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
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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.
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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
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