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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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9-2 a.m.
Friday and Saturday
Special
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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
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