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Thursday, April 1, 1915,
Of course yoa are a booster for
good roads; and you will get a ticket
to the banquet to-morrow evening.
There was some real life and ging
er to that Monday evening meeting
of the Commercial Club. Men this is
as it should be; keep it up.
When Heppner gets really awake,
there will be something doing. The
first big job before us is to improve
the roads leading to the city. At
tend the meeting at the Palace Hotel
to-morrow evening and get in touch
with what is doing.
The Gazette-Times is thirty-two
vears old to-day. The paper long
since laid aside its swadling clothes,
and has assumed the proportions of a
grown-up. Thirty-two years ago the
Gazette started as the first paper in
Heppner and it has been on the job
ever since. In February, 1912, it
was consolidated with the Heppner
Times by the present management,
and we feel proud of the fact that the
paper is now at the head of the pro
cession in this neck o' the woods and
has a standing with the people that
canot be shaken. To our friends and
patrons we give all the credit, feeling
as we do that we lack in ability to
properly express our sense of grati
tude. We enter the new year with
brighter prospects and greater hopes
of success.
A fire entailing a loss of $6500 vis
ited the town of Fossil one night last
week. The loss was partially cover
ed by insurance in the sum of $2500.
The property destroyed will be re
built at once, and in a much more
substantial and attractive manner.
The New Star theater being com
pleted by Mr. J. B. SparkB is a show
house that would be a credit to a
much larger town than Heppner. In
this move Mr. Sparks has shown com
mendable enterprise and his efforts
will no doubt be amply appreciated
by the citizens of our city.
The people of Pendleton have ar
ranged to attend the celebration of
the opening of the Celilo canal in
large numbers. Our neighbors over
that way are sure that an open Col
umbia is going to be a good thing
and they are rejoicing over it.
That Heppner is not suffering
from a business depression is shown
by the fact that there is not a vacant
business building in town and the
building bee is buzzing louder every
day. Let us get ready for clean-up day
and have this job out of the way be
fore the arrival of "Good Roads
Day."
The question of trading at home,
and of patronizing the home mer
chant, the local producer, and all that
is always a live one, and it is not in
frequently that the writer is led to
look upon but one side. The follow
ing from the hand of Dro. Bede, of
the Cottage Grove Sentinel, presents
the question from a little different
angle:
"The calendars of a certain insur
ance company are prominently dis
played around the state. The com
pany advertises that the stock is own
ed by Oregon men and that its money
is invested in Oregon property. The
biggest display line says, 'Keep Your
Money in Oregon.' A very reason
able and proper appeal. If all in
surance purchased by Oregonians was
placed with Oregon companies, quite
a big business would be bunt up in
the state and the people buying in
surance would receive other direct
benefits besides insurance protection.
What is true of insurance is true of
all other tilings, so we were struck by
a small line at the botom of the cal
enndar which gave the information
that the advertising and the calendar
I were designed and produced by a St.
1 Louis, Mo., advertising agency.
"This shows the inconsistency of a
great many people. This insurance
company used the 'trade-at-home'
slogan to appeal for business for it
' self, but it overlooked the fact that if
all the printing purchased in Oregon
were given to Oregon printing offices
that there would be a great many
more people here to buy insurance,
i "Not long ago at a meeting of the
Lane County Horticultural Society
i the president of the society made the
' assertion that Lane County products
and manufactures were not being
patronized by Lane County people.
He stated that this was true of the
products of the Eugene Fruit Grow
ers' Association. Here again is in-
consistency. We make a big whoop
j and hurrah about building up a
market for the products of our farms.
Then we ourselves buy the products
of farms of other states and depend
upon other states to take our pro
ducts. 'Complaint made concerning the
products of the Eugene Fruit Grow
ers' Association is probably equally
true about the products of the Cot
tage Grove Cannery. The manager
of the cannery made the statement
that not a sale of the products of the
cannery had been made direct to
Cottage Grove merchants, although
some of the goods shipped to Port
land had probably come back here.
"The farmer hollers because the
merchants of -his home town some
times buy outside products that could
be bought from him. Then some of
these very farmers send away for
things that could have been bought
just as cheaply at home. If all the
goods purchased in the Cottage Grove
country were bought of Cottage
Grove merchants there would be a
larger city here with better markets
and better stocks of goods and the
price of farm land would advance ac
cordingly. "The merchant does not think it
fair for others to send away for
things that could be bought just as
cheap, or nearly as cheap, from mer
chants who are paying taxes and
building schools and roads for the
benefit of patrons of mail-order
houses and then some of these very
merchants, just to save a few pennies,
will send away for things which some
other merchant stocks and pays taxes
on.
"The newspaper hollers for home
trade louder than any of them, yet
half the newspapers of Oregon are
printed on paper that is made in the
East.
"Consistency, thy name is mud!
"What we need is a thoroughly or
ganized ptate-witle trade - at r home
movement with a trade-at-home so
ciety in every community and hamlet
and th'3 first and greatest tenet of
the order should be that the 'Kerp-Your-Money-in-Oregon'
slogan is just
as good for one as the other."
Fl'Tl'KE MEAT SIPPLY.
From the very earliest Bible times
down to the present day, the human
race have been meat eaters, when
they could get it. Vegetarians have
propounded their theories, and point
ed to long life as a reward for ab
staining from flesh, but the red-cor-puscled,
hungry man will not forsake
his meat to any perceptive extent
On the contrary, modern methods of
canning and cold storage have
brought the shipments of meats to
such a high degree of certainty and
perfection, its consumption ha?
greatly increased. City dwellers arc
large consumers, and our cities have
doubled in population the pask gener
ation, while our export trade lias
grown from almost nothing to im
mense proportions during the period
named.
While this demand has been in
creasing, the system under which our
beef was produced has largely van
ished. Twenty years aso millions of
acres of western range were as free
to use as the air, and ranchers and
cattle companies by the hundreds
grazed their stock by the tens of
thousands. These vast herds, ad
vancing leisurely, slowly grazed their
way from one good feeding place to
another; and, after a herd was once
started, the comparatively triftying
cost of herding was all it cost, while
the production and shipping went on
year after year. Now conditions are
:adically changed. The vast ranges
have been surveyed, sold, fenced, and
passed from government ownership
to individuals. It is no longer pos
sible to drive the herds from .one
feeding place to another, both, on ac
count of obstructions and inability to
graze while on the way.
The evident readjustment must
come through a reversal of the for
mer system. Instead of one man
marketing 5000 head a year, there
will be 5000 owners producing each
one beef per year. Somo farmers, of
course, will market mora but the
iireat, reliable, steady flow of beef
production will ultimately go to the
packing houses in a vast stream made
up of innumerable small branches.
Under these conditions one or two
beeves will live on what is now prac
tically going to waste, and with the
extra care which is given small unitB
the weight and quality will profit.
There will still be some cattle kings
in each of the western states, but the
great abundance can be maintained
indefinitely through a million small
producers. H. H. Windsor in April
Popular Mechanics.
Clem-up Suggestions,
We have been handed the follow
ing suggestions for (Mean-up Week,
May 4 to 11, and they might be fol
lowed out with good results by all of
us who would like to make onr town
i cleaner and therefore, a more
healthy town In which to live.
1. Take away all the ashes and
trash from your back yard immed
iately. Send your rubbish to the
dumping ground.
2. Suggest to several men with
teams that they drive through the
alleys with a sign, "Clean-up Wag
on" on their wagons; also a bell call
ing attention. People are only too
glad to pay such a man for hauling
away their trash.
3. Burn all rubbish that will
burn. Clean your vacant lots and
alley-ways.
4. Make your street and parking
look as trim and well kept as possi
ble. i. Refrain from throwing old pa
per, banana and orange skins into
tho streets.
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6. Plant some grass and flower
seeds to make your home beautiful.
7. If your store front is dingy,
paint it.
8. If you have unsightly old bug
gies or old traps in your back yards,
remove them. x
9. If there are unnecessary, un
sightly tumbled down sheds in your
back yard, tear them down. They de
tract from the beauty of your home
and the town. Open spaces and
fresh air are better.
10. If your walk la an eyesore to
those traveling over it, repair it or
build a new one.
11. Clean out the alloys back of
the business houses at once.
By all means do your part to help
make your town cleaner and more at
tractive. Signed,
MRS. CHARLES H. CASTNER,
State Chairman Civic Committee
Oregon Federation of Woman's
Clubs.
It will take money to build good
roads, hot air won't do It.
FOR. SALE.
One red brood sownd 8 pigs; also
one fresh cow. Inquire of E. C. Mil
ler, 7 miles northeast of Lexington.
WANT K I) .
Wheat farms for owners only, for
cash or in exchange for Portland
property or Willamette Valley farms.
Address Sam Hewey, care of
HA HTM. N-THOM PSON' BANK
219 Stark St.
Portland, Oregon.
FOR SPRING SOWING
We are ready to supply you with selected new crop seed. For over
two generations we have built up a reputation for dependability.
Our stock this year Is fully up to the high stnndnrd we set, and
we arc better equipped than ever to herve you-and serve you well.
Marquis Wheat
For Spring I'lnntlnff
Tills splendid new wheat
won the $10(m prize at
tite New York Agricul
tural Show as the best
wlieat grown on the Con
tineiitu of North and
South America. Won the
?3H)0 priae of the Inter
national Dry Farming
Congress at Letlihridge,
11U2, anil the Sweepstak
es at Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Dry Farming Congress In
11)13.
You should plant this
earliest nnd heaviest
yielding hard sprint?
wheat of highest mill
ing and baking qualities.
Price 4 per I (Ml llm., f,
o. Ii. I'ortlfintl.
Oderbrucker
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A pedigreed strain of six
row barley, considered
tho earliest maturing and
must prolific of all bar
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stock of our own grow
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IIn., f. i. h. rortlfiml.
Shadeland
Hrvi Ontii for
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DAYS.
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at the Oregon
State Fair ev
ery year since
1H02. First at
N. P 1. n n ,1
Show, HU3-14,
over $700 in prize
ey irom one exhil
season, at the big
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( hnllenge, :i.2B prr 100
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Ilium, $4 per 1(10 llin.
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