" 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