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YOFMBS. STREED
FOUND IT THE DALLES
Mysterious IHsapiieuraiit'e of Mother
and Two Young Daughters
Accounted For.
Mrs. Laura Strted, of Portland, a
sister of Mrs. Mike Szepaneck resid
ing near the mouth of Saud Hollow,
and who with her two littlo daugh
ters, aged three and four years had
been visiting for a month at Jhe
Szopaneck home mysteriously dis
appeared at Arliugton on the 'l lth
of April. Mrs. Streed had left the
Szepaneck home to return to her
homo In Portland. They came to
Hcppner and . remained over night,
taking the train from here. At
Arlington they left the train and
went to a restaurant for dinner, and
Mrs. Streed left her suitcase there.
The first word received was when
a letter arrived last Friday at tilt
Szepaneck home addressed to Mrs.
Streed, and from this it was learned
that Mrs. Streed had not reached
Portland. Search was at once in
stituted by Mr. Szepaneck and the
husband, who resides at Portland.
They went to Arlington, where they
got their first clue upon discovering
the suit case. Inquiry at this point
led to the belief that the woman and
girls had taken a train as far as
Umatilla, where all trace of them was
lost.
The theory seemed to prevail, how
ever, that the woman had destroyed
herself and the two children, this
being based somewhat on a circum
stance that happened at Heppner.
While here, Mrs. Streed spent the
night at the Wilson hotel, and it was
currently reported that she attempted
suicide by taking some poison, and
when 8he had taken the drug Bhe
suddenly repented of her act and
gave the alarm, when proper relief
was administered and her life was
Baved. At any rate, it was noted that
the woman seemed to be suffering a
Btrange hallucination and acted very
queer.
Search was kept up along the river
above and below Arlington, and on
Tuesday afternoon at 2:80, the word
came to Sheriff Shutt at Heppner that
the body of one of the girls had been
recovered from the river about four
miles below Arlington.
This morning the body of MrB.
Streed was taken from the river at
The Dalles, and it is believed now
that the tragedy was enacted about
two miles below Arlington. No
reason for the deed can be given
other than the unbalanced mind of
the mother, which condition no
doubt was brought about on account
of her poor health, from which she
had suffered for many months.
Senior Picnic.
About 6:30 four carloads of
Seniors, armed with Miss Thiele, as
official chaperon; plenty of smiles,
eats and an axe, headed toward the
picnic grounds on Rhea Creek. They
were accompanied by Delbert Wright
and Charles Chick as guests of
honor.
After reaching the grove, the first
important thing on the program,
following a three-legged race, was
the supper. One of such a size, had
perhaps never disappeared quite so
rapidly before that particular bunch
of Seniors. The Seniors' birthday
cake, of course, held the place of
honor and the four candles were at
length blown out.
After supper, as the physical con
dition of the guests improved, the
fun began in earnest: At intervals,
the crowd would gather about the
huge fire to rest and tell stories. It
was announced that a prize would
be given to the person telling the
biggest "yarn" and many quite
alarming facts were soon related. We
all thought that Miss Thiele deserved
the prize but it was finally awarded
to Edward Notson.
When the UBual number of marsh
mallows had been toasted and dis
posed of, a happy crowd of young
folks piled Into the cars and started
for home.
The cars met In the upper end of
town at about 12:30 and
But if you want to know the rest
of the story, you might ask some of
the town people whether Ihey heard
any noiBe. SENIOR.
To assist in the coremonies of
celebrating the 100th asnlversary of
Odd Fellows, some thirty members
of the I. O. O. F. and Rebekah
lodges of Heppner were in atten
dance at the big Umatilla gathering
in Pendleton on Saturday. At this
time a district association of Odd
Fellows was organized, formed from
the lodges of Umatilla and Morrow
counties. The big celebration at
Pendleton on Saturday was greatly
enjoyed by all those who attended
from this city.
Aim Junes Ut'at-hp-4 home.
Alva Jones,- son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jeff Junes of this city, reached home
from over seas on Tuesday, coming
In from Portland with Phill and
Huivid Colin and enjoying the fine
ride up the Columbia over the high
way. Alva spent just seventeen
months in France, and during all of
this time he was having active ser
vice. He went over with the 41st
Division and was later transferred
to the 2nd Division, and his activities
took him over the most of the battle
front. Alva landed in New York on
the 11th and was discharged at
Camp Lewis the past week. He
is well pleased to be home again and
foals that he has had about all the
army life he desires.
FOR SALE.
I have for sale at my place near
Lexington, the following: 4 three-year-old
mules, 2 twa-year-olds and
2 yearlings; also 10 head of young
horses from 2 to 4 years old. This Is
all good stock. Terms, cash, bonds
or bankable notes. F. E. MASON.
ral-3t
We know the most horrible secret
its something you folks ought
to know";
Some people say they don't
like Heppner, because there's
No place they can go.
No place to sit round in the
evening,
No place we can hear our band
play.
Where we kids can all scream and
tease dad for ice cream
Can't you see things are not what
they seem?
Chorus.
We little boys all want a park in
Heppner,
We little girls all want a park in
Heppner;
Why don't you get it,
We'll advocate it;
We want a place where it is soft and
green,
The streets are nothing but sharp
stones and cobbles,
They hurt our feet so much we
limp so much and wobble,
We want a play ground,
Some place to play round,
Why not have a little park in
Heppner?
So now you all know what we are
here for its something you'll all
work for.
So strangers can say they all like
Heppner and feel welcome to come
and to go.
We'll have a nice park in our
city,
We'll enjoy to hear our band
play;
Us kids'l yellf roirip and scream,
Sis'U sit there and dream,
life will be just oue glorious dream.
Thus sang the children with lusty
voices at the Star theater last even
ing, under the direction of Miss Hazel
Radabaugh, musical Instructor of
the High School. The song Is a home
production, prepared for the occasion
by Miss Radauaugh, and it beflttingly
expressed the Bentiment of the enter
tainment given under direction of
the Ladies Civic Club, in which local
talent joined, with the theater man
agement, the object being to raise
a park fund for Heppner. Little tots
from the fifth grade down joined
with some of the older pupils In the
singing of the "Park Song" and it
took mighty well with the big
audience assembled.
Others assisting with the program
were Miss Gladys Lane, Mrs. Roy
Cochran, and Miss Dorothy Pattlson,
who each sang solos, and Miss Blanch
Minor, who recited several well
chosen selections in a highly credit
able manner.
Some fine films were run through
by Mr. Slgsbee, and several young
ladies sold candies and ice cream
cones through the audience. The
net results in cash to the Civic Club
were better than $100. Of this
amount, over sixty dollars was turned
In from the theater receipts, the
balance coming from the goodies sold.
The Indies are very much delighted
over the success of this, their Initial
effort in raising funds for civic Im
provements, and they are profuse in
their thanks to the theater manage
ment, as well as all others who con
tributed to the success of the enter
tainment. They will now proceed in the work
of putting the fair grounds park in
shape for the entertainment of visit
ors to the city, as well as making it
a suitable play ground for the kiddles
and a place of recreation and comfort
for old and young alike. May their
efforts along this line be just as suc
cessful as was their first benefit entertainment.
SPRING'S
Memorial Day, May 30
A Timely Article from "The National Tribune"
Every newspaper you pick up thest
days advertises some kind of sport
that "will start May 30."
Why May 30? What on earth
makes all the ball players, fist fight
ters, tennis champions and golf fiends
want to start on May 30.
Some fool women in New York
have a new fad. They wr.nt to have
a parade of broken-down work horses
on May 30. A lot of thci:e sporty,
gnat-brains come right out and say
"on Memorial Day." We will be glad
and don glad rags and root for our
favorite fad in sports.
All this is deplorable. Not the
sports themselves, but the tendency
to fasten in the minds of the Amer
ican people the idea that Memorial
Day, May 30, which is a legal holiday
In 40 States in the Union, is estab
lished for a joyous holiday, much
play and more eating. We have
about 20 joy days; I guess more
when you sum them all up, so why
seize upon the most sacred of all our
holidays to start the sporting season.
May 30 has come to be recognized
in every State but the really South
ern States as the National Sabbath
of Patriotism. A day when men,
women and children should pause
and gather in social centers to tell
the tales of heroism of the men who
wore the blue, and to reflect on what
that heroism means to us who are
living today.
The day was established by the
Grand Army of the Republic, May
30, 1868, for the purpose of com
memorating the Ideals .of the dead
of the Union Army, a day that has
been held in such tender respect that
40 of the greatest States of the
Union have gravely incorporated it
Into their laws, not for "sports" but
that the people of the State might
pause for a day and think of their
mighty dead.
A veteran soldier said of Kansas:
"States are not great, except as men
may make them.
Men are not great, except they do
and dare."
But for the men who fought the
battles for the Union, and their
sturdy contention for right and
justice for many years after the
battle-flags were furled, the United
States would be only a third-rate
nation today.
But for the four years of awful
fighting, when the Nation's life was
in the balance, there would be no
nation today. We would be in the
condition of the waspish little na
tions controlled by banditti overseas.
The right won at a cost in lives and
money that staggered the Nation.
The Uulted States Government did
mighty little for the returning veter
ans compared with what Is being
done today. There were no trium
phal arches in enduring marble, no
pensions commensurate with the
perils endured, no waiting jobs, no
soft berths for returning soldiers.
DREAM
1 The returning armies passed in re-
army of tramps, in appearance, and
went home in that plight. The fires
were dead in the forge, the farms
had grown to weeds, the carpenter's
tools were rusty, and the boys wefe
too old to take up the dog-eared
school books they had left in the
knife-scarred desks. There were no
"vocational" schools, no schools for
blinded .soldiers. The shell-shocked
w ent on in that condition or .died in
insane asylums. i
Yet out of all this riot of ruin the
men who made the Union rose su
preme, and for more than 40 years
after the war were the guilding ele
ment in the Nation. They opened
the great West and followed the sun
to its setting out over the Pacific.
They penetrated the forests of the
North into the gold fields of the
Yukon. They built great factories
in the East, and made the Middle
West the granary of the world ami
gridironed it with railroads, with
telephone wires.
There were two and a hah' million
men in the Union Army, and only u
little over half of these came back
the rest of thcin
" "Rest where they wearied
And lie where they fell"
under Southern skies, thousands of
them in unknown, unmarked graves.
Their comrades have followed them
till a scant 300,000 are left. These
walk weariedly and alone toward the
West. 4Soon they, too, must go to
rest
"In the little green tents."
For these men, dead and living,
Memorial Day was established. Isn't
It the very least that any of us can
do to let the world slip out of sight
for a little while just a day and
remember for that one day all the
honors, all the material wealth, if
you will, that these two million and
a half have brought to us and ours?
Ah, but that isn't all!
The Spanish-American War laid
tribute at the feet of a reunited
country. Over in Arlington I saw
on daj 200 flag-draped coffins, beside
200 open graves. They were the
dead of the Maine, and I had the
honor to be one of five who held the
first commemoration exercises over
the Maine dead.
We honor all the Spanish War
Veterans wherever we find the little
mounds.
And the dead of this war: They are
as blades of grass for number, over
9,000,000 sleeping here and overseas
and 'neath the ocean's waves. Fully
100,000 of them sleep because
America bade them do or die.
And in spite of all these millions
of dead, whose names the people of
the country will houor in their
hearts on Memorial Day, the miser
able, short-sighted unpatriotic,
sport-drunk men and women will
'"pen the sport season" on Memorial
J-jlm Elder arrived at Heppner
Tuesday evening, coming in from
I'trl'aiid with Phill Colin. He ar
rived from France about the first of
April, and at that time was not feel
ing any too good and was sent tu a
hospital. Being so near home, how
ever, John was not satisfied to be
held up for three or four weeks, and
succeeded in convincing the hospital
doctor that he was all right and he
was allowed to take up his journey
homeward. After his discharge at
Camp Lewis, John visited for a few
days at Eugene, where he attended
college before enlistment, and he
', will go on out to Ultter, where his
parents live, the first of the week.
(John served with the fighting medics
I In the army and Is fully satisfied
, wun the measure of army life he
received. It is four years since he
left Heppner. " 4
DR. TURNF.h COMING.
Dr. Turner, the well known
- J ujivv.Mi.ji . ... uc an itcjjr
ner again Tuesday and Wednesday,
May 6th and 7th. Consult him at
Barnard's Rooming House over Pat
terson's Drug Store. Dr. Turner will
also be in lone Thursday, May 8th,
one day only. Consult him.
HEPPNER PEOPLE ENJOY
An unexpected pleasure was en
joyed by Mr. and Mrs. Emmet
Cochran and Messers. Bisbee, Thom
son and Clark at Lena on Friday last,
the occasion being me closing ex
ercises staged by three school Bis-
trlcts in that vicinity. The school
children were joined by the people
cf the surrounding community and
the exercises were held In a grove at
the cross roads at Lena, Teachers
of the schools taking part were
Misses Josephine McDevitt, Myrtle
Miller and Grace Leathers.
The program was carried out to
perfection in God's own stadium
blue skies above, green grass and
trees below forming the proper
setting, for the following:
Salute the Flag.
"Come, Let's Make a Garden" by
Maxine Vincent, Veda and Darrel
Hiatt, Gerald Swaggart, Edwin
and Anita Hughes and Earl Avers.
Hesitation, "Johnny's History Les
son," by Earl Ayers.
Song, "Lullaby."
Horse races, bucking contest, fat
ladies' race, (Mrs. Thompson. refused
to move from the post just baby
you know), boy's races and girl's
races. The excerciscs closed by all
singing the "Star Spangled Banner."
After this was a big feed in the
grove, with plenty left for a mid
night supper to be enjoyed by all
those who enjoyed the all night
J a nee.
It was truly a royal event in which
fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers,
sweethearts and friends joined to
have and to give a jolly good time
and so it was.
Firemen Attention.
All firemen are requested to report
it i he Hill & Johns' Garage at 7:30,
Friday evening for drill. The drill
will be lie d at the corner near the
' If grounds just before the super
llulty sale. Citizens invited to be
present and see the demonstration
of the new truck.
Mr. and Mrs. Vawter Crawford
returned Tuesday from a visit of
several days at Eugene and Portland.
While at Eugene, Mr. Crawford at
tended a conference of the newspaper
men of the state, gathered at the
School of Journalism on the Univer
sity campus, where problems of in
terest to the editors and printers
were discussed for a couple of days
with much profit. These conferences
will now become an annual event
and they should be attended more
largely by the fraternity.
Mrs. Oscar Borg departed for
Portland Monday, to spend a short
time visiting with friends in the city.
Day.
I remember one President of the
United States who declined to visit
Arlington on Memorial Day, and who
went fishing instead. His name was
held up to scorn and obliquy. The
country never forgot or forgave.
Yet it is openly advertised that
golf and tennis and baseball and a
work horse parade will open on May
SO.
And two million and a half of
Union veterans, many thousand
Spanish War Veterans, and 9,00,000
men of all countries, hardly cold In
their graves.
"Lie dead for me and you"
this May 30. Isn't there enough real
honest-to-goodness patriotism in this
country to call off these dogs of
sport and permit the country to get
hack to the spirit of other days?
ISABEL WORRELL BALL.
ER-SUBSCfiiPTION OF
LOAN IS RECOMMENDED
San Francisco, April 30. George
K. Weeks, head of the Victory Loan
campaign in" the Twelfth Federal
Reserve District, in a bulletin Just
issued says:
Liberty Loan workers should not
gain the Idea that, because the Sec
retary of the Treasury has announced
that Victory Loan Notes, will not be
allotted in excess of the $4,500,000,
000 fixed as the amount of this Loan,
work can stop In any locality as soon
m its quota Is obtained.
A substantial over-subscription ot
the Loan is very desirable:
FIRST: BECAUSE OF ITS EFFECT
ON PUBLIC SENTIMENT,
(a) Politically: The peace treaty has
not yet been signed. There is In
disputable evidence that many
German statesmen believe tbeir
opponents are war-weary and that
a show of their defiance may result
in their avoiding proper reparation
for their aggressions. A large
over-subscription of the Victory
Loan at the present time will have
an immense moral influence In all
of the capitals of Europe.
b) Effect on Business: Confidence
is the foundation stone of pros
perity. A large over-subccriptlon
of the Victory Loan will do more
than any other one thing to
stimulate business and strengthen
the markets for all other American
securities.
SECOND: BECAUSE OF ITS EF
FECT ON THE MARKET VALUE
OF THE VICTORY NOTES.
A large over-subscription will tend
to establish a market value for the
Victory Notes at or above the issue
price. When the great bond houses
offer for subscripticn an important
new issue of bonds they conduct an
Intensive selling campaign and when
the subscriptions come in if there is
the slightest question as to the
market for -the new issue offered,
they "over-allot" that is, they con
firm sale of more bonds than there
are in existence. This, to the unit
iafced, may seem a surprising proced
ure. It is adopted because exper
ience has shown that there are
always a certain number of cancella
tions. Orders are duplicated. Subscri
bere ask for more bonds than they
really expect to get, or change their
minds. If, therefore, all subscriptions
except just enough to make up the
issue are rejected at the end of the
selling campaign, these cancellations
immeliately throw a wet blanket of
bonds on the market and the market
declines. On the other hand, if sales
have been confirmed in excess of the
amount of bonds available, these
cancellations are taken care of in
advance, there is strong bidding for
bonds to take care of the "short"
sales, the market advances, and
thousands of subscribers al! over the
country are pleased. The issue is a
success.
The Treasury Department has
sought to adopt the same principle
in limiting allotments of the Victory
Notes. If these Notes are 100
over-subscribed, the large subscribers
w ill be cut 'down and many citizens '
who really want the Notes as an in
vestment will be in the market to
purchase Notes coming from others
wiio are subscribing merely for ap
pearances, and do not intend to hold.
Do not be satisfied at "going over
the top" with the amount of your
quota. Keep right on going and
storm the enemy's trenches with a
100 over-subscription. A country
wide over-subscription of this magni
tude will pay big dividends in de
veloping political and business con-
ndence and In making a record for
Victory Notes as a war offering which
held its issue price.
Robert R. Ray of Cloverdale, Ore.,
accompanied by Mrs. Anna Lucy and
her daughter, Miss Eleanor, of Port
land, came in on Tuesdays train for
a visit of a week at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Her of this city. They
are brother and sister of Mrs. Her,
and Mr. Ray has just returned from
service over seas. Ho was In the
heavy artillery and saw service in the
battles of the Marne, St. Mihiel and
Argonne and is a veteran fighter. He
has been in the service for two
years, and upon being discharged,
re-enlisted and will return to Camp
DIx, N. J., leaving here on the 6th.
Miss Margaret O'Rourke went to
Portland Thursday last to interview
the federal authorities in regard to
her passports for Ireland. Miss
O'Rourke has been contemplating re
turning to her home as soon as the
war closed, but she finds that it is
somewhat difficult to secure her pass
ports, the government discouraging
all travel across the ocean at th
present, time. Miss O'Rourke is only
anxious to get home at this time on
account of the very feeble condition
of her father.