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Thursday, June 8, 1939 Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Page Three LEXINGTON NEWS HARDMAN NEWS Trimble Preaches Farewell at Lexington By MARGARET SCOTT C. F. Trimble held his last church service in Lexington Sunday eve ning. After the service a short so cial hour was held in the church parlors. Mr. and Mrs. Trimble de parted Monday morning for Drain where he will serve as pastor. Billie Nichols and Irene Tucker returned Sunday from Portland where they have been with Mrs. Kenneth Smouse. Mr. and Mrs. L. Henderson of Echo were dinner guests at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Hender son, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. D. Campbell and daughters returned home from Portland and have now gone to Boise and Wallowa to visit. Mrs. Tempa Johnston returned from Portland with them and plans to make her home here this summer. Keith Taylor of Heppner was a visitor at the A. M. Edwards home Saturday. Mrs. John Lasich and daughter, Ruth Anne, spent several days last week in Pendleton at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thompson. The 4-H club members left Mon day morning for Corvallis where they will attend summer school. Those going from here, were Donald Campbell, Bernard Doherty and Donald Peck. Bemice Martin is receiving med ical treatment in a Portland hospital. Mrs. Clarence Carmichael and Mrs. Callie Duncan accompanied B. M. Little to Portland this week where they planned to visit rela tives. Mary Bowen from The Dalles ar rived here to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. L. M. Bowen. local depot agent. Mr. and. Mrs. Ted McMillan and family were dinner guests at the Adolph Majeske home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Helms of Pen dleton were visiting friends and relatives here last week. Maxine Way is employed at the L. A. Palmer ranch. Dan Dinges is employed at the First National Bank of Portland in Heppner. George Peck and 'R. B. Rice at tended a co-op meeting in The Dalles Friday evening. Edith Edwards was a dinner guest of Mrs. Cecil Jones Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Al Fetch are living in the Tempa Johnston house re cently vacated by John Lasich and family who are living in the Harry Dinges house. Nan Spickerman of The Dalles was a guest of Mary Bowen last week. 0. W. Cutsforth motored to Union this week with a truck load of 4-H club members who attended the livestock show there. Mrs. Vernon Scott and children spent last Wednesday at the Lee Sprinkel home in Heppner. Mrs. Elsie Beach, Mrs. Geatta Cox and son Lester motored to Portland Wednesday morning. Gerry Cutler returned home from a visit with relatives in Tacoma. Freeman Sanborn of Fairbault, Minn., is visiting at the home of Mrs. Grace Turner. Bernard Olsen and Bert Johnston of Pendleton were visiting at the Cecil Jones home Saturday evening. Mr. Olsen who has been working with the state highway department here for the last several months has been transferred to Arlington. Dee Smith and Jack Pemberton of Walla Walla were here last week to remove the well drilling outfit for A. A. Durand. Helen Breshears spent the week end in La Grande. Mrs. Florence McMillan and Mrs. Cecil Jones spent Saturday at the Hanna ranch visiting Mrs. Bert Cor- bin. Jim York and Cecil Griffin spent the week end in town. Grant Henderson spent Sunday visiting in Stanfield. Guests of Mrs. Vernon Scott Sun day evening were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sprinkel and Mrs. Harley Matteson of Heppner, Mrs. Harry Peterson of lone, and Tavid Blahm of Hermis-ton. DeVore Services Largely Attended By HARDMAN HIGH SCHOOL On Saturday J. E. Craber went to Hermiston and brought back Mrs. Craber and Gordon who have been there for the past month. Gordon is not showing the progress that should be expected and Mr. Craber plans to take him to Portland. Mrs. Neal Knighten and Mrs. Marvin Brannon called a meeting Saturday afternoon of those inter ested in 4-H clubs. Those who re sponded were Vern and Vera Mc Daniel, Nora and Alene Inskeep, Juanita and Adeline Byer, Edna, Joe and Lura Stephens, Mildred Clary, Jean Leathers and ,011ie Hastings. There will be the various divisions of a sewing club and also a room improvement club, and pro bably later there will be others. They have a joint organization with Edna Stephens, president; Ollie Hastings vice president; Mildred Clary, secretary; Joe Stephens, song and yell leader. The next meeting will be held in the Miller building on Wednesday, June 14, and all boys and girls who are over nine years of age are asked to come at 2 o'clock. While Floyd Adams was burning trash on Friday, a hay stack of about three tons caught on fire and burned. A change of wind could cause a lot of damage so they called Jim Stevens and he and a number of other Hardman men went down, but luckily were not needed. The Misses Vern and Vera Mc- Daniel and Dallas McDahiel visited with friends in Lone Rock Saturday, Last week when Carl McDaniel went hunting in this neighborhood, Oren and Charlie McDaniel, also hunters under a WPA project, went with him, as well as Les Robin son. Each of the three hunters got coyote pup and all were not killed by Carl as previously stated. Last week Walt Wright and John Hastings dug out another den and it is reported that they killed seven pups. On Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Adams and daughter drove to Arl ington where Betty Jane took the train for Portland where she will visit her grandparents and other relatives and friends. Her stay is indefinite and while away she plans to take a trip to Seaside. Mrs. Raymond Reid was visiting in town on Friday , and when she returned to the mill she took her mother, Mrs. B. H. Bleakman, home with her. In Portland on Monday of last week Ted Burnside had an operation on his neck and was able to return home at the end of the week. He will have to return to Portland for an examination later. Thursday Earl Redding and Bus ter Bleakman came in from the John Day prospect for repairs and supplies,, and returned at once. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Harshman brought Miss Inez Inskeep home for a visit on Tuesday. She is work ing this summer at the Harshman ranch. Mrs. Lucy Williams Swanson vis ited friends and relatives in the vicinity last week. She went out to Rock creek where her father, Til den Williams, is herding. Mr. and Mrs. Roe Bleakman and family drove over from Kimberley for Decoration day. They also visit ea inenas ana relatives here in town. On Monday of last week Carey Hastings left to join the sheep shearing crew in Montana. Mrs, Hastings and daughters went as far as the Corrigal ranch near Echo where they will remain for some time. Mrs. Corrigal had an operation several weeks ago and although she is improving she is not able to do the cooking, and Mrs. Hastings is helping her. Owen Leathers couldn't miss the fight on Thursday evening and since there was no radio where he was stationed he came in for the eve ning. When he returned on Friday morning his son Junior went with him. On Saturday afternoon both of them went to Heppner. Harlan 1 Adams and Kenneth Burnside went to Monument on business Thursday. Mrs. Raymond McDonald, Mrs. Owen Leathers and Miss Pat Bleak man drove to Heppner Wednesday where they attended to business, shopped and visited. Oscel Inskeep left on Tuesday of last week for the Frank Young ranch where he is working. Although the crowd at the dance was not especially large, everyone had a good time and liked the new orchestra, Ivan Leathers' very much. The evening was such a success that there will be another dance in two weeks and Ivan's orchestra will be back then June 17. B. F. DeVore, a long-time resi dent of Hardman and the last Mor row county member of 'the Grand Army of the Republic, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. Z. Barnard, in The Dalles on Saturday. Funeral services were held at the I. O. O. F. cemetery here on Mon day afternoon, under the American Legion of Heppner, with C. J. D, Bauman in charge. There were a great many relatives and friends in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Moore of Heppner visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Leathers on Sunday. At long last we have had a fairly good rain which was much needed as the forests are very dry, and also the farmers were beginning to worry. It has been so cold on most nights that there has been ice some mornings a few miles further up. On every day there has been some sunshine, and on the whole the weather has been most pleasant. There was one very brief thunder storm. NEW BARLEY BEING TRIED LA GRANDE A new winter hardy barley believed to be resistant to foot rot is being tried this year by several Union county farmers who were supplied seed by Dr. Roderick Sprague, federal pathol ogist stationed at Oregon State col lege. Olympic barley is the name of the new variety and it is being tried on the farms of Henry Parsons, El gin; Jim McKinnis, J. A. Garkill and H. H. Huron, Imbler, and Claud Woodell, La Grande. County Agent Avery reports the plantings came through the winter in good shape. WEED CONTROL EFFECTIVE MORO A concentrated weed control program carried out on the Henry Howell ranch is apparently giving good results. After using liquid chemicals applied with press ure pumps for several years, Howell last fall filled boxes of his grain drills with dry sodium chlorate and spread the chemical on morning glory infested land. The results were apparently successful. Howell has been able to use ' chemically treated land again the third year after chemical application, with yields being nearly as good as on adjoining untreated land. estimates running from 3 per cent to 10 per cent under last year. A total of more than 8000 cars were shipped this past season with final marketings early in May. A more balanced farming program with po tatoes in rotation is being advocat ed by County Agent C. A. Henderson. KLAMATH FALLS Slight de crease in potato acreage in this county is expected this year with Slab Wood $4.50 cord -delivered anywhere within three miles . . anywhere in county reasonable. $3 at Mill Good Wood Good Measure Heppner Fuel Co. Phones: Office 152; Res. 1122 SHIP BY TRUCK The Dalles Freight Line, Inc. SERVICE BETWEEN PORTLAND : THE DALLES : HEPPNER AND WAY POINTS Arrive Tuesdays, Thursdays. Saturdays Warehouse: KANE'S GARAGE Carl D. Spickerman, Agent "PREVENT FOREST FIRES IT PAYS" Garlic-Parsley an Aid In HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE Medical report say that Garlic-Parsley con centrate has a double action in reducing high Diood pressure. im.it tends to relax tightened arteries. Second, i t checks or inhibits decompo sition of waste matter in the bowels, a contribu tory cause of high blood pressure. 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