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The Gazette-Times PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 1923. Subscription $2.01) lVr Year Volume 40, Number 23. CONVENTION SYSTEM IN 111 ELECTION NEXT S fublic Will Watch to See if Presidential Prefer ence as Expressed in Twenty State Primaries Is Followed Written 8pc!illr tot Th. CaiMM-Tlnus Br ROBERT FULLER Thru AutocMter Servie Twentv states will hold the next national election. For the rest the delegates will be chosen in convention. This will give the public a fair opportunity to learn how far political conven tions follow the expressed will of the people. For years there has been a growing feeling among the people that the voters of America have little or nothing to do with the actual choice of their president. Whatever may be true of thii con tention will be disclosed definitely when the result! of the primaries and of the elite convention! are placed in Juxtaposition. With twenty itatei holding primariei and twenty nine convention!, the story should be told with unerring accuracy. Illinois hai both primary and con vention. The district delegate! in this itate, elected in the primary and the delegate! at large in convention. The states in which preferential primariei are to be held are ai fol low!: California Tueiday, May 13. Georgia Date fied by State Ex ecutive committee. Florida Tuesday, June 3. Illinois Tuesday, April 8. Indiana Tuesday, May t. Maryland Monday, May 5. Massachusetts Tuesday, April 29. Michigan Monday, May 5. Montana Tuesday, May 27. Nebraska Tuesday, April IS. New Jersey Tuesday, April 22. North Carolina Saturday, June 7. North Dakota Tuesday, March 18. Ohio Tuesday, April 29. Oregon, Friday, May 16. Pennsylvania Tuesday May 20. . South Dakota Tuesday, March 18. Vermont Tuesday, May 20. West Virginia Tuesday, May 27. Wisconsin Tuesday, April 1, The opening gun in the presidential contest will be staged in South Da kota, which holds its presidential primary on March 18 next. In the following states the delegates are elected by state conventions, the dates of which have not yet been fixed: Colorado. Connecticut Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois (delegatea-at-large only); Indiana, Iowa. Kanaaa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nev ada, New Mexico, New York (dele-gates-at-large only); North Carolina (delegates-at-large only); Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennes see. Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming. In Ariiona, Washington, Arkansas and usually in Louisiana delegates to the Democratic National Conven tion are named by the Democratic State Committee. The state-wide primariei next year will be held ai follows: Alabama-May 13. (No presidential primary.) California-May 13. Florida (Presidential primary op tional.) June 8. Illinois (District delegate! only.) June 8. Massachusetts April 29. Montana May 27. Nebraska April 15. New Hampshire March 11. New Jersey April 22. New York (District delegates only. No presidential primary.) April 1 North Dakota (District delegates only. No presidential primary.) March 18. Ohio April 29. Oregon May 18. Pennsylvania May 20. ' 8outh Dakota (Meeting to propose delegates, Dec. 4, 1923.) March 18. West Virginia May 27. Wisconsin (District delegate! el acted by districts.) April 1. PEACH BLIGHT THREATENS. Peach blight is likely to play havoc In Oregon peach orchard! this fall and winter where growers do not sorav their trees immediately after picking with Bordeaux mixture 8-4-60 ai a preventive of twig and bud In fections, sure to begin with the first fall rains, reports the plant patholo gist at the Oregon experiment ita tlon. Blight Is responsible for more damage to Oregon peach orchards than any other disease, and because of conditions prevailing this season a more serious attack may be expec ted this fall than usual. Direction! for the proper preparation of Bor deaux mlxure can be had on request from the agricultural college. FEDERATED CHURCH. J. R. L. HASLAM, Pastor. Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Sermon, 11 a, m. and 7:46 p. m. . Christian F.ndeavor, 7 p. m. There will be preaching service! at the church both Thursday and Frl day nights at 7:46, Rev. Johnson wonderful student of the Bible will bring us heart stirring messages on the prophecies. Ai we have some new families wor. hipping with us, we will have an all day service next Sunday. This will be a get-acqualntcd day and we will have a basket dinner in the basement of the church at noon. Come and bring the family, spending the day to gether In God's house. Special music at the services Sun day. Strangers are always welcome In our midst. C. E. Musgrnve and son, E. R. Mus grave of lone, were visitors here on Monday. Mr. Musgrnve reports that he has a flne crop of fruit on his place a few miles south of Jordon Siding on Rhea creek. WILL BE 0!l TRIAL preferential primaries in Oregon Creamery Heads Plan New Cream Grades At Call of State Dairy and Food Com- mlsaloner Factory Men Confer ob Better Butter At the call of C. L. Hawley, state dairy and food commissioner, a num ber of Oregon creamery men recent ly met in Portland and adopted a def inite grade for eream and have now gone out to get the cooperation of ev ery creamery in the state. Oregon creameries are making more butter than is used in the state, dis posing of the surplus In out of state markeU. The beat of these are San Francifco and Los Angeles, which de mand a high grade product, A dis count of ( cents a pound Is charged aeulnst butter falling from 93 point to 89 point. A single can oi oso cream Is enough to reduce a whole churning these four points and pull the price down from 46 cents a pound to 39. This loss on a ton lot is 1120 cash. Worse yet, the drop In quality meana disaster to the Oregon export butter market. "Oregon creameries are now up against the proposition of putting quality into their butter or going out of business," says V. D. Chapel, sec retary of the Oregon Buttermakers' association and head of dairy pro duction at the state college. The managers will be informed of the methods of grading adopted at the Portland meeting in time to put them into effect by October 1. They are urged to start now by churning their good cresm separately. Also to send lists of their patrons to the federal dairy division at Washington for dairy bulletins, and tell the col lege dairy department their needs. The western dairy division at Salt Lake will go so far as to send an ex nert to work with the dairymen for two weeks on producing and handling their quality cream. The Dalles Band, 18 Pieces, for Rodeo That there will be an abundance of good music during the three days of Ueooner's Kodeo, is now assured, ine committee has secured the 18-piece band of The Dalles, and they will also have a big orchestra that will furnish music for all of the dance programs. This band has been in ex istence for some time, is well equip ped with a fine bunch of players, and the visitors to the coming Kodeo will be assured of splendid musical en tertainment, and plenty of It. There seems to be little left now to be done In the completion of the arrangements for the Rodeo, the man agement havnig been busy all tne while In retting the program in shape and the grounds will be far better than last year, with the new track and rearrangement of the accommo- datiom on Gentry field. And the best of all, there li every promise that the crowds attending the Rodeo this fall will be much larger than last year, THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. Sunday. Sept. 16, 1923. Jesus Christ was not a dreaming visionary, impractically idealistic; His message Is the most practical thing in all the world; scientifically as well ai morally perfect. His is the message you hear at the Church of Christ, and you are cordially wei come. Bible school at 9:46 and Com munion and preaching at 11 o'clock a. m. An efficient, graded Bible school with a corps of competent teachers for all classes. All the classes In separate rooms. Christian Endeavor at 7 o'clock, with Margaret Prophet as leader; all the young people are Invited to be with the Endeavorers at that hour in the C, E. parlor. First of seven eer mom on the great fundamentals of religious belief to be given at 8 o clock Sunday evening. You are In vited to be present, not only to hear this, but the whole series, we snail be glad to see you. Offering for Jap aneae relief will be received Sunday everyone should aid in this; come propared. LIVINGSTONE, Minister, BABY GIRL IS BURIED. Ethel May, aged two years, daugh ter of Mrs. Myrtle Smith, died at her home in this city at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, a victim of cholera infan tum. The little girl was burled on Monday afternoon. Two other small children were also affected and the youngest, .an Infant In arms was very sick the first of the week and its re covery was thought doubtful. At this time the children are better and on the road to recovery. To all those who so kindly assisted Mrs. Smith In her affliction, she Is very grateful, and this feeling Is also shared by her brother, Albert Wilkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Vaughn loft for Portland Monday vJlth John Vaughn, who had been spending sev eral days In thii city looking after business affairs. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jonei arrived from their home at Newberg on Tu eiday evening and are apending sev eral daye In Heppner and vicinity, visiting with friends. Mr. Jonei still has Interests In this county and spent a day or so at the old home at Eight Mile Center. He states that the peo ple of Yamhill county are quite pros perous this season. There was an ex ceptionally fine crop of grain, and the yieldi of fruits of all kinds exceeds that of any previous year. Logan berries were so unprofitable that hun dreds of tons were allowed to go un picked, while there is a prospect that the big prune crop of that sec tion will suffer a like fate to a large extent, owing to the condition of the market at the present time. Mr. and Mrs. Jones expect to return home in a few daye. Jack and David Hynd, the former of Butterby Plata ranch, Cecil, and the latter of Rose Lawn ranch, Sand Hollow, were in the elty Monday looking after busineai for the Arm of Hynd Broi. Speaking of grass hoppers, these boys remember well when that pest did some real dam age in Morrow county about 25 years ago. They literally took everything on Sand Hollow ranch that season, and the boys becoming io disgusted pulled up and went to the Willamette valley on a visit. When they return ed, however, the hoppers had pulled up and left, there being nothing for them in that vicinity to live on. Their work was complete that season, and while we have a good many hoppers this year, they are nothing compared with the plague of that year. Pearl P. Hassler of Salem, has ne gotiated with Mr. Ackerman for the lone Independent, and expects to take the plant over in a week or so, on an option to purchase after one year. Mr. Ackerman, who has been running the paper for several years past, will go to his old home in Missouri, where he has a daughter living. Mr. Hass ler was in the city on Monday, visit ing with his old-time friend, W. L. McCalob. He formerly published a paper at Turner, Oregon, and Is a newspaper man of much experience. We acknowledge a pleasant call from hiui, and bespeak for him success in his new venture. Misses Leta and Evelyn Humph reys and Miss Ruth Tash, with Ro land Humphreys as chauffeur depart tomorrow for Portland. Miss Tash will stop off at Hood River for a short visit at hte home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bortxer. the Misses Humph reys will visit with relative! in the valley and a little later all of the young ladiea will go' on to Eugene to register for their work at the University of Oregon. Roland expects to return to Heppner with the car, and later will also go on to Eugene to resume his studies at the univer sity. Cnuntv A..nt Morse is over in the i Irrigon and Boardman sections this week, where he is attending meetings j of the bee keepers under the direc tion of H. A. Scullen, specialist in bee culture at O. A. C. Meetings were held at both Irrigon and Boardman and the care of bees for the winter moi.ths was the main topic of discus- ion. Professor Scullen was also at Herniiston a day earlier, where he ad dressed the bee keepers on this sub ject, and plans for a state meeting of bee keepers was taken up. It was reported that Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Latourcll, who departed the city on Sunday, were off on a visit to Souhtern California, for a visit with the parents of both Mr. and Mrs. Latourell. However, Mr. Latour- ell only accompanied his wife as far as Portland, and from htere she will e-o on to San Diego for a visit. Mr. Latourell returned to Heppner on Wednesday. Dr. N. E. Winnard and son Norton were in Heppner a few days the first of the week, spending a part of their vkcation season among old-time friends and leaving here for their home at Eugene on Tuesday. Norton returned to Lugene from Harvard uni versity at the end of the school year, While he likes Harvard fine he pre fers to live in Oregon. Miss Anna Doherty, of the county agent's office, has returned from her two weeks of vacation which she npent In the Sound country. The of fica of the county agent will now be open as usual each day under the charge of Miss Doherty and bus iness can be transacted in the ab sence of Agent Morse. Uncle Jerry Brosnan, who has been quite ill at his home in this city for some time past, was sufficiently re covered to b etaken to Pendleton on Friday, where he la now in a hospital for treatment. He has been very fi'ebie for a year or more, but it is hoped that his care at the hospital will prove beneficial to his health. Judge W. T. Campbell and wife will enjoy a visit at the old home In On tario, Canada, departing for the east on Thursday last. They will make the trip by auto via Spokane, where Mr. Campbell has a brother resid ing, and expect to be absent for sev eral weeks. Cecil Lleuallen, of the state high way patrol, is visiting with his par ents and friends in this city this week enjoynig a portion of his two weeks of vacation among the home folks. He is now patroling a section of the Pacific highway, with headquarters at McMinnville. Grant Wilkerson and family arrived this week from Noties, Idaho, and will become residents of this city. Mr. WI,kerson has accepted a place in the store of Case Furniture Co., suc ceeding Johnnie lliatt who recently took over the management of Peoples Hardware Co. Miss Blanche Faliy, who was engag ed as primary toucher In the Hepp ner schools for the coming year, tend ered her resignation to the school board and Mrs. Edna Turner baa been elected to the place. The primary en rollment Is light this year, there be ing but 26 enrolled on Monday In the first grade. you ALL THEjE t i . ( FEB. "YOUKL J sfg ii ' ECrlOR V FtftrrBAU-j I J X V it can't pe r " 5; JOt. IT WALNUTi Students Should Be in Eugene Sept. 25 Registration Dates Set for Thursday and Friday, Sept. 27 and 28; Classea Start Oct. 1. University of Oregon, Eugene, Sept. 13. (Special.) High school gradu ates who plan to enter the University of Oregon this fall are requested by University officials to be in Eugene September 25. The regular freshman English examination will be held on that date. Registration dates for both new and old students will be Thursday and Friday, September 27 and 28. Classes begin on the following Monday, Oc tober 1. The registration procedure is as follows: The student will call at the registrar's office in the Adminis tration building to obtain his regis tration blanks. He next takes his blanks to his adviser, the adviser be ing a member of the faculty of the department or school in which the student has elected to undertake his major work. In consu'.taion with the adviser the student's course is ar- ranged. An innovation in this years regis tration plan, which will simplify pro ceduie, is that the student will reci ter on September 27 and 2 for the entire year's work. This will elimin ate registrations at the beginning of the winter and spring terms. AT BETHEL CHAPEL. Bethel Sunday school announces the organization of a class next Sun day for high school students desir ing to take the state course of Hible study, for which credit is given. Mrs. Edward Clark will be in charge of the class. Several of our members have enjoyed this same course thru the summer months and have found it in tensely interesting. The adult Bible class has just com pleted a -study of The Revelation and will follow it with the study of the prophet Daniel. We invite any in terested to begin, with us, the study next Sunday. The primary department is well organized with its classes for every age in that department, which has grown steadily but there is still room for more. There will be special music at the Sunday school and church services. You are welcome. STARTS SERMON SERIES. W. 0. Livingstone, of the Christian church, begins a series of sermons on Sunday evening next, on the great fundamentals of religious beliefs. He especially invites the attention of those who have doubts concerning these things. The series will con tinue during the remainder of Sep tember and the month of October The themes are as follows: Sept. 18, "la There a God?"; Sept. 2.1. "Has God Revealed Himself to Men?"; Sept. 30, "Was Jesus Only a Super Man?"; Oct. 7, "Is God in the Midst of Men?"; Oct. 14, "God's Han to Save the Race"; Oct. 21, "My Tart in Salvation's Plan"; Oct. 28, "Oil for Troubled Waters." HAS MONSTER SQUASH VINE. Henry Gay, who is in the cits today from his home down on the Umatilla river, reports that he is cultivating a monster squash vine in his garden. The vine grew from one seed, and is now more than 90 feet long. It contains 26 well developed squashes. He figures that it would take just six of such vines to cover his entire garden spot. Mr. Guy is also feasting these dnys on straw berries and crenm, stating thnt hi ever-bearing vines are producing quantities of fine berries right alone and will continue to do so until frot comes. Walter Gay, who has been III at the home of his sister. Mrs. French, in this city, Is now better. Mr. Gay Says. Farm Bureau Executive Committee Will Mxt A meeting of the executive commit tee of the Morrow County Farm Bu reau will be held at the office of County Agent Morse in thin city op Saturday aftprnoon nt 2 n'e'ock w! en business of Importance to 0 I bureau will come up. countv FALL CARTOONETTES Commercial Club Meet-1 ing Will Be Friday Night Because of other matters interfer ing, the meeting of the Commercial club called for last evening was post poned until tomorrow, Friday, eve ning. At 6:30, the members of the club are requested to be at the Elk bom restaurant, where a luncheon will be served. This part of the pro gram is expected to be over in good time when business before the club can be taken up promptly at 8 o' clock. President Van Marter urges a full attendance of the club members on this occasion, as there are several matters of importance to come up for di-cussoin and requiring action lt's all be there and help to boost the propositions to be presented. T?PCfrtion Oiven Tpacbers By the Christian Church A very p'easant social gathering was he'd at the parlors of the Chris tian church on Tuesday evening in honor of the teachers of Heppner Fchoola. Quite a number of new teachers are on the force this season, and these with the older teachers were present to enjoy the fine lunch eon prepared by the ladies of the church, and to enrage with the pu pils of the high school and members and friends of the church in the gen eral good social time. The event was strictly of an in formal nature, there being no set pro gram, but regardless of this a splen did good time was had and we are quite sure the teachers were made to feel that they were heartily welcome to the city. Under A Lucky Star (Pendleton East Oregonian.) The Umatilla rapids project was evidently bom under a lucky star. when the subject was first taken up at a little meeting at Umatilla two years ago and later at a larger meeting held in Pendleton, few hoped for the rapid progress that has been made. The more the project has been studied the better it seems. The scheme is an attractive one and it is so practical that those who learn the facts at once become enthusiastic over the possibilities. At first the be lief was held it might take many years to secure recognition for the protect. But we secured quick action, rot only from the Oregon legislature but from eongreas. When the con gressional appropriation for the sur vey was made local people bad the impression we had gotten through congress in the back seat of the Col umbia basin project's car. But dis interested members of congress who were in on the facts say such was not the case. We were in the front seat, they declare, and had It not been for our move the uoiumDia Dasin Din would not have carried. With the federal survey actually under way w-e have felt concedn as to what the investigation might dis close. We do not yet know as to the chnracter of the damsite for the drill ing work is just starting. But we have already learned that the power possibilities are greater than was indicated by the Lewis sur vey made at the instance of the pro ject association. Instead of a 30 foot dam a bO foot dam is possible. It is believed from the preliminary stud ies that have been made that the pro ject can generate 175.000 contfnuou horsepower or thereabouts instead of only 125,000 horse power. The maxi mum development during the Irriga tion season may reach 800,000 horse power. In other words, the official survey providing the damsite is found favor able, will show the project better than we supposed. Instead of overestimat ing the possibilities we were under estimating thorn. We have it on the authority of Senator McNnry that the project is more feasible than the Muscle Shoals project on which the government has expended many mil lions. Certainly it looks like the gods are with us In our plans. If fortune smiles upon our work in the future as in the past it will not he mnny years until the project is hul't nnd a new d;y will be at hand for this whole region. 'BOUT TWS TIME o'-(tAS.Q GRIFFIN CHILD IS KICKED BY MULE Many lone Young People Leave for College; Other Items of Egg City Happenings The small son of Mr. and Mrs. Frances Griffin was struck in the face by a mule, at their home in the Fair view country last Monday. Mrs. Grif fin being alone at the time and could not get in touch wiht anyone by phone so carried the child nearly two mileB to Mr. Lieuallen's. He was then brought to lone where Drs, Walker and McMurdo attended him. It was found to be only a bad flesh wound requiring several stitches. The mother was almost overcome with grief and exhaustion when she reached lone and was in a very ner vous condition. E. R. Lundell and Mayne Moore re turned from a three days hunting trip in the Blue mountains. They succeeded in bringing home one nice ycung deer, which indeed was deli cious. Professor Tucker and family have returned from their vacation to re sume his duties in the lone school. They are at present occupying the Low home, awaiting the completion of their apartment in the Harris building, which will be several weeks. F. A. Young, prosperous farmer of the Gooseberry country, has moved his family into town in order to have the benefit of the school. They have rented Mrs. Cynthia Walker's house. Henry Clark s family have return ed for the winter, having spent two months helping the Reitmann brothers care for their crop. James Howard, accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Edna Hossner and little June, are spending a week visiting friends in Idaho. H. J. Biddle and Charley Dean mo tored to Portland Monday to get a new special Jewett car for Charley. They were accompanied by Walt Smith. Mr. G. G. Stone of Portland was a business caller in lone over Sunday. He is trying to get the prominent business men interested in the flour mill proposition here. Mr. Dick Howard was in lone on business Monday. Mr. Hassler has purchased the lone Independent and will take possession a short time. Mr. Ackerman has beer in the business for several years nnd feels the need of a rest. We have not learned when he intends to go. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Howard, accom panied by their daughter, Mrs. John Hossner. their son James and grand children Donald and June Hossner. left by auto for Portland Wednesday. James will go on to McMinnville to enter college and Mr. and Mrs. How ard will visit relatives and friends and enioy a few weeks in the valley. Several of the young people will leave lone this week to enter differ ent schools in the valley. Miss Ar- lene Balsiger, Miss Lillian Allinger, Wendell Balsiger will go to Salem, Miss Edene Moore and Keithley Blake to Corvallils, nnd James Howard to McMinnville. It is understood Mr, and Mrs. Earl Blake will go to Cor- vallis the first of the year to enter college. The harvest dance given last Satur day evening was well. attended and all report having had a fine time. Quite a number came from Heppner as well as from the surrounding coun try. Overalls and gingham dresses weie the required costumes to be worn. HAS LARGEST ENROLLMENT. At the opening of high school in this city on Monduy4 UU pupils en rolled. This is the largest first day enrollment in the history of the schcol, and there is promise that this will be consdiernbly incrensod as tht patrons got back to town. We n!so understand thnt there are quitr a few who will take advantage of the Heppner high school from various country districts, and it would seem now thnt the bui'ding will be taxed to capacity. In the grades, however, the attendance is not so Itupo as in former years, and whether this wi'l be increased to any considerable ex tent remains to be seen. All teachers were on hand for the opening of school Monday, with the exception of Miss Janet Frnster. who is not yet fu'ly recovered from the injuiu" she received six week ago in an automo bile accident at Eugene. IS YOUR WATER SUPPLY SAFE? State Board of Health Gives Meth ods of Purification as Safe guard for Tourists FREDERICK D. STRICKER, M. D.t Collaborating Epidemiologist. At this season of the year when tourists, campers, hunters and fisher men are roaming at large in every nock and corner of the State the probabilities of an otherwise reason ably aafe water ahed becoming pol luted are greatly increased. It is therefore advisable that extra pre cautions be taken to safeguard against a possible interruption of the purity of your water. There are three general methods of water purification: first, sedimenta tion or storage; second, filtration; and third, chemical. The method of stroage Is not safe unless it be used in combination with either chemical purification or filtra tion. It is used in exceptional in stances where an ample lake or re servoir removed from the access of human beings is available, and where the water is practically free from solid matter. Harmful bacteria do not multiply naturally in clean wa ter, and by keeping it stored for a period of months before it is used certain amount of purification takes place. The second method, that of filtra tion is a fairly satisfactory method, and if properly carried out at all times produces a safe water supply. ThiE is purely a mechanical process and consists of passing the water through a series of layers of sand of varying sizes from small granules to large pebbles, the entire series being about six feet thick. This process on ly removes the dirt and solids. This method requires the construction of special mechanical apparatus, and is expensive for the small community. The third or chemical purification consists of the addition to the water of some chemical that destroys the germ life, or practically all of it, but I is not harmful to the consumers of the water. It fs generally acknow- j ledged by scientific men that the most satisfactory method of chemical pur-1 iftcation is by the process of chlorin-1 ation. That is by adding to the wa-1 ter minute quantities of chlorine or its compounds. This process has be come so general that it is now in use in practically every city in the country, with one or two rare excep tions. In the larger cities it is used in combination with the method of storage or filtration. It has the ad vantage of being inexpensive to in stall and inexpensive to operate. It is a practical method for the small communities. No community should depend en tirely upon natural or mechanical processes of obtaining pure water. At some time or other there will occur accidents to interrupt the continued purity. At such a moment there should be available for instantaneous operation the adjunct of chemical purification. New Poo Studio Will Be Open Soon The new photograph studio of B. G. Sigsbee will soon be open for busi ness in the building now being ar ranged for that purpose on Main street. Mr. Sigsbee is installing a com plete gallery and will have one of the best equipped studios to be found anywhere when the place is opened for business. He hopes to be in read iness by Rodeo time, when all old pa trons and many new ones as well can be taken care of. The Sigsbee studio will fill a need that has been keenly felt at Heppner ever since the fire of May, 1118, burned up his former gal lery and equipment, and during which time the city has been without a pho tographer, except such as have visited here intermittently. APPLE ANTRACNOSE CONTROLED. " Apple tree anthracnose has been brought under control in a large num - Der oi orcnaras in western vregan and the Hood River section by spray ing in July or August with Bordeaux mixture, says the plant pathologist at the O. A. C. experiment station. Un protected orchards in these districts are likely to experience very serious infections this fall as soon as rainy weather begins, if Bordeaux mixture is not applied at once. For the owner of an anthracnose infested orchard to delay his spray until after the fruit is picked has proved to be a mistake. This is too late to avoid the early fall infections from which the most ser ious damage results. Arthur Brisbane Writes For The Gazette-Times :--.9e3:;.:-5 Si Arthur Hn-bune is the most wi.le'y read and highest frnid newspape' writer in the worM. t'lider the bend ing "This Wetk" this p.tper prevnt his column in this Ksue. Head it. Mr. Brisbane now receives J;MO,000 a year for his news column. This newspaper i in posiiiun to furnish this evee'Vnt t'eiiture to its readers thru its membership in the Pub idl ers Autoca. ter Service of New York. 9 j This Week Move 9a pr erne Court Closer. Two Great Anniversaries. Great Man Coming. Forests From the Air. By ARTHUR BRISBANE " Learned gentlemen of tre Bar As sociation want the Unietd States Su preme Court removed from Washing ton "far from the influences of Con gress which means the influence of the people that elect Congress and appoint Supreme Court judges through their paid servant, the Pres ident. Some citizens think the Supreme Court fs quite far enough away from the influence of the people already, that ft would not do any barm to bring it back a little closer. Two great anniversaries approach: Fifty years ago this week, the type writing machine began its career, saving time, increasing efficiency and, most important of all, introducing into business the good influence of hundreds of thousands of women. Fifty years ago Americans began the manufacture of Portland cement, which is, to building, what the type writer is to business. For the first ten years this country made only 36, 000 sacks of cement annually. Last year the country used 470.000,000 sacks, and Amercian plants now pos sess a capacity of 600,000,000 sacks. Lloyd George will be here in a few weeks. You will see and hear a real man, when he comes. Without him to manage England and her Allies in the big war, putting England's armies under Foch, supplying the Allies with money and ammunition, William of Kohen&oilcm would probably be still Kaiser, and on a bigger scale, with a newly captuied throne" for each of his sons. See and bear Lloyd George, if yoa can. He is the greatest democrat that Europe has produced since Cromwell, and history will say so, whatever Tor ies may say now. Germans are building flying ma chines for a 28-hour service between Hamburg and New York. Real flying is beginning. Dr. Curtis, professor of botany, at Columbia, says the destruction of our forests may come in ten years. Thanks to the flying machine that de struction need not happen. Our 832, 000,000 acres of virgin forest have been reduced to 140.000,000 acres. But what men have cut down in centuries fliers could replant, scattering seeds from airplanes in four or five years easily. Millions of acres of moun tain land, cut off and burnt over could Ibe replanted from the air and the Agricultural Department should be supplied with the men money, seeds and machines to do it. A distinguished senator suggests buying one of the palaces in Berlin for the United States ambassador. Palaces in capitals for our democrat ic ambassadors, to be paid for by the people, are suggested serious' y. There are several second hand crowns drifting around Europe at bargain prices. Why not get one of those for each American ambassador? If you must make an ass of yourself, do it thoroughly. Louis Chalif tells the American Dancing Teachers Society that body and brain are improved by dancing. Nature knew it long ago. . The ani mals danced, lizards, dinosaurs, jun gle fowl, goats and monkeys, long before man came. What Nature or ders is wise. One man in California cuts the price of gasoline to six cents a gal lon. That is war, of course. But there isn't much comfort for the con sumer in a few days of war and low prices. When the big oil men kill off the little fellows they will take out of the consumers' pocket all that I the price war costs and a little more. . . 1 patron-TcachCFS AsSOCifl- tion to Entertani Friday The Patron-Teachers association will entertain the teachers and pa trons of the school at the parlors of the Christian church on Friday eve ning, at which time an enjoyable program will be given and refresh ments will be served. It is the desire of the officers of the Patron -Teachers association that there be a general attendance of the patrons of the school, that the teach ers who are entering upon their year's work in the schools of the city be given a hewrty welcome and made to feel at home. Besides a very pleas ant socail evening is promised. NEW TELEGRAPH K1HTOR HERE. Edwin P. Hoyt has arrived in Pen dleton to become telegraph editor of the East Oregonian. He wi:i enter upon his duties Monday at which time the East Oregonian will hegin receiv ing the leaded wir' service of the Associated Press. New will then be received by a special wire in the news office handled by a regular Associated Press operator. The new semre wiH greatly strengthen the telegraph nw report. Mr. Hoyt graduated from the University of Oregon in June and since thnt time has been emp'Ved on the copy dek of the Portland (r gonian. He arrived here la t evening, accompanied by Mrs. Hoyt and their infant son. Mrs. Hoyt lurmerly liv ed in Heppner and i. aUo a Univer sity graduate. - Pend.cton t'.nt t-'ie-gonian. Mr. Hoyt is the non-in-law of Mr. uid Mrs. Jack leVro of Ihi city. Mrs, DeVore writes this pupvr that her other daughter, Mis Loyit, who U a graduate of l of ()., U n.w H'.u-hing at V 'ironce, Oregon. M DeVore is spending a month ur ,o in Portland, and expect later to return to Heppner. Dill aid Ft el the city on M recent 'y made the Portland els, of (lurd trie, wii.i in mdrtV. Mr. Kieneh hm nhinnti'hU of cuttlu to murki't, which la i i holding on pit turagi awaiting a butler m down thr nnd irkvt.