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, w -r , Gazet stock u VOL. 33.- NO. 30 HEPPNER, OKEGON, TIIUKSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1916 SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR -J IN 1 JtlJc Tl Qlfj. GLE TAX MEASURE! 0. E. Spence, Muster oT State Grange, Calls It Oonflsc.it: n. A few days ago a Portland paper published an Interview of C. E. Spence, Master of State Grange, in which he was quoted as being unal terably opposed to the Full Rental Value Land Tax & Homemakers' Loan Amendment (single tax), which is to be submitted to the Oregon vo ters on next election day, November 7th, He was quoted as saying that this bill provides for the confiscation of private ownership in land, and, as most farmers' property consists prin cipally of land, naturally they are op posed to it. The Tax Liberator for October con tains an excellent article on the sub ject by Mr. Spence. It is a strong and unanswerable argument against the measure. He closes his article by say ing: "I believe that the Full Rental Value Land Tax will take the land and with it will go the improvements, and with the improvements will go the toil, the savings, and capital of thousands of honest, industrious peo ple who are living on and 'using' the land, and who are not monopolizing nor speculating in it." "If I am correct in my conclusions, this measure will injure the home owner and home builder more than it will the speculator and I shall vote 307 X No." WDGET FOR THE CITV OF HEPP NEB FOB 1917. Light and Water $1800.00 Marshal 90C.00 Extra 100.00 Itecorder 420.00 Treasurer 100.00 City Attorney .... 100.00 Bridges and Streets....... 4000.00 Oil and Sprinkling Streets.. 1200.00 Incidentals 600.00 Total -.1 $9120.00 A marriage license was issued last week to LeRoy Coxen and Ruby Ay ers. They were married in this city Saturday, County Judge Patterson officiating. Mr. Coxen is a well and favorably known young man of this county and the bride is a daughter of J. T. Ayers, prominent Butter creek farmer. Ed Farnsworth and wife were over from their Grant county home the past week. Marie Oorelli's Masterpiece At Star Theatre Next Week. The Richurdson & Talbert Com pany of Chicago will present Marie Corelli's, masterpiece, "Thelma" at the Opera house in this city next Tuesday evening. Their first per formance will be given on Monday night when they will present "Ken-, tucky Sue." Richardson & Talbert : and their company of nine people are i real, live, walking, talking actors. In "Thelma" the players in their or-! der of appearance are: Sir Philip- Errington Harlin Talbert Thelma Guldmar Hallle Mitchell Segurd Frank T. Rice George Lorrlmer Jack Berry Olat Guldmar Geo. W. Lowe Lovlsa Nan Grimes Lord Francis Lenox. Howard B. Lam bert. Clara Wlnslelgh Emily Driscoll Valdemer Willard Prather "Thelma" is a Norweigian tale, with a dash of the weird mysticism of the old Vikings, the Gods of Odin and Thor. Sir Philip Errington arrives In his yacht near Thelma's home in the Al ten Fjord. He is accompanied by , George Lorimer. On meeting Thel-' ma he falls in love with her and he soon returns to England with her as his wife. Clara Wlnslelgh becomes jealous of Thelma and with the assistance of Sir Francis Lennox and a letter that Errington has whitten to his private secretary's wife, Violet Vere, at the Brilliant Theatre, begging her to re turn to her husband, she makes Thel ma believe he cares for her no long er, so Thelma returns broken heart ed to her former home in Norway. When Errington learns of Thelma's departure he follows her to Norway and they are soon reconciled. A powerful side story embraces the characters of Thelma's father, Olaf Guldmar, a descendant of the Viking Norseman, and Segund, the cripple who is desperately in love with Thel ma. Louisa, a witch, Is madly in love with Olat Gulmar and finally stabs lihn, then herself, and he goes aboard his viking boat and drifts out Into the Alten Fjord amid the crimson shroud of flame. ,. , : 80th Birthday Obser- ved By Banqael In honor of the event of his 80th birthday, Judge J. P. Williams and a number of his young friends sat down to a sumptuous banquet in the Palace hotel grill last Saturday even ing at 6:30. ' This is a manner in which the judge has observed the passing years for several years past. Beside the hostess there were present, Josephine Richardson, Lulu and Lela Campbell, Ruth VanVactor, Mary Farnsworth, Sybil Hager, Mrs. Elsie Borg, Josephine Cameron, Vivian Cox and Harold Cohn. Judge Williams has been a promi nent figure in the afliairs of Heppner's civic administration for many years. He has served as postmaster, United States Commissioner, justice of the peace and city recorder. His public life has been a useful one here on earth. The people have shown their appreciation of his valuable services by continually reposing in him an of fice of public trust. We wish him, as did his young fr-iends at the birthday party, many happy returns of the day. The ladies of the Christian church will serve dinner In the church base ment on Election Day, Nov. 7. M. J. Williams was up from Port land for several days during the past 1 week looking after his interests here. I He formerly owned the farm on 'which Chas. Devln and family now live. I Hon. J. E. Cronan has been up from Portland during the past week. He was joined by Mrs. Cronan on Wednesday, who came up from Port land to meet her new daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frank E. Cronan. j J. A. Keihn, C. W. Reynolds, Walt Puyear, Cluui. O'Nell and JrE. Higgs constituted a party that left lone Monday evening for the tall timber on a hunting and fishing trip. They went up in Mr. Kiehn's car. I J. A. Williams was a passenger to ! Heppner Monday evening where he I was called on account of the severe i illness of his wife. Mrs. Williams has been confined in the hospital there for several weeks but her early recovery is now looked for. M. B. Haines was a passenger for Arlington yesterday where he wer.t to meet his mother who was on her Journey here from Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Haines, who is an invalid, will make her home with her son here in the future. W. F. Palmateer was up from Mor gan for a few hours yesterday. He is one of the busiest fellows in forty states these times, trying to get the balance of the grain threshed in his locality. He has made a fine run this season and expects to get through within the next week or ten days. Thos. Doak, wife and daughter, departed on Saturday for their home at Middleburn, West Virginia. They have been spending the past six months in the west, most of the time in Morrow county, and were very well pleased with this country and its sur roundings. We shall look for their return. It does the heart of man good to see the way wheat Is piling up at the various warehouses, and hauling is just now really beginning. " Bert Bar low states that they are just about covered up at Jordan Siding, and will have to begin holding up the farmers unless they are successful in getting more cars, and this will soon be ap plied to the warehouses in lone. Dr. Chick reports the arrival of the following new citizens in our midst during the past week: A daugh ter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ern est Hellcker, who reside west of lone, on the 15th inst; and a daughter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Da vis, residing east of lone on the 15th inst. All parties concerned are doing well. Bert Mason was a passenger for Portland yesterday where he goes to hurry up Borne of the material for the construction of his- new store build ing. The scarcity of cars has made it almost impossible to get building material here on good time, and Mr. Mason Is getting quite anxious to have the walls of his building up and the roof on before the bad weather conditions set in. Eddie Rletmann of lone attended the republican rally in this city on Monday night. Roy V. Whiteis returned the first of the week from a business trip into Grant county, OF H The registration list which was completed this week by county clerk, J. A. Waters, shows a total of voters registered to be 1738. This is short of the 1914 registration by about BOO. As it is there are listed, 1200 republicans, 423 democrats, 73 so cialists, 18 prohibitionists, 23 mis- REGISTRATION BELOW Precinct. Rep. Dem. Soc. Prohl. Prog. Misc. Total Pine City ... 16 9 1 26 South lone .126 .61 10 1 198 Gooseberry 38 12 2 . 52 Heppner 113 62 7 . : ' 3 175 j atry 138 9 11 2 ISO Lena 31 11 2 44 ght Mile -. 33 14 7 I 1 66 Irrigon 50 29 1 2 82 North lone 66 14 70 I 'arkers Mill. 29 6 1 , ' 1 37 Alpine 17 9 2 1 29 1 ,exington 83 31 14 - 8 4 140 Gentry 85 26 6 1 118 Castle Rock 11 7 1 3 22 Cecil 63 22 1 76 Mt. Vernon .189 60 2 , 3 1 1 193 I Total 1200 423 73 18 1 28 1738 Tax Limitation Means Lower Taxes. If there has been doubt in the mind of any voter about the wisdom of the Tax-Limitation amendment, it should have'beeji removed by the events of the past few days. The budget of proposed expendi tures for next year have been made up by the State and by the City of Portland. The budgets call for ex penditures way in excess of anything which has been attempted before. Every State Institution has asked for big increase in appropriations, ex cept one. The one institution which does not ask for an increase is the East Oregon Insane Asylum, located at Pendleton. Every other institu tion asks for big increases. Do our public offcials feel that the tax-payers can afford to pay unlimited taxes? What Is to become of the state if this annual increase does not stop? How can anyone afford to pay the tax bills. It is an outrage to ask the tax-payers for big increases in ap propriations when it is so hard to get money. Taxes should be decreas ing these times, not increasing. But there is one big consolation for the tax-payer. It is unanimously ag- reed that tax-limitation will carry by an overwhelming majority. Every one admits it. This simply means that regardless of how high the state Institutions or the legislature try to increase our taxes they will fall. There is a highwater mark above which they can not go. They can not make our taxes for next year more than six per cent over this year's taxes. The same Is true of the city of Portland. If the Tax-Limitation Amendment carries, and it surely will carry, then the commis sioners of the city of Portland will have to reduce their proposed ex penditures 10 per cent. Tax Limitation is a measure which has been initiated by the State Tax payers League for the protection of the Taxpayers. It will carry by a big majority. Dr. Winnard has taken a special course on eye., ear, nose and throat. Glasses properly fitted. Patronize home industries. COMMERCIAL CLUB PRESIDENT URGES A GENERAL ROAD STRAWiNG DAY FOR COUNTY Editor, Gazette-Times: At a re cent meeting of the Heppner Com mercial Club, held Oct. 9, the under signed was requested to write a brief appeal to the people Interested to make an effort to cover the roads with straw in order to keep the roads from being cut into deep ruts and chuck holes. If a sort of straw-day could be de signated by the County Court for a bout two days before the end of the present month and everybody would assist, the roads could be Btrawed. This plan was used for many years In the Walla Walla country. Every ody turned out the farmers, the busi ness men, and even the ladies. The ladles served lunches for the men. The straw was usually donated bo there was no expense except the haul ing and placing. The roads in the vi cinity of Walla Walla to this day show the good effects of this work, VOTERS IS cellaenous and one progressive. The lone progressive lives in Mt. Ver non precinct. Four years ago, pro gressives were more numerous but now they have gone back to their party. Fallowing is a list of the regis tration complete ' Bazaar and Fancy Fair. A great collection of useful as well as fancy articles will be dis played at the Bazaar and Fancy Fair which will be held in the Masonic building on November 16, 17 and 18. The apron booth will contain aprons of all kinds and descriptions; large aprons, small aprons, useful aprons, ornamental aprons. - In the towel booth will be found everything to please even the taste of the most fastidious In toweling. The fancy work booth will have every variety of fancy work, in the baby booth work articles for baby wear, dolls, and toys may be purchased. In the Irish booth, articles of Irish make and manufacture will be displayed. Irish eorchet, Irish lace, Irish pipes and pistcards, books . dealing with Ireland's history, tales of love and sorrow. In the candy booth, fresh pleaiunt . tasting home made candy AK 'CSf farted with in exchange for legal tender. The country store will have a vast conglomeration of articles to sell. You will find in it apples, potatoes, fat sheep, second hand books, used mdgizines and many other articles to numerous to men tion. The fish pond will provide a musement for many others than the diciples of Isaac Walton, and you stand a chance of catching a sucker on your line as a salmon. The parcel post will have a Bale at a uniform ' T Parcels from all parts of the U, S., and perhaps the colonies, and if the war was not raging in Europe doubtless there would be many par cels from across the water. But in any case there will be many and various articles sold in the parcel post. A booth where religious artic les such as prayer books, rosaries, etc., may be had, is another fea ture of the fair. The basement of the Masonic building will be put into use for amusement features for the men, and as Thanksgiving will be close on hand, many will be able to pick up material for a Thanksgiving dinner. Sandwiches and coffeee will also be served in the basement. The fair will be held three days, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, November, 16, 17 and 18. W. B. Jenks and wife of monument were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Ward in this city the past week. There will be a dance at the Star theatre next Saturday night. The soil has been changed so it does not so readily reduce to dust. It is out of the question for the County Court to have the work done as it should be done, but if everyone would help a little, there would be an enormous saving upon horses, wa gons, and men, and the future ex pense of repairing roads would be made lighter. If this work could be done before the roads cut up so as to be almost all chuckholes, It would be a fine thing. If every farmer who is now hauling wheat would do as some of them do, rake up the straw around their wagons In the morning before leaving town and throw it Into some bad place on the road, that would have a tendency to keep the bad plac es from getting worse. If you are In favor of a straw-day, call up the County Judge and tell him so. You are busy, and all your neighbors are busy, but you will save time by putting in a day or two at this work. What say you? S. E, NOTSON. m YEARS 0 A. 0. H. And Ladies Auxiliary Wiil Initiate Sunday November 19 will be a busy day both for the Hibernians and the . Ladies Auxliliary, as both bodies ex pect to have initiation on that day. The local ladies will do the work for the Auxiliary,, while the degree Jteam from Portland is expected for ; the A. O. H. As several names have ueen uauoieu on, a large class is ex pected for the iniatory ceremonies. Pendleton will send a delegation for the third degree, while Condon is to send five men for the obligation. The evening wiit see t large -rowd present at the banquet, where after the inner man is refreshed. A. J. H. and Auxiliary booth will be enter tained with music, song and story. E. C. Maddock came up from Ar lington Wednesday evening and will take charge of affairs for a few days while manager J. L. Wilkins is away for a few days on business. Mr. Maddock is proprietor of the Grande hotel at the present time. SENATOR LANE SPOKE Senator Harry Lane of Oregon ad dressed the voters of this city at the Star theatre Wednesday evening. He poke in the interest of Woodrow Wil son, democratic candidate for presi dent of the United States. Mr. Lane spoke but little on our foreign relations but confined his re marks mostly to progressive legis lation which has been passed during the last two years. Mr. Lane avows that he himself had a big hand in putting some of these measures through. In speaking of the Mexican trouble Mr. Lane upheld the president saying that the chief executive had pursued the right course. "It Is not this country's business" said Mr. Lane "to nterfere with the affairs of our neigh bors. Mexico is perfectly capable of conducting her own affairs." He then went on :j explain the condi tions in Mexico and outlined presi dent Wilson's plan for civilizing that country. He had much to say for the poor Mexicans butl ittle enough for the American men, women and children who had lost their lives down south, both on this and the oth er side of the border. Mr. Lane in timated that American's were down there for what wealth they could take out of the country, and were running a risk all their own by stay ing there. The speaker was greeted by a full house on his visit to this city. Too Much Kick in the Mule. A number of local wheat haulers held a tea party with marshal Frye at his concrete residence on Willow street next to the city hall last Sun day. The boys had previously im bibed too freely in the "white mule" and their conduct became so bois trous and the "mule" had so com pletely taken possession of the young men's wits that our marshal decided to give them lodging for the night. They squared themselves with Re corder Williams the next morning in the sum of $60. Everybody Invited to a Halloween Supper. Menue. Chicken pie, baked beans, brown bread, creamed potatoes, salads, macaroni and cheese, relishes, pum pkin and apple pie, tea and coffee. This supper is to he given in the dining rooms of the Christian church Friday, October 27. From 5 to 9 p. 111. Prices 50 and 25 cents. Xext Sunday, At the Southern Metho dist Church. The Sunday School meets at ten in the morning. Everybody is invited. If you do not attend the Wesley Adult Bible class you are missing a treat. Come. The sermon Sunday morning will be on, "Perequists for Work," Mark, 2. 1-5. In this sermon 1 will point out the necessary elements for Chris tian Service, The sermon in the evening will be on, "Christ Man's Sufficiency, Isa. 32: 2. In this sermon I wiil point out the helpfulness of Christianity. You are cordially invited to at tend any or all of these services. It is our purpose to be helpful and brotherly in all our relationships. R. H. Lewelling. Mr. and Mrs. George Fell of Pen dleton were guests this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Spencer. HUGH IS TOE m FUR CRISS Ex-Senator Chas. W. Fulton Points Out Many Shortcomings of Demo cratic Administration and Tells People What To Expect After War. "The American people never fac ed a greater crisis in a quarter of a century than now and the Demo cratic party has proven entirely in competent to serve the best interests of the people" said Chas. W. Fulton, ex-United States Senator from Ore gon in addressing six hundred vot ers at the Star theatre in this city last Monday night. Since the Democratic party has been in control of the government the high cost of living has in creased thirty-three and one-third per cent. To more-fully show why this is the cause, Mr. Fulton explained the work ing of the free trade policy which was inaugerated in 1913 under the Under wood tariff bill. In 1913 this bill was passed. This was ten months before the war broke out in Europe. At the time the bill was passed, this country held in the balance of trade, $600,000,000. After this law had operated for ten months, industries began to languish and our balance of trade fell off $342,000,000, and the . subsequent importation of foreign , made goods put factories out of busi ness in this country. Millions of men were thrown out of employment and It was at this time that soup houses in the larger cities were es tablished to feed the unemployed. The ex-senator from Oregon called attention to the fact that the me mory of the American people must le short indeed if they have so soon forgotten the conditions existing in demorilized industries following close upon tV.e inaugeration of Pa'dent Wilson. During these ten montlw 60 per cent of the railroad mileage in the United States went into the hands , pf the receivers and, there were 18,- i. 400 failures of different kinds in the " industrial world. Then came the war in Europe. Millions of men marching to the bat tle fields left vacant places in the fac tories and there at once became a de mand for products of one kind and another which only this country could supply. It was then that the demo cratic prosperity first became appar ent. Yet the oncoming industrial de pression had gained such headway that it took the fighting armies of Europe more than a year to over come the ever growing disaster. After the war has come to an end there will be a condition which this country will have to meet that the democratic party, ith Its free trade policies will be unable to cope with. The war demand for our products will have Ceased. We will be forced to meet a competion such as the world has never seen before. The batter ed nations of Europe will be striving to regain their former standing in the world of trade and commerce. They will be better fitted to do this through the education they have re ceived in the school of hardship and practical economy. It is then that this country will need protection for her industries as never before. It is then that the republican party with its policies of a strong protec tive policy will be needed as never before. Mr. Fulton took up and dis ussei at length the Democratic platform of 1912 and clearly showed how Presi dent Wilson had repudiated his cam paign pledges. Have the people be come so blind by the cry of "he kept us out of war" that they can no longer see the namby-pamby vaccil liating methods used by Mr. Wilson and his party relative to these things. It is here, that the Mexican situation looms large as an administrative blunder. Others were the single term plank and the exemption of tolls for American coastwise vessels and that plank guaranteeing pretection to American citizens at home and a broad. In their platform, the demo crats also attacked the preceeding ad ministration and violently decried the extravagance of republican rule and the subsequent high cost of living. Turning back through the pages of brief democratic rule as recorded in history is evidence enough as to whether they have kept faith with the people or not. Mr. Fulton's address was interupt ed at various intervals by the hearty applauds of his audience. A strong Hughes sentiment Is manifest. Better secure a ticket now at the Star theatre for "Thelma" before all the best seats are gone. Seats on sale at Box office beginning Friday. Emmett Cochran, the Grant county sheepman was in the city this week, on business.