The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-02-03

Of years. will be appointed 10 a place
on the Port OF Portland Commission
AT the present time Mr.. Mahoney is
manager Of the Columbia Basin Wool
Warehouse company In Portland.
Mrs. Frank S Parker rendered a din
ner party 10 a few friends Of her mo-
ther, Mrs. f. n. Crawford. at the Par
ker home on Friday last, the occasion
being the 72nd birthday Of Mrs. Craw-
ford. Those present were Mrs. J. H.
Gemmell. Mrs. W. C. McCarty. Mrs. Jas.
Cypert, Mrs. Mary Barton and Mrs. v
Crawford.
Mr., and Mrs. Ben swaggart were
brought in from their farm home Tues
day and taken to the Moore hospital,
where Mr.. Swaggart Is very sick with
pneumonia and Mrs. Swaggart is also
i'll. Their physician, DR.. Chick. has not
yet determined just what is causing
Mrs. Swaggarts Illness at this time,
but he fears she win also develop a case
Of pneumonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Parker. who re-
side on the farm formerly owned by
Henry +. Blahm a few miles northwest
Of Heppner, have gone to Hot Lake.
where Mrs. Parker is receiving treat
ments for inflammatory rheumatism.
She has been very i'll with this afliiction
for the past month or more, and it is
hoped that the baths at the lake will
prove beneficial.
]. +. Deos, one of the old-time set
tiers on lower Willow creek and the
owner OF a large acreage Of land in the
John Day project, was In Heppner over
Tuesday night. Mr.. Deos is enthusiast
tic over the John Day project and one of
its big boosters. He has raised alfalfa
under irrigation at the mouth Of Will
low creek for many years n knows
| what water will do for the country.
]. W. Osborn of Cecil participated In
the deliberations at the irrigation meet
ing at the hotel on Tuesday evening.
| Mr.. Osborn has been the owner of a
very large tract of farming lands In the
Cecil country, all of which are in the
limits Of the proposed irrigation pro-
ject. He had now disposed OF these
lands to various parties and expects to
leave Cecil and retire from farming ac-
t|ivities. Mr.. Osborn thinks he will go
to Portland for a while and later on
| may visit his old home In Missouri. This
| county will lose one of its best citi-
zens when Mr.. Osborn leaves.
4. H.. Turner and son Raymond of
lone were in Heppner a short time on
| Monday. Raymond has just returned
home from Camp Lewis, Wash, having
been discharged from the service,
| While in France, Raymond received a
| flesh wound in the leg from a frag-
ment of shell. 1t was treated by the
surgeons over there and he returned TO
Camp Lewis where he did not receive
| lust the proper care and the wound did
not heal. He Is well now however, af-
ter about 2s months in the army hos
| pital at Camp Lewis and was finally
discharged as cured. He VIII now have
a disability allownce which Will proa-
| Vide for his taking four years Of
| schooling In some one Of the state
| schools and he contemplates taking ad-
vantage Of this.
Sam Boardman anne over from his
home town on the Columbia Tuesday
being called to the city on count OF
the John Day meeting, and also having
some business before the county court
He states that the roads between Hepp-
ner and Boardman are not the best at
| present but that getting up here by
automobile is not an i~mpossibility. Mr..
Boardman, always a booster for the
John Day project, is nov interested in
the power development project at the
Umatllla rapids in the Columbia, and
he urges that a strong delegation OF
our citizens attend the big meeting at
Pendleton Saturday which is called for
the purpose Of furthering plans to get
| behind this project also. 1t Is expect
ed that there will be large delegations
| from other points in Morrow and Una
tilla counties, as well as from across
the river in Washington, and Mr.
| Boardman wants to see Heppner well
represented.