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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-03-22
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Notice of final Account.

In the County Court of Morrow county, State
of Oregon
In tie matter of the estate of Margaret Dun
can. dec ased,
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
administrator has filed his final account In the
above entitled matter and court, and that said
fnal account will come on for hearing and
settlement at the Court House in Heppner.
Morrow county, State of Oregon, IL the above
O'Clock A, NJ. Any person int rested in said
estate may file o5jsctions to said sccount on or
before the time fixed for the hearing OF the
same.
This notice is published in pursuance OF an
r,ler of the Hon. T W. Ayers, judge OF the
above ntit ed court. duly made and entered IN
GEORGE HKNDRIX.
Administrator of the estate Of Margaret Dun
can, a, ,ctas- Il.
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Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
FOR TEE TOWN BEAUTIFUL.
Missouri Women Begin Campaign
for Cleaner Cities and Villages

Missouri Women Begin Campaign
for Cleaner Cities and Villages
columbia Herald.)
The club women of Missouri have
taken up in earnest the campaign for
cleaner cities and towns. In St.
Joseph and other large towns organ
izations of women have done much to
promote a general sentiment for clean
liness and are planning more. In Ma
con a women's organization virtually
manages the street cleaning depart
ment, collects the money from mer-
chants, superintends the work and
disburses the funds. The members of
the club at Trenton, women's club,
have started a campaign that is being
watched with interest and initiated in
other towns. At the annual meeting
at the home Of their president, Mrs.
T. N. Witten, the club discussed plans
for the promotion of a sentiment for
better care Of lawns and gardens,
cleaner streets and alleys and general
improvements. The subject of the
opening paper of the meeting, read by
Mrs. ]. A. Asher, was this appropriate
one: 'The Towns pportunity-How
Can 1t Do More Than the City for a
Beautiful merican Life?" One of
cash prizes to children in the various
wards of Trenton for the best show
ings under prescribed conditions, in
the growing of flowers and care of
premises. Seeds for the competitor
are to be furnished practically free by
the club. The mayor was asked to
issue a proclamation for neral
cleaning-up day, asking citizens to de-
vote few hours systematically to dis
posing of the accumulated rubbish.
What the women are doing in some
Missouri towns the school children
have been urged to undertake in others.
At various ward schools of Joplin the
pupils assisted in the cleaning up of
the grounds in readiness fo the liant
ing of shrubs and flowers. At Perry.
in Rails County, where Professor J.
f. Osborne has the prettiest public
school campus in the state, the school
children helped in the good work. At
Joplin Principal s. A Baker has been
leader in the observance of Arbor
day and the incubation of the senti-
ment for the civic beauty
A town must first be built in Q
wilderness and then made beautiful.
The Missouri wilderness has gone. the
towns are here and are now beins
made beautiful.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
DESTROY THE FORESTS AND FLOOD AND DRoUTE
WILL DESTROY THE FARMS"
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bare Of soil, and reforestation becomes
Impossible
We are told by experts, and no one
contradicts the statement, that at the
present rate of consumption, our en-
tire forest resources will be exhausted
in less than forty years. I have re-
Gently seen it stated at thirty-fve
years. If we are to guard against
this national danger the Timber and
Stone Law must be repealed, and all
public timber lands included in perm
anent Forest Reserves, the title to the
land forever retained by the National
Government, stumpage only of ma
tured timber sold, and young timber
preserved for future cutting, so that
the forests will be perpetuated by
right use; and the National Govern
ment must, by the reservation or pur-
chase of existing forest lands, and the
planting of new forests, create in
every state National Forest Planta-
tions from which, through all the
years to come, sufficient supply of
wood and timber can be annually
harvested to supply the needs of the
people of each state from the Forest
Plantations in that state.
Unless we take time by the fore
lock the next generation will see the
United States practically a treeless
nation, without wood or timber for
the uses of our people, and devastated
year after year by ruinous oods. AL
ready the scarcity of timber is being
felt and every man who builds a
home must pay the increased cost. In
Michigan 1 understand that some of
your most important industries are
crippled by the shortage of timber.
And yet, in the face of this con-
dition which is nothing more than a
crisis threatening the complete de-
struction of one of our greatest re-
sources as a nation, Congress busies
itself with a multitude of matters of
infinitely less Importance and refuses
to repeal the Timber and Stone Act,
under which the last remnants of our
unreserved national forest lands are
being fed into the Unsuitable nav of
the timber spectators for less than
One-tenth of their actual value.
We are told by the men in Congress
who make Committees and shape leg
islation that the money cannot be
Spdreu 10 acquire anu save IrOm Qe-
struction the Calaveras Big Trees in
California, or to create the White
Mountain and Appalachian Forest Re-
serves, and preserve their forest re-
sources and save the water power
used in the manufacturing industries
of New England and the South; and
the same men in the same moment re-
fuse to stop the most shameless waste
of nations resources that ever dis
graced a national lawmaking body by
refusing to repeal the Timber and
Stone Act.
Not only this, but in Arizona and
+ New Mexico where the forests are the
very life of the country, the joint
Statehood Bill proposed to give float
ing grant of several million acres
which the land spectators who would
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

control the legislature would use tc
get control of and destroy every acre
of unreserved timber land in those
territories. The country owes debt
Of gratitude to Senator Burroughs OF
your State for his aid in preventing
that bill from passing the Senate.
1t seems incredible that these
things should be done by Congress
but there are reasons for it.
In the first place the people at
large take no interest in the preserva.
ton Of their own property.
What is everybody's business Is
nobody's business"
In the second place we have not
yet, as a people, risen far enough
above the mere worship of Mammon to
realize that we are deliberately sac
ridcing to the Golden Calf the re-
sources without which we cannot ex-
ist as a nation.
And worse than this, we are crowd
ing our working people, both native
and foreign born, into an environment
where congestion of population is de-
generating our workers and rotting
their physical and moral fibre.
Where will you find any citizenship
in the slum and tenement districts
of our cities to whom you can effect
lively appeal for help to stop the waste
of our forests? They know nothing
about it and care less. The first need
of any nation is an intelligent citizen
ship, and the slums and tenements of
our great cities are maelstroms into
which the citizenship of the country
is being drawn to its destruction in O
steadily increasing volume.
We are suffering just now from a
spasm Of national hysteria because
what everybody who ever took the
trouble to go and look knew long ago
the revolving conditions under
which the great packers Of Chicago
have been operating their plants, and
because diseased meat has been sold
for food.
But you may draw the worst pict-
ure that your imagination can paint
of the horrors Of the slaughtering and
packing Of meat in those establish
ments and nothing you can imagine
equals the horror of blighting the
lives of thousands of children who
are condemned to live and grow up in
the foul physical, social and moral
miasma that permeates the whole
slum district of Packingtown. 1t is
a national disgrace and is bound to
prove a national curse.
There is only one remedy for those
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
NATIONAL FOUNDATIONS.
PATRIOTISM IN TINE OF PEACE
NEEDED TO SOLVE OUR
NATIONAL PROBLEMS,

We Must Plant Forests, Organize
Better Schools, Make Homes For
Workers and Rear the Children
Close to Nature.-Menace of Great
Cities.
At the commencement exercises of
the Michigan Agricultural College on
June 10th, 1906, an address was de-
livered by George H. Maxwell. Dean
OF the Homecrofters Gid of the Tails
man and Executive Chairman of the
National Irrigation Association.
The keynote of the address of Mr..
Maxwell was the idea that we should
bring to the constructive work of
our social and commercial life in time
Of peace, the same fervent patriot
ism and devotion to the public serv-
ice that would inspire the whole ma
ton if we were in the throes of
bloody conflict with the people of
some other country.
In illustration of this he re-
ferred to our forest resources.
The wasteful improvidence with
which we have swept the for
ests out of existence was contrasted
with the elaborate care with which
we have built Notifications and ma
yies and equipped our armies. And
yet, said Mr.. Maxwell, we have little
to fear from any foreign foe. But
we have much to fear from the
wreck and ruin that will inevitably
follow the destruction of our forests.
Destroy the forests and over i'm
mense areas flood and drouth will
destroy the farms.
Destroy the forests and you will at
the same time destroy many of our
most important industries by the ex-
haustion of our supply of wood or
timber.
Destroy city by bombardment or
fire and it can be rebuilt in a few
years more beautiful than ever.
Destroy a forest on the plains and
1t may take more than a generation
to restore it.
Destroy a forest on the mountains,
where the soil is thin and poor, and
1t may take centuries to restore the
forest If it can ever be done at all.
The destruction of the forest cover
leaves the mountain sides so exposed
to erosion that the rocks are washed
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
EDUCATION
COOPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
HOMEG GROFTS

We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
of the Whole People of this Nation
should be Every Child in a Garden
Every Mother in Homecroft-and In
dividual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in a Home of his Own
on the Land" and that until he owns
such Home, the concentrated purpose
and chief inspiration to labor in the life
of every wage worker should be his
determination to sect an Acre anj
Live on it."
We believe that the Slums and
Tenements and Congested Centers of
population in the Cities are a savagely
deteriorating social, moral and pOlit-
ical influence, and that great public
movement should be organized, and
the whole power of the nation and
the states exerted for the betterment
of all the conditions of Rural Life, and
to create and upbuild Centers of So
cial and Civic Life in Country and
Suburban Towns and Villages, where
Trade and Industry can be so firmly
anchored that they cannot be drawn
into the Commercial Maelstrom that
is now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity into the Vortex of the
Great Cities.
We believe that every Citizen in
this Country has an inherent and
Fundamental Right to an Education
which will train him to Earn a Liv-
ing, and, if need be, to get his living
straight from Mother Earth; and that
he has the same right to the Opportun-
ity to have the Work to Do which will
afford him that living, and to earn not
only a cor Portable livelihood, but
enough more to enable him to be a
Homecrofter and to have Home of
his Own, with ground around it
sufficient to yield him and his family
Living from the Land as the reward
for his own labor.
We believe that the Public Domain
is the most precious heritage of the
people, and the surest safeguard the
nation has against Social Unrest, Dis
turbance or Upheaval, and that the
Cause of Humanity and the Preserva-
ton of Social Stability and of our Free
Institutions demand that the absorp-
ton of the public lands into specula-
tive private ownership, without settle
ment, be forthwith stopped; and that
the nation should create opportunities
for Homecrofters by building irriga-
tion and drainage works to reclaim
land as fast as it is needed to give
every man who wants Home on the
Land chance to get it.
We believe that, as Nation, we
should be less absorbed with Making
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
A Homecron Garden.

The HOmecroft Movement is grow
ing in strength and many leading
newspapers are editorially advocating
the idea that every family, though
living in the city, ought to have a
garden. A reader of Maxwell g
HOMEMAKER MAGAZINE, in
Westbranch, Iowa, sends US the fol-
lowing editorial clipped from the Des
Moines Daily News, which is so fully
in harmony with what this magazine
stands for that we take pleasure in
reproducing the same. The editor Of
the News says:
A little garden, if properly cared
for, will save the city dweller many
dollar
But that is by no means the chiefest
good. Even If he has more money
than he knows what to do with he
will still find rich profit in welding
the spade and hoe for exercise. And
the rarest pleasure comes from follow
ing the primal instincts of nature.
1t is not alone the plants and flowers
we long for.
An inner something impels Is to put
our hands at work in tie earth, to
bathe our bodies in the sunshine and
to open our souls in devotion to things
that are not gross, but sweet aud
pure.
To be pitied is man who does
not drink in with delight t. fragrance
of the lowers after having breathed
all day the stencil of a city, and who
does not learn lesson from the noise
less, orderly, beneicent processes Of
nature that are constantly going on
around him.
Every city dweller who has a bit OF
ground ought to have a garden.
1t may be only FIVE feet square, but
he can plant it in green peas, succulent
onions, radishes or lettuce, and still
find room for flower or two to throw
little color and little fragrance into
his life.
There are any reasons, economical
physical. esthetic and moral, why
every man should be his own gar
dener, if he can.
Thousands of dwellvrs in hotels
flats and tenements can't be. Their
existence is as dull and cheerless in
the season when all nature is gay as
is that of bird that is Gagged.
They may laugh-and so does the
Gagged bird sing. But it is not true
living, for all that.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
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horrible conditions of life for the
children, and that is to get the work
ing people and their children out Of
the slums, and into the suburbs
where they can have sunshine and
fresh air and pure and nourishing
food from home garden.
Let us realize once for all that this
problem of the children of our work
ing people is our greatest national
problem and go at its solution with
the same patriotic and self-sacrific-
ing national heroism that led the
Homecrofters of Japan to go into bat
tie with their lives in their hands, like
hand grenades, to throw at the enemy
that sought to crush out their ma
tional life
Let US catch the inspiration of the
slogan of the Homecrofters' Move
ment in this Country, and never cease
our work until we have
"Every child in garden-Every
Mother in a Homecroft-and Individ-
ual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in Home of his own
on the Land"
The Greed and Platform of the
Homecrofter tells how it may be done
and anyone who wants copy of it
can get it without charge by sending a
postal card addressed to me, at the
Fisher Building in Chicago.
The Great Cities are our most
serious menace in this Country. Our
greatest national danger lies in the
Capitalization of wealth and popula-
ton and trade and industry. The
hope of the nation is in the farm and
suburban home and in the country
and suburban town and village.
Let us go seriously to work to Gre
ate and upbuild them. Let every
student who goes out from this
splendid institution go with the spirit
of a soldier to fight the great battles
Of peace for higher national ideals,
for a purer public service, for the
preservation of our national resources,
for a better educational system, and
above and beyond all for the multiple
cation of Homes on the Land where
| the children can grow to manhood
| and womanhood in the uplifting en-
vironment of rural community
| where the evil influences of the cities
can be forever kept at bay. In such
an environment children can be
reared to citizenship next to Nature
from. whence they can draw health
and vigor both moral and physical for
the discharge of all the duties of life.
1t is not in the cities that this country
now needs the service of the flower of
its patriotic manhood. 1t is in the
country where the great national
problem of the improvement of the
rural life is to be solved, where more
beautiful towns and villages and bet
/ ter roads are to be built, better
schools to be established, telephones
and trolley lines constructed, and all
the influences put to work that will
socialize the country, and drive away
the isolation and hardships that were
formerly it's drawbacks.
We must not only stop and reverse
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

This book Is the first Of Series
that will Chronicle the Progress of the
HOMECROFT MOVEMENT
and inform all who wish to cooperate
with it how they may do SO through
the formation of local Homecrofters'
Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote
Town and Village Betterment, stimu-
late home civic pride and loyalty to
home institutions, industries and trade,
improve methods and facilities of edu-
cation in the local public schools, and
create new opportunities eat Home"
that will go far to check the drift of
trade and population to the cities.
The first Gid of the Homecrofters
has been established at Watertown,
Massachusetts. The Gildhall, Shops
and Gardens are located at 143 Main
Street, where the Garden School is
now fully organized and over one
hundred children are at work In the
Gardens. The departments for train
ing in Homecraft and Village Indus
tries are being installed. The Weavers
are already at work at the looms.
1t is not designed to build here an
ioOidtCu ihotitutlOAs put " q
model which can be duplicated in any
town or village in the country.
Copies of "THE FIRST eOcK OF
THE hOMECROFTERS" can be
obtained by sending twelve two
cent stamps with your name and
address Carefully and plainly
Written) to The Homecrofters' CIld
of the Talisman f43, Main ST.,
WatertoWn, Massachusetts.
There is New Hope and Inspiration
for every Worker who wants a Home
of his own on the Land in the
CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE
HOMECROFTERS which is as fol-
lows:
"Peace has her victories no less re-
nowned than war"
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

1.-The slums and tenements of the
great cities are social dynamite, GER
tain to explode sooner or later. The
only safeguard against such dangers
is to plant the multiplying millions Of
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

our fast increasing population in in
dividual homes on the land-home-
crofts, however small, owned by the
occupant, where every worker and his
family can enjoy Individual industrial
independence. George H. Maxwell.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
BE A HOMECROFTER
Learn by Doing. Work Together.
Give every Man Chance.

THE HoAEcRoFTRRs IS
Every Child GardenEVery Mother Homeerof and 1u.
V1duai Industrial independence for Every
Home of his Own On Land"
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

The FIRST BOOK 4%z 1n HOMECROFTERS
HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED AND AMONG CONTENTS ARE
THE FOLLOWING ABSORBING INTEREST BY
The Brotherhood of Man
Charity that Is Everlasting
The Secret of Wippon's Power
Lesson Of Great Calamity
The Sign Of a Thought
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

The Citizen standing threshold his family
Graay. N9 No
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

"A little croft owned-a plot of corn,
a garden stored with peas and mint and thyme
And flowers for posies, oft on Sunday morn,
Pucked while the church bells rang their earliest chin
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

We Must Plant Forests. Organize
Better Schools, Make Homes For
Workers and Rear the Children
Close to Nature.-Menace of Great
Cities.
The Glenwood post., 1906-08-04

Quite number of ranchers have
commenced to cut their second crop
of hay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gray, of Carbonda le.
are visiting c. M. Rulison and fam lily
this week
Misses Ada and Lora Channel and Ida
jackson were visiting with the Misses
McCarys and Beesley last Sunday.
F. NJ. Gillum took load of fruit
to Glenwood Tuesday. Other peddlers
are now making their appearance.
Ano ther fine program was had at the
C. G. literary entertainment last Sat,
urday night. The next meeting will
be held on August IL.
A farewell dance was given to Tom
Beesley last Friday night and on Sun
day he departed for an extended visit
with relatives in Missouri.
The Cache Creek boys played game
of ball with the Beaver Creek team
last Sunday and the score stood 8 to
81 in favor of the Cache Creek team.
The Glenwood post., 1906-08-04
CARBONDALE

Mrs. Delbert Brown was Glen
wood visitor Friday.
George Warner made business tri 2
to Glenwood Tuesday.
Miss Ella Leonhardy is visiting at
the home of Mrs II. C. Jessup.
Mrs. Marvin Sloss and Miss Edna
Long returned from Denver Friday.
Born at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Gald Tuesday, a baby girl
Guy Meldhoun and Miss Gertie
Eaker were Redstone visitors Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Anderson and
daughter Ruth were Redstone visitors
Thursday.
MIR Hynd and Miss Edna Page were
among the Glenwood visitors at the
Redstone picnic.
Mrs Daniel Flynn and daughters
Mamie and Marguerite took in the
picnic at Redstone.
Charles Murray and Miss Eugenia
Hyrup of Basalt were the guests of P
C. Shannon Sunday.
Miss Wendell Decker of Basalt was
the guest of Miss Edna Long for sew
eral days this week.
The social dance given at the Odd
Fellows hall Thursday night was pro-
nounced most enjoyable affair by all
present.
Little Roy Now had the misfortune
to break his arm Saturday while he
was riding horse. The animal
stumbled throwing the little fellow.
Mrs Hancock of Coalbasin, who
has been under the care of Christian
Scientists at Aspen, died at Hotel Car
bondale Saturday while on her way
home from Aspen. Mrs. Hancock has
long been sufferer from consumption.
She is survived by husband and
two daughters to mourn her loss
Mrs F. E. Sweet, Mrs. D. S. Sc
bree and Misses Marion Winters and
Frances Tandy composed a pleasant
party at the picnic in Redstone. Mr..
and Mrs. A. S. Thomson, Mrs. Terrell,
Miss Bessie Edgerton, Lorraine Gif
ford, Mrs. Leberman and Mrs V. T.
Brown attended the Redstone picnic