The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-08-16
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

s. H. Webb, Astoria real estate
man, is spending few days in Hepp-
ner on business.
FOR SALE-A child's high chair
and willow body baby carriage. In
ouire at this office. ct.
T. ]. Humphreys will arrange to |
take a short vacation in the noun
tains at Ditch creek.
]. T. Knappenberg, lone attorney
and diversified farmer of that section
paid Heppner business visit this
week.
Miss Leta Humphreys returned
home Saturday from visit Of sew
eral weeks at different points in the
Willamette Valley.
Ralph Cecil, who has been spend
ing several months in the John Day
country, is visiting with relatives in
Heppner this week.
Curt Rhea was in the city Monday.
accompanied by his family. Harvest
on his ranch is over and his wheat
made yield of Is bushels per acre.
Turner B. Macdonald, pastor of
the First Christian church, accom-
panied by his family, left Heppner
Wednesday for the mountains. They
will spend two weeks in the vicinity
of Reid's Mill.
w. P. Dutton, Morrow county rion-
eer who now makes his home in Port
land, is up from the metropolis for
business visit. This is Mr.. buttons
first visit here in several months and
we are glad to note that he appears
to have recovered fully from his late
illness.
w. E. Severance passed through
town on Monday for his home near
Hardman. He had been spending
couple of months in Washington
county at Forest Grove and Hills
boro, and contemplates locating there
where we are informed he has pur-
chased a small place.
H. V. Gates, president of the Hepp-
ner Light & Water Co., is in Heppner
for brief business visit. Mr. Gates
is very much interested at the pres
ent time in getting coal from the
mines above Heppner for use in his
power plant. A crew of men are at
work in the mines now.
H. A. Noyes, pastor of the FEEDER
ated church returned home Tuesday
after an absence of several weeks.
While away he attended the summer
school sessions at the University of
Oregon at Eugene and spent some
time in the cities of Tacoma and
Seattle.
| Herbert Olden was in town Monday
from his Fairview farm getting some
machine extras. He was accompan-
led by Jesse Dobyns. Mr.. Olden was
getting ready to start up his combine.
He does not look for his grain to
make better than fifteen bushels to
the acre.
Dick Sperry, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Sperry is home for a short visit
from San Diego, where he has been
in training in the United States
navy. Young Sperry paid Heppner
friends a visit Wednesday. He likes
the navy fine and says the other Nor
row county boys in his company are
getting along in good condition.
Rufus E. Burroughs, young man
who has been working for c. A. Mi
nor the past two years, left Heppner
this morning for his old home in Ga
lax, Virginia. Mr.. Burroughs has
been drawn for war duty in the selec-
tive draft, so he will spend few
weeks visiting with his parents in
the old home before being called to
duty.
E. E. Edwards of Sand Hollow is
threshing his grain with one of the
two-men harvesters. While some of
his lands are pretty steep the ma
chine gets over them all right and
is doing excellent work, so We are IN
formed. We did not learn what the
average yield on the Edwards place
is, but understand the grain is turn
ing out much better than was antici-
pated before threshing began.
DR.. and Mrs. R. ]. Vaughn and
Harold Cohn returned home Tues
day after an extensive automobile
tour of Northeastern Oregon and a
part of Idaho. The various towns
visited by these people included Pen
dleton, La Grande, Enterprise, Jo-
seph, Baker and Boise. Mr.. Cohn
says they INDUCED in lots of good
fishing on their trip. In Wallowa
county, he said there is stream OF
water every quarter Of a mile and ev-
eryone of them is filled with fish
They spent few days at Wallowa
Lake.
Hugh e. Bran, assistant cashier oi
the First National Bank, drove to the
Coal Mines Sunday. Having at one
time been connected with the Bureau
of Manufactures and Mines, Depart.
ment of Commrce and Labor, al
NNa arhinntan u q and having thus