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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1921)
I'AOK SIX TIIK 0 A Z F.TTK-TI M K.S. niTPXEn, OKKilOX. Till HSDAY, SEPT. 8, 1021. h " - r 0 pi I Ml! :'l tit lit li(:t 11 Mi ) ) 1 LAST PICTURES OF GREATEST AIRSHIP WHICH FAILED I n After 500 Miles Drain and Refill There you have the first of the two most impor tant rules for motor safety. The second is fill with the very best oil you can buy call here and get the correct weight of jij rO Wu know1 IfiMwJlN if! Puritan Oils carried in all weights, making an oil for every car, truck and tractor. All accessories for Ford cars always in stock. A CARLOAD OF FORD CARS ARRIVED THIS WEEK. YOURS IS HERE. Try Us for Service Latourell Auto Co. Heppner, Oregon ( One Dollar I IBHi The Auto Repair Shop wishes to announce that our work on big cars will be ONE DOLLAR per J hour instead of $1.50 per hour, as you formerly J paid for your car repairing. CONTRACT PRICES ON FORD WORK H EE Estimates Cheerfully Given EE Ei All Work Guaranteed E Fell Bros, jl One Block East of Hotel f lUiMt 1 The greatest air tragedy in the history of aviation, the collapse of the dirigible ZR-2 in England, when 45 perished, 17 ol whom were American navymen, will not slop the U S. in its air programme, it is announced at Washington But Americans will build all of our future dirigibles and we will purchase no more foreign-made crafts These pictures are the last of the ill-taied craft. L'pper left shows navymen leading the biggest dirigible ever built from its hangar for the trial flight Lower picture is an official yavy picture a group of the American crew which went across to bring the monster across th Atlantic trom England. The sketch shows the great steel girders buckling and the ship as it collapsed Farmers Should Co operate With Agents W'ATYAMEAN FREAK HITTER, ASKS BABE The Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve System has strengthened the bank ing system of the country, more than anything else. The Farmers and Stock growers belong. FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK Heppner Oregon Farmers who continue to believe that their county agent is simply a purveyor of canned advice, an errand boy or an experimenter carrying ar ound in the back of his rattling car a sack of choice seed for very limib ed distribution or a few pounds of fertilizer for application to a few plats on the farms of his special friends, are overlooking, it appears, the magnitude of the service which may be extracted by keeping in touch with the possibilities of this import ant development work and getting back of it in a community way to realize the benefits available. One farmer writing on two occa sions in a farm paper referred to the fact that the county agent in his county seldom visited his particular district and also commented unfav orably on the fact that distillate is off the market and gasoline high in price. Both these difficulties have been largely overcome in four Oregon counties through cooperation be tween the farmers and the county agricultural agents and there is noth ing apparent to prevent the exten sion of such service to other coun ties. When it was learned last sum mer that distillate was off the mar ket the office of the state leader of county agents assisted Fred Bennion, county agent in Umatilla county, in locating a supply in California and twenty-seven carloads were shipped as a result of pooled orders into Umatilla county. Seventeen carloads were likewise shipped into three other counties and the saving to the farmers under the price of gasoline DR. HARDING'S BRIDE POSES FOR PICTURE A new portrait of Mrs George T .Harding, of Marion, 0, the new bride of the father of the President. She was formerly Miss Alice Severns, 52 years old, who had been his stenographer for eight years. Dr Harding is 72. Affairs of Alaska to be Considered -.i-i-lf.;-V(W"""ff-w-,0-itti"VAviiviyjM tL-J..w..lt.J..,-.w.-.-vt-.-.v-j.-fe.....,... - BABE rJth With all eyes watching his liomt-, run record to see if he was going to pass last year's mark of 54 cir cuit drives, Babe Ruth, king of swatters, sneaked one over in an-: other direction by establishing new bif league record for the year when he passed his twenty-fifth game the other day, having hit safely at least once m every con- test In twentv-six days he hit safely 4.1 times ip 89 times at batl (or a percentage of 480, scoring 3& runs was $29,000. The Umatilla county farmers also shipped in gasoline from Oklahoma at a greatly reduced figure and are doing the same thing this season. All that is required to bring about this sort of action is the concentra tion of community effort around a few of the important needs of the community and the best agency so far available to bring this about is the farmers themselves assisted by their county agent, it is thought. F. L. Ballard, Assistant County Agent Leader. Congress is going to give thought to Alaska, which has too long been the Cinderella of the Uni ted States. Acquired 51 years ago for a paltry price, Alaska has ex perienced a career either of too much government or no government at all For 17 years after its purchase by the United States it was without any civil government. It was 39 years before it was permitted to have a del egate in Congress and 4 years before it was permitted to have a territorial government F.qual in size to one fifth the area of continental United States, its natural resources are the most valuable of any section of the United states. Despite this, Alaska has either been exploited by private individuals or has had its development arrested by a system of strangling red-tape. At the present, it is said that there are 30 odd federal government agen cies which have to do, in some way cr another, with governing Alaska. The result is hopeless confusion, in terminable delay, conflict and over lapping of authority and division of responsibility, all of which have op erated, on the whole, to defeat the development of that territory. Senator New, of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Committee on Terri tories, has introduced a bill which it is understood has the endorsement of the Adminisrtration, that will go a long way toward correcting these governmental evils. It will be taken up after the congressional recess. Briefly, the bill provides for a trans fer of the duties, powers and func tions, relating to Alaska, now vest- WEDDING BELLS AT LEGION CONVENTION A Man of Honor. Roomer: "I regret that I cannot pay you my rent this week." Landlady: "But you told me the same thing last week.". Roomer: "Well, I kept my word, didn't I?" American Legion Week ly. Beneficiaries. "How did Mr. Grabcoin make his money?" In various ways. "Any of them questionable?" "1 iimttldfi't nn c n tnf ac rt caw t wvuiuu l 3U .1 a l ivs ot j thaf hut if it hadn't Kdfifi fnr Mr Grabcoin several prominent lawyers in our town wouldn't be riding around in limousines." Birmingham Age-Herald. .ISilliiliia i liiii Rev. John W. Im, of Chatta nooga, Tenn , national chaplain of the American Legion, will add i touch of romance to the national convention this year. He has offered to marry without cost all Lcgioners who attend the third an nual convention it.KansasCity, Oct .11 IX S PUT ON A RECORD lWfl I fl -r" -J I'M NOT VERY HOME AWNCE'BEr, I jl GEE.IM TIRED !! .- "TZ V. V II I NEITHER 1 W 3 REALLV.I WOUU)NT Ai VvOUU) 1 SP-4 " ENJCTi' DANCIN6 WmH tift f) L ZJ JO Ptl ANV FELLOW TniGHT m unciejonns HPoem - I , ., .... n , -. The Middle-Man The middle-man's a cheerful chap, who never gives a bloomin' rap about the status of the crops, or how the farms supply the shops. He don't produce single thing, but soon be comes a money-king. When Reuben reaps his turnip field, he plans to sell the total yield. He hauls "em o'er the bumpy road, and dreams of what they fetch per load. The price he gets is always low, for tur nips don't bring much, you know; the middle-man gets on the job and stays there, too, yes sirree bob. And then the price begins to soar, no matter how consumers roar; from man to man the tturnips slide, and so the price is multiplied. The pur chaser must feel at length, the middle-man's colossal strength, and pays a bonus, fifty-fold, for turnips, wilted bruised, and old. He cusses, as con sumers can the farmer, not the middle-man. Our Reuben, simple hearted clown, perceives his bank roll simmer down. Of course the poor consumer-dupe must skin along en turnip-soup. The middle-man gloats on his hoard, and buys hit wife and kids a Ford. tale JctetJbsfa VvOULDN'T IT MAKE YOU MAD ; BOTTOM HAS DROPPED OUT OF SUGAR SOME MORE. 'I J I r - j SMILE AWHILE ed in the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Power Commission, the De partment of Treasury and the De partment f War, to the jurisdiction and control of the Department of In terior, which already has consider able power and authority pertain ing to the government of Alaska. The powers transferred from the War and Treasury Departments, by Senator New's bill, are purely ad ministrative, dealing with construc tion and maintenance of roads in Al aska. The purpose of the bill is to consolidate and centralize the au thority for government in Alaska in one department and under one head, thus eliminating duplication of ex pense and effort, as well as fixing responsibility for affairs in Alaska. A very important section of the bill provides that the United States Shipping Board shall transfer to the Department of the Interior such ships, as may be designated by the President, of suitable capacity for handling the maritime passenger and freight carrying trade between the United States and Alaska, including all military forces, U. S. mails and; other government property. These shins, toppthpr with thft Government! railroad in Alaska, shall be operated in conjunction under the manage ment of the Secretary of the Inter ior, subject to the same jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion as that commission has over the transportation lines in the Uni ted States. This is of vital importance to the development of Alaska. The United States Government has expended over $50,000,000 in building a rail road in Alaska, the main line of which is to run from Seward to Fairbanks. This railroad, however, cannot perform its intended func tions of the development of the in terior of the country touched by it and its tributaries, unless it has a free and profitable communication with the United States. At present, it is at the mercy of private ship ping concerns. Under Senator New's bill, it would be operated by the gov ernment in conjunction with ship ping lines, also owned by the fed eral government, which would guar antee it adequate and unobstructed access to the Pacific Coast ports of the United States. ' Fraud When a Mobile doctor came to visit the Robinson family he found Mrs. Robinson in bed, her dusky face decorated with bandages. Mr. Rob inson was sitting in stolid misery by the bedside. "Cheer up, Sam," said the M. D. "She'll pull through all right." "Don' yo' go tryin' to cheer me up," answered Mr. Robinson darkly, "fo' it's onpossible, doctor. Heah Ah has her insured against accidents of all kinds only fo' days ago and paid down mah five dollahs, an' befo' de week is out she falls downstairs wid a bucket of coal and now look at her, all busted from end to end!" American Legion Weekly. The Days That Are Gone. "Are you willing to work for $30 a month and your board?" asked Mr. Cobbles. "Yes, sir," replied the applicant for a job as a farm hand. "But if you occasionally see me pause in my task of manicuring the pigs to brush away a tear, think nothing of it. I was paid $10 a day during the war and it wasn't much of a day at that." Birmingham Age-Herald. He Skived the Pie. 'Got any apple custard?" asked the fat man at the railroad restau rant counter. "Yes, that is apple custard," said the red-headed waitress indiaatine the pie. "But in the part of the country I came from apple custard has no upper crust. "Well, that pie has no upper crust. What you see on the top there is dust!" Yonkers Statesman. Vivid Imagination. "Have you heard Jibway's latest fishing yarn?" "No, I haven't," said Mr. Gadspur, "and I don't want to hear it." "Why not?" "Because Jibway hasn't even a speaking acquaintance with the truth. He couldn't describe a smallpox ep idemic without making you think it was something you'd hate to miss." Birmingham Age-Herald. There are cold towns, friendly towns and DEPENDABLE TOWNS. The greatest of these according to authoritative surveys tt the town that can be depended upon. This town of OURS is a dependable town. "I like to deal 'w iyour town a country shopper remarked to a business man the other day. "I can get anythina on earth I wtnt here as cheap or cheaper (Kan anywhere else. That unsolicited testimony shows that the town can be "DE PENDED upon that shoppers ire learning the value of the real SERVICE Ine merchants and business men are daily striving to es tablish." In this hustling day, a man's too busy to stand (or very much LOST MOTION. Slow mails, unreliable transportation Wities substitution of articles (or the one ordered Jelays irritations DISAPPOINTMENTS, are some of the usual mail order buy ing trials todav aside from the DISLOYALTY of failing to support your town ana community TRADE. If you can buy it ANYWHERE, jrou can buy it right here. There is EVERYTHING hrre-and the.btchstring is OUT on every business and public door in this town.