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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1976)
THE REID FAMILY AND REID'S MILL By Justine Weathrrford Seventy-five yean ago this spring, in April 1901, the James Reid family, the first generation out of Scotland, came to Heppner from Brad ley, S.D. Besides Mrs, Reid, sons Martin and Alonzo, twins Clarence and Clara and mat ernal grandfather Alonzo Ro berts came first by train. They stayed in the Heppner Hotel which wm across from where the library-museum is now and beside property that a Reid granddaughter, Lois Winchester lives on today. The hotel was swept away in the 1903 flood. Before coming west, the father James Reid owned a grojery, store and meat mar k In Bradley and a farm seven miles from town where he and his wife (Mary Roberts) had homesteaded. He bought cattle from farmers and did his own butchering some times he shipped a carload to market in Sioux City. During the winter of 1900 he was very ill with typhoid fever and found he also had diabetes. His doctor recom mended he move to a warmer climate. So everything he sold and the family planned to come to Joseph, OR where their son Arthur and Mrs. Reid's sister, Mrs. Joseph Hogeland, were living. A last minute ?hange caused Mr. Reid to select Heppner as their future home, although they knew no one here. Mr. Reid followed his family on a later train with their household goods and with a registered Herford bull, Dak ota Chief, and nine heifers, plus one very special heifer that had been given to daughter Clara by her grand father Roberts. (Clara is now Mrs. Gertson). When he reached Heppner, he rented a house (the one in which the Pete McMurtrys now live). The children were promptly enrolled in school here. Frank Gilliam's sister, Cassie John Initiative Petition Blast-off!!! IH Lexington Grange Hall w Tuesday, Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m. H Come and find out if small business can survive. Guest speakers W.C. Harris, Master State Grange, Don Willner, candidate for Attorney General, Bob Elkins, state president-Farmers Union. Sponsored by Morrow County Grange, Morrow County Farm Bureau, Farmer's Union and National Farmer's Organization. Making warm friends is our business. You call we come Gasolines Reg. Ethyl - Unleaded Accessor .Truck & passenger tires, batteries, fan belts:, antifreeze, spark plugs, oil & air filters OOEIlL Serving you It our future son lived near them and told them about her homestead In the edge of the mountains. James Reid rented that land and moved his family to the mountains where the children transferred to the six-month summer school. Son Arthur moved from Joseph to Heppner with a team, riding one horse and leading the other. He filed on a homestead on land on Three Rock Creek and built a small house there. Grandfather Ro berts filed a Civil War veter ans claim, and James Reid built a house there and the family moved again. Alonzo Roberts died in 1901 and is buried In the Heppner Ceme tery. His daughter Mary Reid proved up on his homestead. James Reid bought some nearby land from a Mr. Bishop and also bought a second-hand sawmill at Hood River which he moved across the creek from the house. Oldest son Robert Reid and his wife came from N.D. to Join in the family business. He was killed in May 1902 In a mill accident. The mill burned one night. Clara remembers carrying water from the horse's water trough to keep the fire from the lumber piles. Her father then built a new mill on Thorn Creek and a log pond where Clara learned to swim. The pond and the old mill smoke stack are still there. They are about 4 miles from the site of the older, larger Parker's Mill which was a stage stop and had a post office. About 1910, James Reid sold the mill to his sons Arthur and Martin Reid (Lois Winchest er's dad.) The parents then moved to Heppner where he built the house on South Main Street where Clara Gertson now lives. Clara's brothers Martin and Arthur bought the house that Lois lives in now and the lumber yard and barn that were behind it. Later their parents moved there so that Mr. Reid could look after the lumber yard. Arthur and Martin hauled lumber from the mill into that yard for sale. The mill continued for years Distillates Furnace oil, Stove oil, Diesel Motor Oils Automotive & Diesel also Mobil's newest oil, Mobil I OS Let the country boys from Mobiland serve you In Morrow, Umatilla and most of Gilliam Counties. Paul Pettyjohn Co. call 422-7254 lone, Orogon Bicentennial Forum employing quite a few mill hands. Clara is the last of her im mediate family. She graduat ed from high school here in 1909 with Ruth McMurdo, Lula Campbell and Ora Devin. She began teaching in 1910 in the Groshen School on Rhea Creek for $50 a month. The next year she taught below Heppner on the present Paul Brown place and was paid $60 per month. In 1912 she married Jeff Beamer, and they honeymooned at the Rose Festival in Portland. They lived in several locations in Heppner and near Lexing ton. Mr. Beamer and Claude Cox owned the delivery and transfer business in Heppner and carried mail, express and delivered groceries from the stores with horses. Later they used pickup trucks. When the Beamer's daught er Mary was small they ranched on Rhea Creek three miles from lone. The Beamers also had a son and a daughter Irene. Their son James died in Jan. 1934 and his father Jeff Beamer died in June that same year. In 1940 Clara married George Gertson, who died in 1950. Clara has lead and still leads a very active life. She has travelled extensively and is busy with her church (Chri stian ), with her several lodges and with the Soroptimist Gub. Her daughter Mary (Mrs. Claire Goheen) has worked for 20 years for the Port of Portland. Daughter Irene married William Anhorn. They had 4 sons and a daughter. Mr. Anhorn died in 1970. Lois Winchester (Mrs. Er nie Winchester) Clara's niece and the only other Reid living in the county, has a son Lowell Lee Turner, a pilot living in California and a daughter, Erna Lynn Winchester, a former Heppner Rodeo queen, now living in Milton-Freewat-er. TEXTILE L'PDATE Special insights on new developments in manufactur ing of yarns, trends in fabric construction, new develop ments in fabric finishes and other news relating to textiles will be given by Ardis Koester, OSU Textile and nothing Specialist at a special evening meeting, Mar. 24, 7:30 p.m. in the Pendleton Vert Club room. Ms. Koester will be in the area for the pattern alteration classes, and offers this special update for the benefit of retailers, fabric shop person nel, extension study group members and staff, and 4-H leaders. LUBE SPECIAL $14. For the above price I will furnish the oil and oil filter for vour car or pickup. Give it a complete lube job, check all gear boxes, battery, power steering, auto, trans., brake fluid, PCV, etc. Clean all windows inside and out and vacuum the inside. Your choice of oils, Super 10-40 or Premium 20 or 30 wt. Union Oil products used. Compare this price with that of your last complete lube job. VERM'S liniOIl STATION Heppner, OR. EMPIRE BUILDING CHI, steel, railroads at one time these were individual empires. John D. Rockefel ler's Standard Oil, Andrew Melton's U.S. Steel, E. H Harriman's Union Pacific each offered staggering proof of what a single, hard-driving entrepreneur could do under the free enterprise system. Frick and Grace, Astor and Morgan, du Pont and Duke, Carnegie and Kaiser, Schwab and Guggenheim and Pull manall amassed fortunes that made them the envy of kings. As they did, what was happening to free and compe titive trade? And how did such immense concentrations of power affect workers in their efforts to strike fair bargains? The small business the Mom and Pop shop bas a hard time in an age of supermar kets, discount stores, fast-food chains. How competitive are most American industries to day? How easy is it for new firms to enter the market? Does large scale technology and advertising make compe tition obsolete? Particularly after World War II, America came to dominate interna tional economics affairs as business expanded abroad. Are multinational companies creating a one-world eco nomy? What does this do to free trade? Whose empire are we a part of? By the time a golden spike is driven into the rails at Promo- tory, Utah in 1869, to span the continent, many railroad ma gnates are already establish ed: the Hills, Harrimans, Vanderbilts, Fisks, Goulds, Huntingtons, Stanfords. Some empire-builders: John Jacob Astor, arriving from Germany in 1783 at age 20 makes a fortune as a fur trader. He later becomes a financier, leaves a 130 million fortune. Andrew Carnegie brought to America at age 12, gets his first Job in a cotton mill at $1.20 a week. At 30 goes into iron and steel develop ment. Amassing one of the greatest of all individual for tunes, he gives away some $350 million for public benefits and endowments. Conglomerates become a -phenomenon in the 1960s. CBS controls, among other enter prises, the Yankees and a book company. Holt Rirtehart and Winston, ITT owns the Speedwriting Institute, as well as a chain of hotels: Gulf and Western control Paramount Pictures. 1) OCTT 35 new vehicles, many colors and styles, excellent selection. New Pickups 1976 7 ft. Red. auto. Irani, black Interior 1976 7 ft. araagr. stkt, Mack Interior 1976 (4) 6 ft tkU ,Uc h ' andtarlai rwi Used Csrs 11 Ainn Inf. auto, trans. kar. Mm and II Bn. hllr interior 72 Datsun 510 4 .. ! 73 Pinto Wgn. pd. rad h mileage 72 Chev. Blazer . 74 Ford MM lf . ua Inferior, laggag rack tot Daa .Larry and Lyk Marbro Datson KIIIZUA NEWS Betty Larangel and her grandson Donnie and Shawn Benson arrived in Kinzua Wednesday from Richland, WA. They had to spend the night in Fossil because of extremely slick road condi tions. The two boys Join their brother Dan at the Larangel home. Mrs. Jane Yeigh spent Wed nesday and Thursday in Heppner visiting her son Raymond Yeigh. The Camp 5 Womens Gub held their monthly meeting Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Hershel Murdock. Host ess for the meeting was Mrs. Pat Van Arsdale. The club will have a crafts meeting at the Fisher home Tuesday. It was decided to hold a pinochle party on Feb. 21. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dun lap spent the weekend in Red mond. Shirley Orr and Patsy McMinn went to Baker Wed nesday on business. Margaret and Roy Williams arrived Saturday morning to spend the weekend at the Gordon Orr home. The Wil liams brought a most welcome addition to the Orr family, a beautiful Irish Setter puppy. Mr. and Mrs. Williams re turned home to Sisters Sun day. Hershel and Betty Murdock and Verlin and La Vina Connor went to Terrebonne Sunday. Mrs. Kathy Fisher and children, Terry, Tim and Tra cy went to Oregon City Friday to visit Mrs. Fisher's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Chittick. The Fishers returned home Sunday evening. Steve and Roberta Conlee and Scott went to Heppner Thursday where Steve and Scott had dental appoint ments. TOPS No. 733 Kinzua has changed their meeting day to Wednesday. The weight-in time is still at 9 a.m. with club business meeting starting at 9:30. If you are interested in Joining the club you are welcome. Don Hardwick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hardwick returned home Friday even ing for his first visit since he started school last fall. He returned to Corvallis where he is a student at OSU. Specialists In Trsck-laer Tractor Repair Automotive Welding Ue handle truck hoist, beds and racks, both factory and custom-twill : tractor tabs and Koosmerk t p trailers Air Conditioning B&C Repair Shop I2MIM (I.KO(IIII.I)KKS IONK M3 n 276-0330 Page By Rev. Bill Mai will be th speaker at the meeting of the Christian Women Club at the Recreation Cafe in The Dalles on Wednesday. The Christians Club is associated with Village Missions. Village Missions sponsors Rev. Mai at the Kinzua Church. Mrs. Mai will give the project report. The meeting will be from noon until 2 p.m. The annual beating by the Wheeler Falcons taken each year at Culver ended last Saturday when our varsity and the girls team were both winners. I realize this isn't the sports news, you can read about the game elsewhere but the victory just might explain the big smiles on the faces of all the sports fans. I won't even try to list the local people who went to the game but you would have had to go to Condon to find enough people to have a fourth for bridge in Fossil or Kinzua Saturday night. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spivey and Jeanette over the weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Curt Harrison and son Shad. Rainy Harrison is the Spivey 's daughter. The Harrisons left Sunday for their home in Hermiston. Mr. and Mrs. Jiggs Bow man, Vic Bowman and Cindi Bowman went to Prineville to spend the weekend with their daughter and son-in-law, Dave and Sara Riney. The Bow mans were surprised when they arrived in Prineville to find their son Joe, daughter-in-law Robin and granddau ghter Erika of Portland were also visiting the Rineys. The group went to Culver Saturday night for the ball game. Sunday a family dinner hon ored Mrs. Rita Bowman on her birthday. Mark and LaVelle Jellick and daughter Kathy were guests at the home of the Jim Hulett's in Prineville. Both families went to the game on Saturday. The snowmobile races at Crescent Lake Sunday attra cted a number of Kinzua residents on Sunday. Ray mond Reid took third place in the races. Among those pre sent from Kinzua besides Mr. Reid were Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Mitchell and Bill McConnell. Mr. and Mrs. Doyal Hubbell and Robbie and Mr. and Mrs. Don Pike went to Culver Sat urday for the basketball game. They visited with Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Moon and sons Mike and Chuck at Madras before coming home. Denise and Terry Sander and their children Richard and Sean were in Kinzua Sunday visiting Denise's par ents Luther and Virginia I pock. The Sander family re lumed to their borne in Bend Monday. ns INCOME TAX feck era MMrs 1025 North FintSt. Hermiston 3, THE GAZETTE-TIMES, Heppner, OR, Thursday. Feb. 12, 1978 Barbara Pike The Les Malloroy's are almost finished moving to their home in St. Maries. ID. Saturday they were accom panied by their son Tim and daughter Carol Dyer and two of their grandsons. Jeremy and Matthew Dyer when they took a load to Idaho. Mrs. Malloroy stayed at her new home while the rest of the family returned to Kinzua on Sunday. Mr. Malloroy will take the last of their belong ings to St. Maries on Tuesday. Tim Malloroy will stay with his sisters family until the school year ends. A wedding shower honoring Miss Nancy Benson was held at the home of Mrs. Hazel Jackson Wednesday. Feb. 4. Hostesses for the party were Mrs. Hazel Jackson. Mrs. Marion Tripp. Mrs. Margie Ball and Mrs. Golda Barzee. The wedding date, Feb. 14 provided the Valentine theme for the decorations and re freshments. Eighteen guests were pre sent to play party games and watch Nancy open her gifts. Cake, ice cream, punch and coffee was served to the guests. Mr. Carl Marquardt, Lex ington, will present a program of slides and a talk at the Kinzua Community Church Sunday, Feb. 15. 11 a.m. The program, "One Nation Under God", will be followed by a freewill offering to help Mr. Marquardt in his work. The public is invited to attend this most interesting and informa tive program. Bonnie Campbell. Andrea and Vi Stinkard went to Prineville Thursday where Andrea had a dental appointment. "Heading for Besdssr's" lone, Oregon Returning by popular request LIVE MUSIC by DON HILL Country Western 9-2 a.m. Friday and Saturday Special Dinner Steaks 2 05 G - 9 p.m. only GTVICC will be in Heppner every Thursday, starting February 5, in motor home at Cal's Arco. Hours 10 a.m. 5 p.m., later appts. taken.' More Information contact Hermiston Office, 567-S498 Low intone workers nay piss refund Lower-income workers who are eligible for a special payment of up to $400 from the Internal Revenue Service will not receive their check unless they file an income tax return. Ralph B. Short. District Dir ector for Oregon, pointed out. Some 30.000 Oregonians en titled to the payment would not normally be required to file a tax return, he said, because their earnings are so low. However, the payment, cal led the "Earned Income Cre dit." can only be made to .qualified taxpayers who file an income tax return. Short explained. To qualify for the credit, individuals must have an under $8,000 in total income from all sources, which in clude wages, salary, tips or other employee compensa tion. Additionally, the workers must have paid more than half the cost of maintaining a home in the United States for them selves and at least one depen dent child for the entire year. The dependent child must be under 19 years of age or a . full-time student, he said. Short said people who quali fy who earned $4,000 or less would receive a credit of ten per cent of their earned income, up to a maximum of $400. Those whose total in come from all sources was between $4,000 and $8,000 would receive a reduced credit. "The public be damned.' William Henry Vanderbilt. "All real work of art look as if titty went done tn joy." Robert Henri 61 LI
