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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, ORE. THURSDAY, APRIL 20. 1916 PAGE THREE i i t i i i SPRINGTIME IS GARDEN MAKING TIE Start the season right by get ting the best tools money can buy the only kind we sell. Make gardening a pleasure, a thing that in itself spells suc cess, and the right way to ac complish this is by using good tools. We have everything that's used in garden making. Very likely we have some tools you are unfamiliar with. A visit to our store will prove valua ble to you. Call on us we'll do the rest. TtTttTtt GILLIAM &BISBEE HARDWARE 1 In all the world no other hose like Holeproof Ms. fA BuyThemHereToday Years of study have made Holeproof Hose silky, soft end light In weight. And you may enjoy all these features with economy. Six pairs of cotton Hole proof are guaranteed to wear six months without holes, three pairs of silk are guaranteed three months. If any fail within that time we replace them free. Yet In our years of experi ence over 90 have outlasted this famous guarantee. Holeproof ffosierg Holeproof, with all their advantages, cost the same as com- Holeproof. Try a box today. mon kinds. Whatever you pay you can't buy better haa vyo nave a complete uut SAM HUGHES CO. TAKE YOUR MEALS AT THE O. K. RESTAURANT Ma Shoot, Prop. Just re-opened. Everything neat and clean Best of everything the market affords, including fresh oysters and shell fish. MEALS 25c and up TO THE PUBLIC: I AM RUSTOCKING OUR NURSERIES IN HEPPNER WITH EVERYTHING CARRIED IN A FIRST-CLASS NURSERY. I KEEP THE VARIETY OP FRUITS, SHRUBS, ROSIC9, FINEST DAHLIAS AND VEGETABLE PLANTS THAT ARE BEST SUITED TO THIS CLIMATE AT LOWEST CASH PRICES. ALL STOCK GUARAN TEED AS REPRESENTED. I GROW CABBAGlS AND TOMATO PLANTS IN LARGE QUANTITIES. HARRY CUMMINGS. DUSTR1AL ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST Oyster industry talked of (or Coos Bay. Coqullle Brick yard proposed here. State sells $720 worth of flax seed to Eugene. Gardner New mill planned on West Lake soon. Astoria Methodists will build $25,000 church here. $50,000 paper package factory to be built in Portland. Three new concrete buildings are being planned for Tillamook. Seaside has selected site and adopt ed plans for $30,000 school. Baker Contract has been let for construction of Welch block. Portland $40,000 will be ex pended to improve Oaks park. Hillsboro After months of idle ness, Merrell Lumber Co. starts. Myrtle Point City council orders 24 blocks in business fart paved. Coqullle Ross & Curry have started manufacturing sand brick. Astoria-McCormick interests have let contract to build 242-ft. ship here. Additional lumber camps being opened for Smith mill on Coos Bay. Cottage Grove Big placer mine strike reported on Steamboat river. Drain The local cannery has dis posed of its pack output increased. Eugene-S. P. Co. will spend $100, 000 on new equipment in this city. Mill City Hammond Lumber Co. is planning to build six miles of rail road. lone Farmers union contem plates building 60,000-bu. grain ele vator. Marsh field Contract has been let to grade county road to Coqullle for $63,000. Yoncalla Thiel Bros, are build ing a large warehouse. District to erect $15,000 school. Eagle Lumber Co., In Tillamook county, has sold $200,000 timber to the U. S. Government. Holland Parties are out locating chrome iron ore which will be mined here on a large scale. Astoria McEearchern Construc tion Co. has laid keel of first ship built on Young's Bay shipyard April 20. IHE BEST FROM JUDGE Unconscious Joker. What the case was about no one seemed to know exactly. The lawyers themselves were pretty well mixed up. Then an important witness entered the box and was presently asked to tell the court the total of his gross income. He refused; the counsel appealed to the judge. "You must answer the question," said the judge sternly. The witness fidgeted about and then burst out with: "But But, your honor, I have no gross Income. I'm a fisherman, and it's all net." Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. I I I I Safety First. Landlady Who are you? New Guest I am a performer. "What do you do?" "I escape from tight places." "Without anybody seeing you do it?" "Yes." "Well, if that's the case you'll have to pay in advance." Youngstown Telegraph. till Didn't Need One. "Do you have to put a scarecrow out In the cornfield to keep away the birds?" asked the city man. "Oh, no," replied the farmer, tak ing another pull at his pipe. "My wife's out there every day, hoeing." Yonkers Statesman. I I I I His Suspicion. Mrs. Yeast A woman of Stough ton, Wis., a few days ago used a tele phone for the first time in her 91 years. Mr. Yeast First day she hadn't found the "line busy," I suppose. Yonkers Statesman. I I I I The Two Urchins. Representative Gardner, in an ad dress in Providence on preparedness, said: "Before the looming danger of In vasion the pacifist and the prepared ness chap are, respectively, like Willie and Johnny. "Willie and Johnny had been very naughty and were sent to bed by their mother. As they lay side by side footsteps were heard it was now evening and the two culprits real ized that their father was mounting the stairs. They turned pale. " 'I'm goln' to fold my hands as It I'd been prayin', said Pacifist Willie, 'and then I'll pretend to be asleep when he comes In.' HEPPNER 25 YEARS AGO From the Gazette of April 16, 1891. Senator Henry Blackman left yes terday for Portland, remaining over one day. From there he will take the fast mail for Hot Snrines. Arkan sas, for the benefit of his health. He expects to be gone about a' month, and will take a course of treatment We commend the Senator to the Ar kansas people (as it Is democratic about 40,000) as he is of the same political faith. We wish him a pleas ant trip and speedy recovery. The editor of this paper was shown an oil painting last week, represent ing a sunset scene In Scotland, which was executed by Mrs. B. F. Swaggart. Mrs. Swaggart took her first lesson In painting only recently, but this picture is an excellent piece of work, showing both taste and talent. People's Cash Marke Phone Main 73 All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Lard We py highest cash prices paid for Stock, Hides and Pelts. HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor Levi Shaner came in from Snokane Thursday evening. He and W. J. Shaner have located an ODal mine over in the Blue Mountains, about thirty miles from Heppner and 12 miles from Hardman. The stone is of the finest quality and will take a great polish. He thinks there Is Quite a quantity of it there. He sold one small polished stone for $10. The reporter was shown some of the sam ples and they were beautiful gems indeed. Not a ripple disturbs the equan imity of Heppner, not a "josh" or a horse laugh is heard. Tom Morgan has gone to Burns. Last Friday, Gilliam county road viewers were at work looking over a proposed road from Condon to the head of Dry Fork, Intersecting the Heppner road at that place. The people of Dry Fork want a postofflce, and are willing to join the citizens of Lone Rock in a petition for a mail route direct from Heppner. This will prove a great convenience to Hepp ner, Condon and all intermediate points. "But Preparedness Willie was al ready bustling swiftly about the room. " 'I'm goin' to put on my pants,' he said, 'and line 'em with a news paper. -Washington Star. I I I I Phoney Stuff. "Hello! Give me Main, one, triple ought." "I beg your pardon?" "Didn't yuh get It? One, zero, zero, zero, Main." ''j don't understand you." "I want Main, one double nought, nought." "What?" "One thousand Main. Ten hundred Main. Now do you get it?" "Oh, you mean Main, one, ought, double ought. Why didn't you say so?" Line's busy." Chaparral. I I I I And Then She Blushed. A party of strangers were visiting at the college. It was in the late fall and the air was crisp and cold. One of the members of the party, a charming young woman, was escorted through the grounds by a learned but very much preoccupied professor Suddenly two members of the track team, accoutred for their sport, passed them. "It's dreadfully cold," remarked the young woman, with a dainty shiv er, as she gazed after the runners, "to be without stockings." The professor's mind, deep in con templation of the fourth dimension, was attracted by the sound of the girl's voice. "Then why," he asked absently, "did you leave them off?" Youth's Companion. I I I I His Number. Teacher I'm surprised at you, Sammy Wicks, that you cannot tell me when Christopher Columbus dis covered America? What does the chapter heading of the week's lesson read? Sammy "Columbus 1 4 9 2." Teacher Well, isn't that plain enough? Did you never see it be fore? Sammy Yes'm, yes'm; but I al ways thought it was his telephone number. Harper's Magazine. WE HAVE MOVED Now located in Palace Hotel next door to Woodson & Sweek BILLIARDS and POOL and a comlete Hue of Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery, Soft Drinks THE CLUB : HOTTNAN ft WHITEIS PROPS. A. W. Sims and son Clifford of Eu gene passed through Heppner last Saturday by auto. They are making a tour of Eastern Oregon and spent some time at Prlneville, where Mr. Sims has extensive interests. Clifford Sims will be remembered by his many friends here as the husband of Marie Hager Sims. He Is employed in the First National Hank of Eugene where he and Mrs. Sims now make their home. Natt Shaw, well known farmer of Clarks Canyon, was in the city Sat urday on business. While in town, Mr. Shaw made arrangements for ad vertising some dairy cows which he wishes to sell. These cows are high grade Holstein-Jerseys and Mr. Shaw is only selling them because he is overstocked. See his advertisement In another column of this paper. OREGON FACE TO FACE WITH A Farmers Must be Enabled to Borrow Martin Beid, local lumberman, went to Portland Saturday to spend a few days on business. Drink "Grape Smash" The pure flavor of the Concord Grape 5c a glass Fresh Ice Cream Every Day-WE MAKE IT THE PALM The Home of Good "Sweet Meats" Choice Flour, Feeds, Wood, Coal and Posts, for Sale by HEPPNER FARASERS' UNION WAREHOUSE CO. Handle Wheat and Wool. Highest Price Paid for Hides and Pelts. L M0WTERESTELL1 MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work. All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my pricas and estimates before placing their orders. ALL WORK GUARANTEED H CITY MEAT MARKET UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT All kinds of Fresh a a J ured Meats and Lard Tub la tha place to buy Oysters, Crabs, Clams, Salmon, Halibut, Smelts Johnson & Stover The HORN PASTIME VICTOR GROSHEN, Prop. 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