TIIK GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPXER. ORE.. THURSDAY. AUG. 19. 1915.
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WHEAT IS GOOD AS
GOLD NOWADAYS
WITH THE PRESENT HIGH WAR PRICES
AN AVERAGE CROP MEANS A
SNUG FORTUNE
We are offering some bargains in wheat land
which will prove most alluring to the buyer
who is looking for the best moderate priced
1280 Acres, All Under
Fence
200 acres in timothy. Cuts 2 to 3 tons per
acre. One of the best dairy farms in the
county. Plenty of running water and tim
ber. This can be had at a bargain. Price
is right; Terms are right.
840 Acres Wheat Land
Plenty of water. Can be divided into two
good farms. 2S0 acres in crop goes with
this. One of the best buys in County.
960 Acres Wheat Land
400 acres in crop. Has Summerfallow.
Machinery goes with place. Price right
and terms are right. Come and let us tell
you about it.
1440 Acres Wheat Land
800 in crop; 600 summerfallow. Plenty of
water. Price and terms are right.
THIS IS A BARGAIN.
SMEAD & CRAWFORD
New Shop
New Equipment
GENERAL BLACKSMITHING
Repairing and Horseshoeing
Fift( en years of Experience in an Eastern
plow factory enables us to do expert work in
this line. Bring us any work you have in this
line.
M. SZEPANEK & SON
HEPPNER, OREGON
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! Initial Stationery f
Tablets with Initials in Deft Blue, : 15 cents
Envelops to match, :::::: 10 cents
Also correspondence cards and box paper
Humphreys Drug Co.
People's Cash Market
Phone Main 73
AH kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Lard
We pay highest cash prices paid for Stock, Hides and
Pelts.
HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS OF
GENERAL INTEREST
More of Pacific Highway to be Fated.
Canneries Itunniiif; And Oth
er llusinexs Opening Vp.
Wapato lake has 100 acre flax crop
coming on.
Hood River plans a county flower
planting compaign.
Baker w ill put streamer lights on
its principal streets.
Woodburn will vote on $40,000
high school bond Issue.
The Pacific Highway Is to be paved
from Central Point to Tolo.
A site has been selected at Albany
for $1,500,000 paper mill plant.
The Roth Grocery Co., Salem, will
erect a $20,000 brick, two-story.
The manufacture of peppermint
oil is under way in Linn county.
A water bond issue of $20,000 was
voted on August 17 at Halfway.
Yamhill county has oiled fifty
miles of main highway for $1500.
Linn County clover seed industry
is yielding six bushels to the acre.
East Portland is getting new bank
and business men's club buildings.
Holland contracts for 100,000 box
es of Hood River apples, 1916 crop.
The Columbia River Cannery at
St. Helens is running steadily on veg
etables. Medford is promised a $600,000
sugar beet factory in time for the
crop of 1916.
Waldo Copper Co. shipped the first
carload of ore over new railroad to
Grants Pass.
The Willamette Iron and Steel
works of Portland are now employ
ing day and night shifts.
Contract let for grade of Pacific
highway from Tolo to Josephine
county line for $16,659.
Portland Is moving for a city man
ager in place of its you-tickle-me-and
I'll-tickle-you commission.
The Rogue River Public Service
Corporation is preparing to resume
work on plant at Gold Hill.
The first mile of hard-surfaced
road built in Coos county within 30
days and a $370,000 bond issue pro
posed.
Supt Campbell, upon returning to
Portland from Coos Bay announces
that trains will be running there by
May 1st.
Those who hold the office of pub
lic defender, the new office sought to
be foisted upon the taxpayers for
cities and counties, naturally defend
it publicly.
The forestry service generously al
lows people to build summer homes
in the forest reserves. It is doubtful
if any but people of wealth can afford
the luxury.
On six items of fire, police, health,
street cleaning, public works, elec
tions, Portland commission govern
ment cost $105,313 more in 1914
than in 1912. Public works executed
in 1912 $4,300,449; in 1914, $2,633,
480. The Courtney mill at Marshfield,
which has been idle for some time,
has been reconstructed and made
ready for cutting lumber. At the
present time the owners are negotiat
ing for a contract for 5,000 ready-to-erect
houses.
The contract was awarded to
Clark & Henery Construction Co. for
the paving of Alder st. at Eugene, for
$1.73 per cubic yard, or $32,915.
Pavement to be 24 feet wide, 5-in-cone
base, 2-in. gravel bitullt.hic
wearing surface.
The Municipal water commission
at Eugene would raise rates for wa
ter used by the city to keep rates
down for consumers. That is the gen
eral result of public ow nership, to
make taxpayers meet deficits caused
by supplying consumers below cost.
The politicians are still discussing
what to do with the O. & C. land
grant. They are all very generous
in turning the surplus funds, after,
paying the railroad company $2.50
an acre, Into the school funds, bene
fitting the school fund is always a
popular proposition. But it should
be remembered that these same pol
iticians squandered the Oregon school
funds by letting the school lands all
get away from the state for little or
nothing. For the sake of the poor,
the homeless, and the landless, let us
have a new deal in disposing of these
lands, one not originating with the
elements that have wasted our school
lands In the past. Col. E. Hoffer at
Waldport.
& A. R. REID
for your
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Wood and Posts
At the Mill or delivered
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Keep Dobs Muzzled.
Heppner, Oregon, July 20, 1915.
Owing to the prevalence of rabies
in the immediate vicinity of Heppner,
the City Council, looking to the wel
fare of the people of our town, has
ordained that all dogs shall be muz
zled or kept chained up until such
time as the City Health Officer thinks
the danger is past. Therefore the
Marshal has been instructed to kill
all dogs found running at large with
out muzzles within the corporate lim
its of the City of Heppner on or after
July 25th, 1915.
Due notice will be given when this
order is annulled,
This order will be strictly enforced
People outside the city limits are re
quested to keep dogs at home as there
will be no exception made. Rabies
has ceased to be a Jokn and the
welfare of the people demands this
action.
W. W. SMEAD, Mayor.
I TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
! AGO IN HEPPNER !
From The Gazette, August 21. 1890,
We are still having hot weather,
but Eastern Oregon has neither fleas
nor mosquitoes.
Young grouse are ripe now, but
they are a heap harder to get along
the timber line than they used to be.
W. G. Scott was In town Friday.
He will work his Willow creek mine
this fall, when he confidently expects
to strike It.
Pap Simons is convalescing from
a recent attack ot fever, and is now
almost as good as new. All are glad
to see Pap around again.
Will McAtee returned Thursday
from Portland. Cattle are slow sale.
On the trip down the caboose was
wrecked at Bonneville, scaring pas
sengers and crew but hurting no one.
Married At the residence of the
bride's mother, south of Heppner, on
the 17th Inst., Eugene Matteson and
Sarah McFerrin, Judge Mitchell per
forming the ceremony.
Mrs. E. Minor, Misess Nira and Ada
and little Willa, Frank Rogers and
wife and Edith Vaughn are enjoying
the mountain scenery of the Ditch
creek section this week.
Col. J. W. Reddington will leave
this week for his Puyallup home.
These health-giving hills have re
moved the last shade of malaria from
the Col.'s active frame, and he is an
xious to get back to business.
Marshal Rasmus and Ed Long re
turned from Haystack Tuesday. Mrs.
Rasmus and the children are very
well at present, enjoying the hospital
ity of Mr. B. A. Hunsaker and fam
ily. Haystack is a very beautiful and
fruitful vale, and all visitors come
back delighted.
George Swaggart purchased the
Heppner & Castle Rock telegraph
line last Saturday, paying $345 for
it. As a telegraph line it cost about
$3000 and in its day was a great convenience.
"Hen" Welch brought in a load of
pelts from the John Day, arriving
here Sunday, receiving 11 cents
therefor. Henry says "never be in
a hurry," and it does look that way,
for early in the season no such prices
were realized.
Numerous life insurance agents are
irreparably maimed, others have talk
ed themselves into appoplexy, thru
endeavors to insure the life of the
Gazette worth variously estimated;
yet the instigator of Heppner's val
uable family paper remains unin
sured. If the insurance man goes to
heaven our hitherto spotless career
shall now end. Why? Isn't one
by the fiend who glibly chatters "ton
tine," "sem-tontine," and "plain life"
enough for even a Heppner man.
Funny and Os Mitchell's sorrel
race nag are here and looking fine,
and In good condition for the Hepp
ner races, Sept. 1, 2, and 3. The
managers are expecting Lish Sperry's
fast flyers every day. The races are
to be run by men who are on the
"dead square," and those who back
any of the horses can rest assured
that they are risking it on their judg
ment, and in every case the best
horse will win.
The artesian well was down to a
depth of 590 feet last evening. The
borings are brought to the surface
quite warm, and Mr. Kleckner says
they are undoubtedly working in hot
rock. We can look out for a hot,
mineral well. All the way down there
is much magnetic iron, the steel drill
being magnetised sufficiently to hold
up a pocket knife by the blade.
Johnny Kirk will shortly start a
band of horses to Portland, and will
drive to The Dalles, shipping by boat
from there at $1.50 per head. The
single-rate rail shipping price of $19
Heppner to Portland is really prohib
itory on anything but a high grade
hoss.
Hon. J. L. Morrow, Albert Rhea
and Mrs. J. W. Morrow and children
have gone camping in the mountains
at head of Rhea creek. The baby
was threatened with cholera infatum,
and the mountain air has already
done her a world of good.
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Ocean Freight Kates on Wheat.
Quotations of ocean freight rates
on wheat from New York to Liver
pool averaged 7.5 cents per bushel
during 1914, the high rates of the
latter part of the year being offset
partly by low rates in the other
months. During 1913 the average
was 5.6 cents; in 1912, 7.7 cents; in
1911, 4.2 cents; and for the five years
1906-1910 the average was 3.3 cents.
In June, 1915, the quotations reached
26 cents per bushel. Ocean freight
on wheat from Argentina to the Unl
ted Kingdom reached 45 cents per
bushel In April, 1915.
Ocean freight rates on wheat from
Portland, Oreg., to the United King
dom "for orders" averaged about
22.5 cents per bushel during the sea
son from September 1, 1914, to May
31, 1915; the average for the corres
ponding period In 1913-14 was 23.9
cents. A much shorter route was
open In 1914-15 than in 1913-14, on
acount of the Panama Canal; but In
1914-15 the European war made con
ditions abnormal. Monthly Crop Re
port, July 15, 1915.
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The First National Bank of Heppner
WE BELIEVE THERE IS MUCH ROOM FOR DE
VELOPMENT OK THE SAVINGS HABIT AMONG THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL, AND AMONG OUR
LOCAL PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR.
WHEN WE FIRST PUT IN OUR SAVINGS DEPART
MENT RESULTS WERE NOT ENCOURAGING, BUT WE
FIND THAT THE DEPOSITS HAVE GRADUALLY IN
CREASED. A LARGER NUMBER ARE MAKING USE
OF THIS METHOD OF TAKING CARE OF THEIR IDLE
FUNDS.
WE ARE PREPARED TO CARE FOR BOTH LARGE
AND SMALL AMOUNTS AND PAY FOUR PER CENT.
INTEREST.
WE FEEL THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE IN THIS
COMMUNITY WHO SHOULD BE AVAILING THEM
SELVES OF OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED WE WILL BE PLEASED
TO HAVE YOU CALL AND GET PARTICULARS.
Twenty-Fifth Annual
WASCO COUNTY FAIR
The Dalles, Oregon.
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T. B. PHELPS, Sec. and Treas.
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Get the Hemington-UMC "Arrow" and "Nitro Club"
the steel lined "Speed Shells."
The steel lining vipt the powder puts alt the force of the
explosion back ol the allot Shorter lead, leas guest-work about
angles easier to get the "fast ones."
Go to the dealer who shows the Rid Bait Mark ot RimlnttoH
VUC he can fix you up f ijAf.
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