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.
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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
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A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY!
DON'T OVERLOOK OUR FINE
STOCK OF JEWELRY
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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"
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