The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-01-10

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! Ora Adkins of Eight Mile spent the
week end with relatives in Heppner.
Mr.. Adkins is now farming a part Of
the Chas. Stanton ranch.
w. G. Scott, president of the Lex
lington State Bank, was business Wis
itor in Heppner Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Patterson re-
turned Sunday from trip to South
ern California. They went as far as
Tia Juana. Mexico. They also visited
at San Diego and Los Angles.
F. s. Bender. & Co., of lone will
continue to take orders for the new
Mccormick Combine Harvester. We
were badly scorched, but are still in
line for this harvester business.
James Thomas of Lexington spent
few hours in Heppner on business
last Friday. Mr.. Thomas is a pros
porous farmer north of Lexington and
is looking forward to big crop this
year,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. O'Brien are the
proud parents Of baby girl. born at
their Butter creek home on New
Years Day. Mrs. O'Brien is the oldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. M. 8. Cor
rigal.
Eddie Rietmann, young farmer of
north Of lone was in Heppner Mon
day on business. Mr.. Rietmann is one
of the younger men of the lone coun-
try who is making success of wheat
farming.
LOST-One 2-year-old bay mare
white stripe in face, branded bar over
H on right shoulder, left ear split,
weight 1000 pounds. Ten dollars
reward If returned to VIM. Cunning
ham, Lena, Ore. J1P.
C. w. Shurte and daughter, Miss
Cecil, were passengers for Portland
this morning. Miss Shurte will 60 on
from there to Richmond, Cal, where
she will visit with her sister during
the next two months.
Mike Doherty, Nye sheepman,
spent few days in Heppner on busi-
ness last week. Mr.. Doherty speaks
enthusiastically of the Pilot Rock
country and says that no time since
he has been there has he seen grass
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sent time.
Silas Harris, Civil War veteran and
homesteader in the Parkers Mill Sec
tion, was in Heppner the first of the
week getting some ranch supplies.
Mr. Harris has long since proved up
on his homestead and he declares he
has one of the finest little places in
all Morrow county.
Miss Stasia Walsh, who has been
the guest of Miss Margaret O'Rourke
during the holidays, left for Portland
Wednesday. She was accompanied
as far as Arlington by Miss O'Rourke
miss Walsh will leave soon for France
as a member of the hospital unit of
the University of Oregon.
Mrs. Hessie Kinney McAtee) will
demonstrate Spirelli made-to-meas-
urement corsets at the millinery store
of Mrs. F. Luper each Saturday. To
secure the degree of health, comfort,
style and durability, your corset
should be selected and fitted by Spi-
relli professional trained corsetiere.
R. j. Carsner of Spray spent sew
eral days in Heppner during the past
week looking after business matters.
He was accompanied by George Hay
den of the same place. Mr.. Carsner
is one of the largest cattlemen in
Eastern Oregon, owning in the neigh
borhood of thousand head at the
present time.
T. j. Mahoney, cashier of the Live
stock State Bank of Portland, was in
Heppner Tuesday to attend the an
nual meeting of stockholders of the
First National Bank, of which he is
ice-president and director. Mr.. Ma
honey attended the stockholder' s
meeting of the Lexington State Bank
in that city Wednesday.
Ed Berry, local sign painter and
decorator, has received word from
John Calmus to the effect that Cal
mus has been promoted to Sergeant.
Mr.. Calmus had seen duty in the Phil
ippines and his previous experience is
making advancement rapid for him
now. He was formerly employed in
the blacksmith shop of Henry Ash
baugh.
John. L. Jenkins, who formerly
raised wheat in the Eight Mile sec
tion, was over from Boardman this
week. Mr.. Jenkins has a tract of land
under the irrigation project and he
says big things are close at hand for
the Boardman country. An abund
ance of water is now in the ditch and
according to Mr.. Jenkins 1t will be
only a matter Of year or two until
that part of Morrow county will be
the garden spot of Oregon.
W. H. Clark was down from Ar
: buckle few days this week. Mr..
Clark is now busily engaged in doing
| some development work on his coal
) mine in the Arbuckle district and has
hopes of uncovering some good de-
posits. Some fourteen years ago he
I did a lot Of work In this section and