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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, ORE., THl'RSDAY, JUNE 24, 1915 PACE FT VIS WEEK'S NEWS. Local And Personal Happen ings of Heppner And Vicinity. Miles Potter visited with friends In lone this week. Dr. L. L. Taylor of Condon, was in Heppner Sunday. Mrs. Emmett Cochran went to Portland last Saturday. Wray Abel, of Long Creek, was in Heppner Wednesday. D. E. Halloway, of Monument, was in Heppner Wednesday. Try Celro Kola, "First for Thirst 6c at your favorite fountain. Walter Lucknian was in from his ranch near Lena on Monday. O. B. Robertson and wife of Con don, were in the city last week. Drink Celro , Kola, "First for Thirst." 5c at your favorite foun tain. W. G. Scott, Lexington banker and auto dealer, was a business visitor in Heppner Monday. P. B. Vanciel, the Fairbanks Morse man, made his regular visit to Heppner last week. Paul Reitmann, well known far mer of the lone section, paid Hepp ner a vjsit on Sunday. Edward, "Ox", Clark has accept ed a position with Gurdane & Son during the Chautauqua. R. W. Fletcher returned to HeDD- ner Tuesday evening after spending several days in roruana. According to the Blue Mountain American Baker county is now pro ducing $200,000 per month. Sam Stevens went to Pendleton Saturday morning, where he will work through the summer months. J. A. Waters, County Clerk, went to lone last Saturday, to attend a meeting of warehouse directors. Misses Muriel and Marie Cason, popular young ladles of lone, visited with friends in Heppner last Sunday. Rev. Chas. H. Powell, of La Grande, conducted services at the Episcopal church In this city Sunday. M. H. Kopple, proprietor of The Fair Store, spent several days the past week at outside points on busi ness. L. E. McBee, the Cecil stockman, transacted business in this city last week. He was accompanied by Mrs. McBee. Wlllard J. Blake of lone, was a business visitor in Heppner Saturday, conferring with County Assessor Wells. C. Guy Wakefield and wife were over from Condon Wednesday. Mr. Wakefield is engaged in the piano selling business. Mrs. L. N. Klees went to Portland Wednesday where she will spend sev eral weeks visiting with her parents who live in that city. Ed Rood returned to his Port land home Saturday morning, after spending the week in Heppner look ing after business Interests. W. A. Orr conducted services at the South Methodist church in this city last Sunday. Rev. Orr Is pre siding elder for this district. Miss Hazel Hams, of Hardman, passed through Heppner Tuesday to her home In that city. She spent the winter in Portland attending school. Ed Farnsworth and family were passengers for Rheas Siding Satur day, where they are visiting with Mr. Farnsworth's brother, Carl, and fam ily. Albert Slocum made a change In some of his Main street business property last week when he had the front of the T. G. Dennlsee work shop remodeled. J. C. Owens, the Heppner-Hard-man stage man now carries the mail by motor transportation, having re cently purchased a Ford car through the local agents. Jess Coats, well known Eight Mile farmer, was driving about town this week in a new Ford, which he re rently purchased from Vaughn & Sons, the local agents. Chas. Stanton, the extensive wheat raiser of Eight Mile, was In the city yesterday. He returned home with a load of lumber and several sections of the Jones' Wceder. Charles Groshen, young son of Victor Groshen. has accepted an ap prenticeship with T. G. Dennisee, and Is learning the carpenter trade un der expert instruction. FREE, a trip to the PANAMA EX POSITION, San Francisco to some lady, also a 1915 Motorcycle to some young man. Write for particulars, No. 401, McKay Bldg., Portland, Ore. Miss Erma Davenport is at her home In Sumpter, having returned last Friday from Cecil, Morrow coun ty, where she has just closed a suc cessful school year. Blue Mountain American. Mrs. LI E. Cohn, formerly of this city, came over from Pendleton last week to look after business Interests which she still retains here. Mrs. Cohn Is now connected with the Say ers store In Pendleton. J. B. Sparks took a load of base ball fans to lone last Sunday to wit ness the Arlington game. Those mak ing the trip with him were Ralph Yeager, Will Kirk, Emery Hlatt and Creston and E. C. Maddock. Newt Whetstone departed Tuesday afternoon for his Grant county ranch In Fox valley. He traveled by or dinary conveyance this time, not be ing willing to chance the trip with his machine, considering the condi tion of much of the road. Jack McCollough, stockman of up per Willow creek, waB in Heppner Monday. Mr. McCollough did not sell his wool at the recent sale, and was very much dissatisfied with the price he was offered. McCollough Bros, had about 17,000 pounds of fine wool, for which they refused an offer of 16 cents. Geo. W. Dykstra was down from his foot hill farm Tuesday. Mrs. George Thomson Is visiting with friends in Hood River this week. Ben Buschke and wife were In Heppner from their Rhea creek home on Tuesday. Tom Ross, the Echo wool buyer, was in Heppner Tuesday. He came over by auto. D. H. Grabill, retired farmer of the lone section, spent Monday in Hepp ner on business. Miss Thelma Lucas has returned from Wasco, Ore., where she attend ed school during the past year. Mrs. Guy Boyer and her sister, Miss Grace May, were passengers for outside points Tuesday morning. Dr. McMurdo has bought out Dr Allison's office and is now located at Patterson & Son's drug store, tf. Henry Vance has moved Into one of the Jeff Jones houses in west Heppner, formerly occupied by Joe Westoff. Jack Hynd, the Cecil Bheepman, was in the city on business Monday evening. He returned to his ranch Tuesday morning. A. L. Ayers arrived home from Portland Saturday. He and Mrs. Ayers have been living in that city for some months past. Dick Gentry, wife and sou, of Grant county, arrived In Heppner Monday. Mr. Gentry Is an extensive stockman of that section. Al Porter, a leading stockman and rancher of the Long Creek section was In Heppner several days the past week, attending to business matters Ell C. Maddock returned to his home at Castle Rock, Wash., on Tuesday, after spending several days in tills city visiting with old friends Pat Mollahan was in town several days this week. He will spend the summer in the mountains near Hil gard, where he has taken his sheep. Miss Verna Holcomb returned to her home near Oregon City on Tues day, after visiting for six weeks at the home of her uncle, Hugh C Glthens. John W. Tash, son of Hiram Tash of this city, who has resided for a number of years at Buhl, Idaho, will move to Council, Idaho, where he has purchased a place. E. D. Brown, manager of Heppner Milling ompany, was called to Van couver, B. C, Friday, on account of the death of his mother, who was a resident of that city. W. W. Bechdolt is down from Hardman today, coming in with W. H. and Frank Miller after the body of John Miller who died at the hos pital in Heppner last night. Rhea Luper and family, of Salem, are visiting at the home of Mr. Lu per's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Luper in this city. Rhea Is connected with the State engineer's office in Salem. Rev. W. A. Orr was down from Milton over Sunday. He held ser vices at Eight Mile on Sunday morn ing, and at Heppner in the evening, returning home Monday. Mr. Orr came in from Milton with Theo. Anderson. Harry Cummlngs, the local nur seryman, Is planting a large tract of his land in north Heppner to dahlias. Mr. Cummlngs says there is much money to be made in raising dahlias if handled right, and he believes that he knows how to grow them successfully. Mrs. Geo. J. Currin and daughter, Miss Mary returned .to their home in this city last Thursday evening. Miss Currin has been attending the Agri cultural College at Corvallis the past year and her mother has been visit ing relatives at different Valley points during the past two weeks. J. A. Patterson went to Pendleton Tuesday by auto to look after some property interests in that vicinity. He was accompanied by Rhea Luper, who has been visiting in Heppner. Mr. Luper, who is connected with the state engineer's office, has now es tablished headquarters in La Grande. Hugh Githcns has been appointed janitor of the Heppner school and lias moved into the high school build ing with his family. The position was let on competitive bids this year and Mr. Githens secured the contract at a price that will be a great saving in cash to the district over what has been paid during the past year. Mike MeCabe was a business vis itor in Heppner Saturday. Mr. Me Cabe has just recently purchased a band of sheep in the Spray country and has taken them to summer range south of Hardman. Mr. McCabe and his partner, John McHugh, have rented about 3700 acres of range land from W. H. French. Their sheep are all yearlings. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Markham were down from their Walla Walla home for several days during the past week visiting with friends and relatives In this county. Mr. Markham still has considerable land holdings near Heppner, and calls this way frequent ly to look after his Interests. He Is well pleased with the condition of crops in tills county, and took occa sion to visit a number of different sections while here. W. S. Wharton, of Newberg, made Heppner a visit on Saturday. He came In from Walla Walla with Theo. Anderson. Mr. Wharton has dis posed of his banking interests at Newberg and will move to the Yaki ma Valley the first of July with his family, to take up other lines of work. He was just returning from a visit to his new home, and was glad of this opportunity to meet old friends at Heppner again. Theo. Anderson returned on Satur day from a trip Into the Walla Walla country, which he made by auto. Mr. Anderson had never visited that country during the summer season, and was greutly delighted with the beautiful appearance of the Walla Walla valley at this time of the year. Crops of all kinds promise abundant yield, yet with all its attractiveness Mr. Anderson is convinced that good farming In this county pays a much better return for the capital invested. and we believe he is right in his conclusion. Mr. R. N. Moffat, of Portland, is in Heppner today. He represents the Brotherhood of American Yoemen, a fraternal beneficial society, and will endeavor to organize a "Homestead" in this city. While he represents this life and accident insurance associa tion, he is also a song writer or note, being the author of the popular Rose Festival song, "The Portland Rose," that was so extensively sung and greatly enjoyed by all visitors to the Portland Rose Show this month. Mr. Moffat has also written numerous other popular songs published at Portland by Messrs. Moffat & Ingram. We have been presented with auto graph copies of several numbers of these songs, from Mr. Moffat, and wish to express to him our apprecia tion of the compliment. W. B. Barratt, whj has commenced building operations on his new resi dence in south Heppner has complet ed the moving of his old house to an other lot across Willow creek. Mr. Barratt contemplates the erection of a modern house, and when completed will be -a valuable audition to our city. H. C. Githens is the contractor in charge. Miss Ethel Casey, who has been teaching In the Heppner schools the past year, departed for Caldwell. Idaho. Miss Casey will return to Heppner at a later date In order to be ready for the opening of school in September. Will Morgan came in the other day from Moscow, Idaho, and is vis iting with friends and relatives in this city. This is his first visit here in about three years and naturally he is glad to get back and meet old friends once more. John Elder came over from Spray Wednesday. He will spend a few days in Heppner before going to the Palouse Country. He will assist W. B. Potter in taking some stock to Mr. Potter's newly acquired ranch near Winona. In a fast game of ball last Sunday at lone, the Arlington team went down to defeat by a score of 5 to 0. Sperry and Coshow formed the bat tery for the Ionites and Montague did the twirling for Arlington. W. H. French, who has been spend ing several days in Morrow county looking after his land interests in the vicinity of Hardman, passed thru Heppner yesterday on his return home at Forest Grove. Walter Hayes, who is now working for his cousin, Joe Hayes on Big But ter creek, was in town this week af ter some supplies. Heppner Milling Company an nounce a striking reduction in the price of flour. See their adv. in an other column. Miss Frances Parker spent the week visiting at the Glenn Boyer home on Hinton creek. Ed McDaid, Morrow county farmer and stockman, was in Heppner Wednesday. County Judge Patterson made a trip into the Butter creek country this week. i Dr. H. T. Allison has moved his office Into the Gunn building on Main street with Dr. A. P. Culbertson. Sam E. Van Vactor, local attorney, went to Portland yesterday on busi ness. He will return Sunday evening. Ed Hunt, Rhea creek farmer, was in town yesterday on business. Pat Connell was over from his home near Castle Rock this week. W. W. Smead made a business trip to lone yesterday. Some nice rooms to rent; just re cently repapered and painted. See Henry Schwarz at Peoples Cash Mar ket, tf. Bacon, finest sugar cured, and a home production, at the City Meat Market, 20 cents per pound. tf. FOR SALE 4-feet pine wood and fir posts. PHILL COHN. Inquire of Milt Maxwell. Parkers j Mill, Ore. Dr. Allison would call your atten tion to the fact that his office is now established with Dr. Culbertson in the Gunn building, two doors north of Minor & Co. tf. KOR TRADK. A good rooming house in La Grande for Morrow county property. Inquire SMEAD & CRAWFORD. " WANTED Lady of fair education to devote few hours each day; pleas ant work for one interested in church or educational work; salary J1.5U per day. The high grade, none better brand of flour, manufactured at home, from Morrow county blue stem wheat, is now offered by Heppner Milling Co. at greatly reduced prices. See offer on White Star flour In our advertising columns. Mrs. Frank Winnard departed for Manchester, Iowa, this morning in response to a telegram announcing the very serious illness of her moth er, whom it is feared may pass away before Mrs. Winnard reaches her bed side. Chas. S. Coon, a sheep buyer from Gooding, Idaho, arrived in Heppner yestreday after an extended trip in to Wheeler county. Mr. Coon is con nected with the Gooding interests. A. R. Nieman, representing the Ellison-White Chautauqua, arrived in Heppner last night and is now busy lining things up for the six big busy days. M. R. Matthews, well known com mercial man of The Dalles, is in the city today. Dr. H. T.' Allison has moved his office from the rear of the Patterson & Son drug store to the Gunn build ing on Main street. tf. Prof. H. H. Hoffman will leave in the morning for his summer vaca tion. While he did not state definite ly, it is likely that Mr. Hoffman will make a very extended trip this sum mer, as he has in mind visiting the Panama Canal, going by the way og San Francisco and returning up the Atlantic coast. Should he take this journey, he will not return to Hepp ner much before the beginning of the Fall term of school. Jess Beardsley is taking a lay-off this week from his Job as baggage master on the Heppner local. He timed his vacation In order to take j in the big Chautauqua entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Simpson are j spending the week, with the family of W. W. Bechdolt, near Hardman. 10 per cent off on every thing In Jewelry from June 25th to July 10th HAYLOR. 1 ITTTT'n A rr t t -v -w-v a VV JtlJCY 1 1J UUUJJ AS GOLD NOWADAYS WITH THE PRESENT HIGH WAR PRICES AN AVERAGE CROP MEANS A SNUG FORTUNE We are offering some bargains in wheat land which wiil prove most alluring to the buyer who is looking for the best moderate priced land in the Northwest. 1280 Acres, All Under Fence 200 acres in timothy. Cuts 2 to 3 tons per acre. One of the best dairy farms in the county. Plenty of running water and tim ber. This can be had at a bargain. Price is right ; Terms are right. 840 Acres Wheat Land Plenty of water. Can be divided into two good farms. 280 acres in crop goes with this. One of the best buys in County 960 Acres Wheat Land 400 acres in crop. Has Summerfallow. Machinery goes with place. Price right and terms are right. Come and let us tell you about it. 1440 Acres Wheat Land 800 in crop; 600 summerfallow. Plenty of water. Price and terms are right. THIS IS A BARGAIN. ! SMEAD & CRAWFORD Notice to Property Owners. You are required to repair your old sidewalks and remove grass from the front of your property bordering on the streets. By order of the CITY MARSHAL. Senator Elmer J. Burkett, four times a member of the national house of representatives and a former Uni ted States senator for a period cover ing six years, promises to be one of the strongest drawing cards of the season. The youngest member of each body when he entered, he at tracted the attention of such men as ex-president W. H. Taft. As a Chautauqua lecturer he is an unqual ified success. His famed lecture, "The New Woman and the Young Man," was delivered for eleven years in twenty-seven states of the Union. Replete with wit, humor and senti ment, Senator Burkett makes his au dience laugh, cry and think. OSfliiilliiiiiii iinfl Li A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY! DON'T OVERLOOK OUR FINE STOCK OF JEWELRY m From June 25th to July 10th We are offering our Entire Stock of Jewelry at a 10 per cent. Disccunt for Cash ML!BS DNS W JEWELlf FOR EVERYTI MINOR & CO. "GOOD GOODS" BIG SALE STILL CONTINUES. 3 LASTS UNTIL JULY 3RD Less than two weeks of big opportunities in BARGAIN BUYING Practically Everything Reduced Take your own advantage of these extremely low prices. Buy for your immediate needs all seasonable mer chandise included buy for your future needs, be cause the store is crowded with bargains you can not afford to overlook. REMEMBER Lasts Only Until July 3rd Come now while lines are complete and assortments good "IT'S MINORS FOR MINE" t t i