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VOL. 34, NO. 23.
HEITXEK, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1917
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR
Gazette
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FUN 10 FROLIC -
AT COUNTY FAIR
Aside From Industrial Feutures, Fair
Board Is Preparing to Entertain
Crowds In Best Style Vet.
By W. W. SMEAD.
Secretary Morrow County Pair Board.
The Fifth Annual Morrow County
Fair will be the best ever held If the
people will co-operate with the Fair
Board. This can be done in many
ways. The great need Is for people
to get together exhibits of fruits and
vegetables, and they should not think
that the varieties have to be extra
large in order to win premiums.
Trueness to type and color and free
from blemishes have more to do with
un exhibit than size.
The first day of the Fair it is the
desire of the Board to have all the
automobiles of the county participate
in the big auto parade. It would be
an interesting sight to most people to
see and know somewhere near how
many autos are In Morrow county.
Seeing them in line gives a much bet
ter Idea than a mere statement of
numbers.
On the second day it is our desire
to have the Farmers' Unions of this
county to take this day and use it to
their own ends. Mrs. Edith Tozier
Wethered, who is secretary of the
women's grange organizations of the
Willamette Valley, will be here and
address the union on that day. Vou
can get other speakers if you choose
and prepare your'own program. We
will furnish the band and assist to
make this the biggest event ever
pulled off by the Union in this coun
ty, and if you will help It will be the
biKuest ever nulled off In Eastern
Oregon.
We know that the free amusements
we have provided for your entertain
ment will be better than ever before
and will please you. Ja-za-bo and
lmpo are two attractions that will
make the blues take a back seat. If
you have never had a good laugh, or
if you have troubles that make laugh
ing a hard matter, Jaz-za-bo will
make you forget that there ever was
a thing named trouble in the world.
Don't think that the fireworks we
are advertising will be Just a few
cheap pieces. We have arranged for
a splendid exhibition and know that
nothing anywhere near as good was
ever given in this part of the country.
A factory expert will be here to han
dle them and this assures that every
piece will be a success, and we also
have two big searchlights to make
things interesting.
The Ad Club Quartette and Par
son's Novelty Band assures good
music and lots of it. A Merry-Go-Round
and Ferris wheel will be here
and also two good shows. In fact
we are going to make this three days
of fun and frolic, and if you don't
have a season ticket you are going to
miss some of the good things. So
don't forget the date, Sept. 13, 14
and 15.
VVOMKX DISTRICT .UiEXTS
FOR OREGOX COUNTIES
Specialists in Home Economics Will
Assist In Emergency Food
Conservation.
Corvallis, Ore., Aug. 29. Women
home demonstration agents have
been appointed by the Oregon Agri
cultural College and the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture for seven
districts of Oregon, composed of 18
counties. , As rapidly as funds be
come available new appointments
will be made to cover the entire
State.
The appointment of agents is au
thorized by the provisions of the food
emergency legislation. It is designed
to obtain leaders to assist In the food
conservation campaign that is count
ed on to create a patriotic desire to
use the home-grown food and leave
as much of the staples as possible for
shipment to the nation and its allies.
The work is financed entirely from
the funds appropriated to carry the
measure into effect, with the provis
ion that the districts served provide
suitable office room for the agent. In
counties maintaining agricultural
agents the two sets of agents will oc
cupy the same office. In other coun
ties the communities are expected to
aid in locating and to maintain of
fice headquarters.
The demonstration .work of the
agents will be directed by the Ore
gon Agricultural College Extension
Service.
LEXINGTON BREEZES.
Roy Yardley left Monday morning
for Pendleton.
1 Mrs. Delia McMillan was an lone
visitor Tuesday.
Ed Cummings has quit work at the
"Office Confectionery."
Miss Florence Miller is visiting
with Marie Cason this week.
Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Beach returned
from Portland Saturday evening.
Miss Vesta Cutsforth is visiting
with her sister, Mrs. Maude Pointer.
Mr. Walter Hill and son Freeman
returned from Portland Sunday eve
ning. Mrs. Clark Davis has returned to
the mountains on account of her
health.
Last Sunday evening concluded
Rev. Lee Sadler's peaching services
In Lexington.
The Lexington Improvement Com
mittee has been busily at work fixing
the Davis bridge.
Mr. and Mrs. McBeth and daugh
ter Mary were incoming passengers
Thursday evening.
Miss Ada Ashinhust left Wednes
day morning for a visit with some
friends in Portland.
On account of the dance on Satur
day evening, the picture show will
begin promptly at eight o'clock.
Geo. White and family have re
turned from Portland. Mr. White
Is now the owner of a Hudson.
Mrs. Josle Warden and her daugh
ter Joyce left Sunday morning for
Portland. Mrs. Warden formerly
was cook at the Lane Restaurant and
Lexington is losing a really good
cook.
Iloardmun Will Have New School.
The new town of Boardman will
have a new modern school house in
the near future as bids for Its con
struction are now being advertised.
The original plan as proposed call
ed for a building that would liave
cost In the neighborhood of $15,000.
Inasmuch as the O-W. R. & N. Co.
would be called upon to pay a large
percentage of the cost, and inasmuch
as they felt the building would be far
In excess of the present needs of the
district, the company filed an Injunc
tion. The outcome of the matter has
been that the size of the building will
be cut down to correspond with pres
ent demands and it can be added onto
from time to time as the Boardman
country is developed .without hurting
the appearance of the building.
EVIDENCE OF BATTLE
A herder In charge of the V. Gen
try sheep on Thompson Flats found
what appears to be mute evidence of
a battle royal between two big buck
deer. The two huge pairs of horns
were still interlocked when found
by the herder and any amount of
pressure would not bring them apart.
The skeletons of the deer were well
preserved, and It is evident that these
two kings of the antlered herd came
to their doom in a struggle In which
each was trying to kill the othdr.
. The horns were brought to Hepp
ner by V. Gentry and Henry Cohn
and may be seen at' the Gilliam &
Blsbee hardware store. They are
a curiosity which we have read of
before, but this is the first time we
have seen first hand evidence that
buck deer do sometimes engage in
sparring matches which result fatally
to both combatants.
The conflict doubtless occurred
during the running season last Fall.
FARM IS 55 MILES
LONG; 200 FEET WIDE
The most unique farm in the Uni
ted States will be sown In wheat or
alfalfa this fall. It will be fifty-five
miles long and 200 feet wide, and
will occupy the land which repre
sents the present right of way of the
Denver & Laramie railway which will
be "junked" September 1 by its
owner, M. S. Radetsky. The "farm"
will extend from Greeley, Colo., to
Denver, and will pass through the
business, sections of several small
towns between the two.
The railroad, which has never
paid, was recently purchased at pub
lic auction by Radetsky, a dealer In
defunct railroad properties. The roll
ing stock and track will be Bold for
junk and the right of way used as a
wheat or alfalfa field, unless the
owner Is restrained from "junket
ing" the line by the state public util
ities commission.
Mrs. Glenn Y. Wells and Mrs. Dick
Wells spent several days this week
on Ditch creek, gathering huckle
berries. They returned home Thursday.
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1ST OFTflEN LIKELYT0G0TO
ON FIRST DRAFT
Morrow county's list of names cer
tified to the government under the
selective military draft has been
made public by Adjutant General
White. According to the Adjutant
General nothing stands between the
men whose names are published here
with and srvice in France save re
jection for physical unfitness when
they 'are examined at the military
camps.
Here is the certified list as given
out by the Adjutant General, which
shows that some exemptions were
allowd by the district board at La
Grande.
Frank T. Perry, Lena; Harry Van
Dyke, Lexington; Smith J. Towne,
Lexington; John Elmer Pomeroy,
Lexington, Sterling Fryrear, Hepp
ncr; Alexander Brander, Echo; John
Calmus, Heppner; John M. Gamblll,
lone; Frank E. Cronan, lone; Ben
jamin G. Buschke, Lexington; Thom
as E. Sheridan, Lena; Phillip Brady,
Heppner; Newton Humphrey HarriB,
lone; Floyd Lincoln Barlow, lone;
John Hossner, lone; Robert Roy
Holmes, lone; Royal Wakefield,
Heppner; Cleo Drake, Gooseberry;
Fred L. McMurray, lone; Joe Mason:
lone; Hugh McNerney, Heppner; Ot
to Rletmann, lone; Raymond How
ard Turner, lone; Marvie Lee Avi
BANK BUILDING IS
RISING RAPIDLY
The new First National Bank build
ing is rising rapidly, and from pres
ent Indications, bank officials and em
ployees will be at home to their pa
trons in their new home long before
the snow flies. .
Th brick masons have run the new,
beautiful white walls of brick up In
record time and the imposing appear
ance of the new structure may al
ready be gleaned from the view of the
two stories now about completed.
The exterior is pleasing to the eye
and gives Morrow county a building
which has no other close rival. But
the Interior is to be not only, beaiy
ful, but above all convenient in every
respect. The lighting system will be
of the best and the arrangement
throughout will be along the lines of
a modern banking house. The tile
floor will be a feature.
The upper story will be given over
to office rentals, as will a large room
at the rear of the bank. The new
building will mark an epoch in the
progress of Heppner's spirit of im
provement. UMATILLA FARMERS
URGE HOOVER TO FIX
WHEAT PRICE AT $2.30
Umatilla farmers have wired Hoo
ver, through the Pendleton Commer
cial Association, protesting against a
price of less than $2.30 being fixed
for wheat as that was the price when
the market stopped.
No price has been fixed for wheat
by Hoover yet, but H. W. Collins
thinks It will be around $2.25. A
letter from Kansas states that wheat
sold there the first of this week for
$3.00.
Farmers cannot leave their wheat
stored in warehouses more than
thirty days, according to instructions
received from Herbert Hoover. Ware
housemen are instructed to include in
their grain receipts a provision giving
them authority to sell at the end of
thirty days.
This order may result in many of
the farmers keeping their wheat on
the ranches to avoid forced sale, it is
reported. Some think farmers are
exempt from the 30 day provision.
Echo News.
OFFICII CHINESE TROOPS
FOR SERVICE IX FRANCE
Pekln, China. Generals La Pei
Chlng, Lung Chi-Kwang and Ku
Chin-Tan, commanding 500,000
troops of Yunnan, Kwel-Chow and
Kwang-Tung provinces, have offered
forces for service in Europe. The
provisional governors of Yunnan and
Kwang-Tung have given offical rec
ognition to Pekin's declaration of
war against Germany, apparently
having been reconciled to the gov
ernment of the acting president,
General Feng Kwo-Chang. The hos
tile movement In the southern pro
vinces is now plainly a fiasco.
Eighteen provinces have approved
the project for a national council
which will probably be established
within a fortnight. The press gen
erally Is urging China to present an
undivided front to the enemy.
Goerge White of Lexington has
purchased a new Hudson car from
Vaughn & Sons, the local agents.
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IS NOW CERTIFIED
.McRoherts, Heppner; Henry Krebs,
Heppner; William Edward Stoops,
lone; James Daly, Heppner,; Theo
dore Marion Benedict, Morgan; Henry
Peterson, Eight Mile; Frank R. Do
ble, Irrigon; William Henry Gardner,
Echo; Riley Jake Juday, Heppner;
Henry Clay Wood, lone; Lester Ver
non Baker, lone; MacDowell Missll-
dine, Heppner; Ernest W. Chrlstoph
erson, Gooseberry; Harvey O. Bau
man, Lexington, Henry Nagl, Hepp
ner; Roby L. Slmcox, Lexington;
Rufus Ernest Burroughs, Galax, Va.;
Johnnie C. Morris, Lexington.
Tralnload of Cattle..
Dillard French, Gurdane stockman
and John Brosnan, Heppner stock
man, arrived here yesterday and ship
ped out a trainload of cattle to Kan
sas City. Pendleton E. O.
Buys Interest in Delivery.
Chas. Barlow, a young man of this
city, has purchased the one-half in
terest of Phill Jones In the delivery
business and will take possession the
first of September. The firm will
continue as Beamer & Barlow.
T - 1 1 1 IV i- T am Homrndl- otrant fnr
tne spirreui corset. See me before
buying. Satisfaction guaranteed.
MRS..H. McATEE KINNEY.
HEPPNER SMOKY TOWN
FROM FOREST FIRES
During the past week Heppner has
been shrouded in a smoky haze, due
to the terrific forest fires which have
been raging for several days over
the Northwest. It is said the fires
are pretty well under control at this
time. It has been estimated that
nearly 5000 men have been combat
ing the destructive flames in the
states of Oregon and Washington and
the damage is the greatest in thirty
years.
Fire broke out in Some volume in
the vicinity of the old Hamilton mill
south of Heppner on Willow creek
iaat week and has burned over a con-
siderable area. It fs believed the fire
started from a cigarette thrown on
an old rotted log. The log was seen
smouldering along for several days,
when a stiff wind came up, and
whipped the smouldering fire into a
mighty blaze. The area burned over
consisted of young growth trees, and
the same section witnessed a bad fire
a number of years ago. Fire fighters
went out from Heppner to assist in
getting the flames under control.
WHEELER STOCKMAN
BUYS MORROW COUN
TY STOCK RANCH
R. J. Carsner of Spray, Wheeler
county, and an extensive stockman
of that section, has purchased a big
stock ranch from Wm. Hendrix in
Morrow county south of Hardman.
The ranch consists of 1200 acres
a large part of which is given over to
the raising of timothy hay. The
place is considered ideal for the stock
business, and Mr. Carsner will prob
ably place a large number of cattle
on the range there. Mr. Hendrix has
not yet decided where he will locate.
He still owns one of the biggest wheat
ranches in Morrow county but wheth
er he will remain here or not, he
does not know for certain.
World Champions Will Compete.
Pendleton, Ore., Aug. 30. The
greatest aggregation of world's
champions ever seen In one contest
will compete at the Round-Up, Sep
tember 20, 21 and 22. The contests
will be the biggest things the world
has ever seen. All former champ
ions will meet and compete for the
supreme title. In the cowgirls' re
lay race Ruth Parton, Mabel DeLong,
Bertha Blancett, Mrs, Parsons, Lila
Smith and Josephine Sherry will ride
against each other. In the cowboys'
relay Sleepy Armstrong, Darrell Can
non, Allen Drumheller, Paxton Ir
win Kuapp Lynch and Boh Anderson
will ride. These riders are all cham
pions. In the steer roping Geo. Wier,
Charlie Wier, Joe Beason, Henry
Yabeny, Sammy Garrett, Ed Mc
carty, Tom Grimes, Dan Clark and
John Judd, all former winners, will
compete. In every other one of the
competitive events it will be the
same thing, champion against champ
ion and then some outsiders. The
Directors say it will he the highest
Round-Up ever pulled off. These
people wll all positively he here, as
the Round-Up never makes such an
announcement until it is a sure thing.
Indications are that the crowd will
be up to normal. The seat sale opens
Sept. 1, and the advance sale is al
ready above 1915.
morgan m mm ON RANGE
Geo. Ely had a week end visitor
from Portland.
Mrs. Gaumnitz called on Mrs. Ray
mond one day last week.
Miss Juanita Gibson and Warner
Rletmann were callers In Morgan
Sunday afternoon.
Fred Ely came home Saturday eve
ning after finishing his work in the
Gooseberry country.
Miss Juanita Gibson returned home
Sunday after a visit with Portland
and Eugene friends.
J. T. Gibson reports to have at least
1000 more sacks of wheat to thresh.
His wheat Is yielding well.
Mrs. H. Haas, daughter "Billle,"
and sister Miss Irene Benedict, spent
the day in Morgan Monday.
Mrs. Holbrook, Morgan's agreeable
postmistress, was suddenly called to
Portland last Saturday. One of her
daughters there is "seriously 111.
Mrs. T. M. Benedict Sr. and daugh
ter Goldie and granddaughter
"Billie" Haas spent the day with
Sam Dennis, Mrs. Benedict's father,
one day last week.
F. M. Broady says he doesn't dis
like having visitors at his orchard
when he is absent but he would be
more pleased if they would leave
their names so he would know to
whom the fruit should be charged.
Red Cross Sends Milk.
Forty-eight thousand cans of con
densed milk have just been purchas
ed by the Supply Service of the Am
erican Red Cross for immediate ship
ment to Salonika. On the request of
Dr. Edward W. Ryan, Red Cross rep
resentative at Salonika, the War
Council voted a special appropria
tion for the milk, which is to be used
in Serbian military hospitals.
. Conditions under which the hospi
tals are workng In Macedonia, ac
cording to Dr. Ryan, are very serious.
During the fighting of the last three
years practically all cattle have been
killed by the armies. There Is no
milk for convalescent soldiers, and
without It their recovery is very
much .delayed-
A Red Cross commission headed
by C. A. Severance, of Minneapolis
is now on Its way to Serbia. The
commission has a fund of $200,000
to be spent in aiding the refugees be
hind the Allied lines in Macedonia
and around Monastir.
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W. B. Barratt left Heppner Wed
nesday afternoon for Portland, where
he goes to attend the first meeting of
the food conservation committee of
the State Council of Defense, of
which he was recently appointed a
members
Mr. Barratt has the distinction of
being one of only two men from
Eastern Oregon appointed on the
committee. Mr. Wm. Pohlman of Ba
ker is the other member. J. W. Kerr
Is cl'airman of the committee. Mr.
Barratt is prominent over the state,
being president of the Oregon Wool
growers Association and a member
of the State Livestock Sanitary
Board.
Vine Time at Coast.
A card from Norton Winnard, who
in company with his mother and sis
ter Charlotte are now at Newport,
states he is having a most enjoyable
time swimming and fishing.
YOUNG MAN VISITS SCENES OF CHILD
HOOD AFTER ABSENCE OF U YEARS
After en absence of 14 years, Mar
cus Gunn returned to Heppner last
week. A little tow-headed youngster
of but 11 years, and his chums all
called him "Gunule" left the city of
his natvitiy at that age when asso
ciations of chijdhood are the most
vivid. He grew to manhood in the
state of Michigan, finishing his gram
mar school course in the public
schools of Detroit, spent one year at
Harvard and later was graduated
from thei University of Michigan.
When the call to colors came, young
Gunn gave up a splendid position to
Join the ollicers rese'rve camp, lie
took the examination and passed
high.
So it was Lieutenant Gunn of the
United States Army who greeted his
many old friends upon his arrival
here after so long an absence, lie
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District Forester Says Demand For
More Meat Is Increasing
The Supply.
Approximately 19,000 more cattle
and 29,500 more sheep are being
grazed this season on the National
Forests of Oregon and Washington
than in ordinary years, according to
District Forester Geo. H. Cecil, Port
land, Oregon. The extra demand for
meat occasioned by war conditions
is given as the reason for this in
creased use of the ranges. The Na
tional Forests of the country are car
rying about 100,000 more cattle and
200,000 more sheep than usual. Or
dinarily the National Forests furnish
pasturage for about 1,800,000 cattle
and horses and 7,800,000 head of
sheep.
The number of livestock permitted
on the Forests Js limited In order to
prevent damage to timber growth,
water supplies, and the range itself.
This year exceptional weather con
ditions combined with the general
food situatidn to create an unusual
emergency, calling for special pro
visions to take care of the stock. A
severe winter and late spring ex
hausted the hay supply and forced
use of the spring ranges before they
hud reached their normal state. To
lessen the losses which the western
livestock industry faced, the National
Forest ranges were opened early. At
the same time, the number of stock
permitted for the present season was
raised to the maximum consistent
with safeguarding future productive
ness.
It Is fully rezognized that the in
crease which has been made in the
allowances of stock on the National
Forests involve danger that the
range will be depleted through over
grazing, but it is believed by the
grazing experts of the Government
that the emergency Increases made
can be taken care of. "at least this
year, without material sacrifice of
productive capacity. The condition
of the ranges is, however, being care
fully watched. Reliance is placed al
so on the special efforts being made
to secure the most intensive utiliza
tion consistent with sustained pro
ductiveness, by improved methods of
handling stock. Better salting meth
ods and the development of new wa
tering places are among the means
employed for this purpose.
At the close of the grazing season a
careful examination will be made of
the range on each Forest to deter
mine its condition and to find out how
many cattle or sheep it will support
next season. On areas which are
found to be overgrazed, an attempt
will be made to shift the surplus
stock to range which can stand the
strain better.
While the grazing officials do not
think that the increase could be car
ried indefinitely without serious dam
age to the forage, regulated grazing
has brought about a steady improve
ment of the range and some areas
will probably be able to support the
larger numbers permanently.
Harvest Ball Sept. 7.
Heppner's first Harvest Ball will
be celebrated at the Fair Pavilion
Friday, September 7. Parson's Nov
elty orchestra of Portland has been
engaged to furnish the music. This
will be the first dance of the season
in our city. The management is
making preparations to entertain a
urge crowd.
left Monday to n port for duty. Lv-
! ery minute of his time was t;:';eii
! meeting his friends of younger days.
; Two of his sisters are now married,
, Mary living in Massachusetts and Isa
bella living in Canada. The third
sister, Gertrude, is now a young lady,
j although a very small girl when she
left here, and makes her home with
relatives in Detroit.
Marcus is stationed at Fort Sher
idan, Illinois, but expecting to be
called to the war zone at any time, it
was his desire to see his old friends
here before leaving, so consequently
his furlough was secured to that end.
He hopes to return to Heppner
again, not waiting so long as before.
He noted many changes in the town,
but was disappointed in not seeing a
larger town. However, he notes with
pleasure that all the changes have
been for the better. The parents of
Mr. Gunn were drowned in the flood,
of 1903.
IS
NCREA