The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-07-12

days In Heppner on business this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Jones returned
the first of the week from visit of a
few days at Walla Walla.
Mrs. Lena Brock arrived from
Beaverton, Oregon, last evening and
will visit at Heppner for short time.
Mrs. B. G. Sigsbee and Mrs. ]. B.
Sparks were passengers on Tuesday
for Portland to spend day or two in
the metropolis.
Miss l.. R. Marshall of Marion,
Iowa, is spending the summer with
her sister, Mrs. A. NJ. Phelps and
family, of Heppner.
+ Martin E. Johnson, who has been
living in Cottage Grove the past few
years, since leaving Heppner, is now
/ located in Portland.
District attorney, s. E. Notson, is
attending the annual convention of
the National Education Association
in Portland this week.
John Buesick and family passed
through Heppner the first of the week
from Portland, on their way home
in Grant county.
Creston Maddox is back to his
old position as day clerk at the Pal
ace hotel after spending several
weeks at Arlington.
Miss Blanche Ward of Pendleton
was visiting with friends and rela-
tives in Hardman Sunday, returning
to her home Monday.
Harold Cohn, local agent, received
two car loads of automobiles the last
of the week One car was composed
of Oldsmobiles and the other of Cole
Flights"
N. A. Leach, prominent Portland
grain buyer for the Kerr-Gifford Co.,
was in the city Sunday. His brother,
w. E. Leach is ill in the Heppner
Sanatorium with appendicitis.
Mr.. Bennett, father of Mrs. Henry
Gay, is quite i'll at the Gay home on
Rhea creek. His son, Harry Bennett,
is with him from Seattle. Mr.. Ben
nett is almost ninety years old.
Mrs. George Fell and Mrs. w.
E. Brock arrived from Pendleton
last evening and are visiting friends
and relatives in and about Heppner.
They expect to be here until the end
of the week.
Mrs. Jay Vail and two small sons
arrived Saturday evening from their
home in Bismark, North Dakota, and
will spend two months visiting with
relatives in Morrow county. Mrs.
Vail will be remembered here as Miss
Ella Ayers.
Editor Pattison, of the Herald,
and Editor A. R. Crawford of The
Gazette-Times, departed for Pendle-
ton this morning to attend the meet
ing of the State Editorial Associa-
ton. The latter was accompanied
by his wife.
Frank w. Turner went to Hot
Lake Tuesday to take course of
treatments at the sanatorium there
for rheumatism. Mr.. Turner has
been suffering for some time and he
believes that the healing waters of
Hot Lake will prove beneficial.
A fire in some straw along the
road near the home of CELSIUS Keith
ley, north of town on Tuesday threat
ened to do considerable damage to
the premises of Mr. Keithley. 1t had
to be watched during the night to
keep it from spreading into adjoin-
ing property.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lime Swick of Mon
ument spent the week end at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Turner.
They were accompanied home by
Master Robert Turner, who will
spend the summer at the Swick home.
While in the city, Mr.. Swick pur-
chased a Dodge car from Vaughn &
Sons.
In publishing the obituary of the
late J. l.. Simpson in our issue of last
week, The Gazette-Times was in er-
ror in stating that death was the re-
suit of cancer of the stomach. A post
doctors that Mr.. Simpsons ailment
was gall stones and it was this and
not cancer that caused his DEATH