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2 Heppner Gazette Times, May 7, 1942 LEXINGTON NEWS Ground Broken at Lex For New Elevator By MARGARET SCOTT The crew is busy breaking ground for the new elevator. Repairs are being made on the lo cal reservoir. Mr. Burton's sister of McMinnville was his guest this week. She is on her way to Salt Lake City. Mr. McDonald spent the week end in Portland. Alice Marshall Stayed with Mrs. McDonald during his absence. Bud Marshall is working at the Nichol's farm. The town was deserted Friday with most of the residents attending the May Day festival in Heppner. Mrs. Cecil Jackson is visiting at the Ted McMillan home. Mr. and Mrs. Gail Williams and Suzanne were week-end guests at the John Miller home. A group of friends were entertained in their honor Sunday evening with a buf fet supper of American chop suey, salad, Bavarian pudding and cof fee. Elmer Hunt has stopped working in the Standard Service station and plans to go into defense work in the near future. Roy Shoun of Spray visited Tues day evening with his nephew, Carl Whillock. Mr. and Mrs. Buck Padberg spent Monday in Pendleton. Ralph and Marcella Jackson went to Portland Friday and brought Mrs. Jackson and Carol home. Carol is abe to be up vnd around. Local residents are busy register ing for the sugar rationing. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wren have mov ed back into their new house and Mr. and Mrs. Martin are in Heppner. Bunny Breshears, Douglas Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Crump of Heppner were Sunday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Whillock. Monopoly was enjoyed and ginger bread with whipped cream and col fee were served. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Gray spent one day last week in Stanfield. George Wallise spent the week end in Hermiston visiting friends. Louise Hunt returned home Friday from the valley and is confined to her home with the mumps. Archie and Billy Nichols spent Sunday in Hermiston and Stanfield. All memers of the grange are urg ed to attend the meeting and party Saturday evening, May 9, at the hall. Third and fourth degrees will be given to the new members. IRRIGON ITEMS By MRS. J. A. SHOUN Mr. and Mrs. Frank French of Colorado have been visiting with Mrs. French's sister, Mrs. R. C. Coulter. After spending a week in Irrigon they are taking Mrs. Coul ter back with them for a visit there and in Iowa. ' Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Shoun from Walla Walla passed through Irrigon to visit his brother, Andrew and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bell. They plan to come back about Tuesday. Mrs. Rucher and Paula Haberline were hostesses for a stork shower given in honor of Mrs. Harold Lentz. Iris Caldwell and Grace O'Brien helped with the refreshments of sandwiches, cool aid and cookies. Mrs. Lentz received a nice supply of presents. Mr. Lentz is a soldier in Australia. Mrs. Odetta Red Dunn is going to show colored pictures with ex planations of them of Bible cities and objects, May 7, 8 and 9 at 8 o'clock p.m. Everyone is invited. The Pentecostal church is going to postpone their services on the evening of Mrs. Dunn's lectures. The Rev. Atwood Foster is going to preach at the Pentecostal church May 10. Ernest Bediwell is able to be home from the hospital. He has arthritis. Mrs. Melissa Stamp celebrated her 84th birthday May 4th at the J. A. Shoun home. Luella Acock and lit tle Luella were her guests. Mrs. Wisdom of Hermiston has been visiting her niece, Mrs. G reev es. She went home the 4th. R. Forbes got a bunch of baby chicks the 5th, and Mrs. B. P. Rand got a thousand bronze turkey poults. The C. W. Acocks received 1200 the 30th and are getting them nicely started. .J A MESSAGE FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TMC (CCRCTARY Or THC TRCASUftV WASMIMOTON TO THE PEOPLE Of CPffiCfll This week new caapalgn for th Stamps la undtr way throughout th Cupalgn. It 1 urgently necessary that are now buying War Bond and Stamps. to individual American of war Bond lass than on billion dollar rry On -billion dollars aonth is to one-tenth th contained lnooaa of This money is needed to buy th tools of war for your fighting forces. It will not pay for all of then. Our war expenditures now are at th rat of about FOUR BILLIQN3 a nonth, and they are growing dally. But a billion dollars a month direct from th people will make all-out production posilbl. Without It we cannot do our bt without it we cannot put forth our full effort. It is desperately needed for another reason, We can't fight war and at th (am tin lire and spend a usual. There are not enougk goods to go around th thing w buy with money. If w go on (pend ing at th 1941 acale, we'll be robbing th fighting man to add to our own comfort or pleasure. Belli be driving up th cost of living for all of us. We'll be imposing dire hardships on our neighbor. What 1 asked of you 1 ten per cent of your earnings a tith for Liberty. It la not a tax) It la not vn contribution) it 1 a loan at interest, for your us and proteotion later. Tour Oovarnment ask you to cut down your r-psnditures, TO 8A7I your boys on the firing line and In th training camp, through your Ocvemment, ask you to save so that they may have what they need to win YOUR WAR for you America asks you to ears; to SATS TO WIN THI WARj to buy War Bonds and Stamps up to not less than ten per cent of your income. Is Liberty worth it? Is Democracy worth itT la America worth ltT I think I know your answer. rop,VICTORY ktt BUY V. 1 WAR gjy STAMPS The above letter was sent to this newspaper by Secretary Alor genthau in Washington. We publish it in the interest of the War Bond Quota Campaign and earnestly recommend that all our readers do their share in the tremendous job ahead of financing the War effort. PINE CITY NEWS By BERNICE WATTENBURGER Mrs. C. H. Bartholomew, Bernice Wattenburger and Faye Finch spent Wednesday at the Mabel Hughes home in Lena, sewing quilt blocks for a top for Mr. and Mrs. Brosnan who lost their things in a fire two weeks ago. Pine City school was closed Fri day and the students attended the track meet and music festival. Fran ces Finch took first place in ball throw. Juanita Ayers took third place in ball throw, and Junior Wat tenburger took fourth in high jump and fourth in broad jump. Miss Helen Knowles of Heppner spent the week end with Miss Betty Finch at her home on Butter creek. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch and family spent Saturday in Pendleton. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger and Mary Foley spent Sunday in Pasco visiting Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wattenburger, Mr. and Mi s. Walter Wigglesworth and family of Echo spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Burl Wattenbur ger. Miss Hazel Ritchie spent Sunday night and Monday with her mother, Mrs. Mary Ritchie, and sister, Mrs. Bertha Ayers. The Jess Mathews shearing crew is shearing at the Clayton Ayers home. Mr. and Mrs. Buck Winters are moving to Hermiston. Mr. Winters is going to work as guard at the ordnance depot. He has been work ing for Roy Neill for the last four years. Lowell Young enlisted in the mar ines and is stationed at San Diego, Cal. He says he likes the marines just fine. Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Hinten of Kemmerer, Wyo., arrived Monday evening for a two week visit with her father, Roy Neill. Mrs. Hinten is better known as Alma Neill. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Moore and daughter of Mountain Home, Idaho, spent the week end visiting his mo ther, Mrs. Roy Neill. Mrs. Letha Harris of Hermiston is working for Mrs. Roy Neill. TGEE7 UNITED STATES WAR DONDS AND STAMPS my l, lu.t Ml of r Bond and Si-ring Nation. It la th War Bond QMta you double th rate at which 70 This will wan th sal direct and Staaps to th anoint of not nonth. th National quota, all Americana. St i equal Sincerely, HARDMAN NEWS Snow for Four Days Seen at Hardman By ELSA M. LEATHERS Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reed went to Portland Wednesday, returning Sat urday of this week on business. Mrs. Austin Devin took Mr. Devin to Pendleton Monday to a doctor. Mr. Devin has been ill several days. Mrs. Ernest Wyland of Rhea creek was here Sunday and Sunday night with them. She is a sister of Mr. Devin. Mr. Devin is in the St. An thony hospital. A nice crowd was present for the two plays given here Saturday eve ning. The grade boys and girls sold candy, with proceeds amounting to four dollars. Ollie Hastings, Owen Leathers, Jr., Yvonne Hastings were all absent from school Monday due to sore throats. Also there is a question of mumps (will we get them?) W. H. French was on the sick list this week. Hardman and community saw snow four days this week, while the lower country had rain. Mrs. Marie Johnson of Heppner and Bernice (nee Bernice Stone man) of Spokane, visited here Tu esday at the C. H. McDaniel home. Mr. and Mrs. Ad Inskeep visited Sunday at the Mr. and Mrs. Vern Dalzell home on Eight Mile. MARVIN KLEMME Republican Candidate for Congress Paid Adv. J ; 1 1QNE NEWS Robert Hoskins Heads lone High Next Year By MRS. EL.MER GRIFFITH Election of officers was held at the high school Monday, with the following results: Robert Hoskins, president; Barbara Ledbetter, vice president; Marjorie Peterson, secretary-treasurer; Darene Biddle, yell leader; Alton Yarnell, transporta tion manager; Jim Barnett, athletic manager. The junior-senior banquet and prom will be held Friday of this week at the grange hall. The Girls League entertained the mothers of the high school students with a Mothers' tea in the gym last Thursday. The gym was beautifully decorated with spring flowers and showed evidence of much effort on the part of the girls and their spon sor, Frances Stewart Carlson. The address of welcome was made by Betty Lou Lindsay, president of the league, and the following program was presented: carlinet quartet, Eu nice Peterson, Alice Nichoson, Fre da Ball, and Marjorie Peterson, ac companied by Miss Yarnell; reading Charlotte Sperry; song, Freda Ball, Jean Coleman, Barbara Ledbetter, Mary Barnett, and Dorothy Berg strom; play, "Home, What Is It?" Eu lenna Seehafer, Gladys Seehafer, Melba Crawford, Elsie Jepson, Dar lene Biddle and Jean Coleman; vo cal solo, Montey Patterson; skit, Do ris Palmateer, Marjorie Peterson and June Griffith, and a piano solo by Wilma Dobyns. Mrs. P. J. Linn, who has been a patient in Emanuel hospital in Port land for the last month, receiving treatment for a burn, returned home Sunday She is much improved, but still confined to her bed. Mrs. Wm. Kaye is caring for her. Mrs. Linn was brought home by her son, Fred Griffith, accompanied by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Clarence E. Linn. Mr. and Mrs. George Christian (Joyce Biddle) of Kelso, Wash., are Mrs. Belle Leathers, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Carmichael of Lexington and Mrs. Owen Leathers visited Owen Leathers at the veterans hospital Sunday. He has improved to the extent of being up and about some. It is not known at this time when he will be able to leave the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McDaniel spent several days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Allen Billings at Arlington this week. Kinard and Oren McDaniel went to Lonerock Monday, returning Tuesday. We've got Axis to grind. Defense Bonds and Stamps. Buy lVa Miles N. W. of HERMISTON, ORE. 1 Mile Past Tertle Town on Umatilla Road. MAY 12 at 1 p. m. 1 Jersey Cow, 5-year old, just fresh, giving 5 gal. per day. 1 Holstein Cow 8-year-old, just fresh, giving 6V2 gal per day. 1 Holstein Cow, 7-yr.-old, giving 4V2 gal. per day, will freshen in September. 1 Guernsey Cow, 8-year-old, giving 4 gal. , per day, will freshen in September. 1 Durham-Guernsey Cow giving 3V2 gal. per day, will freshen in September. 1 Holstein Cow, 3-year-old, just fresh, giving 3y2 gal. per day. 1 Jersey Cow, 3-yr.-old, just fresh, giving Zxh gal. per day. 1 Jersey Cow, 3-year-old, ready to freshen now. 1 Jersey Cow, 5-yr.-old, will give 4V2 gal. per day when fresh, about the middle of June. 1 Guernsey-Holstein Calf, 3 months old. 30 White Leghorn Hens, 1 -year-old. 5 Young Calfs. 100 Rabbits, all ages. 2 Aged Horses. 1 McCbrmick Hay Rake. 2 Gilts, ready to breed. 1 Wagon. 1 Deering Mowing Machine, fair shape. 2-Section Spring Tooth Harrow. 2-Section Drag Harrow. 1 Walking Plow, and Other Small Tools. 1 Graham-Paige Car, 1928. 1 Viking Cream Separator, new. 3 Range Cook Stoves, Bedsteads, Chairs, Dishes, Fruit Jars, and Other Household Goods. - TERMS OF SALE CASH - V. R. Runnion, Auctioneer F. B. Swayze, Clerk Jim Stout", Owner here visiting Mrs. Christian's moth er, Mrs. Vernon Brown, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Salter. Mrs. Elmer Griffith and son George were shopping in Portland Monday. They went to the city with Fred Griffith. Mrs. Clara Newlin and her moth er, Mrs. Ellen Reith, went to Seattle Sunday to visit relatives. Mrs. Verl Van Zant, Jr., and Miss Violet Keithley, cousins of Mrs. Wal ter Bristow, were week-end guests at the Bristow home. They live in Daly City, California. Mrs. Kreuter and daughter drove over from Bickleton, Wash., Sunday to bring her father, G. A. Yarnell for a visit with his son, Harry Yamell. Mrs. Samuel Pomerantz and little son Denny of Los Angeles are guest of Mrs. Pomerantz' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark. Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Lindstrom, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Swanson, and Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Lundell surprised M:s. Oscar Lundell Sunday and helped her celebrate her birthday, at her home below Cecil. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Palmateer and daughters of Morgan were shopping in Pendleton Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Crabtree and Mr. Crabtree's uncle, Fred Linday, of Salem, visited relatives here over the week end. Mrs. Roy Lindstrom came home over the week end to attend to bus iness. Mr. Lindstrom returned to Monmouth with her on Sunday. Graduation Tims and Jewelry Jewelry, the gift of a life time, is most appropriate to commemorate graduation, an important milestone of life. PETERSON' S I 1