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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1937 PAGE THREE LEXINGTON NEWS Lexington People Visit Salem, Portland By Bertha Hunt Mrs. E. C. Daugherty and daugh ter returned home Sunday from Blalock where they have been vis iting for a week. Mrs. Florence Beach arrived home from Portland Thursday where she has been visiting fo some time at the home of her sister, Mrs. Mabel Raymond. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whillock, Helen Breshears and Bud Park were in Hermiston Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Leach re turned home Monday from their vacation spent in California and Oklahoma. Miss Erma Lane returned to Port land Thursday. She was accompan ied by her mother, Mrs. Eva Lane. Beulah Nichols and Mrs. J. G. Johnson motored to Corvallis Thurs day, returning Friday. Arnold Sprauer spent several days in Portland last week. Claire Phelan took his place in the barber shop while he was away. Rae Cowins of Heppner is staying with her grandmother, Mrs. George Allyn, and attending school in Lex ington. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jackson and family motored to Salem and at tended the state fair on Friday. Mrs. Maude Pointer and Mrs. Laura Scott went to Portland Fri day. Harriet Pointer joined them at Dufur and accompanied them. Orville Cutsforth made a trip to Portland Tuesday. Mrs. Effie Parkins spent two weeks in Palouse, Wash., visiting her son, Wilbur Parkins, and her daughter, Lottie Dayley. Jay Griffith and family of Spray were visiting at the William Padberg home Saturday and Sunday. Harry Dinges made a business trip to Arlington Sunday. Word has been received here of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle Harrison of Marshfield. Mrs. Harrison was formerly Alice Palmer of this city. Golda Leathers is in Portland with her sister, Mrs. Lew Knighten, who is ill. John Day Prepares Big Fair, Sept. 23-5 John Day, "the biggest little town in Oregon," is all set and ready for the vast throngs who will assemble here next Thursday, Friday and Sat urday, Sept. 23, 24, 25, for the 28th annual Grant County fair, with all three days jammed full of lively events, according to H. R. Elliott, general chairman of the fair. The outlook for the annual county ex position is far beyond his initial ex pectations. The seasons have been propitious for farm, field and range and the pavilion and livestock ex hibits should be superb. There will be a large assemblage of race horses here this year for the fair, and for the rodeo events the association has more bucking horses on hand An year than ever before, and with an increase in prize money for races, rodeo events and also for the big parade, much enthusiasm is being shown. Included among new feature attractions this year will be donkey baseball games under flood lights on the fair grounds, Thursday and Friday nights, featuring Jack Bartlett's famous trained donkeys in a three-game series between the Lions club, the fair board, and the American Legion. Donkey baseball is new, funny and different, and has been a screaming sensation where ever it has been played. Another special feature will be an open air fight card under floodlights at the fair grounds Saturday night at 7:30 sharp, featuring the well known Johnnie Shumway vs. Midnight Bell, middle weight champion of Oregon. Shumway, who just recently started his professional career, attended the University of Idaho and this year won the national amateur champion ship in his class. John Day is ready to give you a cordial welcome and promises plenty of action, plenty of fun and frolic! for young and old. There will be lots of concessions, merry-go-round for the kiddies, and a big dance in the Legion hall each night of the fair. BIDS ON 16 WELLS A. M. Edwards, Lexington well driller, was in Portland Tuesday morning to bid on the drilling of 16 wells by the Resettlement adminis tration in the Dayville section. Ed wards reports one of his machines drilling northwest of Almira, Wash., while another is starting near Stan field. The Dayville project calls for holes varying from 50 to 200 feet in depth. Mr. Edwards was transacting business in the city Monday after noon just before leaving for Port lahl. In the city again yesterday, Mr. Edwards reported success in land ing the Dayville contract. SEAL SALES UP ' Christmas seal sales in Oregon for 1936 of $52,123.10 exceeded the 1935 figure by $7410.13, reported Oregon Tuberculosis association following recent final check of receipts. Thirty-two counties showed sharp in crease in sales, while Hood River had largest per capita sale of 8.9 seals for each resident. Morrow county reported sales of $171.34. IS MALHEUR LIBRARIAN Mrs. Dessa Devin Hofstetter, who has been head of the school refer ence department of the state library for the last two years, has been ap pointed Malheur county librarian and will leave Salem the first of October to take up her new duties in Ontario. They Pay, and Pay An old saw says it's the woman who pays, and pays, and pays. But the wise little Wand Ad arises to take exception. Here's a sam ple received this week from a user: "I sold the chickens, so please discontinue the ad." P. W. Mahoney was called to his sheep camp on Skookum creek Mon day evening by an accident sustained by Ed Osborn, herder. Osborn re ceived a badly cut foot when the head flew off an axe while cutting wood. He was brought to a local physician who sewed up the wound, and returned to work Tuesday afternoon. Morning Glory Rust to Be Studied by OSC A rust fungus discovered by an Oregon State college professor 22 years ago and re-discovered by a southern Oregon farmer may prove the long-sought key to the control of wild morning glory, probably the most universal and destructive per ennial weed in Oregon and many other states. D. M. Lowe, a Jackson county farmer, has used the fungus on his own place last year and this, and reports completely eradicating morn ing glory from one field, so far as surface growth is concerned, at least, any says that leaves on the morn ing glory patch on which it was used this year are a solid mass of rust. The existence of this condition has been confirmed by Dr. F. P. Mc Whorter, plant pathologist at the Oregon experiment station, who has visited the farm a number of times and has collected material for 'fur ther scientific tests being made by the experiment station in the course of its weed eradication studies. The story of finding the- fungus, told by Mr. Lowe, is that 22 years ago H. S. Jackson, at that time a professor of botany and plant path ology at Oregon State college and now on the staff of the University of Toronto, came to southern Ore gon on a combined fishing and fun gus collecting trip. Lowe and Pro fessor Jackson were together when the latter found a wild morning glory plant infected with rust. He gathered some for his own collection, and suggested to Lowe that he might try it on his farm. Lowe says he did, and cleaned up all the morning glories on his place at that time. Recently a different farm owned by him became infested with morn ing glories, and he remembered his former experience. Through careful search of the original territory he found some of the same rust, with the results just mentioned. Dr. McWhorter emphasizes the fact that the experiment station has no material to distribute and does BE SURE TO REGISTER in our FREE! .35 Remington Rifle to registered hunter weighing in the largest buck over our scales, 1937 season. ALSO: Peters' Cash Prize POOL FOR SMALLEST BUCK All kinds of Sporting Goods Peters and Remington Ammunition NEW and USED GUNS Green's Hardware not know yet whether this rust is particularly virulent on the wild morning glory common to southern Oregon, or if it is equally effective on those growing in other parts of the state. These are questions which will be settled just as soon as green house and field tests can be carried out. . So far as observed, the rust has no other host plant. Read G. T. Want Ads. You way find a bargain in something needed. 28th Annual Grant County Fair Agricultural and Livestock Exhibits HORSE RACING AND RODEO EVENTS JOHN DAY, ORE. Sept. 23-4-5 Parades Concessions Band Music This year the Fair is offering more prize money for: Races, Rodeo and Parade; and also a number of special feature attractions: DONKEY BASEBALL (Under Floodlights, Thurs-Fri. Nights) OPEN-AIR SMOKER Saturday Night, 7 :30 Featuring Johnnie Shumway vs. Midnight Bell BIG DANCE Each Night of Fair VWLL SAVE RflWEY and n nn n Villi BY buying youk cm FOES ftffiJlh 1 11: : M l :f : i tWI 1LU Yoo provide one-third the cost of the car you want new or used (under three years old) in cash or trade-in value. This bank will lend you the remainder in CASH so you can make a cash deal. Here are the steps you should take in buying a car: 1. SEE THIS BANK -ANY BRANCH. 2. SELECT YOUR CAR. 3. PAY CASH TO THE DEALER OR OWNER. Remember an inquiry about our Cash Buyer Plan places you under no obligation. HEPPNER BRANCH The FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND TJRST HATtOHAL BANK west of tnc eoocrcr I M III MDIIAI DEPOSIT INSURANCE COIPORATION