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Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
Theaters May Be Halted.

Chicago-With the purpose of fore
ing the owners and managers them
selves to Danish ticket scalpers from
Chicago, the license committee of the
city council recommended an ordinance
closing all theaters and amusement
places on Sunday. The committee will
urge that the ordinance be enforced
until theaters have permanently broken
with the scalpers, and the measure is
to be used as a club to keep the
thesters in line.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
Mural Painter peeorates Prison.

Winsted, Conn., Miss Genevieve
Cowles, of Pennington. an artist and
a relative of ex-President Roosevelt,
has entered upon years work in the
state prison at Wethers6eld, decorat-
ing the walls of the chapel. Warden
Garvin suggested to Miss Cowles that
she undertake the task. Miss Cowles
after summer spent in Jerusalem, is
now at work. She has painted in sew
eral Of the figures, but the whole pic
ture will not be completed for a year.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
500 Acre Farm; 500. 600.

Eugene-Thomas Van Duyn has sold
his farm of 800 acres near Coburg to
G. M. Young and Bird Rose, both of
this city, for $4,000. The farm lies
partly in the hills and partly in the
valley. That part of it suitable for
farming will be divided by the new
owners into small tracts and will be
placed on the market. The valley land
is finely adapted to fruit culture, and
fruitgrowers will be encouraged to buy
the tracts.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
New Milton Hotel to Open.

Milton-The new Fairmount hotel
has been completed and furnished
throughout, and will be formally
opened with big banquet to which 100
guests have been invited. The new
hotel will be ready for the accommoda-
tion of the public at the beginning of
the week, under the management of
Host Christianson of Seattle.s The
building will have accommodations for
45 guests. The ground floor outside of
the Office accommodations is being oc-
cupied by the Fair store.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
Loaf Must Weirh Pound.

Topeka, Kan. - The State Supreme
court has decided that a loaf Of bread
weighs 16 ounces or it is not a loaf.
John McCoat, a Leavenworth baker,
was arrested because he did not label
his bread when the loaves weighed less
than l6 ounces. He appealed and the
Supreme court affirmed the decision.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
MaY join Naval Reserves.

Marsh6eld-The enlistment for a di-
vision Of the naval reserve on Coos
Bay has been so large that it has been
decided to have two divisions at this
point. The men have been sworn into
the service by the commander of the
Oregon reserve and the business men
of the city will make a contribution
sufficient to pay for the uniforms of
the men.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
LOCAL FIR DECKS GIANT.
Order Placed Here for Worlds Big
gest Ship.

Portland-Decks of the worlds lar
gest vessel, the keel of which has been
laid at Stettin, and which will be oper-
ated across the Atlantic by the Ham
burg-American line, will be composed
of Oregon fir. To provide the neces-
sary material, 100000 feet has been
purchased and it will be dispatched to
Hamburg on the German ship Omega.
The Pacific Export Lumber company
has sold the cargo. For months the
lumber has been drying here, as it was
contracted for under special specifca-
tions that call for clear, vertical grain
stuff. The Portland Lumber company
and North Pacific Lumber company
have the order, and it is possible the
vessel will take on a small lot at a
third mill.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
LONDON PAYS HIGH PRICES
Medford, Oregon, Pears Bring Az
erage Of $40 Per Box.

Medford-The Hillcrest orchard, at
Medford, has again made a record fol
prices paid for fancy fruit. Word was
received here from London that car
of Comice pears, containing 42S boxes,
had averaged an even $40 box.
Two years age pears from the Hill
crest orchard sold in London for $10.O8
a box, 8 cents above the price given
for the shipment this year. Pears at
$10.08 box is the highest price that
has ever been paid anywhere for an
annual fruit.
The Hillcrest orchard is one of the
largest and finest properties in the
Rogue River valley. 1t lies two miles
southeast of Medford on a beautiful
piece of low, rolling land. The ranch
is owned by a syndicate of Seattle
men, R. H. Parsons, of that city, be-
ing the manager.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
Potato Vine is Six Feet Long.

Wallowa-Ira Lively, of Promise,
this county, this year raised on new
ground potato vine that measured six
feet one inch in height and produced
40 tubers, two-thirds of them market
able potatoes. The total weight of
the 40 tubers was 16 pounds.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
Californian Ruxs oreron Ranch-

Lakeview-George R. Parman, of
Eagleville, CAL, has just purchased
from the FIVE McCulley brothers, of
this place. 10000 sheep and 1900
acres of land. The price has not been
made public. The new owner has al
ready taken possession.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
STRIKERS DUST PRESIDENT.
Garment Workers Repudiate Agree
ment Proposed-Settlement OFF.

Chicago. The outlook for an early
settlement of the garment workers.
strike went glimmering when the
strikers declined the proposed agree
ment offered by T. A. Rickert, presi-
dent of the United Garment Workers,
repudiated him as leader, and sought
the aid of the Chicago Federation of
Labor.
The Federation instructed its ex-
ecutive board to issue call for funds
to assist the strikers and ordered Pres
ident Fitzpatrick to prepare memoir
ial on the strike to present to the con-
vention of the American Federation of
Labor, which will meet in st. Louis
this week.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
sroEan to Have TeIerranh.

Vale-The Western Union Telegraph
company has decided to build a tele-
graph line from Vale to Brogan. This
line will connect with the line estab-
lishsd at Vale last week between Vale
and Ontario.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10
Astoria Road Gets Equipment,

Astoria-A logging locomotive, two
hatcars, four boxcars and number of
logging trucks have arrived for the
Astoria Southern Railway company and
were taken to Olney by the steamer
Melville.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-11-10

Yellow Fever Found at Honolulu.
Honolulu-The first case Of yellow
fever ever known in this port has been
discovered aboard the Japanese liner
Hongkong Msru, which arrived here
October 30 from Manzanillo, Mexico.
The steamer is held in quarantine.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31
ABDUL HANDS, 746 WIVES
WORRY LAWMAKING TURKS.
Pensioned Because They Can't Re-
marry Among Moslems.

Abdul Hamid's wives continue to be
a source Of perplexity to the Turkish
government Their number was esti-
mated not to exceed 200, including fe-
male slaves of all ranks, but the minis
try of finance found itself confronted
by claims from TAG women who de-
handed from the ex-sultan's successor
compensation to the tune of 100000.
The government refused to pay this
sum. but proposed that the chamber
should sanction an arrangement by
which the women of the harem for
period Of ten years should receive
monthly pensions ranging from $4.25
to $2125, which even in frugal Turkey
is a pretty meager subsistence. The
Turkish deputies, however, still thought
the ministry overgenerOus.
Some Of the Extreme Left shouted,
why don't you get them married off"
whereupon the finance minister retort-
ed that the women were lone and
homeless widows and, according to
Turkish custom, could not expect to at
tract husbands among the faithful.
Other deputies suggested that as the
women came mostly from Asia Minor
or Albania they should be sent back
to their native provinces to be cared
for locally.
Here the members for the provinces
concerned jumped up and pointed out
Indignantly that the families of these
women had received good money for
them by selling them to Yildiz kiosk
and that the local authorities could not
now be expected to provide for their
maintenance. Other deputies again
firmly refused to do anything at all
for the ex-sultan's grass widows so
long as wives and mothers of Ottoman
soldiers who had bled for their coun-
try were living in dire poverty.
Finally a small majority was found
for the governments project, and so
the women of the harem may look for
ward to receiving their little pension,
at all events until 1920.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31
REPORTERS REWRITE BIBLE?
Clergyman Thinks Newspaper Han
ding Would Enhance Interest.

ding Would Enhance Interest.
The novel combination in the pulpit
Of a newspaper mans training with
the equipment of a minister is the up
to date idea of the Rev. W FL. Jordan,
pastor Of the Presbyterian church at
Jerseyville, Ill. Recently he visited
a newspaper Office there to see how
daily is got out.
1.-The bright and breezy way in which
city reporters write up an event makes
people read the story through with
interest from start to fnish," COM
mented Mr.. Jordan. II have often
thought that if ministers in their SER
mon writing would try to adopt news
paper methods to the extent Of turning
out more interesting and vivid copy
they would make more impression
upon their congregations and attract
more to the services.
IF certain events related in the
Bible had been covered by men like
the newspaper reporter of today, how
eagerly we would read them. | be-
lieve many persons now repealed by
the style of the King James version
would read such an account, if it ex-
listed. with the keenest interest and
pleasure"
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31
ANcIENTS FEARED DOG DAYS.
Sacrificed CANNES to Sirius to Ward
Off Sultry Dangers.

In ancient times it was customary
at the beginning of."dog days. to sac
rifce brown dog to appease the
wrath of Sirius, the dog star, so soon
as that star became visible to the
naked eye.
Sirius was supposed to cause the
hot, sultry weather usually attendant
on its appearance, and the ancients
believed that on the first morning of
its rising the sea boiled, wine turned
sour. dogs grew mad and that man
became afflicted with burning feyers.
Mysteries and frenzies.
At Argos festival was held during
the dog days called cynophontes, from
Greek words signifying killing dogs"
when it was the custom to kill every
canine creature that was met with.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31
NO WONDER.

The ancients thought the world was
fiat;
I'm really not surprised at that:
We'd find it fiat, / dare to say,
If we were living in their day.
, Just think, they had no autos then,
No show girls to delight the men,
No pipes to smoke and no cigars,
No cocktails served at handsome
bars.
No bridge to play and no pink teas,
No liners speeding DER the seas,
No yellow journals and no flats,
No women's monstous picture hats,
No tariff problem to attack,
No gowns that button up the back,
, No end seat hogs with manners
rude,
} No monkeying with the price of
food,
No ice bills, no cold storage eggs,
No bunko steerers and no yeggs,
No trolley cars with clang and
whir,
No Teddy to keep things astir-
Say, Is it any wonder that
The ancients thought the world was
fiat?
Vancouver Province.
-
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31
Tarsus Has Electric Liohts.

Tarsus, the ancient city In Asia Mi
nor where the Apostle Paul was born.
is now illuminated by electricity. The
power is taken from the Cydnus river.
There are now In Tarsus $50 electric
street lights and about 900 incandes-
cent lights for private use.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Many a farm could be transformed
merely through the adoption of long
time leases, together with the follow
ing Of such agricultural and stock
raising methods as the tenant would
feel justified in going into as a result
of longer tenure of the land.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

One hundred and sixty-five trees in
one of the handsomest and best kept
orchards in the locality in which the
writer lives came to an untimely end
last spring because of an ailment
which is generally termed 'ssour sap"
This is a soured or fermented condi-
ton of the sap of apple trees result
ing from rapid flow of sap induced
by bright warm days in the spring
followed by cold frosty nights. This
condition seems to set the sap, more
or less seriously interfering with its
circulation, at times killing the tree
outright or greatly impairing its vital
ity. The fact that this sort of dam
age is usually most noticeable on the
southwest side of the trunk would
seem to point to the fact that it is ag-
gravated by an exposure to the direct
rays Of the sun. This may be over
come to some extent by whitewashing
the trunks prior to the changeable and
spring, or even more effectively by
shading the side of the trees exposed
70 the sun with thin board, veneer COW
ers or other wrappers. Especially
should trees which have already suf-
fered in this way be protected from
the intense rays of the sun during the
summer season. The sour sap is with
out question an ailment closely allied
to if not the same as sun scald, dam
age by the latter being on a some
what less scale than sour sap con-
dition, which ruins the entire tree.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

There is not one farming community
in a hundred where the inhabitants
make a practice of so handling the
farm fertilizers as to get the most pos
sible good out of them. In the vast
majority Of cases so per cent of the
before it reaches the land.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

In 1909 the fire insurance companies
In Canada received S17,O5S. 843 in
premiums and suffered losses amount
ing to sS,585,354. gross profit of
nearly so per cent. The amount at
risk in 1909 was 81, 1863. ass, 522, an In
srease Of $162. 751 $50 over 1908.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Ascum-Do you think it's true that
Skinner has bought a place for him
self in society: Wise-Oh. no. I'll
bet he's only leased it. for he's liable
10 have TO skip out at moments no.
tice.-Catholic Standard and Times
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Where there is no water under pres
sure tc refresh the parched lawn dur
ing the dry midsummer weather it is
best 90 forego cutting it with mower.
When the rains come ON and the grass
gets good start the clipping may be
resumed
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

A good share of that nasty muss in
the barnyard following each heavy
rain may be done away with by equip
ping the barnyard slope of the caves
with piping or trough, which will carry
the water to the corner of the barn.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Residents of New Zealand have the
privilege of placing their own valua-
ton Oh their property for the purposes
Of taxation, but use of this power is
seldom abused for the government
has the right to buy the property at
an advance Of 20 per cent over the
valuation given by the owner
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

BY all odds the easiest way to main
tain soil fertility is by keeping stock.
And of the different types of animal
husbandry dairying takes the least
from the soil.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

A mare has this advantage over
gelding-that when she has been in
jured in such a way as to unfit her
for work she can raise just as good
colts as when she was sound.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

The flock of hens closely confined
should not only be given the grain,
green food and water they need, but
should be provided with a dust bath
in good sized box. Finely pulver-
lied road dust is excellent for the pur-
pose, and it will be the more effective
if three or four pounds of powdered
sulphur are added.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

The teacher in the town or country
school IS very human, after ALL and
will appreciate more thar. boys and
girls usually realize kindness and
courtesy on their part. The according
Of this kind of treatment is a great
help to the teacher and reacts whole
somely on the pupils who practice it,.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

1t is mercy to the played out and
decre2it old family horse to end its
miseries with a rifle ball rather than
to sail it for S4.99 to some heartless
brutc who will exact the last pittance
of toll from it and then kill it to boot.
We don't believe that a man will get
to heaven who does thing of this
kind, no matter how long he has been
an elder or deacon in the church.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

An interesting feature of the Spo-
kane apple show, which is to be held
the latter part Of November, will be a
display of apples on which there have
been photographed portraits and seem
ic views. Prizes will be offered for the
best specimens. The skin of the apple
is especially sensitive to light, and the
results obtained are said to be more
satisfactory than with Photographic
prints.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31
,nsures Solitude.

The Man in the Chair enjoy quiet
smoke. The Other-W Well. you'll never
be troubled with crowds while you
smoke cigars of that nd.-London
Opinion.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

A headland of grass at the ends and
sides of titled field usually much i'm
proves its appearance. The stuff that
might be raised where the horses turn
is usually a poor stand and scraggly.
If the headland is in some good grass
a good bunch of hay may be secured,
the strips are neater in appearance,
and usually this neatness will extend
to the roadside just over the fence.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Do mot make excuses to yourself for
your failures. but look them squarely
n the face aud study how to avoid
heir repetition.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

A pretty good way of ascertaining
whether the price asked for a given
piece of land is exorbitant or not is to
find out whether the value of the an
nual product of the soil represents a
fair interest return on the stated val
uation after expenses, taxes, ETC., have
been deducted. Viewed on this basis,
hosts of supposed land bargains now
offered for sale can only be viewed as
largely speculative propositions.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Before selling the old homestead it
estate agent to make a list of the
points in its favor as a selling PROPOSE
ton. 1t is quite possible when the
catalogue of virtues is completed that
you will think the farm plenty good
enough to keep, as proved to be the
case in an instance of which we heard
the other day.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Folks who live in town and have
never had mail delivered to them by
the rural carrier have little idea with
how much expectancy the daily visits
of the carrier are awaited. 1t may be
the daily paper which keeps the men,
bers Of the rural home in touch with
the outside world or the regular letter
from the folks far or near The writer
has received his mail by carrier the
past few months and realizes more
fully what the service must mean to
all the folks on the 10000 odd routes
over the country.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Not very much in the way of mu-
nicipal progress can be claimed by
any community which allows aristo-
crat or plebeian ours to swarm it's
streets and alleys and constitute an
all round menace to the health, peace
and quiet Of its inhabitants. The levy
ing of five dollar dog tax is usually
the first tangible sign that any town is
awaking from its long sleep.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

1t is a mighty good thing for boys
to have vacations and just as fortu-
nate that schools begin early in Sep
TENDER, so that they can once more
receive the benefit Of system, orderli-
ness and study. Whether the summer
intermission has been spent entirely
in recreation and sport or hard manual
labor, the change will be a refreshing
and beneficial one.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

The plow is probably the oldest ag-
riclIltural implement. The first pillow
used away back in the distant years
was merely a crooked stick with a
tough sharpened point, which just
scratched the ground 1t is a long
step from this to the four horse gang
pillow which win turn over three or
four acres per day and the steam or
gasoline traction outfit which will turn
over thirty acres.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31
Began In Legislature.

Stubs began his political career in
1908 by going to the Legislature. He
didn't know anything about lawmaking
Mt the start, of course. and the par
" managers saw to it that he was not
placed on any important committees.
That annoyed Stubs, and he began
to fight. He took the reform side Of
everything and made name on the
anti-pass question and other issues that
were considered burning by the farm
ers. He fought the ring that con-
trolled state. politics and soon found
himself power
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

All too often the fellow who wallows
around in the barnyard mire in wet
weather is the same fellow who has
a straw stack or two rotting In his
fields. It's odd that such fellow
doesn't see the wisdom of scattering
the straw in the barn yard and feed
lot, getting rid of the mud and at the
same time manufacturing lot of val
liable fertilizer, which the average
farm is nightly in need of.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

The lemon growers of California feel
pretty good over the decision of the
interstate commerce commission in the
Payne tariff bill was passed increas-
ing the duty on imported lemons the
transcontinental lines coolly advanced
their freight rate on lemons to the
point where it nicely absorbed the adj
vance which would have come to the
growers as result of the increased
tariff. The growers appealed, and as
Il result the rate will be put back
where it was-S1 per 100 pounds.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

The area over which alfalfa, the
most valuable of all the legumes, is
being grown is slowly but surely in
creasing, and the limits are being
pushed gradually northward. This
seems to be due to a better under
standing of the conditions necessary
and favorable to the growth of the
plant, including treatment of the soil
with lime, incubation with the right
kind of bacteria and the putting Of
the soil in the proper filth before the
seed is sOwn. 1t is thought that the
area of successful growing of the
plant will be still further increased
when some of the hardy varieties
brought from Siberia have been prop
agated so that seed may be had for
general use.
The Adair County news., 1910-08-31

Those who are suggesting seriously
that our children and grandchildren
may lack for the food wherewith to
nourish their bodies have not taken
stock Of the fact that at present but
one acre out of six is under tillage in
the United States and that this acre
is producing but half a normal crop
of wheat, one-third of normal crop
Of corn, of cotton less than half
crop and potatoes but one-kalf