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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1979)
FOLK The Heppner Gazette-Times, Ileppner, Oregon. Thursday. September (. 1!I7! ST ' V " " '. mn'.:--. -.if . o J Sj If W I Bring flowers for fall Garden Club show witli .lustine Ueiitherford J Proud Moment The Harvest Festival KovalH of ISoardman are all juniorsat Riverside High School this year. Selected as Princesses were l.orie Hussell. Lisa Mittelsdorf, Kathy Pettys and Heidi Con boy. They will be riding in the Harvest Festival Parade Saturday and feted to a special luncheon following the opening festivities. Women's Club Visiting the Cutsforths wets Monday M.M. The Heppner Christian Wo men's Club meets Monday, Sri !, loat (!:4fi p.m. at West of W li.iw Restaurant Tne meeting theme is ' '!' ;tkill Fever". Sharon ." ; npl) of Junction City, Ore. i- :iu speaker. Linda Gil'ford will have the special feature. Vu.se will be by Shellie Grace and Sbaree Marquardt. All area women are invited. Reservations for the $1! salad Minerva Dinslinger of The Dalles is visiting her daugh ter's family, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Cutsforth. Also visiting the Cutsforths is their daughter. Donna from Mosier. On Monday. Sept. 1(1. at 7::f() p.m. the Ileppner Garden Club will nieet at the Heppner Neighborhood Center. Eleanor Gonty is the eve ning's hostess. The program will feature preparing exhibits and arrangements for a flower show. Everyone needs to remem ber to bring a few flowers and a container or two. Barbara James and Jane Rawlins will demonstrate flower arranging techniques. Any adult interested in gardening of any sort is cordially invited to come to meet with this club and to learn of the problems and joys of gardening in south Morrow County. The Heppner Garden (Tub meets throughout the year on the second Monday evening of each month. The club is a member of the Oregon Federation and Na tional Federation of Garden Clubs. Just now Heppner members are cooperating with the lone Garden Club in planning to present a public flower show commemorating the lone Club's :J0th Anniversary. Members hope to stimulate enough interest so that many residents will enter flowers and or flower arrangements in this show in lone on Sunday, September 2:i. The two clubs hope the show will qualify for awards from the state and national federations. Reception for Marvel Jones On Sunday, Sept. 9, the Heppner Christian Church will be hosting a reception for Mrs. Marvel Jones in honor of her 90th birthday. It will be held from 2 4 p.m. The public is cordially invited to attend. Majeskes return Mr. and Mrs. Gene Majeske returned from a trip to Depoe Bay where their daughter and son-in-law live. Pat Wrieht and daughter, Sandi, traveled to Portland last week to bring Mrs. Wright's mother, Freda Majeske home from a visit at her daughter's family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mounts. tynr Theresa Hyatt engaged plate can be made by calling Lynda Crane at fi7(-5175. Baby sitting is provided. Fall schedule arrives locally Residents of Morrow and Umatilla counties will begin receiving the Blue Mountain Community College fall sche dule of classes in the mail after Sept. 6. Hospital Notes Hospital admissions at Pio neer Memorial Hospital this were were: Virginia Cre meens, lone, dismissed. Wal ter Green, Condon, dismissed. Ceso Ponce. Lexington, dis missed. Pete Skow, Heppner, dismissed. Maggie Garga, Arlington, dismissed. Kula Bloods worth. Lexington, dismissed. September 8 has been set for the wedding day of Theresa Ann Hyatt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayland R. Hyatt, Heppner, to Kip Morris, son of Mildred Pankey, Heppner. Miss Hyatt is a 197;i gradu ate of Wheeler High School, attended Oregon College of Education and was employed as Deputy Sheriff for Morrow County. Morris is a 19H5 graduate of Heppner High School, re ceived an Associate of Science Degree in Law Enforcement from Blue Mountain Commu nity College in 1970 and is employed as Deputy Sheriff of Wasco County. The couple will make their home in Maupin, Oregon. Friendsare invited to attend the wedding at 3 p.m. in the United Methodist Church, Heppner. The quieter week between August's fair and rodeo activities and the rush of a new school year and the first meetings of many organizations has slipped by so swiftly. The early rain surely helped to settle some of summer's dust. Some of the reading I had put aside got my attention. The lead article in the Summer Oregon Historical Quarterly proved to be expecially fascinating because it concerns Heppner and this region's history. In "My Darling Red Bird" Elizabeth Redington Stewart, a daughter of an exciting, early publisher of The Heppner Gazette writes principally of her Grandfather Alfred B. Meacham, Oregon's Superintendent of Indian Affairs from 18(9 to 1872. but she includes some lines about others of her interesting family, including her colorful father Colonel John W. (Watermelon) Redington. Local Museum records show that Indian War officer, Colonel J. W. Redington, published the Gazette here from 1883 until 1888, then left for two years, returning in 1900 and staying until just before the 1903 flood. Redington went on to work with newspapers in Seattle, Portland and Salem before living out his last years in a retired soldiers home in California. His daughter Elizabeth states "My father, after scouting for the army in the Nez Perce campaign, rode his horse through Heppner, and Henry Heppner persuaded him to stay and publish the Heppner Gazette. Father was not interested until they told him the baddies had driven the last publisher out. This was a challenge, so he stayed." The Redingtons. Col. J.W., Nellie Meacham Redington and their four "adored" daughters Mabel, Bernice, Marian and Elizabeth lived here along the creek where "Father had a nice home, a Chinese man servant, a setter dog and a good horse." More than half of Mrs. Stewart's article is the reproduction of a long letter which her grandfather Colonel Meacham wrote tohermother Nellie (Red Bird) in 1877 when Nellie was graduating from Willamette University. During the early years that Redington published the Heppner Gazette, the community was really isolated. Personal letters were so important. It took time for outside news to filter in and most pioneers had to depend on their weekly paper for information and amusement. How things changed with the advent of telephones, radios and now our instant TV news and amusement. 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