The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-05-24

will spend the next few days in
Southeastern Idaho on business.
During the absence of DR.. Winnard
in the East, his practice here will be
in charge of DR.. H. T. Allison.
John J. Kelley, young Morrow
county sheepman, spent several days
in Heppner this week on business.
B. N. Hicks, representing the Anti
Saloon League of Oregon, spoke to
audiences in Heppner churches last
Sunday.
w. T. Matlock, of the Benson Com
mission Co., of Portland, is spending
a few days in the. city on matters Of
business.
Position wanted during harvest as
engineer; can handle either steam or
gas engines. Call at Star Theatre,
Heppner.
Pat O'Brien, who has been living
in Condor, has arrived in Heppner
and will make his home in Morrow
county in the future.
Mrs. Clarence Bowers has been re-
ceiving medical attention this week
on account of tonsilitis. Her condi-
tion is slowly improving.
John Sheridan and John Curran,
prominent east end stockmen, were
in the city Monday. Mr. Sheridan
took out load of lumber to his
ranch.
Ben Moore has returned from an
extended visit of several months to
Iowa and will again make his home
in Morrow county. His health is
much improved.
Ed H. Kellogg, the local jitineuer,
is spending the week in Portland,
where he is buying a new motor
truck for Elmer Beaman, of the
Heppner Wood Yard.
A number of high school boys
have Joined in the food preparedness
campaign. and have gone out on to
various farms to assist in the work
Of making the crops secure. Every
fellow is doing his "bit" in some
form or another.
]. M. Morrow, representing the
Watts Marble Works of The Dalles,
arrived in Heppner the first of the
week with carload of monuments
Anyone desiring any work in this
line will do we'll to see Mr.. Morrow
at the Palace hotel. He will be in
the city until Saturday night.
The location you have been look
ing for. 36R acres 16 miles from
Portland in Clark county, Wash. No
buildings. Level, no rocks or stumps,
all in crop. Best soil for growing
prunes, potatoes, corn. Price $1,000.
$4,000 cash, $4,000 terms and balance
in exchange for land of value. j. J.
Lehman, General Delivery, Portland,
Ore.
DR.. N. E. Winnard left Tuesday
for an extended trip East. After
spending a few weeks at the Mayo
brothers hospital in Rochester,
Mimi, he will 60 on to New York,
arriving there in time to attend the
annual meeting of the National Med
ical Association. DR.. H. T. Allison
will take charge of DR.. Winnard's s
practice during his absence.
Frank Pike Nutting, a former AL
bany newspaper man who is now
connected with the U. S. Customs
Office in Portland, paid Heppner an
official visit the last of the week.
While in the city he enjoyed a short
visit att he home Of DR.. N. e. Wn-
nard and also e. R. Huston, these
people being old friends of Mr.. Nut
ting when they lived in Albany.
Fred Lucas had hair-raising ride
down Heppner hill Tuesday evening
when the brakes on his car refused
to hold. 1t is rather hard to say just
visit at the home of DR.. N. E. Win
both to Mr.. Lucas and the car, had
it not been for DR.. McMurdo, who
was driving up the hill in his car.
The two cars came together and a
stop was thus effected. The damage
to both cars will probably not exceed
$50.
LaVerne VanMarter left this
morning for Portland to accept a
position in the United States Forest
Reserve. Mr.. VanMarter will join a
timber cruising crew there and will
leave at once for Alaska where the
government is making vast surveys
of timber land. The crew will spend
four months in the north and large
part of the work will be done in the
neighborhood of Mt. Mckinley. A
good salary goes with Mr.. VanMar-
ter's new job.