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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, April 28, 1938
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IONE NEWS
Music Program
Enjoyed at lone
By MARGARET BLAKE
On Monday evening the piano
pupils of Virginia Dix and the cho
ruses of the lone school gave a de
lightful musical program in the
school gym. Billy Lundell announced
the various numbers. Miss Helen
Ralph was accompanist for the songs.
Numbers on the program were:
piano duet, "Don Juan Minuet,"
Marianne Corley ; and Ernest Mc
Cabe; "Summer and Winter,' Gene
Rietmann; "Mealtime at the Zoo,"
Eunice Peterson; "Dairy Maids" and
"Cradle Song," songs by the pri
mary chorus; "March of the Tin
Soldiers," Maxine Allyn; "Merry
Moments," June Griffith; "Parade
of the Midgets," George Davidson;
"Rustic Chapel,' Mabel Davidson;
"Waitin' in the Shadows," song by
the girls glee club; "Country Gar
dens," Rose Gorger; "The Great
Spirit," Jane Fitzpatrick; "Over
Hill, Over Dale,' song by the upper
grade chorus; "On the Meadow,
Marianne Corley; "My Wonderful
One," song by the girls' glee club
"Cathedral at Twilight," Ernest Mc-
Cabe; "Qui Vive," piano duet, Miss
Marian Nebergall and Virginia Dix
Mrs. Orick of Weston is visiting
at the home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Brace,
W. A. Hayes went to Portland on
business Monday. Homer Mankin
took him to Arlington where he went
on by train.
Mrs. ti. hj. xarneil was a passen
ger on Saturday night's train. She
will make an extended visit in the
east with relatives,, going first to
Bridgeport, Conn., and returning
home by way of Cleveland, Ohio.
Louis Halvorsen and Frank Lind
say returned Monday night from
Salem where they went last week
to visit Mrs. Sarah Lindsay who is
ill. Mrs. Halvorsen remained there
for a more extended visit.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Feldman re
turned last Friday from a short
visit in and near Seattle. The trip
over was made by way of the Yak
ima valley where the orchards were
were in bloom. Enrote home the
Feldmans came through Pasco.
Mrs. Fred Mankin returned last
Thursday from Thornton, Wash.,
where she visited at the home of
her parents last week. Miss Betty
Jean Mankin who went over with
her will remain for some time. Mrs.
Bert Mason also made the trip with
Mrs. Mankin, visiting at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Charles Delzell,
in Spokane.
Mrs. Jason Biddle has returned
from Portland where she has been
convalescing from a recent opera
tion. bhe is well on the road to
recovery.
Mrs. Dixon Smith and children
visited Mr. Smith at Walla Walla
the past week end.
The Women's Missionary society
will have a silver tea and bazaar
in the parlor of the Congregational
church on Thursday afternoon, May
5th.
The Girls League entertained the
girls of Boardman high school with
a play day last "Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Smith and Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Brenner
Portland visitors last week.
Tom Smith of Yakima has been
visiting at the home of his brother,
Robert Smith.
The Rebekah lodge entertained
the members of the junior and se
nior classes of the high school with
a party after their regular meeting
last Thursday evening. All mem
bers of the school faculty were also
present. Games were played and the
group enjoyed singing songs after
the refreshment hour.
Miss Harriet Heliker has returned
home from Cecil where she has been
employed at the Henry Krebs home.
Miss Dorothy Farrens who under
went an appendectomy in Heppner
last week is recovering rapidly and
has been brought home.
Henry Gorger departed last Tues
day to be with his brother Joe who
was seriously hurt in an auto acci
dent near Napa, Calif., about ten
days ago.
Oscar Keithley returned Saturday
from Heppner where he has been
staying for several months suffering
from an infected leg.
Robert Smith, with his son and
daughter, Harvey and Bonnie, drove
to Yakima Tuesday to take Mr.
Smith's brother, Tom, home.
Past Noble Grand club met at the
home of Etta Howell in Heppner
last Friday with 10 members and
several visitors present. A pot luck
dinner was enjoyed. Margaret Ak
ers and Elaine Rietmann were en
rolled as members after being in
itiated by Etta Bristow, acting
chairman, Lena Lundell, darshal, Et
ta Howell, vice-chairman, and Mary
Swanson, chaplain. At the close of
the business meeting members
worked on various articles of fancy
work. The club will serve dinner
on primary election day, May 20, in
the I. O. O. F. hall in lone. The fol
lowing members and visitors from
lone made the trip to Heppner, Mary
Swanson, Ida Fletcher, Ella David
son, Lena Lundell, Vida Heliker,
Arvilla Swanson, Etta Bristow,
Margaret Akers, Elaine Rietmann,
Harriet Heliker, Eva Swanson, Mil
dred Lundell, Rosa Fletcher and
Minnie Ely.
Rev. Hinkle held preaching ser
vices in the Willows grange hall in
Cecil Sunday morning, with a nice
crowd in attendance. He will hold
services again May 22nd at 11 a. m,
Business meeting of Willows
grange was held at Cecil Sunday
afternoon after an enjoyable pot
luck dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Smouse and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Troedson of Lexington grange were
visitors. Election of state officers
was held with Ray Gill, present state
master, receiving the majority vote
of the Willows grange members
present. One candidate was favor
ably voted on to become a member
by initiation. The following inter
esting numbers were given on the
lecturer's program: Community sing
ing; a "Popularity Barometer" in
which all present participated; group
of harmonica solos, Estelle Ledbet
ter; magazine article on co-operative
hospitalization read by Roxy Krebs;
poem, "Grandmother," by Dorothy
Brady; vocal solo, "When You and I
Were Young, Maggie," Mrs. Alfred
Troedson of Lexington grange; rec
reational march by all with prize
which was won by Mary Lindsay.
Vida Heliker, H. E. chairman, an
nounced that the next club meeting
will be held at the home of Mrs.
Marion Palmer near lone on Friday
alternoon, May 13.
BEAVER ONE OF COUNTY'S
MOST INTERESTING INHABITANTS
By F. F. WEHMEYER
Probably the most interesting an
imal we have is our beaver, a cheer
ful little beggar with a perpetual
toothsome grin. They are intelli
gent, industrious and have no small
skill as engineeres. They construct
dams, build canals and fall trees.
Trees up to three feet in diameter
are felled and the little woodsman
is seldom in error in placing the
tree where he wants it to lie. The
bark, buds and small twigs make up
the roughage in his diet while the
larger chunks and logs enter into
material for his dam construction.
During his centuries of work he has
learned many little kinks that puz
zle man. He can take a stick of tim
ber and make it lie at the bottom
in either still or swift water. If the
stick is molested it comes to the top
and mere man cannot make it again
stick to the bottom. The beaver's tail
is large, flat and hairless. It is used
as a trowel, as a cart to transport
mud and for signaling purposes. In
times of danger he will bring his tail
down on the water with a resound
ing whack that can be heard long
distances. The tail was also quite a
table delicacy among trappers.
The beaver builds a cosy little
house out in the security of the pond.
It is carefully made of logs, sticks
and mud, skillfully put together to
resist not only the elements but at
tack from predators. Though in no
way ferocious, a grown beaver can
defend himself with credit when at
tacked. An acquaintance of mine
who raised beaver as a hobby had
one of them attacked by a couple of
dogs. He rushed out to save the bea
ver and stayed to save the dogs. That
beaver was chiseling out chunks of
dog as fast as he could spit out the
last bite and take on a new hold.
The whole history of our nation is
closely tied in and interwoven with
beaver. His pelt passed as curren
cy for centuries along the frontiers.
Every exploration of new territory
was primarily in the interests of
new and more beaver trapping coun
try. By all rights the beaver should
have been our national emblem in
stead of the predacious Roman eagle,
for the beaver is a true exemplifi
cation of intelligence, industry and
wealth. Greed nearly brought ex
tinction to this little friend of man,
and his passing has aggravated many
of our troubles and economic ills
Erosion, silting of rivers, lowered
water tables and range capacities,
can be traced in no small measure
to his eradication.
were
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
In memory of J. P. Louy who died
at Seattle, Wash., April 18, 1938.
The Angel of Death has entered
our midst and we are called to
mourn the loss of a faithful friend
and co-worker,
Our tears are mingled with yours,
your sorrows are ours. May the
gloom of the sorrowing ones be dis
pelled by the promise, "I am the
Resurrection and the Life, sayeth
the Lord; he that believeth in Me,
though he were dead, yet shall he
live, and he that liveth and believ
eth in Me shall never die."
Resolved,, that lone Lodge No. 135,
I. 0. O. F., of lone, Oregon, in tes
timony of our loss, be draped in
mourning for the allotted time and
that we tender the family our deep
est sympathy in their affliction, and
that a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the family.
E. J. BRISTOW,
JOHN CLARK,
E. R. LUNDELL,
Committee.
Morrow Farmers
Attack Erosion
On Many Fronts
OSC News Service
Gullies through summer fallow or
in wheat fields used to be thought of
as something that just happened, but
now they are considered a reflex
tion on the type of farming a man
is doing, says Joe Belanger, county
agent of Morrow county, in discuss
ing the progress that is being made
in the control of both wind and wa
ter .erosion.
For the past three years farmers in
this county have been holding their
own erosion control meetings with
out any outside speakers to tell them
what to do. Instead they talk over
their own experiences and trade
ideas on how best to keep their good
top soil from blowing or washing
away. The first year there were
about 60 attended this meeting. The
next year there were 80, while this
winter about 150 turned out for it,
says Belanger.
This spring farmers are watching
with great interest a plan started by
Frank Anderson of his 2000-acre
ranch. He has planted his fall grain
in strips about 10 rods wide along
the contour of his land. There is as
much as 40 acres in each strip, so
harvesting costs need not be in
creased. In order to take up the "slack"
between the wheat and fallow strips,
Anderson has planted a narrow strip
of crested wheat grass between them
averaging about a rod in width.
This makes it possible to keep the
strips of wheat and fallow an even
width throughout the length regard
less of the slope of the land, thereby
facilitating harvesting and other
farming operations. These strips ac
count for just about the normal di
version needed under the AAA pro
gram. R. A. Thompson is 'making plans to
go even further in changing his old
farming practices. He is seriously
considering an 18-year rotation in
which crested wheat grass will be
kept on one-third of his wheat land
for six-year periods, affording good
spring and fall pasture for his live
stock as well as making considerable
seed yields.
IRRIGON NEWS
H. E. Cub Meets
With Mrs. McFarland
Ey MRS. W. C. ISOM
Mrs. Minnie McFarland enter
tained the H. E. club members at her
home near Umatilla last Thursday.
Mrs. Asa Scarlet of Umatilla is
staying with her sister, Mrs. Sud
darth and assisting in the hatchery.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith and
Mrs. Tom Caldwell were business
visitors in lone Saturday.
Mrs. Stella Poulson is visiting her
mother at Wallowa.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Isom visited
at the Ed Beusel home near Her
miston Sunday.
Jack McFall and Fred McCoy of
Imbler visited their grandmother,
Mrs. J. A. Grabiel, over the week
end.
Mrs. Lyle Eddy entertained the
Pep club at her home Wednesday af
ternoon. Mrs. Frank Leicht is quite ill with
a severe cold.
Mrs. Stevens and family were din
ner guests at the home of Mrs. Hugh
Grimm Sunday. Several of Mrs.
Grimm's children were also dinner
guests, honoring their mother's
birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Isom and
daughter Donna, Vonna Jones and
Earl Leach visited Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Coy at Umatilla Sunday.
4-H CLUB ORGANIZES
The girls of Heppner gathered
with Miss Nordstrom the past week
and organized the annual 4-H cook
ing club which was later named the
Kitchen club. The following officers
were elected: president, Clarabelle
Adams; vice-president, Lois Jones;
secretary, Edna Stephens; reporter,
Alice McGrew.
John Brosnan was transacting bus-
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