HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 9, 1937
PAGE FIVE
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lexington Responds
To Red Cross Call
By Bertha Hunt
The annual Red Cross membership
drive was completed Thanksgiving
Day and all monies have been turn
ed over to the Morrow County chap
ter by the local committee. Lexing
ton's drive exceeded its quota with
55 memberships and 2 contributors,
Making a total of $56 received. The
success of the drive was largely due
to the efforts of the following peo
ple who solicited: Mrs. Wm. Smeth
urst, Mrs. Bertha Hunt, Mrs. R. B.
Rice, Mrs. Chas. Marquardt, Mrs. A.
M. Edwards, Mrs. Wm. Van Winkle,
Mrs. Anne Jonhson, Mrs. Harvey
Bauman. Following is a list of mem
bers signed up:
Edna Turner, W. R. Scott, Reta
Cutler, Mary Alice Reed, Raymond
H. Turner, W. S. Spencer, Spokane,
Lavelle Leathers, Wm. D. Campbell,
Elmer Hunt, W. B. Tucker, Lilian
Turner, Tom Nichols (contributor),
Lorraine Beach, Rufus Pieper (con
tributor), Mrs. N. M. Davis, Ola
Ward, Mrs. J. G. Johnson, Harry
Duvall, J. Parker Lineberry, Ladd
Sherman, Orville Cutsforth, Mrs.
Orville Cutsforth, George Peck, W.
C. Van Winkle, Mrs. R. A. Camp
bell, Mrs. Gene Gray, L. A. Palmer,
Mrs. Dee Cox, Jr., Mrs. Edna Mun
kers, S. J. Devine, G. R. White,
Maude Pointer, Anna Miller, A. F.
Nelson, R. B. Rice, Annie Hynd,
Nellie Doney, W. G. Hynd, David
Hynd, Mrs. Chas. Marquardt, Mrs.
Ruth McMillan, Wm. Smethurst, Ray
Phillips, Roy Johnson, Mrs. Florence
Beach, Mrs. Sarah White, Mrs. O. J.
Cox, James L. Leach, Dona E. Bar
nett, John Lasich, Elsie M. Beach,
Mrs. S. G. McMillan, Edith M. Ed
wards, Henderson Bros., Jackson
Implement Co., Mrs. A. M. Edwards,
Mrs. Ralph Jackson.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Dough
erty, a son Jerry Mack, weighing
6Vfe pounds, at the home of Mrs. P.
A. Mollahan in Heppner, Tuesday,
December 7.
Mrs. George Smith and Mrs. Tom
Solvester of Blalock are visiting at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
Dougherty. Mrs. Smith is a sister
and Mrs. Solvester an aunt of Mrs.
Dougherty's.
Ed Warner and son Eldon of Pilot
Rock were guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Scott over the
week end.
Rev. Cecil Warner of Hermiston
will preach Sunday at 2:30 at the
Christian church. Christian Endeav
or for young people will meet im
mediately after the church services.
A Christmas play and program are'
being prepared for the Christian and
Congregational Sunday schools to
be presented Sunday, Dec. 19.
Oris Padberg and Vernon Scott
were business visitors in Condon on
Monday.
Mrs. Elsie Beach returned Tues
day from a short business trip to
Portland.
Curley Sacks has returned from
Spray where he has been working.
Clay and Ray Phillips motored to
Portland Sunday to visit their broth
er, Howard Lane.
Mrs. James Pointer who has been
visiting with relatives in this com
munity left for her home in Silver-
ton Thursday.
Eugene Gray, Wm. Van Winkle
and Merritt Gray were in Pendle
ton on business one day this week.
Mrs. Marion Palmer who under
went an appendicitis operation in
Pendleton has returned to her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Allyn of lone
were in Lexington Monday.
Howard Lane who underwent a
major operation at Portland last
Thursday is reported to be making
good progress toward recovery.
Arthur Hunt suffered a painful
injury Sunday evening when he cut
his wrist while chipping wood at his
home. Seven stitches were required
to close the wound.
Mr. and Mrs. Eslie Walker motored
to Hardman Monday where they at
tended the funeral of Mr. Walker's
uncle, Bert Walker, who passed away
in Heppner Thursday evening.;
Mrs. Sarah C. White, with her son
and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs,
Gerald White of Hermiston, spent
the Thanksgiving week end with presentation was made through Miss
her daughter, Mrs. Lee Gilbreth, at
Waitsburg, Wash.
Don Way returned from Newberg
where he has been employed in a
logging camp.
Mrs. Lawrence Beach and Mrs.
Claude Graham visited at the Dick
Wightman home in Arlington Sun
day. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Barnett, Mrs.
Trina Parker and Dona E. Barnett
were Thanksgiving dinner guests
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James
Leach. A feature of the day also was
the taking of moving pictures, Mr.
Leach having a good Eastman movie
camera.
Word has been received here of
the marriage of Miss Edith A. Tuck
er, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
Tucker of this community, to Brad
ley Castle of Weiser, Ida. The mar
riage was solemnized at Weiser on
Sunday, Dec. 5.
Mrs. W. B. Tucker and son Wood
row motored to Salem Wednesday
where they spent several days vis
iting Mrs. Tucker's father, Tom
Scott. They were accompanied as
far as Portland by A. H. Nichols and
son Billy.
Among those attending the East
ern Oregon Wheat league meeting
at La Grande from Lexington were
Frank Saling, A. H. Nelson, B. H.
Peck, R. B. Rice, O. W. Cutsforth,
George Peck, Louis Marquardt and
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Miller.
School News
The local high school basketball
team played its first game of the
season with Echo on the opponents'
floor Nov. 31, and met defeat with
a score of 32-18.
The grade school boys' basketball
team was defeated by Heppner"s
grade school team on the home
floor Dec. 3. The final score was
18-4. '
A valuable addition to the Lex
ington school library was made on
November 13 when a volume of
"Twenty Eventful Years" by Law
rence K: Hodges, was presented by
Mr. N. A. Leach of Portland. The
Dona Barnett. The grateful apprecia
tion of the Lexington high school
is extended to Mr. Leach for this
gift
On the afternoon of December 3
the high school boys met the girls
in a spelling duel, and were defeated.
The girls expect a party in their
honor sometime in the near future.
The date for the student body
play, "Tiptoe Inn," has been set for
January 7, 1938. The cast is work
ing at every opportunity.
Lexington's first home basketball
game of the season will be Friday
night, Dec. 10, with Umatilla. Ad
mission will be 10c and 25c.
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wrapped," installed just before or just after
Christmas day, and billed to donor, is a mod
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