Historic SocW'
The GazetteTimes
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF MORROW COUNTY
Volume 42, Number 33.
HEPPNEPw, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1925.
Subscripion $2.00 Per Year
TO
Eight Head Local Rodeo
Stock Taken to Pen
' dleton This Week.
STOCK ALL SECURED
Mac Kilkenny Will B. Queen of I25
Show; Band Not Yet Choaen; Com
mittera to Meet Friday Evenlnf.
Not a great deal remains to be
done in completing all arrangement!
for the Heppner Rodeo, and Manager
McNamer aays that all will be in ship
nape within another week or ao, and
that the Heppner ahoy will be aet for
the grand opening on Thursday, Sep
tember 24th. All the stock that will
appear on the various programs is
now rounded up, and the other pre
liminaries are fast being worked out.
Eight head of the Heppner Rodeo
horses were taken to Pendleton this
week, at the request of the Round
Up association, and have gone into
training for the big show coming olT
there a week ahead of ours. Recip
rocating this favor, the Round-Up
association will send over to Heppner
a like number of their star perform
ers, and as Heppner already has some
of the wildest broncs and hardest
buckers in the country, the visitors
to the Heppner show will be treated
to plenty of thrills.
For queen of the Rodeo this year,
the committee has chosen Miss Mae
Kilkenny, daughter of John Kilkenny
of Hinton creek. Miss Kilkenny is
a fine horsewoman and her choice for
this position is a happy one, indeed.
At a meeting of committee members
on Monday evening at the office of C.
L. Sweek, applications from bands
from Milton-Freewater and The
Dalles were considered, bu ta choice
was not made, as a little more time
for investigation was required. It Is
reported that either of these musical
organizations is mighty good, and
either band is qualified to furnish
plenty of good, lively music. It was
also decided at this meeting to have
another meeting of all committees on
Friday evening at the council cham
bers, the following being the com
mittees with those who are to serve
thereon:
General Rodeo Committee L. V.
Gentry, C. W. McNamer, Chaa. H. Lat
ourell, John French.
SUB COMMITTEES.
Committee In charge of Dances and
Tickets L. E. Bisbee, Walter Moore,
C. L. Sweek.
Committee on Parking Care W. U
laDusire, Pete Shively, J. O. Rasmus,
Martin Reid, Harward Brown.
Ticket Collectora at Dance H. A.
Duncan, C. V. Hopper, Glenn Jones,
Chas. Vaughn, F. E. Farrior, Richard
Wells, Clarence Bauman, Chas. B.
Cox, Gay M. Anderson, P. M. Gemmell,
Francis Doherty, L. VanMarter, H.
II. Hill, Alva Jones, James oCwins,
Earl Gilliam. B. P. Stone.
Ticket Collectors at Groanda D. T.
Goodman, K. K. Mahoney, W. Y. Ball,
Earl Gordon, D. A. Wilson, H. A.
Cohn, Gene Ferguson, E. E. Clark.
Arthur McAtee, W. H. Coffee, Andrew
Olson, Spencer Crawford, Frank Tur
ner, M. A. Frye, Albert Adkins, Clar
ence Serivner, W. C. Cox, J. B. Sny
der, Chas. Thomson.
Ticket Sellers at Grounds J. J.
Nya, Esrl Hallock, Paul Gemmell, M.
D. Clark, T. J. Humphreys. James
Thomson, Vawter Crawford, J. J.
Wells, E. G. Noble.
Housing Committee Frank Turner,
H. A. Cohn, L. L. Matlock.
Dress-Up Committee Frank Gil
liam, W. P. Mahoney, J. W. Beymer,
C. A. Minor, A. M. Phelps.
Among other improvements at the
grounds this season will be an ex
tension of the bleachers. One hun
dred feet additional seats will be put
in, thus to better accomodate the
crowds. A tryout of the Rodeo stock
is scheduled for next Sunday after
noon, and this will be .an opportunity
for some little excitement as some
of the bad stock will be placed under
the saddle.
DIST. SUPERINTENDENT HERE.
Wednesday night was the occasion
of the last local business meeting
for the conference year at the Meth
odist Community church. Dr. A. S.
Hlsey, district superintendent, was
present. After the business seseion,
Dr. Hisey gave an interesting ad
dress before the members and friends
of the church. This was followed
by the usual social hour. Light re
freshments were served. Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Hughes were guests of
honor for the evening, in recognition
of their services to the church. A
number of the boys and young men
who through several years have been
members of the class In Sunday school
taught by Mr. Hughes, were present
to do him honor. Harold Case, In be
half of the class, made the presen
tation of a book, "Out of Doors With
Jesus," as a token of their apprecia
tion of his tutorship.
JUDGE PHELPS MUCH IMPROVED.
From the Pendleton East Oregonian
it is learned that Judge G. W. Phelps,
who has been seriously ill In Port
land, is much improved and la now
able to be up. Judge and Mrs. Phelps
expect to return to their Pendleton
home on September 1st.
SEED RYE Will Arrive This Week
You will And the PRICE and QUALITY both right for
YOUR WINTER'S SUPPLY OF FLOUR
Brown Warehouse Co.
WE DELIVER WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
ALL IS READY
FOR OPENING
DAY AT SCHOOL
Next Monday Begins Fall Term
Prospect of Record Attendance
and Full Corps of Teachers.
Thii paper is Informed by Prof.
J. M. Burgess, the new superinten
dent, that everything1 is in apple pte
order for the opening; of school on
Monday morning, Septmeber 7. For
the past month Janitor Drincoll has
been cleaning up the building and
both interior and exterior present a
tidy appearance. The teaching force
is gathering in and it is expected that
by Saturday all the instructors will
be on hand and ready for their work.
Quite a number of new teachers will
be on the staff this year, and in the
grades they will be placed as fol
lows :
Mrs. Edna Turner, first grade: Mrs.
Elisabeth Dix, second grade ; Miss
Harriet Case, third grade: Miss Nor-
een Nelson, fourth grade; Mrs. Amy
E. Finch, fifth grade; Miss Helen V.
Frederick son, sixth grade; Miss Edith
Coon, seventh grade; Breynton Finch,
eighth grade.
The high school: James M. Bur
gess, superintendent; Chas. C. Smith,
principal; Miss Annabel Denn, Miss
Charlotte A. Newhouse, Miss Francis
K. Simpson, Miss Thelma Jean Mil
ler, instructors.
GOOD SENSE.
(Albany Herald)
After the few fitful outbreaks, rep
resented in dissenting resolutions by
one or two small outlying game asso
ciations in Oregon, it is pleasant to
note 'What action the Snatiam Fish
and Game Protective and Propagative
Association has taken. Upon the first
flush of reorganization of the State
Game Commission, when a coup'e of
commissioners and a number of of
ficials left their posts, a sobbing for
sympathy with the ousted jobholder.;
was instigated by their newspaper
friends. It has been, in the past, all
too easy to stampede the local frame
associations over Oregon into almost
any sort of ill-considered action. In
the present instance all this was
changed. Waiting until the first ex
citement had died down, the Santiam
association met this week and pro
ceeded to resolute on the subject of
the recent game commission upheaval.
The result is an example to other
bodies of sportsmen of sound, sane
and well-infprmed action. It ought
to do much toward convincing the
stampeders that the day is passing
when sportsmen do not understand
the principles of game science and
may be stampeded into supportirp
men and methods inimical to their
own interests. The action of the lo
cal association will inject a large
fright into those who will be at work,
even now, to hamper the commission b
work, discredit it and deprive it of
office or of power. When sportsmen
get their eyes open, inefficient trouph
hungry politicians seek cover hastily.:
Not only did the local association
place itself on record to support the
commission as long as it operated;
successfully, but it did more; it
touched on the very point we deem
more important still, it recommended j
to other simitar associations that sim
ilar resolutions be passed throughout!
the state. I
Here is a body of intelligent, in
formed sportsmen, in one of the most
important game centers of the state,
not only practicing wisdom but point
ing out to sportsmen all over the
state the path of wisdom and, by
inference, deprecating that any of;
them have been stampeded into de- j
nouncing the commission's shakeup
which obviously is all for the better.:
So that certain newspapers in Ore
gon which have attempted to state be
forehand what the sportsmen's atti
tude would be, may draw what en
lightenment they may from the reso
lution, the conclusion of it is quoted
here. The document recounts some
of the troubles that have been visited
upon game administration in Oregon,
and, declaring its confidence in the
commission as now constituted, men
tions by name in this regard M. H.
Bauer and William L. Finley, the new
commissioners. Further:
It is hereby resolved by the San
tiam Fish and Game Protective and
Propagative Association in regular
session duly assembled that it does
hereby pledge its support to the
new commission and especially the
recently appointed members there
of, so long as the afTairs of said
commission are managed In a ca
pable and business-like manner;
Be It further resolved, that said
association now assembled hereby
expresses belief that the various
game associations of the State of
Oregon should fully support said
commission until such time a there
is reason to act contrary.
The local association is to be com
mended for showing this fair and in
telligent grasp of the subject and it
Is only to be regretted that a few
sportsmen in other parts of Oregon
still do not understand the very
science they seek to uphold and still
may be stampeded into taking stands
against their own interests.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mahoney and
daughter Patricia and K. K. Mahoney
departed on Wednesday for Spokane
on a combined business and pleasure
trip. They may also visit points in
Northern Idaho before returning.
ttrtmtmtmmwnmitttKtmmi
Emil Carlson, extensive wheatraiser
of the Gooseberry section, was in
the city for a short while on Monday
attending to business matters. The
Carlson brothers have their grain
mostly in hte warehouse now, and it
turned out pretty well, making around
twenty bushels to the acre. Mr. Carl
son is a strong booster for the bond
issue, realizing as he does, the in
vestment good roads are for the far
mer situated some distance from the
railraod. The final completion of the
lone-Gooseberry market road will be
a fine thing for his section of the
county, and Mr. Carlson expressed
the hope that those farmers now sit
uated on the good surfaced roads
would be generous enough to vote for
the proposed bonds and help their
neighbors further out to get good
roads also.
Mr, and Mrs. John Gates of Spray
were in Heppner for a short time
Wednesday on their return home from
a visit to Pendleton. The Spray
country has turned out good crops
of hay and grain this season, so Mr.
Gates states. He also says that he
hopes to see the Morrow county bond
issue carry, and that within a period
of a few years that a good road con
necting Spray with Heppner will have
been completed, as the people over
that way are anxious to come here
again to do their banking and trading.
, W. W. Bechdolt is busy getting his
wheat into Heppner from the farm
out near Hardman. The crop is not
aa heavy as in former seasons but
turned out very good, all things con
sidered. Mr. Bechdolt states that his
sons will attend college again this
year, Archie going to Whitman at
Walla Walla, where he is a senior,
and Adrain to Corvallis, where he is
a junior, having put in last year at
the Agricultural school.
The front entrance to the room In
the Garrigues building formerly oc
cupied by Gurdane & Son has been
enlarged, and the room rented to Fer
gUHon Bros., who will use it in con
nection with their agency for the
Chevrolet car. They will keep there
also, besides a sample line of the
cars, a full line of accessories, but
expect to maintain their filling sta
tion where it is now.
Rev. Yuel of Dallas preached at
Bethel Chapel last Sunday morning
to an attentive and appreciative au
dience. Rev. and Mrs. Yuel and son
later departed for their home in Dal
las where Mr. Yuel has been pastor
of the Presbyterian church for a num
ber of years. Mrs. Yuel is a sister
of A. M. Phelps, at whose home the
family has been enjoying a visit the
past week.
The household effects of Percy
Hughes were moved to their new
home near Umapine on Wednesday,
moving vans coming over from Free
water for that purpose. Mrs. Hughes
was here to attend to the shippirg.
They have located on a farm near
Lmapine and the children will be
students of the Milton-Freewater high
school this fall and winter.
Labor Day will be recognized in the
services at the Methodist Community
church next Sunday. The theme pre
sented by the pastor at the eleven
o'clock hour wilt be "The Duty of the
Christian Pulpit Toward Labor and
Its Problems." An urgent invitation
is extended to every man of the city
to attend. This is your day.
Mrs. M. L. Curran wishes to an
nounce an early showing of Fall and
Winter hats Friday and Saturday,
September 4th and 6th.
Mr. nnd Mrs. W. P. Mahoney, Mis
BONDS FOR
THE building of trunk lines of highways in the State
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is now practically completed. The main arteries are be
ing finished, with a gap here and there over the system
to be closed, some bridges yet to be built, and minor im
provements to care for. In bringing the roads to this
state of perfection, the funds in the hands of the State
Highway Commission are about exhausted, but they hope
that their program shall have been carried out to com
pletion before the funds are entirely gone.
In Morrow county there remains but about 14 miles
of state highway to be built.
Lena-yinson gap in the Oregon-Washington highway.
On this work the stste has agreed to spend 60 cent.; to
the county's 40 cents. In other words, the county is to
put up $75,000 and the state $105,000, making a total of
$180,000, which is the estimated cost of the completed
work as given by the highway engineers.
As stated in last issue, the county does not expect to
sell any bonds of the proposed issue in order to cooperate
with the state on this work. They will use the sinking
fund now on hand, which, when needed, will be equal to
the sum asked of the county, and thus this work can be
pushed without adding one mill of additional tax. The
benefits of the completion of the Oregon-Washington
highway are fully recognized, and we are entitled to get
something for the money already invested in that road.
This part of the state's system in Morrow county may
not have been built where it should have been, as sug
gested by a correspondent in this issue of The Gazette
Times, but it cannot be changed now, and to do so would
only mean the spending of a much greater sum of money
than is required for the completion of the Lena-Vinson
gap.
So much for the only state road that our program calls
for. The balance of the $550,000 will be spent over a
period of from six to ten years in the building and exten
sion of market roads. Not another road for which funds
are proposed can be otherwise considered. Even the
Heppner-Spray cut-off, so far as it affects this county, is
a market road, and one of much importance to a large
part of the county aside from the territory through which
it. passes. It is now designated as a market road, and
while it might become in a measure a tourist road even
tually, it will serve much of our farming and rural pop
ulation, opening up the timber belt to a large portion of
the south end and west side of the county. Do a little
Attend Family Reunion
At Monument Yesterday
Mrs. Frank Turner aiyj children
left Tuesday afternoon for the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam V.
Cochran, and on Wednesday afternoon
a family reunion was held at the old
Cochran farm home at Monument,
now farmed by Mrs. Turner's brother,
J. F. Cochran. Mr. and Mrs. S. V.
Cochran reside near Top, and all of
their children were present, these
being J. F. Cochran and family, Mr.
and Mrs. L. V. Swick and family of
Monument, Mrs. Louis Morris and
family of John Day and Mrs. Frank
Turner and children of Heppner.
Mrs. Turner has returned home and
reports that the family gathering
was a great success and much en
joyed. VISIT DAUGHTER IN B. C.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Campbell re
turned home on Friday from an ab
sence of two weeks or more from
the city. They journeyed to Yack, B.
C, where they visited their daughter,
Mrs. Wm. Crow. They also visited
other points of interest over the bor
der, and returning by way of Medical
Lake, Wash., were accompanied home
by his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
John Campbell who are spending the
week visiting here.
CARD OF THANKS.
We desire to express our very sin
cere thanks and appreciation to the
friends and neighbors who so prompt
ly responded and came to our aid
when our residence was burned last
week. The prompt work and ready
response were the means of saving
much of our property.
C. W. VALENTINE AND FAMILY.'
Patricia Mahoney and Mr. and Mrs.
K. K. Mahoney departed Wednesday
morning for their vacation, going
from here to Spokane. They expect
to visit several points of interest in
Washington and Northern Idaho.
A number of Bethel Chapel ladies
motored up to the George Thomson
and Pruyn cottage on Willow creek
Tuesday where they spent a delight
ful afternoon.
Clyde Wells was a hurry-up visitor
at Heppner yesterday, being on the
trail of a real estate deal. He re
turned to Pendleton late in the af
ternoon. Mrs. W. 0. Dix and daughter Vir
ginia returned home from Monmouth
Sunday evening. Mrs. Dix was ac
companied home by her mother, Mrs.
Young.
Mrs. Frank Anderson and children
left yesterday morning for a motor
trip, expecting to stop at Shippard
Springs before returning home.
Mrs. Ray Rogers and little daugh
ter of Redmond, Ore., are guests at
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Darbee, in this city.
Mrs. M. L. Curran wishes to an
nounce an early showing of Fall and
Winter hats Friday and Saturday,
September 4th and 5th.
Mr. and Mrs. 0. J. Cox and Mr. and
Mrs. Riley Munkers were Lexington
people in the city yesterday. j
Walter Hayes was in the city yes
terday from the Joe Hayes ranch on
Big Butter creek.
Copper Carbonate, first quality, at
reasonable price. Peoples Hardware
Company,
Apartments, 2, 3 or 4 rooms; fur
nished or partly furnished. Nettie
Flower.
LOST Auto trunk cover. Return
to Thomson Bros, store for reward.
This will complete the
Burned Over Area to Be
Cleaned on Wednesday
THE decision of the City
Council to call a holiday
for the cleaning of the burned
over area on lower Main street
will be carried out. Next Wed
nesday, September 9th, is the
day set and it is desired that
sufficient help will be on hand
to complete the job in good
shape within a few hours.
Trucks have been offered by
Frank Turner and Jeff Jones
for hauling off the debris, and
several other trucks can be
used if they are on hand. Each
business house is expected to
furnish at least one man, and
all persons interested are in
vited to turn out and help. It
is desired to start the work by
8 o'clock on the morning of the
8th. This is a move in the di
rection of civic pride and there
is no doubt of the liberal re
sponse of the citizens of the
city.
CITY COUNCIL.
By E. G. Noble, Mayor.
Rodeo Grounds
Be Cleaned Monday
Monday being Labor Day, is an op
portune time for cleaning the Rodeo
grounds of weeds and other trash.
Volunteers are called for by the com
mittee to help put this work across,
and a liberal response to the call will
make an easy job of it. We under
stand that many have already ex
pressed their willingness to join in
this work.
Another item of improvement was
the painting of the city flag pole yes
terday. It has been out of commis
sion for some time, and the painter
restrung the pole so that hereafter
the big city flag will be flung to the
breeze on proper and patriotic oc
casions. Grant Olden, Rhea creek farmer,
was doing business here yesterday.
He finished his harvest several weeks
ago and then the family had a trip
by auto to Southern Oregon, where
they took in Crater Lake, Diamond
Lake and other points of interest, en
joying the outing immensely.
SWIMMING TICKETS.
All unused coupon swimming tick
et may be turned in and a refund on
the unused portion may be obtained
until September 15th, at the option
of the holder, and those not cashed
by this date will be given credit on
next year's swimming season. The
refund may be obtained from P. M.
Gemmell at the First National Bank.
Heppner Post, American Legion,
wishes to thank the public for their
support of the swimming pool the
past season.
Mrs. Emery Gentry, who has been
in charge of the store of F. L. Har
wood during the latter's absence the
past two weeks, returned to her home
at Pendleton on Wednesday.
Mrs-. M. L. Curran wishes to an
nounce an early showing of Fall and
Winter hats Friday and Saturday,
September 4th and 6th.
I will serve meals in rooms over
the Farmers & Stockgrowers Bank
beginning Sept. 15. Mrs. Ida M. Pyle.
MARKET ROADS
figuring on the program as outlined, and it will be seen
how well the county is to be served in the matter of mar
ket roads, and this, in the final analysis, is the big item
of development.
There is much said in opposition to the bond issue on
the question of taxes. Fanners are burdened with tax
ation now; they cannot pay their taxes as things now
stand; why add more? In reply to this it is only neces
sary to state that the benefits to be derived from the ex
tension of the market road system will far outweigh the
additional cost in taxation. Roads of this character are
no longer experiments, and the saving that can be made
in transportation of crops and produce to the railroad, as
well as the placing of those things needful on the farm
that have to be hauled out from the railway station is
proven by the comparatively small amount of permanent
roads we already have. The one item of getting the
grain into market in an average year will effect a saving
to the fanner in actual cash as much or more than his
entire tax bill for the period of the bonds would amount
to. This benefit is all to the farmer and producer, who
will be in position to get onto the hard surfaced roads.
Quite a number of Morrow county farmers are now en
joying these benefits; it is stated that some of these are
not much interested now in the proposed bonds, having
their good road; but why be selfish? The neighbor be
yond is helping you pay for what you enjoy; why not
reciprocate by placing him in position to have what you
have.
Morrow county is now bonded in the sum of $265,000,
on the serial basis, $25,000 of the original issue having
been paid. These bonds will mature by 1929, the date
of final payment. There will be no provision for raising
a sinking fund on the new issue until after the old is
paid, therefore no immediate raise in taxation. The court
proposes to sell $100,000 of bonds following the author
ization of the issue for the purpose of pushing the market
road program along as stated in last issue. To this will
be added the $32,000 the county receives per year from
the state market road fund. Over a period of six years
this will amount to $102,000, a sum to be added to the
$550,000, all of which goes into market roads, except the
$75,000 called for to be expended in cooperation with the
state on the completion of the Oregon-Washington high
way. Putting it another way; Funds to the amount of $207,
000 are available immediately following the passing of
the bond issue; by sale of bonds, $100,000; state mar
ket road fund, $32,000; sinking fund, $75,000. Should
Fire Destroys Country
Home of C. W. Valentine
The country home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. Valentine, about five miles
northwest of Heppner, was totally
destroyed by fire on last Thursday
afternoon while all the family were
in town except their son James. He
and Ralph Leach were at the home
when the fire occurred, but were un
able to put it out. Practically all the
contents were destroyed also.
The boys were left working in the
garden some distance from the house,
and breaking out a hoe handle, went
to the kitchen and started a fire in
the stove to burn out the remaining
piece of wood. This they did,
tinguished the fire in the stove, put
out the fire lingering in the piece
of cast out handle and went back to
work some distance away. The fire
was discovered after they bad been
at work some little while and the
boys rushed in to do what they could
in putting it out. Too much headway
had been gained, however, and they
could not stop its advance by putting
water on with buckets, so they spread
the alarm and proceeded to get out
what of the contents they could.
Some assistance soon arrived from
passers by on the highway as well as
from Lexington, and the piano and
several pieces of furniture were re
moved. The loss is covered by $2500
of insurance, and Mr. Valentine will
proceed at once to the job of rebuild
ing. It is quite evident that the fire in
the little piece of hoe handle was
not put out as the boys supposed, and
the wind coming up evidently carried
sparks to the woodbox outside the
door and near to where they had left
the embers. From this it spread to
the walls of the house and the blaze
was well under way when discovered.
MAKE QUICK TRIP SOUTH.
Frank Harwood and Joe Devine re
turned from a trip to Los Angeles
Tuesday morning. Mr. Harwood went
to Fresno for the purpose of getting
his little daughter, and drove on
south to take a squint at the big me
tropolis. From Heppner to Los An
geles the trip was made on record
time, not more than three days trav
eling from Heppner to the southern
city, but Frank states they were
moving all the time, night and day,
the men alternating at the wheel and
taking but one night's stopover on
the way. The journey home was made
a little more leisurely. While south,
the party also visited the city of San
ta Barbara where they spent a few
hours viewing the ruins caused by the
recent earthquake. The trip was a
very pleasant one all the way round,
and Frank feels that they made rec
ord time, traveling as they were in a
Ford coupe.
VISIT THE ST ALTER MINES.
For an outing of several days, Mr.
and Mrs. Orain Wright of Rhea creek
journeyed over to the Greenhorns and
had a visit with Dan Stalter at the
Mayflower mine, in which a number of
local people are interested as stock
holders. Mr. Wright returned the
first of the week and states that Mr.
Stalter is making progress on the
mine and getting out some fine ore,
samples of which he brought to this
city and they may be seen at the First
National Bank.
ORGANIZING MUSIC CLASS.
Mrs. C. V. Hopper is organizing a
class in piano for the winter, be
ginning Sept. 12. In addition to piano
lessons pupils will get some work
along the line of Ear Training, The
ory. History and Music Memory con
tests. Mrs. Hopper is enthusiastic
over her plans for her winter class,
now rapidly gathering. Lessons are
$3.75 per month, and $1.00 per les
son for advanced pupils. Adv.
it be found necessary to provide for the paying of the
$100,000 bond issuefit would require but an additiona'
35 cents on the $1000 to care for it. But as stated above,
there will be no sinking fund required until the end of
four years after the sale of bonds.
The bond issue will nof be paid off during yea's of
depression. It is spread over a series of years, and the
payment will really begin at a time when conditions
have been adjusted to normal and the country is more
generally on a prosperity basis. Just right now it would
be a fine thing to have some public money to spend on
the roads that the farmers could get hold of by working
their teams. It would help quite materially.
It is stated that this issue will be followed by another,
and that there will be no end to the burden that the pres
ent generation, and generations to follow will have to
bear as a consequence. However, there is no need to
worry on that score. Future bond issues will take care
of themselves, just as the future generations will be able
to handle their problems as they come up to them. Our
children and their children will be given something that
they will thank us for in the building of permanent roads,
and there need he no fear that they will be able to handle
themselves and come out all right.
There is no need of being misled by the talk that this
road bond issue is one proposed solely by the commercial
clubs of the towns and the business interests in these
communities. They are no more interested in this pro
gram than are the residents of the rural districts. And
it might be well to state that the merchandising interests
of the towns are not at the present, and have not been
for several years past, in any position of great affluence.
They have been taking the knocks along with the stock
man, the farmer and the producer, and they are just as
anxious for their prosperity and success as for their own.
The country merchants in Morrow county are no pluto
cratic class, but they may have a vision, along with oth
ers that a road program such as is proposed in this elec
tion is one of progress, and may prove beneficial to the
farming interests in the building up of rural conditions,
the cutting up of farms and placing more people on the
land to help in the carrying of the tax burdens we already
have, and ultimately the business interests of the town,
that have stood by the fanning interests and stock indus
try to the breaking point and beyond, will reap only their
share of the general prosperity, and be saved from bank
ruptcy. The program is a good one; it spells progress.
Let us put it over.
More facts and figures will be presented next week.
Transient Sheep Tax
Law Will Be Tested
Oregon Wool Grower.
The last session of the Oregon Leg
islature amended the transient live
stock law to provide for two assess
ments on transient sheep, one assess
ment to be made in the home county,
the other to be made in the grazing
county or counties. As we have pre
viously predicted in the Oregon Wool
Grower, considerable difficulty has
arisen over the proper interpretation
of this law and the enforcement of
same. The new tax law did not go
into effect until May 27, and all tran
sient sheep were assessed as of March
1, under the old law, which pro-rated
the taxes between the home and graz
ing counties. Many growers who
move their sheep into grazing coun
ties have come in contact with the
county assessors of these counties
who have demanded that taxes be paid
in accordance with the law going in
to effect May 27, but inasmuch as the
sheep were assessed at 100 per cent
value fn the home county as of March
1st, it is no small matter for the as
sessor to convince such sheep men
that another tax should be assessed
and paid.
Wallowa, Union and Grant counties
are the three principal counties that
are affected by the transient livestock
law, and the assessors in these coun
ties have been more active in insist
ing on payment in accordance with
the law, in spite of the opinion of
the attorney general, which is avail
able to each and all of them, that
the law is not operative for 1925. One
Washington sheep man has paid the
tax demanded by Wallowa county un
der protest, and is now suing Wal
lowa county to recover taxes and
costs. Umatilla county sheep men
are also seeking to secure an injunc
tion prohibiting the county assessor
of Wallowa county from levying the
tax in accordance with the new law
and the contitutionality of the law
will also be tested out.
Our advice to sheep men who are
ranging sheep in adjoining counties is
to await the results of these test
cases before paying the taxes demand
ed by the grazing counties. If it is
not possible to wait on account of the
danger of having the sheep attached
and improperly cared for, we advise
paying the tax demanded under pro
test. We believe this law to be a very
unjust one from the standpoint of the
sheep and wool industry of the state
of Oregon, and hope to see it declared
unconstitutional or repealed by the
next legislature. We believe that
every effort should be made to brirg
this about.
RETURN FROM EAST LAKE.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Latourell re
turned on Sunday from East Lake,
where they spent a couple of weeks
enjoying an outing and landing their
quota of the big fish out of the lake.
While there, Mrs. Latourell picked
up a piece of pumice stone that is
somewhat of a curiosity. The pumice
surrounds a quantity of volcanic
glass that pictures quite perfectly a
Chinese dragon, and the image shows
very distinctly on either end. The
specimen can be seen in the window
at Haylor's jewerly store. Fishing
at East Lake has been very fine this
season, Mr. Latourell states, and the
trip over there is now an easy one
just 12 hours from Heppner in one
of Henry's touring cars.
The county court went over to Con
don today to confer with the court of
Gilliam county concerning road mat
ters in which the two counties are
jointly interested.
Room and board at reasonable rates.
Mrs. He?sie Kinny.
This Week
By Arthur Brisbane
The Radio Miracle.
Kill at 100 Miles.
Man Lives Longer.
Mausoleum and Triplets.
The world has never known inch
a miracle aa the miracle of the ra
dio. And no man living know, what
radio and moving pictures combined
are destined to do for education.
As railroads shortened men's jour
neys, and telegraphy shortened trans
mission of messages, so radio and
moving pictures will make shorter
by more than nine-tenths the journey
along the tiresome road of knowledge.
MacMillan, 3,700 miles away in the
Arctic ice, is called up and inter
viewed by radio, answering the As
sociated Press questions with his own
broadcasting apparatus.
Later, when he starts flying. Mac
Millan will be able to answer ques
tions by radio while in flig'it.
If men can do that now. how soon
will they talk through the ethe.- to
those cosmic flying machines, the
planets, floating in space?
?o static or other trouble presum
ably, once you get outside this
earth's atmosphere, only about 500
miles deep.
An invention from New Zealand
sends high explosives through the
air in torpedoes guided by wireless.
inese air torpedoes operate aa do
water-borne torpedoes used to de
stroy batlteships at sea.
And the New Zealand air torpedo
can be launched against an enemy,
nying snip, battleship or city one
hundred miles away and wreck the
object against which it is steered by
wireless.
The United States should get that
invention and be ready with it.
The motto of this ceuntrv should
be:
Be friendly with the whole world.
Be READY for the whole world.
All over the United States'the av
erage age of man is increasing.
fcvery year saved in adult life
means an increase in the nation's
wealth. It costs money to bring up
children, as well as effort and anx
iety. in the state of New York the av
erage age has risen from twenty-four
years in 1840 to thirty years now.
This means that common sense,
science and good doctors have added
six years to the average age of every
individual.
The years are added in the MONEY
EARNING period. Suppose the av
erage adult's work is worth to this
nation $10 a day, and that's a low
estimate. You can figure out for
yourself how much it means in money
to add six years to every adult's life.
tut the J10 to f5. Cut that amount
in half to allow for women and others
not working, and you still have a sav
ing, an incraese of national wealth
to the tune of seventy-five millions
of dollars a year.
Ours is a civilization of interesting
contrasts. For instance, consider the
father who lives in two whitewashed
rooms in Jersey City. Out of work
he was worrying about feeding seven
children when the neighbor, called
in to help his wife," announced trip
lets, making the number of his chil
dren TEN.
.
That father, waiting for the trip
lets to be born, read about a magnif
icent new mausoleum to be built by
a combination of churches, to cost
three and one-half millions, and pro
vide a resting place for corpses, prop
erly embalmed, and put away in their
little niches.
That mausoleum will not have
whitwashed walls, but a fine marble
finish.
When churches ask, "Why are we
not crowded?" one answer might be,
"Because, while mothers of children
lack decent housing, you build $3,
500.000 mausoleums for corpses that
might as well be put in the ground to
add to its fertility, or carried up the
chimney of the crematory, putting
back in!o the air the nitrogen they
took from it." Would the Founder
of Christianity, who had not where
to lay His heud, subscribe to that
Mausoleum
CONGRESSMAN SINNOTT HERE.
N. J. Sinnott, congressman from
the second Orrgon district, was here
from his home at The Dulles on Tues
day. Mr. Sinnott spent but a few
hours in the city, calling on a num
ber of his constituents, and then
drove on to Pendleton. It is by milk
ing these friendly visits over the dis
trict that our congressman keeps in
touch with the need of the people,
and thus has become such a valuable
man at the national capitnl. This of
tice acknowledrea a pleasant unit
from Mr. Sinnott while in the city.
WESTLANll IRUICATION D1STRK T
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given that th
board of directors of the Wustlund Ir.
rigation District, ac'irig as a board
of Equaiuatoin, will meet nt the of
fice of the district In HermUtim, Ore
gon, on the first Tuesday in October,
ly25, at 8 o'clock, p. m., for the pur
pose of reviewing and correcting lis
assessments and apportionnie' t of
taxes to be levied in said dlstrl- l for
the year l'.l-'S.
J. W. MESSNER, Secretary,
Dated this first day of September,
H25.
Furnished housekeeping rooms for
rent, Mrs. H. S. Taylor, ifuppner.