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(V..-ron Historical S'icMy Stock KxcIiumri! Building. nrv nnnrv 1 IME H VOL. 31. K0.35. HEPPNER, OREGON, NOVEMBER 20, 1914. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR 1 klEj TO DISMISS COMPLAINT Commercial Club President Declares That Club Did Not Authorize Complaint or the I'se of its Name. Salem, Oregon, Nov. 25. After receiving a formal complaint against the train service on the Heppner branch of the Oregon-Washington F.ailroad & Navigation Company in the name of the Heppner Commercial Club, the State Railroad Commission has' been asked by W. W. Smead, president of the club, to dismiss the proceeding, on the ground that no complaint has been authorized by the club. J. Perry Conder, as chairman of a committee of the commercial club, with L. E. Bisbee and J. J. Nys, first brought the matter to the attention of the commission some time ago, stating that they desired to file a complaint and secure a formal hear ing, as the railroad company had failed to give any additional service. On November 4 the complaint was filed by Mr. Conder, in the name of the club, asking for better train ser vice for Heppner. Mr. Smead has now filed a motion declaring that the commercial club has not authorized the complaint or the use of Us name, does not desire Its name used in this connection un til the club passes upon the ques tion, and therefore wants the com plaint dismissed. Meanwhile the railroad company has filed an answer, denying that any additional train Bervlce Is justified. The commission has as yet taken no action in the matter, the documents submitted making it somewhat un certain as to what the Heppner cit izens really desire. PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN Fi The following are the require ments In the corn club project for the school children of Oregon for 1915. Items 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 will be the same In the other pro jects. Items 3 and 8 will be changed to suit the conditions in the other projects. The corn club require ments will serve as a sample of all. 1. AGE. 9 to 18 inclusive, on Oct. 1, 1915. Any boy between the ages mention ed may undertake this work. 2. MEMBERSHIP. Every boy who enrolls for this project, becomes a member of his county Corn Club. He should join a local Club If one is organlzzed in his school. 3. PROJECT. Members shall grow at least 1-16 acre of corn. Members desiring eligibility in the National Demonstration Clubs must grow at least 1 acre of corn. Each member shall prepare the ground, plant, cultivate and harvest his crop, and select his seed corn for exhibition. (Members may hire their ground plowed.) 4. DUTIES. (a) Enroll for the work not la ter than Feb. 15, 1915, using the special enrollment cards obtainable from your local, district or county Club Leader. When there is no lo cal or county leadership, enroll di rectly with the State Agent of Club Work, Oregon Agricultural College, CorvalUs. (b) Rent the necessary amount of land from parent or neighbor for a period lasting until the crop Is har vested. (c) As soon as the land is se cured, begin preparing It, if neces sary, for the spring planting. (d) Secure the best seed obtain able, field selected seed being pref erable. (e) Begin keeping a strict ac count of everything you do or read in connection with your project. Keep your records in notebook form, us ing either the loseleaf or the common size composition book. (Size 8 x 10.) (f) Attend, if possible, all local, field and county meetings of instruc tion called by the Club Leaders. 5. INSTRUCTIONS. Seasonable and timely instruc tions for carying on the work, as well as a final Project Report blank and directions tor keeping the notebook, will be sent to every Club member by the State Agent of Club Work. 6. RECORDS. Each member shall keep a note book telling how the crop was grown giving details of all the work, in cluding costs and Drofits. and de scribing any interesting feature con nected with the work. The note book should be illustrated with pho tographs of the Club member's work whenever possible. The' final Pro ject Report will be a summary of the season's work, and must be certi fied to by some disinterested person, 7. PRIZES. The prizes, a complete list of which will be announced later by the County Club Leader, will probably Include Achievement Emblems; free trlp3 .to the State Fair Camp and School; free trips to the two weeks' Boys' and Girls' Summer School at the Oregon- Agricultural College; membership In the National Demon stration Clubs and miscellaneous cash and commodity awards at the County Fair and State Fair. 8. BASIS OF AWARDS. The awards in the local, county and State Fair contests will be based upon the following score: (a) Greatest yield per acre... 30 (b) Best showing of profit on investment ' 30 (c) Best exhibit of ten ears.. .20 (d) Best Project Report and notebook telling "How I Made My Crop of Corn" 20 Possible score 100 Corn Club members should con sult their local, district or county Club Leader for information con cerning prizes, Fair exhibits or any thing not well understood. When there is no local or county leader ship, address F. L. GRIFFITH, State Agent Club Work, Extension Service, Oregon Agrlc. College, Corvallis, Oreg. LEXINGTON. Lee White and family are now liv ing in the Frank Beymer residence. Dr. Chick, of lone, made several professional calls around town last week. Frank Boll is building a large dairy barn on his ranch in Black Horse canyon. W. H. Cronk, the Tum-a-Lum Lumber man of lone, was in town for a visit last week. Gus McMillan has acpepted a posi tion of clerk in W. F. Barnett's store for the holiday rush. Merl Carmichael, who has been under the doctor's cans for some time, is able to be around again. Ralph Leach was a Sunday caller in his new Ford. Ralph is stopping in the Sand Hollow country for a few weeks. . There are lots of fine tuikeys on the market and from all accounts many people will have turkey at home this year. The Methodist church is receiving a new coat of paint. When finished It will add much to the improvement of the building. H. W. Snider, wha has a ranch on the creek above town, has been in creasing his dairy herd by4 the addi tion of several cows. Johnny McMillan is putting up some more new buildings on his ranch north of Lexington. Glenn Davis Is doing the work. W. T. Campbell had a break down with his car last week and it is laid up for repairs. He Is now driving W. E. Leach's new Michigan. Saturday was a busy day in Lex ington. There were lots of people in from the sui rounding country. Al so from lone and Heppner.' It is rumored that a pick-up team will play in lone the last of this week. It is not safe at present to mention or predict a score for either side. The lone high school team play ed on the Lexington grounds Satur day, beating the Lexington high school team 13 to 0. It was the first game played here this year and quite a number of fans witnessed the con test. IE BUYER WANTED BY AUTHORITIES IRE Frank Winer Takes Team of Horses Belonging to Dan Hire Has Not Been Heard of For Hume Time. Frank Winer, erstwhile hide and pelt buyer of this city, has disap peared. With him also has disap peared the team of horses which he had received permission to use from Dan Rice, and was to pay for the same. 'Mr. Rice never received a cent from Winer for the use of the team, and now comes up Mr. Winer missing. Winer has not been seen around these parts for several weeks. It was thought that he was In the vicin ity of Shaniko, as he told Mr. Rice in a postal card that he was on his way to that place. Later it was learned that he had shipped the horses on a a boat at The Dalles. Since then he has not .been heard from. It is said that Winer, who is of German Jew descent, was quick to make friends and gain their conn dence. In this manner he was able to borrow sums of money and several citizens hereabouts are the losers. The railroad company is also seek' tng this man, as it is said that they have also been defrauded by htm. They are offering a substantial re ward for Ills apprehension. I PlESMEif msoN 1914 TOAESGIVING MY-PKOOAMAHION Written bv It lias long been the honored custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. The' year that is now drawing to a close since we last observed our national Thanksgiving has been, while a yea? of discipline be cause of the mighty forces of war and of change which has disturbed the world, also a year of special blessings for us. It has been vouchsafed to us to remain at peace, with honor, and in some part, to succor the suffering and sup ply the needs of those who are in want. We have been privileged by our own peace and self-control in some de gree to steady the counsils and to shape the hopes and purposes of a day of fear and distress. Our people have looked upon their own life as a na tion with deeper comprehension, a fuller realization of their responsibilities as well keener sense of the moral and practical significance of what their part among the nations of the world may come to be. The hurtful effects of foreign war in their own indus trial and commercial affairs have made them feel the more fully and see the more clearly their interdependence upon one another and has stirred them to a helpful co operation such as they have seldom practiced before. They have been quickened by a great moral stimula tion. Their unmistakable ardor for peace, their earnest pity and disinterested sympathy for those who are suf fering, their readiness to help and to think of the needs of others, has revealed them to themselves as well as to the world. Our crops 'will feed all who need food; the self-possession of our people, amidst the most serious anxieties and difficulties and the steadiness and resourcefulness of our business men will serve other nations as ell as our own. The business of the country has bfec supplied with in strumentalities and the commerce' of the world with new channels of trade and intercourse. The Panama Canal has been opened to the commerce of the nations. The two continents of America have been bound in closer ties of friendship. New instrumentalities of international trade have been created, which will be also new instrumental ities of acquaintance, intercourse and mutual service. Never before have the peopel of the United States been so situated for their own advantage or the advantage of their neighbors or so equipped to serve themselves and mankind. Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 26th day of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease from their wonted occupations and in their several homes and places of worship, render thanks to Almighty God. t 1. 0. 0. F. TAKE NOTICE. Geo. W. Wright, Grand Patriarch will be pres ent on December 9, 1914, for an official visit to Cayuse Encampment, No. 40, and desires to meet all Odd Fellows and wives, Rebeccas and husbands on that night in open meeting. Light refreshments at close of meeting. Come out and meet the Grand Patriarch and enjoy a social evening. T. E. CHIDSEY, D. D. G. P. Himself. as of their blessings and a t ME MBERS SCHOOL NOTES. By Supt.. S. E. Notson. Mis Gladys Musgrave teaches the school in District No. 42. This school has two flags. The light is ad mitted from one side and the rear of the room. A good jacket surrounds the stove, and window-boards are prpvided for the windows. A closed tank holds the water supply, and the pupils have individual cups. A new globe and new chart have been added to tne equipment recently. The term of school will be nine months. The pupils are doing good work. In District No. 3, Miss Lillian Johnson is at the helm. This school occupies the new building. The building is a convenient, comfortable building. The light is admitted from the left side. The stove will be surrounded by a close jacket. The air will then be admitted through a vent under the floor. The foul air will pass out through the ventilating flue in the chimney. The boys have constructed one piece of play apparatus and plan to construct two more, so as to meet the require ments of a standard school. The work of the term is starting off nice ly. Miss Lulu Maxwell teaches in District No. 6. The enrollment is twelve. The building has been re modeled so as to admit the light from the left side only. Two new outbuildings have been built. A new woodhouse has also been built, and al the buildings have been neatly painted. The stove Is jacketed. The water is kept in a closed tank. A new State map has been purchased lately. The floor has been oiled, which aids in keeping down the dust. The pupils are working enthusiastic ally. This school has two flags, and arrangement will be made soon for displaying one on the outside. Miss Miriam Smith directs the work at the Liberty school. The enrollment Is 13. A globe, a set of maps, a good dictionary and holder are among the equipment of this school. This school has a good book boys have commenced building some playground apparatus. In District No. 26, Miss Fannie Goodall is the teacher. The enroll ment is 22. The flag is displayed from an excellent flag-pole, which is set in a concrete base. - A jacket has been purchased, and will soon be placed around the stove. The wa ter supply Is kept in a closed tank. A sectional bookcase is provided for the books of the library. A new dictionary, with stand, a blackboard map of Oregon, a set of excellent outline maps, a blackboard map of the United States, and some new blackboards have been purchased re cently. The floor has been oiled. One new outbuilding has been built, and both are in good condition. This school will make an effort to become a standard school this year. In Joint-District No. 50-55, Miss Arlle Rouansoin is again at the helm. The enrollment is 24. This school is well equipped. The library is fine, and the books are kept in excellent bookcases. There are four fine framed pictures on the walls. There Is a grove of fine shade trees in the yard, and the yard is well set to grass. The Palmer Company will contin ue the free course of instruction in writing if teachers wish to take it up again. Many teachers in the State succeeded in securing the diploma last year. I wish every teacher in this county would secure the diplo ma. Those who do so will find that their services will be more in de mand. Write for further informa tion. WILL TEACH ROW TO COOK APPLES Mis. Elinor Reddington, of the O-W R. & X. Co. Will Give Lectures on Apple Cookery at Pen Points on the Branch. Mrs. Elinor Reddington, a grad uate of Wllamette University, has been secured by the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Com pany to give her services as Travel ing Lecturer on Apple Cookery. Mrs Reddington, who is a typical western woman, has been a teacher of do mestic science and art much of her life. She delivered two lectures at the Spokane National Apple Show last week. Immediately following the Spo kane Apple Show, Mrs. Reddington started out on a trip over the O-W R. & N. lines, and will stop at prin cipal points, where she will give lec tures on apple cookery. Her work will do much towards encouraging a larger use of apples, is the idea of the railroad company. Henry Coats and wife and daugh ter were in the city from their Eight Mile home Tuesday. OF Lafayette Penland Succumbs to Can cer After Long Illness Came to Morrow County in 1870 and Engaged in Stuck Business. Lafayette Penland died at his home in this city last Friday morn ing, November 26, at 6 o'clock. Mr. Penland had been a sufferer for the past two years, his ailment being cancer of the stomach. He went to Portland last March and underwent a surgical operation in hopes that his health might be benefitted, but the benefit was only temporary, and he failed rapidly, being confined to his bed for the past several weeks. He was 58 years old at the time of death. Mr. Penland was a native of the Willamette Valley, and came to Mor row county when a young man. He worked for his half-brother, .Wil liam Penland for several years, but later went into the stock business for himself, meeting with success and accumulating considerable prop erty. He sold his ranch in Septem ber, although he had retired from active work several months aeo. leaving to his sons William and Jean the management of the ranch. Lafayette Penland was born Oct. 30, 1856 near Corvallis, in Benton county, Oregon, his parents being Lvi Elza and Clerinda Penland. He was one of six children, although only two survive him. They are James Penland and Mrs. George Sperry of this city. Mr. Penland came to Morrow county in 187Q and on November, 18, 1883, was married to Miss Rebecca Hall in Heppner. To them have been born the follow ing children, William, Pearl, Jean, Stella and James Levi; all of whom survive but the latter, who died at he age of ten months. Mr. Penland Is also survived by his wife and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Jane Penland of Lexington. Mrs. Albert Rhea, niece if the deceased and her husband, and Sam Hall and wife of Portland were present at the funeral. The funeral was held Sunday af ternoon -from-tne- Ftomed thurchrrA-sw'-'-" itev. W;" N. Ferris conducting the service, and M. L. Case, undertaknr took charge at the erave. Th church was filled to overflowing with. mends of the deceased and many beautiful floral offerings were in evi dence. J. H. Kinsman, T. J. Ma honey, S. W. Spencer, Clyde Brock, W. A. Richardson and M. D. Clark- acted as pallbearers. Interment was made in the Masonic cemetery. ERCIMTO SETTLE DIFFICULTIES Meeting is Called for Friday Night to Straighten Out Tangles in Railroad Complaint Re for Belgians. A meeting of the Heppner Com mercial Club has been called by Pres ident Smead for tomorrow (Friday) evening and a large attendance of members and other citizens interest ed, is urged. The most important subject com ing before the meeting will be whether or not the Heppner Com mercial Club wishes to go on record as standing for the complaint which has recently been filed with the Ore gon State Railroad Commission. It is more than likely that the com plaint will be dropped so far as the club is concerned. Another important move will be made by the club in taking up the proposition of the Belgium relief. Many other cities over the country are making donations of one kind or another, and in order that Heppner may do her share, the club is taking the matter up. Umatilla county re cently donated a car load of flour to the war-stricken sufferers and Mor row county will probably do as well. The Oregon Irrigation Congress will meet in Portland next month and delegates from the local com mercial club will be appointed at the meeting tomorrow evening. The Federated Church. Rev. WILL N. FERRIS, Pastor. Our Motto: "With thyself prac tice the utmost strictness as touch ing the things thou shalt believe and do; Unto all others grant the utmost liberty." Bible school at 9:45 a. m. Divine worship at 11:00. Theme to be discussed by pastor will be, "Where am I at?" Pointed. Practical truths for everybody. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. Preaching at 7:30, p. m. Good music by the choir. A cor dial invitation to all. Strangers welcome.
