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VOL. 34, NO. 38.
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1917
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The Christmas Membership Drive for the RED CROSS is on MONDAY, DECEMBER 17
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240,000 Are Required From Oregon; 1,500 From Morrow County
FOR PATRIOTISM-FOR HUMANITY As an Expression of the True Christmas Spirit
Let a Greater American
Red Cross be America's
Gift to "Our Boys" and
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Christmas Eve should find
a RED CROSS SER
VICE FLAG m every
Oregon Home.
ALL YOU NEED A HEART AND A DOLLAR
OREGON'S BIQ CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN FOR THE RED CROSS IS ON IN EARNEST. THIS IS NOT AN APPEAL FOR MONEY, BUT SERVICE
FALL IN! Volunteer today. Our Country has awakened to what this war means in personal service and sacrifice. You can enter the service "At Home" with the same
sense of duty that is prompting hundreds of thousands of our men in the Army and Navy. Your "true Christmas Spirit" is here put to the test. No gift that you can give
could possibly represent as much as that which you will give to the RED CROSS. "A HEART AND A DOLLAR" enlist both in the RED CROSS SERVICE today.
IF THERE'S A REASON FOR ANYTHING, Then It's that You Should Join the Red Cross
NO MATTER HOW OLD OR HOW YOUNG, YOU ARE ELIGIBLE TO MEMBERSHIP.
Red Cross Service Flags
will be issued with each ONE-DOLLAR
MEMBERSHIP. They should be hung in
every house where there's a member. For
every Red Cross member there will be a lit
tle Red Cross. Behind every one of these
flags on Christmas Eve a candle should
burn. Just picture in your mind the cheery,
patriotic effect this will have in your home,
as well as in your neighbor's home. Bet
ter still, think of the great humanitarian
work the Red Cross is engaged in. Red
Cross Service Flags are new sign up for
your membership and your flag today - -'
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP. AMERICAN RED CROSS
Make all checks or money orders
payable to American Red Cross.
Date,
I hereby apply for membership in the American Red .Cross in the class checked be
low, and enclose check cash money order. ; ,"
Please check class desired and be sure to write name legibly
Annual Member 9 1 SusUining Member, .annually 9 10
Magazine Member. . . .annually 2 .life Member, . . .one payment 50
... Contributing Member. annuaUy S .....Patron Member, .one payment 100
Name
Postofflce.
NOTE All memberships over the $1.00 Annual Membership includes subscription to
I the Red Cross Magaxlo.
Every To wn, Every City
in the State is organized in this great
Christmas Membership Campaign for the
RED CROSS. Hundreds and hundreds of
wililng workers are giving their time and
energy to the work without compensation.
They are volunteers in the great and wor
thy cause. You can greatly lighten their
work by going to RED CROSS HEAD
QUARTERS and signing up for the Christ
mas Membership, instead of waiting to be
'CaUedapon. JJeet them af "Bast halfway.
RED CROSS CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
HEPPNER, OREGON
THIS SPACE DONATED BY 8. E. NOTSON, C. L. SWEEK, C. E. WOODSON, J. J. NY8, F. A. Mc.MEXAMJN, GLENN Y. WELLS, J. T. KNAPPENBERG AND 8. E. VAN VACTOR
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Oregon Woolgrowers Hold Successful
Convention in The Dalles. Pi es.
Ident Barratt Advises Fixing
of Standard Price for Wool.
The 20th annual convention of the
Oregon Woolgrowers' Association
came to a close in The Dalles last
Saturday evening after a successful
session of two days duration.
Upon the nomination by John Kil
kenny, W. B. Barratt was re-elected
president of the organization. Mr.
Barratt has already served two terms
uninterruptedly.
The meeting opened Friday morn
ing, December 7, Judge F. W. Wilson
of The Dalles giving the address of
welcome. This was responded to by
H. C. Rooper of Antelope, a veteran
sheepman and for many years iden
tified with the Woolgrowers associa
tion. The feature of the convention, ac
cording to report brought back to
Heppner by attending members, was
the address delivered by President
Barratt. The address touched light
ly upon conditions as directly affect
ing the associating but laid stress up
on conditions as confronting the Na
tion. President Barratt said at one
point In his address, "My friends, the
time has now come, and history is go
ing to repeat itself, only on a more gi
gantic scale. The peace-loving na
tions of the world for the past forty
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MORROW COUNTY BOY AT
CAMP LEWIS TURNS TABLE
ON OFFICER WHEN TAKEN
FOB AN ARMY DESERTER
Thos. E. Sheridan, a Morrow coun
ty boy who is now In training at
Camp Lewis with the new National
army, has the laugh on some Port
land policeman today, should he care
to take it.
Shortly after going north, young
Sheridan was given his day off. Not
being fully acquainted with military
rules, he got aboard the train for
Portland, expecting to be back to
camp by the time his absence leave
expired.
Imagine his consternation when
grabbed by a Portland policeman Just
as he was going to the train to return
to the camp. Sheridan was still wear
ing civilian clothes, as the supply of
uniforms was not yet sufficient to go
around. "Where Is your registration
card," asked the cop. "Here it is,"
answered Tommy, pulling out a red
card which they had given him at
Camp Lewis. The once-over for
Sheridan and the arm of the law an
nounced him a deserter. There was
$50 in It for the policeman making
this decision, providing he could
prove such was the case.
But for once, ignorance proved to
be bliss for Sheridan and he was re
turned to the camp with a reprimand
to study up on military rules regard
ing camp leave.
So this is how the rumor started
that Sheridan was a deserter. He is
doing his drill daily with the rest of
the bays and Morrow county people
may have the satisfaction of knowing
that none of our boys have fallen
short of the task placed before them.
ELKS WILL AGAIN
AID RED CROSS
The Heppner Lodge No. 358, B. P.
O. E., will give a grand public ball at
the Fair pavilion in Heppner Monday
evening, Decemrer 31, the proceeds
of which will be devoted to war dis
tress relief.
The different committees are now
working out the details of the affair
and it gives promise of being the big
gest event staged yet for the benefit
of the Red Cross.
The committee In charge is made
up of Sam E. Van Vactor, S. W. Spen
cer and Oscar Borg.
H. H. Hoffman, Exalted Ruler, will
act as master of ceremonies.
On the decoration committee are
Gay M. Anderson, Harry Duncan,
Fred Lucas, Charles Cox and Andrew
Rood, Jr.
Reception and entertainment will
be taken care of by Mrs. Oscar Borg,
Mrs. R. J. Vaughn, Mrs. Charles Cox,
Mrs. Frank Monahan, Mrs. John
Healy, Mrs. Albert Bowker, J. T.
Knappenberg, R. J. Vaughan, O. B.
Robertson, Judge D. R. Parker and
Glen Graves.
Refreshments will be served by
ladles of the Red Cross.
Floor managers for the occasion
are Orve Rasmus, W. A. Richardson,
John Kenny, Bert Stone, John
Vaughn, Lester Wade and Robert
Sperry.
Tickets will be sold for $2.50 and
the general committee in charge in
vites everyone to attend.
DR
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STARTS
NEXT MONDAYNOQN
Mrs. Frank Turner has been con
fined to her bed the past week with
a severe attack of the grippe.
Mr. and Mrs. John Cochran of lone
were visiting Heppner relatives and
friends this week.
House Destroyed by Fire.
The Tom Morgan house In the low
er end of town was visited by Are last
Monday morning about six o'clock
and all but entirely destroyed.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The family of Mr. Schwab, engine
wiper at the roundhouse, has been
living in the house. They got out un
harmed. Mr. Morgan carried $800
Insurance.
ARMY RECRUITING SOARS HIGH
0540 Men Enlist, Pennsylvania Giv
ing Most With 848. -
Washington, Dec. 11. Regular
Army recruiting increased yesterday
to unprecedented proportions, a total
of 6540 men being accepted through
out the country. Pennsylvania led
with 848. California was fourth with
425.
The rush is due to the desire of
men of draft age to enter the service
voluntarily before December 15, after
which date they can no longer enter
as volunteers. . ,. ,
The Christmas Red Cross member
ship campaign will be launched at
noon December 17 and will last until
the night of December 24.
This campaign is to add 240,000
members in Oregon to the American
Red Cross.
A membership costs as little as $1.
In fact, in this campaign the great
est emphasis is placed on the $1
membership, because it is believed
this will be responsible for enlisting
the greatest number of people under
the Red Cross banner. The drive Is
not for money but for members.
A complete state organisation has
already been perfected under Henry
E. Reed, state campaign manager.
Th Morrow county campaign mana
ger is Sam E. Van Vactor.
In brief, the effort of every county
In the state Is to enlist 30 per cent of
Its population under the Red Cross.
Irrespective of whether members
have joined previously or not, they
are asked to join again in the Christ
man Drive, with the assurance that
there will be but one drive a year in
the future and that the week pre
ceding Christmas. Thus "Make it a
Red Cross Christmas" is resounding
over the country. Special church ser
vices will be held December 16.
"Every man and woman in Oregon
must join the Red Cross" is the Ore
gon slogan.
Prominent men and women all
over the state are enlisting their ser
vices in the campaign. Membership
funds are devoted to war work of the
Rd Cross, a percentage accruing to
the local chapter which is expended
on surgical, hospital supplies and
other requirements for the war work
of the chapter.
VOLUNTEER ENLIST-
MENT HEAVY HERE
During the past week voluntary en
listment in the army and navy has
been heavy. Thirty or forty young
men have gone from this immediate
section of the state. Last Sunrtav
witnessed the departure of a number
of well known young men from Hepp
ner, some of them being native sons.
Ralph R. Justus, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. O. Justus, has gone into the army,
having joined the heavy artillery.
Harold A. Cohn, oldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. Phlll Cohn, will probably get
Into the medical or ambulance corps.
Sam Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
W. Turner, Elra Hayes, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Hayes and Glenn Jones
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Jones, have
all entered the navy.
Hardman Boy Buys Thrift Stamps.
Dale Bleakman, the 11-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bleakman
of Hardman, was the first applicant
of that town to buy thrift and war
saving stamps at the Hardman post
office. He bought two thrift stamps
and three war savings stamps from
money which he had earned running
errands and like work. Young Bleak
man had saved the money to help his
mother put hot and cold water in
their home, but he decided that his
country needed his savings and he
would do all he could to help his flag.
Hence the Investment.
FARMERS ARE BACK
ING UP THE NA
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School pupils wishing to join the
industrial clubs may get the neces
sary blanks at the office of County
School Superintendent Shurte at the
Court House. I
MORROW COUNTY LEGAL
ADVISORY BOARD.
HEPPNER S. E. Van Vac.
tor, Chairman, C. L. Sweek,
Clerk, S. E. Notson.
Associate Members C. E.
Woodson, J. J. Nys, J. T.
Knappenberg, Glenn Y. Wells,
F. A. McMenamin.
IONE F. H. Robinson.
LEXINGTON W. O. Hill.
Each of the above members
will be at their respective of-
fices from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.
each day during the period of
the selective draft beginning
December 15th, 1917.
Farmers Union Will IniUute Bill Ask.
ing For Repeal of $0,000,000
Road Measure. Old Offl.
cers Re-Elected.
The Farmers' Educational and Co
operative Union of Oregon, in conven
tion assembled at Pendleton last
week pledged their lives, their prop
erty and their sons that this war may
be fought to a successful conclusion.
The resolution placed the organiza
tion squarely behind the president
during the period of the conflict.
inrougnout tne convention a
triotic spirit prevailed.
A resolution was passed commend
ing the Port of Portland for rushing
the construction work of the mllttou
bushel terminal elevator in spite of
the high cost of materials and the
shortage of labor so that it will be
ready to receive the 1918 crop. As
toria was also commended for co-op-
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Heppner People Wed.
The marriage of Luther Huston
to Mrs. M. J. Edmundson occurred
at the home of Rev. Turner B. Mac
Donald last Saturday morning at 10
o'clock. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. MacDonald In the
presence of a few friends of the con
tracting parties. '
Mr. and Mrs. Huston have made
their home in Morrow county many
years, and Mr. Huston farmed in the
Eight Mile country up until a few
years ago, when he retired from the
farm and has been living in Heppner.
They have begun housekeeping in
the home which Mr. Huston recently
purchased from G rover Cox on west
Willow street, and are kept busy re
ceiving congratulations ami best
wishes of their many friends.
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