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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1921)
I'M,!: TV," ( t iiiK t; a;:k r ri: -timks. iikltxkr, okkgox, tiu'kshay. kkb. it, k THE GAZETTE-TIMES March Si Tbr 1 1 I C(.nmO;rf;d February 1. !. I ubl:nriJ tvry ThurfttUy morning by . awirr m4 9pcr Crawfo4 j and nttrtti at tfca Peto3lva at Hpp ' nt, tiron. k M.ni-rlhM matter. j filHCKIT IVSYIilUE. BETSY al.trm Tuesday w.is perhaps prema ture as it developed there was no need of turning in an alarm, hut it ea'led attention to the fact that the , tire truck as not in proper shape. ai krtimm; htfk cnu ox ai'pi.h ri SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Cn Tr Fie Month ThrM .Month Sin1. Ciim It t0 i h : ; .oi : horhow roi tt omi itL paper 'JHE AMLKKT.-VN PKt ASScVIATION Don't Let the Glooms Get You. ; i One of our business neighbors met : us the other day with the most doleful ; face you could feel his gloom a, Mock aav. ! i What s the use? j Sure, business is not as good as it uas a year or two ago. But hat of t it? All life from the dawn of the I human germ has been ups and douns. All nature has been ups and downs since the burst of creation. Today's depression is nothing ne i ;here have been hard times befon ! and there will be hard times again 1 and again, all through the coming centuries. j Have you been knocked down by this particular slump of 1920-21? "Well, well." as Edmund Vane?. : Cooke savs, . "ITS TOASTED CIGARETTE No cigarette has the same delicious flavor as Lueky Strike. Because Lucky Strike is the toasted cigarette. The net day there was a great relig ious strike and all shops, stores and the stock exchange had to close their In Egypt a native from the country , i.-tricts came to town on his camel. A.voung American woman a winter touristwas walking past when the country Egyptian carefully leaned down from his high position and spat in her face. Asked why, he said she was a dog of a Christian and was What of that? Come i walking the street unveiled. Defeated Germany roars about fiftv-three billion dollar in- np with a smiling face. The harder; ou are thrown, the hieher vou k k.,..,.,, ...-, riw,.IFayinga . , . . , , demmtv for the destruction she action and bad times toaav are onlyi . ., ,j, , . , ... c j ' ' i wrought in other lands and it is only the forerunner of good times tomor- , s . . ,,.. , , ,ui s i three years since her kaiser told the i Berlin parliament that Germany If your business is bad. if youjwouU demand a hundred billions have lost your job, if today looks i frpm ,he aUjes jf she won And this blue to you. don't let the glooms get uith n0 destruction on her own soil, vou. It is up to vou to be up and do- j ing. Let in a little hope and imagin-l Last ear hen were paying ation. DO SOMETHING, even ,fj 25 to 30 cents a pound for sugar, the that something looks lamentably lit-, sugar plantation laborers in Hawaii tie under the circumstances. j ee drawin 276 Per cent bonus on You-nobody else-are the master I their 'ages' of your own fate until you let cir- Hussion workmen helped the Bol cumstances or some other fellow sheviki conquer their country and conquer you. If you permit that to 'now they are not allowed even the happen, you are not much more than liberty to strike, half a man. Read Heneley s poem j yve could go on without end teii again and get its meaning deep into : jng of queer things in the world but vour soui: Sh i:i't a car with a pedigree and she's old very old indeed; j Her lines are low and her speed i, slow, a sort of a "has-been" steed: I've had her repainted, renickled too, but she still looks about the same, She runs at times, and her springs are chimes, and Betsv's her Chris tian name. She sputters and sulks, she kicks and bucks, and she has a consumptive cough ; She often backs on the street-car tracks and the cop has to push her off: She goes like the wind on a long down-grade and coasts like a gull at sea ; We're Jack and Jill and we love our hill, but down it must alwavs be. So I search for roads that are smooth and straight, and 1 skirt all the hills and dales; 1 rtever roam very far from home, for somehow mv courage fails; I live in the clouds when I journey forth, though the clouds are an other's dust, But I grip my wheel with a Spartan zeal and say, "In the Lord I trust!" And often, how often, they've towed me home at the cost of a five or ten ! I'd dream of the day of the one-hoss shay, and wish I'd been living then. And oh, the abuse that I've had to bear when we'd block up a road or pass! They'd howl and groan: "Get the ether cone!" But I knew she wanted gas. W. Davton Wegefarth. In the death of C. B. Sperry at lone, the editor of this paper feels the loss of a tried and true friend We have known Charley Sperry ever since coming to Morrow county 32 years ago. and we could pay him no l 1 I. . - I'.... .... ' mgncr compliment mail to say nc was a true friend. The Brotherhood gave its endorse ment to the proposition of holding ,i county fair at Heppner this coming fall. This means th.it everything possible will be done from now on to make the fair the success that it should he. ; they would take up the whole paper. "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, 1 thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud. Undct the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Slats' Diary. Friday pa & ma all so me went 2 hear a speaking tonite. Pa sed the man is a finished orytor, but it ap peared 2 me that he never wood fin ish, ma had 2 get me & pa woke 2 go home. Saturday We wa tawking of base Ball plares getting bigger sal rys than preechers do. Ma thought it wassent just. It mebby not. But a It is an easv thing to criticise, or J . Jpreecher only just simply find fault, for much so-called -V ,. ;jhas 2 tawk on Sun criticism is simply fault-finding. If tbWLiiMMl) days & don't know you are going to criticise your neigh- j nuthing about in bor, do it in a way that will help him j curves and outs & home runs & cuss and not harm. A little more boost- j jng a empire and etc. And then they ing of the good qualities in your fel- j is more peepul goes 2 ball games low citizens is the right thing, for; than they is 2 church in summer generally speaking, no one has much I The preecher ast pa why diddent he use for the habitual fault-finder andjcum 2 church offener. Pa sed he grouch. ! had a habit of going 2 sleep & the I preecher sed Thats all Right it wont The little band did well again on Monday evening. The boys are com ing right to the front. l'rti! A community plav ground for Heppner is a plan promoted by the Patron-Teachers Association and the Ladies Civic Club. It will also re ceive the endorsement of the Bro therhood and is one move that the entire community should back. OUR SEED CATALOG snd Planters' Guide It thfl tEndard raf crenc for growers of tha Northwest, tistin i our complete lines of of Seeds, Trees and Plants, Fertilizers, Poultry snd Bee Supplies, Sprays snd Sprayers, Dairy Supplies and auipjneot. MAKE EVERY seed planted, and every acre cultivated, yield tha biggest return. Diamond Quality Seeds are tested and adapted to the clima tic and soil conditions of the Northwest You can "bank" on big crops when you plant Diamond Qual ity Seeds. As for Catalog No. 430 - ElilllllSISa Far Better Bread! THE KIND YOU'VE BEEN HANKERING TOU! Here It Is! lleppner bread is a FULL, l'Ll'MI' loaf, with the same 1501) Y to it that MUTI1KK used to make! Does it go down EASY? Better I5KMKVK it does! Greatest domestic bread in the world! 20c the large size; 10c the small For sale at Thomson Bros, and Phelps Grocery Co. SEND FOR SOME TODAY Heppner Bakery r A fire alarm was turned in early Tuesday afternoon and as usual the fire track was many minutes late be cause it could not be started. We supposed the city was paying to have this looked after and that the ma chine was always in trim to hustle out to fires on short notice. The mm UU.. Dr. Mflkk.r r4. U . . Heppner' s five greatest needs ', vvltm. ' a cu '" uul strung out to a pretty long list by the.VJ?P- the Brotherhood meeting Monday f Jfe who was Jew- evening. So less than fifteen were mentioned. All important, too. 4 On a basis of maximum engine efficiency which is never attained in practical railroad operation, the min imum continuous horsepawer at Umatilla rapids when measured in terms of coal, at an estimate of $8 per ton, is worth more than S5.CXX). 000 a year. In other words, we are throwing that great sum away an nually thioueh failure to use this! Next. das & Jake replyed & sed Jewdas wa; 1 of the 12 apostates. He was rong. As usel. Monday Pa belongs 2 a lodge for keeping secrets or sum thing. He is master he said. I guess that is the reeson why he goes. He can oe master for 1 nite a week. Ma is master here at are house. , Tuesday The teecher ast me 2 compose a sentence with the word hand some in it. I sed I ast my ma to hand some pie 2 me. Teecher sed power opportunity. It is an econ omic crime in view of the great shortage of coal and oil. East Ore gonian. 41 Tourist tarvel will soon be coming by Heppner. Get the camp grounds in shape. One speaker at the Brootherhood Wednesday We had a Oyster soop supper tonite. This time I was the lucky 1. I got both oysters. Thursday pa was reeding in a loose paper about a invention of a colledkshun box for churches which wood ring a little bell when a person dropped in 2 bits or more & if you dropped in a jitney it wood fire off a pistol. I hope they wont get 1 at are church for they sure wood get meeting Monday evening suggested i buddy shot , mite ge( 2 bg fl that it was about time to clean the old brick and rubbish off the Palace hotel corner. The brick makes very excellent street paving materia! when rolled down by the steam roller. This suggestion should be promptly heeded and that eyesore, which stands on the principal corner of the city, should be removed. Hope that the agitation started will not stop un til results in this particular instance have been obtained. Orfant. It's An Odd Old World at That. Queer things happen in this good eld world queer anyway to us civil i?ed, intelligent Americans. The other day in Bombay, India, two mischievous F.nglish boys killed a pigeon in the street. The pigein is 1 sacred bird in India and there s a riot immediately. The police stepped in but that was not the end. Lincoln's Birthday. A day of joy, a holiday; A day in festal colors dressed To honor one who knew not play, Nor ever tasted rest! Oh, man of sorrows and of tears, Would we could bring to you Back through the pathway of the years One touch of comfort true! Would that your eyes might pene trate The shadows in between, Through all the clouds of war and hate, And mists that intervene Into fhe hearts of all the throng Of living men to find Your name and fame the first among The treasures of mankind! John Kcndrick Bangs. PHI I m I he w I Way to L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders All Work Guaranteed eacassm W ay to Battery Service Buy a Willard a Wil lard Threaded Rubber Bat tery. That's the first step. Because the plates are insulated not merely sepa rated. No chance of punc turing, carbonizing, split ting or warping, and no bills for replacement of insulation. It -outlasts the plates. Next keep your battery charged, and put in water every two weeks. Finally drive around twice a month for a battery test. You'll know us by the red Willard Sign. Ask about the Willard Threaded Rubber Battery. Battery Electric Service Station J. W. FRITSCH I'hooc MnJn H.1 Hrppner Willard Batteries The Gift Basket originated at Christmas time but we carry it through all the year. On anyone of the 300 shopphg days of the yeVir we offer bettor prices on groceries than may be had in any store in Heppner. Look at these special prices for the week, they're mighty interesting. Ivory Soap Flakes 3 for 25c White Navy Soap 2 for 15c Dinner Table Jap Tea, lb 25o Harrington Hall Soluble Cof fee, pkg 40c Libhy's I ted Beans, can 10c Baker's Cocoanut, can 15c Monopole Preserves 3 for $1.00 Easy Day Soap 2 for 15c Excelo Cake Flour, pkg..50o Folger's Coffee, lb. 60c Shillings Best Coffee, lb.60c Royal Club Coffee, lb 50c Rome Beauty Apples, box.$2.00 Gano Apples, box $2.00 Phelps Grocery Co. Phone 53 Rinso Washing Powder 3 for 25c F. R. BROWN I-Lfo Accident Health Fire Insurance Three Good Heppner Residences For Sale FARM LANDS CANADIAN LAND I Buy Grain Sell Realestate UP STAIRS IN ROBERTS BUILDING Heppner, Oregon If You Want Seed Rye You would do well to call on Scott & McMillan Warehouse Company Lexington, Oregon v . V .'..' V .v. . ::: This is the she! that gets em AS dealers in sporting goods, we want to do XJL all we can to contribute to the success cf your hunting season. We want to do more than sell you our good3. We want you to get your share of the game that is to be had in this section. , For this reason we are recommending to your use this season the famous Winchester Shells. By the Winchester sys tem of waddinfi, the shot pattern is unbroken by es caping gas-blast or pieces of wadding. The pellets cover a 30-inch target so thoroughly at 40 yards, that no bird could get through without being hit three or four times. We recommend these shells to your use with the v.tmost confidence, feeling that whatever the weather conditions may be, these shells will play true to form and give the best results that can be had from any shell on the market. Come in today and look over our new stock. Gilliam & Bisbee