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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1905)
The Weed's News Local and Personal Happenings in and About the City. Dave Herren has returned from Portland. Pendleton Business College is thorough. Billy Reed was up from lone, Thursday. Dan Doherty was up from Lex ington, yesterday. George Vincent, of Butter creek, is in the city. Price Florence returned from Portland, Thursday. Ed C. Allen, of Fox, was a guest at the Palace, Sunday. Attorney C. E. Redfield return ed from Portland, Tuesday. J. R. Nunnamaker returned from Hood River, Thursday. A number of Ditch creek camp ers are returning to Heppner. W. E. Allen, of Long Creek, was listed at the Palace, Sunday. Pendleton Business College re opens September 11th. Are you ready? List your lindB with Wells & War nock. We eell only on a straight com misflion. Mrs. J. A. Woolery, of lone, was registered at the Palace, Thursday. Wellfl & Warnock will handle your real estate and charge only the usual commission. Pemi-Weekly Portland Journal and Heppner Gazette only $1.75 per year. Dr. Hipgs, Eyes, Ear, Nose and Throat. GlBses properly fitted. tf H. A. Murphy and family, of Monument, were registered at the Palace, Sunday. $1.00 to $3.50 Shoes and low Shoes at 50c the pair. See win dow of Cash Shoe Shoe. Webster Chandler, who has been visiting his brother, P. F. Chandler, of John Day, has re turned to this city. Mr. and Mrs. C. O. TTuelat were passengers for "Portland today. Mrs. Hiielat will visit relatives and friends in Salem before return ing to this city. If the issuance of hunter k licenses is a true indication, hunt ers in Morrow count' are almost ns scarce as hen's teeth. Up to the present time only 23 hunters' licenses have been issued by the county clerk. The Gazette is indebted to Mrs. W. G. McCarty for some very fine California peaches. The peaches were grown on the farm of Mrs. Rosa Truitt in Tulare county. Mrs. Truitt is a sister of Mr. Mc Carty and he is now in California visiting her. Dnn P. Doherty, of Lexington, formerly of Heppner, and a well known resident of this county who recently sold out at Lexington, will move to Pendleton, having purchased the Alta hotel at that i dare. Mr. Dohertv will take t charge of the hotel about Septem ber 1. The deal includes the building and the lot on which it stands. The consideration was $8,500. Claude Herren will leave today for the Powder River country where his sheep are ranging for the summer. Mr. Herren will stay during the summer with the sheep and will take them this fall to Idaho where he will keep them near Payette this winter. He ex pects to locate in Idaho, In part nership with O. Tm Farnsworth, of this city, they have 4500 head of sheep. J. P. Rhea was up from lone, Monday. L. E. McBee, of Cecil, spent Sunday in the city. W. E. Pruyn was a passenger for Portland, Saturday. Ed and Frank Templeton, of John Day, were in the city Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Matlock have returned from an outing trip in the mountains. J. P. Kingsland, representing an Iowa horse importing company, was in the city this week on his way from Prairie City where he has just sold a fine Percheron stal lion for $2800. Heppner needs more residence buildings for rent. There ia now a good demand for houses with hardly a vacant building in the town. As soon as school com mences the demand will be greater. Frank Roberts returned Friday evening from Fairhaven, Wash. He reports that his little daugh ter's health is improving and that she will stay with her mother at Fairhaven for some time. J. H. Kinsman shipped two car loads of fat stock to the Union Meat company this week. The animals were purchased from Wm. and Thos. Marlatt. The prices paid were $2.00 per hundred for cows and $2.75 for steers. Percy Hughes brought in 50 head of fat cows from the John Day country Saturday. The ani mals were sold to the Union Meat company of Portland. They were shipped out Sunday morning in charge of J. H. Phirman. Sam Willis, a former resident of Morrow county who has been in Iowa for the past year, has re turned to this city. Mr. Willis intends to again locate in Moirow county and says that this country is good enough for him. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Hvnd. of Ontario, Canada, a brother of the Hynd brothers of this city and vicinity, is visiting the latter. Mr. Hynd is a thrifty and prosperous farmer and will 6pend some time on a vacation and visit with his brothers here. As threshing progresses reports still continue to come in of pood yields of wheat in the upper or northern portion of Morrow coun ty. In the Eight-Mile country the ji-lds are running from 20 to 23 bunhel per acre. In the Sand Hollow country the yields are running from 15 to 20 bushels to the acre. Everywhere the quality is reported to be good. A number of Ensteru sheep- buyers are now in the interior, notably at Shauiko. Autelopa and Mitchell. Owing to the fact that the haying eeason is still in pro gress and growers are inclined to hold there is not much doing at present. There is more of an Eastern demand this season than usual for lambs and yearlings and prices are high. Jacob S. Myers, of Columbus, Ohio, special agent of the U. S. census of manufactures, was in the city this week gathering data for the bureau in which he is em ployed. He will cover census dis trict No. 5 which includes the eastern half of Oregon. His duty is to collect information from all classes of manufacturing concerns where the output exceeds $500 per year, the report covering the year 1004. The concerns listed in Heppner are: Heppner Gazette, Heppner Times, James Cowins & Son, soda works, Heppner Flour ing mills, E. G. Noble, saddles and harness, D. W. Ilornor, sad dles, A. M. Slocum, planing mills and saw mills, and Otto Friedrich Heppner bakery. Mr. Myers finished up the work in a abort time and left Monday morning. rvy. y .uti'-.w-w .ww.mm wwhwk mm. SOMETHING DOING EVERY MINUTE Clearance Sale Continues Our efforts at closing out seasonable goods during the past week have exceeded our fondest expectation, and we have decided to continue the sale for the coming week. Clothing Department. Dry Goods Department MEN'S TROUSERS-If your size is here it will H5ys.to?riM8lethe W"d 5C o pay you to boy more than one pair. Values up to $6.00. Sale price $2 98 " SHIRT WAISTS-New and nobbv, Insertion FANCY HALF HOSE The famous "Florenza Kg"1 73C' 83 aDd $1 ' 1'5 Values Sale Silk," looks like silk, wears better. 25c value owc Sale price 16c ' SUN BON NETS The demand has been very E & W SUSPENDERS Made by Earl & Wilson great. Only a few left 11c 60c values Sale price 35c TRIMMED HATS Choice of any. Going fast at 4gc SILK LUSTRE UNDERWEAR Clone imitation of silk, color pink $1.50 grades Sale price ..$109 pit r nro Twe tv, tj t NEWSILK-Also silk finished $1.00 values Sale 7 6 Bu5?r Brwn"B, PPU" price ' 7jrc lar the country over. 75c grade. Sale price 57c . , . , , . NOTION8-5c Alluminum Thimbles lc FELT HATS A broken line of sizes and shapes 5c Safety Tins, any size 4c $3 00 and 150 values Sale price 98c 15o Tooth Brushes. . 10c A Few Specials From the Bargain Section "Handy Bread Mixers" with attachment for table fastening. Sale price 98c Clothes Wringers The American Wringer Co. Printed guarantee with each $ 198 to $3 48 Wire Egg Beaters, each 3c Dover Egg Beaters 10c Flour Sifters 19 Wash Boards, standard makes, tin rubbing surface 2ic " " brass rubbing surface 43c " " glass rubbing surface 48c Bread Toasters 4c Potato Mashers 5c 9c Every train is bringing us some new additions to our Fall and Winter Stock, such as Shoes, Comforts, Blankets, Clothing, Dress Goods, Rain Coats, etc. We will have something to say about them next week. "THE FAIR" Heppner s Biggest, Busiest and Best Department Stores Thos. Rhea returned from Port laud, Monday evening. W. 15. Potter returned from Portland, Monday evening. New wheat is now beginning to come in in small quantities. The Morrow Warehouse Milling com pany received eome this week from the Lexington country. The qual ity of the wheat brought in bo far has been first-class. Owing to increased business on the O. R. & N. caused by the tour ist rush, a fiftn crew has been put in service between Pendleton and Huntington. The four regular crews have been unable to take care of the large amount of work. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Churchill, of the Pendleton Business Col lege, were in the city the latter part of last week. They were here in the interest of this popular school. The 6chool reopens on September 11. The institution has a well earned reputation for thoiough business methods. 1 1 lie V. i ore NEW SHOES SEE WINDOW More new shoes coming in all the time. We must have all our shelf room, so are closing out all broken lines. All Tan Shoes and in price all low Shoes reduced Threshing is now under head way in Morrow county and fields are turning out up to the expecta tions of the tarmers. In the Sand Hollow country a number of farm ers have already threshed their grain. A. Andrews threshed ISO acres of wheat that averaged 20 bushels to the acre. Several other fields averaged 20 bushels to the acre which is fully as good as was xpected. $1.15 Pair of Shoes and low Shoes at 50c Some old styles and some new ones. Ladies Men's and Children's Shoes. Low Shoes and Slippers. Values up to $3.50 Choice , for the pair 50c SEE WINDOW COME EARLY The Greatest Shoe Event of the Season Children's 25c Lace Hose the pair 15c Miss Lucy Humphreys, of Hills, boro, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Wilson left Friday morn ing for Mountain Home, Idaho. Thos. Humphreys and her brother, He will be gone for some time ot Cecil Humphreys. a Tsik