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TUT: GIXETTK-TMSS, UUYKKU, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1918.
TITF P 2 TTT TIMTT from t,,e railroad. He is m an sSovlf turning Into ambrosia.
I Mr llA T I I T-I InKl irPlane r011' ould te the A slice of bacon, from a not too
uaumili '""ijifaity, and ts also Sur that it fat hog: a hog that has been fattened
I would require no harder work to on acoras ana pig nuts, ana a bit of
i convince the government of its aoc- corn and clover. Bacon that has
essity than to make the authority at been put down in a brown sugar
The Heppner Oaftte. Kstablisheti
March S. 1!SS.
The Heppner Times, Kstablished
Consolidated February' 13. li:. Washington see the feasibility of brine, and that has hung for days
putting the John Day project through over a alow-sniouldering smudge of
Publuhed every Thursday morninfr by
Vawter Craword and Spencer Crawford
and e itered at the Postoffire at Hepp
ner. Oregon, as second-class matter.
at this time.
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Various boards, politicians and
postal officials have made It very
difficult for newspapers to do bus
iness. The zone system putting sub
scriptions on a cash basis and pro
hibit',. g exchanges, has reduced the
news; aier output to a minimum.
A ( onstant stream of newspapers
announce suspension under new
rulinfrs and increasing cost of labor
and material.
Autocratic orders have in some
cases been revoked by the President,
but active burocrats continue to
make life a burden for publishers.
One average city daily newspaper
was put to an expense of $60p0 to
change its circulation and exchange
system to meet new regulations,
Smaller newspapers find it im
possible to aiake all the reports aud
comply with all the regulations and
demands of the departments.
Of course, after the war some of
these interferences with the liberty
of the press will cease but publishers
are disheartened.
The government has not fully ap
preciated the loyalty or the devotion
of the press in helping put through
every need of our country.
There is not a day but new de
mands for free publicity are made
by various boards and officials on
the newspapers that have been
crippled.
Intentionally or otherwise, the
interference by national authority
with problems involved in getting
out newspapers has gone too far
and must cease. Manufacturer. -
In line with the suggestion recently
put forth that Heppner people begin
work Joward the completion of the
proposed John Day project, S. E.
Notson suggests that we also begin
work at once looking toward the
establishment of an airplane route
into the interior. According to Mr.
Notson it will not be long before the
wagon roads into the interior country
will be very poor, and it will be a
problem for him to get the sugar
quotas to the people living so far 1
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k THK GREAT EXPERIMENT
, (By Franklin K. Lane.)
There is no such thing as' Atarai-
.anism unless Americanism Is in oar
ooul. We have got to feel It first,
and then we have got to put It out
.mung other people.
American is an Inspiration, Auieri-
:an is a spirit. It is the constant
.ttid continuous searching of the hu
man heart for the thing that is
better.
Our wars have been fought by men
cf foreign birth. We see their
names every day in the. list of those
who are dead on the battlefields of
France.
1 here is no such thins as. an
American race, except the Indiana.
We are fashioning out a new people.
We are doing the unprecedented
thing in saying that Slav, Teuton.
Ce'.t, and the otiier races that make
up the civilized world are capable
of being blended here, and we say
this upon the theory that blood
alone does not control the destiny of
man; that out of his environment,
his education, the food he eats, the
neighbors that he has, the work, that
he does, there can be formed aud
realized a spirit, an ideal whfeb. will
iLuster his blood.
We are trying a great experiment
in the United States. Can we gather
together people of different races,
creeds, conditions and asperattous
who can be merged into one?
If we cannot do this, we will tail
indeed, we will have already failed.
If we do do this, we will produce the
greatest of all nations, a new race
that will long hold a compelling
place in the world.
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PIGS ARE PIGS BUT BACOX
SELDOM BACOX
IS
Though you pay 70 cents for a
skimped pound of bacon these 50
cent dollar 'days, do you get the
bacon of your youth?
You do not.
Somewhere in the country there
are probably neighborhoods where
the family smoke house stfll features
the landscape.
And about this time of the year
the squeal of the stuck pig echoes
through the land.
And there is headcheese, and
scrapple, and fresh sausage on the
table, with the buckwheat cakes aud
the maple sirup. ' ",
And out in the smoke bouse there
are hams and shoulders and bacon.
Charter No. 11007 Reserve District No. 13
REPORT OP THE CONDITION OF THE
Farmers & Stockgrowers National Bank
AT HEPPNER, IN THE STATE OF OREGON, AT THE CLOSE OF
BUSINESS ON NOVEMBER 1st, 1918.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discount1? $265,628.56
Overdrafts, unsecured 345.35
U. S. bonds and certificates of Indebtedness owned
and unpledged 5,000.00
Liberty Loan Bonds, 3, 4, and 4V4 per cent, un
pledged : 6,400.00
Securities other than U. S. bonds (not including
stocks) owned unpledged 2,145.00
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per cent of sub
scription) 1,650.00
Furniture and fixtures 2,176.52
Lawful reserve with Federal Reserve Bank 19,058.71
Cash in vault and net amounts due from national banks 67,611.43
Net amounts due from banks, bankers, and trust com
panies (other than included in last 3 items above) 246.30
Checks on other banks in the same city or town as re
porting bank 1,592.61
Total of last 3 items above...- .$ 69,450.39
Checks on banks located outside of city or town of re
porting bank and other cash items 1,377.91
War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps actually
owned 6S.34
TOTAL ' $373,301.7
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in $ 50,000.00
Surplus fund - 6,000.00
Undivided profits $ 6,476.08
Less current expenses, interest, and taxes
paid 3,664.51 2,811.57
Net. amounts due to National banks 39.95
Net amounts due to banks, bankers, and trust com
panies (other than included in above) ' 13.573.S6
Total of last 2 items above 13,613.51
Individual deposits subject to check 265,934.95
Certificates of deposit due in less than 30 days (other
than for money borrowed) . 1,363.69
Cashier's checks outstanding . 3,439.00
Total of demand deposits (other than bank deposits)
subject to Reserve 270,737.64
Certificates of deposit (other than for money bor
rowed) .. 23,426.45
Other time deposits 6,566.91
Total of time deposits subject to Reserve 29,993.36
Cash Letters of Credit and Travelers' Checks out
Standing ... ..... 145.79
TOTAL 1373,301.78
State of Oregon, County of Morrow, ss.
I, S. W. Spencer, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the bent of my knowledge
and belief. t S. W. SPENCER, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of November
1918. . JOS. J. NYS, Notary Public.
My commission expires June 28th, 1919.
CORRECT Attest:
J. W. EBYMER, JOS. M. HAYES, J. G. THOMSON, Director.
(SEAL)
corn cobs and ereen hickory
' No townsman ever tastes that
sort of bacon any more, just as no
townsman ever meets up with a
spiced Virginia ham. or a loaf of
mother's salt rising bread.
Three, or maybe five, strips of
tlot sort of bacon, and one, or
Biaybe tLree. eggs warm from the
hen, and a stack, or perhaps three
stacks, of home made, y east-inflated
buckwheat cakes, with some good
eld country sorghum over th-i lat
: ix, and unsweetened fresh butter,
with real coffee and clotted cream.
That was the sort of breakfasts
that made America, and that ar
now lost in a maze of near foods,
substitutes, bakers truck, and thinly
disguised sawdust, shaving and
"liquid smoked" meats.
We still opine that a spiced ham
uver a hickory fire is the noblest
work of God.
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AXI M E FUJHT FOR IT.
North Bend, Oregon is a typical
enterprising city of the Northwest,
modestly admitting a population of
about 3500.
Allowing for suffrage and basing
the voting strength on one-third of
the population. North Bend should
pell a vote of at least 1000.
Yet in its recent city election
when nine Important charter amend
ments were submitted to the ballot,
including several tax measures, but
56 votes were cast.
Today the people of North Bend,
together with the people of every
other city in the United States are
joining with our allies in fighting
tor liberty and the institution of
democracy. All are doing their
utmost to overthrow the autocratic
Prussian rule and ultimately allow
Che German people that self-government
which we ourslves are privil
eged to enjoy. '
That self-government Is primarily
based upon the ballot and the right
of every qualified citizen to vote.
Now consider the inconsistency of
our stand. We fight to institute
democratic government, where a
monarchy now exists. We contend
that the horrors of Prussian rule
are due to inequality of voting
power among the people yet we
who have the privilege of the ballot,
we who are entitled to the highest
privilege of citizenship, exercise
Jiat right to the tune of 56 out of
1000.
The instance of North Bend is no
striking exception to the rule these
days, when a 40 vote is considered
a fair showing.
It Is a question whether the Ore
gon System is at fault, necessitating
as it does that the voter exercise
considerable time ond thought be
fore fasting his vote or a general
willingness to let the other fellow
do it. But the result is the same
apd- the citizens of Oregon should be
ashamed of the lack of true Ameri
canism manifested repeatedly by
remaining away from the polls of
every precinct in the state.
Our forefathers who fought for
the privilege of the vote, used It
and used it wisely but our later
generations not having fought for
it, feeling that we have it as part of
our inheritance are willing to waste
or discard It. Oregon Voter.
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A POOR COMBINATION.
A quart of whiskey and a pro-German
conviction appear to be a poor
combination if the experience of one
of the leading millmen of Oregon is
evidence.
This gentleman, one of the chief
officials of one of die largest mills
in the state, expressed his devotion
to a quart of whiskey and the kaiser
on a recent trip.
A United States deputy marshal
happened to be on the train and
promptly arrested the millman on a
sedition charge, and the local
authorities added a charge of
violating the prohibition law.
Within 24 hours the gentleman
had resigned his position, his em
ployes had passed resolutions of
loyalty to the government, and
customers of the concern from
three states had countermanded
their orders.
The combination of whiskey and
alien sentiments is considerably
more deadly than a bomb, and a
quick fuse sizzling towards the in
wards of the bomb.
But we consider it much better
for. the nation that this millman be
exposed and ousted and made in
nocuous than that he retain his Im
portant position, and his kaiseristic
opinions.
Walla strong for temperance still
we might favor the wholesale in
toxication of a lot of alien thinkers
in this country, that to date have
escaped Justice by keeping their
moaths shut.
'LOOKS 1JKK A GOOD PROPOSI
TION FOR EDITORS.
A number of onr exchanges have
been speculating on what would
happen if the government took over
the newspapers. Well, the first
thing the subscription price would
be raised about 60 per cent and the
sheriff would be kept busy chasing
delinquents. The next step would
be to raise the wages 25 per cent
and editors who hadn't had a cent
in six months they could call their
own, would be placed on a salary.
The merchants who fail to get their
ad copy in until press day would be
hauled up before the council of
defense and our lino-type man who
hired out for two weeks and quit
his. job in a week would be sent to
Leavenworth for about ten years as
a deserter. It looks like a good
proposition and we are for it. The
Falrbury, Nebr., News.
Weddings of the Week.
Judge J. P. Williams has been
holding matrimonial court this
week and reports the following
weddings:
Jeff McFerrin and Amy D. Craw
ford of this city, were married on
Saturday evening. These are well
known people of the community and
will continue to make their home
here.
On Monday the Judge united
Robert Lowell Brinson of Heppner
to Miss Vina Thorp, also of this
city. These young people "will
make their homo at the Hamilton
ranch, where Mr. Brinson is employed.
Who Was Xo. 30014?
The above is the number that gets
the emblamatic quilt donated to the
Red Cross by . Mrs. Edwards and Mrs.
..u.sier. The drawing was held today
at the store of Thomson Brcs., lutts
Miss Margaret Becket of Eight Mile
Uvawiiia u.e ab.r. ,..
hat. The proceeds from the sale of
this quilt netted the tied cross
$74.20.
W. K. Corson and Carl Miller,
business men of Lexington,, made a
short visit in Heppner last evening.
Duck Lee returned home Tuesday
evening from Tacoma, where he had
been during the summer. He says
ho is mighty glad to te in Heppner
again.
Vawter Crawford returned home
from a stay of a couple of months
in California on Saturday. He was
at Oakland and worked some of the
time In San Francisco.
Ben and Sam Brown, prosperous
farmers of Lexington, who recently
moved onto a new place, are busy
getting In their fall grain. Much of
this Is up and looks fine, giving
promise of a big yield the coming
season. ,
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POULTRY1
AT THE
HEPPNER MEAT MARKET
H. C. ASHBAUGH, Proprietor.
Hi
FRESH AND CURED MEATS, POULTRY
AND LARD. FISH IN SEASON.
Finest quality meats at the lowest possible price.
Phone Main 23
r
F. A. McMenamin, for the Farm
ers Exchange, conducted a very suc
cessful sale on Tuesday at the Bar
ney McDevitt place in Juniper can
yon. A fair sized, enthusiastic crowd
of people were in: attendance and
bidding was keen. Farm implements
and livestock brought . good prices
and Mr. McDevitt was well pleased
with the results obtained. The day
was ideal, pleasant and warm and
the chicken dinner prepared by the
ladies of the McDevitt household was
surely appreciated by the crowd and
was a great treat. Mr. McDevitt ex
pects to retire from active farming
and will hent his place.
Gat the Genuine.
and Avoid
Watte.
Economy
Every Cake
The Bans
oAre Lifting
No license is now necessary, regardless
of coat, for the erection o farm buildings,
flour and feed mills, wheat warehouses,
and grain elevators, according to an an
nouncement from the non war construc
tion section at Washington, D. C, received
by the State Council of Defense.
The telegram reads: "War industries
board has removed, effective at once, all
restrictions on all buildings including
houses and garages costing not more than
$10,000. Between $10,000 and $25,000
. State Council of Defense can issue licen
ses. Above $25,000, Washington approval
necessary. No license necessary irrespec
tive of cost on farm buildings, flour and
feed mills, railroads and public utility
work, highways, streets and bridges .
wheat warehouses and grain 4 elevators.
When schools, churches, hospitals and
municipal buildings do not cost oevr
$25,000 they can go ahead?"
Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co.
Lexingti
on
lone
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Quickly Wears Away
DEOPLE sometimes dread to enter a
bank; this is simply because they
are not familiar with the customs of
business. But this feeling of embar
assment quickly wears away with those
who deal at this bank; at least we try
to have it so. We want every customer
to feel easy and at home.
The First "National 'Bank
Heppner, Oregon
RESOURCES MORE THAN A MILLION AND A HALF
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