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PAGE TWO HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 14, 1929 BOARDMAN suits. A few pounds of poisoned hay judiciously applied brings some mazing results. Three new Durants made their appearance on the project W. H. Mefford and Z. J. Gillespie each are driving new coaches and How ard Ellis a coupe. Mrs. Leslie Packard and daugh ter, Mrs. Lowell Spagle, are home from a month's visit with friends and relatives in Seattle. Mrs. H. C. Ellis has gone to Wil low creek to be with her daughter, Mrs. Joe White. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. White on Tuesday evening. J. C. Ballenger made a business trip to Heppner Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Raymond of Cascade, Idaho, visited overnight Tuesday with the C. G. Blaydens. Thev were enroute home from a motor trip to The Dalles. Mrs. J. R. Johnson was hostess Wednesday to the Silver Tea which is given the first Wednesday in each month by the ladies aid. In spite of the extremely cold weather about 30 ladies were present ana had a most delightful afternoon. Mrs. Robert Raymond of Cascade Idaho, a guest of Mrs. Blayden, was present The house was appropri ately decorated in the Valentine motif. A dainty lunch was served. The next aid meeting will be at Mrs. J. F. Gorham's, February 20. The next Silver Tea will be at Mrs. Roval Rand's home. Roval Rands was appointed road supervisor for the Boardman dis trict at a recent meeting of the county court Ralph Humphrey has handled the position very capa bly for the past year but did not care for the position again. Boardman has been experiencing a bit of "very unusual" weather which has disrupted plans of many people for many occasions, again bringing to mind Burns' oft' quoted lines, "The best laid plans of mice and men, etc." After snowing spas modically for days until we were all fed up on it a few days of slightly warmer weather came, followed on Wednesday night by a cold snap that sent the mercury to 25 degrees below, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights were similar with varvine temperatures of 2o, b, t and the days extremely cold. The Heppner-Boardman basket ball game to have been played here Friday night was forfeited by Heppner because of the bitter wea ther. It would indeed have been folly for the boys to have made the trip. The play, "Our Awful Aunt," on which a cast of local people have been working for weeks, was post poned for the second time because of the inclement weather. The date will be announced later but as ev erv week-end in February is filled it will orobablv not be given this month. L. V. Woodward who conducted the Highway Inn here for a time is ill at Umatilla. Paul M. Smith is here from East ern Washington, where he has been since last spring. He came to make arrangements for renting his ranch. Win. Strobel has rented it the past vear but did not care to lease it again. Walter Knauff who had the con tract for hauling the school coal was kept warm during the bitter weather as the carload arrived Thursday evening. Ray Brown helDed him unload the coal. Orthun Hereim celebrated his sixth birthday on February 7, was one of the bitterest of the days with the mercury registering 26 be low zero that morning, but seven small folks were present in spite of the cold. Lunch was served to Mardell Gorham, Sonny Dillabough, Maxene Cooney, Pauline Strobel, Francis and Ruth Pattee and Ivera Olson, and A. T. and Orthun Her eim. Little baskets filled with can dy were given the small guests, Mrs. O. B. Olson and Mrs. Wm Strobel were present. No school was held Thursday be cause of the severe cold it was im possible to get the temperature high enough in the building until late the afternoon. On Friday the busses ran but so few attended that it was decided not to open school on Monday. It is a long, cold ride for the small folks. The Roots, Barlows and Meffords have had some delightful dinner parties together to honor birthdays in the family, but none more de lightful than that on Sunday when the clan surprised Ed Barlow. sumptuous birthday dinner was en joyed at the Roots' with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Barlow, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barlow, L. V. Root and family, M and Mrs. W. H. Mefford, Evelyn and Alvie, Guy Barlow, Mr. and Mrs Truman Messenger of Athena who were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs, Miller of Athena, and Mr. and Mrs, Claude Coats and Echo, Mr. and Mrs. Z. J. Gillespie. lone and Boardman will play league game here Friday night. Guy Barlow motored to The Dalles on Wednesday to see his wife and new little daughter. Both Mrs. Barlow and baby are doing nicely and if weather permits will come home next Sunday. Guy drove home his new Durant coach. The Boardman ranchers who have sheep have been having an interesting time during the cold weather with lambs making their debut into the world. Various means have been employed, the most popular method being to take the lambkins into the kitchen un til they become a bit accustomed to the new environment and the baa-baas have sounded in various homes on the project Since most of the farmers have only small bands they have been enabled to save a large percentage of the lambs. Grandpa Nickerson is help ing L. G. Smith during lambing. J. R. Johnson suffered with pain in one of his eyes. He thought he had some foreign substance in it but a visit to Dr. Sears on Monday could detect nothing. The doctor thought perhaps it was a scratch. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Agee and Em ma, and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mackan and children were guests Sunday at the Claude Myers home at a lovely dinner. A number of farmer have been poisoning rabbiU with excellent re- 1 1 yji runs ALPINE. By Gertrude E. Tichenor During the recent snows the peo ple of this community have been exercising themselves and have held several rabbit drives in Sand Hollow below the Alpine school house. Altogether they have killed n the neighborhood of 5000 rabbits. Those who do not attend the driv iss the time of their lives to sav nothing of the doughnuts, sand- iches and coffee they miss. Dan Lindsey returned to his home Friday following a week of jury duty in Heppner. Grover Sibley, who has been spending the winter in Portland, has returned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Bennett where he will assist with the spring and sum mer work. Mrs. Merle Bennett returned to her home last Saturday following week's visit with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McDaniel of Rhea creek. The February meeting of the Al pine Farm Bureau association was held at Alpine on Saturday evening, February 2nd. About 30 were pres ent This small crowd was due to so much sickness and the blockaded condition of the roads. The meet ing, however, turned into a social party and everyone had a jolly good time. Mrs. Chas. Schmidt and son Al fred were guests Saturday after noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irl Clary. The season s storm which has swept through this community is mighty welcome to the wheatgrow ers, regardless of the fact that it makes lots of hard work right now, It has brought back the old-fash ioned sleigh riding and coasting. It also has caused a poor attend ance at school. Willard Hawley was a guest Sun day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irl Clary. On Thursday evening of last week Mr. and Mrs. Mike Sepanek entertained Mrs. Anna Heiny, Mrs, Geo. Lambirth and daughter Cela- tha and Messrs. Irl Clary and Wil lard Hawley. Merle Bennett was an Echo vis itor on Monday of this week. A week ago Saturday Dan Lind sey and son Elec motored to Pen dleton. C. Melville took J. C. Thompson on Wednesday to the doctors. Mr. Thompson had his hand treated and the bones set But it proved to be a tedious task as the accident oc curred on Sunday and he was un able to get out before Wednesday. It will be at least six" weeks before he will be able to use his hand at all. The Misses Naomi and Audrey Moore spent part of last week with their sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Neill. There was no school at Pine City the past two weeks owing to the bad roads. The school busses were unable to get through. John Williams who spent some time in Pendleton has returned to the home of Ed Ditty. C. Melville was a business visitor at Stanfleld and Hermiston Saturday. J. C. Thompson had the misfor tune to get two bones broken in his right hand, the result of an accident with his horse and sleigh. The Misses Naomi and Audrey Moore and Peggy Thompson were recent guests of Miss Gertrude E. Tichenor. Charles Berry has been in Echo the past two weeks, suffering from a badly sprained knee which he re ceived while feeding sheep for Tom Boylen on the West Camp ranch. Messrs. Charles and Neil Melville were Hermiston and Echo shoppers last Saturday. Margaret Herndon spent Wednes day visiting with Peggy Thompson and Naomi Moore at the Thompson home. Mike Sepanek and daughter Betty were Echo visitors quite recently. On Saturday afternoon Miss Ger trude E. Tichenor had the misfor tune to slip on some ice and a ser iously sprained ankle was the re sult of the accident. "Snowbound" is the word for Al pine. Only two regular mail deliv eries in the last three weeks; snow to the knees; icicles six feet long and big accordingly hanging from the eaves on the shady side of the school house; temperature from 20 to 28 degrees below zero at night and no relief in sight at present writing. School attendance has been good ,1s, 1 York, drove to Hermiston on Tuesday of last week for a supply of fuel, get ting it home just before the extreme cold began. Ruth Bennett was absent from school the better part of last week, owing to drifted roads. To celebrate the occasion a major ity of the young people who had as sisted at the rabbit drive gathered at the home of George Lambirth and spent a pleasant evening at pinochle and pedro. A delicious lunch was served near the close of the evening. Those present besides the family were Helen Bennett Bill, John and Lawrence Doherty, Betty and Bernice Sepanek, Willard Hawley, Mrs. Anna Helny, Jack Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Clary and Vtindi Menuhin. New world famous 12 year old master of "the violin, with the $60,000 Stradivarius violin presented to him by Mr. and Mrs. nenry uoiu man, admirers. considering the weather. The ab sentees live from three to four miles from the building. G. L. Bennett is finding that re covery from flu and pneumonia is a tedious affair. No church services have been held in this vicinity for the last three Sundays owing to the blocked roads and intense cold. Frank Saling and Willard Haw ley took two Chryslers to Pendle ton on Saturday. They touna tne driving quite a cold and disagree able iob. Merle Bennett, wife and mother recently made a business trip to Echo. They found the town pretty well frozen in. Hazel Bennet thas been having considerable ear trouble since re covering from the flu. Mrs. Anna Heiny had a slight at tack of pleurisy last week but was able to do most of her school work. Mrs. George Lambirth slipped on the snow and suffered a hard fall which caused an injury to her hip that is still bothering her. Lost our mail carrier. Disap peared a couple of weeks ago and has bobbed up only once since. Any news of him will be gratefully re ceived by a suffering public. ' Merle Bennett, accompanied by Grover Sibley and Mrs. Lambirth, union pacific STAGES INC. operating deluxe Stages between PORTLAND THE DALLES PENDLETON WALLA WALLA. LEWISTON and all INTERMEDIATE POINTS j' Stages leave from ARLINGTON HOTEL Expreae Package Carried 4 km jliPJl DRINK MORE MILK Wise old Mother Nature made milk for children. Into it she put every thing needed for sustenance, and in the most easily assimilated form. So, Drink More Milk. Let the children have plenty. It is the cheapest food you can buy. Alfalfa Lawn Dairy WIGHTMAN BROS, Prop. Phone 30F3 200 Head of Registered Shorthorn Cattle TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION FEBRUARY 22ND and FEBRUARY 23RD 165 BULLS 35 FEMALES HEBD BULLS, BA.NGE BULLS AND BULLS FOB FABM USE The 105 BULLS -which are offered in these two sales, will have more aae, size and quality to suit the RANGE MAN than any other offeringa to be made this Spring. With this number of cattle to alei:t from you can buy to suit your needs, in any price range you wish. The females are a select lot. 13TH NORTHWEST SHORTHORN BREEDERS' SALE AT Union Stockyards SPOKANE, WASHINGTON ON Friday Feb. 22, 1929 10:30 A. M. 80 Bulls 15 Females From the beet herda Id the Northwest. For Catalonge of Breeder! Sale write CAM. GRIEF, UNIONTOWN, WN. 8TH ANNUAL HERCULES SHORTHORN SALE AT Hertules Stock Farm SFAGUE, WASHINGTON ON Saturday, Feb. 23, 1929 10:30 A. M. 85 Bulls 15 Females Hercnlea Show and feed yard rec ords prove their quality. Animala sold snbject to a aixty-day reteat for tuberonloaia. For Catalonia of Hercnlea Sale write F. M. ROTKBOCK CO., SPOKANE The railroads grant a half rate on lens than carload shipments. When nurchawrn uing a common shipping point buy in either or both the Breeders' or Hei-ule." Sales, o carload of not less than fifteen head the sellers will pay one-half the freight any distance within six hundred miles, when one railroad is used. See your neighbor and arrange to attend these Bales and combine your shipments. "SANDY" KEITH, Auctioneer 1 Assisted by Harry L. Bnmmera, Salmon, Idaho, and Earl O. Walter, Filer, Idaho. NOW In Our New Location Corner Entrance Case Apartment Building, with a fresh, complete stock of GROCERIES PHELPS Grocery Co. THE HOME OF GOOD EATS Phone Main 53 We Deliver their two childien. lira. Anna Helny took dinner at the home of George Lambirth on Sunday last Miss Bernice Sepanek, who Is reg istered this semester for post grad uate work, was absent the past week because of threatened lung trouble. Willard Hawley is suffering from an attack of bronchitis and was un able to attend the final rabbit drive, although he is not confined to his home. Miss Helen Bennett has had ton silitis during the past week but is making a speedy recovery. Straw for Sale Lexington, SF32. We Guard Savings There are many sharpers who lie awake nights scheming how to get their hands on people's money. Your savings in our bank are guard ed against loss and earn good interest as well. Don't wait, bring them in today. Farmers & Stockgrowers National Heppner Bank OreSn illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllM When Winter Breaks and the Roads Are Clear IHEN will start the rush and bustle of spring ac tivity. Housecleaning will not be the only task to keep farm and town folk employed. Repairs on buildings and machinery made necessary by the rigors of winter, must be made; depleted larders must be restored, and the Spring wardrobe looked to. For all of which Heppner mer chants will be well stocked to meet your needs. The advertising columns of the Heppner Gazette Times bring the latest in Heppner shopping news. KEEP POSTED! READ THE ADS ! ni