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G OrepnHistaricriSojV' The Gazette-Times PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY Volume 41, Number 26. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 25, 1924 Subscription $2.00 Per Year LIGHT iNS FALL AGGIE-WHITMAN FOOTBALL CLASH IS CLASSIC EVENT CLASSES ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR AT H. H. S. This Week HIS BUSY SEASON AS THREE CANDIDATES HEUDD Prospects Are Bright For Good Weather Last Two Days. CITY IN GALA ATTIRE Crowdi Catherine to WltneM Per formance; Many Entries Faat Coming In. For the first day of the Heppner Rodeo we are facing showers of rain and cloudy ikies, yet at that the en thusiasra and ardor of the large num ber of people gathering in the city eemi not to be seriously "dampen ed" and the prospects are fair for three days of successful entertain ment. Rain fell most of last night, and ai we go to presi it ia not over. However, there appears to be symp toms of clearer skies and approach ing sunshine. Many entries are filed with Secre tary Walt Richardson for the numer ous events; the stock is ail in fine trim, and there is promise of many fine exhibits of horse, mule and steer riding, relay and saddlehorse racing, all to be participated in by local tal ent, which adds to its attractiveness. The city is in gala attire, having been properly and appropriately decorated, so nothing seems to remain undone for the three days of big entertain ment Entries in the different events at an early hour this morning were: No. 1, Saddle Horse Race, 4; No, 2, Pony Express, 7; No. 3, Calf Roping, 22; No. 4, Boys Pony Race, 2; No. 5, Steer Roping, 16; No. 6, Mule Riding, 13; No. 7, Steer and Bull Riding, 10; No. 8, Bareback Riding, 7; No. 9, Bucking Contest, 17; No. 10, Relay Race, 6; No. 11, Steer and Maverick Race, 12; No. 12, Quick Change Race, 9; No. 13, Special, 1; No. 14, Cowboy Race, 4; No. 15, Cow Milking Con test, 13. The business houses of the city will close each day during the hours of the performance at Rodeo park. Mrs. Laura Lamb Dies at Pendleton Death came to Mrs. Laura Lamb of this city at Pendleton on Thursday night last, following an illness of a month. Mrs. Lamb was born at Har risburg, Oregon, and at the time of her dpath was SA years of age. With her family she had resided in Hepp ner for a number of years. She was married in 1903 to Charles Lamb at Kamiah, Idaho, and Is survived by her two daughters, Mrs. Carl Mc Count of Arlington and Dorothy Vi ola Lamb of Pendleton; her mother, Mrs. Anna Lee of Waterloo, Ore.; one sister, Viola Lillian Kidder of Butte, Montana, and three brothers. Otto Robinett of Union, Harrison Robinett of Heppner, and LeRoy Rob inett of Marshfield. APLIN'E 8CHOOL DEDICATED. On September 14 dedication serv ices were held in the new high school building. Rev. J. C. Pershall of Pine City preached the dedicatory sermon, and a solo was given by Dan Lindsay, with John Conder as organist. A basket dinner was served In the basement of the new building. An afternoon service was held and Chrsltian Endeavor work was ex plained by Rev. Pcrshall. The peo ple of the community were asked to take under advisement the matter of organizing a Christian Endeavor so ciety on the next regular sorvice day. The Alpine school began the year'r work on Monday, September 15, with Mrs. Lucy T. Wedding as principal and teacher in the high school, and with 'Mrs. Lillian Warner in charge of the grades. There is a good at tendance In both departments. Rosella Doherty and her brother and sister, Lawrence and Dorothy, attended the Round-Up Friday and Saturday. C. D. Morey, who has been suffer ing from a broken leg, is greatly im proved. v Mr. Gillispie has moved his family to a farm near Hermiston, and Mr. Way and family have moved to the Valley. George McClure and wife have moved from the Doherty ranch to a farm near Hermiston. The children of the primary clans of the Alpine Sunday School are unconsolable over the loss of Mrs. McClure as their teacher. O. V. Gibson is assisting Mr. Nelll in haying on his ranch near Pine City. Robert Jones, who has been work ing at a sawmill near Heppner, har, been 111 at his home In the Alpine district, under the care of a physi cian. He is now able to return to work. The hi eh school has a beautiful hanging basket of Wandering Jew, the gift or Mrs. J, P. Cnodcr. The workmen are installing . the furnace and putting the finishing touches on the new school building. Several of the high school pupils are doing their work in advance in order to get permission to attend the Rodeo Friday. Mrs. Wedding will srend the week-end at the Rodeo, and Mrs. Warner and daughter Mabel will go to their home at Irrigon. The Farm Bureau will hold its reg ular monthly meeting the first rat mdny night in October, Mrs. War ner vili have charge of the program Births of the week; To Mike Healcy and wife, Sept. 20, a girl; to Patrick Henley and wife, on 21st, a gin; to Wm. H, Hogg and wife, on 2.1 rd, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Smith on 24th, a girl. Dr. M.Murdo teports all doing well, FOR SALE Murat grapes, 10 e per lb., prepaid. A, E, Anderson, R. 1, The Dalles, Ore. Wallace Jones, pastor of the Chris tian church at Lexington, was a vis itor in Heppner on Tuesday, Game at Pendleton Oct. 3 Only Intercollegiate Contest in Eastern Oregon This Year. Pendleton, Ore., Sept. 22. With re ports from Whitman indicating that Nig Borleske is putting In the field one of the strongest teams that has represented the Missionaries on the gridiron in years, eastern Oregon fans are preparing to view one of the best college gamea ever played in this section when O. A. C. and Whitman tangle in Round-Up park Friday, October 8. So impressed Is Coach Paul J. Schissler with the formidable line-up that Whitman ia getting together, that unusually heavy practice ses sions are even now going forward behind closed gates at Corvallis. Schissler though handicapped by his unfamiliarity with his players, will put a strong team in the field If he can. Schissler uses the Notre Dame system of play and fana who come to Pendleton to see the Aggies do their stuff may expect to see a real offen sive released by the new Red and Black mentor. Of course the customary thing for big league coaches in their early sea son practice games Is to hold their stuff In reserve out of respect to the keen eyes of rival scouts who are al ways present in the stands, but this yar, judging from the early season strength at Whitman, Schissler will be forced to use all his stuff if he is to win. That of course is hard on the coaches but it is apple sauce for the fans and they are sure of seeing a real game. Reports from Whitman indicate real strength. In the first place, for the first time in history, Nig Borleske has an assistant. "Cody" Cox, one of the great Whitman athletes for all time will help Nig tutor the Maize and Blue Into shape. Despite early bearish rumors it Is evident that Borleske has a quorum of experienced football stars on hand from which to build his 1924 machine. Outstanding among his veterans is Earl Tilton, rangy halfback who play ed in 1922 and was the sensation of the northwest. Other heady back field men are Hall, Tilton, Lackey and Franks, while there is a lingering hope in Walla Walla that "Corky" Comkrum diminutive quarter, may be back to take over the signal calling. The line seems to be Nig's big prob lem but with a lot of experienced material and a bunch of newcomers that look good Borleske should have a line that will match his speedy set of backs. As for 0. A. C, it Is certain the famous Aggie defense will not be lacking and coupled with the famous attack that Schissler's followers, who are familiar with his style of play, say will be on deck, Nig's men will have to go hard to put across a win. The Aggie backfield looks good with Price, Boy kin, O arbor. Bell and Mc Cart, while Schulmerich, Ireland and Mattson of the rooks are going to push the let term en hard for these positions. A host of material turned out for line positions at the opening of the season but Schissler now has that group down to about 20 including the veterans Carpenter, Tebb, Mose Ly man, Micklewait and Johnson. Sev eral from last year's rook team look promising. Home-Grown Tomatoes Best on Heppner Market The very finest tomatoes on the Heppner market are those brought to town from the garden of C. W. Val entine of Sourdough canyon. Mr. Valentine raises the tomatoes in large aasntities and they excel those that are shipped in, being perfectly smooth, of fine quality and firmness and possessing a flavor that appeals to the taste. The tomatoes are sown broadcast. In the garden of Mr. Val entine and come to maturity without much irrigation. There is an excel lent spring on the Valentine place that has never been known to dry up, and this furnishes all the water that is required for the raising of an excellent garden each year. Char ley states that in the 40 years he has known this spiing, there has nev er been any vnriat.on in the flow of the water. 8HEEPI.ERDER DIES. George Davis, a sheepherder, who for the past several months has been living in Heppner, died on Friday night at the Bucknum lodging house. He had been ill the most of the summer and not able to work but was able to be about town, and his de mise was unexpected. Davis had worked for several different sheep men of this county and was known as an honest and industrious man who gave good service to his employ ers. His funeral was held on Tues day, No near relatives reside in this state, and he was supposed to have a sister residing in the east who could not be reached. Various sheep men here for whom Mr. Davis had worked, looked after his burial, and Wallace Jones, pastor of the Chris tian church at Lexington, officiated at the grave, Davis was 68 years of age and had resided in this county for the last 18 years. Miss Beth Blcakman and friend, Mies Flynn, of Hardman, wore week end visitors at the Glen Hadley home They are both teachers In the huh school, Zoe Hadley, who Is teuclvnj in the moinUins was also ho.ne fur the week-end. Boardman Mirror, J, W. Morrow, connected with the head offices of the O. W. R. A N, company at Portland, came in on Tu esday evening to attend to some bus. Iness mattors here. He remained over Wednesday. Judge and Mrs. W. T. Campbell loft by auto for Porltand Wcdnes dny morning, the Judge going to the city to attend the meeting of the state highway commission. By Arthur Brisbane Pity a Sad "Aristocrat." Flew Into History. The Day's Best News. Pershing and Gratitude. The flight around the weald ii orr and aix young American, will live in hiRtory when everybody connected with this Presidential campaign is completely forgotten. History will forever record, if only in two line., the date, and names connected with the first human flight around the world. Birds did It long ago, but they are only birds. That the nation which invented the flying machine should be the firit nation to send a flying machine around the world seems appropriate. More appropriate would be adequate flying machine defense for thia coun try. Mr. Grenville L. Winthrop, pleas antly described by the social reporter as a "wealthy, retired banker, phil anthropist and ARISTOCRAT," is un der the care of two doctors. His two daughters eloped, one with a chauf feur, the other with a young elec trician. For a "retired aristocrat" to re ceive such a blow is painful, but in his sorrow there is warning and com fort for other wealthy, retired Am erican aristocrats. One of the daughters was thirty one years of age; she and her sister, twenty-four, had been kept secluded. Beware how you keep daughters too secluded, especially after thirty, and MORE especially if they are rich in their own right, as are these two young women! That's the warning. Th comfort is this: The Winthrop family, to which the "retired aris belongs, may find itself im its energies Increased and its earth prolonged by the addi a chauffeur and an electrician family lineage. toe rat" proved, life on tion of to the Lieutenant Moffet flew 183 miles from Boston to New York in fifty eigh't minutes, attended to his busi ness, and finished the round trip in two hours and twelve minutes. We have the world's ablest fliera, tens of thousands of them not developed. But we haven't the flying machines. We TALK preparation better than we provide it. The day'a most important news for the future ages is thia. Dr. Daly, senior professor of chemistry in the University of Liverpool, says he can manufacture sugar out of plain water and carbon dioxide. That's how na ture manufactures it in plants, thru the green leaves. It is a deep process, first making formaldehyde of the car bon dioxide and water, then apply ing ultra violet light a color invis ible to our eyes to make the sugar. If science can imitate planta on a big acale, manufacturing sugar and protein from carbon dioxide in the air, and the water in the ground, one food problem will be solved. However, don't be in a hurry to sell your Cuban sugar plantation. It will make you rich for many a day. Distinguished gentlemen gave a dinner to General Pershing in New York. It was a nice dinner. General Pershing's share must have cost sixty cents in the market and nine dollars delivered on the table. As a dinner, it was a success. But as a reward for a general that com manded three million American sol diers in the big war, after serving faithfully for many years before that, it was not much. General Pershing is now retired on a salary big en ough to get him a small flat in a cheap quarter. The English do it differently. Their Imeperial Government made their General Hague an Earl, and gave him a million dollars. Of course, this country isn't rich enough to afford anything like THAT, but it might do SOMETHING. There is nothing the matter with this country except timid imagina tion. What have we? . Gold, more than half the world's supply; peace, that will last if we keep out of European nonsense; Presidential candidates, not one of whom would do any harm if elected; good crops, good prices for crops' an annual income of more than fifty thousand million dolars a year, with the real wealth not even acratched. Frank Duprat Has Ore From Greenhorn Frank Duprnt and son Louis have just returned from the Greenhorn milting district of Grant countv. Oregon, in which district Mr. Duprat has several claims, of which four are patented claims. This mining proprty Joins with the Heppner Mm ing compnny, which has some valuable ore coming from a four foot vein Assay value in gold and silver run up to $183 per ton. Specimens of this ore can be seen by consulting Mr. Duprat. He owns the extension of thia vein which belongs to the Hepp ner Mining company. Thia ore ia lay ing 400 feet under the earth's sur face and ia reached by a 766 foot tunnel. Ore samples from the Heppner Mining company's vein from three to four feet wide, assay value $183 per ton, gold and silver. This ia the extension of the Carbonate group of claims owned by Frank Duprat of 1'enaieton. uast uregonlan. Completion of 0.-W. Highway To Be Urged That the completion of the Oregon Washington highway may be more successfully urged upon the state highway commission a committee of Heppner business men was organized at a meeting of citizens of this city held on Monday evening. This meet ing was attended by business men of the town, and after some discussion it was decided that a permanent com mittee be chosen to work in conjunc tion with the members of the county court and assist that body in getting the claims for completion of this highway properly before the highway commission and the government for estry officials. W. P. Mahonty, C. L. Sweek and Dean T. Goodman were chosen on the committee, and these gentlemen ex pressed their willingness to cooper ate with the members of the county court in every possible way. They will thoroughly inform themselves with regard to the situation pertain ing to the completion of the Lena Vinson gap and be prepared to put forth the srtongest arguments pos sible why the Oregon-Washington highway should be finished at the earliest possible date. There is the usual monthly meet ing of the state highway commission in Portland today. At this meeting will be opened a number of bids for work on various state roads. Judge Campbell and Commissioner David son expect to be in Portland and will attend this meeting In order to get in touch with the proceedings, but it will not likely be necessary that members of the newly chosen commit tee will need be at this meeting. Both Judge Campbell and Commissioner Davidson are doing all they can to keep lined up with the situation and they are hopeful that the state high way commissioners will be able to figure out how they can get by with the job of completing the Lena-Vin-lon gap ot the Umatilla county line. Judge Campbell Is informed by Judge Schannep of Umatilla county that they have sufficient means to complete the very ahort stretch of the road from the line on to Vinson, and this HI be done without as kin if heln from the state. The towns in Morrow countv alone the line of the O.-W. highway arr all anxious to have the road com pleted. It will mean the diversion of much tourist travel down the Wil low creek valley. The problem now to find a way by which the work can be done. School Activities in Full Swing at Hardman Hi The Hardman High school has a larger enrollment than ever before A total of 29 is now enrolled. The freshmen were initiated lht Thursday evening, September IS, by the upper classmen. They were tak en one at a time and put through the ordeals. A very enjoyable eve ning was spent by all. The Parent Teachers association gave a reception for the teachers last Saturday evening. A very bountiful supper was served during the course of the evening. Everyone reports having a splendid time. The new teachers are Mr. and Mrs. Suddarth. Miss Flynn and Miss Bleakman, Miss Hays Is with us again this year. The Hardman football team will play a practice game with the Hepp ner boys next Friday on the home field. It is hoped that everyone will support the boys in their first at tempt of the year. The Hardman orchestra is practic ing again, preparing to put on the first big dance of the season October U. Mrs. M. Belle Thompson came up from her Portland home on Saturday end will spend a couple of weeks visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thompson on Willow creek. Henry Cohn was here from Hepp ner Tuesday. Mr. Cohn purchased two bucking horses here for the Heppner Rodeo. Long Creek Ranger. A new candidate to cast his hat into the political arena in Morrow county Is Chas. Dillon of Boardman, who In this Issue of the Gazette Times announces that he is seeking election to the office of county com missioner as an independent repub lican, and asks for the support of the ! voters at the November election. Mr. j Dillon has been a resident of the Boardman project for a number of years and from the report reaching this paper he is well thoguht of by th people in the north end of the county. The fact that our irrigated bev haa never before atked a place on the county ticket would appear to be an argument in favor of Mr. Dillon, but he is unknown largely in this end of the county and he enters the race with this handicap. Ed Burchell and wife of Lexington were vieitora in Heppner yesterday. They were accompanied by Chas. Burchell of Portland and Hamilton Burchell of Sheridan, formerly res- dients of the Lexington Bection. where they engaged in the wheat raising game. The final settlement of the H. E. Burchell estate brought the brothers together here at this time. Henry Blackman came up from Portland Tuesday and will take in the Rodeo. Mr. Blackman spent a part of July and August at San Francisco but his home is at Portland again. He enjoys coming to Heppner once in a while and talking over old times with friends here, and incidentally, just at this time, to get in just a lit tle talk on the political situation. Virgil J. Stephens and Elsie Wat kins, young people of this city were granted license to wed by Clerk An derson on the 13th of September, and they were later married by Wallace , Jones, pastor of the Christian church : at Lexington. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lish Wat- kins of thia city, where the young couple will continue to reside. F. M. Griffin, pioneer citizen itnd rmer of the lone country, was a visitor here on Tuesday and ma ie mi office a pleasant call. Mr. Grif fin accompanied his son-in-law, George Ritchie, who was in the city Woking after business affairs. For the past two years or so Mr. Griffin has woiked with Mr. Ritchie in the tutcher business at lone. Mat Halvorsen, extensive land own ' of Jordan Butte, has disposed of large block of his farm land lying ndjacent to Rhea creek, to Cashier Guniel of the Bank of lone. We un derstand the consideration of the deal was $16 per acre. This stilt leaves Mr. Halvorsen with a large body of hind covering the most of "Mat's 1 utte" south of lone. F. A. Rowell, acountant, who has been working on the books of the county officials at the court house f r several weeks past, departed yes terday for a short stay in Porltand. Me is in the employ of Cradall A Roberts, public accountants, who have the contract for the annual audit of the Morrow county books. The marriage of Mrs. Amy D. Mc Ferrin of this city to Mr. Herbert - Instone of Lena occurred in this city on Wednesday, September 17, Judge W. T. Campbell performing the ceremony. Mr. Instone is a prosper ous ranchman of the Lena section and it is understood that they will make their home there. District Attorney S. E. Notson, who has been absent in Seattle for sever al weeks on account of the very ser ious illness of his daughter, Miss Mary Notson, arrived home last eve ning. Miss Notson is reported to be improving now but her ultimate re covery will be slow. E. J. Merrill and two daughters passed through Heppner from their home near Hardman Wednesday morning, taking the train for Eugene where the young ladies will register for the opening of the school year at University of Oregon. Mrs. C. E. Hnywood of Seattle is a guest this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Gemmell in this city, Mrs. Haywood is a cousin of Mrs. Gemmell. New Methodist Pastor Will Arrive Next Week Rev. E. C. Alford, newly appointed pastor of the Methodist Community church of Heppner, expects to arrive here on the 2nd of October and will begin his labors in the city with the "rst Sunday in October. Mr. Alford was recently appointed to this charge by the M. E. conference at Medford. He will be accompanied by his wife, and the word that proceeds them Is to the effect that both Mr. and Mrs. Alford are splendid leaders in church work. Rev. F. R. Spaulding, pastor here during the past year, has been placed on the .retired list, and he writes friends here that he will supply at Cascade Locks. Just for the persent he is located at Hood River, but ex pects to move on to the new field shortly. Dairy Industry Asks Protection of Voters In a letter being sent out by George A. Palmiter, president of the Oregon State Grange, a few pertinent facts about what would happen to the dairying industry in this state if the referendum to knock out protection of butter against cheap substitutes passed by the voters, are clearly stated. Mr. Palmiter says: Dairying has been about the only branch of agriculture that has return ed a profit to the farmers of Oregon ! for the past three or four years, and ! the last legislature passed a law pro- j hibiting the use of milk or its pro ducts in the manufacture of butter substitutes in order to protect this branch. The referendum has been invoked on this law. A few concerns want to; make big profits at the expense of the farmers by putting a counterfeit, butter on the market, using a small per cent of milk products to give it the taste and odor of real butter, and selling it for "something just as good." The argument in the state pamph let makes the moan that the anti-; oleo law prohibits the manufacture of oleo in Oregon. It does not. It sim ply requires that oleo stand on its own merits; that there shall be no fraud, no counterfeit, that the manu facturers shall not doctor up their copra and vegetable oil products with milk products and undermine the dairy market and drive thousands of cows off the farms. About iy million pounds of oleo will be sold in Oregon this year, about h made in this state and the balance shipped in. It would require approximately 14,000 cows to supply this amount of real butter. Now, which would be of the most benefit to the state, the profits of a half dozen oleo makers or the addition of 14.000 cows to the dairy farms of Oretron. with the industries that would be supported by this addition? Oregon will never be permanently prosperous until farming is prosper ous. Our chamber of commerce, rail roads and other organizations are expending big sums of money to build up farming and bring in new resi dents. Doesn't it seem that the ad dition of 14,000 dairy cows to the present farms was worth the effort of voting for? And bear this in mind, you friends of ngriculture: If you would vote out the spurious butter, vote 'yes" on the referendum. There seems to be general confusion regarding this. The proposition is whether or not to sus tain the present law. If you would sustain it, and prohibit the manu facturers from using milk in their oil products to make it pass as butter, vote ' YES." CHURCH OF CHRIST, LEXINGTON. Beginning with trie tirst Sunday in October the order of service at the Church of Christ in Lexington will be changed. The morning service will begin at 10 with the Bible school session, continuing without intermis sion into the church service and clos ing at 11:110, The evening services will begin promptly at 7:30. WALLACE JONES, Pastor. Student Body Activities In Full Swing; Football Game With Hardman Tomorrow. Heppner High ia steadily progress ing with its organization for the year's work in spite of the excite ment of preparing for Rodeo. All the classes have held class meetings and elected officers for the semester. The officers are: Freshmen Kenneth Merritt, presi dent; Ceroid S locum, vice president; Edna Vaughn, secretary; Edna Vaughn, treasurer; Lowell Turner, sergeant at arms; Miss Kirtiey, class adviser. Sophomores Merle Becket, presi dent; James Stout, vice president; Louise Thomson, secretary; Clarence Moore, treasurer; Ethel Moore, ser geant at arms; Leita Barlow, class reporter; Misa Denn, class adviser. Juniors Leonard Schwa rz, presi dent; Irene Lovgren, vice president; Anita Hughes, secretary; Victor Lov gren, treasurer; Harold Case, ser geant at arms; Miss Martin, class adviser. Seniors Austin Smith, president; Mary Patterson, vice president; Lena Redding, secretary; Joe Devine, trea surer; Ike Dexter, sergeant at arms; Erma Lovgren, class reporter; Mr. Smith, class adviser. A student body meeting was held Friday, Sept. 12. The purpose of this meeting was to clear any old busi ness which might have been left un finished last spring. At this meeting the pennant tra dition was read and explained to the freshmen. It was also decided that the freshman boys should clear the weeds off the football field the fol lowing Monday. (We roust say that they are good workers.) We have a lively freshman class this year. They even had something to say at the student body meeting, which is unusual for freshmen. Kathleen McDaid has been appoint ed yell leader to take Marguerite His ler's place. A student euuncil meeting was held September 16 and at this meet ing the Hehisch staff was elected. It consists entirely of boys. They seem to think girl's shouldn't hold offices. Victor Lovgren is editor-in-chief, Vawter Parker is business manager and Austin Smith and James Thom son are assistant editors. The seniors have chosen Austin Smith, Byron Johnson and Harold Becket for judges in the pennant scrap. We are all anxious for the scrap to come off as we think it will He an even break. Football! Football! It is about all we hear around the school house be fore and after school. It appears some of the girls have begun to wish they could play. Heppner Hi has never be fore had any of the boys turn out except those from whom they picked i the first team. This year, however, they have been able to provide two coaches and this makes it possible for more to turn out. We now have two strings of eleven besides the varsity, which is coached by Mr. Finch, while the other two line-ups are coached by Mr. Smith. They hope to get a game or two this year with the second team of some other school. The varsity has a game with Hard- man set for Friday the 26th. The seniors held a picnic last Fri day and in spite of the bad weather quite a number attended. A good time was reported by all who went. Closed Areas in National Forests Declared Open Because of the great fire hazard existing in the national forests dur ing the summer season, many areas were closed. These are all declared open now by Forester Cecil of Pert- land, in an order issued on September l'J. This paper received a telegram from Pendleton under that date which is as follows: "Forest service opens today all closed areas on the Umatilla Forest. including Walla Walla river and Leh man Springs regions. Wide publicity desirable. CECIL." HEPPNER GARAGE BARGAINS. Big reduction on 30x34 Goodyear Wingfoot tires. 1923 Ford, fine condition, spotlight, Hassler shock absorbers, 5 good cord tires. A real bargain at $275.00. 1918 Baby Grand Chevrolet good condition and cheap price. Jason Biddle, who for the past year or more has been engaged in the garage business at lone, from which he recently retired, was a business visitor here on Wednesday. HAVE YOU VOTED YET? Your Choice for President? THE GAZETTE-TIMES PRESIDENTIAL POLL CALVIN COOLIDGE Republican JOHN W. DAVIS ROBERT M. La (Put an X mark before After Ailing out this trial ballot, please mall or bring to the office of The (Jaiette-Timra. Heppner, Or. Coolidge Leads 22 States Which Have Balloted 97,000 Votes. DAVIS IN 3RD PLACE Republieana Lead Local Poll With Independent Candidate a Com Second ; Democrat Shut Out. Regardless of hopes, wishes, pre dictions and a brave whistling of political leaders as they emhie thru various graveyards, September Indi cations concerning our November election have convinced many keen students that there will lie many rurprisca when the last November vote has been tabulated. This newspaper's nationwide pres-id-ntial poll is now into its third veek of balloting. Through its con nection with the Publishers Autoeaa ter Service of New York the Gaiette Times is cooperating with seven thousand newspapers published in ev ery state. Returns from twenty-one states have been received enough from each section of the country to indicate, in a small way at least, the trend of sentiment there. Coolidge is running strong in the East. Davis' strength is in the South. La Follette, as expected, is strong est in the North and Northwest. Soma 100,000 votes have been east is thia trial balloting. The vote is evenly divided, Coolidge leading with a to tal of 36,301, La Follette ia second with 30330, and Davis ia a close third with 30,551. This in a way bears out the figures tabulated by other straw votes. The Hearst newspaper group, made up of some fourteen newspapers published in the principal cities of the nation, have polled a straw vote of 95,000 ballots. That vote from the cities show La Follette first with 40,686, Coolidge second with 37,249, and Dav is a third with 17,410. The nation-wide poll in which thia newspaper ia participating is repre sentative of the small town and rur al vote. The Hearst atraw vote is al most exclusively from the big cities. Combining thia newspaper's poll from the country with the Hearst poll, from the city we have a total of 193, 027 votes divided aa follows: Coolidge, 73,550; La Follette, 71,516, and Davis, 47,961. The votes in these polls are of course popular votea and not exactly clearly indicative of the electoral strength of the three candidates. However, the tabulation of thia news paper's nation-wide voting by State to date offers the opportunity of studying electoral strength. Cool La State New York Maryland Illinois Wisconsin Washington Mass California Texas Georgia N. Hampshire Mississippi . Kansas idge . 6549 . 895 . 7561 . 623 . 1349 . "291 . 6252 . 554 . 136 . 1474 . 338 . 1294 . 1456 . 179 Follette Davis 4504 724 6862 1773 1403 202 8469 422 379 134 156 162 143 37 1468 457 113 2631 41 47 702 30.830 2951 968 4582 264 463 , 198 2285 1332 1978 171 529 451 2249 195 1406 108 191 812 37 533 748 30,551 shows Virginia W. Virginia Pennsylvania 1316 Montana . 261 Wyoming .. 168 S. Dakota 2662 Nevada 17 Indiana 572 Michigan 2457 Total ..36,301 The local poll this week Coolidge 11, LaFollette 10, Davis 0. Viewed from that standpoint it brings us back to the fact as stated in these columns before, that the race is going to be a close one, so close that the final choice of President may he thrown to the House or possibly on into the Senate. The Literary Digest is conducting a secret straw vote, but as yet has made no announcement of returns. The votes polled by the Digest will in the majority come from the larger small towns and the citiea. Many things may happen between now and November, any one of which would switch the vote to make it final and decisive at the polls. However, political leaders in all parties are watching these Presidential polls closely, and you will be rendering them a service if you vote in Pres diential poll and show them the strength of your respective territory. If you haven't voted yet, do so today. Clip out the sample ballot below and mark an X before the name of the candidate you want to be the next Prseident of the United States. Show your fellow voters in other states who Orepon wants for President. Democrat FOLLETTE Progressive the one you intend to vote.)