Thursday, March 3, 1938
Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Page Three
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lexington People
Come and Go in Week
By Bertha Hunt
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Manning of
Pendleton visited at the Laura Scott
home for several days this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sprinkel and
son Dean visited at the Vernon Scott
home Sunday.
Mrs. Jim Cowins of Heppner is ill
with flu at the home of her mother,
Mrs. Geo. Allyn, in Lexington.
Harry Dinges and his son Danny
made a business trip to Portland
Saturday.
Ralph Jackson went to La Grande
on business Tuesday.
Visitors at the Eugene Gray home
Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Stockard of Hermiston, Sherlock
Stockard of Bly, Miss Belva Bundy
of Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Lowell
Stockard and two children of Hepp
ner. Edward Rice and Dale Lane left
for Portland Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Bemis of The Dalles and Mr.
Kidwell of Portland, with Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph company,
were working at the local office for
several days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. James Leach and Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Campbell attended
the ski tournament at Kamela Sun
day. Mrs. Elsie M. Beach made a busi
ness trip to The Dalles Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sparks and
family of lone spent Sunday at the
Dan Way hime.
Ralph Jackson and J. P. Lineberry
spent the week end in Portland.
Mrs. Sarah White and Mrs. Lon
nie Henderson motored to Pendleton
Tuesday.
Mrs. Maude Pointer and Cora
Warner left for the Willamette val
ley Friday. Mrs. Warner expects to
visit for a time at the home of her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Hayes, in Corvallis.
Mrs. Pointer will visit friends in Sa
lem. Mrs. W. F. Barnett is ill at her
home with flu.
Alta Cutsforth and Gladys Gentry
were in Lexington Monday from
their home in Heppner.
Mrs. Etta Fridley with her two
daughters, Lois and Edna, of Walla
Walla visited here Sunday at the
home of her daughter and son-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Oris Padberg.
School News ,
Lexington played its last basket
ball game of the season at Heppner
last Friday. The game was fast and
exciting, with Lexington taking the
lead up to the last few maments of
play, when Heppner edged out a
33-30 victory.
Keep March 25th in mind for the
"Lazy Moon Minstrels to be pre
sented bv the Lexington student
body.
Coming of spring is beginning to
prey upon the minds of the students,
and if nice weather continues it may
be responsible for a real epidemic of
soring fever.
Honor roll for the fourth six-weeks
oeriod: Wilma Tucker 1.25, Zelma
Way 1.25, Clayton Davis 1.50, Ken
neth Jackson 1.50, Robert Campbell
1.75. Dan Dinges 2, Jerrine Ed
wards 2, Nonie McLaughlin 2.
IONE NEWS
Lee Beckners Move
Home to Athena
By MARGARET BLAKE
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Beckner de
parted Tuesday for Athena where
they will make their home. Mr,
Beckner, however, will continue to
operate his ranch here. Mr. and Mrs,
Lake Beckner, who have returned
here recently from Gibbon, will live
on the ranch here.
Funeral services for Mary Cath
erine Frances Mason, infant daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mason,
were held at the Catholic church in
Heppner Saturday afternoon at two
o'clock with Father Healy officiat
ing. The baby was born November 23
and passed away at the Heppner
hospital on February 25 after an ill
ness of a few weeks. Interment was
made in the Heppner cemetery.
Francis Ely arrived from Salem
Tuesdav morning for "a visit with
his father, George Ely.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mankin were
hosts at a dinner followed by bridge
at their home last Wednesday eve
ning. Guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Denny, Mr. and Mrs. O. G.
Haguewood and Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Blake.
Mrs. Morrow of Bend has been em
ployed to care for Mrs. Ida Peterson.
Mrs. Diantha Akers has moved
her household goods to the farm of
Cecil Thorne where she will be em
ployed. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Smith and son
Philip drove to Portland last Thurs
day, returning home Friday.
Mrs. Clarence Brenner spent sev
eral days of last week in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Long returned
the first of the week from an extend
ed trip during which they visited in
California, Texas and Illinois.
Ed and Henry Buschke were bus
iness visitors in Portland last week.
Mrs. Walter Corley, Mrs. Lana
Padberg, Mrs. E. J. Blake and Mrs.
Clel Rea were hostesses to the Topic
club at the home of Mrs. Rea last
Saturday evening. Bridge and pin
ophle were played, prizes being won
by Mr. and Mrs. Ted Smith and Mr.
and Mrs. Elmer Griffith.
Mrs. Paul O'Meara has been con
fined in the Heppner hospital for
several days following the extraction
of her teeth. Mrs. O'Meara has been
ill with a very painful form of rheu
matism and it is hoped that she will
be helped by having her teeth re
moved. I
Mrs. Dixon Smith motored to Wal
la Walla Monday to visit her hus
band in the Veterans' hospital.
E. J. Bristow, accompanied by Ro
land Wade, drove to Nampa, Idaho,
last week for a short visit at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Bris
tow. He also stopped at Boise where
he had the pleasure of visiting a ra
dio broadcasting station.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Balsiger vis
ited here from White Salmon Morv
day and Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Swanson drove
to Salem Saturday to visit their son-
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs,
Elmo McMillan. On Sunday they en
joyed an outing at the beach.
Mrs. Adolf Newhn has purchased
the A. E. Stefani home on Third
street.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Stefani were
hosts at their home last Saturday
night at a farewell party for Mr. and
Mrs. Lee Beckner. Guests were Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Mankin, Mr. and Mrs,
Bob Runnion, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Grabil, Mr. and Mrs. John Eubanks,
Mr. and Mrs. Tuman Hogue and
Gene and Harry Normoyle. Mr. and
Mrs. Beckner were given a lovely
gift.
, Mr. and Mrs. David Rietmann,
Mrs. E. J. Bristow and Roland Wade
drove to Hood River Tuesday.
Worl has been received that Mrs
J. L. Harvey who lived here several
years ago has been taken from her
home in Latourell Falls to a hospital
suffering from a partial stroke of
paralysis.
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Biddle have
gone to Portland to spend severa
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Engelman and
son Joel visited Mrs. John Turner
at Pendleton Saturday.
to visit their son and wife, Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Bediwell.
William Hoagland went to Stan-
field Friday where he has employment
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Isom moved
from their ranch east of town to
their new home in Irrigon Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Phelps moved
to the Isom ranch Tuesday.
Mrs. T. T. Slaughter has charge
of the school cafeteria for the rest of
the school year.
Mr. and Mrs. Slaughter have then-
son and family as house guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Caldwell of
Portland visited their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Caldwell Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Caldwell and
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith spent the
week end in Portland.
Geo. Hendrix of Pendleton was
home for a short stay" last week.
Umatilla Now Vegetable Center
Pendleton Umatilla county, usu
ally thought of as the home of big
wheat farms and the Pendleton
Round-Up, is now one of the north
west's major vegetable growing
areas. In addition to 20,000 acres of
canning peas, cannery operators
could also handle the product of
4000 acres of asparagus, they say.
Experiments are also under way
with canning carrots and spinach
on irrigation projects, according to
agricultural leaders here.
The Women's Foreign Missionary
society of the Methodist church will
meet Tuesday. March 8, at 2:30 p.
m., at the home of Mrs. O'Hara, with
Founders Day program.
IRRIGON NEWS
Irrigon Families
Entertain Visitors
By MRS. W. C. ISOM
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hood and
daughter and Mrs. Edna Holcomb
of Kelso, Wash., were visiting Mr,
and Mrs. Ernest Stevens and family
last week. Mrs. Hood is a sister of
Mr. Stevens.
Joyce Puckett is visiting her un
cles, the Btnefiel brothers.
Mr. Hoaglan visited his daugHter,
Mrs. Brown, at Stanfield last week
Frank Frederickson and H. C.
Warner were business visitors in
Hermiston recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Blanderlinde
of Yakima visited Mr. and Mrs. Elroy
Lamoreaux Saturday.
Frank Markham, Jr., of Richland,
Wash., was in town Friday.
Mrs. Walter Agee of Umatilla vis
ited friends here Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Rand and son
Alvin of Portland visited the Geo,
Rand and B. P. Rand homes Sun
day and Monday. Mrs. Geo. Rand is
quite seriously ill and will be taken
to Portland for treatment this week.
Frank Brace was called to The
Dalles Thursday by the death of his
brother-in-law.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Bediwell mo
tored to Sunnyside, Wash., Sunday
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