THK OAZKTTK-TIMKS. HEPPNER ORE.. THURSDAY. SEPT. 2. 1915
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Cow Bo-s
Cow Girls
Racing, Ropirj
Broncho Busting
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Showing Early life
in the Tar West
Walla Walla
WASHINGTON
SEPT. 16-17-18, 1915
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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GET YOUR
Face Greams of all kinds, Toilet
Water, Perfumes and Talcum !
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powder, also Deorderant powder
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; Humphreys Drug Co. j
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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.