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Jtopet teette Volume 44, Number 16. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, July 14, 1927 Subscription $2.00 a Year FIRST CAR OF 1927 WHEAT GOES OUT FROM LEXINGTON FARMERS PICNIC AT EIGHT MILE May Be 1928 Thriller? By Albert T. Reid GRAIN NURSERY Funeral Held Yesterday for Respected Pioneer Heppner Resident. Following an illness of less thun a week, Mrs. J. C. Kirk was called by death early Monday morning at her home in this city. The news came as a shock to her relatives and many friends in this community as they had not realized that she was in so critical a condition. Her immediate family were not at the bedside when the summons came, and her daughter, Mrs. Emma Jones, who was attending her mother, was alone with her when she suddenly expired. Funeral services were held from the family residence on Gale street at 2:00 p. m. Wednesday afternoon, being largely attended by the people of this community among whom Mrs. Kirk had resided for so many years. The florul offerings were many and beautiful expressions of the love of a host of friends. The services were conducted by Rev. F. R. Spaulding, pastor of the Methodist Community church, assisted by Rev. Stanley Moore of the Episcopal church, and followed by the beautiful ceremony of the Rebckahs by San Souci lodge of this city, of which she had long been a member. The funeral sermon by Mr. Spauld ing was very fitting and appropriate to the occasion, yet in his tribute to the character of Mother Kirk he .aided nothing that had not been known and recognized these many years by those of this community whose privilege it had been to know her. She was a gentle and loving wife and mother, and possessed a noble Christian character. The high esteem in which she was held in this community was attested by the very large number of neighbors and friends that gathered to witness the last sad rites. Mary A. McConnel! was born in Sheridan county, Missouri, February 7th, I960, and died in Heppner, Ore gon, July 11, 1927, aged 77 years, 5 months and 4 dnys. She crossed the plains in 1KG5 in the same emigrant train with her future husband but did not make his acquaintance until after their arrival in Oregon. Her family settled in Lane county be tween Junction and Eugene. She was married to James Crocket Kirk July 19, 1868, and her passing was within a few days of their 69th wedding anni versary. The following children were born to this union: Walter, Emma, Jennie, William and Erbie. Three of these children passed on before their mother, those surviving being Mrs. Emma Jones, wife of T. J. Jones of this city, and Erbie Kirk of Wolf Creek, Oregon. Besides her husband ahe is also survived by nine grand children and three great grandchil dren, and two sisters, Mrs. Alice Gross of Potlach, Idaho, and Mrs. George West of Palouse, War.h. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk moved to Eastern Oregon in 1871 and settled on Rhea creek at the mouth of Sanford can yon, moving to Heppner in 1908, where they have since resided. She was a lifelong member of the Metho dist church. CARD OF THANKS. To the many neighbors and friends who so kindly assisted in every way during the illness and death of our beloved wife and mother, for their many expressions of sympathy and for the beautiful floral offerings we desire to extend our deepest thanks; we also wish to thank the members of the Rebekah lodge for their assist ance so generously rendered. J. C. KIRK AND FAMILY. Weed Poisoning Causes Large Loss of Sheep A loss of sheep estimated to equal $1000 is reported by J. A. Morgan of Fossil, who unloaded seven carloads at the local yards Monday morning. The sheep were loaded at Shaniko and unloaded at Arlington for feed ing. It is thought they ate some poison weed, as 14 dead were found in the cars when unloaded. Others died later and the symptoms were said to indicate food poisoning. Mr. Morgan told Conductor Eby that his loss would be nearly $1000. The sheep were being taken to range on Rock creek. THE DAY OF PENTECOST. From any standpoint the Day of Pentecost when the church began was cne of the greatest dnys In human history. The subject at the Sunday morning service at the Church of Christ will bo "Pentecost." Christians only have just closed the greatest convention in recent yenrs at Turner and the evening hour will bo given over to a message suggested by this convention. MILTON W. BOWER, Minister. ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Rev. Stanley Moore, missionary in charge. Sunday school at 9:45 o'clock. Come and spend a pleasant, happy hour with us. Morning prayer and sermon at 11 o'clock. "This is the day that the Lord htu made, We will rojoice and be glad In It." Second-hand, 6-ft. Deerlng mower at a bargain. Peoples Hardware Co. Turkey Red From L. Marquardt Farm Shipped by Collins Warehouse Today. The first car of the new crop of wheat is going out today from the Collins warehouse at Lexington, so we are informed by the manager, Ralph Jackson. This wheat is No. 1 Turkey from the Louis Marquardt farm and is shipped to Mr. Collins at 1 ortland. Machines are getting busy in the Lexington country, and several farm ers have threshed enougn grain to get fair estimates on the yield, and from the reports coming in there is no disappointment expressed by any of them, but rather they are rejoic ing over the splendid results of both yield and quality. Harry Duvall is threshing Forty fold, and his average is so far right at 30 bushels. D. Cox, who is work ing on an 80-acre field of the same variety of wheat is getting better than 35. W. F. Barnett is threshing Turkey on his place and it is running 25 bushels strong, and the same is true of the yield on the Louis Mar quardt place. Edgar Copenhaver is busy with his machine on the B. S. Clark place and th ereport is that he is getting a yield of 30 bushels of very excellent quality. J. O. Turner begHn work on his Turkey red field of 400 acres north of llodsdon school house Tuesday and it is running 20 bushels strong. This gives some idea of what the north end will turn out this season, and the work of harvest ing is only beginning. By another week we shall be able to give a more comprehensive report, as many more combines will be working. It is un derstood here that some machines running over near Butter creek are getting just as good results but we were not able to get exact figures as to how the grain is turning out. It is expected that the machines will be in the fields quite generally in the lone and Morgan sections by the middle of the coming week, and re ports from that quarter will be equal ly as good as what is shown here. Local Maytag Salesman Wins Trip to Factory Ed Clark will leave Tuesday for Newton, Iowa. He will take a course cf training ta the Maytag fcatory, the result of a selling contest that end ed Saturday night in which he placed third as Maytag salesman in Morrow county. Seven hundred salesmen were in competition in this division and Clark was among the five who won the trip. He has been working out of the Pendleton branch store. Mr. Clark's success will probably mean a better position with the com pany and he may not return to Hepp ner. He expressed appreciation of the consideration given him by Mor row county people. SHEEPMAN DENIES GUILT. Jerm O'Connor, Heppner sheepman, entered a plea of not guilty when he appeared in the justice court yester day to answer a charge of obstruct ing a highway. It is alleged by on cers that O'Connor drove a band of sheep over the Pendleton-John Day highway and dislodged a large amount of boulders from the banks which fell on the roadbed. The date for the trial has not been set. East Oregon ian. SHEEP TO GO EAST. Tom Boylen, Echo sheep and wool buyer, expects to make a large ship ment of lnmbs, purchased in this vicinity, from the local yards Mon day. The shipment will consist of 17 carloads with destination either Omaha or Chicago. C. W. McNamer will load five cars for the eastern market on the 21st. Dr. Clarke of the Clarke Optical Co., 304 Salmon. St., Portland, Ore., EYE SIGHT SPECIALISTS, will be in Heppner all day and evening SUN DAY, JULY 17th, at Hotel Heppner. SEE HIM ABOUT YOUR EYES. 15-16 LOST Between Chas. Henirich and Dan Hanshcw places in Sand Hollow a suitcase containing lady's and child's clothing, indcr please leave al this office. NOTICE OF SALE OF ANIMALS. Notice is hereby given that H. C. Robertson has in his possession the following described horses, to-wit: One black horse weight about 1400 lbs.; One grey horse, weight about 1400 lbs.; that said animals were left at the livery stable of the undersigned on June SUh, 1!)27, and that the under signed has a lien on said animals for board at the rate of $1,50 per day from June 9th, 1927, muking a total of $49.00. Said animals will be sold on the 23rd day of July, 1927, at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. at the front door of the livery barn belonging to the undersigned at Heppner, Oregon, for the purpose of paying said lien for hoarding said animals, the expense of keeping said anminls from the date hereof and the expense of advertise ment and sale. Dated this 14th day of July, 1927 11. C. ROBERTSON. MOTORISTS WARNED Advice Timely as Work on O.-W. Highway Nears Heppner. Appropriate for Morrow county car owners comes the following advice from the State Highway department and the Oregon State Motor associa tion relative to driving over freshly oiled and gravelled roads. The Ore gon-Washington highway between lone and Heppner is now being treat ed to its final coat of asphalt and gravel. The sweeper cleaned up Heppner's Main street yesterday and it was expected the oiler and gravel would be here today or tomorrow. Anent the rolling referred to in the latter part of the warning, it has been noted that a roller is being used on the work in this county and the dan ger of damage to tires may be lessen ed thereby. The warning follows: After you have driven over newly oiled highway and at the end of either eight or ten miles of oiled highway, stop and with a screw driver, pen knife, or what you have, pry out all bits of crushed gravel that have col lected on the tires. Damage to tires has been great and indignation of motorists correspond ingly greater, due to cuts wrought by gravel imbedded in tires, according to the highway department and motor association, who have been bombard ed with calls from all parts of Ore gon during the past few days. The exact condition is this: Oiling of the principnl unpaved highways is necessary. Spreading of crushed rock and gravel over the new oil to keep it from splattering over the under sides of automobiles is also neces sary. Hut, the fim of oil that gath ers over the tires picks up rock and gravel. After the automobiles have left the oiled stretch the rock is ground into the rubber by constant pressure between the car and high way, and consequently punctures the tire. Thus, damage to the tires brings about indignation of the driver, with a subsequent recoil upon the highway department and motor association. The state highway department have carried on a series of investigations to remedy the situation and arrived at the conclusion that both oil and p ravel are necessary to the motorist. The motoiists themselves must keep the gravel from working into the tires and that is where the screw driver, pen knife and what nots enter into the situation. This condition is purely temporary and will only exist while roads are freshly oiled and only causes trouble for a few days after the gravel has been sprend. Were it possible to shut off the oiled road and eliminate the necessity of gravel, it would be much better for the highway department and for the motorists themselves but this condition is not always possible and since it is not, this grievance must be born as the lesser of two evils. Wherever possible the highway de partment is providing detours so that the oil and gravel may be avoided. The highway department is now ex perimenting with rolling the gravel alter it is spread over the oil and should this prove successful, much of the trouble will be eliminated. Mrs, Harold Cohn, who has been under treatment by Dr. Johnston, is recovering nicely and is again up and about the house, LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Miss SaVanne Smith, who is con ducting a summer kindergarten at the Parish House, reports a satisfac tory attendance for the first week and is greatly pleased with the apti tude of the little ones who range from 3 to 6 years of age. This work is highly endorsed by the State Board of Education as it is for.isd that pri mary pupils entering school who have had the advantage of kindergarten find the routine of the school room less irksome. John T. Schafer of Salem, who sus tained injuries when the automobile he was driving turned over while he was on his way to Heppner to spend the Fourth of July with his son, Elvin Schafer of Freezeout, is well on the road to recovery, being able to sit up most of the day at the Heppner Surgical hospital. Mr. and Mrs. George West of Pa louse, Wash., Mrs. Alice Gros3 of Pot lach, Idaho, and Miss Mary Harris of Athena were in Heppner on Wednes day to attend the funeral of Mrs. Crocket Kirk. Mrs. Gross and Mrs. West are sisters of Mrs. Kirk and Miss Harris is a niece. Mr. and Mrs. Don Wilkes have re turned to their home at Athena after spending two weeks in Heppner, dur ing which time Mr. ilkes war. a pa tient in Morrow General hospital. Mrs. Wilkes is a sister of Mrs. West fall, superintendent of the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Pearson of Lena were visitors in the city yesterday while Jake was having an interview with the dentist. He expects to cut his third set of teeth soon. They re port everything coming along well in the Butter creek section. Maurice E. Smead of Portland came up yesterday for a visit with the home folk, returning below this morning. II is mother, Mrs. W. W. Smead, who received serious injuries in an automobile accident recently, is getting along nicely. Mrs. A. M. Phelps has so far re covered from her recent injury as to be up and walk about with the aid of crutches. Dr. Johnston states that while no bones were brokn, Mrs. Phelps suffered severely from muscle bruises. Miss Mildred Green, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Green of Eight Mile underwent a serious threat operation Monday at Morrow General hospital in this city. Dr. Johnston reports that she is doing well at this time. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Keithley of Pen dleton were in the city on Wednes day to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. J. C. Kirk, who for so many years was a neighbor of Mrs. Keith ly on Rhea creek. Tom Kirk, a brother of J. C. Kirk of this city, arrived here on Wednes day morning from his home at Junc tion, Oregon, to be present at the funeral of Mrs. Kirk held Wednesday afternoon. W. C. Lacy was up from his Port land home on Wednesday to get a view of the crops on the Lacy farm in Blackhorse. He was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Elsie Alger. Ralph Thompson who has been (,ulte ill at his home on Willow creek is reported to he recovering, and is now able to sit up for six hours each day. J. C. Womack. feder alroad engineer nns a patient at the Heppner Surgi cal hospital for several dnys this week, suffering an attack of influenza. Dr. Johnston was called to lone on Sunday night to attend Mrs. Fred Nicholson, who was suffering an acute attack of indigestion. LINDBERGH PHOTOS I Pictures Transmitted Like Ordinary Messages by Bartlane System. While New York still thrilled with first news that Col. Charles A. Lind bergh and the "Spirit of St. Louis" had reached Paris, a motorcycle mes senger sped from the Western Union Cable Office at 40 Broad Street, New York City, to the office of the Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Inc., with a small package. The package contained a roll of pa per tape, some 350 feet long, five eights of an inch wide, and perforat ed cross-wise with a multitude of tiny holes. x Less than an hour later, newspapers were on the streets with actual pho tographs of Lindbergh and his plane landing in Le Bourget Aviation Field outside Paris. During the days that followed other cabled photographs were published pictures of Lindbergh receiving the plaudits of enthusiastic thousands in Paris, Brussels and Londor., and still later there were views of Chamberlin and Levine in Belin. Similarly, pic tures of the Lindbergh receptions in Washington and New York appeared in European newspapers ony a few hours after the pictures were taken. These pictures were actual photo graphs transmitted over the Atlantic cables by the Bartlane method, de veloped by H. G. Bartholomew of the London Daily Mirror, and Col. M. D. McFarlone, affiliated with the Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Inc., New York. The process is intricate, but in tensely interesting. It consists es sentially of the conversion of an or dinary photograph into a five-unit telegraph tape, the reproduction of the photograph from the tape after the tape signals have been tansmitted telegraphically. First, the photograph is printed on metal sheets in such a manner as to give tone differentiation. This is ob tained by making five prints of vary ing density from the same negative. These prints consist of conducting and insulating portions according to the lights and shades of the original photograph. The metal prints are next placed on a series of rotating cylinders, each of which has a needle in electrical contact, much as the needle is in fric tion contact with the record of a cylinder-type phonograph. The nee dles are connected electrically with a tape perforator such as is used in automatic telegraphy, and the per forations made in this tape, as the cylinders rotate constitute a record of the picture. The tape is then delivered to the Western Union, and is transmitted exactly as if it were an ordinary cable message, over the high-speed Per malloy type cables recently laid in the Atlantic. The signals are receiv ed at the distant end of the cable in the form of a perforated tape identi cal with the original sending tape. The received tape is taken to the Bartlane machine and run through ttie reproduction apparatus. A high powered light is projected through the holes of the moving tape so that it registers upon a photographic film, and the picture is built up on the film in accordance with the record of the tape. The time required to transmit a photograph is about 35 minutes, and the cost is in the neighborhood of $100. D. E. Stephens Discusses Varie ties; Lexington Nursery Also Visited on Sunday. Farmers of the county quite gen erally attended the picnic at the Fred Akers grove on Eight Mile Saturday and visited the grain nursery on the Homer Green place. At the picnic a fine basket lunch was enjoyed and for amusement there was a horseshoe tournament which created no small amount of interest. D. E. Stephens, superintendent of the branch experiment station at Moro, was present and entertained the crowd wtih a splendid talk on the beautifying of the farm homes with trees that may be secured free from the forestry department of the Ore gon Agricultural college. W. L. Teutsch, assistant county agent leader, spoke on the relation ship of the extension work and the experiment station. At 2 p. m. all men present went to the wheat nursery where the different varieties growing there were dis cussed by Mr. Stephens. Much in terest was shown in Regal and Oro, smut resistant wheats that have been selected by the experiment station. When asked what variety growing in the nursery looked best to them a large number of farmers selected a cross between Hybrid No. 128 and Fortyfold. To have some fun, slips were handed out to each man present rnd he was asked to estimate the yields of Regal and Fortyfold grow ing side by side near the' nursery. A careful check will be made on the yields and results published along with the name of the man whose esti mate is closest. Sunday at 2 p. m. a group of farm ers assembled at Lexington nursery cn the Harry Duvall farm, where the results of nursery and experiment station work were explained by Mr. Stephens. Much interest was shown by this group in -the smut check on Regal, common Turkey and Hybrid 128. Before planting, the seed of each was thoroughly covered with smut spores and planted without being treated. A careful count of the heads showed that Hybrid 128 was 98 per cent smut; common Turkey, 56 per cent, while Regal, (purple strawed Turkey) was only 1 per cent smut. This shows that Regal is very smut resistant as compared to the two other varieties commonly grown in this section. Cutting of grain from the nurseries was done this week under the direc tion of County Agent Smith, and after it has been threshed at the experi ment station results will be pubished Eight Mile People Have Party at Robison Home A company of Eight Mile and ex- Eight Mile people enjoyed a fine time on Sunday at the mountain home of Mr. and Mrs. Tyndal Robison. It was the anniversary of Mr. Robison's birth and Mrs. Robison arranged the gathering in part as a celebration of this event, and also remembering that it was the wedding day of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Anderson Eight Mile neighbors the party included them and the 30th wedding anniversary of these good people was also celebrat ed. A sumptuous dinner was served nd a general good time had. Those present were Mr .and Mrs. Theodore Anderson and daughter Dorothy; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Becket and family; Mr. and Mrs. Tyndal Rob ison, Mr. and Mrs. George Hayden, Mr. and Mrs. Claud Huston and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Huston and family, Mr. pnd Mrs. Stacy Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shively and Billy Becket, Mrs. Chas. Furlong and daughters, Messrs. At and Karl Bergstrom and dive Huston, Misses Florence and Esther Bergstrom. Gymnasium Bids Too High; Work Not Let At the meeting of the school board he past week, bids were opened for construction of the new auditorium gymnasium building. But two gen eral bids were offered, one by T. G. Denissee of this city and the other by Geo. F. Reeves of Portland. These builders each set their mark too high, and the board was compelled to re ject their bids, as they did those also of two Portland firms, one for the plumbing and heating, and the other for the electric wiring. Feeling that it was not possible to get bids that would come within the reach of the funds provided, the board instructed the architect to make some extensive alterations in the plans, and when these are rom pleted, bids will agnin be called for. The plans as adopted by the board several weeks ago called for complete concrete construction, but this is found to be too expensive, because of the fact that all materials have to be shipped in, so it is the plan now, we are informed, to change the plans to call for some material of a cheap er nature, and see where the board will get off as to figures on construc tion. STOCK SHIPMENT MADE. Twelve carloads of prime beef stock were shipped from Heppner Saturday night for Portland. The principal shippers were J. W. lleymer, Emmet Cochran, R. D. Allstott, C. W. Mc Namer and Dillard French. By Arthur Bribne Mrs. Coolidge. Common Sense. Children, Canary Birds. Polite Gov. Moody. Real Flying August 1. Mrs. Coolidge, in South Dakota, sees women of all kinds, young girls and grandmothers, wearing knicker bockers. Mrs. Coolidge respects them and probably admires their com mon sense, but she will not wear knickerbockers. Rubber boots when she goes fishing and a skirt of reas onable length- never mind if it gets wet; Clothes, as Carlyle shows in "Sar tor Resartus," make all the difference between a king in his grandeur and a "featherless biped." Two hundred and seven Americans reported incomes of $1,000,000 a year or more in 1925. In 1924 only seventy-five reported incomes of a millior dollars or over. Once a man owning a million was a wonder. Now 207 have a million or more INCOME and some had fifty millons of income and a good deal more through corporation ownership. And the billion a year income will arrive before earth's phase of indus trial feudalism shall pass. Mrs. Freeman, the unhappy mother whose husband was killed by an auto mobile, killed herself and her five children when told they must go to an orphan asylum. "Better dead than without a mother," said the poor wo man, and went with them. She was careful to protect two ca nary birds, putting them where the deadly gas could not reach them. She knew that canary birds have a value; somebody would buy them and treat them kindly. She knew that children have no value; that she cou'.d not be sure that strangers in an asylum would treat them kindly. Visiting New York City with a party of distinguished Texans. wel comed and looked up to, literally and in other ways, Governor Moody lis tens and thinks. He hears that New York City is the biggest American factory town, turn ing out five and a half billion dollars worth of products a year. Governor Moody is too polite to mention the fact that any State he has seen on his way East, including New York, could be tucked away in Texas and not attract much attention. Texas, alone, intensively cultivated, could feed every one of the 1,900,000,000 hu man beings on earth and have room left to raise cotton. While Byrd was fiying east across the Atlantic, and two young Army men went west across the Pacific, at 110 miles an hour, our interesting visitor, the comet Pons-Winnecke, was leaving the earth behind, passing through various constellations at the rate of 66,000 miles an hour. Shall we, tiny creatures, when re leased from service on this earth, make some such journey? That would be more interesting than going into the ground to stay there. The VERY DRYS plan a dry ticket in 1928, if neither party supplies them with a candidate dry enough. It would be enlightening to nomin r.te at least one independent dry. The result would be instructive. Few candidates dare defy the dry, few would want an out and out dry nom ination. At this moment of flying enthus iasm, one word of caution is neces sary, and expert fliers remind you of it. Don't go up "just to know how it feels" unless you know the pilot and the machine. There are unsafe machines, plenty of them, including many bought second-hand from the United States government. There are unskilful pilots and others skilful, but reckless. Barring dangerously bad weather, bad pilots and unsafe machines, flying is now safe. But BE CAREFUL. Beginning on August 1, air passen ger service from the Atlantic to the Pacific is promised, the trip to take thirty hours. First will come a straight line air trip from San Francsico to Chicago, with transfers to Los Angeles and Seattle. Then a San Francisco to New Yo.k air line, with the same transfers.. Passenger ships will car ry the mails, and flying will have started. FIRE THREATENS GRAIN. A grass fire of unknown origin oc curred on the Wightman farm three miles below Heppner last Thursday evening, threatening a large field of grain. Prompt response to the fire alarm by a large number of firelight ers kept the tire out of the grain, however, and no material loss was sustained. Another grass fire occur red Tuesday morning on the hill at the northeast corner of town, which, being fanned by a moderate wind, spread over a considerable area be fore it was put under control. Tom Boylen of Echo, sheep and wool buyer, was transacting business in the city today,