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teg Volume 44; No. 19 HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUG. 4, 1927. Subscription $2.00 a Year Seamier mm I '3 Blue Mountains Afford Retreat from Summer Heat of Town. LOOP TRIP APPEALS Heart of Forest Invaded in Circle of 1 Arbuckle Mountain; Few Hours Required. Mountain shade; cool breezes; pure, sparkling water; the refreshing odor of "balsam and myrrh" summer's paradise. One need not journey tar aheid to find it in all its glory. The seasons have been especially provident to the Blue mountains this year, and at this late date Morrow county's summer playground presents an allure to sat isfy the most clawing "back to na ture" pangs. Heppner people have been taking advantage of the vacation opportun ities afforded, and the eolony of local campers along Willow creek from the "Forks" to Herren's Mill is larger than for several years. Many busy business folk have their families cozily housed in cabins and tents, and they themselves find relief there from the lower valley heat nights or week ends. Huckleberry Crop Good. Besides the regular contingent of campers, many cars of picnickers, sightseers and huckleberry scouts, along with numerous woodhaulers, are keeping the mountain roads hot. The report of an abundant huckle berry crop has caused widespread in terest, and although it will be a cou ple of weeks before they begin to ripen generally, a great many parties have already "staked out" patches. But the best part of all just at present is the good roads. These make access to almost any part of our Blue mountains an easy matter, and gives an added zest to the coming and going. A trip of which we had heard much, and which the editor and other members of the family took Sunday afternoon, reveals a most enjoyable jaunt for the motorist who has an afternoon to spend. Going up Willow creek, at 12 miles the edge of the timber is reached. Taking the "right" fork road, the first stop should be Kelley spring, a beau tifully clear, cold spring a short dis tance above the fork of Willow creek, on the left side of the road. Just opposite this spring is the fore-bay, ct intake of the Heppner water sys tem. Drinking of the spring's offer ing to the heart's content one is fully sustained after the slightly discom fitting journey to the timber's edge and prepared to enjoy the winding mountain lones to the fullest. Kelley Prairie Reached. The main traveled road is followed then, past the colony of Heppner campers, the Willow creek sawmill and Hcrren mill sites, the coal mines, and on to the top of the first inter mediate pull to the edge of Ditch creek prairie, which is reached at about 22 miles. Here the first cross roads is found. Choosing the Kelley prairie-Arbuckle road, Ditch creek prairie is skirted, and a few minutes more through an abundance of new timber growth, high grass and moun tain shrubs innumerable and as yet untouched by grazing sheep, brings Kelley prairie, one of the rarest gems of the Blues. Rich in vegetation it self, it lies nestling between Kelley mountain and Arbuckle, two of the highest mountains in the range. On all sides timber is abundant, with great thickets of new growth, provid ing one of the most famous deer re treats known to local sportsmen. The wary motorist may Bee a deer here ' most any time of the present season. All the time on as fine a clay dirt road as one could wish for, after go ing through the prairie a hardly per ceptible grade is reached that carries the motorist to the top of Arbuckle so easily he woud hardly know he had climbed at all if it were not for the vast stretches of lower hintcr. land that greets his vision. Good View from Tower. Near the top of the mountain the sign "Arbuckle Lookout Station" is found, and the motorist who wants to enjoy the trip to the fullest should surely follow its direction. Just few hundred yards, and one comes abruptly to a spotlessly neat camp the first warning that he is near the station. The friendly voice of Frank Farnsworth, lookout, booms out greeting, and his dog Jiggs makes the visitor s arrival known at well. If one is thoughtful and polite he may learn from Frank all about the country thereabout, as well as every kind of tree, plant, etc., where the huckleberries are, and even be per mitted to climb into the tower for an unimpeded view of the surrounding mountains. The vista as seen from hero stretches out to the Greenhorn mountnins to the east and the John day valley to the south, while Kelley mountain on the west and other Jjigh mountains to the norfh restrict the view to the immediate surroundings. At night, from here, the lights of Long Creek may be Been. Frank may demonstrate his flre-flnding appara tus, showing how the azimuth read ing is taken in giving a fire's location. The present tower is built in a tree a few hundred feet distant from the top of the mountain. It is 95 feet high and affords a little thriller in climbing. It has been condemned, (Continued on Pact Six) VACATION LAND A CONTRACT WILL BE LET FOR SIX MILES OF ROAD Forest Service to Complete Grade On Another Section Between Heppner and Spray. According to a statement made by L. P. Womack, engineer in charge of the construction of the Hardman Spray road, another contract for com pleting the grading of six miles more of this road will be let at Portland today by the Bureau of Public Roads. This section was advertised for bids a short time ago and Mr. Womack ex pects that the contract will be let and the work continued. This piece of construction will be in Wheeler county and extends from the John Day to the Morrow county line, leaving a gap of 9 miles to be contracted for later. The engineer seems to think that this gap will have the consideration of the proper au thorities and get under way for com pletion this fall. Mr. Womack was in the city Wed. nesday in consultation with the coun ty court and he reports the work up Chapin creek as progressing in a sat isfactory manner and that section of load will soon be completed. A part of the proceedings of the county court at their sitting Wednes day was the authorizing of the sale of $120,000 of the road bond issue, the proceeds of the sale to be used in work now under way on various mar ket roads. Improvements by City Are Now Being Made At the meeting of the city council tin Monday evening that body closed a contract for two hundred yards of crushed rock that will be used in improving a number of side streets. As soon as it is right to do the grading the extension of Baltimore street from the intersection of Gale street vest will be undertaken, and crushed rock will be spread on sixteen feet of the center, making a good rood bed. This improvement is on a BO-BO basis us to covering, the city helping in the purchase of the crushed rock to the extent of half and the property own ers standing the other half, and the city does the work. We understand that a number of other street im provements of this nature will be n.ade this fall on the same baais, and is time goes on the city hopes to have most of the side streets thus macad amized. As the people of the city use water luite a good deal for drinking pur poses from what is known as the Mor row spring, the council ordered that this source of water supply be put in i thoroughly sanitary condition, and I will be concreted up and covered r.c, that any pollution of the water nay be avoided. Some contemplated lcnewals of water mains in the city will also be taken up during the com ing month, according to the plans the y fathers now have under consid eration. Takes Over Insurance Business of C. A. Minor The insurance business of C. A. Minor wsa taken over by Frank Tur ner the first of the month. The nego tiations had been curried on for some little time and the deal closed but Mr. Minor did not retire until Mon day. The business will henceforth be carried on under the name of F. W. Turner and Co., and it is their plan to branch out more extensively in the insurance and real estate busi ness than heretofore. Mr. Minor has enjoyed a fine business, however, and had he been physically able to take on the larger amount of work in volved, he would hnve been justified in extending the business into other fields and taking on different lines that naturally go with work of this nature. Just what Mr. Minor expects to do has not been made public, but he is quite extensivey engaged in the sheep business, and this may require all his attention. Mr. Turner hopes to merit the continuation of the fine line of business that Mr. Minor has enjoyed. LEXINGTON LEGIONA1RE BURIED, lone Independent.) The funeral of Ola C. McCormick was held at Lexington in the Congre gational church on Thursday after noon, the 28th, Rev. W. W. Head of lone, officiating. Interment was made in the Lexington cemetery. Mr. McCormick served in the World War and was ready for overseas di-ty when the armistice was signed. Sub sequently to being mustered out of the service, he developed pulmonary tuberculosis and, after a long strug gle to regain his health, died at the U. S. Veterans' hospital at Walla Walla. Mr. McCormick was born nt Mar- ionville, Mo., Nov. 29, 1897, and came to Oregon when he wns nine years old. His home has been in Loxiugton practically ever since. His death occurred July 25. H leaves to mourn his loss two brothers and a sister; two half sisters, a half brother and a stepmother. Mr. and Mrs, E. H. Buhn were call ed to Portland on Fridny by th death of Mrs. Buhn'a mother, Mrs, Mario Christcnscn, who passed away at the home of her daughter at 682 E. 54th St., N., aged 73 years. Funeral services were held on Monday. Mr, and Mrs. Buhn returned from Port land today. 'Twont Be TMr Fault AUTOCAl TE Marshal Hamm, aged 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hamm of lone, was thrown from a horse Wednesday evening and suffered a broken left arm. He was brought to Morrow General hosiptal where the arm was x-rayed by Dr. Johnston, who found both bones near the wrist broken. Mrs. Hamm expects to leave for Montesano, Wash., about the middle of August to join Mr. Hamm who is a deputy sheriff there. Ralph E. Gilliam, accountant and auditor associated with Lybrand, Ross Bros, and Montgomery, has been transferred to this city from La Grande where he has been for the last three months. He will have his office with Frank W. Turner & Co. Mr. Gil liam formerly lived in Heppner and has many friends here who wish him the best of success in his new field. Miss Mildred Clowry returned this week from a seven-weeks' vacation spent in the east. While away she visited relatives at Cleveland, O., Chicago and points in Indiana. She is again in her position as trained nurse at the office of Dr. A. D. Mc Murdo. Leland Adams has left the Heppner Surgical hospital and is now staying at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Dempsey. He is well on the road to recovery from injuries received when his shoulder was caught under a loaded gravel truck. L. H. Frederickson, formerly of Lexington garage, is the new mechan ic at Ferguson Chevrolet Co. garage in this city. Louis has had long ex perience in auto mechanics and will prove a valuable addition to the force at the Chevrolet garage. Albert Hudson came in from the Nils Johnson farm on Eight Mile on Tuesday, suffering with a large ab scess on his leg. Dr. McMurdo is In attendance. A. Buckley, superintendent of the O.-W. R. & N. company, was a vis itor in Heppner on Wednesday, being on an inspection trip of the Heppner branch. Dr. Frederick D. Strieker, state health officer, was in Heppner last night, in the course of his tour of in spection of the auto camps of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Browning, who econtly returned to Heppner from Wallville, Wash., have taken up their lesulcnce in the Gilman building. John Ferris, Jr., of lone had an op eration Wednesday forenoon at Mor row General hospital for the removl of tonsils and adenoids. Born At Morrow General hospital in this city to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Goodrich of Lexington, a 9-pound girl. Syd Chaplin in "OH! WHAT A NURSE," Star Theater, Sunday and Monday. Don't miss this one. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. McNamer are spending their vacation season at Sea side. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John R. Wag ner in lone on August 3, a 9H-pound son. ROAD IS IMPROVED. Residents of the Butter creek sec tion who travel to the mountains in the vicinity of Arbuckle, will be glad to learn that the road on Jackson hill has been improved and is now in good shape for travel. We are in formed by County Roadmaster Mc Caleb that the work of repairs on this roBd has been completed and that route Into the timber greatly im proved thereby. Mr. McCaleb also states that those who go on the re servo for wood and poles should get their permits from the forestry de partment. These may be obtained from any ranger. Wheat Handled Easily By Farmers Elevator The Heppner Farmers' Elevator company is handling more wheat this year the easiest they have in years. A recent improvement is the reason. By cutting a large door in the upper end of their large warehouse, with a sloping platform driveway approach, and platform scales just inside, trucks are permitted to drive inside of the warehouse, weigh on tr scales and on to the stacker for unloading. This does away with all hand trucking. Nearly 4000 sacks a day are now coming into the Heppner warehouses and elevator, which are rapidly fill ing. The Farmers' Elevator expects to handle more than 400,000 bushels of wheat this season, practical' twice as much as last season. So far little wheat has been shipped from here, but it is expected it will start mov ing rapidly in a short time The total Morrow county wheat cut put this year should exceed 2,000,000 bushels, according to estimate of the county agent's office. Charles Smith, agriculturist, is now making a check on yields and from early reports es timates the average per acre yield the county over between 18 and 20 bush els. Market reports the fore part of the week show wheat holding firm with a slight advance trend due to rust reports from different sections. Ac cordingly, considerable selling has taken place here. ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Rev. Stanley Moore, Missionary in Charge. Sunday school at 9:45 o'clock. Morning prayer and sermon at 11 o'clock. "Hear my crying, 0 God: give ear unto my prayer. From the ends of the earth will I call upon thee." Norman Schwab, a student from the Virginia Theological Seminary at Al exandria, Virginia, will preach the sermon. Mr. Schwab is from New Haven, Conn. He drove out from the East in his car in nine days, reaching Oregon in time to attend the Eastern Oregon Summer School held at Ascen sion School, Cove. Since that time i'r. Schwab has been making a tour ol Eastern Oregon, preaching at the various churches and missions in the district. Princess Flour "Makes Friends Easily" Buy now while the harvest prices are on Brown Warehouse Co. Phones: Warehouse 643, Residence 644 By Albert T. Keui SMOKER'S CODE (For the Dry Season) Dangerous to Smoke While Traveling On Forest, Brush or Grassland. SMOKE ONLY 1. While Stopping in a Safe Place Clear of All Inflammable Ma terial, or 2. During or Right After a Hea vy Rain, or 3. Inside a Vehicle on Two-Way Highways, or 4. Above Timber Line, and 6. After Smoking, Put Out All Lighted Material. The Law Prohibits Throwing Away Any Burning Matches or Tobacco, or Other Lighted Ma terial in a Forest Region. Forest fires from smokers result from thoughtlessness and careless ness. They are on the increase. Remedy a bad record by following the above Code when in the forest regions. Weather Bureau Aids In Forest Protection Extreme forest fire hazards are al ways the result of low humidity, ac cording to the U. S. Forestry service. It is pointed out that while the forest fire hazard has been less than usual during the present season, due to favorable weather conditions, it would take only a few days of low relative humidity to increase the haz ard to the danger point. The importance of this factor is indicated by the fact that some in rurance companies are now granting reduced rates on timberland in the Pacific Northwest when the owner agrees to suspend all logging opera tions for any period during which the relative humidity is below 30 per cent. On account of the probability of (Contimipd on Pnjrp Six) Invasion at Davis Home Results in Man's Arrest Screams of Mrs. Harry Davis in north Heppner shortly after 10 o'clock Tuesday night caused investigation by authorities and resulted in the ar rest last night of J. J. O'Neill, erst while brakeman on the local branch O. W. R. & N. Mrs. Davis, alone in the house af ter Mr. Davis, fellow brakeman of O'Neill, had gone to work, had just retired. She was lying in bed reading near an open window, when aroused by a man's voice. He said there was someone in her back yard, and that she should go and investigate. She at first thought him one of the neigh bors, and asked if he wouldn't find out what they wanted. Her suspicions were then aroused and she became frightened. According to Mr. Davis, the man then told her not to scream or he would shoot her. But she, jumping out of bed and turning off the light, continued to scream, and when neigh bors arrived a short time later the man was gone. Actions of O'Neill caused him to be suspected. When he arrived late to work, he had an injured hand, which he said he received by hitting a man who jumped on his back when be was walking to the depot. He also stopped in at Mrs. Rebecca Penland's, where he was rooming, and told her of the alleged encounter, because he thought her place might be attacked. Some children saw a man leaving the Davis place. They said he collid ed with a gate and fell. Someone saw something fall from his pocket. Later O'Neill was seen at the place with a lantern. Some thought O'Neill was the man and injured his hand in the collision. Later, Mrs. Davis identified the man's voice as being that of O' Neill. A warrant was sworn out for O'Neill yesterday evening, but when Howard McDuffee, deputy sheriff, went to serve it, he could not be found. O' Neill, however, was seen in town be tween eight and nine o'clock last night, and it was known he could not be far away. Accordingly, the deputy boarded the train when it left at 10: 30. At Lexington he saw O'Neill with a suitcase climb on an empty tank car. He kept his man spotted until lone was reached, where the suspect ed party took to the bushes. Mc Duffee caught up with him and placed him under arrest, arriving back in Heppner with him this morning. As this district is now without a justice of the peace the case will be iieard either in the city recorder's court of before the county judge. House and Contents Burned Sunday P. M. A building used as a storehouse and woodshed on the premises of Emil Grotkopp just across the May street bridge, was totally destroyed by fire, together with the contents on Sun day afternoon. Just exactly how the fire started is not known, but it was likely from sparks that fell on the roof. Mr. Grotkopp and Mr. French who resides in the Grotkopp residence in the same lot, had household effects stor ed in the smaller building, and it was from a fire in the stove, evidently, that the blaze originated. Mr. Grot kopp had built a fire to heat water to take a shave, and the first appear ance of the flames were near the place where the stovepipe went out of the roof. A quick response to the fire alarm was the means of keeping the fire from spreading and becoming disas trous to the property in the neigh borhood. Grotkopp lost all his cloth ing, carpenter tools and considerable household goods, the total amounting to about $500. He is very grateful to those who so promptly responded and aided in keeping the fire from spreading to adjoining property. The fire occurred at about a quarter of three in the afternoon. HEPPNER'S OPPORTUNITY. Heppner will have an opportunity to hear a great man. He has never flown across the ocean in a plane but he has done more heroic things than that. He went among the ignorant and savage people of Africa and open ed up a christian mission which has even in his day transformed parts of that country. He left all to do a great work. He risked health, for swamps and vermin and disease abounded. He risked life from those things, but from great rivers and sav, age peoples as well. It is a wonderful thing that God has spared him to tell many people the fnscinating story of his work ihere. He is a very interesting speak er and those who have heard him once are always anxious to hear him again. Remember Dr. Royal J. Dye will speak at the Church of Christ on Fri day evening at eight o'clock. Admis sion is free and everyone is welcome. MILTON W. BOWER. TRY IT ONCE. On Sunday morning eight-thirty comes pretty early but we are up be fore that other days. So just for fun and because we consider it a splendid thing we are going to begin Bible school at that hour during the month of August. The morning preaching service will follow at once and all morning services wili be over short ly after ten o'clock. Come and try it once, you will be delighted! Christian Endeavor and evening service will be at the usual time. Morning topic, "Practicing Christ inn Unity." Evening topic, "A Hard Word to Pronounce." MILTON W. BOWER, Minister. RAMS FOR SALE Homneys, Rum bouillets and Hampshires from the famous Coffin ranch, Yakima. See J. J. Kelly, Heppner. 19-21 This Week By Arthur. Brisbane Imponderable Ether. Heroes Are Gentle. A Sick Whale. Be Just to Elijah. Sir Oliver Lodge says the ether is the most important reality of the phy sical universe. Life and mind are associated with matter only indirect ly through the ether, says he, and the ether is primarily man's habitation, not pseudo "solid matter," earth, houses, automobiles and money that we call the real world. Matter reduced to atoms is only electric particles revolving nt fright ful speed around an electric centre. The real thing is ether. Science tells us that ether is like a great stream of water, flowing on forever, and matter like a fisherman's net spread across the stream through which the ether flows, that ether is essential to the cosmic scheme, that Newton's law of gravitation should not work without it, and that ether is the only solid reality in the realm of ideas. But for the average man it is hard to conceive ether as a reality. It seems as unreal as the fourth dimension. Our minds are adjusted to the w ork we have to do, which isn't big or very important. Thomas A. Edison was three days in New York's Botanical Gardens library, searching for some new rub ber plant. He may find it, but it will probably be chemistry, not botany that will supply the new rubber. Elas ticity, plus wearing quality, are need ed. Human intelligence will produce something better than rubber, just as it produced something better than wood, in the bronze and iron ages. Be careful if you meet latrodectus Mactains. It's ordinary name is the "black widow" and it's the deadliest spider on earth, possessing a bite causing death within twenty-four hours. This tiny black spider has recently caused more than a dozen deaths on the Pacific Coast. On general prin ciples, keep spiders and flies out of the. house. Let them carry on their ancient war in the open. Real courage is always gentle. Ho ler's "Mildest Manners and Gentlest Heart" are part of a fearless nature. Of all photographs taken of our At lantic flyers, the finest shows Com mander Byrd standing beside a wounded French soldier, helpless in a wheel chair. The expression on Byrd's face, pitying and tender, is that of a real hero. Happy the moth er and father of such a son. Commander Byrd, always in search of interesting occupation, plans a flight to the South Pole, and before the new year he will be flying through the coldest region on earth. He is determined to be the first man to fly over both poles. In centuries to come, what we call our North and South Poles will again be warm, and some other spots on the earth will be the poles. Oil wells that Standard Oil has located inside the Arctic region will supply nearby gas stations if men still use power as primitive as gasoline in that fu ture day. Gas by then will probably be com pletely out of date, as whale oil is cow, for lighting. But do not bo frightened into selling good oil stock. If told that the sickness of a sperm whale in the Atlantic Ocean could set up an ancient sailor man in a comfortable chicken business, you might say "impossible." But it hap pened. When whales don't feel well, lumps of a substance called "Ambergris," valuable to perfume manufacturers, form inside of them. Jerimiah Fratt, seventy-four years old, lookout on a schooner, saw gulls hovering over a big lump of Amber gris, worth $12,500. With that money, Sailor Pratt will retire to a chicken ranch and thousands of women will go around perfumed by the Ambergris. Uldine Utley, fifteen-year-old girl evangelist, who Bays Biliy Sunday is greater than Mussolini because Sun day conquered the devil, is in New York City saving souls. She saved forty last Sunday, and doubtless they will show gratitude when they meet her in heaven. Miss Utley, who brings everything close to her hearers, says; "Lind bergh was not the first to make a non-stop flight the Lord did it, be fore him, by flying from heaven to ' earth and then from earth to heaven." It s an excellent thought, but not fair to Elijah, who, in a "chariot of lira and horses of fire" went up "by a whirlwind into heaven." See second Kings, chapter two, verse eleven. That happened 900 years before the birth of Christ. F. Misner, a brother-in-law of Char les Smith, arrvied here yesterday and is spending a few days visiting with the county agent and his fumily. Mr. Misner is on a vacation to the north west and just recently arrived from New York state where he holds a po sition as instructor in a public school.