HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1934.
PAGE TWO
Historical Neivs, Views
Given bv Pioneer Editor
Historical data concerning the1 Only Hen on Hword.
aeveiopmera 01 sorrow county is Hens are not rea, estate although
not plentiful. Unfortunately, files j they eat ,ots of R inoluding smaU
rox and pretty much everything else
of local newspapers previous to
1918 were consumed in the tire of
July 4 of that year, and a wealth of
historical material was thus de
stroyed. Pioneers still live, tis true,
who had an active part in making
the county's early history, and who
can relate anecdotes similar to
those related by John Watermelon
Redington, pioneer "Gazet" editor,
now residing in the old soldiers
home at Saw telle, CaX, whose latest
contributions were received this
week. But passing years dim the
memory, and facts and figures of
by-gone days are not easy to recall.
Those who were acquainted with
Mr. Redington's inimical style of
oujrnalism when he was editor of
the "Gazet," may remember Cap
tain H. B. LeFevre, "A Wonderful
Worker,' and the prominent part
he played in making some of the
county's history, as well as the
county seat fight referred to. In
the articles contributed, Mr. Red
ington shows he has retained thru
devastating illness the rare journal
istic trait of recognizing the new
and the unusual. Two of the ar
ticles have rare news value, the one
bringing as it does news of the pres
ent whereabouts of Captain Le
Fevre, and the other bringing to
light so unusual a fact as the "Only
Hen on Record," an item because of
its unusualness and the fact that
it is being brought to light for the
first time makes it worthy of a
news heading. It would be mete to
give them bold headings, the one.
"County Seat Fight Leader Discov
ered in Alaska," the other Distin
guished Hen Given Record Honor,"
and insert a "by" line for Mr. Red
ington. But this is a family news
paper, and the articles are passed
along for the enjoyment of Gazette
Times readers without the flare and
fanfare which metropolitan dailies
employ to stimulate street sales,
. The articles of the veteran Indian
fighter-editor are reproduced with
out changing the dotting of an "i
or the crossing of a "t."
A Wonderful Worker.
Editor Gazet: Many of the old
pioneers of Eastern Oregon will
well remember Captain H. B. Le
Fevre, and will be interested to
learn that he is now well-established
as an attorney at Juneau, Alaska
with a large clientage of fishermen
cannerymen, sailormen, both steam
and sail. Russian fins, plain Rus
sians, Klondike miners, and a gen
eral conglomeration of all nations,
among whom he is equally at home
as a good mixer.
Captain LeFevre has had a varied
xistence. As a schoolboy in Swit
zerland he helped welcome Bour
baki's Army of the Loire when it
crisscrossed that river on its ear
and on the ice. He had a near-view
of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870,
after which he returned home to
Wisconsin, and developed the Ha
zelwood spring that furnished the
water that made the beer that made
Milwaukie famous. He was one of
the winners of the West in pioneer
ing in Eastern Oregon, putting the
rox in Lone Rock, and the camas
into Camas Prairie. His home
ranch was presided over by his
mother, who was one of the most
attractive and graceful ladies on
the frontier. She lived to a ripe old
age with her son in Alaska, and he
saw to it that she had all the com
forts of life up to the time she was
laid to rest
Captain LeFevre was a good
writer, and his productions were
full of kix. When he was associate
editor of the Heppner Gazet his
work was quoted far and wide, for
it was both readable and reliable,
His storv about Wails from Jails,
his One Romance French, and his
near-elopement of Lige Hendrix
were classix that lasted long and
loud. Some day when he gets
around to it, and can steal time, h
will write a French novel that will
rock the earth, and will wake up
the French nation so suddenly that
it will pay off its repudiated war
debt, and apologize for its slowness
in waiting for the suppression of
the depression, xpression, compreS'
sion and oppression. It was a real
treat to share the trout, the dee:
and elk meat that Captain LeFevre
so appetizingly cooked over the eve
ning campfire, and the punch that
he blended had xactly the proper
punch, and would infuse new life
into a marble statue. And it was a
pleasure to see how he tackled
things in camp, never shirking any
of the details, and the condition of
his mountain cabin was the pink of
perfection.
When Morrow County was or
ganized in 1884, and honored itself
with the name of Uncle Jack Mor
row, who was one of nature's no
blemen, there was a considerable
contest as to the location of the
county seat, the new town of Lex
ington springing up on Bill Pen-
land's ranch, and being more than
willing to accept the honor. Hepp
ner was the strongest candidate,
and used every effort to win, as it
did, by about 36 votes. Captain Le
Fevre took the field during the
campaign, and stayed on the firing
line right up to the minute of vic
tory, and much of that victory was
due to his untiring efforts. He rode
his big horse Snort all over the
county, telling the story of Hepp
ner and why it was the logical lo
cation for the county seat, and he
pulled across many wavering votes,
There was not an Isolated ranch,
sheep or cattle camp that he over
looked. He dropped in on them all,
and got results. He was welcome
everywhere, for he had an inter
esting personality and a faculty for
dispelling the blues of lonliness,
and making people realize that this
was the best world they had ever
entered. When Heppner prides it
self on its county-seat prominence
it may well remember the good
work of Captain LeFevre in locat
ing it. and rustling votes while
many other were asleep.
that comes along. They never, or
hardly ever get onto real estate rec
ords, but one of them crashed the
(jate 'n Morrow County, Oregon.
I looked over a stable and lot
that Peter Borg had to sell for a
few hundred dollars, and told him
All right, I would buy it if he would
throw in a hen that was setting in
the lean-to. He said that he could
not do that, as the hen belonged to
his wife. I told him No hen, no sale.
Next morning he came to the Ga
zet office with an xpression that
showed there had been a family
argument, and he had won it, and
he said, All right, I could have the
hen. Captain LeFevre took the
deed over, secured the acknow
ledgements, and paid over the cash.
In making out the deed, we gave
the setting hen a prominent place,
describing her as setting on 13 eggs,
and being of mixed colors, but with
out marks or brands. And she went
on record in the real estate books,
and after awhile our Chinese cook
Jim took her off the nest with 13
chix. He made a pen for her,
where she could rest, while her ba
bies scouted around outside.
But our pet cat that Mrs. Tom
Ayers had wished onto us selected
them for food, and soon every one
of them had disappeared. Then I
told Jim to release the broken
hearted mother-hen, and when this
was done she took a look around,
got her bearings, rose in the air,
and flew right over our fence, and
rejoined her relatives in Mrs. Borg's
chicken-yard. Then I told Black'
horse Brown to bring in a dozen
young roosters for Jim to fricasee,
and when he came in he told me
that he had them in a coop on the
back of his wagon, and that as
they passed the willows on the Jim
Ferguson ranch, a slat jolted loose
and every rooster escaped. At twi
light that evening I took Dash and
another shotgun and rode down
there, and found the flock of roost
ers already gone to roost in the
trees. They were good waiters,
and waited until I had shot each
one of them, and Dash retrieved
every one, and as Jim had no frig
idaire outfit, he divided half of
them among the neighbors.
Pioneer Pranx.
One of the funniest fights on rec
ord was pulled off on Heppner's
main street on election day in 1884,
when Morrow and Cox were elected
to the legislature, and Heppner won
the county seat struggle. Strong
arguments on the porch under the
false front of Matlock's saloon got
well under way, and soon the crowd
moved out into the street, where
there was more room to swing on
each other. Some of the swings
swung onto empty air, but many
men socked right and left, and gen
erally hit something.
Bill Lunceford and Os. Mitchell
seemed to be the most active as
pirants for honors or dishonors, but
there must have been a dozen oth
ers in the fray, and after it was all
over and the pipe of peace was
ready to smoke, Os. Mitchell came
to the Gazet shop and put in an
ad to recover his coat, which he
had thrown off in the street, and
lost track of, having so many other
things to watch out for. It was a
lively row, and had been incubated
by some of George Swaggart's
prune juice, which Dick Neville had
handed out by mistake, supposing
it to be smoky Scotch. AH the
sheepherders took the Gazet, and
one of them over in Sandford can
yon saw the ad and sent in the
coat, xplaining that some one had
swiped his coat, and he swiped the
first one he found lying around
loose.
It was an xciting election, and
lasted well into the night, whjle the
ballots were being counted. And
Deacon Hope, who was watching
the ballot boxes in the interest of
Lexington, went to sleep at the
switch, as he had been practicing
that old poem about early to bed
and early to rise, etc. All others
stayed awake, regardless of hours,
and Cash. Mallory sold all his stock
of court plaster to patch up the
fighters.
Co-Ops Still Vital in
Farm Development
Oregon's cooperative farm mar
keting associations have survived
the past years of depression in ex
ceptionally good shape, and are go
ing ahead to take an important
place in the new deal for agricul
ture, it was revealed by reports ana
addresses that made up the pro
gram of the annual meeting of the
Oregon Cooperative council in Port
land the middle of February.
Reports brought by members of
the council who have been active in
Washington, D. C, were that some
time ago it appeared that coopera
tives were being ignored and Ham
pered in the new setup, but that this
is now changed and that every in
dication is that national agricul
tural officials recognize the vital
part cooperative marketing plays
in the nation.
The Oregon council passed reso.
lutions backing the national coun
cil in moves that affect this state,
notably one asking the reestablish-
ment of the division of cooperatve
marketing as a separate unit rath
er than as a part of the Farm Cred
it administration.
Dairy members of the council
proposed and had adopted a resolu
tion advocating passage of the
pending bill laying an excise tax of
5 cents a pound on all imported veg
etable fats and oils, and urging fed'
eral cooperation in eliminating all
diseased cows as a vital step in ad
justment of dairy production.
Reports by associations at the
annual banquet, which was the
largest in the history of the coun
cil, indicated that farm industries
now working under trade agree
mt'nts and codes of fair competition
are exceptionally well pleased with
progress made with this type of ag
ricultural adjustment Paul Scher
er, speaking for the Northwest
Fruit Trees Industries, said it is
estimated that the trade agreements
meant at least $10,000,000 to north
west fruit growers this past season.
Present officers continue over for
another year, these being Glenn B.
Marsh, Hood River, president; Ray
Glatt, Woodburn, vice-president;
and George Gatlin, Oregon State
college, secretary-treasurer.
IIARDMAN
By LUCILLE FARRENS
Mrs. Adaline Howel, pioneer res
ident of this community, observed
her 87th birthday last Wednesday
at her home here. Mrs. Howell is
enjoying apparent good health at
this age. Friends join in wishing
her another year of health and
happiness.
Ivan Leathers came up from
Portland Tuesday for a short visit
with his brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Leathers, and
other relatives and friends.
Mrs. Walter Farrens is consult
ing an osteopath at Condon this
week and is a guest of her sister,
Mrs. Lorena Isom who is engaged
in a beauty shop, going over with
her sister and nephew, Mrs. L. J.
Burnside and son Ted last Wed
nesday. Mrs. Frank McDaniel is visiting
her husband this week near Mc
Kinney creek.
The high school gave a carnival
last Friday evening at the auditor
ium. Though there was not a large
crowd attending and the proceeds
were not large, those present re
port an enjoyable time. Arleta
Ashbaugh and Nellie Bleakman
operated a hamburger and ice
cream booth, Murl Farrens the fish
pond, Joe Stephens and Roland
Fai.rens, a target booth, Dolly Far
rens and Delsie Bleakman, a beau
ty parlor, Edna Stephens sold the
handmade articles, Loes Ashbaugh
and Charlotte Adams, the kissing
(?) stand, and Marjorie Johnson
and Ethel McDaniel, the novelty
booth.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jenkins were
given a surprise party last Wednes
day evening. The occasion was their
wedding anniversary. Those at
tending were Mr. and Mrs. Ollle
Leek, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Massey,
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Roach, Miss
Zetta Bleakman.
Mrs. Carey Hastings was taken
to Heppner last Saturday morning
suffering an attack of chronic ap
pendicitis. Mrs. Victor Johnson
assisted Zetta Bleakman at the
restaurant during Mrs. Ha.' Hng's
absence.
Mr. and Mrs. Verl Farrens i.ve
moved back to their ranch near
Rhea creek, having been domiciled
at the hotel building during the
winter months.
Mrs. Kinnard McDaniel and small
daughter Ramona of Lonerock are !
making a protracted stay at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Everett
Harshman.
Miss Loes Adams who took quite
seriously ill Saturday night, was
taken to Heppner Sunday morning
for medical attention. Loes and
her mother, Mrs. J. B. Adams, are
staying with Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Johnson while the former is tak
ing a course of electrical treat
ments. Loes has the best wishes
of the community for a speedy re
covery.
Mr. and Mrs. Lew Knighten were
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe Batty
the last of the week at their Eight
Mile home.
Among those attending the thea
ter in Heppner Thursday and Fri
day nights showing "The Thun-
Mrs. Ted Burnside spent last
Wednesday at the home of her parents.
dering Herd," were Mrs. Ada Can-1 Jr., was absent fom school due to
non and family, Gus and Bunny illness a few days last week.
Steers, Leon Chapin, Elwood and
Claud Hastings and Miss Edith Ste
vens. Mr. and Mrs. George Kirk were
looking after business In Heppner
last Monday, going over with their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Hams of the Rood can
yon vicinity.
Darold Hams is employed at the
French place near here.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McDaniel were
shoppers in Heppner Saturday.
Mrs. Irl Clary and Mildred and
Irl spent the week end at the ranch
home near Stanfleld.
Mrs. George Samuels returned
home last Saturday from a three
weeks' visit at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Ralph Corrlgall, on
Butter creek.
Harvey Harshman has been haul
ing wood from the mountains to his
ranch in Eight Mile the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Burnside were
Rood canyonites in the city Sun
day.
Miss Irene Harshman and Rus
sell Wright were visiting friends
and relatives here one evening last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Adams were
Heppner visitors last Monday.
Maxine McDaniel, small daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam McDaniel
O.S.C. Hopes to Receive
CWA Funds for Students
Oregon State college, along with
other institutions in the state, has
applied for its share of the pro
posed allotment of CWA funds to
provide work for students who oth
erwise would not be able to attend
college oa would have to drop out
before the end of the year. It is
not yet known for certain that the
funds will be granted, or, if sq,
when they will be received, but it
is hoped to have the plan in oper
ation by the start of the new term
late in March.
Senator Frederick Steiwer, a
graduate of both O. S. C. and U. of
O., did a great deal of work in get
ting this plan adopted by the re
lief administration, and was instru
mental in having an early provision
requiring waiving of fees eliminat
ed, reports Dr. W. A. Schoenfeld,
dean of agriculture at the state
college, who was in Washington at
the time.
Try a Gazette Times Want Ad.
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State Groups to Meet
In Eugene March 19-26
Eugene The Annual Common
wealth conference, which .this year
will bring together leading citizens
from all parts of Oregon, and offi
cials and members of Oregon Coun
cil for Protection of Roadside Beau
ty, League of Oregon Cities and
Regional and City Planning groups,
will take place in Eugene on the
campus of the University of Ore
gon, March 19 to 26, it was an
nounced here by Dr. P. A. Parsons,
head of the department of sociol
ogy of the university and chairman
of the local committee on arrange
ments. In addition to the conferences
there will be a number of exhibits
depicting various aspects of prob-
lems under consideration. The pro
gram will Include talks by experts,
round table discussions, and meet
ings of the various groups.
CALL FOB WARRANTS.
All outstanding warrants of
School District No. 5, Morrow Coun
ty, Oregon, up to and including
Warrant No. 206, will be paid up
on presentation to clerk. Interest
ceases with this notice.
ECHO PALMATEER, Clerk.
Morgan, Oregon.'
. CALL FOB WARRANTS.
Warrants of School District No.
35, Morrow County, Oregon, num
bers 404 to 431 inclusive, are called
for payment at the 'clerk's office,
lone, Oregon, Feby. 24th, 1934. In
terest ceases on that date.
RALPH HARRIS,
District Clerk, lone, Oregon.
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