The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-09-16
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Bristow Of lone
were Saturday callers in Heppner.
County Agent L. A. Hunt made a
visit to Hermiston the last Of the
week.
You can get a Revolving Rod
Weeder IN trial from GILLIAN &
BISBEE.
Born-Tuesday, September IA, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Ora E. Adkins Of Eight
Mile, a daughter.
When the summerfallow has been
cleared Of weeds, get your grain drill
from GILLIAN & BISBEE.
A new subscriber to the Gazette
Times this week is Mrs. Frona Blahm
Of Pendleton, a former Heppner resi-
dent.
County Clerk Waters issued a mar
riage license last Saturday to Oliver
Potter and Agnes Anderson, young
people or Eight Mile.
Sam E. VanVactor, local attorney
visited owe the weekend with rela-
tives at G~oldepdale, Wash. He re-
turned home Tuesday.
The ground is Thoroughly soaked
and If you are ready to pillow don't
buy before you see what GILLIAN
& BISBEE have to offer.
John J.. Kelley, prominent local
sheepman. returned Tuesday from
a months stay in Montana and the
east, looking after sheep interests.
Ike Howard was a business visitor
in Heppner last week, having just re-
turned with his family from Newport,
where they spent a pleasant month.
Ralph Benge, formerly a prominent
farmer of this county, is up from his
Salem home this week to spend a few
days looking after business matters.
Mrs. Minnie Furlong and children
have moved into town from their
Eight Mile farm home and the chill
dren will resume their studies In the
local school.
County Clerk Waters went to Port
land Sunday and was in the city
for several days while getting his son
Delmar located at school at Hill Mil.
itary Academy.
Wheat was going strong In this
neighborhood the last Of the week.
Ralph Jackson Of Lexington selling
1000 sacks of turkey to a local buyer
at s2.30A per bushel.
w. T. Gerard, Lexington wheat
farmer, was here on business last
Saturday. He says he has not fin
ished threshing his grain yet but Is
we'll satisfied with results thus far.
Mrs. George Mcintosh Of Condor
visited in Morrow county with hei
Sons Lee and Lindley Potter at the
Fred Griffin ranch. The boys expect
to leave in the near future for Cali
fornia.
W. T. McNabb, retired farmer and
warehouseman of lone, who now putt
In time buying the grain the other
fellow raises, was in Heppner on bus
mess last Saturday, accompanied b.
his niece. Miss Lovely Warfield.
F. A. Ayers, a young farmer OF thu
Butter creek country, was in Heppnel
last Saturday. While In the cit,
Mr.. Ayers had his name added to the
CT. roll. He is a son Of Jas. T
Ayers and is running his fathers
farm.
F. r. Brown returned last Frida,
evening from Gillian county, wher'
he spent several days In the interes
of the John Day project. He wa
getting signatures to a petition whicl
calls for taking in more land undeI
the project.
A new subscriber to the Gazette
Times is Ray Young, formerly o
Eighe Mile but now Of Heppner Flat
Mr.. Young, who was a Saturday bust
ness visitor here, announce that h
has taken a three-year lease on thu
VIM. Hendrix big wheat ranch.
L. l.. Vinton, state highway engi
neer, brought over a beautiful new
Oldsmobile roadster from Pendletol
Sunday and presented 1t to Mrs. Vim
ton. The Vintons live In lone Blu
were here on Sunday to visit at tn
home Of Mrs. Vinton's mother. Mrs
Jack Mccullough.
j. N. Scott OF Pendleton and Wa
ter Ely of Seattle have purchased tw
quarter sections Of land adjoining tn
Scott ranch west OF lone, the pur
chase price being $40 per acre
Wheat harvesting in that section !
still under way and the yield range
from IL to 90 bushels per acre.
Mr.. and Mrs. 10y M. Turner @
Baker are spending two weeks l
Heppner visiting with Morrow coun
ty relatives and friends. Mr.. Turne
was county surveyor here for a nun
Der of years, but resigned about
year ago in order to accept the pos
tion of water master of Baker county
Seymour P. Wilson Of lone, VIII
recently received severe bruises in a
automobile accident, has recovere
sufficiently to leave with his famil
for Huntington Beach, California
where they will make their futur
home. Mr.. Wilson has leased h
Morrow county wheat ranch to Nj
Rhulie.
Professor l.. A. Doak, former prir
cipal Of the lone school, who no