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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-30
Thursday. September so. 1915.
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS.

As We view it, opportunity is now
knocking at the door of Morrow
county as opportunity has never
knocked before, We probably do not
realize that it can be possible that
this county has about reached the
point where she is To take off the well
worn clothes Of dormancy and don
the glad rags OF industrial activity
and development
The discovery of artesian water in
this county has exceeded the hopes of
dry-land farmer, stoekman and every
other business man and citizen alike.
But the unlocked for has happened.
Probably throughout the past three
years while the experimenting for
artesian we'll water has been going on
there have been only two people who
have had unlimited faith in what the
result might be. The majority of us
were skeptics. W. D. Newton and
his faithful wife have proved bless
ing to this county, and it is safe to
predict that their names will live
on the lips of the irrigation farmer
of this section long after the New
Ions have gone.
That great good will result from
these wells there can be no doubt.
But as a suggestion to the Heppner
Commercial Club. Why not send
some live wire to the Panama Exposi
tion, a man who is acquainted with
his subject matter and knows what
he is talking about. Supply him with
excellent photographs and with his
own personal knowledge at hand, the
advertising that he would give Nor
row county in the next two months
would be inestimable. We have in
mind man who would fill that posi-
tion admirably. He is man who has
had considerable experience in that
line of advertising. He is thorough
ly acquainted with conditions as they
exist in this county and although We
know he is a very busy man and
might not be able to go on such a
mission, we would like to suggest
the name of w. D. Newton. He has
spent more money in getting results
which would ultimately put this
county ON the map than any other
one man we know. Consequently it
is safe to say that the Heppner Com
mercial Club would not make a mis-
take in sending this man, should they
decide to take up this valuable means
of putting our county before the eyes
of the world.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-30
OREGON'S EXPERIMENT.

Oregon was one of the first states
to adopt a minimum wage law for
women. We suppose employers op-
posed it from conviction that 1t
would be disastrous. Employers
commonly do oppose such laws from
such a conviction. Over year and a
half ago the Oregon commission fixed
minimum wages for women in retail
stores as follows: For those under
eighteen, and those over sixteen hav-
ing less than one years experience,
six dollars a week; for those over
eighteen and having over a years
experience, eight dollars and a quar-
ter week, except in Portland, where
they receive nine and quarter dol
lars a week.
Those do not sound like very for
midable wages. The Bureau of La
Dor Statistics, at Washington, has in
yestigated results 50 far and reported.
Fewer women were employed in
stores at the time Of investigation
than before the minimum wage went
into effect, but that seems TO have
been due to general business condi-
tions and to some particular causes
unconnected with the wage law. 1t
does not appear that men supplant-
ed women as a result Of the law, or
very generally that inexperienced and
less competent women supplanted eX-
perienced ones.
That the law has not resulted in
keeping the wages Of women down to
the legal minimum is clear from the
fact that the proportion Of women
getting more than the legal minimum
is greater than it was before the law
went into effect, about quarter OF
the girls under eighteen got less
than six dollars week; so, on the
whole, the law has somewhat in
creased wages in that department
Covering but d sinle industry in a
state that is not highly developed in
dustrially, the evidence adduced by
this investigation is not very con-
elusive; but whatever weight it has is
favorable to the minimum-wag law.
Saturday Evening Post.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-30
BANKERS ARE TAKING NOTICE

Myron T. Herrick, Ex-Governor of
Ohio and ex-president of the Ameri-
can Bankers Association, had the fol-
lowing to say concerning rural cred
its. To read of man of national
prominence and banking experience
being at last in favor of the farmer
coming into his own, must convey to
the yeomen of this land that their
fight for right has not been in vain.
Mr.. Herrick, speaking before the
Portland Chamber of Commerce, said
in part:
when we realize that the farmers
of this country have assets aggregat-
ing $4,000, 100000, and an annual
output of S15, 100000, the ques-
tion presents itself in very workable
form
"On such basis there should be
no difficulty in obtaining credit. It
certainly would not be difficult in or
dinary business. So all that we need,
then, is organization.
And rural co-operaton," he sug-
gested as the programme.
"The best breeding ground for CO.
operation, he continued, " is an as
sociation distinguished from cor
poration or joint stock company.
The recently enacted laws on credit
unions and socalled cooperative
banks in Oregon and elsewhere are
not enough. These laws tend to in
terfere with, rather than encourage,
cooperation.
THE laws to be enacted should
make it legally possible to do through
an association what now may be done
through corporation or joint stock
company"
Mr.. Herrick emphasized the neces-
sity of organizing the farmers on a
definite legal status, 50 that they col
lectively, may be able to transact bus
mess and thus obtain the benefit of
rural credits.
But the laws that should be en-
acted" he added, Ought to be gener.
al in scope. That is, they should not
be confined to any particular class or
persons. They need not contain one
reference to agriculture in order to
permit the farmer to avail himself Of
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-30


One of the wars remarkable eff
fects upon American trade was shown
here when, for the first time in his
tory, sugar was purchased for export
from the United States to Switzer-
land. Although Switzerland is next
door neighbor of Germany, the great
est beet sugar country in the world
the war has caused an embargo to be
laid on the expectation of sugar from
Germany and Austria Hungary, and
consequently the Alpine republic
finds it necessary to send three thous-
and miles across the Atlantic to Sc
cure the national supply of sweeten.
ing. Not only Switzerland but Great
Britain, France, Italy and Greece
have been purchasers of sugar in the
New York market. In the first nine
months of the war exports amounted
to nearly 500, 100000 pounds valued
at over $23,000,000. Naturally the
heavy export demand for sugar which
usually comes to the American mar
ket has kept the prices comparatively
high, and the American farmers who
grow sugar, either in beets or cane
are likely to have a prosperous sea.
son. In fact persons familiar with
the sugar trade agree that the wal
has saved this industry from extinc-
tion for the time being. Prior to the
outbreak of hostilities and following
the legislation adopted by congress
for the free admission of foreign
grown sugar, many sugar mills and
factories closed down and tens oi
thousands of farmers abandoned the
planting of beets and cane. With the
better price conditions brought abou,
by the war, the American crop prob
ably will be larger than ever before
and it will be possible to continue SUI
gar growing in this country, at least
until the European conflict ends.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-30
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

Those of us who have witnessed in
dustrial education and its benefcient
results little appreciate the advance
ment that has been made in our edu-
cational ideas of the past half CEN
tury. The public school, which was
the advance agent of industrial edu-
cation, was not established without
argument Many there were who
strenuously opposed public schools
as an imposition upon taxpayers. No
less an influence than Herbert Spen-
Ger proclaimed it at as late a date as
forty-fye years ago that the state had
no more right to administer educa-
tion than to administer religion, and
that the proposed general establish
ment of schools at the expense Of tax
payers was an infringement upon the
rights Of the person so taxed. They
said it was plunging the state into
benevolency which would eventually
breed political corruption and bank
ruptcy. We have had both these ca
lamities, but few attribute them to
education.
Industrial education, under which
head comes our agricultural colleges,
experiment stations and farm extern
sion work, found no easier sailing in
entering the harbor of service than
did its forerunner, the public school.
Ever since man began writing rec
ords, we find two classes, those who
are content with, and hold fast to,
the things they have, and the other
that seeks newer and better ways.
Radical and conservative, progressive
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-30

and reaetionary. Between the two
forces are hammered out eompro-
misses that make for real growth and
development. And so it has been with
our long steps in educational matters
The advocates of influence of blood
lines in breeding livestock and in
their claims of being able to estab-
lish special types of livestock partic-
ularly adapted to producing greatest
possible results in certain lines, have
met with opposition in their propa-
ganda and have found their strong
est ally in the agricultural colleges
with their small army of scientific
workers. The point of attack in pro-
noting the special types of livestock
has been in the class room with the
rising generation, in judging at the
fairs and stock shows, and lately in
the tests for milk and butter produc-
ton both in an official and private
way.
The milk COW testing associations
are being organized in every part of
the Union. At most of the state fairs
and at many of the county and dis
trict fairs these milking tests are car
ried on and they are proving one big
point to the average man who milks
cows, and that is some COWS always
return a loss, while others make a
profit and that the little details of
keeping record of what COWS are
eating and what they are producing,
is absolutely essential for success in
the business. This is becoming more
and more necessary as the price of
products, the price of the COW and the
cost of the feed that she eats all ad-
vance alike.
The benefits derived from free
schools, the necessity of agricultural
education are now disputed by few if
any people. And rapidly is coming
to prevail the acceptance of the nee
essity of getting better financial re-
turns from livestock through the in
PRODUCTION of the right blood lines.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-30
100000 People at San Francisco
Fair.

San Francisco, Sept. 2S.-When
the gates OF the Panama-Pacifc expo
sition closed at midnight nearly 49,
400, 900 persons had seen the big fair.
Officially 13,925,553 have passed the
turnstiles up to Friday night and it
was estimated 10000 or more visit
ed it yesterday.
Ideal September weather has drawn
big crowds daily; trains are crowded
with belated vacationists. Only two
months of the show remain.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-09-30

He explained that the last three
Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Will
son-each in turn have recommended
cooperation as best edapted to the
need of the farmers.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-08-27
SENSATION IN CASE
ON TRIAL AT BENTON.

A Sensation was sprung here Saturday in
the case of ]. L. Bishop vs.. Polk county
aud the pike road commissioners. ]. l..
Bishop was discharged by J. J. Fetzer, a
foreman at the rock crusher, of Polk
county, and brought suit for his time. On
the trial of the case it developed that Bis
hop had been making complaints about
his time and it was alleged that the fore
man had given himself and two other work
men more time than they had Irked. It
was also charged that the foreman had
been using the county's gasoline and cylin-
der oil for his automobile. A few months
ago the old pike road commissioners OF
this county was charged with like offenses
and resigned and new commission was
elected. This county recently voted two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for pike
roads in the county and the money is about
all spent and there is not single mile OF
good pike road in the county. Nashville
Banner
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-08-27
DISASTROUS FIRE AT STUARTTOy N
The Storehouse of J. E. Quinn and
TDo Dwellings, Are Reduced
TO Ashes.

to Ashes.
Tuesday morning at 1925 O'Clock one of
the most disastrous fires that ever occur
red in the Ducktown Basin swept the store
house of ]. f. Quinn and two dwellings
besides his barn and other outhOuses out
of existance.
The fire was discovered in the barn
who're carload OF hay had been placed
the dav before and by the time hel Up ar
rived the whole was a mass of flames.
Very little of the Quinn stock was saved
and that was in damaged condition. He
succeeded in getting his cash register out
and some valuable papers in his safe, but
in the hurry the safe was not tightly closed
and the rest of the contents were destroyed.
1t took hard work to save the building
occupied by R. NJ Shields and the Owen
by residence, and outside of little dam
age done by the heat these were uninjured.
In the barn were three head of horses,
and a jack these were burned to crisp in
very short time. A goat belonging to
Mr.. Ouinn's son was also burned.
In the storeIouse 100 bushels of meal,
800 pounds of flour and forty-two sacks of
COW feed which proved total loss. Be
sides this he lost two wagons and two bug
ges and wagon belonging to one OF his
employees.
This is serious blow to Mr.. Quinn.
The savings of lifetime have gone up in
smoke and he will have to begin all over
again. It will be hard pull but his many
friends will lend their every effort to this
end and out of the ashes will. rise a greater
business than that so ruthlessly destroyed.
In conversation with a REPUBLICAN rep
resentative, Mr.. Quinn said the fire was no
doubt the work of an incendiary as there
had been no fire within 100 feet of the
barn in several months. He also stated
that the barn had been closed at 4:30 Mon
day and that nobody had been in after that
time to his knowledge. He said that he
had no idea who could, or would do SO
wanton deed as he had no real enemies.
His greatest loss was his horses, accord
ing to his statement They were the apple
of his eye and to see them burned before
his eyes without means of preventing it
was hard ordeal.
On every side was heard words of SYM
pathy for Mr.. Quinn in his loss. And the
kindly expressed hope that he would soon
be in business again.
Mr.. Quinn informed us that his insurance
would amount to about 40 or 50%of his
loss.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-08-27
ADVERTISING EPIGRAMS

Sit frequently happens that Advertiser discovers too
late that poor printing does not pay.
The first duty of piece of printing is ia get itself
read
Good printing is expensive; it's the cheap IN
effective kind that costs
One thing worse than gutter is the chap Who is
afraid to begin
Select Jour printer and head statesmen With equal
What chance rui you haze at dollar sent out OF the
DucktolUn Basin?
4 We are no farther alDay than your telephone.
LET US TALK THESE THINGS OVER WITH YOU
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-08-27
Local and Personal Mention

dav, on business.
c. c. Hyatt had legal business in Blue
Ridge, this week.
Miss Mary Doney was visiting friends in
Ducktown, this week
The Camp Fire Girls met with Miss lara
Center last Tuesday night.
Will Bay. of Morganton, has been visit
ing his neice, Mrs ]. Cole this week
W. Ray, of Copperhill, was visiting
his daughter, Mrs ]. Cole, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Sisssn and family
spent the past week with friends in the
country.
Bob Center, who is taking treatment in
Knoxville, spent few days with his family
this week
Mr. and Mrs ]. Cole and little daughter,
were visiting Abe and Tom Cole, Sunday,
at Guy n C.
Misses Bessie and Laura Chitwood, of
Chattanooga are the guests of their sister,
Mrs. S. L. Edens
Howard Cornick passed through here,
Monday, on his way to Blue Ridge where
he had legal business.
Mrs. Myrtle Fouts is quite ill, suffering
from complication brought on by acute
indigestion. She was some better at this
writing.
Dr. and Mrs Ceisler are moving into
their new hone on the pike leading to
Stuarttown. 1t is one of the bandsomest
homes in the Basin
The Prendergast Cotton Mills sent us an
order for job work that is highly appre-
ciatatde. Ii is one of the big industries in
Polk county and hes bright future.
We have recently turned out of our job
department sci of bylaws for Ocoee En-
campment No. 79. This is a fine lodge
and its members are progressive
]. M. CLANCY, one of our stalwart Re-
publicans, has moved to North Carolina,
his paper is nov sent to him via Culberson.
Polk county can i'll afford to loose such
citizens.
Through the kindness Of j. L. Hopkins
a representative of the p c. r. was able to
visit the scene of the fire at Stuarttown,
Tuesday, for which courtesy he has our
thanks.
Hon. Grant Simonds informs us that
there was no truth in the article, last week,
in which we stated that he had purchased
the interest Of G. {. Alternately in the firm
Of Hopkins & Alternately
Ehman Spareo has about recovered from
the operation he was compelled to under
so some time ago, but he is having trouble
with one of his legs We hope it will de-
velop into nothing serious.
After some delay, work on the concrete
walk in front of Or. [. E. Kimsey's prop
erty is being pushed to completion and
will be a model for several property own
ers on the same street to take pattern.
The Sanford Musical Comedy Co., put
a show at the 7. M. G. A. Monday, Tues
day, and Wednesday evenings, and gave
good satisfaction 1t was clean and whole
some and in contrast with many that have
been put on here.
The Ladies Aid Society held their regu
lar sewing session with Mrs. Emory Nc
Council and there was a good attendance.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-08-27
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ST. LOUIS, MO.

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production Advertising kills inferior goods for such goods DO not
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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-08-27
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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1915-08-27

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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-21
EASY WAY 10 MAKE
HAIR ATTRACTIVE

5, Ladies' who find trouble In PRO
dressing their hair should Try using
a little Partisan Sage, twice daily
for while and note the remarkable
Improvement. Partisan Sage. which
can be obtained from WeIls-Hay-
maker Co., or any drug counter,
makes the hair soft, lustrous fluffy
and wavy, takes out the dull, life
less appearance. dissolves the dand-
rum and stimulates the hair roots
into healthy. normal action. Instead
OF merely sprinklfng the hair, 1t
should be rubbed right into the
scalp with the finger tips. Praisian
Sage is delightful hair treatment
Tor both hair and scalp. cannot pos-
sibly in1ure the hair and is very
inexpensive. Advertisement.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-21
TIERS
Unclaimed at the Local Post
Office Are Advertised by
the Postmaster.

Unclaimed letters were advertised
here July 10, % follows:
Turnack Aranan. Mrs. Clarence
Ash. "A Abbott.
q. M. Bacchus, Charles Bassford,
Mrs. Frances Bratcher, Homer Beck
hart, Geraldine Beckhart. Mrs. N. r
Bailey. Ralph Baker, Walter Banks.
Edward Burk.
Barbara Cooling. Gilmore Crouch.
Walter Conner
Doddridge County OH company,
Daniel Drake, Lem Dandone, DiaT
mond Shoe Company, Miss Rose "
Davis. Mrs. Emma Dewitt, Bertha
Davis, A. T. Dorman.
Mr.. Emmett. Lloyd Evans.
Major Fleets. Mrs. Mary Faecp,
Lizzie Foercha, q. Frank, Mrs. Edna
Forester, Luigi Fanto, Mrs. Carrie
flames.
waiter Golden. T. L. Cor, Handle
" George, Emory Cough.
Miss Mary Holstein, John HaW-
kins. Thomas Hawley. MRS. Riley
Hess. Mrs, Moses Hess
w. Jevaers, Jake Jarvis, Charles
johnson, Miss Anna JOSEF
Hutton Karoly. n. B. Kestlet.
Tony Kunzler, Il. Kato. J. M, Kuepp.
Barsony Bandor. G. D. Lytle
Claude Lytle, Mrss Maggie Little
Mrs. Malissa Lewis, Mrs. n. L. Lat
shaw, Edgar Long, Mrs. Audess Low
rey..
Morris, f. j. Martin, Mrs. B. II. Ma
son, Charles w. Marshall, Mrs. Chas
Morrison, G. A. Moore, Miss Grace
IMcGunley, Mrs. n. w. McAninch, y.
N. Mahoney, ]. n. Miller, Jesse A
Mason, Lester Moore. Robert Muir
ply, Mrs N. Monroe, William Machey
-, Everett Moore.
National Operative Mining Com
pany, Mrs. James Nealy. ra Nicholas.
Miss Do1He Norman.
Sanford Posten, George Polttts 2,
Wash Prftchard, Prunty and Stout
Samuel Powell, James Pitts, MISS
Edith and Harry Phillips
Miss Elizabeth Reed, Lizzie Rich
ardson. Miss Sadie Radch1fft. Mrs. A
!, .. Reyonlds.
Giuseppe soyarati. style Co.. Jeat
Smith, SAT- Sand OIL and Gas Com
lpany 8. Charles Shanaman. Miss Car
lrie Sutton. L. l.. Snider, j.. Storms
George Summers. Oke Swfsher, JOIN
I, Shane. Wesley Shatfer, w. M. Stroth
err, Mrs. w. w. Scott.
Perry Tomilson, Nancy Trembel
Jack Turner. 2, Mrs. Rosa p. Taylor
Thurman Trout, Fslafd Trader, Trad
1Tuhikim.
w. Vanle.
4 Fraicis Wolfe; Robert Williams
AuSira Wade, Grace Wallace, Be-
/ WEIGH, Miss Anna Waddy. Sadf
]. Wright, w. NJ Wolfe.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-21
)IEO;
In the Office OF The County
Clerk Here to Be Re-
corded by Hin.

Anna Cork to James E. Cork. Jr:,
and Sophia M. C6fk. o1ezeIevanth In
terest in IS. 0S acres. Clark district.
s. b. PITTS to James 3: Cork, ~,
ana Sophia n. Cork. onyseieve s N
'teresri In 25.08 acres. Clark district,
Joseph f. Cork 70 James p; Cork,
IF. and Sophia NJ. Cork. one- eleventh
interest in 26.08 acres. Clark dis
trict.
susie N. springston 70 James ?.
Cork. Jr.. and Sophia ~. Cork, one-
eleventh interest in 25.08 acres,
Clark district.
.Mintie Li4scomb to Ira =. Swtger.
i lot. Iitpscomb addition
Wiley "A. Baker to w. ". Giaskins.
lot, Central Salem Land company's
addition. Salem.
Arthur Parsons ct al: to Mabel M.
Butcher 4 lot, Broad OAKS. 4;
: Edwin "A. Wilson to W. w. Gas1ins,
lot. Wilson'S First addition. Salem
Charles @. sCummins to T. g. Webb,
40 so acres. Elk district.