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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1322. page tiiri.e PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. T. F. FARRIOR DKNTIST Office upstairs over Postoffice Heppnsr, Oregon DRS. GROVE & VAUGHAN DENTISTS Permanently located in the Odd Fellows Building, Rooms 4 and 5. Heppnsr, Oregon A. D. McMURDO, M. D. PHYSICIAN BURGEON Office in Patterson Drug Store Trahml Nana Assistant Heppner, Oregon C .0 .CHICK, M. D. PHYSICIAN SURGEON Office upstairs over Postoffice Tralara Norse Assistant Heppner, Oregon WOODSON & SWEEK ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Office in Masontc Building Heppner, Oregon VAN VACTOR & BUTLER ATTORNEYS AT LAW Suite 205 First National Bank Building THE DALLES, ORE. S. E. N0TSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Offce in Court House. Heppner, Oregon Office rhone, Main (42 Residence Phone, Main tti FRANCIS A McMENAMIN LAWYER Gilman Building, Heppner, Ore. F. H. ROBINSON LAWYER IONE, OREGON roy v. whiteis Fire Insurance writer for best Old Line Companies. Heppner, Oregon E. J. STARKEY ELECTRICIAN HOUSE WIRING A SPECIALTY Heppner, Oregon Phone 8TJ HEPPNER SANITARIUM DR. J. PKHRY CONDER rhyslclan-ln-Charge Treatment of all diseases. Isolated wards for contagious diseases. FIRE INSURANCE WATERS & ANDERSON RorrvMora to C C. Fatteraoa Heppner, OreKon THE MOORE HOSPITAL Entire New Equlpneat... Largs Modern Surgery. DR. C. C. CHICK. M. D. Physician and Burgeon Phone Mala Ma MATERNITY HOME MRS. i. C. AIKEN, HEPPNER I am prepared to take a limited number of mnternlty canes at my home. I'Rtlrats prlvllrged to vaooae thflr own physician. Heat of attention and care assured. Phone 305 BEAMER & WILLIAMS DRAY AND TRANSFER Phone Main 872 Heppner Oregon LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OP SHERIFF'S SALE. IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR MORROW COUNTT. ADA M. AYBRS, Plaintiff) vs. ) W. D. Newlon and Ella) B. Newlon, his wife, and) John J. Worley, ) Defendants.) Notice Is hereDy given that by virtue of a foreclosure execution, Judgment, Ordor, Decree and order of sale, Issued out of the above entitled Court In the above entitled cause to me directed, dated the 18th day of April, 1922, upon Judgment and decree rendered and en tered In said Court and Cause on the 14th day of April, 1922 In favor o Ada M. Avers, plaintiff above named and against W. D. Newlon and Ella B. New Ion, his wife, above named defendants for the sum of One Thousand Three Hundred Fifty and no-100 dollars with Interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum from March F, 1911 and the further sum of 1180.00 attorneys' fees and the further sum of 117.50 costs and disbursements of said suit and costs upon 'his writ, commanding me to make sal of the following described real .loperty located In Morrow Coun ty, Slue of Oregon, to-wll: The East halt of the Northwest quarter and the Northwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Sec tion 20, In Township One North. Range l, E. W. U. NOW T1IKREFORE br virtue of said foreclosure, execution. Judgment, order, decree and order of sale and In compli ance with the command of name, I will on Saturday the tOth day of May, 1121, at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. of eald day, at the front door of the County Court House of Morrow County, at Heppner, Morrow County, Oregon, sail at public auction (subject to redemp tion) to the highest bidder, for cash In hand paid, all the right, title and Inter eat of the above named defendants; or either of them, had or now have. In and to the above described real property, or any part thereof, to satisfy eald fore closure execution. Judgment, order and decree, interest, costs, attorneys' feeo and accruing costa QEOROE MeDUFFKE. Sheriff for Morrow County, Oregon. Dated this 10th day of April, 1122. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. V. S. LAND OFFICE at La Grande, Oregon, April 28, 122. NOTICE le hereby given that James W. Wheeler, of Heppner, Oregon, who, on June 14, 1911, made Homestead En try No. 018804, for Bk. Section 14, and on November It. 1921, made Additional Homestead Entry, No. 0177, for NVi, Section 14. all In Township 1 South IJUnge 27 East, Willamette Meridian, has riled notice of intention to make Final three-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before United Statee Commissioner, at Heppner, Ore gon, on the 20th day of June, 1122. Claimant names as wltnessea: W. E. WigJesworth, F.' K. Payne and E. O. Nelll, of Echo, Oregon; J. Q. Barrett of Heppner, Oregon. CARL O. HELM, Register. m-5t NOTICE OP BONO SALE. Notice is hereby given that sealed bide will be received by the undersign ed until the hour of 7:20 oclock p. m. on the 6th day of June, 1922, and immedi ately thereafter publicly opened by the City Council at the Council Chambers In the City of Heppner, Oregon, for the purchase of City of Heppner Gen eral Obligation Funding Bonds In the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars (115,000). said bonds to be In denomina tions of One Thousand Dollars (11,000) each, dated May 1st, 1922, and to be come due May 1st, 1942, to bear interest at the rate of tlx per cent (t) per an num payable semi-annually on the first days of May and November In each year, principal and Interest payable at the Fiscal Agency of the State of Ore gon In New York City, which said bonds are to be issued and disposed of under the provisions of the City Charter. All bids must be unconditional and accom panied by a certified cheque of 1600.00. The approving legal opinion of Messrs Teal. Minor ft Winfree will be furnish ed the successful bidder. The Council reserves the right to re ject any and all blda L. L. GILLIAM, Recorder. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. U. 8. LAND OFFICE at La Grande, Oregon, May (, 1922. NOTICE Is hereby given that Francis A. Gentry, of Lena, Oregon, who, on July 18, 1917, made Homestead Entry, No. 018294, for NWUPEH, Ett&EK, Section 24, NUSWV.. NWSEVi, 8WV. NEK. 8EKNW(4, Section 25, Township 1 South, Range 28 East, Willamette Meridian, has filed notice of Intention to make Final three-year Proof, to es tablish claim to the land above describ ed, before United States Commissioner, at Heppner, Oregon, on the 27th day of June, 1922. Claimant names as witnesses: W. L. Vincent Howard Cullck, F. M. Duncan and Fay Pettyjohn, all of Lena, Oregon. CARL O. HELM, Register. NOTICE FOR PUBICATION. Department of the Interior. U. B. LAND OFFICE at La Grande, Oregon, May 12, 1922. NOTICE is hereby given that Harry Brown, of Lena, Oregon, who, on Sep tember 11, 1918, made Homestead En try, No. 016788, for NW14NWU. EVj NWK, NEUSWK. SEU. Section 22, Township 1 Soulh, Range 28 East, Will amette Meridian, has filed notice of in tention to make Final three-year Proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before United States Commis sioner, at Heppner, Oregon, on the 80th day of June, 1922. Claimant names as witnesses: Howard Cullck, Robert A. Cullck, W. L Vincent, A. P. Ayers, all of Lena, Or egon. CARL O. HELM, Register. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PART NERSHIP. Notice is hereby given to all whom It may cvoncern, that the partnership heretofore existing between Frank 8. Parker and R. J, Vaughan and conduct ed under the name of Vaughan and Parker has been this day dissolved by mutual consent of said partners. Frank Parker will pay all outstanding claims against said partnership and collect all claims due said firm. Dated this 12th day of May, 1922 FRANK S. PARKER. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice la hereby given that the un dersigned has been appointed by the County Court of Morrow County, Ore gon, administrator of the estate of Frances Luper, deceased, and has qua! Ifled as such. All persona having claims against the estate of said deceased are hereby notified and required to present the same to me duly verified as by law required at the office of Woodson and Sweek, my attorneys, In Heppner, Ore gon, within six months from date of first publication hereof. Dated and published the first time this 11th day of May, 1922. JAMES N. LUPER, Administrator IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR MORROW COUNTT. Terry Wendt, Plaintiff ) vs. ) SUMMONS Otto W. Wendt, Defendant ) To OTTO W. WENDT, 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 weeks 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 and held for naught and that plaintiff be granted an absolute divorce from said defendant; and for such other and further relief as to the Court may seem equitable. This summons Is published pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Wm. T. Campbell, Judge of the County hll Hll i mi Agricultural Head Would Make Farm Attractive to All Ages and Thus Solve A Problem That Is More Grave Than the City Man Even Suspects By J. R. Howard, President American Farm Bureau Federation. (Editor's Note-J. R. Howard is president of the American Farm Bu reau Federation, an organization of American rural dwellers, of progres sive, thinking farmers. What he has to say strikes a note that may sound alarming until one reads his offered solution. The happiness of children on the farm is a matter that is of vital importance to you.) Here and there a hilltop eighty has worn out and lies beneath the sun indifferent to the seeds in its keeping, to the hungry who tramp over it. Hills that never failed the buffalo for nobody knows how many thousand years, are gray with the ex haustion of extensive production. So long as the sod was unbroken the fertility of the soil remained in tact. The pioneers who broke the seal from the soil richer than crea tion. For under the unhampered government of Mother Nature all plants give back their surplus at the end of every summer. The first wheat field waxed golden on the legacy of the frugal prairie grass. The first corn fields spent riotously the compounded interest of centuries of the earth's careful savings of plant food. And the farmers fed their crops on the soil's store for so many years before it became noticeable that the principal was being touched, that the supply was unconsciously supposed to be inexhaustible. We sowed intensively, reaped bounteous ly, and then burned the straw and stubble complacently. So long as the virgin qualities of the soil, under a system of wasteful soil mining, sup ported a relatively spare population we were not worried about the fu ture. And now many an aonemic field dots the countryside in mute reproach. There Is No Waste. Fortunately, rowever, farmers are awakening to the fact that soil must be revitalized. Public opinion for bids the burning of straw. Legumes have been put to making hay and nitrogen. Fertilizer companies are doing business. Phosphate and lime stone deposits are being distributed. The hilltop eighties are being re juvenated. Just as the land has been devitalized, here and there a farm community has worn out. The church door has been nailed shut. The school house is out of date. The children of the- old homestead have moved to town and the farms are now the abodes of transient families who hope to get enough ahead to move to town also. No nation has ever risen above the level of its agriculture and the dead communities scattered through the United States are comparable to the white alkali patches on the hilltop eighty. And if allowed to spread will ruin our country just as sure as blight will wipe out an apple orchard The worst of it is that the worn out community is not necessarily the one where the land is past produc tion. If that were the case the building up of the soil would bring a flow of new blood baok into the personnel of the occupants. It is of ten in our richest sections that the human force of agricultural produ& tion is at low ebb. We are used to thinking when we speak of agricultural production, of grain and livestock, cotton and wool, lumber and fruit. But the open country has an important product in boys and girls who constantly feed our cities. Reputed History. The history of the pulseless com munity is well known. The pioneer father who thrust his plow into the unbroken prairies was as vital as his acres. He had come to the new country to make a home. His neigh' bors were home builders. The noa interference of outside world, need for protection and common ideals fostered social contact. They were the best type of humanity, being the kind who were not contented to be poor in the state or the foreign coun try from which they came. Since they were in their new homes to stay they set about making their com munities fit places in which to live They built school houses and church es at the same time they broke the sod and put up their barns. The next generation took up community build ing at the point left off by their par ents. ' The old homestead was kept in the family all members of which started out equally. If anything, the Court of Morrow County, Oregon, made and entered on the 10th day of May, 1922. F. A. McMENAMIN, Attorney for Plaintiff. Residence and postoffice address, Heppner, Oregon Date of first publication May It, 1922. Date of last publication June 22, 1922. boy whose lot it was to stay home and run the farm was considered to be a bit better off than the boys who had studied pedagogy or medicine, or letters. Fortune had not overtaken the pioneer people yet. but they rea soned that it was a new country, and the future was promising. About three generations away from the pioneers the real exodus begins. little visiting back and forth with the members of the family who had cast their lot in the cities and towns makes the children wonder if the lot of the brother to remain on the fam ily homestead is the one to be cher ished. A Shadowed Picture. And by this time there is a little less hope for the future. Three or four generations of unfulfillment is not very conducive to the virility of hope. The old homestead is rented to a class or people not quite pro gressive enough to get away. The community immediately loses much of its stability. There is no com munity pride for these people except to move again in a year or so and naturally do not feel responsibility in their temporary arrangement And where the profits of the land must be shared between two families, the landlords and the tenants, there is nothing left to devote to the ideal community center. The taxpayers are away from the land and are therefore not personally and subjectively in terested in the church, schools and social phase of their neighborhood. There is such a constant shifting of residents that organization is difficult. There are no local allurements and ties and as soon as a member rises above the level of his environment he goes to the city where more is promised him, even if it is not al ways given. In the meantime the descendants of the first farmers have either lost out in the demands of city life and are finding their mess of potage as day laborers, or they have prospered and forgotten the farm from which they received their birthright. And most of them do prosper. It has been said that 94 per cent of the leading citizens of one of our large Eastern cities was brought up on a farm. Of a group of 100 representa tive men, commercial and profession al, in Chicago, I found that 85 per cent came from the country. More than 60 per cent of the men and women listed in "Who's Who" are likewise from the country. The successful ones return to the country and build palatial homes and estates and constitute the highly ed ucated landlord class. Is the country slowly differentiating into this and the propertyless laboring classes? If America becomes the home of landowners and peasants we will have failed our Pilgrim fathers mis erably and inexcusably. A Good Example. I have not been discussing the United States on an average. I have chosen the wornout community and the womout farm as signals of dan- ger ahead. Like we sometimes go through the barrel and pick certain apples. There is no doubt but that the root of the evil is the prevailing economic injustice dealt the farmfng industry The farmers themselves are the ones who will have to change this system They cannot all walk off and leave it. Moving to town may solve the problems and better the finances of the individual but toll will be taken later on a national basis. The farmers who deny their chit dren the emancipation of liberal edir cation likewise drain the fertility of the neighborhood. The physical la- bor is returned with the personal in terest in the individual farm; the wheat is usually properly stacked, and the hogs well housed. But these are the farmers who ride the plow in disgruntled objection to the world market conditions with which they are unfitted to combat. Their vision is as narrow as their Iass. They are the fanners whose blind refusal to join in co-operative marketing, be lieve in the Farm Bureau, and be in dependent in politics, holds back rur al progress. By the hardest work and the closest saving they usually man age to get more or less ahead finan cially, but they do not go about it in the way that benefits the whole com munity conditions. And where silos make proud the landscape while house church and school squat apol ogetically in their shadows there is no real wealth. If sending our young folks away to be educated does not pay us any thing in our own communities: if ignoring the possibilities of education is dangerous, it must be the system of education that is at fault. To Retain Color. I would not strike from the readers the romance and the glamour of the other worlds, but I would include stories which throw a little color around the farmers' lives. I would include in the geographies studied in the country schools a bit more of agricultural detail. I should like to see the beginner trace through the copy book some such sentence as, "I am proud to be a farmer," or "United we farmers stand, divided we fall." I would bring the high schools within home distance of every country boy and girl. I would put rural sociology in every freshman course and con tinue the study throughout the four years. I would have our Agricultural Colleges teach marketing as well as production, reaping as well as sow ing. I wish that there might be instilled in the minds of all country boys and girls a feeling of responsibility for the farm a feeling that no matter what work they might take up they owned a return to their country com munity in service that they were not free from obligation until they had paid back to country life the in . , 1, . , trest on the capital they ook-that j the members of the family who go ; out to be lawyers and doctors and; merchants and bankers realize that they were indebted for their success to the training and strength and ide als they received from their rural en vironment and that even if they are temperamentally and naturally un suited to take the lot of the man who stays behind to feed the rest, they have a debt of honor to pay the one who does, and that to the soil and the community they must give back. The tree takes food and sap from the ground in the spring, gives service! from which port they will take pass to the world in the summer, and then age for Sweden May 27th. Mr. Berg- Be Wise! Sporting Goods THIS is the time of year when every red blooded man and woman should begin thinking about making the best of the great out-of-doors. We have a complete line of fishing and hunting supplies. If you are contemplating establishing a camp in the mountains this year it is not too early now to start planning your equipment. We can furnish you everything you will need except the eats. Our Prices Are Very Reasonable Peoples Hardware Company P. S. Have you seen our "Paint" window? in the autumn drops every leaf tack strom has been a resident of Morrow to the earth. county for 41 years and is one of our 'most enterprising and successful Eph Eskelson of Meadow Brook ranchers. A large number of rela Home, had the misfortune to get a tives and friends were at the train to couple of ribs broken last Tuesday, morning in a fall from a fence which h p wfl rltmhintr H was a ft p n H , I ' - b Dr. chick and is reported bv Mn. Eikelson who wts in town on Sttur. day ts gettjng along M we mM be expected. WANTED A good, steady, gentle - manly salesman to handle a Ward's wagon in Morrow county. No exper - ience needed. For full particulars write promptly to Dr. Ward's Medi cal Company, Winona, Minnesota. Established 1856. 31 Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Bergstrom left for New York Wednesday moming, Lettered M en know the power of knowledge. Knowledge is the truth about Persons, Places, Things. F 'r instances : If you had time to count all of the letters used by the printers of this page, you would find more "e's" used than any other letter. The letter "t" comes next, then "o," "a," "n" and so on with "z" least used. That is all very interesting, but not very val uable knowledge. However, the words these letters spell can prove valuable to you. In the news and advertising columns of The Gazette Times the regiments of "e's," "t's," "o's," "a's," and "n's," tell both interesting and val uable messages every week if you will but read and profit. Read and Advertise in The Gazette-Times Get Results! w;sh them ton voyaee and eood luck. ; They expect to be gone for at least .1 t ,u - T I 1 - mice ur luur inunuis. iuiic muc- I d , P ' Prof H M. james tni$ week pur. chased a brand new Ford from the Latourell agency, and he content- ! pates taking quite an extensive trip j witfi his family during the summer, l gojng first to Washington, and then - hack across Oreon and down into California. They expect to leave Heppner shortly. C. W. McNamer and wife depart ed by auto for Portland on Tuesday morning. They were accompanied by county cleric, J. A. Waters, and will spend a few days in the city. liilliliflb