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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.
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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.
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"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
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WAR RECORD
LOCAL
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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.
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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-
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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