THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPXER, ORE., TlHTtSDAY, AUG. 8, 1914 r AOE FIVE WEEK'S NEWS. Local And Personal Happen ings of Heppner And Vicinity. Jolly good weather for the Iceman. Fresh ice cream every day at the Palm. W. B. Tucker was In town from his Black Horse ranch Monday. For choice cold meats for your lunch, call on Peoples' Cash Market, tf. Geo. Perry was over from his Rock creek ranch after supplies last Tues day. D. S. Barlow and wife were in from their Rhea creek farm on Sat urday. W. B. Ewlng and son, Whitley W., were up from Cecil over Friday night. , Those electric fans from the Hepp ner Light & Water Co. can certainly stir up a breeze. ' ' Kinsman and- Hall shipped a car of beef cattle to the Portland, mar ket yesterday. Dr. Herbert W. Copeland, eye spec ialist, was an incoming passenger Tuesday evening. O. J. Cox and wife and daughter, Miss Gladys spent the past week at McDutfee springs. Banker T. J. Mahoney returned on Sunday from a trip down the Co lumbia which he made by auto. Holgate Is at the City Meat Mar ket. Call for one of those Hambur ger specials. You remember them. Mrs. Frank Winnard and daugh ter, Miss Marcia, were in the city from the headquarters ranch Tues day. An electric Iron for 75 cents per month. Pay for the current at this rate for 12 months and the Iron is yours. Miss Mary Morgan rteurned home from Portland Tuesday, where Bhe has been visiting for the past three weeks. W. R. Munkers, Socialist candi date for county treasurer, was a vis itor In Heppner on Saturday from I Lexington. J. B. Coxen and wife spent Sunday with relatives and friends In this vi cinity. Mr. Coxen has a barber shop at Lexington. Mrs. H. T. Allison returned home from Portland Tuesday evening after an extended visit with her sister, Dr. Mae Barnhart. Electric fans are just the thing these warm days. The Heppner Light & Water Co. can Install one for you at any time. G. R. Huff, farmer and dairyman of Rhea Siding, spent Sunday in Heppner visiting his wife who Is here under the care of a physician. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Slocum, ac companied by Mrs. Slocum's brother, Marcelous Morgan'departed on Tues- day for a stay of a couple of weeks at McDuffee Springs. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Crawford de parted for Ditch creek Sunday after noon and will be the guests for the week of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Keithley at the Forest station. Roy A. Wilklns and wife, of Port land, who spent the week-end In Heppner visiting with his brother, J. L. Wilkins and family, departed on Monday for Pendleton, Judge C.- C. Patterson was down from his mountain camp over Sun day and Monday. He Is comfort ably located with his boys on Willow creek, about two miles below the Herren mill. . Mrs. G. A. Woodbury and son Francis, who have been visiting for the past three weeks at the home of J L. Wilklns, her prother in Hepp ner, departed for their home In Port land this morning. R. D. Kem and wife departed for Stanfield Monday morning after vis iting for a time with Mrs. Kem's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Slocum. They may decide to go to Spokane where they will locate permanently Harry Morgan informs us that his brother Will, who has been In a Port land hospital for the past six weeks has sufficiently recovered to enable him to leave that institution and he Is now on the road to rapid recovery, M. J. Devln, farmer of the Sand Hollow section, was doing business In Heppner on Saturday. He is run ning a combine on his place and get ting a yield for bluestem of 24 bush els, and forty-fold 28 bushels to the acre. Herbert Bobllt paid this office a pleasant call on Monday. He is working for R. W. Turner of Sand Hollow and expects to remain there for several months. He had the Ga zette-Times sent to his father, M. L Bobllt at Brownington, Missouri for another year. Morris Blgbee of Eugene, who has been working In the Morrow county grain fields the past month, departed Wednesday morning for Seaside where he will enjoy a period of rec reation before returning to Eugene- Mr. Bigbee is a senior at the TJnlver slty of Oregon. Robert Young, popular local young man, left Heppner on Wednesday for Tehama, California, where he has se cured a good position for the remain der of the summer. Tehama Is sit uated in the Sacramento valley. Mr. Young will re-enter the University of .Oregon in October. Quite a Flurry in Wheat. There was quite a flurry in the v heat market at Lexington on Thurs day last and prices advanced rapid ly from 63 cents to 80 cent3, some 45,000 sacks being sold when the market reached the high point. It was said to be through local compe tition, largely, that the price reached this figure, for the buyers at Hepp ner were not authorized to give this price. The market has been off since, and no efforts to buy are be ing made. This is likely due to the European war cloud. Most of the large wheat raisers at Lexington got the 80-cent price which is a big lift to them. Thresher Burns. By the explosion of smut in the threshing machine of H. C. Githens, at work on the farm of Jess Hall last Thursday, the machine was totally destroyed. By hard work the gas oline engine attached to the machine was saved. This was done by throw ing dust on the flames, and it looked for a short time as though the saving of the engine would b impossible. Mr. Githens had some insurance on the thresher that will recompense him in a measure for the loss, but com ing right on the loss of his house and other effetcs on the homestead a few days before leads him to think that he Is receiving about ' his share of tills kind of luck recently. He may get another machine as there Is quite a lot of grain to be harvested in his locality and the farmers out that way are unable to get one of the larger cutrits to come in pud do the work. Work Started on Kitter Road. Forest Supervisor Cryder reports that work on this end of the Hepp- r.er-Ritter road has started. Owing to the limited amount of money au thorized for this project it will not be able to complete the road this sea son, but the work done will be so placed that it will be possible, by using the old road together with parts of the new road, to obtain a through and passable route to the south line of the Umatilla National Forest. It is understood that the stretch of road between the Forest line and the John Day, river will be built by the citizens of Heppner, in time for fall travel. The entire route of this road will be surveyed and placed on grade so that when the unfinished portions are built they can be readily joined with the part already com pleted. When the road Is entirely completed it will afford an excellent low grade route to and from the John Day river. J. D. French and John Brosnan, of Rutter creek are back from Portland where they delivered six cajs of beef cattle the first of the week. "".A inns the many Oregon people in Europe at the present tir.,e are R. F. Hynd and family and Mrs. W. P. airatt and two children, who are visiting in Scotland. Mr. Hynd has purchased tickets for his return home, but has been unable to leave. Jack Hynd and Thos. A. Lowe, of Cecil, were visitors in Heppner yes terday. Mr. Lowe has recently de clared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States, and Is glad of it as otherwise he would probably have to return' to England and help out In the pending war. J. H. Edwards, of Sand Hollow, was a pleasant caller at this office on Saturday. "He is rejoicing over the fact that the crops in his section are turning out much better than at first contemplated. He expects an aver age of better than twenty bushels to the acre on his farm, and this will be wheat of excellent quality. Earl Engle, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Heppner this week from Portland and are visiting at the home of Mr. Engle's mother, Mrs. D. A. McAtee. They made the journey overland from The Dalles by motor cycle. Mr. Engle, who is engaged in railroading at Portland, has taken a layoff and will get a position with a threshing outfit and remain in Mor row county until after harvest. Chas. J. Anderson was In town from his lower Eight Mile farm on Saturday to attend a meeting of the Socialist party. Mr. Anderson is complaining some of the invasion of his section bv th6 grasshoppers, and while they did not damage grain very much, it being too far advanced, they are going in on the garden truck and i'-uit treef- und doing them a lot of damage. W. L. Houston and wife arrived on Saturday from Portland on a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Adkins, be'iLg called here by the serious Illness of Mr. Adkins. Mrs. Houston is a sister of Mrs. Adkins. Mr. Houston Is one of the contract ors on the new court house at The Dalles, having charge of the carpen ter work, and returned to that city on Tuesday. This structure will be finished In a few weeks and when done will be the finest court house in the state outside of Portland. Here 41 Years Ago. We acknowledge a very pleasant visit on Saturday afternoon last from Mr. A. A. Russell, of Gaston, Oregon, who with his wife have been visiting the past three weeks at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Knoblock on Rhea creek. Mr. Russel is a brother of Mrs. Knoblock and Is one of the very successful farmers of the Yam hill Valley, He visited this section 41 years ago and was able to find at this time some of the residents of the earlier days when Heppner was just beginning to be known as a city. Our town at that time had one store and a small blacksmith shop and a few res idences. Mr. Russell was much pleased with the progress noted here and thinks our county certainly has a splendid future. He and his wife departed on Sunday for their home at Gaston. Still Adds to Equipment. Albert Bowker, of Heppner Gar age, is determined to have his "hos pital1' up to date, and this week In stalled the latest model Monarch lathe. This leaves practically noth ing to be desired to make this garage second to none In the whole country, and Mr. Bowker is to be congratulat ed on the enterprise manifested. He probably will not stop short of a shop sufficiently equipped to manu facture an automobile. His present equipment places his force in posi tion to do their work in a rapid and thorough manner. If you want spring chicken for Sunday dinner, leave orders on Fri day. Peoples' Cash Market. Will and David Hynd and Miss Annie Hynd, accompanied by Palmer Brunton, who drove the car, jour neyed to Ukiah last week in their Overland to visit with their brother, Chas. Hynd, who lives at that place. The party visited at Lehman and Mc Duffee springs before returning home. Lou Davidson was in town on Mon day from his Gooseberry farm driving his "horseless" carriage. He Is busy In the harvest fields these days, his combine, drawn by 26 horses and making an 18-foot cut, rapidly trans ferring the grain from field to sack. Mr. Davidson states that he has had better yields other seasons, yet he Is well satisfied with the way his grain Is turning out and he will have a gen erous supply to contribute to the con tending armies over In Europe. No small amount of excitement was caused Monday morning when fire started in the dry grass on the Lawson iplace four miles south of this city. Had a south wind been blowing, several settings of wheat belonging to W. A. Johnson, would have been greatly endangered. Sev eral fire fighters went out In autos and soon extinguished the blaze, Lightning Is, thought to have been the orlgn. Storage batteries charged at Hepp ner Light & Water Co. Prices range from $1.50 to $1,75 for recharging To demonstrate the pulling qual ities of his little team, Ad Moore pulled up the hill at the west end of Willow street on Saturday and then on around the stock trail to where it intersects the road at the reservoir. The team was attached to a hack. This is the favorite place for dem onstrating the pulling qualities of the various makes of automobiles, and Ad wished to show them his team had them all beat. Mrs. S. A. Wright departed Sun day morning for Hermlston to see her son, Alonzo who was hurt in the fire that occurred there on Friday night. Alonzo lives In the Willam ette Valley and was at Hermlston at this time to dispose of some horses he had there and was sleeping in the loft of the livery stable of Messrs. Giese & Emry, and In escaping he jumped to the floor below, Injuring his back puite severely. It Is re ported that had Mr. Wright remalnel in the loft a moment longer he would have been overtaken by the fire and possibly yost his life. E. W. Rhea and wife and three children of Butter creek, narrowly escaped death at the railroad cross ing at Stanfield on Wednesday last when their automobile was struck by the engine of the eastbound local, throwing the entire family out. For tunately they escaped with slight in juries. The auto was badly wrecked. Harvey S. Ewlng, of Cecil, was In Heppner over Sunday and Monday on business. His section has fared well for first and second alfalfa crops but he Is not so sure that the third crop will be up to the average as it Is being worked on pretty badly by grasshoppers at present. Mr. Ewlng followed the newspaper game for a number of years while living In the state of Washington, and having ac cumulated a fortune (?) out of it he retired to an alfalfa farm on Lower Willow creek a few years ago and has been living In comparative com fort ever since, mighty well pleased over the change from editor to far mer. D. C. Gurdane went to Pendleton Monday to visit for several days with his father, John Gurdane and brother Tom. Mr. Gurdane expects to be away from Heppner ten days or two weeks. He will visit Lehman or some other good spring before re turning home. Forest Supervisor Cryder requests that all campers and hunters In the woods be very careful about fires. The season Is one of the driest known and conditions In the timber are especially favorable to the spread of fire. Do not leave camp fires burning when not in Use and trav elers are cautioned against throwing live matches, cigar and cigarette slubs along the road side where they might fall In dry grass or litter. The largo matches, so generally In use, are dangerous and Bhould be abso lutely extinguished before throwing away. The cooperation of theubllc Is earnestly requested against the common enemy a forest fire. PC0-0-JS The Connecting y jg Links In The Chain of Health Tf JL Folger's Golden Gate 1 I y Coffee Tea , T I JL Spices Extracts wk ! -.-.in ii inn ii ihwmii p'iiililTr,nTInT Minor & Co., DISTRIBUTORS, HEPPNER, ORE. T HE GAZETTE-TIES PRINTERY COMPLETELY EQUIPPED TO HANDLE ALL CLASSES OF JOB PRINTING. Try them once and you are a steady customer. Anything from a calling card to a fancy catalogue. Harvest Ms WHEN you come in for your Harvest Supplies, don't overlook Thomson Bros., who are well pre pared to- fill your orders with the best goods at the lowest prices in town. 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