The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-03-02

Walter Luckman of Butter creek
is sick at the Heppner hospital with
a severe attack of la grippe.
Mrs. F. Luper announces her mill
inery opening for Saturday, March
llth. See advertisement elsewhere.
John F. Vaughn, representative Of
one of the leading automobile firms
of Portland, is in the city looking af-
ter business affairs.
Mrs. Nal Church is up from her
home near Dee, Hood River valley,
for visit of couple of weeks with
relatives and friends in and about
Heppner.
Born-In this city on Saturday,
February "a, 1922, to Mr.. and Mrs.
John Healey, an 8-pound daughter.
DR.. McMurdo reports both mother
and child doing well.
Born-At the maternity home of
Mrs. 6. C. Aiken in this city on Sat-
uIday, February rs, 1922, to MIR. and
Mrs. Albert Adkins, a l0-pound
daughter. The mother and child are
doing nicely, and Albert is a mighty
proud daddy.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sperry are
each on the sick list this week. Mr..
SpeTy is able to get about the house
but Mrs. Sperry is confined to her
bed and has been for several days.
They are suffering with the prevail
ing grip or flu.
Cecil Lieuallen of this city, ex-
member of the U. S. navy with a SER
vice covering the period of the world
war, is now traffic cop on the state
highway, having been appointed to
this position the past week. He
should be well suited to this job and
will make good.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jason Biddle have
each been on the sick list for the past
week, Mrs. Biddle being in the
Moore hospital. Jason is up and
about again. La grippe and its COM
plications was the cause of their suf-
fering. Mrs. Biddle is reported to
be getting along well at present.
Jas. Luper was in town for a short
time yesterday from his Heppner flat
farm. The ground is all white out
there yet and hard freezes each night
is the program. Mr.. Luper has some
fears that it will be necessary to do
some reseeding in his vicinity, but
hopes that this will not be necessary.
A. M. Edwards, the we'll driller of
Lexington, has finished a good well
on the farm of 7. J. Humphreys out
north of Lexington. He did not have
10 60 down but 48 feet TO secure what
appears to be an inexhaustive flow of
fine soft water, which rises to within
IA feet of the surface. Mr.. Humph-
reys is well pleased at the results
obtained.
E. M. Hulden, extensive wheat
raiser of the Blackhorse section, has
returned to his Morrow county home
after spending a couple of months
i'll Portland, during which time he
has been busy in behalf of the Nor
row County Farm Bureau in trying
to secure some financial assistance
for our farmers and stockmen from
the War Finance board. Mr.. Hulden
is hoping that the cold weather will
soon be over and that conditions will
soon be right for the beginning Of
spring work on the farm. There is
a lot to be done and he is anxious
to get at it. He expects his family to
arrive from Portland within a week
or so.
Andy Hayes was called to Pendle-
ton on Saturday on account of the
illness of his niece, Miss Neva Hay
es, who is sick at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Rea in that city.
About Christmas time Miss Hayes
was thrown from an automobile and
struck on her head, receiving injur-
les thought at the time to be but
slight, and she continued her work in
the telephone exchange there for
some weeks afterward. Growing
gradually worse, however, an X-ray
examination was made and it was
found that the skull was cracked for
some two inches or more over the
eye, and her condition is now quite
serious, her physician stating that
it will be necessary for her to remain
perfectly quiet and in bed for at least
a month. The many friends of Miss
Hayes in Heppner will be pleased tc
hear of her speedy recovery,
remember him with pleasure, as a
student at Willamette university in
the early '70s, Yes, we have had a