The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-06-24

Mrs. George Thomson is visiting
with friends in Hood River this week
Ben Buschke and wife were fl
Heppner from their Rhea creek home
on Tuesday.
Tom Ross, the Echo wool buyer
was in Heppner Tuesday. He came
over by auto.
D. H. Grabill, retired farmer of the
lone section, spent Monday in Hepp
ner on business.
Miss Thelma Lucas has returned
| from Wasco, Ore, where she attend
ed school during the past year.
Mrs. Guy Boyer and her sister
Miss Grace May, were passengers fol-
outside points Tuesday morning.
Dr. McMurdo has bought out Dr.
Allison's office and is now located al
Patterson & Sons drug store. IT,
Henry Vance has moved into one
of the Jeff Jones houses in west
Heppner, formerly occupied by Joe
Westoff.
Jack Hynd, the Cecil sheepman
was in the city on business Monday
evening. He returned to his ranch
Tuesday morning.
A. l.. Ayers arrived home from
Portland Saturday. He and Mrs
Ayers have been living in that city
for some months past.
Dick Gentry, wife and son, OF
Grant county, arrived in Heppner
Monday. Mr.. Gentry is an extensive
stockman of that section.
AL Porter, a leading stockman and
rancher of the Long Creek section,
was in Heppner several days the past
week, attending to business matters
Eli c. Maddox returned to his
home at Castle Rock, Wash, on
Tuesday, after spending several days
in this city visiting with old friends.
Pat Mollahan was in town several
days this week. He will spend the
summer in the mountains near Hill
gard, where he has taken his sheep.
Miss Verna Holcomb returned to
her home near Oregon City on Tues
day, after visiting for six weeks at
the home of her uncle, Hugh c.
Citizens.
John W. Tash, son of Hiram Tash
of this city. who has resided for a
number of years at Buhl, Idaho, will
move to Council, Idaho, where he has
purchased a place.
E. D. Brown, manager of Heppner
Milling ompany, was called to Van
couver, B. c., Friday, on account of
the death of his mother, who was a
resident of that city.
w. w. Bechdolt is down from
Hardman today, coming in with w.
H. and Frank Miller after the body
of John Miller who died at the hos
pital In Heppner last night.
Rhea Luper and family, of Salem,
are visiting at the home of Mr.. Lu-
per's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Luper in this city. Rhea is connected
with the State engineers Office in
Salem.
Rev. w. A. Orr was down from
Milton over Sunday. He held SER
vices at Eight Mile on Sunday morn
ing, and at Heppner in the evening,
returning home Monday. Mr.. Orr
came in from Milton with Theo. An
derson.
Harry Cummings, the local nur-
seryman, is planting a large tract of
his land in north Heppner to dahlias.
Mr.. Cummings says there is much
money to be made in raising dahlias
if handled right, and he believes that
he knows how to grow them success
fully.
Mrs. Geo. ]. Currin and daughter,
Miss Mary returned to their home in
this city last Thursday evening. Miss
Currin has been attending the Agri-
cultural College at Corvallis the past
year and her mother has been visit
ing relatives at different Valley
points during the past two weeks.
j. A. Patterson went to Pendleton
Tuesday by auto to look after some
property interests in that vicinity. He
was accompanied by Rhea Luper,
who has been visiting in Heppner
Mr.. Luper. who is connected with the
state engineers office, has now es-
tablished headquarters in La Grande.
Hugh Citizens has been appointed
janitor of the Heppner school and
has moved into the high school build
ing with his family. The position
was let on competitive bids this year
and Mr.. Citizens secured the contract
at a price that will be great saving
in cash to the district over what has
been paid during the past year.
Mike McCabe was business Wis
itor in Heppner Saturday. Mr.. Nc
Cabe has just recently purchased
band of sheep in the Spray country
and has taken them to summer range
south of Hardman. Mr.. McCabe and
his partner, John McHugh, have
rented about $500 acres of. range
land from w. H. French. Their sheep
are all yearlings.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Markham were
down from their Walla Walla home
for several days during the past week
visiting with friends and relatives in
this county. Mr.. Markham still has
considerable land holdings near
Heppner, and calls this way frequent
ly to look after his interests. He is
we'll pleased with the condition of
crops in this county, and took occa-
sion to visit number of different
sections while here.
w. S. Wharton, Of Newberg, made
Hennner a visit on Saturday. He