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Page Eight THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER, OREOOW THTTSP AY; SEPTEMBER 20, 1917. r Tash & Akers Successors to VAUGHN & SONS Dealers in General Hardware Plumbing a Specialty We have secured the services of a professional plumber and will be in a position to give you satisfaction in all lines of plumbing work. Shelf Hardware, Stoves, Tinware EDITORIAL SECTION The Gazette-Times Contribute your "bit" by attending the government food UcUIlUlg bomjl Ul vicguu a gi cancan agiiuiuiiuiiu and industrial exposition the 56th ANNUAL STATE FAIR SALEM, SEPTEMBER 24-29. Daily lectures and demonstrations on food production and conservation; more and better exhibits; scores of high class amusements, entertainments and attractions; an excellent speed program; ideal camping grounds, and the best of accomodations for both exhibitors and visitors. EXCURSION RATES ON ALL RAILROADS. , A. H. LEA, Secretary, Salem. The Heppner Gacette, Established March, 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, Established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: rhree Mouths .60 One Year iix Months ,75Sing'.e Coptes. $1.60 .05 Issued every Thursday morning, and entered at the postoffice at Heppner, Oregon, as second-class matter. VAWTER CRAWFORD. Proprietor. ARTHUR R. CRAWFORD, Editor. OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MORROW COUNTY. Let Us Figure With You For Your . Harvest Supplies We are better prepared than ever to fill all orders as our stock is larger and more complete and pnees are less than if we had to buy on today's market. Thomson Brothers Thursday, September 20, 1917. UMBGR I have finished the Grain Elevator and have for sale: 22,000 feet of No. 1 and' No. 2, .2x6, length 12 to 24 feet, at $21.00 per M., f. o. b. Heppner. Another lot" of No. 3 grade 2x10, 2x4, 2x8, 2x12 and 1x4 at $15.00 per M. J. W. JOHNSON CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Heppner, Oregon Hoover Approves KEEP ICE IN YOUR ICE BOX ,THE YEAR ROUND MOST EFFECTIVE WAY OF REDUCING HIGH COST OF LIVING. SAVES EVERY MORSEL OF THAT HIGH PRICED FOOD STUFF. PHONE MAIN 362 Heppner Ice & Soda W orks J. B. SNYDER, Proprietor QUALITY QUANTITY - SERVICE BUY AT HOME. President "Wilson has said, "Community interests is the new basis of American liberty." There is nothing that will do more to foster community interest than the "Buy-at-Home movement. One of the largest fashion magazines of the coun try is advocating the "Buy-at-Home" movement so strong that it has barred all mail order advertising from its pages. Every line of advertising is aimed to send customers to the retail stores. , ' . . The total vearly business of the mail order stores is esti mated at $500,000,000. As high as 20 per cent of rural retail hnvinsr is said to be done through the mail order houses. In some communities we will venture the percentage runs highei than that. One of the fast-growing mail order houses claims 6,000,OC reorder customers. More than $l,o00,000 has been taken in on a single day by this concern. With the help of magazine adver tising it has distributed 11.000.000 catalogues in one year. The sales of this house alone in 1916 were $146,838,000, showing e gain of 30.33 per cent. For the past five months of 1917 sale? reached $74,946,019, an increase of $8,59o,107 or '636m per con The growth of mail order houses in the past few years has been tremendous. This big magazine can forsee the ill effect upon the pros perity of the country in general in centralizing purchases in one or two large cities. This magazine has therefore throwr out all advertising that takes money away from home and has come out flatfooted for the retail merchant m the fight agains the bis mail order competition. And as time goes by the figh against the big mail order houses will grow and grow and the rural citizen who at the present time Deneves inai ne is saie guarding the strings of his own pocketbook, will find that h has been paying tribute to a few big concerns far away from the center of things in which he is most interested. As he becomes educated, he will see a new light and that endless flow of money over the mail order counter will cease. VVith that cessation greater circulation of home currency will be in evidence and a Greater community interest will be the result. t-t A certain church in a certain valley town has started a pro test against sending cigarettes to the soldiers in the army. The members of this church contend that, in tne nrsi pmce, me cig arettes are evil, and in the second place there are but a very few of the voung men enlisting from their congregation who ase tobacco in any form. We have no use for the little white Dill, but there are any number of our soldier boys who do use them, and who will use them, in spite of any efforts on tlie part of some people to deprive them of this "little joy." the boy are going to face a worse proposition than cigarettes and the - . , i i -i i 1 1 i morale of the army will bo kept up to Btanuaru u tne ooys can ' get some of the things thevhave always been useci to m civi life. Give them their smokes, and may they have plenty o them. wv Now that the county fair is over and we have heard some people make the statement that it was not up to the standard of former years and that the management has fallen down in this way and that way, let us pause a minute and ask these peo pie just one question. What did you do to help make the tair success? After giving this question due consideration and you find that you have done nothing, wouldn't it be well to resolve that in future years, beginning with the next tair, you will get behind the management with all your strength and genius. Ideas of a new kind will help put pep into the,fair and it will finally put down and under some of the unfavorable comments winch we have just heard. Dr. A. D. McMurdo is in receipt of a letter from his mother, Mrs. C. E. McMurdo, this week, written from Nagasaki, Japan, giving a description of a thrilling experience met with ' while returning to America from Ma nilla on the transport Thomas. A short time out from Manilla the boat encountered a typhoon and was In ut ter darkness for a period of 72 hours. The vessel was driven out 'of its course a distance of 259 miles by a terrific wjnd hat blew at the rate of 125 miles per hour and was ground ed on the rocks off the island of For mosa. Two holes were made In the bottom of the transport and she was compelled to put back to Nagasaki for repairs. The transport was due to arrive at San Francisco on the 12th of this month but will be delayed for some time. The boat struck the rocks at 11 o'clock at night and all the pas sengers were ordered to put on life preservers. However, the storm let up In time so there was no loss caused and all passengers were land ed safely. Mrs. McMurdo Is accompanying her son, Dr. H. B. McMurdo; on his re turn toSan Francisco. Dr. McMurdo is an army surgeon and has had charge of the military hospital in Manilla for some time. He Is re turning on orders and will likely be sent to the front in France. 7 Little May, daughter of John Kll kenny, who has been very Hi at the Heppner sanatorium, is reported by Dr. McMurdo to be greatly improved at this time and her early recovery is looked for. AN A son and heir was born on Sun day, in this city, to Mr. and Mrs. Alva Bennett. The young man ar- rived gn bis father's birthday and there was occasion for double rejoic ing in the Bennett household. EDITORIAL FROM THE "OREGONIAN" OF SEPTEMBER 6, 1917. IS LUMBER REALLY DEARER? It Is generally understood that the lumbermen of the Northwest have had a tough time for quite a number of years, but there are a few people, aside from those in terested in some branch of the business, who understand fully", or even partially, the great slump several years ago and the prevailing unfavorable conditions at the present time. It is estimated by government officials that in normal times about one million people are employed in the lum ber industries in the United States, and that one quarter of these, or 250,000 are employed in the Northwest Oregon, Washington and Idaho. But during several years, up, say, to the first of July, 1918, 25 per cent of these men were idle. When the loss of wages to over 60,00 people is added to strikes, car shortages, and the low price of lumber, it can be seen that the lumbermen have had their worries. But many think, since war orders began to pour Into the mills and dealers, that once more the lumbermen are profiting. Is that true? Is it not a fact that lumber comparatively is today one of the cheapest commodities on the market? An advertisement of the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. makes the following statements: "In 1914 a Tum-A-Lum barn cost 40 hogs; In 1917 same barn costs 24 hogs. In 1914 a Tum-A-Lum house cost 480 bushels of wheat; in 1917 same house costs 225 bushels of wheat. In 1914 a Tum-A-Lum silo cost 220 bushels of corn; in 1917 same silo costs 110 bushels of corn. In 1914 a Tum-A-Lum machine shed cost 20 tons of alfalfa; in 1917 same shed costs 10 tons of alfalfa." Nowhere have we seen the facts as to the present com parative prices of lumber so' tersely stated. BBSS III FIRST NATIONAL BANK I 1 I 1 I 1 ! 1 I ! EN THESE TIMES OF UNUSUAL BUS iness conditions it ft a matter of pru dence to prepare i or the days to come, in your business and private affairs. W invite you to associate yourself in a financial way with this institution, which for nearly 30 years has weathered all storms and today stands as solid as a rock, with practically unlimited resources and equipped to give the best banking service possible. j ' Whether you want your ready funds cared for or require capital for your legiti mate requirements,' we are ready to serve you. The First National Bank Heppner, Oregon. Capital $100,000.00 Total Resources Over $1,000,000.00
