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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1917)
THE 0 ZFTTE-TTMES. HEPPXER, OREGON, THURSDAY. .TITLV 11317 TV WO LllS MINOR BUYS mMhhMmMW- I F.0.B. The HORN PASTIME VICTOR GROSHEN, Prop. Chicago K. M. Shutt Sells His Holdings Below SOUTHEAST CORNER MAIN & MAY STREETS lone For Consideration of $!, OOO. One of the Best Alfalfa Farms In Morrow County. Complete Line of Candies and Cigars and all the Leading Soft Drinks. Card Tables in Connection. W fed R3 W La K ri v -sr. 'is -AH.gf A raw Let these Men Be Your Judges More than 18,000 usersof Smith Form-a-Truck in over 600 lines of business are setting new economy stand ardsnew records of delivery and hauling service. Let these men point out the vyay to you. Many Smith Form-a-Truck users have bought large numbers. These operators of fleet equipment include many of the largest corporations. Look over the names: U. S. Mail Contractors Schlite Brewing Company Butler Paper Company ! Montgomery Ward & Co. Standard Oil Company Armour & Company Morris & Company Indian Refining Company Fleishmann Yeast Company And every user of Smith Form-a-Truck who has started in a small way has added to his initial equipment to talcs care of increased business and the large delivery area opened by this fast, economical service. These users have tried Smith Form-a-Truck out for you have proved its remarkable strength have demonstrated its sensation ally low cost for operation: What it has done for them it can do for you. Many users have reduced their investment in equipment fully 75 by replacing slow-moving, time-wasting equipment with fast, money earning hauling power. They have reduced cost for labor, speeded up the work on the loading platform made one hour do the work that previously took four. Put your hauling problems up to us let us demonstrate what we mean when we say economy And select yourown powder pant for ;he Smith Form a Truck you buy you can use any Ford, Maxwell, Dodge Bros., Buick, Chevrolet or Overland cat. Ccme in today. ALBERT BOWKER, Agent, Heppnsr, Orego By a deal which was consummated in this city last Thursday, Ellis Minor becomes the owner o the E. M. Shutt ranch located four miles below lone on Willow creek. The consideration said to be between $18,000 and $19,000,' and includes all the stock aud hay crop. The Shutt ranch is considered one of the best alfalfa ranches in the county and it will fit in fine with Mr. Minor's other holdings on lower Willow creek, where he is engaged in running cattle and sheep Mr. and Mrs. Shutt have not com pleted their plans as to the future, but will spend the summer on Ditch creek with their children, in hopes that the mountain climate will prove beneficial to the health of their daughter, Miss Essie. First Class Service Give Us a Call tMHM-'l'l,' FUNERAL SUPPLIES MODERN EQUIPMENT PAINSTAKING SERVICE CASE FURNITURE COMPANY Wrestler Failed to Appear. The wrestling match scheduled and advertised to take place in this city last Saturday night between Harold Christensen and Jim Londos, was not staged for the reason that Mr. Londos failed to put in an appearance. A large number of people, some of them coming from the country, were great ly disappointed. The match may be arranged for at a later date. Chris tensen was here, accompanied by Nourregaard, of Wallowa, who has wrestled here on past occasions. Miss Helen Summers of Condon is a guest at the home of Mrs. John Kilkenny at the Kilkenny home on Hinton creek. WE SELL PURE WHITE FLOUR NONE BETTER HEPPNER FARMERS' UNION WAREHOUSE CO. WE HANDLE WHEAT AND WOOL. HIGHEST PRICES PAI DFOR HIDES AND PELTS. m. HOOP ICE CREAM Pure -:- Delicious -:- Refreshing Something Special Every Sunday ALL SOFT DRINKS SERVED HERE THE VERY BEST THE PALM LOWNEY'S CHOCOLATES BEST CANDIES mrnmmmmmmm 15 District Forester George H. Cecil, Portland, Oregon, announces that ap proval has been given by the secre tary of Agriculture to cooperative road work in Oregon involving $1, 114,194, which is distributed to fif teen projects. This am mnt is match ed by the S'.ate, assisted in some in stances by t' e counties. Cooperation of this nature is warranted by the 'and Shackleford Koad Bill, which became,' Ore; The projects on which cooperation is authorized by the Secretary are as follows: TTT-TzT-.TT-b,:TRoImnT ODDjyjj McKenzie Pass Road, Mt. Hood Loup Road, Eugene-Florence Road, Pendlcton-La Grande Roard, Med-ford-Klamath Falls Road, Ochoco Creek Road, Canyonville-Galesville Road, Reedsport-Coos Bay Road, Little Nestucca Road, John Day Road, Flora-Enterprise Road, La Pine-Lake-view Road, Pilot Rock-Prairie City Road, Crescent-Klamath Falls Road, Zigzag Road. The McKenzie Pass road Is along Bogitining near Government Camp and extending around the southeast erly base of Mount Hood to the up per Hood River Valley, where it will connect with a county road leading to the Columbia Highway. As the name implies, it is a loop between the old Barlow Road and the Columbia Highway. Its length Is about 25 miles. It will give the residents of upper Hood River Valley more direct access across to the northern Wil lamette Valley and will a;so vie with the Columbia River Highway as a road of scenic beauty. Tl.u Kueene-Florence road will the well known river of that name i Rive a suitaoie ouuei uum -"" r,ot0 iQctorn nnH ivpctnrn em liart Or tile nillttllici.1.0 a"W w r,n Tt is about 44 m'iles in ! the coast. It will an Act July 11, 1916, and whlchis the direct outgrowth of an effort by Chief Forester Graves and Secretary Houston to make the National For ests contribute to road building en terprises pending the time when large timber salt-;- from these Forests will automatically help the county exchequers. length. It is the first road across the mountains south of the Barlow Road. It, is a part of the main trans-State highway leading from Eugene to Bend, Mitchell, and thence up the John Day River, and on through to the Idaho line. The Mount Hood Loud road will consist of entirely new erve farming, lo?:- gin?, ar.d tourist interests, ana win also be of considerable military ad vantage. Its length is approximate ly IS miles. ' Pemileton-La Grande road will con nect two of the most populous and important farming sections of east opomh. The road will also be a construction. I, part ofthe main highway traveled by yhen your thoughts turn to Eats Think of Us Phelps Grocery Go. Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR Pleasing in appearance, with interior appoint ments up-to-date, the Ford Sedan brings all the delights of the enclosed car with the assured Ford economy in operation and maintenance. The price of the Sedan is $645, Runabout $345, Touring Car $360, Couplelet $505, Town Car $595 all f. o. b. Detroit. Order now. WALTHER-WILLIAMS HDWE. CO. J. O. RASMUS, Mgr. Sales Room in Yeaper Blbj?., Main St. interstate tourists who wish to go through the northeastern part of Ore gon rather than more directly across by the John Day highway and Mc Kenzie Pass. Its length is about 15 miles. The Medford-Klamath Falls road will make easy access between the points mentioned by way of Crater Lake. Its length is about 25 miles. V satisfactory road already exists within the National Park and it is the desire of the State and County, as sisted by the Forest Service, to make suitable connections with this road. Ochoco Creek road is a part of the main trans-State highway, of which the McKenzie Pass and John Day "oads are sections. Its length I about 13 miles. Canyonville-Galesville road is' the ;n',y National Forest road in Oregon lying directly on the Pacific Highway, it is in Douglas County and is about g miles in length. At present it is one cf the worst sections in southern Oregon. Reedsport-CooS Hay road is a 6 mile section lying in Coos County on the southerly extension of the Eugene-Florence road. It is a part of the Coast Highway. Little Nestucca road, the location of which has not been determined, will serve as an outlet for the Wil lamette Valley to the various coast resorts in Tillamook county. The length of this project is approximate ly 5 miles. The John Day project, as the name implies, follows the John Day River in eastern Oregon and Is a part of a main trans-State highway. It is be lieved that this road will be open for travel practically the whole year. Its length is about 20 miles. The Flora-Enterprise road is about 12 miles in length and lies in Wal lowa county. It will connect the thriving districts of Enterprise and Flora. Considerable tonnage now passes over a steep and crooked mountain road. La Plne-Lakeview road lies on the east side of the Cascade range and is a part of the main north and south highway of eastern Oregon. Its length is about five miles. The Pilot Rock-Prairie City road will be an artery of travel connecting the populous Pendleton region with settlements along the John Day River and intervening points. It will be a direct route for travel to Bend and points westerly, or to points in Idaho without going over the high Blue Mountain range. Length, approxi mately 16 miles. The Crescent-Klamath Falls road Is a part of the main north-and-south highway east of the Cascade range. The length of this project is about 22 miles. The Zigzag road is an 11-mile sec tion of the Barlow road lying west of Mount Hood, and Is a part of the main highway to Mount Hood and eastern Oregon. The lengths above given do not constitute the total lengths of the respective projects, but only approxi mately the mileage on which cooper ation by the Government is being giv en. Owing to the fact that but few location surveys have been made, the scarcity of labor, and the shortness of , the dry season, but little construction ; wnrV can be done this year. How-. ever, location surveys and the let-' I ting of contracts and other prelim-; inaries necessary will be made for a X TlfiUIUUP U.lUV. ..,v.v.. feAAAAAA AAAA A A A A A A AAAA AA AJfc L MONTERESTELLI MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS PENDLETON, OREGON FINE MONUMENT AND CEMETERY WORK All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders ALL WORK GUARANTEED year. LMfcHtM4m J
