The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-01-27
WEEKS NEWS.
Local And Personal Happen
ings Of Heppner And
Vicinity.

Mrs. E. G. Noble is visiting with
relatives in Monmouth.
Chas. Burchell was in the city
from Lexington Tuesday.
Miss Ruby Ayers of Lexington
spent Sunday and Monday in this /
city.
Tilden Williams was in the city |
Tuesday from his ranch near Hard
man.
Arthur Dykstra and wife were in !
the city Tuesday from their home |
south of Heppner.
Miss Nettie Currin is visiting at !
the home of her friend, Miss Kate
Moore, near Echo.
S. E. Notson has sold his Ford car
to Prewitt Cox, the deal having been
made on Tuesday.
Dan Barlow and son Frank we're
pleasant callers at the Gazette-Times
office one day last week.
Ben O. Anderson, Of Eight Mile.
has returned from Cottage Grove
where he went some time ago to visit
with his sister, Mrs. Martin Johnson.
Chas. Vaughn and wife are in
Portland this week selecting furni-
ture for their new house on Center
street.
| E. r. Huston, president Of the
Morrow County Farmers Union.
was in the city over the week end
from his Eight Mile farm.
Don R. Haylor arrived from Port
land last Thursday with his family
and they are now located in the Nit
chell residence on Chase street.
]. B. Sparks came over from Pilot
Rock last Sunday to visit with his
family in this city. Mr.. Sparks has
installed lighting plant at the Rock.
Claude Cox is wearing a broad
smile since the arrival of 9-pound
daughter at his home on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cox now have three
children, the other two being boys.
| Glenn Jones arrived home from
Portland Sunday. He says business
conditions in the metropolis at the
present time are anything but rush
ing.
R. d. Watkins returned from La
Grande last Friday, where he had
gone to buy in an isolated tract
which is situated near his mountain
homestead.
The ladies of the Christian church
will serve dinner on Friday, Feb. 4,
from until p. m. at the church.
Thirty-fve cents will be charged. The
public is invited.
Omar Luttrell, Black Horse farm
er, was in the city Saturday to get
supply of warrant books from Supt.
Notson, Mr.. Luttrell being clerk in
his school district.
Carsner and Spray have bought
Sam Moore's bunch of cattle consist
/ ing of about 100 head of mixed stuff,
paying him an average price of $32.
per head.-Spray Courier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Bowker spent
Sunday with friends at Cecil. Mr..
Bowker reports a decrease that is
very noticeable in the number of
rabbits down there in the past few
weeks.
} c. J. Bright, we'll known attorney
of The Dalles, was in Heppner last
week making final settlement in the
estate of George Warfeld, deceased.
. He stopped over in lone on business
while returning home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Wakefield
returned to their home on Heppner
Flat Monday evening from their old
! home in the East where they have
l been visiting with relatives and
friends the past several weeks.
A purse containing a dollar and
some twenty or thirty odd cents was
picked up in the postoffice recently.
! Some old coins were also in the
purse. The owner may have the
. same by applying at the postoffice
window.
w. w. Howard of Butter creek
! was in Heppner Tuesday after load
Of ranch supplies. He was accom-
panied home Wednesday morning by
DR.. A. P. Culbertson, who will spend
some time at his own farm on But
ter creek.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam E. Van Vactor
returned home Sunday evening from
I q visit Of week to outside points.
Mrs. Van Vactor visited with relatives
in Arlington and Mr.. Van Vactor
journeyed over into Washington on
legal business.
George McDuffee returned from
Salem Sunday evening, where he had
\ gone earlier in the week on business
pertaining to the sheriffs office. He
says the Valley is receiving an abun-
dance of moisture in the form of
I rain and some snow.
81 G. L. Sweek and DR.. R. J. Vaughn
visited Cecil Sunday in an effort to
\ exteminate the rabbit pest down