormick was sick at her home a few days with neuralgia. Miss Leona Davis is quite sick at her home with an abscess on her throat. ! '; Mrs. Ed Pointer is delighted over a fine new piano and player which were presnted to her last Friday. ' The Second Annual Morrow County Poultry Show will be big ger and better than ever, say those who are in charge. Mr. Nordyke is having one of the most complete dairy barns ever seen in this town erected at the Penland ranch adjoining Lex ington. ' ' : : : ' r ! ' Chas. Breshears recently moved four large apple tree3 to his prop erty on knob hfll. He says in another year or so he will solicit "ye apple trade." Miss Merle Carmichael left on Saturday morning for Medieal Lake to visit her grandmother. Her grandmother will accompany Miss Merle when she returns home. Howard Lane took charge of the Pastime last Saturday; How ard moved his family back last week and they occupy their own residence, Mr. Flint having moved on Main street. The trade for pianos and or gans must be good in Lexington now for there were three piano agents in towrn in the last ten days and all representing differ ent music houses. The outfit cars were moved to lone Monday. We understand part of the section men will re main at Lexington and not go with the cars during their two weeks stay in the adjoining city. Edith Reaney, while playing ball at school one day last week, struck against the building while running and cut a gash in her side. She was -assisted over to Mrs. Beach's and from there taken home in an auto. On Thursday afternoon Mrs. W. G. Scott was taken very ill with a nervous shock. Medical and friendly assistance was sum moned and by Sunday afternoon she was so much improved that she was able to be dressed and sat up awhile. We hope for her speedy recovery. ' There has' been and is quite a bit of concreting in Lexington. Gus McMillan has his concrete cellar finished; Chas. Breshears has his new reservoir about done done, and Gene Gentry and Marsh White are now working on their concrete improvements. Lexington School v News. The last shipment of laboratory supplies came in last Friday. Thej laboratory is now fully equipped for such work as will come up thi3 year and we are ready to prove, experimentally, any prob lem within the radius of our sci ence work, Physics and : Chemis try. The laboratory was equip ped by the high school students of last year, and is, as we think, the best in the county. The new hall clock, bought by the 8th grade class of 1913, was put up last week and is now busy trying to koep time with pupils. Miss Leona Davis, a member of the "soph" class, has been sick and not able to attend school for more than a week. i Miss Anna Jarret, a "freshie," was also on the sick list, but is now back at work. i The Boys' and girls' basketball teams are both working hard to gain that point of proficiency, j which is necessary to make win ners. They have the services of Miss Alice Thayer and Malcolm iood, both of whom know the game. Expression of Thanks. The Ladies Aid Society of the Federated church wish to thank the Hazelwood Ice Cream Co. for their generous donation of ice cream for the "Trip Around the World. The donation came through their salesman, Mr. Dunne. We will not hesitate to speak a good word for the Hazel- wood, Company in the future. Many thanks, with best wishes for their future success. s Mrs. Zehrung, Secretary. STUDENTS APPRECIATE Great State University In Prospect For Eugrene. University of Oregon. Eugene. Nov. 11 "We express our admiration for the able and loyal service per formed by the press of the state, which wag all bat a unit in clear understanding, and effectively and trnthfuWy presenting the immensely important issue at state." ' The' above was the opening para graph of appreciation in resolutions parsed by the students of the Uni versity of Oregon, after last week's election, in which the University two appropriations were upheld by the people. The students proceeded to thank bIso the student body of the Oregon Agricultural college for its support, alee the people of Ciirvallis, and to renew the famous University of Ore gon Pledee of loyalty to tho stats in return for the partially free education availaole at this institution. ' The University's program for the RiKt year includes ruch bosidn tlia mere instruction of the students in attendance in the campus. Inquiry froth anywhere in the state, if direct ed to the Extension Department, will bring quick response as to courses available by correspondence or by means of visits from lectarera to clubs in town or country. 'Ihe University is branching out this fall oo a moat ambitious line of service to the state. University of Oregon Eugene, Nov. II A great state university for Ore gon, with an immeuse student body, a high standard, as good a faculty as ran be got together, and a system of dispensing knowledge that will reach the state at large, not merely the limited number on the campus, is the plan of President P.'I. Campbell of the University of Oregon,.. It is a plan made' possible by the favorable vote of Novemeber 1 upon the Uni versity's building appropriations. Already it has been started. ' ' Iu a statement just before he left for Washington, D C. to make an address before? the National Associa tion of State Universities. President Campbell cave an inkling: of his plans. Hero are some excerpts from bis statement: "The reward nf all these citizens should be foond in a strengthened and broadenad system of higher (duration in Oregou which will rapidly advance the etate to a position educationally second to none in the union. "The University can now confident ly bid for the best men the country produces as members of its faculty. 'Oregon has recently been nncenal Iv fortunate in securing men of rhn very finest tvpe, but such good luck cannot bo counted noon steadily on less there are reasonable expectations of permanent University growth. "With the Universtiy now free from the harassing distractions of campaigns and allowed io concentrate all its energies, with hope and re newed courage, on its problems of higher efficiency and broadened service, it can very soon become a principal factor in the state's development. ' "The whole system of higher edu cation in Oregon is now in position to make remarkable advances. " B.F. Swaggart, veteran stock raiser and breeder of pure bred jacks, and who resides east of Lexington, has been elected honorary vice president of the Standard Jack and Jennet Registry Association of America for the coming year. Mr. Swaggart Is well known in the east, even better than here, for the reason that he has written many arti cles on Jack Registry for eastern stock journals. II. B. Rankin, supervisor cf the Umatilla forest reserve for the past two yeats with office in Heppner. has received notice of bis transferal to the Cascade reserve. His office will ba located in Eogene. Mr. Rankin is preparing to move his family there by the first of December. The Ran kirts hove mads many friends daring tiieir brief stay in this city as well as making a fine home. They will be greatly missed by their many Heppner friends. Dance. There will be a dance at the Jim Hayes plae on Rhea Creek Satrrday evening, Nov. 29. Good music. Come out and have good time.