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Or r HP- azett: H C3 VOL. Sfl, NO. 17. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 24, 1919. SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAH G 1 ME OWES 1 TRACTOR SHOW AT COUNTY FAIR Many Prominent Men Have Been Se cured to Speak at 7th Annual Event Chautauqua Will Fea ture Three-Day Program. The 7th annual Morrow County Fair Is on the wing and from pres ent Indications gives evidence of be ing far ahead ot previous fairs. There never has been a fair In the county, probably, when better grains were on exhibit than will be shown this year. The secretary, F. R. Brown, has been gathering some ex cellent samples and preparing them tor show. To help this part of the fair along, farmers are being urged to select samples of their grain and bring It in to Mr. Brown. Many prominent speakers will be in attendance. E. E. Faville, the ea itor of the Western Farmer, who has spoken here before, will make his second appearance during one of the days of the fair, as will likewise Su perintendent Stephens of the Moro Experiment station. These men have a store house ot valuable data per taining to farm, farmers and farm problems. In the livestock division the fair management feel they have been very fortunate in being able to get 0. M. Plummer, of the Pacific International Livestock Exposition to discourse on problems effecting that industry. Another speaker of prominence will be Professor Guy R. Hyslop, agronomist from the Oregon Agri cultural College. Professor Hyslop Is an authority on the subject of grain marketing. The Chautauqua feature of the Fair this year gives promise of being a most interesting innovation to those who attend. The Chautauqua pro grams are announced as interesting and will last two hours each day of the three days Fair. Through the efforts of County Agent Hunt, who Is devoting much of his time to make the 7th Fair a big success, a number of tractors will be on display and experts will be here to give practical demonstrations. Among the exhibitors will be the Tuba, Best, Holt and Trundaar. ADS IN NEWSPAPERS SELL FARM PRODUCE Oregon Agricultural College Cor vallls, July 22. Newspaper advertis ing of farm products Is practiced more generally In other western states than, in Oregon, s-ys the agri cultural college press bulletins re cently issuod. The bulletins say that many farmers advertise in their local papers and do not consider the cost a waBte of money. The news bulle tins of South Dakota college wrote letters to nearly 100 farmers asking them to give their experience with lo cal newspaper advertising. Some of the answers follow: "We have been so successful in ad vertising our seed grains that next year we plan to erect a new granary and get more equipment to clean and handle the grain. We must have a new truck," Hillcrest Farm, Clark, S. Dak. "We have found that It pays to use the local papers. The best success is with using those which cover our nat ural territory." Bevington Farms, Hlghmore. "We have been so successful in selling young pigs through local pa pers that we have been unable to keep up with the demand." J. M. Tucker, Edgemont. "Yes, it pays to let people know what you've got to sell. People be lieve an advertisemont since they think the editor stands good for it be ing true." M. A. Slocum, Ipswich. "I am sure it paid me' to advertise in the local farm papers. Perhap a neighbor may want just what you have to sell, and the way to let him know is to advertise it." Chas. P. McPherson, Sturgls. "A small ad In our local paper sold all our pure bred eggs for hatching. Yes, I certainly am in favor of adver tising." Bright Side Farm, Lily. Starkoy to The Dalles. E. J. Starkey expects to leave to day for The Dalles to receive three new Maxwell cars, which he has re cently sold to parties in this locality. Among the buyers la Frank Burgoyne, prominent young merchant ot Lex ington. O. W. Gregg, who returned from Portland Wednesday, reports that quite a shower of rain fell there in the early morning of that day. The rain continued up the Columbia river almost to Hood River. THE NEW HOTEL Will COST Plans Have Been Accepted For Kew .'Three-Story Structure and Work Will Commence Soon. The complete plans for Heppner's new three-story hotel building were accepted by the Heppner Hotel Asso ciation at a meeting in the office of Woodson & Sweek last Friday eve ning. John V. Bennes, the architect who drew up the plans was present and conferred with the stockllolders. About $34,000 of the stock has been subscribed, according to Secretary Sweek ot the Association. The total cost of the hotel, t without furnish ings, is estimated j. f,J$0,00. An additional $30,000 is estimated for furnishings, hence the entire cost will represent an Investment of $100,000. The new building, as accepted by the association, will contain 48 rooms. The structure will be ot hol low tile with an exterior finish ot stucco, thus making a very imposing looking as well as an attractive ap pearing building. In order to some what reduce the cost of the building the stockholders decided to have the plans altered as to the basement, and instead of a full basement as was at first decided upon, it is now likely that there will be only such basement space as will be absolutely needed. John F. Vaughn,' president of the Hotel Association, went to Portland this week to arrange further for the work and to look after certain finan cial details that will be necessary be fore active construction work will be gin. It Is desired by the directors to have the work under way by the first of August if possible. Deer On Upper Willow Creek Attempt To Stop Autoists A lasge number of deer are feeding in the foothills on upper Willow creek, according to a report brought down from there this week by W. O. Minor. Mr. Minor says a big buck got in the middle of the road near Thomsonville (the Jas. Thomson camp) recently and disputed the right of automobiles to pass that way. After some show of authority, the buck finally decided that the gas wagons could come on, and he bounced away Into the brush. Mr. Minor says a number of deer have been feeding on the meadow at the Martin & Kunsman ranch for some time. He and Willard Herren are now camped in the Willow creek basin while laying out surveys and viewing rights of way. MRS. C. O. HAINES. Mrs. C. O. Haines died in Tacoma, Wash., two weeks ago following an operation for gall stones. She had been sick about one week. The funer al was held in Tacoma, where burial was made . The deceased is survived by the husband, one daughter and an aged mother, Mrs. Jane Hooker. Two sisters of the departed, Mrs. C. E. Nelson of Oakland, Calif., and Mrs. Fredenburg of Medford; three bro thers Will, Bert and Ed Hooker of Medford also survive, as well as a large number of more distant rela tives. Mrs. Clive Huston, J. S. Young and R. H. Young went from Heppner and M. B. Haines from lone to attend the funeral. Miss Beatrice Huddleston drove over from the Huddleston ranch near Lone Rock, Wednesday. ANNUAL ECLIPSE S. Hymen Bear Returns From 13 Months Service Overseas S. Hymen Bear, who was working as clerk at the Palace hotel when war was declared, returned Tuesday, hav ing landed in New York on the 80tn of June. Mr. Bear enlisted in Hepp ner in April, 1918, and went to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he received his early instruction in squad move ments. Although he enlisted for ser vice in the cavalry, he was soon trans ferred to the "sightseeing 6th." This was an artillery division and it was continuously shifted about, thus gan lng the name as the sightseeing 6th. While, with this division, Mr. Bear says he saw the United States from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf. In all, he spent 13 months in France, his division being held in reserve all that time. Mr. Bear plans to attend college this coming Fall and may decide to enter the Unlvei sity of Oregon. FOREST FIRES OVER WIDE AREA ARE IN Loss of Timber Estimated at 80,000, 000 Board Feet; Small South Idaho Blazes Checked. Spokane, Wash., July 23. Twenty-five hundred forest service men, soon to be increased to 3000, and hundreds of men in the employ of timber protective associations, have tailed to hold In check serious fires which are raging, many of them far out ot bounds, In northern Idaho and western and central Montana. Four Montana towns Thompson Falls, county seat of Sanders county; St.Regis, on the Coeur d'Alene branch of the Northern Pacific railway; Hen derson, near St. Regis, and Maiden, a pioneer mining camp near Lewis town are menaced seriously by the flames. Boise, Idaho, July 22. Between 30 and 40 fires beyond control are burn ing in North Idaho, Glen C. Smith, assistant district forester at Missou la, Montana, advised Governor D. W. Davis here today. Losses In timber he estimated at 30,000,000 board feet and losses to private property nt $300,000. The forestry service al ready has spent $275,000 in an effort to control the fires, he said. Fires burning in the yellow pine district of the Thunder mountain country are raging with unabated fury. Smaller fires in national for ests of south Idaho are being brought under control. Secretary Lane telegraphed from Washington today to the governor that he had set aside an additional $200,000 to help fight Idaho's forest fires. The governor today refused to join George Cornwall, editor of the Tlm- berman, Portland, Or., in asking the federal government for troops for fire-fighting purposes. Soldiers will not be asked for in Idaho as long as it is possible to hire labor. When the need for soldiers be comes Imperative the governor will insist that they receive 50 cents an hour, in common with other lire fight ers. Bon Yen Returns From Clilna. Ben Yen returned to Heppner Wednesday after spending several months in his old home in China. Mr. Yen says he found many changed conditions in his old home, all of them being of a more progressive or der. He is one of the owners of the Elkhorn restaurant, being associated with his nephew, Ed Chin. HEPPNER FLAT FARMER FALLS FROM WINDMILL Fred Lucas Is Plunged 30 Feet to Ground. Lands on Hie Feet and Ankle Is Broken, But No In ternal Injuries Received, While showing one of his hired men how to turn on the windmill at his farm five miles southwest of Heppner on Heppner Flat Wednes day noon, Fred Lucas lost his footing and fell from the top of the mill to the ground, a distance of 30 feet. Mr. Lucas made an attempt to catch hold of a slat on a ladder and as this gave way, he was turned com pletely over in mid air and landed on his feet when he Btruck the ground. The impact broke one bone in his an- ", but according to his physician. Dr. Harold Bean, who was called at once to the Lucas ranch, Mr. Lucas received no internal injuries. As unfortunate as was the fall, Mr, Lucas considers that the landing was more fortunate, Inasmuch as there were a number of implements and pieces of iron laying around, and he missed all of this when striking, landing on the bare ground. Weights And Measures Hampered The Allies Major LaGuardia of Air Service Throws New Light on War. San Francisco, July 23. Con gressman Fiorello LaGuardia of New York, former major in the Air Ser vice in charge of fliers on the Italian front, has thrown interesting light upon the difficulties faced by the Uni ted States in co-operating with its allies in the world war. Major La Guardia has telegraphed the World Trade Club ot San Francisco, an or ganization representing 500 leading manufacturing merchants, pledging his support to the campaign that the organization Is now waging for the world wide adoption of the metric system of weights and measures, now being used by all the world except the United States and Britannia. In his wire Major LaGuardia points out that the world war showed the imperative need of standardiza tion of weights and measurer. He advocates the metric system. "I still have unpleasant memories of the difficulty we experienced dur ing the war," he writes, "of the loss of time, the confusion owing to dif ferent systems of weights and meas ures uesd by various allies. We lost more time In translating speciflca tons and more errors were caused on this account than by anything else." The World Trade Club Is receiv ing similar testimony from a great many persons who had experience with the difficulty caused by our pres ent weights during the war. Mrs. Farley Returns Home. Mrs. Patrick Farley returned to her home at Rhcas, on lower Willow creek Tuesday after visiting for several weeks at the homes of Jas Farley, Frank Mohahan and Pe ter Farley of Heppner. Holland For Suffrage. Cable advicoa from Amsterdam state that the First Chamber of the Dutch Parliament has adopted a mo tion to introduce woman suffrage in Holland. The vote was 34 to 6. W. L. Houston of Parkers Mill has been spending several days In Hepp ner transacting business during the past week. Rattlesnakes Are Thriving In Hot Weather Some Killed The nice hot weather we are hav ing at the present time seems to be Just the proper kind to bring out the rattlesnakes and a greater number ot these poisonous reptiles have been in evidence around here than for sev eral years past. Dr. Bean and Cal Sweek saw Bnakes one night last week, or rather snake. It wasn't very large but of sufficient size as to call forth a club in the hands of Mr. Sweek, and the attorney quickly put the rattler on his long last sleep. The snake was in the Sweek berry patch. George Mllholland of the Standard Oil Company Is an inveterate lover of snakes and the larger they are the better they suit the Zerolene man. He caught a live one out at Natt Shaw's ranch Tuesday and to have sees George charm that snake would have been a pleasure to anyone. Not having any Zerolene or Mica Axle Grease to rub on Mr. Snake's head, the doughty John D. man took a stick and firmly held it against the reptile's back and then grabbed the unsuspecting rattler just back of the head. He brought the snake to town In a tin can and now has him on dis play for the benefit of interested snake admirers. Arrested For Taking Too Mnch Water People are usually arrested now adays for taking something else be sides water, but this was not the case with a farmer named Franklin, who resides at the mouth of Willow creek. Watermaster A. E. Perry arrested him Saturday and took him to Ar lington because he had been taking too much water from the river and was tampering with the headgates. Mr. Perry has just returned from a visit to the Heppner and Arlington country, and says that the water is very low there. Pendleton Tribune. Two More Fires Reported. Two more forest fires in the Uma tilla forest were reported to Super visor W. W. Cryder today. These are about 25 miles south ot Hepp ner. Pendleton Tribune. CALIFORNIA PROFITS BY VOTE OF ITS Governor of State Emphatic in Giv ing Credit for Advanced So cial Conditions. In a recent statement made by William D. Stephens, California's Re publican Governor, concerning the ratification of the Federal Suffrage amendment, he says: t'The women of the United States by their unselfish and effective war work and by their untold and heart breaking sacrifices have won the right and opportunity to vote upon all Governmental questions that so vitally affect them. "For the past eight years Califor nia has had women suffrage and has profited thereby in every way. Health conditions, school conditions and po litical conditions are all vastly Im proved, because the women of Cali fornia have had the ballot. "California had four women mem bers of the Legislature in Its recent session. They were a credit to any legislative body and amply justified women's participation in law mak ing. If woman suffrage was again to be voted upon in California it would carry by an overwhelming majority. In my judgment California's Legis lature will unanimously ratify the National suffrage amendment." Hun Damage In France Is 200 Billion Francs Paris, Monday, July 21. The par liamentary commission of peace ex amining Into the peace treaty with Germany today listened to a report by Deputy Louis Dubois on the clauses relating to reparations. M. Dubois said the material dam age done in the invaded departments amounted to 119,000,000,000 francs. This amount, he said, had been veri fied by a committee of engineers, ar chitects, manufacturers and agricul turists. He added that the damage done to agriculture was said to ag gregate 37,000,000,000 francs. The damago falling upon the Indi vidual and the money paid to start commercial enterprises were not in cluded in the sum of 119,000,000,000 francs, and likewise 37,000,000,000 francs for military expenses and 6,000,000,000 francs for pensions were not embraced In the sum. The total amount of the damage done, M. Dubois said, would aggregate 200, 000,000,000 francs. DR. D. R. HAYLOR Eye specialist, In Heppner July 27th to August 2nd inclusive. NO CHANGE IN STATE I W. L. Thompson of Pendleton, Who Recently Moved to Portland, Will Remain With Commission. Governor Praises For Ef ficiency Shown. Contrary to much newspaper spec ulation and the hinting ot various names tor successors, there will be no change in the personnel of the state highway commission, so far as Gov ernor Olcott's information goes, says reports from Portland. Ever since Commissioner W. L. Thompson, ot this city, announced his affiliation with a Portland bank, there has been much speculation as to a successor for him on the commission, and al most every eligible man in Eastern Oregon has been hinted at or suggest ed for the place. However, Mr. Thompson put the question ot his status up to the gov ernor Immediately after he decided on his business plans, which will in volve a change of residence to Port land this fall. The governor appealed to Attorney General Brown tor a le gal opinion on the case, and the lat ter announced that Mr. Thompson's status depended entirely upon his declaration of residence. Governor Olcott transmitted this opinion to Thompson, with the ex pressed hope that Mr. Thompson would find it possible to remain on the commission at least until present highway contracts were successfully disposed ot. In a statement given out In Port land a few day later, the latter de clared that, although he would move to Portland on or about September 1, he would retain his legal residence in Pendleton until the first ot the year and expected to devote as much time to highway work in the future as he had in the past. This arrange ment would permit him to carry out the expressed wish of the governor that he retain his position on the commission. Commissioner R. A. Booth of Eu gene has also on the occasion of his visit to Salem the first of the week assured Governor Olcott that he could be counted on to remain with the commission, for the time being at least, thus setting a rest speculation on that score. "With the tremendous amount of road work under way and yet to be contracted for this year I feel that the interests of the state can best be served by these men, who are so well qualified by actual experience in the work," said Governor Olcott. "In view of the millions of dollars of pub lic money which are to be spent in road work I feel that the state is to be congratulated on the decision ot these men to remain on the commis sion, at least until this big program has been finally disposed of." Elks Ask For Modified Building Plans. Esti mated Cost Too High Heppner Lodge No. 358, B. P. O. E., after going over the plans for the new home, decided that the present plans call for a greater sum of money than had been originally estimated. They have asked their architect, John V. Bennes to make some changes and after the modification, it is believed the plans will be accepted and the contract let. Cooperative Herding of Sheep Works To Success Near Bend Bend. That cooperative herding of sheep can be successfully carrieu. on Is emphasized here this summer by the operations of the Tumalo Cline Falls Sheep asosciation. The asso ciation is herding more than 1000 head of sheep collectively. Members are running sheep on the range all in one breed and used to similar con ditions of feeding. The assoqjatlon this year will col lectively market more than 1000 market lambs, purchase about 30 head of purebred registered Hamp shire bucks and send a representa tive to the Salt Lake ram sale In August. It has been found through this collective action that the smaller sheepman can secure advanages for merly limited to larger sheepmen In the country. Walter Rood was in from Heppner Flat Wednesday and announced that his wheat is making a yield of 10 sacks per acre. He Is heading and threshing together. Mrs. Bert Hall returned from Portland Wednesday evening. Oil PERSONNEL