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Volume 53, Number 42
Masons, 0. E..S.
Dine on Turkey,
Install Officers
Christmas Motif
Features Social
Event; Gifts Made
Gaily Christmas decorated rooms
of Masonic hall was the scene of the
anual joint installation and turkey
dinner of Masonic orders Monday
evening. Lodge members and famil
ies taxed capacity of the hall for
this highlight social event of the
Christmas season.
A beautiful program feature ac
centuating the Christmas motif was
a candlelight service with singing
of carols by a girls' chorus under
the direction of Miss Juanita Leath
ers. .Carolers were Lucile Barlow,
Peggy Tamblyn,- Dorotha Wilson,
Patty O'Hara, Jean Turner and
Marylou Ferguson. Kathryn Parker
and Harriet Hager were pages light
ing candles, and Gertrude Parker
was chaplain.
Presentations featured the instal
lation ceremonies. For the Order of
Eastern. Star, Ailene Ball presented
basket and large yellow 'mums to
Mary Guild, incoming worthy ma
.tron, from the Past Worthy Matrons'
club. May Gilliam presented a gift
to Mrs. Guild rom her husband.
Clarence Bauman presented Virginia
Turner, retiring worthy matron
with a past matron's pin from the
chapter. Mary Guild presented Mrs.
Turner with a gift from her officers
and J. O. Turner presented C. J. D.
Bauman, retiring worthy patron with
a gift from the officers. For the Ma
sonic Blue lodge, Clarence Bauman
presented J. O. Turner, retiring wor
shipful master, with a past master's
jewel.
F. S. Parker as installing officer
for the Blue lodge had the honor of
inducting his son, Vawter Parker,
as the lodge's new worshipful mas
ter. Other officers installed were
Archie C. Ball, S. W.; Wm. D. Camp
bell, J. W.; Frank S. Parker, treas
urer; Spencer Crawford, secretary;
Terrel Benge, S D.; L. D. Tibbies, J.
D.; Millard D. Rodman, S. S.; Earl
T. Fulkerson, J. S.; R. C. Wightman,
chaplain; C. J. D. Bauman, marshal;
W. E. Pruyn, tyler. R. C. Wightman
acted as. installing marshal.
With Mrs. Hazel Vaughn as in
stalling officer, Mrs. Lena Cox as
installing marshal and Miss Juanita
Leathers as organist, Eastern Star
officers were inducted as follows:
Mary Guild, W. M.; C. J. D. Bau
man, W. P.; Faye Ferguson, A. M.;
R. C. Wightman, A. P.; Muriel
Vaughn, secretary; Emma Evans,
treasurer; Madge Thomson, conduct
ress; Etta Parker, associate conduct
ress; Blanche Patterson, chaplain;
Carna Campbell, marshal; Lera
Crawford' Adah; Flora Dimick, Ruth;
Nancy Jane Cox, Esther; Ella Benge,
Martha; Annie Schaffer, Electa;
Coramae Ferguson, organist; Paul
ine Hughes, warder; Chas. B. Cox,
sentinel.
C. J. D. Bauman was installing of
ficer for the Royal Arch Masons, as
sisted by R. C. Wightman as mar
shal and the following were induct
ed into office:
Geo. Ely, high priest; William
Vawter Parker, King; W. Claude
Cox, Scribe; H. A. Tamblyn, Captain
of Host; M. D. Clark, treasurer; E.
R. Huston, secretary; C. J. D. Bau
man, Principal Sojourner; Robert C.
Wightman, Royal Arch Captain;
Hanson Hughes, Master of 3rd Vail;
Chas. B. Cox, Master of 2nd Vail;
J. J. Wightman, Master of 1st Vail;
W. E. Pruyn, sentinel.
DENTIST MAY LOCATE
D. Miller of Oregon City, recent
graduate of North Pacific Dental
college in Portland, was in Heppner
Monday in company with Guy John
son of Pendleton, looking over avail
able locations with view to estab
lishing a dental office here. Mr.
Johnson is a fuel dealer and loan
company manager at Pendleton.
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HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC. 23, 1937
Mrs. Claude Cox
Has Narrow Escape
Mrs. Claude Cox had a narrow
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escape from a blazing automobile
bout 10 o'clock last Friday morn
ing when the family car in which
she was driving alone left the high
way and turned over several times
a few miles below lone. Mrs. Cox
was returning to Heppner from Ar
lington, where she had gone to meet
her son Charles on his way home
from Oregon State college for the
holidays, but who had caught a ride
on to Heppner before she arrived at
Arlington.
She apparently swerved a little too
far toward the edge of the highway
on meeting a truck on a curve, re
sulting in the accident. The car was
in flames almost immediately and
the three men who were in the truck
rushed to Mrs. Cox's aid. The car
was lying" on one side and Mrs. Cox
was attempting futilely to open the
door above, which had been jam
med, when the men arrived. Their
combined effort was required to
extricate her. The truck belonged
to Noah Pettyjohn and one of the
Pettyjohn boys was driving. The
Cox car was completely wrecked by
the flames. Mrs. Cox was uninjured,
though she suffered from shock.
Sister Arranges
Christmas Art
At Judge's. Office
Many beautiful touches of the
artist's hand have lended cheer
to the Christmas season in Mor
row county, but at the county's
seat of government in the court
house is exhibited a specimen wor
thy of its position. Composed by
Miss Olga Johnson, Portland art
teacher, it was placed in the coun
ty judge's office Monday at the
request of Miss Johnson's brother,
Bert Johnson, county judge, with
Jim Archer, janitor, assisting in
arranging the .display.
The display is a table set-piece,
with border of fir boughs and hol
ly, depicting the arrival of the
guiding angel with three she
pherds at the cradle of Jesus- be
side which sits Mary, the holy
mother. A deep blue background
with sparklets reflecting the in
direct light from a daylight elec
tric light bulb, itself representa
tive of the Star of the East, makes
a starlit firmament, against which
the colorful paper figures are set
out by indirect light frbm a red
bulb. A vertical strip of holly and
fir boughs through the center of
the scene, adds depth and quality.
The figures were, all painted by
Miss Johnson, and the composition
is entirely original. It was first
displayed at an exhibit from the
Portland schools. Desiring to share
appreciation of the work with the
county public, Mr. Johnson has ex
tended an invitation to anyone
who may wish to see it to drop in
at the office.
Besides being an accomplished
artist, Miss Johnson is a well
trained athlete, having represent
ed Oregon several years ago at a
national meet of women athletes
at Chicago. She swims, plays ten
nis and rides horseback as diver
sion from classroom work.
Lighting Contest t
Adds Season Cheer
Pacific Power and Light com
pany's home exterior Christmas
lighting contest had drawn eight
registered entrants this morning,
with four other displays not yet en
tered as they had s not been com
pleted. The displays, lighted be
tween 5 and 9 o'clock each evening
until January 1 under contest rules,
will be judged sometime within the
next week.
Trees in home yards, lit with vari
colored lights, and clever lighting
arrangements on exteriors of houses
themselves lend much cheer to the
season.
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MRS. F. D. COX WAS
PIONEER MOTHER
Resident of Hinton Creek Dis
trict Since 1875 Succumbs to
Stroke; Many Attend Rites
Mrs. Franklin D. Cox, esteemed
pioneer mother, died at the farm
home on Hinton creek Monday night
as the result of a paralytic stroke
about a week previous. The fatal
illness came as a shock to family
and friends, for in a long, active and
hardy life, Mrs. Cox had known lit
tle illness. She was the mother of
eleven surviving children,' grand
mother of thirty-five children, and
great gandmother of ten children.
She had been a continuous resident
of the Hinton creek district since
1875.
Funeral services were held from
the Christian church in this city
yesterday afternoon in charge of
Phelps Funeral home with Rev. R.
C. Young officiating' and interment
was in Masonic cemetery. A large
concourse of relatives and friends
attended and the floral tribute was
profuse.
Elizabeth Isabel Hayman was born
at Callous, Maine, Jan. 16, 1866, to
Martin and Hanna Affa (Woodcock)
Hayman. With her parents she came
to Morrow county in 1875 from Mar
ion county. Two years later, in 1877,
Franklin D. Cox came to work for
her father, and shortly the romance
began which led him to wed Miss
Hayman at Heppner on February 13,
1882. Mr. and Mrs. Cox enjoyed 56
years of wedded life together, a
partnership in which Mrs. Cox
bravely upheld her burden of pio
neer motherhood. Continuously since
their marriage the family home was
made on the Hinton creek farm
where the family of eleven children
was reared.
She is survived by her husband
and the children, Amy Cover, Pen
dleton; Gussie Mays. Stanfield; Mar
garet Giger. Longview, Wash.; Ben
jamin Cox, Heppner; Dee Cox, Lex
ington; Percy Cox, Heppner; Eliza
beth Johnson, Silverton; Wilda Beer,
Silverton; Archibald Cox, Boise,
Idaho; Alice Friedly, Boise, Idaho;
Esther Clark, Boise, Idaho; also two
brothers, Harry Hayman of Port
land, and Holmes Hayman of Toledo,
Ore.
AH the children were present for
the funeral services with the excep
tion of Mrs. Esther Clark, youngest
daughter, who was prevented by ill
ness from attending. Mrs. Clark was
with her mother a few days before
she passed away.
REPORT CONVENTIONS
C. J. D. Bauman, sheriff, and
Frank Alfred, district attorney, re
ported proceedings of their respec
tive state conventions attended in
Portland last week, before the Mon
day Lions luncheon. Richard Tuller
sang a Christmas song accompanied
at the piano by Mrs. Marvin Dixon.
Stressed in the convention reports
was the need for public awareness
to provide adequate facilities for
segregating first offenders from har
dened criminals at the penitentiary
and for establishment of a more ef
ficient parole system.
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Gault Named Head
Birthday Celebration
Telegraphic notification was re
ceived this week by J. L. Goult of
his appointment to the county chair
manship of the President's Birthday
celebration, to be culminated the eve
ning of January 29 with the annual
ball.
Funds raised the last few years
from balls honoring President Roose
velt's birthday have been used for
the establishment of a foundation to
combat the dreaded disease, infan
tile paralysis, from which the presi
dent was a sufferer, and funds
from the coming celebration will be
used to strengthen the work. The
foundation is directed by many lead
ing men of the business world and
the manner of organization to effect
ively carry out its purpose has been
commended among others by Mayo
brothers, world-famous doctors. The
scope of the foundation not only in
cludes the prevention and treatment
of infantile paralysis, but dissemin
ation of information in the correc
tion of posture and bone deformities
such as result from attacks of the
disease.
The plan of celebration this year
is more inclusive than in previous
years, with provision for staging
benefit entertainments widely va
ried in nature in addition to the an
nual ball.
While Mr. Gault is leaving today
to spend the Christmas vacation at
Corvallis with Mrs. Gault, and has
not yet completed the local organi
zation, he expects to do so on his
return right after the first of the
year. He hopes to sufficiently organ
ize the celebration in Morrow coun
ty so that everyone will learn of the
humanitarian nature of its purpose
and will be given an opportunity to
give the support that they may de
srre. llonge Program Speed
Held Necessary
With winter weather setting in, it
is highly important that range oper
ators who have completed practices
under the range program notify the
county agent's office. December 31
is the last date on which range
practices for 1937 may be completed.
Supervisors must inspect all work
done before application for payment
can be made, and unfavorable wea
ther might easily make it impossible
to make such inspections before
spring. In the interest of speedy
payment, all completed work should
be inspected as quickly as possible.
RECALLS WINTER '93-'94
John Johnson has seen many win
ters in Morrow county, but only one
resembling that prevailing so far
this season. That he recalled while
visiting in Heppner Saturday from
the farm in the lone section, was
the winter of '93-'94, just a year
after he first came to the county. He
was herding sheep in the Cecil sec
tion that winter and recalls that
much rain came in December and
there was only a slight snow all
winter. Mr. Johnson worked for the
late Theodore Anderson on first
coming to the county, and also
worked for other late pioneers in
cluding Jim Adkins and Lum Rhea.
He helprd haul lumber from the
mountains for the original Jim Ad
kins residence in Heppner. This sea
son he views as prospective toward
the return of a series of better grow
ing years than the county has had
for some time.
BROTHER DIES
Mrs. Tom Mclntyre of Hardman
received word this morning of the
death of her brother, Peter Canavan,
at the veterans hospital in Walla
Walla following a six-weeks illness.
Mr. Canavan was a native of County
Longford, Ireland, and was well
known here. His home was at Con
don where funeral services will be
held next Tuesday morning at 10
o'clock. Burial services will be in
charge of the American Legion. A
sister wired that she was leaving
New York today to attend.
Subscription $2.00 a Year
First Snow Falls
Bringing Hope for
White Christmas
Church, School
Other Actvities
Claim Attention
Lowered temperatures and snow
fall yesterday and today make pros
pects bright for a white Christmas
in Morrow county. The new snow is
the first for the winter and started
on the shortest day in the year. The
snow had painted the landscape
about Heppner a clean white this
morning though the surface of the
ground was not much more than
covered and a change to the warm
er might rob the city of its white
Christmas.
Before the snow started, the year's
total moisture precipitation had
risen to 14.53 inches, ' as an even
quarter inch o rainfall last week end
was measured by Len L. , Gilliam,
government weather observer, to
add to the previously reported total
of 14.38. The moisture-laden ground
is a source of joy to everyone, lend
ing cheer to the approach of Christ
mas, which is due to arrive Saturday.
Christmas activity has been brisk
all over the county the last week. In
Heppner programs last Sunday were
enjoyed at the Christian and Meth
odist churches, the former present
ing its choir in a service of Christ
mas music in the morning, and the
latter having a similar program in
the evening. An enjoyable feature
of each was the presentation of kid
dies in Christmas skits.
Another program of Chrismas
music was enjoyed by a large assem
blage at the gym-auditorium last
evening when. grade school choruses
sang carols under direction of Miss
Juanita Leathers, and the school
band gave a free concert led by its
director, Harold Buhman.
Singing of Christmas carols by the
vested choir of the Episcopal church
is slated for tomorrow evening.
Christmas afternoon another treat
is in store for children of the com
munity when the Elks and Star
theater play joint hosts at a free
show at the theater.
Many minor" Christmas events have
assisted in claiming the attention of
everyone, and with the arrival home
of many college students and others
from the outside for the holiday sea
son, and general prevalence of
Christmas decorations on .every
hand, Christmas is being heralded
welcomely by all.
Postoffice Hold-up
Admitted Hoax
Kenneth Oviatt, postal clerk, was
taken into custody by officers last
night after a reputed confession that
his story of a hold-up Tuesday eve
ning was a hoax and that he himself
had taken the $445 in currency which
he reported was stolen by a bandit
The town was in a hub-bub short
ly after Oviatt reported the alleged
hold-up at the postoffice about 8:45
Tuesday evening, when he asserted
that a man of medium height in dark
cap and overcoat confronted him
with a revolver when he answered
a rap at the door. The bandit was
said to have scooped up the stolen
amount in currency from the count
er where it had been laid for count
ing for deposit the next day, then
made a clean get-away through the
back door.
PARTY ENJOYED
Nina Snyder entertained the "S
& C" club at her home for the
Christmas party yesterday after
noon. Travel was played with high
score taken by Emma Garrigues.
Gifts were exchanged and members
presented Mrs. Snyder with a host
ess gift. Refreshments were served.
Present were Zella Dufault, Irene
Padberg, Ruth Cowins, Lena Brown,
Mynn Albert, Elsie Cowins, Emma
Garrigues and the hostess.