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IONE NEWS
lone Oddfellows and
Rebekahs Install
By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH
i
Installation of officers was held at
the Rebekah lodge here Thursday
evening. Mildred Lundell was the
installing officer. Officers are Mar
jorie Gordon, N. G.; Eva Swanson,
V. G.; Lena Lundell, secretary;
Mary Swanson, treasurer; Ida Flet
cher, warder; Etta Bnstow, R. S.
N. G.; Mildred Lundell, L. S. N. G.;
Clara Kincaid, R. S. V. G.; Minnie
Forbes, L. S. V. G.; Delia Corson,
inside guardian; Margaret Morgan,
outside guardian; Ruth Lundell,
chalain; Elaine Rietmann, conduc
tress. Refreshments were served at
the close of the meeting.
lone Oddfellows installed their of
ficers at Morgan Thursday evening,
with the Morgan officers. Elmer
Griffith was installing officer and
those installed for lone were P. J.
Linn, N. G.; Wm. Clark, V. G.; John
Clark, secretary; E. J. Bristow, trea
surer. The Morgan officers are Ce
cil Thorne, N. G.; Dean Ekleberry,
V. G.; J. A. Troedson, treasurer,
and Fred Ely, secretary.
Mrs. Wallace Matthews who has
been visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. O. Ely at Morgan, left Mon
day for her home at Roseburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Carlyle of
Walla Walla are again employed on
the Fisk ranch.
The O. E. S. social club met Wed
nesday at the Masonic hall. Mrs.
D. T. Smith was the hostess.
The President's Ball for the fight
on infantile paralysis will be held
in lone, Saturday evening, Jan. 25.
The Union Aid society held elec
tion of officers at their meeting
Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Dela Cor
son was elected president; Mrs. W.
J. Blake, vice-president; Mrs. Lax
ton McMurray, secretary, and Mrs.
J. E. Swanson, treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. Dell Whitmore and
daughter, Betty Joan of Bickleton,
Wash., were guests at the Harry
Yarnell home on Friday.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
will hold, a countywide get togeth
er meeting here on January 30.
A large attendance and a fine
meeting of Oddfellows was held here
Tuesday evening with members in
attendance from various outside
lodges. Heppner was represented by
13, Lexington 7, Morgan 9, lone 10,
Hardman 1, Baker 1, Caldwell, Ida.,
1, and Montana 1. Lunch was serv
ed following the lodge session.
Lowell Clark left Thursday to
return to his work in Los Angeles,
after spending his vacation here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hen
ry Clark.
Mrs. Omar Rietmann is ill at her
home here.
The social meeting of the Women's
Topic club will be held Friday, Jan.
24, at the home of Mrs. J. E. Swan
son. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hummel spent
the week end in Portand.
Mrs. Walter Eubanks went to Pen
dleton Monday in company with
her sister, Mrs. Letha Buschke, to
visit at the latter's home.
The Schoolmaste'r club met here
Monday evening and enjoyed a ban
quet at the Park hotel. Twenty-two
members were present, representing
schools at Echo, Boardman, Hepp
ner, Irrigon, Umatilla, Lexington
and lone.
A light snow, melting on the froz
en ground, has made bad driving
conditions. John Eubanks had the
front axle pulled off his truck when
an attempt was made to pull it out,
after it mired down in front of a
service station on the Columbia riv
er highway. John Ray, driving C.
E. Brenner's truck, ran into a land
slide near Arlington and wrecked
with a load of wheat. School busses
found the going hard.
A capacity audience attended the
game Wednesday evening last week
between the Morrow County All
Star basketball team and a traveling
colored team calling themselves the
Hottentots. The visitors won by a
small margin, and meantime enter
tained the spectators with clever
by-play and clowning.
Mrs. D. P. Phelan is reported quite
ill at a hospital in Portland, where
she went last week for treatment
of an illness.
Heppner
IRRIGON NEWS
Irrigon Homes Hit
By Illness in Week
By MRS. W. C. ISOM
Rev. Mr. Harness and Rev. Mr.
Graves of Hermiston motored to
Portland last Monday to attend a
meeting of the Pentecostal church,
returning Saturday. Mrs. Tom Cald
well and Mrs. Harris accompanied
them on the trip. Mrs. Harris re
turned to her home near Portland
and Mrs. Caldwell went to visit her
two sons, Wayne and Vernon Cald
well, and families.
The Ladies Aid members met at
the home o Mrs. Elmer Ruker on
Thursday for an all day meeting.
Pot luck dinner was served and a
very enjoyable time was spent.
Mrs. Abe Swearingen who was
called away by the illness and
death of her father recently, return
ed home Monday.
James Warner became quite ill at
Portland last week and was brought
home by bus Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Markham
and family motored to Richland,
Wash., Sunday to visit his brother,
Fred Markham, and family.
Mrs. Belle Cadlwell, who has been
quite ill for some time was removed
to the home of her grand daughter,
Mrs. Woodward, near Hermiston,
where she is improving, it is re
ported. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Isom visited
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Gollyhorn Sunday.
Chas. Stewart became very ill last
week and was taken to the veter
ans hospital at Walla Walla Sat
urday. WILLOWS GRANGE NEWS
By MARY LUNDELL
Although the fog was so heavy
last Saturday night that many could
not attend grange, a lively meeting
was enjoyed by those present. Two
members coming from a distance
were Kenneth Lundell, Seattle, and
Gordon Hall, Hood River.
An interesting and entertaining
feature of the lecture hour, Barbara
Heliker, lecturer, was the New Years
Resolutions by the officers, using
their initials as leads.
"Absent Minded," a skit, was en
joyed by all. Characters were: Wife,
Geneva Palmer; Husband, Marion
Palmer.
The lecturer suggested drill prac
tice as a feature for lecture hour for
the first meeting each month, a
thought well taken.
There will be a conference of of
ficers and committee members on
Sunday, Jan. 26, in the hall dining
room. There will be a pot luck din
ner at noon. All members are in
vited to join for the dinner and at
tend the conference.
The President's Ball will be held
in the Willows hall on Saturday
evening, Jan. 25. Come out and do
your bit.
Committees were appointed for
1941 as follows: Agricultural com
mittee, Mary Lundell, Donald Hel
iker, Jack Bailey; cooperative com
mittee, Oscar Lundell, Ernest Hel
iker, Wid ' Palmateer; legislative
committee, Jack Bailey, Clara Kin
caid, Ivar Nelson; membership com
mittee, Vida Heliker, Dot Halvorsen,
Anna Ball, Paul O'Meara; dance
committee, Lewis Ball, Mary Lind
say, P. C. Peterson.
Coming soon: Plays by the Arling
ton chapter of Future Farmers of
America, followed by a dance spon
sored by the Future Farmers and
the grange. Watch for the date.
A very fine bible was presented
to Willows grange by Rev. W. W.
Head of Cathlamet, Wash. Mr. Head
is an honorary member of this
grange.
Willows grange meets in regular
session on the first and third Sat
urday evening of each month. The
new pass word has been given to
those members entitled to receive
it, namely those whose dues are
paid.
APPRECIATE RESPONSE
Mrs. Walter Becket and Mrs. Ben
O. Anderson, committee workers,
wish to thank the people of the
Eight Mile community for the fine
response in the recent Red Cross
roll call.' A total of $39 was turned
in to the county chairman by them.
Gazette Times, Heppner,
HARDMAN NEWS '
Hardman Teachers
Surprise Students
By ELSA M. LEATHERS
Mr. and Mrs. Foster Collins left
for Portland Monday evening where
Mrs. Collins will consult a doctor.
She has been troubled for years
with arthritis. They expect to re
main in that city two weeks.
Ed McDaniel went to the Victor
Lovgren home to visit this week,
and from there will go to Lonerock
to visit his son, daughter and little
new grand daughter, Carolyn Marie.
All of the high school were pleas
antly surprised Friday "by the teach
ers when they gave a birthday party
for Vera McDaniel. The teacher
presented a very lovely birthday
cake.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boggs and three
children of Aliance, Neb., arrived
here Saturday and visited at the
Sabin Hastings home. They are rel
atives of Mrs. Hastings. They ex
pect to visit in Washington, also,
before returning to their home.
Mrs. Owen Leathers was appoint
ed Infantile Paralysis worker in the
Hardman community, and she named
as helpers for the party to be given
Friday, January 31, Misses Vern,
Vera and Maxyne McDaniel, and
Jean Leathers. There will be re
freshments sold and the proceeds
will go for the funds being raised
in Morrow county.
Mr. 'and Mrs. Ralph Scott and
children of Lexington visited at the
Neal Knighten home Sunday. Mrs.
Knighten is ill with the flu.
Mrs. George Hayden and son
Marion returned home this week
end from Portland where they have
been visiting for two weeks, to at
tend the funeral of James Carsner
Sunday at Spray. He was Mrs. Hay
den's nephew and son of the late
Bob Carsner. He left many friends
in this community to mourn his
passing. When his father and mo
ther lived on the French ranch he
and his brother, Joe, attended the
Camas Prairie school, thus also leav
ing schoolmates. Sympathy is ex
tended to his wife and babies and
Mrs. Hayden and Marion.
Little Freddie Knighten had a
birthday party Saturday, inviting
all the boys. They played basket
ball and boxed much to the boys'
delight. Freddie's cake had seven
candles.
Oscel Inskeep returned home Sun
day evening from Salem where he
visited his sister, Mary.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Buschke and
boys visited at the Walter Becket
home Sunday evening.
Friends that have been in to call
on Darrel Farrens who is in the
hospital in Heppner, report he is
getting along fine and expects to be
out again soon.
Miss Lois Hewitt was sick with
the flu and Mrs. Marvin Brannon
taught her room one half day.
Mrs. Lucy Rodgers gave the mid
year exams in grade school Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDaniel and
Mrs. B. H. Bleakman went to Hepp
ner Monday to attend to business.
BUYS REGISTERED BULL
Hermiston, Ore. The American
Guernsey Cattle club, Peterborough,
N. H., reports the sale of a regis
tered Guernsey bull by Frank See
liger to Mrs. Emma Holub of lone.
This animal is Frantilla Cherie's
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BOARDMAN NEWS
George Mefford
Passes at Lebanon
By MRS. CLAUD COATS
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sullivan and
daughters, Gail and Patty, and Miss
Elinor Tilden visited here over the
week end with friends. Miss Til
den taught the third and fourth
grades in Boardman last year and
Mr. Sullivan was the agriculture in
structor in the high schol until he
was called to active service in the
army in November. They were
warmly received by many friends
here.
George Graves, five year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Graves, was
taken to the hospital two weeks ago
with a ruptured appendix. He was
operated on Wednesday and is im
proving as well as can be expected.
A series of pinochle card parties
are being heldin the grange hall on
Thursday nights. The first one was
last week with Mrs. O. Merritt and
Bill Harrington wining high prizes.
There will be a party every Thurs
day night for five weeks, and then
at that time grand prizes will be
given to the man and lady with the
highest total score.
George Mefford passed away at
his home in Lebanon Tuesday mor
ning, after a three weeks' serious
illness. Funeral services were held
in Salem on Thursday. Mrs. Ed
Barlow and Mrs. Leo Root, daugh
ters of Mr. Mefford, who had been
with him several days, returned
home Friday. Mr. Mefford is a for
mer resident of Boardman.
Two basketball games will be
played on the local floor this week.
On Tuesday, Condon plays here in
a consolation game, and on Friday,
the Echo quintet meets the Board -man
Yellowjackets in what prom
ises to be an exciting league game.
The men teachers in the Board
man school attended the regular
schoolmasters' banquet in lone
Monday night.
Mrs. George McNabb nee Janet
Gorham, spent a few days in The
Dalles the first of the week. She
returned and started to work in
Gorham's store.
Construction has gotten under way
this week on the new highway be
ing put through from Boardman to
Stanfield, which meets the highway
from there to Pendleton. Gilbert
Petteys, Zearl Gillespie and Henry
Graves are among those to receive
employment on the work.
Frank Marlow spent Sunday in
The Dalles with his wife, who is ill
in the hospital theme.
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Thursday, January 23, 1941
James Carsner, 31
Passes at Spray Home
James Warren Carsner, . young
stockman-rancher of the Spray dis
trict, died at his home at that place
last Thursday night, passing from
heart failure after retiring for the
night. Son of the late Senator Rob
ert J. Carsner, the young man was
well known in Heppner where he
had business dealings, and he was
a member of Heppner lodge 358, B.
P. O. Elks. Several years ago he
was employed in this county as a
federal trapper, in which position he
also made many acquaintances.
The local Elks lodge officiated at
funeral services, held at Spray Sun
day afternoon, with' a large con
course of friends of the family in.
attendance. Burial was in the Hay
stack cemetery beside graves of his
late parents and brother, Joseph.
Mr. Carsner was the last member of
his immediate family.
James Warren Carsner was born
at Heppner, January 10, 1910, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Cars
ner, pioneers. He was educated at
Spray and was an ex-student of Ore
gon State college, following stock
raising most of his life, and assist
ing his mother and brother in op
eration of the large holdings after
the passing of his late father. He
married Vema Bolton, January 28,
1938, and is survived by the wife
and two children, Vivian Ann and
Robert Joseph.
Among those from Heppner at
tending the last rites were those
who officiated as lodge officers, Ken
neth Akers, exalted ruler; Norton
Lundell, esteemed leading knight;
Earle Bryant, esteemed loyal knight;
J. Logie Richardson, esteemed lec
turing knight; Dr. R. C. Lawrence,
esquire; J. J. Wightman, chaplain;
Mr. and Mrs. Luke Bibby, D. M.
Ward, Henry Aiken, Hanson Hughes,
Lyle Matteson, James Farley and
Mark Merrill.
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