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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11
Oregon Beef Outlook as Viewed by
Expert.

Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
Wallis, Nov. S.-The supply of mar
ketable beef has been cleaned up
early and with remarkable thorough
ness, the feature of the trade being
large eastern shipments. This re-
verses the conditions Of the last three
years in which heavy shipments Of
beef were made into Oregon from
points as far east as the Rocky
Mountains. This condition encourag-
ed increased production in Oregon
and growers confronted the condition
of large bodies of marketable stuff
with coast markets demanding less
than usual. Hence the shipments
east, which went largely to Omaha
and Kansas City.
The present situation, summed up
by Professor E. L. Potter, head Of
the Agricultural College Animal Hus-
bandry department, is that local
prices of marketable beef are little
lower than normal and prices of feed
ers considerably lower. This fact
has caused the eastern shipments.
The degree of the local depression is
shown by comparison of prices OF
feeders for the last three years, which
were as follows: Prices of feeders two
years ago were $6.75, one year ago,
S6.25 to $3.50 and this year, $5.75.
This was for good stuff near railway
shipping points.
Only small lots of feeders are going
into the feeding grounds of Eastern
Oregon and other livestock districts,
since feeders lost money the last two
years and are unwilling to take
chances this year. Feed is scarce and
pastures light, due to light rainfalls
and rather poor hay crops. Prevail
ing growing conditions are usually
followed by late growing weather the
following spring, 50 that the feeding
season is likely to be prolonged at
both ends.
Notwithstanding these facts"
said Professor Potter, "hay prices re-
main about normal, the lack of de-
mand for fattening about balancing
the light crops and rather heavy sup
ply of stock cattle on hand. There
will probably be no big supply for the
Portland market in the next few
months, but the demand for meat is
slow and western buyers will proba-
bly, be willing to get on with rather
less than the usual until the demand
improves"
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11
SIXTH GRADERS COMPOSE

The pupils of the sixth grade Of
the Heppner public school, under the
direction of their teacher, Mrs. C. W.
Shurte, have been delving into the
realms of poetry in connection with
their language work. We print here
with one of their first attempts at
this style of literature.
SUMNER DAYS.
The happy days have come, the glad
dest of the year,
Of sparkling brooks and darting
trout, berries red and queer.
Deep in the hollow of the woods the
summer flowers are found,
They are plucked by all the passers
by and carried to camping grounds.
The robin and the dove have come,
their nest to build on high,
Among the trees they feel so safe
and never have to sigh.
Where are the roses, the sweet smell
ing roses that the wind tosses to
and fro?
The brightest colors, the sweetest
scents, the prettiest flowers that
grow
Why they are just budding, this gen
tie race of flowers,
They are going to blossom soon again
in this June month of ours.
The sun is shining where they stand,
the gentle rain drops down.
And the automobiles with their honk
remind us of the spell,
We hurry then to pack our trunks
and count our surplus wealth.
We're glad to find we have enough
and so can improve our health.
And so we meet our frieuds down by
the ocean side,
Those whom perhaps for years we
have not been beside.
We ate out lunch upon he beach and
fed the sea gulls there,
We wached the tide go in and out as
we sat on the sand so bare.
The time to leave comes all too soon,
but when we thought of home,
We said goodbye with a pleasant
smile
And hied away from the foam.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11
The PRESIDENTS THANKS
GIVING PROCLAMATION

1t has long been the honored Gus
tom of our people to turn in the
fruitful Autumn of the year in praise
and Thanksgiving to Almighty God
for his many blessings and mercies to
us as Nation. The year that is now
drawing to a close since we last OBJ
served our day of National thanks
giving has been, while year of dis
cipline because of the mighty forces
of war and of changes which have
disturbed the world, also a year of
special blessing for us.
Another year of peace has been
vouchsafed us; another year in which
not only to take thought of our duty
to ourselves and to mankind, but also
to adjust ourselves to the many re-
sponsibilities thrust upon us by war
which has involved almost the whole
of Europe.
We have been able to assert our
rights and the rights of mankind
without breach of friendship with the
great nations with whom we have
had to deal, and while we have assert
ed rights, we have been able also to
perform duties and exercise privil-
eges of succor and helpfulness which
should serve to demonstrate our de-
sire to make the offices of friendship
the means of truly disinterested and
unselfsh service.
Our ability to serve all who could
avail themselves of our services in
the midst of a crisis, has been in
creased by gracious Providence, by
more and more abundant crops; our
ample financial resources have en-
abled us to steady the markets of the
world and facilitate necessary move
ment of commerce which the war
might otherwise have rendered i'm
possible; and our people have come
more and more to- sober realization
of the part they have been called up
on to play in time when all the
world is shaken by unparalleled dis
tresses and disasters.
The extraordinary circumstances
of such time have done much to
quicken our National consciousness
and deepen and confirm our conf
dence in the principles of peace and
freedom by which we have, always
sought to be guided.
Out of darkness and perplexities
have come firmer counsels of policy
and clearer perceptions of the essen
tial warfare of the Nation. We have
prospered while other people were at
war, but our prosperity has been
vouchsafed us, we believe, only that
we might the better perform the
functions which war rendered it i'm
possible for them to perform.
Now, therefore, l, Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-ffth of November
next, as a day of Thanksgiving and
prayer, and invite the people
throughout the land to cease from
their wonted occupations and in their
several homes and places of worship
render thanks to Almighty God.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11

The Star theater management an
nounce that Charlie Chaplin will ap-
pear as special feature each week
on ednesday and Thursday and again
again on Sunday night The Mutual
Weekly Of current events will also
prove interesting to the movie fans.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11

]. E. Craber, who recently under
went an operation for appendicitis
at the Heppner Sanatorium, has i'm
proved greatly. He was removed this
week to the home of his father-in-law
Dan Rice, in north Heppner.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11

The Heppner Light & Water Com
pany has completed the work of wir-
ing both lone and Lexington, but
delay in turning on the current has
been caused by the failure of the
transformers to arrive.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11

Miss Kitty Wilmot, of lone, ar
rived In the city Monday evening to
help nurse Mrs. Pearl IIendry, who is
very i'll at the Heppnr sanatorium.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11

A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Boyer at their rarm home on
Hinton creek last Friday.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11

A. J. Hunt and wife were Heppner
visitors last Saturday from Clarks
canyon.
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OUTSTANDING OBLIGATIONS.
Money Borrowed. ........ $4,000
Unpaid on Lumber account. 242.S3
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-11-11
FINANCIAL REPORT OF
MORROW FAIR BOARD
Covering the Period From November
1, 1914 to October 80, 1915.

Compiled from the Fair Boards
records by w. o. Hill.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11

instruments of women's Ignorance and
depradation:" the women who wouldn't
wear trousers could be called unpro-
gressive' and behind the times
Discovers Gold Mine.
The working woman would need
trousers beyond all others. for how could
she be Economically independent"
dressed in one of those slave" styles
that make 1t almos: necessary for some
women to be lifted to a street. car? THE
Chinese. the Fiji Island women and the
Eskimos wear trousers, why shouldn't
WEI" might be asked in large type across
half a page of the Sunday supplements.
Women wear divided skirts now in
Western States and the Territory OF
Alaska. why are Pennsylvania women
Disseminated against" might also be
pointed out.
In fact. Mrs Gilman has in reality
discovered a gold mine of material for a
new outbreak of feminist propa ganda.
And lust think-there is mot a single
argument against trousers for women. -
except that the majority Of the women
themselves are either absolutely opposed
or quite Indifferent to the clarion call of
the newest feminine freedom"
And as long as women are "old-fash-
ioned'' enough to be proud of their sex,
the ma jority will always be found on the
side-or inside-of skirts. OF course, these
women who won't indorse trousers for
women will be called dogs in the man.
GER" 1t will be hurled at us from plat
forms that 1.-The majority of men never
asked" for trousers, and in a tone CT
deem accusation in her voice We may
soon hear the soap-box orator demand:
..Who gave men the right to wear trou-
sers. anyhow"
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11
ALEXANDRIA NEWSPAPER
BEGGED FOR WAR ITEMS
Editor Covered Conflict Of 1877 by Sitting Office and
Watching for Ships Bound Up the Potomac-Got
Foreign Papers and Clipped" ..s.

nounces that negotiations with the EN-
peror continue
Recently the papers have carried col
umns on the attack on Warsaw. In the
summer. of 1871 an attack was made on
this Russian city by the Prussians. The
following account appeared in the Alex
andria paper about two months later:
AS Warsaw had no Notifications a
siege in form was not necessary to the
Prussians. But as that part Of the cap
ital which was exposed to them was COW
cred by an intrenched camp Of the army
Of Kosciusko, it was necessary to attack
1t by storm. This attack was made on
June 81 by heavy cannonade. and in the
course Of the day several hundred bombs
were thrown into the city. An incred-
ible number OF lives were lost. The issue
of this attack caused much interest and
concern in Prussia
In another issue about the same time
this brief account of the situation in
Europe was printed: August g. 0eft
Europe July BIN consequence of the
preliminaries of peace. the French army
had evacuated several parts Of Italy, to
which the Austrians returned. But the
inhabitants Of several places, doubtless
little fattered by the visit of the latter,
took arms and fired upon the soldiers to
prevent their entry. Their resistance,
however. did not continue long"
A comparison of these clippings from
the papers of a century ago with the
war stories printed today may soften the
hearts Of the critical, who are suffering
from too much war news"
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

why do they print SO much war
news? Don't the editors think we ever
grow tired of reading the same thing day
after day." These questions are heard
on all sides from those who read the pa
pers. To appreciate the news-collecttng
facilities of the present these persons
should dig up the crude news" papers
Of a century ago.
In the curio room of the Heitmuller
Art Gallery, 1907 Fourteenth street north
dated 1881. and bearing scant reports of
the battles between France and the COM
bined forces of Russia and Italy. AL
though this paper was daily" 1t had
to come out many a day without a para
graph about the war then raging in
Europe.
How would the people of today like to
pick up a great metropolitan daily and
on an inside page find perhaps three par
agraphs on the present war? They sell
dom received more than that in those
days.
The editors then did not WELD their
pens to the tune of n telegraph instru-
ment that licked of page after page OF
news from the front. They had to SIT In
the office window with pair OF field
glasses riveted on the river front. AT
sight of a ship they would rush to the
dock and beg for foreign paper. or the
words of someone on board, like starv-
ing man begs for food.
II they succeeded in getting enough in
formation TO make a story they would
have to starrout by saying. "One month
ago the following was received at Paris
by courier from the 'front.'"
Ii the King of England and the Kaiser
should enter into peace negotiations to-
day every paper in the country would
carry columns of detailed reports under
glaring headlines. And 1t would be
known in every corner of the United
States a few hours after taking place
The entire paper. in most eases. would
be devoted to reporting this event.
Here is the report the old AleXandria
paper received toward the close of July
1877. on the peace negotiations between
France and Italy: Paris. July ia
courier who arrived yesterday from
Italy has brought dispatches for the
Directory. in which Gen. Bonaparte an
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11
thinks WELL Of
WALKERS idea
Mrs. Gilman Argues Women
Should Wear Trousers,
Says Mrs. Guilford.
BETTER THAN BALLOT
Anti Thinks They Would Be of Some
Benefit Whereas Votes Could
Not Aid Them.
BIZ MRS. SIMEON H. GUILFoRD,

BY MRS. SIMEON H. GUILFoRD,
Member Executive Board. Pennsylvania Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
One of the great metropolitan newspa-
pers editorially remarked a few days
ago that If women were granted the
franchise worse things might happen
than even their opponents have pre-
dicted. The more one studies feminism.
the more menacing the movement is seen
to be.
Begun by women who frankly stated
that ''woman's discomfort increases in
direct proportion to her development"
that Ordinary motherhood" was not to
he compared with a career" that the
condition of married women under the
laws of all countries has been practically
that of slaves" this agitation has been
uauseat ting normal women for half a
century with its complaints. Comparing
women with idiots" "paupers," etc, and
always complaining about her legal and
social stutus being inferior the fem
mist propaganda has succeeded in in
fecting many women with an unrest
that is as dangerous as any other form,
of hysteria.
Men are becoming bored by the con-
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11
SOUTH LISTENS
. TO SUFFRAGISTS
Miss Hill and Miss Perry
Speak for Votes Before
Large Street Crowds.
5000 WILL SEEK BALLOT
That Many Active Workers Will Come
to Washington in December for
Action by Congress.

In the campaign of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage the conserva-
tive South is to be invaded with an army
of street speakers. A few clever women
already have been dispatched to Virginia
and South Carolina to inquire into the
conditions there with a view to going
direct to the people with their plea
for Federal amendment.
THE opposition to the Susan B. An
thonv amendment to remove from the
ballot the qualification of SEX" said
Miss Lucy Burns. vice president of the
Congressional Union yesterday. lis found
in the country districts. and among the
people on the streets in Southern COM
Inunities T,ie masses are with us, and
the politicians will have to look within
their own ranks for anti-woman suffrage
support Our field workers bring glow
ing accounts from Dixie. and the cam
paign under way there will be continued
and extended.
.Suffagists 5000 strong are coming to
Washington in December to demand ac-
ton Of Congress. The South will send
up thousands of petitions and hundreds
OF persons for the big rally"
Miss Elsie Hill. daughter of Represent
alive E. ]. Hill. of Connecticut, just re-
turned from Charleston. s. c. She was
delighted with the reception given her
by the people there. Her reports sup
port the assertions of organizers in the
South that most of the opposition to the
Federal amendment comes from politi-
Clans.
A few weeks ago Miss Hill ventured
into Charleston, a reputed hot bed of
opposition to all things Federal. and
found the objections to the woman suf-
frase amendment vanished into thin air
at the very first sound of a woman's
voice heard in the streets of the city.
On her first day in Charleston. MICS
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11

Fill, with a soap box in her hand. walked
down town to the heart of the business
section. selected a popular corner. placed
her box mounted it. and proceeded to
explain why sufrragists are working for
Federal amendment enfranchising
women.
SCATTERING Experience.
1t was a SCATTERING experience for the
men of Charleston. Although they had
never before participated in an open-ar
meeting conducted by a woman. they
crowded around Miss Hill and listened
with attention to her speech. As she was
concluding her argument, a man with
drew precipitately from the crowd around
her. to re-appear a lew moments later
with a foaming glass of settler lemonade.
which he held ready for her as she
stepped down from her improvised ros-
trum.
Neither on that day nor on any of he-
public Appearances in Charleston. and they
were many, did Miss Hill hear one OBJ
lection to the proposed Constitutional
infringement OF States rights.
These Southern men differentiate be-
tween infringement of right and the
direct application of that same ''inalien-
able and sovereign right of the States"
to pass upon all important questions. in
GLIDING the amending of the Constitu-
tioh. which is as much the property Of
men from South Carolina al it is of those
from Connecticut. Massachusetts,. or New
York
VfrEinians Help Cause.
The same spirit of friendly considera-s
ton was found in Virginia by Miss
Emily X. Perry, one of the Congress
sionai Union organizers who has been
assisting Mrs. Sophie G. Meredith. chair
man Of the Virginia branch of the union.
One night" said Miss Perry, when
was speaking on the corner of Fifth
and Broad streets. in Richmond, a young
man who had offered on previous occa-
sions to speak for us, came forward and
addressed the crowd from the steps of
our automc bile. He made an excellent
speech, at the conclusion of which he
stated that while in college he and sew
eral Of his classmates had pledged them
selves upon graduating to form a league
to help women attain the franchise He
added that one of the most practical
ways of helping seemed to be to help
save the womens voices from the strain
of street speaking. He offered his serv-
ices to speak whenever and wherever he
might be needed
And this from Virginia college man.
among whom. we are told, are numbered
Gates and opponents to woman suffrage.
mo word of opposition did we hear in
Virginia"
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11
PRETT- GIRL ON FIRING LINE
Nineteen.year-Old Lass Clad !
Brothers, Uniform.

A pretty girl of st Pol. near Arras,
named Berthe Olibet, 10 years old. has
lust been discovered in French SOL
diers' uniform in the region of the fir
ing line.
She had cut her hair short and other
wise disguised herself. and she had
cried bitterly when the military au-
thorities sent her back to her parents
She said that her brother had been
killed at Carency. and she was de-
termined to avenge his death. She had
dressed herself in one of his old uni
forms. and had walked twenty miles
intending to take her place in the firing
line.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11
American Bar" Battles Jagow

In the search for new German words to
replace foreign words in every day use.
Herr Won Jagow. the chief of police of
Berlin. has come up against American
bar and American drinks" So far
no one has suggested satisfactory sub
stitutes
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11
Find Dead Babies in Trunk.

London has a mystery in the discovery
of the mummified bodies OF two babies
In a building where many women EN-.
ployed by a large commercial firm live.
The bodies were discovered in a trunk.
They were buried-in quicklime and en-
closed in a wicker basket and seemed to
have been there some time. Scotland
Yard is working on the case
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11

The late John Dalton. of England a
famous rat catcher who made a fortune
at the business. is supposed to have
known a special process which had been
In his family for 200 years He rode to
his work in a coach. and would hand the
bag of rats to the coachman on leaving
the place.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11

Gasoline locomotives have been invent
ed in England that are safe to use in coal
mines, their ignition taking place within
tight boxes and their exhaust through
water.
The Washington herald., 1915-07-11

slant reiteration of alleged wrongs that
discontinued women are inventing. Every
week the publicity factory for feminism
scours the whole country for isolated
instances of wrongs" TO women. The
United States is a big country. and 1t
would seem that a capable data depart
ment should be able to gather such ma
terial without recourse to imagination;
but it apparently finds 1t impossible.
After some suffragist, for instance, dis
covers that Georgia has a lower age
of consent" law than California, she
Immediately allows her imagination to
picture fearful possibilities of "wrongs'
to women which would not exist II
women had the vote The fact that the
wrongs do not exist doesn't matter to
her AS a matter of fact. 1t is great
deal more unsafe to mistreat a woman
in Georgia than it is in California-as
the whole history of the Frank trial
abundantly proves. But if the femin-
lists can discover one legal or technical
clause in 'man-made law that can be
made to seem inferior. they Immediately
begin to harp upon it from Boston to
Battle Creek.
The oldest recent instance of un-
Just discrimination" against women took
place in a Suffrage State-Callfornla-
where a delegation of vote-seekinS wom-
en- complained that committee of Con-
gressmen whom they attempted to inter-
view, rushed by without even lifting
their hats" But the absence of easy
divorce in South Carolina. the "age-of-
consent bugaboo in Georgia, and the
nonhat-lifting episode in San Francisco
are not the only samples of injustice
the suffragists have dug up. Charlotte
Perkins Stetson-Gilman. one of their
leaders, now discovers that before women
can be utterly free" even with the vote,
they must get rid of skirts.
BETTER Armament for Trousers.
We always did think there was a better
argument for trousers for women than
for votes At least, trousers can be al
legged as of some benefit, despite their
disadvantages. And, of course. the
whole series of suffrage slogans could
be revamped to serve with trousers. There
would be no argument" against them
that would not equally apply to trous-
ers for men, women would be. in fact,
more free" in some respects; 'all women
wouldn't have to wear Them" it would
only take two minutes on the way TO
market to don them, and. of course,
taxation without the right to wear
trousers might easily be called tyran-
ny" The only. vital objection the
trousers for women" agitation is likely
to meet is the opposition of other wome n
Just as in the votes-for-women move
ment this is the most serious drawback.
But what field for exploitation. Char
lotte Perkins-Stetson-Gil Gilman might take
over the original creed of the suffrag &c
pioneers in large slices. along with the
isolated household the skirt might be
severely condemned as ''one of the chief