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THE GAZETTE-TIME, HKTPXKB ORE, THTTUDAY, OCT. 48, 1B19.
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MORROW fOlXTY OFFICIAL PAPER
THE WATER BOSD ISSUE ASD
SECT ICS THREE OF THE PRO
POSED AMESDMEST.
One man has raised the question
over section three of the proposed ( to the water plant itself. The only
amendment to the city charter under 'question raised, as we have said, is
v. i j : - u i - V
lilt wain uuuu iuc. nc voices niS
Mayor Vaughan wishes it distinct
ly understood, and he has invited the
citizens of Hcppner to meet with the
council on various occasions when
they had the bond issue up for dis
cussion, that every. detail of this en
tire procedure has been carefully
gone over by some of the best en
gineers in the country. The firm of
engineers handling the surveys for
the city have been substantiated in
their reports by still other engineers
of repute, so there is no question as
to section three.
Inasmuch as the bonds are good
only with the city back of them,
protest in another column of The
Gazette-Times, his main objection
being not to the bond issue itself, thert is only one item in the official
but to that section which provides proceedings which can guarantee the
that the city "shall each year at the payment of those bonds. That is
time of making the annual tax levy! city property. What bonding com
for city purposes include in such'pany would accept the paper if it
levy a sum sufficient to pay the in-J read that "these bonds are to be ma
terest due on the outstanding bonds jtured with interest by the'proceeds
of this issue and to retire the princi
pal thereof at maturity."
from the proposed water plant"? It
would be like renting a room in a
In order to sell the bonds which hotel to a fellow, that hotel yet to be
will give us the funds to build the built.
proposed gravity water system, it is ! Therefore, the receipts from the
necessary that the taxable property water plant will go toward paying the
of the city be put up as collateral, interest and maturing the bonds, so
There is very little if anything of a far as they will. The balance most
substantial nature about any propo- of necessity be made up through tax
sition which is in itself, a proposal, ation, if th'ere occurs a balance.
There must be some material wealth In the meantime, through better
back of the proposed venture which living facilities and conditions Hepp
will give ample security to the firm ner has better homes, a bigger popu
buying the bonds. Hence, Heppner lation, higher property values and a
and everything we have, stands gack better town in every respect. The
of this bond issue. j water will solve Heppner's future for
But that does not mean that water all time. Is it worth the effort? Is
users are going to get free water and a regular town worth as much to
that the entire plan will be bolshe- your business as a one-horse town?
viki. Not by a long sight. The city 1! you think it is, go to the polls on
council has stated on various occa- Saturday and cast your vote for a
sions that it is their intention to bigger Heppner, which is 10(3 X Yes. j
make the water plant pay for itself o ,
just as far as it is possible. Don't forget to renew your enroll-
Last year the water receipts of the ment as a member of the American
Heppner Light & Water Company, ' Red Cross
we have been informed, amounted to I 0
over SS000 gross. The company, DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU
striving at they were with their wells j That when the home town needs a
to supply the demand, could not ap-! boost financiolly or otherwise, we do
proach the task by more than hatf. ! not go to the big city merchant
They operate upder a big expense prince, the millionaire owner of a
pumping that water. j mail order house for a donation.
Under a gravity System, the ex-' That we, all of us, go to the home
pense is reduced to a minimum and town merchant, the man, our neigh
bor and friend, ho sells dry goods,
groceries, hardware, furniture, lumb
er and other essentials, here in the
old home town, when we want a do
nation for a new hotel, street im
provements, festivals and fairs. j
He is the man who digs down in
his pocket to buy uniforms for the
ball team, or helps fursish the church
with a new organ.
He is the man whom we ask to put
a share of his money into the cream
ery, the new laundry or library as
the case may be. In fact any new
industry which will mean something
for the good of the town.
He is the man who pays taxes
here, and whose money helps to
finance the schools, our town and
county government, the streets and
roads and the fire department.
He is the home town man and pulls
his pound of the home town burden.
And as the Central Oregon Enter
prise asks:
What do you suppose the mail Oi
der millionaire would say if we ask
ed him to do for this town what is
done willingly and cheerfully each
year in and year out by every one of
our merchants?
Why the mail order fellow would
laugh at you.
He's willing to fire a catalogue at
you point blank, but that's all. Any
contributing done is done by your
self, and the mail order man is on
the receiving end always. He may,
after he has accumulated some mil
lions of small town dollars, present
a library, a park, a bathing beach to
the large city where he spends the
dollars he coaxes from the small
towns. You know, mail order
houses would starve if they had to
depend upon doing business with the
people who live in those large cities.
It is the small town, the agricul
tural community, and the farms that
fatten the mail order bank accounts,
and by so doing they bite the hand
that feeds them, the home' town mer
chant's. Let us keep that in mind, and
weigh it well, when a pretty picture
and tempting words in a mail order
catalogue appeal most alluring.
The Reds (Cincinnati) won out
over here in America, but from latest
reports the Reds in Russia are play
ing a losing game.
On the 1 1th of next month comes
Armistice Day and the fellow who
said it would be a year before the
peace treaty would be signed wasn't
far wrong. Who knows but yet an
other year may roll round before all
of America's hot air has been ex
pended and brass tack methods re
sorted to. I
Many people have become so ab-
sorbed with the League of Natiors
they have forgotten all about the
peace treaty.
soon, when there must be a supervis
ion of all prices of necessities. But
satisfactory to leave all soil produc-' every person who consumes products titled to more decent consideration,
tions to natural laws. hauled over them. j They have built up a business which
The time may come, and thar t-t jPcrform? sem" ,0Jhe
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THE DUST THAT HE SAW. m" "ilu V" " me mere
, . . . . , fact that this is a vast business is not
It s remarkable how dusty every- . . '.
surely no one product should be se. 'thinj! is said the dentist to his 'T" ""; ""Pe
lected for that experiment, with all ying p9,ients. "I've just been out biSness ,s not evl1' al,ho " does "
others free in the market. - ! in the country. Why, the trees and for bl8 me"-
There are many who believe that the grass by the roadside are simply Takin8 e country as a whole, the
wheat would have gone to $3.50 per with dust. My automobile coun"? would sufTer ,err,ble bI
bushel in 1913, and perhaps again in hfcrt , clean spo, on it anywhere. he Pc businesf ere J
iqiq W th f.rmpr rnnfmiiprf hU , ... a condemned and wiped out. This
own market. Pendleton Tribune.
THE WHEAT MYSTERY.
There has heretofore existed in
this country a somewhat close con
nection between wages and the price j
of a bushel of wheat, not on this
coast, but in the central portion of
the nation, and earlier on the Atlan
tic coast, for wheat was once a staple
ccrop there.
Usually the price of a bushel of
wheat has been about the average
day's wage. The reason that the re
lation has not been applicable to the
Pacfiic coast lies in the fact that
transportation has absorbed the
greater part of the value of our grain,
supplemented of course by the fur
ther fact that that ordinary wages!
have been better here than in the
east. I
Now, however, the old intimac)
between these factors has departed.
Wages have gone as high as a dollar
an hour for a nine-hour day in the
corn fields of the Ohio and Mississ
ippi valleys. Wheat has not ad
vanced beyond the government guar
anty. Whence arises the inquiry as
to what would have been the result
had the United .States kept its hands
off wheat as it has kept them off oth
er agricultural products. j
With Europe again reaping fair
crops, and with the resumption of
her ability to feed herself, there
would seem to have arrived a time
when Washington authorities might
step aside and allow the law of sup
ply and demand to assert itself. The
price of wheat might go higher, or it
might go lower. None can tell, but
in any event it is safer and more
the machine washed."
would mean a return to the' old
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. siauimier nousc lur me Kming or
rpnlied hv bemoan in 2 .. . .
Wave von donated to the cHv it- . . . r ' I stock all over the country, it would
brary lately? Such a gift on your ' J t ., . ...do away with the great organized
part would be highly acceptable to A farmer asserted ,hat ,f ra'n dlJj stock markets which can absorb
the library association. , not come soon the cr0pS WOuld Cer' j trainloads of cattle, hogs and sheep
tf (tainly be damage everyday. The grower would be
Early snows in the mountains por- An old man said a shower was wjthout any guide as to the value of
tend an abundance of water next coming and proved it by signs. 'n;s product, and would be at the
summer. Some of the sheepmen got A little boy and two little girls did mercy ot me small buyers with lim
their flocks out of the timber just !n not answer. I ited capital and facilities for han-
tlme. "Even this room is dusty," the djng stoc and meat.
1 t dentist went on, "and the table there ( jf tnere are abuses in the present
ROADS THAT ARE ROADS. " 8y s bi8 Pic,ure ' system of marketing stock and sell-
Maine, by an overwhelming vote, wel1 coated t00' and 1 do believe " ing meat, they should be corrected,
recently endorsed the proposal to ,he dentist s,0PPed short as he ,ooked But the business should not be ap
raise the bonded indebtedness of sharply at the man nearest him and proached in a hostile manner as if
state highways from $2,000,000 to ,hen searchingly at the other occu- it were all evil ana should be wiped
$10,000,000. Pants of ,he room- He removed his out. Enterprise Record-Chieftan.
This means an additional expen- spectacles and peered critically at -t-t
diture of $8,000,000 on good roads. them he rePlaced them af,er he had The publisher of the Rupert (Ida
Good country roads mean cheaper rubbed the lenses carefully ith his ho) Pioneer-Record confesses that he
marketing costs, which should mean "n-ndkerch!ef- . is somewhat puzzled. He says: "One
that producers on farms and consum- 'Tve been seein8 ,hrou8h 4 8lass- man stopped his paper after reading
ers in town will benefit. The huee dark'y." he laughed. "It makes a what we had to say about the jury
JMBe t. ! 1 - . a a
lot oi ainerence now you iook ai me triat an two others came in ana
world, doesn't it?"
toll exacted by bad roads will be
come ancient history when all high
ways get into the good roads class
That cannot be too soon.
The money loss sustained by far-
subscribed for a year after reading
the same article. Several others
JUSTICE TO THE PACKERS, stopped to commend us on our atti
If you were to accept at face value tude, and two or three other persons
mers in hauling farm products over "H the charges made against the came in to tell us that we had our
bad roads in the past 10 years would meat packers of the country, you wires crossed. So there you are.
have made good roads of all high- would conclude they were just plain One can easily see how utterly im
ways. The saving in wear and teir, highwaymen. The department of possible it is for a, newspaper to
and the ability to haul heavier loads, justice has put out accusations so please every one. But it is this dif
will more than maintain good roads sweeping that there "would seem no ference of opinion that makes the
once attained. excuse whatever for their existence, wheels go round so we should wor-
This winter, in driving through They are caught between the upper ry." Publishers' Auxiliary.
mud hub-deep and nether millstones. Residents of 1 t
Remember Maine! the large cities blame them for the No Pauline, Main street is no
Money invested in good roads high price of meat and farmers wider than it ever was. Only if just
pays dividends to every person who blame them for the low price of looks wider and much better since
travels upon those roads, to every stock. those '49 porticoes have been shuf
person who lives near them, and to In all fairness, the packers are en- fled into the discard.
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1 Wednesday, November 5th, 1919 1
Having leased his ranch Mr. J. P. Conder will sell his stock and equipment at public
sale at the
I J. P. CONDER RANCH I
E 20 Miles North of Heppner in Sand Hollow
1 Sale to Start Promptly at 1 p. m. 1
One Roan Mare, age 9 yrs., wgt. 1350 lbs.
One Roan Mare, age 6 yrs., wgt. 1400 lbs.
One Bay Mare, age 5 yrs., wgt. 1400 lbs.
One Bay Mare, age 5 yrs., wgt. 1300 lbs.
One Bay Mare, age 8 yrs., wgt. 1400 lbs.
One Black Stallion, age 4 years, wgt.
1500 lbs.
One Black Mare, age 4 years.
One Black Gelding, age 4 years.
One Bay Mare, age 6 yrs., wgt. 1500 lbs.
One Bay Mare, age 3 years.
Two Three-Quarter-Inch Wheat wagons,
One Mitchell and One John Deere, both
with racks; .One Deering Header and
equipment complete; One Oliver Three
Bottom Plow, 14-inch; One Nine-Foot
Double Disc Harrow; All harrows, tools,
implements and equipment on said land ;
One Fairbanks-Morse Gasoline Engine,
Eclipse No. 1, and Pump Outfit.
Heavy work harnes for nine head of horses.
TERMS
S All sums of $20.00 and under, cash. One year's time with interest at 8 per cent on
EE approved secured notes. For sums over $20,00, 5 per cent discount for cash.
H Sale under management of '
I Brown &McMenamin I
Heppner, Oregon.
S F. A. McMENAMIN, Auctioneer
F. E. BROWN, Clerk s
Star
Theatei
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Dorothy Gish
is coming back to Heppner next Sunday, Oct. 26th, in
The Hun Within"
You remember her in "Hearts of the World" and "The Great Love." ,
Admission Price 20 and 30 Cents !
One of the Big Shows of the Season
"Wives of Men"
Featuring Florence Reid, the artist, strong, emotional and sympathetic. Coming
Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 27 and 28
This show is easily worth double the amount we are charging. But we have
started out to give you higher class shows at less money. If you appreciate the
reductions, let us have your patronage. Otherwise we will be obliged to re
serve such pictures as "Wives of Men" for Saturday and Sunday nights at high
er prices. Admission price 10 and 20 cents.
Grand Amistice Ball
In Honor of the First Anniversary of Peace
Fair Pavilon, Tuesday, Nov. 1 1
Music by Special 5-Piece Orchestra
Dance Tickets $1.50 Gentlemen Spectators 25 Cents
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