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The Gazette-Times
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY
Volume 42, Number 13. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUN. 25, 1925. Subscripion $2.00 Per Year
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County Agent Sends Out
Announcement to Far
mers of the County.
WILL INSPECT WHEAT
Trip to Experiment Station Sunday
Will Follow Meeting at Wheat
Nuracrjr on Saturday.
According to plant that have been
heretofore announced, County Agent
Morae haa thia week nailed out to
the farmeri of the county an an.
nouncement calling ipecial attention
to the two coming event! taking place
June 27th and 28th. The circular is
aa follows:
To Morrow county farmers:
Just to remind you of two events
of this week:
Saturday, June 27, at 2:00 p. m.,
the farmers of the county will meet
at the wheat nursery an the old Cecil
Warner farm northeast of Lexington.
A large number of winter wheats,
seeded in February, winter and spring
barleys, oats, flax and peas are in the
nursery thia -year. Three dates of
seeding of five varieties of spring
wheats and barleys will give a check
on thia question. A representative
of the Moro experiment station will
be present at this meeting.
On Sunday, June 28, Morrow county
farmers will visit the experiment
atation at Moro. The start will be
made from Heppner at 7:00 o'clock.
Three routes are good to take at pres
ent One through Eight Mile and
down the Blue and White trail to
Olex and McDonald ferry, another
through McNabb and west to Olex,
and the third around the highway
to Kufus or Biggs and south to Moro.
The inspection of the station will
atart at 1:30 p. m. The writer spent
all day Monday at the station and
there is more to see there this year
than for several years. The new
smut resistant wheats, the tillage and
rotation experiments, and the new
hybrids in the nursery are all worth
going to see.
Of especial Interest to farmers of
Morrow county are several new hy
brids being grown at the station. A
number of forty-fold federation, forty-fold-hard
federation and forty-fold-hybrid
128 crosses look espec
ially promising at present.
Yen will not regret a visit at the
atation thia year. The atart home
will be made about 4:30 p. m.
Star Theater, Sunday-Monday, June 28-9
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A thrilling story of love and romance by ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
The greatest play ever staged the best picture ever made, says the
New York World.
SEE the beginning and causes that made necessary a great
sacrifice !
SEE the gorgeous scenes in the Court of King George III!
SEE the magnificent ride of Paul Revere, said by the New
York Herald to be the most thrilling scene ever filmed!
SEE the gathering of the American patriots at Lexington and
Concord 77 Americans standing against 800 British
Regulars at Lexington!
SEE the surrender of Cornwallis, and the inauguration of the
first President of the United States!
SEE the assault on Fort Sacrifice and the rescue of the Ameri
cans by Washington's favorite unit, the "Liberty or Death"
Brigade of Morgan's Rifles.
It is the story of the beginning of our Nation, a story of Amcr
ica for Americans, for those who have adopted it, for ail
who enjoy its shelter. .
Romaneo! Adventure! Laughter! Thrills and Heart-Throbs!
EVERY TRUE AMERICAN SHOULD SEE THIS PICTURE
ARLINGTON SENDS
INVITATION FOR A
JULY 4TH PROGRAM
Every Preparation Being Made to
Give Visitors Day of Lively
Sports and Good Time.
Arlington, June 23. Having raised
a cash subscription of over $1000, the
businessmen of Arlington are making
every possible preparation for staging
one of the snappiest 4th of July cele
brations ever held in that city. No
other celebrations have been an
nounced in any county in either Ore
gon or Washington adjacent to Ar
lington and word drifting in here al
ready indicates a record attendance.
Special features of the days' pro
gram will include a 21-round boxing
card, open air exercises, a ball game
between Condon and Arlington, par
ade, sports, races, dancing, bucking
contest and many special stunts and
amusements.
A dozen special committees are at
work on the various features of the
program, details of which will be an
nounced as soon as possible. Real
izing that it was Arlington's turn to
celebrate this year, and finding out
that many of the neighbor towns were
expecting a big day at Arlington, the
local people have set about the job
in earnest and intend to offer the
thousands of visitors just as lively a
program -and as good a time as is
possible.
Annual Picnic Will Be
At Laurelhurst Park
The annual picnic of the Morrow
County Reunion Association will be
held at Laurelhurst Park, Portland,
on July 4th, 1D25. Lunch will be
served at 6 p. m.r and it is requested
that every Morrow county resident
and former resident who possibly can
will be present with their lunch bas
ket, and also that each will constitute
himself a committee of one to pass
the word along so that every one may
know of the time and place of this
meeting.
GUS MALLORY, Secretary.
Mrs. Orval Rasmus is confined to
her home this week, suffering an at
tack of pneumonia. She is reported
as getting along well but it will be
some time yet before she can return
to her work.
Roger Morse, county agent, re
turned on Tuesday from Moro, where
he went on Sunday to attend a dis
trict meeting of county agents.
FOR SALE A two-man Deering
combine, at my ranch 4 miles north
of Lexington. Chaw. A. Mnrquarrit.
Dempster as Capt. Ilulli-r and .Nancy
Children 20c
Adults 40c
J. G. Thomson returned on Tues
day from Camp Lewis, Wash., where
he went the past week with the boys
from Heppner who will attend the
training camp this summer. Mr,
Thomson drove to Camp Lewis by way
of the Yakima valley and the Sno
qualmie pass, and says that it is a
mighty fine trip. He returned home
by way of Portland and Columbia
River highway.
Henry Cohn and Arthur McAtee of
Heppner Post No. 87, American Le
gion, and Mrs. Arthur McAtee, rep
resenting the Ladies Auxiliary, de
pa re td yesterday for Prineville where
they will attend the state meeting of
the Legion and Auxiliary in session
there the remainder of this week. Paul
Gemmell will also attend as a dele
gate from Heppner Post.
Ladies of Bethel missionary society
held their regular meeting in the
Chapel on Tuesday afternoon, at
which time there was a good attend
ance and instructive program. The
hostesses, Mrs. Frye, Mrs. Smead and
Mrs. Elbert Cox, served delicious re
freshments. A great many of the business fronts
of the city are being given a bath of
new paint which adds much to their
appearance. Many a residence in the
town would look a lot better If in
troduced to similar treatment. A
"clean up, paint up" program would
help a lot.
Mrs. Leonard Barr departed for
Portland where she will remain for
two months. She accompanied Mrs.
Mamie Shaw, sister of Mr. Barr. wb
has been spending the week here. Mrs.
Barr will be with the Bartholomew
company during her stay in Portland.
Walter Matteson reports very heavy
rains in the mountains on Sunday,
and over about Ukiah several fires
were started by lightning striking
trees. Feed in the mountains is very
fine this season, Mr. Matteson states.
Mies Kathleen Monahan, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Monahan, who
for the past year has been attending
school at Mt. Angel, Oregon, arrived
home the last of the week for the
summer vacation.
Mm. Fred Tash, accompanied by her
daughter Zaida, and son Rodney, de
parted on Saturday for Hood River
where they will visit at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Bort
zer. Mrs. Carrie Vaughn is visiting in
the city from her home in Portland.
She came up on Tuesday and expects
to spend some time here.
FOR SALE Ten head of good dairy
cows. See Oral Henriksen, six miles
northwest of Heppner, on Willow
creek.
Montague In "AMERICA"
AMERICA is The Covered
Wagon of the Revolutionary
period; but it is more vital,
more thrilling; our forefath
ers of 1776 fought and died
for the great principles of
FREEDOM; our immediate
forebears of 1849 were in
search of adventure and gold
With AMERICA we are show
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VEL OF THE MOVIES, pic
tures showing the third di
mension, Depth, Instead of
the usunl flnt surface, thia lat
ent screen novelty mnkos the
characters stand out like live
people on the stage. The flg
u res seem to step out of the
screen and come towards you
with startling life likeness,
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the entire cost of the show,
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Suits Against John Day
District Are Settled
At Portland last week a settlement
was reached between Attorneys C. H.
Finn and F. A. Mc Men am in in their
suits against the John Day Irrigation
District, and the directors of the dis
trict on a basis of $6,000; Finn agree
ing to take $3500 for his part and
McMenamin $2500, so we are informed
by parties who had been called to
Portland as witnesses in the suit.
Finn had sued the district for $10,
000, and then McMenamin entered a
like suit, the question being the mat
ter of attorneys' fees claimed by
these parties for services rendered in
helping fight the battles of the dis
trict in some suits a few years back,
wherein Finn was engaged as assist
ant to McMenamin. Other settle
ments of claims against the district
are pending, notably one for $60,000
of Engineer Lewis, and a considerable
claim of F. R. Brown of this city.
Just what will ultimately be the out
come of the project is at this time
problematical; some desire to have
the directors settle up the affairs,
pay the bills and dissolve the dis
trict, while others do not favor this
action, maintaining that it is only
sensible business to maintain the or
ganization and hold the ground al
ready gained, and this latter propo
sition is doubtless the best There
should be an election of officer a at
the proper time and the district
placed in, position to care for past
and future bills and get in shape to
put a stop to continual litigation.
Heppner People Have
Accident At The Dalles
Writing to friends here, Mrs. Lena
Snell Shurte, who accompanied Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Ayers on a trip to
Portladn Thursday last, states that
the Ayers car met with an accident
near The Dalles and the machine was
badly wrecked.
Mr. and Mrs. Ayers left Heppner on
Thursday morning and on nearing
The Dalles they were run into by a
heavy car from La Grande. Mr. and
Mrs. Ayers were badly bruised up
about the head and shoulders and
Mrs. Shurte was so seriously hurt
that she was taken to the hospital at
The Dalles where first aid was ren
dered and the party then went on to
Portland. The accident was report
ed as a head-on collision and the
wonder is that the occupants of the
Ayers car were not more seriously in
jured by the compact with the heavy
machine. No bones were broken.
IN APPRECIATION.
I wish to assume personally the re
sponsibility of an apology in behalf
of Mrs, C. E. Woodson, upon whom
rented the responsibility of directing
the Daily Vacation Bible School just
closed. In the closing exercises held
in the Christian church last Sunday
night, mention was made by this di
rector of the service of everyone who
had rendered such during the session,
but there seemed to be no one "auth
orised" to make mention of her work.
I know I voice the sentiment of both
the children and the people of the
community in extending to Mrs.
Woodson my appreciation and in
dorsement for her efficient and pains
taking leadership.
E. C. ALFORD.
Pastor Mpthodist Community Church.
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Rolled Barley and Feed Oats
Brown Warehouse Co.
WE DELIVER WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
GRANGE MASTER
SAYS FARMERS
MUST ORGANIZE
After Middlemen Have Taken
Their Shares, Not Much Left
For the Farmer Producer.
State Market Agent.
In his adress to the state Grange,
State Grange Master George Parmi
ter urged the farmers of Oregon to
co-operate in the same way that busi
nesbfeeads organize and pull togeth
er. He gave figures to prove that the
farmers get the worst of it in the
difference in cost of transportation
of farm products and manufactured
articles. He said when the jobber,
wholesaler, retailer and railraods had
taken their share from farm products
there was no profit left for the farm
er. He urged organization and that
oganization demand the same tariff
protection other industries get, as
well as the same railroad rates.
On the Job at Ninety-Six.
Easterners often state that fruit
trees are short lived on the Pacific
coast. At Vancouver, Wash., an apple
tree that bloomed this spring was
grown from seed brought from Lon
don in 1826, and has been bearing
fruit for 96 years.
Portland Some Wheat Town.
Portland shipped one-third of all
the wheat exported from this coun
try last year. This will give the peo
ple some idea of the importance of
the milling companies and the state
Grain Department of Portland. When
there is a normal grain crop an im
mense business is done.
p While Oregon Quits.
There are now 32,000 farmers co-operating,
owning their own elevators,
and combining their sales in pools in
the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Eleva
tors in Canada. This organization
started in a small way and steadily
and carefully built up, while Oregon
started in a large way, in the North
west Wheat Growers, and steadily
wei't out of business. The U. 3. can
warn a lot from Canada in the way
of successful co-operation.
A Tip to Potato Growers. ,
When you dig your potatoes follow
close in grading and picking them up.
On cool, cloudy days it does not hurt
to leave them, but on hot, sunshiny
days an hour or two exposure to the
blistering sun is likely to cost you a
lot of money and grief, for the po
tatoes will scald and sunburn and
when sacked for shipment or storage
they will begin to rot in a few days
and rot the others with which they
come in contact. If left on the track
for a few days a rotting smell will
warn buyers of their condition. Dont
let them be exposed to the hot sun.
What Inspection Does.
Tre Minnesota Director of Markets
says that before Federal-State inspec
tion 25 of the butter of that state
scored 92, but since nispection 70
of the butter now scores 92. This is
direct proof that inspection does im
prove the grade by making produc
ers take more pains.
Workmen are busy placing a new
fire escape on Hotel Heppner this
week. The old escapes were not up
to the requirements of the state law,
hence the necessity of putting in the
proper equipment at this time.
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Oregon Has Many Bees
But Imports Much Honey
Although Oregon has 100,000 colon
ies of bees, 10,000 beekeepers, and
$1,500,000 invested in bees and bee
keeping equipment, many carloads of
honey are imported into the state an
nually. The state is capable of sup
plying enough honey to meet the de
mands of immediate consumption and
still have enough remaining to sup
plant all of the syrup and much of
the sugar now used in the state.
Oregon has more than 200,000 acres
of alfalfa and at least as much fire
weed. With a substantial increase
in the acreage of clover and Hungar
ian vetch in the Willamette valley and
Douglas county, the state could pro
vide bee pasture for at least 500,000
colonies.
Advocates of increased production
are making special effort to locate
prospective beekeepers in the most
desirable but unoccupied places. A
better understand ng of the weather,
soil, and marketing in particular lo
calities will further successful bee
keeping. The annual loss from Amer
ican foul brood is estimated at ap
proximately $25,000. This disease
can be controlled or eliminated en
tirely from most sections by using
the area clean-up method, combined
with adequate follow-up inspection,
is the word sent ou tfrom 0. A. C.
Heavy Wind Visits
Here Sunday P. M.
For several days the past week the
weather haa been quite warm, and on
Saturday and Sunday this section
was threatened with electric storms,
but the result was a heavy wind on
Sunday evening that materially
cooled down the heat but dissipated
all prospects of rain.
No damage is reported in this vi
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cinity, but there was a heavy blow in
the timber belt, and south of Parkers
Mill in the vicinity of Wall creek
there was a cloud burst of consider-
able proportions and the bridge across
Wall creek was washed out. Hail
also came down pretty heavily in
some sections but no serious damage
from this Bource is reported, aa the
most of the hail fell in the timber
belt.
STANFIELD RESIGNS FROM BANK.
R. B. Stantield, who has been cash
ier of the Bank of Echo since its or
ganization, has resigned that position
and will sever his connection with the
bank July 1. George J. Mitchell, for
mer assistant cashier in the bank, will
take Mr. Stanfield's place as cashier.
Mr, Stantield has accepted a posi
tion with the Federal Land Bank of
Spokane. His work will be in the
Montana field during the summer
months, with headquarters at Mis
soula. At the close of the summer
season he will be with the bank at
Spokane. Mrs. Stantield will spend
the summer with him in the field
work. Miss Maxine will go to Port
land where she will spend the sum
mer as a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Stantield and Senator and Mrs. R. N.
Stantield. Maxine has registered and
been accepted as a student at Whit
man college, where she will start this
fall. Echo News,
"POURING" PARTY IS HELD.
Seventeen quarts of supposedly
good bonded whiskey was poured into
the gutter at the court house at 10
o'clock this morning and thus the tale
of the old car purchased by Rev. G.
L, Drill is ended. The liquor was
found hidden in the wrecked car when
the Christian church pastor bought
the machine for $35. He turned the
liquor over to Sheriff Cookingham
and it was officially Indicted for be
ing in existence without warrant of
law. The order for the destruction
of the liquor was issued by Judge
Norborne Berkeley, local justice of
the peace. The judge, the district at
torney and Deputy Sheriff Bennett
officiated at the "pouring." Pendle
ton East Oregon! an.
Horse pasture for rent. Telephone
7F11, Heppner. H. V. Coxon,
MANY WAYS FOR
PREVENTING TY
PHOID AVAILABLE
Greatest Danger of Infection Is
During Vacations and While
on Camping Trips.
State Board of Health.
Typhoid fever can be prevented in
number of ways most of them
good. Sin;; the disease is caused by
swallowing the germs, anything that
will kill them in what we eat or
drink is effective. Since the germs
enter food and drink by contamina
tion with the waste i of people who
excrete typhoid germs, anything that
keeps these wastes from coming into
contact with food and drink will pre
vent the disease.
These means are employed when
ever sufficient supervision can be giv
en, as in towns with active health
departments. The water supply is
carefully watched, and is purified if
necessary. Dairies are kept under
control, and milk is usually pasteur
ized to make sure it is safe. Food
handlers are examined to see that
they are not typhoid-carriere, or peo
ple who, having had the disease, still
excrete the germs, which are sure to
infect the food which they handle.
All these methods are good, and in
urban communities keep the typhoid
cases down to a very low level. When
we travel around, however, we are
much more apt to come into contact
with typhoid germs. The spring that
we camp by may be polluted; the far
mer who sells as our milk may be
excreting typhoid germs, and include
a few billions of them gratia per
quart, kven at home we may run
across a restaurant where an undis
covered carrier is employed as cook.
What can we do under these circum
stances? There ia another way be
sides avoiding the germs: by taking
the fight to the enemy and strength
ening our bodies against the germ,
so that we may not develop the dis
ease even if it gets in.
A person who gets typhoid fever de
velops resisting power to the germ.
If he didn't, he'd never get well. This
resisting power stays on for some
years, and keeps him from getting ty
phoid fever again during that time,
even tb,o he should swallow the germs.
It's the same sort of immunity that
is produced by many other diseases,
the body, however, does not distin
guish between live and dead germs,
when it starts fighting. In other
words, it will fight dead germs, and
thereby develop its resisting power,
just as it would live ones. The dead
ones, tbo, cannot multiply and pro
duce typhoid fever. We take advant
age of this habit of the body by in
jecting dead typhoid bacilli, under the
skin. Thereby we fool our bodies in
to thinking that they have live ones
to fight, and train them to be able to
resist live ones when they do meet
them.
The fight of the body against the
dead germs sometimes produces a
little fever, but the great comfort of
knowing we are protected against
typhoid eaily makes up for that. This
Typhoid "vaccination" is valuable at
all times, but especially so when we
contemplate a camping trip. If we
take it every three years, we keep
ourselves protoected against all or
dinary chances of getting the disease.
Typhoid vaccination was mainly re
sponsible for the great drop in th
number of cases from the Spanish
American to the late World War, with
about two hundred cases per one
thousand soldiers annually in the
former and one-third case per thous
and per year in the latter.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Pilot Rock and the surrounding
farming section were hit pretty hard
by a cloudburst and hail storm Sun
day afternoon, and it is reported that
considerable damage was done to
growing grain. Much grain had al
ready lodged on account of being
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ground by the hail, while the heavy
' downpour ot water wasnea Dig aucnes
Jin the fields on the side hills.
The Heppner postoffice has been re
duced to the third class by order is
sued from Washington this week. For
a good many years the postoffice here
has been in the second class but a
falling off in business now gives this
office a lower rank with a consequent
reduction in the salary of the post
master and a reduction in the office
force.
Mrs. T. J. Humphreys arrived home
Tuesday evening, accompanied by her
daughter. Miss Evelyn, who is re
turning home from Eugene, where
during the past year she has been a
student at the University of Oregon.
They visited with relatives at Hills
boro and Portland while on the re
turn trip.
The Legion swimming pool at Hepp
ner is the main attraction these days
and it is receiving an abundance of
pntronage, all of which is pleasing
the Legion boys. The water is very
fine and the youngsters, as well as
the older folks are greatly enjoying
the bathing at the pool each day. !
Mrs. Roger Morse and children re
turned home on Tuesday. They have
been absent for the past three weeks,
visiting with relatives at Beaverton,
Portland and ancouver. Lldndge
Morse, a cousin of Roger, accompan
ied Mrs. Morse home and will visit
here for a short time.
Sheriff McDuffte returned Tuesday
from a trip to Hot Lake wh?ro his
his daughter, Miss Lucille, is recover
ing from an operation. Miss McDuf
getting along quite well and will re
main at the sanitarium until she
completely recovers.
Spencer Crawford and family will
leave on Saturday for Portland. From
there Mrs. Crawford and the children
will take the train fur Berkeley, Cnl.,
to visit for a couple of months at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
II. C. Githens.
Heppner Transfer Company, office
at Baldwin's Second Hand Store.
Phone Main 82.
By Arthur Brabant)
"Something Wrong," Gary
Flying, Diving, a New Era
Ford's New Plan
Rain, Corn, Price
Judge Gary says there ia something
wrong with business conditions, and
the something is LACK OF CON
FIDENCE, "the abnormal, unneces
sary and TIMID, ill poised mental
attitude of managers, including our
selves. That's as sound as a steel ingot.
Our troubles are mental. Put a plank
six inches wide on the ground, and
of a hundred people, every one will
walk the length of it without fear of
falling. Put the same plank fifty
feet in the air, and two in a hundred,
perhaps, will be able to walk it. Put
your plank up two hundred feet, and
not one in a thousand will try to
cross It.
Yet, leaving out fear, it Is as easy
to walk such a plank a thousand feet
up as it is fiat on tne ground.
The height of our national prosper
ity makes some people dizzy.
This is a new age, and the things
we do would have surprised not only
our grandfathers, but ourselves a few
years back.
Young gentlemen studying at An
napolis are told that hereafter an of
ficer and a gentleman must know how
to fly.
And out in the Pacific Ocean, down
among the coral lanes, near the Gal
apagos Islands, scientists, with div
ing helmets on their heads, their
otherwise naked bodies well oiled,
are sitting under the water, studying
the fish that come, wide-eyed, to
study the men.
For the first time in his several
hundred thousand years of existence
on this planet, man can truly say the
earth is his and the fullness thereof.
He goes up into the clouds and down
into the ocean.
With such wonders happening so
rapidly, who knows but men may sud
denly find a way to live on this earth
without cutting each others' throats
in war.
President Coolidge, it is said, will
cut twenty-five millions a year from
the cost of the United States army
a good idea. Soldiers marching over
the ground in future war from the
air will be about as useful as so
many rabbits when eagles attack
them.
The President's economy will be
twice as valuable if he will arrange
to spend the twenty-five millions cut
from the army on the building of
more flying machines.
Henry Ford will use United States
ships, if he gets them, to take cars
South and around into the Gulf
of Mexico and bring fruit and veget
ables back to the north.
That programme wou'.d be welcom
ed by millions. It would help to solve
one problem of distribution and de
velop the great producing regions of
the south as they should be developed.
Messrs. Fall, Doheny and Sinclair
have been re-indicted for conspiracy
by a Grand Jury in the District of
Columbia. If you find anybody anx
ious to bet that Mr. Fall will go to
jail for selling the people's oil lands
and taking secret payment for the
sale, TAKE THE BET. We don't jail
the really big criminals in this coun
try. Little criminals, yes. It's a
dangerous country for them, if they
're caught.
It has been raining in the corn belt
and that has cheered the farmers.
The corn crop suffered for lack of
rain.
Immediately the price of corn fell
more than S cents a bushel, Dsceirber
corn dropping to 93 cent. The
weather does something to cheer up
the farmer, and then the grain spec
ulators to cheer him DOWN again.
At Yucatpa, California, all mem
bers of the First Methodist Church
witnessed the end of a Bible-reading
marathon.
It was a noble reading, all out loud,
every word distinctly pronounced.
The pastor, Rev. R. D. Raley, stayed
awake and read or listened through
out the 691 hours.
More deliberate reading, especially
of Job and Isaiah, would be prefer
able. But any Bible reading U bet
ter than none.
In Thibet you can give a few cop
pers to a pagan priest with his pray
er mill. You go your way comforted,
he grinds out 10,000 prayers for you
on his little mill. Those prayers are
believed to do good, although verbal
praying from the heart may be bet
ter. Martin Johnson arid family arrived
at Heppner on Tuesday for a visit
with the home folks. While taking
a summer's vacation, Mr. Johnson U
engaged in the business of repairing
and retinishing patent desks In the
school buildings, at the present hav
ing a contract of fixing up 600 dwaka
in the schools at The Dailss.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Campbell and
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ktene and fam
ily departed on Saturday for Union,
Oregon, where they expected to vimt
for a few days and then go on to
Wallowa Lake for a stay of a wok
or two and enjoy an outing lu the
Wallowa Wonderland,
FOR SALE- Some 22 head of pig;
inquire of Pyle it Grimes, Parkers
Mill.