45TH ANNIVERSARY BOOSTER EDITION
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON
PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN
Morrow County Cities are Growing and Prosperous
lone and Lexington Seclions Enjoy
Plentiful Yields; Land Prices Right
TiRIBUTARY to the busy trading and shipping centers of
Lexington and lone are located some of the most productive
general farms of the county. On these, in the main, wheat is
the principal crop and figures given of wheat shipments from
these stations and handled by the elevators of these places tell
'the wheat production story well. Improved farm lands in, this
section may yet be secured at exceptionally low prices in com
parison with production. It is nothing uncommon for a purch
aser of farm lands here to profit enough off his first crop to pay
for his lands. The section throughout is also well adapted to
general diversified farming. The raising of various forage
crops, hays, alfalfa, etc., has proved a big success. Large pro
duction per acre in alfalfa in particular is recorded on various
places. The farmers of the districts are prosperous and the
little cities with their mercantile establishments are flourishing.
The prospect throughout this whole section looks exceptionally
bright for the future.
TUM-A-LUM BRANCH
MAINTAINED HERE
That Heppner and Morrow coun
ty well offer opportunities is well
evidenced by the (act that the Tum-A-Lum
Lumber company, one of the
largest concerns of its kind doing
business in the west, maintains four
branches in the county, one at lone,
one at Lexington, one at Irrigon
and one at Heppner. This concern
whose home offices are at Walla
Walla, Washington, own and oper
ate 44 branch yards in Washington
and Oregon.
The local branch has made an en
viable record for aggregate yearly
business transacted. In charge of
the local branch Is Albert Adkins,
who has served here In this capacity
for the past eight years and has
been Instrumental in building up
the business with his books showing
a steady yearly Increase.
PASTIME BILLIARD
PARLOR POPULAR
For a good many years the Pas
time Billiard parlor, soft drink bar,
confectionery and cigar store has
been a favorite with local and tran
sient trade alike, among the men
folks of this section. .
A home-like, club-like place where
they congregate for pleasure and
recreation and to while away a
pleasant hour. In our larger cen
ters too often one associates a bil
liard parlor with all that Is bad.
And true, often places of this na
ture In our, larger centers are '.a
detriment 'Such, however, Is not
the case at Heppner and In the In
stance of the Pastime, as every care
is taken to see that there 1b no
rowdyism, no selling to minors, no
illicit liquor traffic allowed, and in
fact, nothing allowed that you
would not allow for your men folks
in your own home. I
The business Is owned and oper
ated by a live wire Morrow county
booster, M. L. Curran, who started
it seven years ago and during these
years has achieved business success
and numbers today among his
friends and patrons all of the peo
ple of the county. Mr. Curran was
located In The Dalles previous to
engaging in business here. -
PHOTO ART STUDIO
SERVES COUNTY
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A busy photo studio is also well
serving the whole of Morrow coun
ty. This is what is known as the
Boggs Photo Art studio of Heppner,
operated by Mrs. T. O. Boggs, a
lady of many years experience at
the work. She took over the busi
ness in October of last year and In
this short time has made quite a
name for herself as an able photo
grapher. Many of the Illustrations
seen in this edition were produced
from her photos. In these are in
cluded the baby group. Both por
trait work and commercial work
are handled.
lone offers you a fine little city
in which to live. One of the best
schools of the county is located
here. A pretty little home city.
For Your Household
Furnishings
Patronize the old reliable
home store .
'GUARANTEED VALUES
S. E. Moore
IONE, OREGON
Furniture, Rugs
Wall Paper
A Booster for This County Since 1 888.
LEXINGTON THE HOME OF PURE BREDS.
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Pure Bred Creamolines on B. F. Swaggart's Eastern Oregon Stock Farm Near Lexington
(The first time the story of this
strain of horses has been pub
lished.) In the pages of this issue we are
giving you wonderful examples of
success achieved by individuals In
commercial and agricultural pur
suits. Morrow county has also,
however, a unique and distinct en
terprise that merits special recog
nition. This is the Eastern Oregon
Stock Farm, located near Lexing
ton, where B. F. Swaggart, the
owner and operator, specializes in
purebred horses. His Creamoline
strain has been giving this section
nationwide publicity.
First a little history of Mr. Swag
gart, personally. B. F. Swaggart
settled in this region, in what was
then Umatilla county, as early as
1870 and engaged at that time in
stockraising, sheep and cattle in the
main.
Of late years, and in fact, always,
a hobby of his has been the Intro
ducing of more purebreds and so
building up the livestock of the
county. i
Today he operates a 3000 acre
stock farm which is devoted to the
usual diversity of crops wjth oats,
barley and wheat as leading crops.
Of these three crops there were
harvested on his place last season
more than 20,000 bushels, with an
additional 100 tons of hay, he run
ning at the same time an average
of 200 head of stock. The farm is
located ideally ten miles north of
Heppner.
As mentioned before the partic
ular hobby of Mr. Swaggart Is the
breeding of his famous Creamoline
strain of purebred horses. He has
devoted his time, interest and ex
pended much money during the past
45 years in raising thoroughbreds,
horses, jacks, mules and other dom
estic animals, and is today consid
ered an excellent authority in these
lines.
To his credit and the credit of his
farm, may it be said that It has a
name for breeding the best stallions
in the west and that his race horse
breeds and their descendants have
"won at many of the most Import
ant race meets of the United States,
Mexico and Canada;
Among these were the Sherry
string of thoroughbred horses that
traveled 4000 miles in the United
States and Canada, winning 17 out
of 18 world's championship prizes.
But again to get to his pet vocation,
or rather his particular pets. Forty
eight years ago he began to evolve
a type of horses that no other brede
er has ever produced (examples
seen above). They are the descend
ants of thoroughbreds for a period
of more than a third of a century
and represent a distinct breed type
with color all their own, called the
Oregon Creamolines. These Cream
olines are rare specimens of great
agility, endurance and speed and so
far superior by far to their ances
tral thoroughbreds.
With a strong symmetrical body
and limbs, with dapple gray color,
with sparkling eyes full of radiat
ing life, a luxurious mane of white
with tail of the same color they
present, one of the most beautiful
spcimens of animal life, with the
admiration of all who see them.
One of his horses, "Little Dick,"
tied the world's record at Vancou
ver in 1901. Oregon George was a
winner that had defeated the two
year olds of four divisions, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and British Col
umbia. All lovers of horse flesh will be
vitally interested to learn more
about this Creamoline strain of
horses bred and produced exclusive
ly by B. F. Swaggart of Morrow
county. He extends a cordial invita
tion to all to come and visit his
modern stock farm near Lexington.
Another one of our loyal old timers
who has never been weaned away
from Morrow county and 'would not
today trade Morrow county for the
whole state of New York.
The Hoot Gibson horse, Palomina,
seen in the movies is a product of
Mr. Swaggart's farm. Though this
horse has passed into the great be
yond, he will long be remembered
by all lovers of good horses. This
horse was a brother to Oregon Sun
shine and Oregon Sunburst, now on
the farm.
PHOTOGRAPHY
IS AN ART
t
We Serve the County
Portrait Work
Commercial Photography
Boggs Photo Art
Heppner StUCHC) 0reg0n
BERT MASON'S BIG GENERAL STORE
Ione's business men are enterpris
ing and progressive. Here you will
find a spirit of co-operation mani
fested that assures success for
Ione's future. You will like to live,
work and play among these people.
That business Is good in the lone
section of Morrow county Is well
evidenced by its prosperous appear
ing, well stocked and busy retail es
tablishments. Among the leaders,
and a house that is patronized by
the people, not only of lone but also
of many miles of adjoining agricul
tural section, is the big store seen
above, Bert Mason's big department
store. Bert Mason is one of the men
ever working for progress. And his
own success here is an example of
what others can do. Mr. Mason
started in business at lone on a
much smaller scale as early as 1898.
His father, Joe Mason, was one of
the pioneer settlers of the district
Bert Mason's first business Interests
were as a partner in the firm of
Halvorsen & Mason, he later tak
ing over complete control. Under
his management the business con
tinued to show yearly progress and
increase. The above modern and
spacious store building, a credit to
lone, to the county, and to its build
er, was erected in 1917, again show
ing Mason's confidence in the fu
ture of the district Mason's store
can clothe and feed the family, and
carrying large and varied stocks as
it does, keeps the lone trade at
home.
Bert Mason has also efficiently
served lone as mayor for the past
four years and under his adminis
tration many worthwhile improve
ments for the city have been
brought about
THE ELKHORN IS A
BUSY RESTAURANT
The local and transient public is
assured of first class restaurant
service when visiting Heppner. And
all this at very popular prices. Ve
recommend In particular Edward
Chinn's famous Elkhorn restaurant
where the very best of foods obtain
able, correctly prepared are served
in an appetizing way at popular
prices. Here Is another busy en
terprise deserving of mention In
these pages as an example of suc-
33. ' Its history has been one of
steady growth. Edward Chinn
started here on a small scale in an
other location In 1915. His business
soon grew. He moved to a larger
location. Again he soon saw the
need of larger, more modern com
modlous quarters. The result that
In 1921 he furnished the present
modern place. Mr. Chinn is among
those who thinks more of Heppner
and Morrow county than all the
rest of the world. Incidentally dur
ing his business days he has erect
ed for his family one of the finest
residences of our city. Give the
Elkhorn and Its service a trial when
visiting our locality.
lone as a city is growing. Adja
cent are some of the finest farms
of the country, making lone a good
trading center. There is room for
more. Investigate lone as a city.
We all, always, boost for a greater
Morrow County.
COME AND LIVE IN IONE
Trade in lone with
SWANSON
Feed and Supply Store
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
C. W. SWANSON, Prop.
Feed, Flour, Potatoes and Poultry Supplies.
Roofing and Building Material
i
Wood in Carload Lots
Paint, Oils, Glass, Doors and Windows.
IONE, OREGON
IONE'S OWN DEPARTMENT STORE
Bristow & Johnson
GENERAL MERCHANDISE, PRODUCE
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Bids you welcome to Morrow County.
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Trade at Home
When you patronize the home merchants you are serving your own
best interests.