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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1917)
t I 9ACZ SIX THS GAZKTTB-TIMKS. HKPPKER. ORE.. THURSDAY. APR. It.'lMT EDITORIAL SECTIONS The GazetteTimes The Heppner Gacette, Established March, 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, Established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. VAWTER CKAVTORD. Proprietor. ARTHUR R, CRAWFORD, Editor. The Registered PURE BRED PERCHERON STAIUON C HAMPAS WEIGHT 1940 LBS. Will make the season at the following places: At the Roy Stamp ranch in Sand Hollow every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. At McRoberts Stable in Heppner every Thurs day, Friday & Saturday. TFRrtft$20.oo to Insure. itZT $15.00 for the season. ROY STAMP, Owner rJaterial For Spring Repairing! DOORS -:- WINDOWS MOULDING p lumber for fbring'that leaning tend, that ioosened walk; I in fact just what you need to make the old place look the way it should. ' , :.; -.',( ' - . , ... . , PHONE Office 192; Residence 94 I H. C. GITHENS Lumber Yard Issued every Thursday morning, and entered at the postoffice at Heppner, Oregon, as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three Months ... .50 (One Year ; J1.50 Hz Months . .75 1 Single Copies .05 OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY. Thursday, April 19, 1917. Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR 1 There' nothing of guessing or speculation In re gard to Ford cars. Their practical value is being daily demonstrated by more than 1,750,000 Ford owners representing every phase of human activity. Ford Service tor Ford Owners Is as universal and reliable as the car Itself. Dependability and econ omy in ear and service. Better buy your Ford to day yon want it and It will serve you every day, winter and summer. Touring Car $360, Runabout $345, Coupelet $505. Town Car $595, Sedan $645 f . o. b. Detroit We solicit your order. WALTfiER-WlLUAMS HDWE. CO. J. O. RASMUS, Mgr. Sales Room in Yeager Blbff., Main St. A Good Piece of City Property. We are offering a good piece of city property for sale, along with house furnishings and piano. Term, one half cash, balance on time. This property contains five lots, two of them facing street. 8even room house with bath, new barn, electric lighted. House well furnished with practically new furniture. Kitchen cabinet, large range, heating: stores and carpets, all first class. Chicken park and house, property all well fenced. This is a bargain. BMEAD &. CRAWFORD. File on Homestead. Roy V. Whiteis last week filed on 80 acres of homestead land about four miles below Heppner. The land adjoins the Frank Parker place on one side and the John Hughes ranch on the other. Mr. Whiteis intends to take up his residence there in the near future and will make consider able improvements. Under the new homestead act, he can take up an ad dlUonal 80 acres somewhere else. He had previously filed and proved up on a homestead of 160 acres on Hin- ton creek, three miles above town, which he later sold. THE WRITING ON THE WALL. As the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the Church, so may the blood of those now being sacrificed on the battlefields of Europe be the seed of new republics. Russia's startling revolution may sound the death knell of the devastating war. In it the hand of God is clearly seen. An oppressed people suddenly realized their strength and swept the Romanoffs from the throne. All Europe felt the thrill of Russia's newborn freedom. Events quickly followed concession to home rule in Ireland; a revolution in Spain; a cry for peace in Austria, Bulgaria and Greece, and more significant than all, concessions by Germany to the demand for a democratic form of government. The German Chancellor heard the startling cry in the Reichstag, "Woe to the statesman who cannot read the signs of the times," and begged for more tolerance and patience. Dr. Peter Spahn, leader 6f the Catholic Centre Party, gave public warning to the monarchs of all the Entente nations that they were "tottering on their thrones." In the Prussian Lower House, the leader of the National Liberty Party offered a resolution to reorganize the House of Lords by abolishing all privileges of dignitaries. Thus the war is entering upon a phase of a struggle be tween the new spirit of democracy and the old and long-established spirit of imperialism. ' A fortnight after the Russian revolt, the Munich Post said to its German readers: "In the last fourteen days, the world has been quite another place through Russia's going over to the democracy and the entering of the United States into the lists against us." ' ! An appeal to the GemaA people to overthrow the Hohen zollern dynasty and 4 ' stop th'6 mi ul murder which is the shame of humanity " was made at ajmass meeting of Russian work men, soldiers and deputies. The rising sun of republicanism is seen all over the world. It will shine more brightly because of our entrance into the struggle not for territory, indemnity, or power, but for hu manity's sake. In the Divine Dispensation, if, out of this terrific struggle, we are to witness the rise of new republics from the ruins of despotisms and monarchies, the world may hope, for the first time, for a lasting peace, respect for international law and ob servance of treaty rights. The rankling jealousies and insatiate ambitions ot ruling families will cease, for there will no longer be ruling tamilies. There will be no royal road to power. The accident of aristocratic birth will not prefer one man over another. The tramp of the soldier in every capital will no longer be heard. Shipyards will be busy laying the keels ol merchantmen rather than of submarines and dreadnougnts; and pay-rolls will be longer and dinner-pails larger. The world moves. When the people demand peace and refuse longer to bear arms, an armistice, arbitration and peace must follow. The great nations involved in this war will have power to form a league of peace at its close which none will dare to op pose. Let the republics rise and let the people rule ! Leslie's. Every able-bodied citizen' in Heppner should attend the meeting in the Opera House Friday (tomorrow) night when ar rangements will be made to carry on a permanent relief service in this city to the stricken people of Belgium. If there are people anywhere who appreciate the value of relief in time of need it should be Heppner people. Surely we have not forgot, ten the past so soon. Every man and woman will do their duty. We are dad to learn that at last some active steps are about to be taken toward forming a Red Cross Society in Hepp ner. We move slowly, but now that we are about to do some thing worth while, let us enter into it with that true spirit which predominates the Red Cross Societies throughout our land. . .. ' An article of interest in this issue appear on the front page and is from the pen of Mathew Gibson, a Willamette Valley farmer. His description of a part of Morrow county is typical of the impression made by our county upon the average out sider. It is pleasing to note that our Morrow county farmers do not display the hoggish spirit that so manifests itself in the big speculator. In spite of the fact that his products are juggled until one becomes dizzy watching the prices fluctuate up and down with the general trend up, our farmers have gone along and sold when they, got ready, and the majority of them are of the opihion now that wheat is selling for more than, it is really worth. Yet its hard to refuse the money. There will be lean years in the future. Its the farmers' day for preparedness. Three Sizes of BUICKS this year Seven passenger, six cylinder, 55 horsepower - - $1635.00 Five Passenger, six cylinder, 45 - horsepower - - - $1170.00 Five passenger, four cylinder, 35 horsepower - - $785.00 These prices are F O. B. Heppner BUICK DESIGN BUICK VALVE-IN-HEAD POWER The rightness of the Buick Valve-in-Head motor and not the enthusiasm of its salesmen has made the Buick conspicuous for leadership. This new four has a Buick Valve-in Head motor (with electric starter) which develops thirty-five horse power on brake test and is so reliable for rugged service that no eulogy is necessary among "men who know Buick." Its lines are beautiful. Finish and color are exception al. Deep, tufted black genuine leather upholstery, Cov ered floor and running board, with aluminum bindings, give a trimne8s of appearance that is peculiarly Buick. ,. Body, hood, fenders; and running gear are painted a glossy, long-wearing "black; wheels are black with white stripes. Times 31x4 inches., , . , SEE THE BABY BUICK AT THE HEPPNER GARAGE W MBHIM ' '... "1.7, ALBUM mtm, tocal.Agent All Buicks, have the Deloo lighting and starting systeui., ; f ' There is none better. " " - C. H. Goldsmith f. I Dealer In "..' ! 1 WOOD AND GOAL HANDLES ROCK SPRINGS COAL "y , SLAB WOOD AND CORD WOOD. All Deliveries Made Promptly. PHONES, MAIN 393 or 396. HEPPNER, OREGON If You Cannot Carry a Gun, Carry a Hoe Our country needs the agriculturist as it floes the .soldier. Food supplies this year will be extremely short and correspondingly high and it is the solemn duty of every patriotic American to do his or her share for the welfare of the eountry. If you cannot carry a gun in defence of your country,7 take a spade or a hoe and make that ground of yours pro duce as it never has before, thus helping your country in your own small way to maintain Its standard of living and stemming the tide ot high prices which la gradually engulfing us in its grasp. Best of all, it will pay you big, in red cheeks, good appetite, in better health for you and yours, and in dol lars and cents for what you will have to sell, and through not having to buy what you can raise yourself. Your country and your home are calling. The First National Bank Heppner, Oregon i ' :4 L