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GENERAL NEWS VALLEY NEWS LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1930 NUMBER 207 VOLUME XXVIII OVER THE VALLEY Mabel B. Mortou, Valley New ICdllor Phones: Residences 82&-J; Office. Main IT Married '' .'.' ' - Marcus Muy of mar linbler una Jliss Minnto.C'rooks of HcMile wem nmrrlcd In tho Kpiseopal church In J.a Orandc. the ltev. Tennyson per formlnB the ceremony Saturday af ternoon. Tliclr murrlanc came ns a surprise to their many friends In Seattle, Pendleton, and -near Jni blcr where the .groom has been 4 living tho last few months'. Th " bride has been teaching In Seattle for the last two years and will ro lurn Sunday to that city where she will flnlHh her year's, work.- Before going to Saattle she taught In lp:i-(Ill-ton nnd on her return to. Seattle she-will stop off there and make a short ,.vlsliv the home of -Mr. May's mother. - '.Mr. ; .May has ro- ccntly rented the Tattle and Wade farms and' makes his home.lnnhe Wade house on Willow crook.. - impertinent ' - ; V : : ' ;A nUinoerof Valley tarniera lire phinnlhB, 10' experiment this season wltli- l,ndak ; clover, according to county agriculturist, Harry Avery. This vuricty.of clover has been dis.-; cussed considerably tne last year r or more as being thought profit able for (his part of Kastern Ore gon: ''-.' Speakers til the. economic conferences and other specialists visiting our valley have hud a, great' ileal lo say about. It. Those who are putting. .In acreages of Ladak ure Archlo McNeill of the Mill Creek canyon road, Ulllurd Chonto of Dry V Creek,- Luther l-lindnian of Hlnd ' man dlatritiiVlll ijhorwodi of the slue hill road, Karnesi Demons of Grange luill ;and, Jl'. A, ' Slasterton of Cove avenue. '., V : Visit's Motiicr- - ' '-' f Miss Morenec Zuliiw, or Ls An- full bloom by the first of the month. This is very, early, accords Ing tp Mr. Wcatherspobn, but he Is of the opinion that that will bu beyond danger of damage by fur ther cold weather. " At loust he is optimistic about it und is not fear ing too early blossoming. . . WOOLGROWERS IN PROFITABLE MEET, FOR MARKETING About 4000 fleeces were slgnod plnn is In successful operation. up for ..tho Pacific Cooperative Wool Growers association, und ovor A SEASONABLE RECIPE ' ." tJVICK CHOCOIiATK CAKK : One tablespoon, butter. , One cup sugar. : , ' One. egg, ,; . ' " , .' One teaspoon baking powder. - One-fourth teaspoon salt. ' One cup. flour. ' Three-fourths cup milk. One-half teaspoon vanilla.- Two squares unsweetened cnoc- inclusivo. The actual average prlco received by growers for iho same , 6000 lambs were listed for. ship period was 28.1 cents. This applied I mont In .the Union county lamb to nearly four million doren eggs, pool, formed at a, meeting, called making this study ono of tho most by County Agriculturist llarrjf completo of Its kind ovor carried on. Farm Bulletin. ; , -,.: Associations Over The State , Do Good Work With tho end of tho nocond yiMir of operation of tho Union. County Milking ImproVeiuciit ' All of tho auto tourist camp!) about La Crunch) urn in the midst of a program of Improvements looking toward a busy reason this year. Pino Cone camp in the can yon about two miles west of La;0late,. Orando is putting up a number of j , Croam butter and sugar. Add otherwise improving that beautiful j uur ull() salt with flour and add ' "',y ' to " Olosc" those camping spot. ,The camp has been t the butter mixture, together J llon J.u" ?,,.ttT? .a. , " running all winter. The swimming with milk. Flavor. Stir In melt pool will not be opened until warm-, 0(i ehocoiatei' "Mix well. Fold in er weather. Is .here. Miv Davis at , ijeatcn egg" ' white. Baki ' . in :ho Oregon Trail camp east of I.u i greased ' loaf tin in a moderate Grande is just. completing four cab-1 0ven. Ice whensold with lJt fol- Inswhich uro perhaps ; tho most., towing: . ' ' modern. of any of the camps. They) . Mooltn Icing - ' have two rooms," individual toilets one tablespoon butler. Ono tablespoon cocoa. One cup confectioner's sugar. Two tablespoons strong coffco. ' One-halt teaspoon, vanilla. - Cream butter, cocoa und sugar. Add coffee and vanilla. Mix un til smuolh und spread on top of cake. - . ' ." '..""' !. '.-'.''- .' ' and lavatories and garago. The cabins are each equipped- with a t bed and a day bed,, stove ' sink, breakfast nook in addition to the comfort ; features. This makes 21 oablns at ; this camp. Others are also making extensive ' improve ments.'. .... - ".'.' Iolng Nicely- having been served along with de- Norvin Woodefl of near linbler, I ,.,.,,, ,i,n.a ,, i ,i ,.ii nr who- Iso, patient at the Grande 4 fo fol. dusort, Tno com. Itonde hospital is inalclng satisfact- I ... ,. .. ,.nonBhl,. for the arrangements, had the support of each member of the orgatiuauoni ory' Improvement from his .opera- lion for appendicitis porforined the first of the week; .Starting to Itussin . " I; K. Chenault of tho Vulerla dis- 1 rlct has recently received word geics arrived in the vallcyrast Sun- that his son. Hay Chennult. of Seat-day- and Is visiting with,, her i tie. but very well known in this ,,i,,.iii't k. chenault: In thol valley his old home is starting Valeria district. . . ','. a trip tomorrow, sailing .fi-onrj ..'.." . i' o . ' htt'o with Itussia as nis dcstlnu-U,,.a itcba" Davis and Mrs. Dick;' agents. This resulted In vastly In- CluH to Knicrtnin :i .v;,"-"""' ' . I, ' I Smith. but tho responsibility: felt,-oh-the: following, kitchen, Mrs. Florence Irwin, Mrs. Ueba Davis, Mi-s. O. O. Shaffer, Mrs. Orlln Anson and' Mrs. Dlck.Smlth, dining room, Mrs. John Schroeder, Mrs. Fred Kiddle,' Mrs. Albert Stein and Mrs. I. Snuffer; soliciting, Mrs. C. H. Bldwell, Mrs. ,j. W. I'orry, Mrs. John Dahlstrum, who have belonged to the group and have had their cows tested regularly and officially uro very , enthusiastic over the accompllsh Imcnts even during this compn.ru'' tively short period of time. Nor is the situation here an isolated one, the reports are tho sanio from all over the state 'of Oregon. Dairy progress In Oregon "Uur. ing 192s, was marked by nn in crease in cow-testing association work, and the control of Infectious diseases of dalryi cattle. According to reports of county agents in tho office of F. U Bal lard, stntp' county agent , leader, there wero 16 Dairy Herd improve ment associations operating in the state during 1923, in which 12,729- cows were tested, and for which production, record feed cost rec ords, and profits and loss stutoT menls wore obtained.- .: As a result 102G unprofitable' cows' wero dis carded. These associations served G33 dairymen located In 24 coun ties'... In control of Infectious diseases many educational meetbigs, circu lar letters, newspaper articles and cleanup demonstrations wero . ar ranged or (prepared by (county Avory Tuesday evening at tho post office building. .. According to Mr. Avery, the meeting wus well attended. Thirty- eight , sheep owners representing about 8000 sjieep were) proseni. bloyd l'lerce, a director'of tho Un ion County Wool Growers associa tion acted as chairman of tho mooting. . . 1 . Wool marketing was discussod by Fred W.- Iferrln. of Medford, who to-a director of tlio Pacific Coop erative Wool Growors association. l.amb marketing was presented and discussed by the county agricul turist, assisted JyL J. H. Fletcher, of Cove. Mr. Fletcher has " had per- Ing a total of 14.824 lambs wero shipped. Prices at Home with 4 per cent shrinkage amounted to f 11.16 por hundred In Juno, $11.14 per hundred in July, $10.38 in Aug ust and $9.62 in September. Following tho discissions, Mr. Pierce asked for comments on tho plan from tho wool growers them- solves. J. R, Fletcher, of Cove, j with something less than 6,000 last year. The 6000 lambs llatod prob ably represent a little less than 20 per cent of the crop of lambs, but a little more than that per cent of market lambs tho numbor of owe lambs being kept out for breeding purposes having been doductod from tho total. - According to Mr. Avery, Tues- Markotlng of wool through tho who Is quite familiar , with cooperative association was des- management of tho Gooding coun cribed In 'detail by Mr. llerrln. Ho ty, Idaho, pool gave a roport of reportod also tho good progress their Buccess. T. B. Johnson, mado in murging the various asso- another wool gr'owor endorsed the clatlons Into tho Notional Wool plan. Marketing corporation. At tho closo Ranc iambs totalling 2000 head of his talk, he told local growers anii rlul(ro iambs totalling more they could socuro a pro-shoorlng 1mn 000 hend woro tentatively ndvanco of $1 per honiLos inombora . Hated In tho pool. ",,,. , A temporary committee conslst- vanco of 90 per cent of the pres. ' ,.... Covo, chnll.. ent value or tho wool, wncn ue- . ,r Mlko liverod to the association ware- -. Su;nm01.vlllo; ,lobort. 8. house at Portland. French nnd J. R. Fletcher, Covo, Following- tho adjournment of wa8 olcctcd to servo as directors of tho meeting, wool growers mot tho Union county lamb pool. This Willi Mr. iterrin nnu signea mom- croul) i having agreements pro thgjd'ay evening's meeting was ono of tne oest mwiiusa u, , od in this particular lino of tho furmlng Industry in a long time. COLLEGIAN KIDNAPED borshlp applications representing closo to 4000 shoep. ' '. . , ,. - ' "Idaho lamb pools secured hot tor prices for lambs last year than Union county shoep owners re ceived." according to a roport pres- sonal experience, In shipping sheep cntod by Hany G. Avery, county. Paciflo Cooperative (which ropro. In1 Southern Idaho, where the pool agriculturist. Sixty oars contain- scnts nuout ono-naii) as compareu pared and will meet to completo their plans at tho county agricul turist's office on Saturday, Muy 3rd. . ' . Between 16.000 and 16,000 fleeces are now signed np in- tho ' WALUA. WALLA!. Wash., Apr.. 17 '(AP)--After trudging 20 miles in his baro, feot from a cabin In tho Blue mountains where his ab ductors had left himl Vernon Wll kenson. senior at Whitman col lego, who was kidnaped Tuesday night presumably to prevent him fron participating In , a campus election, was located last night about 10 miles from Wnlla Wnllu.' Ho was apparently none tho wo.no for his experience." .. A woman is running for mayor in each of three towns in Hum boldt county, Iowa, smuilcst county in tho state. ' '"" Members of the Countrywomen's ;eu wnn too vvanace wnsinin. club are givfhg a luncheon . next company ot Seattle goes to tne is- crlntend the ereollon ,. of several steel buildings .being put up for a salmon fishery concern. Mr. Chenf ault s first port will bo Yokohomu, 1 creased . activity among dairymen Friday at the La Grande hotel having as their special guests mum bcr: otitic, furicaulo. club.; .'. Mr.: and Mrs. Dick Wlllialns una " ' ', , ., , i I 'daughter, Mafstevens, of Spok'tne.'. Vladivostok and.-then to the.lsl.ind I arrived In thijvaiicy Sunday to vis it Mis William's son and wife. Mr. and Mrs.. lxjOliard . Stevens of near : Jmbiciy . The -Hturfod ;oir"thulr-iv!-. turn- home Tliursday. going by the . f ay ot Portland whoro they w ill, visit u couple of days.. ,i where ho -will live ;for the next six months. . This islnnd fs-locatcd about 800 miles norlh of the Jap anese islands and is ; half : owned by Japan and hair by itussia. , " -" o ' . . Strip Itonli'r Irrigation '. I'harles'DeHaaa of near Hie Covo Mate Sow Club' : ' ' i with the assistance of county ugri- ; A new. 4-11- club has just been eulturlst, Harry Avery, has finished organised aC -Willow school,.- a surveying a plot of 26 acres on Ihe "Home-makers" club with Mrs. I:- Dcllaas farm, which has also been C. Alexander us liio local leader! levelled and olher preliminaries The club consists of flva members arranged for another experiment In with France Alexander as prcsi- strip border irrigation. DoHaas will dent, Virginia Campbe(l a3 . vice have alfalfa on Jho' twenty acres, president and Zclla Twldwoll as , , . T!? I-'. ' scdretarv. The other two-mcmuers are Gcorgeannu Lockwood und lir- mel Hates. -o Corrtvtluii WO trust our Tim now board of directors of file. I'liion County Dairy Herd Im provement association, jinel' last evening at the federalbulldlng, to make plans for the next year's -o . Union 'oorresnon denl -wlll not mind If we make it oiu. correction in' nn item In her news 1.I..I. nr,.,l tn TlnV ObflorVCr filVO HcUllll l'rOgrlllll early' this' week! The account was There were big doings today ot- that,of the meeting ol llie no- ..nu )Yiimw, - men's c'ub there, which was at- Grande and in it participated the tended by a. group of Ln Grande pupils of the schoolthe members women. The speaker ot .tho of- of the P.-T. A. and of couiate, back , ,., Mins Blanche Clark of of It ull was the inspiration of the La Gn talk on rande, who gave the afternoon teacher. Miss Frances Kelly. . Al on urt. i . , . "... noon the V.-T. A. sprung a surprise 0. .on llie cnil(ir:n oy .iviiir u. i,,v.,.. V'IsIW Nlsti'rs ' I lunch and it was everything thai- Mrs II C Hidwcll drove down 1 the first picnic of the season should from Norlh 'powder Tuesday and be: It Was followed by the uftei visited her sisters, Mrs. Hugh Hur- 'noon program -when all the chil- JirOOKS Ol (ireiv in llie hciiuui ii,.n I heultll program. They appeared in Icostumes which they fashioned v. ' ' lheinselves and gave a very Inter- ....... ,i. w..,nn'a rlilll CSllng niiiy. Honor lulls. .-'- of ml er are looking forward to'awarde.l to Hoy Fleshniaim. Hai--their meeting next Wednesday old Schwel.ke .Icnn Spikes Mar- whi-n they will be guests of .Mrs. Waller Hutchison in La Grande. Anna on und Miss Wrooks Lane. . o To Kiltortoln Chili o County K. A. caret and Itulh Fisher. I Superintendent nnd Airs. Suyre were special guests. Sheep Club Meet. The linbler Sheep club held a meeting Thursday night ut the school, with the local leader, Frank rinfK'hlc riiili ' Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hue of Pump kin HidBo entertained Ihe members of tho Willow Creek IHnachle club t-,...i,..t tutti .lot' i(rnir tlie lirth- !i r -it.a ii.in-iiiwl her dauarhtcr, !.M(,Kennon and County Afrrlcultur- Hhlrley. At Burvlnp time a bouu-it Harry Avery both present. Five tlful biff birthday cak covered with more members lmvn bi on ndded lo enn.lles oecnnied the center of the the club Binee it wan first organ- WkiiKl in Country- V. S. McMillan of' J,a Clrniule went to the country yesterday and will spend tho weekend at ; thi homo of his grand-daughter Mrs. Italph Wolls an,d family of tho Val eria district, . . rost-S'uptlnl lurty The Willow Creek people had a surprise pnhMiV..-and .Mra.-sMureus May TueMday night. Tlley took fe frOshments and the cveiiing wus Hpent playing curds and getting ac quainted with tho bride. Those present .were Mr. and Mrs. iteid rtibbard nnd daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Sain Knight and children, Mr. 'Beam and duughter, M.ss Mar garet HinchHrt, Mr. and Mrs. KratiU Mclvi'.iniH. Mr. und 'Mrs. Jim Mc lvinnis, Mr. and Mrs. Hjigh Huron, John Kerr, Kd Gordon', Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hug and children, Mr. and Mrs. Uick -Williams of Spokane, Miss Mao Stevens of .Spokane,- Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Stevens, Anna Carsoir of Jilgin and Mr. and Mrs. Murcus May. . : I-VKiids Visits Mrs. I crlli a Millard and daugh ter, Annice, of Enterprise, were weekend visitors at tlie Garret Hlokliind homo near Island City. Mrs. Millard, who la the librarian at Enterprise and Mrs. Hlokland have been lifo-long friends. ' . Maku .Stop Hert Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Huwley and son," Brooks, drovo , down from Humpter and spent the night with Mrs. Hartley's sisters, Anna Brooks and Mrs. Hugh Huron -on Brooks Uine. They drove on through to Moscow, Id nil o, the next day to visit Mr. Hawley's lather, who is S7 years old and is getting quite feeb le. They drove back through Cen tral Idaho nnd did not come through the Grande Konde valley. They report a very plcnsant trip having been gone about a week. 0 ' Grnngo Wets-i- Tomorrow is regular meeting dny for Blue Mt. grange, filmier is to be served at noon by section num ber two. in control of the contagious abor tion disease. Korty-threo thousand cows in 434 herds wero tested. In dicating an increase--of more than 150 per cent - in tho number of j of the previous year. Tho activity of dalrymen'in thlR field places O rcgon in a leading position among all states in con trolling this men&'ji to .industry, according to dairy, authorities. ' Local Butter Passed On By State College Seventy-five per cent of Hie but ter produced In Oregon comes from creameries which have their butter analyzed and scored" by llie U. o. C dairy products department. Dr. G. Wilstor, professor of dairy manu factures,, receives two-pound sam ples from each of GO creameries throughout the state- every month, and tlie butter is examined and scored while fresh and again after four weeks storage. Three judges act as tasters in determining butter quality. H. . Haven, Haven Hairy company; It. H. Savctt, Idulio daiuy; nnd I. It. Ziemer, deput'y dairy and food conn missioner, are, coming from Port land Monday to, do official testing this month. They will have 100 samples to taste, GO of which ,arc a. month old. This examination is done in con nection with experimetftal work as well as for public service. Dr." Wil rt'er, aided by Arthur W. Hole, graduate, student from North' Da kota who is studying' growth of yeasts and niolds in butter, and Mr. Cole is doing research study to determine the number of yeasts and molds which grow in butter. Georgia has Increased its uspnra- gus production five-fold since 1020 and now ranks fourth among llie state.: In this erop. table. Those present were ir. mm Mrs. rinnk McKinnis, Mr. nnd Mrs. Jim McKlnnis. Mr. and Mrs. Sam ized, Keith Mclvinnis, Clifford Koyes. Wilford Conklin. Dale Kiini.ilev. Kerrel ..Skilling. Club Knight and son, Itren, and diiugn-i business was irant-w u .n. :i noruon. air. unu on - iiouriiiiK unu i'u'--n tor rtftlll V'lld. mm. l.enmird Stevens, Mr. and .mem Mrs. Iugh Huron and on. H' the host and hostesfl. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hug, son Hud and daughter. Shirley. , ly Jtob Huron and one on Mow Ho Kill Out the Record Sheets' by Mr. Avery made, up the program. Clifford Conrad was to moke a talk on "Feeding" but he was unable to be presenl. At the next meeting on May 1, iulc wan- a history of the Sutllittitl Ii'ltililit'? i i C5..-..1.... xir. un.l Mm. Jfin dleV is to give McKinifls of near Sumnicrvill went Hampshire sheep and Clayton Vox McKlnnis of near Summerville went yilnmn fishing-. we nae not yet henrd what' supcoj-s they hud. Several people have caught salmon in Willow Creek south of Summerville. - ' ' o ' To Salem Mrs. Walter M. l'lerce of the val ley was called to Salem this week by the death of Mrs. VlrginiatBa- Judglng the good points of a sheep. This was the tmro meei Ing for this year. The new club r:iilng is that each club must hold ten meetings during the year; o Tws Some Dinner , w. .. t ihn T'ninri rnillilv eh'ambor or eomnw -rce-nnd there '" for Oroso .. Da)- wero SI of them present are lavlwh with their words of Keli.rfu hili AiiIiiiiiIm v (.'ounly Agrlcultnrlsi Hury O. Avery spent a part of the day last Sunday selecting the lambs for the sheep club members. First he picked lambs for Kvelyn McKen non and "Josephine. Fisher at the l''rank - and Itoulh MeKgnnon ranches, then one each for Keith McKlnnis and Hob Huron at Ihe Hush Huron place, ond. also one each for Farrel Hehllllnif and Y'llr ford Hoyce at tho . Mike Itoyes place. . . ... o Visits Slsler J. H. Henderson was In Hie val ley last week visillnir at the home of bin sister Mrs. Ciarrott IlloWand near Islnnd City;' Mr. Hendemon has been spendlni; the winter at rnR Iteaeh, fallroinla and from here went to Knterprise where he wilt remain on his pluce throiiKb I the summer. . . o ! Your, attention is directed lo our simplified method of figuring selling price of Store, Porch and Window Awnings. dinner s'rv- nt the library until Mrs. Bacon's successor shall have been chosen and taken up her duties. - o - ,. ' Orchnrdi Advanced According to state representa tive. H. H. Wcathorspoon, of UocK Wall district. If the present weather continues, his orchards y.ill bo in con. siaie liinunuij.. " - . r . I... .1.,. Al.l unrMr . .. . ,, knnn n OBluI MI7 , nil Ilimil rrtllHJ 'J mill .tim. lerce iivn " . . - - Iri,,nlfv i 1 or tne isiano .....j chnrch. This group lone bko es- toblished Its reputation alonir mis line and Tuesday's dinner simply SR-roed wllh all of Us predecessors. The church waa very nHructlve with its decorations of the spring flnn-ora Rr, licautlfui DOVT. A Chick- Me-it-cif the schools over the county nro niaklilK prcparullons for a special program for Friday. May 2nd. two weeks from toduy which will be Oregon day. t o lints In Orrson : For 164 farms scattered through out the state, the average cost of": producing a dozen eggs was !8.7 I ccntu,. according lo a study made j by the Oregon experiment station, Clearance Sale on Fishing Tackle Beginning Sat. 19th of April We si ill have a couple of second hand harness and saddles on hand. . GRACE . ... 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