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Newspaper Page TextFTTW iiil 1 JhLra JL li VOL. 33. NO. 3. HEPPNER, OREGON, APRIL 13. 191 G. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR m M El u TEACHER 5 1916-17 ARE HIRED Instructor in Manual Training Not Elected as J. V. Motley Does Xot Apply. Many of Present Teachers Re-Appointed. At the meeting of the school board of District No. 1 on Monday after noon, all the teachers for the school year of 1916-17 were chosen but one. The position of instructor in the man ual training department still remains unfilled for next year. Professor J. W. Motley did not apply for re-appointment. Likewise, Miss Mary Power of the primary department and Mrs. C. W. Shurte of the sixth grade declined to apply for another year. H. H. Hoffman was retained over a month ago, for another year at the head of our schoolB. At the meeting Monday, Mrs. Lucy T. Wedding, Miss Elizabeth Sehoenwald and Miss Mar lon Long In the high school were re elected and In the grades Miss Ethel Casey, Miss Ella Coe, Miss Jessie Suhm and Miss Sophia Burke have been retained. Miss Suhm will teach the sixth grad;i next year instead of the fifth, as this year, and Miss Opal E. Bretz of the Monmouth Normal School has been appointed to the fifth grade position. In the primary grade, Mrs. Blanche Watkins will have charge. Mrs. Watkins has had several years of experience In pri mary work. HIGHSCHOOL PARAGRAPHS W. Pearl LeTrace. High School Industrial Club Fair to be (liven. Final arrangements for the High School Industrial Club Fair were de cided on last Friday at their meeting held in the Commercial room. Mr. Ganu'tt Barratt is the president of this association and is a faithful worker in the industrial work. The Fair is to be held on April 21st in Mr. Motley's room. Ribbons will be awarded as prizes. Tea will be served to all visitors. The Metropolis Industrial Club of the grades will cooperate with the high school to give a program on May 5. People who have attended the pro grams of the grades know that their entertainments are very successful. Typewriting Test. The first typewriting test for April was given the 11th. Miss Hannah Wilson and Miss Florence Ralston, second-year students, each made an average of 35 words per minute. Miss Margaret Crawford made an average of 20 words a minute, and Miss Isabel Wilson 19 words per minute. They are first-year pupils. On the Remington typewriter, Miss Hannah Wilson made 39 words and Mr. Kennon Smith 29 words per min ute. Literary Program, Don't miss the play, entitled 'Shadows" given in the next Literary Program, Friday, April 14. This, however, Is not the only special num ber to be given. It has taken some good work of both teachers and pu pils to get up this program. We hope everybody will attend and give their hearty support. An admission of 25c will be charged. Mr. Hughes I uproving. A letter was receivod from Thomas Hughes In his own ha.idwriting. This Is his second attempt, to write since lie took sick. He r.tates that all he has to do Is to eat and sleep. If you can't eat or aren't hungry they choke it down you. We naturally suppose Tom Is getting fat. He doesn't like it because lone beat Heppner in the first baseball game'. Maybe if he had been here it would not have hap pened. The doctors took an X-Ray picture of his lungs last week. They say his left lung is perfectly clear, but didn't Bay as to the right lung. They give him gas twice a week and will soon have his right lung col lapsed. These few lines from Mr. Hughes were a source of pleasure to the school. The Baseball Game. The game started at about 2 o'clock with lone at the bat. Mr. Hughes, as pitcher, mowed them down in one, two, three order. Em mett is climbing to the top notch on the pitching process. The Heppner boys hit the ball quite often, but It seems lone was sadly "out of luck." "Ole" Peter son, the Swede, planted the ball over beyond the stock yards and It was some time before it was found. Ole had to stop on 2nd. The lineup for this game was somewhat changed from the one played at lone, so it (Continued on Page 6) FOR YEAR I. SERVICE FOR COMMON PEOPLE Robert Service of Baker, who is a candidate for public service commis sioner at the coming primary elec tion, was in Heppner this week in the interests of his candidacy. While here he made the following statement which pretty clearly outlines his plat form and his qualifications for the office: In coming out for this important office I do so conscious of the fact that it is to the common people alone that I must look for my election, if at all, for I have hammered the rail roads too often when they were wrong to expect their support. The railroads are entitled to' and should be given a "square deal," they also should be required to con duct the business honestly, without discrimination and at reasonable rates. They should be required to give their exclusive attention to the bus iness for which they were chartered instead of expending huge sums, as operating expenses, in undertaking the moulding of public opinion through publicity departments, the conduct of legislation and the man ipulation of elections. High official salaries should be lim ited to the value of the service ren dered. They should be permitted to earn a reasonable net return upon their judiciously expended actual invest ment, but no interest should be paid on watered stocks and bonds, for such fictitious liabilities have no investment and have no earni::s right; yet these carriers stand bold ly before the public today, capital ized at about $4.00 to $1.00 outlay, demanding inlerest returns on their entire capitalization, water includ ed. There is approximately three bil lions of dollars of actual money in tills Nation, and the railroads doing their cash business put every dollar of It through their casli tills each year, taking their toll from It as it passes through. In 1SS0 every man, woman and child in the United States paid, in railroad transportation tolls, the av erage sum of $11.57, in 1913 it was $32.20, while for Oregon it was about $40.00. Rates in Oregon range about 1 to 10 times higher than was charged on the first primitive railroad operat ed by steam and opened to public traffic. Grain and flour, for a 25-mile haul on the primitive railroad, was 75c per ton, on the O.-W. R. & N. it is $1.20, while on the S. V. R'y it is $3.80. All merchandise L. C. L. shipments on the primitive was $1.25, on the O.-W. R. & N. it is $8.13' and on the S. V. R'y, $13.23. Engineer hire, to produce a like amount of tonnage, cost the primi tive road seventeen times the mod ern cost. With an Increasing population, in creasing tonnage, and decreasing cost of tonnage movement, rates should be reduced; but Instead they are Increased higher and higher, un til the people's life blood is being drained to exhaustion through the vein of transportation taxation. This shows the need of regulation by one who knows, and pride for any local candidates should be a secondary consideration to fitness for the place. I have had five years experience as an expert accountant, sixteen years of a successful Manufacturing and Wholesale business career, and eight years in the study and prac tice of law almost exclusively on the subject of Railroad Rate Regulation, as my record shows. I should like to represent the masses one term. My slogan on the primary ballot is: "Regulate, give a fair return on honest capital, nothing on watered stock." 1 Ik ' lvH I , f"- jk - ,1 S ft V if The Time Is Almost Gone! This is a warning to you, Mr. Voter-Who-Has-Not-Registered that the Jime for registering for the Primary Election will soon be gone. . Take heed, therefore, and put yourself right with the official registrar in your precinct. There are many reasons why you should wish to vote in the coming election, not the least of these being the privilege of expressing your choice for President and Vice-President of the United States.. At this election you also have the opportunity of making your choice of the candidates from your own party. REGISTER! REGISTER! REGISTER! BOOKS CLOSE APRIL 18th. THERE IS AN OFFICIAL REGISTRAR IN YOUR PRECINCT. CANADIANS ARE ON LOOKOUT FOR SPIES W. P. Leuch of Hardman Receives a Letter From Brother Who Tells of Kfforts Being Made by England to Enlist Recruits. War Prices There Also. W. P. Leach of Hardman has re ceived a letter from his brother Gro ver, who is now In Winnepeg, Can ada. Mr. Leach describes conditions there and tells of the suspicion with which all strangers coming Into that country are now looked upon. We print the letter herewith in part: "Dear Brother Will: 1 arrived here yesterday from the west coast via Prince Rupert over the Grand Trunk railroad; was one solid week on the road so was glad to get off the train. I think I will go to work for the Canadian Northern railroad as I have made out the application blanks. I expect to go out tomorrow or the day after on a run to the east coast. It takes me a week to make the trip and I don't know yet how I will like it. "There is a big graft up here in everything you take up and you have to come through ever so often to hold your own. "There are soldiers everywhere up here and the streets are crowded with them. One is reminded at all times that this country is at war and that England expects every man to do his duty. Posters reading like 'Dad is on the firing line, what are you doing?' are stuck up In ev ery imaginable place and It is amus ing to read some the them. No two are alike. "I have been followed by a detec tive from the moment I stepped from the train. He has a room next to mine in this hotel and takes his meals at the same table and when I go out for a walk he is right there. While I am writing this letter he is watching me from a desk across the room. It makes a fellow feel like a second Jesse James, but they watch all strangers from outside countries the same way, I am told." Prosperity. Everybody is looking for and want ing prosperity. The sermon at the Federated church next Sunday at 11 a. m. will be a Booster's sermon, answering the question, "How can we better the fi nancial, social, educational and spir itual condition of our city, county, state and nation." A sure remedy for hard times. The county and city of ficials, school teachers, doctors, law yers, business men of all kinds, moth ers, fathers, big and little children, all have a special Invitation to come. There will be good music. The young people's society will have charge of the evening service with a special program, beginning at 7 p. m. W. B. SMITH, Pastor. Union Prayer Meeting Service. The Federated and Christian churches of Heppner will unite in prayer services on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of next week. The Wednesday evening service will be held In the Christian church and the Thursday evening service in the Fed erated church. These services will be in charge of the missionary so cieties of the two churches, and are preparatory to the Easter services on the Sunday following. JJ BALL TOSSERS BREAK EVEN 50- lone Loses Second Came to Heppner . 1 Making Brilliant Showing in !n "! itial Contest. Hughes is Luminary Star. The Heppner High school ball toss ers won the second game of the In terscholastic series at the depot grounds in this city Saturday after noon by the one-sided score of 13 to i. The final count would have, no doubt, been different had the Egg City stickers been able to connect with Emmet Hughes' now famous "mush ball." It is the regular old time spitter. On the other hand, the local batters fell heavily against the slow curves of "Fat" Blake and the results on more than one occasion were the basses full and none down. The lone boys made many costly errors. In the seventh inning Blake in the box exchanged places with Pennington As catcher and the change proved a temporary relief but didn't help the lone players in connecting with the ball. Hughes for Heppner was plainly the star of the game, striking out 23 of the lone batters. Hughes uses a spit ball which is very baffling and he uses a world of speed. Saturday was the first time In which he attempted to pitch an entire game. His first experience was at lone a week ago when he went in for three inlngs to relieve Peterson. The last game of the Interscholas tic series will be played in lone Sat urday. The season was rushed through in a hurry this year in order that the track season could be prop erly taken care of. The two teams have each won a game and Satur day's contest will prove the cham pionship for the 1916 season. Fire in Borg Building. A fire In the rear end of the Borg building on Main street Tuesday eve ning which would have resulted dis astrously had It not been discovered in the nick of time, caused some lit tle damage to the personal effects of Richard Davis, a colored man. Mr. Davis had just moved into the build ing. About 7 o'clock in the evening he made a fire In a sheet iron stove in his room, put iu several large pieces of coal and went off to the theater where he was leading man in a hypnotizing contest. The stove was apparently only six inches from the wall and after becoming red hot, the wall paper was ignited. Glenn Wells, who was In his law office in the front of the building, had his at tention first attracted by a crackling sound and upon Investigation discov ered the blaze, lie at once turned in the alarm, but in the meantime with two buckets of water subdued the fire. Mr. Davis lost three suits of clothes as a result of the conflagra tion. He carried no insurance. Christian Church. The subject of the morning ser mon Sunday will be "Our Calling and Election." Any one having trouble with the question of "predestination" will have their difficulties scriptural ly settled. In the evening will preach on "God's Appointments." Turner B. MacDouald, Pastor. E CHOOSES TEACH ERS FOR KEXT YEAR All teachers save one have been hired for the ensuing year by the lone school board. Prof. L. A. Doak, principal, will have the fol lowing assistants: James Cameron, of Eugene, assistant principal and head of athletics; Miss Galbraith, primary; Miss M. Wakefield, present teacher, third and fourth grades; Mrs. Puyear, present teacher, fifth and sixth grades; E. A. Doak, of Monmouth, Oregon, seventh and eighth grades. Teacher of English and domestic science has not yet been chosen. Prof. Dcak states that the departments of domestic science and manual training wil receive especial attention the coming year, and he plans much practical work here which will be announced later on. Prof, and Mrs. Doak visited at Lexington over Tuesday night. A. E. Johnson was a business vis itor at the county seat on Monday last. L. Carlson, young farmer of Goose berry, was doing business in this burg on Monday. E. R. Lundell and family and F. A. Lundell and wife attended ser vices on Sunday last at the Swedish church at Eight Mile. Mrs. Robt. Wilmot Is making a vis it of some length at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. P. McMillan, in Lexington. These ladies spent Mon day in lone. The family of Chas. Anderson moved back to their farm in the Gooseberry section the first of the week. They have been living in lone during the winter to take advantage of the school. T. B. Bufhngton this week finished a deep well on the Al Zink place where he secured an abundance of water. He will now move to the Jo sephine Currin place and begin work ou a well there. T. J. Mahoney, cashier of the First National Bank of Heppner, attended a meeting of the board of directors of the Bank of lone on Saturday af ternoon. He was accompanied to lone by Mrs. Mahoney and Miss Rubv Corrigall. W. H. Cronlt, of Tum-a-Lum Lum ber Co. is the possessor of a Quarter section of land over in Sherman coun ty, near Grass Valley, and he made a visit there on Sunday, going over in the morning and returning in the evening in his jitney. The family of C. J. Pennington departed today for their new home at Independence, Wash. Mr. Pen nington has secured a position there, taking up his work several weeks ago. Miss Agnes will remain in lone as operator at the local depot. Ike Howard will have his irriga tion ditch '"confined" where it runs along the county road. He is plant ing a steel pipe line of suffcient cal ibre to carry a large head of water and does not intend to be troubled in the future by water overflowing the road along where the ditch passes. A. M. Zink is suffering from a bad ly crushed foot, and is compelled to get about on crutches. A horse fell with him Monday evening, his foot being caught under a stirrup. The injured member was attended by Dr. Chick but It will be several weeks be fore Mr. Zink is able to go without his crutches. Fishing is the order here these days; that is with all who can find a means of getting out of town. No large catches have yet been reported, all our people here being very truth ful and not inclined to exageration along these lines. Some fine speci mens have been landed just the same and larger catches can be looked for when the creeks clear up a bit. Thomas Donk, wife and daughter arrived from their home near Wheel ing, West Virginia, and they expect to spend a year on the coast. The most of this time will be spent in Morrow county where Mr. Doak now has two sons, one, L. A. Doak, of lone, and the other, Stephen Doak, of Lexington. They were met at Ar lington Saturday afternoon and ar rived at lone by auto. Walt Puyear and family, E. J. Bristow and family and Frank Rob inson, Bert Mason and family and Miss Nettie and Mr. Joe Mason and Bones," Mr. and Mrs. John Wilt, Mr. F. L. Christensen, Miss Schmidt and Mr. Chas. Chick were parties who autoed several miles up Rhea creek Sunday and spent the day in fishing and picnicing. The most of them "camped" in the vicinity of the Rugg place at the mouth of McKin- ney creek. Fishing was pretty good (Continued on Page 6) IE 10 PAIN! OP Al GLEAN Child Welfare Exhibit in November. Cemetery Will be Improved. J. L. Wilkins Resigns l'Yoni Presidency. The Oregon Child Welfare Com mission will be in Heppner with their traveling exhibit next November on the 25th. This was the announce ment made by Secretary Smead of the Heppner Commercial Club at the regular meeting on Monday evening. Mr. Smead has been corresponding with the Commission and an attempt was first made to have the exhibit here for the county fair In Septem ber, but inasmuch as this date had al ready been filled, he was advised by Mrs. Robert II. Tate, of Portland, president of the commission that a later date was possible and November 25th has been agreed upon. The ex hibit will be sent to fifty cities In the state, beginning some time this month. A communication from the Port land Chamber of Commerce was read which asked the local club to take some action with other commercitl bodies of the state to prevent the pending railroad strike. The local club drew up a set of resolutions ask ing the railroad employees to submit to arbitration. The club recommended to the City council of Heppner that the 25th day of April be set aside as a general clean-up day. The recommendations will be placed before the council at their next regular meeting. Many cities and towns the entire country over have Inaugurated an annual clean-up and paint-up day and the result has been the transformation of these places from dirt and filth into cities of health and beauty. Heppner has been observing this day the past few years with noticeable results. Robert E. Smith of Roseburg spoke on taxation and the value in having an organized taxpayers' leajsueIp on his suggestion,' a committee" nasi been appointed which will be known as the taxation committee and they will take up all matters pertaining to taxes hereafter. A committee was also appointed which will have for its object the im provement and beautifying of the Ma sonic cemetery grounds. It is proba ble that someone will he hired to look after the lots and assessment will be made to the owners of the lots. This system is one that is fol lowed in many places and appears to be the best method of takng care of the cemeteries. At the conclusion of the meeting, president J. L. Wilkins handed in his resignation which was duly accepted by the club. Mr. Wilkins gave as his reason for resigning that business men in the town do not take sufficient interest in the club. His successor will be chosen at the next regular meeting. Ill ARLIN A district convention of the Knights of Pythias lodges will be held at Arlington next .Tuesday evening, April 18. The lodges of Gilliam and Morrow counties make up this dis trict. A large delegation of Hepp ner knights are planning to make the trip by auto, leaving here in the af ternoon and returning Immediately following the close of the convention. Matters pertaining to the entertain ment features of the Supreme lodge gathering will be taken up at the convention and it is hoped that the Knights from all over the district will avail themselves of the oppor tunity to attend. Catholic Church Services. First Mass, 8 a. m. Second Mass, 10:30 a. m. Christian Doctrine, 11:30 a. m. Evening Devotions, 7:30 p. m. Dr. D. R. Haylor, eye spec ialist of Portland, with per manent office in Heppner, will be at the Hotel Lexington, Saturday, April 15th, between trains, with mod ern methods and instruments for ex amining the eyes. Satisfaction guar anteed. The measure for road bonding in Gililnm county will not be voted on at the coming election, the county court having decided that there were not enough registered signers at the time the petition was filed to warrant placing the measure ou the ballot. Frank Hall has accepted a position with the Peoples' Cash Market.