The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-08-28
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HAPPENINGS


ed last Thursday from a two weeks
vacation visit in Portland.
| j. E. Craber, farmer of the Hard.
man section, was attending to mat.
ters OF business in Heppner Monday
FOR SALE-Both young and ole
thoroughbred Barred Rocks, roosters
and hens, $1.5o apiece. Mrs. T. ].
Matiock' Heppner. 3tpd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Wilcox came in
from their south Heppner ranch Sat
urday. Harvest is under way On
their place now.
Mrs. Roy Cochran returned last
week from avisit to Rockaway beach
where she was guest for several
days at the summer cottage of Mrs.
w. R. Irwin.
Fred Tash arrived from Portland
Saturday with a new Moon car, for
which the Peoples Hardware Co., is
now agent. The Moon is beautiful
car and sells for s2250.
A number of Ditch creek campers
came home Sunday after spending
several weeks in the tall timber.
Among them we're Mrs. Minnie Gaunt,
Mrs. Fell and Miss Lola Matteson.
Miss Louise Nimmo returned to
her home in Albany Wednesday after
spending several days in Heppner as
a guest OF Miss Leta Humphreys.
Miss Nimmo is teacher in the AL
bany schools.
Walden Straight, one of the star
performers of the Lena Roundup,
was a visitor from his Butter creek
home in Heppner Monday. Waldon
is figuring on riding some of the wild
bronchos at the county fair.
D. E. Gilman, who spent last Sat-
urday night up on Ditch creek, says
the same dry conditions prevail up
there in the timber as down here in
the open country. Its hot up there,
too, according to Mr.. Gilman.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Freeman left
Sunday morning for Vancouver,
Wash, on a two weeks visit with
relatives. The Freemans own
thirty acre tact near Vancouver,
which is given over to apple orchards.
Arthur l. Bowker, son of Albert
Bowker of Heppner, will enter Hill
Military Academy In the Fall, the
term starting September II. His
credits have been accepted at the
Academy and he has been enrolled
as cadet.
E. r. Huston returned the last of
the week from Portland where he
had gone to be with his son John
Huston, who underwent an operation
Tor appendicitis. At last reports, the
younger Mr.. Huston was recovering
satisfactorily.
Berl Gurdane, Ray Rogers, Will
Ball and Marshall Pheps motored up
from Portland last Friday. Messrs.
Gurdane, Rogers and Ball have been
spending a few weeks at the beach
and Mr.. Phelps just completed term
in a tractor school in Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. l., V. Gentry and Mr.,
and Mrs. A. E. Patterson returned
last week from motor trip to Klam-
ath Falls, where they went to take in
the Elks' convention. They took
four days in making the return trip
and announce most enjoyable time.
Mrs. Leo Hill and little son left
Friday for Woodland Wash, where
she will visit at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. II. L. Dart. On her return
home she will be accompanied by her
other two children who have been
spending the summer at Woodland.
DR.. and Mrs. A. d. McMurdo re-
turned to Heppner last Friday after
spending several weeks in Portland.
The McMurdos had planned trip
by auto to the caost but DR.. McMur-
do took sick when they reached
Portland, and underwent an opera
tion there.
Andy Rood, Heppner Flat farmer,
finished up the 1919 harvest season
on his ranches last Thursday. Mr..
Rood had quantity of grain that
yielded better than twenty bushels
per acre. He has purchased big
Holt caterpillar tractor and will use
1t in plowing his land this Fall.
County Agent Hunt. accompanied
by w. P. Mahoney, cashier of the
First National Bank and W. Claude
Cox, manager Of the Morrow County
Creamery Co., left last Friday morn
ing for Boardman and other North
Morrow county points. They re-
turned home the first of the week.
Mrs. e. s. Duran of Lexington en-
tered the local hospital on Monday,
where she will receive medical treat
ment. The nature of her case has
not been fully determined, but 1t may
be found that an operation will be
necessary. Mrs. Duran was accom-
panied to Heppner by Mr.. Duran.
Theodore Anderson. Eight Mile
farmer, has just completed the har-
vest season on his ranch by threshing
his twenty-bushel crop. The Ander-
son-Allstott thresher, a Rumley ma
chine. has pulled on to Mr.. Allstott's
fields, going there last Friday. Mr..
Allstott's grain is number l quality.
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