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renton and Reedsport. The investment
of state funds in these securities COM
PEELED an investigation by the Marior
county grand jury butn indictments
were returned.
Among Etheridge's other activities
was his participation in the Hotel Sea-
side Inc corporation organized to
take over the Moore hotel property at
Seaside and develop it, A foreclosure
suit for S35.00n was fled on this prop
erty at Astoria late last week.
AS the auditing Of the firms business
proceeds it is being discovered that the
liabilities OF the firm will exceed the
assets by perhaps morethanSl,o ooo O0o,
Norris Bros have branches nt Seattle,
Tacoma and San Francisco, and these
several houses were closed simultane-
ously with the Portland house. Later
developments seem to put Fred Nor
ris in an uufavotahle light, and he may
be found to be as much responsible for
its failure as is Etheridge.
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The steady Subscriber

Ito" GEAR 10 our heart Is The steady
Subscriber, VINO pay III advance al me
DIs,h oil me year. Wno lays Gown the
money anu uoes lt quite giauly, and
casts round the once d haio OF cheer.
lie never says: stop IT, cannot az
fofd it, I'm getting more papers than
now can read" but always says.
Send it, our people all like it-in tact,
We all think 1t help ana a need"
How welcome his check when il
reaches our sanetuHl, how 1t makes our
pulse throb. how 1t makes our heart
dance. We outwardly thank him, we
lnwardly bless him-the steady sub
scrlber who pays in advance
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FARM { HOME POINTERS


suitable iood every day Is the most
iuhdamehlaI 'hlns III the Well-being OF
'he chiia' ffeah AR Wholesome eNer-
elSe' suiacleht sleep are other import
anu FACTORS III chlia hutfitloh' put prop
ef looH AT every meal Is essential TO the
health' happiness ana ultimate success
oi 'he chl'd'--Hone Economies o. A. {.
Salted fish may be packed in nom
Fes'hous wood or IN crockery contain"
eFs. which should have tight covers
Inc cleaned hsh should lie in salted
water iohR enough 10 remove blood
about the backbone or elsewhere be-
fore being packed. Alternate layers of
SAT- ahd hsh IN proper lengths skin
s'de down. MI the sar' II BRINE eVap-
crates IL Is replaced with new prime
maue py dlssolNihB IL pounds OF sal.
IN Balioh oil Water'-home Econom-
les " A. u
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Oregon Butter Gets Better

The 40 exhibits of oregon butter
scored by T. W. Boutslla Of Chicago
the butter and cheese makers con-
yention In December was said to be
the best lot ever scored by this noted
expert There is not real bad piece
Of butter In the lot" he announced.
II was the largest lot over exhibited
Ia Oregon. as well as the best. Tho
three highest cubes were "a or more.
the lowest SS. The college and dairy
mems campaign for improved butter By
uso Of fresher cream Is bearing good
trNt
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Women's Club VIII Help

The women's clubs of America have
formed working agreement with the
states relation service OF the United
States department Of agriculture to CO.
operate in establishing and carrying on
home demonstration work. Mrs. W. s,
Jennings OF Jacksonville. Florida, will
represent the women's clubs, and work
with the state college home demoustra-
tion agents in furthering the work of
improving farm home condition. She
will have an assistant in each state,
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-12-30

In honor of the coming of the Elks
to this city tomorrow and next day,
the business houses have taken on a
somewhat gala day appearance, and
many and beautiful are the window
displays making prominent the purple
and white of the order and display
ing antlered emblems. The street
lighting on Main street has also caught
the spirit, and the purple bulbs among
the white make beautiful mixture and
shading of light that is pleasing to
behold, The city belongs to the Bills
for the next two days,
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-12-30

Pat Foley came up from The Dalles
Wednesday and will be in the city for
several days, assisting in the opening
Of Hotel St. Patrick and otherwise
boosting for the success of the two
days of entertainment being prepared
by himself and Heppner lodge of Elks.
He was accompanied by Mrs, Foley
and the little boys,and Mrs Eva Horan,
a sister of Mrs, Foley.
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Farmers Pool Wheat

Farmers resident in the Waitsburg
section recently sold pool of $4,000
bushels Of wheat for $3.50 a bushel
Since then $4,000 bushels at s1,4S have
been purchased by the Farmers Union
Warehouse company for a Portland
concern. Fred Aldrich also sold to a
Portland firm $4,000 bushels at s1.4S a
bushel, Now another pool Of 10000
bushels is being held for $3.50.
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A SLATED aue from the bottom Of the
potato pit to little way above the
top win carry of the warm air caused
by sweating and thus reduce the am
ount Of loss from spelling and sprout-
ing. A w aimed place should be
selected Tor the pit. The potatoes are
piled on ground a little higher than the
level covered with straw and roofed
over with earth.
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Under the artistic direction of Jack
O'Neill, Central Market has been tastily
and appropriately decorated for the
coming of the Bills" to our city Col
ors of the order are prominently inter-
woven with evergreens, which are en-
twined and banked about as fine dis
play of beef mutton and pork as was
ever hung up in Heppner. This dis
play has called forth a lot of favor
able comment and we doubt if it could
be excelled in any small city.
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Mr. and Mrs Jake Osten arrived from
Madras last evening and will be in
Heppner until after the festivities are
over. Mr.. Osten is receiving the con-
gratulations of his many friends here
upon his recent marriage, having on
Christmas taken unto himself one of
the charming young ladies of his home
town,
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queen Christinas' was the attraction
evening, rendered by the younger mem
bers of the Sunday school, and was
greeted by a crowded house. The rem
dition was good and reflects credit alike
upon the performers and those who
coached them. Other Sunday schools of
the city presented Appropriate Christmas
programs on Friday evening.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-12-30

The annual business meeting and roll
call of the Christian church will be
held in the church on Wednesday eve
ming, January s. Every. member OF
the church is urged to be in attendance
and all friends Of the church are invl-
ted There will be refreshments, a
period of devotion, and a social hour
LIVINGSTONE, Minister
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH
sunday, January q, 1921.

Bible school at ten o'clock, followed
by Communion and preaching service,
Christian Endeavor service at $50,
preaching and song service at 1850.
The subject for the evening will be,
sunday Observance and the Proposed
Blue Law For several Sunday eve
nings the sermons will be devoted to
practical themes OF this kind, and the
public is cordially invited 10 be in at
tendance,
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Carl Yount, wheat buyer of lone, was
a business visitor in Heppner yester-
day. He was accompanied by Eldred
Corson, who is student of U. Of w.
and is home to spend the holidays with
kis mother at lone.
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The local price for corn at the near
est feed stores Jared on the nerves of
the lrrigon farmers and the farm bu-
eastern growers, which netted a saw
ing Of S1G50 per ton, The corn costing
$3S,50 on the 1rrigon siding
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-12-30

Thos. Nichols, of Lexington, spent
several days in Heppner this week. A
young son of Mr. Nichols was recently
operated on for appendicitis and is now
well on the road to recovery at a local
hospitAl
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Central Market announces that they
will be open from to on Friday eve
ming, On Saturday the market will
be closed al day from s a. m, and open
from to 5 in the evning again.
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EDITORS TO DISCUSS
BUSINESS PROBLEMS
Eugene to BE the Scene Of the Annual
Gathering OF Newspaper Men ses-
sions TO BE Held January IL and IS.

University 70 Oregon, Eugene, Dec.
Especial 1.-The annual profession
al conference Of the Oregon newspaper
editors, publishers and writer's, held
each winter at the university school Of
journalism, set for Friday and satur-
day. January IA and Is, will include
three sessions on business problems,
which will take the form of short
courses Of the postgraduate order,
two banquets at which questions Of
professional standards and practices
Will be presented. election Of officers,
an automobile excursion. the presenta-
tion of feature by the students of the
school Of journalism. an inspection Of
the scnool and OF the new buildings for
the university made possible by the
passage Of the millage tax bill and
several entertaining features.
The business sessions, which are de-
clared to be of unusual practical in,-
portance, are headed "a short course
in newspaper law "a short sourse IN
foreign advertising" and "a short
course in newspaper management"
each to be followed by general dis
cussion
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Claud White, who has large wheat
ranch bordering Sand Hollow some
eighteen miles north OF Heppner is in
town today, accompanied by Mrs.
White.
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formed MS to what your electric Juice
Is to cost in the future. These rates
are maximum,
This order Of the commission be-
comes effective January |, 1921,
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Mrs Anna Borg, Of Portland, ts
spending the week at the home Of her
son, Oscar In this city, aud enjoying
q visit with her many Heppnsf friends.
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FoRncr Principal Gets Federal job

r. G. Dykstra. formerly principal Of
the Umatilla school and secretary of
the Commercial Club there has Just
received an appointment as assistant
teacher with the federal board for vo-
cational training, He has not vet been
nssigned ed-Pondleton u. Q.
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TINS commission upon former ap-
plicatlon OF the utility made an lnves-
lIgatlUn and on the zSth day Of Janu-
AIRY. 1919, issued its order No. 4SI fix
ing among other items the valuation
as of January /, 1918. For the next
two years following that date the add
tIons and betterments have been shown
to be S2CS773 and the retirements or
capital then in use amount to SlSS5.72,
the actual net additions since our for
mer valuation being $S02.9O which IN
crease in valuation viii be considered
herein
At the same time the depreciation al
lOwance on straight line basis was
set out as being $209S per annum. This
amount VIII be correspondlngly in
creased in our further deliberations
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A meeting is called at Scout Head
quarters for Friday evening. Dec. 81,
at 5:15 o'clock. Every Scout must re-
port or else present an excuse to the
undersigned by noon Friday.
LIVINGSTONE, S. NJ.
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Dean Hale, of the university law
school, has made special study of the
laws Of Oregon relating to newspapers
1t turns out that there has been an un-
usually small amount Of newspaper
litigation in Oregon. with the result
that few of these laws have ever been
tested or interpreted on important
points. The rights Of reporters, edit
ors and publishers are therefore vague
on MANY important matters and COM
mittee was appointed by the State Ed
itorial association at Astoria last sum-
mer to report at this conference as to
means of making the law more defin-
ite and certain, The report of this
committee will be presented and pro-
posal discussed Of forming news
paper code embodying the best prac-
tice Of all states to be presented to the
legislature
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Management to Be Discussed

In the course Of the newspaper man
agement, f. W Smith, cost and price
expert of the Porte Publishing com
pany at Salt Lake, will act as one OF
the instructors, coming especially to
Eugene for the purpose. An elaborate
analysis of the newspaper situation In
Oregon at present being prepared under
the supervision of Elbert Bede. editor
Of the Cottage Grove Sentinel who Is
asking every newspaper in the state
for an analysis of its overhead expenses
as we'll as for answers to several inter-
esting points of editorial and profess
sional practice.
The foreign advertising, course will
be initiated by several speakers among
them Charles W. English, manager of
the better business bureau of the Port
land Ad club. and John T. Beamish.
who recently took trip through the
east for the express purpose of study
ing foreign advertising at the source
He visited the advertiser himself and
virtually all the big agencies. A pro-
posal for joint action by Oregon pa
DerS will he advanced
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A professional discussion of consid
cradle interest will be an analysis OF
newspaper progress in an Oregon city
by the editors of the two rival papers.
Ralph R. Cronise, OF the Albany Dem
ocrat, and f. NJ. Reagan. of the Albany
Herald. have been speeding up the
newspaper world of Linn county and
are going TO tell whether their efforts
have been appreciated and in how prac-
tical way by the people of commun-
ity and how successful their efforts
have been.
Don Sterling, managing editor OF the
Oregon Journal who has never before
spoken at a state meeting, will attempt
an analysis Of the newspaper situation
and future for professional journalism
as it appears to him after an extensive
tour Of the United States. On this
trip he was accompanied by the asso-
ciate publisher of the Journal Captain
Philip Jackson, who will also be pre-
sent at the conference, Professional
subjects will also be treated by Dean
Allen, Colonel Carle Abrams of the Sa-
lem Statesman, chairman Of the confer
ence and others whose subjects have
not vet been announced.
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Operating Revenues

During 1920 there has been a notice
able increase IN revenue, the compar-
lsou between the FIRST six months Of
This year and the corresponding period
Of last year being an increase of 1876
per cent, If this percentage be ap-
piled to the total revenue of 1919 we
viii obtain s24,526 as the expected rev.
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Studied for Church

According to his own statement Eth
eridge attended Cambridge University,
England for three years and later
studied to be rector in the church
of England.
In his dramatic statement before the
Shrine meeting Etheridge stated that
just before he was to have been or
dained, he received word that the
young woman to whom he was engag-
ed had married his brother. He imme-
diately left college and the country,
coming to the United States. For two
years, he said, he was a wanderer and
finally in New Jersey forged check
for $50 was convicted and sent to pris-
on In his confession Etheridge stated
that hiss econd offense involved n
charge of bigamy. Records of his two
commitments at the Trenton peniten-
tiary disclose that both commitments
were for false pretenses.
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Enters Bond House

Upon regaining his freedom Ethe-
ridge went to Chicago and later enter
ed the employ of Morris Brothers, in
Philadelphia, as bookkeeper being
advanced until he became director in
the concern,
Etheridge was transferred to Port
land early in 1917 succeeding the late
Charles X. Williams as manager Of
Morris Bros in this city.
Ill health compelled the retirement
of Fred Morris, and Etheridge became
the president and directing head of the
institution.
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Transacting Business Without Capital

Morris states that judging from what
has been discovered by the auditors
Etheridge was transacting his business
without capital by using the money of
his clients in the general business, mon
ey which had been turned in by pur-
chasers Of bonds who had been given
interim certificates pending the deliv-
cry of the actual bonds
Under Etheridge's direction during
the past three years the firm of Morris
Brothers has undergone rapid expan-
sion in the handling of bonds.
The last large transaction in which
the firm engaged was the purchase OF
bonds of Edmonton, Alberta, having a
face value Of s2,135.0OO Most of these
had been disposed Of and against them
large number of interim certificates
are outstanding, being held by indiyid.
ual investors
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A Native of England

According to the statement made at
the time of his naturalization in Port
land in July, 1918, Etheridge swore that
to was born in Birmingham, England,
iune "A, 1881, and that he came to The
United States in February, 1903.
Two years later on October 81, 1906
Etheridge was committed to the New
Jersey state penitentiary at Trenton to
serve sentence of is months at hard
labor upon conviction for false pre-
lenses.
On December 8, 1907, Etheridge again
was received at the same institution to
serve a sentence of two years, again
upon conviction for false pretenses. He
was discharged November 5, 1909
In his application for citizenship Eth
erldge swore that his only arrest dur
ing his career in the United States was
for speeding motor car at Langhorne
Pa about June 1915
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Bond Deal Investigated

Early in the present year, Etheridge
brought upon his firm some unpleasant
notoriety in connection with his sale
to State Treasurer Hon Of quantity
of bonds of the municipalities of War
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Etheridge Leaves City

Etheridge left the city suddenly
Thursday night.
Etheridge's sudden cessation of rela-
tions with the firm and his departure
mark crisis in his local business car
eer that assumed almost cycIonic pro-
portions. Coming to Portland in 1917,
through his energy and ability he de-
veloped the business of Morris Bros on
a large scale. His activities extended
beyond the bond business. He was
prominent in a variety of civic endeav-
ors and during the war was a leading
figure in the several Liberty Loan
drives
His most recent outside activity was
his candidacy as delegate to the i'm,
perial Shrine from Al Kader temple. He
conducted an elaborate and extensive
campaign for that honor.
Unpleasant rumors became current
that reflected on Etheridges personal
record. They came to his ears. On SAT-
urday evening, December ,19, occurred
the Shrine election. Mounted on a plat
form in the Armory, Etheridge laid bare
his record, He confessed to having
served time in the New Jersey peniten.
tiary. He did not withdraw his name.
The vote was taken, four delegates to
be chosen He was fifth on the list
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Service Far From Satisfactory

Touching that part of the testimony
offered in which 1t was shown that the
service was far from satisfactory, the
rol ort says.
"The testimony shows that the ser
vice delivered is far from satisfactory
and frequent Interruptions have occur
red which greatly detract from the
value of the service especially for the
power customers This condition was
conceded by the utility owners. Sat
lsfactory service must be provided, and
to this end it Is recommended that q
voltage regulator be installed in the
generating plant"
at may be stated here that the reg
ulAtor mentioned above has been in
stalled, and some improvement in the
service to power users has been noted)
Upon the testimony as offered, the
commission fixes the following lighting
rates for Heppnor and Lexington, me-
tered:
First kilowatt hours or less, $1,50
per month; next Il, % cents; next 20,
is cents, excess over 40 X. W, h., -
cents.
Commercial lighting, metered--pri-
mary rate; First kilowatt hours, or
less, $1.50 per month"; next "a, 20 cents;
excess over 40 H. W. h., per k. W. h, Is
cents Secondary rate: First SO kilo-
watt hours, per k. W. h. Is cents: next
$50, Is cents and excess over 400, II
cents per k. W, h, No monhly bill shall
be less than $3.50 plus 10 cents for each
SO watts, or major fraction thereof, OF
active load in excess OF 500 watts
Flat rates are placed at $135 pei
month on first 40 watts, and CONNER
cia1 lighting will carry the same rating
for the first 40 watts.
The report also establishes the muni
cipnl lighting rates, all of which show
like proportion of increase, We
shall he able to give the full schedules
in another issue, setting out the fig.
ures Just as ordered by the commission
This much Is given that an idea may bt
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The most important part Of the tes-
timony concerning operating expenses
was the statement Of the increase in
fuel costs. To q large extent these
are due TO the recent increases in
freight rates. Testimony shows that
at the present time the freight charge
on each ton of coal amounts to $Gl6.
This charge coupled with increased
costs of fuel at the mine, has thrown
a large additional burden on the pro-
ducer Of electrical service In this COM
muntty This burden must be indirect
ly absorbed ia the form Of increased
rates or community must expect Its
electric service TO be discontinued.
Previous to the date Of hearing the
steam plant had been devoted to the
service not only Of the electric utility
but 10 that of municipal water plant
as well. The latter service is now
about to be discontinued AZ result
of this condition it appears from the
testimony that it will be Impossible 70
estimate the exact cost Of future cleo
trio operation
Based upon the analysis made duf-
ing our previous investigation and
from all testimany offered in this case
the following annual expenses may be
reasonably expected;
Fuel, Sl5,390; payroll $4,000 mater
ials and SUPPLIES, $3.50; ordinary depre-
citation S2,135; extraordinary deprecia-
ton casualty $685., making a total of
S2S91O
The resulting income S24526. leaving
operating deficit Of S43S4 to which Is
added taxes, $500 and uncollectable
1856, bringing total deficit to sA919, or
practically $4,000 a year, 1t is also
shown that no return whatever was
had from Investment and the commits.
sion concludes that the revenues now
derived would not pay out of pocket
operating expenses, hence rates must
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