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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18. 1922. PAGE SIX HIKES! frippM MiimewM Boy rlo4 U Fm-H and on FirM Vritf U ( on Onk nprtiti. Hnlth Impror r4. He Now Trarhr Arrirttltsr In Hih School tt 1ifton. Mtnn. Written Pfxriaiv for Tht Cacette-Timc-f by KCBFKT FVIXKR. Wrren W. Simpson lived witV his widowed mother on a forty acre farm at NortiifuU. Mh:iieoia. A cripi'le from infertile paralysis, he entered the corn club in 112. and by he-r willpower and determination completed hi? rro.iect bT ctul.y crauiinfr throne" the corn on his hand and knees in order to cultivate it. He not only Mirceeded in obtain ing a yield of M5 bushels per acre, but at the Fame tirre hi? health im rroved go that he became able to walk. With hi? pri2e money and larper re urns from the little forty acre farm. bochUf-e of his increased knowiedpe of crop production, he went on through hijrh school and Ust year finished an aprirultural course at the University of Minnesota. He is now teaching agriculture in the Lewiston, Minnesota High School and doing club work by cooperating with the county agent and acting as local leader. Hi? team was the champion Junior Livestock Judpirg team in the State of Minnesota in 1122 and represented that state in the Non-Collegiate Livestock Judging contest at the International Livestock Exposition, just closed, winning fourth in com petition with twenty states. "When I was a club boy." said Mr Simpson, while he was in Chicago, "I determined then and there to be come a club leader or agricultural teacher, in order that I might do for other boys and girls what was done for me in Boys' and Girls Club Work. It may be said that this case is ex ceptional, but "Truth is stranger than fiction." Hundreds of club boys and girls are now acting as local leaders in their various communities and carrying on the work in just as re markable a way as in the case of Warren Simpson. Author Chose Barry For Role of Penrod Booik Trlinro Dlar4 Boy Star tlit Lifelike Imprroonattoa of Hia Popular Character. In "Freckles" Barry the screen ha found the ideal impersonation of 'Tenrod. the boy character immor talized in Booth Tarkinton' stories. The opinion comes, not from Mar shall Neilan. who has made the film version of "Penrod" that will be shown at the Star Theatre Wednes day and Thursday, Jan. 24 and 25, but from Booth Tarkinpton himself. The Indiana author was largely responsi ble for the selection of "Freckles" hnrry for the title role. "1 submitted a list of netrly forty boy actors and other child players to 'Mr. Tarkington." said Mr. Neilan, "and from the photographs attached to the list Mr. Tarkington made his hoice. Mr. Tarkinpton was familiar with the scren work of "Freckles" Barry. Marjorie Paw and Lena Bas fcette, the 'vamplet' in 'Penrod,' and chose them at once for the leading child roles. "'Per.rod'." Mr. Neilan pointed out. s not merely the story of the coun try boy or the tale of the city boy he is every boy. In creating the character of 'Penrod' Mr. Tarkington has not. as so many others have done, portrayed a certain type or class of boy. He has reached down into the fundamentals of every boy and has pictured characteristics that are im mediately evident in all American youths. The story might have taken place in a large city or a small town. It will therefore be appreciated by those who have always lived in the citv as well as those who have never left the country town. "In portraying Tarkington's story on the screen I have not attempted to detract or improve upon it. To attempt to out-Tarkington iarknlg- ton would be just as foolish as to try to out-Shakespeare Shakespeare. Booth Tarkington is undoubtedly the greatest painter of American boy hood, as indicated by the triumph of his 'Penrod' stories. It has been my ambition to picturize these charac ters as this author has so success fully visualized them with his pen." HOOSIERLAXD VS. YANKEELAXD THE HEARTLESS STEAM ROLLER t Oregon ianl These be sud days for the uplift. Even the most excited schemes of service, the most phiuintriroptc plan for the common weal, run into hard edding, if they cost anything. Take the case of Brother William Woodward. A member of the school board, he came face to face with the defects of the system, its failures to do for the comirg generation what it should do. So he got himself elect ed to the legislature. th the noble 1 unselfish idea of curing various ills: and he prepared a bunch of bills in the confident opinion that the leg islature would be glad to hear and to heed. Several bills excellent bills, too he introduced on the very first day. One of themto prevent the wear ing of sectarian garb by teachers in the public schools the house prompt ly passed. It was in accord both with correct policy and with public opin ion. Besides, it did not cost the tax payrs anything. There is a different tale to tell about subsequent events. The house yesterday with great unan- mity, squashed two others of Repre sentative oodward s admirable measures. One of them to add den tal clinics to the public schools would have increased the tax burden, and the other letting everybody (if citizen) vote at school elections had a special bearing on the tax problem. In freer and more prosperous days legislature would doubtless have passed both the Woodward bills. But not now. It is the day of restriction, not expansion, of belt-tightening, not over-feeding. The state proposes to get along without some things, even desirable ones. It could get Senator "Jim" Watson, of Indiana, recently found the following article in an old scrap book that had been stored in an attic of an Indiana homa for more than a generation: We were greatly amused, not long ago, at a dialogue we heard between Down-Easter and Hoosier. They were respectively cracking up their own localities and running down their op ponents. At length say the Hoosier: "Why, our land is so rich, why ye never seed anything so tarnal rich in all your born days; why. how d'ye suppose we make our candies, hey?"' "Donl know," says the Yankee. 'We dip em in the mud puddles," says the Hoosier. "Yes," replied the Yankee, "and I guess there's so much mud in your diggins that there isn't many places where a man could not dip candles in the mud puddies. I heard of a man traveling in your country all day long in the road, where the mud was so deep you couldn't diskiver a glimpse of his legs for hours at a time." "Well, now jest te;l us. Mr. Yan kee, if it's a fact what they do say about the roughness of the roads down east. They do say there are so many stones in the roads, and the wagons do joit up and down so all firdly, that the only way the people ever grind out our plaster of Paris is by loading the big pieces in a wag on and just driving at a moderate trot over one of your roads; and half a mile's driving will make it all into powder. "There's no doubt but that we can touch dry land occasionally on our roads. But then if there are some stuns in the roads, the traveler is never waylaid and his blood taken by mosquitoes as big as oysters." "I'll tell you what, stranger, they do say there are hull counties down east where the stones are so thick that they have to sharpen the sheeps noses so that they can get them be tween the rocks to eat grass. Indeed, I heard one say, who once traveled through your country, that he once saw a whole held of m?n and boys standing on the rocks, each of 'em letting a sheep down by the legs in among the rocks to feed. And in an other p;ace he said he saw- a lot of farmers shooting the grain in among the rocks o that it would take root and grow." "Wall, now. stranger, suppose you tell us something about your own country; you're the only man I ever saw from the west that didn't die of fever 'n' agur; let's see if you know at much about the wet as you think you do about the eat." "Well, old Yankee, I'll jest tell you all about it. If a farmer in our coun try plants land with com, ar.d taies first-rate care of it, he'll get a hun dred bushels to the acre; and if he takes middiin' care of it he'll get seventy-five bushels to the acre; and if he don't plant at all he'll get fifty. "The trees grow so large that I once knew a man who commenced cut ting one down, and when he had cut away on one side for about ten days, tie thought he'd jest tnke a . look 'round the tree, and when he got 'round t'other side he found a roan there who had been cutting at it for three week, and they'd never heard otie another's axes. "1 have heard tc!It yet I some times doubt that story, that the Ohio parsnips have sometimes grown clean through the earth and been pulled up by the people on t'other side." "Wall, now," pays the Yankee, "I rather f uec as how you've told enough, stranger, for the present. Huw'd you like to trade for some clocks to sell out weft?" "Never um 'em. We keep time al tcgelhr with pumpkin vines. You know, they grow jest five feet an hour, and that's an Inch a minute. Iton't ue clocks at all. It's no use. old Yankee, we can't trade nohow." along without others. If it know whero to begin. There is no monopoly of tax re form purposes and policy in the ex ecutive office at Salem. The legisla tive steam-roller ia also in action. It can do yoeman service, to long as economy is its engineer. Will Attend Shrine. Ceremonial at Portland A large number of members of Al Kader Temple, Mystic Shrine, who live in this section are planning to attend a Ceremonial to be held in Portland on Saturday, January 27th. This ceremonial will be the first to be given under the direction of Hal T. Hutchinson, Illustrious Potentate, who took office last month. The ceremonial will be held in the large Public Auditorium in Portland, and will be preceeded by a banquet to be served in the auditorium of the building. . A concert by Al Kader's Band and Chanters will open the pro gram, with the various sections of the ceremonial following. The annual Potentate's Ball, which is attended by member, of the order and their ladies, will be held in the Auditorium in Portland on Wednes cl'iy night. January 81st. This is the big social event in Portland and at tract, a large attendance from every part of the state. He Wasn't Anxious to Go. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com merce, on one of his many ocean trips experienced a terrific storm. Many of the passengers were much exercised over the possibility of the boat going to the bottom. This was particular ly true of a young man who had but recently been received into the min istry. He earnestly inquired of one of the crew if he thought there was any danger. "Why," replied the sail or, "if this keeps up a few hours longer we will all be in heaven before sun-up." The chaplain, horrified, cried out, "The Lord forbid!" J. O. Kincaid, extensive farmer of lone, is in the city today to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the Morrow County Farm Bureau. He states that in his neighborhood the grain is all coming along well, and never looked better for the time of year. Mr. Kincaid looks forward to a fine harvest the coming season and feels that the outlook for the farmers of Morrow county is bright. KEEP IN MIND the Tea at Mrs Livingstone's on Tuesday afternoon, January 23, from 4 to 8 o'clock. You are cordially invited. Price 25 cents. Benefit of new church fund. Wool to be Exploited. The agricultural committee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, through a special wool committee, plans on making an extensive hibit showing Portland's advantages as a wool center, at the national wool growers' convention in Spokane January 24, 25 and 26. The special committee, composed of R. A. ward C. J. Smith, Victor T. Johnson, Far mer Smith and W. A. Munsell, has prepared a leaflet setting forth Port land s many advantages as a wool center which will be handed to all attending the convention. E. A. Ward and Edward N. Wein baum, with the co-operation of the woolen and worsted manufacturers of the city, are assembling a display of manufactured products for which Portland is famous. This exhibit, together with scoured and grease wool, and photographs of the port, mills and warehouses, will be in the Davenport hotel during the conven tion. It will show all the steps in the process of converting wool to cloth. STAR THEATER Friday, January 1 9th Corf JJjemmle jwnhr HOOT GIBSON Supported by Lillian Rich, frwncJvWilUari Bucly 5J FARM FOR SALE 847 Acres 750 ACRES WHEAT LAND 20 ACRES ALFALFA Location U miles west of Lexington, Ore. This farm is well balanced, and has always been a producer. It adjoins highway. SALE PRICE $25,000. Includes Equipment. A BARGAIN IN EVERY WAY See L. VAN MARTER Heppner Heppner Hotel Building Phone 352 Publicity Bill Is Drawn Measure Would Substitute Publica tion In Newspapers For Voters' Pamphlets. Salem, Ore., Jan. 17. Publication in every qualified newspaper in Ore gon for two. issues of all constitu tional amendments and measures to be voted on at elections held in this state is proposed in a bill intro ducd by Senator Tooze of Clackamas county. First publication of the measures and constitutional amendments would i be made not more than 30 days prior to the election and the second pub lication not more than four days preceding the election. Printing and circulation of the voters' pamphlet, under the proposed law, would be eliminated. The rate for the publication of the constitutional amendments and meas ures is fixed in the bill as follows: For newspapers of less than 500 circulation, 20 cents a single column inch; up to 1000 circulation, 25 cents an inch; up to 2000 circulation, 30 ) cents an inch; up to 3000 circulation, 35 cents an inch; up to 7000 circula tion, 40 cents an inch; up to 15,000 circulation, 45 cents an inch, and for papers having more than 15,000 cir culation, 3& cents an inch per 1000 circulation. A rfp. roaring story of the Jolly old wet Into which came inln'i hoatia' hid who let tho whole world haow that he wu a 'bad nyta"! that he could hi die two raaa better taaa oao and oae bettor thaa star other man's two. A pair of blue eres took aim at hi heart and the whAlo town laughed. Also "In the Days of Buffalo Bill" Tommy'a Inquires. Tommy had received strict instruc tion to ask no queations, and Tommy tried hard to obey. But childish cu riosity won, and he suddenly and loudly inquired: "Mamma, do Mr. and Mrs. Brown still play in the band? Will they play something when tea is over?" "Why, Tommy, Mr. and Mrs. Brown don't play in the band. Why do you a&k such a question?" "Because," said the terror, in dis appointed tones, "I heard you tell papa that Mr. Brown played second fidd'e to Mb wife." There was music after tea, and i Tommy was the drum. A New I'se for Puppies. A younir supply prrachtr stopped in the middle of hi sermon with the statement, "Where 1 am staying they have a litter of puppies. One of them yot hold of the rest of my sermon and chewed it up. I mu.t therefore stop her. Rim and receive the benedic tion." After the service a stranger offend the young man a 10 bill, say ing, "I want one of those pups for our minister at home." Good eating apples for sale at J1.60 per box and up. Heppner Bakery. E. L. Padberg, who was in attend ance at the installation ceremonies of Willow Lodge, I. O. O. F. last eve ning, stated that It was the intention of Laxton McMurray to begin at once the construction of a new brick build ing at lone, on the lots recently pur chased from the C. B. Sperry estate. The building will be two stories, and the upper floor will be arranged prop erly for the holding of lodge metings and will furnish a suitable place for the various lodges of lone. The low er floor will be used as store rooms and the new building will add much to the appearance of the business portion of the city. J. H. Frad came In from Portland last evening and will spend a short time at Heppner, looking after busi ness affairs. He states that his part of Oregon has had just a lot more rain of late than is needed, and for a time the flood conditions at Port land became quite serious. Home Eastern Oregon sunshine would be tpprciated down that way, according to Mr. Frad. Shell Fish! Fordsorv THE UNIVERSAL TRACTOR DO YOU ENJOY S1WLL FISH!. Oysters Clams Crab ei ved in any sAyle your order. lo Our Sunday dinners are an attraction and should appeal to you. Save the wife extra work Sundays by taking din ner with us just bring the whole family along. Elkhorn Restaurant Heppner I OK SALE Two brood sows, wt. nearly 400 lbs., with I pigs each; $40 apiece. Inquire of Louis Balsiger, lone, Ore, Cut your farm cot in half with the Fordaon Save money on every acre plowed with the Fordson Multiply the work of your farm tool four to six timet with the Fordson Cut your honra in the field over half with the Fordson V F.O.B. DETROIT ffiffimEfe Give yourself an 8-hour day you can with the Fordson II This Value Has Never Been Duplicated It takes something besides engineering to furnish a tractor like the Fordson to sell at this astonish ingly low price. That something is owner confidence built on permanent satisfac tion. There are 170,000 Fordson tractors in use wherever Power Farming is being done Fordson is showing superior service. If you are not using a Fordson now, start right. The working ability of this remarkable power plant is cutting farming costs in half in almost every kind of work done, at the draw bar or from the belt . Ask OS Cor all the details call, write or phone. Latourell Auto Co. Authorized Ford, Fordson and Lincoln Sales and Service HEPPNER - Come in and see our fine assortment of these Palmer Coats THOMSON BROTHERS Main Street OREGON illllllllllMIIIIMIMIIIIlMMMMIIIMIIIMIIIIlMMIIIIIIMIMIIMIIIIIIIIMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIinilllllllllllMIIMIIIIIIIIinilllinilllMIIMIMi HarwoocPs DIAMONDS -: WATCHES -: JEWELRY -: PIANOS PHONOGRAPHS -:- RECORDS -:- SHEET MUSIC I. O. 0. F. Kuilding, Heppner lllllllllllllIMIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIf llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKIIIIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll STARTHEATER Saturday, January 20th In Spain lliev j'lay the game of love for keeps Pit ttUM.tti L LtVINVUJS PHESfiTAnON OF MAE MURRAY FASCINATION concerns what happened to a girl who didn't fully realize that Wmm by Edmund Goulding A TIFFANY PRODUCTION Sunday and Monday, Jan. 2 1 st and 2nd SI W m H- m. 'Into the clock wid yezl' Sure, they'll niver catch the loikes of yez while Conn's on the job. Faith, it's a long way from catched yez are and it's had luck to the day they catch yez again. "My Wild Irish Rose" A big special production adapt ed from Dion Boucicault's fa mous play, "The Sliaunhraun." Wednesday and Thurs day Jan. 24th and 25th It PWiiih toy:- Penrod, Herman Vennan Swnrny Williams CTrechJes Parry in J Marshall Neili Va "i . 1 Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here! Herman and Verman, Sammy Williams and Penrod to the final So look out for trouble, Marshall Neilan presents Booth Tarkington's 'PENROD' with Freckles Barry