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Christmas Shopping
MADE EASY
Beauty and utility in many articles.
Some SPECIALS for the
BOYS and GIRLS.
FATHER'S and MOTHER'S needs
not overlooked.
TEREST IN GIUIGS
Offloinls of 30 Communities Are
Studying Methods of Handling
Their Constituents' Affuirs.
OREGON IllSIfSI
NEWS ITEMS OF NOTE
Marshfield is planning a new city
hall.
Linn county has no debt and a re
duced tax levy.
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EXTENDED
Owing to the fact that our shipment of M. J. B.
COFFEE arrived from the wholesale house
too late for sale week, we have received
permission to extend the sale until
Saturday, the 19th.
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Please note that the ground coffee is now put up in ab
solutely air-tight cans which preserve the flavor and
strength indefinitely.
During M. J. B. Coffee Week the consumer may purchase
M. J. B. Coffee at the following prices:
Mb. Cans - $ .35
3-lb.Cans - $1.00
5-lb. Cans - $1.50
This is a rare opportunity to lay in a supply of high
grade coffee very reasonably and you should think twice
before passing it up.
University of Oregon, Eugene, Dec.
7. Officials of 30 Oregon cities have
requested the pamphlet series .entit
led "Short Talks for Busy umciais ,
whir-h Is being issued by the munici
pal research bureau of the State Uni
versity. The mailing list includes 16 may
ors, 12 city commissioners, several
city engineers, several newspapers,
and A nil mher of interested citizens.
"This hearty response from Ore
gon cities shows that public officials
in the state are cognizant of the
great civic reform movement that is
sweeping the country," said Pro
fessor Don. C. Sowers, director of
the research bureau. "This move-
meut Is finding expression in the es
tablishment of municipal reference
an a research bureaus in city halls
or at state universities; in the use
and growth of magazines and period
iota Hnvntfx l tn municipal affairs
and in the attention civic problems
are receiving from commercial clubs,
r'lHirchns and civic Clubs.
"A department of civic activity is
now one of the well recognized de-
nartmpnts of every wideawake com
mercial club. Nearly every woman's
rinnnrtment maintains a civic do
norimoni while in ever increasing
numbers the brotherhoods and men's
clubs of the churches are devoting
themselves to discussion of mumci
nnl nrnhlems."
Amone the cities of uregon in
which one or more officials are re
cnivine "Short Talks for Busy Offl
rials." are Newbers, Albany, Amity:
AahianH Kiiirpne. Roseburg, fat.
inhn Florence. Salem. Baker, Rain
ier, Tillamook, Independence, Port
land, Medford, Springfield, La
Grande, Marshfield, Cottage . Grove
H.-,nd River. Astoria. Bandon, Ore
gon City, Davidson, Troutdale, North
Bend, Corvallis, Heppner and Con
don.
Scio gets a new dry goods and
clothing store.
SAM HUGHES CO.
Engineer Laugaard, in charge of
the Tumalo irrigation project, has
announced that this project is now
complete and that applications for
the lands are being received in great
numbers. The entire project em
braces 22,500 acres of irrigable land,
about 6,000 acres of which has al
ready been contracted for. The lands
are being sold in 40 acre tracts at
$40 per acre, one-tenth of the price
to be paid at once, the balance in
ton installments. The settler, by ir
rigating one-third of his land each
year for three yearst can defer the
annual payments for those three
years, enabling him to apply tne
money to the improvement of the
land. Storage of water la the big
reservoir was commenced Dec. 6.
That private property cannot be
condemned for private irrigation or
waterpower purposes, was the de
cinion handed down by the circuit
court at Albany last week, the court
contending that such action would be
an infringement of the constitution
al rights of owners of property.
The operations of the Helix di
vision of the Farmers' Union re
sulted in an actual saving of an av
erage of $109 to each of its 100
momhors ilnrine the past season.
This saving was accomplished by
economy In the purchase of grain
haes. binder twine and other sup
plies. At its Helix warehouses the
association handled 271,501 sacks of
wheat.
Mill City Odd Fellows have dedi
cated a new hall.
A steel bridse is' to span the Uma
tilla river at Mission.
Carleton boasts a new steel bridge
and eight blocks paving.
nnmesHc Science will be taught in
the Astoria High school.
Riirene sold 134.000 bltulithic
paving bonds at a premium.
Thp r.ranltB Hill mine near Grants
Pass will install a cyanide plant.
Gresham is to be connected with
Portland by hard surface road.
cintsnn eives Pacific Power &
Light Co. a fifty-year franchise.
Rnkcr cnimtv lew same as last
year at $600, 000 less valuation.
North Bend banks are cashing
more pay checks than over before.
Tim nonth-Kpllv millR have been
put on an 8-hour day for the winter.
Another attemDt is to be made to
enact the universal eight hour law.
Bv eliminating the useless 1915
census the Btate will save $100,000.
rnncrete work has started on the
Southern Pacific bridge across Coos
Bay.
i-ihonv Viii(n pd men and fruit
growers will build a co-operative can
nery.
Last half of November coast ports
shipped 17,000,000 feet of lumber to
'Frisco.
a tihw pountv office sought to be
created by the legislature is public
defender.
Lake county, is organ
izing a co-operative well-drillers as
sociation.
Portland Commercial Club ' and
Chamber of Commerce want to consolidate.
rTH, Jnnlln1tiV Wnfll IndllRtrV IS tO
be promoted with demonstrations all
over Oregon. ,
Central Oregon Irrigation projects
are planning to get $450,000 from
reclamation' funds.
To get Idle men employed upon the
land is one of the problems to come
before the legislature.
A. 31-lb. gold brick was brought
out orf the Oglo mine, Clackamas
county, the past week.
""5T"rnnrtern two and a half story
concrete dairy barn for 100 cows win
be built at Rose City.
Licensed Embalmer Lady Assistant
J. L. Y EAGER
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Phone Residence Heppner, Oregon
Choice Flour, Feeds, Wood, Coal and
M t 1
Posts, tor bale by
HEPPNER FARMERS' UNION
WAREHOUSE CO.
Handle Wheat and Wool. Highest
Price Paid for Hides and Pelts.
To Aid Unemployed.
The Spokane Chamebr of Com
merce has started a movement to
ward the solution of the unemploy
ment problem by sending men who
want work to Inland Empire farms.
Warren Latham, manager of the
Christian Home for Men, states that
many of the men at his Institution
are willing to do farm work during
the winter for their board and keep.
In a statement outlining the plan,
Thomas S. Griffith, president of the
Spokane Chamber of Commerce says:
"The Spokane Chamber of Com
merce is making earnest efforts to
relieve the situation, and we believe
that the hest and most practical way
of careing for unfortunates is to give
them something to do. These men,
If placed on the farms of the Inland
Empire, where many of them are
willing to work for their board dur
ing the winter, can be made of posi
tive good to all of us.
"We hope that farmers wno can
use these men will notify the Chris
tian Home for Men in Spokane."
People's Cash Market
Phone Main 73
All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Lard
We pay highest cash prices paid for Stock, Hides and
Pelts.
HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor
Grazing Trespass on the National
Kores.
tm,o noo nf .T T. Steen of Enter
prise, Oregon, for grazing trespass on
the Wallowa National Forest, was
tried in Portland on December 7. The
jury awarded damages In tne sum 01
$83.21, with costs amounting 10
$317.89. ' , L
Mr. Steen allowed his cattle to
drift on the National Forest without
a permit, which is contrary to the
roiT,,iotinnB while the government
Is reluctant to prosecute In bucIi cases
it is absolutely necessary mai acuuu
be taken to protect those residents
who depend upon tke government
range for their summer grazing, and
who have taken out permits for the
use of the range.
Gov. Withycombe says down state
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK OF HEPPNER
ESTABLISHED IN 1887
We make banking our business.
A sound and efficient home institution,
is our purpose.
Capital and undivided profits
$140,000
CITY MEAT MARKET
J. FRANK HALL, Prop.
Best in the line of meats handled at the lowest possible price?.
FINEST HOME-MADE LARD AND FRESH AND CURED
MEATS. -- --
See Me Before You Sell Your Fat Stock.
Between now and the 24th of
December a nice fat TURKEY
will be given to the team bowling
the highest score on THE AL
LEYS . i i
The team shall be composed of three men each, and
anyone so desiring, may organize and enter a team
to bowl for these awards.
The bowler of the highest individual score will also re
ceive a TURKEY.
An Ashland firm has begun manu
facturina a folding crate to ship
vegetables and fruits.
Arphla Mason, contractor, is push
ing hardsurfacing of a mile or Mil
waukie road. Cost $16,000.
Tn Washington the Blue Sky Law
was defeated at the polls, as it was
in Oregon when first proposed.
Tim manufacture of buckskin
crinvoa in rnrrv countv has been bro
ken up by a posse of game wardens.
.Tim legislature will tackle cover-
Ine S697.000 fees now collected by
state officials Into the general fund.
Portland gave a local firm of con
tractors the big Shattuck School con
tract over a lower bidder in Montana
F. W. Dodee of the Rogue River
public service corporation reports in
crease from BOO to 1500 horse power.
Tho n.w n. & N. has spent $4,-
300,000 on its Malheur county exten
sion to the North Bank of Harney
Lake.
About the only cities in the state
that are not able to reduce tax lev
ies are those conducting publicly
owned utilities.
bai,o THvor Public Service
corporation bids on lighting Gold Hill
by offering to put in a payroll of $600
io $1,000 per month.
tv has aDDrooriated
$15,000 for the Tillamook road West
of Willamlna. The state win do asu
ed for a similar amount.
The Workingmen's Compensation
commission law asks lor more wan
a million dollars from the state and
industries for next two years.
Tim heads of the state insane asy-
draftine a Dayrole law that
will result in reducing by 200 the
number of patients kept at state ex
pense.
The fight to cut state expenses half
a million and to limit introduction of
hills to five for each member is re
ceiving unanimous support from the
state press.
Tho rviou-mican Press savs several
hundred thousand dollars worth of
property is awaiting action of the
Desert Land Board that has been de
layed for several months.
Workingmen's Compensation com
miaainn aaka salaries for two years
of $90,720. State Labor Commis
sioner collects $21,000. These two
bodies are to be consolidated.
a shnrt hnainosia session of the leg
islature lopping off about half the
boards and commissions, cutting
Atl,n .n.oi minimis fixed charges
uuwii ocicim im...""- -
on the state, and consolidating boards
and functions is the popular program
I "6he PALM j:
has a complete line of
CONFECTIONS, CIGARS and SOFT DRINKS
Try our Pop Corn always fresh.
R. M. HART
THE LAND OF SUNSHINE, FRUIT AND FLOWERS
CALLS YOU
WITH SUMMERTIME IN WINTER.
Outdoor and Indoor Sports Boating, Surf-lathing,
Golf, Polo, Tennis. For rest and recreation,
California is delightful.
For Saftey and Comfort, go via the
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co.
through Portland. RETURN THE SAME WAY.
CALIFORNIA IS STAGING TWO BIG SHOWS.
Celebrating completion of the Panama Canal.
PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
San Francisco, February 20 to December 4, 1913.
PANAMA-CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION
San Diego, January 1 to December 31, 1913.
They represent the highest and
best of human endeavor in the
world of art, science and indus
try. See Both of Them.
Tickets, information, ect., upon op
plication to
J. B. HUDLESTON,
Agent, O-W. R. & N. CO.
Heppner, Oregon.
appropriations and Keep aown taxes