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PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY
Volume 39, Number 37. ' HEPPNER, OREGON, TH URSDAY, DEC. 28, 1922. Subscription $2.00 Per Year
JUSTICE IIP HS
Gil to Get Together on
Our Forest Problems
"The Glorious Fool"
Is a Comedy Romance
Art Minor Remembers
PROSPECTS FOB 16-
Greatest Of Them All
Friends With Calendar
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The Operetta, Trial of Santa CUu"
u Presented bjr Heppner Grammar
School, Well Received by Large
Audience.
Just about seventy puplta of the
Hcppner grammar school composed
the cast of characters and made up
the choruses for the presentation of
the operetta, "The Trial of Santa
Cleus," at the high school auditor
ium on last Thursday evening, and
the pupils were encouraged by a very
Ane audience, who in return were en
tertained splendidly by the fine pres
entation of the seasonable playlet.
The operetta was put on under the
direction of Mrs. Hopper, head of the
musical department of the school,
who was ably assisted by Misses
Gladys Turner and Blanch Fahy,
and Mifis Bernice Woodson as ac
companist. The cast of characters was com
posed of eleven boys and girls as
follows: Sheriff, . Ellis Thomson;
judge, Jerald 81ocum; state'a attor
ney, Onis Grogan; assistant state's
attorney, Bobby Turner; would-be-foreman,
Clair Cox; Mr. Grumpy,
Oren Bisbee; Grandpa Grumpy, Har
old Evans; Sooty Jack, Kenneth Ov
iatt; Moon Man, John Turner; Santa
Claus, Crocket Sproula; Uncle Sam,
John Conder; counsel for defense,
Nellie Babcock; clerk, Mae Grosh
ens; January, Edna Vaughn; July,
Kathleen Monahan; April, Elinor
Cohn; March, Velma Huston; Mrs.
Grumpy, Lois Livingstone; Grandma
Grumpy, Glenna Kirk; Little Girl,
Thelma Starkey; Columbia. Marjor
ie Clark; North Star Lady, Aura
Gentry.
Rejected jurymen and witnesses;
Terril Benge, Harlan Devin, Clair
Cox, Patricia Mahoney, Mary Farley,
Ethel Moore, Reta Crawford, Louise
Thomson, Shirley Prophet, Louis Le
trace, Harry Oliver, Laurence Case,
Mary Ritchie, Vivian Canon, Margar
et Notson, Ronghild Franzen, Martha
Driscoll and Zaida Tash.
The montha of the yean January,
Edna Vaughn; February, Lola Moore;
March, Velma Huston; April, Elinor
Cohn;May Letha Hiatt; June, Elvira
Lee; July, Kathleen Monahan; Aug
ust, Veyrl Crowell; September, Lu
etic Driscoll; October, Mildred Green;
November, Margaret Smith; Decem
ber, Genevieve Gorger.
Chorus of children: Thelma Star
key, Virginia Dix, Nolan Turner,
Mary Monahan, Vivian Cox, John
Franzen, Clementine Groshens, Mary
Kinney, Vernon Brown, Evelyn
Swindlg, Hester Lawson, Harry Wells,
Roderick Thomson, Duane Brown.
Grumpy family; Betty Irwin, Ruth
Turner, Billia Pickens, Donna Brown,
Marjorie Happold, Bruce Gibbs, Ros
nnna Farley, Margaret Farley.
The manner in which the entire
program was carried out is evidence
of the fact that the children were all
well trained, and each performed the
part assigned to perfection, there be
ing no hesitancy and the little folks
putting into the play the necessary
action to givs it character. ' It would
be impossible to single out all the
characters for special mention, but
we are sure that nothing of this na
ture has heretofore been presented
that gave greater satisfaction to
audience and those who had the train
ing of the children in charge. The
operetta can be pronounced a com
plete success. The proceeds amount
ed to better than $140.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
- Lord's Day, Dec SI.
Try this as a New Years resolution,
and test of your will power: Re
solve to attend church ten Sundays In
succession, come what may. Then
mark yourself ten for each Sunday
you succeed in carrying out your re
solution. If you can earn 100 in ten
weeks your will power is sufficient to
enable you to make a success in life.
Start in with our services next
Lord's day. Bible school at 10 A. M.;
Communion and preaching at 11
o'clock; Junior Endeavor at 3 P. M.J
Senior Endeavor at 6:30 and song
service and preaching at 7:30. You
will be heartily welcomed.
LIVINGSTONE.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
gratitude to our friends and neighbors
and to the Rcbekah lodge for their
untiring assistance during the recent
illness and death of our child.
MR. and MRS. RAYMOND STEERS
and FAMILY.
C. E. Jones is here from his home
at Newberg, arriving on Wednesday.
He expects to spend several days in
Hippncr, looking after business In
terests. The last visit Mr. Jones
made to Hcppner was three years ago
and it was followed by a big snow
storm. This time he sent better
weather ahead.
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try, too,
And dance the dance of
New Year's,
The last of twenty-two.
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starting is worth a fitting
finish. Dance a finish to
the Holidays.
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FAIR PAVILION
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Lumbermen, timber owners, state
forest officials and others are being
asked to give thought and construc
tive suggestions to the forest pro
blems of ths Douglas fir region of the
Northwest in an appeal just issued by
District Forester Geo. H. Cecil's of
fice in Portland. A preliminary draft
of s statement of fundamentals of the
forest problem has been drawn up by
local forest officers and sent out to
other interested agencies of Oregon
and Washington. This tentative draft
is technically called "minimum sil
vicultural requirements;" in plain
English, the least things to be done
in order to insure continuous timber
production on forest lands of the
Northwest.
Firs prevention during logging,
"firs-proofing" cut-over land, end
protection from fire after logging
are the key notes of this report. The
aim of the get-together ia to decide
on the essential measures necessary
to keep forest land in the Douglas
fir region productive of forest crops
after the virgin timber ia removed.
This is a subject which has been dis
cussed considerably during ths past
year in forestry and lumbering cir
cles, as a result of the proposal of
Colonel W. B. Greely of the Forest
Service to make a study for each re
gion of the country of the "minimum
silvicultural requirments" necessary
for reasonably succegiul continuous
forest productions.
This study has been undertaken co
operatively by the Forest Service,
State Foresters, Lumberman's or
ganisation, forest protective organ
isations and the like in the hope of
embodying in the report the best
thought of all those interested in this
topic. The first draft of the report
i for the Douglas fir region has just
Been prepared by Thornton T. Munged
of the Forest Service, and copies
have just been sent to some twenty
live cooperating organiiationa and
individuals in Oregon and Washing
ton for their review and criticism.
Upon the basis of these criticisms a
revised statement will be prepared
and then g'ven general circulation.
This report is concerned only with
the ateps that must be taken in the
woods to secure the continuous pro
duction of forest crops and is not con
cerned with the economic readjust
ments and legislative enactmens that
may be necessary to carry out these
forestry measures, foresters say. It
is brought out very clearly that to se
cure reforestation by natural means
in the Douglas fir region is a very
simple matter, that no radical change
in present methods is necessary and
that by adding but a few cents per
thousand board foot to the cost of
logging a new crop of young trees
is practically assured. Foresters say
that perhaps nowhere in the country
is the problem of natural reforesta
tion so simple as In this western Or
egon and Washington country, un
less it be in the redwood region. A
greater part of the report is devoted
to a discussion of fire protection dur
ing and after logging, for fire is the
great enemy of reforestation now.
Very much better fire prevention,
especially on logged-over lands which
should be growing up to new crops,
than is now practiced ia urged. It
is the first essential of forestry here
in the Northwest the statement says.
ADVERTISEMENTS FOR STAR
ROUTE CONTRACT POSTED
Postmaster Smead this week re
ceived from Washington D. C. the ad
vertisements for proposals to carry
letter mail and paper mail oniy, on
the new star route between Heppner
and Arlington, and should the de
partment receive bids that will jus
tify doing so, they will no doubt es
tablish the new route as petitioned
for.
Any necessary information concern
ing this route and the requirements
of the department, can be obtained
from Postmaster Smead.
RESOLUTIONS OF CONDOLENCE
Hall of Ruth Chapter No. 32, Order
of Eastern Star.
Whereas it has-pleased cur Heaven
ly Father to summon to her Eternal
Home our beloved sister, Fannie
Blackman, who was always a faithful
and devoted member of Ruth Chapter
No. 32, Order of the Eastern Star;
ona of its Past Matrons and ever
ready to do all in her power for the
welfare of the chapter.
Her beautiful rendition of the work
and pleasant associations in the
meetings of the Chapter shall ever be
remembered.
Be it resolved: That we bow In
humble submission to the will of the
Omnipotent and extend to the be
reaved family our heartfelt sympathy,
that we drape our charter in mourn
ing for a period of 30 days in memory
of our departed sister; that a copy of
these resolutions be spread on the
minutes of the chapter, a copy be sent
to the family and one to the press for
publication.
REBECCA PATTERSON,
LERA CRAWFORD,
SPENCER CRAWFORD,
Committee.
W. A. McCarty, a prominent farmer
of Hardman, was down to Heppner
on Saturday. He states that the snow
did not drift much in his part of the
country but the chinook has taken
most of it away.
Miss Leta Humphreys and her bro
ther Roland arrived home Saturday
from Eugene to spend the holidays
with their pareiits, Mr. and Mrs. T.
J. Humphreys. They are students at
the U. of 0.
Little Anabelle Turner, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Turner under
went an operation on Tuesday for the
removal of tonsils and adenoids,
from which ordeal she is recovering
nicely,
Pat Douglas, who has been spend
ing some time with friends at Hepp
ner, departed on Wednesday for On
tario, Oregon, where hs expects to
get work for the balance of the win
ter,"' Miss Norma Frederick, cashier in
the local telephone office, is back on
the job again after an enforced ab
sence of several weeks, recovering
from an operation for appendicitis.
CERTAIN LV V N .
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Extension Division
Reaches Many Farms
Proposal to Consolidate All Extension
Work In Order to Economize and
Increase Efficiency.
Washington. Deo. 20. Notwith
standing the Department of Agricul
ture saved and turned back to the
Treasury more than (2,000,000 out
of the money allotted it last year,
Secretary Wallace is looking for ad
ditional ways to economize in his de
partment without affecting the qual
ity of the service. In his budget re
quests for this year he has indicated
a desire to coordinate all of the ex
tension work done by the Department
of Agriculture into one bureau. This
would result in the elimination of
three bureaus now in existence, the
elimination of a number of employes
and increased efficiency in the work.
In discussing the various forms of
extension work in which the depart
ment cooperates with the numerous
states, Secretary Wallace points out
that about 4,000 persons are now em
ployed. Agricultural agents are em
ployed in about 2,100 counties, home
demonstration agents in 800 counties
and club agents in 200 counties. In
addition, there are 750 district agents
and specialists in the preparation of
subject matter who cooperate with the
extension workers.
It is estimated 'hat through the
extension personnel the department
comes in contact with about 2,500,000
farm homes. Tho 4 J 1,000 boyi end
girls enrolled in cjo work jeport
products valued at more th.m $7,000,
000. Of the field scents, 272 are
colored and work to uid negro farm
ers. About $7,000,000 of federal
money was spent for evt!nsijn vurk
luring the past year, to which was
added about $9,700,000 of state money.
Other agencies used in diffusing
information, according to the Secre
tary's report, are bulletins, pamphlets
and periodicals, motion pictures, ex
hibits at state and district fairs, and
mimeographed material distributed
to the press. According to Secretary
Wallace's annual report, the Depart
ment distributed in the last year
nearly 34,000,000 copies of various
bulletins, pamphlets, etc.
In addition to the publicity matter
sent to the newspapers and handled
in the form of bulletins and circulars,
the department has a division which
handles moving pictures. The de
partment now has a total of 547 reels
for distribution; 21 old films have
been revised and brought up to date,
and 33 new films have been completed.
Work is now progressing on 28 films
on new subjects. These pictures
are circulated by county agents, ex
tension workers and through the
public schools. It is estimated these
Alms were seen last year by four to
Ave million people.
The department also has a series
of exhibits which are displayed at
fairs. Last year these exhibits were
at 60 fairs, at which the total at
tendance was more than 4,000,000.
These figures give some idea of the
tremendous number of people that
are reached every year by the acti
vities of the department.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Devin- and
daughter were in the city on Satur
day from their home out west of lone
Mr. Devin reported that but little
snow had gone off the hills in his
neighborhood, the chinook not strik
ing there as soon as it did up this
way, and it wbb a pretty hard chore
getting down to the highway at lone,
Jos. B. Snyder departed on Monday
for Missouri, where he expects to be
a couple of weeks or so, visiting at the
old home with his father who is quite
old and growing feeble. It has been
five or six years since Mr. Snyder
visited with his home folks.
George White, who has one of the
best wheat farms in the Lexington
section, was in Hcppner Saturday.
He reported that most af the frost is
out of the ground as a result of the
worm spell, but lots of snow hang
ing around in the big drifts.
Miss Gladys Turner, teacher in
Heppner schools is in Portland this
week to spend the holidays. She de
parted on Friday afternoon.
Elmer Peterson came in from Eu
gene on Sunday to spend the holidays
with the home folks. He is attend-
j ing the U, of 0, this winter,
While riding up the highway Mon
day morning on horseback and lead
ing another horse, Pat Brady of lone
was ran into by J. J. Kelly, who was
driving a car. The result was that
both horses received broken legs and
had to be killed, while Pat'escaped
uninjured. Just how the accident hap
pned, we were not informed, but
that Mr. Brady got out uninjured is
rather a remarkable circumstance.
Mr. and Mrs. Tindal Robinson, of
Hardman, were visitors in this city
yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner spent
several days of the holiday season
with the families of R. W. Turner
and V. Crawford in Heppner. A visit
to the ranch Wednesday revealed to
Mr. Turner the fact that the mild
weather had brought about good
working conditions out his way, and
that farmers were getting into the
Aelds again with their plows,
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Amort arrived
from the Wiiliamette valley on Sat
urday and are guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Patterson. Mrs.
Amort was formerly Miss Melba
Griffiths of this city, and is a neice
of Mrs. Patterson. Their home is at
Philomath, where Mr. Amort is at
work as an engineer in the state
highway department.
Miss Coramae Crawford departed
this morning -for Joseph, Oregon,
where she will spend a month or six
weeks at the home of her uncle, O.
G. Crawford, and assist in the work
of getting out the Joseph Herald as
operator of the linotype. Sickness
in Mr. Crawford's family made it
necessary to secure outside help.
Miss Lorena Falmateer, for two
years teacher of English in Heppner
schools, arrived Tuesday afternoon
from Spokane for a short visit with
friends here. Miss Palmateer teaches
in the school at Hillyard, a suburb
of Spokane. She is a guest at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Missil
dine. Miss Helen V. Smith, accompanied
by her sister, Mrs. Matthews, went
to Roseburg on Sunday to spend the
holiday week at the home of their
people residing in that city. Mrs.
W. A. Richardson has been looking
after the store of Miss Smith in her
absence.
W. B. Tucker of Lexington spent
a short time in thia city Wednesday.
He thinks that the recent big snow
has been of great benefit to the grow
ing crops, and reports wheat on his
Blacxhorse farm looking fine and the
hills turning green with the growing
grass.
Mr. and Mrs. John McDonald of
Hat'dmnn were in Heppner Friday.
Mr. McDonald was called to the city
to make final proof on his additional
homcsteud, which he made before
Clerk waters, his witnesses being
Raymond Steers and W. D. McCarty.
Misa Babe Mathews, formerly
stenogrupher in the office of F. A.
McMenamin in thia city, returned to
Portland on Monday after a visit of
a week with friends in Heppner. She
js now employed in the offices of the
O. W. R. & N. Co. in Portland.
A silver tea will be held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Livingstone on
Thursday evening, Dec. 28 in- connec
tion with the regular weekly Bible
study and prayer meeting. The pro
ceeds of this tea will be given to the
Chinese mission in Portland.
Miss Vera Muhoney was home from
Seattle, where she is attending busi
ness college, to spend the holidays
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Mahoney. She returned to Seattle
this morning.
Harry Duncan left for Portland on
Sunday, to be absent for a couple of
weeks or so, looking after business
and enjoying a little vacation.
FOOD SALE The Willing Workers
of theChristian church will hold their
monthly food sale on Saturday at
Humphreys Drug Store.
Superintendent Lena Snell Shurte
is in Portland this week attending
the meting of the state teachers as
sociation. Clerk J, A. Waters was a passeng
er for Portland on Sunday to spend
the holidays with his wife and son.
Mat Halvorsen, a leading farmer
of iono, was in this city on Friday,
looking after business affairs.
Walt Smith, real estate and insur
ance man of lone, was doing business
in Heppner on Tuesday..
HE MOST POPULAR. MEMBER.
OF THIS FAMOUS FAMILY
" WITH US AGAIN.
East and West to Settle
Football Championship
Toledo, Ohio, and Corvallis, Oregon,
High Schools Will Scrap It Out
On New Years' Day.
East may be east and west be west
as the poet said, but "Never the twain
shall meet" is a mistake. The east
will meet the west in a national high
school football championship game
at Corvallis on New Year's day.
The Toledo, Ohio, school will be
the east in this struggle, and Cor
vallis high the west The Toledo
team has triumphed over the "far
east" America and the mid-west, and
three years ago played a tie game
with the Aberdeen, Wash., school.
Corvallis has won the championship
of th Willamette valley three times
in till last four years, and won all
its games this year with a ttotal of
282 points to 7 by all its opponents
combined. Toledo managers elected
this team because they consider Cor
vallis representative of foo'ball at
its best on the coast, becavi they
could use the agricultural college
field, stadium, armory and gymna
sium, because they wanted to strike
as near the center of population as
possible, and because, their coach,
being an old Whitman grad, they
wanted to keep as close to Walla
Walla as possible.
The college stadium and covered
bleachers, built by the students, will
seat 10,000 persons, and if that is not
enough the open bleachers will care
for half as many more.
The armory, to be used for practice,
is almost large enough to play a reg
ulation football game in.
The gymnasium with its showers
and great swimming pool will serve
the health and pleasure of the east
erners. A $5000 guarantee fund was put up
by the Corvallis business men. Many
thousands of spectators from Port
land and the rest of the state are ex
pected to witness this east-west test.
Family of M. J. Devin
Held Reunion Monday
The home of Mr. and Mrs. M. J.
Devin in this city was the scene of a
family reunion on Christmas day,
when all the children were together
to enjoy the festivities. The interior
of the home was appropriately and
beautifully decorated in evergreens
and flowers suitable to the occasion
and the large table in the dining room
was burdened with an elaborate
spread of the good things that had
been provided for the satisfaction of
the inner man. Around this festive
board were gathered all the members
of the family, together with sons-in-law
and grandchildren, and the event
was made a very happy one indeed.
The total number seated about the
table was twenty-two, and this is the
.first time in 19 years that the family
have all been together.
Besides Mr. and Mrs. Devin, the
following were prsent: Austin Devin,
Heppner; Mr. and Mrs. Claire Wal
ton and daughters Irene and Alene of
Yakima, Wash.; Mr, and Mrs. Mack
C. Smith and children, Austin and
Margaret of Heppner; Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest K. Wyland and children, Ellis
and bins of Hardman; Mr, and Mrs.
Oral M. Scott of Heppner; Mr. and
Mrs. Merle N. Kirk and daughter
Evelyn of Heppner; Mrs. Dessa Cop
enhaver and daughter Otillia of
Heppner.
This reunion is considered quite un
usuul as there has been no deaths in
the entire family, either of children
or grandchildren. As a remembrance
of the occasion, Mr. and Mrs. Devin
were presented with a beautiful man
tle clock and bible, the gift of the
children, which were handed to them
by tha two grandsons with pleasing
nnd appropriate remarks.
Mra. E. N. Crawford was a passen
ger for Portland on Saturday, whre
she expected to spend the Christmas
and then go on to Astoria for a visit
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
L. G. Atherton.
Margaret and Katherine West,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Tom West
of The Dalles, are the guesta this
week at the horns of Mr. and Mrs. B.
R. Putterson of this city.
Mary Roberta Rinehart, Famous
American Author, Writes Charm
ing aad Entertaining Story.
Whether they know it or not, all
authors write about themselves or
their friends. Mary Roberta Ripe
hart, who wrote the story of ths new
Goldwyn photoplay, "The Glorious
Fool," which will come to the Star
theatre Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan.
1 and 2, knew intimately the source
from which her story came. Ia her
youth, Mrs. Rinehart was a hospital
nurse; and no doubt the part of the
pretty probationer, played by Helens
Chadwick, was suggested by some
lovely nurse the auhtoreas had
known.
The story begins with the marriage
of an inexperienced probationer to a
private client who is on the point
of death. The patient is desirous of
cheating his vulturous relatives of
his fabulous fortune; and the poor,
wrack led nurse consents to the mar
riage only when she feels that her
patient will not die content unless
she acquiesces in his wishes. But
the man gets well uncomfortably
well. And what is more, knows that
he is in love with his nurse.
Then hospital politics come into
play. The little nurse is transferred
to a maternity ward, where her iym
pathies again eause her to do some
thing that nurses simply don't do.
And when it appears that she is
about to be dismissed, that she has
been a complete failure, fortune takes
a turn and shows her many things
she never guessed were in its wheels.
The rich patient in the ease is
played delightfully by Richard Dix.
Mrs. Rinehart has expressed her
pleasure at the excellent production
and the consummate direction given
"The Glorious Fool" by E. Mason
Hopper. Under his guidance, the pic
ture is a sweet romance with many
tense moments that dissolve into
happy events.
LEXINGTON CHURCH OF CHRIST.
The services last Sunday were at
tended with a large and appreciative
audience. The evening Christmas
services were well rendered and many
high compliments were paid on it.
Some saying it has been the best ever
given. The offering taken for Near
East Relief amounted to over 147.
Like wise men of old they broght their
gitts to the King.
All are invited back again next Sun
day to Bible school at 10:00 and
preaching services at 11:00 and 7:30.
Two vital messages for your consid
eration.
Christian Endeavor at 6:30
Revival services begin Jan. 21.
E. A. PALMER, Pastor.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to publicly express our
appreciation of the many expressions
of good will and fraternity shown in
the great number of tokens sent to us
at the Christmas tide, by both the
people of lone and Heppner and com
munities. We are placed under ad
ditional obligation to better serve,
because of this expression of real
'ilendship.
THE LIVINGSTONES.
MASONIC LODGES INSTALL
Installation of officers for Heppner
Lodge No. 69, F. & A. M., and Hepp
ner Chapter No. 26, R. A. M., was
held at Masonic hall ou Saturday
evening and following the ceremonies
a luncheon was enjoyed by all of the
members of the order present.
The Blue Lodge officers for the en
suing year ere P. M. Gammell, W.M.;
Spencer Crawford, S. W.; J. J. Wight
man, J. W.; L. W. Briggs, Sec;
Frank Gilliam, Treasurer; Clarenes
Bauman, S. D.; F. E. Farrior, J. D.;
Harve Bauman, S. S.; Robert Wight-
mnn, J. S.; A. L. Ayers, Tyler.
The Chapter: W. B. Barratt, H. P.;
Thos. Brennan, King; John Her,
Scribe; Harry Duncan, C. of H.j
Clarence Bauman, P. S.; P. M. Gem-
mell, Sec; J. A. Patterson, Treasurer;
J. A. Waters, R. A. C; F. E. Farrior,
lt Veil; B. B. Kelly, 2nd Veil; Geo.
I Aikr-r, 3rd Veil; J. J. Wightman,
I Sent i n-1.
OBITUARY
Abigal A. Mead was born in Vermil
lion Co., III., Sept. 16, 1851; died at
the home of her brother, George R. W.
Mead, near Lexington, Oregon, Dec
20, 1922, aged 71 years, 2 months and
4 days.
She was united in marriage to Rob
ert Van Horn, November, 20, 1873, at
Brownington, Mo. To this union were
born seven children, six daughters,
and one son. Those preceeding her
are her husband, Robert Van Horn,
who died Sept 26, 1914, and three
daughters, Mrs. Stella May Morgan
who died May 2, 1915; another dau
ghter who died in infancy Sept.13,
1879, and Abbie Van Horn who died
June 12 1895. Those left to mourn
her loss are her four children, Mrs.
Silas Rosa of Eskridge, Kansas; Mrs.
Elroy Whitlock of Hamilton, Colo.;
Elbert R. Van Horn of Hamilton, Col
orado and Mrs. James G. King of Los
Angeles, California. Also a sister,
Emma McRoberts of Adrian, Mo., and
a brother, George R. W. Mead of Lex
ington, Oregon.
She united with the Third Christ
ian Church of Topcka, Kansas about
29 years ago. The funeral services
were conducted from the Lexington
Christian Church, Tuesday, Dec. 26
at 2:00 P. M., by E. A. Palmer and the
remains laid to rest in the Lexington
cemetery.
STRAYED OR STOLEN One black
stallion colt, 2 yeara old the coming
spring; branded JF on right shoulder,
one white foot; missed from pasture
at Wm. Hendrix place about Aug. 1,
1922. Notify GUY L. BARLOW,
Heppner, phone 23F41.
Deputy Cownty Clerk Anderson is
sued a license to wed today to Leon
ard H. Rill and Miss Ninon Huston,
both of Eight Mile. Miss Huston is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Huston, prominent residents of that
section.
T. J. Matlock was taken to Port
land on Monday, where he will under
go an operation. Mr, Matlock has
been in quite poor health for some
time past He was accompanied by
Mrs. Matlock.
The many friends of C. A. Minor,
In this city, wen remembered this
week by receiving from him cal
endar of original design.
Os the upper right hand corner of
the plaque ia placed photographic
copy of tha picture made a number
of years ago by Mike Galloway, en
titled "Pioneers and Pioneer Stock
men of Morrow County, Or," and un
derneath this a Beat little calendar
tab. The reproduction of the picture
of the pioneers is a valuable prise,
and to add to the worth of the cal
endar are the following lines, writ
ten sometime sines by Mr. Minor:
On yonder wall there hangs a picture,
somewhat faded by the passing of
the yeara.
Called "Morrow County Stockmen,
Morrow County Pioneer and Pion
eers." Oft when the day of toil was over,
I have looked at it and thought and
thought:
Who would be the ona to tell that
story, though I was much ths
younger of the lot.
Those pioneers who left their fath
ers' homes; their native sod; from
man had lived apart;
They biased the way to a land an
trod,' and there with nature lived
heart to heart
In a little cabin built of logs, chinked
in, and with sod and dirt covered
o'er;
A fireplace for a stove, ona sliding
window; and oft they used the
earth for a floor.
There amongst those hills and val
leys where surveyors' stakes wen
never stuck or 4tnown;
When the owl did hoot and tha coy
ote wailed; that's when the pion
eer built his home.
A home it was, tho of ths rudest sort,
built from nature's rough unfinish
ed store;
But no man was a stranger there
the latch string always hung out
aide tha door.
Gone ia the bunch grass that bowed
and bent like fields of grain before
the northern wind;
Gone an the Indian caravans and
their ponies that is, the pinto and
the spotted kind;
Gone an the prairie schooners the
oxen that so slowly trailed them
from east to west;
Gone an the flint locks, the powder
horn, and all those things our fa
thers loved best
Oh, how those pioneers they would
weep; ths life blood quicken in
their veins,
Could they see those bleak and bar
ren hillsides; Oh, those grainiess,
barnn, barren plains.
Weep not for things past and gene,
but bid tha cowboy and things of
his day adieu;
For when the latch string it was sev
ered, the West and ths spirit of the
West went too.
God, remember those pioneen when
they come, those men that won
the blue, the gray;
They numbered three score and ten
then; with but less than twenty
hen today;
And in a few mora years, they who
shaped the way whenby others
reached wealth and fame,
Will be known hen nj more, but be
stilled like their pictures in the
frame.
Those bodies once so supple are stirr
er now their train is backing on
the track.
It will not be long till they will all be
gone, and they an not a-coming
back.
And at night when the woods grow
dim and the owl does hoot and the
coyote wails.
Thinkl Did the golden moments ever
come to those that eleand the way
and made the trails?
C. A. Minor.
FEDERATED CRURCH
Sunday School 9:46 A. M.
Sermon 11 A. M., 7:30 P. M.
Christian Endeavor 6:30 P. M.
Last Sunday our hearts were all
made glad in seeing eleven come for
ward to unite with the church. Two
more came accepting Christ as their
Savior at the evening service. We
are looking for more to unite with
us next Sunday who were not able to
be with us last Sunday.
The church was seated to its capa
city last Sunday evening and the pro
gram was well rendered.
Our christian young people proved
they possessed Christ on Christmas
Day going out into homes of shut-ins
and holding short services that brot
joy to the hearts of many.
Next Sunday following the morn
ing message we will rmember our
Lord who died for us by holding the
Communion Service.
New Years Day, three o'clock in the
afternoon we will hold an annual
meeting. Reports will be made by all
tha various church organisations.
Other business of importance will be
conducted at this time. There will be
a basket lunch about 6:30 and at 7
o'clock there will be a musical pro
gram. All members of the church
and others who are interested we urge
to be present
Don't forget the evangelistic service
next Sunday night 7:30. Let us come
praying for and expecting to see many
accept Christ as their Saviour.
J. R. L. HASLAM, Pastor.
PADBERG ALLSTOTT
The announcement of the marriage
of Misa Gladys Irene Allstott, daught
er of Del. Allstott of Clarks canyon
to Mr. William Henry Irvin Padberg,
which occured in Heppner or Wed
nesday morning, December 27th, 1922,
waa received by the many friends of
the contracting parties this week.
The bridegroom is the son nf Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. II. Padberg, siso of
Clarka Canyon, and is a rising young
farmer of this section, and Mrs. Pad
berg is the oldest daughter of Mr. Del
R. Allstott The wedding took place
at Hotel Heppner in this city early
Wednesday morning, Judge Alex Cor
nett performing the ceremony, Im
mediately following which the young
people departed by automobile for
Portland to spend their honeymoon.
John H, Padberg and wife, of Hep
pner Flat were callers in this city on
Saturday, doing holiday shopping.
New Year' Statement aad Reeasse
of Agriealtaral CaadiUoas and
Prospecta From Secretary of Agri
saltan Wallace.
Twelve months ago most of tha
six million farmers of tha United
States wen starting on the long hard
climb out of the vallev of economic
depression. They have not yet at
tained the heights which an bathed
In the grateful sunshine of prosper
ity. Some, indeed, have fallen by tha
way. Others an still in the valley.
Nevertheless, as we stop a bit and
look backward we can sea that very
considerable ground haa been gained
by the great majority, and wa can
enter the New Year with nnewed
hope and with that courage which
eomes from the realisation that wa
an really making progress.
A year ago, when speaking of tha
prospects for farming in 1922, I said
that while then was no reason to ex
pect boom times for tha farmer in the
near futon, then was promise of
better times, both for the farmer and
for those whose business is largely
dependent upon him. Ths year has
brought fulfilment of that promise.
Speaking generally, times an better,
much better, than a year ago, both
for agriculture and for industry.
Crops have been good, on tha
whole. Prices of the vjor crops an
mostly considerably higher. While
then has been a corresponding ad
vance in tha prices of things the far
mer must buy, the total sum which
farmers will receive for the crops of
this year is grester by a billion and
a half dollars or more than that which
they received for the crops of last
year. This will certainly mean bet
ter times on the farm, and farm folks
will be able to ease np a little on tha
grinding economy they wen forced
to practice the preceding year.
The labor cost of producing the
erops of 1922 was still further re
duced. Then were soauj substantial
reductions in freight rates. Much
helpful legislation has been enacted
and mora will be this winter. In
terest rates an lower and the endit
strain has been eased. This has mads
it possible for many farmers who
wen rather heavily involved to re
fund their obligations and get them
selves in condition to win through.
Then an still some dark spots.
In some sections weather conditions
wen unfavorable, erops wen short,
and farmers in these sections an
having a very hard time of it Fnight
rates an still too high, especially
for those who muat pay for a long
haul to market
Taxes an high, but this is largely
due to the increase in local taxes,
over which the farmers themselves
must exercise control.
There has been gratifying growth
in farmers' cooperative marketing
associations, and more of them an
being organized on a sound business
basis.
Aside from thz help which has been
given ly legislation and by adminis
tration Lftifities, strong economic
forces an at work to restore a mora
normal relation between agriculture
and other industries.
The peril in the agricultural de
pression is more keenly realized by
other groups than ever before, and
on every hand a sincen desin is be
ing evidenced to do what can be done
safely to help the farmer better his
condition.
Everything considered, we have
good reason to expect still better
things for agriculture in the year
1923.
LITTLE DAUGHTER DIES
AT HARDMAN HOME.
June Elvina, the little daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Steers of
Hardman, passed away at her home at
that place on the 19th of December,
after an illness of long duration.
She was aged 2 years, 10 months and
1 day. Her funeral was held on Thur
day last, the 21st and burial was in
the Hardman cemetery. Mrs. John
Hadley, neighbor and friend of the
family conducting the services, aud
the remains being followed to their
last resting place by a large number
of sympathizing friend.
Hm People
Of Creat Pictura
rfTchernoff
A seer of mystic visions which would
have seemed mad, had the; not bewa
So trnet a seer, too, iota tha utur
moat 1athe of ' hearts, Yoa will
haow him from
Hetro't
THE FOUR
HORSEMEN
Of the Apocalypse
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From the novel by Biases Ibaoaa
Adapted by June Malhls
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