The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-05-17

ner last week, being called here as
member of the grand jury.
Carl Troedson and Bert Palmateer
prominent young farmers of the Nor
gan section, were Heppner business
visitors the first of the week.
The summer term of the Oregon
Normal School will begin June Is;
the fall semester September 10. For
further particulars write to the Reg
istrar.
j. R. Oliver and Colon R. Ebber-
hard, LaGrande attorneys, arrived In
the city the first of the week to at
tend to legal matters in Judge Phelps
court.
Lee Cantwell has gone into the
wood saving business with a novel
engine. The gas engine produces the
power of locomotion as we'll as run
ming the saw.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse o. Turner re-
turned from Portland last Sunday
evening after spending a week in
the metropolis and are now at home
north of this city
Dennis Herman and Peter Curran,
residents of the north Lexington Sec
ton, proved up on their homesteads
before U. S. Commissioner G. Pat
terson in this city Monday.
e. H. Turner, owner of the Ham,
iltonian Stallion, Premo, announces
| Io will noCirinp tho
services of this horse at the Hale
stable in lone. Write him at lone
and make appointment. Terms, $500
and $1,000. 1t.
w. B. Finley, Sand Hollow farm
er, was business visitor in the city
the first of the week. Mr.. Finley has
been bringing that part Of Morrow
county to the front in recent years
through his thorough farming meth
DDS. Crop conditions in his locality
are good.
This office received pleasant call
on Tuesday from E. H. Turner, OF
lone. Mr.. Turner has been busy
man for the past few months, getting
in a large tract of land. He has
$50 acres sown to Spring grain and
this Is all up and doing fine, being
greatly improved by the recent good
rains that fell in that section.
Mrs. D. E. Gilman left today fol
visit of three months to eastern
points. She goes first to Saskatoon
Canada, where she will spend about
six weeks and will 60 from there tC
Minneapolis. The greater part OF
the visit will be made in Boston
where she will attend the nationa
convention of the Women's Relief
Corps.
]. H. Helms, Of Lexington, was
doing jury duty in Heppner couple
of days the first of the week, He
states that practically every foot OF
land is being farmed in his section
and large crop will doubtless be
harvested there again this year. Mr.
Helms has in 500 acres of grain and
it is all up and doing fine. The Lex
ington country will do its bit in sup
plying the necessities of life during
the threatened food shortage.
E. H. French and family, of the
north Lexington section, were visit
ors in Heppner on Tuesday. Mr.
French has in a good crop of grain
this season and states that 1t is look
ing fine at this time. He has disposed
of his interest to his brother, with
the exception of his grain crop, and
this he will harvest and dispose of in
the Fall. After the crop is gotten
out of the way, Mr.. French contem-
plates moving his family to some
section east of the Rocky Mountains,
probably Oklahoma.
From The Dalles Chronicle we
take the following: ut was left to
Mrs. Mary X. Britten to remember
militiamen likes music. Depriving
herself the pleasure of her instru-
ment, Mrs. Britten had her piauu re-
moved from her home in Second
street to the barracks in the old court
house and now, If they wish, the sol.
diers can have music with their
meals Several men in the barracks
are professional pianists. You can't
imagine how much pleasure the piano
has given the boys" said an officer
It's little lonesome you know, and
nothing pleases them better than tc
sing. Mrs. Britten has the everlast.
ing gratitude of the militiamen.'
Mrs. Britten is well remembered
in Heppner as the woman who car.
ried on such extensive relief work
here at the time Of the Heppnel
food. Her chief aim in life appears
to be to help others. She carries or
work Of philanthrophy that is de-
serving of the highest praise.