Thursday, March 16, 1939
LEXINGTON NEWS
Surprise Party Held
For Henry Rauch
By MARGARET SCOTT
Henry Rauch, Sr., was honored
with a surprise birthday party at
his home last Saturday evening.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Rauch and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Julian Rauch and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Rudolph Klinger and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Claire Daughe'rty and
son, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Daugherty
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Al Fetsch,
Ernest Smith, Bill Van Winkle, Mr.
and Mrs. Adolph Majeske and fam
ily, and Charlotte Helms. The eve
ning was spent playing pinochle,
monopoly and Chinese checkers, af
ter which refreshments of sand
wiches, cake and coffee were served.
Mrs. Arthur Hunt returned home
Monday evening from the Corda
Saling home in Heppner.
Patricia Jean Steagall is ill with
whooping cough.
Mildred Snyder of The Dalles,
home service advisor for General
Electric Co., called at various homes
in the community Tuesday.
Rita Cutler was a week-end vis
itor in Portland.
Laurel Beach was visiting friends
and relatives here from his work
with Fred Waring and his Pennsyl
vanians in New York. While here he
favored the church, grange and
school with several musical selec
tions. Mrs. lone Gilbreath of Dayton is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Sara White,
Grace Turner attended the co-op
erative meeting in Walla Walla last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Townsend
and family were called to Portland
Tuesday by the illness of Mr. Town
send's father.
Those attending the C. E. rally in
Heppner Friday evening were Edith,
Jerrine, Albert and Clyde Edwards
Rae Cowins, Colleen McMillan,
Esther Thompson, Dona Barnett,
Trina Parker and Mr. Trimble.
Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Hunt were Arthur Hunt
and son Dean and George Tucker.
R. B. Rice is ill at his home.
Kenneth Peck has returned home
from his studies at O. S. C. for the
spring vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duvall en
tertained at a dinner Friday eve
ning honoring the birthday of their
sdn - in - law, Ralph Wickersham.
Those present besides the host, host
ess and honoree were Mrs. Wicker
sham and children, Elmer Hunt and
family and Marcella Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. John Miller and
family were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. George Peck.
Sunday school at 11 a. m. Sunday
at the Christian church. C. E. at 6:30
and church at 7:30 p. m. at the Con
gregational church.
Among those attending the bas
ketball tournament in Arlington last
week were Trina Parker, Harry
Dinges and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Jackson. Keith Gentry, former Lex
ington student, played on the Half
way team and was named on the
all-star team.
Mrs. Alta Brown and son Paul
were Sunday guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smethurst and
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Cutsforth en
joyed a Sunday dinner together cel
ebrating their wedding anniversaries.
D. S. Smith who is working on
the local well spent the week end
in Walla Walla.
Mrs. W. E. McMillan, Mrs. Car
Bergstrom and Mrs. Cecil Jones at
tended a surprise shower at the J.
I. Hanna ranch above eHppner on
Thursday, honoring Mrs. Bert Cor
bin. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kuehn of
Oregon City spent the week end at
the G. J. Ryan home.
Mrs. Kenneth Smouse is reported
to be recovering satisfactorily- from
her recent operation in a Portland
hosptal, although it .will be quite a
while before she can leave the hos
pital. School News
The Lexington Girls' league gave
a pie feed for the basketball team
last Friday evening.
The regular meeting of the P. T.
A. was held Wednesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Ladd Sherman and
daughter, Sally Lee, spent the week
end in Portland.
Edwin Ingles, former principal of
Heppner
the Lexington school and now pro
fessor of education at Pacific uni
versity, visited at the Wm. D. Camp
bell home over the week end.
Mr. Campbell spent Monday in
Portland.
Don't forget the Lexington school
carnival which will be held in the
school gymnasium on Saturday,
March 25. There will be jitney danc
ing, serpentine, confetti, food, and
booths of all sorts, including an
athletic show. Come early, stay late,
and have a good time.
Laurel Beach sang several songs
for the school Tuesday morning.
Everyone enjoyed it very much.
Alfalfa Fears Death, Sets Seed
The "instinct" of a plant to re
produce itself before it dies has been
utilized in developing a method of
inducing alfalfa to set seed under
irrigated conditions on the Harney
branch experiment station at Burns.
By a combination of cultivation,
competition with an interplanted
grain crop, and timing of irrigations
to leave a dry period during the
hot summer, good yields of seed
have been obtained. A thin stand of
alfalfa is used to start with.
Revocations and suspensions of
Oregon operators' licenses since the
present license law went into effect
in 1931 reached the 8000 mark this
month, Secretary of State Earl Snell
announces. Since the first law re
quiring the cancellation of licenses
of intoxicated drivers was passed,
the list of offenses has grown, until,
in 1938, licenses were suspended or
revoked for 19 difefrent causes.
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Lower Interest Set
By Credit Association
Farmers and stockmen of the Mor
row county district had one-tenth
of their annual interest bill for short
term credit cut off this week as the
Pendleton Production Credit asso
ciation announced a reduction of in
terest rates from 5 to 4 per cent.
The new rate is the result of a
like reduction in the discount rate
of the Federal Intermediate Credit
bank, W. E. Moore, secretary-treasurer
of the Pendleton association,
explained. Loans by production cred
it associations are discounted thru
the Federal Intermediate Credit
bank. Both are units of the Farm
Credit administration.
Reduction followed the sale of
debentures of the nation's 12 credit
banks at one of the lowest interest
rates ever obtained by a private se
curities sale. The debentures are
not guaranteed by the government
either as to principal or interest. .
This low rate, said Mr. Moore, re
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535 production credit associations in
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RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA
Mrs. Jennie Rix who visited at
the G. A. Bleakman home here for
several weeks returned recently to
her home at Los Angeles, Cal., from
where Mr. and Mrs. Bleakman re
ceived a letter telling of her safe
arrival. A good many years ago Mrs.
Rix attended school at Hardman to
Mr. Bleakman's mother, and herself
was connected with schools of the
county at the time Jay W. Shipley
was county school superintendent.
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