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
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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.
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have been.
note in such surroundings would!