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PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY
Volume 39, Number 12. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1922 Subscription $2.00 Per Year
EXPERIMENT STIIll
VISITED B! FARMERS
A Representative Bunch of Wheatrais
ui aad Others Drive to Sherman
County, Take la Experiment Station
And See a Lot of Fln Wheat Farms;
All Well Paid for Tim and Trouble.
Better than . 40 farmer! of Morrow
county, representing nearly every quar
ter, made up a party that left Friday
morning for Sherman county, their ob
jective being the dry land experiment
station at More The trip had been ar
ranged by the farm bureau management
and County Agent Calkini, and the very
liberal response to their invitation was
gratifying.
A number of care left Heppner at 8
o'clock Friday morning and theie were
joined by others at Lexington and lone
and strung out in number to 11, with
E. M. Hulden in the lead and in hit car
Agent Calkins, Robert Perlig and Vaw
ter TJrawford, who were delegated to
pilot the "boati" over the hills in the
right direction leading to Arlington,
which point they should reach by din
ner time. The letter S and figure 8
were cut several times in the route fol
lowed by the pilots, and it looked like
the company would never be able to get
to Dad Maddock's Grande hotel in Ar
lington before they had expired by the
slow process of starvation. The bunch
were good sports, however, followed the
leader without a grumble, said they en
joyed seeing the good wheat fields
through which they were led in the
west section of Morrow county and east
aide of Gilliam, and all did justice to
the dinner man when they finally got
their feet under the table at Arlington.
It was not long after this, going down
the Columbia highway, that Kufus was
reached and then on south to Wasco
and Moro, Friday afternoon and all day
Saturday being spent in absorbing
knowledge from the experiment station
and from the successful farmers in the
famous Sherman county wheat belt.
The entire company were well pleased
with the trip and were loud in praise
of the work being done at the Moro sta
tion. Their treatment at the hands of
Mr. Stephens and other members of the
staff there is greatly appreciated. All
were able to see at first hand what a
wonderful work is being carried on in
behalf of the dry land farmers of East
ern Oregon at this station and they
earnestly hope and desire that every
farmer of this county will avail himself
of the opportunity of going to Moro
wherever it is offered and see and un
derxtr.nd for himself just how extensive
an! practical a work is being carried on
there.
The party journeyed home leisurely
on Sunday, some of them stopping by
the way to take a swim in the John Dsy
river and in Rock creek at Olex, and
becoming boys again . It goes without
saying that Hulden and Calkini were
not entrusted with the job of piloting
the caravan home, and every car was
left to Its own pleasure in this respect.
Those in the party were C. C. Calkins,
E. M. Hulden, Robert E. Perlick, Chas.
Hemrlch, Harry Turner, V. Crawford.
Frank Gilliam .Walter Becket, Theo. An
derson, Jeff Jones, Harry Rood, 0. M.
Scott, W. T. Scott, W. R. Scott, J. G.
Done rty, J. 0. Turner, Guy Huston, Mrs. !
Guy Huston and children, D. M. Ward
of Heppner; Chas. Bartholomew, 0. F.
Bartholomew, R. W. Allen, John Denny
of Pine City; Oscar Kcithley, Eight
Mile; W. J. Blake, J. C. Devin, E. H.
Turner, Fred Raymond, Arthur Erwin,
Chas. Erwin, A. A. McCabe, H. M. Olden,
C. M. Schriver, J. 0. Kincaid, R. W.
Brown, R. W. Lieuallen, Mr. Fletcher,
Mr. Fanchier, Hazel Dean, lone; Wm. H.
Padberg, Lexington; Geo, Miller, Elvin
Miller, Cecil; Ben Morgan, Mrs. Ben
Morgan, Morgan.
At the Station.
Saturday morning, with Mr. Stephens
in charge, the "gang" visited the East
ern Oregon dry land experiment station,
located about one quarter of a mile
northeast of Moro. The lands embraced
in the station comprise about 200 acres,
situated on the top of a low hill, giving
the advantage of all four slopes, which,
as every farmer knows, is necessary for
obtaining the most accurate results in
experimentation. Rotations are follow
ed in such manner that the same crop
is placed on tho different slopes in suc
ceeding years thnt the experiment may
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July 4th
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HEPPNER GARAGE
Smead's Appointment .
As P.M. Is Confirmed:
W. W. Smead received a telegram ear
ly yesterday from Senator Stanfield, an
nouncing his confirmation as postmaster
of Heppner. The appointment was made
early last week by President Harding
and reached the senate in due course of
business.
Mr. Smead is quite elated over this
announcement, and he thinks the de
tails will all be worked out so that he
will be able to take his oath of office
and enter upon his duties by the first
of August. In the meantime he may be
called upon, to spend a couple of weeks
or so with the school of postmasters at
Seattle. Of this he will know later,
however.
Everett Logan and Walter Pope were
Cecil residents in this city on Wednes
day. -
be carried out completely and the effects
of climate and soil conditions accurate
ly noted. '
Experiments are being made mostly
on one-twentieth acre plots. Mr, Ste
phens believes this to be the best meth
od, because in the larger tracts there is
apt to be a difference in the type of
coil that hinders best results.
The first section visited - was the
spring wheats. Sherman, as Well as
Morrow county, not being very much
adapted to the growing of spring wheat,
did not lay great stress upon these
wheats, however, there were a great
many varieties represented at the sta
tion. Foremost among these are the
Hard Federation and Federation. Both
of these varieties are early maturing,
have a beardless brown chaff with short,
white, hard kernels; the principal dif
ference between the two being that the
Hard Federation kernel is much harder,
yields heavier and is more drouth re
sistant. One very outstanding fact at the sta
tion was that the growing of Pacific
Hluestem, our highest priced wheat, has
been almost discontinued as a spring
or winter wheat, even in the trial plots.
At the barley plots a number of var
ieties were represented, with the mariot
(bearded) and moloy (common beard
less) leading. A noticeable feature in
the barley section was the fact that no
winter barley was grown. It had been
tried but was found to winter kill about
one year in four, hence it was discon
tinued. There are two winter barleys
that may be of value later, 0 A. C. No.
37 and Tennessee winter, but neither of
these are as yet ready for distribution.
To all the Morrow farmers the most
inteietting section visited at the sta
tion was the winter wheat. Numerous
varieties are represented in this class,
and a few of the more interesting may
be mentioned here. Karkov, the best
improved strain of Turkey red, possess
es the best milling qualities and has a
lead of eight per cent over other var
ieties in yield. This variety also pre
dominates very largely all over Sher
man county In fact we saw very few
fields of anything else. One other win
ter wheat and it is truly a winter
wheat, because it will not mature if
spring sown hybrid No. 128, a cross
between Jones fife and little club, easily
holds second place at the Moro station.
In Umatilla county more than 60 per
cent of the winter acreage is sown to
hybrid 128.
One very important feature of the
winter wheats was the strains of abso
lutely smut resistant varieties. Chief
among these were Odessa and Turkey
red No. 4430. These wheats are immune
to smut. As yet none of these smut
resistant strains have been found to be
very high yielding varieties, but it is
believed that some of them can be hy
bridised with our high yielding Turkey
red nad other hybrids and thus do away
with the smut treating business alto
gether. It would have been well worth
the price of the trip to have seen Bill
Pad berg's eyes brighten up at the men
tion of smut resistant wheat.
After passing on from the principal
wheat variety plots a greater number of
less important newer varieties were
seen in the nursery rows, and the in
tricate methods of propagation were ex
plained to very much interested listen
era. Another very lively session was held
over the tillage plots. Here winter
wheat and spring wheat were grown un
der all methods of tillage and culture.
All manner of tillage practices were
indulged in from that of the poorest far-
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Sunday School to Hold
Services in Mountains
Lexington' will repair to the mountains
in the vicinity of Moore's mill on next
Sunday for their annual mountain ser
vices. There will be plenty of automo
biles to transport' the members of the
school and their friends to the moun
tain retreat, where the regular services
of the day will be held and a picnic
dinner enjoyed amidst the surroundings ,
of cool shade and good water. All peo-
pie sojourning in that vicinity on Sun-,
day are invited to join with the Sunday
school folks in this service.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Schmidt of the
north Sand Hollow section visited Hepp
ner Wednesday, returning home today.
These people are making a success of
raising grain and this season are ex
pecting to harvest an abundant crop.
They will be in harvest the coming
week, heading and stacking. Harvest
throughout that end of Morrow county
will be on in earnest inside the coming
two weeks.
Out of courtesy to the Chautauqua
management, B. G. Sigsbee this week
closed the Star Theater, and during this
vacation spell is making some very
much needed Improvements at the show
house. A ventilating system Is being
put in and the front of the theater is
receiving new paint Shows will be re
sumed at the Star regularly after the
close of the Chautauqua.
Guy Huston and family were in the
city the past week and drove home in
a new Dodge car, which Guy used to
take the family on over to the Moro ex
periment station on Friday.
An Ideal Investment
Albert W. Atwood, one of the best
known writers on the subject of finance
and investment, has recently written a
very important article for the Saturday
Evening Post under the title "Protect
ing the Small Investor." In the course
of that article he writes of Treasury
Savings Certificates, using the sub-title,
"An Ideal Investment," of which he
says:
"It cannot be stated with too much
emphasis that anyone who really wants
a safe investment with a good interest
return can secure the same without the
slightest difficulty. On December fif
teenth last the wife of the President of
the United States purchased from Mr.
Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, the
first Treasury Savings Certificate sold
by the United States government. These
are now on sale at all post offices, and
many banks, and can be had by mail
direct from the Treasury department
They pay 25 per cent on the money in
vested for a five-year period. They are
guaranteed by the government to pay
this figure, and guaranteed against any
decline in price. They are beyond ques
tion the safest and surest investment
available to any American citizen, and
if they are not good, then nothing in the
world is.
"There has been a lot of talk and
cheap platitudes about the necessity and
advantages of thrift and savings, but
a man cannot dig a garden without tools
and he cannot save without a secure
place to put his money. A splendid work
is done by the savings banks, but they
do not cover the entire country by any
means. There are millions of people
whom they do not reach. Life insur
ance covers an even wider field, but it
is only partially a savings and invest
ment proposition. The government is
the one agency that can appeal to ev
erybody, and at last, after much exper
imenting during and following the war,
it has devised a permanent form of
small investment which is simple, con
venient and which meets the needs of
all except the wealthiest classes.
"These certificates are always sold at
the same price, $20, $80, and $800. In
five years they are paid off at $25, $100
and $1000 respectively. This is 4 1-2
per cent interest compounded semi-annually.
It is 25 per cent in five years.
There is no state or local tax on these
certificates and no normal Federal in
come tax. Any individual can buy as
much as $5000 each year, and the same
amount is available to any member of
his family. They can be redeemed at
any time before the five years are up,
at the full amount paid, plus 3 1-2 per
cent interest, by sending them to the
Treasury department Since the name
of the owner is registered at Washing
ton the loss of the certificate does not
mean the loss of the investment There
is no risk, depreciation in value or
promoter's or banker's commission to
pay, there is liberal interest and an im
mediate cash withdrawal value."
Howe's Big Circus to
Be Here Next Saturday
Few aerlalists, no matter how daring,
work without first minimizing their
danger by the erection of a safety net
directly under them and ten or a dozen
feet above the ground. More fearless
and death-defying than all others, the
performers with Howe's Great London
Shows, which will exhibit Saturday, July
1, in Heppner use neither life belts nor
nets, depending entirely upon their own
courage, confidence and powers. The
terrific startling and hair-raising feats
these conceded meteoric kings and
queens perform high above the heads of
the fear-gasping spectators are such
few persons dare risk. The members
of one troupe particularly appear to be
without nerves or fear. They pass and
repass from bar to bar, from ring to
ring, and subsequently from bar to
landing place with an amazing skill
and judgment. The members of another
family actually fly through space, their
bodies revolving like swiftly moving
balls. They toss, catch and pass each
other with astonishing unconcern. The
many performers with Howe's Great
London Shows are likewise post-gradu-ntes
of their porfessions. having been
culled from the top-most circles of Am
erican and European artists. Then there
ure scores of marvelously educated wild
and tamed animals and a whole univer
sity of ludicrous clowns. These funny
follows cause children to go into parox
isms fo laughter and elicit smiles from
even savants, philosophers and the
gravest of scientists. They send spin
sters and bachelors into ecstacles of
merriment. Lack of space prevents the
naming of all the mighty features to
be found in these big shows, suffice to
Buy they are the newest and greatest
money can procure.
Principals' Gub Is Re
Organized at Eugene
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, June 28.
(Special.) Sixty principals and su
perintendents of Oregon schools re-or-ganiied
the eld Principals' club at a
meeting held on the university campus
Friday evening and elected officers for
the summer session, in which most of
them are enrolled as students. Officers
I were elected as follows: president. E.
; H. Hedrick, superintendent of Heppner
, schools; - vice president, M. S. Hamm,
superintendent at noseburg; secretary,
George Turn bull, University of Oregon,
school of journalism.
Superintendent E. H. Hedrick, of
Heppner, followed an address by C. A.
Howard on "Teachers' Meetings as a
Means of Improvement in Service," by a
discussion of the subject, Saturday af
ternoon, June 24, at the annual confer
ence of superintendents and principals,
held here June 23-24.
Mr. Hedrick gave five rules regulating
the calling of teachers' meetings.
1. They should be composed of people
who have something in common.
2. They should be called for a definite
purpose. 1
8. The members should be acquainted
with this purpose before the meeting.
4. The program should be in the
hands of a competent person.
6. They should be adjourned when the
business is finished.
Following Mr. Hedrick in the discus
sion, Superintendent Stanbrough of
Newberg, emphasized the need of keep
ing in touch with new ideas.
Fire Nearly Destroys All
Monument on Monday
The little town of Monument suffered
a severe fire on Monday afternoon and
was practically wiped off the map. Ac
cording to reports reaching Heppner,
the fire started from a defective flue in
rooms in the Murphy building and
spread very rapidly, all of the business
section and several residences being de
stroyed in a very short time, leaving
only the hotel, postoffice and livery sta
ble. The town has no fire fighting ap
aratus and a bucket brigade was not
a successful means of fighting the
spread of flames. The total loss is
around $50,000, partially covered by in
surance. R. V. Whiteis of this city fig
ures that his companies will lose about
$18,000, and he carried the bulk of the
insurance on the property destroyed.
The stores of Monument had just
completed putting in their stock of sup
plies for the summer, all of which was
lost, and the people of the little com
munity were hard hit for a few days by
lack of food, but the situation was soon
relieved, and aid to those left destitute
was sent in. The problem of rebuilding
is the one that is t j,w causing worry.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Notson are in re
ceipt this week of invitations to the
wedding of their son, Lee W. Notson
anj Miss Florence May Kirk which took
place at Dunlap, Iowa, June 28th. Lee
is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Notson
and has made his home in Iowa for sev
eral years past. He has numerous
friends here who extend hearty ronerat-
ulations.
Mrs. Bruce Bothwell, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Cowins of this city, has
been visiting her parents during the
week. Mrs. Bothwell resides near Mau-
pin, Oregon, where her husband is ex
tensively engaged in wheat raising. She
will return home on Saturday.
S. E. Notson received a telegram yes
terday informing him that his sister,
Mrs. Lillian Utterback, had died at her
home near Kansas City, Kansas. She
leaves a husband, a grown daughter, and
a daughter twelve years of age.
Sam Ritchie was a visitor in Heppner
Monday from his ranch out north of
Lexington. He was getting ready for
harvest which will be on hand in that
seciton' the coming week. He reports
good crops in prospect '
W. A. McClintock, of Gooseberry, was
doing business in this city on Monday.
He states that the people out his way
will tnnn h frpttinc m.v fn li a run at
and the prospects of a good yield are
Drignt. ,
The front at the store of Phelps Gro
cery company was this week improved
by the addition of a new awning that
helps a lot in keeping out the glare of
the sun these warm days.
Mrs. Arthur McAtee returned home
Friday from a visit of a couple of
months with relatives and friends in
Michignn. -
Shell Fish!
DO YOU ENJOY SHELL
FISH!
Oysters
Clams
Crab
Served in any style to
your order.
Our Sunday dinner should
also attract you on these
warm summer days.
Bring the "ife and have
dinner with us.
Elkhorn Restaurant
Heppner
Forest Notes of Interest
From Gurdane District
Elmer Williams of the Portland office
of the Biological survey has been in
this district the last three days inspect
ing the trap lines of Archie McCampbell,
government hunter, and assisting Mc
Campbell in connecting his lines with
those of the government trsppers east
and west of here. A trunk trap line
is being act from near the head of the
Umatilla river southwestward for one
hundred and twenty-five miles, a paral
lel line will be set along which the trap
pers will ride on return trips, thus mak
ing a continuous trap line for two hun
dred and fifty miles in length. Branch
lines will also be set into coyote coun
try. Experienced trappers will be in
charge of the system, lines in the Gur
dane district will be in charge of Archie
McCampbell and Harold Ahalt
Will Troxel and Homer Landers who
are camped at Arbuckle mountain while
clearing roads, were recently the hosts
to a nocturnal visit from a beast of the
forest, a lighted match revealed a por
cupine. Equipped with a light and arm
ed with a long handled shovel, a pajama
charge was made on the guests. The
porcupine's head was broken; likewise
the shovel handle.
A new road has been constructed to
the lookout tree on the top of Arbuckle
mountain. The construction of the look
out station has been temporarily delay
ed by the press of other work. It is
planned to cut the top from a tree about
sixty feet from the ground and con
struct a crow's nest of wood and steel.
The lookout from the crow's nest will
be able to overlook approximately three
hundred thousand acres of forest land.
A new split log bridge has been con
structed at Pole Creek, making the road
between Ellis Ranger station and Ditch
creek passable for horse drawn vehicles.
The Arbuckle mountain to Thompson
flat road is now clear of logs and while
rough, is passable for cars on from
Freezeout ridge southward to the cross
ing on Ellis creek.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS.
Notice is hereby given that Ordinance
No. 67 provides a penalty for any per
son allowing rubbish of any kind to ac
cumulate upon lots of which they are in
possession or on the streets adjacent to
such lots, and inasmuch as the grss is
becoming dry and a fire hazard it is ur
gently requested that all persons own
ing lots or in possession thereof will
keep the grass cleaned from such lots
and the streets adjacent thereto, and
thus avoid our past experience with
fires. If any person desires to burn
such grass or rubbish or have the same
burned please notify Chief of Police
or the Fire Department before burning
the same.
Dated this 28th day of June, 1922.
2t E. G. NOBLE, Mayor.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Lord's Day, July 2.
Henry Ward Beeches says, "The call
to religion is not a call to be better than
your fellows, but better than yourself."
You may easily see that you should be
better than your present self, so be with
us next Lord's day and we will help you
to do this. Bible school 10, Communion
and preaching 11, Christian Endeavor
at 7 and preaching and song service at
8. Drop in you are welcome.
LIVINGSTONE.
Heppner ball tossers journeyed to Ar
'ington Sunday and won from the Gill
iam county boys in a 2-12 score. The
day was very warm and the game is re
ported to have been equally as warm,
as it stood a 2-2 tie at the end of the
seventh. In the eighth Heppner ran up
ten tallies and Arlington went down on
the count, evidently having gone to
smash at a critical time in the game.
Heppner expects to go to Ukiah for a
game on the 4th.
Messrs. Woodson and Sweek, attor
neys, are this week moving their office
into the First National bank building
and will occupy the rooms recently va
cated by Sam E. Van Vactor. We are
not informed as to who will move into
the rooms in Masonic building being
vacated by Woodson and Sweek.
Dean Goodman reports that since May
1st Heppner Garage has disposed of six
Buicks and two super-six Hudsons, and
that the best part of it was that each
sale was for cash. An indication that
money matters are getting somewhat
easier. In fact it is noticed that a large
number of new cars are putting in their
appearance and the auto trade is pick
ing up quite lively.
I. R. Clabough was home for a short
time the past week from Portland. He
returned to the city Monday, where Mrs.
Clabough is now a patient in St Vin
cent's hospital.
Commander of Local Post
A. L. Makes Statement
The preamble of the American Le
gion's constitution states that it is ded
icated to God and Country. The Legion,
during its career of only three years
has demonstrated that it is the best in
surance policy the Nation has.
Our post appeals to all eligible ex
service men in this community to join
the Legion and to aid our fight for
Americanism. The blue and gold button
of the American Legion marks its wear
er as one who has not thrown away
his patriotism with the uniform. It
means that he has not "passed the
buck" to someone else to see that the
sick and disabled buddies get justice
and to fulfill all those things that he
desired to result from the war.
Every man in the service hoped to
better things after the war. More than
two million doughboys, gobs and gyr
enes realized that it was going to be a
fight to bring to pass all the things
that they dreamed of. The result of this
prevailing sentiment was the formation
of the American Legion.
Legion members are from every
branch of the service, from those who
were forced to remain at home to men
who won the congressional medal at
Chateau-Theirry and in the Argonne. It
includes all ranks from private to gen
eral. Our Legion post can be the most ben
eficial organization in this community.
Its purposes are high; its ideals are
untarnished. It deserves your support
and the membership of every war vet
eran. Join Heppner post of the Amer
ican Legion and make it the beat post
in your state. JAS. F. COOKE,
Commander Heppner Post No. 87.
Colorado Potato Beetle
Appears in Heppner
(By C. C. Calkins.)
The Colorado potato beetle has made
its appearance in fields around Heppner
and are present in numbers sufficient to
be alarming in case immediate steps
are not taken to control it Thoae who
are not familiar with the potato beetle
can see specimens of the adults, larvae
and the eggs in the window of Humph
reys Drug store.
The adult beetle spends the winter In
the ground, appears in the spring by the
time the potato has put out its aixth
pair of leaves and deposits the eggs on
the under surface of the foliage. These
hatch out in ten to twelve days and the
slugs will feed upon the foliage and if
present in any numbers will rapidly eat
all the leaves off of the plant These
then enter into the soil as pupate and
then emerge as beetles again to in turn
lay eggs which will hatch and also ma
ture here during the season.
Immediate steps should be taken to
control them. Every man who has any
potatoes should examine his field and
see whether they are present
They ean be eontroled where found
on limited areas by hand picking the
beetles and larvae and destroying them.
If they are present in any numbers or
you have a large acreage you should
make arrangements immediately to
spray these potatoes with the solution
of calcium or lead arsenate made up of
three pounds to 100 gallons of water.
This will have to be applied so that it
will reach the nnder surface of the
leaves. A second and third spraying
should be applied at two week intervals.
It will perhaps be easier to apply the
poison as a dust on a limited area. One
part of lead arsenate should be added
to about 8 parts of sifted wood ashes
and this can be sifted through a coarse
bag.
If in doubt as to whether you have
potato beetles or not we will be glad to
inspect them for you if you will call the
county agent's office. Every field where
they appear should be cleaned up be
cause if they get started in this section
it will mean that it will be necessary
to spray two or three times every year
or it will be impossible to raise pota
toes. Now is the time to get them. Do
your part
Mrs. Mary Boyden. formerly of this
city, who now makes her home with her
son, Dr. Guy Boyden in Portland, sus
tained a broken hip recently. Mrs. Boy
den fell down a flight of stairs and the
injury resulted.
J. W. Osborn, extensive land owner of
Cecil was in this city yesterday. Mr.
Osborn is residing in Portland most
of the time now.
Mr. Blackman Is Now
f Hera On Annual Visit
Henry Blackman arrived in Heppner
on Sunday, coming in from Portland,
and will visit with his relatives in this
city for a few days. Mr. Blackman
makes his home at San Francisco but
still retains interests in this city and
is called here once or twice a year to
look after his affairs. Always loyal
to the old home town. Mr. Blackman
never fails to give us a boost on proper
occasion, as witness the following from
"Those Who Come and Go" column of
the Oregonian:
"Morrow county people in Portland
will celebrate with a reunion in Laurel
hurst park, on July 4,' says Henry
blackman. Although he lives in San
Francisco, Mr. Blackman insists on reg
istering from Heppner and every year
he sends money for his subscription to
the Heppner Gazette in order to keep in
touch with his old home Mr. Blackman
is president of the Morrow County so
ciety, which embraces about 200 former
residents of that county who live in
Portland. Host of the Morrow county
contingent are from Heppner, and a
dozen of them hold a daily session in
the Imperial lobby and discuss the wea
ther and crops and sheep and lands of
Morrow county just as though they
were sitting on the sidewalk of the
principal hotel in Heppner."
A little daughter of H. L. Johnson
of Parkers Mill was thrown from a wa
gon Monday, and the wheel striking the
side of her head entirely severed her
ear and left it hanging by a slender
piece of skin. Dr. Chick sttended to her
injuries. He placed the injured ear in
position and hopes that it will heal
properly.
Miss Rita Norris, for the past two
years teacher of home economics in
Heppner high school, and elected to the
same place for the coming year, has
tendered her resignation to the board
of directors and will not return to
Heppner. Her successor has not vet
been chosen.
Jack Mulligan came over from Condon
last evening and will be in Heppner for
the rest of the week. Persons desiring
to have their pianos tuned can leave
orders at the store of Patterson & Son,
ana tney win be looked after by Mr.
Mulligan.
Francis A. McMnamln
turned yesterday from Portland. He
SDent a few dava in tho ritv t holn
boost the Umatilla rapids project at a
meeting held Monday before the Port-
iana vnamoer ox commerce.
Mr. and Mrs. A1Y Wt-ian arrtvd, at
Heppner the first of the week from the
Willamette valley. After spending a cou-
Ole Of dava her thv mant ixn nttt n
Hardman for a visit with friends and
relatives there.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar K.ltM.v nf Wht
Mile were visitors in thia cltv on Mon
day.
Born At their home on Rhea creek
this a. m. to Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Haver
stick, a son, Dr. C. C. Chick attending.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Sweek returned
last evenine- from a vUlt nf dm1 Aavm
at the Sweek ranch near Monument
Tilman Hogue and family were visit
ors In this city Tuesday from their
home in the Gooseberry section.
Ed McDaid, who has a larvre ranch
down in Juniper canyon, was a visitor
in Heppner yesterday.
John McDevitt and wife were in the
city Thursday last from their farm out
north of lone.
CUIUS GEE!
1NSPIRATID1M, SUCCESS
Six-Day Program of Ellisoa-Whlle Well
Attended. Maaieal Nasabera and Lec
tures Civea Are of High Order. Last
Namber By New York City Male Quar
tette Tonight
With the programs of today, the six
days of Heppner's big Chautauqua will
pass. They have been days of genuine
entertainment to the large audiences at
the big tent and so far as we are able
to judge not a number of the list of
twelve attractions so far rendered has
been in the least disappointing. The
program was well balanced and the
Chautauqua this week has been drawing
fine crowds, demonstrating the fact that
our people fully appreciate entertain
ment of this high order.
The Steelman-Marriner-Taylor trio
opened the program on Saturday after
noon and this was followed by the or
ganization of the Junior Chautauqua. In
the evening the trio gave a concert pre
lude and this was followed by character
studies by A. Mather Hilburn, the mas
ter entertainer and prince of funsters.
This program was particularly well en
joyed. The Glen L. Morris company appear
ed on both the Sunday afternoon and
Sunday evening programs and present
ed to the Chsutauquans his wonderful
experiments and tricks in electricity.
Mr. Morris appeared in Heppner last
season and his entertainment was just
as much enjoyed on this visit as it was
the first Following Mr. Morris in the
afternoon was Margaret Garrison, gifted
reader and entertainer, pronounced to
be one of hte best in this line on the
circuit As a gloom dispeller she is
certainly a success, and demonstrated
this fact in spite of the disagreeably
warm weather of Sunday afternoon.
"Private" Harold Peat was on for the
lecture Sunday evening, his subject be
ing "Introducing Your Neighbor," and
he came with a real message on interna
tional relationships, giving our folks an
insight as to the real feeling existing
between his native country, Canada, and
the United States. The international
line is getting to be more and more im
aginary as he looks at it He presented
sensible and workable ideas and placed
his everlasting condemnation on war
and the war program. His lecture can
not fail of doing much good.
In fact the entire lecture program has
been of the highest order. Arthur
Walwyn Evans, Dr. Lydia Allen De Vil
biss and Chancellor George H. Bradford
are each in a class by themselves. Mr.
Evans had for his subject "Let There
Be Light" and there was nothing dull
or provincial in the two hours of talk
that came forth from him. It was full
of entertaining stories and brilliant ora
tory. He was here the third night Dt.
De Vilbiss, prominent New York physi
cian, entertained with a health lecture
of much interest to women and children,
and Chancellor Bradford on "This Way
Up," gave a lecture on the value of prop
er education. It was an uplifting and
forceful discourse, and delivered in, a
simple manner and was easily grasped
by the boys and girls as well as the old
er folks.
The Jugo-Slav Tamburicans were a
stellar attraction and on Tuesday eve
ning the play, "Turn to the Right," was
the big drawing card and received high
praise. It was presented by the Keigh
ley Broadway players.
The Chautauqua, as stated above has
been a great success and Ellison-White
have delivered the goods in both talent
and program and there is no complaint
Whether we shall have Chautauqua next
year is now being decided by the sign
ing of the guarantee. Pledges were tak
en Tuesday evening for season tickets
and aobut half the required amount
signed up. This is not any too encour
aging, but it looks now as though the
guarantee would reeeive the necessary
number of signatures to bring the Chau
tauqua here next season.
Lost One 3-year-old horse; color
bay brown, weight about 800; branded
F L connected (Fred Lucas brand) on
left shoulder. Strayed from pasture at
Bill Duran place at old Hamilton mill
site on Rhea creek, about June 15. Will
pay reasonable reward. A. REANEY,
Lexington, Ore.
Lou Davidson is in town today. He
states that it will be just about a month
before wheat harvest begins on the big
Davidson ranch out at Gooseberry.
STAR THEATER
FRIDAY, JUNE SO,
JUSTINE JOHNSTONE in
"Sheltered Daughters"
Ignorance does not spel lsafety. Fore
warned is forearmed.
Also Comedy: "The Fotygraph Gallery"
SATURDAY, JULY Is
MARY MILES MINTER in
"Don't Call Me Little Girl"
One of Mary's best. Don't miss it.
Also Comedy
SUNDAY AND MONDAY, JULY 14 3:
WILL RODGERS in
"Boys Will Be Boys"
based on the story by Irvin S. Cobb. The
chucklesome story of a man who never
had a boyhood until he was "way pa-tt
the half century mark."
TIES. AND WED, JULY 4 AND S;
J. P. McGOWAN in
"Reckless Chances"
As thrilling as any 4th of July cele
bration you ever saw.
ALSO AESOP'S FABLES
You "Stay-at-Home's" who
do not wish to traipse round
celebrating in the heat and
dust will find excellent en
tertainment in each and ev
ery one of these programs.