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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1919)
rxr.r. sit TT1E GAZETTK-TIME8, HEPPXER. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH B, 1910. ft Best for tie West Established 1885 U123 Delicious Sweet Corn "Golden Bantam" Exceptionally early and in flavor and tenderness not equalled by any other variety. The ears fire short and compact and the kernels plump and creamy. This and a thousand other veg etables best for the West, may be selected from JjlJ catalog and found at your dealers. fe f ff Write fljrq Seattle or Portland for Catalog, Free. The Best Printing Reasonably Priced. The G.-T. LEGISLATIVE FREE LARGE! Salem, Ore.. March 3. A rancher took his little boy up to show hiui the legislature. The chaplain was ofa'.'.!- p.iyer an J t!e boy asked his father why he did that. Tim ' father said.- he took one look at the members and then docid.d .it wa., time to pray. There is usual feeling .of relief that the session Is over and hope expressed tint it may never happen again. While there is cause for complaint, many constructive acts are cited to their credit. " ! Two thing.-' done that will be most kicked at are the automobile tax and dog tax. House and Senate ! compromised at last minute before j adjourning, and -result was about ; doubling gascar income, raising it to j $400,000, tMs including a county I property tivX i f ''a 'per cent to be added on each license fee, which is doubled to begin with. Then there is a cent a gallon added on gasoline. , That went into effect Friday and ! price lumped a cent automatically all over the state. It is estimated gas tax will average about six dollars a year and average motor car tax will be about twelve dollars. The four big oil distributing companies collect gas tax and remit monthly to state. The dog tax collected by stata ' win ba two ptunks per canine, and nis dogsiiip must wear a muzzle CRIBBING LINES FROM JACKIE'S MIDDY MR. CAR OWNER Has your storage battery just been rebuilt? If so, do you know what you paid lor? Tid ycu have a battery loaned you t run on while your battery was bo ing repaired? If ?ny little thing went wrong af terv.r"d did you get any service on your battery? We have a first class battery man on the job all the time. He will take care of your battery at all times. You can see what you are paying for and receive service on your battery in the futures Besides, we -save you express charges bath ways and several days time. All Work Guaranteed Rivers & Ackley -'yxxi f i ill liwloa i mm Aim l cfh m Home Portraiture For the month of March, Portraits in the home or at Room 16, Barnard Rooming House. Make an appointment. C. S. Reeves Snug fitting waist to hipline and breast pocket notion's of this ruBt-colored cloth gown were surely cribbed from the sailor's middy, but whence the inspiration of the black satin ribbon banding and cascaded skirt? . KEEP YOUR CHICKENS FIT There is no money made in feed ing your chickens high priced grain without keeping their sys tems in perfect condition. LE GEORS Poultry Powder Will Do It We have the exclusive sale of these celebrated remedies. PHELPS GROCERY COMPANY when oif his own premises. No one admits bavins seen the bill at any stage of its passage. Until the law is published no ens will know what rights their dogs have in this world. It has no emergency clause but if anyone took trouble to refer.it to a vote of the people it would be voted down. It is admitted by revenue officers that the tax cannot be col lected and the law cannut be en forced a.id as a measure to encourage slitfp industry it will be a dismal failure. It will be simply chats in the hunting season. The light over creating office of Lieutenant Governor lasted until the last minute of session, the Housa trying to recall it after it was agreed to. It goes to vote June 3, along with grist of bonding bills. Before adjourning Senator Pierce rushed through his one mill road tax levy that will add over a million dollars to road funds, This is besides ten million bond issue, Roosevelt five million bond issue, $300,000 a year from gasoline and distilate, and Eddy bills of five million bonds for recon struction plans. With war taxes, other state,. county and local taxes, there will be some taxes to pay. While Governor Withycombe has been confined to his home during i'iu ii the closing days of the ses sion, he has been able to attend to all the important duties of his office and sign all bills and acts of the legislation requiring his attention. If the constitutional amendment creat ing the office of Lieutenant Govornor is ratified by the people is June he will appoint a Republican to that office, while at present the succession devolves on the. Secretary of State who fills both offices in such an emergency. l'lie :j.d curtesy and dower law has been restored after trying plan en acted in 1917 of allowing survivor of a marriage the right to elect within one year to take one-third the prop erty in tee simple in lien of rights under curtesy or dower. For fifteen years the grange demanded change made in 1917, but some people- now demanded that state go back to old law. It simply shows people do not always know what they want or that what they do want is good for them. In debate over oleomargarine law State Federation of Labor and Grange parted company. State Grange Master Spence was on the floor lobbying for a prohibitive tax on oleomargarine or substitutes fur but ter In Interest of Btate dairymen. Rep. Smith and Hor'ne of state Labor dele gation were on other side of rail lighting the bill tooth and nail as a bill to deprive poor people from buy ing harmless substitutes for high priced butter. They pulled all the teeth out of the bill and the price of butter that had gone up ten cents a pound In a week will probably begin to go down again now that retailers can sell oleo as of yore. A heavy tax was imposed on manufacturer and jobber that the consumer will have to pay. The big constructive fight of the session vas made by Hop. Smith of Baker. Rep. Gallagher of Ontario, and Jay Upton of Prineville and II. W. Gard of Madras of third house for new self-executing amendment to Constitution to create and finance ir litaiisn and drainage district. It is a fifty-fifty proposition Between slate and federal government. To realize Its importance, just one district unit in Jefferson coumy of 100,000 acres of land will be changed in value from $10 an acre to $150 an acre. The difference between water and no water is shown by the Madras dis trict in 1916, when they had rain, shipping to Portland 879,000 bushels of wheat and in 1917 when it did not rain much they shipped out only 66,000 bushels. Forgiving all Its sins of omission and commission here Is one act western and eastern Oregon can agree on for draining wet land and irrigating dry laud and all vote for it on June 3. come $174.77 34 cents an hour. The survey in Oregon has been begun by C. S. Urewster of the College poultry department, who has established three denionstiation farms in Shennaarounty. The work will be rapidly extended until it coyers every poultry producing dis trict of Oregon. J aoli)vkathi:hvarm;. j ! Congealing Oils Indan;5r Motors, j j "Hard cranking end sluggishness jot the motor in cold weather usui.llyl indicates a serious condition in the i motor due to the use of a poor cold test oil, one that congeals or thickens i O., A ...... 1. .. . I uuu uura nut luuricate correctly in cold weather," said Mr. Geo. Milhol and, Special Agent of the Staudard Oil Company yesterday. "A poor cold test oil will not flow and p?j:ierly lubricate until it has been warmed by the motor running for some rtfteeu to thirty minutes, during which time excessive friction is present and serious wear takes . (.lace in the cylinders and bearings. "Motorists can avoid this danger and annoyance by -using Zerolene which is refined from California crude of the naphthene series. This oil has a natural zero cold test be cause It contains no paraffine to congeal at low temperatures. It Itteps the motor 1'oxiMo and easy to turn over during cedd weather and insures correct lubrication of the automobile right from the start." Jas. Carty, extensive sheepowher of Lexington was d ing business in Heppner on Tuesday. FARM POULTRY INCOMES WILL BE ASCERTAINED Record Systems to Be Installed by Collejto Poultry Department on Demonstration Farms. ft Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis, March 1. Farm poultry pays, and the poultry department has plan ned to establish a system of records on poultry demonstration farms in Oregon to obtain accurate statistics on farm poultry incomes. The second highest income on Ohio farms is from poultry, accord ing to figures compiled by the federal department of agriculture from a recent survey of 25 representative farms. Nearly half of these farms realized more than $200 from poul try and eggs, and the general average was $169. "This was accomplished without serious interference with other farm operations," says the re nnrt. Yet the hens were weak ! layers, averaging 86 eggs a year, j and prices were low ranging from 16 to 38 cents a dozen. I Aside from leading livestock re ' celpts the 'poultry incomes were dis : trlbuted throughout the year, while ! poultry was an important source of i the home food supply. I The average flock of 124 birds on ! mire than a thousand farms surveyed : In Indiana returned incomes o $361.66. The average cash balance jwas $218.44, and the net labor in- or Sale Pure Bred Belgian Stallion BOURDON PRINCE No. (8807), was foaled June 18, 1914. Weight at present time 1975. Is full bro ther to Grand Champion Mare of Iowa, Jollie De Thimson No. (4117). .Will sell for cash or take in exchange young stock, horses or cattle. Would consider taking automobile in good mechanical condition. He is sound, well broke, kind disposition, with no bad habits. Sure foal getter. Offspring can be seen at my place. E. NORDYKE LEXINGTON, OREGON. Time for Spring Work Approaching , The time is rapidly approaching whenMt will be necessary to begin Spring farm work. ARE YOUR IMPLEMENT POSSESSIONS SUFFICIENT FOR YOUR NEEDS.? The world needs food, and more food, and it be hooves every farmer to raise as large crops as possi ble this year. LET US HELP BY SUPPLYING YOU WITH UP-TO-DATE, LABOR-SAVING FARM IMPLEMENTS. Gilliam & Bisbee Morrow County's Pioneer Hardware Dealers Peoples Cash Market FRESH AND CURED MEATS POULTRY AND FISH C. D. Watkins, Prop'r Heppner, Oregon
