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tte Ctmesi Volume 44, Number 5. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, Apr. 28, 1927 Subscription $2.00 a Year pper T IS Freezeout Driveway and Arbuckle Lookout on County Program. Geo. Clark, ranger of the Heppner forest tation, hands in the following memorandum of improvements that. will be undertaken in the Umatilla National Forest for 1927, which has been forwarded to him by J. M. Mann, superintendent of construction. Under the head of construction the program calls for building of 29 miles of road, 36 miles of trail, 58 miles of telephone lines and a look out tower on Arbuckle mountain. Be sides there is the item maintenance which includes 320 miles of road, 62f. miles of trail and 550 miles of tele phone lines. Construction items in detail follow: God man Springs-Tollgate road, 12 miles; all in Walla Walla ranger dis trict. This will complete the read along the summit of the Blue moun tains from Tollgate to Dayton, Wn, a distance of 85 miles. Bone Springs - Lookout mountain road, 12 miles; all in Walla Walla langer district. This road will ex tend from Bone Springs to Lookout mountain and will connect the God man Springs-Tollgate road and the old Eden road which extends from Falmer Junction to Troy. Pearson-Frazier road, 5 miles; all in Ukiah ranger district. This will complete about one half of the road from Pearson meadows to Hidaway Springs; the remainder will proba bly be completed next year. Cable Creek trail, 7 miles, all in I'kiah ranger district. This trail will be completed from Lookout mountain road to the Pearson-Frazier road. Looking Glass trail, 8 miles in Walla Walla ranker district. This will complete the trail down Look ing Glass creek to the forest boun dary. Freezeout driveway trail, 11 miles, all in Heppner ranger district. This extends east and west along the north side of the forest, and will be used for both a trail and sheep driveway. East Butte Creek trail, 6 miles, nil in Touchet ranger district. It will extend along east Butte Creek to Iron Buttes when it will intersect the Twin Butte road. Wenatchee trail, 3 miles and Alder Gulch trail, 4 miles, both in the Aso tin ranger district, will open up some very inaccessible country. Elk Flat-Troy, 18 miles and Ana-tone-Wcna'chee telephone lines are all within the Asotin ranger district. The Elk Flat-Troy line will make connection at Troy with lines to the Wallowa National Porest. Ruckle Spout Spring, 15 miles and Summit-Ruckle, 16 miles telephone lines are within the Walla Walla and Meacham districts and will extend from Kame'.a to Tollgate ranger sta tion along the summit of the Blue mountains. In addition to thete there will be a considerable expenditure on the re pair of lookout towers and other pro tective structures. These expendi tures are for the better protection and administration of the Umatilla National Forest. Forest officials are grateful for the splendid cooperation received at the hands of the public In fighting and keeping down forest fires the past season. The fire menace is one of the hard things they have to deal with in the forest area, and it is hoped that even greater precaution and care will be exercised thiB season by those who visit the national forests than has been heretofore manifested, that through this cooperation the fires will be kept down to the very lowest pos sible point. Local Girl Has Part In University Fight University of Oregon, Eugene, Apr. 20. (Special.) The hottest fight that has shaken the student body for many years was under way today with Sol Abrnmson, of Portland, editor of the Oregon Daily Emerald, conducting a spirited battle for freedom of the press. An amendment to put control of the Emerald's editorial policies in the hands of the publications committee win drafted by leading members of the student council which started the campaign against the Emerald. Ac cording to the Emerald, the amend ment, which Abramson has branded us the "gag rule," was framed by Lowell Baker, of Stanfield, Thomas Graham, of Ook Grove, Phil Bergh, of Roseburg, Ted Larsen, of Eugene, Mary Clark, of Heppner, and Glenna Fisher, of Portland. Each day the Emerald is printing two column endorsements of its stand on the first page. The communica tion columns are filled with letters from studcntB for and against the amendment. Hugh Biggs, of Ontario, student body president, who is supporting the amendment, declares that it is only wise and just to put the editorial policies in the hands of a committee which, more truly than the editor, represents student public opinion. Abvamson contends that a self respecting newspaper cannot be con ducted when it is subject to censor ship and that his policies have rep resented the student body as closely as those of the student council. In point of interest the free press controversy is overshadowing the stu dent elections, and will be decided in two weeks. Former Heppner Resident Dies at Portland Home Dillyn P. Garrigues, who for many years resided at Heppner, and was well known in this city, died at his home in Portland on Friday, April 22, at the age of 71 years. Funeral services were held in that city on Monday, April 25, at 2 p. m., and in terment was in Riverview cemetery. Mr. Garrigues was survived by four children, these being Benjamin B. and William Garrigues of Portland, Mrs. Sadie Riggs of Pendleton and Mrs. Nina Snyder of Heppner. Mrs. Snyder drove to Portland to be in at tendance at the funeral. GOLF COURSE IMPROVED. This week the greens on. the golf course of the Heppner Country club were sanded and oiled, improving them greatly for putting. The course is now in the best condition it has been since started and interest in the game is spreading. Though the fair ways are none too smooth, and bad ger holes and sagebrush offer plenty uf hazards, some of the boys are be coming quite adept at the game. Dave Wilson so far has low' score this year with a 48, while a number of players have turned in scores around 50. Par is 35, but it is quite probable no one will ever make the rounds of the nine holes inside this number of strokes. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS A card received by this paper this week from Messrs. Amsnoker and Moore was written from Kobe, Japan on April 6, and the boys stated they were leaving that day for Yokohama, from which port they expected to take steamer for Portland on the 10th and would arrive at Portland on the 6th of May, and then on home to Heppner. The card further states that conditions in Shanghai are as we read of them, and worse. L. E. Fry of Condon, agent for Morrow and Gilliam counties for Del- co light plants and Frigidaire, in stalled a domestic refrigerator at Gordon's on Wednesday, for demon strating purposes. It is expected that these refrigerators wjll become quite popular when electric rates are re duced sufficiently to make them prac tical in this community. Austin Smith spent a couple of days at Heppner the first of the week, calling on the trade here and enjoying a visit with the home folks. He is now traveling representative in the eastern Oregon territory for the Miller Rubber company, makers of tires and other automobile accessor ies, and reports a good business. Emil Johnson and son were in the city on Saturday from their home on Rock creek. Mr. Johnson stated that the wariti weather was causing the snow to melt rapidly in the moun tains south of Hardman, where win ter has been lingering in the lap of spring for some time. Mrs. Everett O. Hayes of Joseph, arrived at Heppner on Sunday for a visit of a few weeks at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vawter Crawford. She was met at Pendle ton by the J. O. Turners and Ray mond Fergusons. Arthur Duncan was thrown from a horse on Sunday at the Simonton ranch near Alpine. Striking a barbed wire fence, his right hand was badly torn, and Dr. Johnston reports that required several stitches to close jp the cuts. Postmaster Smead and L. Van Mar- ter returned on Wednesday from a fishing trip over in the Deschutes country. They fished in both the Me tolius and Deschutes without success, having arrived on the scene about a month early. Pat Brady is very seriously ill at the Morrow General hospital, being brought from his home at Cecil on Tuesday. He is suffering from ser ious intestinal trouble which neces sitated an operation on Wednesday morning. Dr. C. C. Chick was in the city on Monday from his home at Hood River. He came up to perform a serious op eration on Mrs. Fred Nicholson of lone, who is a patient at the Morrow General hospital in this city. In order to increase their capacity for caring for patients. Morrow Gen eral hospital added another ward to their building last week. By en closing a porch the needed room was obtained. Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Fisher of Ta- coina, Wash., were visitors at the Some of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Clark over the week end. Mrs. Fisher was formerly Miss Gladys Lane of this city. Mrs. Ted Troge of lone underwent a serious operation at the hands of Dr. Johnston at Morrow General hos pital in this city on Saturday. She is reported as doing well. Mrs. Velma Keenan is a guest this week at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Orve Brown in this city. She arrived from her Portland home the end of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiggins of lower Sund Hollow are the parents of an 8 pound son, born at their home on Sunday, April 24. District Attorney Notson departed on Wednesday night for Portland, to be absent a day or so in the city on official business. James Murtha, Gilliam county sheepman, was a visitor in this city on Wednesday from his home at Con don, Miss Ona Gilliam, graduate nurse, has been assisting at Morrow Geneni hospital for the past week or two. Attorney C. L. Sweck and family were visitors in Portland for a few days this week. Mrs, A. J. Brock of Portland visited relatives at Heppner last week end. LOCALS OUT-BOOT ARLINGTON, BUT TAKE LONG END Loose Ball Played Sunday; Fans Get Thrill by First Homer, by Pitcher Drake. League Standings Won Lost Pet. Heppner 2 1 .666 Condon 2 1 .666 Arlington 1 2 .333 lone 1 2 .333 It looked like a long siege for the fans from the turn loose at the Rodeo ball lot Sunday and so it turned out to be. Hectic playing was the order of the day, Heppner and Arlington each trying to outdo the other in booting or throwing away the raw hide pellet. The final score was 10-6. With two hits and an error Arling ton succeeded in loading the bases the first time up, but Pitcher Drake proved himself master of the situa tion by striking out enough batsmen to prevent scoring. Then Heppner grabbed off three runs in the initial frame, via. three hits and a couple of errors. So it proceeded throughout the nine innings, nothing being sure. Heppner, however, grabbed off enuogh runs in the early innings to insure her lead, and about the only question was how big the score would be be fore dark. There was some good fielding, how ever. Blackburn in left pasture for the visitors, glommed onto three hard chances, and Gay Anderson, veteran local midfieldsman, chased all over the inclosure to make a hero of him self. Then the fans thought they had their money's worth when in the sev enth with the bases empty Drake clouted one of Woolsey's twisters far over the center field fence, entitling him to free passage of the bases. This was the first home run so far record ed in the Morrow-Giiliam league. With the score standing 10-4 in the ninth, the visitors made a nice at tempt to even things up, but suc ceeded in tallying but two runners when the end came. In Sunday's game at Condon, lone took the long end of the 10-2 score, giving Heppner equal position with Condon in the legaue standings. Next Sunday Heppner plays at Arlington und Condon plays at lone. The box score: Heppner AB R H PO A E Smith, ss 4 2 2 1 2 2 Anderson, m 5 2 2 4 2 0 Van Marter, 2 6 0 0 2 1 2 LaMear, c 4 1 1 12 1 0 Drake, p 4 2 2 0 4 0 G. Cason, 1 4 0 110 1 4lien, r 2 0 0 0 0 0 C. Cason, 3 4 2 110 1 Hoskins, 1 4 1 0 6 0 0 Aiken ,r 2 0 0 0 0 2 Arlington Solvester, s 6 0 0 2 1 2 Ortmon, 2 6 2 3 2 4 0 Blackburn, 1 5 0 1 4 0 0 I'arrish, m 6 2 1 1 1 0 Douglass, c 6 1 3 7 0 0 Woolsey, p 4 10 110 Husted, 3 6 0 1 2 0 2 Wheolhousc, r 3 0 1 0 0 0 Walker, 1 6 0 0 5 0 2 McDonald, r 2 0 10 10 Umpires, Flory and Head; earned runs, Arlington 4, Heppner 3; first base on balls off Drake 1, off Wool sey 1; first base on errors, Arlington 7, Heppner 6; two base hits, Douglass 2, McDonald, Smith, Anderson; home runs, Drake; struck out by Drake 11, by Woolsey 6. Wisdom Begins With Mother By Albert T. Reid TELEGRAPHIC SHOOT FINISHED; HEPPNER AMONG FIRST TEN The Oregonian State Telegraphic Trapshooting tournament ended on Sunday with four teams tied for first place. They are Pendleton, Salem, Bend and Coquille. Hepp ner has been out of the running for lead position for a couple of weeks although the local club fin ished inside the ten teams to take part in the shoot off match. This shoot may take place in Eugene. Shooton for the championship among the four teams will be held next Sunday. In Sunday's shoot the locals with 72 tasted defeat at the hands of Monitor who turned in a 74. Those making the local team were Albert Bowker 25, A. D. McMurdo 24 and L. Van Marter 23. It has not yet been announced who will make up Heppner's team if her nimrods take part in the final shootaff. Mrs. L. A. Florence c i i r - 1 ourpnsea dv rnends Mrs. L. A. Florence, who has leen confined to her home for many months on account of illness, was lemembered by a group of friends on her birthday Monday at her home up Willow creek. Coming as a com plete surprise Mrs. Florence was very much pleased by the call, and thor oughly cheered. Many of the ladies were sister Rebekahs of Mrs. Flor ence and active together in the lodge here before Mrs. Florence's illness. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Justus, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Noble, Mrs. Irene Straight, Mrs. M. J. Devin, Mrs. G. W. McCarty, Mrs. Henry Howell, Mrs. Jeff Jones and Mrs. S. P Devin. Mr. Noble and Mr. Justus were chauffeurs for the ladies.. PENDLETON ODD FELLOWS VISIT. Some 45 Odd Fellows and Rebek ahs from Pendleton visited Willow Lodge, I. O. O. F. and San Souci Re bekah lodge in joint meeting at Hepp ner on Saturday evening. The Pen dleton visitors came over for the pur pose of putting on the Purple Circle degree, which is administered to both men and women who affiliate with the I. O. O. F. orders, and a class of 33 was initiated. Following the degree work, there was a big feed and then all those who desired spent an hour or so in dancing. A genuine good time is reported, and the most of the visitors returned home after the close of the gathering here. CAR TURNS TURTLE. The Ford touring car of Howard Ebi turned over when run into the soft dirt on the side of the highway between lone and Heppner Saturday night. With Ebi were James Thom son, Andrew Baldwin, Gene Doherty and Delvin Adkins. The boys were pretty badly shaken up and the car was wrecked, according to reports. Baldwin received a bad gash in the ferehead that required eight stitches to close. Born At the maternity home of Mrs. G. C. Aiken in this city on Fri day, April 22nd, to Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Dempsey of lone, a 9Vs-pound daugh ter, Dr. McMurdo attending. Mrs. Dempsey was formerly Miss Blanche Groshen of this city. Mrs. Ralph Floreon, who was quite ill for a week or more at the Heppner Surgical hospital, suffering an attack of flu, was able to return to her home on Wednesday. MRS; JAS. CARTY DIES FOLLOWING LONG ILLNESS Wife of Prominent Sheepman and Land Owner Was Early Set tler in Morrow County. Mrs. James Carty, who for the past three months has been ill at Hotel Heppner in this city, suffering from an incurable ailment, passed away at 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, death ending a long period of pain and in tense suffering. She had been an in valid for months before coming to Heppner, and her case had received the attention of the best physicians in this state and elsewhere, in an ef fort to restore her to health, but be ing a victim of cancer of the breast, her case resisted the most skilled treatment. Funeral services were held from St. Patrick's church in this city at 10:00 a. m., Wednesday, Rev. T. J. Cantwell, pastor, officiating. A very large concourse of. friends and neeih bors gathered at the church for the cervices, and followed the remains to their last resting place in the ceme tery on the hill. Marie Curran, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Curran, was born June 24th, 1869, in Corrige, county Leitrim Ireland, where Bhe grew to woman hood and lived until the time of her marriage on July 4th, 1898, to James Carty. They came to this county, where Mr. Carty had acquired large land and sheep interests, and made their home on the big ranch at Tub Springs, and where Mrs. Carty did her part as a good wife and mother in carrying on the arduous duties of lanch life. She was known by a large circle of friends as a woman of splen did qualities, and the Carty home was always a pleasant place to visit; friends always found a welcome there that was genuine, and they feel a per sonal loss in the passing of Mrs. Carty. Besides her husband, Mrs. Carty is survived by their three children, An nie Carty, Pat Carty and Mary Carty, and a number of other relatives re siding in this vicinity. She had been a faithful member of the Catholic church during her lifetime. CHAUTAUQUA DATES SET. Dates for the coming chautauqua at Heppner have ben set by the Ellison-White Chautauqua System, and the big time in store for the folks of Heppner and Morrow county will take place on June 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. It ii expected that the programs will be along soon, and the list of talent for this event will be by far the best ever presented here, so we are informed. Keep these dates in mind and your eyes opened for further announce ments, for there will be five days of excellent entertainment in store. BONDS BRING GOOD PREMIUM. The sale of the new issue ot $20. 000 bonds for building purposes of School District No. 1, held Saturday afternoon, brought a good premium. But two bids were offered, and the bonds were sold to Lumbermen's Trust company of Portland on the basis of 104.37, and accrued interest. The other bid, of Ralph Schneelock, was on the basis of 101.97. The price received is considered good by the .school board. Mrs. Wm. Wilson, who has been suffering for many weeks with an at tack of neuritis, will go to Hot Lake on Sunday where she hopes to find re lief. She is making this trip on the advice of her physician, Dr. McMurdo. Morrow Hunters Make Good Record in March (Stanley G. Jewett, Leader, Preda tory Animal Control.) During March, thirty men worked all or part time and turned in the skins or scalps of 214 coyotes, 40 bobcats, one cougar, a total of 255 predatory animals. In addition, 152 unborn coyotes and 33 unborn bob cats, four badgers, 58 porcupines and 9 skunks were destroyed. An average of nine predatory animals (not count ing unborn young) per man per thir ty days was taken and those who took this many or more in Morrow county are: Harold Ahalt, Alva Stone, and A. J. Knoblock. Ahalt is credited with two bobcats, seven adult and it. pup coyotes; Stone with 15 adult and 11 pup coyotes, and Knob- lock with 17 adult coyotes. To Hunter Alva Stone belongs the credit of taking the first litter of coyote pups from a den this year. On March J4th, he dug up a den contain ing eleven pups and was successful in shooting the female parent. I hope every man on the job will be successful in getting one or both par ents at every den found. This is of utmost importance if you are to rid your range of coyotes. Let us all pull together and make April a ban ner month. To Hunter Edgar Watkins belongs the credit of being one of the few men who have succeeded in poisoning a cougar. He took one this way in March. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Roger Morse departed on Saturday afternoon for Baker, where he will take up immediately his work as agriculturist for Baker county. Mrs. Morse and the boys will remain at Heppner until the close of school, at which time Roger expects to return to this city to help in getting ready to move the family to the field of labor. Mr. Morse was not able to Eay just how soon his successor, Mr. Smith, would be on the field at Hepp ner, but thought it would not be very long. "He is practically a pioneer photo grapher, is B. G. Sigsbee of Heppner, who is at the Imperial from Morrow county. For a great many years Mr. Sigsbee has been conducting a photo graph studio and he has, in his long career, made pictures of almost every man, woman and child in that section of the state." Oregonian. The Star theater manager is spending a few days in the metropolis this week on business. Henry Schwarz and family motored over to the Yakima valley on Sat urday for a short visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Merritt at Wa pato. They found that the recent cold snap had done much damage to fruit and gardens in that section, and the yield is expected to be reduced about 60 per cent. They returned heme Sunday evening. Carl Peterson states that his crop prospects ar every excellent at this time, and he looks for a splendid yield at harvest time. The cold snap ap parently did no damage whatever to wheat in his locality as the grain was not far enough along. Mr. Peter son was in town from his home south of lone on Friday, accompanied by his family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nickerson and Mrs. A. D. McMurdo returned Wed nesday morning from Portland, where they have been for the past two weeks. Mr. Nickerson took down with a spell of the flu after reaching the city and was compelled to remain in a hospital there while recovering. Miss Reita Neel, who suffered in juries some ten days ago to her hand when it was caught in a wringer, was required to undergo an operation on Tuesday for further repair of the damage done to the member. It is thought that the hand will now re cover properly. J. O. Turner of Swaggarts buttes, underwent an operation at the hands of Dr. McMurdo on Wednesday fore noon for the removal of his tonsils. After remaining in town over the night, he was able to return to his home today. Mrs. Fred Nicholson of lone, who was operated on the first of the week at Morrow General hospital, for the correction of a long standing trouble, is reported to be getting along well. The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Campbell of Social Ridge, sick dur ing last week at Morrow General hos pital, was sufficiently recovered to be taken home the first of the week. LELAND STEIWER BODY FOUND. The body of Leland L. Steiwer, Fos sil banker who was drowned in the John Day river near Spray on March JO, when his automobile plunged into the river from the highway, was found in the river on Tuesday morn ing at the mouth of Sarvis creek, some nine miles below where the ac cident happened. Funeral services for Mr. Steiwer were held at Fossil Wednesday afternoon, under the aus pices of the Masonic lodge of t'lat place. He was a member of Heppner lodge of Elks, and a number of me brothers from this city went over to Fossil to attend the funeral. ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Rev. Stanley Moore, missionary in charge. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.; morning service at 11 o'clock. The Rt. Rev. Wm. P. Remington will be here this Sunday for confirmation. The Bishop will conduct the services and preach the sermon. The Bishop, Mrs. Remington and Miss Robertson will arrive here Sat urday at 6 o'clock to join us in a social evening. There will be a pot luck supper at 7 o'clock. Bring your pot o' luck and join us. Everybody welcome. By Arthur Brisbane See What We See. Sacco-Vanzetti. Study Vitamins. Egypt and U. S. A. Recently Mr. Gifford, head of the telephone company, proved that "tele vision," making it possible to see and hear individuals or crowds hundreds of miles away, is practical. The question, "How can that be made useful?" is answered in a way that in centuries to come will shed light on our civilization. "There is no doubt about it," you are told, "the only way in which tele vision can be made profitable is IN CONNECTION WITH BIG PRIZE FIGHTS." People will pay well to see men fighting and to hear the yells of the mob gathered around the prize ring. Would television make money enabling distant crowds to see and hear great preachers or college pro fessors? It would NOT. A conference of college students has decided against trial marriage, quite solemnly, by a vote of 16 to 7. Wise Providence has decided against it by a vote of about 100 to 0. 7, hen the seven young gentlemen who think they believe in trial mar riage fall in love, they will know positively the marriage they plan is to last forever, would detest the the ory of a trial, and insult anybody suggesting it. Or if not, they would not be worth marrying. "It would be better for Massachu setts and the administration of justice generally, if a commission could be appointed to investigate the evidence on which Sacco and Vanzetti are con demned to die." That is the opin- on of the Rev. Roland D. Sawyer, Congregational clergyman and mem ber of the- Massachusetts Legsiiature. The commission, for which be intro duces a bill, would consist of the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and four others to be appointed by the Governor. She commission would be authorized to recommend to the Governor a new trial or such course as might seem necessary. The impression that justice in the United States is in a hurry to execute anybody or determined to do so should be carefully avoided. This is a case that has never been passed upon, as regards the evidence, by any but one judge, and a case in whic'i after-the-war excitement played a considerable part. An Egyptian tomb near the Giza Pyramids, opened by Vienna scien tists, contains the record and mummy of a very rich dwarf married to an impoverished princess, thousands of years ago. Our richest princesses marry men tal dwarfs, rich in titles. That's the difference and that Egyptian princess had the better of it. She got some thing in exchange for her hand, with the long, tapering fingers. Interest yourself in vitamins. Dr. H. C, Sherman, learned professor of chemistry, proves that vitamins bring maturity earlier and make it last longer. Vitamins are found in milk, butter, lettuce and all green vege tables, cod liver oil, red wine (barred here), fruit, yeast, etc. In addition to vitamins, mineral salts are absolutely necessary to life. No animal can live without them. Public school education should in clude information on diet. Mothers especially are interested in vitamins. Experiments with animals show vita mins influence the number of the voung and successful rearing after birth. There is much prosperity in this country and, fortunately for us, it is not all based on "natural resources" oil, iron, coal, forests, good soil, etc. Most of it comes from inside the na tional skull. Sir Ernest Benn ob serves that American prosperity is, in many cases, five per cent natural re sources, ninety-five per cent work in telligently organized. If natural re sources alone counted, "Brazil, Li beria and Iceland would be the world's most prosperous countries." Commander Udet, greatest German flier left over from the war, will fly in a gliding plane without any engine from a mountain peak in Bavaria, 2, U00 feet high. This means literally tobogganing from the top of a mountain to the valley below on thin air. It would astonish those long dead and buried that used to smile at the poem de scribing Durius Green and his flying machine. Supt. Jas. M. Burgess departed this morning for the Willamette valley. During his absence of about three djlVU ha f.Ynuft. Ia viuit Viii-o... r vallis and Monmouth on a little scout ing expedition for teachers that will be needed the coming school year at Heppner. The Ladies of the Methodist church will give a Silver Tea on Wednesday, May 4, at the par lora of the church. Everyone cordially invited.