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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1914)
HE GAZET1 a f v Tr -?n rr tt m VOL. 31. NO. 17. HEPPNER, OREGON, JULY 23, 1914. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR REGULAR MEETING GOMMERGIALGLUB Small Attendance Many Important Matters Dis dussed Advertising To Receive Attention. The regular meeting ol the Com mercial Club was held at the I. O. 0. F. hall on Friday evening with the usual slim attendance of members. President Smead presided and after reading of minutes by Secretary Goulder and their approval by the Club, some matters of interest were taken up and discussed. It was re ported to the Club that the deeds for the fair grounds and recreation park had been signed up and made a mat ter of record. President Smead re ported progress also with the ar rangements for the coming fair and urged that this matter now receive the undivided support of the Club until its final consummation. In dis cussing the proper methods of adver tising, Mr. Lee, of Portland, a stran ger in our midst and a man who has had a lot of experience in publicity work, presented the idea in a few well chosen remarks that the best method he knew anything about was through the medium of the' local press, and it was urged that some arrangements be made whereby the local papers should be more gener ally circulated through the commun ities of the East and Middle West where it was desired to interest the people In our county. Mr. Lee's re marks received the Indorsement of all present and the Club will doubt less take some steps to see that the local papers have this recognition. The mall route proposition was also touched on by Mr. Lee who Intro duced what he considered the best way of getting our desires before the postofflce authorities for proper rec ognition. He doubted the value of showering the senators and congress men with hundreds of letters as these men are very busy and have many other sections and varied interests calling for their time and attention. Our needs should be set out in a con cise statement covering the facts so that what 1b wanted can be gone into at once upon its maIts. Letters are too apt to be cast aside for lack of time to give them attention. The other method should receive the per sonal attention of our representa tives and is the direct way of getting at the question. There was a "dig" at the local papers for not giving the mall route question more atten tion and they were urged to tie into this matter hammer and tongs. Rep resentatives of both local papers were present and they made It clear that the columns of their respective sheets were open to the public for the free and untrammelled discussion of all these questions of public In terest and the public is invited to come in and discuss them; the pa pers stand ready to do their part as a matter of course but are always glad to have such questions aired through their columns by the people themselves who feel interest enough to discuss in this way all questions that come up from time to time hav ing to do with the welfare and con venience of the people of Heppner and the county at large. The action of President Smead In authorizing the expenditure by the Club of $35 to have advertising book lets inserted In" the directory of Mor row and Umatilla counties by R. L. Polk & Co., was indorsed. Bill of $3.50 of Harlan Bros., for printing petition heading on order of the railroad committee, was paid. Bill of $7.00, of Miss Leala Camp bell, for the printing of advertising cards used on her trip through the East, was allowed. Killed a Lot of Grasshoppers. , C. H. Bartholomew harvested a pretty fair crop of grasshoppers on his Butter creek alfalfa farm during the past week when they were trying to eat up everything on the place. He Invented a machine for catching them that proved quite successful, and he believes that had his neigh bors made and used the same Imple ment their section would have been well rid of the hoppers before much damage was done. We have no Il lustration of this hopper catcher but it did the work and Mr. Bartholomew gathered In 280 gallons of hoppers In a day and a half from his alfalfa field and the place was comparative ly clean until his neighbors began cutting on the adjoining fields and drove their supply over onto him. A drag, made of 16-foot boards and about four feet wide was UBed, a horse being hitched on the corner at each end to propel it. On the back of this "sled" was placed a row of 6 gallon cans containing crude oil, and extending up back of these cans In a slightly slanting position was a wait of tin. As the drag moved, along the hoppers raised up and striking this tin slid down into the cans of oil. A pile of the hoppers on one end the place is ten feet long and two feet high. Charley pronounces the machine a success and easy to operate. M. . Church, South. Regular services Sunday as fol lows: Sunday School at 10:00 a. m.; Preaching at 11:00 a. m. and 8:00 p. m. W. T. GOULDER, Pastor. Union temperance meetings will be held in Heppner on Sunday to be ad dressed by Mr. S. W. Grathwell who comes to Heppner under the auspices of the State Prohibition party. Mr. Grathwell is heralded as a fine speak er' and one who handles his subject in a masterly way. The morning meeting will be held at the Christian church at 11, and the evening ad dress is to be at the Federated church., You are interested in the coming election and the vote on the prohibitory amendment. Come .and hear Mr. Grathwell discuss the sub ject. Born On Wednesday, July 22, 1914, to Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Ash- baugh, of Heppner, a daughter. Henry is expected to recover although he Is in a precarious condlton. Horses Killed By Lightening. During an electric storm in the foot hills on Friday last, lightening struck Into a bunch of horses belong ing to the McCullough Bros, and four head of the animals were laid low. They were discovered piled up to gether by Ellis Minor who was riding through the range, and at finrt it was thought that they must have been Bhot as the electric storm was not considered a Bevere one. On close examination however it was plainly seen that death was from a thunder bolt as each animal bore the evidence where the hair was scorched off along the back. There would seem to be a wonderful attraction in horseflesh for lightening and the kill ing of horses in this manner la of frequent occurrence over the range. ED BY FIRE IN SIGHT H. C. Glthens Loses Home Home time Sunday Night While Faiu i ly Were In Town. The farm home of H. C. Glthens was destroyed by fire, probably some time during Sunday night. The fam ily were in town at the time and there was no one on the place, so it is not known just exactly when the fire occurred. The Glthens farm is situated up Balm Fork some six miles from Heppner and members of the family were there early Sunday and had a fire in the kitchen stove and it is supposed that the flre originated from this. The grass about the place was also fired, and the first that neighbors knew was when the fire got over the hill towards the Quald place. They then discovered its orign and when the Githens place was reached the house and contents were all burn ed and the indications were that the house had been destroyed some hours before. The loss to Mr. Glthens will be around $600, with no insurance. The grass was burned up to the edge of his grain field but no grain was destroyed. ANNOUNCEMENT. I wish to announce, to my many friends, former patients and the pub lic, the removal of my office from the Bank of Heppner Building to the cor ner of Center and Gale streets, one block west of old location. There is an entrance from both Gale Street and Center Street to the office and waltng rooms. These new quarters will give me five large rooms instead of the small rooms in former building and will enable me to install the most com prehensive electrotherapeutlc and hydrotherapeutlc equipment. I have at present the most modern and best equipped offices in the county and intend to add to the present all the electric appliances now that we have the day current. You are cordially invited to call and Inspect the office and equipment. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 5 p. m. tf. DR. J. PERRY CONDER. Will Take An Outing. Equipping their big touring cars for an outing that will take them as far as Crater Lake and cover a space of two weeks, Mr. and Mrs. John Vaughn, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cox, departed this morn ing. A. M. Slocum and family are the other members of the party, and points of Interest will be visited on the way. Whether they will go far. ther than Crater Lake on this trip, they were not decided upon leaving I. County Supts. Convention at Salem Great Success- All But Two Supts. of The State Attend. At the ' county superintendents' convention, held at Salem, June 23 to July 3, all the county superinten dents were present except two. A number of vital topics were discussed at length, Three or four speakers were assigned to prepare especially upon a- topic. After they had pre sented their views, a ' general dis cussion followed. , At the request of the Portland Civic League, a number of matters of legislation were discussed. However, none of these maters were definitely passed upon as the committees from the Civic League, the State Grange, and the superintendents' convention will present these matters in definite form for -action at the December meeting. The question of permanent records of the work of the puptls was thor oughly discussed, and it was decided to use a card system. The State Sup erintendent was requested to work out the details of the plan. Standardization of the rural school received much attention. The plans followed in the counties in which the experiment has been tried were thor oughly investigated. It was thought to be impossible to fix just the same standard for the more recently set tled counties of Eastern Oregon as for the older and more populous counties of the western part of the state, but it was deemed advisable to fix a tentative standard for the entire state. This standard will serve as a sort of measuring stick by which we may judge our rural schools. Af ter it has been used for some time, it will be advisable to create a new standard, setting a little higher mark in order to avoid the tendency to fos silize, which so often follows the Ax ing of a standard. Our entire school system must be one of growth and improvement or it soon loses Its life. A little later the items to be set out en the standardization cards will be published. It has been the policy of the super intendents for some time to keep more closely in touch with the state schools than was possible before the law was passed providing for their meeting in convention. Representa tives from all the state schools were invited to address the convention, and this year a visit to the State Uni versity occupied one day, the plan be ing to visit one school during each convention. To give a reasonably full account of the visit would re quire a column, and it must be omit ted this time. One of the finest things of the con vention was the address of State Sup erintendent Churchill upon examin ations, when the question of the eighth grade examinations was under consideration. It would certainly have created a sensation among the worshipers of examinations and tests. It foreshadowed some of the im provements which will soon be made in the elemntary course of study. Other matters considered by the convention will be mentioned later. The general feeling seemed to be that this was the most profitable conven tion the superintendents have held. Returns From Greenhorn. Ed Duran, of Lexington, returned on Friday from a stay of three months at the mines of the Heppner Mining Company in the Greenhorn section. Mr. Duran is interested as a stockholder in this group of mines and has been assisting D. B. Stalter, president of the company, In doing development work. He is well pleased With the progress made and is satisfied that this company has a bunch of good property in the thir teen claims they own. Mr. Stalter is at the mines alone now and would greatly appreciate a letter once in a while from other members of the company located here as he feels that it would encourage him a great deal in his work. He has put in many long years of work in an effort to develop the claims and prove their value, and he is now fast approach ing that goal. In the opinion of Mr. Duran the properties are very valuable, and this will be readily proved as soon as the company are in position to install the right kind of machinery. The lead they are working on now Is turning out ore that assays better than $50 to the ton and this lead is scarcely opened up yet. J. O. Hager and S. A, Wright, who are also stockholders in this company will leave in a few days on a visit to the mines. Mrs. George Case and children re turned home on Saturday from a visit of six weeks spent at the home of her parents at Portland. io as CONVENTION LEXINGTON ITEMS Omar Stanton, of Hardman, was a Lexington visitor Friday. Melvin Logan, of Cecil, was a Lex ington visitor Thursday. Joseph Eskelsdon and wife return ed home after several days visit at Walla Walla, Wash. W. E. Leach and family, also Hank Parker and wife went to Ditch creek Saturday for a few days' outing. : S. L. Hammer of Pirtland was in this' vicinty for several days canvas- lng In the Interests of the Prohibition party of this state. Several farmers of this vicinity .will finish heading this week. They will be waiting now for the threshing machine to come along. Frank Moyer is preparing to start his thresher and headers this week. The grain Is not so early la the Blackborse country as In other parts. W. S. Gilbert of the real estate firm of Atkinson & Co., of Vancouver Wash., was in this vlcnity 1 oking over property with some investors. W. F. Barnett finished heading and threshing his own crops Friday. This week he starts on his neighbors' crops and will have several days run before the season Is over. E. R. Huston, of Eight Mile, a member of the Morrow County Fair Board, passed through Lexington Wednesday with a well drilling out fit for use in drilling wells in his part of the country. The few fields of wheat that have been threshed in this vicinity by ma chine and combine, have made a yield as sear as possible from 15 to 30 bushels per acre. Wheat is of good quality. R. A. Thompson and wife were down from their farm on Saturday. Mr. Thompson stated that he had all arrangements completed for the starting of his harvest the first of this week. His grain Is very heavy this season and will make a splendid yield, It being estimated that much of it will go 40 bushels to the acre. Others farming in the foothill coun try are making similar reports. APE L Copy of Gazette-Times Found in Stree Car in Buffalo Brings Letter From Old Friend. It is rather a peculiar co-incidence. Eight years ago, W. B. Barratt and family made a trip across the Atlan tic on the steamer Cednc, on a visit to their old homes in England and Scotland. On the way over they made the acquaintance, as did every one else on the same boat, of Mr. Edwin M. Montgomery, of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Montgomery is one of those big, jolly, wholesouled fellows, ab solutely filled to overflowing with the best of human nature, and he was the life of the trip across the pond. Did anyone have the blues, he was there to cheer; was it a case of whether the breakfast was to be kept within the bounds of the anatomy where it had been stored or to be de posited over the' rail on the bosom of the sea, then it was that Mr. Mont gomery appeared on the scene with a jolly good story to make the victim laugh and forget his misery. He thus became a favorite with all on board, and at the end of the journey the passengers took up a collection and presented Mr. Montgomery with a loving cup. Mr. Montgomery has not forgotten the friends he made on that trip; at least so far as the Barratt's are con cerned he has never failed to remem ber them on each New Year since with some token, and it is presumed that the bigness of his heart has prompted him to not forget all the other friends he made eight years ago. Under date of June 4, Mr. Mont gomery writes to Mr. Barratt from his office at 122 Erie Bank Building, Buffalo, and from the letter we take this paragraph : "A strange co-incidence happened with me the day before yesterday. I picked up one of your newspapers on the street car called the "Gazette- Times" published in your town, May the 24 th, and conspicuously therein I saw your name with a number of other of your citizens Interested In the organization of a Creamery and Cold Storage Company. I was very giaa to see by this that you are ac tively engaged in business matters. and I trust in good health and meet ing with prosperity. If you need any out of state directors, let me know. and I may be able to find a market for your products." On the date this letter was written, Mrs. Barratt was in Buffalo on her way to Scotland, and remained there long enough to get breakfast and have a little time besides. This was about six o'clock In the morning, and E L Best From Local Fair to Go Salem And From There to Portland And Chicago Land Shows. The cleaning up of the grounds for the Fair at the head of Main street has been going merrily on this week and a goodly force of laborers are now getting everything down that way in ship shape, making a wonder ful change in the appearance of the lots and doing away with a lot of rubbish. The grounds will certain ly be very appropriate for the accom modation of the fair. The feed lot for the use of the public at large has been transferred, as it were, to tho Matlock lots on Chase street and hitching racks established there. The lumber used in the pavilion and for other purposes last year is being hauled onto the new grounds and sorted over to get all out of it that can be utilized tn the new build ings and from now on the work of getting ready for the fair will be pushed so that all things will be ready at opening time. In this connection it is not amiss to call attention of our people to the matter of exhibits. Are you getting ready for your part in this fair? Are you going to be there with something worth-while to show your neighbor what you can do? tJt is not too early to be preparing the samples of grain, grasses, vegetables, fruits, etc., and getting the horses, colts, cows, calves, sheep, pigs and chickens in shape for the show. There is promise of a big showing all along these lines and your exhibits can be properly cared for. This fair is an educational prop osition; it is to be a contest where the farmer, the stockraiser and the artisan can exhibit the fruits of their labors that their neighbor may be benefitted by the comparisons offer ed. So don't stand back with the thought that you do not have any thing worth while to exhibit, for you have If you will get it ready. The Morrow County Fair this Fall is to be "Bigger and Better." Furthermore, the best of our ex hibits at the home fair are to be tak en to Salem for exhibition at the State Fair. All arrangements are completed to have this carried out. And this is not all. Space has been reserved at the Manufacturers and Land Products Show to be held at the Armory in Portland from October 26 to November 14. A space 10 x 15 is selected for this purpose and the exhibits will have a prominent place there. After this, comes the Chicago Land Show and the exhibits are to go there along with the best from every part of the state. Care is to be taken all down the line in the selection of the show stuff and the advertising value to our county can scarcely be estimated. Attention of those who contem plate showing cattle at the fair 13 called to the fact that they must have their stock pass the examination of the vetrinary and obtain his certifi cate to the effect that the exhibits are free from tuberculosis. . This is absolutely required by state law and the Fair Board are compelled to act accordingly. Last year this examin ation was made free of charge by the office of the State Vetrinary but whether it will be the case this year we cannot say. Special features for the entertain ment of the fair visitors are being arranged for and should be announ ced In a very Bhort time. The pre mium books are on the press and will be ready for mailing out within a few days. Former Morrow Resident Dies. Mrs. William F. Palmateer, who for a number of years resided with her family on a farm near Morgan in this county, died at the family res idence in Estacada on Sunday morn ing after a lingering illness. She was aged 56 at the time of her death She was Phoebe Garrison and as a girl she crossed the plains with her parents and located in Oregon in 1868. She was married to Mr. Pal mateer in 1876. Her funeral took place at Estacada on Monday after noon. Mrs. Palmateer leaves many warm friends in this county where she was well known for a number of years, and Bhe was a woman highly respected. Nlchoson & Bufflagton, the well drillers of lone, are on the place of J. B. Carmichael east of Lexington at the present time where they are sinking a well. she wrote Mr. Barratt from that city stating that if it were not too early to find Mr. Montgomery at his office, she would call on him. Mr. Barratt considers this quite a co-incidence, as well as feeling that of all the friends it has been his pleasure to have, Mr. Montgomery is among the best. STATE FAIR TO HAV EXHIBIT OF GENERAL INTERKST. The sheep industry of the United States is valued at approximately $230,000,000. One of the greatest contributing causes to the high cost of all meats la admitted to be the great ravages of hog cholera, which have swept the country during the past few years, until last season over $100, 000,000 in pork was lost, of which $53,000,000 was in Iowa alone. According to the American Forest ry Association, the lumber industry la said to employ 735,000 people, to whom are paid annually $367,000, 000 in wages, the worth of products being $1,250,000,000. About one half of those employed, and more than one-half of the wages paid, are in the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana. In 1904 the total expenditure on public roads throughout the United States amounted to $80,000,000. In 1913 the total expenditure aggregat ed $206,000,000, and this in spite of the fact that state ' participation in road work has had its spirit of great est development since 1904, and that the total expenditure of state funds up to and including the year 1913 amounted to about $155,000,000. Eleven million head of animals can be grazed on the one hundred and sixty national forests of the United States. These Include two million head of cattle and horses, nine mil lion head of sheep and goats, and about sixty-five thousand hogs. This means an Increase for the current year of about thirtyelght thousand more cattle and horses, and three hundred and forty-seven thousand more sheep and goats, although the gross area of the national forests at the beginning of 1914 is almost a million acres less than at the begin ning of 1913. Death to headaches. . Classes fitted by Drs. Lowe ft Turner. Go to the Heppner Bakerv for your bread. 26 loaves for $1.00. MINING COS CLAIMS State Examiner of Mines Visits The Heppner Mining Company's Claims in Greenhorn. The following is from the report of the State Examiner of Mines con cerning the properties of the Hepp ner Mining Company, located in the Greenhorn district: I have just returned from a visit to the property of the Heppner Min ing Company, located in the Green horn mining district. This company has been managed from its incep tion by Mr. D. B. Stalter, who for many years has carried on the devel opment work largely at his own ex pense. The company has 13 claims, a valuable water right and a consid erable amount of good mining and saw timber. The development work already done has shown up some good ore with the prospects of a much better showing being made with further development, and I am glad to say that in this company the stockholders have received one hun dred cents worth of work for every dollar they have invested in the property and I believe that with pro per equipment and careful and scien tific management this property would become a paying proposition. The company has several miles of ditches and probably a two hundred horse power can be developed part of the year without difficulty. Yours Sincerely, S. B. VINCENT, State Mining Examiner. Not Expected to Live. J. H. Wyland, of Hardman, re ceived a telegram late yesterday an nouncing that his brother, Chas. Wy land, was at death's door at his home in Tacoma, Wash., and he departed for that city this morning, not ex pecting to find his brother alive when he reaches there. Charley Wyland is a printer by trade and has made his home at Tacoma for many years where he followed his trade and worked as a Linotype operator. His first lessons in the trade were re ceived in the office of the Heppner Gazette and the editor of this paper enjoyed his acquaintance many years ago when we worked side by side at the case. Being an old-time Heppner boy this announcement will be Bad Intelligence to his friends here. Get Certificates. The following Morrow county tea chers successfully passed the recent examination and will receive their certificates from the office of the State Superintendent: One year state certificates Edna McNabb; Julia M. Clark; Clara Beamer; Mar garet M. Osten; Lulu R. Maxwell; Walter Wesley Weller. Five-year state certificate Wlnaifred OBten, J