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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