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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1921)
(Vc-m Hi f-ricn.! Society, I'tit'lic Audito.iuin Gazet r i Jdl 1L aBE-aJanav PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY VoL 38, No. 23. IIEPPNEIi OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1921. Subscription $2.00 Per Year MAYOR URGES C0-0P- JlMES LOCAL NEWS HAPPENiNDS i Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nell!, of Little But-j ter creek, were visitors In this city on ' II FEDERAL AID EEOEDjGLEAN-UP SQUAD ID "ON A BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO" S Coaenltatloa With fair omrlala Brings Funk Karl thai Morrow's Hta Aananl . Fair la to Be Biggest nn Beat Una neea Men of 4'lty to Decorate for Oc rnelon. Absolutely nothing will be lacking to make Morrow county's 8th annual fair the biggest and beat ever, said Secretary Sraead one day laat week. The very favorable growing mason of the pant year has resulted In fine pro ducts the like of which has never been equalled In this county. These will be displayed in profusion, as will also be the high grade sheep, hogs and poultry which is second to none. Although the showing of grains, fruits, vegetables and all productions of Mother Nature will undoubtedly be the best, there will be many other exhibits to attract you to the pavilion. Grandmother's handi work and little sister's artcraft will be Bhown in greater numbers than ever be fore, as will likewise be the products of the misses' culinary efforts, which, as everyone knows, is unexcelled any place. All this added to the fine school dlHjjay will make the attraction of the exhibits complete, Indeed. Let 'er buck! Sure there's the round up, with Its bucking bronks, bucking wild steers and bull, wild steer roping, suddle and pony races, and In fact ev erything which goes to make a round up complete, the like of which has nev er before been held In the county. A full and complete roster of entries has been signed up for this feature and It is going over big. It Is going to be held in the natural ampht-theatre on the (ientry Held thus assuring all spec tators of a most excellent view. Mr. Sinead also states that every thing will be provided to entertain the visitors at the fair grounda Good shows and clean concessions, with the merry-go-round for the kiddles will keep things lively every minute, and fine music furnished by the McMlnnvllle Tamhill Elks Band will be added for extrA good measure. No doubt of It This Is going to be by far the best fair we ever had. The business houses of Hie city will do their part by putting In beautiful window displays of an appropriate nature, and helping In decorating the street In front of their, places of business. Everyone has a part to do, and If he does It there Is no reason why we cannot make the Sth Annual Morrow County Fair the "biggest and best In the U. 8." as well ss the "biggest and best In Oregon.' E. O. NOBLE, Mayor. KKDKHATKl) CHrsU'H. There will be the usual services at the Federated church on Sunday, Sept. 11. Sabbath school at 9:45 a m,. fol lowed by preaching. The evening ser vices will consist of Endeavor at 6:80 and song and gospel service at 7:0. Let the worship of the church have some of your attention, come and Join with us in those services. E. L. MOOllE, Pastor. Emerson Kelthley, who formerly con ducted one. of the big wheat ranches out on Eight Mile, came up from The Unties on Monday and has been spend ing the week visiting at the home of his brother, Oscar Kelthley at his Eight Mile home. He is now engaged In farming and stockralsing on a ranch near The Dalies, where he Is prosper ing and well contented. Like some others, Mr. Kelthley was Induced to get Into the sheep business quite extensive ly nt a time when he paid 112 per head for ewes, and Just recently he closed out his sheep at $3.50, after having solil his wool for soven cents, conse quently he feels that the venture Into the sheep game was not a very profit able one. He takes unto himself a lit tle consolation, however, as he knows that many others were caught Just as he was and they will have to make the beHt of the situation. Mr. Kelthley returned home this rooming. Ceo. W. Sperry returned home Tu esday evening from a visit of several dn s at I enUlcton, during which time he wci.t on a little excursion up Into the Spokane and Palouse country with his daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs, A. H Ilea When Ueorge was a lad sixteen years of age, he passed through a portion of this same coun try, trailing a bando fcattle and had never been there since. This was many long years ago, and Mr. Sperry remem bers that there was no settlement of any kind along his route of travel, only a small cabin where the city of Spo kane now stands. On this trip he visit ed Spokane, Colfax, Dayton, Walla Walla and the Intermediate points and was greatly Impressed with the fine conutry and the wonderful develop mont. Crops all through that part of Washington have been Immense this season. Mrs. L. O. Hen en has been quite sick the most of the week, suffering from ptomaine poisoning. Her Illness was so severe that she had been compelled to remain In bed for several days while recovering. We are glad to report that aho will be able to be up again within a day or two. Miss Anne Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Huberts, arrived from Portland the past week and has gone out to Lena, where she will teach the school for the coming winter. Boy Scouts Attention All Scouts report at the Headquarters at the 1st Christian Church on Sat urday, September 10, at Four o'clock P. M. Equip ment not necessary. LIVINGSTONE, S. M., B, S. A. Ell HI Wednesday. Frank Swaggart Lena farmer and stockman, was doing business In Hepp ner on Wednesday. Commissioner L. P. Davidson was In the city on Wednesday to attend the regular session of the county court. Mike Curran has been somewhat on the sick list for several days this week, but is able to again be at his place of business. Earl Wlgleaworth, who operates one of the largest stock ranches on Butter creek, was a visitor In this city on Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs. Wlg lesworth. John Brosnan, who Is engaged In the very commendable occupation of rais ing stock and hay en his ranch near Lena, was a business visitor In this city on Tuesday. Mrs. Emma Smith, mother of Mrs. W. O. Livingstone, who has been spend ing the summer at Wenatchee, Wash., us a special nurse In a hospital there, has returned to Heppner. Troy McCraw has been vistlng with friends In Heppner for a few days this week. He is attending the University at Eugene, and will take up his stud ies there at the beginning of the fall term. Miss Sadie Huddleston, of Lone Mock, visted with friends at Heppner the past week, some of the time being spent at the farm home of Mr. and Mra Garnet Hariatt She will be a student at GUI lam county high school at Condon this year, and departed for her home this morning. Frank Kramer came over from his place at Top, Oregon, on Wednesday with a load of potatoes, which he dis posed of to the Heppner merchants. He produced a One lot of tubers this season, and expects to market more than four hundred sacks. It has been two years since Mr. Kramer left Hepp ner and this Is his first visit here dur ing that time. Arthur Held and Miss Martha Larson were married at the home of Mrs. Mary Reld, mother of the groom. In this city on Wednesday, Sept. 8, Rev. W. O. Liv ingstone officiating. The bride Is from Centralis, Was., while the groom Is one of our deserving young ranchers, owning a place in the mountains near Iteid's mill, to which place the young people have gone to take up their life's Journey together. Dr. A. D. McMurdo returned on Thursday from Portland, where he spent a couple cf days attendnlg the meetings of the Oregon section of the Clinical Congress of American College of Surgeons held there the last week in August. Dr. McMurdo reports the meeting as having been very interest ing and Instructive, many speakers and surgeons of national repute being present and taking part on the pro gram. 8. W. Spencer and wife and A. L. Ayera and wife motored over to Rlttor the last of the week, going and com ing over the Hoppner-Ritter road. Stopping on the middle fork of the John Day over Friday afternoon and night, they enjoyed some splendid fish ing and gathered a fine catch of usu According to Mr. Spencer, getting Into Rltter over this road Is no hard chore now and the road all the way is In very good condition. John Putnam and wife and attorney W. O. Trill, of Fossil, were here on Tuesday having the estate of Mrs. Nan cy Meek in this county appraised. Mra Putnam Is a daughter of the late Mrs Meek and executrix of her last will and testament, and the estate here was appraised by E. M. Shutt J. J. Wells and 8. E. Notson. who were appointed by Judge Campbell for that purpose. The entire estate of Mrs. Meek Is ap praised at about $9000. Mr. Putnam is a prominent merchant and stockman of Fossil. Andrew Byers, a half brother of Thos. Boyd of this city, arrived here from Ireland a couple of weeks ago and will make Heppner his home in the future. He has rented the chop mill of Geo. Schempp and taken possession and ex pects to become identified with the In terests of this community. His home was formerly near Belfast, Ireland, whore there has been much disturbance and rioting during the past year. In other years Mr. Byers was a resident of the United Stntos and lived In the Dukotas. Roy Gardner, famous train robber, Is now occupying the front page of the big dallies again. He made his escape from the federal prison at McNeil's Is land on Labor Day, and It looks now as though it would require an extended season of man hunting before ho Is rounded up again. It appears quite evident at this time that he made his escape to the mainland, for apparently every foot of the little island has been gone over by guards and officials from the prison and the bandit Is not to be found there. E. M. Shutt reports the sale of the Ida A. Veghte wheat ranch, three miles southwest of Morgan to Robert Smith nnd his two sons, Dick and Ted Smith. This ranch consists of 800 acres of good wheat land, and adjoins the present ex tensive wheat ranch of the Smiths. Mrs. Veghte is a resident of Santa Monica, Cat, and she Is In Morrow county nt present looking after her crop interests, H. O. Ely, the renter, having had a good yield of grain on the place this year. The considera tion in the above sale has not been made public. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sweek returned j'on last Thursday evening from their vacation of several weeks spent at the I coast They were accompanied by the parents of Mr. Sweek, Mr. and Mrs. L. Sweek, of Monument, who were on their return home from Portland whore the elder Mr. Sweek has been for a few months, receiving surgical treatment, ' He tins so far recovered that It was possible for him to make the return ' trip home quite comfortably. Mr. Sweek took his parents on over to tholr Mon ument home Sunday, and reports his father very glnd to be back on the ranch again. IFF SHORT IKM ( r Krlery Healgaa Warn A adit Be- vrala Shortage of f ID.B7&H2 In County Fonda. (Condon Globe-Times) Max Crandall, expert accountant, who was here last week en route to his home in Hlllsboro, after auditing the books of Wheeler county, has turned n his report showing a shortage In Sheriff Kelsey's books amounting to 119,973.82. Since the filing of the report, however, the sheriff has turned over $1500. The county is said to be pro tected from loss to the extent of only $10,000 by an American surety company bond in that amount The shortage began In 1919 accord ing to the report of Crandall and Rob erts, who audited the hooks. As the heriff found the books short at the end of each year, he would apply the first taxes collected in the next year on the preceeding year's shortage before the books were audited. Kelsey tendered his resignation to the county court Chas. A. Johnson was appointed Mon day as sheriff by the Wheeler county court and has taken his oath of office and has made application for bond. Wheeler county sheriffs have had eventful careers according to a news dispatch to a Portland paper which says: "Wheeler county has had an unusual record In regard to the office of sheriff. Louis Keeton, the first sheriff to be elected when this territory became county in 1899, served Bix years. At the end of that time when his books were audited there was a shortage of about $7000. Following him, Charles Rae had the office for two years. At the end of that time he had paid the county 13 cents too much." In Trannferrrd to Hood River. W. H. Cronk, who has been manager on the Heppner branch for the Tum-A Lum Lumber company, and who has made hie home at Heppner for the past two years, was at Walla Walla the past week in consultation with the of ficials of the head office, and he returns home with the announcement that he will be Riven a position at Hood River, where the company carries on an ex tensive business. He has been with the company In this county for many years, having charge of the office at tone be fore coming to Heppner. A breakdown In health has made it nelessary for Mr. Oonk to seek a lower altitude and no doubt the change to Hood River will prove beneficial In this respect. Since coming to Heppner, Mr. and Mrs. Cronk have formed a wide circle of friends and upon their departure from here the best wishes of the community will go with them. Mr. and Mrs. Cronk will leave for their new home just as soon as their affairs can be nrranged here. '. L. Sweek la ltonua Attorney, The organization of the local part of the state Bonus Comlssion has been completed, the blanks are here and all veterans of the late war can have their applications for bonus or loan under! the state aid act attended to promptly. 1 ever-moving hurricane deck and who Ralph E. Crego, comander of the local will battle for supremacy with cow post of the American Legion, has the boy riders this year. Prizes in the supply of blanks and those Interested various events are the greatest ever will call on him. C. L. Sweek was ap- offered. pointed attorney to examine titles for Excellent accommodations are prom Morrow county and has accepted the lsed. The show Is purely a commun posltion. The appraisers are S. E. Not-! Ity affair and as such, Pendleton homes son. Frank Gilliam and Judsre W. T. ! are thrown open to the thousands of Campbell. F1IIST CHRISTIAN CHt'HCII. Lord's Day, Sept. It, 11)21. The church Is a dynamo for the char ging of human souls, and not a refrig erator for preserving of saints. Its ob- Ject Is to encourage men to tackle life's' task, not to furnish Its members with nn eternal fire insurance policy, offers yokes for the ambitious, couches for the lasy. Come out and worship with us ble school nt ten o'clock under not : . the1 mn nngoment of Vawter Crawford, sup. "lacoma jjn ... ,' erintendent, followed by Communion " ,'wuh Tacoma Grow will bo syn nnd prenchlng service at eleven o'clock.' onyn.nis. Tho Christian Kndeavor will begin Its' Among (he well known persons who fall work at 6:30. and evening preach-, " S,10W w 11 be F""ne Fr Ing will follow at 7:80. Tou are In- "'. " D"nl!" ""? To Mtf' vlted. LIVINGSTONE. we favorites; W. V. Woehlke, ed- itor of the Sunset mngnilne, Verne H. K. K, ii...to . .. . f it,. (state of the late Robert F. Hynd, wa here from Portland the past week and spent several dnys looking after busi ness connected with his duties, Mr. Hnxtor was a very close friend of Mr. Hynd for many years and held htm In very ' high resrard. Ho Is a leading capitalist of Portland and engaged the mortgage loan business. Little Daughter of W. 0. Hill Struck by Auto The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Hill, of Lexington, was struck by an auto and very severely injured on Saturday evening, while crossing a street near their home In Lexington. Leslie Sherltt of Heppner was driving the machine and fared to see the lit tle girl as she was coming along be hind her mother who, with another lady, had Just crossed the street aa the car came up at a slow rate of speed. The driver recognized Mra Hill and lifted his hat to her and caught sight of the child as she darted In front of the machine Just too late to avoid her. The little girl was struck on the head and body and was evidently dragged for a short distance before the auto could be stopped, but the wheels did not pass over her body. It was hard to tell Just how badly she was Injured for several hours, and It was thought at first that she had been fatally hurt Physicians were Immediately called from Heppner and lone and ministered to the child, and after a few days It transpired that she had received no ser ious Internal Injuries and she is now recovering rapidly. Mr. Sheritt felt so distressed over the accident that te came at once to Heppner and reported the case to Sheriff McDuffee. who placed the young man In Jail to await the outcome, Mr. and Mrs. Hill, however, held him entirely blameless and reported to the sheriff that they wished his release and he was not held longer. Al ROUND-UP IHIS YEAR (From the Pendleton Round-Vp Asso ciation.) Pendleton, Sept B. Pendleton Is ready once again to stage that great out-door drama, the Round-Up, Sep tember 22, 23 and 24. The otmosphere of the "biggest little city In the world" is permeated with Round-Up spirit Dignified citizens have donned the broad-brimmed hat of the cow-boy and those, with the brlliant shirts, long haired chaps and riding boots worn by horsemen, give a festive air to the "Let 'er Buck" city. Each year the show eclipses that of the year before and there Is no doubt that the 1921 presentation will break all records. A galaxy of star perform ers, Including the famous Charles Ir win family of 20 cowboys and cowgirls. as well aa Individual performers, among them Yak and Kitty Cannutt Frank McCarroll. I'rairie Rose and Johnny Judd, will be here. Tom Mix, daredevil cowboy screen hero, and his company, will compete in events of track and arena. Snappy steers, fast relay strings and hot tempered buckers are ready for the three big days. Thirty-five of the Round-l'p's own string of horses are here and with the try-outs next week, some real sparks will fly, Among the buckers 1b "Hotblood Sam." a new horse from Idaho, who has unceremoniously dispatched 16 eon secutiye would-be riders from his visitors. Tho Round-Up association I limits the price to $2.60 for double beds nnd nlso regulates the price of ; meals, no profiteering being tolerated. ; Scores of orders for seats have al- rendv been received and with the open- . i lug of the seat sale September 7, the Konnn-i p association w.u oK, ... work of meeting the great demand from Jt all Over ine .iriliwp.... i no imiiuni Special will bring BUO visitors irom Portland for the laat two days, while a special train irom iacoina w... uring 125 business men here for Thursday, I Tortor, managing editor of the Cosmo- polltnn: W. C. Kenney, vice president of the Ore.it Northern; Carl R. Gray, president of the Union Pacific, and Gov ernor Ben V. Olcott Joke Pearson and wife were In from their liutter creek home, spending a ln'rart of Tuesday and Wednesday at tending to business affairs. oowsjftrr an nawrocASTLsSBhai Explanation of How Inereaae la No Ex pense to Government. Washington. Sept 4. There appears to be some confusion In the public mind regarding the exact provisions of the recent amendment to the Federal Farm Loan Act the amendment known during Its discussion as the Curtis-Nelson bill, notwithstanding both Senator Curtis and Representative A. P. Nelson fully explained the amendment when It was before the Congress. The following is a brief explanation of It The capital stock of the federal land banks Is $25,000,000. The ortginal farm loan act authorised the Secretary of the Treasury, In his discretion, upon request of the Federal Farm Loan Board, to deposit for the temporary use of any federal land bank any money In the U. S. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, provided that the aggre gate of all sums so deposited with all the federal land banks should not ex ceed the sum of $6,000,050." "If 'required that the land banks In which such de posits were made should issue to the Secretary of the Treasury a certificate of indebtedness for the deposit secured by farm loan bonds or other collateral satisfactory to the Secretary, and bear ing a rate of Interest not in excess of the rate charged for other Government deposits. The land banks took up these certi ficates of Indebtedness and returned the deposits to the U. S. Treasury as fast as they sold their bonds, with the pro ceeds of the bonds they made new loans until the funds were exhausted when they repeated the process. The amount of $6,000,000 has been deposited with the land banks and paid back many times since the law was enacted. It Is handled In exactly the same man ner as the Federal Reserve banks which receive deposits from the Treas ury upon which they pay Interest The Curtis-Nelson amendment pro vides that in addition to this $6,000,000, the Secretary of Treasury may deposit with the farm banks, In his discretion, a sum not exceeding the difference be tween the capital stock of the farm banks ($26,000,000) and $50,000,000, un til such time as the capital stock of the farm banks shall be $50,000,000. Under the law with every loan made there must be a subscription to the capital stock of the bank equal to 5 per cent of the loan, so the capital stock of the farm banks Is Increasing constantly at the rate of 6 per cent of their total loans. To prevent the possibility of land banks needless calling for these de posits, the Curtis-Nelson amendment provides they must pay Interest on these deposits of one-half of one per cent more than tho rate of Interest on the land bank bonds. This makes It desirable on the part of the banks to sell their bonds to get funds rather than use deposits of the U. S. Treasury. At the same time it enables the farm banks always to have access to $56,- 000,000: their present capital stock or $25,000,000. tire difference between their capital stock and $50,000,000, which at present Is $25,000,000 and the original provision of $6,000,000. As fast as the capital stock Is Increased, the differ ence between It and $50,000,000 will correspondingly decrease, and the U. S. Treasury will be subject to correspond ingly less deposits. While this makes ample provision for fundi, for the farm banks It Is also a ! KOod bargain for the government ana the public taxpayer. Farm bank bonds now bear 6 per cent Interest. As stated above farm banks pay the V. S. Treas ury one-half of one per cent more for use of the deposits than they pay for their bonds, or B 1-2 per cent. This Is a higher rate of Interest than the gov ernment gets from other deposits. Will Hold Auction Sale Jason Bldde, Rhoa creek farmer, was in Heppner Friday and completed ar rangements for a big nuctlon sale nt his place on Tuesday, Sept. 20. The sale will bo in charge of Auctioneer K. E. Miller of lone, and F. H. Robinson will be dork. At this sale Mr. Biddle is offering all of his stock, farming Im plements nnd household goods and It will be one of the biggest sales of tho season. He has a lot of splendid horses and your attention is Invited to the advertisement which contains a full list of tho personal property to go on the block. Look It over. 10. M. llulden was a passenger for Portland on Sunday, taking with him his two young sons who will enter school there. (Pendleton East Oregonian.) In a lengthy editorial Sunday the Portland Oregonian proves very clearly it la not awake, or does not wish to awaken, to the great opportunity open to the people of the northwest through development of hydro electric power In the Columbia basin. Strangely enough the Portland paper tries to discourage the Umatilla, raplda project on the ground that that project would develop too much electric power. Its editorial sets forth that the contin uous power that may be developed at Umatilla rapids would more than suf fice to operate all the railroad of Ore gon and Washington, that It would pro duce more power than Is now used In the entire Portland district and that the secondary power that may be de veloped at the rapids would be greatly in excess of what Is needed for Irri gation pumping. If those facts are true they constitute an argument for building the project, not for delaying construction Indefin itely. The building of a great power plant such as this would mean cheap .power because the cost per horse pow er would be low. Then the availability of cheap power would automatically broaden and enlarge th market The oregonlan Is mistaken in Its estimate of the present power market of the northwest It errs through figuring on the market for high priced electricity. Naturally the market for such power is limited. There would be a limited mar ket for bread it bread had to be sold at 25 cents an ounce. There would be no demand for railroads if railroad charges were prohibitive. There wouli be very little demand for Sunday news papers it they had to sell at $1 a copy. The comparison could be carried on indefinitely but it is not necessary. Th mistake of the Oregonian Is so palpable that it scarcely needs exposure, AU in telligent men and women know that electricity is not being used as it conla be used. It Is used not at all in Oregon tor heating purposes, though In Taco ma a municipal electric plant makes home heating possible. Electricity is not widely used for cooking and In only the more fortunate homes la It used to do the washing, ironing and sweep ing. It is conservative to say that elec tricity is not being used for one twen tieth part of the work It would be call ed upon to do were cheap power avail able. It Is Idle for any on to talk about a lack of market for power in the northwest If cheap power can be had. The Oregonian s editorial quote "an engineer" as saving that only 114,000 acres of land is subject to Irrigation through pumping from the Columbia by power developed at Umatilla raplda ThlB is evidently a low estimate, be cause there are government and state reports showing a much larger acreage as subject to irrigation by pumping. But even a 11 4,0 tie acre project would be no small affair. It would be bigger than any present project In Oregon. Such a project would add over $10,000,- 000 to the assessment rolls of th coun tes affected, thus reducing the tax bur. den on present property. One might suspect that the Oregon, ian does not want a great power pro Ject built because such an enterprise would reduce electric charges and thus cut dividends of electric companies now in the field. But the Portland paper is anxious to have the federal govern meat spend millions Improving the Col umbia channel to Portland so as to facilitate water competition against the railroads and Incidentally build up Portland trade. If such federal aid is justifiable for Portland, why is not fed eral aid for an Interior project a good thing also? Furthermore, the Oregonian supports the federal reclamation policy whereby the United States government has ex pended many millions watering arid land that is now competing with pri vately developed land. It is probable that tho price of alfalfa today would be twice what it is had not alfalfa production been vastly Increased In the last ten years through government re clamation of land . Yet at a time when alfalfa growers find their product I drug on the market tho Oregonian ur ges a federal policy'under which $260, 000,000 more of federal money will bo used to finance new irrigation work. Where is there any logic in asking the government to finance competition with farmers and then shy at asking federal help on power projects. If It Is good public policy to reclaim waste land why is it not good public policy to reclaim waste water power? ine Oregonian says it is not a vain hope" that private capital will develop power on the Columbia. Private capital may do so sometime but it will not bo on a very large scale. The private el ectric companies naturally want a lim ited supply of power so that the power they have can be marketed at good fig ures. Private power companies want a sellers market while tho publlo need Is for a buyers market There is a well known community of Interest among tho power corporations and that un derstanding works against the building of projects that would reduce prices. If private electric Interests developed power at Umatilla rapids they would have a mammouth supply of low priced power. Through regulatory laws now in effect they would have to sell that rower at a price based on the produc ing cost which would mean to cut northwest power prices to one-half or one third what is now charged. May we reasonably expect the electric corpora tions to do that? Certainly not and no practical man expects It Furthermore, a project like the Umatilla rapid pro ject Is too big for private financing. The reclamation feature la too big tor any private concern to succeed with and private capital certainly cannot be expected to devote its energies to lm proving the navigability of a river. That Is distinctly a government task, Just as much so as channel Improve ment on the lower river. Eastern Ore gon is not protesting against the use of federal money for bettering tho channel to Portland, why should a Port land paper argue against federal aid for an Eastern Oregon enterprise of similar merit? if Columbia basin power Is developed on a big scale as It should be It will bo done through federal aid or through aid from some other public source. There is no other answer and the facts should be faced. Wo have had a hun- (Continued on Pag I.) BE HERE SEPT. 26TH Jtn-Se W Mm Having llalma of Any Hlaa Against Government Will Be Heard. Ue I'rrx-Ht With Dlaraarg Panem. Wa. P. Wis of Seattle, Wash, was in Heppner the early part of the weak for the purpose of making arrange ments for a visit of the group of gov ernment officials known as th Oregon Clean-up squad. This squad, which In cludes Cliff Wood and K. Kiggins of Portland and Or. Wm. H. Mors of Se attle, will be here Monday, Sept it Their headquarters will b the Hotel Patrick. Kvery ex-service man who has a claim of any kind against th gov ernment is urged to b her at that tlm with his discharg and other gov ernment papera "Arrangements were made here," said Mr. Wise, "for the co-operation of the Legion and the Red Cross, through their representatives Ralph Crego, com mander of the local Legion post M. 8. Phelps, adjutant of the same, and Miss Mary Farnsworth, local representative of the Red Cross. If there 1 any ex- servtc man in this section of th coun try who 1 in need of assistance re garding any claim against th govern ment I am confident that th Legion and the Red Cross will bav them her on the date sot for th squad Sept 26." Th squad which is touring Oregon is similar to squads which are touring every state In tho Union for th purpose of advising ex-service men of their rights relating to compensation, voca tional training, government Insurance, back pay. travel pay, allotments, Vic tory medals, etc The Idea Is that of CoL Forbes, newly appointed head of th Veterans' bureau, who wants every ex-service man In th country, whether he lives in a hamlet In the west or in New York city, to have an opportunity to straighten out any claims he may have against the government A physician travels with the squad He is prepared to give examinations "on the ground" and has authority from the United States government to give immediate hospital treatment to men who need it There will also be expert advice for those who wish assistance in filling out affidavits or otherwise prosecuting old claims or making out new ones. Disposes of lone Property, C. W. McNamer has disposed of his meat market at lone, the deal having been closed the first of the week- George Ritchie was the purchaser and has taken over the business. Mr. Mc Namer also sold his residence property in lone to Clay Woods and he expects to make a sale very shortly of th small farm that he owns Just west of lone and thus be in a position to give up his entire attention to his business In Heppner. NOTICE Those knowing themselves Indebted to the former firm of Welch Llnlnger will please call and settle tholr ac counts, as the final dissolution settle ment is September 15, 1921. a2S-3t S. O. LINING ER. ANNOUNCEMENT. The Patron-Teachers association will give a reception for the teachers of the Heppner schools on Friday evening, Sept s, 1921, In the Odd Fellows haR The association urgently requests ev eryone who Is interested in the welfare of education to be present meet the teachers, and enjoy a social evening. MRS. FRANK TURNER, President Mrs. Eada Called by Death. Mra Jack Eads died at her home In this city at 2:30 this morning, after an illness extended over two months. Death was from heart failure, she be ing a sufferer from chronic heart trou ble, and her serious illness Increased this weakness. Funeral services will be held from the Christian church at 10:00 o'clock a. m. tomorrow, Friday Rev. W. O Livingstone will officiate and burial will be In Masonic cemetery. It had been arranged by her physician. Dr. McMurdo, to have Mrs. Eads taken to Portland for treatment and she was to leave on Friday. She leaves a couple of small children besides her husband. Mr. Eads works on the section here and has held this position for the past two years. Mr. and Mra Tllrnan Hogue of Goose berry were in the city today for a short time. PATRON-TEACHERS WILL HOLD REGULAR MEETING The first regular meeting for the year of the Patron-Teacher ajsoclatiou, will be held on next Tuesday after noon. Sept 13, Rt 3:45 p. m, at the auditorium In tho high school building. All members and others Interested In the work are urged to attend. STAH THEATRE, KBIDAV, SEPT. 8th Scree from "IT !VT IIKINIi THIS sKASOV 1 ' WW