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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-18
EIGHT MILE.

R. M. Akers was an lone visitor
Monday.
Frank Frates was a Hardman Wis
itor few days ago.
c. E. Jones was business visitor
in Heppner this week.
G. M. Akers is still on the sick list
altho not bedfast, he is just able to
be up.
Emerson Keithley sold his COM
bined harvester and hauled it to lone
Thursday for shipment
Oscar Keithley took a load of
wheat to market this week and
brought out power washing ma
chine. Bet Eunice is tickled
Pastor Nystrom came out from
lone Sunday morning in Mr.. Peter
sons auto to hold services at the
Swedish Lutheran church here.
Miss Emma Bergstrom went back
to Oscar Keithley's to work Monday
morning. You must watch out En-
ma, there is a spark on that washing
machine engine.
Say, isn't it about time for that
measly grounding to wake up and
come out again? He missed several
rough spells of weather during his
second nap.
Claude Keithley and Mrs. Emerson
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-18
GOOsEBERRY.

Vern Jackson was a caller at Ar
thur wilkins Wednesday evening.
j. S. Young and O. A. Brians We're
callers at Fred Estebs Tuesday fore
noon.
The Jackson Bros. moved Glenn
Farren's cattle to the Jennings place
Sunday.
John Blake motored to lone We'd
nesday to look after his part of the
road work.
Several of the neighbors layed off
Wednesday and went to see Geo
Long start his new tractor and plow
Sam Esteb took dinner at Mr.. Nc
Clintock's Friday. Several of the
family are suffering with colds, re-
ports Mr. Esteb.
A. E. Dalzell was a Condor visitor
this week for cement to patch up
cave-in in the we'll. Mr.. Cotter is
drilling on his ranch.
Erik Bergstrom and Fred Esteb
were Monday morning callers at the
home of Tilman Hogue. School asf-
fairs, owing to the election of new
clerk.
Mrs. Drake, who has been suffer-
ing with ptomaine poisoning for the
last few days is reported much bet
ter. Miss Hannah Bergstrom has
been nursing her and looking after
the household duties.
We are indeed thankful for the
nice showers, also the good rain of
Sunday night. The fields were lit
tie too wet for farming Monday fore
noon but guess we can stand half
day off occasionally, as these showers
are what make things act like they
couldn't stay in the ground.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-18
1t Is Not a Joke.

To my many patrons it may have
occurred that my request for CASH
is joke. 1t is not. am compelled
to pay cash for my stuff am getting
government inspected beef from Port
land and it is cash for every ship
ment. l certainly appreciate the
splendid trade you have given me and
am trying my best to accommodate
you. Our interests are mutual, but
please do not ask for credit at the
Peoples Cash Market.
HENRY SCHWARZ, Prop.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-18

Keithley and children called at the
T. H. Williams home in Hardman
Sunday morning. They report the
Williams children about over their
attack of chicken pox
Alfred Anderson's attended the
Swedish Lutheran church Sunday
from this neighborhood. It's so very
seldom there is any church out here
that most of us forget how to act
when there is.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-03-18
BROWN LEGHORNS.

Three pens. First pen, 81 per set
ting; second pen, 75c. per setting;
incubator lots, sc each. Full bloods
and blue ribbon stuff. Eggs f. o. b..
Heppner.
ANDY j. COOK,
Heppner, Oregon.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-12
JUST WHAT RIGHT HAS ANY ONE
UNDER POLICE RULES?

A complaint that he was refused
the right of counsel when he ap-
peared at the Warren av. police sta
ton to make sure the booking of
three youthful prisoners was filed
with Chief. of Police Healey by Atty
Charles B. Peterson.
Walter Isser, 10; Walter Knowles,
10, and John Crisby, %, were picked
up by the police at 1920 p. m. last
Tuesday. The boys did not satisfy
the officer that questioned them and
they were taken first to the Shelf
field av., then to the Warren aV. sta
ton. e
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-12

Their fathers, hearing that they
were locked up, phoned Peterson to
get them booked and out on bail
When Peterson appeared he was
told he could not see the youths.
So he filed charges before Healey
to see just what rights detained
person has under the present police
rule.
b. -O-O-
THE BASHFUL TAR
"And did you. speak to father about
me?"
yes"
''Then he gave his consent to our
marriage?"
"Why-er-er I didn't get that far :
l just said you were fine girl"
Evening star., 1915-08-15

of the city so solidly built up no~
that il is hard for young folk 10
imagine the big buildings and hard.
raffic-burdened streets aere not al
ways there
In the spring OF 1887 there were
indignant protests from a number OF
women and from good many men on
behalf of the women that they could
not enter Lafayette square because
their hoop SIX rts would not pass be
tween the posts erected in front of the
park gates to keep out the cows. IN
those days Lafayette Square had been
reclaimed from the condition OF com
mons and had been inclosed With a
nigh wooden fence. During lone
evening while turning the crtnkIy
May. 1867, the Rambler read what
follows:
We learn that the object IA placing
the iron posts in front OF the gates
of Lafayette Square. which seem 10
have provoked some complaint among
The ladies. is to keep the cows out Of
1T. Persons In passing through the
square are apt to leave tho gates open.
and the cows that Craze around II will
avail themselves OF every opportunity
to gain admittance. and often commit
great havoc with the shrubbery before
they can be driven out. The ladies
who frequent the square must. there
fore. either submit to a loss of the
beautiful plants and flowers. which are So
much admired. or 10 a change in Their
costumes, ana or the two evils surely
they cannot hesitate which to chouse
Doubtless everybody of correct and
especially cultivated taste will prefer
the preservation of the shrubbery to
the gaze which the present outre STYLE
of dress attracts.
The same kind OF posts are being
set before the gates of Oak Hill ceme-
terry for the same purpose. and although
there are just as many visitors to
that tasteful and consecrated abode OF
the dead. we never hear of any com
plant from ladies Of inconvenience in
gaining admittance to it,"
Evening star., 1915-08-15

and there the Lords Supper was first
administered.
Later on they determined to seek,
through the Presbytery of Baltimore.
church organization and to erect an
edifice for public worship. The site
chosen was near the Pennsylvania
avenue road ascending the hill just
south of the Capitol
THE first earth was turned for the
new building by John Coyle, one of the
first elders Of this church. His daugh-
ter. Mrs. Whitwell, then a little girl,
described to me the scene. The ground
was then broken into steep hillocks
and spurs and covered with growth
of saplings. vines and underbrush.
There, one evening in the solitude, Just
as the setting sunlight flashed upon the
autumn foliage. lighting up a fame of
gorgeous colors. might be seen a man
with head uncovered: by his side his
little daughter and a stout bodied COL
ored man, spade in hand, on which he
reverently leaned. Then the voice of
prayer rose fervently to the God of the
Covenant for a benediction on that
spot and the use to which it should be
put. The prayer ended the master took
the spade and stuck it in the ground
and turned over the first soil where the
corner stone was laid of the little white
chapel under the hill.
Some ofsits walls are still standing,
but buried out of sight by the subse-
quent grading there. The building was
Evening star., 1915-08-15
wIRTs WHARF IN MA1rox CREEK.

place of marvels he could not hold
back thoughts and memories of the lit
tie white church that long stood there.
and which after years of service as
the First Presbyterian Church of Wash
ington became, and remained from
about 1927 to 1873. the Church of Israel
Colored M. E. Congregation. the con-
gregation which now worships In the
big red brick church at the northwest
corner of LIST and B streets northwest,
opposite the southwest corner of the
Capitol grounds.
The level of the ground where the
Elliott Woods wireless station stands
was many feet lower than it is now
and at the time of the extension of the
Capitol grounds in the early 70's that
part of Capitol hill down which B
street south now runs was flled in.
The little church was so far beneath
the new grade that B and South Capitol
streets were level with the church roof.
A heavy wall was built on the north
side of the church to protect it against
being engulfed by land slide, but
the wall gave way and the north side
of the church building was crushed.
No lives were lost. Congress appro-
gregation for the damage
AT the time of the cave-in. November
13. 1873, it was written in The Star that
this is said to have been the first
Presbyterian church building erected
in Washington and was sold by the
congregation who now worship at the
Four-and Half Street Church of DR..
Sunderland to the colored Methodists,
Evening star., 1915-08-15

who have worshiped in it under the
name of Israel Church during the past
forty years"
The history of the First Presbyte-
the noble edihce on John Marshall
place goes back to date which no
body knows. The records of the Pres
bytery of Baltimore show that April
80. 1894. the Rev. John Breckenridge
was licensed, and April 29, 1898, he re
ceived a call from "the churches in
Washington" which were, according to
a church historian, small bands of be-
levers who met for worship without
any formal organization and including
settlements outside the present city
limits-a city without houses"
The first regular meeting place of
the First Presbyterian congregation
was in small frame shellike building,
which was the carpenter shop In the
White House grounds while the White
House was under construction When
the White House was completed and
the carpenter shop was no longer need
ed the Presbyterlans met in a. school
house near the corner of 10th and F
streets which the Rambler believes was
acquired not long after by the congre-
CATION of st. Patricks Catholic Church.
In 1903 the "Covenanters" of the Pres
selves house OF worship later known
as Willard Hall, and the remaining part
OF the congregation, after continuing to
worship in the F street schoolhouse,
removed to a hall near the navy yard.
4
Afterward this congregation met on
the Sabbath in a basement room of the
Capitol building, and thence moved into
a small frame church home which the
congregation had erected on the site
now covered by the pebble dash build
ing of the wireless plant. There the
I
ly and regularly organized and there
it worshiped from June 20, 1912 until
December, 1927, when new church
building was erected on AZ street.
That building was enlarged and
remodeed in 1860 and renovated
and considerably altered in 1892.
The dedicatory sermon in 1912 was
preached by the Rev John Braken-
by Rev. DR.. Reuben Post. and the ded-
icatory sermon of 1850 by the Rev.
Gardiner Spring of New York:
Asthe Rambler thought Of this old church
he recalled that at the centennial services
of the First Presbyterian Church No
vember II. 1895. the Rev. DR.. Byron
Sunderland. whom all washington
and the Rambler, with an affectionate
memory of DIR. Sunderland, quotes the
following from his centennial sermon
Tradition clear and und1spnten ranstu1 in
their founding and progress. 1t is the
city of God in this. that at the very
beginning, from the north. the east. the
south (for there was then no west.
Gods own people came here. as to their
new Jerusalem. religious families. men
and women who had been trained in
the various Christian denominations
and who brought with them their con-
yictions and predictions. Among
these religionists, were the Presby
terians, some from the churches of
Makamie, the father and founder of
Evening star., 1915-08-15
Hoist.

JOINER ROADHEAVER, the right
III hand of Billy Sunday, said one day
in Paterson:
II am a believer in radical pulpit
methods, and yet sometimes the radi-
cal is hoist. as the saying is, by his
own petard.
81 used to know a preacher who was
troubled by a sleeping chap. This duffer
used to sleep through every sermon.
Sometimes he'd even snore.
The preacher, a radical, said one hot
Sunday morning in n low voice. so as
not to wake the sleeper:
"'All who want to go to heaven stand
up
"All stood up except the one man
NOW all who want to go to the
other place'-up to this point the
preacher had kept his voice low. but
now he raped out at the top of his
lungs the two words-'stand up"
Up like shot 1eaped the sleeper. He
looked round the church in dazed
way Then he gave quiet smile AMI
said:
".WeI parson. 1 dunno what the
votin's about, but you and me seem to
be in the minority.
Evening star., 1915-08-15
Telegraphing From a Balloon.

TT HE use of aeroplanes for recon-
noissance and for the observation
and correction Of artillery fire has re-
called to many men the use of captive
balloons in the American civil war, but
1t is likely that nearly everybody has
forgotten or has never learned the
fact that perhaps the first experiment
in telegraphing from a captive obser-
walton balloon was made in Washing
ton in June, 1861. The experiment was
prise. which rose from Armory Square.
between 9Th and 7th streets and b
streets north and south.
In the columns of The Evening Star
of Wednesday,. June 1e. 1861. may be
read an account of "a successful and
important experiment" with a balloon.
The narrative recites that for some
time past preparations have been max
ing to introduce balloons into the serv-
ice of the United States for the purpose
OF making observations of hostile
camps, intrenchments. military move
ments. etc" On the day befors-that is
Tuesday, June 1S-the most practical ex-
pertinent to that end was made in the
grounds of the Colum bian Armory by
an aeronaut, T S. c. Lowe. The bal
loon ascended several hundred feet, be-
ing held at the desired altitude by a
stout cord. The old chronicler records
that Mr.. Lowe was accompanied in the
car by George H. Burns and Charles
Robinson. te,egraphers. and that two
telegraph wires were attached to the
battery worked in the War Depart
ment, connected with a small field tele-
graphing instrument worked by Mr..
Robinson"
The following dispatch was sent by
the aeronaut in the captive balloon to
President Lincoln:
,,--s Balloon Enterprise
Washington. ID. e.. June Is 1861.
To the President of the United States:
This point of observation commands
of near ffty miles in diameter. The city. with
its girdle of encampnents presents n superb
scene. l have pleasure in sending you this
first dispatch ever telcgraphed from an aerial
your encouragement for the opportunity of DEM
oDsttating the availability of the science of
aeronautcs in the military service OF the country
r. S. L. LOWE.
connection with the successful expert
metn":
1T was regarded questionable before
that experiment was made whether un-
known atmospheric influences might not
prevent the due operation of electricity
in working the telegraph at such a high
altitude, which did not prove TO he the
case. as the communicat ton between the
operators at the two ends of the wires
was as perfect though they had been
suspended over the usual poles within
fifteen feet of the earth's surface"
It was recalled in connection with this
balloon and telegraph experiment in Ar
mory Square that 1.-The balloons used by
the French in the late Italian campaign
had no telegraphic attachments. this
achievement having been left to Ameri-
can genius and enterprise"
Evening star., 1915-08-15

straight Presbyterianism in this coun-
try. and some from the Church of the
Coyenanters, under the title of The
Philadelphia Synod Of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church.
* y
when these families arrived in
Washington they found no church of
their order within the limits Of the
city They had no pastors. no church
organza tions, no stated religious serv-
ices. which they sadly missed and for
which they could only substitute irreg-
ular meetings when some travelling
minister or missionary could be pro-
cured to conduct them.
Under these conditions the Presby
terians of Washington, uniting in their
efforts, procured the use Of the carpen-
ters shop in the grounds of the White
House, where they first assembled for
religious worship in 1895. From time to
time they met there until the shop. no
longer needed, was torn down and they
were obliged to seek another place of
worship.
There is in existence an old deed
giving to the Calvin Society lot of
ground adjoining the site of the Old
German Lutheran Church, now stand
ing in the first ward Of the city. For
some reason unknown to me, 1T GER
tainly never was appropriated by our
people, if they ever had any title to it,
and it remains to this day in the use
and possession of the German Church.
The next place of worship was frame
building, used also for school, on F
street near the corner of 10th street
northwest About this time the Cove
nanter portion of the people withdrew
and in 1903 organized what was long
known as the F. Street Church under
the pastoral care of the Rev. James
Laurie, and in connection with the As
sociate Reform Synod of Philadelphia.
The building is now known as Willard
Hall.
The remaining party of the Presby-
had come from churches in connection
with the Presbyterian General Assem-
bly, and though without formal organ
ization, which accounts for the absence
of permanent records Tor the nrst -FOUR,
teen years of their history, they still
clung together as the facts have surely
been handed down to US upon the tes-
timony of many of the early members
of this church, some of whom were ac-
tive participants in the Presbyterian
movements of that period and from
whose lips l personally received the ac-
count more than forty years ago,
"on leaving the street building
they removed to the Academy East in
in those days it was expected that the
bulk of the growing city would be east
ward of the Capitol. and because the re-
quirement of the navy yard had al
ready drawn to that section a consid-
cradle colony Of people from whom they
hoped to augment their numbers and
extend their usefulness.
When, however, the Capitol had been
so far advanced as to provide base
ment room for the sessions of the Su
preme Court of the United States. our
fathers obtained permission to hold
their Sabbath services in that place
Evening star., 1915-08-15

dedicated in 1872 at the beginning of
our second war with England. From
that date the permanent records of the
church appear"
1t must have been soon after the re-
moval of the First Presbyterian con-
gregation from the church at South
Capitol and B streets to the new church
on Az street that the older building
was bought by the Israel Colored N. E.
congregation.
Israel C. NJ. E. Church was organized
in 1920. The congregation worshiped
in what was then known as the old
Wheat School House on Virginia avenue
southeast. They moved from that build
ing and resumed worship in Sims Rope
Walk Hall at the corner of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and Sd street southeast
and moved from there to the little
white frame church building at South
Capitol and B streets. Israel c. NJ. E.
congregation, though it dates back to
1920, is not the oldest colored Methodist
congregation in Washington. The
Mount Sinai was organized in 1916, the
Mount Zion congregation in 1916 and
the Union Wesley congregation in 1918.
The congregation of the Metropolitan
A. NJ e. Zion, now at D and I'd streets
southwest. was organized in 1888, and
the Metropolitan A. NJ. E., on NJ street
near 18th northwest, was organized in
1888. Galbraith Church dates from 1910.
Evening star., 1915-08-15

~ RASS, il you will take the word
m of Prof C. V. Piper for 1t, is
IL Il the great economic necessity
W of the world. All flesh is grass,
as a certain disillusioned person once
remarked: or it may not be. just as you
may choose to look at it; but certainly
all flesh needs grass, and the business
of Prof Piper, who is the grass man.
of the Department of Agriculture, is to
find the kinds that are most adaptable
to humanity's needs.
Botanlsts have described some 4 900
species OF grass. 1t 10 one of Prof.
Piper's ambitions to try out every
blessed one of them TO ascertain what
they possess of economic value to any
part of the United States l. Is
huge task. But in laboring ,c -"
sired end Prof. Piper has alrs.S
some astonishing discoveries.
greatest of these is Sudan grass
1t is difficult TO imagine many - ,le
getting excited over new grass not
at all dihicult to imagine them getting
excited over the striking of oil. Vet
new grass, such as Sudan grass. may
possess just as great potential wealth
as unearthed oil seepages In ones south
pasture.
Farmers in Texas and other western
states in regions denominated as semi
arid as1e realize an. ni 5n' bs, Il the
grass has created such a wave of eX-
citement through all that semi-arid
country. Literally, there has been mil
lions in il.
Only three years ago. as a result of
Prof. Piper's experiments, Sudan grass
WAS introduced by the Department Of
Agriculture. Already II has created a
some parts of Texas When farmer
sees his acreage values mounting up
ward he has reason to get excited.
Sudan grass has in numerous in
Evening star., 1915-08-15
It Would Do.

1IENRY FORD. neratulated in De-
III troit on his movement for the cure
of drug fiends. smiled and said:
I'VE now know that drug fiends are
curable. 1t was wrong in the past to
deem the drug fiend as hopeless as the
baldhead.
Once a man who was fast growing
bald said to his doctor:
INV hair is coming out Please give
me something to keep it in
well said the doctor. here's an
old mill box Will that do:"
Evening star., 1915-08-15
Plant Detective Who Has Made Millions

The introduction of kaffir corn and
other sorghums about 1875 opened up
a new era in the agriculture of the
western dry lands. The sorghums are
to high degree in Africa and southern
Asia. In the number of its varieties
and in the great differences these dis
play. sorghum is equaled by no other
the negroes and Arabs cultivate num-
erous varieties for the seed which is
their breadstuff. The cultivation is un-
doubtedly very ancient as the extreme
diversity Of the cultivated varieties at
tests.
One of the fascinating studies of the
botanist is to trace the origin of long
cultivated plants back to their wild
originals. Frequently they are so
changed by cultivation that the prob
lem becomes enormously difficult. Thus
the wild originals of corn and of beans,
two plants cultivated by the American
Indians, have never yet been deter
mined. There exists also grave doubt
about the wild ancestors of our COM
mon cereal crops-wheat, rye, barley
and oats.
So far as the sorghums are concerned
the problem of their origin was first
scientifically studied in by Hackel,
noted Austrian botanist. Hackers
studies were based on preserved speci-
mems mainly and he reached the con-
clusion that the sorghums and john
son grass were all forms of one bo-
tanical species, and that from different
wild varieties of this the cultivated
sorghums originated.
This theory attracted the attention
of Prof. Piper. who set about to test its
correctness. Johnson grass is native
of the countries Immediately bordering
the Mediterranean and eastward TO In
dia. 1t was introduced into the United
States from Turkey in 1880 and at
tracted attention as a forage plant.
Unfortunately it is exceedingly trou-
blesome as weed and hard to eradi-
cate where once planted. This is due
to the fact that 1t abs long white un-
derEround stems, a small fragment OF
which will produce a new plant. In
the south it is much feared as weed
and land infested with it is much re-
duced in value. II it were not tor the
difficulty of eradicating it, Johnson
grass would be a valuable hay grass as
it produces large crops of good hay
Prof. Piper argued that II Johnson
grass were the wild original of the
sorghums, there should exist forms
without the rootstocks, which are never
found in the sorghums. Three years
search for such a strain resulted IN the