The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-11-10
LOCAL NEWS HAPPENINGS


the city during the remaining days of
the Livestock Exposition.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. S. milestone were
passengers for Portland on Tuesday to
spend the remainder Of the week TAX
Ing in the Livestock show.
Mr and Mrs. Jason Biddle have
moved to Heppner from lone and will
live here for the winter, being domi-
ciled at the Grandma Thompson home.
J. S. Beckwith, court reporter. is in
the city this week. busily engaged in
recording the testimony offered in the
equity case being heard at the court
house before Judge Phelps.
Percy Jarmon, alfalfa raiser Of But
ter creek was visitor in Heppner on
Saturday He had a big crop Of hay
this season but so far has not been able
to dispose of any Of the crop.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Finley and W. B.
Finley were In the city on Monday from
their farm out north of Lexington. 1t
is quite dry out that way and there has
not been much seeding so far this fall.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Luttrell of Enter
prise are in Heppner and expect to
spend the winter here, in hopes that
the change to a lower altitude may
prove beneficial to the health of Mrs.
Luttrell
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Beckett of Eight
Mile, spent a few hours in this city on
Saturday. Mrs Beckett is teacher Of
the Eight Mile Center school this year
and has fine bunch of youngsters un-
der her care.
Wild Palmateer and wate Crawford.
farmers of the Morgan section. were
Heppner visitors on Monday, being in
terested in the case of the land owners
against the directors of John Day Ir-
rigation district.
Jason Biddle is now the proud pos
SCISSOR of a new Dodge car, purchased
this week from Cohn Auto Co. of this
city. He said it was necessary for him
to come to town once in a while and
he just had to invest.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson E. Brock Of PEN
dleton drove over to Heppner on Sun
day and spent a couple Of days here and
at Rhea creek, where Mrs. Brock has
some land holdings. They returned to
Pendleton Tuesday afternoon.
Roy Neill and Grandpa Moorehead
were in the city Saturday from the
Neill alfalfa ranch near Pine City. Mr..
Moorehead, who has been slowly re-
covering from the effects of a stroke
of paralysis suffered number of weeks
ago, was glad to be able to get to town
again.
Gilbert W. Phelps, circuit judge, ar
rived from Pendleton on Sunday and
has been quite busy at the court house
this week hearing the John Day irriga-
tion district assessment case. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Phelps who is en-
joying a visit with her many Heppner
friends
Henry Slender is disposing Of his
property in Heppner to J, W. Osborn
of Cecil, who expects to move to the
city as soon as the deal Is closed Mr.,
Slender who has retired from the farm
ing game, figures that he may buy him
small place near Cecil and be closer
to his land holdings in that vicinity.
Harley Sperry was up from lone for a
short time on Thursday last. He was
accompanied by Fred Bender, who with
Mrs. Bender had been spending the
past couple of weeks visiting with their
many d-time friends at lone. Mr.. and
Mrs. Bender were formrely engaged in
the general merchandise business there
George Noble a native Heppner boy
and brother Of Eugene Noble, has been
in Heppner this week from his home
at The Dalles, making visit with his
mother and brother here. For the past
dozen years or more he has been living
in Nevada but finally decided to return
to Gods country and he is now located
at The Dalles with his family,
Martin Behm resident and farmer of
the Ella neighborhood, was called to
Heppner on business Monday, and made
this office a pleasant visit while in the
city, Mr. Benin is still hard at work at
the farming game, though he believes
that the farmer has been the first to get
back to normalcy, and just little be-
yond. in what ne has to sell. He raised
a good crop this season and will have
in good acreage for another year,