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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1924.
PER CENT OF
Grain, Fruit and Produce
Show Effect of Dry
and Hot Seaon.
Tfc grh.r, croj of Orc-pon indicate
kbout ' th yifyd of the buir.pr
rrop of itt -Hr. the Mate over.
There has been a per era! scarcity of
rain. The yield ur spotted. owirip
to J oral rair.R. Fall prams look fair
ly well, fnnsiderinp the limited mois
ture, but FprlTi crops are in poor
condition. Crops In the dry sec
tion run from 40 to 50 per rent
In the trrr!ed sections products have
been alrw in growth in p to the
cool nifhta.
In the Willcmette valley peneral
production is spotted. The early po
tato cri.p does not promise a pood
yip Id and the late acreage de pends
almost entirely on what the rainfall
n.ay be. Tve grain crop wiil be about
60 per cent of last year. The south
ern part cf the vailey ha had far
mort- rainfall than the northern part.
The peneral prdouction in the Hood
River section is fair. The early frost
damaped the pears to a considerable
extent, and the apple growers state
that frost rinps way result in quite a
little dampe to the apples. Cherries
are about half a crop. In peneral
there will be about the same yield
at last year.
The cherry crop of the Willamette
valley is larpe, but the price is poor.
Four cent has been the highest price
paid, and many have been sold for
less. With one cent per pound p-iii
for picking and with the added ex
pense cf boxing and delivery charges,
the growers have not received very
profitable returns. Fruit companies
have been buying very carefully and
in small lots, and many canneries
have refused the Bings and Lamberts
at ar.y price, buying only the Royal
Ann stock. Kentish cherries are about
the same price as the sweet varieties.
Notwithstanding the extremely dry
season, stock in the range country is
generally looking good, but the pas
tures are getting very short. Stock
men are ratner discouraged over the
results of the past year and the fu
ture prospects.
Farmers generally are buying only
absolute necessities. The bumper
crops of last year resulted in so small
net profits that they have little pur
chase money. The farmer wage scale
is very low in comparison with the
trade scales from $2 to $3 per day
and trtta also applies to the grain
ranches. Realizing that they will be
unable to get all the help needed at
these prices, many of the farmers are
arranging harvest schedules wherein
they wiil exchange labor with each
other and reduce hired labor to the
minimum. Many of them state that
what they wiil not be able to harvest
under such arrangements they will
let go, as they have not the money
to pay the prices asked by competent
laborers.
It is announced that the newly-organized
Northwest Fruit Growers'
Commission, which was organized to
coordinate the marketing of the ap
ples of Oregon and Washington, has
been abandoned. This marketing as
sociation was organized and financed
by the chambers of commerce arc
banks of the northwest and special
ists were sent to California to work
out a plan. An organization fund of
$H000 was provided, which has been
exhausted, and the plan wiil now be
abandoned. Many apple growers hope
that the work and money expended
wiil not be a total loss, but that a
further movement along this line by
another organization may bring thu
big projected association into a real
ity. Such failures do much to dis
courage cooperative marketing move
ments. A. S. Goss, master of the Washing
ton state Grange, gives notice to tne
business interests of the county that
a condition which forces nearly one
third of the population of the coun
try (the farmers) to lose money and
run into debt is certain to react to
business generally, and that the other
two-thirds, which have been enjoying
prosperity, are certain to feel the de
pression of agriculture in fact if
already feeling it generally. He says
agriculture has reached the limit of
endurance, and the result is a dis
tinct tightening up in industry and
employment a-1 over the country, and
that further curtailment is certain
until readjustment comes.
Rupture
EXPERT COMING TO
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Will Give Free Ounonst ration In
PENDLETON on Wednesday and
Thursday, July $ and It at the
Dor ion Hotel and in
THE DALLES on Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday, July 17, 18 and 19,
at The Dal lea Hot!.
from 10 a. m, to 4 p. bl
TWO DAYS IN PENDLETON and
THREE DAYS IN THE DALLES
They Come Many Miles
to See Him.
On above date the noted rupture
appliance expert, C. F. KedUch, will
give a free demonstration.
You will at once rtalize the differ
ence between his highly efficient and
modern appliances and your mail or
der inefficient and harmful elastic
bandages or ill-fitting steel or wire
trusses with their obnoxious leg
strap. These mostly make th rup
ture worse instead of better until at
last it gete beyond control, whereat
Mr. Redlich's special appliances will
give you security and comfort for
)'ttr to come, mainly because thes
effective devices are scientifically ap
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Recent, often curnble cases end es
pecially old, neglected, painful ones,
should promptly avail themselves of
tkiis opportunity for relief, before
work becomes impossible and event
ually tike suigeon'i knife an urgent
and immediate necessity.
Remember that demonstration Is
free on above date only, and that a
visit may mean great deal to you
and those dependent on you.
Home Office: 335 Ho ton Block,
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CAN HI SIXKS MEN
IMPROVE BUSINESS
(Continued from Fge Two)
throupgh not being in close touch
wiih them.
Retain the friendVip of old cus
tomers by all means, and good effi
cient work in canvassing i a splendid
ay of arcompihir.g this, A well
trained eff.cient salesman or sales
woman can be an invaluable mission
ary in behalf of your store out among
the trade.
If the trade is slow in coming to
your store, bring your store to the
trade. If merchants will follow out
this plan and back it up with some
good, hard hitting advertising they
wiil have no need to complain about
poor business. Business in any line
is about what you make it, whether
it be a retail store, a bank, or a
brokerage business.
But, to the merchant who is be
fogged with the idea that business is
so bad that no effort can make it
better will have to get rid of this
idea as his first move for better bus
iness. There's nothing in the present bus
iness situation that warrants such
an attitude. Yet, for some reason or
other, a great many business men
seem to expect that the United States
should enter into another period re
sembling war prosperity. But, re
gardless of that sort of reasoning, or
rather lack of reasoning, there has
been nothing at any time to indicate
that money will ever roll up hill
again.
Many business men appear to have
an idea that they should get rich
over night that's an idea that still
persists, handed down to us from the
gun powder era. We may as well
make up our mind that the world is
not going to pay us a bonu.-., even
though we ail think we're entitled to
it.
As to this business situation, we
must admit that business does not
come as easily now as it did in 1919
and 1S20, but what of it? The work
that is required to make your busi
ness show a prorit is nothing, abso
lutely nothing, compared with the
thrill that comes in knowing that
your business is progressing, and
knowing that you're making a suc
cess. And in considering such plans for
increasing your business as this idea
of canvassing out through the trade,
or any other idea that has the ele
ments of practical business sense, do
not be too easily discouraged. Re
member, that a great deal you hear
about business is mere propaganda.
1 know of one instance where a
merchant had quite a successful sale,
and shortly after it was completed
competitor happened to drop into
his store. He inquired how the sale
had terminated.
The merchant who had the sale
stated that it was very bad, he had
not made expenses. He declared that
everything had been done that it was
possible to do, but that there was no
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money in the country as far as he!
could fgure it out. j
The visitirg merchant went on his ,
way. and stopped in to see another
merchant, and he related all about !
the unsuccessful sale held by mer
chant No. J. 1
"Why, that's strange. ! have it
from good authority that he sold a
great deal of goods and made a pretty
fair profit on the sale." said the third
merchant. So in discussing this case
the two merchants finally saw thru
the game of the merchant crying
hard times. He wanted them to think
that he had made no money, he want
ed them to be pessimit-ic about bus
iness, because if he had said. "Busi
ness is wonderful, I have made fine
profits, 2 went way beyond my fond
est expectatons in the amount of
goods sold," they naturally would be
inspired likewise, and undoubtedly
think, "Well, if he can get such busi
ness, I guess I can, he's no better
merchant than I am."
So there's always two sides to ev
ery story, and about 95c of this talk
about there being no money and no
business should be taken with a
grain of salt
We've got to be more ready in the
future than we have been in the past,
and take up new promising ideas for
increasing business, simply because
something worked well five, ten, fif
teen or twenty years ago is no assur
ance that it is equally effective to
day. A great many merchants con
fuse business principles with busi
ness methods they are altogether
different things.
There are a certain number of prin
ciples in doing business that remain
the same, regardless of time, place
or conditions, but the methods of
doing business are changing constant
ly, and we've got to change with them
if we're going to keep abreast of the
times.
I have often seen the effects of con
servatism brought to the point where
it is mere inaction. There are busi
nesses being conducted today not by
the men who are in charge of the
store, but by men who founded it and
who may have been dead these twenty-five
or fifty years. If these same
men were living today they probably
would be the quickest to change their
methods to suit new times, whereas,
their successors hold to them as if
they were something sacred. This
again is simply confusing methods
with principles.
One merchant met my suggestion of
canvassing out among the trade with
the statement that they'd been estab
lished for.sixty years and had never
gone out tramping begging for busi
ness at the homes of their customers,
and they did not think they had to
start that now.
Such an attitude is about as sense
less as if that merchant were to stock
his store with the style of merchan
dise in vogue sixty years ago, and in
sist that inasmuch as it was the right
thing for those times it is still the
right thing. We must not lose sicht
of the fact that methods must change
with the times no less than the mer
chandise stock we carry.
Roger W. Morse, county agent, and
family spent the Fourth in Vancou
ver, Wash., visiting relatives ad
friends. They returned home Satur
day evening.
S. P. Wilson of Huntington Beach.
CaU formerly a resident of lone and
farmer in that vicinity, was in Hepp
ner Tuesday on business.
$250.00 REWARD.
Stolen from my ranch near Ritter
in the early spring, one bay mare,
weight about 1UK) lbs., white spot in
forehead, branded A on left stifle;
one bald-faced sorrel horse, weight
about 1150, white spots around eyes,
branded LR connected on left shoul
der. I will pay $10.00 reward for the
recovery of each of these animals and
$260 for evidence leading to the
conviction of the culprits taking
them. L. F. RESING, Ritter, Ore.
NOTICE OF TARING IP EST RAY.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has taken up and now
holds at his farm on Eight Mile, in
Morrow County, Oregon, the follow
ing described e stray, to-wit: one roan
cow, 4 year sold, no brands or marks.
Notice is hereby further given that
said est ray was trespassing upon my
premises, and that I will on Saturday,
the 2nd day of August, 1924, at the
hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of
said day at my farm as above des
cribed, sell said estray at public auc
tion to the highest bidder for cash
to satisfy the damages and cost of
taking up the same unless before said
time the owner thereof claims the
same and satisfies the damages and
cost of taking up the same.
Dated this 10th day of July, 1924.
W. F. MAHRT.
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FOR BENT My T room home,
strictly modern. Including furnace;
four room, newly painted and paper
ed. Rent $25. Mrs. Ray Moore. For
information call on C. A. Minor, tf.
Good Horse Pasture Fins bunch
grass, $2 per month. Address Vern
Poarson. Lena, Orepon. tf.
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harvest and a few Extras
to buy.
We are going to allow
a ten per cent discount
for spot cash on all cut
ting machinery and ex
tras. We have a good
stock of extras and limit
ed supply of machinery,
and will appreciate all
the business you can
give us.
Gilliam & Bisbee
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ALICE BRADY in
MISSING MILLIONS
"Our Gang" in "GIANTS vs. YANKS"
Saturday, July 1 2th
SPECIAL CAST in
Ashamed of Parents
Story of parental sacrifice.
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One of the Indian Frontier Series.
Sunday and Monday, July 1 3th and 1 4th
P0LA NEGRI in
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The Dippy Doo Dads in
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Tuesday and Wednesday, July 1 5 and 1 6
CARMEL MEYERS in
THE DANCER OF THE NILE
Eleventh Round of FIGHTING BLOOD