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Orecnn Historical Society, Public Auditorium The Gazette-Times PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY Volume 38, No. 50. IIKITXER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1922. Subscription $2.00 Per Year JUDGE LQWEL BE (Pendleton Tribune) Not desiring to submit his name to the people of Oregon for the rep ublican nomination tor governor as he has been urged to do judge Ste phen A. Lowell of Pendleton in a let ter to the Tribune sets forth that the candidates chosen will most likely be elected because of religious belief or racial condition. He does not wish to be subjected to such a test and states that he has no sympathy with either religious bigotry or racial prej udices. Judge Lowell's letter follows: "March 18, 1922. "Editor Morning Tribune, "Pendleton, Oregon. "Dear Sir: "Six weeks investigation has unde ceived me as to the gubernatorial situation in Oregon. Early in Febru ary 1 gave to the public a tentative platform in the full expectation of becoming a candidate for chief ex ecutive of the state, and in the belief that the issues of the campaign were to be economic, industrial and moral. 1 am now convinced that the primary election, two months from tomorrow, and the general election in Novem ber will probably be determined up on the age old conflict of race and re ligion. Neither the ability, person ality nor the attitude of candidates upon state problems, are likely to re ceive controlling consideration at the polls. "1 am a Protestant in religious faith, descended from ancestors who came to New England in the 17th century. I believe that I can properly claim to be an hundred per cent American, but 1 have no sympathy with either religious bigotry or racial prejudices. Whether a man be Prot estant, Catholic, Hebrew, Mohamme dan, Braham or Confucian depends chiefly upon the environment of his childhood. For the place of his birth or the color of his skin he is not re sponsible. "The people who are injecting these exotic issues into the campaign are assuming censorious authority which belongs to no individual, no secret society. They are compelling those factors in our population whose race, or religion they attack, to meet organization by organization, to act together for the protection of their civil rights and the prerogatives of their citizenship. The result is that in the more densely populated coun ties there exists already a sub-surface fire of sectarian passion and racial antagonism, which bids fair to com pass the entire state, increasing in volume and vehemence until the fun damental interests of the public are overshadowed and forgotten. "I would deem it a distinguished honor to be governor of Oregon and I believe that at this juncture I could render valuable service to the com monwealth, but I am accustomed to (Continued on 1'age Six) Heppner Man Graduates From Practipedic School E. N. Gonty of the Gonty Shoe store of this city has recently grad uated and received his certificate from the American School of Prac tipedics, of Chicago. Mr. Gonty states that Practipedics is the knowledge of extending foot comfort in the shoe store through scientific methods of shoe fitting and the intelligent use of the famous foot comfort appliances invented by Dr. Win. Scholl. Mi. Gonty is quite enthusiastic over his completion of this course, and It will now be his ambition to send every customer out of his store with comfortable feet, in neat, stylish shoes. This will be a special service rendered the customers of the Gonty Shoe store. Vernon Waid of Stanfield, is vis iting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Neil White near Lexington. Mr. Waid is a brother of Mrs. White, and is recuperating from injuries re ceived by a bucking horse falling on him last November. . NOTICB TO ( Ur.DITOIIS. Notice In hereby given that the un rteralKnert have been .1 my appointed by the County Court of Morrow County, Oreifon, Joint Ritmlnlaiito.' ami admin istratrix of the Estnte of Silas A WrlKht, docoaiied, and have accepted uch trust. All persons havlnsr claims against said estate are hereby notified and required to present the same, with vouchers and duly verified aa by law re quired to us at the ofllce of our attor neys, Woodson and Rwok In Heppner, Oregon, within six months from the date hereof. Dated and first published March 23, 1022. MARTHA J. WRTOHT, FRANK GILLIAM. candidate T Cecil hills are dotted all over with sheep and lambs. Feed beginning to be good, makes it a good thing for hay stacks hich are few and far be tween on Willow creek. Several carloads of baled hay have been ship ped in to the various camps during the last few days. R. A. Thompson has moved some of his ewes and lambs to his upper ranch above Heppner this week. We heard R. A. says that his lambs were making 125 per cent and at other camps they were doing even better than that. Wheat men are so busy on their land that they haven't time to visit Cecil even for a chew of tobacco these fine days. J. W. Osborn, who has been spend ing several months at the home of his sister in Portland, returned to Cecil on Monday and is feeling much better for his rest, but delighted to be back in sunny Cecil amongst his old friends and surroundings of so many years. We doubt if even sunny Cecil will be able to keep him "down on the farm after he has seen Broad way." ' Mrs. Dwight Misner arrived in Ce cil on the local on Thursday, accom panied by her daughter, Miss Greta who has recovered sufficiently from her recent operations in Portland as to be able to be moved to the home of her parents on their ranch near Cecil. Geo. A. Miller and son Elvin of Highview ranch have been busy sev eral days during the week with their Cletrac tractor and the county grad er improving the county roads after the bad weather which we have had for so long. Ed Bristow, one of lone'S leading merchants, and his wife and fam ily, accompanied by Judge Robinson of lone, spent Sunday afternoon as the guests of Mr., and Mrs. Jack Hynd at Butterby Flats. Mrs.- Fred Buchanan and children, accompanied by her sister,' Mrs. Ha zel Logan and children from their homes near lone, autoed to Cecil on Monday and spent a short itme with their friends. Miss Annie C. Hynd of Butterby Flats left on the local for Heppner on Friday to spend the week-end with her sister, Miss Violet Hynd, who is a student in Heppner high school. W. E. Ahalt has bought a Ford tractor and other fanning imple ments and has gone into business on a homestead near Cecil. We wish him luck in his new home. Misses Annie Hynd and Eleanor Furney of Butterby Flats were the dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Henriksen at Strawberry ranch on Sunday. Mrs. A. Henriksen, who has been spending a week or two visiting friends in Portland, returned to her home at Willow Creek ranch on Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. John Birch of Mor gan are residing in Zenneth Logan's cottage in Cecil while J. B. is doing some carpenter work at Cecil store. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Minor on their journey from Baker visited a day or two at The Last Camp before leav ing for their home in Heppner. Chas. D. Sennett arrived from lone on Thursday and is now busy prun ing the Cecil orchards before leav ing for his home in Portland. Mrs. Geo. Krebs, Miss Lena Krebs and John Krebs, all of The Last Camp, were visitors at Butterby Flats on Sunday evening. Henry Cohn of Heppner accomp anied by John Kelly was doing bus iness in the Cecil vicinity on Wed nesday. Miss Eleanor Furney left on the local on Friday for The Dalles where she will visit friends for the week end. A large number of Indians camp ed in Cecil during the week on their annual trip to gather wool. Mrs. A. Henriksen and Mrs. Cecil Philips were calling on their friends in Cecil on Monday. Henry and John Krebs of The Last Camp made a hurried trip to Arling ton on Tuesday. Ellis Minor from his ranch near lone was doing business in Cecil on Tuesday. Mrs. Roy Scott of The Lookout was calling on friends in Cecil on Friday. R. E. Duncan of Busy Bee ranch was a busy man in Cecil on Tuesday. Of interest is the announcement of the pledging to Alpha Delta Pi sorority of Miss Loye and Miss Ce cile DoVore, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. DeVore of Heppner. Eu gene Daily Guard. Mrs. J. T. Knappenberg of Port land has been visiting during' the week at the home of her sister. Mrs. ' D. M. Ward, in this city. Th.c Cynosure oP Boyville, MAM ! THAT A1MT 'HAL Of IT. HE SITS Tb SEE ALL THEY SAY HE'S Goin'toGet A HUNDER.I? An Fiftv thousand . BOCKS A. THE HOVIE SHOWS FOR NUTHIN ! YEAR U. OF 0. ORCHESTRA Arthur Campbell, of this city, is playing bass clarinet in the Univer sity of Oregon symphony orchestra, which will appear at the Star theater Thursday evening, March 30, under the direction of Rex Underwood. "Art," as he is familiarly bnown, is the librarian of the orchestra, and is in charge of the housing of the musicians on the trip. This is the first time the orches tra has toured the eastern part of the state. This organization will come here directly from Pendleton where it is also to appear. Its itin erary includes beside Pendleton and Heppner, The Dalles, La Grande, Hood River, two Willamette valley towns and probably Portland. The program is to contain besides the numbers by the full orchestra, solos and Feature combinations. Two soloists are carried by the orchestra. Lora Teshner, cello soloist who for merly traveled with the Turlow Lieu rance Litttle Symphony orchestra as the cello soloist, and Alberta Potter, the violin solosist. This is Miss Pot ter's third year as violin soloist of the orchestra. She is a member of the faculty of the university school of music in the capacity of violin in structor. Negotiations are under way to give a dance after the concert under the auspices of the American Legion. The music is to be furnished by the orchestra's ten-piece jazz band. Federated Church We invite all the people of Hepp ner to hear Rev. D. H. Leach, the district superintendent of the Meth odist Episcopal church, of Portland, Sunday morning at 1 1 , and, Sunday evening at 7:30. Peter Farley and family moved down to Castle Rock on Sunday to remain for a month or so, or until the lambing season is over. He has a band of 2700 head of ewes there and looks forward to a good season. Eugene Freeland, who is here to day to attend the funeral of his fa ther, E. L. Freeland, has been with the state highway department and working in southern Oregon. He will continue with the highway depart ment and have work in other parts of the state. Eugene is a native of Heppner. Earl Barton Buys Soda Works The Cowins Soda works in this city was disposed of by the owner Jos. Snyder, during the week to Earl Barton, who will conduct the busi ness in the future. Joe is mending shoes at the shop of E. N. Gonty just now but he hopes to find a little time to take on the editor of this paper and the bunch at the court house when the horseshoe season opens. John Kilkenny has added to his real estate holdings by taking over the- two Butter creek ranches of C. P. Bowman, of Santa Monica, Calif. The deal was closed the past week and Mr. Kilkenny will take immedi ate possession of the ranches. yrr Mil M'vMl '1 LOCAL BOY PLAYS IN GEE.-MK HAYS,' i Congratulate Vol). I'D RATHER HAVE YOUR. JOB THAN AHY JOB IM THE. U. S. Government Makes Urgent Call For Auditors The recent examination for this position failed to provide a sufficient number of eligibles and it is neces sary to hold the examination again on May 3 to fill vacancies in position of auditor in the Income Tax Unit, Bu reau of Internal Revenue, throughout the United States, at entrance sal aries ranging from $1800 to $3000 a year, inclusive. Qualified pefconJ'afe urgently re quested to take this examination. For further information and applica tion blank apply to the local secre tary, Board of Civil Service Exam iners, at any first or second class postoffice, or to the secretary, llth U. S. Civil Service District, 303 Post- office Building, Seattle, Washington, in time to arrange for the exan ina- tion of the applicant. C. W. Paine, District Secretarv. Hibernians Play Old Country Foot Ball As one of the features of amuse ment on Friday, there was a game of soccer football between teams chos en from the Hibernians, and it was well attended as well as being inter esting and exciting. St. Patrick's day was quietly but fittingly observed in Heppner, the us ual services being held at the Cath olic church during the day, with a meeting of the Hibernians in I. O. O. F. hall. Members of the Order of Hibern ians and their families enjoyed a banquet on Saturday evening at Ho tel Patrick and closed the celebration in a fitting manner. ' - Lexington Church of Christ All regular church services as us ual. Bible school at 10 o'clock. Reg ular classes for everybody. The Lord's Supper and preaching at 11. Junior Endeavor at 5:30 p. m.; Sen ior Christian Endeavor at 7; evening sermon at 8. Morning sermon, "The Greatest Book in the World." Eve ning sermon, "A Fool's Paradise." Remember that the Lord has told us to forsake not the assembling of our selves together (Heb. 10:25). We give you a hearty invitation to at tend our services. ' , i Arthur A. Hakriman, Minister. Card of Thanks We wish to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to our many friends for their kindness and sym pathy shown during our recent be reavement. Mrs. E. L. Freeland and family. BARGAINS! BARGAINS! At the White Elephant sale on Saturday af ternoon and evening at the tempo rary Christian church building, Things you need, sold cheap. Bakery sale in addition. You should be there. C. W. McNamer- returned from Portland the first of the week. He had been called to the city by the death of his brother, Theodore Mc Namer, who passed away in that city at the age of 68 years. mm 1557 -. FORMER HEPPNERITE ERE The funeral of the late E. L. Free- land was held at the Federated church in this city today under the auspices of Heppner Lodge No. 358, a. P. O. E., of which he was a mem ber. Rev. W. O. Livingstone deliv ered the funeral address and the re mains were laid to rest in the Mason ic cemetery. Mr. Freeland died at The Dalles on Tuesday, after a short illness, and the remains arrived at Heppner on Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs. rreeland and the children. He has made his home at Seuferts for a number of years past, working for the big canenry there as bookkeeper. He was for many years assistant cashier of the First National bank of this city and one time represent ed Morrow county in the state leg islature. Mr. Freeland was a native of this state and was born at Albany, Jan uary 28, 1866. Mrs. Elsie Stevenson returned from Pendleton on Wednesday, where she has been visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dnskell. Mrs. Driskell has been quite sick but is better now. Miss Helen Barratt and Miss Reita Neel are home from Corvallis to spend the Easter vacation. TEACHERS ELECTED At a meeting of the school board held recently, a partial list of teach ers for the coming year was elected from the corps now teaching. These are Edna Turner, primay; Blanche Fahy, part of the first and second grades; Opal E. Clark, second grade; Elizabeth Dix, third grade; Margaret Cason, fourth grade; Addie Quesin- berry, fifth grade; Blanche Jordan sixth grade; Gladys Turner, seventh grade; Rita Norris, domestic science and art; Lorena Palmateer, English; Bernice Hopper, music. In order to meet the reduction in the budget covering the item for teachers, authorized by the taxpay ers, the board has found it necessary to revise the scale of wages, down ward, and it has also decided to abandon the "opportunity room" for the coming year, thus reducing the corps of teachers by one. First Christian Church Lord's Day, March 26. We had a great day last Sunday; packed house, line dinner, and raised $6835 for the new church, this with the $1500 insurance money to be given to this fund makes a total of $8335, with which to begin our work. The work of re-building will begin as soon as the plans are completed The Bible school Airplane race is becoming interesting. The blue plane is within three hundred miles of San Francisco, the red plane is coming six hundred miles behind. She plans to pass the blue plane Sunday. Great day expected, come and be with us Bible school 10, Communion and preaching at 11, Intermediate Chris tian Endeayor 4, Senior Christian Endeavor 6:30, song service and preaching at 7 :30. Come and meet with us, you will enjoy it. LIVINGSTONE. Judge G. V. Phelps of Pendleton and Mrs. Phelps, who are in Port land at present, are reported to be sick. Mrs. Phelps is suffeing an at tack of pneumonia and her condi- tion is said to be quite serious. DON'T FORGET the White Ele phant sale af the temporary Chris tian church building on Saturday af ternoon, and evening. Donate any article Of any kind that you don t use and that others can. Employment Service Is Free All parts of Eastern Oregon coun try can be promptly and satisfactor ily supplied with laborers in all lines of work easily from the office of Pioneer Employment Co., at Pendle ton. This company also have offices in Portland, and have been establish ed in business for the past 22 years. All service is free to employers, and if you want hands for farm, ranch, mill, camp, hotel or garage, wire your orders into Pendleton at the expense of the company and they will supply you promptly. See their advertisement in another column. Mrs. C. W. McNamer spent sever al days in Portland this week, attend ing grand opera, PART OF HEPPNER'S LOCAL NEWS HAPPENINGS "For with the heart man believ eth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession U made unto salvation." Rom. 10:9. Suggest ed by Livingstone. WANTED A woman for eeneral housework. Phone 532. tf. Born At Hardman on March 16th to Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Stoneman. a 7 1-2 oound son. Edward Rietmann, extensive far mer of the lone section was a visitor this city on Tuesday. Born To Mr. and Mrs. Georee F. Cross, residing 12 miles northeast ot tone, on bunday, March 19, a son. Mrs. I. D. French and sons lohn and Herbert were visitors in the city on Friday from their home on Big Butter creek. LOST Female Lewellvn bird dog, white with blue and brown spots. Reward if returned to A. C Crowell, Heppner. Martin Behm of the Ella section was in Heonner on Tuesday, mak ing final proof on his homestead be- tore uerk Waters. BAKERY SALE and White Ele phant sale at the Christian church building Saturday afternoon and eve ning. Don't fail to patronize it. Tas ty things to eat; useful things to use. Come and see the display. C. C. Calkins, county agent, in forms farm bureau that the rodent control funds voted in 1920 will be exhausted this year and that if we ex pect to carry on this good work, we should be laying our plans for carry ing on this work and vote for suffi cient funds at the regular election this fall. Two years ago, this tax carried almost 100 per cent vote and since the good that has been accom plished, e do not believe there should develop any opposition to provide for necessary funds. Advantage of the tund can be readily appreciated by those having an opportunity to see how it has worked out in the field. Because of the fact that we were able to purchase strychnine, Mr. Calkins has been able to get one hundred percent co-operation in most communities in the extermination of rabbits. While approximately 85 per cent clean-up in the Irrigon dis trict we find that very little work was done just across the line towards con trolling them. In the counties where they do not have such a fund very few people are willing to buy poi son and carry on the work. Reports from the different communities throughout Morrow county show that we killed at least 125,000 rabbits. Biological surveyors consider this one of the best pieces of work done any where. Fanners in the north end of the county are more interested in controlling the rabbits but this same fund provides for poison for the squirrels that interests people living in the greater part of the rest of the county. Same funds support the government trappers who are get ting lots of coyotes. People in the Alpine district for instance, are so interested in this work, they have sent a delegation to Heppner to make sure this fund and work would be carried on. The people in the Irrigon district surely cannot afford to let this work die out and the writ er believes there is no opposition here. The community day cleaning up the park and planting trees Sunday. March 12, proved a big success. A lot of trees were planted in the east end of the park which is provided for the campers and a lot of rubbish was gathered, raked and burned. A camp stove was also built of brick for the campers, and other improve ments will be made later. The lad ies did their part well in providing a big feast which was served in the dining room of the new school build ing and several of them helped in the the raking after dinner. N. Seaman w as on the job to eat and took note of what happened to be able to tell of the doings. Mr. Walpole has been taking up cnsiderable of the city water mains during the past week on account of a number of the water users not pay ing their water charges for some time. He informs us that unless more prompt payments are made in the future, water will be shut off and pipes taken up without further no tice. The sooner he gets all the wa ter mains out. the sooner he will be able to quit a business that is not paying. ' Mrs. Lulu Johnson, county health nurse, held her audience every min ute of her talk on Thursday evening. (Continued on Pk Six) JRACTORSCHDOLIN - STRUGTIVETO m According t the Medford Mail-Tribune, a most instructive tractor school was held in that city March 10 and 11, and we are informed by Chas. H. Latourell, of the Latourell Auto Co., of this city, that a sim ilar school will be put on at Pendle ton on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, March 28 and 29. The school will be held at the sales rooms of the Simpson Auto Co., in that city, and all those interested in further particulars should see Mr. Latourell at his garage in Heppner and receive full information. The Medford paper says: The school is a joint production of the Ford Motor Co'., the Standard 011 Co., the Oliver Chilled Plow Co., the American Seeding Machine Co., and the Oregon Agricultural college, each with an especially trained rep resentative present. The most sur prising part of the school is that there are no trade names mentioned and nothing offered for sale. In explaining the origin of the school J. D. Jordan, assistant mana ger of the Ford Motor company at Portland, said, "Mr. Ford has stated that the farmers' costs of production are too close to their selling prices to permit of a reasonable margin of pofit. With this in mind this school was started. Calling together the five largest manufacturers in the field of power farming we are offering you the benefit of their experiences and extensive study on costs simply with the thought that it may be possible to clear up the little troubles and there by assist the farmers to cut their costs of production." The first night's program at Pen dleton will open with a talk on igni tion and carburetion by C. E. Allison of the Ford Motor company, with an engine set up and running on the floor. His practical talk will leave small doubt that much expense can be eliminated through a better know ledge of troubles, how to locate them and how to correct the minor ones In the field. William Munro, lubrication expert of the Standard Oil company, will then give a talk on lubrication, explaining the workings of a combus tion engine and the necessity of oil. Other speakers for the second night will include Chas. W. Harrison of the Oliver Chilled Plow works, in a talk on plowing, discing and culti vating; Fred S. Serviss, special rep resentative of the American Seeding Machinery company on seeding, seed bed and yields. Professor W. G. Gilmore, in charge of the farm mech anics division of the O. A. C. on pow er farming and the part the college plays; C. C. Calkins, county agent, n the extension work and the ye;'s program. A featcre of the school is motion pictures showing inside woikngs of Henry Ford's plant at River Rouge, covering coke manufacture, blast fur nace and production. Jack Stone, Released Last Week, Arrested for Assault Jack Stone, who was last week dismissed from custody of the offi cers on a charge of insanity, was lat er arrested on a charge of assault, and on a hearing before Judge Cor nett on Saturday was given a sen tence of ten days in ja.l. The judge agreed to remit half of this if the man would return the money he held Farley up for, but this proposition did not suit Stone and he is serving out the sentence in the county jail. Farley has to acknowledge that he was separated from his ten dollars in a pretty clever manner, and here after will keep his check book in his pocket when he is approached by someone with a brickbat in his hand whom he considers insane. News has just been received by L. W. Briggs of the death at the soldiers' home at Sawtetlo, Gilif., of William l.ounsberry, one of the ear ly pioneers of this county. He came to this county in the fall of 1S70, set tling on what is now the Hinton creek ranch of John Kilkenny. He leaves an aged wife, who is a sister of Mr. Brings, and two daughters to mourn his loss. c had been phys ically helpless for many years. Mrs. Henry Aiken departed on Sunday to join her husband at Trin idad. Colo. Henry has charge of the Trinidad territory for the White Sewing Machine company. Tom Arnold is over from Sunny side, Wash., for a visit with friends here. He was formerly engaged in farming the Stanton place on Eight Mile.