THE GAZETTE-TIMES.
TV Heppner Gazette, Establish! March 30. 1 883
TheHeppner Time. Established Not. 18, 1897
Consolidated February 15. 1912.
VAWTER CRAWFORD. - Editor and Proprietor
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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
Thursday, May 28, 1914.
EXHIBITS FOK STATE FAIR.
Mr. Burton H. Peck, of this city,
is taking up in a very practical way
the proposition of an exhibit of Mor
row county products at the State
Fair this fall, and in so doing he is
showing himself to be a genuine
booster. ,
The Morrow County Fair will be a
bigger and better fair this season
than it was last year. That was our
first effort, and few people, indeed,
made any attempt at preparing ex
hibits. Not so this year, and Mr.
Peck proposes to push the matter of
a suitable display of agricultural
products at the State Fair to a suc
cessful issue, knowing as he does
that the local count fair is going to
call out the very best in this line and
that there will be many fine displays
from which to make up an exhibit to
take to Salem.
We are sure that this proposal will
meet with the proper encouragement.
Our county has been a winner In
many outside fairs but we have in
the past overlooked the State Fair
and this should be done no longer.
A proper display at Salem will put
our resources before a much larger
number -of people than does the lo
cal fair and it gives us the advantage
to be derived from more general ad
vertising. In this connection we desire to
quote a portion of a letter touching
on this subject and written by Mr.
0. E. Freytag, Superintendent of Ag
ricultural and Horticultural depart
ments of the State Fair, who resides
at Oregon City and who writes Mr.
Peck in part as follows:
"Fairs have become as necessary
aa institutions of learning, from &
purely educational standpoint. They
are a gathering together of products
and results, showing what can be
produced under certain conditions
They afford a means of exchange of
ideas, and for fixing upon the var-
ities of products best suited to a
given locality, and are educational
In every sense of the word, as well as
helpful to individual exhibitors who,
desiring to excel, strive for better re
sults by using better methods of
farming.
"Several years ago a young man of
Swedish extraction visited the State
Fair, and asked if he might enter
some of his products for competition
He was told that he could, and
brought some fine grains and fruits,
but he found that there were better
products than his on exhibition and
while he took away some prizes he
was not satisfied. He immediately
began practicing more careful soil
preparation and cultivation, studied
varitles and seed selection and has
become a most prosperous farmer as
a direct result of this experience at
the State Fair.
"Fairs should be held In every sec
tion and the State Fair should be
made the clearing house for all the
best exhibits of the County Fairs,
and is vastly the most important.
Thousands of the people who have
not had the opportunity of traveling
over the state, visit the State Fair
and there can learn of the products
of the various sections, and their pos
sibilities and resources."
The nomination of Dr. James
Withycombe to head the Republican
ticket is fortunate. It is a tribute to
a man thoroughly equipped in every
way to fill the office of governor of
Oregon. The republican press of the
state rejoices over the nomination of
such a clean, capable citizen, one
whom they can line up for and sup
port with every assurance of his suc
cess at the November election. He
will have a united party behind him,
besides the high esteem in which he
Is held by all classes means that he
will receive strong support from all
other parties.
WHAT A NEWSPAPER DOES FOR
A TOWN.
The value of a live energetic news
paper to any town or city is absolute
ly impossible of estimation. There
are so many ways that the good
newspaper promotes the interest of
the city and the individual citizens
where it is published that it would
be like trying to number the sands of
the sea to enumerate them. It is the
true friotVd of the city or town and
every resident thereof and stands
ready to fight the battles even of In
dividual citizens in a way that no
other agency has either the nerve or
the courage to do. It stands as a
great bulwark of defense for the city
and for the people. t
But this is only one feature.
There's another that is seldom
given much thought and that is that
the newspapers of any town or city
are a paying investment' for such
place as industrial institutions. Peo
ple welcome with open arms and loud
acclaim any factory costing a few
thousand dollars and they think the
town is wonderfully fortunate in se
curing a plant that will give employ
ment to a number of people. Some
times they even put up a bonus to
secure such a plant. There are many
newspapers which give employment
to a number of people, and nothing
Is thought of it. The money that
comes to the paper is spent In the
town or city where it is published.
None of it goes away except for ink
and paper and some other small sup
plies that cannot be bought at home.
The newspaper is essentially a home
Institution. It works day and night
to build-up its home town and state,
and spends its money freely with the
home people. It is published on
strict business principles these days,
and that is the reason for the growth
and prosperity that has come to
many papers during the past few
years.
As a business enterprise, a good
newspaper is about the best industry
that any town has, and its publishers
ask' nothing but a square deal. Pub
Ushers Auxiliary.
THE WAR. IN COLORADO.
Civil Strife at Home More Vital Than
Mexican Muddle, Thinlu Correspondent.
Strawberries
for
Canning or Table Use
We have always handled the bulk of the canning
berry business and expect to this season as well.
About June 1st we look for STRAWBERRIES to
be at their best, both as to quality and price.
We advise those wanting them for canning to leave
their orders and we will see that they are filled
when both quality and price reach the most eco
nomical level.
This season, we have made arrangements with
some large growers this side of Portland to supply
us. This will insure fresh stock.
For your information, let us caution you that prac
tically all berries will be packed in the new pint
boxes. This new package will necessitate your
buying a larger number of crates than formerly,
but of course the price will be correspondingly
lower.
LEAVE YOUR ORDERS NOW
PHELPS GROCERY CO.
Editor Gazette-Times:
Permit me to express in your paper
my opinion in regard to the civil war
in Colorado. I am of the opinion
that a great number of the readers
of the Gazette-Times are in the dark
as to the real conditions existing In
the war zone of that great state.
Scores of men, women and child
ren are being shot down by the hired
gunmen of the mine owners for no
other reason than that the miners de
clare that they have the same right to
organize to protect their interests as
the capitalists have to protect theirs.
When the mine guards fired the big
tent colony at Ludlow, roasting alive
so many women and children, who
can blame the miners for taking up
arms and seeking revenge? Any
man with an ounce of human blood
in his veins that was not contaminat
ed by beastly, selfish interests, would
do the same thing. Show me a man
who would deny labor the same right
to organize as the capitalists and I
will show you a weakling whose ha
bitual worship of the exploiting class
has changed his nature. It is the
shame of the age that there is far
too much indifference manifested
toward the downtrodden by those
who so far have to a certain decree
escaped the deadly tenticles of the
master class. The press is filled to
overflowing with the Mexican con
troversy, while the conditions do not
half compare with the massacre of
innocent victims at the hands of the
Standard Oil in Colorado.
"Mother" Jones, the great labor
agitator, has spent the last 6 months
In jail because of the great crime of
exercising her natural right of free
speech, and to elevate labor to a
plane where the Almiehtv Intended
it to be. John D. Rockefeller flatly
refused to see "Mother" Jones, who
for humanity's sake wished to inter
view him in regard to conditions at
his mines.
If the mines are eoine to still hp
run by individuals of the Rockefeller
stripe we must have a compulsory
arbitration law. Though the grow
ing opinion is that the government
should take over the mines and run
them In the interests of the consum
ers. Why should it devolve upon the
labor press alone to herald the truth
of the conflict between Standard Oil
and Labor? Why should the nnlnlt
be so silent on such a vital question?
wny not the ministry of the nation
turn their guns upon the material
devil the devil of greed and let
the unseen devil rest for a season?
A minister in the audience of Rnnk-
efeller's church a few days ago arose
to. ask a question in regard to the
Colorado affair and he was brntallv
thrown out into the street. We need
more of such fearless ministers who
are not affraid to rebuke the mnnev
changers and home wreckers. Jesus
Christ, as is recorded in the 21st
chapter of Matthew, was not affraid
to rebuke the gamblers and labor ex
ploiters.
Let us have a little more op moot
protest against the tlehtenlnir vnke
of Standard Oil, along with the
Huerta incident of treading on our
corns.
STRAWBERRIES
Owing to the rain the berries will
be a little later, but we think a
a better quality, and will sell at
the very lowest market price.
Tell us how many crates, you
want and we guarantee to sell
them as CHEAP or CHEAPER
than anyone in town.
SAM HUGHES COT.
Well say "Good-bye" to you as
cheerfully as we say "How-do-you-do"
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