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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, AltilST 1, 1018 PAGE SKVK.1 LEGAL NOTICES. NOTICE. My books were lost In the Are and of course It Is almost impossible to remember all of the numerous small accounts due me. It those knowing themselves to be in my debt will pay .same at once It will be highly appre ciated just at this time. I also wish to make adjustment on unfinished work which had been paid for. If you have paid for pictures not received, and have not already heard from me, let me hear from vou. B. G. SIGSQEE. .on October 14th, 1914, made Home stead Entry So. 013946, tor SEU iNE'i. EViSEVi. SW'ASEVi, Sec Ition 29, Township 1, South, Range !2, East Willamette Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make Final Three Year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before C. C. Patterson. United States Con. , missioner, at Heppner, Oregon, on the 10th day of August, 1918. I Claimant names as witnesses: John T. Kirk, of Heppner, Oregon, ; William B. Tucker, of Heppner, Ore I gon, James G. Doherty, of Heppner, Oregon, Frank L. Wilklns, of Lexing ton, Oregon. H. FRANK WOODCOCK, Register. NOTICE TO CUKMTOHS. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned has bscn appointed by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County, Executrix of the Estate of Charles It. Pointer, deceas ed; that all persons having claims against the said estate must present the same, duly verified according to law, to me at the office of my attor ney, S. E. Notson, in Heppner, Ore gon, within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice, said date of first publication being July 4, 1918. MAUDE POINTER, Executrix. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior, U. S. Land Office at The Dalles, Oregon, June 18, 1918. NOTICE is hereby given that Fred Ritchie, of Lexington, Oregon, who, Gu8 Hoskins anil family were in Heppner Saturday from their home at Three Rock which is about four miles north from Parker's Mill. Gus has a fine crop of grain on his place this seasos 240 acres in Bluestem wheat, which at tills time promises a bumper yield, owing to the abund ant rains that have fallen in his section. Mr. Hoskins has been carving out a good place in the foot hills and remained on the job for a number of years. He contem plates disposing of his place now and moving with his family to the coast country. Eph Eskelson and wife visited in Heppner for ashort time Saturday afternoon from their home at Meadow Brook Farm. Slab and Cord Wood, Utah Lump and Rock Springs Coal Leave Orders with A. Z. Barnard ALBERT WILLIAMS MT. HOOP ICE CREAM Pure -:- Delicious -:- Refreshing Something Special Every Sunday ALL SOFT DRINKS SERVED HERE THE VERY BEST , THE PALM j LOWNEY'S CHOCOLATES , BEST CANDIES After the Fire I am prepared to give special prices on lumber in carload lots used in re building the fire-swept district. Take advantage of this opportunity. H. C. Githens, Lumber Yard HEPPNER FARMERS ELEVATOR CO. Manufacturers and Distributers of White Star Flour and Dealers in Flour, Feed, Grain, Stock and Poultry Supplies MOTION PICTURES ON TRANSPORTS Equipping American transports with motion picture machines and operators, the Y. M. C. A. has solved the problem of the leisure time of the soldiers crossing the Atlantic Ocean to France. The full Y. M. C. A. program is carried out aboard the transports with war work secre taries serving the men, furnishing them with writing paper and en velopes, staging entertainments and looking after their physical, moral nu educational needs. The Y. M. C. A. has 3,480,000 foot of Him on the highseas. Ma chines aboard ship are going at the same time on the upper deck, second deck and perhaps inside lor the officers. What motion pictures mean to the soldiers is shown by this incident which happened on a transport bound for France: A serial motion picture was being shown. An alarm was given that a U-boat had been sighted. Im mediately every man was on deck. A torpedo was launched but missed. The boys waited a few minutes and then one of them turned to an officer and asked, "can we go below now and finish the picture?" Since March the Y. M. C. A. has provided 40,000 to 60,000 feet of film to each boat. The crew and soldiers enjoy them going over and the wounded coming back. Only the best films are used with Mary Pick-: ford, Douglas Fairbanks, Wm. S. j Hart and others as the stars. ! Teaching French soldiers how to play baseball is one of the tasks of American Y. M. C. A. war work . secretaries in France and it some- times leads to surprising incidents.! A Y. M. C. A. secretary was umpiring and coaching two teams of poilus j playing playground ball. The batter took a healthy swing with his small bat and smote the soft ball in a screaming liner straight for the ! pitcher. The latter protected his , face with his hands and the sphere j struck him soggily in the chest. The pitcher's expressive features registered surprise and reproach over this so unexpected assault. As for the batter, did he reach first? He did not. He ran straight for the pitcher, embraced him and apologized for hitting him. THE PRESIDENT BETTERS HIS BEST TO OUR CUSTOMERS Kctuil lumbermen are not profiteers. The Federal Trade Commission and the special Price Fixing Board appointed to fix lumber prices have come to a conclusion; they have fixed prices. We anticipated that this specially appointed Board would come right down the line in th"ir program and fix our prices to you. Instead, they simply fixed prices from the lumber mills to the Gov ernment and to ourselves, the retail dealers. The fixing of lumber prices, especially retail prices, was looked upon by our company, and we believe, practically all other retail dealers throughout the country as a good thing. Prices have advanced, still lumber is not hi;rh. You will appreciate this by examining the fol lowing comparison, and to bring it home to you we have taken as a basis of our comparison the price windi you are receiving for your crops: To illustrate: In 1913, one thousand feet of lumber purchased 73.4 bushels of wheat as against 12.4 bushels in 1917! 1000 feet of lumber bought in 1913 1917 Corn 571 405 Hogs 204 139 Bacon 201 109 Barrels Apples 10 8 Yaids of cotton 328 216 Preceeding the meeting of the special Price Fixing Committee, the Department of Agriculture issued a report styled as Bulletin No. 116, "The Distribution of Soft Wood in the Middle West " the preparaion of which covered a period of more than ayear. The conclusion set forth in this Bulletin evidently had a great deal to do with their failure to fix our selling price to you. For, briefly, this is what the Special Commission had to say about our business There seems No evidence was offered by the Bulletin or the Special Commission to the effect that retailWl ers were overcharging the consumer. Furthermore, the report advises, "that .there is no combination or monopoly in existence in the lumber business, nor is there a tendency to fix prices." Manufacturers and dealers have responded nobly; they have more than lived up to the Government's requirements by meeting the bin war de mands with willingness and dispatch. 6 This report on the part of the Special Price Fixing Committee, and as issued In the Bulletin re ferred to, convincingly proves that we have not overcharged you, and our pledge to you is this- we will continue to keep faith with you, endeavoring at all times to give vou better lumber and better ser vice. Quality and service are the two items that are likely to change, but always for the better. Prices will not be advanced to you so long as the present Government mill price remains in effect. Perhaps at times we have been a little bit slow in expressing our appreciation of the business and support you have given us. This letter cannot be misconstrued as an apology, but we do wish to take advantage of this opportunity in telling you at first hand what the Government has had to say about us, for we know that their opinion will carry more weight with you than any false rumor to the effect that we have overcharged; that we belong to a combine, set up by our mail order competitors and others who are uninformed! We thank you most heartily for the support you have given us. We solicit your future busi ness on the basis of confidence, service and a square deal. Yours very truly, - Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. SEE LEW AT LEXINGTON, BILL AT IONE. HAVE YOU BOUGHT YOUR W.S.S. FOR JULY? (North American War Weekly.) No such Fourth of July address as esssr r th sreu thhhh htthardd daa that of President Wilson at Mount Vernon ever has been or probably ever again will be heard in the coun try's history. The time, the place, the momentous attendant circum stances, might well have overwhelm ed even a veteran and practiced orator of less assured poise. The rostrum was the tomb of George Washington. The audience was the entire world, and audience alert to weigh and ponder and minutely measure every lightest word that might fall from the speaker's lips. And never did an American spokesman for the America" people rise more superbly to a great oc casion than did the president in that remarkable address. It was the ; president at the very high-water mark of the best that is in him. j It easily surpasses anything that he ' has done in the past and it makes 1 it hard to believe that even he can i suprass it by anything he may do in ' the future. It simply was a master piece so near to being flawless in I taste, in style and in virtue sub- j stance that it would be a graceless j and probably a bootless undertaking; to attempt to find a flaw in it. To ; begin with, it was pitched in a tone of grave, serene dignity singularly in harmony not only with the , solemn memories, but even with the mere scenic appeals of the quietly ; impressive landscape surroundings j themselves. The very hush and re- pose of the broad sloping hillside, ' the graceful winding river and the dim hills in the distance beyond are in the speaker's opening sentence. "I am happy to draw apart with you to this quiet place of the old counsel," began the president, "in order to spoak a little of the mean ing of this day of our nation's in dependence. The place seems very still and remote. It Is as serene and untouched by the hurry of the world as it was in thoso great days long ago when General Washington 1 was here and held leisurely confer- ence with the men who were to assist him in the creation of a na tion." Could anything be finer than this? With our own limitations we confess inability to imagine. Nor would we know where to look for its superior in the records of American patriotic! literature. To appreciate it, perhaps, one has but to fancy how easy, and, indeed, how tempting it might have been in a tension so acute, to have struck a more strident note at the outset, and then, by contrast, to feel how harsh and discordant such a faHK.sgparaffl 2222S2Z52; People once went to New York for the Opera Season No w they stay at home with The NEW EDISON FOR this marvelous instrument brings Grand Opera right into their homes. b esq Bjado asjnoo jo 'Xiibj9i 'ea double appeal: to the eye and to the ear. The New Edison can't supply the former but it certainly does the latter. So far as hearing the great artists of to-day is con cerned they themselves can give you no more than The NEW EDISON ''The ''Phonograph nith a Soul." You can't improve upon perfection and this invention Re-Creates the singer's voice with such perfection that no human ear can dis tinguish artist from instrument. The Ed ison tone tests in which the singers have sung in direct comparison with the New Edison have proved this to more than 2,000,000 listeners. More than 1500 01 these tests have been held. More than 30 great artists have appeared in them. Drop into our store to-morrow and hear a demonstration. Oscar R. Otto Heppner, Oregon Edison Re-Creations should not be play ed and cannot be played properly on any other instrument. If they could he, the manufacturers who seek to profit by Mr. Edison's research work would be able to make tone test comparisons, such as have been made with the New Edison before two million mule lovers. w have been. note in such surroundings would!
