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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1914)
WEEK'S NEWS. Local and Personal Happenings. Fresh Ice cream every day at the Palm. Emmet Cochran, Monument stock man, is in Heppner today. For choice cold meats for your lunch, call on Peoples' Cash Market. tt. Ladles Get away from the heat of the stove and do your Ironing with an electric iron. Dr. E. R. Hunlock returned to Heppner on Saturday from a visit of a week at FobbII. Good, home cured bacon; extra fine homemade lard. Low prices Peo ple's Cash Market. W. L. Copenhaver, who is very busy with his harvest these days, was a Heppner visitor on Saturday. Carpet weaving and rugs. Satis faction guaranteed. See Wm. Dri3 coll, south of Catholic church. Any one wanting a lady to do cook ing during harvest may call at Gazette-Times office for address. Born At their home In lone, Oregon, on July 13, 1914, to Mr. and Mrs. G. I. Patterson, a daughter. If you want extra fine meats at the right prices, see the Old Reliable Dutchman at People's Cash Market. Holgate Is at the City' Meat Mar ket. Call for one of those Hambur ger specials. You remember them. Did you read our new adv.? We will furnish you the goods and give you a square deal. City Meat Mar ket. An electric iron for 75 cents per month. Pay for the current at this rate for 12 months and the iron is yours. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. N. Ely, residents of Morgan, were made happy by the arrival of their first-born, a son, on July 13th. Miss Virginia Crawford returned home on Monday from a visit of two months with friends In Portland and at Tillamook. . Our electrical supplies are on dis play in the Scrivener building. Call and Inspect them. Heppner Light & Water Co. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Irwin rejoice over the advent into their family of a daughter iorn to them at Portland on Thursday, July 16. J. L. Simpson and wife and their son and family returned on Friday from a visit of a week with relatives and friends at Milton. Mr. McGraw, father of our city marshal, has been somewhat Indis posed during the week, suffering a severe attack of stomach trouble. If you want anything special in the meat line crown roast lamb, mutton, English or French chops you can get them at the City Meat Market. Drs. Lowe & Turner, eye specialists of Portland will be in Heppner again at Palace hotel parlors Saturday and Sunday, July 25th and 26th. Con sult them. J. H. Kinsman departed on Sun day for points in Idaho where he coes to look up a real estate deal. He expects to be absent ten days or two weeks. Mrs. Carrie Vaughn departed for Centralia, Wash., on Friday to be at the bedside of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Harvey Vaughn, who Is very ill at her home in that city. Peter Brenner is now in the midst of his harvest of 300 acres of grain on his lower Eight Mile place. Har vest is general In his locality and good yields are promised. E. E. Miller, of lone, came up to Heppner on Friday evening and on Saturday took back the Currln trac tion engine which will be used In the harvest fields about that place. Glasses fitted by Drs. Lowe & Tur ner do not need the guarantee that goes with them. "There's a reason." They will be in Heppner every three months. Satisfaction guaranteed. Consult them. C. W. Lee, of Portland, spent the past week In Heppner. Mr. Lee is a printer and newspaper man and was looking over a proposition in this line that he had at Heppner. He returned home on Tuesday. Mrs. M. D. Clark and two daugh ters, Misses Mary and Marjorle, were passengers for Portland on Friday, beginning their summer vacation which will be extended by a stay at the Tillamook coast during August. Charley Reed was the first farmer of the lone section to get to town with a load of the new crop of wheat. The combine Is at work on his place north of lone and he Is getting a yield of 20 bushels to the acre of good, plump wheat. When you have used one of those electric Irons you will never again be without one. There are many other conveniences also that the day current makes possible for you, and that will lighten your burdens. See Heppner Light & Water Co. The Congregational church build ing at Condon was totally destroyed by Are one day last week. The fire was supposed to have originated from the burning of dry grass about the building by the fire department of Condon, sparks getting into the building unnoticed by them. . The loss is partially covered by ?800 of Insurance. Frank Rasmus made final proof on his homestead before Judge Patter son' on Saturday. He has a good piece of land lying on the divide be tween Willow and Hlnton creeks about six miles east of Heppner. This season he put in about 80 acres of grain, part of which he has cut for hay, and the balance, about 50 acres, will be threshed. From the sample exhibited to us, this grain will yield heavy. Besides raising some grain, Frank does diversified farming and expects to purchase a number of good cows and go into dairying along with raising chickens and hogs. He has the right idea and should be able In this way to make his 160 acres pay him well. E. E. Rugg returned on Friday from a business trip to Portland. While on the way home he made a stop-over at Hood River and visited our mutual friend, J. R. Nunamaker, who is fast becoming one of the lead ing fruit barons of that section. Mr. Rugg states that the Nunamaker crop of cherries which were marketed this season amounted to 40 tons. Jim has also Invented an apple grader that he is now having manufactured that works like a charm, and is des tined to make him much return in filthy lucre when it is generally adopted by the apple growers of the Pacific Northwest. O. E. Freytag, of Oregon City, who will have charge of the arranging of exhibits for the coming Morrow coun ty fair, departed for his home on Sat urday after spending a number of days in this city in helping the Fair Board "with the preliminaries-of the fair. Mr. Freytag is secretary of the Oregon City Commercial Club and is also connected with the management of the Oregon State Fair, and Is a very busy man but one that is thor oughly well equipped for the posi tions which he occupies. Milt Maxwell, of Parkers Mill, re turned from a visit of a week in Port land on Saturday. He was below to consult a physician and undergo an ex-ray examination. After seeing the doctor it was decided that the ex-ray was not necessary and Mr. Maxwell is taking treatment that promises to relieve him of his affliction. While below he made a visit to Roseburg where he has a small fruit farm, and found that section of the state pretty dull and business very quiet. S. H. Holgate, from Siskiyou coun ty, Calif., has accepted a position with Kinsman & Hall in the City Meat Market. Mr. Holgate was for merly a resident of Heppner, and worked for Mr. Kinsman, leaving here early in 1903. He has been en gaged in the butchering and cold storage business, and also following other lines of) trade since leaving Heppner. He expectB to locate here permanently and will be joined by his family. T. H. Williams, of Eight Mile, v. as In town on Monday and Tuesday get ting extras and completing arrange ments for the starting of the Neilson, Stanton & Williams combine which will begin work right away. This machine will have 800 acres of fine grain to harvest on the farms of the owners and Mr. Williams states that the most of It Is now ready to cut. Frank Stoops, a young son of A. F. Stoops who is running a well drill on the place of Ed Buschke on Rhea creek, got his hand in the fric tion clutch of the drill on Thursday last with the result that he Is minus two fingers of the left hand. Dr. Chick dressed the young man's wounds and he is doing well now. The early reports of the losses to the farmers of Sherman county by the hall storm of last week, were greatly exaggerated and according to the Grass Valley Journal will not greatly exceed $50,000. That paper reports it the greatest loss ever suf fered by those people since Sherman county has been raising grain. Remember that Drs. Lowe & Turner, eye specialists of Portland will be at Palace Hotel parlors Saturday and Sunday July 25th and 26th. They devote their entire time, effort and energy to the eye exclusively and you may consult them with confidence. They will be here every three months. Prof. Frank Rlgler, who gave the city of Portland Its present system of schools, died at his home In that city on last Saturday afternoon after a prolonged illness. He was superin tendent of the Portland schools for seventeen years and placed the pub lic school system of that city on a very high plane of efficiency. W. G. Scott, who was up from Lexington on Saturday states that the wheat in his section is turning out much better than was anticipated at the beginning of harvest and it is found that the crops are not shorten ed by hot weather nearly as much as tt appeared at first. Wiley Wattenburger came over from Pendleton on Tuesday. He will spend several days here looking after his property which he is having fixed up. Men are busy re-papering the residence and other improvements are being made. Attorney C. E. Woodson has estab lished a camp for his family In the mountains at Parkers Mill where they will spend the heated term. Grover Swaggart, who is running a combined harvester In the Lexing ton country this season, has Just fin ished threshing the wheat crop on the Andrew Reaney place. This turned out well and is all No. 1 wheat according to Mr. Swaggart. W. B. Potter and C. F. Waters came over from Spray on Monday and spent a day or two in Heppner looking after business matters. They have up their first crop of alfalfa which was abundant, and other crops of their section give promise of large yields. John Piper was in town Tuesday. He is busy with the heading of his big field of grain and expects to be threshing within the next week. The wind of Monday caused him to have a lay-off, but a few days more and the grain will all be In the stack. There are predictions that Mr. Piper's wheat will go 35 bushels to the acre. . W. H. Miller was down from Hard man yesterday. In his section the cutting of fall grain Is now beginning and harvest will be general before many days. Mr. Miller fears the hot weather has shortened the crops about him quite materially, the spring grain especially, being hit pretty hard. John Shaw brought In a carload of fat steers on Monday and they were shipped from the Heppner yards to Portland Tuesday morning. Mr. Shaw states that they have been en Joying some exceedingly warm weather out his way and the cool days of the first of the week are much appreciated. John Brosnan of Lena Is now the proud owner of a Case "25" which he purchased the past week from Vaughn & Sons. The car was brought up from The Dalles on Sat urday by Charley Vaughn, and John Is now handling it and cleaning out the rocks on the road adjacent to Ills Dlace on Butter creek that the "sailing" may be a little smoother. G. M. Rice and Nesmlth Ankeny, of Pendleton, motored into Heppner yesterday evening and remained over night. Mr. Rice is cashier of the First National Bank of Pendleton and Mr. Nesmlth, is a bookkeeper In the same institution. They went on to the interior this morning expecting to visit several towns in Grant county iiefore their return to Pendleton. C. E. Jones drove in from Eight Mile on Tuesday. He states that his section is just now being Invested by an army of grasshoppers that blew In on them a few days ago. They came too late to do any damage to the grain crops but are working hav oc on corn fields and gardens. They must have migrated from the Butter creek country as many of the pests have left that section. Constable F. E. Druhot, of Port land, arrived In Heppner on last eve ning to get C. D. Ritter wanted in Multnomah county on a charge of larceny by embezzlement. Mr. Rit ter is a young man with a wife and baby and has been working in this vicinity for some time, being thought well of by all who have made his ac quaintance. He was working for Jess Hall at the time of his arrest by Sheriff Evans. He fully expects to clear himself of the charge against him when he reaches Portland. LOST At'TO TIRE. Lost on the night of July 8, in the vicinity of Lexington, one 34 x 4 Uni ted States Dunlop auto tire complete on steel detachable rim and in black rubber cover. I will pay $10 for the return of this tire to me at Lexing ton. ANDREW REANEY. 2t. FOH SALE Baby Holt Combine Harvester; second season, has cut 1200 acres. In A 1 conditon. 22 inch cylinder, 14-foot cut with 4-ft. extension also; 32-horse, Schandona Hitch. Stands owner $2000. .Will soli and deliver August 1. Price $1100; terms. Inquire at this office. 2t. Don't Forget to Shut Off Water. Don't forget to shut off the irriga tion water when the whistle blows at 8 o'clock. Parties falling to observe this regulation will be deprived of the use of the water. H. L. & W. CO. Inquire about the prices of Com pound, fresh Dried Beef, and Lard at the People's Cash Market. Gets Fine of 810 And Costs. In justice court before Justice Cor nett yesterday, E. T. Johnson was fined $10 and costs for assault and battery upon Wm. Salzwedal, a far mer of Clark's Canyon. Young John son paid the costs and is serving five days in jail to eliminate the fine. The trouble arose over the discharge of Johnson by Mr. Salzwedal and the latter suffered a badly disfigured countenance as a result. Salzwedal claims that Johnson struck him in the face with a rock, but this is de nied, and Johnson was allowed to plead guilty to assault and battery. CASTOR I A Tor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature f a&ffiC&tU Win?, lea Read these PRICES the Most Sensational Selling of Meats at Low Prices at this Market Choice Juicy BOILING BEEF Hamburger Pot Roast SHORT RIBS , acnd only orcr ctcw Pork SausaSe 10c KfcU MtW Shoulder Steak and 12c a Pound 8C 12 l-2c HERE ARE OTHER CHOICE EXTRA SPECIALS: (For lack of space we cannot give each item the prominence it deserves) READ ON Fresh Meats Veal Stew 12 1-2C Shoulder Roast 12 1-2C Veal Cutlets 15c First cut Shoulder 12 1-2C Middle cut 15c Pork Chops 15c Mutton Stew 8 c Shoulder Roast 8c Where Quality reigns supreme and the price is always low at CITY MEAT MARKET The Connecting Links ( In The Chain of Health Folder's Golden Gate Coffee Tea Spices Extracts Baking Powder Sold on Merit Minor & Go., DISTRIBUTORS, HEPPNER, ORE. ts Cut 2c to 5c Per Lb. Whole or Half Beef quarters Sc Beef J5L 12 1-2 1-2 Mutton 11c 1-2 Pork 12 l-2c 1 Smoked Meats Hams 22c Pic Nic 14c Cottage hams 17c Lard, 5-lb 75c Lard, 10-lb $1.50