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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, September 12, 1940
LEXINGTON NEWS
Lex People Wed
In Week's Nuptials
By MARGARET SCOTT
Mrs. Annis Helms and Mr. James
Wren were married in Heppner
Monday afternoon at the home of
the justice of the peace, J. 0. Hager.
Witnesses were sister of the groom,
Mrs. Etta Hunt, and her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Arthur Hunt.
Miss Zelma Way, daughter of Mr.
and Mis. Dan Way, and Dallas Mc
Daniel of Hardman were married
in Lewiston, Saturday, September 7.
Mrs. McDaniel graduated from the
local high school last year.
Lonnie Henderson was confined
to his home by illness Tuesday.
The Lexington Home Economics
club will meet at the grange hall
Thursday afternoon, Sept. 19, with
Mrs. Swaggart and Mrs. Dolvin
serving.
There will be a P. T. A. meeting
at the local schoolhouse Wednesday,
Sept. 18, at 8 o'clock in the eve
ning. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whillock and
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Henderson
attended a Prestone meeting in Pen
dleton Wednesday evening.
' Jack McMillan of Portland is a
guest at the S. G. McMillan home.
Vernon Warner is working in
Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bauman en
tertained with a chicken dinner at
their home Saturday evening. Guests
present were Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Burnside and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Padberg and family, Mrs.
Norma McRoberts and son, and
Bud Lundell. Cards were played
after dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gray and
family were business visitors in lone
Sunday.
Mr. Foos has rented the James
Leach house and Mrs. Foos will
join him in the near future.
Mrs. Edna Turner is making her
home with Mrs. Tempa Johnston
during the school week. She goes to
her Heppner apartment for the
week end.
A number of local relatives and
friends attended the funeral rites
for Mrs. Lewis Knighten in Hard
man Sunday.
Mrs. Vera Bery is staying at the
R. B. Rice ranch while Rices are in
Portland.
Mrs. Effie Parkins is staying with
her mother, Mrs. Sarah Booher.
A large crowd attended the tea
chers reception Friday evening. Re
freshments were served at the close
of the evening.
OSC Students Get
$47,991 NYA Funds
Federal aid under the National
Youth administration benefitted a
total of 552 different Oregon State
college students who earned $47,
881.66, last year, according to the
annual report just compiled, by Reg
istrar E. B. Lemon, chairman of the
college NYA committee. Average
earning for all students was $83.13,
146 received less than $50 each and
only 32 received over $150 for the
year.
In accordance with the colloge
policy of considering the NYA as an
educational department, these stu
dents performed a wide variety of
work in the 136,592 hours they re
corded. About a fourth of the total
hours for the year were devoted to
specially designed projects and mis
cellaneous assignments which in
cluded scores of jobs in laboratories
constructing equipment, tabulating
data, testing, assisting with research
' and conducting surveys. Other work
included clerical, stenographic, in
structional assistance, repairs, con
' struction and drafting.
NYA students maintained consid
erably higher grades than the col
lege average, the report shows.
About 80 per cent of the 552 were
underclassmen.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation for the sympathy and
flowers offered at the time of our
bereavement.
John Ktttson
Omer Luttrell,
Mrs. Vernon Munkers,
Mrs. Peter Vanderwood,
Mrs. Chas. Snively,
Miss Edna Luttrell,
Mrs. Mose Duran.
IQNE NEWS
Two Men Injured
While Pulling Pipe
By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH
Tuesday morning while Omar
Rietmann and Alfred Nelson were
pulling pipe on the Nelson ranch
near Lexington, a clamp gave way
and in the resulting accident Mr.
Nelson was cut in the head, causing
a wound which required six stitches,
and Mr. Rietmann lost the end of a
thumb which was cut off.
This section was visited by a se
vere 'storm on Monday evening,
beginning with a hard dust storm
followed by an unusually severe
electrical storm. The amount of rain
falling was .51 of an inch and it
wet the ground down three inches,
which some people believe is suf
ficient for fall seeding.
Tom Everson and Harry Ring
went to The Dalles on Monday to
take the examinations required to
enter the national guards. They
returned on Tuesday. Harry will go
back next Monday and Tom as soon
as he is satisfactorily fitted with
glasses.
Elmer Grabeal of Los Angeles ar
rived in lone Monday and is busy
visiting old friends. Mr. Grabeal
was employed here for a number
of years.
John Reed of Richfield, Wash.,
was in town over the week end and
has again opened the skating rink.
There will be skating every Satur
day evening and Sunday afternoon.
Thursday night Mrs. Clifford Mc
Cabe and John Eubanks were plea
santly surprised at a joint birthday
party given in their honor at the
McCabe home. Many nice gifts were
received. The following were pre
sent: Mr. and Mrs. Garland Swan
son, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Eubanks,
Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Runnion, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Grabill, Mr. and
Mrs. A. E. Stefani, Mr. and Mrs.
George Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Halvorsen, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Ritchie, Clifford1 McCabe, and Mrs.
John Eubanks.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Everson of
Hood River spent the week end in
lone visiting at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ever
son.
Miss Minnie Blair Normoyle left
on Friday for San Francisco, after
spending several weeks here visit
ing at the home of her uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Beckner.
Mrs. Beckner drove her as far as
Pendleton.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Troedson re
turned on Friday from a trip to the
state fair at Salem,
Mrs. Kenneth Blake and small son
of Heppner spent Saturday and Sun
day in lone as guests, of Mr. and
Mrs. W. J. Blake. Her husband drove
their son, Bill, to Portland, where
he will 'enter the University of Port
land as a law student
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pettyjohn of
Heppner and Mildred Lundell, Roy
Pettyjohn, and Lloyd Morgan of
lone spent Sunday at the state fair
in Salem, going down Saturday
night.
Miss Betty Jean Mankin left on
Sunday for Walla Walla where she
will again enroll in St. Paul's. Mrs.
Dwight JMisner of Thornton, Wash.,
who has been visiting her son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Mankin, drove her over.
Bert Mason, Jr., returned on Mon
day to his ranger station at Wheeler
after spending several days here
visiting his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Swanson and
Mrs. Garland Swanson and children
spent the latter part of the week
in Salem visiting relatives and at
tending the state fair. They return
ed on Sunday.
Loren Hale of Tangent, an old
time resident of lone, arrived on
Monday to visit relatives and attend
to business matters.
Mrs. Ted Blake is employed as
librarian in the public library to
replace Mrs. E. J. Keller, who left
recently for Wisconsin. Fifty fiction
books were donated recently to the
library by the Umatilla county li
brary in Pendleton.
W. G. Palmateer spent part of
this week in Salem at the state fair.
George N. Ely also went down.
The Morgan school district, No. 5,
held a meeting Saturday evening
and elected Mrs. .Albert Lindstrom
as school director to replace the
unexpired term of Mrs. Franklin
Ely, who resigned recently. They
also voted to send the grade school
pupils and their teacher, Miss Ruth
Johnson, to lone, where she will
teach in the lone school. Perman
ent arrangements for transportation
have not yet been provided.
TVn Pari RpTcfcttYvm familv in
Gooseberry is quarantined because G-T want ads get results.
of a case of diphtheria in the fam
ily. Norman is ill. They recently
returned from Portland.
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"Acute mindedness" is the way Webster puts it. The
point of all this being that milady need have no fear of
searching scrutiny by her sisters when she wears
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