Page Two Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon Thursday, July 10, 1941 LEXINGTON NEWS Lex Folks Celebrate; New Wheat Comes By MARGARET SCOTT Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whillock, Hel en Breshears, and Everett Crump spent the week end at Hidaway springs. A. - M. Edwards moved his well drill to Monument last week to be gin work on a well for the school there. Kenneth Peck spent the week en J with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gea. Peck. Sunday school and church ser vices have been discontinued for the summer and will be resumed Sunday, August 24. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Jackson nd family spent the Fourth at Baker; C. C. Carmichael and Pine Thorn -burg at St. Paul; Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Marshall and family in Bend; Jack Van Winkle and Ruth Hanna man in Portland; the William Van Winkle family, the Laurel Ruhl fam ily, and Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Gray at Stanfield; also Mr. and Mrs. Otto Ruhl and family; Dale Lane in Port ¬ land; the Vernon Scott family, Lau ra Scott, and Melissa Stonebraker at Pine Grove, and Gene Bissinger to Portland. Among those going to the mountains were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Munkers, Mrs. Elsie Beach, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Munkers and Marily- , Mr. and Mrs. Newt O'Hara and fam ily, and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Edwar Is and family. Joe Way has been ill at his home. Ruth McMillan has as her guest her sister Neva. Bobby Gray of Stanfield is visiting, relatives here. Orv.ille Cutsforth delivered the first wheat into the new Morrow County Grain Growers elevator Tu esday. Julian Rauch also started the same day. Rudolph Klinger deliv ered the first new wheat of the spa son, bringing in 30 sacks last Thur s day. IONE NEWS fINE CITY NEWS Yields Better Than Expected, lone Section By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH I During a thunder storm Sunday j A nice time was had by all at the afternoon lightning struck in the Dillard French ranch the 4th of middle ot a Held on the K. U Jskle-1 July. Mr. and Mrs. French cr-le-berry ranch near Morgan, causing a 1 brated their golden wedding. There Golden Anniverstary Feted at French Ranch By BERNICE WATTENBURGER superior in this region as a cover crop to vetch and peas used farther south. This is a new practice in these states, which, if it is generally aaoptea, noids tremendous possi- that died from causes unknown to. the owner was found, upon examin ation, to have been killed by copper poisoning which affected the kid neys, which were four or five times bility for expansion of the seed as large as normal and discolored production industry in this state Teutsch believes. fire. Mr. and Mrs. Ekleberry were absent at the time but neighbors Were about 500 people present, Mr. and Mrs. John Healv and saw the smoke and the fire, which family motored to Heppner Monday was in grassland, was controlled be fore it reached the farm buildings or did any damage. Harvest is well under way on the on business, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ayers and daughter Juanita, Mr. and Mrs. Cky DeBoard and son Phillip were call - north side of lone and around Mor- ers at the Marion Finch home Tu- gan and the tanners are much grat- esaay, HA RDM AN NEWS Hardman People at Fossil for Fourth By ELSA M. LEATHERS Mr. and Mrs. Allen Billings and daughter Marline spent the week end at Mrs. Charley McDaniel's. Marline is spending a few days here. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDanM and Elwood Hastings spent a few days last week visiting Mrs. Mc Daniel's parents and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Wes Stevens and Mrs. Elmer Musgrave at Hamilton. They re turned home Sunday. While theie they went to Blue Mountain springs. Those taking in the Fourth at Fossil this year were Mr. and Mrs. Les Robinson, Delbort Robinson, Vern, Vera and Cecil McDaniel. Leon Chapin, Forest Adams, Jean Leathers and Jennie McRoberts. Mr. and Mrs. Sam McDaniel spent the week end at their home at Hardman. They are both employed at the Reed mill. Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lovgren and children were visiting in town Mon day. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hughes and Charlotte Cannon, Mr. ar.d Mrs. Tom Fraters spent the Fourth at Spring field. Mr. and Mrs. Dallas McDaniel of Lonerock were visiting in town Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Adams and son Forest motored to Pendleton Mon day. They stopped at Hermiston on the way home and spent the eve ning with their daughter, Mrs. Ted Burnside. Creston Robinson from Lewiston, Idaho, was visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robinson, one day last week. Miss Vera McDaniel left Sunday to work at the Oral Scott ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Oren McDaniel and children and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rogers spent Saturday at Lonerock visiting relatives. APPRECIATION Our sincere appreciation is ex tended to all those who responded to the call to fight fire near our place last Monday. Their efforts prevented .serious damage on oir property, which we deeply appre ciate. Mrs. Isabel Corrigall, Mrs. Gladys Corrigall. ified at the yields, which in most cases are much better than was an ticipated. There have been numerous reports of forty and even forty-five bushel yields. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burke arrived home Sunday and are living in Mrs. Minnie Forbes house, while Mr. Burke is employed in harvest. Lois Ring returned home Friday from Hood River, where slie Las been visiting her aunt. Mrs. J. D. Bonner of Longview is a guest at the I. R. Robison home. Mrs. Walter Swenson and three children, Roberta Cunnington, and Loren Runollson of Walla Walla spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Swenson's sister, Mrs. E. J. Bristow. Bob Swenson will work here during harvest. Mrs. Ida Peterson received word of the birth Tuesday of a daughter to her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Peterson of The Dalles. Mrs. Peterson is the daugh ter of Mrs. Margaret Rietmann. Among farmers whose crops have been injured recently by hail ire Harold Kincaid, Delbert Emert and Smith brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Whitmore and son of Curransville spent the week end here as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Ball. Mrs. Ida Fletcher is enjoying a va cation trip with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Calaa dre of Hood River. They plan to go to Crater Lake and also to visit Mrs, Fletcher's son Raymond who lives on the coast. ' The H. E. C. will meet at the home of Mrs. Ernest Heliker on Friday afternoon, July 18. Mrs. Minnie Forbes is employed at the Frank Lindsay home near Morgan. The Women's Topic club will imet at the home of Mrs. J. E. Swanson on Friday afternoon, July 11. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Yarnell and son Alton spent the week end at Bickleton, . Wash., and found Mr. Yarnell's father so much improved in health that he expects soon to return home from the hospital at Sunnyside. Mrs. Foster Odom drove to Salem on Sunday to get her small son, Lee, who has been spending the week there with his grandmother, Mrs. A. T. Odom. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Halvorsen, Mr. and Mrs. John Eubanks and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Munkers spent the Fourth at Hood River where they met Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stender an.i family of Salem and had a picnic together. Mrs. Halvorsen, Mrs. Mun kers and Mrs. Stender are sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Klimczak and son and Mrs. Klimczak's daugh ter, Betty Brown, arrived in lone on Thursday for harvest. They ara living in an apartment in the Park hotel. Jim Botts and family of Yakima are here for harvest. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pettyjohn have moved from Heppner to lone and are living in the old Louy house next to the Congregational church. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Harris have as their guests Mr. Harris' mother, Mrs. H. Hancock of Arbuckle, Cal. Mr. Harris met her in Arlington on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Swanson wer hosts for a picnic dinner at their home on the Fourth. Relatives of the family were present. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Walters and son David of Santa Monica," Cal., were visiting Mrs. Walters' uncles, J. E. Swanson and C. W. Swanson, over the week end. Mr, and Mrs. Marion Finch and daughters Frances and Patricia mo tored to Hermiston Thursday on business. Dell Finch and James Finch from Seattle are visiting at the home if Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch. James Finch is planning to stay two weeks, Copper in Mineral Mix Causes Sheep Deaths Mineral mixtures containing cop per are highly dangerous when fed to sheep, according to results noted in Oregon this year by Dr. J. MT. Shaw, head of the veterinary med icine department at Oregon State college. A purebred Lincoln rarr. It was learned that the ram had been fed a mineral mixture com posed of copper sulphate, sulphur, bonemeal, and salt. Sometimes sheepmen feed minerals containing copper in hopes of destroying par sites in the digestive tract, says Dr. Shaw. Studies made in Texas hae proved that such feeding frequent ly results in severe losses, he said. Work is dull only to those who take no pride in it Oregon Rye Grass and Clover Seed Make Hit Greatly increased outlet for Ore gon grown domestic rye grass and crimson clover seed is developing in Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina, believes W. L. Teutsch, as sistant director of extension at Ore gon State college, who visited the re gion recently with N. C. Donaldson, state AAA executive officer, follow ing the annual national AAA con ference in Washington. Extension trial distribution of rye grass and crimson clover seed was made in that area last year by the AAA in an attempt to encourage the use of winter cover crops to halt the serious effect of erosion. Teutsch and Donaldson found that the seed ings made early last fall had pro duced heavy cover crops which not only afforded winter protection to the soil but provided good spring pasture, which is much needed in that region. They learned that 26 per cent of the farms in Virginia have no cows even to supply fam ily needs. 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