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TIIE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON. THURSD AY, OCTOBER 11, 1917.
Your friends can buy any
thing you can give them
i
except your photograph.
Notwithstanding the soaring costs of all
commodities during the past three years, prices
of photographs have not risen. The necessity
of a readjustment of values, however, is self
evident.
lleKinnlng November first, prices must be
raised from twenty to thirty-five per cent.
Compared with the difference that exists In
the prices of practically all staple articles, this
increase is small indeed, and will remain cer
mauent only to the extent that other values are
stationary.
SIGSBEE STUDIO
OVER OPERA HOUSE
' 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 Works
J. B. SNYDER, Proprietor
QUALITY QUANTITY SERVICE
EDITORIAL SECTION
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
1
Tutor ITwss SiIlT(i
Si? G0VERNMENT Regulations; the most
Vpk approved Vaults and, Conservative Man
agement form the combined protection for
funds deposited at the Farmers & Stockgrowers
National Bank. Yon will find the first fool
proof, the second fire and burglar proof and the
third error-proof.
Careful attention to the
need of all patrons is
our policy.
INTEREST ON SAVINGS AND TIME DErOSITS
THE FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK
Heppner, Oregon
The Gazette-Times
The Heppner Gazette, Established March, 30, 1883.
Tiie Heppner Times, Established November 18, 1897.
. Consolidated February 15, 1912.
VAWTER CRAWFORD, Proprietor. ARTHCR R. CRAWFORD, Editor
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Thursday, October 18, 1917.
SAVE WHEAT AND MEAT.
If there was ever a time to prove our Americanism, NOW
is the time. Our soldiers are on the battle line to help our alliet
to make the world safe for democracy.
Not all of us can serve in the trenches or risk our lives go
ing over the top across no man's land, but all of us can take pari
in ""Hoover's Drive" to save wheat and meat, butter and suga'
for the menwho are fighting our battle in Europe. We are not
asked to stint ourselves or go without food, but simply to ea1
wisely and without waste, and to use substitutes for bacon anc
ham, wheat foods and other concentrated foods than can read
ily be shipped across the water.' One wheatless meal a day, one
meatless day a week will keep the non-combatants in Europe
from having eatless days most of -the time. Remember that tlu
person who wastes food during war time is giving aid and com
fort to the enemy. This war will not be won on the battle lint
alone, but on the bread line as well, and every one of us can b(
soldiers in the fight for conserving our food supplies.
Pledge Card "Week takes place between October 21st anc1
28th. Every loyal housewife should be willing and glad tc
promise co-operation with the Food Administration Depart
ment. We can render efficient service by using home growr
supplies- which will save transportation, by practicing the gos
pel of the clean plate, by cooking no more than necessary, by us
ing com or rye bread for at least one meal each 'day, by sub
stituting chicken, rabbit or fish in place of beef and pork, bj
boiling and baking more and frying less. "
The united co-ordinated effort of the Nation will win tin
War. Do your part and get others to do likewise.
BOND IGNORANCE.
C. C. Chapman in Oregon Voter.
That little advance has been made in Oregon so far as un
derstanding the Liberty Loan is concerned is apparent in tlu
early part of the campaign. Patriotism is high no intensifying
of that sentiment in this loyal state could be demanded or de
cently hoped for but something more than patriotism is need
ed, and that is an intelligent realization of the whole war situa
tion, the financial problems' of the government and the invest
ment value and convertible features of the bonds themselves.
It is surprising how many people think that buying gov
eminent bonds is a donation. Unquestionably it was a sense ol
patriotic duty that was mainly responsible for the magnificent
subscription record made by Oregon for the first loan. It was t
patriotic spirit that prompted many of the big subscriptions as
well as the little ones. And many who made subscriptions felt
they were giving up their money just as completely as if they
had donated it, except that they would get a little interest on it
md get is back after many years. The use of the money, they
felt, was being sacrificed by them.
This sentiment exists yet in the state. Farmers and busi
ness men who have large amounts of cash on hands are refrain
ing from buying bonds, fearing they will tie up their money foi
many years. The fact that the bonds are quickly convertible
nto cash seems not to have entered their consciousness.
It the bonds subscribed during the first loan had been in the
-mids of purchasers a month ago, this skepticism would have
been dissipated by now to a considerable. extent. For then, bond
buyers would have discovered that they could have sold them
011 a ready market for all they had paid for them. The accrued
interest would have more; than balanced any prevailing disad
vantage 111 the bond market. -By selling their bonds they would
have discovered how bonds, were sold. And then they would
have been eager to get more money into instruments which
could be converted so easily into cash when it was needed or
could have been held at interest during any periods when cash
was not needed for immediate use.
It is difficult to conceive how anyone's funds could be in
better form than in government bonds, no matter whether he is
likely to need quick money in the immediate future or whether
he desires to maintain his surplus in form for an investment
should one offer that appealed to his judgment.
Many bankers have cautioned their patrons against buying
too many government bonds. This is especially true in some
communities outside of 'Portland, and is true of one or two Port
land banks. A conservative attitude sets' well on the average
banker. He always seems more important to himself and to his
patron when he tells him NOT to do anything than when he tells
him to go ahead. Less moral risk is involved in advising against
than for.
What all the banks should do in order to help their patrons
get their finances in first class shape for quick money when
needed is to advise them to get as much of their money as they
can into government bonds. Then they can help them dispose
of them whenever a sale is desired. It is easy for any Oregon
bank to market government bonds quickly. Two weeks time is
the outside limit for completing the transaction, for that gives
ample opportunity to send the bonds to New York and receive a
draft in return. But Portland is a bond market as well as New
York. Many buyers have been quietly paying par and accrued
interest. They have not been making noise about it, for from
the buyers' point of view there'is no nved to "bull" the market.
Oregon should be a bond-owning state, as well as a borrow-
j ing state. There is vast wealth here that can be maintained in
1 the best kind of shape for quick conversion when needed if kept
invested in government or other high class bonds. If .our finan
ciers would proclaim the gospel of bond convertibility from the
housetops, they would help get Oregon into far better financial
condition for the immediate and ultimate future.
No matter how patriotic a man may feel, if he fears he can
not get his money when he needs it, he hesitates to.be reckless
in demonstrating patriotism by putting his surplus cash into
bonds. . But once he realizes he can get his cash in money form
on short notice if he has the bonds, he will gladly serve his own
and his government's interests at one time by subscribing for
the Liberty Loan. If the mass of Oregon people who have
ready money could realize the advantages of having that money
in bond form, Oregon's quota for the bond issue would be over
subscribed in a hurry, without any necessity for a bond cam
paign. We would call the attention of the patrons of the schools in
District No. 1, to the published budget in this issue. Our dis
trict will require close to $20,000 this year to maintain our
schools and we feel that the taxpayers of the district should be
interested in the matter sufficiently to go over the budget care
fully arid be prepared to take an active and intelligent interest
n the meeting called to vote the tax. The school is progressing
ind at the opening this year there was a largely increased at
tendance over any previous year. We have an excellent corps
of instructors which it has been necessary to engage at an in
crease in salaries all down the line and the maintenance'of the
school plant has increased to a considerable extent in keeping
with the general trend of high prices, yet, notwithstanding all
his, the Board of Education will be able to carry on the work
if the schools for the year without an increase in the tax levy.
This speaks well for good management on their part. The
Heppner schools are being placed on a high plane and the good
work being done is reaching out to the surrounding country.
This is amply proven by the large number of outside people who
'lave moved to town with their families to take advantage of the
"acilities offered here for the education of their children. The
best drawing card the city has for bringing in the right class of
people, and its efficiency is not to be impaired by a lack of prop
er support on the part of the taxpayers of the district.
TO OUR PATRONS AND FRIENDS:
On Friday of each week the Palace Hotel Grill will
have two Bills of Fare; one will be a meatless bill, the
other our regular bill of fare with all the meats in season.
Mr. Hoover has requested all hotels and restaurants to
have one meatless day in each week. Hence we are ask
ing our patrons to order from the meatless bill of fare on
every Friday.
Palace Hotel Co.,
By J. L. WILKINS, Mgr.
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK
jp p ii J m
Liberty Bonds
TTJ TKe Government is asking its
patriotic citizens to subscribe to
tfie Second Issue of Liberty Bonds.
The First National Bank is
prepared to take your appli-
cation.
cAssetts:
One and One-half Million Dollars.
1 1
The First National Bank
Heppner, Oregon'