Thursday, August 10, 1939
LEXINGTON NEWS
Henry Rauch
Hit by Falling Log
By MARGARET SCOTT
Henry Rauch was painfully in
jured Saturday when a log fell on
him while he was in the mountains.
Visitors at the Calvin home last
week were Mrs. Webster and son
Charles and Mrs. Myrtle Demoss.
They were accompanied home by
Allen Webster and Carl Demoss.
Joyce Biddle is employed at Mer
rill's cafe in Heppner and is stay
' ing at the Fred Wehmeyer home.
Wilbur Steagall and family spent
Sunday at Spray.
Dr. G. W. Millett and son Hubert
of Portland visited at the George
Peck home Sunday.
Dinner guests at the Al Fetch
home Sunday were Henry Rauch
and family, Clair Daugherty and
family, Gordon Banker and Pine
Thornburg.
Mrs. Earl Warner returned to her
home here last week after spending
the past several weeks at the home
of her daughter and family in Cor
vallis. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hunt and
family motored to Weston Sunday.
Elmer Hunt and family and Mrs.
Archie Padberg spent Tuesday in
Pendleton.
Ralph Jackson made a business
trip to La Grande Saturday and re
turned home Sunday.
Guests at the Sylvannus Wright
home Sunday were Myrtle Gentry
and granddaughter, Virgie, of Port
land and Fred Matlock and family
and three friends of The Dalles.
Lorraine Kramer and children of
Ritzville are visiting relatives here.
Sunday visitors at the Ted Mc
Millan home were Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bris
tow and son Edward of Cove and
Joe Clark of Arlington.
Jess Lovelace, Mrs. Cassidy and
son Norman of La Grande were
guests at the Cecil Jones home a
week ago Sunday. They were ac
companied home by Mr. Lovelace's
sons, Denward and Raymond, who
visited for the previous two weeks
at the Jones home.
Tempa Johnson has gone to As
toria to the home of her brother,
Ellis Hendricks, to be with his wife,
Marjie, who is ill.
Dorothy Cutsforth visited at the
Bill Smethurst home Sunday and
Monday.
Katherine Turner is able to be up
and about after her recent illness
due to injuries received when she
fell from a horse.
A 4-H sewing club meeting was
held Thursday at the Cutsforth home
and a calf club meeting was held
Sunday at the Campbell home.
Guests at the J Archie Padberg
home Sunday were Robert Burn
side and family, Robert Allstott, Sr.,
and wife, Sloan Spencer and fam
ily and Don Allstott and wife of
Hermiston.
Billie Nichols spent last week in
Portland with his mother and re
ports her condition remains the
same.
Edwin T. Ingles of Forest Grove
visited with friends here Tuesday.
Sylvia Severence of Ellensburg is
enjoying a vacation at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Roy Campbell.
Lon Edwards and Louis Allyn
have gone to Laurier to complete
work on a well there.
Jerrine Edwards is spending the
week at a summer camp near Los
tine. George York and family spent
Sunday at the home of Mrs. York's
parents in the Gooseberry district.
Rae Cowins of Heppner spent sev
eral days last week at the George
Allyn home.
Earl Underwood and family spent
the week end in the valley.
George Fern and family have
moved to Naches, Wash., to make
their home.
Alberta Smith of Heppner is em
ployed at the home of Sarah Booher.
Alice Cameron was a guest at the
home of Ruth Lasich this week.
Miss Cameron is a former room
mate of Mrs. Lasich and has been
to the fair in San Francisco. She
visited here on her way to Alaska.
Hugh Andrews has departed for
his home after holding services in
the churches here and at lone the
past two Sundays.
Bob Dickinson of Pine Grove vis
Heppner
ited relatvies here Sunday and Mon
day. Raymond Turner has returned
home after some time spent at C.
M. T. C. at Vancouver and a week
at Beaver Boy State in Portland.
Carl Whillock and family spent
Sunday in the mountains.
Russell Wright has been getting
fruit at Portland, The Dalles and
Boardman for delivery in this and
surrounding sections.
Word has been received that Pete
and John Robert McMillan of Carl
ton who operated a shingle mill un
der steam power seventeen miles out
of Carlton have now moved the mill
into Carlton and are operating un
der electric power.
Mr. Dilman has returned to his
home in Naches while the Wray
sawmill is broken down.
Groups Plan Effort
To Lengthen Session
Portland, Aug. 9 Representatives
of several state-wide organizations
met recently in Portland to plan
procedure to secure approval of the
constitutional amendment increasing
compensation of members of the
Oregon legislature and lengthen the
session from 40 to 50 days.
Committment of organizations rep
resented to support this amendment
at the 1940 general election in Ore
gon, was not made by those present
at the meeting in Oregon Business
& Investors Inc. office. But all pres
ent were personally in favor of the
increased pay and longer session
amendment, and agreed to seek fa
vorable resolutions from their re
spective organizations.
The group directed F. H. Young,
who called the meeting, to ask all
organizations, clubs, commercial
bodies, trade associations, labor and
agricultural groups to consider go
ing on record in favor of the con
stitutional amendment.
The proposal is to increase pay of
legislators from $3 to $8 a day, in
crease the constitutional term of the
legislature from 40 to 50 days, and
decrease mileage allowance from
fifteen to ten cents a mile.
Organizations represented at the
preliminary July 27th meeting were:
CIO, by Ralph Peoples; Oregon Farm
Bureau, by Hubert Warrens, Forest
Grove; State Horticultural Society,
by D. L. Pierson, Hood River; Port
land high school teachers, by C. E.
Oliver; League of Oregon Cities, by
William O. Hall, Eugene; Portland
automotive trades, by James C. Cas
sell; Portland firemen, by- S. P. Stev
ens; American -Legion, by John A.
Beckwith; State Bar association, by
R. R. Bullivant; Oregon Association
of Trade Executives, by Jack Lynch.
Letters from Paul Gurske, president
of the A. F. of L state federation of
labor, and Ray W. Gill, master of
the state grange, supporting the con
stitutional amendment which the
1939 Oregon legislature referred to
the people, were presented at the
meeting. -
O Ten Years Ago
(Gazette Times, Aug. 8, 1929)
Upper Willow creek farmers pro
test failure of city to comply with
contracts in handling water.
Glenn Robison, lone, and Miss
Eva Stange, Longview, victims of
double drowning in Columbia river
near Alderdale ferry.
Miss Thelma Morgan weds Thom
as Davidson in lone nuptials.
Miss Leora Devin weds Mr.
Adolph Hayden.
Mrs. Joseph Burgoyne, long-time
Lexington resident, passes in Port
land. Funeral at Lexington.
Good wheat crop shown by de
liveries at warehouses, now nearing
peak.
Jas. M. Burgess reports opening
of new Fox theater, attended in San
Francisco.
The big American Legion conven
tion is on at Salem this week.
Heppner-Spray road on way to
completion with work under way
on four-mile contract on Spray end,
Phelps Funeral Home
Ambulance Service
Trained Lady Assistant
Gazette Times, Heppner,
THE GASPE, BIT OF OLD FRANCE IN
AMERICA, DESCRIBED BY LOCAL WOMAN
A bit of old France transplanted to
America was the way Miss Rose
Leibbrand described the Gaspe the
coast of America's easternmost tip,
Nova Scotia which she and Miss
Leta Humphreys visited on their re
cent 7000-mile motor trip. The story
of the trip was given to Lions at
their Monday noon luncheon at Ho
tel Heppner.
They had no intention of seeing the
Gaspe, as the trip was first planned.
But after hearing of it from a friend
of Miss Leibbrand's, a nurse she
had known in the Orient who they
transported from Boston to her pres
ent home in Maine, the idea grew
upon them with more and more
stories as they neared the region. On
going through New Brunswick, they
decided it would require 'a slight
1000-mile detour to see the Gaspe,
so took the plunge.
Stone huts, spinning wheels and
men in homespun, all set in tran
quil pastoral surroundings trans
ported them back to old France and
stories of French fishing villages,
said Miss Leibbrand. Tourist "traps"
there were to be sure, with accom
modations every ten or 15 miles to
accommodate the many Canadians
who preferred to journey by bicy
cle. French was the language of the
Gaspe though its people about a
year ago were, fully impressed by
Dominion rule through a law that
requires all residents to learn Eng
lish. Miss Leibbrand wove through the
Gaspe tour an interesting theme con
nected with Miss Humphreys' pur
chase of a spinning wheel. The de
sire for a spinning wheel, long la
tent in Miss Humphreys' breast,
grew with the common sight of wo
men spinning at doorways. Fulfill
ment of the desire was not so sim
ple, it was revealed, when bargain
ing swas started. Though it was
learned that the wheels in most in
stances had an original purchase
price of $12 and that some twenty
years before, in most every instance
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WAS!
Before re-legauzationjhe farmer
HAD A TWO MILLION DOLLAR YEARLY
MARKET FOR. HIS BEER CROPS.
TODAY, BEER PAYS ONE HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY FOR ITS
CROPS. BEER CROP-LANDS WOULD COVER
ALMOST ALL THE FARM AREA OF FIVE
NEW ENGLAND STATES -3,000, OOO ACRES
ALSO - BEER PAYS A MILLION DOLLARS A
DAY IN TAXES AND MAKES A MILLION JOBS
AND NOW, TO KEEP BEER'S MANV BENEFITS,
FOR YOU AND FOR THEM, AMERICA'S
BREWERS WANT TO HELP KEEP BEER.
RETAILING- AS WHOLESOME AS BEER
ITSELF. THEIR PROGRAM WILL INTEREST
LOCAL LAW AUTHORITIES... AJNE SOO
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Oregon
reply to the query of from whence
they came was, "Quebec." No local
markets sold the machines, and the
ones in use were needed. They were
not for disposal. Many dickerings
had been made before the ladies at
last saw a house where two wheels
were displayed. Acting on the be
lief that two machines were not re
quired in a single home, they ap
poached hopefully and after a rath
er complicated bargaining process
emerged with the wanted article
which rode all the way home with
them.
Quebec was cited as the most in
teresting city in North America. Its
extremely narrow streets, bridged
over at the upper stories of build
ings where family washings were
ever evident gave them the feeling
of driving through a laundry, said
Miss Leibbrand, They visited the
historic Plains of Abraham and the
fort which the French still deny was
ever captured by the British. They
say the French were all busy in the
fields when thhe British occupied
the place.- A French soldier acted as
their guide and showed them a brass
cannon declared to have been cap
turned from the American colonists
in the Revolutionary war. Before
showing them the cannon, Miss
Leibbrand said the Frenchman who
spoke good English wittily said he
was going to let them see something
that belonged to them.
Other highlights of the trip were
cited as their stay in New York at
Greenwich village and visits at the
worlds fair, visits to the Old North
church of Paul Revere fame in Bos
ton, the separation from Miss
Humphreys in Detroit, and the ac
cident which befell Mrs. Agnes Wil
cox, who accompanied them east, in
St. Louis.
Mrs. Wilcox had the misfortune to
fall while bathing in St. Louis,
In spite of the injury she went on,
stoicallv and uncomplainingly, to
New York. Hospitalization was re
quired there, however, and she de-
Facts That Concern You
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cided to return home rather than at
tempt the remainder of the journey
by car.
The ladies went to Detroit by train.
In Detroit Miss Humphreys pur
chased a new automobile in which
the remainder of the trip was made.
It was while here that Miss Humph
reys was dropped from the car to do
a little shopping. Traffic was dense,
permitting no parking, and it was
arranged that the car would pass by
some fifteen 'minutes later and pick
her up. In some manner connections
were missed, and it was only after
an hour and a half and both parties
had notified the police that Miss
Humphreys was at last found in
the company of a handsome police
man. FORMER RESIDENT PASSES
Funeral services were held at Ar
lington a week ago Sunday for Mrs.
Angenette Maddock of that city, a
former resident of Heppner when
her husband, the late Ely Maddock,
was connected with management of
the old Palace hotel. Mrs. Maddock
died at Arlington the day before.
She was the stepmother of Creston
R. Maddock and mother of Mrs.
Leonard Ferguson, Arlington; Mrs.
Thomas B. Hall, Long Creek, and
Mrs. Donald C. Stoppenbach, Bal
timore, Md.
BIDDLE-BROWN
The marriage of Mrs. Lela S. Bid-
die to Vernon Brown, both of this
city, was an event an Vancouver,
Wash., August 3, according to an
nouncement received by friends.
Following a short wedding trip to
the coast the newlyweds returned
home Sunday and are at home at the
Biddle farm below Heppner.
Everything from the famed May
Irwin-John C. Rice 40 ft kiss of 1898
to scenes from flims now in produc
tion, including the much awaited
"Gone With the Wind" in March of
Time, Star Theater, Wednesday and
Thursday, August 16-17.
Jason Biddle was a visitor in the
city this morning from the Rhea
creek farm.
No. 10 of a $erie$.
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