HEPPNER MILLING CO.
offers its finest product,
made from selected IMue
Stem wheat
WHITE STAR FLOUR
NONE BETTER
Ask your grocer for it they all handle
it and take no other.
"When you buy a barrel of White Star
Flour your money is put into circulation
at home. It buys more wheat to make
more flour. When you buy outside flour
your money never comes back it is a
loss to the county.
Rye, Graham, Wholewheat and Pancake
Flours in 10 and 25-lb. sacks.
For Sale by all the Stores.
Bran, Millfeed, Shorts and specially cleaned Rolled
Barley always on hand.
A SAM CLEMENS PRANK.
Stock Taking Sale
We are going through our stock and
throwing on the Bargain Counter
ALL ODDS AND ENDS
AND SHORT LENGTHS
at prices that will GO.
20 per cent OFF
on all Ladies' waists, dresses, wrap
pers, kimonos, bathrobes, skirts,
underskirts, suits, coats, shawls,
scarfs, furs.
Children's and Misses' coats and
sweaters, and lots of other goods
too numerous to mention.
10 per cent OFF
on Men's suits and overcoats; Youths
and Boys' suits and overcoats.
A line of Men's $1.00 and $1.25
Golf shirts at 50c.
Thomson Bros.
City Meat Market
KINSMAN & HALL, Proprietors
Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal,
SUGAR CURE 13 HAMS
Try Some of our Sausage.
True Story of the Trick He Turned In
Artistic Whitewashing.
The Hannibal of today, with its
thriving factories, street car" and
i briek pavements, is a very different
' place from tho "languid, yawning
jjlifsouri village of Mark Twain's
boyhood. The river has not changed,
and without the river Samuel Clem
ens could scarcely have been Mark
Twain. Yet perhaps it had no more
influence upon him than had this
picturesque old town of his boy
hood. John A. Fry went to school with
Mark Twain, and lie knows the
truth about the whitewash story.
"Sam Clemens? Yes, I knew
him. Went to school with him, and
I'm hound to say that he did keep
up with us, but nobody ever knew
how ho manag. d to learn anything.
Shiftless, lazy and dadblasted tired
born tired ! No study in him.
All the time too busy getting up
some new kind of devilment. And
he sure was a boy, Sam was, who
knew how to entertain himself.
"E-(.'T hear about him and the
whitewash? Can't say whether he
ever put it in any of his books or
not, but it's a fact, every word of it.
Well, sir, one time he went out
over the neighborhood and took
contracts for whitewashing tight
board fences. Then, come night, he
blew his whistle or eat meowed to
get out tho boys. Told 'em he had
a good trick they could play off on
the neighbors, lie lot on that peo
ple would be awful mad if any
whitewash was put on their fences;
they wanted to plant vines and
flowers along their fences, the
neighbors did, so he said, and then
explained to .us how lime would
surely be terrible hard on the
plants. People would wonder who
had done it; neighbors would be
awful mad ; it would kick up no end
of a row.
"Well, that sounded reasonable
and all right. And there we were,
us boys, just a-spoiling for excite
ment. To worry folks a lot we
thought was most as good fun as
a minstrel show. So that's why the
scheme that Sam Clemens got up
looked so almighty attractive. But
I disremember whether the boys
hooked the lime to make the white
wash with or whether they come by
it honorably. Anyhow, come night
with enough moon to see with, the
boys started in to whitewash the
fences. They 'just flew at it; they
soused it on; they worked and they
sweated, burned their hands and
faces with the time and let their
selves be bossed by Sam Clemens
till the work was plumb through
and done.
"And then what happened? Well,
sir, the next day Sam goes around
to the different houses, collects foi
the jobs and gets no end of compli
ments. People, I reckon, never did
have so much whitewash on their
fences before."
"You might us well tell it all," I
urged. "Were you one of the boys
who assisted that night in making
the neighbors mad ?"
"Well," said Mr. Fry as he struck
a match to relight his pipe, "never
mind about that." Keene Abbott
in Harper's Weekly.
Gu:lty Anyhow.
Daniel O'Connell was at one time
defending a man accused of murder
at Clonmel. The circumstantial
evidence was so strong against the
prisoner that the jury had already
determined upon their verdict of
guilty when the man supposed to
be murdered was brought into court
alive and unhurt. The jury were
desired to return their verdict at
once, and they did so, but it was
one of "Guilty."
"What does this mean ?" said the
judge. "If the man has not been
murdered how can the prisoner be
guilty?"
"Please, yer honor," said tho
foreman, "he's guilty. He stole my
bay mare three years ago."
Beat Her Out of Sight.
A Washington suffragette was en
tertaining a number of delegates
from distant cities.
"Might I inquire," said the lady
from South America, "why that ex
tremely plain person in tho red arm
chair arrogates unto herself so
many airs?"
"Sho is a Daughter of tho devo
lution," said the lady addressed in
awed tones. "Her ancestor fought
in the Revolution."
"Oh !" said the lady from South
America. "I myself am a daughter
of seventeen of them."
Bold In War.
Theword Gumboil when used as
a surname has nothing at all to do
with any part of the anatomy. It
denotes that its first hearer was a
man of considerable importance and
great power in the state. It is de
rived from the Norse word "gum
bald," which itself has nothing to do
with any affliction, but means "bold
in war." ,
LEXINGTON ITEMS.
Mrs. Anna Picketts is on the
sick list.
There is some windy weather
around Lexington these days.
Mrs. Louis Fridley entertained
her sister and children from Kent
for a week's visit.
Harvey McAlister is having
about 13 acres of land adjoining
town plowed which he intends to
sow to corn.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Oness
Gibson last Monday, a daughter.
No wonder Oness wears one of
those everlasting smiles.
We understand Dr. McMurdo
was out two days last week fum
igating and lifting the recent
quarantine at Joseph Eskelson's.
The Ladies Aid had their regu
lar business meeting last Wed
nesday afternoon and elected
their officers for the ensueing
year.
Mrs. Irene Zink was called to
Washington by the sudden illness
of her mother, who, on account
of advanced age, will not likely
recover.
Mrs. Charles Willis returned
to her home in Spokane after a
pleasant two weeks visit with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Thornburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Lon Allen re
turned to their home at Weston
after a pleasant three weeks
visit with their daughter, Mrs.
John Padberg.
The married ladies of Lexing
ton played basket ball Friday
night against our local high school
team. The referees were Mr.
Beach and Mr. Dinges and the
score was 14 to 10 in favor of the
married ladies.
The high school is preparing a
debate to be given in the near
future. They are expecting a
noted lecturer from the State
Normal here" to give a lecture
and as soon as it is settled as to
when the lecturer will arrive, no
tice will be given to the people
and the debate will then be given.
A tryout was given the debaters
last week.
If you want to save money on your
Fire insurance, see Smead. tf.
PEOPLE
who do not know
Should know
that
FRIEDRICH
"THE TAILOR"
turns out the best fitting
anil best made clothes
in Heppner
RED FRONT
Livery & Feed
Stables
WILLIS STEWART, Prop.
First Class Livery Rigs
kept constantly on hand
and can be l'uvniislicd on
short notice to parties
wishing to drive inU.
the interior. Firstelass
Hacks and Buggies
Call around and see us.
AVe cater to the : : :
Commercial Travel
ers and Camping
Parties
and can furnish rirs and
driver on short notice.
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OREGON
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HEPPNER, OREGON
Established. 1887
CAPITAL STOCK, - $100,000.00
Surplus and Profits, - 35,000.00
To those who are sending Holiday remittances
to Foreign Countries, we suggest the use of our
Foreign Drafts which are sold at reasonable rates
4 Per Cent. Paid on Savings
Accounts
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E,. Gonty
249 Columbia Street
Portland, Oregon
Taxidermist and Furrier
I have removed to the above address from Heppner.
All kinds of Mounting, Tanning, and Fur
Dressing. Anyone wanting work in this
line can leave orders with E. N. Gonty,
Heppner, or forward to me at Portland.
Guarantee good work. Prices reasonable