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HEPPNEK, OKEGOX, TIIUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1916
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR.
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Resolutions Ask For Full AUendance
of Legal Taxpayers At Meeting
Next Wednesday to Discuss
Proposed Budget.
The proposed budget of school dis
trict No. One calls for the Installation
of a domestic science course in the
Heppner high school. The equip
ment of this course Including the
salary of an additional teacher will
cost the district as estimated in the
budget, $15,00 for the school year. At
a recent meeting of the Board the fol
lowing resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, the Board of
Directors
have considered the advisability of
putttng in an additional course, name-
ly Domestic Science, for tho school
term of 1917 for District One; and
whereas the estimated expense of said
course is already included in the bud-
get for said term, the Board would
prefer that the legal taxpayers of said
district would turn out at the com
ing meeting on November 18th and
express their desire as to whether the
said course shall or shall not go into
operation.
The said Board would take it as a
favor if as many of the legal voters
as possible would turn out at the said
meeting and settle this matter either
for or against by a majority of their
vote.
Respecfully Submitted,
W. B. Barratt
L. E. Bisbee
W. G. McCarty
Buys Residence Property,
W. O. Hill has purchased the house
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and lot located at the corner of Gale
and center street from Mrs. Francis
J. Gordon. Dr. Purkey and wife
have been living here. Mr. Hill will
move the house onto the rear of the
lot next spring and build a modern
residence on his newly acquired pro
perty. Tonne
On November 1st, M. E. Smead sev-1
ered his connection with the Portland i
Chamber of Commerce, and has as-
tlti nnaltlnn nf lit... 1. ao o n n .
ger for -The Oregon Voter" That R Petersf" ,are "ported new Buick316 x yEg However, our inten
! Lh,,.! L.T J I, " ir"e",0f..ti1il8eCti0n' recelvlngthe,r tions went astray by the printer us-
ployes of the Chamber of Commerce,
C. C. Chapman being the founder and
editor of the "Voter."
Through his management of such
events as Buyers' Week and the many
excursions that the old Commercial
Club and present Chamber of Com
merce ran to various points of the
Northwest, Mr. Smead has formed a
very wide acquaintance among busi
ness men, especially in Oregon.
Mr. Smead has been in commercial
organization work for a number of ,
years and has grown from a clerical
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jiUDiiiuu iu wink ui ABoiaiaiib i aua& i
ing Secretary of the largest cominer
cial association ln the state. He is
considered a "Wizard" at organizing
big events, where large numbers 0fbulldln,K Improvements Mr. Peterson
persons and interests participate. He
Is a native of Oregon and a graduate
of Oregon Agricultural College.
Mr. Smead is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. W. Smead of this city and he has
a host of friends in Heppner who will
wish him success in his new position.
Ben Swaggart, Lexington farmer
and mule man, was in Heppner Wed
nesday looking for a ranch hand for
the winter. Mr. Swaggart Is a Wil-
son man and believes that Wilson will
win by an overwhelming majority.
He Is of the opinion that the republi
can party will never ne heard of a
gain, as a party of any power after
this election is over. Mr. Swaggart
bases his opinion largely on the sen
timent for Wilson in Oregon.
Elks' Had Party.
The Heppner Lodge of Elks enter
tained In their lodge rooms last Fri
day evening with cards and dancing.
A very enjoyable evening was spent
by those present.
Residence Property Sold.
Mrs. Mary Hendricson has sold her
residence property ln west Heppner
to Alex Green, local merchant. Mrs.
Hendricson ond daughter, Miss Daisy
have taken rooms in the John Brown
residence.
Grant County Is Strong
FcrKugfees Says Sweek
That Grant county will roll up the
usual republican majority at the elec-
ticn next Tuesday, is the opinion of
Lawrence Swoek, pioneer sheepman
of that section. He says that Chas.
E. Hughes will earry northern Grant
In a substantial manner. Air. Pweek
has been vislttir; th past week at the
home of his uon, ''a'. 'iu f.. Pweek, to
M, attorney an., .,)iIo Ure ho
bought a new Saxon Six from Vaughn
& Sons.
Mary Huston Passes.
Mary, the three year old daughter,
of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Huston of
Eight Mile, died at the Heppner Sana-
torlum In this city Monday morning
following an operation the preceed-
ing Thursday for the removal of an
obstrction of the bowels. Following
the first operation there was a re-
occurence of the obstruction, but the
child's condition was too weak to
stand another operation. Mrs. Dunn
a trained nurse from Portland was
in attendance.
NEWS OF INTEREST
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I E. D. Rood of Portland was a vi
sitor in lone the first of the week.
Mrs. Cythia Walker spent Sun
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Waters In Heppner
E. E. Miller was' a passenger for j
Portland Wednesday being called to
the metropolis on business.
President J. E. Cronan of the Bank
rpfnrnprt nn Snnrtav from a
llZZn
Mrs. Chas. Hinton was a visitor at
the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs.
. r. r... .u u
J. E. Gist, wife and daughter de
parted yesterday for Bend, Oregon,
where they expect to reside in the fu
ture. Jeff Jones, candidate for Sheriff of
voters here a couple of days this
week. sunaay.
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Herb Olden has finished combining un(,er the Ione heading of the ad
and has a lot of wheat o haul to;dress of Rev Daacher at tne Baptist
market. He finished up just ahead church concernng the -Brewer's
of the rain. iBeer Amendment," and at the close
Attv. F. H. Robinson was a busi- of the article a suggestion was offer-
ness visitor to Condon Sunday and
he reports buislness very lively ln
that little city.
J. H. Blake, J. A. Williams and T.
Mrs w c, Ca8on was down from
Heppner on Monday for a few days
visit at the home of her sister, Mrs.
J. H. Cochran.
Our good old friend Swen Troed-
?0" ts sti confined to his bed at his
nome easi 01 morgan aim mere seems
to be little hope of his recovery.
Paul Rietmann has made the re
cord sale of wheat in this market so
far. He disposed of the balance of
his turkey red on Saturday for $1.55.
F. F. Calkins, the local dairyman
has disposed of his stock to his nep-
!iew- Chas- H. Calkins and will leave
in a few days for his new home at
Portland
Chas. Allinger went out to the
Aaron Peterson farm Tuesday. He
will have charge of some extensive
is HiaKing uns mil.
Next Tuesday is election. Vote
early and vote often and get your
dinner at the Christian church. The
ladies will have an abundance of
good things to eat.
L. McMurray returned Tuesday
from Portland. He went down Sun
day with a carload of fat swine, hit
the market just at the right time and
received the top price.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Cronan
motored to Pendleton on Saturday
.afternoon and Rpent Sunday and Mon
day in the Umatillaa metropolis.
They report a nice visit and a very
interesting journey.
Mrs. J. L. Jones returned home
from Seattle on Friday last. She had
been absent for the past two months
assisting In the enre of an Invalid
brother whem she left ln charge of a
sanatorium at that placo.
The brick and tile for the new
Mason building is arriving on the
ground and the work of laying the
same will be started at once. The
concrete foundation and floor is in
and we shall soon see the walls up.
The work of laying the foundation
for the I. O. O. F. building Is going
on rapidly and a large force of men
well be kept on thev Job and push
the building to completion before
bad weather sets in,
Ed Buschke,, one" of our rising
young farmers has purchased the J.
L. Jenkins farm at the head of Jack
Rabbit canyon, Eight Mile. He has
been farming one of the Oregon-Da
kota ranches and has made a success
OREGON
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III HEPPNER
The annual meeting of the Oregon
Wool Growers' Association will be
held in Heppner on the 8th and 9th
days of December 1916.
This will be the most important
meeting that has been held by the
meting that has been held by the
and all sheepmen are earnestly urged
to attend. j
The 640-acre Grazing Homestead
Act, which passed the Senatte at the -
last moments of the Session, only re-
quires the report of the Joint Con-
ference Committee to become, a law,
nd this report is expected by the mid--
die of December. Under the terms
of the Act as passed, provision is ,
made for the withdrawal of lands
from entry for the purpose of estab-l J. 0. HAGER,
lishing trails. It is of the utmost'"' Secretary.
of It. He has a good outfit and will
be in position to take hold of his new
venture in the proper shape. '
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Good rains hereabouts have put
the roads in much better shape for
wheat hauling The summer fallow
lands have also been greatly benefited
and many farmers are preparing to
go to seeding Just as soon as the
weeds have made a good growth and
can be killed off. It is expected that
a laige aucago nut uo ounu iu inn
grain.
Mrs. E. M. Shutt and daughter Miss
Essie departed on Tuesday for Port
land. After spending a few days
there, they will go by boat to San of frien(jg jn honor of her brother,
Z iLtLilj. B. Huddleston, the genial O. W. R,
way to Pheonix, Arizona where they
will remain for the winter. The
trip is made with the hope that its
more southern climate may prove of
benefit to Miss Essie. The many
friends of the family hope for the
ultimate restoration of her health.
Claud Devine will locate on a place
of his own near Lexington, having re-
centy Purchased a homestead relin-
quisnmeui oui inai via.. wo
I move there as soon as he gets his
I crop off of the Sink place where he
has been farming the past year.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Zink were call-
(ed to Hopevllle, Yamhill county on
Saturday on account of the death at
that place of Wm. Dent, step father
of Mrs. Zink. Mr. Dent was visit
ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Zink during the early part ol the sea
son and took sick here. He was aged
I years a,1Q tne Iuneral was neld 011
ed as to how to vote on this measure
To defeat it, vote 315 X NO, and It
was the intentions of the writer to
further suggest that the defeat of
the measure be cinched by voting
JUDGE LOWELL
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Eminent Jurist and Prominent Re
publican Will Address the Vo
ters of Morrow County In
Tills City Monday.
Hon. Stephen A. Lowell, well
known Pendleton attorney and one of
Oregon's leading statesman, will ad
dress the voters of Morrow county at
the opera house ln this city next Mon
day evening, speaking in the interest
of Chas. Evans Hughes, Republican
candidate for the presidency of the
United States.
This will be the grand final rally
of the local campaign of the Morrow
County Republican Central Commit
tee. In obtaining the use of the
theatre, the committee also arranged
with the management to give a free
program of pictures on this evening.
The pictures will be run both preced
ing and following Judge Lowell's ad
dress. All the Republican candi
dates for county office will be on the
platform with Judge Lowell and will
be given an opportunity to speak at
this time if they so desire.
Judge Lowell has been speaking
before large crowds In Umatilla coun
ty for several weeks past and he has
been very much ln demand. The lo
cal committee feels fortunate in be
ing able to secure him at this late
date on the eve of the election. Ar
rangements are being made to en
large the seating capacity of the thea
tre, for lt is believed the crowd will
be much larger than the one attend
ing the Fulton meeting two weeks
ago. A big delegation of Hughes
supporters are coming up from Lex-
ington and Ione.
WILL
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L GROWERS WILL MEET
ON DECEMBER 8-9
importance that the sheepmen and
Forest Reserve officials should co
operate and that application should
be made for the withdrawal of such
lands as are needed for trails., before
the Enlarged Homestead Act goes in
to effect.
Macs are now being prepared bv
ne Forest Reserve officials to assist
J this work while at the annual meet-
f Other matters of equal importance
wl11 come before the meeting and an
Interesting and Instructive program
J scheduled.
Remember the dates, Friday and
Saturday, December 8 and 9.
.... . W. B. BARRETT,
President.
ling NO instead. Our idea Is that we
I should have., prohibition, absolutely,
and do away with the present pro-
visions of the dry law pertaining to
m pment8. in other words, promote
and prosperity by keeping
d Q' m at home ,n8tead
f gending lt out to California and
ther gtateg We aeslre no return
t0 the ..galoon age ln Oregon and
thlg brewer8 amendment should get
th. ov. anH .,
j J. B. Surprised.
v Last Saturday evening Miss Beat
rice Huddleston entertained a num
& N. station agent. The occasion
was in the nature of a surprise and
J. B. says that although he had some
suspicions he had no idea a party was
to be pulled off ln his honor. The
forepart of the evening was taken up
with cards, musiq and "gossip." At
midnight a "lunch" was served, and
at is customary with Miss Huddleston
er lunch took on the proportions of a
till grown dinner, and this part of the
evening was hugely enjoyed.
f Can You BeatThis.
'The Smead-Crawford real estate a
gency is offering for sale a 900 acre
Tifeat if am., which this year produo
ed f 24 per acre. The owner wishes
to sell only because of poor health
and he Is offering a bargain to some-
ene. The entire ranch goes for $15
per acre or $20 per acre on terms,
The ranch is situated 4 miles from
railroad and about 200 yards from
a good school. Deep well of pure
water and windmill. See Smead &
Crawford.
The fellow who invariably begins
a conversation by saying "There's no
use talking " has been identified as
an orator who obtained his experi
ence delivering Democratic campaign
speeches.
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Local Team Outplayed Wheat City
Boys and Won By 10 to O Score
Heppner Is Showing Improve
Ment. The Lexington high school foot
ball team lost its first game of the
season on their home grounds last
Saturday afternoon when they met
defeat at the hands of the Heppner
high pig skin warriors. The final
score was 10 to 0. This was Hepp-
ner's second game and first victory,
having lost to Ione two weeks ago by
the overwhelming score of 20 to 0.
Athough the Lexlngtonites were
outpayed. they were by no means out
fought. The end of the game found
the Wheat City boys fighting harder
than ever to make an impression on
the Heppner defense.
Heppner showed a world of im
provement over their playing against
Ione two weeks ago and the general
side-line prediction during Saturday's
game was to the effect that the husky
ex-Oregon center would have to keep
his boys going pretty lively Election
Day if he succeeded in keeping his
team on the long end of the scoring
line.
Many forward passes were attempt
ed by Heppner and some of them nett
ed good yardage. Lexington complet
ed one successful pass, Campbell to
Parker. End runs proved the best
yardage maker for Heppner and the
plays were worked In better shape by
far than the first game, when Hepp-
showed a woeful lack of interference
and team work.
Lexington has not got to going
good yet but they will be in a posi
tion to give Ione some good scrimage
practice next Saturday.
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Boosters For Normal
Were Here Today
Four prominent young business
men of Pendleton spent the after
noon In Heppner today on behalf of
the normal school bilL They are op
timistic over the prospect which the
bill has in receiving the endorsement
of the voters. Practically every busi
ness man In the city was interviewed
by the Pendleton Normal School
Boosters while they were in our city.
The men who made the trip to Hepp
ner were Gorg C. Baer, R. Crystal,
Marshall Spell and C. S. Cheshire.
Thursday was a holiday in Pendleton
and everybody devoted their time
over the county In working for the
success of the normal school bill.
Hot air is the only food that has
become cheaper under the Underwood
law but the ultimate consumer finds
it singularly lacking in nourishment.
Lafe Pence says that the name
'Shadow Lawn" always gives him the
reeps. We have noticed gentleman
doing a lot of crawling there lately.
TO KEEP ROADS
Keeping good roads good is the
most important task in connection
with an improved highway system,
once the construction work is com
pleted. In the United States in the
past this task usually has been ne
glected, the Improved roads in many
nstances being allowed to deteriorate
until they become almost impassable,
when they were at heavy cost, rebuilt.
That States and counties are now
coming to recognize the need of care-
ul and .thoroughgoing .maintenance,
however, is indicated by studies of
country road systems in different sec
ions of the country recently made by
he Office of Public Roads and Rural
Engineering of the department.
While some of the eight counties In
which intensive studies were made
were found to have no provisions for
maintenance and others to pay for
upkeep of the roads out of bond-issue
funds, thus creating a debt that
would outlive the temporary Improve
ment by many years, two counties in
widely separated States were found in
which maintenance conditions were
practically all that could be desired.
In Mississippi, it was found, there is
a State law requiring that a special
annual tax of at least one mill shall
be levied for the upkeep of all roads
constructed by means of bond Issues,
the fund to be kept separate from all
other funds and to be used for main
tenance only. Instead of the deter
ioration taking place on the roads of
some of the counties in other states
on which examinations were made, it
was found that in Lauderale County,
Mississippi, roads built several years
ago and maintained from the special
tax have actually improved since their
completion.
The county roads of Franklin
County, N. Y., it was found, are main-
tained with a contribution of 50 per
cent by the State and under indirect
State supervision. As a result of this
system, the roads have been kept up
to their condition on completion.
While provisions for maintenance
were on the whole not satisfactory in
the counties of the other states ln
which studies were made, this condi
tion since has been remedied in Vir
ginia by the passage of a State law
providing that an annual tax of not
less than 3 per cent of the omount of
bonds Issued shall be levied to pro
vide a maintenance fund for bond-
built roads.
The existence of a regulation tend
ing to lessen damage to roads and so
to reduce maintenance costs was re
vealed by the studies in Spotsylvania
County, Va., where tTie county super
visors had passed an ordinance plac
ing a relatively low limit on loads
that may be hauled in wagons fitted
with narrow tires and a considerably
higher limit on loads for wide-tired
wagons. As a result, most of the wa
gons using the roads of the county
have been fitted with tires ranging
from 3 to 6 inches wide.
Wanted Position by man and
wife on ranch for winter. Have two
children. Inquire at this office.
PRESIDENT W
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SNUBBED
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Democratic Nominee Leveled a Body
Blow at the Interests of Our Ag
ricultural Communities When at
the Behest of an Exclusive
Group of Railroad Workers
He Increased Their Pay
Without Investigating
the Justice of the
Demand.
Charles E. Hughes, who left Lin
coln for his second day's campaigning.
in Nebraska, told a crowd Of farmers'
in his speech here that the Demo
cratic Administration had Ignored the
agricultural interests . of the country
in urging the enactment of theAdam-!
son law. The nominee, in support .of .
his contention, cited a telegram from
President H. N. Pope of the Texas
Farmers' Union to President Wilson
requesting that the farmers be per
mitted to submit data in arbitration
proceedings between the railroads
and the brotherhoods. He said:
"I want to say in reference to rates
that, it seems to me the farmers of
the country were very little consid
ered the other day when on the de-
nand of the Administration the wages
of a group of railroad workers were
Increased by law, in response to force.
Somebody has got to pay the Increase
in bills, and the farmers will know
very quick who has to pay them.
"The farmers were not represented
in this discussion, If you may call It
that In this surrender. I have here
a copy of a telegram that was sent to
the President by Mr. Pope, the presi
dent of the State Farmers' Union of
Texas, which I shall read to you. '
"I want to say wamsonof.etaotnaoi
. "We ask that you make no con
cessions or commitments that will
in any manner cause, an Increase '
in freight rates on products pro
duced or consumed on the farm,
the men who pay the freight have
an equity in this dispute, which neith
er the railroad trainmen nor the
-ailroad managers have authority to
represent. If it Is your intention to
personally dispose of the matter we
ask that you postpone further con
sideration until a committee of farm
ers can prepare information and data
o present their side of the case. If
you conclude to settle by arbitration,
hen the organized farmers should
have representation on any arbitra
tion committee that may be formed
to dispose of this question; for the
men who pay should have representa
tion as well as the men who receive
it.
"We again urge that all questions
involved be settled by arbitration,
where all parties and all Interests can
be heard and the subject dealt with
aside from haste and intimidation
The crowd cheered when Mr.
Hughes concluded reading the tele
gram :
"No regard was paid to that mes
sage, Mr. Hughes said. rne dusi-
ness men of the country, through the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, were at the same time and
had for many weeks before been Im
ploring the executive and leaders in
congress for an immediate and
prompt inquiry in order that the jus
tice of this matter might be known.
The farmers were not there except
through the presence of the repre
sentatives of the people in congress
and those representatives were asked
to abdicate their authority.
I am in favor of everything that
can reasonably be done for the pro
motion of agriculture. I am glad to
note the work of the Agricultural De
partment. It will be continued with
me, if I am intrusted with the power
to the utmost of efficiency under my
administration.
"But it is idle to talk of interest
in the farmer when you have action
like this taken in congress overnight,
against the protests of the farmer,
and levelling a body blow at the in
terests of our agricultural communi
ties." Mr. Hughes again denied the dec
laration that a vote for him "menat
a vote for war."
It is not his dignity that is keeping
Mr. Wilson out of the movies. The
trouble is that the moving picture
cameras, which haven't been perfect
edyet to the point Mere they can
keep up with the President's wabbl-
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