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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1926)
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THUR SDAY, JULY 22, 1926. PAGE FIVE Mention wu made last week of the aerious illnem at Eugene of Dr. Nor ton Winnard, on of Dr. and Mr. N. E. Winnard, formerly of Heppner. In h letter received on Friday from Dr. Winnard, he statei that Norton is suffering from an attack of typhoid and not from blood poisoning as was at first feared. While he is very sick, it is thought that his chances for re covery are good. He had but recently returned home from Harvard, where he finished the medical course and "graduated with honor, and Dr. Win iard feels that credit is due to some degree to Norton's start at Heppner, where he attended the grade school and graduated from our high school. The many friends of the family at Heppner sincerely hope for Norton's speedy recovery. T, J. Humphreys returned home dn Monday evening from a trip of ten days, during which he visited differ ent points in the Willamette valley and up the line as far as Tacoma, Wash. He was accompanied on the rip by his daughter, Miss Evelyn, and returning home with them was Miss Margaret Rood of Hillsboro, who will be a guest at the Humphreys home here for several weetfs. .'Arthur R. Crawford and family ar rived from Berkeley, California, on Tuesday evening to spend several days of their vacation season at the home of Mr. Crawford's parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. Crawford. They report a very pleasant journey north from San Francisco Bay, having missed the worst of the hot weather. The Misses Margaret and Mary Crawford returned Monday from Jo seph, Oregon. Miss Margaret has been spending some five months in Wal lowa county, while Miss Mary has been there for the past month. They were met at Pendleton by Spencer Crawford who drove them to Heppner. Fred Mahrt of Heppner and the owner of two ranches in Hay Canyon, was brought to Wasco Saturday night for emergency treatment. Wasco cor respondent in Sherman County Ob server. Ed Neill, Butter creek ranchman, was doing business in this city Saturday. Nels Johnson of Gwendolen was here on Friday and Saturday, arriv ing with a bunch of lambs he was de livering for shipment. He states that harvest was just getting under way on the west side of the county, and the yield is better than was expect ed. The quality of grain is fine. Mr. and Mrs. Bay Rogers of Red mond were visitors here for a couple of days over the week end, being guests at the home of Mrs. Roger's father, Chester Darbee. They expect to spend the balance of the vacation season at coast points. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lininger motored to Pendleton on Saturday where Mrs. Lininger departed for Chicago. She will visit in Grand Rapids, Mich., Dayton, Ohio, and her old home in Indianapolis, besides other towns in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Z. F. Martin, who wre visiters at the home of Mrs. Mar tin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Cow ins for a couple of weeks, returned on Saturday to their home at Salem. A guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vawter Crawford on Tuesday and Wednesday was Mrs. J. B. Cooley of Pendleton, sister of Mrs. Crawford, who arrived Monday evening. Mrs. Earl Gordon returned Monday evening from Arlington, where she spent two weeks visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. George Stevens. Harry French was down to town Saturday from his ranch south of Hardman. 'TEASERS-NO. 1 PfttNT The name OP PRESIDENT sT It 11 ' MSS- I I. A T kf CN'N" I If AiwORDSji f J " Answer Here Next Week Ten Dont's For Bathers. (State Board of Health) Don't go in where there is no life guard. Don't go beyond your depth; the best swimmers get cramps. Don't go bathing less than two hours after eating. Don't go in alone. Don't yell ' Help!" unfess you need it. Don't drink liquor and then so bathing. Don't swim with waterwings or in nertubes for they are treacherous. Don't forget you are endowed with common sense. Use it. , These are rules that have been r.dopted by bathing beaches for the protection of the public. Last year 101 deaths from accidental drowning occurred in this state. More people died of drowning than from railroad and street car accidents combined. The number is exceeded among acci dental deaths only by those from au tomobiles and from falls. Tragic oc currences seem to repeat themselves on about the same line. Perhaps the largest number of drownings are of oung children. Then, we have the deaths of the strong swimmers who go into dangerous waters and are swept away or become exhausted or are forced under by the waves and from the undertow. It is often the strong, confident . swimmer, who plunges into the water and does not come up. These deaths are lightly attributed to shock, some form of heart disease, or muscular cramps due to disturbed blood circulation: A number of deaths, also, occur from accidents in the water, such as becom ing entangled in water grass, weeds, or injuries by diving into shallow water. Knowing how to swim may at some time prove of very practical use to you. Not only in protecting your self, but in saving others. Swimming is also one of the very best forms of exercise and it is essential that this sport be made as safe as possible. mm Flour Flour FLOUR Lay in your winter supply NOW Prices $7.40 to $8.80 for single barrel. Quantity discounts on larger orders. You will like our "PRINCESS" Flour We carry Whole Wheat Flour Scratch Feed Egg Mash Time to start those pullets on these feeds if you want eggs this winter. O.K. feed for your cows increases your milk supply at a reasonable cost. Brown Warehouse Company Phones: Warehouse Main 643; Residence Main 644 FATE OF 18 BILLS INVOTERS'HIDS Four Initiative measures will be voted on this fall. Five others were proposed but failed to get the requir ed number of signatures to get a place on the ballot. Of the four measures assured a place on the bal lot, two are income tax bills. One !s sponsored by the state grange and the farmers' union, the other by the public service league. Both provide for a state income tax on the grad uated scale to be paid on incomes with exemptions for married persons end dependents. Both bills are said to be identical, with the exception that the public service league mea sure provides for a property tax off set against the income tax, a feature which is not contained in the grange bill. A third initiation measure backed by the grange, state federation of labor and state fish commission pro poses the regulation of fishing in the Columbia Tiver. This measure would prohibit the use of fish traps in the river and would bar fish wheels from the river east of Cascade Locks. The fourth measure which is to ap pear on the ballot by reason of the initiative is the bus and truck bill sponsored by the Oregon Motor Stage association. This would increase li cense fees paid by motor stage and trucks operating over Oregon's high ways and is said to be a substitute for house bill 413 of the last legisla ture, which is under attack through the referendum in the forthcoming election. The five proposed initiative meas ures which have failed to find a place on the ballot for one reason or an other include the measure repealing the automobile certificate of title law ponsored by the Oregon automotive conference; the old age jiensior. meas ure backed by the old age pension league, including the water power bill ponsored Ly the state grange and affiliated organizations; the anti-capi tal punishment bill backed by Ben Selling and a number of other Port land citizens, and Eric Nyquist's fish bill providing for the regulation of fishing on Oregon streams. The Oregon Voter has the follow ing concerning the bills that will ap pear on the ballot this fall: "Eighteen measures, containing over 60,000 words, are to be voted up ei' by the people of Oregon at the goneral election, November 2, 1926. "Thirty-seven measures submitted at the state election of 1912 contain ed approximately 65,000 words. Not since 1912, at no other election, have the voters of Oregon been faced with the quantity of legal verbiage upon which they will pronounce whether words become law or remain mere language. In 1912, the protest against quantity of legislation proposed was such that 26 of the 37 measures were defeated. Text of the 18 measures, now pend ing before us, will fill approximately 56 pages of closely printed matter in the state pamphlet. Arguments for and against will occupy from 30 to 40 pages more. The type in which the state pamphlet is printed is so small as to wear out the eyes, and the legal verbiage so technical as to exhaust the attention. The form in which measures are printed is such as to conceal entirely the changes in existing law that are involved. Only through the press of the state, and the agitation of promoters and appo- nents, can the voters obtain a coher ent idea of what these measures mean, to say nothing of what effect they will have. 'Eleven of the eighteen mesaures were submitted by the legislature, few of them in form clear enough to distinguish between the old and pro posed changes, and two of them am ending one section of the constitu tion by different language. . Three of them are legislative en actments suspended by the filing of referendum petitions. Four were initiated by petition. Following are the ballot numbers and brief descriptive titles: Submitted by Legislature. 300-301 Refunding Klamath county warrants. 302-303 Portland school tax limita tion increase. 304-306 Rencnl of nhnol.tn nrnhihi. tion of negro voting. I Filling vacancies caused by Refunding Curry county 306-307 Dennis Resolution. 308-309 Seaside normal school. 310-311 Eastern Oregon norma) school. 312-313 recall. 314-315 warrants. 316-317 Filling vacancies at ensuing election. 318-319 Refunding Klamath and Clackamas county warrants. 320-321 Eastern Oregon tuberculo sis hospital. Referred by Petition 322-323 Cigarette and tobacco tax. 324-325 Legsilature's , Bus and Truck bill. 326-327 Tithing bill. Initiated by Petition 328-329 Offset income tax. 330-331 Stage Association bill. 332-333 Grange fish bill. 334-335 Grange income tax bill. "The Voter will present the amend atory mesaures in form that clearly sets forth the proposed changes. "We will present clear and simple digests of all measures, ample dis cussion of their probable effect, and readable arguments for and against. "From now until election, our prin cipal effort will be to assist in bring ing about as clear an understanding of all these measures as is possible. Their fate, and to some extent the welfare of Oregon, rest with the 200, 000 to 300,000 men and women who will vote upon them." HARVARD STUDENT HONORED. Dr. Norton Winnard, son of Dr. and Mrs. N. E. Winnard of Eugene, has been elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha, medical fraternity at Harvard, and has been appointed to an internship in the Cornell teaching service of the Bellevue hospital in New York, besides having been made one of 14 members in the Harvard Medical society, an account of which Was published some time ago, accord ing to word here yesterday. Eugene Register. SPECIAL FAMILY RATE at Star Theater, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 27 and 28: Father, mother and children, coming together, all for FIFTY CENTS, no matter how many. Singles, regular prices. A program the whole family will like. Walter Winton, who was kicked on the knee cap eight weeks ago at the road camp, fracturing that member, has returned to his home in Baker from the Morrow General hospital. iPEOAL We Can SAVE You Money on Harvest Groc'ries when you buy By the Case Grocery It's A Wise Bird That Buys for Cash IIIIUIItHltlllllllltlllllMlllftlllMMIIIIItlllllllllllllMIIMniHIItlMIIIIIIIIIIIMIIItlltllllllllllllMnilMlllltlMlllltllllHIMIIIIIHt: When theTar Weed Is Bad you'll appreciate a TOUGH, DURABLE WORK SHIRT 75c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 . New Stock of Levi-Straus Waist Overalls, $2.00 Athletic Union Suits, $1.00, $1.50 Light Weight Coveralls, $4.00 HARVEST SHOES, $3.00 to $4.50 GOOD ASSORTMENT Wilson's A Man's Store for Men. TO OUR CREAM CUSTOMERS : We can only make the grade of buttre from the grade of cream we receive. Now, if we are going ahead and be on the map like other surviving creameries, we must have A-grade cream. We are not churning any B-grade cream. We will pay market price for A-grade cream. Morrow County Creamery Co. W. C. COX, Manager. - Closing Out A limited number of Florsheim Shoes Small Sizes 5' and 6, at $5 a Pair Also GOTZIAN DRESS SHOES $6.00 Shoes for $5.00 $5.00 Shoes for $4.00 Boy Scout Shoes, reg. $2.90, at $2.00. Other Odd Lots at a Bargain. SAM HUGHES COMPANY Heppner, Ore. Phone 962 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, Only $2.00 the Year Vacation and Picnic Season is here in full blast Lunch Goods Fruits in Season Melons, etc. Cookies, Wafers Phelps Grocery Company PHONE 53 JnillHIMIMIIMHMMlnllMIMIIMHIIMIIIHIMIIIHIMHMiniHMHIMIIIIIMIHtMIIIMHMMHIHiniHIIIIIIIIHnnHMHIMIMIIIIIHI O