The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-12-25
HEPPNER OREGON THURSDAY THURSDAY DECEMBER 25 1919.
PERSONAL NEWS ITEMS

Ralph Yeager and Sam Turner
went to Portland Tuesday to spend
the holidays.
Ben Buschke, Rhea creek farmer
was transacting business in Heppner
on Wednesday.
Frank Roberts left on Wednesday
for Portland to spend the holidays
with his family.
Miss Melba Griffiths, popular teach
er in the local school, left on Wednes-
day morning for Corvallis, where she
will spendd Christmas with her moth
er.
Leo Nicholson, prominent Univer-
sity of Washington student, arrived
in Heppner on Tuesday evening and
will visit with friends during the holi-
days.
c, NJ. Sims, assistant cashier of
! theFarmers & Stockgrowers Nation
al Bank, is driving a new Dodge
touring car which he recently pur-
chased through the local agency.
The Ladies Guild will hold their
social meeting on Wednesday Decem-
Der 81, in Odd Fellows Hall at 2:15
O'Clock. Hostesses are Mrs. W. R.
Irwin, Mrs. Fred Case, Mrs. c. c. |
Chick and Mrs Oscar Borg.
Jake Ostin is away from Madras
to spend the Christmas holidays with
his parents. Since leaving the SER
vice, Jake has been helping George
Pearce run the Madras Pioneer, JEFF.
erson county's leading newspaper.
Dave Wilson, who helps count the
money over at the First National
Bank Of Pendleton, came over to
spend Christmas with home folks.
He is son of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Will
son of this city andd well known
and popular product of the local high
school.
j. NJ. Spencer, who lives on the R.
B. Stanfield ranch, put out four or
five ounces of poison and estimated
the number of rabbits killed at 1000
The weather is now ideal for rabbit
poisoning, and all over the country
people are making the best of their
opportunity. News.
Lotus Robinson, Hardman stock
man. who was in Heppner Tuesday,
says that the snow in the Hardman
hills has nearly all melted, with most
of the moisture going into the
ground He views the future op-
timistically and believes the stock
men will now pull through the win
ter without serious loss to stock.
Chas. R. johnson, formerly bus
mess man of this city, who is now
living at Huntington Beach. Cal,
postcards the Gazette-Times that
while we were having zero weather
and worse, here last week, Hunting
ton Beach people were enjoying warm
weather, with the thermometer regis
terng Ga on the shady side of the
house.
Jess and Glen Richards, we'll
known Butler creek ranchers, lost Ii
head of horses the other day, the
animals having been poisoned by eat
ing of alfalfa after it had been mix
ed with strychnine and brought by
them to their ranch from Stanfield.
On arriving here, the boys hustled to
the house to get warm. They left
the sacks in the vehicle, and on COM
ing out later to put them away found
them torn open and contents par
taken of by the horses that died
Hermiston Herald.
lie EdSlt mas lCCCINCu NliC LNAAO'
ing letter from F. N. Noble, proprie-
tor of the Mt. Vernon Hot Springs.
He says. Il will drop you line to
let you know that am at the Mayo
Bros, institute at Rochester, MINES
ota and have undergone an opera
ton. am on my 9th day and gett-
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can return home, for have been a
way month and am anxious to
see some Grant county faces again.
Canyon Blue Mountain Eagle.
Lawrence G. Shut is home from
Portland spending the holiday sea-
son with his parents and his sister.
Lawrence has spent the past couple
of years selling newspapers and ma
gaziness in Los Angeles and Portland
and having had several years prev
ious experience as a farmer and
dairyman, he now feels that he
is equipped to take up a larger and
more active line of endeavor and af-
ter the first of the year he will join
his father here in the real estate and
Insurance business. He will chiefly
take charge of the Office work,
Z. C, Heliker, lone farmer, has ,
been a busy man the past two weeks.
Mr.. Heliker and Ralph Marlatt have ,
been going almost day and night to
feed a band of l., V. Gentry's sheep {
in Eight-Mile canyon this side of ,
Olex to lone when they were caught ,
in the snow storm. In spite of the ,
severe weather and deep snow, Mr., |
Helker says the sheep pulled through I
with but comparative small loss. {
There still remains in the lone coun- |
try about eight inches of snow which {
is gradually melting into the ground.
Mr.. Heliker was in Heppner on bus /
mess on Tuesday. t