Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-11-03
The Weeks News


G. NJ. Akers, of Gooseberry, will
build al 11-r on house this fall.
OAe OF the surest signs of approach
ing winter is pancakes for breakfast.
Peter Banerufend has been appointed
administrator OF the Hattie E. Kintzey
Estate.
Sam Meadows gees reavy 10 pintos.
He bought the starter for another team
this week.
Sam Meadows has provided for shade
in front of his livery barn by planting
some young poplars.
Wilford Cecil is building new house
on his Willow creek ranch below Cecil
posto flee ni"e miles.
Klein & Ashbaugh are preparing to
extend their shop 20 feet and put in a
first class carpenter shop.
Ezra Nash, a 17-year-old boy of
Heppner. was buncoed out of 500 at
the Union depot in Portland, Wednes-
day of last week.
Hallowe'en is getting tanner of late
wears. The reporter notes no acts OF
d g ruction which have been feature in
former years. IT'S well.
Perry Warren. of Eight-Mile, has
purchased a substantial new far m
wagon and will keep up with the pro-
1 to
rack
Chas. Bartholomew, of Cu-rinsvilla.
Ore, has purchased the Hattie f..
Kintzley Estate for $4,000 90 and will re-
move lis family there to permanently
reside.
That the printer is sometimes
neglected is proven by sign on cabin
near town reading: "All persons found
tres p lssing on these premises Will be
executed cco,ding to law"
C. H. Schmidt, who recently took up
homestead in the Butter creek coun-
try. is making substantial improve
ments very fast. His new house would
be a credit to an Cd resident.
The eher IF having finished his lal o 2
of posting election notices in every pre-
cinct, is 10 engaged in delivering the
blank ba | to, which must be placed
personally in the hands CT one of the
Judges of each precinct.
Go. Mead, of Black Horse. w"s in
town F iday He rep ITS that his ioI-
horse team ran away a few days ago
plungiAg through 4-Sire fence. Dam
ages 2 ight Meade made a goo
record as a splinter keeping up VIII
the wagon and slmost reaching the end
gate for distance of 500 feet
Prof Hoag successfully demonstrated
the phenomena Of hypnot'sm last even
ing AZ the opera house OF class Of
ten about ha wer, brought complet Il
unde~ the mysterious influence and
were made to do anything suggeste
ch as fishing, riding buck ne bron-
cho, driving cows off the stage, etc.
Geo AIKEN has in his possession 8
letter Of the family dating back to 1S42
Envelopes wee not in fashion then
neither was our postal service so per
facted and that letter cost 25 Gems t.
be carried few hundred miles. The
handwriting was very dminutive, an
economical custom of those days to save
post charges.
Geo. McKnight, of Lena. the well
lnown sheepman, is at Ontario, wher'
Mcknight Bros. took band of 5,0W
sheep. Mcknight Bros. will winte
about 1000 head of shoep in Malheu
cou ty, having sold shout 1000 old
ewes Thy have already purchased q
large amount OF hay. They expect &c
'orate in Malheur county next year il
the vicinity of Ontario.
Geo. Turner. one of the big farmers
of the Lexington wheat district, ha>
sold his farm of 1120 acres to VIM
Macnab. OF Sherman county. for S12 81
per acre. Mr.. Turner came to Moro"
county few years ago when this land
was selling as low As 5000 per quarter
section. In fact the land was consider
ed wo thless for anything but grazing
pur, oses. The land is now producing
big yields of wheat, and still is not un'
der the prope. state of cultivation.
N. MeVey, of Gooseberry, has sod
his fine wheat ranch of $40 acres 20 Eo
Lyon, of Sherman county, for $40 pei
acre. Mr.. McVey will move to Golden
dale, Wash, having purchased whea
raqch in the KIickit at valley. He Il