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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1915)
THK OAZKTTK-TIMKS. HEPPNER ORE.. THURSDAY. SEPT. 2. 1915 TAGE TWO 1MB flip H vurn tv Mi S 0 tuijrant Trains Stye Coaches tnJians TraS Blaiers Cow Bo-s Cow Girls Racing, Ropirj Broncho Busting C W. R. & N. Vi A KeprodiicUoi ih- . -t Ci: j r m of Flower Tm Showing Early life in the Tar West Walla Walla WASHINGTON SEPT. 16-17-18, 1915 Has: Sb-t hnd. Tk. WoflTi He Cattrctet Kiatn ad Rars will bt Pro- I FroM Wil B. Srat Doo AprtcaliM. jj WESTERN SHOW mn the REAL TK1HG EXCURSION FARES INDUSTRIAL ITEMS OF II INTEREST Mvrtle Point will add to water sup ply. ' Big run of salmon is on in Rogue River. Clatskanle will pave three blocks far a starter. Halfway carried $20,000 bonds for water system. The cigar-makers all busy a sure sign of better times. Toledo is planning to buy out the local water company. Astoria proposes to improve four streets with Warrenite. Baker is installing a permanent system of cluster lights. I Portland public works department drops 14 men economy. I Pacific highway from Oregon City 'to Gladstone is to be paved. I Mormon Basin, Baker county, will erect a fine new school house. PERSO E1TI Home in Heppner for sale. Phone Mrs. T. J. Matlock, Heppner, Oregon. . Art Crawford returned from the C. E. Jones farm at Eight Mile, Monday evening, where he" put In several weeks in the harvest fields. County Attorney Wells returned from Portland the first of the week. While below, he attended a meeting of the district atorneys of the state. Rev. T. S. Handsaker and family returned home Thursday last from a vacation of two months, spent with relatives and friends at Pleasant Hill, Lane county. Miss Bess Huddleston departed for Seattle on Friday to visit with her brother residing there. She was ac companied by her nieces, Sadie and Ruth Huddleston, of Lone Rock. GET THE HABIT OF DEPOSITING YOUR FUNDS WITH The First National Bank of Heppner WE BELIEVE THERE IS MUCH ROOM FOR DE VELOPMENT OF 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 XARGER 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. A V 2 A. R. REID for your Rough and Dressed Lumber, Wood and Posts At the Mill or delivered CITY MEAT MARKET J. FRANK. tH ALL, Prop. Best in the line of meats ha FINEST HOME-MADE, See Me Before Y New Shop I 'MEAT 4- i . 'I QUSS A it- ytt the lowest possible prices. fell Your Fat Stock. New Equipment GENERAL BEACKSMITHING Repairing and Horseshoeing Fiftc 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 Capt. Smith, of St. Johns, plans to build a $20,000 river steamer. I Milwaukie carried $25,000 bond is sue to extend city water system. Medford Sun is working hard for more irrigation and industries. Albany Lumber Co. mill started last week with a crew of 20 men. Bishop & Son of Pendleton have purchased Washougal woolen mill. Franchise has been granted United Railways over Linnton-Portland road, Nehalem is constructing a 200,-000-gallon reservoir for water supply Present prospects indicate record- breaking crowd at Pendleton Kouna Up with larger number of easterners. The St. Helens Shipbuilding Co. has contracts reaching far into next year. 1 A stringent ordinance for the reg ulation of jitneys is to be passed in Salem. it Is renorted that the Corvallis & Eastern will electrify from Albany to Corvallis. The third dredge is to be installed hv thn Powder River Gold Co. at Sumpter. The west half of Washington street, Portland, will be paved with bitulithic. v Hoppicking is now in full swing in Oregon and thousands are being giv en employment. Portland is still investigating the $450,000 increase in city expenses during past year. Going and Harvey Furniture Co, will erect a fine building on Broad way in Marshfield, Recall elections in several counties Drove little more than farces. They increase public expenses and accom plish nothing. Portland's municipal wood pile is still on its hands but the city can stand it as the taxpayer is always ready to foot the bill. Tho Uner RoRe Citv will be over hauled in Portland and $50,000 spent on new boilers making her one of the best boats on the coast. nrpmn Voter When the employer is making a profit employment is nipntlfnl. Legislate the employer out of his profit, and the army of the un employed fills the highways. "The State Engineer boosts the peat marshes," is a story sent out from a caoital press bureau. All it boosts is the $100,000 or $200,000 a year that department costs the tax payers. The Oregon Lumber Co. of Hood River, has completed a 2200-foot hlghline to move logs to its mills and has 175 men in the woods. The lum ber cut is used to build the Ogden and Idaho electric. Following on the heels of the new Seaman's Bill which stops all Ameri can shipping to foreign ports by its drastic regulations, a Japenese com' tpany has placed orders for six 2,000' ton steamers to be built at once. The Industrial Relations Commis sion has published a report criticis ing most everything that has Been done in an industrial way during the oast 10 or 15 years and making out that the general run of employers are worse than slave-drivers. Like most of these commissions, however, It can find lots of fault but can offer no remedy as the members composing it are mere politicians who never maintained a dollar payroll for any body and in most cases are unable to manage a business of their own. In his speech at Portland, former President Taft referred to Oregon and Washington as "sort of National laboratory to test all sorts of govern mental investions." He charged the two northwestern states to proceed with their experiments under the watchful eyes of their sister states of the East, which "doubtless will fol- ! low those that by actual practice you ! find to be worthy of permanent use." I "We will all get to the same place, anyway," he continued, "but maybe by different paths and by bills of expense." Dalles Chronicle: Mrs. E. R. Bis hop and two granddaughters, Kath leen and Gertrude Williams, of Fres no, Cal., arrived in the city today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Johnson. i Theo. Anderson, of Eight Mile, has finished uo his threshing and will soon be moving his grain to market. He did not have a very long run, and his grain turned out somewhat disappointing. L. Monterestelli, of Pendleton, has been in Heppner during the week, placing several nice monuments at Masonic cemetery. Mr. Monterestelli conducts p. general tombstone and monument works at Pendleton ana frequently makes delivery of fine specimens of his art at this place. E. C. Maddock, proprietor of the Grande Hotel at Arlington, is in inaree of the Palace Hotel at Hepp ner this week during the absence of J. L. Wilkins in Portland. Mr. Mad- dock is quite well pleased with his new location at Arlington and is en joying a good business in the hotel line. E. G. Harlan, editor-in-chief of the Heppner Herald for the past year, has severed his connection with that pa per and departed for Portland where he has secured a position as teacher of English in the Y. M. C. A., to begin Sept. 1. Mr. Harlan is highly recom mended as a teacher, and we congrat ulate him upon his success in secur ing a good position. T. F. Boylen. Umatilla county stockman, who resides near Echo, was in Heppner for a few hours on Tuesday. Mr. Boylen is now busy with the hay harvest and made the triD to this city to secure men to as sist him in the work. Mr. Boylen, in pnmnanv with Smvthe brothers of Ppnrllfiton and Ar ineton, has recent ly filed papers for the incorporation of a firm for the purpose of buying and selling sheep. The new company is capitalized at $5000. George Chapin called at this of fice while in town Tuesday. He has suffered greatly by the grasshopper nest this season, his place being lit erallv cleaned up of everything green. The pests were noi sausneu to rid him of his garden and they have striDDed his fruit trees of fol lage and bark and Mr. Chapin fears that his orchard, of which he was verv oroud. has been entirely de Other residents of his nelchhorhood have suffered in a slm iler manner and the financial loss to that section is heavy. This Is the second vear of the grasshopper pest and they seem to be much worse than thev were a year ago; just what will hamwn another vear from them is ""M" ' ' hard to say and it Is to be hoped that some means of destroying th insects will be devised before another crop season arrives. Will Expand Next Season. W. H. Padberg, successful farmer nf Clarks Canyon, visited in Hepp ner Saturday. He is finishing up the season's run with his big threshing outfit and is well satisfied with re suits. Next season he contemplates rtnln more threshing for his neigh bors, and will extend his operations Into the McMillan and Pointer section nnrth of Lexineton. where he can get in a good lot of work before i erain is ready In his locality. The plan of heading and threshing that Mr. Padberg follows is proving to the most satisfactory method eat.hp.rine in the grain crop, and will be more generally adopted by c farmers. Encouraging the Hoys. Onoortunltv will be offered to 2 Oreeon.bovs to attend the Agricul tnral College summer camp school all expenses paid, if the plans now un der way mature successfully. N. i Maris, of the State Educational d nartment. and F. L. Griffin, state aeent of boys' and girls' industrial clubs, have agreed upon the general features of the plan, which provides for sending the winner of each of 2K main and subdivision projects which the industrial club is to be car rled this year, to the popular Boys' Short Course at the College next gum mer. It Is the plan of the depart ments to have all expenses of ev winner fully paid from the time different 1 leaves until he returns, no matter what part of the state he comes from AUCTION SALE 3 4. . 1 I I I A AT THE PARKER RANCH ONE MILE EAST OF MORGAN. SEPTEMBER 7th, 10 A. M. Including 23 head of work horses, mares and colts. 4 extra good milk cows; calves; hogs; chickens and turkeys.. Farm Machinery: Header, Drill Wagon, disc harrow, plow, harness, fanning mill, etc. THIS IS ALL EXTRA GOOD STUFF Free Lunch C. W. Parker, Owner People's Cash Market Phone Main 73 All kinds of Fresh aid Cored Meats, Poultry, Lard We pay highest cash prices paid for Stock, Hides and Pelts. HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor t GET YOUR Face Greams of all kinds, Toilet Water, Perfumes and Talcum ! t powder, also Deorderant powder - 1 ,n ii AT ; Humphreys Drug Co. j .4, 4.4.4.4. 4. 4. 4.4.4. 4,4.4,44.4. 4. 4,4, 4, 4,4,4. 444.4.4,44,44,4444444444,4H FRUIT CANNING SUPPLIES We carry in stock a full and com plete line of Fruit Jars, Jelly Glasses, Etc. Economy Jars and extra tops and clamps Ball Mason Jars and extra tops and rubbers Wide Mouth Mason Jars and extra rubbers Also Kerr Self Sealing and White Crown Self Sealing tops. Will fit any Mason jar. Phelps Grocery Co.
