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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon
Thursday, July 24, 1941
Double Drowning
At Monument
Brings Gloom Here
Mr. and Mrs. Wood
row Morris Victims
of Wading Tragedy
Morrow county friends were grief
stricken whsn they learned of the
drowning of Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow
Morris in the John Day river near
their home at Monument. They were
wading in the river when an unsus
pected deep pool was reached and
they were overcome before assist
ance could be given. The bodies
were not recovered until after mid
night, the accident having happened
about 9:30 in the evening, Friday.
. Mr. and Mrs. Morris were located
here for three years before Mr. Mor
ris was transferred to Monument two
years ago in his work with the soil
conservation service. They had
many friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris had two chil
dren, a son, . Laure Given, aged 2,
and Woodra Sue, a daughter, aged
eight months.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Morris were
natives of Lakeview, and were grad
uates of Oregon State college. In
terment was at Lakeview Monday
morning.
Ivan Leathers, who was in the city
Monday from Monument, brought
report that a neighbor lady and a
small girl were the only other per
sons present when the tragedy took
place. He said that Mr. Morris fa
ther, who suffered from a weak
heart, succumbed on learning the
sad news.
Mr. Morris held the position of
soil conservation project supervisor
with the CCC camp at Monument at
the time of the accident.
IONE NEWS
Lightning Fires Cause
Alarm in lone District
By MRS. ELMER GRIFFITH
People of this locality began to
wonder if they were the beneficiar
ies of a blitzkreig last week, when
fires were occurring day and night
in all directions as the result of
lightning. The extreme heat caused
more thunder storms in a week than
have been known here in many
years. Carl F. Feldman lost sixty
acres of fine wheat in a fire on Fri
day afternoon and Jack Bailey also
had some loss. Showers occurred
in time to extinguish these and sev
eral others caused by lightnnng.
Harvesters from neighboring ran
ches rushed to the Ed Buschke farm
at Morgan Wednesday, and soon had
a fire in the stubble under control.
This fire was caused by the exhaust
from the truck, but did not get into
any of the standing wheat.
The grange dance Saturday eve
ning in honor of Willows grange
princess, Patty Emert, was attended
by a large crowd. Billie Morgan is
the owner of the beautiful quilt
made by the ladies of the H. E. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harvey and
two children and Mrs. Harvey's bro
ther, Mr. Evans of Troutdale, were
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. F.
Feldman.
Mrs. Dixon T. Smith enjoyed a
week-end visit from her nephew,
Jerry Phillips of Portland. The
, young man is on furlough from the
national guard. He is a former stu
dent at U. of O.
Besides the $150 donated by the
city of lone, the lone library has
received a donation of $25 from the
Elks lodge of Heppner.
Mrs. Ada Cannon of Hardman was
a week-end guest of Mrs. Delia Cor
son. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wade and
Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Sweson of
Walla Walla were guests Sunday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Bris
tow. Mrs. Bristow is a sister of Mr.
Wade and Mrs. Swenson.
"Buddy" Mankin is spending some
time with his aunt, Mrs. Holmes
Gabbert of Portland. At present
they are enjoying ocean breezes at
Taft.
S. C. Salter left Monday night for
Portland, where he was called by
the illness of his sister.
M. W. Mahoney of Portland came
LEXINGTON NEWS
Cars Collide at Lex
With Little Damage
By MARGARET SCOTT
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whillock and
family spent Sunday in Portland.
Thursday evening a wreck hap
pened at the intersection by the
Standard service station when cars
driven by Charles DeMoss and an
Idaho man collided. No one was
injured and no serious damage was
done to the cars.
Sunday guests at the Gene Gray
home in Stanfield were Maxine
Gray, Faye Ruhl and sons. Bobby
Gray who spent the past two weeks
here visited Sunday with his folks
then returned here to spend the
summer.
Betty Doherty of Pendleton vis
ited here one day last week.
Gerald Conner of Oregon City,
son of Mr, and Mrs. Percy Conner,
is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Frank
Moyer is Mr. Conner's sister, and
Mrs. Arthur Hunt is Mrs. Conner's
sister.
Ann Johnson and Duane have re
turned here from Burns for .he
summer. Duane is working at the
Chris Brown ranch.
Mrs. Melissa Stoneraker is visit
ing at the home of her daughter and
son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Manning in Pendleton.
Alice Marshall is worknig at the
Cliff Daugherty ranch.
Skating is enjoyed here every
Saturday and Sunday evening at
7:30 o clock and Sunday afternoon
at 1 o'clock.
Doris Lane of Pendleton visited
here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Schoonover and
family returned to their home in
the valley this week.
Frank Moyer motored to Portland
by stage Friday.
Mrs. A. L. Tucker and son of
Grandview are guests at the Frank
Moyer home.
Guests at the Harry Duvall home
are Mr. Duvall's aumt, Minnie Nor
ton of Missouri, her son Joe Norton
and family of Mt. Vernon.
Visiting here Sunday were Gene
Gentry and Mr. and Mrs. Buster
Gentry of Halfway.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Burnside of
Zornes mill were at the Robert
Burnside home Sunday. Other
BOAR DM AN NEWS
j By MRS. CLAUD COATS
J Mrs. Robert Berger and three chil
i dren left this last week for a vaca
tion with her mother, Mrs. Brown,
and other relatives in and near Mad
ras. Mr. and Mrs. Walpole and family
have gone to The Dalles for a few
weeks' stay. Mr. Walpole will re
turn each Sunday to hold the church
service, with the exception of this
next Sundav. at Boardman Ed Bar-
j low will give a report of the synod
held m Salerrf. ' ,'
Mr. and Mrs: Nate Macomber and
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harwood left
Saturday for Lost lake to spend a
couple ox weeks nshing.
Mr. arid Mrs. E. T. Messenger and
Lois motored to Meacham Sunday
to visit Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Mes
senger., and family, also' bringing
home some fresh mountain huckleberries.
Mr. and Mrs.. J. F. Barlow and
daughter Carma returned home Sun
day Titer spending a week visiting
brother Kay and family at Eugene,
and Mrs. Barlow's mother, Mrs. Ol
ive Mefford, and other relatives at
Corvallis and Salem. Also, Mr. Bar
low attended the synod at Salem.
The Frank Jones family moved
this week to Kinzua where Mr.
Jones is employed. Mr. and Mrs.
Robertson have taken over the
Jones place.
Mrs. Eva Warner arrived home
from Seattle where she has spent
the past several months with her
daughter, Mrs. Heck, moving into
her home previously occupied by the
Mike Healy family. Mr. and Mrs.
Healy moved to their newly com
pleted home on the highway.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Gillespie and
children of Hermiston were calling
on the former's brother. Z. J. Gilles
pie and family Sunday.
Elizabeth Kristensen is working at
the Roseland service station.
Russell Miller has finished com
bining the crops on the nroiect and
has moved his outfit over to Willow
creek where he has several jobs.
CORRECTION
This newspaper mistakenly re
ported the first wife of the late W.
E. Pruyn as being a sister of the
late H. V. Gates. T. J. Humphreys,
who attended school with the first
Mrs. Pruyn when she was a girl at
Hillsboro, reports her name to have
been Ruth Hare, a member of a
pioneer Hillsboro family. Mr. Pruyn
and Mr. Gates were brothers-in-law,
Mr. Gates having married Mr.
Pruyn's sister.
guests were Roy Lieuallen, Betty
Painter and son Freddie of Pendle
ton. Mrs. Painter's daughter, Aloha,
who visited here several weeks, re
turned home with them. She was
accompanied by Melba Burnside
who expected to remain two weeks.
In town Monday was Mr. Arnes.
representative of the General gro
cery company of Portland.
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Mrs. Dorr Mason and little daugh
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Mrs. Mason's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George McDuffee.
Bert Barlow and son of Portland
and Lee Howell of Heppner were
in lone Sunday. Mr. Barlow, who
is a guest of the Howells, is a for
mer resident of this community, and
old friends enjoyed greeting him.
Mrs. E. C. Heliker, in town Tues
day afternoon, reported that they
had finished their harvest, and that
in spite of being hit by hail twice,
harvested a better than average
crop.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Howk and
family were Sunday visitors here.
Mr. Howk is the station agent at
Condon, and they have recently
purchased a house in the "Windy
City."
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ring are
enjoying a visit from their son Har
ry, a member of the national guard,
who is home on furlough.
A spectacular fire was caused at
the electric sub-station here when
it was struck by lightning Tuesday
evening, and again on Thursday. An
intense white and blue blaze oc
curred, but no damage was done.
Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Sierra of
Oakland, Calif., spent Wednesday
night here, the guests of Mrs. Sier
ra's brother and sister-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Harris. They were
returning home through Nevada.
Mr. Harris' mother, Mrs. H. Han
cock, departed Thursday morning by
stage for her home in Arbuckle,
Calif., after a visit here of several
weeks.
Norton Lundell of Heppner is as
sisting his father at the Independent
garage in lone.
Miss Ruth Crawford returned
home Wednesday from Portland,
She has been on an extended trip
to Idaho and Yellowstone park with
a party of friends.
The Women's Topic club will meet
at the home of Mrs. J. E. Swanson
on Saturday, July 26, for the social
meeting.
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