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PAGE EIGHT HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 3, 1925. ' i LEXINGTON . , - I.xiririnn public chools 'ere clos ed Wednesday of !t wvek for the Ufual Thankspiving vacation. Immediately following the noon hour a larjre crowd assembled in the chool auditorium here a program, short trough exceptionally plcasinp. aa rendered by the grade and hiph nchool atuder.ts assisted by Principal Fred Kelly and Mrs. Turner of the teaching staff. The remainder of the afternoon was devoted to an all (chool exposition. For several hours viaitors filled every classroom and exhibited keen interest in the work being done in those rooms. Both leaching staff and students are to be commended for such an excellent ex hibition as His e.t forth Wednesday afternoon. (Editor's Note The regular quota of Lexington items, though posted there on Tuesday, have failed to reach this office. These items were received in Wednesday's mail). THE FLASHLIGHT Published weekly by the students of the Union high school at Hard man. Lee Merrill, editor, Teddy Bumside, assistant, . Everything is in readiness for the play which is to be presented Satur day, December 5. A. free dance will be given afterward and supper will be served. High school was dismissed last Wednesday afternoon for the Thanks giving vacation. Our principal, Mr. Meidinger, went to Walla Walla to visit his parents. Mrs. Wood left for Seattle to visit friends and relatives. Our basketball prospects seem brighter. We have at least secured a hall in which to play and lights for that hall. Practice will start imme diatey. The grade school building is un dergoing several changes and repairs. The program and piay which was given by the grade school last Wed nesday evening proved to be a great success. Miss Flossie Officer of Boardman was a guest of Miss Flynn at the ho tel last week end. Buck Wagner of Boardman was a Hardman visitor Thanksgiving. Work on the high school library has started. A new book case and many new volumes will be added. ber frames, maroon case. Reward. Leave at C. T. office. Christmas mixed candies at Cordons. Mr. and Mrs. Frar.V Engolman ard aughter. Miss Vera, are visitors in the city today from their home at one. Mrs. Ida Pyle, who is running the otel at lone, was doing business in Heppner the first of the week. The BF.CK WALKER'S ALL COL- LOKF.D MINSTREL SHOW, Star The- ter, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 3-4. You will like the milk shakes at Gordons. w WANTED To pasture about 60 head of good horses for winter. Will feed when necessary. O. T. Fergu son c Son, Heppner. SMALL BOY KILLED IN HIGHWAY ACCIDENT (Con tinned from First Pap was near sighted, did not know that a car was parked on the side of the highway as he passed, and that he was in the habit always of just look ing ahead while he was driving-, ex pecting his side of the road always to be clear. -Had he observed Mr. Brown making the attempt to pass the parked car, he could have moved over slightly and the clearance would have been sufficient to prevent the collision. The traffic officers who were soon on the scene did not blame Mr. Brown in the least, and he feels that he was not in fault in trying to get by the parked car as he did. There was little time for anyone to act, and he set his brakes, but the car skidded some, and the contact was sufficient for the serious results that followed. The two cars were not badly injured. The sedan had a front wheel smashed and some of the glass knocked out, and the hind wheel of the Brown car was knocked off. Mr. Brown arrived home Wednes day evening, and the other members of the family will arrive later, when Very! has sufficiently recovered to be moved. In this sad accident the fam- y have the sincere sympathy of this entire community. i i. IRRIGON Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Graybeal and Mrs. J. E. McCoy returned from Im- bler last Friday where they had been for a week visiting relatives. The Young Peoples Society is hav ing a party Saturday night to cele brate the conclusion of a contest just ended. Robert Smith has returned to high school after an absence of several weeks, due to having worked with the road crew. Supt. Walker and Mr. Calavan, state club leader, made a short visit to the school here last Wednesday. The Women's Club is giving a ba zaar on Saturday evening, Dec. 12. A short program will be given, and light refreshments will be served. On Monday evening, December 7 Mrs. Johnson of Gooding College, Ida ho, will give an entertainment under the auspices of the grange. The en tertainer comes highly recommended. Irrigon town team defeated Uma tilla last Sunday at football by the score of 7 to 2. ADDITIONAL BOARDMAN ITEMS. Mrs. Sam Shell received a phone call Tuesday evening stating that her brother, A. A. Short of Cliffs, Wn., was very low. She made preparations to go to his bedside at once. Cliffs is a small community opposite Rufus on the Washington side. The reguiar meeting of the P. T. A was held on Tuesday evening with 24 in attendance. Th matter of books and magazines was the topic of the first discussion and was handled by Mrs. S. H. Boardman, Supt. Beards- ley and Mrs. A. T. Hereim. Follow ing this came the question of a Union High School with Irrigon, Boardman has many advantages to offer to Irri gon which is handicapped, having 16 pupils in high school with only 1 teacher to teach all subjects. They have no domestic science and art, no manual training, no commercial work and Boardman has some excellen courses to offer in these lines. It i thought that both schools will be ben e fit ted by a union of forces and ex penses of the union high schoo would be divided between the two dis tricta. Supt. Beardsley is advocating a junior and senior high plan which is proving very popular all over th country. J. C. Ballenger suggested that the school children and the peo ple of the community get togethe and hive a tree planting day and beautify our school grounds. There is a possibility tht Board man may have a lighting plant ufte all these years of waiting. Mr. Smith of the Fecnaughty ' Machinery com pany, offered a proposition to th townspeople. The company would in stall a plant and collect all revenue until the plant was paid for when it would become municipal property. A meeting was held Tuesday night an the matter discussed. Probably vot will be taken later. ADDITIONAL MCAL ITEMS Bam Hughes, merchant of Heppner, is spending this week in Portland where ht was called vn matters per taining to hit business. Frank Harwood returned from Port land Sunday. He spent the Thanks. giving season with relatives and I looking after business affairs. Bargain day. coming on salt. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS at th Star Theater, Sunday and Mon day, Dec. t and 7, Hot chocolate served at Gordons LOST-Pair Kryptok double-vision spectacles, round lenses, small am Old Japanese Legend of Lantern and Fan A story of the origin of tin- l.iii twn and the fun, as told In Ju:in. concerns a puldlc oltloiiil who hud two henutifiil diuitrliter. A the story .. the girls, who were the treasures of the father's heart, lomred to pay a visit to a friend In another city. The father, however, was un Allllnft for them to go, as he feared some young man of hlsh decree would win their love, and thus take them from him. In reply -to their entreaties the father told them they could go, providing they promised to bring back to htm fire wrapped n a paper and wind wrapped In a paper. The girls did not know what to do. They were In despair until one of their maids told them not to worry, but go nnd consult a cer tain wise woman who lived near the home of the friend whom they were to visit. After promising their father they would fulfill his wishes they set out for the friend's home. The father was greatly sur prised when, upon their return, the daughters presented him with fire Inclosed In a beautifully designed paper lantern and wind In a quaint shaped paper fun. Thus, it is said, according to a story printed In the Pathfinder Magazine, the lantern and fan came into use. mine Umbers, for" the construction of log buildings, nnd to some extent as lumber for Interior finish. In contrast with the only other spruce in Rocky Mountain National park, Kngolinaun spruce Is of consider able Importance commercially. Eagle Cobbles Golf Ball A possible eagle on the course of the Tallahassee Country club was made Impossible by a real enjrle, the big bird swooping down on the eighth green to seize a golf ball, as It was trickling In the general di rection of the cup, says an Asso ciated Press dispatch from Talla hassee, Fla. Frederick C. Klliot was the victim and gained scant comfort from the assurance that the eagle was "an agency outside the match" and the Incident could not be held "a rub of the green." TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS. Notice is hereby given that the County Superintendent of Morrow County. Oregon, will hold the regu lar examination of applicants for State Certificates at the Court House at Heppner, Oregon, as follows: Commencing Wednesday, December 16, 1925, at 9:00 o'clock a. m., and continuing until Saturday, December 19, 1925. at 4:00 o'clock p. m. Wednesday Forenoon U. S. History, Writing (Penman ship), Music Drawing. Wednesday Afternoon Physiology, Reading, Manual Train ing, Composition, Domestic Science, Methods in Reading, Course of Study for Drawing, Methods in Arithmetic. Thursday Forenoon Arithmetic, History of Education, Psychology, Methods in Geography, Mechanical Drawing, Domestic Art, Course of Study for Domestic Art. Thursday Afternoon Grammar, Geography, Stenography, American Literature, Physics, Type writing, Methods in Language, Thesis for Primary Certificate. Friday Forenoon Theory and Practice, Orthography (Spelling), Physical Geography, Eng lish Literature, Chemistry. Friday Afternoon School Law, Geology, Algebra, Civil Government. Saturday Forenoon Geometry, Botany. Saturday Afternoon General History, Bookkeeping. Yours truly, HELEN M. WALKER, County School Superintendent. Burden of Debt Not Always a Handicap If you were going to employ t talesman and had your choice of man heavily In debt or one equally capable, but not In debt, which would you prefer? A great corporation recently made a statistical survey of common at tributes of several hundred sales men and discovered the surprising fact that men m-avlly In debt seem to accomplish more than those with out such financial burden. The ex planution U" believed to be only partly that, when a man owes a large sum of money, he works hard to get this debt removed. Still more Important is the fact that a man heavily in debt is prob ably a smart fellow or be wouldu't have succeeded in Inducing a bank or other institution to permit him to owe so mueh money. This same Investigation showed that, while heavy Indebtedness may Indicate more than average ability, owing a trifling amount of money 1b al most certain to Indicate Just tbe op posite. In other words, any man who can Induce you to lend him $5,0UU must be downright clever, but beware of the fellow who habit ually owes somebody a mere or $40. From the Nation's Business. Blind Persons Read Character by Voice The similarity of voices Is not confusing (to the blind) as a rule. Many are similar, to be sure, but I have never encountered absolute doubles, and In general voices are as. sharply different as faces In fact, often far more. The only difficulty I have experi enced, strangely enough, is caused by one person's having several voices. All of us have; we change tone and quality mure or less uncon sciously according to our mood and condition. But In some the change Is dismayingly marked. One wom an, for example, has as many as five voices, each quite distinct. The physical condition is also re vealed by the voice in a striking degree, both as to change and nor mal characteristics. Fat people. for example, have a voice quality which Is all but Invariably detectable. Character, too, Is easily read. In fact, it seems that character is re vealed In the voice even more fully and accurately than In the face, no doubt because the subject, falling to recognize this, makes less of an attempt to mask the voice. Charles McOee Adams, In the Atlantic Monthly. Slight Misunderstanding , A seamstress employed by a charitable Institution had her wsges raised to such an nmouut that she was eligible to an Income tax. When she received the usual forms from the collector with the request that she fill them out and return them, she sent them back with the following note : "l'ear Sir: I have always been Insured with the Safety company and I have no intention of chnnging- my company now." . Pity a Poor Mat Wife I think my husband leads a double life. Friend If be does he wishes he were the double that didn't get bit by that rolling pin last night. Would Help Visitor How old are you, Jen nie? Jennie I'm five, and mother says if I am good and eat lots of cereuls 111 be six my next birthday. Mystery of Swastika Sign The Swastika symbol which fig ures so largely In Japanese decora tions Is so ancient, that Its origin Is lost In the midst of obscurity According to a writer who has made a special study of the subject, the device was found on a spindle whorl from the third city of Troy (about 1S00 B. C), and it Is fre quent in Greek vases about 6K) B. 0." The symbol appears again on Hindu relics that date back three centuries before Christ, on Mexican and Peruvian relics, and even on relics found in prehistoric mounds In Great Britain. The latest guess as to the origin of the strange de vice comes from one Harlt Krishna Deb, who says he believes It to be "a modification of the mode of expressing Tlie "ancient syllable Om. used in religious rites. This a pothook with square ends was du plicated, one across tbe other, to form the Swastika, meaning 'bring er of blessings'." Uowever tbut may be, Seventh century India marked ber cattle with It Advice Still Good Many years ago there lived I wise man named Ptab lietep. lie was regarded as an ancient philosopher long before Tut-Ankh-Amen was boru. Some of bis sayings or max ims are reported lu a roll of 18 col umns of Egyptian writing of tbe Twenty fifth century, B. C., which is preserved In the Louvre, and one of his letters to bis son, Ptab Lietep, says: Do not argue with your superiors; It does not do any good IK) not argue with your equals; make a plain and courteous state ment and content yourself with that Do not argue with your In feriors; let them talk and they will make fools of themselves." Fam ily Herald. Feudal Dinner Custom Many of the curious things con nected with the service of the medieval dinner table were the re sult of the peculiar social system. Although widely separated In rank, the feudal baron ate daily with bis retainers. " But at a feudal banquet the lord of the castle and his chief guest occupied seats at the further side of the table or dais. They were said to sit at the dais. Instead of at the table upon the dais. This feudal fashion of arranging tbe tables for a formal dinner survives In the modern custom of having a "raised table" for guests and speakers. A riff With Pink Parasol Among the recent acquisitions at the London Zoological gardens, says a newspaper dispntrh, Is a nest of umbrella ants that have never been seen before In the gardens. They have had a busy time, because dur ing the journey the queen's apart ments becanie greatly disarranged, but the community soon put them to right ngaln. In their native home of Trinidad the ants are always to be found In the neighborhood of rose trees. They cut off parts of the petals of the roses and carry them to their nests, holding them over their hends like parasols. On reaching home they masticate tbe petals thorough ly and pile up the resulting mixture In heaps Inside the nest. On the beds thus prepared grows a special fungus of which the ants are very fond. Youth's Companion. Odd Garden Products Little Johnny, who was of school age, was on his way home from the week-night prayer meeting, where he had fallen asleep, a writer In the Youth's Companion reports. His father, who had had great difficulty in waking him at the close of the service, was walkine by his side holding his hand. Fearing that the boy would go to sleep again and that he should have to carry him. the father quickened his pace nnd, twitching the little fellow's hand vigorously, asked him briskly where he had been that day. "Over to Mr. O'Neal's," was the drowsy reply. "And what were they doing at Mr. O'Neil's?" "Mukln" garden," Johnny replied listlessly. "And what did they plant?" Johnny yawned. "Planted lett's an' onions, an', " he stumbled, nnd his tongue grew thick, "and rad'shes an' peas an' q's an' r's an' s's " At this point the father picked him up and carried him. Engelmann Spruce Valuable In IU fullest development Kngel mann spruce becomes a lump tree, a hundred feet or more In helj-'lit and three- feet or mors in diameter, with a smooth, straight anil only slightly tapered trunk, fl'reat quan tities of Engelmann spruce nre cut for lumber. , The wood Is soft nnd stralght-gra'ned and is used for va rious construction' purposes, as tel p?r.iph nnd telephone pulps, nx The Grebe Synchrophase Has Arrived! See It Hear It at HARWOOD'S Also Some Mighty Pretty Late Arrivals in Jewelry for your Christmas Selection. OPEN EVENINGS TIL CHRISTMAS Gestures in Pulpit Not Pure Eloquence A new aid to good preaching has been discovered, a writer In tbe Continent reports. During the past summer a suburb an church asked a church bureau to send a supply for a certuln Sun day. The following Monday tbe clerk of session called to tell bow much tbe congregation enjoyed the preacher of the day. "That was a fine man you sent," said he; "tbe people ull sat up and took notice. His gestures were great; be swung hit arms and cer tainly sent It home. Cun't you get him again for next Sunday?" The minister was called on the phone and told that the congrega tion was so well pleased with hltn that they woitld like to have him return tbe following Sunday, "Well, I'd like to," said he, "but I think I'll have to refuse. I liked the people and enjoyed the service, but there was one thing that did not appeal (o me; there were too many mosquitoes." Make It A Useful Gift For Christmas afcSS For Men and Boys Child's Shoe with trimmed top in Black and Brown Leather or Felt Slippers $1.50 to $3.00 gjg 5 to 8 oiiuus ur wxiuiun, new urutiti tou BootB for dress or work, 16-in. top $6.50 to $10.00 Boys' Boots, size 2 to 6 Mi, 12-in. top $1.50 and $5.00 Child's Boots, sizs 9 to 1 $2.75 Fancy Silk Hocks, wools and im ported mercerized .... 50c to $1.00 $2.00 r.Vi0' Size 8 to 11 ....$3.25 For Women and Girls Leather or Felt Slippers 75e-$2.50 Strap i'umpn or Step-ins In Patent Leather, Kid or Satin, price $3.75 to $7.50 Silk Heme in All shades $1 & $1.50 Gonty Shoe Store 2&r ( PRINCESS FLOUR leads the way to better cakes, pies, pastry and bread. Always uniform in" quality. Insist on Princess and you'll get better results with your baking. Brown Warehouse Co. WE DELIVER WITHIN CITY LIMITS. Phones: Warehouse 643, Residence 644 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, Only $2.00 the Year HOLIDAY GIFTS Toys, Fancy Dishes, Vases, Cutlery sensible and useful gifts Peoples ' Hardware Co. Plumbing, Implements & General Hardware i I 1 i The Big Show Is Here Star Theater, Heppner Dec. 3 and 4 The Greatest All Colored Organization on the Road in the Northwest. BECK & WALKER'S FAMOUS Colored instrels "THE PICK OF DIXIE" People, Band and Orchestra Singers, Dancers, Comedians Special Scenery - 8 Big Vaudeille Features ; FIRST TIME AT THESE PRICES Children 35c, Adults 75c, Including War Tax Street Parade at Noon! Band Concert 7:30 Big Dance, Legion Hall after show Friday M 8