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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1914)
" thk ;.m;TTh:-TliKs, hkpi'XKK. okk., thi lisiuv. ikc. 2t, 1I)U pukthrkb tumuummlm mm nrw cno iifnni 1 n . j i iiiinriiis ii it i $ g NIL UUILUU1V lUil SIUUL I Christmas Shopping MADE EASY fit Beauty and utility in many articles. I Some SPECIALS for the BOYS and GIRLS. f FATHER'S and MOTHER'S needs i not overlooked. i National Wool Grower. We have many letters asking about the price' of wool and indicating that buyers in many parts of the country are beginning to stir iiVound to find how things stand. So far as we can learn no wool has been contracted up to this date, December 5th. Of course this naoer cannot pre sume to advise men when to sell their wool. We feel though that it is our duty to place before sheepmen all the information we have covering the wool situation. First let us look at the year just closing: While the world's clip of 1914 was somewhat greater than that of 1913, it was still below the clip of ! 1912. As a rule wool is grown one year and used the next, at least that was the case up until about 1909. Since that time nonsiimntinn has heen catching up with demand, and it is said no wool lias been carried over in the Boston market since 1912. What is true here also applies to the sit- 1-1 . & Case Furniture Co. 1 EPS I .1 i x P 1 I I SAM HUGHES CO. WISHES YOUA MERRY CHRISTMAS i i Licensed Embalmer Lady Assistant J. L. VEAGER FUNERAL DIRECTOR Phone Residence Heppner, Oregon Choice Flour, Feeds, Wood, Coal and Posts, for Sale by HEPPNER FARMERS' UNION WAREHOUSE CO. Handle Wheat and Wool. Highest Price Paid for Hides and Pelts. 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 uation abroad I Reports from Atlantic Coast mar kets indicate that there is less wool on hand than ever before at this sea son. This shortage is accounted for by the decline in production last year and the fact that the country for some months has been exporting more wooj than it imported. As to the future. The 1915 clip will be less than last year's by at least 20,000,000 pounds. In Austral ia a serious drouth is prevailing that will reduce that country's clip by around 100,000,000 pounds. In the nations at war there are some 11, 000,000 sheep. Sheep lend them selves most readily as a meat supply in time of war. They can be trans ported easily and live on the refuse that other animals do not eat. They are now driven in great flocks behind these armies as a source of fresh meat. Under these conditions it is only reasonable to-assume "that .50, 000,000 sheep that were shorn in Europe last year will have become victims of the war before another shearing season rolls around. This should mean 300,000,000 pounds less wool in that quarter. Aside from the wool war found all the armies ex cept those of France and Germany very short of woolen clothing. That deficiency must be made up and the attempt to do so accounts for the advance in the price of wool abroad during the last two months. Enor mous army orders are still being filled in foreign mills. , Another factor to consider is the wool embargo. Early in the fight Great Britain prohibited the exporta tion of any wool grown in Australia, boutli Africa or her own countrv to any countries except those of theAl lied powers. The United States is not a member of that charmed circle even though our wool manufacturers h?ve asked to bt admitted. The countries upon which the embargo rests produce about 1,000,000,000 pounds of wool or about one-half the world's supply of clothing wool. To this supply oiT manufacturers have previously had access and have bought a little less than ten per cent. Now they are shut out, and we hope they will continue to be until after our wool has been marketed. All the clothing wool used in the United Sta tes as well as that used In all the neutral countries must now come from North and South America fand such insignificant quantities from the neutral European nations.) As was to be expected the National Association of Wool Manufacturers has appealed to our State Denartment to ask England to raise this embargo on wool so far as the United States is concerned. However, Great Britain knows that our manufacturers have been selling and will continue to sell wool and woolen goods to Germany or any other country that will pay the highest price. Of course our manu facturers have offered to give a guar antee that none of this imported wool or its products would reach Germany, but such a guarantee is not worth the paper it is written on and England knows it. So far Great Britain has refused to raise the embargo and has given no indication that she would do so in the near future. It Is simply speculation to say that the embargo will or will not be raised. After the first of the year it might be raised so far as very fine Merinos are con cerned. We have no fear of U "being raised at all in case of crossbreds. In connection with this we must remem ber that even without the embargo the cost of importing wool has ad vanced about two cents per pound over last year, and also there is a great scarcity of ships in which to handle it. When the war was first declared, the wool trade of Australia advised the growers to hold their wool on their ranches and not to ship it to the market centers for there was danger of its being destroyed. Even after shipping opens up it will take some time to get all this wool where it will be available, We are also ad vised that a large part of the New Zealand clip has already been con tracted for on the sheep's back at an advance of about 15 per cent over last year. Word from South America is to the effect that buyers from England nml Germany are competing for the c!1p of that country at higher price? than previously prevailed and that nr. cheap wool is in sight from that quar ter. ,ln fact the price is so high down there that reports indicate that our buyers are getting very little of the clip. It would now appear as though the y strong, as that tvne of wool is uspfi l!)r army purposes. If the em bargo remain fine wool should also ue high in this country. We have outlined above the condi tions as they now exist. How long they will remain this way we are un able to say, but at the present mo ment wool looks like good property. We leave it entirely to the sheepmen w maw ins own conclusions a -to the future. ISI'KAL SANITATION. In 1909 the Commission on .Coun try Lire reported that "the farm should be the most .healthful place in which to live and there are num berless farmhouses, especially of the farm-owner class, that possess most excellent mmlrn u.,;, ..... .-oHuai UUJIVCII- itnces. Still it is a fact that thpr are also numberless other farmhouses especially of the tenant class, and even numerous rural Q.iMi,no,, ...... bhi uuuiuuuca that do not have the rudiments of sanitary arrangement. Health con ditions in many parts of the open country, therefore, are in urgent need of betterment." The problem of rural sanitaMnn calls for consideration from two points of view: that of the nnssihln danger of objectionable surround ings and unhygienic practices to the individual on the farm and hu im mediate neighbors; and that of the menace which insanitary farm condi tions may present indirectly to nrhan communities. The sanitarv relation of the farm to the city involves al most entirely the possibility nf the spread of actual infection from coun try to city through milk, vegetables. and other farm products. A few- years ago it was not uncommon for tanners to meet with a snirit of re sistance any suggestion of hygienic improvements which were planned to diminish the danger of the farm as a starting point for the spread of disease. At times there has actually ueeu aggressive opposition to pro posed regulations the obiect of which was defensible from every unbiased point of view. The milk industry coma furnish many instances in re cent times of actual refusal on the part of farm communities to supply an essential food to the market nn der conditions that to-day are every where accepted as rational and neces sary. A few years ago the aDnarent in difference of the rural communities to the needs of the urban population dependent on the farm for a health ful food supply could be excused on the basis of ignorance. To-day there is no excuse for apathy toward the teachings of modern sanitation. The campaign of education that is being waged throughout the United States by all manner of forces municinal. state and national by agencies con nected, with the Public Health Ser vice, the Department of Agriculture, me experiment stations, the state universities, boards of health, civic organizations and the public nress ought to win its way into everv rn ral home that has any ties whatever with civilized communities. The better understanding of the tanner s unavoidable responsibility toward his distant fellow citizen has in turn reacted to advantage in re spect to his own environment. As a recent writer has expressed it: For tunately with the general advance in rural standards of living in recent years there has come about a con siderable awakening of interest among farmers and representatives of rural communities along these lines, as well as among the nublic as a whole. Modern methods of com munication and travel have to a ereat extent brought the rural districts In to closer relationship with the towns and cities. The farmer learns of the improved general health and reduc tion in the death rate resulting from the decrease of the ravages of con tagious disease, which has been brought about through the introduc tion of such preventive measures as a sanitary water supply, proper me thods lor the disposal of sewage and garbage, and mosquito and fly ex termination, and wishes to avail him self of these benefits. The country medical practitioner well realizes the futile idealism of much that emanates from an urban desk.. Sometimes the most aloman- tary sanitary conditions offer puz zling problems when the exnense and feasibility of the proposed remedies are carefully studied. Too often the city reformer forgets the enforced monotony of diet, the lack of recre ation and the excessive hours of work which farm conditions entail in some sections and at certain seasons. There are social as well as economic forces involved in farm life, savs the Journal of the American Medical As sociation. The reform of rural san itation, which is undeniably called for in some parts of the United States must not overlook the personal ele ment so strong in the country dwell er. With the exigencies of the situa tion kept in mind the campaign for improvement in rural sanitation is likely, in the words of a recent writer to do much to make farm life at once more profitable, more healthful and more attractive, and by so doing con tribute to safeguard the food supply, and therefore the health and efficien cy of the nation. SAFETY FIRST Are You Supporting the "SAFETY FIRST" Movement? AW believe in it, arid have been making SAFETY FOR OI IJ DEPOSITORS the FIRST CONSIDERATION of this bank for over TWENTY SEVEN years. A savings account is a safe and appropriate remembrance for some member of your family as a Christmas gift. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of HEPPNER Extends to you the Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for the New Year. CITY MEAT MARKET J. FRANK HALL, Prop. Best in the line of meats handled at the lowest possible prices FINEST HOME-MADE LARD AND FRESH AND CURED ' --- MEATS. --- See Me Before You Sell Your Fat Stock. Sfie PALM has a complete line of CONFECTIONS, CIGARS and SOFT DRINKS Try our Pop Corn always fresh. R. M. HART I A Rare Opportunity ! To Buy A 1 20-Acre Tract on Willow Creek 1 1-2 Miles from Rhea's Siding South. 4. t " This tract includes 12 acres of Alfalfa and the bal ance ready to put in. Also a small orchard, three years old. All under ditch and watersight. Plenty of water. A four-room house and other good buildings. TERMS $3000; $1500 CASH And the balance on two years at 8 per cent. THIS IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST TRACTS ON WILLOW CREEK. For Particulars write or call on SMEAD&CRAWFORI Heppner, Oregon t X A pleasant dance was given Thurs day evening at the I. O. O. F. by a number of the young ladies In honor of Miss Ruth Hart who left this morning for her home at La Grande. Miss Hart has been a special tele graph operator here the past two months, and during her short stay lifts mnrio manv ffianlt, v ..V.....I I1U I, Mffl.Ml MO UIC .w ...Ultj LllllUO. Wl - demand for crossbred wool will be respondent to East Oregonlan, Another Mad Coyote Killed. Word was received here the first of the week that another mad eovote had been killed down on lower Long creek by Fritz Rader a few days ago. The infuriated animal came uu to the house in the afternoon but managed to make a get-away before Mr. Rader cnuld kill it. but came back aeain that night when it met its fate, but not until it had bitten two of the dogs which we understand .Mr. Rader afterwards killed. At the last regu lar meeting of the council here they ordered that all dogs caught running at large in the city limits should be taken up by the marshal to avoid as much as possible the spreading of this disease but we notice that every day loose dogs are seen here on the streets and that they are not muz zled either. We print this only as a warning to dog owners and we would advise that they take heed to it unless they want their dogs killed. Long Creek Hanger. The University of Oregon was forced to close school a week early on account of an epidemic of mumps, many students being confined to their rooms on account of this malady. The regular Christmas vacation did not begin until the first of this week. D. C. Wells spent several days in town on business this week, comiug up from his new home on Willow creek, where he has just completed a line bungalow. Clyde still retains his position at the head chair in the Wells & Wells barber shop. R. A. Thompson and wife left ou Sunday morning for a visit in Port land, Mr. Thompson made a sliln- ment of a car of fat hogs to the Port land market on the same day. Harvey McAlister. will known T.py- ing ton citizen, attended lodge meet ing in the Masonic Hall last Saturday evening. i