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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1919)
T M.I" ru m THE G.VZKTIK-TIMES, HETr.VER, ORE., THURSDAY, PEC. 11, 1818 GREETING CHRISTMAS Tc Battery Electric Service Station extends to all its friends and patrons Greetings of the Season and best wishes for a Happy new year. iimiiiimiiiiiiiuMiiiiiiuiiiiiNuiiiimiiMiiwiiiiimiHiuiiitiimm We are sure your New Year will be a happy one if you lllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItt I This battery, with "Philco" Retainer, is 2JIIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIHII iiiiiiiiitiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii WJT'' Do not forget we have in stock the new IU For any car regardless of make, year, 1 model or purpose. 1 Avoid,Bafery Troubles thisr Winter absolutely guaranteed 2 Years and actually gives p Longer j s Life 1 This is not mere talk; ask the man who owns one Starel&ur Battery witt Us SlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIllllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllR IIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItlllllllMIIIIIIU nllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfi If You Lay Up Your Car You should store your battery with us. We will keep it charged and warm and filled with distilled water. We will pre vent it from freezing and from undue deterioration and loss of capacity, Our fee is only about three cents a day and you have the best possible assurance that your battery will be in a sound, healthy condition in the Spring, If You Don't Lay Up Your Car remember that batteries and cold weather do not agree. Keep you battery fully charged or it will freeze and be ruined. Do not work it to death, and come and see us often that we may inspect it and warn you of possible trouble. This service is free and may save you money. iiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinuiHiiiiimiiuiiiiNNiiiin "Orange" Rental Batteries that will turn your engine over with a "wallop," at your service while your bat tery is being repaired or recharged. The Battery Electric Service Station Heppner, Oregon JVW. FRITSCH Phone Main 83 ELKS iD WAR RECORD LOCAL E LODGE BUILDING FINE NEW HOI BROTHER ELKS Kindly permit me to address you in the interest of the Lodge and Elk dora generalities. If you are an old Elk, many of the conditions which I am about to bring to your attention will be understood fully. But should you be young in our herd, or possi bly a very busy Elk, the opportunity to go deep into the annalB of real Elkdom and all it stands for may not have been at your command, mand. Flkdoin stands for "Devotion to our Fellow-man, American Citizen ship, Uplift of Humanity, Our Coun try and Oar God." What more can we ask? Elkdom in War Times When our country declared war on Germany all organizations were siez ed with the desire to do their share. The Elks were one of them. The evidence of eagerness to assist was very pronounced in every walk of life. Never in the history of Elkdom did we have more reason to be proud of our order than on such an occasion, tor it is uncommonly known that to be an Elk requires American citizenship. Over fifty thousand Elks were in ser vice and among the foremost was General John J. Pershing. This is a splendid record, when you consid er the large percentage beyond the military age. Elks' War Relief Commission One of the pioneer movements the Elks undertook in war work was the organizing of this commission. Ex Governor of Pennysylvania, John K. Tennor, was appointed to head this work. His fellow-workers on the committee were Joseph T. Fanning, Judge Jerome B. Fisher, James K. Nicholson, Edward Righter and Fred Harper, all the members were past Grand Exalted Rulers. The first work of this committee was to con sult with the Red Cross and War De partment which resulted in a recom mendation to the Grand Lodge of establishing Base Hospital Units, to be equipped by the Elks, and operat ed by the War Department. Action was taken immediately. The Grand Lodge alloting one million dollars for this purpose, and authorized the committee to proceed with the work The commute was given to under stand that more funds were available if required. The University of Vir ginia was made into a Base Hospital and completely equipped at o cost ot sixty thousand dollars. A little lat- ' er the University of Oregon was treat ed in a like manner, at an expend! ture approximately the same. Past Grand Exalted Ruler Fred Harper was particularly interested In the Vir. ginla University, and our Senator chamberlain from Oregon, who is also and Elk, was largely accountable for the taking over of the Oregon Un iversity. These hospital units have done splendid work for the boys serv ing the colors. Reconstruction Hospitals. You fully realize from your ex perience in the order, that every Elk stands ready to help his fellowman, accordingly, the Grand Lodge arrang ed for the construction of a hospital to care for the crippled and maimed soldiers on their return, and there stands today on Parker Hill, Boston, j the magnificient institution fully equipped to carry on this work. It is being operated by the Government The building and equipment cost the order three hundred thousand dollars. The Salvation Army There is no question but that you are familiar with the work done by this wonderful self-sacrificing organ ization. These great people needed someone to assist them. They had the machinery, and immediately dis played their) loyalty and courage. They went to work quietly in their modest way, without any ceremony, always advancing as near to the front line, with dough-nuts, coffee, and many other necessities, as other or ganizations doing a similar work. But this is not all. It mattered not to the Salvation Army Worker whet- er or not the soldier could pay. He received whatever they had, as cheer fully withodt mnoey as with it. This story is told us repeatedly by the boys returning from service. How did this wonderful organization accoin pi sh this , The fact is commonly known that they are not well to do, but or. the contrary, (fonaidered in poor circumstances. some body must have assisted them. The Grand Lodge of Elks observed early in the war, the great work this army desired to do, and simply made it a point to Bee in a very large measure, that they were supplied with the nec essary funds. Colonel W. A. Mcln- tyre advised the Grand Lodge of Elks last year that they required five million dollars to carry on the wora He was informed to go ahead, that the money would be forthcoming Immediately a campaign was staged, and the necessary funds raised. To repeat the words of Colonel Mcln tyre, "We couldn't ask the Elks for anything they did not do for us, and usually they did It before we had an opportunity to ask them. Not only in war times have they assisted us, but on many other occasions, words will not express the appreciation Calamities and Emergencies When the terrible suffering of the San Francisco earthquake was flash ed over the country, one of the first Have You Heard About The Battery Detective ? There is a little hollow glass tube at The Battery Electric Service Sta tion, over on Main street, that is a very wonderful detective. This lit tle glass tube is the most scientific glass tube in the world because it knows just when a storage battery needs charging. It is called a hy drometer. When the service station man inserts this hydrometer into the filler cap of your storage battery and draws up some of the acid and water into the tube, a little float inside the tube shows how much the battery is charged. The theory of the hydro meter is this: the solution inside of your battery consists of sulphuric, acid and water. As the battery is discharged, the sulphuric acid leaves solution and enters into the chemical composition of the plates of the battery, then when the battery is charged again, by the generator on your car, or at the service station, the acid leaves the plates and goes back into the solution in combina tion with the water. Now sulphuric acid Is heavier than water, consequently water with a whole lot jot sulphuric acid In it, Is heavier than water with very little sulphuric acid in it. Therefore this little float will sink lower down in the solution of a nearly discharged battery, than it will in a solution of a battery that Is fully charged. It will pay you to take your battery around to The Battery Electric Ser vice Station and let J. W. Fritsch, the battery man, examine your bat ter with this little detective. It takes only a few minutes ot your time, and this service is given abso lutely tree of charge. Frequent Inspection of this sort will save you many a battery repair bill because you can always tell by the Btate of a charge of the battery Just what its condition is like and perhaps a simillar repair now may save you a lot of money later on. men on the scene was tne urana Exalted Ruler of Elkdom, Robert Brown, and with him was taken a- long large funds, which were handed out as freely as water to the suffer ing homeless people. Hundreds of car loads of food and clothing were as soon as possible alBpatched to the scene by the Grand Lodge. It was realized that the people were terror stricken . Many banks were crush ed. Others could not be opened etc. Quick action being absolutely necessary. Assistance of a similar manner was rendered during the Cen tral Ohio Floods, and Western For est fires and on many other occas ions. You can realize that.lt would mean a book to give the Wstory of them all. FcIIownIJp Elkdom stands for humanity, and to do unto others as thou should like to be done by. This naturally creates a wonderful spirit of fellow- (Continued on page twenty-one.) Dodge Performance Needs no introduction to the people of Morrow County--Its the peer of its class. MgeBR0THER5 MOTOR CAR ALBERT BOWKER Local Agent OREGON GARAGE With Greetings of the Season