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TWELVE PAGES PAGE FOUR DAILY EAST OREGOXIAN, rENDLETON, OREGON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1916. 111 TELL 11017 tsiiceauUtiogga: THEY BEAT ill MOXDAV, 1IX'KMIKK- 11, 1918. "M ATII.I.A KI.KATIO.V tOMKS AS KXTIItK M ItTKISK TO M 1.K. t'AXMHATKS. Illo-t Kven hiKw a IVniinlivr Ticket Was In the Held I'nl'l 1W After noon of V:loUon Io nakonlns Then Wai T' lte. I'MATILLA, or.. Ikh u. Since the election of last Tuesii whei an all-woman ticket was etevte.l. "the how end the why" huf leeu the thiol topic of conversation. 5!ome leop!e know n good ileal ahout the "plot" nnd othtrs are just finding out all about it. K. E. Starcher, present mayor, an! C U. Krownrtl, councilman, the two lolltical n.iwt-rs of t'matilla in the liapt, are dined They do not know how it happened nnd what has dazel them most is the fact the mayors , wife. Mrs. I-aura J. Starcher, was elected mayor over her husband, and Mrs. C 0!. Brownell was elected to the council, and neither of the two husbands knew their wives were run ning until : o'clock in the afternoon of election day. When they woke up it was too lute. "I didn't know a thing about it un til the afternoon of election day," caid Mayor sturdier, "I felt secure enough but I pot busy at once. Every where I went among old adherents 1 found they had voted for my wife, and I though; all the time they had voted for me." Some of the men In Umatilla ara j not quite so honest about it. They are the wise ones and know how it happened, but the women are still keeping quiet, letting their husbands surmise how they were beaten at their own game. Hut "murder will out," , as they say. and this is how it really . happened, according to good author- ; ity: I The present administration had been letting city affairs run along the lines of least resistance. Laws were slackly enforced, city improvement wan at a standstill and I'matilla was rapidly retrograding back into the sagebrush stage of years ago. Someone made up their mind to change things. The' womien officers elect disclaim knowing who. but it is whispered that the power behind the throne was Mr. and Mrs. Robert Merrick. Card Party Caucus. A card party, to all outward ap pearances, was held at the residence of Mrs. C. G. Brownell a short time ago. The members of the feminine ticket were invited and quietly in formed during the evening they had been selected to administer to the ills of I'matilla. A line of campaign was quietly talked over, and the la dies got busy. And Mayor Starcher, City Auditor Hull and Councilman C. G. Brownell allowed election day to approach, and in their ignorance of what their wives were doing, feeling secure. No ticket was brousht out, no ballots printed. They believed they couldn't be beaten gome men paid the women were electd bo. ause. Mayor Starcher and Auditor Hull were o "cock-sure-1 of their power. But the ract remains, a change of administration was needed for Umatilla if that town is to grow, the need was realized and the wom en of Umatilla arose to the occasion. BiiKlne. Administration Promised. Umatilla will be given a business administration and a progressive ad ministration," said Mayor-elect Laura J. Starcher. "We believe the women can do many things and effect many reforms in this town that the men did not dare do. We propose to re place the electric street lights, which the present administration removed, clean up and improve the streets, lav sewers and do everything we can to Improve the physical and moral health of Umatilla. We shall enforce the laws urictly. We have not decided upon our marshal (an appointive office), but that official will be a woman, also. We will not leave the enforcement of our laws to any man, because past ex periences has proven the laws will not be strictly enforced. If there U oocasion for work that our woman marshal cannot perform, we will ap point a deputy for the occasion. But .Umatilla Is peaceful and we antici pate ho trouble from that source. New Official Family. The feminine ticket elected con sists of Mrs. Laura X Starcher, may or; Mrs. Bertha Cherry, auditor: Mrs. Robert Merrick, treasurer, and Mesdames H. C. Means, C. G. Brow nell, Stella W. Paulu and Gladys Spinning, councilmen. Two man councilmen, Al Stevens and C. G. Brownell, hold over; but Judging from the attitude of the wo men, their power will be sadlv limited John JimIkcs Hot by licr Clothes. John Montgomery says he can't t'nderstand why the artist ever named that picture September Morn. He nys it looks to him more like Eve tha.i Morn. Hero You Are. Judge. Judge, Marsh complains that we have not mentioned him in the Bull dogger for several issues. We wouldn't mention him today except that we can't think of anv other Jokes she Took the Starch tint of Starelicr. Well do we remember the time when the whipping post was the fate of the husband who beat his wife. What now. of the wife who beats her husband, we ask. not throush fear of personal disfigurement but appro-i-os the election held at Umatilla last week wherein Mrs. E. K. S;archer beat her husband very badly? Let tlit PHiii-liim'iit Kit tlip Crime. A Colfax Junk dealer the other night v, hen the mercury had sunk to 11 n hove, applied for permission to spend the night In the Pendleton city Jail which, whatever its drawbacks, is a v arm place. He was siven the pri vilege. Later it was discovered that he left his horse tied out in the cold. Xivht officer Lou Rayburn. in his iluily report to Chief Gurdane an nrunced his intention, unless restrain ed by orders, of tying the man outside and bedding the horse in the Jail if any similar case conies to his notice. Counter Movements. I Judt;p Lowell is ensured in the f rmation of a Mosaic League for the suppression of profanity and the Pen dleton tlolf Club has launched a cam paign for new members. While it is r.ot the purpose of golf to promote pro" fane expression, from a first , hand knowledge of the name we deem that its increasing popularity here is Ini mical to the best success of the Mo saio League. Two Jallhrcaks. Ever since the election excitement died down there has been a dearth of real live news and the work of the re porter has been humdrum indeed. But there comes an end to all things, and REALTY TRANSFERS the end of this monotony in news gathering came Thursday evening when the ghost of the library row es caped from confinement and four pris oners broke out of the county Jail. Now Model Teeth. Derr Waffle bought a new set of false teeth the other day and they worked all right until he got into a discussion with a barber. Barbers are noted for their garrulity, but it would Mike a whole flock of them to silence Derr. However, this particular bar ber pushed him so hard in the tongue wagging contest that IVrr's tongue got caught in his false teeth and was held as securely as if one of Ed Averlll's coyote traps had closed on it. It may be that the dentist who made those teeth designed them as a regulator of IVrr's flow of speech. Recalling, however, a few occasions when a den tist insisted on carrying on an ani mated conversation with us while he had a steam drill, a horny-fist and two thirds of a forearm buried in ourv fa cial cavity, we deem It not amiss to suggest that this new style of speech checking teeth would be appreciated in the mouths of the makers. The Downfall of Pete. Pete Sheridan, the Butter Creek (lo liath. was in town last week and he was wearing his old clothes and a glum look. From what we hear from his neighbors he has reason aplenty for wearing both. It was this way, aa we gather It. Pete was in Echo on election night in order to get the re turns as received at Carl Gilbert's barber shop. As everyone knows, the early returns were all for Hughes. Pete got an idea. He remembered los. ing a $25 suit of clothes two years ago on an election bet with Waldon Rhea, and he had been waiting for a chance to bieak even ever since. So when he heard that New York, Indiana and Illinois were in the Hughes column, he called up the Rhea ranch and offered to wager a 125 suit on Charles E. Rhea, who is strong for Woodrow. promptly took him up. and Pete could hardly restrain the chuckle that well ed up within him. He had previously wagered a new hat on Hughes, and now decided that, if he was going to be dressed up. he ought to have a new- pair of shoes. So he made another wa ger with an unsusnecting Wilsonite an eight dollar pair of kicks being the stake. He then went to bed and dreamed of Hughes sitting in the presidential chair and himself strut ting like a peacock In new spring feathers. Out of charity we will stop the story right here. It is better to leave Pete sleeping, for we all know what happened during the night. MANY CATTLEMEN ARE NOW RAISING SHEEP Small Hand lrove Valuable for .Mut ton and for Cleaning up Weed and Adding to Income of Hunch. PORTLAND, Dec. 11. District Forester George H. Cecil. Portland, Oregon, says that a large number of cattle permittees who are using the National Forest ranges of Oregon and Washington are now grazing on their ranches small bands of from 20 to :',oo or 40H sheep, which are consid ere dvaluahle for furnishing mutton, cleaning up weeds und adding to the income of the ranch. This is quite a concession for the cattlemen to make, according to Mr. Cecil, but it is interesting in that it Indicates the coming of a more diver sified system of management on the Interior ranches, as well as being a factor In keeping up the supply of sheep already considerably decreased by the homesteading of much of the public range. Uoii't lA't Skin Troubles Spread. ' Red, pimply skin that itches and burns is embarrassing, and gets worse if neglected. Bad skin is a social handicap and a contant source of worry. Correct It nt once with Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment. This healing ointment kills the germ, soothes the irritation and quickly re stores your skin to normal. For ba bies suf firing the tortures of eczemf, or . for grown-ups who have long fought c'sronic skin ailments. Dr. Hobson's Eczema Oin:nient is a guar anteed remedy. At your Druggist, BOc Adv. So far as the dead and wounded are personally concerned, the Mexican "war of kites and crows" is as seri ous as the war in Europe. France, remembering the days of Napoleonic expansion, may look up on the outspreading German empire with a philosophical smile. CROWN PRINCE AT VERDUN THANKS TROOPS :;:..'....:..:,.... : . 'V 0- This is one of the few late photographs of the German Crown Prince at the front. He is shown here taking some of his soldiers who distinguished themselves in defense of captured Verdun positions, which positions have since been entirely recaptured by the French. , Warrant Deed1. M. E. Anderson, et vir, to Oscar T. Bowon, 10, S 1-2 SW 1-1 and XE 1-4 KV 1-4 and HE 1-4 NW 1-4 section 8, township 6 south, range 30. John Tompkins, et ux. to W. E. Potts, 137,000, acreage in townships S north, range 33 and 34. Cunningham Pheep & Land Co., t4 Kmma D. Durkhelmer, t&42i.S0, 361 acres In section 18, township 2 north, range !!. W. H. Blusher, et ux to Paul Brandt ISO00, 4X0 acres In section 10, town ship 2 north, range 29. In the exposure of a social Hon is k professional loan shark real life puts over another one on anaemic flc. tlon. Once In a great while you meet a bright woman who successfully boasts ol the nkeleton in her closet. rSSs5. Disagrees ft IrgpS wse H IJM i INSTANT "There's a Reason' NOT A HEADACHE IN IT I 4 I 11 II 1 U UL ta mmmm jiimiub mmm mmm m. lima mm hug vs Friday, Mi 15 8 o'clock i K I Remember Friday Night at 8 o'clock t FOR BENEFIT OF NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH, UNDER AUSPICES OF 0 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS. tCtk3acVt?tAWMrcWk?k l''."K.'Ktkv pa n Lnrp (? VrJllJ UtJ A Musical Show That is Good Pony Children Aro Jovv a. 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