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l'AOK SIX THE GAZETTE-TIMES, I1EFTNER, OREGON, THURSDAY 1LVRCII 30, 1922. FD.GRCHESTRAHERE Klrjt re ee the soMiers armed to protect ;mad the rassensers and mails. They were; Me on each sleeper here 1 occupied a could see nothing but thugs, gamblers and law breakers. The pool tables crap tables and card tables and other fit X Mfc-JStiCnS HAND LN WOODSAW, berth. I have scarcely been out of Isicht of them. 3. Com is ungathered in the fields in for the concert to-'Colorado and Missouri, and 1 note j from the window of the car much of 1 ; it in ereat and small piles in the Overture -William Tell.-.Rossint field. Upon inquiry I find that the Valse Triste Sibelius prices offered for this com last fall Selection -The Only Girl was IS cents per ousnei. ana wages were so men mat tne tanner couiu not pav the wages asked and market ' . - v. 75 cents. The program night follows: I. Herbert Victor Orchestra 4. Violin Solo Gvpsy Serenade.. .; Valdez Alberta Potter 5. March of the Boyards....Halvorsen Orchestra 5. Cello Solo ....Selected Lora Teshner 7. Prelude Rachmninoff Orchestra II. 1. String Quartette Minuette Beethoven Moment Musical Schubert Alberta Potter. Margaret Phelps, violin; Gwendolyn Lampshire. viola; Lora Teshner, violincello. 2. A tuneful Interlude, by a few girls. Alberta Potter, Margaret Phelps, Gwendolyn Lampshire, Lora Teshner, Jane O'Reilly, Helen Caples. University Troubadours Bright and Snappv Tunes. Ransom McArthur. violin; Mer yl Deming, comet; Frank Dor man, saxophone; Herbert Hack er, trombone; Ralph McClaflin. banjo; Darrell Larson, piano Ray Graham, drums. III. 1. Overture Merry Wives of Windsor Nicolai 2. Mighty Oregon Perfect , Orchestra 3. Miss Leta Humphreys and Roland Humphreys, students of the Univer sity of Oreeon. arrived home on Sat urday and are spending the spring va cation visitine with their rarents, Mr. and Mrs. T. j. Humphreys. Editor of the Gazette-Times: Thinking my observations on a lit tle business journey to the "wild and wooly East" might be of interest to you and your readers, I offer the fol lowine without prejudice but with the hope of showing those of our cit izens, who, like mvself, have not had the privilege and oportunity of trav eling much in the last few years, that other sections of our great country have their problems and when com pared to ours may make ours seem a little less burdensome. Left Heppner, Oregon, March 9th on morning train and arrived in Ben ton, Illinois, about the same hour on the following Monday morning. March 1 3th, and in an hour thereaf ter was in the court room at the open ing of the circuit court. Docket full, mostly criminal. Jail full, waiting for the wheel of justice to grind through. Town full of lawyers, all busy; papers full of accounts of criminal doings; banks full of mon ey; bunkers full of coal (this is the heart of the greatest coal producing region in the world) ; stores full of goods, but no one buying anything; hotels and trains full of salesmen, but no one selling anything. Waiting, Waiting, Waiting. Waiting for what? I have asked this question while in conversation with a great many people during the last twelve days. A typical answer as given me by the president of a national bank, with resources accord ing to the last report, of $1,175, 7yy.31. This bank is in the city some miles distant from the county seat of Franklin county, Illinois. 1 had remarked to him, "I see you have plenty of money, why is every thing at a standstill. Have we reach ed the bottom?" He knew this was no idle question on my part for I was asking in court for the resale of real estate in his town that had been appraised at a cash value of $15, 000.00 in December, 1921, and the property had sold for $6,700.00 on February 25th, 1922. And he, like other bankers I had talked to, was very courteous and anxious to help me in any way getting at facts. His reply was to the "Beet that all coal mines are closing April 1st, pending readjustment of wages and no one knew what to do. Stores will not restock, people will not buy anything that they are not compelled to just now. From one of the local papers printed daily in Benton I clipped: Zeigler Breaks World Coal Hoist ing Record. "The new world's record establish ed by this company is 7,214 tons in seven hours, fifty-seven minutes, running time. Only three minutes of lost time reported last Thursday. This mine holds the daily record and also the monthly worlds record." The banker went on to say that the price of nothing had been dropped materially except where sales had been forced by court action. Build ings begun in the city are being fin ished and others contemplated as soon as the "readjustment of wages is arranged." There are no vacant houses, rather a scarcity of residences and business locations, but everything is uncer tain. Readjustment of Wages. Crime is at its heicht. In all trains and depots at Denver, Kansas City, he com after it was grown, let we ,ire raving 2 cents a pound for corn and barley to rlow our wheat land and feed our sheep around Heppner. Preacher Cleans Up City. In the citv of West Frankfort, 111 Inois, not far from here, they have elected the pastor of the First Chris tian church as mavor and a splendid group of aldermen to stand back of him. They have a mens class in that church of about two hundred mem bers. The writer was asked to speak before the class last Sunday, and I can sav that they were as fine bunch as I ever spoke to. There were one hundred thirty-seven men present, who came through one of the worst storms 1 have ever seen even in south central Illinois. At the evenins services I preached at the same church to one of the most in- tellieent mixed audiences of men and women, bovs and girls, that 1 have ever stood before. The night before, while I was sleeping peacefully in a room in the best hotel in the city, the pastor of the church who was also Mayor J. E Story, with his police officers, three of the aldermen and some of the bus iness men, raided a gambling joint within one-half a block of the hotel known as the "Idle Hour Club, which was mighty well prepared aeainst an attack. The gambling den was upstairs, with a cafe below. The windows were covered inside with heavy lining paper, and this, with 7 inch flooring shut out all possibility of getting in quickly from the out side. When the raid as made a cou ple of watchers were on the outside. a guard on the inside who had three doors to the cafe locked, but uniocK ed at the request of the police. At the back of the cafe was a locked door to the stairway, another locked door on the way up and another at the top of the landing. The guard failed to unlock the door so the po licemen, with an axe and iron maul. pieces of furniture were soon beaten into kindling wood, and after due extermination, in a hole in thl wall as found dice, cards and gambling devices, also a gun which no one has claimed as yet. This reads to me like a new story; the same old story perhaps in some respects, but this story of the pastor f the First Christian church whose name is Story, is certainly writing a new story on the police records of that city. Horse Coming Back. It would not be strictly proper to say the horse is coming, back here for he has never gone from the mid dle west. Early the first morning I was awak ened by the tramp of shoes on the brick pavement, and constantly from early to late the horse is in sight, and thev asked me often if there were not lots of horses raised in Oregon. At one time they shipped them here by the train loads to be distributed over south central Illinois. Second Installment. Will close this installmen with the promise that should you be kind en ough to cast this in the waste basket and not inflict it upon your readers I shall not be offended; but if you should put this in your most excell ent paper I shall feel myself called upon to furnish you another install ment out of my observations as I re turn over a more northemly route. DR. J. P. CONDER. Benton. Ills., March 21, 1922. Bob Culick, who resides on Butter creek, is minus a part of one of his fingers, and had two others badly lacerated by accidentally getting his hand too close to a wood saw he was operating on last Friday. One finger was entirely severed, another cut to the bone and still another received two very bad cuts. Mr. Culick came to town and had his injuries dressed and at present is reported to be get ting along all right. school in her home district on Balm Fork, where they will have three months of a spring term. FOR RENT Front rooms, well furnished for two. Bath. Mrs. Mattie Adkins. Adv. tf. Miss Reita Neel, who has been a student at 0. A. C. during the past six months, will teach a term of IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF MORROW. Addle Devine, Plaintiff ) VS. SIMMONS Claude Devine, Defendant ) To Claude Devine, Defendant: IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON-. You are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed against you in the above entitled suit within six week! of the date of the first publication of this summons, and if you fall to so appear and answer, for want thereof, the plaintiff will proceed to ask the Court that the bonds of mat rimony now existing between the plain tiff and defendant be forever dissolved ' is published pursuant to an order of and held for naught and that plaintiff, the Honorable Win. T. CampbelL Judge be granted an absolute divorce from ' of the County Court of Morrow County, said defendant, and that Earl W. De- Oreicon, made and entered on the 25th vine and Lois O. Devine, the minor chll- day of February, 1922. dren of the plaintiff and defendant be p. A. McMKN'AMIN, given to the care, custody and control Attorney for Plaintiff. of the plaintiff. That plaintiff be grant- Residence and post-office address, ed one hundred tf 1 00) dollars attor- Heppner, Oregon. ney's fees, together with her costs and pttte of first publication March SO, 192!. disbursements herein. This summons Date 0f iRt publication May 11. 1921. Coming to THE DALLES - PENDLETON Dr. Mellenthin Specialist in Internal Medicine for the past eleven years. GILLIAM & BISBEE'S j& COLUMN & Does Not Operate Will be at THE DALLES, The Dalles Hotel Monday and Tuesday, April 17-18. PENDLETON, St. George Hotel Wedensday and Thursday, April 19 20. Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. We have just got two tons of 99 1-2 per cent pure alfalfa seed at 23 cents per 100 pounds and spot cash. We are headquarters for spraying material. Lime and sulphur solution and arsenate of lead. There were nineteen million auto mobiles made and sold in the United States in 1921. Tires and taxes will soon make foot pads for us all. For ground that has run together, baked and checked we have a pulver izer that will greatly increase the yield. It is worth your while to in vestigate what we have. Get ready for what you expect to do in April. You didn't do much in March. We have the plows, discs, harrows and all kinds of ground working equipment. Two Days Only Harvest With A Harris Combine The Cheapest, Most Satisfactory Way Karl L. Beach, Morrow Co. Agt. Write or call on me at Lexington, or see JASON BIDDLE, Heppner ! Pioneer Employment Co. With Two Big Offices PENDLETON AND PORTLAND Is prepared to handle the business of Eastern Oregon better than ever before Our Specialties Farms, Mills, Camps, Hotels, Garages, Etc. STARTHEATER PROGRAMME FROM MARCH 31st to APRIL 6th FRIDAY, MARCH 31st, Gladys Walton in "The Man Tamer" Also W7NNERS OF THE WEST SATURDAY, APRIL 1st "Wet Gold" One of the most remarkable pictures ever made. ALSO COMEDY SUNDAY, APRIL 2nd, Bebe Daniels in "Ducks and Drakes" Also Screen Magazine ano Movie Chats MONDAY AND TUESDAY, April 3rd and 4th "Dangerous Toys" William Desmond and Margaret Clayton in WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, April 5 and 6 Lloyd Hughes in "Homespun Folks" ALSO MOVIE CHATS Portland Office 14 N. Sacoad St. W IRE HVSH ORDERS AT OUR EXPENSE 1'rortlctnn Office 11S E. Webb tt. The Only Employment Office in Eastern Oregon with Connections in Portland See Our Printed Programme for Description of these Pictures, Giving an Outline of Each Picture. Gilliam & Bisbee No Charge for Consultation. Dr. Mellenthin is a regular gradu ate in medicine and surgery and is licensed by the state of Oregon. He visits professionally the more import ant towns and cities and offers to all who call on this trip free consultation except the expense of treatment when desired. According to his method of treat ment he does not operate for chronic appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his credit wonderful re sults in diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves, heart, kidney, bladder, bed wetting, catarrh, weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal ailments. If you have been ailing for any length of time and do not get any , better do not fail to call, as improper measures rather than disease are very often the cause of your long standing trouble. ' Remember above date, that consul j tation on this trip will be free and that his treatment is different. Married women must be accom panied by their husbands. Address: 336 Boston Block, Min neapolis, Minn. OPYOffil OWN To the People of Heppner: Thomson Bros. Now is the time to see our complete line of Wash Goods in voils, crepes, ginghams and all the most up-to-date wash goods on the market. We Have Shoes For Everybody Ladies' Low Shoes $4.00 to $7.00 Infants' Shoes 50c to $2.00. Children's and Girls' Shoes $2.50 to $5.00 Boys' Shoes $2.50 to $5.00.. Men's $4.00 to $8.50. Boys Suits $7 to $12.50; Men's Suits $20 to $35 Those Leather Vests Reduced $8.50 to $12.50 Odd Wool Pants at a Great Saving Khaki Pants $2.00, $2.50, $3.00. Button and Lace Bottom Pants $3.00 to $5.00. YOUR MEASURE TAKEN FOR A SUIT OF CLOTHES THAT WILL FIT. NO TROUBLE TO SHOW YOU GOODS THIS IS your town. You live in it. It is just what you have made it. Other people will judge you by the way your town looks. Are there tin cans, boxes, barrels, trash and rub bish scattered in your yard? Is your garden lot covered with weeds? Are your vacant lots clean? Are there loose boards or pickets in your fence? Is your gate knocked off its hinges? Do you have an old barbed wire fence? Do you have loose or missing boards in your walk, or do you have no walks at all? Repair and fix them up. Do you keep your coal bin or firewood in the street? Is your alley full of wood piles and manure? Clean them up. Were your trees ever trimmed or pruned? Is your old auto stored in the street? Clean 'em Up Clean up and fix up. This is your own home town. Don't wait for your neighbor. Don't wait for the mar shal. Start something at home on your own property. NOW! TODAY! Your town is sick, you are the doctor. Gather up your old trash and have it ready for the clean-up truck by the 10th of April Mayor and City Council St. Louis, everyhere you go you can i