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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, Sept 22, 1938
IONE NEWS
Laxton McMurray
Meets War Buddies
By MARGARET BLAKE
Mr. and Mrs. Laxton McMurray
returned last Friday from Portland
where they attended the national
convention of the Spanish-American
war veterans. Mr. McMurray saw
many of his old buddies whom he
had not seen for 40 years. In a battle
during his service in Cuba, Mr. Mc
Murray with the help of two other
soldiers rescued a wounded com
rade and he met these two men at
the encampment last week. One of
them is the caretaker of the battle
ship Oregon. A highlight of the
week was the entertainment given
the old 7th Infantry in which Mr.
McMurray served by the present 7th
which is stationed at Vancouver,
Wash. Members of the bid 7th and
their ladies were invited to Van
couver Barracks for an afternoon
and evening. They ate supper with
the regulars in their mess halls.
E. J. Bristow is having a new roof
put on his store. Howard Keithley
is in charge of the work. When the
old shingles were removed two old
signs pointed on canvas holding
forth the merits and low prices of
goods of "Halvosen & Mason" were
found under the rafters. These signs
are as clear as when they were
painted forty years or so ago.
Mrs. Ella Davidson entertained
with a bridge party at her home last
Friday afternoon. Ladies present
were Mesdames Milton Morgan, Jr.,
Garland Swanson, C. W. Swanson,
E. J.' Blake, W. J. Blake, Bert Ma
son, M. E. Cotter, Hugh Smith, Vic
tor Rietmann, Omar Rietmann and
Clara Newlin. Prizes went to Mrs,
Hugh Smith, Mrs. W. J. Blake and
Mrs. ' Clara Newlin. Delicious re
freshments were served.
Bert Mason, Jr., departed last
week for Portland where he spent a
day or two before going on to Cor
vallis ' to register as a freshman at
O. S. C.
Jane Fitzpatrick has returned from
Pendleton and enrolled in the high
school here.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Zielke depart
ed last Friday for their new home at
Elgin. Mr. Zielke's place in the de
pot here is being filled by a relief
agent, Mr. Berger, until a new agent
is appointed.
Mrs. Lee Howell and Mrs. Mary
Sowers of Heppner were visitors
here Monday.
The Women's Topic club held its
social meeting for September at the
home of Mrs. L. E. Dick in Heppner
last Saturday. Those who attended
the meeting were Mesdames Omar
Rietmann, Hugh Smith, E. M. Baker,
E. R. Lundell, Cleo Drake, C. F.
Feldman, C. W. McNamer, Agnes
Wilcox, Clyde Denny, Bert Mason,
Dorr Mason, M. E. Cotter, C. W.
Swanson, Clel Rea. Bridge was
played, prizes going to Mrs. M. E.
Cotter and Mrs. E. R. Lundell. De
licious refreshments were served.
Hostesses were Mrs. D. M. Ward,
Mrs. L. E. Dick, Mrs. Ture Peterson
and Mrs. Elmer Griffith.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Peterson
spent the week end at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Peterson at The
Dalles.
Willows grange will hold its. reg
ular meeting in its hall at Cecil on
Sunday, Sept. 25. On Saturday night,
the 24th, it will put on the 3rd and
4th degrees at Lexington. This meet
ing was originally planned to be
held at Cecil but circumstances
made the change desirable.
Morrow County Pomona grange
will meet in the Rhea Creek grange
hall on October 1. At the afternoon
program to which the public is in
vited Walter Pierce, representative
in congress, of La Grande will be the
principal speaker. An agricultural
talk of general interest will be an
other feature of the program and the
different granges will also do their
bits to provide entertainment. Cold
Springs grange of Umatilla county
will confer the fifth degree on can
didates.
Eugene F. Newlin has returned to
Seattle after a short visit with his
mother, Mrs. Clara Newlin.
Mrs. Ellen Rieth is visiting rela
tives in Harrington, Wash., and Seattle.
Miss Mary Alice Rulifson visited
here Sunday. Miss Rulifson who
taught the third and fourth grades
here last year is teaching the third
grade in Condon this year.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Balsiger vis
ited here Sunday and Monday from
their home at White Salmon, Wash
Mrs. E. R. Lundell has received
word that her brother, Lester Ba
ker, who has been confined in the
veteans1 hospital in Walla Walla has
improved so that he could be moved
to his' home.
Mrs. Ida Grabill has returned from
Baker where she has spent several
months with her daughters, Mrs.
Earl Wright and Mrs. Everett Keith
ley. While away she underwent a
major operation from which she is
recovering satisfactorily. Her sister,
Mrs. Cynthia Cochran of Yakima,
Wash., arrived Thursday to be with
her for a while.
Rev. and Mrs. James Pointer who
have held church services here dur
ing the summer have been called
to a pastorate in Salem.
Irvin Ritchie returned last week
from southern Oregon where he
has been, employed with a state
highway crew for the past several
months.
Among the many hunters going to
the mountains for the opening of
the deer season were Mr. and Mrs.
M. E. Cotter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Mankin, Jack Ferris, Harvey Smith
and Clarence Warren.
Roland Humphreys
Engaged in East
The engagement of Miss Edith
Watson Ouzts, daughter of Mrs. Eva
Watson Ouzts and the late Joseph
Pinckney Ouzts, to Mr. Thomas Ro
land Humphreys was announced by
her mother at their home in Edge
field, South Carolina, on Tuesday
afternoon, September 6, at a family
gathering of immediate relatives.
As the family arrived, Miss Ouzts
greeted them on the front lawn
where they were refreshed by iced
punch. While Mrs. Ouzts received in
the living room she honored mem
bers of the family, including her
three sisters and brother and the two
sisters and brother of her late hus
band, with white flowers, snapdrag
ons, concealing informal notes. Mrs.
Ouzts' note was to the effect that
before the announcement appeared
in the next day's paper she wanted
the family to know of Edith's en
gagement to Roland Humphreys,
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sounded from each plate as the
guests seated At the long family din
ing table were served bell-shaped ice
cream, old fashioned pound cake and
coffee. The table centerpiece was of
crepe-myrtle and gardenias, bordered
with magnolia leaves.
Miss Ouzts graduated from Furman
university, receiving her M. A. de
gree from Cornell university and, is
a candidate for the Ph. D. degree at
Columbia university. Since 1932 she
has been officially associated with
Cornell university where she is now
social director in Willard Straight
hall, the student union.
Mr. Humphreys is the son of Mr.
T. J. Humphreys and the late Mrs.
Lizzie Humphreys of Heppner. He
graduated and later received his M.
A. degree from the University of
Oregon. He has also done graduate
study at Stanford university and at
Columbia university, New York
City. In the latter he is candidate
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in public schools and colleges. Dur
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school of Rye, New York. He has
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of the schools of Rehoboth, Dela
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IS STUDENT ASSISTANT
Clinton C. Gilliam, Jr., grandson
of Mrs. Frank Gilliam of this city
and student at University of Califor
nia, has taken a position as part
time assistant in the registrar's of
fice at that institution. The young
man is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clin
ton C. Gilliam of San Jose, Cal. His
acceptance " of this position is re
vealed in a letter from Hobart M.
Lovett, brother-in-law of Mrs. Spen
cer Crawford and assistant to the
registrar of the university, who, on
hearing the young man's name, de
termined his identity and concluded
the world is quite small, after all.
Max Schulz finished sewing sacks
at the Archie Ball and Earl Hunt
'farms this week, for his third year.
He also helped pick up straw and
haul wheat.
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