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HEPP.VER, OREGON', THURSDAY, AXGUST 1, 1918.
SUBSCRIPTION, $2JHf PER YEAR
VOL. S3, XO. IS.
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1HE
NEEKS
EflGI
HAVE Fl
NE PAPER
The Splker, iniblishctl "Somewhere
in lVance" is an hitoiestliij? and
Newsy Wievt.
Marshall McAllister of Lexington,
now -with the 18th Engineers Rail
way, U. S. Army, has sent The
Gazette-Times several copies of "The
Splker," a three-column, 24-page
monthly paper In magazine rorm.
It is full to the brim with wit, humor
and news and contains many ex
cellent cartoons and pictures. We
have clipped a few short items to
Ti,t mil- rpHrtnrs an idea of the
w.
paper.
The sky is broad, the sea is wide,
Deep Is the darkness of the night.
But greater is that vast Inside
Where lurks a private's appetite.
Ex-KiiRliiocr K8 Thrills Of Fulling
Trigger (,n LWs.
"Every time I pull the string that
shoots them over I hope the kaiser
is visiting the part of the country
we are blowing full of holes," says
"Rubs" Fan-is of the 101st Field
Artillery in a recent letter to Serg
eant Earl C. Sherman of Headquar
ters Company. Karris wa3 rormeriy
a master engineer in the Eighteenth.
"I came out from the front line
night before last," says the letter,
"for the first time in over five weeks
of active life. We pulled out undar
shell fire of both kinds, high ex
plosive and gas shells, and arrived
here at our temporary base about
1:15 a. m. It wbb indeed a beau7
tiful sight. Shells were exploding
all around and all of our batteries
were going to beat hell,' as well as
the French batteries. You cannot
realize what a sight it la at night
and the thoughts that travel through
your brain. , , ... ... ,
"I went up into the gun pits early
in tho evenins and pulled th- string
that shoots them over. When In that
part of the game you wonder, not
where your shell is going to land, as
you know that, but if anybody is
going to get in the way of it and how
many arc going to kick off.
"So if I could be half sure tlie ,
kaiser was going to be there, I
would gladly sit on the Ilig Boy as
she starts on her way. '
"The more I see of this war the
more I think that the Germans and
Prussians must be crushed and Dem
ocracy come Into its own.
"We are going to win, boy, and
.don't forget it. Even in my short
time up here I can see that there are
no soldier fighters in the world like
the Americans. First of all, they
are not afraid to die and are fighting
fools even while dying. Boy, we
found one lone Yank dead in a shell
hole along with five dead Bodies.
Can the Germans win out against
such fighters as that? I should say
not.
"Things are getting pretty active
around here and writing Is out of the
question. Will write again as soon
as we get to our new sector."
Fraternlte, Egallte," in the land of,
the fleur de lis. "Vive I'Empereur" j
was drowned out by the voluminous,
dominant note of his "cock-a-doodle- i
doo." Today he sounds the reveille
of an awakening civilization in a ,
world where vultures and other birds .
of prey will soon have to roost hign !
or keep their claws In their pockets.
Oh, You Engineers.
I drilled for months in a training
camp
Along with lads of a similar stamp.
We tramped all day in the blazing
sun -.
At first without, then with a gun.
Learned all about "Squads East"
and "West,"
But "Squads round about" we did
the best.
Ready at last and off to France
Now we get our longed for chance.
But whadaye think? When we were
landed.
Instead of a gun, a pick we re
handed.
It looks as though we're just about
To try and dig the kaiser out. ,
Sgt. Walter N. Sherer.
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of
A special train of fifteen cars of
cattle and sheep went out of Hepp
ner Friday morning, routed for the
stock yards at Chicago.
The following parties were inter
ested in the shipment:
Matt Hughes of Lone Rock, two
cars of sheep and three cars
cattle.
K. M. Spray, of Spray, two cars o
sheep.
P. H. Peters, of Spray, two cars of
cattle.
Bob CarBner and Hanson Hughes
of Heppner, six cars of cattle.
All this stuff goes direct to the
Chicago market and was In prime
condition on leaving, the yards here
Other shipments from Heppner
this week were Nels Justus, of Lena,
one car of cattle to Benson Commis
sion Co., Porland; R. Instone, of
Lena, one car of cattle to Willard
Commission Co., Portland; Percy
Hughes of Lena, one car of cattle to
Benson Commission Co., Portland,
and F. M. Beck, mixed car of cattle
and hogs to Servier Commission Co.,
of Portland.
On Tuesday morning T. H. Wil
liams of Hardman made a shipment
of one car of cattle to the Portland
market.
The Second Mile
"And whosoever shall compcll thee to go
a mile," says the best business text-book-ever
written, "go" 'with him twain."
I HOW me a man who has made
his mark in the world, and I
will show you a traveler of that
second mile. The eight hours
that his employer compelled
him to go, he went gladly and another
hour or two when no man compelled him.
In that extra hour or two lay his mastery.
"Many spoil much good work," said
Edward Harriman, "for the lack of a little
more." It is the little more that counts
the added weight of work or service, born
of enthusiasm uncompelled, that marks the
difference between little men and big. One
mile of decency and honesty and a full day's
work the law and your own needs compel
you to go; travel it bravely, willingly, hap
bily. But do not stop. For at its end lie
the borders of a richer, greener country,
the land of love and of service and of
growth, through whose midst winds the
broad highway of the second mile.
BRUCE BARTON
porch around two sides of the Ed
Burchell farm house. This porch
is entirely screened in and not only
adds to the appearance of the resi
dence but in a re:;t convenience and
omfort as well.
CHRISTIAN CHl'KCH
Sunday, August 4.
10:00 a. m., Bible School.
11:00 a. m.. Morning worship.
Sermon subject: "Organization and
Government of the New Testament
Church."
8:00 p. m., Preaching service.
Subject: "Does It Pay to Be a
Christian?"
F. A. ANDREWS, Pastor.
BOY GEIS HEAD
CRUSHED BY AUTO
Kive-Year-OItl S.in of J. C. Sharp
Meet Suddtn Death.
Mrs. J. O. Turner came in from
the Turner ranch in Sand Hollow on
Tuesday and is spending the remain
der of the week at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vawter Craw
ford.
Henry Boten and family and
Miss Neva Chidsey went out to the
mountains yesterday, where they
will hunt the festive huckleberry
and spend a short outing.
SIXTH AMIiUAL fl
WILL BE DIFFERENT
Glenn Freeman Sharp, young son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sharp of New
man canyon, was instantly killed
Wednesday morning when an auto
mobile in which he and his two small
brothers were playing ran away down
a hill and turned turtle over a steep
embankment into the canyon. The
other children escaped 'with but
slight injuries.
The car belonged to Percy Hughes
of Butter creek, who had driven to
the Sharp place to look after some
harvesting operations, and left his
car in the road with the brakes set.
The children got into the car to play
and releasing the brakes In some
manner, the car started down the in
cline at a rapid rate with the result
that it turned over the steep embank
ment. Little Glenn was caught be
neath the car and his head crushed,
death resulting instantly.
The boy was nearly five years of
:ige and his sudden death is a hard
blow to the parents. The funeral
will be held at Heppner tomorrow.
Friday, morning.
YOUNG WOMAN OF LEXINGTON
KERS MILL-OTHER NEWS I
DiESAT PAR-
OF
Frunce'ff "Coq D'or" First Chicken
t Cross Road.
The kaiser, in swinging the Im
perial axe of Jiuikerdom across the
neck of Germany, has killed the
goose that laid the golden egg. , The
question will soon be a dead Issue,
and already, here in Francec, a query
of a more constructive nature is
puzzling the American soldier, who
sees golden roosters perched upon
monuments in front of restaurants
mid In other conspicuous places
throughout the country. One of
tho most frequently asked questions
these days is not about the goose
that laid the golden egg, but about
the origin of the egg that hatched
the golden rooster.
The sign of he "coq d'or" had Its
beginning in the old Gallic days and
extended through the period when
Roman dominion thrust Its finger
into the pie that afterwards became
France. The golden rooster, in fact,
was the first chicken to cross the
Koman road. When It became an
established fact that all roads led to
Home, the coq d'or scuttled back and
forth all day.
He is no bird In a gilded cage, but
a gilded bird too big for any cage
All the steel moulded in Essen In the
last forty years has failed to curb
his defiant spirit. German gas may
make him sneeze a bit, and German
schrapnel may carry away a few pin
foathers, but the spurs lie won
whon the world was young are sluk
ing, sharp-pointed and pitiless, into
the vitals of the dying beast Auto-
crocacy.
His was the clarion crow that
auuouucecd the dawn of "Liberte,
SMUT CROP LIGHT
Such is the report made by Messrs.
Boll and Kerns of the Oregon Agri
cultural College. These men work
ing under the supervision of the De
partment of Plant Pathology have
spent the past week in co-operating
with the County Agent checking up
the amount of smut to be found in
the county.
In speaking of their work in this
county they stated that they had
found the fields freer from smut than,
in any other place. They also com
mented on the splendid spirit of co
operation they found among the far
mers of Morrow county. This spirit
of co-operation and desire to better
their condition accounts for the good
work done by the farmers in this
county. A detailed report showing
the condition of smut is being pre
pared and will appear in the near
future.
Miss Muriel Reade, age 19 years,
led at Parkers Mill on Fridayt of
tubercolosls and following an illness
of many months. Funeral services
were held at Lexington on Sunday,
conducted by Rev. J. L. Jones of
lone, and interment was in the
Lexington cemetery.
Miss Reade has resided at Lexing
ton for more than a year past, com
ing from Montana, and during the
past winter made her home with
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Allyn, she
having no relatives here except her
brother, Ralph Reade, who tenderly
assisted in caring for his afflicted
sister. Thinking that her condition
might be improved by the mountain
air, she was removed to Parkers
Mill a short time ago, but the dis
ease had so far advanced that there
could be no help and death came to
claim another victim of the great
white plague.
SUGAR SITUATION SERIOUS
cleaned up on 900 acres of grain
His yield on the fall sown grain is
better than 15 bushels, while the
spring sowing made from 10 to 15
bushels, the later figure being what
he got from a field of Early Baart
wheat. Considering the season, Mr.
Barnett is well satisfied, his grain
all being of fine quality. The Bar
nett outfit moved at once to the John
Piper place where operations began
yesterday. Mr. Piper has !oo acres
of wheat to thresh.
A telegram just received from
Washington Indicates that the al
lotment of sugar to Oregon will be
cut, for the month of August, to two
thirds of the average for April, May,
and June. The amount allowed per
person is lowerod to two pounds per
month. Reports are reaching the
head office that a few people are
purchasing more than thd amount
allowed. If such persons realized
that a possiblo fine of two thousand
dollars may be exacted from them
perhaps they would not take the
chance.
The administration is asking that
people, as far as possible, avoid the
making of jellies and preservos that
require a large amount of sugar and
that the minimum amount be used in
canning. It is the desire of the ad
ministration that all the fruit he
saved, which it is possible to save,
but at the same time there must be
economy in the use of sugar. The
saving of sugar must be done at
much inconvenience, and, in some
cases, It may be a hardship. But It
is better to use sparlrigly now than to
be "without altogether later.
Dealers should keep careful ac
count of all sugar sold on the pres
entation of canning pledge cards and
canning permits. It may be possible
to pecure an allotment for canning
after the regular allotment js made
S. E. Notson, Co Chairman.
Pi-cparlng to Erect Bungalow.
J. R. Jackson, extensive farmer
southwest of Lexington, has caught
the spirit of improvement and li
making preparations to build a nice
bungalow on his place. The plans
are all drawn and the material will
soon be on the way, work to begin
as soon as wheat hauling is out of
the way. The residence will con
tain ten rooms and have full con
crete basement and is to be built
after plans prepared by Mr. Jackson
himself. Recently Mr. Jackson suf
fered quite heavy loss from hail and
had a large portion of 320 acres of
good wheat boat Into the ground
but this has not dampened his ardor
and his building plans, made earlier
in the season, will be carried out.
A Number of Crew Quit.
J. Carmichael had some five nr
six of his threshing crew leave him
Saturday last. They gave no
excuse other than that they desired
to make a trip to Portland and have
a good time for a week, when they
would return, and go to work again.
Mr. Carmichael, however, has no
laid off awaiting their return as they
seemed to anticipate he would, and
at once got busy and filled up the
gaps In his crew and is continuing
right along with the work as though
nothing had happened. These fel
lows were experiencing a little too
much prosperity and had to go to
Portland to get rid of some of it.
The Sixth Annual Morrow County
Fair will be held Sept. 17-18-19 and
will be different from former fairs
in many ways. ' Food conservation
and increased production will be
featured more prominently than ever
before. The U. S. Food Administra
tion has asked space for an exhibit
of food products and will send rep
resentatives here to help the people
along these lines.
The Industrial clubs of the coun
ty will be at the fair with a larger
exhibit than UBual and will show an
exhibit that will be highly Instruc
tive-
Canning contests will be held
daily If arrangements under way go
through. This will be under the
control of people ' who understand
their business and everything will
te explained to the-public by in
structors who know what hey are
doing. Amusement will be provided
by the Board and It will be good
clean and wholesome amusement,
good mi"!lc pr.d a spi?ndid crchestr:
will add much to the pleasure
those attending. The secretary of
agriculture has asked that fairs and
all institutions that help in the con
servation and production of food and
that also amuse and instruct the
people be held as usual. Without
amusement and entertainment our
people would become morbid and
that is a condition that we must
avoid if we are to win the war, and
v, e are going to win the war, and we
a:-c gil:s to win it with a smile on
our faces. Our boys go over the
top cheering, we will go over the
top here with smiling faces and in
this way help cheer our boys over
there.
So lets make this the best fair
ever. Make your plans to come and
by your presence and assistance
keep up the record already estab
lished for our fair.
W. W. SMEAD, Secretary.
Harvest Help.
The harvest help situation has not
changed materialy in the last ten
days. Quite a number of men are
coming In, a good share of whom
make good. A majority of the crews
are working steadily, although oc
casionally short one or two men,
altogether the situation is very fa
vorable. Many farmers have ex
pressed their surprise at being able
to secure help with so little difficulty,
very seldom has it been necessary to
wait more than two or three days
before the needs were supplied. The
value of thorough organization and
understanding among farmers is very
apparent, being responsible entirely
for the small amount of shifting
about of help during the season.
Many operators report little difficulty
in keeping their crews and only in
one or two instances has there been
any reports of one farmer hiring
help away from another. In viewing
the results of this season's work, one
annot help but ask the question,
if co-operation and organization
work so well in the labor situation,
why -would it not work even better
in other lines of farm work?
Now Grain Is Coining In.
New grain is beginning to roll
into Lexington at a lively rate from
tho near-by farms. Cars are also
applied promptly by the railroad and
shipments are going out right olong
The warehouses are somewhat short
of help owing to the men going out
to the harvest fields to work but this
condition may be rolieved as soon as
the real rush begins. Lexington
will have a big lot of grain for export
this fall but the yield is cut short of
what was promised earlier in the
season. As yet we have not been
nblo to got much data on the yield
from the .various farms and expect
to have this later. Grain is of good
quality but does not promise to be
number one.
W ill Build ev Bai n.
Joseph Eskelson lias purchased of
the Tuni-a-Lum Lumber Co., fit
Lexington, and all the material nec
essary, and now lias Hie Mine on me
ground at his Coyote Springs farm
for the construction of a new burn .
The building will be put up I p. lirst
class shape and is 4 0x45 feet, ample
to accomodate a large number of
work animals and mow and abun
dance of hay. Clark Davis will have
charge of the construe! io.i worh
which will begin right aa. The
Eskelson farm is one of the best in
the Social Ridge section and is now
in charge of Mr. Eskelson 's sou.
David Wilson returned to Hepp
ner last evening from a short stay in
Portland. He will go on to Pendle
ton and assume his duties again as
bookkeeper in the First National
Hank of that city, his vacation hav
ing come to a close.
SPECIAL CALL FOR MEN
Will Have Four Sons in Service.
Mrs. C. W. Ranck of this city in
forms this paper that she will soon
have four sons, the Gosney boys, in
the service. Her youngest son,
Elmer Gosney informed his mother
at Heppner on Friday by telegram
from Baker, that he had enlisted and
would leave on Sunday for the train
ing camp. The other boys have
been in service for some time and
some of them are now on the front
in France, the eldest boy being on the
Tuscania when that vessel was tor
pedoed not long ago by a German
submarine.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Anderson
motored over to Pendleton yesterday.
They were accompanied by Mrs. E.
F. Campbell and Mrs. Louis Camp
bell, thel ater returning home after
a visit of a couple of weeks in Hepp
ner. Mrs. E. F. Campbell will visit
at the home of her son, Louis, in
Pendleton for a short time.
Finished Threshing 000 Acres
W. F. Barnett finished threshing
at his farm on Tuesday,
Uncle Marsh White still lingers at
the point of death at his home in
Lexington, and his demise is momen
tarily expected. 11 is evidently
suffering from high blood pressur?
that lias nffected the brain, and for
the past week has lain in a semi
conscious condition, unable to rec
ognize his relatives and friends.
Herman Hill, son of Cashier Hi1.!
cf the Lexington Stat? liank. Is en
joying a vacation at Portland with
hie grandmother, Mrs. ,loh i McFer-ren.
Carpenter Clark Davis haa Just
liavlug finished the work of puttisg a good
The Govern nient wants three men
from Morrow county who are in
Class 1 to go to the Benson Polytech
nic Institute August 13th, for in
struction ' as auto mechanics, black
smiths, carpenters, electricians, ma
chinists, plumbers and sheet metol
workers. Those interested report to
Local Hoard before August 6th, and
save being oral ten.
Morrow County Local Hoard.
With the view to giving instruc
tions on subjects of military nature,
such as Insurance by the govern
ment, allotments, communicable dis
eases and other subjects of military
nature, commissioned officers have
been detailed by the Commanding
Officer at Camp Lewis to address all
registered men of Morrow county,
Oregon.
At Court House in Heppner. Tues
day evening, 8:30 p. in., August
6th.
It is the earnest desire of military
authorities that all registered men
should attend this meeting.
The subjects covered in the ad
dresses will be of great interest to
all registrants and is calculated to
make them more valuable to their
country as soldiers. Do not fail to
be there.
W. W. Sniead, secretary of the
Morrow County Fair Board and F. R.
Brown, County Agent, have been out
over the county this week gathering
up samples of grain to be exhibited
at the coming Morrow County Fair.
They have been able to get a lot of
fine grain.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Akers left
for Portland this morning and will
go on from there to the coast to
spend a few weeks of outing.
BUYS GEO. PERRY RANCH
John J. Kelly of Heppner this
week purchased the George Perry
sheep ranch on Kock creek. This
deal involves :!500 acres of laud, tho
large portion of which is range land
situated in Morrow and Gilliam
counties, and included in the deal
is 2000 head of sheep, a number of
horses and the fanning implements.
Consideration mentioned is $45,000,
and possession passes to Mr. Keilv
October 1st. Mrs. Perry, with the
aid of her young son, Merril Perry,
has been running tho ranch since tho
death of Mr. Perry more than u
year ago. She has not announced
just what her plans are as to tho
future, but she may decide to move
to Heppner and make her home here,