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HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY. JULY 24, 1919.
SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAH
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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
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