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Univerelty Library THE HERMISTON H erald HERMISTON, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 7. 1917 VOL XI 56 ARMED COLD 81 Recognizing the importance of guarding against the possible des- truction of Cold Springs dam by some fanatic. Project Manager Newell has received instructions to maintain an armed guard day and night over that huge structure. Acting on these in structions Mr Newell has placed three shifts of men to watch over the dam. As yet only temporary arrangements have been made, but soon suitable quarter* will be arranged and a regu lar guard established. It is likely two men will be on duty at a time. Local men will be used as long as possible. Guarding the dam is but in con formity with like action all over the country where serious damage might result from the action of a single per son letting his feelings get the better of him. The destruction or partial wrecking of Cold Springs dam, though the water could not reach any of the homes, would lay waste to many homes and thousands of acres of growing crops. It would result in a loss that mould require years from which to re- cover as all of the country using water from the reservoir is dependent on that source for its very life. To shut off this supply would mean that all vegetation would die. Cold Springs reservoir covers 1800 acre* of land. The dam is one of the largest earthern dams in the world. It is 90 feet high, ha* a thickness at the base of over 500 feet and a top length of 3,300 feet. TEN YEARS AGO The services in the chapel car will continue each evening at 7:30 Work is progressing rapidly on Ross Newport’s Bouse on Gladys avenue. Thirty-two coyotes were killed Fri day within a few miles of Hermiston. * Born—To Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Wyckoff of Hermiston, Saturday, April 5, a girl. The railroad paipters are at work on the new depot and Agent Jackson ex pects to move in next week. On Col. Newport’s homestead ad joining Hermiston rye on the first day of April stood 224 inches high. Alfalfa measured 16 inches. F. B. Swayze, cashier of the First Bank of Hermiston, will bring his family to Hermiston the coming week. His home has been completed. C. E. Baker, publisher of The Her miston Herald, will soon move his home to Hermiston and become a permanent resident of the city. The Hotel Williams will be the scene of a grand ball next Thursday night. The dancing will be on the third story of the building in a room 70 feet long and 30 feet wide. ANNUAL MEETING OF WATER USERS Saturday last the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Umatilla River Water Users’ association was held. The attendance while fair, did net re semble wny of the old time meetings when every mao and woman owning a share of stock was on hand to take a part in matters coming up. Election of officer* for the ensuing year was the principal matter coming up. Secre tary Warner read bi* annual report, covering the work of the board dur ing the time since the last annual meeting. The new board of directora elected ia composed of Thos. Campbell, W. J Warner, L. B. Pearson, H. J. Ott and E. L. Jackson. Tuesday evening the board met and organized by electing Mr. Campbel) president and Mr Warner secretary. NEW STTRE OPENS UP IN HERMISTON A. B. Botch kisa, formerly of Arling- toe, came Thursday to arrange for tbe opening of his variety store. Mr. Hotchkiss has been preparing for this for several weeks but has been delay ed until thia time. He expects to be ready for business today. Mr. Hotchkiss will carry a line of disbes. enameled ware, crockery, small kitchen ware, marbles, kite* and other small Unes. He has secured a part of tbe Sharrard building on po lite the telephone building. PLACED AT RESERVOIR DUMA NO LONGER GAZES ON CZAR COLUMBIA NEWS NOTES DEMONSTRATION TRAIN TO BE HERE NEXT SATURDAY UMATILLA ITEMS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE ------------------------------------------------- Miss Hudson spent Sunday at tbe Blessing borne. ' Mrs. Beddow spent the day Wednes day with Mrs. Feltbouse. Miss Hudsoc took supper Saturday evening with the Haddox family. P. S. Tillson drove to Pendleton Tuesday. D. C. Brownell of Portland, is spend ing a few dav* here. W. A. McLallen and W. T. Seilers are spraying orchards this spring. Jennie Simmons, our night telephone operator, spent Tuesday at Tip Top ranch. \ F. H. Hughes and S. N. Kaufman were guests of tbe Duncan Wednes day. Rey. and Mr*. Graham and Esther took supper Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Graham and son. Mr. and Mrs Bone, who bought the Stubbs place, have arrived and will begin work immediately. E. E. Graham and family have rented the E. H. Graham bouse while building their new home. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman have arrived to work on the place they purchased west of tbe Hoisington place. Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Sapper cf Her miston, called at the parental Anna Sapper ranch Tuesday evening. Mr. Keri, of Cour d’ Alene, Idaho, who has been visiting Mr. Sommerer and Mr. Ott on bis way home from Honolulu, left Thursday. Mr. Hills and Mr. Walker, of Stan field, and Philip Lay are guarding tbe Cold Springs reservoir under the recent Ü. S. R. S. orders. Mr. Simmons received word Monday that his sister, Mrs. Dr. Furgeson, of Ft. Wayne, died Sunday evening. Our sympathy is extended to him. Mr. and Mr*. Rhodes have arrived from Washington and will build im mediately on their new place near Waugaman's purchased from J. H. Reid. Don’t forget the club meeting this (Saturday) afternoon. Dr. Wainscott is expected to be present. The Neighborhood club social Friday was a great success. Tbe ladies on tbe refreshment committee made ex penses and had 15.10 left over from the sale of the popped corn. It is not decided who got the rug. BOXING DECISION GOES TO CARPENTER Saturday evening at the Hermiston auditorium Jack Carpenter of Pendle ton and Farmer Burns of Echo were the principals in a ten round boxing contest in which Carpenter was given tbe decision. Jack McCarroll of Pen dleton acted as referee and bis decis ion was popular with the crowd, ex cept for a very few who seemed to think Burns should have had it. Carpenter weighed about 30 pounds less than Burns, which made the con test not what it would have been with tbe men more evenly matched. Burns was tbe aggressor throughout, which be could easily be on account of weight. However, at that be could not place his blows, Carpenter usually being somewhere else. Carpenter seemed able to reach bis man almost always. Lacking weight behind them failed to give much effect. His work showed the greater science and on this and tbe number safely planted tbe decision was based. Tbe crowd was large and orderly throughout. Earl Coutts of Pendleton staged tbe evenu MAINTENANCE ANO OPERATION CHARGE Laurence Compton is confined to his home with the measles. T. N. Williamson of Spokane, came down Tuesday to put in more alfalfa on his lana near here. Former Mayor Starcher’s mother is here from California and will spend some lime with her son. The life sized portrait of Czar Nicholas seen placed over the president's rostrum in tbe duma was one of the first things removed when the dum* members seized the government for the people. BOARDMAN NEWS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE Carl Voyen was in Hermiston Tues day. Chas. Nizer went to Hermiston the first of the week. J. C. Ballenger came back from Hermiston Wednesday. J. O. Lower went to Wasco Tuesday to help hi* brother-in-law in the ware- bouse. A school meeting will be held in Castle Rock next Friday afternoon at one. Anyone interested is invited to attend. A road meeting was held in tbe school bouse Monday afternoon. Quite a few from this vicinity and Castle were there. Monday evening a meeting was held in the school bouse to organize a farm ers union. Mr. Brown of Portland, was the principal speaker of tbe eve ning. Sidney Mack went to Richland, Wash., Tuesday, to visit with relatives until after Easter. E. W. Mack came down from Hermiston to look after tbe mercantile store during the absence of his son. RIVERTON-ON-THE UMATILLA B. S. Savage called in Riverton on Wednesday. Rudolph Schachermeyer’s children have the measles. Zona and Earl Bensel spent Saturday afternoon with Lotys Davis. E. T. Hancock will have charge of tbe Miller ranch this summer. Mr. and Mrs. A. Bensel called at the Carl Scbacbermeyer home on Sunday. E. T. Hancock and R. D. Miller have opened a butcher shop in Uma tilla. Robt. Kennedy was a guest of bi* sister, Mrs. Cooney, at Condon, last Mr. and Mrs. Olson lef. Sunday for Stanfield where they expect to remain while deciding on their future location Mrs. Matbison is expected to arrive in Riverton next week. Tbe son and daughter will not come until school closes at Everett. J. N. Olson and E. T. Hancock sold their respective ranches . to John Tbe Secretary of the Interior has Mathison, of Everett, Wash. Immedi announced that the annual operation ate possession was given Mr. Matbison and maintenance charges for tbe irri and he is busy with his spring work gation season of 1917 and thereafter until further notice against the lande of the Umatilla project under public notice shall be a* follower For lands of tbe Weet Extension, a “Windmills of Holland" the high minimum charge of $1.50 per irrigable acre and for all other lands a minimum school operetta, will be given April charge of $1.40 per irrigable acre, 13th at 8 o. m. in the high school audi- whether water is used thereon or not. tortura. Tbe characters are as follow*: The minimum charge in each case will Mynheer Hertogenbosch, rich Hol land farmer.......George Prindle entitle the water user to four acre feet of water per irrigable acre. Vrow Hertogenbosch, hie wile. .. ...................... Margret.. Shotwell Additional supplice will bo furnished Wilhelmina, their daughter .......... at 15 cents per acre foot. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES .................................... Althea Smith Hilda, their daughter.. .Gladys Smith Bob Yankee, American salesman.. ................................Durrell Murchie Hans, student of music, in love with Wilhelmina.. Carroll Reeves Franz, farmers’ son, in love with Hilda $....... Louis Garner Katrina, farmers’ daughter........... ................................. Esther Graham Chorus of farmers’ daughters..... Emily Shotwell, Mildred Percey, Bertha McKeen, Dorothy Ross, Nellie Davis, Eleanor Casserly, Frances Hinkle, Viola Crandall, Janice Brigham. Pianist Georgia Skinner In addition to tbe operetta will be several other numbers, among these a concerto by Mrs. Hawthorne and Miss Walpole, of Irrigon. The entire eve ning will be musical. Admission 50 and 25 cents. Tbe oratorical contest of the school will be given Aril 12 in the high school auditorium. Admission free. NOVEL FORETOLD GREAT WORLD WAR NO 29 The young men of Umatilla will give a dance Wednesday evening, April! 11. Tbe United orchestra of Pendleton will furnish tbe music. Mrs. J. H. Cherry, City Recorder, left for Plattesville, Colo., where her mother is quite ill. In ber absence Mrs. Elmore McKenzie will act in ber place. BENEFIT PLAY WAS GREATLY ENJOYED Thursday evening tbe annual enter tainment for tbe benefit of the read ing room was given at tbe high school auditorium to a well filled house. As one of the results there was a large number of people sore after it was over- from laughing so much. The entertainment was a grand success in overv way. The opening chorus was very pretty and at once gave some idea of tbe great amount of time and work given in preparation of the entire program. Tbe song by Gladys Smith and dancing | chorus was one of tbe best seen iu Hermiston. Mrs. Strohm sang two numbers in her usual pleasing style with banjo accompsniment. The min- sirel act and comedy skit took tbe house by storm and there was a con tinuous uproar throughout. As a closing number the chorus “Wake up America" with tbe tableau touched a patriotic vein in all and when the singing of America, March ing Through Georgia, Dixie and Star Spangled Banner was called for, every one responded with vim. A special “preparedness" train will visit Hermiston on Saturday, April 14, on an offensive-defensive campaign against the high cost of living due to America’s coming participation in the war. Belter production of family food* by utilization of back yard* aid watte places in intensiv* vegetable and poultrv growing, better use of the products by canning storing for tbe rainy dav, and kitchen economy by rescuing from waste the vast quantities of human food that leak out through tbe kitchen sink and tbe garbage can, are the objectives of the campaign. The train will consist of a baggage car and a coach which will be equipped by tbe extension service of the agri- cultural college and operated by tbe O W. R. & N. railway company over its lines from Portland to. Bend, Wasco. Milton. Enterprise and Baker, stopping at the larger towns. Tne aid of commercial club*, parent teacher circles, high schools and other civic improvement bodies, will be sought in making tbe demonstrations available to tbs largest possible number of per sons. M O. Evan* jr. is now making arrangements for tbe demonstration*. In addition to lectures explaining method* of growing vegetable crop* gathering, caoning and storing them, an exhibit of garden plans, for lots of different sizes, tbe best kind of plants to be grown in tbe district and meth oris of tillage, will be carried in the baggage car. Canning demonstrations will be given, showing simple and in expensive way* of preserving vege tables, fruits and meat*. Food values, their economical uses and substitution of cheaper for tbe more expensive foods without loss of nutrition value, and especially sub stitution for meats, will be considered by the home economics specialists. Among other things, the very latest wrinkles In cooking will be explained. Tbe poultry lectures will be supple mented by exhibits showing model back yard poultry plants—pens, houses and equipment such as nests, brooders, incubator*, etc.—with method* of feed ing and handling which are practiced by the college poultry department with their world champion hen*. The following people will accompany the train: Prof. R. D. Hetz I, exten- ■ion director; a representative of the O. W. R. & N. in charge of tbe train; Prof. A. G. Bouquet, head of the col lege vegetable gardening work, first week R. W. Allen, superintendent Hermiston experiment station, second week; Mis* Helen Cowgi I, assistant state leader of club work, canning; C. C. Lamb, extension poultry special- 1st, poultry and Miss A. Grace John- son, instructor of domestic science, homecooking. Advance arrangements are in charge of M. O. Evans jr., who Is now making arrangements for local cooperation In tbe towns where th* demonstrations will be held. The special will arrive in Hermiston attached to the regular No. 2 Saturday afternoon and leave Sunday afternoon. It will be here that Prof. Bouquet will leave tbe party and Mr. Allen j in it. Nearly thirty years ago, in 1888, a novel was published in Leipzig under the title “Surya.’’ In this book tbe following prophecies appear: “Io 1904 tbe first clash between western and eastern countries will "That $6,000,000 is a large sum to take place. an take away from tbe taxpayers, “In 1912 the Balkan* will be drench assertion being made a good deal in ed with blood and the corpses of hun- commenting upon tbe pending road dreds of thousands of slain men will bond issue. cover the battlefields. From this Tbe assertion is based upon a preva- bloody struggle the most fearful lent misunderstanding of what the act of all history will develop. Tbe en- involve*. tire civilized world and even savage Nothing in tbe act requires any in- tribes will be drawn into the horrible crease of taxation in order to get tbe conflagration which will turn all $6,000,000. It is tbe automobile which Europe into a bowling wilderness in pays the money. Auto license fee* three years, Tbe war will continue have been doubled and with a normal until all of tbe beliggerents are ex- increase in the number of machines bausted and the armies in ths field owned io Oregon, the fee* will more rebel against the awful slaughter. It than cover the interest and tbe sink- | Among the books received at the will end with a general uprising of the ing fund payments to retire the entire Hermiston library the following ar* masses. Tbe revolution will start in bond issue. Should there be no In among those of fiction: one of tbe largest countries engaged crease al all in the number of auto* I Aplington, Pilgrim* of the plains. io tbe war and bring horror* which used, it would still be unnecessary to | Atkinson, Gregfriars Bobby. may make those of tbe French revo raise taxe* for the extra money needed Bachelier, Eben Holden. lution appear like child’s play. Within would come from the present quarter | Barrie, Little minister. a few ---------- month* — the - revolution will _ ________ ___ mill road tax. Supporter* of the road Bryant, Dominant passion. spread over all Europe, and when it | bonding measure will do well tocorrect Burnett, His grace of Osmonde. - the — ") will »... I rrav) this misunderstanding. end* old world be depopulated Cooper, Pathfinder. and *o impoverished that it may never Corkey, Victory of Allen Rutledge. be able to recover. ’’ Crawford, In th* palace of the king. Tbe way in which tbe prophecies Deland, Rising tide. are working out make it seem almost Dickens, Tale of two cities. unesnny. The war between Russia Dye, McLoughlin of old Oregon. and Japan started in 1904. Tbe first Eliot, Silas Marner. Balkam war started in 1912 and was Next Thursday afternoon the regu- | Glas'*, Abe and Mawruss. followed at once by the second out of Harrison, Queed. lar monthly meeting of tbe Parent- which grew the present world war. Jacobs, Many cargoes. Teacher association will be held In tbe Revolution has already overturned tbe high school auditorium. After the | Lippmann, Martha and Cupid. government of Russia. . | business session the following pro- | London, John Barleycorn. Mitchel), Adventure* of Francois. gram will be given: Oregon City—Southern Pacific Cc. Page, Red Rock. Piano Solo...................Arline Kennedy intends to proceed with construction Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis. ' Riley Entertainment........................ of its proposed line through West Stockton, Casting away of Mrs. Lecks Mi** Bucher’s Room Linn. and Mrs. Aleshine. ................. Jane Gunn Piano Solo... Empire crab cannery running to full VanDyke, Blue flower. Rev. T. A. Graham Civic Pride... capacity, 70 to 100 dozen daily. Van Loan. Ten thousand dollar art. ....Mrs. J. Kennedy Solo................ Lebanon and Roseburg making win- Question Box. Weed*), Old lady No. 27. Wiggin, Affair at the inn. ning tight to establish fruit canneries Wilson, Somewbere in Redgap Plans completed for new hospital at Florence subscribed more than its Yonge, Dove in the eagle's nest. Roseburg soldiers’ borne. share of *10,000 to proposed shipyard AUTDS WILL PAY GOOD ROAD BONDS RECENT BOOKS AT HERMISTON LIBRARY PARENT-TEACHER MEETING THURSDAY
