The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-02-24
LOCAL


Nice room TO rent CAN Main 462,
HOUSE TO RENT-s rooms. bath and
sleeping porch. Inquire this Office. IT,
A big snow fan is reported for the
Cecil and Morgan sections Sunday
night.
Arnold Pieper, wheat raiser Of the
Pieper canyon section, was in Heppner
for a short time on Monday.
FIsheI's White Rock Cockerels-Just
a few left l $40 bridal others go az
IS. Phone 4iF33, Heppner. 4f24.
AT lone, Friday evening, March :
The big dance by the boys of the
American Legion post at the auditor
lum.
Landing has started at several Of the
sheep ranches down the creek. The
present cold, wet Weather makes con-
dltlons very unfavorable-Ione indie
pendent
lHc bib hiA'iAhhh i-tb lbi YAH tpiltA
of at lone on the evening of March T.
Give the Legion boys a lift by being
present and enjoying a good time.
John h. Carmichael, who was very
Ill at his home In Lexington for about
three weeks, suffering with erysipelas.
liz now well on the road to recovery and
will soon be about again.
The boys of the Legion post at lone
are preparing to give the people Of hat
city and surrounding country a big
time on the evening Of March Attn
Come and enjoy one of the finest events
OF the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Wilson went to
Portland Tuesday to spend several
DAYS. Mr.. Wilson Is attending the con
vention of Equitable insurance com
pany statesmen In session in that city
this week. He Is agent for this com
pany at Heppner,
Harley Fear departed for Portland
Monday, wher he may decide to re-
main, ne is tOittil pldAlhb Nhhiht hp''
OF a business proposition in that city,
and should he take this up, he will go
on to Corvallis where his end Of the
business will be conducted,
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Barlow went to
Portland Sunday morning after several
days spent here settling up business
affairs. Mr.. Barlow is yet undecided
where he will eventually locate, but
thinks It more than likely the william
cite valley will win him,-lone indie
pendent,
Eph Eskelson, for many years one OF
the successful farmers Of the LeXing-
ton section, who now makes his home
III Salem where he and his good wite
are enjoying well earned ease, was In
Heppner on Friday looking after busi'
ness AFFAIRS, Eph certainly looks Ike
IL agreed with him TO live in the To-
cranberry city and be free from the
chores Of milking and feeding the
dairy herd and stacking alfalfa hay.
Charley johnson. formerly OF this
county, u now residing at Hunting
ton Beach. Calf. sends us a short
clipping from n Los Angeles paper
which indicates that the oil fields now
being opened up Town there are among
the most promising ever developed on
the Pacific slope. II Is now about u
wear since boring began at Huntington
Beach. and to date there are nfty-one
rIggIngs at work there or IN
course Of construction, and so far there
are no dry holes. Charley seems to
think that much Of the future oil and
gasoline supply for this section of the
country will come from the new Hunt.
Ington Beach field. which, he states.
has six hundred feet Of oil sand,
Marcus Gum, of Chicago, was In
Heppne over Friday last. attending To
some affairs Of the Gum estate here
Marcus Is n native son Of Heppner but
left here shortly after the flood OF
1903 in which his father and mother
persisted and the home was destroyed
This Is his second visit to Heppnel
since that time. The estate sill owns
some property here and Marcus visited
Heppner n short time over two years
ago at which time he was lieutenant
in the army Of Uncle Sam. He Is now
engaged in business in Chicago, Is
married. and the happy father OF on'
child. He was greatly pleased al
meeting many of his former friend'
and schoolmates and the many friend
Of the Gum family residing here were
glad to see him and to learn OF his
success and prosperity. Mr., Gum Is
n consulting %actuary and his bushes.
Is to make up the mortuary and rat
tables for the big life insurance com
panies. n business he specially pre-
pared himself for while at college.