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PAGE TWO HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCT. 21, 1926. BOARDMAN MRS. A. T. HBF.EIM, Correspondent A traveling show played three nights in Boardman last week. It is a concern selling; soaps and perfumes and the first evening all who came put their names in a hat and in the drawing Irma Broyles was awarded a box of their goods. Votes were taken for the laziest man, and Jack Gorham won the prise, a box of perfume, toilet water and soap. Edna Broyles received the most votes for the most popular girl and was given a similar prise. Hardell Gorham was voted the most popular baby and was given a manicure set. Mr. and Mrs. Royal Rands and baby Donna Jane motored to Echo and Walla Walla last week. Jack Gorham and Mrs. Walter Ol son motored to Portland Monday. Mrs. Olson has ben visiting her sis ter, Mrs. Gorham, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Blayden and will re turn to her home in Clatskanie. Mr. Gorham went down on business and plans on his rteum to open up a store in the Harry Murchie building. Jack has been in the store game Boardman for several years and has always worked for some one else. He expects to be his own boss now. His many friends wish him luck and no doubt he will receive his share of patronage. Mrs. Richard Dineman has return ed from Chicago here she as called by the illness of her daughter. Paul Memaro has applied for his naturalization papers. He used to be section foreman at Messner and mar ried Wilma Gilbreth. a local girl. Ladies Aid met Wednesday at the church. A very interesting report was given by the delegates to the Women s Synodical. Mrs. Boardman and Mrs. Allen attended the Synodical meeting in Portland Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Christopherson and family of lone were guests Sunday at tne nome of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Agee. The members of the faculty have been much entertained but no occa sion was pleasanter than the dinner party given on Wednesday night by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mead when they had as guests Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kelly Mrs. Allegra Feess and children Paul and Ruth. Messrs. W. C. Jackson, Coon and Hynes of Portland were guests at tne i"rice ranch Sunday and carried away their legal bag of Chinas. The losing side in the recent Curtis publications contest were hosts to the winners at a jolly party Friday night at the school house. Rachel Johnson's side wop with 22 subscriptions. Es ther Imus and Helen Chaffee headed the losers. Ray Barlow was the most successful salesman and received the greatest number of subscriptions. Dr. A. W. Nuggard of Portland was week-end guest of Supt. and Mrs. Kelly. Miss Elsie Silver, the 3rd and 4th grades teacher was an overnight guest Wednesday at the G. A. Harju home. Joe Muller has been down on Wil low creek helping Mr. Duncan extract honey. Miss Leathers and Miss Kankonen were overnight guests at the M. K. Flickinger home on Wednesday. On Monday Miss Silver and Miss Beou g.ier were entertained at the Flick inger home. Mrs. A, A. Agee and Mrs. A. T. Hereim and sons were all day guests at the Jas. Howell home Thursday. Mrs. N. W. Broome was hostess at one o'clock luncheon on Thursday at her home, having as guests Mesdames Packard, Porter, Kelly, Spagle, Gor ham, Davis and Duggan. On Thursday Miss Silver, Miss Leathers and Miss Kankonen were overnight guests at the Nick Gag lia home at Coyote. A sumptuous dinner was enjoyed and the evening was spent playing Rummy. All had a most delightful time. Jess Allen had to go to Hermiston to consult a physician about his hand. He ran a sliver of hay in it tnd an infection resulted which was very painful. Nick Gaglia and Glen Hadley left Friday for the Parkers Mill section for a few days hunting. On Thursday Glen Hadley, Chas. Goodwin, W. 0. King and his brother Bert King of Portland, returned from a successful hunting trip, bringing a large deer with them. Friends are glad to hear of Frank Partlow's return last week from St. Anthony's hospital at Pendleton where he spent several weeks after being injured by a wood saw which struck him in the forehead, just miss ing his eyeball. Although he will have a bad scar he is indeed fortun ate that the injury did not mean death. Mrs. M. K. Flickinger was painfully injured on Friday night when the stepped through the trap door in the floor into the cellar. Fortunately no bones were broken but she was se verely bruised and has a jagged cut on one arm. Art Bosquet, Dr. Wilhelm and Ben Essee, all of Condon, were hunting pheasants here Sunday. They were guests at the L. C. Coorey home wnile here. Bill Dame and Mr. Oppey came up from Portland to bag a few birds and were guests at the W. 0. King home. Bert King is spending the second week of his vacatoin here alio. Bert Rkhardson has returned .iom Boise, Idaho, where he was called by the serious illness of his brother. Boardman friends were sorry to hear that lira. Lllis Garrett hod i stroke recenly at her home in Jack sonville, near Medford. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Ransier have come home from a most enjoyable trip to Myrtle Point and other places. The beginning of their vacation was marred by the death of a small nephew, the baby of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Thurman of Pendleton. Mr. Jantzen spent the week end in Walla Walla. A most interesting (?) meeting of the P. T. A. was held Tuesday night at the school house will all teachers and three patrons present. If we are to have P. T. A. let's have a live organization and not one half dead. We have enough of that sort on the project now. A P. T. A. can be a worth while organization and tends toward greater harmony between pa trons and teachers. Like a conquering horde the pheas ant hunters descended upon us again Sunday morning. Shooting promis cuously anything they see move, be it a farmer, turkey, chicken, a quail or what not, shooting toward houses or barns till the inhabitants are almost compelled to take refuge within doors until the annual visitation is over. Boardman farmers become wrathy and. indignant. The ranchers feed these birds throughout the year and strangers from Portland and other places come in and shoot them, wan tonly disregarding all laws as tj bag limits and frequently forgetting cour tesy and other refinements, no doubt thinking we are merely poor ignorant "hicks" up this way. "No hunting" signs mean nothing to them. They merely want to shoot birds and more birds females or cocks it seems to make no difference. It does not make good feeling. We have no particular solution to offer. The large rock covered with Indian hieroglyphics which is on the river bank below Messner is to be moved cn Wednesday. The Grange has charge of this and the rock is to be placed on the highway in the Board ian community park back of the school house. The meaning of the markings on this rock is unknown but it is a very interesting relic of olden days and should be accorded a place where it could be better seen. During high water this rock is submerged. Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Broome were dinner guests at the A. T. Hereim home Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mead and chil dren moved Wednesday back to the station at Messner. HARDMAN. Victor Johnson, who is farming out in the country south of Hardman, was a visitor here Sunday. There will be a dance at Hardman in the I. 0. 0. F. hall Saturday, Oct. 23. Everybody is cordially invited. Pirl Howell of Heppner was a vis itor here Sunday. G. A. Bleakman has succeeded in killing a deer. He has not yet re turned to Hardman with his game. Mr .and Mrs. Joe Long of Lexing ton were visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Farrens and family last week end. Stanley Robinson and Carl McDan iel of Lone Rock were visitors in Hardman Friday. Leslie Bleakman, James and Leslie Brannon returned home Thursday night from Yakima, Wash., where they had spent many weeks picking apples. Tilden Williams, Jr.. of Hardman was thrown from a horse last Thurs day but was not injured. Frank Huddleston of Eight Mile lst one hundred lambs while trailing them through the mountains. Carl McDaniel returned to Hard- man from Lone Rock where he has been working. Bernard Bleakman, Owen Leathers. Jan and James Miller and Pirl How ell returned recently from a hunting trip. Owen and Jan were each suc cessful in killing a deer. Mr. Leath ers took a 251-pound deer into Hepp ner Saturday. It is 24 pounds heav ier than any other deer killed so far this season and he has a good chance to get the gun offered to the individ ual killing the largest deer during the season. Several groups of pheasant hunters were on McKinney and Rhea creeks the seventeenth. They had a very successful hunt. Miss Nadelhoffer who represents the Near East Relief spoke before an appreciative audience Monday in the high school auditorium. She was as sisted by Miss Wright, Miss Miller and Rev. Parker of Heppner. LEXINGTON. The first game of the season for the town football team was played Sunday on the Lexington field with the Arlington town team. The score was in Lexington's favor, 19 to 0. Vester Lane, one of the local boys, made two touchdowns. There was also a place kick. Lexington has a fine town team and everyone on it knows his stuff. Russell Wright is nead "boss." They will play Hepp- ner's town team Sunday, Oct. 24 on the local field. Owen Helms and Lawrence Slocum drove to Portland and other cities last week. They left a week ago last Sunday and returned the following Thursday. W. T. Cutsforth went to Salem early in the month and returned Saturday. Relatives from Salem are visiting R. B. Wilcox. They arrived Monday evening. Mrs. Harriet Brown was a visitor in this city Monday. Mrs. L. Scott is keeping one of Ernest Smith's boys this winter so he can attend school here. Mrs. Lewis is home from Hot Lake and feeling much better. Harry Dinges and family have moved to the old Pointer place just across tne creek from Gerald White chicken farm. IRRIGON. Mrs. N. Seaman and daughter Frieda left last Thursday for Aberdeen to pay a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Smith, former residents of Irrigon. Mr. Seaman went wtih them as far as Portland and returned Saturday. The regular Grange meeting was held October 20th at the school auditorium. Mrs. Robert Balcomb and three chil dren returned Wednesday from Hood Jiiver where they have been for the pant two months. Mrs. J. A. Graybeal and grand daughter Verdie Leach, with Snow McCoy went to Pendleton Saturday on a business trip. They brought back Mrs. McCoy who went to Pendleton Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Howard, father and mother of Mrs. Balcomb, visited here over the week end. Mrs. C. G. Holland is visiting C. T. Salings for a while this month. Lillian Yergen got her forehead cut above the eye last Wednesday while playing basket ball. The cut had to have medical treatment. Edith Brice, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Martin Knight, re turned to her home in Nebraska. Earl Scgo from Arlington was here cn business last Thursday. Mrs. Gobel went to Pendleton for a short business trip last week. Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Orton visited McCoys over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Eggleston vis ited Glasgows over Sunday. Friday afternoon Irrigon played Boardman's second team in football. The game was clean and well fought, considering the inexperience of the Irrigon boys as many had never V-layed before. It was not until the Inst few minutes of the game that Boardman gained her 6-0 score on a recovered fumble. Tom Jones of Umatilla refereed the game. Board man team outweighed the Irrigon team on an average of about 15 lbs. per boy. ALPINE NEWS ITEMS. M. J. Foster and Mr. and Mrs. W. Reville were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lambirth Oct. 10. Several of the Alpine and Pine City people attended the baptismal services at Hermiston Sunday eve ning. Mrs. Chas. Schmidt returned home Wednesday evening after spending a few days at the Tom O'Brien ranch on Butter creek. Miss Jane Helms returned to The Dalles Monday of last week after spending several days at the home of Bernice and Bertha Sepanok. The Alpine high school students have been busy the last week taking their six weeks' exams. NOTICE OF DISTRICT ROAD MEETING. Notice is hereby given, pursuant to a petition of the requisite number of legal voters of Road District No. 1 of Morrow County, State of Oregon, and VOTE FOR n J. TAYLOR Candidate for Senator, 19th Senator ial District, comprising Umatilla, Union and Morrow Counties. He was elecetd to this office four years ago and has served his district faithfully. He resides at Pendleton, was born in Missouri, moved with his parents to California in 1864, educat ed in public schools, came to Umailla county 47 years ago and has been a farmer ever since. Owns large wheat farm, was school director thirty years and city councilman of Pendleton five years, has been a director in Inland Empire bank ever since its organiza tion, is a member of Elks, W. 0. W. and I. 0. 0. F.; was Grand Master I. O. 0. F. 1913 and 1914; Grand Rep resentative 1914 and 1915, now serving his ninth year as Trustee of I. 0. 0. F. Home at Portland. His Platform: If elected he will, during his term of office, faithfully and honestly fulfill his official duties with the least possible expense to tax payers. He favors a reasonable and just income tax, normal school in Eastern Oregon, the completion of all state highways and retirement of bonds as they mature; the perpetuity of Pendleton Round-Up, proper leg islation for protection of labor, re duced license for used automobiles, abolishment of useless commissions. He has no pet bills, no private or secret interests to serve, and stands on his record as Senator for 1923 and 1925 sessions of the Legislative Assembly. He believes in a square deal for all persons. In the 1925 ses sion Senator Taylor was the author of Senate Bill 64 prviding relief for farmers hard hit by the big freezeout that winter. He voted no on the Dennis resolution. (Paid Advertisement) an order of the County Court of the State of Oregon for Morrow County, made and entered on the 20th day of ( ctober, 1926, a meeting of the legal voters of said Road District Number 1 (one) of Morrow County, State of Oregon, will be held at the Wads worth hall in Irrigon, Morrow Coun ty, Oregon, in the said Road District Number I (one), Saturday, the 20th day of November, 1926, at the hour of 2 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, for the purpose of voting an ad ditional tax for Road purposes upon all the taxable property in said Road District to the amount of Five (&) Mills on the dollar, said tax to be ex pended as follows: To dress with fine gravel the roads in said District which have been given a dressing of coarse gravel. R. L. BENGE, County Judge. Attest: GAY M. ANDERSON, Clerk. (SEAL) LEST WE FORGET Roy W. Ritner, as president of the State Senate, was acting Governor of Oregon for 35 days during November and December, 1922, and including January 1, 1923. During this time Mr. Ritner extended executive clem ency to seventy-four inmates of the Oregon penitentiary including 28 pa roles, 27 pardons, 7 paroles and re storations to citizenship and 12 com mutations of sentence. On Nov. 1, 1922, there were 469 in mates of the state "pen" which had a capacity of 600. , Among those released by him dur ing this time were 10 men convicted of murder in the first or second de gree sentenced to life imprisonment and having served time ranging from 4 years 11 months to 11 years. Some of these crimes were of the most de liberate and cold blooded kind, among them being murders by three Chi nese gunmen or hired assassins of rival tongs who shot down their vic tims on the street in reckless disre gard of the lives of white citizens. In the case of one Chinese, Gov. Olcott had refused a pardon and in the oth er two judgment had been affirmed by the Supreme Court of Oregon and the special prosecutor in the case said he never knew or heard of application for pardon for either until he read in the daily papers that they had been pardoned by Acting Governor Ritner. Four were released who had been convicted of rape after serving por tions of sentences, the details of the crimes being revolting in the extreme. One case of unusual local interest was that of a man convicted of secur ing over $8,000.00 from Umatilla coun ty on forged road warrants pardoned after serving 13 months of a five year sentence. Gov. Olcott's office re fused consideration of this case in June, 1922. The above statement of facts is taken from the report of a Committee of the Oregon Bar Association after Mines In! Is Yours? TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Heppner, Lexington, lone an examination of the records at Sa lem. This report was signed by Jo seph N. Teal, Chairman, and four other attorneys of Oregon. Mr. Ritner after serving eight years in the Senate and in both elections unopposed by the Democratic Party, is now a candidate for Joint Repre sentative and is opposed by the under signed, Joseph N. Scott, Democratic nominee, a native of Umatilla county, a graduate of the Weston Normal school and a farmer by occupation. I am in favor of a State income tax the Grange Bill and believe in fewer, better and nlainer laws. If elected I will work for the best interests of this District and of Ore gon. I regard a public office as a public trust. (Signed) JOSEPH N. SCOTT. Pendleton, Oregon, Oct. 21, 1926. (Paid Advertisement) ALFALFA LAWN MILK AND CREAM Whole, tested milk and separated cream. Tell the driver. Alfalfa Lawn Dairy WIGHTMAN BROS., Propa. Phone S0F3 Go to GILLIAM & BISBEE for Copper Carbonate. for Blue Stone. 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