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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, April 3, 1941
LEXINGTON NEWS
Gene Cutsforth Breaks
Arm in Fall from Horse
By MARGARET SCOTT
Gene Cutsforth had the misfor
tune to break his left arm Friday
evening when he fell from a horse
at his home.
Saturday visitors in Pendleton
were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dinges
and Dan, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Warner.
Mrs. A. M. Edwards was pleasant
ly surprised Wednesday afternoon
when a group of her friends honored
her with a handkerchief shower for
her birthday. Refreshments of cake
and coffee were served.
Roy Williams' have as their house
guest Mrs. Williams' mother.
Lester Cox has returned to his
home here from Portland where he
had been attending school.
George Tucker is attending a
church conference in Heppner the
first of this week.
Stanley Way who was recently
enlisted in the army has been trans
ferred to Fort Knox, Ky.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Edwards were
visitors in Walla Walla Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Glasgow and
family and Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rice
and Eleanor were dinner guests at
the George Peck home Sunday.
John Miller was ill . at his home
this week.
Mrs. Orville Cutsforth spent the
week end in the valley.
Church services will again be
conducted by George Tucker at the
Christian church at 11 a. m., Sun
day. Everyone is welcome.
Mrs. Tempa Johnson has return
ed to her home here.
Lena Belle, Ruby and Kenneth
Forbes of Boardman were Sunday
guests at the Buchanan home.
Claude Hill of Redmond spent the
week end with his family at the S.
G. McMillan home. He reported
that the family home at Redmond
was destroyed by fire last Wednes
day. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Carmichael en
tertained with a party Saturday
night at their home in honor of their
guests, Mr. and Mrs. Ladd Sherman.
The new water meters are all in
stalled and are now in use.
Eldon Warner and LaVonne Dick
inson of Pilot Rock visited at the
Laura Scott and Vernon Scott homes
Saturday and Sunday. They were
accompanied here by George Tucker
who spent the last week at the War
ner home.
Ihe junior-senior play, "A Poor
Married Man," was presented Fri
day evening in the local school aud
itorium. The play was a farce-com
edy and was greatly enjoyed by
.everyone. Ihe cast of characters in
eluded the following students: El
don Padberg, Roy Martin, Duane
Johnson, Don Peck. Lavelle Pieper,
Doris Scott, Jerrine Edwards and
May Rauch.
Ralph Jackson made a business
trip to Portland Saturday. Friday
he motored to Pendleton and was
accompanied by Mrs. Jackson and
daughters.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rhodda have
moved into the Congregational par
sonage. Mr. and Mrs. Newt CXHarra and
family have moved into the Swift
place while Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln
Nash have moved to Heppner.
Frank Klune has moved into Ves
ter Lane's home which he purchased
recently.
Forest Fire Control
Slogans to Win Prizes
Corvallis High school students
throughout the state are invited to
take part in a forest fire prevention
slogan contest now being sponsored
by the state board of forestry, the
school of forestry at O. S. C, and
the Oregon Forest Fire association.
The state has been divided into
eight districts, with a $5 cash prize
offered in each and a $10 grand
prize. Each slogan is to carry a
message about protecting forests
from their worst enemy, fire. Each
student may submit one slogan,
which is to be submitted in his or
her handwriting, together with name,
date, address; county, high school
and class numerals. Slogans are to
be mailed to the School of Forestry,
Corvallis, Oregon, not later than
April 28.
IONE NEWS
New Grain Elevator
Rising at Morgan
By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH
Work started Monday on the grain
elevator which Elmer Griffith is
building beside his warehouse at
Morgan. The elevator will contain
twenty bins, with a capacity of 2500
or more bushels. The total capacity
will be about 55,000 bushels. The
Mid-State Construction company of
The Dalles is doing the engineering
work, and construction will require
two months.
The weather man advanced the
season a few days, and April show
ers were ushered in with a thunder
storm on Saturday, followed by hard
showers at scattered points, with
cool cloudy weather prevailing. The
total rainfall since the first of Sep
tember is 9.45 inches, but March
contributed only .46 inch.
Hynd Brothers of Cecil were no
tified this week that the government
was taking their range land for the
bombing field, and to remove their
stock. They hope for a sixty days'
stay.
Carlson brothers, Gooseberry pur
chased the old Frank Griffin ranch
consisting of 320 acres, from Mrs.
Alice Gentry of Heppner, on March
20.
Mrs. Carl Bergstrom has been in
Portland for the last ten days with
her young son, Walter, who is un
der the care of a physician. He
underwent a tonsilectomy on March
28.
The Gooseberry 4-H club met at
the Henry Peterson home on Sat
urday. Mrs. Julia Carlson is the
leader.
The Valby Women's Missionary
society will meet next Sunday, April
6, at 2 p. m. at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse Warfield.
The Valby Sunday school meets
at the Valby church in Gooseberry
and has an average attendance of
25 or 30. O. E. Peterson is the
leader.
A nice crowd gathered at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Griffin on
the evening of March 23, and gave
the newlyweds a good old-fashioned
charivari and wshed them a long
and happy married life.
Mr. and Mrs. Clel Rae are the
parents of an eight pound boy, born
Monday afternoon at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Swanson. This is the Rae's fourth
son.
Miss Miriam Hale of Tangent and
Miss Ellen Allen of King's Valley,
joint owners of the Park hotel, ar
rived Monday afternoon, and are
busy doing spring housecleaning at
the hotel.
Mrs. J. W. Howk and children,
Alan and Lois, of Condon spent
Monday and Tuesday here at the
home of Mrs. Howk's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. P. J. Linn. They were
taking advantage of a two-day school
holiday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Swanson and
daughter, Eva, are visiting rela
tives in Sumner, Wash. They plan
to see the daffodil parade in Ta
coma on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wad Short and
son Billie of Redmond spent the
week 'end at the Hugh Smith home.
Mrs, E. C Heliker had the mis
fortune to break her wrist and cut
a four inch gash in her head when
she fell on a waxed floor at her
home Thureday. She is in the hos
pital at Pendleton.
Mrs. Dan Long returned Sunday
from St Martin's springs, where she
has been receiving treatment for
arthritis. ,
Krebs brothers at Cecil are in the
midst of sheep shearing. They shear
early in order to get the sheep hard
ened for the change to summer
pasture in Montana.
The Union Missionary society
meets Thursday in ttie Congrega
tional church parlors, with Mes
dames James Warfield and Laxton
McMurray as hostesses.
Mrs. Eula Barnhouse who has re
signed here as first and second
grade teacher has accepted a posi
tion in the John Day school.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Matthews
arrived Monday night from Rose
burg with their goods. They are
living at the H. O. Ely home for the
present
Ted Blake drove to Kinzua Thurs
day to take his wife and daughter,
Arleta, and his mother. Mrs. W. J.
Blake. The elder Mrs. Blake visited
I her sister, Mrs. Mary Blake, while
, Mrs. Ted Blake and daughter join
i ed a friend who was driving to Co-
quille, where she visited her sister.
They returned home Tuesday.
.Carlson brothers completed their
spring plowing on April 2, having
plowed 1780 acres in 26 days.
New car owners in Gooseberry are
Carl Bergstrom and Frank Fraters.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Esteb of Wash
ougal, Wash., spent the week end
here, visiting Mr. Esteb's mother,
Mrs. Sarah Alice Esteb. They de
parted Tuesday and the same day
another son, Sam Esteb, arrived to
visit his mother.
PINE CITY NEWS
By BERNICE WATTENBURGER
Ilene Murphy and Mary Daly,
student nurses from St. Anthonys
hospital, spent Sunday visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Daly.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger
were Heppner callers Sunday morn
ing. Burl Wattenburger and Marion
Finch made a business trip to Fossil
and the Kinzua mill Saturday.
A number from Butter creek at
tended the dance at Lena grange
Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Struthers and
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger
were callers Sundy afternoon at the
Abercrombie home.
Helen and Rosetta Healy and Bet
ty Finch spent the week end at their
homes on Butter creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neill were Pen
dleton callers Thursday.
Mrs. Maude Steuber left Monday
for the Allen place on lower Butter
creek. She will keep house for Mr.
Allen and his son.
Mrs. Hazel McCarty, Mrs. Laura
McCarty and daughter, Mrs. Edith
Young and grandson, were callers
at the Russell Moore, Charles Bar
tholomew and E. B. Wattenburger
homes Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Brewster spent
Thursday night with their daughter,
Mrs. R. E. McGreer. They were
en route to their home in Spokane
after spending a month in Southern
California. They "brought home or
anges and lemons picked ripe from
the trees.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Moore spent
Sunday at the Robert Smith home
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